Hour 1 - Heading to Brown Town

Ben Maller talks about Browns owner Jimmy Haslem holding himself and his wife accountable for the Deshaun Watson signing & the team's failures, Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell saying the team's interest in Aaron Rodgers was not a knock on J.J. McCarthy, and much more!

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You're an hour number one. Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Is it possible for Browns fans to truly hold owner
Jimmy Haslam accountable for the debacle at the quarterback position.
We'll talk about that. Also, how would you describe Deshaun
Watson's time with the Browns? It appears to be coming
to an end. And in Minnesota, are you gonna buy

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or sell Coach Kevin O'Connell saying that the interest in
Aaron Rodgers is not a knock on JJ McCarthy. We'll
talk about all that and more right now here. It
is our number one heading to brown Town, if you

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and so our lead this hour is from football, kind
of football, not good football now. I long have had
a mantra under the cover of darkness that the better

(02:11):
story is in the losing locker room, and some teams
find ways to lose even in the off season. They
find new creative ways to f up in the off season.
But our lead this hour is from the owners meetings
and they are at a swinky resort in Florida, the
Ola Garks of pig Skin getting together and really talk
about roughing it. I mean, my god. They're at the

(02:34):
Breakers in Palm Beach living the hard life. It is
not easy. It is not that job is not that easy.
So some interesting comments. We go where the news of
the day takes so I thought this was pretty interesting.
We spent a couple of minutes shaking and baking it
Cleveland football team, the robber baron of the Cleveland football

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team making some headlines. If you didn't hear what he
had to say, probably not. Why would you? You might
have missed it. See the guy named Jimmy Haslam, Jimmy HASLM.
He's the owner of the Browns, and he has driven
that franchise right into the abyss, even further to the
abyss than they thought they could go. And it's like,
how low can you go? Let's go a little lower.

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Let's see how low we can go. And down down, down, down, down,
down down. So Jimmy Haslam, with comments from the Palm
Beach soore A the NFL league meetings there, described the
Deshaun Watson transaction as a big so wing and a

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miss I saw wing and a whoop. It's like he's
playing designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox. Justay right
through the pitch, just boom, just through the pitch. He said.
Quote we thought we had the quarterback, we didn't, and
we gave up a lot of draft picks to get him,

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Haslam said, of Watson, So we've got to dig ourselves
out of that hole. He stated it was an entire
organization decision. He said, it ends with D and I
blaming his wife as well. That's what every good man does,
blame your wife. So I hold us accountable. That's right.

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D Haslam and Jimmy Haslam, they are responsible, as Haslam ranted.
Watson is d and E as the Browns quarterback, not
gonna play this year and we'll never start a meaningful
game again for the Cleveland Browns. But that's not the
talking point here. The talking point, as we discuss, is

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the commentary from the owner of the Cleveland football team.
So thumbs up or thumbs down? Question? Thumbs up were
thumbs down on it being possible for Browns fans to
truly hold owners Jimmy Haslam accountable in air quotes? Can
you really hold an owner accountable? Is that even possible

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to do? So? I've got teflon, sewing machine, and iPhone
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make an outhouse, which is the
Cleveland brown franchise. They are in the outhouse. What an
appropriate name the Browns right to Brown Town? We go.

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So to answer the question thumbs up or thumbs down,
is it possible for the Brown loyal minion to hold
owner Jimmy Haslam accountable. So I'm going to go thumbs
down on this. I'm going thumbs down on the idea
that you can hold the owner accountable. It's impossible. Jimmy
haslm knows this. He knows this. I like how I say,

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it's an organizational decision. The buck stops with you, buckaroo,
you dumb dumb You're the owner of the team. So
Jimmy Haslam that he's got nothing to worry about here.
He's insulated. He is the football teflon don as the
Cleveland Browns owner, and the NFL does not penalize owners

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for being dumb dumbs. They don't when it comes to
football decisions like bad trades or even worse contracts. It
doesn't matter how ridiculous it is that you don't even
get punished for anything as an NFL lower, What do
you Jim Irsay and Robert Craft have gotten some punishment,

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but it's not real punishment. Said, well, you can't go
to your luxury box for a couple of games. We're
going to punish you. Oh my god, I've got to
stay at my mansion and watch on television. How terrible
is that the hardship, it's ridiculous. So he's not gonna
be punished, Haslam. The only punishment is he's got to
pay two hundred thirty million dollars to stiff the creepy

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quarterback to Sean Watson and he lost some scratcher tickets
that were given to Houston. That's the only punishment. And
the NFL, if you look at when they intervene in situations,
the only time they will even pretend to do anything
is if you damage the brand. If you attack the

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shield right then they go nuts. Or if you attack
the money the finances, now that is a capital offense.
That's high crimes and misdemeanors when you start messing around
with the finances, fraud, legal scandals. Ironically, Jimmy Haslam knows
a thing or two about that. You might want to
look up and do a Google search on the Flying J,

(07:45):
the Pilot Flying J and some financial shenanigans that took
place back in twenty seventeen. There was a large settlement
and there were certainly some people that raised eyebrows at
that time. Keep in mind that during the Browns purchase,
he's owned the Browns. The Haslim family since twenty twelve,
I believe it is, But the NFL approved it anyway,

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so it's not like they didn't have a problem with
everything that was going on the Watson related fallout. If
there is any real fallout other than mean things being
said on social media, he has not crossed in any
kind of punishable territory, if you will. And the only
way to really get back at ownership, and it's only

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happened a few times in my lifetime, is the a
word apathy. That is for a very loyal, passionate group
of knuckleheads in Cleveland who lived their life around the
Browns to no longer care. And if you are able
to demonstrate that successfully for a extended period of time,

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that gets people's attention because they don't like that, and
they're bothered by that, and they know right now they
got a bunch of suckers right about how pathetic the
Browns are. You're gonna buy your jerseys, You're gonna go
to the games, You're gonna watch the games on TV,
because what the hell else do you have to do?
They got you by the balls, But the moment they
don't have you by the balls, then that changes the

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Dodgers were able. Dodger fan base was able to do
that with that evil, wretched Frank McCord. They got rid
of him. Now he still owns the parking lots. But
they were able to show apathy for several years, and
that really freaked out the people a Major League Baseball
and so they pressed a few buttons. And now the
Dodgers spend a gazillion dollars every year and everyone's happy now.
Page two. As far as the Brown situation, taking a

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couple of steps back here, how would you describe Deshaun
Watson's time with the Browns now that it's heading officially
towards an end that the owner of the team has
said with with he might have said woof, woof, because
it's a wolf wolf situation. So Jimmy Haslam did not
go far enough the Oligark, owner of the Cleveland Browns,

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when he said it was a big swing in a
miss that just scratches the surface. Okay, just scratches the surface.
Here they knew what they were getting, the idea that
somehow they were in trouble because they didn't know the
full depth of the situation. No, they were in the
middle of it, and they still went for it. It

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was the Houston Texans scandal that the Browns wanted. They
asked for it, and Watson was in. He was neck
deep in it. He was neck deep in it in Houston,
and the Browns still said we want you. And they
weren't alone. There were multiple teams New Orleans and Atlanta

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wanted this guy. Also. The Browns actually thought they had
won because they got Deshaun Watson and it has turned
out into a three alarm fire burn Baby Burn with
Deshaun Watson as the Browns quarterback. And Watson a lot
of people don't know this, but he's multi talented. He's
not only a terrible quarterback, but he's all so pretty
good with the sewing machine. As a Watson pulled out

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the sewing machine and he has stitched together a quilt.
Let's hear, limited availability. He's got that on the quilt there.
He's got that. He's got subpar performance to terrible performance,
check check, and a lot of baggage, a lot of
carry on baggage. Check check check check. So he's got
all that on the quilt. He's sewing that all together there.

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Since joining the Browns in twenty twenty two. Watson has
played just nineteen games as a starter in Cleveland over
three seasons. Now they play seventeen a year. He's played
nineteen total in three seasons. He had an eleven game suspension,
which was a slap on the wrist the NFL looking
the other way to the Congo line. How about the

(11:48):
parade of people getting checks? You get a check, you
get a check, you get a check, you get a check.
Everyone got a check from Deshaun Watson. The allegations and
so both twenty twenty three and last injuries ended those years.
He had a shoulder injury in twenty twenty three and
an achilles injury last year which is also going to
take him out the next NFL season. And the actual

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performance when he has played, Watson has been not only
a quarterback, he has been god awful with the Browns
and just terrible. And so for now, the Browns what
do they have. They have Kenny Pickett and that's not
any good. He sucks also, and they're gonna have to
bring somebody else in, Carson Wentz or someone like that.

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Holy crap, draft somebody, my god. All right now, last word,
we pivot from Cleveland to me Minnesota. We go to Minnesota,
interesting comments from the league meetings from the head coach
of the Minnesota football team. I thought these were intriguing.
I wanted to share them with you if you didn't
see so. Kevin O'Connell is the quarterback whisper of the

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Minnesota football team and O'Connell regaling the scribes and the
Pigskin media there with stories. He was asked about the
Vikings interest in air and Rogers and what did he say?
So Kevin O'Connell said, the reason that the Vikings had
a little chit chat with Aaron Rodgers was it was

(13:23):
just a unique opportunity, just a unique opportunity. It was
not reflective, He indicated, I'm paraphrasing here of any kind
of concern at all for the young upstart JJ McCarthy
who was drafted out of Michigan last year and is
supposed to be the starting quarterback and then he got
hurt last year. So are you going to buy or sell?

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Buy or sell? Coach Kevin O'Connell saying that the interest
in Aaron Rodgers having multiple conversations with Aaron Rodgers was
not a knock on ja Aj McCarthy, you can buy
that or sell that. So we are going to sell, sell, sell, sell,

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and if you buy it, you're full of hell. How
about that? All right? So if you are and this
is the dimension I'm in, I realized we live in
the multiverse, but in my dimension as a neutral arbiter
of pig skin justice. If you are completely sold on
JJ McCarthy, If JJ McCarthy is your quarterback, and that's

(14:32):
your guy, you take your iPhone, You pick up the
iPhone and you go to the settings apps. You gotta
kind of scroll the settings app. I don't know what
is on your phone. It's on the front page of MyPhone.
So you go to the settings app there and then
you tap on a couple of things. You get to focus, okay,
and then and then you click on the focus thing
and that way it's do not to serve. You don't

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even get the call. You don't have the opportunity to
talk to Aaron Rodgers because you're not you're not able
to get the call. I'm sorry, I had focus on,
I couldn't. I didn't receive any phone calls. That's it.
Do not disturb. What do you want me to do?
You shrug? Your shoulders and say that's it. But since
they chatted multiple times, the Vikings and Aaron Rodgers, that

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is a dead way, dead way, that's right. It's a
tell that Minnesota is not thoroughly convinced that JJ McCarthy
is the guy. There's still some issue there now I've
heard it. They think he's a little immature still, and
even though he says all the right things in the media,

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has some stuff behind the scenes. Whether that's true or not,
time will tell. But if I'm the Vikings, I would
just throw him out there and play and what the hell,
just go for it. You've got two stud receivers. Even
if he's got a few bumps along the way. Better
get that going right now rather than wait another year.
What's the point in doing that. But there's definitely some
kind of internal debate that has been taking place there

(16:00):
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(17:58):
hours here chopping down the mountain of sports talk some
hot Cleveland brown Talk as we suck up to our
listeners in the state of Ohio, because I don't even
think they really want to hear about the Cleveland Browns.
But it's an interesting story. The Browns owner before getting
rid of Deshaun Watson admitting they fed up, they screwed up.
Bad job by them, and they will take responsibility and

(18:24):
accountability and all that which is impossible for an owners
to do. Every man, woman and child knows that to
be true. Also, a remake coming up in a little bit,
The Grinch that Stole Christmas, the remake edition. We will
get to that coming up for you as well. But
the people would like to speak a lot of people
on the social media channels ranting and raving like lunatics.

(18:44):
Our friend truck Stop Fungus checks in as we live
our life through him he travels the highways and byways
North America. He says he's listening to us from a
truck stop outside beautiful Boise, Idaho, where it is thirty
nine degrees right now with a rain falling in Boise.
Says gonna eat a seven dollars piece of truck stop

(19:07):
cheesecake and pray to God. He says that he does
not get the Hershey squirts, and he sent a photo
of the cheesecake. Looks like a rather generic piece of cheesecake.
It looks like it was made in a big bakery
somewhere and then sliced up professionally. I think it'll be okay.
Not a big cheesecake person, but I've had some of

(19:29):
the greatest meals in my life at truck stops. I've
enjoyed good truck stop wood. They have generally pretty good
food there in my experience. I've not been to a
lot of truck stops, but the ones I've been to,
I've enjoyed my meal. I just want to say, yes, Loraine.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
I have bought one of those singular cheesecakes, you know,
like the ones that come in a little circle.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, a little plice of plastic yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah, the place I use for a grocery store, right,
and it's the only one that didn't have a date
on it, Like next one's timeless, Like you know what,
I'm gonna give it whatever. And I took it and
I ate it. I have never had food poisoning like
that in my life. I had to.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Go to the hospital. You needed an IVY.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
I thought I was in labor really from a piece
of cheesecake. The stomach cramps I got was horrible. I'm
never eating gas station cheesecake or anything that doesn't come
from like a cheesecake factory.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah. Like the thing about the gas station food is
the the hot dogs on the rollers that have been
in there for like to trust those, I don't.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
I got corn dogs, Yeah, I give them baby.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Like I know people eat those all the time and
they think I'm crazy, But I'm like, nah, did I
go in there those things? Every time I go. There's
one gas station where I used to live in Hollywood,
there was this They had like an AMPM type. I
guess I just plugged them, but they had the same
It looked like the same two hot dogs were on
those rollers every single time I came in.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
You know, they usually a little brown, right, they don't
look as pink as.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
They Yeah, I wonder if those are just for display
and they actually have some other real hot dogs that
they serve and they just you know, maybe that's the case.
I don't know. Slim Tim checks in. He says he's
been dealing with medical issues. Well, I hope you feel better,
Slim Tim. That's terrible. He's missed the live show lately,
but he is caught up on all the podcast, Slim
Tim says, and he's doing it live. Who Slim Tim

(21:15):
is back with the live showing crowd. Cheesehead is back
with us. Chris and des Moines points out the Browns
owner has regrets and then the scent a funny meme.
They're very nice. What else do we have, Timmy says
Watson so Wing saw Wing show the ghost hunter who

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lives in Ohio says the Browns are just like the
city of Cleveland, pathetic and a dumpster all right now,
the Burner account the number one Ben Maler show. Burner
says that they picked the Browns owner says they picked
the wrong quarterback. While the creepy quarterback ak King Kilbasa
is still on the roster. It's hilarious. I wonder what

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his facial expression look like. And he heard the news
b plus on the Malar monologue, Benjamin Well. Watson should
not be upset. And the reason he should not be
upset is because money, money, money. He didn't want to
play for the Browns. The Browns wanted him. He didn't
want to go to the Browns. The Browns made him

(22:18):
a godfather offer. If it was up to him, he
would have been playing for Atlanta or New Orleans or
something like that. But Watson, he's got two years left
on the contract, and I believe he's gonna get twenty
six point eight million each of the next two years.
He's not gonna play this year, he won't play again
for the Browns, but he's gonna make another fifty four

(22:41):
million dollars roughly over the next two years. So hey, listen,
if you want to besmirch my good name and attack
my character, my price is fifty two million. I will
deal with it. I will from my mansion. I will
deal with it. I will stay off the social media,
which I do pretty good about during the day anyway.
Now I'm not on there much. I'm on there during

(23:01):
the show, but I'm rarely on there during the day,
and so i can just I can live my life
and I'm fine, and that's the way you do it.
But for fifty two million dollars, who else do we
have Spacoli rights? In He's up Late listing again, he says,
the Browns future is bright. They signed a Super Bowl
winning quarterback in the offseason. They can recover from Deshaun Watson. Well,

(23:23):
they just got more suck. They had suck and now
it's a different kind of suck, but it still suck.
And that's that's the thing. King Rory writes in says,
what are you talking about? The Haslams are one of,
if not the greatest owners of all time. Ever since
they bought ownership into the Milwaukee Bucks, my favorite NBA team,
the Bucks have been a juggernaut eightprofoles. Now the Haslam's

(23:48):
ruin anything and everything they touch. Well, that has noticed.
The Sadam touch, not the Mitas touched. The Mitas touch
is everything you touch turns to gold. The Satam touch
is everything you touch turns to the other. Poo poo. Yeah,
it's not a good situation. Late night drug tester Wrights
and says Deshaun Watson. Going to the Browns did have

(24:08):
its positive results. All the flying Jay truck stops cleared
all the lot lizards, so their quarterbacks wouldn't give them
any bad press. When he looked up massage therapist, interesting,
who else ferg dog rights in? He says, Ben. Do
you still doubt the Dodgers will go one hundred and
sixty two and oh? They won pretty easy again on

(24:31):
Monday Night against the Atlanta Braves. If I was Mercury Morris,
I'd be pretty nervous right now. Yes, that Dodgers will
never lose a game. Now. They'll go one hundred and
sixty two and oh and lose the first playoff series
they play. They'll get swept in the playoff. They'll win
one hundred and sixty two games for dog and then

(24:52):
get knocked out right away. That's it. It's all over.
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We go, and let's say hello to Charlie, who's in Dallas.
Hello Charlie, welcome Bay. How are you? Hey? We woo?

(25:36):
What's going on with you? Charlie? What brings you to
the show? I'd like to talk to some like basketball
and stuff. You know, you want to talk basketball? Why
do you want to talk basketball? Well, my favorite team,
the tiss.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Longhorns are going to the Final four.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Is that right? The Texas Longhorns are going to the
final I didn't have them on my men's I'm looking
at the men's bracket here, don't see I don't see them.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
No, no, no, no, women's.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
I don't watch women's basketball. Come on, why I don't.
I don't have time for it. I don't find it interesting. Yeah,
do you do you actually watch? Yes? I don't believe you.
I think you're lying. I don't believe you.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
I've watched a few regular season games.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
All right, Hold, I say, can you can you blow
into the phone? I want to see if you're lying.
You're not blowing to the phone. Hold on a second, Oh, Charlie. Sorry, Charlie,
it looks like you're not being very honest. Here, you're
just you're just not one hundred percent honest here. You
don't really care that much about women's college basketball. Yes,

(26:46):
we have a test, right, you blew into the phone
and we have a we have a little light detector
test here, and it's you're not completely you're not being
completely honest here, Charlie. Do you want to come you
want to come clean right now, Charlie.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
I watch basketball, women's bactacles.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Are you are you? Are you drinking, Charlie? What you're
going on on me? You're smoking something? What are you eat?
Eating some medicals? What do you got going on? Oh gosh, no,
none of that stuff. No one ever never calls about
women's only, Caitlin Clark. That's the only thing that nobody else.

(27:24):
I don't know anyone's watching the tournament. I've never met
anyone that's like actually watching the women's tournament. I don't know.
I mean, I'm sure there's some people watching it, but
I've never never met him.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Well, yes, I could give you some predictions, would you
like some?

Speaker 1 (27:39):
No, I don't really need that.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
We'll still give you something.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
I mean, I don't really want that. I mean, why
would you give me something I don't want? I mean,
that's like if I if you say, hey, you know,
I don't want two bags of trash, and I give
you the bags of trash, you'd be upset, right you said,
I said I don't want the two bags of trash.
Why'd you give me the two bags of trash? You'd
be annoyed by that? Right? Yeah? Let me let me
guess you're gonna pick the Texas Longhorns to win. Is

(28:04):
that your prediction? Oh my god. I am a distant
relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas, so I'm able
to I can I end the call now, Charlie? I
feel like I need to end the call. I feel
like the call is is not going very well. What
do you think? Well, you know, it's I did a
football monologue. You called up about a sport that ninety

(28:26):
eight percent of my audience doesn't care about. And it's
called It's called broadcasting, not narrow casting. See that's the
problem there, You know what I mean from my perspective, Charlie.
You know, and I understand you like that. That's fine,
But you've never called the show before. Why have you
not called the show before? Charlie?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Now?

Speaker 1 (28:50):
How old? How old? Are you, Charlie, I'm only fourteen.
Oh my god. Oh, I take everything back I said, Charlie,
Holy crap, unbelievable. You're too young to be calling Charlie.
You're fourteen. Shouldn't you be sleeping right now? Charlie?

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Don't you have school tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Din'ld you have where your parents? Let me talk to
your your dad right now? Put your dad on? Where's
your dad in bed? Oh r? Sleeping? All right? All right,
well listen, Seohan. I'm glad you called the show. You're
in the Younger Demo, But unfortunately this is we're talking about.
It's very odd that you chose to call. I'm honored

(29:25):
that you called. And I take back all those snide
comments I made. Coop told me to say those to you,
so it's not my fault. Coop told me I am
the proof of that. Yes, yeah, he whispered in my ears.
All right, Well, thank you, buddy, go to bed? All right? Right,
all right, there's a there's Charlie.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Well, now you know where your younger demographics head is.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
They're all about it all in that Nah. He's just
like I think, Charlie just likes Texas. Longhorn the University
of Texas. Maybe his family went there, somebody's family, and
he's like, he lives in Texas, so he likes him.
And I'd call up randomly, and he called up random Hey,
good old Charlie. Sorry Charlie. All right, let's sayllo to

(30:10):
Alfred who's in Edmonton and Alfred is next. Hello, Alfred, welcome.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
How you doing, Monsieur Bellair? Can you refresh my memory
and your own words? Tell me why George Springer is
a cheater?

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yes, he has forever been branded with a scarlet letter
because he was the World Series MVP. If I'm not
mistaken for the dirtiest, most foul, most disgusting team in
baseball history, the cheating a one thousand and two, one
thousand holes of Houston. And he had a bunch of

(30:50):
home runs in that World Series. And he has for
the rest of his career been tarnished. Anything he does
is cheap and phony. That's George F. N. Springer.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
Okay, the last one more crushable.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Oh okay, that's all you wanted.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
No, just one more crushable Guerrero. How come the Blue
Jays ain't signing him because he got his haircut like
he should be serious. He got his haircut.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Do you think that would be You think the key
is the barber, go to the barber shop and then
they sign you to a contract. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 5 (31:19):
Well, let's you show us he's serious. You want to play.
You got his hair chopped off and they're not signing him.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, that's rude, right, you can't. It takes a while
for your hair to grow back. That's not nice for
them to do that.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Right, Well, there you go.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, all right, well, thank you, thank you. Off, I'm
gonna hang up on your go away all right, to
a great start on the calls. And if you'd like
to fix this predicament, we're in right now eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine
nine six six three sixty nine. If you would like
to be part of the live show, So the Grinch,

(31:53):
that's still Christmas, that would be the NFL. So the
NFL's been futching around the last couple of years these
Christmas NFL games, and they sold the package of games
to Netflix. Well, now they have cranked things up a
couple of notches. It has been announced that the NFL
will now go full guns of blazing on Christmas. In

(32:17):
twenty twenty six year, they announced the schedule. There will
be not one, not two, but three games on Christmas
this coming season. Two of them will air on Netflix,
a third game on Amazon Prime. I bet al Michaels
is happy about that. He gets to work the Christmas holiday.
But the Christmas falls on a Thursday this year, and
so therefore it's within the normal NFL schedule, and so

(32:41):
the league will go big and why not. Last year's
Christmas doubleheader average twenty four million viewers on Netflix and
including some over the air over the air broadcast. And
so the NFL's at the point now are like, hey,
they have the NBA. The NBA own Christmas. Now, the

(33:04):
NBA is like a bug crushed on the side of
the road and it's just embra and the NFL is
going for more. They want more. They've already destroyed and
embarrassed to masculated the NBA. The NFL is going back
for more. They're like, down, down, down with the NBA.
You're Scott Rude, you have no chance. All right, it

(33:25):
is the Bean Mahler Show. So three games on the
Christmas time Now for the who am I game? This
is where we pretend to be somebody else a's We
call it the who am I? Game? And we'll go
to baseball in honor of the story of the on
field story. So far this year, the suka suctitude of
a Red Sox player, Raphael Devers is over nineteen after

(33:48):
his play on Monday in Baltimore. He's over nineteen with
fifteen strikeouts this season. His current pace is a four
hundred and eighty six strikeouts. Now I own the Major
League Baseball record currently for most strikeouts in a season.
Who am I? Again? Rafael devis over nineteen for Boston

(34:11):
with fifteen strikeouts this season. I'm pretty sure that we
could get those fifteen strikeouts. His current pace would be
four hundred and eighty six strikeouts. I own the Major
League Baseball record for most strikeouts in a single season.
Who am I? That is the question. The answer. We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
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(36:01):
Rafael Devers the talk of baseball. What a turd this
guy's been for the Socks. He's over nineteen with fifteen strikeouts.
He's currently on pace for four hundred and eighty six strikeouts.
Now that would shatter the all time record. I currently
own the Major League Baseball single season record for strikeouts.
Who am I? That is the question? And what is

(36:24):
the answer? And let's see does anyone know the answer?
Malar Militia Monster, who's also part of Bill's mafia, says
Uncle Sam is the answer. A lot of reaction to
Charlie and his phone call, people wondering that was all about.
Think it was an April Fools show. Some people think
it was the leprechaun from Boston, who Mister Luciano said,

(36:47):
Charlie sounds like he's from a small town in Arkansas.
What else do we have? Page Den and we'll skip
over some of those really bad ones. Burner accounts says Charlie.
Worst Call of the Year nominee already in the Benny
w for twenty twenty six. All Right, what answers do
we have? The creepy baby yoga pos from Terry in England.

(37:08):
That's his answer. Paige down backwards batting helmet, John Cruck
from Kelly in the Moines formerly known as Donut Kelly
dan Uggla from Richie the Bartender in the Bay Area.
Truck Stop Fungus guest by Trucker Joe Joe Cammell from
Shane in Des Moines. Let's see here, Engelbert Humperdink from

(37:32):
truck Stop Fungus eating his cake right there. Harmon Killebrew
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who else do we have?
Page Dwan Huckleberry Hound from Slim Tim gumby Dave in Florida.
Got it right, Bad job by him. Stubby Clap from
courtesy Flusher. That's his answer. Digital space Monkey says you
are my Jackson Merrill bobblehead. Does it come with a

(37:55):
bobble needle? Also? Does it that? Jerry Kouzman guest by Robin, Minnesota,
Rob Deer from g Manje in Chicago. Who else? Cecil
Fielder tyger Great from two thousand the early two thousands, Uh,
Paige Dan, let's see here. H Stuck in Sacramento S's
fourteen year old Charlie Rules, he says, all right, uh,

(38:17):
do you have an answer? Please? Do you have an answer?

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Little Rain Courage the cowardly dog Ben.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Okay, fine, No, it's actually Mark Reynolds. Back in nine
Mark Reynolds Rockies Legend, he played for a bunch of
teams though Mark Reynolds, Hi Mallor