August 20, 2024 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about Tua Tagovailoa taking shots at his former head coach while praising his current one, Jayden Daniels being named the starter for the Commanders, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Edward Norton Edition, and more!
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our lead this hour from South Beach, done this job
a long time. Very rarely do we get Honesty doesn't
happen very often. That's why we're here because we can
navigate the bullshoy that is out there. Is sports like politics,
they don't give you a straight answer. Well, the Dolphins,
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they are a mid level contenders, not fair to say
they're not a top contender, but they're a mid level
contender in the AFC. But they're feeding the content machine
and it has nothing to do with what they're doing
on the field. Here, it's all about the verbal battle
royale taking place off the field. So if you didn't
see this, and maybe you missed it, the Dolphins have
a quarterback named to a tongue of Iloa and he
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like likes his co Most quarterbacks like their coach. Publicly
was praising Mike McDaniel. But the way that he praised
Mike McDaniel was to body slam give the atomic elbow
to Brian Flores, his former coach. So two was on
some podcast and he talked about what it was like
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playing for Brian Flores and the juxtaposition between Flores and
his current coach, Mike McDaniel, and he said was like
waking up every morning and being told you suck at
what you do and don't belong doing what you do.
He said that was what it was like with Brian Flores.
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But then McDaniel now a ray of sunshine and says
he's a great fait, he's accurate and sings the praises
of his quarterbacks. So let us discuss. Obviously, the money
quote is what he said undressing Brian Flores, who is
the Vikings defensive coordinator and he still working in the NFL.
Walls suing the NFL. So how do you classify the
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dolphin quarterback to a tongue of iloa? Trashing his former
head coach, Brian Flores. So I've got squeeze, bottle, Bodega,
and WSC fields and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make many bottles
of disinfecting wipes which continue to fill up the studio.
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Everywhere I look to the right, to the left, there's
disinfecting wipes. I don't know why right now. Hey, whatever
Brian Flores did in those meetings, whatever he said to
to a tongue of Iloa, is never going to die
in the head of to a tongue of felow. Is
that fair to say? I believe it is all right? Wowsers.
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This is once in a blue moon or full moon.
That what a traumatic event. Whatever this was for Tua,
for him to go public, it doesn't make him look
all that good. He doesn't make Tua look like the
good guy in this. And he violated the standard decorum
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of the NFL. Now, the standard decorum of the NFL
is normally you never give a straight answer, even when
you hate someone, you use diplomacy we all know it. Right,
It's like politics, it's same bull crap. Right, It's just sports.
It's the same nonsense. You mix together a word salad,
you toss in some extra veggies, maybe you put some
thousand island dressing. You stay away from the ranch, because
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that's the devil's blood. Not to no, no, no, not
to tua. He went to the top rope and said,
watch out below, scorched Earth, and he hit the Daily Dabble,
Daily Dabble, hit the daily double because not only does
he get kudos for praising his current coach, Mike McDaniel,
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but he delivers that sucker punch to the solar plexus
of his former coach. It has been several years since
Brian floor has departed Miami, and still it stings like
a hornet's a hornet just attacked him, a nest of
hornets attacked to a tongue of ILAA. Now it's fair
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to say that Brian Floores was not a player's coach.
I'm really going out on a limb and put my
neck out there. Not a player's coach that they did
not see eye to eye quarterback coach vice versa as
Grantlin Rice the old sports writer from years ago said
styles make fights. He was talking about boxing, but it
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also applies to coach and it is pretty obvious here.
And this is why it doesn't present Tua in the
greatest light. That too, is announcing to the world he's
a soft That's what he's doing, too, is announced to
you and to me that he would prefer the busy
bee honey. He wants that squeeze bottle, the one you know,
the one that looks like the bear. Yeah, he wants that,
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and he wants to squeeze the honey and no vinigar, no, no,
no vinegar. And you know the old wisdale that you
can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. But Tua
wants to be massaged. He wants a nice shoulder rub,
the manny and the petty, rather than be told he's garbage.
Now most people are like that. It's usually how it is.
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But there was a point that when you were in athletics,
you had a lot of coaches that were like that.
So what do these words do as we turn the
page to page, what do these words do to Brian Flores?
So he can dis miss them and say what does matter?
This is just a guy who's soft and you know
to his driving the mister softee truck. This is this
is a guy that was exposed in cold weather by
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the elements there in Kansas City that he can't handle
a little adversity. And Brian Flores was trying to toughen
him up. He could say that, but it really depends
on which side of the aisle you're on in the multiverse.
Because Flores can argue that he's from the old country
when it comes to coaching. He's a straight shooter and sugarcoat,
all those all those phrases, right, all those phrases who
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would apply And I generally appreciate that, not always, not always,
but for the most part. If I had to pick,
I'd say eight out of ten times I would pick
the straight shooter. I would And generally speaking, they need
to go down, you know, the modern ballplayer, right, modern
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and the two is in this group, right, the extra creamy.
They need to go down to the bodega and they
want to play for coaches that at the bodega they
serve up a blooney sandwiches and disingenuous, insincere phony baloney.
That's what they would like Brian Flores is the Viking
defensive coordinator as mentioned here, and you can guaran F
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and T that the legal beagles at the NFL who
are litigating the lawsuit, the NFL a big wigs there,
the lawyers will weaponize these comments. By two they will
be coming to a courtroom near you. If this trial
continues on. The legal case continues on, it's gonna happen,
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and the Dolphins fired him, and the NFL is gonna say, well, listen,
it's not racist. He's just a schmuck. And the players
didn't like him, and he couldn't get along with the quarterback,
and we didn't want to embarrass him publicly, so this
stuff didn't get out. But now to us set it
and so he said it, so now we can use
and he's just unwilling Brian Flores. This is the NFL's argument.
Whether it's true or not. It might be total bull crap,
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but the NFL's argument will be hey, unwilling and unable
to adjust to the modern athlete, and coaching is all
about adjusting to the different styles and personalities to your
locker room, and Brian Flores didn't do that. And my
evidence example a to a tongue bello. All right, now
the last word. Here we head to Los Angeles where
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Jim Harbaugh his team has looked just puke for the
most part in these exhibition games, and the Chargers newlyted
head coach Jim Harbaugh was so excited that his quarterback
was back. How excited he was. He was kidding around,
having a great time, and Jim Harbaugh said he thought
he heard the quote voices of Angels when Justin Herbert
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returned to the bolt to practice your thoughts. All right,
so my thoughts on this Harball is at the very top.
He's at the very very top because I would say,
Mike Tomlin, we want our fans fat and sassy, like
Tomlin's the greatest sound bite. There's a few good sound
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bites in the NFL, But Jim Harbaugh, who's been out
of the NFL, moving on up the big board, Moving
on up the big board. Right there, Mike McDaniel, pretty
good quote in Miami, says, goofy things. I would have
Tomlin out in front by a pretty fair margin at
this particular point for goofball commentary. But Jim Harball is
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textaque used to be dial a quote, but Now it's
text because we don't really call anyone. It's just we
dial people are we text people, we don't dial them up,
So it's text to quote and Hartbass sounds a lot
like one of my favorite people from old Hollywood, w C. Fields.
I was lucky enough last year I had a TV
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show and we taped it on the Universal lot, not
the amusement park, the lot, and when I would drive there,
I drove down w. C. Field Road, which was awesome
because he has, to me the single greatest quote that
sums up what I do for a living, at what
so many gas bags and blowhards do for a living.
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And Jim Harbaugh's living the life. The quote from w C.
Fields is, if you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them.
I'm cleaning up for the radio with Bullpucky. And that's so.
And that's essentially what Jim Harbe is doing, right, That's
what he's doing the way the Chargers offenses looked. Herbert's
the great savior, right, he's a friend quarterback. Yet here's
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the odd thing about this. Everyone I've chatted with who's
got any kind of inside intel on the Chargers, Jim
Harball wants to make the Chargers a ground and pound team.
He wants to have the focus on the running game
and power football, and he thinks that's how the Chargers
are going to be able to win cold weather games
at Arrowhead Stadium or in Baltimore in the playoffs. And
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he wants to bring that Midwestern Big Ten style of
football to the Chargers. Now can that play in a
dome stadium in the hood in Inglewood. I don't know.
We'll find out, but yeah, good luck on that.
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the Beltway, well technically outside of it, but the DMV
the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia area. That is where
and so it still counts. That is where the news
comes from. The team formerly known as the Redskins before
they jan reflected to the Wolkesters, they have made their move.
They have made their move in the most shocking announcement
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of them all, unless it's not. I assume you've heard
this or heard about it, but perhaps not. The team
now known as the Commanders, their head coach Dan Quinn,
the guy that had the biggest choke job coaching performance
in Super Bowl history for the Atlanta fouc against Tom
Brady the Patriots, blowing that massively in a game played
in Houston. But dan Quinn has named Jaden Daniels as
(15:10):
CHEWBI one. He's the starting quarterback now for the team
that represents all those hacked politicians in the DC area.
Daniels was technically in a in air quotes, a competition.
He was in a competition with Marcus Mariota to be
the starting quarterback in Washington. But Daniels has been named
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the starter and he will be there for Week one,
the number two overall pick.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
He was expected to start anyway, barring some kind of
catastrophic performance in the exhibition season, which did not happen.
And I did notice that the Washington football team pumping
the tires on Daniels. That's what you do. You build
up the legend, the mythology and they're doing that. So
let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumm down
(16:01):
on the commanders going with rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels as
the QB one from Jump Street. So I am going
thumbs up. I've got Wolfman, George Lucas and Peanut Gallery
and we will combine all of these things together and
make a rapid radio. Which, by the way, I got
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my rapid radio. I got my rapid radio right here. Yeah,
just prove I have it. I do, I have it
number I got my first rapid radio. Listen, we are
going thumbs up. As I said on the question, thumbs
up thumbs down for Jade and Daniels being the quarterback.
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I have long taken this position. I have not swayed
from this position. There will be bumps in the road,
you know, the old Rocky Road, ice cream and all that,
but that's fine. Jaden Daniels was drafted. You're the top
of the draft, not at number one overall, but near
the top. And he's supposed to be a tent pole
draft pick. He's supposed to be the guy who's a
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plug and play performer. Don't draft these guys in the
top five, top ten of the draft to sit them
on the bench and collect dust. He's got the portfolio
he does. He was at Arizona State, but at LSU
and Baton Rouge what he was able to do. So
the raw ingredients are there. Do I have confidence that
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the coaching staff in Washington, with Dan Quinn leading the way,
will figure things out?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I don't. But if the player is good enough, it
doesn't matter the coaching the player, the cream will rise
to the very top there and Jayden Daniels will be
okay and at least show enough. He'll show you something
that will give you reason to be optimistic going forward.
And so it's the old Wolfman strategy. Not Wolfman Jack,
(17:53):
the great boss jock DJ from back in the day
in radio. Not that. Although I did work at a
station in Sandy Well, wolf made a border blaster station
where he had worked being a radio nerd. That was
a big deal. You probably don't eve know who that
is Wolfman Jack, but he's a big boss jock back
in the day when that mattered. But as Bill Parcells said,
so many quotes we attribute to Bill Parcells. He talked
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about playing young players in general, not as his quarterbacks,
but his quote was, Hey, a coach would not throw
you to the wolves if he did not think, did
not believe that you had some wolf in you. Now
you say times are different. Now, maybe that's true. But
the real test for Daniels and the commanders will be
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when teams actually tried a game plan to stop him
in week one? Will he have beginner's luck? Developing hot
dot dot dot Stay tuned Now page two, we pivot
to Colorado and a Mallor Show follow up. Malor Show
follow up. The much anticipated announcement from the Denver Broncos
(18:56):
expected to come down on Monday morning, except what happened? Nup,
nop didn't happen the day after? Can you explain? Can
you explain why Sean Peyton refused to name Bo Nix
the Broncos starting quarterback? Can you explain? So, Peyton, here's
(19:18):
my theory on this. Peyton big fan of George Lucas
and the Star Wars franchise, and Sean Payton is using
a Jedi mind trick is what he's doing. Right now,
The streets have been talking. I was trying to figure
this out because it seemed like a no brainer. Why
would you wait? Clearly, Bo Nix has done enough. I
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know it's practice games and blah blah blah. Can make
all the qualifications and all the excuses you want, but
it's not like they have anybody else who's any good.
So you can't say, well, Jared stood him. It's butter
No he's not, he's not better. And Zach Wilson's dog pooh,
So you've got dog poo, and jared'st did him, and
then you've got Bix. Why would you not go with Bonix?
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It's obvious to go with Bonnicks. But the popular opinion
by popular people from what I've heard, is that Peyton
merely wants to wait until the very last minute to
make the announcement official. He doesn't want to just hand
the job to Bonnicks. No, no, no, that would be wrong,
and he has to earn it. Well, I think he's
already earned it, but we'll see. It appears that he's
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got the job. They just don't want to announce it,
so we'll see if they announce it in a couple
of days. Are they wait until the weekend, which is
when teams announced who's going to be the starting quarterback?
They haven't already done that otherwise, if this does not happen,
there will be not just a small pocket of resistance
against the Denver football team, no, no, no, no, no,
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the Bronco fan base. There will be a full insurrection.
Is what's going to happen now. Final point, we go
to Chicago. A fair amount of people now in the
Windy City that have found our show one way or another.
Thank you for that. The Bears quarterback Caleb Williams revealing
Caleb willis reeling that he seeks out criticism, he said
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in a recent interview, and what he does is he
takes screenshots of mean things people say. So if you've
trash talk Caleb Williams on the socials, he likely has
in his phone a photo of you savaging his good name,
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so I'm likely in there. We did several monologues goofing
on Caleb Williams as the crying quarterback and pointing out
some of his shortcomings at USC when he ran and
cried in his mommy's arms because he lost a football
game at the Colisseum. We had some fun with that,
but he said, quote, I take screenshots of people. People
don't know it, Caleb Williams said, the Bears quarterback. I
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have notes and things that I screenshot. He went on
to say, I save the links all of that. I
use it, he said. Quote continues. There's always something Caleb
Williams opined Lebron, he said, talking about Lebron, James always
says and has said before. Caleb Williams stated he only
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needs one thing. Question for the esteemed panel. Question for
the stampanel panel. Where are you at on the Bears
rookie quarterback Caleb Williams following Lebron's lead here and using
criticism as a motivator. So I'm gonna spell something out,
see if you can figure this out. I'm gonna start
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with a Y. Can I get an A? How about
a W? And then can I get an N? Yes?
That is a yawn worthy story. And always remember, and
Caleb Williams, this is the personification of this. Caleb Williams
needs to remember that you are absolutely unique, Caleb Williams,
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just like everyone else that's come before you and everyone
that's coming after you. Everyone's unique. Spoiler alert. The Peanut Gallery.
The peanut gallery is the crucial ingredient in the industrial
complex of sport. It has been it continues to be
more so than ever. Now nobody believed in US. We
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proved the doubters wrong. All of those lines, even when
you're manifesting fictional doubt. My favorite the Patriots. In the
middle of the dynasty, people didn't think we could get
it done. Okay, San Antonio Spurs kept winning championships years ago.
Oh nobody thought we were get here. Okay, okay, sure
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that's the ticket. So Caleb Williams, I'm pretty sure he
was a five star recruit coming to college. He played
at Oklahoma and sc That's like playing at Oregon State
and Washington State or somewhere out in the in the boondocks.
So you've got that. Then he was always number one
pick by the Chicago Bears. There's been a lot of
adversity for Caleb Williams, a lot of it. Actually, The
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main adversity that he's had to deal with so far
one time he went down to the makeup shop to
get he wanted this like light pink nail polish and
they were out of it. Now, that is real world adversity.
That is adverse. But other than a few people o
a few people who have made it in the most
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of the people that make it in the NFL have
not really overcome any adversity, not real adversity. Right, that's good.
I'm happy that Caleb Williams and I actually think he's
going to do pretty well for the Bears. But that
doesn't really get a screenshot taken and all that he's
drinking the hater rate like that hater rate.
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Here we go, Degree, here we go.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
A report over the weekend said that a Lebron James
trade to the Warriors never materialized because Rich Paul was
quote adamantly opposed to a trade. Paul's primary concern is
that it would hurt Lebron's legacy if he joined a
fourth different team.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Ben, is he right? No, Lebron's legacy is that of
someone that bounced around the NBA. Right he went. He
did go back to Cleveland, so give him a pass
on that. He gets a mulligan on that. But Lebron's
not worried about that. He's not. I thought he was
gonna leave the Lakers. I don't know why he's still
(25:27):
with the Lakers. They're not gonna win anything. I guess
he's just. I guess he's happy being in LA. But
I don't think it's because of his legacy. If he
was worried about his legacy, he would have stayed in
Cleveland and not gone to Miami and not know left
Cleveland again to go to LA. He would have just
stayed where he was. He would have stayed put.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Next, Team USA is reportedly choosing between two different options
to succeed Steve Kurrs coach Eric Spolstra or tylu Ben.
Who's the right choice.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, I doesn't matter. They're gonna have every great player
in the NBA, right. I could coach Team USA and
they're gonna win a gold or a silver medal, So
it doesn't matter to me who's the coach. But the
Clippers will be busy winning championships, so I don't think
Tyler will be available. So I guess coach Spoel will
have to coach Team USA's Olympic dream dream team in
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the LA Olympics next. We all know how much you
love list radio. I don't do that.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Over the weekend, Peyton Manning gave his top five quarterbacks
in the NFL right now, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Justin
Herbert Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen Ben.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
How do you feel about the list. It's not a
good list. And here's why, the late great TJ. Simers
taught me this. The whole point of doing a list
is to upset people. If you put the predictable names
on there, you didn't upset people. So therefore, by default
it's a crap list because you got to throw a
wild card in there to really get people's blood boiling.
(26:49):
So bad job by him. How do we know you failed?
As a How does they win? Robbie? I won the game?
See that, Robbie, I won the game.
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I think we have our contestants ready to go here.
I think yes, let's welcome them in right now. Let's
see who do we have here. We've got any meenie
miney mo. All right, We've got Andy is in a Houston.
We say good morning to Andy, Hello Andy, Hey, mister Mallard.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Night to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Good to chat with you. Andy, Welcome to the show.
And what do you got going on there in Houston?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Well, first of all, his name is Jerry Grody.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
He's not some guy you see. You're called up to
correct me.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
This is the correct But but I'll play Mountain of
Money too if I can't. But he was a he
was a good ball players, a very he was the
Brad Austas of his day light hitting catcher, very good defensively,
was the starting catcher for the sixty nine miracle Mets.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
There you go, all right, no, Jerry jo we know
all right, Well you want to play the game, Andy, Yes,
absolutely all right. Who do you want to partner up with? Andy?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Who were my choices?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You can do Colin Cowherd. Who else do we have here?
Klay Travis? You can do me, Ben. What's that you're
gonna pick? Klay Travis? All right, very good, Thank you
go away. Let's say Jacob and he has no idea
what he's listening to. Somebody else called Jacob in Delaware.
Hello Jacob, welcome. I mean, how dumb could you be? Seriously?
(28:32):
Hello Jacob? You think Klay Travis is awake at this time?
Come on exactly exactly, Jacob. All right, well, welcome to
the show, Jacob. What are you got going? Are you
driving around? Yes?
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Oh yeah, I just got my truckloaded on that all right?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Where you're headed? There's a lot of noise. Is this
is going to be a disaster, Eddie? This is going
to be a disaster. He's got the big track.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
I got it?
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You sure about that? Okay? Are you? Are you? Are
you driving local?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
There?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Are you going out? Are you going far away?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I'm okay?
Speaker 5 (29:08):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah? Who do you want to partner up with? You
on the show? Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I like to play with you?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
All right? What's my name? That's right? He knows who
I am. I'm not Kite Travis. Alright, hold on a second.
I love thank you, weed Man. I love you too.
Stay out of jail, weed Man. And we have a
Rob in Maine. Hello, Rob?
Speaker 6 (29:33):
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
We Rob? You can play the game? You're gonna play
the game? Rob? And who do you want to partner
up with? Rob? You got I'm out? So you got
Eddie or Cooper Loop.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
I'll go Eddie because Coop and I always lose nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
What taking a shot at the Cooper loop. Right there, man,
but dead to me? Boy boy, you can hack those
overnight hours. All right, well, very good, that's the matchup, Coop.
What are the categories here? Let's get the first part
of the setup and then we'll pause for the cause
(30:07):
and we'll have the game.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I write the games people, Uh, the Mallards amount of money?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I know that I would yell at Coop. I would.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I would whisper that this is the Edward Norton edition. Yes,
he turned fifty five years old yesterday. I know it's
getting old. The categories are categories are fight Club, Moonrise, Kingdom,
Birdman and Motherless Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
And who was on the Jacob? Jacob, which category would
you like? Birman, Birdman, Birdman? All right, all right? Overrated movie? Uh?
And Rob, what category would you like?
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Fight Club?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Fight Club? All right? Very good? Hold on, no one,
leave your position, man your battle stations, gentlemen, we will
have Mallard's Mount of Money, the Edward Norton Edition. Get
to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
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 1 (31:20):
Anyway we go, it's Malor's amount of money. The Edward
Norton edition The teams Myself, Ben with Jacob. Jacob drives
a chuck. He is in Delaware and he will be
partnering out with me, and Rob is in Maine, and
he has decided he wants to lose this week with Eddie,
so we're gonna make his dreams come true. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
All right, your mic was on it, Jacob, Jacob and
Ben right, Yes, that's the dynamic.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Due, just put the W next to our name the www.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Jacob and Ben are up first. Your category is birdman.
Remember you need the first and last night of the athlete.
In order to get points. You will have forty five seconds.
These athletes all jump so high they seem to fly
forty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Begin, all right, Jacob star with the Anaheim Angels. He's
always hurt though. Yes, he was a big star for
Robbie the Mariner fans team in the nineteen nineties. Yes,
the star of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Right now, he's got
a nickname that's a Network. Yes, a Padre star. He
(32:32):
had ringworm. He did steroids for the Padres. Yes, doctor
duncan Stein for Louisville in the nineteen eighties, played for
the Utah Jazz. A guard all right, a defensive end
for the Dolphins in the twenty tenh His last name
is like a funeral, a funeral reception. No. Nineteen eight
(32:55):
We went for the big ones and we didn't get them.
You didn't get Doctor Dunkenstein is old Griffith. That's kind
of an obscure one. I know who that is because
I'm old. That's why it's worth one hundred points. And
Cameron Wake you ever heard of him? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Yeah, yeah, all right, that was one hundred points. So
Rob and Eddie are up. Don't choke Rob. Your category
is fight club. These athletes have been in notable sports
fights easy forty five seconds begin two.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Time nl m VP, currently with the Phillies, was with
the Nationals. Was a high school phenom out of Las Vegas.
Former NBA player metaw world Piece was pro former Dominican
pitcher Hall of Famer for the Red Sox. He said
the Yankees. Former Celtics clue Guy now with the Grizzlies.
His last name the opposite of DNA mark Hall of
(33:53):
Fame center with the Heat out of Georgetown. He'd retired
because of blood clots. Was hanging around. No, he on
the morning Yes. Yes, former White Sox slugger. He was
a manager, best known for taking punches from Nolan Ryan
when he charged them ound.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
No, a lot.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Younger than that. No, former Latino infilled with the Rangers.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
He got you punch. Sorry, Oh my god. Yes to
Robin Ventura.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
Robin Ventura was the guy who did not get otherwise fantastic.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
So that was one hundred and sixty points. And so
Jacob and Bann are behind. And Jacob, would you like
Moonrise Kingdom or motherless Brooklyn? All right, these athletes weren't
raised by their biological mother.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Forty five seconds begin the protesting forty nine er quarterback
who hates cops? Come on, U the bambino for the
Yankees favorite. Yes, mister Buckets for the Miami Heat No
(35:05):
for the Miami Heat Guard quarterback for the Vikings. His
last name is not Salt. It was Yes, the blind
side offensive lineman for the Yes wide receiver of the Broncos.
He died at age thirty three. Super Bowl fifty Yes,
a guard for the Clippers and the Warriors at U
(35:26):
c L. A favorite fat ass, and then in the
two thousands was a star guard quarterback for the four.
You didn't get the he said, he didn't hear what
you said.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
But Colin Kaepernick was the first one, and Baron Davis
was that though, and Jimmy Butler was the one that
you missed three hundred points. So you guys have some
catching up to do, Rob you have moon rise Kingdom.
These athletes were All boy scouts. Forty five seconds begin.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Former Phillies outfielder the fly in Hawaiian, Yes, old school nick.
He later became like a senator from New Jersey. Former
NFL quarterback, a coach of the Colts, A Diddley.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Pooh, you get.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
A game, that's a wait for me, he said, won
the game.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I win again. I know, wait for me. I won
the game.
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That's our friend, Robbie. I was just outside trying to
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So there was about ten seconds, maybe longer than that.
It seemed like it was ten minutes where I was
this close to having Eddie Garcia breakdown the Winnipeg Jets
third line to begin the show, but we didn't need that. Instead,
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our lead this hour from South Beach, done this job
a long time. Very rarely do we get Honesty doesn't
happen very often. That's why we're here because we can
navigate the bullshoy that is out there. Is sports like politics,
they don't give you a straight answer. Well, the Dolphins,
(02:33):
they are a mid level contenders, not fair to say
they're not a top contender, but they're a mid level
contender in the AFC. But they're feeding the content machine
and it has nothing to do with what they're doing
on the field. Here, it's all about the verbal battle
royale taking place off the field. So if you didn't
see this, and maybe you missed it, the Dolphins have
a quarterback named to a tongue of Iloa and he
(02:59):
like likes his co Most quarterbacks like their coach. Publicly
was praising Mike McDaniel. But the way that he praised
Mike McDaniel was to body slam give the atomic elbow
to Brian Flores, his former coach. So two was on
some podcast and he talked about what it was like
(03:19):
playing for Brian Flores and the juxtaposition between Flores and
his current coach, Mike McDaniel, and he said was like
waking up every morning and being told you suck at
what you do and don't belong doing what you do.
He said that was what it was like with Brian Flores.
(03:39):
But then McDaniel now a ray of sunshine and says
he's a great fait, he's accurate and sings the praises
of his quarterbacks. So let us discuss. Obviously, the money
quote is what he said undressing Brian Flores, who is
the Vikings defensive coordinator and he still working in the NFL.
Walls suing the NFL. So how do you classify the
(04:04):
dolphin quarterback to a tongue of iloa? Trashing his former
head coach, Brian Flores. So I've got squeeze, bottle, Bodega,
and WSC fields and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make many bottles
of disinfecting wipes which continue to fill up the studio.
(04:29):
Everywhere I look to the right, to the left, there's
disinfecting wipes. I don't know why right now. Hey, whatever
Brian Flores did in those meetings, whatever he said to
to a tongue of Iloa, is never going to die
in the head of to a tongue of felow. Is
that fair to say? I believe it is all right? Wowsers.
(04:51):
This is once in a blue moon or full moon.
That what a traumatic event. Whatever this was for Tua,
for him to go public, it doesn't make him look
all that good. He doesn't make Tua look like the
good guy in this. And he violated the standard decorum
(05:13):
of the NFL. Now, the standard decorum of the NFL
is normally you never give a straight answer, even when
you hate someone, you use diplomacy we all know it. Right,
It's like politics, it's same bull crap. Right, It's just sports.
It's the same nonsense. You mix together a word salad,
you toss in some extra veggies, maybe you put some
thousand island dressing. You stay away from the ranch, because
(05:34):
that's the devil's blood. Not to no, no, no, not
to tua. He went to the top rope and said,
watch out below, scorched Earth, and he hit the Daily Dabble,
Daily Dabble, hit the daily double because not only does
he get kudos for praising his current coach, Mike McDaniel,
(05:55):
but he delivers that sucker punch to the solar plexus
of his former coach. It has been several years since
Brian floor has departed Miami, and still it stings like
a hornet's a hornet just attacked him, a nest of
hornets attacked to a tongue of ILAA. Now it's fair
(06:16):
to say that Brian Floores was not a player's coach.
I'm really going out on a limb and put my
neck out there. Not a player's coach that they did
not see eye to eye quarterback coach vice versa as
Grantlin Rice the old sports writer from years ago said
styles make fights. He was talking about boxing, but it
(06:36):
also applies to coach and it is pretty obvious here.
And this is why it doesn't present Tua in the
greatest light. That too, is announcing to the world he's
a soft That's what he's doing, too, is announced to
you and to me that he would prefer the busy
bee honey. He wants that squeeze bottle, the one you know,
the one that looks like the bear. Yeah, he wants that,
(06:58):
and he wants to squeeze the honey and no vinigar, no, no,
no vinegar. And you know the old wisdale that you
can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. But Tua
wants to be massaged. He wants a nice shoulder rub,
the manny and the petty, rather than be told he's garbage.
Now most people are like that. It's usually how it is.
(07:18):
But there was a point that when you were in athletics,
you had a lot of coaches that were like that.
So what do these words do as we turn the
page to page, what do these words do to Brian Flores?
So he can dis miss them and say what does matter?
This is just a guy who's soft and you know
to his driving the mister softee truck. This is this
is a guy that was exposed in cold weather by
(07:40):
the elements there in Kansas City that he can't handle
a little adversity. And Brian Flores was trying to toughen
him up. He could say that, but it really depends
on which side of the aisle you're on in the multiverse.
Because Flores can argue that he's from the old country
when it comes to coaching. He's a straight shooter and sugarcoat,
all those all those phrases, right, all those phrases who
(08:02):
would apply And I generally appreciate that, not always, not always,
but for the most part. If I had to pick,
I'd say eight out of ten times I would pick
the straight shooter. I would And generally speaking, they need
to go down, you know, the modern ballplayer, right, modern
(08:22):
and the two is in this group, right, the extra creamy.
They need to go down to the bodega and they
want to play for coaches that at the bodega they
serve up a blooney sandwiches and disingenuous, insincere phony baloney.
That's what they would like Brian Flores is the Viking
defensive coordinator as mentioned here, and you can guaran F
(08:46):
and T that the legal beagles at the NFL who
are litigating the lawsuit, the NFL a big wigs there,
the lawyers will weaponize these comments. By two they will
be coming to a courtroom near you. If this trial
continues on. The legal case continues on, it's gonna happen,
(09:07):
and the Dolphins fired him, and the NFL is gonna say, well, listen,
it's not racist. He's just a schmuck. And the players
didn't like him, and he couldn't get along with the quarterback,
and we didn't want to embarrass him publicly, so this
stuff didn't get out. But now to us set it
and so he said it, so now we can use
and he's just unwilling Brian Flores. This is the NFL's argument.
Whether it's true or not. It might be total bull crap,
(09:28):
but the NFL's argument will be hey, unwilling and unable
to adjust to the modern athlete, and coaching is all
about adjusting to the different styles and personalities to your
locker room, and Brian Flores didn't do that. And my
evidence example a to a tongue bello. All right, now
the last word. Here we head to Los Angeles where
(09:50):
Jim Harbaugh his team has looked just puke for the
most part in these exhibition games, and the Chargers newlyted
head coach Jim Harbaugh was so excited that his quarterback
was back. How excited he was. He was kidding around,
having a great time, and Jim Harbaugh said he thought
he heard the quote voices of Angels when Justin Herbert
(10:15):
returned to the bolt to practice your thoughts. All right,
so my thoughts on this Harball is at the very top.
He's at the very very top because I would say,
Mike Tomlin, we want our fans fat and sassy, like
Tomlin's the greatest sound bite. There's a few good sound
(10:36):
bites in the NFL, But Jim Harbaugh, who's been out
of the NFL, moving on up the big board, Moving
on up the big board. Right there, Mike McDaniel, pretty
good quote in Miami, says, goofy things. I would have
Tomlin out in front by a pretty fair margin at
this particular point for goofball commentary. But Jim Harball is
(10:59):
textaque used to be dial a quote, but Now it's
text because we don't really call anyone. It's just we
dial people are we text people, we don't dial them up,
So it's text to quote and Hartbass sounds a lot
like one of my favorite people from old Hollywood, w C. Fields.
I was lucky enough last year I had a TV
(11:20):
show and we taped it on the Universal lot, not
the amusement park, the lot, and when I would drive there,
I drove down w. C. Field Road, which was awesome
because he has, to me the single greatest quote that
sums up what I do for a living, at what
so many gas bags and blowhards do for a living.
(11:40):
And Jim Harbaugh's living the life. The quote from w C.
Fields is, if you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them.
I'm cleaning up for the radio with Bullpucky. And that's so.
And that's essentially what Jim Harbe is doing, right, That's
what he's doing the way the Chargers offenses looked. Herbert's
the great savior, right, he's a friend quarterback. Yet here's
(12:02):
the odd thing about this. Everyone I've chatted with who's
got any kind of inside intel on the Chargers, Jim
Harball wants to make the Chargers a ground and pound team.
He wants to have the focus on the running game
and power football, and he thinks that's how the Chargers
are going to be able to win cold weather games
at Arrowhead Stadium or in Baltimore in the playoffs. And
(12:22):
he wants to bring that Midwestern Big Ten style of
football to the Chargers. Now can that play in a
dome stadium in the hood in Inglewood. I don't know.
We'll find out, but yeah, good luck on that.
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number ten thousand. So I lead this hour from inside
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the Beltway, well technically outside of it, but the DMV
the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia area. That is where
and so it still counts. That is where the news
comes from. The team formerly known as the Redskins before
they jan reflected to the Wolkesters, they have made their move.
They have made their move in the most shocking announcement
(14:45):
of them all, unless it's not. I assume you've heard
this or heard about it, but perhaps not. The team
now known as the Commanders, their head coach Dan Quinn,
the guy that had the biggest choke job coaching performance
in Super Bowl history for the Atlanta fouc against Tom
Brady the Patriots, blowing that massively in a game played
in Houston. But dan Quinn has named Jaden Daniels as
(15:10):
CHEWBI one. He's the starting quarterback now for the team
that represents all those hacked politicians in the DC area.
Daniels was technically in a in air quotes, a competition.
He was in a competition with Marcus Mariota to be
the starting quarterback in Washington. But Daniels has been named
(15:32):
the starter and he will be there for Week one,
the number two overall pick.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
He was expected to start anyway, barring some kind of
catastrophic performance in the exhibition season, which did not happen.
And I did notice that the Washington football team pumping
the tires on Daniels. That's what you do. You build
up the legend, the mythology and they're doing that. So
let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumm down
(16:01):
on the commanders going with rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels as
the QB one from Jump Street. So I am going
thumbs up. I've got Wolfman, George Lucas and Peanut Gallery
and we will combine all of these things together and
make a rapid radio. Which, by the way, I got
(16:24):
my rapid radio. I got my rapid radio right here. Yeah,
just prove I have it. I do, I have it
number I got my first rapid radio. Listen, we are
going thumbs up. As I said on the question, thumbs
up thumbs down for Jade and Daniels being the quarterback.
(16:44):
I have long taken this position. I have not swayed
from this position. There will be bumps in the road,
you know, the old Rocky Road, ice cream and all that,
but that's fine. Jaden Daniels was drafted. You're the top
of the draft, not at number one overall, but near
the top. And he's supposed to be a tent pole
draft pick. He's supposed to be the guy who's a
(17:07):
plug and play performer. Don't draft these guys in the
top five, top ten of the draft to sit them
on the bench and collect dust. He's got the portfolio
he does. He was at Arizona State, but at LSU
and Baton Rouge what he was able to do. So
the raw ingredients are there. Do I have confidence that
(17:27):
the coaching staff in Washington, with Dan Quinn leading the way,
will figure things out?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I don't. But if the player is good enough, it
doesn't matter the coaching the player, the cream will rise
to the very top there and Jayden Daniels will be
okay and at least show enough. He'll show you something
that will give you reason to be optimistic going forward.
And so it's the old Wolfman strategy. Not Wolfman Jack,
(17:53):
the great boss jock DJ from back in the day
in radio. Not that. Although I did work at a
station in Sandy Well, wolf made a border blaster station
where he had worked being a radio nerd. That was
a big deal. You probably don't eve know who that
is Wolfman Jack, but he's a big boss jock back
in the day when that mattered. But as Bill Parcells said,
so many quotes we attribute to Bill Parcells. He talked
(18:14):
about playing young players in general, not as his quarterbacks,
but his quote was, Hey, a coach would not throw
you to the wolves if he did not think, did
not believe that you had some wolf in you. Now
you say times are different. Now, maybe that's true. But
the real test for Daniels and the commanders will be
(18:35):
when teams actually tried a game plan to stop him
in week one? Will he have beginner's luck? Developing hot
dot dot dot Stay tuned Now page two, we pivot
to Colorado and a Mallor Show follow up. Malor Show
follow up. The much anticipated announcement from the Denver Broncos
(18:56):
expected to come down on Monday morning, except what happened? Nup,
nop didn't happen the day after? Can you explain? Can
you explain why Sean Peyton refused to name Bo Nix
the Broncos starting quarterback? Can you explain? So, Peyton, here's
(19:18):
my theory on this. Peyton big fan of George Lucas
and the Star Wars franchise, and Sean Payton is using
a Jedi mind trick is what he's doing. Right now,
The streets have been talking. I was trying to figure
this out because it seemed like a no brainer. Why
would you wait? Clearly, Bo Nix has done enough. I
(19:41):
know it's practice games and blah blah blah. Can make
all the qualifications and all the excuses you want, but
it's not like they have anybody else who's any good.
So you can't say, well, Jared stood him. It's butter
No he's not, he's not better. And Zach Wilson's dog pooh,
So you've got dog poo, and jared'st did him, and
then you've got Bix. Why would you not go with Bonix?
(20:02):
It's obvious to go with Bonnicks. But the popular opinion
by popular people from what I've heard, is that Peyton
merely wants to wait until the very last minute to
make the announcement official. He doesn't want to just hand
the job to Bonnicks. No, no, no, that would be wrong,
and he has to earn it. Well, I think he's
already earned it, but we'll see. It appears that he's
(20:23):
got the job. They just don't want to announce it,
so we'll see if they announce it in a couple
of days. Are they wait until the weekend, which is
when teams announced who's going to be the starting quarterback?
They haven't already done that otherwise, if this does not happen,
there will be not just a small pocket of resistance
against the Denver football team, no, no, no, no, no,
(20:46):
the Bronco fan base. There will be a full insurrection.
Is what's going to happen now. Final point, we go
to Chicago. A fair amount of people now in the
Windy City that have found our show one way or another.
Thank you for that. The Bears quarterback Caleb Williams revealing
Caleb willis reeling that he seeks out criticism, he said
(21:07):
in a recent interview, and what he does is he
takes screenshots of mean things people say. So if you've
trash talk Caleb Williams on the socials, he likely has
in his phone a photo of you savaging his good name,
(21:27):
so I'm likely in there. We did several monologues goofing
on Caleb Williams as the crying quarterback and pointing out
some of his shortcomings at USC when he ran and
cried in his mommy's arms because he lost a football
game at the Colisseum. We had some fun with that,
but he said, quote, I take screenshots of people. People
don't know it, Caleb Williams said, the Bears quarterback. I
(21:50):
have notes and things that I screenshot. He went on
to say, I save the links all of that. I
use it, he said. Quote continues. There's always something Caleb
Williams opined Lebron, he said, talking about Lebron, James always
says and has said before. Caleb Williams stated he only
(22:12):
needs one thing. Question for the esteemed panel. Question for
the stampanel panel. Where are you at on the Bears
rookie quarterback Caleb Williams following Lebron's lead here and using
criticism as a motivator. So I'm gonna spell something out,
see if you can figure this out. I'm gonna start
(22:34):
with a Y. Can I get an A? How about
a W? And then can I get an N? Yes?
That is a yawn worthy story. And always remember, and
Caleb Williams, this is the personification of this. Caleb Williams
needs to remember that you are absolutely unique, Caleb Williams,
(22:55):
just like everyone else that's come before you and everyone
that's coming after you. Everyone's unique. Spoiler alert. The Peanut Gallery.
The peanut gallery is the crucial ingredient in the industrial
complex of sport. It has been it continues to be
more so than ever. Now nobody believed in US. We
(23:18):
proved the doubters wrong. All of those lines, even when
you're manifesting fictional doubt. My favorite the Patriots. In the
middle of the dynasty, people didn't think we could get
it done. Okay, San Antonio Spurs kept winning championships years ago.
Oh nobody thought we were get here. Okay, okay, sure
(23:38):
that's the ticket. So Caleb Williams, I'm pretty sure he
was a five star recruit coming to college. He played
at Oklahoma and sc That's like playing at Oregon State
and Washington State or somewhere out in the in the boondocks.
So you've got that. Then he was always number one
pick by the Chicago Bears. There's been a lot of
adversity for Caleb Williams, a lot of it. Actually, The
(24:00):
main adversity that he's had to deal with so far
one time he went down to the makeup shop to
get he wanted this like light pink nail polish and
they were out of it. Now, that is real world adversity.
That is adverse. But other than a few people o
a few people who have made it in the most
(24:21):
of the people that make it in the NFL have
not really overcome any adversity, not real adversity. Right, that's good.
I'm happy that Caleb Williams and I actually think he's
going to do pretty well for the Bears. But that
doesn't really get a screenshot taken and all that he's
drinking the hater rate like that hater rate.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Here we go, Degree, here we go.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
A report over the weekend said that a Lebron James
trade to the Warriors never materialized because Rich Paul was
quote adamantly opposed to a trade. Paul's primary concern is
that it would hurt Lebron's legacy if he joined a
fourth different team.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Ben, is he right? No, Lebron's legacy is that of
someone that bounced around the NBA. Right he went. He
did go back to Cleveland, so give him a pass
on that. He gets a mulligan on that. But Lebron's
not worried about that. He's not. I thought he was
gonna leave the Lakers. I don't know why he's still
(25:27):
with the Lakers. They're not gonna win anything. I guess
he's just. I guess he's happy being in LA. But
I don't think it's because of his legacy. If he
was worried about his legacy, he would have stayed in
Cleveland and not gone to Miami and not know left
Cleveland again to go to LA. He would have just
stayed where he was. He would have stayed put.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Next, Team USA is reportedly choosing between two different options
to succeed Steve Kurrs coach Eric Spolstra or tylu Ben.
Who's the right choice.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, I doesn't matter. They're gonna have every great player
in the NBA, right. I could coach Team USA and
they're gonna win a gold or a silver medal, So
it doesn't matter to me who's the coach. But the
Clippers will be busy winning championships, so I don't think
Tyler will be available. So I guess coach Spoel will
have to coach Team USA's Olympic dream dream team in
(26:14):
the LA Olympics next. We all know how much you
love list radio. I don't do that.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Over the weekend, Peyton Manning gave his top five quarterbacks
in the NFL right now, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Justin
Herbert Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen Ben.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
How do you feel about the list. It's not a
good list. And here's why, the late great TJ. Simers
taught me this. The whole point of doing a list
is to upset people. If you put the predictable names
on there, you didn't upset people. So therefore, by default
it's a crap list because you got to throw a
wild card in there to really get people's blood boiling.
(26:49):
So bad job by him. How do we know you failed?
As a How does they win? Robbie? I won the game?
See that, Robbie, I won the game.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
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Speaker 1 (27:08):
I think we have our contestants ready to go here.
I think yes, let's welcome them in right now. Let's
see who do we have here. We've got any meenie
miney mo. All right, We've got Andy is in a Houston.
We say good morning to Andy, Hello Andy, Hey, mister Mallard.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Night to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Good to chat with you. Andy, Welcome to the show.
And what do you got going on there in Houston?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Well, first of all, his name is Jerry Grody.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
He's not some guy you see. You're called up to
correct me.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
This is the correct But but I'll play Mountain of
Money too if I can't. But he was a he
was a good ball players, a very he was the
Brad Austas of his day light hitting catcher, very good defensively,
was the starting catcher for the sixty nine miracle Mets.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
There you go, all right, no, Jerry jo we know
all right, Well you want to play the game, Andy, Yes,
absolutely all right. Who do you want to partner up with? Andy?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Who were my choices?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You can do Colin Cowherd. Who else do we have here?
Klay Travis? You can do me, Ben. What's that you're
gonna pick? Klay Travis? All right, very good, Thank you
go away. Let's say Jacob and he has no idea
what he's listening to. Somebody else called Jacob in Delaware.
Hello Jacob, welcome. I mean, how dumb could you be? Seriously?
(28:32):
Hello Jacob? You think Klay Travis is awake at this time?
Come on exactly exactly, Jacob. All right, well, welcome to
the show, Jacob. What are you got going? Are you
driving around? Yes?
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Oh yeah, I just got my truckloaded on that all right?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Where you're headed? There's a lot of noise. Is this
is going to be a disaster, Eddie? This is going
to be a disaster. He's got the big track.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
I got it?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You sure about that? Okay? Are you? Are you? Are
you driving local?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
There?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Are you going out? Are you going far away?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I'm okay?
Speaker 5 (29:08):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah? Who do you want to partner up with? You
on the show? Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I like to play with you?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
All right? What's my name? That's right? He knows who
I am. I'm not Kite Travis. Alright, hold on a second.
I love thank you, weed Man. I love you too.
Stay out of jail, weed Man. And we have a
Rob in Maine. Hello, Rob?
Speaker 6 (29:33):
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
We Rob? You can play the game? You're gonna play
the game? Rob? And who do you want to partner
up with? Rob? You got I'm out? So you got
Eddie or Cooper Loop.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
I'll go Eddie because Coop and I always lose nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
What taking a shot at the Cooper loop. Right there, man,
but dead to me? Boy boy, you can hack those
overnight hours. All right, well, very good, that's the matchup, Coop.
What are the categories here? Let's get the first part
of the setup and then we'll pause for the cause
(30:07):
and we'll have the game.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I write the games people, Uh, the Mallards amount of money?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I know that I would yell at Coop. I would.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I would whisper that this is the Edward Norton edition. Yes,
he turned fifty five years old yesterday. I know it's
getting old. The categories are categories are fight Club, Moonrise, Kingdom,
Birdman and Motherless Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
And who was on the Jacob? Jacob, which category would
you like? Birman, Birdman, Birdman? All right, all right? Overrated movie? Uh?
And Rob, what category would you like?
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Fight Club?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Fight Club? All right? Very good? Hold on, no one,
leave your position, man your battle stations, gentlemen, we will
have Mallard's Mount of Money, the Edward Norton Edition. Get
to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
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 1 (31:20):
Anyway we go, it's Malor's amount of money. The Edward
Norton edition The teams Myself, Ben with Jacob. Jacob drives
a chuck. He is in Delaware and he will be
partnering out with me, and Rob is in Maine, and
he has decided he wants to lose this week with Eddie,
so we're gonna make his dreams come true. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
All right, your mic was on it, Jacob, Jacob and
Ben right, Yes, that's the dynamic.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Due, just put the W next to our name the www.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Jacob and Ben are up first. Your category is birdman.
Remember you need the first and last night of the athlete.
In order to get points. You will have forty five seconds.
These athletes all jump so high they seem to fly
forty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Begin, all right, Jacob star with the Anaheim Angels. He's
always hurt though. Yes, he was a big star for
Robbie the Mariner fans team in the nineteen nineties. Yes,
the star of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Right now, he's got
a nickname that's a Network. Yes, a Padre star. He
(32:32):
had ringworm. He did steroids for the Padres. Yes, doctor
duncan Stein for Louisville in the nineteen eighties, played for
the Utah Jazz. A guard all right, a defensive end
for the Dolphins in the twenty tenh His last name
is like a funeral, a funeral reception. No. Nineteen eight
(32:55):
We went for the big ones and we didn't get them.
You didn't get Doctor Dunkenstein is old Griffith. That's kind
of an obscure one. I know who that is because
I'm old. That's why it's worth one hundred points. And
Cameron Wake you ever heard of him? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Yeah, yeah, all right, that was one hundred points. So
Rob and Eddie are up. Don't choke Rob. Your category
is fight club. These athletes have been in notable sports
fights easy forty five seconds begin two.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Time nl m VP, currently with the Phillies, was with
the Nationals. Was a high school phenom out of Las Vegas.
Former NBA player metaw world Piece was pro former Dominican
pitcher Hall of Famer for the Red Sox. He said
the Yankees. Former Celtics clue Guy now with the Grizzlies.
His last name the opposite of DNA mark Hall of
(33:53):
Fame center with the Heat out of Georgetown. He'd retired
because of blood clots. Was hanging around. No, he on
the morning Yes. Yes, former White Sox slugger. He was
a manager, best known for taking punches from Nolan Ryan
when he charged them ound.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
No, a lot.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Younger than that. No, former Latino infilled with the Rangers.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
He got you punch. Sorry, Oh my god. Yes to
Robin Ventura.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
Robin Ventura was the guy who did not get otherwise fantastic.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
So that was one hundred and sixty points. And so
Jacob and Bann are behind. And Jacob, would you like
Moonrise Kingdom or motherless Brooklyn? All right, these athletes weren't
raised by their biological mother.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Forty five seconds begin the protesting forty nine er quarterback
who hates cops? Come on, U the bambino for the
Yankees favorite. Yes, mister Buckets for the Miami Heat No
(35:05):
for the Miami Heat Guard quarterback for the Vikings. His
last name is not Salt. It was Yes, the blind
side offensive lineman for the Yes wide receiver of the Broncos.
He died at age thirty three. Super Bowl fifty Yes,
a guard for the Clippers and the Warriors at U
(35:26):
c L. A favorite fat ass, and then in the
two thousands was a star guard quarterback for the four.
You didn't get the he said, he didn't hear what
you said.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
But Colin Kaepernick was the first one, and Baron Davis
was that though, and Jimmy Butler was the one that
you missed three hundred points. So you guys have some
catching up to do, Rob you have moon rise Kingdom.
These athletes were All boy scouts. Forty five seconds begin.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Former Phillies outfielder the fly in Hawaiian, Yes, old school nick.
He later became like a senator from New Jersey. Former
NFL quarterback, a coach of the Colts, A Diddley.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Pooh, you get.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
A game, that's a wait for me, he said, won
the game.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I win again. I know, wait for me. I won
the game.
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