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January 7, 2026 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about the idea that Lamar Jackson played the role of coach killer for John Harbaugh in Baltimore, where Harbaugh should go next, what the Ravens might go for their next head coach, and much more! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number one of the Ben Mather Show. Happy
Wednesday to you. It is the seventh day of January.
Talking about the big story in the NFL right now,
Is it true that Lamar Jackson played the role of
coach Keller for John Harbaugh in Baltimore as he was excommunicated.

(00:26):
And now we're gonna do a little game here. We're
gonna have you as an executive assistant. You're gonna be
hired as a consultant, a career counselor what former what's
former Ravens coach John Harbaugh's next career move. So you're
now the consultant. You're now the person with the job

(00:47):
to give advice. So what is your advice to John
Harbaugh on where he should end up? Also, where do
the Ravens go for their next head coach? Walking in
the footsteps of John Harbaugh. We'll talk about all that
and more right now on this Wednesday here it is.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's hump day, and it's our number one.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
And another one bites the dust, Bye bye, welcome in
the beginnea of another hour and another night.

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Of the Ben Malor Show. As we are.

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Speaker 3 (02:37):
I know what a great gig, that is, give me
a microphone from my bed. Oh my gosh, we'd have the.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Best nice sauger is by like Buck naked right now?
I about but he gets it, you know. Malad moved
the move the laptop because there's a bunch of cameras.
It's like four cameras here and they can't see over
your over your laptop. So I'll move the It's not
my laptop, it's the company laptop, which is it's just
to my left. But I had to move it otherwise
it would have blocked the view. And I mean, don't

(03:04):
you want to see my face on the YouTube? Come
on please, it's Ben mallor show on YouTube. You can
watch the Mallard monologues. So well, our lead this hour, Yeah,
and don't forget about Benny versus the Penny as well,
Benny Vspenny. All right, So our lead this hour from
the coaching carousel. And we have seen a bunch of
coaches given the boot, given the boot right, and they've

(03:26):
all been pretty predictable. They've all been pretty predictable. Bad teams,
bad owners. This is what they do.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
We got a backdoor curveball in the coaching cycle. And
if you have not heard by now, I assume you
have where the hell you been. But there's a chance
maybe you actually have a life and you don't pay
attention to this stuff all day and you just turn
it on at night.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
So here's the deal. We have learned that the.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Dead Poet Society has said aloha to John Harball. The
Ravens have fired John Harbaugh.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
He's out.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
They're franchise is winningest head coach Hawwy sports with Coleman Batman. Wow,
that's her buddy in Baltimore. But less than forty eight
hours after a chip shot field goal was missed to
the right, the Ravens said, we're done with you.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
So if the field goal goes in, do they keep
the coach?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Is that how this works is that we didn't realize
at the time if that kick had been made, Does Tomlin.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Lose his job? Is that what that is?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
If they had tied with both coaches have lost their
job or where they have both kept their job? Well,
the Steelers made the playoffs. The Ravens failed to make
the playoffs, and so after eighteen seasons, Harball his ass
is grass.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
He's out.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Now eyebrows have been raised and they are appointed the
direction of mister MV Guy.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Lamar Jackson. Oh intrigue. All right, So that is a
good jumping off point.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Let us discuss the question is it true that Lamar
Jackson played at least some role, some role as coach
killer in Baltimore for John Harball developing hot dot dot dot.

(05:32):
So my thoughts, I've got teenage mutant ninja, turtles, markers, squeaking,
and magnifying glass. And we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some old
Bay seasoning, which is they put that on everything in Baltimore,

(05:53):
that Old Bay season put that on the salad. Not
that I eat salad because I believe all vegetables should
live a full life. If I don't think anything should
be harmed by me eating them, I think you pigs
that eat vegetables, you don't vegetables. They need to live
a full life.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
So to answer the question, is it true that Lamar
Jackson played a role as the coach killer in this
John Harbaugh story, I am nodding my head. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes yes yes. Listen, we are private investigators here, and
if you follow the bread crumbs, like every great crime drama,

(06:33):
you follow the bread crumbs. Lamar Jackson didn't just stay silent.
He didn't. What he did was he had an opportunity
to publicly endorse his head coach, go to bat for
his coach, and he said no. He stayed well, not

(06:55):
necessarily signing. He did talk, He just refused to answer
the question. The Ravens have leaked that one of the
issues here was John Horball refused to whack offensive coordinator
Todd Munkin, and there was an issue in the ownership.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
So what we got.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
You gotta get rid of this guy. I mean, this
guy's at DRABRONI you're gonna get Wait, well, I don't
want to get rid of the guy you got to
I don't want to. Oh you're fired. Boom done, gun,
get out of here. You know what that is? Abra
cadabra poof presto.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
That is what. That is the key to magic. And
I love magic.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
You know.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I was the kid when I went to Disneyland as
a kid, I always wanted to go to the Magic Store.
That's where I wanted to go more than any on
Main Street, USA. I want to go hang out the
Magic Shop, and I got smaller and smaller.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
It was a kid. It was big. Now I go
in there, it's like a little side thing. Pocket of magic.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
But I recall and a magician's act, whether you're a
great magician or a bad magician, the key is the misdirection.
And this is a classic smoke bomb. It's a classic
smoke bomb by the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
And it's the.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Magician waving the hand. I'm waving the hand over here
and then and then on this side you do the switch.
You know, you do the old switchero there. That's the
that's the move, and you grab something and your wallet
pops up in a different place. But the real evidence
on this, what is the real evience? The real evidence

(08:19):
was Lamar at the podium the other day. He was
asked a soft ball question. Total softball question. Do you
want John Harbaugh back as coach of the Ravens next season?
Standard basic question for Lamar Jackson. A layup, an absolute layup,

(08:40):
a foul shot, no one guarding you unless it wasn't.
So what did Lamar Jackson say, We've got the audio,
let's go to the audio. Tip here's the Lamar responding
to a really simple.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Question, do you want to see John.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
You asked me about next year, Jamison. I'm so caught
up in what's just happened tonight. I can't I can't focus.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
On that right now.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
I just told you, like he asked me, are you stunning,
I'm stunning right now, and I'm still trying to process
what's going on. Like, I know we lost, but but
you know that's all.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
So you heard a little bit of a pause there,
Lamar pause, like his brain was buffering. Oh yeah, I
don't want to answer that question. Man, Why would you
ask me that? You asking me about next year? We
in here, we just lost the game. You're talking about
next year? Now you can't see the body of elements

(09:38):
because we're doing radio. It's an audio platform. But the hands
were in the air, a little headshake.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Dead give what?

Speaker 6 (09:45):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, it's not.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
People said, well, it's emotion, you know, just lost the
game and all that stuff. You know what that is?
Bull crap is what that is. That's avoidance is what
it was. Also, Lamar had an opportunity. He did not
choose to take the opportunity to defend John Harbaugh. He
didn't endorse him. He didn't even fake it like it's
a simple thing.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Just fake it.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Oh oh that's my guy, that's my coach. We ride together,
ride and die.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
He didn't do any of that.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Lamar hung his coach out to drive by not answering
the question. And so you keep hearing these little nuggets
out of Baltimore and more and more as we workshop
this together. It would appear that Lamar Jackson and the
coach it was like teenage mutant ninja turtles. But they

(10:37):
were not those turtles. They were loggerhead turtles. John Harbaugh
and Lamar Jackson fighting over the remote control.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Who's in control here?

Speaker 2 (10:47):
And when push came to shove ultimately ownership, they made
the call and they're the ones that make the decision here, right.
But the story that was leaked, one of the stories
that was leaked in addition to the Todd Munkins story,
there was another story leaked.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
By the Ravens obviously obviously.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Was that John Harball lost the locker room.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
ding ding ning. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, that's a tell you know that story was not
leaked by John Harbaugh. Why would John Harball leak the
story I lost the locker room? That made no sense,
makes him look like a buffoon. So obviously came from
the Ravens. And let's see, let's break this down scientific.
So what exactly who is the Ravens locker room. That's right,

(11:35):
Lamar Jackson, Like, if ten guys of the Ravens despise
John Harbaugh, however Lamar Jackson loves him, doesn't that cross
out to ten people that don't like John Harbaugh. It's
the old line is there's certain percentage of people that
don't like it no matter what you do, and there's

(11:55):
certain people that like you, and then there's others that
are undecided, and once the undecided vote go to the
side they don't like you.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's a problem. But to me, this is clearly pointing.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
At the direction of Lamar Jackson and Steve Bashatti, the owner.
He chose the quarterback. And the whole thing smells like
what raw sewage is what it smells like.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
And Lamar never grabbed a plunger. And now the.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Ravens like, well, we call their own plumber Rodeo ruter,
and they're coming in here. We gotta clogged toilet. We're
gonna unclog the toilet, is what we're gonna do all right.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now, turning the page, but keeping the theme of the.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Hour on this Mala monologue. There's a theme to all this,
there's a method to the matter. So John Harbaugh has
now become hot to trot. He's the bell of the ball,
hottest girl in the whole room. Well, let's kiss coach.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Everyone loves him. Oh my god. Now the question is
does he sit out, does he return to coach?

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Will he continue as an NFL coach? Does he take
time off? Does this become an Andy Reid situation where
Andy Reid had success in Philadelphia and then he went
somewhere else and then things really went turbo time in
Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes. Now the agent. Keep him mind,
the agent has an agent, so like politicians, they never
say anything that's legit. But anyway, the agent's claiming, pumping

(13:17):
his chest out, get the feathers up like a peacock,
and the agent's claiming seven NFL teams within forty five minutes.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Contact the agent said, hey, how would you like to
coach our team? To the agent? So, all right, question,
through the powers of.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Radio and audio content, Through the powers of audio content,
you have now been hired as an NFL consultant. Congratulations,
paid a lot of money, good expense, account no accountability,
none of that stuff. So you're a consultant, you're a
career counselor, and John Harball and his agent have hired

(13:57):
you time to give advice. So what should former Ravens
coach John Harbaugh's next move be? You make the call.
So on this one, we're gonna activate the Malor think tank.
The Malor think tank is activated, so the whiteboard, you
got the whiteboard out, and you got the market. Those

(14:18):
squeaky markers, like the markers are squeaking. You got that
going on a logic, slightly cooked overnight talk radio logic.
So Hardball is shopping for his next zip code. In theory,
the first rule is you immediately cross off the clown cars.

(14:39):
So you got no clown cars. So that's so Raiders forget.
Come on, is there a bigger clown car? Well, the
Browns okay, so they're out. Brown's Raiders, Titans.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I don't want to do that. So they're out. And
so you've got that.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's three different flavors of ownership quicksand so you eliminate them.
The giant are not much better. The Giants are like
the Jets. Light The Giants at least used to be good,
but now they're just like the Jets.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
But they have a different.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Logo, and they've got taller buildings than the Browns and
the Raiders and things like that. They actually have the
same buildings as the Jets, and the same socialist mayor
they have there in New York. But if I'm John Harball, right,
if I'm John Harball, I'm narrowing it down to two
spots of the available teams, Atlanta and Miami. However, however,

(15:34):
I told you we're workshopping this. If you're John Harbaugh,
you gotta wait. There's a good chance the Buffalo Bills
lose in Jacksonville on wild Card weekend, that job opens up.
You slide in and coach Josh Allen. Now, the Bengals
have said that their coach is going to be back.

(15:57):
I don't know that I believe that, because if you
have a chance to hire John Harbaugh, why wouldn't you
do that? So of the available jobs, none of them
are all that good. If it was just the available jobs,
I would say, go to Atlanta, go to Miami. However,
you have to wait a couple of rounds. Just you're
the hot person at the bar. Everyone's trying to flirt

(16:19):
with you buy your drinks, but you gotta wait, okay
because he's coming in late into the bar. Buffalo they
don't they have to fire their coach if they lose
on wild card weekend and the Bills are in the
playoffs and there's normal homes. No Lamar Jackson, not that
he was any good in the playoffs, No Joe Burrow.
This has got to be the year. And if they

(16:40):
don't win, if they was on wild card weekend, don't
the Bill's fire mcdermoy so that job opens up, and
then say what you know what. The Bengals have bad owners,
but they can good quarterback, so keep an eye kind
of hold off back all the available jobs. I'd go
Atlanta mainly because of the NFC South, where you can
no division has produced more teams with using records to

(17:00):
make the playoffs in the history of the NFL. Then
the team or the MC South teams, I should say,
the Carolina Panthers, who suck this year. Tampa Bay's made
it under five hundred, so that's the division they're all
stuck in. Neutral or rebuilding, which is weasel terminology. Miami,

(17:21):
that job is technically not open. I just wouldn't want
to rather live in Miami. The Dolphins used to be good.
You can wake up the echoes of Don Shula and
Dan Marino and all that. Of course, they don't have
a quarterback, but most of these teams don't. All right,
now the sound of the Dolphin players in a meeting, now,
all right? So the last word here? What is on

(17:44):
deck in Baltimore? Based on some of the reporting here
that's come out in the late hours of the night,
it would appear this was not planned, that something happened
at the very last minute. The Ravens, this was not
well planned out. This was a a improv coaching change.
Improv coaching change. So where do the Ravens go next?

(18:07):
It would appear they don't have a plan. Everyone's tossing
out names like they're ordering off the jack in the
box menu. You got Cliff Kingsbury over there, Brian Flores,
somebody named Mike LeFleur who's apparently the Rams offensive coordinator,
even though Sean McVay runs the Rams offense. So on
a tablet, if you look at the Ravens job on
a tablet. It looks incredible, looks incredible on a tablet.

(18:34):
That's the key phrase. On a tablet. It's a mirage job.
It's a mirage job. For the low information fan. You
see this multi time, multi time platinum MVP, Lamar Jackson,
who has a glitch the thing of a jig doesn't
work in big games. You've got Derek Henry who's older
and started to fumble and slowed down a wee bit

(18:55):
this past year at running back. Those are scary names.
You've also got names on defense because they're not playing
very well. So you look at all that you know, initially,
well it's jackpot, but then we mentioned it tomorrow, right,
and you hit the pause button, You take a deep breath,
and you squint, and you pull out the Mallard magnifying
glass and you look at that and you're like, well,

(19:15):
suddenly that oasis turns into sand.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Like what is that? And Lamar is twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
I would say that he's probably seven years older than that,
based on the way that he's played and taking care
of himself. So therefore Lamar is like a thirty five
year old quarterback. He's a high mileage body, which is
it's like a used carts got shiny rims.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
You're like, well that looks pretty good. That's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
But the transmission that clunks every time you hit the
second gear just doesn't go anywhere. There's scratches on it,
there's dens, the paints faded a little bit. The factory
warranty expired a couple of years ago, so you don't
want to also ignore the whispers. As we mentioned Lamar,
how big a role did Lamar play this? Did Lamar

(19:59):
meet with the owner and say I want John Harbaugh
and Harbaugh got fired anyway? Or is it more likely
that Lamar's listen players don't like Harbaugh. He just he's
he lost the room. I don't know, we need to
change and that's how that happened. Right by all accounts,
John Harbaugh did what you're supposed to do with the

(20:21):
superstar quarterback. He bent over backwards to accommodate the wants
and the needs of Lamar. Jacks Bubble Bass the kid Gloves.
The most amazing story about the Ravens In recent years,
they've actually practiced later in the day than every other
NFL team because Lamar likes to stay up late at night.

(20:43):
He's a he's a night out. So most NFL teams
practice early in the day and get it over with,
but the Ravens had to practice later in the day
often because Lamar just likes staying up late, whether he
was playing video games or going to food trucks or whatever.
And so they commented the other factors, You've got high expectations,
like you gotta you gotta win, and Lamar his problem

(21:05):
is he can't the dow hickeyat's not good in the playoffs,
so he's fragile. High expectations, instant pressure from those expectations.
Not exactly a dream job. It's like walking into Coyote
Ugly and ordering a cocktail. It's a toxic cocktail, and
it's fun for five minutes and then you regret it

(21:27):
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they did hire me back six months and twenty six
days later. I was replaced by a can of soup.
That's how that's how valuable I am. They put some
soup on there, not chili, which Loraina got in the
Male skyline Chili. Are you gonna eat the chili there?

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Loreno, I am going to eat the chili, but I
do want to buy a whole brick of tillamook cheddar
cheese to you should put on top of them.

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Yeah, buy it and shred it yourself. Don't don't buy
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Really that big cheese that makes me want to eat cheese, Really,
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Keep in mind it came from a conspiracy theory guy,
So I don't you know who knows we're big with
conspiracy three guys. I will not be eating the Skyline chili.
I will wait until I go to Cincinnati, and then
I will eat the Skyline Chili. And I'm told by
Justin and Cincinnati our boots on the ground that I
will need to be near a toilet soon after.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
I am curious if I will also need to be there.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
We'll see about that.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Let's see here.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
I can't read that on the fir Dog says, I
think the first thing John Harbaugh should do is ask
weed man hippie for advice on how to live without
a job.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
The only difference between them now is a couple of
zeros in their bank account. Well, it cuts deeper than that.
It does, cut deeper than that. Yeah, Every once in
a while I'll do these rants. I'll rip coaches who
get fired pretty sure that this time of the year
every year, and people get upset, So you shouldn't do that.

(27:21):
Somebody lost their job and always chuckle, always chuckle.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Because of the amount of money that these guys will
make to make. Did you see that John Harball contract.
The Ravens still have him under contract for a couple
of years. He's going to be paid fifty thousand dollars,
almost fifty thousand dollars per day for the next two years.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Are we supposed to have a pity part feel so
bad for him?

Speaker 8 (27:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, yeah, he'll be making one point five million dollars
per month.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Tragic.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Each week, he'll take home three hundred and forty five
thousand dollars oh per hour. His hourly rate is two
thousand and fifty four dollars the depression per minute per minute,
John Harbit, John Harball will be making thirty four dollars

(28:14):
and twenty five cents per minute. That means when he's
dropping a deuce, he's making What how long youre on
the toilet?

Speaker 8 (28:22):
You go?

Speaker 3 (28:22):
What is that like?

Speaker 2 (28:23):
About? Maybe ten minutes? Maybe you shouldn't be on there
for more than ten minutes, right, that's.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Too long to probably see it. Yeah, right, so let's
see them.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Let me do some Mallard math. On the flat, I'm
taking the I'm taking the phone out. Hold on the second, Well,
do some Mallard math. So let me see here, let
me get the calculator on this. You're listening to a
live coverage on the Ben Maler Show. Let me bring
in my guy, Jackass, Josh, Josh, are you there? Here's
an old timer, Jackass. I'm doing I'm doing some malor math.

(28:50):
Hold on, Josh, I'm doing the math.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
I'm doing the math. Lamar Jackson then makes two hundred
and fifty thousand a day.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well, I don't care about him. He didn't he didn't
get fired. So hold, I say, and then let's say
ten minutes. So if this is great, So if John
Harbaught takes a ten minute bowel movement, he will make
three hundred and forty two dollars and fifty cents the boss.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
I would do.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Nothing but take dumps, is what I would do. I
would That's what that's my move. Yeah, Hi, Josh, where
have you been? Is this your yearly call to the show?

Speaker 8 (29:27):
John?

Speaker 6 (29:28):
When I've went hibernating in the winter here in La.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
He's a bear.

Speaker 7 (29:34):
I realized that I probably haven't been calling as much
because I worked during the week, and when I was
in my prime on your show, you hadn't been promoted
to weeknights at that time. You were.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah, I was slumming. I was doing the weekday nights,
weekend overnights. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
It was unbelievable. And then you would do double duty
with you know.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
Petros and Buddy.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
So it's awesome, man. I mean, the bottom lot tonight
was right on. Any sports fan who tuned in after
that game to Lamar Jackson's presser press conference would have
thought exactly what you said tonight, which was how could
he not have said? John's my coach. I stand by

(30:25):
my coach.

Speaker 7 (30:26):
That see, that's the problem with sports today, with these athletes.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
I mean. Look at Trey.

Speaker 7 (30:32):
Young in Atlanta, the guy, you know, the guy.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
He's not a team player. Look at Jimmy Butler last
year in Miami. He's getting paid millions of dollars to
play and he's sitting at home waiting to be dealt away.
This is the problem right now, is that like Lamar Jackson,
who's Lamar Jackson? Did any other team really want him
when when you might have been available, you know, being

(30:56):
his own head.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
This is a very sporty call, Josh. This is Jack
asked Gosh.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I've not talked to you in about a year, and
this is a very sporty phone call.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
We're doing a very sporty because it's important.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
Like I think these are your topic tonight in them
all He's crucial.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Right, we are doing God's work, is what we're doing.
That's right.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
And I have to say, there's one team that you
didn't mention, and I think is a possibility, the Washington
former redskin come in now?

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Why not?

Speaker 6 (31:26):
In the neighborhood is white, big kids, everybody's still in
the DC area right there?

Speaker 2 (31:34):
They got because A Jayden Daniels is not as good
as Lamar Jackson, and B he's about the same spot
injury wise as Lamar. So you're you're going for an
injury prone quarterback who's not as good as the guy
that you had.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
I would I wait, I wait for the Bills job.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
If I'm John Harby, wait for them to lose to Jacksonville,
and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
All right here, I am, shake your ass a little bit.
There you go.

Speaker 6 (32:01):
I like that take too. Why not be with the
Raiders in the same division as your brother?

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Oh God, you must hate you must hate John Harbaugh
if you want him to coach and the Raiders, I mean,
as that's a.

Speaker 6 (32:14):
Or he can or he could wait a year for
the Detroit job.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
I mean, you know, but there.

Speaker 7 (32:22):
You know.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
But is your dad still listening? Is he still around? Stillsten?

Speaker 6 (32:27):
He listens every night. He listens every night. He loves
your show and thanks you. You text me every He
text me every day asking why haven't you been on
the show.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
It's been about a year. It's been about a year.

Speaker 7 (32:39):
I think, yeah, And I said, I said, I said,
he's so popular you can't get off exactly.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
It's impossible.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
You know, when you have legends like Hollering James and
Lucky Tony Dorko, the comedian, lead Man, Hippie and Jed
who fled. I mean, these are big names, and to
to compete with these big names, it is not that easy.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
Yeah, I mean the Simpsons I just saw retiring.

Speaker 7 (33:06):
The guy that had the beer cans on his shoulders
after thirty years or whatever.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
It is the guy that hid out beer? Which guy
with the beer cans? They were the character of the
Barney Is it Barney? Is it Barney? Beer cans on
his shoulders?

Speaker 6 (33:21):
You ought to look him up. But anyway, actually he
probably isn't that memorable if.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
You know, if you guys don't know. But anyway, I
just hope you won't retire Jack as Josh because.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
It's there a whole lot of second daff Man from
Duff Beer. The mascot deaf Man being retired. Oh, I
guess it was retired the other day January fourth. Wow,
the Doff Corporation is retired.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
The character so breaking news, big news, the Big Ben
Bower Show.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Well, I had a buddy of mine used to be
a sports guy. Uh well, sports radio guy. Ken Levine
was a writer. He wrote the Albuquerque Isotopes episode and
they changed the minor league baseball team in Albuquerque changed
their name to the Isotopes because of the Simpsons.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
That's really cool.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, he was a minor league play by play. He
did major least for with the Mariners and the I
did stuff with him. We did the Dodger pregame show
and ever back in the day.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
But you know what I would call that, that's a
fun fact. Do you see that, Josh? Fun fact? You?
But you're bow guarding.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
All the time, Josh, I must, I must hang up
on you because wait, but does.

Speaker 6 (34:33):
He get does he get eighteen cents for every episode
when that airs, when that episode threears?

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Well, I could text him. I don't. I'm assuming he
makes it. He wrote it. He probably makes some money.
Sure why I talk to him? Twenty twenty seven? Okay,
that's great, give give you dag dada hog.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
There he goes, the great jackass, Josh going off to
the dreaded day shift. We've lost many great soldiers to
the day shift, and they never almost never come back,
almost never. They sell out like Chris and Houston. Ferg
Dog very upset about the deaf man. Oh yeah, the
deaf man he knew right away took uh Spock's Weed

(35:12):
on the Oregon Trails says, I've heard this poop math before.
He says, we have done that poop math before. We
have done that before. Ton Now for the who am I?

Speaker 7 (35:22):
Game?

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Is where I pretend to be somebody else has called
the who am I? Game?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
So Patriot's quarterback Drake may became the youngest player to
lead the NFL in passer rating?

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Since me?

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Again, Patriots quarterback Drake May became the youngest player youngest
player to lead the NFL in passer rating? Who since me?

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Who am I? That's the question? The answer? If you
know what eight you can hit us up on the
X Machine at Ben Maller. We'll get to that. We
will do it next.

Speaker 8 (35:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Maller Show.
And while the Ben Mallor.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Show does consume the content on the X Machine quite
a bit or in the live show, don't forget about
the other social media platforms you can interact with fans
of the show. If you're an insomniac and a night owl,
or if you're working the dreaded day shift and listening
on the podcast. You can always go back and interact

(36:21):
on Instagram at Ben Mahler on Fox. Nice people hang
out on Facebook. Oh you're a boomer, They're nice.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
At Ben Mahler Show. That's at Ben Mahler's Show. And
support the circus. And you do need the full and
click on the content. Need that click on the content.
Very important, very important. Yeah, gotta do it all right,
back to it, Back to it we go, and time
now for the play of the day. We'll pay off

(36:53):
the who m I game in a minute. But the
play of the day, which was not selected by me,
So let's go to that Laker Pelicans.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
The only game they ran on in the editing department.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Really game, we have an editing department that chose one game.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
Shot one game. Don't be tremendous work ethic.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
All right, let's go to the play of the day.
Rock issues now with four with the stools hazard.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Luca God for three? Yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
God please, that was Bill McDonald with the call and Steelers.
I knew Bill McDonald he called UC Irvine games on television.
Back to the but it's a big Laker guy for years. Anyway,
that was the play of the day, not just any
player today that Tiraq play to day. For over forty years,
ty Iraq has been helping customers find the right tires
for how, what and where they drive, ship fast and

(37:53):
free back by free road hazard protection with convenient installation
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Tire bond should be sir a more depressing sports franchise
than the New Orleans Pelicans.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
My god, dumb name. They got no direction. They just
suck got it bad? My god? All right, anyway, time
now to pay off. Yeah, they stank. There. Time for
the who am I?

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Game? As we blatantly suck up to our guys in
Boston in the Northeast. But here it is Patriots quarterback
Drake may Begin the youngest, the youngest player to lead
the NFL and passer rating since me. Who am I?
That's the question. What's the answer. Let's see anyone know
the answer. We go to the great unwashed, the Malam Militia.

(38:46):
Mallard prop guy says it's a coop a loop as
the Bronco quarterback who else do we have? Ostridch ant?
Says Josh Allen's hat is the answer. Ted Dancer, greatest
bartender of all time? Ted Dancing, You don't know? Ted Dance,
bad job by you?

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Who else?

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Gomer Pyle, That's a relevant name by Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota,
polk Hi legend Al Bundy from Elloy in Compton. Who
else do we have? The Blue Meani from Shane and
des Moines Shane.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
And Kelly there in des Moin.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Femi the Top Uber eats Driver in the Twin Cities
going with JaMarcus Russell as his answer. Greatest photo I've
ever received by a listener from FEMI. A single greatest
photo that has ever been sent to me by any
listener to the show in my career in radio was
from FEMI. Love that photo, Femi, love it, love it,
love it, love it. Who else we have to see?
Page Dan the Carolina Reaper, be careful, Ben from Fergnog

(39:44):
not from Gunner from ferg Doog anyone. After eating Skyline
chili from Big Right, Robbie says it's the greatest meal
on earth.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Though Robbie knows food, so Robbie is a food expert.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
According to Justin in Cincinnati, just Josh and rip Man
so Barry Huffman from King Roy I, what say you, Lorena.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
I'm gonna go with Michael PENNOCKX Junior.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
The terrible answer. It's Dan Marino. Get some isoponer gloves.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
Dan Marino
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