November 28, 2023 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Vikings losing at home to the Bears on MNF, if the Josh Dobbs fairytale is over, what happened to Brian Flores' defense late in the game, if this is a signature win for Justin Fields, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number b one, our one,
tons of fun. Well, you'll be the one to decide
that we start with the Monday night football game. If
you enjoy field goals, this was the game for you.
Chicago on a last second field goal beats Minnesota. Where
is the traffic light on the Joshua Dobbs story in
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the Twin Cities? He had four interceptions for the Vikings.
You give that a red light, yellow light or a
green light? Also, what happened to Brian Flores, the defensive
guru for Minnesota? The late game strategy left a lot
to be desired. And does this Monday night football road
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win count as a signature victory for Justin Fields in
his bear's career. We'll talk about that and much more
right now here. It is our number one. Sometime in life,
you gotta green and bear it well. Come in the
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leave this hour, we start play the hit, small Man,
play the Hits. We start in the Twin Cities, a
place where they have a football team, not a good one,
an average football team. And that was the site of
the final act of Week twelve of the NFL regular
season Monday night, the Bears, who have been sleepwalking for years,
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entering into the Twin Cities. There a matchup divisional matchup
with the Vikings, the Fox refugees Joe Buck and Troy
Aikman who took the big payout there. They were broadcasting game,
so I know you saw this or not. Maybe you
were not watching. It did not have a lot of juice.
The game was lacking juice, but I watched even without
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the juice. They still watched like a snowball right to
your forehead.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I watched right there.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So someone named Cairo Santos, he's a kicker, he's been
around for a few years. Cairo Santos hit a thirty
yard field goal for the Chicago football team with ten
seconds left in the game, turnout the Lasts, the parties over.
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He didn't miss on the opening drive for the Vikings,
but he made the game winner. Had four field goals
in the game. Isn't that rivening that the headline player
is a kicker, an idiot kicker.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But that's what happened here.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So the Bears being gifted four interceptions by the very generous,
very generous Joshua Dobbs and a snooze inducing twelve to
ten final in the NFC North to losing streak for
the Chicago Bears, a twelve game divisional losing streak that
is over with Chicago gets the fourth win on the season,
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and also the Vikings they go down. They're six and
six now, losing a game that seemed like it was
just a gimme, you show up and you win.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
They didn't do it. They didn't show up, they didn't win.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So let us discuss the better story is in the
losing locker room, and so that is where we will begin,
and we pull out an old friend, the traffic light.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We examine the traffic light. And here's the way we're
gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So you look at the traffic light and we examine
it for josh Dobbs, Joshua Dobbs, Viking quarterback. The traffic
light right now, is it a red light, a yellow
light or a green light for the Vikings quarterback who
was not only a football player, he was horrible in
this game. And there's no other way to say it
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how bad Dobbs was. So it is a yellow light.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It is a yellow light, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I've got Apple Care, appetizer menu, and gumball and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a sale, a holiday sale. And we
had just had Cyber Monday, Black Friday. What's the small
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business days coming up? If anything to get you to
dust off your wallet and buy crap? All right, So
with that being said, though, we start with this Joshua
Dobbs right to the gulag, right to the cornerback gulog.
You can hang out there. That is a demerit. Now
we like the dob story.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We do.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's a good story, right, Chicken soup for the soul.
This was actually poison for the soul. This particular performance
by the Minnesota quarterback. There, he was bad to the bone,
bad bet bet el stinko in this particular game. But
it's not a red light on the traffic signal. I'm
not going red lights like.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
This is not the end of it.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And I've been hearing a lot of those tastes. Well,
it's all over now. He had a terrible game. He'll
never play well again. He's doomed. Joshua Dobbs send him
back to NASA. And while I love a good overreaction,
I am not at that point.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
No. I did wax, but I gave him the jinks,
the television jinks one. We talked about him on Benny
versus the Penny and pointed out there's a comeback player
of the Year and that whole thing. And I don't
think we have to worry about that right now for
Joshua Dobbs, after this particular performance.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Now I will be Benny Brightside.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I'm gonna be Benny bright Side because the positive year
is that a number of these interceptions, there were four
of them to choose from, a number of them were tipped.
So I look at a tipped interception. Like I look
at a fumble. A fumbles a fifty to fifty proposition. Now,
when you fumble the ball, in theory, the defense and
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your offense have an equal amount of opportunity to get
said football. And when a pass is tipped, now the
odds do favor the defense more than the offense because
typically when you throw a pass there's multiple defenders around
only one pass catcher. But still it doesn't guarantee that
it's going to be intercepted when you throw a pass
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that is tipped. But this was absolutely the old Southwest
Airlines marketing campaign. Want to get away for Joshua Dobbs, right,
bury your head in the ground like an ostrich, all
of that. But I will not be a prison of
the moment. And here's the thing. Did we all think
all of a sudden that Joshua Dobbs was the reincarnation
of Tom Brady for the Vikings as that, or maybe
Tommy Kramer.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Would be a better analogy. But no, of course I
look at it like this.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I have I have an iPhone, and every once in
a while a thing will break. Right, if you happen
to have Apple Care, you have the Apple Care you
go down and you get a new phone, They give
you a replacement phone.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And I've had to do this a few times in
my life.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The phone, while it is functional, the replacement phone, it
is never as good as the original it is. I've
had multiple replacement phones. I have never had one as
good as the original phone. But it gets it done.
You can work with it. So the Vikings have to
deal with. You can still make the playoffs. Playoffs, they
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can still get in there. Now page two here, what
the heck happened to the Brian Flores Minnesota defense. It's like,
how can you rip the Minnesota Vikings defense. They didn't
give up a touchdown, They only gave up a few goals.
That's a great performance.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
No it's not. You didn't watch the game. You didn't
watch the game. This game, even as bad as the.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Vikings played a dog with fleas, they were maggots crawling
all over the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Still they had the game.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They still had the game, and they had the lead
final minutes of the game. And what happened the Brian
Flores led Vikings to even he's the defensive guru there,
they completely zoned out, literally and figuratively. They zoned out.
He didn't trust his guys. He was worried that somebody's
gonna get burned and give up a big play.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And so they went to the zone and they still
got burned.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
They still got Now, I'm not upset by this because
I happen to have the Chicago Bears plus the three
and a half, so I was happy with the outcome
of the game. But as a neutral arbitter of the
sporting news of the day, I'm watching that and I'm like,
oh man, what are they doing?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What are they doing? What are they doing? They did it,
They did it. They did it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
The big worried about the big mistake, they make the
big mistake, total debacle. And you break down the Purple
people Eters defense in Layman's terms, if you look at
the appetizer menu, they are the Arta choke dip. They
choked at the end of this game, is what they did.
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They wilted under pressure, and the Chicago Bears just keep
them out of field goal range. Their kicker already missed
the field goal, and again keep out of field goalers.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Couldn't do it, couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
They lose the game. So the Bears win. But you
look at the draft. We'll get to that later. Where
they're at. It's really good news for the Patriots more
than anything, because they don't really have to worry about
the Chicago Bears. There's away the Patriots win four games, right,
They've got even if the other team doesn't show up.
The Patriots are gonna win a couple more games the
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way they're playing this year. Right, last word here talking
about the Monday night game. Does this particular game count
for the Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields as a breakout
performs a signature win for Justin Fields?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Prime time divisional rival road game win, win, win.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And I'm hearing this, this chatter that the Minnesota Vikings
going down to the Bears, that this signals something more meaningful,
that this is an omen of future events. I'm seeing that,
and I'm I'm puzzled by this. So does this game
count as a signature win for Justin Fields? And the
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sad answer is actually yes, because this proves what an
absolute boondoggle his Chicago career has been, right And it's
a total hot.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Mess right now.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
And we had said on the on the TV shows,
we point out it's like a dummy run. The rest
of this season and whatever happens, whatever happens, it is
an audition to try to commit some other dumb team
to bring him in, because the Bears are gonna get
rid of him and they'll bring somebody else. But that's
where we are, right It's an audition. And and if
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I'm grading Justin Fields, I'm not impressed. I'm not uh,
you know, Summer celebrating this is crossing the rubicon and
I don't see it. You gotta be joking. If you're
you're saying that you're such a fanboy for Justin Fields,
open your eyes, Open your bloody eyes. Here Cairo Santos
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was the hero with the four field goals there. Justin
Fields continues to be a classic gumball machine, meaning you
know these old gumball machines you put a couple of
quarters in. Maybe it's like seven dollars now with inflation,
but you put a couple quarters in the gumball machine
when you're a kid, if you're old and you had
no idea what color gumball was gonna come out, You
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think you knew, but you didn't know because there might
be one of those little gumballs that are stuck inside
the inner workings of the machine. Like it might look
like there's a nice, delicious purple gumball, which is what
you want, but maybe you'll get the yellow, you might
get the green gumball. You don't really know until you
flip the thing and the gumball comes down. You gotta
turn that little handle. You gotta twist the handle on
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the gumball machine. And that's with justin fields from play
to play, Like there's the video game highlight, right, He's wonderful,
and then the next play dumb, the dumb, dumb, dumb,
and you don't know. He lost two fumbles on two
consecutive drives late in the game for the Chicago football team.
That set the Vikings up, and then on a third
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down and ten found djmore thanks to the generosity of
the Minnesota Vikings defense, and that set up the field goal.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So the screw ups are there.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
They're still there as continues to be in a boondoggle
inadequate performance dinking the ball around the field. They're averaging
less than six yards per pass attempt, and the passer.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Rating wasn't very good.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It was like he was completing a lot of passes,
but they were all rudimentary passes, like the Bears are
afraid to have him throw the ball anywhere but within
the line of scrimmage. Most of the game, that was
the way it went. But people are like, well, this
is a measuring stick game. Okay, that says a lot.
That says a lot. It is the Ben mather Show.
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So I mentioned how terrible Justin Fields was at throwing
the ball down the field, and I know this was
by design and all that, But during the Monday night
football broadcast, they had a statistic that showed and I
think I'm correct on this. I jotted it down the
average air yards per pass attempt by Justin Fields was
less than one yard at at one point in the
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game was at zero point eight yards, so that was
within the line of scrimmage, right within the line of scrimmage,
So he was not that they were literally right at
the line of scrimmage zero point eight yards. Absolutely insane.
And then we talked about Joshua Dolls. We start with
that Joshua Dobbs man had to feel good story and
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all that, and he was actually better off when he
had no idea who his teammates were.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
He was fine. He won a couple of games. He
didn't know who they were.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Now that he knows who they are, maybe he didn't
like him, Maybe maybe he hates the guys on the team.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Is is that possible?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Is that conceivable that Dobbs has a beef with some
of the guys on the team. Case car Haller writes
in and says, I knew I needed some rest before
hitting the road this morning, so I turned to the
Viking Bears game and slept like a baby.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
He slept like a baby.
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Kevin's worth a lots So he had the night often
I hopefully we'll be back tomorrow. Your Femi rights in says,
uh hey, malor four out of four gumballs. On the
opening monologue, Feels did his best to blow that game
with two fumbles in the fourth quarter. You, Femi, says,
in this authentic Chicago like you cut him open. It's
deep dish pizza, he says. The Bears defense. No, it's
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you feed me. He says, the Bears defense has gotten
eight turnovers the past two games. In this quarterback still
could barely win. Draft a quarterback and fleece a team
who wants to fix him. You'll shoot your eye out,
says you feeed me. Yeah, that's the veteran move. That's
the veteran moves. Like you try to you're polishing up
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justin fields and trying to convince some other team that
this guy is the God's gifted quarterback and you got
to trade a bunch of random scratcher tickets to get him.
We go to Femi, who's in the Twin Cities. The
number one Uber Eats delivery driver in the Greater Minnesota
area says, oh, that was therapy.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Been wonderful monologue.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Almost the entire fan base lost hope after that woffle game.
But if you, the purveyor of truth, have not written
the vikings off, there's still hope.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Go Vikes. Well, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I go to I know, I just do the overnight
show here, but I do know malar math, and I
know that there is a supply chain shortage of playoff
teams playoffs. If you look at the NFC playoffs, like
Dallas beats a bunch of bad teams. Anytime they play
a good team, they lose. They're own two against good teams,
and they're eight and one against bad teams. A Philadelphia
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barely winning, but they're winning. The forty nine ers back
on track. They got their guys back the system. QB,
they got their guys back. Detroit looked terrible on Thanksgiving
losing to the Green Bay Packers, but still they deserve
a playoff spot. And then outside of that, that's it.
There's no one else. There are seven teams that have
to give a Seattle's a joke, they're fraud. I haven't
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heard from no Stradinis lately about Gino Smith or any
of those guys crying. Craig still balling out because of
Gino Smith. But that's the real Gino Smith. That's the
Geno Smith that your daddy watched play quarterback. Right there,
this guy stinks he's terrible. And then after that, so
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you look around Atlanta, the NFC South is going to
get a team in because they have to by default.
So right now, that's Atlanta. It might be the terrible Saints,
but possibly bad Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It'll be one.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Bad team is guaranteed to get a playoff spot as
a division winner for me, NFC South.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
So again we're doing mal Maus.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
So you've got the NFC South winner, bad team Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Dallas. That's four spots. There's three other spots,
and I don't see three other playoff teams. I don't
buy the Packers, the Rams. I'm a Ram fan. I
think they're not legit. But three of those teams, again,
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the Vikings are right in that mix. At six and six,
they're still in the pluffs. Even losing this game, they
are still in it. It is the Ben Malard Show. Now,
I mentioned Tom Brady, who made headlines made a ruckus
the other day. Tom Brady giving the State of the
NFL address, he was lamenting the fact that the greatest
hitters in NFL history from his generation early in his
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career and even before it, guys like Ronnie Lot ray
Lewis players like that they would not be able to
play their style of play in the modern NFL because
the NFL is filled with horses and they can't handle that.
But it is accurate in the sense that I mentioned
this in the previous episode of the show. But I
go to these NFL games and the crowd has now
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been programmed anytime there is a hit, there must be
a penalty because there was a violent hit. And as
I have pointed out, like when I was growing up
watching football, we wanted that we celebrated that. Now the
fan is so soft that they get very upset, said
they have the goufaws, they're.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Offended if there's no penalty flag.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
We saw a couple of plays over the weekend where
quarterbacks got hit, one of them Josh Allen, and that
did look like a horse collar tackle. But back in
the day, they just called it a tackle, and so
people get all said, anyway, get to the point place.
So Tom Brady is Tom Brady now walking back from
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his hot take in previous days.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
About the NFL and the way it's going now.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Now he doubled down. He doubled down on his stance
that the modern NFL not that good. He says, I
think the pro game is a quote from I guess
he's doing some podcasts. Everyone's got a podcast, even I
have a podcast. There's no reason to listen to the
Brady podcast because we have anything good we talk about. Anyway,
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Brady said, I think the pro game is reflecting more
on what the college game is, as opposed to the
college game reflecting what.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The pro game is.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
All Right, that's confusing, he said, we're asking pro players
to play college football, and that's the biggest difference.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I see.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
This is way more checkers now than it is chess.
Is the quote there from Tom Brady. I will guarantee
you the people that put together that podcast were furious
with Tom Brady because the original take that he gave
was not on his podcast. It was on our former
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morning guy Steven A. Smith's podcast. So you're giving a
takeaway that went viral, but you didn't do it on
your own show. That's a bad job by you. Will
Tom Brady call a game for Fox? Is he going
to end up calling a game? A lot of people
in the business do not think Brady will ever broadcast.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
An NFL game. They think that he's going to.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Bow out and say that on the hindsight, he really
his kids need him and he needs to spend time
there with his children and he can't be traveling one
day a week to go to an end NFL game
and then doing a game and then flying back that night.
That that's too much. So well, I haven't heard much
on that recently. I know when the deal was announced
that he was going to call games on Fox, there
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were people that I know that have worked in the
business a long time that said, ah, he's never going
to call a game. That He's just not He's gonna
find some reason, whether it's uh, you know, some relative
that's under the weather. The kids play the kid cards
always the go to. I think people have kids sometimes
just to get out of doing stuff, you know, because
no one can question right, I'm doing it for the kids.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's all about the kids, be sure.
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Pitcher Sonny Gray signs a three year, seventy five million
dollars deal with the Saint Louis Cardinals. He was the
runner up for the AlSi Underward last season while with Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
That's a good fit, right, Sonny Gray.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
He can't really handle a big market, so he goes
from Minnesota Saint Louis's.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You know, the Cardinals are going to suck.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
And so he'll be guessing where someone offered him the
most money.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Right, Not usually he signed with the team that offers
the least money. Oh okay, that's usually how that works.
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Progressive dot com. So a backup quarterback goes viral, not
by his play on the field because he didn't play,
and not by that man played much at all this year,
but at the Atlanta New Orleans game. Let's take you
back on the hot up time machine to Sunday Week
twelve NFL the New Orleans Saints, Derek Carr gagging as
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he often does.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
What a disgrace. Derek Carr is at quarterback wherever.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
He happens to play, and he was terrible as making
big mistakes all over the place for the New Orleans
football team as they lost. But he got a pep talk,
really a pep rap from Jameis Winston. Famous Jamis went viral.
He was very excited because and I didn't see this
until after the fact, is why would I focus in
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on the Saints and the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
But it was a big day for hip hop in
Atlanta as Ludicrous was on hand. He was there and
he repelled from the roof of the stadium in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Wow. Yeah. If anything had.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Gone wrong, it would have been the end of Ludacrous.
But Ludacros made it down on the field. He repelled
down on the field, and Jameis Winston was so happy.
One of the kings of hip hop music was there
and he did a live performance. I guess Ludacris, but
Jameis Winston. He ended up trying to give a pep
talk to Derek Carr and he was wrapping some ludicrous lips.
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There is video side grainy sideline video of Jameis Winston
doing that.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I'll I'll do that to pump Eddie up when he
has a bad update. I'll go in there and try
to give him a little pop talk and help him
out there. And I'll do it all the time, but
every once in a while I'll do it, and that's
just the way to go. So I have a new
plan to get a lot of money. Not that I
don't make a ton of money from the radio show.
I mean they pay me right there with Colin Cowherd,
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side by side. I mean it's neck and neck close.
Often sometimes in accounting they confuse my paycheck with his paycheck.
And of course nothing bigger than regional cable television. So
that's doing very well. But here's my plan, all right,
here's my plan. It is a I influencers, a I influencers.
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I was talking with one of my consultants, one are
my gurus, Alec teischert le Vegan who works here at
Fox Sports Radio, and he's he's kind of savvy and
all that stuff. So I'm gonna partner with him. I
bring this up because a company revealed this week, company
out of Spain, that this is according to euro News.
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I always get my news from euro News. They reported
that this company was struggling to find human beings to
use and they pay them and all that stuff, and
in terms of endorsements, and so the agency decided, you
know what we're gonna do. We're gonna use a AI woman.
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Because guys are so horny they see what looks like
an attractive woman, they just throw money at the woman,
even if it's not even a woman, it's not even
a human being of a woman.
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Yeah, it's nothing.
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So this outfit in Spain decided, hey, you know, there's.
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Not a lot of things we can do with actual
human beings.
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So they decided to come up with an AI model
and how's this going. So they create a bogus twenty
five year old, pink haired woman from Barcelona, and they said, well,
you know, she's kind of easy on the eyes and
all that, right looks you're not Yeah, I guess you
can call her a bitch, right, because she's not a hero.
(30:15):
He's not real she's a AI anyway. So this thing
is such a financial success. There are so many dopes
that are sending money and endorsement deals. They're making eleven
thousand dollars a month, eleven grand a month off of
fake AI woman on social media. And it gets even better,
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it gets even better. This thing is so believable in
the influencer community that a well known we don't know
the name here, but a well known actor allegedly slid
in to the fake AI Woman's DMS to try to
get a date with the cyber lady.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I don't know that that worked or not, but there
you go. So somebody trying and it does. It's hard.
So I'm looking at photos here.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I mean, that's a that's a pretty good photoshop AI thing.
But fortunately I did not send any money in because
I did not. I don't see my wife you're talking about, man, So.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
That's the future right there.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I would I wouldn't do that right now if I
could figure out how to do it AI.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Fake influencer and man.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Now, Alex the Vegan was explaining to me, and he's
in that TikTok world.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
He's in that world.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Where he does all that and he's explaining to me
that this is your head's going to explode like a
mellet when you see what's coming.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
I'm not on snapface and all that.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
But here's the thing, like I kind of it's like
my argument with like radios, even though you'd be replaced
by AI.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Maybe maybe I'm doing AI right now. Who knows. Maybe
I'm not even here, I'm sleepy, instant chat or whatever
it is.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But I thought the whole point of the human experience
was you have to you want to be part of
the community. Right if do you really want to be
part of an AI bot community?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Maybe you do. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
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that earlier. Here's the who am I game? Derek Carr
became the seventh player to throw three hundred and seventy
or more passes in his first eleven games of a
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and rushing touchdowns. I was the last quarterback to do
it again, Derek Carr the Saints. He's been so pathetic.
He became the seventh player to throw three hundred seventy
or more passes in the first eleven games of a
season yet produced ten or fewer touchdowns. That's passing and
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I gonna be honest. Really you thought we were real friends.
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Oh all right.
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He was invited, but he's you know, when you become
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so he will not be able to attend said party. Yeah,
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As we Savage, You're the quarterback of the Saints. There,
Derek Carr, Man, is you beat anyway? Here is the question?
What is the answer. Derek Carr became the seventh player
to throw three hundred and seventy or more passes in
the first eleven games of a season yet produced ten
or fewer touchdowns. That's passing in rushing combined. I was
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Hello and welcome. It's our number b one, our one,
tons of fun. Well, you'll be the one to decide
that we start with the Monday night football game. If
you enjoy field goals, this was the game for you.
Chicago on a last second field goal beats Minnesota. Where
is the traffic light on the Joshua Dobbs story in
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the Twin Cities? He had four interceptions for the Vikings.
You give that a red light, yellow light or a
green light? Also, what happened to Brian Flores, the defensive
guru for Minnesota? The late game strategy left a lot
to be desired. And does this Monday night football road
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win count as a signature victory for Justin Fields in
his bear's career. We'll talk about that and much more
right now here. It is our number one. Sometime in life,
you gotta green and bear it well. Come in the
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leave this hour, we start play the hit, small Man,
play the Hits. We start in the Twin Cities, a
place where they have a football team, not a good one,
an average football team. And that was the site of
the final act of Week twelve of the NFL regular
season Monday night, the Bears, who have been sleepwalking for years,
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entering into the Twin Cities. There a matchup divisional matchup
with the Vikings, the Fox refugees Joe Buck and Troy
Aikman who took the big payout there. They were broadcasting game,
so I know you saw this or not. Maybe you
were not watching. It did not have a lot of juice.
The game was lacking juice, but I watched even without
(02:44):
the juice. They still watched like a snowball right to
your forehead.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I watched right there.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So someone named Cairo Santos, he's a kicker, he's been
around for a few years. Cairo Santos hit a thirty
yard field goal for the Chicago football team with ten
seconds left in the game, turnout the Lasts, the parties over.
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He didn't miss on the opening drive for the Vikings,
but he made the game winner. Had four field goals
in the game. Isn't that rivening that the headline player
is a kicker, an idiot kicker.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But that's what happened here.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So the Bears being gifted four interceptions by the very generous,
very generous Joshua Dobbs and a snooze inducing twelve to
ten final in the NFC North to losing streak for
the Chicago Bears, a twelve game divisional losing streak that
is over with Chicago gets the fourth win on the season,
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and also the Vikings they go down. They're six and
six now, losing a game that seemed like it was
just a gimme, you show up and you win.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
They didn't do it. They didn't show up, they didn't win.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So let us discuss the better story is in the
losing locker room, and so that is where we will begin,
and we pull out an old friend, the traffic light.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We examine the traffic light. And here's the way we're
gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So you look at the traffic light and we examine
it for josh Dobbs, Joshua Dobbs, Viking quarterback. The traffic
light right now, is it a red light, a yellow
light or a green light for the Vikings quarterback who
was not only a football player, he was horrible in
this game. And there's no other way to say it
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how bad Dobbs was. So it is a yellow light.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It is a yellow light, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I've got Apple Care, appetizer menu, and gumball and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a sale, a holiday sale. And we
had just had Cyber Monday, Black Friday. What's the small
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business days coming up? If anything to get you to
dust off your wallet and buy crap? All right, So
with that being said, though, we start with this Joshua
Dobbs right to the gulag, right to the cornerback gulog.
You can hang out there. That is a demerit. Now
we like the dob story.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We do.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's a good story, right, Chicken soup for the soul.
This was actually poison for the soul. This particular performance
by the Minnesota quarterback. There, he was bad to the bone,
bad bet bet el stinko in this particular game. But
it's not a red light on the traffic signal. I'm
not going red lights like.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
This is not the end of it.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And I've been hearing a lot of those tastes. Well,
it's all over now. He had a terrible game. He'll
never play well again. He's doomed. Joshua Dobbs send him
back to NASA. And while I love a good overreaction,
I am not at that point.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
No. I did wax, but I gave him the jinks,
the television jinks one. We talked about him on Benny
versus the Penny and pointed out there's a comeback player
of the Year and that whole thing. And I don't
think we have to worry about that right now for
Joshua Dobbs, after this particular performance.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Now I will be Benny Brightside.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I'm gonna be Benny bright Side because the positive year
is that a number of these interceptions, there were four
of them to choose from, a number of them were tipped.
So I look at a tipped interception. Like I look
at a fumble. A fumbles a fifty to fifty proposition. Now,
when you fumble the ball, in theory, the defense and
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your offense have an equal amount of opportunity to get
said football. And when a pass is tipped, now the
odds do favor the defense more than the offense because
typically when you throw a pass there's multiple defenders around
only one pass catcher. But still it doesn't guarantee that
it's going to be intercepted when you throw a pass
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that is tipped. But this was absolutely the old Southwest
Airlines marketing campaign. Want to get away for Joshua Dobbs, right,
bury your head in the ground like an ostrich, all
of that. But I will not be a prison of
the moment. And here's the thing. Did we all think
all of a sudden that Joshua Dobbs was the reincarnation
of Tom Brady for the Vikings as that, or maybe
Tommy Kramer.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Would be a better analogy. But no, of course I
look at it like this.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I have I have an iPhone, and every once in
a while a thing will break. Right, if you happen
to have Apple Care, you have the Apple Care you
go down and you get a new phone, They give
you a replacement phone.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And I've had to do this a few times in
my life.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The phone, while it is functional, the replacement phone, it
is never as good as the original it is. I've
had multiple replacement phones. I have never had one as
good as the original phone. But it gets it done.
You can work with it. So the Vikings have to
deal with. You can still make the playoffs. Playoffs, they
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can still get in there. Now page two here, what
the heck happened to the Brian Flores Minnesota defense. It's like,
how can you rip the Minnesota Vikings defense. They didn't
give up a touchdown, They only gave up a few goals.
That's a great performance.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
No it's not. You didn't watch the game. You didn't
watch the game. This game, even as bad as the.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Vikings played a dog with fleas, they were maggots crawling
all over the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Still they had the game.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They still had the game, and they had the lead
final minutes of the game. And what happened the Brian
Flores led Vikings to even he's the defensive guru there,
they completely zoned out, literally and figuratively. They zoned out.
He didn't trust his guys. He was worried that somebody's
gonna get burned and give up a big play.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And so they went to the zone and they still
got burned.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
They still got Now, I'm not upset by this because
I happen to have the Chicago Bears plus the three
and a half, so I was happy with the outcome
of the game. But as a neutral arbitter of the
sporting news of the day, I'm watching that and I'm like,
oh man, what are they doing?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What are they doing? What are they doing? They did it,
They did it. They did it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
The big worried about the big mistake, they make the
big mistake, total debacle. And you break down the Purple
people Eters defense in Layman's terms, if you look at
the appetizer menu, they are the Arta choke dip. They
choked at the end of this game, is what they did.
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They wilted under pressure, and the Chicago Bears just keep
them out of field goal range. Their kicker already missed
the field goal, and again keep out of field goalers.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Couldn't do it, couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
They lose the game. So the Bears win. But you
look at the draft. We'll get to that later. Where
they're at. It's really good news for the Patriots more
than anything, because they don't really have to worry about
the Chicago Bears. There's away the Patriots win four games, right,
They've got even if the other team doesn't show up.
The Patriots are gonna win a couple more games the
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way they're playing this year. Right, last word here talking
about the Monday night game. Does this particular game count
for the Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields as a breakout
performs a signature win for Justin Fields?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Prime time divisional rival road game win, win, win.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And I'm hearing this, this chatter that the Minnesota Vikings
going down to the Bears, that this signals something more meaningful,
that this is an omen of future events. I'm seeing that,
and I'm I'm puzzled by this. So does this game
count as a signature win for Justin Fields? And the
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sad answer is actually yes, because this proves what an
absolute boondoggle his Chicago career has been, right And it's
a total hot.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Mess right now.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
And we had said on the on the TV shows,
we point out it's like a dummy run. The rest
of this season and whatever happens, whatever happens, it is
an audition to try to commit some other dumb team
to bring him in, because the Bears are gonna get
rid of him and they'll bring somebody else. But that's
where we are, right It's an audition. And and if
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I'm grading Justin Fields, I'm not impressed. I'm not uh,
you know, Summer celebrating this is crossing the rubicon and
I don't see it. You gotta be joking. If you're
you're saying that you're such a fanboy for Justin Fields,
open your eyes, Open your bloody eyes. Here Cairo Santos
(11:55):
was the hero with the four field goals there. Justin
Fields continues to be a classic gumball machine, meaning you
know these old gumball machines you put a couple of
quarters in. Maybe it's like seven dollars now with inflation,
but you put a couple quarters in the gumball machine
when you're a kid, if you're old and you had
no idea what color gumball was gonna come out, You
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think you knew, but you didn't know because there might
be one of those little gumballs that are stuck inside
the inner workings of the machine. Like it might look
like there's a nice, delicious purple gumball, which is what
you want, but maybe you'll get the yellow, you might
get the green gumball. You don't really know until you
flip the thing and the gumball comes down. You gotta
turn that little handle. You gotta twist the handle on
(12:37):
the gumball machine. And that's with justin fields from play
to play, Like there's the video game highlight, right, He's wonderful,
and then the next play dumb, the dumb, dumb, dumb,
and you don't know. He lost two fumbles on two
consecutive drives late in the game for the Chicago football team.
That set the Vikings up, and then on a third
(12:59):
down and ten found djmore thanks to the generosity of
the Minnesota Vikings defense, and that set up the field goal.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So the screw ups are there.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
They're still there as continues to be in a boondoggle
inadequate performance dinking the ball around the field. They're averaging
less than six yards per pass attempt, and the passer.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Rating wasn't very good.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It was like he was completing a lot of passes,
but they were all rudimentary passes, like the Bears are
afraid to have him throw the ball anywhere but within
the line of scrimmage. Most of the game, that was
the way it went. But people are like, well, this
is a measuring stick game. Okay, that says a lot.
That says a lot. It is the Ben mather Show.
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So I mentioned how terrible Justin Fields was at throwing
the ball down the field, and I know this was
by design and all that, But during the Monday night
football broadcast, they had a statistic that showed and I
think I'm correct on this. I jotted it down the
average air yards per pass attempt by Justin Fields was
less than one yard at at one point in the
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game was at zero point eight yards, so that was
within the line of scrimmage, right within the line of scrimmage,
So he was not that they were literally right at
the line of scrimmage zero point eight yards. Absolutely insane.
And then we talked about Joshua Dolls. We start with
that Joshua Dobbs man had to feel good story and
(17:53):
all that, and he was actually better off when he
had no idea who his teammates were.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
He was fine. He won a couple of games. He
didn't know who they were.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Now that he knows who they are, maybe he didn't
like him, Maybe maybe he hates the guys on the team.
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Is is that possible?
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Is that conceivable that Dobbs has a beef with some
of the guys on the team. Case car Haller writes
in and says, I knew I needed some rest before
hitting the road this morning, so I turned to the
Viking Bears game and slept like a baby.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
He slept like a baby.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Not just about Shane from des Moines writes and says
a plus plus plus on the Mallard Monologue, The New
tire rack copy needs uh needs to be longer than
a Kevin Wired update, but shorter than the Iowa minute.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Who Uh yeah, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Kevin's worth a lots So he had the night often
I hopefully we'll be back tomorrow. Your Femi rights in says,
uh hey, malor four out of four gumballs. On the
opening monologue, Feels did his best to blow that game
with two fumbles in the fourth quarter. You, Femi, says,
in this authentic Chicago like you cut him open. It's
deep dish pizza, he says. The Bears defense. No, it's
(19:06):
you feed me. He says, the Bears defense has gotten
eight turnovers the past two games. In this quarterback still
could barely win. Draft a quarterback and fleece a team
who wants to fix him. You'll shoot your eye out,
says you feeed me. Yeah, that's the veteran move. That's
the veteran moves. Like you try to you're polishing up
(19:29):
justin fields and trying to convince some other team that
this guy is the God's gifted quarterback and you got
to trade a bunch of random scratcher tickets to get him.
We go to Femi, who's in the Twin Cities. The
number one Uber Eats delivery driver in the Greater Minnesota
area says, oh, that was therapy.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Been wonderful monologue.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Almost the entire fan base lost hope after that woffle game.
But if you, the purveyor of truth, have not written
the vikings off, there's still hope.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Go Vikes. Well, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I go to I know, I just do the overnight
show here, but I do know malar math, and I
know that there is a supply chain shortage of playoff
teams playoffs. If you look at the NFC playoffs, like
Dallas beats a bunch of bad teams. Anytime they play
a good team, they lose. They're own two against good teams,
and they're eight and one against bad teams. A Philadelphia
(20:30):
barely winning, but they're winning. The forty nine ers back
on track. They got their guys back the system. QB,
they got their guys back. Detroit looked terrible on Thanksgiving
losing to the Green Bay Packers, but still they deserve
a playoff spot. And then outside of that, that's it.
There's no one else. There are seven teams that have
to give a Seattle's a joke, they're fraud. I haven't
(20:52):
heard from no Stradinis lately about Gino Smith or any
of those guys crying. Craig still balling out because of
Gino Smith. But that's the real Gino Smith. That's the
Geno Smith that your daddy watched play quarterback. Right there,
this guy stinks he's terrible. And then after that, so
(21:12):
you look around Atlanta, the NFC South is going to
get a team in because they have to by default.
So right now, that's Atlanta. It might be the terrible Saints,
but possibly bad Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It'll be one.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Bad team is guaranteed to get a playoff spot as
a division winner for me, NFC South.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
So again we're doing mal Maus.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
So you've got the NFC South winner, bad team Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Dallas. That's four spots. There's three other spots,
and I don't see three other playoff teams. I don't
buy the Packers, the Rams. I'm a Ram fan. I
think they're not legit. But three of those teams, again,
(21:54):
the Vikings are right in that mix. At six and six,
they're still in the pluffs. Even losing this game, they
are still in it. It is the Ben Malard Show. Now,
I mentioned Tom Brady, who made headlines made a ruckus
the other day. Tom Brady giving the State of the
NFL address, he was lamenting the fact that the greatest
hitters in NFL history from his generation early in his
(22:19):
career and even before it, guys like Ronnie Lot ray
Lewis players like that they would not be able to
play their style of play in the modern NFL because
the NFL is filled with horses and they can't handle that.
But it is accurate in the sense that I mentioned
this in the previous episode of the show. But I
go to these NFL games and the crowd has now
(22:41):
been programmed anytime there is a hit, there must be
a penalty because there was a violent hit. And as
I have pointed out, like when I was growing up
watching football, we wanted that we celebrated that. Now the
fan is so soft that they get very upset, said
they have the goufaws, they're.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Offended if there's no penalty flag.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
We saw a couple of plays over the weekend where
quarterbacks got hit, one of them Josh Allen, and that
did look like a horse collar tackle. But back in
the day, they just called it a tackle, and so
people get all said, anyway, get to the point place.
So Tom Brady is Tom Brady now walking back from
(23:24):
his hot take in previous days.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
About the NFL and the way it's going now.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Now he doubled down. He doubled down on his stance
that the modern NFL not that good. He says, I
think the pro game is a quote from I guess
he's doing some podcasts. Everyone's got a podcast, even I
have a podcast. There's no reason to listen to the
Brady podcast because we have anything good we talk about. Anyway,
(23:52):
Brady said, I think the pro game is reflecting more
on what the college game is, as opposed to the
college game reflecting what.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The pro game is.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
All Right, that's confusing, he said, we're asking pro players
to play college football, and that's the biggest difference.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I see.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
This is way more checkers now than it is chess.
Is the quote there from Tom Brady. I will guarantee
you the people that put together that podcast were furious
with Tom Brady because the original take that he gave
was not on his podcast. It was on our former
(24:29):
morning guy Steven A. Smith's podcast. So you're giving a
takeaway that went viral, but you didn't do it on
your own show. That's a bad job by you. Will
Tom Brady call a game for Fox? Is he going
to end up calling a game? A lot of people
in the business do not think Brady will ever broadcast.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
An NFL game. They think that he's going to.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Bow out and say that on the hindsight, he really
his kids need him and he needs to spend time
there with his children and he can't be traveling one
day a week to go to an end NFL game
and then doing a game and then flying back that night.
That that's too much. So well, I haven't heard much
on that recently. I know when the deal was announced
that he was going to call games on Fox, there
(25:11):
were people that I know that have worked in the
business a long time that said, ah, he's never going
to call a game. That He's just not He's gonna
find some reason, whether it's uh, you know, some relative
that's under the weather. The kids play the kid cards
always the go to. I think people have kids sometimes
just to get out of doing stuff, you know, because
no one can question right, I'm doing it for the kids.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's all about the kids, be sure.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
To catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
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Speaker 3 (25:39):
Pitcher Sonny Gray signs a three year, seventy five million
dollars deal with the Saint Louis Cardinals. He was the
runner up for the AlSi Underward last season while with Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
That's a good fit, right, Sonny Gray.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
He can't really handle a big market, so he goes
from Minnesota Saint Louis's.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You know, the Cardinals are going to suck.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
And so he'll be guessing where someone offered him the
most money.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Right, Not usually he signed with the team that offers
the least money. Oh okay, that's usually how that works.
It is the Ben Malor Show, as we press on.
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Progressive dot com. So a backup quarterback goes viral, not
by his play on the field because he didn't play,
and not by that man played much at all this year,
but at the Atlanta New Orleans game. Let's take you
back on the hot up time machine to Sunday Week
twelve NFL the New Orleans Saints, Derek Carr gagging as
(26:47):
he often does.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
What a disgrace. Derek Carr is at quarterback wherever.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
He happens to play, and he was terrible as making
big mistakes all over the place for the New Orleans
football team as they lost. But he got a pep talk,
really a pep rap from Jameis Winston. Famous Jamis went viral.
He was very excited because and I didn't see this
until after the fact, is why would I focus in
(27:13):
on the Saints and the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
But it was a big day for hip hop in
Atlanta as Ludicrous was on hand. He was there and
he repelled from the roof of the stadium in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Wow. Yeah. If anything had.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Gone wrong, it would have been the end of Ludacrous.
But Ludacros made it down on the field. He repelled
down on the field, and Jameis Winston was so happy.
One of the kings of hip hop music was there
and he did a live performance. I guess Ludacris, but
Jameis Winston. He ended up trying to give a pep
talk to Derek Carr and he was wrapping some ludicrous lips.
(27:55):
There is video side grainy sideline video of Jameis Winston
doing that.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I'll I'll do that to pump Eddie up when he
has a bad update. I'll go in there and try
to give him a little pop talk and help him
out there. And I'll do it all the time, but
every once in a while I'll do it, and that's
just the way to go. So I have a new
plan to get a lot of money. Not that I
don't make a ton of money from the radio show.
I mean they pay me right there with Colin Cowherd,
(28:22):
side by side. I mean it's neck and neck close.
Often sometimes in accounting they confuse my paycheck with his paycheck.
And of course nothing bigger than regional cable television. So
that's doing very well. But here's my plan, all right,
here's my plan. It is a I influencers, a I influencers.
(28:42):
I was talking with one of my consultants, one are
my gurus, Alec teischert le Vegan who works here at
Fox Sports Radio, and he's he's kind of savvy and
all that stuff. So I'm gonna partner with him. I
bring this up because a company revealed this week, company
out of Spain, that this is according to euro News.
(29:07):
I always get my news from euro News. They reported
that this company was struggling to find human beings to
use and they pay them and all that stuff, and
in terms of endorsements, and so the agency decided, you
know what we're gonna do. We're gonna use a AI woman.
(29:32):
Because guys are so horny they see what looks like
an attractive woman, they just throw money at the woman,
even if it's not even a woman, it's not even
a human being of a woman.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, it's nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
So this outfit in Spain decided, hey, you know, there's.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Not a lot of things we can do with actual
human beings.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
So they decided to come up with an AI model
and how's this going. So they create a bogus twenty
five year old, pink haired woman from Barcelona, and they said, well,
you know, she's kind of easy on the eyes and
all that, right looks you're not Yeah, I guess you
can call her a bitch, right, because she's not a hero.
(30:15):
He's not real she's a AI anyway. So this thing
is such a financial success. There are so many dopes
that are sending money and endorsement deals. They're making eleven
thousand dollars a month, eleven grand a month off of
fake AI woman on social media. And it gets even better,
(30:40):
it gets even better. This thing is so believable in
the influencer community that a well known we don't know
the name here, but a well known actor allegedly slid
in to the fake AI Woman's DMS to try to
get a date with the cyber lady.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I don't know that that worked or not, but there
you go. So somebody trying and it does. It's hard.
So I'm looking at photos here.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I mean, that's a that's a pretty good photoshop AI thing.
But fortunately I did not send any money in because
I did not. I don't see my wife you're talking about, man, So.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
That's the future right there.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I would I wouldn't do that right now if I
could figure out how to do it AI.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Fake influencer and man.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Now, Alex the Vegan was explaining to me, and he's
in that TikTok world.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
He's in that world.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Where he does all that and he's explaining to me
that this is your head's going to explode like a
mellet when you see what's coming.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
I'm not on snapface and all that.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
But here's the thing, like I kind of it's like
my argument with like radios, even though you'd be replaced
by AI.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Maybe maybe I'm doing AI right now. Who knows. Maybe
I'm not even here, I'm sleepy, instant chat or whatever
it is.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But I thought the whole point of the human experience
was you have to you want to be part of
the community. Right if do you really want to be
part of an AI bot community?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Maybe you do. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Well, it's like doing radio. I live radio show and
you can listen be part of the show. We're doing
it live and all that. Do it lives not recorded
hours ago. Anyway, it is the Ben Mather Show. Speaking
of Derek Carr, how bad he was. We talked about
that earlier. Here's the who am I game? Derek Carr
became the seventh player to throw three hundred and seventy
or more passes in his first eleven games of a
(32:37):
season and yet produced ten or less touchdowns. That's passing
and rushing touchdowns. I was the last quarterback to do
it again, Derek Carr the Saints. He's been so pathetic.
He became the seventh player to throw three hundred seventy
or more passes in the first eleven games of a
season yet produced ten or fewer touchdowns. That's passing and
(32:58):
rushing combined. I was the last player to do it.
Who am I the answer? We'll get to it. We
will do it next.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
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Speaker 2 (34:16):
Like Roberto. When's the last time you talked to Roberto?
It's been a while?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yeah, we won't work friends. We're not real For I.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I'm a little upset with the Berto.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I gonna be honest. Really you thought we were real friends.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
No, but he went to an La Kings game with
his daughter and he didn't didn't reach out.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
That's because you're not real friends. You're you're a work friend.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
But I mean, I'm in the building. I saw Jake
Warner there. He's a former work.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Wait with Jake. Yeah, he's stopped. I considered Jake like
a real like. I think Jake's authentic, like as a
real friend. I talked to him a couple days ago.
Oh all right.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Is he invited to the Mallard of Christmas party?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
He was invited, but he's you know, when you become
a bus driver, you're a celebrity. So he other engagements,
so he will not be able to attend said party. Yeah,
beat beat I was shocked by that also, But tell
you listen, you're in demand. Gotta do it anyway. I
gotta pay off. We'll do this right now. I've gotta
pay off the who am I?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
As we Savage, You're the quarterback of the Saints. There,
Derek Carr, Man, is you beat anyway? Here is the question?
What is the answer. Derek Carr became the seventh player
to throw three hundred and seventy or more passes in
the first eleven games of a season yet produced ten
or fewer touchdowns. That's passing in rushing combined. I was
(35:36):
the last to do it. Who am I? That is
the question. What is the answer? And let's see mister
Luciana's going with master p is his answer? Captain James T.
Kirk from Midnight Walker and Syracuse. Domaso Garcia, Blue Jay
Legend from Mister Nice Guy, Rosie the Robot, the original
Spanish Ai from Fergdog Roman Gabriel guests by Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
(36:01):
Manday Teal's fake dead girlfriend from Milkman Mike, Actually Milkman
Mike says he's going to slide into the the dms
of these AI bots.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Very nice. Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Tommy Kramer from rob and Minnesota, friend of the Mallam Militia,
alf the Alien Pine A going with Chipper Jones, Eddie quickly,
Do you have an answer, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
A former Saint Louis Cardinals quarterback, Oh, I lost, Jim Hart.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Oh, Jim Harton It's incorrect, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
The correct answer A Super Bowl winning quarterback Brad.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Johnson back in six.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Brad Johnson so morbid Buccaneer teams
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