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Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for being a member of the Mallory Militia. That means a lot as well. So here in hour number four, does Milwaukee's World Series championship destroy MLB owner's argument? The baseball owner's argument for a salary cap. We'll examine that and who the real loser is in all this. And are you losing sleep over Troy Aikman's NFL broadcasting future? Aikman's commented on his situation. And do you agree or disagree with Kurt Warner, the legend from the St. Louis Rams, and his skepticism about the 2026 Pittsburgh Steelers? We'll talk about all that and more right about now. Have a wonderful Thursday.
And here it is, our number four. Now, you might think the baseball season is over, that Milwaukee won the championship, and that's that. But no, no. The games are just beginning. The games are just beginning. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere. Right nearby. We're just a cog in the wheel as the wheels go round and round and round and round. We're trying to get out of the doghouse, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and grandiosely powerful microphones of FSR emanating live.
From the tear. As we try not to tear up. We could tear up the dance floor. We're not going to tear up like Charles Barkley did last night. No. We're not going there. We're not going there. Well, Truck Stop Fungus says, hey, Maller. Hey, Maller. I know you're a guaranteed human and all that. You're in the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
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is yours. And we are back in the saddle again this hour. We've been here all night. The show starts when you listen. So for you, it's a brand new show. And early this hour, we go back to the well one more time. It's all about the cap. And will there be a cap? That is the big takeaway from the curtain coming down on the 2026 World Series in Florida. If you have not been following along, perhaps not, the Milwaukee Brewers are on top of the baseball mountain, looking down at all the peasants, all the other loser franchises. The Brewers are the kings of baseball, the world champions. They went 11-2.
In the postseason. I'm told that's good. Defeated Tampa Bay in five games. Led by Jackson Cheerio and others. Milwaukee doing it out of the orthodoxy of regular baseball. They ranked second in baseball in run score despite tying for 28th in home runs. They had just 154 home runs. There's 32 teams in baseball. They were tied for 28th. The Brewers led baseball in on-base percentage. Find ways to get on, whether it was a walk or a bunt here or whatever it took. Milwaukee committed just 72 errors all season.
In 162 regular season games, they did have some miscues in the playoffs here, but it didn't matter. Bryce Terrain had the 7.3 war, which gives the nerds a chubby. They get all excited about that and elite defense. A lot of players like that, well-rounded, not real exciting, sexy players, but good players, solid gamers, they called them back in the day. There used to be a place for gamers in baseball, no more gamers allowed, other than places like Milwaukee. The Brewers scouting department, there are 64 people in the scouting department, and they have a mix of traditional scouting, and they also have some nerds. They're not nerd-free. They are not a nerd-free zone, the Brewers. There's not as much influence by the nerds, and they rely on...
a different model than most of the teams. And we gave this number earlier. There are nine key players that were from the minor league system, including the Miz, Jackson Churio, the aforementioned Bryce Tereng, who collectively earned less than $30 million. And those are impact players. Those are three key impact players, two everyday players and the ace of the pitching staff combined, making less than Shohei Otani's bookie was earning from Otani and his buddy was gambling. I'm sure Otani had nothing to do with that back in the day.
And despite having a revolving door with all these different veteran players being traded and shuffled and free agency and whatnot, they still have won four consecutive division titles. They reached the playoffs eight times in nine seasons, and now they are the champions of baseball. Yet, if you look off in the horizon, get your imaginary binoculars and look off into the horizon. We have a pending mushroom cloud on tap. The games begin. I'm talking about the nuclear winter in baseball. It's going to begin December. December 1st, I believe is the date. Sometime in early December. First week in December. Today is October 29th. So we have about a month to go. About a month to go. And then it's on. Like Donkey Kong, the Cold War, labor war begins, I think, December 1st. So that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Does Milwaukee's World Series Championship destroy the collective bargaining agreement argument from owners?
for a salary cap. Gotta have it. Gotta have it. Gotta have the cap. Gotta have the cap. That's what they were screaming. That's what they were screaming. So I've got campaign trail, EBT card, and Louvre. And we will combine all of these things together. We're gonna have a smorgasbord of the gabagoo, the baba ganoush, the jambalai, a little matzo ball soup. We'll be good to go. Good to go. Now, first of all...
Congratulations to the biggest loser of the World Series. It's not anyone from Tampa Bay. It is nobody associated with the Rays franchise. The biggest loser is Rob Manford. Congratulations, Mr. Commissioner. You win the bad timing award. That's right. Now, there's bad timing. Then there's awful face planting, rake stomping, humiliating, horrible timing. And that's about where this falls. Imagine being the commissioner of baseball, Rob Manford, today.
You have spent months on the campaign trail doing this whistle-stop tour publicly and privately explaining why. Small market teams, you need a salary cap to compete. You just can't get it done without the salary cap. And we're looking out for the little guy. And then two small market teams get to the World Series, and obviously one wins, the Milwaukee Brewers. Who goofed? I've got to know. Now, we all know that the people that run baseball want socialism for the billionaires and capitalism for the ballplayers. This is the situation. This is the battle, right? This is the battle. They tell us that baseball is broken. But exactly who is it broken for and who made the call that it's broken? The Brewers didn't just win the trophy.
They accidentally became the star witness in the labor brouhaha, which is happening this offseason. If you're the union and you go to court and, you know, there's rumors that President Trump's going to get involved in this and somehow make this like a court thing. I don't know how that's going to work. God only knows. But the politicians will get involved in this because they want their baseball. They don't really watch the baseball, but they want their baseball. So if they get involved in it, the union's going to be like, all right, let me call my first character witness the Milwaukee Brewer roster.
All right, they're the star winners. The players' union doesn't need to argue hypotheticals anymore. They've been saying you don't need a cap, small market teams can win. The argument has been by the union, the baseball union, they're like, well, listen, these teams aren't even trying, which is, by the way, correct. You're not supposed to say that part out loud, but a lot of these teams, they don't try to win. It's an ugly little secret about baseball. And Milwaukee and Tampa Bay are small market teams that try to win. And guess what? They have good teams most years, and they have an advantage because unlike the Yankees and the Dodgers, they don't have to have star players. New York and L.A., you've got to have star players. You don't have to have a star player in Tampa Bay. You don't have to have a star player with the Brewers. You don't. And some of these guys will become star players, and that's the way it goes. But listen, the union can now point.
directly at that Brewer roster and Pat Murphy and say, there is your proof of concept. That is the proof of concept. The Milwaukee Brewers are the champions. There's a parade coming up. That's it. And the owners will call them an outlier. Rob Manfred's group of owners, ah, an outlier. But the burden of proof is on the billionaires. The burden of proof is on the billionaires here. They're the ones that say, well, the union's like, well, we don't need a cap because small market names go in. And the owners say, well, no, we need a cap. No, you just need a cap. You want to make more money. But they don't want to say that because nobody will support them. And they're able to convince a lot of dumb people to support the owners. All right, secondly, to the NFL. We go to Dallas.
Every day there's a new story out on Troy Aikman. Does anyone care about this? Like, I'm mildly interested. I'm getting a little burned out already on Aikman. The cowboy legend who shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame, but is in the Hall of Fame. Troy Aikman says there is, quote, a 50-50 chance that he is no longer broadcasting NFL games in 2027. 50-50. Aikman dropped that quote on Wednesday night. He was in the Dallas area. There was an event promoting Peter King's new book. Why should I get Peter on my podcast?
Peter King, the retired NFL insider. I worked with Peter years ago at NBC, and very nice man, Peter King. Does not know that you might want to go into a private bathroom to change your clothes. That's a story for another day, but it's a little awkward. A little awkward. Anyway, Aikman, Troy Aikman, his lucrative Monday night football contract expires after the Super Bowl in Inglewood, in Inglewood, and up to no good.
and it'll be coming up on Valentine's Day of 2027. So his future as an NFL broadcaster is uncertain. There have been plenty of questions about whether or not he'll get another broadcasting job, whether he wants another broadcasting job, or whether he'll leave television altogether. So Troy Aikman, big headline, 50-50 chance I'm no longer a broadcaster. I guess you want to rephrase it, 50% chance he is a broadcaster. Question, are you losing sleep over Troy Aikman's NFL broadcasting future? So I have one word, yawn.
Yawn. That's my word. Now, technically, I do lose sleep because I work the overnight shift, so I'm here all night. I don't go to bed at night. So in many ways, I have lost sleep because I talk about Troy Aikman because I have things I need to talk about, and his name pops up on my radar. But the sports media, the nerds that do media...
On media coverage, you know those guys that are like the TV radio reporters? There's a few of them left. There's hardly anyone that does that anymore. There's a few left. The sports media turning this into a Shakespearean tragedy. To be or not to be on Monday Night Football, that is the question. And I say philly. Enough already. Troy Aikman is not headed to the unemployment line. He's not.
He's not going to be standing out with a cardboard sign outside of the headquarters there in Bristol, Connecticut, saying, hey, can you give me a couple of bucks? Aikman's not going to be applying for an EBT card in 2027. It's not happening. This is a multi-millionaire Hall of Famer with more connections than those old telephone switchboards they used to have used back in the day. If ESPN doesn't want him, and by the way, it's pretty obvious they don't want him.
I know from my years in radio and working in media at different places, if they want you, they will find the money and they will lock you up. They don't want you to get close to free agency. And if they don't want you, they'll hem and haw, we don't have the money and I'm sorry about that. So it's pretty clear that ESPN wants to get out of the Troy Aikman business. But if that's true and it certainly looks that way, somebody else will pay him handsomely to describe third and seven and go, wow, that's a good player. That's a good team. That's a good coach. Or perhaps.
He'll land one of those cushy NFL no-show front office jobs. He's already got one with the Dolphins, which is a part-time consulting thing. Even if he ran the Cowboys, got a job to run the Cowboys, the toughest assignment would be saying, which golf course do I play today? Okay, either way, you can rest easy. America's team can rest easy. Troy Aikman will survive this terrible ordeal.
of being rich and famous and having options what a tough life for Troy Aikman just a real sob story all right now final thought to Pittsburgh we go where Mike McCarthy's Pittsburgh Steelers reports of McCarthy and the Steelers demise greatly exaggerated they are tied in the penthouse of the AFC North five and two five and two Pittsburgh Steelers get out your terrible towel but you know what that means yeah The greatest quarterback of the greatest show on turf, Kurt Warner, now a gas bag at state-sponsored Provda News Service, the NFL Network. Kurt Warner not buying Pittsburgh as a legitimate heavyweight contender, saying, quote, I don't think it's going to go very far, meaning the Steelers formula.
Now, Warner had a front row seat to watch the Steelers. He was calling the game for the mouthpiece of the NFL, the NFL network there. And following Pittsburgh's win over Nolens in France, Warner criticized the lack of explosive plays on the Steelers' offense, the reliance on heavy, long drives, lengthy drives, and all that. The Steelers have almost as many rushing touchdowns as the Fox Sports radio team has. They have one rushing touchdown all season, which I don't think is good. I don't think that's good. And they haven't won a playoff game in a decade, which I also don't think is good. Oh, you're being a hater, Maler!
I know. I know Sean the Hood guy, the big Steelers fan that supports the show and all that. He's like, he probably agrees with me at this point. All right, so the question, we'll keep it simple. Do you agree or disagree with Kurt Warner and his skepticism about the Steelers of 2026? So there's only one answer that you can have. Unless you have a terrible towel shoved up your tuchus, you have to agree. You can't disagree. There should be skepticism. The Steelers, I look at this team, it's kind of like going to the Louvre in Paris and looking at a Monet painting.
And you're like, wow, that looks good. Let me get a little closer. Uh-oh, better walk back. The Steelers look better from a distance. Ergo, you look at that 5-2 record, you look at the fact that they're tied for first place, you're like, wow, that's pretty good. And then you get up close, and it's sloppy joes. It's a sloppy mess. There is no wow factor. There's no razzmatazz. There's no bedazzling. There's no bedazzlement watching the Steelers. It is a football team playing in quicksand. You got old man Rodgers, the old geezer, Aaron Rodgers, operating the NFL's 20th ranked offense.
which is a snooze. And T.J. Watt anchoring what statistically is the sixth-ranked defense. Congratulations. You've built the NFL's most expensive mud puddle. And I believe Kurt Warner nailed it, and it's something that we've ranted about if you've heard the show over the years. One of my big complaints is when your offense needs el perfecto to succeed, it's not going to work. You need 10, 11, 12-play drives to score a touchdown. Those things are really sexy when you do them, and the broadcasters get all horny. They're like, oh, man, they took half the clock in the quarter off. Half the time on the quarter went off the clock and get all excited.
It's great when it works, but you're one holding penalty, one sack. one guy farting at the wrong time, and then all of a sudden you have to punt the ball away because you did it on third down, you slipped on the banana peel, and it's a problem. So we always say, where's the bang, bang? Where are the explosive plays? Where's the kaboom? No. The Steelers, I looked it up, out of all the teams in the NFL, 32 teams, in explosive play rate, which is a nerd stat, the Steelers are ranked 18th. So they're somewhat in the middle. They're kind of in the middle, a little past the middle point on the wrong side. But that is not championship football. That is like a three-hour negotiation.
labor negotiation and then occasionally get a field goal. And Pittsburgh is where they have been under Mike Tomlin. Tomlin now is doing hot takes on TV. Everyone loves hot takes. Pittsburgh is stuck in that mushy middle of the NFL. They're good enough to beat tomato cans. They're not dangerous enough to scare the heavyweights. You look at the top teams in the AFC, no one's like, oh man, we got to go play Pittsburgh. You think Buffalo's like, oh crap, we got to play. We got to play Pittsburgh. We're screwed. Oh no.
Although it is more like the way the Chiefs play. The Chiefs are kind of similar in that regard. They don't have a lot of explosive plays. The Steelers are not built. to get to the hood in Inglewood and go to the Super Bowl. They're built for another January blowout playoff loss on wildcard weekend is what they're built for. And that's about it. It is the Ben Maller Show as we are rolling, rolling, rolling into the early morning hours now. And we keep the train on the tracks. If you would like to be part, 877-99 on Fox, 877-996-6369. Also on X, at Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller if you'd like to be part of the program. So there's a very...
important piece of memorabilia from the Milwaukee Brewers winning the World Series. And there's some question about where it is, who's got possession, who's got possession of the said item. And we know there's quite the backstory. We'll explain what the story is and what the item is. It's a very valuable piece of sports memorabilia that came out of the World Series. We'll get to that. 877-99 on Fox and on X at Ben Maller. And we will do it next. Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
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When you get good coaches on your staff and people begin to recognize them, then they want to hire them. And then you can't stop a guy from trying to improve himself, but you have to replace them. Because once you understand what's going on inside the mind of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game. So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I haven't done, because I didn't have enough money, I don't own the team. I never owned a team. Listen to Football Doesn't Lie on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You've heard the chaos. Now you can see it. Watch all your favorite podcasts from start to finish right inside the free iHeartRadio app.
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Alex Carr, Feifei Lee, Palmer Luckey, because I wanted to understand what the most consequential builders believe, what they fear, and where they think this is all headed. Silicon Valley is always saying the cliche thing about the way to predict the future is to create it. Well, yeah, it's up to us. But when you say us, who's us? Is it 400 people that you know in Silicon Valley? Is it me down here in New Orleans? They're brilliant, controversial, and they're already shaping the future. The question is, whose imagination do we want to live in? This is going to determine the fate of nations and economies and the future of humanity.
Listen to The Builders on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty. We've been trying to figure out how to describe what is Armstrong and Getty on demand for many years. I'm going to give it a shot. So most media is either agenda driven. They intentionally lead parts out or they lie to you. Or they're so shallow. And boring. You don't learn anything anyway. We try to get to the bottom of the stories that are shaping our worlds and help you understand what's actually happening. The Armstrong and Getty Show, practically perfect in every way. Yeah, I really like your guys' show. I've been listening for over 10 years. I'll always be an avid listener and better informed for it. The show is a collection of silly, serious, and irreverent musings of the day. Hilariously balanced with more than just a pinch of sarcasm. Whether it's on the left or the right, if somebody does something or something.
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Accordingly, and a lot of people chiming in on the X machine, OG Art Puffin says another poignant mallard monologue, a perfect blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, gas baggery, juicery, what does he say here? Oh, it's a clipper thing. I'm not in the NBA yet. I know I've talked about it a little bit. I just...
I didn't see any of the game last night. The Clippers played. I'm picking my spots. I'm trying to say I'm picking my spots. What else do we have? Bill Hoosier Bill says, Ben, has there been any TV commentary since Al Michaels USA hockey that is worth a crap? No, TV doesn't need commentary. They have alternative no commentary channels for every sport now. Well, that's that's not technically true. But what they have is this thing called the mute button.
And I use it a lot. At one point I called it the Doris Burke button. That's what I named it there. I don't know. It's a tribute to her. It's a tribute to her. And so I hit that a lot. A lot of these people annoy me. The specialist writes in from Parts Unknown. He says, the main problem with Troy Aikman no longer being on Monday Night Football is that the four-letter network will replace him with some insufferable fool that we'll be stuck with for years.
Well, there have been some wild Monday Night Football broadcasters in my lifetime. Tony Kornheiser was a Monday Night Football broadcaster. Rush Limbaugh, the legendary talk show host. Rush Limbaugh for a little bit was a Monday Night Football commenter. Dennis Miller, the comedian. Whatever happened to him? Is he still around? Is he alive? I don't know. Dennis Miller for a while was the Monday Night Football guy. There have been a few odd ones. Well, the internet says it's going to be either Greg Olson.
Pat McAfee. I've heard Stephen A. Smith. That would be a disaster. Our old morning guy. That would be something. OG Art Puffin sent me that video. That's a great video. Thank you, OG Art Puffin of Kyler Murray. You know, I'm a big fan of the Viking quarterback. I've spent a lot of my career talking about him. And he's been good because he's made me look good because he's been terrible. And I appreciate that. 877-99 on Fox is the call-in number. That's 877-996-6369. Also on X at Ben Maller. Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to Mike the Leprechaun. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun. Welcome.
Good morning, Ben. How are you? According to the song, you're LoserCon, according to the song. I know. I can't believe you play that. How's El Nino doing over there?
Is it affecting your life? El Nino? El Nino. Yeah, you got to say Nino, not Nino. Nino. El Nino, El Nino, El Nino, whatever. Well, no, I'm not. Fortunately, the company doesn't pay me enough to live on the beach, so I don't live near the beach, so it doesn't really affect me other than the rain. So if I live near the beach, I'd be a little concerned, but I don't. And this happens every four or eight years, whatever it is, so it happens every once in a while. Tell Elena I'm sending her a signed Michael Leprechaun rookie card.
Lorraine, I'm told to inform you that you're going to be sent a signed card, a signed card. Rookie card. Rookie card from Mike the Leprechaun. Uh-huh. Yeah. She's very excited. Yeah. You better watch the WNBA tonight. There's nothing else on sports.
Well, I won't watch it tonight because it's being played in the morning. I'll be sleeping my time. It's noon. I will sleep like a baby. I will not miss it because I didn't really watch any of it, so why would I watch that? I don't care. Let me know if you're excited. Good for you. Enjoy it. I'll be sleeping right through it. Basically, they're complaining because it's a 12.30 p.m. gig, right? I mean, people are in bed. People that work the night shift are in bed, but people at work on the East Coast and then the dreaded day shift, and then on the West Coast, they're either going to work or they're still sleeping or whatever. And that's their problem. That ain't my problem. That's their problem.
They should have figured that out. That's a bad job by them. They had a big bill passed in Congress over a month ago for AMFM. Have you heard about that? This is another joke. AM FM? Well, no, it's about AM. There was a question about AM radio. It was going to happen to AM radio, but that's been going on for a while, yeah. I saw David Sampson, who used to be the president of the Marlins, did a terrible job. Now he's a gas bag. David Sampson said Major League Baseball will no longer have radio. They don't need baseball on the radio anymore. What a joke. Baseball is actually better on the radio than it is on TV. There's a guy who doesn't know broadcasting, but that's fine. I do like my radio more. AM FM is awesome. Mallard, fabulous. Mallard.
AM FM. Oh, okay. So that was a dad joke. I got you. That wasn't a dad joke. That was a dad joke. The jokes are tomorrow, dude. The jokes are tomorrow. Today's Thursday. Jokes are on Friday. Thank you. Go away. So we have an update on a big piece of sports memorabilia. Let me go to Frank the Tank. Frank, did you see this story, Frank the Tank? Where's the ball, Frank? Where's the ball, Frank the Tank? What are you talking about? All right. So the World Series ended last night. Now, what is the most valuable piece of memorabilia from a World Series? Oh, the trophy.
No! The ball! The ball! Yeah, the ball. The final out ball. Where's the ball? Yeah, they did mention that. There have been lawsuits. The Red Sox, when they ended the Curse of the Bambino, I think it was Doug Mankiewicz, the first baseman, had the ball. Former Twain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had the ball, and then he wanted to keep... I think he wanted to keep the ball, and then there was like a lawsuit. Who owns the ball? It was like a big... It's been years, but it was a big mess. So anyway, at the end of the World Series, Jake Bowers had the ball. Jake Bowers had the ball, and he gave the ball away.
Frank the Tank. He gave it to Pat Murphy, the Brewers manager. It's a gift. You don't seem impressed. You don't seem impressed, Frank the Tank. I don't really remember Pat Murphy. Not when he played. Well, he was a college coach for years at Notre Dame and some other places. Well, Pat Murphy got the final out ball. Here's where the story gets interesting, Frank the Tank. Murphy thanked Bowers, and then he unloaded on another baseball team.
This is Jake Bowers and Pat Murphy. So Jake Bowers gives Murphy the ball. Here's the ball. Thank you. And so Murphy thanked him and said, quote, this is a quote, you're going to be a rich, and then he used the F word. Just remember when you're on that horse blank Yankee team and you're all playing for yourselves, just remember this is the way we used to do it. Close quote.
Yep. I'm not done with this story, Frank the Tank. Here's the kicker. You ready for the kicker? Yeah. Jake Bauer's already played for the Yankees. He was on the Yankees in 23 and batted 202 for the Yankees. Along with your Dodgers. That's what I call them, the Jagger Knots.
Okay. Frank, you're not really helping my story. You don't seem impressed. Go ahead. No, go ahead. I'm done with the story. You don't seem impressed, Frank, the Tank. I'm trying to help you be impressed. The reason why I call him is because— All right, how about this? How about this? Maybe you're impressed by this. Who cares? How about this story? All right, Frank, how about this story? So the Brewer fans, all those people from Wisconsin that were in Florida for the World Series, they drank a month's worth of beer in a single day at a bar in Florida. They were there for the World Series. How about that? You're impressed by that? Yeah, they probably took the beer with them because the headquarters is up there in Milwaukee. Of course.
Frank, how would they take the beer with them if they were at a bar in Florida? They could put it in the cooler. They could put it in the cooler. But wouldn't that not affect the bar then? I know the 50 drunkest counties in the U.S. are almost all in Wisconsin. I get it. Actually, there's some in Iowa. If you're getting two other states, Missouri, there's Bush Stadium. No, no, no, no, no. I have a few. Frank, the 50 drunkest counties in the United States. The state of Wisconsin is all lit up. There's a few in Iowa.
There's North Dakota and South Dakota. That's it. They're all in the upper Midwest. You people love the booze. Y'all love the booze. I'm getting much drunk that I know of. Not that I know of. Not around here. Not around here in Iowa. You don't drink? No. It's been many, many years ago since I even had a sip of alcohol. All right. I got you. I did see Rebecca the Ram fan. 20 years sober. That's impressive, right? 20 years sober for Rebecca the Ram fan. Good for her? No. What I was going to ask you... No, I don't care, Frank. Thank you for the call. All right. There's a great Frank the Tank right there. We love Frank the Tank. A fan favorite.
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Good morning, and I got one happy Brewers fan that I'm looking forward to seeing this morning. He's one of the kids I cross. Oh, good. All right. Well, I'm sure he'll be very excited here. Big day for him. The Brewers are the champs of baseball. That's Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard. Coach Russell, our beloved high school football coach in the Orlando area. Hello, Coach Russell. Welcome. Good morning. Good morning. Got senior night tomorrow night. I'm sending 30 guys out for the last home game regular season-wise. So, yeah, big night tomorrow night. That's exciting. All right. Always remember your last game there. All right. And Hector is in Hartford, Connecticut. Hello, Hector. Welcome. Good morning. Good morning.
You're going to be one of our judges, Hector, so good luck to you on that. All right, here we go. Story number one, Lamar Odom. We've got to figure out which story is not true, separating fiction from fact. Story number one, Lamar Odom, former NBA player, has become the first NBA star to join OnlyFans. He told TMZ people hear OnlyFans and automatically think one thing, but I'm not here to tell you what you will or won't see.
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From Fact. And we start out with America's favorite crossing guard, Daniel, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Daniel, is it number one, number two, or number three? I'm going to go with number one. All of them can't be on OnlyFans. Are you on there, Daniel? You're not OnlyFans. Nope, nope, nope. Sorry. Yeah, you can't. You're a crossing guard. You can't be on there. All right, Coach Russell. My man, Coach Russell. Got the big game tomorrow. Senior, last home game for the seniors. Coach Russell, which one is favorite? I'm going to go with number two because as a coach who has seven championship rings, I hope they wouldn't do that to their people. Look at you, Coach. That's a humble brag. Good for you. And Hector, one, two, or three. Hector and Hartford.
Number two. Number two. Well, believe it or not, it's actually number three. Number one. That was the fake story. Number three. Number three. That number. What number three? This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.