July 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Will Clark ripping current Red Sox announcer Will Flemming, reports that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is pushing for a salary cap, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, Sports Jeopardy, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh maha, oh maha, oh maa we call an audible
in our number four hour number four and the baseball
legend of the nineteen eighties and nineties Giants first baseman
back in the day, Will Clark, Will Clark ripping current
Red Sox announcer Will Fleming for Raphael Devers and the
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report that he had And even though it came originally
from Will Clark, do you have fancy a thought on
this one? And in addition, we are told that Baseball
Commissioner Rob Manford is pushing for a salarycap. Is that
a good idea or a bad idea? Also, the Yankees
officially released DJ Lemayhew. He's out, so there is speculation
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that the Mariners could be a potential fit for le Mayhew.
How does that sound to you? We'll talk about all that. Also,
a new episode of the fifth hour podcast. Have a
great weekend, and we'll talk to you over on the
podcast side only a little bit later today. But here
it is our number four. Well they don't call them,
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will the thrill for nothing? Welcome? In the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mahlor Show. We are in
the air everywhere as we wag our tongue and provide
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with most of it, my effing God, the young people
today would never be able to handle a baseball manager
acting anywhere close to Lee Ilia. It would It would
definitely be different. I mean, obviously there was no social
media when that happened. Lee Ilia the greatest rant of
all time when he was the Cubs manager, so it
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would be immediate. That took a while to get around
in a world without the Internet and without bots and
all that stuff. But we're not here to talk about that.
Our lead this hour from San Francisco, putting the sour
in Sourdough Giants legend Will Clark. Now Will Clark, if
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you're old, you know who that is. He was a
pretty popular player, pretty popular player a long time ago,
long time ago. So Will Clark says that there's no
beef between him and Rafael Devers, the X sock who's
now in San Francisco. Now, it turns out that Will
Clark does apparently have a beef with Will Fleming. Who
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the hell is Will Fleming? But Will Fleming is the
Red Sox play by play announcer, so if you're not
following along, you might have missed it. So Will Fleming,
who's only been there for a couple of years in
Boston as the full time guy, and I actually did
one radio show with Will Fleming years ago when I
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was working at the other station there in Boston. It
was a nice guy. I didn't talk too much, but
I don't talk much, you know, I don't talk much.
So anyway, Will Fleming is the play by play anounced
the Boston Red Sox. He repeated a story that he
heard on Will Clark's podcast, So it's not Will Clark's.
He's like a regular on a podcast. I think I
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don't remember the name of it. Anyway, it was the
story about Rafael Devers that he he ghosted Will Clark.
Devers did not once, not twice, three times he no
showed for a workout session at First Base. And that
was when the Red Sox and Giants played back in June.
So now we fast forward. We advanced the story, right,
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we advanced the story, and on the latest pod appearance,
Will Clark unloaded on Will Fleming. This is Will on
Will Crime quote. This is from Will Clark. Will Fleming
can go f off the mother blank? All right, you
wanta e f and take a conversation that we're having
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and then blow it out of proportion because you're a
fing East Coast piece of blank reporter f off close quote.
All right, that's spicy. That is spicy. So let us
discuss there. You have San Francisco Giants legend, Will Clark
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ripping Will on Will Crime Red Sox announcer Will Fleming
all over Rafael Devers and the story that Will Fleming
shared from Will Clark about Rafael Devers. Do you fancy
a thought on this one? Yeah, I'll take a shot
at this. So I've got Yosemite, sam Holy Grail and
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peach mango yogurt, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna make the Baba ganoosh with
a side of gobba ghoul. All right, So to lead
off here, I love this story. Old guy rage, old
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guy anger. This is a steaming hot pile of baseball drama,
o rama, all right. It is hotter than a pepper sprout,
as Johnny Cash would say Will Clark, from the sound
of it on this video of it is absolutely beside
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beside himself, right, Like, the funniest part about this story
hand a guy, all right. The funniest part about this
story is Will Clark is ranting and he's complaining. But
really what he's complaining about is no one listens to
his podcast. Like the podcast he's on, no one listens
to like not even the Giant people don't listen to it.
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No one's listening. That matters until Will Fleming, the Red
Sox play by play guy, drops Will Clark's name, and
then all of a sudden, the comments that he made
on his own platform about Rafael Devers go cob boom right,
and it's like Will Clark's like, ohh my god, this
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is like state secrets. I can't believe you would talk
about that. Why would you talk about You blew it
out of proportion. And so so I'm guaranteeing you that
Will was contacted by somebody from the Giants like what
are you doing? You know, like you're screwing us over here,
You're messing with Devers, Like what are you doing? And
he's probably huffing and puffing like Will Clark, like what
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do you You're attacking Willie Mays or McCovey, what are
you doing? So Will Clark then gets upset, But the
thing is it doesn't sound like Will Clark's upset because
his words were being repeated. He's upset because his words
were effective, like the podcast. He's rambling on a podcast
and it floated into the ether, just out there like
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most podcasts. Most podcasts, no one listens to them. Unfortunately,
that's just the way it is. Uh. And and there's
Fleming and bless his heart is very talkative heart there
and he turns the he turns this into you know,
talk radio napalm. And now you've got Will Clark out here,
snopping around like a cartoon character like Assemite, Sam wondering,
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I can't believe my words, the things I spoke into
a microphone, Hello, into a microphone, and now they've come
back to bite you. Like this is the audio equivalent
of yelling into a void and then complaining when someone finally,
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you know, the echo comes back to you. You know,
they echoes back. It's like, what are you doing? It's
not Will Fleming's fault. That Will Clark's whatever podcast he's
on has the reach of a carrier pigeon in a
lightning storm. Right, you say it on a podcast and
you publish it. It's in the public domain. You want
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the public to listen to it. The mic is not
some kind of group therapy session. It's supposed to be
a megaphone. And you're like, you're surprised, Like, how are
you surprised? It actually worked like, if you don't want
something to be weaponized, then maybe and I don't know,
I'm not that smart, and I just see the Overnight show.
Maybe you don't load the clip. First of all, you
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don't say it, but you don't publish it. So Will
Clark learned a valuable lesson, a good life lesson. The
first rule of audio fight Club, the very first rule.
If you record it and you publish it, someone might
actually believe it or not. Somebody might hear it eventually,
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even if it's just Will Fleming. That's it, all right.
Now in the page furthermore, to the boardroom we go.
Putting the board in boardroom. So we are told now
that Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manford is pushing push
it back, now, push it back. Rob Manford is publicly
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pushing for a salary cap. Good idea, bad idea, good idea,
bad idea. All right, I'll go first. I have terrible ideas.
What I have terrible ideas? What I have absolute garbage.
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Now here's why. All right, I am anti salary cap.
I don't want someone to cap my pay. Even though
that happens, I don't want it, right, And and the
salary cap is always a one way street. It is
always one way street. It only benefits the owners, and
that's it. And the players always end up getting squeezed
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and a lot of dumb fans get sold this bill
of goods about competitive balance and all this stuff. I
remember years ago when this used car salesman. Bud Seeek
was the Commissioner of Baseball and he was like, well,
you know, if towns like Cincinnati and Pittsburgh get new ballparks,
they'll be able to compete with the Red Sox and
the Yankees and the Dodgers. And they just need these
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new ballparks. And so they got all this tax money
to build these new ballparks, and the teams continue to blow,
you know, they just suck. And so the competitive balance
it's mostly nonsense. If you have an owner that's motivated,
you can make it work. The Tampa Bay Rays playing
a minor league ballpark, they don't even sell it out
most of the time, and yet they put a competitive
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team on the field pretty much year in and year out.
Tampa Bay does right because they figured out the cheat code.
They figured out how to do it, because they're motivated
to do it. The Pittsburgh Pirates they don't care. It
doesn't matter to them. Okay, their ballpark is beautiful. It's
one of the most impressive places I've been to in
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the baseball world. And they should just sell tickets to
look at the view because when you watch the Pirates,
you want to puke in your mouth watching the Pirates
play baseball. But the whole salary cap thing, so there's
no real competitive balance. The owners sit back and then
you know they make the money and all stuff, but
the salary cap, it's it's just to put a leash
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a cap. Obviously, it says it in the name on
how much they pay out. And Manford's out here, he's
acting like the salary cap is some kind of magical
placebo and it's gonna cure all of baseball's problems, which
spoiler alert, spoiler alert, it ain't happening. Now, why is
it not happening. There's there's a problem. It's two words,
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two words full transparency. The only way that this would
ever happen the owners would have to do the thing
they will never do. They would have to open up
the spreadsheet. They'd have to open up the books, show
the revenue, show the profits. The whole Enchilada, all of it,
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and they won't do it because that is the holy grail.
They'll never do it. I've heard some amazing stories over
the years about the the amount of effort the owners
have gone to protect the finances. They have lost money.
They could have sued certain people, they didn't do it
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because they had to protect the books because if you
sue in discovery, the financial information comes out the NFL.
We know the finances of the NFL. How do we
know that the Green Bay Packers. The Green Bay Packers
are a weird setup with their own byer trust in
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the commune. And it's none of that in baseball, right
the numbers are the holy grail. No way know how
they getna. You think a guy like Bob Nutting over
there in Pittsburgh is gonna show Spaccoli and Pete in
Pittsburgh how much money he is pocketing while fielding a
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single a roster. Not a chance right now. The owners,
they would rather let the game rot to its core
than let anyone see how they make the hot dogs
right to peak behind the curtain. And Rob Manford knows this.
Everyone in baseball is aware of this. He's just posturing
he's trying to look like I have another solution to baseball. Oh,
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I am going to fix baseball, all right, Last thing quick,
right to the transaction wire. We go to the Bronx
on the Ben Mathers Show where the New York Yankees.
It's official he had been designated for assignment. He has
now been fired. Who is he? DJ le Mayhew say what? Yeah?
(15:06):
The Yankees have officially released DJ lem Mayhew. Now there
is speculation, right, there is speculation that the Mariners, the
Seattle Mariners, could be a potential fit for DJ Lemayhew.
So how does that sound to you? So this, let
me tell you what this sounds like. This does not whisper.
(15:28):
It screams soom same old Mariners, Like you can almost
hear the groan coming from Robbie the Mariner fan crying,
Craig JJ and Rnton, no S Trudinis and some of
the other celebrity callers to the show and contributors from
the Pacific Northwest. So the Mariners, like the trade deadlines?
(15:50):
Was it July thirty first, so twenty days from today,
and you're considering any other washed up veteran like the
GM there Jerry Poto grab cart, Grab grab a cart,
and you're shopping yet again at Dollar General, is what
you're doing. And the Mariners are perennial contenders for the
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we tried kinda and then you're like, your shrug yours,
we tried kinda, I mean, we tried it. They have
this odd fetish, like everyone's got a fetish, but their
fetish is really kinky. They like picking up washed up,
former good players who have lost their ability to play
baseball because they can get them like a cheap pair
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of knockoff sunglasses. Right, the Yankees are gonna be paying
DJ Lemayhew twenty two million dollars through next year. That
is not exactly a ringing endorsement. That is a neon
sign saying buyer, beware, stay away, stay away, stay away,
and the Mariners are like, no, no, We're not gonna
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stay away. DJ Lemayhew is not exactly moving the space
needle at this point. Now more evidence that the Seattle
baseball team is the Major League Baseball equivalent of the
guy that goes to the grocery store and buyer, they
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buy the container of that expired package of peach mango
yogurt because it's fifty cents cheaper than the actual package
that is not expired. So they buy, they save fifty
cents and Lemaye would I guess he would be a backup.
I mean, I don't know. He's not gonna play much,
but what's the point. Like, I don't get it. And
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every time I look at that they got their lunch
handed them by the Yankees this week and that quote
a couple of years ago, Jerry Depot is like, all
we want to do is win fifty four percent of
our games. We don't want to go all in. We
just want to win fifty four percent of our games
because maybe one out of every ten years we might
actually make a run in the playoffs. And that's all
we want to do. And that's all we care about.
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Dog says, are you able to understand a single thing.
Izzy from Anaheim says, because for the life of me,
I can't. You're talking about a person that called up
during the daytime show that I did yesterday.
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No.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
In fact, I even told Jonas I said, people take
shots at overnight radio callers. The people that call during
the day, for the most part, are terrible. Like I
would take overnight talk radio caller than daytime talk radio
caller ten out of ten times, ten out of ten times.
Alf the Alien Opina says, where can I find that
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discounted peach mango yogurt? Well, you go out if you
go to the very back of the grocery store and
they have like the discounted bread, and they've got like
there's the discounted meat area, and then there's yogurt. Usually
it's off to the left at the store I go to,
it's off to the left. Robbie the Mariner fan writes
in he says, DJ lemayhew, Really this organization is trying
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to kill me. Yes, they actually have meetings every week.
How can we f over, Robbie the Mariner fan, that's
what they say. Who's your bill? Says the Mariners? I
thought they moved to Oklahoma City years ago. Who knew?
All right, very nice, We'll go to the phones. It
is a call in show. And look at this back
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back from the other side. We have not talked to
this man in a long time. Marcel in Brooklyn, Hello, Marcel, Ah, can.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
You believe it? Good morning everyone? And then I just
tried to call you, but I didn't answer back on
fraud back on Wednesday from the phone company.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
What about what about Monday?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Oh? Yeah, I try to miss you, but I really
miss you a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah. Are you concerned, Marcel that by not participating, you're
going to lose your stature as the caller of the year.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
What that's not true, Sack said.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Are you? Are you at a factory, Marcel in Brooklyn?
It sounds I hear some noise in the background. What
is that?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
It is the air conditioning to keep away from the
speed the heat process. I'm sure, but you know what.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I'm Marcel, is that air conditioner from the nineteen fifties?
What is going on here? My god? That's how do
you sleep? Marcel? As a very loud air conditioner?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, it was air conditioning, but I was trying to
keep away from sweating from this major summer hot scorch
or tempt here are.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They going on? But Marcel is the you are the
official weather person of the show.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yes it is. Why thank you and soul say listeners
for losing my caller of the year because of the
sleep back on Monday and many of you on social
media that's saying having a day off. This is not good.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
This is Marcel. You're not allowed to take days off, Marcell.
You can't do it.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
No, that's that's a lie.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Really, that is a lie. And well you want you
want to take a call people to talk to you
want to take a call?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Now, put the the unknown caller for once to speak
to me before I had to toss it over to
Coop d Luke and his coop Scoop on it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
All Right, well we're going to hold off on that,
but let's go to Marcel. I'll go to caller one there, Cooper,
call her one. You're on the air with Marcel and Brooklyn.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Hello caller one, Hello, caller to the show. Oh hey, Marcea,
it's your friends Scott from Boston. So, Marceaux, I recently
saw you playing basketball with those New York Knicks fans,
you know, the super fans. They had the New York
Knicks basketball tournament there in the Bronx actually a few
weeks ago. Now, how did you do in the tournament?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Oh? The Knickerbockers are great, including mine, but I've never
been been playing basketball all.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
In my life.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Rushall?
Speaker 5 (24:38):
What what number?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Marcell? What what number do you wear for the Knicks?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Marcel number thirty one?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Oh, Ben, I've ever mentioned something Marcel hold on Home
and Away section of Martha Up, Marcel stop. I got
to say something real quick stuff. Then Will Clark monologue
you did was unbelievable. I got to point something out.
Though it's been covered heavily in Boston. Fred turned everybody
on to Will Clark because he was a Cardinals fan,
so he directed a lot of those people to Will
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Clark's podcast. I know you didn't know that leg of it,
but it's true. You know what I'm saying. So Will Fleming.
I don't know how he got involved in this, because
now there's another layer to this and one other, one
other thing. Ben, I got struck by lightning last night
when I was on the call, and you can go
back and hear it on the podcast. But no, no,
you didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You didn't get struck. You didn't get struck by lightning.
If you get struck out, you'd be dead.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
No, it made my hair. It made my hair frizz
up in the air and turned the car.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And I think something else made your hair frizz up.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Not that dude, during the daytime. I told you I
was trying to get on during the daytime. You would
not give me the number for your daytime show. I
can't get the seat turn.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
On, and I we it's on the iHeart app I
I they gave out. I don't even know the number
to call, and there Jonas gave it out. I was
with him. He gave out the number.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Well my band or something like, I should be with you.
I'll be so upset if the TV show does not
get renewed and I have a lot riding on it,
I'll yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I'll tell you what. I got more writing than you
have writing on it, so it better get renewed. How
about that.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
It's gonna affect me. I'm gonna be taken the gloves
off after it gets renewed because I've been behaving so much.
I've been playing so I got sick praying so much
for the TV show. Dude, the ladies that the church
have been kissing me and everything you do.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Not if you, Marcel hold Scott, if you went into church,
there would be a not lightning, something worse than lightning.
There'd be suddenly there'd be a giant earthquake and the
church would be swallowed up by the planet.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
You go in the church's basement too, like you could
go around the back, you know for the addicts meetings,
you know where you're like trying to get some help. Dude.
One other thing too, Uh, Marceau called into the Toucher
and Hearty show, right, and he just started talking about
how the phones were broken so they didn't know what
he was saying, you know, so they're like, what is
he saying? So they think their phones are broken too?
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But all weekend it's crazy, man, these are going to
be really dark contest.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I have shut it. I just tried to have some
respect there. But if you say all things Boston sports
where you're like Ben does, he will be blocked you
and eliminate for sure. So do yourself a favor and
cut that out, will you.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It's fright, Thank you, marceall.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Thank you, But hey, I gotta call these other guys.
It's like Colin Mussolini on the sports they get mad
at me.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
They're not nice, Cooper the Well, they actually they actually
have high standards. We'll put anyone on so we don't.
Let's say a load of Chris in the Commonwealth. Hello, Chris, welcome.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Oh wow?
Speaker 6 (27:41):
How do I follow that?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Enough?
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Ben?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
How do I follow that up?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I don't know. You bang your head against the front
of your car.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
And listen, Ben, I always a cake that I forget
the gentleman's name from Boston. But he took my will
Fleming cake. So I'm just gonna stop right there now,
wondering if I keep quiet? Can I play sports Jeopardy?
I liked on Hold.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I'll put you on hold? Why not? You're a right?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Don't have to say you love me. It's at awkward,
but I'll put you on all all right? Uh key
drinking Steve, Hello, quickly, I got to get to the
coop scoop on anti key drinking Steve.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Oh man, I love you man. This this uh Tom
Brady breakdown thing is like man from heaven. Man, what
do you think? What do you think? He says Tom
Brady says, Sophia Viagre is too old. She's old invested,
and he had to send out his PR teams to
(28:43):
try and fix. I think Tom Brady's actually right on
him on this occasion. He's fighting for his legacy. He
can't against my homes. He can't have an old invested
broad like like a Viagra.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Hang around. She looks pretty good. She looks pretty good
to me. I don't know, maybe I'm blind, but she
looks pretty good. I don't know what you're talking.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
With Goldiehan's daughter and the Hucci from fifty Shades to Gray.
So I think he ought to go. He ought to
go with Goldiehan's daughter because she's a little bit she's
a little bit kind of loopy, a little bit kind
of kind of slutty.
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But all right, I'm done with you. Thank you, Big news,
Big news. Milkman Mike in Colorado is in the Malor Palooza.
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Dog Contest. It's a week from this Sunday. Week from
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get over the coop a loop for the Coop Scoop
on entertainment. Here we go all right for Holly Ray
for how all right?
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Ben?
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Just a few things this week, but they are some exciting,
you know, a few exciting things. First, in theaters, we
have Superman. That's right, the new Superman.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Movie from They've never made those before.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
No, but this is the first one in the new
DC Studios, the first feature film from DC Studios.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Where are the DC Studio That's a good question, I'm
not sure.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
But it's from director James Gunn and is in the
newly imagined DC universe, and it stars David corn Sweat
as Superman. Name, yeah, corn Sweat, Cornie.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
He's okay because he's super Man. He probably got picked
on in second grade though, I know right.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
It also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Holt, and Anthony Kerrigan.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Who you may know from Barry Fame and it's just
a racing movie thing, is that F one? Yeah, I've
been I've been told I need to see that this weekend.
My wife wants to see is any good? Have you
seen it?
Speaker 8 (31:20):
I have not seen it because racing movies do not
interest me.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
But I didn't say it interests me either. I was
asked the goos.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
It does have great reviews. It is from Apple. It
is actually a yeah in Apple movie and it is
Was it made in China? I don't think so, but
it is so far it is their their most successful
film to date. And right, yeah, so it's both the
(31:50):
both the critics, and it's actually got a higher audience
score than critics. Critics given an eighty three percent and
audience scores ninety seven percent.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
So I will make my own decision if I am
forced to go see it.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Yeah, let me know and then and then maybe I
might watch it. I guess F one's like the coolest
kind of racing that you could pick.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Right, Yes, it's the It's kind of like in America
people don't ready watch F one, but around the world
it's like soccer. Nobody America really watches it, but around
the world. It's very popular, Yes, exactly, all right.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Moving over to television, we have the return of Dexter. Yes,
the the serial killer who only kills other killers is
back in Dexter Resurrection.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Now.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
The first two episodes are available to stream on Paramount
Plus right now. It will air on regular cable on
Showtime this Sunday, and all of the characters, you know,
Michael C. Hall is returning as Dexter, and all of
the other actors who are still alive in that storyline
will be making their return as well.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
And even the ones that are dead are going to
be back to the amazing well, I mean, ki they
can bring them back in kind of.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
I mean, like you know, spoiler alert, spoiler alert if
you haven't watched the original Dexter show. He dies at
the end of it. So they're bringing him back.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
So that's good. Yeah, it was just they're gonna make
it a dream sequence.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
I think it's gonna be like, you know, we never
actually saw him die. We just saw him get shot
in the chest and so he somehow survives that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
But there are some big names guest starring this season,
including Uma Thurman, Peter Dinklage, Kristin Ritter, Neil Patrick Harris,
and Eric stone Street among others. And moving on. The
last thing that I want to point out is a
new documentary you know, the train Wreck series on Netflix.
I recently mentioned the Poop Cruise edition of the train
(33:53):
Rex series on Netflix. I did watch that documentary special.
It was quite interesting. But this Tuesday will be train
Wreck Balloon Boy documentary special on that. I don't know
if you remember when the hot air balloon was or
it was.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Like, oh yeah, I do remember that.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
It wasn't even a hot air balloon. It was like
a weather balloon and they and it was a hoax.
They said that their kid was in there and.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Then he wasn't I do remember that. What is that on?
Speaker 8 (34:20):
That is on Netflix? Okay, train Wreck balloon Boy and
that is it for Coop.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Scooperament A very good there. It is the Koop Scoop
on Entertainment and enjoy your weekend and I for me,
I'll be I'll be listening to the Fifth Hour podcast.
That's what I'll be. I'll be doing it as well,
so it's it's fascinating. Anyway, we will press on here
and if you would like to play calm down, Marcel, please.
(34:47):
How great is Marcel's air conditioner? I think we should
just do a special on the podcast about his air conditioner.
Like he lives in a really old building in Brooklyn.
That might be the first ever air conditioner they put
into a building in Brooklyn where Mars right In't that wild? Like, Marcel,
his building is so old, that's like the original air
(35:08):
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Chris in the Commonwealth. Hello Chris, Hi.
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Ben, Hey, I didn't mean to be left shame.
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Why can I play Lorena? That's what I meant.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I was love.
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Oh, I couldn't understand. Your phone's a little wonky, But
that's all right. You're you're you're gonna play and calm down,
You're gonna play. And we have East Coast. You're representing
the East Coast, and then from the West coast, our
friend Holiday, who's in La Hello? Holiday? Welcome? Hey, well
man you being yeah, I'm all right now, Holiday almost
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died or you did die? Right, Holiday? They brought you
back from the other side? Is that right?
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Twice?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Twice? Listen this unbelievable, what an amazing thing. All right, well,
we're very happier here obviously. Oh boy, there's a lot
of ambient noise. But let's play the game. The categories
are give me your digit, so that's category number one,
and go off. Go off King is the other category. So, Chris,
(38:08):
which one do you want?
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Can you repeat that?
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Ben? Your phone's wonky?
Speaker 5 (38:13):
My phone is good, I'm ready here.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Well it sounds better. Now give me your digits and
go off King.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
I'll go digit.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
All right, gentlemen, your name is your brother? Good luck?
I will tell you the athlete. Tell me the jersey
number they are known for known for. Here we go,
two hundred dollars, the NFL's Brett Farv.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Twelve.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yes, say your name. You want to answer anybody? Anybody
Brissy numbers Holiday, you want to go? Yes, say your
name Holiday.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Brett farb Is number four.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
That is correct. Brett fav Is number four. Two hundred
dollars to you, Holiday, will keep going in. Give me
those digits for four hundred dollars. I'll give you the athlete.
Tell me the jersey number they were known to wear
in their careers from the Miami Heat. Dwayne Wade Holiday
Holiday number three, number three, that is that is correct?
(39:13):
Wayne how Dwayne Wade number also has a very ugly
statue and looks something like him in Miami. All right,
six hundred dollars. It is pretty bad. Give me, give
me those ditches. I'll name the athlete. Tell me the
jersey number they were known to wear from the NFL.
Charles Woodson Holiday Holiday number twenty four. Wow, Holiday, you're
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really good with it. That is correct. He's killing you.
He's killing you, Chris. You might have to come back
from the other side like Holiday did. All right, eight
hundred dollars. The next question, I'll give you the name
of the player. Give me the digits they're known to
wear from the New York Yankees. Aaron Judge Holiday, Yes,
(39:56):
number that is correct. Wow, this is impressive. Chris is
Chris is not handling this very well, let's go next one,
last one in this category. Get me those digits again.
I'll name the athlete. Tell me the number of the
player was most known to wear. We'll go on the
(40:17):
way back machine to the Carolina Panthers defensive star Julius Peppers.
Julius Peppers holiday holiday, no wage, No way you're gonna.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Get number ninety.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Oh my god, god, that is right. He got it right?
Are you cheating? Holiday? What is going on here? I've
never nobody ever gets the number category right, It's so
hard to remember the number. Well, that's impressive. Let's go
to the next category. Let's see if Chris can try
to get one right. These sports figures have all gone
on notable rants in honor of the great Lee Ilia.
(40:52):
This NBA star ranted twenty three years ago, repeating practice
practice yes, Chris, Oh my god, Oh no, Chris, come on, Chris,
come on, No. Five four three two, one? Oh my god.
(41:16):
Holiday holiday, yeah, holiday, Yes, you're.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Talking about practice.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Man, All right, exactly, all right, you win holiday Chris,
though you made us laugh. You're so bad. It was cats.
Oh man, he had it. He had it on the
tip of his tongue. He had it right there.
Oh maha, oh maha, oh maa we call an audible
in our number four hour number four and the baseball
legend of the nineteen eighties and nineties Giants first baseman
back in the day, Will Clark, Will Clark ripping current
Red Sox announcer Will Fleming for Raphael Devers and the
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report that he had And even though it came originally
from Will Clark, do you have fancy a thought on
this one? And in addition, we are told that Baseball
Commissioner Rob Manford is pushing for a salarycap. Is that
a good idea or a bad idea? Also, the Yankees
officially released DJ Lemayhew. He's out, so there is speculation
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that the Mariners could be a potential fit for le Mayhew.
How does that sound to you? We'll talk about all that. Also,
a new episode of the fifth hour podcast. Have a
great weekend, and we'll talk to you over on the
podcast side only a little bit later today. But here
it is our number four. Well they don't call them,
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We'll have more on that on the Fifth Hour podcast
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to ever complain about woke crap, even though I disagree
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with most of it, my effing God, the young people
today would never be able to handle a baseball manager
acting anywhere close to Lee Ilia. It would It would
definitely be different. I mean, obviously there was no social
media when that happened. Lee Ilia the greatest rant of
all time when he was the Cubs manager, so it
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would be immediate. That took a while to get around
in a world without the Internet and without bots and
all that stuff. But we're not here to talk about that.
Our lead this hour from San Francisco, putting the sour
in Sourdough Giants legend Will Clark. Now Will Clark, if
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you're old, you know who that is. He was a
pretty popular player, pretty popular player a long time ago,
long time ago. So Will Clark says that there's no
beef between him and Rafael Devers, the X sock who's
now in San Francisco. Now, it turns out that Will
Clark does apparently have a beef with Will Fleming. Who
(03:39):
the hell is Will Fleming? But Will Fleming is the
Red Sox play by play announcer, so if you're not
following along, you might have missed it. So Will Fleming,
who's only been there for a couple of years in
Boston as the full time guy, and I actually did
one radio show with Will Fleming years ago when I
(04:02):
was working at the other station there in Boston. It
was a nice guy. I didn't talk too much, but
I don't talk much, you know, I don't talk much.
So anyway, Will Fleming is the play by play anounced
the Boston Red Sox. He repeated a story that he
heard on Will Clark's podcast, So it's not Will Clark's.
He's like a regular on a podcast. I think I
(04:24):
don't remember the name of it. Anyway, it was the
story about Rafael Devers that he he ghosted Will Clark.
Devers did not once, not twice, three times he no
showed for a workout session at First Base. And that
was when the Red Sox and Giants played back in June.
So now we fast forward. We advanced the story, right,
(04:47):
we advanced the story, and on the latest pod appearance,
Will Clark unloaded on Will Fleming. This is Will on
Will Crime quote. This is from Will Clark. Will Fleming
can go f off the mother blank? All right, you
wanta e f and take a conversation that we're having
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and then blow it out of proportion because you're a
fing East Coast piece of blank reporter f off close quote.
All right, that's spicy. That is spicy. So let us
discuss there. You have San Francisco Giants legend, Will Clark
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ripping Will on Will Crime Red Sox announcer Will Fleming
all over Rafael Devers and the story that Will Fleming
shared from Will Clark about Rafael Devers. Do you fancy
a thought on this one? Yeah, I'll take a shot
at this. So I've got Yosemite, sam Holy Grail and
(05:53):
peach mango yogurt, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna make the Baba ganoosh with
a side of gobba ghoul. All right, So to lead
off here, I love this story. Old guy rage, old
(06:15):
guy anger. This is a steaming hot pile of baseball drama,
o rama, all right. It is hotter than a pepper sprout,
as Johnny Cash would say Will Clark, from the sound
of it on this video of it is absolutely beside
(06:35):
beside himself, right, Like, the funniest part about this story
hand a guy, all right. The funniest part about this
story is Will Clark is ranting and he's complaining. But
really what he's complaining about is no one listens to
his podcast. Like the podcast he's on, no one listens
to like not even the Giant people don't listen to it.
(06:56):
No one's listening. That matters until Will Fleming, the Red
Sox play by play guy, drops Will Clark's name, and
then all of a sudden, the comments that he made
on his own platform about Rafael Devers go cob boom right,
and it's like Will Clark's like, ohh my god, this
(07:18):
is like state secrets. I can't believe you would talk
about that. Why would you talk about You blew it
out of proportion. And so so I'm guaranteeing you that
Will was contacted by somebody from the Giants like what
are you doing? You know, like you're screwing us over here,
You're messing with Devers, Like what are you doing? And
he's probably huffing and puffing like Will Clark, like what
(07:41):
do you You're attacking Willie Mays or McCovey, what are
you doing? So Will Clark then gets upset, But the
thing is it doesn't sound like Will Clark's upset because
his words were being repeated. He's upset because his words
were effective, like the podcast. He's rambling on a podcast
and it floated into the ether, just out there like
(08:05):
most podcasts. Most podcasts, no one listens to them. Unfortunately,
that's just the way it is. Uh. And and there's
Fleming and bless his heart is very talkative heart there
and he turns the he turns this into you know,
talk radio napalm. And now you've got Will Clark out here,
snopping around like a cartoon character like Assemite, Sam wondering,
(08:28):
I can't believe my words, the things I spoke into
a microphone, Hello, into a microphone, and now they've come
back to bite you. Like this is the audio equivalent
of yelling into a void and then complaining when someone finally,
(08:50):
you know, the echo comes back to you. You know,
they echoes back. It's like, what are you doing? It's
not Will Fleming's fault. That Will Clark's whatever podcast he's
on has the reach of a carrier pigeon in a
lightning storm. Right, you say it on a podcast and
you publish it. It's in the public domain. You want
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the public to listen to it. The mic is not
some kind of group therapy session. It's supposed to be
a megaphone. And you're like, you're surprised, Like, how are
you surprised? It actually worked like, if you don't want
something to be weaponized, then maybe and I don't know,
I'm not that smart, and I just see the Overnight show.
Maybe you don't load the clip. First of all, you
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don't say it, but you don't publish it. So Will
Clark learned a valuable lesson, a good life lesson. The
first rule of audio fight Club, the very first rule.
If you record it and you publish it, someone might
actually believe it or not. Somebody might hear it eventually,
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even if it's just Will Fleming. That's it, all right.
Now in the page furthermore, to the boardroom we go.
Putting the board in boardroom. So we are told now
that Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manford is pushing push
it back, now, push it back. Rob Manford is publicly
(10:17):
pushing for a salary cap. Good idea, bad idea, good idea,
bad idea. All right, I'll go first. I have terrible ideas.
What I have terrible ideas? What I have absolute garbage.
(10:38):
Now here's why. All right, I am anti salary cap.
I don't want someone to cap my pay. Even though
that happens, I don't want it, right, And and the
salary cap is always a one way street. It is
always one way street. It only benefits the owners, and
that's it. And the players always end up getting squeezed
(10:59):
and a lot of dumb fans get sold this bill
of goods about competitive balance and all this stuff. I
remember years ago when this used car salesman. Bud Seeek
was the Commissioner of Baseball and he was like, well,
you know, if towns like Cincinnati and Pittsburgh get new ballparks,
they'll be able to compete with the Red Sox and
the Yankees and the Dodgers. And they just need these
(11:20):
new ballparks. And so they got all this tax money
to build these new ballparks, and the teams continue to blow,
you know, they just suck. And so the competitive balance
it's mostly nonsense. If you have an owner that's motivated,
you can make it work. The Tampa Bay Rays playing
a minor league ballpark, they don't even sell it out
most of the time, and yet they put a competitive
(11:43):
team on the field pretty much year in and year out.
Tampa Bay does right because they figured out the cheat code.
They figured out how to do it, because they're motivated
to do it. The Pittsburgh Pirates they don't care. It
doesn't matter to them. Okay, their ballpark is beautiful. It's
one of the most impressive places I've been to in
(12:05):
the baseball world. And they should just sell tickets to
look at the view because when you watch the Pirates,
you want to puke in your mouth watching the Pirates
play baseball. But the whole salary cap thing, so there's
no real competitive balance. The owners sit back and then
you know they make the money and all stuff, but
the salary cap, it's it's just to put a leash
(12:28):
a cap. Obviously, it says it in the name on
how much they pay out. And Manford's out here, he's
acting like the salary cap is some kind of magical
placebo and it's gonna cure all of baseball's problems, which
spoiler alert, spoiler alert, it ain't happening. Now, why is
it not happening. There's there's a problem. It's two words,
(12:51):
two words full transparency. The only way that this would
ever happen the owners would have to do the thing
they will never do. They would have to open up
the spreadsheet. They'd have to open up the books, show
the revenue, show the profits. The whole Enchilada, all of it,
(13:16):
and they won't do it because that is the holy grail.
They'll never do it. I've heard some amazing stories over
the years about the the amount of effort the owners
have gone to protect the finances. They have lost money.
They could have sued certain people, they didn't do it
(13:37):
because they had to protect the books because if you
sue in discovery, the financial information comes out the NFL.
We know the finances of the NFL. How do we
know that the Green Bay Packers. The Green Bay Packers
are a weird setup with their own byer trust in
(13:59):
the commune. And it's none of that in baseball, right
the numbers are the holy grail. No way know how
they getna. You think a guy like Bob Nutting over
there in Pittsburgh is gonna show Spaccoli and Pete in
Pittsburgh how much money he is pocketing while fielding a
(14:22):
single a roster. Not a chance right now. The owners,
they would rather let the game rot to its core
than let anyone see how they make the hot dogs
right to peak behind the curtain. And Rob Manford knows this.
Everyone in baseball is aware of this. He's just posturing
he's trying to look like I have another solution to baseball. Oh,
(14:43):
I am going to fix baseball, all right, Last thing quick,
right to the transaction wire. We go to the Bronx
on the Ben Mathers Show where the New York Yankees.
It's official he had been designated for assignment. He has
now been fired. Who is he? DJ le Mayhew say what? Yeah?
(15:06):
The Yankees have officially released DJ lem Mayhew. Now there
is speculation, right, there is speculation that the Mariners, the
Seattle Mariners, could be a potential fit for DJ Lemayhew.
So how does that sound to you? So this, let
me tell you what this sounds like. This does not whisper.
(15:28):
It screams soom same old Mariners, Like you can almost
hear the groan coming from Robbie the Mariner fan crying,
Craig JJ and Rnton, no S Trudinis and some of
the other celebrity callers to the show and contributors from
the Pacific Northwest. So the Mariners, like the trade deadlines?
(15:50):
Was it July thirty first, so twenty days from today,
and you're considering any other washed up veteran like the
GM there Jerry Poto grab cart, Grab grab a cart,
and you're shopping yet again at Dollar General, is what
you're doing. And the Mariners are perennial contenders for the
(16:10):
we tried kinda and then you're like, your shrug yours,
we tried kinda, I mean, we tried it. They have
this odd fetish, like everyone's got a fetish, but their
fetish is really kinky. They like picking up washed up,
former good players who have lost their ability to play
baseball because they can get them like a cheap pair
(16:33):
of knockoff sunglasses. Right, the Yankees are gonna be paying
DJ Lemayhew twenty two million dollars through next year. That
is not exactly a ringing endorsement. That is a neon
sign saying buyer, beware, stay away, stay away, stay away,
and the Mariners are like, no, no, We're not gonna
(16:55):
stay away. DJ Lemayhew is not exactly moving the space
needle at this point. Now more evidence that the Seattle
baseball team is the Major League Baseball equivalent of the
guy that goes to the grocery store and buyer, they
(17:15):
buy the container of that expired package of peach mango
yogurt because it's fifty cents cheaper than the actual package
that is not expired. So they buy, they save fifty
cents and Lemaye would I guess he would be a backup.
I mean, I don't know. He's not gonna play much,
but what's the point. Like, I don't get it. And
(17:37):
every time I look at that they got their lunch
handed them by the Yankees this week and that quote
a couple of years ago, Jerry Depot is like, all
we want to do is win fifty four percent of
our games. We don't want to go all in. We
just want to win fifty four percent of our games
because maybe one out of every ten years we might
actually make a run in the playoffs. And that's all
we want to do. And that's all we care about.
And that's it. Loseer with the Capitol l It is
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with my fellow pro bowler TJ. Huschman Zada and Super
Bowl champion Yep, that's right, Plexico Burris.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
You can only name a show with that type of
talent on it. Up on Game.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
We're going to be sharing our real life experiences loaded
with teachable moments. Listen to Up on Game with Me
LeVar Arrington, TJ. Houtschmansada, and Plexico Burds on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast from.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Bill Miller and you it is the Ben Mahler Show. Reminder,
the greatest event of the summer in overnight sports radio
is just a little over a week away. It's called
the Mallard Palooza twenty twenty five. Oh what an event
it's going to be. And if you would like to
participate in that, reach out to us. If you've got
a talent, if you can sing you dance. We famously
(19:38):
years ago we had a guy called the Boston Burper,
one of the legends of the Talent show, and he
was able to speak in the Burp language. What a talent,
What a gift we got that because of the malor Palooza,
everyone wants to know what's alf gonna do? What's bird
Dog Justin in Cincinnati reached out to the show. He says,
(19:58):
Robbie the Mariner fan is going to eat hot dogs
on the show. That's what we call the show. Yeah, Oh,
there's that's the Boston Burper right there, some of his
fine work. And cannot wait. Hopefully the pigs Wheeler will
be back from Iowa. So many talented people who take
part in the Mallet Palusa. So take part in that
and you'll be part of this show right now at
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eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Also on x
at Ben Malo Loreina. It's right over there behind the
glass FSR Tech Queen and coup At a Bronco fan
and your comments can and will be used against you
in the kangaroo court of overnight talk radio. And now
back to it. Back to it we go, and ferg
(20:44):
Dog says, are you able to understand a single thing.
Izzy from Anaheim says, because for the life of me,
I can't. You're talking about a person that called up
during the daytime show that I did yesterday.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
In fact, I even told Jonas I said, people take
shots at overnight radio callers. The people that call during
the day, for the most part, are terrible. Like I
would take overnight talk radio caller than daytime talk radio
caller ten out of ten times, ten out of ten times.
Alf the Alien Opina says, where can I find that
(21:17):
discounted peach mango yogurt? Well, you go out if you
go to the very back of the grocery store and
they have like the discounted bread, and they've got like
there's the discounted meat area, and then there's yogurt. Usually
it's off to the left at the store I go to,
it's off to the left. Robbie the Mariner fan writes
in he says, DJ lemayhew, Really this organization is trying
(21:39):
to kill me. Yes, they actually have meetings every week.
How can we f over, Robbie the Mariner fan, that's
what they say. Who's your bill? Says the Mariners? I
thought they moved to Oklahoma City years ago. Who knew?
All right, very nice, We'll go to the phones. It
is a call in show. And look at this back
(22:01):
back from the other side. We have not talked to
this man in a long time. Marcel in Brooklyn, Hello, Marcel, Ah, can.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
You believe it? Good morning everyone? And then I just
tried to call you, but I didn't answer back on
fraud back on Wednesday from the phone company.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
What about what about Monday?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Oh? Yeah, I try to miss you, but I really
miss you a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah. Are you concerned, Marcel that by not participating, you're
going to lose your stature as the caller of the year.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
What that's not true, Sack said.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Are you? Are you at a factory, Marcel in Brooklyn?
It sounds I hear some noise in the background. What
is that?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
It is the air conditioning to keep away from the
speed the heat process. I'm sure, but you know what.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I'm Marcel, is that air conditioner from the nineteen fifties?
What is going on here? My god? That's how do
you sleep? Marcel? As a very loud air conditioner?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, it was air conditioning, but I was trying to
keep away from sweating from this major summer hot scorch
or tempt here are.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They going on? But Marcel is the you are the
official weather person of the show.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yes it is. Why thank you and soul say listeners
for losing my caller of the year because of the
sleep back on Monday and many of you on social
media that's saying having a day off. This is not good.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
This is Marcel. You're not allowed to take days off, Marcell.
You can't do it.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
No, that's that's a lie.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Really, that is a lie. And well you want you
want to take a call people to talk to you
want to take a call?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Now, put the the unknown caller for once to speak
to me before I had to toss it over to
Coop d Luke and his coop Scoop on it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
All Right, well we're going to hold off on that,
but let's go to Marcel. I'll go to caller one there, Cooper,
call her one. You're on the air with Marcel and Brooklyn.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Hello caller one, Hello, caller to the show. Oh hey, Marcea,
it's your friends Scott from Boston. So, Marceaux, I recently
saw you playing basketball with those New York Knicks fans,
you know, the super fans. They had the New York
Knicks basketball tournament there in the Bronx actually a few
weeks ago. Now, how did you do in the tournament?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Oh? The Knickerbockers are great, including mine, but I've never
been been playing basketball all.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
In my life.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Rushall?
Speaker 5 (24:38):
What what number?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Marcell? What what number do you wear for the Knicks?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Marcel number thirty one?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Oh, Ben, I've ever mentioned something Marcel hold on Home
and Away section of Martha Up, Marcel stop. I got
to say something real quick stuff. Then Will Clark monologue
you did was unbelievable. I got to point something out.
Though it's been covered heavily in Boston. Fred turned everybody
on to Will Clark because he was a Cardinals fan,
so he directed a lot of those people to Will
(25:07):
Clark's podcast. I know you didn't know that leg of it,
but it's true. You know what I'm saying. So Will Fleming.
I don't know how he got involved in this, because
now there's another layer to this and one other, one
other thing. Ben, I got struck by lightning last night
when I was on the call, and you can go
back and hear it on the podcast. But no, no,
you didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You didn't get struck. You didn't get struck by lightning.
If you get struck out, you'd be dead.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
No, it made my hair. It made my hair frizz
up in the air and turned the car.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And I think something else made your hair frizz up.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Not that dude, during the daytime. I told you I
was trying to get on during the daytime. You would
not give me the number for your daytime show. I
can't get the seat turn.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
On, and I we it's on the iHeart app I
I they gave out. I don't even know the number
to call, and there Jonas gave it out. I was
with him. He gave out the number.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Well my band or something like, I should be with you.
I'll be so upset if the TV show does not
get renewed and I have a lot riding on it,
I'll yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I'll tell you what. I got more writing than you
have writing on it, so it better get renewed. How
about that.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
It's gonna affect me. I'm gonna be taken the gloves
off after it gets renewed because I've been behaving so much.
I've been playing so I got sick praying so much
for the TV show. Dude, the ladies that the church
have been kissing me and everything you do.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Not if you, Marcel hold Scott, if you went into church,
there would be a not lightning, something worse than lightning.
There'd be suddenly there'd be a giant earthquake and the
church would be swallowed up by the planet.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
You go in the church's basement too, like you could
go around the back, you know for the addicts meetings,
you know where you're like trying to get some help. Dude.
One other thing too, Uh, Marceau called into the Toucher
and Hearty show, right, and he just started talking about
how the phones were broken so they didn't know what
he was saying, you know, so they're like, what is
he saying? So they think their phones are broken too?
(26:54):
But all weekend it's crazy, man, these are going to
be really dark contest.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I have shut it. I just tried to have some
respect there. But if you say all things Boston sports
where you're like Ben does, he will be blocked you
and eliminate for sure. So do yourself a favor and
cut that out, will you.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It's fright, Thank you, marceall.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Thank you, But hey, I gotta call these other guys.
It's like Colin Mussolini on the sports they get mad
at me.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
They're not nice, Cooper the Well, they actually they actually
have high standards. We'll put anyone on so we don't.
Let's say a load of Chris in the Commonwealth. Hello, Chris, welcome.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Oh wow?
Speaker 6 (27:41):
How do I follow that?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Enough?
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Ben?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
How do I follow that up?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I don't know. You bang your head against the front
of your car.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
And listen, Ben, I always a cake that I forget
the gentleman's name from Boston. But he took my will
Fleming cake. So I'm just gonna stop right there now,
wondering if I keep quiet? Can I play sports Jeopardy?
I liked on Hold.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I'll put you on hold? Why not? You're a right?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Don't have to say you love me. It's at awkward,
but I'll put you on all all right? Uh key
drinking Steve, Hello, quickly, I got to get to the
coop scoop on anti key drinking Steve.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Oh man, I love you man. This this uh Tom
Brady breakdown thing is like man from heaven. Man, what
do you think? What do you think? He says Tom
Brady says, Sophia Viagre is too old. She's old invested,
and he had to send out his PR teams to
(28:43):
try and fix. I think Tom Brady's actually right on
him on this occasion. He's fighting for his legacy. He
can't against my homes. He can't have an old invested
broad like like a Viagra.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Hang around. She looks pretty good. She looks pretty good
to me. I don't know, maybe I'm blind, but she
looks pretty good. I don't know what you're talking.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
With Goldiehan's daughter and the Hucci from fifty Shades to Gray.
So I think he ought to go. He ought to
go with Goldiehan's daughter because she's a little bit she's
a little bit kind of loopy, a little bit kind
of kind of slutty.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
But all right, I'm done with you. Thank you, Big news,
Big news. Milkman Mike in Colorado is in the Malor Palooza.
Milkman Mike in Colorado in the Malapaluza. And I have
just learned this, just in this, just in to the
Ben Mahler show, Massive news. Here just Josh intends to
(29:48):
return to Grace the stage of the Malor Palooza. That's
like Joey Chestnut returning to Coney Island in the hot
Dog Contest. It's a week from this Sunday. Week from
this Sunday, the following Sunday and Monday, the Mallard Palooza,
the biggest night in overnight talk radio. And now we
(30:10):
get over the coop a loop for the Coop Scoop
on entertainment. Here we go all right for Holly Ray
for how all right?
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Ben?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Just a few things this week, but they are some exciting,
you know, a few exciting things. First, in theaters, we
have Superman. That's right, the new Superman.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Movie from They've never made those before.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
No, but this is the first one in the new
DC Studios, the first feature film from DC Studios.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Where are the DC Studio That's a good question, I'm
not sure.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
But it's from director James Gunn and is in the
newly imagined DC universe, and it stars David corn Sweat
as Superman. Name, yeah, corn Sweat, Cornie.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
He's okay because he's super Man. He probably got picked
on in second grade though, I know right.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
It also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Holt, and Anthony Kerrigan.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Who you may know from Barry Fame and it's just
a racing movie thing, is that F one? Yeah, I've
been I've been told I need to see that this weekend.
My wife wants to see is any good? Have you
seen it?
Speaker 8 (31:20):
I have not seen it because racing movies do not
interest me.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
But I didn't say it interests me either. I was
asked the goos.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
It does have great reviews. It is from Apple. It
is actually a yeah in Apple movie and it is
Was it made in China? I don't think so, but
it is so far it is their their most successful
film to date. And right, yeah, so it's both the
(31:50):
both the critics, and it's actually got a higher audience
score than critics. Critics given an eighty three percent and
audience scores ninety seven percent.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
So I will make my own decision if I am
forced to go see it.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Yeah, let me know and then and then maybe I
might watch it. I guess F one's like the coolest
kind of racing that you could pick.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Right, Yes, it's the It's kind of like in America
people don't ready watch F one, but around the world
it's like soccer. Nobody America really watches it, but around
the world. It's very popular, Yes, exactly, all right.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Moving over to television, we have the return of Dexter. Yes,
the the serial killer who only kills other killers is
back in Dexter Resurrection.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Now.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
The first two episodes are available to stream on Paramount
Plus right now. It will air on regular cable on
Showtime this Sunday, and all of the characters, you know,
Michael C. Hall is returning as Dexter, and all of
the other actors who are still alive in that storyline
will be making their return as well.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
And even the ones that are dead are going to
be back to the amazing well, I mean, ki they
can bring them back in kind of.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
I mean, like you know, spoiler alert, spoiler alert if
you haven't watched the original Dexter show. He dies at
the end of it. So they're bringing him back.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
So that's good. Yeah, it was just they're gonna make
it a dream sequence.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
I think it's gonna be like, you know, we never
actually saw him die. We just saw him get shot
in the chest and so he somehow survives that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
But there are some big names guest starring this season,
including Uma Thurman, Peter Dinklage, Kristin Ritter, Neil Patrick Harris,
and Eric stone Street among others. And moving on. The
last thing that I want to point out is a
new documentary you know, the train Wreck series on Netflix.
I recently mentioned the Poop Cruise edition of the train
(33:53):
Rex series on Netflix. I did watch that documentary special.
It was quite interesting. But this Tuesday will be train
Wreck Balloon Boy documentary special on that. I don't know
if you remember when the hot air balloon was or
it was.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Like, oh yeah, I do remember that.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
It wasn't even a hot air balloon. It was like
a weather balloon and they and it was a hoax.
They said that their kid was in there and.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Then he wasn't I do remember that. What is that on?
Speaker 8 (34:20):
That is on Netflix? Okay, train Wreck balloon Boy and
that is it for Coop.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Scooperament A very good there. It is the Koop Scoop
on Entertainment and enjoy your weekend and I for me,
I'll be I'll be listening to the Fifth Hour podcast.
That's what I'll be. I'll be doing it as well,
so it's it's fascinating. Anyway, we will press on here
and if you would like to play calm down, Marcel, please.
(34:47):
How great is Marcel's air conditioner? I think we should
just do a special on the podcast about his air conditioner.
Like he lives in a really old building in Brooklyn.
That might be the first ever air conditioner they put
into a building in Brooklyn where Mars right In't that wild? Like, Marcel,
his building is so old, that's like the original air
(35:08):
conditioner in the whole country. All right, we will press
on and we're gonna have Sports Jeopardy. Chris is gonna play,
so we need another contestant. We'll get to that eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox, and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
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listen live.
Speaker 7 (35:39):
Music set weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Because weekends, Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben
Mehller Show. We're up all night, every single night. We
know you have options.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
Good.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Good to have you with us here every night. Podcast
coming up Fifth Hour Podcast. New episode drops later today,
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(36:23):
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Speaker 2 (36:44):
James America's most popular game show, Get out it Sports Jeopardy.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
You know what a nippole defense is? How about penetration?
Do you know how to get good penetration?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
This is Fox Sports Radio and now here's your.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Host to radio who loves you.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Ben Mallard, And let's play Sports Jeopardy. We welcome back
Chris in the Commonwealth. Hello Chris, Hi.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Ben, Hey, I didn't mean to be left shame.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
Why can I play Lorena? That's what I meant.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I was love.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Oh, I couldn't understand. Your phone's a little wonky, But
that's all right. You're you're you're gonna play and calm down,
You're gonna play. And we have East Coast. You're representing
the East Coast, and then from the West coast, our
friend Holiday, who's in La Hello? Holiday? Welcome? Hey, well
man you being yeah, I'm all right now, Holiday almost
(37:38):
died or you did die? Right, Holiday? They brought you
back from the other side? Is that right?
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Twice?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Twice? Listen this unbelievable, what an amazing thing. All right, well,
we're very happier here obviously. Oh boy, there's a lot
of ambient noise. But let's play the game. The categories
are give me your digit, so that's category number one,
and go off. Go off King is the other category. So, Chris,
(38:08):
which one do you want?
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Can you repeat that?
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Ben? Your phone's wonky?
Speaker 5 (38:13):
My phone is good, I'm ready here.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Well it sounds better. Now give me your digits and
go off King.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
I'll go digit.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
All right, gentlemen, your name is your brother? Good luck?
I will tell you the athlete. Tell me the jersey
number they are known for known for. Here we go,
two hundred dollars, the NFL's Brett Farv.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Twelve.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yes, say your name. You want to answer anybody? Anybody
Brissy numbers Holiday, you want to go? Yes, say your
name Holiday.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Brett farb Is number four.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
That is correct. Brett fav Is number four. Two hundred
dollars to you, Holiday, will keep going in. Give me
those digits for four hundred dollars. I'll give you the athlete.
Tell me the jersey number they were known to wear
in their careers from the Miami Heat. Dwayne Wade Holiday
Holiday number three, number three, that is that is correct?
(39:13):
Wayne how Dwayne Wade number also has a very ugly
statue and looks something like him in Miami. All right,
six hundred dollars. It is pretty bad. Give me, give
me those ditches. I'll name the athlete. Tell me the
jersey number they were known to wear from the NFL.
Charles Woodson Holiday Holiday number twenty four. Wow, Holiday, you're
(39:34):
really good with it. That is correct. He's killing you.
He's killing you, Chris. You might have to come back
from the other side like Holiday did. All right, eight
hundred dollars. The next question, I'll give you the name
of the player. Give me the digits they're known to
wear from the New York Yankees. Aaron Judge Holiday, Yes,
(39:56):
number that is correct. Wow, this is impressive. Chris is
Chris is not handling this very well, let's go next one,
last one in this category. Get me those digits again.
I'll name the athlete. Tell me the number of the
player was most known to wear. We'll go on the
(40:17):
way back machine to the Carolina Panthers defensive star Julius Peppers.
Julius Peppers holiday holiday, no wage, No way you're gonna.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Get number ninety.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Oh my god, god, that is right. He got it right?
Are you cheating? Holiday? What is going on here? I've
never nobody ever gets the number category right, It's so
hard to remember the number. Well, that's impressive. Let's go
to the next category. Let's see if Chris can try
to get one right. These sports figures have all gone
on notable rants in honor of the great Lee Ilia.
(40:52):
This NBA star ranted twenty three years ago, repeating practice
practice yes, Chris, Oh my god, Oh no, Chris, come on, Chris,
come on, No. Five four three two, one? Oh my god.
(41:16):
Holiday holiday, yeah, holiday, Yes, you're.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Talking about practice.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Man, All right, exactly, all right, you win holiday Chris,
though you made us laugh. You're so bad. It was cats.
Oh man, he had it. He had it on the
tip of his tongue. He had it right there.
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