September 18, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jaguars WR Brian Thomas Jr. being scared of getting hit, but QB Trevor Lawrence is not concerned, Kyler Murray giving tribute to Michael Vick's dog fighting, Cam Ward complaining about the Titans' turf field, #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka Laca. It's our numbber three, our number three,
and we head now to Jacksonville, Florida. Why we go
where the stories of the day take us? On this Thursday,
the eighteenth day of September. Jacksonville wide receiver Brian Thomas
Junior has been scared, has been scared of getting hit
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this season. And quarterback Trevor Lawrence, though, is not concerned.
Make it make sense. Also, give me your reaction to
Carolina check that Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray's tribute to Michael
Vick's dogfighting. You gotta hear this one. And does cam
Ward have a case here? Do cam Ward's complaints about
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the Titans field turf resonate with you? He complained, he's
not fair they play on turf there in Nashville. We'll
talk about that as well. Also ask Ben this hour
settle in. It's our number read. Nothing to see here?
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And then we'll have another episode, a longer, longated episode
later today. But our lead this hour, we start out
we go with the news of the day takes as
we start on Jacksonville. And this I follow up to
a story we talked about earlier this week, the shocking
Internet sleuth videos which show and NFL wide receivers malfeasons
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as he pulled up on several catchuple passes look like
he was afraid of contact. That would be wide receiver
Brian Thomas Junior. Well, I bring this up because the
Jaguars long haired quarterback Trevor Lawrence has chimed in on
Brian Thomas Junior and his to be kind struggles earlier
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this season. So did you hear what he had to say?
Perhaps not? We have the audio tape. Here's Trevor Lawrence
giving his take on what many are talking about. This
guy was one of the top receivers in football last year,
Brian Thomas Junior. And this guy is just he stinks
right now, here's his quarterback.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It's football. I mean, it just it doesn't always go perfect.
You know. Obviously we would love to start off hot.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
These first two games and our connection be you know,
ripping and me finding them everywhere and him having a
great year and all those things. But I mean we're
in a week two everybody, so I think we can
all just take a deep breath, give beat a little space.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know, he's he's going to be just fine. Not
worried about him at all.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Okay, if Trevor Lawrence said it, he's got such a
great track record, it must be true. So let us
discuss the question as you just are. Jags wide receiver
Brian Thomas Junior has been scared of getting hit this
season based on clip after clip after clip, but you
just heard quarterback Trevor Lawrence says he's not concerned. Make
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it make sense. That's what we do. We make it
make sense. So I've got waffle House, Nirvana, and Home Depot,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some delicious, absolutely wonderful pancakes,
is what we're gonna make. So, and then we'll have
a side of Baba Ganooshe. We'll have a side of boush.
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So my first thought on this when I hear the
quote from Trevor Lawrence, it's football. We need to make
that a drop, Lorena. We need to make that a drop,
because that is the most ridiculous thing. It reminds me
I used to work with this guy named Tom Looney
and we would mock the jock talk and anything that
would happen. It's the perfect answer, literally, anything that happened,
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it's football. It's fumble, fumble three times, it's football. Throw
five interceptions in the game. It's football. It's all football.
So I could do the simping if anything you ask me,
it's talk radio. It's talk radio. How dumb is It's football?
It's football. Now, this story is bananas. Brian Thomas Junior
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is out there playing peekaboo football. Who plays peekaboo football
past the age of I don't know twelve peekaboo football,
afraid to get hit. Trevor Lawrence is mister camm and
soothing and everything will be fine. It's football now. That
answer is consistent with the brand of the quarterback. Trevor
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Lawrence ought to open up a waffle house. He can
add a new item to the menu. He can serve
milk toast. Right. That is how he plays and answers questions.
He could walk into his pressers. He might as well
walk into his pressers and just have a plate of
hash browns, no salt, no pepper, no seasoning, and not
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even cook that well. Kind of runny hash browns. That
is Trevor Lawrence smothered and covered with cliches. That's how
he operates now. And the of course the meat head fanboys.
Oh they love it. Oh man, they slurp it up.
Sliper sniper sniper sniper sniper sliper, they love it. That's leadership, bro,
He's got the guys back. No, that is not leadership.
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Leadership is accountability. Trevor Lawrence with his smooth flowing locks. Right.
He gives an answer which is smooth, an excuse which
is smooth. He has more conditioner right in the Jags
locker room than accountability. He's got it right. I recommend
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the love boat. I say, go on the law boat
and give Thomas tough love. It's a tough love cruise.
Tough love love boat is what it is. There's a
big difference between doesn't always go perfect, which is what
Trevor Lawrence said to being flat out a scaredy cat
to get it. I don't know what happened. He was
not like this last year. I don't believe based on
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my investigations. Brian Thomas Junior. But you deserve better than that.
You don't sugarcoat that a real leader says, you've got
to do better, You've got to be better. You should
strive for greatest. If you're the number one pass catcher
and you're running from the grind, that does not bode well.
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That does not bode well for the Jacksonville football team. Now, meanwhile,
we make a short pit stop to Arizona where a
longtime nemesis of the Ben Maler Show is added again,
our old buddy, alligator Arms Murray. Kyler Murray has yet
again popped up in the sports talk radio blotter. He
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took down, took down a social media post on the
Gram on the Gram that went viral. Why did it
go viral? It included a photo of Kyler Murray wearing
a vintage Michael Vick Virginia Tech jersey, a classic piece
of sports memorabilia. That was not the problem. The problem
was Michael Vick was posing with his pit bulls while
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wearing the Michael Vick jersey. Hello, Hello, Yeah. And of
course he said that in no way, shape or form
do I condone animal cruelty or dogfighting. However, I don't
mind owning the jersey and hanging out with my pitbulls,
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which I believe Michael Vick was also using to dogfight.
Oh so question, give me your reaction to Cardinals quarterback
Kyler Murray the little Fella and his tribute to Michael
Vick's dog fighting. All right, So I absolutely love this.
So I saw it the other day and I was like,
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I thought it was AI. It was one of those
things like I know the guy's an idiot, but he's
not that dumb, right, I gave him the benefit of
the doubt. I should have known it was real. Like
I'm skeptical of so much of this stuff now, I'm like,
is that AI? That must be photoshop? That's not real.
But it was real, Like Kyle Kyler Murray is the
gamer quarterback, showing once again that higher income, higher income
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does not mean higher IQ. Like, that's not a Halloween costume.
That is a pr landmine. That is a self inflicted
mistake is what that is. Unforced error is what they
call it in tennis. And there you go, kaboom. It's
the kind of a thing where you see it and
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you think to yourself, like Kyler Murray and he's spitting
on the feet, does this guy have enough sense to
spit down?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Win?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Like he really does the loogi come flying back in
your face? Evidently not. He doesn't have enough common sense.
Like Kyler's out there proving once again that if you
open up the drawer, he's not the sharpest knife in
the drawer. It's the Nirvana tune baby dumb, that old
Nirvana song dumb. If you look at him and you say,
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you know, come on man, you just look at he said,
come on man, how do you not know? Like you
have no common sense? Apparently you don't. What are you doing?
Kyler's got the joystick reflexes. He's very very good on
the games. Real world awareness, you know, nonexistent. He's he's
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like the kid in the arcade who can crush Mortal
Kombat and you ask him to cross the street and
he's standing there and he's kind of just doesn't know
what to do, and he's like wait for the frog
to hop and jump on the frog and all like
it's a trigger treat. Kyler, you just handed the Internet
the easiest l since Antonio Brown clicked send on anything
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all right, anything at all? Is he still living in Dubai?
By the way, do we know if Antonio Brown is
still in Dubai? So it reinforces the stereotype with this guy.
He loves video games more than football. He doesn't watch film,
doesn't study film, and he's in his own little bubble.
He'd be in a big bubble, but all he needs
is a little bubble and that's it. And then something
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like this happens and it's like, of course it happened,
Come on, of course it's Kyler Murray. The whole thing
just reeks of a guy with again, zero awareness at all.
Like to think like this just seems like a good idea.
Now that I pose for some photos here, some glamour shots,
I'll get my pit bulls out. What should I wear?
I'll wear that Michael Vick jersey. That seems like a
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good idea. It's like showing up to Octoberfest in Germany
and wearing a bud Light T shirt. Probably not the
greatest idea in the world. Right, It's not malicious, It's
just dumb, du dum, dumb dumb. It's Grade A dumb,
not Grade B, not great cee, Grade A dumb, du
dum dumb dumb. All right, Final five to Nashville we go.
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That's why Nashville, Tennessee, where Titans quarterback cam Ward is
not pleased, much to the chagrin of Danny in Nashville. Now,
cam Ward is not happy with the playing conditions in
his home stadium. You see, the Tennessee Titans have moved
their home games too. Let me check my notes here, Siberia.
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He's not happy about that unless they have it. Unless
I made that up. So cam Ward suggested that he
has some issues with the turf at the Titans home
stadium in Nashville. This comes after the Titans lost to
the Lrims. On one particular play, cam Ward was a
total klutz and slipped on the turf, leading to a
sack and game changing fumble that certainly helped the Rams
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out at that point in the game. Now Ward pointed
out that the well, let me play the audio. Here's
cam Ward explaining what he just doesn't understand the turf situation.
Take a list. Oh but I mean we practice on grass.
Why we don't play on grass? There you go, look
at that simple. We practiced on grass, playing again, playing again,
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plan again, playing again, play yet. Oh but I mean
we practiced on grass. Why we don't play on grass?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, to be fair, a lot of players in the
NFL do play on grass. That's a different conversation, all right,
So question, do cam Ward's complaints about the Titans turf
field resonate with you? This is the number one pick
in the NFL draft this year, So cam Ward, the
way I interpret this story, cam Ward wants you to
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believe his game changing fumble was the fault of the
turf monster, the green monster. That was the problem. The
man might as well go down to home depot and
file some kind of lawsuit because of the turf being defective,
the installation must have been wrong. Now, on the play
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in question, if you go back and watch the play,
cam Ward slipped, he face planted and gift wrapped the
ball to the Rams and said, listen, Sean McVay, I
know you hurt your foot. Here's a nice gift. I
hope you enjoy that. And the Rams cashed it in.
The Titans went on the death spiral after that. But
rather than take the l and just move on and
live to fight another day, cam decided, you know what,
(14:35):
out there, I'll go on the prowl And what are
you looking for? I'm looking for a goat, but not
the goat. I'm looking for a scapegoat is what I'm
looking for, like a nice scapegoat. Okay, we'll get your scapegoat.
Why not? So it appears that the Nashville grounds crew
is sabotaging cam Ward personally. They must have an axe
to grind with cam Ord. Now here's the inconvenient truth
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of the stadium in Nashville. It's called Nissan Stadium. They're
building a new stadium there and it'll be ready in
I think a couple more years. Here. So the field
was actually grass till twenty twenty three. So oh, why
did they change it? What a bunch of evil bastards?
Why did they change it? Well, the reason they changed
the field here's where it gets good because I remember
doing a monologue about this years ago. The players were
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bitching about the field when they had grass. The players
complained about the playing conditions. The field would become as
hard as a rock in the wintertime in Nashville. And
the Titans have explained that the environment, the climate in Nashville,
the geography there. They say it's a transitional climate zone.
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I don't know what that means. I'm not a weather man,
but from what I understand it, it makes the grass
difficult to grow, and the conditions are not ideal for that.
It's nearly impossible. They tried it, and players kept complaining
about it. There were divots the size of potholes. People
were getting hurt because of the field. The field was
getting showed up. They were people twisting and tearing ligaments
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and acls and all that, and so they finally said, Okay,
we got to put turf down, and here we are
a couple years later. Now the players are complaining, or
one of them anyway, complaining that they don't have grass now,
which is proof that no matter what you do, there
will be people that will complain no matter what. And
it's one of the great things about social media. I
have friends of mine that work in news, and I
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don't like them either, but I've known them for a
long I'm kidding, I've known them for a long time,
and they love social media because you always try to
find people that are kind of against something, and at
any time, no matter what, no matter what, there's always
one Yahoo who's out there that has to be a contrarian.
There's always at least one, and usually there's one hundreds,
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and some of them are real, some of them are
fake and all that. But here we go. The players
complained about the grass field, so the Titans switched it
to turf. Now we are a couple of years later,
and now they're complaining about that. And so overall the
NFL well is split down the middle. It's about half grass,
half term, half grass half turf. And you know what
doesn't change them. The Rams also played on that same field.
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I know it's gonna blow your mind. It shocked me too. Yeah,
the Rams played on the same field the Tennessee Titans
played on. It's rather amazing. And they weren't out there
wearing hiking boots. And Matthew Stafford fumbled as well. They
Rams recovered that fumble and cam Ward slipped. Was he
wearing ballet slippers while he was out there? I don't know.
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I don't know. It's the same floor for both sides.
It's a level playing field, literally, a level playing field.
So again, I cam Ward, his logic on this one
is straight out of the bag. Carpenters blame their tools.
I learned that one from just Josh and Cincinnati. He says, listen, Ben,
I'm a good carpenter and the bad carpenters blame their tools.
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That's the playbook right there, that's the playbook. It's also
a terrible look. NFL quarterbacks are supposed to eat blame.
Was talking about blame and all this stuff, not pass
it off like a Chinese takeout box of egg rolls
and dumplings. You know, you're not supposed to pass it
off like leftovers and cam word, he's showing highlights. I'm
not as giddy with excitement as the NFL marketing people
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that are trying to hype this guy up. It's got
too much of the the Michael Vick back in the
day where Michael Vick would electrify you for three or
four plays a game, and then the rest of the
game was often terrible. His name popped up here earlier
in the monologue. But kim Ord, there's something there, there's
something there. He's got stuff to clean up. And I
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would say, generally, you don't want to be the guy
blaming the floor. You don't want to be that guy.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. And if you'd like
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That'll be coming up a little bit later in the hour.
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Hashtag ask Ben. You can ask me he Ben Questions're
gonna ask Lorena and Coop. Ben and friends will have
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Queen Coop Bronco fans. Straight ahead we have instead of
right away, ass Ben, we have the always popular never
fails Riddle of the day. Here is the Mallard Riddle
of the day. So, after the Chicago Cups wrapped up
a playoff Berth, congratulations to the Cubbies. Are friends our
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listeners there in Chicago who love the Cubbies, and other
than Mark the Board Op who works at Fox Sports
Radio and Mike Harmon, I don't know any white Sox fans.
So after the Cubs wrapped up a playoff Berth, their
pitcher shotam Naga said he learned that with champagne, instead
of drinking it, you should blank again after it comes
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wrapped up a playoff berth. Their star pitcher Shotta Imanaga,
said that he learned that with champagne, instead of drinking it,
you should blank. That is the malord riddle of the day.
The answer, We'll get to it and we will.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Do it.
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Speaker 8 (22:14):
Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
All right, we'll pay off the riddle of the day
that'll be coming up here momentarily. Miss and I said,
there's always somebody on the other side. So this guy
Azuza Flynn writes, and he says, Ben, who cares about
Michael Vick and Kyler Murray? The story's like twenty years old.
He he left over dogs, which is disgusting. He did
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his time, he's done, he's out. I couldn't care less
about the stupid story. So a zuza, Flynn, I totally
get it. So what I need you to do is
send me an email every day on the stories you
want me to talk about, and I'll just do the
show for you. Flynn. I'll just do the show for you,
and you can pay my salary and then I'll be good.
So just let me know what you want me to
talk about, and then I'll just talk about those things.
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And whatever you don't want me to talk about, let
me know, and I won't talk about those things and
will be good, will be absolutely good. Anyway. Time now
for the Mallor riddle of the day. And here's the
Mallord riddle of the day. So after the Chicago Cubs
wrapped up a playoff birth, they had a celebration. The
picture one of the star pitchers showed to Emmanaga said
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he learned that with champagne, instead of drinking it, you
should blank, all right, Scrooge in Northern California who's from
the younger demo says, smoke the champagne. Yeah, Bobby and
Florida says two words champagne enema. Wow. Late night drug
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tester says, condition your hair with it always a good idea.
Ferg Dog says you should pour it down the drain
unless you want to end up like Justin and Cincinnati. Wow,
that's a that is a low blow. There you go.
Alf the Alien Opiner says, just like Jalen Carter, you
gotta spit that thing is what you gotta do. Gotta
(24:05):
do it, spit that just like the Hawk tour there.
Who else do we have, dude on that night? Yes,
Donkey sauce Ite says, put a treasure map in the bottle,
cork it back up and throw it in Lake Michigan. Absolutely,
who else do we have? Let's see some ask ben questions.
Which is coming up? That's not bad? Who else? Page down?
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By the way? Major promotion by the way from our
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the show on social media. It's wild. That's a tremendous job. Anyway.
Lady Sideburns says, you should Bob for apples in it.
Light it on fire from the Great inca Terror. Robbie,
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the Marina fan who's got the big Dumper on his mind,
says something about a butt hug with it. Who else?
Do we have a page down? Rub the champagne all
over your body with gabba ghul from Attillo in Florida
loves the gabba gul. In fact, we mostly say the
gobago because of him. Now we'd said it a little
bit and then he wanted more of it. Palm Desert
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rat checks in says, used the ice cold bubbly in
your bidet. That's one way to do it. Doug, who's
in Korea, says South Korea says you should soak fruits
for breakfast. Okay, let's see here, Lorena, do you have
an answer the Mallard riddle of day? After the Cubs
wrapped up a playoff berth there, star pitcher Shota Imanaga
(25:35):
said he learned that with champagne, instead of drinking it,
you should blank spray it all over the pretty women. Hello. Hello,
Well that's a great answer, but that's incorrect. Unfortunately. You
should absorb it in your with your skin, he said,
Absorb it with your skin, he said, it feels better. Yeah,
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Chota Inmanaga claim that, he said he They asked how
much champagne he had. He said probably about ten ten glasses,
but it was all absorbed through his skin, he said.
But I was lucky enough years ago I got to
go into those clubhouse champagne celebrations. Those things are awesome. Uh,
they're great, but the problem is all the players get
to shower and put on their regular clothes and stuff
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when they go home, but the media people we all
had to leave and we drive home smelling like alcohol.
So we were all like, we were all paranoid. If
we're gonna get pulled over, I mean, what are we
gonna say? You didn't well, I didn't drink, but you
smell like booze.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
You know, you anything to drink. You are literally covered in.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
No seriously, it was like a big problem. Was like
you drove really slow after those those things, because yeah,
it was a problematic for.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Sure, and great for the car poster either.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
No, well, I mean you try somewhat, but it's still
the smell is rather rather and they have to redo
the carpet in those clubhouses. They the other team, whoever celebrated.
I think about every time I see those champagne bottles popping.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I'm like those poor carpets.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
There's no way you get it gets it gets destroyed.
It does get destroyed. Absolutely. Yeh, all right, let's go
to the phone by the Tremaine got it right, but
he cheated. I think he sent me an email on that.
Let's say hello to Poppy in San Diego. Hello, Poppy,
mantor Ben Maller, beautiful night right here.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Everyone drives safe and San Diego's raining, Mentor you know,
so we're gonna be safe.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I saw that the remnants of some kind of Pacific
tropical storm thing. That's the Pacific, and.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
I have to be careful, you know, Mentor Ben Maller,
you know, because tomorrow we're I mean taken with Poppy
Verses and lepricrunning. You know, my grandma always told me, like, hey,
when it's raining or thunder, you know, you gotta unplug
everything in your house, like the CD and everything, thunder
construct or even using your cell phones or everything like that.
The fa out there people plug everything.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I'm not unplugging anything.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
I'm not. You don't believe in that? What do you
think I mean, that's what my grandma taught me.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You know what else did your grandma teacher?
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Oh, my grandma taught me a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You know that was a big influencing. Your grandma was
a nice woman. She taught you a lot. That's great.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
My grandma was a big influence on me. And you
know she always told me, you know'll never give up
on your dream. Beat for this then, and you know,
you know she's a very hard worker and I love her.
That's why we're gonna get the sticks tomorrow. We're gonna
do good. We're gonna bounce.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
So we have we have heard a blame.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
What was that? It's a tropical tropical store. Mario is,
Oh wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
But hey, we're gonna give her a pick. No matter
what rain or shine, it's not gonna stop us. I'm
gonna beat that.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
What what?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
What what happened last What happened last week? Poppy? I
gave you your opportunity, your own segment on the radio. I
turned my mic off. I went at I smoked a
cigarette and you didn't allow the leprechaun to make any picks?
What was that about?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
All that? Well?
Speaker 8 (29:04):
I thought you were like playing a game. But don't worry.
We're gonna have to Lepergond and we're gonna wait for
the Leper runs on on the segment.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You know you didn't you didn't do that well last week,
you didn't do that. Well, right, your picks didn't do
that well?
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Yeah, I went one and one and two. We're gonna
bounce back. That's not a winning percentage, but don't worry.
We're gonna we're gonna win back.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Then.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Now we're gonna make all the fans happy if you like.
People like betting against me. They were really happy they
made money.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Oh, I see you're using my stick. Now, I see
what you're doing, Poppy, I got you. Not as much
propaganda from the Padres. I'm not hearing as much Padre
propaganda hear from you.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
Well, hey, uh they bounced back, they did the event,
and hopefully they're gonna make the playoffs, you know, but
not a lot of propaganda. But hey, you know, we
gotta be nice and humble, work hard, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, all right, all right, very good. Anyway, Uh, there
you go, I thank you. I I hang up on you.
Let's go. Well, speak of the devil, he shall appear
or speak of the Leperkun. He s up here. Mike
the Leprecaun is next. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
I'm not Poppy. Poppy pick sucks, but anyways, Yes, so
tomorrow I'm going to pick the paths. For sure, they're
going to beat the Steelers. I'm not anybody giving his
pick today or is it Friday?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
I don't understand tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You know you're not. You're not allowed to give picture
right now. Yeah, you just ruined the whole bid.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Well no, but I'm picking the paths anyway.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You know what, that's just like Poppy picking the podres.
It's like the same time you just pick your local teams.
That what's the point of doing the bid?
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Theo is lose. But that's beside the points anyway, Lorna,
I have a new drought for you. You don't have
to have draft king and the crown is yours. This
should be you should be the draft queen. Yes, you
should be the top queen.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Anything else.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I'm also I'm I'm like a Romantes swede in my garden.
I keep coming back to your show Berry.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I know, I know you are. I will give you
credit because Mike the Leprecaun. You'd think after you almost
got me fired that that would have been a wake
up call. But no, no, you're still You're still fighting,
and we will we will do the malameing. I think
we're gonna have to push that back until twenty twenty six, unfortunately,
but we will do it, Poppy. We will be there.
(31:20):
We will be there, and we'll go. We gotta go
to like a WU Sox game or something like that.
How about that a WU Sox game.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
That'd be nice, right, Yeah, Benny, Sorry, Benny, you didn't
win an Emmy for Benny versus a Penny.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, I did not win an Emmy. I did get
fired though from that. Yeah, but it's on YouTube now.
I think you go away, all right, there's Mike the
Leprechaun there. Good dare you? David the Fried Daddy writes
in from Pennsylvania, says Ben, you are so critical of
teams that win. Jalen Hurts is definitely not a top quarterback,
but all he does is win, baby win. I am
(31:53):
not too sure about this game. The Rams have a
high flying offense. The Eagles will struggle to keep up,
says David. Well, this Ram Eagle game should come down
to the fourth quarter and the Rams defense. I'm actually
more excited about the Rams defense. I am the Rams
offense there so as far as that game is concerned,
(32:13):
but that I'm looking forward to. It's gonna be a
great game, hopefully not a dud. It's a letdown, if
there is such a thing, a letdown situation, that emotional
win for the Eagles laid against the Chiefs. Now they're
gonna come back and play the Rams. It is the
Ben Malor Show. Ask Ben for the rest of the
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It's now time for time for horry Ask Bed Twitter.
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Speaker 4 (34:00):
All right, we're gonna start off with the ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Hi Fergie.
Speaker 9 (34:05):
He wants to know who is your favorite late night host.
You don't have many to choose from anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, there's only one left, right, Kimmel's getting whacked, it
looks like, So.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
I'm gonna take this question more of a who is
your favorite late night time I think I was.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
A huge letterman guy back in the day. I love
David Letterman. I thought it was amazing. I was online
at the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan to see Letterman.
I got bumped from the audience. I'm still pissed about that.
But yeah, Letterman, what about you, Lorena, anybody late night TV?
You never watched when you were a little girl, never
watched late night TV? Okay, all right, cool.
Speaker 9 (34:43):
So I feel bad saying this because because you were
on with your buddy, because I.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Was on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
The Great j Leno. Yes, great funny mane Man.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
But Conan is by far my favorite late night host.
Really love Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Hilarious.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, I was always a Letterman guy back back in
the day. But I mean, I'm so old. When I
was a kid, my parents watch Johnny Carson. Yeah that's
how long that goes back. All right, what's next? Let's
ask Ben. Your questions are.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
Answers Donkey Sausage, and I imagine this question is just
for for you and me, Ben, Okay, but I mean
I don't know, you never know these days. Donkey Sausage
likes to know do you leave the toilet seat up?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Uh? Yeah, yeah, I usually do. I do. I'm not
gonna lie you would Ben.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Uh, Lorena, do.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
You leave.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
A couple of times?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Okay? Out cool?
Speaker 9 (35:45):
Uh No, I don't, but I will say this. I
am now to the point in my life where if
you don't have one of those, I don't know if
they call him like the soft closed toilet seats, I'm
kind of.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Like, oh man, what you know what? What cavemen?
Speaker 9 (36:02):
You got to have this soft toilets where it doesn't
slam like you you like you can put the toilet sea. Yes, yes, yes,
because now it's it's so easy closing. You just tap
it and then it closes by itself.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Okay anyway, Yeah, I've never really.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Thought much about it. It's just like, well, you just
I don't usually the main thing, like I don't usually
do it when I go to like out public bathrooms
because they're covered in I don't even know it's on
a toilet. It's like there's a bunch.
Speaker 9 (36:32):
Of oh yeah, no, that's a good No, I don't Yeah,
you're right, public bathroom is no boy, No.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I mean I use my mother to try to tap
it or something.
Speaker 9 (36:39):
It's like, yeah, all right, this ink of terror would
like to know I've met him.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
He's famous.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
Yeah, he says, after immigrating to the US, I grew
up in farm country. Have any of you had any
farm experience, milking cows, churning butter, shucking corn, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
No, nothing more than a day. I remember when I
was a kid, they brought cows to the school, like
element school. Yeah, you know they did that for your tea. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:09):
I don't know if I don't think like I was.
I think maybe like kids could have had like an
opportunity to milk the cow.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
But I was like, nah, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, I got up close to the cow, but I
didn't really, I wasn't in it. I like the meat,
you know, after the cows cut up. But Lorena, any
experienced farming for me? Man?
Speaker 4 (37:28):
I got all that country up in me. You know,
I've been around the horses and my goats and.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
From a small town in Oregon. Right, there's a lot
of farms out there, all the.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Cow pies you could ever want. I can't tell.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
You're just.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
All right anyway?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
What's next year? What do we have? You said, yes,
the school thing?
Speaker 9 (37:47):
Yeah, yeah, this one was just for you. It's another
one from Donkey sausage. This was just for you, Ben. Okay,
where did you learn baking from?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
You know?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
It's funy. My mom was a prolific baker when I
was a but I just ate what she made. I
just kind of started messing around with it about ten
years ago. I just a lot of YouTube videos and
I found some of my mom's old recimees after she
passed away. So I started making some of that stuff.
And so yeah, I found out my mom's cookies that
(38:17):
she made. I love was she just ripped off a
package of like Nestley chocolate chip things. She just ripped
it off. Anyway, it was good. That's my it. What's
the next quick way? Coop? What do we have?
Speaker 9 (38:29):
Let's see Bobby and Florida wants to know what's your
favorite fair food?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Oh? Giant corn dog Lorena. Oh it's so hard.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I think it's on new bean and she's ice cream cone.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Oh disgusting. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
Churros? Churros are okay?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
A corn dog? The corn dog the size of your
arm though. That's awesome. Yeah, it's pretty good.
Boom, shaka Laca. It's our numbber three, our number three,
and we head now to Jacksonville, Florida. Why we go
where the stories of the day take us? On this Thursday,
the eighteenth day of September. Jacksonville wide receiver Brian Thomas
Junior has been scared, has been scared of getting hit
(00:21):
this season. And quarterback Trevor Lawrence, though, is not concerned.
Make it make sense. Also, give me your reaction to
Carolina check that Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray's tribute to Michael
Vick's dogfighting. You gotta hear this one. And does cam
Ward have a case here? Do cam Ward's complaints about
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the Titans field turf resonate with you? He complained, he's
not fair they play on turf there in Nashville. We'll
talk about that as well. Also ask Ben this hour
settle in. It's our number read. Nothing to see here?
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And then we'll have another episode, a longer, longated episode
later today. But our lead this hour, we start out
we go with the news of the day takes as
we start on Jacksonville. And this I follow up to
a story we talked about earlier this week, the shocking
Internet sleuth videos which show and NFL wide receivers malfeasons
(02:58):
as he pulled up on several catchuple passes look like
he was afraid of contact. That would be wide receiver
Brian Thomas Junior. Well, I bring this up because the
Jaguars long haired quarterback Trevor Lawrence has chimed in on
Brian Thomas Junior and his to be kind struggles earlier
(03:21):
this season. So did you hear what he had to say?
Perhaps not? We have the audio tape. Here's Trevor Lawrence
giving his take on what many are talking about. This
guy was one of the top receivers in football last year,
Brian Thomas Junior. And this guy is just he stinks
right now, here's his quarterback.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It's football. I mean, it just it doesn't always go perfect.
You know. Obviously we would love to start off hot.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
These first two games and our connection be you know,
ripping and me finding them everywhere and him having a
great year and all those things. But I mean we're
in a week two everybody, so I think we can
all just take a deep breath, give beat a little space.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know, he's he's going to be just fine. Not
worried about him at all.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Okay, if Trevor Lawrence said it, he's got such a
great track record, it must be true. So let us
discuss the question as you just are. Jags wide receiver
Brian Thomas Junior has been scared of getting hit this
season based on clip after clip after clip, but you
just heard quarterback Trevor Lawrence says he's not concerned. Make
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it make sense. That's what we do. We make it
make sense. So I've got waffle House, Nirvana, and Home Depot,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some delicious, absolutely wonderful pancakes,
is what we're gonna make. So, and then we'll have
a side of Baba Ganooshe. We'll have a side of boush.
(04:42):
So my first thought on this when I hear the
quote from Trevor Lawrence, it's football. We need to make
that a drop, Lorena. We need to make that a drop,
because that is the most ridiculous thing. It reminds me
I used to work with this guy named Tom Looney
and we would mock the jock talk and anything that
would happen. It's the perfect answer, literally, anything that happened,
(05:05):
it's football. It's fumble, fumble three times, it's football. Throw
five interceptions in the game. It's football. It's all football.
So I could do the simping if anything you ask me,
it's talk radio. It's talk radio. How dumb is It's football?
It's football. Now, this story is bananas. Brian Thomas Junior
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is out there playing peekaboo football. Who plays peekaboo football
past the age of I don't know twelve peekaboo football,
afraid to get hit. Trevor Lawrence is mister camm and
soothing and everything will be fine. It's football now. That
answer is consistent with the brand of the quarterback. Trevor
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Lawrence ought to open up a waffle house. He can
add a new item to the menu. He can serve
milk toast. Right. That is how he plays and answers questions.
He could walk into his pressers. He might as well
walk into his pressers and just have a plate of
hash browns, no salt, no pepper, no seasoning, and not
(06:10):
even cook that well. Kind of runny hash browns. That
is Trevor Lawrence smothered and covered with cliches. That's how
he operates now. And the of course the meat head fanboys.
Oh they love it. Oh man, they slurp it up.
Sliper sniper sniper sniper sniper sliper, they love it. That's leadership, bro,
He's got the guys back. No, that is not leadership.
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Leadership is accountability. Trevor Lawrence with his smooth flowing locks. Right.
He gives an answer which is smooth, an excuse which
is smooth. He has more conditioner right in the Jags
locker room than accountability. He's got it right. I recommend
(06:57):
the love boat. I say, go on the law boat
and give Thomas tough love. It's a tough love cruise.
Tough love love boat is what it is. There's a
big difference between doesn't always go perfect, which is what
Trevor Lawrence said to being flat out a scaredy cat
to get it. I don't know what happened. He was
not like this last year. I don't believe based on
(07:20):
my investigations. Brian Thomas Junior. But you deserve better than that.
You don't sugarcoat that a real leader says, you've got
to do better, You've got to be better. You should
strive for greatest. If you're the number one pass catcher
and you're running from the grind, that does not bode well.
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That does not bode well for the Jacksonville football team. Now, meanwhile,
we make a short pit stop to Arizona where a
longtime nemesis of the Ben Maler Show is added again,
our old buddy, alligator Arms Murray. Kyler Murray has yet
again popped up in the sports talk radio blotter. He
(08:04):
took down, took down a social media post on the
Gram on the Gram that went viral. Why did it
go viral? It included a photo of Kyler Murray wearing
a vintage Michael Vick Virginia Tech jersey, a classic piece
of sports memorabilia. That was not the problem. The problem
was Michael Vick was posing with his pit bulls while
(08:30):
wearing the Michael Vick jersey. Hello, Hello, Yeah. And of
course he said that in no way, shape or form
do I condone animal cruelty or dogfighting. However, I don't
mind owning the jersey and hanging out with my pitbulls,
(08:50):
which I believe Michael Vick was also using to dogfight.
Oh so question, give me your reaction to Cardinals quarterback
Kyler Murray the little Fella and his tribute to Michael
Vick's dog fighting. All right, So I absolutely love this.
So I saw it the other day and I was like,
(09:11):
I thought it was AI. It was one of those
things like I know the guy's an idiot, but he's
not that dumb, right, I gave him the benefit of
the doubt. I should have known it was real. Like
I'm skeptical of so much of this stuff now, I'm like,
is that AI? That must be photoshop? That's not real.
But it was real, Like Kyle Kyler Murray is the
gamer quarterback, showing once again that higher income, higher income
(09:34):
does not mean higher IQ. Like, that's not a Halloween costume.
That is a pr landmine. That is a self inflicted
mistake is what that is. Unforced error is what they
call it in tennis. And there you go, kaboom. It's
the kind of a thing where you see it and
(09:55):
you think to yourself, like Kyler Murray and he's spitting
on the feet, does this guy have enough sense to
spit down?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Win?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Like he really does the loogi come flying back in
your face? Evidently not. He doesn't have enough common sense.
Like Kyler's out there proving once again that if you
open up the drawer, he's not the sharpest knife in
the drawer. It's the Nirvana tune baby dumb, that old
Nirvana song dumb. If you look at him and you say,
(10:28):
you know, come on man, you just look at he said,
come on man, how do you not know? Like you
have no common sense? Apparently you don't. What are you doing?
Kyler's got the joystick reflexes. He's very very good on
the games. Real world awareness, you know, nonexistent. He's he's
(10:50):
like the kid in the arcade who can crush Mortal
Kombat and you ask him to cross the street and
he's standing there and he's kind of just doesn't know
what to do, and he's like wait for the frog
to hop and jump on the frog and all like
it's a trigger treat. Kyler, you just handed the Internet
the easiest l since Antonio Brown clicked send on anything
(11:15):
all right, anything at all? Is he still living in Dubai?
By the way, do we know if Antonio Brown is
still in Dubai? So it reinforces the stereotype with this guy.
He loves video games more than football. He doesn't watch film,
doesn't study film, and he's in his own little bubble.
He'd be in a big bubble, but all he needs
is a little bubble and that's it. And then something
(11:35):
like this happens and it's like, of course it happened,
Come on, of course it's Kyler Murray. The whole thing
just reeks of a guy with again, zero awareness at all.
Like to think like this just seems like a good idea.
Now that I pose for some photos here, some glamour shots,
I'll get my pit bulls out. What should I wear?
I'll wear that Michael Vick jersey. That seems like a
(11:56):
good idea. It's like showing up to Octoberfest in Germany
and wearing a bud Light T shirt. Probably not the
greatest idea in the world. Right, It's not malicious, It's
just dumb, du dum, dumb dumb. It's Grade A dumb,
not Grade B, not great cee, Grade A dumb, du
dum dumb dumb. All right, Final five to Nashville we go.
(12:19):
That's why Nashville, Tennessee, where Titans quarterback cam Ward is
not pleased, much to the chagrin of Danny in Nashville. Now,
cam Ward is not happy with the playing conditions in
his home stadium. You see, the Tennessee Titans have moved
their home games too. Let me check my notes here, Siberia.
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He's not happy about that unless they have it. Unless
I made that up. So cam Ward suggested that he
has some issues with the turf at the Titans home
stadium in Nashville. This comes after the Titans lost to
the Lrims. On one particular play, cam Ward was a
total klutz and slipped on the turf, leading to a
sack and game changing fumble that certainly helped the Rams
(13:03):
out at that point in the game. Now Ward pointed
out that the well, let me play the audio. Here's
cam Ward explaining what he just doesn't understand the turf situation.
Take a list. Oh but I mean we practice on grass.
Why we don't play on grass? There you go, look
at that simple. We practiced on grass, playing again, playing again,
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plan again, playing again, play yet. Oh but I mean
we practiced on grass. Why we don't play on grass?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, to be fair, a lot of players in the
NFL do play on grass. That's a different conversation, all right,
So question, do cam Ward's complaints about the Titans turf
field resonate with you? This is the number one pick
in the NFL draft this year, So cam Ward, the
way I interpret this story, cam Ward wants you to
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believe his game changing fumble was the fault of the
turf monster, the green monster. That was the problem. The
man might as well go down to home depot and
file some kind of lawsuit because of the turf being defective,
the installation must have been wrong. Now, on the play
(14:14):
in question, if you go back and watch the play,
cam Ward slipped, he face planted and gift wrapped the
ball to the Rams and said, listen, Sean McVay, I
know you hurt your foot. Here's a nice gift. I
hope you enjoy that. And the Rams cashed it in.
The Titans went on the death spiral after that. But
rather than take the l and just move on and
live to fight another day, cam decided, you know what,
(14:35):
out there, I'll go on the prowl And what are
you looking for? I'm looking for a goat, but not
the goat. I'm looking for a scapegoat is what I'm
looking for, like a nice scapegoat. Okay, we'll get your scapegoat.
Why not? So it appears that the Nashville grounds crew
is sabotaging cam Ward personally. They must have an axe
to grind with cam Ord. Now here's the inconvenient truth
(14:58):
of the stadium in Nashville. It's called Nissan Stadium. They're
building a new stadium there and it'll be ready in
I think a couple more years. Here. So the field
was actually grass till twenty twenty three. So oh, why
did they change it? What a bunch of evil bastards?
Why did they change it? Well, the reason they changed
the field here's where it gets good because I remember
doing a monologue about this years ago. The players were
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bitching about the field when they had grass. The players
complained about the playing conditions. The field would become as
hard as a rock in the wintertime in Nashville. And
the Titans have explained that the environment, the climate in Nashville,
the geography there. They say it's a transitional climate zone.
(15:42):
I don't know what that means. I'm not a weather man,
but from what I understand it, it makes the grass
difficult to grow, and the conditions are not ideal for that.
It's nearly impossible. They tried it, and players kept complaining
about it. There were divots the size of potholes. People
were getting hurt because of the field. The field was
getting showed up. They were people twisting and tearing ligaments
(16:03):
and acls and all that, and so they finally said, Okay,
we got to put turf down, and here we are
a couple years later. Now the players are complaining, or
one of them anyway, complaining that they don't have grass now,
which is proof that no matter what you do, there
will be people that will complain no matter what. And
it's one of the great things about social media. I
have friends of mine that work in news, and I
(16:24):
don't like them either, but I've known them for a
long I'm kidding, I've known them for a long time,
and they love social media because you always try to
find people that are kind of against something, and at
any time, no matter what, no matter what, there's always
one Yahoo who's out there that has to be a contrarian.
There's always at least one, and usually there's one hundreds,
(16:45):
and some of them are real, some of them are
fake and all that. But here we go. The players
complained about the grass field, so the Titans switched it
to turf. Now we are a couple of years later,
and now they're complaining about that. And so overall the
NFL well is split down the middle. It's about half grass,
half term, half grass half turf. And you know what
doesn't change them. The Rams also played on that same field.
(17:09):
I know it's gonna blow your mind. It shocked me too. Yeah,
the Rams played on the same field the Tennessee Titans
played on. It's rather amazing. And they weren't out there
wearing hiking boots. And Matthew Stafford fumbled as well. They
Rams recovered that fumble and cam Ward slipped. Was he
wearing ballet slippers while he was out there? I don't know.
(17:29):
I don't know. It's the same floor for both sides.
It's a level playing field, literally, a level playing field.
So again, I cam Ward, his logic on this one
is straight out of the bag. Carpenters blame their tools.
I learned that one from just Josh and Cincinnati. He says, listen, Ben,
I'm a good carpenter and the bad carpenters blame their tools.
(17:51):
That's the playbook right there, that's the playbook. It's also
a terrible look. NFL quarterbacks are supposed to eat blame.
Was talking about blame and all this stuff, not pass
it off like a Chinese takeout box of egg rolls
and dumplings. You know, you're not supposed to pass it
off like leftovers and cam word, he's showing highlights. I'm
not as giddy with excitement as the NFL marketing people
(18:14):
that are trying to hype this guy up. It's got
too much of the the Michael Vick back in the
day where Michael Vick would electrify you for three or
four plays a game, and then the rest of the
game was often terrible. His name popped up here earlier
in the monologue. But kim Ord, there's something there, there's
something there. He's got stuff to clean up. And I
(18:35):
would say, generally, you don't want to be the guy
blaming the floor. You don't want to be that guy.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. And if you'd like
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Hashtag ask Ben. You can ask me he Ben Questions're
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Queen Coop Bronco fans. Straight ahead we have instead of
right away, ass Ben, we have the always popular never
fails Riddle of the day. Here is the Mallard Riddle
of the day. So, after the Chicago Cups wrapped up
a playoff Berth, congratulations to the Cubbies. Are friends our
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listeners there in Chicago who love the Cubbies, and other
than Mark the Board Op who works at Fox Sports
Radio and Mike Harmon, I don't know any white Sox fans.
So after the Cubs wrapped up a playoff Berth, their
pitcher shotam Naga said he learned that with champagne, instead
of drinking it, you should blank again after it comes
(20:04):
wrapped up a playoff berth. Their star pitcher Shotta Imanaga,
said that he learned that with champagne, instead of drinking it,
you should blank. That is the malord riddle of the day.
The answer, We'll get to it and we will.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Do it.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Next.
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Speaker 8 (22:14):
Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
All right, we'll pay off the riddle of the day
that'll be coming up here momentarily. Miss and I said,
there's always somebody on the other side. So this guy
Azuza Flynn writes, and he says, Ben, who cares about
Michael Vick and Kyler Murray? The story's like twenty years old.
He he left over dogs, which is disgusting. He did
(22:40):
his time, he's done, he's out. I couldn't care less
about the stupid story. So a zuza, Flynn, I totally
get it. So what I need you to do is
send me an email every day on the stories you
want me to talk about, and I'll just do the
show for you. Flynn. I'll just do the show for you,
and you can pay my salary and then I'll be good.
So just let me know what you want me to
talk about, and then I'll just talk about those things.
(23:00):
And whatever you don't want me to talk about, let
me know, and I won't talk about those things and
will be good, will be absolutely good. Anyway. Time now
for the Mallor riddle of the day. And here's the
Mallord riddle of the day. So after the Chicago Cubs
wrapped up a playoff birth, they had a celebration. The
picture one of the star pitchers showed to Emmanaga said
(23:21):
he learned that with champagne, instead of drinking it, you
should blank, all right, Scrooge in Northern California who's from
the younger demo says, smoke the champagne. Yeah, Bobby and
Florida says two words champagne enema. Wow. Late night drug
(23:42):
tester says, condition your hair with it always a good idea.
Ferg Dog says you should pour it down the drain
unless you want to end up like Justin and Cincinnati. Wow,
that's a that is a low blow. There you go.
Alf the Alien Opiner says, just like Jalen Carter, you
gotta spit that thing is what you gotta do. Gotta
(24:05):
do it, spit that just like the Hawk tour there.
Who else do we have, dude on that night? Yes,
Donkey sauce Ite says, put a treasure map in the bottle,
cork it back up and throw it in Lake Michigan. Absolutely,
who else do we have? Let's see some ask ben questions.
Which is coming up? That's not bad? Who else? Page down?
(24:29):
By the way? Major promotion by the way from our
home in Edmonton. Good job by them as they promote
the show on social media. It's wild. That's a tremendous job. Anyway.
Lady Sideburns says, you should Bob for apples in it.
Light it on fire from the Great inca Terror. Robbie,
(24:50):
the Marina fan who's got the big Dumper on his mind,
says something about a butt hug with it. Who else?
Do we have a page down? Rub the champagne all
over your body with gabba ghul from Attillo in Florida
loves the gabba gul. In fact, we mostly say the
gobago because of him. Now we'd said it a little
bit and then he wanted more of it. Palm Desert
(25:12):
rat checks in says, used the ice cold bubbly in
your bidet. That's one way to do it. Doug, who's
in Korea, says South Korea says you should soak fruits
for breakfast. Okay, let's see here, Lorena, do you have
an answer the Mallard riddle of day? After the Cubs
wrapped up a playoff berth there, star pitcher Shota Imanaga
(25:35):
said he learned that with champagne, instead of drinking it,
you should blank spray it all over the pretty women. Hello. Hello,
Well that's a great answer, but that's incorrect. Unfortunately. You
should absorb it in your with your skin, he said,
Absorb it with your skin, he said, it feels better. Yeah,
(25:58):
Chota Inmanaga claim that, he said he They asked how
much champagne he had. He said probably about ten ten glasses,
but it was all absorbed through his skin, he said.
But I was lucky enough years ago I got to
go into those clubhouse champagne celebrations. Those things are awesome. Uh,
they're great, but the problem is all the players get
to shower and put on their regular clothes and stuff
(26:18):
when they go home, but the media people we all
had to leave and we drive home smelling like alcohol.
So we were all like, we were all paranoid. If
we're gonna get pulled over, I mean, what are we
gonna say? You didn't well, I didn't drink, but you
smell like booze.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
You know, you anything to drink. You are literally covered in.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
No seriously, it was like a big problem. Was like
you drove really slow after those those things, because yeah,
it was a problematic for.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Sure, and great for the car poster either.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
No, well, I mean you try somewhat, but it's still
the smell is rather rather and they have to redo
the carpet in those clubhouses. They the other team, whoever celebrated.
I think about every time I see those champagne bottles popping.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I'm like those poor carpets.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
There's no way you get it gets it gets destroyed.
It does get destroyed. Absolutely. Yeh, all right, let's go
to the phone by the Tremaine got it right, but
he cheated. I think he sent me an email on that.
Let's say hello to Poppy in San Diego. Hello, Poppy,
mantor Ben Maller, beautiful night right here.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Everyone drives safe and San Diego's raining, Mentor you know,
so we're gonna be safe.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I saw that the remnants of some kind of Pacific
tropical storm thing. That's the Pacific, and.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
I have to be careful, you know, Mentor Ben Maller,
you know, because tomorrow we're I mean taken with Poppy
Verses and lepricrunning. You know, my grandma always told me, like, hey,
when it's raining or thunder, you know, you gotta unplug
everything in your house, like the CD and everything, thunder
construct or even using your cell phones or everything like that.
The fa out there people plug everything.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I'm not unplugging anything.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
I'm not. You don't believe in that? What do you
think I mean, that's what my grandma taught me.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You know what else did your grandma teacher?
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Oh, my grandma taught me a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You know that was a big influencing. Your grandma was
a nice woman. She taught you a lot. That's great.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
My grandma was a big influence on me. And you
know she always told me, you know'll never give up
on your dream. Beat for this then, and you know,
you know she's a very hard worker and I love her.
That's why we're gonna get the sticks tomorrow. We're gonna
do good. We're gonna bounce.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
So we have we have heard a blame.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
What was that? It's a tropical tropical store. Mario is,
Oh wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
But hey, we're gonna give her a pick. No matter
what rain or shine, it's not gonna stop us. I'm
gonna beat that.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
What what?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
What what happened last What happened last week? Poppy? I
gave you your opportunity, your own segment on the radio. I
turned my mic off. I went at I smoked a
cigarette and you didn't allow the leprechaun to make any picks?
What was that about?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
All that? Well?
Speaker 8 (29:04):
I thought you were like playing a game. But don't worry.
We're gonna have to Lepergond and we're gonna wait for
the Leper runs on on the segment.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You know you didn't you didn't do that well last week,
you didn't do that. Well, right, your picks didn't do
that well?
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Yeah, I went one and one and two. We're gonna
bounce back. That's not a winning percentage, but don't worry.
We're gonna we're gonna win back.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Then.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Now we're gonna make all the fans happy if you like.
People like betting against me. They were really happy they
made money.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Oh, I see you're using my stick. Now, I see
what you're doing, Poppy, I got you. Not as much
propaganda from the Padres. I'm not hearing as much Padre
propaganda hear from you.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
Well, hey, uh they bounced back, they did the event,
and hopefully they're gonna make the playoffs, you know, but
not a lot of propaganda. But hey, you know, we
gotta be nice and humble, work hard, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, all right, all right, very good. Anyway, Uh, there
you go, I thank you. I I hang up on you.
Let's go. Well, speak of the devil, he shall appear
or speak of the Leperkun. He s up here. Mike
the Leprecaun is next. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
I'm not Poppy. Poppy pick sucks, but anyways, Yes, so
tomorrow I'm going to pick the paths. For sure, they're
going to beat the Steelers. I'm not anybody giving his
pick today or is it Friday?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
I don't understand tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You know you're not. You're not allowed to give picture
right now. Yeah, you just ruined the whole bid.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Well no, but I'm picking the paths anyway.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You know what, that's just like Poppy picking the podres.
It's like the same time you just pick your local teams.
That what's the point of doing the bid?
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Theo is lose. But that's beside the points anyway, Lorna,
I have a new drought for you. You don't have
to have draft king and the crown is yours. This
should be you should be the draft queen. Yes, you
should be the top queen.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Anything else.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I'm also I'm I'm like a Romantes swede in my garden.
I keep coming back to your show Berry.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I know, I know you are. I will give you
credit because Mike the Leprecaun. You'd think after you almost
got me fired that that would have been a wake
up call. But no, no, you're still You're still fighting,
and we will we will do the malameing. I think
we're gonna have to push that back until twenty twenty six, unfortunately,
but we will do it, Poppy. We will be there.
(31:20):
We will be there, and we'll go. We gotta go
to like a WU Sox game or something like that.
How about that a WU Sox game.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
That'd be nice, right, Yeah, Benny, Sorry, Benny, you didn't
win an Emmy for Benny versus a Penny.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, I did not win an Emmy. I did get
fired though from that. Yeah, but it's on YouTube now.
I think you go away, all right, there's Mike the
Leprechaun there. Good dare you? David the Fried Daddy writes
in from Pennsylvania, says Ben, you are so critical of
teams that win. Jalen Hurts is definitely not a top quarterback,
but all he does is win, baby win. I am
(31:53):
not too sure about this game. The Rams have a
high flying offense. The Eagles will struggle to keep up,
says David. Well, this Ram Eagle game should come down
to the fourth quarter and the Rams defense. I'm actually
more excited about the Rams defense. I am the Rams
offense there so as far as that game is concerned,
(32:13):
but that I'm looking forward to. It's gonna be a
great game, hopefully not a dud. It's a letdown, if
there is such a thing, a letdown situation, that emotional
win for the Eagles laid against the Chiefs. Now they're
gonna come back and play the Rams. It is the
Ben Malor Show. Ask Ben for the rest of the
hour hashtag ask Ben. We'll get to that and we
(32:36):
will do it next.
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It's now time for time for horry Ask Bed Twitter.
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Send your questions on Twitter now and it is ask Ben.
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These are actual questions sent in by actual listeners like yourself,
who use the hashtag ask Ben on the micro blogging
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Speaker 4 (34:00):
All right, we're gonna start off with the ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Hi Fergie.
Speaker 9 (34:05):
He wants to know who is your favorite late night host.
You don't have many to choose from anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, there's only one left, right, Kimmel's getting whacked, it
looks like, So.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
I'm gonna take this question more of a who is
your favorite late night time I think I was.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
A huge letterman guy back in the day. I love
David Letterman. I thought it was amazing. I was online
at the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan to see Letterman.
I got bumped from the audience. I'm still pissed about that.
But yeah, Letterman, what about you, Lorena, anybody late night TV?
You never watched when you were a little girl, never
watched late night TV? Okay, all right, cool.
Speaker 9 (34:43):
So I feel bad saying this because because you were
on with your buddy, because I.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Was on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
The Great j Leno. Yes, great funny mane Man.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
But Conan is by far my favorite late night host.
Really love Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Hilarious.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, I was always a Letterman guy back back in
the day. But I mean, I'm so old. When I
was a kid, my parents watch Johnny Carson. Yeah that's
how long that goes back. All right, what's next? Let's
ask Ben. Your questions are.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
Answers Donkey Sausage, and I imagine this question is just
for for you and me, Ben, Okay, but I mean
I don't know, you never know these days. Donkey Sausage
likes to know do you leave the toilet seat up?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Uh? Yeah, yeah, I usually do. I do. I'm not
gonna lie you would Ben.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Uh, Lorena, do.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
You leave.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
A couple of times?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Okay? Out cool?
Speaker 9 (35:45):
Uh No, I don't, but I will say this. I
am now to the point in my life where if
you don't have one of those, I don't know if
they call him like the soft closed toilet seats, I'm
kind of.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Like, oh man, what you know what? What cavemen?
Speaker 9 (36:02):
You got to have this soft toilets where it doesn't
slam like you you like you can put the toilet sea. Yes, yes, yes,
because now it's it's so easy closing. You just tap
it and then it closes by itself.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Okay anyway, Yeah, I've never really.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Thought much about it. It's just like, well, you just
I don't usually the main thing, like I don't usually
do it when I go to like out public bathrooms
because they're covered in I don't even know it's on
a toilet. It's like there's a bunch.
Speaker 9 (36:32):
Of oh yeah, no, that's a good No, I don't Yeah,
you're right, public bathroom is no boy, No.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I mean I use my mother to try to tap
it or something.
Speaker 9 (36:39):
It's like, yeah, all right, this ink of terror would
like to know I've met him.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
He's famous.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
Yeah, he says, after immigrating to the US, I grew
up in farm country. Have any of you had any
farm experience, milking cows, churning butter, shucking corn, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
No, nothing more than a day. I remember when I
was a kid, they brought cows to the school, like
element school. Yeah, you know they did that for your tea. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:09):
I don't know if I don't think like I was.
I think maybe like kids could have had like an
opportunity to milk the cow.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
But I was like, nah, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, I got up close to the cow, but I
didn't really, I wasn't in it. I like the meat,
you know, after the cows cut up. But Lorena, any
experienced farming for me? Man?
Speaker 4 (37:28):
I got all that country up in me. You know,
I've been around the horses and my goats and.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
From a small town in Oregon. Right, there's a lot
of farms out there, all the.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Cow pies you could ever want. I can't tell.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
You're just.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
All right anyway?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
What's next year? What do we have? You said, yes,
the school thing?
Speaker 9 (37:47):
Yeah, yeah, this one was just for you. It's another
one from Donkey sausage. This was just for you, Ben. Okay,
where did you learn baking from?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
You know?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
It's funy. My mom was a prolific baker when I
was a but I just ate what she made. I
just kind of started messing around with it about ten
years ago. I just a lot of YouTube videos and
I found some of my mom's old recimees after she
passed away. So I started making some of that stuff.
And so yeah, I found out my mom's cookies that
(38:17):
she made. I love was she just ripped off a
package of like Nestley chocolate chip things. She just ripped
it off. Anyway, it was good. That's my it. What's
the next quick way? Coop? What do we have?
Speaker 9 (38:29):
Let's see Bobby and Florida wants to know what's your
favorite fair food?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Oh? Giant corn dog Lorena. Oh it's so hard.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I think it's on new bean and she's ice cream cone.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Oh disgusting. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
Churros? Churros are okay?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
A corn dog? The corn dog the size of your
arm though. That's awesome. Yeah, it's pretty good.
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