November 17, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Charissa Thompson causing outrage by saying she made up coach's halftime quotes and if she violated the broadcasting oath, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our dumn bird due we all
have favorites. This is my favorite hour of the show
because of the topic that we are discussing. And I
don't want to patronize you. You'll be the judge. Maybe
the other hours are better. I don't know, but this
Carissa Thompson story is so damn good. Every sideline reporter
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rallying around, circling the wagons against Carrissa Thompson. She has
caused a hullabaloo by saying she made up a coach's
halftime quote multiple.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Times when she was working NFL sidelines. Did she violate
the broadcasting oath? Carissa Thompson?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And why have these other sideline reporters reactions been so unhinged? Also,
what would happen if Sports TV banned? Banned sideline reporters?
Will examine a world without sideline reporters. As we are
on a knife's edge right now here. It is our
number two a sideline skirmish. Sometimes in life, sometimes in life,
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you just have to fake it till you make it.
You just have to fake it until you make it. Well, come,
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Speaker 2 (02:00):
I love this story.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
These are the kind of stories media, media a musings.
Just love them, just love them. And our league comes
from the sidelines. In a story that has bounced all
over sports media circles, Fox Sports, Carrissa Thompson has created
quite the hullabloop.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
She is under attack at this point. What did she do?
What did Carrissa Thompson do?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now, if you have not if you're not heard, because
maybe you're not worried about this, you're not in You're
not in the sports media. You're not in the sports media.
So Carrissa Thompson has a bullseye on her back among
sideline divas. This is after she admitted that in the
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past she would just like make quotes up from coaches
during NFL games, and in fact, just to prove I'm
not making this up in a podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
A recent podcast inn was the Pardon the Take. I
think that was the name of a podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I don't know what that is, but anyway, here is
Carrissa Thompson and listen, this is the audio that everyone's
talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Take a list.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
And I've said this before, so I haven't been fired
for saying it, but I'll say it again. I would
make up the report sometimes because a the coach wouldn't
come out at halftime or it was too late, and
I was like, I didn't want to screw up the report.
So I was like, I'm just going to make this
up because first of all, no coach is going to
get mad if I say, hey, we need to stop
hurting ourselves. We needed to be better on third down,
we need to stop turning the ball over quarter yeah exactly,
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and do a better job of getting off the field.
Like they're not going to correct me on that. I'm like,
it's fine, I'll just make up the report.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh my god, Now that led to fire in Brimstone.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
That led to fire in Brimstone.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Dante's Inferno, Dante's Inferno, Sodom and Gomorrah. The reaction, Oh
my god, I lap a bunch of my buddies in
the in the media, we've been we've been exchanging the
most ridiculous reactions to that pretty benign audio. But it
(04:13):
was full condemnation and vilification of Carrissa Thompson. So let
us discuss you heard the audio Carrissa Thompson causing outrage
and media circles by saying that she just made up
NFL coaches quotes at halftime while working the sidelines. Did
she violate Carrissa Thompson the broadcasting Oath? So I have Wiener, Mobile,
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Ron Burgundy, and Ikea, and we will combine all of
these things together and we will make an angel. Because remember,
angels fly because they take themselves lightly. And there's a
lot of sideline reporters that do not take themselves lightly.
So number wa ah yeah. So, to answer the question,
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did Carissa Thompson violate the broadcasting oath? As someone that's
spent my entire adult life in broadcasting, No, I'm shaking
my head.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
No, it's so stupid.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
This story has been wildfire, wildfire. It has been spreading
round and round and round and round. Everyone's indulging in
the story.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
The sports media world's picked up more fuel, and I
gave a guffall. I've been, as I said, I've been
laughing as these reactions have come in. And when I
first thought, I thought, man, this is hilarious, because Carrissa
Thompson said the.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Quiet part out loud.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
She took you inside the Wiener Mobile to the Oscar
Meyer plant, and there's a bunch of hot doggers and
here's how we make the sausage. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
There is no hippocratic oath for broadcasters. There are plenty
of scumbags that work in broadcasting, every man, woman and
(06:00):
child for themselves. But this story, this particular story, you know,
it reminds me of my days. When I started. I
started in radio. I was nineteen years old. I was
a radio stringer, which is a radio reporter.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And I needed audio.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
My all I was there to do was get soundbites
after I did in game reports, but mostly it was
after the game. And they used to have these things
we had called into radio stations before the Internet and
give score updates, and so that was my gig and
I got paid to do it, and not very well.
I made crappy money, but I made more money for
the postgame audio. So I had to go to the
locker room and interview players, which I hated because the.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Players didn't want to do it. I didn't want to
do it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Smells disgusting players or a holes, but I did it
because I need the money and it was the.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Way I could go to the games for free.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So I'd go in these locker rooms and i'd have
to interview guys on their team lost.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Nobody wants to talk when they lose, complete schmucks.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And on more than one occasion, as we go back
in the hot up time machine, on more than one
occasion I would go up to a player and the
player would say, just you know, whatever you want, pick up,
pick a cliche, I don't care, and then I would
have to explain to the player that I work in
audio and I need you to say the cliche, and
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I'll never forget. There's a great sports writer named Terry Johnson.
He covered the Dodgers. He passed away years ago, but
a very funny guy describe. And what he would do
is he would just go up to the player who
was grumpy after game and say, all right, here's a quote.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm if you don't give me a.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Quote, I'm just going to use a generic one and
I'm gonna give you options. And then he would go
like ABC one, two three that you know, we just like,
we just got to stick together. You know, it's only
one game. It's a long season. You know, I believe
in this team.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Like any of.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Those boilerplate responses, I have very fun memory. So when
I saw this, I was like, well, I mean, as
she said, CHRISA. Thompson, she went generic. She went generic
because she knew, she was fully aware that nothing was
going to come of this in terms of anger and
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outrage and all that among the coaches. So pressing on
from that, why have these sideline reporters' reactions been so unhinged,
Because that's the part of the story as we go
down the topic tree, which I get a kick out
now some of my favorites here. Tracy Wolfson of CBS
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said of CHRISA. Thompson, this is absolutely not okay. Laura
Oakman said, she was devastated by this story. Michelle Tafoya,
who's now out of broadcasting, said it was professional fraud.
My favorite, though, was Andrea Kramer, who I don't think
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is doing anything these days, but she said she was sickened.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
She was.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
All right, Now, there are others, but you get the point.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So again, why have these sideline reporters' reactions been sown
inch part of it is attacking the sisterhood. And you
also take yourself way too seriously, and it's we're in
an era where if you play the victim, you're celebrator.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Right, Oh, you're the victim.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Here a sideline diva on Sideline diva crime and there
is a bit of cosplay involved, a little bit of cosplay.
It's like Ron Burgundy from Anchorman. Well, that escalated quickly, right,
I really got out of hand. And it's like these
these these people are living in a glass case of emotion,
and I get it.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
This is their life's work.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And it's yet again been exposed as completely unnecessary and pointless.
The fact that Carrissa Thompson was making up quotes on
NFL broadcast and a none of the coaches cared.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
None of the coaches called her out on it.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
B Nobody watching, Nobody watching said wait a minute, that
doesn't seem right.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
The only reason we know about it is because she
self reported herself. That's it. Uh, And that is a
dead give it. It's a dead give it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Ninety five percent of sideline reporting is fluff.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It is right, that's it.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Occasionally we do get a player that just explodes and
says something ridiculous, but that that I don't even know
if that's five percent, and that has little or nothing
to do with the actual reporter. It's just happening having
to put a microphone in a guy's face when they've
just played poorly something along those lines. Our final point, so, imagine,
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if you will, a.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
World abroad, far far away.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Imagine if you will, a world where there are none
of these sideline reporters Like I've actually done the job
years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
If you followed what I've done over the years, you
probably haven't. You don't know who the hell I am.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
But I, for one day was the sideline reporter in Norman, Oklahoma,
for a network radio broadcast of the Oklahoma Sooners and
the Nebraska Cornhuskers. And it was awesome, right, it was
great I'd never been to an environment like that.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
But it was also the easiest gig I've ever had.
It really was.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It is so much easier than doing a radio show
or even a TV show. It's just not even close.
And so listen, what would happen if you got rid
of all sideline reporters? It would actually, in many ways
improve the viewing experience. And I don't want to step
on any toes. I have friends who are sideline reporters,
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and I think some of these people who do this
are very good at what they do. It's just not
something that I really care about, right, So as the
players like to say, it's not personal, it's just it's
just reality, right that the Sideline report I often.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Find intrusive, and it's stuff I can find if I
want on X or Wikipedia. It's just like time film, right.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And for the one percent, the one percent I say
one percenters I'm talking about like friends and family of
the sideline.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Reporter, they love it. It's essential, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But for ninety nine percent of the viewers, it's like
going to Ikea and saying, do I want drapes or blinds?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
At Ikea? Which one do I want?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
It's window dress. That's it. It's window dressing, is what
it is. But I would like to thank Chris Thompson.
I want to thank these other women because.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You made me laugh all day with all of these ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Reactions exist so stupid. It's so great you have made
my day. You're all comic geniuses. Thank you, thank you,
thank you a million times. So good man, alive, God,
just wonderful.
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We started this hour with the Carissa Thompson store. It's
quite quite the tail. She is under siege, under attack
from her fellow sideline reporters.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Let's sayload, let's sailo to Jerome. Who's up next on
the Ben Maler Show.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Hell, bring it home, Jerome, Hello, Jerome.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Bring then I just got to give it to you. Wrong, Okay,
like you like it. Look, there's been a lot of
doors open for women over the years that were closed
at one time. Okay, all right, there's a lot of
opportunities out there that that now for women. They weren't
there one time in this country's history. And for her
(16:39):
to smirch all that to market, it's not funny, man,
I'm not. I don't think it's funny. Funny.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
This is satire, right, you're not. You're not serious.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
No, I'm really serious about.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, you're not. No one could be, No one could
be that aintal Come on, Jerome, come on.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
White man.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
You always calling people, You are always calling people out
when they're dishonest. Always you still when they when they.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
When they yeah, the cheating A that is correct, that yes.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
They lied, they lied. Then they lie, lie, they.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Cheated, They cheated, they cheated, They use buzzers, they used
trash hands, they used whistles.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Chris, no, I do not. You are a sex lady. No,
I do not.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
My god, you you are always the band boys, you are.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Hold on, I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait
what happened did you at some I don't know, hold
your when did you lose your sense of humor?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Droune? This is such a wonderful story. Did you see
the quotes?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Andrea Kramer said she was sickened by this.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Laura Oakman said, Defin stated that ridiculous reaction.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Oh my god, it's so fair.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Look, let me ask you this. And she lies about this?
What else does she lie about that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I'm not worried about that. I'm not in a relationship
with her.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I don't know. There's a white lie. You never lied,
by the way, drug you never lie. You never.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
It ain't about me either, It's not about me. Yeah, okay,
So what is your problem? Your problem is she lied?
Is that your problem?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah? She lied?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So okay.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
So I didn't do it all the.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
Time, though she did it when she had to, when
she couldn't get any words on the country, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And by the way, Jerol, and you're you know what,
I'm gonna defend women, you're sexist because she had no
choice as a woman, because these coaches wouldn't talk to her,
and they that's why she had to make up the quotes,
because these NFL coaches had no time, so she, as
a woman reporter, had to come up with something to
keep her job.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And you hate women, Jerome, bad job by you.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Women should be just as accountable as man.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And I guarantee you there's how many male sideline reports
are there?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Three? Maybe three in all of sports? Like three, that's up.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's pretty much become a female job. That's pretty much
where it is.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I don't have a crush only like you do. Ben.
I can understand that she's a beautiful woman. But hey,
you the truth will always set.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You, Jerome.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You I just exposed you as hating women and not
defending all right.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And by the way, at Jerome, if.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You want to know where all those cliches come from,
this website called sports cliche dot com and there's a
there's now it's not my website. I don't have anything
to do with it other than I've sent them over
the years cliches. And they have a page where they
have a list of contributors, and my name's at the
very bottom because I've been sending them stuff over the years.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I forgive you. I've I had crushes old women years ago.
Dad have a thing for her.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Listen, listen, with all due respect to CHRISA.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Thompson, she needs to eat a few more cheeseburgers.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
If you don't, she's going out with you. After what
you just said, you can forget about her.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
What are you talking about. She's gonna be my best friend.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I just defended her on national radio on five wooded
radio stations. I stood byed because I support with unlike you.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So am I so what's and if.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I was your wife, I keep an eye on you.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You know what you Yes? I am all right, Jio,
It's all right, A very good call.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
All right, hang up, go away, there you go, busting
my chops there?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Uh that is that is good, good stuff from Jerome.
I like it. Yeah, all the.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Boy that escalated quickly.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
It's just the language of sport. It's the cadence of sport.
When a team loses, you know, we just didn't play
hard enough. You know, we got out work. All the
nonsense they say, we'll play better next time. I believe
in this team. It's a long season.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I know my guys. I stand with my players, and
all that crap, it's the same stuff. Ridiculous anyway, I
actually speaking of that, I guess I have a little time.
I could tell this story. So years ago Looney Tom Looney,
who I do the TV show with, we used to
work here together at Fox Sports Radio and we did
a very popular show for years and then somebody and management,
(21:41):
I guess, hated it and ended the show. But for
seven years we did it, and we had to interview
all the TV people and we interviewed players. On Sunday,
we did the Round Robin NFL show.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It was very popular. We did it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I thought we did pretty well on it, and so
we did that for a long time. But we had
to interview players, and there is nothing harder to do
in all of broadcasting then interview athletes, because they're usually
really bad. They're really bad at doing this. They have
nothing interesting to say, they're tremendously boring.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And so it becomes problematic.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And so we would we would try to ask these
really great, thought out, intellectual questions of the players, and
it was just horrific. It was just horrible. And then
we had an epiphany. And I'm not sure whose idea
this was, uh, but we had an idea. One day,
let's just dumb it down. Let's just dumb it down
and ask the most absurd, ridiculous cliche questions like it
(22:34):
was a back when Saturday Night Live used to be
good and they do those those skits and they were
entertaining all that stuff, and so we we for one
Sunday we would interview the players and it would be like, man, you.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Guys really brought your a game today, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And the answers we got with the most ridiculous questions
were so amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Right that they it was like speaking their language.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It's like we had a Rosetta stone on how to
communicate with the athlete, right and it was like, you
guys really came to play today, Oh yeah, we did, yea,
so good?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Oh man.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Anyway, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
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Speaker 7 (23:19):
So I just just popped in my head while you
were having the good. The discussion about CRISA. Thompson so
on Amazon Prime, which was the Thursday night game, she
who usually hosts that the show.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
There the little uh.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
She wasn't there, right, No, she was there. She was
I don't think. No, I don't think she was there. No,
I think I. So the question is have they suspended her.
I'm pretty sure she was not.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm almost positive. I usually don't.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I didn't watch the pregame, and I think doubt it
half to I usually do. I thought, I thought, how
Michael said Chris at the halt?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
I don't think she was there. Guys, anyone, no.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Anyone, None of us watched the halftime show.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
I remember, I remember.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
See half time Amazon Primary.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
I agree with you.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
I watched the whole game, but I did not watch
a second of the halftime.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I see there.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Here's the thing. I didn't even know about all this
because I stay off social media unless I'm at work.
And so thank you, and so I had it on
and I'm like, I wonder why CHRISA. Thompson isn't hosting,
And then like during the game, my wife asked me,
what's going on with Chris of Thompson. I'm like, I
don't know why she's not working. What's going on?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Is she?
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Is she in some kind of trouble? And then so
my question is, and I guess no one has the answer.
Has she been suspended?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I don't, I don't know. I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I assumed she was there. I thought her Maybe it's
just from Leek's past. I heard Ali say coming up
at halftime, Chris Thompson.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But she is under fiery.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I mean, she better have a good foxhole because man alive.
Oh the I'm still getting comments here. Dana Jacobson, you
heard of her. She's been on TV a long time.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
She said. Disappointed, mad and sad is what she she said, Disappointed,
mad and sad.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm happy that those of us in sports radio don't
take our jobs too seriously, because like we're not. We
we goofind other sports radio people all the time. We're
not much of hard oze. Usually there are some douche
canoes that are in sports radio, but for the most part,
we we all hate each other and we don't use this.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Kind of language.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
We just don't.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
It's a show.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Well, I was just gonna say, what kind of cracks
me up? About this, and you know, and I know
you've kind of alluded to this, is that the feeding frenzy.
It's like a couple of people like go on Twitter
and comment and so like everyone else has to go
in and give their you know, two cents about it
as well. And it's all the same old crap, right,
No one's gonna actually go on and defender.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Well, no, it's I'm more offended than you.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And it's a urinating contest. It's a public urination contest.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
And I am this is so atrocious. It's such a
such an awful thing.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And it's an attack on me.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
Uh, you know, it's like, come on, I found out
from from fun House. He went and dug up some
old like sideline reports from her from nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Yeah, and she does a podcast with Aaron Andrews. And
I'm pretty sure she had said this before.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, she said in the soundlite we played.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
But it's funny how you know she had this has
already been out there, but now it's like just we've
decided now it's the time to be pissed off about this.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
I'm seeing here on the Daily Mail website that says
Chris of Thompson leads Amazon primes NFL coverage, despite sparking
furious reaction.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
All right, okay, maybe she was there. I didn't see it.
I didn't watch, so.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, I didn't watch, but I swear I heard al
Michael say coming up at the half Carissa, and you know,
they do the usual grab ass with the crew there
on Amazon and.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
They do that. But yeah, it's it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
And that's the cool thing about the Internet, Like stuff
from you know, years ago gets recycled and there's like
a new generation of people to be offended and angry,
and it's just an anger machine, right.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It's a way to implode and the breakdown, and.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
We need something to be angry about on a Thursday
night Friday morning, and by this weekend it'll blow over
because we've got college football and NFL.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Oh yeah, it's someone.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
It'll be done pretty I'm not funny. I think it's
actually a refreshing breath of fresh air. I guess that's
a little redundant, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I'm collecting these quotes from these other female sideline reporters.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It's so great.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I mean, they are all doing it, every one of them.
I haven't seen one say, oh, who cares?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Not one of them. It's just outstanding.
Speaker 10 (27:34):
Uh A.
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Speaker 2 (27:59):
My god. One of the rock stars from the Twin
Cities hollering James in Minneapolis made a sauw to show
legend hollering James, Hey man, James, we love you, James.
Where have you been?
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Just the phone?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What's that?
Speaker 8 (28:16):
I stole the house phone?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Stole the house?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, all right, so you're gonna be whispering jameson hollering James.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Will creep in light. He was shy like a sheep
with the house phone. He was out sleep.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
What happens if you get caught using the house phone?
Speaker 8 (28:38):
James, I need you all that, like the compounded out
my doorna wasn't I remember?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, James, that's why it was Jacob.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
He was a male house staff. He is about six six,
two hundred and seventy five pounds of Jacob. Yelsa bunch
me and choked me at the house. But coffee, hot coffee.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's not a good idea, James. That does not seem
to make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But we missed you, James, I'm banned. I'm upset that
you've been banned from calling the show. You've been such
a big part of the show over the years.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
We missed.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I got scared, I understand.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
But I got something to coming about this topic you're on.
I take defense to the women. I'm on your side. Bet,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We stand for women.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
You know, look at Monica, how many times that's a
good example. Look at Joe Demarcio. How many times you
had a lie that Marilyn Monroe and Marilyn Monroe lie
to him about the Kennedy's.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Now, that's a great to compare nobody else. Let me
tell you something, nobody else in sports media. James has
compared Carrissa Thompson to Joe Demaggio. You're the only one
to have that take. That's an original take by all
the and James, I forgot.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
To mention Clinton and poblock guns.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It's right your political are got that.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So James, do you still have that Mallard militia shirt?
Speaker 8 (30:14):
Young? Like everything on?
Speaker 7 (30:19):
What?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Why?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Why can you explain that in English?
Speaker 7 (30:25):
I don't want to know. I actually.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
Bet everything?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, okay, you remember you were a big star, James.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Everyone was excited. They were more excited to see you
than me. You you bowguarded the events.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
I was on your coat tails.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
No, no, you were the star everyone wanted to say.
Everyone I met in Minnesota is like, where's Holliday?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
James?
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Listen?
Speaker 8 (30:49):
I want to beat James phone.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
For Tammy and Tammy's not your phone is terrible that
he his phone?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
So well, all right, so James, I'm gonna end the
call early because I want you listen tolerity.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
I wanted local celebrity just recently, Mark Rosen? What Mark Rosen?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
What about Mark Rosen?
Speaker 8 (31:14):
It was a local celebrity of Minnesota, CBS Radio General
for what happened? Also common man.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Oh he's a common Okay, Okay, all right, that's great.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Good for him.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
All right, I gotta go, James, but try to call
more often.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
James.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
We love you buddy, all right, thank you. Your phone's terrible.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
I felt like that call.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
We were like he's dropping on like some mobsters, you know,
trying to indict like the members of the mob.
Speaker 10 (31:42):
You know, we have like a wire tap.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You think how important the show is the guy like
Coller and James.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
If he gets caught calling the show, then some goon
comes and like causes him and punches him and chokes
him and treats him like you know Draymond Green would
treat where.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
Is he is it like one full of the cuckoos nest,
Like he's inside of a he can't like one of
the orderlies will come in whisk him away.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well, we all have our different problems. I was, he's
got a few issues. I don't know. I don't even
know all.
Speaker 10 (32:08):
The dealm six foot five goon.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Hollering James famously became hollering James because he was evicted
from his home because he was so excited to call
the show. He started screaming on the air on a
regular basis, and he finally got kicked out of his home.
He's living in like an apartment, and so he's moved
around a bit.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
But that's dedication.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Now will the Chicago Bears get dedication from their coaching search,
which I guess hasn't even officially started yet, but because
they still have a coach, But a lot of chatter
around the NFL that the Chicago Bears are hot and
heavy playing footsie with Jim Harbaugh. He's a Michigan man,
but his harball ready to walk away from ann Arbor now.
(32:51):
He already want to leave Michigan. A couple years ago,
he was gonna go to the Vikings. The Vikings turn
him down. He thought he was going to Minnesota. He
went back to Michigan. He's had success with the Wolverines
summer saying he has had success because of the signs,
stealingscondel But nonetheless, the Chicago Bears said to be considering
interested intermediaries. Conversations happening between middlemen between the Bears and
(33:18):
Jim Harbaugh, a guy that certainly knows the Chicago Bears
back in his playing days.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
So will that happen, Probably not, But it's fun to
talk about it, fun to kick around.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Kind of like the Mallard of the third degree segment,
which is just minutes away. Here's the instat trivia. Cowboys
wide receiver C. D. Lamb can become the second player
ever with at least ten catches and four consecutive games.
If he does it this weekend against Carolina, he would
join Blank again. Ceedee Lamb big game against the Panthers
(33:52):
this weekend will become the second player ever with at
least ten catches in four consecutive games.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Joining Blank. That is the inch to trivia, the Ants
and Mallard to the third degree. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
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Speaker 2 (34:08):
Oh there is James right there. Old school.
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Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's Ben Malor looking at the instant feedback that we
get here during the show, people loving hollering, James calling,
although a number of people saying they struggle to understand
what he was saying. His phone was not the greatest,
But that that happens.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Here's the insta trivia. Cowboys wide receiver C. D.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Lamb can become the second player ever with at least
ten catches in four consecutive games.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
He would join blank. He would join blank.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
That is the needs to do that this weekend against
Carolina obviously goes without saying.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Uh so, that is the insta trivia. What is the answer.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
And let's see does anyone listening in the malin militia
any of these wise guys know the answer.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Let's check. We we are gonna have Mallard of the
third degree. As I said coming up here.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Momentarily, Mike Skrzyshewsky, the great former NFL player, was guessed
by by Stan That's a that's a really solid answer,
unless it's not Milkman Mike in Colorado, says hollering James
orderly named Stan Curtis Duncan from PAULI d that's his answer,
(35:57):
Page down, page down, Mary Hoppins super califragilistic Xbli Doshis
from The Cowboy Killer, Paul Blart, mall cop from Callaghan
Tim in Michigan on the Comeback trail ferg Dog going
with Carrissa Thompson.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
That's a good photo of her. She's looking pretty good there.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
A rich Garcis from Yapheemi can't go wrong with fat
Rich Rachel McAdams, who shares a birthday with the Kooper
Loop from The Late Night Drug Tester, the Little Professor
from alf the Alien o Piner, Peter Griffin from Scott
Let's see her page I think we don't have time
for anymore, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Do you have an answer, Eddie, I do.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
It's former forty nine er legend JJ Stokes.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
That's a good name, but not as good as this name, Megatron.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Calvin Johnson Calvin Johnson.
Speaker 7 (36:45):
A PROFI that's not a very good name. He's a
good player, not a good name.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Megatron it's a good nickname, Megatron.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 6 (36:54):
To the third degree, This is one big fan.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Gets and we are off to the races, Cooper.
Speaker 11 (37:02):
It's being reported that Texas A and M reached out
to Dan Campbell about their head coaching job, but Campbell
informed them that he plans on staying with the Lions.
Is that the right choice?
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
This is like when I reached out to Cowhurtz people
and said I want his job and they laughed at me. No, listen,
it's never over till it's over. Until Texas A and
M hires a coach. There's a chance that somebody like
Dan Campbell would leave. The only reason to take the
A and M job is it is a golden parachute, right,
That's it.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
It's the end of the rainbow. It's the pot of gold.
But coaching in the NFL is better than coaching in
college football to infinity and beyond.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
And Dan Campble's got a good thing going on in Michigan,
So why screw that up and leave?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
It doesn't make a lot of sense. The Lions are
a good team this year. Next.
Speaker 11 (37:43):
Major League Baseball is reportedly considering a reduction of the
pitch clock, where when runners are on base from twenty
seconds to eighteen seconds, Ben, do you think those two
seconds will really make a difference.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Well, Coop, I'm sure like me, you've heard that every
second counts depending.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
On what you're doing. But yeah, I don't have a
problem with this.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I'm shocked that there were not more blow ups in baseball,
and considering that I am on time malerd by.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
The clock for the clock plausably all about the clock,
I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Nobody seemed to make a big deal over the thing,
and there were only a few minor incidents, so it
seems fight next.
Speaker 11 (38:20):
Blake Snell was named a cy Young Award winner and
the Athlade comes just as he is entering free agency. Ben,
where are your picks for Snell to end up?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
So my as you know, I'm a just in relative
of Nostradamus, friend of Nostradinas in Seattle, and the answer
is anywhere but the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
I like rooting against Blake Stell. I don't want him
on a team that I like. I don't need that, Bro.
I'm risking my life.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Bro, I I ain't playing unless I get mine.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Let him go to the giants of the Yankees of
the Red Sox.
Speaker 10 (38:53):
How did I doubt you pass?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
That is a win. Closing the week with a win
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Hello and welcome. It's our dumn bird due we all
have favorites. This is my favorite hour of the show
because of the topic that we are discussing. And I
don't want to patronize you. You'll be the judge. Maybe
the other hours are better. I don't know, but this
Carissa Thompson story is so damn good. Every sideline reporter
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rallying around, circling the wagons against Carrissa Thompson. She has
caused a hullabaloo by saying she made up a coach's
halftime quote multiple.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Times when she was working NFL sidelines. Did she violate
the broadcasting oath? Carissa Thompson?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And why have these other sideline reporters reactions been so unhinged? Also,
what would happen if Sports TV banned? Banned sideline reporters?
Will examine a world without sideline reporters. As we are
on a knife's edge right now here. It is our
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is a story that I can really wrap my arm around.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I love this story.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
These are the kind of stories media, media a musings.
Just love them, just love them. And our league comes
from the sidelines. In a story that has bounced all
over sports media circles, Fox Sports, Carrissa Thompson has created
quite the hullabloop.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
She is under attack at this point. What did she do?
What did Carrissa Thompson do?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now, if you have not if you're not heard, because
maybe you're not worried about this, you're not in You're
not in the sports media. You're not in the sports media.
So Carrissa Thompson has a bullseye on her back among
sideline divas. This is after she admitted that in the
(02:48):
past she would just like make quotes up from coaches
during NFL games, and in fact, just to prove I'm
not making this up in a podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
A recent podcast inn was the Pardon the Take. I
think that was the name of a podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I don't know what that is, but anyway, here is
Carrissa Thompson and listen, this is the audio that everyone's
talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Take a list.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
And I've said this before, so I haven't been fired
for saying it, but I'll say it again. I would
make up the report sometimes because a the coach wouldn't
come out at halftime or it was too late, and
I was like, I didn't want to screw up the report.
So I was like, I'm just going to make this
up because first of all, no coach is going to
get mad if I say, hey, we need to stop
hurting ourselves. We needed to be better on third down,
we need to stop turning the ball over quarter yeah exactly,
(03:34):
and do a better job of getting off the field.
Like they're not going to correct me on that. I'm like,
it's fine, I'll just make up the report.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh my god, Now that led to fire in Brimstone.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
That led to fire in Brimstone.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Dante's Inferno, Dante's Inferno, Sodom and Gomorrah. The reaction, Oh
my god, I lap a bunch of my buddies in
the in the media, we've been we've been exchanging the
most ridiculous reactions to that pretty benign audio. But it
(04:13):
was full condemnation and vilification of Carrissa Thompson. So let
us discuss you heard the audio Carrissa Thompson causing outrage
and media circles by saying that she just made up
NFL coaches quotes at halftime while working the sidelines. Did
she violate Carrissa Thompson the broadcasting Oath? So I have Wiener, Mobile,
(04:40):
Ron Burgundy, and Ikea, and we will combine all of
these things together and we will make an angel. Because remember,
angels fly because they take themselves lightly. And there's a
lot of sideline reporters that do not take themselves lightly.
So number wa ah yeah. So, to answer the question,
(05:04):
did Carissa Thompson violate the broadcasting oath? As someone that's
spent my entire adult life in broadcasting, No, I'm shaking
my head.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
No, it's so stupid.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
This story has been wildfire, wildfire. It has been spreading
round and round and round and round. Everyone's indulging in
the story.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
The sports media world's picked up more fuel, and I
gave a guffall. I've been, as I said, I've been
laughing as these reactions have come in. And when I
first thought, I thought, man, this is hilarious, because Carrissa
Thompson said the.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Quiet part out loud.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
She took you inside the Wiener Mobile to the Oscar
Meyer plant, and there's a bunch of hot doggers and
here's how we make the sausage. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
There is no hippocratic oath for broadcasters. There are plenty
of scumbags that work in broadcasting, every man, woman and
(06:00):
child for themselves. But this story, this particular story, you know,
it reminds me of my days. When I started. I
started in radio. I was nineteen years old. I was
a radio stringer, which is a radio reporter.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And I needed audio.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
My all I was there to do was get soundbites
after I did in game reports, but mostly it was
after the game. And they used to have these things
we had called into radio stations before the Internet and
give score updates, and so that was my gig and
I got paid to do it, and not very well.
I made crappy money, but I made more money for
the postgame audio. So I had to go to the
locker room and interview players, which I hated because the.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Players didn't want to do it. I didn't want to
do it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Smells disgusting players or a holes, but I did it
because I need the money and it was the.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Way I could go to the games for free.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So I'd go in these locker rooms and i'd have
to interview guys on their team lost.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Nobody wants to talk when they lose, complete schmucks.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And on more than one occasion, as we go back
in the hot up time machine, on more than one
occasion I would go up to a player and the
player would say, just you know, whatever you want, pick up,
pick a cliche, I don't care, and then I would
have to explain to the player that I work in
audio and I need you to say the cliche, and
(07:14):
I'll never forget. There's a great sports writer named Terry Johnson.
He covered the Dodgers. He passed away years ago, but
a very funny guy describe. And what he would do
is he would just go up to the player who
was grumpy after game and say, all right, here's a quote.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm if you don't give me a.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Quote, I'm just going to use a generic one and
I'm gonna give you options. And then he would go
like ABC one, two three that you know, we just like,
we just got to stick together. You know, it's only
one game. It's a long season. You know, I believe
in this team.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Like any of.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Those boilerplate responses, I have very fun memory. So when
I saw this, I was like, well, I mean, as
she said, CHRISA. Thompson, she went generic. She went generic
because she knew, she was fully aware that nothing was
going to come of this in terms of anger and
(08:07):
outrage and all that among the coaches. So pressing on
from that, why have these sideline reporters' reactions been so unhinged,
Because that's the part of the story as we go
down the topic tree, which I get a kick out
now some of my favorites here. Tracy Wolfson of CBS
(08:30):
said of CHRISA. Thompson, this is absolutely not okay. Laura
Oakman said, she was devastated by this story. Michelle Tafoya,
who's now out of broadcasting, said it was professional fraud.
My favorite, though, was Andrea Kramer, who I don't think
(08:51):
is doing anything these days, but she said she was sickened.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
She was.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
All right, Now, there are others, but you get the point.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So again, why have these sideline reporters' reactions been sown
inch part of it is attacking the sisterhood. And you
also take yourself way too seriously, and it's we're in
an era where if you play the victim, you're celebrator.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Right, Oh, you're the victim.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Here a sideline diva on Sideline diva crime and there
is a bit of cosplay involved, a little bit of cosplay.
It's like Ron Burgundy from Anchorman. Well, that escalated quickly, right,
I really got out of hand. And it's like these
these these people are living in a glass case of emotion,
and I get it.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
This is their life's work.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And it's yet again been exposed as completely unnecessary and pointless.
The fact that Carrissa Thompson was making up quotes on
NFL broadcast and a none of the coaches cared.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
None of the coaches called her out on it.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
B Nobody watching, Nobody watching said wait a minute, that
doesn't seem right.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
The only reason we know about it is because she
self reported herself. That's it. Uh, And that is a
dead give it. It's a dead give it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Ninety five percent of sideline reporting is fluff.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It is right, that's it.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Occasionally we do get a player that just explodes and
says something ridiculous, but that that I don't even know
if that's five percent, and that has little or nothing
to do with the actual reporter. It's just happening having
to put a microphone in a guy's face when they've
just played poorly something along those lines. Our final point, so, imagine,
(10:42):
if you will, a.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
World abroad, far far away.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Imagine if you will, a world where there are none
of these sideline reporters Like I've actually done the job
years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
If you followed what I've done over the years, you
probably haven't. You don't know who the hell I am.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
But I, for one day was the sideline reporter in Norman, Oklahoma,
for a network radio broadcast of the Oklahoma Sooners and
the Nebraska Cornhuskers. And it was awesome, right, it was
great I'd never been to an environment like that.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
But it was also the easiest gig I've ever had.
It really was.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It is so much easier than doing a radio show
or even a TV show. It's just not even close.
And so listen, what would happen if you got rid
of all sideline reporters? It would actually, in many ways
improve the viewing experience. And I don't want to step
on any toes. I have friends who are sideline reporters,
(11:38):
and I think some of these people who do this
are very good at what they do. It's just not
something that I really care about, right, So as the
players like to say, it's not personal, it's just it's
just reality, right that the Sideline report I often.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Find intrusive, and it's stuff I can find if I
want on X or Wikipedia. It's just like time film, right.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And for the one percent, the one percent I say
one percenters I'm talking about like friends and family of
the sideline.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Reporter, they love it. It's essential, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But for ninety nine percent of the viewers, it's like
going to Ikea and saying, do I want drapes or blinds?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
At Ikea? Which one do I want?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
It's window dress. That's it. It's window dressing, is what
it is. But I would like to thank Chris Thompson.
I want to thank these other women because.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You made me laugh all day with all of these ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Reactions exist so stupid. It's so great you have made
my day. You're all comic geniuses. Thank you, thank you,
thank you a million times. So good man, alive, God,
just wonderful.
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They haven't even fired the coach they have right now.
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Speaker 1 (15:42):
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Speaker 2 (15:53):
Well, big men's lame jokes.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
We started this hour with the Carissa Thompson store. It's
quite quite the tail. She is under siege, under attack
from her fellow sideline reporters.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Let's sayload, let's sailo to Jerome. Who's up next on
the Ben Maler Show.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Hell, bring it home, Jerome, Hello, Jerome.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Bring then I just got to give it to you. Wrong, Okay,
like you like it. Look, there's been a lot of
doors open for women over the years that were closed
at one time. Okay, all right, there's a lot of
opportunities out there that that now for women. They weren't
there one time in this country's history. And for her
(16:39):
to smirch all that to market, it's not funny, man,
I'm not. I don't think it's funny. Funny.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
This is satire, right, you're not. You're not serious.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
No, I'm really serious about.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, you're not. No one could be, No one could
be that aintal Come on, Jerome, come on.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
White man.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
You always calling people, You are always calling people out
when they're dishonest. Always you still when they when they.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
When they yeah, the cheating A that is correct, that yes.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
They lied, they lied. Then they lie, lie, they.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Cheated, They cheated, they cheated, They use buzzers, they used
trash hands, they used whistles.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Chris, no, I do not. You are a sex lady. No,
I do not.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
My god, you you are always the band boys, you are.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Hold on, I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait
what happened did you at some I don't know, hold
your when did you lose your sense of humor?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Droune? This is such a wonderful story. Did you see
the quotes?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Andrea Kramer said she was sickened by this.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Laura Oakman said, Defin stated that ridiculous reaction.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Oh my god, it's so fair.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Look, let me ask you this. And she lies about this?
What else does she lie about that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I'm not worried about that. I'm not in a relationship
with her.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I don't know. There's a white lie. You never lied,
by the way, drug you never lie. You never.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
It ain't about me either, It's not about me. Yeah, okay,
So what is your problem? Your problem is she lied?
Is that your problem?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah? She lied?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So okay.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
So I didn't do it all the.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
Time, though she did it when she had to, when
she couldn't get any words on the country, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And by the way, Jerol, and you're you know what,
I'm gonna defend women, you're sexist because she had no
choice as a woman, because these coaches wouldn't talk to her,
and they that's why she had to make up the quotes,
because these NFL coaches had no time, so she, as
a woman reporter, had to come up with something to
keep her job.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And you hate women, Jerome, bad job by you.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Women should be just as accountable as man.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And I guarantee you there's how many male sideline reports
are there?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Three? Maybe three in all of sports? Like three, that's up.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's pretty much become a female job. That's pretty much
where it is.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I don't have a crush only like you do. Ben.
I can understand that she's a beautiful woman. But hey,
you the truth will always set.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You, Jerome.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You I just exposed you as hating women and not
defending all right.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And by the way, at Jerome, if.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You want to know where all those cliches come from,
this website called sports cliche dot com and there's a
there's now it's not my website. I don't have anything
to do with it other than I've sent them over
the years cliches. And they have a page where they
have a list of contributors, and my name's at the
very bottom because I've been sending them stuff over the years.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I forgive you. I've I had crushes old women years ago.
Dad have a thing for her.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Listen, listen, with all due respect to CHRISA.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Thompson, she needs to eat a few more cheeseburgers.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
If you don't, she's going out with you. After what
you just said, you can forget about her.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
What are you talking about. She's gonna be my best friend.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I just defended her on national radio on five wooded
radio stations. I stood byed because I support with unlike you.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So am I so what's and if.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I was your wife, I keep an eye on you.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You know what you Yes? I am all right, Jio,
It's all right, A very good call.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
All right, hang up, go away, there you go, busting
my chops there?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Uh that is that is good, good stuff from Jerome.
I like it. Yeah, all the.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Boy that escalated quickly.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
It's just the language of sport. It's the cadence of sport.
When a team loses, you know, we just didn't play
hard enough. You know, we got out work. All the
nonsense they say, we'll play better next time. I believe
in this team. It's a long season.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I know my guys. I stand with my players, and
all that crap, it's the same stuff. Ridiculous anyway, I
actually speaking of that, I guess I have a little time.
I could tell this story. So years ago Looney Tom Looney,
who I do the TV show with, we used to
work here together at Fox Sports Radio and we did
a very popular show for years and then somebody and management,
(21:41):
I guess, hated it and ended the show. But for
seven years we did it, and we had to interview
all the TV people and we interviewed players. On Sunday,
we did the Round Robin NFL show.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It was very popular. We did it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I thought we did pretty well on it, and so
we did that for a long time. But we had
to interview players, and there is nothing harder to do
in all of broadcasting then interview athletes, because they're usually
really bad. They're really bad at doing this. They have
nothing interesting to say, they're tremendously boring.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And so it becomes problematic.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And so we would we would try to ask these
really great, thought out, intellectual questions of the players, and
it was just horrific. It was just horrible. And then
we had an epiphany. And I'm not sure whose idea
this was, uh, but we had an idea. One day,
let's just dumb it down. Let's just dumb it down
and ask the most absurd, ridiculous cliche questions like it
(22:34):
was a back when Saturday Night Live used to be
good and they do those those skits and they were
entertaining all that stuff, and so we we for one
Sunday we would interview the players and it would be like, man, you.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Guys really brought your a game today, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And the answers we got with the most ridiculous questions
were so amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Right that they it was like speaking their language.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It's like we had a Rosetta stone on how to
communicate with the athlete, right and it was like, you
guys really came to play today, Oh yeah, we did, yea,
so good?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Oh man.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Anyway, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
So I just just popped in my head while you
were having the good. The discussion about CRISA. Thompson so
on Amazon Prime, which was the Thursday night game, she
who usually hosts that the show.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
There the little uh.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
She wasn't there, right, No, she was there. She was
I don't think. No, I don't think she was there. No,
I think I. So the question is have they suspended her.
I'm pretty sure she was not.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm almost positive. I usually don't.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I didn't watch the pregame, and I think doubt it
half to I usually do. I thought, I thought, how
Michael said Chris at the halt?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
I don't think she was there. Guys, anyone, no.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Anyone, None of us watched the halftime show.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
I remember, I remember.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
See half time Amazon Primary.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
I agree with you.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
I watched the whole game, but I did not watch
a second of the halftime.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I see there.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Here's the thing. I didn't even know about all this
because I stay off social media unless I'm at work.
And so thank you, and so I had it on
and I'm like, I wonder why CHRISA. Thompson isn't hosting,
And then like during the game, my wife asked me,
what's going on with Chris of Thompson. I'm like, I
don't know why she's not working. What's going on?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Is she?
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Is she in some kind of trouble? And then so
my question is, and I guess no one has the answer.
Has she been suspended?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I don't, I don't know. I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I assumed she was there. I thought her Maybe it's
just from Leek's past. I heard Ali say coming up
at halftime, Chris Thompson.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But she is under fiery.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I mean, she better have a good foxhole because man alive.
Oh the I'm still getting comments here. Dana Jacobson, you
heard of her. She's been on TV a long time.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
She said. Disappointed, mad and sad is what she she said, Disappointed,
mad and sad.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm happy that those of us in sports radio don't
take our jobs too seriously, because like we're not. We
we goofind other sports radio people all the time. We're
not much of hard oze. Usually there are some douche
canoes that are in sports radio, but for the most part,
we we all hate each other and we don't use this.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Kind of language.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
We just don't.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
It's a show.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Well, I was just gonna say, what kind of cracks
me up? About this, and you know, and I know
you've kind of alluded to this, is that the feeding frenzy.
It's like a couple of people like go on Twitter
and comment and so like everyone else has to go
in and give their you know, two cents about it
as well. And it's all the same old crap, right,
No one's gonna actually go on and defender.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Well, no, it's I'm more offended than you.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And it's a urinating contest. It's a public urination contest.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
And I am this is so atrocious. It's such a
such an awful thing.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And it's an attack on me.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
Uh, you know, it's like, come on, I found out
from from fun House. He went and dug up some
old like sideline reports from her from nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Yeah, and she does a podcast with Aaron Andrews. And
I'm pretty sure she had said this before.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, she said in the soundlite we played.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
But it's funny how you know she had this has
already been out there, but now it's like just we've
decided now it's the time to be pissed off about this.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
I'm seeing here on the Daily Mail website that says
Chris of Thompson leads Amazon primes NFL coverage, despite sparking
furious reaction.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
All right, okay, maybe she was there. I didn't see it.
I didn't watch, so.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, I didn't watch, but I swear I heard al
Michael say coming up at the half Carissa, and you know,
they do the usual grab ass with the crew there
on Amazon and.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
They do that. But yeah, it's it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
And that's the cool thing about the Internet, Like stuff
from you know, years ago gets recycled and there's like
a new generation of people to be offended and angry,
and it's just an anger machine, right.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It's a way to implode and the breakdown, and.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
We need something to be angry about on a Thursday
night Friday morning, and by this weekend it'll blow over
because we've got college football and NFL.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Oh yeah, it's someone.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
It'll be done pretty I'm not funny. I think it's
actually a refreshing breath of fresh air. I guess that's
a little redundant, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I'm collecting these quotes from these other female sideline reporters.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It's so great.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I mean, they are all doing it, every one of them.
I haven't seen one say, oh, who cares?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Not one of them. It's just outstanding.
Speaker 10 (27:34):
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Speaker 2 (27:59):
My god. One of the rock stars from the Twin
Cities hollering James in Minneapolis made a sauw to show
legend hollering James, Hey man, James, we love you, James.
Where have you been?
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Just the phone?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What's that?
Speaker 8 (28:16):
I stole the house phone?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Stole the house?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, all right, so you're gonna be whispering jameson hollering James.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Will creep in light. He was shy like a sheep
with the house phone. He was out sleep.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
What happens if you get caught using the house phone?
Speaker 8 (28:38):
James, I need you all that, like the compounded out
my doorna wasn't I remember?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, James, that's why it was Jacob.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
He was a male house staff. He is about six six,
two hundred and seventy five pounds of Jacob. Yelsa bunch
me and choked me at the house. But coffee, hot coffee.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's not a good idea, James. That does not seem
to make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But we missed you, James, I'm banned. I'm upset that
you've been banned from calling the show. You've been such
a big part of the show over the years.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
We missed.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I got scared, I understand.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
But I got something to coming about this topic you're on.
I take defense to the women. I'm on your side. Bet,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We stand for women.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
You know, look at Monica, how many times that's a
good example. Look at Joe Demarcio. How many times you
had a lie that Marilyn Monroe and Marilyn Monroe lie
to him about the Kennedy's.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Now, that's a great to compare nobody else. Let me
tell you something, nobody else in sports media. James has
compared Carrissa Thompson to Joe Demaggio. You're the only one
to have that take. That's an original take by all
the and James, I forgot.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
To mention Clinton and poblock guns.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It's right your political are got that.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So James, do you still have that Mallard militia shirt?
Speaker 8 (30:14):
Young? Like everything on?
Speaker 7 (30:19):
What?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Why?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Why can you explain that in English?
Speaker 7 (30:25):
I don't want to know. I actually.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
Bet everything?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, okay, you remember you were a big star, James.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Everyone was excited. They were more excited to see you
than me. You you bowguarded the events.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
I was on your coat tails.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
No, no, you were the star everyone wanted to say.
Everyone I met in Minnesota is like, where's Holliday?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
James?
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Listen?
Speaker 8 (30:49):
I want to beat James phone.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
For Tammy and Tammy's not your phone is terrible that
he his phone?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
So well, all right, so James, I'm gonna end the
call early because I want you listen tolerity.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
I wanted local celebrity just recently, Mark Rosen? What Mark Rosen?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
What about Mark Rosen?
Speaker 8 (31:14):
It was a local celebrity of Minnesota, CBS Radio General
for what happened? Also common man.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Oh he's a common Okay, Okay, all right, that's great.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Good for him.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
All right, I gotta go, James, but try to call
more often.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
James.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
We love you buddy, all right, thank you. Your phone's terrible.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
I felt like that call.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
We were like he's dropping on like some mobsters, you know,
trying to indict like the members of the mob.
Speaker 10 (31:42):
You know, we have like a wire tap.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You think how important the show is the guy like
Coller and James.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
If he gets caught calling the show, then some goon
comes and like causes him and punches him and chokes
him and treats him like you know Draymond Green would
treat where.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
Is he is it like one full of the cuckoos nest,
Like he's inside of a he can't like one of
the orderlies will come in whisk him away.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well, we all have our different problems. I was, he's
got a few issues. I don't know. I don't even
know all.
Speaker 10 (32:08):
The dealm six foot five goon.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Hollering James famously became hollering James because he was evicted
from his home because he was so excited to call
the show. He started screaming on the air on a
regular basis, and he finally got kicked out of his home.
He's living in like an apartment, and so he's moved
around a bit.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
But that's dedication.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Now will the Chicago Bears get dedication from their coaching search,
which I guess hasn't even officially started yet, but because
they still have a coach, But a lot of chatter
around the NFL that the Chicago Bears are hot and
heavy playing footsie with Jim Harbaugh. He's a Michigan man,
but his harball ready to walk away from ann Arbor now.
(32:51):
He already want to leave Michigan. A couple years ago,
he was gonna go to the Vikings. The Vikings turn
him down. He thought he was going to Minnesota. He
went back to Michigan. He's had success with the Wolverines
summer saying he has had success because of the signs,
stealingscondel But nonetheless, the Chicago Bears said to be considering
interested intermediaries. Conversations happening between middlemen between the Bears and
(33:18):
Jim Harbaugh, a guy that certainly knows the Chicago Bears
back in his playing days.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
So will that happen, Probably not, But it's fun to
talk about it, fun to kick around.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Kind of like the Mallard of the third degree segment,
which is just minutes away. Here's the instat trivia. Cowboys
wide receiver C. D. Lamb can become the second player
ever with at least ten catches and four consecutive games.
If he does it this weekend against Carolina, he would
join Blank again. Ceedee Lamb big game against the Panthers
(33:52):
this weekend will become the second player ever with at
least ten catches in four consecutive games.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Joining Blank. That is the inch to trivia, the Ants
and Mallard to the third degree. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Caffeine is my Friend, I'm a Casqueen, and the nicotine scene.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Oh there is James right there. Old school.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
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Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's Ben Malor looking at the instant feedback that we
get here during the show, people loving hollering, James calling,
although a number of people saying they struggle to understand
what he was saying. His phone was not the greatest,
But that that happens.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Here's the insta trivia. Cowboys wide receiver C. D.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Lamb can become the second player ever with at least
ten catches in four consecutive games.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
He would join blank. He would join blank.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
That is the needs to do that this weekend against
Carolina obviously goes without saying.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Uh so, that is the insta trivia. What is the answer.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
And let's see does anyone listening in the malin militia
any of these wise guys know the answer.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Let's check. We we are gonna have Mallard of the
third degree. As I said coming up here.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Momentarily, Mike Skrzyshewsky, the great former NFL player, was guessed
by by Stan That's a that's a really solid answer,
unless it's not Milkman Mike in Colorado, says hollering James
orderly named Stan Curtis Duncan from PAULI d that's his answer,
(35:57):
Page down, page down, Mary Hoppins super califragilistic Xbli Doshis
from The Cowboy Killer, Paul Blart, mall cop from Callaghan
Tim in Michigan on the Comeback trail ferg Dog going
with Carrissa Thompson.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
That's a good photo of her. She's looking pretty good there.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
A rich Garcis from Yapheemi can't go wrong with fat
Rich Rachel McAdams, who shares a birthday with the Kooper
Loop from The Late Night Drug Tester, the Little Professor
from alf the Alien o Piner, Peter Griffin from Scott
Let's see her page I think we don't have time
for anymore, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Do you have an answer, Eddie, I do.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
It's former forty nine er legend JJ Stokes.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
That's a good name, but not as good as this name, Megatron.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Calvin Johnson Calvin Johnson.
Speaker 7 (36:45):
A PROFI that's not a very good name. He's a
good player, not a good name.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Megatron it's a good nickname, Megatron.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 6 (36:54):
To the third degree, This is one big fan.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Gets and we are off to the races, Cooper.
Speaker 11 (37:02):
It's being reported that Texas A and M reached out
to Dan Campbell about their head coaching job, but Campbell
informed them that he plans on staying with the Lions.
Is that the right choice?
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
This is like when I reached out to Cowhurtz people
and said I want his job and they laughed at me. No, listen,
it's never over till it's over. Until Texas A and
M hires a coach. There's a chance that somebody like
Dan Campbell would leave. The only reason to take the
A and M job is it is a golden parachute, right,
That's it.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
It's the end of the rainbow. It's the pot of gold.
But coaching in the NFL is better than coaching in
college football to infinity and beyond.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
And Dan Campble's got a good thing going on in Michigan,
So why screw that up and leave?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
It doesn't make a lot of sense. The Lions are
a good team this year. Next.
Speaker 11 (37:43):
Major League Baseball is reportedly considering a reduction of the
pitch clock, where when runners are on base from twenty
seconds to eighteen seconds, Ben, do you think those two
seconds will really make a difference.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Well, Coop, I'm sure like me, you've heard that every
second counts depending.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
On what you're doing. But yeah, I don't have a
problem with this.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I'm shocked that there were not more blow ups in baseball,
and considering that I am on time malerd by.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
The clock for the clock plausably all about the clock,
I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Nobody seemed to make a big deal over the thing,
and there were only a few minor incidents, so it
seems fight next.
Speaker 11 (38:20):
Blake Snell was named a cy Young Award winner and
the Athlade comes just as he is entering free agency. Ben,
where are your picks for Snell to end up?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
So my as you know, I'm a just in relative
of Nostradamus, friend of Nostradinas in Seattle, and the answer
is anywhere but the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
I like rooting against Blake Stell. I don't want him
on a team that I like. I don't need that, Bro.
I'm risking my life.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Bro, I I ain't playing unless I get mine.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Let him go to the giants of the Yankees of
the Red Sox.
Speaker 10 (38:53):
How did I doubt you pass?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
That is a win. Closing the week with a win
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