September 26, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about why MLB fans are upset with the addition of Netflix to the broadcast partners, Kirk Herbstreit calling for a "commissioner" to fix the problems with the NCAA's scheduling, Lame Jokes of the Week, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three, our number three of the Ben
Maler Show on this Friday, the twenty sixth day of September.
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Don't forget.
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Coming up a little bit later, a little bit later,
this hour of Big Ben's Lame Jokes the week. Also,
the fifth hour podcast is up and Benny Versus the Penny.
We're up to a one or zho start this week
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We pick every game, but we feature certain games there
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Help us out on that and also the Ben Malor
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But here in hour number three, do you understand why
Major League Baseball fans appear to be very upset with
the addition of Netflix to Baseball's TV partnerships? Also, college football,
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do you agree or disagree with Kirk Herbstreet and his
would a commissioner fix the problems with college football? Questioning
as he put that out there, he said, well, we
need a commissioner. Also, what message is Lincoln Riley sending
to the USC players about the schedule, complaining about having
to play the early game tomorrow in college football. We'll
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talk about all that and more plus lame jokes here.
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up a little bit at a Thursday night game that
came down to the very end Seattle one on a
late field goal after coughing up a hairball and a
two touchdown lead in that game. We'll have blame jokes
of the week coming up later this hour, but we'll
go to the diamond kind of kind of.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
The business of baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The business of baseball, well, Major League Baseball shockingly has
ruffled some feathers.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
What did they do? Did you see this?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What's the final weekend of the regular season. The curtain
comes down on the regular season on Sunday. The playoffs
start shortly after that, and we have learned that Netflix
is going to be the exclusive home to Major League
Baseball's opening Day in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It features the Yankees and the Giants. To say, well,
what do we care about that? Ben, It's I don't
care about that, all right, So it's in prime time.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Let me just explain why this is a big deal,
because it's another pay tier for Major League Baseball and
there are large factions of fans that are diabolical over
this news, very upset offended by this. So let us
discuss the question, do you understand why a large percentage
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of baseball officiaat UZ are upset with the addition of Netflix.
So my views on this one, I've got Jeffrey Dahmer, Tornado,
and Windy's and we will combine all of these things together,
every single one of them, and we'll go to.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The dark underbelly of the news is what we're going
to do.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
So, first of all, this is everything that is wrong
with the Rob Manford regime. Has anyone been a worse
commissioner than Rob Manford in Major League baseball. A lot
of these guys are bad. Like Rob Manford. It just
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doesn't care about the fan. He sticks it to the
fan at every chance he gets. And you've taken the
most every day sport. I remember we used to have
this guy in Michigan, Judgmental John, who used to be
one of my regular callers in a previous generation of
the show, and Judgmental John would call up and he
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would complain to me, said, man, you know there's too
many baseball games.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I can't watch all the Tiger games.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And I said, John, you're not supposed to. Like, if
you're a real baseball fan, you don't watch every game.
It's Baseball's there when you need it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You know. It's like if you're lucky.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Enough to come from a good family and you've got
a good mom and a good dad, or maybe an
ann or an uncle, but somebody that you can depend on.
You don't need them all the time, but they're there
for it. That's baseball, right. I don't sit and watch
every Dodger game, but when I want to watch a game,
I know it's going to be there. Most everyday sport,
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it's the background music to the summer. It's part of
the beauty of baseball, and Rob Manford has turned what
has been symbolic with being a baseball fan knowing, Hey,
if I want to watch a game on a Tuesday night,
I know where the game is. And now it's a
scavenger hunt. And it's been this way for a couple
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of years. It's not getting better, it's getting worse. Baseball
is supposed to be about routine. You know where to
find your team's games. You're a fan of your team,
you want to watch your team play, and now you
are spinning the roulette wheel. It's platform roulette, especially like
if you're a Yankee fan or Dodger fan. But we'll
focus on the Yankees because this is a Yankee story.
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So I want to watch the Yankees. Let's see, I'm
gonna I gotta watch the Yes network on Tuesday. Now,
Wednesday they're on Amazon Prime, and then on Thursday it's
gonna be Apple Plus something.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Then Friday is.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Gonna be on Netflix, and then on Saturday it's gonna
be on Fox, and then on Sunday it'll be on NBC.
So you need a tech support hotline or a special website.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Just to let people know where to watch the games.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It's it's fragmentation fatigue, That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's like going to a deli. And we've all been
to these delis, right, every town.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Every I shouldn't say every town, every big city has
a legendary Usually it's a Jewish deli and they've got like,
you know, forty pages of the menu, and I always,
I'm always amazing. I go in there, it's like there's
like ninety percent of this stuff. Nobody's ordering. They're ordering
maybe some soup, some pastrami sandwhich why do you have
all this crap? But you just throw your hands up,
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he say, I screw it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I don't. I mean, what am I gonna order? I
have just too much stuff? Or the cheesecake factory said
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But the golden rule of business, the golden rule of
business is what it's to make it easy for the
consumer to find your product. And here's how I relate
to Like in my business, I do the radio show, right,
and there's a lot of people that can't listen overnight.
I like to say they graduate from the overnight, so
they work the dread to day shift. And I've been
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very fortunate, been doing this a while and a lot
of the people that work the overnight shift for a while,
they become fans of the show, and they're able to
still listen to the podcast, right because it's easy to
find the podcast.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You know where to find us. Now we're on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
So if you supported the show and you want to
watch Benny Versus the Penny, Benny Vspenny on YouTube. If
you want to watch monologues, it's Ben Mathers Show on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
These are wonderful things.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Major League Baseball, though, it is like, screw the Golden rule, right,
we don't want to make it easy for the consumer
to find our product. Rob Manver's like, you know what,
I'm gonna be like Jeffrey Dahmer. I'm gonna I'm gonna
be the Jeffrey Dahmer playbook. I'm gonna cannibalize the TV packages.
I'm gonna chop them up in a little bite sized
piece is and serve them to the highest bidder. And
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then I'm gonna tell the fans to lick the play clean. Yummy,
yam me to my tummy.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Tummy.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Now, behind closed doors, major League Baseball things that they're
pulling a moneyball, moneyball for media rites and I'll tell
you what's going on. This is what I've heard. No
as I understand it, maybe I'm wrong, but this is
what I've been told. So Major League Baseball is fully
aware that the TV business has changed a lot, that
they're not gonna get the monster TV contracts. Those are gone,
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the mega mega, mega, mega mega millions from ESPN, Fox, TBS.
They're not dropping billions and billions on baseball like it's
nineteen ninety eight. So baseball strategy is to be, well,
here's what we're going. We're gonna recreate big TV money
in the aggregate.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's kind of like what the nerds do when a
star player gets hurt.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, we can't replace leg If Otani got hurt, the
Dodgers been like, well we can't replace Otani, but in
the aggregate, we could have three or four players play
better and then we can. So Baseball's like, all right,
we'll get some millions of dollars from Apple, maybe ten million.
We get twenty million over here from Netflix. We'll get
thirty thirty five million from Peacock. We'll get some more
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money from Fox, we get some money from NBC. And
they think if you add enough scraps together.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You can cook a steak. You can't.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
There's only one problem with that for the fan. That
state cost hundreds of bucks a year. It's annoying, and
it's rubbery, there's too much fat in it, and it's
not cooked properly, and you're gouging your most loyal customers.
That's Rob Manford. That's the epitome of Rob Manford screwing
the fan. He had a chance to punish the greatest
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cheating scandal of baseball history.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He did nothing. He did nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
The as one two one thousand holes from Houston cheated
in the World Series. In the World Series, people forget
about it. There was also a player that made a
racist gesture in the dugout, and Rob Manford chose not
to suspend him during the World Series.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
He waited until next season to suspend the guy.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
He's so bad.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
He is so bad, Rob Manford. But this is the
next chapter, right.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
The ghost Runner is like all the dumb stuff that
Rob Manford's done, but sticking into your loyal fans. And
there's no stat that measures how annoyed the customer gets
clicking through eight different apps just to watch a damn
Yankees game. On a Tuesday night. Instead of making the
game accessible, accessible and all that, they're running this weird experiment.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And it's like, who's gonna blink first.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's a game of Chicken, Mark Chicken, the fans canceling
subscriptions or the owner's cashing checks, and when the audience drops,
and they will drop, they're gonna act all surprised, like
I didn't see this one coming. I don't understand. I
do not understand. I don't get it. Turning the page
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on that to college football. That's right, the rare, inappropriate,
rare and appropriate mention of college football.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I gotta tell you, I'm excited for Saturday.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I am.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You know, I don't have a show that day. I
got the podcast, but the Fifth Hour podcast. But I'm
jones up. We got a really good card to games
on Saturday in college football.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So Kirk herb Street is back entering the chat. He
thinks that.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
College football needs a commissioner, like they didn't see this
coming a.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Mile you know, a mile away.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
If you didn't see this coming a mile away from
herb Street.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Now this weekend, me let me set this up.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So the college football pundit who's pretending to be an
NFL pundit. He was commenting on We've got Alabama Georgia
on Saturday. I believe that's an ESPN game, and then
LaVar Arrington's Penn State will be taking on Oregon and
that'll be taking place simultaneously.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I think that's on I believe that's on NBC.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Anyway, who cares whatever it's at the same time anyway,
So Herbstreet went on some podcast and said, Hey, I
got the solution to this. This is not great two
marquee matchups conflicting with each other.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
So here's what he had to say.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
It's another example of why we need eventually a commissioner's office,
like the NFL has a commissioner's office, right, and there
are a lot of different layers to what that office
could do. Obviously in this NIL and portal era and
the realignment era, I think the biggest thing that I
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think sometimes as a guy who eats and breathes college football,
there are some weeks in college football where it's just
there might be one good game, and there are other
weeks like this week.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You could argue this is the greatest weekend of the
entire year.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Starting Friday night, there's good games. Yeah, and then from
game day and then after game day noon eastern all
the way. If you're crazy like me, you'll watch BYU
in Colorado at ten fifteen they start, and that'll go
to whatever one in the morning.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And you're thinking, I don't know. What he said was
the commissioner stuff. That's the important stuff, right, So he said,
we need a commissioner, and essentially what he wants is
centralized scheduling, like an authority who would prevent blue blood
programs to use the Jeffrey Dahmer line again, cannibalizing each
other's audience. So the question for the esteem panel do
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you agree or disagree with Kirk kerb Street? Would a
quote commissioner fix what he says are the problems with
college football schedule?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
So my first thought on this is here we go again.
It's Groundhog Day every year Kirk kerb Street for the
last I don't know how many years it's been. It's
been a number of years.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Herb Street at some point comes out and he goes
on this same crusade.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It's the hill he wants to die on.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
The college football needs a commission, They need a commission,
and blah blah, blah blah.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Every year.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He pulls this out of the moth balls every year,
and I'm telling you, okay, I'm telling you it's never happening.
Whether you think it's a good idea or not, it's
not happening, not in my lifetime, not in your lifetime.
This isn't the NFL. It's getting to that, but it's
not there. And the main problem you have is the
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Southeastern Conference believes there's nothing better than Southern fat football.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
There's nothing better.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And then the Big Ten says, hold our beer because
we go from coast to coast. The Big Ten's like,
come on. So the SEC and the Big Ten are
not giving up an ounce of power.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
They are at the very top of their own kingdoms,
and those are pretty good kingdoms.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And Herbie is talking about it like it's this magic
placebo and it'll fix everything, like if you just had
one guy in charge, poof all the problems go away.
No no no no no no no no no no
no no no. This isn't going to solve anything. In fact,
in the NFL has a commissioner. And yet if you
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look at the schedule, people complain, why are there so
many games at the one pm Eastern TV window.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And I can't keep track everything.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Why don't you spread them out and play some games
during the week and all that stuff. The other issue
here college football my entire life. And I'm not the
biggest college football fan, but I do consume it. We
don't talk about it much because of the way the
schedule works for our radio show. But college football is
built on a tornado of chaos.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That is the charm, that's the uniqueness of that sport.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You're supposed to have three or four insane Saturdays where
there's five monster games going on at the one time,
and your right hands getting a workout, and if you're
completely transparent, Kirk kirb Street is not really worried about
the fan.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
He's not worried about the fan. He's worried about the
TV ratings.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
He doesn't want eyeballs siphoned off from his game.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
If he's doing Bama Georgia.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He doesn't want you watching Penn State and Oregon on
NBC at the same time. Guess what, Kurt, excuse my
French se La vill that's life, right. You don't get
the hog all the oxygen. Other people get some of
the oxygen and a commissioner cannot tell the Southeastern Conference
when to play and where to play, can't tell the
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Big Ten.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The same thing. These are billion dollar cartels. They just start.
They're not gonna listen to anyone.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
If anything, they're expanding their empires. They're not centralizing their empires.
And Herbstreet can clutch his pearls all he wants. It's
not gonna change all right, final fuck quick, right, it's
staying in college football.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So coach Lincoln Riley, SC's actually off to a decent start.
Could they actually be good? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We'll see have a seemingly soft game tomorrow. But Lincoln
Riley is not thrilled about USC's early kickoff as they
play the early TV window against the Fighting a Lini
in Champagne or Beta. So going on is a quote
here he said, going from the absolute latest kick in
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the country, Lincoln Riley said, to the absolute earliest kick
in the country.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You're talking about. Last week they played Michigan State the
late game. Now they play the Fighting Alini in the
early game.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
They have to travel, he said, it's challenges, but the
challenges like it is what it is. He said, we
don't make the schedule. Clearly, he grumbled, all right, question,
what message is Lincoln Riley sending to the USC players
in that locker room about the schedule. So Lincoln Riley
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makes a lot of money, but it sounds like he's
got a part time job over at Windy's and he's
running the frosty machine at Soft Serve.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's a tough turnaround early game booing, boo freaking out.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You know what the old generation would have said, Oh
you're gonna do boomer radio bell, just bear with. For
about one hundred years in football, there was this machismo
where you'd say, we'll play anybody, anytime, anywhere, on asphalt
behind a Sam's club, next to the swing set, on
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a patch of broken up concrete. Strap it up, let's go,
let's do it. Man versus man. You don't complain, it's unbecoming.
You don't complain about the clock. You beat the clock.
What kind of message is Lincoln Riley sending to his
players here instead of saying, Hey, this is a badge
of honor. Adversity makes you stronger. Let's show everyone that
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we're not the same old Soft USC and we can
roll out of bed.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And smash the line eye at nine in the morning
West Coast time.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Instead, he's giving them a built in, baked and excuse
before the game's even played. That's loser talk, baking in
the alibi. And so another example of times have changed.
Back in the day, coaches would treat this as again
a challenge, a test of toughness, get you ready for
big games later in the year. He's supposed to be
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a program with national title aspirations, and you're head coach
there the men of Troy is crying about an early
cookoff time. That is a red flag, is what that is.
And this is the Ben Maller Show. If you'd like
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Speaker 1 (20:37):
We'll squeeze in some phone calls.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Also coming up later this hour, we've got Big Ben's
lame jokes of the week that'll be coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Time now though for the Mallor Riddle of the day.
And here's the Mallard Riddle of the day.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Seattle Seahawks kicker Jason Myers did a blank before nailing
the game winning field goal on the Thursday night game. Again,
Seahawk secker Jason Myers did a blank before nailing the
game winning field goal on Thursday Night Football. That is
the Mailer. We're realer love today the answer. We'll get
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to it and we will do it next.
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We never have enough time to get to everything we
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Speaker 8 (21:36):
To and that's why we have a brand new podcast
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in our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promising things we never have
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Yeah, you blover this lame and me.
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Well, you know what it's called over promise. You should
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Well, it's a Cavino and Rich after show, and we
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Speaker 1 (23:26):
Back to it my time now for the Mallor Riddle
of the day. We'll get to the Mallard Riddle of
the day.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Although I did see a message from our big Yankee fan, Jill,
she's a Minnesota slubs the Yankees, says, of course I
have all the streaming networks, but Opening Day is unfair
to Michael kay and all the broadcasters and fans. She says,
awful announcers on these other networks, absolute worst. Yeah, that's
another thing that Rob Manford and Baseball did not that
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the the real fans of the team. They love their
local broadcasters. They don't want some other jamoke doing the games.
Time now though, for the Mallor Riddle of the day,
and here it is. Seattle Seahawks kicker Jason Myers did
a blank before nailing the game winning field goal on
Thursday night as the clock ran out. That is the question.
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What is the answer? Alf The Alien Opiner from just
adjacent to Springfield, mass where Muffett McGraw is in the
Hall of Fame, says he did a whole variety of
whoopee pies. He did a self portrait from late Night
drug tester.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Malaprop Guy says he's sang a chorus of living. La
vita lorena is what he's saying there, okay song Page
down a swig of mouthwash from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I hope mouthwash. Mike's date with the seventy five year
old woman went well. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Stevie Meatball says he did a Joe Peshy funny, how
funny and fersonation human sacrifice from Robbie the Mariner fan
did a shot of kaquila with a one legged midget.
According to just Josh, who else do we have? Page Dan,
We'll skip over that when he did kegstand from Tom
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and Cans City Perto says the kicker honored the Mariners
clinching the West by taking a big dumper, did a
cartwheel from Donkey's sausage. That's his answer. Push forward here,
Fat Daddy. Fat Daddy says the kicker put on his
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nipple ring before the field goal. Eileen in San Francisco
says he did a load of laundry.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's very funny.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Robin Minnesota says he did a shot of BlackBerry brandy
is what he did? A cartwheel from JT. The wingman
dropped a deuce. Guest by Paul d that's his answer.
Super Mark and Steve cheated because that's that's what he does. There,
BP says a number two. Luke says he went to
(26:08):
a darkness retreat. That's his answer. Lorrain, Oh do you
have an answer, Lorrain?
Speaker 6 (26:13):
No?
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Yes, Ben, I think he did a line of.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Tousy okay, uh.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It turns out Seahawk Seker Jason Myers did a line
of smelling salt. Smelling salts is what we were looking for.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Wow, I was so close.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
You are, so you're right there, You're so close, but
so far away we're at almost Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Smelling smelling salts. Yeah, that's I guess.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
That's a lot of people like eat people alive.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
No, that's well, they cleaned that was basalt.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
However, I I heard that that was not actually bas Salts.
There was something else involved in that story. The guy
in Miami or Florida that ate somebody's FeAs, But it's not.
It wasn't actually, they determined later I heard about this
and it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It wasn't. It was something else that he had been taking.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Anyway, Uh, let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to Eeny Meani, Miny Moe. Let's sailor to John
who's in Boston, and John is up next coming up
later this how we have Big Ben's lame jokes a week.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Hello John, Welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Ben Herbie is talking about a college football commissioner because
he wants to be the college football commissioner. He's trying
to invent the job for himself, like Cliff, like Cliff
On cheers like Cliff.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
That's a good line, though, I like, I do remember,
I do remember that. But but no, why would he
want to be the commissioner. You're not going to make
as much money. You know how much money ESPN's paying
him to do all these college football games, and Amazon's
paying him to do the He wouldn't make that much
money as a commissioner of the college.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Football Roger Goodell makes fifty million dollars a year. Then
I don't think Kirk is making that much.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
The college football is not going to pay. First of all,
they'll never be a commissioner.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
If he did get the job, Ben and everybody was
the first day he comes to Big the Big Boss,
and he watched him with his little doggie.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, I love I love John.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I love dogs, but I'm a little tired of his dog.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
It's a little much, right.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Can't we show up to work without a dog? I
do the show without my dog. I I love my dog.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Yeah, dog will dog grown?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Now I get it. Like we have a moving man
Matt and his dog Louis, but he's.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
In a truck by himself. All I get that. But
if you're Kirk Kurbsa, what are you doing? And how
do let me ask you this? How like what most hotels,
like I'm telling luxury hotels don't.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
They don't take dogs, do they?
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Apparently if you're rich enough they will.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's a good point.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
I'm not saying that they do. Yeah, and again, I'm
not rich. I'm not staying there.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Anyway neither am I.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, all right, thank you for get call. All right,
it's great, John. I like that guy's rare good call.
To make sure that we take a bad call, let's
go to hollering James in Minnesota. Hello, Hollering James in Minneapolis, Minius,
ault Ta, James, Hollering James, James, James, James, James, James, James,
(29:18):
holloweing James.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Killing once, going twice? Do I hear a third time?
Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye
bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
So I mentioned this earlier, the sixty eight percent. This
is a fascinating story. So there's a guy named Ryan Williams,
which is a very generic name. You do not want
to be named Ryan Williams if you're famous, because it's
not a memorable name.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You need a nickname. So Ryan Williams is a very
good football player at Alabama in tuscal Looosa, Alabama, and
he mentioned.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Recently that he has decided to delete social media from.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
His life after he averaged.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
How many hours a day on his phone. Let's see,
let's go around the room here. Don't cheat, don't cheat,
don't go create, don't through the old Eddie and go
create Lorena through a round robin here, how many hours
do you think Ryan Williams, a football player at Alabama,
spent on his phone before he decided that I've got
(30:33):
to stop doing that.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
Eight hours and forty seven minutes straight.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Then, thank you for the exact number. I do appreciate that.
Kooper loop.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Ten hours.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
All right, Okay, good guess good guess?
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Ah, guess why?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I know I know the answer, I know the answer.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It turns out that Ryan Williams averaged eleven hour hours
a day on his phone. So I did the math
on this. The average person sleeps eight hours a day,
so that means you're awake. If there's twenty four hours
in the day, that means you're awake sixteen.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Now I'm using malor math on this, and of.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Course time is a human something humans created, so who
knows if it's accurate. But sixteen hours you're awake if
you sleep eight hours. So if you use your phone
eleven hours a day, that means sixty eight point seven percent.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Of the day you're on your phone. Almost seventy percent
of the day you're on your phone.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
Now, maybe, yes, I want to say something about this
because I've thought about this before, because I average close
to seven hours a day.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
But oh my god, I also use.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
YouTube while I shower and that counts as phone time, right,
Listening to podcasts on my phone.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
Podcasts on my phone also count as usage.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Right, And then yeah, so I think that takes off
at least at least an hour and a half from
my seven hours of screen time.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
So you're five and a half hours?
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Is healthy? A healthy five and.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
A half hour? You think that's helpy?
Speaker 9 (32:08):
Yeah, because I'm also doing research.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
She's researching? And how many likes her last post?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Guy?
Speaker 9 (32:19):
Those numbers, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Oh boy, look at that. Uh, I'm trying to think.
I don't know how much time I spend on my
I phone.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
You do work prep on there too, right, yeah, a
little bit like, but I'm not on there eleven hours
a day. You don't doom scroll, though? Do you like
on Instagram and Facebook? You don't doom scroll?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
What is doom?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (32:43):
You literally just scroll and you keep scrolling and you
just keep reading.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You're not, no, no, no, I don't. I don't do that.
I usually what I do is I do it.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I call her drive by, I'll go on there, and
I'll put something on social media and I get off
real quick.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I'll be like, all right, I'm good, I'm down here,
I'm I'm all right.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
So oh oh, let's hear coops daily average.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
He said it's so bad. Set that off the air
for a reason, which is.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Why I'm calling you out. Let's hear it.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
No, it's just pretty it's pretty bad. It's worse than yours.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Oh, like I I look at it, says here, I
spend on social media. I spend eleven minutes a.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Day on social that's it. Yeah, wow, eleven eleven eleven minutes.
So is that that's not good? I should spend more
on there.
Speaker 9 (33:25):
You should spend more time on there.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah, I need to spend more time on social media.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Okay, all right, anyway, all right, that ends these I
guess James is complained, James real quick, hollowing. James has
called back. He is crying like a blankety blank.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
James, Hello, James, hollowing James, you hear me?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
No, what's the matter? Why can't we hear James? I don't.
I don't understand what's going on. I don't I don't
get why we can't. Why can we not hear him.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Did he fall asleep again?
Speaker 9 (33:54):
I put the button up. I can't hear.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Are you there? Are you there, James? James, you should hear.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Why aren't you talking? You're disrespecting the show, James.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Didn't he just call back? Is he playing? Is he
playing us for a fool? I thought he was a friend? Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
There he is there.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
He is hollowing James. Everybody my friend? Hollering James there,
don't please?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
All right? You know what I'm gonna do for you, James.
You want to be part of lame jokes?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (34:39):
I love jokes.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Were For the first time ever, we're gonna have hollering
James and weed Man on lame jokes with me.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Who says no to that? That's great content? Right, all right, James,
Hold on a sake, don't hang up, James. We got
weed Man, got hollering. Okay, we'll see how this goes.
We'll try something different. Why not.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Let's see how weed Man, hollering James get along. We'll
have Big Ben's lame Jokes of the Week for the
rest of the hour. We'll get to that, and we will.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Do it next.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
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Speaker 1 (36:22):
Blame Weed, Blame week too. It's Big Ben's lame joke
of the week. All right, let's do this, Big Ben's
Lame jokes. Are you there, weed man? Weed man? All right?
Hollering James, are you there? James?
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Holl Dames live and about. He's good.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
All right, So now don't don't don't bowguard? We met?
Are you okay with James? Okay? All right, all right,
here we go. Lame jokes.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
What is the title of Kyler Murray's new video game?
What play like Duty? That's a that's a Chip in
Maine who is always favored to beat Alligator Arms Murray?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Who van the one legged Bama Man? That's from Chip
in Maine? Again?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
What?
Speaker 1 (37:16):
What? What? What do you call a cup?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Designed by Derek Are designed for Derek Henry, Designed for
Derrick Henry?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
What a fumbler? That's Kurt from.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Which of the five Burroughs does Lorena like the most?
Speaker 6 (37:34):
Which Arna one?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Well, you're making me regret this.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Joe Joe Burrow. She that's her favorite. She likes Joe Burrow.
That's Eric in Kansas.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Thank you for that. Eric. Why would Lorena and lead
a Lap make a royal couple? Why?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Well, she she is the queen of hearts and he
is the king of farts. That's George and Valdi who
sent that one in What is Bartolo cologne and Lizzo's
favorite martial art?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
What kung food? That's Gordon in Tacoma. We set that one.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's Big Ben's lame jokes a week, actual jokes by
actual listeners. Why did why did Blind Scott's ex break
up with him? What she said she felt invisible? That's
Eric in Kansas. We set that one in all right,
very nice, there, we'll skip down. Why couldn't aliens probe
David Vasse with one size fits all?
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Apparently, according to Lucky Tony, it kept falling out. I
don't even know what that means. Why? Why did why
did Blind let me skip over that one? I think
we've done that?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
What do you call it when Mike the Leprechaun holds
grudges against Blind Scott and Marcel?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
What irish ste is? What you called there?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
We've got We've got weed man hippie and hollering jameson
l jokes. What is the difference between Russell Wilson and
weed man hippie? What six sick children in the hospital
would prefer.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Me visiting by weed man hippie? James?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
You started laughing early. I didn't even give the punchline.
That's Gordon a Tacoma. Why why doesn't weed Man like
the truth?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Why? Why? Because you can't painhandle the truth? That's why
I come on?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Alright, did you hear that weed Man has his very
own I p A, yeah, he's calling it.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
You can't see a thing bong water? I pa.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
How did weed Man react whenever he noticed all his
lamps were gone.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
In his house?
Speaker 6 (39:44):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Delighted?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
That's Noah in Austin. Which Muppet Show character is weed Man?
Jealous of what doctor teeth?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Doctor te all right?
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Quickly coming to the NFL and Broke Back Mountain have
in common.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
They both have cowboys that suck.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
There you go, who showers longer than Lizzo MD Man?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
That's no In awesome, Thank you, gentlemen. They're just limb
jokes of the Week.
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three, our number three of the Ben
Maler Show on this Friday, the twenty sixth day of September.
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Don't forget.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Coming up a little bit later, a little bit later,
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(00:53):
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would a commissioner fix the problems with college football? Questioning
as he put that out there, he said, well, we
need a commissioner. Also, what message is Lincoln Riley sending
to the USC players about the schedule, complaining about having
to play the early game tomorrow in college football. We'll
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up a little bit at a Thursday night game that
came down to the very end Seattle one on a
late field goal after coughing up a hairball and a
two touchdown lead in that game. We'll have blame jokes
of the week coming up later this hour, but we'll
go to the diamond kind of kind of.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
The business of baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The business of baseball, well, Major League Baseball shockingly has
ruffled some feathers.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
What did they do? Did you see this?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What's the final weekend of the regular season. The curtain
comes down on the regular season on Sunday. The playoffs
start shortly after that, and we have learned that Netflix
is going to be the exclusive home to Major League
Baseball's opening Day in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It features the Yankees and the Giants. To say, well,
what do we care about that? Ben, It's I don't
care about that, all right, So it's in prime time.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Let me just explain why this is a big deal,
because it's another pay tier for Major League Baseball and
there are large factions of fans that are diabolical over
this news, very upset offended by this. So let us
discuss the question, do you understand why a large percentage
(04:19):
of baseball officiaat UZ are upset with the addition of Netflix.
So my views on this one, I've got Jeffrey Dahmer, Tornado,
and Windy's and we will combine all of these things together,
every single one of them, and we'll go to.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The dark underbelly of the news is what we're going
to do.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
So, first of all, this is everything that is wrong
with the Rob Manford regime. Has anyone been a worse
commissioner than Rob Manford in Major League baseball. A lot
of these guys are bad. Like Rob Manford. It just
(05:04):
doesn't care about the fan. He sticks it to the
fan at every chance he gets. And you've taken the
most every day sport. I remember we used to have
this guy in Michigan, Judgmental John, who used to be
one of my regular callers in a previous generation of
the show, and Judgmental John would call up and he
(05:25):
would complain to me, said, man, you know there's too
many baseball games.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I can't watch all the Tiger games.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And I said, John, you're not supposed to. Like, if
you're a real baseball fan, you don't watch every game.
It's Baseball's there when you need it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You know. It's like if you're lucky.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Enough to come from a good family and you've got
a good mom and a good dad, or maybe an
ann or an uncle, but somebody that you can depend on.
You don't need them all the time, but they're there
for it. That's baseball, right. I don't sit and watch
every Dodger game, but when I want to watch a game,
I know it's going to be there. Most everyday sport,
(06:02):
it's the background music to the summer. It's part of
the beauty of baseball, and Rob Manford has turned what
has been symbolic with being a baseball fan knowing, Hey,
if I want to watch a game on a Tuesday night,
I know where the game is. And now it's a
scavenger hunt. And it's been this way for a couple
(06:24):
of years. It's not getting better, it's getting worse. Baseball
is supposed to be about routine. You know where to
find your team's games. You're a fan of your team,
you want to watch your team play, and now you
are spinning the roulette wheel. It's platform roulette, especially like
if you're a Yankee fan or Dodger fan. But we'll
focus on the Yankees because this is a Yankee story.
(06:46):
So I want to watch the Yankees. Let's see, I'm
gonna I gotta watch the Yes network on Tuesday. Now,
Wednesday they're on Amazon Prime, and then on Thursday it's
gonna be Apple Plus something.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Then Friday is.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Gonna be on Netflix, and then on Saturday it's gonna
be on Fox, and then on Sunday it'll be on NBC.
So you need a tech support hotline or a special website.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Just to let people know where to watch the games.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It's it's fragmentation fatigue, That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's like going to a deli. And we've all been
to these delis, right, every town.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Every I shouldn't say every town, every big city has
a legendary Usually it's a Jewish deli and they've got like,
you know, forty pages of the menu, and I always,
I'm always amazing. I go in there, it's like there's
like ninety percent of this stuff. Nobody's ordering. They're ordering
maybe some soup, some pastrami sandwhich why do you have
all this crap? But you just throw your hands up,
(07:49):
he say, I screw it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I don't. I mean, what am I gonna order? I
have just too much stuff? Or the cheesecake factory said
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But the golden rule of business, the golden rule of
business is what it's to make it easy for the
consumer to find your product. And here's how I relate
to Like in my business, I do the radio show, right,
and there's a lot of people that can't listen overnight.
I like to say they graduate from the overnight, so
they work the dread to day shift. And I've been
(08:15):
very fortunate, been doing this a while and a lot
of the people that work the overnight shift for a while,
they become fans of the show, and they're able to
still listen to the podcast, right because it's easy to
find the podcast.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You know where to find us. Now we're on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
So if you supported the show and you want to
watch Benny Versus the Penny, Benny Vspenny on YouTube. If
you want to watch monologues, it's Ben Mathers Show on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
These are wonderful things.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Major League Baseball, though, it is like, screw the Golden rule, right,
we don't want to make it easy for the consumer
to find our product. Rob Manver's like, you know what,
I'm gonna be like Jeffrey Dahmer. I'm gonna I'm gonna
be the Jeffrey Dahmer playbook. I'm gonna cannibalize the TV packages.
I'm gonna chop them up in a little bite sized
piece is and serve them to the highest bidder. And
(09:03):
then I'm gonna tell the fans to lick the play clean. Yummy,
yam me to my tummy.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Tummy.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Now, behind closed doors, major League Baseball things that they're
pulling a moneyball, moneyball for media rites and I'll tell
you what's going on. This is what I've heard. No
as I understand it, maybe I'm wrong, but this is
what I've been told. So Major League Baseball is fully
aware that the TV business has changed a lot, that
they're not gonna get the monster TV contracts. Those are gone,
(09:33):
the mega mega, mega, mega mega millions from ESPN, Fox, TBS.
They're not dropping billions and billions on baseball like it's
nineteen ninety eight. So baseball strategy is to be, well,
here's what we're going. We're gonna recreate big TV money
in the aggregate.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's kind of like what the nerds do when a
star player gets hurt.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, we can't replace leg If Otani got hurt, the
Dodgers been like, well we can't replace Otani, but in
the aggregate, we could have three or four players play
better and then we can. So Baseball's like, all right,
we'll get some millions of dollars from Apple, maybe ten million.
We get twenty million over here from Netflix. We'll get
thirty thirty five million from Peacock. We'll get some more
(10:15):
money from Fox, we get some money from NBC. And
they think if you add enough scraps together.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You can cook a steak. You can't.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
There's only one problem with that for the fan. That
state cost hundreds of bucks a year. It's annoying, and
it's rubbery, there's too much fat in it, and it's
not cooked properly, and you're gouging your most loyal customers.
That's Rob Manford. That's the epitome of Rob Manford screwing
the fan. He had a chance to punish the greatest
(10:45):
cheating scandal of baseball history.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He did nothing. He did nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
The as one two one thousand holes from Houston cheated
in the World Series. In the World Series, people forget
about it. There was also a player that made a
racist gesture in the dugout, and Rob Manford chose not
to suspend him during the World Series.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
He waited until next season to suspend the guy.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
He's so bad.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
He is so bad, Rob Manford. But this is the
next chapter, right.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
The ghost Runner is like all the dumb stuff that
Rob Manford's done, but sticking into your loyal fans. And
there's no stat that measures how annoyed the customer gets
clicking through eight different apps just to watch a damn
Yankees game. On a Tuesday night. Instead of making the
game accessible, accessible and all that, they're running this weird experiment.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And it's like, who's gonna blink first.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's a game of Chicken, Mark Chicken, the fans canceling
subscriptions or the owner's cashing checks, and when the audience drops,
and they will drop, they're gonna act all surprised, like
I didn't see this one coming. I don't understand. I
do not understand. I don't get it. Turning the page
(12:05):
on that to college football. That's right, the rare, inappropriate,
rare and appropriate mention of college football.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I gotta tell you, I'm excited for Saturday.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I am.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You know, I don't have a show that day. I
got the podcast, but the Fifth Hour podcast. But I'm
jones up. We got a really good card to games
on Saturday in college football.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So Kirk herb Street is back entering the chat. He
thinks that.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
College football needs a commissioner, like they didn't see this
coming a.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Mile you know, a mile away.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
If you didn't see this coming a mile away from
herb Street.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Now this weekend, me let me set this up.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So the college football pundit who's pretending to be an
NFL pundit. He was commenting on We've got Alabama Georgia
on Saturday. I believe that's an ESPN game, and then
LaVar Arrington's Penn State will be taking on Oregon and
that'll be taking place simultaneously.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I think that's on I believe that's on NBC.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Anyway, who cares whatever it's at the same time anyway,
So Herbstreet went on some podcast and said, Hey, I
got the solution to this. This is not great two
marquee matchups conflicting with each other.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
So here's what he had to say.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
It's another example of why we need eventually a commissioner's office,
like the NFL has a commissioner's office, right, and there
are a lot of different layers to what that office
could do. Obviously in this NIL and portal era and
the realignment era, I think the biggest thing that I
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think sometimes as a guy who eats and breathes college football,
there are some weeks in college football where it's just
there might be one good game, and there are other
weeks like this week.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You could argue this is the greatest weekend of the
entire year.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Starting Friday night, there's good games. Yeah, and then from
game day and then after game day noon eastern all
the way. If you're crazy like me, you'll watch BYU
in Colorado at ten fifteen they start, and that'll go
to whatever one in the morning.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And you're thinking, I don't know. What he said was
the commissioner stuff. That's the important stuff, right, So he said,
we need a commissioner, and essentially what he wants is
centralized scheduling, like an authority who would prevent blue blood
programs to use the Jeffrey Dahmer line again, cannibalizing each
other's audience. So the question for the esteem panel do
(14:33):
you agree or disagree with Kirk kerb Street? Would a
quote commissioner fix what he says are the problems with
college football schedule?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
So my first thought on this is here we go again.
It's Groundhog Day every year Kirk kerb Street for the
last I don't know how many years it's been. It's
been a number of years.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Herb Street at some point comes out and he goes
on this same crusade.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It's the hill he wants to die on.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
The college football needs a commission, They need a commission,
and blah blah, blah blah.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Every year.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He pulls this out of the moth balls every year,
and I'm telling you, okay, I'm telling you it's never happening.
Whether you think it's a good idea or not, it's
not happening, not in my lifetime, not in your lifetime.
This isn't the NFL. It's getting to that, but it's
not there. And the main problem you have is the
(15:25):
Southeastern Conference believes there's nothing better than Southern fat football.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
There's nothing better.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And then the Big Ten says, hold our beer because
we go from coast to coast. The Big Ten's like,
come on. So the SEC and the Big Ten are
not giving up an ounce of power.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
They are at the very top of their own kingdoms,
and those are pretty good kingdoms.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And Herbie is talking about it like it's this magic
placebo and it'll fix everything, like if you just had
one guy in charge, poof all the problems go away.
No no no no no no no no no no
no no no. This isn't going to solve anything. In fact,
in the NFL has a commissioner. And yet if you
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look at the schedule, people complain, why are there so
many games at the one pm Eastern TV window.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And I can't keep track everything.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Why don't you spread them out and play some games
during the week and all that stuff. The other issue
here college football my entire life. And I'm not the
biggest college football fan, but I do consume it. We
don't talk about it much because of the way the
schedule works for our radio show. But college football is
built on a tornado of chaos.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That is the charm, that's the uniqueness of that sport.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You're supposed to have three or four insane Saturdays where
there's five monster games going on at the one time,
and your right hands getting a workout, and if you're
completely transparent, Kirk kirb Street is not really worried about
the fan.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
He's not worried about the fan. He's worried about the
TV ratings.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
He doesn't want eyeballs siphoned off from his game.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
If he's doing Bama Georgia.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He doesn't want you watching Penn State and Oregon on
NBC at the same time. Guess what, Kurt, excuse my
French se La vill that's life, right. You don't get
the hog all the oxygen. Other people get some of
the oxygen and a commissioner cannot tell the Southeastern Conference
when to play and where to play, can't tell the
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Big Ten.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The same thing. These are billion dollar cartels. They just start.
They're not gonna listen to anyone.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
If anything, they're expanding their empires. They're not centralizing their empires.
And Herbstreet can clutch his pearls all he wants. It's
not gonna change all right, final fuck quick, right, it's
staying in college football.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So coach Lincoln Riley, SC's actually off to a decent start.
Could they actually be good? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We'll see have a seemingly soft game tomorrow. But Lincoln
Riley is not thrilled about USC's early kickoff as they
play the early TV window against the Fighting a Lini
in Champagne or Beta. So going on is a quote
here he said, going from the absolute latest kick in
(18:19):
the country, Lincoln Riley said, to the absolute earliest kick
in the country.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You're talking about. Last week they played Michigan State the
late game. Now they play the Fighting Alini in the
early game.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
They have to travel, he said, it's challenges, but the
challenges like it is what it is. He said, we
don't make the schedule. Clearly, he grumbled, all right, question,
what message is Lincoln Riley sending to the USC players
in that locker room about the schedule. So Lincoln Riley
(18:48):
makes a lot of money, but it sounds like he's
got a part time job over at Windy's and he's
running the frosty machine at Soft Serve.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's a tough turnaround early game booing, boo freaking out.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You know what the old generation would have said, Oh
you're gonna do boomer radio bell, just bear with. For
about one hundred years in football, there was this machismo
where you'd say, we'll play anybody, anytime, anywhere, on asphalt
behind a Sam's club, next to the swing set, on
(19:23):
a patch of broken up concrete. Strap it up, let's go,
let's do it. Man versus man. You don't complain, it's unbecoming.
You don't complain about the clock. You beat the clock.
What kind of message is Lincoln Riley sending to his
players here instead of saying, Hey, this is a badge
of honor. Adversity makes you stronger. Let's show everyone that
(19:48):
we're not the same old Soft USC and we can
roll out of bed.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And smash the line eye at nine in the morning
West Coast time.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Instead, he's giving them a built in, baked and excuse
before the game's even played. That's loser talk, baking in
the alibi. And so another example of times have changed.
Back in the day, coaches would treat this as again
a challenge, a test of toughness, get you ready for
big games later in the year. He's supposed to be
(20:19):
a program with national title aspirations, and you're head coach
there the men of Troy is crying about an early
cookoff time. That is a red flag, is what that is.
And this is the Ben Maller Show. If you'd like
to be part eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
We'll squeeze in some phone calls.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Also coming up later this hour, we've got Big Ben's
lame jokes of the week that'll be coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Time now though for the Mallor Riddle of the day.
And here's the Mallard Riddle of the day.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Seattle Seahawks kicker Jason Myers did a blank before nailing
the game winning field goal on the Thursday night game. Again,
Seahawk secker Jason Myers did a blank before nailing the
game winning field goal on Thursday Night Football. That is
the Mailer. We're realer love today the answer. We'll get
(21:14):
to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
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Speaker 1 (23:26):
Back to it my time now for the Mallor Riddle
of the day. We'll get to the Mallard Riddle of
the day.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Although I did see a message from our big Yankee fan, Jill,
she's a Minnesota slubs the Yankees, says, of course I
have all the streaming networks, but Opening Day is unfair
to Michael kay and all the broadcasters and fans. She says,
awful announcers on these other networks, absolute worst. Yeah, that's
another thing that Rob Manford and Baseball did not that
(23:56):
the the real fans of the team. They love their
local broadcasters. They don't want some other jamoke doing the games.
Time now though, for the Mallor Riddle of the day,
and here it is. Seattle Seahawks kicker Jason Myers did
a blank before nailing the game winning field goal on
Thursday night as the clock ran out. That is the question.
(24:18):
What is the answer? Alf The Alien Opiner from just
adjacent to Springfield, mass where Muffett McGraw is in the
Hall of Fame, says he did a whole variety of
whoopee pies. He did a self portrait from late Night
drug tester.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Malaprop Guy says he's sang a chorus of living. La
vita lorena is what he's saying there, okay song Page
down a swig of mouthwash from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I hope mouthwash. Mike's date with the seventy five year
old woman went well. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Stevie Meatball says he did a Joe Peshy funny, how
funny and fersonation human sacrifice from Robbie the Mariner fan
did a shot of kaquila with a one legged midget.
According to just Josh, who else do we have? Page Dan,
We'll skip over that when he did kegstand from Tom
(25:16):
and Cans City Perto says the kicker honored the Mariners
clinching the West by taking a big dumper, did a
cartwheel from Donkey's sausage. That's his answer. Push forward here,
Fat Daddy. Fat Daddy says the kicker put on his
(25:37):
nipple ring before the field goal. Eileen in San Francisco
says he did a load of laundry.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's very funny.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Robin Minnesota says he did a shot of BlackBerry brandy
is what he did? A cartwheel from JT. The wingman
dropped a deuce. Guest by Paul d that's his answer.
Super Mark and Steve cheated because that's that's what he does. There,
BP says a number two. Luke says he went to
(26:08):
a darkness retreat. That's his answer. Lorrain, Oh do you
have an answer, Lorrain?
Speaker 6 (26:13):
No?
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Yes, Ben, I think he did a line of.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Tousy okay, uh.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It turns out Seahawk Seker Jason Myers did a line
of smelling salt. Smelling salts is what we were looking for.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Wow, I was so close.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
You are, so you're right there, You're so close, but
so far away we're at almost Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Smelling smelling salts. Yeah, that's I guess.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
That's a lot of people like eat people alive.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
No, that's well, they cleaned that was basalt.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
However, I I heard that that was not actually bas Salts.
There was something else involved in that story. The guy
in Miami or Florida that ate somebody's FeAs, But it's not.
It wasn't actually, they determined later I heard about this
and it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It wasn't. It was something else that he had been taking.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Anyway, Uh, let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to Eeny Meani, Miny Moe. Let's sailor to John
who's in Boston, and John is up next coming up
later this how we have Big Ben's lame jokes a week.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Hello John, Welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Ben Herbie is talking about a college football commissioner because
he wants to be the college football commissioner. He's trying
to invent the job for himself, like Cliff, like Cliff
On cheers like Cliff.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
That's a good line, though, I like, I do remember,
I do remember that. But but no, why would he
want to be the commissioner. You're not going to make
as much money. You know how much money ESPN's paying
him to do all these college football games, and Amazon's
paying him to do the He wouldn't make that much
money as a commissioner of the college.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Football Roger Goodell makes fifty million dollars a year. Then
I don't think Kirk is making that much.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
The college football is not going to pay. First of all,
they'll never be a commissioner.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
If he did get the job, Ben and everybody was
the first day he comes to Big the Big Boss,
and he watched him with his little doggie.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, I love I love John.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I love dogs, but I'm a little tired of his dog.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
It's a little much, right.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Can't we show up to work without a dog? I
do the show without my dog. I I love my dog.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Yeah, dog will dog grown?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Now I get it. Like we have a moving man
Matt and his dog Louis, but he's.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
In a truck by himself. All I get that. But
if you're Kirk Kurbsa, what are you doing? And how
do let me ask you this? How like what most hotels,
like I'm telling luxury hotels don't.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
They don't take dogs, do they?
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Apparently if you're rich enough they will.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's a good point.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
I'm not saying that they do. Yeah, and again, I'm
not rich. I'm not staying there.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Anyway neither am I.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, all right, thank you for get call. All right,
it's great, John. I like that guy's rare good call.
To make sure that we take a bad call, let's
go to hollering James in Minnesota. Hello, Hollering James in Minneapolis, Minius,
ault Ta, James, Hollering James, James, James, James, James, James, James,
(29:18):
holloweing James.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Killing once, going twice? Do I hear a third time?
Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye
bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
So I mentioned this earlier, the sixty eight percent. This
is a fascinating story. So there's a guy named Ryan Williams,
which is a very generic name. You do not want
to be named Ryan Williams if you're famous, because it's
not a memorable name.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You need a nickname. So Ryan Williams is a very
good football player at Alabama in tuscal Looosa, Alabama, and
he mentioned.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Recently that he has decided to delete social media from.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
His life after he averaged.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
How many hours a day on his phone. Let's see,
let's go around the room here. Don't cheat, don't cheat,
don't go create, don't through the old Eddie and go
create Lorena through a round robin here, how many hours
do you think Ryan Williams, a football player at Alabama,
spent on his phone before he decided that I've got
(30:33):
to stop doing that.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
Eight hours and forty seven minutes straight.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Then, thank you for the exact number. I do appreciate that.
Kooper loop.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Ten hours.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
All right, Okay, good guess good guess?
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Ah, guess why?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I know I know the answer, I know the answer.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It turns out that Ryan Williams averaged eleven hour hours
a day on his phone. So I did the math
on this. The average person sleeps eight hours a day,
so that means you're awake. If there's twenty four hours
in the day, that means you're awake sixteen.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Now I'm using malor math on this, and of.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Course time is a human something humans created, so who
knows if it's accurate. But sixteen hours you're awake if
you sleep eight hours. So if you use your phone
eleven hours a day, that means sixty eight point seven percent.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Of the day you're on your phone. Almost seventy percent
of the day you're on your phone.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
Now, maybe, yes, I want to say something about this
because I've thought about this before, because I average close
to seven hours a day.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
But oh my god, I also use.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
YouTube while I shower and that counts as phone time, right,
Listening to podcasts on my phone.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
Podcasts on my phone also count as usage.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Right, And then yeah, so I think that takes off
at least at least an hour and a half from
my seven hours of screen time.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
So you're five and a half hours?
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Is healthy? A healthy five and.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
A half hour? You think that's helpy?
Speaker 9 (32:08):
Yeah, because I'm also doing research.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
She's researching? And how many likes her last post?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Guy?
Speaker 9 (32:19):
Those numbers, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Oh boy, look at that. Uh, I'm trying to think.
I don't know how much time I spend on my
I phone.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
You do work prep on there too, right, yeah, a
little bit like, but I'm not on there eleven hours
a day. You don't doom scroll, though? Do you like
on Instagram and Facebook? You don't doom scroll?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
What is doom?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (32:43):
You literally just scroll and you keep scrolling and you
just keep reading.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You're not, no, no, no, I don't. I don't do that.
I usually what I do is I do it.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I call her drive by, I'll go on there, and
I'll put something on social media and I get off
real quick.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I'll be like, all right, I'm good, I'm down here,
I'm I'm all right.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
So oh oh, let's hear coops daily average.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
He said it's so bad. Set that off the air
for a reason, which is.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Why I'm calling you out. Let's hear it.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
No, it's just pretty it's pretty bad. It's worse than yours.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Oh, like I I look at it, says here, I
spend on social media. I spend eleven minutes a.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Day on social that's it. Yeah, wow, eleven eleven eleven minutes.
So is that that's not good? I should spend more
on there.
Speaker 9 (33:25):
You should spend more time on there.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah, I need to spend more time on social media.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Okay, all right, anyway, all right, that ends these I
guess James is complained, James real quick, hollowing. James has
called back. He is crying like a blankety blank.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
James, Hello, James, hollowing James, you hear me?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
No, what's the matter? Why can't we hear James? I don't.
I don't understand what's going on. I don't I don't
get why we can't. Why can we not hear him.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Did he fall asleep again?
Speaker 9 (33:54):
I put the button up. I can't hear.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Are you there? Are you there, James? James, you should hear.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Why aren't you talking? You're disrespecting the show, James.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Didn't he just call back? Is he playing? Is he
playing us for a fool? I thought he was a friend? Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
There he is there.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
He is hollowing James. Everybody my friend? Hollering James there,
don't please?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
All right? You know what I'm gonna do for you, James.
You want to be part of lame jokes?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (34:39):
I love jokes.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Were For the first time ever, we're gonna have hollering
James and weed Man on lame jokes with me.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Who says no to that? That's great content? Right, all right, James,
Hold on a sake, don't hang up, James. We got
weed Man, got hollering. Okay, we'll see how this goes.
We'll try something different. Why not.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Let's see how weed Man, hollering James get along. We'll
have Big Ben's lame Jokes of the Week for the
rest of the hour. We'll get to that, and we will.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Do it next.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
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Speaker 1 (35:20):
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Speaker 1 (36:14):
Always pop up at the top of your screen.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Knock knock, who's there?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Blame Weed, Blame week too. It's Big Ben's lame joke
of the week. All right, let's do this, Big Ben's
Lame jokes. Are you there, weed man? Weed man? All right?
Hollering James, are you there? James?
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Holl Dames live and about. He's good.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
All right, So now don't don't don't bowguard? We met?
Are you okay with James? Okay? All right, all right,
here we go. Lame jokes.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
What is the title of Kyler Murray's new video game?
What play like Duty? That's a that's a Chip in
Maine who is always favored to beat Alligator Arms Murray?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Who van the one legged Bama Man? That's from Chip
in Maine? Again?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
What?
Speaker 1 (37:16):
What? What? What do you call a cup?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Designed by Derek Are designed for Derek Henry, Designed for
Derrick Henry?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
What a fumbler? That's Kurt from.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Which of the five Burroughs does Lorena like the most?
Speaker 6 (37:34):
Which Arna one?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Well, you're making me regret this.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Joe Joe Burrow. She that's her favorite. She likes Joe Burrow.
That's Eric in Kansas.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Thank you for that. Eric. Why would Lorena and lead
a Lap make a royal couple? Why?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Well, she she is the queen of hearts and he
is the king of farts. That's George and Valdi who
sent that one in What is Bartolo cologne and Lizzo's
favorite martial art?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
What kung food? That's Gordon in Tacoma. We set that one.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's Big Ben's lame jokes a week, actual jokes by
actual listeners. Why did why did Blind Scott's ex break
up with him? What she said she felt invisible? That's
Eric in Kansas. We set that one in all right,
very nice, there, we'll skip down. Why couldn't aliens probe
David Vasse with one size fits all?
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Apparently, according to Lucky Tony, it kept falling out. I
don't even know what that means. Why? Why did why
did Blind let me skip over that one? I think
we've done that?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
What do you call it when Mike the Leprechaun holds
grudges against Blind Scott and Marcel?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
What irish ste is? What you called there?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
We've got We've got weed man hippie and hollering jameson
l jokes. What is the difference between Russell Wilson and
weed man hippie? What six sick children in the hospital
would prefer.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Me visiting by weed man hippie? James?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
You started laughing early. I didn't even give the punchline.
That's Gordon a Tacoma. Why why doesn't weed Man like
the truth?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Why? Why? Because you can't painhandle the truth? That's why
I come on?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Alright, did you hear that weed Man has his very
own I p A, yeah, he's calling it.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
You can't see a thing bong water? I pa.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
How did weed Man react whenever he noticed all his
lamps were gone.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
In his house?
Speaker 6 (39:44):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Delighted?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
That's Noah in Austin. Which Muppet Show character is weed Man?
Jealous of what doctor teeth?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Doctor te all right?
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Quickly coming to the NFL and Broke Back Mountain have
in common.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
They both have cowboys that suck.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
There you go, who showers longer than Lizzo MD Man?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
That's no In awesome, Thank you, gentlemen. They're just limb
jokes of the Week.
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