November 2, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the passing of legendary basketball coach Bobby Knight and how he will be remembered, Paul George's comments about Russell Westbrook's tenure with the Lakers, #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number three. A melancholy Malond
monologue at our number three, the passing of the General.
Bobby Knight, the old Indiana Hoosier coach for many many years,
died this week. Many people are saying wonderful things about
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Bobby Knight. I wonder if I've gone to a different universe,
how are you going to remember the surly Bobby Knight
as he leaves this mortal coil. Also, what is Paul
George really saying about Russell Westbrook's tenure with the Lakers?
We will parse his words. Is Jordan Love in stranger
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danger of losing his job with the Green Bay Packers?
Talk about all of that and much more right now here.
It is our number three, the passing of a general,
a bigger than life's sports figure. Well come, in the
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beginning of another hour of the Ben Malors Show. We
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up a little bit. Congratulations to the Tech Rangers. We
have not heard from ed and Arlington. The Rangers are
the champions of the baseball universe in America. So congratulations
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to the Rangers. Our lead this hour, though, coming from
college basketball. What college basketball season doesn't start until February
when the Super Bowl is played. Right after that, that's
when college basketball season begins. But you heard me right,
we're going to college basketball. If you have not heard
the news, possibly not a man who was larger than life,
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mister Indiana Hoosier himself for basketball. Bobby Knight is dead.
He died this week a night leaving this mortal coil,
the age of eighty three, s mean poor health. For
a number of years, been kept out of the public eye,
his family announcing that in a statement. Now if you're
too young and Bobby Knight last coached in the year
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two thousand, which is a generation ago. It's hard to
imagine it's been a generation, but generation is about twenty
five years, so it's close to a generation. Last time
Bobby Knight coached the game. He spent forty two years
as a college basketball head coach, most of that at Indiana.
Wrapped around his time at Indiana, he was coach at
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Army and he also finished up at Texas Tech when
he was excommunicated from the Indiana Hoosiers basketball program. So
Bobby Knight dead at the age of eighty three, let
us discuss. I've been reading many tributes to Bobby Knight,
and I wanted to give my own version, which is
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a little different than everyone else. So how are you
going to remember? How are you going to remember Bobby
Knight as he is now done with his life, his
time on this planet. So how are you going to remember?
So I've got Circle, Saw, West Virginia, and ZZ Top
and we'll combine all these things together. So I started
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reading eulogies for Bobby Night, and I thought I was
in the twilight zone. I did because when I got
into the radio business, Bobby Knight was still the head
coach at Indiana, and I remember Bobby Knight very much,
Bobby Knight who he was, And I understand why people
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are acting this way now. Right, there's that famous Latin
phrase which has been put into our lexicon, but it's
of the dead, nothing but good is to be said. Right,
It's an old Latin phrase and we've changed it up
to do not speak ill of the dead because they
can't defend themselves. Am I wrong? And maybe I am?
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I don't know, Maybe I am wrong here? Am I
wrong that in the case of Bobby Knight, he would
want us to say who the real Bobby Knight is.
There's a lot of people who are tiptoeing around who
Bobby Knight is. And I get it, I understand, right, said,
it's a weird thing, like we're all going to meet
our demise at some point. Yeah, don't want to be
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that person. But isn't Bobby Knight the person that we've
got an exemption for that? There's there's a pardon on
Bobby Knight when it comes to social decorum when people die.
I mean to me, if you were to say who
would want who would want the real Bobby Knight to
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be talked about, it would be Bobby Knight like I'm
talking Bobby Knight in his in his salad days, right,
his most famous quote. We have his most famous quote.
This is the quote that defines Bobby Knight, and it
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is why I believe every man, woman and child has
an exemption unlike when everyone else dies. When it comes
to Bobby Knight, we can speak the truth. Here's a
little taste of Bobby Knight, a famous basketball coach at
Indiana back in the day, describing what he hoped would
happen someday. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
When my time on Earth is gone and my activities
here are pasted, I want they bury me upside down
and my critics can kiss.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
My drop the mic. That's Bobby Knight. Bobby Knight is
a human circle saw is what he is. Right. He's belligerent,
he was a firebrand. He was a schmuck. He was
an a hole. He treated people like dirt. That was
the real Bobby Knight. But I don't see that anywhere.
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I said, Oh, Bobby a great leader and a great coach. Yeah,
he was a great coach. He was also an a hole.
I mean he was. We would want us to say that, right.
My memory and when I got into the business and
Night was coaching Indiana. If anybody that crossed Bobby Knight,
people think Bill Belichick's like the leader of schmuck Army. No,
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not even I poplished. Those guys are amateurs compared to
Bobby Knight when he was coaching in Indiana. I don't
know what you're talking about. Yeah, And it wasn't just
to the media, it was his own players. One of
the rants we used to play. I love the coaching rants.
Somebody snuck a tape recorder, was a cassette recorder because
they didn't have the digital stuff that we have today.
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And Indiana was playing Purdue and Bob Knight laid in
to the Indiana basketball team. I'm sick and tired of
losing to Purdue, and it was one of the all
time great rants. It's none of your business. Yeah. So again,
I'm saying this with the utmost respect because I believe,
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truly the real Bobby Knight that I knew as a
public figure would think this is hilarious. All these people
that are tiptoeing around not wanting to speak who the
real Bobby Knight was. What I'm reading is revisionist history.
I mean, that's great that you want to you know,
you don't want to say anything bad about Bobby, but
Bobby Knight wanted you to say stuff about him that
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was real. And he was the original content creator. Bobby
Knight with his many tirades about media rules and this that,
and there was a famous one he had about game face.
He's like, what is a game face? And then he
made all his weird facial gestures and and all that.
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And we might never know this, but I think he
should be buried upside down because that's what he wanted.
I think that would be a wonderful tribute to Bobby Knight.
He was unfiltered, He was crude. He was he was rude.
That was Bobby Knight. And he was a wonderful coach
when he retired. He was the all time winning his
coach in college basketball, and he won a bunch of games,
won championships in Indiana, coached some great players, had a
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great eye for talent. All of that is true, but
it's also true that he treated people like dirt. He
hated He hated the media before everyone else hated the media.
All right, it is the Ben Mahlors Show, as we
continue on now. Secondly, we head to La La Land,
where the Lakers won their regular season championship, beating the
people's team, the Clippers, and congratulations to them. Saw the
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sense of relief there by the long suffering Laker historians.
They have never won a championship since Kobe Bryant left,
the Lakers, no championships. So I bring this up because
in the prologue prior to the Clipper Laker game, Paul George,
who was amazing, and the only reason the Lakers won
that game is because of the referees yet again helping
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the Lakers out. It's amazing how that always seems to happen.
You never foul out in that business star players. Paul
George on a chicken crap fowl was kicked out of
the game for too many fouls. It's just ridiculous. But
that's a different conversation. So Paul George was asked about
his teammate with the Clippers, Russell Westbrook, and how the
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fact that he never was able to fin a happy
place with the Lakers right, could never find a happy
place with Lakes, and Paul George said the following he
said quote, Westbrook wasn't comfortable with the Lakers having to
fight so many battles. Close quote. So this is the
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part of the Mallard monologue where we parsed the words.
We parsed the words. So what is Pg. Thirteen really
saying about Russell Westbrook and the Lakers? So, using our
super secret decoder ring we got from a cracker jack box,
Paul George dropped the old West Virginia as in, there's
a town in West Virginia called left Hand and this
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is a left handed compliment, is what it is. Right,
he's talking about the toxic, high levels of toxicity around
the Lakers, but he's really taking a shot at Lebron James.
It's a not so subtle poke at Lebron that Lebron
did not welcome Russell Westbrook. That the reason Russell Westbrook
didn't work out with the Lakers is because Lebron James
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is a dufus and he was not opening up to
Russell Westbury. That's how I interpret it. That's what Paul
George was saying. He's like, listen, he was fighting battles.
If Lebron James had taken him in as an orphan
and said come here, Russ, come on, Russ. I know
you can't shoot, but come on, you can move the basketball.
You play hard. Unlike most of these guys in the
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NBA and all that, Lebron didn't do that. For whatever reason,
Lebron didn't like Russell Westbrook, and so Westbrook had to
fight with Lebron internally, he had to fight with the coaching,
stad the media and all that stuff. So it just
shows you it's better being a Clipper than the Laker.
A right final fuck headline, lambbo Field, lambeau Field. Jordan Love.
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If he was a movie, he would be a box
office bomb. That is Jordan Love. Now they aren't paying
him the top dollar, but this guy needs a flea bath.
He is the twenty eighth rank quarterback in the NFL,
which sounds bad. You know, it's even worse. Among all
quarterbacks that have played in every game this season. He
is the worst. The other quarterbacks below him, all of
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them have either missed a game or two or backups
that stepped in as starters and with one season remaining,
one season remaining for Jordan Love on his contract. The
GM in Wisconsin, Brian GHUDAKUNZK make sure you say that
carefully or you'll get in a whole lot of trouble.
Brian gudakountz, Yeah, I said it properly. He said, the
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rest of this Green Bay season is going to be
crucial to determining whether or not the organizationan is going
to continue on with Jordan Love. He essentially called out
Jordan Love at this mid season news conference that he
has to do because the Packers have that meaningless stock
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option that they give out to people, so they need
to make more money. I think I should be able.
Can we talk to the people on Wall Street if
I need some money? I think we should just have
like the Mallard Militia stock, which isn't worth anything. But
I'll give you like the state of the Malard Militia.
I'll give you the address a couple times a year
and then you send me money. And I think that
would be great. But anyway, is Jordan Love actually in danger?
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Is Jordan Love actually in danger of losing his job
with the Packers? Is there a stranger danger for Jordan Love?
The answer is no. I don't care what Brian gudukunstaid
the GM in Green Bay. I'll tell you why zz
top that's the answer, right. The answer is cheap sunglasses,
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and that is what Jordan Love is cheap sunglasses. Packers
don't like spending a lot of money. And he's value added,
not as a player because he sucks, but he's value
added because his salary next year is five point five million.
The Green Bead Packers are not one of these teams
that futs around with a salary cap. They treat it
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like it's a hard salary cap. It's malleable, you can
move it around. We all know that. But the Packers,
they pocket the money. So that's what that's all about.
So Jordan Love, I don't see it other than getting hurt.
I don't see a scenario where he's not back as
the Green Bay Packers quarterback next season. And he's terrible
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by any measurement. He sucks, but I say he continues.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you would like
to be part, you can join us here. Speakeasy rules
are in effect. Do you have any memories about Bobby
Knight you would like to share? You want to point
out that the I think on the only one I
haven't seen anyone else give the real Bobby Knight. I'm
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I kept looking for it. I was like, we're the
people who are talking about the real Bobby Knight, the
guy that was the you know, just a complete a hole,
because that's who he was. But you wouldn't know that
from from reading these these eulogies for for Bobby Knight
son Ben On.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Don't know if anybody is really trying to sanitize his
legacy I've read.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I mean, like, have you read any of these, Iom,
because I read a bunch of them.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I mean, there read plenty of articles about him before
he died, just being like he's a bully.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh now he's dead.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Though.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
It's different when you're dead, but then that when you croak,
it's different. Yeah. Well maybe he was almost croaking because
he I mean, he has been sick for years. But anyway,
it is the Ben Mathers Show. I love how IOM
always says to chime in on these things. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Wait, you mean I just want to I mean I
grew up watching Big ten basketball.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And you think Bobby Knight was not an a whole.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Oh he's totally an ahole. Yeah, but he we we
we maybe when you die you get a little bit
of a break.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Why he does a little bit of a santized version
of all the people. He's the guy that doesn't want that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, he's not around to tell us what to do,
but he already told us before he died. It's like
writing a will. He wrote a will that day. At
the end he said, this is who I am and
this is what I want. And people are not honoring
his wishes. When someone dies, if you write a will,
you have to honor their wishes. I'm the executor of
the will. I'm honoring Bobby Knights what he wants. He
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wants people to talk about the real Bobby, the will
of public opinion.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
All right, we'll take your phone calls, as we said
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malor Riddle of the day. Urban Meyer says that he
is very skeptical of Blank. Urban Meyer. Urban Meyer. Urban
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Speaker 1 (17:31):
Is it possible for you to do a radio ship
without eating? You never eat during your show? No, he's
powered by almond butter.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
It's really hard to go seven hours overnight without something
in your belly.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Through it every day.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Well, you're into the intermittent fasting and I don't really
get that, but.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It seems to get somebody eating spoonfuls of peanut or
like an animal? Well what else am I?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
What?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
An elephant? The thing of animals? Spoons. Well, guys were
all animals. We are Homo sapiens. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
The thing about almond butter is that it quells the
appetite until you get back cold.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
How about you drink a cup of water. How about
that it's free, there's no calories.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Drink some water. You'll fill your stomach up with water.
That doesn't mean you're gonna not have an appetite.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
What do you? I was like five hundred pounds at
one point, and I can go like two days without eating,
and you you can't go more than a couple of
hours without eating a spoonful of butter.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Well, this isn't fair really, because before Ben started his
intermittent fasting, he ate during the show all the time.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, that was how many years ago? It was a
million years ago.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Though we aren't intermittent fasting. You're eating hogies.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Back then, we used to go to the the there's
a liquor store across the way here. We used to
walk over there and get like gummy candy and like
any kind of snacks, chips, like we load up all the.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Then we had like cake benefactor people sending cakes.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh yeah, I got so fat. Yeah, yeah, we had
every other week. There were people saying, not just cakes,
designer cakes, like they should be on a TV show.
You have a pie guy, right, yeah, John, the pie
guy would show up, like But even then there was those.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
There were those tarts for a little while, those.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That was good. Have you noticed we don't get any
of that anymore? No nobody gives us anything anymore. We
were getting a lot of stuff for a while. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Now I'm kind of glad, though, because why is that?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I mean, yeah, it was tough not gaining weight with
all that game.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I did gain a lot of.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You still haven't taken your William Shatner book home though,
that was a gift from I haven't even given it
to them.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Hard for me to take it home. I don't even
know what I forgot.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It exists in the drawer right now, Okay. And I
got a I got a version of a monopoly Iowopoly
from what Tammy and Montana?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I don't still send a gifts, very very generous anyway
comes he coming in with it, the Shatner book.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It comes a gift.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
It is exciting here your guy, Bill Shatner, it's my friend. Yeah,
you guys each other on Twitter Original Shatner. Somebody paid
thousands of dollars to have me unblocked on X. William
Shatner a little golden book biography. Let's see here.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Should I read this on the air? Would that be
good radio?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
It's your show.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Who is William Shatner is wonderful? Oh it ends with
him going to space. I read the last page. I
don't need to read the book.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Now we can have Felexus reet it and we'll have
drag Time Story Hour.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh yeah, Look, they made books about Lucille Ball, Tony Bennett,
Willie Nelson, Bob Ross, Julie Andrews, Joe Biden. That must
be an interesting one. And Carol Burnett's there you go.
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Some of those people are still alive, others are not.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
As soon they'll all be gone. All right. Anyway, let's
go to the phones. Good news. We'd like to hear
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the intestinal fortitude to stay on hold. But we say
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Speaker 6 (21:22):
Bab good morning everybody. I know you have been talking
about Bobby Knight and God rest your soul. I actually
have a good Bobby Knight story if you'd like to
hear it.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
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Speaker 6 (21:57):
Guy in there.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I don't think that's in the copy, so I don't know. Yeah,
thank you. You want to rip any other sponsors you
want to, you want to trash tire rack while you're
at it, you want to take a shot it insurance,
I'll do that, nuts out, Okay, good, thank you?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
All right. So my story is I was actually born
and raised in Indiana. My dad actually started out in
the radio business. Uh. He actually broadcasted for a little
closet radio station in Crawfordsville, Indiana, And we were big
IU fans the year that they won and went undefeated.
We went down to Blimington and welcome the team back.
When we left, they were passing out posters with the record,
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the team players and everybody else on it. My dad
nailed that into Bobby asked him, said, I'm a huge
fan that I fan all my life. Would you sign it?
Not only did Bobby sign it and send it back,
he had every single player sign it as well.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Are you sure that he actually signed it?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Yeah, it was authenticated, but.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You didn't see him sign it.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
No, yeah, no, and seemed fine it now no, but
we give if you well. And unfortunately my dad had
it in his office every year, everywhere he moved until
he passed in seven. Now my brothers got it. The
ink is gone, but you can still see the impressions.
But if you take a look at the signatures on
there back in the day, you could tell it look
like his signature. So we're going to go with the
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fact or.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
With the with the story down when when when the
legend becomes a fact, you go with the legend. That's right, yeah, exactly,
all right, Well we want to rip anyone else.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Pop next out?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay that I'll look forward to that. I thank you,
go away. We do have ask Ben coming up, which
will likely be hijacked Brian.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
That is not a segment Taylor built for Fendley is
he doesn't do quick.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He doesn't do quick answers, does not understand brevity. He
does do quick in one area.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
But I'm just gonna say yourself, there, you were about
to give me a compliment, And how dare you give
me a compliment?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah? Anyway, all right, let me pay off the mallar
riddle of the day. I think I waited long enough
urban Meyer. Urban Meyer says he's very skeptical of blank.
That is the mallar riddle of the day. What is
the answer to the mallar riddle of the day? You ask?
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I see page down and I can't read that on
the air. Urban Meyer is skeptical of Poppy's gambling advice
that is guessed by Matthew Warrior Raider A's fan page down,
page down. A tactical light. Tactical flashlight from the SAWMN
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Veggie Burgers from Sean and Portland Almond Butter guests by
Mike Casey Carhaller going with young ladies at the bar. Yeah, well,
he certainly got up close and personal with them. Ferdkat said,
a skeptical if they actually flip a penny on Benny
Versus the Penny all they do. In fact, the guy
on the guy at NBC that flips the penny, he
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lives in Philadelphia. They do not let me know prior
to the recording of Benny Versus the Penny. I am
completely in the dark. I make my picks. I have
no idea who the penny picked. Mallard prop guy says,
actors wearing rented Buffalo Bill's jerseys. The Erbi Meyer skeptical
of that. Late Night Directester says, skeptical of pro wrestling.
The pro wrestling is fake witchcraft. Guessed by Alf the
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Alien opiner. Cookie Monster is the answer. He turns fifty
four today. No, Cookie Monster does not age. Okay, Cookie
Monster is the same age he's always been since I
was a kid. That's the fact, Clam says. Skeptical of
self driving cars. Trucker Joe says, ai taking his job.
(25:52):
Tim Tebow being a virgin at Florida I guess by
Kyle Robin Minnesota says very leary of purchasing mal malicious stock.
And that is the answer. Fudgie in Boston says the
answer is skeptical of coaches who are actually successful in
the NFL courtesy Flusher says Frank's red hot spaghettios. Skeptical
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of that. All right, bottleneck, Brian, do you have an
answer the put the almond butter down?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Skeptical of wanting the Michigan State job.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Let's see Bernie Fratto story. No, that is incorrect. The
correct answer Erban Meyer says he is very skeptical of reporters.
They're wrong most of the time, which is ironic because
urban Meyer now is a reporter. He's wrong most of
the time.
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Well, it's a Covino and Rich after show, and we
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Speaker 1 (27:53):
Very impressive performance by Obi Toppin of the Pacers while
he was on the cord. The Indiana Pacers were outscored
by four forty one points. That is impressive. That is impressive.
How does one suck so much where his team is out?
He played twenty four minutes and fifty five seconds but
while he was out there minus forty.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
One, Oh no, which suck again.
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It was a strange pause.
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There was pause. That's what I normally do. Pause.
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You're gonna start an now, go to break now?
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Wh ruined the moments past? There was a spark, but
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It is asked Ben. Your questions are answers. I'd like
to get the Ask Ben started. I'm gonna ask kopleloops.
So we moved into a new studio. We have a
call screener here. Literally every five minutes the thing malfunctions.
Why do you think that is coop? And why do
you think no one's fixed it? It's been this way
for several weeks and it does not work. It works
(30:46):
and then you you step away, I don't even touch it,
and then five minutes later it says server error and
you have to refresh? Why is that do you think coop? Ah?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
That is a good question, Ben, Okay, Uh, Normally I
would blame it on the old equipment.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Can't do that. I don't think this is old equipment,
doesn't I don't think anyone else takes calls. Well maybe Rob,
Rob probably does. Rob Parker, Yeah, but that's it. All
these other guys are. They're a bunch of wienies. They're
afraid of taking calls. I don't get it. All right, anyway,
let's get to ask Ben. Your question is our answers?
What do we have here?
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Well, you know, you other you other listeners to the
show need to step your game up, because I'm seeing
just good question after good question from ferg Cat.
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It's not for cats. He can't steal all the questions.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
We may just have to read multiple questions said.
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Well, we'll just cancel ask Ben. Then we'll just get
back to the calls and that's it.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
We'll start with a question from firshtag.
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Ask Ben to save, ask Ben to make ask Ben
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Speaker 3 (31:49):
This one's just for you, Ben, He says, for double
the pay, would you do the show with Fendley every day?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Can I do it from home? Home?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I mean he doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't specify. Let's say,
let's say it's the same rules you have to like,
you know.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Occasionally come in. Yeah, I'm gonna say it would be
if it's five times what I'm making, I would do it. Notice,
not twice five times a yeah, and even then I
would have to consult with the therapist, you know, get
some medication.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
What is next?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Use better help?
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Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Okay, here is a This one's a stupid question.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
To stop it. Why would you just start to read it.
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You're telling yourself to stop it. Yeah, you know I'm
gonna have to. I'm gonna have to do another one
for a cat here.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Oh my god, is he the only one the same questions,
is this show we lost our entire audiences?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Apple are asking sports questions, Yeah, one questions. Then Shane's
asking about Danny G's kid, Which.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Shouldn't you ask Danny G about his kid?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
He's asking if any of the when baby said Danny
G's kid. The answer is no, I would a baby
sit anybody's kid? Well not, I would consider, but not
at that age. I mean that's a that's a fragile age,
that's true. I gotta wait till the kids a little older,
you know, that can hang around with the kid, play
video games, stuff like that, you know, chill out, watch
a ball game. Yeah. Uh is art? This for everybody?
(33:26):
Is artic choke, good or annoying to eat?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Not a fan anti. I've taken a long standing anti
ARTI ARTI choke. If I could say the word ARTI
choke position. Not a fan Uh, it's it's a vegetable. Uh.
I'm not saying anything over there. I'm just in all the.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Fact that you would eat a vegetable sogetble do you?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
They're all part of the garlic. I was saying, I
am anti, Okay, why be anti? I'm shocked you would
be anti because they don't make it in a butter.
If it was art choke butter, you'd probab eat it.
What about you?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I like artichoke dip, but I do not attempt to
eat the leaf of the art joke. You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
You know it's really good. They have a nacho holopano
cheese at Trader Joe's. You ever had that? Really?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah? Well there, and they have all kinds of like
artichoke dips.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It's not arti choke, you know, it's not choke. Cheese
dip with holapeno pepper's good too.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
That's good too.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
You like horseradish? Men? Cool?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
The correct answer is both. Actually, artichoke is good and
it is also annoying to eat. It tastes delicious, like
if you dip it in melted butter or or in mayo. Delicious,
but it's it's irritating because you only get like a
tiny little bit out of each thing. Next question, it's
from Eke Hiyeke.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
He's in Roseuo, Minnesota. You know, a medi good man.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
He was for everybody. He wants to know. How do
you like your orange juice pulp? A little pulp or
no pulp.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, so I'm all inclusive on the the orange juice.
I prefer pulp, but I will not turn down no pulp.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I'm surprised by that.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Yeah, coming from a guy who's speaking from a bully
pulp it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I liked some credit. He's below me. I like that,
like I'm for some reason where I Yeah, I don't
know why you're below me, but you're below me. Well,
I'll just leave that one right there. You want to
make another extraated joke, I didn't say anything. Yeah, careful
that comes out. That came out weird. I guess uh.
(35:38):
Family doesn't want to He didn't want to answer these questions.
He's just a pulp guy.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I checking and every time it gets no. He said,
you're a big pulp guy. All right, I'm good with
any amount of pulp. What is wrong with you people
fresh squeezed. When I was a kid, it was like,
it's zero pulp. I would not touch it if it
had any pulp. Now I'm okay with a little bit
of pulp, but I still prefer no pulp.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Not a child anymore. Coop, you're growing up, you can
have pulp.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Well, this is coming from you that only eats like
like chicken fingers and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
I eat chicken fingers, cheese, steak, and pizza. Those are
my foods. And by the way, crunchy tacos. I found
a place in Santa Ana, amazing crunchy tacos three dollars each.
I'm never going back to Tito's Tacos. Right, beautiful, beautiful
little place there, David Taco Bell over there.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Next, okay, next we have Stef Pretend he's not there.
We have a question from late night drug Testerser. He's
like jumping up and down, laughing at is. I'm gonna
I'm gonna like change this question around a little bit.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
But by curtains. How about we'll all put some money.
We'll buy curtains. When he's here.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Go ahead, we actually have blinds, we can, I mean
I do in here. I don't think on this side though. Okay, uh.
He wants to know do you have leftover candy from
from Tricken treats.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yes. I was on candy watery and there weren't very
many kids that came by, and so I started giving
them like two handsfuls of candy to try to get
rid of the candy because I don't want to have
to eat it, because that always gonna happen. I'm gonna
I'm eating in a moment of weakness. But yes, tons
of candy, tons of candy.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Right.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
I did not get any candy because I don't need sugar.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I know, what about God, you are such a schmuck.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
What about the children candy to the trigger?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
You give them the sugar. I would rather give them
like a toothbrush. Go ahead. I was saying, I had
no candy.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
There's candy here at work.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
So there's a ton of candy over there. Quickly.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Uh yes, And I like you. I we had very
little trigger treaters, so we just left the bowl out
on the porch.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
It's a skim. Nobody goes trigger treating anymore. What happened
to these kids today? These kids today go out there,
get the damn candy. Kids,
Hello and welcome. It's our number three. A melancholy Malond
monologue at our number three, the passing of the General.
Bobby Knight, the old Indiana Hoosier coach for many many years,
died this week. Many people are saying wonderful things about
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Bobby Knight. I wonder if I've gone to a different universe,
how are you going to remember the surly Bobby Knight
as he leaves this mortal coil. Also, what is Paul
George really saying about Russell Westbrook's tenure with the Lakers?
We will parse his words. Is Jordan Love in stranger
(00:41):
danger of losing his job with the Green Bay Packers?
Talk about all of that and much more right now here.
It is our number three, the passing of a general,
a bigger than life's sports figure. Well come, in the
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up a little bit. Congratulations to the Tech Rangers. We
have not heard from ed and Arlington. The Rangers are
the champions of the baseball universe in America. So congratulations
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to the Rangers. Our lead this hour, though, coming from
college basketball. What college basketball season doesn't start until February
when the Super Bowl is played. Right after that, that's
when college basketball season begins. But you heard me right,
we're going to college basketball. If you have not heard
the news, possibly not a man who was larger than life,
(02:31):
mister Indiana Hoosier himself for basketball. Bobby Knight is dead.
He died this week a night leaving this mortal coil,
the age of eighty three, s mean poor health. For
a number of years, been kept out of the public eye,
his family announcing that in a statement. Now if you're
too young and Bobby Knight last coached in the year
(02:53):
two thousand, which is a generation ago. It's hard to
imagine it's been a generation, but generation is about twenty
five years, so it's close to a generation. Last time
Bobby Knight coached the game. He spent forty two years
as a college basketball head coach, most of that at Indiana.
Wrapped around his time at Indiana, he was coach at
(03:14):
Army and he also finished up at Texas Tech when
he was excommunicated from the Indiana Hoosiers basketball program. So
Bobby Knight dead at the age of eighty three, let
us discuss. I've been reading many tributes to Bobby Knight,
and I wanted to give my own version, which is
(03:34):
a little different than everyone else. So how are you
going to remember? How are you going to remember Bobby
Knight as he is now done with his life, his
time on this planet. So how are you going to remember?
So I've got Circle, Saw, West Virginia, and ZZ Top
and we'll combine all these things together. So I started
(03:58):
reading eulogies for Bobby Night, and I thought I was
in the twilight zone. I did because when I got
into the radio business, Bobby Knight was still the head
coach at Indiana, and I remember Bobby Knight very much,
Bobby Knight who he was, And I understand why people
(04:18):
are acting this way now. Right, there's that famous Latin
phrase which has been put into our lexicon, but it's
of the dead, nothing but good is to be said. Right,
It's an old Latin phrase and we've changed it up
to do not speak ill of the dead because they
can't defend themselves. Am I wrong? And maybe I am?
(04:39):
I don't know, Maybe I am wrong here? Am I
wrong that in the case of Bobby Knight, he would
want us to say who the real Bobby Knight is.
There's a lot of people who are tiptoeing around who
Bobby Knight is. And I get it, I understand, right, said,
it's a weird thing, like we're all going to meet
our demise at some point. Yeah, don't want to be
(05:00):
that person. But isn't Bobby Knight the person that we've
got an exemption for that? There's there's a pardon on
Bobby Knight when it comes to social decorum when people die.
I mean to me, if you were to say who
would want who would want the real Bobby Knight to
(05:21):
be talked about, it would be Bobby Knight like I'm
talking Bobby Knight in his in his salad days, right,
his most famous quote. We have his most famous quote.
This is the quote that defines Bobby Knight, and it
(05:42):
is why I believe every man, woman and child has
an exemption unlike when everyone else dies. When it comes
to Bobby Knight, we can speak the truth. Here's a
little taste of Bobby Knight, a famous basketball coach at
Indiana back in the day, describing what he hoped would
happen someday. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
When my time on Earth is gone and my activities
here are pasted, I want they bury me upside down
and my critics can kiss.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
My drop the mic. That's Bobby Knight. Bobby Knight is
a human circle saw is what he is. Right. He's belligerent,
he was a firebrand. He was a schmuck. He was
an a hole. He treated people like dirt. That was
the real Bobby Knight. But I don't see that anywhere.
(06:35):
I said, Oh, Bobby a great leader and a great coach. Yeah,
he was a great coach. He was also an a hole.
I mean he was. We would want us to say that, right.
My memory and when I got into the business and
Night was coaching Indiana. If anybody that crossed Bobby Knight,
people think Bill Belichick's like the leader of schmuck Army. No,
(06:59):
not even I poplished. Those guys are amateurs compared to
Bobby Knight when he was coaching in Indiana. I don't
know what you're talking about. Yeah, And it wasn't just
to the media, it was his own players. One of
the rants we used to play. I love the coaching rants.
Somebody snuck a tape recorder, was a cassette recorder because
they didn't have the digital stuff that we have today.
(07:21):
And Indiana was playing Purdue and Bob Knight laid in
to the Indiana basketball team. I'm sick and tired of
losing to Purdue, and it was one of the all
time great rants. It's none of your business. Yeah. So again,
I'm saying this with the utmost respect because I believe,
(07:43):
truly the real Bobby Knight that I knew as a
public figure would think this is hilarious. All these people
that are tiptoeing around not wanting to speak who the
real Bobby Knight was. What I'm reading is revisionist history.
I mean, that's great that you want to you know,
you don't want to say anything bad about Bobby, but
Bobby Knight wanted you to say stuff about him that
(08:05):
was real. And he was the original content creator. Bobby
Knight with his many tirades about media rules and this that,
and there was a famous one he had about game face.
He's like, what is a game face? And then he
made all his weird facial gestures and and all that.
(08:27):
And we might never know this, but I think he
should be buried upside down because that's what he wanted.
I think that would be a wonderful tribute to Bobby Knight.
He was unfiltered, He was crude. He was he was rude.
That was Bobby Knight. And he was a wonderful coach
when he retired. He was the all time winning his
coach in college basketball, and he won a bunch of games,
won championships in Indiana, coached some great players, had a
(08:50):
great eye for talent. All of that is true, but
it's also true that he treated people like dirt. He
hated He hated the media before everyone else hated the media.
All right, it is the Ben Mahlors Show, as we
continue on now. Secondly, we head to La La Land,
where the Lakers won their regular season championship, beating the
people's team, the Clippers, and congratulations to them. Saw the
(09:15):
sense of relief there by the long suffering Laker historians.
They have never won a championship since Kobe Bryant left,
the Lakers, no championships. So I bring this up because
in the prologue prior to the Clipper Laker game, Paul George,
who was amazing, and the only reason the Lakers won
that game is because of the referees yet again helping
(09:35):
the Lakers out. It's amazing how that always seems to happen.
You never foul out in that business star players. Paul
George on a chicken crap fowl was kicked out of
the game for too many fouls. It's just ridiculous. But
that's a different conversation. So Paul George was asked about
his teammate with the Clippers, Russell Westbrook, and how the
(09:57):
fact that he never was able to fin a happy
place with the Lakers right, could never find a happy
place with Lakes, and Paul George said the following he
said quote, Westbrook wasn't comfortable with the Lakers having to
fight so many battles. Close quote. So this is the
(10:17):
part of the Mallard monologue where we parsed the words.
We parsed the words. So what is Pg. Thirteen really
saying about Russell Westbrook and the Lakers? So, using our
super secret decoder ring we got from a cracker jack box,
Paul George dropped the old West Virginia as in, there's
a town in West Virginia called left Hand and this
(10:40):
is a left handed compliment, is what it is. Right,
he's talking about the toxic, high levels of toxicity around
the Lakers, but he's really taking a shot at Lebron James.
It's a not so subtle poke at Lebron that Lebron
did not welcome Russell Westbrook. That the reason Russell Westbrook
didn't work out with the Lakers is because Lebron James
(11:02):
is a dufus and he was not opening up to
Russell Westbury. That's how I interpret it. That's what Paul
George was saying. He's like, listen, he was fighting battles.
If Lebron James had taken him in as an orphan
and said come here, Russ, come on, Russ. I know
you can't shoot, but come on, you can move the basketball.
You play hard. Unlike most of these guys in the
(11:24):
NBA and all that, Lebron didn't do that. For whatever reason,
Lebron didn't like Russell Westbrook, and so Westbrook had to
fight with Lebron internally, he had to fight with the coaching,
stad the media and all that stuff. So it just
shows you it's better being a Clipper than the Laker.
A right final fuck headline, lambbo Field, lambeau Field. Jordan Love.
(11:49):
If he was a movie, he would be a box
office bomb. That is Jordan Love. Now they aren't paying
him the top dollar, but this guy needs a flea bath.
He is the twenty eighth rank quarterback in the NFL,
which sounds bad. You know, it's even worse. Among all
quarterbacks that have played in every game this season. He
is the worst. The other quarterbacks below him, all of
(12:10):
them have either missed a game or two or backups
that stepped in as starters and with one season remaining,
one season remaining for Jordan Love on his contract. The
GM in Wisconsin, Brian GHUDAKUNZK make sure you say that
carefully or you'll get in a whole lot of trouble.
Brian gudakountz, Yeah, I said it properly. He said, the
(12:34):
rest of this Green Bay season is going to be
crucial to determining whether or not the organizationan is going
to continue on with Jordan Love. He essentially called out
Jordan Love at this mid season news conference that he
has to do because the Packers have that meaningless stock
(12:55):
option that they give out to people, so they need
to make more money. I think I should be able.
Can we talk to the people on Wall Street if
I need some money? I think we should just have
like the Mallard Militia stock, which isn't worth anything. But
I'll give you like the state of the Malard Militia.
I'll give you the address a couple times a year
and then you send me money. And I think that
would be great. But anyway, is Jordan Love actually in danger?
(13:17):
Is Jordan Love actually in danger of losing his job
with the Packers? Is there a stranger danger for Jordan Love?
The answer is no. I don't care what Brian gudukunstaid
the GM in Green Bay. I'll tell you why zz
top that's the answer, right. The answer is cheap sunglasses,
(13:38):
and that is what Jordan Love is cheap sunglasses. Packers
don't like spending a lot of money. And he's value added,
not as a player because he sucks, but he's value
added because his salary next year is five point five million.
The Green Bead Packers are not one of these teams
that futs around with a salary cap. They treat it
(13:58):
like it's a hard salary cap. It's malleable, you can
move it around. We all know that. But the Packers,
they pocket the money. So that's what that's all about.
So Jordan Love, I don't see it other than getting hurt.
I don't see a scenario where he's not back as
the Green Bay Packers quarterback next season. And he's terrible
(14:20):
by any measurement. He sucks, but I say he continues.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you would like
to be part, you can join us here. Speakeasy rules
are in effect. Do you have any memories about Bobby
Knight you would like to share? You want to point
out that the I think on the only one I
haven't seen anyone else give the real Bobby Knight. I'm
(14:42):
I kept looking for it. I was like, we're the
people who are talking about the real Bobby Knight, the
guy that was the you know, just a complete a hole,
because that's who he was. But you wouldn't know that
from from reading these these eulogies for for Bobby Knight
son Ben On.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Don't know if anybody is really trying to sanitize his
legacy I've read.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I mean, like, have you read any of these, Iom,
because I read a bunch of them.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I mean, there read plenty of articles about him before
he died, just being like he's a bully.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh now he's dead.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Though.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
It's different when you're dead, but then that when you croak,
it's different. Yeah. Well maybe he was almost croaking because
he I mean, he has been sick for years. But anyway,
it is the Ben Mathers Show. I love how IOM
always says to chime in on these things. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Wait, you mean I just want to I mean I
grew up watching Big ten basketball.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And you think Bobby Knight was not an a whole.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Oh he's totally an ahole. Yeah, but he we we
we maybe when you die you get a little bit
of a break.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Why he does a little bit of a santized version
of all the people. He's the guy that doesn't want that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, he's not around to tell us what to do,
but he already told us before he died. It's like
writing a will. He wrote a will that day. At
the end he said, this is who I am and
this is what I want. And people are not honoring
his wishes. When someone dies, if you write a will,
you have to honor their wishes. I'm the executor of
the will. I'm honoring Bobby Knights what he wants. He
(16:06):
wants people to talk about the real Bobby, the will
of public opinion.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
All right, we'll take your phone calls, as we said
also on X at Bean mallor at Ben Maulu if
you want to be part of the program. Time now
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malor Riddle of the day. Urban Meyer says that he
is very skeptical of Blank. Urban Meyer. Urban Meyer. Urban
(16:32):
Meyer says he is very skeptical of Blank. That is
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Speaker 1 (17:31):
Is it possible for you to do a radio ship
without eating? You never eat during your show? No, he's
powered by almond butter.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
It's really hard to go seven hours overnight without something
in your belly.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Through it every day.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Well, you're into the intermittent fasting and I don't really
get that, but.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It seems to get somebody eating spoonfuls of peanut or
like an animal? Well what else am I?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
What?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
An elephant? The thing of animals? Spoons. Well, guys were
all animals. We are Homo sapiens. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
The thing about almond butter is that it quells the
appetite until you get back cold.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
How about you drink a cup of water. How about
that it's free, there's no calories.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Drink some water. You'll fill your stomach up with water.
That doesn't mean you're gonna not have an appetite.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
What do you? I was like five hundred pounds at
one point, and I can go like two days without eating,
and you you can't go more than a couple of
hours without eating a spoonful of butter.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Well, this isn't fair really, because before Ben started his
intermittent fasting, he ate during the show all the time.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, that was how many years ago? It was a
million years ago.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Though we aren't intermittent fasting. You're eating hogies.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Back then, we used to go to the the there's
a liquor store across the way here. We used to
walk over there and get like gummy candy and like
any kind of snacks, chips, like we load up all the.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Then we had like cake benefactor people sending cakes.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh yeah, I got so fat. Yeah, yeah, we had
every other week. There were people saying, not just cakes,
designer cakes, like they should be on a TV show.
You have a pie guy, right, yeah, John, the pie
guy would show up, like But even then there was those.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
There were those tarts for a little while, those.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That was good. Have you noticed we don't get any
of that anymore? No nobody gives us anything anymore. We
were getting a lot of stuff for a while. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Now I'm kind of glad, though, because why is that?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I mean, yeah, it was tough not gaining weight with
all that game.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I did gain a lot of.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You still haven't taken your William Shatner book home though,
that was a gift from I haven't even given it
to them.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Hard for me to take it home. I don't even
know what I forgot.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It exists in the drawer right now, Okay. And I
got a I got a version of a monopoly Iowopoly
from what Tammy and Montana?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I don't still send a gifts, very very generous anyway
comes he coming in with it, the Shatner book.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It comes a gift.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
It is exciting here your guy, Bill Shatner, it's my friend. Yeah,
you guys each other on Twitter Original Shatner. Somebody paid
thousands of dollars to have me unblocked on X. William
Shatner a little golden book biography. Let's see here.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Should I read this on the air? Would that be
good radio?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
It's your show.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Who is William Shatner is wonderful? Oh it ends with
him going to space. I read the last page. I
don't need to read the book.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Now we can have Felexus reet it and we'll have
drag Time Story Hour.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh yeah, Look, they made books about Lucille Ball, Tony Bennett,
Willie Nelson, Bob Ross, Julie Andrews, Joe Biden. That must
be an interesting one. And Carol Burnett's there you go.
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Some of those people are still alive, others are not.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
As soon they'll all be gone. All right. Anyway, let's
go to the phones. Good news. We'd like to hear
all the affiliates. Dad gummet hung up, did not have
the intestinal fortitude to stay on hold. But we say
hello to Milkman. Milkman, Mike, Hello, Milkman, Mike.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Bab good morning everybody. I know you have been talking
about Bobby Knight and God rest your soul. I actually
have a good Bobby Knight story if you'd like to
hear it.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, sure, But before you do it, though, you know,
we're in the home stretch to get tickets to horse
racing's biggest moment of the year. The world's best are
headed us Santa Anita. The flag US up for the
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That would be tomorrow, November third and November fourth, that's Saturday.
The countdown is underway. Get tickets today at Breeders Cup
dot com. So, yes, what's I'm a horse.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Guy in there.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I don't think that's in the copy, so I don't know. Yeah,
thank you. You want to rip any other sponsors you
want to, you want to trash tire rack while you're
at it, you want to take a shot it insurance,
I'll do that, nuts out, Okay, good, thank you?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
All right. So my story is I was actually born
and raised in Indiana. My dad actually started out in
the radio business. Uh. He actually broadcasted for a little
closet radio station in Crawfordsville, Indiana, And we were big
IU fans the year that they won and went undefeated.
We went down to Blimington and welcome the team back.
When we left, they were passing out posters with the record,
(22:36):
the team players and everybody else on it. My dad
nailed that into Bobby asked him, said, I'm a huge
fan that I fan all my life. Would you sign it?
Not only did Bobby sign it and send it back,
he had every single player sign it as well.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Are you sure that he actually signed it?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Yeah, it was authenticated, but.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You didn't see him sign it.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
No, yeah, no, and seemed fine it now no, but
we give if you well. And unfortunately my dad had
it in his office every year, everywhere he moved until
he passed in seven. Now my brothers got it. The
ink is gone, but you can still see the impressions.
But if you take a look at the signatures on
there back in the day, you could tell it look
like his signature. So we're going to go with the
(23:19):
fact or.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
With the with the story down when when when the
legend becomes a fact, you go with the legend. That's right, yeah, exactly,
all right, Well we want to rip anyone else.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Pop next out?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay that I'll look forward to that. I thank you,
go away. We do have ask Ben coming up, which
will likely be hijacked Brian.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
That is not a segment Taylor built for Fendley is
he doesn't do quick.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He doesn't do quick answers, does not understand brevity. He
does do quick in one area.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
But I'm just gonna say yourself, there, you were about
to give me a compliment, And how dare you give
me a compliment?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah? Anyway, all right, let me pay off the mallar
riddle of the day. I think I waited long enough
urban Meyer. Urban Meyer says he's very skeptical of blank.
That is the mallar riddle of the day. What is
the answer to the mallar riddle of the day? You ask?
(24:25):
I see page down and I can't read that on
the air. Urban Meyer is skeptical of Poppy's gambling advice
that is guessed by Matthew Warrior Raider A's fan page down,
page down. A tactical light. Tactical flashlight from the SAWMN
(24:48):
Veggie Burgers from Sean and Portland Almond Butter guests by
Mike Casey Carhaller going with young ladies at the bar. Yeah, well,
he certainly got up close and personal with them. Ferdkat said,
a skeptical if they actually flip a penny on Benny
Versus the Penny all they do. In fact, the guy
on the guy at NBC that flips the penny, he
(25:09):
lives in Philadelphia. They do not let me know prior
to the recording of Benny Versus the Penny. I am
completely in the dark. I make my picks. I have
no idea who the penny picked. Mallard prop guy says,
actors wearing rented Buffalo Bill's jerseys. The Erbi Meyer skeptical
of that. Late Night Directester says, skeptical of pro wrestling.
The pro wrestling is fake witchcraft. Guessed by Alf the
(25:32):
Alien opiner. Cookie Monster is the answer. He turns fifty
four today. No, Cookie Monster does not age. Okay, Cookie
Monster is the same age he's always been since I
was a kid. That's the fact, Clam says. Skeptical of
self driving cars. Trucker Joe says, ai taking his job.
(25:52):
Tim Tebow being a virgin at Florida I guess by
Kyle Robin Minnesota says very leary of purchasing mal malicious stock.
And that is the answer. Fudgie in Boston says the
answer is skeptical of coaches who are actually successful in
the NFL courtesy Flusher says Frank's red hot spaghettios. Skeptical
(26:15):
of that. All right, bottleneck, Brian, do you have an
answer the put the almond butter down?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Skeptical of wanting the Michigan State job.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Let's see Bernie Fratto story. No, that is incorrect. The
correct answer Erban Meyer says he is very skeptical of reporters.
They're wrong most of the time, which is ironic because
urban Meyer now is a reporter. He's wrong most of
the time.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Hey, we're Cavino and Rich Fox Sports Radio every day
five to seven pm Eastern. But here's the thing. We
never have enough time to get to everything we want
to get to.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
And that's why we have a brand new podcast called
over Promised. You see, we're having so much fun in
our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promising things we never have
time for.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, you blubber list me, Well, you know what it's
called over promise. You should be good at it because
you've been over promising women for years.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Well, it's a Covino and Rich after show, and we
want you to be a part of it. We're gonna
be talking sports, of course, but we're also gonna talk
life and relationships. And if Rich and I are arguing
about something or we didn't have enough time, it will
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you don't get enough Covino and Rich, make sure you
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(27:38):
It's gonna be the best after show podcast of all time.
There you go, over promising, and remember you could see
it on YouTube, but definitely join us. Listen Over Promised
with Covino and Rich on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts
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Speaker 1 (27:53):
Very impressive performance by Obi Toppin of the Pacers while
he was on the cord. The Indiana Pacers were outscored
by four forty one points. That is impressive. That is impressive.
How does one suck so much where his team is out?
He played twenty four minutes and fifty five seconds but
while he was out there minus forty.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
One, Oh no, which suck again.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, that's pretty deep, pretty bad. It is the Benett
Mallard Show, which hopefully is not pretty pretty bad, pretty
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(28:43):
at me. So I guess we will not go to
ask Ben right now. I thought you want to go
to breakfirst. No, we don't. I don't ever break. I
don't What is that you know? Okay, don't believe. I
don't believe in break.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
You were not looking. You were not looking. You were
you were recording down the Progressive time. You were, but
you weren't doing You weren't paying attention, must attention.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It was a strange pause.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
There was pause. That's what I normally do. Pause.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You're gonna start an now, go to break now?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Wh ruined the moments past? There was a spark, but
there's no spark now. I was saying, you've ruined the spark. Sorry,
we need we need numbnuts over there to go eat
some more almond butter. And then and then we'll have
ask Ben. Your questions are answer is hashtag ask Ben
on X. We'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
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At Ben Maller on Fox is a place you can
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unique features such as lame jokes and Ask Ben by
contributing content. Now back to the Big Kahunah, Big Ben.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It's now time for her.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Hurry wait Ask Ben?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Twitter said, is your questions on Twitter?
Speaker 7 (30:20):
Now?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
It is asked Ben. Your questions are answers. I'd like
to get the Ask Ben started. I'm gonna ask kopleloops.
So we moved into a new studio. We have a
call screener here. Literally every five minutes the thing malfunctions.
Why do you think that is coop? And why do
you think no one's fixed it? It's been this way
for several weeks and it does not work. It works
(30:46):
and then you you step away, I don't even touch it,
and then five minutes later it says server error and
you have to refresh? Why is that do you think coop? Ah?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
That is a good question, Ben, Okay, Uh, Normally I
would blame it on the old equipment.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Can't do that. I don't think this is old equipment,
doesn't I don't think anyone else takes calls. Well maybe Rob,
Rob probably does. Rob Parker, Yeah, but that's it. All
these other guys are. They're a bunch of wienies. They're
afraid of taking calls. I don't get it. All right, anyway,
let's get to ask Ben. Your question is our answers?
What do we have here?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Well, you know, you other you other listeners to the
show need to step your game up, because I'm seeing
just good question after good question from ferg Cat.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's not for cats. He can't steal all the questions.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
We may just have to read multiple questions said.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Well, we'll just cancel ask Ben. Then we'll just get
back to the calls and that's it.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
We'll start with a question from firshtag.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Ask Ben to save, ask Ben to make ask Ben
great again and avoid for cat hostile take.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
This one's just for you, Ben, He says, for double
the pay, would you do the show with Fendley every day?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Can I do it from home? Home?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I mean he doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't specify. Let's say,
let's say it's the same rules you have to like,
you know.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Occasionally come in. Yeah, I'm gonna say it would be
if it's five times what I'm making, I would do it. Notice,
not twice five times a yeah, and even then I
would have to consult with the therapist, you know, get
some medication.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
What is next?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Use better help?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Okay, here is a This one's a stupid question.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
To stop it. Why would you just start to read it.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
You're telling yourself to stop it. Yeah, you know I'm
gonna have to. I'm gonna have to do another one
for a cat here.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Oh my god, is he the only one the same questions,
is this show we lost our entire audiences?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Apple are asking sports questions, Yeah, one questions. Then Shane's
asking about Danny G's kid, Which.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Shouldn't you ask Danny G about his kid?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
He's asking if any of the when baby said Danny
G's kid. The answer is no, I would a baby
sit anybody's kid? Well not, I would consider, but not
at that age. I mean that's a that's a fragile age,
that's true. I gotta wait till the kids a little older,
you know, that can hang around with the kid, play
video games, stuff like that, you know, chill out, watch
a ball game. Yeah. Uh is art? This for everybody?
(33:26):
Is artic choke, good or annoying to eat?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Not a fan anti. I've taken a long standing anti
ARTI ARTI choke. If I could say the word ARTI
choke position. Not a fan Uh, it's it's a vegetable. Uh.
I'm not saying anything over there. I'm just in all the.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Fact that you would eat a vegetable sogetble do you?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
They're all part of the garlic. I was saying, I
am anti, Okay, why be anti? I'm shocked you would
be anti because they don't make it in a butter.
If it was art choke butter, you'd probab eat it.
What about you?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I like artichoke dip, but I do not attempt to
eat the leaf of the art joke. You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
You know it's really good. They have a nacho holopano
cheese at Trader Joe's. You ever had that? Really?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah? Well there, and they have all kinds of like
artichoke dips.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It's not arti choke, you know, it's not choke. Cheese
dip with holapeno pepper's good too.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
That's good too.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
You like horseradish? Men? Cool?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
The correct answer is both. Actually, artichoke is good and
it is also annoying to eat. It tastes delicious, like
if you dip it in melted butter or or in mayo. Delicious,
but it's it's irritating because you only get like a
tiny little bit out of each thing. Next question, it's
from Eke Hiyeke.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
He's in Roseuo, Minnesota. You know, a medi good man.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
He was for everybody. He wants to know. How do
you like your orange juice pulp? A little pulp or
no pulp.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, so I'm all inclusive on the the orange juice.
I prefer pulp, but I will not turn down no pulp.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I'm surprised by that.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Yeah, coming from a guy who's speaking from a bully
pulp it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I liked some credit. He's below me. I like that,
like I'm for some reason where I Yeah, I don't
know why you're below me, but you're below me. Well,
I'll just leave that one right there. You want to
make another extraated joke, I didn't say anything. Yeah, careful
that comes out. That came out weird. I guess uh.
(35:38):
Family doesn't want to He didn't want to answer these questions.
He's just a pulp guy.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I checking and every time it gets no. He said,
you're a big pulp guy. All right, I'm good with
any amount of pulp. What is wrong with you people
fresh squeezed. When I was a kid, it was like,
it's zero pulp. I would not touch it if it
had any pulp. Now I'm okay with a little bit
of pulp, but I still prefer no pulp.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Not a child anymore. Coop, you're growing up, you can
have pulp.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Well, this is coming from you that only eats like
like chicken fingers and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
I eat chicken fingers, cheese, steak, and pizza. Those are
my foods. And by the way, crunchy tacos. I found
a place in Santa Ana, amazing crunchy tacos three dollars each.
I'm never going back to Tito's Tacos. Right, beautiful, beautiful
little place there, David Taco Bell over there.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Next, okay, next we have Stef Pretend he's not there.
We have a question from late night drug Testerser. He's
like jumping up and down, laughing at is. I'm gonna
I'm gonna like change this question around a little bit.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
But by curtains. How about we'll all put some money.
We'll buy curtains. When he's here.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Go ahead, we actually have blinds, we can, I mean
I do in here. I don't think on this side though. Okay, uh.
He wants to know do you have leftover candy from
from Tricken treats.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yes. I was on candy watery and there weren't very
many kids that came by, and so I started giving
them like two handsfuls of candy to try to get
rid of the candy because I don't want to have
to eat it, because that always gonna happen. I'm gonna
I'm eating in a moment of weakness. But yes, tons
of candy, tons of candy.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Right.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
I did not get any candy because I don't need sugar.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I know, what about God, you are such a schmuck.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
What about the children candy to the trigger?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
You give them the sugar. I would rather give them
like a toothbrush. Go ahead. I was saying, I had
no candy.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
There's candy here at work.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
So there's a ton of candy over there. Quickly.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Uh yes, And I like you. I we had very
little trigger treaters, so we just left the bowl out
on the porch.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
It's a skim. Nobody goes trigger treating anymore. What happened
to these kids today? These kids today go out there,
get the damn candy. Kids,
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