October 22, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the war of words between Giants backup QB Russell Wilson and Broncos coach Sean Payton, the odds of the Saudis hosting an NFL game in the future, Bob Costas saying you have to watch NBC games because of Michael Jordan, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mister, mister unlimited, it's our number for our number four,
and it's all about the soul proper. It's not about
the games, not about the games. It's about the soul proper.
How do you break down the war of words between
Giants backup quarterback Russell Wilson and Broncos coach Sean Payton.
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What are the odds as we'll talk you about that
stay also one of the odds that the Saudi's get
the winning raffle ticket the host an NFL game. They're
on the prowl. They're on the prowl. The NFL's currently
processing whether or not they want to put a game
in Saudi Arabia. Also thumbs up or thumbs down on
Bob costas the legend saying that you have to watch
NBC NBA games because of Michael Jordan, that that's a
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reason just to watch because of what Michael Jordan's gonna say.
We'll discuss that as well. Give it up to our
number four. Have a wonderful Wednesday, Get over the hump
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this story. Yeah, A couple of really good stories that
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took place in the last twenty four hours. A dateline Jersey,
the bad Apple in the Big Apple area say what
I love from time to time, and we get legitimate
bad blood. There's nothing quite like sports bad blood. It's
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just better than other bad blood, like another like political
bad blood. It gets really ugly and really personal and
and I'm not really that into all that stuff, Like
I think you can just get along with each other five.
But sports angst is what life is all about. That's
where the angst is right. And so I bring this
up because we have an old fashioned rhubarb between mister
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mister Unlimited and his former coach. So if you didn't
see this, and maybe not maybe maybe you didn't see it.
So the Giants backup quarterback Russell Wilson. We talked, we
and here talking about a backup, not a star, not
We talked about a backup. That's right. So Russell Wilson
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responded to a former coach by calling out Broncos coach
Sean Payton on social media. This is after Sean Payton,
his old coach, unsolicited unsolicited after the game on Sunday
where the Broncos came back and beat the Giants, and
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we have we have the other. Here's what set Russell
Wilson off. Here is Sean Payton, I believe, yes, here
is Sean Payton commenting. Listen closely now. The conversations about
Jackson Dart and the Giants said benched Russell Wilson prior
a couple of games prior to this game. Anyway, Here
is Sean Payton. This is what upset Russell Wilson. Take
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a listen. You know they found a little spark with
that quarterback. I was talking to John Mayer not too
long ago, and I said, we were hoping that that
change would have happened long long after our game Okay,
John Mayer, the owner of the Giants. If you're unfamiliar
with his name, So there it is. Now. Russ responded,
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imagine how much he must have been stewing. He must
have been so upset, like, oh my god, I got it.
I bet you the people around him I don't respond, Russ,
don't do it. I gotta do it. I gotta do it.
So he went on social media. He said, I'm quoting
here classless but not surprised. Didn't realize you're still bounty hunting.
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Fifteen plus years later through the media. Now Wilson wrote
that on the platform known as X, followed by some
laughing emojis, a laughing emojis, and he used the hashtag.
He used the hashtag let's ride so good? That is
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the if you're again, if you're not really that into it.
This is the catchphrase he used when Cooper Loop wanted
to punch him in the face when he was playing
quarterback for the Broncos. He used that at the end
of his news conferences, like just a hokey dope and anyway.
That was when he was with the Broncos way back
from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. Now Wilson again,
he was responding to we played the audio. He was
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responding to comments made by Sean Payton, as you heard.
So that is a good jumping off point. The question
how do you break down as we discuss how do
you break down the war of words words? The war
of words between Giants backup quarterback Russell Wilson and Broncos
coach Sean Peyton. So on this one, I've got the brain,
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bubble wrap, and drywall, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are gonna make the amazing
babaganooshe that's We're gonna gonna make the Bobba gooche and
we'll have a little gabagogle tool. So to kick off here,
this is the kind of stuff I live for. We
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talked about in the past. There are days I come
in here and I was like, I gotta talk show
to do. It's exciting to do a talk show. And
there's some days you're like putting lipstick on pigs, You're
polishing turns. Admit it. You know we all have days
like that, and this is not one of those days.
And this is a great story. This is a good
old fashioned cat fight kitty, kitty kitty. It's a catfight.
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And this is the type of a story when you
do talk radio. It's what I call a just add
water source. It's instant mashed potatoes. Just add water. That's it,
that's all you need. This isn't some sanitized press conference
mumbo jumbo. This is a guy that couldn't stay off
the social media. Russell Wilson, like he was so annoyed,
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so upset with what Sean Payton had said that he
had to respond. So this is obviously personal and it's
it's both sides. It's not just Russell Wilson. I get it,
Like I understand why Russ would be upset. That was
a we call it a dick in Dayton move. That
was a dick in Dayton move, is what that was
by Sean Payton. He's brought it up. He's having a jab.
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He didn't name Russell Wilson. He just took a little
jab at him. And so get into the ad eye
for an eye, everyone's blind. We learned that from Gandhi.
So Sean Payton throws the first shot that was kind
of a jab and he didn't name him, and Russell
Wilson who's now a clipboard cowboy. Congratulations, And that's what
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he is. You know, he's like he can do a
sponsorship with the AAARP. You know how they walk around
malls and things. That's hardly and mall's left, but they
walk around and get steps in and he can punch
that card. He's a backup quarterback. He took a bounty shot.
He went there for Sean Payton, a very proud man.
All these guys are so arrogant they in that business.
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And Sean Payton, just like everyone other coach, is an
arrogant to schmuck and so he's all arrogant. And for
Russell Wilson to go there, Okay, that is kicking the
family jewels is what that is. That is a crotch shot,
is what that is. The bounty scandal is the scarlet
letter on Sean Payton's Wikipedia page. It is. And Russ
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didn't just throw a jab. He didn't. He didn't. He
went full WWE legend, the Hall of Famer Bobby the
brain Heenan scientific mode. You remember that famous quote from
Bobby Bobby Heenan. Back in the day, it was bloody knuckles.
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It was straight to the dome. Straight to the dome.
And when they go low, Russ said, I'm going to
go lower and lower and lower and lower. And now
we wait for the rebuttal. Smart money says, Sean Payton
will say something. Whether it happens today or next week
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or a month from now. Now, at some point he
will comment on this. There will be a follow up.
It'll be a subtle, subliminal type thing, but it's going
to happen. And Sean Payton, who has a lot of
snake venom, there's a lot of snake venom there and
he's got more snake venom in him than an Indiana swamp.
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He is ready. He is ready to respond. And if
you poke the cobra, and that's what Sean Payton is
the cobra in this little conversation, you better watch out
for the bite. If you're Russell Wilson, he's gonna buy back.
So Russ, I've determined, you know, like long COVID thing
people were talking about, He's got long altitude sickness. He
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has never recovered. He has never been the same since
face planting in a Denver uniform. Russell Wilson, that was it,
and so it drives him nuts. That he left Seattle,
he had this great reputation and all that and went
to Denver and that was that was it. So he does.
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It's not all bad is Russ does get ten thousand
steps while pacing the sidelines as the backup. So the
fit bit game is pretty good. The actual football game
not so much. Now we move away from that. So
again this one is it's Cobra Venom versus clipboard cowboy,
and there are no winners except those that do sports
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talk radio and those that just enjoy this kind of crap. Furthermore,
to Park Avenue we go. We go to Park Avenue, Midtown,
Midtown Manhattan. The NFL currently evaluating Saudi Arabia to host
an NFL regular season game, one of these international games. Now,
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one of the stories says as soon as next season.
I don't believe that to be accurate. There's a lot
of lead time, a lot of logistics that need to
be worked out for these kind of things. The story
says in the NFL is gonna add more international games
because that's just what people want, unless they don't. The
NFL's hell bent on barnstorming the warpath to barnstorm in
different countries and make more money. So this comes in
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the wake of the very public interest that the people
that run the Saudi Fund, the tremendously popular for people
in sports slush fund. They have so much money they
don't know what to do it. It's like the drug cartels.
They have so much money there. They're hiding it in
their dishwasher and their washing machine. Their cabinets are filled
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with money, a lot of money, man of money, a
lot of money, man of money. Anyway, so they decided,
the Saudis they want American college football, they want American
pro football. Now, keep in mind, they have enough money
here to do something that is just completely mind blowing.
We'll get to that in a minute. The question is,
what are the odds. What are the odds that the
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Saudis get the winning Raffle ticket and get one of
these international regular season games in the next couple of years.
So the Malor Sportsbook odds, the Malor Sportsbook odds minus
five thousand. Now that implies a ninety eight percent chance
that we will see an NFL game played in Saudi Arabia.
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It is essentially a lock lock it in, Lock it in.
Now you might as well just hand them the football
and the broadcast rights and just wrap it in a
gold leaf. Here you go enjoy it, and knowing how
they operate there, and then just bring in some let's
say low paid or non paid labor from some other
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place and just have them build the palace that they
only use once every year for their NFL games in
the Kingdom. And so it's not really a raffle. It's
like a transaction the way I look at this, it's
not because you're not really buying. If if you're the Saudis,
you're not buying a ticket, you're not you're buying. You're
buying any entire raffle you are. And this is like
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that great documentary from a few years back, to mcmillion's
documentary and if you ever watched that, that's a really
good documentary and that scandal which was about McDonald's. But
instead of monopoly pieces being filtered to certain people handpicked
by the person who is hired to protect the integrity
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of the game, write a check, they can write a
check the size of Delaware, not Rhode Island, Delaware. That's
how big. Everyone's got a price. We all know it.
Everyone's got a price here. And you look at this
and these guys who are involved in this effort from
Saudi Arabia, they are richer than Scrooge McDuck. I'm telling
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you there were real life Scrooge McDuck. And they've got
the gold Vault. They're swimming in gold coins, that's what
they're doing. They're having a fine, fine, fine, fine time.
And we know from years and years of being around
the NFL as an observer in the media, the NFL
has a moral compass that spins like a roulette wheel,
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round and round and round and round. Well, we don't
want to go to Saudi Arabia. We've got woke slogans
on the field and our helmets. We're looking out for
the little people. What's that five billion dollars? When can
we get there? When do you want the game? You
want a Super Bowl? Why not? Yeah? So it's all
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about the public investment fund. And they will bubble wrap
whatever they have to bubble wrap. They'll start a bubble
bat the NFL and they're like, oh, you want a
sports wash, Okay, sign me up for that. I'm good.
Why not? They will say sports wash, Hell, yeah, I'm
in on that faster than you can say neutral site
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game in Riod done. They're like, what team? What team?
What can we do? How about the Riod Roosters, We'll
call them that. Why not, We'll just move a team
there and we'll Okay, you want to buy the whole NFL.
You realize they have enough money to buy the entire NFL,
every franchise. They can buy the wh whole thing. That
is how much money we're talking about. We're talking about
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nine hundred billion dollars they get buy the entire thing,
every team, every team in the NFL. It's insane how
much money they have. So forget about just an exhibition game.
It be a regular season game. And eventually it's not
gonna happen right away, but eventually we might all be dead,
but there'll be a game in Saudi Arabia. There'll be
a super Bowl in Saudi Arabia. It will happen. I'm
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telling you now. In the NFL they're playing koy right now. No, no, investigate,
they're doing that whole thing. The Saudis are already laying
the groundwork. They've hired Tom Brady as an advocate for
Saudi Arabia and Rob Gronkowski dumb and dumber. They are
the welcome wagon. They're like, oh, how much money you
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gonna be? Okay, I will be an ambassador, yes, I will. Okay,
make sure that money hits my bank account. A bunch
of legend, not just them, but they're the headliners on this.
Gronk and Tom Brady, giant checks to smile and play
flag football. That's the game. Useful idiots, Tom Brady and
Rob Gonkowski and so the NFL they're not resisting this.
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Why would you. They want all the money. They're holding
the door open, they're rolling out the red carpet. They're like, okay,
you paid all that money the golfers, where's our money?
We want that money now. It is not done. But
as a famous broadcaster back in the day long ago
would say, the doors closed, the lights are out, the
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eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard, and the jellos jiggling.
All right, now, last thing to TV land, we go quickly.
TV legend Bob costas I've heard of him. Bob cost
has said recently that Michael Jordan's mere presence, his mere presence,
is a reason to watch the NBA on NBC. Now.
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They started NBC last night doing NBA games, and it
was a disaster from the standpoint. The first game went
double overtime, and so you had you missed most of
the first half of the second game, unless you had
peacock anyway, So the question is thumbs up or thumbs down?
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Thumbs up or thumbs down on Bob Costas saying that
the mere presence of Michael Jordan, you have to watch
the NBC games because of Michael Jordan. So I'm gonna
go first, thumbs way down. I'm going way down on this.
Thumb's down on this. Bob Costas is sounding like a
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teenage fanboy, is what he's doesn't he sound like a fanboy?
He's got like a Jordan poster of him dunking from
the foul line over his bed and all that. See,
we're supposed to believe you have to watch because it's
Michael Jordan. What is it, nineteen ninety seven?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Unless Michael Jordan is lacing him up and putting on
a number twenty three Chicago Bulls Jersey or even a
number forty five Chicago Bulls Jersey, we don't care, we
iou care. In fact, I would argue Michael Jordan is
the least compelling, least compelling talker among the legends. Tom
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Brady's not far behind. Tom Brady's terrible at broadcasting, right,
Derek Jeter. Also, the guys are just bad, but people
put him on because TV executives love the star players.
They love the legends because they get to hang out
with them at the cocktail parties. The fact that they're
terrible broadcasters is side because they also know a lot
of people are stupid and they don't care, and they'll
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watch this crap. It's called jock ocracy. There was a
guy named Howard Cosell long dead back in the eighties
who came up with that term, Like, there's no reason
to watch Michael Jordan on television. It's a snoozefest, Like
I just I don't, I don't get it. It's by design.
Jordan tries to be boring. He tries he's a basketball deity.
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It's very complicated. Two things can be true at the
same time. He's a basketball deity. When he opens his mouth,
sounds like hollowing James. Right, He's like, you know, it's
it's Derek Jeter with a cigar, it's Tom Brady without
the skinny jeans. It's that. And Jordan should be a carpenter.
I'm gonna tell you what. Jordan is great. If you're
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into drywall, that's what. I just stare at drywall. That's it.
I'm just gonna stare at it same energy.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
The only one that is musty TV in all of
sports television is Charles Barkley. That's it. That's all. Jordan
is like musty ambient is what that is. Costas I
get it he loves Jordan because back when he was
doing the NBA it was a really big deal and
all that. I guess he's auditioning now for the presidency
of the Michael Jordan Marching and Chowder Society and practically
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fawning Bob Costas. In the cartoon Bubble of My Head,
Costas is fanning Jordan with a palm leaf, and you know,
it's like, come on, get a grip, like, what are
we doing here? Jordan when he played the popa hoops,
nobody's gonna disagree with that. Much better than Lebron James.
Every man, woman and child knows that knows anything about ball.
Jordan was better than Lebron. We get it. I just
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don't want to hear the guy talk. I don't. He's
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video of a very well known, very decorated NFL superstar
who appears to have been caught either half baked or
all the way baked. We'll get to that, and we
will do it next.
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Back to it All, we started out with Russell Wilson
and his back and forth with the world famous Sean Payton.
Going back at it Bill, who's your Bill? Heard that
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monologue he wrote in I I I'm late for my
book club. I'll check in tomorrow is what he says.
Thank for very important. Right late night drug tester says,
thank goodness, the NHL isn't tempted by the Saudis. You
can't have ice rinks in one hundred degrees cities. Remember
the Coyotes. I want to bet on that now they
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were at actually fly. The Saudis have so much money
they could fly Antarctica snow to Saudi Arabia. It's insane.
They could change the climate if they wanted. In Saudi Arabia,
they could. They could work that out. Yeah, I'm just
I'm just saying, just just point that out. It's see
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your page page down. Justin in Cincinnati says they should
have the Jets and the Giants and have rich Eisen
called the game. Okay, thank you for that. That's her
JJ from Rent and says, Ben, you need to get
some rappers from the hood on your show. All right,
(24:45):
I thought you might like candy wrappers. Maybe he means
that some some candy wrappers from the hood.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
We could go down to Inglewood in the hood.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
In Inglewood up to no good. Yeah, here go. Well,
if I go to Vegas again, I'll go there's a
place called jive Turkey. That's where I'm gon. Yes, did
you see that in Vegas?
Speaker 5 (25:03):
They now have cars that you don't have to like
you can go in front of this one hotel if
forgure out which one it is specifically, Okay, but the
important they have no driving cars and they're free, like
you just get in them. Weaimo, they're not free though
we have pay for Wayno, they're free, not free. I'll
send it to you. It's a new thing that they're doing.
They're doing it at one of the hotels.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I'll have to show. When the four oh five freeway
was closed the other day, I got a tour of
Brentwood and there were several waymos. In fact, I stopped
and the car turned left in front of me and
it was without a driver. I said, oh, man, that
scares me. Though I've seen that San Francisco they have
they've had those four years up there.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Oh it's it's a new company called Zeukes Taxi.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, but it's not.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
It's owned by Amazon and they're right now. They're giving
free rides in Las Vegas from Resorts World. That's it.
You can you can go to Resorts World Area fifteen
or top golf. Those are the three Okay, gotcha?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, interesting video from the NFL star who was spotted
buying some street food late at night and looked extremely baked.
Well you're talking about Lamar Jackson. This thing's gone viral. Lamar,
the multi time MVP of the Ravens, was enjoying some
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late night food. Is having a nice late night snack,
and it was all recorded there to what kind of
food is that? It looks like is it Chinese food?
Because it's like there's chicken, there's some kind of veggie.
I don't know exactly. It looks like it's in those
styrofoam you know when you go to a good local
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Chinese restaurant and they just pack on the orange chicken
where it's coming out. It's so much better. They just
give you so much food. Anyway, So themor went out
had a little late night food and this has been
bouncing around because he looks very much like he's enjoying
some nice weed or something. I don't know what. So
this has been going viral now. Lamar responded to the
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viral video because again, you can't stay off the social media,
just like Russell Wilson. God bless these guys, and so
he responded by saying, Brah. He said, bra, you all
gotta stop engaging with these people. They like to lie
when their views are low. That's why I unfollow these weirdos.
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So I have an interesting take on this. Okay, maybe
it's not the issue. Having covered the NBA for years,
there were certain guys in the NBA that I was
convinced were always high. They never ever were off the weed.
And I looked at Lamar, and I've seen Lamar in
news conversay he always looks that way. To me, it
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didn't look any different, Like he always looks like he's
that doesn't see what.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Are you saying?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He always looks high. It didn't look that different to me.
People are making people are making a big deal. Area
like this looks a lot, And I was like, I
didn't really seem to understand.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Can you just not be hungry at night without having
the munchies? Is that what it is? Well, there's the
men eating late night.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
To Ben's point, there are some people out there and
and therefore some athletes that just have a what our
natural rsf Resting Stone Face, which is a spin off
of r RBS.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yes, Yes, RBS which is very popular. Yes, all right,
let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to hollering James. Yeah,
it does look like there's a lot of food, a
lot of food. Very happy getting the food.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
It's just about to say it's a very wholesome video
like that's how I.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Look when I get a giant food. I like that
he's picking up the food. He has so much money,
he can have a delivery. I'm a door dash him
on the street. I want to pick up my own food.
I don't want to spay. I don't want to pay
the tax on the food. Hollering James's up, James, Minnesota,
hollering James.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
I want to wait too much.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
But yeah, so my role.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Jesus Christ James. You need to go to you need
to go to bed, James. I was hoping you. Did
you know Lamar Lamar Jackson if he actually does weed,
because I can't say he does, I don't know for sure,
but if he loves the weed, Lamar, all right, when
he's smoking as much wheed, he can afford all the
weed he wants. He does not sound like you sound
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right now? My god? I show many Okay, all right,
thank you, all right, we'll move on from that. Let's
say hello to let's see any meaning money. Well, let's
go to Poppy in Sunday. I go hello, Poppy, welcome.
(30:02):
All right, Poppy's not there. We'll go to Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel,
show some love.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
From yours truly thirty two years old, the sports ambassador
of my teams.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
And I'm back.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
And who else to say it's gonna be a good morning.
But especially how that's what you said then about my
giants and Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Cringe. Yeah, I didn't realize. I didn't understand Russell Westbrook
was that daygry No, I mean Russell Wilson. Oh okay,
all right, got you gott he say no more?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Oh giants, egos this Sunday, let's sue some TV pits.
Okay please, and if you want to play along before password,
be my guest. And let's be honest. It's a new dawn,
it's a new day. No members right around the corner,
so say it with us, my friends, Mala militia.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Let's get into it. Let's get into it, and.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
We got some guests. If you want to play some.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
TV okay, TV pick three, Oh you want to call
her number three. All right, very good, We'll have caller
number three. Who is caller number three? Let's go to
Gabe in Pennsylvania. Gab your caller number three? Hello, Gabe,
back to back game. That other guy hasn't called again,
so you win. Gabe, only number one.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
And the dude.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
But he wasn't hold earlier today. But he didn't hold
very long. Okay, I didn't hold on very long. So
there you go.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Welcome to the show. What is your TV pick from
last night? My TV pick them last night?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah? Yeah, guess what Marcel watched on TV last night?
So fast.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I hope there will be NBA on NBC is back?
Oh seventy show?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah? Good guys.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
All right, I'm gonna do you think that seventy show
is a comedy? One day?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Gabe? What else would it be?
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Hilarious? Comedy? What streaming service that you watch?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It's a very personal personal question.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, you know, legally, illegally, we just kind of keep
that on on below.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
You you have the magic box? Huh interesting? Yeah, got
some people said I would never have the magic box.
The magic box would be wrong to have. You should
never have a magic box, not a magic box.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
It is not a mixed match as well, Gabe, thank
you for playing. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Marsa, Oh look at that gave You and Marcell are bonding.
I want to go and b see NBA.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yes, and the doublehead of the NBA. The reboot one
just like from the nineties is back and I give
you the mixed Matt.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, you were a little kid in the nineties when
they last had all.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Right, yeah, nineteen ninety three, I was born. Okay, you
saw the next plane?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Okay, nobody, nobody cares. All right, what about you lareda
right ahead.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
My friend.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
It is Halloween season, so I'm gonna say you watched
Halloween Town, Halloween.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Town on Disney plot that is it? So if you
say the Spooks, darnay?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Is this not? Is this man not an entertainer? This
is this is why this guy wins Call of the
Year just about every year, Cooperloo five times next year, Marcel.
I think you were watching I think, thank you. I
think you were watching The Diplomat, The Diplomat.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
On the streaming service.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
What you have Netflix?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Netflix? Well, not a mixed matter.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
That hurry up, please hurry up.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Here we go, Folk and BC, the NBA is back in. Ben, Yeah,
I went again.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Thank you Marcel. There he goes the great Marcel in
Brooklyn real quick. This is a guy hadn't called the
show in long and long Asston. I don't know what happened.
Maybe you just got out of jail. The Crusher is
in Minnesota, Hello Crusher, Welcome, Hello guys, first time caller,
a longtime listener. I just wanted to give a shout
out to my buddy Butters. Okay, I thought you were
(34:14):
somebody else. I thought you had called the name. There
was a guy that used to call under a similar name,
But apparently it's not you. There you go. You did
your little shout out. Wonderful, Michael. I feel so disappointed, Ben.
I'm not just but the other guy was a good caller.
Mike the Leprechaun, Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Marcel Marcel will not win five times in a row.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
He's a mismatch for your show.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
You. I had my foot ticks last night.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I was out here saying, oh, I had phil a
menu on with my friends for my sixty second berth.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Okay, al right, I love that he thinks we asked
did anyone ask him? No?
Speaker 5 (34:53):
That is Marcel's bit.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, okay, anyway, we will press on. We are going
to have we're moments away from password the word Game
of the Stars password. I think we have our contestants
lined up for that, so we're good on that. I
also saw the cliche of cliche stories. The Ravens off
to a one in five start. They recently decided coach
(35:17):
Harball that the players were too comfortable, so they got
rid of all of the creature comforts. They got rid
of the this is what they had in the locker room.
They had ping pong, table, basketball hoop, video game consoles,
and cornhole in the locker room. Oh got rid of
all of it, and it hasn't helped. The team still sucks,
(35:38):
but they don't have ping pong and all that, so
fractions are gone.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Can I have just thirty seconds to comment on your
monologue on this hour?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (35:48):
How much of a pussy willow is Russell Wilson?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I mean, come on, man, he didn't even name him.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
It was more so a compliment to Jackson Dart than
a shot at Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
But also, you suck like you're not a good quarterback.
You don't have any room to talk. All right, I'm done.
I only use about seventeen seconds. That's good. Yeah, that
tells you, though, Koop it's raw. Though they hate each other,
they don't for sure. Sure it's not fake. It's not
you know sports talk radio. It's it's real. Hey, it
is the Ben Mahler Show, Password the Word Game of
(36:23):
the Stars. We'll get to that and we will do
it next.
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Speaker 7 (37:35):
Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot. Password
the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Maller star.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Let's welcome in our contestants for password. We have mister
Irrigation in Houston, the Houston area. Hello, mister Irrigation.
Speaker 7 (37:57):
Heys, good morning man.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Thank you for picking all right? And you were gonna play?
And who do you want to partner up with? Mister Irrigation?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Well, then, uh, I think I'm gonna be something different
this time.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I'm gonna pick you. Okay, you see if you've seen
somewhat Okay, we want to win. You're in it all right?
Hold on all right and Mark on the north end, Hello, Mark, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Hey Ben, I can get some wins up of myself.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I want to win, all right, you bad you're trying
to win an award? I got it. Game show contested
in the year. One of the categories, who do you
want to partner up with? Mark? Well, they took you,
so I gotta go with all right, Cooper Loop, you
have been picked. We have a listener. You don't think
I have a good lexicon. I don't understand why they
would think that, Lorana. We have a list of words
one to ten and mister Irregation was on the air first.
(38:51):
So mister Iggason, please pick a number one to ten, well.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
In honor of the number one show after mid number
one man number one?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
How about one a proposal p R O P O
S A L proposal?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Contract?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
No? Cool?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
What do you say? He said? Contract?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I think he said concert. Let's go with step shop.
Let's go with a proposition question. No, how about got it?
Got it suggestion? Yeah, there you go. All right, we
(39:40):
got it? And hurry up. Mark pick a number two
to ten? Please, two to ten?
Speaker 7 (39:45):
Number four?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Number four? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (39:49):
Cool, hup, all right, let's go with uh I.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Say it a wus.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
You just say boy, we're a.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Coward. The word was coward. Coward was the word. We won,
mister Eric Gage, well scoring game. It was a defensive battle,
Mister, mister unlimited, it's our number for our number four,
and it's all about the soul proper. It's not about
the games, not about the games. It's about the soul proper.
How do you break down the war of words between
Giants backup quarterback Russell Wilson and Broncos coach Sean Payton.
(00:21):
What are the odds as we'll talk you about that
stay also one of the odds that the Saudi's get
the winning raffle ticket the host an NFL game. They're
on the prowl. They're on the prowl. The NFL's currently
processing whether or not they want to put a game
in Saudi Arabia. Also thumbs up or thumbs down on
Bob costas the legend saying that you have to watch
NBC NBA games because of Michael Jordan, that that's a
(00:47):
reason just to watch because of what Michael Jordan's gonna say.
We'll discuss that as well. Give it up to our
number four. Have a wonderful Wednesday, Get over the hump
on hump Day. Here they call it the big Apple.
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the crowd is yours. So this great story. I love
this story. Yeah, A couple of really good stories that
(03:01):
took place in the last twenty four hours. A dateline Jersey,
the bad Apple in the Big Apple area say what
I love from time to time, and we get legitimate
bad blood. There's nothing quite like sports bad blood. It's
(03:23):
just better than other bad blood, like another like political
bad blood. It gets really ugly and really personal and
and I'm not really that into all that stuff, Like
I think you can just get along with each other five.
But sports angst is what life is all about. That's
where the angst is right. And so I bring this
up because we have an old fashioned rhubarb between mister
(03:43):
mister Unlimited and his former coach. So if you didn't
see this, and maybe not maybe maybe you didn't see it.
So the Giants backup quarterback Russell Wilson. We talked, we
and here talking about a backup, not a star, not
We talked about a backup. That's right. So Russell Wilson
(04:03):
responded to a former coach by calling out Broncos coach
Sean Payton on social media. This is after Sean Payton,
his old coach, unsolicited unsolicited after the game on Sunday
where the Broncos came back and beat the Giants, and
(04:24):
we have we have the other. Here's what set Russell
Wilson off. Here is Sean Payton, I believe, yes, here
is Sean Payton commenting. Listen closely now. The conversations about
Jackson Dart and the Giants said benched Russell Wilson prior
a couple of games prior to this game. Anyway, Here
is Sean Payton. This is what upset Russell Wilson. Take
(04:45):
a listen. You know they found a little spark with
that quarterback. I was talking to John Mayer not too
long ago, and I said, we were hoping that that
change would have happened long long after our game Okay,
John Mayer, the owner of the Giants. If you're unfamiliar
with his name, So there it is. Now. Russ responded,
(05:07):
imagine how much he must have been stewing. He must
have been so upset, like, oh my god, I got it.
I bet you the people around him I don't respond, Russ,
don't do it. I gotta do it. I gotta do it.
So he went on social media. He said, I'm quoting
here classless but not surprised. Didn't realize you're still bounty hunting.
(05:30):
Fifteen plus years later through the media. Now Wilson wrote
that on the platform known as X, followed by some
laughing emojis, a laughing emojis, and he used the hashtag.
He used the hashtag let's ride so good? That is
(05:53):
the if you're again, if you're not really that into it.
This is the catchphrase he used when Cooper Loop wanted
to punch him in the face when he was playing
quarterback for the Broncos. He used that at the end
of his news conferences, like just a hokey dope and anyway.
That was when he was with the Broncos way back
from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. Now Wilson again,
he was responding to we played the audio. He was
(06:15):
responding to comments made by Sean Payton, as you heard.
So that is a good jumping off point. The question
how do you break down as we discuss how do
you break down the war of words words? The war
of words between Giants backup quarterback Russell Wilson and Broncos
coach Sean Peyton. So on this one, I've got the brain,
(06:39):
bubble wrap, and drywall, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are gonna make the amazing
babaganooshe that's We're gonna gonna make the Bobba gooche and
we'll have a little gabagogle tool. So to kick off here,
this is the kind of stuff I live for. We
(07:00):
talked about in the past. There are days I come
in here and I was like, I gotta talk show
to do. It's exciting to do a talk show. And
there's some days you're like putting lipstick on pigs, You're
polishing turns. Admit it. You know we all have days
like that, and this is not one of those days.
And this is a great story. This is a good
old fashioned cat fight kitty, kitty kitty. It's a catfight.
(07:21):
And this is the type of a story when you
do talk radio. It's what I call a just add
water source. It's instant mashed potatoes. Just add water. That's it,
that's all you need. This isn't some sanitized press conference
mumbo jumbo. This is a guy that couldn't stay off
the social media. Russell Wilson, like he was so annoyed,
(07:47):
so upset with what Sean Payton had said that he
had to respond. So this is obviously personal and it's
it's both sides. It's not just Russell Wilson. I get it,
Like I understand why Russ would be upset. That was
a we call it a dick in Dayton move. That
was a dick in Dayton move, is what that was
by Sean Payton. He's brought it up. He's having a jab.
(08:08):
He didn't name Russell Wilson. He just took a little
jab at him. And so get into the ad eye
for an eye, everyone's blind. We learned that from Gandhi.
So Sean Payton throws the first shot that was kind
of a jab and he didn't name him, and Russell
Wilson who's now a clipboard cowboy. Congratulations, And that's what
(08:30):
he is. You know, he's like he can do a
sponsorship with the AAARP. You know how they walk around
malls and things. That's hardly and mall's left, but they
walk around and get steps in and he can punch
that card. He's a backup quarterback. He took a bounty shot.
He went there for Sean Payton, a very proud man.
All these guys are so arrogant they in that business.
(08:53):
And Sean Payton, just like everyone other coach, is an
arrogant to schmuck and so he's all arrogant. And for
Russell Wilson to go there, Okay, that is kicking the
family jewels is what that is. That is a crotch shot,
is what that is. The bounty scandal is the scarlet
letter on Sean Payton's Wikipedia page. It is. And Russ
(09:18):
didn't just throw a jab. He didn't. He didn't. He
went full WWE legend, the Hall of Famer Bobby the
brain Heenan scientific mode. You remember that famous quote from
Bobby Bobby Heenan. Back in the day, it was bloody knuckles.
(09:38):
It was straight to the dome. Straight to the dome.
And when they go low, Russ said, I'm going to
go lower and lower and lower and lower. And now
we wait for the rebuttal. Smart money says, Sean Payton
will say something. Whether it happens today or next week
(09:59):
or a month from now. Now, at some point he
will comment on this. There will be a follow up.
It'll be a subtle, subliminal type thing, but it's going
to happen. And Sean Payton, who has a lot of
snake venom, there's a lot of snake venom there and
he's got more snake venom in him than an Indiana swamp.
(10:20):
He is ready. He is ready to respond. And if
you poke the cobra, and that's what Sean Payton is
the cobra in this little conversation, you better watch out
for the bite. If you're Russell Wilson, he's gonna buy back.
So Russ, I've determined, you know, like long COVID thing
people were talking about, He's got long altitude sickness. He
(10:41):
has never recovered. He has never been the same since
face planting in a Denver uniform. Russell Wilson, that was it,
and so it drives him nuts. That he left Seattle,
he had this great reputation and all that and went
to Denver and that was that was it. So he does.
(11:02):
It's not all bad is Russ does get ten thousand
steps while pacing the sidelines as the backup. So the
fit bit game is pretty good. The actual football game
not so much. Now we move away from that. So
again this one is it's Cobra Venom versus clipboard cowboy,
and there are no winners except those that do sports
(11:23):
talk radio and those that just enjoy this kind of crap. Furthermore,
to Park Avenue we go. We go to Park Avenue, Midtown,
Midtown Manhattan. The NFL currently evaluating Saudi Arabia to host
an NFL regular season game, one of these international games. Now,
(11:43):
one of the stories says as soon as next season.
I don't believe that to be accurate. There's a lot
of lead time, a lot of logistics that need to
be worked out for these kind of things. The story
says in the NFL is gonna add more international games
because that's just what people want, unless they don't. The
NFL's hell bent on barnstorming the warpath to barnstorm in
different countries and make more money. So this comes in
(12:04):
the wake of the very public interest that the people
that run the Saudi Fund, the tremendously popular for people
in sports slush fund. They have so much money they
don't know what to do it. It's like the drug cartels.
They have so much money there. They're hiding it in
their dishwasher and their washing machine. Their cabinets are filled
(12:27):
with money, a lot of money, man of money, a
lot of money, man of money. Anyway, so they decided,
the Saudis they want American college football, they want American
pro football. Now, keep in mind, they have enough money
here to do something that is just completely mind blowing.
We'll get to that in a minute. The question is,
what are the odds. What are the odds that the
(12:50):
Saudis get the winning Raffle ticket and get one of
these international regular season games in the next couple of years.
So the Malor Sportsbook odds, the Malor Sportsbook odds minus
five thousand. Now that implies a ninety eight percent chance
that we will see an NFL game played in Saudi Arabia.
(13:12):
It is essentially a lock lock it in, Lock it in.
Now you might as well just hand them the football
and the broadcast rights and just wrap it in a
gold leaf. Here you go enjoy it, and knowing how
they operate there, and then just bring in some let's
say low paid or non paid labor from some other
(13:32):
place and just have them build the palace that they
only use once every year for their NFL games in
the Kingdom. And so it's not really a raffle. It's
like a transaction the way I look at this, it's
not because you're not really buying. If if you're the Saudis,
you're not buying a ticket, you're not you're buying. You're
buying any entire raffle you are. And this is like
(13:54):
that great documentary from a few years back, to mcmillion's
documentary and if you ever watched that, that's a really
good documentary and that scandal which was about McDonald's. But
instead of monopoly pieces being filtered to certain people handpicked
by the person who is hired to protect the integrity
(14:14):
of the game, write a check, they can write a
check the size of Delaware, not Rhode Island, Delaware. That's
how big. Everyone's got a price. We all know it.
Everyone's got a price here. And you look at this
and these guys who are involved in this effort from
Saudi Arabia, they are richer than Scrooge McDuck. I'm telling
(14:37):
you there were real life Scrooge McDuck. And they've got
the gold Vault. They're swimming in gold coins, that's what
they're doing. They're having a fine, fine, fine, fine time.
And we know from years and years of being around
the NFL as an observer in the media, the NFL
has a moral compass that spins like a roulette wheel,
(15:01):
round and round and round and round. Well, we don't
want to go to Saudi Arabia. We've got woke slogans
on the field and our helmets. We're looking out for
the little people. What's that five billion dollars? When can
we get there? When do you want the game? You
want a Super Bowl? Why not? Yeah? So it's all
(15:22):
about the public investment fund. And they will bubble wrap
whatever they have to bubble wrap. They'll start a bubble
bat the NFL and they're like, oh, you want a
sports wash, Okay, sign me up for that. I'm good.
Why not? They will say sports wash, Hell, yeah, I'm
in on that faster than you can say neutral site
(15:43):
game in Riod done. They're like, what team? What team?
What can we do? How about the Riod Roosters, We'll
call them that. Why not, We'll just move a team
there and we'll Okay, you want to buy the whole NFL.
You realize they have enough money to buy the entire NFL,
every franchise. They can buy the wh whole thing. That
is how much money we're talking about. We're talking about
(16:03):
nine hundred billion dollars they get buy the entire thing,
every team, every team in the NFL. It's insane how
much money they have. So forget about just an exhibition game.
It be a regular season game. And eventually it's not
gonna happen right away, but eventually we might all be dead,
but there'll be a game in Saudi Arabia. There'll be
a super Bowl in Saudi Arabia. It will happen. I'm
(16:24):
telling you now. In the NFL they're playing koy right now. No, no, investigate,
they're doing that whole thing. The Saudis are already laying
the groundwork. They've hired Tom Brady as an advocate for
Saudi Arabia and Rob Gronkowski dumb and dumber. They are
the welcome wagon. They're like, oh, how much money you
(16:46):
gonna be? Okay, I will be an ambassador, yes, I will. Okay,
make sure that money hits my bank account. A bunch
of legend, not just them, but they're the headliners on this.
Gronk and Tom Brady, giant checks to smile and play
flag football. That's the game. Useful idiots, Tom Brady and
Rob Gonkowski and so the NFL they're not resisting this.
(17:06):
Why would you. They want all the money. They're holding
the door open, they're rolling out the red carpet. They're like, okay,
you paid all that money the golfers, where's our money?
We want that money now. It is not done. But
as a famous broadcaster back in the day long ago
would say, the doors closed, the lights are out, the
(17:26):
eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard, and the jellos jiggling.
All right, now, last thing to TV land, we go quickly.
TV legend Bob costas I've heard of him. Bob cost
has said recently that Michael Jordan's mere presence, his mere presence,
is a reason to watch the NBA on NBC. Now.
(17:48):
They started NBC last night doing NBA games, and it
was a disaster from the standpoint. The first game went
double overtime, and so you had you missed most of
the first half of the second game, unless you had
peacock anyway, So the question is thumbs up or thumbs down?
(18:08):
Thumbs up or thumbs down on Bob Costas saying that
the mere presence of Michael Jordan, you have to watch
the NBC games because of Michael Jordan. So I'm gonna
go first, thumbs way down. I'm going way down on this.
Thumb's down on this. Bob Costas is sounding like a
(18:30):
teenage fanboy, is what he's doesn't he sound like a fanboy?
He's got like a Jordan poster of him dunking from
the foul line over his bed and all that. See,
we're supposed to believe you have to watch because it's
Michael Jordan. What is it, nineteen ninety seven?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Unless Michael Jordan is lacing him up and putting on
a number twenty three Chicago Bulls Jersey or even a
number forty five Chicago Bulls Jersey, we don't care, we
iou care. In fact, I would argue Michael Jordan is
the least compelling, least compelling talker among the legends. Tom
(19:10):
Brady's not far behind. Tom Brady's terrible at broadcasting, right,
Derek Jeter. Also, the guys are just bad, but people
put him on because TV executives love the star players.
They love the legends because they get to hang out
with them at the cocktail parties. The fact that they're
terrible broadcasters is side because they also know a lot
of people are stupid and they don't care, and they'll
(19:31):
watch this crap. It's called jock ocracy. There was a
guy named Howard Cosell long dead back in the eighties
who came up with that term, Like, there's no reason
to watch Michael Jordan on television. It's a snoozefest, Like
I just I don't, I don't get it. It's by design.
Jordan tries to be boring. He tries he's a basketball deity.
(19:55):
It's very complicated. Two things can be true at the
same time. He's a basketball deity. When he opens his mouth,
sounds like hollowing James. Right, He's like, you know, it's
it's Derek Jeter with a cigar, it's Tom Brady without
the skinny jeans. It's that. And Jordan should be a carpenter.
I'm gonna tell you what. Jordan is great. If you're
(20:16):
into drywall, that's what. I just stare at drywall. That's it.
I'm just gonna stare at it same energy.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
The only one that is musty TV in all of
sports television is Charles Barkley. That's it. That's all. Jordan
is like musty ambient is what that is. Costas I
get it he loves Jordan because back when he was
doing the NBA it was a really big deal and
all that. I guess he's auditioning now for the presidency
of the Michael Jordan Marching and Chowder Society and practically
(20:46):
fawning Bob Costas. In the cartoon Bubble of My Head,
Costas is fanning Jordan with a palm leaf, and you know,
it's like, come on, get a grip, like, what are
we doing here? Jordan when he played the popa hoops,
nobody's gonna disagree with that. Much better than Lebron James.
Every man, woman and child knows that knows anything about ball.
Jordan was better than Lebron. We get it. I just
(21:08):
don't want to hear the guy talk. I don't. He's
got awful. It is the Ben Mahler Show. If you
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(21:28):
video of a very well known, very decorated NFL superstar
who appears to have been caught either half baked or
all the way baked. We'll get to that, and we
will do it next.
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Back to it All, we started out with Russell Wilson
and his back and forth with the world famous Sean Payton.
Going back at it Bill, who's your Bill? Heard that
(23:38):
monologue he wrote in I I I'm late for my
book club. I'll check in tomorrow is what he says.
Thank for very important. Right late night drug tester says,
thank goodness, the NHL isn't tempted by the Saudis. You
can't have ice rinks in one hundred degrees cities. Remember
the Coyotes. I want to bet on that now they
(23:59):
were at actually fly. The Saudis have so much money
they could fly Antarctica snow to Saudi Arabia. It's insane.
They could change the climate if they wanted. In Saudi Arabia,
they could. They could work that out. Yeah, I'm just
I'm just saying, just just point that out. It's see
(24:21):
your page page down. Justin in Cincinnati says they should
have the Jets and the Giants and have rich Eisen
called the game. Okay, thank you for that. That's her
JJ from Rent and says, Ben, you need to get
some rappers from the hood on your show. All right,
(24:45):
I thought you might like candy wrappers. Maybe he means
that some some candy wrappers from the hood.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
We could go down to Inglewood in the hood.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
In Inglewood up to no good. Yeah, here go. Well,
if I go to Vegas again, I'll go there's a
place called jive Turkey. That's where I'm gon. Yes, did
you see that in Vegas?
Speaker 5 (25:03):
They now have cars that you don't have to like
you can go in front of this one hotel if
forgure out which one it is specifically, Okay, but the
important they have no driving cars and they're free, like
you just get in them. Weaimo, they're not free though
we have pay for Wayno, they're free, not free. I'll
send it to you. It's a new thing that they're doing.
They're doing it at one of the hotels.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I'll have to show. When the four oh five freeway
was closed the other day, I got a tour of
Brentwood and there were several waymos. In fact, I stopped
and the car turned left in front of me and
it was without a driver. I said, oh, man, that
scares me. Though I've seen that San Francisco they have
they've had those four years up there.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Oh it's it's a new company called Zeukes Taxi.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, but it's not.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
It's owned by Amazon and they're right now. They're giving
free rides in Las Vegas from Resorts World. That's it.
You can you can go to Resorts World Area fifteen
or top golf. Those are the three Okay, gotcha?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, interesting video from the NFL star who was spotted
buying some street food late at night and looked extremely baked.
Well you're talking about Lamar Jackson. This thing's gone viral. Lamar,
the multi time MVP of the Ravens, was enjoying some
(26:29):
late night food. Is having a nice late night snack,
and it was all recorded there to what kind of
food is that? It looks like is it Chinese food?
Because it's like there's chicken, there's some kind of veggie.
I don't know exactly. It looks like it's in those
styrofoam you know when you go to a good local
(26:50):
Chinese restaurant and they just pack on the orange chicken
where it's coming out. It's so much better. They just
give you so much food. Anyway, So themor went out
had a little late night food and this has been
bouncing around because he looks very much like he's enjoying
some nice weed or something. I don't know what. So
this has been going viral now. Lamar responded to the
(27:11):
viral video because again, you can't stay off the social media,
just like Russell Wilson. God bless these guys, and so
he responded by saying, Brah. He said, bra, you all
gotta stop engaging with these people. They like to lie
when their views are low. That's why I unfollow these weirdos.
(27:34):
So I have an interesting take on this. Okay, maybe
it's not the issue. Having covered the NBA for years,
there were certain guys in the NBA that I was
convinced were always high. They never ever were off the weed.
And I looked at Lamar, and I've seen Lamar in
news conversay he always looks that way. To me, it
(27:55):
didn't look any different, Like he always looks like he's
that doesn't see what.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Are you saying?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He always looks high. It didn't look that different to me.
People are making people are making a big deal. Area
like this looks a lot, And I was like, I
didn't really seem to understand.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Can you just not be hungry at night without having
the munchies? Is that what it is? Well, there's the
men eating late night.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
To Ben's point, there are some people out there and
and therefore some athletes that just have a what our
natural rsf Resting Stone Face, which is a spin off
of r RBS.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yes, Yes, RBS which is very popular. Yes, all right,
let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to hollering James. Yeah,
it does look like there's a lot of food, a
lot of food. Very happy getting the food.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
It's just about to say it's a very wholesome video
like that's how I.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Look when I get a giant food. I like that
he's picking up the food. He has so much money,
he can have a delivery. I'm a door dash him
on the street. I want to pick up my own food.
I don't want to spay. I don't want to pay
the tax on the food. Hollering James's up, James, Minnesota,
hollering James.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
I want to wait too much.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
But yeah, so my role.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Jesus Christ James. You need to go to you need
to go to bed, James. I was hoping you. Did
you know Lamar Lamar Jackson if he actually does weed,
because I can't say he does, I don't know for sure,
but if he loves the weed, Lamar, all right, when
he's smoking as much wheed, he can afford all the
weed he wants. He does not sound like you sound
(29:42):
right now? My god? I show many Okay, all right,
thank you, all right, we'll move on from that. Let's
say hello to let's see any meaning money. Well, let's
go to Poppy in Sunday. I go hello, Poppy, welcome.
(30:02):
All right, Poppy's not there. We'll go to Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel,
show some love.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
From yours truly thirty two years old, the sports ambassador
of my teams.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
And I'm back.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
And who else to say it's gonna be a good morning.
But especially how that's what you said then about my
giants and Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Cringe. Yeah, I didn't realize. I didn't understand Russell Westbrook
was that daygry No, I mean Russell Wilson. Oh okay,
all right, got you gott he say no more?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Oh giants, egos this Sunday, let's sue some TV pits.
Okay please, and if you want to play along before password,
be my guest. And let's be honest. It's a new dawn,
it's a new day. No members right around the corner,
so say it with us, my friends, Mala militia.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Let's get into it. Let's get into it, and.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
We got some guests. If you want to play some.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
TV okay, TV pick three, Oh you want to call
her number three. All right, very good, We'll have caller
number three. Who is caller number three? Let's go to
Gabe in Pennsylvania. Gab your caller number three? Hello, Gabe,
back to back game. That other guy hasn't called again,
so you win. Gabe, only number one.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
And the dude.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
But he wasn't hold earlier today. But he didn't hold
very long. Okay, I didn't hold on very long. So
there you go.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Welcome to the show. What is your TV pick from
last night? My TV pick them last night?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah? Yeah, guess what Marcel watched on TV last night?
So fast.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I hope there will be NBA on NBC is back?
Oh seventy show?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah? Good guys.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
All right, I'm gonna do you think that seventy show
is a comedy? One day?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Gabe? What else would it be?
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Hilarious? Comedy? What streaming service that you watch?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It's a very personal personal question.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, you know, legally, illegally, we just kind of keep
that on on below.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
You you have the magic box? Huh interesting? Yeah, got
some people said I would never have the magic box.
The magic box would be wrong to have. You should
never have a magic box, not a magic box.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
It is not a mixed match as well, Gabe, thank
you for playing. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Marsa, Oh look at that gave You and Marcell are bonding.
I want to go and b see NBA.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yes, and the doublehead of the NBA. The reboot one
just like from the nineties is back and I give
you the mixed Matt.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, you were a little kid in the nineties when
they last had all.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Right, yeah, nineteen ninety three, I was born. Okay, you
saw the next plane?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Okay, nobody, nobody cares. All right, what about you lareda
right ahead.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
My friend.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
It is Halloween season, so I'm gonna say you watched
Halloween Town, Halloween.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Town on Disney plot that is it? So if you
say the Spooks, darnay?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Is this not? Is this man not an entertainer? This
is this is why this guy wins Call of the
Year just about every year, Cooperloo five times next year, Marcel.
I think you were watching I think, thank you. I
think you were watching The Diplomat, The Diplomat.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
On the streaming service.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
What you have Netflix?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Netflix? Well, not a mixed matter.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
That hurry up, please hurry up.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Here we go, Folk and BC, the NBA is back in. Ben, Yeah,
I went again.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Thank you Marcel. There he goes the great Marcel in
Brooklyn real quick. This is a guy hadn't called the
show in long and long Asston. I don't know what happened.
Maybe you just got out of jail. The Crusher is
in Minnesota, Hello Crusher, Welcome, Hello guys, first time caller,
a longtime listener. I just wanted to give a shout
out to my buddy Butters. Okay, I thought you were
(34:14):
somebody else. I thought you had called the name. There
was a guy that used to call under a similar name,
But apparently it's not you. There you go. You did
your little shout out. Wonderful, Michael. I feel so disappointed, Ben.
I'm not just but the other guy was a good caller.
Mike the Leprechaun, Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Marcel Marcel will not win five times in a row.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
He's a mismatch for your show.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
You. I had my foot ticks last night.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I was out here saying, oh, I had phil a
menu on with my friends for my sixty second berth.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Okay, al right, I love that he thinks we asked
did anyone ask him? No?
Speaker 5 (34:53):
That is Marcel's bit.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, okay, anyway, we will press on. We are going
to have we're moments away from password the word Game
of the Stars password. I think we have our contestants
lined up for that, so we're good on that. I
also saw the cliche of cliche stories. The Ravens off
to a one in five start. They recently decided coach
(35:17):
Harball that the players were too comfortable, so they got
rid of all of the creature comforts. They got rid
of the this is what they had in the locker room.
They had ping pong, table, basketball hoop, video game consoles,
and cornhole in the locker room. Oh got rid of
all of it, and it hasn't helped. The team still sucks,
(35:38):
but they don't have ping pong and all that, so
fractions are gone.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Can I have just thirty seconds to comment on your
monologue on this hour?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (35:48):
How much of a pussy willow is Russell Wilson?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I mean, come on, man, he didn't even name him.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
It was more so a compliment to Jackson Dart than
a shot at Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
But also, you suck like you're not a good quarterback.
You don't have any room to talk. All right, I'm done.
I only use about seventeen seconds. That's good. Yeah, that
tells you, though, Koop it's raw. Though they hate each other,
they don't for sure. Sure it's not fake. It's not
you know sports talk radio. It's it's real. Hey, it
is the Ben Mahler Show, Password the Word Game of
(36:23):
the Stars. We'll get to that and we will do
it next.
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Speaker 7 (37:35):
Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot. Password
the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Maller star.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Let's welcome in our contestants for password. We have mister
Irrigation in Houston, the Houston area. Hello, mister Irrigation.
Speaker 7 (37:57):
Heys, good morning man.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Thank you for picking all right? And you were gonna play?
And who do you want to partner up with? Mister Irrigation?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Well, then, uh, I think I'm gonna be something different
this time.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I'm gonna pick you. Okay, you see if you've seen
somewhat Okay, we want to win. You're in it all right?
Hold on all right and Mark on the north end, Hello, Mark, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Hey Ben, I can get some wins up of myself.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I want to win, all right, you bad you're trying
to win an award? I got it. Game show contested
in the year. One of the categories, who do you
want to partner up with? Mark? Well, they took you,
so I gotta go with all right, Cooper Loop, you
have been picked. We have a listener. You don't think
I have a good lexicon. I don't understand why they
would think that, Lorana. We have a list of words
one to ten and mister Irregation was on the air first.
(38:51):
So mister Iggason, please pick a number one to ten, well.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
In honor of the number one show after mid number
one man number one?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
How about one a proposal p R O P O
S A L proposal?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Contract?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
No? Cool?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
What do you say? He said? Contract?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I think he said concert. Let's go with step shop.
Let's go with a proposition question. No, how about got it?
Got it suggestion? Yeah, there you go. All right, we
(39:40):
got it? And hurry up. Mark pick a number two
to ten? Please, two to ten?
Speaker 7 (39:45):
Number four?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Number four? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (39:49):
Cool, hup, all right, let's go with uh I.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Say it a wus.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
You just say boy, we're a.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Coward. The word was coward. Coward was the word. We won,
mister Eric Gage, well scoring game. It was a defensive battle,
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