August 31, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Joe Montana calling Dan Marino the best QB in NFL history, why the Patriots waived Bailey Zappe and brought him back, Fact or Fiction, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number fall an NFL legend
sing in the blues. How do you dissect Joe Montana
naming Dan Marino as the top quarterback in NFL history?
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He said it, He said it. Why did the Patriots
wave Bailey Zappi and then bring him right back? What's
the point of that? And where does Chad Johnson rank?
Remember him? He played for the Bengals. Among the greatest
entertainers in NFL history. You want to take a guest
where Ocho Sinko put himself on the list of greatest entertainers?
(00:47):
That is correct, right at the top, right there at
the top. We'll get to all of that. Have a
wonderful Thursday. Thank you for downloading, supporting the podcast. You
mean the world to me. Here it is our number four,
A classical debate. Welcome. In the beginning of another hour
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hour coming from Montana. Not the state, not the state,
this would be Joe Montana. Now, if you're old, you
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know who Joe Montana is. If you're young, you might
not know because he last played a long, long time
ago in the early nineties. But he dominated the NFL
in the eighties. And if you're a connoisseur of football,
chances are you know a thing or two about Joe Montana.
So he's in the news. And now, if you didn't
hear this, and you might have missed it, the former
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forty nine ers headliner Joe Montana randomly said that Dolphins
quarterback Dan Marino is the best of all time. Say what, yeah, Now,
he did this to men's health. We're not sure why
Joe Montana was talking to men's health but he did,
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Montana declared, quote, you put Reno into the day's game
where he gets a free release and his receivers. Holy cow,
we're very big, Montana said, talking about Dan Marino with
the Dolphins. So let us discuss the question, how do
you dissect Joe Montana randomly naming in August late August
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that Dan Marino is the best of all time. So
I've got mood ring, stratamatic, and puffer fish, and we'll
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make in all you can eat buffet with quality food.
(03:44):
Very rarely do you get that, but that is what
we're going to make. I know, amazing. All right, So
to kick off here, Joe Montana, here's my take on this.
Joe Montana is chapped. This is a passive aggressive act
by Montana, a little rebellion against the NFL machine. And
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really it's that Joe cool. It's perfectly understandable. It's natural.
He has bothered that he has been passed by Tommy,
and as they say in the Army, Joe Montana suffered
a reduction in rank and social status, and so by
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tossing out Dan Marino's name, he softens the blow, right,
he softens them. Dan Marino is a contemporary from Joe
Montana's generation. They played against each other many times. Oh
not that many. One was in the AFC, one was
in the NFC, but they had some matchups, and Montana
did mention. He said, there is a delineation between greatest
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of all time and best of all times. So now
we're getting into semantics. For most they mean the same
thing for most commoners. If you say something is the
greatest or something is the best, people interpret that the
same way. That's why we like to point out that
the legal definition of the term best means as good
as all the rest. So when people say greatest, people
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here the best and greatest are interchangeable. There's synonyms of
one another. Now keep in mind that Montana has been
on the record in the past in the past as
saying that Tom Brady is definitely the best player in
NFL history. So the lesson here. When you listen to
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Joe Montana talk, check the temperature of his finger. Montana
is known to go up and down and all around.
His opinion depends on the color of his mood ring,
So the temperature of his finger determines the mood ring color.
Now furtherm in New England, the transaction wire burning up
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for the pages, we learned that the New England football
team is bringing back a pair of players that they
shut down and fired. They excommunicated Bailey Zappi and Malik Cunningham,
their quarterbacks. But both of them are going to return
now technically to the practice squad, just one day after
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being fired by the Patriots, and both of these guys
cleared waivers and they're gonna go back to Foxborough. Briefly,
the Patriots only had Mac Jones as their quarterback. So
the question is why did the Pats wave Bailey Zapi
and then immediately bring him back. And the answer to this,
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the answer to this is stratomatic that Bill Belichick using
roster manipulation like a ninja. He's a samurai. And from
what we've heard here, there was a bit of a fallout.
Bill O'Brien was not a smitten kitten with Bailey Zapi
and so they figured nobody else is gonna take this
guy oil pass through, we can get him back. And
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Cunningham and Zappi did not play well in the practice
games like that matters that much in these practice games,
and Cunningham showed a couple of flashes. But both those guys,
if you are Bailey Zappy or to a lesser degree,
Malie Cunningham of the Pats, you were needing the balls
and poked in the eye, because not only did the
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Patriots get rid of you all, thirty one other teams
said we don't want this guy. We're good. These guys
have cooties, humbling, humbling. All right, party shot, let's go
to since Cinnati home of the Ben Gals. Joe Burrow
back at practice. But that's not what we're talking about.
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Chad Johnson, the adorable Chad Johnson, the debonair Chad Johnson
is back, as he will be joining the Ben Gals
Ring of Honor, and all what a ring of honor
it is with boomerous Now, Chad Johnson announced that he
is obviously the greatest entertainer to ever grace the football
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field as long as they've been playing football and as
far as Chad Johnson is concerned. That's a quote. He said,
greatest entertainer to ever grace the football field in his opinion.
So it got us thinking. That got us thinking. Here
the question where does Chad Johnson rank among the greatest
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entertainers to play in the NFL? So Ocho Sinko and
I don't do lists, and I'm not gonna do a
list now, but Ocho Cinco is in the top five
for me in my lifetime, and that's really the only
list that matters. Now, maybe you're older than me, and
maybe they're younger than me, and you're gonna have a
different list. But the response by Ocho Cinco on brand
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On Bran and Chad Johnson is the human puffer fish
of attention horse. It's just wonderful the way he operates.
He was great everywhere except the Patriots when he went there,
and it was a disaster, but we would expect nothing less.
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And much like the greatest Player debate, we chipped away
at that back. We started this hour talking about Joe
Montana claiming that Dan Marino here is the best quarterback
in NFL history. And these debates, when you chip away
at these debates, it often goes by generation. Now, Chad
Johnson was the king of kings in his salad days.
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He was never upstaged by anyone. So you start with that,
and as a chronicler of choreography in the NFL, Cincinnati
is the gold standard for the celebration and among the
players that passed through Cincinnati that did not make the
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cut the Ikey Shuffle, Ikey Woods look him up running
back back in the day a long time ago at
the Ikey Shuffle. I've just got a touchdown too. Was
teammates with Chad Johnson with the Ben Gals and didn't
quite work out so well for to but they were
there together. And then you look at not a list,
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because I don't do this radio, but Big Ben's Big board.
If you look at Big Ben's Big Board, the top
five entertainers that we had in the NFL. And this
is in my lifetime. It's in my lifetime. The people
I remember, so not a list, but at number five,
Kelly Washington or the Bengals. You remember, if you're old
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enough to remember, Kelly Washington was the center of attraction.
He did the Squirrel Dance and it was wonderful. It
was glorious, the Squirrel Dance by Kelly Washington. So that's
you got. You got a bunch of Bengals here.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Chad Johnson is number four on my big board and
he did a lot of dances. He said his favorite
was when he had a hostile takeover of a CBS
television camera and panned to show his family. He said
that was my favorite. He talked about how he spent
a lot of time planning these things, but for me,
I'm a purist when it comes to the celebration after
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a touchdown. All I need river dance. That's it. I'm good.
I love the river dance. I loved it. I don't
need the other stuff. River dance. I'm in. And then
next up on the big board, I'm gonna go to
a guy who played for multiple teams, but this was
a Kansas City chief Johnny Morton out of usc Johnny
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Morton who did the worm. He did the worm in
the end zone. Wonderful out a holy terror. Johnny Morton
doing the worm after scoring a touchdown. Now number two
on my big board. We will mix and mingle with
a man who is now working for the NFL the
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league office. Last I checked, I think he still has
this job unless they got rid of him recently. Merton
Hanks the chicken dance, the bobbing his head like a chicken.
Does he get more entertaining than a grown ass? Football
player making a big play and dancing like a chicken.
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But bock bock chicken. Yeah, and one slot left. Very controversial,
very controversial on Big Ben's Big board. Holy f the
number one, number one, number one entertainer in my lifetime.
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I always smile when I think about this person celebrating
a touchdown William Perry better known as Refrigerator Perry for
the Chicago Bears the Super Bowl Shuffle back in the day.
Do you know that Refrigerator Perry His nickname when he
played for the Bears million years ago was Biscuit because
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he was one biscuit shy of three hundred and fifty pounds,
so they called him Biscuit. But I love that fat
guy dancing. Who doesn't like a fat man dancing? Serious?
I mean, it's entertaining the whole thing, and I love
to this day. That was probably almost forty years ago now,
but people still gripe that William Perry scored a touchdown
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in the Super Bowl and Walter Payton never did. And
people are furious still all these years later, like historians
of the NFL gets so upset. It is The Ben
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and we will do it next.
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Speaker 4 (15:24):
It's Ben Malor.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Coming up in a little bit. We will have a
double dose to Eddie including Puck the World also Factor
Fiction later this hour. So we talked earlier in this
episode of the show. We talked about this Nebraska volleyball game,
although we mostly goofed on how to do to the
Bull and some other Nebraska stories. But they sold out
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the house record at tenants for a women's sporting event
all time. They broke the record at a Nebraska volleyball
game against Omaha and they had ninety two thousand and
three fans there. They broke the women's sports attendance world record.
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Who exactly knew what the women's sports attendance world record was?
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
But so you asked earlier about ticket prices. Yes, yeah,
I is this what you were going to bring up?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yes? Yeah, okay, So you know you saw how they
said that the tickets sold out, most of them sold out.
Back in April, they added some standing room tickets. Adults
had to pay twenty five dollars to get in children
five dollars. And is that for charity or do they
pocket that money?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Oh? I'm gonna say that goes in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah. You know, I'm an expert on women's volleyball. I've
always been a big fan, and they tell me that
Nebraska is one of the handful of Division one women's
softball or softball volleyball teams that makes money. Yeah, that
makes money, most of them, most of them. No one's
there one I'm watching.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
There was also a part of the story I read
which claimed that ticket price has reached as much as
four hundred dollars on the secondary market.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The f is paying four hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I don't buy it. I don't believe full crab.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Somebody, here's what I believe. I believe somebody might have said,
all right, I don't see if some sucker will pay
four hundred dollars. I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get
four hundred dollars. But somebody actually paying four hundred dollars,
I don't believe. Oh here's a you want a fund
volleyball fact, Eddie, Yes you do, yes, please, yes, you doubt.
Volleyball has now surpassed bouncy ball as the number one
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girls high school team sport in the United States. The
ladies like the young ladies like the volleyball more than
the basketball.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I have two cousins who played Division one volleyball.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Okay, there you go, Yeah, all right, And now I
know in Iowa it's wrestling, right, Collegiate wrestling is like
the big deal high school wrestling in Iowa.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Is.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I didn't realize Nebraska was the hotbed of volleyball.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I do enjoy that. H the nickname, if you will,
not really the nickname, but the University of Nebraska Omaha
is is known as UNO.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I do like that, you know, that's the way.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, let's go to the phones. Double all Mexican. We've
met him, we know him in San Diego, Hello, Double
all Mexican.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
What's going on, big Ben?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Are you that.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Fat ladies who tuck in the gun at the lifebox
scam to? I use security working metal detectors and it's
not that hard really to get passed.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, you're not supposed to say that, Double Mexican. You're
supposed to. When I go to a sporting event, I
like to think there are no weapons, there's no contraband
in that stadium.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yeah, I mean it's more of a deterrent, but like
it all depends on the security guards you're dealing with.
You know them, Hey, it's my knee, and they're go okay,
and you walk in and they got a gun in
their back pocket, you know, very simple as that.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And I've gone to some stadiums, you know, my travels
over the years, and like sometimes I'll go in there
they won't even check my bag because I'm you know,
in the media. I'm like, well you should probably check
my bag, you know, I don't know, I don't think
I've got anything in there, but you might want to
check and they'll just kind of like, no.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Ben, media people are all very honorable and no.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
There's gumpbacks in the media. No, there's losers in the media, idiots.
These are my colleagues, many of them. But yeah, well,
what's the what's the thing now, DOUBLEW Mexican. You've worked,
you know, stadium security and stuff a long time. What's
the craziest thing, any crazy thing that you spotted that
people were trying to sneak in that you caught?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Oh yeah, I mean the rags we've had. I've had
like two trash banks full of concert bands. Yeah, just
the one concert. But uh, some ladies tried to think
in booze and their fake pampon.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
She's like.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
It was like a clear tube and a tampax rapper.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That's some you should have let her in. That's some
hustle to try to sneak in the booze. That's a
lot of effort to try to sneak.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
In some boothe Well, I took that for myself, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Of course, you know, out of an abundance of caution.
You had to make sure it wasn't toison or anything
like that.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
And yeah, yeah, I mean the biggest thing is people
with their pets trying to come saying.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
The emotional I had an emotional support one time.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, you see that. I see that at the airport
all the time. I'm like, that is not a support pet.
That is just your pet. That's all that is. And
you're like, you're not supposed to say anything though, right,
you got to be politically correct and all that.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I am a seasoned veteran at sneaking stuff into.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Which orifice do you put stuff in there?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Cooper?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
You don't even need to do that. It's it's actually
quite simple, Like I mean, when it comes to the
kind of advice we need, well, when it comes to
like it depends what you're doing, Like if you've got
the rolled variety that you can just like slip into
your shoe really, but then if you're if you're going
like if you need like a lighter, and then like
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other equipment they tell you just to like you know,
when you're walking through the metal detectors, you hold your
your phone and your wallet in one hand as you
walk through, and just before, like before you even get
up there, you all you just put all that stuff
behind your phone and your.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Wallet in your hand there you go and then just
walk through.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
As simple as that, yeah, or your keys in your wallet.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
That's I got you, all right, well, Double Mexican. Thank
you may call more often. We love you all. Right,
there you goes Double on Mexican. Let's say hello to
super Market Steve. Who is next? Hello Supermarket Steve.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Hey Ben, I just really want to apologize missing the
last Mallar meet and greet, but I had a little
agenda on the side. I went to the Pages of
Money event and I met your boss Don Martin, and
I went right up to him and I said, yo, Don,
you need to stop putting Jonas and all these other
guys on, and you need to put on Ben Mallard
on these primetime shows. And he said to me, he
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looked straight at me Ben. He said, my man, Ben's
got his niche and he's got to stay in his niche.
And I guess you couldn't believe it, right, he talked
just like that. So I like to see that you
got the cow hurt day. I want to believe that
that was part of my doing. And also I saw
another maland militia member. I don't want to run him out,
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but he also did the same thing, and I do.
I want to say one more thing. I know you
don't like one more thing, but I want to complain
about Iowa Sam, Iowa Sam, you have the best ability
of the show. You can make Ben say all these
funny things. And I had not heard him say one
time that he would endorse the Game magazine for five
thousand dollars. I need to start.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You don't need listen. Listen. I never said that.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
I heard that one in a long time.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, that was a raise that never happened. Hey, Steve,
that was a I that did that. I never did that.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
You went to the Tarantula Hills. Uh, you went to
the Petro Money Transia Hills event.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
No, the band's event.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Did your Did your wife bring Terry Massou Tiyr Massou
to that event?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
No?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
But we we brought Petro some some alcohol because he
did not take my wife's MSU at the last event.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Well any say now, any the comic book guy was
offended that you did not show up because he expected
you to be there. It's bad job by you.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
I'm sorry. But when you say southern California and it's
under six flags, that's central California.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I know you don't want to listen. I live further
than you, jackassid I.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
But that's central California.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Nora. What Central.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
What do you say, Central California? All right, go look
at a map, get a clue. How about that? I
get out of here out there. I like how he
had to talk to our boss Don Martin to realize
that everyone that does a Don Martin impersonation our boss,
it's it's spot on, it's.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
And we're all the same. Why would that be Why
would that be a surprise?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Like everget and I talked to Don usually once a year, right,
we'll have a conversation about the show or whatever. And
I got to bite my tongue Andy not to slip
into my Don Martin impersonation to him, because I I
don't know if he I don't think he cares, but
I tried out to do it. You know, It's like
I probably shouldn't do that. He might not like that.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
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Speaker 1 (25:47):
Fun Fact, Fun Fact, Fun Fact of the Hour with
a couple of games. I guess there's one game now too.
The Nationals have had a winning record here in the
month of August. As this is the last day of
the month of August, you're in the thirty first and
it doesn't matter what happens. They are guaranteed what happens today,
they are guaranteed of their first winning month since June
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of twenty twenty one, and since the Nationals used that
natitude to win the World Series in twenty nineteen. This
is only their second winning month of baseball since they
won the World Series in twenty nineteen. Of course, you'd
expect that because they got rid of all the good
players that helped them win the World Series. They sent
them all over the place. Some went to the Dodgers,
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some went to the Padres, and they're all over the place.
And I also loved this baseball story. I was gonna
mention this earlier, I didn't get to it. But Scott
Boris took a shot at the Dodgers, the superagent, Scott
Boris took a shot at the way they handled Cody Bellinger.
So the Dodgers got all upset. They took this personally,
and Boris realizing, Scott Boris realizing, if you are the
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richest agent in baseball, you need the Dodgers to bid
on all your players. And so Boris had had to
clarify his comment and say that there was no wrongdoing
by the Dodgers. That's how offended the Dodgers were, how
they Boris implied that they butchered Cody Bellinger and that's
why he didn't play well. And it had nothing to
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do with Cody Bellinger sucking. It's all because he was hurt.
That's what Boris says. Of course, if that's the case,
he was hurt for what two and a half years,
he was hurt about that. It's the Ben Malor show.
As we press on eight his hockey season. Let's get
right back over to Eddie and he years, all the fuck,
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the fuck the world, all thank you, Ed.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
We'll start with the Toronto Maple he signing their head
coach Sheldon Keef to a two year contract extension. His
contract is said to be up after this coming season.
He's currently the sixth all time winning his coach in
that franchise history, which has been around since the beginning
of the NHL one hundred and sixty six wins, seventy
one losses, thirty three losses in overtime or shootout, back
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to back fifty win seasons. They made the playoffs last
year and won a first round matchup for the first
time in nineteen years. Meanwhile, Bill Peters, who resigned as
head coach the Calgary Flames back in twenty nineteen, hired
as the new head coach of the Western Hockey League's
Left Bridge Hurricanes. He's fifty eight years old resigned from
head coach of the Flames after it was revealed by
one of his former players that he had used the
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N word several times towards this player, who is from Africa.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
African descent.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Akima Loo was his name, and he's getting another coaching
job though after the resigning in disgrace from years ago.
NHL announced its list of nationally televised games, sixty two
games on tn T, one hundred and seventy two games
on the ESPN family of networks, mostly streaming on ESPN.
Plus the team that's getting the most nationally televised game
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surprisingly the Edmonton Oilers with eighteen, Avalanche seventeen, Kings, and
Devils was sixteen the fewest, Ducks and Blue Jackets get three,
Canucks two Coyotes won, and the Canadians, Jets, Senators, and
Flames no games on US national TV. Of course, they'll
get plenty on Canadian national TV. Speaking of Canada, the
sale of the Ottawa Senators expected to be finalized this
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week to.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Fifty eight year old Michael Andlauer.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
He's a majority investor and a deal that's paying nine
and fifty million dollars for the team. They also get
the arena and seventy five acres that the facility is
sitting on. The NHL's board of governors expected to unanimously
approved that sale. Former two times Stanley Cup champion Carl
Haglin announced.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
His retirement after eleven seasons.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
He won a couple of titles with the Penguins and
Yonis Donskoy, announcing his retirement after seven seasons. He was
forced to retire after getting his seventh concussion last season.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
That caused him to miss the entire year.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Six is not bad, but seven.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Seven was not the lucky nut one and the haystack
number seven. Alex Galchenyak has signed a two year due
to play over in Russia. This comes on the heels
of him being arrested. They got arrested for a dui,
threatened police officers and their families, used racial slurs, and
then was promptly released by the Arizona Coyotes.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
So Is promised to pay a billion dollars somebody else.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Somebody else, but Russia's like, come on over, you can
you can play for us?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We got a new professional women's hockey league coming out.
They have revealed six franchises twenty four game regular season.
We'll start in January of twenty twenty four. But unlike
the WNBA, the PWHL will not be subsidized by the NHL,
So good luck with that, ladies.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
That's gonna be a tough road to haul.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Finally, the Ontario government has announced it is banning the
use of athletes in advertising for online gambling. Hockey legend
Wayne Gretzky, along with current stars Connor McDavid and Austin
Matthews are among the athletes that have been appearing in
ads for gambling websites.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Why are they doing this, Ben, Why are they doing this?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Why are they doing this?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Eddie for the children?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Doing it for the children? Listen, you know what are
we doing? It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So Wayne Rescue, who hasn't played hockey and how many years, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Since many years? Or so?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Are they going to ban athletes from, like, you know,
doing ads for fast food because it's bad for the children.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
I mean, yeah, they could.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Get fat and get diseases because they're.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Fat and ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Ridiculous hockey players can sell poutine, Eddie, no poutine? So yeah,
all right, delicious. The greatest thing to come from Canada is.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
The poutine hockey first, then poutine.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Second, No, not poutine, and then hockey after. How about basketball?
How about poutine? How about poutine at a hockey game?
How about that?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Are the best of both worlds? About living the dream?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I you don't have to drop random Hollywood. There's a
lot of Hollywood people from Canada want that. We're aware
of that. Again, he's a non so good I gotta
say I I I love these dumb videos that our
friend from Arkansas puts on the internet. I gotta tell you, Uh,
this wild eyed Southern boy who used to be known
(32:02):
by a different name, he puts these little videos up
and it's it's hilarious to me. He's screaming in front
of his truck. He's a truck driver in Arkansas and
he's just screaming. I heard you on the Cowhard Show
and I like your show. I laughed, hilarious. I love that.
And I also wanted to give you an update our
friend Jayscoop, who is helping out on the front lines
(32:23):
in the Ukraine and he's helping the cause there. His
ex military guy in the States here and he's been
in the Ukraine's gonna be there for at least a year.
He's got a visa to help out the cause there.
But he said he was listening yesterday when I filled in,
and he said that it was on The Cowherd Show
is on late at night in the Ukraine, So Cowhard's
(32:46):
doing overnights in the Ukraine. I just want to let
everyone know that anyway, all right, it is the Ben
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Let's have a good time here on fact or Fiction.
Welcome in our celebrity panel of judges from around the country.
We say lo to the power couple, Leslie and Jack,
the judge in Bradenton, Florida.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Good morning, Leslie, Good morning Ben, great show as always,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
What's new in your world, Leslie? Everything good with you too.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
And we got to Florida on Tuesday, and.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Oh that's right, you've got The storm has passed through there.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
It wasn't bad at all, just a lot of rain
and wind here in Bradenton, very little damage.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Your seasoned veterans of you. We are thank you, Ben.
All right, I'm good. Good to hear everything's okay. And
we say hello to Angry Bill. Hello Angry Bill. He's
also in the Sunshine State, but he's often lacking sunshine.
Hello angry Bill.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Good morning, Benjamin. How were you?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Oh you're so so nice, muck. All right, hold on
you laugh, you sound like you're sick. Shane in des Moin,
Hello Shane, thanks for letting me on, Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
All right, Thanks buddy. And we have Rob in Florida.
Good morning, Rob. We're big in the Sunshine State this morning.
Hello Rob, Rob, Rob going once. Oh, there you are.
That's the yeah, yeah, there you are, Rob. Welcome, you're
give me one of our judges. Okay, what part of
Florida are you in? Beautiful Palm Beach? Can you know
your neighbor just your your neighbor down the road is
(35:37):
Jed who fled? Does that scary you?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
That always scares for hours?
Speaker 7 (35:41):
Look that for him?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah, especially at night walking around the back roads there.
In fact, hold on, Rob, because Jed who Fled is
also on. Hello Jed angry bail with all that sunshine,
probably just had his play with a nine year old girl.
All right, that please, that's not helpful. And we say
hello to our friend from the Valley of the sun on.
Sirius Sean, Hello, Sirius Sean.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Yeah, whoa Hi everybody.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Oh you didn't say hi to Eddie. You always say
hi to Eddie instead of everybody. Eddie. You're all grown
up now, Sean. We had you and you you were
a kid, but now you're all grown up. Man. You're
delivering all those packages for Amazon.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Right, I know it's seven years ago.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
Oh my god, the time just flies.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Has it been seven years?
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Geez?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Man? Now, oh that's there. I feel really old now. Crap.
All right, well you're doing well.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Now you're doing you're doing I'm mentoring my late twenties now.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
So that's how you're washed up, dude. All right? Hold on, uh,
here are the three stories. Figure out which are the
three is not true? Separating fiction from fact. Story number one,
it's all about the Bruskies. Well, if you in Milwaukee,
a bar called Jack's American Pub claims that they are
(36:57):
gonna help you out. They're gonna pay your bar tab.
When Aaron Rodgers and the Jets lose a game this season,
there are some conditions in fine print. You have to
be there fifteen minutes before kickoff, and if the Jets
game goes against head to head with the Packers, no
free booze story number unless we made that up. Story
number two make way for the kid with the camera,
(37:18):
Ken Griffy Junior, following his Seattle Mariner teammate Randy Johnson,
allegedly following in his footsteps. Griffy seen working as a
still photographer this week at a Lionel Messi Inner Miami
MLS match. How about that? Yeah, the kid Hall of
Famer Ken Griffy Junior and story number three. Jesse Palmer,
(37:42):
host of the famously the host of the Bachelor, revealed
that months ago, the producers of the ABC Dating show
sent a very lucrative offer to Tom Brady to be
the next Bachelor, but they never got a respond Hans
from Brady. All right, which of those stories is not true?
(38:04):
You are my judges, so we'll go to you. You listening,
driving around or rolling around in bed, whatever you're doing.
Try to try to see if you can get the
fake story. Let's start out with Leslie the Power Couple
one Tour three Leslie. Oh hey, Jack, Jack to Jodge,
are real judge Jack?
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Yes, I'll go with number one.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Number one. All right, great, hearing your boys, Jack, Glad,
everything's good with the storm and we have angry Bill
Angry Bill one, two or three.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Angry bill number three is the fake?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
All right? Shane in the morn one tour three Shane
quickly three number three, Thanks Shane. Robin Florida one to
or three.
Speaker 8 (38:44):
This way?
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Jed who fled number two?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Number two? Jed who fled one, two or three?
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Jed, I want a sixty nine jack?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
All right, Siria, Sean, it's number three, number three. There
you go, Sean, you got it right, number three
Hello and welcome. It's our number fall an NFL legend
sing in the blues. How do you dissect Joe Montana
naming Dan Marino as the top quarterback in NFL history?
(00:22):
He said it, He said it. Why did the Patriots
wave Bailey Zappi and then bring him right back? What's
the point of that? And where does Chad Johnson rank?
Remember him? He played for the Bengals. Among the greatest
entertainers in NFL history. You want to take a guest
where Ocho Sinko put himself on the list of greatest entertainers?
(00:47):
That is correct, right at the top, right there at
the top. We'll get to all of that. Have a
wonderful Thursday. Thank you for downloading, supporting the podcast. You
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A classical debate. Welcome. In the beginning of another hour
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hour coming from Montana. Not the state, not the state,
this would be Joe Montana. Now, if you're old, you
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know who Joe Montana is. If you're young, you might
not know because he last played a long, long time
ago in the early nineties. But he dominated the NFL
in the eighties. And if you're a connoisseur of football,
chances are you know a thing or two about Joe Montana.
So he's in the news. And now, if you didn't
hear this, and you might have missed it, the former
(02:35):
forty nine ers headliner Joe Montana randomly said that Dolphins
quarterback Dan Marino is the best of all time. Say what, yeah, Now,
he did this to men's health. We're not sure why
Joe Montana was talking to men's health but he did,
(02:57):
Montana declared, quote, you put Reno into the day's game
where he gets a free release and his receivers. Holy cow,
we're very big, Montana said, talking about Dan Marino with
the Dolphins. So let us discuss the question, how do
you dissect Joe Montana randomly naming in August late August
(03:21):
that Dan Marino is the best of all time. So
I've got mood ring, stratamatic, and puffer fish, and we'll
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make in all you can eat buffet with quality food.
(03:44):
Very rarely do you get that, but that is what
we're going to make. I know, amazing. All right, So
to kick off here, Joe Montana, here's my take on this.
Joe Montana is chapped. This is a passive aggressive act
by Montana, a little rebellion against the NFL machine. And
(04:06):
really it's that Joe cool. It's perfectly understandable. It's natural.
He has bothered that he has been passed by Tommy,
and as they say in the Army, Joe Montana suffered
a reduction in rank and social status, and so by
(04:26):
tossing out Dan Marino's name, he softens the blow, right,
he softens them. Dan Marino is a contemporary from Joe
Montana's generation. They played against each other many times. Oh
not that many. One was in the AFC, one was
in the NFC, but they had some matchups, and Montana
did mention. He said, there is a delineation between greatest
(04:49):
of all time and best of all times. So now
we're getting into semantics. For most they mean the same
thing for most commoners. If you say something is the
greatest or something is the best, people interpret that the
same way. That's why we like to point out that
the legal definition of the term best means as good
as all the rest. So when people say greatest, people
(05:09):
here the best and greatest are interchangeable. There's synonyms of
one another. Now keep in mind that Montana has been
on the record in the past in the past as
saying that Tom Brady is definitely the best player in
NFL history. So the lesson here. When you listen to
(05:31):
Joe Montana talk, check the temperature of his finger. Montana
is known to go up and down and all around.
His opinion depends on the color of his mood ring,
So the temperature of his finger determines the mood ring color.
Now furtherm in New England, the transaction wire burning up
(05:56):
for the pages, we learned that the New England football
team is bringing back a pair of players that they
shut down and fired. They excommunicated Bailey Zappi and Malik Cunningham,
their quarterbacks. But both of them are going to return
now technically to the practice squad, just one day after
(06:17):
being fired by the Patriots, and both of these guys
cleared waivers and they're gonna go back to Foxborough. Briefly,
the Patriots only had Mac Jones as their quarterback. So
the question is why did the Pats wave Bailey Zapi
and then immediately bring him back. And the answer to this,
(06:40):
the answer to this is stratomatic that Bill Belichick using
roster manipulation like a ninja. He's a samurai. And from
what we've heard here, there was a bit of a fallout.
Bill O'Brien was not a smitten kitten with Bailey Zapi
and so they figured nobody else is gonna take this
guy oil pass through, we can get him back. And
(07:02):
Cunningham and Zappi did not play well in the practice
games like that matters that much in these practice games,
and Cunningham showed a couple of flashes. But both those guys,
if you are Bailey Zappy or to a lesser degree,
Malie Cunningham of the Pats, you were needing the balls
and poked in the eye, because not only did the
(07:24):
Patriots get rid of you all, thirty one other teams
said we don't want this guy. We're good. These guys
have cooties, humbling, humbling. All right, party shot, let's go
to since Cinnati home of the Ben Gals. Joe Burrow
back at practice. But that's not what we're talking about.
(07:47):
Chad Johnson, the adorable Chad Johnson, the debonair Chad Johnson
is back, as he will be joining the Ben Gals
Ring of Honor, and all what a ring of honor
it is with boomerous Now, Chad Johnson announced that he
is obviously the greatest entertainer to ever grace the football
(08:11):
field as long as they've been playing football and as
far as Chad Johnson is concerned. That's a quote. He said,
greatest entertainer to ever grace the football field in his opinion.
So it got us thinking. That got us thinking. Here
the question where does Chad Johnson rank among the greatest
(08:34):
entertainers to play in the NFL? So Ocho Sinko and
I don't do lists, and I'm not gonna do a
list now, but Ocho Cinco is in the top five
for me in my lifetime, and that's really the only
list that matters. Now, maybe you're older than me, and
maybe they're younger than me, and you're gonna have a
different list. But the response by Ocho Cinco on brand
(08:58):
On Bran and Chad Johnson is the human puffer fish
of attention horse. It's just wonderful the way he operates.
He was great everywhere except the Patriots when he went there,
and it was a disaster, but we would expect nothing less.
(09:19):
And much like the greatest Player debate, we chipped away
at that back. We started this hour talking about Joe
Montana claiming that Dan Marino here is the best quarterback
in NFL history. And these debates, when you chip away
at these debates, it often goes by generation. Now, Chad
Johnson was the king of kings in his salad days.
(09:41):
He was never upstaged by anyone. So you start with that,
and as a chronicler of choreography in the NFL, Cincinnati
is the gold standard for the celebration and among the
players that passed through Cincinnati that did not make the
(10:02):
cut the Ikey Shuffle, Ikey Woods look him up running
back back in the day a long time ago at
the Ikey Shuffle. I've just got a touchdown too. Was
teammates with Chad Johnson with the Ben Gals and didn't
quite work out so well for to but they were
there together. And then you look at not a list,
(10:23):
because I don't do this radio, but Big Ben's Big board.
If you look at Big Ben's Big Board, the top
five entertainers that we had in the NFL. And this
is in my lifetime. It's in my lifetime. The people
I remember, so not a list, but at number five,
Kelly Washington or the Bengals. You remember, if you're old
(10:45):
enough to remember, Kelly Washington was the center of attraction.
He did the Squirrel Dance and it was wonderful. It
was glorious, the Squirrel Dance by Kelly Washington. So that's
you got. You got a bunch of Bengals here.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Chad Johnson is number four on my big board and
he did a lot of dances. He said his favorite
was when he had a hostile takeover of a CBS
television camera and panned to show his family. He said
that was my favorite. He talked about how he spent
a lot of time planning these things, but for me,
I'm a purist when it comes to the celebration after
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a touchdown. All I need river dance. That's it. I'm good.
I love the river dance. I loved it. I don't
need the other stuff. River dance. I'm in. And then
next up on the big board, I'm gonna go to
a guy who played for multiple teams, but this was
a Kansas City chief Johnny Morton out of usc Johnny
(11:45):
Morton who did the worm. He did the worm in
the end zone. Wonderful out a holy terror. Johnny Morton
doing the worm after scoring a touchdown. Now number two
on my big board. We will mix and mingle with
a man who is now working for the NFL the
(12:08):
league office. Last I checked, I think he still has
this job unless they got rid of him recently. Merton
Hanks the chicken dance, the bobbing his head like a chicken.
Does he get more entertaining than a grown ass? Football
player making a big play and dancing like a chicken.
(12:29):
But bock bock chicken. Yeah, and one slot left. Very controversial,
very controversial on Big Ben's Big board. Holy f the
number one, number one, number one entertainer in my lifetime.
(12:53):
I always smile when I think about this person celebrating
a touchdown William Perry better known as Refrigerator Perry for
the Chicago Bears the Super Bowl Shuffle back in the day.
Do you know that Refrigerator Perry His nickname when he
played for the Bears million years ago was Biscuit because
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he was one biscuit shy of three hundred and fifty pounds,
so they called him Biscuit. But I love that fat
guy dancing. Who doesn't like a fat man dancing? Serious?
I mean, it's entertaining the whole thing, and I love
to this day. That was probably almost forty years ago now,
but people still gripe that William Perry scored a touchdown
(13:37):
in the Super Bowl and Walter Payton never did. And
people are furious still all these years later, like historians
of the NFL gets so upset. It is The Ben
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Coming up in a little bit. We will have a
double dose to Eddie including Puck the World also Factor
Fiction later this hour. So we talked earlier in this
episode of the show. We talked about this Nebraska volleyball game,
although we mostly goofed on how to do to the
Bull and some other Nebraska stories. But they sold out
(15:47):
the house record at tenants for a women's sporting event
all time. They broke the record at a Nebraska volleyball
game against Omaha and they had ninety two thousand and
three fans there. They broke the women's sports attendance world record.
(16:07):
Who exactly knew what the women's sports attendance world record was?
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
But so you asked earlier about ticket prices. Yes, yeah,
I is this what you were going to bring up?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yes? Yeah, okay, So you know you saw how they
said that the tickets sold out, most of them sold out.
Back in April, they added some standing room tickets. Adults
had to pay twenty five dollars to get in children
five dollars. And is that for charity or do they
pocket that money?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Oh? I'm gonna say that goes in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah. You know, I'm an expert on women's volleyball. I've
always been a big fan, and they tell me that
Nebraska is one of the handful of Division one women's
softball or softball volleyball teams that makes money. Yeah, that
makes money, most of them, most of them. No one's
there one I'm watching.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
There was also a part of the story I read
which claimed that ticket price has reached as much as
four hundred dollars on the secondary market.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The f is paying four hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I don't buy it. I don't believe full crab.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Somebody, here's what I believe. I believe somebody might have said,
all right, I don't see if some sucker will pay
four hundred dollars. I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get
four hundred dollars. But somebody actually paying four hundred dollars,
I don't believe. Oh here's a you want a fund
volleyball fact, Eddie, Yes you do, yes, please, yes, you doubt.
Volleyball has now surpassed bouncy ball as the number one
(17:39):
girls high school team sport in the United States. The
ladies like the young ladies like the volleyball more than
the basketball.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I have two cousins who played Division one volleyball.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Okay, there you go, Yeah, all right, And now I
know in Iowa it's wrestling, right, Collegiate wrestling is like
the big deal high school wrestling in Iowa.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Is.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I didn't realize Nebraska was the hotbed of volleyball.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I do enjoy that. H the nickname, if you will,
not really the nickname, but the University of Nebraska Omaha
is is known as UNO.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I do like that, you know, that's the way.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, let's go to the phones. Double all Mexican. We've
met him, we know him in San Diego, Hello, Double
all Mexican.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
What's going on, big Ben?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Are you that.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Fat ladies who tuck in the gun at the lifebox
scam to? I use security working metal detectors and it's
not that hard really to get passed.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, you're not supposed to say that, Double Mexican. You're
supposed to. When I go to a sporting event, I
like to think there are no weapons, there's no contraband
in that stadium.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yeah, I mean it's more of a deterrent, but like
it all depends on the security guards you're dealing with.
You know them, Hey, it's my knee, and they're go okay,
and you walk in and they got a gun in
their back pocket, you know, very simple as that.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And I've gone to some stadiums, you know, my travels
over the years, and like sometimes I'll go in there
they won't even check my bag because I'm you know,
in the media. I'm like, well you should probably check
my bag, you know, I don't know, I don't think
I've got anything in there, but you might want to
check and they'll just kind of like, no.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Ben, media people are all very honorable and no.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
There's gumpbacks in the media. No, there's losers in the media, idiots.
These are my colleagues, many of them. But yeah, well,
what's the what's the thing now, DOUBLEW Mexican. You've worked,
you know, stadium security and stuff a long time. What's
the craziest thing, any crazy thing that you spotted that
people were trying to sneak in that you caught?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Oh yeah, I mean the rags we've had. I've had
like two trash banks full of concert bands. Yeah, just
the one concert. But uh, some ladies tried to think
in booze and their fake pampon.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
She's like.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
It was like a clear tube and a tampax rapper.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That's some you should have let her in. That's some
hustle to try to sneak in the booze. That's a
lot of effort to try to sneak.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
In some boothe Well, I took that for myself, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Of course, you know, out of an abundance of caution.
You had to make sure it wasn't toison or anything
like that.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
And yeah, yeah, I mean the biggest thing is people
with their pets trying to come saying.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
The emotional I had an emotional support one time.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, you see that. I see that at the airport
all the time. I'm like, that is not a support pet.
That is just your pet. That's all that is. And
you're like, you're not supposed to say anything though, right,
you got to be politically correct and all that.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I am a seasoned veteran at sneaking stuff into.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Which orifice do you put stuff in there?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Cooper?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
You don't even need to do that. It's it's actually
quite simple, Like I mean, when it comes to the
kind of advice we need, well, when it comes to
like it depends what you're doing, Like if you've got
the rolled variety that you can just like slip into
your shoe really, but then if you're if you're going
like if you need like a lighter, and then like
(21:19):
other equipment they tell you just to like you know,
when you're walking through the metal detectors, you hold your
your phone and your wallet in one hand as you
walk through, and just before, like before you even get
up there, you all you just put all that stuff
behind your phone and your.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Wallet in your hand there you go and then just
walk through.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
As simple as that, yeah, or your keys in your wallet.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
That's I got you, all right, well, Double Mexican. Thank
you may call more often. We love you all. Right,
there you goes Double on Mexican. Let's say hello to
super Market Steve. Who is next? Hello Supermarket Steve.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Hey Ben, I just really want to apologize missing the
last Mallar meet and greet, but I had a little
agenda on the side. I went to the Pages of
Money event and I met your boss Don Martin, and
I went right up to him and I said, yo, Don,
you need to stop putting Jonas and all these other
guys on, and you need to put on Ben Mallard
on these primetime shows. And he said to me, he
(22:23):
looked straight at me Ben. He said, my man, Ben's
got his niche and he's got to stay in his niche.
And I guess you couldn't believe it, right, he talked
just like that. So I like to see that you
got the cow hurt day. I want to believe that
that was part of my doing. And also I saw
another maland militia member. I don't want to run him out,
(22:46):
but he also did the same thing, and I do.
I want to say one more thing. I know you
don't like one more thing, but I want to complain
about Iowa Sam, Iowa Sam, you have the best ability
of the show. You can make Ben say all these
funny things. And I had not heard him say one
time that he would endorse the Game magazine for five
thousand dollars. I need to start.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You don't need listen. Listen. I never said that.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
I heard that one in a long time.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, that was a raise that never happened. Hey, Steve,
that was a I that did that. I never did that.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
You went to the Tarantula Hills. Uh, you went to
the Petro Money Transia Hills event.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
No, the band's event.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Did your Did your wife bring Terry Massou Tiyr Massou
to that event?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
No?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
But we we brought Petro some some alcohol because he
did not take my wife's MSU at the last event.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Well any say now, any the comic book guy was
offended that you did not show up because he expected
you to be there. It's bad job by you.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
I'm sorry. But when you say southern California and it's
under six flags, that's central California.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I know you don't want to listen. I live further
than you, jackassid I.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
But that's central California.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Nora. What Central.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
What do you say, Central California? All right, go look
at a map, get a clue. How about that? I
get out of here out there. I like how he
had to talk to our boss Don Martin to realize
that everyone that does a Don Martin impersonation our boss,
it's it's spot on, it's.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
And we're all the same. Why would that be Why
would that be a surprise?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Like everget and I talked to Don usually once a year, right,
we'll have a conversation about the show or whatever. And
I got to bite my tongue Andy not to slip
into my Don Martin impersonation to him, because I I
don't know if he I don't think he cares, but
I tried out to do it. You know, It's like
I probably shouldn't do that. He might not like that.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
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Speaker 8 (24:50):
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Speaker 1 (25:47):
Fun Fact, Fun Fact, Fun Fact of the Hour with
a couple of games. I guess there's one game now too.
The Nationals have had a winning record here in the
month of August. As this is the last day of
the month of August, you're in the thirty first and
it doesn't matter what happens. They are guaranteed what happens today,
they are guaranteed of their first winning month since June
(26:07):
of twenty twenty one, and since the Nationals used that
natitude to win the World Series in twenty nineteen. This
is only their second winning month of baseball since they
won the World Series in twenty nineteen. Of course, you'd
expect that because they got rid of all the good
players that helped them win the World Series. They sent
them all over the place. Some went to the Dodgers,
(26:28):
some went to the Padres, and they're all over the place.
And I also loved this baseball story. I was gonna
mention this earlier, I didn't get to it. But Scott
Boris took a shot at the Dodgers, the superagent, Scott
Boris took a shot at the way they handled Cody Bellinger.
So the Dodgers got all upset. They took this personally,
and Boris realizing, Scott Boris realizing, if you are the
(26:50):
richest agent in baseball, you need the Dodgers to bid
on all your players. And so Boris had had to
clarify his comment and say that there was no wrongdoing
by the Dodgers. That's how offended the Dodgers were, how
they Boris implied that they butchered Cody Bellinger and that's
why he didn't play well. And it had nothing to
(27:11):
do with Cody Bellinger sucking. It's all because he was hurt.
That's what Boris says. Of course, if that's the case,
he was hurt for what two and a half years,
he was hurt about that. It's the Ben Malor show.
As we press on eight his hockey season. Let's get
right back over to Eddie and he years, all the fuck,
(27:31):
the fuck the world, all thank you, Ed.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
We'll start with the Toronto Maple he signing their head
coach Sheldon Keef to a two year contract extension. His
contract is said to be up after this coming season.
He's currently the sixth all time winning his coach in
that franchise history, which has been around since the beginning
of the NHL one hundred and sixty six wins, seventy
one losses, thirty three losses in overtime or shootout, back
(27:54):
to back fifty win seasons. They made the playoffs last
year and won a first round matchup for the first
time in nineteen years. Meanwhile, Bill Peters, who resigned as
head coach the Calgary Flames back in twenty nineteen, hired
as the new head coach of the Western Hockey League's
Left Bridge Hurricanes. He's fifty eight years old resigned from
head coach of the Flames after it was revealed by
one of his former players that he had used the
(28:15):
N word several times towards this player, who is from Africa.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
African descent.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Akima Loo was his name, and he's getting another coaching
job though after the resigning in disgrace from years ago.
NHL announced its list of nationally televised games, sixty two
games on tn T, one hundred and seventy two games
on the ESPN family of networks, mostly streaming on ESPN.
Plus the team that's getting the most nationally televised game
(28:41):
surprisingly the Edmonton Oilers with eighteen, Avalanche seventeen, Kings, and
Devils was sixteen the fewest, Ducks and Blue Jackets get three,
Canucks two Coyotes won, and the Canadians, Jets, Senators, and
Flames no games on US national TV. Of course, they'll
get plenty on Canadian national TV. Speaking of Canada, the
sale of the Ottawa Senators expected to be finalized this
(29:03):
week to.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Fifty eight year old Michael Andlauer.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
He's a majority investor and a deal that's paying nine
and fifty million dollars for the team. They also get
the arena and seventy five acres that the facility is
sitting on. The NHL's board of governors expected to unanimously
approved that sale. Former two times Stanley Cup champion Carl
Haglin announced.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
His retirement after eleven seasons.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
He won a couple of titles with the Penguins and
Yonis Donskoy, announcing his retirement after seven seasons. He was
forced to retire after getting his seventh concussion last season.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
That caused him to miss the entire year.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Six is not bad, but seven.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Seven was not the lucky nut one and the haystack
number seven. Alex Galchenyak has signed a two year due
to play over in Russia. This comes on the heels
of him being arrested. They got arrested for a dui,
threatened police officers and their families, used racial slurs, and
then was promptly released by the Arizona Coyotes.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
So Is promised to pay a billion dollars somebody else.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Somebody else, but Russia's like, come on over, you can
you can play for us?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We got a new professional women's hockey league coming out.
They have revealed six franchises twenty four game regular season.
We'll start in January of twenty twenty four. But unlike
the WNBA, the PWHL will not be subsidized by the NHL,
So good luck with that, ladies.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
That's gonna be a tough road to haul.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Finally, the Ontario government has announced it is banning the
use of athletes in advertising for online gambling. Hockey legend
Wayne Gretzky, along with current stars Connor McDavid and Austin
Matthews are among the athletes that have been appearing in
ads for gambling websites.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Why are they doing this, Ben, Why are they doing this?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Why are they doing this?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Eddie for the children?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Doing it for the children? Listen, you know what are
we doing? It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So Wayne Rescue, who hasn't played hockey and how many years, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Since many years? Or so?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Are they going to ban athletes from, like, you know,
doing ads for fast food because it's bad for the children.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
I mean, yeah, they could.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Get fat and get diseases because they're.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Fat and ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Ridiculous hockey players can sell poutine, Eddie, no poutine? So yeah,
all right, delicious. The greatest thing to come from Canada is.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
The poutine hockey first, then poutine.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Second, No, not poutine, and then hockey after. How about basketball?
How about poutine? How about poutine at a hockey game?
How about that?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Are the best of both worlds? About living the dream?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I you don't have to drop random Hollywood. There's a
lot of Hollywood people from Canada want that. We're aware
of that. Again, he's a non so good I gotta
say I I I love these dumb videos that our
friend from Arkansas puts on the internet. I gotta tell you, Uh,
this wild eyed Southern boy who used to be known
(32:02):
by a different name, he puts these little videos up
and it's it's hilarious to me. He's screaming in front
of his truck. He's a truck driver in Arkansas and
he's just screaming. I heard you on the Cowhard Show
and I like your show. I laughed, hilarious. I love that.
And I also wanted to give you an update our
friend Jayscoop, who is helping out on the front lines
(32:23):
in the Ukraine and he's helping the cause there. His
ex military guy in the States here and he's been
in the Ukraine's gonna be there for at least a year.
He's got a visa to help out the cause there.
But he said he was listening yesterday when I filled in,
and he said that it was on The Cowherd Show
is on late at night in the Ukraine, So Cowhard's
(32:46):
doing overnights in the Ukraine. I just want to let
everyone know that anyway, all right, it is the Ben
Malor Show. We're gonna have fact or Fiction. If you
would like to be part of Factor Fiction, call right now.
We have some slots open for celebrity judges. You can
call right now eight seven seven nine on Fox eight
seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine, and
(33:07):
we will get to fact or Fiction and we will
do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
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Speaker 2 (33:23):
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(33:45):
Mallor Just please, transmitter media.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Is it fact for fiction?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Let's face some raw facts on the Ben Mallor Show
school tweet.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
No way we go.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Let's have a good time here on fact or Fiction.
Welcome in our celebrity panel of judges from around the country.
We say lo to the power couple, Leslie and Jack,
the judge in Bradenton, Florida.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Good morning, Leslie, Good morning Ben, great show as always,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
What's new in your world, Leslie? Everything good with you too.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
And we got to Florida on Tuesday, and.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Oh that's right, you've got The storm has passed through there.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
It wasn't bad at all, just a lot of rain
and wind here in Bradenton, very little damage.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Your seasoned veterans of you. We are thank you, Ben.
All right, I'm good. Good to hear everything's okay. And
we say hello to Angry Bill. Hello Angry Bill. He's
also in the Sunshine State, but he's often lacking sunshine.
Hello angry Bill.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Good morning, Benjamin. How were you?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Oh you're so so nice, muck. All right, hold on
you laugh, you sound like you're sick. Shane in des Moin,
Hello Shane, thanks for letting me on, Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
All right, Thanks buddy. And we have Rob in Florida.
Good morning, Rob. We're big in the Sunshine State this morning.
Hello Rob, Rob, Rob going once. Oh, there you are.
That's the yeah, yeah, there you are, Rob. Welcome, you're
give me one of our judges. Okay, what part of
Florida are you in? Beautiful Palm Beach? Can you know
your neighbor just your your neighbor down the road is
(35:37):
Jed who fled? Does that scary you?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
That always scares for hours?
Speaker 7 (35:41):
Look that for him?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah, especially at night walking around the back roads there.
In fact, hold on, Rob, because Jed who Fled is
also on. Hello Jed angry bail with all that sunshine,
probably just had his play with a nine year old girl.
All right, that please, that's not helpful. And we say
hello to our friend from the Valley of the sun on.
Sirius Sean, Hello, Sirius Sean.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Yeah, whoa Hi everybody.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Oh you didn't say hi to Eddie. You always say
hi to Eddie instead of everybody. Eddie. You're all grown
up now, Sean. We had you and you you were
a kid, but now you're all grown up. Man. You're
delivering all those packages for Amazon.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Right, I know it's seven years ago.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
Oh my god, the time just flies.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Has it been seven years?
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Geez?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Man? Now, oh that's there. I feel really old now. Crap.
All right, well you're doing well.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Now you're doing you're doing I'm mentoring my late twenties now.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
So that's how you're washed up, dude. All right? Hold on, uh,
here are the three stories. Figure out which are the
three is not true? Separating fiction from fact. Story number one,
it's all about the Bruskies. Well, if you in Milwaukee,
a bar called Jack's American Pub claims that they are
(36:57):
gonna help you out. They're gonna pay your bar tab.
When Aaron Rodgers and the Jets lose a game this season,
there are some conditions in fine print. You have to
be there fifteen minutes before kickoff, and if the Jets
game goes against head to head with the Packers, no
free booze story number unless we made that up. Story
number two make way for the kid with the camera,
(37:18):
Ken Griffy Junior, following his Seattle Mariner teammate Randy Johnson,
allegedly following in his footsteps. Griffy seen working as a
still photographer this week at a Lionel Messi Inner Miami
MLS match. How about that? Yeah, the kid Hall of
Famer Ken Griffy Junior and story number three. Jesse Palmer,
(37:42):
host of the famously the host of the Bachelor, revealed
that months ago, the producers of the ABC Dating show
sent a very lucrative offer to Tom Brady to be
the next Bachelor, but they never got a respond Hans
from Brady. All right, which of those stories is not true?
(38:04):
You are my judges, so we'll go to you. You listening,
driving around or rolling around in bed, whatever you're doing.
Try to try to see if you can get the
fake story. Let's start out with Leslie the Power Couple
one Tour three Leslie. Oh hey, Jack, Jack to Jodge,
are real judge Jack?
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Yes, I'll go with number one.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Number one. All right, great, hearing your boys, Jack, Glad,
everything's good with the storm and we have angry Bill
Angry Bill one, two or three.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Angry bill number three is the fake?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
All right? Shane in the morn one tour three Shane
quickly three number three, Thanks Shane. Robin Florida one to
or three.
Speaker 8 (38:44):
This way?
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Jed who fled number two?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Number two? Jed who fled one, two or three?
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Jed, I want a sixty nine jack?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
All right, Siria, Sean, it's number three, number three. There
you go, Sean, you got it right, number three
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