July 24, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the RB Zoom meeting over NFL salaries, if Dan Campbell's concern over the Lions' "hype train" is warranted, Maller Militia Feud, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number four speaking volumes or
at least one volume. This hour, we go back to
the well one more time, the NFL training camp continuing
big update. What is the takeaway from the running back
Zoom meeting heard round the NFL over salaries? We debate
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if any progress was made on that. Also, we go
to Detroit. Is coach Dan Campbell's concern over the Lions
hype train warranted or unwarranted? And is Cleveland Brown Training
Camp in West Virginia wise or pointless? It's said to
be for team bonding. We'll get to all of those
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angles and much more right now here. It is our
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coming from the Summit, the Digital Summit, we talked about
a little bit last If you have not been listening,
and maybe you were listening with half an ear, you
were doing whatever you're doing. So we have confirmed that
several big name brand running backs got together. They took
part in a zoom call over the weekend to discuss
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the sad state of salaries for players at their position.
I know we're all upset, a lot of heavy hearts
about the salary of your favorite NFL running back now.
The meeting was organized by Austin Eckler of the Chargers.
He has been outspoken, screaming and shouting, demanding answers. Wants
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owners to give answers about NFL running backs not being
paid their fair share. I don't know about you. In
any business, people should be getting paid their fisher Oh,
of course they should. Is that the reality of the situation,
probably not, probably not. Anyway, Austin Eckler set this thing up.
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You had Nick Chubble love love Nick Chubb, the Browns
running back. We talked about his situation earlier. He participated,
Sakwan Barkley, the Giants, Tony Pollard of Dallas, Jonathan Taylor
the Colts, Dereck Henry of Tennessee, Josh Jacobs are the Raiders,
and Christian McCaffrey. He got paid, so Derrick Henry among
the other running backs that were there. There were other
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names we did not mention. The running backs kicked around
the ideas during the call that of what they could do,
but no, no consensus was formed. Shocking, shocking that never
happens when you have a meeting that there was no
consensus that was working. Now, Barkley and Jacobs have not
signed the franchise tag and are planning on waiting for
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a good chunk, if not all, of training camp. These
seasons starting in early September, so they've got the rest
of July, another week or so of the month, and
then all of August, and then after that they got
to show up to work to make sure they don't
lose any any money. So let us us the question,
what is the takeaway from the running back zoom meeting
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over NFL salaries? What's the takeaway? I've got Eugene Levy,
orkinman and monstrosity, and we will combine all of these
things together. We're gonna make the Babaganoosh, which, by the way,
NFL running backs can't afford. The babag noosh does not
cost that much money. It's just eggplant mostly, all right.
So to kick off here, this zoom meeting got much
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more attention than it warranted. And of course we are
feeding the beast here by talking about it more on
a Monday morning. But as we talked about in a
previous hour, Nick Chubb summed it up best. The running
back in this story, right, the running backs are a
Eugene Levy comedy. I can't actually say the name of
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the comedy. We're gonna call it poop Creek. They are
up poop Creek. There is no paddle to be had,
there's no Walmart to go buy a paddle. They're up poop.
They are stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.
And as Nick Chubb pointed out, and he's completely right
about this, if you play well as a running back,
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that is a negative because you've got a lot of mileage,
you got a lot of hits, and you become less valuble.
If you perform poorly, you're easily dumped and they'll just
get somebody else from the Greyhound bus station and they'll
go down to the Amtrak station, find somebody off the train,
and then that's it. They're good. Now. Furthermore, let's move
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on from the running base. How about in Detroit where
Dan Campbell sounding alarm, bells he is concerned. Now, what
is he concerned about? Is he concerned about an injury?
Is he concerned about some kind of poor play by
Jared Goff? Is he worried about that? Is he worried about? No,
Dan Campbell is concerned by the the hype train surround
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the Lions. That's it's off the rails. Dan Campbell says
his team has to put the work in to earn it.
We've never heard of coach say that before. The bookmakers
have put the Lions, not the Vikings, not the Packers,
and not certainly not the Bears. They've put Detroit as
the NFC North favorites. And there have been people who
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are saying that yes, that is right, that they got
it right. The Lions are the favorite. Now I am
even optimistic, I am Betty Brightside when it comes to
the Lions that I'm buying what they're cooking in the
Lions Den. They have not one, not two, not three,
not four, five nationally televised games. Usually the only time
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you got to see the Lions was when you're eating
turkey and stuffing an apple, apple pie or pumpkin pie
on Thanksgiving. But this year, unlike all o the year's
five nationally televised games, including the opener where Cans Czaus City,
the raining Super Bowl champions will take on the Motor
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City kiddies for the world to see as the NFL
season kicks off on that first Thursday, the first Thursday
of the NFL season there second week of September. Now
is Dan campbell concern is his concern over the Lions
hype train warranted? So I'm not gonna use the word warranted.
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I'm gonna use the word predictable. Word of mouth advertising
is a is great for ticket sales, It is wonderful
for merchandise sales. It is good for clout online. Word
of mouth advertising, but universally, with very few exceptions outside
of like Dion Sanders at Colorado and a couple of
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other coaches, they universally cringe at the ideas. And Dan
Campbell is working like the orcanman. He's the exterminator. And
coaches all always want to underpromise and overdeliver. That's you're
an under promise. We're gonna overdeliver, not vice versa. You
don't want to be the coach that over promises and
underdelivers because then you do television or radio if that's
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the case, or you become a blogger. Media praise, as
many have said, is akin to putting rat poison in
with your fruit salad. Good luck on that it can
work as a tremendous positive. Now, I love the hype
and all that because it's good for what we do
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in these parts. And my position is this, Dan Campbell
now has a fall guy. Everyone's gotta have a fog.
Dan Campbell's got a falgu He can blame a slow start.
If the Chiefs go out there in the opener and
win by three touchdowns, Dan Campbell can blame a slow
start by media manipulation. That and of course Jared Goff,
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who you can never trust golf, played better life last
year with the Lions than he did at any point
with the Rams, and that blew me away. But flashing
back Jared Goff at any moment, can flash back to
the guy that goes hey wire and has a glitch.
He's been consistently inconsistent over the course of his career.
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All right, parting shot, Let's move on now the Cleveland Browns.
We mentioned this earlier. The Browns opened their training camp
over the weekend at a resort in West Virginia, and
the team is selling the fact that they chose to
go to this resort in West Virginia as a positive.
Cleveland's head coach Kevin Stefanski, who's on the hot seat,
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Brown's better win this year, make the playoffs and make
a little noise in the playoffs, or Stefanski will be
back as an offensive coordinator. But anyway, the Cleveland brown said.
Coach Kevin Stefanski called the training camp location a great
way to get away from all of those distractions, but
he was also selling the fact of team bonding. Quote,
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we're landlocked here, Stefanski opined, of being in West Virginia.
We're in the middle of nowhere by design, so it
forces you to be around your teammates. Well, was quote
is Brown's training camp in West Virginia wise or pointless?
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So it is futile, which is a cousin of pointless.
It is futile. Cleveland will be bunkering down. They already
are bunkering down at a resort right in Appalachia. That's
what they're team bonding. Who going off the grid, getting
away from all the distractions. Sounds good. This resort is
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so massive, How massive is is it true? There is
more trouble to be had in West Virginia than Cleveland.
Of course, Stefanski set himself up. He said, we're in
the middle of nowhere by design. You could argue that
when you're in downtown Cleveland, you're in the middle of
nowhere by design. But I digress. So this thing is
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a monstrosity, this resort in West Virginia. Eleven thousand acres
over eleven thousand acres, seven hundred and ten guest rooms
at this resort, twenty restaurants and lounges, thirty five retail shops.
They're really roughing it there, really roughing it. The Cleveland Browns.
The Greenbrier offers fifty or more activities including here's some
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of the things that the Browns players can do when
they're not practicing obviously, golf. They've got indoor or outdoor
pools depending on the weather in West Virginia, bowling, tennis, arcade, croquet.
If you're so inclined, you can take a nice carriage ride,
nice romantic carriage ride around the resort. They have an
escape room. Who doesn't e bike's falconry but not the
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Atlanta Falcons, Fishing, horseback riding, kayaking, shuffle board, I'm not done,
stand up paddle boarding, pickleball, why not? And a bunch
of other things. So they are really slumming it, the
Cleveland Browns. And as far as the whole trouble thing,
you're gonna avoid trouble. We're gonna bond. I promise you.
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You can get in trouble at that resort. There have
been people that have gotten in trouble. So the idea
they're gonna avoid trouble and everyone's gonna be hanging out
together having a grand time, and they're gonna be running
around fishing, I don't don't buy them. Maybe at the arcade.
Maybe they'll all be in the arcade, but that's unlikely.
They'll be using the Wi Fi to get on the
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social media channels is what they will be. What they
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Shane of the Moines says, Marcel and Brooklyn is coming
in to save the day with food pasts. We'll see
about that. We'll see if Marcel and Brooklyn actually calls
up with the food picts. We do not know that
is the case. Why not pay him to call in
unless we do. And Alf the Alien opiner from Springfield,
mass home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, where
Muffet McGraw is in trine. He says, great monologue you
(14:04):
had me at Pickleball. Alf loves pickles. He's all about
the pickles. It's one of the weaknesses of Alf. He
can't get enough of the pickles. Mal A prop guy
had a note about something we talked about earlier in
the show. He can hear it on the podcast, but
he says that when Cooper Loop sees Japanese ads during
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Angel road games, they are virtual ads, he claims. Mallet
prop Guy says the company that does those ads uses
a green board behind home plate for the majority of
the ads of green screen on Major League Baseball telecuests,
so ad content can be changed regularly and remotely.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
That makes a lot of sense. Actually, I know for
hockey games they have those ads that they now put
on the boards digitally. Yeah, and they the actual local
broadcast put up their own advert.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So yeah, when those ads, when those ads started behind
home played out of one of my buddies, Tony, who
I lost track of. I don't know what happened to Tony.
I hope he's all right, But Tony, Tony's job was
to go out there and put They actually had the
physical ads behind home plate rotating, and he had to
sit there with a monitor to make sure that none
of the ads broke, and he had to stop watch
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to actually track how much time they were on television.
That's I don't do that anymore that way. Obviously his
everything's digital now and all that. But he was actually
in the ballpark. He was there. He gets there like
at one o'clock in the afternoon to make sure for
a seven o'clock or seven thirty game, to make sure
everything was ready to go. And that was his gig.
And by the end of it, he despised. He loathed
(15:44):
what he was doing. By the end of it, he
was like he could not wait to get out of there.
The games. In his defense, the games were taken forever
back then. Now of course they've got the clock. Everything's
lean and mean and all that, so it's a much
different world. Well, father doesn't know best, not always does
father know best. Story from over the weekend that has
(16:06):
we have to bring this up here. So there's a
guy on the Colts named Rodney Thomas who's a safety
for the Colts. And this is probably the only way
we talk about Rodney Thomas unless something else happened poorly.
But his father was in the news blotter the father
of an NFL player, So you know something bad must
have happened. Yeah, yeah, The father of Colt safety Rodney Thomas,
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the original Rodney Thomas, was arrested this weekend after he
was indicted for shooting blank Did you see this that
has happened in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I do not see this.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
This guy, the father of the Colts player, was indicted
for shooting and killing a ball the eagle in Pennsylvania. Yeah,
what an idiot? How does how does that happen? Like? Serious?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I think just described.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Well, but I understand that. But a federal grand juriy
in Pittsburgh inded of this guy's fifty years old for
violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. And so
this happened back in I think in May. The police
in Mount Pleasant Township said that an unidentified man turned
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himself in after the department and Pennsylvania State Game and
Commission received multiple tips that this guy killed a bald eagle.
Do you think he recorded it? Like, how would multiple
people know about that? Was it out in public where
a bunch of people saw it, or was it out.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
It makes more sense that that it was on camera.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I don't know. I don't know if it was on camera. Anyway,
he was.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Released back to people and those people were like, oh yeah, cool,
what a hole.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's a tough one. He was released from custody ten
thousand dollars bail. He faces up to one year. Oh
he's not gonna get a year in jail and five
thousand dollars in fines if convicted. Weren't we talking about
bald eagles last week? Yes, that i'd seen one when
I was in North Carolina. I think it was.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I think he came up when you were talking about
the eagle landing on that guy's shoulder.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh yeah. James Paxton, the pitcher for the Red SOX
when he was on the Minnesota Twins. Yeah, I think
that's that's it, all right, It is the Benett Malors Show.
As we continue on a programming note, By the way, Eddie,
today's a double header day today, Eddie that not only
am I doing this show, but I'll be filling in
on our local affiliate in Los Angeles yet again, so
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will I will be getting very little sleep, and which
is problematic because it's kind of a trickle down thing
for the rest of the week. So right in my
prime sleeping time, which is mid days in Los Angeles,
I'll be on from noon to three on our local
affiliate AM five seventy here in LA. And then I'll
be back. But that should be a real loopy show, Eddie,
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tonight back doing loopy loopy late night radio.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
We'll keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, that'll be. That'll be something David in Pennsylvania says
of the Colts Player, what a total piece of blank.
Someone needs to, uh, well take care of that guy.
I'll leave what he said. Yeah, Sirley Scott writes and
says he's waiting on elon making the switch from Twitter
(19:26):
to X.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
He says.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
About that excited that you're gonna be called this gonna
be called x is that.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
If he decides to do that, well, we need to
change the copy and say you can exis.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Oh, that's good, pointed, We'll have to We'll have to
change that. Marcel, by the way, writes it. He says,
wake up and call me. He said, so we can
get on food picks. I don't know. The phone's broken.
Maybe the phones are broken. Marcel can't get through. I
guess I had no idea. Alf said, pickles are only
one of many weaknesses. Hes. Oh, yeah, I know you
like those kiddie kids. I'm aware of that. Justin apparently
(20:01):
liked the the bald Eagles story. He enjoyed that very much.
So there is that, all right. It is the Ben
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We talked about this earlier in the show. Kirk Cousins
was called the most underrated quarterback by Patrick Mahomes, a
great tribute from him. Well, Cousins says he believes that
somebody else is actually the most underrated quarterback in the NFL.
Who is it? As everyone tries to kiss everyone else's
ass in the NFL, according to Kirk Cousins, He said
(20:46):
that the most underrated quarterback in the NFL none other
than Jimmy Garoppolo. He said he voted for Jimmy Garoppolo
is not the most underrated quarterback in the NFL. Stopped that.
Stop that gibberish. Stop that nonsense from from Kirk Custins.
(21:08):
Not good. Let's go to the phones and we'll say
it out to CJ. Who's hanging out in DC. What's
going on? CJ? He just hung up? Oh he's gone
all right? How about cowboy John brad and Windsor, Ontario? Hello, cowboy,
fine Canadian lad?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Well wow, bucks and blonds. That's all I like to know.
But the happy fifty ninth birthday Bury Bonds fifty six
years ago. This is the second day. I don't know
what is Detroit Wright of nineteen sixty seven, which eventually
claimed for forty three wives and yesterday, or at least
fifty forty one years ago yesterday. Actor Vick whoa back
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when I was a boy, was in the movie Combat
in the TV series Combat and two child Vietnamese actors
were killed while filming the Twilight on the movie, and
of course a lot of people thought that the director
John Lenny should have been held responsible for that. And
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also forty one years ago today, former ever LB or
Robert Opena was forty five cancer. Robertopenya, my sister Wendy
Bailespeck died at age forty five boats not quite eighteen
years later. And anyway, on July twenty fifth, nineteen sixty one,
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Roger Merris and the Yankees, who usually hated double hitters,
became the first Major leaguer to have forty homers before
August first, when he had four home runs and this
one double hitter against the White Sox. Oh and Mick
Jarger will be eighty Wednesday, as Bobby Sherman who was
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an actor and teen idel and singing my sister what
he wants? He was eighty on wrap it up, So anyway,
speak to people hopefully the mong boy, whmember, you got
to be a boy to be a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
There he goes cowboy his own cottage industry calling radio.
So she's almost retired. How many times this cowboy almost
retired multiple times. He's threatened to leave the show, and
he's come back. We're very lucky he is. He's like
a professional boxer cowboy. He says he's going to retire,
and then people said, we need you, we need your cowboy,
(23:33):
we need that content. And then cowboy comes back to
save the day. Hallelujah. It's Ben Ali Sean Fox will
check in with our friend Marcel. I guess he has
were apparently called him or he's called us. I don't
know either way.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
But pretty sure we did not call him.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, I don't think. We don't have his numbers, so
it's hard for us to call him. We asked for
his number one time and he gave us Uncle Dynamite's number,
which became oops problematic when we called Uncle Dynamite and
he said, who the hell are you? That became man
then on your ass. Yeah, you don't want Uncle Dynamite
messing with you for sure.
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And now back to Ben Maller.
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I got a fun fact. I'm gonna put the fun
in fun facts. Now. Many people have already given Ronald
the Kuno Junior the Braves, They've given this guy the
MVP in the National League. They think it's over. But
his former teammate with the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman, is slowly
marching up the stat sheet. And if you base it
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off the numbers, Freddie Freeman now leads the National League,
not Ronald Lacuna in ops, passing him by. So Freddie
Freeman of the Dodgers number one in OPS in the
National League. And also Freeman leads the National League in
something called ops plus. I don't even know what that is,
but it sounds important and slugging percentage. So Freddie Freeman,
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former Atlanta Brave teammate with Ronald Acuna, and he is
now leading the National League. But the narrative has been
that this is the MVP is going to go to
the Atlanta Brave outfielder, is not going to go to
anybody else. But Freddie Freeman's been absolutely balling for the Dodgers,
and will that result in him sneaking up from the
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outside and winning the MVP at this point, No, but
there's still a couple months ago in the baseball season.
It is the Ben Mather Show. Let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Let's say say hello to and
in Berkeley. Hello, Andrea, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Hello Ben. How are you?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
If I was any better, Andrea, I would be sleeping,
but I am not. What's going on with you? Andrew?
Everything good with you? You're okay?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, just been busy. You got a lot of
things going on. But I did want to put in
a call, thankakly about Jimmy G. And I'm enjoying your
show and thank you.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
I just want to say timing is everything. And Jimmy
G born November two, nineteen ninety one. And that Saturn
Urana square is finally over Saturn and Aquarius squaring his
planets in scorpio, which rules a skeletal system, bones, knees, teeth, joints,
and you know the recent foot injury, and he's been
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injury prone and that just shows that timing is everything,
because these transits can last a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So it's over though you're saying it's over now for.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Jimmy, Well, I'm not saying one hundred percent. I don't
have an accurate birth time, so I'd really like to
get bad on someone as how shall I say, injury
prone is him. But it's a lot better now. And
actually the forty nine Ers and the Raiders are going
to play a pre game in a couple of weeks,
so that should be interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah. More importantly, you did tell me, Andrea that I'm
in my golden period of time here, Andrea, right.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
You're having Jupiter transit, Yes, fans in abundance and opportunity.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Big things and that things.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Yeah, once every twelve years for an entire year.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Nice, all right, for a full year.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Yes, it didn't happen to a nicer guy.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, thank you. I don't know about that, but very nice.
And you are you doing many things? Are that's good?
You got a lot of a lot of plates spending
there and.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Yeah, yeah that's just it. Yeah, just kint a lot
going on.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So we we love when you call up and I
know you're very busy, but when you have time, give
us a call. Don't forget about us.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Oh yeah, never ever, you got great. I love your show.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
All right, well, thank you and let us know when
your your stories are up there.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Oh yeah yeah, so got a lot going on with that,
so no.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Resk, I hear you. All right, Well, thank you, Andrew
appreciate it. There she goes our friend Andrea Virgo in
service on Twitter, multi media star Andrea reading the Star charts.
Let's go down and speak of multimedia. Let's go to
the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York, NYC, and a
man who calls international television and radio shows. Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel,
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breaking news.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
This morning, ben breaking news, breaking news. I want to
put the SoundBite already.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Officially rebranded to acts Now after owner of Paranoid Elon
Musk change is iconic bird logo this morning in a
couple of hours, marking the latest major shifts since his
takeover of the social media platform. It remains live and
brendan On. The app version of the platform did not
change as well too. Twitter's world renown bird level was
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transformed into an act.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
What Marcel, this is anti bird? I I support birds, Marcel,
I love eating chickens. I love birds, and I'm troubled
by Elon Musk disrespecting birds.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Yeah, let's put let's put the old Twitter bird word should.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Be, Marcell, what's your favorite bird?
Speaker 8 (29:23):
The Twitter bird?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Oh? The bird? Now, Marcel, did you know the bird
is the word?
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Did you know that bird is the word? I mean,
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Look at you, Marcel, unbelievable. You're a machine over there,
You're a SoundBite machine, and you have successfully chased away
Blair in Maine. He doesn't call very much anymore because
you're so powerful. You've intimidated him. He doesn't like to
call up. He's afraid of you. I think I think
there's fear there.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Yes, that is, oh great to see you. Let's art
the week. We got the end of July and straight
to August right around the corner, because it's a new
dawn and definitely a new day it is, so let's
get into it.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Get into it.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Yes, we got line three named Justin in Cincinnati. Who
joins us right now on the line three justin? Good
morning to you, Happy Monday.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Ron.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
I know it's gonna be a little.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Bit tough, but wrong Marcel. He has not called in
to play this game for like months.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Oh, I know, try to say pass instead, but.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Pass? Yeah, Marcel, can you line someone else up? Maybe
you can get somebody else there, like Alf the Alien
opineer or Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Or.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Let's put in, let's put the line something in Minnesota.
And not just for Robin Vegas, but Rob and a
twin Cities. Who joins us? Now? Good morning to you, Rob,
Happy Monday. What is your full pick from last time?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Marshall, you're just making things up now, Marre there hard,
I know, Okay, let's do it. I'll go how about
I'm gonna go oodles and noodles in old classic?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Yes it is, we got enough mixed match?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah, street continues. Go ahead, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
How many is it?
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Like?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Forty in a row?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I don't know. I lose track.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I win so much every time you win every time?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, come on, Eddie, come on, Eddie, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Say you had a file of fish sandwich. Oh no, Well,
you don't tell me the answers, like you tell Ben, what.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Do you want gonna do? Marcell? You don't tell me
the answers, do you?
Speaker 8 (31:49):
Absolutely not?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That's right? See?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
How does he get it right every time?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Myself we have a bond being March.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
How does he get it right every time?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Bond?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Every time? He gets it right every time?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I just know it's not possible for.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Him to get it right.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I don't know a lottery numbers, but I know what marcella.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Marcel, that's true. The cheating must stand, Marcel. That's why
nobody calls in.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Eddie's upset here. He's devastated. He's a loser, right, Marcel,
at bad job? Go ahead, cool please, that's right, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Fraud Marcel.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I think that you had pengyang curry with chicken and
crab cheese rangoons.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
That's not a mixed match either.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
What about Mark, Mark? You want in on this? We
had a ham sandwich on wheat bread with mustard. Oh
my god, that sounds horrible.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Right around the corner, pourful pick from last night.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Is drumroll please, so dramatic?
Speaker 9 (32:51):
What could it be? Yeah, you're a cheer Marcel. You
are a low down, dirty cheek.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
You're a great American. Marcel. You're a hero. Brooklyn. I know,
Uncle Mary, go Blair, go wow. That's right, And we
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One hundred people surveyed and we have the top answers
on the board. That's welcome in our contestants for this
edition of the Mallord Militia Feud. We've got Joe in
Kansas City. Hello, Joe, Hey man, how's it going, Joe?
If I was any better, I'd be at Chiefs training camp.
(35:06):
But I'm not so right.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
Yeah, absolutely, I would love to be there too.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
But I'm driving down the road right now.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
I tell you what, Saturday, I think I'm gonna wind
up getting some chicken fingers.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Oh well, thank you, the Ben Mallard chicken fingers of course,
if that's right. The landing there and beautiful Liberty, Missouri.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
There I went to college.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Beautiful all right, wonderful not that far away from Arrowhead Stadium,
right real close there. Yes, all right, very good, Joe,
you're gonna play already sucking up to me? Very nice?
And TC in Tennessee. Hello, TC, what's just sitting around
with no hawk to get up in here and tear
some Kansas City tails up? Okay, look at you, TC.
(35:50):
You got that that confident southern drawl to you. You
got that going for you right now. You're ready, You're
you're not worried about anything. So let's get to the category.
I think we do Category one. Yes, I mean that's
a good category. Why not? Here we go? What would
you hear on the radio that would make you turn
the station? Top five answers are on the board. One
(36:10):
hundred people surveyed. Your name is your buzzer if you
want to go first? Joe and TC. Joe, all right,
Joe again, what would you hear on the radio that
would make you turn the station? The top five answers
are on the board.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Emergency broadcast test.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Oh, nurses broadcasts? That is that on the board. No,
that is not on the board.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Answer.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
That is actually a good answer. Yeah, let's go TC.
That strike one for Joe. What would you hear on
the radio show like this that would make you turn
the station? Or music or whatever? What would make you
turn the station? Top five answers are on the board.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Uh, marg or commercial?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Well, that very specific, but I guess we'll give it
to you. Why not. It's not necessarily exactly what we
were looking for, but just commercials in general. Now. I
love commercials. To me, they're the most important part. But
a lot of people do flip the station when they
hear the commercials. Unfortunately. Okay, so you're still going there.
TC got one right. That was the number one answer.
(37:15):
What would you hear on the radio that would make
you turn the station? Top five answers originally on the board.
Top four answers are on the board right now, Go ahead, TC.
Politics politics? Is that on there?
Speaker 9 (37:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
That is not on there. No. Not that you're necessarily
wrong on that, but a lot of people get triggered
by that. So strike one though for TC. We go
back to Joe in Kansas City. What would you hear
on the radio that would make you turn the station?
Top five answers originally on the board. One hundred people surveyed.
Right now, there are four answers left Nickelback. You know
(37:51):
what that we'll take that right that. Okay, yes, we're
gonna take that. A bad bad song. If you hear
a bad song, you're gonna flip station. So good job
by you, Joe. You got that one right. That was
the number three answer, and you get to go again.
Actually we're out of time, so cooperloop. The other answers
were news, static and cursing and tc wains because he
(38:14):
got the higher point value. Thank you,
Hello and welcome. It's our number four speaking volumes or
at least one volume. This hour, we go back to
the well one more time, the NFL training camp continuing
big update. What is the takeaway from the running back
Zoom meeting heard round the NFL over salaries? We debate
(00:24):
if any progress was made on that. Also, we go
to Detroit. Is coach Dan Campbell's concern over the Lions
hype train warranted or unwarranted? And is Cleveland Brown Training
Camp in West Virginia wise or pointless? It's said to
be for team bonding. We'll get to all of those
(00:46):
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coming from the Summit, the Digital Summit, we talked about
a little bit last If you have not been listening,
and maybe you were listening with half an ear, you
were doing whatever you're doing. So we have confirmed that
several big name brand running backs got together. They took
part in a zoom call over the weekend to discuss
(02:13):
the sad state of salaries for players at their position.
I know we're all upset, a lot of heavy hearts
about the salary of your favorite NFL running back now.
The meeting was organized by Austin Eckler of the Chargers.
He has been outspoken, screaming and shouting, demanding answers. Wants
(02:36):
owners to give answers about NFL running backs not being
paid their fair share. I don't know about you. In
any business, people should be getting paid their fisher Oh,
of course they should. Is that the reality of the situation,
probably not, probably not. Anyway, Austin Eckler set this thing up.
(02:56):
You had Nick Chubble love love Nick Chubb, the Browns
running back. We talked about his situation earlier. He participated,
Sakwan Barkley, the Giants, Tony Pollard of Dallas, Jonathan Taylor
the Colts, Dereck Henry of Tennessee, Josh Jacobs are the Raiders,
and Christian McCaffrey. He got paid, so Derrick Henry among
the other running backs that were there. There were other
(03:17):
names we did not mention. The running backs kicked around
the ideas during the call that of what they could do,
but no, no consensus was formed. Shocking, shocking that never
happens when you have a meeting that there was no
consensus that was working. Now, Barkley and Jacobs have not
signed the franchise tag and are planning on waiting for
(03:42):
a good chunk, if not all, of training camp. These
seasons starting in early September, so they've got the rest
of July, another week or so of the month, and
then all of August, and then after that they got
to show up to work to make sure they don't
lose any any money. So let us us the question,
what is the takeaway from the running back zoom meeting
(04:05):
over NFL salaries? What's the takeaway? I've got Eugene Levy,
orkinman and monstrosity, and we will combine all of these
things together. We're gonna make the Babaganoosh, which, by the way,
NFL running backs can't afford. The babag noosh does not
cost that much money. It's just eggplant mostly, all right.
So to kick off here, this zoom meeting got much
(04:30):
more attention than it warranted. And of course we are
feeding the beast here by talking about it more on
a Monday morning. But as we talked about in a
previous hour, Nick Chubb summed it up best. The running
back in this story, right, the running backs are a
Eugene Levy comedy. I can't actually say the name of
(04:51):
the comedy. We're gonna call it poop Creek. They are
up poop Creek. There is no paddle to be had,
there's no Walmart to go buy a paddle. They're up poop.
They are stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.
And as Nick Chubb pointed out, and he's completely right
about this, if you play well as a running back,
(05:12):
that is a negative because you've got a lot of mileage,
you got a lot of hits, and you become less valuble.
If you perform poorly, you're easily dumped and they'll just
get somebody else from the Greyhound bus station and they'll
go down to the Amtrak station, find somebody off the train,
and then that's it. They're good. Now. Furthermore, let's move
(05:35):
on from the running base. How about in Detroit where
Dan Campbell sounding alarm, bells he is concerned. Now, what
is he concerned about? Is he concerned about an injury?
Is he concerned about some kind of poor play by
Jared Goff? Is he worried about that? Is he worried about? No,
Dan Campbell is concerned by the the hype train surround
(06:00):
the Lions. That's it's off the rails. Dan Campbell says
his team has to put the work in to earn it.
We've never heard of coach say that before. The bookmakers
have put the Lions, not the Vikings, not the Packers,
and not certainly not the Bears. They've put Detroit as
the NFC North favorites. And there have been people who
(06:22):
are saying that yes, that is right, that they got
it right. The Lions are the favorite. Now I am
even optimistic, I am Betty Brightside when it comes to
the Lions that I'm buying what they're cooking in the
Lions Den. They have not one, not two, not three,
not four, five nationally televised games. Usually the only time
(06:43):
you got to see the Lions was when you're eating
turkey and stuffing an apple, apple pie or pumpkin pie
on Thanksgiving. But this year, unlike all o the year's
five nationally televised games, including the opener where Cans Czaus City,
the raining Super Bowl champions will take on the Motor
(07:04):
City kiddies for the world to see as the NFL
season kicks off on that first Thursday, the first Thursday
of the NFL season there second week of September. Now
is Dan campbell concern is his concern over the Lions
hype train warranted? So I'm not gonna use the word warranted.
(07:26):
I'm gonna use the word predictable. Word of mouth advertising
is a is great for ticket sales, It is wonderful
for merchandise sales. It is good for clout online. Word
of mouth advertising, but universally, with very few exceptions outside
of like Dion Sanders at Colorado and a couple of
(07:50):
other coaches, they universally cringe at the ideas. And Dan
Campbell is working like the orcanman. He's the exterminator. And
coaches all always want to underpromise and overdeliver. That's you're
an under promise. We're gonna overdeliver, not vice versa. You
don't want to be the coach that over promises and
underdelivers because then you do television or radio if that's
(08:15):
the case, or you become a blogger. Media praise, as
many have said, is akin to putting rat poison in
with your fruit salad. Good luck on that it can
work as a tremendous positive. Now, I love the hype
and all that because it's good for what we do
(08:36):
in these parts. And my position is this, Dan Campbell
now has a fall guy. Everyone's gotta have a fog.
Dan Campbell's got a falgu He can blame a slow start.
If the Chiefs go out there in the opener and
win by three touchdowns, Dan Campbell can blame a slow
start by media manipulation. That and of course Jared Goff,
(08:57):
who you can never trust golf, played better life last
year with the Lions than he did at any point
with the Rams, and that blew me away. But flashing
back Jared Goff at any moment, can flash back to
the guy that goes hey wire and has a glitch.
He's been consistently inconsistent over the course of his career.
(09:19):
All right, parting shot, Let's move on now the Cleveland Browns.
We mentioned this earlier. The Browns opened their training camp
over the weekend at a resort in West Virginia, and
the team is selling the fact that they chose to
go to this resort in West Virginia as a positive.
Cleveland's head coach Kevin Stefanski, who's on the hot seat,
(09:39):
Brown's better win this year, make the playoffs and make
a little noise in the playoffs, or Stefanski will be
back as an offensive coordinator. But anyway, the Cleveland brown said.
Coach Kevin Stefanski called the training camp location a great
way to get away from all of those distractions, but
he was also selling the fact of team bonding. Quote,
(10:01):
we're landlocked here, Stefanski opined, of being in West Virginia.
We're in the middle of nowhere by design, so it
forces you to be around your teammates. Well, was quote
is Brown's training camp in West Virginia wise or pointless?
(10:22):
So it is futile, which is a cousin of pointless.
It is futile. Cleveland will be bunkering down. They already
are bunkering down at a resort right in Appalachia. That's
what they're team bonding. Who going off the grid, getting
away from all the distractions. Sounds good. This resort is
(10:46):
so massive, How massive is is it true? There is
more trouble to be had in West Virginia than Cleveland.
Of course, Stefanski set himself up. He said, we're in
the middle of nowhere by design. You could argue that
when you're in downtown Cleveland, you're in the middle of
nowhere by design. But I digress. So this thing is
(11:08):
a monstrosity, this resort in West Virginia. Eleven thousand acres
over eleven thousand acres, seven hundred and ten guest rooms
at this resort, twenty restaurants and lounges, thirty five retail shops.
They're really roughing it there, really roughing it. The Cleveland Browns.
The Greenbrier offers fifty or more activities including here's some
(11:30):
of the things that the Browns players can do when
they're not practicing obviously, golf. They've got indoor or outdoor
pools depending on the weather in West Virginia, bowling, tennis, arcade, croquet.
If you're so inclined, you can take a nice carriage ride,
nice romantic carriage ride around the resort. They have an
escape room. Who doesn't e bike's falconry but not the
(11:51):
Atlanta Falcons, Fishing, horseback riding, kayaking, shuffle board, I'm not done,
stand up paddle boarding, pickleball, why not? And a bunch
of other things. So they are really slumming it, the
Cleveland Browns. And as far as the whole trouble thing,
you're gonna avoid trouble. We're gonna bond. I promise you.
(12:13):
You can get in trouble at that resort. There have
been people that have gotten in trouble. So the idea
they're gonna avoid trouble and everyone's gonna be hanging out
together having a grand time, and they're gonna be running
around fishing, I don't don't buy them. Maybe at the arcade.
Maybe they'll all be in the arcade, but that's unlikely.
They'll be using the Wi Fi to get on the
(12:33):
social media channels is what they will be. What they
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Shane of the Moines says, Marcel and Brooklyn is coming
in to save the day with food pasts. We'll see
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up with the food picts. We do not know that
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(14:04):
had me at Pickleball. Alf loves pickles. He's all about
the pickles. It's one of the weaknesses of Alf. He
can't get enough of the pickles. Mal A prop guy
had a note about something we talked about earlier in
the show. He can hear it on the podcast, but
he says that when Cooper Loop sees Japanese ads during
(14:25):
Angel road games, they are virtual ads, he claims. Mallet
prop Guy says the company that does those ads uses
a green board behind home plate for the majority of
the ads of green screen on Major League Baseball telecuests,
so ad content can be changed regularly and remotely.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
That makes a lot of sense. Actually, I know for
hockey games they have those ads that they now put
on the boards digitally. Yeah, and they the actual local
broadcast put up their own advert.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So yeah, when those ads, when those ads started behind
home played out of one of my buddies, Tony, who
I lost track of. I don't know what happened to Tony.
I hope he's all right, But Tony, Tony's job was
to go out there and put They actually had the
physical ads behind home plate rotating, and he had to
sit there with a monitor to make sure that none
of the ads broke, and he had to stop watch
(15:20):
to actually track how much time they were on television.
That's I don't do that anymore that way. Obviously his
everything's digital now and all that. But he was actually
in the ballpark. He was there. He gets there like
at one o'clock in the afternoon to make sure for
a seven o'clock or seven thirty game, to make sure
everything was ready to go. And that was his gig.
And by the end of it, he despised. He loathed
(15:44):
what he was doing. By the end of it, he
was like he could not wait to get out of there.
The games. In his defense, the games were taken forever
back then. Now of course they've got the clock. Everything's
lean and mean and all that, so it's a much
different world. Well, father doesn't know best, not always does
father know best. Story from over the weekend that has
(16:06):
we have to bring this up here. So there's a
guy on the Colts named Rodney Thomas who's a safety
for the Colts. And this is probably the only way
we talk about Rodney Thomas unless something else happened poorly.
But his father was in the news blotter the father
of an NFL player, So you know something bad must
have happened. Yeah, yeah, The father of Colt safety Rodney Thomas,
(16:30):
the original Rodney Thomas, was arrested this weekend after he
was indicted for shooting blank Did you see this that
has happened in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I do not see this.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
This guy, the father of the Colts player, was indicted
for shooting and killing a ball the eagle in Pennsylvania. Yeah,
what an idiot? How does how does that happen? Like? Serious?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I think just described.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Well, but I understand that. But a federal grand juriy
in Pittsburgh inded of this guy's fifty years old for
violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. And so
this happened back in I think in May. The police
in Mount Pleasant Township said that an unidentified man turned
(17:24):
himself in after the department and Pennsylvania State Game and
Commission received multiple tips that this guy killed a bald eagle.
Do you think he recorded it? Like, how would multiple
people know about that? Was it out in public where
a bunch of people saw it, or was it out.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
It makes more sense that that it was on camera.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I don't know. I don't know if it was on camera. Anyway,
he was.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Released back to people and those people were like, oh yeah, cool,
what a hole.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's a tough one. He was released from custody ten
thousand dollars bail. He faces up to one year. Oh
he's not gonna get a year in jail and five
thousand dollars in fines if convicted. Weren't we talking about
bald eagles last week? Yes, that i'd seen one when
I was in North Carolina. I think it was.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I think he came up when you were talking about
the eagle landing on that guy's shoulder.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh yeah. James Paxton, the pitcher for the Red SOX
when he was on the Minnesota Twins. Yeah, I think
that's that's it, all right, It is the Benett Malors Show.
As we continue on a programming note, By the way, Eddie,
today's a double header day today, Eddie that not only
am I doing this show, but I'll be filling in
on our local affiliate in Los Angeles yet again, so
(18:35):
will I will be getting very little sleep, and which
is problematic because it's kind of a trickle down thing
for the rest of the week. So right in my
prime sleeping time, which is mid days in Los Angeles,
I'll be on from noon to three on our local
affiliate AM five seventy here in LA. And then I'll
be back. But that should be a real loopy show, Eddie,
(18:57):
tonight back doing loopy loopy late night radio.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
We'll keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, that'll be. That'll be something David in Pennsylvania says
of the Colts Player, what a total piece of blank.
Someone needs to, uh, well take care of that guy.
I'll leave what he said. Yeah, Sirley Scott writes and
says he's waiting on elon making the switch from Twitter
(19:26):
to X.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
He says.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
About that excited that you're gonna be called this gonna
be called x is that.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
If he decides to do that, well, we need to
change the copy and say you can exis.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Oh, that's good, pointed, We'll have to We'll have to
change that. Marcel, by the way, writes it. He says,
wake up and call me. He said, so we can
get on food picks. I don't know. The phone's broken.
Maybe the phones are broken. Marcel can't get through. I
guess I had no idea. Alf said, pickles are only
one of many weaknesses. Hes. Oh, yeah, I know you
like those kiddie kids. I'm aware of that. Justin apparently
(20:01):
liked the the bald Eagles story. He enjoyed that very much.
So there is that, all right. It is the Ben
Maler Show on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox is the number. Also on Twitter at Ben Mahler
and on the threads app which is not changing his
name because they just started at Ben Mahlor on Fox.
(20:25):
We talked about this earlier in the show. Kirk Cousins
was called the most underrated quarterback by Patrick Mahomes, a
great tribute from him. Well, Cousins says he believes that
somebody else is actually the most underrated quarterback in the NFL.
Who is it? As everyone tries to kiss everyone else's
ass in the NFL, according to Kirk Cousins, He said
(20:46):
that the most underrated quarterback in the NFL none other
than Jimmy Garoppolo. He said he voted for Jimmy Garoppolo
is not the most underrated quarterback in the NFL. Stopped that.
Stop that gibberish. Stop that nonsense from from Kirk Custins.
(21:08):
Not good. Let's go to the phones and we'll say
it out to CJ. Who's hanging out in DC. What's
going on? CJ? He just hung up? Oh he's gone
all right? How about cowboy John brad and Windsor, Ontario? Hello, cowboy,
fine Canadian lad?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Well wow, bucks and blonds. That's all I like to know.
But the happy fifty ninth birthday Bury Bonds fifty six
years ago. This is the second day. I don't know
what is Detroit Wright of nineteen sixty seven, which eventually
claimed for forty three wives and yesterday, or at least
fifty forty one years ago yesterday. Actor Vick whoa back
(21:52):
when I was a boy, was in the movie Combat
in the TV series Combat and two child Vietnamese actors
were killed while filming the Twilight on the movie, and
of course a lot of people thought that the director
John Lenny should have been held responsible for that. And
(22:13):
also forty one years ago today, former ever LB or
Robert Opena was forty five cancer. Robertopenya, my sister Wendy
Bailespeck died at age forty five boats not quite eighteen
years later. And anyway, on July twenty fifth, nineteen sixty one,
(22:36):
Roger Merris and the Yankees, who usually hated double hitters,
became the first Major leaguer to have forty homers before
August first, when he had four home runs and this
one double hitter against the White Sox. Oh and Mick
Jarger will be eighty Wednesday, as Bobby Sherman who was
(22:56):
an actor and teen idel and singing my sister what
he wants? He was eighty on wrap it up, So anyway,
speak to people hopefully the mong boy, whmember, you got
to be a boy to be a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
There he goes cowboy his own cottage industry calling radio.
So she's almost retired. How many times this cowboy almost
retired multiple times. He's threatened to leave the show, and
he's come back. We're very lucky he is. He's like
a professional boxer cowboy. He says he's going to retire,
and then people said, we need you, we need your cowboy,
(23:33):
we need that content. And then cowboy comes back to
save the day. Hallelujah. It's Ben Ali Sean Fox will
check in with our friend Marcel. I guess he has
were apparently called him or he's called us. I don't
know either way.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
But pretty sure we did not call him.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, I don't think. We don't have his numbers, so
it's hard for us to call him. We asked for
his number one time and he gave us Uncle Dynamite's number,
which became oops problematic when we called Uncle Dynamite and
he said, who the hell are you? That became man
then on your ass. Yeah, you don't want Uncle Dynamite
messing with you for sure.
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And now back to Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I got a fun fact. I'm gonna put the fun
in fun facts. Now. Many people have already given Ronald
the Kuno Junior the Braves, They've given this guy the
MVP in the National League. They think it's over. But
his former teammate with the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman, is slowly
marching up the stat sheet. And if you base it
(25:04):
off the numbers, Freddie Freeman now leads the National League,
not Ronald Lacuna in ops, passing him by. So Freddie
Freeman of the Dodgers number one in OPS in the
National League. And also Freeman leads the National League in
something called ops plus. I don't even know what that is,
but it sounds important and slugging percentage. So Freddie Freeman,
(25:27):
former Atlanta Brave teammate with Ronald Acuna, and he is
now leading the National League. But the narrative has been
that this is the MVP is going to go to
the Atlanta Brave outfielder, is not going to go to
anybody else. But Freddie Freeman's been absolutely balling for the Dodgers,
and will that result in him sneaking up from the
(25:48):
outside and winning the MVP at this point, No, but
there's still a couple months ago in the baseball season.
It is the Ben Mather Show. Let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Let's say say hello to and
in Berkeley. Hello, Andrea, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Hello Ben. How are you?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
If I was any better, Andrea, I would be sleeping,
but I am not. What's going on with you? Andrew?
Everything good with you? You're okay?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, just been busy. You got a lot of
things going on. But I did want to put in
a call, thankakly about Jimmy G. And I'm enjoying your
show and thank you.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
I just want to say timing is everything. And Jimmy
G born November two, nineteen ninety one. And that Saturn
Urana square is finally over Saturn and Aquarius squaring his
planets in scorpio, which rules a skeletal system, bones, knees, teeth, joints,
and you know the recent foot injury, and he's been
(26:44):
injury prone and that just shows that timing is everything,
because these transits can last a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So it's over though you're saying it's over now for.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Jimmy, Well, I'm not saying one hundred percent. I don't
have an accurate birth time, so I'd really like to
get bad on someone as how shall I say, injury
prone is him. But it's a lot better now. And
actually the forty nine Ers and the Raiders are going
to play a pre game in a couple of weeks,
so that should be interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah. More importantly, you did tell me, Andrea that I'm
in my golden period of time here, Andrea, right.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
You're having Jupiter transit, Yes, fans in abundance and opportunity.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Big things and that things.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Yeah, once every twelve years for an entire year.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Nice, all right, for a full year.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Yes, it didn't happen to a nicer guy.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, thank you. I don't know about that, but very nice.
And you are you doing many things? Are that's good?
You got a lot of a lot of plates spending
there and.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Yeah, yeah that's just it. Yeah, just kint a lot
going on.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So we we love when you call up and I
know you're very busy, but when you have time, give
us a call. Don't forget about us.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Oh yeah, never ever, you got great. I love your show.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
All right, well, thank you and let us know when
your your stories are up there.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Oh yeah yeah, so got a lot going on with that,
so no.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Resk, I hear you. All right, Well, thank you, Andrew
appreciate it. There she goes our friend Andrea Virgo in
service on Twitter, multi media star Andrea reading the Star charts.
Let's go down and speak of multimedia. Let's go to
the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York, NYC, and a
man who calls international television and radio shows. Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel,
(28:25):
breaking news.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
This morning, ben breaking news, breaking news. I want to
put the SoundBite already.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Officially rebranded to acts Now after owner of Paranoid Elon
Musk change is iconic bird logo this morning in a
couple of hours, marking the latest major shifts since his
takeover of the social media platform. It remains live and
brendan On. The app version of the platform did not
change as well too. Twitter's world renown bird level was
(29:00):
transformed into an act.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
What Marcel, this is anti bird? I I support birds, Marcel,
I love eating chickens. I love birds, and I'm troubled
by Elon Musk disrespecting birds.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Yeah, let's put let's put the old Twitter bird word should.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Be, Marcell, what's your favorite bird?
Speaker 8 (29:23):
The Twitter bird?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Oh? The bird? Now, Marcel, did you know the bird
is the word?
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Did you know that bird is the word? I mean,
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Look at you, Marcel, unbelievable. You're a machine over there,
You're a SoundBite machine, and you have successfully chased away
Blair in Maine. He doesn't call very much anymore because
you're so powerful. You've intimidated him. He doesn't like to
call up. He's afraid of you. I think I think
there's fear there.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Yes, that is, oh great to see you. Let's art
the week. We got the end of July and straight
to August right around the corner, because it's a new
dawn and definitely a new day it is, so let's
get into it.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Get into it.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Yes, we got line three named Justin in Cincinnati. Who
joins us right now on the line three justin? Good
morning to you, Happy Monday.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Ron.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
I know it's gonna be a little.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Bit tough, but wrong Marcel. He has not called in
to play this game for like months.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Oh, I know, try to say pass instead, but.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Pass? Yeah, Marcel, can you line someone else up? Maybe
you can get somebody else there, like Alf the Alien
opineer or Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Or.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Let's put in, let's put the line something in Minnesota.
And not just for Robin Vegas, but Rob and a
twin Cities. Who joins us? Now? Good morning to you, Rob,
Happy Monday. What is your full pick from last time?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Marshall, you're just making things up now, Marre there hard,
I know, Okay, let's do it. I'll go how about
I'm gonna go oodles and noodles in old classic?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Yes it is, we got enough mixed match?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah, street continues. Go ahead, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
How many is it?
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Like?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Forty in a row?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I don't know. I lose track.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I win so much every time you win every time?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, come on, Eddie, come on, Eddie, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Say you had a file of fish sandwich. Oh no, Well,
you don't tell me the answers, like you tell Ben, what.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Do you want gonna do? Marcell? You don't tell me
the answers, do you?
Speaker 8 (31:49):
Absolutely not?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That's right? See?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
How does he get it right every time?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Myself we have a bond being March.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
How does he get it right every time?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Bond?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Every time? He gets it right every time?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I just know it's not possible for.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Him to get it right.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I don't know a lottery numbers, but I know what marcella.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Marcel, that's true. The cheating must stand, Marcel. That's why
nobody calls in.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Eddie's upset here. He's devastated. He's a loser, right, Marcel,
at bad job? Go ahead, cool please, that's right, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Fraud Marcel.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I think that you had pengyang curry with chicken and
crab cheese rangoons.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
That's not a mixed match either.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
What about Mark, Mark? You want in on this? We
had a ham sandwich on wheat bread with mustard. Oh
my god, that sounds horrible.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Right around the corner, pourful pick from last night.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Is drumroll please, so dramatic?
Speaker 9 (32:51):
What could it be? Yeah, you're a cheer Marcel. You
are a low down, dirty cheek.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
You're a great American. Marcel. You're a hero. Brooklyn. I know,
Uncle Mary, go Blair, go wow. That's right, And we
need contests. If you would like to play our game,
the Malard Militia Feud, call right now eight seven, seven
(33:23):
ninety nine on Fox. I need two people for this game,
Malar Militia Feud. We'll get to it and we will
do it next.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
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Speaker 1 (34:09):
It's wringing so important listen running Levings everything.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
It's time for another Mallard game show.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, so go.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
We surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Letter curs.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I believe the answer is to Clippers.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
That is the top answer forty points. It's malor militia fute.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Good game, bad imaging. But we'll play the game right now.
It is the Mallor Militia Feud. Come Ona, and you
know the way this works.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
Here.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
One hundred people surveyed and we have the top answers
on the board. That's welcome in our contestants for this
edition of the Mallord Militia Feud. We've got Joe in
Kansas City. Hello, Joe, Hey man, how's it going, Joe?
If I was any better, I'd be at Chiefs training camp.
(35:06):
But I'm not so right.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
Yeah, absolutely, I would love to be there too.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
But I'm driving down the road right now.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
I tell you what, Saturday, I think I'm gonna wind
up getting some chicken fingers.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Oh well, thank you, the Ben Mallard chicken fingers of course,
if that's right. The landing there and beautiful Liberty, Missouri.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
There I went to college.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Beautiful all right, wonderful not that far away from Arrowhead Stadium,
right real close there. Yes, all right, very good, Joe,
you're gonna play already sucking up to me? Very nice?
And TC in Tennessee. Hello, TC, what's just sitting around
with no hawk to get up in here and tear
some Kansas City tails up? Okay, look at you, TC.
(35:50):
You got that that confident southern drawl to you. You
got that going for you right now. You're ready, You're
you're not worried about anything. So let's get to the category.
I think we do Category one. Yes, I mean that's
a good category. Why not? Here we go? What would
you hear on the radio that would make you turn
the station? Top five answers are on the board. One
(36:10):
hundred people surveyed. Your name is your buzzer if you
want to go first? Joe and TC. Joe, all right,
Joe again, what would you hear on the radio that
would make you turn the station? The top five answers
are on the board.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Emergency broadcast test.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Oh, nurses broadcasts? That is that on the board. No,
that is not on the board.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Answer.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
That is actually a good answer. Yeah, let's go TC.
That strike one for Joe. What would you hear on
the radio show like this that would make you turn
the station? Or music or whatever? What would make you
turn the station? Top five answers are on the board.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Uh, marg or commercial?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Well, that very specific, but I guess we'll give it
to you. Why not. It's not necessarily exactly what we
were looking for, but just commercials in general. Now. I
love commercials. To me, they're the most important part. But
a lot of people do flip the station when they
hear the commercials. Unfortunately. Okay, so you're still going there.
TC got one right. That was the number one answer.
(37:15):
What would you hear on the radio that would make
you turn the station? Top five answers originally on the board.
Top four answers are on the board right now, Go ahead, TC.
Politics politics? Is that on there?
Speaker 9 (37:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
That is not on there. No. Not that you're necessarily
wrong on that, but a lot of people get triggered
by that. So strike one though for TC. We go
back to Joe in Kansas City. What would you hear
on the radio that would make you turn the station?
Top five answers originally on the board. One hundred people surveyed.
Right now, there are four answers left Nickelback. You know
(37:51):
what that we'll take that right that. Okay, yes, we're
gonna take that. A bad bad song. If you hear
a bad song, you're gonna flip station. So good job
by you, Joe. You got that one right. That was
the number three answer, and you get to go again.
Actually we're out of time, so cooperloop. The other answers
were news, static and cursing and tc wains because he
(38:14):
got the higher point value. Thank you,
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