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- 0:00Speaker 1: Bam! Wham! Pow! It's our number three in the Benny
- 0:07Speaker 1: Man Can. The Benny Man Can. It's our number three.
- 0:11Speaker 1: What will go haywire this hour on the Ben Mathers Show? Well,
- 0:14Speaker 1: we start out with a follow-up, follow-up to a unhappy,
- 0:19Speaker 1: unhappy NFL player. Does Giants wide receiver Malik Nabors have
- 0:25Speaker 1: a legitimate grievance with Fox's Greg Olson? He doubled down
- 0:31Speaker 1: on his issues with Greg Olson, the Fox commentator. We'll
- 0:36Speaker 1: revisit that. Also, his wide receiver Josh Downs, a difference
- 0:40Speaker 1: maker for Kansas City, or just another guy. And you
- 0:44Speaker 1: make the call on what's more embarrassing, Bill's running back
- 0:48Speaker 1: James Cook having a dirty diaper on national television or
- 0:52Speaker 1: him issuing a public denial statement. Things that make you go, hmm.
- 0:57Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that. We also have the
- 1:00Speaker 1: Queen of Hearts with Lorena and Too Much or Not Enough.
- 1:04Speaker 1: All of it coming your way right about now. It's
- 1:06Speaker 1: what we call our number three. And here it is.
- 1:15Speaker 1: It has been said that good fences make good neighbors,
- 1:19Speaker 1: and we have another example of that. Welcome in the
- 1:24Speaker 1: beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller Show. We
- 1:28Speaker 1: are in the air everywhere as key collaborators. As we
- 1:35Speaker 1: see what's in the box, what's in the box, coast
- 1:39Speaker 1: to coast, border to border, and beyond, on the vast
- 1:44Speaker 1: and boisterously powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the
- 1:53Speaker 1: deck of cards. As we take that deck of cards
- 1:57Speaker 1: and we call a spade a spade, guaranteed human rights.
- 2:03Speaker 1: That's right. Guaranteed humor from the world-famous Fox Sports Radio
- 2:06Speaker 1: studios as we hang out here together. And I got
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- 2:17Speaker 1: Haven't heard from Bugatti the Trucker. He reached out and
- 2:20Speaker 1: he said, hey, you know, that guy Texas Jack would
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- 2:28Speaker 1: I said, are you sure about that? He says, yeah,
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- 2:36Speaker 1: And I said, are you sure about that? He said, well,
- 2:38Speaker 1: what about Zack in Rhode Island? I said, I don't
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- 3:13Speaker 1: We're back at it later this hour. We do have,
- 3:16Speaker 1: for your dancing and dining pleasure, we'll have the Malheur
- 3:19Speaker 1: Riddle of the Day. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's going to
- 3:24Speaker 1: be kind of cool, right? Yeah. We'll have that coming
- 3:27Speaker 1: up in a little bit, and also Too Much or
- 3:29Speaker 1: Not Enough and the Queen of Hearts. If you like bits,
- 3:32Speaker 1: you give us a few minutes, and we'll give you
- 3:34Speaker 1: a shining star of a bit. We'll steamroll through this hour.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Our lead, though, don't bury the lead, my man. We
- 3:41Speaker 1: go to Jersey, the swampland of New Jersey. The drama-o-rama
- 3:45Speaker 1: continues around Big Blue as they have a good record.
- 3:51Speaker 1: John Harbaugh getting the job done as the NFC East,
- 3:55Speaker 1: many of these other teams riding on vapors. The Giants
- 3:58Speaker 1: not riding on Vapors. The story here, if you've not
- 4:01Speaker 1: heard the latest, we have a follow-up, a follow-up from
- 4:04Speaker 1: a previous edition of the Ben Maller Show. A couple
- 4:07Speaker 1: of days have passed since Giants wide receiver Malik Nabors
- 4:12Speaker 1: had a conniption fit because of something somebody said on
- 4:15Speaker 1: television about him. So here's the question. Do you think
- 4:21Speaker 1: that Malik Nabors has now calmed down? and said, hey,
- 4:25Speaker 1: I got a little too emotional. It's really not that
- 4:27Speaker 1: big a deal. I was just busting some balls, nothing
- 4:30Speaker 1: to worry about. Or do you think he has said, no, no, no, no, no.
- 4:35Speaker 1: I stand my ground. I'm very stubborn. I'm pig-headed, and
- 4:40Speaker 1: I stand my ground. Well, reveal answers, reveal answers. And
- 4:46Speaker 1: if you said Malik Nabors not backing down, you... are
- 4:54Speaker 1: a winner. That's right. Giants wide receiver Malik Nabors, top
- 4:57Speaker 1: 10 in many offensive categories this year. Malik Nabors is
- 5:00Speaker 1: doing the double down, the double, double, double down on
- 5:05Speaker 1: his war of words with Fox broadcaster Greg Olson and
- 5:08Speaker 1: his sidekick Joe Davis. Is it true that Malik Neighbors
- 5:15Speaker 1: claims that their criticism of his sideline body language unfairly
- 5:22Speaker 1: attacked the character of Malik Neighbors? And no one, no
- 5:27Speaker 1: one will attack the character of Malik Neighbors. Now, Greg
- 5:31Speaker 1: Olson insisted he never, ever called Neighbors a bad teammate.
- 5:35Speaker 1: He merely questioned Malik. his visible frustration when he had
- 5:40Speaker 1: a hissy fit on the sidelines. Now, Nabors caught five
- 5:42Speaker 1: passes for a measly 43 yards against the Philadelphia football
- 5:47Speaker 1: team in the Delaware Valley there in South Philadelphia. He
- 5:50Speaker 1: did drop a touchdown. And now Malik Nabors, a top
- 5:55Speaker 1: 10 wide receiver for a team that's currently in the
- 5:57Speaker 1: Catbird seat in their division, he's now requesting that television
- 6:03Speaker 1: leave him alone. He does not want to be on
- 6:05Speaker 1: TV anymore. Doesn't want me on TV. He said, quote,
- 6:10Speaker 1: I'm going to use my own voice and be able
- 6:12Speaker 1: to speak up about me being a bad teammate. Neighbors complained.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Boo hoo hoo.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Quote continues. And I felt like that was just a lie.
- 6:24Speaker 1: Neighbors quote continues. Just attacking my character as a football player,
- 6:29Speaker 1: as a teammate. Close quote. So that is Malik neighbors.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Good jumping off point. So let us discuss. The question,
- 6:38Speaker 1: does Giants wide receiver Malik Nabors have a legitimate, a
- 6:41Speaker 1: legitimate grievance with Fox Sports commentator Greg Olson? Does he
- 6:49Speaker 1: have a legitimate grievance? So I've got Boombox, Olive Garden,
- 6:56Speaker 1: and Streisand. And we will combine all of these things
- 7:03Speaker 1: together and we are going to ask around We're going
- 7:07Speaker 1: to ask around. I don't know what we're going to
- 7:08Speaker 1: ask for, but we're going to ask around. So to
- 7:10Speaker 1: kick off here, welcome to the latest example of a textbook,
- 7:18Speaker 1: thin-skinned professional athlete. I would like to present my character witness,
- 7:24Speaker 1: Malik Neighbors. Now, Malik apparently believes that criticism is some
- 7:28Speaker 1: kind of human rights violation. God forbid a commentator who's
- 7:34Speaker 1: paid to give opinions about what he sees says something
- 7:39Speaker 1: untoward about Malik neighbors. He wants the football. He wants
- 7:44Speaker 1: the things that come with fame. He wants the money,
- 7:48Speaker 1: the fortune, of course. Just don't you dare, you rat bastard.
- 7:54Speaker 1: Don't you dare point a camera at his sourpuss. Who
- 7:58Speaker 1: do you think you are? You should not do that.
- 8:02Speaker 1: What's that you say? Oh, it makes for better television?
- 8:04Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. So I love that Malik Nabors is
- 8:08Speaker 1: treating Greg Olson like he committed a federal crime against humanity.
- 8:12Speaker 1: It's just freaking great. It's a football broadcast. It is
- 8:17Speaker 1: not the Nuremberg trials. By the way, Greg Olson did
- 8:21Speaker 1: not call him a bad teammate. As Olson pointed out,
- 8:25Speaker 1: Nabors connected the dots... and said that's what he meant.
- 8:30Speaker 1: So Neighbors is arguing with something that was never actually said.
- 8:36Speaker 1: He's having a debate. He's having a debate with voices
- 8:40Speaker 1: in his own head. Now, I pointed out on this show,
- 8:42Speaker 1: I do a talk show, I sit in a studio,
- 8:44Speaker 1: the lights are kind of dim except at the top
- 8:46Speaker 1: of the hour because I have to do these monologues
- 8:47Speaker 1: that are sent out to the interweb and all that,
- 8:52Speaker 1: and so there's lights on. But most of the time
- 8:53Speaker 1: the lights are dim here, and I turn the lights down,
- 8:55Speaker 1: and that's it. And that being said, I've often pointed
- 9:00Speaker 1: out if I do the show and no one calls
- 9:02Speaker 1: and I don't get any feedback, I think I'm suffering
- 9:05Speaker 1: from schizophrenia because I'm really just a guy talking into
- 9:07Speaker 1: a microphone by myself late at night. And I believe
- 9:12Speaker 1: when you debate the voices in your head, that is schizophrenia.
- 9:17Speaker 1: So in some ways, Malik Neighbors is showing loose signs
- 9:20Speaker 1: of schizophrenia. He's debating the voices in his head. And
- 9:25Speaker 1: the other part, which I absolutely love, the thing that
- 9:30Speaker 1: I love, this was a regional Fox broadcast. It was
- 9:34Speaker 1: not America's Game of the Week. Tom Brady was not there.
- 9:39Speaker 1: This was the number two broadcast, but it was not
- 9:41Speaker 1: the number one broadcast. It was the number two broadcast.
- 9:44Speaker 1: So it was not on everywhere. And so I would
- 9:47Speaker 1: argue that the way people consume television, I know they
- 9:50Speaker 1: consume radio similarly, They're not locked in on everything you're saying.
- 9:56Speaker 1: They're not. So I would argue that very few people actually.
- 10:00Speaker 1: heard Greg Olson's commentary until Malik neighbors decided, well, this
- 10:05Speaker 1: is a good idea. Let me let me get my
- 10:07Speaker 1: 1980s style boombox. I'm going to strap that to my
- 10:10Speaker 1: back and I'm going to march through Times Square. And
- 10:13Speaker 1: instead of turning it to 10, I'm going to turn
- 10:15Speaker 1: it to 11. Crank that boombox so everyone hears this.
- 10:19Speaker 1: So he believes everybody should look at him when he
- 10:23Speaker 1: makes a great play, and everyone should look away when
- 10:28Speaker 1: he acts like a jack wagon. There's a term for
- 10:31Speaker 1: that called show pony. Called show pony. Front runner is
- 10:36Speaker 1: another term. And oh, by the way, that is not
- 10:39Speaker 1: exactly how sports television works, Sparky. That's not how that works.
- 10:44Speaker 1: My advice, I think this is solid advice from the
- 10:46Speaker 1: Malheur Think Tank. The Malheur Think Tank for Malik neighbors.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Here's what you need to do. And I want to
- 10:52Speaker 1: help you out. You seem like a good guy. I
- 10:54Speaker 1: have nothing against you. I've never met you. I have
- 10:56Speaker 1: nothing against you. You know who I am. I don't
- 10:57Speaker 1: know who you are. What you should do is apply
- 11:01Speaker 1: for a job with Fox Sports Television and Try to
- 11:05Speaker 1: get a gig directing in the production truck, and then
- 11:09Speaker 1: you can dictate what gets on television and what doesn't
- 11:12Speaker 1: get on television. So Neighbors is playing the victim card
- 11:17Speaker 1: from the bottom of the deck, and he's dealing himself
- 11:20Speaker 1: a royal flush of stupidity. Congratulations. None of these guys,
- 11:27Speaker 1: when they win, they're out in front smiling and answering
- 11:30Speaker 1: all the questions. And when they lose, I have nothing
- 11:34Speaker 1: to say. I'm going to run and hide like a coward.
- 11:37Speaker 1: All right, furthermore, to Kansas City we go. The Chiefs
- 11:44Speaker 1: had to make a move. They must make a move.
- 11:47Speaker 1: They did make a move to improve their offense. The
- 11:51Speaker 1: Chiefs went shopping. They said, you know where we need
- 11:54Speaker 1: to go? We're going to go to one of those
- 11:57Speaker 1: liquidation centers. You know how Amazon has those return centers
- 12:00Speaker 1: where you can buy old Amazon stuff, and it's in bins,
- 12:04Speaker 1: and there's like $ 10 bins, $ 5 bins, et cetera. Yeah,
- 12:08Speaker 1: so it's that kind of thing. So they went to
- 12:09Speaker 1: the Colts liquidation sale, and Andy Reid acquired wide receiver
- 12:16Speaker 1: Josh Downs for a fourth and fifth round set of
- 12:23Speaker 1: picks for And they also received a seventh-round pick. So
- 12:27Speaker 1: the Colts traded Josh Downs, and they got a fourth
- 12:31Speaker 1: and a fifth-round pick, and they gave up a seventh-round
- 12:34Speaker 1: pick as well. So you've got Xavier Worthy, snap, crackle, pop.
- 12:38Speaker 1: He's out. Tyquan Thornton is also sidelined. And Rashi Rice
- 12:45Speaker 1: is physically unreliable. So that's what you got in the
- 12:49Speaker 1: wide receiver room. And Patrick Mahomes needing some reinforcements at
- 12:53Speaker 1: this point. So what does Josh Downs bring?
- 12:58Speaker 3: Not a lot.
- 12:59Speaker 1: Not a lot. Not a lot. Here's the question. Is
- 13:03Speaker 1: wide receiver Josh Downs, who comes over from Indianapolis, a
- 13:07Speaker 1: difference maker for Kansas City or just another guy? So
- 13:15Speaker 1: let's not overreact to this. We are part of the
- 13:17Speaker 1: peanut gallery. Don't need to oversell it. I'm not some
- 13:21Speaker 1: suck-up in the Kansas City media. And this is a
- 13:27Speaker 1: move that is about as far away from a steal
- 13:31Speaker 1: of a trade as you can get. So Downs is
- 13:33Speaker 1: in that jag category, just another guy. Physically, Josh Downs
- 13:37Speaker 1: is built like the guy who delivers your door dash.
- 13:40Speaker 1: If you get a late-night foodie run from Taco Bell,
- 13:45Speaker 1: he kind of looks like he should be delivering your
- 13:47Speaker 1: door dash. not the guy who's going to go out
- 13:51Speaker 1: there and terrorize NFL secondaries. Josh Downs is a diminutive
- 14:00Speaker 1: wide receiver. He's 5'9, 171 pounds. What do they say?
- 14:02Speaker 1: They say soaking wet, right? That's the old line.
- 14:05Speaker 3: 5'9, 171.
- 14:05Speaker 1: He is, at his peak, he's a merchant. He's a
- 14:07Speaker 1: slot merchant. He lacks the ultra-deep threat ability that you
- 14:20Speaker 1: look for at the wide receiver position. And you look
- 14:23Speaker 1: at how he plays, and he's vulnerable against certain blocks
- 14:28Speaker 1: and whatnot. So he's not a total alpha. The Chiefs
- 14:33Speaker 1: did not acquire an alpha dog. Arf, arf, arf, arf, arf.
- 14:38Speaker 1: But the guys, they went down to the shelter, and
- 14:40Speaker 1: they adopted a chihuahua. He's a lap dog, not an
- 14:44Speaker 1: alpha dog. And they put a nice little cute Chiefs
- 14:47Speaker 1: jersey on. I said, oh, my God, we've got our
- 14:49Speaker 1: cute little lap dog, our Chihuahua. That's exciting. Now, with
- 14:53Speaker 1: very modest production this year, in fact, Downs has 33 catches,
- 15:00Speaker 1: one touchdown. That's it. One touchdown this season and less
- 15:05Speaker 1: than 355 yards, just a little less than that. So
- 15:11Speaker 1: not real good this year on a bad team. Free
- 15:15Speaker 1: agency looming. He becomes a pure rental. So you might
- 15:19Speaker 1: want to temper the hype just a little bit. You
- 15:21Speaker 1: might want to water down the alcohol. Not the main course.
- 15:25Speaker 1: You know what? This guy, Josh Downs, if you go
- 15:29Speaker 1: to Olive Garden, he is the complimentary breadsticks at Olive Garden.
- 15:34Speaker 1: He's not the main spaghetti with the meatballs. He's not that.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Downs is not going to elevate the offense. He's not. Now,
- 15:44Speaker 1: he should be better. You figure he's on a team
- 15:46Speaker 1: that's better in Kansas City, and we keep hearing how
- 15:48Speaker 1: wonderful Mahomes is and how great he is, and so
- 15:50Speaker 1: if that's the case, you figure Downs should be better
- 15:53Speaker 1: at Arrowhead than he was in Indianapolis, but he's just
- 15:56Speaker 1: a piece of the puzzle. That's all this man is,
- 15:59Speaker 1: is just a piece of the puzzle. He's, again, a rental.
- 16:02Speaker 1: He'll hit free agency after the season, and there is
- 16:05Speaker 1: No long-term control unless he plays really well. And then
- 16:09Speaker 1: Kansas City's like, we've got to keep this guy. And
- 16:12Speaker 1: we're not there yet. We're far away from that point.
- 16:14Speaker 1: He's got an opportunity. If he doesn't get bogged down
- 16:18Speaker 1: to prove, Josh Downs, that he can be the man
- 16:22Speaker 1: and is a much better player than he played this
- 16:24Speaker 1: year in Indy. All right, last thing to Buffalo, where
- 16:27Speaker 1: the Buffalo roam and where the duty roams as well.
- 16:32Speaker 1: That would be Bills running back James Cook. who has
- 16:35Speaker 1: become an internet sensation of Football Nation. This after cameras
- 16:41Speaker 1: showed a, let's say a streak, a suspicious stain on
- 16:48Speaker 1: his white pants during Monday night football. Now, social media detectives,
- 16:56Speaker 1: eagle-eyed social media detectives, have claimed they discovered have overwhelming
- 17:03Speaker 1: direct evidence that shows James Cook visited Browntown. Yeah, that
- 17:11Speaker 1: he had a poopy in his pantsy situation. So Cook
- 17:16Speaker 1: responded on social media. He said, this is wild. I
- 17:21Speaker 1: didn't S on myself, he said. I think he meant slap.
- 17:25Speaker 1: He might have said a different word. I didn't S
- 17:28Speaker 1: on myself, he said. He then added poop. Some laughing emojis.
- 17:34Speaker 1: Forget the fact that he ran for 107 yards and
- 17:37Speaker 1: a touchdown. That doesn't matter. This is the story. It's
- 17:40Speaker 1: a very relatable story. The Internet turned a football victory
- 17:44Speaker 1: into a forensic files investigation on the backside, the tushy
- 17:52Speaker 1: of Mr. Cook. So here's the question. You make the
- 17:57Speaker 1: call on what's more embarrassing. Bill's running back James Cook
- 18:01Speaker 1: having what appears to be a dirty diaper during a
- 18:04Speaker 1: primetime NFL game or issuing a public denial that he
- 18:10Speaker 1: had the skid marks on national television. So James Cook
- 18:16Speaker 1: fell victim to what is known as the Streisand effect.
- 18:21Speaker 1: He attempted to flush... away the controversy. However, his denial
- 18:29Speaker 1: gave the story a second life. Now, was James Cook Mr.
- 18:35Speaker 1: Poopy Pants? Did someone else poop on him? Was there
- 18:39Speaker 1: a passing of the feces? Or is James Cook simply lying?
- 18:45Speaker 1: So he wanted to clear his name. Unfortunately, the internet
- 18:47Speaker 1: wants him to clear his colon. Based on a minutes-long
- 18:52Speaker 1: Malheur investigation... Done during pure boredom. We determined that at
- 18:57Speaker 1: the start of the game, James Cook did not have
- 19:00Speaker 1: the skid marks on the back of his badonkadonk. And
- 19:05Speaker 1: then as the game progressed, he picked that up. So again,
- 19:09Speaker 1: there's only a couple of options here. Either that's his
- 19:13Speaker 1: poo-poo or that's someone else's doo-doo. That's it. Now, I've
- 19:19Speaker 1: worked with enough of these guys that played in the
- 19:20Speaker 1: NFL over the years through the hallways of Fox Sports
- 19:23Speaker 1: Radio to know that this is a normal thing. Believe
- 19:25Speaker 1: it or not, football players have to poop. I should
- 19:29Speaker 1: write a book. Your favorite NFL star poops. We've had
- 19:32Speaker 1: some famous poop incidents. We had Lamar Jackson. Remember, he
- 19:36Speaker 1: had to run to take a doo-doo during a Ravens
- 19:39Speaker 1: game back when he used to play for the Ravens.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Now he just pretty much watches them play in hockey.
- 19:45Speaker 1: Back when we used to have Eddie Garcia on the show,
- 19:48Speaker 1: there was a Stanley Cup final game where... Ben Bishop,
- 19:50Speaker 1: the goaltender, he left the game briefly because he had die, die, diarrhea.
- 19:58Speaker 1: So it does happen. It absolutely does happen. And people
- 20:01Speaker 1: are so embarrassed by it. Listen, if you have not,
- 20:05Speaker 1: what's the line? There's two types of people. There's people
- 20:09Speaker 1: that have pooped their pants and people that have lied
- 20:12Speaker 1: about not pooping their pants. That's it. It's a natural
- 20:16Speaker 1: human thing. And it's easier to hide. I've learned. We've
- 20:23Speaker 1: had a lot of NFL guys run through Fox Sports Radio.
- 20:25Speaker 1: It was an offensive lineman that I may or may
- 20:28Speaker 1: not have worked with years ago who told me the protocol.
- 20:31Speaker 1: This was back. He played before they had the blue
- 20:32Speaker 1: injury tent. Now what they do is they take in
- 20:35Speaker 1: the blue injury tent and they have The TV guys
- 20:38Speaker 1: think they're looking at you for you might have some
- 20:40Speaker 1: kind of injury to your knee or something. But really
- 20:42Speaker 1: what they're doing is they're allowing you to change your
- 20:44Speaker 1: pants because you pooped your pants. And so they bring
- 20:47Speaker 1: a new pair of pants. Some underling brings a new
- 20:49Speaker 1: pair of pants. But back in the old days, if
- 20:52Speaker 1: you had a instead of pooping your pants, you had
- 20:55Speaker 1: a urination situation. Nobody beats the Wiz. They're out of
- 20:59Speaker 1: business now, but it was a popular store back in
- 21:01Speaker 1: the day. Nobody beats the Wiz. So what you would
- 21:03Speaker 1: do is you'd take a bottle of water and you'd
- 21:05Speaker 1: spray all over your junk because then it would just
- 21:07Speaker 1: look like you were covered in water and not the
- 21:10Speaker 1: yellow stuff. How about that? But I believe that Cook
- 21:16Speaker 1: should just own it. That's it. You could say Cook
- 21:20Speaker 1: is the victim of a smear campaign. Unfortunately, the smear
- 21:24Speaker 1: campaign was on the back of his pants. And the
- 21:27Speaker 1: Bills dominated Minnesota in that game. James Cook, though, could
- 21:30Speaker 1: not escape the stain of controversy. So there you go.
- 21:36Speaker 1: We had, back in the day, we had Deflategate with
- 21:38Speaker 1: the Patriots. Now the Bills have Defecategate. Is that what
- 21:41Speaker 1: they're going to call that? Defecategate?
- 21:42Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. Well, demand a recount on the amount
- 21:48Speaker 1: of skid marks. Did anyone do the smell test? I
- 21:50Speaker 1: don't know. If I was advising James Cook... Now, I'll
- 21:54Speaker 1: give him free advice right now via the Maller think tank.
- 21:58Speaker 1: James Cook should fully embrace this. Not only did I
- 22:01Speaker 1: poop my pants, it felt really good. It felt really good.
- 22:04Speaker 1: And then you become a brand ambassador of dude wipes. Yeah,
- 22:09Speaker 1: dude wipes. That would be great, right? Come on, do
- 22:12Speaker 1: some commercials that get you free dude wipes. What's not
- 22:15Speaker 1: to like about that? All right, it is the Ben
- 22:19Speaker 1: Maller Show. What's not to like about this? Well, you
- 22:23Speaker 1: be the judge of that. If you would like to
- 22:25Speaker 1: be part, 877-99-ON-FOX. Have you investigated the stain on Monday
- 22:33Speaker 1: Night Football? The running back with the brown on the pants?
- 22:38Speaker 4: 877-99-ON-FOX.
- 22:39Speaker 3: 877-99-66369.
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- 22:56Speaker 1: don't forget, later this hour, we have the Queen of Hearts.
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- 23:00Speaker 1: of Hearts. Lorena will answer your questions. She'll answer any questions.
- 23:05Speaker 1: It's true.
- 23:06Speaker 4: I'll do it.
- 23:07Speaker 1: Relationships, you can quiz her about her football knowledge. And,
- 23:11Speaker 1: you know, again, she's playing a character on the show.
- 23:13Speaker 1: We all know that. You want Wall Street advice. You
- 23:16Speaker 1: want what crews to go on. You want any kind
- 23:18Speaker 1: of advice. That will be coming up later this hour,
- 23:21Speaker 1: hashtag Queen of Hearts. Time now for the Malheur Riddle
- 23:24Speaker 1: of the Day. Shaquille O'Neal is set to star in
- 23:27Speaker 1: a new blank show on ABC. ABC. Again, Shaquille O'Neal
- 23:35Speaker 1: going to star in a new blank, which is a
- 23:39Speaker 1: show coming soon to ABC. That is the Maller Riddle
- 23:44Speaker 1: of the Day, the answer. We'll get to it. We'll
- 23:48Speaker 1: do it next.
- 23:50Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
- 23:53Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific on
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- 24:00Speaker 5: Stugatz here, pleased to be hosting college football with Stugatz
- 24:04Speaker 5: and the Bear. We do it two times a week,
- 24:06Speaker 5: every Monday, every single Friday throughout the college football season.
- 24:10Speaker 5: You can expect a little bit of this.
- 24:12Speaker 1: Will Stein, the head coach at Kentucky, joins us. Open
- 24:14Speaker 1: bar at a wedding, ordering a Shirley Temple. Will or
- 24:17Speaker 1: will not? No. Will not. Ketchup on steak. Will or
- 24:21Speaker 1: will not? Will or will not? Will not. Thank you.
- 24:26Speaker 1: A little bit of this.
- 24:27Speaker 5: Rhys Davis, host of College Game Day, is with us now.
- 24:30Speaker 1: And then I'm going home to the BBC, and they're
- 24:33Speaker 1: saying Jockovich instead of Jokovich. Right, because you can't say Jockovich.
- 24:37Speaker 5: If you do, you know the blowback you're going to
- 24:39Speaker 5: get from the American audience.
- 24:40Speaker 1: Right. And a whole lot of this.
- 24:48Speaker 5: Listen to college football with Stugatz and the Bear on
- 24:50Speaker 5: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever.
- 24:54Speaker 1: You get your podcasts. The Ben Maller Show on Fox
- 25:02Speaker 1: Sports Radio as we continue on. And I do need
- 25:05Speaker 1: a game show contestant because coming up in a few minutes,
- 25:09Speaker 1: we are going to have too much or not enough.
- 25:11Speaker 1: Then we've got the Queen of Hearts, also the riddle
- 25:13Speaker 1: of the day. But if you want to play too
- 25:14Speaker 1: much or not enough, call right now. Operators are standing by.
- 25:18Speaker 1: It's our telethon. Well, it's not really a telethon. 877-99
- 25:25Speaker 1: on Fox. That's 877-996-6369. If you'd like to be part
- 25:32Speaker 1: of the program and be part of Ask... Well, not Ask...
- 25:35Speaker 1: I keep saying Ask Ben. That'd be tomorrow. If you
- 25:37Speaker 1: want to be part of the show and play too
- 25:39Speaker 1: much or not enough or send comments in, answer the
- 25:41Speaker 1: riddle and the other bits... That's at Ben Maller. Lorena
- 25:46Speaker 1: is here. And you can say hello to her, the segment,
- 25:50Speaker 1: her own segment, Queen of Hearts. Hashtag Queen of Hearts
- 25:52Speaker 1: coming up.
- 25:52Speaker 2: We love love.
- 25:54Speaker 1: That's right. Well, you do. Speak for yourself. So say
- 25:57Speaker 1: hello to Lorena. Hashtag Queen of Hearts. And that'll be
- 26:01Speaker 1: coming up. And Koopaloop at a Bronco fan. That's a
- 26:03Speaker 1: Bronco fan. Your comments can and will be used against
- 26:06Speaker 1: you in the court of the Maller militia. So please
- 26:11Speaker 1: act accordingly. All right, time now for the riddle of
- 26:15Speaker 1: the day. Shaquille O'Neal. This guy does not get enough
- 26:19Speaker 1: TV time, does not get enough commercials, does not get
- 26:22Speaker 1: enough TV shows. So Shaquille O'Neal is set to star
- 26:26Speaker 1: in a new blank show on ABC. That is the question.
- 26:35Speaker 1: What is the answer? Let's go to the Great Unwashed.
- 26:38Speaker 1: Femi says a dating show. Alf the Alien Alpine says
- 26:42Speaker 1: a poop show about famous people who have pooped their pants. Now,
- 26:47Speaker 1: that would be a good show. That would be a
- 26:49Speaker 1: very good show. What else do we have? Let's see.
- 26:52Speaker 1: Page down. Set to star in a new season on
- 26:55Speaker 1: My 300-lb Life from Ocho, Texas. Well, it's okay when
- 27:00Speaker 1: you're 7'2, or whatever Shaq is, to be 300 pounds.
- 27:06Speaker 1: Eek is going with some stupid game show is his answer.
- 27:09Speaker 1: A late-night horror movie host from Donkey Sausage. Who's that thing? Remember,
- 27:16Speaker 1: if you're old, I'm going to do old guy radio.
- 27:19Speaker 1: TBS on the Superstation, they had Atlanta Braves baseball, and
- 27:24Speaker 1: then they had the movie of the night on Fridays.
- 27:28Speaker 1: You remember that? I forget what they called it. Anyway,
- 27:31Speaker 1: what else do we have? JT the Wingman says a
- 27:33Speaker 1: reality matchmaking show. The great JT, the wingman. Courtesy Flusher
- 27:38Speaker 1: going with the soap opera. What else do we have?
- 27:42Speaker 1: Awakened says a Muppet show. Let's see. Lego Chuck from
- 27:48Speaker 1: outside Austin, Texas says a new Sister Wives series is
- 27:52Speaker 1: the answer. What else? Page down. I can't read that.
- 27:56Speaker 1: All right. Do you have an answer, Lorena?
- 27:59Speaker 2: I was going to go with The Secret Lives of
- 28:01Speaker 2: Mormon Wives.
- 28:03Speaker 1: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Is that correct? No.
- 28:08Speaker 1: Shaquille O'Neal will be starring in a new hide-and-seek competition
- 28:13Speaker 1: show on ABC. Hell yeah.
- 28:17Speaker 2: Where the heck is he going to hide at?
- 28:18Speaker 1: He's huge. He's the host, Lorena. Oh. I don't think
- 28:24Speaker 1: he would be very good at hiding. He's 7'1. Shaquille O'Neal.
- 28:31Speaker 1: I have a Shaq story. I don't have time for
- 28:33Speaker 1: my Shaq story. Do we have a contestant for the
- 28:35Speaker 1: game show, Coop? Do we have someone lined up? Yes.
- 28:38Speaker 1: We do. All right. Well, let's get the game started.
- 28:39Speaker 1: Here we go. Let's get right to the game. Is
- 28:43Speaker 1: it too much or not enough? Enough already. And who
- 28:48Speaker 1: is going to play our game?
- 28:49Speaker 6: Let's see here.
- 28:50Speaker 1: Who do we have? All right. Alex, what's going on? Alex, welcome. Hello, Ben.
- 28:57Speaker 1: How are you? Oh, this is my guy from Pennsylvania. Oh,
- 29:01Speaker 1: here we go. Here we go. He's still out there.
- 29:06Speaker 1: You're delivering pizza, right? Frozen pizza, if I remember correctly.
- 29:11Speaker 1: Is that correct?
- 29:12Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
- 29:14Speaker 1: Don't you work for the same company that guy went viral?
- 29:17Speaker 1: Remember the guy that got harassed by those teenagers delivering
- 29:19Speaker 1: frozen pizza? You saw that story?
- 29:22Speaker 4: Yeah, I work for them.
- 29:24Speaker 6: So I need someone to go rage bait me so
- 29:26Speaker 6: I can get some money.
- 29:27Speaker 1: Right, right. Yeah, the guy from Red Baron, right? You
- 29:31Speaker 1: work for Red Baron, I guess? Yeah. Good pizza. How
- 29:37Speaker 1: much did he make? Like $ 700, 000 or something like that? Crazy.
- 29:40Speaker 1: Something like that.
- 29:41Speaker 3: It's getting up there.
- 29:43Speaker 1: I agree, man. People can be a-holes to me. I
- 29:45Speaker 1: don't know. For that kind of money, I'm in. All right. Well,
- 29:49Speaker 1: let's play the game. Here we go. And you're going
- 29:52Speaker 1: to get three right to win the game. Are you prepared?
- 29:55Speaker 1: I am ready. All right, question number one. All the
- 29:59Speaker 1: answers are too much or not enough. You can play
- 30:00Speaker 1: along the home version or the work version of the game.
- 30:06Speaker 1: Question number one. Monday was Stephen Curry's 15th time playing
- 30:12Speaker 1: in a game his team won by 40 or more points.
- 30:15Speaker 1: Is that too much or not enough?
- 30:19Speaker 4: I believe that is not enough.
- 30:25Speaker 1: All right. Alex says not enough. That is correct. It
- 30:27Speaker 1: was the 17th time. Been a lot of teams taking
- 30:30Speaker 1: nights off in the NBA. They show up, but they
- 30:32Speaker 1: ain't playing. Question number two. Each of the Raptors' last
- 30:38Speaker 1: 25 games in the regular season have been decided by
- 30:41Speaker 1: more than five points. That's the Toronto Raptors. Mr. Red
- 30:47Speaker 1: Baron Man, is that too much or not enough? Too much.
- 30:51Speaker 1: All right. Is that too much? Got that one wrong, Smarty.
- 30:57Speaker 1: Did not do very well. Not enough is the answer.
- 31:01Speaker 1: Their last 32 games have been decided by more than
- 31:04Speaker 1: five points. That is the third longest streak in NBA history.
- 31:08Speaker 1: You imagine somebody's job is to keep track of this crap?
- 31:11Speaker 1: My God.
- 31:12Speaker 3: All right.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Let's probably just use a supercomputer now. Question number three
- 31:18Speaker 1: for the Red Baron. There are only seven. I think
- 31:21Speaker 1: that's a good nickname. Do you like that nickname?
- 31:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that nickname.
- 31:24Speaker 4: All right, we'll.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Call you the Red Baron. There are only seven active
- 31:28Speaker 1: wide receivers that have 9,000 career receiving yards. Is that
- 31:34Speaker 1: too much or not enough, Mr. Red Baron? Too much.
- 31:40Speaker 1: All right, let's find out. That is correct. Look at you.
- 31:44Speaker 1: There are only five... And three of them now play
- 31:47Speaker 1: for the 49ers. Mike Evans, Brandon Cooks, and Keenan Allen
- 31:53Speaker 1: all together there in Santa Clara. And Eileen is very
- 31:56Speaker 1: happy about that in San Francisco. Big fan of the show.
- 31:59Speaker 1: Question number four, Red Baron. You get this right, and
- 32:02Speaker 1: you'll be smiling all day delivering those pizzas. Here we go.
- 32:07Speaker 1: There are six active players in the National Basketball Association
- 32:12Speaker 1: who have 130-point games totaled. that resulted in a loss.
- 32:18Speaker 1: Is that too much or not enough to win the game?
- 32:24Speaker 3: Not enough.
- 32:26Speaker 1: You sure about that?
- 32:28Speaker 3: Too much.
- 32:30Speaker 1: Final answer? Final answer. All right, let's find out. Did
- 32:35Speaker 1: I help the Red Baron or did I F him over?
- 32:36Speaker 1: Let's find out. That's a winner! Look at you. I
- 32:41Speaker 1: kind of like that nickname, Red Baron, so I gave
- 32:43Speaker 1: you a salad. I gave you a good mitzvah. Too much.
- 32:45Speaker 1: There's only four that have lost 30-point games, 130-point games
- 32:53Speaker 1: resulting in losses. That is LeBron, Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard,
- 32:59Speaker 1: and Devin Booker. Well, congratulations on It doesn't really help
- 33:04Speaker 1: me out because I know you'll call up and bust
- 33:05Speaker 1: my balls. But you got a golden ticket, Mr. Red
- 33:08Speaker 1: Baron Man. So congratulations, Alex. Congratulations.
- 33:11Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 33:13Speaker 1: And now this is the part I hang up on you.
- 33:15Speaker 1: And then I have to because I have to give
- 33:17Speaker 1: Lorraine a time because we need questions. So you understand.
- 33:21Speaker 1: It's not you. It's the clock by the clock for
- 33:24Speaker 1: the clock.
- 33:24Speaker 2: Is it already time for love? You love love, too.
- 33:33Speaker 1: You know depends on the day anyway all right so
- 33:36Speaker 1: if you want to send a question in hashtag queen
- 33:38Speaker 1: of arts we haven't had a guy call in i
- 33:40Speaker 1: mean women are free to call there's like four women
- 33:43Speaker 1: listening to the show but uh you're free to call
- 33:45Speaker 1: in if you want to get on the air and
- 33:46Speaker 1: ask a question it'll be painless 877-99 on fox or
- 33:49Speaker 1: blind scott is banned from the show Anyone else is
- 33:57Speaker 1: more than able to call the show at 877-99 on Fox.
- 34:02Speaker 1: We'll get to all that, and we will do it next.
- 34:07Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
- 34:09Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
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- 34:54Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Exciting and
- 35:02Speaker 1: new Queen of hearts She wants to talk to you
- 35:13Speaker 1: Lorena Soon she'll be making your heart beat more Lorena.
- 35:30Speaker 2: It's true.
- 35:31Speaker 4: Love is out there for anyone. You just have to
- 35:33Speaker 4: get outside and find it.
- 35:36Speaker 2: Or online.
- 35:38Speaker 1: Yeah, so you don't actually have to go outside. I've
- 35:41Speaker 1: seen a.
- 35:41Speaker 4: Couple people who have successful online marriages and love lives.
- 35:45Speaker 2: It can happen.
- 35:46Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I think most people these days probably meet
- 35:50Speaker 1: on apps and things like that, right?
- 35:52Speaker 2: Yeah, I've tried it a couple of times. It just
- 35:55Speaker 2: never works out. I'm more of a I-gotta-meet-you-in-person type of gal.
- 35:59Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're more of a social... You're not an introvert.
- 36:03Speaker 1: You're an extrovert. So for you, it's not a big deal, right?
- 36:07Speaker 1: You'd rather do that.
- 36:08Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, I can meet people anywhere.
- 36:10Speaker 1: A lot of people that are introverts or kind of
- 36:14Speaker 1: on the spectrum.
- 36:15Speaker 2: Sometimes I even meet people when I'm on a date.
- 36:17Speaker 2: It's crazy.
- 36:18Speaker 1: That's a term for that, but... What's the line, Coop?
- 36:25Speaker 1: You got to dance with the one that brought you
- 36:27Speaker 1: or something like that? That's an old football line, actually.
- 36:30Speaker 1: That's a Texas football coach, I think.
- 36:33Speaker 2: Was that back in the dinosaur days, Ben?
- 36:36Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, I'm a dinosaur. That was my dinosaur nose. Yeah,
- 36:43Speaker 1: that's it. That's the quote. Dance with the one that
- 36:47Speaker 1: brought you. That is Daryl Royal, the old coach at Texas,
- 36:51Speaker 1: came up with that. All right, here we go.
- 36:52Speaker 6: Ben, I have a question from somebody that called in
- 36:54Speaker 6: and did not want to be on the air.
- 36:56Speaker 1: All right, here we go. What's your question?
- 36:58Speaker 6: It was, I don't know if I was supposed to
- 37:00Speaker 6: say who asked me the question, or asked the question,
- 37:03Speaker 6: or wants to ask Lorena. He said that, is it
- 37:07Speaker 6: a bad approach or is it a good approach to
- 37:10Speaker 6: try and pick up on a woman by giving her
- 37:13Speaker 6: his phone number rather than asking for hers?
- 37:17Speaker 4: I love that approach because it puts the power in
- 37:20Speaker 4: the female's hands, right? So sometimes I don't like giving
- 37:23Speaker 4: out my number because you're just going to pester me.
- 37:26Speaker 4: And if I give you the wrong number, there's a
- 37:28Speaker 4: chance you're going to call me out on the spot.
- 37:30Speaker 4: So by giving your number, you're leaving the cards in
- 37:33Speaker 4: her hands.
- 37:33Speaker 1: That's a terrible idea. You're never going to get a
- 37:37Speaker 1: call back. So don't even bother. You might as well
- 37:38Speaker 1: not even waste your time.
- 37:40Speaker 2: It depends on who you are. You could get a
- 37:41Speaker 2: call back. Let's be optimistic here.
- 37:44Speaker 1: All right. Let's see here. Anonymous wrote in. Oh, man,
- 37:50Speaker 1: this is a long question, Anonymous. I want to read it,
- 37:54Speaker 1: but it's very long.
- 37:55Speaker 2: You got a shorthand version?
- 37:57Speaker 1: I'm trying to do this on the fly, and it's
- 37:59Speaker 1: like a whole paragraph... I might have to wait on that.
- 38:03Speaker 1: FergDog says, how was your weekend, Lorena? I noticed Anthony
- 38:07Speaker 1: asked Ben but forgot to ask you. Great question, FergDog.
- 38:10Speaker 4: He did ask me when I answered his phone call
- 38:13Speaker 4: the first time. And my weekend was amazing. I went
- 38:16Speaker 4: to the Magic Castle for the first time, which is
- 38:19Speaker 4: why I wasn't here Sunday into Monday. Because I was
- 38:21Speaker 4: at the Magic Castle until 1 in the morning, 1.30
- 38:24Speaker 4: in the morning.
- 38:25Speaker 2: It was fantastic. I love magic.
- 38:28Speaker 1: And great food. I'm a big fan of magic. Thanks
- 38:32Speaker 1: for the invite. I appreciate that. Michael in Tulsa writes in, says,
- 38:35Speaker 1: when looking into someone's eyes, at what point do you
- 38:39Speaker 1: actually see the actual color of their eyes?
- 38:43Speaker 2: I hate eye contact. I just never make eye contact.
- 38:46Speaker 2: and it's funny because part.
- 38:47Speaker 1: Of love i thought women love.
- 38:49Speaker 4: Looking yeah no even when i'm like in the process
- 38:52Speaker 4: of like you know i'll keep my eyes closed i
- 38:56Speaker 4: don't i do not make eye contact it is so
- 38:58Speaker 4: bad i've had men be like look at me and
- 39:00Speaker 4: i'm like no.
- 39:07Speaker 2: Like i'm like like this.
- 39:09Speaker 1: Well, Coop explained there's an industry over in Chatsworth where
- 39:12Speaker 1: that's required, I think, not to take eye contact. But anyway,
- 39:18Speaker 1: JT the Wingman writes in, says, in an attempt to
- 39:22Speaker 1: up my ladies' man game before the holidays, which Malheur
- 39:26Speaker 1: Militia member should I emulate more, Robbie the Mariner fan,
- 39:30Speaker 1: Ferg Dog, Marcel in Brooklyn, Anthony in Louisiana, Jed Who Fled,
- 39:34Speaker 1: or Weed Man Hippie?
- 39:36Speaker 4: I would go somewhere between Weed Man Hippie, Jed Who Fled,
- 39:42Speaker 4: and Anthony in Louisiana, because together you get a chill
- 39:47Speaker 4: guy who you know is attentive, Weed Man.
- 39:50Speaker 1: Well, Robbie's very attentive, too. I mean, I would say
- 39:52Speaker 1: Robbie's very attentive, but you know.
- 39:54Speaker 4: Okay, well, you know, I haven't had a whole lot
- 39:56Speaker 4: of interaction with Robbie on the phone.
- 39:58Speaker 1: Didn't you meet him in Vegas? He was in Vegas.
- 39:59Speaker 4: Yes, yes. But as for like callers that I know,
- 40:03Speaker 4: Anthony's a romantic. He's like, I'm going to take you
- 40:05Speaker 4: to a restaurant. I'm going to feed you a blooming onion.
- 40:07Speaker 4: And he always checks on your weekend. So also very attentive.
- 40:10Speaker 4: And then you have Jed, who's like, I could love
- 40:13Speaker 4: you up and down and side to side and over
- 40:14Speaker 4: and under.
- 40:15Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
- 40:15Speaker 4: So like, I feel like the combination of those three
- 40:18Speaker 4: would be perfect.
- 40:20Speaker 1: So that's what you're. Yeah.
- 40:22Speaker 2: Don't just pick one.
- 40:23Speaker 1: You can have multiples. All right. Well, look at the time, Lorraine.
- 40:27Speaker 2: Oh, is it already timed?
- 40:29Speaker 1: Another edition of the Queen of Hearts right there.
- 40:32Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
- 40:33Speaker 1: By the clock, for the clock, all about the clock.