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October 2, 2025 • 44 mins

Big Ben talks about the Dodgers beating the Reds and advancing to the next round of the MLB playoffs, Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown making a statement about his 4am video game playing, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and much more!

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(02:02):
you'll get into it. It didn't seem very into it yesterday.
It was kind of a dull baseball hour. I'll see
what we do tonight. We'll keep the good ship floating
across the audio ocean. So we had a full slate,
another full day here, first day of October. Now we're
heading into October second, but the first day of October
wild Card baseball action. And we will start with the

(02:23):
game that ended closest to us cracking the powerful microphones
here at FSR. That would be in Los Angeles downtown
La Chavez Ravine and the Dodgers and the Reds. It
was the Reds needing to win the game to stay alive.
Stay alive, or else they would be exterminated from the plus.

(02:44):
So I don't know if you saw this or not. Maybe
you were not watching the game. And if you weren't watching,
you missed Yoshinobu Yama Moto striking out nine and didn't
get much help from his defense early on, but ends
up pitching into the seventh inning. So back to back
good playoff starts for the Dodgers, and they broke it
open four runs in the sixth inning. They beat the

(03:05):
Reds double them up eight to four the final, So
using Malormath, that means the Dodgers have won the National
League wild Card round and have advanced to the Divisional Series.
Now they hit a bunch of home runs the other night,
five home runs. They doubled up the Reds in Game one,
so the Dodgers win the series. And they win it

(03:26):
outscoring the Reds eighteen to nine. So for every two
runs the Dodgers scored using malar Mack, the red scored
one run. The NL Wildcard Series is over. The Dodgers
have eliminated the Reds. So Cincinnati everyone now NDA, na DA,

(03:46):
good bye. You barely knew you barely knew you. So
the Reds end up going down here Mookie Betts, who
took the first three months off of the baseball season.
I got a message from the bus driver, Roberto, are
you gonna do my logan? Apologize to Mookie beetball. He
should apologize to me for three months off during the
baseball season. All these broadcasters licking his toes make me

(04:08):
want to peelk in my mouth. But it's nice that
Mookie's finally arrived here. Four hits, four for five, three doubles,
a partries in the paratree. So now it sets it up.
Now we've got a couple of heavyweights. The Dodgers beat
up a lightweight. Now they play a heavyweight. Dodgers advanced
to face the Phillies and the Delaware Valley. The National

(04:28):
League Divisional Series will begin on Saturday while all of
us are watching college football and not paying attention. That's
how Major League Baseball operates. So there you go. That'll
be going on on Saturday. Let us discuss the question
here we go. Do the Dave Roberts Dodgers have momentum

(04:49):
after beating up the Red LICs. I saw this several times,
and it caught my attention. Well, the Dodgers have the momentum. Now,
they've got their mojo back because they beat up the
Cincinnati REDI so I've got fairy dust, Bambi and dentists,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to put the biscuit in the basket,

(05:11):
is what we're going to do. So my first thought
on this here to answer the question, do the Dodgers
have all the momentum? All the dopey sportscasters were saying,
So I am shaking my head.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
No.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
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watch them on YouTube at YouTube dot com, slash at
Ben Mathers Show. So I'm shaking my head. No, the
Dodgers pushed around the runt of the playground. All right,
little slow kid on the playground, they pushed them around,

(05:45):
that is what they did. Okay, the Reds were chum
in the water, and the sharks Tani's a shark. Mookie
Betts has arrived now, so he's back being a shark
and Tayo Hernandez. These guys feasted on the Cincinnati Reds.
The starting pitching did their job. That's all good stuff. Fine, However,

(06:07):
let me give you a refresher course. Mallar one, oh one,
I'll give you away mallarism, and the malorism is momentum
does not exist, all right. It is narrative dressing, is
what it is. It's something that a bunch of sports writers.
Back when people used to read these things called newspapers,
there were sports writers who are very powerful. Now they're not,

(06:27):
but back in the day they're very powerful. And it's
fairy dust that the sports writers would sprinkle. They'd sprinkle it, right,
it's just like that sprinkles like on top of a
cupcake on the team to make it sound like they've
they've become something amazing, like they're unstoppable force. So you
just add that narrative. All they've got all the momentum,

(06:48):
you know. The only momentum I know is Uncle Ma
and he lives in New Jersey. That's it. Now, it's
a myth. Every October it's its own little universe every October. Here,
you reset the bracket, you reset the pressure cooker, you
reset everything everything. Now the Dodgers they are who they're

(07:09):
still who we thought they were. I have not changed
my position on the twenty twenty five Dodgers. They are
still the same booby trapped operation. You can puff your
chest out about the lineup and O Tani, this Otani,
that be a total fanboy. But underneath the blue paint,

(07:29):
all right, underneath the blue paint, the team is actually
wired with explosives. They just are all right, I'm telling
the things booby trapped. And if you check out out
the soft underbelly of the Dodgers. Now, I three errors
in this game, the game that they won on on
Wednesday night. So three errors there bad fundamentals. But the

(07:49):
biggest issue here is the Komodo dragon in the room.
There's really no way around it. The bullpen. The Dodgers
have to score eight to ten runs game in the
playoffs to win. That's not a sustainable formula. Why is that, Well,
here's my hypothesis on this. The bullpen is essentially a
bottle of rollaides just waiting to be cracked open one

(08:13):
by one, one by one. These guys had in the
era in a series that two game set. Small sample
size but that's all we have to go with. You know,
the Dodgers' bullpen era against the Reds in these two
games eight point eight two. Let me repeat that for
those of you that had a couple too many beers
in the back of the room. We're not paying attention.
The Dodgers' bullpen five and a third innings give up

(08:36):
five runs an ERA of eight point eight two. They
also had seven walks seven walk it walked in two
batters against the Reds. Listen, I like Ellie Dela Cruz.
He's good and that's about it. But that's the Reds.
Imagine what Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies

(08:57):
are going to do to that heart burn pen that
the Dodgers are gonna be rolling out there in Philadelphia.
And all you need to do is keep it closing
the game. Plans rather simple. I don't need to have
played major league baseball. Don't you just keep it within
one or two runs. You don't even concern if you
go to the seventh inning and you're down by two runs,

(09:18):
You're not really all that worried, right, Just drag him
into the late innings. If you're the Phillies drag him
in the late innings and then Boom goes to dynamite,
or in this case, kubb Boom goes to dynamite. You
open up the trap door and the Dodger bullpen leads
the team as they fall into a pit of Anaconda's
good luck on that everything. Everything is great right now

(09:42):
because they won these two games. But I mean, people
a getting hypnotized by Otani, you know, hitting bombs and
mookis spraying lasers all over the ballpark and all that.
I'm telling you. When Push comes to show the Dodgers
and not proved to me that they are over this
issue right and it's the same old Dave Roberts Dodgers,
And I know what's gonna happen. I've seen this. How
many years have we seen this?

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Now?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
The Dodgers bullpen's gonna go out there and they're gonna
puke all over themselves, and Dave Roberts is gonna come
to the day. I said, well, I really liked him
in that spot. You know, it's always a bozo brigade
lurking in the bullpen there, one walk away, one bloop,
single away, one error away from disaster. And so no,
I have not changed my position. To me, there's still

(10:24):
the same accident prone, ulcer inducing Dodgers until proven otherwise.
All right, now turning the page, we have every other
series the team that lost game won one game two.
So that sets us up for what should be a
pretty good Thursday with three games winner take all and
advance to the divisional round, including the Red Sox and

(10:46):
the Yankees. And in that particular game, the Red Sox
fell behind, came back and tied it. It was a
nip and tuck game. Now, the story here is Red
Sox outfielder Jared Duran, who took responsibility I saw this
or not for the game two loss to the Yankees
in the wild card round. Now set this up. The

(11:07):
score was tied to two, was the bottom of the
fifth inning, so there's a lot of baseball to be played.
But bottom of the fifth inning, the Yankees had Trent Grisham,
that's an outfielder at second base with two outs and
Aaron Judge at the plate. So Aaron Judge hit not
a home run, he had a liner to left field.
Now Jared Duran of the Socks came in on it,

(11:29):
but in a very awkward manner. He stumbled and bumbled.
The turf monster got him a little bit. The ball
hit the heel of Duran's glove and pop goes the
ball pop right out, fell to the ground. Now Grisham
who actually hustled something you don't see that often in baseball.
He ran all the way, scored easily from second base,

(11:53):
and that set up Jared Duran post game. We have
the audio here. Here's Jared Duran explaining who's responsible for
that loss takes.

Speaker 5 (12:00):
I mean, this one's gonna sing a little bit. I mean,
I know that game is one hundred percent on me.
If I make that play, Trevor hits a homer, we
take the lead. But you know I I messed it up,
gave them momentum, and you know, things just hopping from there.
But you know it's that one's on me. I'm gonna
have to wear that one do.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
I have to explain to him there's no such thing
as momentum, all right, So question we're gonna play the
thumbs up thumbs down game thumbs up or thumbs down
on Jaren Duran saying the Red Sox loss is one
on him. So I'm gonna go thumb way up, thumb,
way up to the moon. Yeah, this guy muffed it.

(12:39):
He muffed it. That was a disaster class in left
field defense. And it's it's it's it's game two. Red
Sox come back and win Game three to'll be forgotten
about if they don't. It's one of those things that
will linger. And it's one of the great things about
this time there October baseball, biggest stage. Right, the ball
hits the heel of your galve. That's little league. That

(12:59):
is little league baseball, right. The Dodgers also had a
similar play like that in their game, but they came
back and won, So we're not gonna sit here and
harp on their defensive blunders. But for the Red Sox,
they lost the game. And you gotta make that play period.
That's it, right. That was a meat ball of a
fly ball for a major league outfield. That wasn't some

(13:19):
wall scraper at Yankee Stadium that woke up the echoes
of Babe Ruth and Louke Garrick and Joelton Joe DiMaggio.
It wasn't a laser rocket with tops men. That was
a playable ball, right, a playable ball, all right, And
he came in like bamb on Ice stumbled, the ball

(13:42):
clanked right off the glove, and you can't do that
in the obviously in the playoffs, playoffs, and so they're
not in pinstripe country. So the Keystone Cops routeae. The
Yankees did not win that inning, and the Red Sox
obviously lost it. And most games are lost, not one.
Most games a loss, not one. That's the great thing
about this in all of sports, in the playoffs and

(14:03):
just in general, in October and all that, everything gets
magnified under the microscope as it should. You screw up
one play, it tilts the whole night from you know,
from this point and going forward. Now again the Red
six have a chance to erase this. And now Boston
is going to go into the wood Chipper for a

(14:24):
do or die Game three in the Bronx with some
guy I've never heard of pitching for the Red Sox
against some guy who's an FCC violation waiting to happen
for the Yankees. His name which sounds like it's got
the S word in it, So good luck on that. Now,
last word here, what else stands out by Wildcard Round?
The Wildcard round of MLB so you've got the couple
things stood out to me and I was half I

(14:45):
was half a sleep, half awake. I was groggy because
I do an overnight radio show. But the Tigers and
the team named after a bridge that used to be
called the Indians, but then the Wolksers forced them to
change the name so that that game was the Early
Game and the Detroit off my recommendation after watching that,
and I was like, is this really happening? They need

(15:06):
to find a Dennis because they were toothless Tigers in
that game. In fact, I have the math here. The
nerds have looked us up. The MotorCity Kitties had a
franchise postseason record fifteen men left on base fifteen, one
for fifteen with runners in the scoring position. I didn't
play major League baseball, but that blows. That blows there,

(15:29):
she blows the Tigers office. And now, much like the
Red Sox and the Yankees, that's do or die. Now
the Tigers are in the on deck circle getting getting
knocked out by that rag tag Cleveland Guardians team that
really has no business doing what they're doing, and yet
it looked like they were gonna have they had. It

(15:50):
was one to one, and it's like and then they
scored a bunch of runs late and open it up.
In Detroit, they become the first team to strand fifteen
runners in the playoff. Since I mean, this is going
way back, the Los Angeles Angels, like I did it
even exist? I think they tore the franchise down, didn't

(16:10):
they disperse the franchise? Angela Angels. We're in a playoff
game in nine my god? Yeah yeah. Now as for
the National League side of the bracket, talking about bad offense,
I guess it's contagious. The Cubby's offense, they went limp.
We have a pill that we sell overnight that can
help you out on that Against the Padres, the Cubs

(16:31):
not only failed to sweep the Padres in that little
two game the best of three win the two you win, uh.
In addition to that, they were human fans. It is
a nice day at Wrigley Field, but they lose three
to nothing. The Cubs had all of four hits, one walk,
one hit by pitch, and eleven strike cuts, which I

(16:51):
don't think is that good. So that means now the
Chicago Cubs through two games, they're one in one. The
Cubs are batting one seventy five. That's the Cubs, eighty
five percent of the world's work. The other fifteen percent
come out here. It's a playground for the blank blanks.
And that's the that's the Cup players. Now, it's like,
it's not like the potter is there any better? The

(17:13):
potters are hitting a buck seventy seven, So it's not
let's not get all horney for the Padres and the
big boppers, mister Tucker and Pete crow Armstrong. Well, Armstrong sucked.
Crow Armstrong sucked most of the second half the year,
but mostly spectators in this game. All right, it is
the Ben Malischow. I'm still getting messages from these Dodger
lap dogs, these guys that caught ale up with Dodger players.

(17:33):
What are you gonna you should apologie, I've already addressed
the Mookie bet should apologize to me. Mookie Bet should
give a refund for stealing money, embezzling money for the
first three or four months of the baseball season, and
nobody had the balls to call him out. All right,
And I'm the bad guy because I called out Mookie
Betts for stealing money for four months and all these

(17:55):
other toadies, right, the fanboys in the media, they don't
have the balls to do that. Anyway. It is the
Ben Mahlor Show. If you would like to be part
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you know that I was watching some of that postgame
coverage there locally here in La the Dodgers these does
anyone celebrate more than baseball players? I mean, Mike go,
you won two games in a playoff series and you're

(18:15):
just celebrating like you won the freaking World Series. It's embarrassed.
And uh, and that vassy guy covered in booze, if
he gets pulled over on the way home, he's getting
he's getting a ticket. It's gonna be a very expensive ticket. Anyway.
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we are settling in to a new hour, here we
have a follow up to a story that we talked
about the other. DAY i thought this was kind of,
fun SO i thought we'd revisit. It it's AN nfl,
story loosely AN nfl. Story it's a pretty good. One
so our lead is from the video game world THAT
nba two k to be. Exact so The lions have

(21:31):
a wide. Receiver his name is Aman Ross Saint. Brown
if you've heard of him or, night it's pretty, good
pretty good ball. Player So i'm On Ross Saint, brown
and he has addressed the internet. Chatter there were Some
internet investigators that discovered That Saint brown was PLAYING nba
TWO k at four in the. Morning four of, Them,

(21:53):
oh who cares if he plays a? Four and money
where The lions had a they had a business engagement that,
day they had a football. Game it was kind of
a football. Game they're playing The Cleveland. Browns but that
was the game On sunday and four in the, Morning
i'm On Ross Saint brown was PLAYING nba TWO. K
so he talked about. It he saw this Or i'd
have heard about. It maybe. Not maybe it's skip past your.

(22:14):
Radar so on his fledgling, podcast because everyone loves audio,
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can't confirm or deny THAT i was on TWO k
at four. Am he, SAID i do love playing two
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can you unravel The lions wide. Receiver i'm On Ross

(22:37):
Saint brown's statement on his FOUR am video game, habit
where again he, SAID i you, KNOW i can't confirm or.
Deny that was his. Response So i've got cloak and,
dagger dinner, menu and, straddle and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to have

(22:57):
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(23:22):
the on The Warren. Commission it's just so. Good, now this,
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(23:42):
but they they popularized that. Response cloak and, dagger black op,
stuff all that. Stuff but that's the non answer answer
that one would. Give it's one of those you, know
don't look behind the curtain, things you, know don't you
don't want to know what's back. There you really don't
know what it's. Now it's obviously a complete nothing. Burger
this is Not Kyler murray who's out there Playing call

(24:05):
Of duty until sunrise and then stinking up the joint
On sunday. Afternoon this Is i'm on ra and he is.
Compartmentalizing you can go out there and drop TWO k
buckets at four in the morning and then still show
up for the real. Thing seven, catches seventy, yards a
couple of touchdowns against THAT jv squad From. Cleveland Sam

(24:27):
brown can be up all night and he might be
listening right. AWAY i can't tell you how many people
are listening overnight while playing. Games i've always had a
consistent group of p ones that are up all night
with us and there's no one awake around. Them their
friends are all sleeping, even and they're just they're listening

(24:48):
to the talk. Show, well they're playing games ALL i love.
It i'm there for, it. Man you guys that do that.
Thing you reach out to me every once and WHILE i, say,
Hey I'm i'm one of those gamer, guys And i'm,
like all, Right but that's the whole. Point all night
playing video. GAMES i don't care if he's building, legos
he can build lego, castles or if he likes, knitting
he can knit a. Scarf for ALL i. Care as

(25:11):
long as the touchdowns keep flowing in The Honolulu. Blue
who gives a? CRAP i do like the fact that
he pretty much confirmed that he did do. It if
the results are, there no one says, boot nobody. Says
but the only way this becomes a story is if
he goes out there and drops a key pass or
doesn't put up the stat line that we're used, to

(25:34):
then it's, Oh i'm on Ross Saint brown is playing
two k all. Night that's why he sucked at a
time you cannot suck until. Then this is like using
a magnifying glass to look for ants on the. Sidewalk completely,
pointless completely, Pointless all, right, now moving, on we go To.
Tampa we go To. Tampa The buccaneers head To seattle

(25:56):
this week and one of the more interesting games on
the card this week in terms of, times record and.
Whatnot Baker mayfield dinged up this week at, practice but
in a media get together On, Wednesday Baker mayfield was
asked About Sam. Donald Baker mayfield said that he and
The Seattle seahawks Quarterback Sam donald remained close. FRIENDS a reporter,

(26:18):
asked do you And sam ever reminisce on the good
old days In? Carolina and Then baker, responded reminisce on what?
Days and then the reporter followed up by saying the
good old days In, carolina and The, baker without missing a,
beat said, no we. Don't he, said, so that's a

(26:40):
decent jumping off point. Question Baker mayfield asked to reminisce
about his good old days With Sam donald In. Carolina
that is. Blank. All my word is pig. Pen that
is the WORD i wrote. Down pig. Pen that is the.
Word there were no good old days In. Carolina it

(27:02):
was pig. Pen Literally charlotte's web a book my parents
forced me to read as a. Child Charlotte's webb comes
to life Right wilbur the pig stuck in mud And
charlotte spins lies to keep him relevant To. Baker mayfield
started six games In, carolina was one in. Five Sam
donald from late of The jets came To. Carolina he

(27:22):
was on that team With Baker mayfield and he was
pulled out of the reject beIN there and somehow he
managed to all to start six. Games he went four and.
Two but it's kind of like to Ask Baker, mayfield
who was a failure In, carolina to ask him about
that situation and, like, hey you have any good. Memories

(27:44):
it's like it's like asking two people if they missed
the dinner menu on The. Titanic who cares what the meal?
Was when you're hitting the iceberg in about ten, minutes
you don't really care about. That But Sam donald eventually got.
Rescued now had to bounce around a little bit. More
but The Scandinavian vikings skull and four swoops in gives

(28:07):
him a helmet and says you're one of us. Now
and he played well In minnesota now The seahawks gave
him a. Contract Baker mayfield was saved By Bucco bruce
after he made a pitch stop IN la and The
Tampa Life raft picked him. Up and so The Carolina
panthers era wasn't exactly a career. Highlight it was an emergency.
Flare both of them had the football equivalent of an

(28:30):
airbag going right into their. Face and what a quiz
asking a guy if he Misses it's like one of
our guys in. Prison we have a lot of prison
listeners who regularly are correspondence. Here it's like asking them
when they get out of prison, someday do you boys
miss the prison? Food? Well, NO i don't really miss the.
Prison well why don't? You you were in prison for

(28:51):
a long. Time you should miss the Prison WHY i
don't because it wasn't that. Good but you should miss
it because come. On of Course baker's gonna laugh that.
Off he's. Not he's not gonna walk Down Memory lane.
Here he's flooring it down forget this Ever Happened. Highway,
now normally people go Down Memory lane and they drive
very slowly On Memory. Lane but when you're going down

(29:13):
forget this Ever Happened, highway it's like the, Autobond, right
he just goes fast as you possibly, can as fast
as you possibly can down the. Autobon you do all.
Right final point to the rules of the. Game the
rules of the, game and our Friend Mike. Pereira The
FOX nfl rules are. Emeritus Mike. Perera what a sweetheart.

(29:38):
Gig this guy's got good for. Him so he recently,
said the tush push is borderline impossible to. Officiate you
might remember that we talked about it in the previous
episode of the, show and this was highlighted when The
eagles played The, chiefs and then again when The eagles
played The. Rams they were false start penalties and illegal
it's an illegal, formation all of that. Stuff so now

(30:00):
we fast, forward zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom zoom. Vroom we
fast forward a couple of, weeks and suddenly the guy
that was, saying you can't officiate, it it's impossible to
do it. Properly it's an illegal. Formation now he has
done a onet eighty and now he's keep it in the.

(30:21):
Game he, said, quote this Is Mike, pereira big shot,
SAID i don't see a reason it should be, banned
meaning the tushy. Pushy so the, question what do you
make Of Mike perera, again this is The FOX nfl
rules are. Emeritus what do you make Of Mike perera

(30:41):
flip flopping on the opinion of the tush Push all,
right so this is rather. Straightforward it's rather. Straightforward this
is a political straddle a classic. Politician he's basically caucusing
with both. Parties i'm wanna go to that party and

(31:02):
then go to the other, party And i'll go to
team ban it and then they'll like, me and then,
okay you're a team, bannit and Then i'll go to
team keep, it and then they'll like. Me you can't
lose that. Way right, now the minute someone calls him,
Out Mike perera can just point to the sound bite and, say,
WELL i said the. Opposite it's it's like having a

(31:23):
Laminated Hall pass in your wallet and you're you're just.
Good you're you're good bipartisan. WHATEVER i vote for both,
parties whichever way the wind. BLOWS i am. COVERED i
am absolutely. Covered it is a fan blowing air back
and forth and all that. Stuff Now pereira is obviously
hedging his bets like he's playing some blackjack In Atlantic

(31:44):
city or something like. That now that's, Said i'm glad
he landed where he. Did, now the only REASON i
would even consider banning The toush push is how annoying
The philadelphia ego fan base. Is these these, heathens, right
it's so damn. Annoying but from just a pure football
one oh one, standpoint it drives me. Nuts And i've

(32:05):
ranted about, this and my position is pretty. Simple it's
like baseball getting rid of the. Shift there's an easy
way to beat the. Shift now you, say, well a tousch,
push there's not really an easy way to beat. It
and that's a different. Animal but banning the toush push
would be. Sauce it would be weak. Sauce and it's
one of those. Things if you can't stop, it you

(32:25):
don't ban. IT i, say you copy. It why is
this so? Hard you don't whine about. It it's not.
Fair you don't cry to, mommy you don't do. That
The eagles figure it, out to their, credit a cheat
code if you, will which is. Allowed it's. Kosher so

(32:45):
what my? Positions nothing is stopping The, cowboys The, rams
The Minnesota, vikings The Kansas City, chiefs. Whoever from running the.
Play you're telling me that The eagles convert ninety six
or seven percent of the time on the tourch, push
and the rest of THE nfl is nowhere close to.
That why can't you be within ten? Percent why can't

(33:07):
you be not eighty five percent conversion, rate not ninety,
six but eighty five? Percent like the whole banit because
it's too effective, Argument tell me you're a loser without
telling me you're a. Loser just you, know you're not
telling me, directly but you're telling me you're a. Loser
and you can call a penalty by the letter of

(33:28):
the rule. Book on every play there are eleven players
versus eleven, players AND i will guarant effen to you
if you go by the letter of the rule. Book
someone is violating the rule. Book it's a judgment. Situation
it is a subjective. Situation the referee has to decide
how many penalties they want to. Call oftentimes they will

(33:51):
warn players multiple times before they call a. Penalty that's
kind of how they do. Business it's selective, enforcement is
what it. Is the the toush push is this football
equivalent of the desk. Star NOW i think it should
be in the. GAME i am fascinated to think that
the whole thing unravels For philadelphia Because Jalen hurst is
not that good without the touch. Push like he's a

(34:13):
totally gimmick quarterback and that's all he's got and it
works for him because he's got it and he's really
good at. It but if you take that out of the,
arithmetic it becomes. Problematic like the math, equation you cannot
solve Because Jalen hurst doesn't really do anything well other than.
That like, that he's elite at the, Touchbush he's not
elite at anything. Else there is nothing else the man

(34:35):
does that is. Elite that is, it period. Stop so that's.
It that's all he's. Got and but again my position,
is you stop crying about. It you just start copying
it and you can run. It And Mike, pereira he's
obviously double tongued here if you, will he may be double,
tongue but he's accidentally stumbled into the right, answer, Right

(35:01):
So i'm on team keep the tousch Push. Again my
main problem is with the fan base In, philadelphia WHO
i don't mind them getting slapp around a little bit
because they're prett. Annoying So i'm not against. That but
in terms of just the football, Stuff i'm fine with.
It i'm okay with.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
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here we, Go it's.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Mallard how about?

Speaker 2 (35:23):
That to the third, degree this is one big f
gets grill.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Good with it being reported That Lamar jackson will miss
two to three, games does that pretty much just slam
the door on the ravens chances to make the playoffs this.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Season, well, no the thing that's the problem with The
ravens is their defense. Blows if they're gonna play defense like,
that they're not making the. Playoffs but if you look
at the schedule, Upcoming they've got The. Texans that's a
winnable game this, week and they lose to The, rams
they'll win the bye, week they play The bears And.
Dolphins after that they could still. Win they can go
two and, two which is not, great but that'll keep

(35:59):
them in The it's not over, yet but they got
to fix that defense.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Next rumors have been swilling that The giants could trade
for a big name receiver Amid Elite neighbors season ending. Injury,
However hall Of Famer Larry fitzgerald said that they shouldn't
do it because they need to be realistic about their
chances this, season and how whoever they trade for it
may not fit in well With. Neighbors when he Returns
ben is he?

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Right uh, yeah, YEAH i mean everyone's all horny because
The giants won a. Game, oh The giants have arrived
and all. That but when you dig into. It it's
not like they were dominant on offense against The chargers
in that. Game let's wait and see what you have
With Jackson dart and all. That and they had two
hundred and fifty yards. Offense that was not a very
exciting dominant. Win i'd hold off.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Next panthers Coach Dave canalis isn't Benching Bryce young this,
week but many analysts think it needs to happen. Soon
ben how many more games do you think they Give Bryce?

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Young, well the problem is if they get rid Of Bryce,
Young Dave, canalis you move him up the doomsday clock
For Dave. Canalis and then if you look at the depth,
chart it's not like they have a great backup quarterback
there to go. To So i'll give them another three, games.
Minium how do we do you?

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Pass that is a puddle on the?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Board Andy dalton's the.

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Speaker 1 (37:26):
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Ask Bad, Twitter send us your questions On twitter.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Now and a. Way we're going to ask. Men your
questions are answered for the rest of the. Hour loren
is excited about. THIS i like this. Segment, really you're a.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
FAN i.

Speaker 7 (37:42):
Am, okay it's.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Good it's up To coop to ask good questions. Here
and we'd like a variety of questions BECAUSE i. Coop
when we don't give a, variety but it's always Fer,
dog people complain and Then i'm the one that gets the,
email SO.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
I can only read the questions that are.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Submitted, Ben, Okay i'm just telling.

Speaker 4 (38:01):
You people.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Complain they're, like, well it's always Fur, dog then maybe.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
They should submit their own.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
QUESTIONS i agree with. YOU i don't, disagree but, People
i'm JUST i Just i'm telling you they complain And i'm.
Annoyed and go. Ahead what do we?

Speaker 4 (38:13):
Have all, right we're gonna start off with a question
from Ferd.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Dog, no.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
We'll start off with one From.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Eke i've met, him very nice, man lives In, Roseville.
Minnesota he was at The Malor meet and. Greet great.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Guy eke would like to know do you refrigerate hot? Sauce?

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah so pretty much what happens at the at the
house is once anything is, open it immediately goes into.
Refrigerator like everything goes into the Frigerat the only thing
that doesn't is there is actually Some tabasco, sauce but
like most hot, sauce the other hot sauce goes in,
there but for some reason That tabasco does. Not what about, You, Lorena,
YEAH i used.

Speaker 8 (38:53):
To work at a, restaurant so tabasco always stays on
the counter or on the, table and if it gets
a weird brown, COLOR i throw it.

Speaker 7 (38:59):
Out, tapatillo, though does stay in the fridge for.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Me tapatilla, white. Tappatillo what's the difference between tapatio and the.
Other it's just.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
THICKER i feel like it needs to be. Refrigerated, OKAY
i got you.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
Cool, nope none of, Them none of them rocha they're
on the. Cabinet.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, well my wife likes the. Chilulo we have all
the different. Crap what's next? Here what do we? Have
what we? Got?

Speaker 7 (39:26):
All?

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Right, Uh we're gonna ask a question FROM jt the.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Wingman he wants to, Know, uh did you have to
make book covers out of paper bags back in the.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Day, Yes i'm old and we did have to do
that and remember that back probably in elementary. SCHOOL i
think that was my older. BROTHER i was helping him
if we were fussing around with. That but, Yes, lorraina you're,
younger probably not.

Speaker 7 (39:53):
Right, yeah we didn't have.

Speaker 8 (39:54):
To that was more of like the artsy kids would
wrap their books.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
In, paper very artsy to wrap.

Speaker 7 (39:59):
It and then they would color on the outside and
make them like.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Cool, yeah oh, OKAY i didn't really color on, it
but what about you? Cool?

Speaker 3 (40:06):
NOW i had those like stretchy like we're almost like
spandex book.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Covers, yeah you loved a book, Cover?

Speaker 7 (40:14):
Lora, yeah there they were. Fun you could get hot pink.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Teal, yeah didn't have, that did not have.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
That, yeah all, right what is next? Year what do we?
Got what do we?

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Got mike The, LEPRECHAUN i would like to know do
you prefer, beer, wine cocktails or? Spirits so in.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
A social, Setting i'm actually like cocktails more than. Beer
i'll have beer usually WE i don't drink that, much
but when i'll drink at the parties my wife forces
me to, ATTEND i will have like this root beer.
Out it's like filled with a high alcohol, content but
it tastes like root.

Speaker 7 (40:54):
Beer about your father's root.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Beer, yeah it's pretty. Good so what about, You?

Speaker 8 (40:58):
Lorrain it depends on What i'm, Eating but Lately i've
usually been going to just a.

Speaker 7 (41:03):
Martini i'm a. Martini it's your Basic martine, said, yeah, dirty, Filthy.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
OKAY i got. You what about you coop?

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Cocktails definitely, fancier the better the. Better, yeah, yeah the
gin bass would be. Great all?

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Right what is next to to? Ask? Ben your questions are?
Answers just sprinkle some holy water on the. Segment it's just.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Magical The King rory would like to, know does king a?
King does your home have ceiling? Fan a ceiling? Fan
and how often do you use?

Speaker 1 (41:36):
It, yes there are ceiling fans in several rooms at
The Malor, mansion and it depends on the. Season but,
yeah usually it's a fair amount of. Work i'm a
big fan. GUY i love. FANS i like having. AIR
i like having the white noise in the background When i'm.
Sleeping SO i usually have fans, on but fair, amount fair,

(41:58):
amount even sometimes in the, winter BECAUSE i just want
to have. NOISE i don't want to Quite what about, You, Lorraine, YEAH.

Speaker 7 (42:03):
I don't even have. Ceilings it's hard to have a.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Fan you like the great. OUTDOOR i live in a.

Speaker 7 (42:08):
Box, no we don't Have we don't have ceiling. FANS
i don't like how dusty they get.

Speaker 8 (42:13):
Either if you don't dust it, often then it's just
spreading dust around your.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
House you can clean.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Them it's.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Amazing they have these things called the Good but do
you know fow are you judging? Me what about? You Kooba,
loup don't judge.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Me there's one in the guest, bedroom but we don't
have one in in our, bedroom WHICH i wish we
did BECAUSE i would use it all the.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Time, yeah we'll go down to Home depot Or. Low's
you can buy them and not that. Expensive you can
get them. Installed boom.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
Done, well they're getting them installed.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Part that's the that's the that MUCH i know a,
guy you, know no? Guy get no? Guy you know a,
guy and then that. Happens if you were.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
You could have a woman stand next to you and
fan you with some.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Feathers in the, Movies.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Yeah famous movie where they had a harem of women
around The what was? That?

Speaker 7 (43:00):
OH i hear them a? WOMAN i like?

Speaker 1 (43:03):
That, hello all, right what's? Next all?

Speaker 4 (43:06):
Right Ferg dog would like to Know, Hi, fergie would
you rather?

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Have we got your question on the.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Air would you rather have the ability to see the
future or the? Past?

Speaker 7 (43:15):
Hmmm that's.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Hard, YEAH i, MEAN i, mean we know a lot
about the, past but we don't know everything about the.
Best but, YEAH i GUESS i would say the future.
Misus we'll Be we're here a short, time then we're,
gone AND i kind of wonder what it's gonna be
like two hundred years from now or three hundred years from,
now we'll be long. Gone so, YEAH i guess the.

Speaker 7 (43:37):
Future what about, You, LORENA i reminisce about the past a.
Lot So i'm gonna go with the.

Speaker 8 (43:41):
Past, Okay i'll see the future WHEN i get.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
There. Yeah, Cool i'm gonna go with the past, too
because you could go and look at cool moments in the.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
PAST i could, GO i could h exonerate, OJ i.

Speaker 7 (43:54):
Could watch the moon landing in person all.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
That but if they didn't actually it didn't, happen, though.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
What if the moon is you can you can find
out if it didn't.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Happen what if the moon's made Of pomesan?

Speaker 7 (44:05):
Cheese oh it tastes AND i eat.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
That, yeah
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