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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's a thriller by Godzilla. It's hour number three. Ben
- 0:05Speaker 1: Maller Show. Check out the Fifth Hour podcast up and
- 0:08Speaker 1: running wherever you get your podcasts. Well, here in hour
- 0:10Speaker 1: number three, Vaughn Miller has made a trade. He gets
- 0:14Speaker 1: his number 40 jersey. And the fullback who had that
- 0:19Speaker 1: jersey gets ownership in a chicken business. Who won the trade?
- 0:23Speaker 1: We're going to break this trade down. Should NFL teams
- 0:27Speaker 1: stop posting practice clips if they don't provide proper context?
- 0:31Speaker 1: The Kelsey brothers were bitching about that. We'll discuss that
- 0:36Speaker 1: business of viral clips. And also Kawhi Leonard, conflicting statements on...
- 0:42Speaker 1: Whether or not he was aware of the NBA salary
- 0:45Speaker 1: cap rules, how does that reshape the situation? We'll go
- 0:48Speaker 1: there as well. All of it coming your way right now.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Here it is, our number three. The wheeling and dealing
- 1:03Speaker 1: just before the big NFL season. Welcome in the beginning
- 1:11Speaker 1: of another hour of the Ben Maller Show. We are
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- 2:30Speaker 1: did have a trade. In the NFL, not getting a
- 2:37Speaker 1: lot of attention because of the Lane Kiffin story. It's
- 2:40Speaker 1: out of Dallas. That is our lead story this hour
- 2:43Speaker 1: out of Big D there. Trade in Jerry's world, if
- 2:47Speaker 1: you have not heard yet. Maybe not. The Dallas Cowboys
- 2:52Speaker 1: and pass rusher Vaughn Miller have acquired the number 40. Now,
- 2:59Speaker 1: that's not the number 40 draft pick. That would be literally...
- 3:03Speaker 1: The number 40 from fullback Hunter Lipke. That's right. Hunter Lipke,
- 3:08Speaker 1: the fullback for the Cowboys, who will switch to number 30.
- 3:12Speaker 1: That is the transaction. Now, in return, Lipke received an
- 3:17Speaker 1: undisclosed ownership stake in Vaughn Miller's chicken company. Yeah. Yeah.
- 3:24Speaker 1: He traded a number for an ownership stake in a
- 3:28Speaker 1: chicken company. Now, we're not sure how much he got.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Lipke negotiated, supposedly, according to Vaughn Miller, very aggressively. He
- 3:35Speaker 1: was seeking 2% equity. And according to Vaughn Miller, that
- 3:39Speaker 1: would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to own 2%
- 3:43Speaker 1: of the chicken, the Greener Pastures Chicken Company. So that's
- 3:49Speaker 1: the deal. That's also a good jumping off point. Let
- 3:52Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Vaughn Miller gets his Cowboys number
- 3:57Speaker 1: 40 jersey, while the Dallas fullback, Hunter Lipke, gets ownership
- 4:04Speaker 1: in a chicken business. So who won the trade? Who
- 4:09Speaker 1: won the trade? Yeah, so I've got on this one,
- 4:14Speaker 1: I've got Jerry Seinfeld. We've got that. We also have
- 4:19Speaker 1: Sovereign State and Emoji. And we'll combine all of these
- 4:27Speaker 1: things together. And we'll be out of breath unless we're
- 4:31Speaker 1: not out of breath. So we start with number one.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Number one.
- 4:37Speaker 2: One, one, one.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Number one.
- 4:39Speaker 3: One, one, one.
- 4:40Speaker 1: You know what we're doing? We're doing the waltz. What
- 4:41Speaker 1: kind of waltz? Number one. All right. So we start here.
- 4:46Speaker 1: I love this story. I do. Well, why do you
- 4:50Speaker 1: love this? It's interesting. The fact that people are so
- 4:53Speaker 1: addicted to these numbers is just tremendous to me. And
- 5:00Speaker 1: it is Shark Tank with a jockstrap and shoulder pads.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Hunter Lipke went into negotiations. He's a no-name fullback on
- 5:12Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. And if we are to believe some
- 5:14Speaker 1: of these reports, he came out of the negotiation saying,
- 5:19Speaker 1: As a venture capitalist, the Cowboys finally made a trade
- 5:24Speaker 1: I like, and Jerry Jones was not involved in this
- 5:27Speaker 1: at all, that Vaughn Miller would trade equity in block, block,
- 5:33Speaker 1: check in, just to get a jersey number somewhere Warren
- 5:39Speaker 1: Buffett just threw up in his mouth. What are you doing?
- 5:43Speaker 1: It's a number. You're not buying Sinatra's microphone. It's laundry.
- 5:50Speaker 1: But Vaughn bought number 40 like it was beachfront property.
- 5:55Speaker 1: And if this chicken company explodes and I don't know
- 6:00Speaker 1: much about chicken. I did watch Big Chicken, the documentary
- 6:03Speaker 1: years ago. But that aside, if this chicken company explodes.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Number 40 becomes the most expensive piece of laundry since
- 6:12Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld's puffy shirt. If you remember way back in
- 6:16Speaker 1: the old days there, the show's still on on different
- 6:18Speaker 1: streaming services, but the famous puffy shirt episode there, that's
- 6:21Speaker 1: what this is. Lipke is now a business partner with
- 6:25Speaker 1: Vaughn Miller, Patrick Mahomes, and Drew Brees, among others. And
- 6:30Speaker 1: he's a fullback that you've never heard of on the
- 6:33Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Imagine explaining that At Thanksgiving. Well, what do
- 6:39Speaker 1: you do? Well, I played for the Cowboys today. Oh,
- 6:42Speaker 1: that's great. You played for the Cowboys. I'm a fullback, yeah.
- 6:45Speaker 1: I'm also a minority chicken magnate. Oh, you're a... Well, yeah,
- 6:48Speaker 1: if I was in the NBA, they'd say I'm a
- 6:49Speaker 1: minority governor of chicken.
- 6:52Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 6:52Speaker 1: Okay. God bless America. God bless America. So this is
- 6:55Speaker 1: what happens when rich athletes have too much money and
- 7:01Speaker 1: sentimental attachment to numerical situations involving cotton. And that's how
- 7:08Speaker 1: you end up in this situation. So the trade was
- 7:11Speaker 1: clearly won by the fullback. He's going to wear number 30,
- 7:17Speaker 1: which is fine. It's okay. It's certainly worth a large
- 7:23Speaker 1: amount of money, and no one's going to know the
- 7:26Speaker 1: difference between 40 and 30 when you're on the field.
- 7:29Speaker 1: What's so special about 40? All right, page two. To
- 7:33Speaker 1: Kansas City we go, the heartland of America. The birthplace
- 7:38Speaker 1: of Ben Maller Chicken Fingers there at the Landing in Liberty, Missouri.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Still on the menu after all these years. Go out
- 7:44Speaker 1: there and check out the Ben Maller Chicken Fingers in
- 7:47Speaker 1: Kansas City. So a viral Chiefs training camp clip showed
- 7:53Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. We talked about this on the show. It
- 7:56Speaker 1: showed Travis Kelsey running really slowly. really slowly there during practice.
- 8:03Speaker 1: And that led to an online conversation, questions about whether
- 8:07Speaker 1: or not tight end Travis Kelsey had lost it. And
- 8:12Speaker 1: the video got millions and millions of views on social
- 8:16Speaker 1: media with people mocking Travis Kelsey's speed and the defender
- 8:22Speaker 1: covering him and the whole McGill, the whole McGill. And
- 8:25Speaker 1: now on his, Fledgling podcast, he wishes he could have
- 8:28Speaker 1: the numbers the Fifth Hour podcast has. Jason Kelsey, I'm
- 8:33Speaker 1: told that's the other Kelsey. Jason Kelsey ripped the NFL's
- 8:38Speaker 1: practice content machine, saying, can we just let practice be
- 8:44Speaker 1: its own thing? With a question mark. Yeah, so Jason
- 8:49Speaker 1: called practice a, quote, safe space for experimentation. without every
- 8:55Speaker 1: rep being dissected online. And Travis Kelsey laughed off the criticism.
- 9:02Speaker 1: He was fat shamed, saying he deliberately ran that particular
- 9:07Speaker 1: route slowly. I don't know that he gave a wink, wink,
- 9:11Speaker 1: and nod, nod. So the question here, should NFL teams
- 9:15Speaker 1: stop posting practice clips if they don't provide proper context? Yeah.
- 9:24Speaker 1: So on this one, I'm giving it side eye. I'm
- 9:27Speaker 1: giving it side eye. Getting worked into a lather over
- 9:30Speaker 1: eight seconds of training camp is rather silly. It is
- 9:35Speaker 1: rather silly, but that's the matrix. The matrix isn't real.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Once people have the enlightenment that it's a lot of
- 9:41Speaker 1: manipulation for your stimulation and the numbers are not what
- 9:46Speaker 1: they see, it's a fun zone. It's a house of mirrors,
- 9:49Speaker 1: the social media. There's obviously a lot of real people
- 9:51Speaker 1: on there. Everything's doctored, though. Everything's futzed up. And welcome
- 9:57Speaker 1: to the NWO, the New World Order. NFL, as a business,
- 10:05Speaker 1: they play one game a week during the season. That's it.
- 10:08Speaker 1: That's all. One game a week. That means that inventory
- 10:13Speaker 1: is limited. Hockey plays 84 games. Basketball plays 82 games.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Baseball plays 162 games. The NFL plays 17 games. That's it.
- 10:23Speaker 1: So there's not a lot of inventory from the games.
- 10:26Speaker 1: So practice. Not a game. Not a game. Practice. We
- 10:29Speaker 1: didn't even talk about practice. Not a game. Not a game.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Practice has become a warehouse. What kind of warehouse? It's
- 10:35Speaker 1: a content warehouse. It's farming. Big pharma. In this case,
- 10:40Speaker 1: engagement farming. There's a bunch of football players who are
- 10:44Speaker 1: really assembly line workers here. Every route or route... is
- 10:49Speaker 1: dissected every jiggle jiggle jiggle from your belly gets packaged
- 10:55Speaker 1: for consumption and this evil twin fat kelsey was was
- 11:02Speaker 1: really good for the family farm business was really good
- 11:05Speaker 1: and we mentioned six million views so the mission was
- 11:07Speaker 1: accomplished there to get that amount of views and spare
- 11:11Speaker 1: me that the kelsey family or travis kelsey somehow the
- 11:16Speaker 1: victim i love that There's always those fanboys and jock sniffers.
- 11:23Speaker 1: There they are right there. Yeah, oh, that's a big
- 11:26Speaker 1: jock sniffer. And they love, they love to make these
- 11:28Speaker 1: players seem like victims. Now, if I'm not mistaken, and
- 11:32Speaker 1: you can correct me if I'm wrong, I'll give out
- 11:33Speaker 1: the number in a minute. The Kelsey family, especially Travis,
- 11:39Speaker 1: bought a mansion on the busiest side of the sovereign
- 11:44Speaker 1: state of Kardashianville. It's a little villa. It is a
- 11:50Speaker 1: sovereign state, though. Yeah, much like that. Remember during COVID,
- 11:54Speaker 1: the nut jobs in Seattle created their own little country there. Yeah.
- 11:58Speaker 1: So anyway, and they put neon signs pointing to the driveway.
- 12:03Speaker 1: They had that. They sold tickets to the neighborhood tour.
- 12:07Speaker 1: They had the star maps out. And now the Kelseys
- 12:10Speaker 1: are standing on the front lawn screaming about all the traffic.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Why are you here in our sovereign state of Kardashianville? Well,
- 12:19Speaker 1: you told us about it and we like you and
- 12:21Speaker 1: all that stuff. You can't build a media empire. And
- 12:26Speaker 1: then all the attention that comes with that media empire
- 12:30Speaker 1: and demand a privacy fence when things get inconvenient, inconvenient.
- 12:37Speaker 1: All right, final point. To the follow-up from the follow-up,
- 12:41Speaker 1: the claw. Oh, the claw. Now, as you may or
- 12:46Speaker 1: may not have seen, the hammer of God came down
- 12:51Speaker 1: on the Clippers. Many of you were very happy. I
- 12:53Speaker 1: got some lengthy email messages. I chose not to go
- 12:58Speaker 1: through most of those who were very happy. I think
- 13:01Speaker 1: they had an orgasm because of Adam Silver's punishment of
- 13:04Speaker 1: the Clippers, which was really a badge of honor. It
- 13:07Speaker 1: shows you how hurt you were by the Clippers. And
- 13:10Speaker 1: it's like, look at the doll and tell me where
- 13:13Speaker 1: he hurt you. And I get it. I would be happy, too,
- 13:17Speaker 1: if I was a historian and the Clippers owned L.A.
- 13:19Speaker 1: and all that. I would be upset in all those
- 13:21Speaker 1: great urinals at the Intua Dome. Totally get it. I understand.
- 13:24Speaker 1: And I'm flattered. I really am flattered. I didn't really
- 13:26Speaker 1: confirm my hypothesis years ago that it's hip to clip. Now,
- 13:30Speaker 1: one of the stories here, though, is how soft Adam
- 13:34Speaker 1: Silver went on Kawhi Leonard. gave them what we call
- 13:38Speaker 1: the Altuve. Altuve was one of the masterminds of that
- 13:41Speaker 1: cheating scandal in Houston when they cheated to win the
- 13:43Speaker 1: World Series and then turned out that Rob Manford, the
- 13:48Speaker 1: commissioner of baseball, didn't have any balls and couldn't punish
- 13:51Speaker 1: Altuve or any of the other players. So similar to that,
- 13:55Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard cleared anywhere from $ 1. 3 to I've seen over
- 13:58Speaker 1: $ 2 million from these under-the-table no-show jobs, and the NBA
- 14:03Speaker 1: fined him $ 700, 000. So any way you slice it, He
- 14:07Speaker 1: cleared either $ 600, 000 or as much as almost $ 2 million
- 14:14Speaker 1: when you consider all the other money. And he only
- 14:16Speaker 1: was fined $ 700, 000. So I believe that's money that he'd
- 14:20Speaker 1: be happy to send back. Why not? Because he came
- 14:23Speaker 1: out ahead in the end. Now, I bring this up
- 14:26Speaker 1: because Kawhi had maintained that he did not know the
- 14:30Speaker 1: rules surrounding salary cap circumvention. He attempted to distance himself.
- 14:37Speaker 1: from knowingly participating in any improper benefit arrangement. Okay, fine.
- 14:43Speaker 1: So that podcast nerd challenged that defense by resurfacing some
- 14:50Speaker 1: old interview that seven people listened to, in which Kawhi
- 14:54Speaker 1: Leonard discussed the importance of understanding NBA business and contract rules. Now, Leonard,
- 15:03Speaker 1: in that particular interview and previous conversations, which are rare—
- 15:07Speaker 1: rare for him. Leonard previously portrayed himself as someone who
- 15:12Speaker 1: educated himself about the league's financial system, making his professed
- 15:18Speaker 1: ignorance in the Clipper case seemingly impossible, certainly hard to process. Now,
- 15:25Speaker 1: the question is this. Kawhi Leonard conflicting statements on knowing
- 15:33Speaker 1: NBA salary cap rules and How does this hit you?
- 15:39Speaker 1: So the whole I'm just an innocent bystander defense, it
- 15:46Speaker 1: reminds me of the bull crap the A-holes were giving out.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Remember when Altuve probably had the buzzer there in the
- 15:52Speaker 1: ALCS and he wouldn't have his jersey ripped off and
- 15:56Speaker 1: Everyone has their jersey ripped off when they hit a
- 15:58Speaker 1: game-winning home run in the playoffs, and he didn't do it.
- 16:01Speaker 1: And most knowledgeable people believe it's because he had a
- 16:05Speaker 1: buzzer and he wouldn't do it, and he said it
- 16:06Speaker 1: was something else. And, you know, they just come up
- 16:08Speaker 1: with these ridiculous things. And they know, the people in
- 16:11Speaker 1: sports know, there's a lot of these fans, unfortunately, who
- 16:12Speaker 1: are complete idiots and will fall for any of this crap.
- 16:15Speaker 1: And so they do it. And Kawhi Leonard over there, like,
- 16:18Speaker 1: come on, please. Innocent bystander. Yeah, right. Come on. Just
- 16:24Speaker 1: toss that into the paper shredder. and hit the max speed,
- 16:28Speaker 1: come on. And for years, and there's plenty of quotes
- 16:32Speaker 1: out there, Kawhi didn't do a lot of interviews, but
- 16:35Speaker 1: he always presented himself as Professor Cap, Professor Salary Cap,
- 16:41Speaker 1: the ultimate savvy NBA businessman who understands every financial rule
- 16:48Speaker 1: in the jungle. And now that this whole aspiration thing
- 16:55Speaker 1: funny money arrangement is being called out it's under the
- 16:58Speaker 1: microscope now that the heat is on he throws his
- 17:03Speaker 1: hands up in the air everywhere and he gives us
- 17:07Speaker 1: an emoji kawaii sent out a shrugging emoji metaphorically of
- 17:12Speaker 1: course metaphorically of course and what a joke Look, you
- 17:15Speaker 1: cannot brag for years about knowing exactly how the sausage
- 17:20Speaker 1: gets made. And then when the investigators find some questionable
- 17:25Speaker 1: sausage in your refrigerator, you claim you've never seen a kitchen.
- 17:30Speaker 1: You have no idea what a kitchen is. It's ridiculous,
- 17:33Speaker 1: ridiculous on its face. And Kawhi's credibility right now is
- 17:38Speaker 1: smoking like a 1994 Buick climbing up the grapevine in California,
- 17:46Speaker 1: if you know what that is, outside L.A. on the
- 17:47Speaker 1: way to Bakersfield there. Absolutely cooked. Absolutely cooked. It is
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- 18:50Speaker 1: vintage college football experience. Again, despite having some renovations at
- 18:57Speaker 1: Neyland Stadium, the home of the Volunteers there in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennessee,
- 19:03Speaker 1: the university, has kept some of the blank so fans
- 19:07Speaker 1: can enjoy the vintage college football experience. That is the
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- 21:28Speaker 1: Time now for the riddle of the day. Then we'll
- 21:30Speaker 1: get back to the calls at 877-99 on Fox. Here's
- 21:34Speaker 1: the riddle of the day. Despite having some recent upgrades
- 21:37Speaker 1: to Neyland Stadium, the University of Tennessee decided to keep
- 21:40Speaker 1: some of the blank so fans could enjoy the vintage
- 21:45Speaker 1: college football experience. That is the question. What is the answer?
- 21:51Speaker 1: And let's see, does anyone know the answer? Shane in
- 21:57Speaker 1: Des Moines says they need to invest in upgrades, so
- 22:00Speaker 1: says Fergdon. All right. JT, the wingman who lives just
- 22:05Speaker 1: outside Knoxville, says Moonshine Stills is the answer. Donkey Sausage
- 22:12Speaker 1: and Rob in the 3-2-1 got it right. Bad job
- 22:14Speaker 1: by them. Timmy from Busco, Indiana says, Says the volunteers
- 22:19Speaker 1: kept some of the old hot dog buns. They look good.
- 22:22Speaker 1: Why not? Atomic Kevin writes in, says old soda cups
- 22:26Speaker 1: and nacho trays left under the seats. That's solid. Analog
- 22:31Speaker 1: Al got it right. Nimbus Bottas, a.k.a. Nimbot, going with
- 22:35Speaker 1: Lot Lizard. Lot Lizards is his answer. Peyton Manning's under
- 22:39Speaker 1: ruse from DJ Spin, our friend Patrick. In San Diego.
- 22:45Speaker 1: What else do we have? Let's see. Page down. Alf
- 22:47Speaker 1: the Alien O'Piner got it right. Bad job by him.
- 22:50Speaker 1: King Rory went with the Mountain Dew Scented Soap. Got
- 22:54Speaker 1: to leave that in there. Yeah. Late Night Drug Tester
- 22:57Speaker 1: says they kept the Peyton Manning Heimlich section. Luke the
- 23:02Speaker 1: Vending Guy checks in with Wave Pools. Who doesn't love
- 23:05Speaker 1: a good wave pool? What else? Andy and Lionel Lakes
- 23:08Speaker 1: may or may not have cheated. He got it right.
- 23:10Speaker 1: Fergdog says David Vasse didn't pay off the bet. What
- 23:14Speaker 1: a weasel. He didn't walk home? I can't believe that.
- 23:18Speaker 1: What's up with that? Just Josh in Cincinnati says they
- 23:22Speaker 1: kept some of the old phone numbers off of the
- 23:25Speaker 1: bathroom wall. All right. Well, let's get to the payoff
- 23:30Speaker 1: on this. The Malheur Riddle of the Day. Despite upgrades
- 23:34Speaker 1: to Neyland Stadium, Tennessee decided to keep some of the
- 23:39Speaker 1: blank so fans could enjoy the vintage college football experience. Lorena,
- 23:45Speaker 1: do you have an answer? Some of their old bathrooms.
- 23:47Speaker 1: Everyone loves old bathrooms. Old bathrooms. All right. Is that
- 23:50Speaker 1: your final answer? Well, it's kind of right, but you
- 23:54Speaker 1: got to be more specific. The correct answer is they
- 23:56Speaker 1: kept The troughs in the men's room. So you can
- 24:02Speaker 1: let it all out, and your fellow man can stand
- 24:05Speaker 1: right next to you. That's beautiful. Not really. They had those.
- 24:11Speaker 1: I don't know if they still do at Dodger Stadium.
- 24:13Speaker 1: They had those. In Buffalo, I went to one Bills
- 24:16Speaker 1: game in my life, and I walked in the bathroom.
- 24:18Speaker 1: It was the funniest thing. They weren't even called Bills
- 24:21Speaker 1: Mafia when I was there. I don't know what they
- 24:23Speaker 1: were called, just fans. And I walked into the men's room.
- 24:27Speaker 1: to take care of the business there, and they had
- 24:30Speaker 1: troughs everywhere, but they had signs on the troughs, and
- 24:33Speaker 1: they had signs on the sink, and the signs on
- 24:36Speaker 1: the trough, if I remember correctly, said, like, stay out,
- 24:39Speaker 1: and the signs on the sink said, this is not
- 24:41Speaker 1: a toilet, it's a sink, don't, you know, I guess
- 24:45Speaker 1: people would just pee in the sink, and, you know, anyway,
- 24:49Speaker 1: all right, let's go to the phones. Let's say hello
- 24:51Speaker 1: to eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's go to Neil, who's
- 24:54Speaker 1: in the belly of the beast in Knoxville. What's going on, Neil?
- 24:57Speaker 6: Welcome.
- 24:58Speaker 1: You're on the radio show.
- 25:01Speaker 2: Good morning, Ben. So I am a UT alum. I
- 25:04Speaker 2: can see the stadium from my front door. And I've
- 25:07Speaker 2: got to say, I don't know why all men's rooms
- 25:10Speaker 2: don't have troughs. Nealon and Wrigley are the only two.
- 25:13Speaker 3: I know left, but why not?
- 25:17Speaker 1: You are Team Trough. You enjoy the trough experience?
- 25:21Speaker 2: I am Team Trough. Efficiency.
- 25:24Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm more of a privacy guy, you know. I
- 25:28Speaker 1: like that.
- 25:29Speaker 2: I'll tell you this, Torrey, man. When I was a
- 25:31Speaker 2: kid in my elementary school, of course we had a trough,
- 25:35Speaker 2: but you could stand on the trough and pee out
- 25:38Speaker 2: of the window. So for a seven-year-old boy, that was
- 25:41Speaker 2: quite the fun experience. Yeah.
- 25:43Speaker 1: Well, that does sound like a fun experience as a
- 25:45Speaker 1: 7-year-old boy. I don't disagree with you on that. What
- 25:49Speaker 1: kind of school did you go to? They didn't tell
- 25:52Speaker 1: you to do that. You guys just figured it out
- 25:54Speaker 1: to open the window, I'm guessing, yes?
- 25:56Speaker 2: Yes, it was an old school. I believe my grandfather
- 25:59Speaker 2: went to the same elementary school.
- 26:02Speaker 1: I'm hoping that you did not. I'm hoping you did not.
- 26:06Speaker 1: There was no one on the second floor. Was it
- 26:09Speaker 1: a second floor window or was it the first floor?
- 26:11Speaker 2: No, no, it was a basement window.
- 26:14Speaker 1: Okay, okay. Because there was a famous broadcaster years ago
- 26:17Speaker 1: that got in a lot of trouble at a bar
- 26:19Speaker 1: in Cleveland when he urinated out of the second floor
- 26:24Speaker 1: window and someone was standing on the first floor and
- 26:28Speaker 1: did not appreciate the shower that they got. Did not
- 26:32Speaker 1: like that. Well, not many people I know, Neil, enjoy
- 26:35Speaker 1: the trough. I think it's because of your childhood. I'm
- 26:38Speaker 1: going to use some psychobabble. If it wasn't for that
- 26:40Speaker 1: window as a kid... you would not be Team Troth
- 26:43Speaker 1: now as an older man. Probably not.
- 26:47Speaker 2: You walk in and see a Troth, though, and it
- 26:48Speaker 2: brings back good memories.
- 26:50Speaker 1: All right. What song, have you heard the Dolly thing?
- 26:54Speaker 1: What song they're going to use there from Dolly in
- 26:57Speaker 1: the fourth quarter? I have not.
- 27:01Speaker 3: Her version of Rocky Top is great, but I got
- 27:05Speaker 3: to think Jolene.
- 27:08Speaker 1: I I'm thinking Rocky top. Cause it's, you know, that's perfect.
- 27:11Speaker 1: I know it's other people have done it a lot,
- 27:13Speaker 1: but that I, I I'm going Rocky top.
- 27:15Speaker 2: Anyway.
- 27:15Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you, Neil. Appreciate that. All right. Lorraine,
- 27:18Speaker 1: you want to get in on this? I'm going Rocky top.
- 27:20Speaker 1: That's a no brainer.
- 27:20Speaker 2: Tennessee football. Yeah.
- 27:22Speaker 1: I don't think Jolene is going to be it at all. Yeah.
- 27:26Speaker 1: What a nine to five. That wouldn't really work. No,
- 27:30Speaker 1: probably the, I will always love you song. I think
- 27:32Speaker 1: that would really get the crowd hyped. What kind of
- 27:35Speaker 1: medication are you on again? And I will always love you.
- 27:43Speaker 1: That was good, right? No, it's got to be a classic, right?
- 27:46Speaker 1: It's got to be a classic. It can't be anything.
- 27:49Speaker 1: It's got to be from like the 70s or the
- 27:50Speaker 1: early 80s or something like that. I didn't know she
- 27:52Speaker 1: did a version of Rocky Top. I feel like that's
- 27:55Speaker 1: the answer. There's no other answer, right? Yeah, that's... What
- 28:00Speaker 1: else are you going to do? Jingle bells? She did
- 28:01Speaker 1: jingle bells. That really wouldn't work, you know, right? All right, well,
- 28:05Speaker 1: that's no fun. We've ruined that game. Let's see who's next. Steenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe,
- 28:09Speaker 1: pick a caller by their name. Let's see what a
- 28:11Speaker 1: Mike in Dallas. Hello, Mike. Welcome. You're on the Ben
- 28:15Speaker 1: Maller Show on Fox. Hey, Ben.
- 28:19Speaker 3: The other night I tried calling in, but I got
- 28:22Speaker 3: stuck behind the, what's his name, the pothead or the
- 28:26Speaker 3: weed guy?
- 28:29Speaker 1: Yeah, the pothead. We call him the pothead.
- 28:30Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 28:32Speaker 3: Yeah, then I fell asleep, and then when I woke up,
- 28:36Speaker 3: I was off the line. Did you all hear me snoring?
- 28:42Speaker 1: No, I don't remember you snoring that well. I remember
- 28:45Speaker 1: him falling asleep. He was not snoring at all. It
- 28:47Speaker 1: was disappointing. Yeah, it only works if you snore.
- 28:54Speaker 3: Okay, and then I want to talk about your baseball.
- 29:00Speaker 3: You were talking about Altuve cheating. But then I have
- 29:05Speaker 3: a question for Lorena.
- 29:09Speaker 1: You have a lot of content. You're very prepared here, Mike.
- 29:11Speaker 1: You have a lot of content. How many cigarettes do
- 29:17Speaker 1: you have left, by the way?
- 29:18Speaker 3: Well, no, I'm out. And the hotel lady said there's
- 29:23Speaker 3: not a gas station for half a mile.
- 29:28Speaker 1: Are you homeless?
- 29:29Speaker 3: I have some weed.
- 29:31Speaker 1: Are you homeless?
- 29:32Speaker 5: Are you.
- 29:33Speaker 3: No, I'm playing shuffleboard here in Austin.
- 29:37Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you were in Dallas. You're in Austin.
- 29:39Speaker 2: Okay.
- 29:40Speaker 3: Well, for the night.
- 29:42Speaker 1: Oh, for the night. You're from Dallas.
- 29:43Speaker 3: For a couple of days. I'm going to make a
- 29:46Speaker 3: very succinct point about baseball. I mean, I hate talking
- 29:55Speaker 3: about baseball, but.
- 29:56Speaker 1: You called up to talk about baseball. You don't have
- 29:59Speaker 1: to talk about baseball. I'm not making you talk about baseball.
- 30:02Speaker 1: You can talk about anything you want. You don't have to.
- 30:04Speaker 1: We can talk about shuffleboard. Let's talk shuffleboard. You want
- 30:07Speaker 1: to talk shuffleboard? We can talk shuffleboard.
- 30:10Speaker 3: No, I hate you dispersing misinformation about cheating in baseball.
- 30:18Speaker 1: What did I say that was incorrect?
- 30:20Speaker 3: Well, you were blaming everything on the Astros and Altuve.
- 30:25Speaker 3: And around the same time.
- 30:27Speaker 1: They cheated in the World Series. I think it's kind
- 30:29Speaker 1: of obvious. And they didn't get punished. They didn't get punished.
- 30:32Speaker 1: So I think that's fair.
- 30:33Speaker 3: But you know why they had such an easy punishment?
- 30:38Speaker 1: Because Rob Manfred has no balls?
- 30:41Speaker 3: The things that I heard was that the Red Sox
- 30:44Speaker 3: were doing the same things. They had a light in
- 30:49Speaker 3: the outfield that would, you know, AI or whatever, be
- 30:53Speaker 3: hooked up, see the signal from the catcher, and they'd
- 30:56Speaker 3: blink a light or two in the outfield, and that
- 31:00Speaker 3: would tell the hitter, you know, what pitch was coming.
- 31:03Speaker 3: Same thing was happening with the Yankees. Why do you think.
- 31:08Speaker 3: Judge was hitting so many home runs.
- 31:10Speaker 1: So you're using, let me tell you what, you're using
- 31:13Speaker 1: the everyone was doing it defense, which is, does that
- 31:16Speaker 1: ever work, by the way? Does the everyone was doing
- 31:18Speaker 1: it defense work? Well, it's the same way why everyone
- 31:22Speaker 1: was saying football players. If I pull you over and
- 31:26Speaker 1: I say, hey, how fast were you going? And you say, well,
- 31:29Speaker 1: I was going like 10 miles over the speed limit.
- 31:32Speaker 1: But I was going the same speed as traffic. Okay,
- 31:35Speaker 1: so everyone was speeding. Do you get out of the ticket?
- 31:41Speaker 3: Well, no, but you got to tell the whole story.
- 31:46Speaker 1: They didn't walk up to the bus. The whole story
- 31:50Speaker 1: is you like the Astros, and you're going to try
- 31:52Speaker 1: to defend them, so you're using the everyone else. Enjoy Austin.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Enjoy the shuffleboard. I got to go. All right, we
- 32:01Speaker 1: have Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. We'll get
- 32:04Speaker 1: to all of those jokes coming up in a couple
- 32:06Speaker 1: of minutes, and it's going to be amazing. Is Weed
- 32:08Speaker 1: Man there, by the way? Is the Weed Man? He is,
- 32:11Speaker 1: all right. This guy, he shows up. He can't keep
- 32:15Speaker 1: a job, but with us, he shows up every time now.
- 32:18Speaker 1: It's amazing, the ability for him to show up. It's
- 32:21Speaker 1: next level. Anyway, we will get to that. Big Ben's
- 32:25Speaker 1: Lame Jokes of the Week. For the rest of the hour,
- 32:28Speaker 1: the Comedy Club is open. We'll get to it. We
- 32:31Speaker 1: will do it next.
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- 33:03Speaker 1: can also hear the Ben Maller Show podcast and the
- 33:06Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast. Both of those things will be up today.
- 33:09Speaker 1: And you can enjoy the Fifth Hour podcast, a post-game
- 33:14Speaker 1: recap of the epic Maller meet-and-greet we had last weekend
- 33:18Speaker 1: in Lost Wages, Nevada. So check that out. And the
- 33:22Speaker 1: Ben Maler Show podcast and all that, all on the
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- 33:27Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Knock, knock.
- 33:33Speaker 1: Who's there?
- 33:34Speaker 5: Lame week. Lame week who?
- 33:36Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's Lame Joke of the Week. All right,
- 33:39Speaker 1: right to it we go. Are you ready, Weed Man?
- 33:41Speaker 1: Weed Man Hippie Miami, right there.
- 33:43Speaker 3: I'm going to try to download Zoom right after this call.
- 33:47Speaker 1: You're not going to download Zoom, Weed Man. What are
- 33:50Speaker 1: you doing?
- 33:51Speaker 3: I'm going to try and it just doesn't work. I'm
- 33:53Speaker 3: telling you.
- 33:53Speaker 1: I know.
- 33:54Speaker 5: I know.
- 33:54Speaker 1: I know. I love you, but you're not. I'm going
- 34:00Speaker 1: to try. I know you.
- 34:01Speaker 3: I know.
- 34:02Speaker 1: I know. What is Weed Man's favorite color?
- 34:06Speaker 5: What?
- 34:08Speaker 1: Hazy. Michael in Tulsa. What did Weed Man say when
- 34:15Speaker 1: he was offered a trip to Maui? What? Maui? Wowie
- 34:21Speaker 1: is what he said. That's Surfer Todd, the comedian. It
- 34:25Speaker 1: was great to see Surfer Todd and his lovely wife
- 34:27Speaker 1: last week there in Vegas. What did Weed Man say
- 34:31Speaker 1: when he heard Stan Kroenke bought the Angels?
- 34:35Speaker 5: Wow, what?
- 34:36Speaker 1: He said, if I change my name to Angel, maybe
- 34:40Speaker 1: Stan will pay me too, said Eric in Kansas.
- 34:44Speaker 5: That'd be great.
- 34:45Speaker 1: I'm sure it would. Why does Weed Man get frustrated
- 34:49Speaker 1: with an apple?
- 34:51Speaker 4: Why?
- 34:53Speaker 1: Well, he can't bite into it because he can't find
- 34:55Speaker 1: his teeth. That's why. That's Michael in Tulsa. Any luck
- 35:00Speaker 1: with your teeth? No luck with your teeth. Oh, terrible.
- 35:05Speaker 1: Did you hear that Weed Man's son, what his son's
- 35:08Speaker 1: name is? Did you hear about that? Michael. No, no,
- 35:12Speaker 1: that's actually not true. Your son's name is Bud. You
- 35:15Speaker 1: ruined the joke, Weed Man. Bud, is there something? That's
- 35:18Speaker 1: Brendan from Boston. Did you hear the lifeguard couldn't save
- 35:23Speaker 1: Weed Man hippie? Did you hear about that? Oh, no.
- 35:27Speaker 5: Why?
- 35:28Speaker 1: Yeah, he said you're too far out, man. You're just
- 35:30Speaker 1: too far out, man. That's from George. George, George, George.
- 35:35Speaker 1: All right. Why is Weed Man's electric bill so high? Why?
- 35:39Speaker 2: Why?
- 35:41Speaker 6: Two words, grow room. That's Brendan from Boston again. He
- 35:49Speaker 6: also sent the Weed Man son joke.
- 35:51Speaker 1: Why did Weed Man invite Jed York to Florida?
- 35:56Speaker 6: Why?
- 35:57Speaker 1: Well, Florida has the greatest trailer parks. That's from our
- 36:01Speaker 1: friend the leprechaun in Boston. Why, or Worcester, why did
- 36:05Speaker 1: Weed Man want to become a carpenter?
- 36:09Speaker 3: Why?
- 36:09Speaker 1: Well, he thought it was where they made joints. You know,
- 36:14Speaker 1: the carpenters make the joints.
- 36:17Speaker 3: All right.
- 36:17Speaker 1: Also from the leprechaun.
- 36:18Speaker 3: That's funny.
- 36:19Speaker 1: This one's from Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Why do Lorena
- 36:23Speaker 1: and Coop break out in a rash when they get
- 36:25Speaker 1: their paychecks?
- 36:27Speaker 6: Why?
- 36:28Speaker 1: They're allergic to peanuts.
- 36:30Speaker 5: All right.
- 36:30Speaker 3: There you go.
- 36:31Speaker 1: Very funny.
- 36:32Speaker 2: Why? Why?
- 36:35Speaker 1: Yes, it is, Jeannie. Why did Lorena throw a box
- 36:40Speaker 1: of Lucky Charms at Michael Leprechaun?
- 36:43Speaker 2: Why?
- 36:44Speaker 1: Because she's magically malicious. That's pretty good.
- 36:50Speaker 6: That's Kurt.
- 36:52Speaker 1: Kurt from Earth sent that one in. If you'd like
- 36:55Speaker 1: to send jokes in for a future show, care of
- 36:57Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show at gmail.com. BenMallerShow at gmail.com. Why shouldn't
- 37:02Speaker 1: you order hay for your horse off Amazon?
- 37:04Speaker 6: Why?
- 37:09Speaker 1: Well, it turns out a few days later they're going
- 37:11Speaker 1: to ask you for your feedback. They want your feedback.
- 37:19Speaker 1: Mike from Wisconsin sent that one in. What kind of
- 37:21Speaker 1: cousins are Anthony in Louisiana and Lorena?
- 37:25Speaker 5: What?
- 37:26Speaker 1: Kissing uh that's just josh from cincinnati who sent that
- 37:32Speaker 1: one in these are big ben's lame jokes of the
- 37:34Speaker 1: week actual jokes by actual listeners care again ben malice
- 37:37Speaker 1: show at gmail.com jokes in the headline if you want
- 37:40Speaker 1: to send jokes in for next week did you hear
- 37:42Speaker 1: that the wnba is expanding to east palestine ohio wow
- 37:48Speaker 1: really Yeah, it's pretty exciting news that they're going to
- 37:53Speaker 1: be putting a team there. According to sources, there's no
- 37:55Speaker 1: market that better appreciates a botched layup. Hey-oh! That's Gordon
- 38:02Speaker 1: at Tacoma. Dad Joke Dan sent this one in, said
- 38:07Speaker 1: a son came home from school and said, Dad, I
- 38:10Speaker 1: got a part in the school play. And the dad said, oh, really? Yeah,
- 38:14Speaker 1: he said, and the kid said, I play a man
- 38:16Speaker 1: who's been married 30 years. And the dad replied, Weed Man.
- 38:20Speaker 1: He said, well, son, maybe next time you'll get a
- 38:23Speaker 1: speaking role.
- 38:23Speaker 5: Hey-oh!
- 38:24Speaker 1: All right, that's Dad Joke Dan. Thank you for that
- 38:28Speaker 1: dad joke, Dan. Tiger Woods was told he can't drive
- 38:32Speaker 1: for five years after pleading guilty in court. He said
- 38:37Speaker 1: it's no big deal for the last five years he
- 38:40Speaker 1: hasn't been able to drive, chip, or putt. So it's
- 38:43Speaker 1: really not much of a difference there. That's George. I
- 38:47Speaker 1: think I might have butchered that one. But George in Rochester. Minnesota. Well,
- 38:51Speaker 1: here's some exciting news for our friends in the Bay Area.
- 38:54Speaker 1: Did you hear the 49ers owner Jed York is considering
- 38:57Speaker 1: changing the name of the team after he was busted
- 39:00Speaker 1: in East Palestine, Ohio with a prostitute who was a
- 39:03Speaker 1: fake prostitute. Wow.
- 39:05Speaker 2: Really?
- 39:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 39:06Speaker 1: Yeah. Apparently the new team is a simple change. The
- 39:09Speaker 1: San Francisco 69ers. That's Noah in Austin. Thank you, Weed Man.
- 39:14Speaker 1: Weed Man. We love you, buddy. The great Weed Man.
- 39:17Speaker 1: It'd be no chance to get Zoom. You're not going
- 39:19Speaker 1: to get Zoom. I know you're not. I know it.
- 39:22Speaker 1: I know it.