July 18, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Brandon Aiyuk and the 49ers having a 'disagreement on his value' amid trade buzz, why Jordan Love was blocked from answering a question about Packers contract talks, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our dumb one as we
are back in the audio dojo, the original recipe Ben
Maler Show podcast, just a cog in the machine, and
we're back at it here on this Thursday, the eighteenth
day of July, and we start in our one with
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a lot of football. Brandon Ayuk and the forty nine
ers have a disagreement on his value. This coming amid
all the trade conversation, all the buzz, and you please
untangle this one. We will for you. Also, why was
quarterback Jordan Love block from answering a question about packer
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contract talks. We'll delve into that. And Caleb Williams, the
number one overall pick, looking to dodge taxes on his
bear's rookie contract. It didn't work out for him, But
how do you react to the attempt? And what it signifies?
Will go there as well? All of it coming your
way right now here. It is our number one.
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the hits moll Man play that I know. I'm going
to interrupt this wall to wall WNBA coverage to talk
about football. I'm old enough to remember when the NFL
was the king. We'd only talk about the NFL around here,
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but not anymore. The tinder box isn't burning, though it
is a burning in the NFL world. After months of unrest,
which have been documented right here behind these microphones late
at night, anger and little veiled shots, we have reached
a waterloom moment, and if you have not been paying
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attention the last couple of days, the story continues to
be the very top of the football universe. What is
going on with the sour puss pass catcher in Northern California?
We've learned now the forty nine ers and Brandon iok
continue to be in a stalemate, as it has gone
on here for some time, over the worth of the player.
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He wants a show me the money situation. He would
like the nice, big fat contract. Now, Adam Schefter tells us,
I guess that's a credible source. He tells us that
the San Francisco football team does not does not intend
to trade Brandon Ayuc even though he asked for a trade.
So they're saying no, no, no, no, no no. There's
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a disagreement in the value, which is often the case
in these things. Brandon Ayuc would like to be paid
the market rate, which is not the market rate. You know,
there's like the market rate, there's the store brand, and
then there's the whole foods price. Yeah, he wants the
whole foods price. So that is red and meat on
the bone is what it is. So let us discuss
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the question Brandon IUC and the forty nine ers have
a disagreement on value or his value here this coming
amid the trade conversation which has been out there. Can
you untangle this one? Please? Can you please untangle this one?
So I've got sea turtles, fruit loops, and deck of cards,
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and we will combine all of these things together. We'll
put them in the hopper and hopefully we'll get a
winning combination. So a now, this is a story that
has been out there. It's not like this is all
of a sudden new but we're getting close to the
start of the season. We're less than fifty days away
from the first real NFL game, and teams have begun
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training camp, and so this has been bubbling up. But
now we are at a point where you're like, wait
a minute, now, these subtle messages are no longer subtle.
It it was a cloak and dagger mission, but now
things have been cranked up a couple decimal points. Here.
The vaul has been cranked up a few notches. Think
of this like marine life and you've got a couple
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of sea turtles your loggerheads, because they're at logger hits.
The forty nine ers would like to pay Brandon Iyock
based on what he has done, which, to be fair,
is not all that much considering how he has talked
about in some circles. Now the player is looking to
get the publishers clearing house sweep steaks payday. They would
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like to get all of that and all the goodies
and all that being paid at the pinnacle of their superpowers.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Now.
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The reason this is an extra big quagmire for the
forty nine ers as they try to iron out the
details on this is because if you look at the
other side of the field, Deebo Samuel, some say dynamic
playmate always kills the rams. I know that. Others say
he's just a running back masquerading as a wide receiver.
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But Deebo Samuel, who's been marginalized somewhat in recent years
because of Christian McCaffrey. Deebo Samuel likely is in his
last year with the San Francisco football team. So this
is a gigantic fork in the road for the Niners
because if they get rid of Brandon Ayok, they trade him,
likely just for some draft picks, and then Deebo Samuel
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leaves after that, they're they're all gone, and they did
draft a wide receiver in the first round, trying to
fill the void, the impending void. All right, now, page two,
we pivot now to Wisconsin. Why why not? Because the
big chatter over the last couple of months has been
the Green Bay football team is going to sign Jordan
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Loff to a mega, mega, mega millions contract because we're
very concerned about how much money these people make. The
quarterback who played well for good stretches of time in
his first opportunity. It's a small sample size. Contract extension
expected to be done. It was expected to be done
before the start of the NFL well season. However, the
Packers did not did not allow Jordan Love to provide
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a update. When asked by inquisitive members of the fourth
estate the media to ask for an update, he was asked,
and how negotiations are going, blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. He reported a training camp on
on Tuesday of this week, so he's asked about that.
Love received the question about whether he wishes to have
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his contract extension done prior to the start of camp,
and yet before Jordan Love could get going, and actually,
you know answer the question. A Packer PR representative stepped
in like a guardian angel, cutting off any answer and
any further questioning, how dare you ask a player who's
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been trying to get a new contract whether or not
he's going to get a new contract? So why was
Jordan Love blocked from answering a rather benign question about
packer contract talks? So I have a theory on this.
I Love turned into the Kellogg's fruit Loops mascot to
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can Sam. He did right, he smiled, and I watched
this clip a couple times. He parroted the PR hacks
news to come line. So some PR stooge from the
Packers said news to come and then a few seconds later,
after a bit of a pause, then Jordan Love, when
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the question was completed, there he repeated the three word
phase that the PR tody had said. So what does
that tell us? That tells us that it is more
likely than not that Jordan Loves contract is in the
final stages. The tea's are being crossed, the eyes are
being dotted, it's being vetted by lawyers, the DOCU sign
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is being completed. Because otherwise, why would Jordan Love have
just repeated the pr hack statement. If he's not getting
a new contract, If that's not happening, why would you
just repeat the company line. There'd be no reason for
you to do that. You could say, no, I thought
I was getting a contract, I'm not getting a contract,
and then you crank up the pressure on the Green
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Bay Packers. But he didn't do that. So that is
to me, that's a dead way that in the next
few days of the next couple of weeks before the
start of the regular season, maybe just like the last
couple of days before the regular season, there'll be an
announcement that Jordan Love's gonna get a new contract. I'd
be stunned if he doesn't at this point, all right now,
last word here, staying in the NFC North and we
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go down to just across the Wisconsin state line there
to Illinois to Chicago. After some very public consternation about
claims of ownership and demands of all kinds of thingam
A Jiggs Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams took his pink nail
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polish and lipstick and all that and agreed to a
rookie contract with the Bears. We are told the number
one overall number that his deal includes the standard fifth
year option. There was some chatter this week in recent
days that the contract would not include that, that there
would be a guarantee of no franchise tag that we
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do not believe is part of it either. However, the
chatter around the NFL is that Hayler Williams did attempt
but failed to get paid as an LLC. Yes, he
wanted to be paid as an LLC, and he wanted
the money to go into that and therefore he would
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have been able to avoid having to pay a certain
amount of extra money called taxation. And he also wanted
his rookie deal to be paid. Part of it is
a forgivable loan. Now what does that mean. I'm told
that would have resulted in Williams getting the money tax
free until the loan was forgiven. That that would have
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been as many as a decade or ten years, decade,
ten years down the line in the future. So, Caleb Williams,
if this reporting is accurate, the Bears quarterback looking to
dodge taxes with his Chicago rookie deal. It didn't work.
How do you react to this? So? I would argue, Well,
everyone tries to pay as little in taxes as they can.
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This is a red flag. If I'm the Bears, this
is a red flag. Caleb Williams is already futzing around
with a deck of cards. He's playing manipulation rummy, and
he's trying to finagle with the Bears over the taxes
and indirectly messing with Uncle Sam. More on that later,
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But Caleb Williams hasn't done a damn thing as an
NFL player. He is being paid on speculation. I know
that's how the draft works. You're being paid on speculation.
But my experience here not a proven commodity, and we
believe in the field of dreams model. It's pretty simple.
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If you build a resume as a successful quarterback, a
proven core even if you're not proven, even if you're marginal,
you don't even have to play a leaf football. And it
helps if you play a leaf football, but you don't
have to. You can be a little above average like
Jared Goff, and the bags of money will come falling
in from the heavens. You're gonna get the money. You're
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gonna get paid, lots and lots and lots of money,
hand over fist. So like you know, the all fu'son
around with this. You get the standard contract. Now, I
don't think there should be a standard contract, but that's
how the NFL has done business for years because of
certain people getting too much money, and there were a
lot of complaints back in the day, and so they
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made this the way it is. And there's a boiler
plate contract you get, it's all slotted. That's it. I
get it, and then you move on. But the whole
LLC thing, now, that's a lot of hutzba. As my
grandfather would say back in there, that's a lot of hutzba.
Right is the Ben Mahlor Show. We are back a
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of Famer has called the goat Tom Brady disrespect how
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dare you? Who is it? What is this all about?
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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As the Great Yoda once said, yes you do it.
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You just batten down the hatches and make it happen.
Eloy from Compton says, hell, yeah, about time. No more
vacation for you. Bet you'll be unhappy to know, Eloy,
that I have a cured over the years, I think
about seven years vacation time from not usually taking vacation.
So I have a lot. I have endless amounts of
vacation if I want to take I don't usually take them.
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And there's only one other thing on the agenda that
I know I must get out of the way. I
think i'll know more in the coming days, and then
after that I'll be here all the way through even
holidays during the NFL season. Slim Tim says, if yeah,
we missed you, Oh well, thank you, Slim. It's good
to be miss Slim too.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Where'd you go?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I went to a place you were. I think you
were born in this place.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I saw you post a tweet something, post something whatever
about flying over the Pacific, So yes.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It arrow.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, you lived in the ocean, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I did. I lived in Atlantis.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
What.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, Eddie is old enough where he was there when
Atlantis was a thing. Yeah, and he went away and
he moved to the mainland US. And yeah, so I
spent a few days in Hawaii, so I had had
a good time there. It was fun. Hard to have
a bad time there. I don't do well with the sun. Yeah,
well I didn't get sumburned. But I hate putting suntan
lotion on and I need to put a lot of
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it on because I'm like a vampire from doing overnights
all these years. So I don't do well with the sun. Yeah,
you're a little pasty, Ben a little bit, A little bit,
a little bit. And the other problem I have is
I have really bad hearing, which is rather odd to
be in race. To have bad hearing, I wear my
headphones turned all the way up to the maximum level.
I think we've had this conversation before, Eddie. But you
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work in radio, you slowly. Now I had bad ears
to start, but you slowly turn the headphone level up
higher and higher and higher until it's as loud as
it possibly goes. And one thing that does not go
well is putting water in my ears. I had earplugs,
but sometimes I forgot to put them in, so I know, yeah,
it was, it was. It was a hot mess, and
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all the bugs are much bigger in Hawaii. And we're
on the we're on there, and we're on early. By
the way, it's it's eight twenty four in the evening
in Hawaii right now. Did you listen to the show
while you were gone, No, not at all, But it's
eight twenty you know, it's eight twenty, eight twenty five
whatever in the morning or in the evening there in Hawaii.
And everything closes about eight or nine o'clock. There's no
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restaurants open. The last restaurant closes like at nine o'clock.
Where I was. Now, I didn't visit Honolulu or a Wahoo.
I was over in Kawaii, so that's where I and
they had a power out it's while I was there,
and they had a brush fire while I was there.
So good times. But we're back out more on that
on my podcast with the Vegan making an appearance this weekend.
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Danny g is away. He does not do the podcast
will Away, so I will have the Vegan. We'll be
making an appearance Alex then find out if he took
the will we will get into the toaster oven and
if anybody has any vegan related questions about people that
eat vegetables. And just like Alex, if he's hungry, he
just goes outside into the courtyard and grabs some twigs
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or whatever and chews on that. And then there's some
some leaves and he'll he'll munch on those and chew
those up, and he's good to go. Scrooge rites and
says benice back. All is right in the world again.
I don't know if that's true at all, Scrooge Chip
and the cues, says APUs on the malled monologue. The
red flag should should be the painted nails on a
pro quarterback. Well, it didn't stop him from being drafted
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number one. King Rory writes, and he says, it's great
to hear your voice again. I almost had to spend
time with my family, but thankfully they weren't around. As
a packer fan, it would be stupid for Love not
to sign a new contract with the Green and Gold.
Love will win a super Bowl for the Packers in
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the next five years, now, King Rory, you know, as
a cheesehead, the way this works is you went from
Farv to Rogers to Love.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I don't know. I'm not convinced that Love is in
that same class of quarterback. But let's assume for the
conversation he is right. Let's assume that he is. That
means that Love will play very well for fifteen years
or so, and you will not win more than one
super Bowl, is what that means. So if he wins
one in the next five years, that means, like the
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following ten, the Packers won't win. Diddley Pooh. Shane from
des Moin writes and he says Ai Malord would be
the Michael Jordan of AI host inside of these Bush
League people. He says, well, thank you, Shane. I guess
who knows that could happen. AI could happen late night
drug testers are welcoming us back, says Kayler. Williams should
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just take his millions and invest in a tropical tax haven,
just like you and missus maller. No, no, no, we paid
full price. We paid full press. In fact, I had
the indignity of sitting in the row behind first class.
You know that row where they they closed they closed
the curtain, but you can still kind of see what
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the rich people are eating in first class, and you're
not in first class. You're back with everyone else. And
then you can see like they put the little little
napkin on the tray, and then they have like the
gourmet service. It's crappy food, but they make it look
like it's good. Late night drug tester says, welcome back.
I thought I heard that one. Firdog says, stop the presses.
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Bronnie James scored more than ten points in a Summer
League game, but he still has the worst plus minus
on the team. No free throws and Noah's sis, he sucks,
says Fergie. All right, yeah, once once in a while, right,
blind squirrel finds a nut. That whole thing with Bronnie James.
So if he plays bad, don't know how many bad games.
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They have, three bad games and he plays one four
bad games, and he plays one halfway decent game, so
now he's good. Is that how that works? I don't know.
We'll talk more about that later. People defending rushing to
defend Bronnie James. Really, who would that be?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
That would be the no show Brian.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
No, really, he's a total for Bronnie.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
He's rooting for him, he said, he's rooting.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
How would you root for him? The gut?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Feel sorry for him, he said, feel sorry for.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
He's gonna go back to his home in Calabasas, mansion
in Calabasas, or his pasa in Akron or seven other hole.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
I mean, come on, please, I love Brian, but he said,
no second round pick has ever received so much scrutiny.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It's like, yeah, he deserves all of the art Puffin
Right then you see me fight, he says, first right,
opening monologue, A plus and a Mexican fruit cup for
you and the crew. You ever had a Mexican fruit cup?
Eddie yummy?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
No, I have not. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I don't think I have that. He just put, like
the spice was some kind of spice they put. Is
that the one with the green, white and the red
like jellowee layers? No, I don't think so. He sent
me a photo art Puffin and it looks like it's
got this a what is that that called? It's like
a spice you put on fruit. What is it called?
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That sounds about right? We'll go with thats about right? Yeah, yeah,
By my my friends. Over the years of a Mexican heritage,
you've enjoyed that a lot. I've never I've never had it,
but some people swear by it.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Anyway. Half of me does not know the answer to
that question.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Sorry, bad job, but you're losing street cred Eddie, bad job,
but you brand IOK, says, or our Puppa says Brandonia
could be the missing piece for the Detroit Lions. He says,
a game changer. But we both know that the forty
nine ers cannot afford to lose a piece like that.
So he says that if they want to remain in
Super Bowl contention, I don't know, but they could trade
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brandon IUC and they'd be all right, assuming Deebo Samuel
stays healthy, which he never seems to do. Jason the
Diamond Man writes, and he says, I think the guy
from The Simpsons is Caleb's agent. Oh crap, I shouldn't
say he is a LLLC. Oh crap I shouldn't say
he wants to commit tax fraud. Ah, it's too hot
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to care. There you go, bring the fire. In the
hour one monologue, the Burner account says, imagine living in
a world where a guy takes an unexpected departure to
a deserted island, Benjamin's island, and didn't even invite his
own Burner account. I'm offended, Benjamin. Shame, shame, shame. There
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you go. Well, I'm back now. It's good to be missed.
And if I don't take any time off, then that
would not be the cause. And some of these guys
took vacation, like Alf took vacation, and I think that
Fergie was on vacation as well. They coincide with me.
I know. I'm warning the shames, Alf says, is that
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one other thing you need to take care of involving
a trip to the Commonwealth?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Per chance?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Alf, Nothing nothing to announce right now, but stay tuned.
Inquiring minds would like to know. We'll keep you posted
on that, but that's nothing new at this point to
go on the record with at all. Now, Back in
the old days, one of my favorite players in the NFL,
this guy filled the content machine when anytime it was slow,
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this guy would say something or do something bonkers and
it would be wonderful, be great for the show. And
he's back in the Sporting News yet again. And on
this a very important week, the week of Baseball's All
Star break and the week that has seen talk show
hosts fall into full on our monologues on the w
(25:11):
NBA as sports talk radio has not not reached this
lower level in many, many years, but this guy has
backed the save sports radio. We'll explain what that is
all about. And a misstep or was it a misstep?
We'll go there as well. But right now, let's get
you cut up on everything going on in the overnight,
and we say hello to the merman Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Hello with Ben Maller, Welcome back.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
I don't know time you're interested in and things that
happened while you were away, but I would say there
was one thing what happened that could be significant. Yeah,
we may have a new member of the club of
the Mallard Militia. Really, Mike the Leprechawn has called in
every day since you've been gone, Is that right? And
(25:58):
a lot of people are saying he's, you know, the
new addition for worst caller of the year could be
Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Uh. He he think he called me one time?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
I did.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I think I hung up on him as a phony
phone call.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
He did.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
You'd had him on once before you left, and I
think you got to talk a little bit. But we
weren't sure if he was a phony phone call. But
apparently he's not. And uh, I questioned whether he would
have the staying power. But we'll see now that your back,
will see if he I understand what I understand.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Remember that Joe and Rhode Island was a breakout star.
I would have given Joe Rookie of the Year if
he kept calling. He stopped. Even that the drunk Redbreast
Paul stopped calling.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
He did.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We couldn't even convince the drunk to keep calling because
he retired. That was it.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah, So we'll see. We'll see if Mike the Leber
contracts in at some point.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
This is the guy.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
You may have interviewed him on Fox Sports Radio. I
know he was on our network several times. Seemed like
a great guy, Pat Williams.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I did.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I interviewed him several times. I love him the dead.
Yeah he's now dead, so I guess I did love
him to death. But he was amazing Yetie, what a
great interview.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, he's everything. I'm not mister positive. He just loves everybody. Yeah,
great story teller, wrote one hundred, over one hundred books.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
This guy, right, he adopted like one hundred kids too.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, adopted, but like it was crazy. I mean yeah,
he adopted tons and tons of kids.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Just a life well lived past.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Absolutely as a baseball player, yeah, he was the co
founder of the Orlando Magic, was a GM for the Bulls,
Hawks and the seventy six ers with Hi won the
title back in nineteen eighty three. But again, he passed
away at the age of eighty four complications related to
viral pneumonia. I was thinking, we joke about this because
you say, you know, Muffett McGraw or Muffet.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
McGrath the Hall of Fame. That's right, muff I got Pat.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Williams got to be in the Hall of Fame, right.
I don't think he technically is. I saw he in
twenty twelve he got the John Bunn Award that's presented Yeah,
John Bunn two ends. It's presented annually to the by
the Nasmith Memorial Last Hall of Fame for significant lifetime contributions.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Fame.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
This probably went through a ceremony.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Yeah, I'm sure he did. I'm sure he did. So
as you, as you very well said a life well lived.
Pat Williams passing at the age of eighty four.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Good people and really one of the characters that you
don't get in modern sports because you get the nerds.
Pat Williams wasn't a nerd. He played baseball. He was
just like a regular dude, and he became an NBA
executive when mom and pop owners were in the NBA.
You would never get that type of person. I say never,
almost never in modern sports because they would be filtered
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out because they're not corporate, they're not part of some
big conglomerate. And he had loose lips and people in
sports don't like people like that. But anyway, well that
was not fun because of the death of Pat Williams.
But this is fun fun fact. Remember that Johntay Porter character.
Remember Johntay Porter's the guy was betting on himself to
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not accomplish things and then would take himself out of games. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
getting I'm said. So he is awaiting sentencing on the
one million dollar gambling scheme. He got in some trouble
and so then he tried to get out of trouble
by fixing some of the prop bets. But of course
people at the sportsbooks were shocked anyone would bet on
(29:25):
John day Porter. So that raised a red button that
started flashing on their dashboard and they said, wait a minute. Well,
John day Porter had asked the court. He had asked
the court to allow him to live and play basketball
in Greece while he awaits sentencing. The court said thank you,
(29:47):
but no, thank you. They denied his request to go
to get Now, the most amazing part is that the
basketball team in Greece is like, hey, let's bring this
guy in. We'd like that. The guy sucked in the NBA.
He's a G League player and he's corrupt. And they're like, ah,
we'll bring him over here. Why not. We'll get him,
(30:08):
get him some food, we'll put him on the beach
beachfront villa, and we're good to go. But the court
said no. So he's not going to be able to
participate in whatever team in Greece was trying to get
him all locked up, So that is not going to happen. Hey,
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the podcast. He said, Well, he said, he stopped auto
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not even listen to the podcast. But you better if
you did do that, you got to bring it back.
Bring back the pod. Come on, we need those downloads.
It's all about the pod. It is all right. We'll
take some calls here and let's say hello to uh
(32:22):
let's hello to Jake in South Dakota. He's a newbie
and it's not a newbie night. Hello Jake.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
What's up, Benny?
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Are you really a newbie?
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Jake?
Speaker 7 (32:35):
I am a newbie. I just I didn't realize it
wasn't a newbie night. Just walking the dog?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Okay, what kind of what kind of dog we talking
about here?
Speaker 7 (32:47):
Black lab?
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Black lab? How old?
Speaker 7 (32:51):
About four?
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About four years old? All right? Is this an indoor
or outdoor dog bolt both while you walking. It just
not get exercises, have like you have like a yard
or some of the dogs in or what Oh.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
No, he gets, he gets plenty. We just we're heading
out of town tomorrow for a family vacation. Then, yeah,
I couldn't sleep and I'm well Ben.
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The tiny dogs that you have that they get exercise
running around a yard. But you know, bigger dogs, they
need to go out on that street. That's a that's
a dated take hoop. I my my shitsu Bella died.
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Bella crow.
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Yeah, but the new ones they're not they're not big dogs.
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Well they're they're fat, but they're not big.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Moxie is a very large dog. Moxi's here tremendous. My
English bulldog is huge. And Luigi, who's a mix of
a French bulldog and a pug, is pretty big. Alsome,
they're pretty large.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
We want them to be fat and sassy.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
They are fat. They are job yea, who's watching the
dog while you're gone?
Speaker 7 (34:02):
We we got a kennel here in town that we do.
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Oh yeah, that'll cost you a lot of money. Yeah, yep.
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Shout out to Boss Hog for Jonas Jonas Knox.
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Yeah, okay, that's great.
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Yeah, yep, yep, Eddie and Eddie knows what I'm talking about.
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All right, we just want to say hello, that's it.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
Yeah, Benny, all right?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Where you're going on vacation? Where you where you're headed on?
Where does a guy in South Dakota go on vacation? Wow?
Speaker 7 (34:31):
Pretty wild, Benny. We're going down to Omaha.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Oh, down to the big city. You're going down to
the big city. You're gonna let your your footloose and
all that. My god, you're gonna have a great time
in the big city.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
And Omaha. They close Omaha about nine thirty, so you're
gonna have a late night there in Omo.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
My kids are a big wrestling fans, so we're going
down to SmackDown on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Oh well, that's cool. That'll be good bonding. Yeah, it'll
be good bonding with the kids. All right, we'll have fun.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeh.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Sure, pick up after your dog. Okay, don't leave dog.
All right, there you go, there's a Jake with his dog.
It is the Ben Mahlard Show and time out for
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Tony became the first Dodger to hit a dinger in
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We'll pay off, But who am I game? In a second,
I did want to mention that too. Terrell Owens Eagles
Legend forty nine or Cowboy back into this guy was
gold Buffalo Bills in Well, not so much there, but Bengals.
I thinks, yeah, he did play with the Bengals, but
he was known as a forty nine of course eagle
(36:32):
and a cowboy. And I actually spent Valentine's Day with
t O one time at a clipper and we were
together at Valentine's Day. That was when he was kicked
out of Philadelphia. That was around that time, and I
asked him to come on. I was doing a show
with Chris Myers and I said, hey, come on the show.
And to then told me to call his agent. I said,
why would I call your agent. I'm talking to you
(36:53):
and uh yeah, anyway, t O said, Tom Brady ignored him.
He offered to come back. He said, Tom, I'm Brady
was disrespectful. Disrespectful. He said, this is on an appearance Owens. Uh.
He talked about his timeline with Antonio Brown. When Antonio
Brown walked out, Remember he tossed his pads and did
(37:16):
somersaults in the end zone and all that, and Teo
said he reached out to Brady and Brady said no.
Moss so well of Chris Owens was past his expiration
date at that time, and that too is holding a
grudge anyway, Here's the who am I? Game show? Al
TONI first Dodger hit a dinger in an All Star
game since Mike Piazza. I was the last Oakland A's
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player to go deep in the Midsummer Classic. Who am I?
That is the question? And what is the answer? And
let's see does anyone know the answer? Kelly Kapowski guests
by I forty Ian Josh Reddick from Keith Ocho text
though who else do we have? PGA legend Dwarf from
(37:58):
Milkman Mike in Colorado it has to be Gambit guessed
by Cowboy Killer Ike and rosevill Minnesota, got a right
bad job by him. Wandi Rodriguez guest by mister nice
Guy with his random baseball player the Night Mister Luciano
in la Is going with Whitey Bulger Boston Legend, Alfredo
Griffin from The Late Night Drug Tester Raleigh Fingers guessed
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by Eloy from Compton, Willie Mays Hayes from Don Juan
who welcomes me back? Eddie? Do you have an answer?
It's not Jason Giambi, do you have an answered? Let's
go with it's a good answer, but that is incorrect.
The answer is none other than Terry Steinbach nineteen eighty eight.
The last eight to Homer at all start in nineteen
(38:41):
eighty eight. Wow.
Here we go. Welcome, it's our dumb one as we
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we're back at it here on this Thursday, the eighteenth
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a lot of football. Brandon Ayuk and the forty nine
ers have a disagreement on his value. This coming amid
all the trade conversation, all the buzz, and you please
untangle this one. We will for you. Also, why was
quarterback Jordan Love block from answering a question about packer
(00:41):
contract talks. We'll delve into that. And Caleb Williams, the
number one overall pick, looking to dodge taxes on his
bear's rookie contract. It didn't work out for him, But
how do you react to the attempt? And what it signifies?
Will go there as well? All of it coming your
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the hits moll Man play that I know. I'm going
to interrupt this wall to wall WNBA coverage to talk
about football. I'm old enough to remember when the NFL
was the king. We'd only talk about the NFL around here,
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but not anymore. The tinder box isn't burning, though it
is a burning in the NFL world. After months of unrest,
which have been documented right here behind these microphones late
at night, anger and little veiled shots, we have reached
a waterloom moment, and if you have not been paying
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attention the last couple of days, the story continues to
be the very top of the football universe. What is
going on with the sour puss pass catcher in Northern California?
We've learned now the forty nine ers and Brandon iok
continue to be in a stalemate, as it has gone
on here for some time, over the worth of the player.
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He wants a show me the money situation. He would
like the nice, big fat contract. Now, Adam Schefter tells us,
I guess that's a credible source. He tells us that
the San Francisco football team does not does not intend
to trade Brandon Ayuc even though he asked for a trade.
So they're saying no, no, no, no, no no. There's
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a disagreement in the value, which is often the case
in these things. Brandon Ayuc would like to be paid
the market rate, which is not the market rate. You know,
there's like the market rate, there's the store brand, and
then there's the whole foods price. Yeah, he wants the
whole foods price. So that is red and meat on
the bone is what it is. So let us discuss
(03:56):
the question Brandon IUC and the forty nine ers have
a disagreement on value or his value here this coming
amid the trade conversation which has been out there. Can
you untangle this one? Please? Can you please untangle this one?
So I've got sea turtles, fruit loops, and deck of cards,
(04:20):
and we will combine all of these things together. We'll
put them in the hopper and hopefully we'll get a
winning combination. So a now, this is a story that
has been out there. It's not like this is all
of a sudden new but we're getting close to the
start of the season. We're less than fifty days away
from the first real NFL game, and teams have begun
(04:43):
training camp, and so this has been bubbling up. But
now we are at a point where you're like, wait
a minute, now, these subtle messages are no longer subtle.
It it was a cloak and dagger mission, but now
things have been cranked up a couple decimal points. Here.
The vaul has been cranked up a few notches. Think
of this like marine life and you've got a couple
(05:07):
of sea turtles your loggerheads, because they're at logger hits.
The forty nine ers would like to pay Brandon Iyock
based on what he has done, which, to be fair,
is not all that much considering how he has talked
about in some circles. Now the player is looking to
get the publishers clearing house sweep steaks payday. They would
(05:27):
like to get all of that and all the goodies
and all that being paid at the pinnacle of their superpowers.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The reason this is an extra big quagmire for the
forty nine ers as they try to iron out the
details on this is because if you look at the
other side of the field, Deebo Samuel, some say dynamic
playmate always kills the rams. I know that. Others say
he's just a running back masquerading as a wide receiver.
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But Deebo Samuel, who's been marginalized somewhat in recent years
because of Christian McCaffrey. Deebo Samuel likely is in his
last year with the San Francisco football team. So this
is a gigantic fork in the road for the Niners
because if they get rid of Brandon Ayok, they trade him,
likely just for some draft picks, and then Deebo Samuel
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leaves after that, they're they're all gone, and they did
draft a wide receiver in the first round, trying to
fill the void, the impending void. All right, now, page two,
we pivot now to Wisconsin. Why why not? Because the
big chatter over the last couple of months has been
the Green Bay football team is going to sign Jordan
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Loff to a mega, mega, mega millions contract because we're
very concerned about how much money these people make. The
quarterback who played well for good stretches of time in
his first opportunity. It's a small sample size. Contract extension
expected to be done. It was expected to be done
before the start of the NFL well season. However, the
Packers did not did not allow Jordan Love to provide
(07:06):
a update. When asked by inquisitive members of the fourth
estate the media to ask for an update, he was asked,
and how negotiations are going, blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. He reported a training camp on
on Tuesday of this week, so he's asked about that.
Love received the question about whether he wishes to have
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his contract extension done prior to the start of camp,
and yet before Jordan Love could get going, and actually,
you know answer the question. A Packer PR representative stepped
in like a guardian angel, cutting off any answer and
any further questioning, how dare you ask a player who's
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been trying to get a new contract whether or not
he's going to get a new contract? So why was
Jordan Love blocked from answering a rather benign question about
packer contract talks? So I have a theory on this.
I Love turned into the Kellogg's fruit Loops mascot to
(08:11):
can Sam. He did right, he smiled, and I watched
this clip a couple times. He parroted the PR hacks
news to come line. So some PR stooge from the
Packers said news to come and then a few seconds later,
after a bit of a pause, then Jordan Love, when
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the question was completed, there he repeated the three word
phase that the PR tody had said. So what does
that tell us? That tells us that it is more
likely than not that Jordan Loves contract is in the
final stages. The tea's are being crossed, the eyes are
being dotted, it's being vetted by lawyers, the DOCU sign
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is being completed. Because otherwise, why would Jordan Love have
just repeated the pr hack statement. If he's not getting
a new contract, If that's not happening, why would you
just repeat the company line. There'd be no reason for
you to do that. You could say, no, I thought
I was getting a contract, I'm not getting a contract,
and then you crank up the pressure on the Green
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Bay Packers. But he didn't do that. So that is
to me, that's a dead way that in the next
few days of the next couple of weeks before the
start of the regular season, maybe just like the last
couple of days before the regular season, there'll be an
announcement that Jordan Love's gonna get a new contract. I'd
be stunned if he doesn't at this point, all right now,
last word here, staying in the NFC North and we
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go down to just across the Wisconsin state line there
to Illinois to Chicago. After some very public consternation about
claims of ownership and demands of all kinds of thingam
A Jiggs Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams took his pink nail
(10:02):
polish and lipstick and all that and agreed to a
rookie contract with the Bears. We are told the number
one overall number that his deal includes the standard fifth
year option. There was some chatter this week in recent
days that the contract would not include that, that there
would be a guarantee of no franchise tag that we
(10:24):
do not believe is part of it either. However, the
chatter around the NFL is that Hayler Williams did attempt
but failed to get paid as an LLC. Yes, he
wanted to be paid as an LLC, and he wanted
the money to go into that and therefore he would
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have been able to avoid having to pay a certain
amount of extra money called taxation. And he also wanted
his rookie deal to be paid. Part of it is
a forgivable loan. Now what does that mean. I'm told
that would have resulted in Williams getting the money tax
free until the loan was forgiven. That that would have
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been as many as a decade or ten years, decade,
ten years down the line in the future. So, Caleb Williams,
if this reporting is accurate, the Bears quarterback looking to
dodge taxes with his Chicago rookie deal. It didn't work.
How do you react to this? So? I would argue, Well,
everyone tries to pay as little in taxes as they can.
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This is a red flag. If I'm the Bears, this
is a red flag. Caleb Williams is already futzing around
with a deck of cards. He's playing manipulation rummy, and
he's trying to finagle with the Bears over the taxes
and indirectly messing with Uncle Sam. More on that later,
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But Caleb Williams hasn't done a damn thing as an
NFL player. He is being paid on speculation. I know
that's how the draft works. You're being paid on speculation.
But my experience here not a proven commodity, and we
believe in the field of dreams model. It's pretty simple.
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If you build a resume as a successful quarterback, a
proven core even if you're not proven, even if you're marginal,
you don't even have to play a leaf football. And it
helps if you play a leaf football, but you don't
have to. You can be a little above average like
Jared Goff, and the bags of money will come falling
in from the heavens. You're gonna get the money. You're
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gonna get paid, lots and lots and lots of money,
hand over fist. So like you know, the all fu'son
around with this. You get the standard contract. Now, I
don't think there should be a standard contract, but that's
how the NFL has done business for years because of
certain people getting too much money, and there were a
lot of complaints back in the day, and so they
(12:59):
made this the way it is. And there's a boiler
plate contract you get, it's all slotted. That's it. I
get it, and then you move on. But the whole
LLC thing, now, that's a lot of hutzba. As my
grandfather would say back in there, that's a lot of hutzba.
Right is the Ben Mahlor Show. We are back a
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You just batten down the hatches and make it happen.
Eloy from Compton says, hell, yeah, about time. No more
vacation for you. Bet you'll be unhappy to know, Eloy,
that I have a cured over the years, I think
about seven years vacation time from not usually taking vacation.
So I have a lot. I have endless amounts of
vacation if I want to take I don't usually take them.
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And there's only one other thing on the agenda that
I know I must get out of the way. I
think i'll know more in the coming days, and then
after that I'll be here all the way through even
holidays during the NFL season. Slim Tim says, if yeah,
we missed you, Oh well, thank you, Slim. It's good
to be miss Slim too.
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Where'd you go?
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I went to a place you were. I think you
were born in this place.
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That's what I thought.
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I saw you post a tweet something, post something whatever
about flying over the Pacific, So yes.
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It arrow.
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Yeah, you lived in the ocean, Eddie.
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I did. I lived in Atlantis.
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Yeah, Eddie is old enough where he was there when
Atlantis was a thing. Yeah, and he went away and
he moved to the mainland US. And yeah, so I
spent a few days in Hawaii, so I had had
a good time there. It was fun. Hard to have
a bad time there. I don't do well with the sun. Yeah,
well I didn't get sumburned. But I hate putting suntan
lotion on and I need to put a lot of
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it on because I'm like a vampire from doing overnights
all these years. So I don't do well with the sun. Yeah,
you're a little pasty, Ben a little bit, A little bit,
a little bit. And the other problem I have is
I have really bad hearing, which is rather odd to
be in race. To have bad hearing, I wear my
headphones turned all the way up to the maximum level.
I think we've had this conversation before, Eddie. But you
(17:07):
work in radio, you slowly. Now I had bad ears
to start, but you slowly turn the headphone level up
higher and higher and higher until it's as loud as
it possibly goes. And one thing that does not go
well is putting water in my ears. I had earplugs,
but sometimes I forgot to put them in, so I know, yeah,
it was, it was. It was a hot mess, and
(17:29):
all the bugs are much bigger in Hawaii. And we're
on the we're on there, and we're on early. By
the way, it's it's eight twenty four in the evening
in Hawaii right now. Did you listen to the show
while you were gone, No, not at all, But it's
eight twenty you know, it's eight twenty, eight twenty five
whatever in the morning or in the evening there in Hawaii.
And everything closes about eight or nine o'clock. There's no
(17:51):
restaurants open. The last restaurant closes like at nine o'clock.
Where I was. Now, I didn't visit Honolulu or a Wahoo.
I was over in Kawaii, so that's where I and
they had a power out it's while I was there,
and they had a brush fire while I was there.
So good times. But we're back out more on that
on my podcast with the Vegan making an appearance this weekend.
(18:13):
Danny g is away. He does not do the podcast
will Away, so I will have the Vegan. We'll be
making an appearance Alex then find out if he took
the will we will get into the toaster oven and
if anybody has any vegan related questions about people that
eat vegetables. And just like Alex, if he's hungry, he
just goes outside into the courtyard and grabs some twigs
(18:35):
or whatever and chews on that. And then there's some
some leaves and he'll he'll munch on those and chew
those up, and he's good to go. Scrooge rites and
says benice back. All is right in the world again.
I don't know if that's true at all, Scrooge Chip
and the cues, says APUs on the malled monologue. The
red flag should should be the painted nails on a
pro quarterback. Well, it didn't stop him from being drafted
(18:57):
number one. King Rory writes, and he says, it's great
to hear your voice again. I almost had to spend
time with my family, but thankfully they weren't around. As
a packer fan, it would be stupid for Love not
to sign a new contract with the Green and Gold.
Love will win a super Bowl for the Packers in
(19:18):
the next five years, now, King Rory, you know, as
a cheesehead, the way this works is you went from
Farv to Rogers to Love.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I don't know. I'm not convinced that Love is in
that same class of quarterback. But let's assume for the
conversation he is right. Let's assume that he is. That
means that Love will play very well for fifteen years
or so, and you will not win more than one
super Bowl, is what that means. So if he wins
one in the next five years, that means, like the
(19:51):
following ten, the Packers won't win. Diddley Pooh. Shane from
des Moin writes and he says Ai Malord would be
the Michael Jordan of AI host inside of these Bush
League people. He says, well, thank you, Shane. I guess
who knows that could happen. AI could happen late night
drug testers are welcoming us back, says Kayler. Williams should
(20:13):
just take his millions and invest in a tropical tax haven,
just like you and missus maller. No, no, no, we paid
full price. We paid full press. In fact, I had
the indignity of sitting in the row behind first class.
You know that row where they they closed they closed
the curtain, but you can still kind of see what
(20:34):
the rich people are eating in first class, and you're
not in first class. You're back with everyone else. And
then you can see like they put the little little
napkin on the tray, and then they have like the
gourmet service. It's crappy food, but they make it look
like it's good. Late night drug tester says, welcome back.
I thought I heard that one. Firdog says, stop the presses.
(20:55):
Bronnie James scored more than ten points in a Summer
League game, but he still has the worst plus minus
on the team. No free throws and Noah's sis, he sucks,
says Fergie. All right, yeah, once once in a while, right,
blind squirrel finds a nut. That whole thing with Bronnie James.
So if he plays bad, don't know how many bad games.
(21:17):
They have, three bad games and he plays one four
bad games, and he plays one halfway decent game, so
now he's good. Is that how that works? I don't know.
We'll talk more about that later. People defending rushing to
defend Bronnie James. Really, who would that be?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
That would be the no show Brian.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
No, really, he's a total for Bronnie.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
He's rooting for him, he said, he's rooting.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
How would you root for him? The gut?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Feel sorry for him, he said, feel sorry for.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
He's gonna go back to his home in Calabasas, mansion
in Calabasas, or his pasa in Akron or seven other hole.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
I mean, come on, please, I love Brian, but he said,
no second round pick has ever received so much scrutiny.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It's like, yeah, he deserves all of the art Puffin
Right then you see me fight, he says, first right,
opening monologue, A plus and a Mexican fruit cup for
you and the crew. You ever had a Mexican fruit cup?
Eddie yummy?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
No, I have not. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I don't think I have that. He just put, like
the spice was some kind of spice they put. Is
that the one with the green, white and the red
like jellowee layers? No, I don't think so. He sent
me a photo art Puffin and it looks like it's
got this a what is that that called? It's like
a spice you put on fruit. What is it called?
(22:39):
That sounds about right? We'll go with thats about right? Yeah, yeah,
By my my friends. Over the years of a Mexican heritage,
you've enjoyed that a lot. I've never I've never had it,
but some people swear by it.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Anyway. Half of me does not know the answer to
that question.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Sorry, bad job, but you're losing street cred Eddie, bad job,
but you brand IOK, says, or our Puppa says Brandonia
could be the missing piece for the Detroit Lions. He says,
a game changer. But we both know that the forty
nine ers cannot afford to lose a piece like that.
So he says that if they want to remain in
Super Bowl contention, I don't know, but they could trade
(23:16):
brandon IUC and they'd be all right, assuming Deebo Samuel
stays healthy, which he never seems to do. Jason the
Diamond Man writes, and he says, I think the guy
from The Simpsons is Caleb's agent. Oh crap, I shouldn't
say he is a LLLC. Oh crap I shouldn't say
he wants to commit tax fraud. Ah, it's too hot
(23:38):
to care. There you go, bring the fire. In the
hour one monologue, the Burner account says, imagine living in
a world where a guy takes an unexpected departure to
a deserted island, Benjamin's island, and didn't even invite his
own Burner account. I'm offended, Benjamin. Shame, shame, shame. There
(23:59):
you go. Well, I'm back now. It's good to be missed.
And if I don't take any time off, then that
would not be the cause. And some of these guys
took vacation, like Alf took vacation, and I think that
Fergie was on vacation as well. They coincide with me.
I know. I'm warning the shames, Alf says, is that
(24:19):
one other thing you need to take care of involving
a trip to the Commonwealth?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Per chance?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Alf, Nothing nothing to announce right now, but stay tuned.
Inquiring minds would like to know. We'll keep you posted
on that, but that's nothing new at this point to
go on the record with at all. Now, Back in
the old days, one of my favorite players in the NFL,
this guy filled the content machine when anytime it was slow,
(24:51):
this guy would say something or do something bonkers and
it would be wonderful, be great for the show. And
he's back in the Sporting News yet again. And on
this a very important week, the week of Baseball's All
Star break and the week that has seen talk show
hosts fall into full on our monologues on the w
(25:11):
NBA as sports talk radio has not not reached this
lower level in many, many years, but this guy has
backed the save sports radio. We'll explain what that is
all about. And a misstep or was it a misstep?
We'll go there as well. But right now, let's get
you cut up on everything going on in the overnight,
and we say hello to the merman Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Hello with Ben Maller, Welcome back.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
I don't know time you're interested in and things that
happened while you were away, but I would say there
was one thing what happened that could be significant. Yeah,
we may have a new member of the club of
the Mallard Militia. Really, Mike the Leprechawn has called in
every day since you've been gone, Is that right? And
(25:58):
a lot of people are saying he's, you know, the
new addition for worst caller of the year could be
Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Uh. He he think he called me one time?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
I did.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I think I hung up on him as a phony
phone call.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
He did.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
You'd had him on once before you left, and I
think you got to talk a little bit. But we
weren't sure if he was a phony phone call. But
apparently he's not. And uh, I questioned whether he would
have the staying power. But we'll see now that your back,
will see if he I understand what I understand.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Remember that Joe and Rhode Island was a breakout star.
I would have given Joe Rookie of the Year if
he kept calling. He stopped. Even that the drunk Redbreast
Paul stopped calling.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
He did.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We couldn't even convince the drunk to keep calling because
he retired. That was it.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah, So we'll see. We'll see if Mike the Leber
contracts in at some point.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
This is the guy.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
You may have interviewed him on Fox Sports Radio. I
know he was on our network several times. Seemed like
a great guy, Pat Williams.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I did.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I interviewed him several times. I love him the dead.
Yeah he's now dead, so I guess I did love
him to death. But he was amazing Yetie, what a
great interview.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, he's everything. I'm not mister positive. He just loves everybody. Yeah,
great story teller, wrote one hundred, over one hundred books.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
This guy, right, he adopted like one hundred kids too.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, adopted, but like it was crazy. I mean yeah,
he adopted tons and tons of kids.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Just a life well lived past.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Absolutely as a baseball player, yeah, he was the co
founder of the Orlando Magic, was a GM for the Bulls,
Hawks and the seventy six ers with Hi won the
title back in nineteen eighty three. But again, he passed
away at the age of eighty four complications related to
viral pneumonia. I was thinking, we joke about this because
you say, you know, Muffett McGraw or Muffet.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
McGrath the Hall of Fame. That's right, muff I got Pat.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Williams got to be in the Hall of Fame, right.
I don't think he technically is. I saw he in
twenty twelve he got the John Bunn Award that's presented Yeah,
John Bunn two ends. It's presented annually to the by
the Nasmith Memorial Last Hall of Fame for significant lifetime contributions.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Fame.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
This probably went through a ceremony.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Yeah, I'm sure he did. I'm sure he did. So
as you, as you very well said a life well lived.
Pat Williams passing at the age of eighty four.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Good people and really one of the characters that you
don't get in modern sports because you get the nerds.
Pat Williams wasn't a nerd. He played baseball. He was
just like a regular dude, and he became an NBA
executive when mom and pop owners were in the NBA.
You would never get that type of person. I say never,
almost never in modern sports because they would be filtered
(28:40):
out because they're not corporate, they're not part of some
big conglomerate. And he had loose lips and people in
sports don't like people like that. But anyway, well that
was not fun because of the death of Pat Williams.
But this is fun fun fact. Remember that Johntay Porter character.
Remember Johntay Porter's the guy was betting on himself to
(29:03):
not accomplish things and then would take himself out of games. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
getting I'm said. So he is awaiting sentencing on the
one million dollar gambling scheme. He got in some trouble
and so then he tried to get out of trouble
by fixing some of the prop bets. But of course
people at the sportsbooks were shocked anyone would bet on
(29:25):
John day Porter. So that raised a red button that
started flashing on their dashboard and they said, wait a minute. Well,
John day Porter had asked the court. He had asked
the court to allow him to live and play basketball
in Greece while he awaits sentencing. The court said thank you,
(29:47):
but no, thank you. They denied his request to go
to get Now, the most amazing part is that the
basketball team in Greece is like, hey, let's bring this
guy in. We'd like that. The guy sucked in the NBA.
He's a G League player and he's corrupt. And they're like, ah,
we'll bring him over here. Why not. We'll get him,
(30:08):
get him some food, we'll put him on the beach
beachfront villa, and we're good to go. But the court
said no. So he's not going to be able to
participate in whatever team in Greece was trying to get
him all locked up, So that is not going to happen. Hey,
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Check that out. And Terry in England is back, he says,
good to hear you back, Benjamin. It's a high time
your vacation time was removed. Fortunately, the off button, he says,
was used a lot there was able to auto download
(31:59):
the podcast. He said, Well, he said, he stopped auto
downloading the pipe. Well that is next level Terry to
not even listen to the podcast. But you better if
you did do that, you got to bring it back.
Bring back the pod. Come on, we need those downloads.
It's all about the pod. It is all right. We'll
take some calls here and let's say hello to uh
(32:22):
let's hello to Jake in South Dakota. He's a newbie
and it's not a newbie night. Hello Jake.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
What's up, Benny?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Are you really a newbie?
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Jake?
Speaker 7 (32:35):
I am a newbie. I just I didn't realize it
wasn't a newbie night. Just walking the dog?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Okay, what kind of what kind of dog we talking
about here?
Speaker 7 (32:47):
Black lab?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Black lab? How old?
Speaker 7 (32:51):
About four?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
About four years old? All right? Is this an indoor
or outdoor dog bolt both while you walking. It just
not get exercises, have like you have like a yard
or some of the dogs in or what Oh.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
No, he gets, he gets plenty. We just we're heading
out of town tomorrow for a family vacation. Then, yeah,
I couldn't sleep and I'm well Ben.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
The tiny dogs that you have that they get exercise
running around a yard. But you know, bigger dogs, they
need to go out on that street. That's a that's
a dated take hoop. I my my shitsu Bella died.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Bella crow.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, but the new ones they're not they're not big dogs.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Well they're they're fat, but they're not big.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Moxie is a very large dog. Moxi's here tremendous. My
English bulldog is huge. And Luigi, who's a mix of
a French bulldog and a pug, is pretty big. Alsome,
they're pretty large.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
We want them to be fat and sassy.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
They are fat. They are job yea, who's watching the
dog while you're gone?
Speaker 7 (34:02):
We we got a kennel here in town that we do.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Oh yeah, that'll cost you a lot of money. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Shout out to Boss Hog for Jonas Jonas Knox.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, okay, that's great.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
Yeah, yep, yep, Eddie and Eddie knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
All right, we just want to say hello, that's it.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
Yeah, Benny, all right?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Where you're going on vacation? Where you where you're headed on?
Where does a guy in South Dakota go on vacation? Wow?
Speaker 7 (34:31):
Pretty wild, Benny. We're going down to Omaha.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Oh, down to the big city. You're going down to
the big city. You're gonna let your your footloose and
all that. My god, you're gonna have a great time
in the big city.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
And Omaha. They close Omaha about nine thirty, so you're
gonna have a late night there in Omo.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
My kids are a big wrestling fans, so we're going
down to SmackDown on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Oh well, that's cool. That'll be good bonding. Yeah, it'll
be good bonding with the kids. All right, we'll have fun.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeh.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Sure, pick up after your dog. Okay, don't leave dog.
All right, there you go, there's a Jake with his dog.
It is the Ben Mahlard Show and time out for
the who Am I Game? And here we go show. Hey, oh,
Tony became the first Dodger to hit a dinger in
(35:22):
an All Star Game since Mike Piasa back in the nineties.
I was the last Oakland A's player to go deep
in the Midsummer Classic. Who Am I the answer?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Next?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
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Speaker 6 (35:44):
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(36:07):
from the Tyrack dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
We'll pay off, But who am I game? In a second,
I did want to mention that too. Terrell Owens Eagles
Legend forty nine or Cowboy back into this guy was
gold Buffalo Bills in Well, not so much there, but Bengals.
I thinks, yeah, he did play with the Bengals, but
he was known as a forty nine of course eagle
(36:32):
and a cowboy. And I actually spent Valentine's Day with
t O one time at a clipper and we were
together at Valentine's Day. That was when he was kicked
out of Philadelphia. That was around that time, and I
asked him to come on. I was doing a show
with Chris Myers and I said, hey, come on the show.
And to then told me to call his agent. I said,
why would I call your agent. I'm talking to you
(36:53):
and uh yeah, anyway, t O said, Tom Brady ignored him.
He offered to come back. He said, Tom, I'm Brady
was disrespectful. Disrespectful. He said, this is on an appearance Owens. Uh.
He talked about his timeline with Antonio Brown. When Antonio
Brown walked out, Remember he tossed his pads and did
(37:16):
somersaults in the end zone and all that, and Teo
said he reached out to Brady and Brady said no.
Moss so well of Chris Owens was past his expiration
date at that time, and that too is holding a
grudge anyway, Here's the who am I? Game show? Al
TONI first Dodger hit a dinger in an All Star
game since Mike Piazza. I was the last Oakland A's
(37:37):
player to go deep in the Midsummer Classic. Who am I?
That is the question? And what is the answer? And
let's see does anyone know the answer? Kelly Kapowski guests
by I forty Ian Josh Reddick from Keith Ocho text
though who else do we have? PGA legend Dwarf from
(37:58):
Milkman Mike in Colorado it has to be Gambit guessed
by Cowboy Killer Ike and rosevill Minnesota, got a right
bad job by him. Wandi Rodriguez guest by mister nice
Guy with his random baseball player the Night Mister Luciano
in la Is going with Whitey Bulger Boston Legend, Alfredo
Griffin from The Late Night Drug Tester Raleigh Fingers guessed
(38:20):
by Eloy from Compton, Willie Mays Hayes from Don Juan
who welcomes me back? Eddie? Do you have an answer?
It's not Jason Giambi, do you have an answered? Let's
go with it's a good answer, but that is incorrect.
The answer is none other than Terry Steinbach nineteen eighty eight.
The last eight to Homer at all start in nineteen
(38:41):
eighty eight. Wow.
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