Hour 4 - Transfer Portal on Steroids

Ben Maller talks about reports that Aaron Rodgers will end up going to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the long-term forecast for Russell Wilson's NFL career, the Patriots looking to unload backup QB Joe Milton, Cite the Bite, and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shacka laca laca. It's our nabbar fall as we
slide in to this eleventh day of the month of
March on this Tuesday, and a lot of chatter in
the overnight hours that Aaron Rodgers is closing in on
a new home. How much stock do you give this

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Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers storyline which is growing by
the moment. Also, what's the long term forecast looking like
for Russell Wilson and his NFL career as he's struggling
to find employment. And why are the Patriots looking to
unload backup quarterback Joe Milton who was the hero in

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that Week eighteen win which cost them a higher draft pick.
We'll talk about all that and more. Have a wonderful Tuesday.
Thank you for listening and support of the podcast. Here
it is our number four, a transfer portal on steroids.
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share a story a Fox Sports Radio exclusive. Things that

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happen in the middle of the night, things that go
bump in the middle of the night, and nobody else
has this content. These are things that we only can
deal with here doing the overnight show. We'll explain what
that's all about coming up later in the hour, but
our lead here it's all about the transaction. I know,
you get a little tingling. So we had Justin Fields

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go to the Jets. Sam Darnold after one season he
didn't even complete the season, goes to Seattle and he
gets the back bunch of defensive players, change teams. Laromie Tunzel,
the franchise left tackle, leaving Houston, going to Washington, and
the word in Houston as well. They did it for
financial reason. The salary cap is the greatest excuse to

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do anything. Now it's possible Jeremy Tunzel now sucks as
an offensive lineman. Maybe he's not wearing that gas mask
full time. No, but that move happening, And now we
focus on who's left. We head into day two of
the legal tappering period, which is dumb, d dumb, dumb dumb,
and whether there are still a couple of quarterback quarterbacks

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are more important people or football orphans and the biggest
of them all airon Rogers. He's going to Hall of Fame.
He is, whether you like him or not, He's going
to the Hall of Fame. So, if you've not heard
the latest on Aaron Rodgers, there are some reports bouncing

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around the echo chamber here that have bounced around in
the overnight hours and the Ben Males show Fox Sports
Radio learning that the Pittsburgh Steelers are in the poll
position with negotiations of Aaron Rodgers. Rogers could have an
agreement by the time the sun rises just hours from now.

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By midday, a deal could be complete. The Steelers and
Giants are said to be currently the co front runners,
with a wink and a nod and an edge to
the Pittsburgh football team. Rogers has indicated he wants to
play not one, but two two more seasons, and that
would seemingly align with the Pittsburgh team that has no

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quarterback at all. They are the headless Steelers there in Pittsburgh.
The Giants are expected to draft some drabbroni at the
quarterback position in the first round and then they will
groom that player to play shortly after the season begins.
So that would eliminate Aaron Rodgers from playing two years

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with the Giants. Rogers nets and plannings, and he wants
to play two more years, all right, So let us
discuss the question for the esteem panel. How much stalk
do you put into this Aaron Rodgers Steelers storyline that
is bouncing all over the place here in the echo chambers.
So I've gotten anuscript, meat balls, and booby shrap, and

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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a windmill dunk, is what. We're
going to make, a beautiful windmill dunk, and then we're
gonna make some gooey buttercake. Also. When we're done with
that windmill dunk. So my first thought here to kick
things off is from everything that we're hearing on this

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side of the microphone, it's Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
In fact, Aaron Rodgers is so excited about Pittsburgh he
started to put fries on top of his sandwiches. That's
how excited he is. He wants to get the full
Yinzer experience, and so generally speak, not always, but when
there's this much smoke, you know the rest of that,
there's usually some fire somewhere. There's a little bit of fire,

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and so it is peaked our interest. And if you
were to say, hey, where's Wall Street on this, if
there was like a pig skin version of a Wall
Street analyst, you would say that they are salivating with
a strong buy that the dominoes are about falling, and

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there's a couple of puzzle pieces left to fall down,
and there's two slots open on the board and Rogers
is likely going to Pittsburgh. That's the story there, the
front runner, and so that would be the final frontier
for Aaron Rodgers, and if the Giants took him, they
would be taking what handy down jet trash that's a

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bad look. And the Steelers it would be good for business,
like the way it'd be good for business. Listen, I've
advocated for Aaron Rodgers go to the rams. I advocated
it for him to go just about everywhere. I am
had Rogers going here, there and everywhere. But it does
work for our purposes, and I've got a talk show
to do every night, so I'm worried about my content.

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And the Steelers would be fine because you'd have the
proper ingredient of bravado and you'd have intrigue, and you'd
mix those together. It's kind of like an Academy Award
winning manuscript that writes itself because you've got all the actors,
you've got all the characters. You've got the bohemian quarterback

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Aaron Rodgers on his last legs that shows up to
a town like Pittsburgh in a canteen. Right right next
to him, he's got a canteen filled with ayahuasca. And
then you've got a pair of overly dramatic, self absorbed
stud receivers in DK Metcalf who got the bag, and
George Pickens, who wants a bigger bag. And then you

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have the power struggle about targets and all that. Then
you have the throw in as an added most the
debonair head coach, the silver toungue Fox Mike Tomlin to
throw witty one liners out. And what's in the box.
It's a tinderbox, That's what's in the box. It's also
a ticking time bomb, which always makes good talk radio

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always all right now. Furthermore, another quarterback looking for mister unlimited,
very limited though the incumbent who failed to win reelection
in Pittsburgh. He started at the end of the year,
started the playoff game, Russell Wilson. They said, hey, it's
not you, it's us. If we're interested, we'll call you,

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don't call us. And the Steelers didn't call Russell Wilson.
So Russell Wilson, his market, we are told, behind or beyond, beyond,
beyond the Giants is limited. Like bupkis that only the
Giants are showing any interest in Russell Wilson. So you
can do the math on this. The math, even if

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it's maler math, it's Aaron Rodgers goes to Pittsburgh and
then there's one job really open, and that job is
in New York with the Giants, and so Russell Wilson
goes there. But what's the long term forecast look like
for Russell Wilson in his NFL career at this point?

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So if you look at the forecast the Mexican Doppler
radar which Roberto left behind from years ago, it's cloudy
with a chance of meatballs, cloudy with a chance of
meatballs or in this case, hemorrhoids, and yeah, get that
hemorrhoid cream ready to go. Assuming there is no last
minute switcheroo here, Russell Wilson will get the last available

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chair that does not involve immediately being usurped as the
starting quarterback, and so mister unlimited will get a few
more games as QB one. But the eyeball test and
the numbers, The eyeball test and the numbers indicate that
he's better off selling that recovery water that he was

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pitching the nano bubbles in Seattle. Wilson is the new
face of the Great Walt Frazier's Hairclub for Men, No
play for mister Gray and the tentative playing which we
mentioned a little while ago. If you were not paying
attention to bad job by you, shame on you. But
the plan is the Giants will sign someone to be

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a warm body and a placeholder at the quarterback position,
likely Russell Wilson. That quarterback will play half the year
and then transition, not that kind of transition, but transition
to high end back up and then the rookie quarterback
will take over. So Brian Dable, Brian Dayball and Joe Shane,

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the gm there are hanging on by a thread, right.
They should have been fired. Both of them suck, but
they kept their jobs because the Giants ownership sucks, and
you know they like throwing suck out on the on
the field, so this has gotta be it, right, this
is it. They go out there and put another bad
product on the field, and it's asta la vista. See

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you later. Get out of here, derechay, You're done at
that particular point. And Russell Wilson will be the straw
that ends up breaking the camel's back, and that camel
will come tumbling down, and even a giant camel will
come tumbling down. All right, now, last thing here we
go quickly we go to New England. Another story that

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is developing here. No trade has been announced yet, but
it does appear that something is imminent and likely will
happen by the time I wake up from my slumber
doing this overnight show. I sleep during the day, and
by the time I wake up will be a transaction.
It would appear that the Patriots are locking in on

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a trade. So the question is why are the Patriots
looking to unload back up quarterback Joe Milton from Tennessee.
And so the way I'll answer that, because here's what's
going to happen quickly, is that they're trying to clear
the debris off the runway. It would appear because they

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do not want anyone meddling with their prodigy there forever
quarterback Drake May, who they drafted very high in last
year's NFL draft. And so Joe Milton is a problem, right,
He's a booby trap, and they want the Drake May
plane to take off, and you got to clear the
runway prepare for take on, and so you got to

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avoid the booby trap situation. And Little Birdie tells us
there are factions, believe it or not, of the Patriot supporters,
the Marching and Chadow Society of the Patriots there that
believe Joe Milton is the second coming of touchdown Jesus,
and he should be the quarterback of the Patriots, not
Drake May. He does have a canon arm, however, because

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of where he was drafted, good luck, He's gonna have
to pay his dues as a developmental quarterback if he
stays in New England. If he stays in New him
the first time Drake May has back to back back games,
even a bad game, not even back to back, then
the Natives will be banging on sports talk radio airwaves
demanding that Joe Milton take over. So they're just gonna

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trade his ass somewhere else for probably like a sixth
or a seventh round draft pick or something like that.
And the Patriots have already replaced Joe Milton, which is
a dead giveaway. That is a dead divaway. They're gonna
get rid of him. The Patriots have signed Josh Dobbs
as QB two. The past or not, remember, he was
a folk hero in the NFL for the Minnesota Vikings

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for a little bit and played for the Cardinals and
played well, and it was with the forty nine ers
last year. So he's fine being a backup and he'll
hang out there and not cause any problems. It is
the Ben Mahlor Show. As we press on that. Where
is Joe Milton going? Now that's a good story. Does
he go to a team like the Cleveland Browns where
Mike Vrabel was a consultant last year? The Browns don't

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have a quarterback. They traded for Kenny Pickett. He sucks,
So put Joe Milton. I just play Milton. Why not?
Brown's are like a minor league team anyway, trade for
a guy like Joe Milton, just playing. Maybe he turns
out to be good. And if he sucks, you don't
have a bad record. You'll get a high pick. Again,
that's all you care about, those stupid draft picks, those
lottery tickets. It is the Ben Maler Show eight seven,

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seven ninety nine on Fox, also on x at Ben Mallor.
And it is true you see the darnedest things doing
overnight talk radio. And another story. Someday I'll write my
book and I have another another part of my book
when I write my tel All radio book, which who knows,
maybe I know there's somebody working on that. Maybe it'll

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come back around. You never know. We'll get to that.
And also there this our site to bite the great
sports radio mystery. Your calls up until then, we'll get
to all of it, and we will do it next.

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She's the FSR Tech Queen. She's trying to find her cookies.
See package of contraband that was delivered and it was
signed for by the security guard at the building, and
there are no cookies. I can't find it, Bill, disappointing.
Cooper Loop also tried to find the cookies. He can't

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find the cookies either. Where are the cookies? Did Cookie
Monster come and take the cookies? Sale out to Coop
at ah bronco fan And now back to the talk
of Palooza. Well that's right, and back to me Ben
and a never before told story I will share with

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you right now. We'll get to the calls and we
do have coming up later this hour Site to Bite.
So occasionally when there's these fine commercials, because I think
are the most important part of the show, these commercials,
so occasionally I will wander around the building. There's no
one in the building. The building's pretty much empty. It's
the middle of the night, early in the morning. Here's

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skeleton crew in the building. So I try to get
some steps in. And working third shift, we're all going
to die younger. Working third shift, you're live shorter. Such
a little exercise, walk around the building, get some steps in.
Why not? So I'm walking in the morning show here,
our morning show with Jonas and LeVar and all the
all those cats. So they're their producer, the great leader

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lap Is in their hard work getting there early and
putting the show together with the guys. And so, uh,
I walk past this little side room near the old studio,
and then Lorena had walked over. And as I'm walking
and I'm minding my own business and I'm futching around
playing you know, scrabble on my phone, and then uh,

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Lorraina's and and Leah and there's as a homeless person
like right out here. So I all right, whatever, I
looked sketchy, a little sketchy. So at that same moment,
I turned my head to the right. Okay, I turned
my head to the right. I look out the way.
Right in front of me is a homeless person that

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was leaning into the bush. There's there's like windows at
night you can see, and so the person clearly could
see that we were there if they were looking. And
so they leaned into the bush and hand to God.
Right in front of me, Larina and lead a Lap
smoked what appeared to be a crack pipe or a

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very reminiscent toy. I don't know. Maybe they just had
like a fake crack pipe that they were smoking. I
don't know, but yeah, I've never seen someone smoke cracking person. Well,
now you can't say that anymore. Now you can't say that.
You never will be able to say that again. Always
remember your first crack pipe. That's crazy. We should have

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had him ask like if he wants to come on
the show. I'm good, Yeah, I'm all right. He's busy
doing they just don't break into my car. Yes, that's all,
but yeah, can add that not the craziest story Henry
Hill is still the craziest story of people that have
been outside the building. But that's pretty good. You know,
you go to work to do your job. And I

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want to point out at the remote Mallard studio the
studio be, as we call it, the other studio, nobody's
smoking crack potato chin. Nobody don't have to worry about
seeing some dude out the window smoking crack at the
at the the beat the studio be. Didn't you say
there was also a man who showed his third appendage. Yes,

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years ago, during the day we have again during the day.
It looks like there's mirrors on the on the window
over there in the old studio, and some guy got
up there and I guess the he wanted to release
the snake or whatever the fluid out of the Yeah,
so the hose I don't know how you want to

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call it. Well, I can't really say, but he had
to go to the bathroom and just right there on
the window. And there was a lot of laughter and
shock in the building when that happened. So he add
this to my book. That's right right there. Somebody's smoking things.
We've seen out of the f SR windows. Remember that
there was a street takeover. Remember that one. That was

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a good one too. I love that one. And just
like this, I didn't have my phone. I would have
recorded the crackhead coop went out, though I didn't take
my phone. Well who doesn't take their phone? Lame people.
There was a street takeover right here, and we're broadcast
from the corner of Ventur and So Paul Vine, which
is pretty big intersection, and they closed the street and
we're doing the donuts right there. Not my favorite dough.

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I like the real donuts, you know, I like those donuts.
But there you go. So good luck to the crackhead
who was outside the building. I hope they're having a
good night here. Well, clearly they are. So they can't
afford a place to stay, but they can't afford the
crack So they got that going for him, So you know,
all right, let's go to the phones. A guy that
knows a thing or two about cracked Alam, meet a
lou living in the Bay Area. Hello, Ala, Meta Lou,

(20:45):
Hey been long time not talk. It has been a while.
It has been way too long.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
In the spirit of.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
Checking up on your friends, I wanted to ask Justin
Cooper how he's doing.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Coop's putting on his headphones right now? Are you talking?
Because the Lakers lost a couple of random games in
the middle of March.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
Lost no defensive Justin, I was getting to that point.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
You could be worse.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
You could be Ben's Clippers below the Warriors and the
standings right now exactly.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
You know what's trew you. I was. I was going
to support you out of me to loot. But that
that ross, that loss to the to the Nets, by
that loss by the Lakers, that should be worth like
seven losses.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah, it is what it is.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
Lebron has a groin strain from all the Disney parties
and Ben too.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
But so Ben, what I want to do, I say
is what I wanted to say to you.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
You absolutely destroyed my love for sports radio when the
Niners lost.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Come on, don't blame me for I dare you. You're
blaming me for your lack of activity on this show
because I I spoke the truth.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
The lack of activity of the show is related to
the fact that you kind of broke me.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
But you got you need You need a therapy, miniature
horse or something like that.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Come on, you need therapy when you have the.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Best pathetic are the local talk show hosts in San Francisco.
If I broke you, those guys must blow. I mean,
come on, man, what I'm just an overnight guy. I
broke you, You're out of me.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
To lou Ben Ben, seriously, you destroyed my love for
sports radio, but the Warriors have given me a reason
to believe again.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
No, okay, so you only like sports radio when things
are going well for your teams.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
I got absolutely Are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Runner on the five seed.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
And I pray to God that Justin Cooper gets to
watch the Warriors beat the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals.
If we get that live Seeds, well.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Listen, if the Warriors play, I think America will be
pulling for the Golden State Warriors against the Lakers. The
Lakers are evil and we'd love to see evil news
and right there, yes we agree, Ben, thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
I hope you're doing well and I hope to meet
you soon in Oakland.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
We're gonna make that happen. Ala don't be a stranger.
But okay, all right, the great Alameta Lou. He's offered
his establishment. Okay, so think about Lorae. So we saw
the crackhead out here smoking crack. So we're ready to
go to oak Right, we're ready to go to Oakland.
That's a that's like a starter thing, you know, we're

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preparing ourselves to go no Oakland starter pack. What else
would go with that? I don't think I'm allowed to say,
let's go to Cookie Monsters calling the show? Hello? How
exciting is this? We had to count? Now we have
Cookie Monster. Hello, cookie Monster.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yeah, it's me the Coogie Monsters. Lorraine is Cookie.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
I love give me back that cookie. I didn't know
Cookie Monster's got a European accent. Now it's unbelievable, shocking.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
It's me the Cookie Monster who's sold. Lorrain is Cookie.
And let's the crack pipe.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Outside the stud Okay, oh man, oh no, it's shocking.
All right, all right, all right, thank you. All right,
geez least, don't look at me, like, what are you
looking at me for? Don't look at me. They're your friends.

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These are not my friends. No, I've never know. This
is not my friend. They just call the show. It's
a that's what happens. You're on the raid of people.
Skilled they listen and they call in randomly. I give
out the number. Let's go to Frank the Tank in Iowa.
Now I'm wearing an Iowa Hawky had that was sent
by one of our Iowa listeners. Here, Hello, Frank the Tank.

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What's going on? Frank?

Speaker 4 (24:31):
How's it going? Billy?

Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's right? Well, no, I'm not Bill Miller's different Bill,
Bill Miller's Ai. I'm Ben. That's Billy.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
Oh, well, there is a Bill Miller he Actually I
found out from my old smart speaker that I used
to have before they fell off the TV and broke
that there's a Bill Miller in Texas. He's a barbecue connoisseur.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yes, Bill Miller's barbecue well known in Texas. And actually
there's a I have a Bill Miller's barbie you hat.
Somebody sent me a while back. Yeah, it's supposedly pretty good. Yeah, Okay,
I just told yeah, there you go. Hey. By the way, Frank,
to think you don't mind a little commercial, right, you
like to be part of a commercial?

Speaker 4 (25:13):
Right?

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah? If you feel like owning a home is out
of reach? Is that how you feel? Frank?

Speaker 6 (25:22):
Partially?

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, exactly, Rocket is I'm doing a read here, Frank,
play along. Let me let me read. Hey, Frank, if
you feel like owning a home is out of reaches?
How do you feel? Oh my god, you got me ride? Right?

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What did he just say?

Speaker 8 (25:46):
He said, not in the moins? He said, all right,
my god, you're so bad at this at the table.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Read the tag. Try California or Boston or New York
if you want high taxes, or Hawaii. Anyway, let me
do this again, all right, Frank, don't have this up. Frank,
I'm gonna come to Iowa. All right, Anna, I'm gonna
I'm gonna mess with you. Here we go. If you
feel like owning a home is out of reach, nod
your head, yes, yes, Rocket, he's not even not eident.

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Rocket is here to give you back the keys because
they believe everyone, even Frank in Iowa, deserves a shot
at the American dream own the dream. Is it rocket
dot com? Or call one call eight hundred four rocket.
That's rocket dot com or eight hundred four rocket. Uh, Frank,
you've been fired from being part of commercials. Frank, you're

(26:43):
no longer part of the commercials? Okay? Is he gone?
I don't hear. I don't know. Maybe whoa wow? That's
his payback?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Man?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
What a man I used to like, Frank. Let's go
to Tom. I think Tom is part of the Joe
Milton Colts. Hello, Tom, Welcome in the Commonwealth.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
Welcome, Hey, Ben, you were talking about Joe Milton getting traded.
I want to do here thoughts on Joe getting traded
for Cooper Cupp. They're going to release them anyway, and
they were looking for someone to replace staff or why
not try it?

Speaker 7 (27:18):
All?

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Right, let's make it right. You know what we can.
We'll consummate the trade right now. You can have Cooper
cup done and we'll take Joe Milton. Perfect. Let's sign
the paperwork. Do the doc you signed. I'll sign it, Tom,
I'll send it to you. You sign it, We'll send
it to the NFL office. Done, Neal, you'll get Cooper Cupp.
The problem is you got to pay him and he's
kind of old now, and not that he's always hurt.

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That's the problem.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yeah, I mean Drake May needs a veteran wide receiver.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
So all right, so he's yours, he's it was probably
gonna be released tomorrow, but you can have him done.
We'll take Joe Milton. Why not? Sure? All right?

Speaker 4 (27:56):
All right, we let's.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Send that out Coop on social media. We've made a trade.
Tom is representing the Patriots. I'm representing the RAMS. We
don't need those people, right Tom, We got all the
answers right here. Come on exactly. We'll consummate the trade
right now. All right, thank you, Tom, I'll make that trade,
and the RAMS is gonna release Cooper Cup and get
nothing for him. They've already replaced him with DeVante Adams.

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Let's go to Sean. Sean's talking right now, but he's
on the radio. He's in North Dakota. What's going on, Sean? Welcome?

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Hey, not too much.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Don't be too excited here. I know, I know this
is very exciting here. Don't try to stay calm.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
Hey man, I didn't ask you how you were doing.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
All right then, anyway, what's up with that the Rogers
to Pittsburgh. Dahuh, you think that's gonna work out?

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well, do I think it's gonna work out in them
winning a Super Bowl?

Speaker 4 (28:54):
No?

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Do I think it'll work out as a talk show host?
Yes I do.

Speaker 7 (28:59):
Yeah, I suppose you would.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Huh, you're worried about your job. I'm worried about my job,
not if I don't have one. We'll take a number
at the deli counter, go out it. Let's say a
lot of you are Dick and Dayton. We got to
Dick in Dayton.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
Hello, Dick, welcome, good morning, Good morning. Hey, something happened
good last week. Do you know how McCoy and.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Dayton of the und I have met Hal McCoy, one
of the great baseball writers, a long time Cincinnati Reds
beat writer, Hal McCoy.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yeah, that was a big show there and he was
talking about over the years how he traveled with Mark
Shot and he talked about, you know, the big Red machine.
And I talked to him and he mentioned something about
somebody in the audience. He said, followed our paper, and
he said he was in and there and he did

(29:53):
speak ups on the teams and thanked me. But he
says he's a he's a fan of Ohio sports. And
he was telling me I covered the beat a little bit,
you know, of the of the Indians, and he he
remembered the Browns one. I think he did a story
nineteen sixty four when they won the But he was

(30:14):
talking about the people he liked. He's been I think
down there for fifty years at the paper, you know.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, I don't know about how long. I mean, it's
been well fifty years ago. Back that's in the seventies.
So I don't think he's at the paper anymore though
I thought he retired. And his doings like a blog
or something like.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
That, Well he has to ask how I'll call him
every Saturday, every Sunday because the date and paper it's
it's nothing in sports anymore, you know.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah, it sucks unfortunately. Yeah, what did you think
of the Brown Street Though he got Kenny Pickett? You
excited about that?

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Yeah, I was kind of excited.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
You know.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
I was surprised about Miles Garrett though they gave him
a lot of money, didn't they.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, you so you support that. I thought you were
advocated for him to be traded. Now he's back.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, I just didn't understand it. It's a lot of
money because you know, the Browns I think have to
prove themselves this year because you know last year they
were pathetic. You know.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah, and coming from you, the number one Ohio sportsman,
to say the Browns were pathetic, he is both accurate
and stunning.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
Yeah, and a al said, Dick, I know him here
in Ohio one sports radio. He said, he you know,
he knows his sports and he says he gets around
quite a bit. We considered him a good fan. He said,
I hope to see Dick maybe more so. How about that?

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, that's great. Give me a little taste of that Dick. Okay,
you don't need to play that, my friend, the great
Dick and that and so at some point, now, what
part of the calendar works good for you there, Dixter
when we do the big Ohio mallor meet and greet
and the show blowing up in Ohio? And I think
because of you. What was Ohio the number two state
in the country, Kooperloopa in terms of listeners in the

(32:03):
last month. That's correct, Ohio number two behind California in
terms of the audience. If you did better, you wouldn't
have to have Mike the Leprechawn as your mascot. Yeah,
we're trying to set up to our friends and Massachusetts,
but was a small state, so that's the problem. You know.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Then this year it's gonna be great. We gonna have
a fun time there. I'm trying to figure out some dates,
so you gotta play it sometime in June or July
most likely, but I'll let you know. All right, all right,
bye bye, all right, there you go. There may be
cowboy cruised down from Windsor, Ontario. Hello, Cowboy John Brad
who's in Windsor, Ontario. One of our fine Canadian lads

(32:41):
and really the only Canadian lad that calls from Windsor.
We used to have this guy, Jason and Windsor, but
he didn't call anymore. What's going on, Cowboy, John Brad?

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Well, nothing much. Lona and Ben and Justin Lanthony Davis
is thirty two today. I remember sixty years ago today
and went teaching for the only time in my wife
and I think Doc Ellis would have been what seventy
nine today, but of course he passed away in twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Cowboy, how come he only went fishing one time.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
Never caught anything. I was only eleven then.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah, but most people don't catch anything fishing. It's about
the experience. It's about being on the boat and you know,
hanging out with your friends and all that.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
I don't think, yeah one of Mike one.

Speaker 7 (33:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
Well, some of my cousins are having fisher people. I mean,
but I just never got the hang of it.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
Well, anyway, speaking of my cousins, Martha Bayless Rolls and
Jim Valvano both would have been seventy nine yesterday, but
Valvano passed away in ninety three, and Martha ninety nine.
And let's see Bert camp and Eiras and Mark Lindsay,
the lead singer for Mark Revere for Paul Revere and

(33:52):
the Raiders, were both eighty three on Sunday. Jim Wrights
was seventy two Saturday. So anyway, uh, you know, you
got to be a boy to be a cowboy, And
I hope to call you back in a few minutes
on sights of Bite.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
There he goes, all right, the great cowboy, we could
you could just stand on hold. You're going to call
right back. Make sure to call right back, cowboy, dance
with you. And now if you if you were to
do a big board, not a list Terry in England,
we don't do this on the Ben Maler Show because
if you do this you become irrelevant. But if you
were to do a big board of callers, Lorena despises that,

(34:32):
still get on the air. I would say, Mike the
Leprecaun is at the very top. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
Welcome what she despises me? Yeah? I think she hates
she hates your guts. That was your gutts.

Speaker 7 (34:48):
Wow, you got put me in doing the fire.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
She puts me in the rig of fire. My voice
is broken up.

Speaker 6 (34:58):
You can't break my voice, b but Lerenda can break
my heart.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
In the meantime, the cookies run the way, Oh they
are are?

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah, Lorena, you're not allowed to eat any cookies because
the cookies are for me.

Speaker 6 (35:11):
Right, Well, I can give her one, give her one that.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Is like an a peace treaty type thing, right the
olive branch.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Yes, and then and then a Monday.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
I'll be anyway, all right, suck on, suck on some
garlic to kill you. You got an infection in your throat. There,
you little garlic. Why are you calling? If you have
learned to go away? You have a learned gitis? What's
wrong with you? He's gonna spread it through the radio bed.
I know I don't lose my voice. Straight ahead, straight ahead.

(35:43):
A lot of people enjoying the story we told about
the crackhead outside the building here, but straight ahead for us,
we are going to have sight the bite, the great
sports radio mystery. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
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Speaker 1 (36:05):
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(36:29):
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Speaker 3 (36:43):
Time now to site sight to Bite, where we play
random generic sound bites, you know in a sports and
entertainment cliches spoken by so called experts. You try to
tell us who's doing the talking.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
That's it, right to it, Site to Bite. Play that
sound bite.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
Thank you man.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Someone from the world of sports will last seven to
ten days, could be a coach, player, prominent newsmaker. Go ahead,
thank you man, Thank you.

Speaker 8 (37:09):
Man, mayor many, thank you man, man, Thank you man,
Thank you man.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
All right, thank you man. Who is that? I say,
call her? Call the five. We'll get it. The rata
call a ten man, call he ten. That's not possible,
Cooper loop. The math isn't mathing, got cool? Let's go nobody? Okay,
great great attitude eight seven seven ninety nine. Fox. You
want to play Shane and the moyne is call her
number one, Shane.

Speaker 7 (37:38):
Number that chart's captain logan to tour.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
No, but thanks for playing Shane. Now we say hello
to your your wife to be Let's say hello to
Michael in Nashville. Who is calling number two on site
to bite? Hello Michael, Yes, that.

Speaker 7 (37:56):
Former stud pass rusher col vand in Boston.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
That random I'm a football player, Kyle Vandenbosch. No, but finanswer,
thank you for playing. Let's go to Cowboy John Bradd
and windsor On. All right, what's the clue? Coop before
cow what's the clue here? He always wears a KB
three wristband in memory of his best friend who passed
away during a pickup game. All right, sounds like something
Cowboy would do, Cowboy, John Brad your caller number three?

(38:20):
Go ahead, Cowboy?

Speaker 6 (38:22):
Okay? Is that British guitar god Robin Trower of Footblahome
and Robin Trower Trio with eighty Sundays?

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Is that an eighty year old from a British band. No,
but thanks for playing. I'm so glad you called back, Cowboy,
God God bless you. Let's say hello to caller four,
which is Tree. Tree is in Chicago. Hello Tree, you're
my caller number four, Tree.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
And we're gonna go for Russell westhro.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Is that Russell West front four? And really you're number five?
You won? What Tree you hate Golden Tech cats.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
You're a hater.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
I said, nobody would have got it, tremendous ears. I
don't know how you did in Tree, but congratulations, Thank
you man. You know what, thank you man, I got.
I got family in Chicago. You're my favorite tree though
in Chicago, you're the big winner. Unbelievable. Another happy customer
on site to buy Tree Way to Go Tree