February 7, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about MLB commish Rob Manfred saying fans are concerned over MLB's lack of a salary cap, how the name of the person that didn't vote for Ichiro still hasn't gotten out, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
No, it's our number three, our three, and here we
go of our number three, The Ben Malor Show Podcast
original recipes. We can talk the hind legs off a donkey.
Speaking of donkeys, Rob Manford, the Commissioner of Baseball, says
fans are concerned over baseball's lack of a salarycap. How
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does that one hit you? Also, are you surprised that
the name of the person who didn't vote for each
row for the Hall of Fame has not gotten out yet?
And do you believe that sho hal Tani really had
no idea that his interpreter was gamblings interpreter has now
been sentenced almost five years in jail. We'll talk about
that as well. Coming up right now here, it is
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our number three. Yeah, I'm good, mister Commissioner, I'm good.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of The Ben
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to begin this hour, we'll change it up a little bit.
I thought the story in baseball was interesting. We'll get
back to the football later on. The MVP award handed out.
Here we go, so Buffalo is Josh Allen was not
the player that won the honors in terms of being
the All Pro, but he was the MVP. Very rarely
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does that happen, but it did happen. So Josh Allen
your MVP over Lamar Jackson. Some controversy on that, and
the Hall of Fame voters actually got it right. Very
rarely did they get it right. Usually they have no backbone,
but they got it right. As Eli Manning, the Punk,
did not get in on the first ballot. Mister five hundred.
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He led the NFL in one category during his career,
that would be interceptions, and he is not in the
Hall of Fame. But We'll start with baseball. Our lead
from the owners meetings. That's tom Beach, Florida. It's fair
to say that the Major League Baseball owners do not
get together in Appleton, Wisconsin. No, they're going somewhere with
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sunshines where they're going. So they went to Palm Beach.
The Aristo Crats of baseball took care of some league
business before spring training gets started. This weekend the Chicago Cubs.
On Sunday, pitchers and catchers will report the Cubs the
first team on how great is that? How happy are
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the players? On Super Bowl Sunday. They have to show
up and take their physicals and all that stuff. But
that's the schedule as spring training will get underway. Now,
some news from the head clown of Major League Baseball.
If you've not heard the Commissioner, Rob Manford, we call
a man fraud. Rob Manford says he is getting emails
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from fans who are concerned over the lack of a
salary cap. All of this because of the Dodgers off
season for the Ages, and this has sparked the Commissioner
of Baseball to talk about whether or not he brought
up the salary cap. And there is a expiration of
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the cb A, the collective Bargaining Agreement. Three words that
never sound good on radio. Collective Bargaining Agreement in December
of twenty twenty six. Now Manford talked out of both
sides of his mouth because he said the fans are
letting him know that they want a salarycap. And then
he also said, the Dodgers are not ruining baseball with
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all this money. They're spending three hundred and eighty nine
million dollars payroll, but after the taxes are paid and
all that, it's like five hundred million. However, a Manford said,
he said, this is the issue that we need to
be vigilant on. The commissioner stated, we need to pay
attention to it and need to determine whether there are
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things that can be done to take care of those
concerns and make sure that we have a competitive and
healthy game going forward. All right, so let us discuss
a question. Rob Manford, the Weasley Commissioner of Baseball, says,
fans are concerned. They are concerned, they want a salary
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cap because of the Dodgers. How does that one hit you?
How does that hit you? So I've got Church vacuum
and bumpkin, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to lay down on the grass,
is what we're going to do, and take a nap.
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All right. So, first of all, Rob Manford yet again
has a lot of hutzpa, a lot of mister commissioner,
May I advise you, unsolicited that you are full of
horse manure. You are the fertilizer man. All of a sudden,
we are supposed to believe, imagine if you will, a
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world We're Rob Manford, the worst commissioner in Major League
Baseball history, is worried about fans' concerns. The same guy
that brought us ghost runners to Major League Baseball, the
clock and all the other nonsense that has been put
into baseball. This guy is worried about what the fan wants,
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right and Manford he wants to be vigilant on this
issue because he needs to take care of the fans. And,
as the Great Dana Carvey used to say when he
played the character on Saturday Night Live, the Church Lady, well,
isn't that convenient? Mister Commissioner. Rob Manford is flirting publicly
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with a salary cap, supposedly because he got a few
complaints from grumbling fans, yet he also said what the
Dodgers are doing is not ruining baseball. Talk about talking
out of both sides of the mouth. I find it
hard to believe, though, that Rob Manford actually checks email
from the Great Unwashed. I don't think he does that. Also,
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I find it hard to believe that Rob Manford gives
a rats ass about what the fans want, because, if
I'm not mistaken, and maybe I'm wrong on this, weren't
the fans rebelling against baseball? Wasn't there an uprising a
few years back? Because while Rob Manfraud was the commissioner
under his nose, there were teams that called up and said,
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mister Commissioner, there's a team they play in Texas. They're
cheating and we'd like you to take care of them,
mister commissioner. And mister Commissioner said, okay, I'm going to investigate.
I'm going to bring in the top investigators from Major
League Baseball. We're going to get to the bottom of this.
We're going to push the limit. So they sent in
their investigators and they said, you know what, we investigated.
No signs at any point the Astros are cheating, no signs.
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It was only after a heroic member of the cheating
a Stros lit the fire and said, wait a minute,
I was there. They were cheating and here's how doing it,
and so then he had to retreat. But even after that,
even with all the evidence, video after video, bang bang,
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whistle whistle, even after all that, Rob Manford did not
do a damn thing, not a damn thing to remedy
the buzzers, the trash cans in Houston that they used
that contraband to win an illegal championship that does not count,
and the fans were upset. I was upset. Everyone was upset.
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And Rob Manford, what did he do? The worst commissioner
in baseball history, Rob Manford, in the middle of this storm.
Did he say, I'm gonna take care of this. I'm
gonna put something out there. This is not right. No.
Rob Manford called the World Series trophy just a piece
of metal, just a piece of metal, and said Baseball
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did not need to get the trophy back from the
Astros for their tainted twenty seventeen World Series. He said
the idea of an asterisk or asking for a piece
of metal back, was a futile act. And now all
of a sudden, we're supposed to believe that this same
commissioner who didn't think it was worth his time to
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save the integrity of baseball, that same commissioner now is
worried about a few fans calling up and emailing him
and complaining, what is his email address? How do you
email the commissioner? I'd like to email them my thoughts.
I know Rob Manford's a fan of my work, because
every time I mention his name, we are called from
Major League Baseball upset with something I said. Now. Secondly,
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the Hall of Fame, the Baseball Hall of Fame. The
Hall of Fame voter heard around the world has not
been seen. A man of mystery or is it a
woman of mystery? The Hall of Fame voter who said no, no,
no no no no no, no, no, no no, I'm
not going to vote for InChI row Suzuki the Mariner
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legend for the Hall of Fame. Now that voter is unknown.
Do do do do do? It is still a mystery.
Three eight, one hundred and twenty one ballots were made
public of men, women, and not children by the baseball scribes,
and none of them the ballot that people wants. Are
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you surprised? Are you surprised that the name of the
person who did not vote for Mariner Legend Chiro for
the Hall of Fame hasn't gotten out? He's surprised, So
I am nod in my head. Yes, I'm nodding my head.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And you break this one down. The Baseball Writers Association
of America the BWAA. These guys are run like a
mob operation. They defend and protect their own. They won't
allow anyone else to vote for these awards. The broadcasters can,
it's only the scribes that do. And that's the part
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not only of the writers, but it's also they won't share.
But it's also major League Baseball. It's absurd, and the
way many of these guys carry themselves is unbecoming. But
you would assume that someone by this point would have
had loose lips. Multiple people, multiple people have access to
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who the name is. There are people that know the
name of the voter. The mystery voter hasn't gotten out yet.
They're in the twilight zone still, and it's remained vacuum sealed,
which tells me the scribe is being protected. The scribe
is being sheltered. Now there's speculation to it is. Most
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people seem to think it's an old geezer that a
lot of the baseball scribes. You're a baseball writer for
thirty years and then you're out of the business, but
you still keep your Hall of Fame vote. You're not
an active baseball writer, but you still vote for Lall
of Fame. Isn't somebody that either too old and didn't
realize it, or maybe there's some hardline, hard oh guy
that just doesn't vote for anybody in the first ballot,
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But either way, the name hasn't gotten now. Now. I
do believe eventually the name will get out, and it
might not be until someone's on their deathbed, but for
now the weight will continue, all right. Meanwhile, final thought,
big sentencing day on Thursday. E pay miss Ohara. We
know that name because this guy liked the gamble, and
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boy did he liked the gamble. Epei Mizuhara was the
interpreter the secret keeper for sho he Otani. He was
sentenced to nearly five years almost five years at the
Gray Bar Hotel, all expenses paid for stealing about seventeen
million from Dodger Superstar Show hey Otani, and he also
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has to repay his gambling debts. So Otani, the former
interpreter has He's been given a fifty seven month sentence
and three years of probay supervised release. He has to
pay almost seventeen million in restitution to Otani and one
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point one million to the irs. Yes, there is a
better chance I win an Olympic gold medal in track
and field than Otani and the irs get that money.
I'm just saying, now, do you believe, though, let's get
to the heala monster in the room. Do you believe
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that Shoeotani really had no idea his interpreter was gambling.
Now that this sentence has come down, have you changed
your position? So? I have not changed my position. I
said all along. I believe there's much more to this story.
I think Otani was aware, and the only other possible
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outcome is that Otani is Mozart with the bat and
he's a country bumpkin in life. Like at some point
this went on for several years, and you can get
away with something for a little bit, but at some
point don't you check to see where your money is.
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I mean, I'm not great with my my money stuff
I call it adulting, but even I like keep track
of it. I get depressed when I look at it,
but I still keep track of it. And and Otani
like not realizing that something wasn't kosher here. So either
he's lying there's more to the story. People are lying
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for him. He's too big to fail because he's the
face of baseball at tany Or, he's the village at
eat and he's functionally illiterate. But we looked at the
numbers again, and Ipe Misuara, the interpreter, made nineteen thousand
bets in a two year period with a bookie. He
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ended up with about forty million dollars in debt, they estimate.
And this guy was around Tani all day and all night.
I don't think they slept together, but they weren't far apart.
He had unfiltered access to Otani, meaning he was like
in the dugout with Otani. He was when Otani was
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in the locker room, he was in the locker room,
he was everywhere. So I've done some malor math. I'd
like to share with the class the malormth and I
think I'm right on this. So if you do the
malor math, let's say that he was making an average
work the way it works nineteen thousand over two years,
it's an average of twenty six bets per day if
my math is right. So let's take away eight hours
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a day. Now, I sleep about five I sleep about
five hours a day, but some people, most people sleep
eight hours, so there's twenty four hours in a day.
Let's say you sleep eight hours, So then you take
away those eight hours in the twenty four you left
with sixteen hours in the day. So you're awake sixteen
hours out of the twenty four hours. That means, at
twenty six bets per day, you are averaging one point
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six bet per waking hour. Now, I'm sure some of
those you're eating scrambled eggs for breakfast, or maybe you're
eating a nice hogi for lunch, or some chicken fingers
for dinner, and so you're not betting well that's going on,
but one point six bets per waking hour. And yeah,
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the only way Otani gets that money back is if
our guy, miss O'Hara, can win a forty five leg parlay,
then and only then can he get his money back.
Otherwise you're just gonna have to grin and Barrett. It
is the Ben Mallor Show, as we are rolling, rolling,
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have Big Ben's joke lame Jokes of the week. We'll
have those. We still have to get to Camp Snoopy,
which was from a previous hour, but I spent about
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ten minutes talking to that dopey Lance to bus driver.
I'm blaming him. I'm blaming Lance to the bus driver.
So because of that, we were unable to get to
the big payoff, the big payoff that we wanted. So
we didn't get to that. So we'll have we'll have
Camp Snoopy. That'll be coming up in a couple of minutes.
But right now it is time for the Mallor Riddle
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of the Day. That's right, the Mallor Riddle of the Day,
and here we go. Safety Chauncey Gardner Johnson says the
Eagles were interested in drafting him out of Florida, but
he blanked at a Chicki's and pets. That's a restaurant
if you're not familiar anyway, he blanked at a Chicky
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in Peach and scared the Eagles off again. Safety Chauncey
Gardner Johnson said this week the Eagles were interested in
drafting him out of Florida, but he blanked at a
Chicky's and peats during a team meeting or a draft meeting,
and the Eagles were scared off. That is the malor
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riddle of the day. The answer, we'll get to it
and we will do it next.
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Jokes of the Week coming up later this hour, all
the great lame jokes with weed Man Hippie and we've
got to pay off though the mallor Riddle of the day.
The mallor Riddle of the day. This is where we
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pretend to be somebody else and try to fill in
the wordle So here it is safety. Chauncey Gardner Johnson
says the Eagles were interested in drafting him out of Florida,
but he blanked at a Chicky and Pete during a
pre draft meeting and that scared the Eagles off. That
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is the question. What is the answer? And let's see
does anyone know the answer? Alf the Alien Opiner says
he couldn't stop watching Benny Versus the Penny on his phone.
From Your Lips to God's Ears. Milkman Mike in Colorado
says he let out a loud farty we got drafted
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higher if he'd done that. Late night drug tester says
he asked for the Senior Citizens discount. O g art
Puffin says Chauncey did the Charlton or the Carlton rather
dance at Chicky and Pete's. He talked about Crypto. According
to Fudgie in Boston, he did his Donald Duck impression
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from Asher who else page down Berg Dog said that
the player never saw Rocky starring Sylvester Saloone. The greatest
actor of our generation is what he said, who else?
He started a game of dodgeball. That's pretty funny. Right
in the middle of a chicky in Pete that's big.
Greg in Iowa Miguel on Fire says he did not
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wash his hands after exiting a bathroom stall. That was
the problem. Who else do we have? Page down? Andy
in Lion o' wakes says he brought his own squatty
potty to the restaurant. I forty Ian says he ate
a black taco and had the Tennessee Trots. Lance the
bus driver was not there, he jumped the shark. According
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to Chris and Kent Washington, the grill sergeant says it's
got to be he crop dusted the room and then that'd
be unfortunate. A job interview Choldon on a chicken bone
from JT. The wingman robbed the place from eg Wow,
he misplaced eagles from Inka Terror In Rochester, Larry de
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says he started doing fly Eagles Fly while doing armpit farts.
Kevin says he did the eagle chant, but he sounded
like the mayor of Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Let me hear you all saying he owee, yeah, alright,
go birds.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Mark in Santa Monica says a garden gnome is the answer.
He started doing his taxes from trucker Joe, that would
be that would be a problem. Yeah, that would be
a problem. Who else do we have page down? Mark
says he tried to cover a fart with a cough
that never works, pooped his pants from slim tim. That's
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his answer? Who else do we have? Page down? All right?
Lorraine up, do you have an answer? The Malarulida safety
Chauncey Gardner Johnson says the Eagles were interested in drafting
him coming out of college in Florida, but he blanked
at a chicky and pete during a meeting with team
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officials and that scared off the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I think he danced to the salsa while crying for
his mother.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh well, it's kind of balls a woman, but not
his mom. Turns out that Chauncey Gardner Johnson says the
Eagles wanted to draft him. They were interested, but he
was out of the chickies and pets and while he
was at a meeting with team officials, he went to
pick up a chick. He went to pick up a
woman while he was at I guess they question.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Is that a red flag?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Well, you know you might want to, you know, not
when you're at the at the team facility. I guess
he was at a Chicken in Petee. But you ever
been to Chicken and Pete for a probably? No, it
sounds like a good place to get chicken white. I've
never even heard of it. It's more on the East Coast.
I don't know Chicky and Pete. That's good. There's a
few located. I think it's like Philadelphia. It's this was
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in I think Florida, but there's a I've seen him
in Philly. I don't know how many states they're in. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mallor Show. Let's go back to the
calls and we'll have lame jokes coming up in a
couple of minutes. Let's say hello to Steve in Manhattan.
Hello Steven Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Welcome, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Go bu Cannon go Buchanon Gob you cannon, go b
Bu Cannon.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
No, baby, what I got?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I got you?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
What are you doing? You're fussing around with your phone?
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Nah? Because I gotta get because I'm outside right now.
I gotta get inside my car because I don't want to.
I don't want to get mugged while I'm calling the show.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
You know, wait what play of Manhattan. Are you in
wait a minute, you get mugged.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Listen, you can get mugged anywhere in Manhattan, my man anywhere.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I think that would be good for ratings. Actually stay
outside longer. Well, wow, Loraina just said she wants you
to be mugged while you're on the show.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Well listen, somebody got someone once got mugg call on
the Bob Grant Show. But anyway, first of all, Ben
distinguished panel, expanding audience, listen, Welcome to Heath everybody, and
of course the great panel that we have there. Listen,
sugar Ban Simmons would just throw up bricks and everything.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
That's how they built the Barkley Center.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
A lot of nonsense going on. I'm gonna be watching
you know the deal. I'm gonna be watching the Egg.
I'm gonna be I'm going to have a whole goal and.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
To be and just watch the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
And the Mayor of Philly can't even spell man. That's
really great, isn't it. But she fits right in there.
And I think one of the Triviata question answers is uh.
He asks for a New York Chief steak man. He
then asked for a Philly cheese steak. They put him
out of the joint.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, that would be that would be a problem that
we already we were already given the answer. Though we've
already you know, we've given the answer. That's bat job.
Are you what? What? What? What have you been? By the way, Steven, Manhattan,
I've noticed you where you don't call for like a
month or two, and then all of a sudden you
start calling again, like what is it? Very odd to me.
You're sporadic, is what you are.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Well, one person once said, I just keep calling the
show till I get banned.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
But I've never been banned from Ben's show.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I should we ban you? Should do? We need to
ban you?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Listen, Henny, he banned me one time, and I was
on more times than when I was on before I
was banned. But the thing is, you know, there's a
lot of crazy stuff going on out there today.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
You know, I'm in the.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Car now the rain, it's time.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
But you still could get cart jack too, you know,
But who the.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Hell rolls down their wind if somebody walks up to
their car, you know, three four o'clock in the morning
in Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
You know, well, if you're gonna drive in Manhattan. This
is the time to do it, because you don't have
to pay that extra tax where you're driven rush hour,
you got to pay that extra at all.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Well, it actually it kicks in in twenty five minutes.
It kicks in at five o'clock. It goes from three
bananas to six bananas. It's just more of a rip off.
You The New York people come on, I really just dumbed.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
How do they allow that? There's got to be some
kind of pushback by the people in New York too,
just I mean, it's so stupid. They've added that extra tax. Ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Well, I could tell you, I guarantee if you took
a poll, half the people in New York City wouldn't
even know what's going on. They're just they're oblivious.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
They just they just blindly pay more money. They're like, eh,
they don't care.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Well, listen, what do you think New York City basically
is people are very rich and they don't care about
any They don't care. Then, plus it emptied out they
listen to roads are lighter.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You know, right there you go, they got what they wanted.
They're less people there there.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
And plus the other half of the people and are
on government specialties and stuff, and they don't care about more.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Important, more importantly, who gives about that? Have you done
any phony phone calls lately? Have you done any fake
phone calls?
Speaker 5 (28:17):
All right, I'll give you one in a second.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But listen.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
I noticed something about listening to you recently. You listen
to New York Talk radio. I know you listened to
New York Talk radio. I'm not gonna don't have to
bring in it for Ren's sake, on Sherlock Holmes or
Dick Tracy. You definitely listen to New York Talk radio,
meaning the station that come out of you.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I don't, I don't. I mean I when I visit
New York, I'll listen, but I don't. I don't listen
on the regular. But you think I do.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Come on, you don't get them. You don't get them
on the internet. Come on, I can tell by you
a vernacular.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
My vernacular. But no, I don't, actually because I actually
try not to listen to a lot of sports radio
because then I'll end up. I don't want to take
things that aren't mine per se. So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
You don't want to you don't want to bow guard it.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I try not to do that. Yeah, and I if
I listen to a lot, I'll end up bore guarding stuff,
you know, just by osmosis, you'll start doing stuff. So
I try not to. I try not do that. But
but fair enough. So see, are you going to be
back now, Steve or are you going to be like
calling more offering vanished for another month? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
I'm gonna I'll tell you about the prank, right.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Oh yeah, tell me about the prank now. Steve calls
up every he's a you're addicted to calling talk radio.
You call a bunch of times, and sometimes you drop
my name on there, which I love. That's great, and
you do crazy things.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Well you deserve it, you really.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I told you you're good.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
You're in the top five or something or what the
third basement of some of New York Yankey history.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
I called the Howie Caught show, right, so I spoke
to him, right those people, he's up the well his
shows originates out of Beantown, but I think he's down
south now. He ran out of there, like like you
know what. But so I called him. But I can't
use my name because they don't let Steve from Manhattan
on only you and maybe two other guys me out
of all the shows I called. So I call it
(30:02):
to his show, right, and I said something funny politically,
and then you know when they when they hang up
on you, that doesn't mean you're all. Your line has
been hung up on it. So I'm be Ten minutes
later he goes back to my call. He goes right
back to me again same day, say everything, and I'm
told and everything. Now it's not a prank call. People
are calling in the studio saying, hey, you know who
(30:25):
that was and everything. You're in on it.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
The studios got to be in on it.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
How can he get back on ten minutes later with
the same.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
He was totally oblivious. That's great, all right, Well, see,
I gotta go see your ballguarding the time on my show.
But thank you. There's is Steve driving around Manhattan and
yeah they have My brother lives there, so I'm aware
of the tax Oh he doesn't drive much. He takes
the the subway around town. We got Big Ben's lame
jokes of the week that's coming up here in a
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Let's say load to Angry Bill and then we'll get
to lame jokes of the week. Hello, Angry Bill.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
How's everybody doing? Then? With his baseball commissioner, we just
got to start over again. We got to go out
and pick a reputable person who knows baseball and just
start over. Clean, clean the slate, and try to forget
about the past. Try to. I mean, the thing with
Otani is just the same. That's your only word for it. Okay,
(31:54):
you don't have a hands of dollars that you don't
open up. I got this little checking book, I'm gonna looking. Oh,
I got you know, sixteen point two million. And you
don't know this guy stealing money from you? If you've
got to be kidding me, and they don't recognize that
he's behind this gambling, It is hard.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
It is hard to fathom. It is hard to fathom.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
But it's just unbelievable. We know what happened with the Astros.
You know, it's just ridiculous. The guy, the guy, I
don't know, well, I don't know what he's thinking is
to say, I'm going to cover this up, but I'm
going to get strong on this other thing that he
gets strong on, and he covers this up. It's just ridiculous.
Got to get right.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Well, there's obviously a financial element to Otani. That's he's
worth so much to the Dodgers in the baseball that
they they You imagine if they had suspended him for
some Oh my god, that would have been humongous. It
had been like when Michael Jordan was suspended and had
to play baseball in Birmingham for a couple of years
back in the day.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Well, they could take O'tani and let him go to
a wall somewhere in cook sushi for a year. I mean,
you know, come on, it's just completely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Alright, all right, thank you go away. It is the
Ben Mahllor Show. We're gonna have lame jokes of the week.
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Knock knock, Who's there?
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Blame we blame we who? It's Big Man's lame joke
of the week and way we go. Weed Man? Are
you there? Weed Man? Hippie? Hey, Dan, I love you
all right now, we Man? You told me that you
need the Chiefs to win and there'll be a new
religion born if the Chiefs win it. That correct?
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Yeah, yes, yeah, yet, all right, all right, we have.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
We man is in Miami and he's a regular on
the show. This is his own segment. Did you know
that trading Luca Donzig was not Mavericks gm Nico Harrison's
worst decision?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, he once took Lizzo to and All you Can
Eat a fet That was much, much worse. That's George
and Uvaldi in Texas. Thank you, George. Did you know
that Lizzo is a big supporter of a new national
school lunch program? Oh? What Yeah, it's called no Twinkie
Left Behind? Very important? What is Lizzo's favorite type of weed?
(35:19):
What kind she likes? Anything edible? Anything? Uh? That's sir
for Todd the comedian. Why can't Lizzo roll over? Why
she's so big she needs a passport just to roll over.
That's Noah in Austin, Thank you, Noah. Why is Lizzo
(35:41):
thinking about a comeback tour?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Why?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Well, because lately she's been feeling empty inside. That's Chipkin
may think you that what did our guy Gunner in Minnesota,
say to Lizzo. What did Gunner say to Lizzo? What
do you want to go out tonight? Lizzo replied, no, thanks,
I have standards. That's Katon Rory. We sent that one in.
(36:07):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners. If you want
to send jokes into a future episode of the show,
send them care of Benmatherershow at gmail dot com. Benmathershow
at gmail dot com. And you can have weed Man
Hippie laugh at one of your jokes. And I'm proud
of you, weed Man. You've gone several months without going
back to jail. Good job by you. All Right, what
(36:28):
do you I know? What did Lizzo say to the
cashier about eggs costing twelve dollars a dozen?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
What she said? This has to be a lame yoke.
Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Did you hear that Lizzo got
a job at tire rack?
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
No? Yeah, it turns out she's their new spare tire distributor.
That said, Drew in Minnesota. What is Lizzo looking forward
to most this Sunday? What a great big super Bowl?
A big super Bowl. That's Surfer Todd the comedian. All Right,
(37:11):
buckle up, weed Man. What's the difference between weed Man
hippie and e leprechaun? What a leprechaun will lead you
to a pot of gold. Weed man will lead you
to a stash of acapulco gold. Yeah, Terry, Terry and
Saint Paul. How can weed man get snow to come
(37:31):
down in Miami?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
All he has to do is scratch his head enough
and all of a sudden, tena snowflakes right there. Noah,
Noah In Austin. Why is Weedman? Uh? Yeah, that's true.
Why is weed man hippie? Dinners at the soup kitchen
like the Super Bowl wine? Well, they both don't have bills.
(37:57):
That's pretty funny, good joke. George in Rochester, Minnesota. What
does weed Man's custom Chiefs T shirt say?
Speaker 3 (38:05):
What?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I hate mahomes and my roommates and my roommates? Yeah,
the roommate you love mahomes. That's Eric in Kansas. What's
the stakes of the bet weed Man and his roommate
have for the Super Bowl? What loser moves out? How
(38:27):
about that?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
We made you should do that?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
You should do that. Chiefs and bills are chiefs and
bills The chiefs and the eagles. You take the chiefs
and then boom. All right? How do you call a
person who ates or what do you call? Rather? What
do you call a person who hates homeless people like
weed Man? What hobo phobick is? What you call them?
Hobo phobic? That's but Buttermilk Chavo. Coop, you got any
(38:49):
jokes over there? Coop? Now? Okay, h Coop Sata. You
want to send an offensive joke, let me know it's
offensive for Coop. I'll pass it around to him. How
did weed Man know it was time to go to
the hospital? It was tooth thirty. Tooth thirty is what?
It's a chip? That's good. What would be different if
(39:09):
weed Man Hippie went back in time to the baby
version of himself? What? No teething? Wow? Buttermilk Javo set
that one in. And uh did you hear that the
Democrats elected weed Man Hippie to run the National Committee? Yeah?
Do it?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, it's because the Democrats can't find their teeth either. Wow.
All right, all right, very nice there. Why was weed
Man put on a psychiatric hold? Why because he was
laughing at voices in his head and claimed that he
could talk to the radio. That's true in Minnesota. What
did the fat guys say at his first AA meeting?
(39:49):
What he said, my name is Luca. That's Tony in
the back bak of weed man. Good jokes this week,
solid jokes. Thank you.
Ding.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
No, it's our number three, our three, and here we
go of our number three, The Ben Malor Show Podcast
original recipes. We can talk the hind legs off a donkey.
Speaking of donkeys, Rob Manford, the Commissioner of Baseball, says
fans are concerned over baseball's lack of a salarycap. How
(00:23):
does that one hit you? Also, are you surprised that
the name of the person who didn't vote for each
row for the Hall of Fame has not gotten out yet?
And do you believe that sho hal Tani really had
no idea that his interpreter was gamblings interpreter has now
been sentenced almost five years in jail. We'll talk about
that as well. Coming up right now here, it is
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our number three. Yeah, I'm good, mister Commissioner, I'm good.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of The Ben
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big fan of that number ten thousand, So our lead
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to begin this hour, we'll change it up a little bit.
I thought the story in baseball was interesting. We'll get
back to the football later on. The MVP award handed out.
Here we go, so Buffalo is Josh Allen was not
the player that won the honors in terms of being
the All Pro, but he was the MVP. Very rarely
(02:12):
does that happen, but it did happen. So Josh Allen
your MVP over Lamar Jackson. Some controversy on that, and
the Hall of Fame voters actually got it right. Very
rarely did they get it right. Usually they have no backbone,
but they got it right. As Eli Manning, the Punk,
did not get in on the first ballot. Mister five hundred.
(02:34):
He led the NFL in one category during his career,
that would be interceptions, and he is not in the
Hall of Fame. But We'll start with baseball. Our lead
from the owners meetings. That's tom Beach, Florida. It's fair
to say that the Major League Baseball owners do not
get together in Appleton, Wisconsin. No, they're going somewhere with
(02:55):
sunshines where they're going. So they went to Palm Beach.
The Aristo Crats of baseball took care of some league
business before spring training gets started. This weekend the Chicago Cubs.
On Sunday, pitchers and catchers will report the Cubs the
first team on how great is that? How happy are
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the players? On Super Bowl Sunday. They have to show
up and take their physicals and all that stuff. But
that's the schedule as spring training will get underway. Now,
some news from the head clown of Major League Baseball.
If you've not heard the Commissioner, Rob Manford, we call
a man fraud. Rob Manford says he is getting emails
(03:39):
from fans who are concerned over the lack of a
salary cap. All of this because of the Dodgers off
season for the Ages, and this has sparked the Commissioner
of Baseball to talk about whether or not he brought
up the salary cap. And there is a expiration of
(04:01):
the cb A, the collective Bargaining Agreement. Three words that
never sound good on radio. Collective Bargaining Agreement in December
of twenty twenty six. Now Manford talked out of both
sides of his mouth because he said the fans are
letting him know that they want a salarycap. And then
he also said, the Dodgers are not ruining baseball with
(04:26):
all this money. They're spending three hundred and eighty nine
million dollars payroll, but after the taxes are paid and
all that, it's like five hundred million. However, a Manford said,
he said, this is the issue that we need to
be vigilant on. The commissioner stated, we need to pay
attention to it and need to determine whether there are
(04:47):
things that can be done to take care of those
concerns and make sure that we have a competitive and
healthy game going forward. All right, so let us discuss
a question. Rob Manford, the Weasley Commissioner of Baseball, says,
fans are concerned. They are concerned, they want a salary
(05:09):
cap because of the Dodgers. How does that one hit you?
How does that hit you? So I've got Church vacuum
and bumpkin, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to lay down on the grass,
is what we're going to do, and take a nap.
(05:29):
All right. So, first of all, Rob Manford yet again
has a lot of hutzpa, a lot of mister commissioner,
May I advise you, unsolicited that you are full of
horse manure. You are the fertilizer man. All of a sudden,
we are supposed to believe, imagine if you will, a
(05:50):
world We're Rob Manford, the worst commissioner in Major League
Baseball history, is worried about fans' concerns. The same guy
that brought us ghost runners to Major League Baseball, the
clock and all the other nonsense that has been put
into baseball. This guy is worried about what the fan wants,
(06:14):
right and Manford he wants to be vigilant on this
issue because he needs to take care of the fans. And,
as the Great Dana Carvey used to say when he
played the character on Saturday Night Live, the Church Lady, well,
isn't that convenient? Mister Commissioner. Rob Manford is flirting publicly
(06:34):
with a salary cap, supposedly because he got a few
complaints from grumbling fans, yet he also said what the
Dodgers are doing is not ruining baseball. Talk about talking
out of both sides of the mouth. I find it
hard to believe, though, that Rob Manford actually checks email
from the Great Unwashed. I don't think he does that. Also,
(06:55):
I find it hard to believe that Rob Manford gives
a rats ass about what the fans want, because, if
I'm not mistaken, and maybe I'm wrong on this, weren't
the fans rebelling against baseball? Wasn't there an uprising a
few years back? Because while Rob Manfraud was the commissioner
under his nose, there were teams that called up and said,
(07:17):
mister Commissioner, there's a team they play in Texas. They're
cheating and we'd like you to take care of them,
mister commissioner. And mister Commissioner said, okay, I'm going to investigate.
I'm going to bring in the top investigators from Major
League Baseball. We're going to get to the bottom of this.
We're going to push the limit. So they sent in
their investigators and they said, you know what, we investigated.
No signs at any point the Astros are cheating, no signs.
(07:43):
It was only after a heroic member of the cheating
a Stros lit the fire and said, wait a minute,
I was there. They were cheating and here's how doing it,
and so then he had to retreat. But even after that,
even with all the evidence, video after video, bang bang,
(08:05):
whistle whistle, even after all that, Rob Manford did not
do a damn thing, not a damn thing to remedy
the buzzers, the trash cans in Houston that they used
that contraband to win an illegal championship that does not count,
and the fans were upset. I was upset. Everyone was upset.
(08:25):
And Rob Manford, what did he do? The worst commissioner
in baseball history, Rob Manford, in the middle of this storm.
Did he say, I'm gonna take care of this. I'm
gonna put something out there. This is not right. No.
Rob Manford called the World Series trophy just a piece
of metal, just a piece of metal, and said Baseball
(08:46):
did not need to get the trophy back from the
Astros for their tainted twenty seventeen World Series. He said
the idea of an asterisk or asking for a piece
of metal back, was a futile act. And now all
of a sudden, we're supposed to believe that this same
commissioner who didn't think it was worth his time to
(09:06):
save the integrity of baseball, that same commissioner now is
worried about a few fans calling up and emailing him
and complaining, what is his email address? How do you
email the commissioner? I'd like to email them my thoughts.
I know Rob Manford's a fan of my work, because
every time I mention his name, we are called from
Major League Baseball upset with something I said. Now. Secondly,
(09:29):
the Hall of Fame, the Baseball Hall of Fame. The
Hall of Fame voter heard around the world has not
been seen. A man of mystery or is it a
woman of mystery? The Hall of Fame voter who said no, no,
no no no no no, no, no, no no, I'm
not going to vote for InChI row Suzuki the Mariner
(09:50):
legend for the Hall of Fame. Now that voter is unknown.
Do do do do do? It is still a mystery.
Three eight, one hundred and twenty one ballots were made
public of men, women, and not children by the baseball scribes,
and none of them the ballot that people wants. Are
(10:14):
you surprised? Are you surprised that the name of the
person who did not vote for Mariner Legend Chiro for
the Hall of Fame hasn't gotten out? He's surprised, So
I am nod in my head. Yes, I'm nodding my head.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And you break this one down. The Baseball Writers Association
of America the BWAA. These guys are run like a
mob operation. They defend and protect their own. They won't
allow anyone else to vote for these awards. The broadcasters can,
it's only the scribes that do. And that's the part
(10:54):
not only of the writers, but it's also they won't share.
But it's also major League Baseball. It's absurd, and the
way many of these guys carry themselves is unbecoming. But
you would assume that someone by this point would have
had loose lips. Multiple people, multiple people have access to
(11:16):
who the name is. There are people that know the
name of the voter. The mystery voter hasn't gotten out yet.
They're in the twilight zone still, and it's remained vacuum sealed,
which tells me the scribe is being protected. The scribe
is being sheltered. Now there's speculation to it is. Most
(11:37):
people seem to think it's an old geezer that a
lot of the baseball scribes. You're a baseball writer for
thirty years and then you're out of the business, but
you still keep your Hall of Fame vote. You're not
an active baseball writer, but you still vote for Lall
of Fame. Isn't somebody that either too old and didn't
realize it, or maybe there's some hardline, hard oh guy
that just doesn't vote for anybody in the first ballot,
(12:00):
But either way, the name hasn't gotten now. Now. I
do believe eventually the name will get out, and it
might not be until someone's on their deathbed, but for
now the weight will continue, all right. Meanwhile, final thought,
big sentencing day on Thursday. E pay miss Ohara. We
know that name because this guy liked the gamble, and
(12:21):
boy did he liked the gamble. Epei Mizuhara was the
interpreter the secret keeper for sho he Otani. He was
sentenced to nearly five years almost five years at the
Gray Bar Hotel, all expenses paid for stealing about seventeen
million from Dodger Superstar Show hey Otani, and he also
(12:46):
has to repay his gambling debts. So Otani, the former
interpreter has He's been given a fifty seven month sentence
and three years of probay supervised release. He has to
pay almost seventeen million in restitution to Otani and one
(13:09):
point one million to the irs. Yes, there is a
better chance I win an Olympic gold medal in track
and field than Otani and the irs get that money.
I'm just saying, now, do you believe, though, let's get
to the heala monster in the room. Do you believe
(13:29):
that Shoeotani really had no idea his interpreter was gambling.
Now that this sentence has come down, have you changed
your position? So? I have not changed my position. I
said all along. I believe there's much more to this story.
I think Otani was aware, and the only other possible
(13:50):
outcome is that Otani is Mozart with the bat and
he's a country bumpkin in life. Like at some point
this went on for several years, and you can get
away with something for a little bit, but at some
point don't you check to see where your money is.
(14:11):
I mean, I'm not great with my my money stuff
I call it adulting, but even I like keep track
of it. I get depressed when I look at it,
but I still keep track of it. And and Otani
like not realizing that something wasn't kosher here. So either
he's lying there's more to the story. People are lying
(14:31):
for him. He's too big to fail because he's the
face of baseball at tany Or, he's the village at
eat and he's functionally illiterate. But we looked at the
numbers again, and Ipe Misuara, the interpreter, made nineteen thousand
bets in a two year period with a bookie. He
(14:52):
ended up with about forty million dollars in debt, they estimate.
And this guy was around Tani all day and all night.
I don't think they slept together, but they weren't far apart.
He had unfiltered access to Otani, meaning he was like
in the dugout with Otani. He was when Otani was
(15:14):
in the locker room, he was in the locker room,
he was everywhere. So I've done some malor math. I'd
like to share with the class the malormth and I
think I'm right on this. So if you do the
malor math, let's say that he was making an average
work the way it works nineteen thousand over two years,
it's an average of twenty six bets per day if
my math is right. So let's take away eight hours
(15:36):
a day. Now, I sleep about five I sleep about
five hours a day, but some people, most people sleep
eight hours, so there's twenty four hours in a day.
Let's say you sleep eight hours, So then you take
away those eight hours in the twenty four you left
with sixteen hours in the day. So you're awake sixteen
hours out of the twenty four hours. That means, at
twenty six bets per day, you are averaging one point
(15:59):
six bet per waking hour. Now, I'm sure some of
those you're eating scrambled eggs for breakfast, or maybe you're
eating a nice hogi for lunch, or some chicken fingers
for dinner, and so you're not betting well that's going on,
but one point six bets per waking hour. And yeah,
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the only way Otani gets that money back is if
our guy, miss O'Hara, can win a forty five leg parlay,
then and only then can he get his money back.
Otherwise you're just gonna have to grin and Barrett. It
is the Ben Mallor Show, as we are rolling, rolling,
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have Big Ben's joke lame Jokes of the week. We'll
have those. We still have to get to Camp Snoopy,
which was from a previous hour, but I spent about
(17:03):
ten minutes talking to that dopey Lance to bus driver.
I'm blaming him. I'm blaming Lance to the bus driver.
So because of that, we were unable to get to
the big payoff, the big payoff that we wanted. So
we didn't get to that. So we'll have we'll have
Camp Snoopy. That'll be coming up in a couple of minutes.
But right now it is time for the Mallor Riddle
(17:28):
of the Day. That's right, the Mallor Riddle of the Day,
and here we go. Safety Chauncey Gardner Johnson says the
Eagles were interested in drafting him out of Florida, but
he blanked at a Chicki's and pets. That's a restaurant
if you're not familiar anyway, he blanked at a Chicky
(17:50):
in Peach and scared the Eagles off again. Safety Chauncey
Gardner Johnson said this week the Eagles were interested in
drafting him out of Florida, but he blanked at a
Chicky's and peats during a team meeting or a draft meeting,
and the Eagles were scared off. That is the malor
(18:11):
riddle of the day. The answer, we'll get to it
and we will do it next.
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do the TV show from there, so we'll give you
a little behind the scenes thing later today. They'll be
up on social media sometime this afternoon. We've got Lame
Jokes of the Week coming up later this hour, all
the great lame jokes with weed Man Hippie and we've
got to pay off though the mallor Riddle of the day.
The mallor Riddle of the day. This is where we
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pretend to be somebody else and try to fill in
the wordle So here it is safety. Chauncey Gardner Johnson
says the Eagles were interested in drafting him out of Florida,
but he blanked at a Chicky and Pete during a
pre draft meeting and that scared the Eagles off. That
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is the question. What is the answer? And let's see
does anyone know the answer? Alf the Alien Opiner says
he couldn't stop watching Benny Versus the Penny on his phone.
From Your Lips to God's Ears. Milkman Mike in Colorado
says he let out a loud farty we got drafted
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higher if he'd done that. Late night drug tester says
he asked for the Senior Citizens discount. O g art
Puffin says Chauncey did the Charlton or the Carlton rather
dance at Chicky and Pete's. He talked about Crypto. According
to Fudgie in Boston, he did his Donald Duck impression
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from Asher who else page down Berg Dog said that
the player never saw Rocky starring Sylvester Saloone. The greatest
actor of our generation is what he said, who else?
He started a game of dodgeball. That's pretty funny. Right
in the middle of a chicky in Pete that's big.
Greg in Iowa Miguel on Fire says he did not
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wash his hands after exiting a bathroom stall. That was
the problem. Who else do we have? Page down? Andy
in Lion o' wakes says he brought his own squatty
potty to the restaurant. I forty Ian says he ate
a black taco and had the Tennessee Trots. Lance the
bus driver was not there, he jumped the shark. According
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to Chris and Kent Washington, the grill sergeant says it's
got to be he crop dusted the room and then that'd
be unfortunate. A job interview Choldon on a chicken bone
from JT. The wingman robbed the place from eg Wow,
he misplaced eagles from Inka Terror In Rochester, Larry de
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says he started doing fly Eagles Fly while doing armpit farts.
Kevin says he did the eagle chant, but he sounded
like the mayor of Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Let me hear you all saying he owee, yeah, alright,
go birds.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Mark in Santa Monica says a garden gnome is the answer.
He started doing his taxes from trucker Joe, that would
be that would be a problem. Yeah, that would be
a problem. Who else do we have page down? Mark
says he tried to cover a fart with a cough
that never works, pooped his pants from slim tim. That's
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his answer? Who else do we have? Page down? All right?
Lorraine up, do you have an answer? The Malarulida safety
Chauncey Gardner Johnson says the Eagles were interested in drafting
him coming out of college in Florida, but he blanked
at a chicky and pete during a meeting with team
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officials and that scared off the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I think he danced to the salsa while crying for
his mother.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh well, it's kind of balls a woman, but not
his mom. Turns out that Chauncey Gardner Johnson says the
Eagles wanted to draft him. They were interested, but he
was out of the chickies and pets and while he
was at a meeting with team officials, he went to
pick up a chick. He went to pick up a
woman while he was at I guess they question.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Is that a red flag?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Well, you know you might want to, you know, not
when you're at the at the team facility. I guess
he was at a Chicken in Petee. But you ever
been to Chicken and Pete for a probably? No, it
sounds like a good place to get chicken white. I've
never even heard of it. It's more on the East Coast.
I don't know Chicky and Pete. That's good. There's a
few located. I think it's like Philadelphia. It's this was
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in I think Florida, but there's a I've seen him
in Philly. I don't know how many states they're in. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mallor Show. Let's go back to the
calls and we'll have lame jokes coming up in a
couple of minutes. Let's say hello to Steve in Manhattan.
Hello Steven Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Welcome, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Go bu Cannon go Buchanon Gob you cannon, go b
Bu Cannon.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
No, baby, what I got?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I got you?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
What are you doing? You're fussing around with your phone?
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Nah? Because I gotta get because I'm outside right now.
I gotta get inside my car because I don't want to.
I don't want to get mugged while I'm calling the show.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
You know, wait what play of Manhattan. Are you in
wait a minute, you get mugged.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Listen, you can get mugged anywhere in Manhattan, my man anywhere.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I think that would be good for ratings. Actually stay
outside longer. Well, wow, Loraina just said she wants you
to be mugged while you're on the show.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Well listen, somebody got someone once got mugg call on
the Bob Grant Show. But anyway, first of all, Ben
distinguished panel, expanding audience, listen, Welcome to Heath everybody, and
of course the great panel that we have there. Listen,
sugar Ban Simmons would just throw up bricks and everything.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
That's how they built the Barkley Center.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
A lot of nonsense going on. I'm gonna be watching
you know the deal. I'm gonna be watching the Egg.
I'm gonna be I'm going to have a whole goal and.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
To be and just watch the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
And the Mayor of Philly can't even spell man. That's
really great, isn't it. But she fits right in there.
And I think one of the Triviata question answers is uh.
He asks for a New York Chief steak man. He
then asked for a Philly cheese steak. They put him
out of the joint.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, that would be that would be a problem that
we already we were already given the answer. Though we've
already you know, we've given the answer. That's bat job.
Are you what? What? What? What have you been? By the way, Steven, Manhattan,
I've noticed you where you don't call for like a
month or two, and then all of a sudden you
start calling again, like what is it? Very odd to me.
You're sporadic, is what you are.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Well, one person once said, I just keep calling the
show till I get banned.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
But I've never been banned from Ben's show.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I should we ban you? Should do? We need to
ban you?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Listen, Henny, he banned me one time, and I was
on more times than when I was on before I
was banned. But the thing is, you know, there's a
lot of crazy stuff going on out there today.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
You know, I'm in the.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Car now the rain, it's time.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
But you still could get cart jack too, you know,
But who the.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Hell rolls down their wind if somebody walks up to
their car, you know, three four o'clock in the morning
in Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
You know, well, if you're gonna drive in Manhattan. This
is the time to do it, because you don't have
to pay that extra tax where you're driven rush hour,
you got to pay that extra at all.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Well, it actually it kicks in in twenty five minutes.
It kicks in at five o'clock. It goes from three
bananas to six bananas. It's just more of a rip off.
You The New York people come on, I really just dumbed.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
How do they allow that? There's got to be some
kind of pushback by the people in New York too,
just I mean, it's so stupid. They've added that extra tax. Ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Well, I could tell you, I guarantee if you took
a poll, half the people in New York City wouldn't
even know what's going on. They're just they're oblivious.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
They just they just blindly pay more money. They're like, eh,
they don't care.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Well, listen, what do you think New York City basically
is people are very rich and they don't care about
any They don't care. Then, plus it emptied out they
listen to roads are lighter.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You know, right there you go, they got what they wanted.
They're less people there there.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
And plus the other half of the people and are
on government specialties and stuff, and they don't care about more.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Important, more importantly, who gives about that? Have you done
any phony phone calls lately? Have you done any fake
phone calls?
Speaker 5 (28:17):
All right, I'll give you one in a second.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But listen.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
I noticed something about listening to you recently. You listen
to New York Talk radio. I know you listened to
New York Talk radio. I'm not gonna don't have to
bring in it for Ren's sake, on Sherlock Holmes or
Dick Tracy. You definitely listen to New York Talk radio,
meaning the station that come out of you.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I don't, I don't. I mean I when I visit
New York, I'll listen, but I don't. I don't listen
on the regular. But you think I do.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Come on, you don't get them. You don't get them
on the internet. Come on, I can tell by you
a vernacular.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
My vernacular. But no, I don't, actually because I actually
try not to listen to a lot of sports radio
because then I'll end up. I don't want to take
things that aren't mine per se. So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
You don't want to you don't want to bow guard it.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I try not to do that. Yeah, and I if
I listen to a lot, I'll end up bore guarding stuff,
you know, just by osmosis, you'll start doing stuff. So
I try not to. I try not do that. But
but fair enough. So see, are you going to be
back now, Steve or are you going to be like
calling more offering vanished for another month? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
I'm gonna I'll tell you about the prank, right.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Oh yeah, tell me about the prank now. Steve calls
up every he's a you're addicted to calling talk radio.
You call a bunch of times, and sometimes you drop
my name on there, which I love. That's great, and
you do crazy things.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Well you deserve it, you really.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I told you you're good.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
You're in the top five or something or what the
third basement of some of New York Yankey history.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
I called the Howie Caught show, right, so I spoke
to him, right those people, he's up the well his
shows originates out of Beantown, but I think he's down
south now. He ran out of there, like like you
know what. But so I called him. But I can't
use my name because they don't let Steve from Manhattan
on only you and maybe two other guys me out
of all the shows I called. So I call it
(30:02):
to his show, right, and I said something funny politically,
and then you know when they when they hang up
on you, that doesn't mean you're all. Your line has
been hung up on it. So I'm be Ten minutes
later he goes back to my call. He goes right
back to me again same day, say everything, and I'm
told and everything. Now it's not a prank call. People
are calling in the studio saying, hey, you know who
(30:25):
that was and everything. You're in on it.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
The studios got to be in on it.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
How can he get back on ten minutes later with
the same.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
He was totally oblivious. That's great, all right, Well, see,
I gotta go see your ballguarding the time on my show.
But thank you. There's is Steve driving around Manhattan and
yeah they have My brother lives there, so I'm aware
of the tax Oh he doesn't drive much. He takes
the the subway around town. We got Big Ben's lame
jokes of the week that's coming up here in a
(30:55):
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Let's say load to Angry Bill and then we'll get
to lame jokes of the week. Hello, Angry Bill.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
How's everybody doing? Then? With his baseball commissioner, we just
got to start over again. We got to go out
and pick a reputable person who knows baseball and just
start over. Clean, clean the slate, and try to forget
about the past. Try to. I mean, the thing with
Otani is just the same. That's your only word for it. Okay,
(31:54):
you don't have a hands of dollars that you don't
open up. I got this little checking book, I'm gonna looking. Oh,
I got you know, sixteen point two million. And you
don't know this guy stealing money from you? If you've
got to be kidding me, and they don't recognize that
he's behind this gambling, It is hard.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
It is hard to fathom. It is hard to fathom.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
But it's just unbelievable. We know what happened with the Astros.
You know, it's just ridiculous. The guy, the guy, I
don't know, well, I don't know what he's thinking is
to say, I'm going to cover this up, but I'm
going to get strong on this other thing that he
gets strong on, and he covers this up. It's just ridiculous.
Got to get right.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Well, there's obviously a financial element to Otani. That's he's
worth so much to the Dodgers in the baseball that
they they You imagine if they had suspended him for
some Oh my god, that would have been humongous. It
had been like when Michael Jordan was suspended and had
to play baseball in Birmingham for a couple of years
back in the day.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Well, they could take O'tani and let him go to
a wall somewhere in cook sushi for a year. I mean,
you know, come on, it's just completely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Alright, all right, thank you go away. It is the
Ben Mahllor Show. We're gonna have lame jokes of the week.
Do we have weed man? Is he standing by there?
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Speaker 1 (34:09):
Knock knock, Who's there?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Blame we blame we who? It's Big Man's lame joke
of the week and way we go. Weed Man? Are
you there? Weed Man? Hippie? Hey, Dan, I love you
all right now, we Man? You told me that you
need the Chiefs to win and there'll be a new
religion born if the Chiefs win it. That correct?
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Yeah, yes, yeah, yet, all right, all right, we have.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
We man is in Miami and he's a regular on
the show. This is his own segment. Did you know
that trading Luca Donzig was not Mavericks gm Nico Harrison's
worst decision?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, he once took Lizzo to and All you Can
Eat a fet That was much, much worse. That's George
and Uvaldi in Texas. Thank you, George. Did you know
that Lizzo is a big supporter of a new national
school lunch program? Oh? What Yeah, it's called no Twinkie
Left Behind? Very important? What is Lizzo's favorite type of weed?
(35:19):
What kind she likes? Anything edible? Anything? Uh? That's sir
for Todd the comedian. Why can't Lizzo roll over? Why
she's so big she needs a passport just to roll over.
That's Noah in Austin, Thank you, Noah. Why is Lizzo
(35:41):
thinking about a comeback tour?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Why?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Well, because lately she's been feeling empty inside. That's Chipkin
may think you that what did our guy Gunner in Minnesota,
say to Lizzo. What did Gunner say to Lizzo? What
do you want to go out tonight? Lizzo replied, no, thanks,
I have standards. That's Katon Rory. We sent that one in.
(36:07):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners. If you want
to send jokes into a future episode of the show,
send them care of Benmatherershow at gmail dot com. Benmathershow
at gmail dot com. And you can have weed Man
Hippie laugh at one of your jokes. And I'm proud
of you, weed Man. You've gone several months without going
back to jail. Good job by you. All Right, what
(36:28):
do you I know? What did Lizzo say to the
cashier about eggs costing twelve dollars a dozen?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
What she said? This has to be a lame yoke.
Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Did you hear that Lizzo got
a job at tire rack?
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
No? Yeah, it turns out she's their new spare tire distributor.
That said, Drew in Minnesota. What is Lizzo looking forward
to most this Sunday? What a great big super Bowl?
A big super Bowl. That's Surfer Todd the comedian. All Right,
(37:11):
buckle up, weed Man. What's the difference between weed Man
hippie and e leprechaun? What a leprechaun will lead you
to a pot of gold. Weed man will lead you
to a stash of acapulco gold. Yeah, Terry, Terry and
Saint Paul. How can weed man get snow to come
(37:31):
down in Miami?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
All he has to do is scratch his head enough
and all of a sudden, tena snowflakes right there. Noah,
Noah In Austin. Why is Weedman? Uh? Yeah, that's true.
Why is weed man hippie? Dinners at the soup kitchen
like the Super Bowl wine? Well, they both don't have bills.
(37:57):
That's pretty funny, good joke. George in Rochester, Minnesota. What
does weed Man's custom Chiefs T shirt say?
Speaker 3 (38:05):
What?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I hate mahomes and my roommates and my roommates? Yeah,
the roommate you love mahomes. That's Eric in Kansas. What's
the stakes of the bet weed Man and his roommate
have for the Super Bowl? What loser moves out? How
(38:27):
about that?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
We made you should do that?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
You should do that. Chiefs and bills are chiefs and
bills The chiefs and the eagles. You take the chiefs
and then boom. All right? How do you call a
person who ates or what do you call? Rather? What
do you call a person who hates homeless people like
weed Man? What hobo phobick is? What you call them?
Hobo phobic? That's but Buttermilk Chavo. Coop, you got any
(38:49):
jokes over there? Coop? Now? Okay, h Coop Sata. You
want to send an offensive joke, let me know it's
offensive for Coop. I'll pass it around to him. How
did weed Man know it was time to go to
the hospital? It was tooth thirty. Tooth thirty is what?
It's a chip? That's good. What would be different if
(39:09):
weed Man Hippie went back in time to the baby
version of himself? What? No teething? Wow? Buttermilk Javo set
that one in. And uh did you hear that the
Democrats elected weed Man Hippie to run the National Committee? Yeah?
Do it?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, it's because the Democrats can't find their teeth either. Wow.
All right, all right, very nice there. Why was weed
Man put on a psychiatric hold? Why because he was
laughing at voices in his head and claimed that he
could talk to the radio. That's true in Minnesota. What
did the fat guys say at his first AA meeting?
(39:49):
What he said, my name is Luca. That's Tony in
the back bak of weed man. Good jokes this week,
solid jokes. Thank you.
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