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November 26, 2024 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Ravens beating up on the Chargers on MNF what what this outcome says about Jim Harbaugh's Chargers, did the Ravens find a defense or was this more about Justin Herbert's weaknesses, the Harbaugh parents not attending the game, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome. It's our numb ber w our.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
One of the original recipe Ben Malershow podcast. I would
be Ben, thank you for listening. It doesn't mean a
lot otherwise, what are we doing this for? We were
up all night. I actually went to the Charger game.
I've had a long day. Not that that's a problem,
it's first world problem. So I was at the Charger
game at so Far in La. The Harball Ball, Ravens
and Chargers. What does the outcome say to you about

(00:27):
Jim Harbaugh's Chargers defense as they were smoked in this game?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Also?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Did the Ravens find a defense? Or was this more
about the shortcomings the foibles of Justin Herbert? And what
do you make of Jackie and jack Harball the parents
deciding not to attend John and Jim's Raven Charger game
in Los Angeles?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
What does that tell us about that? We'll get to
all of it and more right now here.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
It is give it up for our number one.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Poetic justice, but not brotherly love.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
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Speaker 1 (02:10):
To no good, as the song goes, I was actually
in attendance.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I was a witness at this game the backdrop Sofi Stadium,
or as our friend helmet Man likes to call it,
Sofa Stadium. For the final voyage of Week number twelve
of the NFL Sojourn, the Fox Refugees, Troy Akman, Joe
Buck were there. They had to call on television and

(02:34):
you had Lamar Jackson and the Ravens versus Justin Herbert
and the Chargers, but that was not the story. Don't
bury the lead, my man, heart, We're not gonna bury
the lead. So you know what's going on. The game
was hyped up as the Horror Ball Bowl because of
obvious reasons. John and Jim going at it. Were you

(02:56):
compelled to watch? Were you compelled watch? Maybe not?

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Maybe he had something else going on.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
You had to stare outside and count the stars in
the sky. So Lamar Jackson getting her done, and then
some Lamar throwing not one, but two touchdowns. He also
ran into the end zone for the first score of
the game for the Ravens. Derrick Henry did not find
pay dirt, but did control the game on the ground

(03:24):
one hundred and forty yards rushing for Derrick Henry, who
was washed up in Tennessee and has had a rebirth
in Baltimore. The Ravens coach John Harbaugh now three to
zero against his brother Jim Harbaughs. The Ravens beat the
Chargers thirty to twenty three in a game that was
not that close. It was the first matchup, I know

(03:46):
you're keeping track at home, the first matchup since the
Harbaughs battled it out back in Super Bowl forty seven,
way back in February of twenty thirteen when the lights
went out in New Orleans, and that is when John
Harbaugh's Ravens beat the forty nine Ers coached by Jim
Harbaugh back in the day. And so Jim harbarb returning

(04:09):
to the NFL this year, we know it's been a
long time at Michigan. Nine seasons in ann Arbor capped
off by a championship, the National title, and they hung
out and hugged each other. It was all over TV
there before the game. Then the game was played. But
let's focus in on the game itself. What do you say?

(04:29):
And so we're week twelve now done, and we immediately
pivot as this is our Tuesday show at Monday and Tuesday,
and before you know it, we back at it on
Thursday for week thirteen. But let's focus in on what
it all means, because it's all about the meaning of
life through sport. So as we discussed the question, what

(04:53):
does this outcome from Monday Night say to you about
Jim Harbaugh's Chargers, the bettest story in the losing locker.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Room, So what does it say about Jim harbaus Chargers.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
So I've got Plato, the cutlery Shop, and early Bird,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will give you Liberty is what we're going to
give you. So a this was a clear measuring stick game.
It was. And I will be the first to admit

(05:25):
that I overvalue the Chargers. I thought they were legit.
They're frauds. Their defense is a fraud defense, and they
were on display now. They had an opportunity in a
measuring stick situation. How can your defense, supposedly a top
ten defense in the NFL, go against the top offense

(05:48):
going right now with Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, and
the results puke in your.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Mouth, bad, cover your eyes bad.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
The Chargers, to be kind, they have a lot of
ground to make up, a lot of ground to make up.
We could also point out the entire Charger of defense
took a ride collectively on the vomit comet in this game.
How not to tackle? There were business decisions being made
on where to tackle and where not to tackle and
all that.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
But the defense.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
We'd heard so much about the Charger defense, and the
numbers were pretty good. We had pretty good defensive numbers.
For Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers defense. There that was
the pride and joy, and they were absolutely pants by
the Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore started slow, they started slow, and
the Bolts made some plays early in the game.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
But as the.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Game continued on and on, Lamar Jackson had that Eureka
moment where he figured some things out and floodgates were
opened off to the races. The flag is up, and
he treated the Charger defense like Plato. The Chargers were
Plato in the hands of Lamar Jackson. There they were

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man handled defensively by the Baltimore offense. Baltimore scored on
five straight possessions touchdown, touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown. And
now I didn't play in the NFL, but I would
think that if you just do the overnight show. But
if you're a really good defense, you don't allow five
consecutive drives to result in points and for those touchdown drives,

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which is what the Chargers did in this game. The
Chargers allowed two hundred and twelve yards on the ground,
the first time a Jim Harbaugh coach NFL team had
allowed over two hundred yards. They had no clue, no
basic tackling. What was that? And it shows you the
Chargers defensive statistics were built up against inferior quarterbacks and

(07:48):
they gave up a fair amount of yards a fair
amount of points to the Bengals last week and Joe Burrow,
and now they come back and have their own issues
here in this game against another better quarterback, top quarterback
in Lamar Jackson out page two.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Didn't the Ravens?

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Did the Ravens find a defense or or was this
game more about Justin Herbert and his foibles? The Charger
quarterback having a tough day at the office. So the
eerra on this one is pointing the direction of the
foibles of Justin Herbert is pointing that way because the

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Ravens defense by this point, you are set in your ways, right,
You're not going to change that much, you are. You
built up a body of work here. The Ravens defense
ranked dead last in the entire business of football in
terms of their past defense. Entering Monday Night Football, they
were the worst of the worst. And yet that same

(08:49):
raven defense, despite those horrible numbers, Justin Herbert finished with
fifteen incompletions twenty one completions, two hundred and eighteen yards
no touchs, was sacked four times and looked generally lost
through stretches of the game. And Jim Harball and a
fatal flaw for the Chargers here, and this is going
to be a problem that they're going to have for

(09:10):
a while. They have a good kicker and it's Dicker
the kicker. Two dependent on Dicker the kicker. Here, it
is a trip to the cutlery shop and you purchased
the double edged sword. If you're Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers,
it cuts both ways because you have a top notch
kicker and as a result, you are more prone to
settle for field goals rather than go for it. And

(09:33):
against better opponents you're going to need more touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
But you have a great kicker.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
And as a resolved, the Chargers went a mind boggling
fifty four minutes between touchdowns in this game. They scored
early in the game and didn't score it until late
in the game, and Justin Herbert mentioned this was on
him more than the Ravens defense. There were plays to
be made, and Justin Herbert there was one in particular

(09:59):
in the first half late in the first half there
where Herbert was on a different page of the playbook
than one of his key receivers there and he missed
a wide open Joshua Palmer for what would have been
and could have been and should have been a touchdown
right over the middle. There you go high and I'll

(10:20):
throw low, or vice versa. And so instead the Chargers
have for this point in the book that reading the book.
Here we're writing the book, and at this point of
the book, the Chargers are second class citizens among the
AFC contenders. They're not in the upper class. They don't
have a defense that's legit. They were exposed by Lamar

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and the Ravens, and the Chargers are squarely in that
middleweight category in the AFC. That second line where you've
got Kansas City, Buffalo and Baltimore at least going into
the playoff picture, and then after that you've got a
hodgepodge of teams that are there.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Now the last.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Word here, what do you make of the stars of
the show not being in attends. I know there were
a lot of TV po I was at Sofi Stadium
and just chit chatting people disappointed they couldn't get that
reaction shot from Jackie and Jack Harbaugh the patriarch and
matriarch of the Harball family there as.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
They were not in attendance.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
So what do you make of Jackie and jack Harbaugh
their decision to not attend the John and Jim apalooza
between the Ravens and the Chargers in La. They were
not there. They stayed back in the Sunshine State. So
this was to me a dead new It was a
dead new that was a dead new way.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
My theory on.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
This is they they're just simply burned out. They're simply
burned out. Have seen this before, right, They've seen this
act before. They saw it on the grandest stage on
them all.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
In the Super Bowl. Okay, so it's not big enough.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
A random regular season trip to California on a Monday night,
Thanksgiving weeks. We're good. Instead, we are told that the
Harball parents decided to spend the night with their daughter
and their son in law, Tom Cream. Remember him, he's
still getting paid by a munch of college basketball programs
where he sucked at and there are two grandkids. They're

(12:28):
in Florida, and who could possibly question that celebrating their
wedding anniversary just rather hang out, have that early bird
special enjoy a nice meal and call it a night.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
But it just shows you again.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's a simple philosophy I have in life, and most
people would agree with this. I think I don't know
about you. If it's important enough, you'll find a way.
If something is important enough, you'll find a way. If not,
you'll find an excuse. And I get it wasn't important
of is a regular season game. It was a playoff game.
They probably would have been there. But it's a testimonial

(13:06):
to how successful John and Jim Harbaugh have been that
their parents are like, yeah, we'll watch it on TV.
Yeah we yeah, we gotta buy stuffing and we gotta
find the perfect pumpkin pie and cranberries and get ready
for Thursday. So we can't be bothered to be flying
out to LA and hang on to me. Come on,

(13:27):
I'm gonna pain in the butt. Leave us alone, Leave
us alone, all right. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
If you would like to comment on any of that,
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(13:48):
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bit later an hour number four, but straight ahead for
us Sexy stat Guy and Party Hardy. Sexy stat Guy
and Party Hardy. We'll get to those stories. We'll take
your calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Will do it all, and we will do it next.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 1 (14:38):
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Speaker 2 (14:39):
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whatever it's called.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Now, now back over to bloviating Benny. All right, all right,
all right, Bill knock that off? Ryan writes in.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
He says, are you using the same monologue from last night?

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Because my soft.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Ass rams were manhandled and need to practice on how
to effing tackle. Ryan says, yeah, So what I do
is I use the same blueprint. And it's Thanksgiving week,
and I figure, who the hell is listening to talk
radio on Thanksgiving week? My god?

Speaker 1 (15:40):
I mean, what, losers? So I just do the same
show every night.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
And in fact, I actually recorded the show on Thursday
of last week, and I'm on vacation.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
So the joke's on you, losers. Who else do we have?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Supermarcus Steve right since says Ben, you were being covered
up by He says that d bag Charger talk.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
He says, there you go.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
He's uh, he's ripping whoever's doing the Charger postgame show.
There you go. Well, the good news is Super Markeut
Steve that you're able to hear it on the iHeartRadio
app in And we might be covered up in the
LA market, but we're on like six hundred radio station.
So I think we're okay. I think we're I think
we're in good shape. King Roy writes and says, tough
night for LA sports fans. The Chargers fall short on

(16:22):
the comeback. The Clippers let one slip away. Now they
didn't let one slip away. I think they had too
much fetccini alfredo there they man, that was a no
show effort by the people's team. The Clippers me embarrassing,
and they said the most embarrassing, King Roy says. The
Kings getting blown out by King Roy says his San
Jose Sharks. Like they say in shark fandom, the future

(16:47):
is teal, The future is teal. Dread Pie writes in
says this is the good, the bad, and the ugly league.
The good Detroit, Kansas City, Sakwan, Barkley, and Buffalo. The
bad teams about five hundred, the ugly sub five hundred teams.
The Chargers and the Ravens are both just bad. The

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Ravens just happen to be not as bad. On Monday night,
Late night drug Tester says the Chargers looked even lost
even when Herbert was on target. The Whiteouts had the
drops and not the funny sound bite kind of drops now,
Christopher writes in Legally Blind Christopher from North Carolina. He says,

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I bet Jack and his wife were at Costco getting
the best price on pumpkin pie. More value than watching
Jim fail time after time like he did at the
University of Michigan. So so, he says, all right, well,
very nice, very kind, All right, we'll take some calls.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
It is a call and show.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
If you want to be part eight seven to seven
ninety nine on Fox, make sure that you have that
dump button ready. Lorraine up and we'll say hello to Tony.
Standby all right, Tony in the bay. We'll see if
he can make it through the call without cursy. Hello,
Tony in the bay, in the leadoff chair. Very important chair,
Tony in the bay. This is the most important call
we'll take the entire night. The leadoff hitter. Welcome.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
I'd like to tip my hat to Mickey. Hey Ben,
what kind of lingerie does William Shatner like his ladies
to wear?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
I don't know, it pends.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh there you go, all right, thank you?

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Where did where did Gunner learn his entertainment skills?

Speaker 2 (18:30):
I have a satin nightgown?

Speaker 5 (18:31):
Time.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Of course, the great gunner from Minnesota works at a
Walmart there in Minnesota. I don't know where did he
learn his entertainment.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Ability from interviews? Lee Harvey Oswald?

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh okay, there's more.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
The greatest boxer of all time is I don't I
don't know. Larry Holmes, thank you man, all.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Right, thank you?

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Hang on shut your Yeah, well he didn't curse that time.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
That's a step in the right direction, right, it's on
the edge.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
Those were quality jokes too.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, that's great. And we're gonna lose him to stand
up comedy. He'll be out there doing comedy on Eugene
in Chicago. Rights since says Mallard, Are you ready for Thursday?
What do I have to do? Be ready Thursday? I
eat and then I mean there's a lot of food
and stuff and watch football.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Is that all you're gonna do?

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Eat and watch football?

Speaker 2 (19:23):
What else?

Speaker 7 (19:24):
Snap?

Speaker 6 (19:24):
Do you nap on things?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
I'm not a napper. I don't nap. No, I wish
I did nap. I need a nap.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
I don't you know what they say?

Speaker 5 (19:30):
Ben?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Who's that? Who are they? Who are they? Do you
know who they are?

Speaker 6 (19:34):
Science?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Science? Just say science? If you don't know the answer.
Just say science, Just say they trust the science.

Speaker 8 (19:40):
I think when people say they it's like a book statement.
Let me let me double check why turkey makes you
sleep though?

Speaker 2 (19:45):
It's called trip to fan, right, and then the thing
trip the fan in the turkey makes you sleepy, and
then I want to pass. I eat a lot of turkey.
When I was a kid, my mom loved turkey, so.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
We would ask turkey over him.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't like turkey.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
I like just like chick. I don't need turkey. I
don't not a big turkey guy.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
Oh my gosh, what okay?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Do you have to be so dramatic. There's no need
to be dramatic. We're talking about a turkey. Something dramatic
about a turkey.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
On Google, it says the idea that a turkey makes
you sleepy is actually a Thanksgiving myth.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
Oh maybe it's just an excuse to nap on your well.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
But but let me remind you that when the legend
becomes the fact, you go with the legend. If the
legend is eating turkey makes you sleepy, then it makes
you sleepy, and you must go with it. If enough
people believe that to be true. Then it is true.
So that's the reality of the situation. Shall we say,

(20:43):
who else do we have this page? Then I can't
read that on the air. We actually have some audio
I wanted to play. We have This is Jim Harbaugh
and there's a Q and A. Here, we have the
we have the audio here. Here's Jim Harbaugh post game
Chargers lose to the Ravens, and there was a little
back and forth between Jim and John Harball. John has

(21:05):
now dominated this series of Here is Jim com Will
you are the question? The answer here?

Speaker 5 (21:11):
What did your brother tell you after the game when
you guys met up?

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Always said the same thing, congratulated him on the victory,
and man, I love you. Okay, that was very deep
commentary from I'm so glad we played that. I was
a deep commentary from Jim Harbaugh and John Harball. And
that's that's outstanding audio. That's tremendous. They said, congratulations, I

(21:38):
love you, and that's it. See you later, get out
of here. Did Jim ask if you can get a
wide receiver that can actually like catch the ball?

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Ball?

Speaker 7 (21:49):
Right?

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I love you to your siblings? No, No, I don't either.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
I don't even hug mine.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
You don't hug them, You're not a hugger. No, Well,
I don't see him very often.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
They don't live near me, so when I see them,
it's rare and appropriate. You know, maybe once or twice
a year I'll see them.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
I guess it depends amount a funeral or something. I'll say,
I love you like I don't like a regular going
out to have a bite to eat, you know, at
the the burger joint. Probably not, Probably not going to
do that. Bob wrights And says, why why does Jim
look older than John? Little brother looks older? She's got
beat up more in the NFL. Benito, the long suffering

(22:32):
Cowboy fan, says, can we talk about the fake Charger
fan who made an appearance on Monday Night Football. I
don't know she was on there. I did not see
the feed of the game there. I did not see
that she was on their friend of Eddie's, but I
did run into Eddie says, hell, he misses you, misses
you all. The great Eddie Garcia, who was there fully
decked out at the Charger game, ready for competition, ready

(22:54):
for a battle royale there and you all decked out
in his Charger game. Even though he's a Steeler fan,
he seemed more like to me like he was ready
to go as a Charger fan. You know we need
a fun fact here we go, fun fact calling back? Yeah,
you know what, I have a fun fact, right, fun
fact the show that puts the fun in fun facts.

(23:17):
The Green Bay Packers ko the forty nine Ers on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
They sit at eight and three as we hit in
a week thirteen.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
The Packers have the top record by any team to
be in third place or worse in their division entering
week thirteen since the nineteen seventy NFL merger. That is
over fifty years of football and the Jordan Love Packers,

(23:46):
although they did win three of those games without Jordan Love,
but Jordan Love Packers are the greatest third place team.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
In NFL history. Is that not a fun fact?

Speaker 2 (23:57):
You see? You're saying, yes, you're saying you're impressed by
that is a fun fact that that that's a very
nice fun fact for you, you enjoy.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Can you name the coach of the Green Bay Packers
lareen right now?

Speaker 6 (24:07):
I think it's Jim Harbaugh, right.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, sure, yes, he's coaching both the Chargers and the Packers. Yes,
I knew at the same time.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
Lucky guy.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Let's go to Let's go to Matt, who is next
on the Ben Maler Show on Fox. Hello, Matt, Welcome, Hello,
yo yo yo yo man man.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
I love you.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
I love really big fan, big fan. Yes, what's going on,
big Superman? Uh?

Speaker 7 (24:37):
Look, I'm a Cowboys fan. You know we messed up
our draft picks this weekend. I want to talk about
Aaron Rodgers and his old ass. The dude's week.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
He needs to go.

Speaker 7 (24:51):
Everybody, he needs to get fired. Whatever you gotta do,
let him go. Aaron Rodgers trash, he's been trash.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Well wait, wait, wait, I thought you were a Cowboy fan.
I'm confused here. Are you a Jets fan or a
cowboy No.

Speaker 7 (25:07):
I am I am a Cowboy fan.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Then why do you give a rats ass about the Jets?
Who cares?

Speaker 7 (25:13):
But I hate Aaron Rodgers? I hate him, I hate him.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Well, why do you hate Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 7 (25:20):
I hate this weak man everything. He blames everything on
everybody else. He doesn't do anything.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
No, you don't like Rogers. He just annoys you, and
you'd like it.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Would you like a public execution. What would you like
here you want him to be? You would like the
guillotine in the in the town square, in the middle
of the town square. How about we put him in
a catapult and we send him like a human cannonball over.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
A large body of water. How about that?

Speaker 7 (25:46):
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
That seems like they're a great idea. What could go wrong?

Speaker 1 (25:50):
All right?

Speaker 2 (25:51):
All right, Matt, thank you, you've made your voice there
there you go, hang up on yourself. There's a Matt
so the sexy stat guy. That would be none other
than Lamar Jackson. And we talked about this in previous
episodes of the show, the MVP Race, as stated on
Benny Versus the Penny, the TV episode this weekend is
going to be a photo finish.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
On Sunday Night on an Island game.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
You had Sequon Barkley Rumblin and stumbling for the Philadelphia
Eagles making his claim to the Most Valuable Player of
the Year honors in the NFL. And then on Monday
Night Football, the ravens Lamar Jackson getting it done. Three touchdowns,
two passing, one on the ground. Lamar Jackson leads the

(26:38):
NFL in passing yards and in passing touchdowns. Now is
that performance enough to make up for him riding the
vomit comet for large stretches of time When Baltimore played
the Pittsburgh Steelers in the previous game for the Ravens,

(26:58):
he had a little proprity he needed a bib because
he puked up his lunch.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Did not go all that well.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
And as far as the call, that was just sawn
from Odessa, who's a cowboy fan, who's I don't really
like Aaron Rodgers and I would like Aaron Rodgers to
be kicked out if you will kicked out of the
Jets and all that nokiatine human cannonball. The Jets did say,

(27:27):
despite multiple reports that they are considering shutting down Aaron
Rodgers for the year, that they will not will not
be stopping Rogers from playing. He will start for the
Jets versus the Seattle football team this upcoming weekend. So
despite supposedly many injuries, I did like the conspiracy theory

(27:49):
over the weekend that stated that Aaron Rodgers was reluctant
to have medical tests done because he was afraid that
the Jets were going to shut him down. Now that
is level paranoia next level paranoia all the way through,
all the way through. And I got to tell you, listen,
sometimes here, if I have a vocal issue, I do

(28:12):
not get any kind of test done because I do
not want to be asked to take the night off.
So I make sure I work through my vocal issues.
I just suck on some garlic and I get back
behind the microphone and start barking into the microphone.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
That's what I do. Let's go to the King of Kurds.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
The King of Kurds is next to nothing better than
cheese curds. Properly made cheese curds, outstanding. Friday's good. You
know it's gonna be good if it's the King of Curds.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
Hello, King, how you doing the huts for honey? Is
there dogs in the background? What's going on?

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Who let the dogs out?

Speaker 2 (28:47):
That's an old two who let the dog out?

Speaker 4 (28:48):
I got distracted by the cowgal caller that I want
to talk about Aaron Rodgers because he's sick of his
team talking.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
We're talking about a team when they suck.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, that was just nossage. Yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Oh, I know you don't like that question.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
You don't ask me how I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
There's nothing that's more of a time killer on talk
radio than how are you doing? I know it's a
polite thing to say, but we think about how much
if you listen to talk radio, how much time call
in talk radio is spent by people asking how you're doing?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
I think how much time you'd have. You know, time
is the most important thing we have.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
It's the most valuable thing we have, as you know,
King of Kurds. And to waste our time with small
talk because really, you don't really care how I'm doing,
and I don't really care how you're doing.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Right, We neither one of us really care.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
No, you don't. I don't believe that. I don't believe
that if I said, Hell, if I said, hey, I
need like five grand, you wouldn't send me five grand, right,
you wouldn't you give me a five No, you wouldn't.
I don't. I don't believe that. I don't believe you do.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
You got to. I know he's stepping on your toes
a bit. You might need to. I think he's trying
to change your thing or steal your dick. You need
to tell Bill Miller to change his doc keithen' sert
his voice a bit. He sounds a.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Little like you.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, No, it's AI.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
I think Bill Miller is AI, and I will likely
be replaced by AI. That's what's going to happen. Bill
Miller is just an AI account. He does sound a
lot like me, which is quite troubling. I think what
the company has done is they've used advanced AI technology
to maybe mimic my voice, and it's bull crap, King
of Kurds.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
I think it is not right. I just wanted to
call in because I'm hoping you get I know you've
been talking about meet and greets, and I know your
brother is near and dear and Happleton over here. Yeah,
and we got venues for you, and you need to
try some Chicken buy up towards Dappleton and you can
come down towards the Milwaukee area.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
We can we can help, all right, Well, listen, I'll
I have to plan it out.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
And the last time I went, I did like a
last minute Mallard meet and greet. It was like a
very last minute. It wasn't planned that. It wasn't planned out.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
So I want to comment. I want to my buddy
Tino that unabar we want a bunch of ram stub
doing help PVR for trivia.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Which I I love trivia. Man, I'm all about the trivia.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
As you know. I enjoyed the trivia. And I'm all
I got.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
One right here, youngest NFL team out of these the Falcons, Seahawks,
Saints or Vikings.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Which one of the youngest.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Then I go Seattle?

Speaker 5 (31:18):
You are correct?

Speaker 2 (31:19):
What do I win?

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Do I win something here?

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Do I the.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
Praise of the poopy pigeon fans out there?

Speaker 4 (31:24):
I do like a lot of Seattle call in?

Speaker 1 (31:27):
But you enjoy Seattle fans? You like these?

Speaker 5 (31:30):
I call them the team, but I like the fans
that call in. I call them the poopy pigeons or
the Seattle you know what?

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
I understand. Of course I got you. There are Have
you ever been to Seattle's beautiful there. You should go
check out. I have.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
My first time I went to a dispensary was in Seattle.
Was quite overwhelming.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's a game changing experience, right, I changed your life
in amazing ways. And yeah, I understand. All right, I'm
gonna hang up, thank you, all right, there's all right. Yes,
I appreciate you. King of heurts right there. Oh man,
how lucky are we? King of Kurtz? My God.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Time Now for the who am I?

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Game?

Speaker 1 (32:04):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else us.
We call it the who am I?

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Game? So the Cardinals have a tight End. That's the
football team, the Cardinals, not the baseball team. There's a
baseball team called the Cardinals, but this is the football
team that used to be in the city where the
baseball team is, but then they left that city to
go to another city in the state of Arizona. So
they're not in Missouri, they're not in Saint Louis. They're
in Arizona. They used to be called the Phoenix Cardinals.
Now they called the Arizona Cardinals. Tight End. Trey McBride trade.

(32:29):
That's a good name, doesn't that? Who Trey McBride. Doesn't
that sound like a good name. That sounds like Trey
McBride sounds like a fake name a studio made up
for an actor. Doesn't it sound like that, Like, yeah,
a little bit, you're gonna be our leading actor and
we're gonna call you Trey McBride stage name, yes, stage
name or golfer on the PGA tour.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Trey McBride, No, anyway, definitely not a rapper.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Trey McBride has eighty targets without without a receiving touchdown.
I hold the NFL record for the most targets through
ten games played in a season without a receiving touchdown. Again,
Trey McBride this year has got eighty targets without a
receiving touchdown for Arizona. But I hold the NFL record

(33:16):
for the most targets through ten games played in a
season without a receiving touchdown.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Who am I? That is the question?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
The answer? If you know it, hit me up on
x at Ben Maller. We'll get to it and we
will do it next.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Miller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
YadA YadA, Yeah, it's Bill Miller. We'll get back to
big head Ben in a moment. This is the part
of the program where I say, Hey, you can be
part of different bits on the show that Ben does.
Ask Ben, Sports, Jeopardy, fill up the content machine. Follow
Ben on Facebook, The Show on Facebook, Ben Maller's Show Instagram,

(33:58):
Ben Maller on Fox and Now on Blue Sky as well.
Let's get back to the bloviating nonsense right now, all right,
all right, all right, Bill, please say calm time now
for who am I getting? Bill sucks?

Speaker 1 (34:20):
No, Ben, I'm not Bill.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's Bill, that's Bill Miller. I'm Ben. Two different people.
Cardinals tight end Trey McBride, good name, Trey McBride. He's
got eighty targets without a receiving touchdown. I hold the
NFL record for the most targets through ten games played
in a season without a receiving touchdown. Who am I?
That is the question. What is the answer? And let's

(34:46):
see does anyone know the answer? We go to the
Great Unwashed to find out. I did see a message
from Chris in Houston. Remember christon Houston. Chris was a
big star caller on the show, and then he sold
out to the dreaded Day Shift and that was it.
We lost him as a caller. He sold out, He
took the money for the day Shift. See can't read that,

(35:08):
Mark Chimurro guess by Slim tim as the answer. John
Garin from Malor Militia Monster also known as the Bills Monster.
Chad Ocho Cinco Johnson was guest by Chipping the Cues,
Popeye the Sailor Mint from On the Grind, JP's on

(35:29):
the Grind.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Jerry Springer from truck Stop Fungus. That's his answer.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Keyshawn Johnson guessed by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Rob in
Minnesota meant both those guys at the mal of Meat
and Grace as Golden.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Tate is the way to go. Who else do we have?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Page Dan Danny DeVito from Cowboy, Drew Shane into Moine
going with James Worthy is his answer. Judge Jerry Judy
from Milkman, Mike and Colorado, Tony Kahn the con Man
from King Rory. That's his answer. Rita Aura, who is

(36:06):
thirty four today from Late Night Drug Tester Martavius Bryant
guest by Malibu Rubin. That's his answer. Christopher who's legally
blind in North Carolina, says the Great John Daly is
the way to go. Ruby Rod from our friend ostriche
Ann in the DC area. Who else do you have?

(36:28):
Page down Jim Brown guessed by the weather Man Mister
Wonderful Paul Orndorf from Rob in Vegas, Chuck Woolery vegass
I forty in went with Chuck Woolvery, the game show
host who passed away died over the weekend, and it
was two and we'll be up back in two and two, right,

(36:49):
two and two.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
There's back in two and two. Yeah, who else do
we have?

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Page down Jose mesa guess by mister nice Guy, the
guy that blew the World Series for the Cleveland Indians
back in the day. Page down Kyle Pitts guessed by
Robbie the Mariner fan Coop's man Crush favorite Bronco, Eric
Decker from Eloy from Compton's Malo prop Guy going with

(37:15):
Dad Gummett as his answer. That's a good photo. How
did you get that drawing of Dad Gummett? That's pretty impressive?
El Roy Crazy Legs Hirsh from Dreadpie. That's his answer.
All right, Lorena, do you have an answer? It's the
who am I?

Speaker 5 (37:31):
Game?

Speaker 1 (37:31):
This is where I pretend to be somebody else.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Cardinal tight end Trey McBride has eighty targets without a
receiving touchdown. I hold the NFL record for the most targets,
most targets through ten games without without a receiving touchdown
during a single season. Yeah, yeah, you're a big stats person, Loraina, Right,
I am. In fact, many people at the network, like
when Rob Parker has a question about stats, he'll send

(37:55):
you a text.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Take that for data.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Colin Cowherd is like, hey, I need an answer here.
Can we see if Lorraine is awake. I need to
ask you a question.

Speaker 6 (38:03):
For sure, all hours of the day to my phone
just be blowing.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (38:06):
I know it's crazy, but for this answer, I really
put in.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
A lot of effort.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
I'm sure you did.

Speaker 6 (38:11):
Yeah, and I think the answer is Willy Wonka back.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Willy Wonka from a Willy famous chocolate factory, Willy Wonka
Chocolate factory. We tell me golden ticket thing? Yeah right, Unfortunately, No,
I'll give you a cute give me the damn ball.
How about that? Does that do anything for you? No,
that doesn't do anything for you. That's like a dog. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Well, or a wide receiver named Keishawn Johnson.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Keishawn Johnson back in twenty oh one. Now, this is
pretty impressive. Kishawn Johnson who played for the Jets and
the Buccaneers. He had one hundred and twenty one receptions
but no no touchdown receptions through ten games. That's that's
hard to do. Let's go to Brandon, who's in Cans City.

(38:55):
It says, I will hate this. What am I gonna
hate about this? Brandon?

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Get to the point, please, What am I gonna hate
about this?

Speaker 5 (39:03):
And the jet?

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (39:05):
What's up? Brother?

Speaker 5 (39:06):
A long time listener. I get in about maybe once
a month or so. I appreciate you and Coop taking
my call. I'm gonna I'm gonna make it short and sweet.
Coop gave me the heads up and was like, he's
probaly gonna hang up on you, but whatever, So just
tell me real, tell me.

Speaker 7 (39:24):
Real quick, because I know you like to eat.

Speaker 5 (39:27):
I know I like to eat.

Speaker 7 (39:29):
What is your give me your things sleeping plate?

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yeah, I'm good on that. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
One of my one of my pet peeves here is
that type of radio. To me, that is the ultimate
sign of lazy radio. Anyone that does a know anybody
who does like a Thanksgiving draft, I want to punch
right in the nose, all right, right between the eyes.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
You know, put some effort in your job.
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