Boos, Beard, and Bets

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rate quote. There's like going on involving random NBA stories,
including the game that ended just short while ago the
Houston Rockets on a James Harden big shot. Our victorious

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against the Golden State Warriors hardened and the Warriors were
up by twenty points early in the third quarter and
they end up blowing it all and Harden hits a
contested moneyball with less than three seconds left in overtime
is a triple double, and he is getting massaged by

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every mainstream media person that covers the NBA. It is
a lick fest for James Harden. They are, I mean,
this is a guy playing well. The guy played a
great game, and congratulations. That's five straight forty point games
now for James Harden, and it is great. Actually heard

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some of the Rockets broadcast. I have the app on
my phone. I was listening. Craig Ackerman, who usually does
the TV, he was doing the radio. They were very
into it. Good, it sounded great. In fact, I'm gonna
send Craig listens to our show. He admits to it,
which is clearly a problem he's got, but I'm gonna
send him a message. I thought he centered wonderful. I'm

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not a Rocket you know, I'm not a Rockets fan.
I take every cheap shot I can take at the
Houston Rockets, blatant cheap shots at the Rockets. But I
felt listen, they put what more do you want me
to say? The better story, though, is as it often
is in the Golden State Warriors locker room, and my god,
what are we doing here the Warriors. You know, you

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knew they were in trouble when they lost the on
Christmas to the to the Lakers, that it was a
sign things were not going well for the Golden State Warriors.
And now they've lost again, and you look at You're like, wait,
wait a minute here. You assume at some point here,
at some point, this is going to kick in. But
I guess, what is the level of concern for the

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Golden State Warriors. They had won their last couple of
games before losing, but they've lost now three in a
row in Oakland, and they're leaving Oakland, right, They're going
to cross the Bay next year, get that new arena
opening up the Golden State Warriors. Due but on the
Mallars scale of panic, which I like to pull out
from time to time, on the Maller scale of panic,

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how concerning, how disheartening is this for the Golden State Warriors.
On the scale of one to ten, With ten finding
out your franchise player is out for the year with
a mutilated knee injury, that would be a ten. One
would be no concern at all. I'm at a two.

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I'm at a two for the Golden State Warriors, and
I obviously their aspirations are to win another championship. That
is their purpose, that is their objective. Anything less than
that will not be an achievement. Doesn't matter how hard
they work and all that, they have to win the championship.
Right now as we talk in early January, are the

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Golden State Warriors the top team in the NBA? No,
they're not the top team in the NBA. But are
they gonna be the top team in late April and
May and in June? Are they gonna be the top
teams in the NBA? Probably? So, yeah, they'll be the
top team in the NBA by then. Now, it is
also troublesome to think that the Warriors are in a

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position where they need that extra push and they're going
to have to get DeMarcus Cousins as the guy right now. No,
if you follow the basketball even a little bit, this
is a problematic situation because as uber talented as DeMarcus

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Cousin is, and boy is he amazing, he's not a
He's not a lightweight. He is tremendously gifted. Now, who
knows what he's got left because he had the pop
to killes tending, which is the Warriors are spoon feeding
him as they bring him back. But you think about
this team, who which is ever since that really again,

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the Clippers, they they had that dust up between Kevin
Durant and Draymond Green at Staples Center and that they
have not recovered. And some of this also is playing
in second gear, right, you play in second gear, You're like, hey,
we've been through this before. We know the kind of
the systematic rhythmic pays for the NBA season, so we

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don't have to be playing great. Am I saying that
the Warriors are sandbagging? No, I'm not saying that they're
intentionally not playing their best. I'm saying that they're just
not completely engaged, which I guess in a way is
a way of saying that. What I say is I'm
not saying it while saying it. That's a gift to say.

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I'm not saying that they're saying, you know, they're sandbagging,
but they really are showing tendencies of sand bagging anyway.
So but again, you look at the Rockets. Obviously they
buried themselves early and they've come out of the hole
that they dug, and you're like, the Rockets are playing
pretty well. The problem with the Rockets it does not

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seem like a sustainable game play that that performance. While
it's it's one of those things. In the regular season
it's great as well. The Rockets were went away from
the NBA Finals last year. I'm not buying it. They
can prove me wrong. I don't buy it because typically
James Harden checks out in the playoff game. At least

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one game in a seven game series, he will not
show up. And you also have the fact that the
way Harden has has played and the way he's made
his mark and and been a Hall of Fame ball
player is based on having to get to the foul
line a ton of times, and typically that doesn't have

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been in the playoffs. They don't. They don't give one
guy twenty five foul shots in a playoff game, and
if they do, people are getting on social media saying
the game's rigged, it's fixed. There's something going on here
that you know, those little touch fouls that James Harden
gets every I mean, you pretty much breathe on James
Harden most of the time, you're going to end up,

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you know, Harden's gonna end up shooting foul shots that
that's how that is going to go in a night.
You know, the Rockets in this game, it's encouraging for
the Rockets because one hundred and thirty five points, they
shot twenty eight foul shots and Harden only had nine. Like,
that's the way they've got to play in the playoffs. Now.
If you're expecting a certain guard by the name of

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Austin Rivers to play like that, good luck on that
as well. Right, let's hear from Steve Kerr. The Warriors
in the fourth quarter scored just twenty one points. That
was embarrassing the offense for the Warriors in the fourth quarter.
Let's year of Steve Kerr explain what the hell happen?
We saw was that the just players kind of decided

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and to ice. It seemed like a lot of isolations. Again,
it was just kind of the players deciding to ice
on some of the Oh, you don't want to blame
the coach, so it must be the players. I'm not
exactly sure which because Katie had a lot of the
kind of like the MIC's in Santa Clara by the way,
before the Times just basketball see c NBA. I mean,
it's like, you know, this is when you face a

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good defense, uh, and they you know, get through the
first couple of options. Um, and you're you gotta have
you gotta make shots and you gotta you gotta play
one on one. And that's just the way it is. It.
It'd be nice if we could, you know, the pick
up fence for for Jimmy Chickwood every play, but times
it just comes down to, um, a guy making a

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shot and that's what James did at the end, and uh,
that's why they do it. Yeah, all right, So there's
Steve a lot of typing in the background of that,
did you there's a very intense typing going on. That's
someone that's like an old school newspaper writer that's on deadline.
Is what that is. I got my editor gave me
a deadline. I've got fifteen minutes. I've got to get
a quote from Steve Kerr in my story because what

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I've got to do. That's exactly what that is. So anyway, listen,
we can go on and on about this, but the
Rockets can feel good about themselves. Congratulations he won the game,
and but it just does not appeared to be sustainable.
We have more though, we have more here's more from

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Steve Green. Now, there was that Kevin Durant play where
he both feed out of bounds. They didn't call it
in the fourth quarter, which was tremendous. We also have
here's Steve Kurt talking about in general that stretch of doom.
The stretch of doom. I believe he's discussing here where
the Warriors decided, you know, let's not get certain people
the basketball that really need the basketball. Here's a cur

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on that I think that. You know, they came out swinging.
They scored I think eighteen points in the first four minutes.
Our defense was the third quarters four and then our
offensive execution was really lacking quick shots. I don't know
if Kevin Durant touched the ball there in the third
quarter for about five six minutes. You know that can't happen.

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We've got to do a better job of having the
ball and making sure we're executing. I thought we were
just coming down and taking a lot of quick shots,
and because we weren't in a good rhythm, we were missing,
and then we were vulnerable with our transition defense off
those miss shots. How much more fun would it be
if Steve Kerr came out in a blind raide just

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screaming and had a temper tantrum and complete hissy fit.
Wouldn't that be fun? I don't think he does that though,
very mellow, he's very very relaxed. There Steve Kerr, the
coach of the Golden State Wars. Alright, it is the
Ben Maler Show on Fox. We welcome in Edmond, Dallas

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the boat. Willie shoot this gar see it right over there?
Are you excited for wild Card Weekend Big Band? Not
at all. I'm more excited than I'm here. This is
a Michael Jordan flu game like performance. I want you
to know that Eddie not. Did I toot my own horn?
Did I not? Coop? What was the text message I

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sent you before the show? And I never talked to
Coop before any show. We'd like to come in here
and make it all fresh, all organic. We want that
to happen, so we don't have any conversation before the show.
But I did send Coop a loop a message. I
broke protocol, Eddie, sending him a message because I wanted
him to be aware of my predicament, my situation. That's

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what a good host does. He lets the producer know
there's a situation going on. So I had to send
Cooper Loop a message. It was very difficult, but I
did it. And what did the message say? Coop? What
did I tell you? Said? You were battling a cold?
Could I could smell the garlic through the cell phone?
That's right exactly. Now, I want you to know what

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my day was like. It now my wife told me
he's calling sick. I said, I just was off for
like three months. I can't call in sick. I can't
do I woke up. I had laryngitis. I don't know
how I mean, I was a little I went to
San Francisco, if you like, a week ago, and had
a great time. But I walked around and it's a
little colder in the Bay Area, and I didn't have
the proper jacket on, and I got a little coal.

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I didn't have the garlic because I was traveling, so
I didn't have the garlic therapy, which I normally knocked
that out within you know, a few hours, no problem.
But on the road, I don't have the access to
the proper amount of garlic that I So you're saying
there is a certain amount of time that you have
to consume the garlic for it to be effect. Once
you start feeling the bug, you gotta go right to

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the garlic. I didn't do that. So, but I couldn't
like stop at a grocery store and grab a couple
of clothes or anything. I mean, I could have, but
I didn't, you know, I was. I was like, oh, no,
it's probably nothing. My wife saw it's fine. It's just
a little colder here than normal, all right, So whatever.
So so I woke up I laryngitze. So what I
did here I want you to to give you. I had
a rundown or what I did here to be here tonight.
Couldn't talk right, could not talk. I had to text

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my wife. I could not talk to him. So here's
what I did immediately, garlic garlic therapy, right sucking on
the garlic all live long day. Then I thought, you
know what, I gotta double it up. I gotta go big.
So then I went on I typed in home remedies
for laryngitis. So anyone does, Yeah, we're all doctors now.

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Thank God for the Internet. So I went in there.
I went on there and I said, I need to
look up home remedy. So I went through like the
dark web. I go on the Internet and I'm searching
the dark corners of the Internet, I mean places you
don't want to go. And I found this this old school,
old world concoction of apple side of vinegar, pure disgusting

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apple side of vinegar and honey. And they said on
this website, they said, you'd take a couple of drinks
of this, your laryngitis will be gone. And you know what,
you're here. I'm here and I can talk and and
and then I had the you know, the old Jewish
therapy chicken soup. I had some of that going too,
So I had I had three different things going on

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all day, Eddie, just to just to be here. So
I would I can winner a Marconi Award for that,
everything like that love love for your listeners. Well, no,
I I My wife wanted as I said, to take
it if. I was like, no, I hate missing work,
you know that, Eddie, I don't. I always want to
be here. It's bothered me. I took so much time off.
I told my wife, too much time off. She said,
you didn't take enough time off. Buzz is a Friday,

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so you can power through this and you got the
weekend exactly. That's what I was saying. I was like, listen,
I gotta make it through you know, this show, and
then I'm okay. Then i just won't talk to you
all weekend. I'm good, all right, I'll just you know.
She said, oh, that is a good idea. Yeah, she
always wants to talk, and I'm like, you know, I'm
I always had the excuse where I'm a talk show
so I talk at work. I got, but the last
couple of weeks I couldn't do that because I wasn't

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a talk show host. That was a loser. I just
sat around and did nothing. Now does this mean you
might take some more calls to give that throat a
little bit of a rest here and there. I'm thinking
about it. And I still have some more of the
apple cider vinegar, I have some kind of I have
some chicken soup in the back. I gotta heat that up.
I don't know if the microwave works. I've never used
the microwave. I don't even know if it works. I've

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used it. Yeah, it works, all right. So I've got
some of that, and then I've got some some special
tea or something that i'm supposed to drink. That's supposed
to help. So I think I'm all right. I mean
I'm feeling pretty good. Hey, we can just replay that
that hour that they had on a loop during Christmas. Yeah.
You know the great thing about the Militia Coop. You think,

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here we put together a special hour and I'm getting well, yeah,
you know, it's Christmas and you guys are doing a
death tribute on Chris. I mean to give me a
hard time because we you know, we honored our friend
Genie and Medford we lost last year and we did
our tribute in twenty eighteen, and we that was one
of the highest most popular shows that people wanted to
remember Genie. You had a lot of fans and they

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wanted to hear memories about her, and so so we
replayed some of that. People are very upset. Some people
were complaining. I got a couple of direct messages, not
not not because of the content itself, but the fact
that it was recorded, that it wasn't a live show.
What what the hell are you not doing a lot?
What is this recording crap? Like, hey, I've put together

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that recording crap. Well, you know that's a technicality, right,
kopause is it It was pre recorded, but it but
it was never broadcast before. So it was original content
that had never been broadcast, I mean, not broadcast in
that order. It was not rebroadcasting what I'm saying, you know,
I'm what I'm saying that when I my wonderful job coming,

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you know, in and out. Oh, that's that's true. That that
that has never been heard before thirty seconds at that time,
me talking had never been you know, broadcast before. Yes, exactly,
all right, we will take your phone calls. We will.
That's an amazing thing here, and I guess we'll, boy

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would be the whole weed Man show is what It's
gonna be, nothing but weed oh boy. And I said, well,
other people need to call. You don't want to throw
that out there, Yeah, because you know he's gonna He's
run to the phone. It's gonna be just betting in
the weed Man for the whole all four hours, Benny
and the weed Man. You're listening to the Ben Mallett
Show on the Box Sports Radio all right, eight seven

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seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine
six six three six nine. And you can appreciate the
amount of dedication I was thinking, boy, if I didn't
need my voice, I wouldn't have needed any of that.
I could. I've been fine. I mean, I don't feel sick.
It's just it was a little bugg in my throat.
No diarrhea, you want to check. I think I'm okay.

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I think in that department, although I haven't eaten, like
I just have had nothing but soup and wow. But
Roberto actually brings up a good point. Yeah. I don't
know if he was intending it, but when you when
you eat and drink all that those concoctions, does that
do anything to you? Well, I mean I didn't haven't
eaten since yesterday, so I've pretty much just been on

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a liquid situations. What's going I see? Yeah. So but
the problem is once you once you fast for like
a couple of days, and then you end up eating something,
then it all comes up barreling out. It is uh yeah,
it's not a good situation. Eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three
six nine. We'll give the old thumbs down. We'll take

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friend Buck, who goes by a different name when he
calls in, says God bless the Jewish vampires for saving
your voice. Mike and Kansas City Music Mikes has Ben,
I have the original recipe for ginger mint tea. It's
very healing and very soothing on a sore throats. I
don't have a sore throat, Okay, I don't want to.
I appreciate that. And the only time I ever drink

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tea is when I'm under the word I never. I
don't like tea. I don't drink tea except you. I'm
I'm drinking. If you ever meet me and I'm drinking tea,
I'm sick. That's the only time I ever drink tea.
But he's gonna send me the recipe. I'll check it out.
Our friend Mark, who's a great p one, big fan
of the show, and he was worried because I said

(19:57):
the last show, the last Ben Maller show. So I
was so I was sending that tweet out in such
a hurry. I didn't say last of the week, which
is what I meant. Well, maybe this is the last show.
I don't know. I have no idea. People always freak
go when you say last Yeah, well I meant to
say the last of the week. But we call this
in the old days. Eddie might get this reference. In

(20:18):
the early days of Fox Sports Radio, we called this
the Chuck Booms work week, which is two days, two days.
You call in sick on Monday, and then you work
Tuesday and Wednesday, and then you're sick on Thursday and Fridays.
That's a two day Sometimes you're sick on Monday and
Tuesday and then you're you're good Wednesday and Thursday, and
then you're back back on Friday. Robin Vegas. Is enough

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with all the excuses, Mallard, you were off for damn
near six months. Suck it up and quit bitching. Rob says,
I had to listen several nights so that flank and
blank guy, and you don't see me complaining unless I
have man up. Thank you appreciate that. Now, Chris says,

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Man of the People uses every remedy to fight a
massive cold apple side of integrant honey. Of course he
might get sick from using the microphone. A microwave at
Fox Sports Radio. Yes, think of all the disgusting people,
Christopher that work here and all the horrific food that
has been placed into that microwave over the years. Although
it's not that old, I think this is a new microwave.

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We got a smurf kitchen. I don't know about that.
Oh you think they just repurposed the old microwave. Yeah, okay, yeah,
well it's all I thought everything was new in there,
but probably not. Let's go to a former caller of
the Year on the Ben Mallor Show from the North
End of Boston, the pr agent of our show Blind

(21:45):
Scott is on Fox. Hey, it's been it's been a
great time here in bustt. You know, you don't get
sick from being cold, You get sick from being around germs.
Everybody here in Boston is sick. I've been telling everybody
to get away from me. I don't let anybody touched me.
I don't hold anybody's hands. You know, dude, the Patriots
tapment unstoppable lately, that we're gonna run all the way
through the playoffs. I saw Eddie Eddie City got his wife.

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But Philip Rivers fat head? I said, does it have
throw up all over his shirt? You know, because all
Philip Rivers doesn't throw up all over himself whenever he
gets into a big game. Man, I have I have
a buddy who knows Bill Belichick, and he well he
doesn't know him, but he sees him in the convenience
to around the town. And ever he goes in there,
he but does that move where he pretends he's on
the cell phone. You know what I'm saying, Oh, yeah,
that's a jerk celebrity. Yeah, what does Belichick buy at

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the convenience store? Did you ask your friend what he
buys the store? Guys like milk and water and eggs
and stuff. You know, then uh, you know, he'd be
pretends he's talking about cell phone, So nobody hustle. Boy.
You know, I got a big career in politics. I'm
getting the paperwork ready. I'm gonna run for an electrical
position in the spring. I started a fight between cleanly
two different political parties by talking trash about people. I

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really get in the middle. I really get in the
middle of it. They warned me. They said, I can't
be getting all wild up at the state House. You
know what I mean. Yeah, but you know you would
bring mud slinging the politics to a new level. Now,
if you do run for office, Blind Scott, you have
to have somebody in your family make one of those
election posters, and you gotta send me one. We'll put
it up in the studio. It'd be great, Blind Scott
for city councilor whatever. That'd be awesome. Yeah, that's great. Yeah.

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I'm gonna maybe run for the Board of Transportation because
I'm an expert about transportation. I said, if you want
to clean up Boston, we've got to get rid of parking.
You get that subway run again. And then I was
dealing real estate around the city, said we got a
salvage piece of real estate to get the deficit going.
You know, like, I got a lot of good ideas.
You know, you know, if it wasn't a black guy
like me in this city, not that would be kept

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in order. People. When I'm coming down the street, I'd
like part in the Red Sea Scott and Cramer, you
know what I mean. Yeah, dude, when you headed back
to Boston, we're gonna get you on the er again.
In Boston, we're all excited for I know. I'll be
back probably next week. I had. I couldn't work really
the last couple of days because of the cold, but
I should be next week. So yeah, I almost Hey,

(23:55):
when I went on those lawsuits, you didn't have me
on the radio like when you had that game one guy,
I made a lot of money like that, you know
what I mean? Yeah, But you because you played the
sympathetic poor blind guy in court. He takes seventy percent
NFL winners, that guy. Oh yeah, I got a motion.
My emotion to appeal got craned today with folding and
court and federal court. I'm I'm on the high note here.

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It's my bus. Scot Wait wait, wait, how many Let
me ask you this blin how many times have you
been brought in in a class action lawsuit as the
sympathetic blind guy where no one can say no to
a blind guy. How many times have you done that?
You're like too well, two times. But that's how I'm
time to get elected. And all was now helping people
get elected at possessions too. I went up to inaccuration

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ceremony for the state House to pass couple days. I
was eating at these large buffets. Man, I had like
three plates. Cramer pulled a cookie out of some old
man's hand and everything I've witnessed that, blind Scott, have
you I had a meal with you. I saw a Kramer.
Well you didn't need but I saw Cramer attack the waitress.
I remember you didn't see that, But all right, thank
you blinds. There he goes the great blind scout, future politician.

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We'll get two thumbs down. We'll get to that, and
also if that was not enough, in addition to thumbs down,
we'll go to casino time as well. We'll get to
all that. Right now, though, let's get the latest from
the guy. Go Fox Sports Radio studios and here's Eddie.
All right, then, we only had three games the NBA
but they're pretty eventful, including the game in Oakland between

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the Rockets and the Warriors one thirty five, one thirty four.
Houston wins it in overtime, led by James Hardney not
only hit the three point to tie it and sent
it in overtime, but he hit the game winning three
pointer as well with two point seven a seconds left.
He finished with forty four points, stan rebounds, fifteen assists,
the triple double fifth winner Rover Houston, and not coincidentally,
Harden has now had five straight forty point games. Spurs

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were hosting the Raptors and Kawhi Leonard, his first game
back in San Antonio since being traded away in the
offseason to Toronto. We had twenty one points, but the
man he was traded for, Damar de Rosen for San Antono,
gets his first career triple double in the win. Twenty
one points, fourteen rebounds, eleven assist Spurs over the Raptor
one twenty five to one oh seven, and the Nuggets,
the top team in the Western Conference, knock off the
Kings one seventeen to one thirteen. Denver now twenty six

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and eleven on the season. College basketball five Top twenty
five teams in action, including undefeated and number two Michigan.
The Wolverines beat Penn Stage sixty eight to fifty five,
two improved fourteen, and Oh there were a couple of
upsets in the Big Ten. Minnesota knocked off number twenty
two Wisconsin fifty nine to fifty two, and Perdue beat
twenty fifth ranked Iowa eighty six to seventy wins for
number eighteen anti state number twenty one Indiana. The support

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It's gonna need a surgery and it means he's done
for the year and he's gonna go pro after this year.
So that's save four the Ducks. He's seven clippers that
he's a seven were two center. Uh and expected to
be a very high pick in the NBA draft. He's
gonna have his first name on the back of his
dirty nine rebounds and two blocks per game for the

(27:12):
Ducks this year. But Ball is done. When I first
started as a basketball like a radio reporter back when
they had those and minute Ball was playing. At that time,
he was with the Golden State Warriors and Don Nelson
was the coach and had him shooting three pointers. Yes,
and he was like this seven foot seven guy was
a sight to see for sure. But of all the
ridiculously like side show tall people that I have ever

(27:35):
been around basketball players, like, uh, he didn't seem the
tallest because he was so skinny like he, I wasn't
intimidated even though he was ridiculously tall, like George Murison.
That intimidates you, yam yao, ming intimidates you. Ball did
not because I felt like I could like break him

(27:56):
in a half because he was so so skinny. But
we good luck to Bowl Bowl as he tries to
make it. Did you mention I was listening to the
end of the UCLA game? Also, did you mention the
Bruins actually won a game? Eddie? No, I did not
mention that they beat Stanford. Who is the interim coach
there for them, Bartos kid, Gene Bartos first name. But yeah,

(28:18):
there you go. So they not only beat Stanford, I
think they blew them out. I think it was don't
even close. So you think that the UCLA players pulled
like an NBA power play. They tried to get Alford
fired until they could. Murray Bartow's the guy's name. Murray
Barto is the interim coach, and they beat Stanford and

(28:39):
beat them up. I guess I don't know Stanford any good.
I don't like there any good this year. So, like
I said, the matter, yeah they suck. Also all right,
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(28:59):
you have to do. And the thumbs down. What is
that all about? I'll tell you thumbs down from the
world of professional football. Now, typically, what team calls you
up and says, hey, I'd like to hire you use
my coach. People run at that. They want to be
the coach in the NFL. Right, it's a big deal
to be a coach in the NFL. Well, Josh McDaniels

(29:21):
has turned down in interview. Maybe maybe you missed this story.
The Bengals made a request to interview Josh McDaniels for
their position as head coach. After Marvin Lewis exited stage right,
McDaniels said, screw you. I don't want any part of
the Bengals. I'm not gonna go there. He decided not

(29:42):
to take the interview. Now, that's a smart move, and
I'm gonna tell you why. All right, it's a smart move,
because that's career suicide. Josh McDaniels is gonna get one
more chance to be a head coach, and if he
sucks the way he sucked in Denver, he will never
be a head coach again. So you go to the Bengals.
You are walking through fire, and it's kind of like

(30:03):
that when the firewalking bit goes bad, you know, and
everyone's feet gets burned. That happens every once in a while.
You know, Tony Robbins is pretty good, but everyone in
a while, he doesn't get the temperature of the stones
you walk across has to be just right. Or you're
gonna burn your feet and and so I'm telling you
that would have that would have been disaster. Like McDaniels

(30:24):
could take the packer's job, because you figure, even if
McDaniels is a terrible coach with Aaron Rodgers, they'll win
at least nine games, right at worst, they'll win like
nine games. You figure where they're healthy Aaron Rodgers next year,
but he turned down the since a Natty ben Gals
the new go, he's waitning to be the next Patriots coach. Huh, yeah,

(30:46):
they say he's the coaching waiting. I've said many times
since I've done my local shows for WI and Boston,
I've said, no, I hope this guy. And you're a
Patriot fan, you got a hope that he leaves and goes.
He's waiting this whole time and named I'm buying somebody else. Yeah, geez,
all right, Rob says, since you are the local medicine man,

(31:06):
what do you recommend for chronic diarrhea? Let's go. I
don't know what I've never had. I don't think I've
ever had chronic diarrhea. So, Eddie, you got anything for diarrhea?
The pink stuff, the pink stuff. Yeah, well pepto, Yeah,
I guess that works. But if you have like projectile

(31:29):
vomiting that I don't think that. Yeah, let's go, it'll help.
All right, let's go to weed Man, hippie who's in Miami.
It's Benny and the weed Man on Fox Sports. Rady,
you've been. I watched basketball. I watched so Hardy just
he's unbelievable. Oh my god, he don't need CP, he

(31:53):
don't need call now No the Rockets, well he briefly
passed up the Rockets, right, is it unbelievable? Bay? Like
watching the Rockets right now is like oh for Wahi
and Moro nos aput no even doing now showing me

(32:17):
the song Aide. He's a dinosaur. He slows everything down
and us Merow's on the floor. James hard And couldn't
believe that Chase Hardens is not gonna play with Nero.
Moro's friends with TP three and he's on the shelf,
like you say, he's broken, and but James Harden don't

(32:39):
need him. Chase Harden could dissold by himself. I watched
the game then Chase Harden had Wait, I like that
your emphas like you don't normally watch the game. I
like that you're emphasizing you watch the game on some
Russian website. I like that it just happen. It's just empy.

(32:59):
I understand. I'm proud of you. This is like a
sports call. I'm not used to a sports call from you.
I thought you were trying to change the world. I'm
my instincts are all awing, my voice and my happiness.
He's changing the world. Thing, then, even a weed Man,
we are doing our work. Then I just gotta be excited.

(33:19):
But everybody even hears my voice there A wife has
better and really know it. Yea, I know that your lot,
your wit, the followers are the ble for us. Well,
that's not a way. That's not a way to endear
yourself to anyone. That's not a way to endear yourself.
Oh you're gonna want to I want to hear more

(33:40):
of that. You did not. Yeah, weed Man's pretty much
blocked everybody. You're all the Really you're all the Boogeyman. Yeah, yeah,
you're all the Boogeyman. And weed Man's hanging out there
somewhere in a sceney part of Miami, and uh, you know,
puff the Magic Dragon let me block you, Let me
block you, let me block you. It's a block part.

(34:00):
He's like that night, one of the great nights in
show history. If you're a new listener, when William Shatner
shots was so offended with me that all of our
listeners that would send him a message and mentioned my name,
he was blocking everyone, and he was. He was such
in such a rage, William Shatner that he started by

(34:23):
accident following like the overnight guy at the warehouse, the
security guard, the donut maker. He was following all of
our friends that listened to our show. It was hilarious.
We're gonna have I believe this is the Is this
the final? No, it's not the finals, and the next
to last is the next least. No. I think we
can do it for the entire playoffs. The NFL wild

(34:44):
Card pick him because there are enough games where we
can each get a quarterback and a running back and
all that, so we'll have the wild card pick him
for the NFL. Here's the who am I game? Many
consider me one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL,
Yet in my last six playoff starts, I have eleven
touchdown passes and ten interceptions. And a quarterback rating of

(35:08):
just eighty one point one. Again, many consider me one
of the top quarterbacks in the NFL, But in the
last six playoff starts, I've had just eleven touchdown passes,
ten interceptions and a quarterback rating of eighty one point one.
Who am I the answer? Next? Be sure to catch

(35:29):
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(35:52):
at and follow me Eddie Garcia, I'm at Eddie on
five Garlicy, Amanda, what's up? And Ali? From the Guy
Coo Fox Sports Radio Studio. It's Ben Maller. Our doctor
Blind Scott says that you should drink Coca Cola if
you have diarrhea? Have you ever heard that before? No? No,
Doc Mike not actually is Doc Mike, but this is

(36:15):
Doc Blind Scott. Here's the who am I? Game? Many
consider me one of the top quarterbacks in the National
Football League. Yet in my last six playoffs starts, I
have eleven touchdown passes in ten interceptions and a quarterback
rating of just eighty one point one. Who am I?
Robin Minnesota is going with the great Kendall Gill. Very appropriate.

(36:35):
Paul Crewe from Slow. Who else we have? Phyllis Rivers
from Just Josh Big Lou. Who is going with Eric
b Enemy as the answer? Joe says it's got to
be Rodney p Joe and san Antonio Corpus Joe on Twitter.
Who else do we have Let's see page down, page down.
Gary Coleman from Trucker Joe. Very funny, very very funny.

(36:58):
The Ozzie Guy. You know he's been listening along time,
The Ozzie Guy. Here's here's a blast in the past.
He says, Ben die die diarrhea Bishop, remember him for
you had diarrhea during the Stanley Cup Finals. He did, Yes,
he did. Terry is going with Bubby Brister, Terry leading
the Mallard militia in England. Who else we have? Richard

(37:19):
Todd from Van Let's see page down, page al Bundy
from Getting Jiggy with It, Dick Clark from The Dick
Pole account. Do you have an answer, Eddie, I do
all right? Dante Cole Pepper, Oh, Dante legend. Dante followed
me for like a week on Twitter, then he unfollowed me,
so I hate him now. The correct answer to the
who am I game? Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks.

(37:43):
I've heard a lot of broadcasters talking about great Russell
Wilson is in the playoffs, but not lately the last
six playoff games, Wilson is very bad. In fact, eleven touchdowns,
ten interceptions, and eighty one point one quarterback rating. He's
completing less than sixty percent of his passes for the
Seahawks in recent playoff games. Let's get to it. Here

(38:06):
we go. It's the NFL Pick him wild Card weekend.
We got double barrel action on Saturday and Sunday. We'll
pick a quarterback, running back, tight end, and two receivers.
Let's find out who's gonna go first. We have an
extra round to get through. Hopefully we will not run
into a brick wall which is quickly closing upon us.

(38:30):
That would be Eddie Garcia. All right, Eddie, right, be
first pick again? Quarterback, running back, tight end too? With
my first selection. I will go with Ezekiel Elliott's all right,
you can have him. I am gonna take and Drew
Luck Andrew Luck Kovalou. I will go with Todd Gurley.

(38:50):
All right, okay's back. Pick Robert Joe and he's not alright.
Roberto's going with melviol One more, one more, Roberto. I
will go with Russell Wilson. Russell I just ripped him.
He tug about. Uh Cooper loop. Pick another running back.

(39:13):
Go to Shaun Watson. Just Shaun Watson. All right, he
got him. I will go Let's go with t Y Hilton.
I'm gonna double up on Mike Colts Eddie to back
to back. Let's go with DeAndre Hopkins. All right, Eric Ebron,
all right, you gonna have Eric Ebron. I'll take zach Ertz,
zach Ertz of the Eagles. Cooper loop. It's the NFL

(39:34):
wild Card round. Pick him. I'll go with the Mark Cooper. Yeah,
Robert two back to back. Doug Baldwin, you got Doug Baldwin. Yeah,
all right? And uh Keenan Allen. Oh, that's a blow
to Eddie. He usually takes Keenan Allen. That's a that's
a blow to him, Cooper Loop, Who you got? Coop?
I am gonna take another running back since I'm gonna

(39:56):
get the zero points from that one. All right, I'm
gonna go with Marlon Mack. Are you gonna have him?
I am going to take I'll take a shot with
al Sean Jeffrey of the Eagles, Eddie back Tyler Lockett's alright, Seahawks.
This is where it gets tough. All right, one more
and Nick Foles of the Eagles. All right, I'm gonna
take I'm gonna take a chance on someone named Gus

(40:17):
Johnson of the Rabits. I don't isn't the a Broadcastle? Yeah? Yeah?
All right? And Cooper who got? Hurry up? Hurry up?
I don't know Zack Hurts alright, Well, he's already been picked,
Hunter Henry. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk
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app search f SR to listen live. Way back in
mid July, NFL teams reported to training camp, and now
we are on the cusp of the postseason, thank god,
and we will discuss all the big matchups this weekend.
Our old friend, the Penny will pay a visit. It'll
be b Any versus the Penny will pick every wild

(41:02):
card round matchup in the National Football League. Welcome in
the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show.
We are in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports
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(41:24):
your car insurance. Just visit geecode dot com for a
free rate quote. Now, I've heard a lot of talking heads,
gas bags and blowhards and self important talk show host
who have made bold declarations in the last couple of
days about this team's gonna win on wild card weekend.

(41:45):
They're gonna go all the way to the super Bowl,
all the way to the super Bowl. And I laugh
at that. I laugh at that. Now I realized that
what has happened doesn't guarantee it's gonna happen again. But
if you look at the recent end in the NFL,
it does not bowl well for any of these teams
on wild card weekend. And again that's what has happened

(42:08):
doesn't guarantee it's gonna happen again. But of the last
ten Super Bowl teams. Nine of the last ten Super
Bowl teams have either been number one seeds overall. The
other one was at number two. So the reality is,
if you're looking at who is going to play in
the super Bowl, out of the NFC, it's likely going

(42:29):
to be the New Orleans Saints of the Los Angeles Rams,
and in the AFC, it's either going to be Kansas
City or the Patriots. That's history. Now, history doesn't always repeat,
but oftentimes it doesn't. If you go back the last
time we had a Super Bowl with teams that weren't
one or two seeds the chalk if you will, the

(42:51):
Ravens and forty nine ers. That was so long ago.
Colin Kaepernick was a beloved figure by everyone. No, it
was not Polar rising or anything. It was just a
regular quarterback, you know. That was it. I was Kaepernick
for the Niners and Jim Harball versus John Harball and
Joe Flacco. That was the super Bowl. The lights went out.

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But that's the last time. And here we are in
twenty nineteen. We're going back a number of years. Nine
of the last ten Super Bowl teams number one seeds,
the other number two. Now that doesn't mean that a
team playing on wild Car weekend can't you make some
noise and win and then win the divisional round and
get to the championship weekend. But historically it hasn't happened recently.

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So that is the backdrop. And now we have to
We have this big, highly produced open that we have
to play, and then we'll pick the games and then
we'll see how we do. Here we go, let's hit
it up right now. Welcome players, You're welcome. It's time
now Penny versus the Penny, and it is a wild

(43:59):
Car week And I gave out my picks for Week sixteen.
I did not pick any games in Week seventeen because
I hate picking games in Week seventeen. I can't stand it,
and so I thought, you know what, I don't have
to do it. I'm not gonna do it. So I
didn't do it. But we will pick all the wild
card games. And while I did not have one of
my better years, we've been doing this bit for a

(44:20):
long time and the years have added up, My god,
have the years added up on Benny versus the Penny.
And while some years I've done pretty well and good
enough where people said we should do like a gambling
professional gambling tout service. Other years have been a disaster.
I just want to let you know, if you were
not listening to yesterday's program an earlier edition of the

(44:43):
Ben Mallor Show, that one of our long time listeners, right,
one of our long time listeners, Eric won one point
four million dollars picking NFL games this year, hit seventy
percent of his picks, and I'm gonna take credit for that.

(45:03):
I've decided. I told Eric, I'm gonna take credit for
it because I have no accomplishment. So I'm gonna take
credit for you winning seventy percent because you are a
listener and you remember the Mallor Militia. So I'm gonna
now take credit for Eric's tremendous success. So that's what
I've decided to do. So I'm gonna I'm gonna say,
you know, Benny versus the penny fueled by seventy percent
win rate that I had nothing to do with for

(45:24):
Eric the personal gourmet from Orange County, California in the
o C who went to Vegas and won big. So
Koopa loop here, We're gonna pick every game. Should we
look back, did we have the data or do we
not have the data here? Should we just get into
the games? Cooper loop, you're call on that, Oh, let's
just get into it, all right, it's it's not good

(45:45):
for you. Yeah, that's fine. I can take it. I'm okay.
All right, Let's get to these Saturday games. Indianapolis Annie
Houston a rematch divisional opponents they played twice this year. Now,
you remember the Colts. They famously decided they'd rather lose
than tie. And keep in mind, if the Colts had

(46:06):
taken the tie in that game, it would have really
hurt the Houston Texans more than anything. But it doesn't matter.
They both ended up in the playoffs as it turned out.
But this is my five star game. If all the games,
if you say, what is your confidence? What is your
level of confidence on all these playoff games? The one
that I am most confident in is this game Indianapolis

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and Houston. The Texans opened up a two point favorite
on the home field. They are favored by one and
a half. The public likes the Colts. It's not an
overwhelming like, but they liked the Colts. There's a lean there.
I'm gonna take the Colts also, and This is the
logic behind this. Now, I actually love the Indianapolis Colts

(46:50):
this week, which you should run for the Hills because
I do like the Indianapolis Colts here. This is a
great matchup for Indie. They have the NFL's six best
rush defense in terms of yards per attempt. The secret
recipe to beating the Texans is not that secret. There's
no eleven herbs and spices. All you do is you
clamp down on the run game as much as you can.
You make de Shaun Watson make plays and none and then,

(47:13):
of course Watson's known for making a lot of mistakes.
He does that on a regular basis. He turns the
ball over, he takes sacks, and those bad plays will
be the kryptonite for the Houston Texans in this game.
Houston has lived a charmed life. This is an amazing statistic.
Do you know that the Texans have not played a
team with a record above five hundred all season the

(47:37):
week they played them. I don't know how that's possible.
They're the most fraudulent eleven win team in the history
of the NFL, the Houston Texas. And so now they
play a Colts team that is ten and six and
all that, but they think about where they were and
where they finished up. In all it's just insane the
amount of success that the Texans had when they played

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teams that were struggling and losing. And I mean the
game's given to them on a silver platter. Now, the
second part of this, for all the noise about J. J.
Watt and the Houston Texans defense, you know who's not
intimidated Andrew Luck. Now I have been hot and cold
on Andrew Luck. Over there's like gone some scathing mala
monologues about Andrew Luck. And I was a skeptic that

(48:23):
he would ever come back. But I give Andrew Luck credit,
and I as much as it kills me to do
this the coaching staff in Indianapolis because the fatal flaw
of Andrew Luck it's the same flaw that Deshaun Watson
currently has, is knowing when to hold it and knowing
when to throw the ball away. And the Colts offensive

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line has been showered in praise, but I'm not buying
that they're that They've only made a couple of changes
of the offensive line. To me, this is more of
a coaching situation with Frank Reig getting into the head
of Andrew Luck and him making better decisions with a football,
and I expect that to continue. His confidence level has
got to be at a ten in this game. Now,

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why is that? Why does Andrew Luck's confidence level at
a ten? Because statistically the Texans defensively are one of
the elite defensive teams in professional football. Why would Andrew
Luck be at a ten? Well, look at what he
did in the regular season. He absolutely owned the Texans.
He had six touchdown passes, one interceptions in the two games,

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averaged almost eight and a half yards per pass play,
sliced them up. And remember you've also got the double
whammy here because while Luck is playing with tremendous confidence
going into this, of course, that could all change if
he throws an interception in the first series. But remember
the first year quarterback Jinks. First year quarterbacks as a

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favorite in the playoffs going back since twenty o two,
so the last sixteen years, there have been seventeen quarterbacks
who have made their first career playoffs start is a
home favorite, and the Texans are a small home favorite.
Those quarterbacks favored in their first playoffs start at home
four and thirteen against the spread. That's a two thirty
winning percentage. We had Jared Golf last year who gagged.

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There's a high choke factor in this situation. So all
these stats tell you what has happened, not what's going
to happen. But I do trust Indie, and of all
the games this weekend, again the most confident I am
the five star selection Indianapolis will win this game. Colts thirty,
Texans twenty three, and the Penny picks. Penny's picking the Texans,

(50:40):
all right, picking the Texans. It is the Ben Mallis
Shorts Penny versus the Penny. Next up, the late game
on Saturday, Seattle ten and six at Dallas ten and six.
During the regular season, and another short line, the Cowboys
opened up at two and a half point favorites in
all Texas Saturday in the NFL, and the Cowboys now

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favored by one and a half. The money on this
game pretty close, pretty close. The money on this game
not lopside. Usually Cowboy games, there's always a ton of
cowboy money. The public loves bet on the Cowboys. The
pick here though, and I went back and forth on this,
but I am gonna lock in and everything I looked

(51:22):
at I kept going back to the Cowboys, and I'm
gonna take the Dallas Cowboys head and neither one of
these teams. I believe it is a great team. It
comes down to an issue of trust, and I will
buy and invest my stock money in the Cowboy running
game was Zeke Elliott and their defense at home in
particular in Seattle, and they've been an up and down

(51:45):
defensive team. They allowed one hundred and fifty yards from
scrimmage per game to opposing running backs posing backfields over
the last ten games. So the better part of the season,
and if Zekiel Elliott gets to one hundred and fifty
yards or so, I don't see the Seahawks winning this game.
It's an arbitrary statistic. Do I expect Amari Cooper to

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do well? No? I don't. Do I expect Dakota Prescott
to be that good? No, I don't. He'll be better
at home. He has been better at home. Right. Fourteen
of his twenty two touchdown passes have come in Arlington.
He's averaged eight yards per pass attempt at home, only
six point eight on the road. And I realize I'm
contradicting myself because this is the first playoff start for

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Dak Prescott and the Cowboys are favored. The reason that
I buy the Cowboys more than I buy Houston is
because the Cowboys. This is a better matchup for the Cowboys, right.
And it's also a situation where the Texans, I believe
their running game is going to be bottled up by
Indianapolis and that defense, and so in this game, the

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Cowboys are gonna win this based on their defense and
Zeke Elliott and Seattle they're not that hard. This is
not solving the matrix as far as trying to stop
the Seattle Seahawks. They've got Schottenheimer's kid is a terrible
offensive coordinator, and the Seahawks you contain much like the
cults are gonna do with Houston. Here. You slow down

(53:13):
the running game, You put a monkey wrench in the
running game. You forced Seattle to throw the ball more
than they want. Now, I want to point this out.
We gave the stat on the who Am I game?
But this is important and I want to give this
to you. You're not gonna hear this anywhere else. You've
heard a lot of lazy at least I have naive
mainstream sportscasters who keep saying this mantra, I trust Russell

(53:38):
Wilson over Dak Prescott. Now I don't trust Dak Prescott,
but I don't trust Russell Wilson either. I don't understand
like Russell Wilson's one of these guys that got off
to a great postseason start in his career and was
one of the all time great postseason quarterbacks the first
couple of years he was in the playoffs for Seattle.
It hasn't been that way the last several playoff appearances,

(54:01):
the last six playoff games going back several years, Russell
Wilson has stunk. He has absolutely stung. Eleven touchdown passes,
ten interceptions his last six playoff games, a very pedestrian
quarterback rating of eighty one point one. And the Dallas defense.
This is an opportunistic Dallas defense. It should be able

(54:23):
to create all kinds of issues for Russell Wilson. So
I would keep an eye on Also those hidden points.
Special team Seattle had an implosion. They had a couple
of brain farts on special teams late in the year.
You don't really handicap special teams because it's generally erratic
and you can't depend on it from week to week,
but I would keep an eye on that part of it.
It will be a close game. I'm not saying this

(54:44):
is gonna be a blowout by any means, but I
will take the Dallas Cowboys, only favored by one and
a half at home. It's a field goal game, and
I'll take the Cowboys to win it. Dallas twenty in
the Seattle Seahawks seven team will be your final. Penny
agrees with the band, going with the Cowboys. All right,

(55:05):
we'll get to the rest of the NFL wild Card weekend.
We got the Sunday games to get to and per usual,
we'll test your NFL wild Card knowledge. I love the
the NFL sends me this media guide, and I think
I'm the only one that still gets it because no
one actually looks at it, but they send me and

(55:27):
they have all the different playoff round statistics, which are
I love this because you hear names that you don't remember.
Some of these are recent names, some of these are
old names, but it's you know, if you're you know,
you want to go nostalgia and some of the old
names in football that you might remember if you're you
know of a certain age here's one of the questions.
Which player holds the wild Card weekend again only the

(55:47):
first weekend of the NFL plus wild Card weekend. Who
holds the wild Card weekend record for the most receiving
yards in a single wild card matchup in NFL history.
That is the question, the answer, and more of Benny
Versus the Penny. We'll get to that. We will do
it next. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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(56:10):
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(56:53):
of Benny versus the Penny? But first, which player holds
the wild Card weekend record for the most risk receiving
yards most receiving yards on wild Card weekend? That's the question.
What's the answer? Our buddy Tripp is going with Wes
Welker is his answer. Scott Tolzine from will aj Green
guests by Just Josh Justin in Cincinnati's going with JFK

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as his answer. Stunner Marvin says Donald Trump Doobie Tucker
as his answer. Who else? We have Big boss Man
from The Cowboy Killer, Peppermint Patty tossed out by Texas
Trucker who does appreciate peppermint Patty? Terry says? Is it
Ray Lewis's white suit? That's our friend Terry from England.
Mister Wonderful, who's paying attention to the news is? Says

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R Kelly is the answer, well, Stormy Daniels from The
Azzi Guy, Tim Biakabatuca from Trucker Joe Page Down Eric
is going with Newt Gingrich as his answer. Eke In Minnesota,
says Anthony Carter. Is the answer a right, Eddie? Do

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you have the answer, Eddie? The answer yes, Plexico Burus,
good name. Plexico Burrus is a plaque. Now it's not
the correct answer. This is a good name too. Eric
Molds remember Eric Moulds. Yeah, nineteen ninety eight wild Card weekend.
He caught passes for two hundred and forty yards. That's

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a wild Card weekend record. Second, I believe is Calvin Johnson.
Doug Flutie was the Bill's quarterback in that wild card game,
throwing him passes and he had two hundred forty yards
against the Dolphins twenty plus years ago in nineteen ninety
Let's get back to the picks. Here we go. It's
Benny versus the Penny. Wild Card weekend. We'll get to

(58:47):
the Sunday card the early game Chargers and the Baltimore Ravens.
That is the matchup Charges twelve and four during the
regular season ten and six for the Ravens. This is
a rematch of a regular season, late regular season matchup
on a Saturday night in Carson, California. The Ravens won

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that game and they are favorite at home here by
two and a half Ravens. That line has stayed the same,
so they're still favorite by two and a half. Now,
I believe this is the most lopsided game. The public
loves the Chargers here getting two and a half in Baltimore,
which I don't quite understand. The Ravens are my pick.
I'm gonna take Baltimore here, and I'll walk you through

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this why I'm gonna take the Ravens. I really wanted
to take the Chargers, but I don't trust Philip Rivers.
And I've seen this too many times other years. He's
a mistake prone quarterback in these big games in his
postseason career. He has a pattern, and generally you don't
change these patterns when you've been a poor postseason quarterback

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over ten years. You don't normally all of a sudden
become a great postseason quarterback and have an out of
body Joe Flacco like playoff run. Rivers eleven touchdown, has
nine interceptions and a quarterback rating of eighty five in
his entire postseason career, going back to the Marty Schottenheimer
Norv Turner days with the Chargers. Now, also, Rivers has

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been slumping of late. He's not playing his greatest football
in December. Five games in December, Philip Rivers had six
touchdowns and six interceptions. He averaged a very poor seven
point three yards per pass attempt over that span, and
he was averaging less than two hundred and forty yards
passing per game. These are not the kind of numbers

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that will win outside of a heroic, over the top
defensive performance. The only thing that gives the Bolts hope here,
and I did factor this into some degree, is the
rematch factor. And that's an advantage the Chargers have. The
Chargers are gonna be the first team in the Lama
Jackson era to play the Ravens a second time, and

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so now they know what Lamar Jackson could do. They
not only have seen it first hand, they watched the
tape and all that. So that should give them a
competitive advantage. The Ravens are running an outdated style of offense,
but it has continued to work. And you say, well,
I can't work in the playoffs. Here to run a
palooza is what the Ravens have done. But I keep

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saying I can't work. It can't work. Even the games
they've lost, they've been in, they've been closed games. The
Chargers also have Melvin Gordon back. However, he came back
the last three games. He missed three games. He came
back to last two, I should say, and he only
had one hundred and twenty total yards and those two
games combined, so not I'm not the over the top

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dominant guy that he had been previously. Now, secondly, the Ravens.
Here the reason you like the Ravens even though they
again starting a first time quarterback here, Lamar Jackson. The
Ravens are gonna shorten the game. They're gonna run that
gimmick offense with Lamar Jackson. He'll run the ball twenty
five plus time tis they'll mix and match the combo
of running backs they have and all of that, will

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you assume keep the defense fresh to contain the Chargers
running game, and forced Philip Rivers into making a lot
of throws. And while Lamar Jackson is making his first
playoffs start and all that stuff, he might throw what
fifteen passes? Right anyway, if the Ravens are doing what
they want to do, Lamar Jackson's throwing fifteen passes the

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entire game. He's limiting that limits the amount of mistakes
from throwing. Now he can fumble the ball seven times
and then forget about it. You know, all this goes
out the window. It's also going to be in the
forties and partly cloudy in Baltimore. Now, the Chargers did
win on a frigid night at Arrowhead when they came
back against the Chiefs not that long ago in December,

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so they have had experience in a cold weather game.
It's not gonna be as cold in Baltimore as it
was in Kansas City in that game. But I want
to take the Ravens in this one. I'll take the Ravens.
Your final score Baltimore twenty four, the Chargers twenty penny.
Going with the Chargers, all right, disagreement on that. And

(01:03:10):
we'll get to the final game on wild Card weekend
here in a moment. And we'll also have Mallard of
the third degree coming up in a little bit as well.
Here's another question, the one more question, and here it is,
name the running back who holds the wild Card weekend
record for the longest run from scrimmage. Again, for the

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name of a running back who holds the wild Card
Weekend record for the longest run from scrimmage. That is
the question. The answer We'll get to that in just
thirty seconds. But right now, Eddie Garcia here from the
Geico Fox Sports Radio studios to give you the latest
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in Oakland one thirty five, one thirty four in overtime
to hear over Houston James Harden in a three point
at the end of regulation to send it into overtime,
then and overtime with a second to play, he hits
the game winning three pointer. Finished with a triple double
forty four points, ten rebounds, and fifteen assists. Fifth straight
game for Harden scoring forty or more points and not surprisedly,
the Rockets have won five games in a row. Spurs

(01:04:16):
beat the Raptors one twenty five to one oh seven.
Toronto's Kawhi Leonard, in his first game back in San Antonio,
having traded away in the om season, had twenty one points,
but the man he was traded for, Zamar derosin for
San Antonio, gets his first career triple double in the
win twenty one points, fourteen rebounds and eleven assists against
Spurs over the Raptors. One twenty five one oh seven,
and the Nuggets knock off the Kings one seventeen to
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a twenty six and eleven record. Conference College Basketball, five
top twenty five teams were in action, including number two
Michigan Wolverines approved to fourteen to oh with a sixty
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Foster lay him and now he was convicted on social
media Eddie, He's already guilty. They can't drop the charges.

(01:05:20):
He was tried and hung on social media. The chargers
have been dropped. The charges were stemmed from a moment
went on a morning TV show and she said he
did it. There was a November twenty fourth incident between
Foster and his ex girlfriend the night before his former team,
the forty nine Ers, played the Buccaneers in Tampa. He
was then released by San Francisco and signed with the
Washington Redskins. He's had to play a game with that team.

(01:05:41):
An NFL spokesman said, quote, we are monitoring all developments
in the matter, which continue to be under us by
the league. Quote they'll suspend him anyway. Well that's what
they've done before. Yes, suspend him anyway. But suddenly the
Redskins don't look so bad here now. Back in my day, Eddie,
I remember a time in America where you were innocent
until proven guilty. Not anymore, you're guilty. Yeah, those days

(01:06:05):
are over. Only in the court of law are you
innocent until proven guilty. Now you are guilty until proven
not guilty, and then you're still guilty because we originally
thought you're guilty. You see how that works, Eddie, Yeah, yeah,
it's great. I'm not saying don't don't construe this to
say that in some way this is we're talking about

(01:06:26):
a boy scout here. That Ruben Foster is not a
boy scout. He clearly is picking up poor people to
hang out with in the female department. And it goes
both ways on that. But this woman, she admitted she lied, right,
It wasn't that that was part of a part of
the problem, as I read on the internet, because it
must be true, was that she in that television interview

(01:06:49):
I think it was. Was it Good Morning America? I
think as she went on, whatever it was, and and
she admitted that she had lied in the past. Well,
once you say, hey, I've in the past, if there's
not an overwhelming amount of physical evidence there, you can't
go to a courtroom and say, well now I was
lying before, but now he did it. You can't do that.

(01:07:11):
What jury. Now we'll believe her she was lying, She
admitted she lied in a courtroom before, but now now
she's telling the truth. So now we'll believe That's generally
not how that works, all right. See the Ben Mallow
Show on Fox Now, he said to name the running
back we are coming from the Geico, Fox Sports Radio Studios.
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or more on your car insurance. Just visit Geico dot
com for a free rate quote. So it name the
running back who holds the wild Card weekend record for
the longest run from scrimmage, longest run from scrimmage. That
is the question. What's the answer? A weed man hip.
He's going with Richard Todd, who was one of the

(01:07:54):
second Richard Todd references one of the great running back.
So I thought it was a quarterback. Yeah, Tony's going
with Marcus Allen as his answer. Who else do we
have here? Cowboy Killer says it has to be el Choppo.
That trial is still going on, by the way, that
feder it's a federal trial and the federal government's partially
shut down. But how's it going on? How's it running?

(01:08:17):
You don't want to. You don't want to. You want
to convict him because if you if you don't convict him,
you know he's gonna escape or whatever you might escape. Anyway,
Polyde's going with Ikey Woods. Who else? Eric the Midget
from The Howard Stern Show guests by Mister Wonderful who
else page down here? Matt in Racida. It's down the
road from us here. He's going with William Refrigerator. Perry

(01:08:38):
Terry in England says the longest run has to be
Stephen Hawking. Scott Terry's not me, that's English humor. Scott
the Uber Driver says it's Emmett Smith of the Dallas Cowboys.
Mike Pruitt guess by Lamont, I like the Mike Pruitt
card there. Robin Vegas is going with the Fresh Prince

(01:09:00):
of bel Air. K and D misspelled Natron means but
I know what she meant. Eddie, do you have an answer? Yes,
the answer is Napoleon Kaufman. It's a good name. No,
here's a notorious name, though, Eddie. The answer Ray Rice? No,
Ray right? Well, different right? Ray Rice against the Patriots

(01:09:23):
in twenty oh nine, so it's been ten years now.
He had an eighty three yard run for the Ravens
in twenty nine. He's got the right. Every once in
a while, you see like O. J. Simpson has a
record still, You're like, how's that possible? He does? Ray
Rice has this record. I think that might be the
only record that Ray Rice still has but he has it.
Does Ray Carruth have any records? Probably not. Ray Lewis

(01:09:45):
has a bunch. He's got a bunch. All right, let's
get to it. The last game on wild Card weekend.
Here we go. It's Philadelphia nine and seven at Chicago
Soldier Field, the Windy City, right on Lake Michigan. I
hope we get a fog game when that be great,
wouldn't that be Remember that the original fog game, which
was Buddy Ryan back in the playoffs against Mike Dickon.

(01:10:08):
I couldn't even see the game. That was a game
Terry Bradshaw did with you. Was it Vernon Lundquist? I
think it might have been vern lunkwis that? Who knows?
I was much younger. I'm Philadelphia nine in seven Chicago
twelve and four. The Bears the biggest favorite on wild
Card weekend. They opened a six point favorite. They are
favored by six still, the public a slight lean to

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the Eagles, and against my better judgment here, I'm gonna
take the Philadelphia Eagles in this game. Now, a couple
of reasons why it is risky business picking a player
to choke. Shouldn't do that. But Mitch Trubisky is a
guy I don't trust. I don't trust the guy, and
all it takes is a couple of bonehead plays by

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the quarterback. You lose a playoff game, and as a
touchdown almost a touchdown favorite, a six point favorite. The
value is with Philadelphia. Trubisky has been mediocre since he
returned from that shoulder injury in Week fourteen. He's averaged
less than two hundred yards passing per game. He has
just four touchdowns since that injury when he came back

(01:11:10):
in Week fourteen. Now, the Eagles are not gonna win
the Super Bowl. They're a scrappy team. Nick Foles has
played over his head in his playoff career. Until Doug
Peterson's credit, he has coached to Nick foles strengths and
hidden the weaknesses of Nick Foles. And I keep reading
these glowing, heartfelt tributes to the Chicago Bears defense. I'm

(01:11:33):
not buying what they're selling to me. This is not
the Monsters of the Midway and an all time great
defense with a wink in a nod to some of
the past Bears defenses which were all time great defense.
Remember Chicago. I watched the game early in the season
against the Dolphins. That Bears defense allowed Brock Osweiler to
pass for three hundred eighty yards and the Dolphins, the

(01:11:56):
Miami Dolphins put up five hundred yards of offense against
the Bears defense. At that moment, I realized this, I
can never think of this Bears team as an all
time great defensive team. I don't care how many lick
lick fest go to Vic Fangio, the defensive coordinator and
all that. I can't do it. And also, secondly the Bears.

(01:12:19):
I'm still skeptical about the Bears. I know they beat
the Rams, Oh my god, they beat there. You know
what beat the Rams? The weather beat the Rams. Jared
goff a call like it is. He can't handle the colt,
all right, he can't handle the call. The man does.
He's a West Coast guy and he mister softly in
the cold weather. The Bears are a product of the

(01:12:39):
hostess schedule. A lot of cupcakes, a lot of cupcakes.
They will be exposed in this postseason. I don't believe
they are worthy of the praise that they have been given.
The NFC North was weak this year. The Lions, Packers,
and Vikings, oh my, collectively, none of those teams very good.

(01:13:00):
They were all lousy. And so that was the bulk
of the schedule. And you look at who the Bears
were competing inst and I was like, if your play
who's on the schedule. But this is like a classical
case of a team benefiting from a softer schedule. Now,
sometimes it doesn't matter, right, Sometimes you play a soft schedule,
you end up still winning in the playoffs. I don't
think that's gonna happen here with the Bears. I'll take

(01:13:21):
the Eagles twenty six, Bears twenty three. Philly wins outright,
Penny's going to favorite pick in Chicago. All right, So
just to recap, if you're new to the show, if
you're late to the party, we have the wild card picks. Now.
I have on Saturday my five star pick of the weekend.

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I got Indianapolis plus one and a half against the Texans.
I'm also taking on that Saturday schedule, taking the Dallas
Cowboys over the overrated Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks.
And the Sunday games, I've got the Ravens and I'm
gonna take the Philadelphia So I've got two home teams
I'm taking the Ravens and the Cowboy is his home teams,
and I've got Indianapolis and Philadelphia's road teams. And the

(01:14:04):
Penny picked all the picks one more time, just to
recap the Pennies picks. Here the Penny pick the Texans,
the Cowboys, all right, the Chargers and the Bears. The
only agreement is the Cowboys, all right, so we only
agree on the Cowboys now. So based on my picks,
here would be the matchups if I'm right, if I'm
four and oh on wild card weekend, here are the
games will get Next week AFC, the Colts and Andrew

(01:14:28):
Luck would visit Arrowhead to play the Chiefs because they
would be the lower seeded team. The Ravens, who would
be the highest seeding team that see the team that
wins the Ravens would play the Patriots in Foxborough, which
would be do you talk about a great man? I
know the Patriots have problems against the run, but still
you would like to If you're the Patriots, you want
to play the Ravens. And then in the NFC it

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would be the Cowboys and the Rams. How about that
matchup in an NFC divisional round and the Eagles and Saints,
and that was the blood bath where the Eagles had
the worst loss ever for a defending Super Bowl champion.
That would be a rematch again if I'm right, if
all four of these games go the way I think
they are going to go, we'll get to Mallard of
the third degree. We'll get to that coming up in

(01:15:11):
a moment. And here's the insta trivi here it is,
here we go. Blank is the quarterback who has had
the most sacks charged directly to him this season as
opposed to his blockers. Again, Blank is the quarterback that
has had the most sacks charged directly to him, whoever
he is this season, as opposed to his offensive line.

(01:15:35):
That is the insta trivie for the name of a
quarterback who is prone to get a lot of sacks.
We'll get to that, and we will have Mallard of
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(01:16:19):
Here's the instant trivia. Blank is the quarterback who has
had the most sacks charted directly to him this season,
as opposed to his offensive line being incompetent. That is
the question. What is the answer? Rob in Vegas is
going with Jared from Subway. All right, that's interesting. Cowboy Killers,

(01:16:39):
says Solid Gold. Eddie Garcia, Mike from the LBC. Clearly
not cheating, says this Shaun Watson. Who else? Miguel on
Fires going with the Ray Lewis white suit, the bloody
white suit, which is always a popular popular answer on
this show. Who else do we have? Elijah Manning from
Ken Rowdy, Roddy Hyper from Biker Mark, New York Bozo

(01:17:03):
got this right, Good job by you, New York Bozo,
clearly cheating. Just Josh is going with Mattie Ice see
who else page down as he can't read down on
the air. The answer is marrying butts from matt in Rosita,
Rod the ambassador to Baker's. I drove through Bakersfield again.
Every time. I gotta get Rod's number so I can

(01:17:24):
just send him a message. But I always think of
Rod when I drive through bakers I mean, somewhere out
in the oil fields. Is our friend Rod? All right? No,
it's you, gotta right right, good job of you, Eddie.
Do you have an answer, Eddie? It's Kyle Bowler. Kyle Bowler.
He was a prodigy at Cal. Didn't work out so
well for the Ravens. No, the correct answer. Dakota Prescott

(01:17:44):
of the Dallas Cowboys fifteen fifteen sacks charged directly to
his football and competence as opposed to the Cowboys offensive line.
Number two Deshaun Watson with fourteen, Russell Wilson's number three
with thirteen, followed by Patrick Mahomes with ten, and then
Mitch Drubisky with nine. That's according to Pro Football Focus.

(01:18:06):
They judge it by holding the ball for too long,
moving around the pocket, moving backwards to the detriment of
the offensive lines blocking. That's how they grade that statistic.
Let's get to it. It's Meller. How about that to
the third degree, this is one big Ben gets Gill
and the Coop Ben. Ticket prices for the National Championship

(01:18:30):
Game are plummeting as get in prices hit one hundred
and fifty dollars on Tuesday. Now, this is compared to
the found that funny. Yeah, this is compared to the
nearly seventeen hundred dollars just last year. Yeah, you think
the NCAA should be worried, Ben, I'm gonna go no,
these people live in a bubble. They're not concerned about anything, right,

(01:18:52):
and a college football is not graded on attendance. You've
got two southern schools in Alabama and Clemson playing in
tech geek country in Santa Clara, California. Not a large
relocation from the dirty South to the Bay Area. I'm
guessing maybe I'm wrong on that, but it's pretty expensive

(01:19:12):
to travel. Now, listen to me, it's not worth one
hundred and fifty bucks. If you're not a passionate college
football fan, if you have no rooting interest and b
college football is a regional sport. It doesn't play well
in big cities, it plays well in the South, it
doesn't play well out of the South. But as long
as the TV rating is good, that's all they care about.

(01:19:34):
They get all their money from televion. They don't care
about whether the stadium's empty or not. It's a party
for the corporate muckety marks and all that, and one
of the television ratings matter. Next that debates on NFL
MVP have gone on ad naseum this year, but some
of the other awards don't quite get as much play, Ben,
who do you think deserves Coach of the Year. Well,
the guy's gonna win is Matt nagy I'm not gonna

(01:19:55):
go Matt Nagee. Though I'm not gonna go Matt Naggie.
I'm gonna give it to Andy. I'll tell you why
Kansas City at the top record in the AFC this year.
They change quarterbacks. Nobody expected other than me, Patrick Mahomes
to be as good as he was. It was the
tutelage of Alex Smith, well done stakes and ketchup that

(01:20:15):
Patrick Mahomes played so well. But I would give it
to Andy Reid ahead of Matt nage I would also
give Anthony Lynn the Chargers, I'd give him some love.
John Harbaugh the Ravens. I had a Harbaugh fired midseason,
so the fact that they're in the playoffs is stunning. Next. Now,
there are five teams that have a chance to be
forced to participate in hard knocks this upcoming offseason. The Lions,

(01:20:36):
forty nine Ers, Raiders, Redskins, and Giants. And the Raiders
are the biggest lock of the century. Right. No, No,
I'm gonna tell you I'm not not the Raiders. Here's
why they're gonna save the Raiders till the year before
they moved to Vegas to promote the Vegas experience and
the Raiders, just like they do when the Rams moved
to La So I'm gonna go with the Giants or
the forty nine Ers because they can promote Odell Beck,

(01:21:00):
Sequon Barkley with the Giants, Jimmy Garoppolo and the Niners.
So I say the Raiders will be on hard knocks,
but not this year the following year. How do we
know any pass I want it. I just screamed that
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within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. Time
for some goat talk on the radio. Welcome in the
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(01:21:43):
minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on your
car insurance. Just visit Geico dot com for a free
rate quote. You probably know this, but goats, if they
have not been altered their junk are called buck right
to call bucks or billies and now males. Sometimes they

(01:22:06):
cut the junk off, they castrate the goat. They're called weathers.
Did you know that? How about female goats? Do you
know female goats are referred to I was blown away
by this. Female goats are referred to as doze or nannies.
And I heard the Does I not heard nannies before?
Have you heard that before? Anyway? Why aren't I talking

(01:22:28):
about this? Because recently Lebron James declared himself the goat
of the NBA. Right he announced randomly while we were away,
So I'm the greatest NBA Player of all time because
the Cavaliers won the championship a few years ago, and
he said in sports chatter, the goat is always a
cliche topic to get to. Lebron felt that winning the

(01:22:49):
title in Cleveland catapulted him to the top of the
mountain and he wanted you and the rest of the
world to know about who me? Yeah you? Okay? Great?
So the NBA world, now, what do you think happens?
So the NBA world hears about this, and then the
floodgates have opened. We are off to the races and
people are reacting to everyone's got an opinion, and it's

(01:23:14):
it's just it's just great. Now, I don't know. Did
you hear the grand Poobah of the Celtics. Did you
hear what the grand Poobah the Celtics had to say? Here? Okay, good?
If you know, I will I will catch you up
on this. Let me help you. Danny Ainge Danny Ainge
on Lebron James proclamation that he's the goat quote his

(01:23:35):
career is not over. Why he's saying that, I don't know,
Ange declared, maybe he thinks that that sells. Angel Pining
on radio and Boston. Then Ange decided to go on
a kind of a finishing move like and wrestling like
you know that finishing move. Yeah, Danny Ainge that said,

(01:23:55):
maybe he meaning Lebron. Maybe he's taking the Donald tru
Ump approach and trying to sell himself. I don't know,
all right, So this is what I want to talk
about now, the question what do you think of Danny
Ainge comparing Lebron and President Trump? I loved it, all right,
I love this. You've got the jet fuel, you've got

(01:24:17):
the first rule and off to the races. All right,
you've got all that. We'll mix this together now. First
of all, the kind of soap opera that we have
here is right out of the NBA play. But you
only get this in the NBA. You don't get this
in other Where's every once in a while, but it's
like once in a blue moon and once in a
blue moon, as our favorite sports astrologer in Berkeley knows

(01:24:40):
all about. But the NBA's play bold declarations like Lebron made,
followed by the rebuttal by other people. It's this Canton
mouse game that goes on in the NBA. It's more
fun than breaking down a random Hornet's Wizards game. You know,
it's more fun than talking about that. Now. My initial
view of what Danny Ainge had is say on that

(01:25:00):
radio interview in Boston, you know what, He's still got it.
Danny Ainge still has He's still got it. This is
very straightforward. Danny Age is a fifty nine year old dude,
but he might as well be twenty five years old
playing for the mid eighties Celtics taking a pass from
Larry Bird in the corner and knocking down a money ball,
or passing the ball inside to Kevin McHale, or being

(01:25:23):
overly dramatic flopping taking a charge from Magic Johnson, whatever
that might be. When he was a player, Danny Ainge
was an instigator and an agitator. That's how he played
the game with those Celtic teams back in the day.
He is still playing the role of a troublemaker and
I like all right. I as a talk showist, I
love it. Danny Ainge saw an opportunity to pour some

(01:25:44):
jet fuel on top of Lebron James party. He then
went out to home depot. I don't think you can
buy jet fuel to home depot. Where can you buy jetfuel.
What do you if I wanted to buy jet fuel?
Where would I buy jet fuel? An airport? I don't know.
Wherever you buy jet fuel? You just buy a ton
of jet fuel. And that guy jet fuel, George, that
used to call the show back in the day, and

(01:26:04):
you delivered using yeah, using President Trump's name. Using the
president's name is the perfect way to incite the aging
and injured. Currently Lebron James to respond right. King James
has long been an operative of the Democratic Party. He
campaigned for Hillary Clinton. He has gotten into it with

(01:26:25):
Trump over the last couple of years, as many people
have in the NBA. So ange doing this, Someone's gonna
ask you. It's it's the game of did you hear this?
You know? What do you think about it? It's like
the playground a lot of these NBA media guys, it's Hey,
did you hear so and so said this? Yeah? I was, Hey,
that guy said you're fat? What do you think about that?
That guy said you're ugly? You know? Then you play

(01:26:48):
that cat and mouse game. You you insed the game.
So they're gonna ask Lebron James his thoughts on Danny
Ainge comparing him to President Trump, and then you know
James will respond, right, James over respond. Now, Secondly, Lebron
James will surely be triggered. I don't think he canna
help himself. I don't and I'm glad for that. So
that's going to advance the story. And Danny Ainge gets

(01:27:10):
to sit back and watch Lebron burst into flames. Yeah,
and it's gonna mushroom into something bigger and all it
takes now to really get huge. It would take President
Trump to hear about this and then go to Twitter
and send out two hundred and eighty characters about you
know Ange comparing. I heard Danny Ainge compared me to

(01:27:31):
Lebron James, and then you know, Trump will say something
and we're off to the races, right, We're off to
the races. Some wonderful chaos. Now. By the way, there
are conflicting reports about Lebron James and his injury. He's
been out for the last few games to the Lakers
something it's much worse than has been reported, that he's
gonna be out for a long time, that the Lakers

(01:27:52):
have been trying to downplay that. Now, my theory is
that Lebron James is embellishing the pain that he's going
back to his old playbook with the Cavalier years in
the Miami Heat. He didn't news last year, but it's
been standard operating procedure in the handbook for Lebron James
to take a traditional late December early January vacation and

(01:28:14):
little siesta before the stretch run of the NBA. And
I'm guessing that Lebron is following that game plan to
a t. That he not to say that he wasn't injured,
but he's going to take a little extra time to
come back. Yes, sir, Brownie Jews, well be careful, Lebron.
I thought you said, Jews. Be careful there, Lebron. We

(01:28:35):
know how you feel about that. All right, the last
word here, Lebron James. I don't want to he's slow
hanging fruit, But what the hell I'll do it. I
don't care. Lebron James not the goat. The first rule
of goat club. You know what the first rule of
the goat club in basketball is, or in any sport.
You have to if you have to tell people you're
the goat, you're you're not the goat. Lebron has violated

(01:28:56):
the first rule of goat club. Now, this is purely
an objective of debate or subjective. It's not objective. It's subjective, right,
because it depends how old you are. Right. For me,
my memories of basketball, the greatest memories I have were
Michael Jordans. So I have Michael Jordan is the greatest
player over Lebron James. I it pains me to say this,

(01:29:17):
and I'll probably struck by lightning, but I even have
Kobe Bryant ahead of Lebron James on the list. I
hate saying that, uh, but I do. Calm down, you morons,
all right, these guys are all excited here. All you
guys stop, I stopped. I don't need that. I don't

(01:29:39):
need that every Uh. Now, I have some guys, and
I remember watching Magic. I didn't have Magic the greatest.
Some people have Magic. Johns and other people Bison Boston
love Larry Bird. They didn't want to. No one's been
better than Larry Bird. Old school NBA fans. They have
some old timers, Bill Russell right, all the championships. Will

(01:30:03):
Chamberlain got a friend of mine that loves remembers the
old time guy loves Will Chamberlain. The late great Dave Stone,
who used to work here at Fox Sports Radio, the
guy we love Dave Stone. He loved Elgin Baylor. He
used to praise Elgin Baylor. He said, Elgin's the greatest
player of all time. But it's subjective. It can be
true to you and for you, it's true, it's not

(01:30:23):
an objective situation. Now, one thing that is completely true
that the rings. You know, that whole conversation that doesn't matter, right,
if you're gonna win in that conversation, well rings matter,
then you have to say John Spider, Sally and Robert
Orry are two of the all time great players in
NBA history. And you generally have to do you have
to win, you know some right, you have to win

(01:30:45):
at least one. Will Chamberlain didn't win all that, man.
I think he won one or two, but that was it.
And it's a team award. Championships are not an individual award.
I've said that eight gazillion times, that their team awards.
Which is why it's the latest crime. You know, the
last rightier, I should say the latest thing. You look
at the last right here. Every want to say it
to get into the Hall of Fame. And if you

(01:31:05):
want to do a dopey goat conversation, you can do
that as well. So that's how that works in the NBA.
Last time, I'm gonna rant later about Kawhi Leonard who
went back to San Antonio. That's on my list. I
gotta rant about that. The Spurs just kick the snot
out of Toronto in that game. It was it was
like a revival man. They were just all over kawh Island.

(01:31:29):
I loved it. I thought it was just wonderful. The
fans in San Antonio just just landing on Kawhi Leonard
was great. And then James Harden went nutso played like
a lion for the Rockets, and they on his moneyball
with two point seven left in overtime. The Rockets beat
the Warriors, who continue to be really playing mediocre ball

(01:31:49):
by their standards. Right now, we say hello to Edmund Dallas, steamboat,
Willie Judas, solid gold yards seals right over there. Now, Ben,
have you heard about the goat ring that Antonio Brown wears. Yeah,
didn't we mention that in a bit yesterday? We was Yeah,

(01:32:11):
Coop Coop showed me a picture of it. I was
unaware of this. I wonder if Lebron maybe should get
a goat ring a diamond encrusted. He's gotta do better
than that. He's gotta get some you know that compound
in Brentwood. He's gotta get some baby goats and put
them out in that compound in Brentwood. Are you allowed
to have goats in Brentwood? When you're rich, you can
do whatever you want. It's a good point. It's a

(01:32:32):
fair point. So so Eddie, I have to do from
time to time part of my duties here at Fox
Sports Radio, I have to well, calm whatever you want.
I have to read these these liners, and you know,
our local affiliates will play them. So hear my voice
saying the name of your radio station. And you know,
most of the time, I don't really pay much attention
to it. And I like doing it because I feel

(01:32:52):
it's good for the show. It helps our show and
gives a little local flavor to to the station. And
I'm saying the name of the station. I think that's
the way I'll good radio stations. If it's a well
programmed station, you shouldn't just throw the show, you know,
the overnight soa, I say, who cares, it's an overnight show.
You should make every second of every hour matter, and
so I like to me, this tells me when I
have to do these liners, it tells me the station cares.

(01:33:14):
The management at that station cares about their radio station,
even in the middle of the night. They want to
have a good sound to their radio station. I like that,
but I normally don't pay that much attention to it.
But Cooper Loop had me voice some liners a little.
Why is that? Because it is? It is true, I
gonna find it. Hold on a sec. Talks about yourself,

(01:33:34):
and I got a lot of paper here, hold on,
Oh here it is. Here it is by a lot
of stuff. Yeah, this is uh, this is tremendous. Oh
that's the wrong one. Damn it all right, I thought
I had the right one. I got a stack of
these things. I got an endless amount here. I've done
so many of these over the last Oh. Here it is,
I think this is. Yeah, here it is. We are
on Eddie Fox Sports one hundred point nine FM and

(01:33:58):
AM fifteen four in punk satani that Pennsylvania. Is that
not cool? Now? Maybe it's it's cool because one of
my favorite movies, Groundhog's Great, and I've used the reference
on our I Phil Connors. Yes, I told Coop and Roberto.

(01:34:19):
I said, you know the thing about this is, you know,
if they remake Punks, you know, the Groundhog Day and
all that, they do a remake, which all Hollywood does
is do remakes. When you know the character wakes up
in the morning, hits the clock radio. He could be
listening to our show on in Punk Suitani. Remember that
scene where they kept you know, he kept hitting the
clock radio and every day, you know he wake up.

(01:34:39):
It was the same thing the song. Yeah, but instead
it should be our show. And I learned it. He
I did not know this, but the locals in punk Satani.
You know what they call it what PUNKSI They called
the town punksy. That's local punks. If you're a local
in Punk satanis punksy. No. I'm really scited about this.

(01:35:00):
I mean, we're about the great state of Commonwealth, excuse me,
of Pennsylvania. Is it located? You know? I think it's
in the central part, isn't it your? Is it? Ner? Uh?
I don't know. I thought it was in the central
part of Pennsylvania, But I don't know. Coo, do you
know where it is? Cool. I'm asking coop geographic questions.
Now you are correct band, Okay, I thought I thought
it was no. I'm excited about that, but I'm such

(01:35:21):
a loser that I'm excited that we're on in Punk Suitani.
But maybe you could include Punk Suitani when you instead
of beaver Dam to replaced beaver Dam with punk and
the guy in beaver Dam would be offended by that.
But he's a good run though. But I do do
from and you've heard me say this that he I've
said this a lot over the years. It's like groundhog Day,
right with punk Suitani Phil seeing his shadow. I've said

(01:35:43):
that many many times. There the groundhogs. You got the
whole thing. So anyway, I'm mildly excited about SLA. Yes. Yeah.
And also I had all these tough guys on Twitter.
All these tough guys were going on and on about
how you know, hey, I didn't like your picks. All right,
call up and defend yourself that I got my I
explained everything why I like these games. If you want
to hear my picks, go back the podcast we downloaded

(01:36:06):
after the show on iTunes and I heeart you can
hear my picks I spent for forty minutes breaking down
the wildcard games. Yes, that you give about the Texas
was felt like it was a made up Mallard stat
though you don't think that was true. It was a
made up statistic. It sounds like it was made up.
But yeah, it's it's probably true. Look it up. Maybe
I'm wrong. I got that stat from a reliable source.

(01:36:27):
Can yeah the stat Well, I don't want to give
it away because I want people to download the podcast.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm promoting the podcast. Dontload the podcast people, Yeah, exactly,
Thank you, Roberto. My first standing ovation I've gotten here
at Fox Sports. H I've been here twenty years. I've
never gotten a standing ovation. That's honestly the one of
the best monologues. That will be a promo. I'm gonna

(01:36:49):
try to convince Vita to put it into the show open. No, no, no,
we don't we get like one open a year. We
don't need that as the open. Will they do a
new open for our show? How about that new it's
a new year. We've got new liners. I mean, come on,
does Lindsley still work back there? Chris? I see him.
It's like it comes out on the weekend. He hides
in the shadows. He really does. He was the original

(01:37:11):
editing department at Fox Sports Radio was Christal. I see
him like three times a year, Chris. I love I
love the guy man. We go way back. He's good people,
Chris Lindsley. But he'll make like an open He's a
big hockey guy, right, yeah, like the Kings, like Stanford football.
And it's like, aren't his kids all grown up? Now? Right?
I used to bring two the two little girls that

(01:37:33):
were in here when I'm sure you're right, yeah, you
think about that. I probably a college. Yeah, I think
they're out of college. Oh good god, I know that sucks.
I mean it's good for them. They're growing up. But
it's like, you remember, these little kids are running around
here and they're little girls and now they're all I mean, wow,
that's a crazy man, crazy crazy crazy all right. Anyway,
it's the The Ben Maler Show on Fox. If you'd
like to be part, the lines are full, so don't

(01:37:55):
don't bother calling. You know, I don't even bother Colin.
We'll take some of these phone calls. And also later
in the hour, you got Big Ben's lame jokes of
the Week. We got that coming up a little bit
later as well, and we'll call this one a case
of the time zone blues. The time zone blues. We'll
get to that and we'll do it next. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays

(01:38:17):
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(01:38:39):
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have lame jokes the week coming up a little bit
later in the hour. Actually, somebody said a joke. He

(01:39:02):
wanted Roberto to read this guy Jerry, and Jerry was
on a hold last night. I think he lives in
North Dakota. He told me a story and I wish
I'd gotten him on the air, and I'm upset I
didn't I apologize to you because I know you're on
hold for a while. We did our Mean Gene Okerland
six line tribute to mean Geen. Jerry says that years

(01:39:24):
ago he was at a local dance hall in Bismarck,
North Dakota. This goes back to the nineteen sixties and
Gene Oakerland had a band called Gene Carol and the Shades.
He was a rock guy. He was in a rock
and roll band in the nineteen sixties. And according to

(01:39:44):
this guy, Jerry, who's up on North Dakota triviae he
says that Gene Okerland is a member of the South
Dakota Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he says
he was the singer. How about that cool man? What
a life? He was rock and roll guy, back of
All Trade radio guy for twenty eight years, worked in
TV sales and then of course known as the Professional

(01:40:07):
Wrestling the Ring not ring announced it, but the interview
got the promo guy for for the WWE. Let's go
to cornbread in Indiana. Who's next on Fox? Sports Radio.
Hello Cornbread, Hey Ben, welcome back, Betty, Happy new Year,
Thank you sir, Happy Happy new Year. What's up? Well, man,
I missed her inside on the Leakers, the Clippers and

(01:40:27):
the vagabond Lebron and that monologue you just did. I
just I had to call in. I got a little
rent for you, and I got a message afterward. And
this this is for the uh, this is for Lebron
to stick this and he's echo chamber. Are you ready? Can't? Well,
I've been waiting. I came back to hear this, Cornbread.
Oh man, you're gonna lock it. You're gonna lock this.

(01:40:49):
Here we go. Whose the number of you wear and
want to be a legend? Space dam two Nike shoes.
You're sloppy seconds, self proclaimed, self annoyed, a toxic delusion.
This is pathetic. Pray for a conclusion. If you're not Michael, Kobe,
Magic or Ali, just ask Tim, Dirk, Steph, Clay, Kevin

(01:41:11):
and Kyrie. Call to arms across the NBA this new year.
Kick the goats ass up between his ears. Beat the
best team ever. Please one of eight kde made you
Ben the knee. Eight consecutive best all time high basketball
like you pass shoot dunk flop. Got to do more
than lose. Sixteen years, three chips, four teams stopping someting

(01:41:35):
to players before you, the ones you share the court
with today, and the fans. My message is this, Ben,
if you're a Lebron ball boy and you want to
defend his honor, we can get in the devil's playground,
the rebel osten con. If you beat me Lebron Laker gear,
I'll hook you up and we'll be cheap. You lose.

(01:41:58):
If you lose, you lose all Lebron Laker privileges on
the Ben Mallor show. I like this. You're throwing down
the gauntlets. What you're doing, Cornbread saw down to clown baby.
Let's get something you're saying. It's twenty nineteen and I'm
ready for verbal octica. I love it all right, Well, listen, Cornbread,
keep list thing, and then if somebody calls in wants

(01:42:18):
to take you on, maybe mister Wonderful who's a big
Lebron toasucker, maybe he'll call up and he'll want to
challenge you. Thank you, Cornbread. I appreciate that. I liked that.
It was a nice high coup from our friend Cornbread.
There's something about his cadence I could listen to. It's
a kind of how would I describe, what's the proper

(01:42:41):
way to describe cornbread? The way he talks. It's kind
of a calm, soothing, deliberate. Yes, yeah, like you can
kind of hear his mind work, can't you a little bit?
Now we chase that guy away, and I wish you know,
was it Randy from Norman? Right? Norman? Yeah, yeah, I

(01:43:02):
wish you'd call up. He's good. He's like Charles Dickens,
that guy. I mean, he's maybe Edgar Allan Poe, but
one of the greats. One of the greats. Let's go
to Mitchell, you know high. I think Mitchell's if I
remember correctly, Mitchell's a big Lebron fan boy. Hello Mitchell, Hey,
what's up the unhappy New Year? Buddy? You too welcome?
What's up? Yeah? I had a couple of things I

(01:43:24):
wanted to comment on, actually, but I mean you're probably right.
Lebron is a pompous jerk and shouldn't say stuff like that.
But at the same time, I think when his career
is over, he's gonna be a lot higher on that list.
You give him credit for it, because even if he
don't win another ring, if he catches Kareem, that saves
a lot. To me, you know, you left a couple
of things out. Michael Kobe and all them guys, they

(01:43:44):
didn't have to. They didn't spend five years with a
crappy team like the Cavalier. Kareema buil Jabbar also went
to college Lebron didn't, So yeah, he will likely end
up the all time leading scorer. Kareem if he had,
you know, not on to UCLA would have also ended up,
you know, with more points. So I'm gonna play that game.
I think I think he'll get another ring, which will

(01:44:06):
help him more. But I'm just saying, Ah, where's where
is he? Where's he gonna get Uh, you're gonna go
pun shop. I don't know where's he gonna get there. Eventually,
somebody will play with him, and that, to me is
the craziest thing too. To me, NBA players have one
of two choices. You either play with him and try
to bring down the Warriors, or you just keep continuing

(01:44:27):
being a female dog because the Warriors, or you go
play for the Warriors like de Marcus Cousins did. You
just go join the warriors in there. That's how you
so you do it? Hey, my second thing, then, I
want to know what you thought about that trade. I mean,
you really didn't get nothing out of that? I guess,
oh the Reds died. No, I mean it was the
Reds won the trade. I mean, obviously they won the trade.
They got ya Ceo Pig. I believe he'll be very

(01:44:48):
good for the Reds. I wish him well. Matt Kemp sucks.
You'll get nothing from Matt Kemp. He's done. Uh and
Wood's a decent number three starter. He'll be okay, But
I think he'll be bad at that ballpark. I think
he'll be He'll give up a lot of runs in
the Great American Ballpark. But no, I mean the Dodgers
made that trade because they were so desperate to get
rid of Yac Puig. They didn't like the way he played.
He didn't fit the analytical philosophy of the Dodgers, and

(01:45:12):
they felt like they had to get rid of They've
been trying to trade him for three years. They were
willing to give him away for a month of Bryce
Harper at the deadline. If you believe the rumors they
were willing to trade him to Milwaukee for Ryan Braun.
They were They've been trying to trade puiagu. They finally
got a team to take him in Cincinnati and they
got some players. Yeah, well, they're gonna he's not gonna

(01:45:34):
pitch for the Dodgers, Homer Bailey, they'll have they already
the team. They'll release him at some point they're making
They're gonna make another move, I'm telling you, but I'd
be surprised if they get Bryce Harby. They're gonna make it. Yeah,
they're not getting Bryce. Yeah, I mean Andrew Friedman, who's
the GM of the Dodgers. His whole pedigree is to
get that guy that's not the biggest name. But I'm

(01:45:54):
telling you, they're getting aj Pollock. That's what they're gonna get.
And that's the terrible decision. Hope. No, he's already hurt.
He's on the DL and he's on the DL. We'll
get to that time zone blues. We get to that.
We have Big Band's Lame Jokes of the Week as
well more of these tremendous phone calls. In addition, but
right now from the Guico Fox Sports Radio Studios, he's

(01:46:16):
dancing like fredis there. There's an outdated reference. Who's a
modern dancer at mc hammer. That's not Chris Brown, but
you can't say his name because he beat up Yeah,
all right, anyway, who cares, you're dancing whatever? Racist and
I'm worried I beat somebody, right, but not Beyonce. It
was what was their name? Yeah, yeah, beat you up

(01:46:37):
by me? All right? Go ahead, Eddie Great, Let's go
to the great intro. Let's go to the NBA. Let's
check the night. Just three games on the schedule. Rockets
over the Warriors in Oakland one thirty five, one thirty
four and overtime. James Harden the hero for Houston. He
hit a three point at the end of regulation to
senate an ot, then hit the game winning three pointer
with a second to play. Finished with forty four points,
ten rebounds and fifteen assists. Fifth straight game for Harden

(01:47:00):
going forty points or more. Spurs over the Raptors one
twenty five to one oh seven. It was the return
of Kawhi Leonard to San Antonio with the first time
after being traded to Toronto in the offseason. He finished
with twenty one points, but one of the guys he
was traded for. Jamar de Rosen came up big for
San Antonio with his first career triple double twenty one points,
fourteen rebounds and eleven assists Nuggets over the Kings one
seventeen one thirteen. Denver best in the West with a

(01:47:22):
twenty six and eleven record. College basketball five top twenty
five teams in action, including number two Michigan Wolverines approved
of fourteen and Ozo for the sixty eight fifty five
win over Penn State. Minnesota knocked off number twenty two
Wisconsin fifty nine fifty two per due trips up number
twenty five Iowa eighty six to seventy wins for eighteenth
ranked NC State and number twenty one Indiana. The support
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of Fame Class of twenty nineteen were announced on Thursday night,
to include five first time candidate's quarterback Champ Bailey, tight
end Tony Gonzalez, defensiveman Richard Seymour, and safety Ed Reid.

(01:48:06):
They will need eighty percent of the vote. I'm annoyed
by the Fame because they have like seven different announcements
of this guy list list and that list. I only
want the final list, and we got to wait to
that that the final list comes out. What in the
it's got to come out in a couple of months, right, Well,
I guess as the super Bowl before the Super Bowl? Yeah,
that super Bowl week? Yeah, I believe, right, And then

(01:48:28):
I thought it was maybe I know they always introduced
them and interviewed them at the first Season of Fame game. Okay,
maybe they will wait another three months. I don't know.
UH should release the list. Pro Football Hall of Fame
Classes two nineteen announced during a two hour primetime special
that will air the night before the Super Bowl the
February second. Yeah, are you going to Hall of Fame

(01:48:50):
a game again this coming year, Eddie? If the charges
are in it, or you're going back to Ohio? I
don't think so. No, all right, it is the Ben
Mallers Show. We continue on from the Geico Fox Sports
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for a free rate quote. Well, the time zone blues.

(01:49:10):
The time zone blues. Teams in the Pacific and Mountain
times are going back to twenty two teams in the
Pacific and Mountain time zone in the National Football League
that have traveled on playoff the playoff weekend playoff games
that started one o'clock Eastern time, they have been outscored

(01:49:30):
two hundred and two points to fifty six in the
first half since twenty two. That's not good for the
Los Angeles Chargers who are in that situation. They play
the one o'clock Eastern game against the Ravens, so they're
West coast team going to the East coast outscored again.

(01:49:52):
That's what has happened. Not doesn't guarantee it's gonna happen again.
But that's a long stretch. That's what's that sixteen years
hour in New Year seventeen and West coast teams have
been roadkill, and also teams from the Mountain time zone
when they go to the East Coast. Let's go to
Rachel in Mona Bello. Who's next on Fox Sports Radio.

(01:50:13):
Hello Rachel, Hello Ben, Ben Mallor alive and almost well
thriving among the forts Bocks Radio elite, and they're highly
praised Mallow Militia. Ben. I almost went through withdrawals while
you were sorry. I thought about maybe coming over and
hanging out. We could you know, the Mallar monologue just
for you, Rachel, because you are so important to the show,

(01:50:35):
A well deserved dcation, I might add, Ben. Yeah, yeah, Ben, Ben,
Yes what Ben Mallard goat ring. I think we should
promote it, sell it to the militia for purchase. Yeah,
you are the greatest of all time. Wow, it's very
kind of you to say that. I didn't ask for that,
but I appreciate that. Gilley Dewey Lley is right now, Rachel.

(01:50:56):
Every time I drive through Mona Bello, I think of you, Rachel,
I want to know. And I drive down like the
sixty and I go through Montabella and I see that
Montabello mall right there, that big mall. I think of you.
Do you? Really? I do? I'm not making I think.
Well somewhere, maybe maybe Rachel's in there a shopping or
something like that. Maybe she's in you know, eating, eating
dinner or eating lunch or something like that. I always
thinking about that. Yeah, I eat a lot over there.

(01:51:16):
I spend a lot of money though, And yeah, you're
a high roller, rage, you're a baller. It's what you are.
You know, it's my weakness. Then I understand. But spending money, um,
but you know that's we're all human. Then I was curious.
I don't think you've mentioned who the rookie of the
Year in the NFL was going to be. Do you

(01:51:37):
think perhaps it might be don't say it, don't say it,
Bradley Chubb, Shoba blah blab. Do you think it might
Sir Baker Mayfield? No, I don't. Only he's gonna he played.
He was too up and down for the for the Browns,
I don't think easier but I got for the Colts

(01:51:58):
the far defensive rookie he was. Was it Leonard? That
guy's been amazing for the for the Colts. All right,
we're back, Rachel, So that you know, don't be shy
about singing. Don't worry about these idiots that are critics.
We love your singing, Rachel. One. Oh oh oh, here
we go. One more thing, my kryptonite go ahead Pat
Mahomes or Drew Brees. Oh, Pat Mahomes by a mile,

(01:52:20):
Pat Malmes. Drew Brees lost in the last few weeks
of the year. Pat Mahomes, what do you have? Fifty
touchdown passes? That's your MVP. Oh, well, I hope you're right.
All right, Thank you, Rachel. Great weekend and stay well. Hey,
I'm gonna Joe. I'm gonna drink nothing but apple, cider,
vinegar and honey all weekend in garlic. Thank you. Drop.

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I'm not kidding, by the way you think I'm kidding.
I have to be one hundred percent by the time
I come back, because at some point next week I'll
be doing a seven hour Mallar marathon. If I have
a voice like this and I do a seven hour
Mallar marathon, I am not going to make it. It'll
be the Eddie Garcia Show with Roberto and Coopa Loop
by the end of that show. So anyway, I will

(01:53:03):
press on Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. We
get to that and we will do it in its entirety.
Somebody even sent a joke for Roberto, and I sent
a bunch to Coop. People had a lot of jokes.
We'll get to all that. We will do it next.
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It's Ben Maller. Knock Knock, who's there? Lame week? Blame

(01:53:47):
Week two, it's Big Ben's lame joke of the week,
and away we go. These are actual jokes by actual
listeners with the Ben Maller Show sent in. This is
a listener generated bit. We thank you for your contribution.
I didn't think we were gonna get enough because I'd
taken a seven month vacation. I was on hiatus for
seven months. But we we you guys came through. We

(01:54:09):
had it off. So here we go. Everyone's got some jokes.
I'll read the joke, I'll bounce it off. Eddie, he'll
bounce it back to me. In theory, I'll give you
the punchline. Roberto will play this if it's funny, you'll
play this if it's not funny, and this if it
could go either way. Coop's got his jokes. A weed
man is there? Hello weed Man? Then I send you
pictures of the literal five in my house right now?

(01:54:31):
Who's screaming and listening the sut and rolling on the floor.
I don't see that where you send me your picture.
I don't see any picture you sent me any as
a crazy guy stripping outside of all Right, here we go.
Elon Musk has developed a new tesla that uses karma

(01:54:54):
instead of fuel. It sounds it sounds odd. It runs
on up the that's a social media Joe. That's a
jay in Florida. All right, what was the most frightening
thing blind Scott ever read in Brail? Most frightening? Can

(01:55:16):
we know? We don't pot him down? Uh, we don't
need him enough. I don't know what was the most
frightening thing blind Scott read in Brail do not touch
Conrad sent that one in what do you call a
cheap circumcision? Eddie? Oh boy, A cheap circumcision. I don't

(01:55:37):
know what you call that? A rip off from Gordy
who sent that one in Thank you Gordy? What did
one I say to another? I don't know what did
one I say to another? Something between us really smells
so Bill and I, let's your nose, ediot? I get it? Yeah, okay,

(01:55:58):
you didn't seem to laugh. Donald than Arizona sent this one.
He says, why why doesn't Tucson Arizona have a professional
sports team? Well, I don't know why doesn't Tucson have
a pro sports team because then Phoenix would want one
and they can't have one. So that's It's an old joke,
but it's a good one. Cooper Loop, you got it in,
Cooper Loop. What do you call a nun in a wheelchair?

(01:56:20):
Virgin mobile? Catholic man? Go repent? All right, Eddie, did
you see the preview for the movie Constipation? No? I
did not. Well, it hasn't come out yet, So that's

(01:56:40):
the Jason and sent that one. Thank you, Jason Blair
and Maine was going to win an art contest. How
about I didn't know that. Unfortunately it ended in a draw,
and that doesn't know how to draw. So that's his
problem there. I want a good blonde joke. What do

(01:57:01):
you call it? Brunette standing between two blondes? A brunette
standing between two blondes? What do you call that? Translator?
That's from Vincent. Well, let's see here. What else do
we have here? All right? This is from George and Rochester, Minnesota.
What do you call shares of the company that sells viagra?

(01:57:22):
Shares of the company that sells my agra? I don't
know what do you call that? Woodstock is what you
call it? There? It's uh yeah, all right? Are you there?
Weed man? All right? All right? Weed man is so poor?
How poor is he? He is so poor that starving
African children are sending him their tea. That's Bill and

(01:57:52):
Iowa something shut up? All right? Uh? Roberto, you want
to do your joke? Roberto? Yea? What then Patrick Mahomes
say when he was sacked by a Mexican player? I
don't know. Get off me, Holmes, that's not that I'm

(01:58:15):
not laughing. I dare you? All right? Uh? What do
you call a confused chicken nugget? A confused chicken nugget? Yeah,
A trans tender like a chicken tender? You know. Sorry,
that's just Josh. That's all right, that's just Josh. Have
you noticed that Michael Strahan is hosting multiple TV shows?

(01:58:37):
I had a lot of money. Yeah, now he can
actually afford to get that middle tooth fixed? Dady? How
about that? So jerk yourself? A surfer? Todd? I wasn't funny.
It's like signature. What do you have? Coop? Anything else
over there? Cool? No, you don't like those other ones?
All right? What happens when Kirk Cousins tells jokes to
his receivers? I don't know what happens when Kirk Cousins

(01:58:59):
tells his receivers Joe, they go over their heads like
the passes eat from Roseville, Minnesota. What's the difference between
a Ben Mallers show stand in and Nolan Ryan? Difference
between a Ben Maller show standing and Nolan Ryan? What's
I don't know what's different? Nolan Ryan never pitched a
no listener. That's not right, Gordon out there? You that's

(01:59:19):
all right. Why is it so bright and shiny in
Los Angeles? I don't know why is it so bright
and shiny here? Because if everyone ball washing Lebron James,
that's from aid Dubb in Vancouver. Isn't that all right?
Stop relaxed, you're such a What did the Pittsburgh Steelers
get Antonio Brown for Christmas? I don't know what did

(01:59:42):
the Steelers get Antonio Brown for Christmas? Ju Ju bees?
They got? Get him a pacifier? Alright? Calm down there,
all right, man, baby? Oh, let's this is from? Oh?
This is this for Roberto. I think you're the one
for rebirth. Wow, I don't I can't have time to
send it to him. Ill, here's the one for what

(02:00:05):
do Coop advanced Joseph having common? I don't know what
a Cooper advanced Joseph having common? They love choking and
getting fired, that's from It's just a loose fit smoking.
It's a smoky weed smoking joke. A sorry, calm down,

(02:00:27):
But if you have to explain it, that's usually not
a good thing, you know, If you have to explain
the joke, that's usually something's gone wrong. Did you hear
that Cooper Loop was so high during the Christmas break
that he got lost at the supermarket? Oh? I didn't
know that he was. He was found in the produce
aisle though, So it's all good. That's from just Josh
checking out some lettuce exactly? Oh all right, calm down, Oh,

(02:00:49):
don't touch up my work. Why did Snoop Dog put
Rosie O'Donnell in a sauna during his party? Is part?
He's on TV right now doing some kind of a show. Yeah,
I don't know what. Why did put rose o'donnald Assana?
It was an ugly sweat her George and Rochester, Minnesota?
I got two more here? Uh? There? Any more about

(02:01:11):
Weman being poor? Yeah, that's the closer. How good? How
did doctor Pepper? How many doctor Peppers does Nick Saban
drink before the National Championship game? No? I don't know
how many? Does he drink? Ta anymore? And it hurts?
That's just Josh. Here's the closer. All right, we better
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you have to do. So. The San Antonio Spurs, playing
host of the Toronto Raptors, Kawhi Leonard, made his return
to the Alamo. It is the only way to get
a Raptor Spurs game on national television in America is

(02:02:37):
to have a that particular matchup that story. I'm Marv
Albert and Chris Webber. They're broadcasting for TNT. Now, this
was not much of a game, not that we would
have broken down the game anyway. It was a one
twenty five, one oh seven rat kill for the home team,
the San Antonio Spurs. As they won this, they were

(02:02:57):
up early and they just over whelmed Toronto. The pretty
much overwhelmed the Toronto Raptors. It was it was again
no no real contest. And now I want to tell
you that the Spurs covered the point spread by fourteen
and a half points, so they were they were supposed

(02:03:18):
to win, but they were not supposed to win by
this margin. Toronto did not have Kyle Lowry in the
line of Kawhi Leonard. How did he do? He shot
the ball? Well, he had twenty one points. But the
story is about the subplot. And if you didn't watch
this game, and I can't assume you did, Kawhi Leonard's
return led to a tsunami of booze. It was blue flat,

(02:03:40):
boo flat, blue major, whatever you want to call it.
Fans held up signs slandering Kawai's good name. It was
really a wonderful scene. Some bleeding heart basketball bloggers felt
that the San Antonio fans went too far attacking their
former start. It wasn't just basketball ball bloggers that felt

(02:04:02):
this way. It is a former NBA star who's now
a washed up NBA player, but he's still hanging around
Isaiah Thomas. Not the nineteen eighties vintage of the Pistons
Isaiah Thomas, but the guy that was the breakout star
for the Celtics a couple of years ago, that guy
who's now in the Denver Nuggets. Yeah, he went on

(02:04:26):
a rant and he was ranting and raving about the
fans in San Antonio. He plays for the Nuggets. As
I said, not much Isaiah Thomas. But among his criticisms,
he said that man won a championship for you all
and your boo him. That ain't it? But wait there's more.

(02:04:48):
Isaiah Thomas also said, take the fan hat off for
once and put the player hat on and see if
you will still boo a player boy. Give a little
violin out for Isaiah Thomas here. He also said, let
us come to your job and boo you for two
hours for you looking out for yourself. And they says

(02:05:13):
when teams time after time do what's best for them.
All right, that's Isaiah Thomas. So the question is, did
let's talk about all this. Did these Spurs fans go
too far in their boo assault, booing the crap out
of Kawhi Leonard. I would argue that they didn't do enough,

(02:05:35):
that it was wonderful, But it was. It was such
a great chorus of booze. It could have been a
little louder at times. So I've got my view on this.
You've got steam, insubordination, and nostalgia, and we will link
all this together. We'll walk you walking through this. But

(02:05:56):
before we do that, let's hear if you didn't see
the game, here here's how it sounded. Now. The funny
thing about this, Danny Green, who also played in San
Antonio and was traded to Toronto. He got thunder his
cheers and Kawhi Leonard got the boo. Here's how it
sounded there in the introduced Listen to this. He was
six six stars from North Carolina, number fourteen, Danny Green

(02:06:22):
six seven in San Diego State number two. D Boo, boo.
Guess even better? I guess even better. Kawhi Leonards at
the foul line, and listen to you'll hear Marv Albert.
I believe on this clip a little bit. But listen
to what the fans are chanting as Kawhi Leonards attempting

(02:06:45):
a free throw. The chance of Trader coming down on
Kawhi Leonard as he heads to the free throw. This
is from the radio. It's a radio call. Yeah, that's
so there you go, Oh, the wonderful, glorious Trader, Trader Trader. Ye.
So the little taste of what happened there at the

(02:07:08):
the the Alamo City. But again I seem insubordination and nostalgia. Now, now, hey,
this was I'd like to call it Texas classy. I
loved it. They will boo you anywhere in this situation,
doesn't matter, and then no one's surprised by this. It's
not a shock. Kawhi Leonard earned that right, he earned

(02:07:29):
that thunderous boo. And it's also a sign of respect. Right,
you don't boo players you don't care about. Kawhi Leonard
has been a good player. I believe he's not as
good as many people think he's. He's overrated. But Kawhi
Leonard lost his way with the Spurs and watching this game,
and I happened to have TNT on. I was watching
this game quite a bit, and it was like a

(02:07:52):
religious revival for the Spurs fans. They've been saving this rage,
and this rage has been building up. I like to
call it healthy negativity. Healthy negative. Mark Albert, who's been
calling NBA games since the days the NBA used to
peach basket, even he was taken back by the rage.

(02:08:13):
I get the dynamic with the Spurs and San Antonio
and how much that matters, right, because I've ranted about
Manu Ginobili and Kawhi Leonard other Spurs over the years,
and I've gotten some very passionate tsunami of hate emails
from San Antonians and others that have loved the Spurs
who are upset with me. How dare you say anything
about our team. The funny thing is the same people

(02:08:36):
that would rip me for my opinion of Kawhi Leonard
now suddenly are on my side. So because Kawhi is
more in a different set of laundry. So it's like, well, no, no,
I agree with you. Now I've seen the light. But
this whole thing with guys like Isaiah Thomas and these players,
Kevin Duran always gets upset when people bow and all this.

(02:08:56):
You know, it's a simple thing and you lose track
of it. But we all as sports fans, we invest
our time and our energy. You know, you only get
a limited amount of time. He spent a lot of
it working, a lot of its sleeping, And if you
choose to invest your time as a sports aficionado, it
does become personal. It should become personal if you're doing

(02:09:18):
it right. And always good to blow off some steam here,
let go of some of that angst. And it was
all part of the grieving process. For the San Antonio
Spur fan. They could have gone further, as some fans
held up signs calling Kawhi Leonard not a leader. That
triggered Chris Webber. Chris Webber's oh, I can't believe that,
and Marv Albert tried to defend the fans who said

(02:09:41):
that that had that sign that said he's not a leader.
And Webber got all upset and said, you made a
big deal about that, defended Kawai and ironically the fans
were just quoting Greg Popovitch. Greg Popovitch, who tried to
walk it back, said that Kawhi Leonards not a leader.

(02:10:01):
And much like with politicians, we believe the initial statement,
not the apology. You can't unring the bell. Popovitch tried
to unring the bell. You can't do it. Damage done.
Leonard is as quiet as a church mouse. He's an introvert,
which is fine. Most of my life I'm not on
the radio. I'm an introvert. Who that's I'm not as

(02:10:23):
big an introvert as Kawhi Leonard. He's got the bizarre
laugh thing going on, but most of the time, if
you have that personality, an introverted personality, generally not a leader.
You can laugh at me all you want. Now the
part B of this, Kawhi Leonard is the scoundrel. If

(02:10:44):
this was a Shakespearean melodrama, He's the scoundrel, right, He's
the one who committed basketball in subordination. Spin it anyway,
and Isaiah Thomas sam well, let's you know, let us
come to your job in bowl take the fan had
off and he was just looking out for himself and teams. Essentially,

(02:11:07):
he said, screw over players all the time, which was
clearly shot at Danny Ainge for trading him for Kawhile
for Kawhi Leonard. Yeah or not, Kawhi Kyrie Irving, run
the flat earth guy, the flat Earth guy, Kyrie Irving.
But no, it was in subordination. He embellished an injury.
Kawhi Leonard. He milked the system. He quit on the team.

(02:11:31):
And you come across in the eye of a fan
as a week as a kitten when you do that,
that's that's how that works. And all in a power
play to force his way out of San Antonio. And
the thing about this and the reason you're gonna push
back in Isaiah Thomas, at least I will The Spurs,
by all accounts, were prepared to write a check for

(02:11:52):
a Texas sized contract. Kawhi Leonard was eligible for a
Supermax contract if he had stayed in San Antonio, which
would have paid him two hundred and twenty one million dollars.
By forcing his way out, he's lost that amount of money.
He's still eligible for a huge contract. The Raptors have
what's known as bird rights to Kawhi Leonard, so they

(02:12:14):
could sign him to a five year contract for one
hundred and eighty nine million, which a ton of money.
Is that Canadian? Is that Loons or is that American?
I don't know, but either way, you do the math
on that. Well, that's one hundred and eighty nine million.
Where Leonard wants to supposedly play in Los Angeles. So
let's say he signs with the Clippers or the Lakers.

(02:12:37):
He would receive a contract four years, one hundred and
forty million. You see what we're doing here. We're losing.
Might you say, well, it's all relative. He's rich, when
you're rich, it doesn't matter. I get that to a point.
But if he stays in Toronto, he's gonna lose thirty
one million from what he would have gotten from San Antonio.
And if he goes to LA that's eighty one million

(02:12:59):
dollars from what he would have gotten originally from the
San Antonio sport It's kind of like playing the stock market.
You know. I'm getting more into the stock market lately.
I got this app so I'm buying stock. I was
asking Coop for some weed stocks to buy, and I'm
getting all into it and I want to I want
to get rich on weed stocks and gambling. That's my plan,

(02:13:19):
every vice. That's my plan to get rich. And I
knew plan to take over the world anyway. But it's
like only a stock portfolio and you have nothing but
like Enron, Freddie Mack and Bernie Madoff investments, You're like,
what are we doing here? Wait, wait a minute, here,
Nail's up with that all right? Now the last point. Now,
some basketball intellectuals believe that the San Antonio fan will

(02:13:41):
forgive and forget Kawhi, forget all the angst about Kawhi Leonard,
all Shenanigans and all this. I'm not buying that, especially
if Leonard goes off to Los Angeles and comes back
to haunt the Spurs. Whether it be with my Clippers
or the hated Lakers. Over the next couple of years,

(02:14:01):
you can forget about nostalgia because forget it's it's it's
gonna be not a route awakening. It's goosed to be
continuing on. It'd be this will be the new normal.
You know. Sure at some point twenty years from now
or ten years from now, when Leonard's not playing anymore,
he's retired, and men fences and romanticize and try to

(02:14:22):
have revisionist history about what happened. But that's that's where
I stand. And as far as Isaiah tim I don't
want to follow up here, you know, Isaiah Thomas, You know,
I using the old cliche about who coming and booing
and all that stuff, and you should come, we should
come to your job and boo and yeah, it's it

(02:14:43):
really is a sad story, the life of these basketball
players that they have. It's tremendous because everyone has the
same response. Right, you can boo my ass for ten
hours a day if you pay me the amount of
money that these NBA players make, all or any professional
athlete Boo boo, boo, boo boo. The other problem is

(02:15:04):
you can't have the boo or you can't have the
cheer without the boat. You see what you can't have.
I know people want to do that now and participation
rewards and all that stuff, but you can't. Really the
way I was raised, you can't do that. I'll this year.
What Kawhi Leonard had to say after the game. Here's
Kawai in the visiting locker room in San Antonio. I

(02:15:27):
felt good, I mean except for losing the game. Yeah,
we got some things to come in and look at
as a team to get better at it. Nobody care
at the passive pass and I'm still playing, you know
what I mean? Really, I really don't reflect on what's
what happened, probably until our retire, but keep moving and
trying to get better what we're doing here. Never look back.

(02:15:48):
The train is only going forward. You can't back the
train up, all right. So the Ben Mather Show on Fox,
we say hello to Edmund Dallas, steam Boat Willie Judas Garcia.
So far, Eddie, no one's taken the Lebron challenge from
Cornbread who was looking for a Lebron fanboy to defend

(02:16:10):
Lebron James, and he would take the counter position that
has not happened. Also, speaking of this Kawhi Leonards story,
did you see the video going around of Kawhi Leonard's mom.
I have not seen that. No. Yeah, Mama Leonard was
sitting in the stands in San Antonio and did not
appreciate the heckling was going on. And she she was

(02:16:31):
wearing a Kwhite jersey. Yeah, she did on the Raptor jersey. Yeah,
she had the Kawhi jersey. And she was telling the
fan there what she thought that fan could do or
should do. I think that's great momming. I think that's wondering.
That's what mom. You want your mom to do that?
I love that. You know my mom would do that
back in the day. I think that's what mom should do.
I have no problem with Kawhi Leonard's mom ranting and raving,

(02:16:52):
although I would advise her if you go to a
game like that and you don't expect that, you gotta
kind of know what's what you're for. So it's but
it was this guys standing up, Dolpy fat dude standing
up razing Kwielin, and Kawai's mom's over there telling him
to shut off and boot her too. Are you are

(02:17:12):
you a boo guy. Then I go to sporting I
enjoy booze, but do you boo not? Back in my day,
I was an active booer. I mean, I don't know.
Roberto used to get in fights, Missus Roberto calmed him down.
Roberto's gotten into fights. He's been kicked out of stadium
before because of his passion. And he's one of those

(02:17:33):
Back in the day, he was one of those Dodger
fans you feared. Yeah, he was one of those die
and happy He's say smiling. That's weird, it is. I
think his wife's lying. I don't think he was ever
like that. The Roberto I know is always smiling. He's
very positive. And yeah, she has tamed the savage beast.
She has. She went some kind of award. It's an
amazing I'm not a big boo guy either, but I will.

(02:17:55):
You know, if Levian Bell, you know, or to come
to Pittsburgh and I was at the game, or Antonia
Brown likely here in the future, I have boo the
hell out of those guys. Yeah, stand up and like
use a you know. So you know what I really
like is I like the technique of the boo when
you say something to get under the skin of the guy,

(02:18:17):
like not just a bullet boo. Yeah, like heckling, Like
there's an art to it. And you don't have to
curse like people think you have to curse and you
have to say terrible. You don't have to do it.
I'm gonna go old on you. Robin Ficker. Oh yeah,
the Washington Yeah, there was this guy for people who
don't know, back in the day. He would sit behind
the bullets bench or no, the other teams bench in

(02:18:39):
Washington and we just ripped the other teams yea, the
whole game. And I don't think he cursed. I'm pretty
sure he did not curse. Yeah, that's all he did.
But he was kicked out. He got kicked out by
was it Steve Javy kicked him out the old referee back. Yeah,
he did badge of honor. He did get kicked out
of a game. Steve Javy also kicked out many mascots. Yeah,

(02:19:00):
he's guy's a barrel of laughs. Yeah, he's a lot
of fun. He's a lot of fun. But yeah, the
the art of boeing, which is people Now, you go
to the games. I I still go to a fair
amount game. You go to a lot of games too, Eddie. Yeah,
I don't notice as much. Like to me, it's not
as much as it used to be. Maybe I'm wrong
on that. Maybe it's worse now. I don't. To me,
it seems it doesn't seem as bad as it was.

(02:19:20):
But I think a lot of people are just on
their phones. Yeah, attention, but you know back in the day,
you didn't have that, so you just ranked and ray
of like a lunatic. So still goes on in left
field pavilion, right, Oh yeah, well the bleachers. Yeah, I
sat at the old Yankee Stadium and a Red Sox
Yankee game before the Red Sox had ended the Curse
of the Bambino. I sat in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium.

(02:19:43):
And it was an eye opening experience for me. It
was game and I want to sit on the bleacher. Yeah,
it was, it was. It was really. The Red Sox
were very good at that time. They had like kind
of a bunch of veteran players that weren't collectively. It
was a long time ago. And and the Yankee the
bleacher creatures at Yankee Stadium is awesome. I don't know

(02:20:05):
if it's the same at the new Yankee stadium because
it's it's just this corporate palace now. But I'm sure
they still got the bleachers out there. All right, So
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the coop scoop on entertainment. We'll get to that coming
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We'll get to that as well. We'll do it next.

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Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. We'll have the coop scoop
on entertainment coming up in a moment. Right now, let's
go to Billy in Albany. Hello, Billy, good morning. That's

(02:21:09):
going sir, Welcome Bo. It's good to talk to you.
What's going on? Talk to him? Oh? Another much. I'm
glad you're back. Now. I got a Christmas preson for you.
It's a lay one, but it's a good one. You're
gonna want to get a pen and paper. Write this down.
I'm about to make you a lot of money. Oh,
here we go. I've heard this before now, Blind Scott
gave me some stock advice one time, and uh, the
stock one. I think it's a penny stock. Now what

(02:21:29):
do you? What do you got, Billy? I have the
teams and the exact score for Super Bowl fifty three
in Atlanta this year. That's even better, so you can
win more money than on the stock market if you
can pick the correct score. Who's gonna win? Go ahead? Okay?
The two teams and the score Patriots and Rams? All right?
Got that? Oh no, no, no, uh, I'm a free guys.

(02:21:50):
They're gonna come up a little short. The Seattle Seahawk
defeat the Baltimore Ravens nineteen to seven. That will be great.
Thirteen to seven, thirteen to seven. Billy, wake up, Billy.
It's it's not nineteen eighty nine. Andy, wake up, Billy,
Come on thirteen to seven. I dare you be terrible?

(02:22:15):
Be a nightmare? Yeah, who knows? You're not a Seahawks?
But what is that? Seattle and Baltimore? What you pick
those two teams? Well? Very I don't know, you know,
maybe that's what the people want. You know, the hell
wants that. Nobody wants that. No, I what about me?
Nobody wants to talk about the Ravens and the Seahawks.

(02:22:36):
I need, you know what I need. I need like
the cowboys of the Rams Patriots, so Kansas City's got
a little juice to him with Patrick Mahomes. I need
one of those teams. I'll even take the Saints people,
Drew Breeze and all that nonsense. Well, I mean, I
I I know that you know, Russell Wilson isn't in
the upper echelon of quarterbacks like you know, Andy Dolmer,

(02:23:00):
Jill Flacco. But still I think he'll be. I think
he'll be successful to get the MVP. I'll make a
deal with you, Billy, if if the Seahawks and Ravens
play in the Super Bowl. Forget the score. They play
in the Super Bowl. I will have you co host
the show for We'll find a way for you to

(02:23:21):
co host the show for for four hours. How about that, Yes, sir,
I'll take you up on it. Thank you. There's no
chance of that happening, but if it does happen, we
will We'll have you in. Okay, thank you, appreciate all right,
thank you, thank you, Billy, all right, go away, thank you.
MGM John in Vegas, Hello, MGM John. He's a degenerate gambler.

(02:23:41):
What's going on, buddy? Hello, Missa Ben. Happy new Year
to you and the crew. Thank you, thank you. Have
you want any money with your gambling shenanigans? Well yeah,
I actually did, actually won the Colton Titans game. That
was a degenerate game at best. Oh my god, that
was good. Blaine. Anytime you see Blaine Gabert, you want

(02:24:02):
to be on the other side of Blaine Gabbert. Now,
you know, MGM John, since you're a gambler, you have
to follow in the footsteps of our friend Eric who
won the super contest at one one point four million
picking NFL games. You eventually have to be that guy
John Oh yeah, I will have to be that guy.
That guy won one point four million. Oh man, that
was crazy of him right there. Yeah. Seventy percent of

(02:24:25):
the games he got right during the season. Seventy percent.
It's an insane amount. Yeah, I mean it's nuts, all right.
I feel like you have nothing to say. You have
something to say? Are you go ahead? Yes? I do
have some baseball news I have is a Bryce Harper
and a Phillies owner are visiting right here in Las Vegas?
Is that right? Now? Do you? How do you know that?

(02:24:46):
You know who owns the Phillies? Who owns the Phillies
Pat Bowen. Now he's not the owner of the Phillies.
He's the Wait what what what you say? His name? Wait? Wait,
hold on, I say what do you say again? I
don't I think there is somebody named, uh well, Dave Montgomery.

(02:25:08):
I think is he What are we doing here? I
don't think he's the owner. I think he sold the team.
I think somebody else is the owner of the I
don't know who is the owner of the Phillies. Why
are we talking about this? I gotta go thank I
gotta go thank you. Then it's a completely crap. I

(02:25:30):
think he said Pat Boland, who's like the old Bronco guy,
right the Yeah yeah, I mean he's sick, but yeah yeah,
I'm gonna go know on that. John Middleton, John Middleton,
how do you make his money? Let's see, I always
want to know how rich people made their money because
I want to be rich. Someday I'm not, but I'd
like to be. Uh. It's a Philadelphia retail tobacco shop

(02:25:55):
that evolved into a manufacturer marketer of giving people cancer. Good.
All right, it's the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. We
will press on the coop scoop on entertainment. We'll get
to that coming up momentarily right now, though, Eddie Garcia
is here from the Geico studios with the latest Eddie.
Let's get you cut up on the happenings on the hardwood.
We'll start with the NBA schedule, just three games, but

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one of them very eventful in Oakland, where the Rockets
and Warriors went toe to toe. It went a little
extra basketball as James Harden had a three pointer, descending
it overtime. Man then he hit the game winning three
pointer as well with a second ago to give the
Rockets to one thirty five, one thirty four victory. Harden
finishing with forty four points, ten rebounds and fifteen is
his fifth straight game for him scoring forty or more points.

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Also an intriguing game in San Antonio. The game wasn't
that great, but it was the return of Kawhi Leonard
back to San Antonio, now with the Toronto Raptors and
being traded in the off season. He had twenty one points,
but the guy traded for him, Demarja Rosen for San Antonio,
his first career triple double and a one twenty five
one oh steven went over the Raptors time well, because
it wasn't a playoff game all right. Derozina had twenty

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one points, fourteen rebounds and eleven assists. Nuggets beat the
Kings one seventeen one thirteen, Denver best record in the
West at twenty six and eleven college basketball five ranked
teams in action, including number two Michigan. They beat Penn
State sixty eight fifty five Bold Breens or fourteen to
know on the year. A couple other upsets in the
bottom part of the top twenty five in the Big Ten.
Minnesota beats number twenty two, Wisconsin fifty nine to fifty

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two Perdue knocks off twenty fifth rank Iowa eighty six
to seventy wins for a number eighteen Nzy state number
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(02:27:42):
offer on the table from the Chicago White Sox. It's
reportedly he'd be forced to play for the White Sox
for a long time. Will reportedly close to two hundred
million dollars is the deal? I know he's looking for
closer to three hundred million him. How's he going to
pay his bills? I don't know. I don't know. I
weep for him and his relative. You might have to
take out a loan. Two hundred million? Is that? Is

(02:28:03):
that the best offering he's gonna get or he's gonna get? Wow,
that's it. I mean, it's a lot of money, but yes,
it's expecting this three hundred four hundred. Yeah, Bryce Harper,
we we are think about this. This will blow your mind.
What are we about forty days away or so from
spring training starting. That's not true. It's mid February the
pitchers and catchers start spring training, so it's early January.

(02:28:26):
So yeah, I think we're a little over forty days
away from spring training starting. And Bryce Harper and Manny
Machado have still not signed contracts. Interesting, now, what will
they get contracts more than gian Carlo or you think
it's gonna be less than Giancarlo con jan Carlo. Well,
here's the rub on this, Like it seems like the

(02:28:49):
teams they don't want to play for the Phillies of
the White Sox, and those are the teams that are
offering the most money. So we'll find out the Bryce
Harper things. He played for the Oriole So who cares.
That's truelow, blow Eddy, come on, cheap shot. The Orioles
had some great players years ago before our time. Well, yes,
but not anymore. That's a good point. Yeah, all right. So,
and he was part of the demise of the Oris
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The Coop Scoop on entertainment, justin Cooper Direct from Hollywood.
What's going on in entertainment? Cooper Loop, Netflix? And I'm

(02:29:31):
looking for new documentaries to watch? All that? Well, Ben,
I'm sorry to report that as far as new premiers
this weekend, yeah, nothing, both TV and movies. Nothing really
to write home about. Why is that? Is that because
people aren't watching TV this weekend, they're still out doing stuff.
It might have something that I don't know about as
far as like movies go, but it might have that

(02:29:52):
might it might also involve that, But it might have
something to do with the Golden Globes On Sunday. Everyone's
gonna be watching the Golden Goals. Nobody's gonna be watching
the Golden Globes. But that's the only thing that I
can point to. Really. I mean, there's there's stuff premiering,
but interesting, No Golden Girls, gold But I'm gonna give
you a few pieces of entertainment news. Now you might

(02:30:15):
remember a few weeks back, I talked about how Kevin
Hart they were trying to find somebody to host the Oscars,
and Kevin Hart had he made some comedian made offensive jokes,
so he's got to be banned, yeah, god forbidden. Well
he he comedy is dead. He stepped down because the
Academy had asked him to apologize, and he didn't want

(02:30:38):
to apologize, so he said, rather not a host. But
I guess now the reports are that he is. He's
reevaluating his decision because yes, apparently he did do like
a forced apology, right so yeah, um, and then now Ellen,
I guess Ellen DeGeneres called the Academy on his bath calls,

(02:31:01):
right yeah, so now now we'll see maybe maybe he
might still go ahead and do that. Yeah and uh yeah.
Other than that, a couple of other newsworthy things. If
you're a fan for you female listeners, all all four
of you, if you like the notebook, apparently that is
going to become a Broadway musical. I had one. When

(02:31:22):
I was in school, I had a notebook and no,
not not a notebook, the notebook North Elementary. I had one.
Oh oh, okay, okay, yes, yeah, have you seen the notebook, Coop.
Of course I've seen a notebook? Yes, have you ready?
You haven't, I'm not No, I'm not either. I figured
anybody with a girlfriend or a wife has seen the notebook.
I don't think my wife has seen it. Wow, my

(02:31:42):
wife probably has, but I picked my she picks her
spots with me. I'm not. I've not had to see that.
So all right, and that is an abbreviated Coop Scoop entertainment.
All right, thank you for that Cooper loop right there,
give me the inside skinny. You heard it here, Coop,
said Kevin Hart, reevaluating thes that means he's gonna do it?

(02:32:04):
Yea und percent? Right? Will he then make He'll then
make self effacing jokes of us. Yeah, okay, and people
will laugh and Hollywood will celebrate him and how great
he is. How about that Madonna's story? You see that story.
There were some photos of Madonna on New Year's somewhere
over New Year's and had a gigantic buttocks and people
were making a video about that, like fake did she get?

(02:32:25):
Do you think she got? Implants? Probably? Really? Yeah? Like
like like fake man Madonna's ass anymore? Well, years ago
you would have loved to. But yeah, yeah, I don't
know how old is Madonna. She's gotta be getting up there, right,
how old is she gotta be fifty fifty five at least? Right?

(02:32:49):
She was the material girl back in the back in
the day. Oh she's sixty. Oh wow, Wow, that's close
to fifty five. It's over fifty five. Yeah, I don't
really care. I mean, if she got didn't plast great,
But if she just has a big butt, I good
for her. You know, I don't mind the big butt.
I'm cool with that. That's fine. Yeah, nothing wrong with it.
Good God girl. I believe that was one of those

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songs that was sung at the Ben Maller Ugly Sweater part.
I don't want to I'm not kidding. Yeah, I know.
I didn't take part in some of some of the
some of the missus friends there a listener. I think
this was Brad in Minnesota. Do you see this story?
This ten year old girl was very angry because the
Vikings lost to the Chicago Bears and they didn't make

(02:33:32):
the playoffs and Kirk Cousins didn't play all that well.
So she wrote a letter. Now, I don't know if
this is true or not, but it popped up on
Twitter and it actually made the newspaper. The Star Tribune
ran a story about this and the child. The ten
year old girl is blaming sleep number. She she wrote.

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a letter and she said, dude, sleep number. As you know,
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for games and can't perform at his best. You're gonna

(02:34:18):
set this girl straight. Yes, that's why I'm here. Let
me tell you something, young lady. Okay, you listen to
Uncle Ben. You are completely wrong. The reason that Kirk
Cousins got that record set in contract with the Vikings
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level is because of sleep number. Now you're not old. Now,

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me tell you something, Marissa, I pray that you become
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Who will be our first winner? Oh God, I hope
we can find out. Let's welcome in our contestants. First
of all, from the great state of Vermont. We say
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(02:38:21):
on a second, I don't hear Tom. Put him on
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on line five. Let's go to Jared in Cansa City. Hello, Jared,
good morning, being happy new Year. Look go Chiefs there.
They will not lose this week and Andy Reid cannot
blow it for the Chiefs this weekend. Exactly. We got

(02:38:43):
the buye who you got the streaking. I believe the
Chiefs will win. I've got the Rams, the Saints and
the Patriots all undefeated this weekend. N Yeah, all right,
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(02:39:04):
and Jacksonville. Hello, Brian, Hello, I'm here. I'm forcing you
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that's a good living. You live the good life you've
now You've is retirement everything you thought it would be. Ah, yeah, yes,

(02:39:28):
that's good. I want to I want to. I hope
to retire someday, so I hope to live your life
that you're living right now. All right, well, Brian, good luck.
Hold on a segment with Brian and Jared in Kansas City.
Jared's a regularly. Categories are Alumni Association, change of scenery,
and euro trip Jared, where do you want to go up?
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from Europe. Your name is your buzzer for two hundred dollars.
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on the Spurs. This twenty o two Rookie of the
Year helped Kobe get a couple of rings where Jared
Tony Parker, Well, i've some they played with the Lakers. No,
that is incorrect, Brian, would you like to steal twenty
or two Rookie of the Year helped Kobe get a
couple of rings when he was with the Lakers? What year? Yeah,

(02:40:34):
Currently he's on the Spurs. He's a twenty o two
Rookie of the Year. I don't know, all right, Pauga
Saul h might as well have. Yeah, alright, six hundred
dollars born. We know Tony Parker's not on the Spurs anymore, Jared,
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(02:40:54):
this running back started his career with the Dolphins only
a few years ago and is now with defending champion Eagles.
Was traded during the Super Bowl season. Jared, Yes, Jared?
Uh that that? Oh yeah, you're right, Jedi A yeah,
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(02:41:17):
Jia is correct. Eight hundred dollars. Nicknamed the Great Dane,
this Hall of Fame Hall of Famer born in Denmark,
is the NFL's career leader in points scored. He's a kicker.
Oh yeah, wait, played for thirty years at a weird
face mask alright? Uh no, Morton Anderson was who we

(02:41:39):
were looking? Were Morton Anderson? All right? Last one in
this category. Hall of Famer was born in the Netherlands.
Spent twenty two seasons in the major leagues. He's best
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(02:41:59):
not a chance? Yeah, Bert Bli eleven. Burt Bli eleven.
You know what, I'm gonna end this. Uh, Bryan, I
forced you to play. Thank you, Jared. You have no excuse.
You called up to play this. Bad job by you.
But boy, we gotta do better. I mean, what are
we doing. Did anyone win that? No? Somebody won. No,

(02:42:20):
they're no winners. We gotta do better or we're gonna
get end. Baalded, I'm done. That's it. You know, I's
gotta murder, gotta go, We gotta go

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