December 19, 2025 • 48 mins
Big Ben talks about the Seahawks getting gifted a win against the Rams on TNF thanks to an overturned call by the officials, Amazon censoring Marshawn Lynch's expletive filled post-game appearance, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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this hour from the Pacific Northwest, as you had Matthew
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Stafford and the La r I AM's party bus driving
in to the Pacific Northwest Chew for a little playdate
versus that stiff Sam Donald and the Seahawks. You had
Alt Michael's there and Herbie on the call on the
Amazon And did you watch? Were you checking this out?
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doing some shopping? What were you doing? Really? Nothing? Else
going on. There's nothing else to watch. Well, if you
missed it, you missed a hum dinger of a Thursday
night came in. Was kind of like a buffet where
they have a little bit everything. You have the seafood
over there, you've got steak, there's some pasta if you're
a if you're a vegan, you can go out the
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back door there and leave, but a little bit of everything.
So the game for many lived up to the advance
building and Sam Donald, who was bad to the bone, bad, bad, bad, bad,
bad to the bone. Sometimes good things happen to bad performances,
and Sam Donald connecting with Jackson Smith and Jigba for
a touchdown and overtime after the Rams had gone down
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and scored a touchdown on a brilliant pass by Matthew
Stafford and Polka Nka, and then Seattle said we're gonna
go for We're gonna go for the win. And they said,
we're going to try to win right here our two
point conversion, knowing that the Rams were just going to
go down the field and kick a field goal to
win if they did not go for two. And Donald
did connect. He found a wide open player in the
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how does that happen? Does? How does somebody get wide
open at that point? Two point conversion? Complete game over?
That's it. The Seattle Seahawks rallied from a sixteen point
fourth quarter deficit, converting on three two point conversions. The
math on that is just insane, and of course it's
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not kosher, so it's not really legit. They end up
winning the end the final score thirty eight to thirty
seven on Thursday night, so Seattle, for the moment, takes
a one game lead in the NFC West. But the
game was not clean. It was marred by controversy, as
the Seattle football team was not good enough to beat
the Rams on their own. They needed some help from
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the league office, and one of the most blatant things
I've ever seen in my time watching football, there was
a two point conversion that the NFL claimed tied the
game at thirty. Now, for our blind listeners, the past
hit the ground. Normally that's considered an incomplete pass. It's
a good jumping off point because it's really the story
everyone's talking about. So let us discuss the question. Did
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Sam Darnold and the Seahawks beat the Rams or did
the Zebras take down the Rams. So I got Godfather,
mister potato Head, and jukebox and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some banana cream pie, which is what was thrown in
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the face of the La Rams. Now, anybody who knows
football knows this game should have ended thirty to twenty
eight Rams a two point win in regulation. Seattle was
given two points out of thin air, out of fin air. Now,
we believe in speaking the truth into the microphones of
Fox Sports Radio. We can do that. We're not part
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of the mainstream. We're not on during the day six
am to six pm. They get paid more money and
they have nicer cars and all that stuff. At night
we can talk the truth. And the truth is the
Rams got the screw job. They did one of the
time horrific calls. I I don't know how to say it.
For Gayzy Sam Darnold pass deflected intended for the running
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back Zach Charboneau, and it was ruled correctly on the
field incomplete pass. That was the right call. They got
it right. However, after a replay review to the league
headquarters in New York, it was determined, surprisingly that it
was no no, no, not an incomplete pass. You're don't believe
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your lying eyes. Do not believe your lying eyes. It
was a it was determined to be a backwards pass,
all right, So it was not. It was not determined
there was a forward pass. It was a backward pass.
So Scharboneau, who this is my favorite part. So he
just l l l l la la la la la la.
He walked over. He picked up the ball casually, you know,
no concern. Uh picked up the loose ball. They gave
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him two points for that. It is comically bad, but
it's very dust. It doesn't exist. It's not in real
You can clearly you go back in here it You
don't even need to be uh with working eyeballs to
know if you go back and listen, you can clearly
hear the whistle blow. And maybe I'm wrong on this.
I know times have changed. I guess I'm getting older,
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but I always thought, once the whistle blue, you play
through the whistle, that's it. Once the whistle blows, plays over,
plays over. So the whistle blows, whistle, whistle, whistle, the
whistle blows, the play dead, then Charbonneau picks up the ball.
Keep in mind, players, on both teams. Both teams stop
playing because the whistle, blue nump nuts at the end.
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There's the whistle, all right. So you got players on
Seattle and the Rams who both stopped at the same
time because an official blue the whistle and apra ef
and kept I mean with Jep diglous, I can't even
say it. The NFL decided to roll a two point conversion. Holcus,
what this was more than just a guard an angel
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for the Seattle Seahawks, all right, there's some serious funny
business going on. Here is Sean McVay, the Ram coach.
Who is he gonna get fined for this? Here's McVeigh
pointing out, well, that's not kosher. What happened Take a list.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I've never quite seen anything like what happened on the
two point conversion where you're lined up to kick off,
then they say it's a fumble because they had the
clear and obvious recovery. Now you tack it on, you
make it a thirty to thirty game. Very interesting. Didn't
get a clear explanation of everything that went on, just
because of some of the timing of it. They were
trying to be able to do that. But that's the
thing that I've said, I've never seen anything or never
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been a part of anything like that, and I've grown
up around this game.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I'm not making excuses. We don't do that. I don't
believe in that.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It doesn't move us forward, but we do want clarity
and an understanding of, you know, the things that we
can do to minimize that when we rejected the two
point conversion.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
All right, So Coach McVay, two things. Number one, the
reason you've ever seen it, It's never happened before. This
is unprecedented what happened here. This is one of the
great injustices in the history of that fraudulent sport, the NFL.
Right insane. Let's play connected dots Mallard style connected dots.
All right. So, the big story this week in the
NFL was Pooka Nikoua going on a live stream, right
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trashing the NFL officials, doing a dance which I apologize
for whatever, and ripping Taylor Swift and Jacksonville a bunch
of crazy stuff. So Puoka goes out and goes nuclear,
has twelve catches. It was like he was running through
the Serengetti. Twelve catches, two hundred twenty five yards a
partridge in a pury had two touchdowns, including what should
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have been the game winner. Well game shit entered in regulation,
but the touchdown and overtime. The story is we connected
dots though. Is Pooka Nica right? He dared to question authority,
He questioned the referees on the live stream. Is it
a coincidence that a day later this happens? Methinks? Not right.
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This was big Brother at the NFL sending a clear message.
This was payback the horse head in the bed from
the Godfather, an unmistakable message that was sent by the NFL.
We control all of this. You mess with us again,
and the next warning will not be symbolic, Pooka, It's
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not gonna be. We We have the power to give
points that did not get scored. We are almighty, omni
present worth the NFL. Don't mess with us. Okay. That
was a horsehead in the bed, is what? That was?
One thousand percent all right? And I would I would
be puking in my mouth if I was a Seattle
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Seahawk fan right now that I would want to I
would really want to vomit at that, because you know
you're not good enough, you know, you're not, and you
needed you talk about the Twelfth Man. How many officials
were on the field. That's like the you know, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth,
twentieth man. My god, so it's so bad. I don't
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even what to say. It's such a crap call. It's
not even I mean, they were at McVeigh said, they're
lining up for the kickoff and they're like, coach, we've
decided to give Seattle two points. They but they didn't score.
But yeah, we felt like they needed the two points.
We decided we wanted to give them the two points,
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but they didn't. The play was whistled, Dad, the play
was over. That was it. But no, we kind of
liked them, you know. We felt bad for Nostradinas and
JJ and Retten and crying, craiging all these fan guys.
So we had to give them two points. Okay, thank you? Wow?
All right, now as for the big picture here the
big picture, So the question how concerned because the Rams
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did end up being given the loss by the NFL,
So how concerned should Sean McVay be with the Rams
losing this game in Seattle thanks to some help by
the league office. So the Mallard panic meter. One to ten,
one to ten, I'm at I'm at about a three
on the Malard panic meter. It took the league meddling.
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It took the NFL fuxing around with the outcome of
the game. People talk about gambling scandals right in NBA
and all this baseball. I mean this, this is clear
and obvious for most you know. It took the league
meddling for Seattle to win this game, which tells you
Seatle's not good enough. And keep in mind, the Rams
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did not have their nuclear torpedo Devonte Adams, the cheat
code in the red zone, and they were missing a
couple of other starters. In this game. The Rams put
up let me check my notes here. They put up
five hundred and eighty one yards and thirty seven points
in a place that likes to pump their chest out
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and talk about how people just don't play well in Seattle.
The twelves, oh, it's very the weather. Top five defense.
Sea Awks had a top five defense coming to that game.
Top five defense gave up five hundred and eighty one
yards and thirty seven points to a team without the
without their number two receiver and a couple of other
key players. Yeah, okay, so there you go. That's it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The issue for the Rams, obviously, is that you can't
factor in, how do you game plan for the officials
just giving the team two points when they didn't get it.
There's really nothing to do on that. The RAMS defense
wears the scarlet letter to some degree here with the
Capitol d My god, you're up sixteen in the fourth quarter.
And I know it took the officials helping out Seattle,
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but that's that's that's not great. And the Rams did
play a little mister potato head here, the hot potato
game with the you know, they played the hot potato
with the live you know, it was like a live
grenade they were passing around. It's inexcusable, right, you know,
f around you find out. But the NFL certainly helped in.
And there's a bit of a pattern here the Rams.
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Usually they just lose games more than get beat. Like
they didn't lose this game, or they didn't they didn't
get beat. I should say the game was given to
Seattle in this case. But the fur balls being coughed up,
they blew up a sixteen point. They really they blew
a fourteen point lead because Seattle is given two points,
so you don't get credit for that. You didn't You
didn't earn it. You know, real people know that they
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did blow a nineteen point lead in Philadelphia earlier this year.
So that's a bad habit and McVeigh needs to flush
that immediately. You look at the big picture, thirty thousand
feet up looking down, the Rams are perfectly fine. It's
not like they have some kind of home field advantage.
There's not a moat at Sofi Stadium. They were in
the NFC Championship Game a couple years ago. I was there.
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They played the forty nine ers. They might as well
have been played at the old Candlestick Park. There were
so many Niner fans it didn't matter. The Rams won
the game, and the Rams can win anywhere. They're good
enough to do that. And as long as Stafford's standing
upright and the Fellas are relatively healthy, you're not ever
going to be completely healthy. And the Rams aren't really concerned.
I mean, they'd love to play Seattle in the NFC
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Championship Game, and the only way Seattle can win is
with some help from the referees from the league office.
So the panic meter is pretty low, and I'm sure
McVeigh will sleep fine knowing that this was out of
his control. I mean, the NFL clearly wanted this outcome
based on what they did, giving Seattle two points. Otherwise
the game would have ended thirty to twenty eight. That's it.
Game over, Rams win by two. All right, last word here,
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So on the Seattle side of things, being given a gift,
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah? Did Sam Donald save himself with
Seattle and that crazy comeback? Because Sam Darnald was just
getting roasted and deserved it. He sucked at a time
you cannot suck. So did Darnald save himself? Because Seattle
ended up winning that game? So I'm going to vote
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first on this, and I'm going to vote A and
absolutely not. I go back to my point earlier. The
Ogs know what time it is Seattle right now. They
got that shiny record. They're now in the penthouse in
the NFC West. I wouldn't get comfortable, boys, it's more
like a verbo. It's an Airbnb Seattle standing on a
rickety pier and there's a big windstorm coming here, so
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be careful. And hey, it's great. I wish the Rams
had gotten help from the Zebras. I didn't know. I
didn't know that that was possible to get be given
two points. I've never seen that before. Watch football. I'm
getting old. I watched football enty live. I've ever seen
that the Zebras gave them more than a gentle nudge Seattle,
And you know, call it a league issued shopping cart
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shove if you will. And you know, suddenly some of
you are like, oh wait, we beat your Ram. The
Rams lost, are you well? No, I know about that.
I wouldn't. I wouldn't be opening champagne and lighting cigars.
I would not do that. You know. Sam Darnold was
a haunted house from kickoff pretty much to the curtain
call here two touchdowns, two picks. He was sacked four times,
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and for much of that game he was seeing ghosts.
It was like a midnight Mattinee for Sam Darnold. And
you know, you just know you can't win with him,
so it's like, what are we doing here? It's an
exercise in futility for Seattle. The real Seahawk fans know
this guy's gonna break, just break your back. Seattle won
in spite of him, not because of him, and he's
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an unreliable orchestrator. It's more kazoo than conductor. And you know,
and I know, and every man, woman and child knows
when the music matters, the needle skips just a little bit,
just a little bit at skips. And we've we've read
this paperback before. We saw it in Seattle. Last year,
we saw it in Minnesota. Rather the last year the
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dog eared kind of predictable. So if you were really happy,
I good for you, you should send a thank you
note email the NFL, thank you very much. Appreciate it.
Boys on Park Avenue there, thank you. We hope you
enjoy the mirage while it lasts. Enjoy it, Seattle fans,
twelve fans, whatever you call it. Because the jukebox is
warming up, and it's an Elvis classic for Seattle. Welcome
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to Heartbreak Hotel. As as that's going to be the case. Now,
as far as the MVP debate, does this end it?
I guess that's the question. Does this ram lost kill
Matthew Stafford's MVP campaign, his mojo for the MVP. I
don't even think that's close. Like again, I give that
argument side eye. Stafford played for most It wasn't perfect.
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There were some throws that sailed on him, but he
played for the most part like a five star chef
who was trapped in a kitchen fire. Four hundred and
fifty seven yards, three touchdowns against the top five defense,
against the top five defense, did not turn the ball over,
and he did it shorthanded. He did shorthanded without Pooka Nicoua,
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or with Pooka Nikoua scoring the touchdown without Devonte Adams.
And he threw that laser to Pooka in overtime swhich
you'd say, well, that's that's the sizzle play. If you
look at the sizzle reel, that's one of the sizzle
plays on the sizzle reel. And do you really dock
the quarterback? Because the defense at diarrhea, Die Die diarrhea.
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Now we know the refs had to send Pooka a message.
We mentioned the horsehead in the bed. The defense did
not do his job in overtime. They did not. And
that's not on Stafford though to me, the real call
for the big loser, and they were trying to prop
this guy up. They showed him on TV. Is Chris Shula,
the defensive coordinator of Aram's all name recognition. Another NEPO baby,
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Chris Shula, and his team had multiple chances to make
a play in overtime and did not get to stop.
And so Grandpa Don is rolling in his grave like,
what are you doing? At least you're not as embarrassing
as my kid, but my god, you're my grandson. You
got to do better than that. What are we doing here?
My goodness?
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To our lead. This hour, we continue our in depth
team coverage from the game Heard Round the NFL. One
of the most egregious calls you'll ever see. It never
happened before two point conversion ball fell incomplete. Players stopped
playing at the whistle, and one of the Seattle players
walked over and picked up the football and to give
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it back to the referees. And they were lining up
to kick off the Seattle Seahawks there, and then they
side of the NFL, you know this helps Seattle any
push here, and let's give them two points. And they did.
They give them, They give them two points. So it's
pretty wild. Pretty whack a doodle, pretty whack of doodle.
What happened there, And we'll pay back to Puka Nakooa
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would appear by the league office saying, hey, we got
the power, boys, we got the power. We got the power.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Something else happened in the Pacific Northwest as Seattle was
given that win. They should have lost thirty to twenty
eight in regulation, but they ended up being given the
win by the NFL, and they end up winning in
an overtime. But our lead the GPS is in the Amazon,
so as the Seahawks were being given a gift against
the Rams. During that broadcast, a former star of the
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franchise went viral. If you didn't hear about this or
didn't see it, Marshawn Lynch, Who's like the closest thing
we have to Snoop Dogg. You know how like TV
networks or leagues bring Snoop Dogg in is like their mascot,
and like Marshan's that in that spectrum. He's on the
spectrum of like, hey, let's bring this guy in. He'll
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say some crazy stuff, everyone will laugh, it'll go viral,
we'll move on. We'll pay them a bunch of money.
So Marshawn was a guest panel lost on Amazon because
clearly they don't have enough meathead ex athletes on there.
They had to enhance the broadcast on Thursday Night Football.
So there he was next to Ryan Fitzpatrick, Andrew Whitworth,
Richard Sherman, and Tony Gonzalez, all side by side right there.
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They were hanging out together. And is there anything memorable,
by the way about that Amazon broadcast? For me? I
usually hit the mute button. There's really nothing for me there.
But you know, maybe you like it. You're fanboy of
X jocks, you probably like it. So Marshawn Lynch. He
was on television there and it seemed like he was
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before he was on television. He was behind the production
truck and he was smoking and having a couple of
beers and kind of thought he was in the backyard
having like a neighborhood party with the boys. And let's
just say things got a little way. Take a listen.
We have a little clip here. Take a listen to
Marshawn Lynch, and this is just a preview of what
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he did pretty much the entire time he was on
being as you were.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
You a robberie guy, you got a robbery game memory,
you said, Robert.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Hm. That was one of the few bites that wasn't bleeped,
which is odd, but trust me, all right, but the
uh there was an actual a bleep bleep like in
the actual bleep on the broadcast. But the story that
to me, that's an Amazon just trust me. Amazon chose
to censor marsha On Lynch in like real time. It
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was being bleeped like as he was talking. It was.
It was wild whenever he pretty much every time he spoke,
he included at least an F word in every sentence.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question. All right, do you agree or disagree
with Amazon censoring Marshawn Lynch on its NFL coverage for
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the Thursday night Seattle La Ram game. So my observations
on this, I have the Pope, Porcelain, Throne and PhD
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to go into zombie mode. That's right,
absolute zombie. It's a number one, number one. So do
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I agree or disagree? I'm just I disagree. I'm shaking
my head. No, it's a hard no. It's a hard no.
This is silly with a capital S. Is what it is.
Does Amazon realize they're not Fox or NBC or CBS
or ABC, They're not governed by the FCC. I know
that's hard for you to believe, but the FCC governs
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old school media. We're governed by the FCC. We're on radio,
we have broadcast on hundreds of radio stations, have to
follow the FCC playbook. And television cable. Cable television doesn't
really over the air television does. And Amazon's streaming ring.
They're not Sunday School, They're streaming curse words. Gonna blow
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your mind or allowed, And isn't that the whole point?
Like people that get rid of cable television, I want
to I want people to curse. So I do a
podcast on the weekends, the Fifth Hour Policies. I'm allowed
to curse on the podcast. I did it for a
while when we started, and then it's like, I don't know,
I get too concerned. I'm gonna do it on this
the regular radio, and then it'll get me in a
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lot of trouble. So I've cut back on that. But
if you're going to invest in bringing Marshawn Lynch, I'm
assuming Marshawn just kind of didn't show up on his own.
They paid him and they I don't think he lives
in Seattle anymore, so they had him fly in for
this event. So if you're if you're going to invite
beast Mode into the house and then clutch your pearls
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when he drops an F bomb like what are we
doing here? And seriously like that's like inviting the Pope
over and then being upset when he's bragging about the
Vatican and quoting the Bible. It's like, well, the Pope,
that's what the Pope does? I mean, what are you
expecting the pope to do? I mean, my god, you know.
So it's the same thing, and Marshawn without cursing and weed,
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it's it's like going to a barbecue joint and they
have tofu ribs. Well, who the hell wants that? Nobody
wants tofu ribs. He's like, this is stupid, Like what's
the point of that? And don't tell me. It was
like technical issues and all the place. They apparently have
the ability to bleep in real time faster than a
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YouTube ad. You can't skip. It's crazy. This smelled like
to me, this smelled like, hey, the NFL doesn't want that.
Our corporate overlords at the NFL Family first, deodorant family first,
and all this. Meanwhile, the curse words were flying like
a nice Chamber of Commerce day in Siberia. The snowflakes
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were coming down there as well, and it went viral.
Marshan sounded kind of like our caller Lucky Tony from
the Bay Area, uncensored, unfiltered and undefeated. Now his masterpiece.
Marshaan was talking about his visit to Ireland, and it's
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pretty funny. It's pretty fun Marshaan said. He was messing
around with Game of Thrones. I thought that was filmed
in New Zealand, wasn't it. I think it was anyway,
said he was messing around with Game of Thrones. And
now he's got a quote he said, big ass dragon
at his house. And they said, well, how do you
have a dragon? You know what's going on with that?
And he said, well, he sent me a dragon skull
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because he was speaking apparently just by talking in New Zealand,
they'll send you a dragon skull. And then Lynch said
he was speaking Gaelic, so that must be fun too.
The skull line. That was classic. That was classic. Like
he sounded like he had visited before the broadcast doctor
Weed at the marijuana Dispensary in Venice Beach and he
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just tapped to show up there. And of course if
you can't handle that, I would advise you not book
him on Amazon. What do I know? Now? Meanwhile, to
Chicago we go where the Bears. You Foemi and FaZe
and those guys are all excited. The Bears are playing well.
They got a big game coming up on Saturday against
the Green Bay Packers, and quarterback Caleb Williams is in
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the crossairs with the ABC broadcast group. Now we know
that Troy Aikman had to bug up his caboose over
Williams and he was taking some shots at him on
the ABC broadcast of a Bears came out in a
recent interview his partner in crime. Talking about Troy Aikman's
partner in crime, Joe Buck added some more context. Joe
(28:54):
Buck explained that Caleb Williams had stood up the ABC
broadcast crew more than once, and Buck said, hey, he said,
we sat on zoom waiting forever and he just never
came talking about Caleb Williams. I don't know what else
we can do, And Joe Buck said, has happened multiple
times this season. So the question what did you take
(29:19):
from Joe Buck and his commentary here on the truancy
of Bears quarterback Caleb Williams. So this is not a
scheduling snaffo. That is a demerit for character written in
thick black sharpie. Is what that is? It tells you
(29:40):
everything you need to know, Like what do we all
what do we all agree on? Growing up as kids?
One time is a mistake, two times is a pattern?
So say, okay, one time's a mistake. Keep doing it
and suddenly it's patternicity. This is not Innermurals at USC anymore.
This is the the big the NFL, with the TV
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contract the size of Lake Michigan, and it's on the
back of this kind of stuff. Like Joe Buck basically
said at the Bear's quarterback left the ABC crew standing
at the altar, if you will, staring at their zoom
screens like it was. It was just kind of frozen, like, well,
I don't understand here. It's really but that's not mysterious,
(30:23):
that's that's not miscommunication. I wouldn't file out in a miscommunication.
That is diva capital D, diva behavior wrapped in noise
canceling headphones. It just is it is. Here's the malord
math on this. So the league cells access, they charge
a lot of money, the networks buy it, and quarterbacks
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are the storefront mannequin, if you will, right, they're the
storefront mannequin. And you don't get to look, you know,
you get to look at the storefront and not see
the mannequins because that's what the NFL is selling. And
you don't get if you're one of the quarterbacks, you
don't get to lock the door and go hide in
the back. It's part of the gig. You don't have
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to hang face to face anymore. Since the pandemic that's
pretty much ended. You just have to turn your phone on.
How hard is that? How hard is that? You can
literally do it while sitting on the porcelain throne. You
could be dropping a deuce and talking to Troy Aikman
and Joe buck right. You could also be scrolling TikTok
(31:26):
looking at photos on Instagram like a teenager. And you
don't have to make eye contact. There's no eye contact
to be made. There's none. And so Caleb acting a
bit like Beyonce refusing the media. And he's a rookie
now second year quarterback. He's not a rookie anymore, the
second year guy. And then the team is playing pretty
(31:47):
good football here and you're supposed to show up. That's
what adults do. They show up and pretty easy too.
It's on Easy Street and he's already out there, Jaywalk,
what's up with that?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
All?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Right? Final point to Ohio we go a big old
sign causing a hullabaloo in the Buckeye State and a
sign that went up this week in Cincinnati calling on
the Bengals to make some changes. The billboard read fire Zach, fire, Duke,
(32:21):
save Burrow. All right, let's discuss question this new billboard
in Cincinnati calling for the Bengals to fire coach Jack
Taylor general manager Duke Tobin. How effective? How effective are
these billboard protests? That's the question. Now. I do like
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before I get into this. I like the fact that
whoever put the billboard up a has a lot of
money and b thinks that Joe Burrow is not part
of the problem at all. Joe Burrow is the saint
and there's nothing wrong with Joe Burrow at all. In
terms of the billboard protests. This has happened many times
over the years. It's still despite the Internet, a chosen
(33:03):
tactic because you can't really avoid billboards. If you put
a billboard up from the highway on the way to
the stadium, everyone that gets to work has to go
through that particular highway. It's pretty hard to avoid a billboard.
Pretty hard to avoid a billboard. But this is the
modern version of storming the bastille, right, brought to you
(33:24):
by outdoor advertising and a Venmo account to pay the bill.
But if you're honest, the Bengals ownership, the Brown family.
What can Brown do for you? The Brown Family, Bengals
ownership group. I will guarantee you they saw that sign.
They said, I saw the sign and they had to
come to Jesus moment. Absolutely, unless that didn't happen, Unless
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that didn't happen, and they did not have a epiphany,
did not happen. The billboard protests do not change power structures.
They don't. They don't force firings, they don't rewrite contracts.
What they do is attempt to embarrass ownership. Believe we're
past that now with the Brown family. If they had
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any shame in their game, they would have been out
long ago. Now. They do create noise, they generate clicks
that if that was the stated goal, cowabunga dude, because
you did it. You did it, You did it, you
did it. You got your little media coverage and all
that stuff. You created some noise and it's a symbolic protest.
(34:30):
It's kind of like a flare gun being shot into
the fog. You're not really accomplishing much, you just not.
Like NFL fans love to threaten to boycott, whether it's
the Jets or the Browns, and the Bangles, all these
suck bag teams are they threatened boycotts and walking out
of the stadium and all of this righteous flirt, you know,
(34:52):
fury where they're just so excited on it until the
next game kicks off and then it's right back to
the stadium. Or if you watch on television, you lay
on your sofa, you got your big fat gut there
and you got nachos in one hand, you got some
peanuts in the other there, and you're yelling at the
TV like nothing happy. And the teams know this. They've
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done the market research. The owners know this, they've run
the math on this. It's engagement, not apathy. Engagement not apathy,
is what it is. And NFL owners have always had
PhDs and ignoring fans, the if ignoring fans and so yes,
billboards work if you're looking to create a bonfire, a
very very expensive bonfire, burn baby, burn, burning cash for engagement,
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a brief moment of communal raid jup and people driving
by saying, oh wow, look at that man. They're unhappy
and there's the billboard. Okay, what are we gonna do
about it? Nothing, We're not gonna do anything about it.
But there's the billboard. Okay, that's great, wonderful. You had
a nice little billboard up. That's absolutely great. Absolutely.
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It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree. This
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Speaker 7 (36:16):
A report on Wednesday said that with Patrick Mahomes's status
for next season up in the air, the Chiefs could
make a big move by drafting a developmental quarterback.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Oh big move, yes, Ben, did.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
You see the Chiefs doing that?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Well, they should do it if as long as he
can handle it. The I don't know how Mahomes is wired.
Brady got very uncomfortable with Jimmy Garoppolo in New England
and the legend as he forced the Patriots to trade
Garoppolo because he didn't like the Garoppolo come of behind
his shoulder and as so, I depends how Mahomes wire.
But yeah, smart, this is what good teams do. You
(36:48):
have a great quarterback, draft a guy, develop him, and
then trade him for more draft picks. Next.
Speaker 7 (36:52):
The Carolina Panthers have won an NFL leading six games
as underdogs this season. They are underdogs again at home
against the Buccaneers team with an identic record. Do you
think they can come away with the upset again?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Uh? Yeah, Well, if you watch Benny versus the Penny,
I do. They're a yo yo team. They're not a
good team. They're not a good team, but they're a
yo yo team right when you expect them to play poorly,
they play okay. They're inconsistent, they're often reckless, they're unstudy.
But this is Tampa Bay's a mess. Baker Mayfield has
been terrible the last month next.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
So it was reported this week that Bengals coach Zach
Taylor's contract runs through twenty twenty seven, not twenty twenty
six like the team had previously announced. Taylor was asked
about it, and he said, I don't think it really matters.
I coach every day like it's my last. Yeah, And
will that last day come this season?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Because the Bengals are cheap. They'd have to put a
bake sale together, a pot luck, pot luck luncheon to
be able to afford to pay off his concert. At
least he'll likely be back. He should be fired. How
do we do? How do we do that.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
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Knock knock, Who's there? Blame Weed, blame wee too. It's
Big Ben's lame joke of the week, and.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
It's lame jokes. We could not afford that extra s.
Hello weed Man, hippie in Hollywood? What's up? How are you?
Weed Man? What you get from Hanikah? Harry? Weed Man?
Did you get anything from Honiicah? Harry? No? I guess
you're still waiting. Okay, these are actual jokes. If you'd
(38:35):
like to send jokes in for a future episode of
the show, you can send them in care of Benmaller
Show at gmail dot com. Ben Malor Show at gmail
dot com. Here we go. Why did weed Man sit
on a toddler's cup at the holiday party? Why? Well,
instead of being elf on the shelf, weed Man wanted
(38:58):
to be a hippie on a sippy. George and Uvalde
Texas sent that one in. Thank you, George. What do
weed Man and Santa Claus have in common. What It
turns out they both worked just one day a year.
That's it. That's Terry and Sat Paul. When when's your
(39:21):
day to work? Weed Man? Do you know when you work?
I guess when you have to go pick up more weed?
And yeah, a lot. It's a lot of work there,
I understand. Yes, all right. Did they take eb t
at the weed shop? Weed Man?
Speaker 7 (39:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I wish they do.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Make it a lot easier for you. I understand they
sell a lot more too. All right. Well, weed Man
Hippie he was seen carrying an empty refrigerator box around Hollywood, Florida.
It turns out his family did come to visit for
the holidays and he needed a place for them to stay.
So it was like, sho, why did the rabbi kick
(40:02):
Weedman Hippie out of the temple? Why? Well, I guess
weed Man Hippie was trying to turn a menora into
a nine bowl pipe and it just upset the rabbit.
That's George and Juvalde, Texas who sent that one in.
How does weed Man get around without a car? Wow? Well,
he's a big fan of riding around in the cannabis,
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big fan big fan loves it. That's Brendan from Brendan
from Boston who sent that one to thank you? Brendan.
What is weed Man Hippie's favorite Christmas movie? What Miracle
on Section eight Street? That's a good joke from Kurt
(40:48):
from Earth. You got anything? We coop? Any of your
jokes now? All right, Coops out. If you have any
offensive jokes, contact Coop. Why did weed Man start lifting weights?
Why he wanted to become high and mighty. That's Chip
in Maine who sent that one in Vanger for that
ship in Maine. Weed Man is giving his wife and
son a Christmas they will never forget. Right, Yeah, you're
(41:13):
giving him nothing. That's Eke from Roseville, Minnesota. Why Why
is weed Man jealous that people can buy a new
mattress in a box? Why? Because weed Man had always
used a box as a new mattress. That's Surfer Todd,
the comedian now living in Lost Wages, Nevada. How about
(41:34):
that Surfer Todd's moved to Sint City. Why did weed
Man move to New Hampshire and not Boston Because in
Boston there's too much yellow snow. In New Hampshire, he
heard there's a lot of fresh white powder. Hello, that's
a Mike the Leprechaun who sent that one in? Why
does weed man love Donald Trump today? Why he made
(41:56):
pot legal everywhere? There you go, it said Kalepricha, your
favorite president. A weed man's wife is giving him a suv.
Give him an suv for Christmas? Wow? Yeah, socks, underwear
and viagra. That's Ike and Roseville jokes on the way.
Thank your weed Man.
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Speaker 1 (42:23):
I need I don't have time. I need you to
toss the coop. I'm up against the clock here, I
need you to say. Can you say, Hey, this is
E Dog from New York and for all your entertainment,
here's Cooper.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Loop yep, and I got a joke with He's just.
Speaker 7 (42:41):
His brain doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Who would win him? If we did a battle of
I don't know what we call it, Dorco and E Dog?
Who would win that matchup? And Marcel would Marcel be
the third man.
Speaker 7 (42:53):
In we would all lose brain socks. Well, Dorco is
putting on an act, so I mean.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Dorco's a smart guy, but he's doing it in character.
I got you. All right, Well, very good, let's go
coop a little Hollywood. Big weekend ahead? Are the Christmas
blockbusters out yet? Cool?
Speaker 7 (43:09):
Well, we do have a number of big time movies
releasing this weekend that some of them you might get
excited about the first one. Uh, it's a big movie.
It's Avatar, Fire and Ash. This is the third installment
of the Avatar series. At this point, I I don't
(43:29):
really care, but I say that, and yet I'm probably
gonna go see it in theaters.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Well, you have a movie past, don't you.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
True, that's true, but you have to pay a little
like you have to pay a little upgrade fee if
you want to see things in imax, which I mean,
if you're not seeing this in imax, what's the point?
That's that's it's all about the visuals to me at
this point, because.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
The point is to avoid the up charge, that's the point.
Speaker 7 (43:53):
Yeah, yeah, But the story is like, there's only so
many times you can see you know, animated three D
and gully. But moving on. Also out this weekend is
the SpongeBob movie.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Oh this is big. Ferg Dog, keep your pants on,
Ferg Dog, Come on.
Speaker 7 (44:10):
Well, this is the SpongeBob movie search for square pants.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Oh my god, that's right. MG, Holy crap.
Speaker 7 (44:18):
It's gotten eighty five percent from Metacritic. Right so far,
So you know.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
That's just Ferg Dog and his bots. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (44:25):
Probably. And last, but certainly not least, this weekend is
the release of the movie The Housemaid, and this movie
stars none other than Sidney Sweeney. Oh an Amanda se.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
A fan of her work. You appreciate her skills, yes,
very to. She's a lovely lady in my apologies to.
Speaker 7 (44:46):
Her, yes, But Amanda Seafreed also pretty pretty great actress herself.
And this is a wildly entertaining thriller starring Sidney Sweeney
and Amanda Seafreed, based on the best selling book and
Sydney Sweeney accepts a job as a living housemaid for
the wealthy Nina, who is played by Sea Freed, and
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what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something
more dangerous, A sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal and power. Yes, intriguing.
We'll see if this one flops like our last movie.
I don't think it will. The last movie was about
a female boxer.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Now The Rain is actually gonna see this movie right
when the Cowboy game kicks off.
Speaker 7 (45:28):
He's gonna go, Yes, probably if she's not at Disneyland.
But I'll be wearing my jersey with the upside down
Cowboys symbol.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Because you're cool. You're a cool person, all right, So
I want to cool people.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Do hit.
Speaker 7 (45:44):
A couple of things on the TV side here real quick. First,
is this kind of new experimental cartoon that they're doing.
It it's called Adult Swims the Elephant, and it premiered
on Adults well, it will premiere on Adults Swim at
eleven pm tonight. It's also available on HBO Max for streaming.
And so it's a one off experiment where they have
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four different animators, the guy from Adventure Time, a couple
other famous animators, and they don't know what it is
they're working on, and each animator is responsible for one
of the show's three acts, but they were given virtually
no information about the other two parts, and so they
kind of are working together to create a cohesive story.
(46:29):
Four different animation styles, should be should be interesting. That's
available on HBO Max. And then, last, but certainly not.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Least, here we go.
Speaker 7 (46:39):
Here we go on Wednesday, December twenty No, no, no,
I'm sorry, I'm wrong. It is Monday. It's on Monday, Monday.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
I was gonna say, NORMALLYY don't release stuff on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 7 (46:51):
On Monday, December twenty second, a new Netflix documentary L Way.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
That's Rights. Oh boy, now, Coop, are you gonna buy
your next car from the Lway dealership? Because he's got
Doesn't he still have those car dealership? I didn't don't.
Speaker 7 (47:08):
Does he still have them? I don't know if he
does anymore.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
No, he got rid of him.
Speaker 7 (47:11):
I know he still has the uh the steakhouse. No
he does. He does still have the dealerships.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
There's a lot of money, and if you own a
car dealership, there is a lot. I don't know how
they make so much money, but there's a ton of
money in that, a ton of money. A buddy of
mine used to work in the car business and said, dude,
that they're loaded. You can get in even if you
own a part of a car.
Speaker 7 (47:31):
Do they used car dealerships where it's at right, that's
where that's where all the money is.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
I was told they make most of their money on
the service. That's where they really that's where they really
stick it to you. That's where it's kind of like
when you remember the old thing with Printer's coop where
you buy the printer, they give you the printer because
the ink would cost a fortune.
Speaker 7 (47:47):
Oh, I know it, I used to.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yeah, that was your game. That's right, that was your game.
You were in that racket. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (47:54):
Anyway, get your popcorn ready for that Lweight documentary. I'm
sure it's gonna be fantastic. And that's coop scooping entertainment.
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this hour from the Pacific Northwest, as you had Matthew
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Stafford and the La r I AM's party bus driving
in to the Pacific Northwest Chew for a little playdate
versus that stiff Sam Donald and the Seahawks. You had
Alt Michael's there and Herbie on the call on the
Amazon And did you watch? Were you checking this out?
Were you consuming the product? You? Maybe not? You were
(02:49):
doing some shopping? What were you doing? Really? Nothing? Else
going on. There's nothing else to watch. Well, if you
missed it, you missed a hum dinger of a Thursday
night came in. Was kind of like a buffet where
they have a little bit everything. You have the seafood
over there, you've got steak, there's some pasta if you're
a if you're a vegan, you can go out the
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back door there and leave, but a little bit of everything.
So the game for many lived up to the advance
building and Sam Donald, who was bad to the bone, bad, bad, bad, bad,
bad to the bone. Sometimes good things happen to bad performances,
and Sam Donald connecting with Jackson Smith and Jigba for
a touchdown and overtime after the Rams had gone down
(03:34):
and scored a touchdown on a brilliant pass by Matthew
Stafford and Polka Nka, and then Seattle said we're gonna
go for We're gonna go for the win. And they said,
we're going to try to win right here our two
point conversion, knowing that the Rams were just going to
go down the field and kick a field goal to
win if they did not go for two. And Donald
did connect. He found a wide open player in the
(03:57):
how does that happen? Does? How does somebody get wide
open at that point? Two point conversion? Complete game over?
That's it. The Seattle Seahawks rallied from a sixteen point
fourth quarter deficit, converting on three two point conversions. The
math on that is just insane, and of course it's
(04:17):
not kosher, so it's not really legit. They end up
winning the end the final score thirty eight to thirty
seven on Thursday night, so Seattle, for the moment, takes
a one game lead in the NFC West. But the
game was not clean. It was marred by controversy, as
the Seattle football team was not good enough to beat
the Rams on their own. They needed some help from
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the league office, and one of the most blatant things
I've ever seen in my time watching football, there was
a two point conversion that the NFL claimed tied the
game at thirty. Now, for our blind listeners, the past
hit the ground. Normally that's considered an incomplete pass. It's
a good jumping off point because it's really the story
everyone's talking about. So let us discuss the question. Did
(05:03):
Sam Darnold and the Seahawks beat the Rams or did
the Zebras take down the Rams. So I got Godfather,
mister potato Head, and jukebox and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some banana cream pie, which is what was thrown in
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the face of the La Rams. Now, anybody who knows
football knows this game should have ended thirty to twenty
eight Rams a two point win in regulation. Seattle was
given two points out of thin air, out of fin air. Now,
we believe in speaking the truth into the microphones of
Fox Sports Radio. We can do that. We're not part
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of the mainstream. We're not on during the day six
am to six pm. They get paid more money and
they have nicer cars and all that stuff. At night
we can talk the truth. And the truth is the
Rams got the screw job. They did one of the
time horrific calls. I I don't know how to say it.
For Gayzy Sam Darnold pass deflected intended for the running
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back Zach Charboneau, and it was ruled correctly on the
field incomplete pass. That was the right call. They got
it right. However, after a replay review to the league
headquarters in New York, it was determined, surprisingly that it
was no no, no, not an incomplete pass. You're don't believe
(06:30):
your lying eyes. Do not believe your lying eyes. It
was a it was determined to be a backwards pass,
all right, So it was not. It was not determined
there was a forward pass. It was a backward pass.
So Scharboneau, who this is my favorite part. So he
just l l l l la la la la la la.
He walked over. He picked up the ball casually, you know,
no concern. Uh picked up the loose ball. They gave
(06:53):
him two points for that. It is comically bad, but
it's very dust. It doesn't exist. It's not in real
You can clearly you go back in here it You
don't even need to be uh with working eyeballs to
know if you go back and listen, you can clearly
hear the whistle blow. And maybe I'm wrong on this.
I know times have changed. I guess I'm getting older,
(07:15):
but I always thought, once the whistle blue, you play
through the whistle, that's it. Once the whistle blows, plays over,
plays over. So the whistle blows, whistle, whistle, whistle, the
whistle blows, the play dead, then Charbonneau picks up the ball.
Keep in mind, players, on both teams. Both teams stop
playing because the whistle, blue nump nuts at the end.
(07:37):
There's the whistle, all right. So you got players on
Seattle and the Rams who both stopped at the same
time because an official blue the whistle and apra ef
and kept I mean with Jep diglous, I can't even
say it. The NFL decided to roll a two point conversion. Holcus,
what this was more than just a guard an angel
(08:01):
for the Seattle Seahawks, all right, there's some serious funny
business going on. Here is Sean McVay, the Ram coach.
Who is he gonna get fined for this? Here's McVeigh
pointing out, well, that's not kosher. What happened Take a list.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I've never quite seen anything like what happened on the
two point conversion where you're lined up to kick off,
then they say it's a fumble because they had the
clear and obvious recovery. Now you tack it on, you
make it a thirty to thirty game. Very interesting. Didn't
get a clear explanation of everything that went on, just
because of some of the timing of it. They were
trying to be able to do that. But that's the
thing that I've said, I've never seen anything or never
(08:39):
been a part of anything like that, and I've grown
up around this game.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I'm not making excuses. We don't do that. I don't
believe in that.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It doesn't move us forward, but we do want clarity
and an understanding of, you know, the things that we
can do to minimize that when we rejected the two
point conversion.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
All right, So Coach McVay, two things. Number one, the
reason you've ever seen it, It's never happened before. This
is unprecedented what happened here. This is one of the
great injustices in the history of that fraudulent sport, the NFL.
Right insane. Let's play connected dots Mallard style connected dots.
All right. So, the big story this week in the
NFL was Pooka Nikoua going on a live stream, right
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trashing the NFL officials, doing a dance which I apologize
for whatever, and ripping Taylor Swift and Jacksonville a bunch
of crazy stuff. So Puoka goes out and goes nuclear,
has twelve catches. It was like he was running through
the Serengetti. Twelve catches, two hundred twenty five yards a
partridge in a pury had two touchdowns, including what should
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have been the game winner. Well game shit entered in regulation,
but the touchdown and overtime. The story is we connected
dots though. Is Pooka Nica right? He dared to question authority,
He questioned the referees on the live stream. Is it
a coincidence that a day later this happens? Methinks? Not right.
(10:00):
This was big Brother at the NFL sending a clear message.
This was payback the horse head in the bed from
the Godfather, an unmistakable message that was sent by the NFL.
We control all of this. You mess with us again,
and the next warning will not be symbolic, Pooka, It's
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not gonna be. We We have the power to give
points that did not get scored. We are almighty, omni
present worth the NFL. Don't mess with us. Okay. That
was a horsehead in the bed, is what? That was?
One thousand percent all right? And I would I would
be puking in my mouth if I was a Seattle
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Seahawk fan right now that I would want to I
would really want to vomit at that, because you know
you're not good enough, you know, you're not, and you
needed you talk about the Twelfth Man. How many officials
were on the field. That's like the you know, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth,
twentieth man. My god, so it's so bad. I don't
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even what to say. It's such a crap call. It's
not even I mean, they were at McVeigh said, they're
lining up for the kickoff and they're like, coach, we've
decided to give Seattle two points. They but they didn't score.
But yeah, we felt like they needed the two points.
We decided we wanted to give them the two points,
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but they didn't. The play was whistled, Dad, the play
was over. That was it. But no, we kind of
liked them, you know. We felt bad for Nostradinas and
JJ and Retten and crying, craiging all these fan guys.
So we had to give them two points. Okay, thank you? Wow?
All right, now as for the big picture here the
big picture, So the question how concerned because the Rams
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did end up being given the loss by the NFL,
So how concerned should Sean McVay be with the Rams
losing this game in Seattle thanks to some help by
the league office. So the Mallard panic meter. One to ten,
one to ten, I'm at I'm at about a three
on the Malard panic meter. It took the league meddling.
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It took the NFL fuxing around with the outcome of
the game. People talk about gambling scandals right in NBA
and all this baseball. I mean this, this is clear
and obvious for most you know. It took the league
meddling for Seattle to win this game, which tells you
Seatle's not good enough. And keep in mind, the Rams
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did not have their nuclear torpedo Devonte Adams, the cheat
code in the red zone, and they were missing a
couple of other starters. In this game. The Rams put
up let me check my notes here. They put up
five hundred and eighty one yards and thirty seven points
in a place that likes to pump their chest out
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and talk about how people just don't play well in Seattle.
The twelves, oh, it's very the weather. Top five defense.
Sea Awks had a top five defense coming to that game.
Top five defense gave up five hundred and eighty one
yards and thirty seven points to a team without the
without their number two receiver and a couple of other
key players. Yeah, okay, so there you go. That's it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The issue for the Rams, obviously, is that you can't
factor in, how do you game plan for the officials
just giving the team two points when they didn't get it.
There's really nothing to do on that. The RAMS defense
wears the scarlet letter to some degree here with the
Capitol d My god, you're up sixteen in the fourth quarter.
And I know it took the officials helping out Seattle,
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but that's that's that's not great. And the Rams did
play a little mister potato head here, the hot potato
game with the you know, they played the hot potato
with the live you know, it was like a live
grenade they were passing around. It's inexcusable, right, you know,
f around you find out. But the NFL certainly helped in.
And there's a bit of a pattern here the Rams.
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Usually they just lose games more than get beat. Like
they didn't lose this game, or they didn't they didn't
get beat. I should say the game was given to
Seattle in this case. But the fur balls being coughed up,
they blew up a sixteen point. They really they blew
a fourteen point lead because Seattle is given two points,
so you don't get credit for that. You didn't You
didn't earn it. You know, real people know that they
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did blow a nineteen point lead in Philadelphia earlier this year.
So that's a bad habit and McVeigh needs to flush
that immediately. You look at the big picture, thirty thousand
feet up looking down, the Rams are perfectly fine. It's
not like they have some kind of home field advantage.
There's not a moat at Sofi Stadium. They were in
the NFC Championship Game a couple years ago. I was there.
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They played the forty nine ers. They might as well
have been played at the old Candlestick Park. There were
so many Niner fans it didn't matter. The Rams won
the game, and the Rams can win anywhere. They're good
enough to do that. And as long as Stafford's standing
upright and the Fellas are relatively healthy, you're not ever
going to be completely healthy. And the Rams aren't really concerned.
I mean, they'd love to play Seattle in the NFC
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Championship Game, and the only way Seattle can win is
with some help from the referees from the league office.
So the panic meter is pretty low, and I'm sure
McVeigh will sleep fine knowing that this was out of
his control. I mean, the NFL clearly wanted this outcome
based on what they did, giving Seattle two points. Otherwise
the game would have ended thirty to twenty eight. That's it.
Game over, Rams win by two. All right, last word here,
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So on the Seattle side of things, being given a gift,
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah? Did Sam Donald save himself with
Seattle and that crazy comeback? Because Sam Darnald was just
getting roasted and deserved it. He sucked at a time
you cannot suck. So did Darnald save himself? Because Seattle
ended up winning that game? So I'm going to vote
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first on this, and I'm going to vote A and
absolutely not. I go back to my point earlier. The
Ogs know what time it is Seattle right now. They
got that shiny record. They're now in the penthouse in
the NFC West. I wouldn't get comfortable, boys, it's more
like a verbo. It's an Airbnb Seattle standing on a
rickety pier and there's a big windstorm coming here, so
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be careful. And hey, it's great. I wish the Rams
had gotten help from the Zebras. I didn't know. I
didn't know that that was possible to get be given
two points. I've never seen that before. Watch football. I'm
getting old. I watched football enty live. I've ever seen
that the Zebras gave them more than a gentle nudge Seattle,
And you know, call it a league issued shopping cart
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shove if you will. And you know, suddenly some of
you are like, oh wait, we beat your Ram. The
Rams lost, are you well? No, I know about that.
I wouldn't. I wouldn't be opening champagne and lighting cigars.
I would not do that. You know. Sam Darnold was
a haunted house from kickoff pretty much to the curtain
call here two touchdowns, two picks. He was sacked four times,
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and for much of that game he was seeing ghosts.
It was like a midnight Mattinee for Sam Darnold. And
you know, you just know you can't win with him,
so it's like, what are we doing here? It's an
exercise in futility for Seattle. The real Seahawk fans know
this guy's gonna break, just break your back. Seattle won
in spite of him, not because of him, and he's
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an unreliable orchestrator. It's more kazoo than conductor. And you know,
and I know, and every man, woman and child knows
when the music matters, the needle skips just a little bit,
just a little bit at skips. And we've we've read
this paperback before. We saw it in Seattle. Last year,
we saw it in Minnesota. Rather the last year the
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dog eared kind of predictable. So if you were really happy,
I good for you, you should send a thank you
note email the NFL, thank you very much. Appreciate it.
Boys on Park Avenue there, thank you. We hope you
enjoy the mirage while it lasts. Enjoy it, Seattle fans,
twelve fans, whatever you call it. Because the jukebox is
warming up, and it's an Elvis classic for Seattle. Welcome
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to Heartbreak Hotel. As as that's going to be the case. Now,
as far as the MVP debate, does this end it?
I guess that's the question. Does this ram lost kill
Matthew Stafford's MVP campaign, his mojo for the MVP. I
don't even think that's close. Like again, I give that
argument side eye. Stafford played for most It wasn't perfect.
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There were some throws that sailed on him, but he
played for the most part like a five star chef
who was trapped in a kitchen fire. Four hundred and
fifty seven yards, three touchdowns against the top five defense,
against the top five defense, did not turn the ball over,
and he did it shorthanded. He did shorthanded without Pooka Nicoua,
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or with Pooka Nikoua scoring the touchdown without Devonte Adams.
And he threw that laser to Pooka in overtime swhich
you'd say, well, that's that's the sizzle play. If you
look at the sizzle reel, that's one of the sizzle
plays on the sizzle reel. And do you really dock
the quarterback? Because the defense at diarrhea, Die Die diarrhea.
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Now we know the refs had to send Pooka a message.
We mentioned the horsehead in the bed. The defense did
not do his job in overtime. They did not. And
that's not on Stafford though to me, the real call
for the big loser, and they were trying to prop
this guy up. They showed him on TV. Is Chris Shula,
the defensive coordinator of Aram's all name recognition. Another NEPO baby,
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Chris Shula, and his team had multiple chances to make
a play in overtime and did not get to stop.
And so Grandpa Don is rolling in his grave like,
what are you doing? At least you're not as embarrassing
as my kid, but my god, you're my grandson. You
got to do better than that. What are we doing here?
My goodness?
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Speaker 1 (20:29):
To our lead. This hour, we continue our in depth
team coverage from the game Heard Round the NFL. One
of the most egregious calls you'll ever see. It never
happened before two point conversion ball fell incomplete. Players stopped
playing at the whistle, and one of the Seattle players
walked over and picked up the football and to give
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it back to the referees. And they were lining up
to kick off the Seattle Seahawks there, and then they
side of the NFL, you know this helps Seattle any
push here, and let's give them two points. And they did.
They give them, They give them two points. So it's
pretty wild. Pretty whack a doodle, pretty whack of doodle.
What happened there, And we'll pay back to Puka Nakooa
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would appear by the league office saying, hey, we got
the power, boys, we got the power. We got the power.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Something else happened in the Pacific Northwest as Seattle was
given that win. They should have lost thirty to twenty
eight in regulation, but they ended up being given the
win by the NFL, and they end up winning in
an overtime. But our lead the GPS is in the Amazon,
so as the Seahawks were being given a gift against
the Rams. During that broadcast, a former star of the
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franchise went viral. If you didn't hear about this or
didn't see it, Marshawn Lynch, Who's like the closest thing
we have to Snoop Dogg. You know how like TV
networks or leagues bring Snoop Dogg in is like their mascot,
and like Marshan's that in that spectrum. He's on the
spectrum of like, hey, let's bring this guy in. He'll
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say some crazy stuff, everyone will laugh, it'll go viral,
we'll move on. We'll pay them a bunch of money.
So Marshawn was a guest panel lost on Amazon because
clearly they don't have enough meathead ex athletes on there.
They had to enhance the broadcast on Thursday Night Football.
So there he was next to Ryan Fitzpatrick, Andrew Whitworth,
Richard Sherman, and Tony Gonzalez, all side by side right there.
(22:23):
They were hanging out together. And is there anything memorable,
by the way about that Amazon broadcast? For me? I
usually hit the mute button. There's really nothing for me there.
But you know, maybe you like it. You're fanboy of
X jocks, you probably like it. So Marshawn Lynch. He
was on television there and it seemed like he was
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before he was on television. He was behind the production
truck and he was smoking and having a couple of
beers and kind of thought he was in the backyard
having like a neighborhood party with the boys. And let's
just say things got a little way. Take a listen.
We have a little clip here. Take a listen to
Marshawn Lynch, and this is just a preview of what
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he did pretty much the entire time he was on
being as you were.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
You a robberie guy, you got a robbery game memory,
you said, Robert.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Hm. That was one of the few bites that wasn't bleeped,
which is odd, but trust me, all right, but the
uh there was an actual a bleep bleep like in
the actual bleep on the broadcast. But the story that
to me, that's an Amazon just trust me. Amazon chose
to censor marsha On Lynch in like real time. It
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was being bleeped like as he was talking. It was.
It was wild whenever he pretty much every time he spoke,
he included at least an F word in every sentence.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question. All right, do you agree or disagree
with Amazon censoring Marshawn Lynch on its NFL coverage for
(24:08):
the Thursday night Seattle La Ram game. So my observations
on this, I have the Pope, Porcelain, Throne and PhD
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to go into zombie mode. That's right,
absolute zombie. It's a number one, number one. So do
(24:32):
I agree or disagree? I'm just I disagree. I'm shaking
my head. No, it's a hard no. It's a hard no.
This is silly with a capital S. Is what it is.
Does Amazon realize they're not Fox or NBC or CBS
or ABC, They're not governed by the FCC. I know
that's hard for you to believe, but the FCC governs
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old school media. We're governed by the FCC. We're on radio,
we have broadcast on hundreds of radio stations, have to
follow the FCC playbook. And television cable. Cable television doesn't
really over the air television does. And Amazon's streaming ring.
They're not Sunday School, They're streaming curse words. Gonna blow
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your mind or allowed, And isn't that the whole point?
Like people that get rid of cable television, I want
to I want people to curse. So I do a
podcast on the weekends, the Fifth Hour Policies. I'm allowed
to curse on the podcast. I did it for a
while when we started, and then it's like, I don't know,
I get too concerned. I'm gonna do it on this
the regular radio, and then it'll get me in a
(25:37):
lot of trouble. So I've cut back on that. But
if you're going to invest in bringing Marshawn Lynch, I'm
assuming Marshawn just kind of didn't show up on his own.
They paid him and they I don't think he lives
in Seattle anymore, so they had him fly in for
this event. So if you're if you're going to invite
beast Mode into the house and then clutch your pearls
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when he drops an F bomb like what are we
doing here? And seriously like that's like inviting the Pope
over and then being upset when he's bragging about the
Vatican and quoting the Bible. It's like, well, the Pope,
that's what the Pope does? I mean, what are you
expecting the pope to do? I mean, my god, you know.
So it's the same thing, and Marshawn without cursing and weed,
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it's it's like going to a barbecue joint and they
have tofu ribs. Well, who the hell wants that? Nobody
wants tofu ribs. He's like, this is stupid, Like what's
the point of that? And don't tell me. It was
like technical issues and all the place. They apparently have
the ability to bleep in real time faster than a
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YouTube ad. You can't skip. It's crazy. This smelled like
to me, this smelled like, hey, the NFL doesn't want that.
Our corporate overlords at the NFL Family first, deodorant family first,
and all this. Meanwhile, the curse words were flying like
a nice Chamber of Commerce day in Siberia. The snowflakes
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were coming down there as well, and it went viral.
Marshan sounded kind of like our caller Lucky Tony from
the Bay Area, uncensored, unfiltered and undefeated. Now his masterpiece.
Marshaan was talking about his visit to Ireland, and it's
(27:28):
pretty funny. It's pretty fun Marshaan said. He was messing
around with Game of Thrones. I thought that was filmed
in New Zealand, wasn't it. I think it was anyway,
said he was messing around with Game of Thrones. And
now he's got a quote he said, big ass dragon
at his house. And they said, well, how do you
have a dragon? You know what's going on with that?
And he said, well, he sent me a dragon skull
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because he was speaking apparently just by talking in New Zealand,
they'll send you a dragon skull. And then Lynch said
he was speaking Gaelic, so that must be fun too.
The skull line. That was classic. That was classic. Like
he sounded like he had visited before the broadcast doctor
Weed at the marijuana Dispensary in Venice Beach and he
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just tapped to show up there. And of course if
you can't handle that, I would advise you not book
him on Amazon. What do I know? Now? Meanwhile, to
Chicago we go where the Bears. You Foemi and FaZe
and those guys are all excited. The Bears are playing well.
They got a big game coming up on Saturday against
the Green Bay Packers, and quarterback Caleb Williams is in
(28:31):
the crossairs with the ABC broadcast group. Now we know
that Troy Aikman had to bug up his caboose over
Williams and he was taking some shots at him on
the ABC broadcast of a Bears came out in a
recent interview his partner in crime. Talking about Troy Aikman's
partner in crime, Joe Buck added some more context. Joe
(28:54):
Buck explained that Caleb Williams had stood up the ABC
broadcast crew more than once, and Buck said, hey, he said,
we sat on zoom waiting forever and he just never
came talking about Caleb Williams. I don't know what else
we can do, And Joe Buck said, has happened multiple
times this season. So the question what did you take
(29:19):
from Joe Buck and his commentary here on the truancy
of Bears quarterback Caleb Williams. So this is not a
scheduling snaffo. That is a demerit for character written in
thick black sharpie. Is what that is? It tells you
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everything you need to know, Like what do we all
what do we all agree on? Growing up as kids?
One time is a mistake, two times is a pattern?
So say, okay, one time's a mistake. Keep doing it
and suddenly it's patternicity. This is not Innermurals at USC anymore.
This is the the big the NFL, with the TV
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contract the size of Lake Michigan, and it's on the
back of this kind of stuff. Like Joe Buck basically
said at the Bear's quarterback left the ABC crew standing
at the altar, if you will, staring at their zoom
screens like it was. It was just kind of frozen, like, well,
I don't understand here. It's really but that's not mysterious,
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that's that's not miscommunication. I wouldn't file out in a miscommunication.
That is diva capital D, diva behavior wrapped in noise
canceling headphones. It just is it is. Here's the malord
math on this. So the league cells access, they charge
a lot of money, the networks buy it, and quarterbacks
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are the storefront mannequin, if you will, right, they're the
storefront mannequin. And you don't get to look, you know,
you get to look at the storefront and not see
the mannequins because that's what the NFL is selling. And
you don't get if you're one of the quarterbacks, you
don't get to lock the door and go hide in
the back. It's part of the gig. You don't have
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to hang face to face anymore. Since the pandemic that's
pretty much ended. You just have to turn your phone on.
How hard is that? How hard is that? You can
literally do it while sitting on the porcelain throne. You
could be dropping a deuce and talking to Troy Aikman
and Joe buck right. You could also be scrolling TikTok
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looking at photos on Instagram like a teenager. And you
don't have to make eye contact. There's no eye contact
to be made. There's none. And so Caleb acting a
bit like Beyonce refusing the media. And he's a rookie
now second year quarterback. He's not a rookie anymore, the
second year guy. And then the team is playing pretty
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good football here and you're supposed to show up. That's
what adults do. They show up and pretty easy too.
It's on Easy Street and he's already out there, Jaywalk,
what's up with that?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
All?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Right? Final point to Ohio we go a big old
sign causing a hullabaloo in the Buckeye State and a
sign that went up this week in Cincinnati calling on
the Bengals to make some changes. The billboard read fire Zach, fire, Duke,
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save Burrow. All right, let's discuss question this new billboard
in Cincinnati calling for the Bengals to fire coach Jack
Taylor general manager Duke Tobin. How effective? How effective are
these billboard protests? That's the question. Now. I do like
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before I get into this. I like the fact that
whoever put the billboard up a has a lot of
money and b thinks that Joe Burrow is not part
of the problem at all. Joe Burrow is the saint
and there's nothing wrong with Joe Burrow at all. In
terms of the billboard protests. This has happened many times
over the years. It's still despite the Internet, a chosen
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tactic because you can't really avoid billboards. If you put
a billboard up from the highway on the way to
the stadium, everyone that gets to work has to go
through that particular highway. It's pretty hard to avoid a billboard.
Pretty hard to avoid a billboard. But this is the
modern version of storming the bastille, right, brought to you
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by outdoor advertising and a Venmo account to pay the bill.
But if you're honest, the Bengals ownership, the Brown family.
What can Brown do for you? The Brown Family, Bengals
ownership group. I will guarantee you they saw that sign.
They said, I saw the sign and they had to
come to Jesus moment. Absolutely, unless that didn't happen, Unless
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that didn't happen, and they did not have a epiphany,
did not happen. The billboard protests do not change power structures.
They don't. They don't force firings, they don't rewrite contracts.
What they do is attempt to embarrass ownership. Believe we're
past that now with the Brown family. If they had
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any shame in their game, they would have been out
long ago. Now. They do create noise, they generate clicks
that if that was the stated goal, cowabunga dude, because
you did it. You did it, You did it, you
did it. You got your little media coverage and all
that stuff. You created some noise and it's a symbolic protest.
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It's kind of like a flare gun being shot into
the fog. You're not really accomplishing much, you just not.
Like NFL fans love to threaten to boycott, whether it's
the Jets or the Browns, and the Bangles, all these
suck bag teams are they threatened boycotts and walking out
of the stadium and all of this righteous flirt, you know,
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fury where they're just so excited on it until the
next game kicks off and then it's right back to
the stadium. Or if you watch on television, you lay
on your sofa, you got your big fat gut there
and you got nachos in one hand, you got some
peanuts in the other there, and you're yelling at the
TV like nothing happy. And the teams know this. They've
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done the market research. The owners know this, they've run
the math on this. It's engagement, not apathy. Engagement not apathy,
is what it is. And NFL owners have always had
PhDs and ignoring fans, the if ignoring fans and so yes,
billboards work if you're looking to create a bonfire, a
very very expensive bonfire, burn baby, burn, burning cash for engagement,
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a brief moment of communal raid jup and people driving
by saying, oh wow, look at that man. They're unhappy
and there's the billboard. Okay, what are we gonna do
about it? Nothing, We're not gonna do anything about it.
But there's the billboard. Okay, that's great, wonderful. You had
a nice little billboard up. That's absolutely great. Absolutely.
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It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree. This
is one big Ben gets grilled gopolop.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
A report on Wednesday said that with Patrick Mahomes's status
for next season up in the air, the Chiefs could
make a big move by drafting a developmental quarterback.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Oh big move, yes, Ben, did.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
You see the Chiefs doing that?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Well, they should do it if as long as he
can handle it. The I don't know how Mahomes is wired.
Brady got very uncomfortable with Jimmy Garoppolo in New England
and the legend as he forced the Patriots to trade
Garoppolo because he didn't like the Garoppolo come of behind
his shoulder and as so, I depends how Mahomes wire.
But yeah, smart, this is what good teams do. You
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have a great quarterback, draft a guy, develop him, and
then trade him for more draft picks. Next.
Speaker 7 (36:52):
The Carolina Panthers have won an NFL leading six games
as underdogs this season. They are underdogs again at home
against the Buccaneers team with an identic record. Do you
think they can come away with the upset again?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Uh? Yeah, Well, if you watch Benny versus the Penny,
I do. They're a yo yo team. They're not a
good team. They're not a good team, but they're a
yo yo team right when you expect them to play poorly,
they play okay. They're inconsistent, they're often reckless, they're unstudy.
But this is Tampa Bay's a mess. Baker Mayfield has
been terrible the last month next.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
So it was reported this week that Bengals coach Zach
Taylor's contract runs through twenty twenty seven, not twenty twenty
six like the team had previously announced. Taylor was asked
about it, and he said, I don't think it really matters.
I coach every day like it's my last. Yeah, And
will that last day come this season?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Because the Bengals are cheap. They'd have to put a
bake sale together, a pot luck, pot luck luncheon to
be able to afford to pay off his concert. At
least he'll likely be back. He should be fired. How
do we do? How do we do that.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
A perfect week of the show. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
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Knock knock, Who's there? Blame Weed, blame wee too. It's
Big Ben's lame joke of the week, and.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
It's lame jokes. We could not afford that extra s.
Hello weed Man, hippie in Hollywood? What's up? How are you?
Weed Man? What you get from Hanikah? Harry? Weed Man?
Did you get anything from Honiicah? Harry? No? I guess
you're still waiting. Okay, these are actual jokes. If you'd
(38:35):
like to send jokes in for a future episode of
the show, you can send them in care of Benmaller
Show at gmail dot com. Ben Malor Show at gmail
dot com. Here we go. Why did weed Man sit
on a toddler's cup at the holiday party? Why? Well,
instead of being elf on the shelf, weed Man wanted
(38:58):
to be a hippie on a sippy. George and Uvalde
Texas sent that one in. Thank you, George. What do
weed Man and Santa Claus have in common. What It
turns out they both worked just one day a year.
That's it. That's Terry and Sat Paul. When when's your
(39:21):
day to work? Weed Man? Do you know when you work?
I guess when you have to go pick up more weed?
And yeah, a lot. It's a lot of work there,
I understand. Yes, all right. Did they take eb t
at the weed shop? Weed Man?
Speaker 7 (39:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I wish they do.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Make it a lot easier for you. I understand they
sell a lot more too. All right. Well, weed Man
Hippie he was seen carrying an empty refrigerator box around Hollywood, Florida.
It turns out his family did come to visit for
the holidays and he needed a place for them to stay.
So it was like, sho, why did the rabbi kick
(40:02):
Weedman Hippie out of the temple? Why? Well, I guess
weed Man Hippie was trying to turn a menora into
a nine bowl pipe and it just upset the rabbit.
That's George and Juvalde, Texas who sent that one in.
How does weed Man get around without a car? Wow? Well,
he's a big fan of riding around in the cannabis,
(40:24):
big fan big fan loves it. That's Brendan from Brendan
from Boston who sent that one to thank you? Brendan.
What is weed Man Hippie's favorite Christmas movie? What Miracle
on Section eight Street? That's a good joke from Kurt
(40:48):
from Earth. You got anything? We coop? Any of your
jokes now? All right, Coops out. If you have any
offensive jokes, contact Coop. Why did weed Man start lifting weights?
Why he wanted to become high and mighty. That's Chip
in Maine who sent that one in Vanger for that
ship in Maine. Weed Man is giving his wife and
son a Christmas they will never forget. Right, Yeah, you're
(41:13):
giving him nothing. That's Eke from Roseville, Minnesota. Why Why
is weed Man jealous that people can buy a new
mattress in a box? Why? Because weed Man had always
used a box as a new mattress. That's Surfer Todd,
the comedian now living in Lost Wages, Nevada. How about
(41:34):
that Surfer Todd's moved to Sint City. Why did weed
Man move to New Hampshire and not Boston Because in
Boston there's too much yellow snow. In New Hampshire, he
heard there's a lot of fresh white powder. Hello, that's
a Mike the Leprechaun who sent that one in? Why
does weed man love Donald Trump today? Why he made
(41:56):
pot legal everywhere? There you go, it said Kalepricha, your
favorite president. A weed man's wife is giving him a suv.
Give him an suv for Christmas? Wow? Yeah, socks, underwear
and viagra. That's Ike and Roseville jokes on the way.
Thank your weed Man.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
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Speaker 1 (42:23):
I need I don't have time. I need you to
toss the coop. I'm up against the clock here, I
need you to say. Can you say, Hey, this is
E Dog from New York and for all your entertainment,
here's Cooper.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Loop yep, and I got a joke with He's just.
Speaker 7 (42:41):
His brain doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Who would win him? If we did a battle of
I don't know what we call it, Dorco and E Dog?
Who would win that matchup? And Marcel would Marcel be
the third man.
Speaker 7 (42:53):
In we would all lose brain socks. Well, Dorco is
putting on an act, so I mean.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Dorco's a smart guy, but he's doing it in character.
I got you. All right, Well, very good, let's go
coop a little Hollywood. Big weekend ahead? Are the Christmas
blockbusters out yet? Cool?
Speaker 7 (43:09):
Well, we do have a number of big time movies
releasing this weekend that some of them you might get
excited about the first one. Uh, it's a big movie.
It's Avatar, Fire and Ash. This is the third installment
of the Avatar series. At this point, I I don't
(43:29):
really care, but I say that, and yet I'm probably
gonna go see it in theaters.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Well, you have a movie past, don't you.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
True, that's true, but you have to pay a little
like you have to pay a little upgrade fee if
you want to see things in imax, which I mean,
if you're not seeing this in imax, what's the point?
That's that's it's all about the visuals to me at
this point, because.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
The point is to avoid the up charge, that's the point.
Speaker 7 (43:53):
Yeah, yeah, But the story is like, there's only so
many times you can see you know, animated three D
and gully. But moving on. Also out this weekend is
the SpongeBob movie.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Oh this is big. Ferg Dog, keep your pants on,
Ferg Dog, Come on.
Speaker 7 (44:10):
Well, this is the SpongeBob movie search for square pants.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Oh my god, that's right. MG, Holy crap.
Speaker 7 (44:18):
It's gotten eighty five percent from Metacritic. Right so far,
So you know.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
That's just Ferg Dog and his bots. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (44:25):
Probably. And last, but certainly not least, this weekend is
the release of the movie The Housemaid, and this movie
stars none other than Sidney Sweeney. Oh an Amanda se.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
A fan of her work. You appreciate her skills, yes,
very to. She's a lovely lady in my apologies to.
Speaker 7 (44:46):
Her, yes, But Amanda Seafreed also pretty pretty great actress herself.
And this is a wildly entertaining thriller starring Sidney Sweeney
and Amanda Seafreed, based on the best selling book and
Sydney Sweeney accepts a job as a living housemaid for
the wealthy Nina, who is played by Sea Freed, and
(45:07):
what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something
more dangerous, A sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal and power. Yes, intriguing.
We'll see if this one flops like our last movie.
I don't think it will. The last movie was about
a female boxer.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Now The Rain is actually gonna see this movie right
when the Cowboy game kicks off.
Speaker 7 (45:28):
He's gonna go, Yes, probably if she's not at Disneyland.
But I'll be wearing my jersey with the upside down
Cowboys symbol.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Because you're cool. You're a cool person, all right, So
I want to cool people.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Do hit.
Speaker 7 (45:44):
A couple of things on the TV side here real quick. First,
is this kind of new experimental cartoon that they're doing.
It it's called Adult Swims the Elephant, and it premiered
on Adults well, it will premiere on Adults Swim at
eleven pm tonight. It's also available on HBO Max for streaming.
And so it's a one off experiment where they have
(46:07):
four different animators, the guy from Adventure Time, a couple
other famous animators, and they don't know what it is
they're working on, and each animator is responsible for one
of the show's three acts, but they were given virtually
no information about the other two parts, and so they
kind of are working together to create a cohesive story.
(46:29):
Four different animation styles, should be should be interesting. That's
available on HBO Max. And then, last, but certainly not.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Least, here we go.
Speaker 7 (46:39):
Here we go on Wednesday, December twenty No, no, no,
I'm sorry, I'm wrong. It is Monday. It's on Monday, Monday.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
I was gonna say, NORMALLYY don't release stuff on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 7 (46:51):
On Monday, December twenty second, a new Netflix documentary L Way.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
That's Rights. Oh boy, now, Coop, are you gonna buy
your next car from the Lway dealership? Because he's got
Doesn't he still have those car dealership? I didn't don't.
Speaker 7 (47:08):
Does he still have them? I don't know if he
does anymore.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
No, he got rid of him.
Speaker 7 (47:11):
I know he still has the uh the steakhouse. No
he does. He does still have the dealerships.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
There's a lot of money, and if you own a
car dealership, there is a lot. I don't know how
they make so much money, but there's a ton of
money in that, a ton of money. A buddy of
mine used to work in the car business and said, dude,
that they're loaded. You can get in even if you
own a part of a car.
Speaker 7 (47:31):
Do they used car dealerships where it's at right, that's
where that's where all the money is.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
I was told they make most of their money on
the service. That's where they really that's where they really
stick it to you. That's where it's kind of like
when you remember the old thing with Printer's coop where
you buy the printer, they give you the printer because
the ink would cost a fortune.
Speaker 7 (47:47):
Oh, I know it, I used to.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yeah, that was your game. That's right, that was your game.
You were in that racket. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (47:54):
Anyway, get your popcorn ready for that Lweight documentary. I'm
sure it's gonna be fantastic. And that's coop scooping entertainment.
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