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Several members senior members of the Mallard militia of the
p Ones. Where you gotta start with the Clippers and
I want full I want full pain factor to be
in here now. Yes, the Clippers won an NBA game.
You know, listen, they're good team. Good teams win games
in the NBA. And I'm not gonna start with that

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because I want to wait, because we're gonna pick up
a bigger audience and later on on the live version
of the show, So I want to get the most
bang for my buck. All I will say is the
Warriors had a good run. That's all I will say.
They had a good run. These things come to an end.

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Unfortunate that the Clippers had to put them in their place.
But we will have much more on that later on,
I promise you. But I like a good scandal. Much
of my career has been based on just talking about
the CD underbelly of sports. It's so much fun, and
they are Raiders. Apparently their mystique is back. Baby, The

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Raiders are back because John Gruden. Now he has been
the Raider coach. We talked about this last night. He's
been the Raider coach for a little over twenty four
hours officially, and in the first day, John Gruden is
on the job. We have scandal with our Raiders. Now,
if you've not heard about this, the Fritz Pollared Alliance.

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They would like the NFL to investigate the Oak Glint
sooner be lost Vegas Raiders because of a lack of
compliance with the Rooney Rule. Now, the Raiders did interview
some minority candidates for their coaching job. So what's the
kurf fluffle about? I will tell you the people over

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the Fritzpolar the Lions. They heard some scuttle butt through
media reports that John Gruden had actually agreed to a
contract before Jack del Rio was fired. So when del
Rio took the field in the Raiders season finale, he
had already been whacked. He just had I actually lost
a radio job similar to that, so I me and

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Jack del Rio have something in common. I was fired
on a Tuesday, My severance check was was cut for
me on a Tuesday, and then I got fired on
a Friday. So I'm still upset about that because I
could have had a couple of extra days off and
that I didn't need to show up to work. But anyway,
del Rio apparently is okay. He's gonna get a nice
little severance. He's okay. But why does this matter? Why

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does it matter that John Gruden agreed to a deal
before Jack del Rio was fired. Well, for those that
are involved in this, the social justice warriors, the defenders
of the Rooney rule, this is a violation right because
it means that the Oakland coaching gig was never open

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and as a result, therefore, the Raiders did not comply
with said Rooney rule. So I want to talk about this.
Let's discuss here a right question. We'll keep it very simple.
Will the Raiders get dinged for violating the NFL hiring
process or process depending on where you grew up? Now,

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I don't have all the facts. You don't have all
the facts, but from what I do know and doing
some investigative snooping, my knee jerk reaction is no. My
knee jerk reaction is no. My thoughts on this. You've
got semantics, a loophole, and irony. You've got irony involved

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in this as well. See you have all of that.
Now we'll start with a I would expect, judging how
these things typically work, I would expect that the NFL
would hire a blue ribbon panel to investigate all of this.
And when I hear that kind of thing, I go,

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WHOOPI damn do whoopee damn do. Now, by the spirit
of the rule, the Raiders, you could say, are in
trouble from what I've uncovered here. However, not by the
letter of the rule, and that matters the Raiders. If
you go by the letter of the rule, of the
Raiders are okay. Now why do I say that, Because
this particular set of laws, if you will, for the NFL,

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the Rooney rule states that you have to interview a
minority candidate before the higher the official hire. So if
you go by I know, semantics here, but if you
go on a technicality, the Raiders actually follow that. Because
I'm assuming, and this is a big assumption, that there
is no paper trail. I don't mark. I look at

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Mark Davis. I don't think he's ever used like a
non rotary phone. I think he still types up memos
on a typewriter. That's that's how I look at Mark Davis.
So I'm gonna assume it's like people try to get
stuff on President Trump. He doesn't send email. It's hard
to get a lot of dirt on people that don't
send email, you know, It's it's very difficult anyway. So
if there's nothing incriminating as far as text messages and

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emails and things like that, then the Raiders should be okay.
They should be okay and be We pointed this out.
We talked about this last week. This came up when
the coaching hiring season began in the NFL and the
Rooney Rule was raised. We pointed out how this go
away In the Rooney rule. It makes the assumption that teams,

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in this case, the Raiders, are not looking to hire
the top coach because they're racist. That's what the Rooney
rule is. And if you start with that premise that
the NFL is being run by a bunch of KKK
guys and avoiding top candidates because their minorities, that's that
seems seems outdated. Now, listen up here, the owners, I

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would think the people involved in these teams, in this
case the Raiders with Mark Davis, they kind of have
an idea who they want to hire. It's kind of
like these media jobs. They kind of know who they want.
They kind of know who they want. And the Rooney
rule does to defeat the purpose that it was originally
intended with good intentions when it originally came around. But
really for most of these NFL teams, you get the

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feeling that this is a red tape situation. It is
a formality that teams have to follow. I want to
mention the word irony here. And the Raiders have they
found a loophole and all that, But the irony part
of it is the NFL, if they are to punish
the Raiders for this, then they're gonna have to dang
Reggie McKenzie, right because he's the general manager of the Raiders,

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who I believe is African American, and so they're gonna
get him for not complying with the Rooney Rule. So
that would be what how this would have to work.
And anyway, the bottom line, even though the Raiders are
found guilty of this. They they'll pay a fine. That'll
be that. That's I guess the cost of doing business,
the John Gruden business. And if that does happen, if

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that's the end game, then what will happen is the
Raiders can simply raise the cost of PSLs at that
stadium in Vegas in a couple of years and then
have the casinos have Caesar's and MGM foot the bill
for that situation. You see how that everything's tied together.
You see everything is tied together. That's that's how it works,
all right. He's the Ben Mathers Show on Fox and

(08:43):
a story. We tried to warn the Carolina Panthers yesterday.
They did not listen. Shame on them. Reports here tonight
that the Panthers are nearing a contract with Norville Turner
to become their offensive coordinator. And that is great news.
If you're a Saints fan, if you like the Falcons,

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if you're a rival Tampa Bay fan, if you'll if
you're in a battle with Carolina, this is tremendous because
it cements the fact that the Carolina Panthers are going
to continue to be a second rate offensive football team
with Norv Turner as the guy. That is a cement situation.

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All right, spend Maler show on Fox Edmund Dallas Steamboat,
Willie Garcia. So you're trying to tell me that that
the Raiders h pulled some shenanigans with this with this
h That's not what I'm saying, Eddy, I'm just I'm

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relaying what the Fritz Polar Alliance is saying. Very powerful
Fritz Polar Aliance, that is the group that is they've
asked for the NFL to investigate the Raiders for violating this.
So you're saying Mark Davis, who maybe I'm misquoting him
here but said during the press conference that hiring John Gruden,

(10:10):
I believe it was a dream come true? Is that
what he said? Something like that. I think he said
the moment his dad died. He So you're saying that, uh,
that that that guy, yes, did not consider other people
for the jobs. That's what they're saying. There, you go,
it's hard to believe. Yeah, but it's a wonderful thing.
I listen. But by the spirit of the of the rule, yeah,

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the Raiders are in trouble. But if you go by
the letter of the rule, and the Raiders did interview
some minority candidates last week. So if you go by
the Martin I heard t Martin is one of them.
Legitimate candidate. Why not people, You don't have to interview
a legitimate candidate, right, you just have to interview a candidate.
I guess that's yeah, it's all. I mean. Look, you
said spirit of the rule, letter of the rule all

(10:53):
at Yeah, it's letter of the rule that's important, is
it not? Well, yeah, but you go by the letter
of the rule. They did it, and I mean you
can look, Tennessee had a deal done with Greg Schiano,
and then Danny and Nashville and a bunch of his
lunatic friends with pitchforks and torches chased Schiano out of
Tennessee before he even got there. So they had a deal.
You could say, Hey, Tennessee had a deal in place

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with Greg Ciano. Didn't get done. So I mean, raiders
will be okay. I think there'll be bigger scandals here.
There will be bigger scandals. Oh, I'm sure that's true. Yeah,
I think we will have some really nice, juicy scandals
to look forward to, which which I like. I like
a good scandal. It's good for radio, and that's great

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you know, it's also good for radio, the Clippers beating.
I remember when the Warriors were a good team. I
mean that was a while ago. That's uh, that's uh wow.
What how the mighty of falling? Well, it's the shocking
that you would take it to the extreme, No extreme
at all, Eddie. I'm a I'm an objective I'm an
objective voice in the night. It's a it's a fine

(11:57):
win for your Clippers, there's no question about that. I
think it's more better stories in losing locker room. The
Warriors are falling apart. Is that why they have the
best record in the NBA? Are done? Eddie? He is
over for the Warriors. He saw it right in front
of your eye. Can't you can't just enjoy a very
nice win by your team by you know, rational about it.
You gotta take it to the extreme. I hear rumors, Eddie.

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I can't. I don't know if I should say this
on there. Steve Kirk could be fired, That's what I hear.
That's a total lie. Kerk could be out as coach
of the Warriors. He's it's really absurd. I say that.
I heard a little Birdie told me that Steve Kerk
could be out. He's gonna run for president in twenty twenty,
so he wants to get his orders, Yeah, lined up,
they're all his affairs rather than lined up. And that's
that's the whispers. It's kind of silly, really. Yeah. And uh,

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if I had a vote right now for the NBA MVP,
Sweet Lou could be Sweet Lou your MVP breakout, Sweet Lou,
Sweet Lou. We know, we know you're a big basketball fan,
and we know that you love the NBA and you
believe in accurate reporting. Right. I don't love the NBA,
but each I do believe in you. Yes, you actually

(13:02):
broke a story, did I? You? Did? You broke a
story on the radio time? Ye? Do you know you
realize the story that you broke? Uh No, I don't
interesting we have any audio on that, Danny g We
uh see here the way it works been we can't
pull it out of the system until we pause for

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the cause. This is what's gonna happen. So here's what's
gonna happen. It's gonna be edited and deleted and all
that stuff. That's usually how this works. So we don't
have to roll tape on the live program. So we
can't stop it in the middle of the program. Interesting,
that's all I can believe. How it's always been all right, anyway,

(13:47):
we'll take you. I'm fine, I'm perfectly fine with this.
It's usually how this these things work. Uh, if you
would like to be part eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three nine.
Who's the new coach of the war is going to be?
Where's Kevin Durant gonna go when they trade them at
the deadline? These are all relevant NBA questions we can

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talk about. There no that well, that new arena deal
in San Francisco fall apart where they stopped building that
now that the team's lost Bill Meller also something that
should be brought up here. These are all important questions
that need to be asked, all important questions that need
to be asked. Now, there is a story that a

(14:27):
listener actually sent me, which is just marvelous. There is
a professional sports team and one of the big professional
sports leagues in America that could be forced to change
their nickname. And this is the story that hadn't gone
around too much yet. We will delve into that. And also,
you're the franchise. We'll get to that as well. We'll
do it all and we will do it next. On

(14:51):
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Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. Will says, the
only sweet Lou I know of is sweet Lou Panella.
That's what he has to say. Well, that means you're
an old fight, because the modern sweetness is a Lou Williams.
Lou Lu Panel's seventy four years old. He's an old man.

(15:34):
Lou Williams is this generation's rock star. He's he's trending
on Twitter. Just an amazing human being, a humanitarian. Uh
and and really it took the Clipper uniform for him
to break out. He was pretty much as stiff his
entire career. But now he's a Clipper soon. Now he's good.
Now he's good. The real, the real, Martin says, Ben,

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I am disappointed. I wanted Norv Turner to be the
head coach in Kansas City or Oakland. Damn Ron Rivera,
sincerely a Brocco fan. That's what he has to say.
Darryl and Chicago points out, I think Darrell's in Chicago. Yeah,
he says, He says, listen, Norville Turner knows offense. The
only reason the Panthers will be mediocre is Cam Newton. Sorry,

(16:17):
inaccurate ass nor Turner knows offense is a hot take
in nineteen ninety three. That's a hot take in the
modern era. It's not true. This is another example when
the legend becomes the fact. You go with the legend
the legend. How great an offensive mind Norv Turner is?
Since twenty o three, we pointed this out yesterday. Since

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twenty o three, Norvelle Turner has coached fourteen seasons in
the National Football League. And out of those fourteen seasons,
how many of those years did his team enter the
top the top half of the NFL in total offense?
The answer four four out of fourteen. Is that a

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revolutionary offensive figure? I say no, I believe I am
on the right side of history. When it comes to
Norvelle turning, the ribman says, what about sweet Lou Whittaker?
That's what he has to say. Are we just gonna
go through all the people the name named Sweet Lou
Whittaker sixty? How about that Sweet Lou Whittakers sixty. Do

(17:23):
you think he's still driving around doing his thing in
the high end audimobiles, dressed up, doing his dance and
all that could be? Do you think he and Alan
tramwill go everywhere together? Lou Whitaker and Allen's family? No,
all right, anyways, do we have that audio? We have
the audio here? All right, let's let's go to the audio.
Here we go. Eddie Garcia, my newsman, voice of reason here,

(17:46):
I'm told all the time, Eddie is the voice of
reason here, breaking news here. No one else has what
Eddie Garcia is reporting on Fox Sports Radio. Rant in
the loss scored his two thousandth career point. He's the
fifth player under thirty to it that mark, joined Don James,
Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and Wilt Chamberlain. I'm very impressive, Eddie.

(18:08):
I didn't I didn't. I didn't know that. No one
else is reported that were the only ones reporting that
got me. I mean that is that is tremendous journalism. Yeah,
I'm very ashamed of myself. I apologized to everyone for
because it's speaking. No, that's not a misspeak. That's uh. Listen,
Draymond Green. He was very happy for Kevin Durant eclipsing

(18:31):
two thousand points because you said two thousand. Yeah, I
was a mistake. It happens. It's not a mistake. You
said two thousand. You're reporting two thousand, Yeah, twenty thousand points.
Your your storess tell you two thousand. Yeah, he's the fourth.
I'm so the forty four player hurt by this. I
can tell you hurt by your reaction shows you're hurt
by it. I am just embarrassed. You're human. They have

(18:53):
to call in sick tomorrow. Please call in sick tomorrow. Please.
I pray that you call in not doing anything. No,
you get eye. He just one update, does the same
thing the entire night. Bring him in here. Hard work, Yeah, great,
it's a delight to be solid update guy. They do
one update, the planes could crash together in the middle
of the night. They wouldn't report it because they write

(19:14):
one update and they repeat the same update the entire night.
You know when I did updates any when I was
starting ready back in my day, I change those bleeping
updates every twenty minutes. I knew up every twenty minutes,
Fresh copy, Fresh guy. I rewrote the copy every twenty minutes.
I did that. That is what I did, twevery twenty minutes.

(19:36):
All right, let's go to the phones. I was having
their problems on the road. I'm Ben Malick. Yeah, let's
let's go to a man who gets it. The man
that understands the red beard is on Fox Sports story.
He is moving up the list of callers here, p ones.
Now have we confirmed that he actually has a red beard? Eddie?
Don't disrespect the man before he gets on the You

(19:56):
guys already have you know I'm all about accuracies. You
guys already have you know? You're on the outs? You
have a bad relationship a red beard? What's going on?
Sensible one, Big Benjamin, if you were any better, you
would be a bulldog, but not a Georgia bulldog, because you,
my friend, are a winner. That is hey, Eddie, Eddie,

(20:16):
I you know what the reason why I call Big
ben I followed us I wanted to call to tell Eddie,
you'll have to excuse me for being a little little
pisspot of late, because you know, my whole life has
been revolved around lenders. I grew up with the Braves
for fourteen division titles. Here we go, he's got the speech.

(20:39):
Here we go, two super bowls. Yeah, all right, it's
just hold on, wait, wait, let me get my little
tiny violin out for you. Let me get my violin. Yes, yes,
So the beard is read, by the way, and it
is long, and it is luscious. Is that what the

(20:59):
ladies say? Are the men say? I don't know. We
don't discriminate. Look at you, stud Red Beard is a
lover of all everyone. Yes, who does apologize for being
a little a little baby? Yeah, I think I was
rude in disrespect. Nobody wants to send him a tweet.

(21:23):
No one wants to hear this is terrible radio. Come on,
nobody wants to hear an apology on the radio. Falcon.
The Falcon's gonna play the Titans in the Super Bowl. Uh,
you don't even sound like you're drinking. But that's that statement.
If it reads like you're drinking, does it not? Well? No,
but you now, knowing as a Falcon guy, red Beard,

(21:47):
then you should realize from years of watching the Falcons,
they should win the game against the Eagles. They have
the better quarterback, the weather is not going to be
terrible in Philadelphia. The Eagles are a terrible offensive team
right now. Falcons tackle pretty well on defense. Everything's set
up nice for Atlanta. That's the kind of game. They
go out and vomit all over the field and loose.
So you're putting so you're not putting the paths the Eagles.

(22:09):
What you're saying, well, no, I'm gonna handicap the game
some more. That they Everything indicates the Falcons should win
the game, which scares the crap out of me because
they're the Falcons. And if they do, and that they
the championship game against either they will do that, they
will be they will be stomped out like a cigarette
on the sidewalk. Is what will happen to the Atlanta Falcons.

(22:29):
That's say the Titans. Now, uh, yes, how about how
about yeah? No, that's the consolation bracket, that's the runner
up bracket that they have. Yeah yeah, all right, thank you,
go ahead. You're invaluable. You're irreplaceable red Buck. All right,

(22:50):
Big Ben, No, I'll never apologize again on the radio.
It's terrible radio. Please all right, So the Ben Mallers
Show on Fox on Fox, and because of me, because
of me, an NFL player is about to become a
franchise player. And that would be a man one of
my BFFs, Sammy Watkins of the La Rams. Did you

(23:13):
see this? The Rams expected the franchise tag Sammy Watkins.
He will become one of the five highest paid receivers
in the NFL based on average salary. For Sammy Watkins.
He caught thirty nine passes for the Rams and he's
gonna be the franchise player. But he used. The key
to this is he used my phone, and good things

(23:35):
happened to people that use my phone. For example, no, No,
Pete Carroll when he was coaching at USC used the
Mallar phone. Won a Super Bowl in Seattle because of
the Maller phone. Sammy Watkins gonna win a Super Bowl
with the Rams. He's got the franchise tag. He's twenty
four years old. He won't be twenty five till the summertime.
And he could get a long term contract. And I

(23:56):
feel like I played a role in this, So congratulations
Sammy Atkins. It's the mallet, the power of the maller phone,
the power of the mallar phone on display. Yet again,
Ram that contracted by no, Ram that contract into my
bank bank accounts. What you ought to do. That's what
you ought to do. That's the move there, all right.

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So we got a wild story here. This was actually
sent in by a listener and I don't think it's
made the rounds yet. This will be something you apped
about in the coming days here. But a professional sports
franchise in a North America here, one of the big
sports leagues could be forced to change their nickname. We
will get to this and do it all. But right now,
Eddie Garcia is gonna tell you about Kevin Durankin in

(24:39):
two thousand points and a whole lot of other stuff
as well with the latest Eddie. Well, let's start in
the NBA, as Ben mentioned, with our game of the
night where the Clippers go on the road and beat
the Warriors. What's that sound us Danny Gees clapping? Ben's
look up that Danny Clippers beat the Warriors on the
road once twenty five to one. Oh six, Eddie, can

(25:01):
you talk slower? Can you talk now? Lou Williams with
a career high fifty points for the Clippers five zero fifty,
fourth Clippers player ever to score fifty or more in
a game. You know what that is, Eddie. That's half
a Chamberlain, is what that is? Yeah, that would be correct. Yes.
Kevin Durant, in a losing effort, became the fifth player
and at the age of thirty, to score twenty thousand

(25:22):
points in his career. He joins Wilt Chamberlain, Lebron James,
Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan. But again in a losing efforts. Yeah,
no tip for you. College basketball some games of note,
We had top ranked Villanova handling tenth rank Xavier pretty easily.
Eighty nine sixty five was the final Texas over sixteenth
ranked TCU and double overtime ninety nine to ninety eight,

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and Louisville with a upset win on the road against
twenty third ranked Florida State seventy three to sixty nine.
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(26:04):
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They also fired their offensive wine coach, Tom Cable. You
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And there is another report that defensive coordinator Chris Richard
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(26:26):
can hear some of those players that sucked also or
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And this comes to us from the world of hockey.

(26:49):
Here the Department of the Army has filed a notice
of opposition against Black Night Sports and Entertainment with the
US trademark in Patton Novice. The name in question here
is the Golden Knights of the NHL franchise in Las Vegas.

(27:10):
How about this story that's sent to us from our
friend Vegas squares p one listening in Vegas and he
wanted us to the chat about. It's a chat about.
It's a great story because if this plays out now,
it's gonna be tied up in the courtroom for a while.
But this is on the record now. The United States Army,
the Department of the Army, has filed official opposition against

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an NHL franchise nickname and this is a continuing story here,
but there's a lot of stuff to back up their
claim and it based on Now the owner of this
Vegas expansion team is Bill Foley, and they had the
yeah west point. Well that's kind of the problem because
his words here are going to come back to haunt

(27:53):
him in this particular story, which is available on sports
Logos dot Net Eddie, which I always go from my
sport it's those logs. Yes, they do have great I
love the old logos. Cool. Look at these old logs
you flash back to when you're ten years old. Twonderful.
But anyway, so they go into great detail here and
we don't have time to get into it all here.
But they they have quotes Eddie from the Golden Knights

(28:15):
general manager who pretty much laid out that they ripped
off the army. I mean George McFee, the general manager.
Here's his quote. I'll give you an example. They said,
quote Bill Foley is a West Point guy, sort of
using those colors, referring to the Golden Knights color scheme.
And he went on to say, you know this, you
know his history at West Point, you know about the

(28:36):
classmates he has, and you know and that he lost
serving his country. So those colors mean a lot to us,
and we'll mean a lot to our players. And we're
really proud of the logo. It's clean, it's symmetric, goal,
it's kind of bold and all this stuff. And he
went on to say that we are as far as
the nickname, we're going with the black We we're gonna
go with the Black Knights. But we already had the

(28:59):
Blackhawks in the league, the NHL, so the league was
trying to get us to come up with another name.
So another name used at West Point is the Golden
Knights for the parachute team. This is from the GM
of the Golden Knights, and this is lame. This is
not lame at all. This is this is not lame
at all. So he did it clearly from your words. Honor, yes,

(29:21):
but the place here's the problem. The army doesn't want
him to honor them, so that not the team is
screwed and nobody you're in the tank. You're you're in
the tank for the NHL the team and this is
actually good news. What do you think of the You're misguided.
You don't think of the black Eddy Eddy, You're wrong.

(29:44):
Oh yeah, that's the army. No, the army is the army.
Any I'm telling you are on the wrong side of
this is actually good news. This is one of the
worst names in the history of sport. They had, with
all the with all the degenerate gambling terms in Vegas,
that they could have gone with this. That's what you're
upset about. Sucks because you listen to me. All right.

(30:08):
Let me be very clear here. I'm on the side
of the US Army. You're against the United States Army.
Let the records. Edie Garcia. Eddie Garcia despises the United
States Army and has taken an anti army position in
this particular case, you're wrong. In fact, the team, according
to the story here, there's a possible backup name that

(30:28):
they have and they've they've they've gotten the domain name.
What do you think their backup name is if they
lose Desert Knights. No, not Desert Knights. This is one
that will cause a lot of nasty comments on social media. Uh,
sand Knights is their backup? Suppose they've they've they've owned
the domain s No, this is changed the name. Change

(30:52):
the name. The name sucks at a name. The name's garbage.
It's fire. That you could have been the Aces, could
have been the crap Terrible. That would have been a
great name. That would have been self deprecating, the crap table,
the one armed bandits. You could have done that. There's

(31:12):
so many terms you could have gone with in Vegas,
and they went with this. They deserve to lose. I
hope the Army takes They're gonna lose their trademark. I
pray that this happens. I support the Army. Eddie is
not in this case. That is correct. It dumb. Nickname
is terrible. Now they are being the Army needs to
spend their time on other things. This will drag on Eddie,

(31:34):
they I have a list here. According to the story,
they have a bunch of deadlines and this is going
to drag through the legal system. Now the NHL has
to respond. The team has to respond by February nineteenth, right,
so that's next month. But the end date is July
twenty fourth, twenty nineteen. If this goes through all the

(31:56):
stages of the legal system in the United States, this
will be decided July twenty fourth, twenty nineteen. So should
people go out and buy Golden Knights memorabilia because if
it's changed, then you're gonna have some collectors items. No
one watch. It's an ugly logo. It is terrible, terrible.
Now the team is benefited from the Vegas flu and

(32:17):
that's why they have It's not a bunch of crap.
It's an accurate statement. Crap. Guys come into Vegas and
they're not worried about playing hockey. They're worried about going
out having a good time. That's a bunch of It's
not a bunch of crap. Yeah, they're an average team
on the road, Eddie, and they're the greatest team in
the history of the world at home. And there's no
there's no because because because teams don't play better at
home than on the road. Three games, they're eighteen two

(32:40):
and one Vegas at home, eleven eight and one on
the road. And you're telling me the Vegas flu is
not a factor. The Winnipeg Jets also home record. You
are because of the Winnipeg flu. Well, you are absolutely compromised.
That's clearly what's going on here, all right, I again, Eddie,
Hay the army, I like the army home. Clearly it's

(33:05):
because of all the people parties. They're not ready to play.
Not an expansion team, you moron. The Vegas team is
an expansion Franchi. Doesn't matter. I know you play. You
don't know the reason they're good at home because they're
supposed to suck. They're supposed to be terrible, Eddie, and
they're not terrible. And the reason they're not terrible is

(33:27):
because of the Vegas flu. You don't even know what
the Vegas flu is. You have no idea what the
Vegas flu is. You're not a party guy like me.
You don't understand. Yeah, you don't understand, Eddie. Your doubts.
Okay again, your anti army, and you don't believe in
the Vegas flu. You've lost your way and you think
Kevin Durant scored two thousand points? All right, Todd, So
the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. We'll take your phone

(33:49):
calls if you would like to be part. We'll have
the NHL puck him. Now, Danny g was trying to
fight the NHL puck him. How dare you, Danny, I've
taken an anti NBA position. These go like that we
can agree on that these guys are such as such wusses,
these guys Thompson. I am so tired of picking NBA
players that are perfectly healthy, and it's so pathetic. Jeff

(34:12):
Van Gundy on the broadcast last night said, well they
should pick the All Stars and not play the game
so the players can rest. That's the world we live in,
and people like Van Gundy defending these ah, I don't
even say what I want to say. It pusses. There
we go. I said, come on, daddy, you can say

(34:38):
that word. Your executive, you can say that word. I
didn't say the full where you can say that word.
Come on, I didn't say the full thing. We'll be
on the podcast, Coop. She's all right, here's the who
am I get? And he told me saying, wow, we
haven't a long time. And he told me, I took

(35:01):
you can say that word. That's not an illegal word
to say. I have not risking it. No stop. I
have a push coward. I have a pushy cat at home.
It's fine, Everything's all right, all right, yeah, all right,
here's the who am I game? Here we go, here's
my game. I hold the NFL record for the most
points scored in a single divisional playoff game. Again, just

(35:22):
the divisional round. I hold the NFL record for the
most point scored in a single divisional playoff game in
that round. Who am I the answer? Next? You have
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(35:43):
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It's Ben Maller. We'll have the NHL puck them. Because
I'm done with the NBA. We might just do the
NHL puck them every day of the week, right, all right,

(36:04):
I am so sick of the NBA players. And then,
my god, just baby, how about we you know what
we should do? We had to dumb. I don't know what.
We didn't have to die. I just explained to Coop.
I went through the definition of the word. We're allowed
to say the word. There's nothing wrong with that. My
friends on Boston radio say that all the time. You
have to say that, hello after Now you don't have

(36:25):
to say will after. And plus they're in one independent
city there in Boston, bunch of stations. City's okay with it.
The FCC's okay with but we're in networks that we're
on in all this. All right, whatever, you guys are scared,
all right, Listen, you don't have to say the word dumping.
You yell at me. I was a listen. I know
I can allowed to say what I can't say. All right, anyway,

(36:46):
Jenny writes, since she says, I'm sorry, my friend, the
basketball team Pelicans is the worst name in sports. You
can't take grown ass man seriously when chanting go Pelicans.
Good point, that's bad, But after he is also stupid,
ripping off the United States Army, a beloved institution. Stop
panglem The Army doesn't want them to do this, Eddie.

(37:09):
That's why they file these legal papers. Better from the army.
You're gonna go some you wanted your Colin Kaepernick jersey
right now? Is that what you do? You know? I don't.
I don't have one of those. Yeah, all right? Anyway?
Who am I? Game? I hold the NFL record for
the most points scored in a divisional playoff game. Who
am I? That's the question. What's the answer? Dolphin? Mike's

(37:31):
going with Scott Norwood as his answer. Funhouse says two
Tall Jones is the guy. Thurman Thomas guest by Mike
from the LBC. Ernie's going with g I Joe as
his answer. He says, G I Joe is the answer.
Who else do we have? Uh? Sweet Lou for Rigno
from from frank In la Adam VENETI from the Rooster.

(37:53):
That's his guest, Sergeant Slaughter from the Little Troller. A
lot of guess is here? Man? Are these people actually listening?
David Beckham thrown out by Lamont, who also condemned Eddie's
anti American position, which he's taken here on the show
Al del Greco guests by Eric. Let's see here. Can't
read that? All right? Dad? Do you have an answer, Eddie? Yeah,

(38:14):
it's Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow. Yes, no, let's sorry, but
the correct answer. I hold the NFL record most points
scored in a divisional playoff game Ricky Waters back in
the day. In a forty nine er Giant playoff game

(38:34):
in nineteen ninety three, Ricky Waters scored not one, not two,
not three, not four, five touchdowns for the forty nine
Ers in the playoff game. So that is the answer.
Let's say hello to Tammy in Montana. Who's well Montana? Hello,
Tammy aben Um. First off, again, thank you for my

(38:58):
golden tickets. And I can't remember everybody who's ever given
me one, So I wanted to share one with a
very long term P one listener and caller, but he
hasn't called for a while. You reminded me yesterday of
Jason and Windsor. So I want to give one of
my golden tickets to Jason and Windsor and hopes that
he will call in and talk about Jim Caldwell being fired. Yeah. Well,

(39:21):
well I'm all about that. If Jason wants to call,
and we love Jason's work here on the show, and
you have a lifetime supply of golden tickets, have an
endless amount. You wake up in the morning and your
your bank account is filled with golden tickets. Yeah, that's
because you have wonderful UM listeners. So um, and I
just wanted to put my two cents in on the

(39:41):
worst name for professional team. Um. I was thinking the
Clippers because every time I think of toenail clippers and
and you know, yeah, I see and one masting. I'm sorry, bead,
I was, I was. I was thinking Lakers actually because
it's you know, the beach to the lake. We still

(40:05):
we must get to the NHL. But I love you.
There you go, all right, there she goes Tammy, and
let's get to it. Here we go. It's the end.
It's it's in NHL's it's all about listen, real men,
whether I've seen the light, no days off. Once we
get rid of this whole Vegas nickname thing, and they
get a real nickname that's representative of Vegas, will be good.

(40:25):
But who's going first year coop our daily fantasy game
of the NHL puck him today. That would be me.
All right, go ahead, Eddie, very difficult to go ahead,
and with the first pick, I'm gonna go with Nikita Kutrov,
all right. He went with chalk on that very nice, Eddie. Oh,
Alexander Vetkin Ovechkin is off the board, Danny g Stephen
stamp Coast, all right, stamp Coast is gone. I will

(40:47):
take Johnny Gudreau and Tyler Johnson. Danny, I will go
with Sergey Barbrovski, all right, and Eddie, who you got
Sean Monahan all right? And who the back to back?
I will go with Andre Vassilevski, all right, and Nathan McKinnon. Okay, Eddie,

(41:08):
hurry up, Danny, I will take Mike Smith of the Flames,
Baby Go Flames. A deflating night in the NBA for
the once proud Colden State Warriors as they are falling
apart all of a sudden, the La Clippers laying on

(41:30):
the Warriors, the once proud Warriors. We will discuss welcome
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(41:50):
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free rate quote. Emmy hasn't seen a number twenty three
this good since Michael Jordan, Sweet Lou William Him lightening
it up. Fifty points dropping fifty that's half a Chamberlain
seven assists as the La Clippers win a random game
against the Golden State Wars. Now a couple of takeaways

(42:12):
from this game. The Clippers were able to hold that
great Warrior backcourt of Clay Thompson and Steph Curry to
no points. They shut out Steph Curry and Clay Thompson.
They did not score a single point in this particular game.
And Blake Griffin, the great star of the Clippers, the

(42:34):
Blake Effect, Blake, he was shut out as well. He
didn't score a point and the Clippers still won without
the great Blake Griffin, without all these euros. He's soft euros.
The Clippers signed and traded four in the offseason. Those
guys didn't play either. They still won. Tyrone Wallace. I
don't even know who this guy is. He had twenty
two points. Tyrone Wallace had twenty two points. Montrese Harrold,

(42:55):
thank you rockets, a wonderful performance. Who monterres as Herald
of the play at fourteen point seven rebounds and the
Clippers end up getting a one twenty five to one
oh six win. Just absolutely marvelous, just wonderful. And will
will Steve Kurse still be the coach when the sun rises?

(43:17):
This is a fireable offense. This could be it and
all things come to an end. You know, you look
at the history of time and it's whether it's a
recession or not. Listen, success is fleeting. Success is fleeting,
and you're gonna go through some bad times. And if
if the Warriors do end up being sellers at the

(43:38):
trade deadline, and I think that will likely be the
case after this this particular performance, I think there'll be
a lot of people bidding on these Warrior players. I
think there'll be a lot of value around the NBA.
I think that's absolutely going to happen. Now. Now, meanwhile,
the story here, aside from just a glorious night, just

(44:00):
an absolute marvelous performance by the Clippers, Lou Williams was
Steph Curry. Now, this reinforces something that we've talked about
for a while, and it's a very volatile situation. People
get very upset when I bring this up. But I've
done the mathematics, yere, I've done the algebra, I've done
the calculus, and there is no way, no way that

(44:23):
the Golden State Warriors can be thought of as the
unbreakable force when their star player is made out of
you know what. All right, So, if you've not been
paying attention here, now, Steph Curry apparently could not play
on Wednesday night. He could not play in the game
that his team lost to a much better Clipper team

(44:46):
in oak Now, why is there? Curry apparently slipped during
a shoot around and we've seen this before. He sprained
his right ankle again. Oops, it happened again. Now it's
the same injury that sideline him for eleven games. And
I wanted to get into this because the general manager
of the Golden State Warriors, Bob Myers, went on the

(45:09):
radio on the station that carries our show in the
Bay Area, our home in the Bay Area in ninety
five seven the game and attempted some damage control. He
attempted some damage control because there's a lot of chatter
about Steph Curry and how good he is and health wise,
health wise now among the highlights, the question was asked,

(45:32):
how did Steph Curry hurt himself? Well, according to the
GM of the Warriors, it was a pivot or a
step back? Was this Warrior on Warrior crime? Meaning did
another player, a teammate step on Steph Curry? The General
manager of the Warriors said that nobody was around him. Now,
that might be true, that might not be true. Maybe
they're covering for somebody. Will he be in the hospital

(45:53):
Steph Curry? No, No, In fact, they say the Warriors
they're not going to do an MRI or an X ray.
I mean, they've got so many of them. Why not.
How bad is it? Said he can miss, he's gonna
miss some time, but they're not too concerned. But they're fine, okay.
And so they went on and on here and they

(46:15):
said he's day to day, right, day to day. So
clearly the Warriors are downplaying this injury or downplaying Steph
Curry's injury. The question is is this actually something or nothing?
It's it's obviously something here, and only a rube, only
a rube, would think that it's not anything at all.

(46:37):
So the perspective that I will provide here. You've got worrisome,
fragile pattern, continuing and ticking time bomb. You've got all that. Well,
we'll begin with a Bob Myers can do his best
right his best downplay this and less than the importance

(46:59):
of all this, I am not buying what he is
serving up. This is a big deal. It is worrisome
for the Warriors for obvious reasons. The margins are so
thin in the NBA, you know, up for crust of
the NBA and by their standards, golden state. In some
of these games, now, they tried their their best against

(47:20):
the Clippers. They just weren't good enough. The Clippers were
clearly better. But there have been nights where the Warriors
have been in cruise control. And it sounds crazy considering
their record right sitting atop the mountain in the NBA,
But there has been a lack of urgency at times,
going through the motions and yet still winning a lot
of games. But here's the rough right to win in

(47:41):
the postseason, it's going to be a much more of
an uphill battle, shall we say. And even though the
GM Bob Meyers is attempting to attach very little importance
to Steph Curry's injury. If you look around, he followed
one of these other NBA teams, the Spurs, the Rockets,
the Timberwolves in the West, the Cavaliers, the Celtics in
the East. I'm not buying the Raptors, sorry, Toronto. I'm

(48:02):
not buying DAMARDA. Rosen and company, who I think have
the third best record in the NBA. That seems like
a winter mirage. But this gives you hope, it's what
it gives. It gives you optimism as well. And for
Steph Curry, this is enough. You would think to give
increased heartburn to the people now that their public position

(48:25):
is oh no, it's no big deal. Privately though, come on,
we know what's going on. This is pattern continuing. You
got a lot of heat years back when I pointed
out that Steph Curry was a delicate little flower. But
he has a history. He has a history of brittle bones,
half man, half glass. Right, and when you have ankles

(48:46):
that are very similar to soft butter, that becomes problematic.
Well maybe margarine, maybe not butter, maybe margarine. Even if
Steph Curry, let's say this is only a minor deal, right,
only a minor deal. He's only missed a couple of games.
It still matters. I'll tell you why. It has meaning.
It has meaning. This is not just your normal twisted
his ankle and practice. He slipped on a wet spot.

(49:07):
The last thing on this Steph Curry's health for Golden State.
This is the definition of a ticking time bomb. Right.
You don't know when it's gonna go off, but eventually
it's gonna go call boom. You've got one wet spot.
People talk about a heartbeat away from being the president

(49:28):
or whatever the vice president. Well, you're a wet spot
away from no Steph Curry in the playoffs. And so
again I go back to those teams that are chasing
the Warriors. It's something for optimism. Here's the point of optimism,
if you will. In this scenario, the great equalizer in

(49:50):
the NBA is often injuries for these top teams. And
as we pointed out the Golden State Warriors, you go snap,
crackle and pop, and that's it. You're done. That's that's
all you need here. And you're always waiting for the
other shoe to drop. Right with Steph Kurry. It's not
just in Oakland. I mean, it goes other places around

(50:11):
the NBA, but I'm so down on these NBA guys.
It is just a joke at this particular point. And
instead of driving around on team buses, but the NBA
ought to do they had a charter mister Softy trucks
and drive the players to games, and mister Softy trucks,
that's what they ought to do. They won't play anyway. Again,

(50:32):
I repeat the highlight of the night for me, other
than of course Lou Williams just being just marvelous and
being great, was Jeff Van Gundy saying they should abolish
the All Star Game and pick the players but don't
actually play the game so they can get rest, all right.
So carrying that forward here, since these players have this

(50:53):
kind of apathy towards the regular season, why not just
skip the regular season. Just we'll go through the offseason.
We'll have all the players change teams, right, and they'll
have to live in their respective cities, so they'll have
to go out. You know, some of these guys go
to these smaller towns in the NBA. They'll have to
go to these these towns far away and all that,
but they won't actually have to play like they'll they

(51:14):
don't have to because it's too much work. It's too much,
it's too much work. We'll have like a computer program
simulate what would have happened in the NBA season, Okay,
and then we can have people go to the arena
and we'll have, you know, have all the pop and circumstance.
We'll have the cheerleaders, will have the mascots do their thing,
and we'll sell the popcorn, the nachos, the pretzels, the beer,

(51:35):
the hard drinks, the whole thing. We'll have all that,
all the between periods stuff. But we'll have on the
scoreboard they'll play, just like virtual what would have happened
if these guys had actually played, they could be great,
be wonderful. And then maybe maybe and I don't know,
this might be too much for these guys. We might
actually play the postseason. Whatever the computer spits out on

(51:56):
who makes it in the simulation, maybe those teams will
actually have to play. But well, we'll do like a
public opinion poll to find out. Because we want this
to be a partisan issue. We don't want non but
we want we want this to be a nonpartisan. Rather,
we want us to be a nonpartisan issue. All right,
it is the Ben Maller Show on Fox on Fox

(52:17):
Edmund Dallas steamboat, I hate the Army. Willie Garcia flowed
really well there, smooth professional broadcast. So they just started
this year right, the new schedule. Yes, they big, big
fan much fanfare. They told us that they were gonna
give more off days to the teams to prevent this. Yes,

(52:38):
and it has not worked. So that will they change
back to the old way. They'll be playing one game
a week like the NBA, the NFL does it. They'll
have one game a week. That's the new plan. Uh,
and it'll be will be Sunday or Monday or what
will what day? Will they do it? One game a week.
Let's go with Wednesday. Nothing happens good on Wednesday every Wednesday,

(52:59):
So every Wednesday. That's how they're gonna do it. One
game a week. And but they'll only play like a
half court because we don't want the guys. We don't
want the guys to run back. We don't want to
have to run back the other way because that guy
they could get hurt, they could trip, they could slip
on a wet spot. So just it's a half court game.
It's a hybrid of the NBA. Yeah, I saw Klay
Thompson was not playing because of rest, and I'm like

(53:21):
Klay Thompson, there's a guy boy who plays just too
many minutes, you know. I mean, I've had enough. I'm done.
It's uh, they lost it, took it? What took you
so long? Would be my question? Well, I spent a
lot of times I try to find out who should
I pick in this NBA pick him thing, And uh,
it feels like every day one of the guys I
pick ends up missing a game, not because they're hurt

(53:43):
per se, just dipping getting rest. It's happened way too much,
way too much. That's one thing you and I can
definitely agree on. I don't. I don't even watch the
games and it annoys me. Now, if Lou Williams scores
fifty again, I'll be back. Well, he's gonna take the
next day off for sure because he's overworked. Clippers will
lose the Sacrament. I'll guarantee they lose the Sacrament on Friday.

(54:03):
That's a classic letdown spot. They will. They will lose
that game, probably at fifteen points. That's likely what's gonna happen.
That's usually how that works. All right. Anyway, Well, Minnesota,
look good. I watched a little bit of that. But
it's just annoyed with the whole thing. Minnoid with the
whole deal. I'm just fed up. All right? Have I
made that clear? I believe I'm very clear. Yea, all right.

(54:24):
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people send me this bitcoin story. Did you see? They

(54:46):
had a bitcoin conference? Eddy, This is from Fox Business.
They had a bitcoin conference, but they stopped accepting bitcoin payments.
Oh that's a bad sign right the cryptocurrency world there.
So I think the word is irony, is it not?
I believe that would be the word for this. Yes, yes,
the North American Bitcoin Conference. But they, as they said,

(55:09):
due to network congestion and manual processing, they closed ticket
payments using cryptocurrency. So I honestly don't even really know
what bitcoins are. Well, when it falls, when the bitcoin falls,
I will laugh, That's what I will do. That's what
I'm going to do. Well, you haven't been laughing to
this point, laugh, I will laugh last I've been crying too.

(55:31):
Now I will laugh at the very end. I will
stand up and I go, I laugh at you. That's
what I'm gonna do. I have that. I'm I've got
my victory speech all ready to go. I have that prepared.
Me excited about that. So a lot of reaction. Also,
we did the story yesterday about the stripper, the robots
strippers that that played pretty well, did pretty well, people

(55:53):
really enjoy. We need more robots stripper talk. I think
that was enough. No, I think we've got to search
high and far for robots stripper stories. We can bring
those up. It's a it's a win win situation. Fine,
thank you. I'm just telling you they give them a dollar.
Yeah all right, that's what was the line, the w

(56:17):
D forty line from from just Was it just Josh
that had that line? I think it was. It's pretty good.
That's why you need to be on Twitter. What what
was what robots? So what robots strippers will wear for?
Was it for cologne? It was for their perfume? Yeah?
W that's a good line. W D forty it was

(56:38):
I mean, I did. But it's a good line. Good
when you present it properly, it's a very good line.
It's a kind of line you're laughing. You wouldn't laugh
at it now because it's delivery sucked. But we'll repackage
that for the lame jokes and then you guys will
ruin it. But I'll deliver it properly and then you will.
That's how that'll go. We're on Twitter at Ben Maller.

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Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. Well, this is up for
the If we we did like tweet of the night,
which we don't because that's hockey stuff. We don't do that.
But Dustin had a great line. He said, if the
NBA did go to a virtual season, the players would
say their virtual selves are playing too much in demand
they get rest. Uh, that's not that's not wrong. That

(58:29):
is that is not incorrect. That's the way we are.
Just Josh says to avoid wet spots on the court,
the the Golden State Warriors should cover the floor with flower,
bunch of bunch of pussy willows. He says, there, that's uh,
that's from just Josh. How would flopping work, Well, they'd
be they'd be flower that we can everywhere. It would

(58:50):
just be big, big mess, all right. Anyway, Now, now
this is a story there's right up our alley because
we are well people that analyze things, right, that's what
we do here now we are. So my man fifty cent,
Uh he is. He's done an interview in the United
Kingdom with something called The Express. I don't even know

(59:11):
what the hell that is, but it doesn't matter. Uh
And fifty fifty Now this is a follow up to
a story that he's He started this back in September week.
Oh drist we mentioned it briefly, but the former rapper,
I don't think he's active right now, but I been
fifty cent is backing up what he said at the
end of twenty seventeen. Near the end of twenty seventeen,

(59:33):
he has said, and he's apparently promoting movies, so he's
doing all these interviews. But so take that take this
with a grand salt. But he said he could beat
in a fight. He's very confident he could beat Connor
McGregor in a street fight. So I want to break
this down now that I've done the tale of the

(59:55):
Tape period you now, I'm I'm not gonna disagree with
I would. I would pick fifty cent. I would pick
in a street fight, I would pick fifty cent. Again,
I would not I would. Now the tail of the
tape here. Fifty cent is six feet he says. He
weighs two twenty five now is listening? Waits two eighteen
uh and he's forty two years old, so he's he's

(01:00:17):
getting up there. The Notorious One is five foot nine,
he's one hundred and fifty pounds right around one hundred
and fifty pounds right, maybe one hundred and fifty four pounds.
He's twenty nine years old. I'm gonna give the edge though,
to fifty cent, and I'll tell you why. He's taller, bigger,
and Eddie the man got shot nine times and he's

(01:00:39):
still alive. Yeah, but been the thing about fifty is
that he's not athletic. Remember his first pitch. You don't
have to be that athletic. And they're not gonna be dancing.
It's a street fight. I know, it's street fight, street fight,
bloody knuckles. I do know. I lived in Lincoln height
to the ground sum, which is exactly what he would do.

(01:01:01):
He would tap out early. He would tap out early.
Connor McGregor or fifty cent, right, I got shot in
the hand arm hip both flags, So that makes him
a good fight. He's bigger, he's stronger. You guys don't
know how to analyze boxing. You don't know how to
analyze box. It's a street fight, and and exactly, it's

(01:01:23):
not some UFC octagon cret. That's incorrect. You're in corege.
You don't know what you're talking about any well. You
just said if he would stand there and like what
have to box old schools, that would be blood on
the street. And it would be Connor McGregor's blood on
the street. That's what would happen there. My man, fifty

(01:01:43):
cent gonna win that fight. Let's make it happen. Let's
have a street fight. I don't care pick the city,
will have it be great. Well, it wouldn't even be close.
Yeah McGregor, stop boy him, Oh please, nonsense. You guys
are so just so ridiculous. Fifties. You don't know there's
dan street toughness. All right, my man, fifties, he's all
Hollywood now you're talking Ben exactly. Listen, I've lived the life, Eddie,

(01:02:09):
I've lived the life. I know what I speak of
Come on, Pippin, it was the last time you were
in a street fight then, oh, just two weeks ago?
Any talking about when I was away here, I got
several street fights. So while back alleys, just man was brutal.
Sure you know what if if guns and like bats
are allowed, then then sure maybe fifty cents. Oh stop,
he doesn't need any kind of props. He is tough.

(01:02:31):
This man is tough. All right, you guys are wrong again.
I'm going with the side that's gonna win. Rapper fifty
former rapper fifty cent. He's now an actor. You're right
that that that one street fighter. He fared well against
professional fighters. He did really well. Kimbo slice, Yeah, okay,
so that's one example. So okay, one example. He was
like the street fighter all other all yeah, he's dead now,

(01:02:54):
so you want to talk about the dead like that,
Shame on you, all right, was gonna comes gonna haunt Kopla,
the ghost, the ghost, he's gonna come out. He's ghost
of Kimbo. Yeah, he's gonna be in the hallway there.
Woo boo. All right, it's the Ben Maller Show on Fox. Again.
These guys are wrong. Listen to me. I know boxing.

(01:03:15):
I studied the Sweet Signs for years. They always fly
me into Vegas, these promoters to talk about their fights
so I can sell the fight. Every crappy fight, I
get flown in there and get wind and dined like
all these other no I do him. Wouldn't last time?
Last time I got invited to a fight, Mike Tyson

(01:03:36):
was boxing. But that's okay. I mean, that's fine. It
was that's relevant. You know, he's only a seventy thousand
years old. Now, all right, we'll take some phone calls,
the whole thing, and to also Mallard to the third degree.
That is straight ahead as we press on right now,
though Eddie Garcia, who doesn't know boxing, but he does
know other stuff, he will give you the latest. All right,
let's start with some basketball. And in the NBA we

(01:03:57):
had a interesting game with the Clippers knocking off the Warriors.
Had an interesting the Roan an entertaining game Game of
the Year in the NBA one twenty five, one oh
six Clippers went on the road over the Warriors. Lou
Williams with a career I have fifty points for LA.
He's the fourth Clippers player ever to score fifty or
more in a game. In the loss for Golden State,
Kevin Duran had forty points and became the fifth player

(01:04:18):
under the age of thirty to score twenty thousand points
in his career. He joins Lebron, James, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan,
and Wilt Chamberlain. In college basketball, Number one Villanova handled
tenth ranked Xavier Putty easily eighty nine sixty five Wildcats
with win double overtie for Texas to knockoff sixteenth ranked
TCU nine ninety eight, and Louisville goes on the road
and beats twenty third ranked Florida State seventy three two

(01:04:41):
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good weird story. I love weird stories. I live for
the weird story. Did you hear about baseball agent Jason Wood? Oh? Yeah, yeah.

(01:05:05):
He represents you know, various major baseball players, including the
Red Sox star Andrew Ben probably his biggest client. Well,
he was fired by Career Sports Entertainment and suspended by
Major League Baseball's Players Association. Why. He is accused of
having a hidden camera in his shower and videoing some

(01:05:26):
of his clients taking a shower. Yeah, like I'm trying
to get to the bombs now. He denied it. He
released the statement I'm shocked he didn't say yeah. Asked me,
I love, I love doing this, but like, like, I
don't know, showering at somebody else's house, I don't know.
This sounds like a hit job to me. It sounds
like I'm also trying to figure it out, and I'm

(01:05:47):
wondering are I'm wondering if this wasn't a camera that
he had to video him and his friends in the
shower together, and you know, somebody founded and thought they
were filming. It's possible he's a peep and time I
don't he might be, but I this this is a

(01:06:08):
lot of nasty stuff that happens with between agencies and stuff.
I'd't even heard of this guy. He was all over
the internet. He was a star of the sports blogs
though and social media all day. Well, he's done right,
you go back to work. He got he lost his job, right,
he's out of these words. They didn't wait for any
kind of investigation. They said, gone, you are out of here.

(01:06:32):
You ever showered at someone else's house, Eddie? Like you?
You know, I'm I'm sure I have, but not very often. Yeah. Interesting,
you think you were gonna find a bunch of tapes
of different baseball players that he's I don't know. I
wouldn't want to shower at someone else's house. I mean,
if you're like staying over at if you're not relative
or something, but not a business associate. No, that that

(01:06:55):
is a lot. Who does that? Hey, you should check
out my shower. It's I just gotta to remodel. It's
really great that showerhead. It's something else page your life.
Make sure you look up to the right too. Ignore
that flashing red light. Yeah, that's just that's just the
special bonus detector. It's left over from Christmas. You know,

(01:07:15):
it's the holiday, the red light, the whole thing. That's
that's how that works. There's a plausible explanation for this.
What's that coop? Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm assuming
that this person has you know, a decent amount of money.
Maybe they've got like a like a home gym, and
you know they're working out together, and it's like, you know,
you know, I've got a I've got an extra shower
here if you want to wash up afterwards. That sounds

(01:07:39):
very I'm taking my ass home to shower. Coop's like
quoting porn movies. He's like, I saw that line. That's
a good line. I want to use that. All right.
That's the Ben Mallay Show company from the guy Coo
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(01:08:00):
dot com for a free rate. Quote. Evan is in
Tulsa on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Evan, Hey, it was gone.
Oh boy, oh boy. Sorry man, I understand you want
to get on the air. Yeah, all right, hold on
to say we'll get you on the one second here.

(01:08:21):
Let me let me see if we can figure this out.
Danny ge can we um? Can we get this guy
Evan in Tulsa? Can we get him on the air?
He's online? Four? Yeah, I think we might have room now, Evan,
would you like to be on Fridays show or Monday's show? Um,
well here's how it's Wednesday. Well, no, though, this is
our Thursday program. It's Thursday now. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

(01:08:44):
well we we oh you do, thank you. Yeah. What
we do is we tape the show. It's actually not live.
The show's on tape. And because Eddie's got a potty mouse,
so we have to tape the show because he says
dirty words, so we have to tape it in advance. Yeah.
So we're actually taping for Friday and then Monday, and
then we take a long weekend. So then we take
a long weekend. Yeah, yeah, you know, I understand. I

(01:09:08):
hear you are you're going to work right now? No,
I'm just yeah. Yeah. All right, well let's let's go.
Here we go, right, Evan, let's set it up. Then
say happy Friday to Ben when he introduces you. Okay, okay,
all right, right, and here we go three two one,
all right. So no, no, no, I had to introduce
I didn't introduce you. Yeah, you gotta wait for Ben.

(01:09:29):
Yeah I didn't. I mean, that's the way. There's a protocol. Here,
there's a there's a yend of the yang here, there's
I don't want to use the word. I don't want to. Oh,
thank you and I love you too, Evan. Let's Evan fan.
You gotta get warmed up though, Evan, do you have
a bottle next to you? You can take a swig
real quick? Uh yeah, I hang on, all right, what's
the what's the what's the label on that bottle? Say? Oh,

(01:09:54):
that's my man? Absolutely? And now how many Bush Beers?
How many Bush Beers have you had here? You can't
you can't count that. I can't. Yeah, I counts, and
uh you know it is probably my twelve. Yeah, I understand.

(01:10:15):
That's all right, that's a reasonable No, you're not an
alcohol Yeah, all right, that's all right. Let's take it
back from the top. All right here, I want you
to now, Evan, wait till I go to you and
then say, you know, working bush beer. Make sure you
say beer bush beer, and then you know, say happy Friday. Okay,
well yes, daddy, yeah, take two? Here we go three

(01:10:35):
two one? All right, let's go to Tulsa now on
the Ben Maller Show. And let's I don't know, Oh yeah, Evan,
look at that. It's Evan's on the air. Hello Evan, Ben,
how are you doing, buddy? Well? Evan listen. It's great
to speak to you on a Friday. I'm so excited that.
What's on your mind, Evan, Well, I'm thinking about betting

(01:10:56):
on women's curling. Come on, great, man, I got feeling.
It's great. Yeah, well you were even you were you
know what you were supposed to say. Remember you were
supposed Ah no, you can't say that now, you can't

(01:11:18):
say that, Evan. I want to hug you. All right.
You're the You're the Evan, You're the You're the man. Evan.
Listen to me. Do not drive anywhere. You're a hazardous
society right now. But I love you anyway. All right,

(01:11:38):
all right, you're a smart You're a smart man. Recycle
those cans. Please make a couple of bucks off those
those bush beer cans and uh and bottles and all that.
So thank you. I've enjoyed our conversation. You know what,
you won't remember this, Evan, but I'll remember it for
a long time. All right, there, he goes. I think
he was talking about your shit tout. Uh. So that's

(01:12:04):
the first time we've done that in a while. We
have not gone down that highway in some time. Here,
that's first time in twenty eighteen. Yeah, yeah, that's a boy.
That's good Eddie. I gotta tell you that's worth pushing
back Mallett or the third degree. I think you agree?
Everyone agree on that that? Yeah? Can we keep that
on the podcast? Yes? Leave that on the pod. Do
you guys are come up such such pushy wills? We

(01:12:27):
gotta get the podcast downloads up, all right? Like how
you added Willows because you guys would have dumped me
if I said what I wanted to say. Don't say,
you guys, all right, I gotta bleep whatever said. No, No,
you don't. We're all adults here. Listen, do a quick
beep so you could still hear the end of his word.
When I grew up, I used to listen to this guy,
Jim Healey on the radio in La, right, and what

(01:12:48):
he would do he got away with his for years.
He would play dirty words on the radio, but he
put the bleep either just before just after. Nice. That's
the move. That's what you gotta do. Who's gonna complain
because of that word? Really? I don't want that person
chick onta jail? All right? Whoever complaints about that so
stupid you'd be surprised. We will get to Matt. Well, listen,

(01:13:09):
I know Coo. We had our conversation last week about this.
I got I get hate mail on the weekends from
stuff that happens. All right, we'll get too. We're gonna
get to Mallard to the third degree. We time shifted it.
Here's the answer to trivia. Name the punter that's right,
the punter, not kicker. Punter who holds the NFL record
for the most punts in a divisional playoff game. You

(01:13:30):
see the theme here, Divisional playoff weekend. Name the punter
that holds the NFL record for the most punts in
a divisional playoff game. Matt and Mallard to the third degree.
We get to it next. We do things a little
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(01:13:50):
your voice on social media to show your support for
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the answer to ship in him all. We have Mallard
of the third degree. A lot of very positive reaction
to Evan and Tulsa's call here people very happy. Just
Josh says, I believe if Danny G Radio would have

(01:14:10):
given Evan the Fox Sports Radio breathalyzer, he was going
to blow a Tanny would have been off the charts. Yeah,
we didn't do that. I mean, we could go back
to him and do it, but I don't know. You
can't do that every time. Kevin says, Now this is
great radio. He says, drunk caller Bush Beer, Happy Friday,
Evan and women's curling. Yeah, the sock guy likes it. Also.

(01:14:34):
That's what we need, Eddy, We need custom socks. This
guy makes custom socks. It's uh. I was just telling
somebody boy, I need some custom socks, not like a
show theme sock. Wouldn't that be cool? Yeah? You're you're
you know, your face on him? Yeah, you can like that.
You can walk you can walk on my face solid.
You would think that's like the greatest thing ever. All

(01:14:56):
we'd all like that. Don't just see a single? Yeah yeah,
all right. You gotta pay off the instant trivia here,
it is a name the punter that holds the NFL
record for the most punts in a divisional playoff game.
That's the question. What's the answer. The rooster says it's
gotta be. Jeff Fiegels been just Josh is going with
Charlie Brown, Funhouse says Spudge says Spudge McKenzie is the answer.

(01:15:18):
Graham is checking in with Derek Jeter. Gift basket included
Bob Timberlake from Stephen, Tom Toopa from Cardiac Stanley, Billy
White Shoes Johnson from Mike from the LBC. Rod got
it right? How the hell did Rod the Ambassador get
it right? You must have cheated? How dare you so?
Did Manic? Mike, Louise and dahs guess by Rob in Minnesota?

(01:15:43):
All right, we do you have an answer? You're gonna
go with Zoltan Mesco? All right, fine, name no the
correct answer. It happened in nineteen eighty six in a
Jets Brown's playoff game, the divisional round. Dave Jennings of
the Jets, he punted Eddie, you want to know where
the number is? Take away? The number is twelve times

(01:16:06):
fourteen times. He The game did go to two overtimes,
but fourteen punts. He ended up playing for the Jets
and Giants. He did radio passed away unfortunately prematurely a
couple of years. I remember him. He had Parkinson's disease,
but he was a radio guy for the Giants for
for a long time. All right, let's get to it.
Here we go, let's do it. It's Meller. How about
that to the third degree? This is one big Ben

(01:16:31):
gets grilled. All right, here we go third degree time,
and we bring in the master of ceremonies, Coop the Loop.
There's a story from wild Card weekend that just doesn't
seem to want to go away. The Panthers have been
getting a lot of heat for seemingly skipping concussion protocol
when Cam Newton was injured late in the game against
the Saints. First, the team insisted that he only had
an eye injury, but then when critics pointed to Cam

(01:16:52):
showing other symptoms, they came back to say that Newton
embellished the injury to buy more time. Do you believe them? Ben? Yeah,
I actually do believe it. I'll tell you what. Number one,
this is gamesmanship. It's the gamesmanship of an exaggeration with
injuries is a hallmark of sports. At least it was
a hallmark of sports. And this whole obsession with the

(01:17:16):
NFL media. As far as concussions, I get it. I
understand that there's an issue here, but not every single
play is a concussion. There's a lot of idiotic things
going on here. If Cam Newton was like a drunk deer, right,
it was like a drunk deer, the Panthers would have
sent him back. They wouldn't have sent him back out.

(01:17:36):
I don't believe they would have sent him backut because
he wouldn't been able to play. This is the NBA
player flopping or the European soccer player taking a pratfall.
That's what Cam Newton was doing. And number two, the
Panthers they could not, I believe, have violated the NFL
protocol which is going around because I'll tell you why
that there were NFL employees League employees on the sidelines

(01:18:00):
who were there to enforce the protocol. Now that the
claim is that Cam Newton should have run into the
tunnel to conduct the test, that's the Russell Wilson rule,
because Russell didn't you know, didn't do it. But it's
mainly his thespian skills here. We're too good. The players
know the situation. If Cam Newton, you know, if he

(01:18:21):
was messed up in the head. I don't think he
would have gone back in the game. I don't think
that would happen all right. Next, Now, one of the
other storylines involving LaVar Ball is how his son Lonzo
has responded to his dad's criticism of Luke Walton. Now,
a lot of analysts are criticizing Lonzo for not coming
to his coach's defense in the same way that teammate
Kyle Kuzma has a Lonzo simply said, I'll play for anybody.

(01:18:44):
Benj Lonzo have handled this differently. No, absolutely, no. Lonzo
Ball was keeping it real, man, That's what he's doing.
He is not a huge Luke Walton fan. It's pretty obvious.
So rather than sugarcoat things, a Lonzo Ball gave essentially
a non denial denial. You know, he was he could

(01:19:05):
have gone a different direction. But these are his feelings, right,
These are his feelings. Right, facts over feelings and all that,
but these are his feelings. Lonzo Ball is twenty years old.
He's apparently an introvert, at least judging by the interviews.
I hope he's an introvert, because if he's an extrovert,
he's a really bad extrovert. And so don't confuse this
with a sweet talking politician. And b it doesn't matter

(01:19:29):
if Lonzo Ball loves his coach. This is one of
the things that drives me nuts. I've worked for a
lot of different program directors in radio, and a lot
of them I thought were complete buffoons. Some of them
I liked a lot. Some of them I've been friends
with for twenty years. But a lot of them I
though I didn't know what the heller were doing. But
you know what, you still got a job to do.
And in the NBA, you're basketball player. You don't have
to always get along with your coach. It's ridiculous, all right.

(01:19:50):
Stop Next. The Eagles are the first number one seed
to be underdogs in Divisional round history, and the players
are predictably using that as motivation. Offensive lineman Lane Johnson's
said that the team is ticked off that they are
being treated like the Browns. Ben, do you believe in
this type of disrespect motivation? No, I'm not. I'm not
the billboard guy. I mean, the first thing on this,

(01:20:11):
you're telling me that to take this to the extreme,
the Eagles were planning on not playing their best against
the Falcons, but because of the oddsmakers, now they're gonna
play well. Philly was going to coast in an NFL
playoff game, but they needed the point spread to inspire them.
It took bookmakers who gave give an honest representation of
what should happen to mess with it. Come on, it's ridiculous.

(01:20:33):
The sports book set the opening line. The gambling public
is the one that then moves the line. So far,
the line hasn't moved, which means they got it right.
They're trying to get money on both sides. That's all
they're trying to do here. And I agree with the
point spread looking at the numbers. I've looked at them
a little bit. The Falcons are the better team here.
It's gonna take a really bad day for Matt Ryan

(01:20:56):
and a bunch of running and defense for the Eagles
to win that game. But no, I don't believe that.
All right, it's motivation, please, all right? There? It is
Mallard to the third degree. How did we do Benny
pass this edition? That's so, I have more wins this
year than anyone at this game. I'm really good. He
is gonna be the most talked about player prior to

(01:21:19):
the NFL Draft, and he could go off and in
a way go rogue if you will prior to that
NFL draft. We will discuss welcome in the beginning of
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Just visit Geico dot com for a free rate. Quote
the former Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield. Yeah, this guy, this
guy's gonna be good for business. I am looking forward
to this. This is gonna be good. The Heisman Trophy winner,
Baker Mayfield. He's currently being wooed by a number of

(01:22:06):
agents right the playoffs going on. We'll get to that
in a moment, but the wooing process is taking place
and he's being promised boats, cars, private jets, all all
of that crap that you get when you're a high
draft pick. Although there's some debate about just how high
Baker Mayfield will be drafted, he is in many respects

(01:22:29):
the fourth best quarterback, if not lower down the list
in the twenty eighteen NFL Draft, but that'll all be
sorted out as we go for it's not really draft
season yet. However, the reason I brought this up I
believe it's interesting as because we are told that Baker
Mayfield is seriously considering not hiring an agent. Now, why

(01:22:51):
does that matter, I'll tell you, because this is breaking protocol. Now,
we've seen this some time to time. It's it's not
like completely out out on a different planet somewhere in
the cosmos. We're not at that point here. But it's rare.
It's very rare, and it happens once in a blue moon,

(01:23:11):
as the old line goes. But it's about not hiring
an agent. So let's discuss this now for this particular exercise.
Right you, even my friend Evan and his twelve bush beers,
which is probably up to like seventeen bush beers. Right now,
you are the father figure in Baker Mayfield's life. Okay,

(01:23:32):
you're in charge. You're you're giving him fatherly advice, or
if you're a woman, motherly advice, or or if you're
assist gender. I don't know what the hell you do.
But anyway, here's the deal. All right, here's the question,
what is your advice to Baker Mayfield when it comes
to hiring an agent. Now, I'm gonna go first, and
you can chime in on this if you want, but
I'm gonna go first. My advice hold off. That is

(01:23:56):
my advice. Hold off. Now my view point on this,
You've got paint by numbers, completely justifiable, Johnny football, light
and kick the can down the road. You get all
those things and I will bind them together for you, right,
bind all this together. Now, first thing, Baker Mayfield has

(01:24:19):
very valid reasons to avoid hiring an agent, and I
endorse this in the reason why, based on the rookie
wage scale. An agent is the word for this is unnecessary. Right,
You're going to get a better contract when you're in
your second contract, meaning your first contract is slotted. You're

(01:24:41):
not gonna get any more money because you hire a
big name agent. I've heard some talk by agents saying, well,
it's it's the offset language in the contract. Okay, I say,
this is paint by numbers. It's basic. Right, You're you're
not talking about quantum physics here. You're talking about a
standardized NFL contract, your first contract in the NFL. This

(01:25:02):
is what they wanted. This is what the NFL wanted
to agree with the Players Association because Sam Bradford and
all those quarterbacks prior got too much money. So they said,
you know what, depending on where you're drafted, here's what
you're gonna get. Shut up and take it. So therefore
what the f union an agent for. So in that respect,
for Baker Mayfield, who could be drafted I hope by Buffalo,

(01:25:22):
but could go anywhere, this is completely justifiable. So the
move here. I'll give him some more advice. Here's the wisdom,
the life wisdom I've learned. You simply hire a lawyer.
Because you're gonna have to hire a lawyer, but you're
pay him for a few hours. You save hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The layal, look over everything, make sure

(01:25:43):
you're not getting railroaded, and then you're good. Now. Secondly,
Baker Mayfield is unique, and I like unique. Our show's unique, right,
Our show's unique. Occasionally unique. Baker Mayfield, he already has
this cult following, came from a high profile football program
at Oklahoma. When the Heisman trophy got tackled by a cop.

(01:26:04):
You know, the whole thing. If Baker Mayfield can get
her done on the field, then all of this other
stuff doesn't matter. He has nothing to worry about it.
It keeps coming back to that question. In this age
of button up, buttoned up players, they all sound the
same robotic nonsense and all that. He has a shot
to stand out, and yeah he's got some baggage. He

(01:26:26):
does have backed But like Johnny Football, LD like I
was all in on Johnny Manzil, he made me look
like a fool. But he'll be the star for Hamilton
in the Canadian Football. He will light eat up Johnny
Foot my new favorite CFL team. Sorry, Toronto Argonauts, I've
moved on. I'm all in on Johnny Football. But this
is about Baker Mayfield and all of this, you know,

(01:26:48):
this breaking down of performance and all that and how
it relates to the NFL. It doesn't matter about his
off the field crap. If Mayfield stinks, it's the same
thing we bring up all the time. I feel I
feel like I keep repeating myself. You don't apologize, but
there's no other way to say it. If Baker Mayfield sucks,
then you're gonna get your standard hatchet job where they're

(01:27:09):
gonna call him a problem child, a hindrance to winning,
and you know they gotta get rid of him. Addition,
by subtraction and all that, it'll be a media feeding frenzy.
Blood in the water. The piranha are attacking now. On
the other hand, if he's good, he's like, oh, you know,
he's just a good guy. He actually have fun with
his teammates. He's a throwback to Brett Farve. That's what

(01:27:29):
they'll say. Now. The final word on this Baker Mayfield
is not he's not really being a real rebel by
holding off on potentially hiring an agent. He hasn't made
a final decision yet if that's indeed what he decides
to do. As I again to repeat, draft picks get
contracts generally based on it's all slotted. Salary ranges are

(01:27:51):
slotted from where they're picking. So I know the story
is gonna be a lot of medium mouthpieces are gonna say, well, no,
you gotta hire an agent. You gotta hire an agent.
In the media business, I've been I've been lucky enough
to have media jobs for a very long time, and
I've had two agents in my career. They both did
nothing for me, all right. They were nice people kind
of they promised the world. They did nothing. And I

(01:28:13):
am proud to say that every job I've gotten, and
some of them are not that great, but none of them,
even like the TV jobs I got, none of them
came from an agent. Like I would be all in
if the agent in the media business, if the an
agent could actually have enhanced your career. At least it
didn't happen for me. I hear stories from other people,

(01:28:34):
but it didn't happen for me. But as far as
you know the bullying, I hope that Mayfield can can
stand up to this and not fall into the travels. Oh,
I have to hire an agent, right Here's when you
hire an agent. Your second contract, that's when you hire representation.
That's when you go out and make a movie. You're
gonna be a franchise player. You're gonna change teams, or

(01:28:54):
you're a franchise player, doesn't matter so much. But the
story that keeps getting repeated when it comes to this
kind of stuff is Russell o'coon, who the offensive lineman
who attempted to go without an agent, and if you
believe believe the word on the street, he was taken
to the cleaners by the Denver Broncos. And so that's
brought off. And if you're old, you remember Ricky Williams

(01:29:16):
who famously had master p back in the day as
some representation that didn't go so well for Ricky Williams
the whole thing. Meanwhile, Baker Mayfield that arrest back in February,
do you see this now? The NFL made a big
announcement that the players that get arrested cannot go to

(01:29:36):
the combine. It was last year. Was it Joe Mixon,
I believe, was that the player that punched his girlfriend
or his acquaintance, very brief acquaintance and the right hook
heard around the world and all that, and so he
was not allowed to go to the combine. Well, Baker
Mayfield got arrested last February, but the NFL is allowing

(01:29:57):
him to participate in the NFL scouting combine and so
the policy a penally in the NFL policies. Now, I
think he should be allowed to participate. Uh. And I
have a feeling here that the those the few people
that are left at the state run NFL network that
haven't been fired for sexual activity whatever whatever happened there

(01:30:18):
behind behind the makeup room at the state run NFL network.
But but Baker Mayfield, they need him there. That's a
big event on the calendar for the state run NFL network.
Like they there's a lot of football nerds that that's
like porn for them watching the NFL draft workouts. They
can't get enough of that. So you gotta have the
stars there, you gotta have the you gotta have the

(01:30:40):
personalities there. And and so yeah, Baker Mayfield got arrested
in Fayetteville, Arkansas for public intoxication. Now the NFL is
spinning this. Uh, they're claiming that the reason he's allowed
is because it was a non violent deal. That the
that's they're they're claiming that's the policy. So, well, what's
your definition of violence? All right? It is the Ben

(01:31:02):
Mallers Show. I'm thinking that the police officers that had
chase after Baker Mayfield and tackle him thought that was
a violent situation. But maybe not. Edmund Dallas, steam Boat,
Willie Garcia right over there hanging out. Now, I people

(01:31:25):
may not know I do some other things during monogue.
You do other things anywhere focus. So why exactly does
he not want to hire an agent? He just feels
he can do a better you can do it by himself,
or he wants to save some money, or what was
the reason he's weighing whether or we don't need an agent.
That's the main point here, is that you don't the
rookie contracts, they have the wage scale, so it's all slotted.

(01:31:47):
So therefore you don't have to go out and hire
an agent because your agent's not gonna get you any
more money. You see, would you wasn't it all kind
of slotted though beforehand? I mean no, it's only even
in recent years because before you know what I'm saying,
Even even beforehand, if you were drafted with the second pick,
in the third pick, there was still you kind of

(01:32:09):
knew what you were going to get, right. Uh No, No,
I don't think that, you know, you know, it was
more of a fluid situation back then. Now it's pretty
much this is what you're gonna get, take it, take
it or leave it. So the agent really made that
big of a difference back in the day, you think, uh,
compared to now, Yeah, I mean it's now it's you know,

(01:32:29):
it's now, it's about you get to work out. It's
some facility in Florida or in Arizona before the draft.
They have some meat market. They get together and they
work you out and all that. That's that's the big selling.
So will this be a trend do you think going forward?
I don't even know if he's gonna do it. He
hasn't decided yet whether I think he shouldn't do it
um plus Like. The other argument is marketing. Baker Mayfield's

(01:32:52):
done pretty well. I don't think an agent's gonna enhance
his marketability much. They find you endorsements and whatnot. You
think he really needs that at this particular point. I
think he's like he can hire a marketing guy and
didn't have to hire an agent. Hire a marketing guy
if you need to do that. Well, I mean, he's
not marketing his own product. He's marketing himself. He's his product, right,

(01:33:14):
That's what these guys all talk about, how their own
their own brand. All these guys have these dopey logos
were so stupid. Don't do we all agree? Athletes logos
are stupid. I hate the Exacthlete logos, that's stupid. All
of them suck except the pace Mode one. Now, if
I get a logo that won't suck, my logo, will
be good, my love. If I ever come up with
a logo, that'll be a marvelous logo. Be the greatest

(01:33:35):
logo you've ever seen in your life. But uh, I
remember like JJ watch showing his logo's didn't he wear?
What game? Was he on the sidelines? He was wearing
his logo. He's a big sweatshirt. They all wear their logos.
Tom Brady had wears his logo all the time. Who
was It's stupid, so dumb. I'd be wearing a lot
of his logo on that Facebook show that's coming up,
He'll be Now, would your logo be as cool as

(01:33:56):
your jingle? So you're gonna play the wrong with ging
if you play it all right? Both right here? Which
one would you like to hear? The modern version is good, solid, great,
hurt my ears. I know the word is powerful Leddie power.
It's kind of like powerful enjoyable audio candy. Yeah, nobody

(01:34:21):
wants to hear matches the show better. No, no, no,
no stop. Media guys are so funny, you know, just
because guys, first year you are on the radio. No no,
black and white movies were new. Tom Looney spent three
thousand dollars to get a jingle made, professional jingle. There's
a there's a jingle house in uh in Dallas. They

(01:34:43):
make a lot of the radio jingles. There's a big
company in Dallas, and so looney, anybody can get one
of these. You can get your own jingle. They're professional
jingle singers. In fact, we mean this up from time
to time. Cy Young multiple Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw's
father worked at the company that's he was a jingle singer.
That was one of the things he did back in

(01:35:04):
the day. So but but anyway, so that's a professional jingle.
The jingles that I have are they're more meaningful because
they come from the heart. They're from p ones, they're
from fans of the show. They're from senior Mallard Militia
members that through their hard work, they rolled up their
sleeves there, they got their hands dirty, and so they
have more meaning. And typically, you guys are so so ungrateful,

(01:35:27):
you're so unappreciative that you mock these things. And yet
you don't want to play that one. Why is that, Well,
the other one's better, that the other one's better everything
you see, No, no, I didn't do anything I didn't
do anything the good that was good at the time, right,
It's kind of it's like you go back and hear
some old music. It was good. I enjoyed it at

(01:35:49):
the time, but I don't know that I wanted. It's
like the Macarena. You know, the Macarena was great for
like a couple of months. But after that, do you
really need to hear the Macarena? Your silence says all
I need to know. You see that? You see that?
See if I think Evan might still be there? That
was Evan was the star. He was the breakout star.

(01:36:11):
Last hour. I'm thinking about betting on women's curling. Yeah,
you know you've had a good night. When you're thinking
about betting on women's curling, you know things have gone
well in your life. Evan and Tulsa. Evan, are you there? Evan?
You see here? Let's see. Oh I think he passed out.
Damn well it is It's after three in the morning

(01:36:34):
in Tulsa, right, so you see it's about time to
pass out. All right? Thank you? Evan, tremendous. I'll hang
up on you got a clearer line out eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine
six sixty three six nine. If you would like to
be part of the festivities here, you can do that
and later on, later on this hour, we are going

(01:36:56):
to have asked Ben your questions and our answers. End
those questions and use the hashtag ask Ben on Twitter.
We'll also have Facebook, our Facebook page Ben Mallard Show.
All right, we'll play a little game here. It's not
a listener game, but it's collusion or good business. Collusion

(01:37:18):
or good business. We'll get to that and we will
do it next. All right. JB. Wrightson, it's the Ben
Maller Show off. JB writes, and he says, by far
the best part of the show, what's your take on
women's curling? Continues to resonate here. People love women's curling.
Talk our friend Evan and Tulsa. Zach says, is there

(01:37:38):
a hotline that we could call to listen to the
show so we don't get the edited version? Knows Zach.
There used to be we used to have these things
called listen lines at radio stations before the Interweb, and
you'd call up and you get to listen to thee
to the radio show. But even that was edited. That
was not the actual on air version, the listen line.

(01:37:59):
But I always say, Zach, just stay on hold. We'd
beat you know, sometimes people on hold for a while here.
But you get to hear the unaddited version. You get
to hear all the dirty words, all the bad stuff,
you get to hear all that. Absolutely Yes, all right,
to the phones we go, and let's say hello to
Billy in Arkansas on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Billy. That's

(01:38:22):
a good start. Let's go to Marty in Washington, who's
on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Marty. All right, how's it going, Marty?
If I was any better, I would be a Mariner,
but not a Seattle manner because they don't make the playoffs. Yeah, yeah,
all right, I'm just enjoying the rain. Hey. I just
wanted to say I'm enjoying the show for the last hour. Hey.

(01:38:45):
As far as the Golden Nights go, I'm kind of
from Las Vegas. I'm a military veteran doing this stuff
for thirty seven years. And the Army's football team is
Black Nights. Las Vegas hockey team Golden Knights now, but
they ripped off the are listen. You can you can
defend a hockey team name, but I'm not. Okay, good,

(01:39:08):
go ahead. Then the US Army Golden Knights is the
parachute team for the US Army, nothing to do with
the academy, and I've jumped with them. I'm a military
free fall instructor, which we have a little rivalry because
they skydive, we put on combat equipment, jumpin enemy lines
and all that stuff. Yeah, but I agree with you.

(01:39:29):
And when they named that team, and my families from Vegas,
I'm military all my life, so I'm all over the world.
But anyway, I agree with you that why do they
name them the Golden Knights when the Golden Knights are
the parachute team. Now, now, for those that just turned
on the radio saying what the F is this about,
the United States Army has filed legal paper contesting the

(01:39:51):
nickname of the Vegas hockey team, the Golden Knights, and
they have a lot of compelling evidence sports logos dot net.
I think it's the way say they got the story
up there, and there's a lot of really good evidence,
Like it's gonna be very tough for the Army to
defend or for the for the Golden Knights, rather to
say that they didn't just take this from the Army. Yeah,
I was pretty surprised when I heard, you know, and

(01:40:13):
I love I love Las Vegas, mom and dad or there. Yeah,
all right, forget about that. How the US Army parachute,
you know, like the Thunderbirds of the Air Force Angel. Yeah,
when I was a kid, I used to go to
the air show and I'd love the bar Angels. Yeah,
but here's anything. So now, how many how many times
have you jumped out of a plane in your life?
Thousand couple of thousand, thousand times? And now I'm at

(01:40:34):
a club and oxygen twenty five thousand feet Yeah, with
trained special forces. That's crazy. Any close calls, any close calls,
everything good, no problems at all. Lots of broken things
and a lot of my buddies aren't here anymore. All right,
but that's sorry. That sucks. No, But like for you,
like when you're did you ever have a moment where
you thought, well, this might not go well? Yeah? Yeah

(01:40:57):
a few times, really pretty close. A couple of times,
but got a lot. He jumped out with my best friend.
Yeah he died that day and I didn't. And that's sucked.
But you know, we surve our country and I have
a little bit of an issue with the Vegas team. Yeah, going,
even though we have a little rivalry, I always call
them the Golden Nuggets. They're skydivers. They're not military freefall,

(01:41:19):
they're not combat they're skydivers. I too, you know, I
love good, I love good military robbers and everyone in
the military all agree. They just ripped the coastguard. That's
what they all. Everyone just takes shots at the coastguard off. Yeah,
we used to a lot more than we do now
the last fifteen years. They're some pretty squared away folks. Yeah,
I got you all right. Well, thank you, Marty. I

(01:41:40):
appreciate it. There you go. That's thousands of times that
man's jumped out of a plane. So he says, look
at that, never jumped out of a plane, never thought
about jumping out of a plane. Let's go to David
in Wichita. Who's next. We're gonna have coming up here
in a little bit a little bit, ask Ben your questions,

(01:42:01):
our answers. We will also get to collusion or good business.
Hello David, Hey, good evening, Hey, good evening, look at
that it's evening. Well good morning. I'm actually you know,
a nocturnal in soomniac. So even though it's three thirty
in the morning here, and I know my good buddy
down in Tulsa couldn't hang. But I just wanted to

(01:42:21):
show you somebody from Kansas in this time zone could
hang with you. There, bit, Look at there. You're not
passed out in the gutter somewhere with twelve bush beer
cans there laying across your body. No, actually, I'm up
prepping for work. I work for our local Fox affiliate,
Fox Sports Affiliates. Oh you do, Look at you. I'm
a board operator and producer for our morning show. How's

(01:42:43):
the show going? How's the show doing? Hey, I'll tell
you what. As long as I'm behind the helm, we
do a Facebook live of our show. Now. Oh you know,
I'm not at the helm. When I'm not at the helm,
viewers are less than a hundred. When I'm at the helm,
we're in the triple Look at you, three hundred plus.
Look at you. I want to say something about agents.

(01:43:04):
This is just my opinion. I wanted to get it
with yours. In this day of social media, In the
day and age of social media, who needs an agent?
You can market yourself, You can write your own ticket.
That agent told me there to take thirty percent and
then dump you when ships think, yeah, I mean it's
not thirty percent, it's not like a three or five
percent or whatever. But but it's well, it's it's it's

(01:43:26):
more than they deserve. Yeah, but they I mean, you know,
you know the you know the drillie. I mean, Baker
Mayfield is a different cat because he's a Heisman Trophy winner.
He played at a high, high profile school at Oklahoma.
This is not if you projected as a mid round
draft pick and you're you don't have a lot of value,
name value. I get it. I can understand that. But
I can see needing an agent then. But like you

(01:43:47):
just do you just answered the question, Yeah, you want
a Heisman trophy? Uh? A Heisman trophy at a major university.
You were in the college football playoff? Yeah, you you
know went to Ohio State. D Ohio State beat them
at their field and planted the OU flag at the middle.
Everybody knows who you are, right, what's the big time?

(01:44:07):
Like you're playing from playing for West Texas A and
m commerce and you're trying to you know, get an invite.
Now I hear you, all right, I forget about that.
Stop all right, Hold, I don't care about that. I
want to talk to you for a sake. What's the
big topic going to be on a morning radio in
which itaught our affiliate. What what's the what's gonna drive
morning drive today? What do we got? Probably talking about

(01:44:28):
the upcoming Shocker game tonight, which taught State Shockers play
tonight and uh elude a little bit on that. And
we're going to actually talk about Baker Mayfield. All right,
we're taking we're actually having it, not really a contest,
but we're gonna taking calls and opinions on where he
might go in the draft and to who did you

(01:44:51):
like to go to? Yes? All right? Did you have
a draft party coming up this this April? In general?
The general man, what kind of food do you get
if I if I come to Wichita for the draft party?
What kind of food do you having the party? We're
having it, We're probably having it a place called Jersey's
Bar and grew. Yeah, they got everything, bar, food, everything,

(01:45:13):
everything you wanted. So I'm gonna warn you right now, David. Now,
when I started out and I was working at a
local radio station, we had a big Super Bowl party
and it was all it was all you can eat,
and it was wonderful. The problem was we didn't realize
how obese our listeners were, and we ran out of
food in the in the third quarter, and the people,
the listeners were so upset and they were so angry

(01:45:35):
with us that they were complaining and they're gonna sue us,
and it was a big nightmare. So anywa, all right,
good luck David with the show. Thank you for that.
Now we know it's gonna be on Morning Drive in
Wichita this morning. It's gonna Drive Conversation and Wichita. We'll
get to ask band also will play the Little Exercise,
which is a mildly entertaining collusion or good business. We'll

(01:45:56):
get to all that right now though, Eddie Garcia on
Fox giving you the Lady Steady. All right, Ben, We'll
start in the NBA, where the Clippers went on the
road and beat the Warriors one twenty five to one
oh six behind Lou Williams's career high fifty points. He
is the fourth Clippers player to score fifty or more
points in a game on the losing side. Kevin Durant
had forty points for Golden State and became the fifth
player under the age of thirty to score twenty thousand

(01:46:18):
points in his career. He joins Lebron, James, Kobe Bryant,
Michael Jordan, and Will Chamberlain. In college basketball, we had
number one Villanova getting by tenth ranked Xavier eighty nine
sixty five, the final double overtime for Texas to edge
sixteenth ranked TCU ninety eight, and Louisville goes on the
road and knocks off twenty third rank Florida State seventy
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In baseball, I guess the hot stoves kind of cooled
off a little bit, but we did get some news
at free agent outbuilder Jay Bruce reportally signs a three year,
thirty nine million dollars deal to go back to the Mets,

(01:47:00):
where he was last season before being traded to the
Indians for their playoff push. There was also multiple reports
that the Astros and Pirates had reached the deal to
send pitcher Garrett Cole to Houston, but Ken Rosenthal later
reporting that that deal apparently not as close to being
finalized as first believe. All right, very good, Eddie, We're
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(01:47:20):
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used to say on the radio and television, that in
professional baseball, spring training is going to start. Pitchers and
catchers report in about five weeks. About five weeks, we'll

(01:47:42):
have random baseball players reporting to work and that'll be
news in Florida and Arizona. But if you look at
Baseball Prospectus, the top fifteen free agents, out of the
top fifteen, ten of them still have not signed contracts.
It was eleven but Jay Bruce, as Eddie mentioned, signing

(01:48:03):
to go back to the Mets, which is amazing to
me because when Jay Bruce was playing in Cincinnati and
he got traded from Cincinnati to the Mets, the story
out of Cincinnati was the one place he did not
want to live was New York because he didn't like
the big city and he didn't want to play it
for a New York team. But yet he's going back
to the Mets for thirty nine million. But anyway, the

(01:48:24):
top the top free agency baseball of the fifteen, the
top fifteen, ten of them are still unsigned, you Darvish.
Although he claimed he's down to six teams, what's he
gonna play a bingo and whatever pops out of the
bingo little pot there, he'll he'll give that to that
team his employment. I'm worried he's gonna go back to

(01:48:46):
the Dodgers. Let him sign with the Twins. Let him
be the Twins problem. Let him go to the Rangers.
To go back to the Rangers, do that, go to
the Yankees, go to Cobbs, go wherever. Don't go to
the Dodgers. Please, I sat enough for you in Game seven.
Hope you never pitch again. And who else? Eric Costomer
still hasn't signed. J D. Martinez, He's on that list,

(01:49:07):
Lorenzo Kane, Alex Cobb, Jake Arietta, all these guys that
still haven't signed. So and I remember in years past
when this happens and we get close to spring training,
the C word comes up, not that seaword, the sea
word collusion comes up. So how soon before someone says
these teams are colluding not to pay top money to

(01:49:27):
the free agents. Because even if you look at Jay Bruce,
he hit a bunch of home runs. He's thirty one
years old, he's turned thirty one in April, but he
had thirty six home runs, had one hundred RBIs and
he gets three years thirty nine million, which is a
good amount of money. But it's not cartoon money. It's
not silly, silly clown money. The kind of money that

(01:49:51):
our friend Paul and Fort Lauderdale has wherever he goes.
What's going on, Paul? Oh boy? Oh you know there's
there's been a pandemic here of of this happening. Dare
you maybe, Paul, I'm gonna say he passed out. He's fine,

(01:50:12):
he'll be it'll be all good. Are you there? No,
he's gone now, he's gone. Yeah. A lot of people
saying Marty who called up? Sounds very similar to Mark
the full name guy, Jason, our friend, the big TV guy,
morning news anchor, respected news anchor w CCO in Minneapolis.
There he says, cool calls end you got an endorsement, Marty.

(01:50:35):
People are endorsing your work. You know what, I'm endorsing questions.
That's what I'm endorsing. Here we go, let's do. Let's
ask Ben. Your questions are answers, the whole deal. It's
now time for time for ask Twitter's your questions on Twitter? Now,
all right, ask Ben? Your questions are answers. Do a
little bit now, a little bit on the other side,

(01:50:56):
as they say, And these are listener generated questions from
list there's just like yourself. If they're boring questions, your
typical I don't know, Hey, let's talk about women's curling
stuff like that. Well, actually that's not a boring question.
But if you know you're gonna break down the Padres
minor league system, probably not gonna go Anywhere's a non starter.
But Cooper Loop, the compiler of the questions, blindfold yourself

(01:51:21):
there and what do we have? All right, Ben, We've
got a question for you. This is from Dan on Facebook.
Hello Dan. Over the break, there was some discussion around donuts,
but no mention of Krispy Kreme glazed. Yeah, Ben, what
is what is your donut of choice and back in
the day, could you have knocked down a dozen oh
Krispy Kreme? Yeah, because it's like eating air. I could

(01:51:44):
eat two dozen Krispy Kreme donuts. I could. They're so
rich though, they're rich, but there's not a lot of
substance to them. Kind of true, kind of like some
women I used today. But anyway, anyway, but no, no, no, no,
I could eat a lot of Krispy Kriom donuts because
I feel my favorite donut I like the cinnamon roll,

(01:52:06):
which I'm told is not a donut, but the tiger Tail,
which is like a cinnamon roll, but it's like it's
like a long John type. The tiger Tail is the
greatest donut out there. Nothing matches the tiger Tail. Eddie?
Was that just for me? Yeah? That was sorry, Eddie,
You're out. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not a huge fan
of Chrispy. I won't say no, but I'm not a
huge fan. You know. I'll take a hit, all right, Ben,

(01:52:28):
here's another one. This is This is on Twitter. This
is from de real Ben Maller. Oh, I'm fake, he's real, Ben.
Why do you take angry bills calls? I don't know.
He upsets me. Of all the people that call show,
he's the one that upsets me more than anyone. He

(01:52:49):
seems to always be there. I can't get away from him,
and he sucks. I fought like when he first started,
I was like a big fan because he had I'm
an you know, nine year old grow about a nine
year oldgo and he was a lunatic. Yeah, I mean
I love that. I thought that was great. You know, Yeah,
you know what angry Bill is. Angry Bill is the

(01:53:09):
house guest that stayed too long. That's what angry Bill is.
You know, It's like it's was it fishing house guests
after three days? They you gotta get rid of me.
You know. That's angry Bill. So I don't know. I can't.
I have no logical reason why I take his calls.
I'm a glutton for punishments. Keep it going here, Cooper,
what do we have asked? Ben? Your questions are answers,

(01:53:30):
but the rest of the hour a lot of self
examination here. This is for everybody on the crew group question.
I personally think this is an easy question book. It's
from Ario Molina on Twitter. Would you guys rather be
rich and hideous or poor? But irresistible to women. Uh yeah,
i'd go rich. Uh yeah, I'd be Uh. I don't care.
I'm a hideous right now. I just give me some money.

(01:53:52):
I don't. I don't need any more than that. Come on.
I can't imagine a world when I was single, when
women wouldn't even give me the time of day. I
can't imagine what that would be like. I don't. I
don't know if i'd liked that. Hey what about you, Eddie. Yeah,
you obviously would take rich, because it doesn't matter if
you're hideous, if you're rich, exactly. Women had proven that
if you have enough money, they will be more attracted

(01:54:14):
to you, generally spect I remember when I first realized this.
It was when I was a kid and Fred Roberts
was playing for the Boston Celtics and he was a
really unattractive man, and they showed his wife in the
stand that she was this hot blonde, and I said,
my god, you don't have to be good looking, you
just have to be a rich, professional athlete. I didn't

(01:54:34):
realize it at the time, and then I did. No,
it's true, and that doesn't usually work the other way.
It doesn't work the other though. It's like, I don't know,
are there like as women now have a ton of money?
But do they get the if they're ugly? Did they
get the good looking guy? Maybe they do. I don't know,
Danny Gee, yeah, I mean same as you guys. Easy
answer there, all right, just as I suspected the easy,
easy answer. All right, we'll pause for the cause. Here

(01:54:56):
more of the hearsay, the scuttle butt, the the chatter
here on the radio. It's amazing. Ask Ben. Your question
is our answers? Who will deliver the hum digger line
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(01:55:17):
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Your questions are answers as we hang out having a
good time. Here we kopa loop the master of ceremonies.
What do you got? Coo? All right? This is for
the whole crew. This is from Michael on Facebook. Hi Michael.

(01:55:41):
If you could go back in time, what celebrity game
show would you like to be on? Like? What defunct
game show? Defunct game show? What's the one with the whammy?
I think Pressie Luck would be fun. They brought back.
The other one I liked which they brought back, was
was the one behind curtain number You want curtain number two?

(01:56:01):
You want two hundred dollars? That? What was that one called?
It's it's back on, Let's make a deal. I think
that's it, let's make it. I like that one too,
but Pressure Luck would be I guess because it's not
on anymore. What about you Eddie Well? I have to
go with tick Tack dough To so I could meet
the great Wink Martindale legend, Hollywood legend icon. I don't
think I know that one YouTube for your time? What

(01:56:23):
about you Danny Well? It's still on, but she's not
on there anymore. I'd have to go back in time
Big Ben to be on Wheel of Fortune when a
young van of White Vana White's not on anymore. No,
just recently she said goodbye. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah,
so I would I would want to they replace her?
They did really Yeah, with a guy. No, all right, Jackie. Yeah,

(01:56:46):
so I'd say a young van of white just to
be in the same room, all right, would you say you?
You and I could play the home game Vanna? How
about you? Cooper? Little Um, I'm gonna have to kind
of go down a similar path as any g it's
it's not the game show still on. But no, no, no, no,
not on the bed um No, I don't mean it

(01:57:07):
like that. I would. I would pick the prices, right,
but the Bob Barker version classic with the little little
mittle microphone. Yeah, yeah, what about now this is a
show with Hollywood squares remember that? Oh yeah, awesome. I
kind of bring that back every now and then, dude,
they Yeah, I don't remember being back for years. I

(01:57:28):
remember when Shadows Stevens radio voice guy, I know, is
he still alive Shadow Stevens? He probably is. I haven't.
But you want to go on the prices, right though, Coop? Yeah, yeah, definitely.
All right, all right, here's a question for for Eddie.
This is from Andrew and I got Shadow Stevens is

(01:57:49):
seventy ben Wow go ahead, sorry, all right, Eddie voice
of Radio right there, Shadow Stevens, what is your favorite
Star Wars movie. I would have to go with the
original Star Wars. It was the first movie I ever saw.
My parents were not into movies at all, and so
my sister took me. Uh and uh. I was eight
years old, and I thought all movies were like that.

(01:58:11):
I thought you had a stand in line outside for
two hours and it was all of the movies were
packed and people would clear, cheer and clap and uh
make noise during movies. I thought, this is the greatest
thing ever. And then I would just some other movie.
I'm like, where is everybody? This is weird? So no
Star Wars the original? Okay, so a new hope? All right,
Yeah I liked I liked. I guess Return of the Jedi.

(01:58:31):
Was that the one with Job of the Hut? Yes, yeah,
that one I liked. Jed that was that was a classic. Wow. Yeah,
I'm shocked that you knew a title of a Star
Wars movie. He kind of revealed that he liked Star
Wars when he was talking about the toys. Yeah, no,
I love that. I had my my mom, you got
all those Star Wars up. Yeah, here's a question for
the whole crew. Uh. This is from another one from

(01:58:53):
Arion Malina, except this one's on Facebook, so you can
double that. Wait, did you guys? It was at a
group question, the only one it was. It was a
question for Eddie. But that's okay. Well I still all right,
go ahead. Uh do you spread ketchup all over your
fries or do you squeeze them out and then dip? Yeah?
What I do is I take like a couple of
packets of the ketchup and I put them on the

(01:59:14):
the the tray or whatever I'm eating, and then I
did I'm a dipper. I never I never put them
on the fries because they get soaked right with the ketchup. Right,
It's like it's like the nachos. You know, the nachos
are great at first, but the last few nachos you're
digging around to try to get the ones they don't
have cheese on them. By the way, my wife hates ketchup.
She's the only person I've ever met who hates ketch

(01:59:34):
him bad quality. Yeah, the veteran move. Get a packet
of in and out spread and you put that down
and then you put the ketchup on top of that
and then you dip your No, no, it's not coop.
Now see, I'm like, I'm like you guys on this one.
I'm definitely a dipper. But if I'm on the go

(01:59:55):
and I need to eat fries, like whether I'm in
like the car, I'm walking around, then I'll do like
you know, I'll grab like three fries and then then
squeeze on the on the fries. When are you eating
fries as you walk though or in the car too?
I mean you want ketchup all the time? What are
you talking about? Cool? So you you're walking eating fresh

(02:00:15):
so you're like a walk and squeeze. Guys, what you are?
That's what you're You're walking around, You're squeezing the ketchup
on the fries while you're walking. Really right, if I'm
a lot of words, I'm in a situation where I
gotta walk and eat fries at the same time. You know,
That's That's what I'm gonna do. All right. Next, let's
keep it going here. What do we got time for
a quick one? Or we let me see here? All right,
take as much time as you want, don't mind the

(02:00:37):
clock running towards a brick wall. But that's all right,
We'll run right through the brick Wall All right, well
we'll do this one because we always somebody always asks you, Ben,
like what restaurant do I go do in Vegas? But
this one's a little bit different. Todd on Facebook he
said he's going to Vegas. He wants to know the
best sports book. Yeah, I mean I like the the
Aria sports books pretty good at Caesars is one. I've
hung out a lot at Um, but there's a lot

(02:00:58):
of good ones right now. But those are the two
right off the top of my head that I would say.
All right, thanks for all your questions. Tremendous job by you.
And when you lose all your money in Vegas, think
of me, think of me please. Talking about insults, that's right,
NFL players being insulted, well, one NFL player in particular,
the bulls eye on his back, on his back. Welcome

(02:01:22):
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free rate quote. Big story in the NBA last night
involving the La Clippers, who knocked out the Golden State Wars.
Lou Williams had fifty points in the game last night
and they held Steph Curry to no points, no point.
It did not score in the game. He did not
score in the game because he's a little wet spot. Yeah,

(02:02:05):
Chuck the Condor is he is so high right now,
he's flying up in this guy. Look at him, Chuck
the Condor, so excited as otherworldly performance. Lou Williams the
last six games is averaging thirty four points per game.
Thirty four points per game. You know, you know, traded
guy like that. You signed him to a contract is
what you do. All right, But let's let's press on here.

(02:02:27):
The NFL plays the Divisional round. Of the NFL players, now,
of the four games, which of the four games are
you okay missing? Which of the four games if you
had if you had to miss one? Now you see
what I'm saying. It's four game you got Atlanta, Philadelphia, Tennessee,
New England, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Minnesota. If one of

(02:02:49):
these games you could not watch, which one would you
be okay with missing? Because you had to do something
around the house the whole thing. I'm gonna my vote
would be Atlanta Philadelphia. Now I think Tennessee New Orleans
is gonna be a rat kill also, But the Atlanta
Philadelphia game. Both teams I believe are going to play

(02:03:12):
pretty good defense in this game, so it's gonna be
a low scoring game. And this is gonna don't believe
it'll be a lot of excitement in that particular game.
So I am curious what Jacksonville's defense will do against
Ben Roethlisberger. And if Roethlisberger throws an early interception, does
the ghost of that game early in the regular season

(02:03:35):
pop back in there he start having doubt about his
performance and then the snowball effect takes place. So I'm
curious about that. And certainly New Orleans in Minnesota is
the highlight of the weekend because that's the de facto
NFC championship game. So of the four, the one I'd
be okay not checking out is Atlanta in Philadelphia. But

(02:03:56):
in that Jacksonville game with Pittsburgh. And we'll pick all
these games tomorrow, people say, what are you what do
you like? We save that for Benny versus the penny
to be Tomorrow on the show, we'll do two segments
of picking the games against the spread, and the point
spreads have stayed pretty much the same, pretty much the same.

(02:04:17):
There's only one game that's even had a one point
line move, and that's the Minnesota New Orleans game. Other
than that, it's either half a point here or nothing
at all. The Atlanta Philadelphia game, the New England Tennessee game.
The opening line has stayed stayed the same. It hasn't changed.
The current lines the same as the opening line. But
in that Jacksonville Pittsburgh game, right, this is a game

(02:04:39):
where Blake Portals might be playing his final game for
the Jags, the much maligned Blake Portals. This is the
number one pastime. This is a number one pastime in
the NFL. Winning doubt toss a bomb out the direction
of Blake ports Now the Jags, as we point it

(02:05:00):
out here, in a game where they could end up
it's not inconceivable with Pittsburgh playing down to the competition
and Roethlisberger having a suspect day per se, that the
Jacksonville could squeeze by Pittsburgh and then they would be
heading to the AFC championship game. Rap your head around that. Well,

(02:05:20):
the trash stocks continue now, not from Pittsburgh, but that
would be in Tennessee. The Titans have their own game
with New England, but Titan set. Titans safety Kevin Bayard
took a gratuitous, gratuitous cheap shot at Blake ports. Now,
this happened the other day. He said that of playing
the Patriots, the Tennessee safety said, the goal of the

(02:05:42):
Tennessee defense is to quote, I want to make Tom
Brady look like Blake Bortles. That was the comment. Now,
this is solid, solid trash stoc. Bortles responded to not
only that, but what has been a congo line of
insults directed his way. Here's the audio. Here's Blake Bortles

(02:06:02):
on the noise going his direction. It'll probably never stop. Man,
there's people that think Lebron James sucks. So if that happens,
I'm sure there'll be a lot of people that always
think I sucked. Oh my god, it'll probably never stop.
And then he threw a Lebron bomb in there at
the end. You see that, Lebron, Can we play that again?
I want to? He talked pretty fast. Bortles didn't he

(02:06:23):
He talked pretty fast. Let's listen. Now. I know you're
probably driving, so listen closely, or you're trying to go
to sleep or half awake, whatever, listen, It'll probably never stop. Man,
there's people that think Lebron James sucks. So if that happens,
I'm sure there'll be a lot of people that always
think I sucked. All right, So he was asking you
whether or not the cheap shots, the gratuitous cheap shots
would stop, and he said probably, and then he used

(02:06:45):
Lebron as an example. All right, So the question is this,
let's talk about this. The question are you with Blake
Bortles or not with Blake Bortles on this? Now? I
am with him. I agree with you. Blake Bortles is
always going to be the but of the joke, right,
and my observations as you've got punching bag well founded,

(02:07:08):
and you've got an old Hollywood movie and the waffle house,
all right, hie, all these things together fasten them like legos. Not.
We'll begin with the fact most NFL players are pretty
guarded when it comes to throwing out cheap shots. I
wish they would be more open. I like the fact
that Blake Bortles, there's a pass and it's open season.

(02:07:31):
He's a punching bag and you can throw cheap shots out. Now,
keep in mind that the criticism of Blake Bortles is
not unjustified based on a solid sample size. He's not
a rookie, he's not a second year player, has been around.
This is well founded the criticism. Now, not only has
Blake Bortles been an NFL quarterback, he has been near

(02:07:54):
the bottom in every category, consistently providing the trifecta of inaccuracy,
poor decision making, the lack of confidence, the inaccuracies. I
said all those things, that those three things the trifecta
of badness. And he was the number three pick. You
know the story, right, high draft pick. He has provided

(02:08:16):
soft returns. So this was supposed to be a breakthrough
season and something it is right there in the playoffs,
they've won a playoff game. He had less than one
hundred yards passing more rushing yards. But in this breakout season,
Blake Bortles was the twenty first ranked quarterback. He was
behind Carson Palmer, who retired, Tyrod Taylor, who's gonna lose

(02:08:38):
his starting job, in Buffalo, and you had my favorite
Bortles related quote. Trash talk quote actually is from Doug Morone.
Doug Marone asked, remember this, We talked about this during
the training camp period in the NFL. Somebody asked Doug Moron,
the Jacksonville coach, how many times a game he would

(02:08:58):
like Blake Bortles to throw during the twenty seventeen season.
Do you remember what Doug Morone said? It's one of
the great zinger one liners of all time. The Jacksonville
coach before the season started, when asked how often he
wanted Blake Bortles to throw per game, his answer was zero.
He didn't want him to throw at all. He wanted

(02:09:19):
him a whole lot of ball and hand the ball off.
That's what he wanted. Now. In addition, in addition, here
now the question is what can Blake Bortles do to
change his reputation? Now, I agree with him, this is
probably never going to stop. The answer is nothing. Right,
Bortles can win a Super Bowl. It would not matter.

(02:09:41):
My evidence that it would not matter. Trent Dilfer. That's example.
A example B is Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco won a
Super Bowl still playing he stinks, he still gets harpooned.
So here's the prop and it's not just a sports thing,
but we're talking about but football fans and people in general.

(02:10:02):
You form once you form your opinion. Once you form
your opinion on something, you don't change. It's like the
happy meal. I mean, McDonald's is trying to get the
kids because of the Happy Meal. So when you're thirty
years old, not when you're five years old, you're thirty
years old. You're still buying McDonald's. It's the same concept, right,
but but you don't change your opinion, right what you like.

(02:10:23):
It's kind of the reason I hear people complain, well,
why is advertising directed towards young people? Well, because you
know the argument with toothpaste, whatever brand of toothpaste you use,
you don't likely change. You're used to it and you're stubborn.
And that's how people are with with athletes, the same
way we've determined where Blake Bortles place is in the
Peggan Ward and it's an old Hollywood movie. There's a

(02:10:45):
line it's the man that shot Liberty Valence from the
nineteen sixties is one of the great lines in Hollywood.
Back in old Hollywood, when the legend becomes the fact,
you print the legend, and the legend is Blake Bortles is.
He's human A newer is what he is, right, I mean,
that's that's what Blake Bortles is as a quarterback. Right,
that's human nature. We're all stubborn. You're no different than

(02:11:08):
me in this respect, no matter your background. When faced
and even when people face like the changing narrative, right,
I'll give you the Lakers suck. They're garbage, right, They're
terrible basketball team. But people have formed an opinion that
because they used to be good, and so despite the
fact that in their current circumstance they're an embarrassment and

(02:11:28):
a disgrace to the NBA people, what they do is
they don't say, well, now, yeah, they do suck. Instead,
people dig in, right, they dig their heels in. They
hold on to their belief because the Lakers used to
have good players and they used to have good teams,
and they ignore, forget, and they reconstruct what's going on.
Right now, the same thing will happen with Blake Bortles
if he does actually win, which is not gonna happen.

(02:11:50):
But if he should win, then the same thing's gonna happen. Well,
people just I'll ignore it. They'll overlook it the old
I like the fact too, that Bortles tossed himself in
the Lebron James category. To me, that was the highlight. Yeah,
you know, he reaffirming how out of touch, out of
touch he is. Now he could say, well, he wasn't

(02:12:11):
really comparing himself to Lebron. Give him a break and
come on. But the difference between Blake Portals and Lebron James. Right, no, No,
I've taken my cheap shots deservedly so at Lebron James,
and I will continue to do so. It's my editorial
right here on the radio show. But Lebron James has
discussed globally like people like basketball talk about Lebron James.

(02:12:34):
He's a global brand. Blake Bortles has known at every
waffle house in Florida. That's where Blake Portles is. Non right,
if you order taking shots at Blake Portals. Now he
has he has monetized this. I'll give him that because
he's been lousy. He's been lousy for long time. Portals.
He's earned over twenty million dollars playing quarterback. So's he's

(02:12:55):
set up on Easy Street. He's mister money bags over
there in Jacksonville. All right, it's Edmund Dallas steamboat. Really
Garcia right over it. How many? How many passing yards
for Blake Bortles do you think this time around? And
he had more rushing yards than yeah, passing yards last

(02:13:15):
week one. I'm gonna go I'll set the over under
a buck fifty. I'll take the under. I agree, all right,
so under a buck fifty? Yeah. Will the game be
close in the fourth quarter? I think it will be
close in the fourth quarters. Jackson bill has got a
really good defense. I think I think the game will
be defined close within the point spread? How about that?
What's the point seven and a half. I'm gonna say, no, Well,

(02:13:38):
you're a stealer fan. That's that is an accurate statement.
You're conference. But I'm still gonna say no. That's fine.
I mean, you say no, you just did. You said no.
But I asked at the beginning, They say, I know
you're very busy of many assignments here, but I asked.
I asked. I said, of the four playoff games, if
you had to miss one because of family commitments or
work commitments, which one, would you be okay missing You're

(02:14:01):
not gonna ask me that, right, Well, I picked the
Atlanta of Philadelphia. I'd be okay missing that. I would
say the same of the weekend. It's not gonna be
that great Nick Foles. Do I want to watch Nick
Foles play quarterback? God? No, I'm gonna say Patriots Titans. Nah,
it's a Patriot. Anytime you see Tom Brady and Bill Belichick,
that's greatness right there. I don't think it's gonna be
a competitive game. Now, you gotta watch it. Here's why

(02:14:22):
you don't have to watch it. There's people listening to
I'm talking to the person in the car. Okay, I
don't want to talk to you. But here's the here's
the move. Right, you watch that game because of the backstory.
The backstory is this this hatchet job by ESPN that
Brady and Belichick hate each other and that Belichick's gonna

(02:14:44):
leave the Patriots, And you know, so you want to
watch not a good matchup because of a fake story. Well,
I want to see Eddie whether there's any kind of indication.
We're looking for signs here. I'm an investigative JOURNALI I'm
looking for signs yes, because when you watch Bill Belichick
on the sidelines, there's a lot to look at there.

(02:15:06):
There is. It's not just a grumpy looking guy and
not uncomfortable clothes standing there. To the normal to the
normal person, that's the way it is. But I have
a more advanced eye. Oh, I can see these kind
of things. There's a talk show host. Sure, I can
see these kind of things. Assume my equipment works and
the studio. Then I'll be back on in Boston next week.
So I have to watch that game. But Danny, g
of these four games, which one would you be okay missing? Well,

(02:15:29):
it's funny you ask. I'm actually gonna have to miss
the first game. Oh all right. The weekend, I'm going
to be at a funeral. So sorry, my condolences, thank you. Yeah,
so that's what I'm gonna miss, whether I like it
or not. All right, which I don't mind it because
that I think that's the one I would have chosen to,
you know. Skip anyways, Yeah, Coop, you can miss all

(02:15:51):
of these Coop, you're gonna watch any of them? Well, okay,
here's the situation. Broncos aren't playing. I'm glad you brought
this up. Yes, I hear for you. I actually I
have a dilemma, and I've been Oh, I've been worried
about this for for a couple of days now. I
actually brought this up to Danny g yesterday. Uh So,
on Sunday, the game that I'm obviously looking forward to
the most is you know, New Orleans Minnesota. That's the game.

(02:16:11):
That's the game, the game of the weekend. Here's the problem.
On Sunday, I will be out of town. I will
be at Big Bear Mountain. Yes, so no action, ye
ski and all that. Yeah, that is correct. Now I'm
pretty bummed about the potential of missing the games. I
was trying to decide do I do I DVR the

(02:16:34):
game and try and not you know, hear anything about
it and watch it when I get home later that night.
Or do I do I take a break from skiing,
go into the lodge and try and catch most of
the game inside the ski lodge. Are you paying for
the skiing trip you? I mean I have, I have
a season passed a Big Bear, so it's already paid
for it. But I did I mean I did you

(02:16:56):
on a date? Or are you going by yourself? No?
I'm going with a couple of friends, chicker. So it's
just some friends DVR coup. Yeah, you can breeze through
it in an hour and a half when you get home. Yeah,
but no commercials, no halftime, watch as forward through them challenges.
I can't do that. Well, we're not talking about you,
we're talking about coup. Well, I mean I kind of
I kind of feel the same way Ben dies about you.

(02:17:17):
Watch it? Lie. The whole point is sports. If you
don't know the outcome, it doesn't matter. True. But like
in the in this day and age, is it possible
to stay home, stay off your phone? I can't, Eddie,
I've done this before. It's not a big deal. What
do you? What do you? A North Korean dictator? Stay
off your phone? What's wrong with you? You can stay
off your We live most most of our lives without

(02:17:39):
the damn phone. When I can go a few hours
without being on your phone, I die on a teenage girl.
When I die a man and stay off the phone,
I'm being buried with my iPhone. I want to be
in Just say, Chase, I wake up. I want to
see what's going on? All right about that? All right? Anyway?
Play Wi Fi at the cemetery. All right's the Ben
Mallish all right, we'll take your phone calls eight seven,

(02:18:03):
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(02:18:46):
They Yes, I did the crimson tad road tad with
our favorite quarterback to a tongue of iloa. Thank you
very much. Yeah, we need that back. The tongue ticker
to a tongue of eyeloa, the Alabama quarterback. Well, a
group of fans from Florida fans of Central Florida. Put

(02:19:06):
a billboard up and it says congratulations Alabama. How about
a home and home series with UCF and it says
created and paid for by UCF fans. All right, so
I'm sure Nick Saban will see this billboard and they'll
be a home and home right, Like, they'll get rid
of that Citadel game and then they'll put UCF in there,

(02:19:27):
or they'll get get rid of the raging Cajuns and
make this happen. I think they ought to play next week?
How about that? How about a game between UCF and
Alabama next week? Put it on pay per view? Why not?
What the hell? How much does a billboard in Tuscaloosa, Alabama? Cost?
Probably not that much, right, I'm assuming not that much.
You can get one relatively inexpensive there. I don't know

(02:19:49):
if you're okay with me bringing this up, But doesn't
doesn't someone in your family own a billboard in the
area here? It is cashing in big on that. Oh
oh no, oh no, my my father in law. Yeah,
in downtown Los Angeles. My father in law owns a
warehouse down in downtown LA. And the the billboard on

(02:20:11):
top of the warehouse makes an ungodly amount of money
because it faces the uh the ten Freeway in downtown LA.
It's it's peril. It's right next to the cars, and
it makes an every month. Oh my god, god, man,
I dream, I know, Oh my god, that could be

(02:20:32):
an amazing Ben Mallers show billboard. Can you imagine? Oh
my god. Uh, it's it makes more money. The billboard
makes more money than the business. Uh. If you can
give me an idea, it's it's because it's sweet. Because
it's bumper to bumper traffic. Eddie. Yeah, you know, for
about twelve hours a day, it's bumper to bumper traffic
right there. So you're stuck. You're a captive audience. But

(02:20:54):
I don't know what a billboard goes for in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
But I'm guess and not all that and I guess
not all that much. All right, let's go to the phones,
and Jimmy in Arkansas is on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Jimmy, Hey,
how's it going? Then, Jimmy, if I was any better,
I'd be a dog, but not a bulldog from Georgia.

(02:21:15):
They long, well, absolutely not. But here's the deal, man, Yeah,
you gotta change the college football playoffs, and to a degree,
you know, you gotta go five conference champions and then
three wild cards. If a team like YOUCS, you know,
a Nonpower five team goes undefeated, then you got to
put them in, right, I mean, you don't have to

(02:21:39):
put them in. It's a television show. You're trying to
get the most people to watch, so you don't have
to put anyone in. You You could argue you put
the highest profile teams that bring the most eyeballs to
the TV. I mean that's fair, but you gotta give
everyone a fair chance, right, No, life's not fair. You
think life's fair. Life's not fair. It's never been designed
that way. Life is absolutely not fair. And I agree

(02:22:00):
with you on the way there you go. See, we agree.
We've reached a point of agreeming. So if life's not fair, right,
you know, some people are born into the wealth of
other people or not. We all gotta make it one
way or another. I think sometimes you win the genetic lottery,
sometimes you don't. Right, absolutely, But here's the deal. You
seef when undefeated, Right, they beat Auburn, So that tells

(02:22:22):
me that there's at least a team out there outside
of the power of five that at least deserves a chance. Yeah. Okay,
but but you know who else they played? I mean,
do you know their schedule? Did you look at their schedule?
And who? I mean? They played a good Navy team? Nabe? Okay?
All right, I yeah, listen, are you want to nitpick?

(02:22:43):
I would have no problem if you SEEF and and
Alabama played, I'd be fine. But you shouldn't like change
the rules because they are we gonna get UCF. You
know I'm not. I'm not trying to chance. Well. I'm
just saying if a team outside of power five goes undefeated,
and I'm not outside of the idea, Listen, you UCF
looked great against Austin p They played very well in

(02:23:03):
that game. They put up seventy points. It was very impressive.
It was a tough break that the main game got
canceled because of the weather. That's the problem. But this
seems happened, so any all right, listen, I mean, yeah, Jimmy,
I I you want to fine, well, put everyone in.
I don't catch but for us to talk about I listen,
I put them all in, but I don't. I don't
want to put everyone in because I don't want to
kill the regular season. Kill it. I'm fine with killing it. Yeah,

(02:23:26):
here and I'll stab it there. It's dead. There, I
killed the regular season. Thank you. I gotta thank you.
All right. So the Ben Maller Show on fire. Hey
you remember that guy, the offensive line coach for the
Dolphins that was snorting cocaine. Yeah, he's he's come out
of the darkness, Eddie. Oh say. It's the story up

(02:23:47):
on the nf the state run nfl A website, and
he has spoken for the first time about what happened.
This is where he was hooking up with the stripper
and yeah, yeah that's bad. But she blamed like Trump
and stuff. It's just very bizarre anyway, uh he he said,
I was at the point where I was just praying

(02:24:07):
to God. I want this stuff out, he said, Uh,
not like exposed. The former Dolphins offensive line coach said,
but I want this out of my life. I can't
do this anymore. All this blank I had going on
outside of work. And he had a lot more to
say there, but he he said, the quote that resonated

(02:24:28):
with me said, so you can say it's divine intervention
that the stripper out of him. There did you believe
that this is divine intervention? Yeah, I'm not. I'm not.
I'm not. By by the way, Ben really quick, I'm
some van. By the way, he's living in a sober
living facility in Florida. I'm sure he used to know

(02:24:57):
some Quick Van of White Quick, Van of White News
be oh White. Happy to hear that that report I
read over the weekend is unconfirmed. The studios say they
expect her to work the last two years of her contract.
Oh so she is not. So we can still buy
a vowel until twenty man, I'd like to buy a vowel.

(02:25:17):
I still want the young van though. How she got
real skinny and skeletor like more experienced? Though? You know,
I don't know flipping the letters, of course, that's what
I mean. How many episodes is that that shows? How dude,
say Jack is seventy, she's sixty, say they both? I
don't know. I haven't seen the show in a lot,
but I've seen say Jacket like hockey games, yeah, and

(02:25:40):
dodgery games. He's uh, it seems like a nice guy.
He lives in Does he live in Virginia or something like?
They lives on the East coast Washington. Yeah, he lives
on the East coasts. They fly out and they take
like seven thousand episodes of the Wheel of Fortune, like
two weeks, and then he flies back to the to
his home. All right, the Ben Maller Show on Fox,
we were gonna get to fact or fiction will work

(02:26:01):
in Eddie's Puck the world as well, and right now,
more Eddie. It's all Eddie all the time. What's the
I want to buy a vowel, Eddie, I want to
buy a vowel? Can I get a vowel? Yes? You
can't tell me what's trending. Then let's start with basketball.
In the NBA, we had the Clippers going on the
road and beating the Warriors one twenty five, one oh six,
Lou Williams with a career right, fifty points, They're they're looing.

(02:26:27):
He's the fourth Clipper ever to score fifty or more
points in a game. I would see, I would say
this is top five moment in Clipper history. This one
I would agree with you. Now, uh, Golden States, Kevin
Durant did score forty points in the loss. He became
the fifth player under the age of thirty to score
twenty thousand points. Steph Curry score zero. He got shut out.

(02:26:48):
But Durant joins Lebron, James, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and
Wilt Chamberlain in that rarefied group there. How many did
Blake score zero and they still won without him. That's
how good the Clippers and Clay Thompson got the night
off to rest college basketball. I got an up there.
He got hemorrhoid sitting on the bench, so he's gonna

(02:27:12):
college basketball. Number one Villanova had no trouble with tenth
rank Xavier in an eighty nine sixty five victory. It
went two overtimes in Austin before Texas edged sixteenth ranked
Texas Christian ninety eight, and Louisville goes on the roadbeats
number twenty three four to state seventy three to sixty nine.
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buying experience. Been back to the NBA. I don't know
if you saw this, but the Lakers had planned to
sign a guy named Jamil Wilson to a ten day contract. Yeah,
but then they decided not to because of a TMZ
report where a woman apparently filed a lawsuit against him

(02:27:57):
alleging that he gave her an STD wow, And so
they decided apparently because of that. He's a memo to
the ladies, sir, Right, professional athletes enjoy a very active
adult life. The chances are the amount of the volume
that they've enjoyed here there's something on the Petrie dish
if you know what I'm talking about. Okay, you guys

(02:28:18):
kind of assume that you know. Even Jamil Wilson. I've
never I actually saw him. I was at a Clipper
game a couple of weeks ago. I saw him, and
he actually looked pretty good. But what has that he
made some shots? He made some three I don't. I
didn't say he was attractive. Maybe I thought you didn't
look like he had her pies. Well, a lot of people,

(02:28:42):
I don't know. It doesn't. I used to listen to
Love Line before Danny g had that show canceled because
of his fine work here on Tinner Ronny Tips. But
didn't Doctor Drew say like a lot of people have.
He used to talk about that all the time. That's
a very common thing. Yeah, he used to say it
was really common for Hollywood starlets. All right, yeah, okay,
there you go. I'm sure the male Hollywood lead guys

(02:29:04):
to tough break. For Jamil Wilson. Well, what's the tougher break,
not getting the ten day contract or now the entire
world you have her? What's the tougher break. I'm gonna
say the contract, because at least you know you're getting
a little money. Yes, but that's uh, all right, we
hope he works that out there. Uh. And anyway, we'll
press on here. Now, do you want to puck the
world right now? Eddie? Do you want to do this?

(02:29:26):
We can if you'd like. I need more enthusiasm. Let's
do it right there? We go, Here we go, Eddie Garcia,
We'll puck the world. Then we're gonna get the factor
face here. We're halfway through the NHL season. Your leaders
right now in the divisions in the East, the Tampa
Bay Lightning in the Atlantic Division, Washington capitals of the
Metropolitan Division. Not of no big surprises there. But in

(02:29:48):
the West, the Winnipeg Jets are leading the Central Division,
and of course the Vegas Golden Knights leading the Pacific Division.
Nobody saw that coming and your preseason prediction had your
leader in the clubhouse for the MVP would be Nikita
Koutrov with the Tampa Bay Lightning Hockey leads in points
and is tied for the goal scoring lead. Andre Vassilevski,

(02:30:10):
also from Tampa leading and goals against average the same
percentage esser leading contender for the Vestor Trophy. You're not
gonna win. The teams with the top record don't win.
Rock bestser of the Vancouver Canucks leading rookie goal score
right now, he would be your leader for the Calder Trophy.
I picked him, and I guess a rookie card now.
The NHL will not be participating in the Winner Olympics
in South Ko, Korea, first time since eighty eight. They're

(02:30:32):
not going to be in the Winner Games. That means
we're gonna I agree. That means we're gonna have an
All Star Game this year. It'll be in January twenty
seventh in Tampa. Captains from the four divisions will be
Steven Stan Coast to Tampa Bay. In the Atlantic, Alexandrove
gonna Washington, the Metro, Pete k Suban and Nashville the
Central and Connor McDavid from Eddington in the Pacific. It's
a three on three tournament if you don't remember, each

(02:30:52):
division taking on the other and kind of a mini tournament.
And that's what they're going for for the All Star Game.
Uh And I don't know about this as far as
a hockey story, but it kind of fits with this show.
I guess a man who worked for the Royal Canadian
Mint has been arrested and since the thirty months in prison.

(02:31:13):
Ben he was stealing golden pucks from the Royal Canadian Mint.
He had a job where he was working to purify
the procured gold used for the golden pucks. But he
I guess he decided I'd like to have some of
these pucks and made me seldom, which he did to
buy a house in Jamaica and a boat. Well, it's Canada,

(02:31:36):
so he won't get much jail. Now he can go
back to the house in jail. He got thirty months
in prison. He does have to pay. He doesn't have
to pay one hundred and ninety thousand dollars a restitution.
Do you know, do you know how he got the
pucks out of the Royal Canadian mint. There's a few
places you can hide it and they're very painful. That's
that's accurate. They found in his locker, vasoline and the
latex gloves. He was setting off the metal detectors when

(02:31:59):
he of the place, but they wanted him and they
can never find out where exactly the golden pucks were. Yes,
that's right. He was putting them in his prison wallets.
Kind of a brown tint to them. I don't know why.
It's very odd that does the world. There we go,
thank you for that, Eddie, and some of our friends
in Arizona wondering why why didn't you do a whole
matt of monologue about Pat Shermer. I come on report

(02:32:23):
from a TV station, now the ABC affiliate in Phoenix,
that the Arizona Cardinals are going to hire Pat Shermer,
that he's the favorite to be their head coach. Now,
it's it's a name I've heard, Yeah, used to Yet
You're like, Okay, I've heard that name, but who is he?
He used to coach the Cleveland Browns, Eddie, he did, yes,

(02:32:45):
for two years, he coached the Browns he's see he's
he's from the new Browns coaching tree, not the old
tree that produced Belichick and Saban. The new tree image. Yeah,
Mike Petton on that tree as well. So if the Vikings,
Lucy I had a built in thing for our guys
in Minnesota off the Vikings lose. Okay, Pat Schirmer distracted, right, distracted.

(02:33:06):
That's why the offense didn't work against the Saints. The
whole thing built didn't excuse Do you see who the
cults interviewed for their coaching vacancy. Yeah, I at college coach? Yeah,
a guy from Baylor rule. Yeah, okay, interesting, Yeah, depends
one game, depends what kind of mood Jim Ursay's in
whether he gets the job or you might get the job.

(02:33:28):
All right, we will get the factor fiction. We'll get
to all that. We'll do it here and boy we'll
have to do it quick, but we will and we'll
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(02:33:49):
Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. All right, let's get to it.
It's Factor Fiction Time and the Big Buffo Soako introduction.
Please Frans a bit of media? Is it fact for fiction?
Let's face some row fast on the Ben Meller Show.

(02:34:11):
The sains of time are running down, so we gotta
go quick. Us meet our celebrity panel of judges, the
best in the brightest minds. I'm all over North America
and beyond, and we say hello to the Power Couple.
We go to Bradenton, Florida, and say good morning to Leslie. Hello, Leslie,
great to hear your voice as always, along with Jack

(02:34:32):
the judge of course here and only a few weeks,
five weeks away from spring training. It's almost two down.
I know. Yeah, one of these years, I'm gonna get
down there and watch pirate baseball. I'll be I'll be
sitting right next to you, Me and Jack will beating
nachos and hot dogs and'll be wonderful. All right, that's
the complete anti Leslie diet. Of course. Yes, she'll be

(02:34:55):
so live to be three hundred years old. I'll check
out early. But that's how that goes U well, actually
know what was it? Uh? We don't have time to say.
There were The actress Betty White said she hot dogs
in vodka the key to a long life. That's what
she said. Weed Man Hippie is in South Beach. Hello,
weed Man, you don't love me that l Leslie. I

(02:35:18):
really like hearing your voice every week. Hello, all all right,
thank you? Jason and Otto is gonna play? Hello Jason,
think man? How are you my friend? You know what?
The Vegas Knights should be called just nights and hts,
no nights as a night now, I see. Here's the thing.

(02:35:39):
Let me tell you something. And when I become a
god of sports, all right, all right? Uh no, No,
two teams will share the same nickname. There'll be one Cardinals,
not two Cardinals. There'll be one Giants, not two giants.
That's the way it will be. I don't like these
piling on names. That's stupid. All right, I thank you.
Fluffy Dave is in Minneapolis. Hello Fluffy Dave. Oh yeah,

(02:36:02):
here I am skoal Vikings. He's excited. The man is
ready to go. You're fluffy, extra fluffy today is what
you are? You know? I was gonna say, I'm I'm
very sad that we won't be able to beat the
Rams this week. We'll have to do it to the Saints.
But Rams will be Rams will be ramming it all

(02:36:24):
day and ramming it all night in the NFL draft
in April, that's what they'll be doing. Roxanne in Denver, Hello, Rosanne? Hello?
What's going on? Rocks? And you're one of our Facebook friends?
Is that accurate? Rockson? Look at that? Well, welcome here.
You're gonna be one of our judges. Are you ready
to do this? All right? Very exciting, Rocks, and it's

(02:36:44):
good to talk to you. Hold on a sec and uh,
let's see Angry Bill. What happened to is that Angry Bills?
He gone, you hang up here? Damn I wish you
hung up all right, here we go. These are the stories.
Three stories. Story. You gotta figure out which of these
is not true. Story number one Jim McMahon the headliner. Now,

(02:37:05):
if you're an old fart, you remember watching him play
quarterback for the Chicago Bears, Jim McMahon from the nineteen eighties.
Well he's hitt in Vegas, baby, head over to Caesar's Palace.
He set this costar in a live stage show called Renegads.
The show will also star washed up athletes like t
O and Jose Conseco and McMahon apparently very fired up

(02:37:26):
about his return to glory and entertainment. Story number two
Cole Beasley teaming up with Drake the Cowboy Receiver. Cole
Beasley's into the music game, the rap game in particular,
and he actually debuted a new single this week called
eighties Strings did very well. The song was a success,
at least so far. A lot of Cowboy fans downloaded.
It debuted at number twelve on the iTunes Hip Hop chart,

(02:37:49):
and it turns out that you know who else liked it, Drake, Yes, Drake,
big fan, big fan, all right. Story number three stop
his future atrocity. It seems the fight to save house
parties in the Hollywood Hills was the success. Former NFL
star Ricky Williams is throwing a cannabis friendly Super Bowl

(02:38:12):
party at a private residence in the Hollywood Hills for
three hundred dollars. Your ticket includes open bar, gourmet American
style food, You get to watch the game, thank God,
with Ricky in a cannabis friendly environment. It was a
photo of Ricky and more here and the party is
it's the in spot there in Hollywood, right, So these

(02:38:34):
are the three stories. Figure out which are the three
is not true? We gotta fly here. We're short on time,
so no small talk, well limited small talk. Leslie in
bradened in Florida. One, two or three? Leslie, figure out
which story is not true? One because it's the spoiling
Vegas which is on the uptick? Ah, look at you.

(02:38:56):
When's the last time you were invade you? I remember
you were there a couple of years ago. I remember
talked to me. Yeah it was last year. All right,
well that's that's within the last couple of years. Yeah,
all right, all right, hold on, thank you, Leslie, have
a great weekend. Thank you to be good. Weed man,
weed man, hippie man. I love Ricky Williams. I want

(02:39:16):
brought you mob and womp is a thug? One? Two
or three? Because he wouldn't the hell was that? Is
your Obama phone breaking? We've met? What's going on? There's
a buzz on your phone? Ra, what do you mean?
What are you talking? Come on, that's not right. He

(02:39:40):
didn't get to answer, all right, Jason Natto Jason, he
did get his The only game show rather than your
game shows is we're in the role as Carmen san Diego.
I'm gonna go with number one, number one, Jason says,
we can bring back Carmen san Diego. Also bring that back.
All right, thank you, Jason. We who else do we

(02:40:01):
have out? Fluffy Dave. He's extra fluffy because he's excited
about that Viking game on Sunday. Yeah, I'm gonna go
with number one, just like the Viking. Everyone's jumping on
that number one bandwagon. Everyone likes that number one bandwagon.
All right, hold on a sec and rocks inne in Denver, Rosanne,
So we got one, two or three rocks in? Which

(02:40:22):
of these stories do you think is not true? Number one?
Everyone's right, you're cheating off Leslie's paper Rocksanne, how dare you?
You're not? You? All right? Have you have a great
weekend and feel better? Rocksanne? Thank you? All right, there's there,
she goes, all right, duh. We don't have time to
run down all the stories. It's amazing how that works out.

(02:40:45):
But here's a lesson. Okay, when you were in high school,
all you people cheated off Leslie's paper. Okay, and I
love Leslie. I think Leslie's great. It's one to you
cheated off the wrong paper. The fakes y'all got it wrong.
Every you you you you you we I mean even
weed Man got it wrong. He didn't answer. He got
it wrong. The fake story was the cold Beasley story

(02:41:06):
with Drake. That was the

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