December 6, 2024 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about the Packers losing to a last second field goal by the Detroit Lions on TNF, the reaction to Eric Bienemy's dismissal from the UCLA Bruins after one year as the OC, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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Number one with a bullet all right, So leading off
this play the Hit small Man. Play the Hits is
one of our big bosses likes to say, so our
lead this hour from Motown. The curtain went up on
Week fourteen. Week fourteen of the NFL season. My god,
the it's wild out fat well usually that follows Week thirteen.
So we had an NFC North slobber knocker Jordan Love
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and the Packers trying to get revenge as they paid
a visit to the great state of Michigan and a
dated Ford Field will playdate with Jared Goff and the Lions.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You had al Michael's there. You knew it's a big game.
You knew it was a big game.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Al Michaels Herbie and his new dog, and they had
the call there on the Amazon Solid mashup. This is
not a game that sucked. It was It was a
game that we thought would be pretty good. It was,
and if you saw it or not, maybe you were
looking outside the window and doing nothing. You know that
the Packers trying to take the Lion by the tail
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and had that work out well. Jared Goff threw not one,
not two, but three touchdown passes, and somebody named Jake
Bates who sounds like a serial killer, had a thirty
five yard field goal as time expired. The Lions are
in the play. That trite Lions are in the play.
Did anyone think they weren't going to make the playoffs
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this year? The Lions are in the plus thirty four
thirty one year Final as they take down the pack
on a Thursday night game. The Lions in the playoffs,
the NFC's top team at twelve and one, and holy
Barry Sanders Batman, where have you gone? Wayne Fonts? The
Lions have broken the franchise record Bobby Lane, the Curse
(03:19):
of Bobby Lane.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
No more.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Eleven straight wins for the Lions, and that includes a
couple over the Green Bay Packers and Detroit staying ahead
of Minnesota in the NFC North. So you've got three
teams likely in the playoffs and that division. Lions are
in Packers at nine and four and Minnesota at ten
and two. But the better story is in the losing
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locker room. So that is where we will begin our
in depth team coverage as we break this down. So
the question for the class, who gets the blame cheese
curds for matt LeFleur and the Packers. So I've got
medical scrubs, code Gray, and Riverboat and we will combine
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all of these things together, all of these things, and
we hope to be as brave as a lion.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That's what we hope to be, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So a.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Let's start with the green Bay marching in Chadow.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Society has reached out to me, and we do very
well in northern Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I think it's because my brother lives there. So the
Green Bay fans, they've all told me it's not that
the Packers lost the game, it's the officials gave the
game to the Lions.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There were some shady calls in this game, but that
is a smoke screen, and don't overlook the thing right
in front of your eyes. The Green Bay Packers defense,
for better or worse, was worse. They sucked at a
time you cannot suck and Jared Goff was out there
and I swear he was wearing medical scrubs.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
In a large.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Chunk of the fourth quarter there, the Lions all defense
was surgical as they sliced up the Packer defense, and
it was like a child playing with playto It wasn't
anything exotic. It wasn't like they had reinvented the playbook.
Detroit the better team here. They had a lot of
success running very basic NFL plays.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The dig root or route if you will right over
the middle, right over.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The middle, you're supposed to defend the middle, and they
didn't do that. And also a lot of timing play,
little screen passes, good blocking, bad tackling, good blocking. Jared
Goff completed thirty two passes and if my math I
jotted this down, I think it was the final thirteen
passes that he completed and just terrible tackling technique. Detroit
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ends up with twenty seven first downs. They had up
almost four hundred yards office three hundred ninety one. But
it's how they were able to methodically hold the Packers
offense all off the field that converted It's forty seven
percent on third down, but four or five eighty percent
on fourth down and eighty percent in the red zone.
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So the Detroit Lions getting or done, although they did
not get it done against the points spread. The pack
could not get the Lions offense off the field. Detroit
ran seventy sixth place. The Cheeseheads ran forty five places.
That's a plus thirty one advantage if my malor math
is correct, and so it's rather shocking that it came
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down to a field goal. If you run thirty one
more place then the other team, generally speaking, you're winning
by a lot. You don't need to wind the clock
down and get a late field goal to win the game.
And let's also not overlook the fact that while Jordan
Love in the second half was good in the beginning
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of the game, he was garbage.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
At the start.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh, you're not supposed to say that he's the new
savior of the Packers. He was bad in the first
half and the Packers were playing uphill. Now, Fortunately, thanks
to some generosity by the Lions, the Packers were able
to get right back and get.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The lead within four minutes in the second half.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
But the first half was a struggle and then they
were playing uphill after that. Now turning the page. Let
me get to the Lions in a minute. We have
some great audio here that I want to play. So
the Packers coach, Matt LeFleur, Matt Lafleur, there was an
incident before the game.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Okay we saw this or not before.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So there was a heated exchange that happened that there
was a temperature that had risen up in the room.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
There was an exchange with the Lion fan.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
This is pregame, so the game hadn't even kicked off
yet and from what I have been able to uncover it.
So this guy was this Lions fan was invited onto
the field for the pregame festivity. I think he was
there to hold the flag if I read properly and
well rather than me, attla started yelling at the guy.
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The guy was yelling at him. They went back and forth.
But here's Matt Lafleur breaking down the Packer coach on
how that went down.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
He was talking junk to our players, giving him the
throat slash sign and you know you're trying to de
escalate it and then he gets in my face. So
I thought it was pretty unsportsman like, like I've never
seen that. I've been on many fields and usually they
police that much better. I just I thought it was
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an arrogant fan that you know, wanted to get in
part of the action, and just I would like to
see security or something step in there and get him
out of there, because it's it's he shouldn't be doing.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That, Oh I should be doing now the beginning of that.
I think it's a pretty funny drop. Can we just
play the the guy when he said he was talking
junk to our players. I think that's a funny drop
on the show. Let's hear that again, that beginning part.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Hear that he was talking junk to our players?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Oh yeah, right, there Isn't that a funny drug out
of context drop? Wouldn't that be a fun drop on
the show? Like out of context? I think that would
be great. And he doesn't say anyone by name. You
don't even know who that is. Matt Lafleur. I think
that's good. All right, So let's get to the scorecard here,
the judges' scorecards. How did you score.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
The pregame verbal battle royale between.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The Packers coach Matt Lafleur and Joe Blow, Lions fan.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
How did you score it, So I go to my scorecard.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I scored it a ten to nine, ten nine advantage
in favor of the fan. I love the fact that
Matt Lafleur is talking about unsportsmanlike, hey, hey, coach, he's
a fan. He's not an athlete. It's not high school,
it's not little league.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
He's just a drunk guy or somebody that's on the
spectrum who's out there now in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
They would call this a code gray person, a random schmendering.
This guy gets invited onto the field. Not everyone gets
to go out in the field before an NFL game.
This guy gets invited on the field. He ends up
thinking he's part of the show, right, I'm part of
the show. And then he's like doing double duty. Not
only is he there as a fan, but he's a
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enemy combatant. He's got he's the flag guy, he's the
instigator guy. He works himself into a lather, talking trash.
And while the guy is certainly a douche canoe, who
does that, right? I mean really, who does I mean
a douche that's like a that's.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
A douche move.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But that's a real fan, all right, that's a fanatic
fan is short for fanatic, the guys that die hard.
He had convinced himself he was actually on the Lions.
He had convinced himself that it's like the fourth wall
had been broken, and he was in the show. He
was on the stage, and he's a Foxhole guy. He's
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a Foxhole guy, and I thought that that was just great.
All right, last word, let's circle back to the Lions,
the team that is the top team on the NFC
side of a bracket, and we'll zero in on them.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So all that glitters is not gold. Detroit is absolutely
monster mashing with this wind streak. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I've never seen anything like this, None of us have,
because it's never happened before in any of our lives
that the Detroit Lions have been this good. It's a
two horse race in the NFC. You've got the Lions
on one side and the Eagles are, for lack of
a better term, bird dogging the Lions. But what gives
you pause? Let me ask the question, what gives you
pause with the Lions, who look amazing? But what gives
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you pause heading down the stretch of the NFL season.
So I've got software and riverboat. That's what I jotted down,
software and riverboat. So a Jared Golf Oh, I got
a belt A.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Jared Goff has been mister smooth in Motown. I understand
he has a lot of local commercials.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
He's a darling there, you know, the local attorney's office
or whatever. They have Jared Goff on there despite his success.
Having watched Jared Goff poop his pants many a time
over the years in big games, back in his days
with the Rams, I would advise anyone who is fully
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investing in Jared Goff to tread lightly. Now, my guy
Spaccoli knew exactly where I was going with is. But
Jared Goff has faulty software. There is a trojan horse
glitch in that software, and he's going to break your
heart at some point.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I and he said, well, he doesn't throw.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I heard Almicha doesn't throw a lot of interceptions, but boy,
when he does, they're humdingers.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
They are humdingers all right. Now.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
The other part of this is the riverboat gambler. Now,
the other part of this is the riverboat gambler.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So Dan can is a hybrid. It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
They should study Dan Campbell because he's mostly a meathead.
He's a typical meat head coach here. I want to
eat your knee caps.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But in terms of modern football, he is fully, fully
invested in the dogma of analytics. He's all about that analytics.
I just imagine in his headphones. There's some nerd in
the press box. All right, Dan, go for it, all right?
Whatever you say, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's like a like a caveman, Dan Campbell.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Campbell went for it on fourth down five times in
the game Thursday. If you saw it, you know what
we're talking about, including with one yard to go with
the Detroit twenty one yard line with forty three seconds left,
which tells you he has no confidence in his own defense.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Right, If you're afraid that you give.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Jordan Love forty three seconds to go, your defense can't
keep them out of field goal range. That is a
vote of no confidence for the line defense. But it
is also a rubber stamp for the analytics. That's an
analytical move. All these old coaches are rolling over in
their graves, right, what are you doing? But they did it,
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and it worked out, and it almost backfired because Jared
Goff got tripped by one of his offensive linemen.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
He got stepped on.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
They still converted the line to gain marker, but it backfired.
At one point they turned the ball over on downs.
The one time it didn't work for the lines, they
turned the ball over on downs late third quarter at
their own thirty yard line, handing the Packers a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
And that's the kind.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Of thing when you do that in the playoffs, that's
the kind of thing that haunts you. Right, that's the
kind of thing that gets you fired. And even if
you're just doing with the analytics people.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
And all that stuff doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But we know how this book ends, right, we know
how this book normally ends.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's out of the Bible.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Live by the sword, die by the sword, Live by
the analytics, die by the analytics. It's right there. It
is not making that up. It's amazing they do about
analytics in the Bible.
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We only have seven or eight people listening, so we
don't lose anybody. But our lead this hour is from football.
We'll certainly talk more later on about the Thursday night
game as the Lions win on a last second field
goal over the Packers.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
So that game goes the way of the Lions.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Packers. Bad first half, good second half. Lions though dominated
time of possession in Detroit despite some very analytically driven
play calls, they will pull it out. But our lead
this hour is from Westwood. Now, this is not about
the Wizard of Westwood. This is nothing to do with
UCLA basketball. I can't remember the last time that we
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talked about UCLA football other than the mocket when Brian
Finley used to work here.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
But there is you know, I'm nuts isn't working here anymore.
He'd be very proud of us.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But there's winds of change howling around the football world.
It's coach change season, and the winds of change blue
through the UCLA campus much like the football team blows
over there. Now, normally that doesn't even get a mention
on this show. Why would it, right, We do broadcasting,
not narrow casting, but this rises to the level of
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high crimes and misdemeanors on the Malard monologue scale. So
if you don't know by now why I'm bringing this
up up, that means you haven't been paying attention.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Bad job by you.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So if you don't know, let me give you the
thumbnail recap so you see. El Hey, the gutty little
Bruins of Westwood have fired offensive coordinator Eric Pienemy after
only one season.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Bye bye, see you later.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
The Bruins finished a dismal five and seven this season
in the Big Ten. They failed to qualify for Bowl eligibility,
which is really hard to do. And now is this
a massive deal? It depends on what side of the
aisle you're sitting on. The Enemy, with much fanfare, joined
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new Ucaler coach Deshaun Foster's staff after calling plays as
calling plays for the NFL's Commanders for a season, but
he is most known as the offensive coordinator for Canzaw
City and not one but two Super Bowl teams. And
so the Enemy the buyout worth more than one point
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two million. He's also still getting paid by the Washington Commanders,
so he's like a Dodger player. He's getting a lot
of money to do nothing. But let us discuss the
question what is your reaction, your reaction to Eric B.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Enemy being dismissed from uc LA.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So I've got phone booth, staircase and sitcom experience, phone booth,
staircase and sitcom experience, and we'll lock all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice
round of golf, which Eric Benemy can play a lot
of golf. Now he doesn't have to worry about going
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anywhere to work because he just can hang out and
golf every day.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
So Na Burn, that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Let me begin by pointing out that Eric Benemy's agent
is claiming that he was not fired. Everyone else is
saying he was fired, but bane Mey's agents saying he
just decided to quit on UCLA after one year because
he wanted to go back to the NFL. Now, if
you believe that you're a low information fan, you're a
low information fan. So Eric B Enemy at this point
has to have that sinking feeling, that sinking feeling here.
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This is in a masculating situation. And what he has
been able to do, I'm gonna I'm gonna talk to
you in cartoon terminology. He has done a reverse Superman.
Now you know what a reverse robinhood is. I take
from the poor to give to the rich. But this
is a reverse superman. He has gone into the phone booth.
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And he was the NFL's whiz kid, right up and
coming coach.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
He went into the phone booth. He exited as the
village idiot in no time, no time at all.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
How bad is it? The person in the back of
the room ass how bad is it? Well, under Eric Banemy,
you see LA ranked in the bottom percentile in every offensive.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Category that matters.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
They were one hundred and twenty six nationally among D
one schools in scoring, one hundred and twenty six. They
averaged less than eighteen and a half points per game
this past season. They did not score more than twenty
points in their last four games. In any of those games,
they also the Bruins ranked one hundred and seventeenth in
total offense one hundred and seventeenth in total offense. They
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also had the fifth worst running attack in collegiate football.
They sucked to the north, they sucked to the south,
they sucked to the west, they sucked to the east,
they sucked everywhere under Eric p Enemy And so now
he does the walk of shame out of the UCLA
football program, and his agent is trying to spin spin,
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spinning spin spin, working as a spin doctor, and that's
what an agent's supposed to do and making it seem like, oh,
he just sided to quit after one year, which doesn't
look good. Even if that was true, that would make
it look terrible. I know, gullible people will believe that,
but think how bad that looks like. You go to college,
like the whole point of is you're supposed to be
there and you make a commitment to the players. You know,
the players are.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
All taking nil money now and bouncing around the country,
but that doesn't matter. You're you're the coach. You're supposed
to be above that. You know, you agree to be
there and you have to be there for more than
one year.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And so either he looks bad because he's lying through
his agent, or he looks bad because he quit on
the UCLA football program and should have never gone there
if you only wanted to be there for one year,
makes no sense right now, Pitch two.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Is there a lesson? Is there a lesson from Eric
b Enemy and his path his journey on the coaching circuit?
So right this is a lesson plan, be careful what
you wish for, Be careful what you wish for the enemy.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
He had his eye on the prize, and I remember
we did monologues when he was in Kansas City. If
you go back to the archives, I know Tony in
the Bay Area loves.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Listening to old shows.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So if you go to listen to some of our
old show on the podcast going back years and people
were really upset that the enemy didn't get head coaching jobs,
and the argument was always, well, he's got to leave
Kansas City. He's got to prove that he is not
a byproduct of the coach he's under and the quarterback.
And so he goes and does what he's supposed to do.
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He followed the advice.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
He left Kansas City to go out and show the
world that he's not a fraud, that he can coach
on his own, and he can coach up players, polish
some turns, make them better, and that was the mission.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
But this guy was flying high in Kansas City, and
he was always the bride'smaid, never the bride.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
And for head coaching.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Jombs, eighteen interviews turned down for eighteen coaching jobs. Head
coaching jobs eighth for eighteen, oh for eighteen. Now I
know the story about Abraham Lincoln where Lincoln I think
it was eight elections Lincoln lost and then became such
an important president that he's he's immortalized on money, you know,
and his history back in.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
The early days of America. But eighteen interviews, no jobs,
I mean squadouche in terms of jobs.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So the enemy he leaves Messouri, he follows the mallor advice,
career advice. He's going to prove to me, He's going
to prove to you, and he's going to prove to
the NFL that he's not just writing in the afterglow
of Mahomes and Andy Reid. He goes out and who goofed.
I've got to know. Ever since then, he's been bouncing
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down a never ending staircase.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Lower and lower and lower and lower and lower and lower.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Just like that.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
He bet on himself and he has been betrayed by
the man in the mirror.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
The man in the mirror has betrayed him.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
The Washington foot team his one season was twenty fourth
in offense, twenty where they were worse with him than
the year before with the same crappy players. They were
worse with him than the year before he arrived. And
then we gave it the numbers earlier on UCLA. They
speak for themselves and how terrible.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Terrible they are. All right, final point.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
We now get in the plane and we're gonna fly
to Minnesota where Femi is the number one uber each driver.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
We've got our buddy, you know, Eke there.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
And Roseville, Minnesota, Rob in Minnesota. Got a lot of
our friends there in Minnesota. So that is also where
this weekend it's the Kirk Cousins revenge game. Who the
former Purple People Eaters quarterback.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
He's back.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
He's returning to his old stomping grounds. He'll be wearing
different laundry, be wearing different laundry the Atlanta Falcon laundry
lead up to this game. I thought this was interesting. Steve,
who lives in Saint Paul, sent this to me. I
did not see this, so thank you, Steve. This interview
with Justin Jefferson, The Vikings wide receiver. Justin Jefferson was
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interviewed this week and says that he has not spoken
to Kirk Cousins one time. Not spoken to him one
time since he left the Minnesota football team in free
agency to go to Atlanta. Not one conversation. Is this
a big deal, a little deal, or no deal? So
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I have this as I jotted down, no deal. It's
to be expected. And the reason this is to be
expected is because I'm an adult and I've lived jobs,
and I work in radio. They fire people all the time,
as you guys learned, unfortunately we all learned again, it's
very unstable business, the business I'm in, and so I've
worked with a lot of people that have come and
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gone in my life and they're work friends. So the
fact that all those quiet on the Western front is
not a surprise because in the real world, you're not
getting what I call the sitcom experience. Back in the
when people watch sitcoms, you watch the boob Tube and
all those old sitcoms. You know, people would work together,
you go, oh yeah, you know, go have some Bruski's
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after work, you go bowling with your buddies from work,
you know, like you live in the same building, you know,
and all that. That's the sitcom experience. In the real world,
you have work friends who are not real friends. They're colleagues, right,
they're not real friends. I'll give you alf I have.
I have a holiday party. It's actually coming up this weekend. Uh,
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And I always make an effort to invite people that
I liked a lot, that I worked with.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
They were my work friends.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
And the ones that show up tell me that they're
actually not just work friends. They actually there's like a
real friendship.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Most of them don't show up though, because they were
work friends. I get it. I totally get it because
they were not real friends. Because real a real.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Friend will make an effort to be there and show up,
but fake friends, like they will not show up.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
And so there is a different in that.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And then the other thing is like Cousins is older
than Jefferson. There's a big age gap there. So they're
in different parts of the circle of life. And it's
like you chit chat with a with a co worker
and you talk about a lot of in a normal job,
you talk about stuff on the.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Surface, right, so, hell, how was your weekend? Hey, what
are you doing this week?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And all that kind of stuff, But there's nothing really
deep going on there. And if you were really in trouble,
do you think you're the person you work with, your
work friend would really help you. Probably not right, And
so the idea that Justin Jefferson is not buddy buddy
with Kirk Cousins, it would be surprising if they were friends,
because they were just work friends.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
There were colleagues, that's all they were.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
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Here we go to the third degree that gets grailled.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
With one more win by the Buffalo Bills this season,
Sean McDermott will become only the fifth coach in NFL
history to have five straight seasons of at least eleven wins.
Bens McDermott underrated, No.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
No, he's I fired him two years ago, Coop, I
am fired in a monologue. I fired Sean McDermott and
thin it was two years ago. I might have fired
him again last year. He's a fine regular season coach.
The Bills have managed to futs away several big playoff
games in this era with Josh Allen and until they win,
until they get to the super Bowl and win the
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Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I don't think he's underrated.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I think he's a good regular season coach, but they
got to win the big one next.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Earlier this week, frequent FSR contributor Albert Breer predicted that
even if Russell Wilson were to make a nice playoff run,
the Steelers would not franchise tag him and actually let
him test the open market with a request that he
gives them the right to match any of any offer
that he gets. Ben, did you see it going down
this way?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
One hundred percent? There's no reason to pay Russell Wilson
a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
He's not that good. Well, he's just had a big
gam against the Bangles.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Everyone has a good game against the because they suck,
all right, Russell Wilson is He is an older quarterback.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
He's in his mid thirties.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You know, he doesn't throw the ball particularly great to
Mike Tomlins Credit and Arthur Smith. They've coached him up.
Good job by them, but he's replaceable. Right, you can
find somebody else who's at level of quarterback and not
pay him all that much money.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
And so you know it was me, I wouldn't pay him,
but we'll see right next.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
It is being reported that the Yankees plan B if
they are unable to resign Juan Soto is to go
after Willia Domis, Ben, how would you grade this backup plan?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
So I think they're better off getting a shovel and
digging up Joe Demijio.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I know, listen, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Obviously, Willie Domas a fine player, but the Yankees, if
they don't bring back one Soda, They're gonna have to
sign like two or three guys to replace him.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
You know what I'm saying, Like, have.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
A convoy of people replacing One Soda, not just William Domas,
who's a fine player but not as good.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
How do we go cru below you pass the sedision
that is a weed? Put it on the board. I
won the game on the All Time Wins gig, I
won again.
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Knock Knock.
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Who's there?
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Blame Weed, Blame we too.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. That it
is Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. These are
actual jokes by actual listeners, and we did a wake
up call much like a five Star Hotel. We'll wake
you up, weed man, hippie who had such a tough day.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
At work he was sleeping, right, weed man? I mean,
is there any other radio show where they like, did
you think? Howard Stern calls tem Bobbs says, hey, you missed.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Your time to call the show.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
I love you day?
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All right? Weed man?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
All right, well these are actual jokes and him, I actual, wait,
what were you doing?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I know you were sleeping, Usten.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
No, no, I was listening to your show.
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That's a lot. Now.
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I called you and the way you answered the phone
is the way someone answers the.
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Phone when you're sleeping. Yeah, that said you were You're like,
who's this?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
All right?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Here we go. Actual jokes by actual listeners.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Why did Lizzo lose her appetite back on Thanksgiving? Why
she saw Jelly Roll performing on a football halftime concert
eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Why did Lizzo call it quits
on her diet?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Why?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Well, she was upset that she lost two pounds and
nobody noticed. Noah, Noah in Austin. Did hear that Lizzo
skipped a meal yesterday?
Speaker 7 (32:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah, that's Unfortunately, the Dow Jones immediately lost five hundred
points as it was all her.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Buddy Darryl in the Ozarks. Daryl loved the Ozarks.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well, morale on Lizzo's tour bus is sky high since
she lost all those pounds, we've made really yeah, now
they can skip the weight stations.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
They don't have to stop at those way.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Stations there, so they saved time us Joe at Virginia Beach,
Thank you, Joe.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Why won't Lizzo ever tour again? Weed Man?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Why because she is only half the singer that she
used to be. Our buddy Chip in Maine, who makes
these really good molasses cookies, So thank you, Chiff.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Did you hear that Lizzo? I think she's like his wife,
and I love molasses cooking together to the I should
you know?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I might make some for the party, and I'm thinking
about making some of the party. Did you hear that, Lizzo?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
We met you coming into the holiday party this weekend? We'ed, man, Oh,
that would be great.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Ah be so much fun. Did you hear that you're invited?
If you can make to La, you can come to
the party.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Did you hear that Lizzo agreed to be a paid
celebrity endorser of the Ben Mahler Show. So yeah, yeah,
she said she would do it for peanuts.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
That's the joke. Great there, that's George and uvaldu Texas.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
George is a fine teacher in Uvalde, Texas, raising the
youth of America. What does Lizzo think of lame jokes
of the week? What apparently she's fed.
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Up with them?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
That's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota speak Ben's lame jokes. You
want to send jokes in? Send them care of Benmahler
Show at gmail dot com. Put jokes in the headline
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Number. The way this works best.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
For us is Q and A jokes so Q and
then the A part the punchline, and then underneath that
puts your.
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Name on every joke that helps us.
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Out a line.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
If you do that otherwise, you know where does weed
Man keep all of his worldly possessions when he's homeless?
Where the pawnshop? That's Surfer Todd, the comedian. Good to
have your Backsurfer Todd. How did weed Man hit me?
Acchoire a new car?
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
He Lisa it? He Lisa did it? Lisa, did I
screwed that? I saw Darrel from the Ozarks?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Bad job by by Well, weed Man Junior would miss
out on many things.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Can you name too? I can name too?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
What but wait till your father comes home from work
is meaningless? And he could never do take your child
to work day. That's Dennis in Detroit. That's that's not nice.
Isn't your kid like really smart?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Weed Man like your kids? Can you believe that?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
So?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
I guess the apple does fall far from the tree
weed Man? Right? I mean, my god, I'm believable. That
might be the mail man as kid. I don't know
all right?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Why was weed Man banished to the outdoors after fully
gorging himself at the.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Annual Shelter Vision Thanksgiving meal?
Speaker 7 (36:08):
Why?
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Well?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
The answer, my friend is blowing in the wind. Blowing
in the wind. The answer why the big Ben's lame jokes? Aleikue?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Why does weed Man Hippie keep thinking that they are
calling him by the wrong name every time he goes
to jail? Why but Phil your cellmate keeps saying, Hello,
Ben Dover. I don't know what that's all about. That's
a John. That joke never gets old John at Youngstown.
Thank you for that, John Youngstown, Ohio. He always loves you,
(36:38):
weed Man. There's a lot of jokes about you, Big
Ben's lame jokes A week well, Blair and Maine spent
hours studying for the exam on the circulatory system.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
But he got enough anyway. Wow. Yeah, his efforts were
in vain. It's a guy named Manny. I don't know where.
I think Manny's a massive Jesus, but maybe not.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
I didn't write that down, So bat you out bye me?
Speaker 8 (37:03):
Manny?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
You can kick my ass. Did you hear that?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Bill Miller's Barbecue in Texas has agreed to be a
sponsor on the Overnight Show. No, yeah, it makes sense
because Bill Miller is the lone star of the show.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That's George and Uvalde, Texas.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Angry Bill and Real Talk were on the live air
together not that long ago, and Angry Bill.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Said a bad word and got dropped. You hear about that?
Speaker 7 (37:31):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
No yeah? And Real Talk said, hey, I was gonna
say that one.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
That's Marina Chef in Omaha, the great Marina Chef. Of course,
he could have inserted a seat of Angry Bill and
Real Talk. He could have gone with Tony in the
Bay Area as well. What classic old movie does Ben
like the watch after his hearty Thanksgiving meal to enjoy the.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Aroma of his digestion? What Gone with the wind dog
would win that show? That's Frank and Fargo who sent
that one in?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Well, why did blind Scott never get paranoid while doing
all those drugs? Why because nobody could ever see his
eyes with his glasses on.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
That's Daryl in the Ozarks with a blind joke. What
do you call angry bill robbing?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Bitcoin? What clipto currency? That's a chip in Maine? Who
sent that one in?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
We have some dad jokes that were sending this one
from Lenny? Who sent this one in?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I see he's in South Carolina. I'm guessing Lenny's probably
not originally from there, but.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
What do you call a factory that makes okay products?
What a status factory?
Speaker 8 (38:51):
All right?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
See if you can get this one we made? This
is from Dave in Denver. What do you call an
army of babies?
Speaker 7 (38:57):
What?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Oh, that's easy. We met the infantry the infantree. You
see what I you see what I did there?
Speaker 7 (39:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
There you go? All right, Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. This want's from Chipping Maine.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
What do you call an Indianapolis quarterback that can't pass?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
What a one trick pony? A one trick pony?
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All right, there is beg you weed Man go back
to bed now, we man, thank you our friend in Miami,
the great Billy weed Man Hippie.
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Oh yes it is. How about a segment that really
don't understand and you don't have to see the dentist
theop on entertainment start right out.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Wow, that's a non sequitur. Are you saying the coop
scoop is like going to the dentist? Is that what
we're in.
Speaker 7 (39:57):
I've just said a hop up the segment that we
all understand on Fridays and you don't have to see
thet we just stright.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, does not use it is not sugarcoated because there's
no sugar. It won't win your teeth. Wow.
Speaker 8 (40:14):
Yeah, thank you, Marcel.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Amazing work. How lucky are we to have Marcell and Brooklyn.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
Like, huh, all right cool. So anyway, cocooment, we're gonna
start in the theaters. And this weekend we have we have
a new movie and an old movie. Uh so, first
I'll talk about the new movie that's out this weekend.
Speaker 8 (40:35):
It is called Night Bitch.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
We're on the radio.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
No, it is not a dog. It is not a
lorraina biopic.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Wow, there's a movie called Night Bitch.
Speaker 8 (40:50):
Yes, it is called Yes, it's called Night Bitch.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
And it starts what was there other idea for the name?
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Well it so. It stars Amy Adams and Scoot mcneerey.
You've heard of Amy Adams, and she is a woman
who pauses her career to be a stay at home mom,
seeking a new chapter in her life.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
And then.
Speaker 6 (41:09):
Just just she she her maternal routine takes a surreal turn.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Spoiler alert. She turns into a dog.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Oh what kind of dog?
Speaker 8 (41:21):
I'm not sure what kind of dog?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Old dog? Puffy? Well, the fluffy dog.
Speaker 6 (41:27):
The poster has many different dogs in the poster. But anyway,
hence the name of the movie Night Bitch. Okay, yes,
I saw, in fact, we both saw trailer for this
when we saw Wicked.
Speaker 8 (41:39):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 4 (41:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Oh, let me tell you so.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
I I tried to watch that. That's like a three
and a half hour movie.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
That's like watching that's like.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Watching a Red Sox Yankee game from like you know,
two thousand.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
My god, oh, I was so bad.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
It was.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I was so good that terrible. I fell asleep after
like it was like, I was like, I just did
a nap.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I was like it still was on when I woke
up and I slept for like two hours, it was still.
Speaker 8 (42:07):
Going all right.
Speaker 6 (42:09):
Well, anyway, now the old movie that is back in theaters.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time.
It is Interstellar, the old Christopher Nolan movie with Matthew
McConaughey and uh, who else is in that one? That
the chick that I really one girl?
Speaker 5 (42:25):
I don't remember her name.
Speaker 6 (42:27):
Yes, she's from in Batman and stuff. Why am I
blinking on her name?
Speaker 2 (42:32):
No?
Speaker 6 (42:33):
Not Nicole Kidmanway, Anne Hathaway, Yes, thank you right, yes, anyway, she's.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Just trying to break down that Dolphin Jets game.
Speaker 8 (42:45):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
It is the tenth anniversary of the release of Interstellar,
so they're bringing it back in theaters for a special
Imax exclusive limited engagement, So check your local Imax theater
if you want to go see that. That was one
of the best Imax movie experiences I've ever had Interstellar
ten years ago back at the Universal City Walk Imax Theater.
(43:06):
Moving on to television, just a couple of things that
I want to point out first is a show that
is right up my alley if I can. It's called
Black Doves, and it is a new show on Netflix
that stars Kira Knightley. And it is a British holiday
spy thriller. I've kind of been into the spy thrillers lately.
(43:29):
It's got good reviews. Six episode stream today and a
second season has already been greenlit that is on Netflix,
available to stream right now. And then this one is interesting, Ben,
and I feel like you might be into this. It's
not quite a documentary, but it's one of those kind
of reenactments of a real situation. So, a little over
(43:55):
a decade ago, thieves made off with nearly three thousand
tons of maple syrup beck in an event that was
labeled the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. And so this
is a dramatic reenactment of said maple heist.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Cool.
Speaker 6 (44:11):
Yes, and it stars Margo Martindale and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 8 (44:17):
Yeah, and that is on Amazon Prime Video.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Somebody should do.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
A documentary about the black market for truffles. Did I've
heard there's a black market for truffle?
Speaker 8 (44:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (44:26):
Okay, yeah, truffle Pig is like super valuable.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
And yeah, the mob is involved with truffles.
Speaker 8 (44:36):
Yeah, there was.
Speaker 6 (44:36):
There was a movie about that a while ago called
called Pig, starring Nicholas Cage.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Yeah, like they said a lot of the truffles that
these high end restaurants are actually not real truffles because
the real truffles are so expensive.
Speaker 8 (44:48):
Right, it's it's insane anyway.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, there's like diamonds, right, the diamond market is controlled
by a certain group, and the diamonds shouldn't.
Speaker 8 (44:56):
Be that expensive. That's right. That's right. And one last thing,
one last thing here.
Speaker 6 (45:01):
On Monday or on Wednesday, December eleventh, a new movie
will be premiering on Netflix. It's called Maria, and it
stars Angelina Jolie. It's not typically something. It's a biopic
that she plays legendary opera singer Maria Callis And it's
not something that I would normally be interested in, but
they're already talking about Angelina Jolie being the front runner
for the Best Actress Oscar with this movie, so I
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might check it out just to see her performance.
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this play the Hit small Man. Play the Hits is
one of our big bosses likes to say, so our
lead this hour from Motown. The curtain went up on
Week fourteen. Week fourteen of the NFL season. My god,
the it's wild out fat well usually that follows Week thirteen.
So we had an NFC North slobber knocker Jordan Love
(02:03):
and the Packers trying to get revenge as they paid
a visit to the great state of Michigan and a
dated Ford Field will playdate with Jared Goff and the Lions.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You had al Michael's there. You knew it's a big game.
You knew it was a big game.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Al Michaels Herbie and his new dog, and they had
the call there on the Amazon Solid mashup. This is
not a game that sucked. It was It was a
game that we thought would be pretty good. It was,
and if you saw it or not, maybe you were
looking outside the window and doing nothing. You know that
the Packers trying to take the Lion by the tail
(02:37):
and had that work out well. Jared Goff threw not one,
not two, but three touchdown passes, and somebody named Jake
Bates who sounds like a serial killer, had a thirty
five yard field goal as time expired. The Lions are
in the play. That trite Lions are in the play.
Did anyone think they weren't going to make the playoffs
(02:58):
this year? The Lions are in the plus thirty four
thirty one year Final as they take down the pack
on a Thursday night game. The Lions in the playoffs,
the NFC's top team at twelve and one, and holy
Barry Sanders Batman, where have you gone? Wayne Fonts? The
Lions have broken the franchise record Bobby Lane, the Curse
(03:19):
of Bobby Lane.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
No more.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Eleven straight wins for the Lions, and that includes a
couple over the Green Bay Packers and Detroit staying ahead
of Minnesota in the NFC North. So you've got three
teams likely in the playoffs and that division. Lions are
in Packers at nine and four and Minnesota at ten
and two. But the better story is in the losing
(03:41):
locker room. So that is where we will begin our
in depth team coverage as we break this down. So
the question for the class, who gets the blame cheese
curds for matt LeFleur and the Packers. So I've got
medical scrubs, code Gray, and Riverboat and we will combine
(04:06):
all of these things together, all of these things, and
we hope to be as brave as a lion.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That's what we hope to be, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So a.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Let's start with the green Bay marching in Chadow.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Society has reached out to me, and we do very
well in northern Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I think it's because my brother lives there. So the
Green Bay fans, they've all told me it's not that
the Packers lost the game, it's the officials gave the
game to the Lions.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There were some shady calls in this game, but that
is a smoke screen, and don't overlook the thing right
in front of your eyes. The Green Bay Packers defense,
for better or worse, was worse. They sucked at a
time you cannot suck and Jared Goff was out there
and I swear he was wearing medical scrubs.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
In a large.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Chunk of the fourth quarter there, the Lions all defense
was surgical as they sliced up the Packer defense, and
it was like a child playing with playto It wasn't
anything exotic. It wasn't like they had reinvented the playbook.
Detroit the better team here. They had a lot of
success running very basic NFL plays.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The dig root or route if you will right over
the middle, right over.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The middle, you're supposed to defend the middle, and they
didn't do that. And also a lot of timing play,
little screen passes, good blocking, bad tackling, good blocking. Jared
Goff completed thirty two passes and if my math I
jotted this down, I think it was the final thirteen
passes that he completed and just terrible tackling technique. Detroit
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ends up with twenty seven first downs. They had up
almost four hundred yards office three hundred ninety one. But
it's how they were able to methodically hold the Packers
offense all off the field that converted It's forty seven
percent on third down, but four or five eighty percent
on fourth down and eighty percent in the red zone.
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So the Detroit Lions getting or done, although they did
not get it done against the points spread. The pack
could not get the Lions offense off the field. Detroit
ran seventy sixth place. The Cheeseheads ran forty five places.
That's a plus thirty one advantage if my malor math
is correct, and so it's rather shocking that it came
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down to a field goal. If you run thirty one
more place then the other team, generally speaking, you're winning
by a lot. You don't need to wind the clock
down and get a late field goal to win the game.
And let's also not overlook the fact that while Jordan
Love in the second half was good in the beginning
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of the game, he was garbage.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
At the start.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh, you're not supposed to say that he's the new
savior of the Packers. He was bad in the first
half and the Packers were playing uphill. Now, Fortunately, thanks
to some generosity by the Lions, the Packers were able
to get right back and get.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The lead within four minutes in the second half.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
But the first half was a struggle and then they
were playing uphill after that. Now turning the page. Let
me get to the Lions in a minute. We have
some great audio here that I want to play. So
the Packers coach, Matt LeFleur, Matt Lafleur, there was an
incident before the game.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Okay we saw this or not before.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So there was a heated exchange that happened that there
was a temperature that had risen up in the room.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
There was an exchange with the Lion fan.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
This is pregame, so the game hadn't even kicked off
yet and from what I have been able to uncover it.
So this guy was this Lions fan was invited onto
the field for the pregame festivity. I think he was
there to hold the flag if I read properly and
well rather than me, attla started yelling at the guy.
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The guy was yelling at him. They went back and forth.
But here's Matt Lafleur breaking down the Packer coach on
how that went down.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
He was talking junk to our players, giving him the
throat slash sign and you know you're trying to de
escalate it and then he gets in my face. So
I thought it was pretty unsportsman like, like I've never
seen that. I've been on many fields and usually they
police that much better. I just I thought it was
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an arrogant fan that you know, wanted to get in
part of the action, and just I would like to
see security or something step in there and get him
out of there, because it's it's he shouldn't be doing.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That, Oh I should be doing now the beginning of that.
I think it's a pretty funny drop. Can we just
play the the guy when he said he was talking
junk to our players. I think that's a funny drop
on the show. Let's hear that again, that beginning part.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Hear that he was talking junk to our players?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Oh yeah, right, there Isn't that a funny drug out
of context drop? Wouldn't that be a fun drop on
the show? Like out of context? I think that would
be great. And he doesn't say anyone by name. You
don't even know who that is. Matt Lafleur. I think
that's good. All right, So let's get to the scorecard here,
the judges' scorecards. How did you score.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
The pregame verbal battle royale between.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The Packers coach Matt Lafleur and Joe Blow, Lions fan.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
How did you score it, So I go to my scorecard.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I scored it a ten to nine, ten nine advantage
in favor of the fan. I love the fact that
Matt Lafleur is talking about unsportsmanlike, hey, hey, coach, he's
a fan. He's not an athlete. It's not high school,
it's not little league.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
He's just a drunk guy or somebody that's on the
spectrum who's out there now in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
They would call this a code gray person, a random schmendering.
This guy gets invited onto the field. Not everyone gets
to go out in the field before an NFL game.
This guy gets invited on the field. He ends up
thinking he's part of the show, right, I'm part of
the show. And then he's like doing double duty. Not
only is he there as a fan, but he's a
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enemy combatant. He's got he's the flag guy, he's the
instigator guy. He works himself into a lather, talking trash.
And while the guy is certainly a douche canoe, who
does that, right? I mean really, who does I mean
a douche that's like a that's.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
A douche move.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But that's a real fan, all right, that's a fanatic
fan is short for fanatic, the guys that die hard.
He had convinced himself he was actually on the Lions.
He had convinced himself that it's like the fourth wall
had been broken, and he was in the show. He
was on the stage, and he's a Foxhole guy. He's
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a Foxhole guy, and I thought that that was just great.
All right, last word, let's circle back to the Lions,
the team that is the top team on the NFC
side of a bracket, and we'll zero in on them.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So all that glitters is not gold. Detroit is absolutely
monster mashing with this wind streak. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I've never seen anything like this, None of us have,
because it's never happened before in any of our lives
that the Detroit Lions have been this good. It's a
two horse race in the NFC. You've got the Lions
on one side and the Eagles are, for lack of
a better term, bird dogging the Lions. But what gives
you pause? Let me ask the question, what gives you
pause with the Lions, who look amazing? But what gives
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you pause heading down the stretch of the NFL season.
So I've got software and riverboat. That's what I jotted down,
software and riverboat. So a Jared Golf Oh, I got
a belt A.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Jared Goff has been mister smooth in Motown. I understand
he has a lot of local commercials.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
He's a darling there, you know, the local attorney's office
or whatever. They have Jared Goff on there despite his success.
Having watched Jared Goff poop his pants many a time
over the years in big games, back in his days
with the Rams, I would advise anyone who is fully
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investing in Jared Goff to tread lightly. Now, my guy
Spaccoli knew exactly where I was going with is. But
Jared Goff has faulty software. There is a trojan horse
glitch in that software, and he's going to break your
heart at some point.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I and he said, well, he doesn't throw.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I heard Almicha doesn't throw a lot of interceptions, but boy,
when he does, they're humdingers.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
They are humdingers all right. Now.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
The other part of this is the riverboat gambler. Now,
the other part of this is the riverboat gambler.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So Dan can is a hybrid. It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
They should study Dan Campbell because he's mostly a meathead.
He's a typical meat head coach here. I want to
eat your knee caps.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But in terms of modern football, he is fully, fully
invested in the dogma of analytics. He's all about that analytics.
I just imagine in his headphones. There's some nerd in
the press box. All right, Dan, go for it, all right?
Whatever you say, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's like a like a caveman, Dan Campbell.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Campbell went for it on fourth down five times in
the game Thursday. If you saw it, you know what
we're talking about, including with one yard to go with
the Detroit twenty one yard line with forty three seconds left,
which tells you he has no confidence in his own defense.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Right, If you're afraid that you give.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Jordan Love forty three seconds to go, your defense can't
keep them out of field goal range. That is a
vote of no confidence for the line defense. But it
is also a rubber stamp for the analytics. That's an
analytical move. All these old coaches are rolling over in
their graves, right, what are you doing? But they did it,
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and it worked out, and it almost backfired because Jared
Goff got tripped by one of his offensive linemen.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
He got stepped on.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
They still converted the line to gain marker, but it backfired.
At one point they turned the ball over on downs.
The one time it didn't work for the lines, they
turned the ball over on downs late third quarter at
their own thirty yard line, handing the Packers a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
And that's the kind.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Of thing when you do that in the playoffs, that's
the kind of thing that haunts you. Right, that's the
kind of thing that gets you fired. And even if
you're just doing with the analytics people.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
And all that stuff doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But we know how this book ends, right, we know
how this book normally ends.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's out of the Bible.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Live by the sword, die by the sword, Live by
the analytics, die by the analytics. It's right there. It
is not making that up. It's amazing they do about
analytics in the Bible.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 3 (15:17):
There is nothing bruin. No, really, there is nothing bruin.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
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how we increase the audience. That we don't lose anyone.
We only have seven or eight people listening, so we
don't lose anybody. But our lead this hour is from football.
We'll certainly talk more later on about the Thursday night
game as the Lions win on a last second field
goal over the Packers.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
So that game goes the way of the Lions.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Packers. Bad first half, good second half. Lions though dominated
time of possession in Detroit despite some very analytically driven
play calls, they will pull it out. But our lead
this hour is from Westwood. Now, this is not about
the Wizard of Westwood. This is nothing to do with
UCLA basketball. I can't remember the last time that we
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talked about UCLA football other than the mocket when Brian
Finley used to work here.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
But there is you know, I'm nuts isn't working here anymore.
He'd be very proud of us.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But there's winds of change howling around the football world.
It's coach change season, and the winds of change blue
through the UCLA campus much like the football team blows
over there. Now, normally that doesn't even get a mention
on this show. Why would it, right, We do broadcasting,
not narrow casting, but this rises to the level of
(17:53):
high crimes and misdemeanors on the Malard monologue scale. So
if you don't know by now why I'm bringing this
up up, that means you haven't been paying attention.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Bad job by you.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So if you don't know, let me give you the
thumbnail recap so you see. El Hey, the gutty little
Bruins of Westwood have fired offensive coordinator Eric Pienemy after
only one season.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Bye bye, see you later.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
The Bruins finished a dismal five and seven this season
in the Big Ten. They failed to qualify for Bowl eligibility,
which is really hard to do. And now is this
a massive deal? It depends on what side of the
aisle you're sitting on. The Enemy, with much fanfare, joined
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new Ucaler coach Deshaun Foster's staff after calling plays as
calling plays for the NFL's Commanders for a season, but
he is most known as the offensive coordinator for Canzaw
City and not one but two Super Bowl teams. And
so the Enemy the buyout worth more than one point
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two million. He's also still getting paid by the Washington Commanders,
so he's like a Dodger player. He's getting a lot
of money to do nothing. But let us discuss the
question what is your reaction, your reaction to Eric B.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Enemy being dismissed from uc LA.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So I've got phone booth, staircase and sitcom experience, phone booth,
staircase and sitcom experience, and we'll lock all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice
round of golf, which Eric Benemy can play a lot
of golf. Now he doesn't have to worry about going
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anywhere to work because he just can hang out and
golf every day.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
So Na Burn, that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Let me begin by pointing out that Eric Benemy's agent
is claiming that he was not fired. Everyone else is
saying he was fired, but bane Mey's agents saying he
just decided to quit on UCLA after one year because
he wanted to go back to the NFL. Now, if
you believe that you're a low information fan, you're a
low information fan. So Eric B Enemy at this point
has to have that sinking feeling, that sinking feeling here.
(20:17):
This is in a masculating situation. And what he has
been able to do, I'm gonna I'm gonna talk to
you in cartoon terminology. He has done a reverse Superman.
Now you know what a reverse robinhood is. I take
from the poor to give to the rich. But this
is a reverse superman. He has gone into the phone booth.
(20:38):
And he was the NFL's whiz kid, right up and
coming coach.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
He went into the phone booth. He exited as the
village idiot in no time, no time at all.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
How bad is it? The person in the back of
the room ass how bad is it? Well, under Eric Banemy,
you see LA ranked in the bottom percentile in every offensive.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Category that matters.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
They were one hundred and twenty six nationally among D
one schools in scoring, one hundred and twenty six. They
averaged less than eighteen and a half points per game
this past season. They did not score more than twenty
points in their last four games. In any of those games,
they also the Bruins ranked one hundred and seventeenth in
total offense one hundred and seventeenth in total offense. They
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also had the fifth worst running attack in collegiate football.
They sucked to the north, they sucked to the south,
they sucked to the west, they sucked to the east,
they sucked everywhere under Eric p Enemy And so now
he does the walk of shame out of the UCLA
football program, and his agent is trying to spin spin,
(21:46):
spinning spin spin, working as a spin doctor, and that's
what an agent's supposed to do and making it seem like, oh,
he just sided to quit after one year, which doesn't
look good. Even if that was true, that would make
it look terrible. I know, gullible people will believe that,
but think how bad that looks like. You go to college,
like the whole point of is you're supposed to be
there and you make a commitment to the players. You know,
the players are.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
All taking nil money now and bouncing around the country,
but that doesn't matter. You're you're the coach. You're supposed
to be above that. You know, you agree to be
there and you have to be there for more than
one year.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And so either he looks bad because he's lying through
his agent, or he looks bad because he quit on
the UCLA football program and should have never gone there
if you only wanted to be there for one year,
makes no sense right now, Pitch two.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Is there a lesson? Is there a lesson from Eric
b Enemy and his path his journey on the coaching circuit?
So right this is a lesson plan, be careful what
you wish for, Be careful what you wish for the enemy.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
He had his eye on the prize, and I remember
we did monologues when he was in Kansas City. If
you go back to the archives, I know Tony in
the Bay Area loves.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Listening to old shows.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So if you go to listen to some of our
old show on the podcast going back years and people
were really upset that the enemy didn't get head coaching jobs,
and the argument was always, well, he's got to leave
Kansas City. He's got to prove that he is not
a byproduct of the coach he's under and the quarterback.
And so he goes and does what he's supposed to do.
(23:22):
He followed the advice.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
He left Kansas City to go out and show the
world that he's not a fraud, that he can coach
on his own, and he can coach up players, polish
some turns, make them better, and that was the mission.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
But this guy was flying high in Kansas City, and
he was always the bride'smaid, never the bride.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
And for head coaching.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Jombs, eighteen interviews turned down for eighteen coaching jobs. Head
coaching jobs eighth for eighteen, oh for eighteen. Now I
know the story about Abraham Lincoln where Lincoln I think
it was eight elections Lincoln lost and then became such
an important president that he's he's immortalized on money, you know,
and his history back in.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
The early days of America. But eighteen interviews, no jobs,
I mean squadouche in terms of jobs.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So the enemy he leaves Messouri, he follows the mallor advice,
career advice. He's going to prove to me, He's going
to prove to you, and he's going to prove to
the NFL that he's not just writing in the afterglow
of Mahomes and Andy Reid. He goes out and who goofed.
I've got to know. Ever since then, he's been bouncing
(24:38):
down a never ending staircase.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Lower and lower and lower and lower and lower and lower.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Just like that.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
He bet on himself and he has been betrayed by
the man in the mirror.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
The man in the mirror has betrayed him.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
The Washington foot team his one season was twenty fourth
in offense, twenty where they were worse with him than
the year before with the same crappy players. They were
worse with him than the year before he arrived. And
then we gave it the numbers earlier on UCLA. They
speak for themselves and how terrible.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Terrible they are. All right, final point.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
We now get in the plane and we're gonna fly
to Minnesota where Femi is the number one uber each driver.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
We've got our buddy, you know, Eke there.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
And Roseville, Minnesota, Rob in Minnesota. Got a lot of
our friends there in Minnesota. So that is also where
this weekend it's the Kirk Cousins revenge game. Who the
former Purple People Eaters quarterback.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
He's back.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
He's returning to his old stomping grounds. He'll be wearing
different laundry, be wearing different laundry the Atlanta Falcon laundry
lead up to this game. I thought this was interesting. Steve,
who lives in Saint Paul, sent this to me. I
did not see this, so thank you, Steve. This interview
with Justin Jefferson, The Vikings wide receiver. Justin Jefferson was
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interviewed this week and says that he has not spoken
to Kirk Cousins one time. Not spoken to him one
time since he left the Minnesota football team in free
agency to go to Atlanta. Not one conversation. Is this
a big deal, a little deal, or no deal? So
(26:34):
I have this as I jotted down, no deal. It's
to be expected. And the reason this is to be
expected is because I'm an adult and I've lived jobs,
and I work in radio. They fire people all the time,
as you guys learned, unfortunately we all learned again, it's
very unstable business, the business I'm in, and so I've
worked with a lot of people that have come and
(26:56):
gone in my life and they're work friends. So the
fact that all those quiet on the Western front is
not a surprise because in the real world, you're not
getting what I call the sitcom experience. Back in the
when people watch sitcoms, you watch the boob Tube and
all those old sitcoms. You know, people would work together,
you go, oh yeah, you know, go have some Bruski's
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after work, you go bowling with your buddies from work,
you know, like you live in the same building, you know,
and all that. That's the sitcom experience. In the real world,
you have work friends who are not real friends. They're colleagues, right,
they're not real friends. I'll give you alf I have.
I have a holiday party. It's actually coming up this weekend. Uh,
(27:37):
And I always make an effort to invite people that
I liked a lot, that I worked with.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
They were my work friends.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
And the ones that show up tell me that they're
actually not just work friends. They actually there's like a
real friendship.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Most of them don't show up though, because they were
work friends. I get it. I totally get it because
they were not real friends. Because real a real.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Friend will make an effort to be there and show up,
but fake friends, like they will not show up.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
And so there is a different in that.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And then the other thing is like Cousins is older
than Jefferson. There's a big age gap there. So they're
in different parts of the circle of life. And it's
like you chit chat with a with a co worker
and you talk about a lot of in a normal job,
you talk about stuff on the.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Surface, right, so, hell, how was your weekend? Hey, what
are you doing this week?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And all that kind of stuff, But there's nothing really
deep going on there. And if you were really in trouble,
do you think you're the person you work with, your
work friend would really help you. Probably not right, And
so the idea that Justin Jefferson is not buddy buddy
with Kirk Cousins, it would be surprising if they were friends,
because they were just work friends.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
There were colleagues, that's all they were.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
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Speaker 5 (28:53):
Here we go to the third degree that gets grailled.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
With one more win by the Buffalo Bills this season,
Sean McDermott will become only the fifth coach in NFL
history to have five straight seasons of at least eleven wins.
Bens McDermott underrated, No.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
No, he's I fired him two years ago, Coop, I
am fired in a monologue. I fired Sean McDermott and
thin it was two years ago. I might have fired
him again last year. He's a fine regular season coach.
The Bills have managed to futs away several big playoff
games in this era with Josh Allen and until they win,
until they get to the super Bowl and win the
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Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I don't think he's underrated.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I think he's a good regular season coach, but they
got to win the big one next.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Earlier this week, frequent FSR contributor Albert Breer predicted that
even if Russell Wilson were to make a nice playoff run,
the Steelers would not franchise tag him and actually let
him test the open market with a request that he
gives them the right to match any of any offer
that he gets. Ben, did you see it going down
this way?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
One hundred percent? There's no reason to pay Russell Wilson
a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
He's not that good. Well, he's just had a big
gam against the Bangles.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Everyone has a good game against the because they suck,
all right, Russell Wilson is He is an older quarterback.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
He's in his mid thirties.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You know, he doesn't throw the ball particularly great to
Mike Tomlins Credit and Arthur Smith. They've coached him up.
Good job by them, but he's replaceable. Right, you can
find somebody else who's at level of quarterback and not
pay him all that much money.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
And so you know it was me, I wouldn't pay him,
but we'll see right next.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
It is being reported that the Yankees plan B if
they are unable to resign Juan Soto is to go
after Willia Domis, Ben, how would you grade this backup plan?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
So I think they're better off getting a shovel and
digging up Joe Demijio.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I know, listen, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Obviously, Willie Domas a fine player, but the Yankees, if
they don't bring back one Soda, They're gonna have to
sign like two or three guys to replace him.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
You know what I'm saying, Like, have.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
A convoy of people replacing One Soda, not just William Domas,
who's a fine player but not as good.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
How do we go cru below you pass the sedision
that is a weed? Put it on the board. I
won the game on the All Time Wins gig, I
won again.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
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Speaker 7 (31:26):
Knock Knock.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Who's there?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Blame Weed, Blame we too.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. That it
is Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. These are
actual jokes by actual listeners, and we did a wake
up call much like a five Star Hotel. We'll wake
you up, weed man, hippie who had such a tough day.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
At work he was sleeping, right, weed man? I mean,
is there any other radio show where they like, did
you think? Howard Stern calls tem Bobbs says, hey, you missed.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Your time to call the show.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
I love you day?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
All right? Weed man?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
All right, well these are actual jokes and him, I actual, wait,
what were you doing?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I know you were sleeping, Usten.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
No, no, I was listening to your show.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
That's a lot. Now.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I called you and the way you answered the phone
is the way someone answers the.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Phone when you're sleeping. Yeah, that said you were You're like,
who's this?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
All right?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Here we go. Actual jokes by actual listeners.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Why did Lizzo lose her appetite back on Thanksgiving? Why
she saw Jelly Roll performing on a football halftime concert
eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Why did Lizzo call it quits
on her diet?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Why?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Well, she was upset that she lost two pounds and
nobody noticed. Noah, Noah in Austin. Did hear that Lizzo
skipped a meal yesterday?
Speaker 7 (32:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah, that's Unfortunately, the Dow Jones immediately lost five hundred
points as it was all her.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Buddy Darryl in the Ozarks. Daryl loved the Ozarks.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well, morale on Lizzo's tour bus is sky high since
she lost all those pounds, we've made really yeah, now
they can skip the weight stations.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
They don't have to stop at those way.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Stations there, so they saved time us Joe at Virginia Beach,
Thank you, Joe.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Why won't Lizzo ever tour again? Weed Man?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Why because she is only half the singer that she
used to be. Our buddy Chip in Maine, who makes
these really good molasses cookies, So thank you, Chiff.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Did you hear that Lizzo? I think she's like his wife,
and I love molasses cooking together to the I should
you know?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I might make some for the party, and I'm thinking
about making some of the party. Did you hear that, Lizzo?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
We met you coming into the holiday party this weekend? We'ed, man, Oh,
that would be great.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Ah be so much fun. Did you hear that you're invited?
If you can make to La, you can come to
the party.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Did you hear that Lizzo agreed to be a paid
celebrity endorser of the Ben Mahler Show. So yeah, yeah,
she said she would do it for peanuts.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
That's the joke. Great there, that's George and uvaldu Texas.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
George is a fine teacher in Uvalde, Texas, raising the
youth of America. What does Lizzo think of lame jokes
of the week? What apparently she's fed.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Up with them?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
That's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota speak Ben's lame jokes. You
want to send jokes in? Send them care of Benmahler
Show at gmail dot com. Put jokes in the headline
Ben Mahler Show at gmail dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Number. The way this works best.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
For us is Q and A jokes so Q and
then the A part the punchline, and then underneath that
puts your.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Name on every joke that helps us.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Out a line.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
If you do that otherwise, you know where does weed
Man keep all of his worldly possessions when he's homeless?
Where the pawnshop? That's Surfer Todd, the comedian. Good to
have your Backsurfer Todd. How did weed Man hit me?
Acchoire a new car?
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
He Lisa it? He Lisa did it? Lisa, did I
screwed that? I saw Darrel from the Ozarks?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Bad job by by Well, weed Man Junior would miss
out on many things.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Can you name too? I can name too?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
What but wait till your father comes home from work
is meaningless? And he could never do take your child
to work day. That's Dennis in Detroit. That's that's not nice.
Isn't your kid like really smart?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Weed Man like your kids? Can you believe that?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
So?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
I guess the apple does fall far from the tree
weed Man? Right? I mean, my god, I'm believable. That
might be the mail man as kid. I don't know
all right?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Why was weed Man banished to the outdoors after fully
gorging himself at the.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Annual Shelter Vision Thanksgiving meal?
Speaker 7 (36:08):
Why?
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Well?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
The answer, my friend is blowing in the wind. Blowing
in the wind. The answer why the big Ben's lame jokes? Aleikue?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Why does weed Man Hippie keep thinking that they are
calling him by the wrong name every time he goes
to jail? Why but Phil your cellmate keeps saying, Hello,
Ben Dover. I don't know what that's all about. That's
a John. That joke never gets old John at Youngstown.
Thank you for that, John Youngstown, Ohio. He always loves you,
(36:38):
weed Man. There's a lot of jokes about you, Big
Ben's lame jokes A week well, Blair and Maine spent
hours studying for the exam on the circulatory system.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
But he got enough anyway. Wow. Yeah, his efforts were
in vain. It's a guy named Manny. I don't know where.
I think Manny's a massive Jesus, but maybe not.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
I didn't write that down, So bat you out bye me?
Speaker 8 (37:03):
Manny?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
You can kick my ass. Did you hear that?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Bill Miller's Barbecue in Texas has agreed to be a
sponsor on the Overnight Show. No, yeah, it makes sense
because Bill Miller is the lone star of the show.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That's George and Uvalde, Texas.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Angry Bill and Real Talk were on the live air
together not that long ago, and Angry Bill.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Said a bad word and got dropped. You hear about that?
Speaker 7 (37:31):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
No yeah? And Real Talk said, hey, I was gonna
say that one.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
That's Marina Chef in Omaha, the great Marina Chef. Of course,
he could have inserted a seat of Angry Bill and
Real Talk. He could have gone with Tony in the
Bay Area as well. What classic old movie does Ben
like the watch after his hearty Thanksgiving meal to enjoy the.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Aroma of his digestion? What Gone with the wind dog
would win that show? That's Frank and Fargo who sent
that one in?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Well, why did blind Scott never get paranoid while doing
all those drugs? Why because nobody could ever see his
eyes with his glasses on.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
That's Daryl in the Ozarks with a blind joke. What
do you call angry bill robbing?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Bitcoin? What clipto currency? That's a chip in Maine? Who
sent that one in?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
We have some dad jokes that were sending this one
from Lenny? Who sent this one in?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I see he's in South Carolina. I'm guessing Lenny's probably
not originally from there, but.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
What do you call a factory that makes okay products?
What a status factory?
Speaker 8 (38:51):
All right?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
See if you can get this one we made? This
is from Dave in Denver. What do you call an
army of babies?
Speaker 7 (38:57):
What?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Oh, that's easy. We met the infantry the infantree. You
see what I you see what I did there?
Speaker 7 (39:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
There you go? All right, Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. This want's from Chipping Maine.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
What do you call an Indianapolis quarterback that can't pass?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
What a one trick pony? A one trick pony?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
All right, there is beg you weed Man go back
to bed now, we man, thank you our friend in Miami,
the great Billy weed Man Hippie.
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Speaker 7 (39:39):
Oh yes it is. How about a segment that really
don't understand and you don't have to see the dentist
theop on entertainment start right out.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Wow, that's a non sequitur. Are you saying the coop
scoop is like going to the dentist? Is that what
we're in.
Speaker 7 (39:57):
I've just said a hop up the segment that we
all understand on Fridays and you don't have to see
thet we just stright.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, does not use it is not sugarcoated because there's
no sugar. It won't win your teeth. Wow.
Speaker 8 (40:14):
Yeah, thank you, Marcel.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Amazing work. How lucky are we to have Marcell and Brooklyn.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
Like, huh, all right cool. So anyway, cocooment, we're gonna
start in the theaters. And this weekend we have we have
a new movie and an old movie. Uh so, first
I'll talk about the new movie that's out this weekend.
Speaker 8 (40:35):
It is called Night Bitch.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
We're on the radio.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
No, it is not a dog. It is not a
lorraina biopic.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Wow, there's a movie called Night Bitch.
Speaker 8 (40:50):
Yes, it is called Yes, it's called Night Bitch.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
And it starts what was there other idea for the name?
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Well it so. It stars Amy Adams and Scoot mcneerey.
You've heard of Amy Adams, and she is a woman
who pauses her career to be a stay at home mom,
seeking a new chapter in her life.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
And then.
Speaker 6 (41:09):
Just just she she her maternal routine takes a surreal turn.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Spoiler alert. She turns into a dog.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Oh what kind of dog?
Speaker 8 (41:21):
I'm not sure what kind of dog?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Old dog? Puffy? Well, the fluffy dog.
Speaker 6 (41:27):
The poster has many different dogs in the poster. But anyway,
hence the name of the movie Night Bitch. Okay, yes,
I saw, in fact, we both saw trailer for this
when we saw Wicked.
Speaker 8 (41:39):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 4 (41:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Oh, let me tell you so.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
I I tried to watch that. That's like a three
and a half hour movie.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
That's like watching that's like.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Watching a Red Sox Yankee game from like you know,
two thousand.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
My god, oh, I was so bad.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
It was.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I was so good that terrible. I fell asleep after
like it was like, I was like, I just did
a nap.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I was like it still was on when I woke
up and I slept for like two hours, it was still.
Speaker 8 (42:07):
Going all right.
Speaker 6 (42:09):
Well, anyway, now the old movie that is back in theaters.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time.
It is Interstellar, the old Christopher Nolan movie with Matthew
McConaughey and uh, who else is in that one? That
the chick that I really one girl?
Speaker 5 (42:25):
I don't remember her name.
Speaker 6 (42:27):
Yes, she's from in Batman and stuff. Why am I
blinking on her name?
Speaker 2 (42:32):
No?
Speaker 6 (42:33):
Not Nicole Kidmanway, Anne Hathaway, Yes, thank you right, yes, anyway, she's.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Just trying to break down that Dolphin Jets game.
Speaker 8 (42:45):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
It is the tenth anniversary of the release of Interstellar,
so they're bringing it back in theaters for a special
Imax exclusive limited engagement, So check your local Imax theater
if you want to go see that. That was one
of the best Imax movie experiences I've ever had Interstellar
ten years ago back at the Universal City Walk Imax Theater.
(43:06):
Moving on to television, just a couple of things that
I want to point out first is a show that
is right up my alley if I can. It's called
Black Doves, and it is a new show on Netflix
that stars Kira Knightley. And it is a British holiday
spy thriller. I've kind of been into the spy thrillers lately.
(43:29):
It's got good reviews. Six episode stream today and a
second season has already been greenlit that is on Netflix,
available to stream right now. And then this one is interesting, Ben,
and I feel like you might be into this. It's
not quite a documentary, but it's one of those kind
of reenactments of a real situation. So, a little over
(43:55):
a decade ago, thieves made off with nearly three thousand
tons of maple syrup beck in an event that was
labeled the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. And so this
is a dramatic reenactment of said maple heist.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Cool.
Speaker 6 (44:11):
Yes, and it stars Margo Martindale and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 8 (44:17):
Yeah, and that is on Amazon Prime Video.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Somebody should do.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
A documentary about the black market for truffles. Did I've
heard there's a black market for truffle?
Speaker 8 (44:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (44:26):
Okay, yeah, truffle Pig is like super valuable.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
And yeah, the mob is involved with truffles.
Speaker 8 (44:36):
Yeah, there was.
Speaker 6 (44:36):
There was a movie about that a while ago called
called Pig, starring Nicholas Cage.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Yeah, like they said a lot of the truffles that
these high end restaurants are actually not real truffles because
the real truffles are so expensive.
Speaker 8 (44:48):
Right, it's it's insane anyway.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, there's like diamonds, right, the diamond market is controlled
by a certain group, and the diamonds shouldn't.
Speaker 8 (44:56):
Be that expensive. That's right. That's right. And one last thing,
one last thing here.
Speaker 6 (45:01):
On Monday or on Wednesday, December eleventh, a new movie
will be premiering on Netflix. It's called Maria, and it
stars Angelina Jolie. It's not typically something. It's a biopic
that she plays legendary opera singer Maria Callis And it's
not something that I would normally be interested in, but
they're already talking about Angelina Jolie being the front runner
for the Best Actress Oscar with this movie, so I
(45:25):
might check it out just to see her performance.
Speaker 8 (45:27):
And that is Coop scoop on Entertainment.
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