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November 1, 2024 37 mins

Ben Maller opens the show talking about the missing magic from the Texans and CJ Stroud after their TNF loss to the Jets & wonders if this Jets win moves the needle for Aaron Rodgers & the Jets heading into the 2nd half of the season & MORE! 

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out Benny Versus the Penny, Me and Tom Looney. So
here in hour number one, Little Thursday Night Football, Week
number nine, the Texans and the Jets. What happened to
the magic of CJ. Strid with the Texans, we'll talk

(01:07):
about that. Also, what's the temperature looking like for coach
Tamiko Ryans in Houston? And does this victory move the
needle for Airon Rogers and the Jets, we'll talk about
all that and more.

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Speaker 1 (02:43):
Know heads are gonna roll. What's up with that?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
But anyway, our lead this hour is from the Garden
State and that was the Amphitheater for the start of
week number nine. We don't have a number nine. Number
nine in the NFL. CEJ Straup, a darling of the
NFL pundits in the offseason.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
C J.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Stroud, many people predicted would be the pick to click
in terms of the MVP race in the NFL and
the dinged up Texans that I had a playdate with
Aaron Rogers and the Jets in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Beautiful East Rutherford, New Jersey. If you enjoy swamps, boy,
that's your spot. So al Michaels and Herbie had to

(03:25):
call on Amazon. I don't know if you were watching
this or not, perhaps not, but Aaron Rodgers after taking
a siesta in the first half, Rogers came out had
not one, not two, but three touchdown passes in the
second half, including a play that will be talked about
on the social media world platform for years. One handed

(03:48):
catch by Garrett Wilson like an acrobat in the circus,
and a thirty seven yard catch and run Davante Adams.
I've heard of him before the Jets rally back and
snap a five game losing they just lost to the Patriots.
On Sunday, they come back and knock off the Texans

(04:10):
twenty one to thirteen.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
A lot of people surprised.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
I fact I did an appearance on our affiliate in
Kansas City on Thursday morning, and Dusty, one of.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
The hosts, was like, well, I don't understand why the
Jets are favorite. They shouldn't be favorite. The Texans are
the better team. Well there you go.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
A lot of people bet on the Texans. They thought
it was easy money and they lost. New York improves
to a lousy three and six. The Texans dropped to
six and three. But for New York, they went for
the first time in four games under their interim head coach,
the Hawaiian well, at least in college Jeff Ulbrich, who
took over there more than the Jets in a minute,

(04:47):
the better story is in the losing locker room, and
that is where we will begin to break this down scientifically. Now,
as we discussed the question what happened to the magic
of CJ.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Stroud with the.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Texans, certainly he didn't see it in this game, So
I've got co pilot, hot yoga and pomegranate, and we
will combine all of these things together and we will
stay in the dark, because that's all we do is
stay in the dark.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
We're on while the dark is out there.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
But my first thought this was a saw wing an
a miss. This was a with performance obviously by C. J. Stroud,
living the island life, and as bad as he was,
I was a little concerned at halftime because it was
seven to nothing Texans. I did have the Jets for
television gambling purposes, but seven other and a halftime not

(05:45):
really all that excited. The Jets had a touchdown taking
off the board because they one of their players decided
to do fumbault, not take the ball across the goal
line like a donkey. But Stroud living the island life,
but it was a deserted island here. Stroud unable to
find the razzle dazzle that he had last season. When

(06:06):
you peel back the onion, you got Nico Collins out.
He's supposed to come back soon. Sefon Diggs is done,
likely with the Texans, and Stroud was given the task.
His assignment was to elevate the secondary and third level players,
elevate your teammates, right, great quarterbacks, I think we can
all agree on this. The truly great quarterbacks elevate players

(06:28):
that are lesser players. Now there's only a couple of
those guys out there, but many people told us that CJ.
Stroud was one of those type of players, that he
was not that far away from Mahomes and Brady and
he was just a step behind and in that Josh
Allen territory or Lamar Jackson. But that is what the
greats are supposed to do. Opportunity was knocking. You had

(06:50):
a big stage. Everyone was watching no baseball, nobody's watching
the NBA, and CJ. Stroud was not up to the task.
In fact, he got absolutely pants in this game. Right,
he was exposed without his playmakers. How bad was it?
Cover your eyes back?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
CJ. Stroud eleven of thirty.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
My computer like brain tells me that's less than forty
percent completion. Now, as far as I know, and I
was watching the game, it did not look like there
were hurricane level wins in Jersey. So he completed less
than forty percent of his passes thirty six point seven
one hundred and ninety one yards even that is misleading.
No touchdowns, no interceptions. Fifty of those yards came in

(07:31):
the fourth quarter on a pass play to Tank Dell,
so a lot less. At one point he was averaging
like three point two yards per pass and that was
like in the third quarter of the game. And then
the thing that is the cherry on top of the poopye.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Sunday for CJ.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Stroud, he was sacked a breathtaking eight times. Now, a
lot of low information fans will tell you, Wow, that's
the it's the fat guy's fault, it's the offensive line,
Blame the fat guys. Well, I will push back on that.
Those that know ball will tell you. The real ones

(08:07):
will tell you that sacks are a quarterback statistic that
you have to know when to hold it and know
when to get rid of it, and don't hold the
ball too long, treat it like a hot potato.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
C J.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Stroud in this game, it was he was a cold
pilot on a Southwest Airlines want to get away flight.
He really want He looked like Trent, not Trent Richards
Anthony Richards Well, maybe Trent Richardson two the old running back,
but Anthony Richardson the Colts quarterback.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
I mean that was that was bad.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
That was like rotting fish in the summer on a
hot day outside. Just disgusting. Now, page two, So how
is the temperature looking? For coach Demico Ryans and the Texas.
The argument for Demico Ryans is Houston was an underdog
in this game. They were shorthanded, it was a travel

(08:56):
it was a road game, short week. You make all
kinds of excuses, but I live in the real world.
I don't live in FANTASYLANDA live in the real world.
So in the critical eye that I have for the
regular guy, it's like hot yoga. It's getting steamy in here, right.
Houston is now six and three on the year. Is
the glass half full or half empty? I would say

(09:19):
it's it's half full, but there's a crack and it's leaking.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Right.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
One guy, Numero row Huno sold pizza chain in southern California.
One guy showed up for the tech and by the way,
they had really good garlic pluffs back in the day.
But Joe Mixon and he was balling right. Joe Mixon
looked like he was back in his salad days with
the Bengals. He had one hundred and six yards on
a touchdown. However, even that, even that, even Joe Mixon's

(09:46):
big game, you downgrade it because he only did it
for a half. He had ninety one yards and a
touchdown in the first half of this game, and in
the second half he had seven carries for fifteen yards.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
So that you talk about balance, well, there's no balance.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
And the Houston's defense absolutely vanished in the second half.
This has been a theme and I pointed this out
on Benny Versus the Penny. We talked a little bit
about the Texans. I just wasn't impressed. Despite the wins here.
They don't get a lot of style points in Houston,
playing down to the competition. A erratic, very choppy, very

(10:23):
choppy team. You just don't take them seriously because of
the way that they have played, even though they've won
most of the games. All right, last word here, does
let's go to the other side the winning locker room.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Does this victory move the needle for.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Airin Rogers and the Jets, so it is just what
the witch doctor ordered? Does it move the needle a
little bit? A little bit, it's eating pomegranate. It increases
the blood flow and the circulation right, Certain foods increase
the blood flow, the circulation. It keeps hope a lot,

(11:00):
which sounds silly at three and sixs. But Aaron Rodgers,
he was actually staying in a suite in Jersey. He
was at the Suck Suite in New Jersey at halftime,
just terrible thirty two yards passing at halftime. It looked
like he should announce his retirement at halftime the way
he was playing there seven or fourteen in the second half.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Though. My theory is he found the spice rack.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
He got that Caiam pepper and that water and al Kazaam,
just like that found the fountain of youth.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Rogers like he was back with the.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Packers playing the Bears at lambeau Field, sliced up the
Texans in.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
The second fifteen of eighteen.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's almost eighty five percent, nine point nine yards per
pass in the second a half, three touchdowns, no in receptions,
and eight partries in a pear tree. That's about as
good as it gets for Aaron Rodgers. So what does
it all mean? You got the good and you got
the bad In the multiverse, the Jets have a path
to redemption.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
They do right.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Fire him in can be happy, right, Fireman d can
be because if you look at the schedule, they've got
Alligator Arms Murray upcoming the Cardinals. They also play the Colts.
Those are winnable games. Those are toss up games. And
if you win both of them. In that world, you
get to five and six. You go into your bye
week one game under five hundred, and you only have

(12:20):
one game left with anyone who's considered a good team.
That would be the Buffalo Bills. Now I'm a skeptic.
I'm a skeptic, but this is a baby step. It's
a small step. Before you eat steak, you have to
eat baby food.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Right.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
You don't give a baby a steak, You'll give a
baby like baby. But I need to see more. It's
a very small sample size, one half of football against
a dinged up Houston Texans team. I still have the
Jets on my big board. I don't do list, but
on my big board I have the Jets in that
punch drunk category. At this particular point, it is the

(12:54):
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(13:16):
haha in an NFL insider, a well known NFL insider
has been caught red handed and is likely going to
get a phone call from the NFL's league office. What
did said NFL insider do to get into the doghouse

(13:36):
with the National Football League and likely with his employer
as well. We'll get to that and we'll take your calls,
your comments. The big night ahead. We're just starting this
a long flight through the overnight. We'll get to that
and we will.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Do it next.

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Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's Ben Malor NFL Insider in some hot water will
explain what that's all about. We began with a retrospective
on the National Football League Thursday night game, the Jets
Getting It Done, Jets over the Texans. Jason in Cannes City,

(14:46):
where I will be a week from Saturday the Malor
meet and greet. We'll have some information on the fifth
Hour podcast, but it's going to be from two o'clock
till four o'clock obviously local time, Kansas City, a week from.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Saturday at the Landing in Liberty, Missouri. Going to be there.
That's the restaurant that has the Ben Mallord Chicken Fingers Srby. Yes, yes, now.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
It is scheduled only for two hours, but I'll probably
stay a lot longer than that. So but we'll be
their minimum two hours and then we'll see who shows up.
But Jason in Casey says ten out of ten on
the Mallard Monologue band, the Texans either decided to take
the week off or they are not a legitimate contender.
Their receiver corps is wheat without Diggs and Nico Collins.
Collins is coming back at least they added Joe Mixon

(15:29):
this year. That's from Jason In.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
KC.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Shane and the Moyes says, belated congratulations to you on
your Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Thank you. I played a big role in the Dodgers winning.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
I gave them tough love, and I really will take
credit because I was on locally on our flagship AM
five seventy in LA the day the trade deadline was
and I willed the Dodgers to make better trades, and
I did, and that resulted in a championship.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
So I'm taking credit for that.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
The Yankees aren't the Evil MP anymore, but a loss
for New York in any sport is a win for
American sports fans. A plus plus World Series Dodgers domination situation.
All right, so good, pro Zach Perry writes, since says,
I just got help with my ed today.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
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I hope we helped you out on that.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
J C.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Wrights In says ten out of ten on the Mally Monologue,
Aaron Rodgers needs another Iahuasca darkness retreat if he wants
any chance of winning another playoff game.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Oh yeah, Cruz, you gotta have crug. He's washed up.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
I feel like you wrote that JC at halftime because
he certainly didn't look washed up in the second half.
Tom from Fullerton again with the ayahuasca says Rogers drank
some ayahuasca tea at halftime.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
He thought it was Super Bowl forty five again, So
so he said, all right, well, big news here. I
was asked by Brianna, is she's filling in Breeze? Filling in?

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Who?

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Who?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Brieze?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
She's a whos but Breeze her name. She used to
be an intern, but now she's a big time They
should have hired her years ago. Anyway, she's she's filling
in for Coop. She said, Hey, this guy Pete and
Pittsburgh wants to talk to you off the ear. So
I contact Pete now. Pete's one of the early callers.
When I first started here at Fox Sports Radio over
twenty years ago, Pete was one of my core guys.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Right.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
He was a Howard Stern whackback guy. He said, hey,
you're back on in the Berg. I didn't even know
about this. I had no idea.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
You'd think somebody at the company would let me know,
but nobody let me know.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
But we are back on on Fox Sports Pittsburgh. Yeah,
I got my terrible towel.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
I'm ready to go there.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
The insers shout out to the insers. We don't shoutouts,
but the insers there on nine to seventy eight, which
is what the station we used to be on.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
And then we're also on eight.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
We're on the FM dial on HD two at HD
Bougie HD Radio on one oh four seven HD two there.
So we're excited to be back on in Pittsburgh all
for a while. And I remember the early days when
I started here. We the first affiliate we had was
Bingham to New York and one of the early cities

(18:11):
that carried Fox Sports Radio when this network was terrible.
My god, did we suck. But we were on in
Pittsburgh and it was one of the early cities. And
we know Red Man's in the in Pittsburgh. He still listens.
He's all grown up, Pete, and Pittsburgh is still with us.
He checked back in. He said, though, Pete, he's becoming
a curmudgeon. I said, Pete, we've been on. You'll get

(18:32):
on the iHeart app and satellite radio in Pittsburgh this
entire time, and he's like, I like listen on old
school AM radio. He likes that static of the AM dial.
So we were back on. So I'm excited about that.
Pete did say the callers now suck on the show.
He said the callers were much better in his day,
so he was he was upset about that. But let's

(18:53):
go to the phones. And here's the guy I like
a lot. He didn't call that often, but he's in
the Bay area. Tony in the Bay. What's going on, Tony?

Speaker 7 (19:02):
Hey man, I got your tech slate, but you wanted
picking with Tony. So draft Kings says, the Bears plus
one and a half versus the Cardinals, and also forty
four and a half is over and under. I take
the over because the Bears are going to score that themselves.
And before you guys huddle up and talk about that,

(19:22):
I wanted to mention that I go to iHeart and
listen to old podcasts and I heard a gym where
people were voting on a nickname for Eddie. And also
Miss Rachel from Anabello called in, so it was a
good good time.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, we Miss Rachel Rachel was great. All right, Well,
thank you, Tony. I call more often, buddy, all right,
take everybody, all right, it's Tony. He didn't curse, Loraina.
He didn't curse. He normally cursed. It's a good day.
That's weird.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
It's Halloween, you'd think.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, yeah, Tony normally ends his call with an F
word or a C word or an S word.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
I mean one of the I know a lot of
F words.

Speaker 8 (20:02):
You do.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
F is for friends who do stuff together. Your Mike's
on though. You just said that on the air. Though,
he just he just talked into a microphone and said
that on the radio. Oh. The good news is it's overnight.
There's not a lot of people listening.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
I love this story. So I am a huge fan
of Adam Schefter. Adam again, I go back to the
early days of the network. Adam was working in Colorado
as a writer covering the Broncos, one of the newspapers
in Denver. He then got a job at the NFL network,
and we had him on here at Fox Sports Radio
before he blew up and he ended up going to ESPN.

(20:38):
But Schefter is in some trouble with the NFL. Do
you see this eddie what Adam Schefter got caught doing here?

Speaker 8 (20:44):
I did not please inform MEF.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
So he was sending out comments on social media and
clips during the Thursday night game and he got caught
red handed violating the NFL's television contract. You see, he
sent out well, he sent out a video of the
the fumble that got Corley, that dropped the ball at

(21:08):
the What were you watching the game?

Speaker 8 (21:10):
Yes? I mean idiot.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Isn't it amazing that happens every couple of years?

Speaker 8 (21:14):
Yeah? It is.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Actually you'd think like the guys would be aware of it.

Speaker 8 (21:17):
He usually college guys seemed to do it a lot.
But anyway, who's.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
The guy for the Eagles? Was it Deshaun? What was
the guy Jackson?

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Remember? Against the Cowboys? Right? An Eagle Cowboy game?

Speaker 2 (21:27):
And he fumbled right anyway, that was like the most
famous one I can think of right now for the time. Anyway,
So he posted a video on social media showing the
moment this doofist for the Jets dropped the ball before
crossing the goal line. There was one slight problem though,
he did not vet the post, because he left a
watermark in the top left corner that indicated he was

(21:51):
watching on an illegal stream.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
He was watching on here those uh yeah, on on.

Speaker 8 (21:57):
I don't know anything, but you do.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
No, no, those would be wrong, Eddy, No, no, no,
no meth streams.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
So if you're like meth, that's for you. Yeah, they have.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yes, a lot of the boys are googling mess streams
right now. But yeah, schefter sent that out. Now, I
don't know how you could possibly make that mistake, right,
I mean, I know you're in a hurry and all that,
but you gotta crop the photo and he didn't.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean, it's an easy thing to crop out.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
You could have cropped it out because you just cut
off the very top of the photo and nobody would
have known whether you're watching it on Amazon or not.
But that's that is next level. So I'm I'm gonna
go out on a limbs. Say somebody from the NFL
calls him up and says, hey, Adam, you know one
of the most prominent media members in the NFL. Here, pal,

(22:48):
but you gotta gotta knock that off. I wonder if
somebody sent that to him and he just didn't look
at it and just repeated it, or the other possibility.
A lot of these big time people. They have other
people run social media. You have other people to take
care of the social media for them, and and they
it's like a mix. They post some stuff and then
they have other people to post stuff. So it's possible

(23:09):
that some intern might have done it, and I'm guessing
they'll probably claim something else like that.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
But wow, that is outstanding.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
I love Schefter, but man, you can't be doing you
can't be sending out a clip from a game where
you're getting a clip from some illegal stream somewhere.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yikes.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Man.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
And people were upset with Schefter too. They were like, man,
you're what are you doing? You're ruining you know, because
a lot of the fellows are watching on these streams,
and you're like, you can't.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
You can't let the people who actually need it, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
The people that can't afford to buy the seven million
different streaming services. You have to have to watch the
NFL and the NBA and baseball and all this.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
So it is the Ben Mather.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Show as we work our way through the overnight hours
and glad you have chosen to hang out with us here.
All I go Lame jokes of the week coming up
in our number three and the sports Jeopardy, and I'm
not sure. We don't have the coop scoop? Now what
do we what are we calling this? Bree where is it?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Uh? You have to have a fun segment.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, you gotta have like a goofy segment because you're
in the coop chair. So yeah, we were talking about
some entertainment thing or something like that.

Speaker 9 (24:20):
Or I mean, I think we should switch gears and
just talk about the Clippers sons and you can kind
of do like a recap. I can pull up some
highlights maybe I think specific cheeses. Maybe, Oh, oh my gosh,
can we do that? Because I'm bre cheese.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Let's just do some cheese. I don't know that we
want cheese? Do we want cheese? Fun? I like cheese curds.

Speaker 9 (24:41):
I like that Barata were caught out. We can rank
some cheeses, go around.

Speaker 8 (24:45):
She sounds like she knows her cheese.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
To me, she wants to do you hear that Terry
in England. She wants to do list radio. Bre wants
to do this.

Speaker 9 (24:52):
No, it's not a list, it's rankings or something but
different and there has to be different categories, like we
got the soft cheese, we got the hard cheese. We
got the smelly cheese. Like there's different, there's have.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
You ever have you ever experienced roulette?

Speaker 9 (25:06):
You know what I have not see? And I feel
like that's a discussion that we should all have.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
It's a very seazy, cheesy conversation that I will not
take part of at all.

Speaker 8 (25:16):
It's something we've never done before. It would be historic.

Speaker 9 (25:19):
It's a once in a lifetime thing.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Here. Does anyone want to hear that?

Speaker 4 (25:22):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
No one's saying yes. I don't see anyone saying we'll see.
Owen says Long Live AM Radio. I agree. Otherwise, God,
we was screwed. Well, we'll just go to FM, right,
let's go to FM. Why not?

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Christopher writes in, says, well, Adam needs to be added
to the Blind Ben Maler Show followers and he will
be forgiven for the NFL mistake with his video. I
did not see it, could not see. My screenshot worked
for me, says Christopher. Now he's the guy that absolutely

(25:56):
butchered the game a couple of weeks ago, but we
give him a past. He's from Michigan, although he lives
in in the Carolina's there.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
And then let's get back to the calls, so I
we'll say hello to Victor in La La Land. Hello Victor, Welcome, Thank.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
You, mister Mela. I finally found a new home. I
can be drunk and high and I'm not the only
one here.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yes, we are the We are the number one show
for the inebriated.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Hey, you know what, and this time I'm actually sober.
It sucks. I used all my energy last night burning
up the bus in Los Angeles. That's our victorious occasion.
I'm so happy.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
That very impressive, though I was wondering.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
I watched the video of the bus and I was like, well,
that burned more than I think a bus should burn.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
But that was not your regular bus.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Used a different accelerant. Man, We had a very high
accelerant last night. You know, you know, we were on
a different different level.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, no, that was what you know.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
They have these in environmental what do you call it,
I'm trying to think the word here, the environmental friendly buses.
And the thing exploded. It was a probe, like a probe,
not prope Is it propane?

Speaker 1 (27:09):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (27:12):
Like the opposite of propane? But it blew up like
it wasn't What was it?

Speaker 1 (27:16):
I wasn't name. Somebody told me, yeah, it's a clean air. Yeah,
clean air.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
It made the air very dirty, though, it definitely made
the air very dirty when it was burning up.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
Man aside, last night, I was I was on my
way downtown to enjoy the festivities. I went into the
gas station to get gas. I came out the gas station.
The whole gas station was filled up with the Sheriff's department.
I was like, hey, guys, go Dodgers. I'm going to Witier.
Where are you guys going? We're going to Wittier. I said, well,

(27:47):
I guess I'm not going anymore.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, the cops are probably happening.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
They got paid overtime, right, They had to assemble all
the police to work over. Do you see the video
of the guy some some dope in a dog your jersey.
He was trying a lot of firecracker in downtown and
he blew his hand off, and it was it was handoff.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Close to home, because I've been the idiot that almost
blew his hand off before it too, So.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
No, yeah, no, no, ben I took.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
I thought my nephew had a Roman candle and I
said give it to me.

Speaker 10 (28:20):
Nephtew was like uncle.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
No, but it was a it was a rocket, a
rocket with his stick. So when I lit it, it
blew off. It blew off my whole pinky finger in
my and my ring finger.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Oh man, you were like Jason Pierre Paul for almost.

Speaker 10 (28:35):
I was almost.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
I still got all my digits, but I was I
needed some campo, I'll tell you that much.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, hey, when I was when I was a kid,
this is not all fireworks. But my older brother I
used to follow my old brother Joe around all the
time and he made in school, we had to make
these volcanoes.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
It was our cake.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
We had to make these volcanoes and they would explode,
right they bubble up and I was fussing around with
it and the thing exploded on my hand.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
I almost lost two fingers on my right hand. And
then I have a big scar right down the middle
of my hand.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
But when I was a kid, I was a little
kid when this happened, I almost lost two fingers. I
wouldn't be here today, but they would.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Have grown back.

Speaker 9 (29:11):
Ben you think, so, Yeah, when you're a kid, your
extremities grow back if you lose.

Speaker 8 (29:15):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
I'm like a chameleon. Anyway, So I.

Speaker 8 (29:17):
Could those were your baby fingers?

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, you get you get two sets
of teeth, two sets of fingers, two sets of toes.
That's the way it works, right, Victor.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah, you know what I'm gonna go with you. Ben,
I've been I've been listening this long. Maybe I listen more.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
All right, but well, enjoy the parade. Try not to
riot today. Okay, to paray? All right, thank you, there's
a Victor in l A. Yeah. Did you have any
family members missing, any appendages or anything? Ben? Im trying
to think off the top of my head. No, I knew.
I was in school. I had some There were people

(29:56):
in school that had were missing some stuff that must
have been hard as a child. My uncle was missing
one of his fingers, and I couldn't.

Speaker 8 (30:01):
Help but stare which finger was it? It was his
ring finger. Oh that's that's a tough one to not have.
Not as bad as a thumb, though that would be
the worst.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Well, the thumb is the most important. Yeah, I have.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Well, I do have a relative who's missing like a
part of a big toe. Half his big toe is gone.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
It was an accident, but he walks weird.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
I don't know about that, although I remember speaking of
this is great talk about digits. There was a guy
when I covered baseball a lot, there was a relief
picture for the Florida Marlins when they were called oh yeah,
Antonio Alfonseka and this guy went the other way.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
He had he had six fingers on the hand. That's amazing.
I love the cats that do that.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
So when you know how, you're not supposed to like
kind of look in, but I I was fascinated about
when I went out and I was in the Marlins
clubhouse and he was so it was kind of hanging
out talking to somebody else. I was trying to get
a peek at his hand. But and he had the
extra figure. But it was a small It wasn't a
full size finger. It was like a little baby finger.
They didn't fully grow, but it was he did have.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
A six finger. That's so cool. It must be odd
for gloves and stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
Right when when I was I was broadcasting high school
football back in my college days.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Who could forget you were the al Michaels of high school.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
There was there was a very successful high school coach
uh in the area and he was born without hands,
and I went to go meet him for an interview
and he was carrying a cup of coffee and had
his keys open up his classroom door.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
He like, you know, with no hands.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
He like, you know, if you find a way to
do stuff, he had like nubs and he was able
to do all that.

Speaker 8 (31:40):
So I was like, wow, this is impressive.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Another baseball ro Jim Abbott. I covered him. Oh yes,
of course, a no hitter with the Yankees.

Speaker 8 (31:47):
It was a decent fielder too.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah. Yeah, but you you adapt, right, you do?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, whatever your whatever, crappy car to hand, a deck
of cards you're giving, or how you say it, but
you just you make do with what you you know.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
It's like that what life gives you. Lemons make a lemonade. Yes,
I've seen that on a bumper sticker. I've seen that before.

Speaker 8 (32:09):
Inspirational.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, let's say hello to Shawshank in Florida. He's breaking
out of jail right now. Hello Shawshank.

Speaker 10 (32:19):
Before hearkening back to twenty sixteen, do you know the.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Chefter stay a name, Jed who fled? What's wrong with you?

Speaker 10 (32:26):
Are you using a fake brain? You're the guy that
remembers everything. Okay, come on, chefter. Hearkens back. He's got
like twenty thirteen, he was selling his his presence, the
grace of his company for like several thousand dollars for
an evening. That tell me he wasn't like he's doing
his own version of a mass streams then that that
screams your reg edition. But he's got those pock marks
on his face occasionally. You know that's not dispecable. But

(32:49):
twenty sixteen being a great sports here, a great year
that I was, I started calling into this thing. We
called it the mouse Show, nicknamed Shawshank. What else happened?
Wh's got the Cubs winning a World series, We've got
like the Villanova buzzer beater, or we've got a certain
man that wins a certain competition that he does not

(33:09):
deserve to win. Right, we all know what I'm talking about.
For the first time, Peyton Manning, Pate Manning wins the
super Bowl, you think a dollar something note hate Manny
wins the super Bowl unjustified, unearned, takes Tom Brady's deserve
record as well. So he's early touching see the touchdown record.
His arm has more steroids in his single shoulder than
you know they can say go has they ever had
in his life and like in his entire bee? Okay,

(33:31):
what what are we gonna do? We're gonna let this
guy remember office one day. Here we are. Look how
terrible is there on the ESPN. That's exactly what ESPN deserves.
They deserve people like you, a cheferd dude. They should,
they should. I don't know what what should they do?

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Dude, I don't know.

Speaker 10 (33:44):
I don't have a thing terrible enough for it. They
should have to play their their away games in hell? Dude, hell?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Where where is hell?

Speaker 4 (33:51):
Do we know?

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Do you have the address on Hell? Is like one
Devil Drive or something? Where would it be?

Speaker 10 (33:57):
No, it's probably one one Ben in one Ben blasphemous way.
And it's a nice and nice piece of real estate
down there, Della sack. It's gonna be hot.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
You get some fire. You can get firefront property in
the ring of fire. You can live right on the
ring of fire.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
There. He's good.

Speaker 10 (34:12):
Hey, listen, that's that's said really clever. But I'm gonna
come back to it. You know, the first team for
all team samn, dude, First.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
I gotta I got it.

Speaker 10 (34:21):
I didn't, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
I'm done.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
With you.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
I got it anyway, Thank you. Here's the Instace Trivia.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Dodger first baseman Freddie Freeman became the fourth player, only
the fourth in baseball history to win two titles League
MVP and World Series MVP, all of that in their thirties.
He joins Willie Stargel, Frank Robinson and Blank. That's the
Insta Trivia The Answer Next.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
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It's at Ben Maller on Fox and I'll live from
the Tirak dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
It's Ben Maller time now for the who Am I Game?

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Aaron Rogers thirty two straight starts playoffs included without without
throwing for three hundred or more yards, even though he
played well, in the second half, you have only had
thirty two yards passing at halftime, so he didn't cross
the rubicon of three hundred yards. But Aaron Rodgers thirty
two straight starts playoffs included without throwing for three hundred yards.

(35:40):
Did I just give the wrong I think I give
the wrong I give the the other one, didn't I
I did I give the wrong?

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Question?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
See, that's a preview of coming attraction. That's a preview
of coming attractions. Dodger first baseman Freddie Freeman became the
fourth player in baseball history to win two titles League
MVP and World Series MVP in their thirties. He joins
Willie Stargel, Frank Robinson and me.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Cowboy Killer says it has to be Count Chocola.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Danny Tartable. There's a name from the past from James
Let's see here. Fergducks is my favorite woman tonight on
the crew, Eddie Garcia. That's right, Troy Gloss from Where
the White Women At in Roseville, Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Jenny McCarthy, who's fifty two today?

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Late Night drug tester Lee Harvey Oswald from that Boy,
Malcolm dan Uggla from Mister Nightskoy Ken Oberkvelle tossed out
by Malibu Rubin, Bill Belichick from Robbie the Mariner Fan
Diabetes from King Rory red Arbach and his cigar guest

(36:50):
by Alf the Alien Opiner, who's pretty far away from
the Arbox Center where the Celtics practice. Andy from Lion O'
Lakes and Minnesota says Forrest as in Forrest Gump, co
Co Crisp Lorena's favorite Coco Chris from Eloy from Compton.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
A fun fact, our Coco Crisp was traded to the
I think he was sure of the Cleveland Indians.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
And his uncle found out about the trade. Listening to
Fox Sports Radio like cald In to the show I
was on that night. I remember that Nature Boy.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
That's random.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Nature Boy, says Sleepy Floyd John Stalworth Robin Minnesota, Wayne
Kerbette from Big Lou He's on number two.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Ron Kittle from Greg the Real Estate Mogo in Baltimore. Eddie,
what is the answer here, Eddie.

Speaker 6 (37:35):
Well, for our friends in Pittsburgh that are listening that
you told us about, we got back on Pittsburgh. I'm
gonna go with Andrew McCutcheon of the pipe.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
No, no, it's it's actually Pete Rose never played for
the Pirates.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
He didn't just dive though. Pete Rose
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