October 12, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the NBA releasing a report that says data does not support the idea of "load management," Kirk Cousins' response to trade questions, #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our num berth three. That's right.
You can have your chips and listen to our number three.
So why do you think the NBA released this load
management report as they announced that just before the start
of the regular season. Also, what do you make of
Kirk cousins response to trade questions and how would you
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classify Jason Kelsey's theory on upcoming push push shenanigans. That's right,
we'll get to all of that and we'll do it
right now here. It is our number three. No rest
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we'll get back to the baseball conversation. And a little bit.
Want to thank Sean, the hood guy who was hanging
out and his very kind and lovely family. Well some
of his family were here, not all of them, but
one of his sons was here, and so it was
nice to meet him. And his wife came by. So anyway,
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our lead this hour coming from pro Bouncy Ball. Oh,
that's right, pro bouncy Ball. Now we are a few
weeks away, less than a couple weeks away from the
start of the regular season. Not that excited. An old
nemesis has reared its ugly head. Load management. Now, if
you have not been following along, and probably haven't been
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following along, let me get you caught up to speed here.
So we learned that load management is now quote no
longer supported by scientific data held by the NBA. Say what, Yeah,
there's a big expose, big story that the Athletic wrote
behind a paywall for the Old Gray Lady. They're owned
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by the New York Times, and so they wrote a
long ride up. They're very worthy story chronicling the change
of mindset for the NBA. What is this old? So
I'm gonna give you the condensed version now, Joe Dumars.
If you're old, you remember Joe dumar is a legend
with the Pistons, with Isaiah Thomas and a million years ago.
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So Joe Dumars is now the executive vice president of
basketball Operations. Sounds like a good job. Now, he claims
that the NBA has quote gotten more data and it
just doesn't show that resting, sitting guys out, correlates with
lack of injuries or fatigue or anything like that. Dumars continues,
(03:23):
Joe d said. What it does show is maybe guys
aren't as efficient on the second night of back to backs.
Close quote. All right, So let us discuss the question
why do you think the NBA released this report about
load management at this time? So I have as best
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as Marisupial and gift Shop, and we will combine all
of these things together, all of these things together, and
we are going to make a nice case of hemorrhoids,
which you're probably gonna yet. If you have that load management,
you'll be sitting on the bench there you get hemorrhys. So,
first of all, when I saw this headline, and I
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had a couple of buddies of mind, you shoot this?
Did you shoot this? What do you think about this?
You'll be back. You're gonna talk about the NBA now
the regular season. You're going to talk about the NBA.
And I was like, all right, let me check this out.
So I read the story because the company gives us
a paywall to the athletic Otherwise I wouldn't read the story.
So this is conveniently placed. Propaganda, is what this is.
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And I have a sneaking suspicion that the PR team
on Fifth Avenue there in New York City has turned
on the spin cycle. Not spin cycle, Regina, a different
kind of spin cycle. The NBA strategically released this report
just a couple of weeks before the start of the
regular season. Why what are they trying to accomplish. They're
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using the time tested strategy of moving the goal posts.
They're moving the goal post. Now follow the science. We've
heard a lot about that over the last three or
four years. But you know what that is in this case,
it is bold junk. It is absolute bold junk. It's
just business.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Let me tell you exact I'm gonna say exactly what's
going on here, exactly what's going on with the story.
The NBA is in the middle of negotiations on broadcast
rights agreement, also known as the Golden Goose television, and
what are they hearing? What are they hearing? Well, the
data shows that the A word, the A word, is
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a problem apathy for public consumption of their product. There
is apathy to regular season basketball because the data shows
that if the stars aren't playing, the fans ain't watching.
And it's a prop And all of these healthy players,
these healthy ball players that aren't playing because they're resting
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to prevent injury and preserve themselves to the playoffs. Well,
that load management is as bestis for television. And since
you're negotiating right now, you've got to find a way
to try to convince your television partners and future television
partners that you're serious about this. Now, keep in mind
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Adam Silver, half man, half alien from some planet far
outside the Milky Way galaxy. Adam Silver, the commissioner of
the NBA, has been one of the great champions of
resting healthy players. The person that is the very top
of the food chain in the NBA has been on
the record multiple times, so I understand why teams do it.
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It makes a lot of sense. But now because the
television contracts are coming up in TV, people are squirming saying, well,
I don't know if we want to pay you, because
it's like putting a show on a movie, I mean
not movies. A great analogy you have about like a
Broadway style show, but the headliner doesn't show up for
most of the shows, even though they could perform, but
they choose not to show up. Well, you're probably not
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gonna win a Tony Award. Probably not gonna do that,
and likely the ticket sales won't be that great if
it's the understudy and not the person who's supposed to
be there. So good luck. So now they're doing a
one to eighty. You got to protect the gold Muyon
at all all costs. Now, secondly, we pivot away from
the NBA. We go now to Minnesota, where the Vikings
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continue to be both bad and interesting. It can't be
bad and born, you gotta be bad and interesting. So
the Vikings, who are manure one win four losses the
beginning the year, quarterback Kirk Cousins was asked point blank
a question regarding whether or not he'd be willing to
waive his no trade clause and what did he say?
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What did Kirk Cousins say? When asked about this, Kirk
Cousins responded by declining, declining to answer the question whether
or not he'd be willing to wave his no trade clause,
instead noting that his sole focus is on the team's
match up with the Chicago Bears. Yeah, because of course
you've got to have your full attention for the Chicago Bears.
So what do you make of Kirk cousins response to
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trade questions? So this is the old non answer answer.
It's like, I'm not gonna answer, but I'll answer. And
I didn't really answer. My lips were moving, but nothing
of note was coming out. So he punted. He punted
on the answer. So instead, Cousins is, he's dressed up
for Halloween like like a possum. He's playing possum. Amerisupial,
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he's playing possum. My Cousins is leaving the door open.
The smart money says that, yeah, he doesn't want to
be traded because it's annoying, it's an inconvenience, it's part
of life in professional sports. But he's likely saying, well,
wait a minute, I got this no trade clause, so
I'm not going to answer the question. But if the
Vikings keep losing, they lose to the Bears this weekend,
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and then they play the Niners after that, and these
next two couple of games and they're they're one and six,
then you're like, Okay, maybe I will go somewhere else
because I don't have a contract next year. But the
smart money, he says that Cousins wants a little shall
we say, artificial sweetener where I'd waive by no trade
clause if the Jets tossed in like a free trip
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to Wall Street behind the scenes or something like that,
or some tickets on a harbor cruise around the Hudson,
you know something on those lines. All right, now, final thought,
let's go to Philadelphia, where the Eagles continue to dominate
the tush push I watched it for the first time
in person. I was at the Eagle Rams game this
past weekend there and it was very impressive. The tushy Pushy.
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So Jason Kelse, the center for the Philadelphia football team,
he thinks opposing defenders will turn to faking injuries in
order to have the play banned on the latest episode
of his Fledgling podcast, Well it was fledgling until Taylor
Swift hung out with his brother anyway, Jason Kelsey said
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he thinks the opposing defensive players will turn to faking
the injuries in attempt get to play outlawed. He said,
I swear, I guarantee guys are going to start faking injuries.
It's going to start off as minor injuries at first,
but they're already thinking about how can we get this
outlawed for next season? So how would you classify Jason
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Kelsey's theory. His theory on the Tush Push Sherenanigan's coming inbound.
So it is deep state, like it's a deep state
like take I like it, actually buy it, and I
believe it. I totally believe it. Like I've gone to
the gift shop and I've purchased my souvenir Brotherly Shove
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Tush Push tinfoil hat size eight. I'm there, I'm there
for Jason Kelsey is preaching to the choir on this one.
We already saw it with the Giants. The Giants, Brian Dabele,
the head coach at he said, well, I had a
couple of players injured. We were trying to do the
tushbuck like that's embarrassing for the giants. Why would you
admit that that's embarrassing that you can't run a basic play
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the tush push without getting players. He's it's ridiculous. So
I do file this under pig skin gamesmanship. Putting the
wheels in motion to outlaw the rugby play and its
strategic malingering is what it is. Right Internationally known that
when you exaggerate intentionally your medical status, that is called malingering.
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In the military, that's a military crime. If you're caught
malingering faking like mental illness or some kind of illness
which is hard necessarily to detect, it might not be
a test for it. So that's a problem, right. It
is the Ben Mather Show. Now we promised the third degree.
We didn't do it last hour because we had Sean
the hood guy. So I think we should do that
(11:49):
right now. So Iowa, Sam, why don't you strike up
the band? Here we go, it's maller. How about that
to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
This is one big Ben.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's grill and right over there the coop dal Loop.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Bill Belichick said that mac Jones will continue to be
the starter for the Patriots heading into Week six, but
reports say that changes are on the horizon. Ben does
a poor performance this week land Jones on the bench.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
All Right, So, first of all, if I was coaching
the Patriots, mac Jones would have been benched after the
Cowboy game. He certainly would have been benched after the
game with the Saints last week. And you know, he's
been running around like you know those little free library
boxes that they have around certain cities and you go,
you take a book, leave a book. Mac Jones has
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been just inviting everyone to take the football out of
that little free library box thing because he's just giving
the ball away pick six everywhere. So I got a
theory of this though, that Bill O'Brien, the offensive coordinator,
he despises Bailey Zappy. Otherwise, why wouldn't you go to
Bailey z Appy at this point? If you're the Patriots,
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you'd be better I think Will Greer is still around
the ex Cowboy you'd be better off going with World Greer. Now,
the good news is the Raiders aren't very good, so
it's conceivable if the Patriots actually play hard, they could
beat the Raiders this weekend and Mac Jones could have
a decent game, but I still would have benched him.
It's a bad job not doing it after those two games.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Next, my goodness, that was a dated reference. What was
dated about the library book?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
No, they still have those. Actually, in my neighborhood they
have those little library so you just don't go out
of your house. Cool. I always say thank you for that. Yeah,
you don't go outside. They have those are very popular.
They in COVID time, they were really popular. Yeah, just
make him a home. Sure, churches, community centers, I guess.
I guess my town is just not. Uh you don't
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share much in your town, Yeah, I guess not.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Gardner Minshew has been filling in admirably for Anthony Richardson
and will likely be at the Helm for the next
several weeks. Be if Minshew continues to play well in
Richardson's absence. Do you think he'll be starting somewhere next season?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
No? No, he should have been starting this season. He
played pretty well in relief of Jalen Hurts a little
bit last year, did decent in Jacksonville. But the problem
Gardner Minshew has, it's the same problem I had in
the early days of Fox Sports Radio, I was pigeonholed
as an update guy, weekend talk show host, fill in guy.
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And so you really have to break the glass ceiling
to get out of that box that they put you
in there. And based on his performance, I would have
thought he would have gotten a starting job. He's better
than I'd say about seven or eight of the starting
quarterbacks in the NFL at least right now. And I
love Minshew mania and I wouldn't be shocked if they
come out here the Colts and certainly cover the spread
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against Jacksonville. But we'll get to that on the TV
show this weekend. But the problem is based on the
orthodoxy of the NFL. I don't see Gardner Minshew getting
a chance to start. I don't think he's gonna move
up very much.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Next USC is six to Ohero, But they've had a
cupcake schedule up until this point. Five of their next
six games are against opponents ranked in the top twenty five. Ben,
how do you think the Trojans come out of this
next stretch?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
So they'll lose at least two of them. And here's why. A.
They don't have any defense. As you said, they haven't.
They've been playing the little Sisters of the Poor and blind,
and they're ranked ninety ninth in defense in college football.
What happens when you play good good team? I know
Colorado supposed they had a good offense and all that,
but their offensive line was terrible and all that. But
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there's only one hundred and thirty school one hundred and
thirty three schools ranked, and USC is ninety ninth in
total defense. So good luck against Utah, Washington, Oregon, the
meat of the schedule that is not going to end well.
The problem is Caleb Williams has to be perfect. And
if he has a bad half or a bad quarter,
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then the Utes, what is a ute? The Utes, the
Huskies and the Ducks will absolutely run right over the
men of Troy and sc will be cooked there. It
is Mallard of the third degree? How did we do
pass us? Edition? That is a wayn you can put
it on board? Who all right?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Time Now for the.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Mallory riddle of the day. And here's the Mallor riddle
of the day. Bryce Harper. That's a baseball player hit
a couple of home runs. Bryce Harper walked in the
Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. He was wearing a blank again.
Bryce Harper walked into Citizens Bank Park wearing a blank,
(16:37):
got a lot of people's attention. The answer to the
Mallord Riddle of the day. We'll get to that and
we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (17:26):
Hey you Spartagus, good old Sparty in the house. Here
is the Malor Riddle of the day. So Bryce Harper,
we're told that's a baseball player, apparently a pretty good one.
In a couple home runs for the Fighting Phills. He
walked into Citizens Bank Park prior to Game four and
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he was wearing a blank We're in a blank. There
you go, right, it's actually game three, I believe. Anyway,
all right, that's the question. What is the answer? And
let's see does anyone know the answer to the malor
riddle of the day. By the way, coming up later
this hour, we will have asked Ben. Your questions are answers.
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So if you want to send us some witty, amusing
questions easy to do. Just use the hashtag ask Ben
on X and we may read that on the air.
Milkman Mike in Colorado says he wore a shirt with
the word or gasmo on his Halloween costume, the Shroud
(18:29):
of Turn the Pope is furious. According to ferg Cat,
that's his answer. Late Night Drug Tester says he was
wearing a two pack mask. Well, that's Danny g that's
what that's his Halloween costume every year. Donkey Sausage says
a to two is the way to go. Page Down,
Midnight Walker says a WBC championship belt, like the other
(18:52):
Philly legend Rocky Balboa, is the way to go alf
the Alien Opiner says he was wearing an authentic George
Costanza costume model after the real person that inspired the
Seinfeld character. That's pretty cool. I've not seen that photo before.
That's pretty cool. Where's that is that Yankee Stadium? I
don't know where that is at? Where else do we
have page down Keyshawn Johnson Jersey guess by Calligan Tim
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in Michigan, just like Frank says, Bryce Harper walked into
that stadium wearing a Benny versus the Penny ball cap
From your lips to God's Ears. I gotta get some
Benny versus the Penny swag. I gotta talk to those
people over there at NBC. Who else a Mason in
Huntington Beach says Mac Jones is nowhere near as cool
as Little Free Libraries. Yeah. I can't believe Cooper Loop
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did not know that he thought that was a dated reference.
I mean, that's not it's not dated. I just saw
one the other day. That's why I mentioned it. It's
in my head. I was driving down the street I
saw one. I was like, look at it. They are again,
Men's romper guessed by the sawmen. All right? Uh full
tinfoil from courtesy Flusher Chaps from slug slug in Things
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assless leather chaps. Of course that's the way to do it,
all right, let's see here, all right, enough of that?
Does I was, Sam? You want to answer this? I will,
Sam Sparty. Do I know the answer? Okay? I saw it? Okay,
shut up the correct answer. Bryce Harper, the Philly Star
walked the end of Citizens Bank Park wearing a Dion
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Sanders Coach Prime shirt. Coach Prime. Like another player was
wearing some Colorado stuff, right, that's a good looking I like.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Aslanos was wearing like a Colorado Prime shirt sweatshirt.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I like the one Harper was wearing. It looked like
it had the cartoon drawing? Right? Is that kind of
a graphic te I'd love if we have anybody that's
got the artistic ability that's a super fan of the show.
I'd love to get one of those. I'd make it
into a shirt I had I had no guy that
could make it into a shirt. We could have like
a cartoon drawing. I think you would be a really
good cartoon drawing. Sam with my hair, my wacky hair
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side show haircut. Yeah, I know, I gotta get it
cut because it's no, I don't get it cut. That's
what you're just. You're known for you the hair gut.
I wish I trade with you if you want, you
canna have my you know me to get it cut
off and then I'll just glue it to your head.
When you do that. That'd make a week out of it.
It has been done. Yeah, but like a little drawing,
like a cartoon. Remember those old championship shirts they used
to have years ago, the cartoon.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Go down to go down to San Diego, down by
the harbor, and they've got those, aren't. Don't Those artists
all over the place they do like those.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Everywhere any anywhere there Disney World or Disneyland around here
would be like Venice Beach, Yes, doing Doodles City, any
of those places. Anyway, all right, let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Kevin, who's in the Sunshine State. Hello, Kevin,
welcome here on the Ben Malor Show on Fox.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Hey, Hey, talk again.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It's been a while, Ken. Where have you been, Kevin?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, well I.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Took a break. I've been stuffering. I'm hoping the same
faith doesn't happen to my Braves. I'm thinking, my dearest
dear at Casey, who's passed away on your birthday. I
think in my mind he's watching, and he's there with me,
enjoying what we've enjoyed all year. You know. And the
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regular season definitely doesn't tell you, as it was with
the Dodgers, much about the postseason. But anyway, I'm surprised,
even though I have to tell you can imagine I'm
no great fan of the Dodgers. I was surprised how
much they were as well as the Braves. The Mookie
and our old buddy Freddie Freeman really are in lying
(22:47):
as the Braves are or pamps. I mean, I think
they could use some type.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I was pathetic, it was embarrassing. I mean, at least
go down, compete. Yeah, the Braves won again. Now, the
Braves sucked for six innings of that year, but at
least they came back and they won a game in Atlanta.
But I want to tell you now, Kevin Van, the
one legged Bama Man, right, he wrote, and he said,
neither the Braves or Dodgers will win a World Series
while Freddie Freeman is alive. Wow, he said the double
(23:14):
He said the double franchise curse perpetuated by the agent
Casey Close, was an underhanded backstabbing deal the trade of Freddy.
Unbeknownst to him, it wasn't a trade, as signing was
ripe with deception and done by a greedy agent. He
he hext both franchises. So, according to this Kevin Kevin Van,
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the one legged Bama Man says the Braves and Dodges,
it's over for them. They're done.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Yeah, all yeah, it may or may not be true,
but I think the Braves are. I heard something that
you said or somebody said tonight, and I think it's true.
He got you gotta be clutched. And I'm looking at
Matt Olsen and Kunia is guy on a double in
a couple of singles, he stole a couple of basses,
(24:04):
But geez, these guys.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, well, it's the old Joe Madden line. Try not
to suck or don't suck at a time you cannot suck.
And the Braves they had the lead to him everything
you could have won. If you're a brave saying early lead,
try to keep the fans out of the game. You're
up one nothing first couple of innings. Elder was tossing.
He was doing a good job there, and then it
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all went to hell. It all all went away there.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
One more note. It reminded me as I was in
the early part of your show, close to the second
hour starting, I pulled out an old VHS tape. I've
got a VHS player, and I'm watching you. I'm sure
you've at least heard of it, and you might very
well enjoy it. One of the greatest musicals which I
never really had musicals growing up, Build around the Root.
(24:52):
I pulled it out and I'm watching the beginning where
kevyer or is that his name, Yeah, the old man
he's walking and Breton, the milk man, he's walking in
front of his horse, who is lame. So he's walking
the horse, right.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, And it's funny. It's funny to bring that up
because uh and I always Sam can back me up
on this. In our production meeting, I was saying, how
can we work Fiddler on the Roof into the show,
because that's really our demo, you know, old old musicals,
And here you are, Kevin, you have provided us with
that content, and so thank you very random that you
would mention that. But I must move on, you finish
(25:32):
a story though about you want to yeah scene, it's
one of the great I mean, it goes back to
the early nineteen hundreds, I believe, yes yet five is
what it came out, Yes, over one hundred.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
It reminds me of what you and I and when
I hear you talking about tonight and I and and
it came to a head when they definitely the Dodgers
got knocked out, they had got swept. And then I'm
thinking of what Kebby has always in this movie. There's
so many things that I realized, We're so funny.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I can't I'm done. I can't. I can't never get
to this point. I know, you know, get to the point.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
I've actually never seen Filler on the roof. So I was,
I was intrigued. I was on the edge of my
seat here.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I know. Well, next time Kevin calls, he will fill
us in on the rest of the story. This is.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
This is not a lie. I swear to you. It's
literally the only play that I've ever fallen asleep during.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, I can say I've fallen asleep in more than that.
My my wife took me to the ballet that was
a nightmare, like an actual cod piece.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
I went to a ballet once and I fell asleep
as well. No, I went to an opera or maybe
it's like a combination opera ballet, and I fell.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Asleep so terrible. I was like a senior in high school.
How do people get it? I don't get it. I mean,
I like, I like classical music, but I was like,
this was about some John Williams. You know, can we
wake up party? I don't think. I don't. Oh, there
he is. He popped up. It's like whack a mole,
was sparty of there is? It's hey, he's like taking
a nap and then he'll like put his head up
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and like, I'm awake. He's with us. He's there, all right, Okay,
how was your nap?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
All right, I'm awake, wide awake.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I just kind of he was studying the script of
Fiddler on the Roof. Yeah. Sure.
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I think you like it.
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Listen to All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But wait, there's more. Wow, crap on a cracker. That's
a great line. But wait, there's more. That's an infomercial line.
That's some ron Pool Peel stuff. Huh yeah, Ron Popio
who gave us said it and forget it. That's also
a rom Po Pile line. And his family, not Ron Pope,
but his family cooked up the Uh a bunch of
(28:20):
great infomercials, like the mister Microphone, which you know anyways
old and my like around my age. I love the
mister microphone like a karaoke thing. The dialogue the chap
Omatic was a rom Popel family item. Oh wow, yeah, yeah,
that was pretty good. Uh. Any of the ron Co
products didn't, didn't that? The the rotisserie chicken thing that
(28:42):
sold a ton, Yeah, the Showtimetisse chicken. They you could
get like four of them in there and they looked
so good. Yeah, they were perfect.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
And you go to Costco, you get a rotissary chicken
and you go to you know, that's a big thing.
It's because it's always like affordable. Yeah, they those rotis
and rotissary chickens so good. And you would see the
infomercial and they show that before and after and you're like, oh,
look the juice is dripping off and h Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
But people also had the automatic automatic pasta maker that's
where you could turn vegetables into posta. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Yeah, they try to do that now with the with
squash and stuff. I don't actually stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I have eaten if you put enough tomato sauce or
like yeah, I mean, you can't really taste the vegetables,
so it's it's possible. Let's say hello, real quick, let's
go to Dave, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Dave, you're
on Fox Sports Radio. What's going on? Dave M I
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As the late Great Larry King said back in his day,
we talk about a bunch of dead people. Rom Po Peel,
Larry King. Any other dead people you'd like? Tommy the
Sword I mentioned his name earlier, anyone else.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
One of the guys from Filler on the Roof. You
know he's probably gone, right, I would think with a
movie version. It came out like the seventies, right.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, sixties, sixties, sixties. Although the guy from Mary Poppins
still alive. He was at Disneyland. It's like ninety nine
years old. He was a Disneyland. How cool is that
he was also at the French Quarter recently. He's all
over the place. Great guy. Yeah, Dick Fand you want
to be like Dick when you get older. You know
what his keyd is?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
I know we got to go here with the key
of his longevity is he was He said he was
a severe alcoholic in his mid thirties and he got sober.
And that's why I think why he's alive at ninety
some years old how about that.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I don't know, but I mean there's some people that
just it's probably it's hit and miss.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I mean some people will help you see these stories
about these old women. It's a chained smoke. And do
you know hard liquor every day something you live to
be one hundred, you know, it's like you never know
anywo I thn go ahead and get hit by a bus.
So who the hell knows? Anyway, it is the Ben
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Speaker 6 (32:03):
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say at Progressive dot Com. Now to the reading of
the questions. But it won't sound like he's reading the
Cooper loop.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from Noah. H Noah, Noah from Austin. I know him, well,
I don't really know him, but he's a fan of
the show.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
He sends stuff in.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, yeah, he says, if you got to live in
another country for a year, where would you live?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
New Zealand? I have friends there from I did a
radio show weekly for years in New Zealand. It seems
kind of like here, except the toilets go backwards there
and stuff like that. Either that or Australia, although I
would not live in the western part of Australia where
Ozzie Waz lives. I would live maybe like over in
Perth or something like that. I don't want to get
(33:14):
attacked by a wild kangaroo, but that's probably where i'd go. Uh,
you want to play Spartacus? Where would you? Where would
you go?
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I would say Ireland.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
It's probably the favorite country I've ever been to, the
land of my people and your people. That gives me
EU right, So I can go to basically any country
in Europe, Italy, France.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
We don't need the whole coop, I know, I will say.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I will say I'd probably say Italy just so I
could trial the foods go around. There's Northern and Southern
Italy are very different in terms of just like the
the culture and stuff and the food. So I think
I spend a lot of time just tour around.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Pick a country based on just food.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Well, also, it's beautiful, it's got a Mediterranean climate, it's
sunny and warm, a lot, you know, Tuscany, all that
great stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Coop told me in my headphones he would pick North Korea.
Why North Koreao?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Wow, I'd actually pick Italy as well.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Oh, you just copying off. I was saying, No, Well,
he's he's Italian, so that's true. I understand. I'm not Italian,
and I have.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Been there, and I am picking Italy like beaches seventy
five percent because of the food, food, beaches city.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I have good food. O it's rotten mountains. The best
food is in Italy. Yeah, I've never been. I like
to go. I think I will make it to Italy
at some point. My my wife's family's from there, so
I think i'll make it.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
You like us, You like a sun dried tomato and
eat like on spread, on a sandwich or something.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I eat pretty good. I eat like a child. I
don't know that's what that's true? He does. What's Rory
would like to know?
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Rory is chili a soup. See It's served in a bowl.
It's often eaten with a it's eating with a spoon,
as long as it's not too chunky soup Spartacus, yes
or no.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I agree that it's based on the thickness of it.
I would say the chunky er it is. It's more
of a stew, but less chunky. Yeah, it's definitely.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah, because you know what, my mom when I was
a kid, would make me lentil soup. She's called it soup,
but it was so thick it was disgusting. It was
not a soup. It was it was a I was saying,
it's a porridge. Yeah, it's a soup. Yeah. Cool, I'm
gonna go against the trend here. Not a soup. It's
not a soup. It's in a bowl. It's with a spoon. Yeah,
but it's a liquid based thing. It's too thick.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It's just like a thick chunky Because if you would,
if you were to put like a square of corn
bread in a bowl, literally brand, if you were to
put what chunky soup, it's literally a brand. Yeah, But
chunky soup isn't the brand of chili.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Well they could. I think they have a chop. But
if you can have it, you can have a light
chili and a thick chili.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
If you put a square of corn bread in a
bowl of soup, it's gonna absorb that soup.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
But you put it in a bowl of chili, it's
it's not gonna absorb you. Just you don't know how
how liquid based the chili is. I mean some people
it's all kinds of different chili. And I do not
like a bean based chili. I only want to be.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
No beans, beans beans, But.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I'm a meat man, I am. I like the moving on.
What That's a great question? What is next? There? Thank you?
That's that is why this bit was designed for questions
like that, what is next?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Cowboy Killer wants to know?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
My Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
When you get car trouble, do any of you try
to fix it or just take it straight to get service.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
So when I was younger, I did try to fix
it myself, and then I realized I have no ability
other than sitting on my ass and talking and ripping
professional athletes that are better than me athletically. So I
have no tangible skill, so I just go to the
mechanic spartacus.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Back when I was in like hest when I first
started driving, I thought I could save money like changing
oil myself and it just became way too much of
a pain and I was like, screw it, taking a mechanic.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Then I had a flat tire in San Diego and
I changed it on the side of the eight in
San Diego. My mom yelled at me, you could have
been killed. So I stopped even doing that. Iowa Sam quickly.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
The only thing I know how to do is change
a tire. Other than that, anything inside the hood, I
do not know it. So I take it to get
I know, and the car is today or so. If
you have to do a car, it's a nightma micro chips.
It's designed for you not to be able to fix it.
What about your coop?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
I am the same as Sam. I can change a
tire and that's it.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Yeah, I could. I know the lugnut thing. I know that.
What's nice sitting up the car?
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Yeah? Uh?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Ferd cat Hi Fergie? He wants this is a this
is a two part question. Oh my, this is deep,
he said. Is pumpkin pie underrated or overrated? And is
it better with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
All right, so I believe pi it is underrated at Halloween,
and it's there's only two times a year, Halloween and Thanksgiving. No,
you can eat it Halloween. It's pumpkin pie. Yeah, I
already got it at Costco.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Sam.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yes, we're over a month away from things. No, I
never about this. I go cool whip, cool whips.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
That's the answer. That's the answer.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I won the game I was about against.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Quickly pumpkin pie overrated. Otherwise do like ice cream?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Though?
Speaker 5 (38:20):
Is you have to go now go home?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
No, that's wrong, Sam, Quickly, I essentially eat pumpkin pie cold.
So you go with whipped cream or cool whip. Cool whip.
You don't put ice cream on.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Cool whip underrated whip cool cool whip is the way
to go.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I could eat a whole pie. I could eat a
whole canister, a whole case of cool. I love cool.
It just melts in your mouth. It's so damn god.
I'm not kidding, but I love cool.
Hello and welcome. It's our num berth three. That's right.
You can have your chips and listen to our number three.
So why do you think the NBA released this load
management report as they announced that just before the start
of the regular season. Also, what do you make of
Kirk cousins response to trade questions and how would you
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classify Jason Kelsey's theory on upcoming push push shenanigans. That's right,
we'll get to all of that and we'll do it
right now here. It is our number three. No rest
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we'll get back to the baseball conversation. And a little bit.
Want to thank Sean, the hood guy who was hanging
out and his very kind and lovely family. Well some
of his family were here, not all of them, but
one of his sons was here, and so it was
nice to meet him. And his wife came by. So anyway,
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our lead this hour coming from pro Bouncy Ball. Oh,
that's right, pro bouncy Ball. Now we are a few
weeks away, less than a couple weeks away from the
start of the regular season. Not that excited. An old
nemesis has reared its ugly head. Load management. Now, if
you have not been following along, and probably haven't been
(02:17):
following along, let me get you caught up to speed here.
So we learned that load management is now quote no
longer supported by scientific data held by the NBA. Say what, Yeah,
there's a big expose, big story that the Athletic wrote
behind a paywall for the Old Gray Lady. They're owned
(02:38):
by the New York Times, and so they wrote a
long ride up. They're very worthy story chronicling the change
of mindset for the NBA. What is this old? So
I'm gonna give you the condensed version now, Joe Dumars.
If you're old, you remember Joe dumar is a legend
with the Pistons, with Isaiah Thomas and a million years ago.
(03:00):
So Joe Dumars is now the executive vice president of
basketball Operations. Sounds like a good job. Now, he claims
that the NBA has quote gotten more data and it
just doesn't show that resting, sitting guys out, correlates with
lack of injuries or fatigue or anything like that. Dumars continues,
(03:23):
Joe d said. What it does show is maybe guys
aren't as efficient on the second night of back to backs.
Close quote. All right, So let us discuss the question
why do you think the NBA released this report about
load management at this time? So I have as best
(03:45):
as Marisupial and gift Shop, and we will combine all
of these things together, all of these things together, and
we are going to make a nice case of hemorrhoids,
which you're probably gonna yet. If you have that load management,
you'll be sitting on the bench there you get hemorrhys. So,
first of all, when I saw this headline, and I
(04:07):
had a couple of buddies of mind, you shoot this?
Did you shoot this? What do you think about this?
You'll be back. You're gonna talk about the NBA now
the regular season. You're going to talk about the NBA.
And I was like, all right, let me check this out.
So I read the story because the company gives us
a paywall to the athletic Otherwise I wouldn't read the story.
So this is conveniently placed. Propaganda, is what this is.
(04:27):
And I have a sneaking suspicion that the PR team
on Fifth Avenue there in New York City has turned
on the spin cycle. Not spin cycle, Regina, a different
kind of spin cycle. The NBA strategically released this report
just a couple of weeks before the start of the
regular season. Why what are they trying to accomplish. They're
(04:48):
using the time tested strategy of moving the goal posts.
They're moving the goal post. Now follow the science. We've
heard a lot about that over the last three or
four years. But you know what that is in this case,
it is bold junk. It is absolute bold junk. It's
just business.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Let me tell you exact I'm gonna say exactly what's
going on here, exactly what's going on with the story.
The NBA is in the middle of negotiations on broadcast
rights agreement, also known as the Golden Goose television, and
what are they hearing? What are they hearing? Well, the
data shows that the A word, the A word, is
(05:29):
a problem apathy for public consumption of their product. There
is apathy to regular season basketball because the data shows
that if the stars aren't playing, the fans ain't watching.
And it's a prop And all of these healthy players,
these healthy ball players that aren't playing because they're resting
(05:50):
to prevent injury and preserve themselves to the playoffs. Well,
that load management is as bestis for television. And since
you're negotiating right now, you've got to find a way
to try to convince your television partners and future television
partners that you're serious about this. Now, keep in mind
(06:11):
Adam Silver, half man, half alien from some planet far
outside the Milky Way galaxy. Adam Silver, the commissioner of
the NBA, has been one of the great champions of
resting healthy players. The person that is the very top
of the food chain in the NBA has been on
the record multiple times, so I understand why teams do it.
(06:33):
It makes a lot of sense. But now because the
television contracts are coming up in TV, people are squirming saying, well,
I don't know if we want to pay you, because
it's like putting a show on a movie, I mean
not movies. A great analogy you have about like a
Broadway style show, but the headliner doesn't show up for
most of the shows, even though they could perform, but
they choose not to show up. Well, you're probably not
(06:56):
gonna win a Tony Award. Probably not gonna do that,
and likely the ticket sales won't be that great if
it's the understudy and not the person who's supposed to
be there. So good luck. So now they're doing a
one to eighty. You got to protect the gold Muyon
at all all costs. Now, secondly, we pivot away from
the NBA. We go now to Minnesota, where the Vikings
(07:18):
continue to be both bad and interesting. It can't be
bad and born, you gotta be bad and interesting. So
the Vikings, who are manure one win four losses the
beginning the year, quarterback Kirk Cousins was asked point blank
a question regarding whether or not he'd be willing to
waive his no trade clause and what did he say?
(07:39):
What did Kirk Cousins say? When asked about this, Kirk
Cousins responded by declining, declining to answer the question whether
or not he'd be willing to wave his no trade clause,
instead noting that his sole focus is on the team's
match up with the Chicago Bears. Yeah, because of course
you've got to have your full attention for the Chicago Bears.
So what do you make of Kirk cousins response to
(08:03):
trade questions? So this is the old non answer answer.
It's like, I'm not gonna answer, but I'll answer. And
I didn't really answer. My lips were moving, but nothing
of note was coming out. So he punted. He punted
on the answer. So instead, Cousins is, he's dressed up
for Halloween like like a possum. He's playing possum. Amerisupial,
(08:27):
he's playing possum. My Cousins is leaving the door open.
The smart money says that, yeah, he doesn't want to
be traded because it's annoying, it's an inconvenience, it's part
of life in professional sports. But he's likely saying, well,
wait a minute, I got this no trade clause, so
I'm not going to answer the question. But if the
Vikings keep losing, they lose to the Bears this weekend,
(08:47):
and then they play the Niners after that, and these
next two couple of games and they're they're one and six,
then you're like, Okay, maybe I will go somewhere else
because I don't have a contract next year. But the
smart money, he says that Cousins wants a little shall
we say, artificial sweetener where I'd waive by no trade
clause if the Jets tossed in like a free trip
(09:09):
to Wall Street behind the scenes or something like that,
or some tickets on a harbor cruise around the Hudson,
you know something on those lines. All right, now, final thought,
let's go to Philadelphia, where the Eagles continue to dominate
the tush push I watched it for the first time
in person. I was at the Eagle Rams game this
past weekend there and it was very impressive. The tushy Pushy.
(09:31):
So Jason Kelse, the center for the Philadelphia football team,
he thinks opposing defenders will turn to faking injuries in
order to have the play banned on the latest episode
of his Fledgling podcast, Well it was fledgling until Taylor
Swift hung out with his brother anyway, Jason Kelsey said
(09:52):
he thinks the opposing defensive players will turn to faking
the injuries in attempt get to play outlawed. He said,
I swear, I guarantee guys are going to start faking injuries.
It's going to start off as minor injuries at first,
but they're already thinking about how can we get this
outlawed for next season? So how would you classify Jason
(10:18):
Kelsey's theory. His theory on the Tush Push Sherenanigan's coming inbound.
So it is deep state, like it's a deep state
like take I like it, actually buy it, and I
believe it. I totally believe it. Like I've gone to
the gift shop and I've purchased my souvenir Brotherly Shove
(10:41):
Tush Push tinfoil hat size eight. I'm there, I'm there
for Jason Kelsey is preaching to the choir on this one.
We already saw it with the Giants. The Giants, Brian Dabele,
the head coach at he said, well, I had a
couple of players injured. We were trying to do the
tushbuck like that's embarrassing for the giants. Why would you
admit that that's embarrassing that you can't run a basic play
(11:04):
the tush push without getting players. He's it's ridiculous. So
I do file this under pig skin gamesmanship. Putting the
wheels in motion to outlaw the rugby play and its
strategic malingering is what it is. Right Internationally known that
when you exaggerate intentionally your medical status, that is called malingering.
(11:29):
In the military, that's a military crime. If you're caught
malingering faking like mental illness or some kind of illness
which is hard necessarily to detect, it might not be
a test for it. So that's a problem, right. It
is the Ben Mather Show. Now we promised the third degree.
We didn't do it last hour because we had Sean
the hood guy. So I think we should do that
(11:49):
right now. So Iowa, Sam, why don't you strike up
the band? Here we go, it's maller. How about that
to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
This is one big Ben.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's grill and right over there the coop dal Loop.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Bill Belichick said that mac Jones will continue to be
the starter for the Patriots heading into Week six, but
reports say that changes are on the horizon. Ben does
a poor performance this week land Jones on the bench.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
All Right, So, first of all, if I was coaching
the Patriots, mac Jones would have been benched after the
Cowboy game. He certainly would have been benched after the
game with the Saints last week. And you know, he's
been running around like you know those little free library
boxes that they have around certain cities and you go,
you take a book, leave a book. Mac Jones has
(12:36):
been just inviting everyone to take the football out of
that little free library box thing because he's just giving
the ball away pick six everywhere. So I got a
theory of this though, that Bill O'Brien, the offensive coordinator,
he despises Bailey Zappy. Otherwise, why wouldn't you go to
Bailey z Appy at this point? If you're the Patriots,
(12:57):
you'd be better I think Will Greer is still around
the ex Cowboy you'd be better off going with World Greer. Now,
the good news is the Raiders aren't very good, so
it's conceivable if the Patriots actually play hard, they could
beat the Raiders this weekend and Mac Jones could have
a decent game, but I still would have benched him.
It's a bad job not doing it after those two games.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Next, my goodness, that was a dated reference. What was
dated about the library book?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
No, they still have those. Actually, in my neighborhood they
have those little library so you just don't go out
of your house. Cool. I always say thank you for that. Yeah,
you don't go outside. They have those are very popular.
They in COVID time, they were really popular. Yeah, just
make him a home. Sure, churches, community centers, I guess.
I guess my town is just not. Uh you don't
(13:44):
share much in your town, Yeah, I guess not.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Gardner Minshew has been filling in admirably for Anthony Richardson
and will likely be at the Helm for the next
several weeks. Be if Minshew continues to play well in
Richardson's absence. Do you think he'll be starting somewhere next season?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
No? No, he should have been starting this season. He
played pretty well in relief of Jalen Hurts a little
bit last year, did decent in Jacksonville. But the problem
Gardner Minshew has, it's the same problem I had in
the early days of Fox Sports Radio, I was pigeonholed
as an update guy, weekend talk show host, fill in guy.
(14:20):
And so you really have to break the glass ceiling
to get out of that box that they put you
in there. And based on his performance, I would have
thought he would have gotten a starting job. He's better
than I'd say about seven or eight of the starting
quarterbacks in the NFL at least right now. And I
love Minshew mania and I wouldn't be shocked if they
come out here the Colts and certainly cover the spread
(14:42):
against Jacksonville. But we'll get to that on the TV
show this weekend. But the problem is based on the
orthodoxy of the NFL. I don't see Gardner Minshew getting
a chance to start. I don't think he's gonna move
up very much.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Next USC is six to Ohero, But they've had a
cupcake schedule up until this point. Five of their next
six games are against opponents ranked in the top twenty five. Ben,
how do you think the Trojans come out of this
next stretch?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
So they'll lose at least two of them. And here's why. A.
They don't have any defense. As you said, they haven't.
They've been playing the little Sisters of the Poor and blind,
and they're ranked ninety ninth in defense in college football.
What happens when you play good good team? I know
Colorado supposed they had a good offense and all that,
but their offensive line was terrible and all that. But
(15:31):
there's only one hundred and thirty school one hundred and
thirty three schools ranked, and USC is ninety ninth in
total defense. So good luck against Utah, Washington, Oregon, the
meat of the schedule that is not going to end well.
The problem is Caleb Williams has to be perfect. And
if he has a bad half or a bad quarter,
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then the Utes, what is a ute? The Utes, the
Huskies and the Ducks will absolutely run right over the
men of Troy and sc will be cooked there. It
is Mallard of the third degree? How did we do
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Speaker 1 (16:16):
Mallory riddle of the day. And here's the Mallor riddle
of the day. Bryce Harper. That's a baseball player hit
a couple of home runs. Bryce Harper walked in the
Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. He was wearing a blank again.
Bryce Harper walked into Citizens Bank Park wearing a blank,
(16:37):
got a lot of people's attention. The answer to the
Mallord Riddle of the day. We'll get to that and
we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (17:26):
Hey you Spartagus, good old Sparty in the house. Here
is the Malor Riddle of the day. So Bryce Harper,
we're told that's a baseball player, apparently a pretty good one.
In a couple home runs for the Fighting Phills. He
walked into Citizens Bank Park prior to Game four and
(17:46):
he was wearing a blank We're in a blank. There
you go, right, it's actually game three, I believe. Anyway,
all right, that's the question. What is the answer? And
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Milkman Mike in Colorado says he wore a shirt with
the word or gasmo on his Halloween costume, the Shroud
(18:29):
of Turn the Pope is furious. According to ferg Cat,
that's his answer. Late Night Drug Tester says he was
wearing a two pack mask. Well, that's Danny g that's
what that's his Halloween costume every year. Donkey Sausage says
a to two is the way to go. Page Down,
Midnight Walker says a WBC championship belt, like the other
(18:52):
Philly legend Rocky Balboa, is the way to go alf
the Alien Opiner says he was wearing an authentic George
Costanza costume model after the real person that inspired the
Seinfeld character. That's pretty cool. I've not seen that photo before.
That's pretty cool. Where's that is that Yankee Stadium? I
don't know where that is at? Where else do we
have page down Keyshawn Johnson Jersey guess by Calligan Tim
(19:16):
in Michigan, just like Frank says, Bryce Harper walked into
that stadium wearing a Benny versus the Penny ball cap
From your lips to God's Ears. I gotta get some
Benny versus the Penny swag. I gotta talk to those
people over there at NBC. Who else a Mason in
Huntington Beach says Mac Jones is nowhere near as cool
as Little Free Libraries. Yeah. I can't believe Cooper Loop
(19:38):
did not know that he thought that was a dated reference.
I mean, that's not it's not dated. I just saw
one the other day. That's why I mentioned it. It's
in my head. I was driving down the street I
saw one. I was like, look at it. They are again,
Men's romper guessed by the sawmen. All right? Uh full
tinfoil from courtesy Flusher Chaps from slug slug in Things
(20:04):
assless leather chaps. Of course that's the way to do it,
all right, let's see here, all right, enough of that?
Does I was, Sam? You want to answer this? I will,
Sam Sparty. Do I know the answer? Okay? I saw it? Okay,
shut up the correct answer. Bryce Harper, the Philly Star
walked the end of Citizens Bank Park wearing a Dion
(20:26):
Sanders Coach Prime shirt. Coach Prime. Like another player was
wearing some Colorado stuff, right, that's a good looking I like.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Aslanos was wearing like a Colorado Prime shirt sweatshirt.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I like the one Harper was wearing. It looked like
it had the cartoon drawing? Right? Is that kind of
a graphic te I'd love if we have anybody that's
got the artistic ability that's a super fan of the show.
I'd love to get one of those. I'd make it
into a shirt I had I had no guy that
could make it into a shirt. We could have like
a cartoon drawing. I think you would be a really
good cartoon drawing. Sam with my hair, my wacky hair
(21:05):
side show haircut. Yeah, I know, I gotta get it
cut because it's no, I don't get it cut. That's
what you're just. You're known for you the hair gut.
I wish I trade with you if you want, you
canna have my you know me to get it cut
off and then I'll just glue it to your head.
When you do that. That'd make a week out of it.
It has been done. Yeah, but like a little drawing,
like a cartoon. Remember those old championship shirts they used
to have years ago, the cartoon.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Go down to go down to San Diego, down by
the harbor, and they've got those, aren't. Don't Those artists
all over the place they do like those.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Everywhere any anywhere there Disney World or Disneyland around here
would be like Venice Beach, Yes, doing Doodles City, any
of those places. Anyway, all right, let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Kevin, who's in the Sunshine State. Hello, Kevin,
welcome here on the Ben Malor Show on Fox.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Hey, Hey, talk again.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It's been a while, Ken. Where have you been, Kevin?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, well I.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Took a break. I've been stuffering. I'm hoping the same
faith doesn't happen to my Braves. I'm thinking, my dearest
dear at Casey, who's passed away on your birthday. I
think in my mind he's watching, and he's there with me,
enjoying what we've enjoyed all year. You know. And the
(22:22):
regular season definitely doesn't tell you, as it was with
the Dodgers, much about the postseason. But anyway, I'm surprised,
even though I have to tell you can imagine I'm
no great fan of the Dodgers. I was surprised how
much they were as well as the Braves. The Mookie
and our old buddy Freddie Freeman really are in lying
(22:47):
as the Braves are or pamps. I mean, I think
they could use some type.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I was pathetic, it was embarrassing. I mean, at least
go down, compete. Yeah, the Braves won again. Now, the
Braves sucked for six innings of that year, but at
least they came back and they won a game in Atlanta.
But I want to tell you now, Kevin Van, the
one legged Bama Man, right, he wrote, and he said,
neither the Braves or Dodgers will win a World Series
while Freddie Freeman is alive. Wow, he said the double
(23:14):
He said the double franchise curse perpetuated by the agent
Casey Close, was an underhanded backstabbing deal the trade of Freddy.
Unbeknownst to him, it wasn't a trade, as signing was
ripe with deception and done by a greedy agent. He
he hext both franchises. So, according to this Kevin Kevin Van,
(23:39):
the one legged Bama Man says the Braves and Dodges,
it's over for them. They're done.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Yeah, all yeah, it may or may not be true,
but I think the Braves are. I heard something that
you said or somebody said tonight, and I think it's true.
He got you gotta be clutched. And I'm looking at
Matt Olsen and Kunia is guy on a double in
a couple of singles, he stole a couple of basses,
(24:04):
But geez, these guys.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, well, it's the old Joe Madden line. Try not
to suck or don't suck at a time you cannot suck.
And the Braves they had the lead to him everything
you could have won. If you're a brave saying early lead,
try to keep the fans out of the game. You're
up one nothing first couple of innings. Elder was tossing.
He was doing a good job there, and then it
(24:26):
all went to hell. It all all went away there.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
One more note. It reminded me as I was in
the early part of your show, close to the second
hour starting, I pulled out an old VHS tape. I've
got a VHS player, and I'm watching you. I'm sure
you've at least heard of it, and you might very
well enjoy it. One of the greatest musicals which I
never really had musicals growing up, Build around the Root.
(24:52):
I pulled it out and I'm watching the beginning where
kevyer or is that his name, Yeah, the old man
he's walking and Breton, the milk man, he's walking in
front of his horse, who is lame. So he's walking
the horse, right.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, And it's funny. It's funny to bring that up
because uh and I always Sam can back me up
on this. In our production meeting, I was saying, how
can we work Fiddler on the Roof into the show,
because that's really our demo, you know, old old musicals,
And here you are, Kevin, you have provided us with
that content, and so thank you very random that you
would mention that. But I must move on, you finish
(25:32):
a story though about you want to yeah scene, it's
one of the great I mean, it goes back to
the early nineteen hundreds, I believe, yes yet five is
what it came out, Yes, over one hundred.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
It reminds me of what you and I and when
I hear you talking about tonight and I and and
it came to a head when they definitely the Dodgers
got knocked out, they had got swept. And then I'm
thinking of what Kebby has always in this movie. There's
so many things that I realized, We're so funny.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I can't I'm done. I can't. I can't never get
to this point. I know, you know, get to the point.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
I've actually never seen Filler on the roof. So I was,
I was intrigued. I was on the edge of my
seat here.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I know. Well, next time Kevin calls, he will fill
us in on the rest of the story. This is.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
This is not a lie. I swear to you. It's
literally the only play that I've ever fallen asleep during.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, I can say I've fallen asleep in more than that.
My my wife took me to the ballet that was
a nightmare, like an actual cod piece.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
I went to a ballet once and I fell asleep
as well. No, I went to an opera or maybe
it's like a combination opera ballet, and I fell.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Asleep so terrible. I was like a senior in high school.
How do people get it? I don't get it. I mean,
I like, I like classical music, but I was like,
this was about some John Williams. You know, can we
wake up party? I don't think. I don't. Oh, there
he is. He popped up. It's like whack a mole,
was sparty of there is? It's hey, he's like taking
a nap and then he'll like put his head up
(27:07):
and like, I'm awake. He's with us. He's there, all right, Okay,
how was your nap?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
All right, I'm awake, wide awake.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I just kind of he was studying the script of
Fiddler on the Roof. Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
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We talked to.
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Coaches, we talked to players, We tell you stories.
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You download it, you listen to it.
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I think you like it.
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Listen to All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on the iHeartRadio app,
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Speaker 1 (27:57):
But wait, there's more. Wow, crap on a cracker. That's
a great line. But wait, there's more. That's an infomercial line.
That's some ron Pool Peel stuff. Huh yeah, Ron Popio
who gave us said it and forget it. That's also
a rom Po Pile line. And his family, not Ron Pope,
but his family cooked up the Uh a bunch of
(28:20):
great infomercials, like the mister Microphone, which you know anyways
old and my like around my age. I love the
mister microphone like a karaoke thing. The dialogue the chap
Omatic was a rom Popel family item. Oh wow, yeah, yeah,
that was pretty good. Uh. Any of the ron Co
products didn't, didn't that? The the rotisserie chicken thing that
(28:42):
sold a ton, Yeah, the Showtimetisse chicken. They you could
get like four of them in there and they looked
so good. Yeah, they were perfect.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
And you go to Costco, you get a rotissary chicken
and you go to you know, that's a big thing.
It's because it's always like affordable. Yeah, they those rotis
and rotissary chickens so good. And you would see the
infomercial and they show that before and after and you're like, oh,
look the juice is dripping off and h Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
But people also had the automatic automatic pasta maker that's
where you could turn vegetables into posta. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Yeah, they try to do that now with the with
squash and stuff. I don't actually stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I have eaten if you put enough tomato sauce or
like yeah, I mean, you can't really taste the vegetables,
so it's it's possible. Let's say hello, real quick, let's
go to Dave, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Dave, you're
on Fox Sports Radio. What's going on? Dave M I
(29:39):
think they've fell asleep, but he's not snoring, so it
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As the late Great Larry King said back in his day,
we talk about a bunch of dead people. Rom Po Peel,
Larry King. Any other dead people you'd like? Tommy the
Sword I mentioned his name earlier, anyone else.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
One of the guys from Filler on the Roof. You
know he's probably gone, right, I would think with a
movie version. It came out like the seventies, right.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, sixties, sixties, sixties. Although the guy from Mary Poppins
still alive. He was at Disneyland. It's like ninety nine
years old. He was a Disneyland. How cool is that
he was also at the French Quarter recently. He's all
over the place. Great guy. Yeah, Dick Fand you want
to be like Dick when you get older. You know
what his keyd is?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
I know we got to go here with the key
of his longevity is he was He said he was
a severe alcoholic in his mid thirties and he got sober.
And that's why I think why he's alive at ninety
some years old how about that.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I don't know, but I mean there's some people that
just it's probably it's hit and miss.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I mean some people will help you see these stories
about these old women. It's a chained smoke. And do
you know hard liquor every day something you live to
be one hundred, you know, it's like you never know
anywo I thn go ahead and get hit by a bus.
So who the hell knows? Anyway, it is the Ben
Mallard Show. As we continue on, we're gonna have ask Ben.
Your questions are answers. Use to hashtag asks Ben for
(31:13):
the rest of the hour. Wake up, Spartacus. We'll get
to that and we will he popped up and we'll
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Speaker 6 (32:03):
It's now time for time for horry, Henry, I can
hurry wait ask Twitter.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
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Speaker 1 (32:11):
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say at Progressive dot Com. Now to the reading of
the questions. But it won't sound like he's reading the
Cooper loop.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from Noah. H Noah, Noah from Austin. I know him, well,
I don't really know him, but he's a fan of
the show.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
He sends stuff in.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, yeah, he says, if you got to live in
another country for a year, where would you live?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
New Zealand? I have friends there from I did a
radio show weekly for years in New Zealand. It seems
kind of like here, except the toilets go backwards there
and stuff like that. Either that or Australia, although I
would not live in the western part of Australia where
Ozzie Waz lives. I would live maybe like over in
Perth or something like that. I don't want to get
(33:14):
attacked by a wild kangaroo, but that's probably where i'd go. Uh,
you want to play Spartacus? Where would you? Where would
you go?
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I would say Ireland.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
It's probably the favorite country I've ever been to, the
land of my people and your people. That gives me
EU right, So I can go to basically any country
in Europe, Italy, France.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
We don't need the whole coop, I know, I will say.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I will say I'd probably say Italy just so I
could trial the foods go around. There's Northern and Southern
Italy are very different in terms of just like the
the culture and stuff and the food. So I think
I spend a lot of time just tour around.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Pick a country based on just food.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Well, also, it's beautiful, it's got a Mediterranean climate, it's
sunny and warm, a lot, you know, Tuscany, all that
great stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Coop told me in my headphones he would pick North Korea.
Why North Koreao?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Wow, I'd actually pick Italy as well.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Oh, you just copying off. I was saying, No, Well,
he's he's Italian, so that's true. I understand. I'm not Italian,
and I have.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Been there, and I am picking Italy like beaches seventy
five percent because of the food, food, beaches city.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I have good food. O it's rotten mountains. The best
food is in Italy. Yeah, I've never been. I like
to go. I think I will make it to Italy
at some point. My my wife's family's from there, so
I think i'll make it.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
You like us, You like a sun dried tomato and
eat like on spread, on a sandwich or something.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I eat pretty good. I eat like a child. I
don't know that's what that's true? He does. What's Rory
would like to know?
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Rory is chili a soup. See It's served in a bowl.
It's often eaten with a it's eating with a spoon,
as long as it's not too chunky soup Spartacus, yes
or no.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I agree that it's based on the thickness of it.
I would say the chunky er it is. It's more
of a stew, but less chunky. Yeah, it's definitely.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah, because you know what, my mom when I was
a kid, would make me lentil soup. She's called it soup,
but it was so thick it was disgusting. It was
not a soup. It was it was a I was saying,
it's a porridge. Yeah, it's a soup. Yeah. Cool, I'm
gonna go against the trend here. Not a soup. It's
not a soup. It's in a bowl. It's with a spoon. Yeah,
but it's a liquid based thing. It's too thick.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It's just like a thick chunky Because if you would,
if you were to put like a square of corn
bread in a bowl, literally brand, if you were to
put what chunky soup, it's literally a brand. Yeah, But
chunky soup isn't the brand of chili.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Well they could. I think they have a chop. But
if you can have it, you can have a light
chili and a thick chili.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
If you put a square of corn bread in a
bowl of soup, it's gonna absorb that soup.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
But you put it in a bowl of chili, it's
it's not gonna absorb you. Just you don't know how
how liquid based the chili is. I mean some people
it's all kinds of different chili. And I do not
like a bean based chili. I only want to be.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
No beans, beans beans, But.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I'm a meat man, I am. I like the moving on.
What That's a great question? What is next? There? Thank you?
That's that is why this bit was designed for questions
like that, what is next?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Cowboy Killer wants to know?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
My Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
When you get car trouble, do any of you try
to fix it or just take it straight to get service.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
So when I was younger, I did try to fix
it myself, and then I realized I have no ability
other than sitting on my ass and talking and ripping
professional athletes that are better than me athletically. So I
have no tangible skill, so I just go to the
mechanic spartacus.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Back when I was in like hest when I first
started driving, I thought I could save money like changing
oil myself and it just became way too much of
a pain and I was like, screw it, taking a mechanic.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Then I had a flat tire in San Diego and
I changed it on the side of the eight in
San Diego. My mom yelled at me, you could have
been killed. So I stopped even doing that. Iowa Sam quickly.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
The only thing I know how to do is change
a tire. Other than that, anything inside the hood, I
do not know it. So I take it to get
I know, and the car is today or so. If
you have to do a car, it's a nightma micro chips.
It's designed for you not to be able to fix it.
What about your coop?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
I am the same as Sam. I can change a
tire and that's it.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Yeah, I could. I know the lugnut thing. I know that.
What's nice sitting up the car?
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Yeah? Uh?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Ferd cat Hi Fergie? He wants this is a this
is a two part question. Oh my, this is deep,
he said. Is pumpkin pie underrated or overrated? And is
it better with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
All right, so I believe pi it is underrated at Halloween,
and it's there's only two times a year, Halloween and Thanksgiving. No,
you can eat it Halloween. It's pumpkin pie. Yeah, I
already got it at Costco.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Sam.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yes, we're over a month away from things. No, I
never about this. I go cool whip, cool whips.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
That's the answer. That's the answer.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I won the game I was about against.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Quickly pumpkin pie overrated. Otherwise do like ice cream?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Though?
Speaker 5 (38:20):
Is you have to go now go home?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
No, that's wrong, Sam, Quickly, I essentially eat pumpkin pie cold.
So you go with whipped cream or cool whip. Cool whip.
You don't put ice cream on.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Cool whip underrated whip cool cool whip is the way
to go.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I could eat a whole pie. I could eat a
whole canister, a whole case of cool. I love cool.
It just melts in your mouth. It's so damn god.
I'm not kidding, but I love cool.
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