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August 28, 2025 • 41 mins

Ben Maller talks about Tom Brady being allowed to participate in NFL production meeting virtually, Jordon Hudson attempting to trademark the phrase "Gold Digger," Cam Newton getting a TV gig, Fact or Fiction, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dilly, Dilly, it's our number four. Happy Thursday to you,
the last Thursday in the month of August, August twenty eighth,
as we do it live. So what do you take
away from Tom Brady now being allowed to participate in
NFL production meetings virtually after being outlawed last year as

(00:21):
he's getting ready for year or two at Fox and
North Carolina coach Bill Belichick and his gal pal George
Don Hudson have gone down to the old United States
Patent and Trademark Office and slapped their names on the
phrase gold digger. It's your reaction, and how do you
former NFL star? How did former NFL star Cam Newton

(00:43):
finagle his way into a multi year TV contract even
though he's bad at television. We'll take a look at that,
and who knows what else here? It is our number four,
the old changeup. Well come in the beginning of another hour.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
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Speaker 2 (02:03):
So I lead this hour from The Brady Bunch. That's
an old TV show, The Brady Bunch.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
So Tom Brady, that's a former quarterback who's now an aristocrat.
So Tom Brady is preparing for his second full season
on the Fox Box that Rocks calling NFL games, and
things will be much different in twenty twenty five for
Tom Brady calling these games.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
If you have not heard the news, maybe not. The
NFL has decided to ease up. They've hit the brakes.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
They've eased up on the many restrictions that were placed
on Tom Brady's head as he gets ready for this
season as the top analyst. The highest paid analyst at
Fox makes a little bit more money than me. So
the league will allow Tom Brady to participate in production
meetings woh Man production meetings with teams as long as

(02:58):
they are conducted on the zoom boom boom, zoom zoom.
He still is not not allowed to watch practices.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's taboo.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's for boten or set foot at any team's training complex.
The team training complex is lava, so not the floor
is lava. The team training complex is lava. But Brady
can get on the zoom while he's.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Sun tanning and sitting by the pool and be part
of that. So let us discuss the question what do
you take away?

Speaker 1 (03:31):
What can we take away from Tom Brady being allowed
to participate in these NFL production meetings virtually? So, I've
got Baywatch, Bambino, and fur coat, and we'll combine all
these things together and we're gonna make strawberry shortcake just

(03:52):
like back in the day. Your Babushka loved back in
the day, So and Dennis and Vermont.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Loves a good strawberry shortcake.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Also to kick off, though this is a tell tom
Brady being allowed in production meetings virtually is a tell.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
You might say, well, it's.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Not that big a deal, bed, I don't really think
this should be a story you talk about.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
You're wrong.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
The league office is essentially admitting something here. They're admitting.
They didn't admit it in a press release. They didn't
admit it on the NFL websites or state sponsored NFL media.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
But we know the inside skinny, we know what's going on.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
This is the equivalent of seeing back in the day
Baywatch a lifeguard, a Baywatch lifeguard sprinting across the sand
at the beach there with a red floaty in the hand.
And you know what that means. Tom Brady has been
drowning on television. He's a bad broadcaster. He sucks as
an NFL commentator. He's not treading water. He's sinking like

(04:52):
a cinder block, and he's getting paid a lot of
money to suck. He's in the deep end. And so
the NFL just tossed him the broadcasting Tom Brady of
a life preserver. Welcome to the production meetings. Now, for
the uneducated, let me tell you something. I only did
one broadcast at a big time event.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I was at a college. I covered a college football
game as a sideline.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Reporter years ago Oklahoma and Nebraska, and I was part
of these production meetings, so I know a little bit.
And I haven't covered the NFL from that perspective, but
I know when I did that college football game.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
You go into the coaches office. Game was in Norman, Oklahoma.
You go into the coaches office, and they spill their guts.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
They tell you everything you need to know ABC, X, Y,
and Z. The production meetings are the cheat sheet of
the industry. They are the broadcasting version of an open
book exam. And Tom Brady knows a thing or two
about the open book exam. That's the holy Grail, that's
the how many ways Canna say it, Magic bean, secret sauce,

(05:55):
all that stuff, and Tom Brady, Tom Brady now gets
to guzzle down that secret sauce. You can eat pastries,
you can drink your Starbucks while you're on zoom, and
coaches and the quarterbacks come in there and they answer
all your questions and any questions you may have. It's
the cliff notes, It's the Rosetta stone for the NFL broadcast.

(06:18):
And even the most clueless ding Dong meat heead athlete
that goes into broadcasting, they end up sounding like John
Madden in his prime, the greatest commentator of all time,
after an afternoon being spoon fed stuff in a production meeting.
It's the holy grail of the broadcasting. And Tom Brady

(06:38):
is now allowed to sip in that, you know, sit
in it and sip it when I sit in the minting.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
He's on zoom.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
But they're literally propping Brady up here because we saw
Brady without the cheat codes last year. Brady in the
booth is about as appetizing as eating a stale bag
of Cheetos. It doesn't taste good and your hands are
covered an orange crap and you're like, why.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Did I do that?

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (07:03):
And this is where it gets a little messy, because
Tom Brady is not just a commentator. Of course, He's
got his fingerprints as an NFL owner. Now he owns
owns a small part of the Raiders, like a five
percent steak. He does have that though, And how do
these production meetings play out?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
So as a distant.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Relative of Nostradamis and a friend of Nostra Denis, he
lives over in Seattle. He came to the Mala meet
and greet in Vegas over the weekend. It's great to
see him. Hadn't seen him in a number of years.
So you have two types of coaches that in my
head here who will talk to Brady on the zoom
Category number one.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Category number one, I call him the kool a drinkers.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Those are the coaches that are in the players that
are gonna want to impress Tom Brady.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Maybe they grew up fans of Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Of the players, the coaches, they're gonna want to curry
favor with Tom Brady. I think maybe one day they
might need a job and they could work in Vegas,
and if Brady likes them, they could get the job
as like a receivers coach or the quality control lackey
or something like that on offense. So they've got that,
and so those guys will open up, they'll spill their

(08:15):
guts and give Brady every ounce of the good stuff.
They'll give them the good stuff. They're insider, insider stuff.
Then category number two would be what that would be
the paranoids, the ones who see Tom Brady as an
enemy combatant, a trojan horse, a double agent. You know,
the guys they, oh, this guy's a deep throat. He's
a spy for the Raiders. He owns part of the team.

(08:37):
And anything I sell Tom, anything I tell Tom Brady
that little weasel is gonna go back and give the Raiders.
And so these guys are gonna clam up that second group,
the Paranoids.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
They're gonna clam up. Now.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
They'll either give them vanilla generic answers, watered down hokey cliches,
or even better, they'll they'll throw in some red herrings,
you know, they'll give him some false stories to see
what Brady does with that hand. Brady a couple of
slices of blooney and see if he passes the bolooney
out to other people here, just to keep him on
his toes.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
So it is interesting now for them.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Another part of that Patriots dynasty that's moved on to
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, home of Spacoli working the dreaded
day shift. North Carolina coach Bill Belichick and his galpal
Jordan Hudson there back now North Carolina opens up on Monday.
We're slightly excited about that. But Belichick opening up on

(09:34):
money is galpal Jordan Hudson. They have gone down to
the old United States Patent and Trademark Office, and they
have slapped their names on the phrase gold digger. Yes,
give me your reaction. So this is, I believe the
dictionary definition. I don't have a dictionary in front of me,

(09:56):
but I believe it is the dictionary definition of taking ownership.
That Georgie On Hudson is essentially a bank robber, but
instead of wearing a ski mask, she's putting the you know,
putting it all out there right, pulling, pulling the job
in broad daylight, with cameras all.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Over, news release all that.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's like, yeah, I'm here to empty out the vault
of the Belichick family jewels.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Nothing to see here, folks move on.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
And the thing about this, what's even better this Belichick
Jordan Hudson trademarking gold digger, is that she's calling her shot.
She's like the bambino, the legendary story of Babe Ruth
in the World Series against the Cubs, pointing to the
bleachers while scooping up the inheritance with the other hands.
She's not holding the bat with You can't make this up,
and it doesn't stop there. The story is that Bill

(10:43):
Belichick and Jordan Hudson also filed for chapel Bill bellustrator, trademarks,
trail of salty tears, no days off, and the Belichick way.
So Belichick, could he sound any less like a coaching legend,
like a Hall of Famer been there before? This sounds

(11:04):
like the clearance racket, hot topic or at Ross dress
for less in a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
All this crap with these phrases on it.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
It doesn't sound and it doesn't smell like Belichick. It
doesn't look like Bill Belichick. It doesn't even grut like
Bill Belichick. And this has obviously Jordian Hudson's fingerprints all over.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Right.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Bill is enjoying a new product from the makers of
cool Whip. It's called pe Whip. If you know what
I mean. The man has been subjugated, dominated, It appears
emasculated and to some degree castrated.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
All rolled into one.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
He's gone from the hoodie to the hoodwinked Bill Belichick.
Hudson has Belichick running a literal trick play.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
With his life, his real life, not a football player.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
He has gone from the master of deception Bill Belichick
on the sidelines there and now he's apparently getting bamboozled
by a broad in broad daylight. And that is what
Bill Belichick, mister stick up his caboose is trademarking gold digger.
That is a kin to Albert Einstein selling Scratcher tickets

(12:14):
at a gas station, you know, at a truck stop.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
I'm like, what are you doing? It just doesn't compute.
And so there you go.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
There's Bill Belichick. He's gone from calling blitzes to apparently
getting blitzed. And that's that's where we are. So that
is that is wacky man, That is that is whacky.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
All right. Now, last thing, another expat.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
We go to TV land where former Carolina Panther quarterback
Cam Newton, guy that replaced Tom Brady. Cam Newton has
signed a multi year deal to basically play dress up
on television. There's a small cable channel Fledgling out there
in Bristol, Connecticut, and Cam Newton got hired by them
multi year deal. Question, how did Cam Newton finagel a

(13:00):
television job?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
All right?

Speaker 1 (13:02):
So most people say it's not that good, but he's
what he's doing here is playing court Jester. Cam Newton's
playing court Yester. That's what this is. He's not there
to analyze football. Cam Newton is there to make a
total donkey out of himself, right to be a total jackwagon,
wear the funny hats, say outrage his stuff. So the

(13:23):
Internet blows up and he's like, I'll do that. Of course,
anybody would do that for the amount of money those
jobs pay. He's the guy at the dinner party. I'll
tell you who is. Cam Newton's the guy at the
dinner party who shows up and he's wearing a fur
coat and a fedora and it's it's one hundred degrees,
it's late July, and he says some ridiculous thing about

(13:45):
Patrick Mahomes is washed up. You know, he sucks and
then walks out and then everyone's still talking about He
does the Irish goodbye, and that's it. That's his role.
He is the conversation piece. It's kind of like bringing
in a circuit clown to your kid's birthday party. You
really don't care how good a clown the person is.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
You don't really care about their balloon skills.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
You just want them to keep the kids laughing and
having a good time and all that.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's Cam Newton on TV. The outfit, the wild tags.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
He's got the whole look at me thing, which you
have to have on TV.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
That's content.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
And as a bonus, Cam is willing to violate the
sacred brotherhood. Most ex players tiptoe, they protect the fraternity.
They don't call guys out and all that stuff, and
it's the jockocracy in effect. And Cam seems like the
kind of guy that will absolutely shred quarterbacks like a
wood chipper in the back of a home depot parking lot.

(14:47):
Just put him in the wood chipper, and it doesn't
matter how ridiculous you want to take. He will go
as ridiculous as you can possibly go, and he'll get
those soundbites. And that's what it's all about. It's all
about the aggregation. It's all about getting stuff out there
on the blogg is fear but also social media obviously,
and all that'll be done by noon and then it's
on to the next day.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
And that's that's that it is.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
The Ben Mather Show is we are rolling, rolling, rolling
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Coming up later this hour, we have fact or fiction.
That's right, factor fiction.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
I'll be coming up a little bit later in the
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sixty three sixty nine. Another example of former NFL players
saying the darnedest things. Former NFL players saying the darness things.

(15:40):
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Speaker 1 (18:00):
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Speaker 2 (18:05):
Court of sports radio. And now back to it. Back
to it we go.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
NFL players say the darnedest things. So I saw this
and I did a double take. I said, well, that's
on brand. NFL player admits that he ditched a game
to go bowling because he didn't like the coach. He
decided to skip an NFL game because he wanted to

(18:34):
go bowling.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
That NFL player no longer an NFL player.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
But levy On Bell, Yeah, Levyon Bell, a couple of
fries short. You know, I'm just saying a couple of
fries short of it, you know what he told the
story recently, Leveon Bell. I played with the Jets and
came over from the Steelers and missed an entire year,
missed like fourteen million dollars or something like that, and

(18:58):
he said that the story is true. This story has
actually been out there. He just happened to confirm it.
It's been bouncing around the dark web for a while.
It was a total disaster with the Jets, and it's like,
uh yeah, it's a it's a true story.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
He skipped a game to go bowling.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
He said it was better than playing for Adam Gase
crazy eyes.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
When he was with the Jets.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Perfect how much he got fined for that could add
that to his career total of fines, which is very
very high, very very high.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Let's see what do we have on the X machine.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Let's skip over that one nice message from David in
South Carolina earlier, JJ from Renton, very active sending.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
He's social media bombing me here.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
JJ said, Tom Brady is checking the balls like Jerry
Jones is checking the locker packages.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
So interesting.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
I score the phones and we'll say hello to well
Jed who fled?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
He wants to come back? Hello, Jed who fled? What's
going on? Jed? Welcome?

Speaker 8 (20:11):
Dennis Ben is a very humble guy. But I'll take
all the credits, even though I don't think you're referring
to me when you're talking about bringing the normalcy. Normalcy
is probably not my modus operandi, but the entertainment, absolutely,
you're welcome. I told my cousin Jason that the opening
season game against Ireland destroyed for the state's season last year,

(20:35):
and I did not advise it for the Kansas State Wildcats.
And he told me that not only did they not
have any input and getting making the schedule, pair of
the schedule, these games just almost a decade in advance,
but the game taint touchdown. Theyre in Ireland, you know,
twenty one to twenty one before they got beat. Was
my cousin jas Brown, and he is big beat in
il money, got a car, got women, Probably not going

(20:57):
to get drafted.

Speaker 9 (20:58):
In the NFL.

Speaker 8 (20:58):
I told him just max to that and not even
considered le galaxy because there was a lot like there's
so many year thousands of athletes around him, and there's
he's a very like the likelihood of him being becoming
that fish in the barrel is not is not good.
It is not high high.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
How many how much Jed would you have gotten if
they had you played football?

Speaker 2 (21:16):
How much would you have gotten in nil?

Speaker 8 (21:20):
You know, what the sideways eight means in mathematics sideways
eight infinity. Yeah, dude, my parents would tell me. I
would be I would be telling people as I grew up, like, hey,
I can't get my leaftom some part of the beach,
So that's a's gonna build my mom and new house.
And I was then I got to thinking, like, no
kid has that idea themselves, and so like what kind
of pressure was that A frusted upon a seven year old,

(21:43):
you know, in his youth, like this was this arms
gonna build my mom and new house. I'm like, there's
one you know what that ended up with a drug edition?
Drug edition, Y'all's fall y'all, I'm definitely no no accountability
then really quickly you love love, love love for music.
I know you're a huge fan of it.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yes, I actually I spend much of my day not
preparing for the monologue of the show. I just want
to know what the buffer music is that. How many
times do I text you Lorena? Do we we go
back and forth all day? I'm like, Lorena, what about
the B block in our three? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
We see each other playlists. I want to think, Ben,
what about this song? Do you think though like this one,
it's a mad scram bo.

Speaker 8 (22:21):
It really is, like, hey, what's that terrible part of
the sounding drops? They don't gonna choose the same.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Song number.

Speaker 8 (22:31):
Only three Florida Meet and greet. That was a good
laugh right there.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, but what here's the problem. Florida is a massive state.
So what part of Florida you're not.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
Gonna do that?

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Let's hear that laptop?

Speaker 8 (22:42):
Where's that laptop again?

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I'll shut up. I don't care, all right, go go away,
go go away.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
But you're not going to drive down to Miami because
you can't go that far because you're probation officer will
not allow you to do that. But he doesn't he
although I believe, well, yeah, that's how he he got
the name because he ditched out on the show.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
He found the show wall in custody. He found our
show all incarcerated. So there is that thanks to the
cops that turned the show on in jail there.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
And I guess our like or landough we could do
because that's kind of central, I mean, it is central
Florida's I think that's doable if we did a Florida thing.
Let's hello to Ed in Arlington. The great ed in Arlington,
turn out the last the parties over.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
For the Rangers. Nathan have all he'd done for the year.

Speaker 10 (23:34):
Hello ed in Arlington, Hello Ben calling about matters involving
the horsehide covered sphere, the wooden stick, and the leather glove.

Speaker 11 (23:46):
Okay, we got we gotta do something about this ridiculous
game last night.

Speaker 8 (23:54):
You must have cut some.

Speaker 9 (23:56):
Wind of the twenty to three score over the over
the Angels.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
A fine piece of art from Major League Baseball.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
It was.

Speaker 9 (24:10):
A farce. It was a joke for the final two
three innings that they took up Angels, as is common
these days, took a position player to pitch the final
two innings, but he was uniquely terrible. His fastball, if
you want to call it, that topped out at forty
miles an hour, and about half that twenty twenty to three.

Speaker 11 (24:32):
Score was off of that guy or somebody just as
bad as he was, and the game was decided long
before that. So why well, yeah, what.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
What what do you spot? You going to end the game?
They don't want to end the games early. Do you
want to end the games early?

Speaker 11 (24:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (24:48):
I thought needs Baseball needs a mercy rule, where the
other teams says right, we're done.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
We're rather than not.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Normally I would say no to that, but they already
have ghost runners. That's ridiculous, so why not just put
them rolling therew about that? How about everyone gets orange
slices if you go up by ten runs?

Speaker 2 (25:03):
How about that? There you go, But you don't have.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
To watch Did you watch the end of the game
of it? If the game's all blowout, I'm move on.
I'm on the next game. I'm not sitting there watching
that crap. I got other things.

Speaker 9 (25:16):
To do, I know, but it's embarrassing for the sport.

Speaker 11 (25:20):
It's Uh, you had a caller early. You're talking earlier
about a caller. He was going over the merits of
basketball and football. I mean those games.

Speaker 8 (25:29):
Baseball is a thinking.

Speaker 11 (25:31):
Man's game where you're supposed to realize if you tell
me of a situation, and not just go through the
motions of playing out pointless games once they've already been
decided for all intense purposes to so you can the
old reason the owners allow those games to continue and
don't adopt the mercy rules.

Speaker 9 (25:50):
It cuts down on the popcorn and throw this that
they can.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, it's also the players don't want the games to
end early, too, because they accumulate cheap stats, and it's
not like anyone goes back and goes through the books
and says, well, you hit get four home runs against
position players in the eighth inning when your team was
either up by ten runs or down by ten runs.
At the end of the year, you just look at
the overall volume of stats and guys get bonuses and whatnot.

(26:15):
So the players don't want the games to end early either,
because that's a good way to be, like an NFL
quarterback when your team's up by twenty and you're throwing
touchdown passes in the fourth quarter because you're a stat bandito, as.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
We like to say. So all right, I love you,
I gotta go, but thank you the great editor in Arlington.
Let's say hello to Eenie Meenie miney mo.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Let's go to Mike the Leprechaun. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.

Speaker 12 (26:45):
Morning then Top of the Morning, and my favorite worst caller.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
You're my favorite leprechaun caller. Yeah, that's a favorite Leprechaun.

Speaker 12 (26:59):
Do I have an action Mike from New Hampshire.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well, you definitely have an accent, but not like Mike
in New Hampshire. You no, you definitely don't have a
New Hampshire accent.

Speaker 12 (27:07):
Okay, Well, anyway, we're dead serious about Boston and worcesters So.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
All right, all right, well we're looking at some dates here.

Speaker 12 (27:15):
I have I have a golden goose, actually a golden duck,
and I have golden tickets to pass out, and Lorena
can bring her sharpie things whatever.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Athlete.

Speaker 12 (27:26):
Congratulations Lorena for being there two years. Well done. Congratulations Lorena.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
I appreciate Ferg Dog rights.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Ferg Dog writes, and he says, Ben, you're going to
the Radio Hall of Fame thanks to your bumper music.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Oh, thank you for a go appreciate that.

Speaker 12 (27:47):
And Lorena, Lorena, even though you drive a hammer, do
you still hold a grudge against me?

Speaker 2 (27:53):
All right, this is a.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Terrible phone call. This is a horrible thing. You realize
this is bad radio. There might be people listening to this.
Do you understand? Do you understand the point of the
show is to try to keep people engaged somewhat entertained.
You're literally people could die driving. They're gonna run off
the road into a ditch because of your phone call.
Do you understand that well, I'm.

Speaker 12 (28:13):
The worst caller, but I'm that's better than being the
best caller, like the loser Marcel. But anyway, come to
Boston on the weekend, all right, all.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Right, I mean we're gonna go there, but then you're
gonna annoy me, and then I don't know what I'm
gonna do because I all right, thank you, all right,
I gotta I gotta go, I gotta go.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Bye.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
By the way, Ben, Yes, Jed who fled called back.
He wanted me to let you know that there is
no like public radio that anybody listens to in jail.
He had to buy a little personal radio from the
from the commiss area or whatever.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
All right, why don't do You don't need to touch
up my work, Jad, Okay, you don't need to enhance
my story.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
My story is fine. You listened in jail, that's it. Okay.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Uh. We've had I've had listeners over the years that
get pop for Duy, which you should never get. But
you get a DUI and then the cops listen to
the show, and then they start listening, and then they
they end up, you know.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Becoming fans of the show or whatever. So what do
you want me to do.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Let's say hello to Moejoe Rising, who's in the band. Hello,
Mode Joe Rising.

Speaker 13 (29:23):
Come home baby. Like my fire, Ben Mallor show will
always be die here to listen. You will never tie here.
What's happening, my friend? Yeah, the Mojo Risen is still
out there.

Speaker 8 (29:34):
Man.

Speaker 13 (29:35):
Like I said, it's a rough life when you got
to get up at five o'clock in the morning trying
to listen to overnight radio. But to listen to you,
the Godfather. You know, you're amazing man, your take on everything,
Like Bill Belichick, you know, and Cam Newton. I mean,
come on, it's unbelievable your knowledge, Ben, because it's so
true with with with that Prima Donna guy, he's just

(29:57):
gonna come on and rip everybody. And you know he'd
always just been full of himself. And then of course
you know with Belichick, I mean he's definitely whooped on something.
I mean, come on, man, the guy.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Well, I think we know what. I think we know
what he's we know what he's whipped on. I think
it's rather obvious what he'shipped on. I think we've all,
uh all, we've done the math on that.

Speaker 14 (30:16):
We know what what he's into and uh, you know,
nothing wrong with that, but uh, you know, it's slightly
embarrassing considering the Belichick he was for twenty five thirty
years or whatever it was, so.

Speaker 13 (30:27):
Well exactly, it's just it's unreal now. But yeah, So
like I said, you guys are awesome. I mean you're
you're I think he will go down as the godfather
book form that radio. And I said, when you guys
have that promotion, when they name all the people, they
got to change it then because they got kids. Towards
the end, you deserve to be in the front. Man
when they name a dollar heard and all these people like,

(30:49):
why is Ben Mallard Towards the end of this promotion,
This man needs to be in the front.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
And I want to say, I think it's based on
it's based on the it's based on the pay. I
think the cow Herd and Dan Patrick Greakes the big
money there, so I think that's why they're near the front.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yes, I got to go, but thank you, Mojo, you're
very kind.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Get some sleep here, get to get nice napping or whatever,
and then you'll out in San Francisco or the Bay.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Area there and go to work there. You go very
very exciting.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
A blind Scott is on the North end of Boston.
Hello blind Scott, welcome.

Speaker 15 (31:22):
Oh yeah, So one thing you might not know about
me is when I hang up the phone, I'm actually
a social worker in Boston, and I'd like to give
Dennis some advice right now about his new luxury apartment
he is getting in Vermont. Now, when you move into
this apartment, Dennis, I reckon that you're an opiate addict,
because Vermont has the higatt opiate addiction rate. Whatever you do,

(31:45):
do not make friends with anybody else in this building.
You're moving into a warehouse style building where there's seventy
seven units. The worst thing you can do is get
to know your neighbors. That's the quickest way you'll lose
your housing because you'll start fighting with your neighbors because
they're crazy, just like you. You know what I'm saying.
So you've taken about three years to get into housing
because you've been homeless. You know that wasn't designed by action,

(32:05):
and that was on your own doing, sir. And since
you've taken are you.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Taking shots at Dennis? What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (32:12):
The guy finally got a place he's are It is
a great day. This guy, this guy did if you
were hold on, I said, take a breath. So this guy,
Dennis called off. He's a big fan of the show.
He was he was down on his log for several years.
He was out of his home, and he.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Finally got a place today and he's been calling the show.
He's very excited about that.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
And here's Blind Scott calling up and he's, uh, you know,
dropping a deuce right there?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
What are you doing?

Speaker 15 (32:36):
Listen. I live right next to the New England Veterans
Shelter on Court Street. It is a great place. If
you're looking for a home and you're a veteran, you
can go there right now. I work with a lot
of these guys that come out of there. We get
them places. You know what I'm saying. They throw a
party the first day they have the place. They think,
you know, it's party time. They've been living in a
shelter for three years. No, it is not party time.
It is time to settle down, find a home. Be serious,

(32:58):
like I blind Scott. You know I have a place.
You know. I don't let anybody in my place. I
got people listening right now that are dying to get
in my place. To hang with blind Scott. I got boundaries.
I set boundaries. I don't express my boundaries to other
I just set them. They're around me. Like today, I
left my apartment, I was walking down the street. All
the sudden I was almost in a fight with five guys.
I called nine to one one. I had boundaries.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
You were not in a fight with you were at
a five guys Burgers.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
You were not in a fight. You were at a
burger place.

Speaker 15 (33:27):
Document No, there was a moving truck.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
It's not well document there's no one documenting. Who would
be documenting something like that.

Speaker 15 (33:33):
I did on social media as it happened live. Actually,
so anyways, these guys tried to fight me. One guy
tried to grab me. They started using squares against me.
I took photos of their moving trucks. I called nine
one one. Nobody showed up, Nobody cared. I walked away
with my head down. Just felt like a complete loser
in general. But the way it worked out was they
were yelling watch out, watch out, watch out, and then boom,

(33:55):
I walked right into their moving truck, and then all
of a sudden, they were like, you know, I was.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Giving them the immediately picked up your phone and dial
you dial Day, You dial Day.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Who hurt me? A lawyer, didn't you?

Speaker 15 (34:07):
Yeah? Yes, yeah, I didn't get injured. This I got it.
I saw they did have eight hundred thousand dollars in insurance.
I looked that up when I was standing right next
to the truck. Okay, dude, one more song about Robin, Robin, Robin.
She hasn'tsomnia. Watch out. Don't make friends with Michael leper coon,
but he'll try to purchase you as you're mess.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
All right, all right, thank you, all right, Mike, stay
off the coke. All right, there he goes, Blind Scott.
And if you if you're in the north end, that's
your neighbor.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
That is your neighbor.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Let's go to seat belt in Maine. Who wants to
say something? Hell, seat belt?

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Welcome, big Ben Mallet.

Speaker 12 (34:40):
How are you today?

Speaker 2 (34:41):
If I was any better, I would not have taken
that last call. But I did. Oh, I know, I
hear you.

Speaker 11 (34:46):
Look, I gotta say something, Blind Scott.

Speaker 8 (34:48):
Keep me and you.

Speaker 11 (34:49):
I really really enjoy your phone calls.

Speaker 8 (34:51):
I think you were one funny man.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Don't do not incurage, do not encourage him.

Speaker 11 (34:55):
I enjoy his phone calls.

Speaker 9 (34:57):
He is hilarious.

Speaker 12 (34:58):
He makes me laugh early.

Speaker 8 (34:59):
You know, it's in Maine. I'm at work early because
I do the veteran move. I don't like sitting in traffic.

Speaker 11 (35:05):
You're having a safety break, a little safety break, Coop
before I go into.

Speaker 10 (35:08):
Work this early in the morning, saying you're medicating yourself
every morning.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
And Mike, are you sure it's him and not what
you're smoking that makes you laugh? Is it conceivable that
you might be enhancing the comedy from what you're doing?

Speaker 9 (35:23):
He helps out a lot.

Speaker 11 (35:24):
He definitely does.

Speaker 15 (35:25):
But Michael Leprecaun, you're a downer.

Speaker 11 (35:27):
Leprecaun's a fake.

Speaker 8 (35:28):
And dude, you suck.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
That's a drop, Lorena, that's a that's a drop. That's
a drop right there, you suck. I think you might
have stepped on a cooper.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
That's a drop. That is outstanding. All right. I really
enjoyed that. Let's get a quick Cowboys corner.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Cowboy John Bradden, Windsor, Ontario, Hello Cowboy John brad Oh.

Speaker 16 (35:51):
Hello Ben. Let's see happy eighty second and seventy fifth
birthday the former Major leaguers Sweetlue Whitaker as Ron Gizri, respectively,
seventy years ago today, August the twenty eighth, nineteen fifty five,
African American Chicago lad m Until was winched in money
Mississippi for allegedly wolfstling a white woman, which turned out

(36:14):
to be a lion course. And this woman died April
twenty seven, twenty twenty three, at age eighty eight. And
the people committed as horrible act were of course.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Acquitted by all white juries, if we weren't allowed in
seven juries in those days. But sixty two years ago
today was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
which about a quarter million people took part in that
that demonstration. The day before that, August twenty seventh, nineteen

(36:47):
sixty three, Afrius W. B. Dubois died gone at age
ninety five. And I had an author friend, Barn mcwaugh was,
who died August twenty sixth, nineteen eighty nine, at eight
forty four. I'm speaking people, hopefully the mom mon remember
box and blondes and handsome black cowboys matter.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
There you go, all right, thank you, Kele.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
How to make more money than Lebron James all close
to it? A Florida OnlyFans model revealed recently. I saw
this story she made from subscribers last year. Eighty two
million dollars.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Yeah, Tothy rain my God, Yeah, holy crap. And that
is the most popular product you can sell, and she's
selling it all right.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
We will get the fact, you know what I mean.
We'll get the fact or fiction, and we will do
it next.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
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Speaker 1 (37:54):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Mallor Show.
And reminder, this show is saved in the podcast format
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(38:16):
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Speaker 2 (38:34):
Please transmit Obedia. Is it fact for fiction?

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Let's face some raw facts on the.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Ben Mallor Show. All right, let's get to it.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
We have our celebrity panel of judges ready to go.
The Power Couple still in their European vacation. That is allowed,
So we will welcome in Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard
in Fort Wayne.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Hello, Daniel, good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
School is back and Daniel has returned, and you're gonna
be judge number one. We also have Milkman Mike in Colorado?
Or is that the Power Couple?

Speaker 17 (39:12):
I don't know, you know, Ben, when I left my apartment,
I ran into that movement truck. I thought I was
gonna make a lot of money. But you know, all
these blind callers that call in, you know, I really
get upset with them, the way they sit here. Think
deserves the best caller, and I'm the best caller in
the world.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
I know, I understand. All right, hold on a set.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
We have a coach Russell in Orlando undefeated. Hello Coach Russell, Hordy, Ben,
how you doing brother?

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Morning time? Coach Russell, give me one of my judges.
Hold on, and we have Shane in Des Moines.

Speaker 12 (39:43):
Hello Shane, Hi Ben, thanks for letting me on. Mike
as a Hall of Famer.

Speaker 9 (39:48):
What a great caller?

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Which which Mike? We have seventeen dudes, Mikes are great.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
That's a lie, all right? Hold on a second, three stories?
Figure out which is the three? Isn't your story number one?
Tyrese Burton basketball player made recent appearance on some podcast
when he was asked about the Halliban nickname he was
given during the Pacer playoff run. He revealed that he
had to issue several season assist orders to stop the

(40:15):
nickname from being used.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
On third party merch. That story number one.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Story number two, Flavor Flav and Martha Stewart are not
the only ones offering to help with Travis Kelsey Taylor
Swift's wedding. The Crazy Horse three Strip club in Vegas
offering to throw the couple a co ed bachelor bachelorette
party with one hundred beautiful entertainers.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
I'm sure they'll sign up for that right away. And
story number three, ninety eight percent.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Of student athletes at Ohio State eat Chipotle at least
once a month. Now they are expanding their NIL program
to Ohio State, Florida, and Georgia. Customized cards walk on
athletes they can all eat chick Chipotle. All right, real quick,
which of the stories isn't true? Let's start Daniel one,
two or three?

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Daniel the next.

Speaker 8 (41:00):
Time possible to be number two, So I'm going with
number two.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
All right, milkman, Mike.

Speaker 8 (41:05):
Number two?

Speaker 2 (41:07):
All right? What about you? Coach Russell? Quickly and his
number number one? Number one, number one. I'm sorry there,
Shait
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