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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yabba-dabba-doo, and how do you do? It's hour number two. Well,
- 0:08Speaker 1: the Raiders head coach caught in a kerfluffle as we
- 0:12Speaker 1: begin hour two here on this Thursday, the 10th day
- 0:14Speaker 1: of September. Give me your reaction to the silver and
- 0:18Speaker 1: black coach, Clint Kubiak, speaking with a forked tongue on
- 0:20Speaker 1: the injury to tight end Brock Bowers. who had had
- 0:25Speaker 1: an operation the day before. You wouldn't have known that
- 0:27Speaker 1: if you had listened to Clint Kubiak, though. The alleged
- 0:30Speaker 1: victim in former Steelers star Antonio Brown's second-degree attempted murder
- 0:34Speaker 1: case has decided not to participate. Why the change of heart?
- 0:41Speaker 1: What do you think that's all about? And we go
- 0:44Speaker 1: to the boob tube. Why not? How do you decode
- 0:46Speaker 1: the latest comments by Mike Tomlin of NBC on his future...
- 0:53Speaker 1: In the NFL, we'll go there as well as we
- 0:55Speaker 1: do the Mallarmambo in our number two. Liar, liar, pants
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- 2:58Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, we'll get back to the
- 3:01Speaker 1: lid lifter on the NFL season as the Seattle football
- 3:06Speaker 1: team getting help from the 12th man. As Drek May,
- 3:10Speaker 1: three interceptions in a row to close the game.
- 3:13Speaker 3: Interception.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Interception. Interception, interception, turn at the lights, the party's over. Yeah,
- 3:24Speaker 1: that's it. So the Seahawks, yet again, not all that great,
- 3:29Speaker 1: but they end up getting the win as they get
- 3:33Speaker 1: some help there from the 12th man, Drek May, getting
- 3:38Speaker 1: her done, getting her done. I was going to point
- 3:40Speaker 1: this out last hour. I did not point it out
- 3:42Speaker 1: last hour. That's a bad job by me. But did
- 3:45Speaker 1: you know the Drek effect? The Drek effect. So the
- 3:48Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, in these last two matchups against the Patriots,
- 3:53Speaker 1: the Seahawks have now scored more points off Drake May
- 3:57Speaker 1: turnovers in two games. They scored 27 total points in
- 4:00Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and this game off Drek May turnovers
- 4:04Speaker 1: than the Patriots have scored in total. The Patriots have
- 4:08Speaker 1: 23 points in those two games combined, and the Seattle
- 4:12Speaker 1: football team, thanks to the generosity of Mayday, Mayday, Mayday,
- 4:17Speaker 1: 27 points. The Seattle offense, without Drake May interceptions, without
- 4:22Speaker 1: the Drek, they ended up getting a grand total of
- 4:26Speaker 1: three points. But I got to hear all this propaganda about, oh,
- 4:29Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense was so good.
- 4:31Speaker 3: Okay.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Well, if you throw the ball to the other team,
- 4:35Speaker 1: just hush down, okay? But our lead, we're going to
- 4:39Speaker 1: go to Vegas because I saw this story and I thought, oh,
- 4:41Speaker 1: my God, this is so good. This is so good.
- 4:45Speaker 1: And it does not necessarily directly involve Brock Bowers, basically.
- 4:49Speaker 1: It's about him, but it's not about him. So let
- 4:51Speaker 1: me explain. So Brock Bowers is the only player worth
- 4:54Speaker 1: watching on the Raiders. All the other players blow, and
- 4:56Speaker 1: the ones that don't blow suck. So the Raiders star
- 4:59Speaker 1: tight end Brock Bowers underwent a meniscus trim, trim trim
- 5:05Speaker 1: trim trim trim trim trim that happened on tuesday in
- 5:08Speaker 1: dallas suffered the injury during training camp hours expected to
- 5:12Speaker 1: be out a couple of weeks he'll miss the opener
- 5:15Speaker 1: of the season here against the miami dolphins so you
- 5:18Speaker 1: may have heard about that perhaps not the bigger story
- 5:21Speaker 1: though to me is how the Raiders handled the news.
- 5:25Speaker 1: In one of the all-time F-ups you could possibly have
- 5:29Speaker 1: as a head coach, Clint Kubiak, who already looks like
- 5:32Speaker 1: he's in over his head. That didn't take very long.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Another terrible hire by Tom Brady. Where have we seen
- 5:39Speaker 1: that before? I'm not impressed so far with Clint Kubiak.
- 5:43Speaker 1: So Clint Kubiak said on Wednesday... Quote, we're expecting to
- 5:48Speaker 1: have all of our guys ready for Sunday. He was
- 5:51Speaker 1: asked about Max Crosby and Brock Bowers. He said, we're
- 5:53Speaker 1: expecting to have all of our guys ready for Sunday. Now,
- 5:57Speaker 1: Bowers had undergone surgery the day before. The day before,
- 6:03Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak said, we expect to have all of our
- 6:06Speaker 1: guys ready for Sunday. Obviously, raising questions about the credibility
- 6:12Speaker 1: and the integrity of Clint Kubiak as a man... and
- 6:17Speaker 1: why he suggested that Bowers would be available when he
- 6:20Speaker 1: obviously had no chance of playing in the game against
- 6:23Speaker 1: the Miami football team. So that is a good jumping
- 6:26Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Give me your
- 6:32Speaker 1: reaction to Raiders coach Clint Kubiak speaking with a forked
- 6:37Speaker 1: tongue on tight end Brent uh bowers there brock bowers
- 6:42Speaker 1: who's brent i don't know who brent brock bowers and
- 6:45Speaker 1: his injury so i've got hula hoops pistachio cream and
- 6:52Speaker 1: homecoming dance and we will combine all of these things
- 6:57Speaker 1: together and we are going to play rock paper scissors
- 7:00Speaker 1: that's what we're going to play but we always start
- 7:02Speaker 1: out even in dark days when you're Attacked by a cockroach.
- 7:05Speaker 1: We always start out with number one.
- 7:08Speaker 3: Number one.
- 7:09Speaker 1: One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Number one.
- 7:14Speaker 1: All right. So Brock Bauer. All right. Stop. Brock Bowers
- 7:18Speaker 1: did not walk into Lowry's and say, hey, can you
- 7:22Speaker 1: use that knife at the carving station and trim the
- 7:26Speaker 1: meniscus like it's a nice piece of roast beef? Could you? No,
- 7:29Speaker 1: he didn't do that. You don't just randomly walk in
- 7:33Speaker 1: and have a meniscus operation unless you're in a car accident.
- 7:37Speaker 1: You don't just end up flying into Dallas getting an
- 7:40Speaker 1: operation like it's a wrong turn trying to find a Starbucks.
- 7:45Speaker 1: It's just so good. And yet Clint Kubiak served the
- 7:52Speaker 1: media a Vegas buffet of bologna. Ba-ba-ba-baloney. So there he was,
- 8:00Speaker 1: the Raider coach. That's a temp job, being coach of
- 8:03Speaker 1: the Raiders. Kubiak jumping through hula hoops with the injury report,
- 8:08Speaker 1: ensuring the truth never made it through. That truth hula
- 8:14Speaker 1: hoop never happened. Never happened. There were roughly ten ways,
- 8:19Speaker 1: ten ways, ten clean ways that Clint Kubiak, the coach
- 8:23Speaker 1: of the Raiders, could have answered the questions about his
- 8:27Speaker 1: star players, and instead he chose Pinocchio, capital P, Pinocchio,
- 8:33Speaker 1: for a self-proclaimed member of the God Squad. And we
- 8:37Speaker 1: hear a lot about that from Clint Kubiak. Good for him.
- 8:39Speaker 1: He's part of the God Squad. He clearly skipped the
- 8:42Speaker 1: chapter that said, Thou shall not lie. He must have
- 8:46Speaker 1: missed that one. And this was not gamesmanship. This was
- 8:51Speaker 1: a slow drive down, not Las Vegas Boulevard. It's a
- 8:57Speaker 1: little cutoff street there. Lye Boulevard. It's right next to Tropicana.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Lye Boulevard. Just say, I'm not discussing injuries. The injury
- 9:07Speaker 1: report will be out later. Why make yourself look... Does
- 9:13Speaker 1: he not know that people keep track of this stuff
- 9:16Speaker 1: and they take notes and whatnot? And keep in mind,
- 9:19Speaker 1: 20 years ago, this would have just been cute and
- 9:21Speaker 1: you would have been like, OK, that's funny, you know,
- 9:24Speaker 1: and all that. But we live in the age where
- 9:29Speaker 1: the NFL is a conduit to the sports book. They're
- 9:32Speaker 1: in business with the bookies. The NFL is a business
- 9:36Speaker 1: partner with the gamblers. And I'm a gambler. So that's
- 9:40Speaker 1: just the way it is. And in 2026, hiding gambling data,
- 9:47Speaker 1: it's not just some kind of coaching trick anymore when
- 9:51Speaker 1: it comes to injuries. It is a full-blown integrity issue.
- 9:57Speaker 1: And it's a findable offense. for Kubiak. It's not the
- 10:01Speaker 1: first time he's done this. He hasn't even coached a
- 10:03Speaker 1: real game with the Raiders yet. And the Ashton Genting
- 10:07Speaker 1: thing where they had a prayer circle around him because
- 10:10Speaker 1: of a high ankle sprain. And now you've got Brock Bowers,
- 10:15Speaker 1: the tight end of the Raiders, who the day before
- 10:18Speaker 1: was in Dallas having his meniscus trimmed like a piece
- 10:21Speaker 1: of beef at Lowry's. And the day after, Clint Kubiak's like, well,
- 10:25Speaker 1: we got all our guys. We think we'll have all
- 10:26Speaker 1: our guys. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum. Now, speaking of dum-da-dum-dum-dum, we go to
- 10:32Speaker 1: the courthouse, and an old friend is back, Antonio Brown.
- 10:37Speaker 1: You see this?
- 10:39Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:40Speaker 1: So Antonio Brown in a whole lot of trouble, and
- 10:45Speaker 1: he's in a little less trouble now. The alleged victim
- 10:49Speaker 1: of the former NFL player, Mr. Big Chest there, Antonio Brown,
- 10:54Speaker 1: who is facing attempted murder charges, Antonio Brown, attempted murder charges.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Now that the person who is the alleged victim says
- 11:04Speaker 1: he no longer wants to participate in the prosecution there
- 11:08Speaker 1: in South Florida. with his attorney calling it a, quote,
- 11:11Speaker 1: deeply personal decision to forgive Antonio Brown over what happened.
- 11:18Speaker 1: That was back in May of 2025 in Miami. It
- 11:22Speaker 1: was a wild and wacky weekend there for Antonio Brown. Now,
- 11:25Speaker 1: Brown's attorney, what do you think he's saying? So Brown's
- 11:29Speaker 1: attorney hopes that prosecutors, of course, will drop the case.
- 11:34Speaker 1: that's it just drop the case uh though he does
- 11:37Speaker 1: not expect a immediate dismissal for antonio brown brown is
- 11:41Speaker 1: 38 now he has claimed through his attorneys that he's
- 11:46Speaker 1: innocent he is seeking dismissal under florida's stand your ground
- 11:52Speaker 1: law if convicted antonio brown facing Up to 30 years
- 12:01Speaker 1: in prison. Now, the number that you have to worry
- 12:04Speaker 1: about is not the 30 years because it's always up to.
- 12:07Speaker 1: It's got some wiggle room. It's the 20-year mandatory minimum
- 12:13Speaker 1: that one has to worry about. That's the guarantee. You
- 12:17Speaker 1: get convicted, you're going to jail for 20 years. Antonio
- 12:20Speaker 1: Brown won't be out. They haven't gotten trial yet. But
- 12:22Speaker 1: he wouldn't be out until he's almost, do the math
- 12:25Speaker 1: on that, almost 60. Yeah, so there you go. Question.
- 12:31Speaker 1: We know the alleged victim in the former Steelers star
- 12:36Speaker 1: Antonio Brown second-degree murder, attempted murder, attempted murder case is okay. Listen,
- 12:43Speaker 1: I've decided to not participate in the case. We know
- 12:45Speaker 1: that's going on. So the alleged victim of this Antonio
- 12:48Speaker 1: Brown second-degree attempted murder case deciding not to participate. Why
- 12:54Speaker 1: the change of heart? Now, let me preface this with
- 12:58Speaker 1: a qualifier. We don't know whether Nickel changed hands or not. However,
- 13:05Speaker 1: you're allowed to notice the sudden outbreak of compassion is
- 13:10Speaker 1: awfully convenient for Antonio Brown. It does make you wonder
- 13:14Speaker 1: what's going on behind the curtain. And I've known, and
- 13:17Speaker 1: we all know, it's one of the things about being human.
- 13:19Speaker 1: We all have a price. Everyone has a price. And apparently...
- 13:25Speaker 1: Forgiveness now comes with a suggested retail price, retail value. Somewhere,
- 13:31Speaker 1: I imagine, at least in my head, that cartoon bubble
- 13:34Speaker 1: in my head, there's a let's make a deal money
- 13:37Speaker 1: booth with imaginary $ 100 bills swirling around while everyone insists
- 13:45Speaker 1: there's nothing interesting to see here. So Brown, he ends
- 13:49Speaker 1: up going and spending six months eating Dubai chocolates with
- 13:53Speaker 1: extra pistachio cream. Remember when he was on the lam
- 13:57Speaker 1: in Dubai and then he came back and now he's
- 13:59Speaker 1: facing a 20 years minimum if convicted. That's the minimum,
- 14:06Speaker 1: 20 years in prison. And suddenly he discovers the joys
- 14:11Speaker 1: of charitable living and giving again. It's amazing what a
- 14:16Speaker 1: couple of decades in the who's gal can do for
- 14:20Speaker 1: your portfolio of generosity. So we'd love to see the
- 14:25Speaker 1: itemized receipt for this great spiritual awakening by Antonio Brown.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Now the problem is the alleged victim can forgive Antonio
- 14:35Speaker 1: Brown all he wants. He doesn't have the power though
- 14:39Speaker 1: to pardon him. It just makes things more difficult for
- 14:41Speaker 1: the prosecution. Prosecutors don't have to kind of pack up
- 14:46Speaker 1: everything and leave the courthouse and say that's it, because
- 14:50Speaker 1: all of this has been documented on cell phone cameras,
- 14:54Speaker 1: and there's a lot of different angles of it, a
- 14:56Speaker 1: lot of different angles of what happened that night in Miami.
- 14:59Speaker 1: So forgiveness might close the victim's playbook, but it does
- 15:05Speaker 1: not close the state's case, and the state does not,
- 15:10Speaker 1: from what we understand, accept coupons. Antonio Brown, he's... buddies
- 15:15Speaker 1: with the president. Maybe the president makes a phone call
- 15:18Speaker 1: on behalf of Antonio Brown and says, hey, help my
- 15:22Speaker 1: guy out a little bit. All right, final point. To
- 15:25Speaker 1: the boob tube we go, and that is where Mike
- 15:28Speaker 1: Tomlin was over there on NBC, and he mispronounced Jackson, Smith,
- 15:35Speaker 1: and Jigba, which upset a few people. God forbid you
- 15:40Speaker 1: don't speak the king's language, but I thought Tomlin was fine.
- 15:43Speaker 1: I enjoy his work. Much better than some of those
- 15:46Speaker 1: other stooges he's around. Anyway, Mike Tomlin not ruling out
- 15:50Speaker 1: a return to NFL coaching video at 11. This is
- 15:55Speaker 1: after leaving the Steelers and going over to television there
- 15:58Speaker 1: at NBC. Asked directly this week whether he might coach again,
- 16:03Speaker 1: Tomlin answered, quote, it's certainly not a 32-team league for me,
- 16:10Speaker 1: he said, but I've also learned to never say never.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Tomlin said he still loves the coach, including the profession's challenges,
- 16:20Speaker 1: developing young players, and the weekly seven-day competitive cycle. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 16:26Speaker 1: At the same time, though, Tomlin did say that he
- 16:29Speaker 1: has enjoyed the six months away from coaching and he
- 16:34Speaker 1: said the lifestyle on the other side that he previously
- 16:38Speaker 1: did not know. So the question, how do you decode...
- 16:44Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin's comments here on his NFL future. So Mike Tomlin,
- 16:51Speaker 1: the way I see it on this side of the microphone,
- 16:53Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is on a coaching sabbatical with NBC paying
- 17:00Speaker 1: for the books. They're paying for the textbooks here. It's
- 17:03Speaker 1: been whispered in hushed tones that Tomlin is following the
- 17:07Speaker 1: Sean Payton mantra. Remember Sean Payton? After a long run
- 17:12Speaker 1: in the bayou, he left the Saints. And then went
- 17:15Speaker 1: to Fox for a little bit. And then now he's
- 17:18Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncos. So I look at what Tomlin did.
- 17:22Speaker 1: It's like a dog whistle. He's sitting there like now
- 17:25Speaker 1: on TV. He's the prettiest girl at the homecoming dance,
- 17:29Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. All dolled up there, got all the makeup
- 17:32Speaker 1: on and all that. And there's a bunch of nervous owners,
- 17:36Speaker 1: these aristocrats. Watching from luxury suites, window shopping, every time
- 17:42Speaker 1: he's on NBC and every big game on Sunday night.
- 17:46Speaker 1: And Tomlin's just sitting there on the desk and he's
- 17:49Speaker 1: got this Svengali effect going. Not on the sidelines. You
- 17:53Speaker 1: put on that TV makeup. You put on the IFB
- 17:58Speaker 1: and you get the little microphone thingamajig there. And suddenly
- 18:01Speaker 1: everyone is hypnotized and mesmerized. They forget all the bad
- 18:08Speaker 1: stuff and all the teams that. in the playoffs for
- 18:13Speaker 1: Tomlin for so many years, and you overlooked that. Now, Tomlin,
- 18:16Speaker 1: what he did here is he cracked the door open
- 18:20Speaker 1: just enough, just enough to guarantee his name becomes a
- 18:25Speaker 1: fixture on the coaching carousel, which, oh, by the way,
- 18:28Speaker 1: it was going to be anyway. Every high-profile vacancy will
- 18:32Speaker 1: generate speculation until Tomlin He definitely says no. And the
- 18:36Speaker 1: only coach that I can recall who was as popular
- 18:40Speaker 1: as Tomlin, who didn't come back to coach, is Bill Cowher.
- 18:45Speaker 1: And that cursed every man, woman, and child that's watched CBS.
- 18:48Speaker 1: Cowher is not only on TV, he's terrible. Horrific. And
- 18:53Speaker 1: the fact that he's, I believe, still on CBS, and
- 18:56Speaker 1: Dungy was just as bad. They finally got rid of
- 18:58Speaker 1: Dungy over there at NBC, but my God. Anyway, Tomlin
- 19:03Speaker 1: isn't looking for just any job. Teams are going to
- 19:06Speaker 1: be auditioning for Mike Tomlin. For Mike Tomlin. Because he
- 19:10Speaker 1: has earned the right, considering his resume, to handpick the
- 19:15Speaker 1: groceries and the kitchen he wants to work in. And
- 19:20Speaker 1: he can handpick the restaurant manager. All of that stuff.
- 19:25Speaker 1: All of that stuff. It is the Ben Maller Show.
- 19:29Speaker 1: As we are rolling on here and still talk about that.
- 19:34Speaker 1: Game on Wednesday night as Seattle gets some help. They
- 19:37Speaker 1: certainly needed it. They weren't very good, but they got
- 19:39Speaker 1: some help. Sloppy performance. Poorly coached team, Seattle. But they
- 19:42Speaker 1: get the win thanks to Drake May's generosity. As we're
- 19:46Speaker 1: calling him now, Drek May. Because that, as we wax lyrical,
- 19:52Speaker 1: that was Drek. Absolute Drekky McDrek Drek. Oh, my God,
- 19:59Speaker 1: was that Drek. So bad. So, so bad. Anyway, we'll
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- 23:29Speaker 1: job by you. Let's go to the many witty people
- 23:33Speaker 1: that are listening to the show. Alf the Alien O'Piner says, Maller,
- 23:37Speaker 1: can you stop harping on the Patriots' choke job and
- 23:40Speaker 1: shift your focus to the Red Sox and how they
- 23:42Speaker 1: split the bit, or spit the bit, rather, against Coop's Angels?
- 23:48Speaker 1: The Baltimore Freeloader account says, I'm glad the New York
- 23:52Speaker 1: media got a taste of what's to come with Coach
- 23:55Speaker 1: John Harbaugh. These New York losers will find out the
- 23:59Speaker 1: hard way about asking stupid injury questions. Not everyone's Kubiak.
- 24:06Speaker 1: I understand they're not used to winning in New York,
- 24:10Speaker 1: and the city never sleeps unless there's tennis. Unless there's tennis.
- 24:15Speaker 1: Everyone's sleeping. I did enjoy the people complaining. I call
- 24:22Speaker 1: them the night sleeper people. that they're not like us,
- 24:25Speaker 1: they sleep at night, and they were so upset. It
- 24:27Speaker 1: was so good. I couldn't read enough of those angry comments.
- 24:31Speaker 1: I love tennis. I can't believe you used to play
- 24:35Speaker 1: tennis till 3.30 in the morning. What's wrong with you?
- 24:39Speaker 1: What is wrong with you? Scrooge writes in, says, I'm
- 24:43Speaker 1: protesting the Who Am I game from last hour. Anyone
- 24:47Speaker 1: who said cockroach got the answer correct. Kyler Murray is
- 24:50Speaker 1: the size of a cockroach. and plays dead whenever he
- 24:54Speaker 1: steps onto a football field. Well, okay, fair enough. Analog Al,
- 25:00Speaker 1: your complaint, Scrooge, duly noted. Analog Al writes in, says
- 25:06Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Pittsburgh won against Seattle, I believe was
- 25:10Speaker 1: rigged for that jerk Bill Cowher to get a ring
- 25:12Speaker 1: because he was retiring. Yeah, that was atrocious. That was
- 25:17Speaker 1: in Detroit, I believe, right? The Seattle-Detroit Super Bowl. And
- 25:22Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger was, I believe it was Roethlisberger. He was terrible, right?
- 25:27Speaker 1: That was a horrible performance by him, if I remember correctly. Long,
- 25:31Speaker 1: long ago. Chip and the Cues writes in. And he
- 25:34Speaker 1: had one of the first Malheur meetings, me and Chip
- 25:37Speaker 1: and Dale. and there was a professor from Syracuse, and
- 25:40Speaker 1: my brother was there. We all got together there at
- 25:42Speaker 1: a restaurant in Syracuse. Chip in the Q's writes in, says,
- 25:45Speaker 1: A plus on the Mallard monologue. I wonder if some
- 25:47Speaker 1: crazy Pittsburgh fan, maybe someone named Pete perhaps, got a
- 25:52Speaker 1: hold of the victim in the Antonio Brown case and
- 25:55Speaker 1: told him it would be wise to forgive A.B. or
- 25:59Speaker 1: face the wrath of Steeler Nation. Yeah, but Chip, do
- 26:05Speaker 1: you think the Steeler fans are really that tight with
- 26:07Speaker 1: Antonio Brown anymore? I feel like they had a fair
- 26:10Speaker 1: falling out, a pretty large falling out. Analog Al also says,
- 26:14Speaker 1: listen to on Westwood One tonight, Kevin Harlan and Kurt Orner,
- 26:18Speaker 1: another year of greatness. And Kevin Harlan, I met him
- 26:22Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl a couple years back, the great
- 26:24Speaker 1: Kevin Harlan. I was flattered. He is a listener to
- 26:27Speaker 1: the show. He flies back after those Monday night games
- 26:30Speaker 1: and Thursday or whatever. I guess he has to normally
- 26:32Speaker 1: Monday night, and he did this game on Wednesday, and
- 26:34Speaker 1: he'll fly in. Lives in the Kansas City area, and
- 26:37Speaker 1: we're on the radio there, and he'll listen on his
- 26:41Speaker 1: ride home. So he's a fan. I thought he was
- 26:44Speaker 1: blowing smoke up Mike Tuckus, but he knew stuff about
- 26:47Speaker 1: the show. I was flattered. Good for my ego. I
- 26:51Speaker 1: appreciate that. All right, let's go take some calls here.
- 26:52Speaker 1: It is a call-in show, as we'll take your calls
- 26:55Speaker 1: at 877-99 on Fox. That's 877-996-6369. Got off to a
- 26:56Speaker 1: riveting start with our guy.
- 27:06Speaker 1: Hollering James last hour. Let's go to Spencer, who's in
- 27:09Speaker 1: the Valley of the Sun, and he is up next.
- 27:12Speaker 1: He's been hanging on for a while. He's got some
- 27:14Speaker 1: Seahawk propaganda. Hello, Spencer. Welcome, Spencer. What's going on with you? Hey,
- 27:20Speaker 1: my friend. I really appreciate it.
- 27:22Speaker 2: I've listened to you for.
- 27:23Speaker 4: A long time. You're one of the most entertaining people
- 27:25Speaker 4: out there. The cynicism is as deep as it could
- 27:29Speaker 4: possibly get, and... You get most everything right, but I
- 27:33Speaker 4: kind of feel like maybe you haven't played football ever
- 27:36Speaker 4: in your life. Could you answer that question?
- 27:38Speaker 1: Have you played football? So just for the record, you
- 27:42Speaker 1: have decided to start with, that's called the dabble. We
- 27:45Speaker 1: call that the dabble. That's what Dabble Sweeney did at
- 27:48Speaker 1: Clemson when somebody called him out on his bull crap.
- 27:51Speaker 1: he immediately said, did you play football? That's what you're
- 27:54Speaker 1: starting with. That's what you're starting with. That's your opening line.
- 28:00Speaker 1: That's what you're beginning with.
- 28:02Speaker 4: Talking to, that's fair, isn't it? I don't think they
- 28:05Speaker 4: know who it is.
- 28:07Speaker 1: I have talked about the NFL for longer than you've
- 28:10Speaker 1: probably been alive. So I think it's probably okay. I
- 28:17Speaker 1: think we're probably okay. But if you want to check
- 28:20Speaker 1: the resume, feel free to check the resume.
- 28:22Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 28:22Speaker 1: Tell me. Didn't I play for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Coop?
- 28:26Speaker 1: Remember when I played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers back
- 28:28Speaker 1: in the day? Do you remember that? Oh, yeah.
- 28:30Speaker 3: It was a good time.
- 28:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 28:33Speaker 1: There used to be a team called the Edmonton Eskimos.
- 28:35Speaker 1: I might not have played with them, or maybe I did.
- 28:37Speaker 1: I don't know. No idea. What's your point? Go to
- 28:41Speaker 1: your point. Go to your point. Go ahead. What's your point?
- 28:44Speaker 4: Let me summarize. My point is that the reason that
- 28:48Speaker 4: the Seahawks defense is so good is because they baited
- 28:51Speaker 4: him all night, and they capitalized.
- 28:54Speaker 1: When he thought he was going to be a superstar.
- 28:57Speaker 4: You don't believe that. It's literally what football is, and
- 29:00Speaker 4: if you're a good safety and understood the game, then
- 29:03Speaker 4: you would understand what I'm saying.
- 29:07Speaker 1: That's why I asked you. You think that was a
- 29:09Speaker 1: good performance by the CLC?
- 29:12Speaker 4: Should we respond with the knowledge of being in the
- 29:16Speaker 4: game and understanding how it works?
- 29:19Speaker 2: So please answer the question, Coop, or.
- 29:22Speaker 1: All right, we've moved on from that. Do you think
- 29:26Speaker 1: that was a good performance by Seattle? All right, the
- 29:32Speaker 1: witness is choosing not to answer the question, so we'll
- 29:34Speaker 1: move on. The Seattle Seahawks had 10 penalties for 19.
- 29:48Speaker 1: And it wasn't baiting, dummy. Drake May threw. It wasn't
- 29:53Speaker 1: just the interception. There were other passes that should have
- 29:54Speaker 1: been intercepted. He was terrible the entire game. It wasn't
- 29:58Speaker 1: because of any magic pixie dust the Seattle Seahawks put
- 30:01Speaker 1: on Drake May. He was bad. I don't think he
- 30:06Speaker 1: completed a ball more than a few yards past the
- 30:09Speaker 1: line of scrimmage the entire game. It was just awful.
- 30:13Speaker 4: I agree with you entirely, almost everything, 99.9%. But what
- 30:19Speaker 4: you're missing is this is a marathon, not a sprint,
- 30:23Speaker 4: and the Seattle season started last year.
- 30:26Speaker 1: They were not dominant. I don't remember Drew Locke playing
- 30:29Speaker 1: most of the game last year. I'll have to go
- 30:31Speaker 1: back and check my notes. I don't recall that happening.
- 30:34Speaker 2: If you played football, you would know that. Okay.
- 30:38Speaker 1: I'm sure you played a lot of professional football. I'm
- 30:40Speaker 1: sure you would. That's Meathead Guy. I'm going to mark
- 30:44Speaker 1: him down, Coop, on my notes here.
- 30:45Speaker 3: Good nickname, Meathead Guy.
- 30:47Speaker 1: I'm putting Meathead Guy Spencer.
- 30:52Speaker 3: Why don't you just, I mean, why don't you tell
- 30:54Speaker 3: him that you did play football? You did play football, though.
- 30:56Speaker 1: Didn't you? I did play, but it doesn't matter. I mean,
- 30:59Speaker 1: it's irrelevant. This is, this, you know, that guy is
- 31:03Speaker 1: an agenda caller guy.
- 31:05Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 31:05Speaker 1: There's a certain number of people that call the show.
- 31:08Speaker 1: There's insider guy. There's friend of the show guy. That guy, Spencer,
- 31:14Speaker 1: is he's he's like, hey, listen, you didn't play football.
- 31:19Speaker 1: I have an agenda. You know, you're wrong because you
- 31:21Speaker 1: didn't play. Yeah. I've got to tell you, I've heard
- 31:24Speaker 1: a lot of professional athletes on radio. Almost all of
- 31:26Speaker 1: them are terrible. So, I mean, you can listen to
- 31:28Speaker 1: those guys, and that's fine. But, I mean, there's maybe
- 31:31Speaker 1: a handful that are good. Most of them, they don't
- 31:33Speaker 1: know broadcasting. But you knock yourself out. It is the
- 31:37Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. So this U.S. Open going on, people
- 31:40Speaker 1: complaining and whining and all that stuff about the U.S. Open.
- 31:43Speaker 1: So the Buffalo Bills heiress there, the next in the
- 31:48Speaker 1: line of ownership there, I guess at some point if
- 31:51Speaker 1: the Bills stay where they are, Jessica Pagula will end
- 31:56Speaker 1: up owning the Bills, right, because the family owns the
- 31:59Speaker 1: team and all that stuff. Well, she's been playing in
- 32:02Speaker 1: the U.S. Open, and she got a wonderful message from
- 32:06Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Wonder why. Wonder why Josh Allen, who plays
- 32:13Speaker 1: for her dad, sent a message out. But the tennis media,
- 32:19Speaker 1: they love when mainstream sports people crossover into their world
- 32:25Speaker 1: and they're very happy about that and so Josh Allen
- 32:30Speaker 1: speaking with the media ahead of the season opening there
- 32:34Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills and he gave a shout out
- 32:37Speaker 1: to the owner's daughter yeah how about that expressed his
- 32:43Speaker 1: excitement about cheering for her so the tennis media obsessed
- 32:49Speaker 1: with that so it's oh my god that is so
- 32:52Speaker 1: good That is so good. We are going to have
- 32:54Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny for the Thursday night game in Melbourne, Australia.
- 33:00Speaker 1: Got the Rams and the 49ers, a couple of NFC
- 33:05Speaker 1: West rivals, thousands and thousands, 8,000 miles away or whatever
- 33:08Speaker 1: it is from the West Coast, and they'll be out
- 33:11Speaker 1: there playing some football at 1030 in the morning on Friday,
- 33:15Speaker 1: which will be 830 in the East on Thursday, 530
- 33:16Speaker 1: in the West. as the NFL season continues with game
- 33:23Speaker 1: number two. Time now, though, for the Insta trivia, as
- 33:28Speaker 1: we continue to poke fun at Drek May, the Patriots
- 33:33Speaker 1: quarterback who gave that game away for New England, handing
- 33:36Speaker 1: Seattle a win despite very sloppy, poorly coached football by
- 33:40Speaker 1: the Seattle football team. Patriots quarterback Drek May, the first
- 33:44Speaker 1: quarterback to throw three interceptions. in the fourth quarter of
- 33:49Speaker 1: a season opener with his team tied in the lead
- 33:53Speaker 1: or down by one score since at least 1991. So
- 33:58Speaker 1: Drake made the first quarterback to throw three interceptions in
- 34:00Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of a season opener with his team
- 34:02Speaker 1: tied in the lead or down by one score since
- 34:06Speaker 1: at least 1991. The only other players to do that
- 34:10Speaker 1: in any week going back to 2017, so pretty much
- 34:13Speaker 1: the last decade, are Sam Darnold, of course, because he sucks,
- 34:17Speaker 1: and blank. The only other players to do that in
- 34:19Speaker 1: any week since 2017 are Sam Darnold and blank. That
- 34:25Speaker 1: is the Insta trivia, the answer. We'll get to it,
- 34:28Speaker 1: and we will do it.
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- 34:35Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at FoxSportsRadio.com. And
- 34:40Speaker 2: within the iHeartRadio app, search FSR to listen live.
- 34:44Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. We thank
- 34:48Speaker 1: you for being part of the show. Don't forget, this
- 34:50Speaker 1: show is also on the YouTube. You can check out
- 34:54Speaker 1: Maller monologues and other features as they appear to the
- 34:59Speaker 1: naked eye right there. There's a camera. I know. It's
- 35:03Speaker 1: radio with a camera. What's up with that? Well, check
- 35:07Speaker 1: it out on YouTube at Ben Maller Show. That's at
- 35:10Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. It could change your life in amazing ways. Yeah,
- 35:18Speaker 1: I know. What are you talking about? Just check it out. Follow.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Click the doohickey on there, the gizmo, and then you'll
- 35:25Speaker 1: be able to follow along. And if you don't, you won't.
- 35:29Speaker 1: You'll miss out. It is the Ben Maller Show with
- 35:33Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny warming up. Here is the in-stock trivia.
- 35:38Speaker 1: Patriots quarterback Drake May is the first quarterback to throw
- 35:42Speaker 1: three interceptions in the fourth quarter of a season opener
- 35:46Speaker 1: with his team tied in the lead or down by
- 35:49Speaker 1: one score since at least 91. That seems like a
- 35:52Speaker 1: long time ago. The only other players to do that
- 35:56Speaker 1: in any week since 2017 are, of course, Sam Darnold.
- 36:00Speaker 1: That was in 2018. And blank. And blank. That is
- 36:05Speaker 1: the question. What is the answer? And what do we
- 36:09Speaker 1: got here? The Ginja Ninja from Not a Burner. Look
- 36:14Speaker 1: at that. He's the moon. I think it's Ginja Ninja. Oh,
- 36:18Speaker 1: is that what I mispronounced? What else do we have?
- 36:20Speaker 1: Tobin Frost from Ostrich Ant. Art Schleister from Doc Dan.
- 36:26Speaker 1: Page Dan Bigfoot. Guest by Alf the Alien O'Piner, devastated
- 36:33Speaker 1: by Drek May. Mr. Mr. Unlimited, Russell Wilson from JT
- 36:38Speaker 1: the Wingman. Mike the Leprechaun. Oh, that's good AI for
- 36:44Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun from Malapropguy. CJ Stroud, Yankee fan from Mr. Irrigation.
- 36:50Speaker 1: Viva Los Vicky says, buenos dias, man. What about Peter Brady?
- 36:57Speaker 1: He says, who else do we have? Nathan Peterman from
- 37:00Speaker 1: Georgia Boy. Page down. The Raid Roach Motel from Fat Daddy.
- 37:06Speaker 1: Marcus Russell from Ship in the Queues. Who else do
- 37:10Speaker 1: we have? Page down. I can't read that. All right,
- 37:14Speaker 1: do you have an answer? Lorena. Seth Rogen? Is it
- 37:19Speaker 1: Seth Rogen? Is that?
- 37:21Speaker 3: No.
- 37:22Speaker 1: It is Tua Tunga Bailoa.
- 37:24Speaker 4: That would be.
- 37:25Speaker 1: Last season in week 16. Tua Tunga Bailoa, then of
- 37:29Speaker 1: the Dolphins, now of the Falcons. Here we go. Let's
- 37:32Speaker 1: get to it.
- 37:33Speaker 2: Welcome, players.
- 37:34Speaker 1: You're welcome.
- 37:35Speaker 2: Are you up for more Malheur mayhem?
- 37:37Speaker 1: Yeah! It's time now with the Penny versus the Penny.
- 37:42Speaker 2: Woo!
- 37:43Speaker 1: Back where it all started many years ago. Benny versus
- 37:46Speaker 1: the Penny, our triumphant return to network radio after getting
- 37:50Speaker 1: a tease with that big TV money. Here we are.
- 37:53Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. It is the Thursday
- 37:55Speaker 1: night special here on the 10th of September. The 49ers
- 37:58Speaker 1: and the Rams, NFC West rivals. And they kick off
- 38:02Speaker 1: their seasons together 8,000 miles away in Melbourne, Australia. The
- 38:07Speaker 1: Rams on DraftKings, a three-and-a-half-point favorite team. And by the way,
- 38:14Speaker 1: the wait is over. Football's here, and so is DraftKings.
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- 38:20Speaker 1: every sport, all 50 states. Right now, use the promo
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- 38:28Speaker 1: So again, Rams, minus 3.5. Rams are the consensus with
- 38:32Speaker 1: the public. They are a popular pick by popular people.
- 38:35Speaker 1: Public betting leaning towards the Rams here as the public
- 38:39Speaker 1: buying into the media hype that the Rams will win
- 38:42Speaker 1: this game. and covered that 3.5, although it did open
- 38:48Speaker 1: closer to 2.5 and then moved because of all the
- 38:50Speaker 1: transactions the Rams made. The Sharps, on the other hand,
- 38:53Speaker 1: leaning towards the 49ers, and after a long analysis, I
- 38:58Speaker 1: am going to take, again, I like the Rams. The
- 39:01Speaker 1: Rams will win the game, but I'm going to take
- 39:02Speaker 1: the 49ers to cover the spread here. It's going to
- 39:05Speaker 1: take a little while to get that sink in sync
- 39:07Speaker 1: for Stafford and Puka Nakua and whatnot here, and so
- 39:10Speaker 1: these games are generally close divisional games. The 49ers are
- 39:14Speaker 1: healthy for the most part with Nick Bosa, George Kittle
- 39:18Speaker 1: and McCaffrey all in the lineup. And those guys will
- 39:22Speaker 1: be hurt as the season goes on. So they're all there.
- 39:24Speaker 1: It's mostly healthy versus mostly healthy. So I'm going to
- 39:28Speaker 1: take the three and a half points there. and i
- 39:30Speaker 1: will take the 49ers rams win niners cover the spread
- 39:34Speaker 1: and the penny picks here we go first time for
- 39:37Speaker 1: this ram 49er game in the air everywhere koopa loop
- 39:41Speaker 1: representing the penny what do we got.
- 39:43Speaker 3: Well, the Penny landed on tails, and if my memory serves,
- 39:46Speaker 3: that means the away team.
- 39:48Speaker 4: Yes.
- 39:48Speaker 3: So they, too.
- 39:49Speaker 1: They're both away teams, though.
- 39:51Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good point. But I think the Rams
- 39:53Speaker 3: are considered the home team, right?
- 39:55Speaker 1: Okay, so the 49ers? Yes. Well, there we go. We're
- 39:58Speaker 1: two games in. This is the second. Yesterday, the same
- 40:01Speaker 1: thing happened. So both like the Niners. Penny versus the Penny.