July 31, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the disastrous results coming out of LeBron James' "I Promise School" and how he might spin the news, Alvin Kamara planning to tell "his side of the story" to Roger Goodell, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our num birth three, a hodgepodge
of an hour three. We start with a story that
been big headlines, big headlines over the weekend, Lebron James
in the Sporting News for the wrong reasons. How will
Lebron James spin the results the very low academic results
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from that school he started in Akron, Ohio. Also, Alvin
Camara plans to tell his side of the Vegas fight
story in person to Roger Goodell. How is that gonna
go over with the commissioner? And what do you think
of this underdog mindset from Tyreek Hill. We'll talk about
all that and more. We'll get to it right now here.
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It is our number three when academia punches back. Well gome.
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And our lead this hour coming from the classroom, a
place I dreaded. That's why I went into broadcasting. If
I was a good student, I would have been a lawyer.
But instead I put the tools of ignorance on the
headphones and the microphone cover and look at me now.
But our lead a wild story out of ohig, this
is gonna be a bit of a hodgepodge of a
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malar monologue. But several years ago you likely remember much fanfare.
Lebron James undertook a a noble journey. We'll call it
a noble journey to transform the lives of kids that
were down on their luck. Right. They didn't win the
genetic lottery. They happened to be in a tough circumstance,
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whether it be financially or a troubled family. You know,
the people that are down their luck right and get
you get a life's hard enough, but when you start
life and you're down on your luck, boy, it makes
it even harder. So anyway, at risk students and Lebron
embraced this. He started this school to improve the lives
of not only the students but also the parents in
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his hometown of Akron, Ohio, had big headlines. It was
given awards for this and universal applause. Bravo, bravo. What's
not to like? Well, now we found something that is
not up to standard and there is a story bouncing around.
I saw this week and several of you made sure
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I saw it because you sent it to my inbox.
So did you see this? Yeah? I saw it. I
saw it, But maybe you missed it. Maybe you're not
up on the Akron school district and what's going on
in the education in Akron, Ohio. Chances are you probably aren't,
even if you live there. So we have learned via
multiple reports that for several years, several years now have
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passed since the school Lebron's School the fall class of
eighth grade students passed the Ohio state math test. Say
what Yeah, So the eighth grade students in Lebron's school
have not been able to pass the state mandated math
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test in several years. This according to the Akron Beacon Drunk.
They tell us the last time the students passed the
state's math test happened when they were in third grade.
They're now in eighth grade. One Akron Public School official
describing the results of Lebron James' class here as discouraging.
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I think that's a kind way to say it. The
mission of the I Promise School this, according to their
own website, Lebron's website, is to help those students who
are already falling behind and in danger of falling through
the cracks. So let us discuss the question, how will
team Lebron spin spin spin this educational faux paw to
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try to position this topic is not as bad as
it would appear to be. So that is the question.
There the results which are all over the place, How
is Lebron James going to spin and his team going
to spin the results from this school? So I've got
pigeon hunting, Dave Matthews' band, and motivation madness, and we
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will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a hole in one. Is what we're
going to may're gonnake a hole in one. So we'll
begin with this. First of all, we expect Lebron James
to try to keep quiet on this. It is the
off season. Of the NBA. He doesn't have to say anything.
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He can be quiet, does not need to address the
topic at hand, and so I would imagine he'll try
to do that for as long as possible. It's embarrassing.
It's the meaning. It's a kick in the nuts, is
what it is. The assumption was, you make this nice,
shiny school, you hire a bunch of teachers, and you're
off to the races, and everything will be sunshine, lollipops
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and a's and b's and passing every mandated test from
the state of Ohio. But surprise, surprise, surprise, that has
not been the case. Lebron assumed the position everything would
be okay. It hasn't, and so Lebron's camp. But they're
gonna end up doing eventually, they will end up talking
about this. Maybe it'll happen sooner than I think. But
my gut instinct tells me they're gonna wait a little
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bit and then they will go on the offensive. That
they're gonna do some pigeon hunting and they're going to
attack the messenger. The messenger pigeon is what they're going
to try to shoot down, use some gas lighting to
try to twist the story around and muddy the waters,
if you will. While at the same time they're already
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making changes from what I read over the weekend to
this school, they're bringing in a new principle hoping that
will improve things. Now, my mom, may she rest in peace.
She was a teacher and when I was when a
little kid, and then she moved out of that business.
But when she was telling me stories about when she
was teaching as a young teacher, and she always said,
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how it's not just the teacher, it takes everybody. Like
you got to have the parents and the relatives and
the whole chain of command around a student. Otherwise it
doesn't matter what the teacher does. Very rarely will it
materialize where a student does well without those other things.
And she would get very frustrated. She told me when
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she had students who she thought was would be good
and be productive and be able to go on and
do great things in the world, but their parents or
their guardian or whatever, it was a schmuck and didn't
give a rats ass. And that happens all the time.
So I'm not giving a mulligan to Lebron because he
made some big promises. He named the school with promise
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in it, and it hasn't worked out. It's a messy situation.
And Lebron, he's the one that put his name on it.
He's the one that bankrolled it. You take the good
with the bad, and Lebron got a lot of love,
a lot of excitement, a lot of buzz and all that.
And so now he's got to take this. And if
it works out for Lebron and the school turns things around,
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then he'll get lots of love again. But the buck
stops with him. It's his name. He's the one that's
on the school, and so he got all the flowers
and all the celebration, and now the results are this
school is actually worse than the other public schools in Akron,
Ohio from what I read, that don't have Lebron's name
on it and don't have the money that Lebron tossed
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into this, and those other schools are actually doing better
than Lebron's school. Who knew all right? Now? Secondly, turning
the page from Lebron, I said I was gonna give
you a Hodgepodge. We got a hodgepot So Alvin Kamara
remember him. He's our running back for the new Orleans Saints,
and he's scheduled to meet likely on Monday, later today,
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although it might have happened on Sunday. Commissioner Roger Goodell
and Alvin Kamar are gonna have a face to face
chit chat right there on Park Avenue in Manhattan at
the NFL headquarters or adjacent and they will discuss how
he resolved his legal situation. He might remember, Alvin Kamara
went fight night in Vegas at the Pro Bowl while
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back got into a big barroom Vegas casino brawl, and
he was charged with a bunch of serious crimes. And
he got out of it because he's got money and
he's famous, and more the money part than the fame part.
But he was able to cut a check and get
out of any criminal liability from that. He just had
to pay some bills and some lawyer bills and all that.
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So Kamara says he wants to explain his side of
the story to Roger Goodell in person. These Saints running
back opining and it's up to Goodell whether or not
the discipline will take place here. This happened back in
twenty twenty two at a casino right across the street
from Caesar's Palace there and Triangle across from Bellagio if
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you're familiar with Vegas. And so Alvin Kamara is going
to tell his side of the story in person, and
how is this going to go over with Roger Goodell?
That's the question. So my vote on this one is
not well, not well. And here's why, all right, here's why.
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Alvin Kamara is going to play a Dave Matthews band song, Mercy.
That's what he's gonna ask for. He's going to ask
for mercy from Roger and maybe I'll get it. But
he has no argument. There's no I cannot think of
an argument that would justify what happened on the video,
which is available readily. Unfortunately, that's the problem for Alvin Kamar.
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He can get up there and sing and dance and
shout all about and all that. It doesn't matter. It's
very straightforward. The video does not lie. We have every
single angle cover have you seen this? Even blind Emmett,
the Seahawks fan, has seen this every angle HD quality.
They've got more cameras in those casinos in Vegas around
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the slot machines and the tables than they do with
the Pentagon and so yeah, I had all the angles covered,
HD quality and the one saving Rice. Well, there's nothing
that Alvin Kamara can say that's gonna really resonate with
the commissary. The one thing that he's got in his favor.
There's one thing in his favor, and that is the
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fact that Roger Goodell has been moonlighting this summer, driving
the mister Softy truck around. He's been serving up soft serve,
the Roger Goodell of days long in the past when
he would bring the hammer of God down. There was
very little evidence. For example, against Ezekiel Elliott of the Cowboys,
there was a situation when he's in college, got a
six game suspension. There have been a couple of other
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examples of that where the NFL went overboard. So now
things have gone the other way. The pendulum has swung
the other way. So that is the one thing in
favor of Kamar. But if it's just based on what
he says, it's like, well, mister Commissioner, this guy, you
know he punched first. It's not on camera. It's got
whatever he says, it's got to be, it's not on camera.
Or this guy was threatening me and I had to
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defend him, and things got a little carried away. But
I shouldn't be suspended, but he likedly is going to
be suspended. Minimum one game, The very minimum is one game.
It could go up, up, up and away. But the
way the NFL's gone with Goodell in recent years, the
smart money says that Alvin Kamara will miss the first
or the second game for the Saints or both. I mean,
you can miss one or two games and then that
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will be that if the trend does continue. Final fought.
So let's move to Miami, Miami, Miami on this hodgepodge
of a Mallard monologue, Miami we Go and the Dolphins
wide receiver Tyreek Hill, affectionately known as the Cheetah Cheata
Cheata Cheetah. Well, Tyreek Hill, making some headlines here, recently
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says he's using the Chiefs Super Bowl victory back in
Arizona in February to fuel and embrace the underdog mentality
in Miami to win a ring with the Dolphins. Now
what do you think of that mindset from Tyreek Hill?
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I'll tell you what. It's right out of the good book,
not that good book, the good Book of cliches it's
right out of the good Book of cliches. It's what
is out of And you take what Tyreek Hill's on
this podcast with a grain of salt. The reality is this,
if you take three steps back and you look at
what happened to Tyreek Hill, the Cheetah was humiliated. The
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Cheetah was humiliated. He took the bag. Good for him.
He got paid from Miami, and he expected his comrades
in Kansas City to crumble, to fall apart, down, down, down,
down down. But that did not happen. We know what happened.
And so Patrick Mahomes instead of crumbling down, he did
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not miss a be at least in the playoffs. You
could say in the regular season there were some signs
of slippage, but not in the playoffs. Winning another Super Bowl,
hobbling around and still getting it done. And so what
does that do. It knocks down Tyreek Hill a couple
of pegs. All right. As for motivation madness, this is
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motivation madness, the Tyreek Hill commentary. It sounds good, but
let's keep it real. It real here. Tyreek is getting
twenty six and a half million dollars to be targeted
ten times a game. Ten times the NFL team run.
On average, NFL teams run sixty to seventy sometimes more
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than that plays per game. And Tyreek Hill gets ten
of those thrown his way and he gets twenty six
and a half million dollars. Now he catches all ten
of them that they throw the ball his way roughly
ten times per game. If that doesn't light a fire
under your boute, I'm not sure what else will do
the job. All Right, It is the Ben Mahler Show.
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way as well. Time now for the Malar Riddle of
the Day. The Mallord Riddle of the Day will go
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back to the Bayou for the Malor Riddle of the Day.
No Lan Saints running back and Detroit Lion Jamal Williams
raised the ruckus in the Bayou when he said he
was not impressed by New Orleans blank Again. Saints running
back Jamal Williams recently raised the ruckus in the Bayou
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when he said he was not surprised not impressed, rather
not impressed by New Orleans blank. That is the Mallard
Riddle of the day. The answer, We will get to it,
and we will do it next.
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Later this hour, the insta advice line. Right now, the
Mallard Riddle of the day, and here it is New
Orleans Saints running back Jamal Williams later the Detroit Lions
raising a ruckus in the Bayou when he recently said
he was not impressed by New Orleans. Blank. That is
the question. What is the answer? Let's see does anyone
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listening know the answer to the riddle of the day.
And Kathy in Madison says that he was not impressed
with the Marty Gras Marty Gras New Orleans Marty Gras.
Ferg Cat formerly known as Ferg Dog, had a transition
and I went from a dog to a cat. Going
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with the New Orleans levies. Wow, okay, thank you for that,
big Greg And Iowa says they found an old radio
and asked to find the station the show's on. So
he's complaining about that, Okay. Justin in Cincinnati says, I
don't know is the answer to the riddle? Odd? There
alf the alien opiner from Springfield mess is the answer
(17:16):
to the Malay riddle of the day that the Saints
running back Jamal Williams was impressed by their beach bodies.
He said real John the Pie Guy says not happy
with their selection of fabric softener. A Riek in Minnesota
going with adult toys as his answer. Hockey rinks guessed
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by Rob in Minnesota. Calligan Tim went with hurricane hurricane
preparedness well, okay, thank you. Callgan Tim in Michigan. Kyle says,
Zion williamsons a selection in the ladies and a lot
of Marty Gras Incata went Marty Gras Parades, Chip and
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the cues got it right. Bad job by him, So
to Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Dirty bird Gumbo from Jack
that's his answer. Naked people Beaches from Andy the comic book,
Guy Eddie, do you have an answer to the Mallard
riddle of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Let's see, not impressed with the jumbalaya?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
The jumbalaya? Is that correct? No, that is not. Unfortunately,
that is not correct. It turns out that New Orleans
says running back Jamal Williams raised a ruckus in the
baye when he said he was not impressed by New
Orleans famous Benyet he's not a fan of the begnet,
he said, quote it's just a funnel cake. I kind
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of agree with him, Like you you go to the
State Fairy, you have a funnel cake and then you
have a begnet. It's the same. It's pretty much the same. No, no,
it is the same. Vehemently, will you have the powder? Well,
you can disagree all he wants, but you have the
powdered sugar on top. It's it's fried. It's fluffy, fried,
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fluffy with powdered sugar. That those are the main parts
of the Benet. And if you go to the State
Fair and you get the funnel cake, it's a similar experience.
Now the Benet is a little a little better, but
it's it's almost that's it unpopular opinion. I guess for coople,
let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Mark the full name guy in Medford, Oregon. Hello, Mark,
(19:26):
the full name guy?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Oh mallor Mark?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Now, where do you stand? Mark? On this? Forget your introduction?
Where do you stand? Benyer? Funnel cake?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
How about cheesecake?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You don't even know what a bene? You don't even
know what that is. You don't know what do you
think benet is? What do you think get? It's a
New Orleans fruit food least.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
State of Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
You don't have to go to louisianay to begnet. So
it's a deep fried, it's a pastry thing.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Uh ride cake? Nah? I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I'm not going for it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's like a fritter. You ever had a fritter. It's
a French Yeah, a French dessert is what it is.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Oh, well, that's not bad. I'll go with that.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh so, in the span of less than a minute,
Mark has done a full one to eighty on the Begnet.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Yes, on Highway eighty, Yes, and on the interstate. And
I just did a one eight right.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, what's on your mind there looking here?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Hecklefish, I'm waiting for some blockbuster trades to happen. But
this is uh, this is one of the best times
of the year for the baseball season.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Uh, how's it?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
How's the best time of the We've We've had a
bunch of trades. We We've had a ton of trades.
Over the last week or so, the Angels made a trade.
They know, you're not excited about c J. Krohn and
and Randall. Yeah, yeah, coming to the Angels because that
guy got smacked in the face with the ball award
over the week.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Those guys.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
C J.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Crown. But I don't think rand Richard was drafted by
the Angels. Actually, I think he was traded to the Cardinals.
He was drafted one slot ahead of Mike Trout. Was
a fun fact.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Well, I'm waiting for some real block buster trade Max.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Sser, Max, she was traded. That's not a big trade
for who do you want to see traded? Name a
guy you want traded right now? Go ahead, name him?
Name him?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
How about the Saint Louis Cardinals, the guys they called Goldie.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
He's getting long in the tooth. Gold I don't know
about that.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
He still can make a difference.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
That's the name of all the names in baseball, that's
the one you came up with. Oh, it's a bad
job by you. How about Pete Alonzo? What if the
Mets traded Peter Alonzo? Why not? Why not? He's a
free agent in a couple of years. Trade him?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Now, why are you trying to trade Alonzo?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
How about Aaron Judge? Maybe the Yankees will trade air
he just gave him a twelve year contracor however it
was trading. Maybe they'll trade May The Yanks will trade
Aaron Judge. Would that be a blockbuster?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
That pathetic in the postseason that the Mets on to
trade Alonzo.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Wait a minute, you just say you wanted a big
name and you gave me Paul Goldschmidt, And I said
I want a bigger name. So Peter Alonzo, that's a
bigger name.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
How many letters in Alonzo? There's more letters a Goldsmith.
It's a bigger name.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
All right. You know what you win? Congratulations, you win.
Paul Goldschmid is a bigger name.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Ben, what do you know?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Get out of here, you knucklehead out? Dare you all right? Uh? Well,
I can't. I can't argue that Goldschmidt is not It's
clearly a longer name than Alonzo. I mean that's not
even close. All right, it is the Ben Maler Show.
We'll take some more of these riveting phone calls also
later this hour, the Instant Advice line, the Instant Device
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line coming up later on. But right now, let's get
you caught up on everything going on. Games of note
Garcia we call him Eddie. There he is, by the way.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
What's in the box? You got a big box back here?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
A box box' here?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I didn't know the Yeah, I'll bring it into you.
You got to open it on the air because I'm
curious what's in there?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, what if I don't want to open? Maybe it's personal,
you know, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
But what do you I mean, what is it an intimacy, kid.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I'm not expecting anything, though I know I am expecting something.
Not not for me, It's for all of us, okay,
which I mean, I don't know if I'm supposed to
spoiling it, but but I don't say it that well,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I don't know what was in the box.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I have no idea what's in it, but I do
know who is who were expecting a delivery from Mark
the full name Kyle.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I'm not even I'm not even kidding. I know I
gave him the address last week. Oh that might be ticking.
Any you want to open that? You want to open that?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I put my ear to it.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Seven's making a noise. If anything happens, I love you all.
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And later this hour we will have the Insta advice
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but we will have What's in the Box. We'll play
What's in the Box that'll be coming up next hour
as well. But let's go to the phones right now
and we will say hello to let's see her Eenie, Meanie,
MINEU Moe. Say hello to Alex, who's hanging out in Sacramento. Hello, Alex, welcome.
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Are you sleeping? Let's see here. I hear breathing. It
sounds like breathing to me, but I don't hear snoring.
So this is one of our few listeners that does
not have sleep Appney, it would appear it's like, yeah,
there's a little bit of breathing, so he is alive.
We can report that Alex is alive. But that's that's
(26:01):
about it. Oh, I don't want to play right now.
Eddie brought the box give me the box. I'm holding
the box all right. Let's see here. Oh, you know
what this is not from? This is not from Mark
the full name guy? Who is it from?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
It is return address is in I think that's a
I think Nebraska. I think I think you know what
this could be. It's a pretty heavy box. Hey, it's
like a chant. That's what the Braves fans do with
the Florida State fans. I'm not gonna open this right now.
(26:41):
But that's expensive shipping though. Remember when it was cheap
to ship stuff?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Remember it was cheap.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Wow, that's brutal, man. Where does all that money go?
That's wild?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Anyway, Salo to a. Alex is sleeping, so we'll hang
up on him. Let him sleep.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Here.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Let's go to Angry Bill, who's in the Sunshine State. Hello,
Angry Bill.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
How you doing? Guys? Yeah, it's it's pretty tough in
this time when you get down and he's if you're
going to school and you're a kid and you can't
do math, you can't do so what who does math?
Tell me? Who on the set there does math? Every day?
Use his mathew?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I do malar math every day. I do malor math.
How dare you bespirch my name? How dare you I
do all kinds of math. I'm a mathematician.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
And then you got this college coach. The guy wants
to go on a drunk and then drink on a
binge and they fire him. He's a good coach. It's ridiculous.
The guy can get a drunk on and still keep
coaching and do what he does. That's such a.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Such Are you talking about? Bob Huggins? Is that who you're?
Speaker 5 (27:51):
You?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
You want to name Bob?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Put a snoot on on? So what he can still
coach the next day? Big deal? You don't get you
never got drunk, want to work the next day? This
is ridiculous how this country wants to pick on people.
I'm nothing but a stupid old bum and I'm a genius.
But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yes? Yeah, well, the only one that thinks you're a
genius is yourself. When you look in the mirror, you say,
I am a genius, and you repeat that mantra, I
am a genius, I am a genius. I am a
You just do that over and over again.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I know you better.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, all right, all right, we agree, Look at that
we reached a point of agreement.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Football where they're bradon kids and they do hazing and
all this kind of stuff. Where these guys get these
million dollar jobs. If you want to coach, you gotta
use your brains and just talk to kids. You don't
have to yell and scream at them. If somebody's sitting
there yelling and screaming at you all day, where you're
working better, even ain't gonna.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Work, Yes, I'm not, Yes, I would do better. I
love it, tough, love anger. And you, of all people,
you scream and yell every time you call this show.
You're screaming and yelling about something. You of all people.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
But it's about positive stuff, not negative stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Okay, just that you. I'm glad you clarified.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
You got these dummies to run baseball teams. They got to.
They have to go to school for dummies to get
a job in baseball. I mean, there's such morons and
they keep going along and they keep doing their jobs.
Did you watch a Yankee game last night? How do
you straight out strike out eighteen times?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
To me? Well, didn't Anthony Rizzo struck out five times
by himself, I believe in that game.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Did you sit there and just watch their swings. I
don't get to watch many baseball games because I'm like
the schedule situation. Okay, but I watched that game last night.
I sat there in a nice pepperoni pie, had about
six seven beers, and I'm watching these guys swing for
home runs the whole game.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah. No, it's fat. And that's something that last, you know,
about twenty five years ago. They stopped used to choke
up on the bat with two strikes, try to put
the ball in play, make the defense make a play.
Now it is swing from your tuck us and all
these guys don't.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Even need girlfriends. They choke up on our back.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Hello. All right, see all that to get that line
in Angry Bill, all of that effort, all of that
just to put that. Are you feel better now, Angry Bill?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah, they can't hit their balls when they're choked up bat.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I know. All right. You had to thank you? Okay,
all right, bye, bye, you too, you loser. Well, he
brought up the College of Football a controversy match. He
mentioned it in passing There the controversy a little bit.
I bring this up. Do you know the name of
Brian Harlan? Are you familiar with the name of Brian Harlan,
Probably not. He has had one of the most difficult
(30:39):
weeks as an agent, a high profile agent. He's a
sports agent and his clients Now, normally this time of
the year there's nothing going on. So from when I'm told,
he normally hangs out. He's got a nice, you know,
kind of vacation home there right on the shores of
Lake Michigan, and he hangs out there and enjoys the
beautiful weather in the summertime. But not now, you see,
(31:00):
one of his high profile clients is the former Northwestern
football coach Pat Fitzgerald, who was fired earlier here in
July allegations of hazing and team culture gone amuck and
all that. One of the other clients that he happens
to have is a guy named PJ. Fleck, who is
(31:22):
the Minnesota football coach. Now that not quite as big
a deal. There was a whistleblower that claimed the Minnesota
coach and the program had run amuck there in Minnesota,
and so far nothing has come of that, but the
agent has had to scramble as an intermediary as a
(31:43):
go between to work with lawyers and Pat Fitzgerald, and
they're still monitoring the situation at Minnesota to see if
anything comes out of that. But it is open season,
op in season, and this guy's a conduit between the
coaches and legal representation as they try to sort all
(32:04):
that out. I thought that was an interesting one. It
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Here on the incident advice lines, we give back to
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Who needs our advice? Who needs our advice here in
the wacky world of sports. Well, several of you sent
me messages saying that we need to give advice, unsolicited,
unscreened advice to ferg Dog. And as much as I
would like to do that for Fergie as he had
his Twitter account block and he's in Twitter jail right
(34:02):
now and people asking for advice to him, I think
Lebron James is probably a better way to go. This week.
Lebron opening these school in Akron, Ohio and a report
over the weekend that not a single one of his
eighth grade students have been able to pass the Ohio
State math test. Not a great look, So advice on
improving his school for Lebron James, and we'll go to
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the phones at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Will start out with you on line one. Hello, line one,
you're on the air Go.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
If I ever find a guy who got me suspended,
I'm gonna rip you limb from Limb.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Okay, thank you for that. That's good. You should put
that out on a tweet. You'll be suspended longer. Hello,
line too, you're on the airline too. At eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello, line two, at least your.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Dodgs is in the pick up that cheer. I would
have loved to hear you.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
No, no, I'm done with I'm done with Schurzer. How
are your Yankees doing? By the way, another strike out there,
another strikeout for the eighties. Line three, you're on the
airline three.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Hello, so take that and pop it.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Hey, that's Rob from Michigan, well soon to be Michigan.
Line three, you're on the airline three.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Go. Hopefully one of those kids have a good Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Good heart. I think I cut that off because I
knew you were about to say something that would not
make it on the air. We're giving advice to Lebron
James on how to improve his school in Akron, Ohio.
Report over the weekend says, apparently it's not working. The
kids not able to pass the Ohio state math test
line at least the eighth graders. Hello, line five, Hello,
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line five.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I know it's you, Mark, Oh Mark.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
The guys coming to get you. Line six, Hello, line six,
you're on the airline six.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Even though he's my dude, you need to find a
real dude do to win a championship in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Okay, yes, whatever or whatever he said. Let's go to
you online one at eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox Line one. You are live on the airline one.
We're giving advice to Lebron James. Helloll okay, I don't
know that that's helpful. Line too, Hello, line too.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
I'm and not for not.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Okay, thank you. It's a fake one. That was not
the real that was an impostor. According to Cooper Little,
he says the name wrong. He says Kimodo. That's not
the guy comes out of the shadows there. I mean,
think about how big fudgie is that that there's an impostor. Hello.
Line six, you're on the airline six.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Better teachers.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Hey, there is a Sean the hood guy. Just keep
throwing money at it. Lebron, you got the money. There
you go, let's go to you. Line one, you're on
the airline one.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Go, Hey the rest, Lebron like that.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Craft my friend from Maine. He's back yet again.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Line number two, you're on the airline too. Hello, I
need kosher salt and black. Yes, make sure you say
that right there as you drive the bus. Now drive
the bus. Line three, you're on the airline three. We're
giving advice to Lebron James his school in Ohio acording
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to report over the weekend and not doing so well.
The kids aren't doing so well. Hello educationally speaking. Line three, Hello,
hopefully good heart. Yes, okay, we already said that. We
already heard that. Line four. Line four, Line force, never
let me down. Hello, Line four, Hey.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Hey, Hey, I'm fat Albert.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Okay, you sound just like him. Line five, you're on
the airline five. Hello. Line five is not paying attention
to go to Line six at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Hello, line six, prefer dog No, no, no,
I didn't put him in jail. Ferg Doug put himself
in jail. Which host did he threaten? Was it? Do
(37:51):
we know who he threatened? I don't know. Line one, Hello,
line one, that's a line one.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Go on the radio, google some recipes and pretend they
you're own.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Okay, all right, you don't need to go that did
stick to attacking Robert Craft? Line two Hello, line two.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Instead of our rich Paul clients as teachers higher, actual teachers.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Here, you real teachers that would generally help. I don't
know who Lebron's hiring there to teach the kids, but
whatever's going on, it's not quite working. Line three Hello,
line three, we're giving advice to Lebron James. Hello, line three.
Uh yeah, you sound creepy too. Line four, Hello, line four.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
I hope he has other things on his mind that
other people's kids.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, okay, all right, calm down, everyone, calm down. Line
five Hello, Line five, Hi, man, are all right? Listen?
Go in the bathtub. Line six, line sex, Hello.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
God doelling. It's better than Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay, stay off the weed, all right, Cooper Lope. One
more call. Hurry up, Pegg and I will take it.
Instant advice Line Line one, Line one, You're on the
Airline one.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
For lebron Let Roberto drive the butt?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
What Roberto drive the bus? Great advice you should drive
the bus. Here
Hello and welcome. It's our num birth three, a hodgepodge
of an hour three. We start with a story that
been big headlines, big headlines over the weekend, Lebron James
in the Sporting News for the wrong reasons. How will
Lebron James spin the results the very low academic results
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from that school he started in Akron, Ohio. Also, Alvin
Camara plans to tell his side of the Vegas fight
story in person to Roger Goodell. How is that gonna
go over with the commissioner? And what do you think
of this underdog mindset from Tyreek Hill. We'll talk about
all that and more. We'll get to it right now here.
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It is our number three when academia punches back. Well gome.
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And our lead this hour coming from the classroom, a
place I dreaded. That's why I went into broadcasting. If
I was a good student, I would have been a lawyer.
But instead I put the tools of ignorance on the
headphones and the microphone cover and look at me now.
But our lead a wild story out of ohig, this
is gonna be a bit of a hodgepodge of a
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malar monologue. But several years ago you likely remember much fanfare.
Lebron James undertook a a noble journey. We'll call it
a noble journey to transform the lives of kids that
were down on their luck. Right. They didn't win the
genetic lottery. They happened to be in a tough circumstance,
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whether it be financially or a troubled family. You know,
the people that are down their luck right and get
you get a life's hard enough, but when you start
life and you're down on your luck, boy, it makes
it even harder. So anyway, at risk students and Lebron
embraced this. He started this school to improve the lives
of not only the students but also the parents in
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his hometown of Akron, Ohio, had big headlines. It was
given awards for this and universal applause. Bravo, bravo. What's
not to like? Well, now we found something that is
not up to standard and there is a story bouncing around.
I saw this week and several of you made sure
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I saw it because you sent it to my inbox.
So did you see this? Yeah? I saw it. I
saw it, But maybe you missed it. Maybe you're not
up on the Akron school district and what's going on
in the education in Akron, Ohio. Chances are you probably aren't,
even if you live there. So we have learned via
multiple reports that for several years, several years now have
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passed since the school Lebron's School the fall class of
eighth grade students passed the Ohio state math test. Say
what Yeah, So the eighth grade students in Lebron's school
have not been able to pass the state mandated math
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test in several years. This according to the Akron Beacon Drunk.
They tell us the last time the students passed the
state's math test happened when they were in third grade.
They're now in eighth grade. One Akron Public School official
describing the results of Lebron James' class here as discouraging.
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I think that's a kind way to say it. The
mission of the I Promise School this, according to their
own website, Lebron's website, is to help those students who
are already falling behind and in danger of falling through
the cracks. So let us discuss the question, how will
team Lebron spin spin spin this educational faux paw to
(04:32):
try to position this topic is not as bad as
it would appear to be. So that is the question.
There the results which are all over the place, How
is Lebron James going to spin and his team going
to spin the results from this school? So I've got
pigeon hunting, Dave Matthews' band, and motivation madness, and we
(04:54):
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a hole in one. Is what we're
going to may're gonnake a hole in one. So we'll
begin with this. First of all, we expect Lebron James
to try to keep quiet on this. It is the
off season. Of the NBA. He doesn't have to say anything.
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He can be quiet, does not need to address the
topic at hand, and so I would imagine he'll try
to do that for as long as possible. It's embarrassing.
It's the meaning. It's a kick in the nuts, is
what it is. The assumption was, you make this nice,
shiny school, you hire a bunch of teachers, and you're
off to the races, and everything will be sunshine, lollipops
(05:36):
and a's and b's and passing every mandated test from
the state of Ohio. But surprise, surprise, surprise, that has
not been the case. Lebron assumed the position everything would
be okay. It hasn't, and so Lebron's camp. But they're
gonna end up doing eventually, they will end up talking
about this. Maybe it'll happen sooner than I think. But
my gut instinct tells me they're gonna wait a little
(05:59):
bit and then they will go on the offensive. That
they're gonna do some pigeon hunting and they're going to
attack the messenger. The messenger pigeon is what they're going
to try to shoot down, use some gas lighting to
try to twist the story around and muddy the waters,
if you will. While at the same time they're already
(06:19):
making changes from what I read over the weekend to
this school, they're bringing in a new principle hoping that
will improve things. Now, my mom, may she rest in peace.
She was a teacher and when I was when a
little kid, and then she moved out of that business.
But when she was telling me stories about when she
was teaching as a young teacher, and she always said,
(06:40):
how it's not just the teacher, it takes everybody. Like
you got to have the parents and the relatives and
the whole chain of command around a student. Otherwise it
doesn't matter what the teacher does. Very rarely will it
materialize where a student does well without those other things.
And she would get very frustrated. She told me when
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she had students who she thought was would be good
and be productive and be able to go on and
do great things in the world, but their parents or
their guardian or whatever, it was a schmuck and didn't
give a rats ass. And that happens all the time.
So I'm not giving a mulligan to Lebron because he
made some big promises. He named the school with promise
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in it, and it hasn't worked out. It's a messy situation.
And Lebron, he's the one that put his name on it.
He's the one that bankrolled it. You take the good
with the bad, and Lebron got a lot of love,
a lot of excitement, a lot of buzz and all that.
And so now he's got to take this. And if
it works out for Lebron and the school turns things around,
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then he'll get lots of love again. But the buck
stops with him. It's his name. He's the one that's
on the school, and so he got all the flowers
and all the celebration, and now the results are this
school is actually worse than the other public schools in Akron,
Ohio from what I read, that don't have Lebron's name
on it and don't have the money that Lebron tossed
(08:06):
into this, and those other schools are actually doing better
than Lebron's school. Who knew all right? Now? Secondly, turning
the page from Lebron, I said I was gonna give
you a Hodgepodge. We got a hodgepot So Alvin Kamara
remember him. He's our running back for the new Orleans Saints,
and he's scheduled to meet likely on Monday, later today,
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although it might have happened on Sunday. Commissioner Roger Goodell
and Alvin Kamar are gonna have a face to face
chit chat right there on Park Avenue in Manhattan at
the NFL headquarters or adjacent and they will discuss how
he resolved his legal situation. He might remember, Alvin Kamara
went fight night in Vegas at the Pro Bowl while
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back got into a big barroom Vegas casino brawl, and
he was charged with a bunch of serious crimes. And
he got out of it because he's got money and
he's famous, and more the money part than the fame part.
But he was able to cut a check and get
out of any criminal liability from that. He just had
to pay some bills and some lawyer bills and all that.
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So Kamara says he wants to explain his side of
the story to Roger Goodell in person. These Saints running
back opining and it's up to Goodell whether or not
the discipline will take place here. This happened back in
twenty twenty two at a casino right across the street
from Caesar's Palace there and Triangle across from Bellagio if
(09:38):
you're familiar with Vegas. And so Alvin Kamara is going
to tell his side of the story in person, and
how is this going to go over with Roger Goodell?
That's the question. So my vote on this one is
not well, not well. And here's why, all right, here's why.
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Alvin Kamara is going to play a Dave Matthews band song, Mercy.
That's what he's gonna ask for. He's going to ask
for mercy from Roger and maybe I'll get it. But
he has no argument. There's no I cannot think of
an argument that would justify what happened on the video,
which is available readily. Unfortunately, that's the problem for Alvin Kamar.
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He can get up there and sing and dance and
shout all about and all that. It doesn't matter. It's
very straightforward. The video does not lie. We have every
single angle cover have you seen this? Even blind Emmett,
the Seahawks fan, has seen this every angle HD quality.
They've got more cameras in those casinos in Vegas around
(10:42):
the slot machines and the tables than they do with
the Pentagon and so yeah, I had all the angles covered,
HD quality and the one saving Rice. Well, there's nothing
that Alvin Kamara can say that's gonna really resonate with
the commissary. The one thing that he's got in his favor.
There's one thing in his favor, and that is the
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fact that Roger Goodell has been moonlighting this summer, driving
the mister Softy truck around. He's been serving up soft serve,
the Roger Goodell of days long in the past when
he would bring the hammer of God down. There was
very little evidence. For example, against Ezekiel Elliott of the Cowboys,
there was a situation when he's in college, got a
six game suspension. There have been a couple of other
(11:25):
examples of that where the NFL went overboard. So now
things have gone the other way. The pendulum has swung
the other way. So that is the one thing in
favor of Kamar. But if it's just based on what
he says, it's like, well, mister Commissioner, this guy, you
know he punched first. It's not on camera. It's got
whatever he says, it's got to be, it's not on camera.
Or this guy was threatening me and I had to
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defend him, and things got a little carried away. But
I shouldn't be suspended, but he likedly is going to
be suspended. Minimum one game, The very minimum is one game.
It could go up, up, up and away. But the
way the NFL's gone with Goodell in recent years, the
smart money says that Alvin Kamara will miss the first
or the second game for the Saints or both. I mean,
you can miss one or two games and then that
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will be that if the trend does continue. Final fought.
So let's move to Miami, Miami, Miami on this hodgepodge
of a Mallard monologue, Miami we Go and the Dolphins
wide receiver Tyreek Hill, affectionately known as the Cheetah Cheata
Cheata Cheetah. Well, Tyreek Hill, making some headlines here, recently
(12:28):
says he's using the Chiefs Super Bowl victory back in
Arizona in February to fuel and embrace the underdog mentality
in Miami to win a ring with the Dolphins. Now
what do you think of that mindset from Tyreek Hill?
(12:48):
I'll tell you what. It's right out of the good book,
not that good book, the good Book of cliches it's
right out of the good Book of cliches. It's what
is out of And you take what Tyreek Hill's on
this podcast with a grain of salt. The reality is this,
if you take three steps back and you look at
what happened to Tyreek Hill, the Cheetah was humiliated. The
(13:10):
Cheetah was humiliated. He took the bag. Good for him.
He got paid from Miami, and he expected his comrades
in Kansas City to crumble, to fall apart, down, down, down,
down down. But that did not happen. We know what happened.
And so Patrick Mahomes instead of crumbling down, he did
(13:32):
not miss a be at least in the playoffs. You
could say in the regular season there were some signs
of slippage, but not in the playoffs. Winning another Super Bowl,
hobbling around and still getting it done. And so what
does that do. It knocks down Tyreek Hill a couple
of pegs. All right. As for motivation madness, this is
(13:53):
motivation madness, the Tyreek Hill commentary. It sounds good, but
let's keep it real. It real here. Tyreek is getting
twenty six and a half million dollars to be targeted
ten times a game. Ten times the NFL team run.
On average, NFL teams run sixty to seventy sometimes more
(14:13):
than that plays per game. And Tyreek Hill gets ten
of those thrown his way and he gets twenty six
and a half million dollars. Now he catches all ten
of them that they throw the ball his way roughly
ten times per game. If that doesn't light a fire
under your boute, I'm not sure what else will do
the job. All Right, It is the Ben Mahler Show.
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If you would like to be part eight seven seven
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the Day. The Mallord Riddle of the Day will go
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back to the Bayou for the Malor Riddle of the Day.
No Lan Saints running back and Detroit Lion Jamal Williams
raised the ruckus in the Bayou when he said he
was not impressed by New Orleans blank Again. Saints running
back Jamal Williams recently raised the ruckus in the Bayou
(15:16):
when he said he was not surprised not impressed, rather
not impressed by New Orleans blank. That is the Mallard
Riddle of the day. The answer, We will get to it,
and we will do it next.
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Later this hour, the insta advice line. Right now, the
Mallard Riddle of the day, and here it is New
Orleans Saints running back Jamal Williams later the Detroit Lions
raising a ruckus in the Bayou when he recently said
he was not impressed by New Orleans. Blank. That is
the question. What is the answer? Let's see does anyone
(16:33):
listening know the answer to the riddle of the day.
And Kathy in Madison says that he was not impressed
with the Marty Gras Marty Gras New Orleans Marty Gras.
Ferg Cat formerly known as Ferg Dog, had a transition
and I went from a dog to a cat. Going
(16:53):
with the New Orleans levies. Wow, okay, thank you for that,
big Greg And Iowa says they found an old radio
and asked to find the station the show's on. So
he's complaining about that, Okay. Justin in Cincinnati says, I
don't know is the answer to the riddle? Odd? There
alf the alien opiner from Springfield mess is the answer
(17:16):
to the Malay riddle of the day that the Saints
running back Jamal Williams was impressed by their beach bodies.
He said real John the Pie Guy says not happy
with their selection of fabric softener. A Riek in Minnesota
going with adult toys as his answer. Hockey rinks guessed
(17:37):
by Rob in Minnesota. Calligan Tim went with hurricane hurricane
preparedness well, okay, thank you. Callgan Tim in Michigan. Kyle says,
Zion williamsons a selection in the ladies and a lot
of Marty Gras Incata went Marty Gras Parades, Chip and
(17:57):
the cues got it right. Bad job by him, So
to Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Dirty bird Gumbo from Jack
that's his answer. Naked people Beaches from Andy the comic book,
Guy Eddie, do you have an answer to the Mallard
riddle of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Let's see, not impressed with the jumbalaya?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
The jumbalaya? Is that correct? No, that is not. Unfortunately,
that is not correct. It turns out that New Orleans
says running back Jamal Williams raised a ruckus in the
baye when he said he was not impressed by New
Orleans famous Benyet he's not a fan of the begnet,
he said, quote it's just a funnel cake. I kind
(18:42):
of agree with him, Like you you go to the
State Fairy, you have a funnel cake and then you
have a begnet. It's the same. It's pretty much the same. No, no,
it is the same. Vehemently, will you have the powder? Well,
you can disagree all he wants, but you have the
powdered sugar on top. It's it's fried. It's fluffy, fried,
(19:02):
fluffy with powdered sugar. That those are the main parts
of the Benet. And if you go to the State
Fair and you get the funnel cake, it's a similar experience.
Now the Benet is a little a little better, but
it's it's almost that's it unpopular opinion. I guess for coople,
let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Mark the full name guy in Medford, Oregon. Hello, Mark,
(19:26):
the full name guy?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Oh mallor Mark?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Now, where do you stand? Mark? On this? Forget your introduction?
Where do you stand? Benyer? Funnel cake?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
How about cheesecake?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You don't even know what a bene? You don't even
know what that is. You don't know what do you
think benet is? What do you think get? It's a
New Orleans fruit food least.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
State of Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
You don't have to go to louisianay to begnet. So
it's a deep fried, it's a pastry thing.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Uh ride cake? Nah? I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I'm not going for it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's like a fritter. You ever had a fritter. It's
a French Yeah, a French dessert is what it is.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Oh, well, that's not bad. I'll go with that.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh so, in the span of less than a minute,
Mark has done a full one to eighty on the Begnet.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Yes, on Highway eighty, Yes, and on the interstate. And
I just did a one eight right.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, what's on your mind there looking here?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Hecklefish, I'm waiting for some blockbuster trades to happen. But
this is uh, this is one of the best times
of the year for the baseball season.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Uh, how's it?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
How's the best time of the We've We've had a
bunch of trades. We We've had a ton of trades.
Over the last week or so, the Angels made a trade.
They know, you're not excited about c J. Krohn and
and Randall. Yeah, yeah, coming to the Angels because that
guy got smacked in the face with the ball award
over the week.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Those guys.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
C J.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Crown. But I don't think rand Richard was drafted by
the Angels. Actually, I think he was traded to the Cardinals.
He was drafted one slot ahead of Mike Trout. Was
a fun fact.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Well, I'm waiting for some real block buster trade Max.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Sser, Max, she was traded. That's not a big trade
for who do you want to see traded? Name a
guy you want traded right now? Go ahead, name him?
Name him?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
How about the Saint Louis Cardinals, the guys they called Goldie.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
He's getting long in the tooth. Gold I don't know
about that.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
He still can make a difference.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
That's the name of all the names in baseball, that's
the one you came up with. Oh, it's a bad
job by you. How about Pete Alonzo? What if the
Mets traded Peter Alonzo? Why not? Why not? He's a
free agent in a couple of years. Trade him?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Now, why are you trying to trade Alonzo?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
How about Aaron Judge? Maybe the Yankees will trade air
he just gave him a twelve year contracor however it
was trading. Maybe they'll trade May The Yanks will trade
Aaron Judge. Would that be a blockbuster?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
That pathetic in the postseason that the Mets on to
trade Alonzo.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Wait a minute, you just say you wanted a big
name and you gave me Paul Goldschmidt, And I said
I want a bigger name. So Peter Alonzo, that's a
bigger name.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
How many letters in Alonzo? There's more letters a Goldsmith.
It's a bigger name.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
All right. You know what you win? Congratulations, you win.
Paul Goldschmid is a bigger name.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Ben, what do you know?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Get out of here, you knucklehead out? Dare you all right? Uh? Well,
I can't. I can't argue that Goldschmidt is not It's
clearly a longer name than Alonzo. I mean that's not
even close. All right, it is the Ben Maler Show.
We'll take some more of these riveting phone calls also
later this hour, the Instant Advice line, the Instant Device
(23:21):
line coming up later on. But right now, let's get
you caught up on everything going on. Games of note
Garcia we call him Eddie. There he is, by the way.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
What's in the box? You got a big box back here?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
A box box' here?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I didn't know the Yeah, I'll bring it into you.
You got to open it on the air because I'm
curious what's in there?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, what if I don't want to open? Maybe it's personal,
you know, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
But what do you I mean, what is it an intimacy, kid.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I'm not expecting anything, though I know I am expecting something.
Not not for me, It's for all of us, okay,
which I mean, I don't know if I'm supposed to
spoiling it, but but I don't say it that well,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I don't know what was in the box.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I have no idea what's in it, but I do
know who is who were expecting a delivery from Mark
the full name Kyle.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I'm not even I'm not even kidding. I know I
gave him the address last week. Oh that might be ticking.
Any you want to open that? You want to open that?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I put my ear to it.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Seven's making a noise. If anything happens, I love you all.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Hi, this is Jay Glazer.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
And you may know me for the world of football
or fighting or even shows like HBO's Ballers.
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Well you don't know is for my entire life.
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Speaker 1 (24:58):
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Speaker 1 (25:09):
And later this hour we will have the Insta advice
line Unscreened Radio. I think we'll save it till next hour,
but we will have What's in the Box. We'll play
What's in the Box that'll be coming up next hour
as well. But let's go to the phones right now
and we will say hello to let's see her Eenie, Meanie,
MINEU Moe. Say hello to Alex, who's hanging out in Sacramento. Hello, Alex, welcome.
(25:36):
Are you sleeping? Let's see here. I hear breathing. It
sounds like breathing to me, but I don't hear snoring.
So this is one of our few listeners that does
not have sleep Appney, it would appear it's like, yeah,
there's a little bit of breathing, so he is alive.
We can report that Alex is alive. But that's that's
(26:01):
about it. Oh, I don't want to play right now.
Eddie brought the box give me the box. I'm holding
the box all right. Let's see here. Oh, you know
what this is not from? This is not from Mark
the full name guy? Who is it from?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
It is return address is in I think that's a
I think Nebraska. I think I think you know what
this could be. It's a pretty heavy box. Hey, it's
like a chant. That's what the Braves fans do with
the Florida State fans. I'm not gonna open this right now.
(26:41):
But that's expensive shipping though. Remember when it was cheap
to ship stuff?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Remember it was cheap.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Wow, that's brutal, man. Where does all that money go?
That's wild?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Anyway, Salo to a. Alex is sleeping, so we'll hang
up on him. Let him sleep.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Here.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Let's go to Angry Bill, who's in the Sunshine State. Hello,
Angry Bill.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
How you doing? Guys? Yeah, it's it's pretty tough in
this time when you get down and he's if you're
going to school and you're a kid and you can't
do math, you can't do so what who does math?
Tell me? Who on the set there does math? Every day?
Use his mathew?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I do malar math every day. I do malor math.
How dare you bespirch my name? How dare you I
do all kinds of math. I'm a mathematician.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
And then you got this college coach. The guy wants
to go on a drunk and then drink on a
binge and they fire him. He's a good coach. It's ridiculous.
The guy can get a drunk on and still keep
coaching and do what he does. That's such a.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Such Are you talking about? Bob Huggins? Is that who you're?
Speaker 5 (27:51):
You?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
You want to name Bob?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Put a snoot on on? So what he can still
coach the next day? Big deal? You don't get you
never got drunk, want to work the next day? This
is ridiculous how this country wants to pick on people.
I'm nothing but a stupid old bum and I'm a genius.
But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yes? Yeah, well, the only one that thinks you're a
genius is yourself. When you look in the mirror, you say,
I am a genius, and you repeat that mantra, I
am a genius, I am a genius. I am a
You just do that over and over again.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I know you better.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, all right, all right, we agree, Look at that
we reached a point of agreement.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Football where they're bradon kids and they do hazing and
all this kind of stuff. Where these guys get these
million dollar jobs. If you want to coach, you gotta
use your brains and just talk to kids. You don't
have to yell and scream at them. If somebody's sitting
there yelling and screaming at you all day, where you're
working better, even ain't gonna.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Work, Yes, I'm not, Yes, I would do better. I
love it, tough, love anger. And you, of all people,
you scream and yell every time you call this show.
You're screaming and yelling about something. You of all people.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
But it's about positive stuff, not negative stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Okay, just that you. I'm glad you clarified.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
You got these dummies to run baseball teams. They got to.
They have to go to school for dummies to get
a job in baseball. I mean, there's such morons and
they keep going along and they keep doing their jobs.
Did you watch a Yankee game last night? How do
you straight out strike out eighteen times?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
To me? Well, didn't Anthony Rizzo struck out five times
by himself, I believe in that game.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Did you sit there and just watch their swings. I
don't get to watch many baseball games because I'm like
the schedule situation. Okay, but I watched that game last night.
I sat there in a nice pepperoni pie, had about
six seven beers, and I'm watching these guys swing for
home runs the whole game.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah. No, it's fat. And that's something that last, you know,
about twenty five years ago. They stopped used to choke
up on the bat with two strikes, try to put
the ball in play, make the defense make a play.
Now it is swing from your tuck us and all
these guys don't.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Even need girlfriends. They choke up on our back.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Hello. All right, see all that to get that line
in Angry Bill, all of that effort, all of that
just to put that. Are you feel better now, Angry Bill?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah, they can't hit their balls when they're choked up bat.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I know. All right. You had to thank you? Okay,
all right, bye, bye, you too, you loser. Well, he
brought up the College of Football a controversy match. He
mentioned it in passing There the controversy a little bit.
I bring this up. Do you know the name of
Brian Harlan? Are you familiar with the name of Brian Harlan,
Probably not. He has had one of the most difficult
(30:39):
weeks as an agent, a high profile agent. He's a
sports agent and his clients Now, normally this time of
the year there's nothing going on. So from when I'm told,
he normally hangs out. He's got a nice, you know,
kind of vacation home there right on the shores of
Lake Michigan, and he hangs out there and enjoys the
beautiful weather in the summertime. But not now, you see,
(31:00):
one of his high profile clients is the former Northwestern
football coach Pat Fitzgerald, who was fired earlier here in
July allegations of hazing and team culture gone amuck and
all that. One of the other clients that he happens
to have is a guy named PJ. Fleck, who is
(31:22):
the Minnesota football coach. Now that not quite as big
a deal. There was a whistleblower that claimed the Minnesota
coach and the program had run amuck there in Minnesota,
and so far nothing has come of that, but the
agent has had to scramble as an intermediary as a
(31:43):
go between to work with lawyers and Pat Fitzgerald, and
they're still monitoring the situation at Minnesota to see if
anything comes out of that. But it is open season,
op in season, and this guy's a conduit between the
coaches and legal representation as they try to sort all
(32:04):
that out. I thought that was an interesting one. It
is the Ben Mahlor Show as we continue on and
we are moments away from a fan favorite, the Insta
Advice line and who needs our advice in the world
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If you would like to recommend someone, you can send
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(32:26):
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Speaker 2 (33:10):
Hey you sports figure guy or girl goog?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Here were you talking to sons here some instant.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Advice hold that though no one's paid attention to me
for ten whole seconds.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
And if you don't like it, you, oh, we go
the insta advice line unscreened radio. The safety net is
out in a way and we will take as many
calls as we can take over the next few minutes.
Here on the incident advice lines, we give back to
the people in sports we take from all the time.
(33:40):
Who needs our advice? Who needs our advice here in
the wacky world of sports. Well, several of you sent
me messages saying that we need to give advice, unsolicited,
unscreened advice to ferg Dog. And as much as I
would like to do that for Fergie as he had
his Twitter account block and he's in Twitter jail right
(34:02):
now and people asking for advice to him, I think
Lebron James is probably a better way to go. This week.
Lebron opening these school in Akron, Ohio and a report
over the weekend that not a single one of his
eighth grade students have been able to pass the Ohio
State math test. Not a great look, So advice on
improving his school for Lebron James, and we'll go to
(34:27):
the phones at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Will start out with you on line one. Hello, line one,
you're on the air Go.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
If I ever find a guy who got me suspended,
I'm gonna rip you limb from Limb.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Okay, thank you for that. That's good. You should put
that out on a tweet. You'll be suspended longer. Hello,
line too, you're on the airline too. At eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello, line two, at least your.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Dodgs is in the pick up that cheer. I would
have loved to hear you.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
No, no, I'm done with I'm done with Schurzer. How
are your Yankees doing? By the way, another strike out there,
another strikeout for the eighties. Line three, you're on the
airline three.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Hello, so take that and pop it.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Hey, that's Rob from Michigan, well soon to be Michigan.
Line three, you're on the airline three.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Go. Hopefully one of those kids have a good Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Good heart. I think I cut that off because I
knew you were about to say something that would not
make it on the air. We're giving advice to Lebron
James on how to improve his school in Akron, Ohio.
Report over the weekend says, apparently it's not working. The
kids not able to pass the Ohio state math test
line at least the eighth graders. Hello, line five, Hello,
(35:31):
line five.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I know it's you, Mark, Oh Mark.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
The guys coming to get you. Line six, Hello, line six,
you're on the airline six.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Even though he's my dude, you need to find a
real dude do to win a championship in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Okay, yes, whatever or whatever he said. Let's go to
you online one at eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox Line one. You are live on the airline one.
We're giving advice to Lebron James. Helloll okay, I don't
know that that's helpful. Line too, Hello, line too.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
I'm and not for not.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Okay, thank you. It's a fake one. That was not
the real that was an impostor. According to Cooper Little,
he says the name wrong. He says Kimodo. That's not
the guy comes out of the shadows there. I mean,
think about how big fudgie is that that there's an impostor. Hello.
Line six, you're on the airline six.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Better teachers.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Hey, there is a Sean the hood guy. Just keep
throwing money at it. Lebron, you got the money. There
you go, let's go to you. Line one, you're on
the airline one.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Go, Hey the rest, Lebron like that.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Craft my friend from Maine. He's back yet again.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Line number two, you're on the airline too. Hello, I
need kosher salt and black. Yes, make sure you say
that right there as you drive the bus. Now drive
the bus. Line three, you're on the airline three. We're
giving advice to Lebron James his school in Ohio acording
(37:10):
to report over the weekend and not doing so well.
The kids aren't doing so well. Hello educationally speaking. Line three, Hello,
hopefully good heart. Yes, okay, we already said that. We
already heard that. Line four. Line four, Line force, never
let me down. Hello, Line four, Hey.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Hey, Hey, I'm fat Albert.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Okay, you sound just like him. Line five, you're on
the airline five. Hello. Line five is not paying attention
to go to Line six at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Hello, line six, prefer dog No, no, no,
I didn't put him in jail. Ferg Doug put himself
in jail. Which host did he threaten? Was it? Do
(37:51):
we know who he threatened? I don't know. Line one, Hello,
line one, that's a line one.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Go on the radio, google some recipes and pretend they
you're own.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Okay, all right, you don't need to go that did
stick to attacking Robert Craft? Line two Hello, line two.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Instead of our rich Paul clients as teachers higher, actual teachers.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Here, you real teachers that would generally help. I don't
know who Lebron's hiring there to teach the kids, but
whatever's going on, it's not quite working. Line three Hello,
line three, we're giving advice to Lebron James. Hello, line three.
Uh yeah, you sound creepy too. Line four, Hello, line four.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
I hope he has other things on his mind that
other people's kids.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, okay, all right, calm down, everyone, calm down. Line
five Hello, Line five, Hi, man, are all right? Listen?
Go in the bathtub. Line six, line sex, Hello.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
God doelling. It's better than Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay, stay off the weed, all right, Cooper Lope. One
more call. Hurry up, Pegg and I will take it.
Instant advice Line Line one, Line one, You're on the
Airline one.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
For lebron Let Roberto drive the butt?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
What Roberto drive the bus? Great advice you should drive
the bus. Here
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