January 24, 2025 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about the latest in the Cowboys search for a new head coach and how much influence Stephen Jones has, Sean McVay waiting on a retirement decision from Matthew Stafford, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well it seems so simple. All you have to do
is pick a new coach. This job is not that difficult. Well,
apparently it is.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
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this hour is from the coaching carousel. It is not
the newest coach William Cohane, who twenty four hours ago
had rejected Jacksonville and then said, whip psych head fake.
I did the okie doke. I'm back more on that later.
But I'm in the ratings business, right, I have to captivate.
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It's called broadcasting, not narrowcasting. So in that case, what
is going to get the biggest audience? Not not Jacksonville,
not now, maybe later, But we begin play the hits,
my man, play the hits. It's our obligatory malar monologue
on Doug Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That's right, the Dallas Coupan.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I do this for Sir scratch Off, who loves when
I talk about the Dallas Cowboys. He can't get enough
of He said, Ben, you know you need to talk
more about the Cowboys. Okay, here I am so the
coaching searcher round the football world. If you have not
been following because you actually have a life, maybe not.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So we are told now.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That the Cowboys search is zeroing in on an in
house candidate.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
They're going to keep it under the umbrella of Jerry's world.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Brian Schottenheimer, Oh boy, how is that possible?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now here's what we know, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. It
has been.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Widely reported by those that claim to be in the
know in the currency of information, that Jerry Jones is
the lone conductor. He's running the orchestra in this Cowboy
coaching surge. You would think he's the GM, He's the owner.
Why would he not be the only person doing that?
And then there were names like Robert Salah, Kellen Moore,
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and Leslie Fraser have been interviewed. However, the word on
the street is that it's his meddling son, Stephen Jones
that is driving the campaign, the Marching and Chowder Society
for Brian Schottenheimer, a non descript spawn net bo baby
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NFL assistant to get the head coaching job in Dallas.
But wait, there's more. So Jerry Jones he wanted Dion Sanders,
if you believe the buzz. However, that is now on
the back because the sun younger Jones here, who's sixty,
(04:07):
So he's not that young, but he he is pushing
for shoddy. That's what they call Schottenheimer shoddy. That would
be a shoddy hire if they hired Brian Schottenheimer.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
More on that later.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So let us discuss the question for the Esteemed panel,
which you are part of. Stephen Jones influencing Jerry Jones
depict Brian Schottenheimer as the cowboy, said, coach, can you
cut through the fog, the thick fog that is in
Jerry's world? So I've got McDonald's buttered popcorn and crustables.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Sounds like a menu I used to eat back and
the day.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
All right, So we'll combine all these things together and
we are gonna make the Baba ganoosh is what We're
gonna make, the Baba ganoosh.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
All right. So a this has gone as playing now.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You might remember in a previous episode of this show,
we talked about the Cowboys coaching search, and we pointed
out what it's going to be like, and not that
we're right all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
We're not.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We f up a lot, but this one we got right.
Jerry Jones. You think about forty years ago, Jerry was
in his forties. He must have been a huge fan
of nineteen eighties primetime television, and this is the NFL
version of the soap opera Dallas. Everything revolving around the
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affairs of the affluent Jones family.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
There's opolence, there's glamor. I mean all kinds of crats.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I mean, you've got Jerry's ranch somewhere out there, deep
in the heart of Texas.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And this power struggle.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
This is where we are in the script for the
Cowboys offseason. So you've got the power struggle, You've got betrayal,
the son not listening to the dad. You've got I
guess romances. I don't think that's involved here, and just
bigger than life cartoon characters here, there and everywhere. You've
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got the oil tycoon Jerry Jones at the center of
it all. It is riveting, it is addictive, and it
again shows you that Dallas continues to be the gold
standard for the drama o rama in the little bit. Yeah,
and Jerry right now, he's trying to find He's looking
for a hole somewhere.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He's like, I got where's the hole. I need a
hole in one That's what I want. Mason glory Hill.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, Well, Jerry Jones is like, you know you like
McDonald's right now, he's loving it, right, he is loving it.
Dufus is like yours truly talking about this and everyone
captivated in sports media as he is setting the narrative
and he brags, right when things slow down around here,
Jerry said, he will stir it up.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And things are always the rule of drama, more drawn out.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
They're more messy, unpredictable, complicated than they need to be.
But why on God's green Earth would Jerry Jones allow
his kid to usurp his authority and pick the next coach,
Ryan Schottenheimer. That is a cheap ripoff version of Mike McCarthy.
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Why didn't you just pay Mike McCarthy more money and
keep him around?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Meanwhile, Pastrie, so Jerry Jones and his son, We're gonna
expand on this a little further because there are multiple
reports out there that Stephen Jones the kid have clashed
for the last couple of years, and it's it's not
only about the coaching hire, but also about the finances
of the Cowboys and Jerry.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
If you believe the.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Chatter, the streets are talking in the Naked City and
Jerry wants to spend money with no limits. Right, He
just wants to burn through the salary cap and spend
spend spen, spend spend spence spence spence s bend spend
spend just like.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That, right, a lot of money. But it's Stephen Jones who.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Is a fan of the dogma of moneyball, that plague
on professional sports, and he wants to avoid at all
costs dead money from what I was hearing earlier, and
he does not want to mess up and screw up
the salary cap. So let's break this all apart the
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chatter that Jerry Jones and his son Steven have been
at loggerheads over the Cowboys organizational philosophy. Do you find
this significant? So I do, And now I have no
skin in the game. I have no skin in the game.
But this is a warning shot. This is a bad omen.
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It's a bad omen for the Cowboys. You think things
are bad now because you're about to hire, if reports
are accurate, shoddy as your new coach. This is like
getting a bucket of popcorn, buttered popcorn, delicious movie theater,
buttered popcorn. You settle into your seat and it's a
preview of coming attractions in a world where Jerry Jones
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heads to a convalescent home and Steven Jones takes over
the Cowboys day to day. The Dallas Cowboys will then
embark on a journey of shoestring, budgets, nickel and diming everyone.
Things are about to get very stingy in Dallas. It
is inevitable. You know it's coming. And as much as
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you loathe Jerry Jones, as much as you might despise
Jerry Jones, I promise you Stephen Jones will be worse
when Jerry Jones is gone.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Okay, it is one.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Hundred percent true old family money in professional sports. These
professional sports leagues have been around, most of them for
about one hundred years or so. Baseball has been around longer,
and a number of these teams are generational wealth teams.
They get passed from one generation to another, and it's
never the same. When the original owner dies, it only
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gets worse.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Now, what is my evidence?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
When I was a kid, it was the greatness of
our writers with Al Davis. Now they've got Mark Davis,
who all he's good at is getting the special that PF.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Chang's.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
That's what he's good at. When I was a kid,
you had George Steinbrenner, the boss. Nobody messes with the Boss.
He'd hire and fire managers because he just felt like it.
He got out of bed the wrong way. Now you've
got hal Steinbrenner, a cheap ripoff of the old man.
How about the once proud Lakers. Remember that Jerry Buss
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Doctor Jerry Bussey had a harem of young women all
over him, and the Lakers were showtime. Now they've got
Genie Buss. They suck and you know she's still hanging
out there. And it's old family money owning a sports
team when you're the second generation and you didn't create it,
you didn't buy it. You have a license to run
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a business that allows you to pocket millions and millions
of dollars. It's passive income, is what.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It's like, hey, you've got a built in audience, people
that grew up loving it, your team because of your parents.
Your dad would ever owned the team, and now you
own it, and now you can run into the ground.
All right, last word, So let's go back a little
deeper in the land of cowboy paranoia. Michael Irvin, the playmaker,
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cowboy legend, Michael Irvin. Now for some reason, out of
thin air, Out of thin air, Michael Irvin.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
He was on some podcasts. There's a million, even I
have one.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So Michael Irvin ripped Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark for
attending the game in Kansas City last weekend, and he
took a shot at Taylor and Caitlin Clark were trying
to make the Chiefs the New America's team. So how
do you assess this one? So my grandfather would say,
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stick a lot is what that is, right, stick, extra thick,
stick is what it is. Michael Irvin sitting down at
the table and he's eating some crustables, but peanut butter
and jelly.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
No peanut butter, just the jelly. He's just a little
jelly here.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And right now, in this moment, Kansas City is the
hottest thing going in the NFL because you've got a
lot of people that love him and you got a
lot of people.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That hate him.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And that's what you want, right You want to be
a lightning rod and you want to be a firebrand.
And that's what the Chiefs have become. People watch to
watch them lose. They get upset when they win. They've
got this neurosis that everything's rigged for the Chiefs and
the NFL wants Market thirty one to win in the
National Foot League and win a third Super Bowl in
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a row.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Now, that's what's going on right now.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But when you take a couple of steps back and
you look around and you take a deep breath, only
the test of time will tell only does this have
staying power? Does this go from a fad which is
a temporary thing, to a trend which will stick around?
And at this point you still have it in the
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fad category, because at some point Mahomes will get old,
Andy Reid's going to retire, and then will people still
watch and support the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Now, I will tell you the forty.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Nine ers glory days were in the nineteen eighties and
early nineties, and they they've been blah. They've had a
couple of teams that got to a Super Bowl. They
gagged in the Super Bowl. But there are generations of
forty nine Er fans because of that would happen. We're
on like the second or third generation now from what
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happened in the nineteen eighties. So if you do the math,
on that the Chiefs will be guaranteed to have a
solid built in fan base. And even if it stopped
this year till what what are we looking at like
twenty sixty five, twenty seventy.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Boy, that sounds might go, I'll be long gone probably by.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Then, But that's what we're looking at, right, That's what
we're looking at.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
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From the playoff game to the Waiting Game.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
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keep it simple. Why not not the playoffs?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Layoffs?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But our leaders from Los Angeles, the Rams who won
the NFC West. They were better than that week Seattle team,
the overrated forty nine ers and Alligator arms Kyler Murray.
So the Rams made the playoffs yet again they normally
do with Sean McVay. They beat the Vikings, a team
that had in the great seasons in franchise history, and
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dominated that game. They had a chance to beat the
Eagles in the final seconds on a snow game in Philadelphia.
And now they're hanging out pivoting to the offseason. And
there's some debate on what's going to happen with Matthew Stafford.
We mentioned this in a previous episode of this show,
and Matthew Stafford was rather vague after the loss to Philadelphia. So,
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if you haven't been following along, Sean McVeigh has now
entered the chat on this and maybe maybe you missed it,
but Sean McVay hoping to get some clear now. Now,
last year, Matthew Stafford was debating whether or not he
was going to play, and it came down to when
training camp.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Started for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It was like right either right before or a couple
of days after training camp started. Matthew Stafford agreed to
a contract with the Rams. The deal was for just
one year, forty million. Good work if you can get it.
And now they're back at a fork in the road.
Does Matthew Stafford want to play football again? Does he
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want to play for the Rams again? Do the Rams
want Matthew Stafford back? Do they want somebody else? And
so Sean McVay was asked about the situation with Matthew
Stafford and the reworked contract and will it come down
to the very end before training camp.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Well, here's what McVeigh had to say, take a list,
that's not so.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I don't think that's good for anybody.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
I think sooner than later, being able to get that clarity, understand, clear,
open and honest communication.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I think there's a lot of love coming from our part.
I think there's a lot of appreciation coming from his
part as well. You know, I think a lot sooner
than later.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Jordan is an ideal scenario, and I think the appropriate
thing is is, let's let the emotions settle.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
You know, Matthew and I have obviously talked.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
He knows how important he is to me and to
our football team.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I thought it was a great dialogue.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
And then I think the appropriate timeline for us is,
you know, we'll get a chance at the end of
next week to really sit down. That'll be one of
the first topics kind of on your to do list
to be able to talk about.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
And then hopefully that'll.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Give us the opportunity to be able to, you know,
move towards you know, clarity in regards to how that
affects his status and what we're doing, you know, with
what we know is an incredibly important position for a
football team moving forward.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That was very long witted, But Sean McVay, slobber chops there.
You have a little hawktol action there. For Sean McVay.
When's the last time your boss said I love you
and you mean a lot to me.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
What does that happen regularly to you? I don't know.
Maybe he does.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Maybe everyone has their boss say how much they love
you and mean to you and all that.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I don't think that's normally how it works. But let
us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So Sean McVay, as you just heard, saying that he's
hoping for Matthew Stafford's decision whether he's going to retire
or not, sooner than later.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
So the question on the big.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Radio dial here is how concerned is Sean McVay that
the Rams will have to scramble to find a new quarterback.
So my observations, I've got Stone, Zebra, and Gatorade, and
we will combine all of these.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Things together and we are going to.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Make gringo tacos, the crunchy taco, my favorite kind of taco,
the crunchy taco.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
We'll do that, tacos dorado they call them.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Now, number wa.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
What number is it? That's right? All right?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
So the Rams, you got to go through the backstory
before you get to where we are right now.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So how concerned is Sean McVay.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
The Rams were ready for a divorce from Matthew Stafford
a couple of years ago. They thought he was barbecue chicken, right,
they thought he was cooked and all that. And to
his credit, Stafford is rebounded and he's had a bit
of a renaissance back to back playoff years now.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
That said Sean McVay. His level of.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Concern that on the Mallord scale of concern, the Mallord
scale of concern for Sean McVay one to ten, McVeigh
is at a two. He's at a two on the
Mallor scale of concern about whether or not Matthew Stafford
comes back, because eventually Stafford's going to retire, right, and
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it'll provide another stone, a stepping stone for the Rams coach.
He can add to his legend. And he's one of
these guys. An obstacle is a stepping stone for bigger
and better things. And Sean McVay, who did work for
a team called the Redskins.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I know that's Tabboo.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You're not supposed to say that name anymore, but that's
who McVeigh worked for. One of his first big jobs
in football was with the old Redskins. Jay Gruden hired him.
But McVey is chasing down another Redskin coach, Joe Gibbs.
He's already gotten to the Super Bowl twice with two
different quarterbacks McVeigh with Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford. One
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with Stafford, lost with Golf because Goff puked all over
the field against the Patriots. But Joe Gibbs, as you know,
the only coach to have won three Super Bowls with
three different quarterbacks, Joe Thaisman, Doug Williams, and Mark Rippin.
And if McVeigh can go out and find another diamond
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in the rough and get back to a Super Bowl,
he will tie Joe Gibbs, which, by many accounts is
the great accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Andy Reid got there with two.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
There have been other coaches that've gotten there with two
like McVeigh, but three, now, that is that's next level.
That's next level. And Sean McVay is one of these guys.
Like most coaches, he's the leader of the pack, and
he's got all the answers to the test and all that,
and so he thinks of himself as a quarterback whisper.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It's gonna be interesting to see who he picks next.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Now, with forty nine million, if Stafford leaves, they're gonna
have like forty nine million dollars in in CAP. Now,
I'm a Cap Truther, so I don't think that matters
either way. But the Rams will have plenty of room
to go out and make some kind of radical movement quarterback.
If they want, or they can just sit back and
draft some wide eyed rookie and hope that they turn
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out to be all right. Now, page two, we head
to Motown, where a former Rams quarterback is in the
spotlight a lot of concern.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The Lions were Numero UNO in the NFC this year
and now they've lost their defensive coordinator and their offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But the issue is behind the curtains, what's going on
in Detroit with that offense? Because most people don't think
that Jared Goff is all that good, right, so he.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Laid well during the regular season.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So now that Ben Johnson is gone, that changes the dynamic, right,
that changes the dynamic.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
So I bring this up Lions General manager Brad Holmes.
What up Holmes? Brad Holmes? Now he says he does
not expect any.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Drop off from Jared Goff without Ben Johnson around to
call the places. So status quo, smooth sailing all that.
So how do you see all this working out in Detroit?
So my first thought is, did you really expect Brad Holmes,
the GM of the Lions, to come out and say, oh, yeah,
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we think Jared Goff is going to play like a
kittie cat, and he's a he's a kitten, and that's
what he's gonna play like. Here, come on, Jared Goff,
I'll use a different animal analogy.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Jared Goff is he's wearing Lions clothing, but he's a zebra.
He's a zebra in Lions clothing. Kenna zee, zebra change
its stripes.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But we know the answer, right, and he has set
himself up Jared Goff.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
It's the Peter principle.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
He has reached his highest level of incompetence and he
remains there now. He's not a bad quarterback. He's just
not that good in big games. He's a solid regular
season quarterback who plays very well against substandard opponents, the
short passing game, the checkdown passing game. In big games,
Jared Goff becomes a duchie, not a duke blue devil.
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He becomes the duke of Puke is what he becomes.
In his playoff career. Jared Goff with the Rams and
the Lions has run the gauntlet. He has nine touchdown
passes and nine turnover plays, five interceptions and four fumbles
in Jared Goff's career. So not all that hey, He'll
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be fine during the regular season. At some point he's
going to get old. It happens to everybody. But all right,
turn the regular season. The problem is everything's got to
be perfect around Jared Goff for him to succeed.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Rams got to a super Bowl with him, but not
because of him. All right, final.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Point, We squirm back to the NFL Playoffs Playoffs Championship
Sunday in the NFL this weekend, Washington coach Dan Quinn,
now Dan Quinn chimed in. He says that his team,
the team formerly known as the Redskins, the Commanders feed
off the dismissiveness. That's the word he used, the dismissiveness
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of the doubters. Yeah, So how does that one hit you?
Dan Quinn, head coach of the Washington football team, saying
that the Commanders feed off the dismissiveness of the doubters.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
In the media. So how does that hit you?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
So it hits me like predictable right in the schnas
right right, you don't don't open your eyes.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
The balls coming after boom right right in your nose.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
And talk about a lot about this on the show.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
We've come to a determination that it's it's not gatorade.
It's like a spin off of Gatorade that is the
number one sports drink in the NFL and.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
All of professional sports. It's called hater Rade.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Is it in you?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Right? Is it in you?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And I spent my entire time here coming in and
just telling you of athletes and coaches who won something,
accomplished something, and then had to let you know the
reason they did that is because nobody thought we could
do it, and we proved.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
So and so wrong.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Now, and you know, a lot of the kool aid,
like the low information fan, the neanderthal fan, that just
is a total total drinker of the kool aid, as
we like to say, for their team, I can't believe anywhere.
Like Bill's Mafia is a great example, right, they're very
soft fans. Buffalo's is small you know, small town operation, right,
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po donnk usa. The way they reacted that, My guy
sports with Coleman tells me that's a minor league count right.
The way they reacts embarrassing. Right, you're in a big city.
You don't care what Jerry Coleman. I love Jerry, but
you don't care what Jerry Coleman says. But they got
so upset with sports with Coleman. Right, they should be
thinking they should be thanking my friend sports with Coleman
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because it provides extra fuel.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
In the tank.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And I will remind you this is a yet again
a teachable moment that the doubters are the spark of
life that lights the fire under athletes. And if everyone
said only nice things about professional sports teams and athletes,
(27:52):
I don't know what would happen.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Nobody might show up to play. They'd be like, I
don't know what to do. The only reason they try
to win. It would seem is because somebody didn't think
they could do it. My Oma, what in the world.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
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Speaker 3 (28:14):
It's smaller? How about that?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
To the third degree?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
This is one big Ben gets Grillo.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
There have apparently been a lot of Steelers fans suggesting
that the team should trade their best assets while they
still have high value. Former quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said on
a recent podcast that he thinks the team can trade
George Pickens, but that they should hold on to TJ.
Watt and Minka Fitzpatrick. Ben, could you see any of
these three getting traded.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Uh, well, no, I take that back. George Pickens has
caused some problems there. So if it's as bad as
the Internet makes it out to be, and they do
some soul searching there in Pittsburgh, I could see Pickens
being traded. But the Steelers do not tear things down.
It's a bittersweet story in Pittsburgh. They want to be good.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I like that. They don't want to suck. Who wants
to suck?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
So I don't see them changing the franchise charter and
getting rid of all those Maybe George Pickens, but that's it.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Next, Notre Dame's defensive coordinator Al Golden is heading back
to the NFL to be Cincinnati's new defensive coordinator. Golden
had previously been the Bengals linebacker coach in twenty twenty
twenty twenty one, Ben, do you think he can turn
around their atrocious defense?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Well? Can he? Yes? Because the bar is low? All right,
the bar is low.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
They were so bad, they were outplayed, underachieved last year.
If they go from terrible to average, Al Golden scene
is a mensa.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
So the bar is not that high for Al gold So,
but they're not.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Going to be a top ten defense, but they could
be a anywhere in like the middle part of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
They'll be in good shape next.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
A new report says that Luka Dohnsik is expected to
be back for the MAVs in mid February. They've gone
I think five and nine in his absence. Ben, do
you think they can still be in the hunt by
the time Luca comes back.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Well, yes, I mean not the hunt to be like
a top team in the West.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
The playoffs.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Oh yeah, everyone gets in the play You realize how
hard because they have that fugazy playing thing. You realize
how hard it is to not make the playoffs in
the NBA. If you're trying, there are so many teams
that aren't trying. If you just put an honest effort in,
you'll end up getting at least in the playing So yeah,
they'll at least make the play in tournament.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Not worried about that.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
There.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
It is mallot of a third degree. How did we
do pass well? I don't like the tone. I do
not like your tone, Kude, that was bad tone, bad tone.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
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Speaker 3 (30:52):
Blame we Blame we too. It's Big Ben's lame joke
of the week.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And track everyone's favorite punching bag from Miami, Miami, Miami.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
We saylo to Weedman, Hippie.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Hello, weed Man, Hippie heard me last we met.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
You were a little late for work today, weed Man.
What happened?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
H right?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
But what were you doing?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
I look track of time? Are you sleeping?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You never sleep? No, I'd never sleep. I thought you're
weed man.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Not heroin man Aron, he'd sleep a lot.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Really, I thought you stay up with meth keeps you
Oh meth.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I screwed that. I got my my drugs mixed up
that job by me? All right, here we go, uh
weed man.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
If you would like to.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Send a joke in, send it care of Ben Malor
Show at gmail dot com. Benmallor Show at gmail dot com,
and make sure you put lame jokes or just jokes
in the headline. That way, I will be able to
take your jokes out of all the other email that
I get on the regular and be able to respond
to you.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
All right, Now Lizzo can hide under a rock. How
about that?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Why well, she actually used to hide under a boulder,
but now she can hide under a rock.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
That's Dennis in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
What did Lizzo say to her doctor when he told
her he wanted to talk about her weight?
Speaker 7 (32:28):
What?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Well, Lizzo told the doctor that it was about.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Twenty minutes long and the chairs are too small for her.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
George and Uvaldi, when's the last time you went to
the doctor? We made I don't have it a long time.
Has it been twenty years since you've been to the doctor? Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Man?
Speaker 4 (32:52):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
What did President Trump name his proposed super duper space
force doomsday weapon that was so devastating.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
It can eat an entire planet?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
What the lizzochom parta tron?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
That's Frank in Fargo. Thank you, Frank. Well, exciting news here,
weed Man.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Did you hear that scientists have said that the what the.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Real cause is of this polar vortex? What?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Well, it turns out Lizzo accidently left her freezer door
open and that's why it's cold in Pensacola, Florida and
Louisiana and plays.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Like that, all right? What and that's from Georgia and Uvalde, Texas.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
What does Lizzo wear now after her massive weight loss?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
What a big fat grin? A big fat grin.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
That was from our friend Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. What
is the difference between Lorraine and Lizzo?
Speaker 7 (33:58):
What?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well, Lorena has love and hope in her soul. Lizzo
loves shoving food into her pie hole. That's from Bobby
in Florida. Thank you, Bobby. What did the doctors say
when weed Man said he can't smell? What the doctor said,
in my opinion, you do smell. That's Tony in the bay.
(34:26):
We'll go back to back from Tony to Bay. Uh.
What do our friends from Mexico call weed Man in jail?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
What el roach o is what they call a very
nice let's the here.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Did you hear that weed Man overdosed on viagra the
other day?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Big story here?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I didn't hear that.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, it was actually the definitely the hardest day.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Of your life. That's Danny in New Hampshire. Danny, I
love one of my favorite places to visit at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. Beautiful, beautiful, right there in the water, right,
that's the main awesome, all right. Why did weed Man
finally get off the couch and take a gig as
a plumber's assistant?
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Why?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well, it turns out, weed Man, you heard you'd be
working with pipes and joints.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
That kind of excited me.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
That's Terry in Saint Paul.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Nnesueta Well Saint Petersburg says there is no deadline to
repair Tropic Canna field.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Why yeah? Well?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Well, also Miami has stated there is no timeline for
weed Man hippie to get a job. So there is that,
said George George in Rochester, Minnesota. Last time you had
a job, weed man, was it the eighties or the nineties?
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Ah, the eighties? Oh my god, you have not had
job since the eighties. That is wild, my god, that
is a long time. All right.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
It was a two step process for weed Man with
the housing Commission.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
You hear about that.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
No, what happened?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Well, first you had to check all the boxes and
then you took one to live in. So that was
the other thing there. That's Dennis Dennis in Detroit. Thank you, Dennis.
Any jokes that were there?
Speaker 7 (36:18):
Cool?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Negative no, all right, no, I don't know if I
want to read that here. Let me let me see.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah, I get it. Make sure she can't find the message.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
But it's in my brain. Here, I'll tell it to
you in your ear.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
All right, Very good U. The Eagles were selling pints
of snow that was on the field for fifty dollars
weed Man this week.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
You gotta be ok with that?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, well you actually. It turns out weed Man refused
to sell Miami snow because of possible drug trafficking charges.
So you you didn't do that, weed Man. That's George
and Rochester, Minnesota. Thank you, George. After years of going barefoot,
why is weed Man now walking around with a sexy
new hop in his step like John Travolta?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Why because he found an old shoe in the trash?
Speaker 3 (37:11):
That fits. That's why.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
I think that's all we have time for. Thank you
very much. There is hey you weave man. Ah, here's
lame jokes all the week.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
Oh yes it is, let's do it, shall we It's Friday,
y'all at which means to scoop on entertainment with a
man covers all things pop culture from start to finish,
which it starts right now. And here is Humpson Cooper
on the ones and two.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Thank you Marcel. All right, Uh, we're going to play
an annual game that we do every year. The Oscar
nominees have been released, and I like to go through
the Best Picture nominees and see if Ben has seen
or even heard of them.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Okay, I've not been to the movies in a long time,
but I like to play this game, and I'm gonna
win this game.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
I'm gonna win.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I betually i've seen at least one. I've heard of
at least one.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
How about that.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
I think you've definitely heard of at least one. You
may have even seen one, but I will maybe I
don't know, all right, So first we've got a complete unknown.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
No idea what that is? What is that?
Speaker 4 (38:33):
It's the Bob Dylan story starring Timothy Chalomey.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Okay, well, I think I heard about a Bob Dylan movie,
but I didn't know that name, so I won't count
that as one I've heard him, So I kind of
vaguely heard about. I think I watched a football game.
They had a like a promo for a Bob Dylan.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Yeah, yeah, and when he showed up on college game day,
that's what he was promoting that.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
But okay, oh for one, the substance, no idea, then okay,
the brutalist, no chance, no idea, Here we go, here
we go, wicked?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yes, yes?
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Did you see it?
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Well?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Kind of kind of so I may or may not have.
Somebody might have sent me a copy of it, you know,
and I might have. I might have watched some of
it Coop, and I couldn't get through it.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
It was so painful.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Oh man, there was way too much singing.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
It was so bad, it was way too long.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
I mean, even my wife, who loves crappy movies like that,
she couldn't even watch it.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
I've never wanted to turn off your mic so bad
in my life. Had had neither of it. Had neither
you or your wife seen the like the actual play the.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
I don't know. I hadn't.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I don't know if she had, but she was really
excited to see the movie. But we were watching it
and I was like, I was complaining. I guess maybe
it's because I was complaining, but.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
She yeah, I could I could see that being annoying.
All right, wow, so we got one.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, there's the one.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Uh Anora?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Is that in Colorado? A? Yeah, No, I'm not. I'm not.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Conclave is that something that like the Vatican?
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yes, yes, yeah, I've never I don't know. I really
I know they do a conclave with the Vatican.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
But yeah, that's that's what it's about, picking a new pope.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yes, they play poker or something in the room then
and they saw somebody sent up some white smoke.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
We got a new pope.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
There's there's drama that ensuess, stuff that threatens to bring
down the Catholic Church of course.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Would it be simpler to ask Ben what movie he
did watch this year? Well, no, I'm just I'm going
to the picture nominees.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
You don't need to touch up my work, Loraino.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
Okay, now this one. I'm I feel pretty good about
Dune Part two.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
No, you've heard of it, though, right, I've heard of it. Yeah,
I've heard of the Doom Francis, but I have not.
All right, uh, a universal they're making another what's that?
The bear movie? What are you you know with Ted?
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Oh yeah, Ted, Yeah, they're making another Okay, allowed to
say that.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
I don't know. Well you just just did. Amelia Perez,
No chance that's a's a girl I dated.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Back from the.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
UH and these last year. There's no chance. I'm still here.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I am still here, Coop, I had here for another
twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Or and Nickel boys, Nickel, I've not seen nic What
is Nickel?
Speaker 3 (41:32):
What is?
Speaker 4 (41:33):
To be honest, I hadn't even heard of that one. Wow.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
I used to get those screeners from the Yeah, me too.
They don't send them out anymore, right, No, they don't. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
That was the only reason it was cool to be
part of that, because they'd send out the screeners. Is there, like,
there must be a website that we don't have access?
Find the website?
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Well, so, so what they do now is they basically
send it send you tickets so that you can go
see it live in person, because I guess too many
people were sharing the DVDs or copying the DVDs.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Yeah, oh, how do you get those sticks?
Speaker 4 (42:05):
I'd like, I mean, you still have to you have
to be a paying member of SAG, are you. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:13):
I never checked those emails, they send the emails and check, yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
Thanks, you're to look into that too, all right. And
then one thing, since we you know, took up a
lot of time doing that, I will just point out
there there's nothing really worth seeing in theaters that's new
this weekend. But on television on Netflix, Penny Versus the
Penny this weekend. Yes that uh? And also the second
season of The Night Agent on Netflix. This was a
(42:38):
good maybe.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
About overnight sports radio a Night Agent.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
It's a conspiracy thriller and I enjoyed the first season.
I've watched the first episode of the second season, so
pretty good. Check that out if you haven't. That's The
Night Agent on Netflix, available right now. And that Iscoop
Scoop on Entertainment
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well it seems so simple. All you have to do
is pick a new coach. This job is not that difficult. Well,
apparently it is.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
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this hour is from the coaching carousel. It is not
the newest coach William Cohane, who twenty four hours ago
had rejected Jacksonville and then said, whip psych head fake.
I did the okie doke. I'm back more on that later.
But I'm in the ratings business, right, I have to captivate.
(02:04):
It's called broadcasting, not narrowcasting. So in that case, what
is going to get the biggest audience? Not not Jacksonville,
not now, maybe later, But we begin play the hits,
my man, play the hits. It's our obligatory malar monologue
on Doug Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That's right, the Dallas Coupan.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I do this for Sir scratch Off, who loves when
I talk about the Dallas Cowboys. He can't get enough
of He said, Ben, you know you need to talk
more about the Cowboys. Okay, here I am so the
coaching searcher round the football world. If you have not
been following because you actually have a life, maybe not.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So we are told now.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That the Cowboys search is zeroing in on an in
house candidate.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
They're going to keep it under the umbrella of Jerry's world.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Brian Schottenheimer, Oh boy, how is that possible?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now here's what we know, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. It
has been.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Widely reported by those that claim to be in the
know in the currency of information, that Jerry Jones is
the lone conductor. He's running the orchestra in this Cowboy
coaching surge. You would think he's the GM, He's the owner.
Why would he not be the only person doing that?
And then there were names like Robert Salah, Kellen Moore,
(03:23):
and Leslie Fraser have been interviewed. However, the word on
the street is that it's his meddling son, Stephen Jones
that is driving the campaign, the Marching and Chowder Society
for Brian Schottenheimer, a non descript spawn net bo baby
(03:45):
NFL assistant to get the head coaching job in Dallas.
But wait, there's more. So Jerry Jones he wanted Dion Sanders,
if you believe the buzz. However, that is now on
the back because the sun younger Jones here, who's sixty,
(04:07):
So he's not that young, but he he is pushing
for shoddy. That's what they call Schottenheimer shoddy. That would
be a shoddy hire if they hired Brian Schottenheimer.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
More on that later.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So let us discuss the question for the Esteemed panel,
which you are part of. Stephen Jones influencing Jerry Jones
depict Brian Schottenheimer as the cowboy, said, coach, can you
cut through the fog, the thick fog that is in
Jerry's world? So I've got McDonald's buttered popcorn and crustables.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Sounds like a menu I used to eat back and
the day.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
All right, So we'll combine all these things together and
we are gonna make the Baba ganoosh is what We're
gonna make, the Baba ganoosh.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
All right. So a this has gone as playing now.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You might remember in a previous episode of this show,
we talked about the Cowboys coaching search, and we pointed
out what it's going to be like, and not that
we're right all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
We're not.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We f up a lot, but this one we got right.
Jerry Jones. You think about forty years ago, Jerry was
in his forties. He must have been a huge fan
of nineteen eighties primetime television, and this is the NFL
version of the soap opera Dallas. Everything revolving around the
(05:31):
affairs of the affluent Jones family.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
There's opolence, there's glamor. I mean all kinds of crats.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I mean, you've got Jerry's ranch somewhere out there, deep
in the heart of Texas.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And this power struggle.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
This is where we are in the script for the
Cowboys offseason. So you've got the power struggle, You've got betrayal,
the son not listening to the dad. You've got I
guess romances. I don't think that's involved here, and just
bigger than life cartoon characters here, there and everywhere. You've
(06:07):
got the oil tycoon Jerry Jones at the center of
it all. It is riveting, it is addictive, and it
again shows you that Dallas continues to be the gold
standard for the drama o rama in the little bit. Yeah,
and Jerry right now, he's trying to find He's looking
for a hole somewhere.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He's like, I got where's the hole. I need a
hole in one That's what I want. Mason glory Hill.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, Well, Jerry Jones is like, you know you like
McDonald's right now, he's loving it, right, he is loving it.
Dufus is like yours truly talking about this and everyone
captivated in sports media as he is setting the narrative
and he brags, right when things slow down around here,
Jerry said, he will stir it up.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And things are always the rule of drama, more drawn out.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
They're more messy, unpredictable, complicated than they need to be.
But why on God's green Earth would Jerry Jones allow
his kid to usurp his authority and pick the next coach,
Ryan Schottenheimer. That is a cheap ripoff version of Mike McCarthy.
(07:15):
Why didn't you just pay Mike McCarthy more money and
keep him around?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Meanwhile, Pastrie, so Jerry Jones and his son, We're gonna
expand on this a little further because there are multiple
reports out there that Stephen Jones the kid have clashed
for the last couple of years, and it's it's not
only about the coaching hire, but also about the finances
of the Cowboys and Jerry.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
If you believe the.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Chatter, the streets are talking in the Naked City and
Jerry wants to spend money with no limits. Right, He
just wants to burn through the salary cap and spend
spend spen, spend spend spence spence spence s bend spend
spend just like.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That, right, a lot of money. But it's Stephen Jones who.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Is a fan of the dogma of moneyball, that plague
on professional sports, and he wants to avoid at all
costs dead money from what I was hearing earlier, and
he does not want to mess up and screw up
the salary cap. So let's break this all apart the
(08:19):
chatter that Jerry Jones and his son Steven have been
at loggerheads over the Cowboys organizational philosophy. Do you find
this significant? So I do, And now I have no
skin in the game. I have no skin in the game.
But this is a warning shot. This is a bad omen.
(08:41):
It's a bad omen for the Cowboys. You think things
are bad now because you're about to hire, if reports
are accurate, shoddy as your new coach. This is like
getting a bucket of popcorn, buttered popcorn, delicious movie theater,
buttered popcorn. You settle into your seat and it's a
preview of coming attractions in a world where Jerry Jones
(09:05):
heads to a convalescent home and Steven Jones takes over
the Cowboys day to day. The Dallas Cowboys will then
embark on a journey of shoestring, budgets, nickel and diming everyone.
Things are about to get very stingy in Dallas. It
is inevitable. You know it's coming. And as much as
(09:27):
you loathe Jerry Jones, as much as you might despise
Jerry Jones, I promise you Stephen Jones will be worse
when Jerry Jones is gone.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Okay, it is one.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Hundred percent true old family money in professional sports. These
professional sports leagues have been around, most of them for
about one hundred years or so. Baseball has been around longer,
and a number of these teams are generational wealth teams.
They get passed from one generation to another, and it's
never the same. When the original owner dies, it only
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gets worse.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Now, what is my evidence?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
When I was a kid, it was the greatness of
our writers with Al Davis. Now they've got Mark Davis,
who all he's good at is getting the special that PF.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Chang's.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
That's what he's good at. When I was a kid,
you had George Steinbrenner, the boss. Nobody messes with the Boss.
He'd hire and fire managers because he just felt like it.
He got out of bed the wrong way. Now you've
got hal Steinbrenner, a cheap ripoff of the old man.
How about the once proud Lakers. Remember that Jerry Buss
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Doctor Jerry Bussey had a harem of young women all
over him, and the Lakers were showtime. Now they've got
Genie Buss. They suck and you know she's still hanging
out there. And it's old family money owning a sports
team when you're the second generation and you didn't create it,
you didn't buy it. You have a license to run
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a business that allows you to pocket millions and millions
of dollars. It's passive income, is what.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It's like, hey, you've got a built in audience, people
that grew up loving it, your team because of your parents.
Your dad would ever owned the team, and now you
own it, and now you can run into the ground.
All right, last word, So let's go back a little
deeper in the land of cowboy paranoia. Michael Irvin, the playmaker,
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cowboy legend, Michael Irvin. Now for some reason, out of
thin air, Out of thin air, Michael Irvin.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
He was on some podcasts. There's a million, even I
have one.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So Michael Irvin ripped Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark for
attending the game in Kansas City last weekend, and he
took a shot at Taylor and Caitlin Clark were trying
to make the Chiefs the New America's team. So how
do you assess this one? So my grandfather would say,
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stick a lot is what that is, right, stick, extra thick,
stick is what it is. Michael Irvin sitting down at
the table and he's eating some crustables, but peanut butter
and jelly.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
No peanut butter, just the jelly. He's just a little
jelly here.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And right now, in this moment, Kansas City is the
hottest thing going in the NFL because you've got a
lot of people that love him and you got a
lot of people.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That hate him.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And that's what you want, right You want to be
a lightning rod and you want to be a firebrand.
And that's what the Chiefs have become. People watch to
watch them lose. They get upset when they win. They've
got this neurosis that everything's rigged for the Chiefs and
the NFL wants Market thirty one to win in the
National Foot League and win a third Super Bowl in
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a row.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Now, that's what's going on right now.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But when you take a couple of steps back and
you look around and you take a deep breath, only
the test of time will tell only does this have
staying power? Does this go from a fad which is
a temporary thing, to a trend which will stick around?
And at this point you still have it in the
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fad category, because at some point Mahomes will get old,
Andy Reid's going to retire, and then will people still
watch and support the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Now, I will tell you the forty.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Nine ers glory days were in the nineteen eighties and
early nineties, and they they've been blah. They've had a
couple of teams that got to a Super Bowl. They
gagged in the Super Bowl. But there are generations of
forty nine Er fans because of that would happen. We're
on like the second or third generation now from what
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happened in the nineteen eighties. So if you do the math,
on that the Chiefs will be guaranteed to have a
solid built in fan base. And even if it stopped
this year till what what are we looking at like
twenty sixty five, twenty seventy.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Boy, that sounds might go, I'll be long gone probably by.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Then, But that's what we're looking at, right, That's what
we're looking at.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
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Speaker 3 (14:31):
From the playoff game to the Waiting Game.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
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keep it simple. Why not not the playoffs?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Layoffs?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But our leaders from Los Angeles, the Rams who won
the NFC West. They were better than that week Seattle team,
the overrated forty nine ers and Alligator arms Kyler Murray.
So the Rams made the playoffs yet again they normally
do with Sean McVay. They beat the Vikings, a team
that had in the great seasons in franchise history, and
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dominated that game. They had a chance to beat the
Eagles in the final seconds on a snow game in Philadelphia.
And now they're hanging out pivoting to the offseason. And
there's some debate on what's going to happen with Matthew Stafford.
We mentioned this in a previous episode of this show,
and Matthew Stafford was rather vague after the loss to Philadelphia. So,
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if you haven't been following along, Sean McVeigh has now
entered the chat on this and maybe maybe you missed it,
but Sean McVay hoping to get some clear now. Now,
last year, Matthew Stafford was debating whether or not he
was going to play, and it came down to when
training camp.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Started for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It was like right either right before or a couple
of days after training camp started. Matthew Stafford agreed to
a contract with the Rams. The deal was for just
one year, forty million. Good work if you can get it.
And now they're back at a fork in the road.
Does Matthew Stafford want to play football again? Does he
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want to play for the Rams again? Do the Rams
want Matthew Stafford back? Do they want somebody else? And
so Sean McVay was asked about the situation with Matthew
Stafford and the reworked contract and will it come down
to the very end before training camp.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Well, here's what McVeigh had to say, take a list,
that's not so.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I don't think that's good for anybody.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
I think sooner than later, being able to get that clarity, understand, clear,
open and honest communication.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I think there's a lot of love coming from our part.
I think there's a lot of appreciation coming from his
part as well. You know, I think a lot sooner
than later.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Jordan is an ideal scenario, and I think the appropriate
thing is is, let's let the emotions settle.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
You know, Matthew and I have obviously talked.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
He knows how important he is to me and to
our football team.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I thought it was a great dialogue.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
And then I think the appropriate timeline for us is,
you know, we'll get a chance at the end of
next week to really sit down. That'll be one of
the first topics kind of on your to do list
to be able to talk about.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
And then hopefully that'll.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Give us the opportunity to be able to, you know,
move towards you know, clarity in regards to how that
affects his status and what we're doing, you know, with
what we know is an incredibly important position for a
football team moving forward.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That was very long witted, But Sean McVay, slobber chops there.
You have a little hawktol action there. For Sean McVay.
When's the last time your boss said I love you
and you mean a lot to me.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
What does that happen regularly to you? I don't know.
Maybe he does.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Maybe everyone has their boss say how much they love
you and mean to you and all that.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I don't think that's normally how it works. But let
us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So Sean McVay, as you just heard, saying that he's
hoping for Matthew Stafford's decision whether he's going to retire
or not, sooner than later.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
So the question on the big.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Radio dial here is how concerned is Sean McVay that
the Rams will have to scramble to find a new quarterback.
So my observations, I've got Stone, Zebra, and Gatorade, and
we will combine all of these.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Things together and we are going to.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Make gringo tacos, the crunchy taco, my favorite kind of taco,
the crunchy taco.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
We'll do that, tacos dorado they call them.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Now, number wa.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
What number is it? That's right? All right?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
So the Rams, you got to go through the backstory
before you get to where we are right now.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So how concerned is Sean McVay.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
The Rams were ready for a divorce from Matthew Stafford
a couple of years ago. They thought he was barbecue chicken, right,
they thought he was cooked and all that. And to
his credit, Stafford is rebounded and he's had a bit
of a renaissance back to back playoff years now.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
That said Sean McVay. His level of.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Concern that on the Mallord scale of concern, the Mallord
scale of concern for Sean McVay one to ten, McVeigh
is at a two. He's at a two on the
Mallor scale of concern about whether or not Matthew Stafford
comes back, because eventually Stafford's going to retire, right, and
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it'll provide another stone, a stepping stone for the Rams coach.
He can add to his legend. And he's one of
these guys. An obstacle is a stepping stone for bigger
and better things. And Sean McVay, who did work for
a team called the Redskins.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I know that's Tabboo.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You're not supposed to say that name anymore, but that's
who McVeigh worked for. One of his first big jobs
in football was with the old Redskins. Jay Gruden hired him.
But McVey is chasing down another Redskin coach, Joe Gibbs.
He's already gotten to the Super Bowl twice with two
different quarterbacks McVeigh with Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford. One
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with Stafford, lost with Golf because Goff puked all over
the field against the Patriots. But Joe Gibbs, as you know,
the only coach to have won three Super Bowls with
three different quarterbacks, Joe Thaisman, Doug Williams, and Mark Rippin.
And if McVeigh can go out and find another diamond
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in the rough and get back to a Super Bowl,
he will tie Joe Gibbs, which, by many accounts is
the great accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Andy Reid got there with two.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
There have been other coaches that've gotten there with two
like McVeigh, but three, now, that is that's next level.
That's next level. And Sean McVay is one of these guys.
Like most coaches, he's the leader of the pack, and
he's got all the answers to the test and all that,
and so he thinks of himself as a quarterback whisper.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It's gonna be interesting to see who he picks next.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Now, with forty nine million, if Stafford leaves, they're gonna
have like forty nine million dollars in in CAP. Now,
I'm a Cap Truther, so I don't think that matters
either way. But the Rams will have plenty of room
to go out and make some kind of radical movement quarterback.
If they want, or they can just sit back and
draft some wide eyed rookie and hope that they turn
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out to be all right. Now, page two, we head
to Motown, where a former Rams quarterback is in the
spotlight a lot of concern.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The Lions were Numero UNO in the NFC this year
and now they've lost their defensive coordinator and their offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But the issue is behind the curtains, what's going on
in Detroit with that offense? Because most people don't think
that Jared Goff is all that good, right, so he.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Laid well during the regular season.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So now that Ben Johnson is gone, that changes the dynamic, right,
that changes the dynamic.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
So I bring this up Lions General manager Brad Holmes.
What up Holmes? Brad Holmes? Now he says he does
not expect any.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Drop off from Jared Goff without Ben Johnson around to
call the places. So status quo, smooth sailing all that.
So how do you see all this working out in Detroit?
So my first thought is, did you really expect Brad Holmes,
the GM of the Lions, to come out and say, oh, yeah,
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we think Jared Goff is going to play like a
kittie cat, and he's a he's a kitten, and that's
what he's gonna play like. Here, come on, Jared Goff,
I'll use a different animal analogy.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Jared Goff is he's wearing Lions clothing, but he's a zebra.
He's a zebra in Lions clothing. Kenna zee, zebra change
its stripes.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But we know the answer, right, and he has set
himself up Jared Goff.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
It's the Peter principle.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
He has reached his highest level of incompetence and he
remains there now. He's not a bad quarterback. He's just
not that good in big games. He's a solid regular
season quarterback who plays very well against substandard opponents, the
short passing game, the checkdown passing game. In big games,
Jared Goff becomes a duchie, not a duke blue devil.
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He becomes the duke of Puke is what he becomes.
In his playoff career. Jared Goff with the Rams and
the Lions has run the gauntlet. He has nine touchdown
passes and nine turnover plays, five interceptions and four fumbles
in Jared Goff's career. So not all that hey, He'll
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be fine during the regular season. At some point he's
going to get old. It happens to everybody. But all right,
turn the regular season. The problem is everything's got to
be perfect around Jared Goff for him to succeed.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Rams got to a super Bowl with him, but not
because of him. All right, final.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Point, We squirm back to the NFL Playoffs Playoffs Championship
Sunday in the NFL this weekend, Washington coach Dan Quinn,
now Dan Quinn chimed in. He says that his team,
the team formerly known as the Redskins, the Commanders feed
off the dismissiveness. That's the word he used, the dismissiveness
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of the doubters. Yeah, So how does that one hit you?
Dan Quinn, head coach of the Washington football team, saying
that the Commanders feed off the dismissiveness of the doubters.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
In the media. So how does that hit you?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
So it hits me like predictable right in the schnas
right right, you don't don't open your eyes.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
The balls coming after boom right right in your nose.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
And talk about a lot about this on the show.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
We've come to a determination that it's it's not gatorade.
It's like a spin off of Gatorade that is the
number one sports drink in the NFL and.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
All of professional sports. It's called hater Rade.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Is it in you?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Right? Is it in you?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And I spent my entire time here coming in and
just telling you of athletes and coaches who won something,
accomplished something, and then had to let you know the
reason they did that is because nobody thought we could
do it, and we proved.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
So and so wrong.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Now, and you know, a lot of the kool aid,
like the low information fan, the neanderthal fan, that just
is a total total drinker of the kool aid, as
we like to say, for their team, I can't believe anywhere.
Like Bill's Mafia is a great example, right, they're very
soft fans. Buffalo's is small you know, small town operation, right,
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po donnk usa. The way they reacted that, My guy
sports with Coleman tells me that's a minor league count right.
The way they reacts embarrassing. Right, you're in a big city.
You don't care what Jerry Coleman. I love Jerry, but
you don't care what Jerry Coleman says. But they got
so upset with sports with Coleman. Right, they should be
thinking they should be thanking my friend sports with Coleman
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because it provides extra fuel.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
In the tank.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And I will remind you this is a yet again
a teachable moment that the doubters are the spark of
life that lights the fire under athletes. And if everyone
said only nice things about professional sports teams and athletes,
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I don't know what would happen.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Nobody might show up to play. They'd be like, I
don't know what to do. The only reason they try
to win. It would seem is because somebody didn't think
they could do it. My Oma, what in the world.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
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Speaker 3 (28:14):
It's smaller? How about that?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
To the third degree?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
This is one big Ben gets Grillo.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
There have apparently been a lot of Steelers fans suggesting
that the team should trade their best assets while they
still have high value. Former quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said on
a recent podcast that he thinks the team can trade
George Pickens, but that they should hold on to TJ.
Watt and Minka Fitzpatrick. Ben, could you see any of
these three getting traded.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Uh, well, no, I take that back. George Pickens has
caused some problems there. So if it's as bad as
the Internet makes it out to be, and they do
some soul searching there in Pittsburgh, I could see Pickens
being traded. But the Steelers do not tear things down.
It's a bittersweet story in Pittsburgh. They want to be good.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I like that. They don't want to suck. Who wants
to suck?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
So I don't see them changing the franchise charter and
getting rid of all those Maybe George Pickens, but that's it.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Next, Notre Dame's defensive coordinator Al Golden is heading back
to the NFL to be Cincinnati's new defensive coordinator. Golden
had previously been the Bengals linebacker coach in twenty twenty
twenty twenty one, Ben, do you think he can turn
around their atrocious defense?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Well? Can he? Yes? Because the bar is low? All right,
the bar is low.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
They were so bad, they were outplayed, underachieved last year.
If they go from terrible to average, Al Golden scene
is a mensa.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
So the bar is not that high for Al gold So,
but they're not.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Going to be a top ten defense, but they could
be a anywhere in like the middle part of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
They'll be in good shape next.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
A new report says that Luka Dohnsik is expected to
be back for the MAVs in mid February. They've gone
I think five and nine in his absence. Ben, do
you think they can still be in the hunt by
the time Luca comes back.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Well, yes, I mean not the hunt to be like
a top team in the West.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
The playoffs.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Oh yeah, everyone gets in the play You realize how
hard because they have that fugazy playing thing. You realize
how hard it is to not make the playoffs in
the NBA. If you're trying, there are so many teams
that aren't trying. If you just put an honest effort in,
you'll end up getting at least in the playing So yeah,
they'll at least make the play in tournament.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Not worried about that.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
There.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
It is mallot of a third degree. How did we
do pass well? I don't like the tone. I do
not like your tone, Kude, that was bad tone, bad tone.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
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Speaker 3 (30:52):
Blame we Blame we too. It's Big Ben's lame joke
of the week.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And track everyone's favorite punching bag from Miami, Miami, Miami.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
We saylo to Weedman, Hippie.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Hello, weed Man, Hippie heard me last we met.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
You were a little late for work today, weed Man.
What happened?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
H right?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
But what were you doing?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
I look track of time? Are you sleeping?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You never sleep? No, I'd never sleep. I thought you're
weed man.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Not heroin man Aron, he'd sleep a lot.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Really, I thought you stay up with meth keeps you
Oh meth.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I screwed that. I got my my drugs mixed up
that job by me? All right, here we go, uh
weed man.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
If you would like to.
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Send a joke in, send it care of Ben Malor
Show at gmail dot com. Benmallor Show at gmail dot com,
and make sure you put lame jokes or just jokes
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I get on the regular and be able to respond
to you.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
All right, Now Lizzo can hide under a rock. How
about that?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Why well, she actually used to hide under a boulder,
but now she can hide under a rock.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
That's Dennis in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
What did Lizzo say to her doctor when he told
her he wanted to talk about her weight?
Speaker 7 (32:28):
What?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Well, Lizzo told the doctor that it was about.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Twenty minutes long and the chairs are too small for her.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
George and Uvaldi, when's the last time you went to
the doctor? We made I don't have it a long time.
Has it been twenty years since you've been to the doctor? Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Man?
Speaker 4 (32:52):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
What did President Trump name his proposed super duper space
force doomsday weapon that was so devastating.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
It can eat an entire planet?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
What the lizzochom parta tron?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
That's Frank in Fargo. Thank you, Frank. Well, exciting news here,
weed Man.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Did you hear that scientists have said that the what the.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Real cause is of this polar vortex? What?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Well, it turns out Lizzo accidently left her freezer door
open and that's why it's cold in Pensacola, Florida and
Louisiana and plays.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Like that, all right? What and that's from Georgia and Uvalde, Texas.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
What does Lizzo wear now after her massive weight loss?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
What a big fat grin? A big fat grin.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
That was from our friend Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. What
is the difference between Lorraine and Lizzo?
Speaker 7 (33:58):
What?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well, Lorena has love and hope in her soul. Lizzo
loves shoving food into her pie hole. That's from Bobby
in Florida. Thank you, Bobby. What did the doctors say
when weed Man said he can't smell? What the doctor said,
in my opinion, you do smell. That's Tony in the bay.
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We'll go back to back from Tony to Bay. Uh.
What do our friends from Mexico call weed Man in jail?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
What el roach o is what they call a very
nice let's the here.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Did you hear that weed Man overdosed on viagra the
other day?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Big story here?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I didn't hear that.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, it was actually the definitely the hardest day.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Of your life. That's Danny in New Hampshire. Danny, I
love one of my favorite places to visit at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. Beautiful, beautiful, right there in the water, right,
that's the main awesome, all right. Why did weed Man
finally get off the couch and take a gig as
a plumber's assistant?
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Why?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well, it turns out, weed Man, you heard you'd be
working with pipes and joints.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
That kind of excited me.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
That's Terry in Saint Paul.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Nnesueta Well Saint Petersburg says there is no deadline to
repair Tropic Canna field.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Why yeah? Well?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Well, also Miami has stated there is no timeline for
weed Man hippie to get a job. So there is that,
said George George in Rochester, Minnesota. Last time you had
a job, weed man, was it the eighties or the nineties?
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Ah, the eighties? Oh my god, you have not had
job since the eighties. That is wild, my god, that
is a long time. All right.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
It was a two step process for weed Man with
the housing Commission.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
You hear about that.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
No, what happened?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Well, first you had to check all the boxes and
then you took one to live in. So that was
the other thing there. That's Dennis Dennis in Detroit. Thank you, Dennis.
Any jokes that were there?
Speaker 7 (36:18):
Cool?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Negative no, all right, no, I don't know if I
want to read that here. Let me let me see.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah, I get it. Make sure she can't find the message.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
But it's in my brain. Here, I'll tell it to
you in your ear.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
All right, Very good U. The Eagles were selling pints
of snow that was on the field for fifty dollars
weed Man this week.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
You gotta be ok with that?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, well you actually. It turns out weed Man refused
to sell Miami snow because of possible drug trafficking charges.
So you you didn't do that, weed Man. That's George
and Rochester, Minnesota. Thank you, George. After years of going barefoot,
why is weed Man now walking around with a sexy
new hop in his step like John Travolta?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Why because he found an old shoe in the trash?
Speaker 3 (37:11):
That fits. That's why.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
I think that's all we have time for. Thank you
very much. There is hey you weave man. Ah, here's
lame jokes all the week.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
Oh yes it is, let's do it, shall we It's Friday,
y'all at which means to scoop on entertainment with a
man covers all things pop culture from start to finish,
which it starts right now. And here is Humpson Cooper
on the ones and two.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Thank you Marcel. All right, Uh, we're going to play
an annual game that we do every year. The Oscar
nominees have been released, and I like to go through
the Best Picture nominees and see if Ben has seen
or even heard of them.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Okay, I've not been to the movies in a long time,
but I like to play this game, and I'm gonna
win this game.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
I'm gonna win.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I betually i've seen at least one. I've heard of
at least one.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
How about that.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
I think you've definitely heard of at least one. You
may have even seen one, but I will maybe I
don't know, all right, So first we've got a complete unknown.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
No idea what that is? What is that?
Speaker 4 (38:33):
It's the Bob Dylan story starring Timothy Chalomey.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Okay, well, I think I heard about a Bob Dylan movie,
but I didn't know that name, so I won't count
that as one I've heard him, So I kind of
vaguely heard about. I think I watched a football game.
They had a like a promo for a Bob Dylan.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Yeah, yeah, and when he showed up on college game day,
that's what he was promoting that.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
But okay, oh for one, the substance, no idea, then okay,
the brutalist, no chance, no idea, Here we go, here
we go, wicked?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yes, yes?
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Did you see it?
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Well?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Kind of kind of so I may or may not have.
Somebody might have sent me a copy of it, you know,
and I might have. I might have watched some of
it Coop, and I couldn't get through it.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
It was so painful.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Oh man, there was way too much singing.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
It was so bad, it was way too long.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
I mean, even my wife, who loves crappy movies like that,
she couldn't even watch it.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
I've never wanted to turn off your mic so bad
in my life. Had had neither of it. Had neither
you or your wife seen the like the actual play the.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
I don't know. I hadn't.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I don't know if she had, but she was really
excited to see the movie. But we were watching it
and I was like, I was complaining. I guess maybe
it's because I was complaining, but.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
She yeah, I could I could see that being annoying.
All right, wow, so we got one.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, there's the one.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Uh Anora?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Is that in Colorado? A? Yeah, No, I'm not. I'm not.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Conclave is that something that like the Vatican?
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yes, yes, yeah, I've never I don't know. I really
I know they do a conclave with the Vatican.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
But yeah, that's that's what it's about, picking a new pope.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yes, they play poker or something in the room then
and they saw somebody sent up some white smoke.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
We got a new pope.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
There's there's drama that ensuess, stuff that threatens to bring
down the Catholic Church of course.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Would it be simpler to ask Ben what movie he
did watch this year? Well, no, I'm just I'm going
to the picture nominees.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
You don't need to touch up my work, Loraino.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
Okay, now this one. I'm I feel pretty good about
Dune Part two.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
No, you've heard of it, though, right, I've heard of it. Yeah,
I've heard of the Doom Francis, but I have not.
All right, uh, a universal they're making another what's that?
The bear movie? What are you you know with Ted?
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Oh yeah, Ted, Yeah, they're making another Okay, allowed to
say that.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
I don't know. Well you just just did. Amelia Perez,
No chance that's a's a girl I dated.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Back from the.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
UH and these last year. There's no chance. I'm still here.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I am still here, Coop, I had here for another
twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Or and Nickel boys, Nickel, I've not seen nic What
is Nickel?
Speaker 3 (41:32):
What is?
Speaker 4 (41:33):
To be honest, I hadn't even heard of that one. Wow.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
I used to get those screeners from the Yeah, me too.
They don't send them out anymore, right, No, they don't. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
That was the only reason it was cool to be
part of that, because they'd send out the screeners. Is there, like,
there must be a website that we don't have access?
Find the website?
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Well, so, so what they do now is they basically
send it send you tickets so that you can go
see it live in person, because I guess too many
people were sharing the DVDs or copying the DVDs.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Yeah, oh, how do you get those sticks?
Speaker 4 (42:05):
I'd like, I mean, you still have to you have
to be a paying member of SAG, are you. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:13):
I never checked those emails, they send the emails and check, yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
Thanks, you're to look into that too, all right. And
then one thing, since we you know, took up a
lot of time doing that, I will just point out
there there's nothing really worth seeing in theaters that's new
this weekend. But on television on Netflix, Penny Versus the
Penny this weekend. Yes that uh? And also the second
season of The Night Agent on Netflix. This was a
(42:38):
good maybe.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
About overnight sports radio a Night Agent.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
It's a conspiracy thriller and I enjoyed the first season.
I've watched the first episode of the second season, so
pretty good. Check that out if you haven't. That's The
Night Agent on Netflix, available right now. And that Iscoop
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