September 23, 2024 • 34 mins
Ben Maller discusses if the NFL officials helped the Chiefs stay undefeated in another close win over the Falcons, how things are looking for Travis Kelce, Tom Brady getting ripped for his voice, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one. We start
with a Sunday night controversy. Yeah, we were up all
night recording this podcast on this Monday, the twenty third
day of September. But last night in Atlanta, did the
NFL officials help keep Patrick Mahomes of the chiefs undefeated?
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He suddenly got blind the very end of that game. Also,
how are things looking for Travis Kelcey in this Kansas
City offense? It was supposed to be his breakout game
on Sunday Night. Spoiler alert it wasn't. Also, a longtime
sportswriter and best selling author, Don Van Natta ripping Tom
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Brady's voice. People piling on Tom Brady, your thoughts on that.
We'll get to all of it and more right now here.
It is our number one. Another fingerpighter of a win.
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So our lead to begin the week, and more importantly
the night, because who knows if you'd be listening all week,
but to begin the night, we start out at the
atl got a message from my friends sports with Coleman.
You're too kind about the Atlanta Airport. No Atlanta, the
great airport in Atlanta. I think I'll just fly there
just to go to the Airport's a wonderful airport. But
that was the scene Patrick Mahomes flew into that airport
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and the Chiefs taking their road show into the atl
There down south for a playdate with Kirk Cousins and
the Falcons in Island Game, the Island Life one game
standalone game Sunday night. Collinsworth was there Tarrico hanging out
for the peacock folks over there. So I don't know
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if you're watching, possibly not, Maybe you were not tuned
in there. But Patrick Mahomes did not have a gotty
stat line. He didn't have four hundred yards passing, he
didn't have three hundred yards. He didn't have two hundred
and fifty yards passing, only two hun seventeen, a couple
of touchdowns, had an interception. The Chiefs out last the
Falcons twenty two to seventeen, improving to a perfect three
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and zero on the season as they beat the dirty Birds.
And there was high drama though. You can't have an
NFL game that's a one score game without highdrama. So
we had that. You're watching the game, you know what
I'm about to say, but possibly not, you might have
missed it. So everyone focused on one moment in time,
just one moment in time. Fourth quarter, the Falcons matriculating
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the ball down the field, looking to take the lead.
It was a fourth down play and Kirk Cousins threw
a pass to the end zone, to the end zone
on fourth down to the tight end Kyle Pitts. But no,
the play was broken up. But wait a minute, what's
going on. There's the safety for the Chiefs, Brian Cook.
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Whoever that is, I don't know who that is, but
Brian Cook, the safety for the Chiefs, who made clear
contact with Kyle Pitts before the ball got there. Even
if you've never been a referee just watching football, what
is that? That's right, that's pass interference. But the referee
said now and chose not to make the call no
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pass interference on the defense. And that was that. And
the Falcons they had another opportunity, but that they're done
after that, as it turns out. So let us discuss
the question did the NFL officials medal here to help
keep Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs undefeated? So I've got disco,
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marvelous and copycat and we will combine all of these
things together and make sunny days sunny days ahead? All right?
So a the answer the question, did the officials in
this game medal with that call? If you go to
the desert, will you find salt? I've not been to
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a desert that does not have salt. I have not been.
There's no ifs answerp butts about it to infinity and
beyond the answer is yes. Right now, am I gonna
go all the way and say I was a rigged deal?
Was it rigged? Or did the NFL officials just randomly
decline to do their job. The blind leading the blind
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here right, shout out blind Scott, blind emmett In could
terror all the other blind listeners that we have, but
swallowing the whistle and listen. I'm on teams, swallow the whistle.
But when it comes to the relationship between Andy Reid
in this era of the Chiefs and the referees, it
is disco. It's Casey and the Sunshine Band for the Chiefs.
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Here it's get down tonight. And that's the way I
like it. When the officials make those call I love it.
The safety I just I got to stress it. So
I'm watching the game anyway. I might have had a
little little bit down on the Atlanta Fox. But beside
the point, all right, as so the safety cook. This guy,
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his head has turned his entire body. He wasn't playing
the BA. He even turned to look at a ball
he was playing that he was playing, Kyle Pitts. It's
hard to do that, to turn your head to play
the ball when you are wrapping your arms around the receiver.
And it's even more lighter fluid for the deep state
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conspiracy that the NFL is looking out for the Chiefs,
not so much because they love Patrick Mahomes, but because
of a certain singer named Taylor Swift. That's what this
is all about. So the back judge on this play
was completely frozen. I don't know if they charged him
for a ticket, maybe he got one online, but he
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was just observing and he actually had the power to
make the call that's right in front of him. All right. Now,
speaking of the investment the NFL has here, how are
things looking for Travis kelcey in that Chiefs offense after
now three games? This is another one of those cover
your eyes situations here. And while the Chiefs appear to
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be getting an assist from the Zebras, they're not getting
much help from their all star tight end movie star,
TV star, podcast star, not football star right now. Now,
he doesn't have that part of it. That's not part
of the equation man, all right, and the pop love
story for all the tabloids and the social media world
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not living up to his end of the bargain. Not
at this point here. This was supposed to be. I
was told the Travis kelce breakout game, the Travis kelce
breakout game, this was going.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
To be it.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So how did that go. Kelsey was targeted five times.
He had four catches. All right, four catches. We got
something eh thirty yards, no touchdowns and an average of
seven and a half yards per catch. And the store
brand tight end, generic brand tight end. That's Travis Kelcey
at this particular point. Now the question must be he asked,
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there's many questions. Is it his ages? He now suddenly
passed his athletic prime and he's in his mid thirties.
Is it the rock and roll lifestyle? Is that why
hanging out traveling the world with Taylor Swift in those
private planes. Is it just merely a slump? Is this
a passing situation? He looked like he was done last year,
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and then in the playoffs, whatever kind of magic potion
Kelsey took, he was not done. In the playoffs he
turned things around. But overall on the year, Travis Kelsey
eight catches, sixty nine yards and no touchdowns in three games.
Those are the kind of numbers. He actually have some touchdowns,
but those are the kind of numbers catches and yards
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he'd have in one game. But eight catches sixty nine yards.
It was the marvelous late Marvin Hagler who famously said
of his world in boxing. He gave the famous quotes
it's very tough to get out of bed and do
that road work at five am when you're sleeping in
silk pajamas. And right now, Travis Kelsey is a boy.
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He's got really nice pajamas, silk, highest quality bedsheets you
can possibly get. But you got to do better and
be better. Right now, you look at that Chiefs offense
and they're not dynamic, they're not amazing. They're three and oh,
which is great. But you've got the fast and furious
star Rashie Rice, who is the man, the big play guy,
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and he's got looming legal problems, but he's the big
play guy. And then after that, it's a plotting team.
The Chiefs are a plotting team again like they were
last day he won the Super Bowl. Hollywood. Brown's not
walking through that door. He's out for the year. And
if he is walking through that door, he's got probably
a booty on her something like that. All right, now,
last word here we moved to the broadcast world. A
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number of you said, what about Tom righty? All right,
so Tom Brady was again calling the Cowboys game, because
every time Fox has the Cowboy game. He will be
calling the game. He will not be calling a Cowboy
game next week because Fox does not have the Cowboys week.
But Brady was back on Fox calling the Cowboy Ravens
game and a misleading final score as the stat Bandito
(10:09):
did it yet again, Dak Prescott garbage time stats, but
Brady taking shrapnel yet again. So the latest on this
a longtime sports writer and award winning best selling author
Don Van Natta. You know who that is? Now you
don't know who that is? Yeah, and nobody knows who
writers are anyway, this guy ripped Tom Brady's voice. This
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thing started bouncing around, and people said, oh, yeah, that's
the problem Brady's got. You don't have the pipes your thoughts.
So I think this is fair criticism. I believe this
is actually fair criticism here. And it goes back to
the point that Brady was never supposed to be a broadcaster. No,
he wasn't. It's not like he dreamed his little key
I want to I have a voice for broadcasting. No, No,
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Tom Brady is a football player. He's a three hundred
and fifty million dollar stimonial to the jockocracy of broadcasting.
But you look at the voice range for Tom Brady,
and he's got more of a tenor voice, more of
a high pitched voice. And as was pointed out, when
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he's teamed up with Kevin Burkhart, who's got this baritone voice,
it creates a problem. You've got extremes not great, and
you toss in the biggest issue. Brady sounded the way
he sounds, but was actually given good commentary that would
be okay, But he sucks. That's a problem, right, I mean,
he's generic cliche Phil Tom Brady commentary. But the blas,
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the blas, the Brady blas and the broadcast booth, you're
still waiting for that amazing inside, that engaging wisdom. But
ease to go give him time. Three hundred and fifty
million dollars. I gotta give him time. That three hundred
fifty miili. I gotta give the guy time. How much
time should I give the guy? Well, six hundred million
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to get something good right away? Is that what it takes?
Six hundred million?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Me?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Brady to me sounds like and I was at the
Rams game, but I had the I was flipping around
on my computer watching various games. But Brady sounds to
me like he's merely a copycat, like he's doing what
he thinks an NFL broadcaster is supposed to do, which
is just mimicking what everyone else does. There's nothing original there.
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It's just a ripoff version. It's like somebody decided here's
what a broadcast is gonna be years ago, and Brady's
just okay. I bet you didn't even watch a lot
of football broadcasts growing up. It's certainly not in the
NFL because he was playing and all that stuff, and
so it's it's nothing unique, it's nothing original. It's just
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another voice out in the sea of audio, is what
it is. And just like us, it was just a
voice in the night, just a voice in the night,
a lonely voice in the night. But we are here
for if you'd like to be part, you can join us.
Speak easy rules, I guess are an effect where it's
no holiday. As far as I know it's holiday, I'll
end them. But I don't think it's a holiday. But
we will take your calls. If you want to be part,
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you can join us. Also, every line is open by
the ways, you can get right in, there's no waiting.
And also on X at Ben Mahlor, that is at
Ben Mahlor if you'd like to be part of said program.
And one NFL coach had the opportunity to speak up
about a great injustice but decided he would rather have
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his cash. We'll get to that and we will do
it next.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 4 (13:46):
The Ben Maller Show is not a look at me operation,
not even close. You're invited to communicate with us on
this side of the microphone. You can follow the big
guy Ben on X at Ben Mallar who I'm looking
at right now through the radio glass. Eddie Garcia is
not and he is in Pittsburgh, So I'll be fun
a loser.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, what's going on over there? Is there building a
legal land over there? Or what I don't know? Is
he traveling back by stagecoach?
Speaker 5 (14:15):
How uncomfortable though? Do you think that uh that plane
ride is?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I don't know. I don't think they're leaving. I think
they're staying like an extra day or something.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
They are still even after what happened.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I apparently I don't know. There's no direct flights out
of Pittsburgh. So did Eddie start crying? What happened?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Well, justin Herbert got hurt.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, and also got hurt. Also, they both got hurt.
The two star players got hurt. That's real charge of
football right there. That's those first couple of weeks they
were pretending. But that's the Chargers. That's it right there. Yes,
very impressed.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Well by the way, Ben, your messages are prized some
more than others.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Does that mean we get it back to you? Now?
I'm a little annoyed by two things. You've already annoyed
me and we You are not even half a house show.
You you leave the door open, which is very odd.
Why would you leave the door open. You're in a studio,
you're in a broadcast studio. Leave the leave the door closed.
There's no need to leave the door open. Okay, that's
the first thing. Okay, number two. I don't appreciate the
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stalker photo. I don't like it. Again, I posted on
social media. What's already out there, out there. You can't
you can't delete it. It's out. But it's very odd
that you would do that. It's a little well you've
done it to me, so I've never I've never done Yeah,
you remember when I was you know, I didn't send
that out, though.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
You did.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I didn't know I sent that. I showed that to
Eddie and the people here that went out. No, I
don't think that. But that's okay, I can. I don't
think it went out. It did? It didn't go Did that?
Did that go out? Cooper? That photo go out?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, the one one like a long time ago, he
took a picture of me shaving in the studio.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
He took a picture of that. Yeah, but I think
I sent that out. I think that was just for
us and I said that.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Definitely was I think one of like, I don't know
that Ben sent it out.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
But oh yeah, see I didn't send it out. I
wouldn't send it up. Eddie I allowed to take the photo.
It was either Roberto was that? Who was that?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Who the born up?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I think it might have been. See, I am not
the one. I did not send it out, but totally
take it because the violation was broke. Eddie broke the
violation of trust years ago. He took a terrible photo
of me and sent it out and Eddie takes the
worst photos of anybody. But you know, all I'm trying
to do is promote the show. I'm really trying to
help out here.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I mean, well, so he's got a lot of followers, Ben,
Yeah he does.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh yeah, he got like two hundred, like seven thousand,
seven thousands. But let me tell you this, Ben, the
reason I.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Did and ninety four.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
How many of those plus six? How many of those
are bots? None? Are you sure about that? Why not?
I I don't pay for followers. I don't even do that.
I don't either, but people do. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
By the way, the reason that this is open is
is if you close the door in this studio, it echoes.
So I do it for the purpose. I just want
the show to be clean and clear. For the door close. Really,
Eddie has the door close. He also has no lights
on it here. He's kind of gargoyle ish.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
He doesn't come out either.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
He stays in there with the lights off.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, he says that he does not move at all.
He we don't even know he can walk, Eddie. Sometimes
I don't know if he's in there.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Sometimes I walk out and he walks in, and he
doesn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's about right. That seems seems about right.
Sometimes he's here and doesn't say anything the whole time
he's here. It's it's wild, wild and crazy. Anyway, it
is the Ben Maller Show. As we are just beginning
the fun here. Uh, Tiger Man in Utah says, not shocking.
Ben forgot to mention big wins by Lsu Utah and
(17:45):
b Yu. Yeah, that's it's stuff just slipped under the radar,
clearly under the radar. U d on the Mallard monologues,
is stuck in Sacramento. You need to stay a Dodger.
Homer and Lee the week with showtime and Mookie bottom
of the ninth winning us the game. Yeah, you need
back to back home to meet the Rockies in the ninth.
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Then they come up embarrassing, that's slightly embarrassing, he says.
I'm counting the days till I get to get out
of He says Sacramento, and he says it with some
gusto there and visit Chavez Ravine Ferk Dogs has best
performance of the weekend. Are Ben's Rams comeback win against
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the Niners. Now, where's all Niner fans? Where they and
Finley's Bruins covering on an especially humid day in Baton Rouge.
Worst performance has to be Eddie's Chargers, but Eddie'll claim
he's a Steeler fan. H Robin Vegas says, who the
F did I piss off to deserve this? You're telling
me I have to listen to tennis updates on that?
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Are you gonna give any tennis updates? Brian? You're planning
on any tennis? No, because all the majors are done
for the year. Okay, any w NBA? Possibly you want
to Clark, I didn't have any in the chamber. Okay,
all right, well that's good. There you go. Shane and
Moyes says, I have a big board top ten, big
but I don't listen. We don't do this, so you
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do big board. People who should replace Brian Finley in
the update studio? So okay, here are the people? Are
you prepared for this brand? This is what Shane into
morn would like instead of you and I guess the
first is it Ronald McDonald. I'll start at number ten.
He has Bronnie James. Oh, we'd like you to be
replaced by Bronnie James. He has Yasser era Fat. I
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don't think he's available at number nine, Ilo at number eight,
Monsee's at number seven, Osama bin Laden again not available
at number six. I want you ahead a blind Emmett
the Seahawk fan, George H. W. Bush at number four,
George W. Bush at number three, and then he just
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puts Stalin at number two, so he wants Stalin and
then Kelly in Nashville at number one.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
So I take that as a badge of pride that
he doesn't want me, because no matter what I do,
he'll never like me. And you know what, been not
everybody in life is going to like you.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's true. People hate me all the time. Yeah yeah,
Jason in Kansas City says ten out of ten of
the Malley monologue, the Falcons got screwed by the officials,
but that's okay. They are in a division with the
fraud teams of the Bucks and the Saints. Seriously, how
do you get blown out by this year's Denver Broncos? Who?
(20:31):
I don't know. Coop's excited about that though, What a
dumb thing to do. Broncos took a couple of games.
Sean Payton, Hey, all of a sudden. You put up
a real offense, well kind of a real but that
defense seven pole that Buccaneers the seven points in that game.
The Buccaneers guilty of smelling themselves a little bit after
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beating the Lions, everyone saying how great they were, right
to beat the Lions in Detroit all that. Yeah, so, uh, no,
boat Knicks was not you. You would admit Koopy was
not amazing. Yeah, I mean the numbers were not shockingly
good or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
But compared to the first two games, he was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Well he was averaging. Yeah, the first couple of games
it was like three yards of pass, so he's up
to like six. He was up to six in this game,
so he's double this like sevens a he like below average.
But Baker Mayfield was so crappy it didn't it didn't
really matter. So anyway, Uh, that's let's go to the phones.
I will say hello to Bennett the Comedian. People excited
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that the Cowboy fan will not be calling. I don't
know if he's around anymore. We haven't heard from a while.
Cowboy Dan, what's going on, Bennett the Comedian? It's your birthday, Bennett.
We can't do a shout out for you, Ben, And
I'm sorry we're not a morning zoo show. I wish
we could do it. Can't do that, not allowed to
do a shout out. But but how ol are you? Bennett?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I'm not, I'm not. My goodness, I'm doing pretty good.
How about you?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I didn't say how you do when I asked how
old you are? He's obviously seen I'm sixteen six and
man six? Okay, sixteen years old? This guy and and
Loraina is calling you? See now, how dare you? Loraen?
Shame on you.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I think he's had higher hopes for you. I thought
you were nicer than that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
And puzzle to day, Yes, she said she has. She
runs hot and cold. Sometimes she's very nice and an
other times she'll punch you in the face.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, I'm sure she's a very lovely person.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And my apologies to her. Yes, anyway, how can we
help you? Bet? Your birthday? Big birthday celebration, sixteen, this
magical birthday? Wondering not much?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I mean we went to the Mariners game, got to
see the Mariners beat the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh all right, birthday? Okay, someone say that would be torture,
But all right, I got you.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, they're a game and a half out of the
final wild card Spy. You just watch Ben, you just watch?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Wow? I mean I listened. I don't know if I watched.
I mean, it's only is like the week. It's a
week to go, is it? It's like the last week
the season, right, we're down with a week down a week?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, but that's I mean, that's about it. I was
gonna call, How's Cam?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
How's comedy going are you? How's the comedy world?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
You?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You? You make your debut on the Talent show Men
at the Comedian you did some standard.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I've not made a debut yet. I've been working on
my comedy stuff. All right, it's coming along.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You want to you want to give us a joke?
Real quick?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You want to give.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You a joke? Okay, let me think?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
All right, all right, ten seconds. You're listening to Bennett
the Comedian. He's coming up with a joke right now.
I'm sure we're gonna laugh our asses off because it's
his birthday. He's just turned sixteen years old. This guy,
he's in the minor league system for Fox Sports Radio. Yes,
all right, Bennett, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
So there was this father he had two identical twins
and one one twin was an optimist, the other was
a pessimist, always complained about everything, and then the other
one always was always, you know, looking for the best.
And so one day it was both of their birthday,
it was their birthdays, and he bought the pessimist every
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toy that he could think of that a ten year
old would want, toys, trucks, everything doesn't matter. So he
bought them the pessimist toys. And then for the optimist,
he dumped a whole truckload of manure in the Optimist's room.
So a couple hours later he went into the pessimist room.
My bad, I can't say the word, and he heard
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a bunch of crying and he went in there. He's like,
what's going on, bud, And the pestsmist said, oh, all
my friends are going to be jealous and they're going
to have to buy me batteries and everything. And he
didn't like all the toys. So he went down the
hall to the optimist room and the optimist was jumping
up and down for joy and all the horse manure.
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He said, why are you so happy? Son said, because
there's got to be a pony in here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Someday, Ben, it's gonna have his own multi media deal.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh yeah, you just wait.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yeah, Oh, Bennett, very very nice. Happy birthday, buddy. We
don't do shoutouts, so I can't really give you a
real happy Bertha. Oh there he goes, Bennett the Comedian
got a hardy befall from from Brian Finlay the Hearty.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Steelers play Perfect knocking down the Chargers twenty perfect.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You think they played perfect, I mean they stayed perfect. Well,
you said they played a perfect game. I mean you
say perfect. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Well, in baseball, you can throw in baseball, Ben, you
can have a perfect game.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Why can't you have a perfect game in the NFL?
It's the same thing. It's twenty points. That's not that
many points, and it's like they're justin fields. Is doing
barely enough? Well, going back by his standards, he had
a great game.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We're going back to your friend one interception, were going
back to your friend Bennet, who called, I'm just an optimist.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You're a pessimist, So I think it was perfect. So
that's all. Yeah, fighting words. Take that. And then lastly,
I'll throw it back to you. Your headphones are not
even on properly. You've got to pull them up high. No,
because I like to hear.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I have one on my ear and one just off
so I can hear anything that's going on outside.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Nothing going on outside, there's nothing else going I'm always
on the lookout. You never know what's happening. I always
the door. I did that for you. Thank you, you've
closed the door. But now you've annoyed me because your
headphones are like they're like this, they like that. What's
wrong with that? It's a dumb look, a dumb look.
What's not a dumb look?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Eagles scoring all of their points in the fourth quarter
and fifteen to twelve.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Still the update. Yeah, we're going to go into our
two with Brian uh Bryan's work. I got through some
of the games. Back to your jeez, pick up the pace.
It is the Ben Mallards Show. As we are rolling,
let's go to the phones. We'll say a lot of
Andre who is in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Ben, it's
(27:14):
good to be with you this evening. Hello.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
I apologize, Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Is it Willis bothering you? Your dog Willis is willis
messing with you?
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Actually, Ben, I was out of town. I had to
take a trip down in New Jersey. So Willis is
in the kennel right now. But we're gonna gonna go
pick him up and he'll be back in.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The mixt Why are the dramatic side by Loreno? What
do you kennels are like dog jail? Ben? Maybe maybe
he's at a good kennel. Maybe the kennel's spoiling him
with biscuits and Scooby treats and all that possible.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
I believe he's being spoiled, Ben, And I've also re
upped on my my snacker Rudis. He does good when
he goes. He likes he's a friendly guy, so he
likes to be around the other dog. So I think,
you know, he's having a good time and he's he's
whooping it up so on and forth. But speaking of
good times, our friend mister Tom Brady, it's in a
little bit of upsill climb as he starts his broadcasting
(28:03):
career out. I think he's going to get it. I
think he's going to be a quick study, you know,
always start at the top, right, you gotta work your
way up. I think he's gonna become more and more inclined.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
What right, What would what would give you that feel?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Like?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
What?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Because he's already rich, he doesn't need the job, right,
he's already super there's nothing like people generally that succeeded
stuff do it because it's their motivated. Like Brady, I
don't think this is his life's dream to be a broadcaster.
He just happened. They offered him a lot of money
and he took the job. Like I don't. I don't
understand that mindset like he's doing it. I don't think
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he's particularly good at it. That's fine, but I don't
think he's gonna get much better at it either.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Yeah, but for me, Ben, you know, he has certainly
a type a personality. So whatever he's involved in, he's deeply.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
In there because you don't understand, though, to be good
at that job, you have to rip people. And Brady
doesn't want to be unliked by people. But to be
really good as a broadcast, you have to criticize people.
You have to say that throw sock, that quarterback sucks,
that coach stinks, he don't want to do it, and
maybe he'll put me wrong. But to me, to be
good at that job, you have to be critical, and
(29:13):
I don't think he'll be critical.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Yeah, of course you have. You have to bring new
information into the into the lexicon, into the conversation, into
the public space, and a lot of times athletes, but
I don't think ben in conclusion, it's not really unique
to Tom Brady and this whole new medium movement. None
of the athletes want to ask those piercing critical.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Questions, and they mostly suck. I agree, I don't disagree
with that. They're mostly terrible. That's why Charles Barkley Barkley
a lot of people, even though he played, but Barkley
will rip everybody. He's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Yeah, and that's always been Barkley's m O. You know,
he's always you know, I'm going to mean what I
say and say what I mean. So it's made for
a successful quer but then wet. But in terms of
Tom Brady, again, I think he'll get find his niche,
so they'll get into a groove. He's not going to be,
you know, an intrepid reporter, breaking storage, but he'll be
a solid broadcaster. Because you need to be around the game.
He has to have something in his life. These guys,
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you know, they have trouble as we know, but Bill
Belichick has to get it behind back on the sideline.
You know they don't do great when they get away
from football. The safe personality.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Thanks checking the cut all right there he goes an
Andre checking in from Jersey this morning. Not his normal Commonwealth,
No dog willis so. Rahee Morris had a chance to
defend his football team and to call out the referees
who clearly botched the end of the game, giving the
advantage to Kansas City. A clear and obvious pass interference
(30:36):
called it would have been Atlanta first and goal with
the one yard line and a chance to take the
lead against Kansas City. But instead, Rahee Morris decline to
discuss the decision not to call past interference against his
tight end, saying I like my money, is what he said.
So he chose money over defending his team. Who goofed?
(30:57):
I've got to know time now for the who am I? Game?
Green Bay's Josh Jacobs caught his two hundredth career pass
on Sunday. He still has not caught a touchdown pass
only I have more career catches without a touchdown catch.
Who am I? That is the question, the answer. We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (31:59):
Like to well, you feel it's Brian taped. He's out
so we won't have to have him interrupt us. There,
he taped out. He's on his way home right now,
so we're good on that. Thank god. Here is the
who am I? Game? Green Bay's Josh Jacobs. That's weird
to say still, it's only been a few weeks to
see has played with the Packers after coming out from
the Raiders. Anyway, Josh Jacobs caught his two hundred career
(32:22):
pass on Sunday, but he still has not caught a
touchdown pass. Only I have more career catches without a
touchdown catch in NFL history. Who am I? That is
the question. That's the question. What's the answer? Matt the
Warrior Raider fan going with Harry Sidney as his answer.
(32:45):
Hacksaw Jim Duggan from Rob in Vegas, Andy from Lion o'
lakes in Minnesota going with Kobe Bryant's uncle Chubby Cox
as his answer. Who else do we have? NFL Zebras
from Freddie Rusher Guests by Alf the alien o Piner
Stretch Armstrong a very distant relative of Alligator Arms, Boy Boy,
(33:08):
Alligator Arms Murray Man Boy he may I actually took
him on the TV show and boy well, great effort
by him. What a gutless loser that guys? Far out
day with Conway Twitty is his answer. George Orda from
mister nice Guy, Who's actually not a nice guy? James
Brooks from Steve the Misplaced San Diegan ferg Dog going
(33:30):
with Deshaun Foster as his answer, James says, captain of
the two thousand USC Trojans, Petros Papadakis. Who else we have?
Jimmy Taylor from King Rory, Jamal Charles guests by Andrew
in the Bay Area. Justin went with Eddie Lacy, who's
looking really good by the way, he's in shape. He's
ready to play. Dick Lane better known by his knight
(33:51):
and his nickname from brad In Lost Wagers, Nevada, the
dream Catcher, Brian Finley from Stevie Meetpa, Florida. Who else
do we have? Page down? Jeremy Shockey from Robin, Minnesota.
Let's see page down. A lot of Mercury Morris. As
he passed away over the weekend, people saying their tributes said,
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do you have an answer? Quick by? Quick bye? Tina Fay,
Tina Fay. That's a terrible answer. Shame on you. The
correct answer to the who am I game? Long lost
running back Gerald Riggs? Gerald Rigg? Who had twit? What
So Jacobs is closing in on the all time record?
(34:35):
You can do it, Josh Jacobs, I
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one. We start
with a Sunday night controversy. Yeah, we were up all
night recording this podcast on this Monday, the twenty third
day of September. But last night in Atlanta, did the
NFL officials help keep Patrick Mahomes of the chiefs undefeated?
(00:23):
He suddenly got blind the very end of that game. Also,
how are things looking for Travis Kelcey in this Kansas
City offense? It was supposed to be his breakout game
on Sunday Night. Spoiler alert it wasn't. Also, a longtime
sportswriter and best selling author, Don Van Natta ripping Tom
(00:44):
Brady's voice. People piling on Tom Brady, your thoughts on that.
We'll get to all of it and more right now here.
It is our number one. Another fingerpighter of a win.
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So our lead to begin the week, and more importantly
the night, because who knows if you'd be listening all week,
but to begin the night, we start out at the
atl got a message from my friends sports with Coleman.
You're too kind about the Atlanta Airport. No Atlanta, the
great airport in Atlanta. I think I'll just fly there
just to go to the Airport's a wonderful airport. But
that was the scene Patrick Mahomes flew into that airport
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and the Chiefs taking their road show into the atl
There down south for a playdate with Kirk Cousins and
the Falcons in Island Game, the Island Life one game
standalone game Sunday night. Collinsworth was there Tarrico hanging out
for the peacock folks over there. So I don't know
(02:37):
if you're watching, possibly not, Maybe you were not tuned
in there. But Patrick Mahomes did not have a gotty
stat line. He didn't have four hundred yards passing, he
didn't have three hundred yards. He didn't have two hundred
and fifty yards passing, only two hun seventeen, a couple
of touchdowns, had an interception. The Chiefs out last the
Falcons twenty two to seventeen, improving to a perfect three
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and zero on the season as they beat the dirty Birds.
And there was high drama though. You can't have an
NFL game that's a one score game without highdrama. So
we had that. You're watching the game, you know what
I'm about to say, but possibly not, you might have
missed it. So everyone focused on one moment in time,
just one moment in time. Fourth quarter, the Falcons matriculating
(03:23):
the ball down the field, looking to take the lead.
It was a fourth down play and Kirk Cousins threw
a pass to the end zone, to the end zone
on fourth down to the tight end Kyle Pitts. But no,
the play was broken up. But wait a minute, what's
going on. There's the safety for the Chiefs, Brian Cook.
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Whoever that is, I don't know who that is, but
Brian Cook, the safety for the Chiefs, who made clear
contact with Kyle Pitts before the ball got there. Even
if you've never been a referee just watching football, what
is that? That's right, that's pass interference. But the referee
said now and chose not to make the call no
(04:09):
pass interference on the defense. And that was that. And
the Falcons they had another opportunity, but that they're done
after that, as it turns out. So let us discuss
the question did the NFL officials medal here to help
keep Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs undefeated? So I've got disco,
(04:31):
marvelous and copycat and we will combine all of these
things together and make sunny days sunny days ahead? All right?
So a the answer the question, did the officials in
this game medal with that call? If you go to
the desert, will you find salt? I've not been to
(04:54):
a desert that does not have salt. I have not been.
There's no ifs answerp butts about it to infinity and
beyond the answer is yes. Right now, am I gonna
go all the way and say I was a rigged deal?
Was it rigged? Or did the NFL officials just randomly
decline to do their job. The blind leading the blind
(05:16):
here right, shout out blind Scott, blind emmett In could
terror all the other blind listeners that we have, but
swallowing the whistle and listen. I'm on teams, swallow the whistle.
But when it comes to the relationship between Andy Reid
in this era of the Chiefs and the referees, it
is disco. It's Casey and the Sunshine Band for the Chiefs.
(05:40):
Here it's get down tonight. And that's the way I
like it. When the officials make those call I love it.
The safety I just I got to stress it. So
I'm watching the game anyway. I might have had a
little little bit down on the Atlanta Fox. But beside
the point, all right, as so the safety cook. This guy,
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his head has turned his entire body. He wasn't playing
the BA. He even turned to look at a ball
he was playing that he was playing, Kyle Pitts. It's
hard to do that, to turn your head to play
the ball when you are wrapping your arms around the receiver.
And it's even more lighter fluid for the deep state
(06:23):
conspiracy that the NFL is looking out for the Chiefs,
not so much because they love Patrick Mahomes, but because
of a certain singer named Taylor Swift. That's what this
is all about. So the back judge on this play
was completely frozen. I don't know if they charged him
for a ticket, maybe he got one online, but he
(06:43):
was just observing and he actually had the power to
make the call that's right in front of him. All right. Now,
speaking of the investment the NFL has here, how are
things looking for Travis kelcey in that Chiefs offense after
now three games? This is another one of those cover
your eyes situations here. And while the Chiefs appear to
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be getting an assist from the Zebras, they're not getting
much help from their all star tight end movie star,
TV star, podcast star, not football star right now. Now,
he doesn't have that part of it. That's not part
of the equation man, all right, and the pop love
story for all the tabloids and the social media world
(07:29):
not living up to his end of the bargain. Not
at this point here. This was supposed to be. I
was told the Travis kelce breakout game, the Travis kelce
breakout game, this was going.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
To be it.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So how did that go. Kelsey was targeted five times.
He had four catches. All right, four catches. We got
something eh thirty yards, no touchdowns and an average of
seven and a half yards per catch. And the store
brand tight end, generic brand tight end. That's Travis Kelcey
at this particular point. Now the question must be he asked,
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there's many questions. Is it his ages? He now suddenly
passed his athletic prime and he's in his mid thirties.
Is it the rock and roll lifestyle? Is that why
hanging out traveling the world with Taylor Swift in those
private planes. Is it just merely a slump? Is this
a passing situation? He looked like he was done last year,
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and then in the playoffs, whatever kind of magic potion
Kelsey took, he was not done. In the playoffs he
turned things around. But overall on the year, Travis Kelsey
eight catches, sixty nine yards and no touchdowns in three games.
Those are the kind of numbers. He actually have some touchdowns,
but those are the kind of numbers catches and yards
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he'd have in one game. But eight catches sixty nine yards.
It was the marvelous late Marvin Hagler who famously said
of his world in boxing. He gave the famous quotes
it's very tough to get out of bed and do
that road work at five am when you're sleeping in
silk pajamas. And right now, Travis Kelsey is a boy.
(09:01):
He's got really nice pajamas, silk, highest quality bedsheets you
can possibly get. But you got to do better and
be better. Right now, you look at that Chiefs offense
and they're not dynamic, they're not amazing. They're three and oh,
which is great. But you've got the fast and furious
star Rashie Rice, who is the man, the big play guy,
(09:22):
and he's got looming legal problems, but he's the big
play guy. And then after that, it's a plotting team.
The Chiefs are a plotting team again like they were
last day he won the Super Bowl. Hollywood. Brown's not
walking through that door. He's out for the year. And
if he is walking through that door, he's got probably
a booty on her something like that. All right, now,
last word here we moved to the broadcast world. A
(09:47):
number of you said, what about Tom righty? All right,
so Tom Brady was again calling the Cowboys game, because
every time Fox has the Cowboy game. He will be
calling the game. He will not be calling a Cowboy
game next week because Fox does not have the Cowboys week.
But Brady was back on Fox calling the Cowboy Ravens
game and a misleading final score as the stat Bandito
(10:09):
did it yet again, Dak Prescott garbage time stats, but
Brady taking shrapnel yet again. So the latest on this
a longtime sports writer and award winning best selling author
Don Van Natta. You know who that is? Now you
don't know who that is? Yeah, and nobody knows who
writers are anyway, this guy ripped Tom Brady's voice. This
(10:32):
thing started bouncing around, and people said, oh, yeah, that's
the problem Brady's got. You don't have the pipes your thoughts.
So I think this is fair criticism. I believe this
is actually fair criticism here. And it goes back to
the point that Brady was never supposed to be a broadcaster. No,
he wasn't. It's not like he dreamed his little key
I want to I have a voice for broadcasting. No, No,
(10:54):
Tom Brady is a football player. He's a three hundred
and fifty million dollar stimonial to the jockocracy of broadcasting.
But you look at the voice range for Tom Brady,
and he's got more of a tenor voice, more of
a high pitched voice. And as was pointed out, when
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he's teamed up with Kevin Burkhart, who's got this baritone voice,
it creates a problem. You've got extremes not great, and
you toss in the biggest issue. Brady sounded the way
he sounds, but was actually given good commentary that would
be okay, But he sucks. That's a problem, right, I mean,
he's generic cliche Phil Tom Brady commentary. But the blas,
(11:39):
the blas, the Brady blas and the broadcast booth, you're
still waiting for that amazing inside, that engaging wisdom. But
ease to go give him time. Three hundred and fifty
million dollars. I gotta give him time. That three hundred
fifty miili. I gotta give the guy time. How much
time should I give the guy? Well, six hundred million
(12:00):
to get something good right away? Is that what it takes?
Six hundred million?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Me?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Brady to me sounds like and I was at the
Rams game, but I had the I was flipping around
on my computer watching various games. But Brady sounds to
me like he's merely a copycat, like he's doing what
he thinks an NFL broadcaster is supposed to do, which
is just mimicking what everyone else does. There's nothing original there.
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It's just a ripoff version. It's like somebody decided here's
what a broadcast is gonna be years ago, and Brady's
just okay. I bet you didn't even watch a lot
of football broadcasts growing up. It's certainly not in the
NFL because he was playing and all that stuff, and
so it's it's nothing unique, it's nothing original. It's just
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another voice out in the sea of audio, is what
it is. And just like us, it was just a
voice in the night, just a voice in the night,
a lonely voice in the night. But we are here
for if you'd like to be part, you can join us.
Speak easy rules, I guess are an effect where it's
no holiday. As far as I know it's holiday, I'll
end them. But I don't think it's a holiday. But
we will take your calls. If you want to be part,
(13:09):
you can join us. Also, every line is open by
the ways, you can get right in, there's no waiting.
And also on X at Ben Mahlor, that is at
Ben Mahlor if you'd like to be part of said program.
And one NFL coach had the opportunity to speak up
about a great injustice but decided he would rather have
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his cash. We'll get to that and we will do
it next.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
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Speaker 4 (13:46):
The Ben Maller Show is not a look at me operation,
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at right now through the radio glass. Eddie Garcia is
not and he is in Pittsburgh, So I'll be fun
a loser.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, what's going on over there? Is there building a
legal land over there? Or what I don't know? Is
he traveling back by stagecoach?
Speaker 5 (14:15):
How uncomfortable though? Do you think that uh that plane
ride is?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I don't know. I don't think they're leaving. I think
they're staying like an extra day or something.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
They are still even after what happened.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I apparently I don't know. There's no direct flights out
of Pittsburgh. So did Eddie start crying? What happened?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Well, justin Herbert got hurt.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, and also got hurt. Also, they both got hurt.
The two star players got hurt. That's real charge of
football right there. That's those first couple of weeks they
were pretending. But that's the Chargers. That's it right there. Yes,
very impressed.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Well by the way, Ben, your messages are prized some
more than others.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Does that mean we get it back to you? Now?
I'm a little annoyed by two things. You've already annoyed
me and we You are not even half a house show.
You you leave the door open, which is very odd.
Why would you leave the door open. You're in a studio,
you're in a broadcast studio. Leave the leave the door closed.
There's no need to leave the door open. Okay, that's
the first thing. Okay, number two. I don't appreciate the
(15:16):
stalker photo. I don't like it. Again, I posted on
social media. What's already out there, out there. You can't
you can't delete it. It's out. But it's very odd
that you would do that. It's a little well you've
done it to me, so I've never I've never done Yeah,
you remember when I was you know, I didn't send
that out, though.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
You did.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I didn't know I sent that. I showed that to
Eddie and the people here that went out. No, I
don't think that. But that's okay, I can. I don't
think it went out. It did? It didn't go Did that?
Did that go out? Cooper? That photo go out?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, the one one like a long time ago, he
took a picture of me shaving in the studio.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
He took a picture of that. Yeah, but I think
I sent that out. I think that was just for
us and I said that.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Definitely was I think one of like, I don't know
that Ben sent it out.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
But oh yeah, see I didn't send it out. I
wouldn't send it up. Eddie I allowed to take the photo.
It was either Roberto was that? Who was that?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Who the born up?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I think it might have been. See, I am not
the one. I did not send it out, but totally
take it because the violation was broke. Eddie broke the
violation of trust years ago. He took a terrible photo
of me and sent it out and Eddie takes the
worst photos of anybody. But you know, all I'm trying
to do is promote the show. I'm really trying to
help out here.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I mean, well, so he's got a lot of followers, Ben,
Yeah he does.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh yeah, he got like two hundred, like seven thousand,
seven thousands. But let me tell you this, Ben, the
reason I.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Did and ninety four.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
How many of those plus six? How many of those
are bots? None? Are you sure about that? Why not?
I I don't pay for followers. I don't even do that.
I don't either, but people do. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
By the way, the reason that this is open is
is if you close the door in this studio, it echoes.
So I do it for the purpose. I just want
the show to be clean and clear. For the door close. Really,
Eddie has the door close. He also has no lights
on it here. He's kind of gargoyle ish.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
He doesn't come out either.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
He stays in there with the lights off.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, he says that he does not move at all.
He we don't even know he can walk, Eddie. Sometimes
I don't know if he's in there.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Sometimes I walk out and he walks in, and he
doesn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's about right. That seems seems about right.
Sometimes he's here and doesn't say anything the whole time
he's here. It's it's wild, wild and crazy. Anyway, it
is the Ben Maller Show. As we are just beginning
the fun here. Uh, Tiger Man in Utah says, not shocking.
Ben forgot to mention big wins by Lsu Utah and
(17:45):
b Yu. Yeah, that's it's stuff just slipped under the radar,
clearly under the radar. U d on the Mallard monologues,
is stuck in Sacramento. You need to stay a Dodger.
Homer and Lee the week with showtime and Mookie bottom
of the ninth winning us the game. Yeah, you need
back to back home to meet the Rockies in the ninth.
(18:06):
Then they come up embarrassing, that's slightly embarrassing, he says.
I'm counting the days till I get to get out
of He says Sacramento, and he says it with some
gusto there and visit Chavez Ravine Ferk Dogs has best
performance of the weekend. Are Ben's Rams comeback win against
(18:26):
the Niners. Now, where's all Niner fans? Where they and
Finley's Bruins covering on an especially humid day in Baton Rouge.
Worst performance has to be Eddie's Chargers, but Eddie'll claim
he's a Steeler fan. H Robin Vegas says, who the
F did I piss off to deserve this? You're telling
me I have to listen to tennis updates on that?
(18:50):
Are you gonna give any tennis updates? Brian? You're planning
on any tennis? No, because all the majors are done
for the year. Okay, any w NBA? Possibly you want
to Clark, I didn't have any in the chamber. Okay,
all right, well that's good. There you go. Shane and
Moyes says, I have a big board top ten, big
but I don't listen. We don't do this, so you
(19:12):
do big board. People who should replace Brian Finley in
the update studio? So okay, here are the people? Are
you prepared for this brand? This is what Shane into
morn would like instead of you and I guess the
first is it Ronald McDonald. I'll start at number ten.
He has Bronnie James. Oh, we'd like you to be
replaced by Bronnie James. He has Yasser era Fat. I
(19:34):
don't think he's available at number nine, Ilo at number eight,
Monsee's at number seven, Osama bin Laden again not available
at number six. I want you ahead a blind Emmett
the Seahawk fan, George H. W. Bush at number four,
George W. Bush at number three, and then he just
(19:55):
puts Stalin at number two, so he wants Stalin and
then Kelly in Nashville at number one.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
So I take that as a badge of pride that
he doesn't want me, because no matter what I do,
he'll never like me. And you know what, been not
everybody in life is going to like you.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's true. People hate me all the time. Yeah yeah,
Jason in Kansas City says ten out of ten of
the Malley monologue, the Falcons got screwed by the officials,
but that's okay. They are in a division with the
fraud teams of the Bucks and the Saints. Seriously, how
do you get blown out by this year's Denver Broncos? Who?
(20:31):
I don't know. Coop's excited about that though, What a
dumb thing to do. Broncos took a couple of games.
Sean Payton, Hey, all of a sudden. You put up
a real offense, well kind of a real but that
defense seven pole that Buccaneers the seven points in that game.
The Buccaneers guilty of smelling themselves a little bit after
(20:53):
beating the Lions, everyone saying how great they were, right
to beat the Lions in Detroit all that. Yeah, so, uh, no,
boat Knicks was not you. You would admit Koopy was
not amazing. Yeah, I mean the numbers were not shockingly
good or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
But compared to the first two games, he was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Well he was averaging. Yeah, the first couple of games
it was like three yards of pass, so he's up
to like six. He was up to six in this game,
so he's double this like sevens a he like below average.
But Baker Mayfield was so crappy it didn't it didn't
really matter. So anyway, Uh, that's let's go to the phones.
I will say hello to Bennett the Comedian. People excited
(21:37):
that the Cowboy fan will not be calling. I don't
know if he's around anymore. We haven't heard from a while.
Cowboy Dan, what's going on, Bennett the Comedian? It's your birthday, Bennett.
We can't do a shout out for you, Ben, And
I'm sorry we're not a morning zoo show. I wish
we could do it. Can't do that, not allowed to
do a shout out. But but how ol are you? Bennett?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I'm not, I'm not. My goodness, I'm doing pretty good.
How about you?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I didn't say how you do when I asked how
old you are? He's obviously seen I'm sixteen six and
man six? Okay, sixteen years old? This guy and and
Loraina is calling you? See now, how dare you? Loraen?
Shame on you.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I think he's had higher hopes for you. I thought
you were nicer than that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
And puzzle to day, Yes, she said she has. She
runs hot and cold. Sometimes she's very nice and an
other times she'll punch you in the face.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, I'm sure she's a very lovely person.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And my apologies to her. Yes, anyway, how can we
help you? Bet? Your birthday? Big birthday celebration, sixteen, this
magical birthday? Wondering not much?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I mean we went to the Mariners game, got to
see the Mariners beat the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh all right, birthday? Okay, someone say that would be torture,
But all right, I got you.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, they're a game and a half out of the
final wild card Spy. You just watch Ben, you just watch?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Wow? I mean I listened. I don't know if I watched.
I mean, it's only is like the week. It's a
week to go, is it? It's like the last week
the season, right, we're down with a week down a week?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, but that's I mean, that's about it. I was
gonna call, How's Cam?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
How's comedy going are you? How's the comedy world?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
You?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You? You make your debut on the Talent show Men
at the Comedian you did some standard.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I've not made a debut yet. I've been working on
my comedy stuff. All right, it's coming along.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You want to you want to give us a joke?
Real quick?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You want to give.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You a joke? Okay, let me think?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
All right, all right, ten seconds. You're listening to Bennett
the Comedian. He's coming up with a joke right now.
I'm sure we're gonna laugh our asses off because it's
his birthday. He's just turned sixteen years old. This guy,
he's in the minor league system for Fox Sports Radio. Yes,
all right, Bennett, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
So there was this father he had two identical twins
and one one twin was an optimist, the other was
a pessimist, always complained about everything, and then the other
one always was always, you know, looking for the best.
And so one day it was both of their birthday,
it was their birthdays, and he bought the pessimist every
(24:15):
toy that he could think of that a ten year
old would want, toys, trucks, everything doesn't matter. So he
bought them the pessimist toys. And then for the optimist,
he dumped a whole truckload of manure in the Optimist's room.
So a couple hours later he went into the pessimist room.
My bad, I can't say the word, and he heard
(24:38):
a bunch of crying and he went in there. He's like,
what's going on, bud, And the pestsmist said, oh, all
my friends are going to be jealous and they're going
to have to buy me batteries and everything. And he
didn't like all the toys. So he went down the
hall to the optimist room and the optimist was jumping
up and down for joy and all the horse manure.
(24:58):
He said, why are you so happy? Son said, because
there's got to be a pony in here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Someday, Ben, it's gonna have his own multi media deal.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh yeah, you just wait.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yeah, Oh, Bennett, very very nice. Happy birthday, buddy. We
don't do shoutouts, so I can't really give you a
real happy Bertha. Oh there he goes, Bennett the Comedian
got a hardy befall from from Brian Finlay the Hearty.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Steelers play Perfect knocking down the Chargers twenty perfect.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You think they played perfect, I mean they stayed perfect. Well,
you said they played a perfect game. I mean you
say perfect. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Well, in baseball, you can throw in baseball, Ben, you
can have a perfect game.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Why can't you have a perfect game in the NFL?
It's the same thing. It's twenty points. That's not that
many points, and it's like they're justin fields. Is doing
barely enough? Well, going back by his standards, he had
a great game.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We're going back to your friend one interception, were going
back to your friend Bennet, who called, I'm just an optimist.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You're a pessimist, So I think it was perfect. So
that's all. Yeah, fighting words. Take that. And then lastly,
I'll throw it back to you. Your headphones are not
even on properly. You've got to pull them up high. No,
because I like to hear.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I have one on my ear and one just off
so I can hear anything that's going on outside.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Nothing going on outside, there's nothing else going I'm always
on the lookout. You never know what's happening. I always
the door. I did that for you. Thank you, you've
closed the door. But now you've annoyed me because your
headphones are like they're like this, they like that. What's
wrong with that? It's a dumb look, a dumb look.
What's not a dumb look?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Eagles scoring all of their points in the fourth quarter
and fifteen to twelve.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Still the update. Yeah, we're going to go into our
two with Brian uh Bryan's work. I got through some
of the games. Back to your jeez, pick up the pace.
It is the Ben Mallards Show. As we are rolling,
let's go to the phones. We'll say a lot of
Andre who is in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Ben, it's
(27:14):
good to be with you this evening. Hello.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
I apologize, Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Is it Willis bothering you? Your dog Willis is willis
messing with you?
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Actually, Ben, I was out of town. I had to
take a trip down in New Jersey. So Willis is
in the kennel right now. But we're gonna gonna go
pick him up and he'll be back in.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The mixt Why are the dramatic side by Loreno? What
do you kennels are like dog jail? Ben? Maybe maybe
he's at a good kennel. Maybe the kennel's spoiling him
with biscuits and Scooby treats and all that possible.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
I believe he's being spoiled, Ben, And I've also re
upped on my my snacker Rudis. He does good when
he goes. He likes he's a friendly guy, so he
likes to be around the other dog. So I think,
you know, he's having a good time and he's he's
whooping it up so on and forth. But speaking of
good times, our friend mister Tom Brady, it's in a
little bit of upsill climb as he starts his broadcasting
(28:03):
career out. I think he's going to get it. I
think he's going to be a quick study, you know,
always start at the top, right, you gotta work your
way up. I think he's gonna become more and more inclined.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
What right, What would what would give you that feel?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Like?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
What?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Because he's already rich, he doesn't need the job, right,
he's already super there's nothing like people generally that succeeded
stuff do it because it's their motivated. Like Brady, I
don't think this is his life's dream to be a broadcaster.
He just happened. They offered him a lot of money
and he took the job. Like I don't. I don't
understand that mindset like he's doing it. I don't think
(28:40):
he's particularly good at it. That's fine, but I don't
think he's gonna get much better at it either.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Yeah, but for me, Ben, you know, he has certainly
a type a personality. So whatever he's involved in, he's deeply.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
In there because you don't understand, though, to be good
at that job, you have to rip people. And Brady
doesn't want to be unliked by people. But to be
really good as a broadcast, you have to criticize people.
You have to say that throw sock, that quarterback sucks,
that coach stinks, he don't want to do it, and
maybe he'll put me wrong. But to me, to be
good at that job, you have to be critical, and
(29:13):
I don't think he'll be critical.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Yeah, of course you have. You have to bring new
information into the into the lexicon, into the conversation, into
the public space, and a lot of times athletes, but
I don't think ben in conclusion, it's not really unique
to Tom Brady and this whole new medium movement. None
of the athletes want to ask those piercing critical.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Questions, and they mostly suck. I agree, I don't disagree
with that. They're mostly terrible. That's why Charles Barkley Barkley
a lot of people, even though he played, but Barkley
will rip everybody. He's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Yeah, and that's always been Barkley's m O. You know,
he's always you know, I'm going to mean what I
say and say what I mean. So it's made for
a successful quer but then wet. But in terms of
Tom Brady, again, I think he'll get find his niche,
so they'll get into a groove. He's not going to be,
you know, an intrepid reporter, breaking storage, but he'll be
a solid broadcaster. Because you need to be around the game.
He has to have something in his life. These guys,
(30:07):
you know, they have trouble as we know, but Bill
Belichick has to get it behind back on the sideline.
You know they don't do great when they get away
from football. The safe personality.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Thanks checking the cut all right there he goes an
Andre checking in from Jersey this morning. Not his normal Commonwealth,
No dog willis so. Rahee Morris had a chance to
defend his football team and to call out the referees
who clearly botched the end of the game, giving the
advantage to Kansas City. A clear and obvious pass interference
(30:36):
called it would have been Atlanta first and goal with
the one yard line and a chance to take the
lead against Kansas City. But instead, Rahee Morris decline to
discuss the decision not to call past interference against his
tight end, saying I like my money, is what he said.
So he chose money over defending his team. Who goofed?
(30:57):
I've got to know time now for the who am I? Game?
Green Bay's Josh Jacobs caught his two hundredth career pass
on Sunday. He still has not caught a touchdown pass
only I have more career catches without a touchdown catch.
Who am I? That is the question, the answer. We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
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Speaker 4 (31:31):
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(31:51):
shows for every man, woman, child and reptile. Now back
to Big Ben, as he is mooning all night, we'd.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Like to well, you feel it's Brian taped. He's out
so we won't have to have him interrupt us. There,
he taped out. He's on his way home right now,
so we're good on that. Thank god. Here is the
who am I? Game? Green Bay's Josh Jacobs. That's weird
to say still, it's only been a few weeks to
see has played with the Packers after coming out from
the Raiders. Anyway, Josh Jacobs caught his two hundred career
(32:22):
pass on Sunday, but he still has not caught a
touchdown pass. Only I have more career catches without a
touchdown catch in NFL history. Who am I? That is
the question. That's the question. What's the answer? Matt the
Warrior Raider fan going with Harry Sidney as his answer.
(32:45):
Hacksaw Jim Duggan from Rob in Vegas, Andy from Lion o'
lakes in Minnesota going with Kobe Bryant's uncle Chubby Cox
as his answer. Who else do we have? NFL Zebras
from Freddie Rusher Guests by Alf the alien o Piner
Stretch Armstrong a very distant relative of Alligator Arms, Boy Boy,
(33:08):
Alligator Arms Murray Man Boy he may I actually took
him on the TV show and boy well, great effort
by him. What a gutless loser that guys? Far out
day with Conway Twitty is his answer. George Orda from
mister nice Guy, Who's actually not a nice guy? James
Brooks from Steve the Misplaced San Diegan ferg Dog going
(33:30):
with Deshaun Foster as his answer, James says, captain of
the two thousand USC Trojans, Petros Papadakis. Who else we have?
Jimmy Taylor from King Rory, Jamal Charles guests by Andrew
in the Bay Area. Justin went with Eddie Lacy, who's
looking really good by the way, he's in shape. He's
ready to play. Dick Lane better known by his knight
(33:51):
and his nickname from brad In Lost Wagers, Nevada, the
dream Catcher, Brian Finley from Stevie Meetpa, Florida. Who else
do we have? Page down? Jeremy Shockey from Robin, Minnesota.
Let's see page down. A lot of Mercury Morris. As
he passed away over the weekend, people saying their tributes said,
(34:14):
do you have an answer? Quick by? Quick bye? Tina Fay,
Tina Fay. That's a terrible answer. Shame on you. The
correct answer to the who am I game? Long lost
running back Gerald Riggs? Gerald Rigg? Who had twit? What
So Jacobs is closing in on the all time record?
(34:35):
You can do it, Josh Jacobs, I
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