January 10, 2025 • 40 mins
Big Ben recaps the Orange Bowl which saw Notre Dame defeat Penn State to head to the National Championship game, the Vikings/Rams Wild Card matchup getting moved to Arizona because of the fires in LA, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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The numbers are just mind boggling. It's an apocalyptic type
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I saw I was reading somewhere they said that the
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Our thoughts are there, But our job is to do sports.
Very important work, right, very important work to talk about sports.
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But our lead this hour is from South Florida, just
outside Miami, Miami, Miami, where weed Man Hippie, our caller
is looking for a new place to live. That was
the stage, the grand stage, Oh what a grand stage
it was for the Orange Bowl, the college football playoff
semi final game, a heavyweight matchup. There was bobbing, there
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was weaving between Penn State and Notre Dame. Now, I
don't know if you saw this game. This was the
it game of the final four of college football. But
for Apps, she missed it. Yet something else going on.
Don't worry, We watch so you would not have to.
It's our active kindness of good midst of the day.
It was a Barton Burner of a matchup. There were
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lead changes, there was drama, there were injuries, and in
the end it came down to a defensive play for
the fighting Irish, Notre Dame defensive back Christian Gray getting
her done as he picked off Penn State quarterback Drew
Aller his pass across the middle at the Nitney Lions
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forty two yard line with thirty three seconds left on
the game clock. So a major turn events. The Irish
thing got nineteen yards quickly on offense and that set
up a forty one yard field goal was seven seconds
left by someone named Mitch Jeter, not Derek, but Mitch
Jeter to win the game. And he won the game.
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Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. So Notre Dame
teen and one. The Irish continue their magic carpet ride
the seven seed and into the first twelve team college
football playoff. They're into the championship and they will have
a chance to bring back the first title since nineteen
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eighty eight, since nineteen eighty eight, and the game January
twentieth coming up here January twentieth in Atlanta, home of
a great airport there in Atlanta, against the winner of
the game that we played here on Friday night between
the Longhorns of Texas and the Ohio State buck guys
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who will try to dot the I in the semi
final in the Cotton Bowl. So a lot to talk about.
Better story, though, is in the losing locker room, So
we will start in the losing locker room because we
like the better story and it's really about one person,
and one person in particular as we discuss here, and
that is the quarterback for the Nintillons. Will penns State
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quarterback Drew Aller be haunted by this performance? So I've
got Altoid's underlying condition and swamp creature, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a nice tropical vacation which all these players
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for Penn State who are getting that big nil money
can enjoy a nice tropical vacation so will Penn State
quarterback Drew Aller be haunted by this performance? That was
the question, I'm not in my head. Yes, you can't
see me, but I'm not. If you're watching the YouTube channel,
you can't see I'm not in my head. Yes, right
in the blink of an eye, his story changed his storaging.
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Now he did the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it, and there's no other way to
say it. Right, the game was in his hands now,
not necessarily to win the game, but just don't lose
the game. And he screwed up. And here is the
man of the hour facing the media. I give him credit.
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He didn't hide like a coward. Who's your's Drew Aller
talking about what the heck went wrong?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, I mean I was going through my progression, got
to the backside, and honestly, I was just trying to
dirt it at his feet. But just I should have
just thrown it the way when I felt the first
two progressions not open, just because of the situation we
were in. But I was just trying to dirt it
out of Marii's feet. So but just in to execute
what I was trying.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
To do.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That would be an understatement. So again, from being at
the very peak of all of college football, everyone's talking
about this guy and now he needs some altoids, those
Arctic peppermint breath mints because he's got dragon breath. Interception aside, like,
that was a terrible play and that ended the game
for Fann State. But he was bad to the bone
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throughout the game. If you were watching twelve of twenty three,
a little over fifty per sent completion rate, only one
hundred and thirty five yards, passing less than six yards
per pass, mostly to running backs. I don't even know
if they completed a pass to a wide receiver, one interception,
and a passer rating of fifty one point one. And
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so he was the duke, the Duke of Puke in
this game, and NFL scouts were salivating about the ability
of Alor before the game, possibly entering the NFL draft.
He had announced already his intention to return to Happy
Valley in twenty twenty five for the next college football season,
but NFL scouts were like, there's a chance now even
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with this public flatulence, even without going out there and
farting on the big stage. Drew Aller has the prototypical
physical gifts where even with that he's still going to
be fine down the line. But it's it's one of
those things where he he only gets so many chances
in these type of games, and if you have another
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bad one, then that becomes your reputation. It's what you
did last in these type of games. And so he's
got the powerful arm, which is great, and the size,
the prototypical size that the NFL world wants, and the
extends plays and he can be a pocket passer. He
is a pocket passer, and which is all, which is
all wonderful, but you can't do what he did in
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that moment. It's obvious now. James Franklin getting a lot
of crap more on him later in the hour, but
here's a little taste of his thoughts. The Penn State
coach on the Nitley Lions exiting college football's playoff stage left.
He goz, we're all hurting.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
You know, this ain't easy to get in here right
after the game and have a conversation after you just
poured your guts out on that field and really.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Did it all year long.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So you know he'll handle he'll handle it great.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
He'll be hurting tonight, and he'll be hurting tomorrow, and
he'll hurt a little bit less the next day, and
so on and so forth. But he's a he's a
committed guy that's going to do it the right way.
And he said it. It may not feel like it
right now, but he'll learn from this and he'll be
better for it, and so will we.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Well, he kept saying he did not see the man's name.
He was talking about Drew Aller, his quarterback there all
right now, turning the page. As for the fighting Irish,
lot of chatter, a lot of chatter, some of it
was on the broadcast, that it's just different. There's a
different vibration around Notre Dame. And the question for the
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esteem panel now that Notre Dame is going to be
playing for the national championship, thumbs up or thumbs down?
Has coach Marcus Freeman made Notre Dame likable thumbs up
or thumbs down? So I'm gonna go thumbs down? Okay,
I'm going thumbs down here, unpopular opinion. Let me tell
you why. It's not about James Franklin. It's not about
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the Irish players. They come and go right, They're not
there for that long, especially now with nil money. But
when you look at Notre Dame, the thing that makes
them unlikable is the underlying condition. Some people are annoyed
by leprechauns. Other people don't like the gold helmets right touchdown,
Jesus rubs people the wrong way. The whole playing like
a championship, you know, playing like a champion thing that's
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annoying to some people. The whole Irish mystique were better
than everybody. That's part of it. And when you dig deeper,
the thing that I circled on my scorecard, the golden domers,
insufferable fan base that gets under everyone's skin, the entitled
Notre Dame fan that they're in the same class like
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Yankee fans, Laker historians, Cowboys fans. You know what I'm
talking about. You feel with me on that like the
worst in show. There's a famous quote by Lou Holtz,
and I'll probably butcher it, but Lou Holtz, when he
was coaching at Notre Dame, said, those who know Notre Dame,
no explanation is necessary, and for those who don't, no
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explanation will suffice, which is about right right, which is
about right and because yeah, those that love Notre Dame,
whether you were raised into it because you're Catholic, or
whether you just love Notre Dame because they're on NBC
every week and all that you love them. And for
those on the other side of the aisle, it doesn't matter.
It's like Democrats and Republicans, right, you can't agree on anything.
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There's no bite partisan issue all right. Now, last word,
so who smells the worst? Who smells the worst? From
Notre Dame's return to the pinnacle of college fool by
you're probably saying, well, James Franklin, Penn State, Drew Aller,
that interception. Now, bad job by you. The correct answer
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would be four thousand dollars. How about the swamp creature
also known as also known as LSU coach Brian Kelly
L Sticko pu what snakes. Let's go back in the
hot top time the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty two.
On his way out out of South Bend, Indiana, on
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his way to to battl Rouge, Louisiana, Brian Kelly not
only picked up a Cajun accent, he also gave a
body blow, body blow, body blow to the Irish program.
He said words that are guaranteed to pop that cup,
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and they certainly did. Brian Kelly said quote, I want
to be an environment where I have the resources to
win a national championship, and that is why Brian Kelly
went to LSU. And since Brian Kelly got to LSU,
they have not made the College Football Playoff, while Notre
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Dame will be playing for the national championship in a
little less than two weeks and they will have have
Ohio State in Texas. And ask for the question of
who you'd rather play if your Notre Dame, the coward
would say, we want to play Texas because they're not
as good, But the better story is Ohio State. You'd
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want to play Ohio State because that's the better team
and that solidifies whatever this season is. Whereas if you
beat Texas, people will start picking apart your wins and say, no,
you didn't play this team, you didn't play that team,
and so you take down Ohio State. Ohio State is
the top available option for Notre Dame and an all
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Midwestern matchup there it would be Ohio State and Notre Dame.
But Texas will have a say in that that game,
of course being played later on on Friday night.
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all sides of LA. The wins calming down a little bit,
but more heavy win forecasts, so hopefully we'll be able
to get these fires under control. And with that as
the background, we will get back to the college football.
Notre Dame as a win away from the championship. They'll
play Ohio State or Texas in the championship game. But
the lead here from LA and with the Vikings set
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to play the Rams in a wild card matchup on
Monday night, Monday night, the NFL made a decision. I
really want to thank the NFL for doing this just
after we finished recording the latest episode of Benny Versus
the Penny, thus torpedoing the latest episode of Betty Versus
the Pay So good job by the NFL waiting until
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we were done with the latest episode, but the NFL
decided we want to enter the chat on this. And
if you have not heard by now, maybe you have,
maybe you haven't. The NFL has decided that they cannot
play football in Los Angeles on Monday night. I cannot
do it now. SOFI Stadium is in no danger of
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any kind of problem with the fire. But the NFL
has decided, out of an abundance of caution, to move
the wild card playoff game to Arizona. So congratulations. The
only way Arizona will get a playoff game is if
like the game's moved because Kyler Murray sucks a home
playoff game. I don't think they've had a home playoff
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game in almost a decade there, and this is a
playoff game, not a home playoff game. But it is
a playoff game, so the game will be moved. It
was announced on Thursday night there saying the decision was
made and the interest of public safety. As wildfires continuing
to burn all over here, we do the show from
la It has been Dante's Inferno, the real life version
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of a fire hurricane, and both the Rams and Chargers
were practicing in the great outdoors. Don't have indoor practice facilities.
There's nowhere else to practice other than outside and the toxic,
smoky air everywhere as they were doing their thing. But
let us discuss. Chargers are playing on the road this weekend,
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so they don't have to worry about moving their game.
The game has been moved to Houston, but the question
because of the fires again, the NFL moving the Ram
Viking wild Card game to the Greater Phoenix, Arizona area Glendale, Arizona.
How much does this hurt Sean mcvay's squad. How much
does this hurt Sean mcvay's squad. I've got spaghetti Western
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token and Jumpbotron, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a giant cactus.
When the Rams fly in to Sky Harbor Airport and
the Vikings, they'll see giant cactuses they get closer to
the airport there, that's what they're going to see. So
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no so pausing to contemplate the question of how much
this hurts Sean mcvay's squad. You take a couple of
steps back, You examine the situation from all different angles,
all sides, all sides. It is a drop in the bucket,
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the old sideway shuffle. In fact, well, many will say
this is a lateral move. Some doomsday people will say
this is bad. I'm gonna go the opposite. I have
an unpopular opinion. I think this actually helps the Rams.
This is going to help the Rams. Moving the game
to Arizona will be a net positive for the Rams.
And let me explain for those of you that are
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doubting me, like our friend in London, Terry in London,
and some of these other guys. So it's like a
spaghetti western. Okay, let me explain. It's like a spaghetti Western.
The Minnesota fan was planning a hostile takeover in the
hood in Inglewood, it was going to be filled with
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purple right Viking fans everywhere. So the fact that the
NFL moved this on a Thursday, this should cut many
of them off at the pass, block them from advancing,
and that's not necessarily but I think not that the Rams,
it really matters. I mean, we'll hear some of this
on the TV show, which is obviously dated. But the
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Rams over the years since they've been back in LA,
since the NFL orphaned LA for an entire generation. It's
going to take a couple of generations to build back
up a fan base because the NFL left Verus, Saint
Louis and Oakland, so when the Rams and Raiders left,
so people grew up without an NFL team to root
for a hometown team. So the NFL is paying the
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price for that right now as they try to build
up a fan base. But the Rams have been back
for a while and every time they've had a home game,
it's been majority of the other fans, And it doesn't
matter that Rams usually went at home. They have a
great record at home with Sean McVay. The fact they're
moving the game to Arizona will likely block impede some
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of those Viking fans. Now, how did the gambling market
adjust the Ram Viking game being moved to Arizona. So
Sam Donald's Vikings move from a consensus minus one favorite
or one and a half, they're now two and a
half point favorites now after the announcement came down there,
it just seems like it's unnecessary. And Sam Donald was
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gonna puke all over himself in LA, He'll likely puke
all over himself in Glendale, Arizona. Now page two. We
go now to bolt Demore, Maryland, where the seafood is
fresh and the playoff football is normally pretty bad. As
the Ravens trying to overcome playoff lamar as they get
ready for the postseason, and they will do it this
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weekend without their Flowers. They will not be getting their flowers.
Za Flowers has been ruled out he go for the
wild card matchup Baltimore and Pittsburgh on Saturday night. He's
not playing. Flowers injured his right knee in the regular
season finale, and so Jay Flowers he walked through the
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locker room. We understand those that were there said he
walked through the locker room wearing a brace on his
injured knee. And he's out Pro Bowl wide receiver. So
the Ravens remember the Pro Bowls. A water balloon tossed down,
so the Ravens will be without wide receiver won Zay Flowers.
What does this mean? What does this mean? All right,
I'll go first. So for Lamar Jackson, this is actually
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a good thing. What are you talking about? Can't be
a good thing? This is great. You get said it's
a good thing. Say Flowers is great? Oh my god,
you're such a hitter. Let me explain. For Lamar Jackson,
this is a token. Okay, let me explain why. I'm
gonna explain it to you like you're five years old.
So should Lamar go out and drive the honey wagon
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again in the playoffs? If you don't know what a
honey wagon is, just google it can use the token.
Take that token, okay, put it in the machine and
get get out of consequence. You get a little card
with your token. It's a get out of consequence card
from the toke. It's the perfect alibi. Well, I would
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have played better, we would have won, but didn't have
my Flowers. I love my flowers. I can't get enough flowers.
I need flowers. He didn't have his flowers. His flowers
weren't there. There were no flowers anywhere. Za Flowers led
Baltimore with seventy four catches for one thousand and fifty
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nine yards receiving, and he's out. And now next man up, right,
next man up? Who's gonna fill the slack? Is it
gonna be sports with Coleman, our radio friend, Jerry Coleman, No,
it will not be sports with Coleman. We look at
the Ravens zep chart and it appears Nelson Agilar, the
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famous and infamous Nelson Aglar is in line to move
up the pecking order at wide out in Baltimore and
more of throwing to Mark Andrews the safety blanket for
Lamar Jackson and also Isaiah likely is more likely to
see an extended amount of targets in this game. So
that's who's going to replace Jay Flowers. But it is
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a built in excuse when Lamar does not perform well,
you think he'd do okay this weekend because the Steelers
defense has been atrocious the last month of the season.
They have been an absolute embarrassment and Russell Wilson hasn't
won a playoff game in since twenty nineteen, and if
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you look at some of his playoff numbers, they're absolutely terrible.
All right, final point, We now pivot to the land
of television, the land of TV, and that is where
Tom Brady. Tom Brady's fingerprints are all all over the Raiders. Now,
if you believe the many media reports, tom Brady is
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essentially the GM by proxy of the Silver and Black.
Now how much of this is being imbellished and how
much of this is reality? I don't know. Brady part
of a group that purchased about ten percent of the Raiders,
so he owns not a majority interest. But Mark Davis,
who can tell you the menu at PF Chang's on
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the back he hasn't memorized in the back of his
head at all times when it comes to a football
depth chart, no chance. So Mark Davis has deputized Tom
Brady to go out and find a GM and a
coach for the Raiders. Get it done. So it's six
degrees of Tom Brady. Now he is the common denominator.
Tom Brady is the common denominator in every single story
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involving the Las Vegas football team, and this has led
to some serious backlash right grassroots movement to have Tom
Brady removed from the TV booth because of his ties
to the Raiders. So, how is tom Brady's Raider gig
going to impact his TV future going forward? Again? How
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is tom Brady's Raiders gig where he's apparently running the Raiders,
how is how is this going to impact his TV
career going forward? So if you look at the jumbo tron, now, seriously,
if you look up at the jumbo tron, the game
clock on the scoreboard there on the jumbo trump, it's
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it's ticking down. Tik tik tik on the Fox gig. Now,
Fox is going to broadcast the Super Bowl, I believe
from Louisiana, and so Tom Brady will be calling the
Super Bowl and that should be his final broadcast because
Liones I get that lines across all over the NFL. Well,
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this is not a news story. It's a story as
old as time that everyone's friends with everyone and all that,
and they fraate andize. It's a metaphorically speaking, everyone's in
bed with everyone else. Now, that's it. Even by those
NFL standards and oh what standards they are in the NFL.
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Even by that measuring stick, this is too extreme. Like
Tom Brady has an escape portal to leave because he said, listen,
I got too many responsibilities now with the Raiders, and
I got these other side businesses and all that, you know,
but I don't want to necessarily hang out calling a
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game on Fox from Arlington, Texas in December when I
could be sitting on my yacht somewhere in the south
of France, somewhere nice and pretty in the south of France.
So he's got an out here. Everything's pointing in that direction.
And we'll see if anything changes between now in the
end of the NFL season. But that is where we
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are when it comes to Tom Brady and the Raider.
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one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Coop dalup for the second year in a row.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
The Baker Mayfield led Bucks have won their division and
are heading to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Now bigger things.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
They'll go deeper this time around, and says the biggest
difference is the run game, Ben, can Bucky Irving help
lead the Bucks to a deeper run?
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Well?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Can he? Yes? Sure he can. Am I gonna bet
on that now. I do think Tampa Bay will be
able to take care of the Washington football team this weekend.
But Baker's actually not done all that well in primetime games,
so that is a bit of an issue. He's not
played that well. But I am taking Tampa Bay at
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least this week, but after that, all bets are off Next.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Quinn Ewers was asked about speculation that he could get
huge offers to enter the transfer portal. He basically sidnes
stepped the question and said, he's just focused on Friday
at this point, Ben, what do you think you owers does?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh, he's gone. It was with six million dollars something
along those lines. He can get in free agency and
college football. Of course, you take that money if you're
not going to go to the NFL, get get extra
money out of college and then go to the NFL.
Squeeze every dollar out of Cultura. And I'm pretty sure
if he was planning on staying, he said, I have
no intention of leaving. I love Texas, BLO. No he
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didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Next, during a press conference prior to the Orange Bowl,
James Franklin said, this is no knock at coach or
Notre Dame, but I think everybody should be in a conference.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Ben Is he right? Well, he's lying when he said
this is no knock at coach or Notre Dame because
he used the word butt. Everything before the word butt
is a lie, So James Franklin was lying. He said
that everyone's so jealous of Notre Dame. Everyone wants to
be Notre Dame and they're annoyed that Notre Dame doesn't
have to share anything. But Notre Dame doesn't need to
go into a comp They're about to win a national championship,
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or at least have a chance to win a national championship,
so clearly they they're not being held back by not
being in a conference. So James Franklin can go pound
sand there. It is mallard of a third degree. How
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She watches him every year. I don't know what. Well,
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All right, what else do we have to see? Page down? Well,
what do Lizzo and the Dallas Cowboys have in common?
What they The more they lose, the more they're worth. Amazing.
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That's Gordon in Tacoma. Why will Lizzo struggle with her
next career? Why, well, apparently she's going into it half assed.
That's why Ship the Great Chip in Maine makes those
delicious bakes those delicious cookies. What department in a bakery
(31:48):
or work in a weed man, Joe? What department of
the bakery would weed man be best qualified to work?
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Here?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
What the loafing department? The loafing department. That's that's appropriate. Well, incredibly,
the NHL will play two October hockey games in Florida
in twenty six. Yeah, even more incredible would be weed
Man hit be getting a job before twenty six. That's
(32:19):
not funny. It's Georgia Genie. That's not funny, though, George
and Rochester, Minnesota. What new song by Lizzo is now
the number one Christmas song? What I Am a Hippopotamus
for Christmas? That's a Frank and Fargo sent that one
in Thank you. Frank. Lizzo isn't going to her class reunion.
(32:43):
Why well, she says she was unpopular and picked on
in high school. Plus the little people couldn't come up
with her appearance fee, So that's why she's not sure enough.
That's Tom in Indiana. All right. If weed Man was
a stock? What stock would weed Man be? Apple? What?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Laughing stock? Weed Man laughing stocking?
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Weak?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
And Roseville, Minnesota?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Do you got any jokes over there, Coope? Any offensive jokes? Oh?
Fuck no, I can send you some. I'll sing you
some Big Ben's lame jokes. We actual jokes by actual
listeners of the radio show. Well, what are the LA
Fire Department and weed Man Hippie have in common?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Well, unfortunately neither of them have enough water the Fargo
Fargo Pete sent that one integrate to Fargo Pete.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
There.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, some good leadership by the mayor of Later What
happened after weed Man had his first haircut in years.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
What.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Well, the good news is the barber found his dentures
right there. Your teeth were in their ship, Maine. Why
is weed Man jealous of his roommate? Why because his
roommate can lie through his teeth instead of his gums.
Let's hurt from earth. Have you found your teeth yet,
weed Man? Oh? Now you have not. Why did weed
(34:15):
Man hit me eat so much cereal? Why? Well, because
you're the new face of Wehedy's Tiny Homes. Congratulations. That's
Crewe in Minnesota who sent out one It's Big Ben's
lame jokes a week, actual jokes by actual listeners. They
asked weed Man to be the event planner for his
upcoming high school class reunion. Big news there. Wow, yeah,
(34:40):
apparently you turned it down, weed Man because you don't
want to be around a bunch of losers and you
refuse to break up any marriages. So that Tom Tom
and Indiana. Weed Man just missed getting a job with
the homeless hotline. Wow? Really? Yeah? Yeah, Peary were rejected
(35:01):
because your references were angry Bill Filexis and whoopee Pie Blair,
So that did not work. Well, that's Dennis from Detroit.
Why was weed Man overcome with ecstatic joy back on
Christmas from the big lump of coal he got from
Santa Why because it was infused with slow burning, high
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grade cannabis. And that's frank in Fargo. Franklin Fargo. Well,
what does the city of Fargo and all of weed
Man's ex roommates have in common? What they are both
big fans of his absence. That's a Fargo peek. Big
(35:46):
Ben's lame jokes of the week. This one from chipping Man.
He says, why is Kawhi Leonard so affected by the
la wildfires? Why appeary? He's got survivors guilt from burning
down the Clipper franchise, so he feels guilty of parent
And let's hit the main one of us. Did you
know do you know when the last time Angryville got
(36:06):
that emotional as he did the other week on the show.
It's when the TV show last he got canceled. Yeah.
And you know, you know another time when Angry Bill
got emotional as well, when he got transferred to a
minimum security prison. He got very excited about that. That's
John in Youngstown, Ohio. Weed Man. That's all we have
(36:29):
time for. Thank you, weed Man. I love with that
lame jokes of the week every week at this time
our friend Billy from Miami.
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Marcel's great toss as always. Alright, so first we're gonna
talk about there's just one movie that's worth mentioning coming
out this weekend. It is called The Last Show Girl,
and it is a pleignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers.
And it starts Pamela Anderson and yeah, that's right, she's
(37:18):
it's actually getting pretty good reviews.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I know you're younger than me, but at one point
she was the hottest one. Oh no, I remember, he
was the number one, number one.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
She changed the game in fact, he yeah, anyways, before
Kim Kardashian. Oh for sure, there's another video.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Wasn't bay Watch? Yeah? Yeah, she was on bay Watch
and she did very well on boats. Yeah, yes, that's right.
I've never seen her on a boat, Missy.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
I don't know anyway, She plays a glamorous showgirl who
must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes
after a thirty year run. Dave Bautista and Jamie Lee
Curtis also star in this movie and it is directed
by Gia Coppola. So yeah, good reviews. That is out
this weekend in theaters. Check that out and then going
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over to television, we have a new limited series on Netflix.
It's called American Prime Evil and this is a six
episode mini series that takes place in the American West
in eighteen fifty seven, where various people from different communities
and religions battle to survive the harsh conditions and each other.
(38:33):
Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch headline the cast that also
includes Dane Dihon and a couple couple others.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Moving on, we have last This is the last one.
I'm gonna Oh no, I want to bring this up,
Ben Okay, yes, cool, Yeah, I don't normally bring these
things like this up. But it is a new well
not really a new game show. They are bringing back
a game show, Hollywood Squares. Oh yeah, I remember the
Hollywood Square Yeah. Too popular for a while. I'd like
you wanted to be that center Square. That's right, Well,
(39:04):
should get on that coop. You could be on that.
I don't know, it's come on kid from Liar Liar, y. Yeah,
I don't think you'd be in the middle square, but
you could be like the hire Liar was middle thirty
years ago now, so it doesn't matter. That's the demo.
People that watch TV are in their fifties, so it's perfect.
They were in their twenties when the movie came out.
Boo done well.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
So this reboot will be on CBS Slash, Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
And get this. It is hosted by Nate Burlson, Oh,
the NFL guy.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Yeah, that's right. And you know who's in the center Square, Rob.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
It's on CBS, so it's got to be a CBA.
I don't know who. It's Drew Barrymore. Oh okay, yeah,
I love her. Yeah, so officially washed up. Okay.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
The New Hollywood Square is available to stream right now
on Paramount Plus. And uh, we'll skip this last one.
We'll give we'll give some more time to support Jeopardy.
That's called entertainment.
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we begin here by mentioning our thoughts go out to
those affected. Here we do the show from La the fires.
The numbers are just mind boggling. It's an apocalyptic type
situation here. But our thoughts are with the first responders,
those that have been affected by the fires. Twenty nine
thousand acres last report, fifty seven billion dollars in economic damage.
(02:06):
I saw I was reading somewhere they said that the
size of the fires in southern California is the size
of the entire city of San Francisco. It's it's wild.
Our thoughts are there, But our job is to do sports.
Very important work, right, very important work to talk about sports.
(02:27):
But our lead this hour is from South Florida, just
outside Miami, Miami, Miami, where weed Man Hippie, our caller
is looking for a new place to live. That was
the stage, the grand stage, Oh what a grand stage
it was for the Orange Bowl, the college football playoff
semi final game, a heavyweight matchup. There was bobbing, there
(02:49):
was weaving between Penn State and Notre Dame. Now, I
don't know if you saw this game. This was the
it game of the final four of college football. But
for Apps, she missed it. Yet something else going on.
Don't worry, We watch so you would not have to.
It's our active kindness of good midst of the day.
It was a Barton Burner of a matchup. There were
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lead changes, there was drama, there were injuries, and in
the end it came down to a defensive play for
the fighting Irish, Notre Dame defensive back Christian Gray getting
her done as he picked off Penn State quarterback Drew
Aller his pass across the middle at the Nitney Lions
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forty two yard line with thirty three seconds left on
the game clock. So a major turn events. The Irish
thing got nineteen yards quickly on offense and that set
up a forty one yard field goal was seven seconds
left by someone named Mitch Jeter, not Derek, but Mitch
Jeter to win the game. And he won the game.
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Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. So Notre Dame
teen and one. The Irish continue their magic carpet ride
the seven seed and into the first twelve team college
football playoff. They're into the championship and they will have
a chance to bring back the first title since nineteen
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eighty eight, since nineteen eighty eight, and the game January
twentieth coming up here January twentieth in Atlanta, home of
a great airport there in Atlanta, against the winner of
the game that we played here on Friday night between
the Longhorns of Texas and the Ohio State buck guys
(04:38):
who will try to dot the I in the semi
final in the Cotton Bowl. So a lot to talk about.
Better story, though, is in the losing locker room, So
we will start in the losing locker room because we
like the better story and it's really about one person,
and one person in particular as we discuss here, and
that is the quarterback for the Nintillons. Will penns State
(05:00):
quarterback Drew Aller be haunted by this performance? So I've
got Altoid's underlying condition and swamp creature, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a nice tropical vacation which all these players
(05:21):
for Penn State who are getting that big nil money
can enjoy a nice tropical vacation so will Penn State
quarterback Drew Aller be haunted by this performance? That was
the question, I'm not in my head. Yes, you can't
see me, but I'm not. If you're watching the YouTube channel,
you can't see I'm not in my head. Yes, right
in the blink of an eye, his story changed his storaging.
(05:43):
Now he did the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it, and there's no other way to
say it. Right, the game was in his hands now,
not necessarily to win the game, but just don't lose
the game. And he screwed up. And here is the
man of the hour facing the media. I give him credit.
(06:04):
He didn't hide like a coward. Who's your's Drew Aller
talking about what the heck went wrong?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, I mean I was going through my progression, got
to the backside, and honestly, I was just trying to
dirt it at his feet. But just I should have
just thrown it the way when I felt the first
two progressions not open, just because of the situation we
were in. But I was just trying to dirt it
out of Marii's feet. So but just in to execute
what I was trying.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
To do.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That would be an understatement. So again, from being at
the very peak of all of college football, everyone's talking
about this guy and now he needs some altoids, those
Arctic peppermint breath mints because he's got dragon breath. Interception aside, like,
that was a terrible play and that ended the game
for Fann State. But he was bad to the bone
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throughout the game. If you were watching twelve of twenty three,
a little over fifty per sent completion rate, only one
hundred and thirty five yards, passing less than six yards
per pass, mostly to running backs. I don't even know
if they completed a pass to a wide receiver, one interception,
and a passer rating of fifty one point one. And
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so he was the duke, the Duke of Puke in
this game, and NFL scouts were salivating about the ability
of Alor before the game, possibly entering the NFL draft.
He had announced already his intention to return to Happy
Valley in twenty twenty five for the next college football season,
but NFL scouts were like, there's a chance now even
(07:39):
with this public flatulence, even without going out there and
farting on the big stage. Drew Aller has the prototypical
physical gifts where even with that he's still going to
be fine down the line. But it's it's one of
those things where he he only gets so many chances
in these type of games, and if you have another
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bad one, then that becomes your reputation. It's what you
did last in these type of games. And so he's
got the powerful arm, which is great, and the size,
the prototypical size that the NFL world wants, and the
extends plays and he can be a pocket passer. He
is a pocket passer, and which is all, which is
all wonderful, but you can't do what he did in
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that moment. It's obvious now. James Franklin getting a lot
of crap more on him later in the hour, but
here's a little taste of his thoughts. The Penn State
coach on the Nitley Lions exiting college football's playoff stage left.
He goz, we're all hurting.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
You know, this ain't easy to get in here right
after the game and have a conversation after you just
poured your guts out on that field and really.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Did it all year long.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So you know he'll handle he'll handle it great.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
He'll be hurting tonight, and he'll be hurting tomorrow, and
he'll hurt a little bit less the next day, and
so on and so forth. But he's a he's a
committed guy that's going to do it the right way.
And he said it. It may not feel like it
right now, but he'll learn from this and he'll be
better for it, and so will we.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Well, he kept saying he did not see the man's name.
He was talking about Drew Aller, his quarterback there all
right now, turning the page. As for the fighting Irish,
lot of chatter, a lot of chatter, some of it
was on the broadcast, that it's just different. There's a
different vibration around Notre Dame. And the question for the
(09:33):
esteem panel now that Notre Dame is going to be
playing for the national championship, thumbs up or thumbs down?
Has coach Marcus Freeman made Notre Dame likable thumbs up
or thumbs down? So I'm gonna go thumbs down? Okay,
I'm going thumbs down here, unpopular opinion. Let me tell
you why. It's not about James Franklin. It's not about
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the Irish players. They come and go right, They're not
there for that long, especially now with nil money. But
when you look at Notre Dame, the thing that makes
them unlikable is the underlying condition. Some people are annoyed
by leprechauns. Other people don't like the gold helmets right touchdown,
Jesus rubs people the wrong way. The whole playing like
a championship, you know, playing like a champion thing that's
(10:18):
annoying to some people. The whole Irish mystique were better
than everybody. That's part of it. And when you dig deeper,
the thing that I circled on my scorecard, the golden domers,
insufferable fan base that gets under everyone's skin, the entitled
Notre Dame fan that they're in the same class like
(10:38):
Yankee fans, Laker historians, Cowboys fans. You know what I'm
talking about. You feel with me on that like the
worst in show. There's a famous quote by Lou Holtz,
and I'll probably butcher it, but Lou Holtz, when he
was coaching at Notre Dame, said, those who know Notre Dame,
no explanation is necessary, and for those who don't, no
(10:59):
explanation will suffice, which is about right right, which is
about right and because yeah, those that love Notre Dame,
whether you were raised into it because you're Catholic, or
whether you just love Notre Dame because they're on NBC
every week and all that you love them. And for
those on the other side of the aisle, it doesn't matter.
It's like Democrats and Republicans, right, you can't agree on anything.
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There's no bite partisan issue all right. Now, last word,
so who smells the worst? Who smells the worst? From
Notre Dame's return to the pinnacle of college fool by
you're probably saying, well, James Franklin, Penn State, Drew Aller,
that interception. Now, bad job by you. The correct answer
(11:44):
would be four thousand dollars. How about the swamp creature
also known as also known as LSU coach Brian Kelly
L Sticko pu what snakes. Let's go back in the
hot top time the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty two.
On his way out out of South Bend, Indiana, on
(12:08):
his way to to battl Rouge, Louisiana, Brian Kelly not
only picked up a Cajun accent, he also gave a
body blow, body blow, body blow to the Irish program.
He said words that are guaranteed to pop that cup,
(12:30):
and they certainly did. Brian Kelly said quote, I want
to be an environment where I have the resources to
win a national championship, and that is why Brian Kelly
went to LSU. And since Brian Kelly got to LSU,
they have not made the College Football Playoff, while Notre
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Dame will be playing for the national championship in a
little less than two weeks and they will have have
Ohio State in Texas. And ask for the question of
who you'd rather play if your Notre Dame, the coward
would say, we want to play Texas because they're not
as good, But the better story is Ohio State. You'd
(13:15):
want to play Ohio State because that's the better team
and that solidifies whatever this season is. Whereas if you
beat Texas, people will start picking apart your wins and say, no,
you didn't play this team, you didn't play that team,
and so you take down Ohio State. Ohio State is
the top available option for Notre Dame and an all
(13:39):
Midwestern matchup there it would be Ohio State and Notre Dame.
But Texas will have a say in that that game,
of course being played later on on Friday night.
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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another hour of the Benmahlor Show. As we are in
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Los Angeles where the firefighters contine to fight the wildfires
(15:02):
all sides of LA. The wins calming down a little bit,
but more heavy win forecasts, so hopefully we'll be able
to get these fires under control. And with that as
the background, we will get back to the college football.
Notre Dame as a win away from the championship. They'll
play Ohio State or Texas in the championship game. But
the lead here from LA and with the Vikings set
(15:24):
to play the Rams in a wild card matchup on
Monday night, Monday night, the NFL made a decision. I
really want to thank the NFL for doing this just
after we finished recording the latest episode of Benny Versus
the Penny, thus torpedoing the latest episode of Betty Versus
the Pay So good job by the NFL waiting until
(15:45):
we were done with the latest episode, but the NFL
decided we want to enter the chat on this. And
if you have not heard by now, maybe you have,
maybe you haven't. The NFL has decided that they cannot
play football in Los Angeles on Monday night. I cannot
do it now. SOFI Stadium is in no danger of
(16:07):
any kind of problem with the fire. But the NFL
has decided, out of an abundance of caution, to move
the wild card playoff game to Arizona. So congratulations. The
only way Arizona will get a playoff game is if
like the game's moved because Kyler Murray sucks a home
playoff game. I don't think they've had a home playoff
(16:27):
game in almost a decade there, and this is a
playoff game, not a home playoff game. But it is
a playoff game, so the game will be moved. It
was announced on Thursday night there saying the decision was
made and the interest of public safety. As wildfires continuing
to burn all over here, we do the show from
la It has been Dante's Inferno, the real life version
(16:49):
of a fire hurricane, and both the Rams and Chargers
were practicing in the great outdoors. Don't have indoor practice facilities.
There's nowhere else to practice other than outside and the toxic,
smoky air everywhere as they were doing their thing. But
let us discuss. Chargers are playing on the road this weekend,
(17:11):
so they don't have to worry about moving their game.
The game has been moved to Houston, but the question
because of the fires again, the NFL moving the Ram
Viking wild Card game to the Greater Phoenix, Arizona area Glendale, Arizona.
How much does this hurt Sean mcvay's squad. How much
does this hurt Sean mcvay's squad. I've got spaghetti Western
(17:36):
token and Jumpbotron, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a giant cactus.
When the Rams fly in to Sky Harbor Airport and
the Vikings, they'll see giant cactuses they get closer to
the airport there, that's what they're going to see. So
(17:58):
no so pausing to contemplate the question of how much
this hurts Sean mcvay's squad. You take a couple of
steps back, You examine the situation from all different angles,
all sides, all sides. It is a drop in the bucket,
(18:22):
the old sideway shuffle. In fact, well, many will say
this is a lateral move. Some doomsday people will say
this is bad. I'm gonna go the opposite. I have
an unpopular opinion. I think this actually helps the Rams.
This is going to help the Rams. Moving the game
to Arizona will be a net positive for the Rams.
And let me explain for those of you that are
(18:43):
doubting me, like our friend in London, Terry in London,
and some of these other guys. So it's like a
spaghetti western. Okay, let me explain. It's like a spaghetti Western.
The Minnesota fan was planning a hostile takeover in the
hood in Inglewood, it was going to be filled with
(19:04):
purple right Viking fans everywhere. So the fact that the
NFL moved this on a Thursday, this should cut many
of them off at the pass, block them from advancing,
and that's not necessarily but I think not that the Rams,
it really matters. I mean, we'll hear some of this
on the TV show, which is obviously dated. But the
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Rams over the years since they've been back in LA,
since the NFL orphaned LA for an entire generation. It's
going to take a couple of generations to build back
up a fan base because the NFL left Verus, Saint
Louis and Oakland, so when the Rams and Raiders left,
so people grew up without an NFL team to root
for a hometown team. So the NFL is paying the
(19:45):
price for that right now as they try to build
up a fan base. But the Rams have been back
for a while and every time they've had a home game,
it's been majority of the other fans, And it doesn't
matter that Rams usually went at home. They have a
great record at home with Sean McVay. The fact they're
moving the game to Arizona will likely block impede some
(20:05):
of those Viking fans. Now, how did the gambling market
adjust the Ram Viking game being moved to Arizona. So
Sam Donald's Vikings move from a consensus minus one favorite
or one and a half, they're now two and a
half point favorites now after the announcement came down there,
it just seems like it's unnecessary. And Sam Donald was
(20:29):
gonna puke all over himself in LA, He'll likely puke
all over himself in Glendale, Arizona. Now page two. We
go now to bolt Demore, Maryland, where the seafood is
fresh and the playoff football is normally pretty bad. As
the Ravens trying to overcome playoff lamar as they get
ready for the postseason, and they will do it this
(20:51):
weekend without their Flowers. They will not be getting their flowers.
Za Flowers has been ruled out he go for the
wild card matchup Baltimore and Pittsburgh on Saturday night. He's
not playing. Flowers injured his right knee in the regular
season finale, and so Jay Flowers he walked through the
(21:13):
locker room. We understand those that were there said he
walked through the locker room wearing a brace on his
injured knee. And he's out Pro Bowl wide receiver. So
the Ravens remember the Pro Bowls. A water balloon tossed down,
so the Ravens will be without wide receiver won Zay Flowers.
What does this mean? What does this mean? All right,
I'll go first. So for Lamar Jackson, this is actually
(21:34):
a good thing. What are you talking about? Can't be
a good thing? This is great. You get said it's
a good thing. Say Flowers is great? Oh my god,
you're such a hitter. Let me explain. For Lamar Jackson,
this is a token. Okay, let me explain why. I'm
gonna explain it to you like you're five years old.
So should Lamar go out and drive the honey wagon
(21:55):
again in the playoffs? If you don't know what a
honey wagon is, just google it can use the token.
Take that token, okay, put it in the machine and
get get out of consequence. You get a little card
with your token. It's a get out of consequence card
from the toke. It's the perfect alibi. Well, I would
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have played better, we would have won, but didn't have
my Flowers. I love my flowers. I can't get enough flowers.
I need flowers. He didn't have his flowers. His flowers
weren't there. There were no flowers anywhere. Za Flowers led
Baltimore with seventy four catches for one thousand and fifty
(22:37):
nine yards receiving, and he's out. And now next man up, right,
next man up? Who's gonna fill the slack? Is it
gonna be sports with Coleman, our radio friend, Jerry Coleman, No,
it will not be sports with Coleman. We look at
the Ravens zep chart and it appears Nelson Agilar, the
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famous and infamous Nelson Aglar is in line to move
up the pecking order at wide out in Baltimore and
more of throwing to Mark Andrews the safety blanket for
Lamar Jackson and also Isaiah likely is more likely to
see an extended amount of targets in this game. So
that's who's going to replace Jay Flowers. But it is
(23:22):
a built in excuse when Lamar does not perform well,
you think he'd do okay this weekend because the Steelers
defense has been atrocious the last month of the season.
They have been an absolute embarrassment and Russell Wilson hasn't
won a playoff game in since twenty nineteen, and if
(23:43):
you look at some of his playoff numbers, they're absolutely terrible.
All right, final point, We now pivot to the land
of television, the land of TV, and that is where
Tom Brady. Tom Brady's fingerprints are all all over the Raiders. Now,
if you believe the many media reports, tom Brady is
(24:07):
essentially the GM by proxy of the Silver and Black.
Now how much of this is being imbellished and how
much of this is reality? I don't know. Brady part
of a group that purchased about ten percent of the Raiders,
so he owns not a majority interest. But Mark Davis,
who can tell you the menu at PF Chang's on
(24:30):
the back he hasn't memorized in the back of his
head at all times when it comes to a football
depth chart, no chance. So Mark Davis has deputized Tom
Brady to go out and find a GM and a
coach for the Raiders. Get it done. So it's six
degrees of Tom Brady. Now he is the common denominator.
Tom Brady is the common denominator in every single story
(24:54):
involving the Las Vegas football team, and this has led
to some serious backlash right grassroots movement to have Tom
Brady removed from the TV booth because of his ties
to the Raiders. So, how is tom Brady's Raider gig
going to impact his TV future going forward? Again? How
(25:18):
is tom Brady's Raiders gig where he's apparently running the Raiders,
how is how is this going to impact his TV
career going forward? So if you look at the jumbo tron, now, seriously,
if you look up at the jumbo tron, the game
clock on the scoreboard there on the jumbo trump, it's
(25:40):
it's ticking down. Tik tik tik on the Fox gig. Now,
Fox is going to broadcast the Super Bowl, I believe
from Louisiana, and so Tom Brady will be calling the
Super Bowl and that should be his final broadcast because
Liones I get that lines across all over the NFL. Well,
(26:00):
this is not a news story. It's a story as
old as time that everyone's friends with everyone and all that,
and they fraate andize. It's a metaphorically speaking, everyone's in
bed with everyone else. Now, that's it. Even by those
NFL standards and oh what standards they are in the NFL.
(26:21):
Even by that measuring stick, this is too extreme. Like
Tom Brady has an escape portal to leave because he said, listen,
I got too many responsibilities now with the Raiders, and
I got these other side businesses and all that, you know,
but I don't want to necessarily hang out calling a
(26:41):
game on Fox from Arlington, Texas in December when I
could be sitting on my yacht somewhere in the south
of France, somewhere nice and pretty in the south of France.
So he's got an out here. Everything's pointing in that direction.
And we'll see if anything changes between now in the
end of the NFL season. But that is where we
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are when it comes to Tom Brady and the Raider.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
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one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Coop dalup for the second year in a row.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
The Baker Mayfield led Bucks have won their division and
are heading to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Now bigger things.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
They'll go deeper this time around, and says the biggest
difference is the run game, Ben, can Bucky Irving help
lead the Bucks to a deeper run?
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Well?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Can he? Yes? Sure he can. Am I gonna bet
on that now. I do think Tampa Bay will be
able to take care of the Washington football team this weekend.
But Baker's actually not done all that well in primetime games,
so that is a bit of an issue. He's not
played that well. But I am taking Tampa Bay at
(28:02):
least this week, but after that, all bets are off Next.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Quinn Ewers was asked about speculation that he could get
huge offers to enter the transfer portal. He basically sidnes
stepped the question and said, he's just focused on Friday
at this point, Ben, what do you think you owers does?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh, he's gone. It was with six million dollars something
along those lines. He can get in free agency and
college football. Of course, you take that money if you're
not going to go to the NFL, get get extra
money out of college and then go to the NFL.
Squeeze every dollar out of Cultura. And I'm pretty sure
if he was planning on staying, he said, I have
no intention of leaving. I love Texas, BLO. No he
(28:39):
didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Next, during a press conference prior to the Orange Bowl,
James Franklin said, this is no knock at coach or
Notre Dame, but I think everybody should be in a conference.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Ben Is he right? Well, he's lying when he said
this is no knock at coach or Notre Dame because
he used the word butt. Everything before the word butt
is a lie, So James Franklin was lying. He said
that everyone's so jealous of Notre Dame. Everyone wants to
be Notre Dame and they're annoyed that Notre Dame doesn't
have to share anything. But Notre Dame doesn't need to
go into a comp They're about to win a national championship,
(29:10):
or at least have a chance to win a national championship,
so clearly they they're not being held back by not
being in a conference. So James Franklin can go pound
sand there. It is mallard of a third degree. How
did we now you pass this edition? I won again
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You are? Yes? All right? You hear Did you hear that?
Lizzo won a gold medal. Oh yeah, she took first
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Dennis in Detroit. What are Lizzo's favorite college football bowl games?
She watches him every year. I don't know what. Well,
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she loves pop tarts and the cheese it bowls. She's
a big friend. So for topic community ice, eat a
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All right, what else do we have to see? Page down? Well,
what do Lizzo and the Dallas Cowboys have in common?
What they The more they lose, the more they're worth. Amazing.
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That's Gordon in Tacoma. Why will Lizzo struggle with her
next career? Why, well, apparently she's going into it half assed.
That's why Ship the Great Chip in Maine makes those
delicious bakes those delicious cookies. What department in a bakery
(31:48):
or work in a weed man, Joe? What department of
the bakery would weed man be best qualified to work?
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What the loafing department? The loafing department. That's that's appropriate. Well, incredibly,
the NHL will play two October hockey games in Florida
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(32:19):
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and Rochester, Minnesota. What new song by Lizzo is now
the number one Christmas song? What I Am a Hippopotamus
for Christmas? That's a Frank and Fargo sent that one
in Thank you. Frank. Lizzo isn't going to her class reunion.
(32:43):
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in high school. Plus the little people couldn't come up
with her appearance fee, So that's why she's not sure enough.
That's Tom in Indiana. All right. If weed Man was
a stock? What stock would weed Man be? Apple? What?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
No?
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Laughing stock? Weed Man laughing stocking?
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Weak?
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And Roseville, Minnesota?
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Cool?
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Do you got any jokes over there, Coope? Any offensive jokes? Oh?
Fuck no, I can send you some. I'll sing you
some Big Ben's lame jokes. We actual jokes by actual
listeners of the radio show. Well, what are the LA
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What?
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Well, unfortunately neither of them have enough water the Fargo
Fargo Pete sent that one integrate to Fargo Pete.
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There.
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Yeah, some good leadership by the mayor of Later What
happened after weed Man had his first haircut in years.
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Well, the good news is the barber found his dentures
right there. Your teeth were in their ship, Maine. Why
is weed Man jealous of his roommate? Why because his
roommate can lie through his teeth instead of his gums.
Let's hurt from earth. Have you found your teeth yet,
weed Man? Oh? Now you have not. Why did weed
(34:15):
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you're the new face of Wehedy's Tiny Homes. Congratulations. That's
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asked weed Man to be the event planner for his
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(34:40):
apparently you turned it down, weed Man because you don't
want to be around a bunch of losers and you
refuse to break up any marriages. So that Tom Tom
and Indiana. Weed Man just missed getting a job with
the homeless hotline. Wow? Really? Yeah? Yeah, Peary were rejected
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because your references were angry Bill Filexis and whoopee Pie Blair,
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Why was weed Man overcome with ecstatic joy back on
Christmas from the big lump of coal he got from
Santa Why because it was infused with slow burning, high
(35:24):
grade cannabis. And that's frank in Fargo. Franklin Fargo. Well,
what does the city of Fargo and all of weed
Man's ex roommates have in common? What they are both
big fans of his absence. That's a Fargo peek. Big
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Ben's lame jokes of the week. This one from chipping Man.
He says, why is Kawhi Leonard so affected by the
la wildfires? Why appeary? He's got survivors guilt from burning
down the Clipper franchise, so he feels guilty of parent
And let's hit the main one of us. Did you
know do you know when the last time Angryville got
(36:06):
that emotional as he did the other week on the show.
It's when the TV show last he got canceled. Yeah.
And you know, you know another time when Angry Bill
got emotional as well, when he got transferred to a
minimum security prison. He got very excited about that. That's
John in Youngstown, Ohio. Weed Man. That's all we have
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time for. Thank you, weed Man. I love with that
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Speaker 4 (36:56):
Marcel's great toss as always. Alright, so first we're gonna
talk about there's just one movie that's worth mentioning coming
out this weekend. It is called The Last Show Girl,
and it is a pleignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers.
And it starts Pamela Anderson and yeah, that's right, she's
(37:18):
it's actually getting pretty good reviews.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I know you're younger than me, but at one point
she was the hottest one. Oh no, I remember, he
was the number one, number one.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
She changed the game in fact, he yeah, anyways, before
Kim Kardashian. Oh for sure, there's another video.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Wasn't bay Watch? Yeah? Yeah, she was on bay Watch
and she did very well on boats. Yeah, yes, that's right.
I've never seen her on a boat, Missy.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
I don't know anyway, She plays a glamorous showgirl who
must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes
after a thirty year run. Dave Bautista and Jamie Lee
Curtis also star in this movie and it is directed
by Gia Coppola. So yeah, good reviews. That is out
this weekend in theaters. Check that out and then going
(38:12):
over to television, we have a new limited series on Netflix.
It's called American Prime Evil and this is a six
episode mini series that takes place in the American West
in eighteen fifty seven, where various people from different communities
and religions battle to survive the harsh conditions and each other.
(38:33):
Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch headline the cast that also
includes Dane Dihon and a couple couple others.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Moving on, we have last This is the last one.
I'm gonna Oh no, I want to bring this up,
Ben Okay, yes, cool, Yeah, I don't normally bring these
things like this up. But it is a new well
not really a new game show. They are bringing back
a game show, Hollywood Squares. Oh yeah, I remember the
Hollywood Square Yeah. Too popular for a while. I'd like
you wanted to be that center Square. That's right, Well,
(39:04):
should get on that coop. You could be on that.
I don't know, it's come on kid from Liar Liar, y. Yeah,
I don't think you'd be in the middle square, but
you could be like the hire Liar was middle thirty
years ago now, so it doesn't matter. That's the demo.
People that watch TV are in their fifties, so it's perfect.
They were in their twenties when the movie came out.
Boo done well.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
So this reboot will be on CBS Slash, Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
And get this. It is hosted by Nate Burlson, Oh,
the NFL guy.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Yeah, that's right. And you know who's in the center Square, Rob.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
It's on CBS, so it's got to be a CBA.
I don't know who. It's Drew Barrymore. Oh okay, yeah,
I love her. Yeah, so officially washed up. Okay.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
The New Hollywood Square is available to stream right now
on Paramount Plus. And uh, we'll skip this last one.
We'll give we'll give some more time to support Jeopardy.
That's called entertainment.
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