December 24, 2024 • 41 mins
Ben Maller wonders if the Packers embarrassing the Saints is actually impressive. Is Derek Carr in line to return for New Orleans? Plus, ‘Who Am I?’ and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Hey, it's Christmas Eve. There's no way
that we would get a brand new edition of The
Ben Malors Show a fresh piece of audio content, unless
that's exactly what's happening. Yeah, here we are breaking down
that Monday night football game last night in the air
everywhere the Saints and Packers not much of a game.
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How impressed were you with the Packers domination? Also, how
did New Orleans team meeting in that cafeteria freezer payoff?
And is Derek Carr in line the return to the
Saints in twenty twenty five? Believe it or not, one
report says he is. We'll talk about all that and
more right now as we zip through our number one
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here it is, let's give this.
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JD in Boston there big fan of the number ten thousand,
loves the number ten thousand. So our lead this hour,
play the hit small man play. It's our Playthates our
lead coming from the Monday night football game at lombowl Field,
the Frozen Tundra, and that was the site the final
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game of the NFL weekend. But don't worry, the NFL
will be back in a couple of days on Christmas.
It's NFL every day. It's that time of the year, right,
games on Saturday. This part of the year, you had
the obviously the Thursday game, but this week on Wednesday,
a couple games on Christmas. So here we are Frozen Tundra,
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lambeau Field, a picture perfect, picture perfect kind of a
night there. Chamber of Commerce thirty four degrees at kickoff
and the lowly Saints back to the being the Aints
playing after string they were the opponent. Joe back Troy
Aikman had the call and as they say back in school,
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when I was at sportscasting class, they said, a game
like this is polishing turds. You're polishing turds. That's what
Joe Buck was trying to do there, to try to
convince you that New Orleans had a chance. I don't
know if you saw the game or not. Perhaps you
realized it was not going to be much of a
game and you had other things you had to do.
I don't know what you had going on in your life.
But the Green Bay Packers showed up and collected a victory.
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They clinch a playoff berth by producing the most dominant
win that they have had in a decade. And Josh Jacobs,
a former Raider, one hundred and seven yards from scrimmage
and he also had a touchdown for the Packers a
six straight game as Green Bay it gets the first
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shutout of the NFL season only a couple of weeks
ago in the season. That's it thirty four to nothing
over those pathetics. Ain'ts on a Monday night. Green Bay
up to eleven wins, eleven and four now, and they
are in the postseason for the fifth consecutive appearance, so
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I can say fifth postseason Pairton six years, so five
out of six for the Packers. But they're under the plaus.
Here's Matt Lafleur, the Green Bay Packers coach, who points
out that this was just kind of one of those
nights you just show up and playing, you get a win,
and your go home. What's really cool is you're getting
contributions from a lot of different people. So I think
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that is usually the mark of a good team. Okay,
it's also the mark of the beast. I think I
read that similar to the mark of the beast. Here's Jordan Love.
Didn't do much statistically, he didn't have to. The game
was lopsided. He's Jordan Love, who's seems to be happy.
Let's see how happy he is. Let's find out it
wasn't mean to get.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
In the playoffs. Tres vinativation along not. You've probably got hurt.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
What's what's the mood like? No, it's a big time,
you know that's something that obviously the goal is super Bowl,
so that's the first step right there is making the playoffs. Obviously,
this was a big time game to clinch that spot,
and I'm proud of the way we came out here
handle business and yeah, so it's a big.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Time Okay, let me go into my bag of cliches here,
I'll throw some cliches out and then I'll feel the time. Yeah.
Normally I believe the better story is in the losing
locker room, but not here. It's very difficult to find
an angle. We'll talk about the Saints in a second,
but let us discuss in general the question how impressed
are you with the Packers domination thirty four to nothing
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over the Saints in the primetime game. So I've got
Chris rock hospital basement and janitorial supplies, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make cheese curds. You do not get cheese curds
better anywhere in the country than in Wisconsin. Stop cheese
curds by far. All right, So a in terms of
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how impressed are you with the Packers domination, I just
give it like a shoulder shrug. I do. I'm not
that guy. I'm not that guy. Pal to answer that question.
This was a giant mismatch. New Orleans played without their quarterback. Granted,
Derek Carr probably would have rode the vomit comet had
he played, but he's out. Alvin Kamara he gone, he's
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not playing, and several other key players who normally would
be in there for the Saints were not. And as
a result, you look at the gambling market, green Bay
was favored by fourteen and a half points, and the
sharp betters, the professional betters, were betting on green Bay
laying fourteen and a half points, which tells you all
you need to know. The gambling market very rarely wrong.
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And Packers had home cooking and all that, But really
it goes back to the philosophy the great Chris Rock
taught me years ago. You don't get credit for doing
things that you're supposed to do. If you're a fourteen
and a half point favorite at home, you should win
by more than fourteen and a half. That's exactly what
the Packers did. It's also unbecoming to brag about accomplishments
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that you're supposed to achieve, like winning a game at
home against a flea ridden franchise like New Orleans. Now
Jordan Love was nothing magical in this game, rather pedestrian numbers.
But that's the point. Yeah, Green Bay could have won
playing backups. If Malik Willis had played this game, they
would have won. They would have covered the spread. It
was the varsity versus the junior varsity in this matchup,
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so yeah, you get to win. Congrats, but let's not
go overboard here now turning the page. In the lead
up to this game, we talked about this in a
previous episode of the show. The Saints had borrowed a
move right out of the playbook of the Jamaican bobs
led team. We learned in recent days that the quarterback
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coach for the New Orleans football team Andrew Jianico, I
believe his name. So this guy said, you know what,
I'm gonna change it up a little bit here. I
Am going to change it up as we prepare the
Saints to go to Lambeau, We're going to take inspiration
from the Disney classic film Cool Runnings. So Spencer Rattler
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said that the team had a meeting. They held a
team meeting in the cafeteria freezer at the Saints facility
there because it was very cold and they wanted to prepare,
so they went over the script of the game and
it was very frigid there. The players stood around there
like a bunch of numb nuts, and they went over
the place. So how did the New Orleans team do
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preparing for this game in a cafeteria freezer? How did
that pay off? So it's a cool story, right, it's
good story. Let's see. They had fourteen total first downs,
two of them via penalty from Green Bay. They had
as many trips to the red zone as we had,
you and I. They had as many points as you
and I had. One hundred and ninety six total yards.
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They averaged three point seven yards per play, and Spencer
Rattler looked like he should be delivering food, not delivering
the football. Fifteen of thirty fifty percent completion percentage, averaged
a little over five yards per pass, which is not good.
Had an interception, underthrown, pass intercepted, and a passer rating
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of barely above fifty. So the next time the Saints
play in cold weather, instead of going to the cafeteria
and the freezer there in the cafeteria, what they should
do is go to the hospital basement. I believe that's
where the morgue is located at the hospital in the
basement there, So just go down to the basement. And
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because that franchise right now is in the morgue. Now
speaking of that, all right, last part of this. So
the Saints have come full circle here. When I was
a kid, for much of my youth, the Saints were
known as the Aints, and then they had a couple
of good years, and then they even won a Super
Bowl long time ago. It's been been a minute since
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they won the Super Bowl. And while the winds of
change are blowing, you can almost hear them. We we
on this side of the microphone are hearing out of
the shores of the mighty Mississippi that Derek Carr, who's
hurt right now, that Derek Carr could could remain as
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the starting quarterback in New Orleans in twenty twenty five
because of a sonarycamp issue. That reporting is out there.
So this report said Derek Carr is in line, that's
the way it was phrased, in line to return to
the Saints in twenty twenty five because of the cap
believe it or not. Believe it or not so on
this one, I am agnostic, is what I am. I'm
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agnostic on this one. I'm not a believer. And while
it certainly looks bad from the outside, New Orleans is
projected to be sixty three million dollars a bove the
twenty twenty five salary cap. Oh mg, you understand right,
just throw numbers out there, and they're scary. And I'm
a salary cap truther. I believe that the NFL has
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mastered the art of finagling the books, if I'm not mistaken.
The Denver Broncos this year were in swary cap hell
and Sean Payton, former Saints coach there in Denver because
of the contract contractual agreement they had with Russell Wilson.
The Broncos let Russell Wilson go, and oh my god,
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they were screwed, completely cooked. And the Broncos are scratching
and clawing and fighting for a playoff spot. But yet
they're in salary cap purgatory and they didn't keep the quarterback.
It's creative accounting, is what it is.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Derek Carr has got a thirty million dollars base salary
on the next year of his contract, and that's fully
guaranteed the third day of the league year so the
decision will be made rather quickly into the offseason. Now
we are betting. We are betting on divorce court is
what we're betting on. Here's why a car is thirty
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three years old. You would have to be bonkers to
bring him back. He is a placeholder, he's a tempt
He's a band aid. You don't keep a band aid
on for more time than it needs to be Honer,
you get an infection. And I expect him to move
on as a football hobo to his next outpost, whether
that's the Giants or the Jets or the usual suspects.
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But there will be a new field general in twenty
twenty five. There'll be a coaching change. They've already fired
Dennis Allen. They've got the interim coach now. So you
got to think of this like janitorial supplies. Now, what
does that mean? That means like if you go out
and buy a new room in the Bayou, a new broom, right,
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new broom sweeps clean. So you're not going to take
the other coaching staffs quarterback? Why would you do that?
As we often point out on this show, if you
move into a new apartment, you don't keep all the
furniture in the apartment from the person that lived there before.
You get your own furniture, even if you have to
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go down to Ikea and buy a bunch of stuff,
but you don't keep what was in there already. You
move on. So they're gonna have a new coach, and
whether that's drafting someone or signing someone out of the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers roster, god only knows, but they will.
There will be somebody else in there. So I do
not buy the report that their car will be back.
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And if he is back, that's a bad job by
the Saints. So the Packers are in the playoffs. The
Saints obviously no show, pathetic effort team that looked like
they could not handle the rigors of the cold weather.
We thought that would be the case, and sure enough
they went out there and then non competitive, non competitive
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in that game. If you would like to be part
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nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. Also on X
at Ben Malor that's at Ben Mahlor. If you would
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commentary throughout the show at your leisure, of course, and
your words will be used against you most likely. And
so I'm warning you right now, now, straight ahead. How
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boring was it at Lambeaufield? What did the Packer fans do?
It was so boring at Lambeaufield? This game such a
mismatch between the Packers and the New Orleans Saints that
the fans had to find ways to entertain themselves during
the game. So what did the Green Bay fan based
do in an effort to try to find enjoyment in
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a rather boring, cold night of football on the frozen tundra.
We'll get to that, and we will do it.
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and lead a laugh as we rotate every night. It's
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is in there tonight, So say hello to Lee. He'll
be here all night as well. And back where we
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go with that that Ben guy. That's Bill. It's actually
it's it's not that Ben guy. It's this Ben guy. Yeah. Now,
Ozzie was writes in from Western Australia. There are more
kangaroos near him than human beings. I'm not kidding. He
lives in the part of Australia where no one lives
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other than him, he says. I reckon the stiffs in
the morgue would play better than those stiffs on the
field wearing Saints uniforms. All right, who else do we have?
Patrick aka DJ Spin and San Diego says, hey, Benjamin,
very cool that you're working tonight. I need the company.
I'll be up all night making my very own recipe
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pasta sauce and then I'll be using the sauce for lasagna.
Sounds good. I'll be making after that. Got a long
night and morning ahead of me. So DJ Spin is
in there making this amazing pasta sauce and mixing in
all the garlic and the herbs and all the different
spices to get that just right. And then he's gonna
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throw some lasagna together. That sounds good, sounds nice, Nick
writes in since ten thousand out of ten thousand, on
the Great Packer monologue of the smashing of the Saints
right into the playoffs, Nick says, who else do you have?
Shannon the Moine says, Ben, thanks for watching the Packer
and Saints game, so I didn't have to. You're a
good man for doing that. A plus plus. Yes, it's
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my mench move in the night watching these Saints in
the Green Bay Packers, and you knew the game was
gonna be a blowout, highly unlikely to be a competitive game.
They're trying to sell it like, ah, yeah, you know,
you never know, you gotta watch the game, you never
know it could be close. Yeah, right, late night drug tester. Right,
Since the Packers have to like their playoff chances now
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that the Niners are no longer a possible matchup, says
the late night drug tester. All right, yes, the Packers
and Niners many many matchup over the years. Will take
your calls. You want to be part eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Also coming up in a little bit,
things were so boring, so dull at lambeau Field that
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the Packer fans had to do some rhythmic chanting to
try to try to warm up a little bit. We'll
tell you exactly what I'm talking about there. Coming up
in a minute. Let's go to the phones, and who
do we start out with? Eny Meanie miney Mo. Let's
say hello to Andrew who's in Bakersfield, California. Hello Andrew?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Hello Ben? All Right, Derek Carr is a proud product
of Fresno State, So on behalf of Eddie Garcia. How
dare you okay?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
They started because you.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Went to Fresno State, you have to lie and say
he's good? Is that you want us to lie? Is
that the Fresno State way? Is that what you learn
at Fresno State? To lie? Is that what you're saying?
Cheap Any's name out shr e f in Mo. Yeah,
that's Wan with you.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Okay, they started two and oh and he got hurt
in Game three against the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Correct, Andrew, the guy's been in the NFL for a decade.
He sucks. I don't know what you want me to
tell you.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Well, I remind you that you were also saying this
about Russell Wilson before he excelled at It'sburg.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
He has just given away the last two games for
the Steelers. He's back to being Russell Wilson. That sucks.
So I don't know what to tell you, Andrew. Why
there's a phrase that water seeks its own level. And
Derek Carr. People thought it would be different for him
maybe in New Dance. It was not. He's not very good.
Russell Wilson is not very good. He will not be
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back in Pittsburgh next year. He's uh, he's garbage. He
got turns the ball overs you get. If you saw
the game the other day against Kansas City, Holy crap,
my god, horrible.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
The wise man said, we'll see, Well.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You're blind. You can't see anything.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
That's not true. I can see very very well.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But I don't think. I don't think so. I don't
think you can see.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Hey, your how many fingers. Are you holding up three?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
That's incorrect. I'm holding up number No.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
One.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I had one right there. I'm giving him the bird.
I'm giving Andrew the bird. So you stopped calling for
months and months and months, and now all of a sudden,
back to back days, you call him to the show. Andrew,
back to back days.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, go away, never call again. Thank you, go away.
Terrible terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, unreal. All right.
By the way, A lead A Lap would like me
to have you message him on X. He wants you
to send him a message that's at lead A laps Hey, Lee, Hey,
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that's Lee, and then D E l a pp d
Lap Lee d Lap. That's his name, and that's also
his handle on the X machine. That's how that works.
Eugene in Chicago right since says Merry Christmas to the
Malard Militia. He says, I'm assuming this is your last
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live show of the year. No it is not. It
is not my last live show of the year. I
will will be here again in a few days and
you can thank the good people over there at NBC.
We will have a new episode this weekend of Benny
versus the Penny breaking down every NFL matchup. There are
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a couple more weeks ago in the regular season. That
show will continue all the way through the Super Bowl.
So I will I will be here then, and maybe
a few days in between, but I'll be here yapping away.
Eugene and I do no matter what, Eugene, You'll be
there in Chicago hanging out with us, no question. So
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things were so boring at lambeau Field, that the crowd,
the Packer crowd, decided, listen, we got to entertain ourselves.
The games lopsided, and so they were reprimanded. They were
admonished by the public address announcer at lambeau Field because
the crowd started chanting. So, I mean, that wasn't it
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wasn't X rated, It wasn't like something obscene. The good
people of Wisconsin would never do that. But instead the
Packer fans, who entertain themselves, were chanting the Bear still suck,
the Bear still suck. And that was while the Packers
were on offense against the Saints. But they stump Bears,
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and so it's good to know that even even though
the Bears have not been relevant for many many years,
although they did win the offseason. We all agree the
Chicago Bears won the off season unbelievable offseason. They had
the number one overall picking the draft, Caleb Williams, and
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he's got the nicest painted fingernails in the NFL. And
they had all those receivers and manna they loaded up.
And how's that working out for them? Don't ask? Don't
ask that the Packer fans enjoying themselves with a little
rhythmic chanting, which still not as good as.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
The urban Meyer Urban Meyer rhythmic chant that we have
in our system them and some of the other rhythmic
chances that we've we've had over the years.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I'd love to collect these things. I don't have any
audio on the Packer fans chanting the Bear still suck,
But should that happen, should we'd find some audio, we'll
make sure to play it for you on the air.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.
If you would like to be part, you can join
the fun. Let's go back to the calls and we'll
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say hello to who do we have here? Any meanie
miney mo. Let's say hello to real talk. Who's in
New York adjacent, Hello, Real Talk?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
What out Jude?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
There it is? And again, if you were happy, if
you're happy that Real Talk is back, you can thank
the voters who voted for President Trump. And he announced
that if Trump had not won, he would not have
called the show ever again. But now he's back on
a semi regular basis. And why why are we blessed
with this phone call tonight? Real Talk? Why is this
night different than all other nights?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
But I gotta say, you know what this I was
getting super nostalgia because after the college football game, the
blowout games, and just blowout tonight with you know, Green
Bay and the Saints, it took me back to the
time I fell in love with you. Like you may
not remember itvent, but you used to have a Saturday
afternoon show, you and Tom Looney. And I can't remember
how much I laughed because there would be like huge
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blowouts like Alabama Orthus Appalachi State, like sixty three to six,
and you would be like, hey, don't you go away yet?
This case could go either away. We have no idea
how this thing is gonna end. And I would just
laugh and laugh. It was crazy, You and Looney Saturday mornings.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh yeah, listen. We had a great time, and during
the NFL in particular though the NFL Real Talk, we really,
we really did. My favorite, my favorite memory of that time.
We had the Fox announcers on. They hate the TV
guys hated coming on with us because we're radio people,
but they were forced to come on the show and
they couldn't stand it, but they had to talk to us.
(26:04):
And some of them were cooler than others. But we
had the Dick Stockton who's not retired, and he came on.
He was doing a forty nine er Buccaneer game and
it was just a terrible game. The Niners sucked at
that time. That was before Shanahan, those guys got there.
The Buccaneers were not very good, and I was like,
why would anyone watch this game? Dick Stockton and Dick
Stockton he just calmly said, well, stat's tell you what
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has happened, not what's going to happen. And I have
stolen that line, real Talk, I have stolen that line.
I used that line all the time.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Yeah, so well, you know, well, you know, Ben man,
it's all good. We had a little snap though, because
Lorainer played the song and she was supposed to she
did the thing that he wasn't supposed to be show.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh no, Larina, did you prematurely play the song Lorena is?
Did you make some kind of I'm intro music?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Was I wrong?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Apparently not.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
No, No, I was trying to put Loraina on the
carry yo. I was trying to put Loraina on the
karaoke seat. And that was to be the song.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
We're going to say. Oh, you guys gonna do a
song for us. It's a holiday show, it's a Christmas show.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Let it down because I got a second song. So
why don't you me and Lorena get into the karaoke boop?
Put me on hold, I'll give them a different song.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
All right, all right, I'll put you on hold, all right,
hold on. You know, man, they tried to do this
on the plane tonight.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
They're like, you guys want to sing a Christmas song
with everybody?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, and you were. You're probably like, just make sure
the plane lands. I don't want to do you. I
tried to sing jingle really loud. Yeah, you real talk?
What's that?
Speaker 7 (27:36):
We can always just we can skip the song and
we can just play another round of truth for dare
with Lorena.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
You, lore would you rather have truth or dare? Or
do you want to do karaoke? Tough decision, Lorena. This guy,
this guy's got bits here. Real Talk's prepared, unlike some
of these other losers that call the show Real talk
about material. Who's prepared for the show. What do you
think Lee's gonna decide your lead? A lap or karaoke?
(28:04):
I prefer truth or there over karaoke? All right, little
truth or there? Okay, here we go, real talk. Get
ready to hit that dumb button. Here's some truth or there?
Speaker 7 (28:15):
Okay for those who don't know how true for Dare works,
I'm gonna ask Loraina truth are there? She's gonna take
an option. If she chooses the first option, that's fine.
She chooses not to do it, she can always do
the second option, and Loraina chooses to do neither. Real
thought gets a golden chicken. So, Lorena, are you ready
for a little truth or there?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Laying on laying on me? This is exciting?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Is it gonna be girlfriend? Truth or there?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Decision?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Here?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
I'm gonna do truth.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Truth? Okay, a right truth?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
I love truth.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
This is a truth.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
There's a two part question. It's gonna be who and
why you got? Then you got Lee? How would you
rather have sex with girls?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
All right, thank you, thank you, real talk. I appreciate that.
Merry Christmas, reel talk and happy holidays. Well there you go.
See he was out of material, does it I have
a better question than that. Yeah, he was not prepared. See,
he was prepared to do the karaoke. He tossed out
the truth or dare, not expecting you to pick the
truth or there and when you pick the truth or dare?
(29:25):
He just made that up on the fly. Yeah. Yeah,
he was all planned. He had it all planned out
and said to do the karaoke thing, and then that
didn't work out. So anyway, well we'll move on. Let's
say hello, Now, who do we have here. Let's go
to Andre in the Commonwealth. Get rid of real talk.
Andre is in the Commonwealth and he's all from work
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like most people are this week. Hello, Andre, welcome, what's
going on?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Ben? Thanks for having that and most certainly on winter vacation.
So it's a good time rest and relafe station. Then
you catapult right into the holidays and all the stress
and having to get fifth for this person and be
at this event in that event. So it's almost like
being in the regular nine.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
To five right now. More poorly, more poorly, No, more poorly, Andrea,
you know it's getting very cold this time of the year.
Is Willis still getting his walks outside? Is it too
Is it too cold for Willis to walk around outside?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Absolutely not. And Willis even though born in Georgia, he
has no problem. He has no problem with the winter weather.
He's out here getting his rest. He'll come in for
a second. Don't don't know if you're gonna get any barking.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Does he like to spend time in the cold.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
He doesn't mind it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Doesn't wear a jacket or any mittens. No, he's born
with a jacket.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Doesn't go for the mittens either, you know. I know
that's kind of a thing that's going on actually with
the holiday seas and I stopped over to the Christmas
comments that they have next town over and match me
and coming in to see Santa. Some Milady brought in
like a smaller dog, you know what I mean, a
handheld type dog dog we had. Yeah, yeah, we're shivering noticeably.
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So fortunately with Willis, he's still got some growing to do.
He's got you huge parts, so he's filled out, you know,
herman shepherd breed. But he doesn't. I don't see him.
For the fact is, we got a little north norweis
so you might have heard about it coming in over here.
So we got a couple of inches of snow and
it's brick cold outside after it was in the fifties.
But he does well. He does well in the in
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the cold weather. The cold weather bend green Bay huh
thirty four to nothing. Absolutely boat raced the Saints. You know,
they got blank shut out on Monday night football. It
doesn't It doesn't happen often. What comes to mind for
me in terms of this, forget about Green Bay being
a contender in the mix in the NFC, which they
most certainly are, even though I favored the Iggles having
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family in the city of brotherly us. Ben. Remember a
couple of years ago when Aaron Rodgers was rage quitting
talking about how the next time you'd come to Green
Bay would be for memorial and he wasn't having any
of it, and the organization stood firm and said, we're
doing it our way. Okay, he came back, you know,
MVP season, all the rest of that stuff should have
ran for a touchdowns against Tampa Bay didn't do it,
But then he you know, took it talent elsewhere. And
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where's Green Bay? And where is Aaron Rodgers? That's what's
coming my mind. Say, look at this Green Bay, a
mom and pop shop where the whole city is the
CEO and general manager. Where are they versus where some
of these other teams are with a coaching carousel and
owners with billions and billions of dollars. You know, Willis
wants to get my potato.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I know Willis is distracting you here, but let me
just point out Andre, well, that's all true, and the
Green Bay Packers are back in the playoffs and all that.
As a talk radio host, Aaron Rodgers is much better
for what I do for a living. So for my career,
Aaron Rodgers makes my life easier doing talk radio than
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the Green Bay Packers, who, despite their success, do not
provide great sports talk radio. So for my purposes, Aaron Rodgers.
As bad as things have gone for the Jets, it's
much like the old story about the nightly news. If
it bleeds, it leads and eighteen car pile ups a
great story. Everyone driving safely not a great story. So
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I hear what you're saying, Andre, and you're not wrong.
The Packers have been great. I was able to visit
lambeau Field a couple years ago. Didn't go to a game,
but I was there wandering around Green Bay and it
was awesome and I enjoyed my time visiting there. And
it is wild if you've never been there, that you
have this giant monstrosity lambeau Field, surrounded by this little
Wisconsin neighborhood and there's really nothing else there. It's wild
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and it just no way that would happen in modern times. Andre,
you cannot have that set up. But then the NFL, that
was from the early days of the NFL, and they
just survived. And if you were to put teams, you know,
they put team in different cities all the time now,
but they never go to a place like Green Bay.
All Right, I gotta go, Thank you, good luck, and
enjoy the holiday there. You and your dog, willis all right?
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The great to Andre bye? Willis he cannot I love
that dog. You've never even met the dog. You love
your dog? Sit that dog. I don't think you well,
you did see a photo. We saw a photo of
the dog. Remember he showed the photo of the dog.
We saw Willis in one photo. Although people said it
might have been photoshopped. They were questioning whether or not
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it was photoshopped or not. Anyway, it is the Ben
Mahlor Shows. We are working our way through the overnight
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am I? Game? This is where I pretend to be
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I am Wow? Thank you. I'm an NFL quarterback that
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is averaging seven yards per drop pack versus pressure this year.
That is number among all qualified quarterbacks since twenty seventeen.
Again this season, I am a quarterback averaging seven yards
per dropback when faced with pressure, and that is the
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quarterback seasons since twenty seventeen. Who am I? That is
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It is a post Monday night now heading into a Tuesday,
(36:50):
as we look back at the Packers domination. Not much
of a talk radio topic. The Packers dominated the New
Orleans Saints. The Saints living up to the hype. They
were fourteen and a half point underdogs and they lost
the going going away. Time to pay off the who
am I Game? This is where we pretend to be
somebody else. Thus we call it to who am I Game?
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I am a quarterback that is averaging in the NFL
seven yards per dropback versus pressure this year. That is
number one among and sixty two qualified quarterback seasons going
back to twenty seventeen. Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? And mister Luciano says, John Gottie
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is the answer. Kevin Kylie, former Fox Sports radio host
from the iconic Kylie and Boom Show, Kevin Kylie guess
by I forty ian, I don't know what happened to Kevin.
Kevin worked here long time ago. Ostrich Ant from DC
right since says hat b Holiday and the answer is Forky.
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Tommy Kramer from Rob in Minnesota, the great Tommy Kramer.
I know he's dealing with some major health issues. But
I had a chance to meet Tommy Kramer at the
Malor Meet and greet. Viking quarterback of the nineteen eighties
showed up there and it was very nice to meet him.
A nice man. I hope he's doing all right. Rob
in Vegas going with King Kong Bundy, the iconic King
Kong Bundy. Who else do we have? Page down? Manuel
(38:25):
in Guardina grabbing a vine and going with the snake
charmer with no bite, Spencer Rattler, not Jake the Snake
Roberts as his answer Late Night drug. Tester says, you
are Ryan Seacrest, who is fifty today is yeah, yeah, Yeah,
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She's like my idol Ben Lorena. I love Ryan Lane, Ryan,
I love you Lorena. See this is the part where
I point out when I got started in LA radio
is doing a midday show. Ryan Seacrest was the afternoon
DJ at ninety eight seven, which was then called Star FM,
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and the morning sports guy at k Rock was Jimmy Kimmel.
They've they've done slightly better than they've done slightly They've
done slightly better than I have. Jimmy Kimmel doing sports.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
At k He just interviewed Ariana Grande.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Oh amazing. Alf the alien o Pliner says, lou Rowe
is the answer. Who else do we? Havelzarro going with
Patrick Mahomey ferk Dog said fart and lead a lap
is the way to go there. That's it.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
He's gassy baby.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
A lot of garlic. I don't know what is garlic
this man is. He used the restroom now. Yeah, well,
if you do do the roasted garlic within in a
few hours, you'll be tooting up a storm. Green Bay Gobbler.
Green Bay Gobbler writes and says Rattler was rattle is
the answer. Uncle Rico from Christopher in Canza City. Mike
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Pagel not a bagel, Mike Pago from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
He was at the Malar Meat Greta, but he met
Tommy Kramer at Malard Meat Greek Jordan going with college
football legend Tim Boyle as his answer. Jose con Sego
from Shane in Des Moines. Steve the misplaced San Diegan
going with Doug Flutie as his answer. Slim Tim, a
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proud cheesehead, says, the abominable Snowman is the answer. Seneca
Wallace from the k C car Holler Harry says, Cooper
Rush from Cowboy Nation, Vinnie Testa Verde from DJ Spin. Elvira,
there's a good name. Elvira from Gil in San Diego.
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Y a tittle from Chicky. All right, Lorena, do you
have an answer? Loraina, I'm a quarterback in the NFL
averaging seven yards per dropback versus pressure this year. That's
number one among all qualified qb since twenty seventeen. I
know you don't think I'm a sportsperson, Ben, but I
think it's Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow, all right, that's finance.
It's incorrect. Is Arnet Lee Jordan love of the Green
Here we go. Hey, it's Christmas Eve. There's no way
that we would get a brand new edition of The
Ben Malors Show a fresh piece of audio content, unless
that's exactly what's happening. Yeah, here we are breaking down
that Monday night football game last night in the air
everywhere the Saints and Packers not much of a game.
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How impressed were you with the Packers domination? Also, how
did New Orleans team meeting in that cafeteria freezer payoff?
And is Derek Carr in line the return to the
Saints in twenty twenty five? Believe it or not, one
report says he is. We'll talk about all that and
more right now as we zip through our number one
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loves the number ten thousand. So our lead this hour,
play the hit small man play. It's our Playthates our
lead coming from the Monday night football game at lombowl Field,
the Frozen Tundra, and that was the site the final
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game of the NFL weekend. But don't worry, the NFL
will be back in a couple of days on Christmas.
It's NFL every day. It's that time of the year, right,
games on Saturday. This part of the year, you had
the obviously the Thursday game, but this week on Wednesday,
a couple games on Christmas. So here we are Frozen Tundra,
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lambeau Field, a picture perfect, picture perfect kind of a
night there. Chamber of Commerce thirty four degrees at kickoff
and the lowly Saints back to the being the Aints
playing after string they were the opponent. Joe back Troy
Aikman had the call and as they say back in school,
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when I was at sportscasting class, they said, a game
like this is polishing turds. You're polishing turds. That's what
Joe Buck was trying to do there, to try to
convince you that New Orleans had a chance. I don't
know if you saw the game or not. Perhaps you
realized it was not going to be much of a
game and you had other things you had to do.
I don't know what you had going on in your life.
But the Green Bay Packers showed up and collected a victory.
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They clinch a playoff berth by producing the most dominant
win that they have had in a decade. And Josh Jacobs,
a former Raider, one hundred and seven yards from scrimmage
and he also had a touchdown for the Packers a
six straight game as Green Bay it gets the first
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shutout of the NFL season only a couple of weeks
ago in the season. That's it thirty four to nothing
over those pathetics. Ain'ts on a Monday night. Green Bay
up to eleven wins, eleven and four now, and they
are in the postseason for the fifth consecutive appearance, so
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I can say fifth postseason Pairton six years, so five
out of six for the Packers. But they're under the plaus.
Here's Matt Lafleur, the Green Bay Packers coach, who points
out that this was just kind of one of those
nights you just show up and playing, you get a win,
and your go home. What's really cool is you're getting
contributions from a lot of different people. So I think
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that is usually the mark of a good team. Okay,
it's also the mark of the beast. I think I
read that similar to the mark of the beast. Here's Jordan Love.
Didn't do much statistically, he didn't have to. The game
was lopsided. He's Jordan Love, who's seems to be happy.
Let's see how happy he is. Let's find out it
wasn't mean to get.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
In the playoffs. Tres vinativation along not. You've probably got hurt.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
What's what's the mood like? No, it's a big time,
you know that's something that obviously the goal is super Bowl,
so that's the first step right there is making the playoffs. Obviously,
this was a big time game to clinch that spot,
and I'm proud of the way we came out here
handle business and yeah, so it's a big.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Time Okay, let me go into my bag of cliches here,
I'll throw some cliches out and then I'll feel the time. Yeah.
Normally I believe the better story is in the losing
locker room, but not here. It's very difficult to find
an angle. We'll talk about the Saints in a second,
but let us discuss in general the question how impressed
are you with the Packers domination thirty four to nothing
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over the Saints in the primetime game. So I've got
Chris rock hospital basement and janitorial supplies, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make cheese curds. You do not get cheese curds
better anywhere in the country than in Wisconsin. Stop cheese
curds by far. All right, So a in terms of
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how impressed are you with the Packers domination, I just
give it like a shoulder shrug. I do. I'm not
that guy. I'm not that guy. Pal to answer that question.
This was a giant mismatch. New Orleans played without their quarterback. Granted,
Derek Carr probably would have rode the vomit comet had
he played, but he's out. Alvin Kamara he gone, he's
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not playing, and several other key players who normally would
be in there for the Saints were not. And as
a result, you look at the gambling market, green Bay
was favored by fourteen and a half points, and the
sharp betters, the professional betters, were betting on green Bay
laying fourteen and a half points, which tells you all
you need to know. The gambling market very rarely wrong.
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And Packers had home cooking and all that, But really
it goes back to the philosophy the great Chris Rock
taught me years ago. You don't get credit for doing
things that you're supposed to do. If you're a fourteen
and a half point favorite at home, you should win
by more than fourteen and a half. That's exactly what
the Packers did. It's also unbecoming to brag about accomplishments
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that you're supposed to achieve, like winning a game at
home against a flea ridden franchise like New Orleans. Now
Jordan Love was nothing magical in this game, rather pedestrian numbers.
But that's the point. Yeah, Green Bay could have won
playing backups. If Malik Willis had played this game, they
would have won. They would have covered the spread. It
was the varsity versus the junior varsity in this matchup,
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so yeah, you get to win. Congrats, but let's not
go overboard here now turning the page. In the lead
up to this game, we talked about this in a
previous episode of the show. The Saints had borrowed a
move right out of the playbook of the Jamaican bobs
led team. We learned in recent days that the quarterback
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coach for the New Orleans football team Andrew Jianico, I
believe his name. So this guy said, you know what,
I'm gonna change it up a little bit here. I
Am going to change it up as we prepare the
Saints to go to Lambeau, We're going to take inspiration
from the Disney classic film Cool Runnings. So Spencer Rattler
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said that the team had a meeting. They held a
team meeting in the cafeteria freezer at the Saints facility
there because it was very cold and they wanted to prepare,
so they went over the script of the game and
it was very frigid there. The players stood around there
like a bunch of numb nuts, and they went over
the place. So how did the New Orleans team do
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preparing for this game in a cafeteria freezer? How did
that pay off? So it's a cool story, right, it's
good story. Let's see. They had fourteen total first downs,
two of them via penalty from Green Bay. They had
as many trips to the red zone as we had,
you and I. They had as many points as you
and I had. One hundred and ninety six total yards.
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They averaged three point seven yards per play, and Spencer
Rattler looked like he should be delivering food, not delivering
the football. Fifteen of thirty fifty percent completion percentage, averaged
a little over five yards per pass, which is not good.
Had an interception, underthrown, pass intercepted, and a passer rating
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of barely above fifty. So the next time the Saints
play in cold weather, instead of going to the cafeteria
and the freezer there in the cafeteria, what they should
do is go to the hospital basement. I believe that's
where the morgue is located at the hospital in the
basement there, So just go down to the basement. And
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because that franchise right now is in the morgue. Now
speaking of that, all right, last part of this. So
the Saints have come full circle here. When I was
a kid, for much of my youth, the Saints were
known as the Aints, and then they had a couple
of good years, and then they even won a Super
Bowl long time ago. It's been been a minute since
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they won the Super Bowl. And while the winds of
change are blowing, you can almost hear them. We we
on this side of the microphone are hearing out of
the shores of the mighty Mississippi that Derek Carr, who's
hurt right now, that Derek Carr could could remain as
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the starting quarterback in New Orleans in twenty twenty five
because of a sonarycamp issue. That reporting is out there.
So this report said Derek Carr is in line, that's
the way it was phrased, in line to return to
the Saints in twenty twenty five because of the cap
believe it or not. Believe it or not so on
this one, I am agnostic, is what I am. I'm
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agnostic on this one. I'm not a believer. And while
it certainly looks bad from the outside, New Orleans is
projected to be sixty three million dollars a bove the
twenty twenty five salary cap. Oh mg, you understand right,
just throw numbers out there, and they're scary. And I'm
a salary cap truther. I believe that the NFL has
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mastered the art of finagling the books, if I'm not mistaken.
The Denver Broncos this year were in swary cap hell
and Sean Payton, former Saints coach there in Denver because
of the contract contractual agreement they had with Russell Wilson.
The Broncos let Russell Wilson go, and oh my god,
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they were screwed, completely cooked. And the Broncos are scratching
and clawing and fighting for a playoff spot. But yet
they're in salary cap purgatory and they didn't keep the quarterback.
It's creative accounting, is what it is.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Derek Carr has got a thirty million dollars base salary
on the next year of his contract, and that's fully
guaranteed the third day of the league year so the
decision will be made rather quickly into the offseason. Now
we are betting. We are betting on divorce court is
what we're betting on. Here's why a car is thirty
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three years old. You would have to be bonkers to
bring him back. He is a placeholder, he's a tempt
He's a band aid. You don't keep a band aid
on for more time than it needs to be Honer,
you get an infection. And I expect him to move
on as a football hobo to his next outpost, whether
that's the Giants or the Jets or the usual suspects.
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But there will be a new field general in twenty
twenty five. There'll be a coaching change. They've already fired
Dennis Allen. They've got the interim coach now. So you
got to think of this like janitorial supplies. Now, what
does that mean? That means like if you go out
and buy a new room in the Bayou, a new broom, right,
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new broom sweeps clean. So you're not going to take
the other coaching staffs quarterback? Why would you do that?
As we often point out on this show, if you
move into a new apartment, you don't keep all the
furniture in the apartment from the person that lived there before.
You get your own furniture, even if you have to
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go down to Ikea and buy a bunch of stuff,
but you don't keep what was in there already. You
move on. So they're gonna have a new coach, and
whether that's drafting someone or signing someone out of the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers roster, god only knows, but they will.
There will be somebody else in there. So I do
not buy the report that their car will be back.
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And if he is back, that's a bad job by
the Saints. So the Packers are in the playoffs. The
Saints obviously no show, pathetic effort team that looked like
they could not handle the rigors of the cold weather.
We thought that would be the case, and sure enough
they went out there and then non competitive, non competitive
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in that game. If you would like to be part
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so I'm warning you right now, now, straight ahead. How
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boring was it at Lambeaufield? What did the Packer fans do?
It was so boring at Lambeaufield? This game such a
mismatch between the Packers and the New Orleans Saints that
the fans had to find ways to entertain themselves during
the game. So what did the Green Bay fan based
do in an effort to try to find enjoyment in
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a rather boring, cold night of football on the frozen tundra.
We'll get to that, and we will do it.
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be here all night as well. And back where we
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go with that that Ben guy. That's Bill. It's actually
it's it's not that Ben guy. It's this Ben guy. Yeah. Now,
Ozzie was writes in from Western Australia. There are more
kangaroos near him than human beings. I'm not kidding. He
lives in the part of Australia where no one lives
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other than him, he says. I reckon the stiffs in
the morgue would play better than those stiffs on the
field wearing Saints uniforms. All right, who else do we have?
Patrick aka DJ Spin and San Diego says, hey, Benjamin,
very cool that you're working tonight. I need the company.
I'll be up all night making my very own recipe
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pasta sauce and then I'll be using the sauce for lasagna.
Sounds good. I'll be making after that. Got a long
night and morning ahead of me. So DJ Spin is
in there making this amazing pasta sauce and mixing in
all the garlic and the herbs and all the different
spices to get that just right. And then he's gonna
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throw some lasagna together. That sounds good, sounds nice, Nick
writes in since ten thousand out of ten thousand, on
the Great Packer monologue of the smashing of the Saints
right into the playoffs, Nick says, who else do you have?
Shannon the Moine says, Ben, thanks for watching the Packer
and Saints game, so I didn't have to. You're a
good man for doing that. A plus plus. Yes, it's
(18:01):
my mench move in the night watching these Saints in
the Green Bay Packers, and you knew the game was
gonna be a blowout, highly unlikely to be a competitive game.
They're trying to sell it like, ah, yeah, you know,
you never know, you gotta watch the game, you never
know it could be close. Yeah, right, late night drug tester. Right,
Since the Packers have to like their playoff chances now
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that the Niners are no longer a possible matchup, says
the late night drug tester. All right, yes, the Packers
and Niners many many matchup over the years. Will take
your calls. You want to be part eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Also coming up in a little bit,
things were so boring, so dull at lambeau Field that
(18:48):
the Packer fans had to do some rhythmic chanting to
try to try to warm up a little bit. We'll
tell you exactly what I'm talking about there. Coming up
in a minute. Let's go to the phones, and who
do we start out with? Eny Meanie miney Mo. Let's
say hello to Andrew who's in Bakersfield, California. Hello Andrew?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Hello Ben? All Right, Derek Carr is a proud product
of Fresno State, So on behalf of Eddie Garcia. How
dare you okay?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
They started because you.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Went to Fresno State, you have to lie and say
he's good? Is that you want us to lie? Is
that the Fresno State way? Is that what you learn
at Fresno State? To lie? Is that what you're saying?
Cheap Any's name out shr e f in Mo. Yeah,
that's Wan with you.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Okay, they started two and oh and he got hurt
in Game three against the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Correct, Andrew, the guy's been in the NFL for a decade.
He sucks. I don't know what you want me to
tell you.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Well, I remind you that you were also saying this
about Russell Wilson before he excelled at It'sburg.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
He has just given away the last two games for
the Steelers. He's back to being Russell Wilson. That sucks.
So I don't know what to tell you, Andrew. Why
there's a phrase that water seeks its own level. And
Derek Carr. People thought it would be different for him
maybe in New Dance. It was not. He's not very good.
Russell Wilson is not very good. He will not be
(20:23):
back in Pittsburgh next year. He's uh, he's garbage. He
got turns the ball overs you get. If you saw
the game the other day against Kansas City, Holy crap,
my god, horrible.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
The wise man said, we'll see, Well.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You're blind. You can't see anything.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
That's not true. I can see very very well.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But I don't think. I don't think so. I don't
think you can see.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Hey, your how many fingers. Are you holding up three?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
That's incorrect. I'm holding up number No.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
One.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I had one right there. I'm giving him the bird.
I'm giving Andrew the bird. So you stopped calling for
months and months and months, and now all of a sudden,
back to back days, you call him to the show. Andrew,
back to back days.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, go away, never call again. Thank you, go away.
Terrible terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, unreal. All right.
By the way, A lead A Lap would like me
to have you message him on X. He wants you
to send him a message that's at lead A laps Hey, Lee, Hey,
(21:32):
that's Lee, and then D E l a pp d
Lap Lee d Lap. That's his name, and that's also
his handle on the X machine. That's how that works.
Eugene in Chicago right since says Merry Christmas to the
Malard Militia. He says, I'm assuming this is your last
(21:52):
live show of the year. No it is not. It
is not my last live show of the year. I
will will be here again in a few days and
you can thank the good people over there at NBC.
We will have a new episode this weekend of Benny
versus the Penny breaking down every NFL matchup. There are
(22:12):
a couple more weeks ago in the regular season. That
show will continue all the way through the Super Bowl.
So I will I will be here then, and maybe
a few days in between, but I'll be here yapping away.
Eugene and I do no matter what, Eugene, You'll be
there in Chicago hanging out with us, no question. So
(22:33):
things were so boring at lambeau Field, that the crowd,
the Packer crowd, decided, listen, we got to entertain ourselves.
The games lopsided, and so they were reprimanded. They were
admonished by the public address announcer at lambeau Field because
the crowd started chanting. So, I mean, that wasn't it
(22:54):
wasn't X rated, It wasn't like something obscene. The good
people of Wisconsin would never do that. But instead the
Packer fans, who entertain themselves, were chanting the Bear still suck,
the Bear still suck. And that was while the Packers
were on offense against the Saints. But they stump Bears,
(23:17):
and so it's good to know that even even though
the Bears have not been relevant for many many years,
although they did win the offseason. We all agree the
Chicago Bears won the off season unbelievable offseason. They had
the number one overall picking the draft, Caleb Williams, and
(23:37):
he's got the nicest painted fingernails in the NFL. And
they had all those receivers and manna they loaded up.
And how's that working out for them? Don't ask? Don't
ask that the Packer fans enjoying themselves with a little
rhythmic chanting, which still not as good as.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
The urban Meyer Urban Meyer rhythmic chant that we have
in our system them and some of the other rhythmic
chances that we've we've had over the years.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I'd love to collect these things. I don't have any
audio on the Packer fans chanting the Bear still suck,
But should that happen, should we'd find some audio, we'll
make sure to play it for you on the air.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.
If you would like to be part, you can join
the fun. Let's go back to the calls and we'll
(24:24):
say hello to who do we have here? Any meanie
miney mo. Let's say hello to real talk. Who's in
New York adjacent, Hello, Real Talk?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
What out Jude?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
There it is? And again, if you were happy, if
you're happy that Real Talk is back, you can thank
the voters who voted for President Trump. And he announced
that if Trump had not won, he would not have
called the show ever again. But now he's back on
a semi regular basis. And why why are we blessed
with this phone call tonight? Real Talk? Why is this
night different than all other nights?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
But I gotta say, you know what this I was
getting super nostalgia because after the college football game, the
blowout games, and just blowout tonight with you know, Green
Bay and the Saints, it took me back to the
time I fell in love with you. Like you may
not remember itvent, but you used to have a Saturday
afternoon show, you and Tom Looney. And I can't remember
how much I laughed because there would be like huge
(25:29):
blowouts like Alabama Orthus Appalachi State, like sixty three to six,
and you would be like, hey, don't you go away yet?
This case could go either away. We have no idea
how this thing is gonna end. And I would just
laugh and laugh. It was crazy, You and Looney Saturday mornings.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh yeah, listen. We had a great time, and during
the NFL in particular though the NFL Real Talk, we really,
we really did. My favorite, my favorite memory of that time.
We had the Fox announcers on. They hate the TV
guys hated coming on with us because we're radio people,
but they were forced to come on the show and
they couldn't stand it, but they had to talk to us.
(26:04):
And some of them were cooler than others. But we
had the Dick Stockton who's not retired, and he came on.
He was doing a forty nine er Buccaneer game and
it was just a terrible game. The Niners sucked at
that time. That was before Shanahan, those guys got there.
The Buccaneers were not very good, and I was like,
why would anyone watch this game? Dick Stockton and Dick
Stockton he just calmly said, well, stat's tell you what
(26:27):
has happened, not what's going to happen. And I have
stolen that line, real Talk, I have stolen that line.
I used that line all the time.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Yeah, so well, you know, well, you know, Ben man,
it's all good. We had a little snap though, because
Lorainer played the song and she was supposed to she
did the thing that he wasn't supposed to be show.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh no, Larina, did you prematurely play the song Lorena is?
Did you make some kind of I'm intro music?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Was I wrong?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Apparently not.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
No, No, I was trying to put Loraina on the
carry yo. I was trying to put Loraina on the
karaoke seat. And that was to be the song.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
We're going to say. Oh, you guys gonna do a
song for us. It's a holiday show, it's a Christmas show.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Let it down because I got a second song. So
why don't you me and Lorena get into the karaoke boop?
Put me on hold, I'll give them a different song.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
All right, all right, I'll put you on hold, all right,
hold on. You know, man, they tried to do this
on the plane tonight.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
They're like, you guys want to sing a Christmas song
with everybody?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, and you were. You're probably like, just make sure
the plane lands. I don't want to do you. I
tried to sing jingle really loud. Yeah, you real talk?
What's that?
Speaker 7 (27:36):
We can always just we can skip the song and
we can just play another round of truth for dare
with Lorena.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
You, lore would you rather have truth or dare? Or
do you want to do karaoke? Tough decision, Lorena. This guy,
this guy's got bits here. Real Talk's prepared, unlike some
of these other losers that call the show Real talk
about material. Who's prepared for the show. What do you
think Lee's gonna decide your lead? A lap or karaoke?
(28:04):
I prefer truth or there over karaoke? All right, little
truth or there? Okay, here we go, real talk. Get
ready to hit that dumb button. Here's some truth or there?
Speaker 7 (28:15):
Okay for those who don't know how true for Dare works,
I'm gonna ask Loraina truth are there? She's gonna take
an option. If she chooses the first option, that's fine.
She chooses not to do it, she can always do
the second option, and Loraina chooses to do neither. Real
thought gets a golden chicken. So, Lorena, are you ready
for a little truth or there?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Laying on laying on me? This is exciting?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Is it gonna be girlfriend? Truth or there?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Decision?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Here?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
I'm gonna do truth.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Truth? Okay, a right truth?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
I love truth.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
This is a truth.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
There's a two part question. It's gonna be who and
why you got? Then you got Lee? How would you
rather have sex with girls?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
All right, thank you, thank you, real talk. I appreciate that.
Merry Christmas, reel talk and happy holidays. Well there you go.
See he was out of material, does it I have
a better question than that. Yeah, he was not prepared. See,
he was prepared to do the karaoke. He tossed out
the truth or dare, not expecting you to pick the
truth or there and when you pick the truth or dare?
(29:25):
He just made that up on the fly. Yeah. Yeah,
he was all planned. He had it all planned out
and said to do the karaoke thing, and then that
didn't work out. So anyway, well we'll move on. Let's
say hello, Now, who do we have here. Let's go
to Andre in the Commonwealth. Get rid of real talk.
Andre is in the Commonwealth and he's all from work
(29:47):
like most people are this week. Hello, Andre, welcome, what's
going on?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Ben? Thanks for having that and most certainly on winter vacation.
So it's a good time rest and relafe station. Then
you catapult right into the holidays and all the stress
and having to get fifth for this person and be
at this event in that event. So it's almost like
being in the regular nine.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
To five right now. More poorly, more poorly, No, more poorly, Andrea,
you know it's getting very cold this time of the year.
Is Willis still getting his walks outside? Is it too
Is it too cold for Willis to walk around outside?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Absolutely not. And Willis even though born in Georgia, he
has no problem. He has no problem with the winter weather.
He's out here getting his rest. He'll come in for
a second. Don't don't know if you're gonna get any barking.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Does he like to spend time in the cold.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
He doesn't mind it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Doesn't wear a jacket or any mittens. No, he's born
with a jacket.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Doesn't go for the mittens either, you know. I know
that's kind of a thing that's going on actually with
the holiday seas and I stopped over to the Christmas
comments that they have next town over and match me
and coming in to see Santa. Some Milady brought in
like a smaller dog, you know what I mean, a
handheld type dog dog we had. Yeah, yeah, we're shivering noticeably.
(31:15):
So fortunately with Willis, he's still got some growing to do.
He's got you huge parts, so he's filled out, you know,
herman shepherd breed. But he doesn't. I don't see him.
For the fact is, we got a little north norweis
so you might have heard about it coming in over here.
So we got a couple of inches of snow and
it's brick cold outside after it was in the fifties.
But he does well. He does well in the in
(31:37):
the cold weather. The cold weather bend green Bay huh
thirty four to nothing. Absolutely boat raced the Saints. You know,
they got blank shut out on Monday night football. It
doesn't It doesn't happen often. What comes to mind for
me in terms of this, forget about Green Bay being
a contender in the mix in the NFC, which they
most certainly are, even though I favored the Iggles having
(31:58):
family in the city of brotherly us. Ben. Remember a
couple of years ago when Aaron Rodgers was rage quitting
talking about how the next time you'd come to Green
Bay would be for memorial and he wasn't having any
of it, and the organization stood firm and said, we're
doing it our way. Okay, he came back, you know,
MVP season, all the rest of that stuff should have
ran for a touchdowns against Tampa Bay didn't do it,
But then he you know, took it talent elsewhere. And
(32:21):
where's Green Bay? And where is Aaron Rodgers? That's what's
coming my mind. Say, look at this Green Bay, a
mom and pop shop where the whole city is the
CEO and general manager. Where are they versus where some
of these other teams are with a coaching carousel and
owners with billions and billions of dollars. You know, Willis
wants to get my potato.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I know Willis is distracting you here, but let me
just point out Andre, well, that's all true, and the
Green Bay Packers are back in the playoffs and all that.
As a talk radio host, Aaron Rodgers is much better
for what I do for a living. So for my career,
Aaron Rodgers makes my life easier doing talk radio than
(33:03):
the Green Bay Packers, who, despite their success, do not
provide great sports talk radio. So for my purposes, Aaron Rodgers.
As bad as things have gone for the Jets, it's
much like the old story about the nightly news. If
it bleeds, it leads and eighteen car pile ups a
great story. Everyone driving safely not a great story. So
(33:24):
I hear what you're saying, Andre, and you're not wrong.
The Packers have been great. I was able to visit
lambeau Field a couple years ago. Didn't go to a game,
but I was there wandering around Green Bay and it
was awesome and I enjoyed my time visiting there. And
it is wild if you've never been there, that you
have this giant monstrosity lambeau Field, surrounded by this little
Wisconsin neighborhood and there's really nothing else there. It's wild
(33:48):
and it just no way that would happen in modern times. Andre,
you cannot have that set up. But then the NFL, that
was from the early days of the NFL, and they
just survived. And if you were to put teams, you know,
they put team in different cities all the time now,
but they never go to a place like Green Bay.
All Right, I gotta go, Thank you, good luck, and
enjoy the holiday there. You and your dog, willis all right?
(34:09):
The great to Andre bye? Willis he cannot I love
that dog. You've never even met the dog. You love
your dog? Sit that dog. I don't think you well,
you did see a photo. We saw a photo of
the dog. Remember he showed the photo of the dog.
We saw Willis in one photo. Although people said it
might have been photoshopped. They were questioning whether or not
(34:30):
it was photoshopped or not. Anyway, it is the Ben
Mahlor Shows. We are working our way through the overnight
hours and we'll get back to your calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox Time. Now for the who
am I? Game? This is where I pretend to be
somebody else, Thus we call it the who am I? Game?
I am Wow? Thank you. I'm an NFL quarterback that
(34:52):
is averaging seven yards per drop pack versus pressure this year.
That is number among all qualified quarterbacks since twenty seventeen.
Again this season, I am a quarterback averaging seven yards
per dropback when faced with pressure, and that is the
(35:14):
top spot among two hundred and sixty two qualified quarterbacks
quarterback seasons since twenty seventeen. Who am I? That is
the question. If you know the answer, sent me it
on X at Ben Mahler. We'll get to it and
we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am. Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
If I got run over her charge go back to prison.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Christmas you can say there is no such stage as.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
Carom drink fry. Believe she's been snawting too much med.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
It is I Bill Miller on this Christmas Eve edition
Ben Mallor Show, reminding you that you can interact with
the live show on social media the Facebook page Ben
Mallord shows on the Gram on Instagram, Ben Mahllor on
(36:27):
Fox and always during the live show on the X
Machine at the Ben Mallor back to we didn't say
my name, Bill Miller, bad job by you. We're hanging out.
It is a post Monday night now heading into a Tuesday,
(36:50):
as we look back at the Packers domination. Not much
of a talk radio topic. The Packers dominated the New
Orleans Saints. The Saints living up to the hype. They
were fourteen and a half point underdogs and they lost
the going going away. Time to pay off the who
am I Game? This is where we pretend to be
somebody else. Thus we call it to who am I Game?
(37:13):
I am a quarterback that is averaging in the NFL
seven yards per dropback versus pressure this year. That is
number one among and sixty two qualified quarterback seasons going
back to twenty seventeen. Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? And mister Luciano says, John Gottie
(37:39):
is the answer. Kevin Kylie, former Fox Sports radio host
from the iconic Kylie and Boom Show, Kevin Kylie guess
by I forty ian, I don't know what happened to Kevin.
Kevin worked here long time ago. Ostrich Ant from DC
right since says hat b Holiday and the answer is Forky.
(38:02):
Tommy Kramer from Rob in Minnesota, the great Tommy Kramer.
I know he's dealing with some major health issues. But
I had a chance to meet Tommy Kramer at the
Malor Meet and greet. Viking quarterback of the nineteen eighties
showed up there and it was very nice to meet him.
A nice man. I hope he's doing all right. Rob
in Vegas going with King Kong Bundy, the iconic King
Kong Bundy. Who else do we have? Page down? Manuel
(38:25):
in Guardina grabbing a vine and going with the snake
charmer with no bite, Spencer Rattler, not Jake the Snake
Roberts as his answer Late Night drug. Tester says, you
are Ryan Seacrest, who is fifty today is yeah, yeah, Yeah,
(38:46):
She's like my idol Ben Lorena. I love Ryan Lane, Ryan,
I love you Lorena. See this is the part where
I point out when I got started in LA radio
is doing a midday show. Ryan Seacrest was the afternoon
DJ at ninety eight seven, which was then called Star FM,
(39:09):
and the morning sports guy at k Rock was Jimmy Kimmel.
They've they've done slightly better than they've done slightly They've
done slightly better than I have. Jimmy Kimmel doing sports.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
At k He just interviewed Ariana Grande.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Oh amazing. Alf the alien o Pliner says, lou Rowe
is the answer. Who else do we? Havelzarro going with
Patrick Mahomey ferk Dog said fart and lead a lap
is the way to go there. That's it.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
He's gassy baby.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
A lot of garlic. I don't know what is garlic
this man is. He used the restroom now. Yeah, well,
if you do do the roasted garlic within in a
few hours, you'll be tooting up a storm. Green Bay Gobbler.
Green Bay Gobbler writes and says Rattler was rattle is
the answer. Uncle Rico from Christopher in Canza City. Mike
(40:00):
Pagel not a bagel, Mike Pago from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
He was at the Malar Meat Greta, but he met
Tommy Kramer at Malard Meat Greek Jordan going with college
football legend Tim Boyle as his answer. Jose con Sego
from Shane in Des Moines. Steve the misplaced San Diegan
going with Doug Flutie as his answer. Slim Tim, a
(40:24):
proud cheesehead, says, the abominable Snowman is the answer. Seneca
Wallace from the k C car Holler Harry says, Cooper
Rush from Cowboy Nation, Vinnie Testa Verde from DJ Spin. Elvira,
there's a good name. Elvira from Gil in San Diego.
(40:47):
Y a tittle from Chicky. All right, Lorena, do you
have an answer? Loraina, I'm a quarterback in the NFL
averaging seven yards per dropback versus pressure this year. That's
number one among all qualified qb since twenty seventeen. I
know you don't think I'm a sportsperson, Ben, but I
think it's Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow, all right, that's finance.
It's incorrect. Is Arnet Lee Jordan love of the Green
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