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Hour 3 - Back in Boone · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Bibbidi-boppidi-boo. It's our number three and a boom shakalaka. As
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  Speaker 1: we continue the Ben Maller Show podcast, what message are
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees sending on this Friday, October 9th? By keeping
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  Speaker 1: manager Aaron Boone. Multiple reports saying Boone will remain on
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  Speaker 1: as skipper in the Bronx. And where is this Yankee
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  Speaker 1: franchise heading next? very reminiscent to a certain NFL franchise.
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  Speaker 1: And Jazz Chisholm was confused by Yankee fans booing him
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  Speaker 1: during the playoffs. Who wants to explain to him what's
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  Speaker 1: going on? I'll do it. I'll do it. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that and more Big Ben's lame jokes. Here it is,
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  Speaker 1: our number three. Well, if you had Aaron Boone being
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  Speaker 1: whacked by the Yankees, it appears you are a loser.
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  Speaker 1: find my NFL games this weekend. What am I supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do? I said, don't worry. I got the answer.
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  Speaker 1: And what you do is, big week five in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: it's here, right? It's The big game. What is the
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  Speaker 1: and a nod to the Dallas Cowboys who got eliminated
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  Speaker 1: in terms of Week 5. They lost to kick off
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  Speaker 1: Week 5 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Ha, ha, ha. Boy.
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  Speaker 1: Bucs 0-4, tied for the worst record in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: coming in. They had an undrafted rookie quarterback starting who
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  Speaker 1: outplayed Dakota Prescott, the $ 60 million man. And a wild
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  Speaker 1: situation there. More on that later. Our lead this hour, though,
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  Speaker 1: from baseball. We go to the Bronx. We go down
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  Speaker 1: to the Bronx. The New York Yankees were tossed out
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  Speaker 1: of the playoff party by Tampa Bay earlier this week.
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  Speaker 1: So many speculated that that meant the manager of the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees was on the hot seat. In fact, I made
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  Speaker 1: my weekly radio appearance on my friend Bob Fesco's show
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas City, and his partner in crime there, Dusty,
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  Speaker 1: he was tossing out how Boone was going to be
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  Speaker 1: fired by the end of the weekend, and then they
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  Speaker 1: were going to bring in Albert Pujols and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And I snickered a little bit. I snickered a little bit. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out now, according to the latest scuttlebutt, Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Boone is going to be back. He's expected to return
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  Speaker 1: for the 2027 season, even though there won't be a
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  Speaker 1: 2027 season. More on that in a minute. We are
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  Speaker 1: told that the Yankees plan to retain their manager despite...
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  Speaker 1: Despite exiting stage left prematurely, Brian Cashman is also not
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere either. Why would he? He has lifetime employment.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees reportedly intend to retain everyone. No one's losing
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  Speaker 1: their job in terms of the heavy big-time players there
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  Speaker 1: with the Yankees. The longtime GM will remain. The longtime
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  Speaker 1: manager will remain. Cashman is described as, quote, really close
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  Speaker 1: with Aaron Boone. There are some questions being asked on
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  Speaker 1: the dark web whether or not they're a little too close.
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  Speaker 1: And that's influencing their relationship and why he keeps his job,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone, the reluctance to make changes. It's also a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: What message are the Yankees sending fans by keeping, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: manager Aaron Boone, if you believe the latest reporting? Boone's
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  Speaker 1: not going anywhere. So I've got WebMD, Ancestry, and PetSmartness.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to ride out the storm. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to ride out the storm. I know. It's crazy. It's
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  Speaker 1: a daily soap opera around these parts. So to lead
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  Speaker 1: off here, the Bronx Bombers have become the Bronx Almosters
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  Speaker 1: is what they've become. They're no longer the Bronx Bombers.
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  Speaker 1: They're the Bronx Almosters, perfecting the art of being good
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  Speaker 1: enough to To disappoint, but just good enough to disappoint.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees have a psychological disorder. And I punched it
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  Speaker 1: into the WebMD website. It may have been WebMD or
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  Speaker 1: a ripoff version of WebMD. The diagnosis came back contender satisfaction.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees are suffering from contender satisfaction. Now, what is that?
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  Speaker 1: That is a psychological condition. where they're confused that being
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  Speaker 1: invited to the party does not mean you're burning up
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  Speaker 1: the dance floor and you're winning. And Brian Cashman and
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  Speaker 1: the Yankee brass are addicted to the illusion of success,
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  Speaker 1: the appearance of success for the Yankees. Aaron Boone is
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  Speaker 1: his favorite enabler, and Brian Cashman views contention as proof
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  Speaker 1: of concept. You know, these nerds love proof of concept. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we make the playoffs. proof of concept of course the
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  Speaker 1: people that actually buy the tickets and watch the games
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  Speaker 1: on TV and all that they view championships as proof
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  Speaker 1: of concept not just making the playoffs but that's the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees that's the new Yankees the new world order for
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees in what other business in what other business
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  Speaker 1: do you get rewarded for nine years of failing to
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  Speaker 1: meet the core objective well I can't think of one
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  Speaker 1: Boone Aaron Boone must be doing what the Yankees want.
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  Speaker 1: By keeping Aaron Boone, you're announcing he's doing a good
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  Speaker 1: job and we're satisfied. We have contender satisfaction. That's the
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  Speaker 1: new world order for the New York Yankees. They're not rebuilding.
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  Speaker 1: They're not retooling. They're reheating the same leftovers and they're
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  Speaker 1: calling it a fresh meal. Piping hot fresh meal. And
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  Speaker 1: so it goes. Another October, another Yankee funeral, and another
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  Speaker 1: winter of Brian Cashman explaining why the deceased is actually
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  Speaker 1: in excellent health. It's all good. It's all good. All right, now, furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: keeping the beat going of the hour, much to the
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  Speaker 1: dismay of Jill, although Jill in Minnesota, she's a big
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  Speaker 1: Yankee fan, and our friend Supermarket Steve and a couple
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  Speaker 1: of these other guys, they love the Yankees, but they're
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  Speaker 1: like this. We can handle this. The Yankees deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be poked and prodded and all that. Even Uncle Mo's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: have at it. So let's go up to 30,000 feet
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  Speaker 1: and look down. Here's the question. Where is this Yankee
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  Speaker 1: franchise heading at this particular point? Where are they heading?
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  Speaker 1: So the most dangerous thing about the Yankees isn't that
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  Speaker 1: they've become the Cowboys, but It's that they don't appear
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  Speaker 1: to realize they're becoming the Dallas Cowboys. Dallas is at
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  Speaker 1: 31 years without a championship. 31 years without a championship.
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  Speaker 1: The New York Yankees are at 17. So I looked
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  Speaker 1: over at Ancestry.com, and it turns out that the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are not twins. However, they're starting to
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  Speaker 1: look like cousins, which I know makes Anthony... In Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: very happy. Hey, cuz. Yes, the Yankees used to laugh
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  Speaker 1: at the Dallas Cowboys. There was this arrogance by the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees when you'd bring up the Cowboys haven't won in forever,
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  Speaker 1: and they'd chuckle. Now they're following the same business model.
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  Speaker 1: The same business model they're following. Dallas, I'll give them credit.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, we talk about all the time. They lost again.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry's out there. Mr. Positivity, I'm going to go out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make a trade. All this stuff. All right?
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  Speaker 1: And so Dallas has perfected the art of selling yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees are working on their apprenticeship. Now, the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: have always sold past championships, but they've always been a
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  Speaker 1: contender and been in position to win another championship. And
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  Speaker 1: they're not really now a legitimate contender. And George Steinbrenner,
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  Speaker 1: the boss, they call him the boss, this guy, think
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  Speaker 1: about Steinbrenner, he built this entire baseball empire it was
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  Speaker 1: his obsession it was his life's work his urgency he'd
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  Speaker 1: fire managers after the world series because they didn't do
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  Speaker 1: a good enough job And so he lives his life.
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  Speaker 1: He dies. He passes on his life's work to the family.
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  Speaker 1: The heirs of George Steinbrenner inherit the keys, and they
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  Speaker 1: turn that championship hunger, that lust for another championship, into
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  Speaker 1: a part of the family portfolio, an investment managed by...
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  Speaker 1: People that are just looking for stability. That's what they want.
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  Speaker 1: That's the new world order for the Yankees. The Yankees
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  Speaker 1: are becoming the Dallas Cowboys. They are. And so all
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  Speaker 1: that work of George Steinbrenner, it's just crazy. George Steinbrenner
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  Speaker 1: treated losing like a personal insult. Hal Steinbrenner treats it
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  Speaker 1: like a minor inconvenience at a shareholders meeting. Pass the donuts.
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  Speaker 1: And Brian Cashman must be treated like royalty at these things.
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  Speaker 1: It's absolutely bananas. The Yankees lose if the old regime
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  Speaker 1: was there. The way they lost the World Series against
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, Aaron Boone would have been fired then. That
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  Speaker 1: fifth inning would have been his final game as Yankee manager.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at this right now, and you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: this loss, they have a base-running boner in game two,
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  Speaker 1: the error-palooza, I guess it was game one, the base-running boner,
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  Speaker 1: and then game to you get an error or you
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  Speaker 1: get an error, that would have led to a firing also.
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  Speaker 1: That's just the way it is. He had this demand
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  Speaker 1: of greatness. And as we said, it's more about cash flows,
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  Speaker 1: positive cash flow for the current Yankees. And they're making
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. We can talk about old family money.
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  Speaker 1: The second generation inherits the wealth, just not the hunger.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the Raiders. They're a mess. With Mark Davis,
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  Speaker 1: he just said, I'm just going to eat P.F. Chang's.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let Tom Brady do whatever he wants. Jeannie Buss
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  Speaker 1: was a terrible owner for the Lakers. Old family money.
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  Speaker 1: Not good. Not good.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, last thing. To the not smooth, but choppy Jazz.
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  Speaker 1: The choppy Jazz. Jazz Chisholm. That's Jazz Chisholm Jr., who
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  Speaker 1: had the chutzpah. He literally did have the chutzpah. To
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  Speaker 1: criticize Yankee fans for booing him as New York lost
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  Speaker 1: the other day to Tampa Bay, completing the three-game sweep.
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  Speaker 1: In the ALDS and being serenaded by Frank Sinatra. New York,
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  Speaker 1: New York in the locker room. So Jazz Chisholm called
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  Speaker 1: the boos confusing. He said it, quote, doesn't hurt. It's
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  Speaker 1: just confusing because it's the playoffs and we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: win games. Chisholm went on to question why fans would
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  Speaker 1: boo players trying to help the team win instead of
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  Speaker 1: encouraging them. All right. Question. Jazz Chisholm. appears to be
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  Speaker 1: a little confused here by the Yankees fans booing him
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  Speaker 1: during the playoffs at Yankee Stadium. So who wants to
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  Speaker 1: explain this to him? Who wants to explain this to him? Anybody? No?
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'll do it. All right, so Jazz Chisholm,
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  Speaker 1: he needs someone to explain the booze. This is not
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  Speaker 1: brain surgery. It's barely a third-grade word problem. As a
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  Speaker 1: senior fellow at the Malheur Institute of Fact Checkers, I
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  Speaker 1: have investigated this mystery. I even drove in the mystery machine.
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  Speaker 1: I got it from Scooby-Doo, the mystery machine. Shaggy let
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  Speaker 1: me drive it around. And it turns out, this is
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  Speaker 1: going to blow you away, Jazz Chisholm, you sucked at
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  Speaker 1: a time you cannot suck. Oh, my God. Yes. Jazz,
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  Speaker 1: you're not playing for the Savannah Bananas, although it looks
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  Speaker 1: like your next team may be the Savannah Bananas. It's
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  Speaker 1: the New York Yankees. You hit zero, zippo, in that
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  Speaker 1: matchup with Tampa Bay, and you are upset with the audience.
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  Speaker 1: What are we doing? What were they supposed to do?
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  Speaker 1: Were they supposed to have a one-person parade down the
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  Speaker 1: Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan? He's a mediocre player.
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  Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm, you are what your record says you are.
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  Speaker 1: He's a mediocre player. He made a couple of all-star
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  Speaker 1: games propped up by New York and the hype of
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  Speaker 1: New York. He's got a superstar's sense of entitlement, despite
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  Speaker 1: being a pretty mid-baseball player, Jazz Chisholm, which is a
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  Speaker 1: dangerous cocktail. That is a dangerous cocktail right there. Absolutely is.
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  Speaker 1: And he's mastered the art, jazz chism, of being more
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  Speaker 1: offended by criticism than embarrassed by performance. We talked earlier
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  Speaker 1: about Dakota Prescott, who has a similar problem. It's a
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  Speaker 1: widespread situation in American sport today, and I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 1: around the world as well. I cover American sports. These
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  Speaker 1: guys that are by the critic. And they're more offended
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  Speaker 1: by that than embarrassed by their lack of performance. Dak
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  Speaker 1: Prescott was the same way. And you want unconditional love.
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  Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm, I'm going to help you out. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to tell you how you can get unconditional love playing
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  Speaker 1: for the New York Yankees. I recommend going down to
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  Speaker 1: PetSmart or Petco or whatever. Get a golden retriever. that
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  Speaker 1: dog will smile, that dog will lick your face, that
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  Speaker 1: dog will be the happiest dog in the world for you,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll get unconditional love. So just go down there,
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  Speaker 1: go to PetSmart, go to one of the pet stores,
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  Speaker 1: get a golden retriever. And I also have, looking into
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  Speaker 1: my crystal ball, as a distant relative of Nostradamus and
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  Speaker 1: friend of Nostradinus, I have looked into my crystal ball,
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  Speaker 1: and I have determined that there's no need to fret,
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  Speaker 1: there's no need to worry. The Yankee fan will give
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  Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm A standing ovation. Another standing ovation. What are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about, Maller? I'm going to tell you how
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  Speaker 1: it's going to happen. So Jazz Chisholm will get a
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  Speaker 1: standing ovation the moment he docusigns the deal to say
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  Speaker 1: bye-bye to the Yankees. When that happens, standing ovation, applause,
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  Speaker 1: way to go. Absolutely. We love you, Jazz. I'll bet
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  Speaker 1: you he plays a game for the Savannah Bananas down
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  Speaker 1: the line. And these guys who are in baseball, boy,
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  Speaker 1: they could play for the Savannah Bananas technically, right? I
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  Speaker 1: think they're allowed to. They can play overseas. Why would
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  Speaker 1: they not be allowed to play for the Savannah Bananas?
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  Speaker 1: There's no baseball labor deal. You think about a boom time. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a big Savannah Banana guy, but some of
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  Speaker 1: you people love it. And why not? Imagine the Savannah
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  Speaker 1: Bananas playing against Aaron Judge, Shohei Otani, and all these guys.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Bill.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Right over there. That sounded like acting. And Koopaloop at
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan. And your comments
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: can and will be used against you in the court
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: of the Malheur Militia, so please act accordingly. Well, time
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: now for the Malheur Riddle of the Day. We'll get
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to your calls. We hadn't taken calls in a while
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: because we had Benny versus the Penny last hour, so
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: if you've been jonesing to get on, this is your
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: opportunity to call in and scream and shout and yell
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But here it is. Benny versus
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the Penny was last hour, and now here's the Riddle
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: of the Day. The Malheur Riddle of the Day. What
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: could the answer be inquiring minds would like to know?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: So the Malheur Riddle of the Day. We go to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the world of entertainment. I can't believe the show's still on.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Apparently Jimmy Fallon's still on late night TV. I stopped
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: watching once it became unfunny, which was many years ago.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Late night TV host Jimmy Fallon has partnered with Major
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: League Baseball to make two blank. All right. That is
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the question. What is the answer? Let's see here. King
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Roy says to co-sponsor two public executions. All right. Femi
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: going with two commercials is his answer. Alf the Alien
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: O'Piner says two new theme nights during the season, Christmas
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: in July and Three Stooges night. What else do we have?
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Doc Mike, or Doc Mike, Doc Dan. Not Doc Mike,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Doc Dan. Doc Dan's normal. Doc Mike, not normal. Doc
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Dan says, two flavors of pickled pig snout sandwiches. My God,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: that is terrible. That's got to be AI. No one's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: eating that, right? No one's eating that. Timmy from Busco,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Indiana says, everybody's talking about the tight pants, the too
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: tight pants thing. is the answer. Fun Hats from Donkey Sausage.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: What do we have? Not Blind Austin in Bakersfield says
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: two more shows about a not funny guy who thinks
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: he is funny. All right. Corn Dogs at the Texas
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: State Fair. What do we got here? Larry D said
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: something involving Jimmy Fallon and Don Lemon. Interesting answer there.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know that we can use that one. What
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: do we have? Rob in the 321 says to make
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: movies in his hometown in upstate New York. What else?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Page down. I can't read that on the air. What
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: do we got here? OG Art Puffin says Jimmy Fallon
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: is pairing with the MLB to make not one but
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: two unsuccessful attempts to slide into home during his monologue.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: All right. The correct answer, Lorena, do you know the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: answer to the Mallor riddle of the day? Late night
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: TV host Jimmy Fallon has partnered with Major League Baseball
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to make two blanks. Custom pizzas. Custom pizza pies. Is
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that correct? No. Turns out that late night TV host
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon has partnered with Major League Baseball to make...
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: two children's books. He's making kids' books. One of them's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: called Your Baby's First Word will be Dodgers and the
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: other book is Your Baby's First Word will be Yankees. Apparently,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: if you're a fan of one of the other 28 teams,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you're porked. Jimmy Fallon. Is there anything easier than writing
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a children's book? Anything easier? I should write a children's book.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Why don't I write a children's book? For my God.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: It's like three or four words on a page at
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the most And some artwork.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: That's right. Unbelievable. All right. Now, I did find, I
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: just found there's new audio of the, there was a confrontation.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Is that too dramatic? There was a situation where Dak
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Prescott was walking to the locker room after the Cowboys
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: got embarrassed. And somebody said embarrassed to Dak Prescott. And
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Dak engaged the guy in the bowels of Jerry's world.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Let me see if I can send this over. I've
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: got to click this thing here. You'll see live coverage.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I'm going to send this to Coop right now live
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: on the air. Let's see if I can pull this out. Uh-oh,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I'm getting the circle thing. It's not working. That's not good.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: So then I click this, and then I've got to
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: type this in and put the name in, and then
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I've got to wait for that to pop up. Okay,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: so that popped up right there. So then I click that.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Then I've got to click send. And so then he's
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: got to figure out whether that's worthy of being played
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: on the air or not. In the meantime, we can
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: take some calls. And let's see here. Let's go to
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun, who's hanging out in the Commonwealth. And
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: he is next at 877-99 on Fox. Big Ben's Lame
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Jokes of the Week coming up in a little bit. Hello,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun. Welcome. My friend.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Knock, knock. No, no, we're not doing the jokes. The
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: jokes are later. We're not doing the jokes. Why are
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you doing the jokes? We're not doing the jokes. Why
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: are you doing the jokes?
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: What do you call the bills?
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: That's a joke. You're doing jokes. Are you going to
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: make me? Should I take more no calls this hour again? No?
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: No jokes?
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Well, we're doing the jokes next segment. This is not
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the joke segment. And you sent some jokes in. Yeah.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I hope Pope Leo has some intervention tonight for
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the White Sox.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: I hope.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: How would that work? Is he going to send holy
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: water in or something like that?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, he will sprinkle holy water on the shark they
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: send over to the Vatican, so he'll have some divine intervention.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he's working on that right now. How long
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: does it take to fly from the Vatican to Chicago? Well,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I guess you've got to go to Cleveland, so you
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: can go to Cleveland. You've got time. You've got time.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Has Lorena ever been on a honey shot at a stadium?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I'm curious.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Lorena, you don't go to that many games.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Right, Lorena?
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I've only been to, like, two games. You've
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: only been to two sporting events? You were at a
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Laker game. Yeah, I went to the one in Denver.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Okay. And one in L.A., the Laker game. Oh, yeah,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the Laker game. That would count, right? Yeah, well, I
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: think that would count, barely. It absolutely counts. It's the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: pinnacle of basketball.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Back in the old days. But, no, I was not
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: a honey shot.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Well, you wouldn't. How would she know? The whole point
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: of the honey shot is you don't know you're the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: honey shot. That's a good point.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: They look up at the screen and they see themselves.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: No, but that's on the Jumbotron, but the TV feed's
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: different than the Jumbotron feed. It's not the same feed.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: It's in-house and then the TV feed's different. Now, there
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: is the conspiracy that some of these hot chicks have
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: agents and they negotiate to be the honey shot, hoping
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: they'll go viral and pick up followers. That was a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: big issue during the World Cup. There were tabloid reports...
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: that that was going on. Some of these super hot
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: ladies had agents to try to get them on the
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: World Cup broadcast so they'd be international celebrities.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: But you weren't complaining, were you? When you were watching
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: all those games, you weren't complaining.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Why would I complain? Why would I complain about that?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Speaking of soccer, Lionel Messi retired from Argentina this week.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: Did you know that?
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: Or do you care?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: No, I don't really care. I don't know. Isn't he
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: playing in Miami, or he's done with that, too? He
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: was playing in Miami. No, no.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: He's going to have two more years under contract for Miami.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: All right. I feel like you're out of it. I
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: feel like you're just scrambling. You're rambling here. I feel
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: like you're rambling.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not rambling.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: All right. You want to do the picks with Poppy
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: real quick? Huh.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I'll give you the worst minute in radio. Here we go.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Poppy is in San Diego. Hello, Poppy. What are you,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: three games you guys are doing? Three games?
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's three games. We're doing three games.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: All right. By the way, let me point out, while
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: these two guys try to figure out what the hell
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: they're doing, that this portion of the Ben Maller Show
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: made possible in part by our friends at Fox 1.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: NFL Week 5 is here, and it's a biggin'. Bears
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: versus Packers, Sunday's America's Game of the Week, streaming live
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: on Fox 1. Miss it live, and you're just watching
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a highlight. Catch every play as it happens. Bears-Packers live.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: On Fox 1.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Poppy. Quickly, please. Quickly. Quickly.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: We're starting with the first game, the Chicago Bears versus
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: the Green Bay Packers. I like Green Bay Packers with
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Jordan Love. I'm thinking, what about you, Leprechaun?
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Now, Ben, are we picking the same games or different games?
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Shouldn't you go?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't you go?
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Whatever you feel.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Okay i'm gonna go okay eagles and jacksonville i'm picking
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: jackson i'm picking the.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Eagles wait it has to be the same game that's
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: what all right all right.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: On to the next game this is not this is
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: not the three stooges it's the two stooges okay so
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: but no we didn't but who did he pick i
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: don't even know who he picked in the Bears-Packers game.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Who did you pick, Mike, the Leprechaun?
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: The Bears. The Bears.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Nice game up.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Nice game up. The Baltimore Ravens and the Falcons. That's
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: a Sunday night game. I'm going to go with Michael Penix,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: the Atlanta Falcons, because Amar Jackson's questionable. What about you, Leprechaun?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I agree with you on this one. Same team.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Last one. Last one. Boy, this is great radio, isn't it?
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: The last one. The Bills versus the Rams. I really
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: like the Rams.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Who's house?
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Rams house with Matthew Stafford.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Why would you ruin my... Come on. You're putting a
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: whammy on me. Yeah, Leprechaun?
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking the Bills are going to have a comeback week.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: All right. The Bills.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: There you go. All right, there you go. Three games. Okay,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: thank you. And just for the record, Mike's picking the Patriots.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: He does every week. Let's go to the great state
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: of Ohio. A man who is smiling from ear to ear.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns are on a burner. The Cleveland Indians,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: as they used to be called and should still be called,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: won again. Let's do a wellness check. The man, the legend,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the one and only, the Dixter, Dick in Dayton. Hello, Dick,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: my friend.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: How you been?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Give me a little taste of that, Dick. Yeah, you've
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: been busy. We haven't heard from you. I was worried
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: about you. But then I was like, well, this guy's
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: living a great life. He's a social butterfly. You got
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: all the ladies sitting on you there at the home
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you're living in. You're living the life, Dixter.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: Thank you so much. I've just been busy. I've been
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: helping downstairs here with the management. We've been having some–
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: we have bingo, and then we've got, like, talent show,
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: and we take little trips they like sometimes to Springboro.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: But I've been.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Just a little busy. What's in Springboro? What's over there?
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: Well, they have– it's where Suzy Piper from the Kevin
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: Banjo Society, she passed away. We used to go over there,
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Doug and I and a couple other people.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Is that Doug from Dayton?
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Doug from Waynesville.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, Waynesville, not Doug from– okay, I'm sorry.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: I just wanted to tell you, though, the Browns, it's
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: kind of neat what they're doing. I like it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: You're into it. You think it's real or you think
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: it's fake?
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: I think they're going to win maybe– At the most,
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: maybe seven games. Maybe seven games.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, so seven wins. Send that out, Coop.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: Heads are rolling in Cincinnati. The Reds were pathetic this year.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're more of a Guardians fan or Indians
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: fan or whatever anyway, though, right? Yeah. But right now,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: in football, you're Cleveland Browns, 3-1. And they're tied with
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Baltimore for the top spot in the division, right there
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: at the very top. And do you know, Dick and Dayton,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: if the playoffs started today, do you know who the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns would match up with in the playoffs?
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: No, who would it be?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Right now they'd play Jacksonville. That'd be the matchup.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: Have you heard from my friend from Cincinnati, it's been.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're talking about Ohio Al. He lives up on
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the way to Cleveland. You know, I've not heard from
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Ohio Al. I hope he's all right. He has not
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: reached out to me in a while, so I'm not
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: sure what's going on with Al. I know you guys
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: were great, though. You killed it. You absolutely dominated it. Oh,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I loved it. What a night. Or afternoon. It was
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon. You had all the show legends there.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: You weren't even nervous, were you? You weren't even nervous.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: You got up on that stage, and you just let
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: it rip. It was awesome.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: Thank you. You know something else?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: I couldn't get on the one week, the Browns, but
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: they have a good post-game show on 92-point fence. Titus
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: and Jeff Phelps, they always say Dixon Dayton. They say
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: not Dick, but Dixon Dayton, the Southern Ohio number one
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: fan of Cleveland sports.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's you. That's a great way to introduce you.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: All right, well, Dick, enjoy your weekend. I know hopefully
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: you'll call next week. Check in with us. Make sure
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: you let us know how you're doing. All right, enjoy
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: your life. Go out there, live the life and all that.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: See you later, alligator.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, you changed it up on me, Dick. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Oh,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: there it is. Oh, see you later, alligator. Did not
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: expect that. I've stolen Dick and Dayton's line. That was cute. Bye-bye.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: What's that, Lorena? I said that was cute. I liked it. Yeah, exactly.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, there it is. We have straight ahead
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. All the best one-liners,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: all the best jokes, as sent in by you, Kara,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: of BenMallerShow at gmail.com with jokes in the headlines. That's
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: BenMallerShow at gmail.com. We've got the Weed Man coming in here.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: He's my laugh track. We'll get to Big Ben's Lame
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Jokes of the Week, and we will do it! Next.
• 34:45
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• 34:47
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• 34:50
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• 34:53
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• 34:55
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• 35:00
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• 35:01
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• 35:02
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• 35:05
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• 35:09
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• 35:12
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• 35:23
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• 35:27
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• 35:30
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• 35:34
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• 35:36
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• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Knock, knock.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Who's there? Lame Week.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Lame Week who?
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's Lame Joke of the Week. All right,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: let's do it. Weed Man, my buddy Billy in Hollywood, Florida.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Are you there, Billy?
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, how you doing, Ben? Make me laugh.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Any more free food from Purito?
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, I want to thank Purito.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: He sent me his grace.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. I feel like Purito's paying you for
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the show. I feel like you're getting paid by Purito
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: and food to be on the show. I feel like
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: that's going on. All right, let's do this. Here are
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the actual jokes. Kara, BenMallerShow at gmail.com. What brand of
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: lollipop best describes Weed Man?
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: What?
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Dum Dums. That's Noah in Austin. Thank you, Noah. Did
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: you hear that Weed Man hippie got Mike the Leprechaun high?
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Yep, the Blarney got stoned. You know about the Blarney Stone?
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: That's Rosie, of course, right there.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Why is Weed Man on the no-fly list?
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Because he could not wait a mile to get high.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: That's why. That's Scotty on the pike, the legendary Scotty
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: on the pike. Did you hear that Weed Man is
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: getting into his ancestry? Really?
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Really.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he wants to know all about his tree.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: You love the tree, Weed Man. That's from Brendan in Boston.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Why does Weed Man like the Ben Maller show so much?
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Because it gets him higher. Higher! That's Mike in Tulsa.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: It does. Yes, it does. What does Weed Man think
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: of the capital of Florida is? What do you think
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the capital of Florida is?
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: What?
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: The letter F, that would be the capital of Florida
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: for you. For you. That's from Eric in Kansas. Do
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: you even know what the capital of Florida is? No.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Isn't it Tallahassee? I believe it is, right? I think
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: it's Tallahassee. But how long have you lived in Florida,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Weed Man?
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: For a long time. I don't know.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: You don't even know the capital of your state. That's wild.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: All that weed. What do Weed Man and the Miami
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Dolphins have in common?
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: What?
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: They're both going to be losers this weekend. That's Eric
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: in Kansas. All right. What did Weed Man call the
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: recent garbage spill on the interstate in the city of Youngstown?
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: What?
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Two words, Thanksgiving dinner. That's John from Youngstown, Ohio. Why
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: did Weed Man spend a week in front of a bakery?
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: He was hoping for free dough. He wanted that dough.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I believe that was Mike the Leprechaun who sent that
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: one in. Did you hear that Weed Man became famous
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: in his detective job as an undercover agent?
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Really. Yes, he was known as Sherlock Homeless. That's Mike
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the Leprechaun. What does Weed Man tell his grandchildren to
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: call him? What? Granddaddy Purple. That's Surfer Todd the Comedian.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: There you go. George in Uvalde says, did you know
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Weed Man Hippie once bought a sweet car online?
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it belonged to Neil Diamond. There you go. Bah, bah, bah.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: That's George and Yuval DR. I think that's all we
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: have time for. Thank you, Weed Man. There you go.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Weed Man. Hippie, be well, my man. Be well.