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November 28, 2025 41 mins

Ben Maller opens hour 1 recapping the late Thursday Night game as Joe Burrow and the Bengals dominate Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, how Lamar’s performance replicates his postseason performances + a new edition of the “Who Am I Game?”  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding Dong.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our numbber one, our number one, and oh what
fun we're having on the original recipe Ben Malors Show.
Happy Friday to you. It's the twenty eighth day of
November and we are locked in here on a Black Friday.
Don't forget Benny Versus the Penny. Two episodes for you
to watch today. We're off to the three and oh

(00:22):
start and get the Black Friday Special, which is a
few minutes breaking down the Bears and the Eagles, and
then the full edition of Benny Versus the Penny, which
will be available for you as well later today, so.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Check that out.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy, enjoy. And we have the fifth hour
podcast for you, a spinoff of this radio show, so
check that out as well. Wherever you get your podcast,
wherever you found this podcast, you can enjoy the fun
here in hour number one, a deep dive on the
Ravens and the ben Gal Cincinnati pulling off the Road upset.

(00:58):
How do you explain Lamar Jackson's garbage performance for the
Ravens in that game? And how do you grade Joe
Burrows return to the Bengals after missing a couple of
months and Joe Burrow also had a postseason or postgame
rather postgame interaction with the Maryland Crab that was blank.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
We'll play the fill in the blank game. Here's our one.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
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the way tire minds should be. And we are back
at it here on a Friday show. Still late Thursday,
still late Thanksgiving night there on the West coast, but
we head in.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
To a black Friday.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
And back in the old days, way back in the
hot tub time Machine, it was always a fun show
to do because there were a lot of people online
waiting to buy that one hundred and thirty five inch
television and they.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Were waiting online in other years. It's changed a little bit.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think we've circled back now where people are waiting
out and shopping late at night, staying online until store's open.
So we welcome those of you that don't normally listen
to the overnight show because you have the dreaded day
shift and you're up because you really want to get
that toaster oven, because that's the dream come true.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
You're living the dream when you.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Can buy the toaster oven, but you buy the toaster
of it because it's seventy five percent off and you
want that seventy five percent off the toaster of And
of course they marked it up by ninety percent, so
you're really paying fifty percent more. But that's a different conversation.
I'll say that for my podcast. So our lead this
hour is from Maryland, where Sports with Coleman was crying
in his crab legs. So the final leg of the

(04:10):
Thanksgiving triple header from morning to night at least on
the West coast, he goes afternoon tonight on the East coast.
But Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow's back, baby. He was gone
for months and oh my aching tow and he returned,
had the Bengal Marching and shout to society there in

(04:30):
Baltimore for a matchup against the Old Bay Seasoning and
Lamar Jackson. It was on ENBZ Mike Turco and the
clapper clap on, clap off. Jason Garrett, Yeah there was Jason.
I guess Collinsworth is too old. He can't work on holidays,
so he went there.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Why don't you watch her now? Maybe not. Maybe you
missed it. We were watching. We had nothing else to do.
There's nothing.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I thank god there were no NBA games, dude, Not
that I would have watched them anyway. But Joe Burrow
didn't do much early in the game, but he did
throw not one but two second half touchdown passes in
his return for the Cincinnati football team, and the Bengals
snap Baltimore's five game winning streak. That's why they play

(05:19):
the games. Thirty two to fourteen. What even close? Was
not even close. The fumble prone Ravens they have a
coughing problem. They're like coughing up the ball. Baltimore six
and six. They lost not one, not two, but three
fumbles in the first half. They turned the ball over
not one, not two, not three, not four, five times. Now,
I didn't play in the NFL. I think that sucks.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I would just be a guess, big, why you beat
such a hater? Oh my god, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Think that sucks. Five turnovers. It's shocking. The game wasn't
already over at halftime. It wasn't and so Baltimore six
and six. They missed an opportunity here. And although the
Bengals are four and eight, they didn't take advantage of
those miscues.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Joe Burrow and his receivers.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
They started to click in the second half, but it
was anyone's game at halftime.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
So the Ravens, who dug themselves.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Out of a gigantic hole they were covered off to
that one in five, start.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
To pull even with the Insers in the AFC North.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
But now they take a dramatic step backwards, and the
Steelers have the Bills in the Sunday card on the NFL.
So if Pittsburgh loses that game, although Buffalo has been
a terrible road team, then that loss by the Ravens
won't be that bad. But the thing everyone's talking about,
every yapping about this is Lamar Jackson, who was a bump,

(06:42):
not like a homeless bump. He was like a stumble
bump in this game. The better story is in the
losing locker room, and so that is where we would
gain this Malard monologue good jumping off points. So let's
discuss the question, how do you explain how do you
begin to explain Lamar Jack's garbage performance for the Ravens.

(07:03):
So my thoughts on this, I've got endorsement deal, Holy
scripture and cold fusion, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're going to create a sour stomach,
which is what every man, woman and child that cares
for The Ravens felt. They felt a sour's stomach as

(07:26):
Lamar destroyed their opportunities to win this game. Ravens also
had one of my favorite players in football, the fumble
at the goal line as the guy was crossing the
goal line just before fumble. I love that play. I
saw that for the first time in person. A wide
receiver for the Colts who has since been traded to
the Jets. I was at a Colts Rams game and
numb Nuts did the same thing. Then they traded his

(07:47):
ass to the Jets. But as far as the question,
how do you explain Lamar Jackson's garbage performance for the Ravens,
there is literally nothing redeeming about it. Now, if you
watched Benny versus the Penny, first of all, you're welcome.
We went three to zero against the spread, so if
you did it, you know what you want. But we
did very well there. We're happy. It's been a rocky season,

(08:08):
but we had a good Thanksgiving, which is nice. We
did take the Bengals plus the points in that game.
The sharp money was on the Bengals in that matchup.
You know that if you watched Benny versus the Penny.
But there's literally nothing redeeming about this. I thought the
Ravens would play better. I thought this, well, the Bengals
were going to back door cover. I didn't think they
did not even need that. They were leading the game
the majority of the game. So lamar Jackson. He didn't

(08:30):
just play bad. Okay, he was in the cockpit as
the pilot of the vomit commet.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
He was right there, and he was so horrific.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
The flight attendant actually went up to the cockpit and
handed him those Souvenir plastic wings for in flight turbulence.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
So congratulations.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Two fumbles, one interception, and a partridge in a pear
tree facing mind you, here's why this is so bad.
The NFL's worst defense. What up the second worst defense,
the worst defense in the NFL proof of product, worst
defense in the NFL. And that wasn't a football game.

(09:11):
That was a bio hazard situation for the Ravens offense.
There were three of ten on third down. The Bengals
ran eighty plays Baltimore only ran fifty seven translation, Joe
Burrow got to run a marathon eighty plays. Lamar Jackson
got to sit in the corner in the fetal position,

(09:32):
sucking his thumb on time out. Now you want my
opinion of Lamar Jackson's performance?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
What do you think? My opinion? The guy went out there,
turned the ball over, but you tok come on. He
played like he.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Was constipated, and he was searching around for pepto on
the sideline. He couldn't find any. Now, fortunately, not all
is lost. There's a silver lining. I'll be Benny Brightside
as we make our way around the world. Here, I'll
be Manny bryce Side. So Lamar Jackson, here's the Benny
bright Side. Lamar Jackson did pick up an endorsement deal.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
It's good. It's not a fortune five hundred company.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
It's a startup. It's an infomercial company. He will now
be the pitch man for the barf O Mattic. Congratulations
to Lamar got an endorsement deal for the Barfa Mattic,
a full sponsorship for Quarterback Nausea.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
He's got that. And wings.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
He got those little wings. Wings of regret is what
he got. That was a playoff stinker by Lamar. That's
what you see in the playoffs. That was playoff Lamar is.
If you want to see that again, wait till the
Raves and they make the playoffs, you'll see that again.
The Ravens showed up with a paper bag and a prayer,
and the Bengals used the paper bag to take the
leftover turkey home. More than that in a minute, and

(10:45):
I guess they didn't even need the prayer. And if
this doesn't work out for the Ravens and they don't
make the playoffs, they have plenty of time to take
part in. America's got turnovers. Not talent, but America's got turnovers.
Now on the other side the sins and name and
he's like, can we call a w ambulance to all
those people? Shut it down, Joe, shut it down. Don't

(11:05):
play you could get hurt up like god. Anyway, question,
how did you grade? How did you grade Joe Burrow's
return to the game action for the Bengals. So my
thought here, it wasn't perfect, It obviously was, and it
was like watching a guy kind of shake off cobwebs

(11:26):
in real time. As Burrow had some shaky plays in
the first half. He was creaky early on. The timing
was not perfect. There were some misfires there for Joe Burrow. However,
the Bengals offense, I'll tell you this, if you were
watching or listening to this game at all, the Bengals
offense between the twenties is the greatest show on turf.
They're really good. Between the twenties. It's like the circus

(11:49):
Circus midway. There's lights, blanking, bells ring and all that.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
I mean, really really good.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Promise that once they get down there it's problematic overall.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
The word I had.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Is therapeutic, that this was a therapeutic situation, a football
daseball for the soul of these seventeen Bengal fans that
are out there. Joe Burrow did not look scared in
the face of adversity. He was like cardiac Stanley out there.
Didn't look timid, looked like a gamer and a kind

(12:19):
of guy who who would just want to play football
in the parking lot with a nerf ball and he
jumped for the football and scrape his knees up and
all that. And his quote before the game some that up.
He repeated something he said earlier this week, Joe Burrow,
and he was asked.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Why would you come back and play? You might get
a boo boo.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Well, Joe Burrow said, We're getting paid a lot of
money to play a kid's game. I love playing. I
just want to put a show on for the fans.
Close quote.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Of course, that triggered the algorithms, Oh.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
My god, Oh my god, he needs a coach to
protect him.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Sorry, not sorry, that was Mallar solid gold. This is
what that was.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Salad gold there the holy scripture of the Church of
grid Iron. Football guy. That's a football guy. It's like
John Madden got featured again. How many years anything you're
gonna do that? Joon's be gone for a few years now.
How many years they can knew?

Speaker 1 (13:10):
The John Madden Thanksgiving tribute? It was nice. Grew up
with Madden on television.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
But that was the spirit football guy spirit there for
Joe Burrow. You know what, You don't hear that from
Kyler Murray. You don't hear Kyler Murray saying, listen, We're
getting paid a ton of money to play kids game.
I love playing. I just want to put on a
show for the fans. No, Kyler Murri says, listen, we're
gonna pay a ton of money. I don't really like football,
but I'm really good at video games. I'm on Twitch.

(13:38):
You can follow me on Twitch, watch my live stream.
I'll put a show for you, watch me play video games.
That's what you get from Kyler Murray. Meanwhile, I would
like to address those of you in the back of
the room that are keeping your head down because you're
embarrassed the abundance of caution crowd. They wanted Joe Burrow
to be bubble wrapped and put into some kind of

(13:59):
a chamber in on Ice until next year, put him
in a storage unit until twenty twenty six. And to
that we say, police, that logic is Kirkland brand Blooney.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Is what that is. It's Kirkland Brand Blooney. Playoffs.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Now that's a pietriot. I know they're trying to sell
it in Tarrico. You know, he's a houseman for the NFL,
so he was trying to sell it. You sell it
motormouth optimism all that they're not making the playoffs, but
watching Joe Burrow play is actually worth the price of admission,
or most of you won't go to these games. I
don't go to many games. It's worth your time to

(14:37):
watch on television. And that's the whole point to me.
Burrow plays because he can't not because the standings.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Say, oh, you've got a chance to make the playoff. No, you,
dingle Berry. That's not the point.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
That's not what any of this is about. All right,
last word here. So after the game, the entire Bengals
team gathered for a wacky on field interview surrounded by
a table with turkey and all the trimmings. They had
Melissa Stark there NBC. So the interview had the usual

(15:14):
post game Thanksgiving spread and he had a group.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Of Cincinnati players.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
They were doing cosplay like they were Oklahoma City and
all the high school kids on Oklahoma City stand around
the player of the game and it's kind of embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
But so Cincinnati did that and well deserved.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
They got the little nibble of the food there that
was left for them postgame. And at one point Joe
Burrow picked up a Maryland crab, a Maryland crab of
course the game in Baltimore, and was completely gobsmacked. He
was baffled, bamboozled by the day, like what is this

(15:52):
it's really hilarious for our blind listeners.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
He picked it up, he held it up, he sniffed it.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's what anyone would do. No, it doesn't smell like turkey.
Are they are turkeys now wrapped in armor? What is
that about? And then he asked.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Melissa Stark what is this? What the f is this?

Speaker 2 (16:17):
And Melissa Stark, I guess is from that area and
she quickly identified the local delicacy. And Joe Burrow was
pretty good there, pretty good Joe Burrow there, he said,
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Essentially, he said it's hard, you know, he's he then.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
The sideline woman there, let's stark. She had to tell
him it's hard. Show you don't bite into it, you
pull the legs off of it. And then he put
the thing down. He's like, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
I don't need any of that. So let's play the
what's the word game? You want to play? What's the
word game? Okay?

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I see Alf's over there shaking his head yes and
uh and nodding his head nodding his head yes. And
then ferg Dogs gives the thumbs up on that. Thank you,
thank you for so the what's the word game? Joe
Burrow's postgame interaction with the Maryland Crab on Thanksgiving night
was blank.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
My word is bewildered. Is my word. That's the word.
I'll get bewildered. And here's why.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Joe Burrow looked like he was being asked to solve
cold fusion in real time. And it's like, no, non
to Joe, It's just a Thanksgiving postgame interview. And you
just got spiced with some old Bay congratulations. And the Bengals,
though it did look like they were online at Golden Corral,

(17:37):
the Bengal players there and they were ready to enjoy
the buffet. And there was Joey b face to face
with this mysterious crustacean and he held it again like
a prop from some kind of science experiment, and he
did the sniff test. We've all been there, what is this?
And delivered the line of the night, what is this?

(17:58):
And had to be coached like he was in kin
Garden at snack time. It's like no, Joe, no, no, no, Joe,
don't eat the crayon.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
No, no, you don't do that. And then Burrow I
loved it.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
I laugh when he put the crab down like he
put it down like it was Lamar Jackson fumbling the duke.
He put it down, and it wasn't really postgame coverage.
It was like Joe Burrow on some food channel show
like Chopped or something like that. It was a seafood
snaffou how do you do? However, Joe Burrow, now he

(18:33):
may have fumbled the crab postgame, but he won the
camaraderie contest with the Bengel teammates and all that. So
Thanksgiving is the NFL's holiday. Everyone watching these NFL games,
and it's a turkey holiday. Also, can we let everyone know, Oh,
you shouldn't say that. Yeah, nobody needs to eat crab

(18:56):
on on Thanksgiving, you know, all right, Yeah, you don't
have to eat turkey if you don't like turkey.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
But the crap seems a little much. So that's it.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I didn't eat turkey Thanksgiving, not that it matters. It
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And again, so you don't.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
See it that off in the it was Isaiah Likely.
By the way, I mentioned the guy from the Ravens,
I didn't say his name. I guess when you when
you do a blunder like that, you need some love.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
There.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Isaiah Likely fumbling the ball before he crossed the end zone. Interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.
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Orleans Saints are a horrific franchise, a nightmare, the franchise
that gave us the paper bags. Back to it, right
back to it we go. And the good Son, the
good Son, what is that all about. We'll get to
that coming up here in a couple of minutes. But
we began with the late game on Thanksgiving as the

(22:48):
Baltimore Ravens put us spanking put or the Bangles put
us bang on the Ravens. What I'm trying to say,
but my god, it was supposed to be the other
way around. The point spread heavily in favor of the
home team Baltimore, but it was Cincinnati that goes in
and gets it done as the Ravens starting the holiday
season with sloppy mix slop five turnovers. And then we

(23:14):
had the postgame commentary on a night where Mark Andrews
set the Ravens franchise record.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
The Ravens haven't been around that long, but he did
set the record.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
It seems like he's catching since Lamar got there. Every
week he's catching five or six passes. But he set
the Ravens franchise record for catches. And congratulations on that
in a loss. And then you had Lamar citing the
need to be more consistent as he checked in at
the hotel and he's now the spokesman, captain obvious there

(23:45):
he said, Ravens five game winning streak is over, and
he said, quote, I just got to play consistent, he said.
And then later on was asked whether or not the injured.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Is the reason. And let me say something right now.
I'm gonna pause.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
So this pet people of mine, I've determined that in
the modern industrial complex of professional sport, are heroes of
the gridiron or basketball corp or the baseball diamond can
never just be bad. You can't just be bad. You
can't just have a bad day at work. No, no, no,

(24:25):
you just you can't do that. You have to be hurt.
It must be an injury. You can't just have a
bad day. No one has a bad day. These are
superhuman people. Superhuman people don't have bad days. So Lamar
was asked whether or not the toe injury, which he
supposedly missed some practice time. Of course, the person asking

(24:46):
that hoping they could get a yes so they could
write a whole three thousand words story on it, and
Lamar said no. He said knee ankle toe supposedly issues.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Either that or he just wanted to to take a
day off every week from practice. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
He just said, I have to be more consistent, gotta
make those throws. I don't miss them in practice, Lamar says,
so I shouldn't be missing them in the game. Does
Lamar know that in practice? They're not trying to really
stop him that much? Does he know? No, you want
to tell him, you don't want to tell The Bengals
defense was allowing an NFL high thirty two point seven
points per game, so basically thirty three points a game,

(25:26):
and you scored less than half of that. Of course,
you did it with gusto, you did it with style
and congratulations. And that is Lamar Jackson's first loss to
the Bengals since twenty twenty one. And now, if you
look at the odds, the Ravens chances to win the

(25:46):
division the AFC North, according to the Nerds, have dropped
from seventy percent to fifty seven percent. That according to
the Nerds, So the actual candy, the Nerds candy, I
believe that.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
That is how that goes.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Let's see there is anyone anyone worthy of our time
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Speaker 2 (26:08):
Click this, so I click this, and then I say,
I get a bunch of people that send send goofy
things in and whatnot, James says, is Jerry Jones making
the right moves coach and draft picks.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
The team looks crazy.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Good on offense at two wins against the Eagles and Chiefs. Yes,
everyone's got their pants down because the Cowboys won a
couple of games in a row, and it's good for them,
good for them. The problem is it's gonna be very
difficult to overcome that home loss to the Cardinals. The
Cardinals blow you lost at home to them. That's very
difficult to overcome that. And you've you've done a little
bit of the lifting so far. They had that gauntlet

(26:44):
with the Eagles and then the following game with the Chiefs,
and then up next to the Lions. And so you've
won the first two, so you're guaranteed to have a
winning record in that department.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
So so that is good.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Chane in des Moines, right, So, and he says Gino
Smith is only relevant as overnight talk radio fodder. The
Raiders know it. Gino probably even knows it. He's the
NFL's version of Russell Westbrook, stealing money from teams while
harming their.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Fan base as well.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Westbrook at least was a great stat bandito and he
killed you at the end of the game because he
let Russ shoot, and he'd shoots you right out of
a game, and teams would allow him.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
That The clips of Russ Russell Westbrook.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
When he was in OKC and they're like, okay, just
he's three point line. Just let him shoot and he'll
do it and he won't make it, and just do it.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, that's it. There you go. See what else? Do
we have? A page down supermarket?

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Steve has a question about Tyrese Maxi. He says he
performed at the National Dog Show on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
He said, there you go, I didn't see that. I
have no idea what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
There nature Boy, answering the call to the wild, says
they just should have offered Joe Burrow Rocky Mountain oysters.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Oh, that would have been better. That would have been better.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Spock's Weed calls in from the Oregon Trail. He says,
a trivial pursuit factoid. Cold Fusion was my group name
as we were pursuing our NBA.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Well, congratulations, here you go, very nice. What else we
have a page?

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Dan Gunner says, I can't wait till we start seeing
the Rams fall apart. That's going to start on Sunday
when the Panthers put a beat down on the Rams.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Well, Gunner, you.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Enjoy your egg salad sandwich there at the break room
at the Walmart in Northern Minnesota, because that's the only
joy you're gonna get. Because if you think the Rams
are gonna lose that game to the Carolina Panthers, it
good luck. They might not cover the spread, they might
not cover the spread. But come on, Fred in Nebraska, right,

(29:00):
and he says, representing the entire state of Nebraska, He says,
have any of you seen the latest Google Pixel cell
phone commercial featuring Steph Curry?

Speaker 1 (29:09):
He says, I don't like change.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's why I have been on the same team for
seventeen years, had the same coach for eleven years, and
have never changed my number, he says. If that's not
a direct shot at Lebron James, I don't know what is.
And it's hilarious and true, he says. Aren't they buddies
though I don't know. They all those guys are friends.

(29:31):
They all hang out together, they go to the same
parties and they have a fine, fine time, just a
great old time. Yeah, you, you and everybody all together
play grab ass and all that stuff we are on
actually gain if you want to join in. And if
I didn't read your comments because it sucked, so send
a better comment at Ben Mahler, that is at Ben Mahlor.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
If you would like to be part of the program.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
And eight seven seven ninety nine on five on the phones,
and let's get the party started.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Let's go to Eenie Meanie mighty mo.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Let's say hello to I think this is Christopher. I
believe is up first he now is he in England?

Speaker 4 (30:14):
Or is he?

Speaker 1 (30:15):
I think he is in England? Right, He's he moved.
He's an ex pat living abroad.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Legally blind Christopher. Welcome, mister Maller.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
I tell you I enjoy a good prime rib with
some wine, because from now on I need to beg
plead and ask your forgiveness of believing that the Lions
were something other than the same old Lions that I've
watched for fifty five years. So my question, mister Maller,
since my holiday season is completely ruined watching NFL football

(30:44):
on some scraps, I mean some available website here in London,
what should I then now follow based on the fact
that I now need to become a Rams fan and
again support my old quarterback that has dominated the league.
Please help me, mister Mallered.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, listen, You've come to the right place legally behind Christopher.
And uh, I'm not sure what the sports scene is like.
You live in England, so I'm not sure what there
is like football. Is there a lot of football on TV?
Is that what you got to watch there?

Speaker 5 (31:12):
I guess that would rugby and that what they call football,
which again I don't understand one bit of it, but
that's okay, I'm not supposed to.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah. It's like they don't you know, people from England
most of them don't understand American football, and I don't
get it.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
It's they weren't raised with it. Well you could what
you could do.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
And I don't know how popular this is in England.
When I did radio for a station in New Zealand,
I occasionally lost my paying weekly radio show in New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Because of cricket.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Because cricket, there's there's a no no listen to me.
There's a short form of cricket, and there's a long
form of cricket, and the long matches can go up
to seven days, seven days, one one event.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
And I got I got bumped a few times.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Very popular in like India, news, parts of New Zealand, Australia.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
They love it. I don't know about England. But or
you could help me work.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Legally blind Christopher, then we could also we could also
worry how about this?

Speaker 1 (32:16):
We worked on this angle to it. My plan is
the how I want to blow.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
I want to I want to partner with the housekeeping Olympics,
and I want to make this a global event. Vacuum cleaning, dishwashing, dusting,
I want all that. Well, why don't we make that
something special?

Speaker 1 (32:31):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (32:32):
I like it I like it.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
So here's the reason. Now I can really enjoy drinking
for a seven day sporting event, and no wonder the
Brits drink all the time, because why in the world
would you want to watch something that monotonous. Well maybe
that's why they.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
Don't watch it.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
And God help me. So I'm now going to become
a Rams fan and now I have a chance to
watch a Super Bowl before I die.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Mister Mallor, okay, you appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Christopher there and you're in England, so just have a
good day because you know it's not a good day
for England lost out on that one, but as far
as our Thanksgiving But anyway, all right, so there's legally
blind quiz. Let's go to blind Scott who's on the
North end of Boston.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
He would like to do it.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
Hell, blind dude, that guy's lying. Legally blind Christopher like,
there's a level of responsibility when you're legally blind. Like
he can see the TV. They don't have audio description
for sporting offense. He says that every time it doesn't exist,
it's not accessible. But yeah, I want to do a
bit ask blind Scott. I have a lot to say.
I want to be asked about being blind. There's only

(33:34):
one million blind people in the United States. I'm an
expert on Helen Keller and and Mansfield Sullivan. I've been
totally blind for about five years. I've been legally blind
my whole life. I'm also autistic. I have the autistic gene.
It's genetic. It's a degenerative disease. I call it into
sports radio. I went on hold for sports radio for
about ten hours a day. I know some of the

(33:56):
top personalities in sports radio, like Ben Maller and Fred
Touch Sure. I know my way around the radio station.
I know how to do a producing job on the
rail ard of them. I consider myself the best caller.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
On the radio. Okay, okay, you're giving you something, so
I feel like we can do this, but I don't
have time for it right now. How about next hour?
Why don't we Why don't we do it next hours
that work for you or the.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
Third or the fourth, whichever is best you.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Know for the Okay, I'll put you.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
I'm gonna put you on hold here and then I
think we'll shoot for hour two. And we got a
big block an hour two right after the monologue, so
we'll shoot for that an hour two. That's that's gonna
be the plan. And make sure to get the dump
button ready there, Marky Mark, because that's blind Scott and people.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Hate him, so there'll be a lot of anger. People upset.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Let's go to let's go to key drinking Steve, Who's
Kansas City Chiefs are on life support right now?

Speaker 1 (34:48):
To make the NFL.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
You help yourself, man, you're gonna put the cowboys in
Chiefs in the fourth hour with Marshpell and all those
idiots from Mouth and Cowboy John Bradman. You just can't.
You just don't want to talk about it. You just don't.
You just do so.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Why would I Why would I not want to talk
about I don't care about that? Why do I care?
I have a touch show to do.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
It doesn't matter to me all the time.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Last week you talked about the Cheezer like three or
four am. Man, We're gonna come to California and beat
your little lamb in the super Bowl at.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Nine and eight.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
That would be what was it fantastic to watch a
real man's halftime, not a wine and cheese. We'll see
halftime with guys that can't speak English. It was Post
Malone and eminem and the white stripes heaterop.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
I didn't see I didn't see us. I didn't see
a second of it. You know, I didn't see a second.
I don't care about halftime shows. Who the f cares
about halftime shows? You're all a bunch of losers. I've
never met any in my life that turns on a
damn game for the halftime show.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
It's the dumbest thing.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
I don't get it. I don't understand who cares if
it's Post Malone or Carl Malone, I don't care. Tell
him up, thank you, No, sir, I don't understand. Like,
we live in a world now, it's not nineteen seventy seven.
You can if you want to hear any music you want.

(36:28):
It's at your fingertips.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Who cares? Like, seriously, I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
They make such a big deal about this, and it's
like this whole culture war and I don't give a crap.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
I don't. I'm not in it for that.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
I listen to music, but I pick what I want
to listen to. So dumb, all right?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we press on and on,
and on time. Now for the who am I? Game?

Speaker 1 (36:55):
And this is where I pretend to be somebody else?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Will also have coming up later this hour, we'll have
more of your riveting phone calls, time permitting. Next hour,
Ask a blind guy with Line Scott and more fun.
But here's the who am I Game? I have eighteen
pressures in the last three games. I had sixteen pressures
in the eight games to begin the NFL season. Again,

(37:21):
over the last three games, I have eighteen quarterback pressures
in the last three I had sixteen pressures over the
first eight games of the season. That is the question,
the who am I game? The answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next Bill Miller and you. It is
the Ben Malor Show.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
As we are.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Chopping down the overnight hours. Have a great extended holiday weekend.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
We're doing it live.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
If you like what you hear, and you don't normally listen,
we're here every night during the week. I got a
podcast on the Weekend's Fifth Hour podcast. We'll have new
pod all weekend long on the fifth our podcast.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
It'll be all me.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
This weekend, Danny g with the weekend awave or the
holiday But you got me on the Fifth Hour podcast
this weekend, and I guess that's important. My name is
in the it's right there. It's in the headline. And
don't forget about YouTube. You won't watch Mallard monologus from
the Ben Malor Show. Just search Ben Mahler Show on YouTube.

(38:24):
If you want Benny Versus the Penny and get the
Black Friday Game the Bears for Marky Mark and the Eagles,
and if you want our handicapping on that, Benny Versus Penny,
the iconic show. It was given birth here on Fox
Sports Radio million years ago, landed on NBC for a
couple of years. Now, it's on YouTube Global platform on YouTube,

(38:45):
so hit that subscribe button. Watch the content. Bennie Versus
the Penny, the amazing, amazing picks. We were three and
oh to start the week so this could be the weekend.
Back in the day, we used to have amazing weekends.
We'd go like get thirteen fourteen picks? Right, haven't done

(39:06):
that the last couple of years. I blame the people
at NBC, That's who I blame, because on television we
screwed up. But on the radio show really good. Anyway
back to it, we go, all right, back to it
and I'll send out a link. Also, I'll put it right.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Under the show rundown here in a few minutes and
we'll do that. But time now to pay off the
who am I?

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Game?

Speaker 1 (39:24):
This is where I pretend to be somebody else. Le's
call it who am I? Game?

Speaker 2 (39:27):
So I have eighteen pressures, eighteen of them in the
last three games. I had thirteen pressures in the first
eight games that I participated in.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
That is the question. Who am I? Is the question?
And what is the answer? And let's see is anyone
know the answer?

Speaker 2 (39:51):
We go to the great Unwashed, the Hoy Paloy here
to see if anyone knows? And a page and I
can't can't read that supermarket Steve sending some nasty comments,
which is not surprising. We've got DeMarco Farr guests by
Steve O, Jerry the Mouse from Big Greg and Iowa,

(40:14):
Medowwark Lemon from Bobby and Florida, Pauli Shore from Rob
the goat Man, TJ. Watt guest by Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Who else do we have?

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Page Dan Alexa Bliss from Just Josh in Cincinnati, Benny
the Black Friday Bargain bully. Yes, I am a bargain
bully from alf the Alien o'pineer ferg Dog says the
greatest halftime show of all time Coldplay, Okay, stop, let's
see here. Eddie Munson the only halftime show we need.

(40:45):
Guest by Hope Man, Mike, Sam Darnold from Femi, Matt
Lafleur from King Rory. That's his answer.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Who else? Nature Boy says You're right, halftime is for losers.
The correct answer.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Quinn Williams of the Dallas Cowboys Kicking ass with the Boys.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Quinn Williams

Speaker 2 (41:05):
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