January 17, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the passing of legendary Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker at age 90 and reflects on his life, why Pete Alonso and the Mets are going to part ways, Packers GM Brian Gutekunst saying the Packers need to ramp up the sense of urgency, Lame Jokes of the Week, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Knock, knock, who's there? It's our number three, Hour three,
the original Recipe podcast, as we break it all down
for you, and a tip of the microphone, tip of
the headphones. Here in our three, as we bid a
doo to longtime Milwaukee sportscaster Brewers broadcaster Bob Yuker, who
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died at age ninety, And what are your reflections on
a life well lived by Bob Yucker? He was a
national broadcaster, was on late night TV in America, had
his own TV show, was all over the place. And
why are Pete Alonso and the Mets going to part ways?
We'll talk about that. Also in football, Brian Gudukunst wants
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the Packers SGM there in Green Bay. He wants the
Packers to ramp up a sense of urgency. How do
you decode what that means? We'll get to all of
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to say. But our lead this hour a melancholy lead
from Milwaukee. We paused the NonStop football chatter or a
tip of the headphones and a nod of the microphone.
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One of the great characters of our life as sports fans,
has checked out, has left this mortal coil. And we
assume you've heard by now, but perhaps not Bob Buker.
Bob you you know that is? You know Bob. Everyone
knows Bobyuker, right. You don't know who Bob Yukers? How
do you not know who Bob Ukers? Bob Buker who
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had a day job. He was the voice of the
Milwaukee Brewers on the radio, did the play by play,
didn't play in the major leagues very long, had a
short career in the major leagues, but was beloved, ended
up in the Hall of Fame. He ended up in
the Hall of Fame as a broadcaster, and he earned
the nickname mister Baseball Bob Buker. He died at the
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age of ninety. Statement prepared statement from the family and
the Brewers that the voice of the Brewers, Bob Buker,
the voice of the team over fifty years. He had
a private battle with lung cancer and that was back
starting in early twenty twenty three, and so Bob Buker
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dying here the voice of the Brewers starting in nineteen
seventy one. Now to put that in perspective. The Brewers
had only been in Wisconsin for a year at that time.
It was the second year he took over a year
two they had been the Seattle Pilots, and he remained
on that job until his death. From nineteen seventy one
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until this week, Bob Buker had the play by play,
had the microphone of the Milwaukee Brewers. And he's known
nashally for being a comedic voice multiple TV shows and whatnot.
That amazing tale from a guy as a baseball player.
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As a baseball player, not not much going on, right,
not much. He played in Saint Louis and he was
part of a world series friends with Bob Gibson, Tim
mccarvers and legends back in those days in the nineteen
sixties for the Saint Louis Cardinals. But the questions we
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discuss here Bob Buker dying at the age of night,
what are your reflections of his life? So I've got
on the bench, the fumble Ruski, and the inter tube.
But the first part of this is gonna be all
about Bob Yuker. So Bob Yucher was Prince Charmie with
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a sense of humor. Prince CHARMI didn't have the matine
idol looks. He always didn't make it because he was
a good looking dude, but he was charismatic. He had
this magnetic personality which people just gravitated to self deprecating humor.
He was willing to laugh at himself and a life
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well lived.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I was lucky enough to meet Bob Buker a few
times in my journey in gas baggery here my travels.
Some of you may know back in the day, I
was lucky enough to have a job where I traveled
around with the the Doyers when they sucked, not now
that they're good, but anyway, one of my fondest memories
was when I was futching around with the Dodgers and
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we were at the old County Stadium in Milwaukee, and
it was late in the year. It was like it
was like August. It was kind of a hot day
in Milwaukee and was humid and you know, kind of nasty.
It was a getaway day. It was a day game
for the Bruis. Dodger had to go to the next town,
so they played a day game and it was pre game.
There was like a breakfast. I didn't eat the breakfast
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in the media dining room, and Bob Yuker was in
there and he was regaling some of the media blowhards
with stories. I was just sitting in there and telling
stories about his days as a player, his days on
Mister Belvidere, which was a TV show, and all, you know,
all these different stuff he did, like a blooper show,
like a sports high lighted. I mean, he had a
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syndicated TV show, did a bunch of stuff. I also
at Dodger Stadium one time, I was a fly on
the wall and I overheard a conversation between Vin Scully
and Bob Yuker. They would schmooze and go back and forth.
And so those are fond memories I have. But Bob
Bucker spent a lot of time as a player on
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the bench, and he made a lot of jokes about it.
But he ended up now that we can look back
and do the retrospective on his life. He was on
the bench, but he was a men on the bench
is what he was. Bob Yuker's stand up guy. He
did the World series. The first World series I covered
was Man a long time. It's twenty eight years ago.
Nineteen ninety seven, the Marlins played the Cleveland Indians and
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Bob Uker called that world series. If I remember correctly,
it was Bob Buker, Joe Morgan, and I believe Bob
Costas I think called that world series. But he was
there calling the network broadcast and people's loved me. He
was a sweetheart guy. He had that Bengali effect. Great storyteller,
and that's how you end up. Back when people used
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to watch late night television before it all went woke
and people would you know, people tuned in every net.
It was like must see TV to see late night TV.
The most famous person in America when I was a
kid was Johnny Carson, and Bob Yuker appeared on that show.
I think it was one hundred times, which is either
the most or it's in the top five appearances on
that show, which was a big deal at the time.
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It was a really big deal, and it was all
about self deprecation in this mesmerizing ability to tell stories,
the deadpan delivery that he had, and for a guy
that really wasn't much of a baseball player and was
doing games in Milwaukee, to end up as a character
on a sitcom. I mentioned, mister Belvidere. That's pretty big.
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But the biggest role of them all, without a doubt,
if you're around my age, was Harry Doyle, the sarcastic,
inebriated broadcaster for the Cleveland Indians in the Major League
in nineteen eighty nine. They made two other movies after that,
but the original was Where It's At And so many
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lines that Bob Buker, we are told, just ad libbed.
Many of those are still used today, all these years later.
That piece of pop culture still lives in the nonsense
that Bob Buker said, Yes, a bit outside right ball twelve,
you know that kind of thing, all right now. Secondly,
we're gonna move away from Bobyker. We'll get back to
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him in a little bit, but I wanted to move
with some other stuff going on to the Pinwheel goes
round and round over to the Big Apple. We have
learned now that Pete Alonzo he has rejected. Peter Alonzo
has rejected a three year contract offer from the New
York Mets, an offer that would have paid Pete Alonzo
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about seventy million bucks, and the Metropolitans have already supposedly
moved on they're pivoting away from the Polar Bear. So
the question for the class is why why would Peter Alonzo?
Why would Peter Alonzo not agree to that deal? Why
are they parting ways? He why would he not agree
to the contract? So after spending a few good minutes
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trying to figure this one out, and I'm not a
Mets fan, I got no skin in the game on this.
This is an epic misjudgment and there's some machismo involved
in this because you've got the Polar Bear who essentially
pulled a FuMB oh roosk, a fumble Rooski, the old
trick play that backfired. Is it true that Peter Alonzo
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rejected said no, I don't want your deal, a seven
year offer for in the neighborhood of one hundred and
sixty million a year ago. He bet on himself, Peter Alonzo,
And the thinking is that the Polar Bear, because of
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New York and all the home runs, he hits that
that branding would pay off in spades. Well, who goofed,
I've got to know in the eyes of the Mets,
one year and Peter Alonzo can no longer get a
seven year contract. He can only get a three year contract.
Now this is not over yet. There could be a
one eighty. There could be a one eighty here where
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they go back the other direction. However, clearly the Mets
are at at best. They're turning the screws on a line.
So they're using their media friends. They're useful idiots in
the media to put pressure on the polar Bear for
Pete's sake, And there's really no obvious fallback option for
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a guy like Pete Alawnza. Where are you gonna go
ahead and lose a bunch of games for the Giants
for half a year and they get traded somewhere else
to a contender, or the Toronto Blue Jays, or the
Angels or my favorite mystery team. I love the mystery team.
When you look at Alonso, he's not old, but he's aging.
He's over the age of thirty at this point. He's
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essentially a one trick player. He hits a lot of
home runs, and home runs are important, but she got
to do a little bit other than that, and he
bet on himself. He did not have the kind of
year to get rewarded, and he has shown obvious signs
of decay and rotting over the last couple of years.
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So he's he's so upset he turned down the big
contract seven years. He can to save face, he can't
agree to the three year contract. So now he's gonna
have to run off and go play for the Brewers
or the Blue Jays or the Twins or something like that.
A right final fun turning the page to the NFL
parsing the words on these end of season eulogies that
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are going on from NFL executive Now, Brian Gudakuns, got
to make sure you say that game that name slowly.
That is a tough name, Goudacuns. So he wants the
Packers to ramp up, ramp up their sense of urgency.
He made these comments this week, you ramp up the
sense of urgency. So how do you decode this? How
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do you decode So he said that we got a
bunch of good guys here, a bunch of talented players
and all that, but he said the sense of urgency
to win Super Bowls that they need to improve that.
So by the process of a limit nation, this is
a referendum, an indirect referendum, scattershot style. At Matt LeFleur,
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the coach of the green Bay Packers. Now, Guda Kust
implied that some of the guys were slacking off. Otherwise
you wouldn't need a sense of urgency and less players
were floating on an inner tube, drinking a cocktail, going
round the lazy river, lolly gagging. May I add they
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were satisfied to be in the playoffs. Now, I gotta
tell you, it looked like that's a team that was
not ready to play. They gave a half hearted effort
in Philadelphia. The Eagles were plumbed to be beaten, they
were primed for the beaten, and green Bay came out.
It's hard to argue that they were not locked in
in that game. They did not have a sense of urgency.
They fumbled the opening bloody kickoff. They fumbled the opening kickoff.
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Jordan Love tossed three interceptions, two of them while the
game was in the margins. It was a royally pathetic performance,
is what it was. I see the Ben Mahlor show.
Hopefully this is not royally pathetic, but you will be
the judge of that. I mess. We're gonna have lame
jokes coming up a little bit later in the hour.
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Big Ben's lame jokes of the week time. Now for
the mallor Riddle of the day, the malor riddle of
the day, and will honor mister Baseball one more time,
the late great Bob Bucher. Back in his day, Bob
Buker was the victim of blank from Andre the Giant
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backstage at WrestleMania. Again, Bob Buker was the victim of
blank from Andre the Giant backstage at wrestle Mania when
that was a big deal. That is the mallor riddle
of the day. The answer, We'll to it and we'll
take your calls. We'll do it all. We will do
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it next.
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jokes are later, Bill, that's not in the copy. The
lame jokes are later. They're not they're not right now. Yeah,
you gotta pay off the malor Riddle of the day
and then we'll take some of these calls. Mallar Riddle
of the day. Here it is, mister baseball. Bob Ucker
was the victim of blank from Andre the Giant backstage
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at WrestleMania. That is the Mallard riddle of day. Ferg
Dog says, victim of a low blow. Andre call the
poor Bob a dim bulb. Your so emotion, you're so emotional.
Luke the vending guy says, I want to be interactive. Congratulations,
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Ashure right, since says a three sixty No scope is
the answer? Jay Dot in Utah says the answer that
Bob Bucker was a victim of Andrea the Giant feeding
him poisoning tacos or poison tacos. Who else do we
have victim of writing in a Volkswagen Beetle from Late
Night drug tester? Who else do we have? Page down?
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I can't read that? Skip over that one crop dusting
from Fudgie in Boston. King Rory with a similar answer,
A Dutch oven, which man's you don't want to get
that one, right, La, that's a tough Why would you
be under the blankets with him?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I know, right? A little awkward voyeurism from Kelly, that's
his answer. Alf went with a French oven as his answer,
with just a cousin of the Dutch oven. Mike the
Leprechaun says, Yuker and Hall Cogan had a pillow fight.
What about Andrea the Giant? A beer bath from Eke
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in Roseville, Minnesota. Craig got it right, obviously, either cheating
or he's my age, one of those two things. Who
else do we have? JT the Wingman says that Uker
was the victim of a swirly from Andre the Giant. Okay,
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you know that promo that airs? I think we're the
only ones that here here there's a promo for the
Odd Couple, and I'm pretty sure JT the Wingman's in there,
and I think he was talking about our show, But
I don't. It sounds like his voice to me. Every
time I hear that promo, like that sounds to me
like JT the Wingman. But I don't know one of
the guys that like sucking up to Rob Park and
those guys. Douglas writes in from Mississippi, says, uh oh,
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he got it right. Bad job by him. Let's see here,
Kelly in Iowa, a giant body slam. A giant body
slam Deacon Blues as an aggressive prostate exam using the
whole fist wow body slam guessed by Gunner the influencer
from Minnesota. Slim Tim got it right? Who else we have?
Dad Gummet says, Happy Friday, Go Rams. Okay, that's not
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really it's not really an answer to the question. Kathy
and Madison just bummed out that Bob Bucher's not with
us anymore. Do you have an answer, Lorraine?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Ah, yes, Ben, I believe he was a victim of
towel whipping.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Towel whipping, all right, is towel whipping the answer? No?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I really thought that was going to be it.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's a solid guest here. Bob Bucher was the victim
of a public choking from Andre the Giant's backstage at
Dussel Maya nineteen eighty eight. It is interesting to note, though,
that when when Bob Buker crossed over into into media,
it was really his appearances on Johnny Carson that got
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him all these other jobs and stuff, because he was
so funny on there, and that was such a big show.
But one of the gigs he got he was the
ring announcer. Now, this might not matter if you're like
younger than I am, you probably don't care, you think, boy,
shut up, Boomer. But when I was a kid. It
was Hulk Cogan versus Andre the Giant in WrestleMania three
at the Silver Dome in Pontiac, Michigan. And that was
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that was the ring. Bob Yucker was the ring announcer
for that. That was a massive deal, massive deal. It
was huge at the at the time. So anyway, all right,
Ben Maler show as we press on here, Stuck in
Sacramento says, I remember, Ben, when you covered the Doyers
back when you were in the nickname Big Ben Mallard.
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Did you ever hang out with Yuker and the sort
of that would have been one hell of a meat
ball and lasagna dinner. There you go, Hopefully they invite
you to Ben to a Italian meal in the afterlife,
says Stuck in Sacramento, who says Sacramento sucks. Never in
the same room withsorta Losorta and Yuker. But Tommy was
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crazy because when the Dodgers were winning, he was in
a great mood. He was everybody's buddy. And then when
they were losing, he would be spitting food. He'd always
eat when they lost. When they won, he never ate.
And I was at the game the last time a
Major League baseball game was forfeited. Was a Dodger Cardinal game,
and Losorta incited the crowd to throw It was ball night,
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the last ball night ever at Dodger Stadium, where they
gave the balls out before the game and it was
raining down baseballs. They had to forfeit the game and
the ninth inning because there were so many people up.
There was a controversial call, but never in the same
room with Losorda and uk Let's get to the phone,
say who are we. Let's go to Hank in Tokyo.
What's going on? Hank in Tokyo.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Welcome, Hey man, This isn't why I called. But didn't
Uker hit a home run off of Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I don't have that. I don't remember that. Maybe he did, Yeah,
I'm pretty sure it did. Pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Anyway, I was playing along at home with your who
am I for which the answer was Kurt Warner. Yeah,
and I guess I got it wrong. But how where
was Mark Sanchez on that list?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I don't I don't have to listen in front of me.
But there is one hundred and fifty or or worse
the odds to win the Super Bowl, and now keep
up Water one night won the division, but that was
nineteen ninety eight. He was actually he was a rookie.
He played in nineteen He was on the team in
nineteen ninety eight, but he didn't play, so he was
a rookie in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
But Mark Sanchez's Jets were trash and he I can,
I can look.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
It up if you want. It just really bothers you.
You're annoyed by this? You want me to look this up?
Don't you want me to look up the odds. I'm
going to the odds archive and look it up if
you want. I can't do it right the second, but
I will look it up if you want. You're annoyed
by that. You really believe it's Mark Chances. You think
the Jet You realize one hundred and fifty to one though,
are massive odds, Like even most bad teams are like
one hundred to one, not one hundred and fifty to one.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Right, Yeah, Mark Chances and Jets were trash. I my
money of is on that you overlooked it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You think I overlooked You're questioning my integrity that you're
talking about the nine? Are you talking about the nine Jets?
That's what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, all right, I'll
go back and look at the odds for the Nine Jets.
I do not believe I'm overlooking the Nine Jets with
sexy erection rex Ryde because remember the Jets. You have
to remember though, the Jets the year before were nine
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and seven, so they had a winning record. So why
would they be one hundred and fifty to one the
following year They had a winning record with Mangini the
year before eight.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, because they fired Mangini and but they.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But it doesn't matter. They had a winning They had
a winning record.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Until you put me wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You're wrong, No, you're wrong. You don't understand how odds
were if a team had a winning record, it doesn't
matter if they changed the coach, in the quarterback, you're
still not going to be one hundred. Do you realize
how bad you have to be to be one hundred
and fifty to one or worse to win? Uh? You know,
before the season to win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Well, I take d L.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Take d L. Hank. Take d L. Hank in Tokyo.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I have the preseason odds right right here from the
Nine Jets the two thousand and nine NFL preseason odds. Yeah,
the Jets were plus four thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
They were. No, they were not. Look I'm looking at
it right now. No they were not. You're wrong, You're wrong,
You're wrong. I just looked it up.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I don't know what you want what you want from
looking at I don't know what Pro Football Reference dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
No, that's not a gambling website. They don't. No, stop, boomshock.
They don't know what they're talking. Pro Football rets a
nerd site. That's not a gambling site. It's a stat site.
That's not a gambling heard of them.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Historical preseason odds courtesy of sports oddshistory dot com.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Thank you very much, boom.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Take the l hank you lost. He's making that up.
Hoop's making that up over there.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
So one more thing, Uh, every Bill is a great caller,
even before his transformation. He's always been a good caller.
And two more things, Uh, Coop changing his mind on
you winning the Uh? Uh?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
The ask ask that was.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
That was comedy goal, that was not you have to
build whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That's a loss. It's mallard of the third degree. How
dare you? And and there are no all sales are
final once Coop makes his mind up, no gives back.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
It was it was like it was like a reflex
because I had been passing him so often lately, but
I forgot that he had failed.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You said that, you said it the first It was
a pass. It was a pass, Okay. You know how,
It's kind of like when you score a touchdown and
you fumble the ball after you've crossed the goal line,
it's still a touchdown. It doesn't matter. So I crossed
the goal line and I scored a touchdown, and then
maybe there was a fumble after that, but it doesn't
count because I'd already crossed. Everything stopped. Time stops at
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that point.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Mark Sanchez plus four thousand.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You're wrong. You're all wrong. You're completely wrong. All right,
all right, thank you, go away, Hank. I'm glad that
cost you a lot of money, Hank to call the show.
Let's say hello to Let's see who do we have?
Blind Scott is on the North end of Boston. Hello
blind Scott.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Oh Ben, I want to ask a sports question. First,
do you think if the Celtics trade Peyton Richard and
Sam Houser, Like it's just possibility because those guys are
cheap and they could get someone else for them.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Are you panicking because they lay lost to the Atlanta
Hawks the other day? Is that no?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Because I know Peyton Prichard's girls well wife, like my
mom worked with his mother, so I follow them on
social media. Hey, dude, the best thing way to ever
get away from the police, if you want to get
away from him, you go aerial because they don't want
to climb stuff because they could fall and get hurt.
And if you're ever are going to get bit by
one of those police dogs, turn and let it bite
you right in like where your back is, backside, because
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those things will really hurt you.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
You know that's a non sequor. You pivoted from Midcenter
being traded to how to avoid the cops. Yeah, if
you're running away from the cops.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Like, I wasn't a big fan of that angry Bill
comment last hour when he made that comment about the blinds.
You know they're guys, they're real dirt bag. He pretends
like he's nice, but you know he's lived. He's been
a privileged guy his whole life. He's eighty years old
and he's still working and here he is making fun
of from School for the Blind man, it's terrible, Like
I would.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Say, you wouldn't you argue though, if you're eighty year old,
if you're in your eighties and you're still working, you
probably aren't living a privileged life because you're still work.
Like the privileged are the people who get to retire
and don't have to work. That's the privileged life.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yeah, you want me to tell you all about Italy.
I know all about the country because I'm from the
north end. Like Italy. There's Rome, and there's Naples. There's
the Amualt Be Coast. It's in the Mediterranean. In June,
it will be really hot there, one hundred degrees fahrenheit,
like extremely hot with humidity. But it's beautiful. The men there,
they're like romantic type.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I'm a big fan of this Body by Jake. I
can't get enough to be Body by Jake's videos lately.
This is like I love these traumatic stories and a
Body by Jake. He's going through it right now. If
you haven't seen it on social media, you know what
I mean. So I'm a big fan. I'm gonna spend
most of the day watching Body by Jake videos. I
didn't realize he is he really Jake Glade and his brother.
(28:48):
They're both brothers, right, did you know that?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I know, I don't know. I know Jay's brother is
like a big workout. I don't know if that's is
that true?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Maybe it is, dude, This is like a California wildfire story.
They live like within miles of each other, but by
body by Jake's house burned down like he lost everything
in Jake Glaziers, howich is fine? It was like, these
are crazy stories come out of the wildfire.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Like, no, it's terrible, it's horrible. I my one of
my old radio partners, Patrick O'Neil is his home burned
down in the Oh.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
We should go state in front of it, Ben me
and you and get big social media clicks and say
like Saint Pat.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
No, I'm not doing that's terrible. No, that's horrible.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I need, dude, I need a rehabilitation here, you know
what I mean? You know, I need people to come
back to me. So that would be like I got
to get out there, you know, I got to be
out there on the front line. You know.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, all right, well fight You always talk about flying
out to LA and.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, it was a resident in San Francisco once we
were in the tenderloin me and my tough guy buddy
from Boston, and they beat up this guy and I
couldn't get away because I was blind, and the police
made me and the guy that was beat up sitting
in the back of the paddy wagon for a while.
It's like, really really.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Awkward, you know, sure? I bet? Yeah? All right, well,
thank you, thanks for sharing with the class. There he
goes our friend blind Scott Blind is weed Man? There
by the way, do we have the weed Man? Oh?
Are you hello, weed Man? Are you there? Weed Man?
You ready for the jokes? Weed Man? Yes? Yeah? How
many times you've been arrested?
Speaker 4 (30:19):
A lot?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I know that, I know that, But how many?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I like, a hundred times?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
A lot of times?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Really the count?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right? All right, well, hold on, we have a
full giant block of Big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
But and also Ferg Dog says, Ben, you're right, coops
looking up doctor's stats. So Ferg Dog has ruled on that.
So oh sure, that's the the end of it. That's
the end of it. He is the judging moderator on
these type of issues. All right, we met, hold on,
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make me laugh, make me laugh. No, you're not gonna
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how can we be certain that Lizzo's favorite What what
Lizzo's favorite munchy is? Oh, the proof is in the pudding.
(32:40):
That's a surfer, Todd the comedian. How big is Lizzo's mouth?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
How big?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Well, it's so big she eats her subway sandwich sideways sideways.
Noah in Austin and send us that. Did you know
that Lizzo is getting less exercise now than before? Oh yeah,
it only takes her four trips the whole ass instead
of six. George and George and Uvaldi Texas sent that
(33:13):
one in. Why don't we see Lizzo as much as
we used to?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Why?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well, because she's not round anymore. How did Lizzo know
she reached her weight loss goal? How well, it turns
out the moons that used to circle her crash to
the ground. That said, Joe in Virginia Beach, Thank you
(33:40):
for that, Joe. He's were actual jokes by actual listeners.
What did the whales sing when Lizzo jumped into the ocean?
What we are family? That's Kevin from Parts On. No
one sent that one in. When was the last time
weed Man had a shower? When the last time it rained?
(34:02):
That's the last time. That's a circuit tile because it
rains a lot in Miami, so you get a lot
of showers, right, weed Man a lot of rain? Yeah?
I know. Did you know it is finally time to
quit comparing weed Man hippie to crap?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, that's that's because it's degrading the crap. That's why.
That's John in Youngstown, Ohio. Coop, you got any jokes
over there? It's big Ben Lame. Big Ben's lame jokes
of the week. Uh maybe maybe all right, Coops? Thinking
about that. NBC has announced that weed Man and Lizzo
will be replacing Me and Looney next season. Because I've
(34:41):
been writing the vomit comment on my picks. How about
that weed Man?
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Wow? Why?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah? The show's gonna be renamed two Jabbroni's versus a
brainless inanimate object, with Lizzo sometimes singing like Moony and
weed Man scooping up the loose change. That's Tom, very
detailed Tom in parts unknown. Did you know that weed
Man is not just dirty and smelly, he's also a moron? Well, yeah,
(35:09):
that's Tony from the basis. Sorry, I had to sneak
in a fun fact. All right, if someone named a
new country after weed Man, what would it be? What
dirt Bagistan? Noah? Noah in Austin. What is weed Man's
(35:29):
favorite city to live in? What that would be? Weed California? Weed, California.
I love it there. Yeah, that's Kevin in Alaska. We Man,
guys in Alaska are busting your balls? How great is that?
You're annoying people in Alaska? All right, very good. This
(35:52):
one's from Terry and Saint Paul. He says, why didn't
weed Man attend his high school prom? Why he does
not believe been pre marital dating? Well that's why that's
all all all right? What are weed man hippies? Two
known allergies? What money and work? Money and work? That's
(36:14):
Darryl of the Ozarks. Daryl was at the Kansas City
meet and greet. You know he's going through some stuff,
So good luck, Darryl. Kick that kick that behind there.
Why is weed Man a liar? Why? Well, you said
you had no allergies, but everyone knows you're allergic to
work and rose old Minnesota. What happens when weed Man
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gets too high?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Why?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Well you sit on the TV and you watch the
couch Ken Kevin in parts unknown? Why doesn't weed Man
have any close friends? No close friends? Why we've been
you keep smoking your best buds? Man? What's wrong with you? Dude?
That's that's a chip in Maine? Has sent that one?
Jokes over there? Coop a little? Anything at all? What
(37:01):
do you no? Okay? Now, Frank and Fargo sent a
poem in but I can't This is very long, Frank,
it's good, but I roses of red, viles of blue,
and I can't read that poetry because it's too long
for you. All Right, here we go. Let's see what's
hollering James's favorite rock band? What zz's Ezzy Top? That's
(37:27):
Eric in Kansas? Why did Los Angeles run out of
water during the recent wildfires?
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Why?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Two words helmet man? That's from the Marina chef. You
know my yeah, he said weed man. Helmet man said
he takes two hour showers. Two hours in a shower. Yeah,
that is How do you ever shower? Weed man? Or no? Yeah,
oh you do all right? How long are your shower?
(37:54):
Ten minutes? Yeah? About ten minutes? A little less than that.
What do you call it when a snowman throws a tantrum?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
A meltdown? Come on, that's obvious a meltdown. That's Chris
in so Capitol Valley, he says, I guess that's An
in Orange County. Why hasn't Gunner been promoted at Walmart?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Well, he refuses to become a fan of the Waltons
Denver Broncos, so I cannot be promoted. That's Ethan, Roseville, Minnesota.
What is blind Scott's favorite football defense? What? Lights out?
He's a big fan of lights out? That's Eric in Kansas.
Why did cows wear bells? Why? Because their orange don't work?
(38:41):
That's why? That's Kathy and Madison sent that one in.
Did did you hear about the new term to describe
Travis Kelsey's relationship with his girlfriend? Wha? What it's called
being swifty? Whipped is what it's being called. That's a
Gordon in the call the What did Angry Bill say
when he heard Caitlin Clark Stocker was arrested this week?
(39:05):
What he said, there goes my competition. I'm now the
president of the Caitlin Clark fan Club. What did Cayler
Burry say when he didn't have enough cash to tip
his server? What he said? I'm sorry, I'm a little short,
That's what he said. Did you know that Blair and
(39:27):
Mayne called the Queen of Heart segment he would need
he would need the needle or move the needle. Rather
he called the Queen of Hearts segment? Why yeah, yeah, yeah,
because then he would zip up after that's Tony the Bay,
all right, wow. Why don't why don't cannibals cook instant
Why don't cannibals cook instant noodles? Why they prefer raw men?
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Raw men? As tench from Atlanta, thank you, Lame Jokes
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We'll talk about that. Also in football, Brian Gudukunst wants
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from Milwaukee. We paused the NonStop football chatter or a
tip of the headphones and a nod of the microphone.
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One of the great characters of our life as sports fans,
has checked out, has left this mortal coil. And we
assume you've heard by now, but perhaps not Bob Buker.
Bob you you know that is? You know Bob. Everyone
knows Bobyuker, right. You don't know who Bob Yukers? How
do you not know who Bob Ukers? Bob Buker who
(02:55):
had a day job. He was the voice of the
Milwaukee Brewers on the radio, did the play by play,
didn't play in the major leagues very long, had a
short career in the major leagues, but was beloved, ended
up in the Hall of Fame. He ended up in
the Hall of Fame as a broadcaster, and he earned
the nickname mister Baseball Bob Buker. He died at the
(03:17):
age of ninety. Statement prepared statement from the family and
the Brewers that the voice of the Brewers, Bob Buker,
the voice of the team over fifty years. He had
a private battle with lung cancer and that was back
starting in early twenty twenty three, and so Bob Buker
(03:40):
dying here the voice of the Brewers starting in nineteen
seventy one. Now to put that in perspective. The Brewers
had only been in Wisconsin for a year at that time.
It was the second year he took over a year
two they had been the Seattle Pilots, and he remained
on that job until his death. From nineteen seventy one
(04:01):
until this week, Bob Buker had the play by play,
had the microphone of the Milwaukee Brewers. And he's known
nashally for being a comedic voice multiple TV shows and whatnot.
That amazing tale from a guy as a baseball player.
(04:22):
As a baseball player, not not much going on, right,
not much. He played in Saint Louis and he was
part of a world series friends with Bob Gibson, Tim
mccarvers and legends back in those days in the nineteen
sixties for the Saint Louis Cardinals. But the questions we
(04:42):
discuss here Bob Buker dying at the age of night,
what are your reflections of his life? So I've got
on the bench, the fumble Ruski, and the inter tube.
But the first part of this is gonna be all
about Bob Yuker. So Bob Yucher was Prince Charmie with
(05:03):
a sense of humor. Prince CHARMI didn't have the matine
idol looks. He always didn't make it because he was
a good looking dude, but he was charismatic. He had
this magnetic personality which people just gravitated to self deprecating humor.
He was willing to laugh at himself and a life
(05:24):
well lived.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I was lucky enough to meet Bob Buker a few
times in my journey in gas baggery here my travels.
Some of you may know back in the day, I
was lucky enough to have a job where I traveled
around with the the Doyers when they sucked, not now
that they're good, but anyway, one of my fondest memories
was when I was futching around with the Dodgers and
(05:46):
we were at the old County Stadium in Milwaukee, and
it was late in the year. It was like it
was like August. It was kind of a hot day
in Milwaukee and was humid and you know, kind of nasty.
It was a getaway day. It was a day game
for the Bruis. Dodger had to go to the next town,
so they played a day game and it was pre game.
There was like a breakfast. I didn't eat the breakfast
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in the media dining room, and Bob Yuker was in
there and he was regaling some of the media blowhards
with stories. I was just sitting in there and telling
stories about his days as a player, his days on
Mister Belvidere, which was a TV show, and all, you know,
all these different stuff he did, like a blooper show,
like a sports high lighted. I mean, he had a
(06:28):
syndicated TV show, did a bunch of stuff. I also
at Dodger Stadium one time, I was a fly on
the wall and I overheard a conversation between Vin Scully
and Bob Yuker. They would schmooze and go back and forth.
And so those are fond memories I have. But Bob
Bucker spent a lot of time as a player on
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the bench, and he made a lot of jokes about it.
But he ended up now that we can look back
and do the retrospective on his life. He was on
the bench, but he was a men on the bench
is what he was. Bob Yuker's stand up guy. He
did the World series. The first World series I covered
was Man a long time. It's twenty eight years ago.
Nineteen ninety seven, the Marlins played the Cleveland Indians and
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Bob Uker called that world series. If I remember correctly,
it was Bob Buker, Joe Morgan, and I believe Bob
Costas I think called that world series. But he was
there calling the network broadcast and people's loved me. He
was a sweetheart guy. He had that Bengali effect. Great storyteller,
and that's how you end up. Back when people used
(07:34):
to watch late night television before it all went woke
and people would you know, people tuned in every net.
It was like must see TV to see late night TV.
The most famous person in America when I was a
kid was Johnny Carson, and Bob Yuker appeared on that show.
I think it was one hundred times, which is either
the most or it's in the top five appearances on
that show, which was a big deal at the time.
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It was a really big deal, and it was all
about self deprecation in this mesmerizing ability to tell stories,
the deadpan delivery that he had, and for a guy
that really wasn't much of a baseball player and was
doing games in Milwaukee, to end up as a character
on a sitcom. I mentioned, mister Belvidere. That's pretty big.
(08:17):
But the biggest role of them all, without a doubt,
if you're around my age, was Harry Doyle, the sarcastic,
inebriated broadcaster for the Cleveland Indians in the Major League
in nineteen eighty nine. They made two other movies after that,
but the original was Where It's At And so many
(08:38):
lines that Bob Buker, we are told, just ad libbed.
Many of those are still used today, all these years later.
That piece of pop culture still lives in the nonsense
that Bob Buker said, Yes, a bit outside right ball twelve,
you know that kind of thing, all right now. Secondly,
we're gonna move away from Bobyker. We'll get back to
(08:59):
him in a little bit, but I wanted to move
with some other stuff going on to the Pinwheel goes
round and round over to the Big Apple. We have
learned now that Pete Alonzo he has rejected. Peter Alonzo
has rejected a three year contract offer from the New
York Mets, an offer that would have paid Pete Alonzo
(09:20):
about seventy million bucks, and the Metropolitans have already supposedly
moved on they're pivoting away from the Polar Bear. So
the question for the class is why why would Peter Alonzo?
Why would Peter Alonzo not agree to that deal? Why
are they parting ways? He why would he not agree
to the contract? So after spending a few good minutes
(09:45):
trying to figure this one out, and I'm not a
Mets fan, I got no skin in the game on this.
This is an epic misjudgment and there's some machismo involved
in this because you've got the Polar Bear who essentially
pulled a FuMB oh roosk, a fumble Rooski, the old
trick play that backfired. Is it true that Peter Alonzo
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rejected said no, I don't want your deal, a seven
year offer for in the neighborhood of one hundred and
sixty million a year ago. He bet on himself, Peter Alonzo,
And the thinking is that the Polar Bear, because of
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New York and all the home runs, he hits that
that branding would pay off in spades. Well, who goofed,
I've got to know in the eyes of the Mets,
one year and Peter Alonzo can no longer get a
seven year contract. He can only get a three year contract.
Now this is not over yet. There could be a
one eighty. There could be a one eighty here where
(10:52):
they go back the other direction. However, clearly the Mets
are at at best. They're turning the screws on a line.
So they're using their media friends. They're useful idiots in
the media to put pressure on the polar Bear for
Pete's sake, And there's really no obvious fallback option for
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a guy like Pete Alawnza. Where are you gonna go
ahead and lose a bunch of games for the Giants
for half a year and they get traded somewhere else
to a contender, or the Toronto Blue Jays, or the
Angels or my favorite mystery team. I love the mystery team.
When you look at Alonso, he's not old, but he's aging.
He's over the age of thirty at this point. He's
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essentially a one trick player. He hits a lot of
home runs, and home runs are important, but she got
to do a little bit other than that, and he
bet on himself. He did not have the kind of
year to get rewarded, and he has shown obvious signs
of decay and rotting over the last couple of years.
(11:59):
So he's he's so upset he turned down the big
contract seven years. He can to save face, he can't
agree to the three year contract. So now he's gonna
have to run off and go play for the Brewers
or the Blue Jays or the Twins or something like that.
A right final fun turning the page to the NFL
parsing the words on these end of season eulogies that
(12:22):
are going on from NFL executive Now, Brian Gudakuns, got
to make sure you say that game that name slowly.
That is a tough name, Goudacuns. So he wants the
Packers to ramp up, ramp up their sense of urgency.
He made these comments this week, you ramp up the
sense of urgency. So how do you decode this? How
(12:45):
do you decode So he said that we got a
bunch of good guys here, a bunch of talented players
and all that, but he said the sense of urgency
to win Super Bowls that they need to improve that.
So by the process of a limit nation, this is
a referendum, an indirect referendum, scattershot style. At Matt LeFleur,
(13:10):
the coach of the green Bay Packers. Now, Guda Kust
implied that some of the guys were slacking off. Otherwise
you wouldn't need a sense of urgency and less players
were floating on an inner tube, drinking a cocktail, going
round the lazy river, lolly gagging. May I add they
(13:34):
were satisfied to be in the playoffs. Now, I gotta
tell you, it looked like that's a team that was
not ready to play. They gave a half hearted effort
in Philadelphia. The Eagles were plumbed to be beaten, they
were primed for the beaten, and green Bay came out.
It's hard to argue that they were not locked in
in that game. They did not have a sense of urgency.
They fumbled the opening bloody kickoff. They fumbled the opening kickoff.
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Jordan Love tossed three interceptions, two of them while the
game was in the margins. It was a royally pathetic performance,
is what it was. I see the Ben Mahlor show.
Hopefully this is not royally pathetic, but you will be
the judge of that. I mess. We're gonna have lame
jokes coming up a little bit later in the hour.
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Big Ben's lame jokes of the week time. Now for
the mallor Riddle of the day, the malor riddle of
the day, and will honor mister Baseball one more time,
the late great Bob Bucher. Back in his day, Bob
Buker was the victim of blank from Andre the Giant
(14:41):
backstage at WrestleMania. Again, Bob Buker was the victim of
blank from Andre the Giant backstage at wrestle Mania when
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was the victim of blank from Andre the Giant backstage
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at WrestleMania. That is the Mallard riddle of day. Ferg
Dog says, victim of a low blow. Andre call the
poor Bob a dim bulb. Your so emotion, you're so emotional.
Luke the vending guy says, I want to be interactive. Congratulations,
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Ashure right, since says a three sixty No scope is
the answer? Jay Dot in Utah says the answer that
Bob Bucker was a victim of Andrea the Giant feeding
him poisoning tacos or poison tacos. Who else do we
have victim of writing in a Volkswagen Beetle from Late
Night drug tester? Who else do we have? Page down?
(17:31):
I can't read that? Skip over that one crop dusting
from Fudgie in Boston. King Rory with a similar answer,
A Dutch oven, which man's you don't want to get
that one, right, La, that's a tough Why would you
be under the blankets with him?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I know, right? A little awkward voyeurism from Kelly, that's
his answer. Alf went with a French oven as his answer,
with just a cousin of the Dutch oven. Mike the
Leprechaun says, Yuker and Hall Cogan had a pillow fight.
What about Andrea the Giant? A beer bath from Eke
(18:12):
in Roseville, Minnesota. Craig got it right, obviously, either cheating
or he's my age, one of those two things. Who
else do we have? JT the Wingman says that Uker
was the victim of a swirly from Andre the Giant. Okay,
(18:34):
you know that promo that airs? I think we're the
only ones that here here there's a promo for the
Odd Couple, and I'm pretty sure JT the Wingman's in there,
and I think he was talking about our show, But
I don't. It sounds like his voice to me. Every
time I hear that promo, like that sounds to me
like JT the Wingman. But I don't know one of
the guys that like sucking up to Rob Park and
those guys. Douglas writes in from Mississippi, says, uh oh,
(18:57):
he got it right. Bad job by him. Let's see here,
Kelly in Iowa, a giant body slam. A giant body
slam Deacon Blues as an aggressive prostate exam using the
whole fist wow body slam guessed by Gunner the influencer
from Minnesota. Slim Tim got it right? Who else we have?
Dad Gummet says, Happy Friday, Go Rams. Okay, that's not
(19:19):
really it's not really an answer to the question. Kathy
and Madison just bummed out that Bob Bucher's not with
us anymore. Do you have an answer, Lorraine?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Ah, yes, Ben, I believe he was a victim of
towel whipping.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Towel whipping, all right, is towel whipping the answer? No?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I really thought that was going to be it.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's a solid guest here. Bob Bucher was the victim
of a public choking from Andre the Giant's backstage at
Dussel Maya nineteen eighty eight. It is interesting to note, though,
that when when Bob Buker crossed over into into media,
it was really his appearances on Johnny Carson that got
(20:07):
him all these other jobs and stuff, because he was
so funny on there, and that was such a big show.
But one of the gigs he got he was the
ring announcer. Now, this might not matter if you're like
younger than I am, you probably don't care, you think, boy,
shut up, Boomer. But when I was a kid. It
was Hulk Cogan versus Andre the Giant in WrestleMania three
at the Silver Dome in Pontiac, Michigan. And that was
(20:30):
that was the ring. Bob Yucker was the ring announcer
for that. That was a massive deal, massive deal. It
was huge at the at the time. So anyway, all right,
Ben Maler show as we press on here, Stuck in
Sacramento says, I remember, Ben, when you covered the Doyers
back when you were in the nickname Big Ben Mallard.
(20:52):
Did you ever hang out with Yuker and the sort
of that would have been one hell of a meat
ball and lasagna dinner. There you go, Hopefully they invite
you to Ben to a Italian meal in the afterlife,
says Stuck in Sacramento, who says Sacramento sucks. Never in
the same room withsorta Losorta and Yuker. But Tommy was
(21:16):
crazy because when the Dodgers were winning, he was in
a great mood. He was everybody's buddy. And then when
they were losing, he would be spitting food. He'd always
eat when they lost. When they won, he never ate.
And I was at the game the last time a
Major League baseball game was forfeited. Was a Dodger Cardinal game,
and Losorta incited the crowd to throw It was ball night,
(21:39):
the last ball night ever at Dodger Stadium, where they
gave the balls out before the game and it was
raining down baseballs. They had to forfeit the game and
the ninth inning because there were so many people up.
There was a controversial call, but never in the same
room with Losorda and uk Let's get to the phone,
say who are we. Let's go to Hank in Tokyo.
What's going on? Hank in Tokyo.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Welcome, Hey man, This isn't why I called. But didn't
Uker hit a home run off of Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I don't have that. I don't remember that. Maybe he did, Yeah,
I'm pretty sure it did. Pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Anyway, I was playing along at home with your who
am I for which the answer was Kurt Warner. Yeah,
and I guess I got it wrong. But how where
was Mark Sanchez on that list?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I don't I don't have to listen in front of me.
But there is one hundred and fifty or or worse
the odds to win the Super Bowl, and now keep
up Water one night won the division, but that was
nineteen ninety eight. He was actually he was a rookie.
He played in nineteen He was on the team in
nineteen ninety eight, but he didn't play, so he was
a rookie in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
But Mark Sanchez's Jets were trash and he I can,
I can look.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
It up if you want. It just really bothers you.
You're annoyed by this? You want me to look this up?
Don't you want me to look up the odds. I'm
going to the odds archive and look it up if
you want. I can't do it right the second, but
I will look it up if you want. You're annoyed
by that. You really believe it's Mark Chances. You think
the Jet You realize one hundred and fifty to one though,
are massive odds, Like even most bad teams are like
one hundred to one, not one hundred and fifty to one.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Right, Yeah, Mark Chances and Jets were trash. I my
money of is on that you overlooked it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You think I overlooked You're questioning my integrity that you're
talking about the nine? Are you talking about the nine Jets?
That's what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, all right, I'll
go back and look at the odds for the Nine Jets.
I do not believe I'm overlooking the Nine Jets with
sexy erection rex Ryde because remember the Jets. You have
to remember though, the Jets the year before were nine
(23:48):
and seven, so they had a winning record. So why
would they be one hundred and fifty to one the
following year They had a winning record with Mangini the
year before eight.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, because they fired Mangini and but they.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But it doesn't matter. They had a winning They had
a winning record.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Until you put me wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You're wrong, No, you're wrong. You don't understand how odds
were if a team had a winning record, it doesn't
matter if they changed the coach, in the quarterback, you're
still not going to be one hundred. Do you realize
how bad you have to be to be one hundred
and fifty to one or worse to win? Uh? You know,
before the season to win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Well, I take d L.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Take d L. Hank. Take d L. Hank in Tokyo.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I have the preseason odds right right here from the
Nine Jets the two thousand and nine NFL preseason odds. Yeah,
the Jets were plus four thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
They were. No, they were not. Look I'm looking at
it right now. No they were not. You're wrong, You're wrong,
You're wrong. I just looked it up.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I don't know what you want what you want from
looking at I don't know what Pro Football Reference dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
No, that's not a gambling website. They don't. No, stop, boomshock.
They don't know what they're talking. Pro Football rets a
nerd site. That's not a gambling site. It's a stat site.
That's not a gambling heard of them.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Historical preseason odds courtesy of sports oddshistory dot com.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Thank you very much, boom.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Take the l hank you lost. He's making that up.
Hoop's making that up over there.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
So one more thing, Uh, every Bill is a great caller,
even before his transformation. He's always been a good caller.
And two more things, Uh, Coop changing his mind on
you winning the Uh? Uh?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
The ask ask that was.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
That was comedy goal, that was not you have to
build whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That's a loss. It's mallard of the third degree. How
dare you? And and there are no all sales are
final once Coop makes his mind up, no gives back.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
It was it was like it was like a reflex
because I had been passing him so often lately, but
I forgot that he had failed.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You said that, you said it the first It was
a pass. It was a pass, Okay. You know how,
It's kind of like when you score a touchdown and
you fumble the ball after you've crossed the goal line,
it's still a touchdown. It doesn't matter. So I crossed
the goal line and I scored a touchdown, and then
maybe there was a fumble after that, but it doesn't
count because I'd already crossed. Everything stopped. Time stops at
(26:20):
that point.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Mark Sanchez plus four thousand.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You're wrong. You're all wrong. You're completely wrong. All right,
all right, thank you, go away, Hank. I'm glad that
cost you a lot of money, Hank to call the show.
Let's say hello to Let's see who do we have?
Blind Scott is on the North end of Boston. Hello
blind Scott.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Oh Ben, I want to ask a sports question. First,
do you think if the Celtics trade Peyton Richard and
Sam Houser, Like it's just possibility because those guys are
cheap and they could get someone else for them.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Are you panicking because they lay lost to the Atlanta
Hawks the other day? Is that no?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Because I know Peyton Prichard's girls well wife, like my
mom worked with his mother, so I follow them on
social media. Hey, dude, the best thing way to ever
get away from the police, if you want to get
away from him, you go aerial because they don't want
to climb stuff because they could fall and get hurt.
And if you're ever are going to get bit by
one of those police dogs, turn and let it bite
you right in like where your back is, backside, because
(27:22):
those things will really hurt you.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
You know that's a non sequor. You pivoted from Midcenter
being traded to how to avoid the cops. Yeah, if
you're running away from the cops.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Like, I wasn't a big fan of that angry Bill
comment last hour when he made that comment about the blinds.
You know they're guys, they're real dirt bag. He pretends
like he's nice, but you know he's lived. He's been
a privileged guy his whole life. He's eighty years old
and he's still working and here he is making fun
of from School for the Blind man, it's terrible, Like
I would.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Say, you wouldn't you argue though, if you're eighty year old,
if you're in your eighties and you're still working, you
probably aren't living a privileged life because you're still work.
Like the privileged are the people who get to retire
and don't have to work. That's the privileged life.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yeah, you want me to tell you all about Italy.
I know all about the country because I'm from the
north end. Like Italy. There's Rome, and there's Naples. There's
the Amualt Be Coast. It's in the Mediterranean. In June,
it will be really hot there, one hundred degrees fahrenheit,
like extremely hot with humidity. But it's beautiful. The men there,
they're like romantic type.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I'm a big fan of this Body by Jake. I
can't get enough to be Body by Jake's videos lately.
This is like I love these traumatic stories and a
Body by Jake. He's going through it right now. If
you haven't seen it on social media, you know what
I mean. So I'm a big fan. I'm gonna spend
most of the day watching Body by Jake videos. I
didn't realize he is he really Jake Glade and his brother.
(28:48):
They're both brothers, right, did you know that?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I know, I don't know. I know Jay's brother is
like a big workout. I don't know if that's is
that true?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Maybe it is, dude, This is like a California wildfire story.
They live like within miles of each other, but by
body by Jake's house burned down like he lost everything
in Jake Glaziers, howich is fine? It was like, these
are crazy stories come out of the wildfire.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Like, no, it's terrible, it's horrible. I my one of
my old radio partners, Patrick O'Neil is his home burned
down in the Oh.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
We should go state in front of it, Ben me
and you and get big social media clicks and say
like Saint Pat.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
No, I'm not doing that's terrible. No, that's horrible.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I need, dude, I need a rehabilitation here, you know
what I mean? You know, I need people to come
back to me. So that would be like I got
to get out there, you know, I got to be
out there on the front line. You know.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, all right, well fight You always talk about flying
out to LA and.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, it was a resident in San Francisco once we
were in the tenderloin me and my tough guy buddy
from Boston, and they beat up this guy and I
couldn't get away because I was blind, and the police
made me and the guy that was beat up sitting
in the back of the paddy wagon for a while.
It's like, really really.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Awkward, you know, sure? I bet? Yeah? All right, well,
thank you, thanks for sharing with the class. There he
goes our friend blind Scott Blind is weed Man? There
by the way, do we have the weed Man? Oh?
Are you hello, weed Man? Are you there? Weed Man?
You ready for the jokes? Weed Man? Yes? Yeah? How
many times you've been arrested?
Speaker 4 (30:19):
A lot?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I know that, I know that, But how many?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I like, a hundred times?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
A lot of times?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Really the count?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right? All right, well, hold on, we have a
full giant block of Big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
But and also Ferg Dog says, Ben, you're right, coops
looking up doctor's stats. So Ferg Dog has ruled on that.
So oh sure, that's the the end of it. That's
the end of it. He is the judging moderator on
these type of issues. All right, we met, hold on,
we have big Ben's lame Jokes of the Week for
(30:51):
the rest of the hour. We'll get to it, and
we will do it.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
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(31:25):
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Speaker 3 (31:52):
Blame week too.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. That's good,
Big Gun's lame jokes, Actual jokes by actual list. Are
you there, weed man, hippie? Yeah, I love you d
make me laugh, make me laugh. No, you're not gonna
make me laugh. All right, that's that's your line. You
(32:15):
didn't you didn't follow the script he said it? Oh
did you? I didn't hear it? All right, all right,
here we go. These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
You want to send jokes in for a future episode,
send them care of Ben Malors Show at gmail dot com.
That's Ben Malors Show at gmail dot com. All right,
how can we be certain that Lizzo's favorite What what
Lizzo's favorite munchy is? Oh, the proof is in the pudding.
(32:40):
That's a surfer, Todd the comedian. How big is Lizzo's mouth?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
How big?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Well, it's so big she eats her subway sandwich sideways sideways.
Noah in Austin and send us that. Did you know
that Lizzo is getting less exercise now than before? Oh yeah,
it only takes her four trips the whole ass instead
of six. George and George and Uvaldi Texas sent that
(33:13):
one in. Why don't we see Lizzo as much as
we used to?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Why?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well, because she's not round anymore. How did Lizzo know
she reached her weight loss goal? How well, it turns
out the moons that used to circle her crash to
the ground. That said, Joe in Virginia Beach, Thank you
(33:40):
for that, Joe. He's were actual jokes by actual listeners.
What did the whales sing when Lizzo jumped into the ocean?
What we are family? That's Kevin from Parts On. No
one sent that one in. When was the last time
weed Man had a shower? When the last time it rained?
(34:02):
That's the last time. That's a circuit tile because it
rains a lot in Miami, so you get a lot
of showers, right, weed Man a lot of rain? Yeah?
I know. Did you know it is finally time to
quit comparing weed Man hippie to crap?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, that's that's because it's degrading the crap. That's why.
That's John in Youngstown, Ohio. Coop, you got any jokes
over there? It's big Ben Lame. Big Ben's lame jokes
of the week. Uh maybe maybe all right, Coops? Thinking
about that. NBC has announced that weed Man and Lizzo
will be replacing Me and Looney next season. Because I've
(34:41):
been writing the vomit comment on my picks. How about
that weed Man?
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Wow? Why?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah? The show's gonna be renamed two Jabbroni's versus a
brainless inanimate object, with Lizzo sometimes singing like Moony and
weed Man scooping up the loose change. That's Tom, very
detailed Tom in parts unknown. Did you know that weed
Man is not just dirty and smelly, he's also a moron? Well, yeah,
(35:09):
that's Tony from the basis. Sorry, I had to sneak
in a fun fact. All right, if someone named a
new country after weed Man, what would it be? What
dirt Bagistan? Noah? Noah in Austin. What is weed Man's
(35:29):
favorite city to live in? What that would be? Weed California? Weed, California.
I love it there. Yeah, that's Kevin in Alaska. We Man,
guys in Alaska are busting your balls? How great is that?
You're annoying people in Alaska? All right, very good. This
(35:52):
one's from Terry and Saint Paul. He says, why didn't
weed Man attend his high school prom? Why he does
not believe been pre marital dating? Well that's why that's
all all all right? What are weed man hippies? Two
known allergies? What money and work? Money and work? That's
(36:14):
Darryl of the Ozarks. Daryl was at the Kansas City
meet and greet. You know he's going through some stuff,
So good luck, Darryl. Kick that kick that behind there.
Why is weed Man a liar? Why? Well, you said
you had no allergies, but everyone knows you're allergic to
work and rose old Minnesota. What happens when weed Man
(36:37):
gets too high?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Why?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Well you sit on the TV and you watch the
couch Ken Kevin in parts unknown? Why doesn't weed Man
have any close friends? No close friends? Why we've been
you keep smoking your best buds? Man? What's wrong with you? Dude?
That's that's a chip in Maine? Has sent that one?
Jokes over there? Coop a little? Anything at all? What
(37:01):
do you no? Okay? Now, Frank and Fargo sent a
poem in but I can't This is very long, Frank,
it's good, but I roses of red, viles of blue,
and I can't read that poetry because it's too long
for you. All Right, here we go. Let's see what's
hollering James's favorite rock band? What zz's Ezzy Top? That's
(37:27):
Eric in Kansas? Why did Los Angeles run out of
water during the recent wildfires?
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Why?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Two words helmet man? That's from the Marina chef. You
know my yeah, he said weed man. Helmet man said
he takes two hour showers. Two hours in a shower. Yeah,
that is How do you ever shower? Weed man? Or no? Yeah,
oh you do all right? How long are your shower?
(37:54):
Ten minutes? Yeah? About ten minutes? A little less than that.
What do you call it when a snowman throws a tantrum?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
A meltdown? Come on, that's obvious a meltdown. That's Chris
in so Capitol Valley, he says, I guess that's An
in Orange County. Why hasn't Gunner been promoted at Walmart?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Well, he refuses to become a fan of the Waltons
Denver Broncos, so I cannot be promoted. That's Ethan, Roseville, Minnesota.
What is blind Scott's favorite football defense? What? Lights out?
He's a big fan of lights out? That's Eric in Kansas.
Why did cows wear bells? Why? Because their orange don't work?
(38:41):
That's why? That's Kathy and Madison sent that one in.
Did did you hear about the new term to describe
Travis Kelsey's relationship with his girlfriend? Wha? What it's called
being swifty? Whipped is what it's being called. That's a
Gordon in the call the What did Angry Bill say
when he heard Caitlin Clark Stocker was arrested this week?
(39:05):
What he said, there goes my competition. I'm now the
president of the Caitlin Clark fan Club. What did Cayler
Burry say when he didn't have enough cash to tip
his server? What he said? I'm sorry, I'm a little short,
That's what he said. Did you know that Blair and
(39:27):
Mayne called the Queen of Heart segment he would need
he would need the needle or move the needle. Rather
he called the Queen of Hearts segment? Why yeah, yeah, yeah,
because then he would zip up after that's Tony the Bay,
all right, wow. Why don't why don't cannibals cook instant
Why don't cannibals cook instant noodles? Why they prefer raw men?
(39:52):
Raw men? As tench from Atlanta, thank you, Lame Jokes
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