August 16, 2022 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about Kevin Durant shutting down rumors that he is more likely to retire than play for the Brooklyn Nets next season, Maller's Mountain of Money: Ben Affleck Edition, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our Nameber three, hour three of
our radio program. What do you make of the latest
Kevin Durant chatter around the NBA? Did the Nets change
their deal with Kevin Durant? Is it true that Katie
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doesn't care about his reputation? Will discuss that in many,
many other angles. I should say right now in our
number three to retire or not to retire? Question asked
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to get you through the week. Our lead this hour
coming from the NBA. Interesting story here is some new
turbulence under the Brooklyn Bridge. Kevin Durant had a hissy
fit and demanded to be traded through surrogates. He is
currently stuck in a holding pattern circling JFK Airport. He's
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upset by that and if KDS not happy, nobody's happy.
We've said this before, We'll say it again. Have you
heard the latest? Maybe now so stories have been bouncing
around the blogger sphere saying that Kevin Durant was actually
more apt to retire than play against the Brooklyn Nets,
and that story bounced around part of the day. NBA
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insider and former saddleback outro Mark Stein said that an
exec had told him during summer league that the situation
was such that Durant maybe overtired. Situation has not improved
since then, said, if Durant hasn't been traded by training camp,
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there is a growing expectation in league circles that's good
weasel terminology, that he meaning Durant, will continue trying to
cause as much of a ruckus behind the scenes who
prod the Nets into lowering their asking prize, and it
last to facilitate a deal. Now he wants to still
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play for the Heat or the Sun's bodies open to
playing in ball Austin or Philadelphia. Now, after that story
bounced around, triple drib dribble, bounce, bounce, bounce, it bounced around,
mark Stein got very upset because the blogosphere, the people
that aggregate sports news, they took what Sneyin wrote and
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they made headlines out of it. He said, hey, wait
a minute, I never promoted the retirement idea. I just
included that to set up what I was getting at.
This was on his sub stack, which is where mark
Stein is at now. But the great thing about the
blogs is you don't have to pay for all this
paid content. You can get some of it for free.
People aggregate it and share it with you. Well, the aggregators,
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wanting to get clicks, went with Durant's going to retire.
Durant has said to apparently not care about what he
what you know this does to his reputation and he
hasn't played a single game yet under the four year,
one hundred ninety four million dollars contract extension. Morone, how
about that one hundred ninety four million, You're unhappy? He
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signed that in August of twenty twenty one. Durant also
responded on social media. Of course he did to harpoon
these stories. So let us discuss the question, what do
you make of this latest Kevin Durant. Chatta chat chatta.
I've got seat belts, Lego movie and line cook and
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we're gonna put all of these things together, and we're
gonna make a sour puss is what we're gonna make,
because that's Kevin Durant's a facial expression. And here we go.
Number one, Kevin Durant can write the book on being unhappy.
He can write the book on that when you make
a lot of money. And that's what makes a story
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like the initial reporting believable. The track record right when
given the opportunity, he is finagled his way around the NBA.
When Durant left the dust Bowl, he was a free age.
Had it made. They worshiped him in small town, Oklahoma City.
How great Kevin Durant was. Again after his time was
up with the Warriors, he exited stage right, went all
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the way to the East coast. And this time it's different, right,
The message coming from the cockpit is clear, ladies and gentlemen,
the captain has not turned off the fastened seatbelt sign
indicating that it is not safe to move around the cabin.
And so Durant I mentioned he has not played a
game under this one hundred and ninety four million dollars extension,
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meaning that he is strapped to a bed of money,
like he's got all the money in the safety deposit boxes.
And there's no wig a wiggle wiggle, there's no wiggle room.
If he retires, that's it, finito done. Durant won't be
a free agent until twenty twenty six, and he shot
all this down. He'll be thirty eight years old by then.
This is the last meaningful contract that Rant has. I mean,
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this is it right, This is the one for Durant.
And so the retirement noise was no bueno. It was
a no bueno situation. But every man, woman and child
knows this, and it's it's like the old Mark Twain quote.
We bring this up a lot. He's the one credited
was saying it a lie can travel halfway around the
world while the truth is still putting on it shoes.
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I don't even know if Twain actually said that or not,
but everyone said he did, so we just go in now. Secondly,
page two, did the Nets change their deal with Kevin
during Now this is the popular pick by popular people.
It's been tossed out by surrogates of KD and his
band of merry men. Are taking a page out of
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the script of the Lego movie Good Cop, Bad Cop.
And that's what this is. It's a psychological tactic used
to curry public figure a favor. I should say Durant,
he wants you to believe that he is the innocent
victim of a circumstance, that the NETS franchise was so
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horny for KD and Kyrie that they made a faustian bargain,
and everything would have been fine if it hadn't been
for you meddling executives. But the way I've I've heard
from people I know who work in that industry that
Durant had and still has a final cut on major
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roster moves, that he has to rubber stamp the players
that come to the Nets. He's got a similar package
to what Lebron has, what Kyrie and other headliners Kauai
I should say have I mean around the NBA. So, unfortunately,
Kade has had butterfingers when it comes to roster moves,
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and he's signed off on a bunch of moves that
have not worked out. He's picked the wrong puzzle pieces
that don't fit the puzzle all right. Final point, So
is it true that kd doesn't care about his reputation? No,
I'm shaking my head. No. Even in this particular story
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from Markstein, the NBA Insider, Kevin ended up responding to it.
As we said, he could not stop, he could not
help himself. Why Durant has the skin of a salamander.
He's got salamander's skin. It's very thin. He's very sensitive,
and it drives him batty that people will goof on him.
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And they still goof on him for joining the Warriors
and then leaving the Warriors. And so Kat's like a
line cook. He's had so many burners going and all
of this, these burner accounts. He did this on his
regular account, but the burner accounts used to attack those
who besmirch his good name and those that it's him
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to trash. Kevin Durant, he comes right back at right
back at it. Furthermore, Durant grumbled that most people will
believe unnamed sources over me. But if it's anyone out
there that I'll listen, I don't plan on retiring anytime soon.
He said, The ship is comical at this point. I
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think there was a different letter there. I don't think
he used P. I think there was a different letter
that he used. So let me help touch up Kevin
Durant's work here. The reason people will believe unnamed sources
over an athlete like yourself is because ninety nine point
nine percent of athletes will lie to your face. They
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feed the dumb dumb's fertilizer. You get a bag, you
get a bag, You get a bag, you get a bag.
Everyone gets a bag of fertilizer. That's it's right, that's
on the records, Eliza says camp over and over. That
is fertilize. The good stuff comes off the record from
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unnamed sources. That's the good stuff. It is the Bannet
Maller Show. You can determine whether this is the good
stuff or not. That's up to you to decide. But
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join the festivus of talk nonsense. Time now for the
Maller Riddle of the Night. A blatant attempt to try
to engage you to listen a little bit longer and
we will give the answer coming up here in just
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a few minutes. But here's the Mallard Riddle of the night.
Let's see how creative you can get. Big Burley Slugger
Pete Alonzo gave manager Buck Showalter blank during a recent
Mets pitching change. Pete Alonzo, the Big Burley slugger the
New York Metropolitans, was spotted giving manager Buck show Walter
blank during a recent Mets pitching change. That is the
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Mallard Riddle. The answer, we'll get to it here and
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Mounting of Money. I've had some epic cheating scandals. Eddies,
Yeah he was part of it with shame. But we'll
see what happens today. On Mallard's Mounting of Money, Ozzy
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wa said that me finding my pen earlier, He says
he thinks I was excited about finding my pen. As
Deshaun Watson gets around, a musus and a furg dog
pointed out, good job with that pen. Another win for
Big Ben. Well, thank you, ferg Dog. Here's the Mallar riddle.
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Petlonzo gave manager Buck Show Walter blank during a recent
Mets pitching change. It was caught on camera. Many people
surprised by this. Furg Dog says his undivided attention. Now,
that would be something Luke the vending guy's going with
Fred Durst as the answer. Who else do we have?
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A late night truck Tester says The answer to the
mala riddle is a wet Willie. Now that would be
something Oscar going with a B twelve shot. Yeah, Daniel
Ohio says on the mound, reach around is the answer.
One that would be impressive if Pete did that to
his manager. Alf the Alien Opiner says, mercury in retrograde.
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That is what Pete Alonzo gave Buck Show, Walter, and
Sawman says, A tin of sardines is the answer. Robin
Vegas says the answer to the malor riddle, Pete gave
Buck Show, Walter, hookers and cocaine. That that is the selection.
Who else do we have? Just? Josh says the phone
number of Fernando Tatissa's barber chip in the ques Is
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going with a bouquet of hours as his answer. The
fun House Accounts says it's a new tennis racket. Donkey
Sausage going with a bottle of Doc Mike's Magic Elixir.
Atomic Weggie was guessed by a riek in Minnesota. That
would be impressive. Side eye look from Eke and Rosalem Minnesota.
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Miguel on Fires going with a full body massage and
that's that's impressive. And who else do we have to see?
Page Dad at m from Johnny Q. Monkey Pox guest
by Chris. That's interesting as well, Eddie, do you have
an answer to the Mallar riddle? Yes, he gave him
an intimacy kid, Oh, an intimacy? Oh yeah, you get
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that in Vegas when you it's so you tell us. Yeah.
I got charged one time in Vegas. I got charged
with everything at the mini bar. I checked out of
the hotel, I got the bill on my credit card.
They claimed that I bought every single item on the
mini bar and I had to contact the hotel and
say I didn't know. I looked I was locking the
mini bar at how overpriced everything was. I'm the cheapest
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person in the world. I did not buy every item
of the mini bar anyway. The answer to the malar riddle,
Pete Alonzo gave manager Buck show Walter a stack of
lottery tickets during a recent Mets pitching change for no
apparent reason. In his back pocket, he had lottery tickets
gambling or dare I thought gambling was illegal in baseball?
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How dare him? I can't believe that, Pete Rose, What
do you think about that? Pete? Yeah, all right, let's
go to the phones and or we will say hello
to Kevin in Omaha, Nebraska. Hello, Kevin, you're on Fox
Sports Radio. Hey, what's up? I want to start. I
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want to I want to start by amen. When I
remember when I first started calling, you're kind of rude.
That's why I said, it's like the holli at hall
at Mala hour, because everybody should call in at holler
at you, thank you, holler at him. And then you
have at your crew. And you know when you change
is when you started having them sweeties calling the show.
And then he started changing. Man, So you believe Kevin
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that I was a complete douchebag. And then some women
called the show, and then I became guys because I
had you feminine the perspective women call no. No. When
when the girls started calling, then they you started lightening
up a little bit. No, all right, Well maybe you
were listening when I was having a bad day. I
don't Anyway, Well, I'm gonna talk about I'm tired t
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you man hate doing the cowboys. Man talking about the culture?
Ain't no good man? First of all? Uh? And he
from who was the seahouse coach went up? They had
h the guy that made it to the Super Bowls.
I can't think of anything before Pete Carroll and Mike
home Run ago, the guy the guy that coast Uh,
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Brett Farr, Yeah, super Bowl, Mike home Yeah yeah. And
he's from and uh and from home Home Run's uh
coaching tree. So they can't sit here and tell me
an he's from Bill Walsh's coaching tree. Well, that's true.
I'm gonna mention that man. You know, Bill wos is
one of the best coaches. Are we doing for the
culture here? We're talking about trees? Is that we're talking
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about how's how's the rich how's the rich coach type
coaching tree? How's that looking? No? He stuck? You know
who's not you know who's not down on the Dallas Cowboy.
Did you see I read this the I was gonna
do a rant about this, I said not to but
did you see what the former? No? No, no, no, no,
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Michael Irvin. Do you see what Michael Irvin said? No?
Are you sitting down? Yeah? I'm sill man. Are you probably?
Are you having a nice drink? Are you having a beverage? Yeah,
Paul Mason, of course. That's why. That's why I'll be
cooking out there. So I'll be doing I want to
chop it open. All right, I understand, just a couple
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of guys talking to you, but listen, this is this
is wild to me. So my cool Irvin thinks that
the Dallas Cowboys are going to go undefeated this season.
He believes the Dallas Cowboys are gonna go under I
tell I'll tell you what they will do. They will
live the scoreboard. Okay, then I was gonna say something
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else to uh. I have made a few notes. Oh yeah,
you're prepared. But yeah, that's that's why. That's why I
like the Cowboys though, man, because I'm gonna tell you
that the coach man, it's not up to the coach man.
The coach would be a good coach. It's up to
the players, man. You gotta know how to manufacture and uh,
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you know, make it happen. That's why I'm a big
fan of Roger Stobock and Bradshaw. And first of all,
I have to get credit to Brady. I'm glad I
was around to see Brady played in because that was awesome.
But I like to know how h Terry Bradshaw's playoff
recommend because he was unstoppable, man, you could well he well, listen,
I did some stuff with Terry back. Was he unstopped bowl?
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Or was he the quarterback of a team that had
a dominant defense and that made them unstoppable? That's two.
That's when he had to wire receivers. Man. But you
have to check out how Branshaw started. When he he
was a chump. When he first started, he stuck and
his coach didn't like him. And then he kindly grew
as a quarterback and he learned, man, and that's when
he started winning. Dude, I'm trying to tell you perfect.
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He was perfect in the supercow Let's see what how
many games are the Cowboys gonna lose here? Let's see
they played. I think they'll be about oh and two.
They start with Tampa and then they have Cincinnati at home.
That's an going to start. They'll beat the Giants. He
should beat the Giants. I'm doing the schedule game now.
Should beat the Giants. Should beat the Commanders so they'll
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be two and two, then lose to the Rams, so
they'll be two and three to start the year. Bam,
just like that. Got to be able to make the
adjustment and make the play. He's got up to the coach,
but he can be a good coach out he wants to.
If you don't have no quarterback that can make it
happen the us L. I want to saying, what was
what was Michael Urban? What was he smoking when he
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said this that they would go undefeated. He said, if
you clean up the penalties. He said, though, I go undefeated, Kevin.
That's insane. That's why I like the coaster this year
because I think Matt Ryan and uh their coaches like
a match made in heaven. I think Matt Ryan will
have a hell of a year. And I got your hat.
I'm going I'm going to store to morrow, me and
my daughter. I'm gonna get your hat. All right, don't
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don't worry about it, but I would like that. But
thank you, all right, buddy, all right, thank you Kevin.
It's like a father daughter bonding trip out to the
store to get a nice hat. Problem a big head.
That's the issue there, big brain, big head, then my problem,
my entire life. Be sure to catch live editions of
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Does that is that interesting? With all jugs on Steroids sure, Yeah,
why not? Well, that is what they are calling the Seeker.
It is a new tool that the Green Bay packers
are using. They're referring to it as the Jugs Machine
on steroids. Apparently, this contraption simulates passes as well as
punks and kickoffs. You can project a football seventy five
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else per hour and can pump out five hundred footballs
in an hour. That's a lot of balls, it is. Yeah,
it's a lot of balls. Have you seen a photo
of this thing? I saw a video of it actually,
and the guy's using it with the US got the
iPad kind of as the controller there. How much does
that cost? Oh? I don't know. It's a good question.
(22:20):
I wanted to buy one of those things. You're not
gonna see those at your local high school unless it's
a private school, right, Public schools won't have that. No,
you're very private, yah, I mean who's gonna I mean
they kind of make it seem like you can, like
if you you know, you don't eat a quarterback or
a kicker to practice things, you just need this machine,
but you need somebody to like load it full of
the footballs and whatnot. You can't just really do it
by yourself. I don't think did you know anyone when
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you were a kid that had a pitching a jugs
pitching machine. No. I knew some kids who had like
batting cages in their backyard. Yeah, but it didn't It
was just like they just hit it off the tee.
Though I don't think they didn't have Actually, I was
a kid that had so jealous he had a jugs
pitching machine. I'm sure the neighbors were thrilled, but I
was like, man, that's like the coolest thing. If I
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had that, I would be in the big leagues. I
would have been retired now, I'd been living on an
island somewhere. But I my parents could not afford a
jugs pitching machine. So I went into radio. That's what
I did. I threw a you know, a ball on
the roof and then he would roll off and I
catch it. That big thing. Well, I was the greatest
in the whole shortstop against the garage door with a
(23:25):
tennis ball. I'd make like the backhanded move I chucked
the ball. Also, I was able to jump up even
though I was obese as a kid, I was able
to jump up against the garage door and take home
runs away from Ken Griffey Jr. It was amazing it,
Gary Pettis, I'm going even older than that, Gary pett
It was great. I could jump over that fence. Oh
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it was awesome. But for some reason, my talent did
not matriculate to the field. I didn't. But the garage door,
I was very good at that. Do you think there's
any kids left that go out and just throw the
ball against the ground? Of course, now we're dinosaurs that
he No one does that. Why would you do the
video games? Who's doing that? The only kids that do that?
(24:08):
Nobody does that. No, it's archaic. All your other friends
video game? Well there is that, Yeah, there is that.
Make your own entertainment, Yeah, all right, it is the
Band Mather Show. So I have something in common with
Andy Reid. Yeah, yes, you do Bluck management. Yeah no
no no no no no no no no no no
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no no no no no no. And I read this
earlier and I wanted to share it with you. So
Andy Reid revealed that he had some downtime after the
NFL season because the Chiefs didn't go to the Super Bowl.
They lost the Bengals in the playoffs and so Andy
revealed that he traveled across the globe and across the
Atlantic Ocean. He and his wife went to Italy. And
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I said, well, who cares about that? I mean, I'm
sure all these guys make a lot of money. They
go to night's vigation, They're very rich. These are wealthy
people in sports. No one's poor in professional sport. They're
all wealthy. But Any revealed that when he got to Italy,
he told the story when he first arrived there, a
(25:10):
local said, hey, local in Italy says, well, what kind
of wine do you like? And uh, Andy said, I
don't drink one? And uh and then the guy said,
well what about coffee? What kind of coffee like? And
Andy revealed that he does not enjoy coffee and I
have those two things in common. And did they ask
(25:30):
him about cheeseburgers? Well, yeah, they said, well, you don't
like wine, you don't like coffee, why are you in Italy?
And he said, quote, I like to eat, is what
he claimed, according to Peter Kings, And someday my wife
would she's got family from Italy and she would like
me to go to Italy. And that'll be my will.
I will copy that I don't drink wine or drink coffee. Oh,
(25:53):
and that in common. I had a fantastic time in Italy. Yeah,
I'm sure it would be great. But most people when
they find out you work overnight, so they assume you
drink a lot of coffee. But do you I also
don't drink coffee. However, Roberto, Roberto drinks enough coffee for
all three of us. That's yeah. Roberto's bouncing off the walls,
caffeine covered walls with the He's got it right there,
(26:17):
he's got do you hear that? You know what? I
got water? But we have good ice here, Eddie, But
I have good ice at home. Now I have nice
ice at the Mallar Mansion. We've improved our ice game.
So yeah, anyway, all right, that's up. Why don't we
introduce our contestants. Now, Malar's Mountain of Money? Do you
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have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
And it is the ben Aflac edition of Mallar's Mountain
of Money? Who had a birthday? The Big five? Oh
for ben Afflack. So he's good. When another ten years
then it all goes downhill? Is that all right? Yeah? Okay? Actually,
(27:00):
I think he's getting married this weekend. Is he to
Jlo again? Oh? I thought he already got married. They're
a shotgun wedding in Vegas. Yeah, well maybe they're doing
like the formal wedding. Yeah, are you going? No, going
off the check. I'll check my emails, see if I
got an invite on that. You know, guys named Ben
(27:23):
have to stay together. Okay, Yeah, they're doing their whole
wedding party this weekend. Oh where's it at? Is it
in La Boston? Where's it? Let's see where's Vegas? Oh,
it's gonna be in Vegas. I will be there. Interesting,
I'm gonna try and crash Jlo and Ben Affleck's wedding. Well,
we we have a friend, Coop, who is a pretty
(27:46):
important person in one of the big casinos in Vegas
who loves our show. What do we know? What hotels?
Is it we're talking about? Uh? Slug No, no, no,
Slug works at a restaurant. But there's another guy that's
a big fan of the show that works. It's kind
of like a VIP. Oh I didn't know. I didn't
know that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna do some research. Yeah,
(28:06):
see if you can find that anyway, let's welcome in
our contestants. We have Uncle Mo from Brooklyn. Hello, Uncle Mo,
Good morning, Ben. How are you my guests to site
to buy this form of Mets legendary closer Braden Looper?
All right, good to get that in there. Always always
can you can never go wrong with Braden Looper. And
(28:28):
tough day for your Mets there as they I'm a
Yankee fan and I went to the game tonight. I
am so ticked off by one game I go to
a year and yeah they lost. Yeah, that's unfortunate. I apologize,
but no, thank you. The last month they've lost a lot.
So anyway, a lot they haven't hit. Yeah, hold on,
Uncle Mo, you're gonna play our game. And Eddie picked
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door number one or door number two? Go ahead, number one?
All right? You have picked Brett in Ohio. Hello Brett, Hello, Brett,
you're on the right now. This is so exciting. Yeah,
I'm sorry to go ahead all right? And what part
of Ohio are you in there? Brett? Ben Lee Ohio? Yeah,
(29:14):
how's life treating you? Homa, Ben Roethlisberger. H Now you
get me started on it. Not a fan, not a fan,
I not comment. Oh is there a past and he
steal your girlfriend or something like that? What happened? Oh,
(29:36):
you can't steal anyone of my girlfriend? Okay, all right,
I don't know if I want to follow that up.
But you're a man. A few words there, Brett man
like myself. And what kind of work do you do? Brett?
I am a loader for a paper tech company. Okay, well,
(29:56):
very good, you're gonna play our game. Hold on a second,
go back to Uncle More? Uncle More, who would you
like to partner up with? Give me carpool Benny? That's right,
carpool Benny. I'm there the key h and Brett in Ohio? Brett?
Who would you like to partner up with? Brett? You got?
Oh my gosh, you know Mo had to pull a
(30:16):
fast one on me because he knew I was gonna
pick you Ben, So I'm gonna go last, Robert. Oh
look at that. You don't want to play with that cheat?
A ready? Huh? Interesting? All right? Hold on a second,
and uh, what are the categories here? Coople loop, Let's
get that out of the way here quickly, please else
(30:37):
all right? Uh? The categories are two hundred cigarettes, smoking, aces,
argo and the way back all right, Mo, which category
would you like? Two hundred cigarettes? Two hundred cigarettes it is?
And Brett? Which category would you like? Brett? Um, I
(30:58):
didn't hear the last two. I couldn't tell those Argo
or Fargo. Yeah. Argo, Well yeah, I don't think Ben
Affleck was in Fargo. But yeah, so Argo is the
category and the way back. I haven't seen either one
of them. Let's go with Argo. It doesn't really matter.
It's just the name of a category. It is completely irrevant.
(31:18):
But anyway, hold on a second, we were going to
have Maller's Mountain of Money. My god, is this exciting?
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(32:01):
Jokes and outlive from the Fox Sports Radio studios. It's
Ben Maller and away we go Malor's mounting of Money
and let's get right to the game. We have our
contestants ready to go. Uncle Mo was on the air first.
He has matched up with me and Brett in Ohio
is with Roberto and it's the ben Aflac Edition. Uncle Mo,
(32:23):
you picked two hundred cigarettes, I believe correct. All right, yeah,
we'll put forty five seconds on the clock. We need
the first and last name. Good lunk, Uncle Mo. These
athletes all smoked cigarettes. Here we go. Quarterback for the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers right now, former Patriot, that is correct,
(32:44):
star of the Minnesota Vikings, and he went on to
play for the Patriots as a wide receiver. And yes,
he broke this single season home run record for the
Yankees and Babe Brother, Yes coach in the NFL, known
as the Tuna for the Giants and the Patriots. Yes,
(33:05):
Lakers Center. In the nineteen nineties at a Yugoslavia, he
was traded for Kobe Bryant. Yes. Nineteen sixties Chiefs quarterback
Hall of Famer. He just entered Hospice number sixteen for
the Chiefs in the sixties and seventies. Oh, alright, nineteen
nineteen seventy all right, all right, all right, hundred sixties
(33:27):
right here, Len Dawson, Len Dawson, Oh, all right, moving
over to Brett and Roberto. You guys picked Argo, you
got forty five seconds. These athletes were all born in
nineteen seventy nine. Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin,
all right. This white guy was the quarterback of the Saints.
Recent he retired. UH win a Super Bowl against Payne
(33:49):
Manning out of Purdue. Drew Brees. Uh the Santegotarians running
back out of TCU played with Drew Brees, Ahilip Rivers
and Tom That's right. This defensive lineman recently made the
Hall of Fame for the New England Patriots, went to
University of Georgia, played for the Raiders, defensive running back
(34:10):
for the Ravens the two thousands of rush for two
thousand yards won a Super Bowl with them. Darren McCadden
nah third basement for the Dodgers. Uh. He signed as
a free top with the Seattle Mariners. Played for the
Rangers the Hall of Famer. No, not your bad luck
(34:31):
for Refert, Richard Seymour, Jamal Lewis, Adrian Beltrey. You got
thirty points. That sucks. That's terrible. All right, you get
to go again. Let's see what you do better here?
Which category would you like? You have? The way back
or smoking aces bred smoking as all right, smoking aces.
(34:57):
Here we go forty five seconds on the cockleys athletes.
We're all born in Vegas. You're on your way go
all right. This guy was a point guard for the
Running Rebels with Larry with Larry Johnson, Stacy Agman, You
and r V Path running back for the Dallas Cowboys
out of Oklahoma played with U uh no, no no.
(35:19):
The other guy he was the guy running back before
um no, no, no, no, out of Oklahoma. Um. This
guy suck. Mind, bro, you can't. There's no cheating going
on here, Roberto, please all right? Em Smith went to Florida.
(35:43):
Oh look at Eddie's admitting he wishes the cheating. I
said better off, You said better off cheating? You would
be better all right? Well, Brett, sorry that Roberto threw
in the towel on that. Let's play the game. Let's
play the final category. Uncle Mo. These athletes are considered
some of the best sleeper pickst I forgot to write
(36:04):
the definition. They came back to coach the matter all right,
Star Star, shut up, star center for the Knicks in
the nineteen eighties. Yes, uh coach of Michigan right now
he played quarterback. Yes, and uh coach at Georgia right now,
Kirby Smar. That is correct. Star. Let's move on. How
(36:27):
about closer for the Angels in the nineteen nineties and
early two thousands. White guy, Yeah, you got it right.
We was the game. Yeah, there no chance against, no cheating.
I win the game. It's amazing, no cheating. I won
like I had no chance against. Uncle Great job, Uncle Mo.
Hello and welcome. It's our Nameber three, hour three of
our radio program. What do you make of the latest
Kevin Durant chatter around the NBA? Did the Nets change
their deal with Kevin Durant? Is it true that Katie
(00:20):
doesn't care about his reputation? Will discuss that in many,
many other angles. I should say right now in our
number three to retire or not to retire? Question asked
by Shakespeare back in the day. Welcome. In the beginning
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to get you through the week. Our lead this hour
coming from the NBA. Interesting story here is some new
turbulence under the Brooklyn Bridge. Kevin Durant had a hissy
fit and demanded to be traded through surrogates. He is
currently stuck in a holding pattern circling JFK Airport. He's
(01:50):
upset by that and if KDS not happy, nobody's happy.
We've said this before, We'll say it again. Have you
heard the latest? Maybe now so stories have been bouncing
around the blogger sphere saying that Kevin Durant was actually
more apt to retire than play against the Brooklyn Nets,
and that story bounced around part of the day. NBA
(02:13):
insider and former saddleback outro Mark Stein said that an
exec had told him during summer league that the situation
was such that Durant maybe overtired. Situation has not improved
since then, said, if Durant hasn't been traded by training camp,
(02:34):
there is a growing expectation in league circles that's good
weasel terminology, that he meaning Durant, will continue trying to
cause as much of a ruckus behind the scenes who
prod the Nets into lowering their asking prize, and it
last to facilitate a deal. Now he wants to still
(02:56):
play for the Heat or the Sun's bodies open to
playing in ball Austin or Philadelphia. Now, after that story
bounced around, triple drib dribble, bounce, bounce, bounce, it bounced around,
mark Stein got very upset because the blogosphere, the people
that aggregate sports news, they took what Sneyin wrote and
(03:19):
they made headlines out of it. He said, hey, wait
a minute, I never promoted the retirement idea. I just
included that to set up what I was getting at.
This was on his sub stack, which is where mark
Stein is at now. But the great thing about the
blogs is you don't have to pay for all this
paid content. You can get some of it for free.
People aggregate it and share it with you. Well, the aggregators,
(03:42):
wanting to get clicks, went with Durant's going to retire.
Durant has said to apparently not care about what he
what you know this does to his reputation and he
hasn't played a single game yet under the four year,
one hundred ninety four million dollars contract extension. Morone, how
about that one hundred ninety four million, You're unhappy? He
(04:02):
signed that in August of twenty twenty one. Durant also
responded on social media. Of course he did to harpoon
these stories. So let us discuss the question, what do
you make of this latest Kevin Durant. Chatta chat chatta.
I've got seat belts, Lego movie and line cook and
(04:27):
we're gonna put all of these things together, and we're
gonna make a sour puss is what we're gonna make,
because that's Kevin Durant's a facial expression. And here we go.
Number one, Kevin Durant can write the book on being unhappy.
He can write the book on that when you make
a lot of money. And that's what makes a story
(04:50):
like the initial reporting believable. The track record right when
given the opportunity, he is finagled his way around the NBA.
When Durant left the dust Bowl, he was a free age.
Had it made. They worshiped him in small town, Oklahoma City.
How great Kevin Durant was. Again after his time was
up with the Warriors, he exited stage right, went all
(05:15):
the way to the East coast. And this time it's different, right,
The message coming from the cockpit is clear, ladies and gentlemen,
the captain has not turned off the fastened seatbelt sign
indicating that it is not safe to move around the cabin.
And so Durant I mentioned he has not played a
game under this one hundred and ninety four million dollars extension,
(05:35):
meaning that he is strapped to a bed of money,
like he's got all the money in the safety deposit boxes.
And there's no wig a wiggle wiggle, there's no wiggle room.
If he retires, that's it, finito done. Durant won't be
a free agent until twenty twenty six, and he shot
all this down. He'll be thirty eight years old by then.
This is the last meaningful contract that Rant has. I mean,
(06:01):
this is it right, This is the one for Durant.
And so the retirement noise was no bueno. It was
a no bueno situation. But every man, woman and child
knows this, and it's it's like the old Mark Twain quote.
We bring this up a lot. He's the one credited
was saying it a lie can travel halfway around the
world while the truth is still putting on it shoes.
(06:23):
I don't even know if Twain actually said that or not,
but everyone said he did, so we just go in now. Secondly,
page two, did the Nets change their deal with Kevin
during Now this is the popular pick by popular people.
It's been tossed out by surrogates of KD and his
band of merry men. Are taking a page out of
(06:44):
the script of the Lego movie Good Cop, Bad Cop.
And that's what this is. It's a psychological tactic used
to curry public figure a favor. I should say Durant,
he wants you to believe that he is the innocent
victim of a circumstance, that the NETS franchise was so
(07:07):
horny for KD and Kyrie that they made a faustian bargain,
and everything would have been fine if it hadn't been
for you meddling executives. But the way I've I've heard
from people I know who work in that industry that
Durant had and still has a final cut on major
(07:30):
roster moves, that he has to rubber stamp the players
that come to the Nets. He's got a similar package
to what Lebron has, what Kyrie and other headliners Kauai
I should say have I mean around the NBA. So, unfortunately,
Kade has had butterfingers when it comes to roster moves,
(07:50):
and he's signed off on a bunch of moves that
have not worked out. He's picked the wrong puzzle pieces
that don't fit the puzzle all right. Final point, So
is it true that kd doesn't care about his reputation? No,
I'm shaking my head. No. Even in this particular story
(08:14):
from Markstein, the NBA Insider, Kevin ended up responding to it.
As we said, he could not stop, he could not
help himself. Why Durant has the skin of a salamander.
He's got salamander's skin. It's very thin. He's very sensitive,
and it drives him batty that people will goof on him.
(08:37):
And they still goof on him for joining the Warriors
and then leaving the Warriors. And so Kat's like a
line cook. He's had so many burners going and all
of this, these burner accounts. He did this on his
regular account, but the burner accounts used to attack those
who besmirch his good name and those that it's him
(09:00):
to trash. Kevin Durant, he comes right back at right
back at it. Furthermore, Durant grumbled that most people will
believe unnamed sources over me. But if it's anyone out
there that I'll listen, I don't plan on retiring anytime soon.
He said, The ship is comical at this point. I
(09:23):
think there was a different letter there. I don't think
he used P. I think there was a different letter
that he used. So let me help touch up Kevin
Durant's work here. The reason people will believe unnamed sources
over an athlete like yourself is because ninety nine point
nine percent of athletes will lie to your face. They
(09:45):
feed the dumb dumb's fertilizer. You get a bag, you
get a bag, You get a bag, you get a bag.
Everyone gets a bag of fertilizer. That's it's right, that's
on the records, Eliza says camp over and over. That
is fertilize. The good stuff comes off the record from
(10:06):
unnamed sources. That's the good stuff. It is the Bannet
Maller Show. You can determine whether this is the good
stuff or not. That's up to you to decide. But
we are here five nights a week, and on the
weekends we've got a podcast spinoff of this particular radio program.
We'll take your calls if you'd like to be part
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven
(10:28):
seven nine nine six sixty three six nine. You can
join the festivus of talk nonsense. Time now for the
Maller Riddle of the Night. A blatant attempt to try
to engage you to listen a little bit longer and
we will give the answer coming up here in just
(10:48):
a few minutes. But here's the Mallard Riddle of the night.
Let's see how creative you can get. Big Burley Slugger
Pete Alonzo gave manager Buck Showalter blank during a recent
Mets pitching change. Pete Alonzo, the Big Burley slugger the
New York Metropolitans, was spotted giving manager Buck show Walter
blank during a recent Mets pitching change. That is the
(11:14):
Mallard Riddle. The answer, we'll get to it here and
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(11:58):
big one too, I think, and out Live from the
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the Mallar riddle coming up also later this hour Maller's
Mounting of Money. I've had some epic cheating scandals. Eddies,
Yeah he was part of it with shame. But we'll
see what happens today. On Mallard's Mounting of Money, Ozzy
(12:23):
wa said that me finding my pen earlier, He says
he thinks I was excited about finding my pen. As
Deshaun Watson gets around, a musus and a furg dog
pointed out, good job with that pen. Another win for
Big Ben. Well, thank you, ferg Dog. Here's the Mallar riddle.
(12:44):
Petlonzo gave manager Buck Show Walter blank during a recent
Mets pitching change. It was caught on camera. Many people
surprised by this. Furg Dog says his undivided attention. Now,
that would be something Luke the vending guy's going with
Fred Durst as the answer. Who else do we have?
(13:09):
A late night truck Tester says The answer to the
mala riddle is a wet Willie. Now that would be
something Oscar going with a B twelve shot. Yeah, Daniel
Ohio says on the mound, reach around is the answer.
One that would be impressive if Pete did that to
his manager. Alf the Alien Opiner says, mercury in retrograde.
(13:33):
That is what Pete Alonzo gave Buck Show, Walter, and
Sawman says, A tin of sardines is the answer. Robin
Vegas says the answer to the malor riddle, Pete gave
Buck Show, Walter, hookers and cocaine. That that is the selection.
Who else do we have? Just? Josh says the phone
number of Fernando Tatissa's barber chip in the ques Is
(13:58):
going with a bouquet of hours as his answer. The
fun House Accounts says it's a new tennis racket. Donkey
Sausage going with a bottle of Doc Mike's Magic Elixir.
Atomic Weggie was guessed by a riek in Minnesota. That
would be impressive. Side eye look from Eke and Rosalem Minnesota.
(14:21):
Miguel on Fires going with a full body massage and
that's that's impressive. And who else do we have to see?
Page Dad at m from Johnny Q. Monkey Pox guest
by Chris. That's interesting as well, Eddie, do you have
an answer to the Mallar riddle? Yes, he gave him
an intimacy kid, Oh, an intimacy? Oh yeah, you get
(14:42):
that in Vegas when you it's so you tell us. Yeah.
I got charged one time in Vegas. I got charged
with everything at the mini bar. I checked out of
the hotel, I got the bill on my credit card.
They claimed that I bought every single item on the
mini bar and I had to contact the hotel and
say I didn't know. I looked I was locking the
mini bar at how overpriced everything was. I'm the cheapest
(15:03):
person in the world. I did not buy every item
of the mini bar anyway. The answer to the malar riddle,
Pete Alonzo gave manager Buck show Walter a stack of
lottery tickets during a recent Mets pitching change for no
apparent reason. In his back pocket, he had lottery tickets
gambling or dare I thought gambling was illegal in baseball?
(15:26):
How dare him? I can't believe that, Pete Rose, What
do you think about that? Pete? Yeah, all right, let's
go to the phones and or we will say hello
to Kevin in Omaha, Nebraska. Hello, Kevin, you're on Fox
Sports Radio. Hey, what's up? I want to start. I
(15:46):
want to I want to start by amen. When I
remember when I first started calling, you're kind of rude.
That's why I said, it's like the holli at hall
at Mala hour, because everybody should call in at holler
at you, thank you, holler at him. And then you
have at your crew. And you know when you change
is when you started having them sweeties calling the show.
And then he started changing. Man, So you believe Kevin
(16:09):
that I was a complete douchebag. And then some women
called the show, and then I became guys because I
had you feminine the perspective women call no. No. When
when the girls started calling, then they you started lightening
up a little bit. No, all right, Well maybe you
were listening when I was having a bad day. I
don't Anyway, Well, I'm gonna talk about I'm tired t
(16:31):
you man hate doing the cowboys. Man talking about the culture?
Ain't no good man? First of all? Uh? And he
from who was the seahouse coach went up? They had
h the guy that made it to the Super Bowls.
I can't think of anything before Pete Carroll and Mike
home Run ago, the guy the guy that coast Uh,
(16:51):
Brett Farr, Yeah, super Bowl, Mike home Yeah yeah. And
he's from and uh and from home Home Run's uh
coaching tree. So they can't sit here and tell me
an he's from Bill Walsh's coaching tree. Well, that's true.
I'm gonna mention that man. You know, Bill wos is
one of the best coaches. Are we doing for the
culture here? We're talking about trees? Is that we're talking
(17:13):
about how's how's the rich how's the rich coach type
coaching tree? How's that looking? No? He stuck? You know
who's not you know who's not down on the Dallas Cowboy.
Did you see I read this the I was gonna
do a rant about this, I said not to but
did you see what the former? No? No, no, no, no,
(17:35):
Michael Irvin. Do you see what Michael Irvin said? No?
Are you sitting down? Yeah? I'm sill man. Are you probably?
Are you having a nice drink? Are you having a beverage? Yeah,
Paul Mason, of course. That's why. That's why I'll be
cooking out there. So I'll be doing I want to
chop it open. All right, I understand, just a couple
(17:55):
of guys talking to you, but listen, this is this
is wild to me. So my cool Irvin thinks that
the Dallas Cowboys are going to go undefeated this season.
He believes the Dallas Cowboys are gonna go under I
tell I'll tell you what they will do. They will
live the scoreboard. Okay, then I was gonna say something
(18:17):
else to uh. I have made a few notes. Oh yeah,
you're prepared. But yeah, that's that's why. That's why I
like the Cowboys though, man, because I'm gonna tell you
that the coach man, it's not up to the coach man.
The coach would be a good coach. It's up to
the players, man. You gotta know how to manufacture and uh,
(18:38):
you know, make it happen. That's why I'm a big
fan of Roger Stobock and Bradshaw. And first of all,
I have to get credit to Brady. I'm glad I
was around to see Brady played in because that was awesome.
But I like to know how h Terry Bradshaw's playoff
recommend because he was unstoppable, man, you could well he well, listen,
I did some stuff with Terry back. Was he unstopped bowl?
(19:00):
Or was he the quarterback of a team that had
a dominant defense and that made them unstoppable? That's two.
That's when he had to wire receivers. Man. But you
have to check out how Branshaw started. When he he
was a chump. When he first started, he stuck and
his coach didn't like him. And then he kindly grew
as a quarterback and he learned, man, and that's when
he started winning. Dude, I'm trying to tell you perfect.
(19:20):
He was perfect in the supercow Let's see what how
many games are the Cowboys gonna lose here? Let's see
they played. I think they'll be about oh and two.
They start with Tampa and then they have Cincinnati at home.
That's an going to start. They'll beat the Giants. He
should beat the Giants. I'm doing the schedule game now.
Should beat the Giants. Should beat the Commanders so they'll
(19:43):
be two and two, then lose to the Rams, so
they'll be two and three to start the year. Bam,
just like that. Got to be able to make the
adjustment and make the play. He's got up to the coach,
but he can be a good coach out he wants to.
If you don't have no quarterback that can make it
happen the us L. I want to saying, what was
what was Michael Urban? What was he smoking when he
(20:04):
said this that they would go undefeated. He said, if
you clean up the penalties. He said, though, I go undefeated, Kevin.
That's insane. That's why I like the coaster this year
because I think Matt Ryan and uh their coaches like
a match made in heaven. I think Matt Ryan will
have a hell of a year. And I got your hat.
I'm going I'm going to store to morrow, me and
my daughter. I'm gonna get your hat. All right, don't
(20:25):
don't worry about it, but I would like that. But
thank you, all right, buddy, all right, thank you Kevin.
It's like a father daughter bonding trip out to the
store to get a nice hat. Problem a big head.
That's the issue there, big brain, big head, then my problem,
my entire life. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show weekday, said two am Eastern eleven
(20:47):
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Does that is that interesting? With all jugs on Steroids sure, Yeah,
why not? Well, that is what they are calling the Seeker.
It is a new tool that the Green Bay packers
are using. They're referring to it as the Jugs Machine
on steroids. Apparently, this contraption simulates passes as well as
punks and kickoffs. You can project a football seventy five
(22:00):
else per hour and can pump out five hundred footballs
in an hour. That's a lot of balls, it is. Yeah,
it's a lot of balls. Have you seen a photo
of this thing? I saw a video of it actually,
and the guy's using it with the US got the
iPad kind of as the controller there. How much does
that cost? Oh? I don't know. It's a good question.
(22:20):
I wanted to buy one of those things. You're not
gonna see those at your local high school unless it's
a private school, right, Public schools won't have that. No,
you're very private, yah, I mean who's gonna I mean
they kind of make it seem like you can, like
if you you know, you don't eat a quarterback or
a kicker to practice things, you just need this machine,
but you need somebody to like load it full of
the footballs and whatnot. You can't just really do it
by yourself. I don't think did you know anyone when
(22:43):
you were a kid that had a pitching a jugs
pitching machine. No. I knew some kids who had like
batting cages in their backyard. Yeah, but it didn't It
was just like they just hit it off the tee.
Though I don't think they didn't have Actually, I was
a kid that had so jealous he had a jugs
pitching machine. I'm sure the neighbors were thrilled, but I
was like, man, that's like the coolest thing. If I
(23:03):
had that, I would be in the big leagues. I
would have been retired now, I'd been living on an
island somewhere. But I my parents could not afford a
jugs pitching machine. So I went into radio. That's what
I did. I threw a you know, a ball on
the roof and then he would roll off and I
catch it. That big thing. Well, I was the greatest
in the whole shortstop against the garage door with a
(23:25):
tennis ball. I'd make like the backhanded move I chucked
the ball. Also, I was able to jump up even
though I was obese as a kid, I was able
to jump up against the garage door and take home
runs away from Ken Griffey Jr. It was amazing it,
Gary Pettis, I'm going even older than that, Gary pett
It was great. I could jump over that fence. Oh
(23:47):
it was awesome. But for some reason, my talent did
not matriculate to the field. I didn't. But the garage door,
I was very good at that. Do you think there's
any kids left that go out and just throw the
ball against the ground? Of course, now we're dinosaurs that
he No one does that. Why would you do the
video games? Who's doing that? The only kids that do that?
(24:08):
Nobody does that. No, it's archaic. All your other friends
video game? Well there is that, Yeah, there is that.
Make your own entertainment, Yeah, all right, it is the
Band Mather Show. So I have something in common with
Andy Reid. Yeah, yes, you do Bluck management. Yeah no
no no no no no no no no no no
(24:29):
no no no no no no. And I read this
earlier and I wanted to share it with you. So
Andy Reid revealed that he had some downtime after the
NFL season because the Chiefs didn't go to the Super Bowl.
They lost the Bengals in the playoffs and so Andy
revealed that he traveled across the globe and across the
Atlantic Ocean. He and his wife went to Italy. And
(24:49):
I said, well, who cares about that? I mean, I'm
sure all these guys make a lot of money. They
go to night's vigation, They're very rich. These are wealthy
people in sports. No one's poor in professional sport. They're
all wealthy. But Any revealed that when he got to Italy,
he told the story when he first arrived there, a
(25:10):
local said, hey, local in Italy says, well, what kind
of wine do you like? And uh, Andy said, I
don't drink one? And uh and then the guy said,
well what about coffee? What kind of coffee like? And
Andy revealed that he does not enjoy coffee and I
have those two things in common. And did they ask
(25:30):
him about cheeseburgers? Well, yeah, they said, well, you don't
like wine, you don't like coffee, why are you in Italy?
And he said, quote, I like to eat, is what
he claimed, according to Peter Kings, And someday my wife
would she's got family from Italy and she would like
me to go to Italy. And that'll be my will.
I will copy that I don't drink wine or drink coffee. Oh,
(25:53):
and that in common. I had a fantastic time in Italy. Yeah,
I'm sure it would be great. But most people when
they find out you work overnight, so they assume you
drink a lot of coffee. But do you I also
don't drink coffee. However, Roberto, Roberto drinks enough coffee for
all three of us. That's yeah. Roberto's bouncing off the walls,
caffeine covered walls with the He's got it right there,
(26:17):
he's got do you hear that? You know what? I
got water? But we have good ice here, Eddie, But
I have good ice at home. Now I have nice
ice at the Mallar Mansion. We've improved our ice game.
So yeah, anyway, all right, that's up. Why don't we
introduce our contestants. Now, Malar's Mountain of Money? Do you
(26:40):
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
And it is the ben Aflac edition of Mallar's Mountain
of Money? Who had a birthday? The Big five? Oh
for ben Afflack. So he's good. When another ten years
then it all goes downhill? Is that all right? Yeah? Okay? Actually,
(27:00):
I think he's getting married this weekend. Is he to
Jlo again? Oh? I thought he already got married. They're
a shotgun wedding in Vegas. Yeah, well maybe they're doing
like the formal wedding. Yeah, are you going? No, going
off the check. I'll check my emails, see if I
got an invite on that. You know, guys named Ben
(27:23):
have to stay together. Okay, Yeah, they're doing their whole
wedding party this weekend. Oh where's it at? Is it
in La Boston? Where's it? Let's see where's Vegas? Oh,
it's gonna be in Vegas. I will be there. Interesting,
I'm gonna try and crash Jlo and Ben Affleck's wedding. Well,
we we have a friend, Coop, who is a pretty
(27:46):
important person in one of the big casinos in Vegas
who loves our show. What do we know? What hotels?
Is it we're talking about? Uh? Slug No, no, no,
Slug works at a restaurant. But there's another guy that's
a big fan of the show that works. It's kind
of like a VIP. Oh I didn't know. I didn't
know that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna do some research. Yeah,
(28:06):
see if you can find that anyway, let's welcome in
our contestants. We have Uncle Mo from Brooklyn. Hello, Uncle Mo,
Good morning, Ben. How are you my guests to site
to buy this form of Mets legendary closer Braden Looper?
All right, good to get that in there. Always always
can you can never go wrong with Braden Looper. And
(28:28):
tough day for your Mets there as they I'm a
Yankee fan and I went to the game tonight. I
am so ticked off by one game I go to
a year and yeah they lost. Yeah, that's unfortunate. I apologize,
but no, thank you. The last month they've lost a lot.
So anyway, a lot they haven't hit. Yeah, hold on,
Uncle Mo, you're gonna play our game. And Eddie picked
(28:51):
door number one or door number two? Go ahead, number one?
All right? You have picked Brett in Ohio. Hello Brett, Hello, Brett,
you're on the right now. This is so exciting. Yeah,
I'm sorry to go ahead all right? And what part
of Ohio are you in there? Brett? Ben Lee Ohio? Yeah,
(29:14):
how's life treating you? Homa, Ben Roethlisberger. H Now you
get me started on it. Not a fan, not a fan,
I not comment. Oh is there a past and he
steal your girlfriend or something like that? What happened? Oh,
(29:36):
you can't steal anyone of my girlfriend? Okay, all right,
I don't know if I want to follow that up.
But you're a man. A few words there, Brett man
like myself. And what kind of work do you do? Brett?
I am a loader for a paper tech company. Okay, well,
(29:56):
very good, you're gonna play our game. Hold on a second,
go back to Uncle More? Uncle More, who would you
like to partner up with? Give me carpool Benny? That's right,
carpool Benny. I'm there the key h and Brett in Ohio? Brett?
Who would you like to partner up with? Brett? You got?
Oh my gosh, you know Mo had to pull a
(30:16):
fast one on me because he knew I was gonna
pick you Ben, So I'm gonna go last, Robert. Oh
look at that. You don't want to play with that cheat?
A ready? Huh? Interesting? All right? Hold on a second,
and uh, what are the categories here? Coople loop, Let's
get that out of the way here quickly, please else
(30:37):
all right? Uh? The categories are two hundred cigarettes, smoking, aces,
argo and the way back all right, Mo, which category
would you like? Two hundred cigarettes? Two hundred cigarettes it is?
And Brett? Which category would you like? Brett? Um, I
(30:58):
didn't hear the last two. I couldn't tell those Argo
or Fargo. Yeah. Argo, Well yeah, I don't think Ben
Affleck was in Fargo. But yeah, so Argo is the
category and the way back. I haven't seen either one
of them. Let's go with Argo. It doesn't really matter.
It's just the name of a category. It is completely irrevant.
(31:18):
But anyway, hold on a second, we were going to
have Maller's Mountain of Money. My god, is this exciting?
You can? Oh my goodness. We'll get to that and
we will do it next. Fox Sports Radio has the
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(31:41):
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(32:01):
Jokes and outlive from the Fox Sports Radio studios. It's
Ben Maller and away we go Malor's mounting of Money
and let's get right to the game. We have our
contestants ready to go. Uncle Mo was on the air first.
He has matched up with me and Brett in Ohio
is with Roberto and it's the ben Aflac Edition. Uncle Mo,
(32:23):
you picked two hundred cigarettes, I believe correct. All right, yeah,
we'll put forty five seconds on the clock. We need
the first and last name. Good lunk, Uncle Mo. These
athletes all smoked cigarettes. Here we go. Quarterback for the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers right now, former Patriot, that is correct,
(32:44):
star of the Minnesota Vikings, and he went on to
play for the Patriots as a wide receiver. And yes,
he broke this single season home run record for the
Yankees and Babe Brother, Yes coach in the NFL, known
as the Tuna for the Giants and the Patriots. Yes,
(33:05):
Lakers Center. In the nineteen nineties at a Yugoslavia, he
was traded for Kobe Bryant. Yes. Nineteen sixties Chiefs quarterback
Hall of Famer. He just entered Hospice number sixteen for
the Chiefs in the sixties and seventies. Oh, alright, nineteen
nineteen seventy all right, all right, all right, hundred sixties
(33:27):
right here, Len Dawson, Len Dawson, Oh, all right, moving
over to Brett and Roberto. You guys picked Argo, you
got forty five seconds. These athletes were all born in
nineteen seventy nine. Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin,
all right. This white guy was the quarterback of the Saints.
Recent he retired. UH win a Super Bowl against Payne
(33:49):
Manning out of Purdue. Drew Brees. Uh the Santegotarians running
back out of TCU played with Drew Brees, Ahilip Rivers
and Tom That's right. This defensive lineman recently made the
Hall of Fame for the New England Patriots, went to
University of Georgia, played for the Raiders, defensive running back
(34:10):
for the Ravens the two thousands of rush for two
thousand yards won a Super Bowl with them. Darren McCadden
nah third basement for the Dodgers. Uh. He signed as
a free top with the Seattle Mariners. Played for the
Rangers the Hall of Famer. No, not your bad luck
(34:31):
for Refert, Richard Seymour, Jamal Lewis, Adrian Beltrey. You got
thirty points. That sucks. That's terrible. All right, you get
to go again. Let's see what you do better here?
Which category would you like? You have? The way back
or smoking aces bred smoking as all right, smoking aces.
(34:57):
Here we go forty five seconds on the cockleys athletes.
We're all born in Vegas. You're on your way go
all right. This guy was a point guard for the
Running Rebels with Larry with Larry Johnson, Stacy Agman, You
and r V Path running back for the Dallas Cowboys
out of Oklahoma played with U uh no, no no.
(35:19):
The other guy he was the guy running back before
um no, no, no, no, out of Oklahoma. Um. This
guy suck. Mind, bro, you can't. There's no cheating going
on here, Roberto, please all right? Em Smith went to Florida.
(35:43):
Oh look at Eddie's admitting he wishes the cheating. I
said better off, You said better off cheating? You would
be better all right? Well, Brett, sorry that Roberto threw
in the towel on that. Let's play the game. Let's
play the final category. Uncle Mo. These athletes are considered
some of the best sleeper pickst I forgot to write
(36:04):
the definition. They came back to coach the matter all right,
Star Star, shut up, star center for the Knicks in
the nineteen eighties. Yes, uh coach of Michigan right now
he played quarterback. Yes, and uh coach at Georgia right now,
Kirby Smar. That is correct. Star. Let's move on. How
(36:27):
about closer for the Angels in the nineteen nineties and
early two thousands. White guy, Yeah, you got it right.
We was the game. Yeah, there no chance against, no cheating.
I win the game. It's amazing, no cheating. I won
like I had no chance against. Uncle Great job, Uncle Mo.
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Ben Maller
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