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June 16, 2023 • 39 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name. Birth three, The Lame
Joke Power Hour and Ben Malis Show recorded off terrestrial
radio limited commercial eruption. This is a Hodgepodge hour. We'll
start with Antonio Brown. Do you think Antonio Brown regrets
his business decisions when it comes to the Arena Football

(00:20):
League team in Albany which has now been kicked out
of their league? And what is the legacy of Antonio
Brown as an Arena Football League owner? Also will bounce
around go to baseball? Are you surprised by Major League
Baseball's pride policy when it comes to uniforms? Also, do
you fancy a thought on Ohio State Athletics the big

(00:44):
bread winner to the tune of over two hundred and
fifty million dollars in revenue in twenty twenty two, an
ungodly amount of money for academia and jocks. We'll talk
about that as well. Lame jokes here, it is our three.
What can Brown do for you? Well, a whole lot

(01:05):
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We're back at it again this hour and a hodgepodge.
We're gonna bounce all over the place here in the
hour three monologue. But I want to start with Antonio Brown,
who in just a few months has already determined We've

(02:09):
determined he's one of the great owners in sport. If
you've not been following this story, we mentioned it earlier
in the show, but buckle up, buckaroo, it is a
wild ride, a wild ride here. Antonio Brown purchased an
Arena Football League team in Albany. He claimed at the
time it was because his father had played for the team.

(02:32):
It was an important thing to him, and so he
had the money and he paid, he cut the check,
and now Antonio Brown has been tossed overboard. He has
been vaporized. If you didn't hear this, perhaps not now.
He hasn't been removed as owner of the team. They
didn't get take the team away from him like Donald
Sterling had the Clippers taken away years ago in the NBA.

(02:54):
But the league, the National Arena League. Who knew if
that was? I didn't know that was. Do you know that?
I didn't know National Arena League is a thing, So
they claim, after exhausting all avenues, they sent out a
pressola saying that the Board of Owners has unanimously decided
to terminate the membership agreement for Antonio Brown and the

(03:18):
Albany Empire and ab his new toy has been disbanded.
The decision, they claim, was reached after an emergency meeting.
They had a conference call all the members in good standing,
meaning the ones that have paid, had a discussion. They
talked about the Albany team failing to pay their league

(03:41):
mandated assessments because it's the operating budget each team. It's
apparently seven teams were told in this National Arena League,
and all seven have to pay share of the operating budget.
They are assigned a certain amount of money, and Antonio
Brown did not pay starting in April, and he was

(04:01):
also fine. I love this part of the story. He
was fined one thousand dollars for conduct detrimental to the
Arena League for his recent public comments. And so did
Antonio Brown pay that money? No, he said go pound sand.
He actually said something else, but he refused to pay
the fine. Now that's just the preamble. Let's get to

(04:24):
the good stuff. Now we have Antonio Brown unhinged from
this week. Abe didn't pay the fine. He's now lost
the team. But the day before he lost the team,
likely knowing he was about to lose the team. In
the Arena the Albany Empire, playing the team that he purchased,
Antonio Brown went on about a two minute wild rant

(04:49):
about the future of the team, the players for the team,
what he's like as an owner. So rather than me
give you all the quotes, I want to play this week.
We might not play all of it, but it's really good.
And my man, you got good audio. You gotta play
that good audio. My man. All right, boss, we're gonna
play it. Here's Antonio Brown. Let's go to the audio tape.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Don't let the minutia of people destrict us. This is
the last year in the NAL. Next year we're going
to the AFL. A lot a lot of owners around
here got this type of money to even be in
this league. So let's get that cure. A lot of
ny says around here. I been seeing a lot of
players chip chat about me. A lot of you think I.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Care what the NAA players say about me.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
I'm giving these guys jobs. I'm giving people careers. I'm
giving people an opportunity to live out their dreams. Yes,
I'm not gonna go back and forth with the NIA
player who's trying to be what I used to be.
So I want to be a leader. I want to
be details about my action, what I stand for, what
I represent here. I want to be clear about the

(05:54):
minutia of what we do, how we're doing things. So
I want to share the people in the media who
write negative about Antonio Brown and who lose sight of
what the truth fear is here in Albany. I didn't
come here to you know, I didn't come here to
make money. You know, I came here to represent something
that I grew up in as a little kid and
give back to the community that helps shop me to

(06:15):
be who are him today. So now let's lose sight
of why I'm here. I came back here in the community.
I grew up here to give the people here that
I grew up like me and the players here grow
like my dad, a better opportunity to live out their dreams.
I am a lobbyist.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
A lobbyist, I'm a guy who take.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
The mission and make dreams fulfilled come true. So I
want people to lose sight about who I am, what
I'm doing, and what's my purpose. You know what I mean?
As an owner, what's important winning sponsorships and tickets, right,
Not regular players that's thirty years old, just trying to
be regular in their life place bring ball April to this. No,
I'm looking for the players that ready to go to
the next level in their lives. That's why I'm trying

(06:54):
to help players fulfill their dreams. So when people talk
about me, let's be clear here that's my purpose, what
I am and what I stand for.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right, all right, thank you? Oh wow, that was wonderful.
So the question is good job Antonio Brown, outstanding? That's
our next president. By the way, that's our next president,
Antonio Brown. All right, so the question on this one
do you think Antonio Brown, behind the scenes, when you
get through the minutia, regrets his business decisions. So I

(07:27):
am shaking my head. No, I've got gummies, shrapnel, and monocle,
and we'll combine all of these things together.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
First of all, Antonio Brown, he wanted to forge his
own path, and he's a wonderful testimonial to growing up
in Albany. And what's that like. He really represents the
people of that community very well. Not interested in playing
by the book. AB is not the kind of guy
who's gonna get down there and play by the rules

(07:56):
and regulations. He likes to play in his own sandbox.
And you want him to confirm some things, No, no, no,
he's not going to confirm the payments. Any of that
stuff not gonna happen. He's an anarchist, right, He's a
rebel without a without a league. And instead of tacos,
my man, Ab he has every Tuesday, he has turmoil Tuesday.

(08:19):
Every Tuesday, Antonio Brown is about having to pay his
share unless he's not operating budget. My tuck us, I
don't need an operating budget. He's chowing down on Falla's
shaped gummies as we seek. He likes the green ones, color,
money and the legacy. What is the legacy of Antonio

(08:42):
Brown as an arena league owner? So if here's his legacy,
if Houdini and Amelia Earhart had a love child, it
would be a b a very impressive vanishing act. Antonio Brown.
He paid over one and a half million dollars, which
you know in professional sports, that's nothing right to own

(09:04):
a team. These teams in the big leagues are billion
dollar teams. But one point five million. I don't know
about your finances, but for me, that's a ton of money.
We paid one point five million and poof abra cadabra,
Gunzo seal it and it only took a couple of months.

(09:24):
And he's claiming he's gonna get the Albany team in
the other league. You want to bet dollars to donuts
that that doesn't happen. All right, now, turning the page
on that I told you we bounced around, Let's go
to baseball again, and that Dufi is Rob Manford. Now
Rob Manford and the people that Major League Baseball have
informed the members of the cartel that having players where

(09:49):
anything bearing logos for their Pride Night festivities is a
step too far. Can't do it. So he was asked
why that is, and Manford, well, rather than me tell
you what he said, let's go. Let's go back to
the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manford, who at

(10:10):
this news conference when he took potshots at the Oakland
fans and also praised the owner of the A's who's
moving the team to Vegas, and talked about how they
have to get public money and all that. At the
very end of this get together, Rob Manford was asked
about having players not wear the Pride logo, and let's

(10:33):
go to the audio tape. Here we go.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
We have told teams in terms of actual uniform at uniforms, hatspaces,
that we don't think putting logos on them is a
good idea, just because of the desire to protect players
and not putting them in a position of doing something
that may make them uncomfortable because of their personal views.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, okay, so protect players personal views, and the questionnaire
thumbs up or thumbs down on that being the real
motivation that Major League Baseball is worried about in air
quotes protecting players by not having them wear the Pride logos.
So I am going to go thumbs down on this.

(11:19):
I'm going thumbs down. I don't believe baseball at all.
And the baseball players have been made billboards for years
and the baseball if they think they would come out
ahead having players whar the Pride logo, they would absolutely
do it. But this is a measured response professional sports,
not just baseball. It's all professional sports leagues. But baseball's

(11:41):
taking a lot of it because they're going on right now.
They're all taking trapnel right. They have entered the battlefield.
There's a culture war going on. I'm not sure if
you've noticed, but Rob Manford is merely keeping the Pride
logos off the uniforms as an act of damage control. Right.
The teams in baseball and not just baseball, all these

(12:02):
sports teams this month, who they've been posting these Pride
messages and they have been absolutely getting pummeled in the
comments section, so much that some teams have not even
allowed fans to comment on a social media platform designed
for comments because they're taking so much trapnel. So not all,
there's a lot of people that are fine with it,

(12:23):
but there's a there's a good percentage of people that
are like, I'm not happy, and there's a lot of players.
And it's always been this way with baseball around baseball
players a long time ago, when I first started I
was a kid, there's always been you know, there's always
been a big percentage guys that have been very religious and
they don't agree with what's going on certain circles and
all that, and so they're they've been upset. Some of

(12:44):
them have started to speak out. Now. My philosophy is hayless.
I have a live and let live of philosophy and
all that stuff. But I have one kind of rule
when it comes to this stuff. I just don't want
anything shoved down my throat. And that whether it's religion, politics,
pictures of your kids, trying to get me to buy
time share. I don't need anything, right, you know, live

(13:06):
your life, knock yourself out, whatever, all of my life
and I just don't try to shove something in my face.
That's kind of how I live my life, and it's
gotten me to this point. I think I've done pretty
well with it. But a lot of a lot of
the businesses he stays in the sports leagues. They don't
seem to understand it. So when Rob Manford's like, hey,
you know, we're not gonna do this, We're not gonna
go that far and I want to protect the players,

(13:26):
I don't really believe that, because if they thought there
wouldn't be any pushback and blowback, they would absolutely do.
It's not about protecting the players. It's not about that.
Rob B Mamford doesn't care about baseball players. He's not
even a baseball fan. He's not. Look at the moves
he's made, that's the moves Rob Manford's made are not
that of a baseball fan. He's a businessman, he's a
labor lawyer, and he runs baseball. You're not arenly a

(13:49):
baseball fan. I don't believe that at all. Just happens
to be the business that he works in. Right and
in listen, most of baseball is they're doing things. This month.
There's thirty teams in the Cartel Baseball, twenty nine of
them are holding events. The only one that's not the
Texas Rangers, and they were getting attacked by people in
the media. But it's it's been fascinating because there's been

(14:11):
so much pushback and the teams, I don't know if
they live in a bubble or something. They think that
they're just gonna get nothing but love when they do
this kind of stuff, because it's like the f around
and find out meme going on here for these teams.
So I think that's what this is about. From Major
League Baseball. Our final final thought, let's go to college football.

(14:32):
Last quick thought here, Ohio State is in the pole
position when it comes to money, the financial pole position,
as all of the public universities that play big time sports.
We've learned that the Buckeyes generated the most revenue two
hundred and fifty one point six million in revenue last year.

(14:56):
Number two was Texas Hook them Horns. Alabama it was
number three, Michigan was number four, and Georgia was number five.
Those are the top five. So do you fancy a
thought on this Ohio State Athletics getting two hundred and
fifty two million dollars Obviously they had a lot of expenses,
but two una fifty two million dollars in revenue in

(15:17):
twenty twenty two. So this is a refresher course that
semi professional footballs here, the players are getting paid now.
The schools are making a bunch of money. It's also
why Tommy Tubberville is working as an active member on
Capitol Hill there in Congress to put guardrails up on
these nil deals because even though these schools are all

(15:39):
making a ton of money, the top schools, they want more,
get me more, I need more. They want that money
that would go to nil. Some of that money redirected
back to the schools. And you when you get out
your costume, your monopoly Man costume, you put that monocle
on the hat and all that stuff. You see the
light Ohio State, Texas, Alabama, Georgia. The others there they

(16:04):
are the park place and the boardwalk on the monopoly board. Now,
Front Office Sports tells us that forty nine public D
one schools reported at least one hundred million in athletic revenue.
Forty nine. Now, keep in mind the private schools such
as Notre Dame and the Men of Troy at SC

(16:27):
those are private schools, so the books are closed on that.
And by the way, the books are also closed for
the football players and basketball players at Notre Dame in
USC as well. But the revenue is not coming from
volleyball or softball or soccer. Wrestling is not coming from
those sports unless you're in Iowa. I guess they make
money at wrestling in Iowa. But it's the meat and potatoes.

(16:49):
It's college football, the vast majority of revenue from college
football and then some college basketball and period stop. And
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(17:13):
It can be part of the show. Time now for
the Mallor Riddle of the Day, and here it is.
Former NFL player Homer Jones died this week. He is
credited as being the inventor of blank. Guy named Homer Jones,
not Homer Simpson. Homer Jones, former football player. He died
this week. He's credited as being the investor or, inventor,

(17:34):
rather inventor of blank. That is the Malor riddle of
the day. The answer, We'll get to it, and we'll
do it next.

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Speaker 3 (18:17):
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Ben Malor.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Time now for the Maloriddle oven ame wait all right
here it is Former NFL player Homer Jones died this week.
He is credited as being the inventor of blank. The
inventor of blank sports Billy in Duluth, Minnesota. I've been there.

(18:45):
I was there when I was in Minnesota. I went
up to Lake Superior, he says the ass list Jockstrap. Well,
that's very very kind of you to come over with
that sports billy. Who else do we have? Let's see
page down here, page down. Chip and the queues got
it right, clearly cheating, so so did Freudian grip? Bad
job by them? Benito says, the answer is the inventor

(19:07):
of the bong.

Speaker 7 (19:09):
Lou Ala Me de Lou says the wild hounds that
Rome Justin in Cincinnati's property there in the Enchanted Forest,
Inca Terror says he was the inventor of the crack pipe.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
That'd be impressive. Who else do we have? Page down?
Page down? The Josh allen Weiser guessed by Brave Oh,
that's Andy the comic book that Twitter account. Who else
do you have? Snow angels from Eke in Rosewo, Minnesota.
Alf the Alien Opiner says, the bat Bong from the

(19:42):
iconic original Batman TV series. Who else do we have?
Page down? The I can't read that. We'll scoop over
that one. The inventor of the Whack a Mole arcade
game from Rob in Minnesota. That I like the Whack
a Mole arcade game. That's a fun game. I enjoy that.
Let's see here the truck stick guessed by the Sawman.

(20:04):
That's his answer. Justin and Cincinnati says, the mute button
is the way to go from the Enchanted Forest? Who
else do we have? Bagel boy says a three headed
Mallard monologue, and you nailed all three. There you go
get a triple A. Thank you for that. I appreciate that.
Who else do we have? I can't read that. A
Marbles guessed by Jeremy as the answer to the riddle

(20:24):
of the day. Ferg Doog says time Shares. I can
give you a good deal on one if you're interested.
I'm okay, I'm alright on that. I got dragged one
of those Timeshare conferences in Vegas, and I at that
moment I said, I'll never do that again. That's that way.
That's a one and done. I'll check out. I'll be dead.
I will never do that again. Who else we have?

(20:45):
Fudgie is going with the band wagon as the answer,
Nature Boy says the man Bun is the way to go.
Late night drug tester says spray cann hair. Eddie. Do
you have an answer, Eddie?

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah? I believe he was the first player to do
the touchdown spike.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Is that your answer? At it your final answer? Well?
Any the correct answer. Homer Jones, who died this week
at age eighty two, is the first person in the
history of the world to score a touchdown and spike
the ball. There you go, Spike the ball. He played
for the New York Giants. He was a wide receiver

(21:24):
before people watched football, and while in the Big Apple,
he was very good in that time for the New
York Giants, and in fact, he still holds the NFL
record for most yards per reception in a career with
at least two hundred receptions, he averaged twenty two point
three yards per reception. But for our purposes, the touchdown

(21:48):
spike was his thing. Greatest touchdown spike. Who is known
for their great touchdown spike? Who stands out the Gronk? Well,
everyone says Gronk, But before Gronk, was there anyone before
or Gronky? Really, that's it, Gronk, No one prior to that.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
They tell me. NIGGI me an aim I don't. I
can't think of anybody who did anything special with it.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
You had, You've had different years you had, Yeah, like
ikey shuffle that ended with a spike, didn't it.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
But the shuffle was the unique part, not the spike.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
But he finished it. That was like the dotting of
the eye was the spike.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, but the spike was just an afterthought.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
I don't think it was an afterthought. I think that
was the crescendo. No, you're wrong, I disagree.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
The shuffle was what it made, what made it special
That the spike was nothing?

Speaker 1 (22:34):
No, but it added a little rasthma task in the
ikey shuffle. But the final part of the shuffle was, Hey,
it's like I'm doing a pirouette here, I'm spiking.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
The spike was just like the shuffles over.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
What about the Fun Bunch? Did they do the spike also?

Speaker 3 (22:48):
But no, that was just a choreographed high five with
several players.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
They would stand in like in a circle. Yes, and
that was the Fun Bunch. All right, Well, that didn't
spike talk on the show. We'll get back to that later.
I'm sure at some point we'll take some calls. Here
is a call in show, and let's say hello to
Matt in the Valley of the Sun. Hello, Matt, Welcome Matt.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Hello, Matt.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Did not pass out. I think Matt might have passed out.
It was that part of the monologue where I talked
about Ohio State and the amount of money they made
and Matt zoomed out. Call back next week, Matt. We'll
get you on and we can talk. He's he's from Illinois.
We helped raise the guy Eddie. That's the guy we
helped raise. How I did he lives. He lives in

(23:36):
arizonasing college and he's doing his thing. But he's listened
since he was a kid and now he's almost done
with college.

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in Sports Illustrated.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
And I'm Joe Madden. We're going to be around to
talk a little bit about manageerial decisions may have accredited
to a dugout maybe in the nineteen eighties.

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I can't wait for this, Joe.

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We're going to dive into what goes on in the
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League Baseball, cars, wind, whatever else we want to talk about.

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Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
What a soccer match last night? Apparently a lot of
things going on in Vegas. It seems like at Allegian
Stadium in Las Vegas, the US taking on rival Mexico.
This one was spirited. The USA rolls to a three
to nothing lead. There were whole slew of yellow cards,
four red cards handed out for four players being ejected,
and they called the game before time actually expired for

(24:45):
anti gay chanting from the Mexico fans. Oh is that
right in Las Vegas? Yes, yes, the.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Celebrating their pride month. Yes, what were they chating? You
can say it.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
I probably couldn't say it if I knew what it was.
I think I I know what it is.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
But uh, I have an idea too. Yeah, they've done
that in the past, Yes they.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Have, Yes, I have. It's a tradition unlike any other.
But it was called uh what was the referees discretion?
There was a warning given to the fans there, So if.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Your team's playing bad but it's a tie game, you
could just start chanting that they'll end the game. I
suppose it's possible that's a cheat code. I don't recommend
that you shouldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
But well, since it was three to nothing late, maybe
that's part of the reason why they decided. You know what,
let's just uh, let's just wrap this up here. It's
get over.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
It was you know one one restaurant. They don't do it.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Those restaurants in Vegas, Eddie, aren't open all night anymore,
you know that restaurant. Oh no, A lot of them
aren't like the hotel, like the local hotel Burger joint is.
But like those nice restaurants on they close regular hours.
Oh yeah, not right, all right, thanks for that.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
Eddie.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Is the Bane Malor Show. As we continue on through
the overnight hours here, and we'll have lame jokes of
the week coming up in a couple of mons. And
let's go back to the phone's low and we'll say
hello to Jed who fled? Who's next? Hello, Jed? Who fled?

Speaker 5 (26:07):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (26:08):
Right when you started mintioning a touchdown Spikes, I was,
I was turning on the road Spikes. That guy Matt's
his phone call with Spikes. The universe must be spinning backwards,
you know, planets to compete with each other. They're weird
mathematical angles. Who knows what's going on the first hour
of the show. The guy first he was riding off
of playing trivia band, and it's just the case you're
every in and a needing information, you know, Trivier spot

(26:28):
that was a great way toward it. Harry Potter. Knowledge
is the one thing nobody in your narcoticge Harry Potter,
knowledge is one thing I'm magically in depth on. If
you get that magic in depth. Do you think the
bench you know what.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
We should do, Jed, you know what we got to
do here. We should have like a Fox Sports Radio
tribute team, and the first pick would be Steve Hartman.
That guy does a show on the weekends. He knows
every obscure.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
You cut me off, Well, no, I was.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
I was just adding to your I was just adding
to your call. I was just enhancing. I was adding
a little little spike.

Speaker 9 (26:59):
I'm sorry that.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
I swear. I heard the noise that sounded like I'd
gone off the air, and I was just like you,
you're going to pretend like you're being a you know, reasion.
I don't. I don't know what happened. There mightnt have
been drugs. Do you think do you think these future
the players in the future contracts like Bryce Harper, I
want to die on a Phili uniform. Well, the LAS Vegas.
You know a minute. Front office would be like to
negotiate that as part of the contract, but we don't
care what the hell you wear. Dude. We'll pay you
come here and you to play right field in a
Phillies uniform. I think that's part of the future.

Speaker 9 (27:21):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
What would you like to be wearing when you died?

Speaker 6 (27:25):
Jed? What would I like to be wearing when I'm
at when I die?

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Uh, the white robe in a halo on a halo?
You mean before I die?

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, that's what you wear every day, a white robe
and a halo, right, that's your outfit.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
No, no, no, dude, I'm saying blasphemy is one of
the fans that ain't can't be It can't be forgiven.
And I'm not trying to pretend like I'm trying to
sneak into it or something like that.

Speaker 7 (27:44):
No.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Really, if you if you're trying to kick baseball out
of your red rotation, what kinds of person replaces it
with soccer? If I was when I don't watch ESPN
because the hammered stickles buckcasts too hard. When Florist they
played football, I'm not gonna replace it with the Miami Hurricanes,
be Florida Gators or something worse. Well, what time of
move is that with soccer? Why don't you what's the
ship ball?

Speaker 9 (28:04):
I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Off?

Speaker 6 (28:07):
Spike off?

Speaker 2 (28:07):
What do you got?

Speaker 3 (28:09):
I gotta go, You do gotta go because you don't have.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
The energy only in the match up with a normal
ushion like me.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Thicker got the.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Getting an interaction right there, getting and they're getting an
argument in a fight normal person like, absolutely, no question
about it. Yeah, it's great. All right, Let's see what
do we have here? Justin, uh says I bet those
soccer fans will not be stopping by to buy some
bud light on their way home. Probably not, Probably not,

(28:36):
sir scratch Off. Rights in, he says, Uh. What are
the Clippers and Harper have in common? He says, no championships?
But not like the Tennessee volunteers. Is that what you
were gonna say if you got on the air, Sir
scratch Off, you hung up your run hold earlier, So
I guess we we did get that content on the air.

(28:58):
Let's go to Alame to Loo and then we'll have
Big Band's lame jokes in the week. Hello Alameda lou
In the Bay Area.

Speaker 9 (29:05):
Ben Mallard, the Hillary Clinton of Late Night, shout out
to Justin and Cincinnati. How you doing.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Justin's a big fan of Hillary's work over the years,
big fan.

Speaker 9 (29:13):
Yes, absolutely all right. So I want to contextualize what
I'm about to say, Ben, If you had to pick
the three most rabid fan bases in the NFL, who
would you say they are?

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Go? Philadelphia Eagles, the Raiders, and then the third one.
See that I could go a couple of different ways
in the.

Speaker 9 (29:34):
Third who were good enough for me? So on the
Oakland Athletics. I live in the East Bay in a
town called Alameda. I live roughly three miles away from
the coliseum where the A's play. It's an absolute travesty
with the MLB and Rob Manfred are doing to the
Oakland Athletics. There's a fan base here in Oakland for

(29:55):
the A's and the Raiders, like you said, are proof
of that. I mean, the fans are absolutely lunatics, and
they were lunatics in Oakland, but they had an offer
in Vegas where the taxpayers are willing to pay money,
and so they skipped town. Oakland tried to keep the A's.
It's the third team that the East Bays lost in
the last what maybe six years something like that, to

(30:16):
start with the Warriors and the Raiders, and now this
it's just a travesty. They don't even have the manhood
to show on the broadcast the shirts that say sell
or the signs that say John Fisher go go piss
on a cactus.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, they don't, they don't know. They don't. They can't
show that because that's that's bad TV.

Speaker 9 (30:36):
It doesn't you know that. You know the movie Major
League right, which is, by the way, my favorite MLB
Baseball movie that's ever been made. I mean it's like
it's playing out in front of us.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah. No, In many ways, they're not going to Miami.
They're going to the Vegas. And is John Fisher an
old show girl? I don't know, John John.

Speaker 9 (30:55):
John Fisher is a nepotism baby who doesn't know a
lick about business, actually have it on good authority. He
won't even hire a licensed contractor to do his yard work.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Oh is that right?

Speaker 9 (31:05):
He lives in the East Bay.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh that's a bad job. All right, Well, listen, I
feel better now. Is that therapeutic for you? Alo Mealu?
Anything else you want.

Speaker 9 (31:12):
To add on to that Francisco Giants fan and thank
god I am, but Jesus, the getting just such a
bad beat.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Maybe the Giants will play a couple of games a year.
Throw your bone over there in Oakland.

Speaker 9 (31:22):
Well, you know what, you know what, Ben, the Giants
are in the playoffs right now. If the season ended today,
and god, I'm sure the Dodgers don't want to see him.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Well, the way the Dodgers bullpen is, they won't be
doing anything I do. Stop your giant propagad I do
have a mlburn get rid of. So I have a
Major League Baseball movie reference. So years ago the movie
Major League. If you remember, there was a the famous
characters in that movie was Serrano. Pedro Serrano, right, Pedro Serrano.

(31:53):
And I had a buddy of mine who was like
a Hollywood guy, but he got credentials to go to
Dodger Stadium. Can you have a friend of his, disheveled
kind of middleman Hollywood guy did a little bit of this,
a little bit of that. He knew everybody, and he
would take actors on tours of Dodger Stadium. So I

(32:14):
happen to be there. This is probably early nineties. It
had been a few years after the movie Major League
came out, maybe like five years six years after the
movie Major League came out, maybe maybe even a little
longer than that. So he's taken Serrano around and you know,
I say, hey, Serrano. So he introduced me to the
guy and so then I said, hey, I can you

(32:38):
I think exactly what I say. It was something about
his one of the lines he used. Maybe I said
like Joe Vu or something. I think exactly what I said,
But it was about his character in the Major League,
and he did not want to talk about His name
is Dennis Haysberg, who's He's actually done a lot of
stuff and he's been successful and all that, but he
was really offended that I wanted to talk about that.

(32:59):
But I'm like, you're in a what do you you
come on?

Speaker 3 (33:02):
What do you doing?

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Anyway, we have big bangs, lame jokes of the week
for the rest of the hour. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
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Speaker 3 (33:22):
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Speaker 5 (33:46):
Knock knock, who's there? Blame week? Blame WEEKO. It's Big
Bend's lame joke of the week man.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Here we go, lame jokes of the week. These you're
actual jokes sent in by actual listeners. We do not
have profession Hollywood joke writers, but we have hardworking people
just like you, your fellow soldier in arms, sports talk
radio consumer who happens to enjoy writing jokes. And you
can submit jokes if you want for future episodes of

(34:14):
the show. Send them in now, tonight, tomorrow, whenever. Send
them in care of Ben Mahler's show at gmail dot com.
That's Ben Maler's show at gmail dot com. And let's
get to the jokes right now. Do we have a
fake weed man? Weed Men's phone is still broken, so
I don't know. No, fake weed man. Okay, here we go.

(34:35):
What is Lizzo's favorite type of marijuana?

Speaker 3 (34:39):
I don't know what is Lizzo's favorite type of marijuana?

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Anything edible? Anything edible? That's some server. Todd the Comedian,
my bad man.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
We do have a We have a fake weed man.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Okay, hello, fake man. Okay, we'll make you that. Why
doesn't Lizzo.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Not not not Eddie?

Speaker 1 (34:57):
That was Eddie? Oh that was Eddie. Yeah, now we
have a fake all right, hurry up, fake Lizzo please
or fake out fake weed man, not fake.

Speaker 6 (35:06):
You.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Okay, all right, thank you. Why doesn't Lizzo have a boyfriend?

Speaker 3 (35:12):
I don't know why not?

Speaker 1 (35:13):
She doesn't want to share her dessert Eddie? Come on,
that's that's that's Brendan from Boston who sent that one in.
When Lizzo needs a ride, why doesn't? Why does she
only use uber?

Speaker 3 (35:29):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well, ironically, lift can't even pick her up Eddie, so
they I can't can't. That's Sofa cod the comedian. Why
does the smoke from Canadian wildfires make Lizzo hungry?

Speaker 3 (35:43):
I don't know why. Something like barbecue or something.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
No, it smells like poutine. Actually is what it smells like? Eddie,
Come on, that's from Eke in Roseville.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
I don't get it. I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Then I know. I don't know what happened to the
lack track. What is Lizzo's zodiac sign?

Speaker 3 (35:59):
I don't know what is it?

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Well, she is a capra cornbread is what the that's
her zodiac. That's from Kurt from Earth. We sent that
with Iowa. Sam's not playing along. We might have to
get rid of lame jokes. Why is Lizzo the only
one on the Nuggets bandwagon? I don't know why, because
the wagons are at maximum capacity. That would be why

(36:23):
you like that fake weed?

Speaker 6 (36:24):
Man?

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yes, what causes title waves?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Lizzo jumping into the ocean.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
No, no, Lizzo doing a cannonball, that's what causes title waves.
It's from Noah in Austin. Did you hear that Lizzo
is close to calling it quits on her music career?
Big news here?

Speaker 3 (36:43):
God, No, I didn't hear that.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, she should also call it quits after going back
the seventh time at the Buffetttie. That's from Noah. Noah
from Austin. When doctors told Lizzo she needed to get
in shape. She had a response radiating and she said,
he said, you know that round is a shape. That's
a that's a shape right there. All right, that's a

(37:05):
thank you. Yes it is Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. What's the difference between Lizzo and Superbirds retired
w NBA Jersey.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Well, Superbirds retired w NBA Jersey doesn't have any stretch marks.
That he Oh my god, that's what Gordon to call
very funny, fake weed man. Did you know that? We
man Hibbie once volunteered to join a search for a
missing person but was told to leave instead. That Yeah,

(37:37):
the authority said that his presence kept throwing off the
cadaver dogs. They didn't know what that was from hillbilly By,
He'll like, Coop, you got any jokes over there, Coop? Sure?
All right?

Speaker 5 (37:54):
So my uh, my neighbor has been mad at his
wife for sunbathing nude.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Personally, I'm on the fan. A bear was seen in swimming.
There was seen. There was seen swimming by the beach
of the Florida Panhandle last week. Yeah, near South Beach.
You could see you can also see weed man hippie

(38:20):
swimming in Debt, so a little south ager. You see,
that's a Georgian all right. What does a beer bottle
and weed man's underwear have in common?

Speaker 3 (38:30):
I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
They both can be used as a weapon. They both
can be used as a weapon. Did hear Roberto is?
Roberto is chauffeuring the Lakers owner around town?

Speaker 3 (38:45):
I did not hear that.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah, he's a bus driver, all right. Why does Roberto
respect your Marcus Russell's NFL career because he was a
bus stuff? And here's a button that's don't know that
from earth? There is big Man's lame jokes of the week.

(39:11):
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