July 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jerome Bettis saying that the Steelers need to be a run first team even with Aaron Rodgers, Chargers RB Najee Harris injuring his eye during a night of fireworks, the NFL media being triggered by the Harbaughs visiting President Trump, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka laka. It's our dumb bird three hour three.
It's ready for me and it's ready for you. Happy Friday.
The weekend is almost here, so make sure to listen
to the Fifth Hour podcast. New episodes drop today, Saturday
and Sunday. But here in hour number three, do you
(00:20):
agree or disagree with Jerome Bettis that these Steelers, even
with Aaron Rodgers, must be a run first team. He's
made that argument. We'll dissect that. Also, what is your
appraisal of Chargers running back Najie Harris injuring his eye
from a night of fireworks gone bad. We'll talk about that.
(00:43):
And what did you make of the NFL media being
triggered by Jim and John Harbaugh visiting President Trump at
the White House. They're freaking out over this. Oh my god.
We'll talk about that and more right now here. It
is our number three. The wheels on the bus go
round and round. The wheels on the bus go round
(01:05):
and round. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We are in the air everywhere at your fingertips as
we have the precision of a surgeon.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Coast, the coast, border, the border, and beyond on the
fast end bodaciously powerful microphones of FSR emmating live from
the shop, the sweatshop of sports talk right here from
the Fox Sports Radio studios, as approved by corn Dog
(01:48):
in Wisconsin and Kathy in Madison. Also of course in
Wisconsin there both brewers lapdogs unless they're not. This portion
of the ben mallse show me possible part by our
friends at ty Iraq. I see Alf the Alien o
Pineers doing the day night double header shaking. He said yes,
and Terry and England ferg Doug, all of them. For
(02:09):
over forty years. It's a long time. Tire i Raq
has been helping customers find the right tires for how,
what and where they drive, ship fast and free back
by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options like
mobile tire Installation tire i raq dot Com The Way
Tire Buying Show be so our lead this hour is
(02:33):
from Pittsburg, PA. Problem problem in the Land of the Insers,
Holy terrible tower, O Batman, get out those terrible towels.
So I don't even saw this or not? Maybe not.
Hall of Famer Jerome bettis the bus now he is concerned.
Steeler Legends Steeler royalty. He's worried about the Pittsburgh football
(02:57):
team possibly possibly having a major identity shifts after they
acquired Aaron Rogers and DK Metcalf. Now, that is not
my opinion, that is a fact. Appearing with our colleague
Dan Patrick at a celebrity golf tournament, Bettis he was
(03:21):
waxing poetic about the importance of maintaining a run first
approach despite Aaron Rodgers and his preference to throw early
and throw often. Bettis claiming that abandoning the running game
would be a fundamental f up. He said, if you
ask Aaron Rodgers to throw the ball forty times, Bettis
(03:44):
said that it'll be a mistake. He wore now traditionally
traditionally Arthur Smith, who has not had a lot of
very good quarterbacks in his time as an offensive coordinator,
but he is known as as someone who traditionally runs
the ball a lot. Let us discuss the question, do
you agree or do you disagree? With Jerome Bettis that
(04:09):
the Steelers, even with Aaron Rodgers, even with Aaron Rodgers,
must be a run first team. So I've got the
Wendy's Menu, gas Man and Clorox Bleach and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
(04:30):
to make a delicious combo meal. We are all right,
So first of all, do we agree or disagree? We
are fully on board, which means we agree. So we
agree on this now that there is some nuance. There
is some nuance on this, and here's the thing, all right,
(04:51):
so I generally agree, but there is nuance to it
where it's a fifty to fifty split. Let me explain
my rationale. And it's obvious that a running back to
your own bettis is going to advocate for a team
to run the ball. You know, it's like asking a
talk show host whether or not they should talk more.
(05:13):
Of course they're going to say that. But you don't
bring Aaron Rodgers in to Pittsburgh just to play handoff Bengo, Right,
So you don't do that. You don't hide the quarterback.
So well, I don't go all all the way in.
I don't totally agree with your own Bett's I'm like,
I'm on board, but not totally on board. Because you
(05:35):
look at the resume and Rogers has all those accolades
on his Pro Football Reference page. You bring him in
because you think he still can play even in his forties.
He's capable of picking a part of defense. But what
we did here is we activated the Malord think tank.
The Malard think tank has been activated. And my advice
to Mike Tomlin and he always turns to overnight sports
(05:57):
radio for advice early in the NFL season. If I'm
in charge in Pittsburgh, early in the NFL season, you
tee it up September and October. It's like you're a
dome team. Aaron Rodgers comes out there and just is
throwing the duke here, there and everywhere, slinging the ball
(06:18):
to DK Metcalf, Robert Woods, who's in Pittsburgh now, pat
Firemouth to tight end mixing and matching. So you do
that in September and October, and then when the weather
starts to turn a little bit in Pittsburgh, you contact
the Windy's guy in Minnesota, get the Windy's menu, and
when it becomes like the Windy's menu, Frosty, all right,
(06:41):
you pivot. You pivot at Frosty to more of a
running cold weather type team. Now, depending on how the
weather pattern is, you might be able to make it
into November, maybe the middle of November. Before it turns
really bad. And at that point you become a traditional
clock chuning, ground and pound type football team. Assuming the
(07:06):
running back the one two punch is it thunder and lightning?
Jalen Warren and the rookie Caleb Johnson. Are they up
to the task now, Rogers, It's not like he hasn't
played in cold weather before. Last I checked, lambeau Field
has noticed a frozen tundra, right, so it gets colder
(07:26):
there than it does in Pittsburgh. And if he's washed
it doesn't matter. It's all irrelevant. It's all irrelevant if
he's washed up. Now. Meanwhile, we go now to La
La Land. I was reading. I don't know if you
saw this or not. Former Steeler and current La Charge
(07:47):
show me your lightning bolt running back Najie Harris suffered
an eye injury. There was a firework mishap the way
it's being described on the fourth of July. This happened
last week. Some reports came out on the internet, and
I was I was informed of this actually a couple
(08:11):
of days back, and it wasn't from a reliable source,
so I chose not to go with it. But his
agent now has come out and claimed that it's just
a superficial injury, and Harris is expected to be on
the field for the start of the NFL regular season.
So question, what is your appraisal of Charger running back
(08:35):
Nase Harris, former Steeler his eye injury which is being
called superficial from the agent on a fourth of July
fireworks show gone bad. So my appraisal of this, as
we parsed the words watch out for the gas man
(08:56):
er go gas lighting. This sounds like gas lighting. That
is where you say one thing or you do one
thing and you claim the opposite happened, Like, for example,
you really f up your eye, but you claim it's
just a superficial injury. Now that's my opinion. I don't
know whether or not the injury is just superficial or
(09:18):
if it's worse than that. But I do know that
the agent for Najie Harris has a financial stake in this.
He's got skin in the game, so he would be
financially motivated to sugarcoat things. Now, the whispers out of
I believes happened in the Bay Area. The whispers are
that it was not just superficial, that it was actually
(09:40):
worse than that. Now how bad is it? We don't know.
Multiple people were injured by the kaboom gone bad at
the fourth of July fireworks show. And the reason I'm
skeptical that this was just a minor, superficial thing. We
are told that Naji Harris went to not one, but
(10:02):
two different hospitals to seek treatment. So if it was
just a minor thing, why would you need to go
to another hospital? Does that sound like a superficial type situation?
It does not to me. It does not to me.
Right now, you need to at all times protect the bag.
Don't blow the bag up. You got to protect the back,
(10:25):
even a relatively small back. Now, Nase Harris, his career
is at a bit of a crossroads. He got a
lot of years where you got a thousand yards. That's
not really that impressive, it isn't It used to be
impressive when they played fourteen games. When they play seventeen game, eh,
you know. And the biggest knock on Naji Harris is
(10:48):
he is someone that does not have breakaway speed. He
had it in college, but he's a lumbering, plotting running back.
He does not get the home run. So he left Pittsburgh.
They didn't want him back. He goes out to La
hasn't even played a game for the Chargers, and he's
already hurt or will even be on the Chargers now
(11:10):
if you thought, if you thought he couldn't see the
gap when he was with the Steelers, now he's got
an eye injury. Just wait, what's gonna happen if his
eyes messed up? And so let me lay this out
for you, point by point. I'm gonna explain this to
you like you're five years old. So as we understand it,
(11:30):
the boiler plate NFL contract contains a clause and there's
a couple of clauses in there the standard NFL contract
that could indirectly apply to dangerous or reckless behavior such
as using fireworks that aren't safe and sane being put
(11:54):
in risk of injury where you might have an eye
all messed up. Now, Harris signed a one year deal
and it was for a relative nominal fee of money.
But if I got this amount of money, I would
be very very very happy. Five point two million, which
makes him easily expendable for Jim Harbaugh's Chargers. That's nothing.
(12:21):
Chargers drafted are running back if that rookie running backs
as good as advertised, and if Najie Harris is as
messed up as some on the internet are saying, and
they'll likely work out some kind of buyout. Not that
you really have to spend that much to get rid
of the former Pittsburgh still the running back. Now, final thought,
(12:42):
Our next stop the White House. That's right, the Harbaws.
We just mentioned Jim Harball, So Jim Harball was not
available for comment. He went to Washington. Both Harball's Jim
and John Harbaugh, visited the White House. President Donald Trump
invited the two NFL head coaches, the brothers, to visit.
(13:07):
Now nobody seems to know why. There was no reason
given for the invitation. You know, the Chargers coach, the
Ravens coach. They get together there. They have training camp.
The Chargers training camp starts next week. But it didn't matter, right,
This was pretty much of a nine story. It was
a White House pool reporter, political reporter who said, well,
(13:27):
these two guys were there, and okay, people visit the
White House all the time. What happened? What do you
think happened? Oh yeah, oh yeah, alarm, alarm, alarm. Factions
of the NFL media. They they sounded the alarms, all
hands on deck, furious with the harball boys, furious question,
(13:53):
what did you make of this part of the story?
What do you make of the NFL media? A good
number of them apparently triggered because Jim and John Harbaugh
visited President Trump at the White House. So this was
as predictable as broccoli being the last thing left on
(14:14):
the plate of a child. Right, the Harbaws are not demandings,
but in coaching their football royalty, right, leaders of men,
high profile people in sports, who were invited to speak
with a sitting president and the White House. I thought
it was the people's house, right, the White House the
(14:36):
people's house in our lives. But things like this have
always happened. It's it's a gesture of respect, and it's
happened with presidents like Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama. It's not controversial.
It's not this is There are other things that are controversial.
This is not controversial. When you combine and I get
it right, When you combine President Trump, NFL media, NFL coaches,
(15:01):
you put all this together, it's like mixing clorox, bleach
and ammonia. It's a highly combustible situation. And so you
set off this moral high ground fire drill thing like
how dare the Harball brothers?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I like them? I don't like them anymore. And it's
like some of these scribes they want to sanction the
Harba guys, like they want to re educate them. What
are you doing? This is absurd. You're gonna lose the
locker room. You didn't commit a crime. There was no
crime committed. They didn't even as far as I know,
they didn't speak to the media. They did an issue
a statement. They brought their families to the White House,
(15:39):
say hey, we will walk around the White House. How
cool is that? They talked some football and they left right,
that's it doesn't matter. There are some in the media,
the football media, who are like, oh, that's unacceptable. That
is unacceptable, because many in the NFL media they're they're like, you,
(16:00):
you shouldn't just be a coach. You've got to conform
to what I believe in and my worldview and all
that stuff. So not a shocking fact that people would
be upset in the media about the Harbaugh guys going
to the White House. I just thought it was amusing.
I saw a couple of stories and I was like, really,
you're gonna get all worked up into a tizzy about that,
Like it'd be one thing if they had a news
(16:21):
conference and they were given some speech, but they didn't
do that. You know, they just went showed up and
nobody would have even known if a pool reporter hadn't
mentioned it. It is the Ben Malor Show. If you'd
like to be part you can join us right now
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight
seven seven nine nine six six three six. Now we
(16:44):
do have the Mallor Paloosa. The Malor Paloza is coming
up a week from Sunday night, one week from Sunday
night into Monday on the overnight and that is the
talent show, the greatest demand of the summer, and it'll
be coming up here. So if you'd like to be
part of it, there are slots available. Calls up, let
(17:04):
us know, send an email to the show Ben Malershow
at gmail dot com and we will put you on there.
And there are legit like the legit prizes. I mean,
this is not through Fox Sports Radio, so it's a listener.
Another listener, Mister Irrigation is a big fan of the show,
a super fan and he's very talented at making. I
(17:26):
don't know, it's like it's like jewelry, it's not. It
depends what is valuable what is not valuable. But it's
a pretty cool thing. We'll tell you more about it
as we get closer to it. So if you want
to enter, if you have a song parody, if you
want to do your own original song that is not
a parody, whatever it is, tell jokes, do impersonations, whatever
(17:47):
your skill is. The Malardpalooza a week from Sunday. It's
gonna be a fun night, lot of entertainment. Cannot wait,
cannot wait for that time. Now though, time for you
know what time? That's right, you know the clock. Good
job by you. The Malor Riddle of the day, and
here it is, Actor Hugh Grant. Actor Hugh Grant was
(18:11):
criticized for blanking in the Wimbledon Royal Box. Now remember
you gotta keep it clean people, you got I mean,
it's a family show. There's a lot of families listening
four in the morning on the East Coast anyway. Actor
Hugh Grant was criticized for blank in the Wimbledon Royal Box.
(18:38):
That is the malor Riddle of the day the answer,
We'll get to it, and we will.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Next.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Hey, what's up everybody?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
It's me three time provo LeVar Arrington and I couldn't
be more excited to announce a podcast called Up on Game?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
What is Up on Game?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
You ass along with my fellow pro bowler TJ. Huschman
Zada and Super Bowl champion Yup. That's right, Plexico Buruts.
You can only name a show with that type of
talent on it. Up on Game We're going to be
sharing our real life experiences loaded with teachable moments. Listen
to Up on Game with Me, LeVar Arrington, TJ. Hutschman Zada,
(19:29):
and Plexico Burrs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or
wherever you get your podcasts from.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Bill Miller and you, It's The Ben Malor Show. We're
up all night, every single night podcast, every day fifth
hour podcast be coming to you this weekend. New episode
drops later today and then another one will pop up
on Saturday and Sunday. Every day. Audience, Yes, it's amazing.
(20:05):
I know if you want to be part of the
original recipe show you're listening to right now the og
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven
seven nine nine six six three sixty nine on X
at Ben Mallord. It's at Ben Mahlor. Can also say
(20:30):
hello to Lorena FSR, Tech Queen and Coop at a
Bronco fan Your comments can and we'll be used against
you in the court of sports radio. Boy boy, act accordingly,
you must act accordingly. And now back to it all right,
(20:55):
back to it we go. Time now for the malor
riddle of the day, and here it is. Actor Hugh
Grant was criticized for blank in Wimbledon's famous Royal Box.
What's in the box? That's where the royals, not the
Kansas City Royals, the actual royals hang out. They don't
(21:19):
have any power in England, but it's a ceremonial thing.
Bobby in Florida says he was docking, is what he's saying.
He was criticized for mooning the chair umpire according to
Ocho texto, smiling from Ferg dog Okay Luke Luke, the
ending guy says, using vegetable oil to saute spinach and
(21:42):
garlic instead of avocado oil. Pretty funny, King Rory says,
enjoying Sonic's new big dill meal. That's the pickle thing now,
I think that's good. Who else do we have? Page down?
Alf the Alien Opiners says he was criticized for sending
(22:03):
memes to Justin in Cincinnati. All right, Milkman Mike in
Colorado says he was doing the same thing he does
when blind Scott calls in. That's from the Milkman. I
forty n sys Hugh Grant was caught begging Elizabeth Hurley
to take him back in the Royal Box. Who else
(22:25):
do we have a page down? He was criticized for
shopping on the Sunset Strip reciting Shakespeare's Hamlet in Russia
from William the last one I read beforeunately, that is
pretty good. Good good answer by William Mason and hunting
beach at the Sunset Strip line. Who else do we have?
Atomic asphalt? Got it right? That's no fun. Planking from
(22:45):
the clam accused of misogyny from Robbie the Mariner fan
t bowing from Fudgie in Boston. That's pretty funny. I
bet you people did. I don't even know what t
bowing is. It's been been Bennett since that happened. What
else to a page down? All right, let's see here.
Do you have an answer? Mister irrigation said he made
(23:06):
a cup of tea or something like that. Do you
have an answer?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I think I think he got I think it's because
he was clipping his toenails, clipping stones. That would that'd
be bad to do with the box, right, what's in
the box? Now? Yeah, we can't do that in wround
the royal family. But it turns out former long ago
Hollywood star now he's old. Hugh Grant criticized for napping.
(23:33):
He took a nap at Wimbledon's Royal Box. There's video
of Hugh Grant falling asleep while he is seated behind
the Queen. He's sitting behind the queen and he falls,
Your majesty, that's great. He must have had it quite
(23:56):
the night before, right, I have to be out here
when there's daytime. Ten. I'm trying to recover. Oh that's great. Uh,
supermarket Steve says. When I was a kid, Ben, I
used to eat my broccoli first, so I can enjoy
the rest of my meal. I guess I'm just weird
like that, or not a fat ass like you were. Yeah,
you are weird, Supermarket Steve. You've proved that on a
(24:19):
daily basis. You were absolutely weird. We had some other
good answers we didn't get to from Attillo and JT.
The Wingman. A few other guys had some pretty funny
answers Chris and Kentucky. We didn't We couldn't read everyone's answer,
but we do have time to take some calls here,
and let's take advantage of that time that we have.
And eenie meenie miney moll, let's say hello to Tony
in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony, welcome.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
David Vasse blank my blank and blank you.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
O.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Thank gosh, that was beautifully done. Yeah, it's Tony excited that.
I don't know it's Vasse going to be in San
Francisco this weekend. I know the Dodgers are in San Francisco.
I don't know if I say one on the road trip,
I don't know if he's there or not. But are
there any slides? He might not go If there's slides
in San Francisco, will probably avoid that. He's got I
know in Milwaukee he will he didn't go to Milwaukee.
(25:07):
So what else do you have? Page down? Let's see here,
Let's go to Jed who fled in the Great State
of Florida. Hello, Jed who fled?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Isn't weed man hippies named blank? So I'm not sure
how big of a compliment that is part of it?
What kind of cage girl level stys are you pulling
with his mouth to lose the prize stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Dude?
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Man impressed?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
But is it? I mean it is when I.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Waited and one time in the time I see this guy
was like, if you sell the most amount of subject.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
You're gonna get a price toy Yoda. People worked hard
all of a sudden, so prize day, the girl gets
a small green for card, gets a toy Yoda. He
gets it's pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
So does he get to that? How prized?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Well, it's not your art, all right, Calm down. This
is not something through Fox Sports Radio. This is not
from the company. This is something that mister irrigation came
up with. I've seen photos of I know, I know
what the.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Fox says on that that regard probably very much nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, I just want to make sure because I know
the legal people here, the lawyers will not want you
can't do anything away. We're not We're not technically giving
it away. It's a listener is providing it. Uh. And
he's you know, he's just he's a fan of the
show and he wanted us to have this for for
people to get.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
So why has no one This guy with Alan Roberson
has like the face of an artificial intelligence company and
I the only one to see people are missing out
on that. Also, and in order to amount of color,
seemed to be very worried about the umpire revolution going
come forward. You ecluded a little bit, but I mean
how Altin's like Ben Now he's a double in the gap,
(26:51):
Justin Cooper gonna call score from first. Yes, that's gonna
be so gridedy man, it's gonna be awesome. Imagine like
a one robot part coming in from second trying to
stop you know, the Loup Panella guy trying.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
To steal the base and all that, and they're just
so good.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
They got a base, they're replacing baby base, and I
mean would be I don't know what you do you
think you're not old it's opstable drive their joints.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So I hold on, hold on there, I had an idea. Okay,
so I think that baseball if they run, I want
to run. I want to run this bike. Will you
I want you to be the person I run this bike.
Do you want to do that or no?
Speaker 7 (27:31):
I'll yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Okay, all right, So baseball really is into robots. Rob
Mann fraud loves robots. So why not honor the great
robots and entertainment? Like they could have one of the
umpires look like C three p O they can have.
Optimist Prime could be one of the umpires. They can have.
How nine thousand can be out there? Like, just get
all the famous robots Rosie from remember Rosie from the Jetsons.
(27:57):
If you're old, you know who that is. Like, get
all the great robots out there as umpires. Just embrace
fully embrace all of the robots over the years.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
What say you, Jed, I was addicted by George or
that big It'd be better maybe.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
George Jetson meet George Jetson.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Yes, listen, what about friving robot when you like smelling
chefs with tobacco or something.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Now, let me ask you this is the tin Man
a robot? Is that technically a robot? The tin Man
from the Wizard of Oz is that a robot?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Or no, let's go with three require our first reman
congratulates you earlier on the having an idea, Welcome to club.
The second thing, gang, I was, yes, I could dang.
The third thing hit me with it again, dude, that
was so that was so good. I thought, well, all right, you.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Were doing so well and then you you were attack.
How about R two D two is one of the
umpire R two R two depot R two D two
would be like a really good home plate umpire right,
really maybe a little too small, but I think it's
pretty good. I think pretty good. You know, meaty fat
robot is R two D two is the fat one, right,
the little short one. Yeah, he's the white and blue one.
(29:09):
I think, yeah, the white and blue one. And see
three pos the gold one. Interesting. I think it's I'm
a marketing guy. I don't think he liked that very much.
I feel like you didn't like that yet.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Yes, I'm a more fan of the word t h.
I is this as opposed to that? Because it's like this,
not like that, and like this and I think they
should be equality. But you equal treatments. Well, I don't
give to ask about those dudes, so to.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Win, how about the terminator? How about we bring this,
How about the terminator? That'd be a good play. Nobody
would fight with the.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Terminator if you were you, if you're trying to get fired, dude.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Dude, I'm trying. I'm trying to say, you know how
hard it is I think of robots. I can only
think of so many freaking robots and movies. I don't
even watch movies. All my references are fifty years old.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
What do I know how hard it is? I know
how hard it is when you think of robots. That's
a very very personal question, man, I fern I thinking
about it. But I mean it's sure like it's metallic
steel hard. You know what I'm saying, Like blue steel,
Blue's good.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
That's good, dude, Okay, all right, all right. The gentleman
from Florida has used this a lot of time. The
gentleman from Florida's uses a lot of time. Let's go
to Mike the Leprechaun, Lorena's favorite Mike the Leprechaun, who
got me in trouble with management. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
I walked along?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Would I be a good Empire baseball Empire? Am I
too tall and too short?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Let's see? Would you be a good umpire? Well you
only wear green umpires were blue, so you wouldn't be
able to be an umpire.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I could put on a different chart, but I haven't
a teacher, so I have to be there and my.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Dad, how does how does it feel Mike that when
when you say you're a teacher, I get email? He
was never a teacher. He's lying, he was never a teacher.
There's no teacher like that, you know.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yeah, Well I'm fun and I talked to forty years
and that's a fact. Anyway, did you pack along my
playlist to a railers?
Speaker 6 (31:04):
I gave you a past you did?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Did you get me?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Oh you know I have it's in my No, no
it's not, it's in my bag. I have not. I
have to. You gave me a bunch of stuff. I
only I gave them the gift cards and stuff. And
there's other there's other stuff like candy LORAINI you want
candy from the Leprechaun?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
You want?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
He's got gold coins? Is he? Trying to get me
in the back of his van. Ben, No, I'm not
would you like candy from this stranger who smells like
and got us in trouble.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
With the management.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I don't want to get accuse the abuse. So no, no,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
No the leprecaun. When I, when I, when I, when
I met you, you didn't smell like sun block. There
are people saying that you smelled like sun like blo
oh you do.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
I did.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Maybe my nose doesn't work. I didn't smell that. People
were saying you smelled like sun like sunscreen stuff.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
I was like, okay, by the way, Ben, two things.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Did you look up? The tunnel collapse but they all survived.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I did. I did see uh. I don't know where
that is, but I saw the story. I saw the
headline on that.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yes, it's basically a big story. But your studio is beautiful,
and I do want to give you a huge compliment.
Your level of preparation, which you shortly is off the charte.
People don't realize that. I'm sure it's right.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
They don't appreciate, they don't understand, Mike. They think I
roll in here a minute before the show and I
just turned the mic on. That's not how it works, No, ip.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
With a I showed up with a kitboard, right and
a bunch of things you had.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
You had a bunch of notes, and now, Mike, you
need to use I'm still waiting to hear about that
big announcement. So I'm waiting. I'm still hanging in the
wind here. So I need you to use I need
you to use the leprechaun powers to make sure that happens.
Then we'll do a mallord meet and greet in in Worcester. Right, yeah,
all right, alright, I gotta go, I gotta go, thank you,
(33:03):
all right. I don't have time for the final comment
because Jed who fled called back because he wants to
cash a golden ticket. He's gonna waste a golden ticket, Hello,
Jed who fled.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
I'm trying to stay around the house and be relatively responsible,
even though I'm large to it. I help my father
who's almost ninety, my sisters. The phone call intew moments
ago comes out, What.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
In the hell do you do?
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Would be a loud of the yard belt. What's going on?
So I don't know. I kind of stumble and sputter
a little bit. It might might be helpful. I'm okay,
calling al the cars. Maybe a good excuse come like
daylight would be helpful. Uh, I really don't know what
because I was surevel with Zuber. How's your fault? Man?
Speaker 6 (33:42):
That's this day?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
May have it?
Speaker 7 (33:43):
May I come like unraveled because I've been I've kept
Jedi paltt and the real Jed world separate for a
long time.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
All right, hold on, so let me go to my
my Rosetta Stone, my lorrainast. What did he say, Lorene?
I could not understand that would something not being separate? Ben? Okay,
I did hear the part about your dad. Make sure
you take care of Jed. I know you're a bit
of a loser, but take care of your dad, all right.
You know that's great your dad big you're probably the
(34:11):
you're the the U, the ugly redheaded StepShot. But just
take care of your dad. That's all. Appreciate the days
your dad has left.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I thought I gotta go thank you right there? You
go burned a golden ticket for that big Bend's lame jokes.
Do we have Wheed Man? Is he there all right?
Could he's there? So Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week,
and weed Man has a chance to win another ring
if he ends up entering the Talent Show. We'll see
if he's going to enter the Talent Show, we'll get
to Big Ben's lame jokes of the Week. We'll do
(34:40):
it next.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
We're up all night, every single night, whether you like
it or not, whether you listen or not, We're here.
We're here. We live in the magic radio box, as
weed Man likes to say. And you can stream this
show and all the Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty
(35:10):
four to seven in the new and improved iHeart Radio app.
Just search Fox Sports Radio on the app. You can
stream us live at alf the Alien, Opiner and Ferg
Dog and Terry and England. They were all listening. I
did a fill in show locally in La me Bill
Miller and Ben Maller and they listen on the iHeartRadio app.
And one of the newest features in the app, you
(35:31):
can select Fox Sports Radio the Ben Mahler Show, The
Fifth Hour Podcast, a new episode dropping today as some
of your presets, just like the presets on a car
radio dial, So be sure to preset Fox Sports Radio,
Ben Maler Show, Fifth Hour Podcast, the iHeartRadio app. It
will always pop up at the top of your screen.
(35:56):
Knock knock, who's there? Blame week, Blame we too. Lame
joke of the week, Let's do it lame jokes. These
are actual jokes by actual listeners, sent in care of
Benmahlor Show at gmail dot com. At Benmallorshow at gmail
dot com. The comedy club has open every Friday at
(36:16):
this time when our bosses are sleeping. Weed Man Hippie
has been my hole, hurt, hoh horts, unpaid, underappreciated. He
does it for the love of radio. Did you ever
think you'd have your own weekly bit on the radio
weed Man back in the day?
Speaker 7 (36:33):
No, I love you, Ben, hurting Miss irrigation. Please send
me another ding.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Okay, yeah, he's already beggy, he's already begging. All right,
I'm sure he'll take care of you. But you you
can also enter the Malor Palooza and win one. You
could do that. You could do that, all right, let's
get to.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
The butt for I know, jndy wy it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Eye low yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Well you
you lost it because you had a hoarding problem. Anyway,
here we go here, yes, all right? Have you cleaned
up your actors? Your place a mess? Now? No? Not
pretty great? It's not bad? Okay, good, okay? Well these
are actual jokes by actually lists. What is the difference
between David Vasse and weed Man after bouncing off a wall?
(37:17):
What weed Man wouldn't roll around crying like a little
girl to the favorite? What is weed Man's favorite part
of the football field? What the hash marks big fan of?
That's Dan Dan in South Carolina. Why does weed Man
avoid atm machines?
Speaker 7 (37:39):
Why?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Well, besides being broke, he's terrible at withdrawals. That's Drew
in Minnesota. All right, Uh, what do you call it
when you see weed Man having an unfortunate seizure in
the bathtub? What what do you do? Well? You throw?
Are you throwing a load of his laundry? Is what
(38:01):
you do if you see that in the batub? But yeah,
did you hear that? Weed Man's call for love? Advice
to Lorena Earlier this week, hear about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well a lot of people missed it. But she told
weed Man the meeting with his parole officer and social
worker at the same time was not actually a thropple.
(38:24):
That's a Joe in Virginia Beach there, Thank you Joe.
What did Lisa? What did Lisa do when weed Man
fell off a boat? What she drove the boat away?
Is what?
Speaker 5 (38:41):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Eric?
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
In Kansas, it's the Big Ben's lame jokes. A week,
Eric sent another one. Did you hear that weed Man?
Weed Man is starting a new magazine dedicated to the homeless?
Speaker 7 (38:54):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Cool? Yeah, yeah, it's a big deal. It's called no
Homes and sleeping in gardens is what it's called. That's
not that's not nice. What do blind Scott and weed
Man have in common? What they don't work and are
really obnoxious? That's Eric again, like that Big Ben's lame
(39:19):
jokes of the week. What does poppy have in common
with a poppy seed?
Speaker 7 (39:24):
What?
Speaker 6 (39:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
They can both make you positive on a drug test.
That's true in Minnesota, Rob and the three two one sentence.
What does Shane and des Moine and the scent of
a new car have in common? What nothing. People will
always love the smell of a new car. There you
go are Did you hear that Blind Scott asked out
(39:51):
a girl in braille?
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, she left him on felt is what? That's uh?
That's Noah in Austin. What did I say to Mike
the Leprecaun when he said he listens to every episode
of the Ben Malors Show? What I said? I respect
that Irish spec guy surfer Todd the comedian? What does
(40:19):
P Diddy? What does p? Did he say he will
do as soon as he gets out of prison?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Well? He didn't get into specifics, but he said he
has big plans for the weekend, is what he said?
There's uh? S Todd comedian. H Let's see what do
we have here? What do you call an extortion attempt
from Mike the Leprecaun? What a shamrock shakedown? Is? What
you call it?
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Air?
Speaker 7 (40:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
What? What does Loraina and the FSR Security Yard have
in common? What they both don't have the time of
day for leprecauns. That's Mike the Leprecaun. Why Why shouldn't
Blind Scott be allowed to drive a forklift at Costco?
Speaker 5 (41:05):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Why he might run over Loraina and hollering James at
the food court and on their blind date. All right,
thank you. That's Mike as well, Thank you weed Man.
All Right, there you go.
Boom, shaka laka. It's our dumb bird three hour three.
It's ready for me and it's ready for you. Happy Friday.
The weekend is almost here, so make sure to listen
to the Fifth Hour podcast. New episodes drop today, Saturday
and Sunday. But here in hour number three, do you
(00:20):
agree or disagree with Jerome Bettis that these Steelers, even
with Aaron Rodgers, must be a run first team. He's
made that argument. We'll dissect that. Also, what is your
appraisal of Chargers running back Najie Harris injuring his eye
from a night of fireworks gone bad. We'll talk about that.
(00:43):
And what did you make of the NFL media being
triggered by Jim and John Harbaugh visiting President Trump at
the White House. They're freaking out over this. Oh my god.
We'll talk about that and more right now here. It
is our number three. The wheels on the bus go
round and round. The wheels on the bus go round
(01:05):
and round. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We are in the air everywhere at your fingertips as
we have the precision of a surgeon.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Coast, the coast, border, the border, and beyond on the
fast end bodaciously powerful microphones of FSR emmating live from
the shop, the sweatshop of sports talk right here from
the Fox Sports Radio studios, as approved by corn Dog
(01:48):
in Wisconsin and Kathy in Madison. Also of course in
Wisconsin there both brewers lapdogs unless they're not. This portion
of the ben mallse show me possible part by our
friends at ty Iraq. I see Alf the Alien o
Pineers doing the day night double header shaking. He said yes,
and Terry and England ferg Doug, all of them. For
(02:09):
over forty years. It's a long time. Tire i Raq
has been helping customers find the right tires for how,
what and where they drive, ship fast and free back
by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options like
mobile tire Installation tire i raq dot Com The Way
Tire Buying Show be so our lead this hour is
(02:33):
from Pittsburg, PA. Problem problem in the Land of the Insers,
Holy terrible tower, O Batman, get out those terrible towels.
So I don't even saw this or not? Maybe not.
Hall of Famer Jerome bettis the bus now he is concerned.
Steeler Legends Steeler royalty. He's worried about the Pittsburgh football
(02:57):
team possibly possibly having a major identity shifts after they
acquired Aaron Rogers and DK Metcalf. Now, that is not
my opinion, that is a fact. Appearing with our colleague
Dan Patrick at a celebrity golf tournament, Bettis he was
(03:21):
waxing poetic about the importance of maintaining a run first
approach despite Aaron Rodgers and his preference to throw early
and throw often. Bettis claiming that abandoning the running game
would be a fundamental f up. He said, if you
ask Aaron Rodgers to throw the ball forty times, Bettis
(03:44):
said that it'll be a mistake. He wore now traditionally
traditionally Arthur Smith, who has not had a lot of
very good quarterbacks in his time as an offensive coordinator,
but he is known as as someone who traditionally runs
the ball a lot. Let us discuss the question, do
you agree or do you disagree? With Jerome Bettis that
(04:09):
the Steelers, even with Aaron Rodgers, even with Aaron Rodgers,
must be a run first team. So I've got the
Wendy's Menu, gas Man and Clorox Bleach and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
(04:30):
to make a delicious combo meal. We are all right,
So first of all, do we agree or disagree? We
are fully on board, which means we agree. So we
agree on this now that there is some nuance. There
is some nuance on this, and here's the thing, all right,
(04:51):
so I generally agree, but there is nuance to it
where it's a fifty to fifty split. Let me explain
my rationale. And it's obvious that a running back to
your own bettis is going to advocate for a team
to run the ball. You know, it's like asking a
talk show host whether or not they should talk more.
(05:13):
Of course they're going to say that. But you don't
bring Aaron Rodgers in to Pittsburgh just to play handoff Bengo, Right,
So you don't do that. You don't hide the quarterback.
So well, I don't go all all the way in.
I don't totally agree with your own Bett's I'm like,
I'm on board, but not totally on board. Because you
(05:35):
look at the resume and Rogers has all those accolades
on his Pro Football Reference page. You bring him in
because you think he still can play even in his forties.
He's capable of picking a part of defense. But what
we did here is we activated the Malord think tank.
The Malard think tank has been activated. And my advice
to Mike Tomlin and he always turns to overnight sports
(05:57):
radio for advice early in the NFL season. If I'm
in charge in Pittsburgh, early in the NFL season, you
tee it up September and October. It's like you're a
dome team. Aaron Rodgers comes out there and just is
throwing the duke here, there and everywhere, slinging the ball
(06:18):
to DK Metcalf, Robert Woods, who's in Pittsburgh now, pat
Firemouth to tight end mixing and matching. So you do
that in September and October, and then when the weather
starts to turn a little bit in Pittsburgh, you contact
the Windy's guy in Minnesota, get the Windy's menu, and
when it becomes like the Windy's menu, Frosty, all right,
(06:41):
you pivot. You pivot at Frosty to more of a
running cold weather type team. Now, depending on how the
weather pattern is, you might be able to make it
into November, maybe the middle of November. Before it turns
really bad. And at that point you become a traditional
clock chuning, ground and pound type football team. Assuming the
(07:06):
running back the one two punch is it thunder and lightning?
Jalen Warren and the rookie Caleb Johnson. Are they up
to the task now, Rogers, It's not like he hasn't
played in cold weather before. Last I checked, lambeau Field
has noticed a frozen tundra, right, so it gets colder
(07:26):
there than it does in Pittsburgh. And if he's washed
it doesn't matter. It's all irrelevant. It's all irrelevant if
he's washed up. Now. Meanwhile, we go now to La
La Land. I was reading. I don't know if you
saw this or not. Former Steeler and current La Charge
(07:47):
show me your lightning bolt running back Najie Harris suffered
an eye injury. There was a firework mishap the way
it's being described on the fourth of July. This happened
last week. Some reports came out on the internet, and
I was I was informed of this actually a couple
(08:11):
of days back, and it wasn't from a reliable source,
so I chose not to go with it. But his
agent now has come out and claimed that it's just
a superficial injury, and Harris is expected to be on
the field for the start of the NFL regular season.
So question, what is your appraisal of Charger running back
(08:35):
Nase Harris, former Steeler his eye injury which is being
called superficial from the agent on a fourth of July
fireworks show gone bad. So my appraisal of this, as
we parsed the words watch out for the gas man
(08:56):
er go gas lighting. This sounds like gas lighting. That
is where you say one thing or you do one
thing and you claim the opposite happened, Like, for example,
you really f up your eye, but you claim it's
just a superficial injury. Now that's my opinion. I don't
know whether or not the injury is just superficial or
(09:18):
if it's worse than that. But I do know that
the agent for Najie Harris has a financial stake in this.
He's got skin in the game, so he would be
financially motivated to sugarcoat things. Now, the whispers out of
I believes happened in the Bay Area. The whispers are
that it was not just superficial, that it was actually
(09:40):
worse than that. Now how bad is it? We don't know.
Multiple people were injured by the kaboom gone bad at
the fourth of July fireworks show. And the reason I'm
skeptical that this was just a minor, superficial thing. We
are told that Naji Harris went to not one, but
(10:02):
two different hospitals to seek treatment. So if it was
just a minor thing, why would you need to go
to another hospital? Does that sound like a superficial type situation?
It does not to me. It does not to me.
Right now, you need to at all times protect the bag.
Don't blow the bag up. You got to protect the back,
(10:25):
even a relatively small back. Now, Nase Harris, his career
is at a bit of a crossroads. He got a
lot of years where you got a thousand yards. That's
not really that impressive, it isn't It used to be
impressive when they played fourteen games. When they play seventeen game, eh,
you know. And the biggest knock on Naji Harris is
(10:48):
he is someone that does not have breakaway speed. He
had it in college, but he's a lumbering, plotting running back.
He does not get the home run. So he left Pittsburgh.
They didn't want him back. He goes out to La
hasn't even played a game for the Chargers, and he's
already hurt or will even be on the Chargers now
(11:10):
if you thought, if you thought he couldn't see the
gap when he was with the Steelers, now he's got
an eye injury. Just wait, what's gonna happen if his
eyes messed up? And so let me lay this out
for you, point by point. I'm gonna explain this to
you like you're five years old. So as we understand it,
(11:30):
the boiler plate NFL contract contains a clause and there's
a couple of clauses in there the standard NFL contract
that could indirectly apply to dangerous or reckless behavior such
as using fireworks that aren't safe and sane being put
(11:54):
in risk of injury where you might have an eye
all messed up. Now, Harris signed a one year deal
and it was for a relative nominal fee of money.
But if I got this amount of money, I would
be very very very happy. Five point two million, which
makes him easily expendable for Jim Harbaugh's Chargers. That's nothing.
(12:21):
Chargers drafted are running back if that rookie running backs
as good as advertised, and if Najie Harris is as
messed up as some on the internet are saying, and
they'll likely work out some kind of buyout. Not that
you really have to spend that much to get rid
of the former Pittsburgh still the running back. Now, final thought,
(12:42):
Our next stop the White House. That's right, the Harbaws.
We just mentioned Jim Harball, So Jim Harball was not
available for comment. He went to Washington. Both Harball's Jim
and John Harbaugh, visited the White House. President Donald Trump
invited the two NFL head coaches, the brothers, to visit.
(13:07):
Now nobody seems to know why. There was no reason
given for the invitation. You know, the Chargers coach, the
Ravens coach. They get together there. They have training camp.
The Chargers training camp starts next week. But it didn't matter, right,
This was pretty much of a nine story. It was
a White House pool reporter, political reporter who said, well,
(13:27):
these two guys were there, and okay, people visit the
White House all the time. What happened? What do you
think happened? Oh yeah, oh yeah, alarm, alarm, alarm. Factions
of the NFL media. They they sounded the alarms, all
hands on deck, furious with the harball boys, furious question,
(13:53):
what did you make of this part of the story?
What do you make of the NFL media? A good
number of them apparently triggered because Jim and John Harbaugh
visited President Trump at the White House. So this was
as predictable as broccoli being the last thing left on
(14:14):
the plate of a child. Right, the Harbaws are not demandings,
but in coaching their football royalty, right, leaders of men,
high profile people in sports, who were invited to speak
with a sitting president and the White House. I thought
it was the people's house, right, the White House the
(14:36):
people's house in our lives. But things like this have
always happened. It's it's a gesture of respect, and it's
happened with presidents like Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama. It's not controversial.
It's not this is There are other things that are controversial.
This is not controversial. When you combine and I get
it right, When you combine President Trump, NFL media, NFL coaches,
(15:01):
you put all this together, it's like mixing clorox, bleach
and ammonia. It's a highly combustible situation. And so you
set off this moral high ground fire drill thing like
how dare the Harball brothers?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I like them? I don't like them anymore. And it's
like some of these scribes they want to sanction the
Harba guys, like they want to re educate them. What
are you doing? This is absurd. You're gonna lose the
locker room. You didn't commit a crime. There was no
crime committed. They didn't even as far as I know,
they didn't speak to the media. They did an issue
a statement. They brought their families to the White House,
(15:39):
say hey, we will walk around the White House. How
cool is that? They talked some football and they left right,
that's it doesn't matter. There are some in the media,
the football media, who are like, oh, that's unacceptable. That
is unacceptable, because many in the NFL media they're they're like, you,
(16:00):
you shouldn't just be a coach. You've got to conform
to what I believe in and my worldview and all
that stuff. So not a shocking fact that people would
be upset in the media about the Harbaugh guys going
to the White House. I just thought it was amusing.
I saw a couple of stories and I was like, really,
you're gonna get all worked up into a tizzy about that,
Like it'd be one thing if they had a news
(16:21):
conference and they were given some speech, but they didn't
do that. You know, they just went showed up and
nobody would have even known if a pool reporter hadn't
mentioned it. It is the Ben Malor Show. If you'd
like to be part you can join us right now
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight
seven seven nine nine six six three six. Now we
(16:44):
do have the Mallor Paloosa. The Malor Paloza is coming
up a week from Sunday night, one week from Sunday
night into Monday on the overnight and that is the
talent show, the greatest demand of the summer, and it'll
be coming up here. So if you'd like to be
part of it, there are slots available. Calls up, let
(17:04):
us know, send an email to the show Ben Malershow
at gmail dot com and we will put you on there.
And there are legit like the legit prizes. I mean,
this is not through Fox Sports Radio, so it's a listener.
Another listener, Mister Irrigation is a big fan of the show,
a super fan and he's very talented at making. I
(17:26):
don't know, it's like it's like jewelry, it's not. It
depends what is valuable what is not valuable. But it's
a pretty cool thing. We'll tell you more about it
as we get closer to it. So if you want
to enter, if you have a song parody, if you
want to do your own original song that is not
a parody, whatever it is, tell jokes, do impersonations, whatever
(17:47):
your skill is. The Malardpalooza a week from Sunday. It's
gonna be a fun night, lot of entertainment. Cannot wait,
cannot wait for that time. Now though, time for you
know what time? That's right, you know the clock. Good
job by you. The Malor Riddle of the day, and
here it is, Actor Hugh Grant. Actor Hugh Grant was
(18:11):
criticized for blanking in the Wimbledon Royal Box. Now remember
you gotta keep it clean people, you got I mean,
it's a family show. There's a lot of families listening
four in the morning on the East Coast anyway. Actor
Hugh Grant was criticized for blank in the Wimbledon Royal Box.
(18:38):
That is the malor Riddle of the day the answer,
We'll get to it, and we will.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Next.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Hey, what's up everybody?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
It's me three time provo LeVar Arrington and I couldn't
be more excited to announce a podcast called Up on Game?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
What is Up on Game?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
You ass along with my fellow pro bowler TJ. Huschman
Zada and Super Bowl champion Yup. That's right, Plexico Buruts.
You can only name a show with that type of
talent on it. Up on Game We're going to be
sharing our real life experiences loaded with teachable moments. Listen
to Up on Game with Me, LeVar Arrington, TJ. Hutschman Zada,
(19:29):
and Plexico Burrs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or
wherever you get your podcasts from.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Bill Miller and you, It's The Ben Malor Show. We're
up all night, every single night podcast, every day fifth
hour podcast be coming to you this weekend. New episode
drops later today and then another one will pop up
on Saturday and Sunday. Every day. Audience, Yes, it's amazing.
(20:05):
I know if you want to be part of the
original recipe show you're listening to right now the og
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven
seven nine nine six six three sixty nine on X
at Ben Mallord. It's at Ben Mahlor. Can also say
(20:30):
hello to Lorena FSR, Tech Queen and Coop at a
Bronco fan Your comments can and we'll be used against
you in the court of sports radio. Boy boy, act accordingly,
you must act accordingly. And now back to it all right,
(20:55):
back to it we go. Time now for the malor
riddle of the day, and here it is. Actor Hugh
Grant was criticized for blank in Wimbledon's famous Royal Box.
What's in the box? That's where the royals, not the
Kansas City Royals, the actual royals hang out. They don't
(21:19):
have any power in England, but it's a ceremonial thing.
Bobby in Florida says he was docking, is what he's saying.
He was criticized for mooning the chair umpire according to
Ocho texto, smiling from Ferg dog Okay Luke Luke, the
ending guy says, using vegetable oil to saute spinach and
(21:42):
garlic instead of avocado oil. Pretty funny, King Rory says,
enjoying Sonic's new big dill meal. That's the pickle thing now,
I think that's good. Who else do we have? Page down?
Alf the Alien Opiners says he was criticized for sending
(22:03):
memes to Justin in Cincinnati. All right, Milkman Mike in
Colorado says he was doing the same thing he does
when blind Scott calls in. That's from the Milkman. I
forty n sys Hugh Grant was caught begging Elizabeth Hurley
to take him back in the Royal Box. Who else
(22:25):
do we have a page down? He was criticized for
shopping on the Sunset Strip reciting Shakespeare's Hamlet in Russia
from William the last one I read beforeunately, that is
pretty good. Good good answer by William Mason and hunting
beach at the Sunset Strip line. Who else do we have?
Atomic asphalt? Got it right? That's no fun. Planking from
(22:45):
the clam accused of misogyny from Robbie the Mariner fan
t bowing from Fudgie in Boston. That's pretty funny. I
bet you people did. I don't even know what t
bowing is. It's been been Bennett since that happened. What
else to a page down? All right, let's see here.
Do you have an answer? Mister irrigation said he made
(23:06):
a cup of tea or something like that. Do you
have an answer?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I think I think he got I think it's because
he was clipping his toenails, clipping stones. That would that'd
be bad to do with the box, right, what's in
the box? Now? Yeah, we can't do that in wround
the royal family. But it turns out former long ago
Hollywood star now he's old. Hugh Grant criticized for napping.
(23:33):
He took a nap at Wimbledon's Royal Box. There's video
of Hugh Grant falling asleep while he is seated behind
the Queen. He's sitting behind the queen and he falls,
Your majesty, that's great. He must have had it quite
(23:56):
the night before, right, I have to be out here
when there's daytime. Ten. I'm trying to recover. Oh that's great. Uh,
supermarket Steve says. When I was a kid, Ben, I
used to eat my broccoli first, so I can enjoy
the rest of my meal. I guess I'm just weird
like that, or not a fat ass like you were. Yeah,
you are weird, Supermarket Steve. You've proved that on a
(24:19):
daily basis. You were absolutely weird. We had some other
good answers we didn't get to from Attillo and JT.
The Wingman. A few other guys had some pretty funny
answers Chris and Kentucky. We didn't We couldn't read everyone's answer,
but we do have time to take some calls here,
and let's take advantage of that time that we have.
And eenie meenie miney moll, let's say hello to Tony
in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony, welcome.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
David Vasse blank my blank and blank you.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
O.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Thank gosh, that was beautifully done. Yeah, it's Tony excited that.
I don't know it's Vasse going to be in San
Francisco this weekend. I know the Dodgers are in San Francisco.
I don't know if I say one on the road trip,
I don't know if he's there or not. But are
there any slides? He might not go If there's slides
in San Francisco, will probably avoid that. He's got I
know in Milwaukee he will he didn't go to Milwaukee.
(25:07):
So what else do you have? Page down? Let's see here,
Let's go to Jed who fled in the Great State
of Florida. Hello, Jed who fled?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Isn't weed man hippies named blank? So I'm not sure
how big of a compliment that is part of it?
What kind of cage girl level stys are you pulling
with his mouth to lose the prize stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Dude?
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Man impressed?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
But is it? I mean it is when I.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Waited and one time in the time I see this guy
was like, if you sell the most amount of subject.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
You're gonna get a price toy Yoda. People worked hard
all of a sudden, so prize day, the girl gets
a small green for card, gets a toy Yoda. He
gets it's pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
So does he get to that? How prized?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Well, it's not your art, all right, Calm down. This
is not something through Fox Sports Radio. This is not
from the company. This is something that mister irrigation came
up with. I've seen photos of I know, I know
what the.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Fox says on that that regard probably very much nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, I just want to make sure because I know
the legal people here, the lawyers will not want you
can't do anything away. We're not We're not technically giving
it away. It's a listener is providing it. Uh. And
he's you know, he's just he's a fan of the
show and he wanted us to have this for for
people to get.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
So why has no one This guy with Alan Roberson
has like the face of an artificial intelligence company and
I the only one to see people are missing out
on that. Also, and in order to amount of color,
seemed to be very worried about the umpire revolution going
come forward. You ecluded a little bit, but I mean
how Altin's like Ben Now he's a double in the gap,
(26:51):
Justin Cooper gonna call score from first. Yes, that's gonna
be so gridedy man, it's gonna be awesome. Imagine like
a one robot part coming in from second trying to
stop you know, the Loup Panella guy trying.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
To steal the base and all that, and they're just
so good.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
They got a base, they're replacing baby base, and I
mean would be I don't know what you do you
think you're not old it's opstable drive their joints.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So I hold on, hold on there, I had an idea. Okay,
so I think that baseball if they run, I want
to run. I want to run this bike. Will you
I want you to be the person I run this bike.
Do you want to do that or no?
Speaker 7 (27:31):
I'll yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Okay, all right, So baseball really is into robots. Rob
Mann fraud loves robots. So why not honor the great
robots and entertainment? Like they could have one of the
umpires look like C three p O they can have.
Optimist Prime could be one of the umpires. They can have.
How nine thousand can be out there? Like, just get
all the famous robots Rosie from remember Rosie from the Jetsons.
(27:57):
If you're old, you know who that is. Like, get
all the great robots out there as umpires. Just embrace
fully embrace all of the robots over the years.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
What say you, Jed, I was addicted by George or
that big It'd be better maybe.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
George Jetson meet George Jetson.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Yes, listen, what about friving robot when you like smelling
chefs with tobacco or something.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Now, let me ask you this is the tin Man
a robot? Is that technically a robot? The tin Man
from the Wizard of Oz is that a robot?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Or no, let's go with three require our first reman
congratulates you earlier on the having an idea, Welcome to club.
The second thing, gang, I was, yes, I could dang.
The third thing hit me with it again, dude, that
was so that was so good. I thought, well, all right, you.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Were doing so well and then you you were attack.
How about R two D two is one of the
umpire R two R two depot R two D two
would be like a really good home plate umpire right,
really maybe a little too small, but I think it's
pretty good. I think pretty good. You know, meaty fat
robot is R two D two is the fat one, right,
the little short one. Yeah, he's the white and blue one.
(29:09):
I think, yeah, the white and blue one. And see
three pos the gold one. Interesting. I think it's I'm
a marketing guy. I don't think he liked that very much.
I feel like you didn't like that yet.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Yes, I'm a more fan of the word t h.
I is this as opposed to that? Because it's like this,
not like that, and like this and I think they
should be equality. But you equal treatments. Well, I don't
give to ask about those dudes, so to.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Win, how about the terminator? How about we bring this,
How about the terminator? That'd be a good play. Nobody
would fight with the.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Terminator if you were you, if you're trying to get fired, dude.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Dude, I'm trying. I'm trying to say, you know how
hard it is I think of robots. I can only
think of so many freaking robots and movies. I don't
even watch movies. All my references are fifty years old.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
What do I know how hard it is? I know
how hard it is when you think of robots. That's
a very very personal question, man, I fern I thinking
about it. But I mean it's sure like it's metallic
steel hard. You know what I'm saying, Like blue steel,
Blue's good.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
That's good, dude, Okay, all right, all right. The gentleman
from Florida has used this a lot of time. The
gentleman from Florida's uses a lot of time. Let's go
to Mike the Leprechaun, Lorena's favorite Mike the Leprechaun, who
got me in trouble with management. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
I walked along?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Would I be a good Empire baseball Empire? Am I
too tall and too short?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Let's see? Would you be a good umpire? Well you
only wear green umpires were blue, so you wouldn't be
able to be an umpire.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I could put on a different chart, but I haven't
a teacher, so I have to be there and my.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Dad, how does how does it feel Mike that when
when you say you're a teacher, I get email? He
was never a teacher. He's lying, he was never a teacher.
There's no teacher like that, you know.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yeah, Well I'm fun and I talked to forty years
and that's a fact. Anyway, did you pack along my
playlist to a railers?
Speaker 6 (31:04):
I gave you a past you did?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Did you get me?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Oh you know I have it's in my No, no
it's not, it's in my bag. I have not. I
have to. You gave me a bunch of stuff. I
only I gave them the gift cards and stuff. And
there's other there's other stuff like candy LORAINI you want
candy from the Leprechaun?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
You want?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
He's got gold coins? Is he? Trying to get me
in the back of his van. Ben, No, I'm not
would you like candy from this stranger who smells like
and got us in trouble.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
With the management.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I don't want to get accuse the abuse. So no, no,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
No the leprecaun. When I, when I, when I, when
I met you, you didn't smell like sun block. There
are people saying that you smelled like sun like blo
oh you do.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
I did.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Maybe my nose doesn't work. I didn't smell that. People
were saying you smelled like sun like sunscreen stuff.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
I was like, okay, by the way, Ben, two things.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Did you look up? The tunnel collapse but they all survived.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I did. I did see uh. I don't know where
that is, but I saw the story. I saw the
headline on that.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yes, it's basically a big story. But your studio is beautiful,
and I do want to give you a huge compliment.
Your level of preparation, which you shortly is off the charte.
People don't realize that. I'm sure it's right.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
They don't appreciate, they don't understand, Mike. They think I
roll in here a minute before the show and I
just turned the mic on. That's not how it works, No, ip.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
With a I showed up with a kitboard, right and
a bunch of things you had.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
You had a bunch of notes, and now, Mike, you
need to use I'm still waiting to hear about that
big announcement. So I'm waiting. I'm still hanging in the
wind here. So I need you to use I need
you to use the leprechaun powers to make sure that happens.
Then we'll do a mallord meet and greet in in Worcester. Right, yeah,
all right, alright, I gotta go, I gotta go, thank you,
(33:03):
all right. I don't have time for the final comment
because Jed who fled called back because he wants to
cash a golden ticket. He's gonna waste a golden ticket, Hello,
Jed who fled.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
I'm trying to stay around the house and be relatively responsible,
even though I'm large to it. I help my father
who's almost ninety, my sisters. The phone call intew moments
ago comes out, What.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
In the hell do you do?
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Would be a loud of the yard belt. What's going on?
So I don't know. I kind of stumble and sputter
a little bit. It might might be helpful. I'm okay,
calling al the cars. Maybe a good excuse come like
daylight would be helpful. Uh, I really don't know what
because I was surevel with Zuber. How's your fault? Man?
Speaker 6 (33:42):
That's this day?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
May have it?
Speaker 7 (33:43):
May I come like unraveled because I've been I've kept
Jedi paltt and the real Jed world separate for a
long time.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
All right, hold on, so let me go to my
my Rosetta Stone, my lorrainast. What did he say, Lorene?
I could not understand that would something not being separate? Ben? Okay,
I did hear the part about your dad. Make sure
you take care of Jed. I know you're a bit
of a loser, but take care of your dad, all right.
You know that's great your dad big you're probably the
(34:11):
you're the the U, the ugly redheaded StepShot. But just
take care of your dad. That's all. Appreciate the days
your dad has left.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I thought I gotta go thank you right there? You
go burned a golden ticket for that big Bend's lame jokes.
Do we have Wheed Man? Is he there all right?
Could he's there? So Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week,
and weed Man has a chance to win another ring
if he ends up entering the Talent Show. We'll see
if he's going to enter the Talent Show, we'll get
to Big Ben's lame jokes of the Week. We'll do
(34:40):
it next.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
We're up all night, every single night, whether you like
it or not, whether you listen or not, We're here.
We're here. We live in the magic radio box, as
weed Man likes to say. And you can stream this
show and all the Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty
(35:10):
four to seven in the new and improved iHeart Radio app.
Just search Fox Sports Radio on the app. You can
stream us live at alf the Alien, Opiner and Ferg
Dog and Terry and England. They were all listening. I
did a fill in show locally in La me Bill
Miller and Ben Maller and they listen on the iHeartRadio app.
And one of the newest features in the app, you
(35:31):
can select Fox Sports Radio the Ben Mahler Show, The
Fifth Hour Podcast, a new episode dropping today as some
of your presets, just like the presets on a car
radio dial, So be sure to preset Fox Sports Radio,
Ben Maler Show, Fifth Hour Podcast, the iHeartRadio app. It
will always pop up at the top of your screen.
(35:56):
Knock knock, who's there? Blame week, Blame we too. Lame
joke of the week, Let's do it lame jokes. These
are actual jokes by actual listeners, sent in care of
Benmahlor Show at gmail dot com. At Benmallorshow at gmail
dot com. The comedy club has open every Friday at
(36:16):
this time when our bosses are sleeping. Weed Man Hippie
has been my hole, hurt, hoh horts, unpaid, underappreciated. He
does it for the love of radio. Did you ever
think you'd have your own weekly bit on the radio
weed Man back in the day?
Speaker 7 (36:33):
No, I love you, Ben, hurting Miss irrigation. Please send
me another ding.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Okay, yeah, he's already beggy, he's already begging. All right,
I'm sure he'll take care of you. But you you
can also enter the Malor Palooza and win one. You
could do that. You could do that, all right, let's
get to.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
The butt for I know, jndy wy it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Eye low yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Well you
you lost it because you had a hoarding problem. Anyway,
here we go here, yes, all right? Have you cleaned
up your actors? Your place a mess? Now? No? Not
pretty great? It's not bad? Okay, good, okay? Well these
are actual jokes by actually lists. What is the difference
between David Vasse and weed Man after bouncing off a wall?
(37:17):
What weed Man wouldn't roll around crying like a little
girl to the favorite? What is weed Man's favorite part
of the football field? What the hash marks big fan of?
That's Dan Dan in South Carolina. Why does weed Man
avoid atm machines?
Speaker 7 (37:39):
Why?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Well, besides being broke, he's terrible at withdrawals. That's Drew
in Minnesota. All right, Uh, what do you call it
when you see weed Man having an unfortunate seizure in
the bathtub? What what do you do? Well? You throw?
Are you throwing a load of his laundry? Is what
(38:01):
you do if you see that in the batub? But yeah,
did you hear that? Weed Man's call for love? Advice
to Lorena Earlier this week, hear about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well a lot of people missed it. But she told
weed Man the meeting with his parole officer and social
worker at the same time was not actually a thropple.
(38:24):
That's a Joe in Virginia Beach there, Thank you Joe.
What did Lisa? What did Lisa do when weed Man
fell off a boat? What she drove the boat away?
Is what?
Speaker 5 (38:41):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Eric?
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
In Kansas, it's the Big Ben's lame jokes. A week,
Eric sent another one. Did you hear that weed Man?
Weed Man is starting a new magazine dedicated to the homeless?
Speaker 7 (38:54):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Cool? Yeah, yeah, it's a big deal. It's called no
Homes and sleeping in gardens is what it's called. That's
not that's not nice. What do blind Scott and weed
Man have in common? What they don't work and are
really obnoxious? That's Eric again, like that Big Ben's lame
(39:19):
jokes of the week. What does poppy have in common
with a poppy seed?
Speaker 7 (39:24):
What?
Speaker 6 (39:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
They can both make you positive on a drug test.
That's true in Minnesota, Rob and the three two one sentence.
What does Shane and des Moine and the scent of
a new car have in common? What nothing. People will
always love the smell of a new car. There you
go are Did you hear that Blind Scott asked out
(39:51):
a girl in braille?
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, she left him on felt is what? That's uh?
That's Noah in Austin. What did I say to Mike
the Leprecaun when he said he listens to every episode
of the Ben Malors Show? What I said? I respect
that Irish spec guy surfer Todd the comedian? What does
(40:19):
P Diddy? What does p? Did he say he will
do as soon as he gets out of prison?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Well? He didn't get into specifics, but he said he
has big plans for the weekend, is what he said?
There's uh? S Todd comedian. H Let's see what do
we have here? What do you call an extortion attempt
from Mike the Leprecaun? What a shamrock shakedown? Is? What
you call it?
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Air?
Speaker 7 (40:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
What? What does Loraina and the FSR Security Yard have
in common? What they both don't have the time of
day for leprecauns. That's Mike the Leprecaun. Why Why shouldn't
Blind Scott be allowed to drive a forklift at Costco?
Speaker 5 (41:05):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Why he might run over Loraina and hollering James at
the food court and on their blind date. All right,
thank you. That's Mike as well, Thank you weed Man.
All Right, there you go.
Host
Ben Maller
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.