January 29, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Kliff Kingsbury deciding to stay with the Commanders and not take the Saints job, reports that Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy's name is being floated for head coaching jobs again, massive ratings for the AFC Championship game, and more!
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We go. Welcome, It's our Nameber one hour one of
the original Recipe podcast, Happy Wednesday, as we get over
the hump on this twenty ninth day of January. This
is the original long form, non radio edit version of
the podcast. You'll hear all the bad words, all these
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people that aren't sober calling up and saying crazy things.
But here in hour one, Cliff Kingsbury is staying with
the Commanders. He's not interested in the Saints job. Are
you okay with this decision? Also, former Chiefs offensive Guru
in the air quotes Eric b. Enemy his name has
been floated for NFL jobs yet again, believe it or not.
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And how do you explain almost fifty eight million, over
fifty seven almost fifty eight million people watching the Chiefs
and the Bills. We'll discuss that and everything else right
now here we go, make a b line. Turn up
the volume. It's our one, not headed to the Bayou.
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our lead this hour from the coaching carousel. The carousel's
pretty much done at this point. The music has all
but stopped. There is one job left open. It does
not appear that it is actually open. In theory, that
would be the New Orleans Shop, but the NFL traveling
circus heading to the shores of the mighty Mississippi River
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over the weekend for the great media freeloaders event, the
Radio Row Super Bowl Week, where your favorite radio personalities
and NFL media run up expense accounts to interview athletes
selling you products you don't really need or want. But
it happens every year in New Orleans, the host city.
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So if you haven't heard the latest on this, we
are told now that the Commanders offensive genius Cliff Kingsbury.
He was the village idiot with the Cardinals, but now
with Jayden Daniels, all of a sudden he's at the
very top of many watch lists. So Cliff Kingsbury has said,
no Moss, no Moss. I am not not going to
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show interest in the Saints job. I am rebuffing the
New Orleans Saints rejected, and he will remain the offensive
guru of Jaden Daniels in Washington. New Orleans supposedly was interested,
you believe the scuttle butt around the NFL. Who knows
what to believe at this point, But Kingsbury did not
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share the interest, and he said no, I would not
talk to anybody when the Commanders were in the playoffs,
so they could go out and give up double nickels
to the Eagles and lose an embarrassing fashion. And now
has decided altogether Kingsbury to stay in the DMV for
the near future. So let us discuss Cliff Kingsbury staying
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with the Commanders, And the reporting said, well, he wasn't
interested in the Saints job. Are you okay with that?
So I've got rainy Day Lulu Man and daily double,
daily double. We'll combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a grilled cheese sandwich with
the cheese inside and out grilled, the proper way to
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make a grilled cheese sandwich. So my first thought here,
you always have to go into this wondering if there's
some ulterior motive, and I think there is in this case.
Is Cliff Kingsbury being honest? And he said, well, he's
a coach and coaches by default or not honest, But
it actually does make sense. It does make sense here
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you take a couple of steps back, and he can
be a picky eater. He doesn't have to eat his vegetables.
And let's face it, the New Orleans Saints coaching job
is Brussels sprouts. It's cauliflower. It's not steak, it's not
prime ribs. It's the vegetable part of the plate. And
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you can be discriminating if you're Cliff Kingsbury. And here's
why he is sitting on top of a pile of pesos,
a giant jackpot. Here, Cliff Kingsbury holds all the carts.
He reaps all the benefits of being bad as a
head coach, literally, he is still getting paid the Golden
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handshake from the Arizona football team. Cliff Kingsbury has a
pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty good trust fund set up here,
a rainy day fund if you will here, meaning that,
like I said, you could be a picky eater. You
don't have to eat the Brussels sprouts, the cauliflower, the broccoli.
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You can wait for the dessert if you want. You
can have the steak, you can have the chicken. You
don't have to eat the vegetables. Here he's getting his
head coaching salary from the Cardinals. Now how much Cliff
Kingsbury making seven point five million annually this year, next year,
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and until twenty twenty seven, so he's got a several
more years left that The Bidwell family is paying him
a lot of money, a lot of money to be
a one day wonder, which he kind of wasn't here.
I have the good starts every year and then Alligator
Arms Murray settled in and Kingsbury wasn't that smart a coach.
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We'll see how it goes with Jaden Daniels. But that's
money for nothing, and it allows you to sit back
and just kind of wait, I just kind of wait
around and see what happens and see how it goes.
Now turning the page, so we're hearing that another name
that we've heard of who at one point was a
whiz kid and a genius, and so many people writing
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think pieces that this guy should be an NFL head coach,
and it was it was a great injustice that this
guy didn't get a head coaching job, except as he's
kept coaching and been terrible. We're talking about former Chiefs
offensive coordinator Eric p Enemy. Seems that Murphy's Law has
kicked in for the enemy and whatever can go wrong
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will go wrong lately for the enemy. Currently unemployed. He
according to the recent scuttle butt, Eric Penemy, longtime Chiefs
assistant coach who bet on himself and lost, is now
out out in about He's spoken to multiple NFL teams
regarding openings on their coaching staff. Now some of those talks,
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according to one report, I saw ongoing. They're using the
word ongoing. Okay, ongoing, what does that even mean? He
did talk to the Patriots. They said, ha, ha, you're
not Josh McDaniels. Want Josh McDaniels. We're bringing Josh McDaniels back,
so we all know the history. The enemy was with
Andy Reid for a long time. It was in Kansas
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City for a long time. I was a running back
coach and then became the offensive coordinator. And during that
stretch the Chiefs went to the playoffs nine times in
ten years that the enemy was there, not necessarily because
of the enemy. They also won a couple of Super Bowls.
I guess this guy named Pat Mahomes might have been
responsible for some of that. So former Chiefs offensive coordinator
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Eric Benemy, whose career is on life support at this point,
coaching his name being floated for NFL assistant coaching jobs.
Believe it or not. Believe it or not, so I
am agnostic on this one. This strikes me as an
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artistic endeavor, meaning the art of man the station. So
Eric Banemy, I don't doubt that his agent is contacting teams. Hey,
we'd like to be on the staff their The enemy
is looking for work and he's determined the agent to
talk this into existence. So my experience in the past
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when I when I ran my rumor site back in
the day, was a lot of this is. If you
put it out there, it'll happen, meaning you plant the
rumor strategically with some guru inside information person, whether they're
inside the NFL or outside, and then that gets people
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talking and then eventually some team will cave in and
bring Bien me in. But at this point, Eric Beenemy
bet on himself. He said, I'm gonna invest all my
money in my stock. I'm going to Wall Street and
I'm gonna buy stock in Eric b Enemy is what
I'm gonna do. And that stock had about as good
a year or the last couple of years as Lulu Man,
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Dollar General and Walgreens talk about a fall from grace.
He was the special ingredient if you believed all these
idiots in the media in Kansas City, and he was
wonderful there and so responsible for the success. And as
soon as he left Eric Bienemy Patrick Mahomes, he has
been pantsed everywhere he's been. He went to Washington to
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prove he can win without a good quarterback and have
success without a good quarterback with the commanders. How did
that go? Don't ask? They sucked stopped off at uc
LA and did an epic belly opera with those gutty
little bruins of Westwood and now he's desperate to get
back into the NFL. It would appear the fish are
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not biting. Now can the agent work magic here? We'll
find out. And there's so many coaching jobs in the NFL,
I find it hard to believe the enemy won't get one.
He's got to have a friend somewhere. But as far
as being an offensive coordinator, I'd be very surprised. If
he's an offensive coordinator. He could be like a senior
assistant and assistant to the assistant to the assistant, something
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like that. But in terms of calling the plays being
the offensive coordinator, no one is screaming for that to happen.
All right, final stop to television land we go the
AFC Championship game, which was played this past weekend Kansas
City and Buffalo, couple of markets that are not plumb
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TV markets, Buffalo and Kansas City, but it didn't matter.
That game true a massive rating for CBS. We are
told that the Chiefs Bills game averaged almost fifty eight
million viewers fifty seven point seven million, making it the
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most watched AFC Championship game since Ronald Reagan was the
president back in the nineteen eighties. It's a long time ago, wowsers.
So how do you explain? How do you explain almost
fifty eight million over seven fifty seven to fifty eight
million people watching the Chiefs and the Bills feel the
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burn of the Chiefs and the Bills game. So this
is I'll be the adult in the room. It's the
daily double, daily double, daily double. It's the daily double.
You've got storylines and you've got stats. You had the
Bills looking to get over the hump, right for Josh Allen,
get back to the super Bowl and all those lunatic
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Bills mafia people who were so worried about sports with
Coleman that they were celebrating like they had won the
Super Bowl, the idiots after they beat the Ravens. So
yet Bill's Mafia, all Jones, dup you guy, win one
for Josh Allen. I heard a lot of people say
the do factor was in all they were due, They
were due to beat Kansas City. Had that workout. You
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had the intrigue of Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City trying
to win a third super Bowl. But to win a
third super Bowl, you have to get to a third
straight super Bowl. So they had to jump over the steeple,
you know, the steeple chase of Buffalo to get to
the game. And then you add a little eye candy
Taylor Swift eating popcorn in a luxury box. So it
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was a swift boat for Taylor Swift. There the thrill
of victory, the agony of defeat, that human drama of
live sports television, all of it playing out, and that
was enough to arouse Enteres. And I'm not talking about you,
and I like, we're gonna watch, right, we watch. We're
the hardcore base. You don't worry about the base when
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you want when you run for political office, you're not
worried about the base. The base is going to be there.
The diehards are going to be there. You're worried about
the casual, the low information fan, the dumb fan, the
fan that's not a real fan, of fake fan that
know't anything about it, but they watch it anyway because
everyone else is watching. The phony fan. You're worried about
the phony fan. If you can get the phony fan
to watch your golden right, it's compelling TV. You add
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the fact that it was back and forth, Buffalo had
the lead early in the fourth quarter, and that is
the cherry on top of the rating. Sunday makes for
compelling theater and it paid off fifty eight million. Not
your common or garden variety game. And so we'll see
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if that carries out. Of course it will. It's going
to carry over to the super Bowl. Who we kidne here,
They always get huge ratings to the super Bowl. And
now this is bigger because the Chiefs have a chance
to either do something that hasn't been done or screw
it up right at the finish line and not get
it done. But either way, that's your story. That and
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Taylor Swift will be there. Boo hoo hoo. It is
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Ben guy, well, it's actually it's it's my name is Ben.
Some call me Benny, Benny versus the penny sometimes people
say that, but but that that's the name right there.
It's it's it's the name, and I go with that
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Be I love you.
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Thank you, Thank you. Now. Weed Man lives in Miami,
which is not near Duvall Cony. But I bet you
can say it better than the coach of the Jags
right now. Maybe yeah, even better than that though, is
the the facial expression of the new Jacksonville coach, who
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looked as goofball as you can possibly look in that moment,
Ozzie was it's in from Australia. He's way out in
the boondocks in Australia where only the kangaroos and the
wild animals live. He says, who would want to coach
the Saints while they have Derek Carr. Let's not forget
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he got Dennis Allen fired twice. Ferg Dog says, are
the live Reids actually live or where they recorded months ago?
They always sound way too good to be done live. Well,
that's a fine point for Dog. That's the magic of radio.
You don't know whether they're live or not. They sound
like they might not be live, but yet they could
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be live. I don't know. Chipping the Q's rites in
from Ale seven, he says a plus in the Mallain monologue,
the fact that even Eric the enemies apparently didn't even
have a contact at the Saints job. They're head coaching job,
tells you everything about just how awful the New Orleans
job really is. Yeah, well it's an NFL job. It's
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an NFL job. Terry in England says Cliff Kingsbury couldn't
make Alligator Arms Murray stop with the Xbox controller. Well
he did all right until there was that big tournament.
And I don't know how you expect any NFL coach
to stop their starting quarterback from participating in a call
of duty tournament that's much more important than playing in
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the NFL. And who are we kidding here? Come on, please,
spox Weed writes in from the Oregon Trail. Spoxwed, an
award winner on some of the bits that we've done
over the recent years, says, does Cliff Kingsbury recognize his
own Peter principle? No? No, you never recognize your Peter principle.
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That's never how it works. A slim Tim, a proud
cheesehead Slim Tim, devoted dedicated listener to this show and
the Fifth Hour podcast, says he is blazed out at
work and looking forward to the rest of the rousing
show and away we go, There you go. Jose writes
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and says, hey, Mallard, tell me I'm wrong, And then
he's got a side by side. Now I'm gonna describe
this if you're one of our blind listeners, I'm gonna
describe this. So it shows Liam Kohne, the new coach
of the Jacksonville football team, and he's got a smirk
on his face, and next to him on the other
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side of the image from Jose is the iconic nineteen
seventies nineteen eighties character Gumby, and it does look a
lot like Gumby. It's almost like the NFL said, well,
we need a Gumby like figure in our business. And
then they hired him to say duval and boy did
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he say man did he say it with Gusto unless
he didn't, unless he was missing the gust a. Yeah,
you know what Jerry Jones had to say about that.
Jerry pointed out that when you say certain things, it's
it's not all well, that's let Jerry say, there's a
very low percentage of this that is smiles and glory hopes. Yeah,
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very little, very very little. I did see a story
there was somebody was, well, Jerry shouldn't be saying that.
That's not right. Jerry's a shame on him. That's the
beauty of when you get to a certain age. May
we all live long enough to get to that age?
The I don't give a blank. We can't judge old people, Ben,
We can't no why they live in their own ways.
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You can't force them out of it. They just get
mad and angry. Now, plus you're like, you get to
a certain point, you're like, I don't want to play
by these rules. They know what the rules are, but
they don't want to play by the rules. And you'll
we'll all get there at some point, if we live
long enough, we'll all be at the point where the
ben Yeah, my grandfather, when I was a little kid,
we would go out family you know, dinners or whatever
the weekends, and he would harass the waiters at the restaurants,
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you know, used old guy privilege, and he was a
master of it. He I'm convinced. I never knew him
as a young man, obviously because I, you know, was
my grandfather, but man, as as a kid watching him,
I was cringeworthy. I was, oh, man, I was uncomfortable.
And he just went for it. You know. He'd send
food back which you knew they were spitting in when
they sent it back to the kitchen, you know, spitting
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loogies in it and all that. And he'd always ask
for like old guy discounts and stuff like that, and
he'd go for all the all the tricks. But I mean,
it was it was next level. He was like a
ninja when it came to that kind of stuff. The
way he would he would get or done. Man. Let's see,
Bob writes, and he says, CBS went to break with
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Give It Away on Sunday, and I don't know if
that was better or worse than you guys coming back
with Danny California. Okay, I don't know what what is that? Landa?
Do you know what that meant? Bob that hot chili peppers?
I know boys he can play with? Who cares? Why's
he upset? I'm all the things to get upset about.
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Shane in des Moines says a plus plus on the
mal of monologue open the show. I know you don't
take request, but a Newbie week would save my soul
unless it wouldn't. Well, the problem with that is that
not only would Shane in des Moines be shut out,
but Kelly and des Moines would also be shut out.
If we did a newbie week, a couple of regulars
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would not be able to be part of the program.
Thus the problem. All right, we'll go to the phones
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight
seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine, and
we'll start it out with hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello,
hollering James, put a leadoff chair.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I'm up to bad. How you doing Ben, what's up?
Bill Miller?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Are you gonna get on bass? So? Are you gonna
are you going to have a solid at bat here?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
What's your alias? Let's get a salad that bad like
Joe Mahler malware, power Baby, mawer, power Baby.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He's not playing anymore, James, let it go.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
He's not. He's enjoying his retirement. He earned an SUV.
I just want to see you again, man.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, you're retired, aren't you, James? You're kind of retired, right,
You're not really working.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I'm kicked back. I'm enjoying the chicks coming in every month.
You know who is president now? Donald Trump? Your guy,
Donald Trump, the number one eight?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, is my my guy, my good friend.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
A little bit more on my social Security check in January.
I'm looking forward to it. Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Those are your tax dollars at work, right there? Those
are our tax dollars.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
That we're not my tax dollars at work.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I know they're my tax dollars. Yes, yes, Well, how
can we help you, James?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yes, let's switch it happing. What about trade up? Jeeves?
We got we got Sam Donald right, and we don't
know what to do in his contract. He's done. He's
over with. How about getting Matthew Stafford in here?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yeah, all right, let's make a trade. All right, the
Rams will trade you Matthew Stafford and you have to
send Justin Jefferson back to l a deal. Let's make
the deal right now on the radio. We're gonna make
the deal.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
And it works out.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You would be willing to trade Justin Jefferson right now.
I'll throw in Cooper Cup. You canna have Cooper Cup too?
How about that?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I would love Cooper Cupp. He's a tough kid. You
know why he's a tough kid because he plays with
his heart and soul and he play that goes out
and plays with his heart and soul. Like I'm getting
out on this contract of conversation with you right now.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Beautiful time meeting you at the I know it's wonderful
as it was like a religious revival when I when
I walked in there and I met hollering James, oh
my God, and all the other legends there in Minnesota.
What an amazing night. Was Still upset, I to.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Be quiet for a minute until you got free. Remember
when everybody stood around you and talk to you. I'm
till you got free. I got the opportunity to take
you over. There came with.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
James. I feel like the rest of my life, every
time I talk to you, I'm going to hear about this.
Is that correct? I know? I know you do. Thank you, God,
bless you.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I have to ask Coop that I don't know. You'd
have to check with him.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I don't know how many times, but then you'll know.
I'm telling you. Then I really enjoy killing you on
the line.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
All right, all right, I'm blessing right now. I'm a
little embarrassed. Can I can I move on? James? I
feel like you're out of material. I feel like you're
too fast.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
You tell Arena we think about her too, but not
as much as all right.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I gotta go. Thank you. All right there, he's hollering,
what a great start to the show. Man alive? Okay, Well,
I hope they're enjoying it in Edmonton, because we are
live right now on many radio station, including the Great
fourteen forty there in Edmonton doing live. They're promoting the
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show there and we have had some calls. I think
they're promoting the show the proper way. We've gotten a
few calls from Edmonton over the last couple of weeks,
so they're getting our show. There you go, Robbie the
Mariner fan says Danny California is one of my favorite
songs of all time. Good job by you for playing
the song. Ignore the haters, yes, ignore the haters. Do
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not feed the haters. You must ignore the haters at
all costs. So the manuscript has returned. It's been a
big week for engagement. If you're in the business of
engagement and you make your living on getting people to
click things, and then you get paid for that, and
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there's a big industry where all you do is make
sure you put stuff up that's interesting that people will
click on with the right headline and away we go.
And much of the conversation in our world has been
about great conspiracies, and it's the illusionary truth theory that
if you believe something and then you keep seeing it
over and over again, you'll think it's true even when
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it's not. Like, for example, the NFL is rigging everything
for Market thirty one to win the Super Bowl, but
there's a lot of stupid people that believe that that's fine.
And now there's another timeless, timeless conspiracy that has popped
up here that the Super Bowl logo, which we've kind
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of known about that put the team logos in there,
but they they announced now that they've had the Chiefs
and Eagles the official revealing with their logos mixed in
the two time defending Super Bowl champions and they are
taking on the philadel Fi Eagles. Look at the Great
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conspiracy this week, right the logo If you believe the
Deep Web, the Deep Dark Web, the theory claims that
the past Super Bowl logos have correctly predicted who matches
up against one another in the Big Game. Super Bowl
fifty six's logo had an orange and yellow scheme. That
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was the Bengals representing the orange and the Rams representing
the yellow. It was played that game. Of course, he
could have also been the Chiefs if they had made it,
because they they have yellow. A fifty seven super Bowl
fifty seven that had green and red as the color
combination featuring the Eagles and the Chiefs, and the conspiracy
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did not really work last year. It didn't really work
with purple and red, so that did not predict the
matchup of the Chiefs and the forty nine ers. There
was no purple to be seen. But don't worry. The
conspiracy is back because the forty nine ers taking on
or taking on the Chiefs last year. I guess the
Chiefs were the purple team whatever because they won blah
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blah blah. But now the new logo out and they're
pointing at saying, well, see see what they've got right there.
If you look at the logo, it's confirmed. It's confirmed.
It's back. Ahead of the Super Bowl, believers are already predicted.
Matchup between the Chiefs and the Eagles in New Orleans
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this year was predicted by said logo. The logo not
only claims to predict the matchup for the Super Bowl,
but also the result of the game because the team
whose color was predominant in the bottom of the logo
ends up waning. Are you saying with me? There'll be
a quiz on this later. So who's going to win
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Super Bowl fifty nine based on who's got based on
that theory? Well, if you believe the conspiracy theory, it's
going to be the Philadelphia Eagles, who going to win
the Super Bowl based on the fact that their representation
is more let me hear you all say, ye owe, no,
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let's go Birds. Yeah, let's go, let's go birds. There
you go. It's all all birds. So if you believe
the conspiracy, it's all over for Kansas City and Sequon
Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles will win. Based on the logo,
it's all right there in the logo. There's no way
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to avoid it. It's going to happen. The dumbest thing
I've ever read in my life. Well, it's the it's
the interweb, that's what you want. And they keep repeating
stuff and it works.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
What did they tried to say that the purple represented
the halftime performer?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
How convenient for their for last year when it didn't work. Yes,
that is Yeah, it's true. There was a halftime show.
They pointed at the purple. The forty nine ers on
one side, the purple on the other. All right, we'll
take your phone calls. You want to be part eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
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nine six six three six nine. So you do everything
you can to pacify your star player, and then your
star players like, screw you. I don't want to be here.
It's happening. It's happening all over the place. Also, here's
the who am I? Game? This is where I pretend
to be somebody else, as we call it the who
am I? Game? And you can answer this on X
at Ben Mallard. Who that's at? Ben Maller, I was
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the last non kicker slash punter to wear a single
bar face mask in the NFL. Now it's been a minute,
but again, I was the last non kicker or punter
meaning some other position to wear that old single bar
face mask in an NFL game. Who am I? Who that? Well,
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you'll have to guess who I am. I'm not gonna
tell you right now, but if you want to give
it a shot, send me a message on X at
Ben Mahler. Again, I was the last non kicker slash
punter to wear a single bar face mask in an
NFL game. Who Am I? The answer? We'll get to it.
We'll take more of your calls, and we will do
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to it and Benny Blowhard. No, it's Benny from Benny
Versus the Penny, which we'll have a new episode this weekend.
I was actually I had some meetings with the producer.
We're going back and forth for Benny Versus the Penny.
We're trying to decide what we're going to talk about
because there are no games to discuss, so we're strategizing
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what we're going to do to kill a half hour
of valuable TV time. So we'll see, we'll see what
we come up with with that. But we're working on that.
We're efforting that. Have some more more meetings later today,
some more things to take care of on that, so
we'll see what happens with the TV show. But we're
in the radio show right now, and here is the
who I game. It's where I pretend to be somebody else.
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Thus we call it to who am I? Game? And
here it is. I was the last non kicker who
slash punter to wear a single bar face mask in
the NFL. Now, when I was a kid, and back
in my day, when you bought one of those replica
NFL kid jerseys and helmets, they all had the single
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bar face mask and it was like so stupid. But
there was one player, the last player, last of the Mohigans,
that had that actual face mask in a game. So again,
I was the last non kicker punter to wear a
single bar face mask in the NFL. Who am I?
That is the question. What is the answer, hollering James?
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Guess by Mallard property that does look just like hollering James.
You nailed it. If hollering James played for the Vikings,
that would be him in uniform. Shane and the Moyne
going with former Miami Heat player versus Sean Leonard as
his selection. Andy Reid as a child, Big Andy Reid
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from King Rory. Who else do we have? Robbie the
Mariner fan from the goat Man. Oh, that is Robbie.
Look at Robbie out there playing ball. I didn't know
Robbie was a ballplayer. I had no idea superstar. Billy
Graham from Rob in Vegas, a legend, omar infante, not
a legend from mister nice guy. Mark Gasol, who is
forty today? Forty Mark Gasol from the Late Night Drug
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Tester Andy going with Ray Finkel and that's Andy in
line O Lakes, Minnesota. Eric Metcalf from Rob in Minnesota.
Met Rob at the Malameat Greek. He was down there
hanging out. We did that back in the day. Robbie
the Mariner fan says Chance Nolan, former saddleback and Beaver
quarterback and now New York Yankee minor league pitcher. Yes,
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you read that correctly. Well, if he's a former battle
back gauchow, he'll be fine. Because the player that had
the most hits in Major League Baseball in the decade
of the nineteen nineties, a former saddleback gaucho, the great
Mark Grace of the Chicago Cups. Who else do we
have page down? Nature boy checks and he says, Elmer J.
Fudd millionaire is the correct answer. Lawson going with Willie
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Lanier as his selection. Who else do we have page down?
Super Marcus. Steve says, the last player I remember wearing
a single bar face mask was Bobby Bouche, but he
only played in college, and that's his answer. Steve the
misplaced San Diegan going with former Montreal ex bow legend
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the Great Ellis Valentine as his answer. Jim Click from
James DJ Spin in San Diego going with Charlie Joyner
for the old San Diego Chargers. Bart Starr from Don Juan.
That's his answer. Don Maynard from EK met him as
well at the Malama. The Ambassador of Bakersfield got this right.
You're obviously cheating. It's a bad job by you. You
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should be better than that. Rod. You're the ambassador of
bleeping Bakersfield. Shame on you, all right, Lorena, do you
know it's not Doug Flutie guessed by Brendan. It's not
Captain Crunch, although I loved Captain Crunch when I was
a fat kid growing up. That's from Trent. It's not him,
not not Mark Moseley from Fat Daddy. That's not the answer.
Do you have an answer, Lorraina. My guess was going
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to be Troy Polamalu Ben Troy Palamer what team did
he play for? He was on the one with the Colors. Yes,
that is correct, all right, No, you're unfortunately correct. The
correct answer a man who changed his name to win
a college award at Notre Dame. Joe Thyman. Joe, He's
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the answer with the old Washington Redskins back in the
nineteen eighties, Joe Fisman the last? How about that? Here?
All right? Lorena? Too much weed? What do we got
going on? My goodness, are you trying to get the
show over with? Lorena already? Well, it is midnight in
some places, it's past midnight and other places. Unfortunately, here
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in the Magic Radio Box, it's only our one. I
know you want it to be our number two, but
it is not our number two. All right, it's first errors.
That's E one on your scorecard. It is duly noted.
So I did want to mention this. The Sacramento Kings
trying to pacify one of their star players, really their
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biggest start, the Aaron Fox. So they fired Mike Brown.
And now a month after they fired their head coach,
seemingly to appease d Aaron Fox, he has requested a
trade from the Sacramento Kings. And we don't talk a
much NBA right now because it's football playoffs and all that,
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but there's all kinds of chatter that he's going to
go this team that does birth, the Lakers and all that,
and makes my eyes spin in my head round and
round and round and round and round and round and
round and round and round and round,
We go. Welcome, It's our Nameber one hour one of
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But here in hour one, Cliff Kingsbury is staying with
the Commanders. He's not interested in the Saints job. Are
you okay with this decision? Also, former Chiefs offensive Guru
in the air quotes Eric b. Enemy his name has
been floated for NFL jobs yet again, believe it or not.
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And how do you explain almost fifty eight million, over
fifty seven almost fifty eight million people watching the Chiefs
and the Bills. We'll discuss that and everything else right
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our lead this hour from the coaching carousel. The carousel's
pretty much done at this point. The music has all
but stopped. There is one job left open. It does
not appear that it is actually open. In theory, that
would be the New Orleans Shop, but the NFL traveling
circus heading to the shores of the mighty Mississippi River
(02:38):
over the weekend for the great media freeloaders event, the
Radio Row Super Bowl Week, where your favorite radio personalities
and NFL media run up expense accounts to interview athletes
selling you products you don't really need or want. But
it happens every year in New Orleans, the host city.
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So if you haven't heard the latest on this, we
are told now that the Commanders offensive genius Cliff Kingsbury.
He was the village idiot with the Cardinals, but now
with Jayden Daniels, all of a sudden he's at the
very top of many watch lists. So Cliff Kingsbury has said,
no Moss, no Moss. I am not not going to
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show interest in the Saints job. I am rebuffing the
New Orleans Saints rejected, and he will remain the offensive
guru of Jaden Daniels in Washington. New Orleans supposedly was interested,
you believe the scuttle butt around the NFL. Who knows
what to believe at this point, But Kingsbury did not
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share the interest, and he said no, I would not
talk to anybody when the Commanders were in the playoffs,
so they could go out and give up double nickels
to the Eagles and lose an embarrassing fashion. And now
has decided altogether Kingsbury to stay in the DMV for
the near future. So let us discuss Cliff Kingsbury staying
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with the Commanders, And the reporting said, well, he wasn't
interested in the Saints job. Are you okay with that?
So I've got rainy Day Lulu Man and daily double,
daily double. We'll combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a grilled cheese sandwich with
the cheese inside and out grilled, the proper way to
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make a grilled cheese sandwich. So my first thought here,
you always have to go into this wondering if there's
some ulterior motive, and I think there is in this case.
Is Cliff Kingsbury being honest? And he said, well, he's
a coach and coaches by default or not honest, But
it actually does make sense. It does make sense here
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you take a couple of steps back, and he can
be a picky eater. He doesn't have to eat his vegetables.
And let's face it, the New Orleans Saints coaching job
is Brussels sprouts. It's cauliflower. It's not steak, it's not
prime ribs. It's the vegetable part of the plate. And
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you can be discriminating if you're Cliff Kingsbury. And here's
why he is sitting on top of a pile of pesos,
a giant jackpot. Here, Cliff Kingsbury holds all the carts.
He reaps all the benefits of being bad as a
head coach, literally, he is still getting paid the Golden
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handshake from the Arizona football team. Cliff Kingsbury has a
pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty good trust fund set up here,
a rainy day fund if you will here, meaning that,
like I said, you could be a picky eater. You
don't have to eat the Brussels sprouts, the cauliflower, the broccoli.
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You can wait for the dessert if you want. You
can have the steak, you can have the chicken. You
don't have to eat the vegetables. Here he's getting his
head coaching salary from the Cardinals. Now how much Cliff
Kingsbury making seven point five million annually this year, next year,
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and until twenty twenty seven, so he's got a several
more years left that The Bidwell family is paying him
a lot of money, a lot of money to be
a one day wonder, which he kind of wasn't here.
I have the good starts every year and then Alligator
Arms Murray settled in and Kingsbury wasn't that smart a coach.
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We'll see how it goes with Jaden Daniels. But that's
money for nothing, and it allows you to sit back
and just kind of wait, I just kind of wait
around and see what happens and see how it goes.
Now turning the page, so we're hearing that another name
that we've heard of who at one point was a
whiz kid and a genius, and so many people writing
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think pieces that this guy should be an NFL head coach,
and it was it was a great injustice that this
guy didn't get a head coaching job, except as he's
kept coaching and been terrible. We're talking about former Chiefs
offensive coordinator Eric p Enemy. Seems that Murphy's Law has
kicked in for the enemy and whatever can go wrong
(07:23):
will go wrong lately for the enemy. Currently unemployed. He
according to the recent scuttle butt, Eric Penemy, longtime Chiefs
assistant coach who bet on himself and lost, is now
out out in about He's spoken to multiple NFL teams
regarding openings on their coaching staff. Now some of those talks,
(07:48):
according to one report, I saw ongoing. They're using the
word ongoing. Okay, ongoing, what does that even mean? He
did talk to the Patriots. They said, ha, ha, you're
not Josh McDaniels. Want Josh McDaniels. We're bringing Josh McDaniels back,
so we all know the history. The enemy was with
Andy Reid for a long time. It was in Kansas
(08:08):
City for a long time. I was a running back
coach and then became the offensive coordinator. And during that
stretch the Chiefs went to the playoffs nine times in
ten years that the enemy was there, not necessarily because
of the enemy. They also won a couple of Super Bowls.
I guess this guy named Pat Mahomes might have been
responsible for some of that. So former Chiefs offensive coordinator
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Eric Benemy, whose career is on life support at this point,
coaching his name being floated for NFL assistant coaching jobs.
Believe it or not. Believe it or not, so I
am agnostic on this one. This strikes me as an
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artistic endeavor, meaning the art of man the station. So
Eric Banemy, I don't doubt that his agent is contacting teams. Hey,
we'd like to be on the staff their The enemy
is looking for work and he's determined the agent to
talk this into existence. So my experience in the past
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when I when I ran my rumor site back in
the day, was a lot of this is. If you
put it out there, it'll happen, meaning you plant the
rumor strategically with some guru inside information person, whether they're
inside the NFL or outside, and then that gets people
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talking and then eventually some team will cave in and
bring Bien me in. But at this point, Eric Beenemy
bet on himself. He said, I'm gonna invest all my
money in my stock. I'm going to Wall Street and
I'm gonna buy stock in Eric b Enemy is what
I'm gonna do. And that stock had about as good
a year or the last couple of years as Lulu Man,
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Dollar General and Walgreens talk about a fall from grace.
He was the special ingredient if you believed all these
idiots in the media in Kansas City, and he was
wonderful there and so responsible for the success. And as
soon as he left Eric Bienemy Patrick Mahomes, he has
been pantsed everywhere he's been. He went to Washington to
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prove he can win without a good quarterback and have
success without a good quarterback with the commanders. How did
that go? Don't ask? They sucked stopped off at uc
LA and did an epic belly opera with those gutty
little bruins of Westwood and now he's desperate to get
back into the NFL. It would appear the fish are
(10:49):
not biting. Now can the agent work magic here? We'll
find out. And there's so many coaching jobs in the NFL,
I find it hard to believe the enemy won't get one.
He's got to have a friend somewhere. But as far
as being an offensive coordinator, I'd be very surprised. If
he's an offensive coordinator. He could be like a senior
assistant and assistant to the assistant to the assistant, something
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like that. But in terms of calling the plays being
the offensive coordinator, no one is screaming for that to happen.
All right, final stop to television land we go the
AFC Championship game, which was played this past weekend Kansas
City and Buffalo, couple of markets that are not plumb
(11:36):
TV markets, Buffalo and Kansas City, but it didn't matter.
That game true a massive rating for CBS. We are
told that the Chiefs Bills game averaged almost fifty eight
million viewers fifty seven point seven million, making it the
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most watched AFC Championship game since Ronald Reagan was the
president back in the nineteen eighties. It's a long time ago, wowsers.
So how do you explain? How do you explain almost
fifty eight million over seven fifty seven to fifty eight
million people watching the Chiefs and the Bills feel the
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burn of the Chiefs and the Bills game. So this
is I'll be the adult in the room. It's the
daily double, daily double, daily double. It's the daily double.
You've got storylines and you've got stats. You had the
Bills looking to get over the hump, right for Josh Allen,
get back to the super Bowl and all those lunatic
(12:42):
Bills mafia people who were so worried about sports with
Coleman that they were celebrating like they had won the
Super Bowl, the idiots after they beat the Ravens. So
yet Bill's Mafia, all Jones, dup you guy, win one
for Josh Allen. I heard a lot of people say
the do factor was in all they were due, They
were due to beat Kansas City. Had that workout. You
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had the intrigue of Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City trying
to win a third super Bowl. But to win a
third super Bowl, you have to get to a third
straight super Bowl. So they had to jump over the steeple,
you know, the steeple chase of Buffalo to get to
the game. And then you add a little eye candy
Taylor Swift eating popcorn in a luxury box. So it
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was a swift boat for Taylor Swift. There the thrill
of victory, the agony of defeat, that human drama of
live sports television, all of it playing out, and that
was enough to arouse Enteres. And I'm not talking about you,
and I like, we're gonna watch, right, we watch. We're
the hardcore base. You don't worry about the base when
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you want when you run for political office, you're not
worried about the base. The base is going to be there.
The diehards are going to be there. You're worried about
the casual, the low information fan, the dumb fan, the
fan that's not a real fan, of fake fan that
know't anything about it, but they watch it anyway because
everyone else is watching. The phony fan. You're worried about
the phony fan. If you can get the phony fan
to watch your golden right, it's compelling TV. You add
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the fact that it was back and forth, Buffalo had
the lead early in the fourth quarter, and that is
the cherry on top of the rating. Sunday makes for
compelling theater and it paid off fifty eight million. Not
your common or garden variety game. And so we'll see
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if that carries out. Of course it will. It's going
to carry over to the super Bowl. Who we kidne here,
They always get huge ratings to the super Bowl. And
now this is bigger because the Chiefs have a chance
to either do something that hasn't been done or screw
it up right at the finish line and not get
it done. But either way, that's your story. That and
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Taylor Swift will be there. Boo hoo hoo. It is
the Band Malor Show. If you would like to comment
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It's it's it's the name, and I go with that
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name and we will.
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Thank you, Thank you. Now. Weed Man lives in Miami,
which is not near Duvall Cony. But I bet you
can say it better than the coach of the Jags
right now. Maybe yeah, even better than that though, is
the the facial expression of the new Jacksonville coach, who
(18:01):
looked as goofball as you can possibly look in that moment,
Ozzie was it's in from Australia. He's way out in
the boondocks in Australia where only the kangaroos and the
wild animals live. He says, who would want to coach
the Saints while they have Derek Carr. Let's not forget
(18:24):
he got Dennis Allen fired twice. Ferg Dog says, are
the live Reids actually live or where they recorded months ago?
They always sound way too good to be done live. Well,
that's a fine point for Dog. That's the magic of radio.
You don't know whether they're live or not. They sound
like they might not be live, but yet they could
(18:47):
be live. I don't know. Chipping the Q's rites in
from Ale seven, he says a plus in the Mallain monologue,
the fact that even Eric the enemies apparently didn't even
have a contact at the Saints job. They're head coaching job,
tells you everything about just how awful the New Orleans
job really is. Yeah, well it's an NFL job. It's
(19:09):
an NFL job. Terry in England says Cliff Kingsbury couldn't
make Alligator Arms Murray stop with the Xbox controller. Well
he did all right until there was that big tournament.
And I don't know how you expect any NFL coach
to stop their starting quarterback from participating in a call
of duty tournament that's much more important than playing in
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the NFL. And who are we kidding here? Come on, please,
spox Weed writes in from the Oregon Trail. Spoxwed, an
award winner on some of the bits that we've done
over the recent years, says, does Cliff Kingsbury recognize his
own Peter principle? No? No, you never recognize your Peter principle.
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That's never how it works. A slim Tim, a proud
cheesehead Slim Tim, devoted dedicated listener to this show and
the Fifth Hour podcast, says he is blazed out at
work and looking forward to the rest of the rousing
show and away we go, There you go. Jose writes
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and says, hey, Mallard, tell me I'm wrong, And then
he's got a side by side. Now I'm gonna describe
this if you're one of our blind listeners, I'm gonna
describe this. So it shows Liam Kohne, the new coach
of the Jacksonville football team, and he's got a smirk
on his face, and next to him on the other
(20:36):
side of the image from Jose is the iconic nineteen
seventies nineteen eighties character Gumby, and it does look a
lot like Gumby. It's almost like the NFL said, well,
we need a Gumby like figure in our business. And
then they hired him to say duval and boy did
(20:57):
he say man did he say it with Gusto unless
he didn't, unless he was missing the gust a. Yeah,
you know what Jerry Jones had to say about that.
Jerry pointed out that when you say certain things, it's
it's not all well, that's let Jerry say, there's a
very low percentage of this that is smiles and glory hopes. Yeah,
(21:20):
very little, very very little. I did see a story
there was somebody was, well, Jerry shouldn't be saying that.
That's not right. Jerry's a shame on him. That's the
beauty of when you get to a certain age. May
we all live long enough to get to that age?
The I don't give a blank. We can't judge old people, Ben,
We can't no why they live in their own ways.
(21:45):
You can't force them out of it. They just get
mad and angry. Now, plus you're like, you get to
a certain point, you're like, I don't want to play
by these rules. They know what the rules are, but
they don't want to play by the rules. And you'll
we'll all get there at some point, if we live
long enough, we'll all be at the point where the
ben Yeah, my grandfather, when I was a little kid,
we would go out family you know, dinners or whatever
the weekends, and he would harass the waiters at the restaurants,
(22:08):
you know, used old guy privilege, and he was a
master of it. He I'm convinced. I never knew him
as a young man, obviously because I, you know, was
my grandfather, but man, as as a kid watching him,
I was cringeworthy. I was, oh, man, I was uncomfortable.
And he just went for it. You know. He'd send
food back which you knew they were spitting in when
they sent it back to the kitchen, you know, spitting
(22:28):
loogies in it and all that. And he'd always ask
for like old guy discounts and stuff like that, and
he'd go for all the all the tricks. But I mean,
it was it was next level. He was like a
ninja when it came to that kind of stuff. The
way he would he would get or done. Man. Let's see,
Bob writes, and he says, CBS went to break with
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Give It Away on Sunday, and I don't know if
that was better or worse than you guys coming back
with Danny California. Okay, I don't know what what is that? Landa?
Do you know what that meant? Bob that hot chili peppers?
I know boys he can play with? Who cares? Why's
he upset? I'm all the things to get upset about.
(23:10):
Shane in des Moines says a plus plus on the
mal of monologue open the show. I know you don't
take request, but a Newbie week would save my soul
unless it wouldn't. Well, the problem with that is that
not only would Shane in des Moines be shut out,
but Kelly and des Moines would also be shut out.
If we did a newbie week, a couple of regulars
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would not be able to be part of the program.
Thus the problem. All right, we'll go to the phones
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight
seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine, and
we'll start it out with hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello,
hollering James, put a leadoff chair.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I'm up to bad. How you doing Ben, what's up?
Bill Miller?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Are you gonna get on bass? So? Are you gonna
are you going to have a solid at bat here?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
What's your alias? Let's get a salad that bad like
Joe Mahler malware, power Baby, mawer, power Baby.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He's not playing anymore, James, let it go.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
He's not. He's enjoying his retirement. He earned an SUV.
I just want to see you again, man.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, you're retired, aren't you, James? You're kind of retired, right,
You're not really working.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I'm kicked back. I'm enjoying the chicks coming in every month.
You know who is president now? Donald Trump? Your guy,
Donald Trump, the number one eight?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, is my my guy, my good friend.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
A little bit more on my social Security check in January.
I'm looking forward to it. Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Those are your tax dollars at work, right there? Those
are our tax dollars.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
That we're not my tax dollars at work.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I know they're my tax dollars. Yes, yes, Well, how
can we help you, James?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yes, let's switch it happing. What about trade up? Jeeves?
We got we got Sam Donald right, and we don't
know what to do in his contract. He's done. He's
over with. How about getting Matthew Stafford in here?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yeah, all right, let's make a trade. All right, the
Rams will trade you Matthew Stafford and you have to
send Justin Jefferson back to l a deal. Let's make
the deal right now on the radio. We're gonna make
the deal.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
And it works out.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You would be willing to trade Justin Jefferson right now.
I'll throw in Cooper Cup. You canna have Cooper Cup too?
How about that?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I would love Cooper Cupp. He's a tough kid. You
know why he's a tough kid because he plays with
his heart and soul and he play that goes out
and plays with his heart and soul. Like I'm getting
out on this contract of conversation with you right now.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Beautiful time meeting you at the I know it's wonderful
as it was like a religious revival when I when
I walked in there and I met hollering James, oh
my God, and all the other legends there in Minnesota.
What an amazing night. Was Still upset, I to.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Be quiet for a minute until you got free. Remember
when everybody stood around you and talk to you. I'm
till you got free. I got the opportunity to take
you over. There came with.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
James. I feel like the rest of my life, every
time I talk to you, I'm going to hear about this.
Is that correct? I know? I know you do. Thank you, God,
bless you.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I have to ask Coop that I don't know. You'd
have to check with him.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I don't know how many times, but then you'll know.
I'm telling you. Then I really enjoy killing you on
the line.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
All right, all right, I'm blessing right now. I'm a
little embarrassed. Can I can I move on? James? I
feel like you're out of material. I feel like you're
too fast.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
You tell Arena we think about her too, but not
as much as all right.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I gotta go. Thank you. All right there, he's hollering,
what a great start to the show. Man alive? Okay, Well,
I hope they're enjoying it in Edmonton, because we are
live right now on many radio station, including the Great
fourteen forty there in Edmonton doing live. They're promoting the
(27:13):
show there and we have had some calls. I think
they're promoting the show the proper way. We've gotten a
few calls from Edmonton over the last couple of weeks,
so they're getting our show. There you go, Robbie the
Mariner fan says Danny California is one of my favorite
songs of all time. Good job by you for playing
the song. Ignore the haters, yes, ignore the haters. Do
(27:38):
not feed the haters. You must ignore the haters at
all costs. So the manuscript has returned. It's been a
big week for engagement. If you're in the business of
engagement and you make your living on getting people to
click things, and then you get paid for that, and
(27:58):
there's a big industry where all you do is make
sure you put stuff up that's interesting that people will
click on with the right headline and away we go.
And much of the conversation in our world has been
about great conspiracies, and it's the illusionary truth theory that
if you believe something and then you keep seeing it
over and over again, you'll think it's true even when
(28:19):
it's not. Like, for example, the NFL is rigging everything
for Market thirty one to win the Super Bowl, but
there's a lot of stupid people that believe that that's fine.
And now there's another timeless, timeless conspiracy that has popped
up here that the Super Bowl logo, which we've kind
(28:41):
of known about that put the team logos in there,
but they they announced now that they've had the Chiefs
and Eagles the official revealing with their logos mixed in
the two time defending Super Bowl champions and they are
taking on the philadel Fi Eagles. Look at the Great
(29:01):
conspiracy this week, right the logo If you believe the
Deep Web, the Deep Dark Web, the theory claims that
the past Super Bowl logos have correctly predicted who matches
up against one another in the Big Game. Super Bowl
fifty six's logo had an orange and yellow scheme. That
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was the Bengals representing the orange and the Rams representing
the yellow. It was played that game. Of course, he
could have also been the Chiefs if they had made it,
because they they have yellow. A fifty seven super Bowl
fifty seven that had green and red as the color
combination featuring the Eagles and the Chiefs, and the conspiracy
(29:45):
did not really work last year. It didn't really work
with purple and red, so that did not predict the
matchup of the Chiefs and the forty nine ers. There
was no purple to be seen. But don't worry. The
conspiracy is back because the forty nine ers taking on
or taking on the Chiefs last year. I guess the
Chiefs were the purple team whatever because they won blah
(30:06):
blah blah. But now the new logo out and they're
pointing at saying, well, see see what they've got right there.
If you look at the logo, it's confirmed. It's confirmed.
It's back. Ahead of the Super Bowl, believers are already predicted.
Matchup between the Chiefs and the Eagles in New Orleans
(30:27):
this year was predicted by said logo. The logo not
only claims to predict the matchup for the Super Bowl,
but also the result of the game because the team
whose color was predominant in the bottom of the logo
ends up waning. Are you saying with me? There'll be
a quiz on this later. So who's going to win
(30:49):
Super Bowl fifty nine based on who's got based on
that theory? Well, if you believe the conspiracy theory, it's
going to be the Philadelphia Eagles, who going to win
the Super Bowl based on the fact that their representation
is more let me hear you all say, ye owe, no,
(31:15):
let's go Birds. Yeah, let's go, let's go birds. There
you go. It's all all birds. So if you believe
the conspiracy, it's all over for Kansas City and Sequon
Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles will win. Based on the logo,
it's all right there in the logo. There's no way
(31:38):
to avoid it. It's going to happen. The dumbest thing
I've ever read in my life. Well, it's the it's
the interweb, that's what you want. And they keep repeating
stuff and it works.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
What did they tried to say that the purple represented
the halftime performer?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
How convenient for their for last year when it didn't work. Yes,
that is Yeah, it's true. There was a halftime show.
They pointed at the purple. The forty nine ers on
one side, the purple on the other. All right, we'll
take your phone calls. You want to be part eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
(32:16):
nine six six three six nine. So you do everything
you can to pacify your star player, and then your
star players like, screw you. I don't want to be here.
It's happening. It's happening all over the place. Also, here's
the who am I? Game? This is where I pretend
to be somebody else, as we call it the who
am I? Game? And you can answer this on X
at Ben Mallard. Who that's at? Ben Maller, I was
(32:40):
the last non kicker slash punter to wear a single
bar face mask in the NFL. Now it's been a minute,
but again, I was the last non kicker or punter
meaning some other position to wear that old single bar
face mask in an NFL game. Who am I? Who that? Well,
(33:05):
you'll have to guess who I am. I'm not gonna
tell you right now, but if you want to give
it a shot, send me a message on X at
Ben Mahler. Again, I was the last non kicker slash
punter to wear a single bar face mask in an
NFL game. Who Am I? The answer? We'll get to it.
We'll take more of your calls, and we will do
(33:27):
it next.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
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know about the program. There is no advertising budget, there's nothing,
no promotion. The only promotion we have is your fat
mouth and your fingers doing the talking for us. So
let people know. But the little secret radio show that
could here in the middle of the night. Now back
(34:19):
to it and Benny Blowhard. No, it's Benny from Benny
Versus the Penny, which we'll have a new episode this weekend.
I was actually I had some meetings with the producer.
We're going back and forth for Benny Versus the Penny.
We're trying to decide what we're going to talk about
because there are no games to discuss, so we're strategizing
(34:41):
what we're going to do to kill a half hour
of valuable TV time. So we'll see, we'll see what
we come up with with that. But we're working on that.
We're efforting that. Have some more more meetings later today,
some more things to take care of on that, so
we'll see what happens with the TV show. But we're
in the radio show right now, and here is the
who I game. It's where I pretend to be somebody else.
(35:03):
Thus we call it to who am I? Game? And
here it is. I was the last non kicker who
slash punter to wear a single bar face mask in
the NFL. Now, when I was a kid, and back
in my day, when you bought one of those replica
NFL kid jerseys and helmets, they all had the single
(35:25):
bar face mask and it was like so stupid. But
there was one player, the last player, last of the Mohigans,
that had that actual face mask in a game. So again,
I was the last non kicker punter to wear a
single bar face mask in the NFL. Who am I?
That is the question. What is the answer, hollering James?
(35:45):
Guess by Mallard property that does look just like hollering James.
You nailed it. If hollering James played for the Vikings,
that would be him in uniform. Shane and the Moyne
going with former Miami Heat player versus Sean Leonard as
his selection. Andy Reid as a child, Big Andy Reid
(36:08):
from King Rory. Who else do we have? Robbie the
Mariner fan from the goat Man. Oh, that is Robbie.
Look at Robbie out there playing ball. I didn't know
Robbie was a ballplayer. I had no idea superstar. Billy
Graham from Rob in Vegas, a legend, omar infante, not
a legend from mister nice guy. Mark Gasol, who is
forty today? Forty Mark Gasol from the Late Night Drug
(36:33):
Tester Andy going with Ray Finkel and that's Andy in
line O Lakes, Minnesota. Eric Metcalf from Rob in Minnesota.
Met Rob at the Malameat Greek. He was down there
hanging out. We did that back in the day. Robbie
the Mariner fan says Chance Nolan, former saddleback and Beaver
quarterback and now New York Yankee minor league pitcher. Yes,
(36:56):
you read that correctly. Well, if he's a former battle
back gauchow, he'll be fine. Because the player that had
the most hits in Major League Baseball in the decade
of the nineteen nineties, a former saddleback gaucho, the great
Mark Grace of the Chicago Cups. Who else do we
have page down? Nature boy checks and he says, Elmer J.
Fudd millionaire is the correct answer. Lawson going with Willie
(37:22):
Lanier as his selection. Who else do we have page down?
Super Marcus. Steve says, the last player I remember wearing
a single bar face mask was Bobby Bouche, but he
only played in college, and that's his answer. Steve the
misplaced San Diegan going with former Montreal ex bow legend
(37:42):
the Great Ellis Valentine as his answer. Jim Click from
James DJ Spin in San Diego going with Charlie Joyner
for the old San Diego Chargers. Bart Starr from Don Juan.
That's his answer. Don Maynard from EK met him as
well at the Malama. The Ambassador of Bakersfield got this right.
You're obviously cheating. It's a bad job by you. You
(38:05):
should be better than that. Rod. You're the ambassador of
bleeping Bakersfield. Shame on you, all right, Lorena, do you
know it's not Doug Flutie guessed by Brendan. It's not
Captain Crunch, although I loved Captain Crunch when I was
a fat kid growing up. That's from Trent. It's not him,
not not Mark Moseley from Fat Daddy. That's not the answer.
Do you have an answer, Lorraina. My guess was going
(38:26):
to be Troy Polamalu Ben Troy Palamer what team did
he play for? He was on the one with the Colors. Yes,
that is correct, all right, No, you're unfortunately correct. The
correct answer a man who changed his name to win
a college award at Notre Dame. Joe Thyman. Joe, He's
(38:50):
the answer with the old Washington Redskins back in the
nineteen eighties, Joe Fisman the last? How about that? Here?
All right? Lorena? Too much weed? What do we got
going on? My goodness, are you trying to get the
show over with? Lorena already? Well, it is midnight in
some places, it's past midnight and other places. Unfortunately, here
(39:15):
in the Magic Radio Box, it's only our one. I
know you want it to be our number two, but
it is not our number two. All right, it's first errors.
That's E one on your scorecard. It is duly noted.
So I did want to mention this. The Sacramento Kings
trying to pacify one of their star players, really their
(39:36):
biggest start, the Aaron Fox. So they fired Mike Brown.
And now a month after they fired their head coach,
seemingly to appease d Aaron Fox, he has requested a
trade from the Sacramento Kings. And we don't talk a
much NBA right now because it's football playoffs and all that,
(39:56):
but there's all kinds of chatter that he's going to
go this team that does birth, the Lakers and all that,
and makes my eyes spin in my head round and
round and round and round and round and round and
round and round and round and round,
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