July 5, 2022 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Oklahoma State strength and conditioning coach Rob Glass getting paid $1 million, Maller's Mountain of Money: Charlie Daniels Edition, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name Berth three hour three
of our radio show. And there are big doings in
college football with teams going here, there, and everywhere, and
money is flying. We react to a report that a
strength and conditioning coach is getting one million dollars. So
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that strength and condition in coach getting one million dollars
is blank. We'll fill in the blank. How much of
an impact do these strength coaches actually make? And will
this lead to the domino effect for athletic support staff
and college football in particular. We talk about all that
and more right now in our number three. Here it
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is the money is flying everywhere in amateur sports. Wink wink,
not not welcome. In the beginning another hour of the
Ben Mathers Show, as we are in the air everywhere,
just like next door neighbors, as we enjoy the weird
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and wonderful coast to coast border the order and beyond
on the vast and staggeringly powerful microphones of fs are
emanating live from the rock aka the rock bottom of
the broadcast schedule Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret
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location somewhere in the north Woods. And so we're doing
something a little different this hour. Our lead does come
from college football. Did we have more teams deflect from
their conference to another team? Do we have more defections? No,
we did not not on July fourth, although a voice
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in the night tells me that as more likely than
not going to happen by the end of the week.
By the weekend, there should be some more teams that
are jumping ship. Nothing new right now on the great
migration of college teams. UCLA and USC gave the bird
to the PAC ten and they are the PAC twelve
rout of the heading to the Big ten, which hasn't
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had ten teams, only ten teams in years, but they
still call themselves the Big Ten. So UCLA and USC
headed the Big ten, and we are waiting to hear
from Notre Dame. We'll touch down Jesus, leave the independent
life to join the Big ten and ask for the
rest of the PAC twelve. How many teams are going
to stick around or say bye bye and head for
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greener pastors. What a legacy though, for Larry Scott, the
former commissioner, this is his work, this is his baby,
people said while he was running the PAC twelve. What
a terrible commissioner. Larry Scott was, and he is the
man when they write the book about the downfall of
the PAC twelve conference will have a special section dedicated
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to Larry Scott. And we know about the mightas touch,
where everything you touch is wonderful, and this is the
sadom touch. Everything Larry Scott touched as the commissioner of
the PAC twelve conference went rotten. And he is the
man responsible for the debacle which will be the downfall
of a conference that had been around for generations. As
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it's all but over now for the PAC twelve and
you can look at the PAC twelve network that I
don't think anyone's watched to this point. They had a
terrible distribution deal with direct TV, and he was able
to marginalize the conference and made long term deals that
were a debacle. And while this was happening, he was
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playing his fiddle while the PAC twelve conference burned down
and got paid fifty million dollars to watch it all
burn to the ground. So but we're not gonna talk
about that. I want to turn the page on that
because business is booming. L I swear. Let me ask
you a question. Do you know you're college football fan?
Do you know someone named Rob Glass. You do not,
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probably not who the f is Rob Glass. Rob Glass
is on the payroll at Oklahoma State, and he's not
a head coach. He's not an assistant coach. Rob Glass
is a strength coach for the Cowboys of Oklahoma State,
a public school, and he has set a record. Rob
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Glass has become the first strength coach in college football
to make an annual salary of one million dollars. Let
me repeat that, all right, if you missed it. For
those of you in the back of the room, Rob Glass,
the strength coach at Oklahoma State, has become the first
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person to clear a million dollars for that job. The
guy who tell to re rack the dumbbells is now
going to be a millionaire. Every priority was a millionaire,
was making close to that anyway, But he's crossed the rubicon.
So let us discuss the question a college football strength
and conditioning coach getting one million dollars is blank. Gonna
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attempt to fill in the blank. I've got Uber, Jigsaw, Puzzle,
and Grand Canyon, and we will combine all of these
things together, will squish them all into one another, and
we'll try not to be frightened to death to see
what we come up with. So, first of all, Rob Glass,
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good for him, right, he's a guy who is not
a household name. You wouldn't be able to pick him
out of a police lineup. He is faceless. He is
rather nameless. Nevertheless, as the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State strength
and conditioning coach, he's the right person in the right
spot at the right time, everything falling into place, taking
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advantage of the gold rush which is going on in
college football with name, image, likeness deals for the players,
all the rage those are going around with reckless abandon
You've got that on one side of the aisle. You've
got the MEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGA millions and billions in television contracts making
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it rain for power school. So at this point, if
you're even the strength coach at a somewhat large institution,
assuming you haven't lost your mojo, it's like driving uber
on a Friday night when all the clubs let out
serge pricing, surge pricing, or a holiday friday, holiday weekend
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getaway serge pricing. There's a very high demand and that
leads to a price increase. Businesses generally pay according to
perceived value, and so a strength coach at Oklahoma State,
if Gundy I'm a man, I'm forty. If he's happy
with this guy, and he clearly was after the ball
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game based on his comments, then congratulations to Rock Glass
getting a million dollars. Now, secondly, how much of an
actual impact does a strength coach make? Now every major
institution as a strength coach. But is there really that
much of a difference between a guy who's making a
million dollars at that end and a guy who's a
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mid level strength coach. And that's where the great debate
comes in. It is a position that did not even
exist until about forty years ago. It used to be
back in a different era that football coaches would double dip.
They would be the one saying, hey, put the weights back,
you got to lift this X, Y and Z. And
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then about forty years ago, a little over forty years ago,
in the early eighties, right around that time, some schools decided,
you know what, we need someone to oversee all of this.
And it is a jigsaw puzzle. It's a piece to
the jigsaw puzzle. But these guys used to get paid
pocket change. This is no longer pocket change. Like to
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win on the field, you need a bigger, stronger, faster team. Therefore,
the strength coaches that are obvious an essential puzzle piece
in the jigsaw puzzle to winning. But it's not like
Oklahoma State has been dominating on the gridiron. It's been
a mid level football program. And this must be some
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of that leftover hidden money that was buried in an
oil field in Oklahoma by the late Tea Boon Pickings.
That oil tycoon who was the sugar daddy for Oklahoma
State passed away at age ninety one a couple of
years ago before the pandemic, and at the time he
passed away, the Great Tea Boon Pikets had a net
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worth of nine hundred and fifty million dollars at the
time of his death, and a lot of that money
is believed to have been given to Oklahoma State. He
gave a lot of it away while he was alive. Now,
final thought, will this lead to a domino effect for
the athletic support step. I saw a lot of people
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complaining about this story. Was bouncing around over the last
couple of days, saying, what's going on, where there's our
assistant athletic trainers making no money? See that's the dream,
and I'll believe it when it happens. I'll believe it
when it happens. I'm agnostic on this now. Regardless of that,
some people seem genuinely upset that this strength coach who
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we've never heard of, is getting this kind of money.
I am not upset. Good for him. It's not my money.
And they clearly have the money. And this guy, unlike
some other people who skipped line and went to the front,
this is the guy that paid his dues. I looked
at his resume. He's been a strength coach for almost
thirty years. There's crazy money in college football. And what
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is he supposed to do if he got a raise?
And is he supposed to say, no, I don't want
the race. That's too much money. There is, though a
Grand Canyon size pay gap among Division one institutions when
it comes to strength coaches. It's completely scattershot. You have
the halves and the have nots. You need to have
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Robin Hood come in there. This guy, Rob Glass of
Oklahoma State, the guy we were talking about. He makes
one million dollars and roughly five strength coaches are in
that same tax bracket where they make at least seven
hundred thousand per year. But that is Oklahoma State, Ohio, State,
DOT THEI, Florida, Michigan, and Alabama. Those are the five
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right there. Now some other smaller institutions there's still Division one.
But they paid twenty thousand dollars a year for that job.
So what a dichotomy to go from twenty thousand to
a million dollars. But such as life, it doesn't remind
me a lot of the radio biz. That you have
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some people in radio who are rolling in the dough
and when they buy a house, it ends up in
the real estate section with all the other people because
it's a multimillion dollars home, and then there's other people
that are fighting for breadcrumbs. It's a fascinating situation. So
it's similar in college football as in radio. The tools
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of the trade. While they're much different. People who fly
into a rage because of the salary. It's that part
of it's the same, all right. It is The Ben
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me Eric. The Boston guy says a minus on the
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Maller monologue. How many extra wins does a one million
dollars strength coach get? You? Would Alabama be even better
if they secured a one million dollars strange coach? Doubtful? Well,
I agree with the sentiment, but at the same time,
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they got the money. Who Oklahoma State is not going
to go out of business by paying their strength coach
one million dollars. It's not like the cowboys of Oklahoma
State have been lighting the world on fire. They've been okay,
they've been fine. It's been teams, but not the greatest
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program in college football. All Right, we'll go to the
phones now eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Also
coming up later this hour, we have Mallard's Mountain of Money.
Mallard's Mountain of Money coming up a little bit later
in the hour and the exit plan. What is that
all about? But my board's not being reset, So let's
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see if anyboy's still on hold? Who was before? Andrea
in Berkeley, Hello Andrea, welcome to the radio show. Good
to have you on. Hello Andrea, Oh that phone sounds
like it's yeah, it's falling apart. Andrew. I know you're
talking right now and you can hear us, but we
can't hear you. So all right, all right, hang out true,
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how about you charge it for a little bit. Calls back,
we'll get your right ar. I know you're on hold
for a while, so we'll make that happen. Let's go
to Holloweing James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, holler and James,
let's sit in the come in all right? Before you
do that, James, would you be willing to sit in
when Eddie takes all these corporate vacations on the corporate holidays?
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Would you be willing to come in here and do
the updates? Can Eddie? Yeah, if you brought Chammie out
here in the Minnesota, I would What if I didn't
do that? You would not want to work here. You
would not want to sit in for Eddie when he's
away on every holiday. You wouldn't want to come in
here if you brought me in, Yes, I would like
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to come in. Can you do a sample air check
for us? How would that sound the Hollowing James update?
Can you do that? Is that how it would sound? Yes?
But come correct. Let me just give me a little
respect my question in a comment. Hurry up, please, Okay,
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do you remember two thousand and four when the Lakers
creed Timberwolves in the playoffs championship game. I have that
T shirt. Not only did I have that number of
you here, I also have a civery bucket hall of
Fame Bob Woodhead that was his rule series chach and
his bad entitle hall of Fame. I got a better
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memorabilia collection than Brian does. Congratulations. And I wasn't tell
me to know that. And I wanted you to know, Ben, Yeah,
I wanted to know if they got cobet O there,
that guy that they picked up, and I got Kevin Durant,
would the Timberwolves be any better marketing and further in
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the playoffs with the aw Well, that's the problem with
Rudy Gobert. Rudy Gobert has been a great regular season player,
hollering James, but in the playoffs he's a liability. That's
the issue. So I don't see how it's gonna be
much different with the Timberwols than it was in Utah.
The Jazz won a bunch of regular season games Gobert
was Defensive Player of the Year multiple times. He gets
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a bunch of rebounds and all that, but his style
of play does not translate in the playoffs. When teams
can game plan against Rudy Gobert, it has not gone well.
So how's it gonna be any different in Minnesota? I'll
believe it when I see it. The change of atmosphere
and hemisphere with all fours Jesus coming and right at Minnesota.
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Oh is that right? So that's the key? Now? Will
you allow him to stay with you? Holler and James?
Can you guys be bunk bad? You can be bunk mates.
Could bring Chammer from Montana here and need to meet you.
I want to meet you bad for meet you brother.
All right, Well, we're gonna make that happen at some point,
Holler and James. We're gonna have a nice meal together.
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Maybe we'll go out to some burger place. Fine, what's
the number one juicy Lucy Stott in the Twin Cities?
Where do you go for a good juicy Lucy? The
five am five tenth college camp Boose. I gotta go
to a college campus for us for a burger That's
where I gotta go. I can at a restaurant as
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a restaurant, right, John camp Boose, Yes on campus. Ste
don't steer me wrong, James. I like a good meal.
Don't don't be steering me the wrong direction now, and
the all American burgers at Applebee's. But applebee I'm not
coming to Minnesota to eat at Applebee's. I can eat
at Applebee's here. I don't need to go to Minnesota
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to eat at Applebee's. Okay, thank you. Nothing nothing East Applebe's.
You get a good meal there, but I travel. I
want to eat the local, local delicacy. I get out
of here. Thank you, James. Go stare at your Tammy
and Montana poster. Please. Let's say hello to Angry Bill,
who is next somewhere in the state of Florida. Hello,
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ain't yeah, Good morning guys, and I'm sorry, oh I said,
Hey Dad, Hey Dad. Okay, okay, it's Amateur Hour on
the radio. This is a national radio show. We are
doing Amateur Hour right now. We found him straight. He
was sleeping under an overpass and they felt sorry for him,
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so they brought him in. As you know, Ben, I've
been trying to get you to pull in my kid
brother for your show, and he's a true competitive eating hero.
Champion explained to why he was Kobe Hashi. He ate
with Joey Chestnutt. He lost his leggy to being a
competitive eater, So he's a true hero. If he didn't
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lose his leg to being a competitive eater. He lost
his leg for not taking care of himself. Joey Chestnutt
has a doctor. He sees the doctor all the time.
He's not lost his leg, and he's the greatest eater
of all time. I guarantee that Dark Vader thing was
a hoax. It was a setup in a cast. You
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think there's no You think the people in the in
the NBA. The women that were running on the court
gluing themselves at the court was at also the Did
the NBA do that to get more publicity? Depends what
pad they were on that month. Um. So I keep
trying to get you to pull my kid brother in
because he he has not messaged me. He hates you.
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You sent him a toe in the mail, he claims,
and he said, you're how do you look after the
fifth time? You can't get the story straight. You just
can't get a straight Okay, if you got it straight
and you tweeted him and you said, hey, still favor
give us a call around a certain time with we'll
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fitch in. But you won't do it because you have
no he's your brother. Why don't you ask him? Because
you're strange from him and you don't talk to him.
That's why he doesn't play with a full dick. So
I don't talk to him. Well, he says, you don't either,
so you both have that in common. This guy. Okay,
let me explain one thing to you. He destroyed the
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basement of a three hundred and twenty five thousand dollar
home because he had his dog, yearney and crap in
the basement. It coursed me over ten thousand dollars thirty
years ago. I don't know about the house. Yeah, okay,
I don't think about it. You know about I'm telling
you about it. That's why I'm telling you. That's why
you got upset. Coop. Listen to Coop. He said, building
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never lies to us. Okay, that's true, correct, Angry Bille
never lies? Is that I don't. I don't recall saying that,
but i've yet. I mean, I don't recall any lies.
Thank you. And you did say you did tell us
angry Bille you robbed a bank. Correct, you have told
us that you told us that I didn't lie to you. Okay, Okay,
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you're you're missing the thing here, and that's okay. You
that have beer drinking Brian bubbling the garbage that he
would talk and then I wouldn't have him. We could
have him on anymore, but he's not available unfortunately. Yeah,
well that's that's that's how moronic you are about it.
That guy couldn't say one word straight if it kicked
him in the head. Yeah. You you've been calling me
for how many years? You had one good call, which
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was the first call when you screamed like a banshee
about what about a nine year old girl? And since
then it's gotten progressively worse. And I still put you
on the air, hind year old girl? Answer that quick thing?
You you wouldn't give me ninety seconds to tell you
the best thing that I could tell you. But you
don't give me ninety seconds to tell you because you
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you do. You waste your time with all his other nonsense. No,
because you you interrupt talk show, go back and forth.
It's that's how it works. Back and forth. How about
letting the guy finish a comment or a saying that
he wants to say without you interrupting him? All right,
you know what, I'm not gonn interrupt you anymore because
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I'm going to hang up on you and so therefore
anymore so I'm gonna hang there we go, I see
you later, Bye bye, Oh God. Does anyone want to
hear ninety seconds of that guy? I don't see anyone
raising their hands. Nobody would like to hear that. That's
content people do not want. You're not that guy. We
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will get to the exit plan. What is that all about? Also,
we'll set up Mallor's Mounting Money. So if you want
to play Mallers mount of Money, start calling right now
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. I need
two people who would like to participate in a radio
game show, Maller's Mounting Money. Paul Now operators are standing
by at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Be
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sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallers Show
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Maller wolfing down sixty three hot dogs or any famous
world Fourth of July hot dog geting contest. And of
course this wasn't a ten minute span, and he fought
off intruders, as Ben mentioned in his first monologue, but
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Ben did not mention that Mickey pseudo she inhaled forty
Francs and buns. So I have a as who says,
play the hits, mom, Man, play the hits. That's what
he tells me. You like to play the non hits, Well,
you'd like to play the B side. I play the
A side. That's the difference. Well, if you play the
A side, then you're talking about the PAC ten earlier
in the hour might not be the A side. But
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you know, we all make cla because you're on the
on the take the Bruins, you're on the payroll. You're
not gonna trash leaving the PAC twelve behind. You're not
gonna do that at all. Right, make mistakes, right? Uh huh?
I got you? Maybe saddle back when the last time
you hit a hot dog? I don't eat hot dogs.
That's all you need to know about it. This guy,
he does not eat hot dogs. Well, how would you
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like to hang out with a human? Let me ask
you this in your heyday, in your prime, how many
hot dogs could you throw down at once? Well? I
wouldn't eat him. Now, I just throw them at you.
I would get me to do bad radio here. I
was about to compliment you management. I think management might
might might want me out of here or something like that,
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to leave Fox Sports Radio. When you sit in here,
it's like a sign for Management's like, Ben, you're such
an amateur. We're gonna put the lowest grade people we
can get and put them on with you. Well, that's
what it tells me when you come in here and
act like this, it's embarrassed. Well, usually amateurs don't work
during the holidays, or maybe they do, and maybe that's
you saying you're an amateur. You can take a day off.
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It's okay, you know, back at you, Oh my gosh,
I was gonna throw you a compliment and say that soundly.
All right, So let's get to the extra plan right now.
And the UCLA Bruins, Brian's on the take with them,
and USC they both left the Pac twelve behind, took
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the money and ran off to the Big ten. And
it sounds like by the time we're done, no one
will be left in the Pac twelve. Where the last
person turnout the lights, the party is over because later today,
later today, the Big twelve Conference has a meeting scheduled
with representatives of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah. They
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are all scheduled to have a pow wow with the
Big twelve Conference. A mug chatter that it is a
mass exodus, that they're all going to be leaving the
Pack twelve conference at Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah.
This will be the way that goes to the Big Twelve.
So what happens to Stanford and cal Washington and Washington State,
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for example, and also Oregon and Oregon State. Well, they
have a grouping together where they stay together in some
new version of the PAC twelve. And then they're gonna
have to put together schools like UNLV and San Diego
State and schools like that to form the conference. Or
would the Southeastern Conference, since the Big Ten is now
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a national conference going from Piscataway, New Jersey, all the
way to Los Angeles, would the SEC attempt to get
a Pacific Conference or a Western division of the Southeastern
Conference and say, why don't we get some of those schools.
But there's not a lot of great schools left. But
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Oregon's had some good football over the years, Washington sporadically
in Washington State sporadically. So we'll see what happens going forward.
But later today, when the sun rises, the Big Twelve
Conference going to meet with Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, and
Colorado about saying goodbye to the Pac twelve and getting
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out there. Robin Minnesota rights and he says, the best
juicy lucy in the five, a grille just north of
the airport. So he's recommending, now I go next to
the airport. That's the way to go late night drug
testa rights instus. I would rather hear Angry Bill's story
about a defecating dog then hollerween James culinary review about Applebee's.
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So he says, all right, they're very good. We have
our contestants ready to go. Here, can we introduce them
and get to the game. Here we go. This is
very exciting. Get that open there now, Mallard's Mountain of Money. Hey,
do you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not? And here we go. It is time now
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for a weekly step step on this radio. It is
a step. It's called Mallard's Mountain of Money. So let's
welcome in our contestants who are lined up to play.
We go now to the international line on Mallar's Mountain
of Money. We say hello to Dave, who is listening
to us in Israel. Hello, Dave, welcome, Hello, how are
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you Ben? Hi? Dave? How's everything in the Middle East?
This morning? I was doing well, it's nice and the
nice midday show. Are you over here? That's right? And
what's the weather like today? What's the temperature? I would
say it's probably about eighty five and Sonny gorgeous, perfect outstanding.
All right, hold on a sick Dave. You're gonna be
one of our contestants on this edition of Mallard's Mountain
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the Money, and who else do we have? Let's see
here at any money? Well, you asked me if we
had our contestants, and then like half a second later
you said, let's start the game. So we have one
contestant so far. Hold on the front train, all right,
and it was a dial tone. All right, Apparently no
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one wants to play the game, so we'll cancel the
game then, dad, Dave, I'm sorry, we're not gonna play
the game. Nobody. Nobody wants to play. Nobody called up
to play the game. I asked for people to call.
Nobody called up to play the game, so we'll cancel
the game. Dave, I'm sorry, but we're not gonna play
the game today. Okay, buddy, the game play the game. Well, no,
we don't have anybody. We need two people to play
the game. You know, if you if you threw the
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break right now, it's still be earlier than We normally
throw a break, so we'll have plenty of time on
the other side to play the game. It gives people
six minutes to call in if they want to play
the game. All right, all right, well day, we'll hold
on there, Dave. But we'll see if anybody wants to call.
Barely nobody wants to play this game. It's not popular anymore.
Maybe we'll get rid of Mallor's Mountain of Money. It's
not popular. We'll find out. This could be the final
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the final time we even mentioned the name Mallor's Mountain
of Money. But we'll see if anyone calls eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox you want to play Mallor's
mount of Money or this is it. We'll just have
Chuckles the clown over there at the newsdesk make me
question my decision to get into radio. Every time I
work with him, Daddy, every single time I say, boy,
(31:39):
take this job professionally. Come in, Hey, work with Chuckles
the clown over there. Unbelievable. All right, Mallor's mount of Money.
Maybe that's it. This could be all we'll find out next.
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let's get back to a human bobblehead known as Big Ben,
and I am told now we have we found our contestants,
so we will actually have Maller's amount of money. We
will not be canceling the game Maller's amount of money,
So let's get to it right now. We mentioned hello
to Dave in Israel who called up, and we also
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have Matt in Portland, Maine. Hello, Matt, Welcome, Hey, how's
going Matt? You're gonna save the game? Matt? Is this exciting?
I'm couldn't be happier. This is a big accomplishment to
save a radio game show on what brings you to
the show? Why are you up at this hour? So
I just got out of work and actually I just
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left the job as well. Oh you did, okay, all right?
What kind of work do you do? Industrial firefighting? But
I want to move into town municipal firefighting, so it
was time to head on. Oh does that pay better?
Or better quality of life or something like that? A
little bit of both working towards the career in retirement
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and you know, helping the people of Portland, Maine, all
the above? Nice? All right, well, very good? Hold on
a sex. So we'll go back to Dave and Israel. Dave,
who would you like to partner up with? Dave? You
can play with me, Ben, Roberto, Coop or that other guy.
I'm gonna go with the only guy that's not on
those shocks keep tools on the show. I'm gonna go
with Coop. Wow, all right, Dave's going with Coop? And
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what about you, Matt in Portland, Maine the firefighter changing
jobs man? Who would you like to partner up with?
I'm gonna take my guy Roberto. All right, that's the matchup.
This is was it the Charlie Daniels edition? Correct? We have?
The categories are long Haired country Boy, the Devil went
down to Georgia, Blue Star, and a few more Rednecks
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and Dave, which category do you want? Dave a long
haired country boy? Long haired country boy. That's category number
one that you picked. And Matt, which category would you like?
Let's till blue Star. All right, Blue Star it is.
And Dave and Coop you're up first. We'll put forty
five seconds on the clock. We need the first and
last name these athletes all rock long hair, all rock
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long hair for Dave in Israel and Coop. Forty five
seconds on the clock. You're on your way and go.
He is the current star on the Memphis Grizzlies. Stephen Adams. No, no, no, yes, yes, yep. Um.
He is a slugger for the San Diego Padres. His
dad was he hit like two Grand slams in a game? Yes,
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thank you, um. Long haired pitcher for the Angels. Used
to be with the Mets. Yes, running back for the Broncos.
He used to be on the Chargers. Yeah. Uh. The
Lydian Tomason No no, um, current player for current player
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for the Colorado Rockies. He's got a really long beard
as well. Yes, all right, that was good. That was good.
I was too slow? Who blaming himself on that? So
you got the ten twenty thirty, forty and sixties, so
that is a hundred and sixty points, and you didn't
get through the whole board, but one hundred and sixty
that is the score to beat. We'll go over to Roberto,
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who is with Matt from Portland, Maine, the firefighter, and
you picked blue Star as your category. Of these athletes,
we're all drafted by the Cowboys. It's the Charlie Daniels edition.
Will put forty five seconds on the clock. Matt. We
need the first and last name and you're on your
way go. Current running back for the Dallas Cowboys at
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Ohio State. Michael Elliott legendary white receiver play with um
uh Troy Egman, Michael Levin Uh, legendary coach of the
Lakers with Magic Johnson currently runs the Miami Heat. Right.
Riley yeah uh, legendary track and field outh athlete. He
screwed up the star spangled banner. H h uh. Legendary
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running back out of Pitts out of pit University of Pittsburgh.
Running back for the Dallas Cowboys the seventies. No Uh
two Tall nicknamed two tall Uh it was yeah, I
didn't get that in. Come on, I beat the buzzer
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rules are ruling sixty points. That's it, only sixty points,
and so that means that you're gonna go again as
you're trailing by one hundred points. Dave in Israel and
Coop have one hundred and sixty. Roberto and Matt have
only sixty. And so the other categories, Matt, you gotta
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pick again. We have the Devil went down to Georgia,
and a few more rednecks. How about a few more rednecks? Okay,
these athletes can all be considered rednecks according to whoever
wrote the board here Charlie Daniels edition. And it's Mallard's
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mount of money. So you gotta get at least one
hundred points to tie Matt, and these athletes, all, as
we said, could be considered the title of the category rednecks.
All right, forty five seconds on the clock. You're on
your way and go pluld it for the Braves. In
the nineties, uh he uh pissed off a lot of
Mets fans talking about the way they were, how they
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talk about the people in New York. Oh no, uh.
This guy broke the Babe Roots single season home run
record left fielder for the Yankees. Right fielder for the Yankees.
Roger Marris. Uh. Yeah, picture for the greatest pitcher in
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the postseason in history. Uh. For the San Francisco Giants,
he won three World Series. Garner, Yeah you're tied. Uh,
running back for the Ali Raiders at Kansas City and
and off for the for the Kansas City Royals. Two
star athlete. Yes, you leave the hit he went out
of order. Yeah, but you got Roger Marris was the
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sixty point one bum. Gardner was the forty point in
Bo Jackson, the thirty point John Rocker was who you
were looking for. Ye. Yeah, Queens the whole thing that
was a long time ago, probably before you time. Matt,
all right, we gotta hurry up, were running out of time. Uh.
Devil went out, went down to Georgia. Uh the um
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one of the best wrestlers of all time, Beach Guy
California man catcher for the Giants. He ruined the collision
at the plate. Yes, um, he wore goggles on the bulls,
the Michael Jordan Bulls. Hurry up, last name time time
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Ti
Hello and welcome. It's our name Berth three hour three
of our radio show. And there are big doings in
college football with teams going here, there, and everywhere, and
money is flying. We react to a report that a
strength and conditioning coach is getting one million dollars. So
(00:25):
that strength and condition in coach getting one million dollars
is blank. We'll fill in the blank. How much of
an impact do these strength coaches actually make? And will
this lead to the domino effect for athletic support staff
and college football in particular. We talk about all that
and more right now in our number three. Here it
(00:47):
is the money is flying everywhere in amateur sports. Wink wink,
not not welcome. In the beginning another hour of the
Ben Mathers Show, as we are in the air everywhere,
just like next door neighbors, as we enjoy the weird
(01:10):
and wonderful coast to coast border the order and beyond
on the vast and staggeringly powerful microphones of fs are
emanating live from the rock aka the rock bottom of
the broadcast schedule Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret
(01:33):
location somewhere in the north Woods. And so we're doing
something a little different this hour. Our lead does come
from college football. Did we have more teams deflect from
their conference to another team? Do we have more defections? No,
we did not not on July fourth, although a voice
(01:54):
in the night tells me that as more likely than
not going to happen by the end of the week.
By the weekend, there should be some more teams that
are jumping ship. Nothing new right now on the great
migration of college teams. UCLA and USC gave the bird
to the PAC ten and they are the PAC twelve
rout of the heading to the Big ten, which hasn't
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had ten teams, only ten teams in years, but they
still call themselves the Big Ten. So UCLA and USC
headed the Big ten, and we are waiting to hear
from Notre Dame. We'll touch down Jesus, leave the independent
life to join the Big ten and ask for the
rest of the PAC twelve. How many teams are going
to stick around or say bye bye and head for
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greener pastors. What a legacy though, for Larry Scott, the
former commissioner, this is his work, this is his baby,
people said while he was running the PAC twelve. What
a terrible commissioner. Larry Scott was, and he is the
man when they write the book about the downfall of
the PAC twelve conference will have a special section dedicated
(03:02):
to Larry Scott. And we know about the mightas touch,
where everything you touch is wonderful, and this is the
sadom touch. Everything Larry Scott touched as the commissioner of
the PAC twelve conference went rotten. And he is the
man responsible for the debacle which will be the downfall
of a conference that had been around for generations. As
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it's all but over now for the PAC twelve and
you can look at the PAC twelve network that I
don't think anyone's watched to this point. They had a
terrible distribution deal with direct TV, and he was able
to marginalize the conference and made long term deals that
were a debacle. And while this was happening, he was
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playing his fiddle while the PAC twelve conference burned down
and got paid fifty million dollars to watch it all
burn to the ground. So but we're not gonna talk
about that. I want to turn the page on that
because business is booming. L I swear. Let me ask
you a question. Do you know you're college football fan?
Do you know someone named Rob Glass. You do not,
(04:10):
probably not who the f is Rob Glass. Rob Glass
is on the payroll at Oklahoma State, and he's not
a head coach. He's not an assistant coach. Rob Glass
is a strength coach for the Cowboys of Oklahoma State,
a public school, and he has set a record. Rob
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Glass has become the first strength coach in college football
to make an annual salary of one million dollars. Let
me repeat that, all right, if you missed it. For
those of you in the back of the room, Rob Glass,
the strength coach at Oklahoma State, has become the first
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person to clear a million dollars for that job. The
guy who tell to re rack the dumbbells is now
going to be a millionaire. Every priority was a millionaire,
was making close to that anyway, But he's crossed the rubicon.
So let us discuss the question a college football strength
and conditioning coach getting one million dollars is blank. Gonna
(05:18):
attempt to fill in the blank. I've got Uber, Jigsaw, Puzzle,
and Grand Canyon, and we will combine all of these
things together, will squish them all into one another, and
we'll try not to be frightened to death to see
what we come up with. So, first of all, Rob Glass,
(05:39):
good for him, right, he's a guy who is not
a household name. You wouldn't be able to pick him
out of a police lineup. He is faceless. He is
rather nameless. Nevertheless, as the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State strength
and conditioning coach, he's the right person in the right
spot at the right time, everything falling into place, taking
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advantage of the gold rush which is going on in
college football with name, image, likeness deals for the players,
all the rage those are going around with reckless abandon
You've got that on one side of the aisle. You've
got the MEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGA millions and billions in television contracts making
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it rain for power school. So at this point, if
you're even the strength coach at a somewhat large institution,
assuming you haven't lost your mojo, it's like driving uber
on a Friday night when all the clubs let out
serge pricing, surge pricing, or a holiday friday, holiday weekend
(06:52):
getaway serge pricing. There's a very high demand and that
leads to a price increase. Businesses generally pay according to
perceived value, and so a strength coach at Oklahoma State,
if Gundy I'm a man, I'm forty. If he's happy
with this guy, and he clearly was after the ball
(07:14):
game based on his comments, then congratulations to Rock Glass
getting a million dollars. Now, secondly, how much of an
actual impact does a strength coach make? Now every major
institution as a strength coach. But is there really that
much of a difference between a guy who's making a
million dollars at that end and a guy who's a
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mid level strength coach. And that's where the great debate
comes in. It is a position that did not even
exist until about forty years ago. It used to be
back in a different era that football coaches would double dip.
They would be the one saying, hey, put the weights back,
you got to lift this X, Y and Z. And
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then about forty years ago, a little over forty years ago,
in the early eighties, right around that time, some schools decided,
you know what, we need someone to oversee all of this.
And it is a jigsaw puzzle. It's a piece to
the jigsaw puzzle. But these guys used to get paid
pocket change. This is no longer pocket change. Like to
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win on the field, you need a bigger, stronger, faster team. Therefore,
the strength coaches that are obvious an essential puzzle piece
in the jigsaw puzzle to winning. But it's not like
Oklahoma State has been dominating on the gridiron. It's been
a mid level football program. And this must be some
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of that leftover hidden money that was buried in an
oil field in Oklahoma by the late Tea Boon Pickings.
That oil tycoon who was the sugar daddy for Oklahoma
State passed away at age ninety one a couple of
years ago before the pandemic, and at the time he
passed away, the Great Tea Boon Pikets had a net
(09:04):
worth of nine hundred and fifty million dollars at the
time of his death, and a lot of that money
is believed to have been given to Oklahoma State. He
gave a lot of it away while he was alive. Now,
final thought, will this lead to a domino effect for
the athletic support step. I saw a lot of people
(09:25):
complaining about this story. Was bouncing around over the last
couple of days, saying, what's going on, where there's our
assistant athletic trainers making no money? See that's the dream,
and I'll believe it when it happens. I'll believe it
when it happens. I'm agnostic on this now. Regardless of that,
some people seem genuinely upset that this strength coach who
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we've never heard of, is getting this kind of money.
I am not upset. Good for him. It's not my money.
And they clearly have the money. And this guy, unlike
some other people who skipped line and went to the front,
this is the guy that paid his dues. I looked
at his resume. He's been a strength coach for almost
thirty years. There's crazy money in college football. And what
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is he supposed to do if he got a raise?
And is he supposed to say, no, I don't want
the race. That's too much money. There is, though a
Grand Canyon size pay gap among Division one institutions when
it comes to strength coaches. It's completely scattershot. You have
the halves and the have nots. You need to have
(10:32):
Robin Hood come in there. This guy, Rob Glass of
Oklahoma State, the guy we were talking about. He makes
one million dollars and roughly five strength coaches are in
that same tax bracket where they make at least seven
hundred thousand per year. But that is Oklahoma State, Ohio, State,
DOT THEI, Florida, Michigan, and Alabama. Those are the five
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right there. Now some other smaller institutions there's still Division one.
But they paid twenty thousand dollars a year for that job.
So what a dichotomy to go from twenty thousand to
a million dollars. But such as life, it doesn't remind
me a lot of the radio biz. That you have
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some people in radio who are rolling in the dough
and when they buy a house, it ends up in
the real estate section with all the other people because
it's a multimillion dollars home, and then there's other people
that are fighting for breadcrumbs. It's a fascinating situation. So
it's similar in college football as in radio. The tools
(11:40):
of the trade. While they're much different. People who fly
into a rage because of the salary. It's that part
of it's the same, all right. It is The Ben
Maller Show. As we press on further and further into
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(12:04):
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(12:26):
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me Eric. The Boston guy says a minus on the
(13:30):
Maller monologue. How many extra wins does a one million
dollars strength coach get? You? Would Alabama be even better
if they secured a one million dollars strange coach? Doubtful? Well,
I agree with the sentiment, but at the same time,
(13:51):
they got the money. Who Oklahoma State is not going
to go out of business by paying their strength coach
one million dollars. It's not like the cowboys of Oklahoma
State have been lighting the world on fire. They've been okay,
they've been fine. It's been teams, but not the greatest
(14:12):
program in college football. All Right, we'll go to the
phones now eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Also
coming up later this hour, we have Mallard's Mountain of Money.
Mallard's Mountain of Money coming up a little bit later
in the hour and the exit plan. What is that
all about? But my board's not being reset, So let's
(14:34):
see if anyboy's still on hold? Who was before? Andrea
in Berkeley, Hello Andrea, welcome to the radio show. Good
to have you on. Hello Andrea, Oh that phone sounds
like it's yeah, it's falling apart. Andrew. I know you're
talking right now and you can hear us, but we
can't hear you. So all right, all right, hang out true,
(14:58):
how about you charge it for a little bit. Calls back,
we'll get your right ar. I know you're on hold
for a while, so we'll make that happen. Let's go
to Holloweing James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, holler and James,
let's sit in the come in all right? Before you
do that, James, would you be willing to sit in
when Eddie takes all these corporate vacations on the corporate holidays?
(15:21):
Would you be willing to come in here and do
the updates? Can Eddie? Yeah, if you brought Chammie out
here in the Minnesota, I would What if I didn't
do that? You would not want to work here. You
would not want to sit in for Eddie when he's
away on every holiday. You wouldn't want to come in
here if you brought me in, Yes, I would like
(15:41):
to come in. Can you do a sample air check
for us? How would that sound the Hollowing James update?
Can you do that? Is that how it would sound? Yes?
But come correct. Let me just give me a little
respect my question in a comment. Hurry up, please, Okay,
(16:05):
do you remember two thousand and four when the Lakers
creed Timberwolves in the playoffs championship game. I have that
T shirt. Not only did I have that number of
you here, I also have a civery bucket hall of
Fame Bob Woodhead that was his rule series chach and
his bad entitle hall of Fame. I got a better
(16:27):
memorabilia collection than Brian does. Congratulations. And I wasn't tell
me to know that. And I wanted you to know, Ben, Yeah,
I wanted to know if they got cobet O there,
that guy that they picked up, and I got Kevin Durant,
would the Timberwolves be any better marketing and further in
(16:49):
the playoffs with the aw Well, that's the problem with
Rudy Gobert. Rudy Gobert has been a great regular season player,
hollering James, but in the playoffs he's a liability. That's
the issue. So I don't see how it's gonna be
much different with the Timberwols than it was in Utah.
The Jazz won a bunch of regular season games Gobert
was Defensive Player of the Year multiple times. He gets
(17:10):
a bunch of rebounds and all that, but his style
of play does not translate in the playoffs. When teams
can game plan against Rudy Gobert, it has not gone well.
So how's it gonna be any different in Minnesota? I'll
believe it when I see it. The change of atmosphere
and hemisphere with all fours Jesus coming and right at Minnesota.
(17:31):
Oh is that right? So that's the key? Now? Will
you allow him to stay with you? Holler and James?
Can you guys be bunk bad? You can be bunk mates.
Could bring Chammer from Montana here and need to meet you.
I want to meet you bad for meet you brother.
All right, Well, we're gonna make that happen at some point,
Holler and James. We're gonna have a nice meal together.
(17:52):
Maybe we'll go out to some burger place. Fine, what's
the number one juicy Lucy Stott in the Twin Cities?
Where do you go for a good juicy Lucy? The
five am five tenth college camp Boose. I gotta go
to a college campus for us for a burger That's
where I gotta go. I can at a restaurant as
(18:16):
a restaurant, right, John camp Boose, Yes on campus. Ste
don't steer me wrong, James. I like a good meal.
Don't don't be steering me the wrong direction now, and
the all American burgers at Applebee's. But applebee I'm not
coming to Minnesota to eat at Applebee's. I can eat
at Applebee's here. I don't need to go to Minnesota
(18:38):
to eat at Applebee's. Okay, thank you. Nothing nothing East Applebe's.
You get a good meal there, but I travel. I
want to eat the local, local delicacy. I get out
of here. Thank you, James. Go stare at your Tammy
and Montana poster. Please. Let's say hello to Angry Bill,
who is next somewhere in the state of Florida. Hello,
(19:00):
ain't yeah, Good morning guys, and I'm sorry, oh I said,
Hey Dad, Hey Dad. Okay, okay, it's Amateur Hour on
the radio. This is a national radio show. We are
doing Amateur Hour right now. We found him straight. He
was sleeping under an overpass and they felt sorry for him,
(19:22):
so they brought him in. As you know, Ben, I've
been trying to get you to pull in my kid
brother for your show, and he's a true competitive eating hero.
Champion explained to why he was Kobe Hashi. He ate
with Joey Chestnutt. He lost his leggy to being a
competitive eater, So he's a true hero. If he didn't
(19:45):
lose his leg to being a competitive eater. He lost
his leg for not taking care of himself. Joey Chestnutt
has a doctor. He sees the doctor all the time.
He's not lost his leg, and he's the greatest eater
of all time. I guarantee that Dark Vader thing was
a hoax. It was a setup in a cast. You
(20:05):
think there's no You think the people in the in
the NBA. The women that were running on the court
gluing themselves at the court was at also the Did
the NBA do that to get more publicity? Depends what
pad they were on that month. Um. So I keep
trying to get you to pull my kid brother in
because he he has not messaged me. He hates you.
(20:28):
You sent him a toe in the mail, he claims,
and he said, you're how do you look after the
fifth time? You can't get the story straight. You just
can't get a straight Okay, if you got it straight
and you tweeted him and you said, hey, still favor
give us a call around a certain time with we'll
(20:49):
fitch in. But you won't do it because you have
no he's your brother. Why don't you ask him? Because
you're strange from him and you don't talk to him.
That's why he doesn't play with a full dick. So
I don't talk to him. Well, he says, you don't either,
so you both have that in common. This guy. Okay,
let me explain one thing to you. He destroyed the
(21:11):
basement of a three hundred and twenty five thousand dollar
home because he had his dog, yearney and crap in
the basement. It coursed me over ten thousand dollars thirty
years ago. I don't know about the house. Yeah, okay,
I don't think about it. You know about I'm telling
you about it. That's why I'm telling you. That's why
you got upset. Coop. Listen to Coop. He said, building
(21:34):
never lies to us. Okay, that's true, correct, Angry Bille
never lies? Is that I don't. I don't recall saying that,
but i've yet. I mean, I don't recall any lies.
Thank you. And you did say you did tell us
angry Bille you robbed a bank. Correct, you have told
us that you told us that I didn't lie to you. Okay, Okay,
(21:57):
you're you're missing the thing here, and that's okay. You
that have beer drinking Brian bubbling the garbage that he
would talk and then I wouldn't have him. We could
have him on anymore, but he's not available unfortunately. Yeah,
well that's that's that's how moronic you are about it.
That guy couldn't say one word straight if it kicked
him in the head. Yeah. You you've been calling me
for how many years? You had one good call, which
(22:19):
was the first call when you screamed like a banshee
about what about a nine year old girl? And since
then it's gotten progressively worse. And I still put you
on the air, hind year old girl? Answer that quick thing?
You you wouldn't give me ninety seconds to tell you
the best thing that I could tell you. But you
don't give me ninety seconds to tell you because you
(22:39):
you do. You waste your time with all his other nonsense. No,
because you you interrupt talk show, go back and forth.
It's that's how it works. Back and forth. How about
letting the guy finish a comment or a saying that
he wants to say without you interrupting him? All right,
you know what, I'm not gonn interrupt you anymore because
(22:59):
I'm going to hang up on you and so therefore
anymore so I'm gonna hang there we go, I see
you later, Bye bye, Oh God. Does anyone want to
hear ninety seconds of that guy? I don't see anyone
raising their hands. Nobody would like to hear that. That's
content people do not want. You're not that guy. We
(23:23):
will get to the exit plan. What is that all about? Also,
we'll set up Mallor's Mounting Money. So if you want
to play Mallers mount of Money, start calling right now
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. I need
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(23:46):
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you want exclusive insight from the biggest names in the
sports game. What's good? This is national champion in former
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(24:08):
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Maller wolfing down sixty three hot dogs or any famous
world Fourth of July hot dog geting contest. And of
course this wasn't a ten minute span, and he fought
off intruders, as Ben mentioned in his first monologue, but
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Ben did not mention that Mickey pseudo she inhaled forty
Francs and buns. So I have a as who says,
play the hits, mom, Man, play the hits. That's what
he tells me. You like to play the non hits, Well,
you'd like to play the B side. I play the
A side. That's the difference. Well, if you play the
A side, then you're talking about the PAC ten earlier
in the hour might not be the A side. But
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you know, we all make cla because you're on the
on the take the Bruins, you're on the payroll. You're
not gonna trash leaving the PAC twelve behind. You're not
gonna do that at all. Right, make mistakes, right? Uh huh?
I got you? Maybe saddle back when the last time
you hit a hot dog? I don't eat hot dogs.
That's all you need to know about it. This guy,
he does not eat hot dogs. Well, how would you
(25:37):
like to hang out with a human? Let me ask
you this in your heyday, in your prime, how many
hot dogs could you throw down at once? Well? I
wouldn't eat him. Now, I just throw them at you.
I would get me to do bad radio here. I
was about to compliment you management. I think management might
might might want me out of here or something like that,
(25:58):
to leave Fox Sports Radio. When you sit in here,
it's like a sign for Management's like, Ben, you're such
an amateur. We're gonna put the lowest grade people we
can get and put them on with you. Well, that's
what it tells me when you come in here and
act like this, it's embarrassed. Well, usually amateurs don't work
during the holidays, or maybe they do, and maybe that's
you saying you're an amateur. You can take a day off.
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It's okay, you know, back at you, Oh my gosh,
I was gonna throw you a compliment and say that soundly.
All right, So let's get to the extra plan right now.
And the UCLA Bruins, Brian's on the take with them,
and USC they both left the Pac twelve behind, took
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the money and ran off to the Big ten. And
it sounds like by the time we're done, no one
will be left in the Pac twelve. Where the last
person turnout the lights, the party is over because later today,
later today, the Big twelve Conference has a meeting scheduled
with representatives of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah. They
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are all scheduled to have a pow wow with the
Big twelve Conference. A mug chatter that it is a
mass exodus, that they're all going to be leaving the
Pack twelve conference at Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah.
This will be the way that goes to the Big Twelve.
So what happens to Stanford and cal Washington and Washington State,
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for example, and also Oregon and Oregon State. Well, they
have a grouping together where they stay together in some
new version of the PAC twelve. And then they're gonna
have to put together schools like UNLV and San Diego
State and schools like that to form the conference. Or
would the Southeastern Conference, since the Big Ten is now
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a national conference going from Piscataway, New Jersey, all the
way to Los Angeles, would the SEC attempt to get
a Pacific Conference or a Western division of the Southeastern
Conference and say, why don't we get some of those schools.
But there's not a lot of great schools left. But
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Oregon's had some good football over the years, Washington sporadically
in Washington State sporadically. So we'll see what happens going forward.
But later today, when the sun rises, the Big Twelve
Conference going to meet with Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, and
Colorado about saying goodbye to the Pac twelve and getting
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out there. Robin Minnesota rights and he says, the best
juicy lucy in the five, a grille just north of
the airport. So he's recommending, now I go next to
the airport. That's the way to go late night drug
testa rights instus. I would rather hear Angry Bill's story
about a defecating dog then hollerween James culinary review about Applebee's.
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So he says, all right, they're very good. We have
our contestants ready to go. Here, can we introduce them
and get to the game. Here we go. This is
very exciting. Get that open there now, Mallard's Mountain of Money. Hey,
do you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not? And here we go. It is time now
(29:27):
for a weekly step step on this radio. It is
a step. It's called Mallard's Mountain of Money. So let's
welcome in our contestants who are lined up to play.
We go now to the international line on Mallar's Mountain
of Money. We say hello to Dave, who is listening
to us in Israel. Hello, Dave, welcome, Hello, how are
(29:52):
you Ben? Hi? Dave? How's everything in the Middle East?
This morning? I was doing well, it's nice and the
nice midday show. Are you over here? That's right? And
what's the weather like today? What's the temperature? I would
say it's probably about eighty five and Sonny gorgeous, perfect outstanding.
All right, hold on a sick Dave. You're gonna be
one of our contestants on this edition of Mallard's Mountain
(30:17):
the Money, and who else do we have? Let's see
here at any money? Well, you asked me if we
had our contestants, and then like half a second later
you said, let's start the game. So we have one
contestant so far. Hold on the front train, all right,
and it was a dial tone. All right, Apparently no
(30:37):
one wants to play the game, so we'll cancel the
game then, dad, Dave, I'm sorry, we're not gonna play
the game. Nobody. Nobody wants to play. Nobody called up
to play the game. I asked for people to call.
Nobody called up to play the game, so we'll cancel
the game. Dave, I'm sorry, but we're not gonna play
the game today. Okay, buddy, the game play the game. Well, no,
we don't have anybody. We need two people to play
the game. You know, if you if you threw the
(30:57):
break right now, it's still be earlier than We normally
throw a break, so we'll have plenty of time on
the other side to play the game. It gives people
six minutes to call in if they want to play
the game. All right, all right, well day, we'll hold
on there, Dave. But we'll see if anybody wants to call.
Barely nobody wants to play this game. It's not popular anymore.
Maybe we'll get rid of Mallor's Mountain of Money. It's
not popular. We'll find out. This could be the final
(31:18):
the final time we even mentioned the name Mallor's Mountain
of Money. But we'll see if anyone calls eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox you want to play Mallor's
mount of Money or this is it. We'll just have
Chuckles the clown over there at the newsdesk make me
question my decision to get into radio. Every time I
work with him, Daddy, every single time I say, boy,
(31:39):
take this job professionally. Come in, Hey, work with Chuckles
the clown over there. Unbelievable. All right, Mallor's mount of Money.
Maybe that's it. This could be all we'll find out next.
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let's get back to a human bobblehead known as Big Ben,
and I am told now we have we found our contestants,
so we will actually have Maller's amount of money. We
will not be canceling the game Maller's amount of money,
So let's get to it right now. We mentioned hello
to Dave in Israel who called up, and we also
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have Matt in Portland, Maine. Hello, Matt, Welcome, Hey, how's
going Matt? You're gonna save the game? Matt? Is this exciting?
I'm couldn't be happier. This is a big accomplishment to
save a radio game show on what brings you to
the show? Why are you up at this hour? So
I just got out of work and actually I just
(33:05):
left the job as well. Oh you did, okay, all right?
What kind of work do you do? Industrial firefighting? But
I want to move into town municipal firefighting, so it
was time to head on. Oh does that pay better?
Or better quality of life or something like that? A
little bit of both working towards the career in retirement
(33:28):
and you know, helping the people of Portland, Maine, all
the above? Nice? All right, well, very good? Hold on
a sex. So we'll go back to Dave and Israel. Dave,
who would you like to partner up with? Dave? You
can play with me, Ben, Roberto, Coop or that other guy.
I'm gonna go with the only guy that's not on
those shocks keep tools on the show. I'm gonna go
with Coop. Wow, all right, Dave's going with Coop? And
(33:51):
what about you, Matt in Portland, Maine the firefighter changing
jobs man? Who would you like to partner up with?
I'm gonna take my guy Roberto. All right, that's the matchup.
This is was it the Charlie Daniels edition? Correct? We have?
The categories are long Haired country Boy, the Devil went
down to Georgia, Blue Star, and a few more Rednecks
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and Dave, which category do you want? Dave a long
haired country boy? Long haired country boy. That's category number
one that you picked. And Matt, which category would you like?
Let's till blue Star. All right, Blue Star it is.
And Dave and Coop you're up first. We'll put forty
five seconds on the clock. We need the first and
last name these athletes all rock long hair, all rock
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long hair for Dave in Israel and Coop. Forty five
seconds on the clock. You're on your way and go.
He is the current star on the Memphis Grizzlies. Stephen Adams. No, no, no, yes, yes, yep. Um.
He is a slugger for the San Diego Padres. His
dad was he hit like two Grand slams in a game? Yes,
(35:08):
thank you, um. Long haired pitcher for the Angels. Used
to be with the Mets. Yes, running back for the Broncos.
He used to be on the Chargers. Yeah. Uh. The
Lydian Tomason No no, um, current player for current player
(35:29):
for the Colorado Rockies. He's got a really long beard
as well. Yes, all right, that was good. That was good.
I was too slow? Who blaming himself on that? So
you got the ten twenty thirty, forty and sixties, so
that is a hundred and sixty points, and you didn't
get through the whole board, but one hundred and sixty
that is the score to beat. We'll go over to Roberto,
(35:52):
who is with Matt from Portland, Maine, the firefighter, and
you picked blue Star as your category. Of these athletes,
we're all drafted by the Cowboys. It's the Charlie Daniels edition.
Will put forty five seconds on the clock. Matt. We
need the first and last name and you're on your
way go. Current running back for the Dallas Cowboys at
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Ohio State. Michael Elliott legendary white receiver play with um
uh Troy Egman, Michael Levin Uh, legendary coach of the
Lakers with Magic Johnson currently runs the Miami Heat. Right.
Riley yeah uh, legendary track and field outh athlete. He
screwed up the star spangled banner. H h uh. Legendary
(36:42):
running back out of Pitts out of pit University of Pittsburgh.
Running back for the Dallas Cowboys the seventies. No Uh
two Tall nicknamed two tall Uh it was yeah, I
didn't get that in. Come on, I beat the buzzer
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rules are ruling sixty points. That's it, only sixty points,
and so that means that you're gonna go again as
you're trailing by one hundred points. Dave in Israel and
Coop have one hundred and sixty. Roberto and Matt have
only sixty. And so the other categories, Matt, you gotta
(37:23):
pick again. We have the Devil went down to Georgia,
and a few more rednecks. How about a few more rednecks? Okay,
these athletes can all be considered rednecks according to whoever
wrote the board here Charlie Daniels edition. And it's Mallard's
(37:44):
mount of money. So you gotta get at least one
hundred points to tie Matt, and these athletes, all, as
we said, could be considered the title of the category rednecks.
All right, forty five seconds on the clock. You're on
your way and go pluld it for the Braves. In
the nineties, uh he uh pissed off a lot of
Mets fans talking about the way they were, how they
(38:04):
talk about the people in New York. Oh no, uh.
This guy broke the Babe Roots single season home run
record left fielder for the Yankees. Right fielder for the Yankees.
Roger Marris. Uh. Yeah, picture for the greatest pitcher in
(38:25):
the postseason in history. Uh. For the San Francisco Giants,
he won three World Series. Garner, Yeah you're tied. Uh,
running back for the Ali Raiders at Kansas City and
and off for the for the Kansas City Royals. Two
star athlete. Yes, you leave the hit he went out
of order. Yeah, but you got Roger Marris was the
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sixty point one bum. Gardner was the forty point in
Bo Jackson, the thirty point John Rocker was who you
were looking for. Ye. Yeah, Queens the whole thing that
was a long time ago, probably before you time. Matt,
all right, we gotta hurry up, were running out of time. Uh.
Devil went out, went down to Georgia. Uh the um
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one of the best wrestlers of all time, Beach Guy
California man catcher for the Giants. He ruined the collision
at the plate. Yes, um, he wore goggles on the bulls,
the Michael Jordan Bulls. Hurry up, last name time time
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