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- 0:00Speaker 1: Cowabunga, dude. And boom goes the dynamite. In our number
- 0:06Speaker 1: four Ben Maller show, we stayed up all night for
- 0:09Speaker 1: Fresh Pod. And here it is on this first day
- 0:12Speaker 1: of October. Click the little doohickey and give us five stars.
- 0:16Speaker 1: That would help. Yeah, I know. It's a pain in
- 0:18Speaker 1: the ass. Get right a review. That would be cool. Yeah,
- 0:21Speaker 1: that'd be pretty neat. Well, here in our number four,
- 0:23Speaker 1: if everything between coach Mike Rabel and quarterback Drake May
- 0:27Speaker 1: is wonderful, why are Patriot insiders whispering? Otherwise, Rabel trying
- 0:32Speaker 1: to downplay any kind of a rift with his quarterback.
- 0:36Speaker 1: And what's your knee jerk report card on the Joey
- 0:39Speaker 1: Porter Jr.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Trade?
- 0:41Speaker 1: From Pittsburgh to the Cowboys. That went down last night.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Speaking of Pittsburgh, Ben Roethlisberger is blaming CBS for the
- 0:49Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers controversy involving the lip reading. How do you
- 0:53Speaker 1: parse the words of Ben Roethlisberger? We'll get to all
- 0:56Speaker 1: of that and more. Have a wonderful Thursday. Enjoy the
- 1:00Speaker 1: start of October. And here we go. It's hour number four.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Nothing to see here. We're all good. No, no. Really.
- 1:12Speaker 3: Nothing.
- 1:12Speaker 1: I know. I know you think there's something going on,
- 1:14Speaker 1: but no. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
- 1:21Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere. Cooking.
- 1:28Speaker 1: On the front burner as we make audio waves. That's
- 1:33Speaker 1: what we do. A lot of audio waves coast to coast,
- 1:36Speaker 1: border to border, and beyond on the vast and monumentally
- 1:41Speaker 1: powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the way. Do
- 1:48Speaker 1: it loud. Learning the hard way. Guaranteed. human from the
- 1:55Speaker 1: world-famous Fox Sports Radio studios. We take the stabilizers off
- 1:59Speaker 1: right now, and it's none other than Timmy from Busco, Indiana,
- 2:03Speaker 1: who said, hey, Mallor! I said, what do you want, Timmy?
- 2:05Speaker 1: Stop bothering me. Why are you bothering me? He said,
- 2:07Speaker 1: tell me about DraftKings. I said, okay, Timmy, I will
- 2:10Speaker 1: do that. I will tell you about DraftKings. Absolutely. Why not?
- 2:14Speaker 1: The wait is over. Football is here. You smell that? Yeah,
- 2:18Speaker 1: it's in the air everywhere. And so is DraftKings. DraftKings
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- 2:26Speaker 1: They claim your special offer at DraftKings. Again, that's promo
- 2:29Speaker 1: code MALLER at DraftKings. The crown is yours. And then
- 2:34Speaker 1: it was Late Night Drug Tester who reached out. I said, well,
- 2:40Speaker 1: what does he want? And he said, well, you know,
- 2:43Speaker 1: he says, I'm representing OG Art Puff. And I said,
- 2:44Speaker 1: what are you, and Georgia Boy, really? Yeah, and Georgia Boy.
- 2:49Speaker 1: and Larry from Nashville, and even Nick in Wisconsin. I said,
- 2:54Speaker 1: you're representing all those people? I said, yeah, I'm representing
- 2:56Speaker 1: all those people. And they want to know where to
- 2:58Speaker 1: watch the National League playoffs. I said, oh, really? Well,
- 3:01Speaker 1: I'll tell you where. Fox 1. There's no time like October.
- 3:05Speaker 1: The NLDS is here streaming live on Fox 1. Padres
- 3:11Speaker 1: and Brewers, Dodgers will play either the Phillies or the Braves.
- 3:13Speaker 4: We'll know who.
- 3:14Speaker 1: When that game is played later today in the wild
- 3:16Speaker 1: card round. But both NLDS series can be seen on
- 3:20Speaker 1: Fox 1. Every hit could be the one that changes everything.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Stream the MLB postseason live on Fox 1. We all
- 3:30Speaker 1: flocked together over there to Fox 1 to watch the
- 3:33Speaker 1: National League Divisional Series. We had three teams... Decommissioned from
- 3:39Speaker 1: the baseball playoffs. The Boston Red Sox are out. The
- 3:43Speaker 1: cheating ass. 1,000, 2,000 holes have been eliminated. Love that.
- 3:48Speaker 1: And the Chicago Cubs. The struggle is real. The Cubs
- 3:52Speaker 1: are out. So the Padres advance. The Cubs. Yankees are
- 3:55Speaker 1: on to play Tampa Bay. Padres will play the Brewers,
- 3:57Speaker 1: as we mentioned earlier. And the White Sox and Guardians.
- 4:00Speaker 1: We are guaranteed of having either the White Sox or
- 4:03Speaker 1: the Guardians. A couple of mediocre teams. One of them
- 4:05Speaker 1: will be in the final four of Major League Baseball.
- 4:09Speaker 1: That is a guarantee. A guarantee. So our lead this
- 4:15Speaker 1: hour is from football. Because it pays the bills, keeps
- 4:21Speaker 1: the lights on around here, as we like to say.
- 4:23Speaker 1: And we start out in the Commonwealth. More noise out
- 4:27Speaker 1: of New England. This continues to be the go-to drama-o-rama
- 4:32Speaker 1: in the NFL. And if you haven't been keeping track
- 4:35Speaker 1: of this, we've been salivating here in sports radio about it.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Maybe not. You have not been paying attention. It's a
- 4:41Speaker 1: rather sticky situation there with the Patriots. So, Mike Vrabel.
- 4:48Speaker 1: who had quite the offseason. I was having a good
- 4:51Speaker 1: time there. Mike Vrabel pushing back, pushing back now, pushing
- 4:55Speaker 1: back on reports that there is a issue between he
- 5:00Speaker 1: and quarterback Drake May, who's played like Drek May, been
- 5:04Speaker 1: bad to the bone this season. So Vrabel was asked
- 5:07Speaker 1: about that, and rather than me saying, Pretend to be
- 5:11Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel. Not that I don't do a great Mike
- 5:14Speaker 1: Vrabel impersonation. I can do really good Mike Vrabel cosplay.
- 5:17Speaker 1: But here is Mike Vrabel commenting. He was asked about
- 5:19Speaker 1: the situation and reports saying there's a beef between he
- 5:23Speaker 1: and Drake May. They're not on the same page. Let's
- 5:25Speaker 1: find out what he said. Here we go. Let me
- 5:27Speaker 1: just tell you why I'm here.
- 5:28Speaker 3: I'm here because Drake was the quarterback.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Believe it or not, I had choices to where I
- 5:32Speaker 2: wanted to coach.
- 5:32Speaker 4: I wanted to coach here because Drake was the quarterback.
- 5:35Speaker 3: So I don't have really much other to add to
- 5:39Speaker 3: that about a comment that from an unnamed source.
- 5:43Speaker 1: So there you go. He said, I'm here because Drake
- 5:45Speaker 1: was the quarterback and he dismissed the report because it
- 5:48Speaker 1: was an unnamed source. So that is a good jumping
- 5:52Speaker 1: off point. And let us discuss. Weave a web of lies,
- 5:57Speaker 1: will you, Mr. Coachman? So the question, if everything between
- 6:01Speaker 1: Mike Rabel and Drake May is wonderful, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. That good, right?
- 6:08Speaker 1: And I'm here because Drake was my quarterback. Why are
- 6:12Speaker 1: the NFL insiders, the Patriot insiders, whispering in hushed tones otherwise?
- 6:18Speaker 1: So I've got Whirlpool Refrigerator, Dungeons & Dragons, and Babushka.
- 6:25Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
- 6:28Speaker 1: we are going to pump the brakes today. because we
- 6:30Speaker 1: have to have some gabagool and a little baba ganoush
- 6:33Speaker 1: and a whole lot of jambalaya. We need to have
- 6:35Speaker 1: all of those things that just roll off your tongue,
- 6:38Speaker 1: and we're going to have them. All right, so first
- 6:39Speaker 1: of all, there is a reason the vultures are circling
- 6:46Speaker 1: around Foxborough. As they say at the Longhorn Steakhouse, there's
- 6:51Speaker 1: some meat on the bone here. There's some meat on
- 6:54Speaker 1: the bone. And if you watch the Whisper Network, then
- 6:58Speaker 1: you know When you see a coach or you hear
- 7:01Speaker 1: a coach say in hushed tones, I'm here because of blank,
- 7:05Speaker 1: my quarterback. In this case, Drake was the quarterback. It
- 7:09Speaker 1: sounds suspiciously like something you would say when people wonder
- 7:17Speaker 1: whether you actually want the quarterback. It's like, hmm, that
- 7:20Speaker 1: seems like just what you would say. Now, Vrabel didn't
- 7:24Speaker 1: draft May. He inherited Drake May. Kind of like You inherit,
- 7:29Speaker 1: if you buy a house, and the previous owner of
- 7:32Speaker 1: the house says, you know, I have this Whirlpool refrigerator,
- 7:35Speaker 1: and it's expensive to move, and I'm thinking about buying
- 7:38Speaker 1: a new Whirlpool refrigerator, so I'm just going to leave it,
- 7:40Speaker 1: and you can have it. Okay, so it came with
- 7:43Speaker 1: the house. This is an arranged marriage. It is not
- 7:49Speaker 1: a storybook romance. Now, could it turn out to be that?
- 7:53Speaker 1: We'll see. Right now, it's a little bumpy. Bumpity, bumpity, bumpity.
- 7:57Speaker 1: And sure, Vrabel dismissed the report claiming the anonymous source
- 8:00Speaker 1: isn't worth his time. Although maybe he should check with
- 8:04Speaker 1: his old lovey NFL insider back in the day, Diana Rossini.
- 8:09Speaker 1: And how many reports did she have from a anonymous source,
- 8:13Speaker 1: which I don't know, could have been Mike Vrabel. Anyway,
- 8:17Speaker 1: anonymous sources.
- 8:18Speaker 3: Oh.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Only become offensive. They only become offensive anonymous sources when
- 8:25Speaker 1: they say something you hate.
- 8:28Speaker 2: That's it.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Dismiss the messenger all you want, but the question remains,
- 8:33Speaker 1: does the message have merit? Does it have merit? This
- 8:36Speaker 1: is either legitimate friction or the NFL's favorite pastime here
- 8:42Speaker 1: in late September and early October, turning a quarterback that
- 8:46Speaker 1: blows into a soap opera. It's like it's got to
- 8:51Speaker 1: be something else going on. It just can't be this
- 8:54Speaker 1: guy's not playing well. He's got to be hurt or
- 8:56Speaker 1: there's a beef with the coach. And it's always one
- 9:00Speaker 1: of those things. It's never just, hey, this guy is
- 9:04Speaker 1: having some really bad days at work and it's nobody
- 9:07Speaker 1: else's fault other than him. He stinks. Period.
- 9:11Speaker 2: Stop.
- 9:11Speaker 1: No, no. It's always going to be the psychobabble. It's this, that,
- 9:14Speaker 1: the other thing. Always, always, always. All right. Secondly, to Pittsburgh.
- 9:19Speaker 1: We got trade. We got trade action. It has happened.
- 9:23Speaker 1: The domino has dropped. The Steelers have said bye-bye to
- 9:28Speaker 1: malcontent defensive back Joey Porter Jr. They've run him.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Out of town.
- 9:33Speaker 1: Actually, he ran himself out of town. Where did Joey
- 9:35Speaker 1: Porter Jr.
- 9:36Speaker 3: Go?
- 9:36Speaker 1: Did you hear? Have you been listening?
- 9:38Speaker 3: No. No.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Well turns out he'll be wearing some cowboy boots as
- 9:44Speaker 1: he's headed to the lone star state porter has been
- 9:47Speaker 1: a healthy scratch in the eyes of many all season
- 9:51Speaker 1: now he's claiming he's got some kind of soft tissue
- 9:54Speaker 1: injury most believe that was just a wildcat strike and
- 9:59Speaker 1: that is why he is out. Now, Pittsburgh, what do
- 10:01Speaker 1: they get in return for Joey Porter Jr.? Well, the
- 10:05Speaker 1: compensation package includes a 2027. What do you think? They
- 10:08Speaker 1: got a first-round pick in 2027, second-round pick, third-round pick.
- 10:12Speaker 1: They got a sixth-round pick in the next NFL draft.
- 10:15Speaker 1: But if you wait a couple of years in 2028,
- 10:19Speaker 1: once hell freezes over, they'll get a second-round pick.
- 10:23Speaker 3: Okay.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Question. Here it is. What is your knee-jerk report card?
- 10:29Speaker 1: Give me the Malheur knee-jerk report card on the Joey
- 10:34Speaker 1: Porter Jr. trade to the Cowboys. So the Malheur trade scorecard,
- 10:39Speaker 1: which is the trade report card of record, As you
- 10:42Speaker 1: gobble it down here. On the Maller trade scorecard, the
- 10:48Speaker 1: Steelers get the D. They get a D on the
- 10:52Speaker 1: report card. And I'm never wrong about these things. The Cowboys,
- 10:55Speaker 1: they get a B. B +. I go B +.
- 10:59Speaker 1: I'm optimistic. I'm Benny Brightside.
- 11:01Speaker 3: Why?
- 11:02Speaker 1: What Dallas did here. Think of it like in Hollywood.
- 11:06Speaker 1: Dallas bought the finished movie. They bought the rights to
- 11:09Speaker 1: the finished movie. Pittsburgh acquired the rights to the unproduced screenplay.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Would you rather have the finished movie or would you
- 11:17Speaker 1: rather have the unproduced screenplay? I would rather have the
- 11:20Speaker 1: finished movie. You exchanged a proven known commodity, an NFL
- 11:26Speaker 1: starting quarterback. Now we can debate how good Joey Porter Jr.
- 11:29Speaker 3: Is.
- 11:31Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's not as good as he thinks
- 11:32Speaker 1: he is. Never been an All-Pro or anything like that.
- 11:35Speaker 1: He's a good NFL player. It's yet to be determined
- 11:38Speaker 1: whether he's a great NFL player. He's anticipating being paid
- 11:43Speaker 1: as a great defensive back and a great player right
- 11:46Speaker 1: out of the box when he arrives in Dallas. We'll
- 11:49Speaker 1: see if that happens. So you've traded a known commodity
- 11:54Speaker 1: if you're Pittsburgh, and you've gotten in return the NFL
- 11:57Speaker 1: equivalent of store credit. So that's great. Good for you.
- 12:02Speaker 1: You've turned Joey Porter Jr. into a couple of scratcher tickets. Congratulations, Pittsburgh.
- 12:08Speaker 1: You received, essentially, the ever-popular player to be named later.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Much later. Much later. And that second-round pick.
- 12:19Speaker 1: What do you think? Like a freshman taking algebra or
- 12:22Speaker 1: pretending to pay attention while they count their NIL money
- 12:25Speaker 1: at some university in the Big Ten or the Southeastern Conference? Now, meanwhile...
- 12:30Speaker 1: The good news is, for Cowboys fans, we anticipate, as
- 12:34Speaker 1: a distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinus, who's
- 12:39Speaker 1: in Seattle, the Seattle area, that on a plane flight
- 12:43Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh down to Dallas, somewhere over Oklahoma, possibly Missouri,
- 12:49Speaker 1: but we think Oklahoma, we expect a modern medical miracle
- 12:53Speaker 1: for Joey Porter. That when he's on his way to
- 12:56Speaker 1: Dallas and they say, hey, prepare for landing and all
- 12:59Speaker 1: that stuff, jerry jones will say wait a minute i've
- 13:03Speaker 1: got this dungeons and dragons cloak of protection spell in
- 13:08Speaker 1: the bowels of jerry's world and mark my words it's
- 13:13Speaker 1: going to be abracadabra hocus pocus suddenly joey porter who's
- 13:19Speaker 1: been saying oh my back my oh my back he's
- 13:23Speaker 1: going to feel terrific he's going to be out there
- 13:26Speaker 1: playing and he's like oh my god what a great
- 13:29Speaker 1: recovery It's wild. It is wonderful. Make sure somebody calls
- 13:35Speaker 1: the Vatican for this modern medical miracle. And Dallas actually
- 13:39Speaker 1: got a football player. Congratulations, Jerry Jones. Granted, it's the shiny,
- 13:44Speaker 1: big-name football player that Jerry always goes for. So they
- 13:46Speaker 1: got the football player. Pittsburgh got a mystery box. What's
- 13:50Speaker 1: in the box?
- 13:51Speaker 3: We don't know.
- 13:52Speaker 1: All right, final thought. Staying in the Berg. Staying in
- 13:55Speaker 1: the Berg. So former Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Like every
- 14:01Speaker 1: ex-jock does a podcast. And he has accused now CBS
- 14:05Speaker 1: of doing what? What did Ben Roethlisberger accuse CBS of doing?
- 14:09Speaker 1: He accused CBS of intentionally focusing cameras on, believe it
- 14:13Speaker 1: or not, Aaron Rodgers. O-M-G. Roethlisberger said they know what
- 14:22Speaker 1: they're doing on purpose. Now, it is true that CBS
- 14:28Speaker 1: repeatedly showed an angry Aaron Rodgers on the sidelines during
- 14:33Speaker 1: the previous Pittsburgh game after a receiver dropped a pass.
- 14:38Speaker 1: And there was also a complaint about the play calling
- 14:40Speaker 1: that was caught. The footage went viral. It was a
- 14:44Speaker 1: lip reader's paradise. Many of the professional lip readers claiming
- 14:48Speaker 1: that Rodgers directly took shots at the wide receiver, also
- 14:52Speaker 1: his coaching staff. Now, Roethlisberger argued that no other NFL
- 14:57Speaker 1: quarterback receives nearly as much camera attention for sideline reaction
- 15:02Speaker 1: shots as Aaron Rodgers. All right, so question. He got
- 15:08Speaker 1: washed up former Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger blaming CBS for
- 15:14Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers kerfluffle incident. How do you parse the
- 15:19Speaker 1: words of Ben Roethlisberger? So after a minutes-long deliberation of
- 15:26Speaker 1: the available information, Ben Roethlisberger has apparently just discovered this
- 15:30Speaker 1: revolutionary concept, which is just mind-blowing, that major television networks
- 15:39Speaker 1: point cameras at famous people. Wow.
- 15:45Speaker 3: Wow.
- 15:46Speaker 4: Whoa!
- 15:48Speaker 3: Really? Yes.
- 15:50Speaker 1: So Roethlisberger is complaining that CBS caught a star NFL
- 15:56Speaker 1: player doing star NFL player things.
- 16:01Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 16:02Speaker 1: Big Brother's always watching.
- 16:04Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 16:04Speaker 1: This is not surveillance footage, by the way. It's your
- 16:07Speaker 1: standard NFL broadcast. You watch an NFL game, the quarterback
- 16:11Speaker 1: and the head coach are almost always on camera, and
- 16:14Speaker 1: they always give you the honey shot, the hot chick,
- 16:16Speaker 1: wearing hardly any clothes, shaking what her mama gave her.
- 16:19Speaker 1: And that's what you get on an NFL broadcast. That's
- 16:21Speaker 1: just the way it is. So Aaron Rodgers is a
- 16:24Speaker 1: headline actor, and CBS, they don't put supporting actors on
- 16:31Speaker 1: On the post, they're not showing you the right guard
- 16:34Speaker 1: picking boogers out of his nose and spitting snot rockets
- 16:38Speaker 1: out of his mouth. They're not showing that. So don't
- 16:41Speaker 1: make Rogers out to be some kind of victim, which
- 16:43Speaker 1: it sounds like Roethlisberger's tap dancing around trying to make
- 16:46Speaker 1: him a victim. CBS did not manufacture. The outrage. Rogers
- 16:53Speaker 1: provided the raw ingredients. It's not like they went out
- 16:56Speaker 1: and used AI. He actually said the things that he said.
- 17:02Speaker 1: And Rogers gives you more body language reaction shots. It's
- 17:10Speaker 1: like a disappointed babushka. At a wedding, she's upset that
- 17:15Speaker 1: her son married the wrong woman. So the babushka is
- 17:19Speaker 1: very upset. And you know how we often say the
- 17:22Speaker 1: microphone is always on. It's a phrase we use in radio.
- 17:27Speaker 1: You know how that happens. Like for Aaron Rodgers, the
- 17:30Speaker 1: red light is always on. So does Roethlisberger want CBS
- 17:35Speaker 1: to look away?
- 17:37Speaker 3: Please.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Rodgers is the fireworks factory. And you point the camera
- 17:43Speaker 1: where the explosions are happening. You don't point them away.
- 17:47Speaker 1: You don't point the cameras away from where the explosions
- 17:50Speaker 1: are happening. So if the quarterback behaves theatrically, like a thespian,
- 17:56Speaker 1: television is going to shock you. It's going to televise
- 17:59Speaker 1: the theater. Whoa!
- 18:02Speaker 2: Wow!
- 18:04Speaker 1: Yeah, the red light hits. And Aaron Rodgers... Because of
- 18:08Speaker 1: all of his gyrations and his sulking on the sidelines,
- 18:12Speaker 1: that is appointment television. It has always been appointment television.
- 18:16Speaker 1: And I can't recall watching an NFL broadcast where they
- 18:19Speaker 1: don't show 8 million shots of the quarterback. It's just
- 18:21Speaker 1: the way it is. And you'd think Roethlisberger would know
- 18:25Speaker 1: that after he's been out of the NFL as a
- 18:27Speaker 1: player for many, many years. I assume he sometimes watches
- 18:30Speaker 1: these games on the boob tube. It is the Ben
- 18:33Speaker 1: Maller Show. If you'd like to be part 877-99 on Fox, 877-996-6369.
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- 18:55Speaker 1: there's an interesting question to ask. What would Marvin Harrison Jr.
- 18:59Speaker 1: get on the trade market? He's not doing much of
- 19:01Speaker 1: anything in Arizona. He's one of the great draft busts
- 19:05Speaker 1: in recent NFL history. So what would a player like
- 19:08Speaker 1: that be worth on the open market? Also, back on
- 19:12Speaker 1: the defense. Back on the defense. We'll go there as well.
- 19:16Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that. And we will do it.
- 19:22Speaker 2: Next be sure to catch live editions of the ben
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- 21:33Speaker 1: back to it. I did want to mention this story.
- 21:37Speaker 1: I did not mention it earlier. So there was apparently
- 21:39Speaker 1: a brouhaha... in the rich people's dining room at Yankee
- 21:44Speaker 1: stadium last night before I saw this.
- 21:47Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 21:47Speaker 1: Before the Yankees game with the red socks were all the,
- 21:52Speaker 1: the rich wall street tycoons and the celebrities get together
- 21:56Speaker 1: and eat a crab and all kinds of other expensive foods.
- 21:59Speaker 1: And I've told the story of my cousin lives in
- 22:02Speaker 1: Connecticut and she, everyone, she, everyone gets tickets. Like really,
- 22:05Speaker 1: she knows some very powerful people because all the rich
- 22:07Speaker 1: people live in Connecticut and she, She gets tickets to
- 22:10Speaker 1: sit behind her and play at Yankee Stadium like once
- 22:12Speaker 1: or twice a year. She couldn't tell you a baseball
- 22:16Speaker 1: from football. So she'll go, and she'll just sit in
- 22:19Speaker 1: that little dining room and eat this food the entire
- 22:22Speaker 1: day with her husband. Loves it. Anyway, so apparently Spike
- 22:28Speaker 1: Lee almost got into a dust-up. There was a guy
- 22:34Speaker 1: in the dining room at Yankee Stadium. Spike Lee had
- 22:37Speaker 1: to be held back. There was a guy filming Spike
- 22:41Speaker 1: Lee eating and asking him about the Middle Eastern relations,
- 22:49Speaker 1: the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and Spike Lee became
- 22:53Speaker 1: a political operative. Remember that outfit he wore to the
- 22:56Speaker 1: basketball game? And apparently Spike didn't like that. Apparently, I
- 23:02Speaker 1: guess you can't ask him about the thing. He was
- 23:04Speaker 1: eating at the time, which is kind of taboo and
- 23:06Speaker 1: all that stuff. Anyway, Spike got very upset. And I
- 23:09Speaker 1: don't know why he got so upset, but the whole
- 23:12Speaker 1: thing was recorded. The great Andy Slater, the TMZ of Miami,
- 23:19Speaker 1: had the scoopage. And my pal, Marlins man, I've been
- 23:23Speaker 1: texting him the last couple days. He had some issues there,
- 23:26Speaker 1: but he's been at Yankee Stadium the last couple days.
- 23:30Speaker 1: So I took some screenshots, and I was like, hey,
- 23:32Speaker 1: what's going on? And he was sending me photos of
- 23:35Speaker 1: the cast of Saturday Night Live. And I'm like, I
- 23:37Speaker 1: don't know who those people are, but I'm glad that
- 23:39Speaker 1: you know them. That's great. Anyway, so he was apparently
- 23:41Speaker 1: in the dining room while this all went down. So,
- 23:45Speaker 1: Spike Lee, man. How about that? Has that popped up
- 23:49Speaker 1: on TMZ yet? I didn't see it on TMZ. I
- 23:51Speaker 1: saw Andy Slater had the story. So, keep an eye
- 23:57Speaker 1: on that. We'll take some calls. It is a call-in show.
- 24:01Speaker 1: And who do we have here?
- 24:02Speaker 6: Let's see.
- 24:03Speaker 1: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Pick a caller by their name.
- 24:08Speaker 1: My board is being reset right now. And so while
- 24:12Speaker 1: that is happening, we'll be able to read these amazing
- 24:15Speaker 1: comments from random people. And that's Mark the Walker. Says,
- 24:21Speaker 1: only one man we can all look at to keep
- 24:24Speaker 1: Rodgers sane the rest of the season. And is that
- 24:28Speaker 1: the guy? That's great.
- 24:30Speaker 3: Wonderful.
- 24:32Speaker 1: Absolutely. Analog Al says they bother Aaron Rodgers more because
- 24:37Speaker 1: he called Kelsey a Pfizer boy. That's according to Analog Al.
- 24:43Speaker 1: That's his hot take. Nick in Wisconsin says he's up
- 24:46Speaker 1: early for work. Time to listen live. And then the
- 24:51Speaker 1: podcast later. God bless you. So, see, that's double your pleasure,
- 24:54Speaker 1: double your fun podcast. Let's go to the phones. Let's
- 24:58Speaker 1: say hello to our buddy FaZe in Chicago. Hello, FaZe. Welcome.
- 25:07Speaker 3: What up, Ben?
- 25:08Speaker 1: Are you going to give us White Sox propaganda, FaZe?
- 25:10Speaker 1: Is that what you're about to do?
- 25:14Speaker 4: My boy, you know I'm a coach now. What you mean, man?
- 25:16Speaker 4: But I'm a Southsider. I'm a Chi-Town guy. You know,
- 25:20Speaker 4: let's do it, Sox. I appreciate them eliminating the cheaters. And,
- 25:25Speaker 4: you know, the Cubs, they suck, man. They signed a loser, PCA.
- 25:31Speaker 4: He's a show-off. He sucks. He and the Habs suck.
- 25:37Speaker 4: That's why Swanson was talking about he's his best friend.
- 25:41Speaker 4: Habs will go, you know, where the sun don't shine. But,
- 25:46Speaker 4: you know?
- 25:48Speaker 1: It was not a good wildcard round for the top
- 25:50Speaker 1: two players in baseball. The favorites to win the MVP
- 25:54Speaker 1: award are Pete Crow Armstrong in the National League, Jordan
- 25:57Speaker 1: Alvarez in the American League. They combined to go one
- 26:00Speaker 1: for 15 in the wildcard round. Both of their teams
- 26:03Speaker 1: got swept. Explain that, FaZe. Explain that.
- 26:07Speaker 4: They got to give it to Schwarber, man. Schwarber, he
- 26:11Speaker 4: became the short end of the stick. He's been doing
- 26:14Speaker 4: this thing consistently for like three seasons, man. He's been
- 26:17Speaker 4: bombing them. Man, in all seasons, we should have re-signed
- 26:20Speaker 4: Schwarber before he's re-signed with the Phillies.
- 26:24Speaker 1: You know, there's been a hero there. Yeah, and Faze,
- 26:30Speaker 1: he's the only guy. Remember all those can't miss, the
- 26:33Speaker 1: Cubs are going to win the World Series every year
- 26:34Speaker 1: for the next 15 years. Schwarber, he was the top guy.
- 26:38Speaker 3: He was.
- 26:39Speaker 1: And all these other guys, I mean, they had decent careers,
- 26:43Speaker 1: some of those guys, but Schwarber by far was the
- 26:45Speaker 1: top guy. Not even close.
- 26:47Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a shocker to me, man, when they
- 26:50Speaker 4: let him go. That tells you a lot about the
- 26:52Speaker 4: front office, man.
- 26:54Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't just the Cubs. The Red Sox had Schwarber, too,
- 26:56Speaker 1: and they let him go. Bad job by them. What's
- 26:59Speaker 1: going on?
- 27:00Speaker 4: Bad job by them, too, man.
- 27:02Speaker 3: Yeah. All right, FaZe.
- 27:03Speaker 1: Look at you. I'm glad you're still listening, FaZe.
- 27:07Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, I listen every night, man. I'm an overnight driver.
- 27:11Speaker 4: I deliver the Bisco products to your local grocery stores
- 27:15Speaker 4: around the Illinois area.
- 27:16Speaker 1: Good.
- 27:17Speaker 4: You know, I'm up all night always listening. You know,
- 27:19Speaker 4: sometimes I do almost fall asleep behind the wheel during
- 27:22Speaker 4: your monologue, man. You got to spice it up a bit.
- 27:26Speaker 1: How dare you. Get out of here, Face.
- 27:29Speaker 4: Love you, buddy.
- 27:31Speaker 3: All right.
- 27:31Speaker 1: Thank you. Our buddy Face. I met Face at Wrigley Field, actually,
- 27:36Speaker 1: years ago. It was a Cub-White Sox game. Let's say
- 27:39Speaker 1: hello to, speaking of Chicago... We're big in the Windy City.
- 27:43Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Doc Mike. You got the Doc
- 27:47Speaker 1: back to back and belly to belly with Doc Mike.
- 27:50Speaker 1: What's going on?
- 27:51Speaker 3: Good morning from sunny Chicago. Okay. You know, the top
- 27:56Speaker 3: four sponsors for the Cubs.
- 27:59Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go.
- 28:01Speaker 3: Here we go. Okay. Adult diapers, trash bags, a toilet company,
- 28:09Speaker 3: and Benny's, the largest alcohol supplier in Chicago.
- 28:14Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Doc, you're trying to appeal to the people
- 28:19Speaker 1: watching Cubs games on TV, which I think are some
- 28:23Speaker 1: of your contemporaries, Doc. I'm just saying, you know, it's
- 28:26Speaker 1: a crowd that might need those products.
- 28:29Speaker 3: It's the largest tavern in the world. 40,000 drunks every game.
- 28:34Speaker 3: It's a gold mine for the Ricketts. I'm going to
- 28:38Speaker 3: drop a goat head. Believe me. Really?
- 28:41Speaker 1: Today? Is it going to happen? Are you?
- 28:45Speaker 3: Well, that hasn't happened yet, but what can I do?
- 28:48Speaker 3: Text you on, can I text on this number?
- 28:54Speaker 1: No, you can't text. You have the other number, but
- 28:57Speaker 1: here's the thing. For those who don't know, my favorite, well,
- 29:00Speaker 1: I have a lot of Doc Mike stories. One of
- 29:02Speaker 1: my favorite Doc Mike stories was years ago before the
- 29:06Speaker 1: Cubs had won the World Series, obviously. It was opening
- 29:09Speaker 1: day at Wrigley Field, and Doc Mike It was the
- 29:13Speaker 1: middle of the night. I think it was the middle
- 29:15Speaker 1: of the night before opening day. Man, I mean, that
- 29:17Speaker 1: was the day. Was it the middle of the night?
- 29:19Speaker 1: You called me up.
- 29:21Speaker 3: I actually went there during the day because it was
- 29:23Speaker 3: open and I dropped off a box with a.
- 29:25Speaker 1: Head in it. Okay, so that was the time. You
- 29:28Speaker 1: called me overnight while you were doing it. So this
- 29:30Speaker 1: was during the day. You did the play-by-play, said, here's
- 29:33Speaker 1: what I'm going to do, and the whole thing. And
- 29:35Speaker 1: so then I turned on, I was on the web,
- 29:37Speaker 1: and then I turned on like the news and it
- 29:39Speaker 1: was all over the news. It was like on the
- 29:41Speaker 1: nightly news back when people used to watch the nightly
- 29:43Speaker 1: news that somebody dropped a goat head off and the
- 29:45Speaker 1: mayor of Chicago. At the time, this guy Rahm Emanuel
- 29:49Speaker 1: said they were going to use all police resources to
- 29:52Speaker 1: find out who did this. And I had a voicemail
- 29:54Speaker 1: message of Doc doing the play-by-play as he was dropping
- 29:59Speaker 1: the goat off. And remember you told me, Doc, the cop,
- 30:01Speaker 1: you were friends with all the cops and they knew
- 30:03Speaker 1: you and they didn't really care, right? You were telling
- 30:05Speaker 1: me the whole story, right? It was like no big deal.
- 30:08Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 30:08Speaker 3: They said, what are you, losing it? This goes back
- 30:12Speaker 3: to 1945 with the goat head way the hell up.
- 30:16Speaker 3: You know, we got an accident on Lakeshore Drive we're
- 30:20Speaker 3: working on. And you call us up on a goat head? Yeah,
- 30:24Speaker 3: the Goat Falls.
- 30:26Speaker 1: It's frivolous. It's a bad use of police resources, right?
- 30:30Speaker 3: Come on. And the mayor's secretary, when they called the mayor, said, no,
- 30:35Speaker 3: he doesn't do goat heads. He does fish.
- 30:38Speaker 1: Well, remember, Doc, also, it was opening day. The Cub
- 30:42Speaker 1: game got rained out that day. They were playing the Giants.
- 30:44Speaker 1: It got rained out. And that's why– I thought they
- 30:47Speaker 1: were playing the Giants, weren't they?
- 30:48Speaker 3: No? The rain was 400 miles away, and they canceled
- 30:53Speaker 3: the game, and it didn't rain that night.
- 30:55Speaker 1: All right. Well, you know what I mean. The game
- 30:57Speaker 1: was postponed.
- 30:59Speaker 3: Yeah, they just said that there was like a bomb scare.
- 31:05Speaker 1: It was a bloody goat scare, Doc. It was a
- 31:10Speaker 1: bloody goat scare.
- 31:11Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 31:12Speaker 6: There you go.
- 31:13Speaker 1: So I hear a rumor, Doc, you want to do
- 31:14Speaker 1: the mailbag. Is that correct this weekend? You would like
- 31:16Speaker 1: to be on the mailbag podcast? Is that accurate? Am
- 31:19Speaker 1: I hearing that properly?
- 31:21Speaker 3: Do I need a computer to do that?
- 31:24Speaker 1: Uh, no, I can, I can, we can do it
- 31:26Speaker 1: on the phone. I can, I, in my, my remote studio,
- 31:29Speaker 1: I have a way to do it.
- 31:30Speaker 3: On the phone.
- 31:30Speaker 1: So just give me a call.
- 31:32Speaker 6: Sure.
- 31:33Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, doc. All right. Go away. Uh,
- 31:35Speaker 1: there's the great doc Mike there from Chicago. Who should I,
- 31:39Speaker 1: who do you think would be, uh, go away, doc.
- 31:40Speaker 1: Who should be good doc and who doc and who
- 31:44Speaker 1: would be like the number two chair for that? I'll
- 31:49Speaker 1: have to figure that out. That's a good question.
- 31:51Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Who would go along with the doctor? Do we have
- 31:53Speaker 1: any nurses? No, I don't think so. At least none
- 31:58Speaker 1: that admit to listening to the show. Let's say hello to,
- 32:02Speaker 1: what do we got here? Eeny, meeny, miny. Let's go
- 32:05Speaker 1: to Andrea. She's the astrology insider in Berkeley. And she
- 32:11Speaker 1: is here right now. Hello, Andrea. Welcome. Hello, Ben.
- 32:15Speaker 3: How are you?
- 32:17Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a pumpkin. But no,
- 32:19Speaker 1: I wouldn't because it's October and this is a tough
- 32:21Speaker 1: time of the year for pumpkins. Thoughts and prayers to pumpkins.
- 32:25Speaker 1: They will be exterminated for our pleasure. Evil humans killing
- 32:30Speaker 1: harmless pumpkins for your little Halloween. How dare you, you jack-o'-lanterns.
- 32:36Speaker 6: Well, it's that time of year we're heading into, October 1st.
- 32:40Speaker 6: And I just, on that note, I think Lorena said
- 32:44Speaker 6: one of her family members was having some dental work.
- 32:48Speaker 6: So I just wanted to give them my prayers because
- 32:51Speaker 6: I just had some. I should have taken my own advice, Ben.
- 32:55Speaker 6: I had a tooth extraction on the full moon last week, Saturday.
- 33:00Speaker 6: And there was more bleeding and swelling. So I haven't
- 33:02Speaker 6: been up to calling in. I felt a little better
- 33:05Speaker 6: and just want to let you know, I enjoyed your
- 33:07Speaker 6: week of shows, even though I couldn't quite call in.
- 33:11Speaker 6: I always enjoy them.
- 33:12Speaker 1: It's all good. So you're feeling a little better now.
- 33:14Speaker 1: You're up to speed a little bit.
- 33:16Speaker 3: Yes.
- 33:16Speaker 6: A little bit. It's quite a healing process, but I
- 33:19Speaker 6: should have taken my own advice and avoided the full
- 33:22Speaker 6: moon when there's more bleeding and swelling.
- 33:24Speaker 1: And Well, that's true, but at least you got it
- 33:27Speaker 1: out of the way now. Do you have to have
- 33:28Speaker 1: more done? Is this the beginning of more?
- 33:30Speaker 6: Yeah, I need a bone graft.
- 33:33Speaker 1: Oh, that sounds painful. That sounds painful.
- 33:35Speaker 6: Yeah, so work in progress. But I just wanted to
- 33:39Speaker 6: appreciate the Malamalisha and send some good vibes to Lorena, Coop,
- 33:45Speaker 6: everyone who's having, you know, transformational work done this time
- 33:49Speaker 6: of year. We're heading into Scorpio season. So how are
- 33:54Speaker 6: you doing, Ben?
- 33:55Speaker 1: Yeah, we're all good. We have somebody who wants to
- 33:56Speaker 1: talk to you. You want to take a call? Let's
- 33:58Speaker 1: take a call. What do you say here, Andrea? All right.
- 34:01Speaker 1: Let's go to Alabama. And 2% Chance is out in
- 34:05Speaker 1: the boondocks in Alabama. He wants to say hello. Hello, 2% Chance.
- 34:08Speaker 3: Welcome.
- 34:10Speaker 6: Man, thank you for taking the call. The lady online,
- 34:14Speaker 6: her name's Andrea?
- 34:15Speaker 3: Yeah. Yes.
- 34:16Speaker 1: Andrea.
- 34:17Speaker 3: Andrea.
- 34:18Speaker 6: Andrea.
- 34:18Speaker 4: Andrea.
- 34:20Speaker 6: So I have a question.
- 34:21Speaker 4: You're big into horoscopes and astrology, right?
- 34:24Speaker 6: Yes, I'm the astrology insider.
- 34:27Speaker 1: That's right.
- 34:27Speaker 6: Ben Maller show.
- 34:28Speaker 1: That's right.
- 34:29Speaker 4: Exactly.
- 34:30Speaker 3: Okay.
- 34:32Speaker 6: Why do you believe it's real and not BS like
- 34:35Speaker 6: science says it is? Oh, I mean, astrology is a
- 34:38Speaker 6: metaphysical science. It's all about timing, as above, so below.
- 34:43Speaker 6: So you have free will to, you know, decide what
- 34:46Speaker 6: you want to tap into. But it's all about where
- 34:49Speaker 6: the planets are and how it's affecting you personally. So
- 34:52Speaker 6: the birth chart is where the planets were when you
- 34:55Speaker 6: were born, their strengths and potentials. And the forecast is
- 34:59Speaker 6: what's happening currently. So it's good to know that so
- 35:02Speaker 6: you can optimize positive cycles and mitigate any challenging cycles.
- 35:07Speaker 6: So it's basically a map of optimum timing. So that's
- 35:11Speaker 6: like the easiest way I would put it and the
- 35:13Speaker 6: most useful way I would put it. All right.
- 35:19Speaker 3: Chance.
- 35:21Speaker 1: There's always the critics, Andrea. There's always the skeptics.
- 35:25Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 35:25Speaker 6: I know you don't enter this job with a thin skin,
- 35:30Speaker 6: but I always appreciate the malice and the good energy.
- 35:34Speaker 6: And yeah, it's been playoffs. Good distraction with the Yankees winning.
- 35:38Speaker 6: That was quite something. Yeah.
- 35:42Speaker 1: How about that? A domination situation for the Yankees.
- 35:45Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 35:45Speaker 1: And the Mets also had a good day. I hear
- 35:47Speaker 1: Juan Soto had a good round of golf, so that's good.
- 35:49Speaker 6: Oh, there you go. We'll take whatever we can get
- 35:52Speaker 6: with the Mets.
- 35:54Speaker 1: He was under par. All right. Thank you, Andrea. There
- 35:56Speaker 1: she goes, our friend Andrea. Very nice. All right. You
- 35:58Speaker 1: other guys on hold, stay there if you want to
- 36:00Speaker 1: be part of the upcoming. Very popular. People can't get
- 36:04Speaker 1: enough of it. They say, give me more, give me
- 36:06Speaker 1: more fact or fiction. We'll get to fact or fiction
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- 37:09Speaker 3: Please transmit immediately.
- 37:12Speaker 4: Tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Is it fact or fiction?
- 37:16Speaker 1: Let's face some raw facts. Lies, lies, lies, yeah.
- 37:20Speaker 2: On the Ben Maller Show.
- 37:23Speaker 1: Every week at this time, we call it fact or fiction.
- 37:25Speaker 1: It's a little ditty that we do. And let's welcome
- 37:28Speaker 1: in our judges. We have Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard
- 37:33Speaker 1: in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Hello, Daniel. Welcome.
- 37:37Speaker 6: Good morning, Ben.
- 37:39Speaker 1: You are one of our judges. How's everything going? You good?
- 37:42Speaker 7: I actually injured my index finger on my left hand
- 37:46Speaker 7: thanks to Stover's family meal. I tried to open it,
- 37:51Speaker 7: and a burst of steam went in and hit my
- 37:53Speaker 7: finger and suffered a minor burn.
- 37:55Speaker 1: People do not realize how difficult it is to open
- 37:58Speaker 1: a TV dinner. They do not understand that. I've been
- 38:00Speaker 1: saying that for years. It's difficult. It's not that easy, yes.
- 38:04Speaker 1: All right, hold on, Daniel. Mike is in, where is he?
- 38:07Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun. He's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Mike. Welcome.
- 38:11Speaker 3: NBC, no Boston comeback.
- 38:15Speaker 6: I will tag team with Doc Mike if you'd like.
- 38:17Speaker 3: Doc Mike.
- 38:19Speaker 1: That would be quite the dynamic deal. And how, Mike, well,
- 38:23Speaker 1: we don't have time. I'll ask you later. Frank the Tank. Hello,
- 38:26Speaker 1: Frank the Tank. Welcome, Frank.
- 38:29Speaker 4: How's it going, Bill Miller or Ben Maller?
- 38:31Speaker 1: The pride of Iowa, always with hot Viking talk and
- 38:35Speaker 1: NFC North talk.
- 38:38Speaker 4: Pretty much, yeah, kind of, yes, other than the NBA
- 38:42Speaker 4: and MLB on occasion.
- 38:43Speaker 1: All right. Coach Russell is here. Hello, Coach Russell. Welcome.
- 38:50Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Ben.
- 38:51Speaker 6: We're sitting in first place in the district. We've got
- 38:53Speaker 6: a home game tomorrow night, so try to continue the
- 38:56Speaker 6: winning ways.
- 38:57Speaker 1: Good luck, Coach. Our favorite high school football coach in
- 39:00Speaker 1: the Orlando area, Coach Russell. sending players to the SEC
- 39:04Speaker 1: and other power conferences. All right, here we go, gentlemen.
- 39:07Speaker 1: Three stories. Figure out which one isn't true, separating fiction
- 39:10Speaker 1: from fact. Well, Philly slugger Alec Burleson made a recent
- 39:14Speaker 1: appearance on St. Louis radio, was asked about the expected
- 39:19Speaker 1: upcoming lockout. Burleson said he isn't worried about the lockout,
- 39:23Speaker 1: potential of a lost season because he's got a backup plan.
- 39:25Speaker 1: Burleson said he picked up a summer job at a
- 39:29Speaker 1: frozen cupboard spot. where he'll be serving up and enjoying
- 39:33Speaker 1: ultra-thick concrete shakes. All right, story number two. Davante Adams
- 39:38Speaker 1: has had a partnership with Taco Bell for years. Adams
- 39:42Speaker 1: said on a recent podcast that he has one of
- 39:44Speaker 1: only two purple cards, which allows him to go to
- 39:46Speaker 1: any Taco Bell and order an unlimited amount of anything
- 39:50Speaker 1: he wants, and he doesn't have to pay. The only
- 39:54Speaker 1: other person that has that is Kevin Hart. And story
- 39:56Speaker 1: number three. Well, the MTV Music Video Awards, Taylor Swift
- 40:00Speaker 1: debuted her latest music album, her song, Patient Zero, traveled,
- 40:04Speaker 1: or eagle-eyed viewers, rather, may have noticed famous athlete cameos,
- 40:08Speaker 1: not Travis Kelsey, but Matthew Stafford and his wife, Kelly Stafford.
- 40:14Speaker 1: The annoying one appeared in the video multiple times. What's
- 40:18Speaker 1: up with that? Unless we made it up. All right,
- 40:19Speaker 1: those are the three stories. Which one isn't true? Daniel,
- 40:22Speaker 1: Fort Wayne. One, two, or three, Daniel. Quickly.
- 40:25Speaker 7: My injured index finger says number one.
- 40:28Speaker 1: All right, Daniel. Mike the Leprechaun. One, two, or three, Mike.
- 40:32Speaker 4: The Scorpio says Taylor Swift.
- 40:34Speaker 1: All right, Taylor Swift. Frank Tank. Quickly, Frank.
- 40:39Speaker 2: Number two.
- 40:40Speaker 1: All right, Coach Russell. Who is it, Coach?
- 40:43Speaker 4: Number one.
- 40:43Speaker 1: Number one.
- 40:44Speaker 6: You're right. Number one is.
- 40:45Speaker 1: A fake story. The custard story. Good job.
- 40:48Speaker 2: You got it right.