January 23, 2026 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about former Chargers DC Jesse Minter getting hired as the new Ravens head coach and if it's fair to expect instant results, what the decision to hire someone from the Harbaugh coaching tree tells us, Bills Mafia's petition to bring back Sean McDermott, and more!
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Former Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter taking over the Ravens.
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Is it fair to expect instant results from a coach
who's never done the job before. Also, what does the
decision to hire someone tied to the Harbaugh clan as
the next Ravens coach? Tell us we'll examine that. And
in Buffalo, do you expect the owner there, mister Pagoula,
to pay attention to the Bill's mafia. They have a
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petition to bring back Sean McDermott. And we'll take a
look at that. All of it coming your way right now.
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from the school of poetry, if you want to call
it that, the school of poetry. So the coach in carousel,
it's only a couple of seats open. Another seat has
been filled if you update your big board, not a
list big board, the game of musical chairs. So if
you have not heard, I don't know what you've been doing,
doing something else, perhaps you missed it. So we have
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learned that the Ravens that's a football team, not a
good one. They didn't make the playoffs. The Ravens have
hired Charger defensive coordinator Jesse Minter. Who jesse Mintter. That
sounds like a picture for the Atlanta Braves. Anyway, jesse
Minter will be the new head coach. You can feel
the excitement unless you can't. Unless you can't, So he
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replaces John Harbaugh with the title as an up and comer,
a fast rising coach. The flavor of the month. Jesse
Minter from the Chargers strong ties to the Harball family. Mintor,
who was at one point an assistant with the Ravens
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and recently he's worked with Jim Harbaugh around, following him
around like a puppy dog from Michigan to the Chargers.
And now he's going to replace Jim Harbaugh's brother and
tagged again forty two rising Star all that, so that
is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
question now former Charger defensive coordinator Jesse Minter taking over
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the Ravens job. Is it fair to expect instant results
from a guy who's never done the job before? Is
it fair to expect instant success? So my thoughts on this,
I've got claw machine, tennis, ball, and narcotics and we'll
put all of these things together and we are going
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to make some delicious, amazing spaghetti and meatball. So a
my first thought on this is the idea that it's
not fair is insane. Like some people that think everything
needs to be completely fair. Life is not fair. Your
life will improve when you realize that life is not fair.
There's so many people that don't seem to understand that concept.
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That is why these guys get paid a lot of money, right,
big money, big moneyin't big money, and they hope they
don't get away me. Now, this is not last I
checked the Raider job. That's an outhouse, right, the Browns
of Porta Potti. It's not that in comparison to the
Raiders and the Browns. This is a five star restaurant.
This is not a roach coach, as we used to
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call food trucks back in the day. You've got an
MVP level quarterback, a really good gamer, really good gamer
in Lamar Jackson, a great regular season player who often
there's a glitch in the matrix and he goes a
wall when January comes around, Lamar. If Lamar is still
in the building, and that's not a guarantee, right, there's
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still a chance in the multiverse that the Ravens get
rid of Lamar Jackson to go completely scorched earth. However,
if he is still there, like if you're still in
the Lamar Jackson business, then jesse Mincher, the new coach,
has zero elbow room. Does anyone disagree with that? Okay,
I don't see anybody raising their hand. There's no grace
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period here. There's no learning on the job. You hit
the ground running or you get trampled by a stampede.
That's how it works. And this is going to be
jesse Minter's first head coaching job in Baltimore at any level,
at any level. And so now he will be managing
the offense, the defense, special teams, massive egos, annoying media
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people like sports with Coleman and the buffet line. He'll
be making sure the foods served at a certain time,
like do they want burgers? Maybe the don't want burgers.
How about fish? No, the players don't really like fish. Okay, chicken,
Maybe we'll do chicken. Well, now they kind of want burgers,
and say, how about steak. Okay, we'll do stick. We
forg stick. Yeah, we're the NFL. We can afford anything
we want. So you got to control all that stuff.
And the other problem is you don't know what you
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don't know right hiring rookie coaches. There's certain teams that
are just loser teams, like the Raiders, now the Browns,
the Titans. Even the Titans hired a either hire a
rookie coach or you hire a reject, right rookie or
reject and the Ravens. I didn't think that that was
that job. That you would hire first timer and all
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that stuff. Now, I have a theory i'll give you
in a minute. But when you hire a first time
head coach, Having been in this chair behind this microphone
for a number of years, I've noticed that it's kind
of like going to the arcade. When you hire a
rookie head coach, it's like playing the claw machine. Everything
looks really good in the claw machine, like all the
stuff to animals. Maybe they have some electronic devices in there.
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You're like, man, that's really good, Like that new iPhone
that's in there. Okay, good. So you put your money
in there. You have a lot of hope. There's flashing
lights because it's an arcade, right, and what happens normally
you walk away with nothing and you've lost your money.
So what are the odds that this guy is a
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good higher Jesse Minter for the losing, for the for
the Ravens, from the chargers, right from the chargers to
the rives. So I'm gonna set the Mallard line at
plus one fifty all right, plus one fifty enough, You're
not good at Matt. That is very generous. I'm Benny Brightside,
I'm mister positive I'm sunshine, rainbows, lollipops, puppy dogs, the
whole thing. So that is a generous for now, the heat,
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if you look at this, Matt, the heat's gonna be
on right away unless Lamar Jackson is let go and
then that's you know, they trade him. But it's gonna
be like you're a line cook and you're in a
top restaurant, a seafood restaurant in Baltimore, and you're making
crab cakes at dinner rush. You've got to keep throwing
those crab cakes out. I mean, you gotta do it
otherwise forget about it. And the roster is aging. It's
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not a smooth situation there. The quarterback clock is ticking
and so the margin for aero is a very microscopic
the margin for air. Now turning the page, so we
keep the theme here, at least for now, the theme
of the hour. So the question now is what does
the decision now that we know who's replacing the former coach,
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what does the decision to hire someone tied to the
Harbaugh family and even tied to John Harbaugh as the
next Raven coach? What does that tell us? Right, So,
sitting in the psychologist's chair. This was was not just
about football. It would it would indicate that the Ravens
ownership group it was like couple's therapy, but everyone's wearing
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like jockstraps and stuff. So the ownership looked at the Ravens,
the guys in Baltimore, and they realized that Lamar Jackson
and John Harbaugh were at loggerheads. They weren't speaking the
same language. You got a flip phone and the other
guy's doing the TikTok and all that stuff. So Jesse
Minterer now enters the picture, and he's the Harball family's
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Swiss army knife. Now he's not a blood relative, but
this guy has been a tennis ball. Jesse Mintor. You
look at his resume and it's whack a mole between
John Harbaugh spent four years with the Ravens, Jim Harball
and he's gone back. But it's like a kid shuttled
between divorced parents every other weekend and the Ravens again.
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Four years they had this guy with John men Michigan,
then the Charger. So this is in theory, it's a
peace treaty. It is a peace treaty by ownership for
the quarterback. The owner, Steve Bashati, wanted to keep John Harbor.
To me, hiring this guy is a dead giveaway. We
hired Jesse Mintor, who's tied to the Harballs. It tells
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me that the owner decided to keep Lamar Jackson or
attempt to keep Lamar Jackson happy, and that's why he decided, Well,
I have to get rid of John Harbaugh because I
want to keep Lamar Jackson happy. So but I'm going
to still go as close as I can get to
the Harball bloodline without actually hiring a Hardball. Keep that alive,
and then I can get Lamar Jackson happy and all that.
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So you get a new voice, but the same perspective
on football. So using some more malord psychobabble, don't forget
the story. Dump dumpity, dumpity dumpity, do right the story
dump now. Lamar and I was away from my post.
It was the end of twenty twenty five, so it
was only a few weeks ago. But Lamar was accused
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of sleeping in meetings, video games till sunrise, and essentially
just being like an overgrown kid. Even though he's got
this massive contract, he he doesn't take the job seriously.
He gets star treatment. And so the theory I have
again amateur psychologists I practice on the radio. So the
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theory is that that was an intentional leak to I
to wake Lamar up, that embarrass him, send that story out,
and instead it blew up in the hands of John Harbaugh. Right.
It nuked the relationship with Lamar Jackson. So Lamar shut
down even more. The moment, which we knew at the time,
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was a big thing. Some of you dumb people didn't know.
The moment after the Steeler Ravens game when he was
asked Lamar Jackson whether he wanted John Harball back, and
he refused to answer the question. That was the moment.
That was the tipping point. That was when things went
caugh boom. Is what happened right there. And the owners blinked.
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And again I theory is they didn't want to fire
John Harbaugh, so they essentially hired his steps on is
what they did. It's not really a full reboot for
the Ravens. It's like it's like, Hey, I'm gonna have
a diet coke instead of regular coke and I'm healthy now.
I'm good because I had I drinking diet coke. You know,
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it's get the precise combo meal and I'll get the
diet coke. Okay, you're good, You're living extra ten years
all right. Now, last word, we head a buffalo where
the buffalo roam. So while the Bills are turning their
full attention to a coaching search, and there are some
really shady names on that coaching search, there is a
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grassroots movement that has started. You see this, no, okay,
So there's a grassroots movement that has started among the
Bills mafia. And I'm not sure where there are boots
on the ground for Lexus and Inka Terror and Derek
the Bill's Monster. He's one of the guys in the
Bills mafia that wears the mask and jumps on tables.
So I don't know if these guys are part of it.
The grassroots movement, though, has started among the Bills mafia
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to tried to have their voices or they have petitioned
to reinstate Sean McDermott. So what let me repeat that
for those of you in the back there. So yeah,
so the petition is to reinstate Sean McDermott. As you
know the code now as of a little bit before
we crack the microphones here on the Overnight show at Fox.
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The thing's only been up for a couple of days.
The petition to reinstate the fired Bill's coach has over
thirty eight thousand signatures, over thirty eight thousand signatures and
county and county. So the question do you expect the
wack A Noodle owner Steve Pagola, who we featured in
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a previous episode of the show. Do you expect owner
Steve Pagola rather to see this and to pay attention
to the Bill's Mafia and their petition to bring back
the now former coach. Sean McDermott. All right, so my
first thought on this, it's like buying flowers for your
girlfriend after you forgot her birthday, your anniversary and Valentine's Day. Right,
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it's a sweet gesture. You don't gain any real leverage,
you don't. Do you think that the owner of an
NFL team, Pago, that is sitting in a leather chair
somewhere in his estate and sipping tomato bisk and trembling
because the Internet is upset? Do you think that's going on? Right?
Maybe he's having French onion. He could be French onion too.
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As Donnie Brasco would say back in the day, forget
a body, forget a body. Come on, now, this show's passion.
I thought, listen, Bill's Mafia has passion. They still have passion.
The majority of Bill's Mafia loved Sean McDermott. There was
a great bond there between the coach and the fan base.
And for that, I say great. It's also whoop de
damn do passion. And this is another thing that I've
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learned from working on the suburbs of the industrial complex
of sports. Passion does not run billion dollar franchises. And
there's an old saying in the industrial complex of sports,
and especially the NFL that he who listens to the
fan base ends up sitting with said fan base that
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you cannot listen to them. And ownership doesn't crowdsource decision.
Is this not like a bake sale or something along
those lines. And so you're asking what, like, like, what
are you trying to send a message? Because I don't
think it's the message you want. And there is a
way to send a message. It's a very painful message,
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very painful message to send it. It's painful to get
that message out. But it involves narcotics. It's the narcotic
known as apathy. It's a hell of a drug, apathy.
The loudest protest, the loudest protest you can make as
a fan base, is not going on social media and
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or attacking you know, random bots or whatever. The thing
that you can do that will get attention is too
And this is gonna scare you. It scares me. It's
this thing I can't do. The sound of silence. The
loudest protest is not noise. It's nothing. It's do nothing,
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say nothing, be nothing. Stop buying tickets, stop buying the merge,
stop high fiving every team, tweet like it. You're a
trained seal. Just don't do it. Hit pause. Is it hard? Yeah? Absolutely?
Aloofness is no fun if you're fully invested. However, it
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does work. There's a history of this working. The greatest
example is the Roman dynasty of baseball the Dodgers right now.
And the reason the Dodgers have that is because the
fan base turned their back when they had this parking
lot magnet named Frank McCort that owned the Dodgers. People
actually stopped going to Dodger games. The attendants went down
the TV ratings were terrible and people stopped caring. They
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had apathy. And major League Baseball the commission at the
time was this used car salesman, this huckster named Bud Selik,
who allowed all of the steroids to go on in
baseball and then also allow of tie and the All
Star Game back when that used to matter. That was
really the point of demarcation when the All Star Game
started sucking because of Bud Selick in all sports. But anyway,
the point is that at that time Baseball freaked out.
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This was one of their great cash cows, the Dodgers,
and so they worked out a deal to force Frank
McCord out. They gave them the parking lots. Dodgers ended
up with a sweetheart TV deal which is why they
have this, and finagling the contracts to have them deferred.
And the Dodgers are set up so you talk with
your wallet, right, and petitions are that's a whisper and
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until the revenue needle moves the wrong direction, and are
you in the red or in the black? Are you
in the red or in the black? And so this
thing is just a symphony. It's a you're looking for
some help from I don't know who. You're not gonna
get it right anyway. It is the Ben Malor Show.
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I'm actually on the live air. Well, no, I was
hoping he'd call in, though I smoked him out with
that raven monologue. He's likely in the shower right now,
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so he's got another couple hours to go. That's kind
of how that's working there, Shane and the Moine rites in.
Says Ben, I've been away for a bit of time.
I'm sorry. I missed you and the show so much.
I hope all well. Then, he says, the Seahawks versus
Rams will yield the super Bowl winner. He says, all right,
let's see if I should still play the super Bowl,
which is always the problem. Who else we have? Ferg
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Dog says the Clippers are eating? He says, what are
the eating? He said, they're eating the Lakers lunch. Not
only are the Clippers better on the court, they're better
off the court too. The whole bus family is a joke.
The Clippers run in La well, certainly random. I didn't
see any Laker trash talk. I didn't what happened to
Rick and those guys. I guess the Wi Fi must
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have gone out. I hope they're okay. No internet for them.
If the Lakers had won that game, there would have
been a lot of internet. Would have been a lot
of it. I know Looney Tunes, who I do the
YouTube show with. I used to work here as part
of the Fox Alumni Association. Luny was very upset. He
thought that the Clippers were going to blow the lead
and the Lakers would come back, and he had a
whole thing ready to go, and then it was ruined
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because the Clippers won because they're the better team. In fact,
they're the top team in the NBA over the last month,
top team in the NBA. Anyway, I don't watch much
of that game, but Late Night Drug Tester says, I'm
thinking you were saying tennis ball in the monologue to
have willis a Willis alert his owner it's time to
call the show. Yeah, we have not heard from our
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friend in the Commonwealth. I hope he's okay and his
dog willis Andre and the Commonwealth has not called in.
I know he's got the day job, but he used
to check in every once in a while and say hello,
and it's been a while since he called in. Eh.
Gunner writes in from the Walmart in northern Minnesota. He
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is very active on the show, and he says, great
opening modelogue. I am going to be an person unless
you push my buttons. Well, Gunner, if you have buttons,
you might want to go to a hospital because you're
not You're not supposed to have buttons because that would mean,
is Gunner admitting now he's a he's a cyborg. Yeah,
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Gunner the Cyborg. That should be his new name, Gunner
the Cyberg. He's got buttons like that, you go laptop
or something like that's what's wrong with you? Amazing? All right,
what else do we want to see? Page Dan Malard
prop Guy says, I'm still rooting for Robbie the Mariner
fan to be named head coach of the Buffalo Bills.
He has a great rapport with Josh Allen. He's a
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great strategist and he knows to keep Flexis away from
his star quarterback. The downside is we would receive far
less tweets from Robbie. Yeah, that's pretty good, though. I
gotta tell you how properly he does look like a
Bill's go. You know, he looks like the old Kansas
coach Mangino. Robbie could be like the Mangino body. He
(25:58):
had to shave the beard, but he looks like Mark Mangino.
I don't anybody knows who that is anymore. He coached
Kansas before Nil. He took Kansas to the to the
Orange Bowl, and there's a famous photo of Mark Mangino
with the Orange Bowl mascot, which was an orange, and
it was an unfortunate photo because Mangino and the Orange
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looked like they were brothers. It was very awkward. And
there's Felexi. Felexus is looking good in the in the
AI thing that Malard prop guy did. Felexis lean and
mean lost a few pounds. Way to go? Yeah, there
you go? Absolutely all right? What else do we have
to see? Page? Then? I can't read that one on
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the air. What else do we have a lot of
strange commentary here? We'll skip over that.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Oh, come on, give us the strange.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Hoo's your not? It's Friday. My goal on Friday is
to not hear from management and just enjoy my weekends.
So I love getting those messages. There you go, I see,
hoo's your bill's hitting the mini bar. So he's excited,
he's fired up. Good old Who's your Bill? Will take
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you'd like to be, Part let's go To vegas and
in the leadoff chair we say hello To ricardo In. Vegas, Hello, ricardo, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Hey how's it going. TONIGHT i thanks for taking my.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Call, hey what you? Got you got an amazing. Take
you gona blow everyone away right. Now everyon's gonna be
stunned By. Ricardo they gonna BE i can't Believe ricardo
said that this is gonna be the most amazing thing
in the world right, now here you. Go the stage is, Yours.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Ricardo, hey thanks for the hype of my. MAN i
just wanted to call in and kind of talk about
the jesse mentor. Higher you, know me speaking as A charger,
Fan i'm a huge fan of. HIS i think he's
a great, coach BUT i think he's getting put into,
where you, know he's gotten, something getting hired into kind
of a little bad situation, there because If i'm A ravens,
(27:56):
Fan i'm expecting results, now and you, know it's like with,
EVERYTHING i don't care how good you, are it's gonna you,
know there's an adjustment, period and you, know for him
being a rookie head, coach it's, gonna you, know take
them some time to get adjusted to. Things AND i
think he'll have that defense over In baltimore as a
top tier, unit BUT i think everything else around them
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is going to.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Struggle, well the only way he gets time is if
they Trade Lamar. Jackson if that, happens then he'll have
plenty of time because they'll, suck and they're supposed to
suck if they Have, lamar, though they got this is the, window,
right this is the next couple of. Years lamar has
got a lot of miles on. Him those late nights
playing video games catch up to you when you get
to a certain. Age, definitely it's gotta worry about. It,
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yeah all, right and you're A? Charger are you from Southern? California?
Ricardo is that you're you're In? Vegas are you? From?
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lot to be, Honest, yeah they, say you, know, hey
why The. Chargers so you, KNOW i started playing a
little football in high school and, uh you know it
wasn't really a football fan before, that but decided to
pick a team once they started. Playing wanted to pick
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(29:06):
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do where'd you meet A raider?
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went to The Buffalo Wild wings next To, toyota AND
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those big sports.
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what they have? Now High roller, says The Orange bowl
mascot is Named. Obie is that correctors that made? UP
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of the mascot for The Orange bowl. Is that's a
one day a year, gig and The Orange bowl doesn't
even exist. Anywhere they knocked that thing. Down that's where
(30:16):
The marlins play back in the. Day, uh they had
the orange bowl right. There that's kind of like a fun.
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so the, tabloids you, KNOW i love my. TABLOIDS i
always look for the tabloid. Stories his story popped up
(30:36):
that The Aaron rodgers, mystery has it been? Solved? Right
hasn't been? Solved So rogers claimed last SUMMER i believe
he got, married claimed he got, married AND i was
playing grab ass with his, Podcast buddy there McAfee and
you get. Married, yeah, yeah, yeah nobody has seen his
supposed wife and what's going. On her name Is, BRITNEY i.
(31:00):
BELIEVE i think that's her name with. Them yeah, yeah.
Yeah so a lot of people think it's like AN
ai chatbot or something like, that or one of those
like robotic women you can buy And china or something like.
THAT i don't. KNOW i don't. Know so, anyway this
podcast a gossip podcast by two People i've never heard.
Of and this IS i got this FROM Us weekly
(31:23):
because you, KNOW i always read MY Us weekly and
they they, claim, quote we are pretty sure that we Found.
Brittany and she's got sisters Named christy And. Mia, okay
so that's, uh that's the. Story and so what's her you,
know what's her, background where she's from the whole. Thing
Uh so these, uh these these people on this gossip
(31:45):
podcast really JUST i guess talk about girlfriend like the
wag the wives and the. Girlfriends and this person claimed
a woman she's, like, well, yeah you Know Aaron rodgers
very good. Friends one of his very good friends is
a rapper Named, mike And mike says he's married to
a woman Named christy who is sisters With Aaron rodgers'
(32:07):
wife and that they have like a twenty year old
sister in law named me and the whole. Thing, anyway
so it's, like, oh, okay so this is, It so
give us some more. Information Uh. No so they're claiming
these people that they have no intention of doxing these
women because they want to be. Private you know what that?
Is clickbait is what that? Is you don't, know diddley
(32:29):
pooh is what you listen if you're gonna SAY i found,
it you. Do these people are so. Stupid you're doing
a sports gossip. Podcast wouldn't that be the biggest story
of all time for? YOU i don't know how you
get bigger if you're doing a sports gossip podcast and
you claim to have the, INFORMATION i am calling And
i'm smelling. It bull, crap is What i'm calling bull. Crap,
(32:51):
yeah that's What i'm calling it right. Now there you.
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the place. Too it's, like, Oh Aaron rodgers's wife has been.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
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friend of a friend said.
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See at some point something will. HAPPEN i. GUESS i don't.
KNOW i know the way of the, world AND i
know the way these tmz and these people, work and
there's a lot of money to get that, photo to
get information like a high school photo of this. Woman
maybe she was. HOMESCHOOLED i don't. Know everyone's got to
(33:24):
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Former Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter taking over the Ravens.
(01:05):
Is it fair to expect instant results from a coach
who's never done the job before. Also, what does the
decision to hire someone tied to the Harbaugh clan as
the next Ravens coach? Tell us we'll examine that. And
in Buffalo, do you expect the owner there, mister Pagoula,
to pay attention to the Bill's mafia. They have a
(01:27):
petition to bring back Sean McDermott. And we'll take a
look at that. All of it coming your way right now.
It's our number one, the new head of Poetry. I
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from the school of poetry, if you want to call
it that, the school of poetry. So the coach in carousel,
it's only a couple of seats open. Another seat has
been filled if you update your big board, not a
list big board, the game of musical chairs. So if
you have not heard, I don't know what you've been doing,
doing something else, perhaps you missed it. So we have
(04:18):
learned that the Ravens that's a football team, not a
good one. They didn't make the playoffs. The Ravens have
hired Charger defensive coordinator Jesse Minter. Who jesse Mintter. That
sounds like a picture for the Atlanta Braves. Anyway, jesse
Minter will be the new head coach. You can feel
the excitement unless you can't. Unless you can't, So he
(04:42):
replaces John Harbaugh with the title as an up and comer,
a fast rising coach. The flavor of the month. Jesse
Minter from the Chargers strong ties to the Harball family. Mintor,
who was at one point an assistant with the Ravens
(05:03):
and recently he's worked with Jim Harbaugh around, following him
around like a puppy dog from Michigan to the Chargers.
And now he's going to replace Jim Harbaugh's brother and
tagged again forty two rising Star all that, so that
is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
question now former Charger defensive coordinator Jesse Minter taking over
(05:29):
the Ravens job. Is it fair to expect instant results
from a guy who's never done the job before? Is
it fair to expect instant success? So my thoughts on this,
I've got claw machine, tennis, ball, and narcotics and we'll
put all of these things together and we are going
(05:51):
to make some delicious, amazing spaghetti and meatball. So a
my first thought on this is the idea that it's
not fair is insane. Like some people that think everything
needs to be completely fair. Life is not fair. Your
life will improve when you realize that life is not fair.
There's so many people that don't seem to understand that concept.
(06:14):
That is why these guys get paid a lot of money, right,
big money, big moneyin't big money, and they hope they
don't get away me. Now, this is not last I
checked the Raider job. That's an outhouse, right, the Browns
of Porta Potti. It's not that in comparison to the
Raiders and the Browns. This is a five star restaurant.
This is not a roach coach, as we used to
(06:36):
call food trucks back in the day. You've got an
MVP level quarterback, a really good gamer, really good gamer
in Lamar Jackson, a great regular season player who often
there's a glitch in the matrix and he goes a
wall when January comes around, Lamar. If Lamar is still
in the building, and that's not a guarantee, right, there's
(06:56):
still a chance in the multiverse that the Ravens get
rid of Lamar Jackson to go completely scorched earth. However,
if he is still there, like if you're still in
the Lamar Jackson business, then jesse Mincher, the new coach,
has zero elbow room. Does anyone disagree with that? Okay,
I don't see anybody raising their hand. There's no grace
(07:17):
period here. There's no learning on the job. You hit
the ground running or you get trampled by a stampede.
That's how it works. And this is going to be
jesse Minter's first head coaching job in Baltimore at any level,
at any level. And so now he will be managing
the offense, the defense, special teams, massive egos, annoying media
(07:41):
people like sports with Coleman and the buffet line. He'll
be making sure the foods served at a certain time,
like do they want burgers? Maybe the don't want burgers.
How about fish? No, the players don't really like fish. Okay, chicken,
Maybe we'll do chicken. Well, now they kind of want burgers,
and say, how about steak. Okay, we'll do stick. We
forg stick. Yeah, we're the NFL. We can afford anything
we want. So you got to control all that stuff.
And the other problem is you don't know what you
(08:03):
don't know right hiring rookie coaches. There's certain teams that
are just loser teams, like the Raiders, now the Browns,
the Titans. Even the Titans hired a either hire a
rookie coach or you hire a reject, right rookie or
reject and the Ravens. I didn't think that that was
that job. That you would hire first timer and all
(08:26):
that stuff. Now, I have a theory i'll give you
in a minute. But when you hire a first time
head coach, Having been in this chair behind this microphone
for a number of years, I've noticed that it's kind
of like going to the arcade. When you hire a
rookie head coach, it's like playing the claw machine. Everything
looks really good in the claw machine, like all the
stuff to animals. Maybe they have some electronic devices in there.
(08:48):
You're like, man, that's really good, Like that new iPhone
that's in there. Okay, good. So you put your money
in there. You have a lot of hope. There's flashing
lights because it's an arcade, right, and what happens normally
you walk away with nothing and you've lost your money.
So what are the odds that this guy is a
(09:09):
good higher Jesse Minter for the losing, for the for
the Ravens, from the chargers, right from the chargers to
the rives. So I'm gonna set the Mallard line at
plus one fifty all right, plus one fifty enough, You're
not good at Matt. That is very generous. I'm Benny Brightside,
I'm mister positive I'm sunshine, rainbows, lollipops, puppy dogs, the
whole thing. So that is a generous for now, the heat,
(09:35):
if you look at this, Matt, the heat's gonna be
on right away unless Lamar Jackson is let go and
then that's you know, they trade him. But it's gonna
be like you're a line cook and you're in a
top restaurant, a seafood restaurant in Baltimore, and you're making
crab cakes at dinner rush. You've got to keep throwing
those crab cakes out. I mean, you gotta do it
otherwise forget about it. And the roster is aging. It's
(09:58):
not a smooth situation there. The quarterback clock is ticking
and so the margin for aero is a very microscopic
the margin for air. Now turning the page, so we
keep the theme here, at least for now, the theme
of the hour. So the question now is what does
the decision now that we know who's replacing the former coach,
(10:21):
what does the decision to hire someone tied to the
Harbaugh family and even tied to John Harbaugh as the
next Raven coach? What does that tell us? Right, So,
sitting in the psychologist's chair. This was was not just
about football. It would it would indicate that the Ravens
ownership group it was like couple's therapy, but everyone's wearing
(10:46):
like jockstraps and stuff. So the ownership looked at the Ravens,
the guys in Baltimore, and they realized that Lamar Jackson
and John Harbaugh were at loggerheads. They weren't speaking the
same language. You got a flip phone and the other
guy's doing the TikTok and all that stuff. So Jesse
Minterer now enters the picture, and he's the Harball family's
(11:09):
Swiss army knife. Now he's not a blood relative, but
this guy has been a tennis ball. Jesse Mintor. You
look at his resume and it's whack a mole between
John Harbaugh spent four years with the Ravens, Jim Harball
and he's gone back. But it's like a kid shuttled
between divorced parents every other weekend and the Ravens again.
(11:29):
Four years they had this guy with John men Michigan,
then the Charger. So this is in theory, it's a
peace treaty. It is a peace treaty by ownership for
the quarterback. The owner, Steve Bashati, wanted to keep John Harbor.
To me, hiring this guy is a dead giveaway. We
hired Jesse Mintor, who's tied to the Harballs. It tells
(11:51):
me that the owner decided to keep Lamar Jackson or
attempt to keep Lamar Jackson happy, and that's why he decided, Well,
I have to get rid of John Harbaugh because I
want to keep Lamar Jackson happy. So but I'm going
to still go as close as I can get to
the Harball bloodline without actually hiring a Hardball. Keep that alive,
and then I can get Lamar Jackson happy and all that.
(12:12):
So you get a new voice, but the same perspective
on football. So using some more malord psychobabble, don't forget
the story. Dump dumpity, dumpity dumpity, do right the story
dump now. Lamar and I was away from my post.
It was the end of twenty twenty five, so it
was only a few weeks ago. But Lamar was accused
(12:34):
of sleeping in meetings, video games till sunrise, and essentially
just being like an overgrown kid. Even though he's got
this massive contract, he he doesn't take the job seriously.
He gets star treatment. And so the theory I have
again amateur psychologists I practice on the radio. So the
(12:55):
theory is that that was an intentional leak to I
to wake Lamar up, that embarrass him, send that story out,
and instead it blew up in the hands of John Harbaugh. Right.
It nuked the relationship with Lamar Jackson. So Lamar shut
down even more. The moment, which we knew at the time,
(13:16):
was a big thing. Some of you dumb people didn't know.
The moment after the Steeler Ravens game when he was
asked Lamar Jackson whether he wanted John Harball back, and
he refused to answer the question. That was the moment.
That was the tipping point. That was when things went
caugh boom. Is what happened right there. And the owners blinked.
(13:37):
And again I theory is they didn't want to fire
John Harbaugh, so they essentially hired his steps on is
what they did. It's not really a full reboot for
the Ravens. It's like it's like, Hey, I'm gonna have
a diet coke instead of regular coke and I'm healthy now.
I'm good because I had I drinking diet coke. You know,
(13:58):
it's get the precise combo meal and I'll get the
diet coke. Okay, you're good, You're living extra ten years
all right. Now, last word, we head a buffalo where
the buffalo roam. So while the Bills are turning their
full attention to a coaching search, and there are some
really shady names on that coaching search, there is a
(14:20):
grassroots movement that has started. You see this, no, okay,
So there's a grassroots movement that has started among the
Bills mafia. And I'm not sure where there are boots
on the ground for Lexus and Inka Terror and Derek
the Bill's Monster. He's one of the guys in the
Bills mafia that wears the mask and jumps on tables.
So I don't know if these guys are part of it.
The grassroots movement, though, has started among the Bills mafia
(14:44):
to tried to have their voices or they have petitioned
to reinstate Sean McDermott. So what let me repeat that
for those of you in the back there. So yeah,
so the petition is to reinstate Sean McDermott. As you
know the code now as of a little bit before
we crack the microphones here on the Overnight show at Fox.
(15:06):
The thing's only been up for a couple of days.
The petition to reinstate the fired Bill's coach has over
thirty eight thousand signatures, over thirty eight thousand signatures and
county and county. So the question do you expect the
wack A Noodle owner Steve Pagola, who we featured in
(15:29):
a previous episode of the show. Do you expect owner
Steve Pagola rather to see this and to pay attention
to the Bill's Mafia and their petition to bring back
the now former coach. Sean McDermott. All right, so my
first thought on this, it's like buying flowers for your
girlfriend after you forgot her birthday, your anniversary and Valentine's Day. Right,
(15:52):
it's a sweet gesture. You don't gain any real leverage,
you don't. Do you think that the owner of an
NFL team, Pago, that is sitting in a leather chair
somewhere in his estate and sipping tomato bisk and trembling
because the Internet is upset? Do you think that's going on? Right?
Maybe he's having French onion. He could be French onion too.
(16:13):
As Donnie Brasco would say back in the day, forget
a body, forget a body. Come on, now, this show's passion.
I thought, listen, Bill's Mafia has passion. They still have passion.
The majority of Bill's Mafia loved Sean McDermott. There was
a great bond there between the coach and the fan base.
And for that, I say great. It's also whoop de
damn do passion. And this is another thing that I've
(16:35):
learned from working on the suburbs of the industrial complex
of sports. Passion does not run billion dollar franchises. And
there's an old saying in the industrial complex of sports,
and especially the NFL that he who listens to the
fan base ends up sitting with said fan base that
(16:55):
you cannot listen to them. And ownership doesn't crowdsource decision.
Is this not like a bake sale or something along
those lines. And so you're asking what, like, like, what
are you trying to send a message? Because I don't
think it's the message you want. And there is a
way to send a message. It's a very painful message,
(17:15):
very painful message to send it. It's painful to get
that message out. But it involves narcotics. It's the narcotic
known as apathy. It's a hell of a drug, apathy.
The loudest protest, the loudest protest you can make as
a fan base, is not going on social media and
(17:35):
or attacking you know, random bots or whatever. The thing
that you can do that will get attention is too
And this is gonna scare you. It scares me. It's
this thing I can't do. The sound of silence. The
loudest protest is not noise. It's nothing. It's do nothing,
(18:00):
say nothing, be nothing. Stop buying tickets, stop buying the merge,
stop high fiving every team, tweet like it. You're a
trained seal. Just don't do it. Hit pause. Is it hard? Yeah? Absolutely?
Aloofness is no fun if you're fully invested. However, it
(18:21):
does work. There's a history of this working. The greatest
example is the Roman dynasty of baseball the Dodgers right now.
And the reason the Dodgers have that is because the
fan base turned their back when they had this parking
lot magnet named Frank McCort that owned the Dodgers. People
actually stopped going to Dodger games. The attendants went down
the TV ratings were terrible and people stopped caring. They
(18:43):
had apathy. And major League Baseball the commission at the
time was this used car salesman, this huckster named Bud Selik,
who allowed all of the steroids to go on in
baseball and then also allow of tie and the All
Star Game back when that used to matter. That was
really the point of demarcation when the All Star Game
started sucking because of Bud Selick in all sports. But anyway,
the point is that at that time Baseball freaked out.
(19:04):
This was one of their great cash cows, the Dodgers,
and so they worked out a deal to force Frank
McCord out. They gave them the parking lots. Dodgers ended
up with a sweetheart TV deal which is why they
have this, and finagling the contracts to have them deferred.
And the Dodgers are set up so you talk with
your wallet, right, and petitions are that's a whisper and
(19:27):
until the revenue needle moves the wrong direction, and are
you in the red or in the black? Are you
in the red or in the black? And so this
thing is just a symphony. It's a you're looking for
some help from I don't know who. You're not gonna
get it right anyway. It is the Ben Malor Show.
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If you would like to be part, you can join
us right now. What do you think about the Ravens
getting their new head coach and Chargers had a defense
that was pretty good. I didn't think they were particularly
great in the playoff game against the Patriots, although it
didn't really matter the way Justin Herbert wrote the vomit comment.
If you want to be part eight seven seven ninety
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Jokes of the Week. We've got the Coop Scoop on
Entertainment in our four and there's a preview of that
and Sports Jeopardy. We'll be coming up a little bit
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night on the West Coast and Hawaii and Alaska and
all those type places. But we are here with you
in reminder that you can get the Exclusivechampionship Weekend Picks
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Don't watch it now, but after the show or sometime
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It's Benny Versus The Penny. It's on YouTube, so check
that out. Benny Vspenny four picks on the either's two episodes.
You can binge watch them. They don't take very long.
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Benny Versus the Penny, The Patriots and the Broncos. It's
the AFC episode and shockingly the NFC episode The Rams
you can ram it all day, ram It all night,
and the Seattle Seahawks, so check that out. And if
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Bill zip It, and the Cooper Loop. At a Bronco fan.
Your comments can and will be used against you in
the court of sports radio, so please act the court.
I'm actually on the live air. Well, no, I was
hoping he'd call in, though I smoked him out with
that raven monologue. He's likely in the shower right now,
(23:10):
so he's got another couple hours to go. That's kind
of how that's working there, Shane and the Moine rites in.
Says Ben, I've been away for a bit of time.
I'm sorry. I missed you and the show so much.
I hope all well. Then, he says, the Seahawks versus
Rams will yield the super Bowl winner. He says, all right,
let's see if I should still play the super Bowl,
which is always the problem. Who else we have? Ferg
(23:31):
Dog says the Clippers are eating? He says, what are
the eating? He said, they're eating the Lakers lunch. Not
only are the Clippers better on the court, they're better
off the court too. The whole bus family is a joke.
The Clippers run in La well, certainly random. I didn't
see any Laker trash talk. I didn't what happened to
Rick and those guys. I guess the Wi Fi must
(23:52):
have gone out. I hope they're okay. No internet for them.
If the Lakers had won that game, there would have
been a lot of internet. Would have been a lot
of it. I know Looney Tunes, who I do the
YouTube show with. I used to work here as part
of the Fox Alumni Association. Luny was very upset. He
thought that the Clippers were going to blow the lead
and the Lakers would come back, and he had a
whole thing ready to go, and then it was ruined
(24:13):
because the Clippers won because they're the better team. In fact,
they're the top team in the NBA over the last month,
top team in the NBA. Anyway, I don't watch much
of that game, but Late Night Drug Tester says, I'm
thinking you were saying tennis ball in the monologue to
have willis a Willis alert his owner it's time to
call the show. Yeah, we have not heard from our
(24:34):
friend in the Commonwealth. I hope he's okay and his
dog willis Andre and the Commonwealth has not called in.
I know he's got the day job, but he used
to check in every once in a while and say hello,
and it's been a while since he called in. Eh.
Gunner writes in from the Walmart in northern Minnesota. He
(24:55):
is very active on the show, and he says, great
opening modelogue. I am going to be an person unless
you push my buttons. Well, Gunner, if you have buttons,
you might want to go to a hospital because you're
not You're not supposed to have buttons because that would mean,
is Gunner admitting now he's a he's a cyborg. Yeah,
(25:16):
Gunner the Cyborg. That should be his new name, Gunner
the Cyberg. He's got buttons like that, you go laptop
or something like that's what's wrong with you? Amazing? All right,
what else do we want to see? Page Dan Malard
prop Guy says, I'm still rooting for Robbie the Mariner
fan to be named head coach of the Buffalo Bills.
He has a great rapport with Josh Allen. He's a
(25:38):
great strategist and he knows to keep Flexis away from
his star quarterback. The downside is we would receive far
less tweets from Robbie. Yeah, that's pretty good, though. I
gotta tell you how properly he does look like a
Bill's go. You know, he looks like the old Kansas
coach Mangino. Robbie could be like the Mangino body. He
(25:58):
had to shave the beard, but he looks like Mark Mangino.
I don't anybody knows who that is anymore. He coached
Kansas before Nil. He took Kansas to the to the
Orange Bowl, and there's a famous photo of Mark Mangino
with the Orange Bowl mascot, which was an orange, and
it was an unfortunate photo because Mangino and the Orange
(26:18):
looked like they were brothers. It was very awkward. And
there's Felexi. Felexus is looking good in the in the
AI thing that Malard prop guy did. Felexis lean and
mean lost a few pounds. Way to go? Yeah, there
you go? Absolutely all right? What else do we have
to see? Page? Then? I can't read that one on
(26:39):
the air. What else do we have a lot of
strange commentary here? We'll skip over that.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Oh, come on, give us the strange.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Hoo's your not? It's Friday. My goal on Friday is
to not hear from management and just enjoy my weekends.
So I love getting those messages. There you go, I see,
hoo's your bill's hitting the mini bar. So he's excited,
he's fired up. Good old Who's your Bill? Will take
your calls? Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight
seven seven nine nine six six three six'. Nine if
(27:09):
you'd like to be, Part let's go To vegas and
in the leadoff chair we say hello To ricardo In. Vegas, Hello, ricardo, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Hey how's it going. TONIGHT i thanks for taking my.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Call, hey what you? Got you got an amazing. Take
you gona blow everyone away right. Now everyon's gonna be
stunned By. Ricardo they gonna BE i can't Believe ricardo
said that this is gonna be the most amazing thing
in the world right, now here you. Go the stage is, Yours.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Ricardo, hey thanks for the hype of my. MAN i
just wanted to call in and kind of talk about
the jesse mentor. Higher you, know me speaking as A charger,
Fan i'm a huge fan of. HIS i think he's
a great, coach BUT i think he's getting put into,
where you, know he's gotten, something getting hired into kind
of a little bad situation, there because If i'm A ravens,
(27:56):
Fan i'm expecting results, now and you, know it's like with,
EVERYTHING i don't care how good you, are it's gonna you,
know there's an adjustment, period and you, know for him
being a rookie head, coach it's, gonna you, know take
them some time to get adjusted to. Things AND i
think he'll have that defense over In baltimore as a
top tier, unit BUT i think everything else around them
(28:17):
is going to.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Struggle, well the only way he gets time is if
they Trade Lamar. Jackson if that, happens then he'll have
plenty of time because they'll, suck and they're supposed to
suck if they Have, lamar, though they got this is the, window,
right this is the next couple of. Years lamar has
got a lot of miles on. Him those late nights
playing video games catch up to you when you get
to a certain. Age, definitely it's gotta worry about. It,
(28:39):
yeah all, right and you're A? Charger are you from Southern? California?
Ricardo is that you're you're In? Vegas are you? From?
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, originally, yes you, know AND i get the question a,
lot to be, Honest, yeah they, say you, know, hey
why The. Chargers so you, KNOW i started playing a
little football in high school and, uh you know it
wasn't really a football fan before, that but decided to
pick a team once they started. Playing wanted to pick
A california, team and you, know my choices were forty Nine,
(29:06):
ers The raiders of The, chargers and so you, Know
niners too, Far raiders fans all trolos landed on The.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Chargers all, right there you. Go the birth of A
charger fan as a. Kid, there thank, You, ricardo all,
right here you, go and he's, now he's all he's
grown up and he's still A charger. Fan look at.
That and apparently Not Alo, no not a fan Of trolos.
Either it would appear based on that. COMMENTARY i think
that he's not a big fan of the. Work. THERE
(29:35):
i met A raider fan. Today you. Did, congratulations very
hard to meet A raider. Fan you don't really run
Into raider. Fans you don't unless you. Do unless you,
do where'd you meet A raider?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
FAN i was getting my car worked, done SO i
went to The Buffalo Wild wings next To, toyota AND
i was studying for, sports you, know because they got
those big sports.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Screens, yeah, yeah, okay they had big sports screens is
what they have? Now High roller, says The Orange bowl
mascot is Named. Obie is that correctors that made? UP
i don't know how would anyone know what the name
of the mascot for The Orange bowl. Is that's a
one day a year, gig and The Orange bowl doesn't
even exist. Anywhere they knocked that thing. Down that's where
(30:16):
The marlins play back in the. Day, uh they had
the orange bowl right. There that's kind of like a fun.
Fact the early fun fact. Sounded how amazing is? That
so the, tabloids you, KNOW i love my. TABLOIDS i
always look for the tabloid. Stories his story popped up
(30:36):
that The Aaron rodgers, mystery has it been? Solved? Right
hasn't been? Solved So rogers claimed last SUMMER i believe
he got, married claimed he got, married AND i was
playing grab ass with his, Podcast buddy there McAfee and
you get. Married, yeah, yeah, yeah nobody has seen his
supposed wife and what's going. On her name Is, BRITNEY i.
(31:00):
BELIEVE i think that's her name with. Them yeah, yeah.
Yeah so a lot of people think it's like AN
ai chatbot or something like, that or one of those
like robotic women you can buy And china or something like.
THAT i don't. KNOW i don't. Know so, anyway this
podcast a gossip podcast by two People i've never heard.
Of and this IS i got this FROM Us weekly
(31:23):
because you, KNOW i always read MY Us weekly and
they they, claim, quote we are pretty sure that we Found.
Brittany and she's got sisters Named christy And. Mia, okay
so that's, uh that's the. Story and so what's her you,
know what's her, background where she's from the whole. Thing
Uh so these, uh these these people on this gossip
(31:45):
podcast really JUST i guess talk about girlfriend like the
wag the wives and the. Girlfriends and this person claimed
a woman she's, like, well, yeah you Know Aaron rodgers
very good. Friends one of his very good friends is
a rapper Named, mike And mike says he's married to
a woman Named christy who is sisters With Aaron rodgers'
(32:07):
wife and that they have like a twenty year old
sister in law named me and the whole. Thing, anyway
so it's, like, oh, okay so this is, It so
give us some more. Information Uh. No so they're claiming
these people that they have no intention of doxing these
women because they want to be. Private you know what that?
Is clickbait is what that? Is you don't, know diddley
(32:29):
pooh is what you listen if you're gonna SAY i found,
it you. Do these people are so. Stupid you're doing
a sports gossip. Podcast wouldn't that be the biggest story
of all time for? YOU i don't know how you
get bigger if you're doing a sports gossip podcast and
you claim to have the, INFORMATION i am calling And
i'm smelling. It bull, crap is What i'm calling bull. Crap,
(32:51):
yeah that's What i'm calling it right. Now there you.
Go so they claimed it's got this one all over
the place. Too it's, like, Oh Aaron rodgers's wife has been.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Found, no, yeah it's like oh a friend of a
friend of a friend said.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. YEAH i DON'T i don't. Buy, hey we'll.
See at some point something will. HAPPEN i. GUESS i don't.
KNOW i know the way of the, world AND i
know the way these tmz and these people, work and
there's a lot of money to get that, photo to
get information like a high school photo of this. Woman
maybe she was. HOMESCHOOLED i don't. Know everyone's got to
(33:24):
go to school though at some, point so who. Knows
but it Is The Ban Mallard show will take some
more of your calls at eight, seven seven ninety nine
On fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three
six Nine in the classic category for the Who AM I?
GAME a classic category for The Who AM? I? Game
here it is WHY i pretend to be somebody? Else
(33:45):
and you have to answer the, question so very. Simple
you can answer this ON x At Ben. Mallard so
here's the who AM i? GAME i am a starting
quarterback for one of the thirty two teams in THE.
NFL i am also the grandson Of Dick, hammer who
modeled as a Rugged Marlboro man who in the nineteen,
(34:07):
seventies fifty years ago in cigarette. Ads, yeah this would
be a thing called. Cigarettes so again the who AM i?
Game Who i'm a starting quarterback for one of the
thirty two teams in THE. Nfl, OBVIOUSLY i also am
the grandson of the Great Dick, hammer what a, name
who modeled as the very, rugged Masculine Marlboro man when
(34:28):
men were men in the nineteen seventies and cigarette. Ads
who AM? I that is the. Question the answer will
get to. It if you know, it we'll get to,
it and we will do it.
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(35:54):
payoff it, is the amazing payoff On oh wait, here
NOW i see we have the. OCTAGON i. DIDN'T i.
Didn't i'm just GETTING i just saw this. Information so
we're gonna have To we're gonna have to push The
we're gonna have to push this back to next. HOUR
i was unaware that we had the octagon lined up the.
(36:14):
COMBATANTS i didn't hear any of my. Headphones so we'll
what we'll do, is, well next hour we will have an.
Octagon we're excited about. That but here's the and we
Have Blind scott ready to represent The, patriots and we're
gonna Have john In colorado who's going to represent The.
Broncos and this is the winner of the octagon will
decide who wins THE Afc championship. Game so we'll have
(36:38):
that next. Hour here's the who AM? I? Game THOUGH
i am a starting quarterback in THE, Nfl i'm also
the grandson Of Dick, hammer who modeled as the Rugged Marlborough,
man very masculine man when men were men in the
nineteen seventies cigarette. Ads and so who AM? I that
is the? Question what is the? Answer? See does anyone
(37:03):
know the? Answer gil In San diego going with the
Iconic Chief wahoo as his, Answer Big Greg robs, Is
i'm eighth grade dancing. Legend Jonah wolf is the, Answer Big.
Lou he's on number duo And Big lou's ears perked
up when he Heard Dick, hammer and he immediately immediately
(37:25):
knew the. Answer right, THERE i don't know what that
give me a little taste of. That Dick gunner's going,
This dick And Dayton gunner going With. Batman Trucker joe,
says you are a guy In Rancho cucamonga who has
a cousin in Beaver, dam who knows someone in truth Or,
Consequences New. Mexico it's a great show knowledge By Trucker.
Joe that goes back many. Years we used to do.
(37:45):
That the guy a guy in Beaver dam that got.
It he wanted me to say Beaver dam on the,
EARS i said Biaver dam and as In wisconsin actually
went by the. SIGN i was very. PROUD i was, Like,
wow that's. Cool i've been to The Holy land Biaver.
Dam marks says you are the deformed love child of
E dog and the Creepy Mike mike the, Insomniac Mike
(38:07):
mikey The. Insomniac, rather who else do we? Have Arnold,
Hey arnold uh From mala Prop. GUY i see what
did did? There Thurston howel the third From Doc dan
that's his. Answer Britney rogers nephew From kathy In, Madison
schneider the. Handyman that's old School Sitcom knowledge From Milkman
(38:29):
mike In. Colorado Just josh has got to Be Britney Brittany, Roger,
josh you're not doing what in the name you normally.
Do Gunner gunner From King. Roy that's a good photo
Of Gunner. Gunner canna play for The mariners this, year
looking lean and mean in that. Photo Doug, jones random
baseball player From Mister knice guy closer for The Cleveland.
(38:49):
Indians good, Name sir Scratch off from not A burner
or someone that hangs out With sir Scratch off The
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(39:10):
The patriots the top uber each. Driver, femi all, Right,
loraina do you have an? Answer here's the who AM i?
GAME i am a starting quarterback in THE. Nfl i'm
also the grandson Of Dick, hammer who modeled as the
Rugged Marlborough. Man i'm Gonna i'm gonna go With George.
Skittle George skittle interesting name is incorrect the correct. Answer
(39:34):
the correct answer would be none other Than Sam Darnold.
Sam you know Team Sam donald plays For lorena The. Jets,
yes unless he does. It Sam Donald Seattle seahawks, there grandfather,
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