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November 9, 2023 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Al Michaels defending his broadcasting, the Patriots deciding to leave J.C Jackson off the Germany trip, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number fall, our four, ready
to go, and we start out in the broadcast world
media musings. If you will, how do you process Al
Michaels defense of his broadcasting He's become under siege by
internet trolls. Al was asked about people saying that he's

(00:23):
he's almost in a cooma now when he's calling these
NFL games, and he of course defended himself. What does
the Patriots decision to leave J. C. Jackson off the
Germany trip tell us about the Pats and Amon Ross
Saint Brown says that speed and size are deceiving for
receivers in the NFL. Do you agree or disagree with that?

(00:46):
Take for the Lions Star white out. We'll talk about
all that and more right now here. It is our
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(01:57):
from the broadcast booth. Angrydcaster Al Michaels pushing back again
social media trolls. Now, this is Thursday, So tonight we
have an NFL game, Nigo one, Nigo one. Why are
they playing the game between the Chicago Bears and the
Carolina Panthers. Because it's on the schedule, That's why they're

(02:18):
playing the game. But that is the Thursday night affair.
I don't even think Eugene in Chicago and Yafemi are
gonna watch this game. It is that terrible game. But
the the Bears are favored by three with their special
Beagent quarterback, special beagent man at QB against Carolina. Carolina's

(02:40):
got a couple guys out, supposedly key players on defense,
but that's not the story. Don't bury the lead, my man.
It's Al Michaels from the Amazon with Kirk kurb Street,
the dean of broadcasters, the last of a dying generation,
and he has given a career update. Do you see this?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:02):
All right? Al Michaels has confirmed that he will be
back honoring his contract in the Amazon calling NFL games.
In twenty twenty four. He revealed that he has every
intention in barring Amazon firing him. He will be back.
He also pushed the crowd away that has been lurking,

(03:26):
bird dogging him, causing him problems, saying that Al's baring
and all that. He said, Hey, as far as that
whole lack of enthusiasm thing, he disagrees. Seventy eight years
old now, al Michaels, he was asked specifically about that criticism.
He asked some scribe, some no name from the New

(03:48):
York Post the opinion on what he thought, and the
unnamed scribe said that Al's like a pitcher who used
to throw ninety seven miles an hour but now throw
in the mid eighties. And al Michael's response to that was,
that is a fair assessment. That is a fair assessment.
So the question. As we discussed the question on this one.

(04:11):
Al Michael's back, he says in twenty twenty four, also
denying the angry mobs, claims that he's mister barring a
mister dole calling these NFL games. How do you process?
How do you process Al Michaels pushing back against the
negative news around him as a broadcaster. So I've got French,

(04:35):
Starbucks and blind Spot, and we will combine all of
these things together, and we are going to make a
red zone touchdown, something we likely will not see a
lot of in the Thursday night NFL game, a red
zone touchdown, but anyway to kick off here. Al Michaels,

(04:59):
even in his salad days, was not a cheerleader. He
was not a cheerleader in the booth. Like the expectation
that Al in his late seventies is going to become
what Gus Johnson or Kevin Harlan, one of those screaming
broadcasting types of No, that's not how he does things.

(05:19):
If you think that you're a dumbo, you're just a
giant dumbo. If you think that we would rather watch Al,
good old Al call an NFL game, even a crappy
NFL game than anyone else. Jim Nantz No, I'm good, sorry,

(05:42):
Joe Buck No, al Michaels even at age seventy eight.
And why is that? Okay, I'll tell you. Excuse my French,
but al Michaels he just has that genisip quah right,
There's something about Al Michaels and a lot of it
is nostalgia that my entire life, every big event just

(06:04):
about Al's there. He's part of that generation that's dying
off or leaving broadcasting. Brent Musburger is still around, but
he's not working anymore. Keith Jackson, he's gone Marv Albert
the golden age or the sports broadcaster, and Al's still
hanging on, not for much longer. But we should actually
celebrate my positions. We should celebrate Al Michaels when he

(06:28):
calls these NFL games in the twilight of his career,
because soak it in. It's going to be over soon
before you know, it'll be over for Alan some other
Jabbroni will be in there and he'll be doing the
play by play. Now furthermore, headline now from Frankfurt, Germany,
that is where the New England beleaguered NFL team will

(06:49):
be heading to play a game against an equally messed
up franchise, the Indianapolis Colts, and they have pulled the rug.
Indianapolis the opponent here, the Ooman Patriots, has pulled the
rug right out from underneath one of their pickups this season.
He saw the story. It's interesting story. There's a lot

(07:10):
of layers to it. But j C. Jackson, some success
with the Patriots, went out to the Chargers and stole
money and it was guilty of embezzling money with the Chargers.
And then the Chargers said, okay, you're done, and they
sent him back to New England. And he went back
to New England and everyone just assumed putting on that
Patriot uniform is like putting on a cape when you're

(07:32):
a superhero. It's up, up and away. Except it wasn't up,
up and away for J. C. Jackson, and he is
He has been kicked off the traveling party list. We
are told jac Jackson not going with the Patriot traveling
party for their Week ten matchup early in the morning
in Germany. So no sour crowd for him. Now, why

(07:55):
is that? According to state sponsored NFL media, they tell
us that the Patriots had concerns over the reliability of J. C.
Jackson and that led them to this decision. Turns out
that Jackson had missed a team curfew earlier this season,
and that is why he ended up in Bill Belichick's doghouse.

(08:18):
Arf Arf, He's right there. That's actually sound. And so
Bill Belichick hoping, I love this report. Belichick is hoping.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
That by J. C.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Jackson staying at home with an additional break, to'll have
time to improve his attitude and approach. I'm sure that'll
do the trick. So what does the Patriot decision? What
does the Patriot's decision to leave J. C. Jackson off
the Germany traveling party list tell us? So it is

(08:48):
two fantique coffees from Starbucks with two espresso shots, and
it is a ton of caffeine. It is a wake
up call of wake up calls, is what it is.
And for this story to be presented in a public
way the way it has bouncing around the pinball machine.

(09:08):
From the Patriots side of things, it is ultimately like, hey,
we got to try to save this guy's career because
if he doesn't work out here, he's done and we
want him to be a player that he had been
back in the day. And I don't know what's going
on there, but this is in political terms. In Congress,
they censure. It's right out of the Congressional playbook. Though

(09:29):
censure as someone happens very rarely, but it does happen.
So it was a vote of censer for J. C. Jackson.
It's like, hey, you're not doing your job. It's the
shame game. We are going to shame you. It is
a form of public humiliation. It's going to scold you,
a member of your fraternal order of football players, and

(09:50):
bad job by you, and we want it on the
public record. Our party shop headline from the Motor City,
where Amon Ross Saint Brown has been flying for the
Detroit football team. He's one of the top players in
the NFL, consistent week after week. But he was a
fourth round pick out of the University of Southern California,

(10:12):
the home of the crying quarterback these days. But I'm
on Rossaint Brown was a fourth round pick in twenty
twenty one. He has played like a top five pick
the way he has produced for the Lions over the
years since then. He's moved on up the pecking order
in the NFL. He's top He's not the greatest receiver
in the NFL, but in terms of consistency, I'm on

(10:34):
Ross Saint Brown is top ten, certainly top ten, probably
someone in the five to ten range among receivers. But
that's not the point. Get to the point, please, So
now he Saint Brown is pushing back against the system,
unlike James Harden, who says he is the system. Sam
Brown's like, well, wait a minute. In a recent interview,

(10:57):
he pointed out that NFL teams draft purely by stats,
and not just the stats on the field, but also
the stats of how tall you are and how fast
you are and all that. And his point was that
it's deceiving. He says, it's a deceiving thing. So he's like, hey,
wait a minute. He says, you should be drafting guys

(11:19):
that know how to play based on football. IQ is
the term that he used. So the Lions receiver, I'm
on Saint Ross Brown, I'm on Rossan Brown says, says
that speed and size or deceiving for NFL scouts. Do
you agree or disagree? So says I agree one hundred percent.

(11:43):
I am in agreement on this one. There is a
blind spot. And it's not just an issue when we
talk about the NFL. This is a problem in baseball.
It's a problem in football, probably a problem in hockey,
but certainly is in the other sports. And it's the
lazy river. It's floating on an inner tube on the
lazy river. It's like going to a livestock auction and

(12:09):
the largest cow gets picked first and goes for the
most money. Right, that's the big heifer goes for the
most money. So it's the way it's like in baseball.
One of the reasons we have an issue in baseball
is because the players are wises, but also the fact
that they want Baseball teams draft guys based on throwing
around one hundred miles an hour. So if you're like

(12:30):
ninety seven miles an hour, ninety eight miles an hour,
you're going to be draft in the first and second round.
If you throw ninety two miles an hour or eighty
nine miles an hour, but you've got nasty movement and
you're like a ninja, the way you move the ball
around there in the shadows and paint the quarters corners.
They don't want that. They want gas. Give me the gas,

(12:55):
is what they say, and so they overlook everything else.
They overlook everything else because they want the biggest, fastest,
strongest and all that biggest, fastest, strongest players. And if
you're good but you don't do it the way they
want you to do it, you're not useless, but you
might be drafted later signed as a as a free agent.

(13:18):
But the NFL scouts, and I don't know why they
do it. It's there's an old phrase from from the old country.
Plus it's an old phrase, but the phrase is cover
your tookest. And if you draft the biggest, fastest, strongest
player and they don't work out, you can then go
to your boss and say, well, yeah, but look at

(13:39):
the measurables. Yeah but yeah, but yeah but yeah but
yeh you play the Yeah, but look at the measurables.
If you draft someone high who doesn't have the greatest
forty times, does not run the shuttle drill properly, does
not bench a lot, and they don't work out, then
the boss looks at you and says, what's wrong with
you? You schmuck? What are you a loser? Why didn't we

(14:01):
draft a bigger, stronger, faster player.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, yeah, it yeah, so.

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Speaker 1 (15:56):
Coming up a little bit later. I've Puked the World
with Eddie. Also Factor Fiction for your dancing and dining knees.
Let's go to the phone's low right now and we'll
say hello to any Meeni miney. Let's go to the
Bay Area and our friend Andrea forgo in service on

(16:17):
ex Hello Andrea. If I was any better, I'd be
an Angel, but not in La Angel of Anaheim because
they stink.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
Well, they just got a new manager, so there's well you.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Look at it that way. Coop doesn't seem too excited
though he's got no Angel gear on. He does. He's
kind of got his head down. He doesn't seem happy
at all. Say it doesn't seem happy justin Cooper. He's
an Angel expert, he's an Angel insider. He lives under
the halo.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, he's a big fan I have.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
I've made it be known that Ifani leaves, You're done.
I'm done. I'm done with baseball. Dodger blue for you. No,
I'm just done with the sports.

Speaker 7 (17:05):
Oh that's dramatic of the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
That is the worst case scenario because then I have
to see him all the effing time.

Speaker 7 (17:16):
Both Scorpios are known for their intensity and passion, so
we hear you. And speaking of scorpio, do you know
that Scott Boris is a Scorpio. He's November two of
nineteen fifty two, and I remember seeing him at the
Winter meetings. It was quite a scene. I was hanging
out in the lobby. I had some appointments later and

(17:36):
it was like, why is there like a cluster of
people around this person. Who is he? And they said, oh,
it's Scott Boris. You know, he's the agent, and he's
like really really, you know, important and famous and he'll
get you the best contracts for your players. Like oh okay.
So Scorpio does have that passion and determination. He's a
little power hungry, though. I will say that he's a

(17:58):
little over the top. And I just was watching about
the Mets and Pete Alonzo is one of his clients,
and he made this comment. He said something like, well,
don't worry, we're not going to go in hibernation with
the polar Bear. We're going to make sure, you know,
he gets a contract.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
So the quote I saw Boris said of Pete Alonzo
that we're not in hibernation, right, We're not in hibernation.

Speaker 7 (18:24):
Yeah, yeah, that was the exact quote. So he has
a little levity there, and yeah, you know Washington is
Ron Wash. He's paid his dues April twenty nine, fellow
Taurres spin very determined nineteen fifty ten.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Are you sure he's paid his dues? Are you sure
that he's paid?

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Up?

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Is ten years he's.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
Been in baseball, He's he's not aged, he's.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Still stayed the same. Yeah, he's been around. He came
up with the Dodgers in as a player and that
was probably like seventies maybe.

Speaker 9 (19:00):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (19:01):
Yeah, they just showed it on MLB Network, Like his
whole history. Is it the Mets. Who was a coach?
It's the Dodgers. Yeah, And of course I know him
from the Ages where he was the bench coach for years,
but not the bench coach one of the coaches. So
you know, I really think that, you know, we should
give him a chance, because Torres says, you know, Ben

(19:22):
is nothing if not determined, and he's you know, got
a lot of experience going. So I think it's certainly
worth a try. I'm glad to see him gainfully employed.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Now. I hope Ron brings in Josh Hamilton as one
of his coaches. That would be good. And he played
for the Angels back in the day, and I think
the Angels are still paying Josh Hamilton, so they might
as well bring him back, right.

Speaker 7 (19:45):
Are They were all on the journey together?

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, Andrew, we'll see what happens. A lot of time
before baseball season, but a lot of trades will happen
this is a good time of the year for right,
never a moment. Yeah, all right, well, thank you, Andrea,
thank you. There she goes or walk off music, our
friend Andrea? Where she goes? Only she knows. Let's say
hello to Tony in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony, Hey,

(20:18):
how's it going?

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Man?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Tony? If I was any better, I'd be a bear,
but not a Chicago bear because they're not that good.

Speaker 9 (20:26):
That's what I hear. Yeah, I just gave you a call.
I don't really have anything to say. I just had
a bad day at work, so I figured i'd bust
your chops a little bit too.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, what happened?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
I'm your therapist here, I'm your shrink. What happened at work?

Speaker 9 (20:41):
Some people talk to me a certain way to push
my buttons. My adrenaline started going, and uh, if they
didn't knock it off, you know, something could have happened.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
I think Tony needs his special song to cheer him up. Okay,
let's give Tony his song. This will make it.

Speaker 9 (20:58):
He's a jolly gaffell. Hello.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, good job, Tony. So what were they doing?

Speaker 9 (21:10):
Appreciated?

Speaker 1 (21:10):
What were they doing with you? Tony? Were busting your chops?
There busting your balls a little bit.

Speaker 9 (21:15):
You had a problem with it, Yeah, I mean, uh,
I mean, I mean sometimes my adrenaline doesn't kick came,
but when it does, it's like a fight or flight,
and I don't run. So luckily they knocked it off
before anything got out of hand.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
You know, have you had any dreams? You used to
call us up and tell us about these wild dreams
that you had back in the old days.

Speaker 9 (21:36):
Uh, well, if you do, you want to hear about
a dream?

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Do we want to hear about it? Coope? You want
to hear Tony in the Bay dream? Of course? Okay,
go ahead, Tony.

Speaker 9 (21:46):
Well I'll give you an option because uh, you got
you got one that's a lucid dream, one that's a
vivid dream, and then so typical, and then another one
that's pretty Uh that's say click or grim, So you
could choose.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Hmm. Grim.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
Is Tony the same collar who calls in and talks
about his his like violent dreams?

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Is that you, Tony?

Speaker 9 (22:13):
Yes, sir, all day, every day.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Good playing attention there, Sam. Yeah, I'm just trying to
make sure. That's why I asked him about the dreams.
Called this up before and told this should we roll
the wheel and see what kind of yeah? Spin the
wheel's see see find wheel at the wheel? Here here,
hold on there we are spend the wheel round and
round and round and around. Big money, big money, no whammy. Stop?
What does it say? Ben? What did the land on? Grim?

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (22:35):
What?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Grim? Okay? Go ahead, Tony, All.

Speaker 9 (22:39):
Right, Well, I don't want to offend anybody, okay, So,
but I will say it was a real quick one.
I'll try to sum it up. I was in an
area that I think I was before, in a different dream,
and I was looking for maybe a cafe or something.
I go down this hill and I see who Leslie Nielsen,

(22:59):
Chris Hillip Presley, and Robert Gulay sitting at a table outside.
And as I'm looking at them, up the corner, some
guy I guess, some dad's arguing with the son or something.
And then all of a sudden, and I was in
a car, I guess. And at one point then the
kid runs up to my car, right up to my
window and says, I can't remember the name, but to say,

(23:21):
so and so so and so and so died of
an overdose. He died on drugs. And it really creeped
me out the fact that this guy just ran to
my window and said that, and you know, there's some
other stuff going on with with me and my head.
So it kind of touched the spot where it's like,
what the hell was that all about? So it was
a nightmare basically, So okay, as bad.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
As I thought, Yeah, I thought it would be worse.
I thought there would be like a chainsaw or something.
But so, you know, like chop blessing Nielson's head up,
but he's already dead. So now these do you do
like like hard drugs? You are a party guy, Tony.
Maybe your dream was telling you to knock it off,
but you might overdose or something.

Speaker 7 (24:01):
You know.

Speaker 9 (24:03):
To be honest, uh, I think I have a friend
that's not going to be around for too much longer.
And uh so I think I think it was Yeah,
I think it was one of those things where my
brain was telling me, uh you know, ah, you know,
just kind of waking me up to the situation or something.
But it was it was pretty uh disturbing when I
woke up, like what the hell you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (24:24):
I got you all right? Well, thank you, Tony. Why
you called up even though you had nothing to say?
I'm flattered that you still wanted to say hello, so
thank you.

Speaker 9 (24:32):
Well, you know I can't call in tomorrow even though
the Bears are.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Going Now, I'm expecting a Bear's call from you. How
dare you not calling tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well?

Speaker 9 (24:41):
I don't want to be an apologist or a homer.
I just I'm a Bears fan. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (24:46):
I mean I don't all right, all right, bye, whatever, Yeah,
we'll talk next time. I thank you.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
I gotta go.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
It is the Bane Malors Show. We're gonna have double
dose Eddie with Puck. The world coming up MOMENTAI. But
right now, let's get you caught up on everything going
on in the overnight with the nota sho Daddy. People
saying that we should give you a new nickname, Eddie
because you you were in the bathroom in New York
there and some woman walked in on you in the bathroom.
So there there's people recommending some things. I'm not sure

(25:13):
none of them look that good to me yet. All right,
but if something comes up we can add that to
your many nicknames. Is the merman seeing what Willie diego?
How about how about dead bolt Eddie? Like Eddie and
dead and Deadye Deddie Deddie Bolt Eddie dead bulld d
let the professional. It's the big league, so go ahead,

(25:35):
merylin Mike Norse said that that was really great. Or
one of our morning guys, Northy from Chicago, and I
think it's a live with something like it's a big leagues,
you know, it's something like it was alious. I love
that guy.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
This guy's a terrorist.

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What a radio. Yeah, it's a hot dog vendor in
Chicago and made it.

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Big and radio and of course the famous David gag
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The time, greatest drop in the history of efforting, efforting,
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Lives in Florida. Now the special but it was so good.

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Speaker 6 (26:19):
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We're gonna have one after every game.

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They go to Chuck E Cheese. They play ski ball.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
Timperwolves beat the Pelicans in twenty two to one oh one.
Minnesota's five and ohe home. Zion Williamson decided not to
play in this one. Personal reasons. I'd love to know
what that was.

Speaker 8 (27:34):
It wasn't all you keep. It was open the game.
That's funny because it's true.

Speaker 6 (27:48):
He beat the Grizzlies one, one o two, Memphis off
to a one in seven start to the season.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Nobody do a wellness check on John Moran might be.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
No good personal reasons.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
Beat the Spurs one twenty six to one of five Victori,
But yeah, I'm a fourteen points for San Antonio. Three
games in the NHL, Kings beat the Golden Knights four
to one, l A seven and zero on the road
to start to.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Sus Leave, La and my only road again.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
I mean, if they keep winning, I guess so Sentaers
beat the Maple Leaves six three. Panthers over the Campals
four to three in overtime. And in the NFL, a
couple of quarterback notes. Tyson Badget gonna start for the
Bears tonight against the Panthers on Thursday Night Football. That's
gonna boost the ratings.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
And I watch it. I'm gonna watch so you you
do not you listening, do not have to watch. I
will watch for you. Is my my good Mitch for
the days, my active kind.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
God bless you.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
I will pass it.

Speaker 6 (28:34):
Giants. Rookie quarterback Tommy DeVito start against the He was
good at Illinois, Eddie h. I don't know is where
he went.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
I also played at Rutgers too.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
He transferred.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, stayed in the Big ten, but switch divisions.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Big ten Sammy over there, that's right.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, he loves you. Cannot get one big name, big
ten name passed. Oh you know, I just love my
big ten Yeah, Tommy to be Also fun fact, a
American musician, Tommy DeVito was part of a lead guitarist
of the rock band The Four Seasons. There you go,
I was wrong. It was Syracuse in Illinois, not Rutgers.

(29:13):
Walk out with your tablet there? What's wrong with you?
Massive point spread in that game all it's Ben Maler show.
As we continue on through these late night hours. Good
to have you hanging out with us. Tommy DeVito went
to Don Bosco, that famous uh, that clearing house of

(29:35):
star athletes in New Jersey. He went there. But I'm
told if we we talk any more about Tommy DeVito,
they will turn the transmitter off and we will not
be allowed to broadcast anymore. So we will we will
press on well, get right, want to go, Let's go
right back to Eddie. Whyne, It's hockey season somewhere. Eddie's
you know, he's the first stay back. He'll be off tomorrow,

(29:57):
Sparty will be but here's Eddie to update you on
every been going on in hockey as we pucked the world.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Not true.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
I will.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
I will be in some one, although I think.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
I planned on working pretty much.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
I guess you know, other than Thanksgiving, Christmas and no
days off.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
You get a jury summons though.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
To get a celebrity murder trial, and you'll be gone
for seven months.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
No, please, please no, I've all I've never served jury
to any before. I've always been able to get off.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
I actually want to be on the It would be fun,
you can would be a good story. I would love
called the federal jury duty. I got all excited a
federal case, and then the night before they said I
wasn't needed. I was mom, Dad.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
I hope they say that to me too, because I
don't want to do it. Let's start on the ice.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
In the NHL, every team is played around a dozen
or so games so far on the season, and even
with their loss last night, that if any Stanley Cup
champion Vegas Golden Knights still looking very strong, leading the
NHL with an eleven to one record twenty three points
so far on the season in Boston, despite losing key
players like patrise bergeron and David Creche at the retirement.
They're leaving the Eastern compartly ten to one and one record,

(31:07):
which is a bit of a surprise. Other teams off
to good starts. The New York Rangers nine two and
one on the season, LA Kings are eight two and two,
and the Colorle Avalanche a eight and three.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Some surprise teams so far in a good way.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
The Vancouver Canucks are nine two and one and the
Anaheim Ducks I must grudgingly say, are doing better than expected.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Why the way, fuck quack quack quack on the.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Season disappointment so far.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
The Edmonton Oilers, picked by a many people to be
Stanley Cup containers, two and eight so far on the season.
They start your star CONOMC David is like fiftieth in
the NHL and scoring right now. Party too much in
the off season. Pittsburgh Penguins are five and six on
the ear, Toronto maple Leaves six five and two, and
the Seattle crack and four, six and three on the season. Now,

(31:49):
the San Jose Sharks have not been just bad, but
horrifically bad. They had tied the NHL record for eleven
straight losses and start a season with history and sites.
They won a game and they beat the Flyers two
to one to avoid an NHL record twelve straight.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Losses the start of season. Bad job with him.

Speaker 6 (32:08):
The Ottawa Senators sacked their general manager, Pierre Dorian if
the team was stripped of a first round pick for
they're rolling in an invalidated trade that involved the former players.
So basically they traded this guy you've getting the down
off to Vegas, and they didn't tell Vegas that he
had a no trade clause. I remember that, And they
ended up trying to trade into Anaheim. And then the
league had to avoid the trade because he had the

(32:30):
Ducks on his list of teams he wouldn't play for,
and so that didn't sit well with.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
The Ducks and the and the Golden Knights, and so
they took a out.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
That had been a team that like a power, you know,
Original six team, they wouldn't have taken the first round
draft anyway. That's punishing Outawa because they are.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
That's that's speculation anyway. Fact, So that cost Pierre dory
on his job.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
If Boston Bruins had done the same thing, it would
have been like a third round pick and a slap on.

Speaker 6 (32:55):
How dare you? The NHL is fair and impartial. Lots
of injury news to talk about, unfortunately, and a reminder
that skates are sharp. Seattle krackt Ford Jordan Everly sustained
a serious injury and practice a deep cut near his
quad muscle after being hit by a teammates skate play.
Taking the hospital.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
How soon Eddie before they demand rollerblades blubble rapp.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Yeah, They're gonna see if he had any tendon damage
before announcing how long he might be out of action.
Carolin Hurricanes goalie Frederick Anderson dealing with blood clocks. He's
out in depthly New Jersey Devil star Jack Hughes, who
got off to a great start week to week upper
body injury. New York Rangers play started it'sman Adam Fox
on long term into deserve. His star goalie igors Is
strik And also out and definitely with an injury. After

(33:38):
seventeen seasons, thirty seven year old forward Paul Stasley announced
his retirement. Played over one thousand NHL games to the Avalanche,
Blue Jets, Golden Knights and Hurricanes, and after twenty four
seasons in one thousand, seven hundred and fourteen games, mostly
with the Bruins and Sharks, forty four year old j
Thornton announced his retirement. Future Hall of Famer he was
number one overall, picking ninth in ninety seven, won a

(33:58):
scoring title in the league in the two thousand and
five two thousand and six season, but never won a
Stanley Gun. And that you pucked the World Report.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, he's a Charles Barker pot. It's Pat trick here,
Carl Malone. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we
continue on through these late night hours, and we are
going to have an iconic piece of talk radio. It's
called fact or Fiction. And if you would like to
be one of our celebrity judges. I see some big names,

(34:30):
really powerful people that are on hold right now, but
you can join them at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox eight seven seven nine nine, six six three
sixty nine. We'll have the always popped fact or Fiction.
We'll get to that. What you'll be the judge of that.
We'll get to it next.

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Speaker 4 (35:29):
Is it fact for fiction?

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Let's face some raw facts the Bell Show.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
All right, here we go, let's do it right now.
Here we go factor fiction and let's welcome into our
celebrity panel of judges. The Power Couple reside in Bradenton, Florida,
and they are ready to make magic on the radio
as our long standing judges. Hello, Leslie running Ben, great
show as usual, thank you, LIUs mixture. Yes, as always,

(36:02):
Uh as always, A little bit of this, a little
bit of that. It's like a buffet, it is. I'm
guessing you don't need a buffets leslie right?

Speaker 7 (36:10):
Uh No, Jack usually the first one at any buffet.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Nice solid, all right, and you sit it out. You
let Jack eat all the food I got you. All right,
Hold on a second, we have let's see who do
we have? Shane in the Moine. Hello, Shane.

Speaker 9 (36:26):
Hey, then thanks for letting me on.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
All right, thank you, Shane. You're gonna be judging number two.
We've got Felexus, America's favorite drag queen caller who blew
up the Internet posted the first ever photo on the
Internet of Felexus. Hello f Lexus in Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
That is not true.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
That's my second photo dead now, come on, fat or fiction.
Oh didn't we put a photo of your foot or
your toe or something on the Internet. No you did not.
I think we did. I thought we did. All right,
Well whatever, you look great and you really had a
nice smile on that photo. Flexis.

Speaker 9 (37:03):
Thank you on that.

Speaker 7 (37:04):
I still got my teeth.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Thank you. Unlike weed Man little Marshmallowy, though, let's say hello,
to Rusty in Boston. Hello Rusty, Hey.

Speaker 9 (37:13):
Ben, good morning, Thanks for taking my call. Love Benny
versus the Penny watching tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
God bless you, sir. May tell all your friends, even
if they hate me, to watch the show. Please. I
need that, absolutely, God bless you. All right, Hold on
a second, that's right, I forgot to promote the TV show.
Yeah a cowboy John Brad Hello cowboy, Hello Ben.

Speaker 9 (37:32):
Great great niece Cannon Turner was three yesterday.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Oh, happy birthday.

Speaker 9 (37:38):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Random. Hey Buddy slugs in. What's up?

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Buddy?

Speaker 1 (37:46):
You ready to go?

Speaker 7 (37:47):
Yeah, buddy, we're about to go and strike.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
We don't get this contract settled out.

Speaker 9 (37:51):
Support your local to two six union.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yes, yeah, you can't go on strike though, because you're
having that big F one ros is coming up.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Oh you tell them, tell them all right, Well.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
You'll have more time to call the show if you
go on strike though.

Speaker 7 (38:04):
Oh, this is true.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
I'll go alright, hold on six three stories? Figure out
which are the three? Is not true? Story number one.
Despite the fact that there is no match schedules, sports
betters can place a wager on an off shore book
for a celebrity boxing match between Ryan day and Jim Harbaugh,
the Ohio state coach, is a minus two to twenty favorite.
Old Jim Harbaugh will get you plus one fifty five.

(38:26):
The fight must happen though, either the rest of this
year or in twenty twenty four four to be legit
story number two, Ohioans voted this week to legalize recreational weed,
and at least some credit can be given to the
Ohio State Michigan rivalry, a campaign and add from the
Ohio Coalition to regulate marijuana like alcohol. Red. They stole

(38:51):
our signals and they're taking our tax dollars, referring to
the fact that Ohioans would drive to Michigan to get
there marijuana is it's on number three. A whole lot
of sexy people Magazine loving the attention they're getting because
of the Kelsey brothers. So they've decided that in twenty
twenty four they're going to have a special subsection Sexiest

(39:12):
Man in the NFL issue starting in twenty twenty four.
All right, real quick, which of these three is not true?
Leslie one, two or three? Leslie?

Speaker 7 (39:21):
Well, I hope it's true, but I think it's number three.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Number three. All right, A whole lot of sec Thank you,
Shane and to win one tour three Shane three you
sat excited? Forelexus one too or three Forelexus number one,
number one, tons of fun and Rusty in Boston who
loves Benny versus the penny God bless you? What's the answer,

(39:45):
Rusty number one? Number one? Thank you quickly? Cowboy number
three slog What is the answer?

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Two?

Speaker 1 (39:55):
No, it's number three. The People magazine they're not doing
an NFL only issue. You what are you doing
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