Best of The Ben Maller Show

Big Ben talks about reports that a trade of WR Brandon Aiyuk is imminent, Kirk Cousins saying he would have given more consideration to staying in Minnesota if he knew about the Falcons' QB plans, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Billy Bob Thornton Edition, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:34):
We finally get a signature trade in NFL Training Camp
twenty twenty four. Lot of chatter in the overnight hours.
Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben
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ten thousand the magic number. But our lead this hour
coming from the Bay Area training camp about to get
cranked up to a higher volume level as exhibition football
the full weekend. Who doesn't like that? Well, everyone hates it,
but it's going on anyway this coming weekend. And a

(02:03):
lot of noise, and I'm aren't headphones, and I don't
have those sound canceling headphones. I'm here to all the noise.
There's a lot of noise regarding a past catching dynamo
on the move. But is he on the moon? If
you didn't follow this story, maybe not, you might have
I missed it. Don't worry, we got your back. We

(02:24):
got your back here. So we've learned now that the
forty nine ers wide out Brandon Iuc continues to be
the most talked about man in the NFL. If you
like trades, his name keeps coming up. The reason he
is at loggerheads with the forty nine ers. They're at
impass Brandon Auk in the Niners front office, and so

(02:45):
all key indicators reporting that he is likely going to
be traded and will not get a new contract to
stay in Cali, at least northern California. So that moves
us to the the latest chatter around the story here,
a little Bertie it was chirping away here that the

(03:09):
forty nine ers have already worked out the framework on
what kind of draft picks they're going to get in
a hypothetical trade. So they've already done the legwork on this,
the trade, Brandon Ike. They've got deals that are all done.
The boiler plate has been made with the New England
Patriots and the Cleveland Browns. However, of course there's always however,

(03:32):
the issue here is that Brandon Iock has to agree
to a contract extension. Otherwise the teams are not going
to be trading anything for him. So he's got to
agree to a trade.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
The Steelers have also been mentioned. They're also in the mix.
In fact, many believe that he would like to play
in Pittsburgh. The Washington commanders are out, we're told, but
they can always get back in. They get back in.
They're out right now, but they get back in, all right. Now,
let us discuss the question on this Brandon Ayuk trade story,

(04:03):
a lot of noise that the forty nine er wide
receiver Brandon Ayuk trade is imminent. How much stalk do
you put into this? So I've got Beatles, Goose, and
freeze tag and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to spike the ball like

(04:26):
beach volleyball. That's what We're gonna spike it right in
your face, all right. So a things have obviously been
cranked up since we last spoke about the player. So
that's clear. How much stock would I put into this? Well,
the way the stock market's going in, I guess you
could put a lot of it. It doesn't matter. The stock
market's not know very well but on Wall Street, but

(04:47):
drinking the kool aid, I am drinking the kool aid
on this. We're getting into the first full weekend of practice,
not a real game, practice games that are going on,
and we're roughly a month away, give or take the
first week of September, about a month away from the
flagers up and we're off to the races with real

(05:08):
regular season football. So if you look at the timeline,
and timeline's a big part of this, if you look
at the timeline here, it would be the perfect window
to trade the player. Because if you're the New England
Patriots and you're adding brand and I know you could
trade for him a day before the first game of
the season and he could probably do okay. But it's
much easier, as much smoother like silk to trade for

(05:31):
the player now, and then you have a little time
to ramp things up and some runway to take off
and makes it a little easier. That's just obviously wants
to be in the transfer portal. It's been clear for
some time if you're not going to pay me. You
don't have to be Adam Schefter or Jay Glazer to
know that these leagues are clearly coming from the side
of the player. And you always look at these stories

(05:55):
with a cynical eye and it's like the Beatles, but
now the Beatles the rock band, it's more like the
dung Beatle because where there are was manure. You see manure,
there's going to be flies and dung Beatles. That's what
you're going to see. So there's manure. There's something to
this year and Brian bandych he wants his money, show

(06:17):
me the money. The forty nine Ers aren't going to
meet his price tag. At least they're the only ones
in the NFL has even if every other player that's
that's complained about a contract has gotten paid other than him,
is there anyone else? I'm trying to think off the
top of my If you know, somebody let me know,
because I'm going down and we do this every day.
I come in here. I'm a loser and I pay
attention to Like Tyreek Kill, I thought, Wow, the Dolphins

(06:39):
an't gonna pay him. You know, he's going into his thirties.
All he does is run, and they paid him. Why
would you pay two a tongue about Look, they paid
him Trevor Lawrence. I didn't even know that was an option.
Jacksonville paid Trevor Lawrence. And you look at all the
the money that's flying around the NFL, and the only
one that's not getting it is Brandon Ike. Now is
that because if him or is that because of some

(07:02):
mitigating factors? I don't know, But you look around and
things are so bleak that he don't care who he
plays for. He would be okay going to the Insers.
In fact, we're hearing that it's his preferred choice. And
have Russell Wilson or Justin Fields throwing the ball. And
it's not like it's not like if Patriots have a quarterback,
they don't. The Browns have the creepy quarterback. That's not
that exciting. And it's a lot of blank spots all right. Now,

(07:27):
continuing on with this scene, we go to the black
and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, and we
move away from them and we say hello to the
silver and black, which is not the black, and it's
the silver and black. So the silver and black again
making some news. I got to kick out of this.
I hope you heard about it, but maybe not. It'll
bring a smile to your face. We need stories that
bring smiles to your face. So which way are you leaning?

(07:51):
Which way are you leaning?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
On?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
The head coach Antonio Pierce having his assistant coaches for
the readers take part in the conditioning drills during training, Kip, Now,
I loved it. I would like to see the video.
I did not see the video. I would like to
see the video. I have not seen that yet. I

(08:14):
don't think it is out for public consumption. But you
talk about bringing levity to a situation, light hardnness to
a locker room Bravo. I love it, right, and what's
good for the goose is good for the gander, and
these players have to do it. And I love the
fact that even Fox Sports Radio alumni member Rob Ryan,

(08:34):
who if you've been with Fox Sports Radio is a consumer.
You might remember Rob Ryan did some shows on the
weekends here at Fox Sports Radio and dressed like he
still dresses like a schlub, which I love about him.
And Rob Ryan, who always looks like he's about eight
and a half months pregnant, was running with his shirt

(08:55):
off at Raider camp we are told there, which I
am told while it wasn't California because the Raiders, even
though they play in Nevada, our training camp too hot there,
so they're in California. In southern California, rob Ryan running
with his shirt off eight and a half months pregnant
would be illegal in the entire Bible Belt and several
of the states and several of those states as well.

(09:17):
And then you've got coaches like Marvin Lewis, who's in
his mid sixties out there running sprints. Just wonderful, just great.
Loved it, good for camaraderie and all that. The Raiders
are gonna win an extra game because Rob Ryan ran
with his shirt off. No, probably not, but he doesn't
take away from the fact. It's all about team building.
That's why the Raiders left Vegas. All these teams when

(09:37):
they go away from their home city, it's about bonding
and you're gonna be great and all this said Tony Robbins,
crap is what it is, all right. Now, last word here.
We now go to the minutia of the rule book.
Because there's nothing better than cuddling up to a radio
show and hearing the gas bag tell you about rules.

(09:58):
So here we are. I bring up the words of
Sean McVeigh. You can ram it all day, you can
ram it all night. So Sean McVay is having some issues,
shall we say it was McVay having issues with is
there some new rule involving offensive holding or something? No, no, no, no,

(10:19):
it's a special teams play. Sean McVay having issues trying
to wrap his head around the fugazy new kickoff rule,
which we got to peek at in that Bears Texans
game that was ended early because of the weather there
in Columbus, Ohio Hall of Fame game. McVeigh said, quote.
It just feels weird, he grumbled. It doesn't look like

(10:42):
anything I've been familiar with in football. The Rams coach
went on to say, I know the intent is right,
McVeigh Opine will try to figure it out. I know
everybody that's been involved in that has their intentions in
the right place. But it's very foreign looking, a very

(11:02):
foreign looking play close quote. All right, So can you
decode what Sean McVay really meant with his mini rant
about the kickoff rule changes in the NFL here in
twenty twenty four. So I have a Rosetta stone. I
call it the matherstone. I can translate the language of
coach speak and give it to you the way it

(11:25):
needs to be delivered. So Sean McVay, what he was
doing here publicly was giving a sponge bath, sponge bath
to the NFL big football like. The intent was were
needed to be good job with the intent right, they
were doing that whole thing. So little sponge bath there.
So there's a massage to the NFL egos and all

(11:46):
those good folks that go out to the Hamptons on
the weekend and have a great time. He was tactful
and subtle to the Untrained Year very subtle with his
criticism there. But the kickoff off is an eyesore. It
is well, it's only been what, Yeah, it has been
one game. We'll give it a little more time. But

(12:07):
I don't see how it's going to change. I don't
see how this particular play is going to become a
better play. I don't because it's got a fundamental flaw.
It's like playing freeze tag. What is that in the
middle of an NFL game, right, Having players unable to
move their bodies while the football is flying through the

(12:30):
air and they're on the field, and they're wearing pads
and there they've got their helmets on and all that.
It's theater of the absurd, is what it is. In fact,
that the NFL signed off on this and said, well,
this is a good idea. They did in the XFL.
This is great. Who's running it, who's in charge of Oh,
this is a good idea. And I keep going back
to my default position on this. It's lawyers that this

(12:53):
is a way to limit future liability, downstream liability from
players having concussion on the kickoff. And so they're like,
even though seventy plus percent of kickoffs went through the
end zone anyway, so we'll see how things go. However,
as far as McVeigh is concerned, until proven otherwise, I
would advise calling for like an ambulance if you can,

(13:15):
for a play to help out because it's a foreign
object that is intruding the NFL it.

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Some hot cousins talk welmeme in the beginning of another
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(15:05):
from football. Why are we going to football? Why not?
Because we go where the news of the day, Texas
below the Mason Dixon Line. This hour authentic optimism in
the state of Georgia. The long suffering Falcons have Champagne
wishes and those Caviard dreams. This upcoming season. They think

(15:27):
they're actually gonna be good. It's all because of the
big roster shakeup that took place over the last couple
of months, a combo dish of a draft picks and
free agent additions and a few trades as well. And
you put it all together. You crunch the numbers and
they're feeling pretty good. Feeling pretty good. So the biggest

(15:49):
pickup is said to be annoyed, though with the dirty
birds not happy. An angry bird would be the way
we described this. So we didn't see it. Maybe not.
We're hearing that Kirk Cousins, that's my quarterback. Kirk Cousins
would have given more consideration, according to the breathless reporting
to staying in the Twin Cities with Eke and Roseville,

(16:11):
Minnesota and all the boys there, Robin, Minnesota, all the
guys there, had he known that Atlanta would draft a
first round quarterback as they did Michael Pennix, junior from Washington.
He's a Husky and he was added back in the
April draft, much to the chagrin of Kirk Cousins, who

(16:34):
was blindsided by that particular move. So again, that's the story.
Let's get into it. Let us discuss the question Kirk
Cousins preferring to stay with the Vikings had he known
the Falcons were planning on drafting a first round quarterback.
How do you dissect this latest wrinkle in the drama

(16:56):
al rama of the NFL. So I've got pung Ye,
icy hot and windmill, and we will combine all of
these things together and we will give you a standing ovation,
which is what Freddie Freeman got when he returned to
the Dodger lineup. So num burn, Yeah, we are the

(17:19):
word is it's a d word, dubious. We are dubious
of this report because the way I look at these
stories are like revisionist history, which is the greatest kind
of history, because you're never wrong. You have no way
to prove or disprove. There's no way to do it.

(17:39):
Like Kirk Cousins being unhappy and wishing he was in Minnesota,
you could say that, but the Vikings also drafted a quarterback,
so I find it hard to believe that he'd rather
be in a similar situation in Minnesota without the mega
million's contract that he got from Atlanta. There's a lot

(18:01):
of hypothetical it's a lot of moving parts. But here's
what I do know. From years of gas baggery, from
many many hours of being a blowhard on the radio,
I know that Kirk Cousins, like so many others, but
he's done it better than everyone else. Kirk Cousins is
a mercenary. He's a pig skin mercenary. And there's no ifs,

(18:23):
hands or butts about that. I will die on that hill.
That is Kirk Cousins. It's cut and dried. We all
know it. And he's always been the guy that will
go to the highest bidder. And so the joke has
always been with guys like this. Well, if they put
an expansion team in Pyongyang, suddenly he would be saying,

(18:45):
you know, North Korea, not that bad, you know, not
that bad. They got a dome, it's pretty good. People
are in shape. They don't eat a lot of food
because they don't have a lot of food. Because they
don't get a lot of food. He'd go to Afghanistan wherever.
You'd be like, all right, it's not that bad, you know.
I got the money. And Cousins, he got the bag,
he got the bonanza in Georgia. He's thirty six years old.

(19:07):
Think about this, the guy got paid thirty six years old,
coming off a crippling injury. He got one hundred million guaranteed.
The Achilles tendon looked like shredded chicken by the time
he got done with that, And that's a pretty pretty
good consolation prize, methinks. All right now, page two. Former Steelers.

(19:30):
Former Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett popped up on our radar.
Why because he has sucked at a time you cannot suck,
and that would be in camp with the Philadelphia Eagles,
one of the quarterbacks changing teams this offseason. Are you surprised?
Are you surprised that former Steeler quarterback Kenny Pickett has

(19:53):
been a big bag of suck in training camp? Those
that are out there, so I'm shaking my had no
on this. I'm shaking my head no. Because Kenny Pickett,
if you go back to his tiny hands at the draft,
Kenny Pickett was a guy who was overdrafted by the Steelers.
They got a little carried away, got a little too

(20:14):
excited in the moment they black and yellow, black and yellow.
They needed to get somebody to be the quarterback of
the future to replace Ben Roethlisberger. So they pulled the
back muscle drafting Kenny Pickett. Get out the icy hot
and rub it all over. And you know, local not

(20:35):
local guys, but he went to college at pit so
he's from the area there, played in the same stadium.
Very spotty quarterback at Pitt. There were some big games
for Kenny Pickett. There was a lot of mediocre games,
as I remember, and he really put it all together
if you want to say that as a one hit wonder,
not elite. You know, the scouting report, which not always right.

(20:59):
Sometimes they completely f up the scouting report. But the
scouting report, one of them said that he was a
poor man's Derek Carr. And that's about right. Derek Carr
is not that good and Kenny Pickett's not that good.
So perfect and he's worse than Derek Carr. So sure,
why not a lot of inconsistencies, shall we say? Now

(21:20):
it is early as training camp, and he'll get an
opportunity in these exhibition games and all that. However, unless
the Eagles can make a special cheese steak with the provolan,
the grilled onions, the bell pepper and throwing some pixie
dust on top, this is a guy that is destined
to end up playing for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers or
bounce around the back rails of the boondocks of the NFL.

(21:43):
The Hobo Express that that's the type of career that
Kenny Pickett's likely to have as well. He can come
out through five touchdown passes and the Eagles first exhibition game.
Well maybe he will. Doesn't change the story all right? Now,
final point, speaking of the birds. We got falcons, we
got Eagles. Where are we going now? Well, kind of

(22:07):
a story involving the Eagles that he's playing. So the
NFL propaganda arm released a sizzle reel video featuring Eagles
quarterback Jalen Hurts and it was from the Los Angeles
Memorial Colisseum we used to call it the Mausoleum back
in the day. And he's throwing a flaming football, that's

(22:27):
what it says, flaming football to light the colosseum torch,
the iconic Colisseum torch. And the announcement is made tet up.
The twenty twenty eight Los Angeles Olympics will feature men's
and women's flag football for the first time ever. So

(22:48):
here's my question for the class, and feel free to
answer this if you'd like. Can Olympic flag football catch
on and become a viral sensation of the pigskin loving
nation because of NFL marketing, right, the machine, the NFL

(23:09):
marketing machine. So I'm gonna go first. And as they
said in a very popular TV show back in the day.
That's gonna be a no for me. Dog. That would
be a no from a liability standpoint. I know for
a fact because I've heard it from people that work
in that business. The NFL would love to wake up
one morning and have the same number of television viewers,

(23:30):
the same fan engagement without tackling and playing flag football.
They would absolutely love it. That would be orgasmic for
the people that work there, because it's downstream liability. Talk
about that a lot, and they're worried about the liability
from players getting hurt and getting mangled playing tackle football,

(23:52):
and so from that standpoint, the lawyers are like, you
gotta do is everything you can. That's why we don't
have the kickoffs anymore in football because the NFL is
trying to avoid concussion lawsuits and they know that there'll
be another one, and another one and another one. But
no matter. The marketing Maven's at the end of it,
and the NFL's got a lot of money. They spend

(24:12):
a ton of money on commercials on radio shows like
this and TV shows and God bless them and all that,
But no matter that, the sensory overload that we're all
going to get. It's faux football. It's what it is.
That's what it's faux football.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Right.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
It's like if you're a golf fan and you love
the majors, Like I'm a casual golf I'm not a
hardcore golfan, but we watch the majors. I'll check them out.
Like I say, Well, you're a casual golf fan, you
like the majors. So what I'm gonna do for you?
You're gonna love this. I am going to set you
up because you're a golf fan. I know you like
the Masters, that's your favorite tournament. So we're gonna have
a putt putt golf. Addition, we're gonna say same professional

(24:51):
golfers putt putt golf, and you what were you do?
You'd puke in your mouth, and rightfully so you'd puke
in your mouth, and that's what you're happened. Watch out
for that windmill on the fourth hole. Very difficult, that windmill,
very tough. Olympic flag football will be a novelty act.

(25:11):
That'd be a novelty ach. Yeah, it's a trial run
and all that, and it'll go about as well as
three on three basketball, although you could argue that three
on three basketball is much closer to realistic basketball than
the flag football, comparing it to tackle football. It would
take minimum forty years for that to catch on, because

(25:35):
that would be two generations of generations about twenty years,
give or take twenty to twenty five, so maybe even
fifty years until something like that were to catch on.

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Speaker 1 (25:48):
There we go, There we go to the third going.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
This is one gets quipped.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Come up.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
Bucks linebacker Levante David said in a recent podcast appearance
that he hopes an eighteen game regular season doesn't happen,
or at least that he's retired by the time it does. Now, Ben,
we all know that it is going to happen. My
question is how many games do you think it eventually
max is out at.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
So the sweet spot in the next couple generations is
twenty games. They'll get rid of the exhibition games. There'll
be no exhibition games. That gets rid of two weeks
of exhibition football. They'll they're going to go to two
by weeks. When they get to eighteen games, they're gonna
have to add either three or four bye weeks when
they get to twenty games. With Fred Dreyer, he was
in here, he told me to my face. I think
he even said it on the air when he was

(26:34):
playing in the NFL in the nineteen seventies early eighties,
the NFL wanted to get to twenty games back then.
All right?

Speaker 5 (26:40):
Next with the White Sox now tying an American League
record with twenty one straight losses, summer wondering why the
team hasn't put Pedro Griffall out of his misery?

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Ben? Is he going to last the season? Oh? Yeah,
it's a sinking ship. Why not? Why would you fire
him at this one? What are you trying? What are
you exactly trying to? If they wanted to actually avoid this,
they should have done it months ago. They've sucked the
entire season. They're twenty games win every other team in
the American League. Next.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
Over the weekend, USA rugby player Alona mar joked that
Tom Brady asked to take a selfie with her. Now,
been in your career, who've you been most surprised to learn?
As a fan of yours?

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Well, I'm shocked by everywhere Recently, Kevin Harlan, the play
by play guy for CBS. I ran in him at
the Super Bowl and I thought he was full of crap,
But he actually listens to the show. That was a shocker.
My friend Chuck Swirsky, the Bulls announcer, told me that
bj Armstrong and some of the guys on the Bulls
back and they were fans of some of the stuff.
So that shocked me. How we don't couple out? You

(27:36):
pass the edition day you got part on the bar?

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Speaker 1 (27:54):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. Let's well, we don't need the open. We'll
just welcome in and we'll say a little Miami Danny
who used to be known as Nashville Danny, but now
he had a change. He crossed over, Hello Miami Danny.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Then what's up?

Speaker 7 (28:10):
Coop told me he was putting me on hold for
I believe what the mountain of money?

Speaker 1 (28:16):
You don't even know what you called up to play?

Speaker 2 (28:19):
That's where I won, right, that's the game.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
It sounds like you don't know what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
No, I no coop match up.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
I told Coop to put me on holds of the game.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Okay, so you're saying Coop screwed.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Up, screwed up?

Speaker 2 (28:32):
That is correct.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
We're about to play the game.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Okay, beautiful, that's what I'm waiting on.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
All right, I don't know said this is? This is
the game, Danny, you're playing the game. Yeah, stay off
the weed, all right, come out?

Speaker 6 (28:48):
Now what do you.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Danny? Who do you want to partner with with? You
got me at Eddie or Cooper Loop.

Speaker 7 (28:56):
I'll go with the undefeated.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Oh good, you very nice. That's a good partnership. Coop
already hates you, and so now you've picked him. That's wonderful.
Yeah okay, I'm not sure what he's undefeated in, but okay, yes,
let's see. We'll say hello to Angry Bill, who would
like to play as that? Oh let me be punched

(29:19):
a second. Well, he usually sandbags of the games, is
what he does. Hello, Angry Bill.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Hello, how are we doing? Everybody? If you remember last
time me and Eddie were winning, good and you over
talking of you, you.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Didn't win. He sabotaged the game, and I do now
that you mentioned you and Eddie want to part it
up again? Yes, okay, why not? Thank god? Hellelu Youah,
good luck with that boy. No, who's going to win?
This is a toss up. You've got Miami Danny, who
doesn't know what the hell he's doing.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
Well, actually, what what he was referring to was back
in the day when he was Nashville Danny. He and
I were undefeated, Mallard's Mountain of Money. But he had
a change, he had an operation. He's now in Miami Danny,
so he's a different person now anyway.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
All right, but who cares? What are the categories here, Coop,
Let's get that set a little and we'll get to
the game.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
This is Malard's Mountain of Money, the Billy Bob Thornton edition.
He turned sixty nine years old this past weekend birthday.
The categories are going overboard, sling blade bandits in eighteen
eighty three, Danny, which category do you want?

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Bandits?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Bandits?

Speaker 3 (30:33):
All right?

Speaker 1 (30:33):
All right, angry Bill, pick your poison.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Let's go because of miadies, let's go with eighteen eighty three.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
You were a little boy at eighteen eighty three, right,
remember that? Yeah it was great, Yes, all.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Right, I was changing my diapers then.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, it was fascinating. All right. Well, I think we're
getting normal as normal Angry Bill, I don't know how
that I can handle that. Everyone, hold on, don't hang up.
We're going to have in its entirety for your dancing
and dining pleasure, Malors mount of Money. We get to that,
and we will do it next.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malors
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not?

Speaker 8 (31:23):
And the way we go and Mallard's Mountain Money back again,
we have our matchup set. My Miami Danny is with
the Coop dal Loop and we've got Angry Bill also
in Florida, but up in the Jacksonville area and he
is teamed up with Eddie and I believe Miami Danny, you.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Were on the Air Force Rich category. Did you guys
pick again? Coop bandits bandits all right? These athletes all
stole something. We need the first and last name. Are
you ready, Miami Danny.

Speaker 7 (31:58):
Let's do it second is the on o'clock. You're on
your way and go all right? A former quarterback from
Florida State. He stole crab legs. Yes, the guy that
murdered his wife and her lover. Yes, this guy is
a host on Fox Sports Radio. He stole the teammates

(32:19):
credit card. Oh my from Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
No idea, I'm not that old.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
Okay, wow, this guy was drafted second after Peyton Manning.
He was a huge bust by the Chargers. Yes, this
guy's nickname was Nails. He played for the Phillies.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
No, no, wow, Okay, look on this next one.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
Well, I'm gonna got to one hundred question. This guy
was Rookie of the Year back in twenty fourteen. He
had three names. He was out of Syracuse. I think, yeah,
that's impossible.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, those are all ancient.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
I don't even I don't even know who Michael Carter
Williams is. And I like basketball. I don't remember him.
And you didn't get Doug Gottlieb that day, the coach
at Wisconsin Green Bay. How dare you wow? Fad basketball knowledge?
The coach of the year in college basketball. My teammate
Doug Gottlieb. How do you all right? Anyways? All right? Well,
how many points was that? This is thirty and then seventy?

(33:13):
You got seventy points. That is a score to beat
and Angry Bill? Which keddery gory? Did you pick angry Bill?
Eighteen eighty three?

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Right?

Speaker 1 (33:21):
These athletes all wore number eighteen or eighty three? Are
you ready? Angry Bill?

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Oh? Go ahead, all right, you're.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
With Eddie and forty five seconds on the clock. You're
on your way.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
Go.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
Colt quarterback for the coltson Broncos, brother of Eli Many.
Former NBA coach the zen Master, won titles with the Bulls,
the Lakers. Former New York nick player. Oh all right,
all right, former Mets outfielder. His last name was a

(33:53):
red fruit. He had drug issues. Sub yeah, it's his
first name.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yes, right?

Speaker 9 (34:02):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
Hall of Fame wide receiver for the Chargers, back with
Dan Fouts, number eighteen out of Grambling.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Not a clue, all right?

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (34:12):
Former Steelers tight end. Every time he made the catch,
the fans would all say his first name.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Very disappointing, Eddie, bad clues. I agree, he didn't do
very well at all. You should have angry but you
should have picked me. Those were terrible clues by Eddie. No,
they were only fifty answers. Miss Phil Jackson, Phil Jackson,
Angry Bill, Really, it is a bad job by you.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
Should you don't know Phil Jackson clue, Yeah, you should have.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Really, he doesn't know who Phil Jackson is. He barely
got Shuck. You almost didn't get Darryl Strawberry, Charlie, Charlie
jo Heith Miller. He didn't watch Charlie Joiner back in
the day. Angryville, You're you're a dinosaur. You don't watch him.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Let's not let's not talk about negative Suddley's positive Bill
all of a sudden, Yeah, you gotta pick it up here, Bill.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
All right, well you're back up again, Angry Bill. How
excit that you get to do this again? We have
going overboard and sling blade? Which category would you like,
Angry Bill?

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Going overboard? Because I'm floating on water in Florida.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Right now, Yes you are, Okay, that's big storm passing
through these sports figures all have have had a famous meltdown.
Forty five seconds on the clock. You're on your way go.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
Greatest rant in baseball history, manager of the Cubs.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
You better get this right. Oh my god, Oh, come on,
replay all the time to playground for the blank Blakes.
Eighty five percent of the world's working. They have a
fifty Come on here.

Speaker 6 (35:40):
What's Oh my former hothead tennis player had a few
to Jimmy Connors. You cannot be serious. Wah, Yeah, he said,
what's the last name? No, that's not his last name.
Former Yankee player. He later was a manager. His nickname

(36:01):
was sweet. He got ejected all the time.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
No, no, oh, Eddie, I mean he got shut out, Eddie.
That's a fact. Really horrible at this game. I mean,
my god, I thought he was just doing that with me.
I didn't realize he was doing it with you. I
had no idea. You didn't realize he just was really
bad at the game. You didn't know Ali the greatest
rant of all time?

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, I know, but I didn't remember him.

Speaker 9 (36:28):
Obviously, Remember Lorena if you're gonna play the name lou
Panella was another one that miss lee.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Ilia rant Loreno, greatest rant of all time. We need
to mix that in the rotation with all time great rant.
I'll find it. And there's a John McClaren rant too.
He managed the Mariness for like a couple. John McEnroe
is the other one is what do you say? He said, mcenroy.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Jesus said mcenroy.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Mcenroy is Macenroe. It's row up houses. Okay, well you're yeah,
what a disgrace getting the name right? Play the games again?
Oh wow, he really upset Eddie.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
I like that now you you know what?

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Friends again? All right? Ye yes, Danny, Miami Danny, I
run up. I don't know if you can run. You know,
he have seventy points.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
How can you run up the score?

Speaker 1 (37:21):
You only got seventy But hey, I'm not I want
to distance myself right now. It's only a twenty point win.
Do you understand, Miami Danny stopped watching sports about three
years ago.

Speaker 9 (37:29):
Anyway, all right, I know this next category, there's no way,
yeah a if he gets the first one after that, nothing,
let me check your yeah, there's no yeah, yeah he
will maybe the second one, maybe the second one.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
He'll get the first two. Okay, Miami Danny, are you ready?
Miami Danny? All right, these athletes are all from the
state of Arkansas. Forty five seconds and I'll clock here
on your way go.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
He is the owner of the Cowboys right now, Harry. Yes,
he was the ide kicked to Michael Jordan. Yes, this
guy was a point guard for the Lakers. He hit
a shot in point four seconds.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Robert, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
No, his his last name is kind of like an
ocean creature. Uh all right.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
This guy was a running back for the Kansas City
Chiefs and then and the Ravens. Also, his first name
is somebody that works in like the church, oh something,
the wrong part of the church. No, no, just lower
than a bishop, priest Holmes.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
You might have to see a priest after this game's waight.
So you guys did two categories, You got one hundred
total points, and you won the game. Yeah, but you
doubled You doubled Angry Bill by getting a hundred points,
Like Angryll. You might want to call Dom, your buddy
the security guard they're Angry Bill and have a talk

(39:03):
with Dom because this is not good here. I mean,
what are you? What are you doing over there?

Speaker 3 (39:07):
You guys just want to hurt my feelings, your haters.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
That performance.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
One thing I wanted to ask you guys about you.
I show your photo with the meet and greet. Yeah,
did anybody ever give you enough money to buy a
pair of pants, any of you?

Speaker 1 (39:19):
No, Well I was, I was wearing pants.

Speaker 6 (39:22):
There's one hundred and five degrees and you want to
be wearing to wear.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
But I did have pants on. I mean, I have
jeans on. But you want to buy some pants for us?
We can send you our sizes.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
I prefer American Eagle jeans, maybe Hollister seventy five of pairs.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Okay, there you go. I'll just send me the money
instead of the pants. I'll take the money. Yeah,