January 23, 2025 • 35 mins
Big Ben talks about the Jets hiring of former Lions DC Aaron Glenn to be their next head coach, Ben Johnson saying he is going to rip the Bears offense down to the studs to build around Caleb Williams, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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action of course got the YouTube videos. So the camera's
on in here, but our lead this hour from the
swamp land of Jersey. It is a done deal. A
rumor from yesterday has now become reality. If you somehow
missed the news, the Detroit Lions have lost their defensive coordinator,
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Aaron Glenn. He picks up the booby prize of the
NFL coaching carousel. He was officially hired as the nineteenth
non interim head coach. Of course, the Jets have had
many many interim head coaches, but Aaron Glenn gets a
five year contract and that ties him to the Jets.
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At least they'll be cutting him checks, assuming there's no
out in the contract through twenty twenty nine. Chances that
Aaron Glenn is coaching the Jets in twenty twenty eight
and twenty twenty nine slim and none. But hey, why not?
The thought is nice. So did you hear what he said?
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Maybe not? There was a prepared statement where Aaron Glenn
waxed poetic in his prepared comments talking about his playing days.
Much of what we thought he would say, the hemoglobin,
it's in the blood there, that's why you want to
coach the Jets, saying that the Jets organization has always
felt like home. And Glenn played for the Jets and
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was one of their I don't want to say a
star because he's he was a defensive guy, but he
played on the defense from the mid nineties to the
early two thousands. He made a couple of Pro Bowls.
That was back before the Pro Bowl was hula hoop
toss and and you know, water balloon and all that.
So we'll see if you can go home again. It
doesn't always work so well. He's being celebrated Aaron Glenn
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as a Bill Parcells disciple. Okay, Bill Parcells, I think
you can catch him at the local horse track there
uh playing playing the ponies and among the fan base.
So let's talk about that part of it, right because Glenn,
you can sell. Hey, he played for the Jets. I
think he's one of only two players to have played
for the Jets that ended up coaching the team. But
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as we discuss what is the temperature in the room,
if you will, the temperature in the room among the
fan base, on how Jet fans are feeling about hiring
Aaron Glenn. So I've got crypto tupperware and murder hornet
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice tropical vacation. Which
is what Aaron Glenn can plan every year during the playoffs.
Is the Jets just don't make the playoffs. So my
first thought here is you take Aaron Glenn as coach
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of the Jets. You give that a like a shoulder shrug.
Is what you do, right, You give it a bit
of a shoulder shrug. There, that's the proper reaction. You
assume nothing and question everything. Now, I'm not a Jets fan,
as you know, but I know what bunch of Jets
fans and at this point, the real Jet fan has
a feeling of numbness when it comes to coaching changes
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every couple of seasons. It's like spring cleaning. Every couple
of seasons. The Jets get rid of a coach and
they hire some hot shot coordinator who has all the
answers and everyone says is the next great coach in
the NFL. They've got it all figured out. They're the
smartest person on the block. And they come in there
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and they talk to talk, and then they have to
walk and it's like Willy Walker and the Chocolate factory
is they stumble over and fall down on the cobblestone.
Unlike Willy Waka, they don't stand back up and they
have the cane. All that. But coaching the Jets and
Aaron Glenn will see what he has to say in
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the coming days here. But Aaron Glenn and all Jets
coaches have the same thing in common. They come in
there and they're Charlatan's is what they are. Right. It's
like some fly by night pump and dump crypto scam.
Hey you got to buy this new crypto man to
the Moon, to the Moon, to the Moon, to the
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Moon to the Unfortunately, Yeah, the turnaround point bar is
actually not that high, which is pretty good, right, It's
pretty very low. I will give that to Aaron Glenn.
How low can you go? How low can you go?
The Jets are coming off their fourteenth straight season out
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of the plus, which means if you're like a going
into your freshman year in high school, coming up your
entire life, the Jets have not made the playoffs. The
longest active drought in the big time industrial complex of
American sport. I mean you talk about the big sports leagues,
the four major men's sports leagues and they have the
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longest drought. So we are setting the Malar odds, very
important measuring tool, the malarodds. That Aaron Glenn makes the
playoffs with the Jets. I'm gonna set the odds at
plus five hundred. That implies a about a fifteen percent chance,
roughly so a one fifty hitter in baseball. The NFL
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will be expanding the playoffs in the next few years.
They're going to keep adding teams because TV wants more
playoff games. So if you follow the Malord math, there
is this sweet spot where if you keep adding teams,
eventually eventually the Jets will get in. They'll get in
because they'll they'll win. The bar will be seven and
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ten and that gets you in the playoffs. And so
at some point they'll go seven and ten. But we'll
believe it when we see it. Now. Furthermore, some wild,
wild chatter coming out of the Tri State area over
the last few hours or so. There's some weeks out
there that claim Aaron Glenn, the new coach, has made
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it be known to people around him that he would
like to keep Aaron Rodgers under center. Now has seemed
all but guaranteed that Rogers will not play for the
Jets in twenty twenty five. So let's discuss is Aaron
Glenn really considering a return of Aaron Rodgers as the
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Jets QB one. So you can't see me unless you're
watching the video. I'm going I'm going no, I'm shaking
my head.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, I'm even I'm wagging my finger. No as well,
I'm doing that. But it's like going into a new
apartment and there's some stuff left behind. You open the refrigerator,
you're a little hungry. You see some tupperware in the
back there, and you notice it's got some ravioli that
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looks like it's been in there for several months. The
ravioli is just sitting around there and it's kind of
looks a little weird. The color's not right. It's got
a little freezer burn on it because it was in
the freezer and then put in the fridge. And do
you eat it or throw it away and get some
fresh ravioli? Aaron Glenn to take back Aaron Rodgers. It's
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the Aaron and Aaron Law Firm. You wouldn't do that.
You want a blank slate, you want to bring your
guy and you want fresh ravioli, homemade ravioli. You do
not want to bring in leftover freezer burned food that
was already sitting around, So good luck. Like every other
Jets coach, you go into this and it's like the
fairy tale. You start kissing frogs trying to find a prince.
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All right, last word. So, as we moved to the playoffs,
by the way, as Buffalo gets ready for the game
of the decade, like every other game, the AFC Championship
Game at Arrowhead in Kansas City, just down the street
from the Ben Mather Chicken Fingers to the landing there
in Liberty, Missouri. One of the storylines has been about
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the vanishing act of the big pickup for the Buffer
football team. Well, they already went away from going back
to the Super Bowl to lose again. Wide receiver Amari
Cooper has been nowhere to be seen. He has vanished
off the face of the playoff map. And he was
asked about that. Now, Mark Cooper says he has no complaints,
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that's a quote, no complaints about a very diminished role
in the Bill's offense. Do you believe him so on
this one? Yeah, I'm giving it a bit of side
out here. He's playing the good soldier, he's following orders
and all that. But regardless, if he's satisfied with his role,
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then there's something messed up. I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical. I
Buffalo brought this guy in, Marko. Remember they were not
playing that well on offense. They they were talking about
how great everything was without Stefan Diggs. But the real ones,
not the cool aid drinking Bill's mafia losers. I'm talking
about the real people, all right. They knew there was
a problem. The Bills knew there was a problem, so
they went on and got a Mark Cooper to fix
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the problem. They brought him in. And the main reason
they brought him in is well, when playoffs were gonna
need a guy like a Mark Cooper, He's a twenty
million dollar receiver who's a decoy at this point, right
he's doing the the okie doke. He's an afterthought. Cooper
has been at times at times in his career, he's
been a murder hornet, and right now he's a murder
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hornet with no stinger. For the Buffalo Bills. There's just
a lot missing there. There's a lot missing, and it's
it's kind of like swimming in cold water. There's a
lot of shrinkage that is going on right now. Either
the Bills offense has decided that Cooper is just not
good enough that they can't feed him the ball, or
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he's heard, or they're going to say he's heard, or
he's simply just underperforming and he can't get the job done.
He's only been targeted four times in two games. Twenty
million dollar receiver has targets in two games with Buffalo.
He's got two catches for all of eight yards. That's it. Now.
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Cooper is supposed to be a wide receiver one, right
wide receiver one, and he's playing like like he won
a raffle. Hey, how would you like to play receiver
for the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs? Is that kind
of a vibe. It's that kind of a vibe. It's crazy.
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We'll start out in sweet home Chicago. Why not where
the weather is bad, the football is bad, the basketball
is bad, the hockey's bad, the baseball's bad. Everything's bad
right about now in terms of Chicago sports. But the
the Bears, the folks, they rolled out the orange carpet. Yeah,
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very exciting, the orange carpet there in Chicago, welcoming in
Ben Johnson, he's your new coach. I know you're excited.
He was introduced to a gala news conference at Hallis Hall,
the nineteenth head coach in the one hundred and five
year history of the Chicago Bears. Johnson thirty eight years old,
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and he has hailed as the great savior, the great
Messiah of the team there in the Windy City, in
architect of offensive genius with the Lions and called up
all the right plays for Jarrett Golf. Of course, the
Lions did not succeed in the playoffs. Playoffs, Yeah, did
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not work out so well. But if you didn't catch
any of this, and maybe he didn't, let me give
you some of the highlights here, Ben Johnson. Let's jump
the cut two. Here there's Ben Johnson talking about what
the job in Chicago entails in terms of where the
Bears franchise is. They're sleeping right now.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Apparently going into this season, I felt like this place
was a sleeping giant. To be honest with you, I
personally was more concerned about the Chicago Bears than was
anybody else in this division. Now, there's a number of
reasons why that did not unfold, all right, Which that's
why I'm here. I'll get to the bottom of that
and we'll see if we can't get that corrected and cleaned.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Up, all right. So he's really selling hard, the fact
that the Bears, who won five games with a team
that scared him the most in the division. Okay, Johnson
said the job was particularly intriguing because of Caleb Williams
right building Calebs. We'll talk more about that in a
couple of minutes, but he said having a quarterback obviously helped.
So let us discuss the question, how did you judge
(15:53):
Ben Johnson's opening act as Chicago's coach dealing with the media.
So I've got Joel Olstein, Sugar Coated and Geneva conventions,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to cause double trouble, is what we're
going to cause. So, Na, Ben Johnson was laying on
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the salesmanship, very very thick, right, very very thick. And
we've watched so many of these opening news conferences over
the years. They're always pretty much the same in terms
of it's a cookie cutter format, paint by numbers, it's
come out. You got a photo op with the jersey,
the helmet, it's I want to thank my family, I
want to thank the owner, I want to thank the fans.
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These fans deserve a winner. This team is ready to win.
And I'm just the person that's going to come in
there and make the spectators happy. It's going to be
so good, hot diggity dog, right, this one like all
of them, but even even more so listening to Ben
Johnson talking, it was like a religious revival. Imagine, if
you will, the new coach of the Chicago Bears, Ben Johnson.
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He's talking like he's a televangelist, like watching Joel Olstein,
not talking about the Bears and what's gonna happen in
the future, giving a shout out from the from the pulpit.
It's like a sermon from the pulpit, is what it was. There.
He was doing a sermon and spreading the message in
positivity and hope for the Chicago Bears and franchise and
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player empowerment and all this stuff through his teaching. And
all he needs, all Ben Johnson needs is a few disciples.
Now that's it. Now we played the sound by sleeping
Giant of a franchise. Now, I would argue, based on
many years of analyzing the Bears from behind these microphones,
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that the Bears are not a sleeping giant. They're obviously
a hibernating bear in a medically induced coma is what
they're in. And Ben Johnson has tasked with molding Caleb
Williams into Jayden Daniels, who, by the way, the Bears,
if they know they knew what they were doing, they
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would have taken Jayden Daniels with the number one pick,
but instead they said, no, no, we've got to bug
up our ass, and we want to take Caleb Williams.
And Caleb Williams is so far away from being good
it's not even funny. So good luck to Ben Johnson.
Now here's more. Page two. The rhetoric continues. So Ben
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Johnson said that he's leaving the Lions playbook back in Motown,
that he's not taking away him, that Chicago's offense is
going to be calibrated or Caleb Williams. So in fact,
here he is talking about caler Williams. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
This offense will be calibrated with him in mind. We're
going to build this thing. This is not simply a
dropping of a previous playbook down on the table and
starting there. No, we're ripping this thing down to the
studs and we're gonna build it up with him first
and foremost.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Okay, all right, So what do you make you just
heard the sound bite. What do you make of Ben
Jonson saying that he's ripping the Bears offensive playbook down
to the down to the studs for Caleb Williams. So
this is a stay it with me now, dead dear
white to dead dear white. If you are a pigeon
(19:23):
eared listener, you know what I'm talking about right now.
He certainly was sugarcoating things here, Ben Johnson. But Kayleb
Williams rookie season was a total waist, a total waste.
No ifs ands or butts about it. There's nothing you
can say. There's nothing you can salvage. The plumbing, no,
the doors, the cabinry, the appliances, the hardware, complete and
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total zero, a waste of time, there's nothing left. You're
tearing things down all the way to the studs. Because
that's how big a mess kyl Williams is. And so
amazon I took the job because of Kayleb Williams and
not you would not have to bring the playbook down
to the studs if Caleb Williams was a stud. But
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he's not. He holds the ball way too long. He's
got a very low football IQ. He's obtuse during games.
All you need to know is watch that Thanksgiving Day game,
go back and watch the end of it when the
Bears were in position and he turned in to a
giant turkey. So Ben Johnson will do the same thing
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he tried to do for Jared Goff. He will spoon
feed Caleb Williams. That's what all these coaches do. But
ultimately the problem is that only gets you so far
because at some point you've got to take the training
wheels off and in crunch time you're not going to
be able to spoon feed plays. Everything changes and then
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you're exposed, and you're exposed in playoff games. Like Jared
Goff has been absolutely terrible in the biggest games he's
played in with the Lions. No matter that Ben Johnson
is there or not, it doesn't matter. He can't handle it.
He's completely zapped in big moments Jared Goff. And so
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why would anything be different with Calebwims. Now, we'll wait,
We'll give him the usual grace period, little grace period,
Ben Johnson, We'll see what happens. I. As I said
in a previous episode of this program, it's he's the
flavor of the month, he's the soup of the day,
and he's the hot shot coordinator. And I'd love to
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know how this works. Is there like a committee, a
blue ribbon panel somewhere at the NFL headquarters where they're like,
all right, let's move this guy up to the top
of the totem flow where this is the hot hot
to trot assistant coach. It's like, how do I actually
in the lines? Had a lot of regular season success.
There was a lot of smoke smoke for the Lions offense,
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but unfortunately the flame was not there in the playoffs.
They lost to a rookie quarterback at home despite having
a bye week. That's embarrassing. That is absolutelymbarrasing right now.
Final point, So many are saying that the Bears head
coach Ben Johnson poked at the Green Bay Packers when
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he said I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice
a year. Now, he was kind of singing the praises
of the other coaches in the division, but he said,
I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice a year.
So where does this rank on the cheap shot scale?
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Where is that rank from the cheap shot scale? For
Ben Johnson taking a little pot shot at Matt Lafleur. So, boy,
I gotta tell you, I saw this headline. I got
a little excited. I did. I saw the headline, and
then I watched the news conference and I was like,
I don't really remember him taking any shot at any
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other coach, but I saw the headline. I was like, Wow,
that's pretty good. I'm gonna click on that. And I
clicked on it and I was like, what so on
the Malard scale of insults coach the coach Ben Johnson
saying I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice a year.
That ranks just ahead of being given a time out
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where you're sent to the corner of the room and
your parents giving you an earlier bedtime. Draconian, absolutely draconian.
Taking pleasure after beating a division rival twice a year.
That is cruel and unusual punishment. That is a violation
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of the Geneva conventions. It is how dare you despotic? Despotic?
Can someone in Green Bay, and we're on in Green Bay,
can somebody go to a well check on Matt Lafleur.
See how he's doing. Yeah, so Ben Johnson wants the
Bears fans obviously fired up. Cruise up I ninety four there,
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stop at the Cheese Castle and Kenosha on your way
to lambeau Field. And it's fair to say, though, if
the Bears don't at least break even against the Packers,
then Ben Johnson will be decommissioned from coaching the Bears.
Is that fair to say that he's not gonna last?
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You only had so many opportunities in the division. The
easiest path to making the playoffs playoffs is to win
the division. Now what he should have done, Ben Johnson
is gotten out on the dais and channeled the mayor
of Philadelphia. Can you give me I want to hear
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what I haven't heard the mayor in like an hour.
Give me the mayor of Philadelphia the dor That's what
Ben Johnson shooted them like a Bears chant and tried
to spell Bears. And then after it, let me hear
you all saying he ow me me.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
No bird.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
That is so good God. That's how you fire up
a fan base, right there, Ben Johnson here was all right,
But you gotta be like the mayor of Philadelphia. That's
how you really fire people up.
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Speaker 1 (25:32):
Here we go, how about thanks degree? This is one
big Ben gets grilled who outed.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
On Tuesday, it was reported that and NFC personnel executive
expects the Dolphins to send Tyreek Hillton to the New
England Patriots this offseason?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ben, could you see that happening?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So here's the deal. There's only two ways Tyreek Hill
ends up being traded from Miami ME to the New
England Patriots. Number one is he's completely washed up and
the Dolphins want a sucker the New England Patriots into
taking Tyreek Hill. That's the first way. The second way
would be Tyreek Hill is like a trojan horse that
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he still can play, but he's such a disruptor, he's
such a problem child that he'll f up the Patriots
even more. Those are the only two ways. I remember
Belichick years ago traded Drew Bledsoe to Buffalo because he
knew Bledsoe was done and so he's like, I'll trade
him in the division and he did. That's the only
way Tyreek Hill should end up in a Patriot uniform.
I think Cooper Cup is more likely for the Patriots next.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
And another report an NFL insider suggested that there is
a chance that Mike Tomlin could decide to go with
Justin Fields heading into next season. Ben, do you think
that's even a remote possibility?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So you're saying there's a chance, I go know, because
Russell Wilson sucked for several games at the end of
the year, and Tomlin could have gone back to Justin
Fields he chose next.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
The Bills Ravens game drew forty two point two million viewers.
It was the largest audience this season, but it was
also down over sixteen percent from last year's Chiefs Bills matchup. Overall,
the divisional round was down eight and a half percent, Ben,
do you think it's strictly the quality of the matchups? Say?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Is there something deeper to be read into here?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, there's so many deeper It's called Taylor Swift coop.
Taylor Swift was not involved in that. If Taylor Swift
did it involved would have been a different outcome.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
How do we know you pass the s edition?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
That is a win?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Lorena, I won Lorena, I'm a little out of me, Ben,
thank you. I appreciate that. I'd like my flowers.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Shipped out right now.
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All right, Ben, We're gonna start with a question for you,
fra right from Tammy in Montana.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Hi Tammy and Montana, Hello Tama.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
She wants to know how many times a night do
you go into the surrender cobra with callers?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Pretty much twice an hour on average. I think I've
I've done the math, Tammy in Montana, and it's usually
every time angry Bill gets on hollering, James Marcel and Brooklyn,
all the regulars, all the regulars. But it's onward and upwards.
So I do get in that surrender cobra quite a bit.
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What is next year? Cool? What do we have? We're
gonna hear from Tammy and Montana a fan favorite. Everyone
loves Tammy in Montana.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Emmett would like to know, hi, Emmett, what is your
favorite gas station for food?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Food? Well, back in the day when I would go,
I would love the the am PM would go there
and a whole cadre like nachos. That was my big thing.
Seven eleven there was like a seven eleven connected to
a gas station, big slurpy guy. Back in the day,
love the slurpy. I would would fill it up, drink
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it in the store, fill it up again, then pay
for it so I get two for one. I love that?
Is that for everyone? Drink it that fast back.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
You didn't know me, didn't a brain freeze, you.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Didn't know me. I had amazing. My superpower was consumption
of massive quantities of food. Wow, although that doesn't really
count as food right it's just no icy water.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Sugar water, But yes, that is for everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Lo rain my favorite fast food. We're not fast food
gas station like nachos hot dog, those disgusting like green
hot dogs. That's funny.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
I absolutely refuse to eat them now, but I'm somewhere.
I think the gas station corn dogs were always my favorite.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Always better elementary school corn dogs are gas station.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Gastation corn dogs because I have the halapino cheese ones,
the ones that you go to, Yeah, and I like
the crispy around the stick, you know, the little wooden
party go Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
But I I like the Arco hot dogs too.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
When you said Arco, I was like, Oh, when I
was a kid, I eat those all the time.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
My dad loved taking us to Arco to eat lunch.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah. I used to eat everything back in the day,
so I would go to a gas station. It was
my favorite. But you know, I love those late like
here in La those late night Mexican fast food places
that are kind of like somewhat like Albertos and places
like that.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
I ate ransoid meat from Alberto's last night actually Barrata
that said that, Lawyers Cupolo.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
I like the the taketosos are good.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Yeah, I've never had the taketos.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Taketo's one of those foods. It's hard to have off.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Yeah, and they've got like different kinds. Like some of
them were like buffalo chicken and cheese. About the pizza sticks,
did you guys ever have the pizza sticks? Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Okay, you'd make me hungry.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I'm not in the middle of the fast okay, killing me.
You're always I know it's a problem. It's my Mischer
gossip King.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Rory would like to by Rory what would be worst?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Going skydiving in your parachute not opening, or going bungee
jumping in the cord breaking.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well, I would think skydiving because that's that's one hundred percent.
It'd be quick. So I guess that's so. I guess
the bungee you'd survive. Possibly, right, you could see the water. Yeah, okay,
So the bungee thing's worse then, because if you jump
out of a plane the parachute doesn't open, you're dead.
But it's a kind of a quick thing. Now, probably
(31:42):
not while you're falling and you smash into the ground.
It probably doesn't feel that quick, but you're relatively dead fast.
The bungee thing, you might end up in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Lorena, but you'd be alive.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Yeah, but you I mean, but you could be paralyzed, crippled,
or you could have a really cool story.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Right, here's the thing. Would you rather die or live
and have everything?
Speaker 7 (32:00):
I think I think life is cool no matter which
experience you're taking.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So I think I would rather vegetable. You'd be okay,
I'd be okay.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
I could have still really cool dreams.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Really, I don't know about that. I don't know a
little tough, tough situation.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, it's a really it's a good question. I think
I got to agree with you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, all right, it is all right, quick painless death,
relatively speaking. What is next year? It is asked, Ben,
your questions are answers.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
This is a good one. JT. The Wingman. He would
like to know.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Did you have any magazine subscriptions as a kid growing up?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, I'm old. I had Sports Illustrated. I always loved
the Swimsuit Issue when that came out every holiday season.
And then I had the Sporting News because they had
all the stats in there. The Sporting News, I waited
for that every week. My dad was a big Mad
Magazine fan, so he had Mad Magazine. So that was
around the house. My mom here weave those elementary school things.
(32:58):
When I was I'm of the age where you could
sign up for all these different magazines and whatever and
so to help support the school, and so we had
so much crap come into the house. There was this
thing called Sport Magazine that we had at one point,
and it was looking back on I was like, why what,
It's terrible compared now everything's just online. What about you, Loraine?
Speaker 6 (33:19):
My grandma had so many magazines. They were under tables
and on the sides of everything.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Was it those like entertainment like People magazine was at home
and was at home housekeeping? Right?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
No?
Speaker 6 (33:29):
They were all fashion like Cosmopolitans.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Girl, Did you have any magazine collection?
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Well, no, I went through hers. Okay, I didn't need
to get my own, and I don't yeah know.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
But she had a Cosmopolitan.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
She never got rid of them. She'd hold onto the
ones from the seventies. She had them from the seventies.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Ooh, a Playboy.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
You just don't even get rid of them. Yeah, playboy collection, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Old school playboy all right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
So when I was a little kid, I had Highlights.
Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I do not?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Was that was? I don't know?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I thought that, Yeah, I thought that went like way back,
but maybe it's.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Just my you see him at.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Yes, yes I had that, and then later on into
my preteen era, I had w w F magazine.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh that's big. Well, all right, what's the next year?
To ask? Ben? Your questions are answers.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Late night Drug Tester would like to know if you
had a paid year off from work, what would you
do so fully paid?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I would go crazy probably I'm used to working, so no.
I would love to travel, drive across the country, visit
places I've never been, see people I don't see very often,
do that kind of stuff. What about you, Lorain?
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Well, first I'd want to do nothing, Ben, I would
want to I don't.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Do nothing well, responsibility, and then yes, I want to travel.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
I would spend half of it traveling and the other
half playing in poker tournaments.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
That's your dream, right, the professional poker player. People loop
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swamp land of Jersey. It is a done deal. A
rumor from yesterday has now become reality. If you somehow
missed the news, the Detroit Lions have lost their defensive coordinator,
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Aaron Glenn. He picks up the booby prize of the
NFL coaching carousel. He was officially hired as the nineteenth
non interim head coach. Of course, the Jets have had
many many interim head coaches, but Aaron Glenn gets a
five year contract and that ties him to the Jets.
(02:27):
At least they'll be cutting him checks, assuming there's no
out in the contract through twenty twenty nine. Chances that
Aaron Glenn is coaching the Jets in twenty twenty eight
and twenty twenty nine slim and none. But hey, why not?
The thought is nice. So did you hear what he said?
(02:47):
Maybe not? There was a prepared statement where Aaron Glenn
waxed poetic in his prepared comments talking about his playing days.
Much of what we thought he would say, the hemoglobin,
it's in the blood there, that's why you want to
coach the Jets, saying that the Jets organization has always
felt like home. And Glenn played for the Jets and
(03:08):
was one of their I don't want to say a
star because he's he was a defensive guy, but he
played on the defense from the mid nineties to the
early two thousands. He made a couple of Pro Bowls.
That was back before the Pro Bowl was hula hoop
toss and and you know, water balloon and all that.
So we'll see if you can go home again. It
doesn't always work so well. He's being celebrated Aaron Glenn
(03:31):
as a Bill Parcells disciple. Okay, Bill Parcells, I think
you can catch him at the local horse track there
uh playing playing the ponies and among the fan base.
So let's talk about that part of it, right because Glenn,
you can sell. Hey, he played for the Jets. I
think he's one of only two players to have played
for the Jets that ended up coaching the team. But
(03:52):
as we discuss what is the temperature in the room,
if you will, the temperature in the room among the
fan base, on how Jet fans are feeling about hiring
Aaron Glenn. So I've got crypto tupperware and murder hornet
(04:17):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice tropical vacation. Which
is what Aaron Glenn can plan every year during the playoffs.
Is the Jets just don't make the playoffs. So my
first thought here is you take Aaron Glenn as coach
(04:37):
of the Jets. You give that a like a shoulder shrug.
Is what you do, right, You give it a bit
of a shoulder shrug. There, that's the proper reaction. You
assume nothing and question everything. Now, I'm not a Jets fan,
as you know, but I know what bunch of Jets
fans and at this point, the real Jet fan has
a feeling of numbness when it comes to coaching changes
(04:57):
every couple of seasons. It's like spring cleaning. Every couple
of seasons. The Jets get rid of a coach and
they hire some hot shot coordinator who has all the
answers and everyone says is the next great coach in
the NFL. They've got it all figured out. They're the
smartest person on the block. And they come in there
(05:17):
and they talk to talk, and then they have to
walk and it's like Willy Walker and the Chocolate factory
is they stumble over and fall down on the cobblestone.
Unlike Willy Waka, they don't stand back up and they
have the cane. All that. But coaching the Jets and
Aaron Glenn will see what he has to say in
(05:39):
the coming days here. But Aaron Glenn and all Jets
coaches have the same thing in common. They come in
there and they're Charlatan's is what they are. Right. It's
like some fly by night pump and dump crypto scam.
Hey you got to buy this new crypto man to
the Moon, to the Moon, to the Moon, to the
(06:00):
Moon to the Unfortunately, Yeah, the turnaround point bar is
actually not that high, which is pretty good, right, It's
pretty very low. I will give that to Aaron Glenn.
How low can you go? How low can you go?
The Jets are coming off their fourteenth straight season out
(06:23):
of the plus, which means if you're like a going
into your freshman year in high school, coming up your
entire life, the Jets have not made the playoffs. The
longest active drought in the big time industrial complex of
American sport. I mean you talk about the big sports leagues,
the four major men's sports leagues and they have the
(06:45):
longest drought. So we are setting the Malar odds, very
important measuring tool, the malarodds. That Aaron Glenn makes the
playoffs with the Jets. I'm gonna set the odds at
plus five hundred. That implies a about a fifteen percent chance,
roughly so a one fifty hitter in baseball. The NFL
(07:07):
will be expanding the playoffs in the next few years.
They're going to keep adding teams because TV wants more
playoff games. So if you follow the Malord math, there
is this sweet spot where if you keep adding teams,
eventually eventually the Jets will get in. They'll get in
because they'll they'll win. The bar will be seven and
(07:30):
ten and that gets you in the playoffs. And so
at some point they'll go seven and ten. But we'll
believe it when we see it. Now. Furthermore, some wild,
wild chatter coming out of the Tri State area over
the last few hours or so. There's some weeks out
there that claim Aaron Glenn, the new coach, has made
(07:54):
it be known to people around him that he would
like to keep Aaron Rodgers under center. Now has seemed
all but guaranteed that Rogers will not play for the
Jets in twenty twenty five. So let's discuss is Aaron
Glenn really considering a return of Aaron Rodgers as the
(08:20):
Jets QB one. So you can't see me unless you're
watching the video. I'm going I'm going no, I'm shaking
my head.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, I'm even I'm wagging my finger. No as well,
I'm doing that. But it's like going into a new
apartment and there's some stuff left behind. You open the refrigerator,
you're a little hungry. You see some tupperware in the
back there, and you notice it's got some ravioli that
(08:50):
looks like it's been in there for several months. The
ravioli is just sitting around there and it's kind of
looks a little weird. The color's not right. It's got
a little freezer burn on it because it was in
the freezer and then put in the fridge. And do
you eat it or throw it away and get some
fresh ravioli? Aaron Glenn to take back Aaron Rodgers. It's
(09:11):
the Aaron and Aaron Law Firm. You wouldn't do that.
You want a blank slate, you want to bring your
guy and you want fresh ravioli, homemade ravioli. You do
not want to bring in leftover freezer burned food that
was already sitting around, So good luck. Like every other
Jets coach, you go into this and it's like the
fairy tale. You start kissing frogs trying to find a prince.
(09:33):
All right, last word. So, as we moved to the playoffs,
by the way, as Buffalo gets ready for the game
of the decade, like every other game, the AFC Championship
Game at Arrowhead in Kansas City, just down the street
from the Ben Mather Chicken Fingers to the landing there
in Liberty, Missouri. One of the storylines has been about
(09:56):
the vanishing act of the big pickup for the Buffer
football team. Well, they already went away from going back
to the Super Bowl to lose again. Wide receiver Amari
Cooper has been nowhere to be seen. He has vanished
off the face of the playoff map. And he was
asked about that. Now, Mark Cooper says he has no complaints,
(10:18):
that's a quote, no complaints about a very diminished role
in the Bill's offense. Do you believe him so on
this one? Yeah, I'm giving it a bit of side
out here. He's playing the good soldier, he's following orders
and all that. But regardless, if he's satisfied with his role,
(10:42):
then there's something messed up. I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical. I
Buffalo brought this guy in, Marko. Remember they were not
playing that well on offense. They they were talking about
how great everything was without Stefan Diggs. But the real ones,
not the cool aid drinking Bill's mafia losers. I'm talking
about the real people, all right. They knew there was
a problem. The Bills knew there was a problem, so
they went on and got a Mark Cooper to fix
(11:03):
the problem. They brought him in. And the main reason
they brought him in is well, when playoffs were gonna
need a guy like a Mark Cooper, He's a twenty
million dollar receiver who's a decoy at this point, right
he's doing the the okie doke. He's an afterthought. Cooper
has been at times at times in his career, he's
been a murder hornet, and right now he's a murder
(11:25):
hornet with no stinger. For the Buffalo Bills. There's just
a lot missing there. There's a lot missing, and it's
it's kind of like swimming in cold water. There's a
lot of shrinkage that is going on right now. Either
the Bills offense has decided that Cooper is just not
good enough that they can't feed him the ball, or
(11:47):
he's heard, or they're going to say he's heard, or
he's simply just underperforming and he can't get the job done.
He's only been targeted four times in two games. Twenty
million dollar receiver has targets in two games with Buffalo.
He's got two catches for all of eight yards. That's it. Now.
(12:08):
Cooper is supposed to be a wide receiver one, right
wide receiver one, and he's playing like like he won
a raffle. Hey, how would you like to play receiver
for the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs? Is that kind
of a vibe. It's that kind of a vibe. It's crazy.
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We'll start out in sweet home Chicago. Why not where
the weather is bad, the football is bad, the basketball
is bad, the hockey's bad, the baseball's bad. Everything's bad
right about now in terms of Chicago sports. But the
the Bears, the folks, they rolled out the orange carpet. Yeah,
(14:03):
very exciting, the orange carpet there in Chicago, welcoming in
Ben Johnson, he's your new coach. I know you're excited.
He was introduced to a gala news conference at Hallis Hall,
the nineteenth head coach in the one hundred and five
year history of the Chicago Bears. Johnson thirty eight years old,
(14:27):
and he has hailed as the great savior, the great
Messiah of the team there in the Windy City, in
architect of offensive genius with the Lions and called up
all the right plays for Jarrett Golf. Of course, the
Lions did not succeed in the playoffs. Playoffs, Yeah, did
(14:50):
not work out so well. But if you didn't catch
any of this, and maybe he didn't, let me give
you some of the highlights here, Ben Johnson. Let's jump
the cut two. Here there's Ben Johnson talking about what
the job in Chicago entails in terms of where the
Bears franchise is. They're sleeping right now.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Apparently going into this season, I felt like this place
was a sleeping giant. To be honest with you, I
personally was more concerned about the Chicago Bears than was
anybody else in this division. Now, there's a number of
reasons why that did not unfold, all right, Which that's
why I'm here. I'll get to the bottom of that
and we'll see if we can't get that corrected and cleaned.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Up, all right. So he's really selling hard, the fact
that the Bears, who won five games with a team
that scared him the most in the division. Okay, Johnson
said the job was particularly intriguing because of Caleb Williams
right building Calebs. We'll talk more about that in a
couple of minutes, but he said having a quarterback obviously helped.
So let us discuss the question, how did you judge
(15:53):
Ben Johnson's opening act as Chicago's coach dealing with the media.
So I've got Joel Olstein, Sugar Coated and Geneva conventions,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to cause double trouble, is what we're
going to cause. So, Na, Ben Johnson was laying on
(16:21):
the salesmanship, very very thick, right, very very thick. And
we've watched so many of these opening news conferences over
the years. They're always pretty much the same in terms
of it's a cookie cutter format, paint by numbers, it's
come out. You got a photo op with the jersey,
the helmet, it's I want to thank my family, I
want to thank the owner, I want to thank the fans.
(16:44):
These fans deserve a winner. This team is ready to win.
And I'm just the person that's going to come in
there and make the spectators happy. It's going to be
so good, hot diggity dog, right, this one like all
of them, but even even more so listening to Ben
Johnson talking, it was like a religious revival. Imagine, if
you will, the new coach of the Chicago Bears, Ben Johnson.
(17:07):
He's talking like he's a televangelist, like watching Joel Olstein,
not talking about the Bears and what's gonna happen in
the future, giving a shout out from the from the pulpit.
It's like a sermon from the pulpit, is what it was. There.
He was doing a sermon and spreading the message in
positivity and hope for the Chicago Bears and franchise and
(17:29):
player empowerment and all this stuff through his teaching. And
all he needs, all Ben Johnson needs is a few disciples.
Now that's it. Now we played the sound by sleeping
Giant of a franchise. Now, I would argue, based on
many years of analyzing the Bears from behind these microphones,
(17:50):
that the Bears are not a sleeping giant. They're obviously
a hibernating bear in a medically induced coma is what
they're in. And Ben Johnson has tasked with molding Caleb
Williams into Jayden Daniels, who, by the way, the Bears,
if they know they knew what they were doing, they
(18:11):
would have taken Jayden Daniels with the number one pick,
but instead they said, no, no, we've got to bug
up our ass, and we want to take Caleb Williams.
And Caleb Williams is so far away from being good
it's not even funny. So good luck to Ben Johnson.
Now here's more. Page two. The rhetoric continues. So Ben
(18:31):
Johnson said that he's leaving the Lions playbook back in Motown,
that he's not taking away him, that Chicago's offense is
going to be calibrated or Caleb Williams. So in fact,
here he is talking about caler Williams. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
This offense will be calibrated with him in mind. We're
going to build this thing. This is not simply a
dropping of a previous playbook down on the table and
starting there. No, we're ripping this thing down to the
studs and we're gonna build it up with him first
and foremost.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Okay, all right, So what do you make you just
heard the sound bite. What do you make of Ben
Jonson saying that he's ripping the Bears offensive playbook down
to the down to the studs for Caleb Williams. So
this is a stay it with me now, dead dear
white to dead dear white. If you are a pigeon
(19:23):
eared listener, you know what I'm talking about right now.
He certainly was sugarcoating things here, Ben Johnson. But Kayleb
Williams rookie season was a total waist, a total waste.
No ifs ands or butts about it. There's nothing you
can say. There's nothing you can salvage. The plumbing, no,
the doors, the cabinry, the appliances, the hardware, complete and
(19:48):
total zero, a waste of time, there's nothing left. You're
tearing things down all the way to the studs. Because
that's how big a mess kyl Williams is. And so
amazon I took the job because of Kayleb Williams and
not you would not have to bring the playbook down
to the studs if Caleb Williams was a stud. But
(20:10):
he's not. He holds the ball way too long. He's
got a very low football IQ. He's obtuse during games.
All you need to know is watch that Thanksgiving Day game,
go back and watch the end of it when the
Bears were in position and he turned in to a
giant turkey. So Ben Johnson will do the same thing
(20:32):
he tried to do for Jared Goff. He will spoon
feed Caleb Williams. That's what all these coaches do. But
ultimately the problem is that only gets you so far
because at some point you've got to take the training
wheels off and in crunch time you're not going to
be able to spoon feed plays. Everything changes and then
(20:56):
you're exposed, and you're exposed in playoff games. Like Jared
Goff has been absolutely terrible in the biggest games he's
played in with the Lions. No matter that Ben Johnson
is there or not, it doesn't matter. He can't handle it.
He's completely zapped in big moments Jared Goff. And so
(21:18):
why would anything be different with Calebwims. Now, we'll wait,
We'll give him the usual grace period, little grace period,
Ben Johnson, We'll see what happens. I. As I said
in a previous episode of this program, it's he's the
flavor of the month, he's the soup of the day,
and he's the hot shot coordinator. And I'd love to
(21:39):
know how this works. Is there like a committee, a
blue ribbon panel somewhere at the NFL headquarters where they're like,
all right, let's move this guy up to the top
of the totem flow where this is the hot hot
to trot assistant coach. It's like, how do I actually
in the lines? Had a lot of regular season success.
There was a lot of smoke smoke for the Lions offense,
(22:01):
but unfortunately the flame was not there in the playoffs.
They lost to a rookie quarterback at home despite having
a bye week. That's embarrassing. That is absolutelymbarrasing right now.
Final point, So many are saying that the Bears head
coach Ben Johnson poked at the Green Bay Packers when
(22:22):
he said I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice
a year. Now, he was kind of singing the praises
of the other coaches in the division, but he said,
I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice a year.
So where does this rank on the cheap shot scale?
(22:43):
Where is that rank from the cheap shot scale? For
Ben Johnson taking a little pot shot at Matt Lafleur. So, boy,
I gotta tell you, I saw this headline. I got
a little excited. I did. I saw the headline, and
then I watched the news conference and I was like,
I don't really remember him taking any shot at any
(23:06):
other coach, but I saw the headline. I was like, Wow,
that's pretty good. I'm gonna click on that. And I
clicked on it and I was like, what so on
the Malard scale of insults coach the coach Ben Johnson
saying I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice a year.
That ranks just ahead of being given a time out
(23:29):
where you're sent to the corner of the room and
your parents giving you an earlier bedtime. Draconian, absolutely draconian.
Taking pleasure after beating a division rival twice a year.
That is cruel and unusual punishment. That is a violation
(23:49):
of the Geneva conventions. It is how dare you despotic? Despotic?
Can someone in Green Bay, and we're on in Green Bay,
can somebody go to a well check on Matt Lafleur.
See how he's doing. Yeah, so Ben Johnson wants the
Bears fans obviously fired up. Cruise up I ninety four there,
(24:10):
stop at the Cheese Castle and Kenosha on your way
to lambeau Field. And it's fair to say, though, if
the Bears don't at least break even against the Packers,
then Ben Johnson will be decommissioned from coaching the Bears.
Is that fair to say that he's not gonna last?
(24:34):
You only had so many opportunities in the division. The
easiest path to making the playoffs playoffs is to win
the division. Now what he should have done, Ben Johnson
is gotten out on the dais and channeled the mayor
of Philadelphia. Can you give me I want to hear
(24:54):
what I haven't heard the mayor in like an hour.
Give me the mayor of Philadelphia the dor That's what
Ben Johnson shooted them like a Bears chant and tried
to spell Bears. And then after it, let me hear
you all saying he ow me me.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
No bird.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
That is so good God. That's how you fire up
a fan base, right there, Ben Johnson here was all right,
But you gotta be like the mayor of Philadelphia. That's
how you really fire people up.
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Speaker 5 (25:44):
On Tuesday, it was reported that and NFC personnel executive
expects the Dolphins to send Tyreek Hillton to the New
England Patriots this offseason?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ben, could you see that happening?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So here's the deal. There's only two ways Tyreek Hill
ends up being traded from Miami ME to the New
England Patriots. Number one is he's completely washed up and
the Dolphins want a sucker the New England Patriots into
taking Tyreek Hill. That's the first way. The second way
would be Tyreek Hill is like a trojan horse that
(26:17):
he still can play, but he's such a disruptor, he's
such a problem child that he'll f up the Patriots
even more. Those are the only two ways. I remember
Belichick years ago traded Drew Bledsoe to Buffalo because he
knew Bledsoe was done and so he's like, I'll trade
him in the division and he did. That's the only
way Tyreek Hill should end up in a Patriot uniform.
I think Cooper Cup is more likely for the Patriots next.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
And another report an NFL insider suggested that there is
a chance that Mike Tomlin could decide to go with
Justin Fields heading into next season. Ben, do you think
that's even a remote possibility?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So you're saying there's a chance, I go know, because
Russell Wilson sucked for several games at the end of
the year, and Tomlin could have gone back to Justin
Fields he chose next.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
The Bills Ravens game drew forty two point two million viewers.
It was the largest audience this season, but it was
also down over sixteen percent from last year's Chiefs Bills matchup. Overall,
the divisional round was down eight and a half percent, Ben,
do you think it's strictly the quality of the matchups? Say?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Is there something deeper to be read into here?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, there's so many deeper It's called Taylor Swift coop.
Taylor Swift was not involved in that. If Taylor Swift
did it involved would have been a different outcome.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
How do we know you pass the s edition?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
That is a win?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Lorena, I won Lorena, I'm a little out of me, Ben,
thank you. I appreciate that. I'd like my flowers.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Shipped out right now.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
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Speaker 1 (27:50):
Hurry, hurry, I can hurry wait ask Bed. Twitter said
us your questions on Twitter now, man, no way, we
want to ask Ben. Your questions are answer for the
rest of the hour used to hashtag asked Ben and
the reading of the questions a turning point in the
overnight hours. An audio feast is about to begin. We
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go over to the Koopa loop for the reading of
the questions Google Loop.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start with a question for you,
fra right from Tammy in Montana.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Hi Tammy and Montana, Hello Tama.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
She wants to know how many times a night do
you go into the surrender cobra with callers?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Pretty much twice an hour on average. I think I've
I've done the math, Tammy in Montana, and it's usually
every time angry Bill gets on hollering, James Marcel and Brooklyn,
all the regulars, all the regulars. But it's onward and upwards.
So I do get in that surrender cobra quite a bit.
(28:49):
What is next year? Cool? What do we have? We're
gonna hear from Tammy and Montana a fan favorite. Everyone
loves Tammy in Montana.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Emmett would like to know, hi, Emmett, what is your
favorite gas station for food?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Food? Well, back in the day when I would go,
I would love the the am PM would go there
and a whole cadre like nachos. That was my big thing.
Seven eleven there was like a seven eleven connected to
a gas station, big slurpy guy. Back in the day,
love the slurpy. I would would fill it up, drink
(29:21):
it in the store, fill it up again, then pay
for it so I get two for one. I love that?
Is that for everyone? Drink it that fast back.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
You didn't know me, didn't a brain freeze, you.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Didn't know me. I had amazing. My superpower was consumption
of massive quantities of food. Wow, although that doesn't really
count as food right it's just no icy water.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Sugar water, But yes, that is for everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Lo rain my favorite fast food. We're not fast food
gas station like nachos hot dog, those disgusting like green
hot dogs. That's funny.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
I absolutely refuse to eat them now, but I'm somewhere.
I think the gas station corn dogs were always my favorite.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Always better elementary school corn dogs are gas station.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Gastation corn dogs because I have the halapino cheese ones,
the ones that you go to, Yeah, and I like
the crispy around the stick, you know, the little wooden
party go Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
But I I like the Arco hot dogs too.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
When you said Arco, I was like, Oh, when I
was a kid, I eat those all the time.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
My dad loved taking us to Arco to eat lunch.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah. I used to eat everything back in the day,
so I would go to a gas station. It was
my favorite. But you know, I love those late like
here in La those late night Mexican fast food places
that are kind of like somewhat like Albertos and places
like that.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
I ate ransoid meat from Alberto's last night actually Barrata
that said that, Lawyers Cupolo.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
I like the the taketosos are good.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Yeah, I've never had the taketos.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Taketo's one of those foods. It's hard to have off.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Yeah, and they've got like different kinds. Like some of
them were like buffalo chicken and cheese. About the pizza sticks,
did you guys ever have the pizza sticks? Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Okay, you'd make me hungry.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I'm not in the middle of the fast okay, killing me.
You're always I know it's a problem. It's my Mischer
gossip King.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Rory would like to by Rory what would be worst?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Going skydiving in your parachute not opening, or going bungee
jumping in the cord breaking.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well, I would think skydiving because that's that's one hundred percent.
It'd be quick. So I guess that's so. I guess
the bungee you'd survive. Possibly, right, you could see the water. Yeah, okay,
So the bungee thing's worse then, because if you jump
out of a plane the parachute doesn't open, you're dead.
But it's a kind of a quick thing. Now, probably
(31:42):
not while you're falling and you smash into the ground.
It probably doesn't feel that quick, but you're relatively dead fast.
The bungee thing, you might end up in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Lorena, but you'd be alive.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Yeah, but you I mean, but you could be paralyzed, crippled,
or you could have a really cool story.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Right, here's the thing. Would you rather die or live
and have everything?
Speaker 7 (32:00):
I think I think life is cool no matter which
experience you're taking.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So I think I would rather vegetable. You'd be okay,
I'd be okay.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
I could have still really cool dreams.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Really, I don't know about that. I don't know a
little tough, tough situation.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, it's a really it's a good question. I think
I got to agree with you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, all right, it is all right, quick painless death,
relatively speaking. What is next year? It is asked, Ben,
your questions are answers.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
This is a good one. JT. The Wingman. He would
like to know.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Did you have any magazine subscriptions as a kid growing up?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, I'm old. I had Sports Illustrated. I always loved
the Swimsuit Issue when that came out every holiday season.
And then I had the Sporting News because they had
all the stats in there. The Sporting News, I waited
for that every week. My dad was a big Mad
Magazine fan, so he had Mad Magazine. So that was
around the house. My mom here weave those elementary school things.
(32:58):
When I was I'm of the age where you could
sign up for all these different magazines and whatever and
so to help support the school, and so we had
so much crap come into the house. There was this
thing called Sport Magazine that we had at one point,
and it was looking back on I was like, why what,
It's terrible compared now everything's just online. What about you, Loraine?
Speaker 6 (33:19):
My grandma had so many magazines. They were under tables
and on the sides of everything.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Was it those like entertainment like People magazine was at home
and was at home housekeeping? Right?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
No?
Speaker 6 (33:29):
They were all fashion like Cosmopolitans.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Girl, Did you have any magazine collection?
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Well, no, I went through hers. Okay, I didn't need
to get my own, and I don't yeah know.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
But she had a Cosmopolitan.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
She never got rid of them. She'd hold onto the
ones from the seventies. She had them from the seventies.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Ooh, a Playboy.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
You just don't even get rid of them. Yeah, playboy collection, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Old school playboy all right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
So when I was a little kid, I had Highlights.
Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I do not?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Was that was? I don't know?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I thought that, Yeah, I thought that went like way back,
but maybe it's.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Just my you see him at.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Yes, yes I had that, and then later on into
my preteen era, I had w w F magazine.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh that's big. Well, all right, what's the next year?
To ask? Ben? Your questions are answers.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Late night Drug Tester would like to know if you
had a paid year off from work, what would you
do so fully paid?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I would go crazy probably I'm used to working, so no.
I would love to travel, drive across the country, visit
places I've never been, see people I don't see very often,
do that kind of stuff. What about you, Lorain?
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Well, first I'd want to do nothing, Ben, I would
want to I don't.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Do nothing well, responsibility, and then yes, I want to travel.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
I would spend half of it traveling and the other
half playing in poker tournaments.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
That's your dream, right, the professional poker player. People loop
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