October 23, 2025 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about the first impressions of the new "Inside the NBA" show as well as Cooper Flagg's regular season debut, Aaron Rodgers pretending like playing Green Bay isn't a revenge game, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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Now you said, well, it suits basketball. If it's not
only basketball, it's television. And while the NBA regular season
does not move the needle, it does not.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm not gonna sit here as Oh I'm so excited.
Now it's background noise for me.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I haven't And now the only time it's not background
noise is when there's a couple of people yapping on TV.
I'll take it off mute. I didn't use the mute
button as much. By the way, it's amazing they get
rid of Doris Burke. I don't have to use the
mute button as much. But anyway, so I was watching
and it was in the background, you know, fussing around
getting ready for the show.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And there's one thing that I rarely miss and that
was back So.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
An old friend and.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
A couple couple of days there. We thought we were
gonna lose them.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
They were on life support when Turner said bye bye
to the NBA, but inside the NBA surviving and they
made their much anticipated by some debut on the Four
Letter Network out of Connecticut and the the TNT crew
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picking up right where they left off.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
No stumble, no drop, none of that.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
If you didn't see any of this, I don't know
if you were watching it or not, but they were there,
all the gags, all the jokes, goofing on Charles Barkley
and his weight loss more than that later.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
So if he didn't watch it, maybe not after was
it twenty five years?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Man, that's a long run. I got two for Benny
versus the penny twenty five year run on TNT.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
The boys started blabbing.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And going on and on and on on the little
fledgling cable Channe, which are parentally losing a lot of
money because they keep laying people off there in Connecticut.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
So a lot of opinions about this.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I think we'll jump off on that and discuss So
let us talk about it. The question. Giving your opening impressions,
there was a lot of doom and gloom. We were
skeptical as well of the new version of Inside the
NBA with shaq Ernie Kenny and Charles Buckley, but opening impressions.
So I've got disco Ball, zz Top and craft Brewery,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to have a gut wrenching good time,
is what we're going to do. And we're gonna make
your Babushka's favorite tomato bisk is what we're gonna do.
All right, So first of all, I am surprised. I
am it worked, and it was like the favorite pizza
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place that you used to go to and you hadn't
been there in a long time, like mom and pop shop.
They sell the pie there pizza Daddy will call it.
And they moved it to a new strip mall. They
brought the same oven over the same people that worked
at the restaurant, so it tasted the same different address,
but the same great taste. And watching Barkley and of
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all places ESPN, it was like a disco Ball in
a dungeon. Putting Charles Barkley on ESPN, like do you
think Bristol, You think Gray Sterile programming, Woke Sports Factory
ESPN and when Barkley's on their little soul. Of course
they just outsourced it. So I guess the lesson is,
if it ain't broke, you don't need to fix it.
I think we all knew that. But I will be
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Benny Brightside. I will I'm Benny Brideside on this one.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I thought, well, they'll.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Screw this up. They'll left this up because I work
in broadcasting. I know how broadcasting people operate. They have
things up. That's what they do, you know, in most places.
And so shockingly, they didn't change the recipe. This is
not new coke. They kept the old coke. In fact,
they went back and they got the.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Coke when they had cocaine.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And that's how good they got it. They got Ernie There,
Ernie Johnson, e J mister smooth operator, Kenny Smith during
the pot shack, just tossing out weird one liners. And
then Charles Barkley, my god, who does look like a
mini me version of himself. They're Barkley dropping a lot
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of weight since we last saw him on TV. In fact,
he dropped so much were he dropping more weight than
ESPN's losing hockey ratings when they put hockey on. But
My favorite part. They did not duck the snuff a
luffogus in the room. Now, what is the snuffalufogus in
the room. We'll go to Sesame Street for this one.
They opened up the pregame coverage with a vignette of
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Charles Barkley's greatest HiT's now. The vignette was of Charles
Barkley trashing ESPN while on ESPN, which is just self deprecating,
gold right, just absolutely great. Barkley was on the warpath
there ripping the car wash treatment. So many people get
over there, and so let's not underestimate Okay, let's not
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underestimate this. Barkley was ESPN's El Dorado. If you feel me, right,
you feel me on that the holy grail of the
white Whale. I don't know how you want to sit
and the thing that Bristol could never get. And I've
been I got friends that work over there, and then
for years they're like, oh man, that's the guy they want,
right that they couldn't get him and they want it,
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kept offering him a lot of money, turned him down.
Now they've got him, and it already feels like and
that's one night in so who knows. It feels like
they're the the guest house, and inside the NBA is
like the sovereign nation, surrounded by desk spots, and they're
the ones setting the rules. Though it's not. It's not
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ESPN absorbing inside the NBA. It's inside the NBA colonizing
within ESBN. So, hey, good job by Mickey Mouse. Way
to go. You didn't go goofy. Yeah, so you know,
don't touch it up, don't add analytical nerds. I don't
need to see some x W NBA player on there
hamming it up with Charles Barkley. I'm good on that.
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Don't don't clean it up. There's nothing to clean up here.
Let shack talk is nonsense. Let Kenny and and and Charles, uh,
you know, bicker back and forth with what they do,
and then you know, Ernie will be they're doing his thing,
and so there you go. Barkley will keep roasting himself
and that's the secret sauce. It works. We're all good
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and it is still I'm happy to report and must
see TV and imagine how the people over at Turner
feel like. I guess they're getting some money out of it,
so I probably don't feel that bad, But that was
their show.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
They had it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
That was the top show in all of sports television.
They had it, and they let it go, although it's
still kind of there because they're doing it out of
the same studio. It's yeah, So it's not like Charles
Barkley actually physically went to ESPN. He did not. They
got him because the unicorn needed somewhere to go. And
Barkley was in talks with NBC as some people he
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knows over there, but he chose to.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Keep the band together where he was.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
All right now turning the pageot, but we're not going
to turn far because speaking of the greatest show on
sports television these days inside the NBA, A lot of
fun with Charles Barkley and his weight loss, and so
he saw it and for blind listeners, he's lost a
lot of weight. Don't know how many pounds he's lost
his lot.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So how weird was it? Here's the question. How weird was.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It to see the fun sized we'll call them fun
sized version of Charles Barkley. So it looked like Charles
Barkley was trapped in a laundromat and they shrunk him
in a dryer. It's like they I don't know how
that happened, but they put him in a dryer and
he just shrunk. And you know, anytime that's the old joke, right,
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anytime you gain a couple of pounds, Well, well it's
because my clothes were in the dryer for too long
that I didn't. It's not the two cheeseburgers I ate
and the the two chocolate Sundays. No, no, no, it's
the dryer. It's always the dryer. And so I had
to do a double take. I thought, well, that's weird.
Skinny chuck. Nobody wants to. It's like a skinny skirt steak.
You want to, you want a nice big stake. It's jarred.
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It's like seeing a Golden Retriever with a buzz cut.
You're like, well, I know that's a olden Retriever, I think,
but that's you know, something's a little offt there and
some fun size. It's just weird.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Now it is a double edged sword. As someone who lost.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
A great amount of weight in my life, I can
relate to what it's like now. I did not do
what Charles Barkley did. I did it el natural. I
would have cheated if there had been a way, but
they didn't exist. And you know when I lost the weight.
But it's a double edged sword, right, And I know
this as a and I'll always be a fat person.
I'm like mid sized. I don't think I'm skinny, but
I'm certainly not skinny. And I'm I'm big, but I
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don't think I'm gigantic like I was. So when fat
people lose weight, everyone, I'll tell you what happens because
I know I've lived it. That's how I relate when
you lose weight. Here's what you get and people send
you texts everything. Okay, you people call it you you're sick.
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Ain't going on? You want to talk about? You know,
it's human nature, right. You look at people like that,
you say, well, what's going on here? I wonder if
he's got some kind of illness? Look like the mini
me version of himself. There. He even had Shaq calling
Charles Barkley a sex symbol, which of course a great
comedy goal there. Now, based on his own endorsement deal
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Charles who promoted the fact that he lost weight, not
l natural with a needle, it's fair to say Charles
Barkley has gotten more weight loss shots than Barry Bond's
got the clear and the cream back in the day.
We'll see how this goes. And Barkley's he's a yo
yo up and down most of us, sorry, up and down,
up and down. You lose the weight, you gain the weight,
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you lose the weight, you gain the weight. There you
go and eventually you lose all the weight. Eventually it
all goes away.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
But being fat, just fat people are funny.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Being fat was part of the comedy rhythm cracking jokes.
You're just funnier when you've got a big fat belly
and you just are and skinny. Chuck feels off brand.
He's still funny and on it broke his glasses. That
was kind of funny. But it's kind of like trimming
the synchronized foot long beards of zz Top right if
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you know, you know, they imagine what they look like there,
so I know they were old, but you just go
with the reference so zz Top and they're still the
same zz Top, but it just doesn't look right right,
you know. If they're clean shaven, it's like, well, what
happened to the foot long and the beards of the
red beards? I don't understand where they go, I want
them back, all right, final fought, So I would be
remiss if I did not mention the thing that was
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around the broadcast and I had the mute button going,
but I did have it on in the background. They
had a doubleheader, the Cadavers and the Knickerbockers from Midtown
Manhattan just above Penn Station there. They had that at
the Mecca. I didn't really care much for that game.
And then they had the main event, as they were
billing it, the two young superstars of pro bouncy ball
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until eventually the NBA decides they want to ship one
of them to the Lakers in orchestrated trade. But until
then they're in Texas. One in San Antonio. One in Dallas.
You had Victor Wemby, Niyamma Wemby, the Parisian prodigy, who
put it down. Are you not entertained by Wemby forty points,
fifteen rebounds and no turnovers. I'm told that's good. I'm
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told sources not close to the situation told me that's good.
Forty points, fifteen rebounds, no turnover. San Antonio gets a
blowout win. The seven foot four Wemby, who looks like
he's about nine feet tall. Was die no mte for
this burst, But that's not the story. The story is
the other player who made their much bally Hood debut,
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good word bally Hood, they're much Ballyhood debut. That was
the number one overall fig of the twenty twenty five draft,
playing for the Dallas basketball team. So question, give me
your thoughts on Cooper Flag's regular season NBA debut with
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the mav Rex. So we know it was the great
Will Rogers that taught us you never get a second
chance to make a first impression. And holy smokers, that
was quite the introduction for Cooper Flag. He came out
looking like he had just walked out of a nice
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local craft brewery called Frosty Stumblebum. That was a stumble bumb.
It's not the flag is up. The flag was not up. No, no, no,
the flag is down. The kid from Maine gave birth
in the first half. Congratulations. I know that was possible.
It is you know a couple of years ago was possible.
But Cooper Flag came out there and gave birth to
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a goose egg. Yeah yeah, not a single point. You
and I scored as many points as Cooper Flag the
number wha overall in the twenty twenty five draft. He
pitched a shutout like a Dodger starter against the Brewers. Now,
if this were a one man Broadway show, one man
Broadway show, it would have been canceled by the intermission. Now,
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he did score some points in the second half, the game,
going lopsided in the second half, ended up Cooper Flag
four of thirteen, which again didn't play in the NBA.
I don't think that's great. Ten points, a lot of
them coming once the Spurs had opened things up. Ten rebounds,
how many of those were off his own misshots?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Zero assists.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Despite all the hype about him being a jumbo sized
point guard and with Kyrie Irving not playing, you had
him listed Cooper Flag as the point guard. And let's
not forget unless my malord math is off. Congratulations to
Cooper Flag. You had a minus twenty nine plus minus,
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which was the worst of any Dallas player. So there
you go. When he was out there, Dallas got apps
a bleeping Loutley steamroll.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
They just got steamrolled here.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So the marquee lights burned out, and I'm sure the
fanboys and the star worshippers and the media are already
making excuses. It's not his fault, it's somebody else's fault.
Blah blah blom blam blom blum blom blah bloh, just
like that.
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game of pig Skin Squares, not Hollywood Squares, not Hollywood Squares,
but we're playing pigskin Squares if you look at the
card this weekend which begins later on on Thursday in.
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The Hood in Inglewood and up to no good.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The Chargers hosting the Minnesota Vikings just down the road
from where we broadcast from. And so Sunday night, though,
is the center Square in week eight, You've got Aaron
Rodgers wrangling the cheeseheads the prize some cheese curds.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So Rogers chimed in on this.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He was asked about going against his franchise, the franchise
that he's most known for it and forever will be
known for playing in Wisconsin. And what did he say? Well,
the Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said that facing the Packers
this weekend, he said, is quote not a revenge game
for me. Rogers stated Green Bay drafted Rogers when he
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famously if you're old enough to remember the twenty five draft,
free fall in in free fall in ended up at
number twenty four, was supposed to be a top five
pick in the draft, ended up all the way down
at number twenty four, and he spent the first eighteen
I'm told that's a long time, eighteen years of his
career in the thousand Tundra, living in the suburbs of Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Rogers says that he doesn't have any animosity, No animosity
towards the organization. He said he had a great relationship
with a lot of people with the Packers.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
So it's all we'll combined it all together. It's good
jumping off point.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
So let us discuss the question, why is Aaron Rodgers pretending?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Why is he pretending they playing Green Bay is.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Just another game, that it's not a revenge game, it's
just a random game. And Week eight in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
So my thoughts on this.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I've got punch bowl, tax deductible and Hunted Cafe, and
we will combine all of these things to get and
we'll climb or at the very bottom of the ladder,
the corporate ladder here at Fox Sports Radio doing the
overnight show at the very bottom. But we hope to
catch our lucky star. So a Aaron Rodgers can say
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whatever whatever he wants. Obviously he did and he does
all the time. But this particular quote, this particular line
from Aaron Rodgers, I put it into the basket of
gridiron kabuki.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It's gridiron kobookie. Mister Rogers neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Now, he spent nearly two decades, as we mentioned, almost
two decades in Green Bay, Wisconsin, shoveling snow, will paying
people to shovel snow for him. And then he got
rudely kicked out, shoved out the door, and now he's
back squaring up against the Green and Gold. And this
is professional wrestling level storyline stuff. Now. The only thing
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that would have been better if it had been back
at lambeau Field. You can't get everything you want now, Rogers,
I know from years of doing talk radio. In fact,
I'm so old. We used to have Rogers on when
he was playing a Cal on Saturdays. I did a
college football I don't need you to touch up my work.
But the point is Rogers would come on when he
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played at Cal a couple times. I guess he wasn't
like a do sh at that point. I don't know.
He was fine whatever, typical meathead athlete had not much
to say. But we put him on because we had to.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
But Rogers is the king of pretending that he's.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Above it all. Right, he's above it all. No animosity. Now,
what do we know about Rogers? Whether you like him,
there's a lot of very polarizing guy. Some people love
him a lot. There's other people that think he's the
devil incarnate I like him as a talk show host.
Good for my job. But what we know about Aaron
Rodgers is that he is the king of pretending that
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he's above it all. No animosity, right. The man loves
pushing buttons. Push a button here, push a button there.
He loves pushing buttons more than Patrick Mahomes loves waterburger. Okay,
that's a lot of love. Aaron Rodgers wrote the book
on passive aggressive behavior. He did It's an Idiot's Guide
to Passive aggressive Behavior. By downplaying this matchup Rogers is
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he's stirring the pot.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And then he's spitting a giant, thick.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Green loogie right in the NFL's marketing punch bowl.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I mean, it's the NFL's focused on this.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
This is gonna be a big fing deal on the
NBC crews got it on Sunday night, and he's out
there acting like he's two zen.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I don't believe in revenge, but this is the same guy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Who has been carrying around grudges like people carry luggage
to the airport, and by downplaying it, he's giving himself
Also the old Daily double. Now the Daily double is
he's effing over the marketing people. Because the idea is, Okay,
we'll get a good quote from Rogers talking about how
he really wants to stick it to the Packers. They'll
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put that in the open and they'll toss to Tarrico
and Collinsworth on the Sunday night broadcast. So he downplays it,
which hurts the marketing. He also gives himself the other
part of the daily double. He gives himself the built
in excuse if the Steelers end up getting smoked on
Sunday Night, he'll say, ah, you know, listen, it doesn't matter.
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It's just a regular season game. It's just another game.
So it's a total soft landing. Now. The only thing
I was saying about this when I was making a
long trip into the studio here, The only thing that
Aaron Rodgers could say to lead me to believe that
he does not does.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Not want to get a pound of cheese.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Revenge from the Green Bay Packers is that he's a
lizard person. Now, if he's a lizard person, okay, there's
no emotion. Lizard people don't have emotion. I've read books
about lizard people. They don't have emotion. I don't want
to go all George Norrey coast to coast on you.
But there's no emotion. It's not personal.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Otherwise it's always personal.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It just is now. I never played in the NFL, however,
I have worked at I've worked here a long time.
But before I worked here, I bounced around the radio
dial as you used to do back in the day.
And whenever I changed radio jobs, I always want to
stick the dagger right in the heart of the people
I used to work for. Always. That's how I'm wired.
Most people are wired that way as well. And you
know deep down that Rogers would love nothing more than
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to go out there on Sunday night thro four touchdowns
so for two hundred and ninety yards and then stare
a hole through Matt Lafleur and the Green Bay Packer
coaching staff right there in the silence. Now, if you
don't believe me, just ask his imaginary wife, Britney, because
I'm sure that Britney Rogers, his fake wife, will tell
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you all about that. I'm sure she's a lovely lady,
and she's completely real, and she just has somehow, in
the plugged in world, been able to hide. Maybe she
lives like the unibomber and in shack in Montana. All right,
turning the page, we now go to Jersey. See what
is the rule of show bad football makes good talk radio?
So following the verbal butcher shop that the Jets owner
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opened up, put his quarterback in the verbal butcher shop.
The quarterback Justin Fields responded, responded to the criticism from
Woody Johnson and what did he say?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
What did the man say? Well, I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I guess we don't have an editing department anymore that
puts any sound in but I will just I'll tell
you what he said, so you don't have to worry
about it if you. Field said, the money quote was,
I don't really have a relationship with Woody Johnson. He
did look a little out of sorts Justin Fields while
he was talking to the media, But the money quote was,
I don't really have a relationship with Woody Johnson. So
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the question the Jets quarterback who will most likely be
a backup? Although more on that in a minute. Justin
Field saying that he doesn't really have any kind of
relationship with the Jets owner Woody Johnson, does I guess
what does that signal to you? That'd be the way
we'll frame it.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
What does that signal to you?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So I will go first because I'm sitting in front
of a microphone, this DIA, I'm sitting front of this,
so I'm gonna talk first. Justin Fields has relationship problems.
He does.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
This isn't the Bachelor.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
It's not, although you wouldn't know it from following the Jets.
It's the NFL. I thought, you don't need to grab
dinner with the owner. You need to score touchdowns. I
have never met the president of the company that I
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I've never met the big boss at iHeart. I don't
know who that is.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
If they walk in the room, I wouldn't know what
they look like.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
But I have a job to do, and I do
the job, and I don't worry about that. And of
course I don't usually get ripped by the person that
runs the company because they have no idea who I am,
so they wouldn't rip me. But Fields doesn't really have
a relationship with Woody Johnson. He also does not have
a relationship with the Forward Pass. That's a bigger problem, right.
(28:15):
He also has been ghosting. I don't know why he's
doing this for some reason, he's been ghosting the end zone.
I don't know. I don't recommend that. So if the
Jets want to change quarterback coaches, and why not they
do that every other year, may we recommend doctor Phil?
And he gave up his daytime talk show a while back,
so why not doctor Phil. Woody Johnson doesn't want to
(28:35):
talk to Justin Fields because watching Justin Field's play professional
football for the owner of the Jets is like it's
like talking to a brick wall. There is no response,
there is no response. It's just pain. It's just absolute pain.
And the Jets to think that these morons gave a
(28:55):
guy who's a two time loser thirty million dollars guaranteed,
thirty million dollars guaranteed for Justin Fields, who proved he
couldn't play in Chicago and then confirmed he couldn't play
in Pittsburgh, and the Jets said, well, we know you
can't play, so we'll bring in Why not? That is
not a contract. The thirty million dollars is not a contract.
You know what that is? That is a tax deductible
(29:18):
charity donation inside a helmet. You fill a helmet with money, Okay,
here's the donation. Let me contact my bean counter and
I'll see we can get that as a rite off
there on your taxis Justin Fields needs to stop worrying
about relationships and all that stuff and just complete some
passes and I'll guarantee it you complete some passes. I
don't think he can do. But if you complete some passes,
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all of a sudden, the owner of the Jets is
going to be like, okay, let's go have lunch. I'll
take you out on a helicopter out to the Hamptons.
And so it's the NFL is not couple's therapy. We
don't need to worry about that. It's not couple's therapy.
All right. Now, last word, we stay with the Jets.
We do the shuffle. Are you ready to do the shuffle?
(29:58):
We got to do the shuffle.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
That'd be the quarterback shuffle question. The coach.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I say that loosely because he doesn't seem to know
what he's doing. Aaron Glenn made some comments. He was
asked about the quarterback situation. Who is going to start
a quarterback? And did he say Justin Fields? Did he
say Tyrod Taylor or none of the evolve let's go
to the audio tape. She's your quarterback. We will have
(30:26):
a quarterback on Sunday. I will tell you that. Sorry,
I wouldn't want to give them a competitive advantage when
I have that opportunity, But we would have a quarterback.
Did you Your list was long? So yeah, day to day?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yes, yes, what is he dealing with He's dealing with
a need that's something he had before.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
So just you know who you're starting quarterback is going
to be. You're just not announcing it. So it isn't
like this week as a competition where you're going to
have I know, to star in quarters.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Okay, so we'd like to let you know they will
have a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
So that's good.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
They're going to have a quarterback, all right, So eron Glyn,
you just heard it right there.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
He will not name a quarterback for the Jets between
Justin Fields and Tyrod Taylor because in his own words there,
he doesn't want to give the Bengals a competitive advantage.
So how does that one taste? How does that taste?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
So it tastes to me.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's a little moldy and a little mil dewey, little moldy,
little mill Dewey. That's what it tastes like here. So
Aaron Glenn the worst coach in football. Not my opinion,
it's a fact. He's the only one that's coach in
the NFL. Aaron Glenn thinks that he's playing with dungeons
and dragons or something like that with the Bengals, and
it's like top secret. He's got someone I'm not sure
(31:41):
who the person is, but they walk behind him and
they've got a briefcase. And in the briefcase are the
nuclear codes. And so you can't announce what's going on
because you've got the nuclear codes and you want to
give those away, and you want to know you have
the nuclear codes. And so picking between Justin Fields and
Tyrod Taylor what kind of that?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Do you know what kind of choice that is?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That is like going through the Haunted Cafe for Halloween
dinner and you're having a Witch's dinner and you're choosing
between cockroaches or rats. Do I want the vermin or
do I want the cockerroach? What do I want to have?
And good luck either way? You are stuck with something
(32:22):
nasty capital and nast ate. So the Jets are zero
and seven? Is it true that Cincinnati could hand over,
could hand over a three ring binder with their entire playbook,
could send a text message with all the audibles they
(32:43):
will use in the game this weekend, and they could
send them a laminated sheet, the same sheet that Joe
Flacco will have on his wristband this weekend, and the
Jets would still f it up. They'd still ship over
their shoelaces at the thirty five yard line. This is
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classic bad team fear, and it's why I continue to
preach from the bully pulpit.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Bad teams make good talk radio.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And when you don't have a real advantage, like Aaron Glenn,
you are in make believe.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
You're pretending.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You're pretending every man, woman and child knows that Tyrod
Taylor is going to start at quarterback this weekend. It's
just that Aaron Glenn doesn't want to deal with the
fallout on that now. I would love for Justin Field's
love for him to start on Sunday because he's going
to get destroyed. That'll make for another good monologue on
Sunday night into Monday.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Here we go, here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
How about that to the third degree.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah, this is one big vent. Gets grilled, go belover.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
NFL Executive vice president Troy Vincent said on Saturday that
with on site kicks having less than five percent recovery
rate and maybe time to reconsider alternatives to the onside kick, Ben,
do you think the NFL needs an alternative?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yes, you want to encourage comebacks, You want to have
an audience. Keep watching a game, and you know as
a fan, when a team falls behind and they have
to get an on sidekick or two on sidekicks, there's
no mathematical way that's going to work. So you need
to come up with somebody else. Now, they're so afraid
of people getting hurt. I get it, because they don't
get sued. So how about like a fourth and twenty
(34:29):
five or something like that one play to try to
get a first down, something along those lines, because what
the kickoff? Things that waste the time.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Next, DeMarcus Cousins had a hot take ahead of the
NBA's opening Nike He said that he believes Kevin Durant
can win the MVP at thirty seven years old, because
the Rockets will win enough game to put him in
the conversation. Ben thumbs up or thumbs down.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
That all right, listen, DeMarcus, you're better at basketball than me,
but your hot takes are terrible. This is like one
of the worst takes I've ever There's no chance Kevin
Gurant's going to win an MVP award. He's not even
the best player on the Rockets. The math on that
going to work, It's ridiculous. We're in the age of
the unexpected MVP. Although your guy Luca Coop, you know
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he's gonna put up monster numbers, so I would say
he's I'd bet on him before he was next.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Speaking of hot takes, our very own colleague, Colin Cowhard,
made headlines with a take of his own.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
This week.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
He predicted the Orlando Magic will make it to the
NBA Finals. Ben, what do you think the ceiling is
for the Magic?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
They'll go far in the playoffs, but they're not going
to the NBA Finals unless unless I'm missing something here,
they'll they can get to the semi finals.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
How do we do, coope, how'd we do?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
How'd we do we? I walk past, I pass, I pass.
I like their uniforms, good uniforms, though for their magic.
It's now time for time for Harry Harry Honey, wait
ask Twitter said, this is your questions on Twitter.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Now, Ben, it is to ask manage your question.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Is our answers for the rest of the hour. Waste not,
want not.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
It's all you need in your life at this moment.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Over to the Kopa loop for the reading of the questions.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from Georgia Boy. I Georgia boy, what is the worst
Halloween candy? E?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
See? Well, the worst was always when there were people
give like candy apples, So I don't know if that counts.
I always like, well, I don't want that, I want
I want candy. I guess Almond Joy has always been
the worst. That's always you always judge it by what's
left at the bottom of the bag. It's always Almond Joy.
That's always the last one left. There's like seven or
eight Almond Joys and everything else is gone.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Lorena, Oh, that's a hard one.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
But do you remember those old fashioned type candies that
almost taste like peanut butter.
Speaker 9 (36:44):
They come in the orange and black wrappers, and they're
like super old.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
What do I know what you're talking about? Yeah, I'm
gonna have to go find them.
Speaker 9 (36:52):
But those are my least favorite. Like I get those
and I just throw them in the trash.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
I don't even want to write the trash. Okay, I'll
bring them here and give them to people eat them.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
But not you know, Coop, I'm enjoyer mounds. They're both terrible.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Most of the time you don't. Yes, all right, what's next?
Speaker 7 (37:11):
The King Rory would like to know?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Hi, Rory, have you ever.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Gone to the bathroom out in the wild and an
outhouse does not count?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Uh? We're talking two or one here? Now? Ones are
the two's? What are we talking about here?
Speaker 7 (37:26):
She said?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Either okay, yeah, Well of course I driving back. I've
made some long you know on the West coast. You
drive driven back from Sacramentos to La San Francisco to
La Vegas to La Sometimes is at night. The thing
that sucks is when you go to you want to
go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Have you ever had this happen?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
You got to go, you make it in time to
the restaurant and then they have a code to get
to the bathroom. Oh yeah, So what I do is
I just go outside? And I said, well, I tried.
I tried to be the you know you didn't so
I got to go outside and take your business. Yeah,
but I'll even pull over whatever on side of the road.
And Lorena, do you ugh?
Speaker 8 (38:05):
This is actually one of my horror stories from my childhood.
Really had to go to the bathroom. We were house
shopping up in Salem with my mom and we missed
the exit to the hotel and I really had to go.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
I'm holding my new unicorn in my lap. I'm crying.
I'm like, I have to pay. My Mom's like, if
you pay in my car, Lorena, I swear to goodness.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
So we pulled over underneath the bridge on the side
of the freeway on the five in Salem, Oregon, and
I had to squat under said bridge.
Speaker 7 (38:30):
It was horrible, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Every time, you won't buy that bridge after though, you
always remember.
Speaker 9 (38:35):
Right, yeah, I was coding and that pink unicorn.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Uh, alright, what about you, coop.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
I have I've had to do uh the number two once.
When I was a kid, I was like fishing out
in like the forest, like Grandpa.
Speaker 7 (38:57):
It was terrible. It scarred me from life never again.
Speaker 9 (39:02):
Doing a number two in the wilderness is diabolical.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
That's the issue with the two is not the two itself.
It's what happens after the two right problem. That's the issue.
Because there's no way to know.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
It was, no way to properly clean up the you
know it was all all right?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
What is next? Here to ask? Ben? Your questions are
answers for the rest of the hour. If you like this,
we do it every week. If you don't like it,
we only do it once a weeks. For who they
all cares?
Speaker 4 (39:24):
What's next?
Speaker 6 (39:25):
Donkey Sausage would like, Hi, Donkey, I have you ever
totaled the car?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
No, and I've come.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
I've had many accidents.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
I've usually sandwich accidents where I the traffic stops all
of a sudden, I'll bump into a couple of times
I've stopped and then I get hit from behind and
hit the car in front of me. But I've never
totaled the car. It's always just cost thousands of dollars
to fix.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
What about you, Lorena, Nope, never totals.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
I did see a car eat. I saw Carl Roage
last night that looked like it should be total for
some reason, but they like to did you know what
car I'm talking about? You see that?
Speaker 9 (40:03):
Yeah, the one that's out there that's like missing half
of its bumper.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Yes, yes, it's very odd. It looks like it came
from a junkyard.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
What about you, Coop, I have not no. Okay, what's next?
It's ask bed your question our answers.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
All right, uh, Alf the alien opiner high.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Alf.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
You would like to know do you fold clothes right
out of the dryer or does it go right back
in the basket.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, there's not a lot of folding that goes on it.
There's a big sofa thing we throw it on at first,
and then eventually it gets transferred to where it needs
to go. But yeah, it's not getting folded right away.
You know.
Speaker 9 (40:37):
I try to be really good about it.
Speaker 8 (40:38):
I don't have a lot of space to like store it,
so I got up pretty much folded and put away.
Speaker 9 (40:42):
But the pile on my bed does build up every
now and then.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Yeah, Yeah, there's a there's a mountain of clothes at
our house. It's uh, you know, my wife and I
we we it's like bigger than the biggest mountain.
Speaker 9 (40:54):
You just feed out of the clean pile, you know.
Oh look, here's some socks, my underwear.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Yeah, what about you? Coop? Quick, quick, cool quick.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
Sometimes it doesn't even make it out of the dryer.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Oh wow, just leave it in the dryer. There you go,
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Now you said, well, it suits basketball. If it's not
only basketball, it's television. And while the NBA regular season
does not move the needle, it does not.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm not gonna sit here as Oh I'm so excited.
Now it's background noise for me.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I haven't And now the only time it's not background
noise is when there's a couple of people yapping on TV.
I'll take it off mute. I didn't use the mute
button as much. By the way, it's amazing they get
rid of Doris Burke. I don't have to use the
mute button as much. But anyway, so I was watching
and it was in the background, you know, fussing around
getting ready for the show.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And there's one thing that I rarely miss and that
was back So.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
An old friend and.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
A couple couple of days there. We thought we were
gonna lose them.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
They were on life support when Turner said bye bye
to the NBA, but inside the NBA surviving and they
made their much anticipated by some debut on the Four
Letter Network out of Connecticut and the the TNT crew
(03:01):
picking up right where they left off.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
No stumble, no drop, none of that.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
If you didn't see any of this, I don't know
if you were watching it or not, but they were there,
all the gags, all the jokes, goofing on Charles Barkley
and his weight loss more than that later.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
So if he didn't watch it, maybe not after was
it twenty five years?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Man, that's a long run. I got two for Benny
versus the penny twenty five year run on TNT.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
The boys started blabbing.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And going on and on and on on the little
fledgling cable Channe, which are parentally losing a lot of
money because they keep laying people off there in Connecticut.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
So a lot of opinions about this.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I think we'll jump off on that and discuss So
let us talk about it. The question. Giving your opening impressions,
there was a lot of doom and gloom. We were
skeptical as well of the new version of Inside the
NBA with shaq Ernie Kenny and Charles Buckley, but opening impressions.
So I've got disco Ball, zz Top and craft Brewery,
(04:05):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to have a gut wrenching good time,
is what we're going to do. And we're gonna make
your Babushka's favorite tomato bisk is what we're gonna do.
All right, So first of all, I am surprised. I
am it worked, and it was like the favorite pizza
(04:28):
place that you used to go to and you hadn't
been there in a long time, like mom and pop shop.
They sell the pie there pizza Daddy will call it.
And they moved it to a new strip mall. They
brought the same oven over the same people that worked
at the restaurant, so it tasted the same different address,
but the same great taste. And watching Barkley and of
(04:51):
all places ESPN, it was like a disco Ball in
a dungeon. Putting Charles Barkley on ESPN, like do you
think Bristol, You think Gray Sterile programming, Woke Sports Factory
ESPN and when Barkley's on their little soul. Of course
they just outsourced it. So I guess the lesson is,
if it ain't broke, you don't need to fix it.
I think we all knew that. But I will be
(05:12):
Benny Brightside. I will I'm Benny Brideside on this one.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I thought, well, they'll.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Screw this up. They'll left this up because I work
in broadcasting. I know how broadcasting people operate. They have
things up. That's what they do, you know, in most places.
And so shockingly, they didn't change the recipe. This is
not new coke. They kept the old coke. In fact,
they went back and they got the.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Coke when they had cocaine.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And that's how good they got it. They got Ernie There,
Ernie Johnson, e J mister smooth operator, Kenny Smith during
the pot shack, just tossing out weird one liners. And
then Charles Barkley, my god, who does look like a
mini me version of himself. They're Barkley dropping a lot
(05:57):
of weight since we last saw him on TV. In fact,
he dropped so much were he dropping more weight than
ESPN's losing hockey ratings when they put hockey on. But
My favorite part. They did not duck the snuff a
luffogus in the room. Now, what is the snuffalufogus in
the room. We'll go to Sesame Street for this one.
They opened up the pregame coverage with a vignette of
(06:20):
Charles Barkley's greatest HiT's now. The vignette was of Charles
Barkley trashing ESPN while on ESPN, which is just self deprecating,
gold right, just absolutely great. Barkley was on the warpath
there ripping the car wash treatment. So many people get
over there, and so let's not underestimate Okay, let's not
(06:42):
underestimate this. Barkley was ESPN's El Dorado. If you feel me, right,
you feel me on that the holy grail of the
white Whale. I don't know how you want to sit
and the thing that Bristol could never get. And I've
been I got friends that work over there, and then
for years they're like, oh man, that's the guy they want,
right that they couldn't get him and they want it,
(07:03):
kept offering him a lot of money, turned him down.
Now they've got him, and it already feels like and
that's one night in so who knows. It feels like
they're the the guest house, and inside the NBA is
like the sovereign nation, surrounded by desk spots, and they're
the ones setting the rules. Though it's not. It's not
(07:26):
ESPN absorbing inside the NBA. It's inside the NBA colonizing
within ESBN. So, hey, good job by Mickey Mouse. Way
to go. You didn't go goofy. Yeah, so you know,
don't touch it up, don't add analytical nerds. I don't
need to see some x W NBA player on there
hamming it up with Charles Barkley. I'm good on that.
(07:47):
Don't don't clean it up. There's nothing to clean up here.
Let shack talk is nonsense. Let Kenny and and and Charles, uh,
you know, bicker back and forth with what they do,
and then you know, Ernie will be they're doing his thing,
and so there you go. Barkley will keep roasting himself
and that's the secret sauce. It works. We're all good
(08:09):
and it is still I'm happy to report and must
see TV and imagine how the people over at Turner
feel like. I guess they're getting some money out of it,
so I probably don't feel that bad, But that was
their show.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
They had it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
That was the top show in all of sports television.
They had it, and they let it go, although it's
still kind of there because they're doing it out of
the same studio. It's yeah, So it's not like Charles
Barkley actually physically went to ESPN. He did not. They
got him because the unicorn needed somewhere to go. And
Barkley was in talks with NBC as some people he
(08:44):
knows over there, but he chose to.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Keep the band together where he was.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
All right now turning the pageot, but we're not going
to turn far because speaking of the greatest show on
sports television these days inside the NBA, A lot of
fun with Charles Barkley and his weight loss, and so
he saw it and for blind listeners, he's lost a
lot of weight. Don't know how many pounds he's lost
his lot.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So how weird was it? Here's the question. How weird was.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It to see the fun sized we'll call them fun
sized version of Charles Barkley. So it looked like Charles
Barkley was trapped in a laundromat and they shrunk him
in a dryer. It's like they I don't know how
that happened, but they put him in a dryer and
he just shrunk. And you know, anytime that's the old joke, right,
(09:34):
anytime you gain a couple of pounds, Well, well it's
because my clothes were in the dryer for too long
that I didn't. It's not the two cheeseburgers I ate
and the the two chocolate Sundays. No, no, no, it's
the dryer. It's always the dryer. And so I had
to do a double take. I thought, well, that's weird.
Skinny chuck. Nobody wants to. It's like a skinny skirt steak.
You want to, you want a nice big stake. It's jarred.
(09:56):
It's like seeing a Golden Retriever with a buzz cut.
You're like, well, I know that's a olden Retriever, I think,
but that's you know, something's a little offt there and
some fun size. It's just weird.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Now it is a double edged sword. As someone who lost.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
A great amount of weight in my life, I can
relate to what it's like now. I did not do
what Charles Barkley did. I did it el natural. I
would have cheated if there had been a way, but
they didn't exist. And you know when I lost the weight.
But it's a double edged sword, right, And I know
this as a and I'll always be a fat person.
I'm like mid sized. I don't think I'm skinny, but
I'm certainly not skinny. And I'm I'm big, but I
(10:32):
don't think I'm gigantic like I was. So when fat
people lose weight, everyone, I'll tell you what happens because
I know I've lived it. That's how I relate when
you lose weight. Here's what you get and people send
you texts everything. Okay, you people call it you you're sick.
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Ain't going on? You want to talk about? You know,
it's human nature, right. You look at people like that,
you say, well, what's going on here? I wonder if
he's got some kind of illness? Look like the mini
me version of himself. There. He even had Shaq calling
Charles Barkley a sex symbol, which of course a great
comedy goal there. Now, based on his own endorsement deal
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Charles who promoted the fact that he lost weight, not
l natural with a needle, it's fair to say Charles
Barkley has gotten more weight loss shots than Barry Bond's
got the clear and the cream back in the day.
We'll see how this goes. And Barkley's he's a yo
yo up and down most of us, sorry, up and down,
up and down. You lose the weight, you gain the weight,
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you lose the weight, you gain the weight. There you
go and eventually you lose all the weight. Eventually it
all goes away.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
But being fat, just fat people are funny.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Being fat was part of the comedy rhythm cracking jokes.
You're just funnier when you've got a big fat belly
and you just are and skinny. Chuck feels off brand.
He's still funny and on it broke his glasses. That
was kind of funny. But it's kind of like trimming
the synchronized foot long beards of zz Top right if
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you know, you know, they imagine what they look like there,
so I know they were old, but you just go
with the reference so zz Top and they're still the
same zz Top, but it just doesn't look right right,
you know. If they're clean shaven, it's like, well, what
happened to the foot long and the beards of the
red beards? I don't understand where they go, I want
them back, all right, final fought, So I would be
remiss if I did not mention the thing that was
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around the broadcast and I had the mute button going,
but I did have it on in the background. They
had a doubleheader, the Cadavers and the Knickerbockers from Midtown
Manhattan just above Penn Station there. They had that at
the Mecca. I didn't really care much for that game.
And then they had the main event, as they were
billing it, the two young superstars of pro bouncy ball
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until eventually the NBA decides they want to ship one
of them to the Lakers in orchestrated trade. But until
then they're in Texas. One in San Antonio. One in Dallas.
You had Victor Wemby, Niyamma Wemby, the Parisian prodigy, who
put it down. Are you not entertained by Wemby forty points,
fifteen rebounds and no turnovers. I'm told that's good. I'm
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told sources not close to the situation told me that's good.
Forty points, fifteen rebounds, no turnover. San Antonio gets a
blowout win. The seven foot four Wemby, who looks like
he's about nine feet tall. Was die no mte for
this burst, But that's not the story. The story is
the other player who made their much bally Hood debut,
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good word bally Hood, they're much Ballyhood debut. That was
the number one overall fig of the twenty twenty five draft,
playing for the Dallas basketball team. So question, give me
your thoughts on Cooper Flag's regular season NBA debut with
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the mav Rex. So we know it was the great
Will Rogers that taught us you never get a second
chance to make a first impression. And holy smokers, that
was quite the introduction for Cooper Flag. He came out
looking like he had just walked out of a nice
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local craft brewery called Frosty Stumblebum. That was a stumble bumb.
It's not the flag is up. The flag was not up. No, no, no,
the flag is down. The kid from Maine gave birth
in the first half. Congratulations. I know that was possible.
It is you know a couple of years ago was possible.
But Cooper Flag came out there and gave birth to
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a goose egg. Yeah yeah, not a single point. You
and I scored as many points as Cooper Flag the
number wha overall in the twenty twenty five draft. He
pitched a shutout like a Dodger starter against the Brewers. Now,
if this were a one man Broadway show, one man
Broadway show, it would have been canceled by the intermission. Now,
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he did score some points in the second half, the game,
going lopsided in the second half, ended up Cooper Flag
four of thirteen, which again didn't play in the NBA.
I don't think that's great. Ten points, a lot of
them coming once the Spurs had opened things up. Ten rebounds,
how many of those were off his own misshots?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Zero assists.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Despite all the hype about him being a jumbo sized
point guard and with Kyrie Irving not playing, you had
him listed Cooper Flag as the point guard. And let's
not forget unless my malord math is off. Congratulations to
Cooper Flag. You had a minus twenty nine plus minus,
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which was the worst of any Dallas player. So there
you go. When he was out there, Dallas got apps
a bleeping Loutley steamroll.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
They just got steamrolled here.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So the marquee lights burned out, and I'm sure the
fanboys and the star worshippers and the media are already
making excuses. It's not his fault, it's somebody else's fault.
Blah blah blom blam blom blum blom blah bloh, just
like that.
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our lead this hour is from Pittsburgh, PA in the
game of pig Skin Squares, not Hollywood Squares, not Hollywood Squares,
but we're playing pigskin Squares if you look at the
card this weekend which begins later on on Thursday in.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
The Hood in Inglewood and up to no good.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The Chargers hosting the Minnesota Vikings just down the road
from where we broadcast from. And so Sunday night, though,
is the center Square in week eight, You've got Aaron
Rodgers wrangling the cheeseheads the prize some cheese curds.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So Rogers chimed in on this.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He was asked about going against his franchise, the franchise
that he's most known for it and forever will be
known for playing in Wisconsin. And what did he say? Well,
the Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said that facing the Packers
this weekend, he said, is quote not a revenge game
for me. Rogers stated Green Bay drafted Rogers when he
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famously if you're old enough to remember the twenty five draft,
free fall in in free fall in ended up at
number twenty four, was supposed to be a top five
pick in the draft, ended up all the way down
at number twenty four, and he spent the first eighteen
I'm told that's a long time, eighteen years of his
career in the thousand Tundra, living in the suburbs of Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Rogers says that he doesn't have any animosity, No animosity
towards the organization. He said he had a great relationship
with a lot of people with the Packers.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
So it's all we'll combined it all together. It's good
jumping off point.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
So let us discuss the question, why is Aaron Rodgers pretending?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Why is he pretending they playing Green Bay is.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Just another game, that it's not a revenge game, it's
just a random game. And Week eight in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
So my thoughts on this.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I've got punch bowl, tax deductible and Hunted Cafe, and
we will combine all of these things to get and
we'll climb or at the very bottom of the ladder,
the corporate ladder here at Fox Sports Radio doing the
overnight show at the very bottom. But we hope to
catch our lucky star. So a Aaron Rodgers can say
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whatever whatever he wants. Obviously he did and he does
all the time. But this particular quote, this particular line
from Aaron Rodgers, I put it into the basket of
gridiron kabuki.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It's gridiron kobookie. Mister Rogers neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Now, he spent nearly two decades, as we mentioned, almost
two decades in Green Bay, Wisconsin, shoveling snow, will paying
people to shovel snow for him. And then he got
rudely kicked out, shoved out the door, and now he's
back squaring up against the Green and Gold. And this
is professional wrestling level storyline stuff. Now. The only thing
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that would have been better if it had been back
at lambeau Field. You can't get everything you want now, Rogers,
I know from years of doing talk radio. In fact,
I'm so old. We used to have Rogers on when
he was playing a Cal on Saturdays. I did a
college football I don't need you to touch up my work.
But the point is Rogers would come on when he
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played at Cal a couple times. I guess he wasn't
like a do sh at that point. I don't know.
He was fine whatever, typical meathead athlete had not much
to say. But we put him on because we had to.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
But Rogers is the king of pretending that he's.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Above it all. Right, he's above it all. No animosity. Now,
what do we know about Rogers? Whether you like him,
there's a lot of very polarizing guy. Some people love
him a lot. There's other people that think he's the
devil incarnate I like him as a talk show host.
Good for my job. But what we know about Aaron
Rodgers is that he is the king of pretending that
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he's above it all. No animosity, right. The man loves
pushing buttons. Push a button here, push a button there.
He loves pushing buttons more than Patrick Mahomes loves waterburger. Okay,
that's a lot of love. Aaron Rodgers wrote the book
on passive aggressive behavior. He did It's an Idiot's Guide
to Passive aggressive Behavior. By downplaying this matchup Rogers is
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he's stirring the pot.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And then he's spitting a giant, thick.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Green loogie right in the NFL's marketing punch bowl.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I mean, it's the NFL's focused on this.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
This is gonna be a big fing deal on the
NBC crews got it on Sunday night, and he's out
there acting like he's two zen.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I don't believe in revenge, but this is the same guy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Who has been carrying around grudges like people carry luggage
to the airport, and by downplaying it, he's giving himself
Also the old Daily double. Now the Daily double is
he's effing over the marketing people. Because the idea is, Okay,
we'll get a good quote from Rogers talking about how
he really wants to stick it to the Packers. They'll
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put that in the open and they'll toss to Tarrico
and Collinsworth on the Sunday night broadcast. So he downplays it,
which hurts the marketing. He also gives himself the other
part of the daily double. He gives himself the built
in excuse if the Steelers end up getting smoked on
Sunday Night, he'll say, ah, you know, listen, it doesn't matter.
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It's just a regular season game. It's just another game.
So it's a total soft landing. Now. The only thing
I was saying about this when I was making a
long trip into the studio here, The only thing that
Aaron Rodgers could say to lead me to believe that
he does not does.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Not want to get a pound of cheese.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Revenge from the Green Bay Packers is that he's a
lizard person. Now, if he's a lizard person, okay, there's
no emotion. Lizard people don't have emotion. I've read books
about lizard people. They don't have emotion. I don't want
to go all George Norrey coast to coast on you.
But there's no emotion. It's not personal.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Otherwise it's always personal.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It just is now. I never played in the NFL, however,
I have worked at I've worked here a long time.
But before I worked here, I bounced around the radio
dial as you used to do back in the day.
And whenever I changed radio jobs, I always want to
stick the dagger right in the heart of the people
I used to work for. Always. That's how I'm wired.
Most people are wired that way as well. And you
know deep down that Rogers would love nothing more than
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to go out there on Sunday night thro four touchdowns
so for two hundred and ninety yards and then stare
a hole through Matt Lafleur and the Green Bay Packer
coaching staff right there in the silence. Now, if you
don't believe me, just ask his imaginary wife, Britney, because
I'm sure that Britney Rogers, his fake wife, will tell
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you all about that. I'm sure she's a lovely lady,
and she's completely real, and she just has somehow, in
the plugged in world, been able to hide. Maybe she
lives like the unibomber and in shack in Montana. All right,
turning the page, we now go to Jersey. See what
is the rule of show bad football makes good talk radio?
So following the verbal butcher shop that the Jets owner
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opened up, put his quarterback in the verbal butcher shop.
The quarterback Justin Fields responded, responded to the criticism from
Woody Johnson and what did he say?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
What did the man say? Well, I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I guess we don't have an editing department anymore that
puts any sound in but I will just I'll tell
you what he said, so you don't have to worry
about it if you. Field said, the money quote was,
I don't really have a relationship with Woody Johnson. He
did look a little out of sorts Justin Fields while
he was talking to the media, But the money quote was,
I don't really have a relationship with Woody Johnson. So
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the question the Jets quarterback who will most likely be
a backup? Although more on that in a minute. Justin
Field saying that he doesn't really have any kind of
relationship with the Jets owner Woody Johnson, does I guess
what does that signal to you? That'd be the way
we'll frame it.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
What does that signal to you?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So I will go first because I'm sitting in front
of a microphone, this DIA, I'm sitting front of this,
so I'm gonna talk first. Justin Fields has relationship problems.
He does.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
This isn't the Bachelor.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
It's not, although you wouldn't know it from following the Jets.
It's the NFL. I thought, you don't need to grab
dinner with the owner. You need to score touchdowns. I
have never met the president of the company that I
work for. Fox Sports Radio is a partnership with iHeart Media.
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I've never met the big boss at iHeart. I don't
know who that is.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
If they walk in the room, I wouldn't know what
they look like.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
But I have a job to do, and I do
the job, and I don't worry about that. And of
course I don't usually get ripped by the person that
runs the company because they have no idea who I am,
so they wouldn't rip me. But Fields doesn't really have
a relationship with Woody Johnson. He also does not have
a relationship with the Forward Pass. That's a bigger problem, right.
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He also has been ghosting. I don't know why he's
doing this for some reason, he's been ghosting the end zone.
I don't know. I don't recommend that. So if the
Jets want to change quarterback coaches, and why not they
do that every other year, may we recommend doctor Phil?
And he gave up his daytime talk show a while back,
so why not doctor Phil. Woody Johnson doesn't want to
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talk to Justin Fields because watching Justin Field's play professional
football for the owner of the Jets is like it's
like talking to a brick wall. There is no response,
there is no response. It's just pain. It's just absolute pain.
And the Jets to think that these morons gave a
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guy who's a two time loser thirty million dollars guaranteed,
thirty million dollars guaranteed for Justin Fields, who proved he
couldn't play in Chicago and then confirmed he couldn't play
in Pittsburgh, and the Jets said, well, we know you
can't play, so we'll bring in Why not? That is
not a contract. The thirty million dollars is not a contract.
You know what that is? That is a tax deductible
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charity donation inside a helmet. You fill a helmet with money, Okay,
here's the donation. Let me contact my bean counter and
I'll see we can get that as a rite off
there on your taxis Justin Fields needs to stop worrying
about relationships and all that stuff and just complete some
passes and I'll guarantee it you complete some passes. I
don't think he can do. But if you complete some passes,
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all of a sudden, the owner of the Jets is
going to be like, okay, let's go have lunch. I'll
take you out on a helicopter out to the Hamptons.
And so it's the NFL is not couple's therapy. We
don't need to worry about that. It's not couple's therapy.
All right. Now, last word, we stay with the Jets.
We do the shuffle. Are you ready to do the shuffle?
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We got to do the shuffle.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
That'd be the quarterback shuffle question. The coach.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I say that loosely because he doesn't seem to know
what he's doing. Aaron Glenn made some comments. He was
asked about the quarterback situation. Who is going to start
a quarterback? And did he say Justin Fields? Did he
say Tyrod Taylor or none of the evolve let's go
to the audio tape. She's your quarterback. We will have
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a quarterback on Sunday. I will tell you that. Sorry,
I wouldn't want to give them a competitive advantage when
I have that opportunity, But we would have a quarterback.
Did you Your list was long? So yeah, day to day?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yes, yes, what is he dealing with He's dealing with
a need that's something he had before.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
So just you know who you're starting quarterback is going
to be. You're just not announcing it. So it isn't
like this week as a competition where you're going to
have I know, to star in quarters.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Okay, so we'd like to let you know they will
have a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
So that's good.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
They're going to have a quarterback, all right, So eron Glyn,
you just heard it right there.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
He will not name a quarterback for the Jets between
Justin Fields and Tyrod Taylor because in his own words there,
he doesn't want to give the Bengals a competitive advantage.
So how does that one taste? How does that taste?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
So it tastes to me.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's a little moldy and a little mil dewey, little moldy,
little mill Dewey. That's what it tastes like here. So
Aaron Glenn the worst coach in football. Not my opinion,
it's a fact. He's the only one that's coach in
the NFL. Aaron Glenn thinks that he's playing with dungeons
and dragons or something like that with the Bengals, and
it's like top secret. He's got someone I'm not sure
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who the person is, but they walk behind him and
they've got a briefcase. And in the briefcase are the
nuclear codes. And so you can't announce what's going on
because you've got the nuclear codes and you want to
give those away, and you want to know you have
the nuclear codes. And so picking between Justin Fields and
Tyrod Taylor what kind of that?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Do you know what kind of choice that is?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That is like going through the Haunted Cafe for Halloween
dinner and you're having a Witch's dinner and you're choosing
between cockroaches or rats. Do I want the vermin or
do I want the cockerroach? What do I want to have?
And good luck either way? You are stuck with something
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nasty capital and nast ate. So the Jets are zero
and seven? Is it true that Cincinnati could hand over,
could hand over a three ring binder with their entire playbook,
could send a text message with all the audibles they
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will use in the game this weekend, and they could
send them a laminated sheet, the same sheet that Joe
Flacco will have on his wristband this weekend, and the
Jets would still f it up. They'd still ship over
their shoelaces at the thirty five yard line. This is
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classic bad team fear, and it's why I continue to
preach from the bully pulpit.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Bad teams make good talk radio.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And when you don't have a real advantage, like Aaron Glenn,
you are in make believe.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
You're pretending.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You're pretending every man, woman and child knows that Tyrod
Taylor is going to start at quarterback this weekend. It's
just that Aaron Glenn doesn't want to deal with the
fallout on that now. I would love for Justin Field's
love for him to start on Sunday because he's going
to get destroyed. That'll make for another good monologue on
Sunday night into Monday.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Here we go, here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
How about that to the third degree.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah, this is one big vent. Gets grilled, go belover.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
NFL Executive vice president Troy Vincent said on Saturday that
with on site kicks having less than five percent recovery
rate and maybe time to reconsider alternatives to the onside kick, Ben,
do you think the NFL needs an alternative?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yes, you want to encourage comebacks, You want to have
an audience. Keep watching a game, and you know as
a fan, when a team falls behind and they have
to get an on sidekick or two on sidekicks, there's
no mathematical way that's going to work. So you need
to come up with somebody else. Now, they're so afraid
of people getting hurt. I get it, because they don't
get sued. So how about like a fourth and twenty
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five or something like that one play to try to
get a first down, something along those lines, because what
the kickoff? Things that waste the time.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Next, DeMarcus Cousins had a hot take ahead of the
NBA's opening Nike He said that he believes Kevin Durant
can win the MVP at thirty seven years old, because
the Rockets will win enough game to put him in
the conversation. Ben thumbs up or thumbs down.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
That all right, listen, DeMarcus, you're better at basketball than me,
but your hot takes are terrible. This is like one
of the worst takes I've ever There's no chance Kevin
Gurant's going to win an MVP award. He's not even
the best player on the Rockets. The math on that
going to work, It's ridiculous. We're in the age of
the unexpected MVP. Although your guy Luca Coop, you know
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he's gonna put up monster numbers, so I would say
he's I'd bet on him before he was next.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Speaking of hot takes, our very own colleague, Colin Cowhard,
made headlines with a take of his own.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
This week.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
He predicted the Orlando Magic will make it to the
NBA Finals. Ben, what do you think the ceiling is
for the Magic?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
They'll go far in the playoffs, but they're not going
to the NBA Finals unless unless I'm missing something here,
they'll they can get to the semi finals.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
How do we do, coope, how'd we do?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
How'd we do we? I walk past, I pass, I pass.
I like their uniforms, good uniforms, though for their magic.
It's now time for time for Harry Harry Honey, wait
ask Twitter said, this is your questions on Twitter.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Now, Ben, it is to ask manage your question.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Is our answers for the rest of the hour. Waste not,
want not.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
It's all you need in your life at this moment.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Over to the Kopa loop for the reading of the questions.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from Georgia Boy. I Georgia boy, what is the worst
Halloween candy? E?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
See? Well, the worst was always when there were people
give like candy apples, So I don't know if that counts.
I always like, well, I don't want that, I want
I want candy. I guess Almond Joy has always been
the worst. That's always you always judge it by what's
left at the bottom of the bag. It's always Almond Joy.
That's always the last one left. There's like seven or
eight Almond Joys and everything else is gone.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Lorena, Oh, that's a hard one.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
But do you remember those old fashioned type candies that
almost taste like peanut butter.
Speaker 9 (36:44):
They come in the orange and black wrappers, and they're
like super old.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
What do I know what you're talking about? Yeah, I'm
gonna have to go find them.
Speaker 9 (36:52):
But those are my least favorite. Like I get those
and I just throw them in the trash.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
I don't even want to write the trash. Okay, I'll
bring them here and give them to people eat them.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
But not you know, Coop, I'm enjoyer mounds. They're both terrible.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Most of the time you don't. Yes, all right, what's next?
Speaker 7 (37:11):
The King Rory would like to know?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Hi, Rory, have you ever.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Gone to the bathroom out in the wild and an
outhouse does not count?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Uh? We're talking two or one here? Now? Ones are
the two's? What are we talking about here?
Speaker 7 (37:26):
She said?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Either okay, yeah, Well of course I driving back. I've
made some long you know on the West coast. You
drive driven back from Sacramentos to La San Francisco to
La Vegas to La Sometimes is at night. The thing
that sucks is when you go to you want to
go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Have you ever had this happen?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
You got to go, you make it in time to
the restaurant and then they have a code to get
to the bathroom. Oh yeah, So what I do is
I just go outside? And I said, well, I tried.
I tried to be the you know you didn't so
I got to go outside and take your business. Yeah,
but I'll even pull over whatever on side of the road.
And Lorena, do you ugh?
Speaker 8 (38:05):
This is actually one of my horror stories from my childhood.
Really had to go to the bathroom. We were house
shopping up in Salem with my mom and we missed
the exit to the hotel and I really had to go.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
I'm holding my new unicorn in my lap. I'm crying.
I'm like, I have to pay. My Mom's like, if
you pay in my car, Lorena, I swear to goodness.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
So we pulled over underneath the bridge on the side
of the freeway on the five in Salem, Oregon, and
I had to squat under said bridge.
Speaker 7 (38:30):
It was horrible, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Every time, you won't buy that bridge after though, you
always remember.
Speaker 9 (38:35):
Right, yeah, I was coding and that pink unicorn.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Uh, alright, what about you, coop.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
I have I've had to do uh the number two once.
When I was a kid, I was like fishing out
in like the forest, like Grandpa.
Speaker 7 (38:57):
It was terrible. It scarred me from life never again.
Speaker 9 (39:02):
Doing a number two in the wilderness is diabolical.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
That's the issue with the two is not the two itself.
It's what happens after the two right problem. That's the issue.
Because there's no way to know.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
It was, no way to properly clean up the you
know it was all all right?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
What is next? Here to ask? Ben? Your questions are
answers for the rest of the hour. If you like this,
we do it every week. If you don't like it,
we only do it once a weeks. For who they
all cares?
Speaker 4 (39:24):
What's next?
Speaker 6 (39:25):
Donkey Sausage would like, Hi, Donkey, I have you ever
totaled the car?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
No, and I've come.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
I've had many accidents.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
I've usually sandwich accidents where I the traffic stops all
of a sudden, I'll bump into a couple of times
I've stopped and then I get hit from behind and
hit the car in front of me. But I've never
totaled the car. It's always just cost thousands of dollars
to fix.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
What about you, Lorena, Nope, never totals.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
I did see a car eat. I saw Carl Roage
last night that looked like it should be total for
some reason, but they like to did you know what
car I'm talking about? You see that?
Speaker 9 (40:03):
Yeah, the one that's out there that's like missing half
of its bumper.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Yes, yes, it's very odd. It looks like it came
from a junkyard.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
What about you, Coop, I have not no. Okay, what's next?
It's ask bed your question our answers.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
All right, uh, Alf the alien opiner high.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Alf.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
You would like to know do you fold clothes right
out of the dryer or does it go right back
in the basket.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, there's not a lot of folding that goes on it.
There's a big sofa thing we throw it on at first,
and then eventually it gets transferred to where it needs
to go. But yeah, it's not getting folded right away.
You know.
Speaker 9 (40:37):
I try to be really good about it.
Speaker 8 (40:38):
I don't have a lot of space to like store it,
so I got up pretty much folded and put away.
Speaker 9 (40:42):
But the pile on my bed does build up every
now and then.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Yeah, Yeah, there's a there's a mountain of clothes at
our house. It's uh, you know, my wife and I
we we it's like bigger than the biggest mountain.
Speaker 9 (40:54):
You just feed out of the clean pile, you know.
Oh look, here's some socks, my underwear.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Yeah, what about you? Coop? Quick, quick, cool quick.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
Sometimes it doesn't even make it out of the dryer.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Oh wow, just leave it in the dryer. There you go,
all right,
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