January 10, 2020 • 53 mins
Ben Maller judges the Joe Judge press conference as he is introduced as the new head coach of the New York Giants. Ben explains why he loves the hiring of Mike Leach at Mississippi State. Plus, the latest editions of Maller to the Third Degree and Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week!
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free rate quote. So you know the drill here, it's
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a seasonal thing. We are in the middle of the
pep Rally season. Now. The pep Rally season is where
NFL coaches are introduced, right, and we were on during
the week, and these news comments all happen while we're
on so we get to play the audio from said
pep rally where you're trying to get the natives very happy,
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when the people that follow your team to get all
excited and all that. And it's always find these things interesting,
even though most most of them feature the same comments.
You know, I've noticed over the years that when a
coach gets hired they say pretty much the same thing
some version of the same things when they get hired,
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just like when they get fired they say the same things. Right,
so you can go down the list of the cliches
that take place when it it's highed. You know, I'm
excited for the opportunity. I'm looking forward to the challenge
those kind of lines. I have high expectations. I'm gonna
hold these players accountable. You know, all that crap that
you're supposed to say. And you have to praise the franchise.
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You have to so great it is to work for
the team, whatever team it is, even if the team sucks,
you have to say it. You have to talk about
how this is a good opportunity, even when it's not
a good opportunity. You stuff to lie, you have to
say it's a good opportunity. Then you always are supposed
to celebrate the fan because they're the ones that buy
the ticket, right, They're the ones that buy the merchandise.
So you have to always say how great the fans are.
Even if you think the fans are scumbags and a
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bunch of morons, you still have to say they're good.
All right? With that as the backdrop, it was the
New York Giants opportunity in the batter's box there, Joe Judge,
did you see this? Did you watch any of this?
I was sleeping, but I watched it on the YouTube,
A virtual unknown for most of the football all fan
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bases around the United States and Canada and Mexico. So
Judge is now the head coach of the most popular
NFL team in the New York City metropolitan area in Gotham.
So let's discuss as news conference the question what are
the big takeaways? There? Now, you didn't watch it, And
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the good thing about this is you don't now have
to watch it because I watched it for you thirty
minutes of nonsense, and I spent Someday I'll be on
my deathbed and I wish I had an extra thirty minutes,
and I will remember I watched Joe Judge is what
I watched. That was the guy that I watched. Yeah,
all right, So what were your takeaways from Joe Judge's
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opening news conference. You've got mister Rogers, House of Cards,
and peewee, and we will tie all these things together. Now, hey,
Joe Judge is not here to make you laughter. The
immediate reaction I had a man as this guy intense,
He is never going to tell a joke in his life.
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He sounded so over the top serious. It was like,
whoa wait a minute, what's going on with this guy?
Does he have any other thing that he cares about?
It all in life? And you know, of course, I,
of all people, don't have a lot of balance in
my life. But you could say, if you like him,
he's a no nonsense kind of guy. But to give
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you a little taste of what it sounded like, here
is the coach of the giants, here Joe Judge, who
says he's from the old school. There's a question out there.
I'm sure a lot of people are asking. That's number one?
Who am I? Maybe I can explain the gaming Who
am I? If by telling you what's relevant this conversation
with being a coach of New York Giants. What I'm
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about and what I'm about is an old school physical mentality. Well,
we're gonna put a product on the field that the
people of this city and region, because this team will
represent this area. That could be a drop who am I?
That's the who am I? Again? You think he's a
closeted listener of the show, He could be be a
fan of who am I? Game? How about a great
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homage from the Giant's head coach there clearly knows our show.
He said, who am I? It's great? Who Now in
the next sound bite, if he says instant trivia, I'm leaving.
Am done. I'm out of here. If he says mallard
to the third degree at any point, I'm retiring. That's it,
all right. Here's more from the new coach or the Giants.
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And he's talking about violence. He wants violence. We'll play fast,
we'll play downhill, we'll play aggressive, We'll punch you in
a nose for sixty minutes. We'll play every d like
it's a history in a life of its own. Wow,
with a relentless competitive attitude. We'll play fundamentally sound. We'll
not beat ourselves. That's ambition right here there, you go.
Don't beat yourself please, very violent. I'm a peacenick. I
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don't know that I can handle this violence. Can't we
make love not war? Why do you have to punch
someone in the face. Why can't you punch him in
the shoulder? You know, I got friendly punch in the
shoulder like that. Now, all right, so we'll play some
more here in a little bit. But he's the guys
you heard in the abus. I don't believe in gimmicks,
you know. He's not about the magic schemes and all that.
Reinventing the wheel. Now, that was fine for like the
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first five or ten minutes, but then you're like, does
this guy have anything else? Does he have any else? Now?
Dave Gettelman, who should be repairing refrigerators or something like that.
He's the gem of the giants. He likes to position
himself as the no nonsense kind of guy. And it
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was I will say the word uncomfortable. How serious this
Joe Judge guy was. I mean, I would say, and I,
of all people, loosen up. That would be my you know,
it's okay, it's all right. You know. He was talking
about empathy and taking care of players, but he sounded
angry while he was talking about empathy, which I thought
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was ironic. And I would ask him to take the
advice of mister Rogers. Not mister Rogers, the beloved children's
TV host who they've made several movies about recently. But
I'm talking about Aaron Rodgers. That would be the advice, right,
that would be the advices. Relax, there's no need to
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get all stressed out. Judge talked about as we played
the soundbites. They's something being a blue collar team, working class, right.
I want to I want the people love this area,
to love our team, the way we play, and all
this stuff. I'll believe it when I see it. Now.
Judge says he won't be the offensive, defensive, or special
team's coach. He's just he's gonna stay in his lane.
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Stay in your lane, as LaVar Ball said back in
the day. And to tell you that I'm not lying
about this, listen to him talk about how the Giants
are going to be a spitting image of the New
York metropolitan area. I want the people to pay their
hard earned money in the neighborhoods of New York to
come to our games and note the players on the
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field play with the same attitude they wake up with
every morning. That is blue collar. It's hard work, it's
in your face. We're going to come to work every
day and grind it out the way they do in
their jobs every day. And they can invest their money
in our program. But is representing their neighborhoods, their communities,
and their families with the values they have instill in
their children. It's all about value. Talking about children values.
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What about the people that are unwelfare? Are they allowed
to support your team? Only the people that have jobs?
What about them? I don't know? All right. He also
talked about how the giants are going to be physical
and they're not going to be a bunch of pussy willows.
We will practice with a physical attitude. We will practice
in pads. That's will practice live tackling. Yep. Not to
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make a statement that we're trying to be tough. No,
We're going to practice live tackling because I believe in
doing it safely. That's right. There's not going to be
shortcuts what we have to do. That's a tough division.
It's a tough division in cities full of tough people.
Not really, I mean for the division sucks the worst
division in football. Have you not seen the NFC? I
mean the team made the play. They were never almost
gonna have a losing record. Was up until the end
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of the last couple of weeks they were gonna have
a losing record. What's up with that tough division? It
ain't nineteen eighty seven anymore? I mean, what's up on that?
All right? Anyway, so live tackling that's very very exciting indeed.
All right. So anyway, continuing the mantra here of the
new hire in the NFL, Joe Judge the Giants part Beer.
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This is the Giants have built what I believe is
a house of cards in terms of the roster. This
has been a franchise who has been trending water in
the sewer, you know that dirty sewer water. That's essentially
what they've been doing here. I believe they have over
the last three years the worst record in the NFL.
You can smell the sulfur and the feces when watching
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Big Blue play, And is Judge gonna be the guy
that's the Messiah and the Savior and the person that
can wrecked the franchise out of said sewer. Stop being
a pushover. Well, that's an open question. Now we are
going to give him the standard thirty day package that
we give coaches when they're high. We wait about a
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month and then we go full arsenal. We weaponize is
what we do on this show, and then we attack,
even though we don't really have any skin in the game.
Although there are a lot of Giants fans that listen
to the show, both San Francisco Giants and New York
Giants that you mentioned today, if they started sports, they
they would never have teams in football and baseball with
the same names. But we do have the Cardinals that
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the Giants and these It's an odd, odd dynamic. But
I'm getting carried away. Get back to the point, please,
So as far as the Giants roster is concerned, Now,
if you're an optimist, I'm not. But if you're an optimist,
you'll say, well, look, the Giants have Daniel Jones min
This guy was a top ten pick a couple of
years back. I mean, you're saying you got a franchise quarterback.
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I have not seen him perform like a franchise. I
know it's a small sample size. I've not been overly impressed.
I'm not. I mean, like fine young quarterback. There's a
point of demarcation where you have to get it done
or you don't. It would help if the Giants defense,
which is detached from all the other good defenses, actually
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you know, tackled somebody. That would be a starter for
the Giants. And Joe Judge has his work cut out
for him for several reasons. There is a reason that
big names in coaching did not want the Giant job.
They wouldn't touch the Giant job with a ten foot
pull because it is a mega project. There is no
rest for the wicket, as they say there. They have
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been doing demo on the Giant roster for how many years?
But the problem is they're unable to When you do
the demo, you then have to put something in there.
They can't modernize, right. They can't find gems. They don't
find them there in the locker room. Apparently the disease
of losing the pandemic all over the Giants franchise. Now,
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the other thing about Joe Judge is no one had
ever heard of him. I mean, who the hell is he?
He addressed that he was asked about about that not
being the guy and not being the person that people
were hoping for. To be completely honest with you, I'm
not really concerned about whoever interviewed for this job. Really.
All I'm concerned about is the opportunity I have in
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front of me and what I have to do going forward.
And I'm gonna tell my players the same thing. It
doesn't matter how you got there, it doesn't matter how
high profile you may be or may not be. It's
what you do on a daily basis. You're in a
position earn it, earn it every day, and I appreciate
the opportunity. I'm working every day to earn it. Gotta
earn it, man, I always say, you gotta earn it. Yeah,
of course, what's he gonna say. I'm very upset and
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I'm offended that people don't know who I am, even
though my family didn't know who I was until a
week ago. All right, last word here, So Joe Judge
a stark contrast from the recent Giant coaches. Yet Pat
Well Pat Shermer was more recently, he was always annoyed
and confused with the media. You had Ben McAdoo, who
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was kind of like a snake oil salesman. Then before
that you had Tom Coughlin, who people liked because they
won occasionally and was very serious and all that Judge
is more like Tom Coughlin. Like he talked about the Giants.
You know, we played some of the soundbites. They're all fundamentals.
In fact, I gonna tell you just between us, he
sounded like a peewee football coach trying to teach a
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bunch of eight year olds the first time, Like I
think the first day of Giants training camp. All right,
here's how you put your shoulder pads on, Here's how
you put your knee pads in. This out works, That's
what he sounded like. You show up on time, dressed properly,
know the playbook stretched the right way. He said, all
these things run, tackle ball, security, blah blah blah, blah
blah blah blah. Now, the one thing that Joe Judge
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said that really stood out that I like, And this
was good because this is one of my pet peeves
and I feel like this this defeatist attitude among coaches
and a lot of these guys are the village idiot
when it comes to rosters and talent of players. And
it was what Joe Judge learned from Bill Belichick, and this,
if this is what Joe Judge does as a coach,
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then I'm in. I'm in. I'll buy some stock. And
Joe Judge the Giants coach. And what I learned from
Coach Belichick was real simple. Be flexible within your personnel.
Don't try to shove round pegs and the square holes.
Figure out what you have. Let them play to their strengths.
Don't sit in a meeting and tell me what you
don't have in a player. Don't tell me they can't
do a certain thing. Tell me what they can do,
and then we'll figure out as coaches, because that's our
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job how we can use that, that's our responsibility. Everybody
has something they can do. How many cast offs you
see around the league end up another team. Everyone says, wow,
how'd they get that out of them? Maybe they just
weren't closing her eyes to what they could do about that.
That is a direct shot at how many NFL coaches.
But that's right out of Belijick. That sounds like something
that Belichick said sometime in a meeting, and he just
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paarroted Belichick. He just repeated Beligick. It's sound bite point.
Like Belichick has been the Jedi master. He asked me
this Belichick, you know, rip him, call him a cheater,
or whatever you want to do. But Belichick has been
the master at finding unheard of and unsung players and
turning them into maybe not great players, but certainly pivotal
players on a team that regularly makes the playoffs and
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goes very far in the playoffs. And every great coaching
handbook do you just teach that? Right, you just teach that?
And that's it. Too. Many of these coaches are so
stuck in their ways. They're so stubborn. We drafted you
as a defensive bucket. You're gonna play a defensive bucket.
If you can't play defensive back, that's it. We're gonna
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trade your ass. Your ass is grass. Meanwhile, that guy
could play another position, maybe as a receiver or something
like that, and be an effective performer for your team.
But they're unwilling to adapt. That's why I go back
to the defeatist attitude. All Right, is the Ben Malis
Show on Fox Time. Now, We've been doing it all
week spending the Wheel of Producers here, we've had lead
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a lap, we had Bow was in here, the Bow Show. Whoa.
We got a new name. We got a new name
on the Wheel of Producers. We welcome in. Keep trying
Ryan Burshinger there is Ryan. Welcome Ryan, Thank you Ben.
It's good to be back. Even it's just for tonight.
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Now Ryan got the nickname keep trying Ryan because he
forgot the password and we got locked out of the
company Twitter account, the Fox Sports Radio Twitter account. We
got locked out of it. Any problems on Twitter tonight?
Everything good, Everything all right? Twitter is fine. However, I
did I moved a couple of my screens in here,
and then one of them went black, and when it
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came back, the picture on the picture on the screens
kind of shifted off the screen. So now, um, it's look,
I'm sorry, I clearly so you're having computer issue. Happy
you're saying, and how will this negatively impact our show? Um,
it shouldn't as long as it's it's the hall screener screen.
As long as the picture itself doesn't continue to slide
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further and further away, I still can see. Would you
like me to reset it? I can reset it. I
can go back into master control and reset it. Um, no,
you know, it's it's okay. No, I need it's okay.
It's it's my burden to bear because my my call
screener was broken for a day and a half or
whatever it was the other earlier this week. So oh yeah,
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well so you see you're here's what you're doing. I'm
gonna I'm gonna tell you what you do. You just
spit at it and you know, put some glue on it,
and you're good. That's that's our That's how we repair
things around here. Just spit and glue. That's it. Everything's
put together was spit and glue. Got it? True? I
got a lot of that. Yeah, oh you have a
last spit. I do really do a lot of flegm. Yeah,
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you're very very clemped. Yeah, a little a little bit,
a little bit, I understand. In better health than Coop.
How's the acting? Yeah, Coop's on his death bed. Pray
for Coop. So are you now? We talked a long
time ago. I know you don't want to work here.
You really don't like being here, and you'd like to
be an actor, Sony. Any luck on that no, no, okay,
so you're still here so here. When I see you,
it means you've not made it big on some Netflix show.
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That's correct. Yes, all right, I got John, very good.
Keep trying, Ryan. The Wheel of Producers continues to be
sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Anyway, let's get to it.
Here we go. It's Maller. How about that to the
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third degree? This is one big Ben gets grail. I
think we should just lock everyone up to their twenty
one and then we'll release them. We won't educate him,
we'll just release them. All right, Go ahead there, burd Shinger.
What do we have for the Mallard of the third degree?
By the way, in its regular slot piece, I'm back
on the clock. On the clock, Mallard by the clock
for the clock, plausibly all about the clock. Nicely done,
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Thank you well. First off. Appearing on WWL radio's Sports
Talk on Wednesday, Drew Brees hinted at playing until forty
four or forty five, saying saying I know I can
still play. I know I could play another three to
four years. I want to do it on my own terms. Ben,
Who do you think plays longer, Drew Brees or Tom Brady?
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I believe Breeze was talking about he wants to still
be able to play with his kids when he's forty
five years old. But but no, the answer is Tom Brady.
And I'll tell you why this one is easy. Right, Hey,
tom Brady's forty two years old. He's a year older,
so he's in the clubhouse, the leader over Drew Brees
in that category. Plus he's got that whole TV twelve,
Formula twenty five, glasses of water and stretching and all
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that stuff. Tom Brady is convinced that he has not
regressed at all and he's still great. The Patriots, the
smart money says they're still likely to bring him back,
that he's not gonna leave, and if he does leave,
he'll go to another team. He's football royalty who have
plenty of opportunities to play another season, go year to year,
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and Drew Brees he doesn't seem as married to play.
You know. The rumor going around is that Breese is
gonna be offered the Monday night football job that he
could replace Booger in the Monday night booth. And we
know Breeze loves attention. He's an attention horror. He popped
up on TV shows like that reality show he was
on this week, so you got that as part of
the deal. And also people don't like to talk about this,
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but the last two years, for the first twelve weeks
of the same season, Drew Brees was great. The last
four weeks, pe you what stinks? Turnovers all over there.
He had seven turnover worthy throws over the last three
weeks of the same season. I got away with most
of them, certainly weeks sixteen and weeks seventeen he didn't
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get away with it against the Vikings and Teddy Bridgewaters
hanging around. So I'm gonna go with Tom Brady next.
Former NFL quarterback Carson Palmer said on The Rich Eisen
Show on Wednesday, Oh, that's what's what network is that on?
That is on Fox Sports really on Fox Sports Radio? Right? Okay? Who, Yeah,
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I've heard of. Carson Palmer said that if Jameis Winston
is back in Tampa with Bruce Arians, he expects year
two to be a massive year for him. Yeah, Ben,
do you buy that Jamis will clock big time in
Tampa next year. Well, he's not gonna be in Tampa
and my evidence on that. Did you see Bruce Arians
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his comments at the end of the year, Yeah, well
I might have been on hiatus, but I was still
looking around here. First thing here, at the end of
the regular season, Bruce Arians sounded so fed up, so
disgusted with all the turnovers of Jamis Winston that he
like he had spent all year working with Winston and
what does Winston doing his final game? It's a pickupalooza.
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In his final game with Tampa Bay. During the regular season,
he continued to make the same mistakes he made Game one,
he made in Game sixteen for Tampa Bay, and it
was enough to give heartburn to Bruce Arians and all
that stuff, those little mistakes to get blown up. That
the simple out passes where famous Jamis gets caught telegraphing
throws and he gets picked off and all that stuff.
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So it is a long shot that Jamis Winston comes
back to Tampa Bay. But I'll tell you what, if
he does come back to Tampa Bay, he's got a
chance to go forty for forty. I think forty touchdowns.
Forty interceptions should be the bar for Jamis Winston. And
as far as Carson Palmer is concerned, all right, the
fact that this was said by Carson Palmer means nothing.
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He is a surrogate of Bruce Arians right. They worked
together with the Arizona Cardinals. They were together there in
the Valley of the Sun. So take it with a
grand assault, all right. Next, well, benam she saw earlier
tonight Kevin Durants is back at it again on social media.
Was changing barbs with his former teammate Kendrick Perkins. He
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said multiple rants this week. Durant has been all over
the case, I should say, yeah, one of those earlier
in the week, he was going back and forth with
NBA fans defending the relevancy of the Brooklyn Nets. Yeah.
Why does Katie continue to get into these uh, these
dust stuff? Because he wants to give us content in
sports radio and he feels like if I continue to
be a just I can't say the word I was
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gonna say, but if I continue to be a so
and so on social media. First of all, Kevin Durant,
we know he's got a few issues, right, He's bored
because he's not playing. That's the biggest problem Durant has.
If he was playing, I don't think he would be
doing this as much. But he's not playing. He's hurt,
and he has a lot of free time on his hands.
He's also he's got the same problems he had in
Golden State in Oklahoma. He's got rabbit ears and he's
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thin skinned. That is a lethal cocktail, is what it is.
And those are the secret blend of eleven herbs and
spices that create these knockdown, drag out tussles on social
media setting. Katie is very defensive about whatever decision he
makes right every wherever. I mean, most people defend the
choices they make. I get that, but he is over
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the top, temperamental, and now his points are like misguided, right,
he's Durant reminded all these people. Now, he did make
one point that I agreed with. He reminded all these
people that were ripping the nets that they're not relative
enough to the NBA. They're not they don't mean anything
to the NBA. And he pointed out that they clearly
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the nets are relative enough. Where these idiots were commenting
on the nets on social media, so obviously they matter
to these people enough. But yeah, Kevin Durant needs an intervention.
He needed an intervention in Golden State. He never got one.
And it's that old line we always talk about, when
you feed the monsters, you create more monsters. When you
throw food to the trolls, the trolls not only eat
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the food, they want more food. But hey, it's good
for the show. All right there, It is Mallard to
the third degree for the final time this week with
three different producers. How did we do? Congratulations Ben, you
have passed and you keep trying. Lion can continue on
for another couple of hours. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
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Eastern eleven pm Pacific. We gotta shake up in college football,
or not that kind of shake up, a different kind
of shakeup. Welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's
the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere
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the LSU versus Clemson showdown Monday to decide the champion
of collegiate football, which will take place. By the way,
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that game LSU and Clemson, LSU favored by six. Now
the line's up to six in that game. You want
to hear my handicapping. We don't usually do college football
and Benny versus the Penny, but we did. It's on
the podcast. It's available right now to download a handicap
to the matchup of Tigers versus Tigers. And yes, I
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picked the Tigers to win the game. I did pick
the Tigers to win the college football championship game. But
we have coaching news to dissect like a laboratory frog.
A Mike Leech, our guy is on the now. It
takes something like this for us to talk about college football.
We love Mike Leech. Leech is leaving his home for
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the last couple of years in Washington. He's saying goodbye
to Wazoo. Did you see this? I don't know if
you saw this soon now maybe maybe you weren't listening earlier.
Mike Leech leaving Washington State for the Southeastern Conference. The Jewel,
so they say, of college football, will Leach is the
coaching vagabond. He's going to pack up his suitcase and
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he's on the move again, like a traveling salesman. It's
all signed, sealed and delivered. He is the new coach
at Mississippi State. But that so, let us discuss the
question will my Leech be able to find success at
Mississippi State contending with the top teams in the big
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bad Southeastern Conference. Now my answer, no, I disagree. I
believe he will have success. You're a hater, Roberto, with
your little buzzers over there, you're a hater. All right, Listen,
we've got now, of course, what's your definition of success?
That's the question. So it's a sliding scale of success.
You've got doctorate, blueprint and hope diamond and we will
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connect all of this together. Now, first of all, the
bar is so low at Mississippi State. That's the main
reason I like Mike Leech's chances of finding success here. Plus, listen,
you can trash the guy if you want. Some people
think he's a side show and a gimmick, but he
has a track record that has done very well at
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schools that are off the map, that are off the grid.
You don't need a Venn diagram to know how good
he has been around the college football world for the
game of football and Mississippi State. Listen, I get it.
It's not exactly the big apple of you know, the
spot like the jewel where everyone's looking at it in
the galaxy of college football. They're outside the main meet
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in potatoes, but they get to play the big boys.
Mike Leach is going to play Nick Saban, Gonna lock
horns with Nick Saban next college football season. Mississippi State
plays in Tuscaloosa this October and then the following week
they visit LSU and the cagent Fred Flintstone from the
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Bayou There coach Oe in the following game. So we
look forward to that down the line. It's not trigonometry.
Mike Leech is a prodigy of offensive football. He's a
pioneer of the air raid offense. He earned a doctorate
in providing what I popping offensive numbers from his quarterbacks
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and skill players. Now, it was a collective collaborative effort
between himself and how Mummy that created this offense. That's
it's been stolen more than intellectual property in China. The
air raid offense versions of it might leech. His fingerprints
are all over college and now starting to spread to
the NFL. His disciples on his coaching tree, his glorious
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coaching tree, which is not poison ivy. It's one of
those big redwoods in California. It's just beautiful. So he's
He've got Cliff Kingsbury in the NFL. Listen, I'm not
a big fan, but he's an NFL coach. He's got
cell phone breaks for his players in Arizona. You've got
that Kingsbury. You've got Dana Holksum of Houston, the old
coach at West Virginia, Holgerson. And then you've got Lincoln
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Riley of Oklahoma. There's several others, but those are like
some of the big ones, and they're all branches on
the tree. So Mississippi State, now, are they going to
be a juggernaut. Of course not. They're not gonna be
a juggernaut, don't get crazy. But here's the thing. They
will have an uber, exciting team from the very beginning.
They're gonna score a bunch of points. Mike Leach has
a knack for finding diamonds in the rough, especially at quarterbacks.
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Quarterback percent Gardner Minshew of Jacksonville, who played decently as
a rookie at times, wasn't a product of Washington State,
was almost gonna quit football at one point. Now he's
an NFL player because of Mike Leach of the fifty.
Check this out. This is an amazing stat about how
good Mike Leach is at offense. Of the fifty greatest
passing seasons in the history of big time college football,
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ten of them have come from quarterbacks coached by Mike Leach.
Ten of them, ten out of fifty one coach Mike Leach.
Think about that, in the history of college football, twenty
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percent of the greatest quarterbacks have played for Mike Leach.
As just this guy. Now you say that the other
argument as well, they don't make it in the NFL. Okay,
he's a college football coach. He's really good at college football.
The NFL spin spin the Roulette wheel right now. Secondly,
the question was raised, can you win at Mississippi State?
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The answer is somewhat like Jackie Sheryl. I remember was
there years ago, and I think he occasionally had a
good team, but most mostly bad. And that guy Sylvester
Krum was terrible. The guy that was there as well.
But Dan Mullin laid the foundation in Starksville. He was
the guy. He provided a blueprint, is what he did
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for success. Dan Mullin now he's the coach at Florida.
He exited stage right. But Mullin had the Bulldogs going
blow for blow, punch for punch against those monsters in
the SEC. And I mentioned this earlier, and I looked
it up and I am correct. In twenty fourteen, Mississippi
State beat not one, not two, but three top ten
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teams in a row. Line them up, knock them down.
Line them like dominoes, Line them up, knock him down.
And they were the number one team. I believe it
was for like four or five weeks. That year. They
got to the Orange Bowl. They played Alabama after they
had rolled off all those wins, and then they lost.
But you can find success in the shadows of the
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Southeastern Commerce. Plus, to my knowledge, the academic requirements to
get into Starkville are a pulse and that's about it.
You don't need much more than that. You just gotta
have a pulse. I don't think they're letting cadavers in there.
But but Leech should have he should have already been
in the SEC. We used to have this guy, Danny
from Nashville, that was one of our callers. I don't
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know what happened to Danny. Danny disappeared. You know, we
gotta get a new regular caller from from Nashville, and
at least one or two from from Tennessee that array.
But Danny was a big Tennessee apologist. And at one
point it looked like Mike Leach was going to be
the coach in Knoxville, and they left it up and
now they're stuck with Jeremy Pruitt, who's got the valls
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in the pool of mediocrity. He's only been there a
couple of years. But I would expect the people of
Knoxville to be haunted by Mike Leach, who's going to
be in the Southeastern Conference. And they passed on this
guy and they got an inferior coach compared to Mike Leach. Now,
the final thought, so we are open occasionally, we're even
honest about our appreciation from Mike Leach. This guy is
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a gem, all right. We love this guy, Mike Leach.
He is the Hope Diamond of college football. He has
gone to outposts off the reservation like Texas Tech and Lubbock, Texas, Pullman,
Washington and found success. All He's done it in places
you're not supposed to do it. And then I get
Starkville is another place you're not supposed to do it.
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But we get no less than five sound bites a
college football season from Mike Leech that we talk about
on our show. He is equal parts whimsical and temperamental.
He's unpredictable, he's got a loose tongue, and he's a blabbermouth.
Those are all good qualities, all right. He's got the
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gift for gab. And in the sporting world where everyone
is so paranoid about saying the wrong thing, they don't
say anything. They don't say anything. Mike Leech is an
outlandish and fantastic sound bite. And he's a pretty good
football coach, which means it's better that way. And I
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know political correctness is really the issue here. It's prevalent,
but Mike Leach doesn't even care about that. He will
be abrasive. Mike Leach will absolutely be abrasive. He's unsympathetic.
I like to think of him as a truth teller.
I know there's a certain former NFL player that played
for the Patriots who was a politician who does not
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believed that because of his kid. But anyway, now, the
other thing about Leech, he's so perfect for college football
because his stick is perfect. College guys can put up
with the swashbuckling talk of pirate ships and all that
for a couple of years because the roster changes over.
The roster changes over, so you have a new audience
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for your rhetoric, and you got new recruits and so
it's not the same people. You can use the same
stories because the players change over every few years. All Right,
it is the Band Mathers Show on Fox. As we
press on here. Congratulations to Mike Leach, Good luck to you.
We've got lame jokes coming up later this hour. Let's
go now bang bang to Houston. I'm sorry that was
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a got turette's let's say hello to Chris in Houston. Hello, Christopher.
You know what, I don't get it. I don't give
how these clowns won't I always complain about being on Hope,
I'll be a hole. Oh mighty, I mean all you
doing blabber And anyway, I'm listen toe y'all hold, so
might as well listen toe y'all know that is, by
the way, Chris's way of announcing that he was on
(36:03):
hold for a long time, but not doing it an
offensive ruck. He didn't want to do it in an
offensive way because I mean to know that already. If
you are long listening to Ben Mallor, you might be
a hope for a while. Yeah you might. Exactly. It's
a show. We take calls, but sporadically we take calls,
we mix them in, we spice them in like Roberto
spices up his food there with cooking with Roberto are doing.
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But you know, I gotta beat, I gotta beat man.
You know what I need to find me a new mentor.
You know what I need to think Eddie the podcast?
You want to be my mentors of Ben? He it
ain't no mint if Ben rather gone mentor that guy
that got got fired from a college radio show. What
Oh yeah, that's right, that's right our friend. Yeah, he's
(36:45):
here to become a truck drive right now. Though. So
that's sorry, I mean, because I mean, you know you
are horrible at mentor. Man, I don't get nothing from you, dude.
Well you don't he sent me no email. You've never
reached out to me other than the show. You don't
send me messages other than that I do, I've not
got any email from you. I check my inbox, I
don't get any email from you. But but you know what,
I don't want to talk about that too much. You
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know what you just exposed. You didn't send an email. No, no, no.
That fact that kid I met that goes to Washington
State last week, he was he wants to get into radio,
he emailed me. So I'm like, all right, I'll help
the guy out. Why not? But you know, I just
looked to this Daytime being and yeah, that's fine, But
I don't Walker is gonna be a big star. You're
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not gonna be a big star. Walker the radio kid
is gonna be a big start. You could be a
big star, but you're gonna make an effort. Oh then
come on, man, come on, I got don't communicate with you.
I don't want to hear that. Nah. It is daytime
not not not Chris Broussard to the boys. Man. I mean,
I don't think that's an evening an evening, that's an
evening show. And I like I love one of my
good friends. I like Chris Persar, but one of my
(37:49):
really good Rob Park, I love Rob. We'll see he
was He was on earlier with First Things First with
Nick Rich, a Leger apologist. Brossard was okay, guy, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I don't get it. Why does these people run
around talking about the Lakers? Is the is the total
favorite of that's gonna win the championship, that's gonna I'll
tell you. I'll tell you on that show. Who's the
(38:10):
guy's name? The whole one of the host not sorry
Laker fan boys. So that's why, that's why he's been
a Laker fan from I've been told I don't watch
that show, but I but I've been told he's a
big Laker fan. No, he's a he's a Lebron guy,
great Lakers. I think he's a Laker guy. He loves
Lebron too, but he likes the Lakers also. It's like
a perfect storm for him. It's like a perfect story
(38:33):
being And I was just disgusted hearing this. I mean,
because I know Tweeter dumb and Tweeter Doo. I don't
have that much faith in them. I mean, they lost
the okay, see, and people rag about that, but at
the end of the day, you can't, Yeah, you know,
you can't worry about all that with the whole you know,
until it gets the playoffs. You're gonna lose sporadically during
the season. But it is embarrassing when your guys perform
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and they don't show up, you know, Harden, I mean,
what's going on with Harden here? Well, you know that
they're trying to show everything at him because he scores
too much and they feel like, well he's still yeah,
but he's throwing everything at the rim and everything at
the kitchen, in the kitchen sink at the rim and
not making many of them too tight. I think it's
the braser too tight. I don't know what to dude,
(39:15):
he's trying to find himself for something like why do
you got braid in your head? For well, you're you're
you're allowed to rip him on that. I don't think
I'm allowed because I'm getting in trouble. But you can.
You can rip them all you want, but I didn't.
And the PC and the PC going at b line
because he said, Doug, I mean, if they're playing like
thugs and slugs, you should be named at I mean,
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you know what, you know, I'll just got after time
because of some softy players. Well I'm differently called for
that's what you should have been called. Yeah, because I
wanted to drop, I understand. But the thing about Ben,
the guy's been coaching in college and now in the NBA,
(39:56):
and he's coached mostly black players in his time, right,
And to think that, you know, somehow he's raised he
missed spoke or whatever if he did find But I mean, everyone,
everything's an outrage. You gotta he might lose his job
and what are we doing so stupid? But you know
what I tell you, look like somebody's got their balls back.
And okay, see what's the coach's name that used to
be the Ford because I can't tell Billy Donovan you're
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talking about. It looks like if you actually get young
players with these college coaches and left them coach, because
look at Boston, you got rid of the headache and
all of a sudden they're one of the best teams
in the league. You know again, you know, you get
rid of the DA, you get these coaches, some players
that are actually want to be coached. It looked like
you actually have a great basketball team instead of trying
(40:38):
to pand it to all these stars, all the dogs. Well,
it is nice, and it's very rare in the NBA.
You're right, where teams don't tank, they actually try to
win and build a roster. It very rarely happens. I
gotta I gotta go, Chris, Thank you, buddy. Sorry, your
broadcasting career is in the toilet. But there's not much
I can do. Gotta reach out out this guy Walker,
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and someday I'll be asking Walker for a job. He'll
be running a radio station. I'll be asking him for
a job. Who Walker, Well, he's from the very Walker No, no,
Walkers is for him. That's a good radio name. And
you know Walker radio guy, and he's from It's from
San Francisco, and he's going to Washington State. Yeah, that's
(41:23):
like the Syracuse of the PAC twelve, right, all the
radio broadcasters that have come out of Washing this day.
You know. Of course, I went to Saddleback, which is
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All right, It's Ben Mathers Show on Fox. Let's get
the funny bone out right now here we go. Funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny,
knock knock Who Blame week? Blame Week two? It's Big
Band's lame joke of the week. That it is Big
Ben's lame jokes the week h and every weekend about
this time unless I'm away, and we will read the jokes.
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He's there, actual jokes sending by actual listeners. I was
a little concerned because I've been away for a couple
of weeks. I was worried that we might lose some
of the joke riders. But now they're all back. They're
all back, They're lined up, they're ready to go. Are unpaid,
underappreciated joke writing staff guys all over the country. A
lot of guys in Iowa, Minnesota, a lot of funny
(42:24):
people there. California do very well. Ohio some of the
states that start writing the lame jokes. Tennessee another one.
All right, So I'll read the joke. I'll bounce it
off Eddie, he'll bounce it back to me. Blah blah
bla blah. Roberto will do his thing over there and
a weed Man? Are you there? We'men now. They don't
want me to put you on the air, so but
I kind of want to. Are you okay? We'edmen? Is
(42:47):
he going? Wow? I don't hear him? Is he pot
it up? Yep? Oh wow? Did he fall asleep? You think?
Weed Man? So if you wanted a weed Man free
edition of jokes, all right, we'll maybe a callback. Maybe
not though, if you're lucky, let's get to it. Here
we go, Big Man's lamb Jokes of the week. The
Dallas Cowboys have set the NFL back more than sixty years, Eddie,
(43:10):
how do they do that? They're reverting back to McCarthyism.
That's right, that's for manic Mike who sent that one in?
Why is one of OJ Simpson's New Year's resolutions to
get a sleep number bed because he wants to make
you happy? But no, Yeah, I heard that sleep numbers
stores are having New Year's sales and slashing prices, so
(43:31):
it's a buzzword. OJ heard that. He's like, I'm in
sign me up for that, all right. Besides, this is
one I would have given to Coop, but he's not here.
Besides New York City? Where else on New Year's Eve?
Was there a lone ball drop? I don't know. Lance
Armstrong's house, Gary from Youngstown. Yeah, you can goof on
(43:53):
Lance Armstrong. He's a punk and a loser in a scumbag.
Let's see what else do we have? What does a
Jedi do when he is constipated? Um uses the force? Oh?
Thank you? You've heard that joke a million times as
I have. I'm rand though thought it would it would
be funny. Here's another classic. This is from Gordon in Tacoma.
I met Gordon. He's a good guy. Who is Monica
(44:14):
Lewinsky's favorite college football player? I don't know? Oh you
don't know that one? Ha ha. Clinton Dix is the
answer there. There you go, all right, yea very nice.
Why don't fisherman complain about the lack of Wi Fi
up in the mountains? Fishermen in the mountains, I don't know,
because they're always live streaming. That's why. So Surfer Todd
(44:38):
the comedians sent that one in, and thank you for that.
What else do we have here? What does skull stand for? Eddie? Oh?
My wife asked me that the same question. What does
it stand for Saints keep on losing is actually what
it stands for. After the game as so, I'm ran again.
Why should Tom Brady come to SOCO? I don't know.
(44:58):
Why should you come here so Giselle can charge it? No?
Should give I will give credit to that, all right.
Jamis Winston was in a very grumpy mood during his
exit interview with the Buccaneers Eddie. Yeah, reports say Winston
was crabby from Cowboy and Windsor sending with another new
(45:22):
email address, Cowboy and Windsor. H did you know that
the Lakers Anthony Davis has some new bling around his neck?
I was unaware of that. Yeah. After this week, the
Laker training staff got him a life alert button. So
he did anything. He just sits that button right there.
He's good at guts, Gary and Youngstown. Let's see here.
I don't know a phone or read that. Oh, this
is actually kind of an interesting story. So a woman
(45:43):
addicted to eating baby powder wants other people to know
they're not alone. We talk I think we talked about
this thing. Yeah. Yeah, Unfortunately Eddie, she doesn't want to
talk about it. I'll come on you guys, Yeah, that's funny.
Come on, I mean, what are we doing? You want
(46:03):
some David Stern jokes? Or is it too soon? Um?
You can throw it in there. Okay, what will be
the first thing listed on David Stern's funeral program? I
don't know, Patrick Ewing right there? From where will the
surviving family members of David Stern sit at the funeral?
(46:23):
I don't know behind Patrick Ewing actually Kurt from Earth there?
And when was the exact moment that David Stern realized
that he was in hell? Oh my god, I don't
know when he saw everyone wearing Sacramento Kings jerseys and
we kid because we care. I actually like David Stern
(46:44):
a lot scary In Youngstown, we had a bunch more,
but I edited them out. I guess Weed, are you there? Weed? Man? Hey?
Ben station is given away a thousand dollars an hour,
and then they make it a million dollars an hour,
and Lisa said to me away a million dollars. Well,
you know, all right, nobody cares. What do you call
(47:04):
a drone strike of an Iranian general? I don't know,
an economic boom? And it's just Josh, you sent that
one in. Well, it turns out the Iranian general was
standing under the missiletoe, Eddie, Yeah, he got the uh
he got the drone kiss of death there apparently from
(47:25):
the missas from Kurt from Earth. I cleaned that up
a little bit. Uh. I think man's lamb jokes. What's
the difference between Danica Patrick and the Ben Maller Show. Oh,
we haven't had a dannik A joke in a while. Yeah,
what's the difference. Well, the Ben Maller Show actually got
Lee the lap this week. Lead lead laugh, No, all
right's just joshn't that one in? Why does Hollowing James
(47:45):
keep falling asleep before he gets on the air. I
don't know why he's calling from a sleep number? Bet
of course, Eddie, that's why. That's from Matt the Warrior
Rador as fan. What was Angry Bill's favorite part of Christmas?
Putting up the white Christmas lights? He really enjoyed that.
That was his favorite. So Eric and Iowa? Who sent
(48:07):
that one? Weed Man's back? How did Marcel have an
international celebration on New Year's Eve? We're talking about Marcel
and Brooklyn. Of course, I don't know how did he
do that? He went to I hop Eddie is what
he did? He went to I hoping Eric and Iowa
again keep battling there, Erica, what record did Marcel in
Brooklyn break? I have no idea longest time spent in
(48:31):
a coma from nineteen twelve to twenty nineteen. Shout out,
shout out Titanic. That was from Medley in Louisville, Kentucky.
He's a funny guy. What's the difference between Justin and
Cincinnati and Jerry Jones? That's a good question, Ones. Jerry
Jones still has a job after picking up the wrong
(48:52):
stiff good. That's Gordon to coma. Not that funny. What
do Ice and onus Knocks have in common? That's a
good answering question. I don't know what do they have
a common? They have been chasing Mexicans for years, Eddie
for years, the only one. Okay, what's louder than hollering James?
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I don't know what's louder, sleeping James or snoring James?
Bill from said that one. Why Why can't blind Scott
go skydiving anymore? I don't know. Why can't you do that?
Because it scares the hell out of Cramer. That's why
Ernie the Great o Finer Ye blind Scott's got a
medical condition. I don't know if he said it on Twitter,
(49:36):
so I don't know if I should. Yeah, I said,
why don't you call? He said he might call if
he was filling up to it. I guess he's not.
When Justin Cooper is at home getting high. Why does
he always use the dead boat? I don't know why
he likes to be locked and loaded? Eddie Surfer Todd
(49:57):
the Comedian sent that one in It's Big Ben's La Jokes.
A louis, what's better than a fathead of me? Eddie?
I don't know what could be better than that? A
fat wallet of me? That would be? That would be
don't say that. I'm gonna hang up on your ass.
That was from Eke and Rosu in Minnesota. What does
an iPhone five s and this show's producer have in common?
(50:20):
I don't know. Both rarely answer calls and barely work
at all. That's from Matt the Warrior, raid A's fan.
We sent that one in It's Big Band's Lame Jokes
of the Week. We had a couple of jokes that
came in late. Normally I don't allow these on the air.
Here's a classic Tiger Woods joke from Jeffrey. Why do
tiger woods and baby what? What do baby? What do
(50:42):
tiger woods and baby seals have in common? Here? You?
I don't know. They both get clubbed by Scandinavians? All right,
let's see here, very nice. Why does weed Man want
to move to Mississippi? I don't know why he heard
(51:02):
that they hire leeches in them in Mississippi? Mann, that's true, man.
Mike sent that one in. What was Coop? What was
Coop and weed Man's favorite ball game this year? I
don't know what was the weed ball? They loved it.
They couldn't get Eric and Iowa Wo sent that one in.
(51:24):
It's Big Man's lame jokes of the week. What did
the peloton say to weed Man, hippie? I don't know
what it's say? Just like your life, this ride is
going nowhere? George, George and Rochester, Minnesota. What do Wade
Phillips and weed Man's kid have in common? Weed Man
(51:45):
as a kid, I don't know. Yeah, he goes to Georgetown, George,
that's a real school. Who knew? I guess the apple
does fall far from the tree. Uh? The answer is
the dads are both bums, says the answer. That's Eric,
Eric and Iowa sent that one in. Did you know
some of weed Man's home was ripped away? It was
(52:07):
a really sad story over the holidays. I didn't hear that. Yeah,
a couple of hoboes needed to make a cardboard sign,
so they tore off the back of weed Man's home
and it was it was pretty It's pretty devastating. It
was pretty devastated. It absolutely was. It's Big Bend's lame
jokes a week. Let's just get to the closer. Already,
here we go, you're ready for the closer. Here it is,
(52:28):
Here we go. Everyone. What did the Houston Astros dugout
Wilt Chamberlain's bed and JFK's limo have in common? Wow?
Could you repeat that? Yes, Houston Astros dug out Wilt
Chamberlain's bed and JFK's limo. What are they have in common?
I don't know. Tell me they are all the sites
(52:50):
of multiple bangs bang bang it is. That's what Matthew
Warrior Raider as man lame jokes of the wing and
only limited interruption from weed Man Hippie because he for
some reason wasn't on hold. But thanks to all the
joke riders. If you want to send a joke, if
you think you're funny, send it to my email, Ben
(53:12):
Maller's Show. Make sure the show's in there at gmail
dot com. Put jokes in the headlines and we might
use it on there. There's a lot of jokes we use,
obviously there's some we don't. I think we got like
thirty five jokes today. I left a lot out. I
should have left several others I used out of the show.
But yeah, we love the jokes and racist jokes. Well yeah,
well of course you had that, but you didn't use it, Roberto.
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(01:09):
a seasonal thing. We are in the middle of the
pep Rally season. Now. The pep Rally season is where
NFL coaches are introduced, right, and we were on during
the week, and these news comments all happen while we're
on so we get to play the audio from said
pep rally where you're trying to get the natives very happy,
(01:31):
when the people that follow your team to get all
excited and all that. And it's always find these things interesting,
even though most most of them feature the same comments.
You know, I've noticed over the years that when a
coach gets hired they say pretty much the same thing
some version of the same things when they get hired,
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just like when they get fired they say the same things. Right,
so you can go down the list of the cliches
that take place when it it's highed. You know, I'm
excited for the opportunity. I'm looking forward to the challenge
those kind of lines. I have high expectations. I'm gonna
hold these players accountable. You know, all that crap that
you're supposed to say. And you have to praise the franchise.
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You have to so great it is to work for
the team, whatever team it is, even if the team sucks,
you have to say it. You have to talk about
how this is a good opportunity, even when it's not
a good opportunity. You stuff to lie, you have to
say it's a good opportunity. Then you always are supposed
to celebrate the fan because they're the ones that buy
the ticket, right, They're the ones that buy the merchandise.
So you have to always say how great the fans are.
Even if you think the fans are scumbags and a
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bunch of morons, you still have to say they're good.
All right? With that as the backdrop, it was the
New York Giants opportunity in the batter's box there, Joe Judge,
did you see this? Did you watch any of this?
I was sleeping, but I watched it on the YouTube,
A virtual unknown for most of the football all fan
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bases around the United States and Canada and Mexico. So
Judge is now the head coach of the most popular
NFL team in the New York City metropolitan area in Gotham.
So let's discuss as news conference the question what are
the big takeaways? There? Now, you didn't watch it, And
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the good thing about this is you don't now have
to watch it because I watched it for you thirty
minutes of nonsense, and I spent Someday I'll be on
my deathbed and I wish I had an extra thirty minutes,
and I will remember I watched Joe Judge is what
I watched. That was the guy that I watched. Yeah,
all right, So what were your takeaways from Joe Judge's
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opening news conference. You've got mister Rogers, House of Cards,
and peewee, and we will tie all these things together. Now, hey,
Joe Judge is not here to make you laughter. The
immediate reaction I had a man as this guy intense,
He is never going to tell a joke in his life.
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He sounded so over the top serious. It was like,
whoa wait a minute, what's going on with this guy?
Does he have any other thing that he cares about?
It all in life? And you know, of course, I,
of all people, don't have a lot of balance in
my life. But you could say, if you like him,
he's a no nonsense kind of guy. But to give
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you a little taste of what it sounded like, here
is the coach of the giants, here Joe Judge, who
says he's from the old school. There's a question out there.
I'm sure a lot of people are asking. That's number one?
Who am I? Maybe I can explain the gaming Who
am I? If by telling you what's relevant this conversation
with being a coach of New York Giants. What I'm
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about and what I'm about is an old school physical mentality. Well,
we're gonna put a product on the field that the
people of this city and region, because this team will
represent this area. That could be a drop who am I?
That's the who am I? Again? You think he's a
closeted listener of the show, He could be be a
fan of who am I? Game? How about a great
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homage from the Giant's head coach there clearly knows our show.
He said, who am I? It's great? Who Now in
the next sound bite, if he says instant trivia, I'm leaving.
Am done. I'm out of here. If he says mallard
to the third degree at any point, I'm retiring. That's it,
all right. Here's more from the new coach or the Giants.
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And he's talking about violence. He wants violence. We'll play fast,
we'll play downhill, we'll play aggressive, We'll punch you in
a nose for sixty minutes. We'll play every d like
it's a history in a life of its own. Wow,
with a relentless competitive attitude. We'll play fundamentally sound. We'll
not beat ourselves. That's ambition right here there, you go.
Don't beat yourself please, very violent. I'm a peacenick. I
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don't know that I can handle this violence. Can't we
make love not war? Why do you have to punch
someone in the face. Why can't you punch him in
the shoulder? You know, I got friendly punch in the
shoulder like that. Now, all right, so we'll play some
more here in a little bit. But he's the guys
you heard in the abus. I don't believe in gimmicks,
you know. He's not about the magic schemes and all that.
Reinventing the wheel. Now, that was fine for like the
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first five or ten minutes, but then you're like, does
this guy have anything else? Does he have any else? Now?
Dave Gettelman, who should be repairing refrigerators or something like that.
He's the gem of the giants. He likes to position
himself as the no nonsense kind of guy. And it
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was I will say the word uncomfortable. How serious this
Joe Judge guy was. I mean, I would say, and I,
of all people, loosen up. That would be my you know,
it's okay, it's all right. You know. He was talking
about empathy and taking care of players, but he sounded
angry while he was talking about empathy, which I thought
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was ironic. And I would ask him to take the
advice of mister Rogers. Not mister Rogers, the beloved children's
TV host who they've made several movies about recently. But
I'm talking about Aaron Rodgers. That would be the advice, right,
that would be the advices. Relax, there's no need to
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get all stressed out. Judge talked about as we played
the soundbites. They's something being a blue collar team, working class, right.
I want to I want the people love this area,
to love our team, the way we play, and all
this stuff. I'll believe it when I see it. Now.
Judge says he won't be the offensive, defensive, or special
team's coach. He's just he's gonna stay in his lane.
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Stay in your lane, as LaVar Ball said back in
the day. And to tell you that I'm not lying
about this, listen to him talk about how the Giants
are going to be a spitting image of the New
York metropolitan area. I want the people to pay their
hard earned money in the neighborhoods of New York to
come to our games and note the players on the
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field play with the same attitude they wake up with
every morning. That is blue collar. It's hard work, it's
in your face. We're going to come to work every
day and grind it out the way they do in
their jobs every day. And they can invest their money
in our program. But is representing their neighborhoods, their communities,
and their families with the values they have instill in
their children. It's all about value. Talking about children values.
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What about the people that are unwelfare? Are they allowed
to support your team? Only the people that have jobs?
What about them? I don't know? All right. He also
talked about how the giants are going to be physical
and they're not going to be a bunch of pussy willows.
We will practice with a physical attitude. We will practice
in pads. That's will practice live tackling. Yep. Not to
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make a statement that we're trying to be tough. No,
We're going to practice live tackling because I believe in
doing it safely. That's right. There's not going to be
shortcuts what we have to do. That's a tough division.
It's a tough division in cities full of tough people.
Not really, I mean for the division sucks the worst
division in football. Have you not seen the NFC? I
mean the team made the play. They were never almost
gonna have a losing record. Was up until the end
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of the last couple of weeks they were gonna have
a losing record. What's up with that tough division? It
ain't nineteen eighty seven anymore? I mean, what's up on that?
All right? Anyway, so live tackling that's very very exciting indeed.
All right. So anyway, continuing the mantra here of the
new hire in the NFL, Joe Judge the Giants part Beer.
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This is the Giants have built what I believe is
a house of cards in terms of the roster. This
has been a franchise who has been trending water in
the sewer, you know that dirty sewer water. That's essentially
what they've been doing here. I believe they have over
the last three years the worst record in the NFL.
You can smell the sulfur and the feces when watching
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Big Blue play, And is Judge gonna be the guy
that's the Messiah and the Savior and the person that
can wrecked the franchise out of said sewer. Stop being
a pushover. Well, that's an open question. Now we are
going to give him the standard thirty day package that
we give coaches when they're high. We wait about a
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month and then we go full arsenal. We weaponize is
what we do on this show, and then we attack,
even though we don't really have any skin in the game.
Although there are a lot of Giants fans that listen
to the show, both San Francisco Giants and New York
Giants that you mentioned today, if they started sports, they
they would never have teams in football and baseball with
the same names. But we do have the Cardinals that
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the Giants and these It's an odd, odd dynamic. But
I'm getting carried away. Get back to the point, please,
So as far as the Giants roster is concerned, Now,
if you're an optimist, I'm not. But if you're an optimist,
you'll say, well, look, the Giants have Daniel Jones min
This guy was a top ten pick a couple of
years back. I mean, you're saying you got a franchise quarterback.
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I have not seen him perform like a franchise. I
know it's a small sample size. I've not been overly impressed.
I'm not. I mean, like fine young quarterback. There's a
point of demarcation where you have to get it done
or you don't. It would help if the Giants defense,
which is detached from all the other good defenses, actually
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you know, tackled somebody. That would be a starter for
the Giants. And Joe Judge has his work cut out
for him for several reasons. There is a reason that
big names in coaching did not want the Giant job.
They wouldn't touch the Giant job with a ten foot
pull because it is a mega project. There is no
rest for the wicket, as they say there. They have
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been doing demo on the Giant roster for how many years?
But the problem is they're unable to When you do
the demo, you then have to put something in there.
They can't modernize, right. They can't find gems. They don't
find them there in the locker room. Apparently the disease
of losing the pandemic all over the Giants franchise. Now,
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the other thing about Joe Judge is no one had
ever heard of him. I mean, who the hell is he?
He addressed that he was asked about about that not
being the guy and not being the person that people
were hoping for. To be completely honest with you, I'm
not really concerned about whoever interviewed for this job. Really.
All I'm concerned about is the opportunity I have in
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front of me and what I have to do going forward.
And I'm gonna tell my players the same thing. It
doesn't matter how you got there, it doesn't matter how
high profile you may be or may not be. It's
what you do on a daily basis. You're in a
position earn it, earn it every day, and I appreciate
the opportunity. I'm working every day to earn it. Gotta
earn it, man, I always say, you gotta earn it. Yeah,
of course, what's he gonna say. I'm very upset and
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I'm offended that people don't know who I am, even
though my family didn't know who I was until a
week ago. All right, last word here, So Joe Judge
a stark contrast from the recent Giant coaches. Yet Pat
Well Pat Shermer was more recently, he was always annoyed
and confused with the media. You had Ben McAdoo, who
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was kind of like a snake oil salesman. Then before
that you had Tom Coughlin, who people liked because they
won occasionally and was very serious and all that Judge
is more like Tom Coughlin. Like he talked about the Giants.
You know, we played some of the soundbites. They're all fundamentals.
In fact, I gonna tell you just between us, he
sounded like a peewee football coach trying to teach a
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bunch of eight year olds the first time, Like I
think the first day of Giants training camp. All right,
here's how you put your shoulder pads on, Here's how
you put your knee pads in. This out works, That's
what he sounded like. You show up on time, dressed properly,
know the playbook stretched the right way. He said, all
these things run, tackle ball, security, blah blah blah, blah
blah blah blah. Now, the one thing that Joe Judge
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said that really stood out that I like, And this
was good because this is one of my pet peeves
and I feel like this this defeatist attitude among coaches
and a lot of these guys are the village idiot
when it comes to rosters and talent of players. And
it was what Joe Judge learned from Bill Belichick, and this,
if this is what Joe Judge does as a coach,
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then I'm in. I'm in. I'll buy some stock. And
Joe Judge the Giants coach. And what I learned from
Coach Belichick was real simple. Be flexible within your personnel.
Don't try to shove round pegs and the square holes.
Figure out what you have. Let them play to their strengths.
Don't sit in a meeting and tell me what you
don't have in a player. Don't tell me they can't
do a certain thing. Tell me what they can do,
and then we'll figure out as coaches, because that's our
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job how we can use that, that's our responsibility. Everybody
has something they can do. How many cast offs you
see around the league end up another team. Everyone says, wow,
how'd they get that out of them? Maybe they just
weren't closing her eyes to what they could do about that.
That is a direct shot at how many NFL coaches.
But that's right out of Belijick. That sounds like something
that Belichick said sometime in a meeting, and he just
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paarroted Belichick. He just repeated Beligick. It's sound bite point.
Like Belichick has been the Jedi master. He asked me
this Belichick, you know, rip him, call him a cheater,
or whatever you want to do. But Belichick has been
the master at finding unheard of and unsung players and
turning them into maybe not great players, but certainly pivotal
players on a team that regularly makes the playoffs and
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goes very far in the playoffs. And every great coaching
handbook do you just teach that? Right, you just teach that?
And that's it. Too. Many of these coaches are so
stuck in their ways. They're so stubborn. We drafted you
as a defensive bucket. You're gonna play a defensive bucket.
If you can't play defensive back, that's it. We're gonna
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trade your ass. Your ass is grass. Meanwhile, that guy
could play another position, maybe as a receiver or something
like that, and be an effective performer for your team.
But they're unwilling to adapt. That's why I go back
to the defeatist attitude. All Right, is the Ben Malis
Show on Fox Time. Now, We've been doing it all
week spending the Wheel of Producers here, we've had lead
(15:57):
a lap, we had Bow was in here, the Bow Show. Whoa.
We got a new name. We got a new name
on the Wheel of Producers. We welcome in. Keep trying
Ryan Burshinger there is Ryan. Welcome Ryan, Thank you Ben.
It's good to be back. Even it's just for tonight.
(16:20):
Now Ryan got the nickname keep trying Ryan because he
forgot the password and we got locked out of the
company Twitter account, the Fox Sports Radio Twitter account. We
got locked out of it. Any problems on Twitter tonight?
Everything good, Everything all right? Twitter is fine. However, I
did I moved a couple of my screens in here,
and then one of them went black, and when it
(16:41):
came back, the picture on the picture on the screens
kind of shifted off the screen. So now, um, it's look,
I'm sorry, I clearly so you're having computer issue. Happy
you're saying, and how will this negatively impact our show? Um,
it shouldn't as long as it's it's the hall screener screen.
As long as the picture itself doesn't continue to slide
(17:04):
further and further away, I still can see. Would you
like me to reset it? I can reset it. I
can go back into master control and reset it. Um, no,
you know, it's it's okay. No, I need it's okay.
It's it's my burden to bear because my my call
screener was broken for a day and a half or
whatever it was the other earlier this week. So oh yeah,
(17:25):
well so you see you're here's what you're doing. I'm
gonna I'm gonna tell you what you do. You just
spit at it and you know, put some glue on it,
and you're good. That's that's our That's how we repair
things around here. Just spit and glue. That's it. Everything's
put together was spit and glue. Got it? True? I
got a lot of that. Yeah, oh you have a
last spit. I do really do a lot of flegm. Yeah,
(17:45):
you're very very clemped. Yeah, a little a little bit,
a little bit, I understand. In better health than Coop.
How's the acting? Yeah, Coop's on his death bed. Pray
for Coop. So are you now? We talked a long
time ago. I know you don't want to work here.
You really don't like being here, and you'd like to
be an actor, Sony. Any luck on that no, no, okay,
so you're still here so here. When I see you,
it means you've not made it big on some Netflix show.
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That's correct. Yes, all right, I got John, very good.
Keep trying, Ryan. The Wheel of Producers continues to be
sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Anyway, let's get to it.
Here we go. It's Maller. How about that to the
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third degree? This is one big Ben gets grail. I
think we should just lock everyone up to their twenty
one and then we'll release them. We won't educate him,
we'll just release them. All right, Go ahead there, burd Shinger.
What do we have for the Mallard of the third degree?
By the way, in its regular slot piece, I'm back
on the clock. On the clock, Mallard by the clock
for the clock, plausibly all about the clock. Nicely done,
(18:49):
Thank you well. First off. Appearing on WWL radio's Sports
Talk on Wednesday, Drew Brees hinted at playing until forty
four or forty five, saying saying I know I can
still play. I know I could play another three to
four years. I want to do it on my own terms. Ben,
Who do you think plays longer, Drew Brees or Tom Brady?
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I believe Breeze was talking about he wants to still
be able to play with his kids when he's forty
five years old. But but no, the answer is Tom Brady.
And I'll tell you why this one is easy. Right, Hey,
tom Brady's forty two years old. He's a year older,
so he's in the clubhouse, the leader over Drew Brees
in that category. Plus he's got that whole TV twelve,
Formula twenty five, glasses of water and stretching and all
(19:33):
that stuff. Tom Brady is convinced that he has not
regressed at all and he's still great. The Patriots, the
smart money says they're still likely to bring him back,
that he's not gonna leave, and if he does leave,
he'll go to another team. He's football royalty who have
plenty of opportunities to play another season, go year to year,
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and Drew Brees he doesn't seem as married to play.
You know. The rumor going around is that Breese is
gonna be offered the Monday night football job that he
could replace Booger in the Monday night booth. And we
know Breeze loves attention. He's an attention horror. He popped
up on TV shows like that reality show he was
on this week, so you got that as part of
the deal. And also people don't like to talk about this,
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but the last two years, for the first twelve weeks
of the same season, Drew Brees was great. The last
four weeks, pe you what stinks? Turnovers all over there.
He had seven turnover worthy throws over the last three
weeks of the same season. I got away with most
of them, certainly weeks sixteen and weeks seventeen he didn't
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get away with it against the Vikings and Teddy Bridgewaters
hanging around. So I'm gonna go with Tom Brady next.
Former NFL quarterback Carson Palmer said on The Rich Eisen
Show on Wednesday, Oh, that's what's what network is that on?
That is on Fox Sports really on Fox Sports Radio? Right? Okay? Who, Yeah,
(21:00):
I've heard of. Carson Palmer said that if Jameis Winston
is back in Tampa with Bruce Arians, he expects year
two to be a massive year for him. Yeah, Ben,
do you buy that Jamis will clock big time in
Tampa next year. Well, he's not gonna be in Tampa
and my evidence on that. Did you see Bruce Arians
(21:21):
his comments at the end of the year, Yeah, well
I might have been on hiatus, but I was still
looking around here. First thing here, at the end of
the regular season, Bruce Arians sounded so fed up, so
disgusted with all the turnovers of Jamis Winston that he
like he had spent all year working with Winston and
what does Winston doing his final game? It's a pickupalooza.
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In his final game with Tampa Bay. During the regular season,
he continued to make the same mistakes he made Game one,
he made in Game sixteen for Tampa Bay, and it
was enough to give heartburn to Bruce Arians and all
that stuff, those little mistakes to get blown up. That
the simple out passes where famous Jamis gets caught telegraphing
throws and he gets picked off and all that stuff.
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So it is a long shot that Jamis Winston comes
back to Tampa Bay. But I'll tell you what, if
he does come back to Tampa Bay, he's got a
chance to go forty for forty. I think forty touchdowns.
Forty interceptions should be the bar for Jamis Winston. And
as far as Carson Palmer is concerned, all right, the
fact that this was said by Carson Palmer means nothing.
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He is a surrogate of Bruce Arians right. They worked
together with the Arizona Cardinals. They were together there in
the Valley of the Sun. So take it with a
grand assault, all right. Next, well, benam she saw earlier
tonight Kevin Durants is back at it again on social media.
Was changing barbs with his former teammate Kendrick Perkins. He
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said multiple rants this week. Durant has been all over
the case, I should say, yeah, one of those earlier
in the week, he was going back and forth with
NBA fans defending the relevancy of the Brooklyn Nets. Yeah.
Why does Katie continue to get into these uh, these
dust stuff? Because he wants to give us content in
sports radio and he feels like if I continue to
be a just I can't say the word I was
(23:11):
gonna say, but if I continue to be a so
and so on social media. First of all, Kevin Durant,
we know he's got a few issues, right, He's bored
because he's not playing. That's the biggest problem Durant has.
If he was playing, I don't think he would be
doing this as much. But he's not playing. He's hurt,
and he has a lot of free time on his hands.
He's also he's got the same problems he had in
Golden State in Oklahoma. He's got rabbit ears and he's
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thin skinned. That is a lethal cocktail, is what it is.
And those are the secret blend of eleven herbs and
spices that create these knockdown, drag out tussles on social
media setting. Katie is very defensive about whatever decision he
makes right every wherever. I mean, most people defend the
choices they make. I get that, but he is over
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the top, temperamental, and now his points are like misguided, right,
he's Durant reminded all these people. Now, he did make
one point that I agreed with. He reminded all these
people that were ripping the nets that they're not relative
enough to the NBA. They're not they don't mean anything
to the NBA. And he pointed out that they clearly
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the nets are relative enough. Where these idiots were commenting
on the nets on social media, so obviously they matter
to these people enough. But yeah, Kevin Durant needs an intervention.
He needed an intervention in Golden State. He never got one.
And it's that old line we always talk about, when
you feed the monsters, you create more monsters. When you
throw food to the trolls, the trolls not only eat
(24:36):
the food, they want more food. But hey, it's good
for the show. All right there, It is Mallard to
the third degree for the final time this week with
three different producers. How did we do? Congratulations Ben, you
have passed and you keep trying. Lion can continue on
for another couple of hours. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
(24:58):
Eastern eleven pm Pacific. We gotta shake up in college football,
or not that kind of shake up, a different kind
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the LSU versus Clemson showdown Monday to decide the champion
of collegiate football, which will take place. By the way,
(25:41):
that game LSU and Clemson, LSU favored by six. Now
the line's up to six in that game. You want
to hear my handicapping. We don't usually do college football
and Benny versus the Penny, but we did. It's on
the podcast. It's available right now to download a handicap
to the matchup of Tigers versus Tigers. And yes, I
(26:03):
picked the Tigers to win the game. I did pick
the Tigers to win the college football championship game. But
we have coaching news to dissect like a laboratory frog.
A Mike Leech, our guy is on the now. It
takes something like this for us to talk about college football.
We love Mike Leech. Leech is leaving his home for
(26:25):
the last couple of years in Washington. He's saying goodbye
to Wazoo. Did you see this? I don't know if
you saw this soon now maybe maybe you weren't listening earlier.
Mike Leech leaving Washington State for the Southeastern Conference. The Jewel,
so they say, of college football, will Leach is the
coaching vagabond. He's going to pack up his suitcase and
(26:47):
he's on the move again, like a traveling salesman. It's
all signed, sealed and delivered. He is the new coach
at Mississippi State. But that so, let us discuss the
question will my Leech be able to find success at
Mississippi State contending with the top teams in the big
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bad Southeastern Conference. Now my answer, no, I disagree. I
believe he will have success. You're a hater, Roberto, with
your little buzzers over there, you're a hater. All right, Listen,
we've got now, of course, what's your definition of success?
That's the question. So it's a sliding scale of success.
You've got doctorate, blueprint and hope diamond and we will
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connect all of this together. Now, first of all, the
bar is so low at Mississippi State. That's the main
reason I like Mike Leech's chances of finding success here. Plus, listen,
you can trash the guy if you want. Some people
think he's a side show and a gimmick, but he
has a track record that has done very well at
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schools that are off the map, that are off the grid.
You don't need a Venn diagram to know how good
he has been around the college football world for the
game of football and Mississippi State. Listen, I get it.
It's not exactly the big apple of you know, the
spot like the jewel where everyone's looking at it in
the galaxy of college football. They're outside the main meet
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in potatoes, but they get to play the big boys.
Mike Leach is going to play Nick Saban, Gonna lock
horns with Nick Saban next college football season. Mississippi State
plays in Tuscaloosa this October and then the following week
they visit LSU and the cagent Fred Flintstone from the
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Bayou There coach Oe in the following game. So we
look forward to that down the line. It's not trigonometry.
Mike Leech is a prodigy of offensive football. He's a
pioneer of the air raid offense. He earned a doctorate
in providing what I popping offensive numbers from his quarterbacks
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and skill players. Now, it was a collective collaborative effort
between himself and how Mummy that created this offense. That's
it's been stolen more than intellectual property in China. The
air raid offense versions of it might leech. His fingerprints
are all over college and now starting to spread to
the NFL. His disciples on his coaching tree, his glorious
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coaching tree, which is not poison ivy. It's one of
those big redwoods in California. It's just beautiful. So he's
He've got Cliff Kingsbury in the NFL. Listen, I'm not
a big fan, but he's an NFL coach. He's got
cell phone breaks for his players in Arizona. You've got
that Kingsbury. You've got Dana Holksum of Houston, the old
coach at West Virginia, Holgerson. And then you've got Lincoln
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Riley of Oklahoma. There's several others, but those are like
some of the big ones, and they're all branches on
the tree. So Mississippi State, now, are they going to
be a juggernaut. Of course not. They're not gonna be
a juggernaut, don't get crazy. But here's the thing. They
will have an uber, exciting team from the very beginning.
They're gonna score a bunch of points. Mike Leach has
a knack for finding diamonds in the rough, especially at quarterbacks.
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Quarterback percent Gardner Minshew of Jacksonville, who played decently as
a rookie at times, wasn't a product of Washington State,
was almost gonna quit football at one point. Now he's
an NFL player because of Mike Leach of the fifty.
Check this out. This is an amazing stat about how
good Mike Leach is at offense. Of the fifty greatest
passing seasons in the history of big time college football,
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ten of them have come from quarterbacks coached by Mike Leach.
Ten of them, ten out of fifty one coach Mike Leach.
Think about that, in the history of college football, twenty
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percent of the greatest quarterbacks have played for Mike Leach.
As just this guy. Now you say that the other
argument as well, they don't make it in the NFL. Okay,
he's a college football coach. He's really good at college football.
The NFL spin spin the Roulette wheel right now. Secondly,
the question was raised, can you win at Mississippi State?
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The answer is somewhat like Jackie Sheryl. I remember was
there years ago, and I think he occasionally had a
good team, but most mostly bad. And that guy Sylvester
Krum was terrible. The guy that was there as well.
But Dan Mullin laid the foundation in Starksville. He was
the guy. He provided a blueprint, is what he did
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for success. Dan Mullin now he's the coach at Florida.
He exited stage right. But Mullin had the Bulldogs going
blow for blow, punch for punch against those monsters in
the SEC. And I mentioned this earlier, and I looked
it up and I am correct. In twenty fourteen, Mississippi
State beat not one, not two, but three top ten
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teams in a row. Line them up, knock them down.
Line them like dominoes, Line them up, knock him down.
And they were the number one team. I believe it
was for like four or five weeks. That year. They
got to the Orange Bowl. They played Alabama after they
had rolled off all those wins, and then they lost.
But you can find success in the shadows of the
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Southeastern Commerce. Plus, to my knowledge, the academic requirements to
get into Starkville are a pulse and that's about it.
You don't need much more than that. You just gotta
have a pulse. I don't think they're letting cadavers in there.
But but Leech should have he should have already been
in the SEC. We used to have this guy, Danny
from Nashville, that was one of our callers. I don't
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know what happened to Danny. Danny disappeared. You know, we
gotta get a new regular caller from from Nashville, and
at least one or two from from Tennessee that array.
But Danny was a big Tennessee apologist. And at one
point it looked like Mike Leach was going to be
the coach in Knoxville, and they left it up and
now they're stuck with Jeremy Pruitt, who's got the valls
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in the pool of mediocrity. He's only been there a
couple of years. But I would expect the people of
Knoxville to be haunted by Mike Leach, who's going to
be in the Southeastern Conference. And they passed on this
guy and they got an inferior coach compared to Mike Leach. Now,
the final thought, so we are open occasionally, we're even
honest about our appreciation from Mike Leach. This guy is
(33:29):
a gem, all right. We love this guy, Mike Leach.
He is the Hope Diamond of college football. He has
gone to outposts off the reservation like Texas Tech and Lubbock, Texas, Pullman,
Washington and found success. All He's done it in places
you're not supposed to do it. And then I get
Starkville is another place you're not supposed to do it.
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But we get no less than five sound bites a
college football season from Mike Leech that we talk about
on our show. He is equal parts whimsical and temperamental.
He's unpredictable, he's got a loose tongue, and he's a blabbermouth.
Those are all good qualities, all right. He's got the
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gift for gab. And in the sporting world where everyone
is so paranoid about saying the wrong thing, they don't
say anything. They don't say anything. Mike Leech is an
outlandish and fantastic sound bite. And he's a pretty good
football coach, which means it's better that way. And I
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know political correctness is really the issue here. It's prevalent,
but Mike Leach doesn't even care about that. He will
be abrasive. Mike Leach will absolutely be abrasive. He's unsympathetic.
I like to think of him as a truth teller.
I know there's a certain former NFL player that played
for the Patriots who was a politician who does not
(34:57):
believed that because of his kid. But anyway, now, the
other thing about Leech, he's so perfect for college football
because his stick is perfect. College guys can put up
with the swashbuckling talk of pirate ships and all that
for a couple of years because the roster changes over.
The roster changes over, so you have a new audience
(35:20):
for your rhetoric, and you got new recruits and so
it's not the same people. You can use the same
stories because the players change over every few years. All Right,
it is the Band Mathers Show on Fox. As we
press on here. Congratulations to Mike Leach, Good luck to you.
We've got lame jokes coming up later this hour. Let's
go now bang bang to Houston. I'm sorry that was
(35:43):
a got turette's let's say hello to Chris in Houston. Hello, Christopher.
You know what, I don't get it. I don't give
how these clowns won't I always complain about being on Hope,
I'll be a hole. Oh mighty, I mean all you
doing blabber And anyway, I'm listen toe y'all hold, so
might as well listen toe y'all know that is, by
the way, Chris's way of announcing that he was on
(36:03):
hold for a long time, but not doing it an
offensive ruck. He didn't want to do it in an
offensive way because I mean to know that already. If
you are long listening to Ben Mallor, you might be
a hope for a while. Yeah you might. Exactly. It's
a show. We take calls, but sporadically we take calls,
we mix them in, we spice them in like Roberto
spices up his food there with cooking with Roberto are doing.
(36:24):
But you know, I gotta beat, I gotta beat man.
You know what I need to find me a new mentor.
You know what I need to think Eddie the podcast?
You want to be my mentors of Ben? He it
ain't no mint if Ben rather gone mentor that guy
that got got fired from a college radio show. What
Oh yeah, that's right, that's right our friend. Yeah, he's
(36:45):
here to become a truck drive right now. Though. So
that's sorry, I mean, because I mean, you know you
are horrible at mentor. Man, I don't get nothing from you, dude.
Well you don't he sent me no email. You've never
reached out to me other than the show. You don't
send me messages other than that I do, I've not
got any email from you. I check my inbox, I
don't get any email from you. But but you know what,
I don't want to talk about that too much. You
(37:07):
know what you just exposed. You didn't send an email. No, no, no.
That fact that kid I met that goes to Washington
State last week, he was he wants to get into radio,
he emailed me. So I'm like, all right, I'll help
the guy out. Why not? But you know, I just
looked to this Daytime being and yeah, that's fine, But
I don't Walker is gonna be a big star. You're
(37:27):
not gonna be a big star. Walker the radio kid
is gonna be a big start. You could be a
big star, but you're gonna make an effort. Oh then
come on, man, come on, I got don't communicate with you.
I don't want to hear that. Nah. It is daytime
not not not Chris Broussard to the boys. Man. I mean,
I don't think that's an evening an evening, that's an
evening show. And I like I love one of my
good friends. I like Chris Persar, but one of my
(37:49):
really good Rob Park, I love Rob. We'll see he
was He was on earlier with First Things First with
Nick Rich, a Leger apologist. Brossard was okay, guy, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I don't get it. Why does these people run
around talking about the Lakers? Is the is the total
favorite of that's gonna win the championship, that's gonna I'll
tell you. I'll tell you on that show. Who's the
(38:10):
guy's name? The whole one of the host not sorry
Laker fan boys. So that's why, that's why he's been
a Laker fan from I've been told I don't watch
that show, but I but I've been told he's a
big Laker fan. No, he's a he's a Lebron guy,
great Lakers. I think he's a Laker guy. He loves
Lebron too, but he likes the Lakers also. It's like
a perfect storm for him. It's like a perfect story
(38:33):
being And I was just disgusted hearing this. I mean,
because I know Tweeter dumb and Tweeter Doo. I don't
have that much faith in them. I mean, they lost
the okay, see, and people rag about that, but at
the end of the day, you can't, Yeah, you know,
you can't worry about all that with the whole you know,
until it gets the playoffs. You're gonna lose sporadically during
the season. But it is embarrassing when your guys perform
(38:54):
and they don't show up, you know, Harden, I mean,
what's going on with Harden here? Well, you know that
they're trying to show everything at him because he scores
too much and they feel like, well he's still yeah,
but he's throwing everything at the rim and everything at
the kitchen, in the kitchen sink at the rim and
not making many of them too tight. I think it's
the braser too tight. I don't know what to dude,
(39:15):
he's trying to find himself for something like why do
you got braid in your head? For well, you're you're
you're allowed to rip him on that. I don't think
I'm allowed because I'm getting in trouble. But you can.
You can rip them all you want, but I didn't.
And the PC and the PC going at b line
because he said, Doug, I mean, if they're playing like
thugs and slugs, you should be named at I mean,
(39:35):
you know what, you know, I'll just got after time
because of some softy players. Well I'm differently called for
that's what you should have been called. Yeah, because I
wanted to drop, I understand. But the thing about Ben,
the guy's been coaching in college and now in the NBA,
(39:56):
and he's coached mostly black players in his time, right,
And to think that, you know, somehow he's raised he
missed spoke or whatever if he did find But I mean, everyone,
everything's an outrage. You gotta he might lose his job
and what are we doing so stupid? But you know
what I tell you, look like somebody's got their balls back.
And okay, see what's the coach's name that used to
be the Ford because I can't tell Billy Donovan you're
(40:18):
talking about. It looks like if you actually get young
players with these college coaches and left them coach, because
look at Boston, you got rid of the headache and
all of a sudden they're one of the best teams
in the league. You know again, you know, you get
rid of the DA, you get these coaches, some players
that are actually want to be coached. It looked like
you actually have a great basketball team instead of trying
(40:38):
to pand it to all these stars, all the dogs. Well,
it is nice, and it's very rare in the NBA.
You're right, where teams don't tank, they actually try to
win and build a roster. It very rarely happens. I
gotta I gotta go, Chris, Thank you, buddy. Sorry, your
broadcasting career is in the toilet. But there's not much
I can do. Gotta reach out out this guy Walker,
(41:03):
and someday I'll be asking Walker for a job. He'll
be running a radio station. I'll be asking him for
a job. Who Walker, Well, he's from the very Walker No, no,
Walkers is for him. That's a good radio name. And
you know Walker radio guy, and he's from It's from
San Francisco, and he's going to Washington State. Yeah, that's
(41:23):
like the Syracuse of the PAC twelve, right, all the
radio broadcasters that have come out of Washing this day.
You know. Of course, I went to Saddleback, which is
where all I mean legends. Fox Sports Radio has the
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(41:44):
All right, It's Ben Mathers Show on Fox. Let's get
the funny bone out right now here we go. Funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny,
knock knock Who Blame week? Blame Week two? It's Big
Band's lame joke of the week. That it is Big
Ben's lame jokes the week h and every weekend about
this time unless I'm away, and we will read the jokes.
(42:04):
He's there, actual jokes sending by actual listeners. I was
a little concerned because I've been away for a couple
of weeks. I was worried that we might lose some
of the joke riders. But now they're all back. They're
all back, They're lined up, they're ready to go. Are unpaid,
underappreciated joke writing staff guys all over the country. A
lot of guys in Iowa, Minnesota, a lot of funny
(42:24):
people there. California do very well. Ohio some of the
states that start writing the lame jokes. Tennessee another one.
All right, So I'll read the joke. I'll bounce it
off Eddie, he'll bounce it back to me. Blah blah
bla blah. Roberto will do his thing over there and
a weed Man? Are you there? We'men now. They don't
want me to put you on the air, so but
I kind of want to. Are you okay? We'edmen? Is
(42:47):
he going? Wow? I don't hear him? Is he pot
it up? Yep? Oh wow? Did he fall asleep? You think?
Weed Man? So if you wanted a weed Man free
edition of jokes, all right, we'll maybe a callback. Maybe
not though, if you're lucky, let's get to it. Here
we go, Big Man's lamb Jokes of the week. The
Dallas Cowboys have set the NFL back more than sixty years, Eddie,
(43:10):
how do they do that? They're reverting back to McCarthyism.
That's right, that's for manic Mike who sent that one in?
Why is one of OJ Simpson's New Year's resolutions to
get a sleep number bed because he wants to make
you happy? But no, Yeah, I heard that sleep numbers
stores are having New Year's sales and slashing prices, so
(43:31):
it's a buzzword. OJ heard that. He's like, I'm in
sign me up for that, all right. Besides, this is
one I would have given to Coop, but he's not here.
Besides New York City? Where else on New Year's Eve?
Was there a lone ball drop? I don't know. Lance
Armstrong's house, Gary from Youngstown. Yeah, you can goof on
(43:53):
Lance Armstrong. He's a punk and a loser in a scumbag.
Let's see what else do we have? What does a
Jedi do when he is constipated? Um uses the force? Oh?
Thank you? You've heard that joke a million times as
I have. I'm rand though thought it would it would
be funny. Here's another classic. This is from Gordon in Tacoma.
I met Gordon. He's a good guy. Who is Monica
(44:14):
Lewinsky's favorite college football player? I don't know? Oh you
don't know that one? Ha ha. Clinton Dix is the
answer there. There you go, all right, yea very nice.
Why don't fisherman complain about the lack of Wi Fi
up in the mountains? Fishermen in the mountains, I don't know,
because they're always live streaming. That's why. So Surfer Todd
(44:38):
the comedians sent that one in, and thank you for that.
What else do we have here? What does skull stand for? Eddie? Oh?
My wife asked me that the same question. What does
it stand for Saints keep on losing is actually what
it stands for. After the game as so, I'm ran again.
Why should Tom Brady come to SOCO? I don't know.
(44:58):
Why should you come here so Giselle can charge it? No?
Should give I will give credit to that, all right.
Jamis Winston was in a very grumpy mood during his
exit interview with the Buccaneers Eddie. Yeah, reports say Winston
was crabby from Cowboy and Windsor sending with another new
(45:22):
email address, Cowboy and Windsor. H did you know that
the Lakers Anthony Davis has some new bling around his neck?
I was unaware of that. Yeah. After this week, the
Laker training staff got him a life alert button. So
he did anything. He just sits that button right there.
He's good at guts, Gary and Youngstown. Let's see here.
I don't know a phone or read that. Oh, this
is actually kind of an interesting story. So a woman
(45:43):
addicted to eating baby powder wants other people to know
they're not alone. We talk I think we talked about
this thing. Yeah. Yeah, Unfortunately Eddie, she doesn't want to
talk about it. I'll come on you guys, Yeah, that's funny.
Come on, I mean, what are we doing? You want
(46:03):
some David Stern jokes? Or is it too soon? Um?
You can throw it in there. Okay, what will be
the first thing listed on David Stern's funeral program? I
don't know, Patrick Ewing right there? From where will the
surviving family members of David Stern sit at the funeral?
(46:23):
I don't know behind Patrick Ewing actually Kurt from Earth there?
And when was the exact moment that David Stern realized
that he was in hell? Oh my god, I don't
know when he saw everyone wearing Sacramento Kings jerseys and
we kid because we care. I actually like David Stern
(46:44):
a lot scary In Youngstown, we had a bunch more,
but I edited them out. I guess Weed, are you there? Weed? Man? Hey?
Ben station is given away a thousand dollars an hour,
and then they make it a million dollars an hour,
and Lisa said to me away a million dollars. Well,
you know, all right, nobody cares. What do you call
(47:04):
a drone strike of an Iranian general? I don't know,
an economic boom? And it's just Josh, you sent that
one in. Well, it turns out the Iranian general was
standing under the missiletoe, Eddie, Yeah, he got the uh
he got the drone kiss of death there apparently from
(47:25):
the missas from Kurt from Earth. I cleaned that up
a little bit. Uh. I think man's lamb jokes. What's
the difference between Danica Patrick and the Ben Maller Show. Oh,
we haven't had a dannik A joke in a while. Yeah,
what's the difference. Well, the Ben Maller Show actually got
Lee the lap this week. Lead lead laugh, No, all
right's just joshn't that one in? Why does Hollowing James
(47:45):
keep falling asleep before he gets on the air. I
don't know why he's calling from a sleep number? Bet
of course, Eddie, that's why. That's from Matt the Warrior
Rador as fan. What was Angry Bill's favorite part of Christmas?
Putting up the white Christmas lights? He really enjoyed that.
That was his favorite. So Eric and Iowa? Who sent
(48:07):
that one? Weed Man's back? How did Marcel have an
international celebration on New Year's Eve? We're talking about Marcel
and Brooklyn. Of course, I don't know how did he
do that? He went to I hop Eddie is what
he did? He went to I hoping Eric and Iowa
again keep battling there, Erica, what record did Marcel in
Brooklyn break? I have no idea longest time spent in
(48:31):
a coma from nineteen twelve to twenty nineteen. Shout out,
shout out Titanic. That was from Medley in Louisville, Kentucky.
He's a funny guy. What's the difference between Justin and
Cincinnati and Jerry Jones? That's a good question, Ones. Jerry
Jones still has a job after picking up the wrong
(48:52):
stiff good. That's Gordon to coma. Not that funny. What
do Ice and onus Knocks have in common? That's a
good answering question. I don't know what do they have
a common? They have been chasing Mexicans for years, Eddie
for years, the only one. Okay, what's louder than hollering James?
(49:15):
I don't know what's louder, sleeping James or snoring James?
Bill from said that one. Why Why can't blind Scott
go skydiving anymore? I don't know. Why can't you do that?
Because it scares the hell out of Cramer. That's why
Ernie the Great o Finer Ye blind Scott's got a
medical condition. I don't know if he said it on Twitter,
(49:36):
so I don't know if I should. Yeah, I said,
why don't you call? He said he might call if
he was filling up to it. I guess he's not.
When Justin Cooper is at home getting high. Why does
he always use the dead boat? I don't know why
he likes to be locked and loaded? Eddie Surfer Todd
(49:57):
the Comedian sent that one in It's Big Ben's La Jokes.
A louis, what's better than a fathead of me? Eddie?
I don't know what could be better than that? A
fat wallet of me? That would be? That would be
don't say that. I'm gonna hang up on your ass.
That was from Eke and Rosu in Minnesota. What does
an iPhone five s and this show's producer have in common?
(50:20):
I don't know. Both rarely answer calls and barely work
at all. That's from Matt the Warrior, raid A's fan.
We sent that one in It's Big Band's Lame Jokes
of the Week. We had a couple of jokes that
came in late. Normally I don't allow these on the air.
Here's a classic Tiger Woods joke from Jeffrey. Why do
tiger woods and baby what? What do baby? What do
(50:42):
tiger woods and baby seals have in common? Here? You?
I don't know. They both get clubbed by Scandinavians? All right,
let's see here, very nice. Why does weed Man want
to move to Mississippi? I don't know why he heard
(51:02):
that they hire leeches in them in Mississippi? Mann, that's true, man.
Mike sent that one in. What was Coop? What was
Coop and weed Man's favorite ball game this year? I
don't know what was the weed ball? They loved it.
They couldn't get Eric and Iowa Wo sent that one in.
(51:24):
It's Big Man's lame jokes of the week. What did
the peloton say to weed Man, hippie? I don't know
what it's say? Just like your life, this ride is
going nowhere? George, George and Rochester, Minnesota. What do Wade
Phillips and weed Man's kid have in common? Weed Man
(51:45):
as a kid, I don't know. Yeah, he goes to Georgetown, George,
that's a real school. Who knew? I guess the apple
does fall far from the tree. Uh? The answer is
the dads are both bums, says the answer. That's Eric,
Eric and Iowa sent that one in. Did you know
some of weed Man's home was ripped away? It was
(52:07):
a really sad story over the holidays. I didn't hear that. Yeah,
a couple of hoboes needed to make a cardboard sign,
so they tore off the back of weed Man's home
and it was it was pretty It's pretty devastating. It
was pretty devastated. It absolutely was. It's Big Bend's lame
jokes a week. Let's just get to the closer. Already,
here we go, you're ready for the closer. Here it is,
(52:28):
Here we go. Everyone. What did the Houston Astros dugout
Wilt Chamberlain's bed and JFK's limo have in common? Wow?
Could you repeat that? Yes, Houston Astros dug out Wilt
Chamberlain's bed and JFK's limo. What are they have in common?
I don't know. Tell me they are all the sites
(52:50):
of multiple bangs bang bang it is. That's what Matthew
Warrior Raider as man lame jokes of the wing and
only limited interruption from weed Man Hippie because he for
some reason wasn't on hold. But thanks to all the
joke riders. If you want to send a joke, if
you think you're funny, send it to my email, Ben
(53:12):
Maller's Show. Make sure the show's in there at gmail
dot com. Put jokes in the headlines and we might
use it on there. There's a lot of jokes we use,
obviously there's some we don't. I think we got like
thirty five jokes today. I left a lot out. I
should have left several others I used out of the show.
But yeah, we love the jokes and racist jokes. Well yeah,
well of course you had that, but you didn't use it, Roberto.
(53:34):
That'll be in the fifth hour, right. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
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