February 17, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jonathan Martin confessing the Dolphins bullying scandal was a farce, the Chiefs wanting Travis Kelce to return in a reduced role, reports that Bill Belichick's girlfriend is using him for profit, Maller Militia Feud, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our numbber fall. Yes, our
number four on this president Day. You know, every member,
Here's my presidential fun fact. Every member of Teddy Roosevelt's
family owned a pair of stilts, including the first lady.
How about that? All right? So here at our number
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four on this seventeenth day of February. How do you
process the confessional of Jonathan Martin on the faux dolphin
bullying scandal from ten plus years ago. Also, the Chiefs
want Travis Kelce to return to the team next season,
but it would be a reduced role. Instead of being
the focal point, Kelsey would be a situational playmaker. Where
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does that leave Travis Kelsey's future in case? Also some
recent reporting that Bill Belichick's girlfriend is using him for profit,
such as her recent Super Bowl commercial. Your thoughts on
that and more? Have a wonderful Monday. Here it is
our number four, no more. Incognito is back. Well, come
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So our lead this hour a classic NFL scandal that
has been born again. Now there's one thing that I
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love more than anything, scandal radio. Oh it's juicy, It's
soud juicy. I love it and I'm old enough it.
Maybe you are too. Maybe you're old enough to remember
a rather infamous Miami dolphin bullying scandal. This goes way back,
over a decade. In fact, it was twenty thirteen, was
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the Here we are in twenty twenty five, so buckle up.
Major update, major update, dateline, South Florida and if you
have not heard yet, maybe not. News came out over
the weekend former former NFL offensive lineman Jonathan Martin. Jonathan
Martin is now walking back allegations, very public allegations that
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he was the victim of bullying by his former teammate,
Richie Incognito, a longtime NFL offensive lineman. The two were
teammates with the Dolphins. Now some backstory. If you're unfamiliar,
I'll give you the thumbnail recap of events in twenty thirteen.
This was a big story in sports radio. It's a
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big story all over the place, and it rocked parts
of the NFL. It led to Incognito being suspended for
his naughty activity. And now a random day in February
nearly twelve full years later, nearly twelve full years later,
Jonathan Martin has come out and said, uh, just kidding, psych.
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I want to set the record straight, he said, quote,
I never believe for a second I was being bullied.
Martin recently told The Entertainment and Sports Network, a small
startup website out of Bristol, Connecticut. He said, it's a
story that I've been trying to fix for ten years,
he stated. Now, the NFL hired a private outside council
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to investigate a gentleman named Ted Wells, a lawyer, and
Ted Wells investigated the incident. This goes back until February fourteenth,
twenty fourteen, twenty fourteen. The report found that Incognito, along
with two two other two other dolphin linemen, had engaged
in a pattern of harassment of the poor, helpless Jonathan Martin. Well,
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now we are getting the rest of the story. Now,
keep in mind, this story led to Incognito being suspended
for half of an NFL season and then an entire
NFL season following. He missed half of the twenty thirteen
twenty fourteen season and then the entire twenty fourteen twenty
fifteen season out of the NFL because of the suspension.
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But now Martin's like, Hey, I wasn't bullied. My parents
were the reason that this happened. So let us discuss
the question how do you process the random confessional of
Jonathan Martin on the Fax Dolphins bullying scandal. So I've
got queen jumper, cables and razor, and we will combine
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all of these things together and we will provide you
a nice safety package. Is what we're going to provide
you now to kick off the festivities here to answer
the question, how do you process the latest revelations that
Jonathan Martin, the former Dolphin is saying I was not
bully by Richie incognito, John and Martin. It woul appear
based on his own words here in this story that
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I read over the weekend is if he was a dessert,
he would be soft, sir, he would be soft ster.
This is wild. Now he is claiming that this entire
story as a grown ass man was his mommy, That
his mommy is the one that linked the goods. Yikes,
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his mother and father were meddling in his business affairs,
That's what he's saying. Martin's blaming his parents for leaking
the story to ESPN if I read this right, and
that they were unhappy because of what they believed was
inappropriate behavior. They did not understand a locker room talk,
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locker room culture, and from I understand, they're from academia,
so they don't get it. And they thought this was terrible,
the worst thing in the world. And according to Martin,
the the locker room palk was used as arson to
start a wildfire that has now taken over a decade
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and cost Jonathan Martin tons of money in the process.
Now it is a reminder, really a refresher course, that
sports investigations should always be taken with a grain of salt.
That they tell you sometimes what happened, but they don't
tell you the entire story, and oftentimes they get it
completely wrong. What are my examples. Let me tell you
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why I believe that, Okay, these sham inquiries in professional
sports in my lifetime, I'm gonna go back that far.
So I'm gonna add this to the list. Que the
Queens song. Another one bites the dust, Another one bites
the dust. So you've got Richie incognito who's found guilty
by the NFL of bullying NFL investigation. You're guilty of bullying.
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You're gonna miss a year and a half of your
career now, Jonathan Martin says, this whole thing's bogus. This
reminds me of a Major League Baseball invest There were
teams saying that the baseball team in Houston was cheating.
The ASS thousand and two, one thousand holes were cheating,
and so the ASS one thousand and two, one thousand
holes were cheating, and Baseball investigated. They found no inappropriate activity.
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It was only after a hero inside the walls, Mike Fires,
came out and said, yeah, they're cheat and here's how
they did it, and had to describe point by point
in a story behind a paywall on the Old Gray
Ladies Athletic what exactly was taking place. That Baseball then
had to acknowledge, acknowledge what happened. But even Major League
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Baseball they investigated it, and they told you some of
the things that happened. They didn't tell you the whole
st Hey, I'm checking for the baser. Yeah. The NBA
years ago, there was a referee named Tim Donnie who
the NBA investigated. They claimed it was one bad actor,
he was a rogue official, one lone wolf, and there
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are many people who believe that to be true. I'm
not one of them. I believe there were other people
involved than that, not just Tim Donnie. How about a
non meat and potatoes sports league, Lance Armstrong, the steroid
chief Lance Armstrong. This goes back a minute, but Lance
Armstrong was so ballsy. He sued the Sunday Times I
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believe of London. He sued the newspaper I think it
was the Sunday Times of London, and he sued them
for libel because they published an article that suggested he
used performance enhancing drugs. So they went through the course
system and Lance Armstrong won a giant payout while using
performance enhancing drugs, suing for libel that he wasn't using
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performance dancing drugs. Now, as for Richie Incognito, the NFL
itself didn't believe he was. He was that bad guy.
And my theory as to why that is because he
played another five years. If the NFL truly believed that
Richie Incognito king of all douchebags, he would not have played.
If he was a racist and all this other he
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would't have played another five years. In the NFL, there's
locker room culture and then there's the outside world culture,
and people that aren't in that environment don't understand it
and probably never will understand it right, And they don't
get it and they get all freaked out about this stuff.
But the rigid Kenney to have played another five years. Don't
you think if he was a bully and a total
douche that he wouldn't have played another five years in
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the NFL? Because that, No, I can't do it. I
also don't believe in the the Sean Payton New Orleans
Saints bullying scandal. I thought that was bull crap also,
or not bullying, that was the what was that the
where they were they had bounties, it was bounty gait. Yeah,
I don't buy that one either, all right not furthermore
developing story out of Cansah City some recent reporting the
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Chiefs they want tight end Travis Kelcey to be back
on the team. They given him a deadline in about
a month. About a month, however, Travis kelce would have
to return as a diminished player, a reduced role. Instead
of being the focal point where everything funnels through, Travis
Kelcey in Kansas City's passing in, Kelsey would be a
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situational playmaker, be more of a mentor in the locker room,
to younger tight ends that will be brought in here,
and there are some on the roster right now. So
question for the esteem panel, where does this leave Travis
Kelcey's future in can City. So I'll go first here.
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My first reaction is the plot thickens. It's my first
reaction as we wait for the point of demarcation that
mid March date Travis kelce based on this latest reporting,
he needs a set of jumper cables because this is
a non starter. This is a non start. You're not
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dating Taylor Swift to in cheeseball game shows and appearances
and movies and all this stuff. As a situational playmaker,
You're just not. And that's the life that Travis Kelcey
has right now and clearly has slowed down. From a
football standpoint, it makes a lot of sense, a lot
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of sense if you are the Chiefs to go that direction.
He has been bedraggled on a regular basis and he
was not able to perform in a high level. Some
of the clips from the Super Bowl are not very
flattering of Travis kelce who look like a guy that
had nothing left in that game, the biggest game of
the year, and Travis did not bring a lot to
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the table. And it is the curse of the older athlete. Remember,
the curse of the older athlete is that occasionally you
are good, sporadic greatness surrounded by a lot of mediocrity,
a lot of mediocrity. All right. Now, lastly, we go
now to the tabloid world where some recent reporting in
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that world that Bill Belichick's girlfriend is merely using him
for profit. Shocking revelation by the tabloids. They're pointing out
the recent Super Bowl commercial that she was a part of.
So your thoughts on this latest tabloid story that Bill
Belichick is being used being used here? So my reaction is,
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is it even up for debate? To me, this is
a mutual using situation. Belichick is using her for the
superpowers that she brings to the table, and she is
using him for what he brings to the table here.
And does anyone think that that is not part of
the equation? Is there any? Of course, of course, it's
part of the It's not that deep. This is an
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Okham's razor situation, meaning the simplest answer is most often
the correct answer, rather than some more complicated, convoluted issue.
And most of them, not not always, but most of
the time. I would say night nine point nine percent
of the time. And you see this dramatic and age
drap an age gap. It is the power, which is
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code for cash, and that's part of it. And Bill Belichick,
who was an if he was an unemployed truck driver
in his seventies, you think she would be attracted to
Bill Belichick? Probably not. Probably not, as the Ojys saying
back in their day, for the love of money, a
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love of money and Kanye not a big fan of Kanye,
but famously saying I ain't saying she's a gold digger,
but she ain't messing with no broke boys or something
like that. Clean that up for the radio. Bill Belichick
is loaded. He's worth seventy million dollars. He was making
ten plus million a year with the Patriots, some say
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as much as fifteen to seventeen million a year at
the end from the Kraft family to keep costs down
for the Patriots. And so she brings youth and good
looks and Belichick gets to enjoy that, and then he
provides her financially with a lot of money. I don't
know how much stuff. He's like bought for it. How
much money he's spent on her? I'm curious. I don't know.
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Nobody knows anyway. It is the benmo somebody knows, but
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ninety nine on Fox and Now, Well head over to
blabermouth Benny. Well, no, it's just it's just Benny, no
blabbermouth there. Bill surprised Bill's working on President's Day, Ray
odd that he would you would work here, so his
President's Day. And this is usually about the time where
I tell you my favorite president, William Howard Taft. William
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Howard Taft, who is responsible for a number of fun factoids,
famously got stuck. He was the last great real fat
president back in the day and weighed over three hundred pounds.
Got stuck in the White House Bathtom Yeah, yeah, yeah,
the bathroom. He was the last president to have a cow,
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a presidential cow, and the first president to have an automobile,
and the last president to rock facial hair. About that.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Fun fact.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, And there's a long standing theory he was the
first president to throw out the first pitch. There's a
there's a mythology that William Howard taft is why we
have the seventh inning stretch in baseball. Some people have
tried to debunk that those people are the no fun police,
But the legendary story is that back in those days,
people respected the president, and when the president did something,
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you all reacted to it. And supposedly he could not
really fit in the seats because they were designed for
people smaller than William Howard taffed, and then in the
seventh inning he got up and suit everyone. No, no, no, no.
Now today you'd sue everybody, but back then, no, he
stood up and out of respect, he stood up to
stretch his legs in the seventh inning, and out of respect,
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the crowd, thinking the president was leaving, rose to pay
their respects to the president. And thus the seventh inning
stretch was no I was born. Well, some people think
that's how it happened. Other people are claiming that it
happened way before that, like in the eighteen hundred. This
is an actual stretch.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Like you get up to stretch.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You've never been to a baseball game arena?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh my god, I thought I met like a long run, Like,
so you've gone six innings, so now the seventh one
is stretched out?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
No, Lorena, Oh my god, you've never been to a
baseball game, you beat You don't know what the seventh
inning stretch is? Are you kidding? You're kidding? Right? Am
I being punked? Right? Who was she punking me? Right now?
I don't think so. Oh my god, lorainy you work
at a national sports radio network. You do not know
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what the seventh inning stretches. Oh my god, Lorena.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I also don't make it to the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Oh man, I know, I know. Yeah, all right, well,
all the more motivation to play the game that I
wanted to play. But now that the TV show's over,
maybe I'll have time to put the game board together. Yeah,
what night should we play the game? What do you mean?
What night should we do the game? I think this
is a very good sign that we should do the game.
Definitely need to do the game. Oh man, we have
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all we have an open for the game, right, we
actually imaging We already have an imaging thing for the game.
Oh man, Lorena did not know what the seventh inning stretches.
Holy crap. Okay, alright, yikes, yikes, yikes, yike. Shikes. Uh,
Stevie meet balls rites in and says mal or this
is it. The Dolphins are definitely cursed. What's next was
the video of the O line coach with the hookers
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and blow fake. Maybe Jonathan Martin's parents will finally send
him for the ballet lessons he wanted now instead of
playing football. That's from Steve the disgruntled Dolphin fan, and
Fergdok says, you've made us wait long enough. Ben, did
Benny versus the Penny season two finale dethrone mash or not? Also,
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do you think describing Lance Armstrong as ballsy went unnoticed?
I assure you it did not. Well, I just wanted
to slip that in there. See if you were see
if you're paying attention. Yes, Robert writes in and say
he sent a funny sign of the Astros are innocent,
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which may or may not be misspelled, may or may
not be misspelled in that particular sign. But hey, to
each their own, all right, let's see here eeny meany
miny mo will pick a caller. Oh, I didn't want
to mention before we go to the calls. Yeah, you
guys have been a hole for a while. But before
we get to the calls. I mentioned this earlier. The
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Dodgers signed a guy who was there poltergeist, the great
Eddie Rosario, and I winns I was at those games
in the NLCS years ago, and Eddie Rosario for the
Atlanta Braves had one of the great postseason performances I
have ever. They could not get this freaking guy out.
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He destroyed the Dodgers in the twenty twenty one NLCS
or the Atlanta Braves, and he has now signed a
minor league contract. That's how far his career has fallen.
But Eddie Rosario, who was the NLCS MVP and looked
for one series like a combination of legends like Pete
Rose or Tony Gwinn. It was unreal how good this
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cat was for one playoff. Seris, we know he's not
that good. He's a fringe major league out field whor
he's played ten years so he's fully vested in the
MLB pension plan and all that. But in the twenty
twenty one National League Championship Series, Eddie Rosario was insane
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to the membrane. Unreal how good this guy was in
the NLCS. They could not get him out. It was ridiculous,
and it was like the guy's like this happens every
so often in baseball where there's a guy this is
not really all that good, but just find a little
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something magic, a little something magical. And he did. I
mean that that was insane. I think he batted like
six hundred or some ridiculous thing like that. In that
particular series. It was nuts. Let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Enie Meanie, mighty Mo. Let's say
hello to hollering James. Who's in Minneapolis, Manesalt, Hello, holloring James. Hello, Ben,
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Oh you're awake? Doing He's awake? Hollering James. We'd like
to alert all the affiliates down the line. Hollering James
is away. Who's your favorite president? The hollering James, Eddy
Guardando who struck out Eddie Eddie Guardado? Is your favorite president? Well,
he was a great president back in the day. I
love him. Yeah, for the Minnesota Twins when they won
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the White House.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You know why, Ben James, because I think you're more
than that. Gona Lorraina.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Ben, you sound good on the air.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Thank you sound good on the air.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
What about me?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I sound I think I like you, Ben Benner, because
I met you at the Mermaid That's.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Right, one of the great moments in American history, the
Mallor meet and greet.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Amazing, and I have dragged you away from really a
massive Benny militia.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Called the Mallard militia, not to Benny militia. Now do
you know who the tallest president of all time? I
mean is hollering James?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Is it Thomas Jefferson?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No, that is incorrect. How about tell this the guy?
The guy took a bullet at the Ford Theater. How
about that you do.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
At the Ford Ronald Reagan?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yes, Ronald Reagan was killed at the Ford Theater. It
was a shocking. How did you get that right up
against him? Right? Yeah? James, you want to We're gonna
play a game. Maybe we'll playing like how about Tuesday
and the Wednesday? Yeah, James, you want to play the game?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I want to play the game.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You love the game. You don't even know what the
game is, and you want to play the game.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
You know why I want to play?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Why do you want to play the game?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Why why do you want to play the game? I
don't know why? Why does it interests me?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Anytime you have the game show on that I can play.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You love the game, You're all about the game. You
live for the game.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I live for the game. I died for the game,
Ben Maller, You should be in the radio Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Damn right, I don't even where I should be in
the hall of fame. Put me in the hall of
fame now. I mentioned this over the weekend on my podcast.
They're they they're making a movie about Art Bell, the
guy from coast to coast back in the day. How
great is that? They're gonna make a movie about a
radio guy, an overnight radio guy. How awesome is that?
That's amazing. Yeah, I'm like a cameo. Why don't I
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get like a cameo in the movie? I can be
in the background or something like that. They haven't made
the movie yet.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Why don't you, Shack, They've.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Already made that, James. It's hard to be in a movie.
They've already made, James what they've already made, Caddy Shack.
All right, I'm not breaking breaking up on me. I'm
not breaking up on you.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
You're breaking up.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
But breaking up is hard to do, hard, hanging up
on your go away he blew me off and lax.
So the NFL has admitted they fed up. The NFL
says they have regrets over the Super Bowl halftime him
choice of Kendrick Lamar out of negative publicity. Apparently it
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was the most watched halftime show of all time, but
the NFL made a mistake allowing the super Bowl halftime
show to have Kendrick more law, Kendrick Lamar just just
increase of beef right the whole the point of that
was to take shots at Drake and all that. So
Kendrick Lamar, the NFL saying, well, we probably shouldn't have
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done that. It's a bad job by us, but they
love to promote that when you have the halftime show,
the sales of your music go through the roof. That
you are. He's been doing really well, yeah, Kendrick Mark.
After the super Bowl it was that he was back
to being number one in terms of the number. Fact,
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he is the first rapper ever to have three albums
on the top one hundred. There you go, Bill Billboard
Top two hundred. Coup. That used to be the most
important thing. Man. I worked at Kiss AM here in
LA and Kiss FM. They that was the bible man,
that Billboard list would come out and they were like,
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oh man, we got to you know, that's what we're
gonna play. That's it. It was Top forty. Yeah, I'm
on repeat YEP over and over and over. You know.
You know the history of Top forty radio rning. You
know how it started? Well, you're gonna tell me because
it was back when you were a child. How dare
you now? It was four of my time. But it
was in Nebraska, and as I've told the story on
my podcast, but I believe I'm trying to do this
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off the top of my head. So supposedly this guy
that worked at radio, he would go to the local
watering hole and I think it was in Omaha, Nebraska,
and he realized they had a jukebox there to play
all the music. But he realized that they only really
played about forty songs, even though they had hundreds of songs.
So this thing went in and says, wait a minute, well,
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the only people they can listen to anything they want,
but they only listen to forty songs, So why don't
we just play the top forty songs because that's all
people want to play. And that was the birth of
Top forty radio.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, and now you know the rest of the story.
It's the reading Rainbow arena. Shocking, shocking, shocking, shocking. Let's
see here. Let's go to America's favorite drag queen caller
in Buffalo. We say hello to part of Bill's mafia.
We say hello to full Exus, Hello, Fulllexus, Hello man.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Hello world, Hello Ambrya.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Today's Lincoln and George birthday.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
And happy birthday to Lincoln and George. I thought I
heard some confusion between you and Howard and James.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No, there was no confusion. He had a bad line,
that's the confusion. There was no confusion.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Sometimes I think you're twins or from because I don't
understand you half the time.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Well, I never understand you, and I still put you
on the air because I'm a dope and I put
you on the end. That's why I love.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
You, and I love you for it, my dope in
my dough.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh that's right, Well, thank god, I'm your dog. Unbelievable.
Look at that. There's a lot of love here, a
lot of love.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I don't need to kiss from you, please, I'm good.
You know I need a disinfecting white Ben. Yes, yeah,
there's some in here. Actually, if you want there's somebody
left some in here we have Does the company know
COVID is over? We have we have hand sanitizer, and
we have disinflected. Is it back Dan?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Byer is out this week because his family has the
COVID bug. Oh really, do you get tired and know?
We can I just get a week off. If I
say I have COVID is out of the world and
he's just oh he's at his home studio. Yeah, so
I just want to work from home. I can say
I got the COVID, and then you got the COVID.
I got the COVID. I got to stay home, can't
come in. Sorry, I got them. I got the COVID.
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All right, for Lexus, I'm going to hang up on
you. You're boring me, but thank you. It's not you, it's well,
it is you. Let's see Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello Marcel,
Welcome Marcel, Then Coopy.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
And Lorena, good to see you in. Happy President's Day
to everyone, of course.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
All right, let's use your favorite president. Marcel.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Oh remember this back back last year when I tell
you about President's Day, I say, Joe Biden was.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
The one Joe Biden your favorite president?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Interesting, but now he's all because of mumbling and fumbling
over the place, I said, mumbling bumbling.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yes place. Sure. So who's who's your new fund who's
your new favorite President?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Trump?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Oh? You're a Trump guy. I didn't know. Look justin
and sits, and I is getting excited. You're a Trump guy?
Who knew?
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Hate that guy?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You're a Trumper? Oh? You hate him? Oh okay, Well that's.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Because he will definitely erupt our world and erupt our country.
On the issues that affecting?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
What is?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
What issues are? Are you worried about the tariffs? Is
that affect Are you buying a lot of stuff out
of the country? Marcella? Are you affected by the tariffs?
Are you affected by it?
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Oh? I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
You're not, but you're still upset by it. Even though
you're not buying anything, you're still offended by it.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
No, no, no, no, no no. That's everyone else is not.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Mine, not yours. So you're not actually directly affected because
you don't buy anything outside. I got you, all right, Well,
how can you help you? Please? How can we help you?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Here's the fun fact on that for you along with yours. Ben. Yeah,
did you know that the US national anthem, our country's
anthem booed back on Saturday?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Really? Oh man?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
The Americans beat Canada in a four nation series back
on Saturday by a more.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I didn't know we were doing back on Saturday radio.
I had no idea. You want a fun fact, I'll
give you a fun fact. Here we go, Marcel fun fact.
Fun fact. So, according to the Internet, this guy Mac
McClung who's won three straight All Star Games even though
he's not an All Star Dunk Contest, even though he's
not in the NBA, he's only played five NBA games
in his career. Max McClung has earned more money from
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winning the Slam Dunk Contest over three hundred thousand dollars,
and he's made in his NBA career only playing five games.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Wow, is that a fun fact?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Really? You want another fun fact? So, Lebron James skipped
out on the All Star Game last night. I didn't
play in that Fougaysey round robin. The last time Lebron James,
or the last time an All Star Game was played
without Lebron James, gas was a dollar sixty nine a gallon.
How about that? Oh yeah, and Facebook was eleven days old.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Oh that's today. I think eleven years old.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
No, eleven days old. Did you remember when you were
eleven da old? Marcel?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, probably not, probably not.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Oh, I give you the sup player of the morning.
Hurry up, hurry up Nascar William Bryant, back to back?
Does it again?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Last night in dayton did you watch the dayton It
was rain deo leg covers. Did you watch the Daytona
five hundred, Well.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
You did watch it?
Speaker 5 (33:24):
I said I was including President Trump.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah. Do you see that? That was pretty cool. I
had the presidential motor caid went around the track. That
was pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I'd like to drive around the track at Daytona. I ah,
you do, Yeah, go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
That will be next year. I think that will be
in twenty twenty six. All right, it is Monday, everyone,
which means your week and a new dought. It is
the food Picks and let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Well, okay, it's very excited. We're playing food picks with Marcel.
It was Sunday Daytona five hundred. I think you hadds
and noodles.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
I have the oodle and noodles in the motorcade along
with the mixed match.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
It is all right. Go ahead, Lorena, please hurry. I
think you had the chicken Farmason chicken farmagean mixed match,
Carlerena your loser about you.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Coople, hurry about it. You'll be back with a mixed
match on Wednesday instead. Go right ahead, buddy.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I think you had taketos and mini corn dogs.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
That sounds pretty good, yeah, baby, oh yeah, yeah, that's
the way.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
To do it, my friend and everyone else with the food.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
That's right. It is coming up. But first Cowboy John
Brad and Cowboys corner, and then we're gonna get too
the Malard Militia feud. Hello, Cowboy John Braden wins your Ontario.
A fine Canadian, lad.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Eskiloring, Lorena and Ben and everybody. Graduations to William Byron
for being the first factor back at the five hundred
winner in five years. The actress from a Russo seventy
one today, Michael Jordan's sixty two. Charles Barkley will be
sixty two on Thursday and on February third, nineteen seventy
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seventh and February fifteenth, nineteen seventy seven, pitching brothers Frederico
and Diane Modius Alivio became the first two former Major
leaguers to die in the Dominican which is their home country.
And yesterday, former NBA or Kelly Tripuka was sixty six,
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former MLB or Bobby Darwin was eighty two, And February fifteenth,
nineteen seventy eight, Leon Spinks defeated Muhammad Ali in one
of the boxing's biggest subsets to borrow the world heavyweight
title for seven months. Anyway, speak to people tomorrow morning.
Remember you got to be a boy to be a cowboy.
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We surveyed one hundred people name sports teams associated with losing.
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Darn curs.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I believe the answer is to Clippers. That is the
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Speaker 1 (37:21):
Let's play the feud. Come on down for the Maller
Militia food. Who do we have here? We've got Andrew
in Fremont, California. Hello, Andrew, Ben, good to talk to you. Andrew.
You've been in studio before I met you years ago.
Remember that yep, I was at the parable in the author.
Oh you did go to the All Star game. Oh yeah,
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well you didn't enjoy you were there? Huh didn't? Yes, yeah,
a little weird for sure. All Right, Andrew, you're gonna
play hold on a second, and then, uh, Lorena, you
want number three or number four? What do you want, Lorena? Three?
Or I would go number three? Ben number three? All right,
well you've picked hollering James to play the game. Hello,
holler in James's that's not what I meant.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
I meant topic three.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I meant the competitor. You pick number three. I guess
I'll stay. I guess I'll stay. He's fine. You sure
about that? As you might want to hang on if
you're on hold, also because we might be going to
the bullpen. All so you meant category three? Is that
what you were getting at Lorena? Category three? One or
three were my two picks? All right? Cool? But you
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agree with that? Yeah, those are my two favorite categories
as well. All right, well we'll go with number three
because that's what Lorena said first. All right, all right,
hundred you know the drill. Hundred people surveyed, and the
top six answers are on the board. The top six
answers to the board. Give me an animal that begins
with the letter D. An animal that begins with the
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letter D. Your name is, I'm sure, James, Yes, say
your name Andrew.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Dog.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Yes, that was the number one answer, dog. Good job
by you, Andrew. And there were five answers left. Your name. Oh,
you'll keep going, yeah until you get one wrong. Go ahead, Andrew, dolphin, dolphin, Yes,
that was on there. Good job by you. That was
the number five answer there. Yes, keep going, Andrew. Well,
a dingo, a dingo? Not on there? No dingo. I
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love that guest. That is a good guess, very very knowledgeable, Andrew.
How about you hollering? James, you're up there. Give me
an animal that begins with a letter D.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Donkey.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yeah, that was the number two answer. Look at that.
Unbelievable James. And there are three answers left. I believe
right that these guys what's his first guests? But don't
know because he didn't count, So we're not giving that
to him. He's got to say that. He wants to
say it, he can say it. Go ahead, James, go again, James. Yeah,
(39:54):
ook at you, James. So if I'm correct. There's one
answer left. Is that right? Or did they get it all? Oh?
That's on? Is one more? There's two more? Oh there is?
There's three and four? Yeah, three and four. Okay, go ahead, James, yeah,
oh wow, James is stumped. All right, Andrew anything quickly?
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Andrew No. The other answers were dear and duc Andrew,
you are the winner. Congratulations. Where we go? The letter
d
Here we go. Welcome, it's our numbber fall. Yes, our
number four on this president Day. You know, every member,
Here's my presidential fun fact. Every member of Teddy Roosevelt's
family owned a pair of stilts, including the first lady.
How about that? All right? So here at our number
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four on this seventeenth day of February. How do you
process the confessional of Jonathan Martin on the faux dolphin
bullying scandal from ten plus years ago. Also, the Chiefs
want Travis Kelce to return to the team next season,
but it would be a reduced role. Instead of being
the focal point, Kelsey would be a situational playmaker. Where
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does that leave Travis Kelsey's future in case? Also some
recent reporting that Bill Belichick's girlfriend is using him for profit,
such as her recent Super Bowl commercial. Your thoughts on
that and more? Have a wonderful Monday. Here it is
our number four, no more. Incognito is back. Well, come
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So our lead this hour a classic NFL scandal that
has been born again. Now there's one thing that I
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love more than anything, scandal radio. Oh it's juicy, It's
soud juicy. I love it and I'm old enough it.
Maybe you are too. Maybe you're old enough to remember
a rather infamous Miami dolphin bullying scandal. This goes way back,
over a decade. In fact, it was twenty thirteen, was
(02:54):
the Here we are in twenty twenty five, so buckle up.
Major update, major update, dateline, South Florida and if you
have not heard yet, maybe not. News came out over
the weekend former former NFL offensive lineman Jonathan Martin. Jonathan
Martin is now walking back allegations, very public allegations that
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he was the victim of bullying by his former teammate,
Richie Incognito, a longtime NFL offensive lineman. The two were
teammates with the Dolphins. Now some backstory. If you're unfamiliar,
I'll give you the thumbnail recap of events in twenty thirteen.
This was a big story in sports radio. It's a
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big story all over the place, and it rocked parts
of the NFL. It led to Incognito being suspended for
his naughty activity. And now a random day in February
nearly twelve full years later, nearly twelve full years later,
Jonathan Martin has come out and said, uh, just kidding, psych.
(04:06):
I want to set the record straight, he said, quote,
I never believe for a second I was being bullied.
Martin recently told The Entertainment and Sports Network, a small
startup website out of Bristol, Connecticut. He said, it's a
story that I've been trying to fix for ten years,
he stated. Now, the NFL hired a private outside council
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to investigate a gentleman named Ted Wells, a lawyer, and
Ted Wells investigated the incident. This goes back until February fourteenth,
twenty fourteen, twenty fourteen. The report found that Incognito, along
with two two other two other dolphin linemen, had engaged
in a pattern of harassment of the poor, helpless Jonathan Martin. Well,
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now we are getting the rest of the story. Now,
keep in mind, this story led to Incognito being suspended
for half of an NFL season and then an entire
NFL season following. He missed half of the twenty thirteen
twenty fourteen season and then the entire twenty fourteen twenty
fifteen season out of the NFL because of the suspension.
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But now Martin's like, Hey, I wasn't bullied. My parents
were the reason that this happened. So let us discuss
the question how do you process the random confessional of
Jonathan Martin on the Fax Dolphins bullying scandal. So I've
got queen jumper, cables and razor, and we will combine
(05:44):
all of these things together and we will provide you
a nice safety package. Is what we're going to provide
you now to kick off the festivities here to answer
the question, how do you process the latest revelations that
Jonathan Martin, the former Dolphin is saying I was not
bully by Richie incognito, John and Martin. It woul appear
based on his own words here in this story that
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I read over the weekend is if he was a dessert,
he would be soft, sir, he would be soft ster.
This is wild. Now he is claiming that this entire
story as a grown ass man was his mommy, That
his mommy is the one that linked the goods. Yikes,
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his mother and father were meddling in his business affairs,
That's what he's saying. Martin's blaming his parents for leaking
the story to ESPN if I read this right, and
that they were unhappy because of what they believed was
inappropriate behavior. They did not understand a locker room talk,
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locker room culture, and from I understand, they're from academia,
so they don't get it. And they thought this was terrible,
the worst thing in the world. And according to Martin,
the the locker room palk was used as arson to
start a wildfire that has now taken over a decade
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and cost Jonathan Martin tons of money in the process.
Now it is a reminder, really a refresher course, that
sports investigations should always be taken with a grain of salt.
That they tell you sometimes what happened, but they don't
tell you the entire story, and oftentimes they get it
completely wrong. What are my examples. Let me tell you
(07:30):
why I believe that, Okay, these sham inquiries in professional
sports in my lifetime, I'm gonna go back that far.
So I'm gonna add this to the list. Que the
Queens song. Another one bites the dust, Another one bites
the dust. So you've got Richie incognito who's found guilty
by the NFL of bullying NFL investigation. You're guilty of bullying.
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You're gonna miss a year and a half of your
career now, Jonathan Martin says, this whole thing's bogus. This
reminds me of a Major League Baseball invest There were
teams saying that the baseball team in Houston was cheating.
The ASS thousand and two, one thousand holes were cheating,
and so the ASS one thousand and two, one thousand
holes were cheating, and Baseball investigated. They found no inappropriate activity.
(08:15):
It was only after a hero inside the walls, Mike Fires,
came out and said, yeah, they're cheat and here's how
they did it, and had to describe point by point
in a story behind a paywall on the Old Gray
Ladies Athletic what exactly was taking place. That Baseball then
had to acknowledge, acknowledge what happened. But even Major League
(08:35):
Baseball they investigated it, and they told you some of
the things that happened. They didn't tell you the whole
st Hey, I'm checking for the baser. Yeah. The NBA
years ago, there was a referee named Tim Donnie who
the NBA investigated. They claimed it was one bad actor,
he was a rogue official, one lone wolf, and there
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are many people who believe that to be true. I'm
not one of them. I believe there were other people
involved than that, not just Tim Donnie. How about a
non meat and potatoes sports league, Lance Armstrong, the steroid
chief Lance Armstrong. This goes back a minute, but Lance
Armstrong was so ballsy. He sued the Sunday Times I
(09:18):
believe of London. He sued the newspaper I think it
was the Sunday Times of London, and he sued them
for libel because they published an article that suggested he
used performance enhancing drugs. So they went through the course
system and Lance Armstrong won a giant payout while using
performance enhancing drugs, suing for libel that he wasn't using
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performance dancing drugs. Now, as for Richie Incognito, the NFL
itself didn't believe he was. He was that bad guy.
And my theory as to why that is because he
played another five years. If the NFL truly believed that
Richie Incognito king of all douchebags, he would not have played.
If he was a racist and all this other he
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would't have played another five years. In the NFL, there's
locker room culture and then there's the outside world culture,
and people that aren't in that environment don't understand it
and probably never will understand it right, And they don't
get it and they get all freaked out about this stuff.
But the rigid Kenney to have played another five years. Don't
you think if he was a bully and a total
douche that he wouldn't have played another five years in
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the NFL? Because that, No, I can't do it. I
also don't believe in the the Sean Payton New Orleans
Saints bullying scandal. I thought that was bull crap also,
or not bullying, that was the what was that the
where they were they had bounties, it was bounty gait. Yeah,
I don't buy that one either, all right not furthermore
developing story out of Cansah City some recent reporting the
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Chiefs they want tight end Travis Kelcey to be back
on the team. They given him a deadline in about
a month. About a month, however, Travis kelce would have
to return as a diminished player, a reduced role. Instead
of being the focal point where everything funnels through, Travis
Kelcey in Kansas City's passing in, Kelsey would be a
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situational playmaker, be more of a mentor in the locker room,
to younger tight ends that will be brought in here,
and there are some on the roster right now. So
question for the esteem panel, where does this leave Travis
Kelcey's future in can City. So I'll go first here.
(11:35):
My first reaction is the plot thickens. It's my first
reaction as we wait for the point of demarcation that
mid March date Travis kelce based on this latest reporting,
he needs a set of jumper cables because this is
a non starter. This is a non start. You're not
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dating Taylor Swift to in cheeseball game shows and appearances
and movies and all this stuff. As a situational playmaker,
You're just not. And that's the life that Travis Kelcey
has right now and clearly has slowed down. From a
football standpoint, it makes a lot of sense, a lot
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of sense if you are the Chiefs to go that direction.
He has been bedraggled on a regular basis and he
was not able to perform in a high level. Some
of the clips from the Super Bowl are not very
flattering of Travis kelce who look like a guy that
had nothing left in that game, the biggest game of
the year, and Travis did not bring a lot to
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the table. And it is the curse of the older athlete. Remember,
the curse of the older athlete is that occasionally you
are good, sporadic greatness surrounded by a lot of mediocrity,
a lot of mediocrity. All right. Now, lastly, we go
now to the tabloid world where some recent reporting in
(13:01):
that world that Bill Belichick's girlfriend is merely using him
for profit. Shocking revelation by the tabloids. They're pointing out
the recent Super Bowl commercial that she was a part of.
So your thoughts on this latest tabloid story that Bill
Belichick is being used being used here? So my reaction is,
(13:22):
is it even up for debate? To me, this is
a mutual using situation. Belichick is using her for the
superpowers that she brings to the table, and she is
using him for what he brings to the table here.
And does anyone think that that is not part of
the equation? Is there any? Of course, of course, it's
part of the It's not that deep. This is an
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Okham's razor situation, meaning the simplest answer is most often
the correct answer, rather than some more complicated, convoluted issue.
And most of them, not not always, but most of
the time. I would say night nine point nine percent
of the time. And you see this dramatic and age
drap an age gap. It is the power, which is
(14:08):
code for cash, and that's part of it. And Bill Belichick,
who was an if he was an unemployed truck driver
in his seventies, you think she would be attracted to
Bill Belichick? Probably not. Probably not, as the Ojys saying
back in their day, for the love of money, a
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love of money and Kanye not a big fan of Kanye,
but famously saying I ain't saying she's a gold digger,
but she ain't messing with no broke boys or something
like that. Clean that up for the radio. Bill Belichick
is loaded. He's worth seventy million dollars. He was making
ten plus million a year with the Patriots, some say
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as much as fifteen to seventeen million a year at
the end from the Kraft family to keep costs down
for the Patriots. And so she brings youth and good
looks and Belichick gets to enjoy that, and then he
provides her financially with a lot of money. I don't
know how much stuff. He's like bought for it. How
much money he's spent on her? I'm curious. I don't know.
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ninety nine on Fox and Now, Well head over to
blabermouth Benny. Well, no, it's just it's just Benny, no
blabbermouth there. Bill surprised Bill's working on President's Day, Ray
odd that he would you would work here, so his
President's Day. And this is usually about the time where
I tell you my favorite president, William Howard Taft. William
(17:12):
Howard Taft, who is responsible for a number of fun factoids,
famously got stuck. He was the last great real fat
president back in the day and weighed over three hundred pounds.
Got stuck in the White House Bathtom Yeah, yeah, yeah,
the bathroom. He was the last president to have a cow,
(17:35):
a presidential cow, and the first president to have an automobile,
and the last president to rock facial hair. About that.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Fun fact.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, And there's a long standing theory he was the
first president to throw out the first pitch. There's a
there's a mythology that William Howard taft is why we
have the seventh inning stretch in baseball. Some people have
tried to debunk that those people are the no fun police,
But the legendary story is that back in those days,
people respected the president, and when the president did something,
(18:07):
you all reacted to it. And supposedly he could not
really fit in the seats because they were designed for
people smaller than William Howard taffed, and then in the
seventh inning he got up and suit everyone. No, no, no, no.
Now today you'd sue everybody, but back then, no, he
stood up and out of respect, he stood up to
stretch his legs in the seventh inning, and out of respect,
(18:28):
the crowd, thinking the president was leaving, rose to pay
their respects to the president. And thus the seventh inning
stretch was no I was born. Well, some people think
that's how it happened. Other people are claiming that it
happened way before that, like in the eighteen hundred. This
is an actual stretch.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Like you get up to stretch.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You've never been to a baseball game arena?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh my god, I thought I met like a long run, Like,
so you've gone six innings, so now the seventh one
is stretched out?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
No, Lorena, Oh my god, you've never been to a
baseball game, you beat You don't know what the seventh
inning stretch is? Are you kidding? You're kidding? Right? Am
I being punked? Right? Who was she punking me? Right now?
I don't think so. Oh my god, lorainy you work
at a national sports radio network. You do not know
(19:15):
what the seventh inning stretches. Oh my god, Lorena.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I also don't make it to the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Oh man, I know, I know. Yeah, all right, well,
all the more motivation to play the game that I
wanted to play. But now that the TV show's over,
maybe I'll have time to put the game board together. Yeah,
what night should we play the game? What do you mean?
What night should we do the game? I think this
is a very good sign that we should do the game.
Definitely need to do the game. Oh man, we have
(19:42):
all we have an open for the game, right, we
actually imaging We already have an imaging thing for the game.
Oh man, Lorena did not know what the seventh inning stretches.
Holy crap. Okay, alright, yikes, yikes, yikes, yike. Shikes. Uh,
Stevie meet balls rites in and says mal or this
is it. The Dolphins are definitely cursed. What's next was
the video of the O line coach with the hookers
(20:03):
and blow fake. Maybe Jonathan Martin's parents will finally send
him for the ballet lessons he wanted now instead of
playing football. That's from Steve the disgruntled Dolphin fan, and
Fergdok says, you've made us wait long enough. Ben, did
Benny versus the Penny season two finale dethrone mash or not? Also,
(20:26):
do you think describing Lance Armstrong as ballsy went unnoticed?
I assure you it did not. Well, I just wanted
to slip that in there. See if you were see
if you're paying attention. Yes, Robert writes in and say
he sent a funny sign of the Astros are innocent,
(20:47):
which may or may not be misspelled, may or may
not be misspelled in that particular sign. But hey, to
each their own, all right, let's see here eeny meany
miny mo will pick a caller. Oh, I didn't want
to mention before we go to the calls. Yeah, you
guys have been a hole for a while. But before
we get to the calls. I mentioned this earlier. The
(21:08):
Dodgers signed a guy who was there poltergeist, the great
Eddie Rosario, and I winns I was at those games
in the NLCS years ago, and Eddie Rosario for the
Atlanta Braves had one of the great postseason performances I
have ever. They could not get this freaking guy out.
(21:28):
He destroyed the Dodgers in the twenty twenty one NLCS
or the Atlanta Braves, and he has now signed a
minor league contract. That's how far his career has fallen.
But Eddie Rosario, who was the NLCS MVP and looked
for one series like a combination of legends like Pete
Rose or Tony Gwinn. It was unreal how good this
(21:54):
cat was for one playoff. Seris, we know he's not
that good. He's a fringe major league out field whor
he's played ten years so he's fully vested in the
MLB pension plan and all that. But in the twenty
twenty one National League Championship Series, Eddie Rosario was insane
(22:15):
to the membrane. Unreal how good this guy was in
the NLCS. They could not get him out. It was ridiculous,
and it was like the guy's like this happens every
so often in baseball where there's a guy this is
not really all that good, but just find a little
(22:37):
something magic, a little something magical. And he did. I
mean that that was insane. I think he batted like
six hundred or some ridiculous thing like that. In that
particular series. It was nuts. Let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Enie Meanie, mighty Mo. Let's say
hello to hollering James. Who's in Minneapolis, Manesalt, Hello, holloring James. Hello, Ben,
(23:02):
Oh you're awake? Doing He's awake? Hollering James. We'd like
to alert all the affiliates down the line. Hollering James
is away. Who's your favorite president? The hollering James, Eddy
Guardando who struck out Eddie Eddie Guardado? Is your favorite president? Well,
he was a great president back in the day. I
love him. Yeah, for the Minnesota Twins when they won
(23:23):
the White House.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You know why, Ben James, because I think you're more
than that. Gona Lorraina.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Ben, you sound good on the air.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Thank you sound good on the air.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
What about me?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I sound I think I like you, Ben Benner, because
I met you at the Mermaid That's.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Right, one of the great moments in American history, the
Mallor meet and greet.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Amazing, and I have dragged you away from really a
massive Benny militia.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Called the Mallard militia, not to Benny militia. Now do
you know who the tallest president of all time? I
mean is hollering James?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Is it Thomas Jefferson?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No, that is incorrect. How about tell this the guy?
The guy took a bullet at the Ford Theater. How
about that you do.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
At the Ford Ronald Reagan?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yes, Ronald Reagan was killed at the Ford Theater. It
was a shocking. How did you get that right up
against him? Right? Yeah? James, you want to We're gonna
play a game. Maybe we'll playing like how about Tuesday
and the Wednesday? Yeah, James, you want to play the game?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I want to play the game.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You love the game. You don't even know what the
game is, and you want to play the game.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
You know why I want to play?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Why do you want to play the game?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Why why do you want to play the game? I
don't know why? Why does it interests me?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Anytime you have the game show on that I can play.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You love the game, You're all about the game. You
live for the game.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I live for the game. I died for the game,
Ben Maller, You should be in the radio Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Damn right, I don't even where I should be in
the hall of fame. Put me in the hall of
fame now. I mentioned this over the weekend on my podcast.
They're they they're making a movie about Art Bell, the
guy from coast to coast back in the day. How
great is that? They're gonna make a movie about a
radio guy, an overnight radio guy. How awesome is that?
That's amazing. Yeah, I'm like a cameo. Why don't I
(25:21):
get like a cameo in the movie? I can be
in the background or something like that. They haven't made
the movie yet.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Why don't you, Shack, They've.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Already made that, James. It's hard to be in a movie.
They've already made, James what they've already made, Caddy Shack.
All right, I'm not breaking breaking up on me. I'm
not breaking up on you.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
You're breaking up.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
But breaking up is hard to do, hard, hanging up
on your go away he blew me off and lax.
So the NFL has admitted they fed up. The NFL
says they have regrets over the Super Bowl halftime him
choice of Kendrick Lamar out of negative publicity. Apparently it
(26:06):
was the most watched halftime show of all time, but
the NFL made a mistake allowing the super Bowl halftime
show to have Kendrick more law, Kendrick Lamar just just
increase of beef right the whole the point of that
was to take shots at Drake and all that. So
Kendrick Lamar, the NFL saying, well, we probably shouldn't have
(26:27):
done that. It's a bad job by us, but they
love to promote that when you have the halftime show,
the sales of your music go through the roof. That
you are. He's been doing really well, yeah, Kendrick Mark.
After the super Bowl it was that he was back
to being number one in terms of the number. Fact,
(26:49):
he is the first rapper ever to have three albums
on the top one hundred. There you go, Bill Billboard
Top two hundred. Coup. That used to be the most
important thing. Man. I worked at Kiss AM here in
LA and Kiss FM. They that was the bible man,
that Billboard list would come out and they were like,
(27:11):
oh man, we got to you know, that's what we're
gonna play. That's it. It was Top forty. Yeah, I'm
on repeat YEP over and over and over. You know.
You know the history of Top forty radio rning. You
know how it started? Well, you're gonna tell me because
it was back when you were a child. How dare
you now? It was four of my time. But it
was in Nebraska, and as I've told the story on
my podcast, but I believe I'm trying to do this
(27:33):
off the top of my head. So supposedly this guy
that worked at radio, he would go to the local
watering hole and I think it was in Omaha, Nebraska,
and he realized they had a jukebox there to play
all the music. But he realized that they only really
played about forty songs, even though they had hundreds of songs.
So this thing went in and says, wait a minute, well,
(27:54):
the only people they can listen to anything they want,
but they only listen to forty songs, So why don't
we just play the top forty songs because that's all
people want to play. And that was the birth of
Top forty radio.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, and now you know the rest of the story.
It's the reading Rainbow arena. Shocking, shocking, shocking, shocking. Let's
see here. Let's go to America's favorite drag queen caller
in Buffalo. We say hello to part of Bill's mafia.
We say hello to full Exus, Hello, Fulllexus, Hello man.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Hello world, Hello Ambrya.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Today's Lincoln and George birthday.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
And happy birthday to Lincoln and George. I thought I
heard some confusion between you and Howard and James.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No, there was no confusion. He had a bad line,
that's the confusion. There was no confusion.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Sometimes I think you're twins or from because I don't
understand you half the time.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Well, I never understand you, and I still put you
on the air because I'm a dope and I put
you on the end. That's why I love.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
You, and I love you for it, my dope in
my dough.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh that's right, Well, thank god, I'm your dog. Unbelievable.
Look at that. There's a lot of love here, a
lot of love.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I don't need to kiss from you, please, I'm good.
You know I need a disinfecting white Ben. Yes, yeah,
there's some in here. Actually, if you want there's somebody
left some in here we have Does the company know
COVID is over? We have we have hand sanitizer, and
we have disinflected. Is it back Dan?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Byer is out this week because his family has the
COVID bug. Oh really, do you get tired and know?
We can I just get a week off. If I
say I have COVID is out of the world and
he's just oh he's at his home studio. Yeah, so
I just want to work from home. I can say
I got the COVID, and then you got the COVID.
I got the COVID. I got to stay home, can't
come in. Sorry, I got them. I got the COVID.
(29:57):
All right, for Lexus, I'm going to hang up on
you. You're boring me, but thank you. It's not you, it's well,
it is you. Let's see Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello Marcel,
Welcome Marcel, Then Coopy.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
And Lorena, good to see you in. Happy President's Day
to everyone, of course.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
All right, let's use your favorite president. Marcel.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Oh remember this back back last year when I tell
you about President's Day, I say, Joe Biden was.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
The one Joe Biden your favorite president?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Interesting, but now he's all because of mumbling and fumbling
over the place, I said, mumbling bumbling.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yes place. Sure. So who's who's your new fund who's
your new favorite President?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Trump?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Oh? You're a Trump guy. I didn't know. Look justin
and sits, and I is getting excited. You're a Trump guy?
Who knew?
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Hate that guy?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You're a Trumper? Oh? You hate him? Oh okay, Well that's.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Because he will definitely erupt our world and erupt our country.
On the issues that affecting?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
What is?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
What issues are? Are you worried about the tariffs? Is
that affect Are you buying a lot of stuff out
of the country? Marcella? Are you affected by the tariffs?
Are you affected by it?
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Oh? I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
You're not, but you're still upset by it. Even though
you're not buying anything, you're still offended by it.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
No, no, no, no, no no. That's everyone else is not.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Mine, not yours. So you're not actually directly affected because
you don't buy anything outside. I got you, all right, Well,
how can you help you? Please? How can we help you?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Here's the fun fact on that for you along with yours. Ben. Yeah,
did you know that the US national anthem, our country's
anthem booed back on Saturday?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Really? Oh man?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
The Americans beat Canada in a four nation series back
on Saturday by a more.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I didn't know we were doing back on Saturday radio.
I had no idea. You want a fun fact, I'll
give you a fun fact. Here we go, Marcel fun fact.
Fun fact. So, according to the Internet, this guy Mac
McClung who's won three straight All Star Games even though
he's not an All Star Dunk Contest, even though he's
not in the NBA, he's only played five NBA games
in his career. Max McClung has earned more money from
(32:14):
winning the Slam Dunk Contest over three hundred thousand dollars,
and he's made in his NBA career only playing five games.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Wow, is that a fun fact?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Really? You want another fun fact? So, Lebron James skipped
out on the All Star Game last night. I didn't
play in that Fougaysey round robin. The last time Lebron James,
or the last time an All Star Game was played
without Lebron James, gas was a dollar sixty nine a gallon.
How about that? Oh yeah, and Facebook was eleven days old.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Oh that's today. I think eleven years old.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
No, eleven days old. Did you remember when you were
eleven da old? Marcel?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, probably not, probably not.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Oh, I give you the sup player of the morning.
Hurry up, hurry up Nascar William Bryant, back to back?
Does it again?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Last night in dayton did you watch the dayton It
was rain deo leg covers. Did you watch the Daytona
five hundred, Well.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
You did watch it?
Speaker 5 (33:24):
I said I was including President Trump.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah. Do you see that? That was pretty cool. I
had the presidential motor caid went around the track. That
was pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I'd like to drive around the track at Daytona. I ah,
you do, Yeah, go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
That will be next year. I think that will be
in twenty twenty six. All right, it is Monday, everyone,
which means your week and a new dought. It is
the food Picks and let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Well, okay, it's very excited. We're playing food picks with Marcel.
It was Sunday Daytona five hundred. I think you hadds
and noodles.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
I have the oodle and noodles in the motorcade along
with the mixed match.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
It is all right. Go ahead, Lorena, please hurry. I
think you had the chicken Farmason chicken farmagean mixed match,
Carlerena your loser about you.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Coople, hurry about it. You'll be back with a mixed
match on Wednesday instead. Go right ahead, buddy.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I think you had taketos and mini corn dogs.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
That sounds pretty good, yeah, baby, oh yeah, yeah, that's
the way.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
To do it, my friend and everyone else with the food.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
That's right. It is coming up. But first Cowboy John
Brad and Cowboys corner, and then we're gonna get too
the Malard Militia feud. Hello, Cowboy John Braden wins your Ontario.
A fine Canadian, lad.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Eskiloring, Lorena and Ben and everybody. Graduations to William Byron
for being the first factor back at the five hundred
winner in five years. The actress from a Russo seventy
one today, Michael Jordan's sixty two. Charles Barkley will be
sixty two on Thursday and on February third, nineteen seventy
(35:14):
seventh and February fifteenth, nineteen seventy seven, pitching brothers Frederico
and Diane Modius Alivio became the first two former Major
leaguers to die in the Dominican which is their home country.
And yesterday, former NBA or Kelly Tripuka was sixty six,
(35:36):
former MLB or Bobby Darwin was eighty two, And February fifteenth,
nineteen seventy eight, Leon Spinks defeated Muhammad Ali in one
of the boxing's biggest subsets to borrow the world heavyweight
title for seven months. Anyway, speak to people tomorrow morning.
Remember you got to be a boy to be a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
By cowboy knows the clock, five o'clock, four o'clock. We eat,
contestants pass. We're not gonna play past. We're going Mallard
Militia Feud. There we go. Malard Militia Feud is straight ed.
Malon Mussafeud. You want to play eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox the Feud? He is next.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
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Speaker 1 (36:22):
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Speaker 4 (36:55):
It's winning so important.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Listen, we're alving everything.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
It's time for another Mallard game show.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Oh yeah, so go.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
We surveyed one hundred people name sports teams associated with losing.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Darn curs.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I believe the answer is to Clippers. That is the
top answer forty points. It's Malord militia fute.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Let's play the feud. Come on down for the Maller
Militia food. Who do we have here? We've got Andrew
in Fremont, California. Hello, Andrew, Ben, good to talk to you. Andrew.
You've been in studio before I met you years ago.
Remember that yep, I was at the parable in the author.
Oh you did go to the All Star game. Oh yeah,
(37:42):
well you didn't enjoy you were there? Huh didn't? Yes, yeah,
a little weird for sure. All Right, Andrew, you're gonna
play hold on a second, and then, uh, Lorena, you
want number three or number four? What do you want, Lorena? Three?
Or I would go number three? Ben number three? All right,
well you've picked hollering James to play the game. Hello,
holler in James's that's not what I meant.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
I meant topic three.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I meant the competitor. You pick number three. I guess
I'll stay. I guess I'll stay. He's fine. You sure
about that? As you might want to hang on if
you're on hold, also because we might be going to
the bullpen. All so you meant category three? Is that
what you were getting at Lorena? Category three? One or
three were my two picks? All right? Cool? But you
(38:28):
agree with that? Yeah, those are my two favorite categories
as well. All right, well we'll go with number three
because that's what Lorena said first. All right, all right,
hundred you know the drill. Hundred people surveyed, and the
top six answers are on the board. The top six
answers to the board. Give me an animal that begins
with the letter D. An animal that begins with the
(38:48):
letter D. Your name is, I'm sure, James, Yes, say
your name Andrew.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Dog.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Yes, that was the number one answer, dog. Good job
by you, Andrew. And there were five answers left. Your name. Oh,
you'll keep going, yeah until you get one wrong. Go ahead, Andrew, dolphin, dolphin, Yes,
that was on there. Good job by you. That was
the number five answer there. Yes, keep going, Andrew. Well,
a dingo, a dingo? Not on there? No dingo. I
(39:21):
love that guest. That is a good guess, very very knowledgeable, Andrew.
How about you hollering? James, you're up there. Give me
an animal that begins with a letter D.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Donkey.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yeah, that was the number two answer. Look at that.
Unbelievable James. And there are three answers left. I believe
right that these guys what's his first guests? But don't
know because he didn't count, So we're not giving that
to him. He's got to say that. He wants to
say it, he can say it. Go ahead, James, go again, James. Yeah,
(39:54):
ook at you, James. So if I'm correct. There's one
answer left. Is that right? Or did they get it all? Oh?
That's on? Is one more? There's two more? Oh there is?
There's three and four? Yeah, three and four. Okay, go ahead, James, yeah,
oh wow, James is stumped. All right, Andrew anything quickly?
(40:15):
Andrew No. The other answers were dear and duc Andrew,
you are the winner. Congratulations. Where we go? The letter
d
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