August 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about all of the Micah Parsons trade speculation, the Colts front office saying they will not trade benched QB Anthony Richardson, Maller to the Third Degree, another edition of #AskBen, and much more!
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our lead this hour from our never ending drama. Oh rama.
That's right, we go to Big d I know, I
know you're excited. Come on, no, I know, Charlie and
Dallas is excited. Another chapter in the Endless, Endless soap
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opera involving Jerry's world and Edge, Jerry and the Edge. Now,
if you have not heard the latest on this, perhaps not,
no worries, We got you. So the speculation is bubbling up,
bub bubble. It's brewing that the Cantankerous Cowboys star Micah
Parsons could be traded. Oh my god. And one of
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the rumors that's been bouncing around the echo chamber the
last couple of days is that not only will Parsons
be traded, but he will go to one of the
old school if you're really old rivals of the Dallas
Cowboys from a million years ago, the Green Bay Packers. Now,
there were three teams that have been tossed at. I'm
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sure there's more than that, but the three teams that
are on my radar that have been mentioned as trade
possibilities for Micah Parsons are the Packers, the Cardinals, and
the Poets, otherwise know as the Ravens. They have been
mentioned as teams that are considering a run at Michaeh. Parsons.
So the squabbling between Parsons and Jerry Jones has gone
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on for a couple of months. Now we love it.
We have a talk show to do every day. The
Cold war situation is good for our business now. In
a related note, there was a social media salut that
went viral at the airport, posting a photo which he
claims shows Micah Parsons leaving the Dallas Fort Worth International
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Airport where they have some great restaurants and a nice shuttle.
It takes you from terminal to terminal, and said he
appeared to be in no rush. In rush, rather not
no rush, he was in a rush. He was in
a rush, Michael Parsons. So let us discuss the question
as we unpack all this. How do you read how
do you read the Micah Parsons trade speculation. We'll start
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with that to the packers and other teams. So my
thoughts on this. I've got Jimmy John's rocket launcher and
tire rack. Yeah, I don't know how they got in there,
but we'll throw all these things together and put the
biscuit in the basket. That's what we're gonna put the
biscuit in the basket. So a, the speculation circus is
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alive and well, and I'm here for it. I got
my big bucket of popcorn. I've got my snacks, my
cotton candy. Let's let's talk about Green Bay specifically, because
that's been bouncing around the old echo chamber, so eating
up a lot of bandwidth, a lot of bandwidth, a
lot of gigabytes on the on the package. So here,
here's what we we know about this, right well, and
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what do we know about this? The packers are what.
They're prim and proper. They're buttoned up, their conservative They're
a community owned.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Friend ruse, the only one in North American sport you
may own a certificate that has a piece of you know,
has some riding on this as you own ex percenter
to the Green Bay Packers, they are in terms of
the big move.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The big kahuna, the big ragoul they are the packers
vanilla ice cream. They're not Rocky row, they're not strawberry.
They're not some exotic mintschip. No, no, no, they are vanilla.
They're not even French vanilla. They're not slow churn vanilla.
They're just don't make the splitch splash move. They've never
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done it the my entire life. I'm getting old now,
my entire life. The only time I remember the Packers
making a big move was when God told the Minister
of Defense to go to Green Bay because God apparently
was a Packer fan, when Reggie White went to green Bay.
Other than that, I don't recall any big moves. They
don't trade for the headline guy, they don't sign the
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big free agent. The Packers they just slowly methodically draft players.
They sign B level free agents, they acquire sea level players,
and they certainly do not pick up players that are
sitting on a gold mine about to cash a windfall contract.
They don't do that. Parsons is going to get several
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Brinks trucks now, whether it's from the Cowboys or not,
someone's gonna back those bad boys up and drop the
gold bouyon right on his doorsteps. And that's not a
Wisconsin tradition. Now, if Michael Parsons wants to eat cheese curds,
they're really good, he can go over to Kenosha. And
he can go to Kenosha the cheese castle there they
got all the all that good stuff and eat Kolb's
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all the time. He can have some brats and and
maybe a conservative signing bonus, but one hundred million dollar
pass Rusher, No way, green Bay, No way, green By.
You're better off and the chances are better that green
Bay would have a ninety seven degree day in December.
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Then Micah Parsons getting that mega contract is to break
the bank with the packers. So this is a classic case.
It's Jimmy John's free smells. You walk, you smell the bread. Yeah,
and there's no sandwich to chew on. It's all sizzle,
no steak, all that stuff. It's the secret menu item,
the smoke sandwich. You know what, the smoke sandwiches. It's
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a couple of pieces of bread and you wish there
was some meat in there somewhere else. But now, as
for the squabbling with Jerry Jones, this is what I'm
in for. I'm in for this. I signed up for this.
We've got both factions, both camps. They're shadow boxing, they're
leaking things strategically, they're playing tug of war with the narrative.
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And then I'm just sitting in here and like I'm
watching a tennis match or a ping pong match and
a ping pong match, and they're going back and forth.
They're just going back and forth. Now page two. So
now the subplot has twisted a little bit. Let's get
to the alleged airport siding. So some social media Sherlock
claimed that they were just happened to be the airport
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and they said, I saw Michael Parsons and he seemed
to be in a rush at the Dallas Fort Worth
Airport there and was this something or was this nothing?
So it is a reminder if you're a public figure.
Fortunately I'm not a public figure. I do overnight talk radio.
I'm not a public figure. But if you are a
public figure, we are living in the surveillance selfie society.
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If you didn't already know that, I remember a couple
of years back when Lebron James set the scoring record
in the NBA, passed Kareem Abdul Jabbar by I guess
it last year he said the whatever it was, he
set the scoring record, and there was that still photography
that photographed behind the basket looking at down the court
and here's one of the you know, I'm not a
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big Lebron fan, but it's one of the great moments
in basketball. The all time leading score Lebron James and
what do you see? You see ten thousand people all
standing up doing the Statue of Liberty. They're holding we
grab my my phone is I'll grab my I'm gonna
pay so I'll do the statute of this. So they
grab it from and they're like this. They're not even
watching it. They're just holding their phone up there and
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they're trying to record it with their phone. It's the
surveillance selfie society. The smartphone is not really a communications
device as much as it is a rumor rocket launcher,
is what it is. Right, every fan is a pocket paparazzo,
and the internet sluice are in the air everywhere, literally
in the air area. So what gives? So the company
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line this was leaked to state sponsored NFL media, so
take it for what it's worth. They say that Michael
Parsons was at the airport rushing to get an MRI
on his ailing back I'm my aching back or plot twist.
Maybe he was racing to get on the plane to
go to Cabo to have some cocktails. And taketos before
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Happy Hour. Either way, we've certainly got more questions than answers.
And so that there's that. Now, I will tell you
what will fix Michaeh Parson's back. Now, I am not
a doctor, but I can't play one on Overnight Radio.
I will guarantee if you want to fix Michaeh Parson's back,
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you give him the contract his heart desires, and suddenly
that back pain will vanish, Abra cadabra, hocus pocus. He'll
be out there running around like he's twenty years old again,
boom all over the place. All right. So, as far
as the other side of this, Michael Parson's trade chatter
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mentioned right now, it's a phantom menace. I don't know
if I use that term, but it's a phantom menace.
And so there is no there there. It's not Jerry Jones'
normal activity to trade a player, but the tensions did
get ratcheted up courtesy of a player entering the chat. Now,
this is not Jerry Jones, It is not Michaeh Parsons.
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It's Terrence Parsons Junior. Do you know that name? Does
that name? That name does not ring a bell. You
do not know the Parsons family tree. That job by
you kind of fraud of you. You don't know the
siblings of Michael Parsons. You're fraud. So Terrence Parsons Junior,
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we are told that is the brother of the Dallas
Cowboys defensive player, and he has now entered the chat
posting on social media. Quote, it's gonna get ugly, put
your gloves on. This is going twelve rounds. Can you
explain what that means? So this is brotherly bluster?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Is what?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
This is?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Not brotherly love? It's brotherly bluster. Does Terrence Parsons Junior
have a life? Does he have a job? I have two.
I have an older brother and I have a younger brother.
I have never posted anything on social media about their
jobs ever, nor have they posted anything about my job.
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I live in my own life. They live their life.
I can't imagine having meddling siblings. What a knight mean? Dude,
live your own life. Don't live through your brother because
he happens to play for the Dallas Cowboys. That's embarrassing anyway.
Michael Parson's brother is the self appointed apparently hype man,
the cornerman, the social media, sparring coach, all of that,
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and he just rang the bellt ding ding ding ding
ding for the next round of this heavyweight heavyweight matchup
between family loyalty on one side of the ring and
then on the other side of the ring franchised Dallas politics.
So the brother Terrence, Michael Parson's brother Terrence, isn't just
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forecasting turbulence. He's announcing a pay per view war of attrition.
Oh the drama, the emotion. Every single social media post
is a jab. It's a every rumor, body blow, body blow,
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body blow, and every moment of silence from Jerry Joe Owes.
You know what that is, Rope a dope. That's the
rope of dope. Shout out to Muhammad Ali. If Dallas
wants to punish Michael Parsons, if they really want to
punish him, then Jerry Jones would have to trade him
to the Sonoran Desert. That would be the Cardinal Sin.
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I just trade him to the Cardinals. See you later.
You're not really in the NFL when you're with the
Arizona Cardinals. You got that little alligator Arms video game
playing quarterback out there. No one cares about your good
luck all right. Now, last word to San Francisco we
go where a general manager confirmed that one of his
key players would like out. That would be John Lynch.
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John Lynch, the forty nine Ers GM who said that
wide receiver Juje Jennings did did request a trade earlier
this offseason. However, that a trade will not will not
be happening according to the Niners executive. Your thoughts on
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this one. So the way I read the room on
this particular story, John Lynch, the GM there, I used
to work for his dad. His dad was a radio
executive in San Diego back in the day. Anyway, John
Lynch stuck the post it note right there on the
Niners fridge and it says, we acknowledge your feelings, but
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we're not doing Jack squat about it. And he put
that right there that it'll post it post it note
right there, put that on the fridge. Now, this is
the NFL equivalent of locking your kid in his bedroom
or her bedroom and telling them you're not leaving the
house until you eat the broccoli. But I don't want broccoli.
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You gotta eat the broccoli, but I don't really want it.
I don't care. You've got to eat it. You can't
leave you room. Well, okay, I'll stay in my room.
I'll just play on my phone, play video games. All
I'm gonna take your phone. Well, no, you can't do that.
That's a war crime. All right, it's front office hardball. Now,
Juwan Jennings thinks he's more valuable than the contract that
he's signed, which is probably true based on the modern
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that this is Jerry Rice or t O. This is
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You don't walk into a bar on a Friday night
and say, man, you boys should see my spait tire.
Unless you happen to have it around your gut, then
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the car would be what I'm talking about.
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Com Away tire Buying Showy, So our lead this hour
is from Indianapolis, a city known for the Indianapolis five
hundred and a lot of basketball. Who's your state? But
this is about football. It's about football. Status update on
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demoted quarterbacks. Status update demoted quarterback. If you've not heard,
perhaps not. We had a rubarb of sorts Colts general
manager Chris Ballard, who somehow has kept his job while
wonder wonder if that's going to continue. Jim Irsay, the
late owner of the Colts, very loyal to Chris Ballard,
who's put some really bad football teams together. So Chris Ballard,
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the bloviate, blowhard general manager of the Indianapolis Colts. He
said that the team is not going to trade bust
quarterback Anthony Richardson, who stinks, but they're not trading him. Richardson,
you might know, was demoted in favor of another legendary stiff,
Daniel Jones, the stumblebum who failed year after year with
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the new York Giants in embarrassing fashion. Ballard was quizzed
on the possibility of unloading the dead weight. It is
Anthony Richardson, and he responded by saying, we're not trading him. Okay,
we're not trading fine, all right, So let us discuss
the question. The Colts front office says they are not
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going to deal away benched quarterback Anthony Richardson. What does
this signal to you? So I've got spelling, bee, bellagio,
and parallel parking, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make delicious cinnamon rolls. Yum,
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yum to my tongue. Tongue, So number, I said, number,
all right, all right. So this is a tale of denial, dysfunction,
and delusion mixed with devotion. A lot of d's, a
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lot of d's denial, dysfunction, delusion, and devotion. It's also
some stubbornness. The Indianapolis Colts, those lovable or should I
say unlovable grid iron gatekeepers there of mediocrity. That's really
the job of Chris Ballard. He is the gatekeeper there
of mediocrity. They're at it again. So let me translate
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what the Ballard of the ball said into reality, here's
how I determine what the GM they're the cold said.
He essentially said, we tried to trade Anthony Richardson. Nobody
wanted the guy because he's covered in fleas and flies,
and now we're stuck holding onto this guy. He's a
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hot potato. So this is the NFL's version of trying
to sell a used car that has no engine. That
car's got no engine, it's got three flat tires, and
if you open the glove box there's a raccoon living
in there. You can slap a fresh coat of paint
on it, right, you can say a slightly used and
it still smells like regret. Right, there's some problems there.
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Now the Colts front office, really, what they're doing, Ballard
is like an overnight sports talk radio caller from years ago.
Spin cycle, Regina, Spin, Spin, Spin, Spin, Spin out of Minnesota.
They're not ready to admit they're in Indy that they
drafted a turkey, but they did draft a turkey. Now.
Later on, in this fiery between the Colts, GM and
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the media, Ballard claimed that Richardson would quote be learning
behind a professional is what he said regarding his status
here in twenty twenty five. Now that is code for
we are hiding Anthony Richardson the quarterback behind another quarterback,
Daniel Jones, and hoping that nobody notices that he also
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also has bo which made us wonder, made us wonder
if the Colts GM has been hanging out with the
Golden Dragon. If you know what I mean here losing
a quarterback battle to Daniel Jones. If you're Anthony Richardson
and you lost a quarterback battle to Daniel Jones, it
is akin to losing a spelling bee to a parrot. Okay,
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you should never lose a spelling bee to a parrot,
and you should never lose a quarterback competition to Daniel Jones.
If you're a top five draft pick with the team
that drafted you, and the rest of the NFL, we
all knows the culture bluff. They're waiting for the inevitable
waiver wire clear and sale. Why pay full price when
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you can scoop Richardson up for free if you even
want him. Iired some chatter that Richardson will have a
chance to change positions. He's that bad. He's that bad
as a quarterback. Now, my counter to that is Richardson
gets hurt all the time, mostly running the ball. So
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if you're gonna make him a running back or some
kind of tight end or something like that, wouldn't he
just keep getting hurt? So what's the point? All right?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Page two to the waiver wire. As we run the
mouth to the waiver wire. Waiver wire, and look over there,
Tommy DeVito has a new home. Do you see this? Yes,
that Tommy Davido. He's got a new home. Tommy DeVito
is headed too the New England football team. The folk
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hero quarterback Jersey native of New Jersey, claimed off waivers
by the Patsies. And that ends that romantic rom com
with his hometown Giants. So why you ask? With the
Patriots a team currently wandering the quarterback desert, they don't
know whether Drake May is going to be good or not,
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and they have the pastronaut as the backup, So why
would they grab Tommy DeVito? It's pretty simple here. It's
kind of like you're you've paid for the buffet at
the Belagio. You're walking down the buffet line. You see
the prime rib is already gone, the herb crusted chicken
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with champagne, cream sauce is empty, but there is a
little bit of spaghetti and a couple of meat balls
just sitting there. Now do you want that as your meal?
Probably not, you know, not really. However, you're not just
gonna walk away from the buffet empty handy. You don't
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want to be hungry, so you take the plate. And
that's it. And that's what the patriots are doing here.
It's not really about de Vito being some kind of savior,
you know. This is not the second coming of Tom Brady.
No not. They're going to ride in there on a
white horse. That's not it. It's more of a patch job,
little duct tape and all that. So Mike Rabel's patriots,
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they are the guys who busted a tire on the
on the highway there and they rolled into the gas
station and they said, okay, I got a new tire.
It's gonna cost you this much as I don't want
a new tire. I'm gonna get one of those cans
of the you know that fix a flat thing. I'll
just get that and I'll get to fix a flat
And that's it. That's Tommy culs de veto. Tommy DeVito
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is a fun story. Right, we talked about him a
lot in the previous episode. I think we all know
the story. We pay attention to this stuff. Rocky bow
Bowa right, you know, he's he's so Italian and he
takes a bath in marinera sauce and but this is desperation,
and so the Patriots like, ah, why not? You know,
you imagine when this guy gets to the Patriots on
those nights off, when he's out there partying at those
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great Italian restaurants on the North End, and he'll be
the Tommy Cutlets character and say, well, you're not from
around here, but you're Tommy Cutlets, so come on down
all right now, final point, we head now to Nashville.
We go to Nashville where the captains have arrived. That's right,
it's that time of the year. Spect to hear a
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lot of this content in the next couple of days,
teams announcing their captains. The first team up that would
be the team in Nashville. I'm sure Danny and Nashville
is very excited about this. Will he lives in Miami.
Among the seven captains seven They named seven captains among
these seven captains for the worst team in football the Titans.
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They decided that rookie quarterback cam Or Word, the number
one over in the twenty twenty five collegiate draft out
of Miami but mostly Washington State, is a captain. So
let's jump off on that. That's good jumping off point.
So let's discuss that particular story. Rookie quarterback cam Ward
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being named a team captain for the Tennessee Titans is
blank fill in the blank, all right, So this is
the the word I will use on this is premature.
It is a classic case of premature coronation syndrome. And
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this is an example of given, not earn, given, noddern
Now I am Benny Brightside. I want cam Ward to
be good because I have a feeling he's going to
help me out, that he's going to do things verbally
that are going to be good for talk radio. But
the only reason, the only way, rather the only way
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that really translates, is if he's good. If he's terrible,
we'll just goof on him and he'll go away and
he'll be working in insurance somewhere in a couple of years.
But Ward has been named the captain of the Tennessee
Titans before he's even learned how to parallel park. There's
no parallel parking yet in the NFL, and he doesn't
know how to parallel park. He hasn't done anything. He
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hasn't had a chance to do anything. So my default position,
and this has been my default position on all rookie
quarterbacks since the beginning of time, that in two proven otherwise,
cam Ward and all rookie quarterbacks have more question marks
than the nemesis of Batman the Riddler. Remember the costume
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the Riddler would wear. With all the other question marks,
there's a lot of questions. And so I understand what
they're trying to do, and this is not gonna be
the only one. You'll see a bunch of other like
what the f was that? How's that guy a captain?
But they're trying to manifest that this man's a leader.
And it's like some vision boards, like a vision board
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that's taped to the dorm room wall and all that.
Like it's one of those phrases. I'm going to speak
this into existence, they say, and it's going to happen.
It's all I have to do is speak this into existence.
That's it. And so the Titans, acting a little bit
like a Disney movie, if you believe hard enough that
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cam Ward will become the leader that we need. Generally speaking,
that's not how it works. That's not how any of
this works. So we can agree to differ on that
particular point. We'll see what happens. And I want to
point out again, I've got to get these monologues in
(30:54):
on these really bad teams, because once the season gets
going here, we'll not be talking about them unless it
gets even worse. They go, how low can you go? Right?
How low can you go? How far down can you go?
And the Suck Avenue? Where do Suck Avenue end? We'll
find out right, crank it up a couple of notches
(31:14):
and just see how far down Suck Avenue you can go.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show, The Ben Mahlor Show.
As we are just getting started here, it's hour number two.
Later this hour we will have Mallard of the Third Degree.
We'll have the Inch to Trivia coming up a little
bit later as well. We've got Bumpety Bump and the
(31:37):
Candid Camera Store. I'm gonna get to that right now.
The Candid Camera story. So Freddie Freeman is a baseball
player for the Dodgers. Kind of a big deal. He's
gonna be in the Hall of Fame someday. I won
a couple of world series, won some big honors individually.
And Freddie Freeman was caught on camera during the Dodger
Reds game back on Wednesday night at Chavez Ravine in
(31:59):
the dust and he was very aggressively pulling a nosehair
out of his schnas and it was caught on camera.
And I don't mean just a little kind of grab
the thing and then pull it lightly. I mean a
very aggressive snatching of the nosehair with two fingers. He
(32:24):
had his thumb and then he had his pointer finger
and it he just ripped the hair right out of
his nose. Right now, I think that's supposed to cause
you to tear up a little bit. They moved the
camera away. They moved the camera away. I think it
generally leads you to sneeze, but I don't know what happened.
(32:44):
I'm also told they later on. I didn't see this,
but somebody sent me a text that they showed Max Munci,
who was trying to find some gold up his nostril.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
There.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So a very good camera work at the Dodger game
last night. But Breddy Freeman, that is, Hey, you're watching
a ballgame the middle innings, you know you gotta get
that annoying hair, that loose hair in your nose, and
you just have to rip it out. And he ripped
it out, and it was caught on camera, and of
(33:15):
course it went immediately viral as people were fascinated that
he did not show any kind of pain when he
ripped that thing right out of his schnaz.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
All right, let's get to it. Here we go, blah
blah blah blah blah blah blahl.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
How about that to the third degree? This is one
big event. Gets grilled, crouple it.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
It was reported on Tuesday that the Commanders have the
oldest fifty three player roster in the NFL, while the
Green Bay Packers have the youngest. Now, with both teams
featuring young up and coming quarterbacks, does this report prove
that the Packers are actually in a better spot right
now than the Commander.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Now, the numbers are skewed. I'll tell you why, Coop
they've got Bobby Wagner, who's really old, Von Miller, your
guy who's even older, and Zach Ertz, so excus the
whole roster math on that. I don't put too much
stock in the you know, the age game and all that.
That's why they have three guys that are skewing the numbers.
And so I don't think the problem with the Packers
(34:19):
is Jordan Love. That's the issue. Next.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
So, the Houston Astros are only one and a half
games ahead of the Seattle Mariners in the Al West,
but did also just get back three time All Star
Jordan Alvarez. Ben, do you think the Astros will hold
off the Mariners?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
No America needs Cal Roley, the big Dumper, to put
a big dump on the Astros. Everyone's pulling for the
team from the team from Seattle. So yes.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Next, Freddie Freeman was interviewed and asked about being the
only three hundred hitter in the National League. He said
his goal is to hit three hundred every season, but
it's getting harder and harder because pitching is too good.
Is that what's going on? Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Boo Hooo, Listen, a hitter's supposed to get better too,
that's an excuse. I don't want to hear it. I
want I did it.
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Now anyway, we go to ask Ben. Your questions are answers.
For the rest of the hours, we wade through the
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Speaker 4 (35:40):
All right, Ben uh Manuelan Guardina would like to know.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I man, I've met him. He knows we're a really
good sandwich shop. Man, Holy Guardian.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
That's right. Have you ever ran over a dog, cat,
or raccoon?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I have not. I did kill a bunny rabbit. Well,
the bunny rabbit committed suicide Thumper. I killed Thumper years ago.
I was driving on a dark road and I saw
a rabbit running towards my car, and the rabbit did
not run around my car, ran in the path of
my car as I was driving, and Thumper went one
(36:15):
last thump and that was the end of number. But
I've not I've not killed the dog. What else is it?
Did raccoon?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Yeah, raccoon dog.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I did almost run into a raccoon. There were two raccoons.
I was coming home. You see these raccoons at night
when you're driving at night. And I was coming home
from the show and there were two raccoons crossing the
street and I'm driving and I flashed my lights at them,
and they slowly turned their heads and looked at me
with disgust, like what do you want us to do?
(36:44):
Like they were giving me attitude? What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Yeah, none of those items.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
I almost hit a bear.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Once, but no a bear.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
What kind of bear?
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Like a black bear in the woods up in northl.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Like how big? How many pounds? We talking about? How
big was it? How fast she was in.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Front of my hummer? So he was he was pretty big.
I could see his big butt. My brother did. Yeah,
And I was driving it at like two in the morning,
and my I had like the fog lights on because
there was so much smoke in the area from the
fires that were going on.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
He was a very scared bear.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
It felt very bad.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
That's sad.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
It was sad, and I slammed on my brakes and
everyone went flying in the car and they're like Lena,
and I'm like, what, I'm sorry to want to hit
the bear.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I learned driving actually in I think it was Vermont
and Maine. They had a lot of moose signs and
they My wife was paranoid because we were driving at night.
It was raining, and she thought we were going to
hit a moose because she saw moose signs and she
looked on the internet that if you're going to hit
a moose, you want to hit the moose's ass because
apparently that's the way you survive. Anyway, go ahead, cool.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Uh, Yes, I have hit a raccoon before. It was
really I was very sad about it. It was it
was the same situation I was. I was coming onto
the freeway. I was on the on ramp, so I was,
I was accelerating to freeway speeds and it just ran
out from the bushes right right in front of my car.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, it had a death wish. Now you did you
did you act like her old caller from Arkansas and
go out and pick it up and eat it for dinner.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
No, I was. I was on my way. I was
on my way into the studio, did not have time
to stop for.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
The scratch off with you. That's good eating, but you
know what's next? What's next? Here? It's asked, Ben, your
questions are answers.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Ferd Dog wants to know what is your favorite ride
at Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
I'm a traditionalist. Pirates of the Caribbean. It's I always
start with Pirates of the Caribbean. The line, even if
there's a line that moves pretty quick, it's changed.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
The men used to chase the women. Now the women
chase the men, so they're a little woke in there.
But I still love it. It flashed back to when
I was like eight years old at disney Land. So
that's it. What about you, Lorna?
Speaker 7 (38:53):
My favorite normal ride would have to be like Winnie
the Pooh for like down to Earth, but my faster
fun ride, I prefer Big Thunder Mountain.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Okay, I also like that new Star Wars, but it's
not my favorite, but that new one's really cool cool.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Big thunder Mountains my favorite ride. Well, I haven't been
there in like ten plus years, so there's a lot
of new riodes.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I've never been. I know, I know a guy Coop,
and you know a guy mister K that could help
you out, you know, mister Ken, Yeah, mister K who
I'll tell you, okay, mister K Yeah, Circleka.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
I feel like I'm really slow right now, but all right, yeah,
I'll ask you about that. Donkey Sausage wants you to know.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Damn it.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Can't think of any good asked Ben questions this morning.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Okay, thank you, Donkey, appreciate me trying. That's very hard
to ask a question alf.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
The alien Opiner wants to know for the crew, do
you forgive and forget or do you hold a grudge?
And then he said that he's been holding a grudge.
He asked a question about his spouse or something.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I don't know, So it's really a case by case basis.
There's I had a grudge for about twenty years with
a sports writer who did me dirty when I started
in radio and I was nineteen years old, and I
never forgave him. He hated me. I hated him. He's
dead now, so I don't really care. But other than that,
I usually, you know, I'll let things do for a
(40:20):
while and eventually I'll move on.
Speaker 7 (40:21):
What about you, Lorena, Twenty years is a long time.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
It is?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
It is?
Speaker 7 (40:27):
Yeah, for the most part. No, I don't think so.
But then I just think about my friend the other day.
He just got a CDL license and we decided not
to be friends a couple months ago, and I'm like, no,
we're still not friends. I'm not going to congratulate you.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
You know, I guess it could last a while.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, sometimes you know things, you're busy with life and
you forget about things. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Nah, not really, I don't really hold grudges.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
All right, what is next? It's ask Ben your questions,
our answers to the rest of the hour. Let's get
one more in him.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Freddie wants to know how old were you when you
got your driver's license and how many tries did it take.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I was fifteen and a half. My mom tried to
teach me to drive. I sucked, so she hired a
driving teacher and I passed. I think the second time.
What about you, Lorena, sixteen and one, I was fifteen
and a half. Man, what about you, Ukup?
Speaker 4 (41:13):
I was seventeen and it took me. The second try
that I got was.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
How about these kids today?
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
These kids today, wait till they're like twenty five to drive.
They don't need to drive anywhere.
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People are saying we should do newby Night every night,
and I I did right back to one of those people.
Have a few people emailed me about newby Knight same Oh,
the show was a lot of energy. There was a
lot of buzz to it. You know, it wasn't the
same characters, and sure it was. But if we did
newby Night every night, then people would be asking for
old timers night and we don't want that. But I
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don't know what I can do to get people to
call new people to call other than Neube Night. I'm
stuck in this rut. If you have any ideas, like
do I have to bribe people?
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Like what?
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I don't know, But we'll talk more about that later
our lead this hour from our never ending drama. Oh rama.
That's right, we go to Big d I know, I
know you're excited. Come on, no, I know, Charlie and
Dallas is excited. Another chapter in the Endless, Endless soap
(02:58):
opera involving Jerry's world and Edge, Jerry and the Edge. Now,
if you have not heard the latest on this, perhaps not,
no worries, We got you. So the speculation is bubbling up,
bub bubble. It's brewing that the Cantankerous Cowboys star Micah
Parsons could be traded. Oh my god. And one of
(03:23):
the rumors that's been bouncing around the echo chamber the
last couple of days is that not only will Parsons
be traded, but he will go to one of the
old school if you're really old rivals of the Dallas
Cowboys from a million years ago, the Green Bay Packers. Now,
there were three teams that have been tossed at. I'm
(03:44):
sure there's more than that, but the three teams that
are on my radar that have been mentioned as trade
possibilities for Micah Parsons are the Packers, the Cardinals, and
the Poets, otherwise know as the Ravens. They have been
mentioned as teams that are considering a run at Michaeh. Parsons.
So the squabbling between Parsons and Jerry Jones has gone
(04:07):
on for a couple of months. Now we love it.
We have a talk show to do every day. The
Cold war situation is good for our business now. In
a related note, there was a social media salut that
went viral at the airport, posting a photo which he
claims shows Micah Parsons leaving the Dallas Fort Worth International
(04:27):
Airport where they have some great restaurants and a nice shuttle.
It takes you from terminal to terminal, and said he
appeared to be in no rush. In rush, rather not
no rush, he was in a rush. He was in
a rush, Michael Parsons. So let us discuss the question
as we unpack all this. How do you read how
do you read the Micah Parsons trade speculation. We'll start
(04:47):
with that to the packers and other teams. So my
thoughts on this. I've got Jimmy John's rocket launcher and
tire rack. Yeah, I don't know how they got in there,
but we'll throw all these things together and put the
biscuit in the basket. That's what we're gonna put the
biscuit in the basket. So a, the speculation circus is
(05:08):
alive and well, and I'm here for it. I got
my big bucket of popcorn. I've got my snacks, my
cotton candy. Let's let's talk about Green Bay specifically, because
that's been bouncing around the old echo chamber, so eating
up a lot of bandwidth, a lot of bandwidth, a
lot of gigabytes on the on the package. So here,
here's what we we know about this, right well, and
(05:30):
what do we know about this? The packers are what.
They're prim and proper. They're buttoned up, their conservative They're
a community owned.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Friend ruse, the only one in North American sport you
may own a certificate that has a piece of you know,
has some riding on this as you own ex percenter
to the Green Bay Packers, they are in terms of
the big move.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The big kahuna, the big ragoul they are the packers
vanilla ice cream. They're not Rocky row, they're not strawberry.
They're not some exotic mintschip. No, no, no, they are vanilla.
They're not even French vanilla. They're not slow churn vanilla.
They're just don't make the splitch splash move. They've never
(06:20):
done it the my entire life. I'm getting old now,
my entire life. The only time I remember the Packers
making a big move was when God told the Minister
of Defense to go to Green Bay because God apparently
was a Packer fan, when Reggie White went to green Bay.
Other than that, I don't recall any big moves. They
don't trade for the headline guy, they don't sign the
(06:42):
big free agent. The Packers they just slowly methodically draft players.
They sign B level free agents, they acquire sea level players,
and they certainly do not pick up players that are
sitting on a gold mine about to cash a windfall contract.
They don't do that. Parsons is going to get several
(07:04):
Brinks trucks now, whether it's from the Cowboys or not,
someone's gonna back those bad boys up and drop the
gold bouyon right on his doorsteps. And that's not a
Wisconsin tradition. Now, if Michael Parsons wants to eat cheese curds,
they're really good, he can go over to Kenosha. And
he can go to Kenosha the cheese castle there they
got all the all that good stuff and eat Kolb's
(07:26):
all the time. He can have some brats and and
maybe a conservative signing bonus, but one hundred million dollar
pass Rusher, No way, green Bay, No way, green By.
You're better off and the chances are better that green
Bay would have a ninety seven degree day in December.
(07:49):
Then Micah Parsons getting that mega contract is to break
the bank with the packers. So this is a classic case.
It's Jimmy John's free smells. You walk, you smell the bread. Yeah,
and there's no sandwich to chew on. It's all sizzle,
no steak, all that stuff. It's the secret menu item,
the smoke sandwich. You know what, the smoke sandwiches. It's
(08:11):
a couple of pieces of bread and you wish there
was some meat in there somewhere else. But now, as
for the squabbling with Jerry Jones, this is what I'm
in for. I'm in for this. I signed up for this.
We've got both factions, both camps. They're shadow boxing, they're
leaking things strategically, they're playing tug of war with the narrative.
(08:33):
And then I'm just sitting in here and like I'm
watching a tennis match or a ping pong match and
a ping pong match, and they're going back and forth.
They're just going back and forth. Now page two. So
now the subplot has twisted a little bit. Let's get
to the alleged airport siding. So some social media Sherlock
claimed that they were just happened to be the airport
(08:54):
and they said, I saw Michael Parsons and he seemed
to be in a rush at the Dallas Fort Worth
Airport there and was this something or was this nothing?
So it is a reminder if you're a public figure.
Fortunately I'm not a public figure. I do overnight talk radio.
I'm not a public figure. But if you are a
public figure, we are living in the surveillance selfie society.
(09:17):
If you didn't already know that, I remember a couple
of years back when Lebron James set the scoring record
in the NBA, passed Kareem Abdul Jabbar by I guess
it last year he said the whatever it was, he
set the scoring record, and there was that still photography
that photographed behind the basket looking at down the court
and here's one of the you know, I'm not a
(09:39):
big Lebron fan, but it's one of the great moments
in basketball. The all time leading score Lebron James and
what do you see? You see ten thousand people all
standing up doing the Statue of Liberty. They're holding we
grab my my phone is I'll grab my I'm gonna
pay so I'll do the statute of this. So they
grab it from and they're like this. They're not even
watching it. They're just holding their phone up there and
(10:02):
they're trying to record it with their phone. It's the
surveillance selfie society. The smartphone is not really a communications
device as much as it is a rumor rocket launcher,
is what it is. Right, every fan is a pocket paparazzo,
and the internet sluice are in the air everywhere, literally
in the air area. So what gives? So the company
(10:23):
line this was leaked to state sponsored NFL media, so
take it for what it's worth. They say that Michael
Parsons was at the airport rushing to get an MRI
on his ailing back I'm my aching back or plot twist.
Maybe he was racing to get on the plane to
go to Cabo to have some cocktails. And taketos before
(10:46):
Happy Hour. Either way, we've certainly got more questions than answers.
And so that there's that. Now, I will tell you
what will fix Michaeh Parson's back. Now, I am not
a doctor, but I can't play one on Overnight Radio.
I will guarantee if you want to fix Michaeh Parson's back,
(11:07):
you give him the contract his heart desires, and suddenly
that back pain will vanish, Abra cadabra, hocus pocus. He'll
be out there running around like he's twenty years old again,
boom all over the place. All right. So, as far
as the other side of this, Michael Parson's trade chatter
(11:27):
mentioned right now, it's a phantom menace. I don't know
if I use that term, but it's a phantom menace.
And so there is no there there. It's not Jerry Jones'
normal activity to trade a player, but the tensions did
get ratcheted up courtesy of a player entering the chat. Now,
this is not Jerry Jones, It is not Michaeh Parsons.
(11:49):
It's Terrence Parsons Junior. Do you know that name? Does
that name? That name does not ring a bell. You
do not know the Parsons family tree. That job by
you kind of fraud of you. You don't know the
siblings of Michael Parsons. You're fraud. So Terrence Parsons Junior,
(12:09):
we are told that is the brother of the Dallas
Cowboys defensive player, and he has now entered the chat
posting on social media. Quote, it's gonna get ugly, put
your gloves on. This is going twelve rounds. Can you
explain what that means? So this is brotherly bluster?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Is what?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
This is?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Not brotherly love? It's brotherly bluster. Does Terrence Parsons Junior
have a life? Does he have a job? I have two.
I have an older brother and I have a younger brother.
I have never posted anything on social media about their
jobs ever, nor have they posted anything about my job.
(12:54):
I live in my own life. They live their life.
I can't imagine having meddling siblings. What a knight mean? Dude,
live your own life. Don't live through your brother because
he happens to play for the Dallas Cowboys. That's embarrassing anyway.
Michael Parson's brother is the self appointed apparently hype man,
the cornerman, the social media, sparring coach, all of that,
(13:14):
and he just rang the bellt ding ding ding ding
ding for the next round of this heavyweight heavyweight matchup
between family loyalty on one side of the ring and
then on the other side of the ring franchised Dallas politics.
So the brother Terrence, Michael Parson's brother Terrence, isn't just
(13:34):
forecasting turbulence. He's announcing a pay per view war of attrition.
Oh the drama, the emotion. Every single social media post
is a jab. It's a every rumor, body blow, body blow,
(13:54):
body blow, and every moment of silence from Jerry Joe Owes.
You know what that is, Rope a dope. That's the
rope of dope. Shout out to Muhammad Ali. If Dallas
wants to punish Michael Parsons, if they really want to
punish him, then Jerry Jones would have to trade him
to the Sonoran Desert. That would be the Cardinal Sin.
(14:18):
I just trade him to the Cardinals. See you later.
You're not really in the NFL when you're with the
Arizona Cardinals. You got that little alligator Arms video game
playing quarterback out there. No one cares about your good
luck all right. Now, last word to San Francisco we
go where a general manager confirmed that one of his
key players would like out. That would be John Lynch.
(14:42):
John Lynch, the forty nine Ers GM who said that
wide receiver Juje Jennings did did request a trade earlier
this offseason. However, that a trade will not will not
be happening according to the Niners executive. Your thoughts on
(15:02):
this one. So the way I read the room on
this particular story, John Lynch, the GM there, I used
to work for his dad. His dad was a radio
executive in San Diego back in the day. Anyway, John
Lynch stuck the post it note right there on the
Niners fridge and it says, we acknowledge your feelings, but
(15:23):
we're not doing Jack squat about it. And he put
that right there that it'll post it post it note
right there, put that on the fridge. Now, this is
the NFL equivalent of locking your kid in his bedroom
or her bedroom and telling them you're not leaving the
house until you eat the broccoli. But I don't want broccoli.
(15:45):
You gotta eat the broccoli, but I don't really want it.
I don't care. You've got to eat it. You can't
leave you room. Well, okay, I'll stay in my room.
I'll just play on my phone, play video games. All
I'm gonna take your phone. Well, no, you can't do that.
That's a war crime. All right, it's front office hardball. Now,
Juwan Jennings thinks he's more valuable than the contract that
he's signed, which is probably true based on the modern
(16:06):
economics of the NFL. Regardless of that, let's not pretend
that this is Jerry Rice or t O. This is
Juwan Jennings. He is the extra tire rack tire in
the trunk. Now, we love tire Rack. They're a fine
sponsor and all that stuff. I'm talking about the spare tire.
I'm not talking about the four on the car. I'm
talking about the spare tire that will get you down
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the road when you're in trouble. Is it useful, Yes,
it is useful. Absolutely. Do you ever brag about your
spare tire? No, you don't. You don't brag about that.
You don't walk into a bar on a Friday night
and say, man, you boys should see my spait tire.
Unless you happen to have it around your gut, then
(16:48):
everyone can see your spare tire, But I'm talking about
the one on the car. I'm not talking about the
hollering James spare tire. I'm talking about the one on
the car would be what I'm talking about.
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Com Away tire Buying Showy, So our lead this hour
is from Indianapolis, a city known for the Indianapolis five
hundred and a lot of basketball. Who's your state? But
this is about football. It's about football. Status update on
(19:35):
demoted quarterbacks. Status update demoted quarterback. If you've not heard,
perhaps not. We had a rubarb of sorts Colts general
manager Chris Ballard, who somehow has kept his job while
wonder wonder if that's going to continue. Jim Irsay, the
late owner of the Colts, very loyal to Chris Ballard,
who's put some really bad football teams together. So Chris Ballard,
(19:59):
the bloviate, blowhard general manager of the Indianapolis Colts. He
said that the team is not going to trade bust
quarterback Anthony Richardson, who stinks, but they're not trading him. Richardson,
you might know, was demoted in favor of another legendary stiff,
Daniel Jones, the stumblebum who failed year after year with
(20:22):
the new York Giants in embarrassing fashion. Ballard was quizzed
on the possibility of unloading the dead weight. It is
Anthony Richardson, and he responded by saying, we're not trading him. Okay,
we're not trading fine, all right, So let us discuss
the question. The Colts front office says they are not
(20:46):
going to deal away benched quarterback Anthony Richardson. What does
this signal to you? So I've got spelling, bee, bellagio,
and parallel parking, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make delicious cinnamon rolls. Yum,
(21:08):
yum to my tongue. Tongue, So number, I said, number,
all right, all right. So this is a tale of denial, dysfunction,
and delusion mixed with devotion. A lot of d's, a
(21:30):
lot of d's denial, dysfunction, delusion, and devotion. It's also
some stubbornness. The Indianapolis Colts, those lovable or should I
say unlovable grid iron gatekeepers there of mediocrity. That's really
the job of Chris Ballard. He is the gatekeeper there
of mediocrity. They're at it again. So let me translate
(21:52):
what the Ballard of the ball said into reality, here's
how I determine what the GM they're the cold said.
He essentially said, we tried to trade Anthony Richardson. Nobody
wanted the guy because he's covered in fleas and flies,
and now we're stuck holding onto this guy. He's a
(22:14):
hot potato. So this is the NFL's version of trying
to sell a used car that has no engine. That
car's got no engine, it's got three flat tires, and
if you open the glove box there's a raccoon living
in there. You can slap a fresh coat of paint
on it, right, you can say a slightly used and
it still smells like regret. Right, there's some problems there.
(22:37):
Now the Colts front office, really, what they're doing, Ballard
is like an overnight sports talk radio caller from years ago.
Spin cycle, Regina, Spin, Spin, Spin, Spin, Spin out of Minnesota.
They're not ready to admit they're in Indy that they
drafted a turkey, but they did draft a turkey. Now.
Later on, in this fiery between the Colts, GM and
(23:02):
the media, Ballard claimed that Richardson would quote be learning
behind a professional is what he said regarding his status
here in twenty twenty five. Now that is code for
we are hiding Anthony Richardson the quarterback behind another quarterback,
Daniel Jones, and hoping that nobody notices that he also
(23:23):
also has bo which made us wonder, made us wonder
if the Colts GM has been hanging out with the
Golden Dragon. If you know what I mean here losing
a quarterback battle to Daniel Jones. If you're Anthony Richardson
and you lost a quarterback battle to Daniel Jones, it
is akin to losing a spelling bee to a parrot. Okay,
(23:47):
you should never lose a spelling bee to a parrot,
and you should never lose a quarterback competition to Daniel Jones.
If you're a top five draft pick with the team
that drafted you, and the rest of the NFL, we
all knows the culture bluff. They're waiting for the inevitable
waiver wire clear and sale. Why pay full price when
(24:08):
you can scoop Richardson up for free if you even
want him. Iired some chatter that Richardson will have a
chance to change positions. He's that bad. He's that bad
as a quarterback. Now, my counter to that is Richardson
gets hurt all the time, mostly running the ball. So
(24:29):
if you're gonna make him a running back or some
kind of tight end or something like that, wouldn't he
just keep getting hurt? So what's the point? All right?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Page two to the waiver wire. As we run the
mouth to the waiver wire. Waiver wire, and look over there,
Tommy DeVito has a new home. Do you see this? Yes,
that Tommy Davido. He's got a new home. Tommy DeVito
is headed too the New England football team. The folk
(24:58):
hero quarterback Jersey native of New Jersey, claimed off waivers
by the Patsies. And that ends that romantic rom com
with his hometown Giants. So why you ask? With the
Patriots a team currently wandering the quarterback desert, they don't
know whether Drake May is going to be good or not,
(25:22):
and they have the pastronaut as the backup, So why
would they grab Tommy DeVito? It's pretty simple here. It's
kind of like you're you've paid for the buffet at
the Belagio. You're walking down the buffet line. You see
the prime rib is already gone, the herb crusted chicken
(25:45):
with champagne, cream sauce is empty, but there is a
little bit of spaghetti and a couple of meat balls
just sitting there. Now do you want that as your meal?
Probably not, you know, not really. However, you're not just
gonna walk away from the buffet empty handy. You don't
(26:06):
want to be hungry, so you take the plate. And
that's it. And that's what the patriots are doing here.
It's not really about de Vito being some kind of savior,
you know. This is not the second coming of Tom Brady.
No not. They're going to ride in there on a
white horse. That's not it. It's more of a patch job,
little duct tape and all that. So Mike Rabel's patriots,
(26:29):
they are the guys who busted a tire on the
on the highway there and they rolled into the gas
station and they said, okay, I got a new tire.
It's gonna cost you this much as I don't want
a new tire. I'm gonna get one of those cans
of the you know that fix a flat thing. I'll
just get that and I'll get to fix a flat
And that's it. That's Tommy culs de veto. Tommy DeVito
(26:50):
is a fun story. Right, we talked about him a
lot in the previous episode. I think we all know
the story. We pay attention to this stuff. Rocky bow
Bowa right, you know, he's he's so Italian and he
takes a bath in marinera sauce and but this is desperation,
and so the Patriots like, ah, why not? You know,
you imagine when this guy gets to the Patriots on
those nights off, when he's out there partying at those
(27:13):
great Italian restaurants on the North End, and he'll be
the Tommy Cutlets character and say, well, you're not from
around here, but you're Tommy Cutlets, so come on down
all right now, final point, we head now to Nashville.
We go to Nashville where the captains have arrived. That's right,
it's that time of the year. Spect to hear a
(27:33):
lot of this content in the next couple of days,
teams announcing their captains. The first team up that would
be the team in Nashville. I'm sure Danny and Nashville
is very excited about this. Will he lives in Miami.
Among the seven captains seven They named seven captains among
these seven captains for the worst team in football the Titans.
(27:56):
They decided that rookie quarterback cam Or Word, the number
one over in the twenty twenty five collegiate draft out
of Miami but mostly Washington State, is a captain. So
let's jump off on that. That's good jumping off point.
So let's discuss that particular story. Rookie quarterback cam Ward
(28:22):
being named a team captain for the Tennessee Titans is
blank fill in the blank, all right, So this is
the the word I will use on this is premature.
It is a classic case of premature coronation syndrome. And
(28:43):
this is an example of given, not earn, given, noddern
Now I am Benny Brightside. I want cam Ward to
be good because I have a feeling he's going to
help me out, that he's going to do things verbally
that are going to be good for talk radio. But
the only reason, the only way, rather the only way
(29:04):
that really translates, is if he's good. If he's terrible,
we'll just goof on him and he'll go away and
he'll be working in insurance somewhere in a couple of years.
But Ward has been named the captain of the Tennessee
Titans before he's even learned how to parallel park. There's
no parallel parking yet in the NFL, and he doesn't
know how to parallel park. He hasn't done anything. He
(29:26):
hasn't had a chance to do anything. So my default position,
and this has been my default position on all rookie
quarterbacks since the beginning of time, that in two proven otherwise,
cam Ward and all rookie quarterbacks have more question marks
than the nemesis of Batman the Riddler. Remember the costume
(29:48):
the Riddler would wear. With all the other question marks,
there's a lot of questions. And so I understand what
they're trying to do, and this is not gonna be
the only one. You'll see a bunch of other like
what the f was that? How's that guy a captain?
But they're trying to manifest that this man's a leader.
And it's like some vision boards, like a vision board
(30:09):
that's taped to the dorm room wall and all that.
Like it's one of those phrases. I'm going to speak
this into existence, they say, and it's going to happen.
It's all I have to do is speak this into existence.
That's it. And so the Titans, acting a little bit
like a Disney movie, if you believe hard enough that
(30:34):
cam Ward will become the leader that we need. Generally speaking,
that's not how it works. That's not how any of
this works. So we can agree to differ on that
particular point. We'll see what happens. And I want to
point out again, I've got to get these monologues in
(30:54):
on these really bad teams, because once the season gets
going here, we'll not be talking about them unless it
gets even worse. They go, how low can you go? Right?
How low can you go? How far down can you go?
And the Suck Avenue? Where do Suck Avenue end? We'll
find out right, crank it up a couple of notches
(31:14):
and just see how far down Suck Avenue you can go.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show, The Ben Mahlor Show.
As we are just getting started here, it's hour number two.
Later this hour we will have Mallard of the Third Degree.
We'll have the Inch to Trivia coming up a little
bit later as well. We've got Bumpety Bump and the
(31:37):
Candid Camera Store. I'm gonna get to that right now.
The Candid Camera story. So Freddie Freeman is a baseball
player for the Dodgers. Kind of a big deal. He's
gonna be in the Hall of Fame someday. I won
a couple of world series, won some big honors individually.
And Freddie Freeman was caught on camera during the Dodger
Reds game back on Wednesday night at Chavez Ravine in
(31:59):
the dust and he was very aggressively pulling a nosehair
out of his schnas and it was caught on camera.
And I don't mean just a little kind of grab
the thing and then pull it lightly. I mean a
very aggressive snatching of the nosehair with two fingers. He
(32:24):
had his thumb and then he had his pointer finger
and it he just ripped the hair right out of
his nose. Right now, I think that's supposed to cause
you to tear up a little bit. They moved the
camera away. They moved the camera away. I think it
generally leads you to sneeze, but I don't know what happened.
(32:44):
I'm also told they later on. I didn't see this,
but somebody sent me a text that they showed Max Munci,
who was trying to find some gold up his nostril.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
There.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So a very good camera work at the Dodger game
last night. But Breddy Freeman, that is, Hey, you're watching
a ballgame the middle innings, you know you gotta get
that annoying hair, that loose hair in your nose, and
you just have to rip it out. And he ripped
it out, and it was caught on camera, and of
(33:15):
course it went immediately viral as people were fascinated that
he did not show any kind of pain when he
ripped that thing right out of his schnaz.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 1 (33:31):
All right, let's get to it. Here we go, blah
blah blah blah blah blah blahl.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
How about that to the third degree? This is one
big event. Gets grilled, crouple it.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
It was reported on Tuesday that the Commanders have the
oldest fifty three player roster in the NFL, while the
Green Bay Packers have the youngest. Now, with both teams
featuring young up and coming quarterbacks, does this report prove
that the Packers are actually in a better spot right
now than the Commander.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Now, the numbers are skewed. I'll tell you why, Coop
they've got Bobby Wagner, who's really old, Von Miller, your
guy who's even older, and Zach Ertz, so excus the
whole roster math on that. I don't put too much
stock in the you know, the age game and all that.
That's why they have three guys that are skewing the numbers.
And so I don't think the problem with the Packers
(34:19):
is Jordan Love. That's the issue. Next.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
So, the Houston Astros are only one and a half
games ahead of the Seattle Mariners in the Al West,
but did also just get back three time All Star
Jordan Alvarez. Ben, do you think the Astros will hold
off the Mariners?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
No America needs Cal Roley, the big Dumper, to put
a big dump on the Astros. Everyone's pulling for the
team from the team from Seattle. So yes.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Next, Freddie Freeman was interviewed and asked about being the
only three hundred hitter in the National League. He said
his goal is to hit three hundred every season, but
it's getting harder and harder because pitching is too good.
Is that what's going on? Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Boo Hooo, Listen, a hitter's supposed to get better too,
that's an excuse. I don't want to hear it. I
want I did it.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
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Speaker 1 (35:14):
It's now time for time.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
For Harry Harry Holly.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Wait ask Ben Twitter.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Send us your questions on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Now anyway, we go to ask Ben. Your questions are answers.
For the rest of the hours, we wade through the
Muckety Muck and over to the Kooba Loop for the
reading of the questions ashtag ask Ben.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
All right, Ben uh Manuelan Guardina would like to know.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I man, I've met him. He knows we're a really
good sandwich shop. Man, Holy Guardian.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
That's right. Have you ever ran over a dog, cat,
or raccoon?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I have not. I did kill a bunny rabbit. Well,
the bunny rabbit committed suicide Thumper. I killed Thumper years ago.
I was driving on a dark road and I saw
a rabbit running towards my car, and the rabbit did
not run around my car, ran in the path of
my car as I was driving, and Thumper went one
(36:15):
last thump and that was the end of number. But
I've not I've not killed the dog. What else is it?
Did raccoon?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Yeah, raccoon dog.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I did almost run into a raccoon. There were two raccoons.
I was coming home. You see these raccoons at night
when you're driving at night. And I was coming home
from the show and there were two raccoons crossing the
street and I'm driving and I flashed my lights at them,
and they slowly turned their heads and looked at me
with disgust, like what do you want us to do?
(36:44):
Like they were giving me attitude? What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Yeah, none of those items.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
I almost hit a bear.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Once, but no a bear.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
What kind of bear?
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Like a black bear in the woods up in northl.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Like how big? How many pounds? We talking about? How
big was it? How fast she was in.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Front of my hummer? So he was he was pretty big.
I could see his big butt. My brother did. Yeah,
And I was driving it at like two in the morning,
and my I had like the fog lights on because
there was so much smoke in the area from the
fires that were going on.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
He was a very scared bear.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
It felt very bad.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
That's sad.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
It was sad, and I slammed on my brakes and
everyone went flying in the car and they're like Lena,
and I'm like, what, I'm sorry to want to hit
the bear.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I learned driving actually in I think it was Vermont
and Maine. They had a lot of moose signs and
they My wife was paranoid because we were driving at night.
It was raining, and she thought we were going to
hit a moose because she saw moose signs and she
looked on the internet that if you're going to hit
a moose, you want to hit the moose's ass because
apparently that's the way you survive. Anyway, go ahead, cool.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Uh, Yes, I have hit a raccoon before. It was
really I was very sad about it. It was it
was the same situation I was. I was coming onto
the freeway. I was on the on ramp, so I was,
I was accelerating to freeway speeds and it just ran
out from the bushes right right in front of my car.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, it had a death wish. Now you did you
did you act like her old caller from Arkansas and
go out and pick it up and eat it for dinner.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
No, I was. I was on my way. I was
on my way into the studio, did not have time
to stop for.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
The scratch off with you. That's good eating, but you
know what's next? What's next? Here? It's asked, Ben, your
questions are answers.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Ferd Dog wants to know what is your favorite ride
at Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
I'm a traditionalist. Pirates of the Caribbean. It's I always
start with Pirates of the Caribbean. The line, even if
there's a line that moves pretty quick, it's changed.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
The men used to chase the women. Now the women
chase the men, so they're a little woke in there.
But I still love it. It flashed back to when
I was like eight years old at disney Land. So
that's it. What about you, Lorna?
Speaker 7 (38:53):
My favorite normal ride would have to be like Winnie
the Pooh for like down to Earth, but my faster
fun ride, I prefer Big Thunder Mountain.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Okay, I also like that new Star Wars, but it's
not my favorite, but that new one's really cool cool.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Big thunder Mountains my favorite ride. Well, I haven't been
there in like ten plus years, so there's a lot
of new riodes.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I've never been. I know, I know a guy Coop,
and you know a guy mister K that could help
you out, you know, mister Ken, Yeah, mister K who
I'll tell you, okay, mister K Yeah, Circleka.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
I feel like I'm really slow right now, but all right, yeah,
I'll ask you about that. Donkey Sausage wants you to know.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Damn it.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Can't think of any good asked Ben questions this morning.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Okay, thank you, Donkey, appreciate me trying. That's very hard
to ask a question alf.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
The alien Opiner wants to know for the crew, do
you forgive and forget or do you hold a grudge?
And then he said that he's been holding a grudge.
He asked a question about his spouse or something.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I don't know, So it's really a case by case basis.
There's I had a grudge for about twenty years with
a sports writer who did me dirty when I started
in radio and I was nineteen years old, and I
never forgave him. He hated me. I hated him. He's
dead now, so I don't really care. But other than that,
I usually, you know, I'll let things do for a
(40:20):
while and eventually I'll move on.
Speaker 7 (40:21):
What about you, Lorena, Twenty years is a long time.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
It is?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
It is?
Speaker 7 (40:27):
Yeah, for the most part. No, I don't think so.
But then I just think about my friend the other day.
He just got a CDL license and we decided not
to be friends a couple months ago, and I'm like, no,
we're still not friends. I'm not going to congratulate you.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
You know, I guess it could last a while.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, sometimes you know things, you're busy with life and
you forget about things. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Nah, not really, I don't really hold grudges.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
All right, what is next? It's ask Ben your questions,
our answers to the rest of the hour. Let's get
one more in him.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Freddie wants to know how old were you when you
got your driver's license and how many tries did it take.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I was fifteen and a half. My mom tried to
teach me to drive. I sucked, so she hired a
driving teacher and I passed. I think the second time.
What about you, Lorena, sixteen and one, I was fifteen
and a half. Man, what about you, Ukup?
Speaker 4 (41:13):
I was seventeen and it took me. The second try
that I got was.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
How about these kids today?
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
These kids today, wait till they're like twenty five to drive.
They don't need to drive anywhere.
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