Eggs N' Things

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We got a lot of compe storylines in the NFL
this weekend as we head into the divisional round of
the playoffs, beginning in Arrowhead Stadium, where Patrick Mahomes attempts

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to handle the pressure cooker that is the NFL Playoffs.
We've saw We've seen in the playoffs so far. Deshaun
Watson vomit all over the field while giving the first
down gesture, Hey, I got a first down. By twenty
one points, the Texans got a first down? What a dope,
Lamar Jackson, who looks like you should be playing junior

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college football somewhere rather than the NFL the first three
quarters of that game against the Chargers. But as far
as this week and can Patrick Mahomes handled the pressure
of Kansas City? Does Nick Foles have another rabbit he
can pull out of his Eagles helmet. Tom Brady trying
to find the Patriots fountain of youth again against the

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Chargers in the New England Arctics can be under thirty
degrees on Sunday in Foxborough, but they've taken the snow
out of forecast. The most interesting subplot is in Los
Angeles this weekend, Rams Cowboys. Now, do you know what
it is? Do you know what the angle is here?
That is the most interesting thing about that game. I

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want to see if you're on the same wavelength and
I'm on, let's see if we've connected our minds together.
What is it? It is the curious case of Sean
McVeigh versus Jason Garrett. You have the players on the field,
which obviously will actually decide the game. But the coaching
part of this is fascinating to me, the XS and

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o's Battle Royal, the strategy part of it. The Rams
coach Sean McVeigh is in his second playoff appearance here
and against America's team. It's gonna be the big game
on Fox. You know it's the big game because Joe
Buck and Troy Aikman are doing it. They're not doing
the game on Sunday. They're doing the game on Saturday
night in LA. That's the game that Fox thinks is

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going to get the biggest rating this weekend. Otherwise, Joe backin,
Troy Achmobe at Philadelphia in New Orleans, they're not. They
expect Rams and Cowboys to be the biggest game this weekend.
So we understand that. But I want to frame of
this one the story within the story here, and the

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question is this Rams Cowboys. Is it a bigger game
for Sean McVeigh or a bigger game for Jason Garrett
knowing that the winner is a win away from the
Super Bowl during the conference championship game. So now the
answer here is McVeigh all day, it is a bigger

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game for Sean McVeigh. And it's not even close. It's
not even close. We've got the plot twist, the sock
puppet and the express train, and we will tie all
us together. Now, Hey, Sean McVeigh, this is one thing
that every man, woman and child can agree with. It
like the NFL even a little bit. Sean McVay is

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the chosen one. Sean McVay is the golden boy of
the NFL. It was not supposed to be this way.
When he got hired, everyone's like, oh, the Rams hiring,
hiring a millennial. What are the Rams doing? And in
the span of a couple of years, McVey he has
everything the NFL wants, youth, good looks, He's had success, offensively, offensive, genius.

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He fixed a failed broken quarterback Jared Goff, who looked
like he should be working at a country club rather
than playing in the NFL, and has become a productive
top ten quarterback in the league Jared Goff over the
last couple of years. So McVeagh is living the dream.
You cannot turn on state run NFL programming or any

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auxiliary channels that cover the NFL. If you consume media,
there's nowhere you can go where McVeagh is not the
most important person that they talked about, and he thought
about the Rams. It's Sean mcvah. It's not Todd Gurley,
it's not Jared Golf. It's all about Sean McVeagh NFL talking.

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He has loved to rhapsodies. They love to go on
and sing the praises of this guy, Sean McVeagh, like
king and enough of them. Now more importantly, McVeigh is
fond over by owners. If Sean McVay was available this offseason,
there were eight coaching jobs that are open. Apparently there's
only one left to Miami Dolfins. But if McVeigh had

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been available as a free agent, who who would have
gone after? At least half the teams? We know because
they hired disciples of Sean McVeagh. All right, I mean
you go down the list here and it's like, well,
we try to get somebody in the Sean McVay mold.
So that's what they were trying to do. But listen, McVeigh,

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it is pure madness what has gone on here with
Cliff Kingsbury with the Cardinals, because hey, he once had
lunch with Sean McVeigh, right, Jack Taylor has apparently been selected.
It hasn't been officially announced, but it's being report of
the Zack Taylor is the Rams quarterback coach, is going
to be the head coach of the Bengals, which will

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make people clamor for Marvin Lewis to come back. Matt Lafleur,
who used to coach with the Rams, is now the
coach of the Green Bay Packers, And in some roundabout way,
because of the quarterback whisperer angle, which everyone likes to
repeat here, it's the popular term this coaching circle. That
Adam Gase was hired by the Jets in part, not

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necessarily because he knew Sean McVay, but Peyton Manning called
the Jets owner. But it's really about that he's still
a younger guy. He was supposed to be Sean McVay.
Adam Gase was supposed to be what Sean McVay has become,
but it didn't happen, and it's not going to happen
with the Jets. But here's the thing. This is the

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rub the dream that Sean McVay is living right now
will become a nightmare in the snap of a game
on Sunday or Saturday night rather in La at the
Kyles Seum. Sean mcvay's unnoticed. Consider this a friendly sports
talk radio warning. You better beat the Cowboys. You have

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to beat the Dallas Cowboys. And I don't want to
overstate this in hyperbole, but if you start your coaching
career oh and two in the postseason with both losses
coming at home in games you're favored by a touchdown
in you know what that is? Myth busting is what

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that is. And the same people who are licking your
toes with effervescent praise are gonna turn on you in
a dime, right to your face. The same people. Sean McVay.
This plot twist, the fairy tale turns into a horror flick.
If McVay loses to the Cowboys on Saturday, desperately needs

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to get that playoff win on Saturday for verification, for
confirmation that all of this early success in the regular
season is not an illusion. We know, listen, coaches and
players are ultimately judged by what teams do in the postseason.
This is a placement test for Sean mcvah and the Ramps.

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He failed the first one said, We'll give him a mulligan.
How many mulligans do you give Sean mcvayh Now, he
has been compared to some of the greats in NFL
coaching circles. The problem is those guys won early in
their career. Bill Belichick's first playoff game was with the
Cleveland Browns and they beat the New England Patriots. When

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Belichick was in Cleveland, they won a wildcard game against
the Patriots. I believe Drew Bledsoe was the quarterback. Vince
Lombardi lost his first playoff game. You know what he
did after that? He won the next two Super Bowls
after that. So Sean McVay wants to win the next
two super Bowls, I'm good with. How about Bill Walsh?
Bill Walsh the legend of the old forty nine ers dynasty.

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He won a Super Bowl his first playoff appearance. Now,
to be fair, that was in a different era of
the NFL. Bill Walsh went two and fourteen his first season,
six and ten his second season. He wouldn't have made
a third season in the NFL today. Now, on the
flip side, you got Marty Schottenheimer, who lost his first
playoff game. He ended up five and thirteen in his

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playoff career and the gold standard Marvin Lewis, who is
still holding a shovel trying to dig his way out
of the hole that he dug for himself with the
Bengals back in the day. But you get the point.
You understand the trolls, and we know who the trolls are.
The trolls will be eating at the flesh of Sean
mcvayh Should the Rams stub their toe against the Cowboys?

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Now we love the Yabbot mob. The Yabbot mob is
gonna be very active rights. Yeah, but what is Sean
McVay one he los, what does he enough? Yeah, but
it's a gimmicky system that won't work in the playoffs. Yeah,
but he's been exposed. Blah blah blah blah blah. All right,

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now PARTE of this Jason Garrett. The reason I'm not
going with Garrett, I'm going with McVeigh. Just laid it out.
But Jason Garrett has had the air let out of
the pressure balloon. Because the Cowboys just won a playoff game.
Garrett wasn't likely gonna be fired anyway. He's a good
soldier for Jerry Jones. He's a sock puppet. Whatever Jerry
Jones wants, this guy does, that's what Jason Garrett does.

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Whatever the owner wants. Now, Cowboys beating the Seahawks on
the Wild Car weekend, that was a pacifier to the
fan base. An NFC title game appearance would be even better.
But Dallas should they lose, and they should lose to
the Rams on Saturday, the cow see him. Dallas can
sell the fact, well, we were much better with the
Mary Cooper and they can say, well, we have a

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full year with the Mary Cooper. The ceiling is unbelievably
high for this cow Boy team and the lad More
players and free agency blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah. You know how that's gonna work.
The last word on this. And I believe the Rams
win on Saturday. I'm just telling you what's gonna happen
if they lois. Sean mcvayh is in danger of becoming

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the NFL's version of Mike dantoni should the Rams stump.
Mike D'Antoni has produced some of the great teams in
the NBA as far as entertainment. You like offensive basketball.
In fact, the D'Antoni system has been stolen by the
Golden State Warriors and all these other teams. They mimic
what Mike D'Antoni originally brought to the NBA. But when

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people talk about D'Antoni, they say his teams underachieve in
the postseason when they get there. Not the Knickson Lakers,
of course, but the other teams when they get to
the postseason, they underachieve. Now, as again, as for the game,
I believe the Rams is gonna be close to believe
the Rams will win the game. LA's got the star
power that has not provided divin ends, and they should

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start paying dividends in this game. I'm talking about you all.
Keep to leave. Marcus Peters. I'm pointing my finger at
you and my friend and Damikan Su who blocked me
on Twitter because I reported he was gonna sign with
the Rams from a listener who gave him the tip. Uh,
you know, screw you go out and make some place.
How about that? All right, go ahead and make a
few tackles and stop blocking me on Twitter. Yes, damn right, Absolutely,

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the Rams will win, But I'm telling if they don't,
the floodgates will open. Here's Sean mc let's here from
Sean McVay. By the way, Now, Sean, I just said
you're gonna win. I'm guessing you think the Rams are
not gonna win. Is that correct? Coach? Do you think
the Rams are gonna lose on Saturday? Is that right?
It's about playing our best football. Really, I'll learned from
the things. And then I also think that you know,

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being into year two. Last year was a great year
for us, being able to win the division. Very fortunate
to be able to do that again. We have a
lot of respect for the Dallas Cowboys, but we expect
to win this game. I think that confidence is something
that's been earned every day by our players, and then
we got to go out and prove it on Saturday night.
It's a great opponent. So is this where I give
Sean McVay my lecture that the word best is a
generic term used in advertising to mean all the as

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good as everyone else in that category. So when you
say we're, you know, the best, play our best, you
just have to play as good as everyone else. Because
I can say I have the world's best sandwich. How
many restaurants I've been all over the country, I travel
all over the country, not out of the the US really
that much. But everywhere I've been there's a world's best turkey, sandwich, pastrami, sandwich, burger,
hot dog, whatever. It might be world's best fetecchini alfredo, right,

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but everyone every town's got You can say it because
you can't get sued because best means as good as all. Anyway,
All right, enough, here's one more from Sean McVay, and
let's let's talk about girls. Let's talk about girls. What
do you say, Sean McVay, It looks like Todd. He
looks like he does great back that we're accustomed to seeing.
He's feeling good, He's had a great week of preparation.
You know, we're expecting him to be ready to go,

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and all things are looking in a very positive direction. Positive.
I like C. J. Anderson. Actually he sucked with these
other teams, but he but he was good. But he's
good at the Broncos a while ago. But then since
then he was like on he was on a prison
island somewhere. No, he played with the he played with
the Raiders and Caroline, but he was in Denver also

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before he was actually good with Denver early in his career.
You don't remember. I remember. It's a bad job by you. No,
I thought you were trying to figure out who he
went to after that. No, he was with Caroline and
I remember was the Raiders like a week or two
or something like that. Anyway, who cares. But he played
well with the Rams. He's looked good with the Rams.
Edmund Dallas, steam Boat, Willie Judas, solid Gold Guards sea

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right over there. I know you're you're reeling from the
potential loss. No, no no, no, no, no, Zach Taylor as
you are. I thought you quarterback of the Rams. I
didn't even know who he is. I have no idea
who Zach Taylor is. I have no idea. Well, you're
not the only one. Sounds like he sounds like he
was in a boy band. Doesn't sound like the name
from a boy band. Kind Yeah. I went to google him,
and the first Zach Taylor that came up is the

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fictional character in the Power Rangers universe. Oh really? Yeah?
And then we had, of course the twelfth President of
the United States, Zachary Taylor. But Zach Taylor, no, k
just just to see. Yeah, I did see that his brother,
Press Taylor is the quarterbacks coach of the Eagles. Really, yeah,

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you like that name press press Taylor, press Taylor. Isn't
that what a Taylor does they? I know that's a
who guess. Yeah, I don't think a Taylor press is.
I don't think they do that. Well, congratulations to Zach Taylor.
Somebody told me that Andy Furman broke that story. Is
that accurate that that was an Andy Furman? I did

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hear that as well? I don't. I didn't. Our friend,
our colleague here at Fox Sports Radio is a complete
load of crop. Right. I want a mature guys. You
got Zach Taylor. I don't know how mature he is.
He's thirty five years old. It's bigger. I don't know
about that. That's you. I'll stay away from that is
enough for me, Okay, good for you. Nothing wrong with that.
I'd rather well around like a woman. Well, here's a question.

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Will will will Andy Furman have Zach Taylor race a horse?
He'll try, He'll try if if he can make a
couple of bucks on it, and he will, that's absolutely
he will, absolutely, he will absolutely do it. So anyway, Well, well,
I don't want to take an calls right now because
I have to tell. I have to tell a tale, Eddie.
You know, every once in a while in life, something happens,

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they're like, oh, man, I can't believe that happened. You're
gonna spin a yarn. Well, well, let's just say there's
a story that is of global attention. It's a story
that the President of the United States has commented on
last couple of days. And I happen to know one
of the main characters in the story a little bit.
Our lives crossed years ago, and I'm fascinated. But I

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think you actually know this person as well, Eddie. So
we have something in common and we can trade stories,
and I think it'll make for compelling radio. It's one
of those things where I was like, I want to
all part of human nature. We don't learn about gossip.
We're all part of human nature is a gossip that
we all do. And so I was like, this scandal,
I want to read more about it. And then you
read more about it, you see a name you recognize,

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and then you're like, holy crap, I knew this person
and anyway, so we'll get to that. We will, yes,
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Maller and you can tweet at and follow me. Eddie Garcia,
the Humble Reporter, sidekick voice of Reason. I'm at Eddie
on Fox and I live from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio studios. It's Ben Maller. So I was hanging out

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just kind of chilling before I started getting ready for
the show, and I'm surfing around and I saw this
headline on the internet and it was a comment that
Donald Trump, President Trump had made about Jeff Bezos, right,
and the story you probably saw this week that the
guy that runs Amazon is getting divorced, right, And Donald

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Trump weighed in on this. He said, it's gonna be
a beauty, that's what he says. Well, I believe Jeff
Bezos is the richest person in the world. He his
wife will become you were just woman, Yes, in the world.
For now, Jeff Bezos is worth a one hundred and
thirty seven million dollars. That will not be the case

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much longer. So anyway, I was like, I was curious
about this because I use Amazon all the time. I
believe Amazon, you know, was very effective for what I
might needs. Stuff just shows up at your house. It
seems pretty reasonable. And yeah, so I use Amazon all
the time. I think most a lot of people do.
So I'm reading the story and then like the headline
comes out and says, well, Jeff Bezos was forced to
announce the divorce because the National Enquirer is who about

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to unload the tawdry details of an eight month affair
that Jeff Bezos was having. So I was like, okay,
well this is now We're getting good. Now we're getting good.
You know. Now, I was like, okay, trying to figure
out how somebody we know is involved in Yeah. So
I'm like, okay, this is great. So I'm I'm like, okay,
let me read. So the story just came out on Thursday,

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Eddy the Nationally Inquirer's story about the eight month affair.
And I'm relatively confident you know this person as well.
I know this person, Jeff Bezos, the guy that runs Amazon,
had an eight month affair, and I believe he's still
with Lauren Sanchez, former v personality Laurens who I dealt
with a little bit when she covered the Lakers and

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la sports law, you know, twenty years ago when Shaq
was playing and Cole will be at the Forum before
Staples Center, and I've some we we interacted a few times,
not that much, but I recall I have a few stories.
It's just amazing. So did you you worked at Fox, Eddy,
did you work there when we were around her when
she's there? Yes, I was, and I'm she was a

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reporter in the field. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, and I
was in the field I was at I was a reporter,
radio reporter, making much less money. Uh, and I didn't
have players googling and augling me like yeah man, she's
a lovely lady in my apologies tour. So yeah, so
I know her a little bit years ago. I did,
and Eddie worked with her, and she's had an affair,

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according to the National Choir, with Jeff Bezos. And remember
her famous blooper when she did LATV she was Remember
that scene in Anchorman where you know, put anything on
the teleprompter and they'll read it. You know that famous
scene from Agerman Yes, um san diego? Yeah yeah, yeah
at the end there. Yeah, well is it wasn't Laurence
Sanchez's most famous blue She had a lot of bloopers

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back in her, but wasn't it. Jimmy Connors is the
greatest tennis player of his e r A. Remember that one.
That was a great one. And I gave her she
must be the most. She must be, guys, cannot avoid
everyone's trying to hit on her. Jeff Bezos, he gave up.
Think about how much money this guy's gonna write. Write

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a check for or however, I don't know how they this.
She has a lot of work done, though back then
she didn't. I don't know, no, no, yeah, but you're
talking about what sixty billion, seventy billion dollars that that?
Could it possibly be that good? Could it not? I mean,

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thought he could get away with it. I'm sure I'm
sure she was not the first that he ever. Uh well,
she has a kid with Tony Gonzalez, who was R
TB commentator, And I don't know. I mean, it's just
a very interesting to me. It was very interesting because
when you see the name and I'm like, I want
to look the only reason I looked like Trump made
that comment. I was like, I want to see what
happened next. And then I see this, I'm oh my god,

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I mean I was I was like, Wow, that's crazy.
I'm gonna have to text some friends about that. Yeah. Yeah,
you see, if you can find something out there, you
are the reporter, as you said, there, Eddie and they
I'm just reading the New York Post, page six. They've
got a story that's out overnight, and it says Jeff
Bezos sent a picture to his of his privates and
other sleazy selfies to Lawrence Sanchez. Can you get him

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on Amazon now? It sounds like a good time. Yeah, Well,
I guess I don't know. But they were good for her.
You know, she's she's going for it. But to man,
now that is that's great. Set the set, the close
up of it. This is the New York Post close
up of his junk and several shirtless shots to TV

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anchor Laurence Sanchez months before the new couple says they
started dating in the fall. All right, so are they
still together? I believe they are. Oh yeah, for her, wow, gosh,
she's she's gonna be one of the richest people. Also
that you think Bezos is gonna get a prenup though, right,
I would think so. And for those of you saying, well,
this is not a sports story. She has Tony Gonzalez

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a kid. It doesn't get any more of a sports
story than that. She's a former sports report. Yeah, and
she she definitely benefited from that. But the man, that
is wow. Women at I don't feel like you have
to say it. I feel like you don't have the
same reaction that I had. My I like my jaw
drop when I saw that name. I'm like well, he
probably had an affair with some you know, twenty two

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year old model from Brazil. I will say this, if
I happened to just be reading the story and saw
that it would have but you kind of let the
cat out of the bag a little bit that this
was someone that we knew, so it wasn't as shocking.
So I did a bad job by saying that that
it would have been better if I had just kept
the secret a little longer. So I screwed this up.

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As what you're saying, it's a little strong, but it wasn't. Yeah,
it's understandable that it wasn't quite as shocking as I
thought it would be. So you, when you knew Lawrence Sanchez,
you said I wouldn't be shocked if she stopped with
the guy that runned Amazon. You know I would. That
would be accurate. Yea, yes, very I would. I would
tend to agree with you. Anybody, Well, yeah, I don't
think we in these times we can share those stories
on the air. Never mind, But I saw some amazing

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things that he let's just say, yeah, those days at
the Forum. Some of the things that I saw leaving
the forum together, I was amazed. That's all I'll say.
I'm not gonna say anything else. All I will say, Eddie,
is I was there very late as a radio reporter.
Sometimes I was the last one at the Great Western Forum,
and I saw some things. Yeah, party right after party. Oh,
they the Forum Club, legendary, legendary Forum Club. They definitely

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knew Jerry West, not Jerry West, Jerry Buss, the late
Jerry Buss. He knew how to have a party for
everyone there. They had a great time, I'm sure man.
All right, well, I was blown away by that. I
hope you weren't bothered by me sharing the story with you.
We will press on here. It is the Ben Maller
Show on Fox. We will open the lines and take

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a call or two here at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox's eight seven seven nine six three six nine.
We do have Benny versus the Penny coming up in
a little bit. Well, this is another great story eating
like a Horse. We'll get to that, but right now here, Eddie,
all right, did we start with news from the NFL

(25:59):
where the Cincinneta angles. I've reportedly chosen LA Rams quarterbacks
coach Taylor to be their next head coach because the
Rams are still in the playoffs. They can't currently negotiate
a contract with Taylor, but he's thirty five years old
and he has no previous head coaching experience in the NBA.
Four games on the schedule, including a double overtime thriller
in San Antonio where the Spurs beat the Thunder one
fifty four one forty seven, a career nine four San

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Antonio's LaMarcus Aldred who had fifty six points in the
lost Rocloma City Russell Westbrook, he had another triple double
twenty four points, twenty four rebounds and thirteen assists. Nuggets
beat the Clippers one twenty one to one hundred. Ded Or,
the top team in the West, is now one eleven
in a row at home heat over the Celtics one
fifteen to ninety nine, and the Kings down the Pistons
one twelve to one two. Top twenty five college basketball

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second rank Michigan remains undefeated with a seventy nine sixty
nine win at Illinois Wolverines or sixteen and oh then
Virginia the only remaining undefeated teams left in college basketball.
Number five Gonzaga routes specific sixty seven to thirty six
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enjoy a more confident car buying experience. Back to the NFL,
where Art Rooney the second, the president of the Pittsburgh Steelers,
told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and why do you see
r Antonio Brown won't be released, but quote all other
options are on the table end quote, and that ed
quote would be hard to envision Brown as a part
of the team when training gap opens in late July.
Rooney also said that whether the situation can be reconciled

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and we'll have to where we can have him back
on the team next year, We're a long way from
thinking that can happen. We're not closing the door on
anything though at this point. End quote. All right, good
luck to Antonio Brown. And I am still I'm gonna
I'm gonna double down on this. I don't believe Antonio
Brown is gonna be traded. I don't. I saw that story,
I saw those quotes. I still don't buy it. I'll
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It's from the NBA, and this is one of my
favorite stories. This is the kind of a story that

(28:08):
I think I'll remember and I'll repeat. I put this
story in the same category as Smush Parker asking the
coach of the Cavaliers to miss practice so he could
look at real estate in Cleveland. That this this story,
I think it's in that same category. It's not about
real estate, this story, but it's wonderful. So here it is.
This is great. So the New York Knicks have a

(28:30):
center named Enis Cantor. Yeah I know, yeah, Yeah, he's
been around. He's from Turkey. Yeah, from Turkey. Not a
lot of international intrigue there. Yeah. Yeah. People want to
kill him. That's right, that's him. That's en his cancer.
So Enis Cantor said, I guess he's on some weird diet.
So I want to have a cheat day, right, And
so I'm on a weird diet too, So I feel

(28:51):
like I have a connection with enis cancer because I
do this ghasy fasting thing during the week. I eat
one meal a day and that's it my thing, you know,
my sugar, as my mom would say back in the day.
So I saw, I'm into that now. Whatever everyone's got
the thing, that's my thing. So I see that when
I when I hear cheat day, I think, well, maybe
I'll get a cheat day, you know. And so in
his canter after the Knicks got off their road trip,

(29:11):
he posted video of him sitting in some burger joint
in New York and in front of him is a plate.
It's like a tray of French fries and they look delicious.
And then right next to him are three gigantic cheeseburgers
with it covered in like egg. They're covered in egg
and some other things that I can't make out. So

(29:33):
there's three there. And then in front of the three
cheeseburgers covering an egg are one, two, three, four cheeseburgers.
So that let's do the math on that this is
gluttony on steroids. This is three cheeseburgers with eggs like
a full egg, like you know that traditional cartoon egg
with the yellow in the middle and the white around it. Yeah. Yeah,
that's why I think of a cartoon egg. And so

(29:53):
is that what do they call that? How do you
call e? Is it a Friday? I don't know whatever? Fridaygg? Fine?
So that tray not the kind of when you go
to a fast food restaurant and you dine in, you know,
the plastic tray filled with French fries and then four
other hamburgers, seven hamburgers, tray of French fries. That's just
cheat day, my god, way to go. Oh so, no,

(30:15):
that's not I mean, that's great. I'm sure a lot
of NBA players do that. They burnt a lot of
calories playing in the NBA or sitting on the bench
like Enis Canter often does. So guess what the Knicks
announced on Thursday. Enis Canterer was unable to practice because
of illness. He missed work at because of the Barkers.

(30:37):
He had so many delicious burgers and French fries he
couldn't show up to work. Wasn't there somebody who I
know You're gonna know this immediately. There maybe a player
who ate too much candy and couldn't couldn't play was
that test? Was that that sounds that sounds right? I know, Lamar,
he had a candy machine installed in his house. Yeah,

(30:59):
he had a candy machine installs the house. You love candy.
Speaking of candy machines, we have one right here. Well, apparently,
don't say it, Eddie. Don't say it, Eddie and ruin
the fun your party pooper. Apparently it's everything. Really, it's
every what Yeah, huh? Just leave it alone, Eddie. Okay,
this can go on for years. You don't say it. Okay.

(31:21):
I think we're the only people that use the vending machine.
I don't mean anyone else, And I want to rip horse.
I don't examine the trash because I'm not a dumpster diving,
but I happened to see as I walked in in
the trash here at Fox Sports Radio, somebody put about
seventy five percent of a McDonald's French fried container filled
with French fries. You don't, you don't throw away seventy

(31:42):
five percent of fresh fries. And they placed an almost
entirely full cup of coffee, face on, face off at
a boo, take a sip. What a bunch of animals
that work here? Well, you know that from that the fries. No,
but you said a full soda in there? No cup coffee?

(32:04):
Oh no, but there's coffee in it, like there's yeah,
there's the cup is upright and you. It's surrounded by
trash and then right next to us. That is my
biggest pet pee. Wait, wait, wait, hold a second, cool, Eddie, Eddie,
what do you think, Eddie? Why do you think Cooper
eat the fries? Is that what you're saying? Come on, cool,
come on, come on, come on, I mean, let's let's

(32:28):
not the coop. It's not a crazy idea. You found
something upstairs yesterday. You didn't know what it was. It
wasn't you down? And Eddy says Eddie, I don't know
what this is, but I'm going to eat it. Would
you like some? Why don't we just say, Coop, it's
in a plastic container. How about that? We won't call
it a trash get it's in a plat You should
do it. Come on, I'll look at it. Look, he's

(32:52):
gonna look at it, all right, he'll look at it.
We'll find out. Let's take a call you. Coop's gonna
walk in right now, look at it. I'll take ray,
chill and Manabello and well, Coop's gonna go examine the
trash Hello, Rachel and Mantabello, Jilley Dolley. Believe it or not,
I'm walking on it. I never thought I could feel
so good flying on high on a wing and a

(33:16):
player who could it be. Believe it or not, it's
just me. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. By the way,
we even up there, we'd like to update all our affiliates.
Cooper Loo came in, walked behind me while Rachel was
performing performing there that song acapella, and Coop walked in.
He examined the receptacle behind me, and he shook his

(33:41):
head and walked out. It's too close to the coffee.
No but Coop, here's your move. I could smell the
coffee as I approached the trash can, and it made
me queasy. I hate coffee. No, no, but Coop, listen,
all right, what you do? The move here is it's
a it's a am I I'm always an embellishing was I.
That's a full pretty much seventy five percent full containing true.

(34:02):
First of all, it's a violation. No one should do that.
If you're gonna eat McDonald's French fries. Eat the whole
damn thing, or else you don't get the French fries.
A bad job by you. Whoever did that should be
fined by McDonald's. And then number two, Okay, listen to me,
Cooba Loo. That's so full of fries you could pull
some fries in the middle. It's not even touching anything.
They're like just they've just been in there. That's it.
They're not touching the trash. They're just in the middle
of McDonald's container. Yes, yes, right, I'm trying to negotiate

(34:28):
with Cooper ray chump. Sorry, I'm trying to negotiate. Do
you have any advice? How can I get this to happen?
I want to make this happen. Yet the stage is set.
The biggest storyline in La La Land this weekend, Sean McVay,
all the way La Rams fair haired boy will be
the talking point on the lips of half of the
sports media in America and beyond. That's right, you are correct.

(34:49):
See I gave the doomsday scenario because I'm a negative person.
But the positive scenario is the Rams beat the Cowboys
by three touchdowns and they're like, oh my god, Sean
mc May. I'm so happy I hired all of his
buddies to be my coach. That's what's gonna happen. The
quarterback whisper. He he is NFL's millennial pied piper. You

(35:11):
have a way with words. Let me tell you. You
have a way with words, Rachel. You do. You have
a gift. You have a gift. Right now, you're gonna
be watching the RAM game. You'll be checking. I'm got
my computer, my laptop ready. I'm taking notes. Good, you
better take notes. I'll be here to chronicle that, okay,
on Sunday. In the Monday, I will be right here
to chronic and have nothing over us. Ben damn right,

(35:31):
we give better commentary. Absolutely all right. Thank you. I'm
always you are the greatest. Are you so kind? Thank you, Rachel?
Mutual love of society to drops Eddie. You do not
have good eggnowledge, Eddie. Several people have said the eggs
were sunny side up. The cartoon egg is a sunny
side up egg. Getty, Mike, it's not. It's not the

(35:55):
same thing. I don't believe it is music. Mike in
Kansas City says sunny side up, I mean a sunny
side up egg is fried. Yeah. The proper term, the
clinical term, though, is sunny side up. Believe the clinical
term is sunny side up. I think that's right. Potato potato. No,
it's not the same, yeah, Tom writes, He says, listening

(36:17):
as I study economics, What a contrast the cool rationality
of economic decision making in the unhinged madness of Ben Mallock.
What are you talking about, Tom? Just because you're gonna
be more successful to me and make more money than you,
gotta shove it down my face because I'm doing overnight
scroll you, Tom? How about that? See here? So the
real Martin says, So, now, Brett Farven Jeff Bezos have

(36:39):
something in common. They both love to send pictures of
they're junk by phone farm. Didn't lose have his money
over That's a good point. That's a good point, weed
man hippie writes, and he says, Ben, that is not
dumpster diving. That's good food. Jonathan and Philadelphia says, we

(37:00):
need a serious investigation to see who left those uneaten
French fries in the trash. That is a crime against humanity.
I agree, Jonathan. Ernie in Michigan, Ernie the Great oldpiner,
says Ben, there needs to be an investigation that McDonald
fry sacrilege. Well, who could it be? As I know
Jason Smith and Mike Harmony, those guys. Those guys are eaters.

(37:21):
They would eat the whole thing, right, They're not gonna
throw away that much. So who would it could be?
See this couple to suspect the odd couple? Yeah, Rob
Bluck likes to buy McDonald's. Rob do you think Rob Parker?
That's that's Roberto blaming Rob Parker? Yeah, Parker? Who else?
It's either Rob Parker or Broussard, Right, Chris Broussard. I
have just received information on Twitter? What about Jonas? What

(37:43):
the fries are from the show before? So it's from Jason.
They spoke about having it delivered to them. What that's from?
I looked down upon Jay. I respected Jason. I worked
with Jason. I did shows in the early days of
Fox Sports Radio with Jason. I like Mike Harmon. He's
a good person. He shows up to my holiday party

(38:05):
every year. He's a good guy. But I look down
upon them. Now should I text my Harmon asked which
one of them it was? Yeah? I need to know
all right, that's that you can't do that? Caught it up? Yeah,
it's a bad job, all right. See the Ben Mallers
Show off Ohm, I look at the time, we're going
to get too sorry boss, we will get to the

(38:27):
NFL pick him that we might not have time for it.
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(39:15):
of the Broncos he's an old dude. I'm the last
NFL head coach age sixty one or older to get
my first opportunity as a head coach in the National
Football League? Who am I? That is the question and
what is the answer. Let's see page Dan Captain leshe
is going with Don Shula clubber Lange from the Tortilla

(39:37):
Man or Tortilla Mantoni. Who else? Bruce Arians from Rod
Donald Trump, Doobie Tooker from Stoner Marvin mayor mccheees tossed
out by the Little Troller See can't read that jet?
Who fled from Danny and Nashville? Don Zimmer tossed out
by Sean in Portland? George hallis from Jay Scoop Delta

(39:58):
Don from Cardiac Stanley Weeb you weeb you bank? Misspelled
there by Biker Mark or maybe it wasn't miss Tom
Coughlin from the New York Bozo. Here we go, Don
Corriel from Polyde Eddie, what say you, Eddie? Dave McGuinness,
the Great Dave mc ginnis. Know that is incorrect, incorrect,
It is not Bruce Arians. Bruce Arians actually coached the

(40:19):
Colts before, and he got that job before he was
sixty one. It is Rod rust Do you remember Rod
Russ Eddie coach the Patriots in nineteen ninety but one
in fifteen he was sixty two. The next year the
actually it was not to ask she was earlier. Bud
Wilkinson coached the Saint Louis Cardinals. He was sixty two,

(40:41):
and neither one of those guys very good. Do we
even have time. We're gonna push back. You know we're gonna.
We're on the flight back of the NFL. Pick him.
There's a great debate about eggs Eddie on Twitter because
some people are like, well, no, it's it's fried eggs.
Eddie's right. Other people know it's sunnyside up. So we've
created an egg debate. Well, you have Darryl in Wisconsin

(41:01):
says it's a Friday egg, numbnuts, sunny, a sunnyside up
Friday egg. Mike, who's a chef, Daryl, your moron? Mike
and Kansas City says, if somebody tells a chef they
want a Friday egg, they're eight different ways you can
cook a Friday egg. Sunnyside up is much more precise.
Food is my job? Well that I mean, while that
is true. They are all stride eggs. Listen to the chef.

(41:26):
I'm not gonna listen to Darryl, all right, this troll Darryl.
I'm gonna listen to Mike. Mike is a professional chef.
He's a He's performed music on the show for us before.
But that's how you do. If you want the food
prepared properly, you tell the person preparing the food how
you want the food prepared. A murder guy, Why am
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(41:49):
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gonna have the penny in here in a moment. We
also have to get to the NFL pick him. But
many people excited about a wedding proposal, a marriage proposal.

(42:38):
And I'm always a little taken aback by these stories
because people get married all the time, people get divorced
all the time. These things happen in a society and
it's the way the world works. But when famous people
are involved, do we have to micro analyze? Put it
under the microscope and do a whole deal, Do a
whole deal. So the news came out. I assume you
saw this if you pay attention to this kind of stuff,

(43:00):
but maybe not. Mister Heisman Trophy winner, the Golden Boy
of his era, Tim Tebow. That's right, Tim Tebow has
gotten engaged to someone who has a very odd name,
Demi Lee. I believe I'm saying this, Demi Lee Nell Peters.
Did I get that right? Nobody knows who this is,

(43:23):
but it was miss a former Miss Universe, a former
Miss Universe has won the lottery because there was a competition.
And I don't know this one hundred percent, but I
believe there was a competition in the female gender to
try to get Tebow to get to the proposal, and
she has won the contest. So how is Team Tebow's
gonna life? How is this life gonna change. I want

(43:44):
to does he get a prenup? Do you think Tebo
gets a prenup? I'm curious about that. He's got some money,
didn't have a ton of moneyn't do the TV stuff
for a long time, public speaking, that kind of stuff.
Does he do a prenup? Does that? Does that happen?
I don't know. And will he be starting for the
New York Mets by June? That could definitely happen. I

(44:07):
just have to thank my Savior Jesus Christ right absolutely. Now,
if you've been with me a long time, when Tebow
was playing for the Broncos, we had some of our
greatest shows. I recall the Tim Tebow radio roast was
one of the great things we've done here at Fox
Sports Radio. It was wonderful, it was marvelous. We did
a whole forty five minutes of Tim Tebow's ingers, and

(44:30):
it was it was pretty much the Tim Tebow joke thing.
The way it worked. Yet you know those the Chuck
Norris jokes, you know those, It was just pretty much
exchange Chuck Norris for Tim Tebow was pretty much what
it was. And it was hilarious. It was wonderful. And
every once in a while somebody will email me and say, hey,
I remember the Tebow roast, and it makes me happy

(44:52):
because it was one of my favorite things that we've done.
It was hilarious, and I used to give a rundown
of big events, like, for example, I still have I
wrote down the date Tim Tebow turns thirty five years old,
August fourteenth of twenty twenty two. Now, when we started
doing the Tebow countdown, that was a long ass time ago.

(45:12):
It was when he was playing with the Broncos, and
so we said, well, we gotta wait till he's thirty five. Now,
why is thirty five a big age? Because at age
thirty five, Tim Tebow will be old enough to become
the president of the United States. And people assumed at
the time that Tebow was going to go into politics.
He hasn't gone into politics, hasn't happened. He's still got
time to do it, young guy. But so there, so

(45:35):
if he's he turns thirty five in twenty twenty two
and it's early twenty nineteen, let's do some math on that.
So he's what is he thirty two? Is that right? Yeah?
Thirty two? I used Maler math. That's pretty good, right,
tell me you're not I pressed, tell me you're not
impressed with maller Man. I'm very very excited about it. Yeah.
So I'm gonna get to the penny in a moment.
Before I get to the penny, though, and we'll break

(45:57):
down all the games. Likely well take the entire hour,
but it might. It might. Let's get the NFL pick
them on right now. We'll pick a quarterback, are running back,
a wide receiver, two of them in fact, and a
tight end. It's daily fantasy football in this case, weekly

(46:18):
fantasy football, the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. So
you've got the Chiefs, Colts, Rams, Cowboys, Saints, Eagles, Patriots, Chargers.
Those are the games this weekend. And find out who
is going first. Coop, Oh, we're doing that first? Okay, gotcha?

(46:41):
All right? My bad? Edny? Is this my call? Hello? Hello?
Is anyone I know? Coop's not listen? Are you listening?
Coop's not listening? Is anything? Is this working? Am I
being broadcast? Day? I talked about hell's going on? I
just I did. I figured we would be doing it
after Benny any of Yeah, the nhlster hockey really yeah,

(47:05):
but and I was a close second. Were Yeah, you were.
He had two guys that had two goals in an assist.
We gotta get spin. We gotta get spin Max back
so he can be a he was my uh yeah,
like the people were fact checking the president, I had
spin matched the fact check my producers. All right, well, anyway,
let's get to it. Here we go, Eddie, of the
first pick on the NFL pick him. With the number

(47:27):
one pick of the NFL playoff, pick him, I will
select quarterback Andrew Luck terrible first PICKO. We've seen that
Chief's defense doesn't matter who. With my first pick, I
will select quarterback Patrick Mahomes muck. All right, I don't
even care that I am gonna go Ezekiel Elliott, Ezekiel

(47:51):
Ellie against your rams. That's called Gamble's insurance, Eddie, because
if he has a bad game, I don't care. If
he has a good game, I get some benefit out
of it. Rule to the back to back rover too.
I'll go with Alvin Kamara. All right, bad pick by
the uh t Y Hilton t Y Hilton, all right,
very good. Give me Michael Thomas. Yeah, right into the show. Michael,

(48:20):
Well Holidays, a friend of Cooper Loop to you, it's
the NFL. Pick him, Daily Fantasy Fun, Weekly Fantasy Fun. Oh,
here's the steel of the draft. This is gonna win
me the whole thing. Marlin Mack not gonna have it, Eddie,
back to back, Eddie not pressed with the mac attack.
I will take Eric Ebron oo Ebron and Melvin Gordon.

(48:45):
He's shaky, not on my board, Eddie. I didn't have
my list. Cooper Loop, I will go with take your time,
don't mind the clock. Let's go with. I'm Aarti Cooper,
I'm Marin's Emory. Confident about that pick. Yeah, let's see.
Uh give me Travis Kelsey, Travis Kelsey, I'll take him.

(49:10):
Rupert two the back to back Roberto zach Ertz, Right,
you got him? So this? Uh? And Drew Brees Drew Brees,
all right, very good, I will go. I guess I
need my QUARTERBA do I need a quarterback? I need
two more quarter I'll go with Keenan Allen Keenan Allen

(49:33):
Ben What what I was stealing my picks? I just
I decided I don't care about the quarterback, so I'll
just pick the other players. Go ahead, Coop, go ahead,
Um boy, I got great receivers that you guys are screwed.
I got Ezekiel Elliott, Thomas, Keenan Allen and Kelsey. Are
you kidding me? I'll go with I like the dramatic,

(49:57):
who which a stupid ragular pick? Eddie, go ahead to
back to back end time receivers. So let me. Let
me have Tyreek Hill and uh Robert Woods picking a
ram because you can ram it all day, you can
ram it all night, just on Saturday night. Now at
Cooper Loop, your last pick, Coop, I don't know any

(50:17):
of these tight ends. You know one? Yeah, it hasn't
been picked. He's a rather famous title. Antonio Gates. Oh
that's not him. Oh no, that's a bad job by
the Cooper Loop. But that's a good job by me
because I believe in my team. I trust my Teamiel Elliott,

(50:42):
I'm taking Jared Goff, Eddie, I'm taking Jared Goff. He's
gonna put his big boy pants on and shove it
down to throw to Jerry Jones at the Coliseum. Last
pick u al Sean Jeffrey A Shan jeff Alright, there
it is. That's actually not a bad pick all Sean
Jeffrey's played well for the Birds. Nick Folds last couple

(51:03):
of weeks are right there. It is the NFL pick again.
We'd like to let you know if you were not
taking notes, which you probably weren't, the list there is
a stunner. The list is just stunning for my team.
Zeke Elliott, Michael Thomas, Keenan Allen, and Travis Kelsey. You guys,

(51:26):
just give me the win right now. Let's not even
play this. No no, no, no, no, no no no. I
really believe it. Now, this is gonna be This is
gonna be crazy. Ken Allen hadn't do anything though, what
Keenan is not gonna do anything? Oh he's Oh he will,
he will. It is that that game. I know it's
cold and all that, but the keen Keenan Allen will
catch a lot of passes. They will throw him the football.

(51:48):
He will get opportunities there to make a bunch of catches.
All right, it is the Ben Mallers Show on Fox.
We've got to get to the divisional round. It is
Benny versus the Penny. Welcome players, You're welcome. Are you up?
It's time now? Penny versus the penny division around. I

(52:12):
want you to know that in the NFL playoffs, I'm money.
That's what I am. Do you understand that I have
hit documented seventy five percent of my NFL playoff picks
this year. I got three out of the four right
last weekend, and I would have been four for four

(52:33):
if that Lamar Jackson had actually shown up for the
first three quarters of that game against the Chargers. So
what I say, I seventy five percent. I'm like that guy,
the chef guy in Vegas that won them one point
four million. The penny didn't do that well, Cooper Loop.
Now the penny sucks, right, Yeah, it does. Penny was
two and two. Yeah, you lose money. At two and two.

(52:54):
Seventy five percent, you win a lot of money. Three
out of four you win a lot of money, all right.
First up for US, Indianapolis at Kansas City. It's not
on Fox. You don't need to watch Indianapolis ten and
six Kansas City twelve and four. The Colts coming off
that win over Houston, Kansas City coming off vacation. Al
Michaels and Chris Collinsworth will talk the entire time. This

(53:15):
game is on the Chiefs opened a four and a
half point favorite. They are currently favored by five and
a half. The money is relatively even in this particular game.
The pick is in and I'm gonna take Cana City
at home. I'll lay the five and a half and
I'll tell you why. Hey, Indianapolis defense, they don't have

(53:40):
the big dominating individual playmakers. It is the whole, not
the individual. They got a bunch of grinders there. They
face the ultimate test here now. The Colts have allowed
only ten touchdowns through the air the past eight weeks.
But Patrick Mahomes is a different kind of cord. They
played a bunch of stiffs like Dak Prescott, Lane Gabbert, Mariota,

(54:02):
Cody Kessler, Elijah Manning, tan Hill, those guys blow. Mahomes
is your MVP. He's your MVP now. Patio Holmes is
going to take honors as the top player in the
NFL this year. He's the toughest quarterback in the Annapolis's
face since they turned their season around. And going from
DeShawn Watson the Clowns Show Amateur Hour with Deshaun Watson

(54:25):
last week to Patrick Mahomes as an opponent is like
going from freshman to varsity. In terms of competition, I
am going to assume the position that Mahomes will not
succumb to first year quarterback Jitters as far as first
year in the playoffs, so many weapons to exploit the

(54:45):
Colts defense with. I would expect Travis Kelsey, who I
picked in the NFL pick him. I would expect Travis
Kelsey to gouge the Indie defense. In fact, the Colts
have allowed the most receptions and most yards to opposing
tight ends this season. That has been a weak link
in the Colts defense. The weather also is a factor.

(55:07):
You're talking about a dome team. Granted, they do have
some gnarly weather in Indianapolis in the wintertime, but the
snow in the morning in Kansas City and Arrowhead. The
Colts a dome team outdoors, it'll be cloudy and roughly
thirty five degrees that kickoff. Andrew Luck has been shaken
and stirred in the playoffs. This is not a guy

(55:30):
that has dominated for a full game. Even last week
in Houston. That is a typical Andrew Luck playoff performance.
You saw the game, you know what I'm talking about.
In the first half, Andrew Luck had one hundred and
ten passer rating. He went almost two hundred yards in
the first half and two touchdowns. He was wonderful the
first half was great. In the second half Andrew luck

(55:54):
passed for thirty yards had a quarterback rating under forty
percent completion percentage after a halftime. Now, some say it's
hard to imagine that that could possibly take place in
Kansas City. The Chiefs defense is completely inept that. In fact,
the twenty eighteen Chiefs. He's a great stat that I

(56:14):
came across. The twenty eighteen Kansas City Chiefs had allowed
four hundred and twenty one points. That is the most
points ever given up by a team that won ten
games in a single season in NFL history, and the
Chiefs won twelve games giving up that amount of points.
Congratulations to Bob Sutton, the defensive coordinator, for a job

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well done, unless it's not. Now, despite all that, I
am all in on Kansas City to get her done.
In the Andy Reid hecks in the cloud of misery
over Arrowhead Stadium. Since the nineteen seventy merger, the Chiefs
in the playoffs are four and sixteen four as a

(56:58):
two hundred winning percentage. He's another odd thing. You look for.
We always look for patterns as human beings as part
of our nature, right, we look to things that we
can connect together. Here's a stat. All quarterbacks making their
first ever postseason start like Mahomes since the year two
thousand and two twenty two are also four and sixteen

(57:20):
against the spread, So that four and sixteen keeps popping up.
I'm a contrarian. I don't care. I'm taking Kansas City
twenty seven Indianapolis twenty You're funny Penny agrees with the band,
going with the Chiefs, all right, so we take the Chiefs.
We'll get to the rest of the game's three other
games to handicap on Benny versus the Penny and has

(57:43):
always no calls. But we will take your answers on Twitter.
Will ask you some questions. Here's the first one and
you can answer this on Twitter at Ben Mall. Which
player holds the NFL record for the most yards gained
in an NFC divisional round game? Again, which player holds
the record for the most yards game in a divisional

(58:07):
round him? Actually, it's I think it's either NFC or FC.
It's not just It's not just NFC. I think it's both.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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(58:50):
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where we got the Benny versus the Petty will pick

(59:11):
all the other games you've already given you, the Colts
and the chiefs if you want to hear that. If
you missed it, go back and listen to the podcast,
which is available on iTunes, and we'll give you the
rest of the games right now. So, which player holds
the NFL record most yards gained in a divisional round matchup?
That is the question. What is the answer? See if

(59:33):
anybody knows the answer? Everyone thinks they know the answer,
Everyone's got the answer. Captain Cliche is going with his
standard answer. Larry Zonka as his answer. Car Parking coagoes
with Grandpa from the Munsters see page down, page down.
Robin Vegas says, Chuck Schumer's pointy ass knows is the answer? Okay? Interesting?

(59:55):
Julio Jones from Eke Captain Luck guests by Robbie the
Mariner and Falcon fan Joe and San Antonio says it's
got to be the roadrunner. Cordell Stewart from the Happy
Bong Tuker, Who else do we have? Billy White shoes?
Johnson from Mike in the LBC clearly not cheating, barbecuing,
Len is going with Kurt Warner with a C is

(01:00:17):
his answer. Dick Butt Kiss from the Dick poul Account.
Wally is checking in with He's got Marcus Allen as
his answer. Riek is going with Rick Molds is his selection.
Ryan got it right. You can tell he cheated though
it's a bad job by you. Ryan, that's the merit.

(01:00:39):
You're a cheater. You're a cheater, you economics wizard? Or
do you have an answer? Eddie? Did you hear the question? Okay,
it's not Wilbert Montgomery, which she Philly rob guest or
Sean Alexander. Which player holds the NFL record for the
most yards gained in a divisional round matchup? That would
be Eric Dickerson of the Old l i Ams in
nineteen eighty five. Yet he's going at forty eight yards

(01:01:03):
against the Cowboys. Are you listening, Todd Gurley, You've got
to get to two forty nine or two fifty to
break the record. That was a RAM Cowboy game in
nineteen eighty five. This is a RAM Cowboy game in
the year twenty nineteen. Let's get to it. We'll keep
going here. It's Benny versus the Penny Man versus Coin Dallas.

(01:01:23):
They were ten and six during the regular season. The
Los Angeles Rams the most exciting show on Grass thirteen
and three. It's on Fox. You better watch Joe Buck
and Troy acme. The Rams opened a touchdown favorite. It
has stayed the same. The public pretty even on this game.

(01:01:43):
Slight leaned to the Cowboys. I am gonna take the
Cowboys here to cover the seven, and I'll tell you
my thinking behind that number one. This is gambler's insurance.
I want the Rams to beat the Cowboys forty nine
to nothing, but I'm gonna cover myself. Jared Goff, this
is big for him. Jared Goff has shown tendencies of

(01:02:05):
not rising to the occasion in some of these bigger spots,
the Bears game this year, the Falcon playoff game last season.
This is an opportunity to nip that narrative in the
bud that golf is going to be a choke artist.
Now he didn't play that well after the bye week.
The Rams took a step back over their final five
games after they beat the Chiefs and had the week

(01:02:26):
off golf. He only averaged two hundred twenty eight yards
passing per game. He completed less than sixty percent of
his passes. He averaged just six yards per attempt. That sucks,
and he threw more than one touchdown in just one
game after the buy. So this is a big opportunity
for him. We already discussed and go back here on

(01:02:46):
the podcast why this is huge for Sean McVeigh and
he's got a coaching tree bigger than anyone else now
because of this, it's ridiculous, But my advice to the
Rams here, you want to win this game, you run
the ball early with Ty Girly and CJ. Anderson. Make
that a two headed monster and have the runs set
up the pass now number two. Even though it's in La,

(01:03:07):
he say, who cares about the weather in La. The
forecast this weekend is a big storm moving through La.
Temperatures will be in the high fifties to low sixties
at the start. It's an evening game, La time. Rain
showers are going to be taking place. It's gonna be raining,
likely at the Coliseum for this game on Saturday night. Now, meanwhile,
the Cowboys are an enigma. I don't trust the code

(01:03:29):
of Prescott. The Rams defensive stars have to rise on them.
These guys have embellished, embezzled rather why I say the word.
They've embezzled a lot of money and the Rams don't
have much to show for it, right you look at
that big hole they had. Now, Aaron Donald's done his job.
He needs to put his paws all over Zeke Kelly.

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But I'm talking to you, Marcus Peters. I'm talking to you,
A keep to leave, I'm talking to you and Domakan Sue,
the big names have not lived up to their title.
And they have the opportunity. And only they have the opportunity.
I can't do it. They can do it. They have
a chance to rewrite the script the Rams here if
they go on one of these runs like the Colts
did years ago where their defense blew chunks and then

(01:04:12):
they got in the playoffs and they played much better
and all that. If that happens to this Ram team,
who the hell's gonna remember that Marcus Peters was burned
toast for the first eight games of the regular season,
that a keep to Leabe was injured and ineffective, and
in Domi Khan Sue was not as good as advertised.
Nobody will remember that. They'll remember that the Rams won
the Super Bowl. This is your opportunity, A keep to

(01:04:34):
Leab handcuff Amari Cooper in Doma Khan Sue do something
dirty to Dakota Presscott, make him end up in the
injury tent. Not serious though, just in the injury tent.
You know what I'm saying. A bumping the bruce, A
bumping the bruce. Now, the Rams, they did much better
against the past with a keep to lead when he

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came back. It's a weird thing because the offense took
a nosedive. The d defense, the passing defense was much
better the week twelve by in those five games they
allowed two hundred eleven passing yards per game, they had
only allowed five touchdowns had eight interceptions. So this is
on Grandpa Wade Phillips and these players here to get

(01:05:16):
some revenged against Jerry Jones as Wade an old cowboy coach,
and Sean McVeagh can get into the winner's circle. You
can ram it all day, you can ram it all night.
Cowboys are overrated. Rams thirty on a rainy night in La,
Cowboys twenty six. Rams get the the win, Cowboys get

(01:05:38):
the cover. Penny agrees with you again, Ben going with
the Cowboys. Will press on and we get to the
rest of the divisional round card. But right now, here's
another question. See how you do on this Blank holds
the Divisional Round of the NFL postseason record for the
longest touchdown or reception. Blank holds the Divisional Round of

(01:06:03):
the postseason record longest touchdown reception. Now, you only have
a limited time here to send your answer it at
Ben Mallett. We'll get you that in about a minute
and a half. But right now, here's Eddie Garcia to
dazzle you with the latest Eddie and we start with
news from the NFL, where the Cincinnati Bengals have reportedly

(01:06:26):
chosen La Rams quarterbacks coach Zach Taylor to be their
next head coach. Because the Rams are still in the playoffs,
they can't currently negotiate a contract with Taylor. The thirty
five year old has no previous head coaching experience. Four
games on the NBA slate, including a double overtime game
in San Antonio with the Spurs double overtime beat the
Thunder one fifty four one, Aldrich having that game a

(01:06:49):
career high fifty six points for Marcus All. They scored
one hundred and fifty six right, that is one hundred
and fifty four. Oh, it would have been better if
they scored one hundred and fifty six. But still that's great.
That's not bad. Russell Westbrook in the loss, twenty four points,
twenty four rebounds. How many shots did he say? I
don't know how many shots he started. The Nuggets beat
the Clippers one twenty one to one hundred Denver, the
top team in the West is now one eleven in

(01:07:09):
a row at home. That was an intentional loss by
the clipp Is that right? Yes, good move by the
having the Nuggets over confidence. When they play them in
the playoffs, they'll beat them. Another bit of a head
scratching loss for your Celtics, who fell to the Heat
one fifteen to ninety nine. Boss, I knew they would lose,
Eddie because that's a schedule loss. Oh that's the South
Beach thing, South Beach headache. Yeah. And the Kings beat

(01:07:30):
the Pistons one twelve, two, one or two. Your boy
Blake Griffin did not play. He was resting for that one.
He's a delicate little flight. I know, I know they
most of them are top twenty five college basketball. We
had number two Michigan beating Illinois. What what would happen
if I emailed our boss Scotch Shapiro and sitting. I
need I need a rest night. Can you give me
the show off tonight? I don't think he would look
a favorably on probably now. By the way, Michigan again

(01:07:51):
beating Illinois seventy and six nine. Wolverine was sixteen and oh.
The only other team that's undefeated in Division one college
basketball Virginia case you were wondering, and number five Gonzagas
the laughter over Pacific sixty seven two thirty six. How
about those UCLA Bruins man overtime win over Oregon. Wasn't
just an overtime win over Oregon, Eddie. They were down
nine points in the final minute of the game. That

(01:08:14):
is a statistical anomaly. You should have no chance to
win a game when you're down nine points in the
final minute, and the stat geeks the basketball walks say
that is tied for the sixth largest comeback in the
history of Division one men's college basketball. UCLA winning in Eugene.
That's it. That's not college hoops knowledge from you. They're
a big guy. I just looked on the internet, but

(01:08:35):
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story across the world, but police in Las Vegas if
you should a warrant to authority as in Italy to
try to collect the DNA of soccer superstar Christiano Ronaldo

(01:08:58):
in connection with a two thousand nine rape investigation. Catherine
Mayorga claims that Ronaldo raped her in a hotel room
in two thousand and nine at Lae in Vegas. Confirmed
that they opened a criminal investigation on October, and she
filed a civil lawsuit against him in Nevada in September.
He's the five time Player of the Year. Ronaldo has
repeatedly denied the accusation. So well, if she the woman

(01:09:20):
had saved DNA, obviously, right, I mean they have some
she saved some evidence that was left behind. Yeah, but
how do you Yeah, it's one of those things like, yeah,
you're talking about something that happened ten years ago, So
how do you I don't know how you would handle
that in a courtroom. I mean, I would assume that
if this actually happened, Ronaldo will say that was consensual.

(01:09:42):
She's gonna say it wasn't. So this is I believe
in when I went to school, Eddie. That's what he said.
She said, situation right, So the DNA doesn't It only
confirms that they had an intimate act. It doesn't confirm
that he raped her, right. It seems to be logically yes, yeah,
so it's a big deal. Ronaldo's note. I don't think
he's that family as famous here as he's around the world.
But he's worth four hundred and fifty million dollars Eddie,

(01:10:04):
A lot of cash. Yeah, it's a lot of kids.
Not bad. What's his move here? Does he not come
to the United States. He has to come to the
United States, right, because it's a big thing. He's got
to show up. He's got to give his DNA. Right,
he's gonna have to spend some of that money on
lawyers and say, hey, I didn't do it. I had
I looked up with him. While he's certainly spending money
on lawyers, thought about that, Okay, I don't know if
it's something that he can send over in the mail DNA.

(01:10:29):
Will you watch those crime shows the police, the detectives
just go through the trash, is what they do. You know,
they just go through the trash, the cups and hamburger
rappers and French fry packets and things like that, you know,
coffee cups. Yeah, Coop was investigating earlier. We don't have
time to get too deep into this, but somebody left
a coffee cup pretty much full of coffee and some

(01:10:51):
some McDonald's French fries. Judging by Coop's comments, if the
coffee was not there, I do believe he would have
eaten the french fries out of the garbage can. No,
but Coop thinks he knows who left the coffee. Also,
we investigated it. We think we know who left the coffee.
So we're a little upset by that because that's a
pig move, that's a slob move. That's you don't respect
of the people that have to take the trash that

(01:11:12):
out in the sync. Yeah, you're not a pig. And
this person had to walk you see, to leave here,
you have to walk past the kitchen most of the time,
so especially at night here, you have to walk out
that at doors. So all right, thank you. Eddie is
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(01:11:32):
com for a free rate quote. So Blank holds the
divisional round playoff record for the longest touchdown reception. That's
the question wants the answer. Robin Minnesota is going with
Harold Carmichael, Lynn Swan guests by Bob Nelson says who
is ed? Two Tall Jones, Jermaine Curse tossed out by

(01:11:54):
David Barbecuing Lens says Haven Moses, Mercury Morris from Captain Cliche.
That's his answer. Tony got this right, clearly cheating. Bad
job by you, JJ Stokes, good name guests by Adam.
Who else do we have here? Paid? Ikey Woods from
Timmy in Toledo. Hinz Ward tossed out by Cutthroat Lewis

(01:12:17):
See page Dawn, Page Dawn. A smoke runner is still listening.
He used to call in, he hasn't called in and
probably a year or two. He says, how about them bruins.
That's not the answer. Benito Santiago guests by Oscar the
old Padre catcher back in the day. Eddie, do you
have an answer? Easy Ed McCaffrey, Oh, good old easy
d Man. Oh everyone enjoyed easy Head. No, that is incorrect.

(01:12:39):
The correct answer Alvin Harper of the Dallas Cowboys back
in nineteen ninety four in Texas against the Green Bay Packers.
A pass from Troy Aikman, broken Packer defense. That is
a touchdown for the Cowboys. We move on. It's Penny
versus the Penny. Divisional round out of the playoffs. The

(01:13:01):
LA Charges and the New England Patriots, not on Fox,
Not on Fox. The Patriots open to four and a
half point favorite. They are currently favorite by four. The
public is slobbering all over the Charges. They want some
of that electricity. But I'm taking the Patriots. I'm gonna

(01:13:22):
take the Patriots. Now. First of all, it is reasonable
to think that Chargers defense is actually gonna be twisted around,
at least early in this game, into a pretzel. And
if you don't believe me, you watch the game. I'm
telling you that's gonna happen. You go from that gimmick
Ravens offense, that archaic run run run run, run, run around,
run around, run around that offense with the careless, unprepared

(01:13:47):
Lamar Jackson who drowned in the postseason for three quarters
to a seasoned professional drop back passer in Tom Brady
with all that playoff degree you're talking about night and day.
The Chargers is a learning curve there for the Chargers
defense to get their sea legs under him. The Chargers
now have the more talented roster. Everyone keeps repeating that mantra,

(01:14:10):
the Chargers are more talented, but the better team doesn't
always win. The Patriots are proof of that from a
talent standpoint. With Belichick over the last twenty years, this
is gonna be an ugly type of situation for the
Patriots to win this particular game. You create turnover as
you get those hidden yards on special teams. You mix
and match with James White catching passes out about backfield,

(01:14:33):
Sony Michelle running the football. Now, the biggest red flag
for New England is stopping the run. That was their
bugaboo when they had their problems against the Dolphins and
the Steelers. Even though they still should have beaten the
Dolphins in that stiff Adam gaze, that stopping The run
is paramount in any game, but in this game in

(01:14:54):
particular for the Charger. For the Chargers to go down here,
the Patriot's gonna have to contain the running game. You
would sume third down defense also obvious in playoff games. Right,
I get the other team off the field now. Secondly,
they have taken the snow out of the forecast on Sunday,
but it will be below freezing with a cloudy day's

(01:15:15):
twenty nine degrees, but it will be below that in
the second half as the game progresses. In this early
start on Sunday afternoon, the one o'clock game, and that
is New England football weather. It is the early body
clock syndrome on the East Coast for the West Coast
team and other Chargers have done pretty good. In fact,
there's six and one against the spread in early East

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Coast starts under Anthony Lynn, which is impressive. But the
Chargers also won some cold environments. So I don't make
a big deal about the weather because it's not a
snow game. It's not a snow game. But Philip Rivers
has been dreadful. He's only played in four games in
sub thirty weather. That's all those years in San Diego
and now in Carson, California. He's one in three and

(01:15:58):
he hasn't played very well in most of those games.
Tom Brady in cold weather games his teams walked off
the field of winner the twenty three and four I
also tweeted out the stat which got retweeted by one
of the Patriot broadcasters. They loved it so much that
Tom Brady in the four games he played this season
against teams that made the playoffs, the Patriots only played
four games against teams that made the playoffs. Well, first

(01:16:20):
of all, the Patriots won all those games. That's number
one and number two. Tom Brady averaged three hundred yards passing.
He completed almost seventy percent of his passes eight yards
per attempt at a quarterback rating of one hundred and
four point two. Those are elite numbers by Tom Brady.
I'm taking the Patriots here, Patriots twenty three, Chargers seventeen.

(01:16:45):
Penny picking the Patriots. Really, so the penny picked agreed
with me on the first game the chart the Cowboys
and what was the last pick? Now the Patriots? What's
the woman before? Then? The chiefs? Okay, so we read on.
We agree on everything. That's how the penny flips. Uh interesting. Well,

(01:17:07):
we have one game left. Will there be disagreement in
that one game? Will it all come down to that
final game? We'll find out. Here is the last question
of the hour, the instat Trivia. Blank owns the mark
for the most passing yards in a single divisional round game. Again,

(01:17:27):
Blank owns the record for the most passing yards. Think
of all the cartoon numbers that have happened in the
last twenty years in the NFL, Blank owns the mark.
This is not as easy as you think for the
most passing yards in a single divisional weekend game. That
is the Insta Trivia, and the final game will handicap
the Eagles and the Saints will do it all and

(01:17:49):
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the Eagles and the Saints. Here's the question, though, first,
before we get back to the final game, the final opportunity,

(01:18:33):
here's the instant trivia. Blank owns the mark for the
most passing yards in a single divisional weekend game. That
is the question. What is the answer. Let's see here,
page damn good, page down. Jeff is going with He's
a trojan Man. He's going with Jim Slash, Chris Everard Good,
Jim Rome reference there by Jeff nineties Radio. Who else?

(01:18:54):
A Rod the Ambassador to Baker's Field is going with
Norm van Brocklin. Matt Davis from Chris Robbie the Mariner
fan is going with Josh Allen. In the year twenty twenty,
Robin Vegas is the late great super Dave Osborne boomer
Osiason from Timmy Mike from the LBC got it right,
clearly cheating. Bad job by you, Cowboy Killer says it's

(01:19:17):
Mighty Mouse, Diamond Dallas Page from Kent, the Texas Trucker,
Warren Moon from Jay Scoop. All right, Eddie, do you
have an answer? Eddie? I guess the answer is turk Schon,
Turk Schooner. That's a good name. I saw that in
Pop No And our friend Lavelle who covers the Twins
there for the Star, tributing the great writer. He's going

(01:19:38):
with Kurt Warner. Sorry, Lavelle, you're wrong. The correct answer
Bernie Kosar burn Baby Burn back in nineteen eighty six. Yeah,
I was a kid, Eddie. But the Jets and Brown's
played a double overtime game, double all overtime. Bernie Kozer
had four hundred and eighty nine yards. That is still
the record today, all these years later, way back in

(01:20:00):
nineteen eighty six. Let's get to it. Here we go
Philadelphia and New Orleans. The last game it's on Fox.
Eagles nine and seven, Saints thirteen and three. Kevin Burkhardt
and Charles Davis, the guy from Madden. They've got the call.
Madden Football Saints opened in eight point favorite. The line
has stayed the same. The public loves Philadelphia. I love Philadelphia,

(01:20:22):
well not really, but I'm picking them all right, I'm
picking them here. Here's why Philadelphia has been a much
better team since they've played the Saints back in Week eleven.
Drew Brees has gotten worse. I keep hearing the national media,
the mainstream media, the guys during the day say, well,
Drew Brees, he's five and old in his career in
the postseason at the Dome going on and huh, all right,

(01:20:45):
wonderful numbers across the board, but what have you done
for me? Recently? The mainstream media seems to have amnesia.
The last four weeks, Brees has been playing like he's
left handed. His numbers. He's averaging six point four yards
attempt to pass the rating of eighty four point seven.
And you look at his age, he's about to turn forty.
You're like, wait a minute, what's going on here? And

(01:21:07):
b Now, Nick Foles did not put up great numbers
against the Bears. He did on that final drive. He
was great, the great equalizer against the Saints defense for Philadelphia.
Get rid of the ball fast, and Philly has been
able to do that with Nick Foles. And that's that
alone will help you win this game. The Eagles aren't
gonna win the talent matchup. They have to keep the

(01:21:27):
game close to win ugly here. If you're gonna win
the game out right, get those hidden points on special teams,
all those things we talk about in every game. The
Saints haven't been a dominating team since Thanksgiving, right, they
have not played a dominant game since Thanksgiving. They played
the Falcons, who won big in that game. So this
will be a much closer game than the point spread.

(01:21:47):
I'm gonna take the Saints to win, but only by
a field goal. New Orleans twenty seven, Philadelphia twenty four
year final taking the Eagles. Penny picking the Saints, Thank God, hallelujah.
Finally some disagreement by the penny. So, just to recap,
we agreed on every other game. I had the Chiefs,

(01:22:08):
the penny had the Chiefs, says, I had the Cowboys,
and I also had the Patriots, And now I've got
the Eagles, and I'm out of time, so I have
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(01:22:32):
need of knowledge, So one NFL coach had to say
welcome in not about himself, of course, welcome in the
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(01:22:55):
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don't like some of my picks. All right, call up
and tell me tough guy, gonna hide behind your smartphone,
gonna hide behind your keyboard. I know what you're up
right here, look at me now, I'm right over here.

(01:23:19):
But anyway, get to the point, please. So a lot
of coaches have been hired. There's only one job technically,
Oh I guess two technically because Zach Taylor, whoever the
hell that is, is supposed to get the RAMS job
because he followed around and picked up used tissues that
Sean McVay through to the ground. So he's getting that.
That's the common denominator that he gets the job. The

(01:23:42):
Sean McVay factor and the Dolphins still have a coach.
I would assume the position that the Dolphins will make
some kind of leak in the next couple of days
and say, hey, here's our coach. Are they gonna hire
the Patriots defensive coordinator Brian Flores. Is he gonna be
the coach? Are they gonna do that? We will see. So,
speaking of what happened, some of things that happened on Thursday,

(01:24:03):
new Bucks coach Bruce Arians chatting about his tenure in
Tampa and the issue of Jamis Winston came up. Now,
remember that one of the people that seems to know
in Tampa. One of the beliefs by those that in
the know, I should says the proper way to say
it is that the old coach, Coach Cutter, he didn't

(01:24:26):
want Winston is his quarterback. That that's why they kept
going back and forth with the Amish rifle and which
eventually led to his demise. That and a historically bad defense.
So it's reasonable to think that that was a possibility.
And those that seemed to be savvy, that seemed to
be streetwise, believe that the reason that Bruce Arians. One

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of the selling points of Bruce Arians getting the job
in Tampa was the fact that he was willing to
take Jamis Winston on. Well, essentially, what Bruce Arians said
was that Jamis Winston is not the brightest light bulb.
That's essentially what he said. I don't know if you
saw this or not. It's it's pretty good. It's pretty good.

(01:25:08):
I'll catch you up. So here's the quote from Bruce Arians,
the new coach in Tampa. He said, no pressure, no
pressure whatsoever. When you start a sentence by saying no pressure,
no pressure whatsoever, you're then about to provide pressure of
the time we have the audience, okayee. Rather than me
pretend to be Bruce Arians, I do wear those funny
hats like Bruce. I like that that Cabby hat. They

(01:25:31):
call it a Cabby hat, right, I have a couple
of those. Now. I'm upping my cap game is what
I'm doing. Absolutely all right. Well, let's go to the
audio tape. Here's Bruce Arians the quote I am referring
to Bruce Arians talking about Jamis Winston, no pressure whatsoever.
I wanted to relax and play the game. Talent's no issue.
It's just becoming a little bit smarter. He's gonna be
coached as well as I think he's ever been, and

(01:25:53):
more prepared than he's ever been. It's his team, and
I'll tell our players in the first meeting this isn't
my team, it's your team. Will be as as you
want to be. I think it'd be arrogance. That's statement,
Bruce Arians, is God's gift. Can we play that again?
I didn't hear that last part, Bruce. Listen to Bruce Arians.

(01:26:14):
You talk about a cocky individual. Listen to this guy,
no pressure whatsoever. I wanted to relax and play the game.
Talent's no issue, it's just becoming a little bit smarter.
He's gonna be coached as well as I think he's
ever been, and more prepared than he's ever been. It's
his team, and I'll tell our players in the first
meeting this isn't my team, it's your team. Will be
as good as you want to be. Well, See, that

(01:26:35):
sounded bad, but technically he said he'll be coached as
well as he's ever been coached. It sounds like he's
saying better, but he said as well. It didn't. It
sound like he was attacking Lovey Smith and Dirt Cutter.
It sounded to me like he was attacking those two guys.
But the money part of that quote was the line
there that talent is no issue. It's just becoming a
little bit smarter. He's questioning the intelligence of Jameis Winston.

(01:27:00):
So let's engage you. Let's talk about this. The question
is what do you make of Bruce arians assessment of
Jamis Winston the football player? Now number one? It's honest, right,
Bruce Arians knows, even though he won't admit it, he
is walking in to a pit of snakes that haven't
eaten in a while and like to eat human flesh.

(01:27:20):
He is doomed as a coach. He is married to
Jamis Winston. If Jamis Winston stinks Bruce Arians does not
have a ten year run in Tampa, He's got four
years tops, and likely only three and maybe only two
as coach of the Buccaneers. So Bruce Arians also understands

(01:27:44):
that Jamis Winston makes bone headed plays. For every laser
that he throws down field where you see, oh my god,
I can't believe me through that. That's a great pass.
I wish he was my quarterback for every one of
those plays. Watching the Bucks over the last couple of years,
and Winston's been there, what has he been there four
years now? In Tampa? You cannot win consistently. You can't

(01:28:10):
do it. Can't win with him, Cannot do it with
guys that make those kind of plays. For every great
thrill that he has, he has a brain fart. You
cannot win and become a postseason team with that kind
of performance. Cannot win with him, cannot coach with him,
can't do it. There's a reason the Buccaneers since Winston
took over have won six, nine, five and five games. Yeah,

(01:28:35):
that is that is not the good, not the good
as they like to say. So. Now, Winston has played
fifty six games fifty six games in his NFL career,
started fifty four of them, and he's got eighty eight
touchdown passes, which sounds pretty good. Eighty eight touchdown passes
in fifty six games. Could be better. He also has
how many interceptions do you think Winston has in fifty

(01:28:58):
eight fifty six games? The answer is fifty eight. How
many fumbles does Jameis Winston have? Thirty eight fumbles? So
let's do the math on that using Maller math. Fifty
eight and thirty eight. That gets us to ninety six turnovers.
Now remember fumbles, not all those were lost, but every
time you fumble, in theory, both teams have an equal

(01:29:19):
opportunity of getting the football. So it's a fumble that's
an opportunity for a turnover. So that is a mind
blowing number. Ninety six ninety six turnovers in fifty six games.
That works out to almost two turnovers by one person

(01:29:40):
per game. In Jamis Winston now number two. Every quarterback
in the NFL is uber talented. So before those call
up and say, oh, but he's you can put up
with the turnovers because he's built like Annas that he
can throw the ball seventy yards in on it, zip
it all right. Because some are more talented than others.

(01:30:01):
But that's that's doesn't matter all these guys. If you're
an NFL starting quarterback outside of Jacksonville and a couple
other places, you can make all the throws. As they say,
the cliche goes, so the most important thing is what
decision making right, knowing when to hold it, when to
throw it, getting rid of the ball quicker. Now, sometimes

(01:30:24):
you can get a little better look at look at
Andrew Luck, Andrew Luck had been terrible, dreadful for years,
and Frank Wright comes in. They make a couple of adjustments,
and suddenly Andrew Luck has been much better at the
things we used to criticize him, at least on this
show we used to have written apart for he's been
much better this season than he had been early in

(01:30:45):
his career. So you can't improve a little bit, But
there's there are limitations to him. The most important thing
is decision making way to throw the ball, when not
to throw the ball. And I don't know how much better,
which has been around four years now, how much better
is he going to get? Even if Winston makes good
decisions for a while and gets off to a good start.
When times get tough, when things go sideways and upside

(01:31:07):
down and topsy turvy and all that, that is when
the bad instincts pop back up and it's like, well,
he's great during the regular season, then getting a playoff
game and it's something goes wrong and then the next
thing you know, turn over there, turn over there, turn
over there, turn over there. All right, last thing here, now,
Bruce arians intimated that he would only come out of
retirement for the right quarterback situation. This is not it.

(01:31:33):
This is not the right quarterback situation. So he was
a liar. Now famous, Jamis is going to give him hardburn.
This is going to be coaching on a tight rope
with Winston, and he's got to make it work. The
unpredictable play of Jamis Winston. While it might get a
little better, I still expect an a ratic quarterback to

(01:31:56):
show up. And this idea that wins then is going
to ascend doesn't mean he's gonna descend. I believe we
know exactly what Jamis Winston is on a game to
game basis. He is a hit or miss quarterback on
a play to play basis, like like a seesaw back
and forth, you don't know which one you're gonna get.

(01:32:18):
All right, m out of the show on Faction while
we got other stuff going on in the NFL. A
friend of the show, and the days before Robert Doo
worked on our show, we were big fans around here
of Chuck Pagano, the old Coats coach Chuck Pagano. Because
Chuck Pagano was pure money. He gave us some of

(01:32:38):
our favorite drops in different periods of the show. It's
not trigonometry and it was just marvelous. Well, now there
is a beating war on Chuck Pagano, not as a
head coach, but as a defensive coordinator, and he is
being wooed by multiple teams, the Cardinals and Browns and

(01:33:00):
who else. The Chicago Bears are interested, and there's said
to be some other teams also They could be interested
in Chuck Pagano as the defensive guru, but reports out
of Chicago indicating that the team is debating. They like Pagano,
but they could promote from within, but Pagano is getting

(01:33:21):
looks all over the place. He also interviewed for some
head coaching jobs. He interviewed for the Packer job and
the Bronco job, and that I would have praised the
Broncos had they hired Chuck Pagano, but instead I had
to kill him because the Vic Fangio, who they did
hire as the coach. We say hello to Edmund Dallas, Steamboat,
Willie Judas, Solid Gold Guarcia, and we will take some

(01:33:42):
calls here we haven't taken. I think we've taken one
call so far because we had a lot of stuff
to do. If you want to be Part eight, seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine
nine six sixty three six nine. You can be part
of the show. It's exciting, Eddie, so exciting to be
on the radio. Here we are, that's for sure. I'm still,
you know, investigating the egg discussion we had earlier in

(01:34:05):
the show, very heated discussion. Nah, music, Mike is my consultant,
he's my personal Yeah, this is a little bit. I
mean they're saying that, you know, over easy, over medium, overhard,
it's just all you know, different degrees of how long
you cook the egg a little bit, it's still the
same thing. Yeah. This started because we told the story

(01:34:27):
of a basketball player named En his canter for the Knicks.
You can go back and hear the whole story. But
he had a lot of food and on his burgers,
three of his seven burgers he had eggs on and
I tried to describe the egg and so I said, cartoon,
like the eggs you see in a cartoon. That's the
way with the white on the outside and the yellow

(01:34:47):
the yolk in the middle of Yeah, and Eddie said fried,
that's fried egg. And then immediately we had people saying
pushing back, no, that's a sunny side up. That's not
a fried egg. That's you know so and so we've
gone back in fourth. The other terms as Edie just mentioned,
have been used here, so there's a lot of drama.
I'm standing firm on my fried egg. I'm not. I

(01:35:08):
I like overeasy like you know, sunnyside I get if
you cook it. Someone says, maybe they want it, like
you with your steak. You like your steak burned. I
like my medium rare, but we're still eating a steak.
It doesn't it's not ways of describing when I eat
my eggs. If you ever prepare me eggs, I like
them scrambled and well done, burned with a little cheese

(01:35:31):
on top. That's how I like my eggs. Well, what
is it with you? And burn? Burn my food? Like
your toast burnt too? No medium on the toast. I
don't really eat toast, but medium on the toad. When
I used to eat there's a lot of butter too
so or great burnt egg? No, well you it's scrambled

(01:35:51):
eggs and it's well done. My mom used to make
me omelets when I was a little kid, and I said,
I want my omelet. Well done with the cheese in
the middle. Why looking at me like that. I don't
look at me like because you said burnt egg. I
never never heard of burntal. I don't know burns the
right well done, starting to show the burning process. Do
you like a little hint of this is that when

(01:36:13):
you know it's ready to go? Like, yeah, a little bit?
You know? Did you see the this actually our show
popped into my head when I saw this story. Did
you see what Facebook? His band Eddie? Something that we
got on the show. Something a listener sent to us
on the show has been banned as a violation of

(01:36:34):
company policy for nudity. Something someone sent up. Yes, yes, Eddie,
Oh boy? Uh was it that weird visor thing that
the woman that got Donald Sterling in trouble? Uh no, no, no, no, no, Yeah,
that was good. I remember that. That was fun. We

(01:36:54):
got to remember we all got those visors. That was giant.
That was before Roberto we Yeah, Giant was in the
our whole face believe that was in the Jake Warner
days back in Yeah, it was a long time ago.
But yeah, Mary, the woman that was with the Donald
Sterling there, she had advisor covering her face and we
we got some of those and we took some pictures.
But no, um, I'll give you the name of the

(01:37:16):
caller that sent us this. Barbara in New Orleans. Oh
the baby cake, Yeah, yeah, the kincake. That little baby
in the kincake is yeah, it's inappropriate. It's a naked baby, eddie.
You can't have a naked baby on Facebook. Cannot do it.
That's child porn. So they yeah, king the people that

(01:37:38):
make kincake. They announced on Facebook that this the way
if you're not from the south of New Orleans. We
I didn't really know much, but I knew kincakes. I
didn't know about this until people started bringing it up.
But they have the kincakes and they it's part of
the tradition, like Marti Gras, they have the little what
do you call it, eddie? I forget what you call it?
Plastic baby, but yeah, that's what it is. But I

(01:37:58):
don't know there's a term for it. But anyway, they
have the it's a little baby in the cake, and
then whoever gets that, the tradition is has to then
buy the next cake. Yeah, and you got the baby
and I've gotten new cake. Really yeah, Okay, whoever gets
the baby's got a half food for everybody. Yeah, remember
we ate a lot of the cake, and we were
worried that one of us had consumed the baby, that

(01:38:20):
we had eaten the baby, and we were concerned that
we might have an issue there. But anyway, on Facebook
announced that that according to to or Or, the company
that makes the cake announced that Facebook notify them that
the King Cake is offense a violation. Come on, yeah,
says this running because includes an image or video depicting

(01:38:40):
excessive skin or nudity, which includes medical diagrams depicting external
organs of reproduction, breasts or butt. This kind of material
is sensitive in nature, Facebook said, and then it says
what to do next, remove any images or video they
contain nudity. So Facebook is offended by the little baby

(01:39:03):
doll in the case. I don't recall I didn't I
don't remember looking at it that closely. But I don't
recall the the baby and the baby cake having you know,
all the baby parts. Yeah, it doesn't baby junk. I
don't recall that at all. I didn't examine the junk,
but I think you would notice that right if there,
you would likely notice that that would be something you
would notice. I would think, I think he's, Oh, look

(01:39:24):
at that. That's interesting. Why is that there? Yeah, you
could say that right when you say that, I think
you would say that would be naturally we would re
actually be a little surprised if that was you know,
that detailed. Yeah. Interesting? All right, So be junk Facebook. Yes,
good job by you. All right, It's Ben Mallers Show
on Fox. We press on here. We'll take some calls.
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You know that move in college basketball where team will

(01:40:51):
hire a player's dad or coach so that you can
land him as a recruit. Yeah, yeah, it's happening in baseball,
Eddie all right, Yes, report out overnight in Philadelphia, Bryce Harper,
the Phillies have hired many Machado's mentor, as they're one
of their coaches. The sign man. Yeah, I'm not making

(01:41:14):
this up. Somebody named, let's see, Bobby Dickerson. You ever
heard of him. No, he's an infield coach, one of
those names. It's kind of generic. Yeah, he is. He's
known Manny Machado since he was sixteen years old. He
was fired after the Orioles had a biblically bad season
in Baltimore last year. So the Phillies have confirmed they
have hired Manny Machado's mentor is doing this because the

(01:41:37):
White Hawks, uh signed all of Machados. You pick your
friends or your mentor. Yeah, yeah, tough, And then he
feels not sure if the Yankees were actually doing it.
But I did see a story about Machado's wife was
really wanted to go to New York. Really. Yeah, it's
expensive there though, you know the wife doesn't care about

(01:41:59):
Bryce Harper is going to meet this weekend with the Phillies.
Spring training starts in a month from tomorrow, and get
Homer Bailey still on the Dodgers. He's not gonna make
the No, they're gonna get rid of Homer Bailey. They
haven't done anything though. The Dodgers they got rid of
They got rid of that salary so they could spend

(01:42:19):
it somewhere else. But they haven't spent it yet. They
don't have to because fans are happy that they went
to the World Series still using their own Yeah. They
keep raising the prices though at Dodger Stadium. It's obscene. Man,
they used to prices aren't going down. They used to
brag about that years ago. Is oh, that your best
deal family value for six dollars? Now it's yeah, thirty five.

(01:42:40):
You can't even look at you. You can't even look
at Dodger Stadium for six mocks. You gotta spend more
of that to even look at the stadium. They charge more.
Let's go to the phones and Greg in Kentucky. But
if before I go to Greg, though, if Manny Machado,
I pray that he signs with the White Sox because
they will be irrelevant. He will hate it. They will suck,
and that would be great. What is going on, Greg

(01:43:01):
in Kentucky? Well, it's twenty four degrees? But other than that, uh,
how much of Lamar Jackson's spectacular performance could be connected
to his wonderlink score? Oh yeah, no, I don't. I'm
not going to attack him for that. He just sucked

(01:43:22):
at a time you should not have sucked. I don't
think you have to be a genius to play football.
I thank you. By the way, Greg, you don't sound
like the kind of guy should be attacking, all right,
just between oscrag. I mean, I'm not that bright either,

(01:43:44):
But you know, if you're gonna take a shot about
Sloy's wonderlick score, you are. Jeez, it's all that's all
I got. Again, enough, what's your wonderlick score pal, and
I get that it's cold and kintuck, but you don't
even this thing called the heater in your car. So
it's probably seventy degrees or seventy two degrees in your car.

(01:44:06):
It ain't twenty six degrees. Now when you get out
of the car, it's a problem. Let's go to Jordan,
who's in Eddies old stopping ground and Fresno. What's going on? Jordan?
Now we're doing man. I agree with you guys. If
you're gonna take a hint of somebody, you better come
with it, right, thank yeah, right, yeah yeah. So first

(01:44:26):
of all, you need post Eggs are the only way
to go. If you haven't had a poached egg, a
good one, then you don't know that. That's just that's
just what that's what you need to have a post
Yeah I have not had poach Oh god, no, you
guys are missing out. I'll make so good. I will

(01:44:47):
investigate this. I like the cheese egg combo. Is a
good combo, holiday sauce on it. You're good to go.
I'm looking at a picture of a poke poached egg.
It's that does not look good to me. Oh no,
they're delicious. Okay. Second point is, uh, you know when
you were talking about Jamis Winston. Um, I'm a big

(01:45:08):
Russell Wilson fan, and I think Russell Wilson, you know,
obviously you know he's out of the playoffs now, but
if I bet you if you line up those same
stats and within the last I think Wilson was drafted
I think two or three years prior to Winston. But
you know, Wilson just wins. He just he goes out

(01:45:28):
there and he just he might throw for less yardage,
he might throw for everything. But I'd be interested to
see if you put those guys turnovers stats back to
back and see what they did. And uh, you know,
thanks so much you guys. You guys do a great job.
I don't know if I've looked up enough stats today
for the week. I don't know that I can do.

(01:45:49):
We want to examine the turnover statistics of Russell Wilson
right now now. But you can do it. Go to
go to Pro football Reference dot com. You can do
all the math there. You don't need some high luten website.
They got everything right there. Postage looks good. Gonna try it, Yeah,
Fluffy Dave brings up a good point. We talked about
the people over at Facebook who banned the people that

(01:46:11):
make the kincake because they have the little baby with
late Clinton was nudity and he said hey, he says, hey, Facebook,
go f yourself, and he's got a picture of a
Barbie doll, which is nude Barbie doll. Yeah, so naked Barbie?
Is that porn? Are we allowed to look at that
naked Barbie? Book says yes? Okay, good, it's the ben
Out Show on Fox. We press on. We'll get to that.

(01:46:32):
What would you do for a hundred thousand dollars? And
Big Band's Lame Jokes of the Week that is also
on our agenda. We'll get there as well. But right
now from the Guico Fox Sports Radio Studios, Eddie Garcia.
Are they gonna hire your mentor, Eddie? To keep you
around here? They're gonna give you a mentor? Who is
my mentor? I don't know who trained you when you

(01:46:53):
got hired? Oh player, I don't even remember. I remember
Smokey Gifford. Maybe maybe I got trained by Andrew Siciliano.
I did, Yeah, roj Grobs rog Yeah, what about you? Roberto?
He just got had a week Ago. I don't remember what.
I think Siciliano has done pretty well for himself. Oh,

(01:47:14):
I go ahead, Eddie, what do you got? We start
with you? Is from the NFL, where these Cincinnati Bengals
have reportedly chosen Allie Rams quarterbacks coach Zach Taylor to
be their next head coach. Because the Rams are still
in the playoffs, they can't currently negotiate day being the Bengals,
a contract with Taylor. He's thirty five years old, no
previous head coaching experience in the NBA. Four games on
the schedule, double overtime in San Antonio with the Spurs

(01:47:36):
beat the Thunder one fifty four, one forty seven. I
was looking at this. How about in the overtime the
two overtimes, Oklahoma City shop thirty percent and Russell Westbrook
did not score in either of the overtimes. How about
that I did not know. Yeah, but the fact who
did score was LaMarcus Aldridge over San Antonio. He had
thirteen in the two overtimes and occur had fifty six
points for him. By the way, speaking of Russell Westbrook,

(01:47:58):
twenty four point, it's twenty four assists. I had been
saying rebounds earlier by mistake thirteen rebounds. In that radio time,
Nuggets beat the Clippers one twenty one to one hundred.
Denver the top team in the West. It's now one
eleven straight at home, head over to Celtic. Nobody cares
about that. I think a lot of people care about
It's the best team in the Western Conference. He Denver
Nuggets takes the Nuggets seriously, he'd beat the Celtics one

(01:48:21):
fifteen ninety nine. So both your teams lost, Ben, And
did you see the Pistons one, Yeah, a couple of
weeks away. Quote hurt Yeah, interesting shock? D you bring
up Lebron James and the Lakers. Top twenty five college basketball.
We had number two Michigan beating Illinois on the road
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(01:49:04):
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Rose of the Timberwolves, and Stephen Fury of the Warriors.
Right now would be You're starting five for the Western
Conference on The voting will end on January twenty first,
so I guess there's still time for Warriors fans to

(01:49:24):
get Durant back of the top five. But can you
imagine Kevin Durant, the pouting that will happen if he
is not a starter for the Western converentary? Yeah, let's
go d Rose, Derek Rose. That's gonna only in hands.
Charles Barklay's position that fans should not vote for the
NBA All Star All Star Game. I just got my

(01:49:46):
I check my email, Leddie. I got an email. As
you know, I am a voter for the John R.
Wooden Award, the most award in all of sport, and
I've just received my mid season Top twenty five. Watch Liz.
The twenty five players in college basketball that I am
supposed to pay more attention to is a John R.
Wooden voter. Oh, they kind of forced the spoon feeds you. Well, No,

(01:50:08):
I can vote for anyone, but they these are these
are players they believe have stood above the pack at
mid season. Zion Williamson at the top of that last
nice I've got, Well, it's not it's in a weird
disjointed uh way. RJ. Barrett of Duke, I see him
on this list. Zion Williamson is a course on there. Uh,
there's Danny and Nashville will be happy. There's a couple

(01:50:30):
of Tennessee players Grant Williamson's or Williams rather than on there.
Uh so yeah, I don't think we can read all
twenty five, but there's a lot. There's a there's a
good list of names. So these are the these are
the names. I'll try to watch a couple of games
during the week. I don't talk college basketball and the
show to the tournament, but we'll check out a couple
of these games. Taco falls on there. Taco falls, Yeah,
you don't know Taco falls. I don't see him seven

(01:50:53):
foot six from Central Florida. Bowl ball is not on
here either. He's hurt. Yeah, he's done. No both bull
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(01:51:14):
way across a big body of water and we say
to that We say hello to that guy in Japan,
and he's listening in Japan. He's called before. I'm a
nice So he just says that guy in Japan, Hello,
that guy in Japan, Hey, how's it going. What's going
on with you? How's life treating you in Japan? Well,
I'm cashing a golden ticket. I thought, you know, since

(01:51:36):
you gave me one, I've been listening. It was not time.
We talked about mince meat. Remember mince pies? And yeah,
I remember that, I recall. Yeah, we had a good conversation. Yeah,
so you were talking about eggs. Ly, Oh you want
to you just want to call talking about food? Is
that what you want to do? You want to talk
about food? We talked about mince meat. Now and you
mentioned that mince meat where you're from. You're not from Japan,

(01:51:59):
but where you're from, Uh, that mits meat in in England,
right right, it's England Scotland, right. And the reason I'm
talking about food is because the only thing I know
about sport is what you told me on the radio.
So it's not very much for a mental that one.
That's true. Yes, I don't know anything about sports. I
just pretend that's absolutely absolutely correct. Yes, So yeah, I

(01:52:20):
thought I would chip in with a little bit of
eggs talk. How do you growing up in the UK
and now you live in Japan for work? What is
your favorite preferred way to eat an egg? Well, honestly,
I like a good scotch ch egg. Roberto, do you
know what that is? No? My idea? I don't know either.

(01:52:43):
I don't record. I just want to ask Roberto because
it made me sound smart like I knew, so you
know what it is? I don't know, no idea. What
I mean? What is it? Scotch egg? Is that what
you pour scotch all over eggs? Is? No? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?
Yeah that would probably also good. Yeah. No, this one
is a hard or soft biled eggs wrapped in sausage, meat,

(01:53:06):
coated in breadcrumbs, baked or deep fried. Well, you had
me at Deep Pride when you said anything deep fried,
I'm good with. So I've never seen this before. This
is uh, this is new to me. I'm looking at
a photo of it. Google. Yah, Google Scotch egg. You'll
see it and it's a you know, I don't. I

(01:53:27):
don't know why they called it Scotch egg. I think
it's you know, from England, not you know, Scotland. But
I do know they deep fry everything in Scotland. I
should go to go to Scotland. Tell my wife, I'll
go to Scotland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know what?
Do you know what a Mars bar is? Oh? Here,
we're getting an education here, Eddie. Mars bars. Yeah yeah,

(01:53:48):
I know what. Yeah we had Mars bar. Yeah, I've
had chocolate bar yeah yeh yeah yeah. So they have
deep fried Mars bars in fish and chip shops in Scotland.
You're selling me on Scotland here. I'm gonna My wife
wants to go visit the UK and I've said noah,
I don't like the long flights. But maybe I'll go
to Scotland just to eat fried food, be good. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

(01:54:13):
Well here's a fun fact. Yeah, of course that's where
golf started. But I'm looking online and it says the
American version of the Mars Bar was discontinued in twenty
o two, but it was revived occasionally. It's been revived
since then. Wow, shocking runs yeah right, yeah, Well we
play around with the words a bit because you know,

(01:54:34):
we kind of invented all of those good things, and
then you bought it and renamed it, and then we
you know, it's the whole It's right. Don't try to
relive the Revolutionary War, sir. Don't don't try to relive that.
How dare you? Are you a red coat? Sir? What's
going on with you? How dare you? I'm black and
white through and through? I understand? All right, Well, we

(01:54:57):
always have I know, what time? Where are you? What
CD are you in? And you we always ask you
this because people I know, I'm gonna get peppered with questions,
where is he? Where's the guy in Japan? What CD?
Are you? All right? So I'm actually actually an okay hour.
So if you were to get from Tokyo on a
plane flight south two hours opposite Taiwan. Okay, now, all right,

(01:55:18):
very cool. You have you have You have fifty thousand
American service members and family members here who probably listen
to your show if they're over forty. Yeah, why I
would hope if they're over forty. Anyone under forty is
not allowed to listen. We've determined that anyone under forty

(01:55:41):
cannot listen to him. All right, thank you that I
appreciate it. All right, buddy, be good. There he goes
where he goes. No one knows Big Ben's lame jokes
of the week in its entirety. Roberto got another. He
likes the offensive racial jokes. He's got one of those.
Coop's got some. I've got a bunch. We'll get the

(01:56:01):
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(01:56:43):
These are actual jokes sending by actual listeners. Now these
I had a lot of jokes. We might have to
spill this into next hour, depending on how this goes,
because I want to try to get as many of
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(01:57:04):
dot com. Put jokes in the headline. Typically how it goes,
I'll read the joke, will bounce it off Eddie, he'll
bounce it back to me. Robert will play this. If
it's funny, he'll play this if it's not funny. In
this if he could go either way and then kopa
loop over there. He's got his offensive jokes. Roberto's got
his racial joke of the week, which is a new
feature on the show. Um, very offensive, but you know what,

(01:57:25):
it's all in good fun, all in good fun. And
we have weed man, hippie. Who do you want to
do this? Weed man? I just want to wait till
next hour? Laugh? All right, very good. What do you
call a sleeping bull? A sleeping bull? I don't know, Ben.
What do you call that? A bulldozer? Alex? Alex the cynical.

(01:57:51):
What do you call an underwater dog? An underwater dog?
What do you call that, Ben? A subwoofer? Did you
hear that our colleague Steve Harvey apparently had a little
issue with his wife this week? No, I did not.
It was a family feud, Eddie. It was amazing, all right.

(01:58:12):
It's Big Ben's shut up, it's Big Bend's lame jokes
the week Blair Blaren's main, Blaren Maine's mom. This is
from Kenny in Memphis. By the way, Blaren Maine's mom
caught him playing with a little kid's trainset by himself, Eddie.
Is that right? Yeah? Blair tossed a blanket over it
to cover his tracks. Christ Chris in Houston has an

(01:58:37):
irrational fear of empty spaces. Yeah, nothing scares him. I
don't care. Well, it's empty in nothing art you guys?
Oh boy, what's your wonderlick score? All right, pressing on here. Uh.

(01:58:58):
It has been a really hard week for the state
of Alabama, Eddie. Oh, yes, of course, the Crimson Tips.
Probably the hardest week since they shut down the dating site.
It's all relative, alright. That's a cheap shot, Bill, Bill
and Iowa. That's a cheap shot. The football fans of
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a bunch of racist Eddie.

(01:59:19):
Oh really, yeah, they've already started the arians nation. It's
all right, man, Gordon into coma coopa loop? Do you
have anything over there? Cool? Yes, I do. Ben. What
is the difference between Whitney Houston and Jack Daniels? Oh?

(01:59:40):
Jack comes alive when you had coke? Why did Ben
Malloy lose his radio job to Karl Malone? That's tru
Why Ben? Because I was mailing it in, Eddie, That's
why I was clim actually was, but he did mail

(02:00:03):
it in. That's Kurt from Earth who said that he
sent that anyone? Why were Ben Maller listeners the punished?
Why did I punish my p one fans over the holidays?
Let's read like that. I don't know, Ben, why did
you do that? I apparently provided them with no show
and forced them to walk the plank. So that's a mike,
thank you? Shut up? All right, it's not that. Please relax.

(02:00:24):
Big Ben's lamb jokes of the week actual jokes, Send
them by actual listeners. What happened when Andy Reid? Or
what happens rather when Andy Reid takes a shower? I
don't know what happens when Andy Reid takes a shower.
The tub does not get wetted. It's amazing. I don't
know how. That's a Kurt from Earth? Who is Bartolo
Cologne's favorite hockey player? Bartolo Cologne's favorite hockey player? I

(02:00:47):
don't know who is at Mark Andre mcflurry, he's his favorite.
That's Kurt from Earth. Coop, you have anything else? Coop?
What do you gotta know? I'm all right? Roebert too?
Would you like to give your offensive joke now? You said, Roberto,
I felt kind of you. I sent you the joke,
and I thought, boy, I could get in trouble with

(02:01:07):
h R. For sending you this joke. But you asked
for these jokes, right you? Okay, all right, very good?
So no Ben, yes, did you know that Mexican don't
like Trump's border wall? You do not like no Trump's
idea for a border wal? Why not? Well, you know what,
we're against it, but we'll get over it, Ben, underneath it,
we'll get'll go all right, there, go get over the wall.

(02:01:29):
There you go, all right, very good, Thank you for that, Roberto.
And who sent that to you? Again? You know who
sent that to you? E k and Ekka. Well, weed
Man hippie is shut up, wen, weed Man hippie is poor.
Eddie we been hippie is poor. Yeah, he's so poor

(02:01:50):
he can't even afford to listen to Johnny Cash. That's
how poor he is. That's Kurt. Why doesn't weed man
have more children? I don't know why doesn't weed man
have more children? He only shoots blank say, I don't
know what that's all right? Come on, that's not right laughing.
I don't hear him laughing? All right? What do Coop

(02:02:13):
and Roberto book shot? It's what do Coop and Roberto
both regularly make? I don't know what who Coop and
Roberto regularly make the shortlist. They both make the shortlist.
There they're not laughing at they don't enjoy that. Uh,
all right, I can't read that. All right. Did you

(02:02:34):
hear they are remaking an eighties board game and using
weed Man as their inspiration. No, I did not hear that. Yeah,
they're calling it hungry Hungry Hippies. That's just Josh. And
here's the here's the closer for now, we'll have some
more next door. Why doesn't Roberto carry a Discover card? Well,
I don't know. Why doesn't Roberto have a Discovery card?
Because the government said you should always have a visa?

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com for a free rate quote. That's all you have
to do. So se NFL postseason, the divisional round of
the playoffs a lot of excitement. I had to put
my foot down because I wear the pants in my house.
So I tell my wife and said, I know, I
normally do things on the weekend, but I will be
sitting on my ass watching football NonStop both days, both days,

(02:04:09):
just like last week, same thing to repeat. So that's
what's gonna happen with me, and I imagine you also,
right the game I'm most anticipating is the Cowboy Ram
game with a wink and a nod to the Chargers
and the Patriots, because I want to see what happens
with Tom Brady because of the moonlighting gig. I haven't Boston.
I have an a vested interest in that game. Also

(02:04:30):
to see the Chargers because we have friends that work
here that do work on the Charger broadcast, so we
know people. So I either way, I'm in good shape.
I'm in better shape if the Patriots win, but I
know people that work for the Chargers, so if they
happen to win. I'm not in terrible shape, you see
what I'm saying. And then we can get into the
palace intrigue. What happens in the offseason with the Patriots,
which I'm sure there'll be some report that this guy

(02:04:51):
hates Belishick, that guy hites Josh McDaniels, Tom Brady's, they're
trying to force him to retire. All that stuff. We'll
pop up. That's later on drama. We got good drama.
In fact, I would argue the top drama this weekend
in the NFL is not in any of those games.
It's in Pittsburgh, PA, where the Steelers are not playing football.

(02:05:13):
Have you been following the news of the day here? Now?
If you've not, I'll catch you up here. If you
were sleeping and you weren't paying attention, because you have
a life and you have other hobbies. We have learned
that the Steeler brass have not spoken with Antonio Brown
since they deactivated his ass for the week seventeen game
against the Cincinnati Bengals or Bungals as they play. So

(02:05:34):
I wanted to talk about this now. Brown has quote
refused to return repeated phone goals from owner Art Rooney
the Second and also Mike tom He skipped the final
team meeting the exit interview. Now, Art Rooney the Second
spoke about this situation the as the World turns melodrama

(02:05:58):
of the Pittsburgh fur Coat star. He said, whether the
situation can be reconciled and have him back on the team,
meaning Brown next year, We're a long way away from
thinking Matt can happen, Rooney huffing and puffing, And then
the Steeler owner revealed that it was quote difficult to
envision that Brown would be with the team in twenty

(02:06:20):
nineteen as the next offseason and the next year unfolds
in the NFL. All right, so the media latched onto
that part of the story. We were off to the races. Now.
A lot of my colleagues have made a big deal
about Antonio Brown refusing to return repeated phone calls, made
a big deal about that. Ironically, let me tell you something,

(02:06:41):
having worked in this business for a long time, I
feel a lot of these people are disingenuous because I
know for a fact that the morning guy and the
afternoon drive guy at a radio station can get away
more with more than the overnight guy. To me, you
have to know your place in the pecking order. Antonio Brown. No,
I wouldn't carry myself this way. But Antonio Brown knows

(02:07:04):
where he is in the pecking order, and he's going
to play in the NFL. He's not going to be
ostracized from the NFL. But here's the question again, the
way that Art Runey the second phrase, this, the way
he phrased it, difficult to envision those three words. Difficult
to envision Antonio Brown with the Steelers next year. That's

(02:07:25):
the big part. Buy or sell that. The Steelers are
really so fed up there at their wits end, they're
gonna trade Antonio Brown between now and say the NFL drafting. Now,
I'm gonna sell it. I'm not buying that. I am
gonna sell it all right. Last week I was at
plus nine hundred he talked about it. Was it last

(02:07:45):
week or the week before. I think it was last week.
I was at plus nine hundred ten percent chance I'm
gonna go to plus four hundred. So I've altered the
odds a little bit. I'm at twenty percent twenty percent
chance that Antonio Brown is trade, which means there is
an eighty percent chance that Antonio Brown is back in

(02:08:06):
a Steeler uniform. So here are my views. We've got
the Cold War, the Gotham goober, and if that was
not enough, the Chief Happiness Officer. All right, we will
get to all this now. First of all, Art Rooney
wants to work this out with Antonio Brown. That is
my belief. Now, what is my evidence. If the Steelers

(02:08:27):
plan to trade Antonio, you do not announce to the
world your intentions that it's difficult to envision this guy
coming back, you lose leverage. It's completely bungling a possible trademark.
So what's really going on? Give me my theory here.

(02:08:48):
My theory is going public is an attempt to reach
a peaceful compromise that the Steeler's inner circle. Clearly they
were annoyed. There was some angst towards Antonio Brown for
not responding to them. So they are taking the public
approach of going and airing their dirty laundry out in

(02:09:11):
an effort to end the Cold War. Now, technically it
is the off season, and it reminds me what Antonio
Brown is doing. He's taking something out of Shaquille O'Neal's playbook.
When Shaquille O'Neal was with the Lakers. He had an injury.
He needed a medical procedure done, and Shack it was

(02:09:31):
at the end of the year and the Lakers, I
think we're in the NBA Finals. And Shack waited until
training camp to have the procedure, and the media asked,
Shaquille O'Neal said, Shack, why did you wait? I mean
that you're gonna miss the first part of the year.
This is a blow. The team needs you and they
depend on you, and you're not gonna be there. You
could have had this operation back after the season and
you would have been able to play at the beginning

(02:09:54):
of the year. And Shaq said that that's his time.
This is company time, and he wanted to me he
didn't want to have the operation on his time. He
wanted to have the operation on the company times. And
it seems like Antonio Brown is like, Hey, I'm not
going to return your text message and your phone calls.
It's the offseason, man, I'm done, I'm out. I don't

(02:10:15):
need to respond to you now. It's unprofessional and you
shouldn't do it. But that's what's going on here. You
can at least text somebody back and say hey, I'm
in the Bahamas. I can't get back to you. Now.
I have a feeling that Brown has multiple phones also,
so it's possible maybe the Steelers have the wrong number.

(02:10:35):
Maybe maybe they've got his other phone, his burner phone,
and they don't have the phone that he's currently using. Secondly,
Antonio Brown knows the one thing that's the most important
in all of this. Are you bankable? If you're not bankable,
you don't get away with this. If a guy in
the practice squad doesn't answer phone calls from coaches, he's released.

(02:10:57):
The Steelers need Antonio' Brown. They have to squeeze out
another Super Bowl run the final years of Ben Roethlisberger's career.
Antonio Brown is insulated right now. He's got a posse
of people around him who clearly are giving him either
bad advice or they're giving him no advice to continue.

(02:11:18):
What's going on now? What is his motivation? Does he
want out? Does he actually want to get out of Pittsburgh?
Brown could be working on an exit strategy, and some
have said, I've heard from those that claim to know
that he's eyeing the New York Mark. He was the
masked singer on Fox last week and could go and

(02:11:41):
become the Gotham Goober and play for the Jets and matchine.
What would happen he plays the New York tabloids. Who
sweet baby Jesus, you talk about sports talk radio gold.
That would be a bloody blessing, is what that would be. Now,
Unfortunately for Brown, Pittsburgh would be dinged so much money

(02:12:05):
that it is financially financial suicide for the short term. Now,
I am a guy that believes everything can be worked out.
If both sides want to trade, they'll work it out.
But there's a twenty one million dollars salary cap hit
this offseason art final thing here. I have no empathy
for the Steelers. I've said this in the past. They
could have not signed Antonio Brown and let him play

(02:12:28):
out his contract and leave, or traded him before his
contract was up. They just signed a guy to a
MEGAMEGAMEGA contract extension, so they knew what they were getting.
He earned it by the way, Antonio Brown the highlight
real skills. He earned the contract. It's no secret that
he is a self absorbed prima donna. He's a drama queen.

(02:12:54):
We get that. But there's a lot of guys like
that in the NFL. This is also more of a
referendum on Mike Thomas. Why is it a referendum of
Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin will never be remembered as a
tactical genius. His claim to fame is he's the ultimate
players coach Kumbaya in the locker room. They love each other,

(02:13:15):
They play hard for Mike Tomlin because he's a great
motivator of men. He cultivates solid performance with camaraderie in
the Steeler locker room. He is the chief happiness officer
of Pittsburgh Football, right That's the way he operates. But
right now there's a lot of bad blood. There's no

(02:13:36):
joy in Mudville, and Mike Tomlin is in an awkward
position because you can't unring the Bell or the Brown.
Think about this. A couple of years ago, when the
Steelers were riding high, they had a three headed monster,
Antonio Brown, Levion Bell, and Ben Roethlisberger. Are you telling

(02:13:59):
me that a couple of years later, when we get
back to the business of the offseason, that the Steelers
franchise is going to have only a thirty six, soon
to be thirty seven year old Ben Roethlisberger to show
and whatever they get in a trade, what the hell

(02:14:19):
are you doing? Like, what the hell is going on there? Now?
We know Antonio Brown's gone, And again I believe or
Oleveon Bell's got I believe Antonio Brown's gonna stay. I
believe ultimately he stays. And I will believe that Antonio
Brown has traded when I see him introduced holding up

(02:14:40):
a jersey, a number eighty four jersey with another team,
then I will believe. Now. Also remember here Art Rooney
the second. In addition to saying that it was quote
difficult to envision Brown with the Steelers in twenty nineteen,
he also said, quote we're not closing the door to
anything at this point, which obviously means Antonio Brown coming back.

(02:15:03):
They can work it out, give it a go, which
is the proper thing to do. From a longevity standpoint,
you would think if you're the Steelers from competitive football,
you would be better off over the next like five
years if you kept you found a way to pay

(02:15:25):
Levion Bell and Antonio Brown and let Ben Roethlisberger leave.
So anyway, see the Benn mallon Shawn Fox. As we
press on, we say hello, to long time charge your
season take it older. An occasional Steeler fan Edmund Dallas
steamboat really Judas solid gold Garcia. Yeah, I think I

(02:15:47):
think Antonio Brown's gone. I do not believe say I
want him on the team because he's a great player.
They want him on the team because it's a great player.
But if you don't show up to play, it doesn't
matter how great of a player you are. They you
can forgive anything within reason, but that so what what
does it matter how great he is if he's not

(02:16:08):
going to show up to playing games. As one game,
it was an important game at the time, Mike wasn't
just it would be one thing if it was a
game that was completely meaningless. They needed to win that
game to have a chance to get in the playoffs. Yeah,
but Mike Tomlin said he was hurt, so Tomlin lied,
he did lie. Yeah, he's a liar. Your coach is
a liar. How can you have a coach's all coaches
are liars? Though they lied right to your face. Though, yeah,

(02:16:29):
so does every other coach in the league. Though who cares?
You don't care about lying any Are you a liar?
I guarantee you Sean McVay has lied to the to
the media as well. Every coach in the league. Hanging
out there Sun Tanning, he's not worried about lying. He
would never lie. You're telling me Sean mcvay' is a liar.
All of them are liars. And you know what you're
talking about. I've never said that guy. That's blasphemy. Any Yeah,

(02:16:51):
how dare you? Shame on you? I think you said
yesterday all coaches are liars. When I talk brought up
Mike mccarthy'll bringing my words into this kind sorry, leave me,
leave my words out of this. Okay, you don't need
to bring me into this. How dare you? So? Where
does he go? Then, Eddie, I've got him staying. Where
do you have him going? I have no idea. It's
bad radio. You got to pick a team. I got

(02:17:11):
forty nine ers. I said this last week. Why would
you want to go to the forty nine? Doesn't matter.
It's a trade. He's already got a contract. How about Arizona?
Say forty nine Ers need a number one receiver and
they have money Arizona. Yeah, we want to swap Patrick
Peterson for Antonio Brown? How about this? Wait? Wait, I

(02:17:32):
say Patrick Peterson, how about Josh Rosen as your quarterback
in the future, and then Cliff Kingsbury can draft Kyler
Murray with the number one pick. Let's do it. We
just worked out a trade, Coop. Can you tweet that out? Yeah,
we just worked out a trade. Antonia Antonio Brown and
like a fourth round draft pick go to Arizona, Patrick

(02:17:53):
Peterson and Josh Rosen go to Pittsburgh. Anyone, object anyone?
I'm very happy with that deal. Object Brown. Yeah, for
the dollars Cowboys first round pick. You think every great
players going to the Raiders, that's the problem. You think
every great player is going to the ritual. Well, but
John Gruden did say his phone is ringing off the hook.

(02:18:14):
Great players want to play for the Raids exactly. Yeah,
tweet that out too, Coop. Antonio Brown called John Gordon. Yeah, yeah,
Antonio Brown was one of the players we believe. How
about we gotta say it. Let's use some weasel now,
industry sources Eddie is at considers inside, Yes, sources not
close to the situation, tell us, yeah, there is no

(02:18:39):
here's one, Eddie. There's a growing belief, there's a growing
belief on our show that Antonio Brown has been texting
John Gruden out Coop do it on the official Fox situation.

(02:19:01):
I love this. We could totally do who and it
sounds believable. Right, it is expected by industry sources the
Raiders will aggressively be pursuing Antonio Brown. With that, Antonio
Brown to the Raiders gaining traction. Oh, how about this?

(02:19:31):
Here's here's another one. John Gruden would listen if the
Steelers call about Antonio Brown. Great. Oh, I love this, Eddie. Well,
I am such a loser that I think this is
just wonderful. It's funny because it's true. I know it is.

(02:19:53):
I tea something last hour. I didn't pay it off,
but I'll have to pay that off. And we also
have the Coop scoop on entertainment. I see line three,
don't hang up line three. I'm very excited you're there.
We'll go to line three. How do they know if
they're on line three, Well, they'll have to. Everyone has
to stay on hold. Itherwise you could be line three.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.

(02:20:13):
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(02:20:37):
has come true in real life. We gotta go to
the phones, I'll tell you that. So it's a great
story and we got the Coop Scoop on entertainment. I
wanted to take line three, but line four has a
golden ticket, so I gotta take line four first. Then
I go to line three. Hello, line four, which is
justin in Cincinnati cashing his golden ticket. Look the same. Hey,

(02:20:59):
I gotta Joe for you. Are you ready? What? What?
What are Mexican favorite sports? Cross country? Suck it Coop. Oh,
that's hilarious. It's almost as funny as when I heard
that joke when I was in elementary school. I always
laugh at the Sucker Coop though. It always gets me.

(02:21:19):
Let's go to Let's go. You gotta get this guy
right now, Randy in Norman, he's back. Eddie Randy Norman.
He's the comoko dragging in the room. Hello, Randy, you
shut up, good start. That's a good drop. Though no
man appreciate you give me the line. But I gotta

(02:21:41):
tell you it's a little sluggish tonight. What's the problem.
You think the show's sluggish? You're not. You don't enjoy
the program? Well if I didn't, I wouldn't be listening
in our hold, would I? Yeah? Where have you been? Randy?
We like you? Un you do drop where I said?

(02:22:02):
Mexican Robert Raist Okay, you know what. I was born
in Middland Group mat Marelo, spend a lot of time
in nol Pesto, and my no means is that racist
or negative? In fact, Roberto is my favorite person on

(02:22:23):
the host show. Do you call me Anglo nomass? It
wouldn't hurt my feelings? Really, you're you're an Anglo dumbass.
There I said it. There you go. Yeah. I just
wanted to make sure with you that if I say
Mexican Roberto, that that's no negative connotation whatsoever. Are we

(02:22:45):
clear on that? Mexican Roberto? You sound very angry here.
I hope you're not angry. We're having fun. We're just
having a good time. Are you angry, just really bothering you?
I'm not angry. I think Roberto he is the best
guy your crew, all right, to keep sucking up to them,
all right? Co work is like the next two and

(02:23:11):
Ben Kubo, M. That's right, that's right. Okay, those are
the biggest teams. And Ben, God love you. You're always
off renegotiating your contract. So who can count on your ass?
I don't have a contract. They can't work here. I

(02:23:32):
gotta get paid. I don't do this for free. I
like radio, and I got bills a good job covering
for you. I'm glad you have some good people stepping in.
I don't remember their names exactly, And then I have
a crew that covers for you. We take a couple
of weeks off. Remember that fine restaurant I ate at it.

(02:23:53):
I don't remember the name of it or where it was,
but it was a good restaurant or who could forget? Yeah,
solid good meal? Yeah remember where I was or who
they were whatever? But you can count on Eddie birth
to you and Mexican. Yeah, let me tell you something, Randy,

(02:24:17):
we thought you were one hit wonder. I want to
take that back. You're not a one hit wonder. This
is a good call. A good call. I want you
to call once every couple of weeks, right, I think
you can save up material for once every couple of weeks. Hey,
I can't bury hear you. It's a matter of fact,
but I'm trying. But I mean I can hear you
better hours on hold. But I'll put you back on
hold then so you can listen to the show. I

(02:24:39):
have some more jokes. Should we do a few more
jokes real quick? I get a couple of jokes, only
if they're funny. All right, are you there, weed Man?
You wanted to make a bet? Weed Man? Yeah, he's
back talking to Lisa. Are you back talking to Lisa? Now? Yeah?
Manly so good. But she's sleeping. But Ben, you said

(02:25:00):
something the other night that is a sharrible moment. Sharable
or terrible? No, shorerible. You're gonna understand my life, remember
you straight? And you put on the app, your stock app,
and you watch the stocks going up and down, red

(02:25:22):
and green, red and green. Oh, now you're making money.
You should put more money than Ben every day? You
remember that, right? Yeah? No, I do that now? In
the morning after I get out of the day. Listen
to me. That's what happened to me. Ben. I used
to put five hundred thousand dollars every morning, Lisa tell

(02:25:43):
him on the you know she doesn't want to talk.
You know, Lisa doesn't want to talk. No, she doesn't.
Every morning I would wake up and I would look
through stocks, and I would put half a million dollars
on one or two stocks. Ben. So I feel like
this a PSA. He was like a PSA for me
not to do this. You're telling me not to fall

(02:26:03):
down this rabbit of morning because it was through one
or one. One morning, I brought ten thousand sands of
a forty four dollars stock and the stock started to crash,
and I went to sell it and my computer flow
al dial up, and by the time I got back
on I was down two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

(02:26:27):
It wasn't even ten o'clock in the morning. That's a
bad day. That is a bad day. That's what happened.
I understand. I I just as you said the other night,
and then only laying my bill this morning. I've been trying.
I've been thinking about you all, Bet, all right, So
what's the bet. What's the bet? What's the beat? I
don't have endless time here. What's the bet? The bet

(02:26:49):
Lebron James will play in the conference Final. I will
bet you that, and I pay my bet. I sent
Coop twenty dollars when we ate the vessels. Now, this
is what I want, and you tell me what you want.
But what do you want? Yeah, I'll bet the Lakers

(02:27:10):
aren't making the conference final? What do you want to be? Okay? Fine, fine, fine,
I want the Lakers make the Conference Final because Lebron
is Just give me the bet. I don't have time.
Give me the bet. I want to call host the
show all night, one night. Don't do it, Ben, they're

(02:27:30):
making the conference finals. Now they're not making there's no
che Yeah, they're gonna make the conference finals. Then you'll
be fired if this, if this happened, to put your
career on on the line. All right, let me let
me negotiate what I want my end of the bargain.
What can I get from weed man, that's a great question.
I gotta get a few more jokes. We shut up,

(02:27:52):
We we have we have Coop will have his coop
Scoop we have baller Dash. We'll get to all that,
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(02:28:14):
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(02:29:19):
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not seven Eastern time in Anaheim, California. All right, thank
you for that, Eddie. This is the Ben Mallers Show.
As we pressed on from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios.
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free rate quote. So I got three more jokes real quick,
because if a manic Mike said, I lied, and I

(02:29:39):
said I would do more jokes. What do you get
when molecules stare at each other? What do you get
when molecules stare at each other? I don't know, ben
An Adam Gaze, get it, Adam Gaze. With the government shutdown,
New Jersey is changed at state motto? Oh really, what

(02:30:01):
was it before? They announced that they are now cleaner
than most national parks. That's what they announced, New Jersey.
It's George and Rochester, Minnesota. And here's the last one.
This is from the Aussie guy. How many weed man
hippies does it take to change the light bulb? How
many weed man hippies does let me ask, we've been
to change the light weed man? How many weed man
hippies does it take to change the light bulb? Good?

(02:30:24):
Bring it on, Bring it on. None, the electricity was
already cut off. All right, thank you. Cooper Loop's got
the coops scoop on entertainment direct from Hollywood Holywood. Yeah,
the golf and globe. I saw Coop on the red
carpet with his tuxedo. He's having no TV, yeah, he

(02:30:46):
was it. All right, what do we have here? We do?
We do it right now? All right? Were you on
to wait? Well? I mean no, I didn't know the show.
You gotta do it. Really, let's just keep going. I
don't fifth hour? All right now, I will catch you up. Well,
I will give you a little bit of a Golden
Globes Reek not really a recap. But I started watching
a new show on Netflix, relatively new, shirt Box. No,

(02:31:08):
but I did see bird Box. My wife's watching is.
She says I should watch it, should watch too. I
don't think you'll like it, Ben, probably, but it's worth
it's worth a watch for days for normal people. Wow. Uh.
One of the shows that I saw that was nominated
for Best Drama in the Golden Globes. It's called Bodyguard.
It's a show on Netflix. It's in association with BBC.

(02:31:31):
It's a British show. It stars the actor Richard Madden.
He played one of the Rob Stark on Game of Thrones.
I've seen two episodes so far. It's pretty good. It's exciting.
I was like literally about today. I was watching an episode.
Before I came in, I was about to like turn
it off and I'm like, oh, I'm getting a little
bored of this, and all of a sudden bam action.

(02:31:52):
So it was pretty cool. Also premiering this weekend tonight.
It's available today right now on Netflix. It's a new
show called Sex Education Now. It's a coming of age
dramedy that's set in an English high school. It stars
Gillian Anderson. She plays a sex therapist and her socially
awkward son teams with a classmate to start an underground

(02:32:13):
sex therapy clinic at his school. Just keep saying the
word sex a few more. Yeah, well, derated ratings go.
It's got good reviews and they've been advertising. There's a
there's a billboard right outside of our studio for this
really yes. Uh. Then also, this is the one that
everybody's been waiting for. There's a prev for it right
now on TV two. Uh. It's True Detective season three

(02:32:35):
on HBO nine PM on Sunday with True Detective. What
is what is the name of the actor that's uh
that's in that you know? Yeah, thanks thanks Eddie. Uh,
I don't know how to pronounce his name. Set Academy
Award winners. Yes, what's the for Moonlight? It's humarashala Ali.
I believe where you pronounce it like you know it

(02:32:59):
and it doesn't Hrchelahrsela. All right, thank you, Roberta, Robert two.
Welcome Roberto. We should get at least five drops out
of Randy and as phone call, we don't. There's a
problem and that is Coop Scoop on entertainment. All right,
thank you, Coop. I appreciate that. Good job by you.
People have been asking if I saw the r Kelly documentary.

(02:33:19):
I've not, has anyone on the show scene. The r
Kelly documentary made a big, big news this week, no
great movie. I saw HBO's getting a Michael Jackson documentary
Who's I guess, similar to the R Kelly one, where
they of course Michael's dead so he can't defend himself,
but they're gonna make accusations there as well. It's gonna
be coming to HBO soon. All right, so ben out

(02:33:41):
of the show. In fact, so one of my favorite
books I've talked about this before is The Magic Christian.
It's not a religious book and the movie was terrible,
so don't even bother watching the movie they made a
movie about They should make a new movie about it.
I mean in Hollywood should do that. One of our
guys that writes scripts overnight should should do that. So
the premise of the book is that people will do
anything for a price. Everyone's got a price. Like Roberto,

(02:34:02):
his price was nothing, but most people And back in
September Eddy of last year, these Vegas poker players at
the Bellagio, a couple of professional gamblers, and one asked
a question to the other guy and said, Hey, how
much would it take for you to spend time in

(02:34:23):
complete isolation with no light for thirty days? This is
similar to the book. An hour later, they agreed to
a price one hundred thousand dollars for thirty days complete darkness.
You're a you're in a closet, you're in a bathroom, whatever.
The guide did it. He would be delivered food from

(02:34:45):
a local restaurant, but the meals did not come at
the same time. That way, he would not be able
to keep track of what time of the day it
was in no TV, no radio, no phone, no access
to the outside world at all. He did have a
yoga mat, a resistance band, massage ball and for the
bathroom he had lavender essential oils. So he had a

(02:35:08):
few things like that. If he failed, he the guy
in the isolation tank in the darkness, would have to
pay the other gambler one hundred thousand dollars. The guy
did it, Eddie. He shut himself in a pitch black room,
which is crazy to me. He said he had hallucinations.
You see the story, Coop, Yeah, imagine that. Dude, Were

(02:35:31):
you been telling me about that soundproof room thing? Was
that you telling me? No? I read about. I don't
know if I said it on the air, the El
Chopo soundproof room or is that what you're talking? No, No,
there's there's a there's an experiment in this room. It
is completely devoid of any sound at all. It's a
soundproof room and no one has lasted more than thirty
minutes in it. Yeah you'll go crazy, Yeah, you like

(02:35:51):
you can hear your own breathing and your heartbeat, and
it's just people freak out. Can't you can't stand there? Well,
I'm in a soundproof room. No, no, no, this is
El Choppo and that El Choppo trial. Eddie. One of
his hitman had a soundproof like a like our studios
or soundproof. That was his murder room. Yeah, that was
his kill room. Nice. Yeah, learned that in the old

(02:36:12):
Choppo trial. Wonderful. Yeah, I mean it's it's just great
real quick. Andy and Indiana has a golden ticket. We'll
get the bad Hello, Andy, what's going on in thousand?
For being on holds of the last twenty mounds? There
you go? There you go? There you go? Are you
say that? Complain? Complain? Complain? I had all right, I'm

(02:36:37):
gona hang old. There we go. I hated the other button.
I had the wrong butt job. I got no place
for that. You want to you want to complain, call
the other show, all the other shows on tape. All right,
I'm sorry about that. You can't call the other show.
They're not there. We're brought to you by discovered card.
We treat you like you, treat you very kindly, like
we treated our friend Andy and Indiana who complained about

(02:36:57):
being on hold. Screw him, all right, we will get
the bald. Why don't we have one and one in
four play baalda dash? Would that be good? Line? One
in line? If Cooper flyne one wants to play, Yeah,
we get to be good at these No, but who cares?
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(02:37:20):
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(02:37:43):
corporate muckety MUCKs and I live from the Geico Fox
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get to balda dash in a minute. Here. The malar
mush has been sending me ideas to make that bet
with weed Man. Remember the bet a couple years ago
Eddie with the Golden State Warrior guy. If the Warriors
went unbeaten, he was gonna come in and host the show,

(02:38:05):
and we were like, fly him in here. They almost
did it. They didn't lose. I believe, if I remember correctly,
they didn't lose to the NBA finance, correct I remember that?
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(02:38:51):
been waiting for. It's Ben Balder Dad, What the hell
is this? Formerly known as something we're not allowed to say?
Hit it all right? Here we go, time for balda Dash.
Benny's balda Dash, each and every week at this time,
we welcome to our concessants. First of all, from Lost Wages, Nevada.
We have Golden Nugget John. Hello John, Hey Ben what's

(02:39:12):
going on? Good to talk to you. Everything good in
your world? Yes, oh, I can't complained enjoying the freaks
on Fremont Street. Yeah, punce in a while, all right,
very good. Hold on a second, and we have our
friend Joe in San Antonio. Hello, Joe, Hey Ben. All right,
that's good. We've didn't done the introductions. Joe drives a truck.

(02:39:33):
What do you do? Golden Nugget John? Again for the
people in Beaver Dam and Punk Sitani that don't know
what you do. I'm a server at the Golden at
the claim jumper, the claim jumper. There you go. I
like the claim jump. I do go there a lot
back in the day. All right, here we go. It's
Benny's balderdash categories our roger, that change of scenery and
never made it. Golden Nugget John, you're on the air first.

(02:39:55):
Where do you want to go? Let's go? And never
made it, never made it? Your name is your buzzer
values for two four, six eight and a thousand Thanks
to Anthony and Anaheim our friend for contributing. Here we
go two hundred bucks. Everyone in this category left a
coaching job before ever starting it. Lasting over twenty four
hours after he took over as the Jets coach. This

(02:40:16):
five time Super Bowl winner made the right choice, resigning
and going to the Patriots. Come on, come on, come on,
Joe Yeah Belichick. Uh yeah, we'll give me Bill Belichick. Oh,
I'm gonna punch you if you didn't get that right.

(02:40:38):
Four hundred dollars. Winning five rings as a member of
the Patriots coaching staff, this offensive coordinator announced John m
correct Josh McDaniels that he was going to coach the
Colts and then left. Six hundred dollars. After winning back
to back NCAA championships, this former Gators coach accepted the
Orlando Magic cupe. Um Wifeline brun all right too, who

(02:41:07):
do you want to go to? So coop cool ball loop. Well,
you didn't write the questions, did you go? No? That
was Anthony and Anaheim. Um, can you repeat the part
that you said? After winning back to back NCAA championships,
This former Gators coach Billy Donovan, Yeah, that's it, that's correct,
Billy Donovan, who's now in the NBA in Oklahoma City.
Eight hundred dollars. This former Bulls and Jazz coach took

(02:41:30):
a job at his alma mater, Evansville, after retiring as
a player. Yes, Joe, Joe, uh lifeline? Okay, Joe, where
do you want to go? Coop's already outs? He got
Roberto already? Oh all right. This former Bulls and Jazz
coach took a job at his alma mater, Evansville after

(02:41:51):
retiring as a player, only to back out six days later. Um,
oh boy, I mean it's a total guess. I'll just
go Jerry Sloan. Joe. You know, Eddie hasn't watched an
NBA game since Bob Couzy played. So you want to
go with Jerry Sloan or that's what I was thinking about?

(02:42:14):
Is it? Jerry Sloan? Y's Jerry Sloane. I got it right.
You're done with your lifelines? Guys. Thousand dollars. This head
coach announced he would be the next head coach of
the Arkansas Razorbacks, only to return to Creighton a day
later citing family reasons. He's currently the head coach of
the Oregon Ducks, who lost the UCLA last night. Anybody, no,

(02:42:36):
Dana Altman, all right, let's go to Roger that everyone
in this category was the has the first name Roger
two hundred dollars. This former Red Sock and Yankee pitchers
a two times John Roger Clement correct at four hundred dollars.
In August of twenty zero six, this person replaced Paul
Tagliabu as the commissioner of the NFL. John Roger Goodell correct.

(02:42:57):
That's easy, six hundred dollars playing us in entire career
with the Cowboys, This two time Super Bowl champion John
Roger Starba? Why Roger, Coop, I don't know. That's not yeah,
what that's not the name? What do you mean? I
thought the way I heard it? What he didn't say
the name? But say it again, Rogers saba? Okay, I

(02:43:21):
thought you should stop Baugh. That's what I heard. Is
that what you're saying? I sat on my headphones. All right,
all right, we're out of time anyway. It's a rat kill.
What's the score, Coop? That twenty two hundred for John
and the thousand for Joe. Joe. You suck at this game, Joe,
John you win. Congratulations. Have a good weekend, though, guys,

(02:43:41):
I mean it's all love on the show, is you know,
having a good time with Randy and Norman. All Right,
I'll shut up for the weekend.

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