December 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jerry Jones ranting about the Cowboys underachieving after their loss to the Chargers, saying that the decision on DC Matt Eberflus might not be 'difficult', whether or not the Chargers messed with the football gods, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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It's the Ben Maler Show podcast, Happy Monday, Monday Monday,
the twenty second day of December, Talking Cowboys. Jerry Jones
is the power center of the football universe. And when
Jerry speaks, we listen. Cowboys lose. That's what they're good at.
Who is Jerry Jones specifically calling out with his latest
postgame rant about the Cowboys underachieving this season. Also, Jerry
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Jones says, Cowboy, the Cowboys decision on defensive coordinator Matt
Eberflu's future might not be difficult.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
How does that one hit you?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And did the Chargers mess with the football gods because
of their social media activity? We'll discuss that as well
and try to avoid some other loose wires here. It
is our number two. A wary Jerry, Welcome in the
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I fully admit this is low hanging.
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Fruit, and I believe that low hanging fruit is the
most delicious fruit. Thus I'm going to take a bite
of the forbidden fruit, the low hanging forbidden fruit. We
go to Dallas. How about them Cowboys. Now the Cowboys
eliminated from playoff consideration. Over the weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles
taking care of business there against Washington.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It was a struggle for a while. The Chargers, though.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Went out and molly wopped the Cowboys on site. It
was a beatdown in Jerry's world. Standard fair these days,
which led to the Man of the hour, Man of
the hour giving a truth bomb, well kind of giving
a truth bomb. If you didn't see this, perhaps night.
Jerry Jones the most powerful man in the NFL, Not
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Roger Getdell, not any of us.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Jerry Jones. It's Jerry's world after all.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And Jerry was asked if the Cowboys underachieved this season,
and well, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He didn't tap dance around, He answered the quick here's
Jerry Jones. Let's take a listen. Let's go to the
audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Yes, from what we expected, what we thought, absolutely we did.
We all underachieved, really and the fact we're not in
the playoffs says that for you. But I thought we've
done some things out there that frankly, we can carry
forward to.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Us with us.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
That's always the case that there are some positive things.
The question is can we make some changes where we
need to. That's be pretty thorough and multiply a lot
of multiplication there with the way we played this year.
But still they're positive things, always are. And that's one
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of the things about going in on coaches meeting and
looking at film. If you don't look out, you'll see
positive things when you really should be more critical to
the negative. And I think you have to do that
play the game being Bob again.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Hey Jerry, there's a forklift backing up.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You might want to get out of the way, Jerry,
don't get you to run over by the forklift. All right,
that's a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
the question. Who is Jerry Jones specifically calling out in
that rant about the Cowboys underachieving? He was asked the
leading question. He did not, He did not shy away
from it. He answered it. So he used the we
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we are all in achieving. So my observation on this,
I've got the Juilliard School, magic eight ball, and farmer boys,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make macadamia.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Nut white chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Is what we're gonna make Yum yum to my Tom
tumb so number one.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Using Google Translate.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
They have a new feature. You can now interpret what
Jerry Jones means. So using Google Translate, I am. I'm
pretty confident here, pretty confident that Jerry. Well, he said, hey,
we all underachieved. This was not a blanket statement. It
was actually a laser pointer at two people, all right,
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two people in particular. I was aimed right at Shoddy
who's naughty and Dak. Now, Jerry Jones went out and
fired the rotund Mike McCarthy because seven to ten was
not good enough, was not good enough. He then promoted
Brian Schottenheimer, the NEPO baby, the sock puppet coach, and he's.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like, okay, we're gonna we're gonna be better. Now.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Jerry's the only one that thought they would be better.
So they went out there and they have this. They
have the same stale leftovers. Sands, the big defensive star
who they unloaded right before the regular season.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
MICHAELH.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Parsons now Dak Prescott one of the all time great
stat compilers.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
All right, you look at the numbers.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He leads the Cowboy franchise all time in this category
and that category. Oh my god, you get a little
chubby because he's so good, and then you realize, well,
when the moment matters, he turns into a desert mirage.
It looks good until you close, until you get close,
right fourth quarter, close game, and then.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Poof, poof, poo poo poo poof. Hocus pocus. Now Vegas.
We mentioned this in a previous episode of the show
at Bears, repeating.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
So Vegas had Dallas as an eight ish win team,
right around eight wins. They are six and nine, and
they have Washington and the Giants up next. So if
they win those and the Giants are the worst team
in the NFL, tie with the Raiders right now, Washington
is not much better. So those are winnable games. You
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win those, and the Cowboys will be who exactly they
were supposed to be. They'll be exactly where Vegas had them.
They were right around eight wins on the look ahead
total for the season. And may point out that Jerry
Jones is not furious. He's not He took classes. I'm
convinced in his spare time at the Juilliard School.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Performance outrage is what this is. It's cowboy football.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Loud complaints, soft fixes, the eternal under achievement theater that
is Jerry's world. And let's be honest you, once the
season ends, that's when the Cowboys dominate. They will dominate
the headlines. The Cowboys are gonna make news.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That's what Jerry does.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
When he gets a little slow around there, he stirs
it up and so he's gonna get into it.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
One of the other people staying with Dallas page two here,
one of the other people who's got the laser pointer
pointed right at him. Following that loss to the Chargers,
Jerry Jones also was asked about defensive quarter to Matt.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Eberflus and his future.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And whatever decision he makes. Jerry said, will not be difficult.
That's what he said, will not be difficult. I might
not count it as difficult, Jones said, regarding the future
of Matt Eberflus, the former NFL head coach now back
as a defensive guru.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
He said, quote.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Jerry Jones, it's certainly something that we have to do,
and that is to look at the entire year and
look at what our options are and how to correct it.
So we're not here in the same at the same
time next year, which, of course they will be all right. Question,
So Jerry Jones says that the Cowboys decision on defensive
coordinator Matt Eberflu's future might not be difficult.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So how does that one hit you? How does that one?
He did?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So that is Jerry speak for the guillotine is being sharpened.
The guillotine is being sharpened, the speech is being written.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
The suits already dry, cleaned and ready to go for
the news conference.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
All right, because remember last week Jerry challenged Matt Eberflus
to show something over the final three games of the
regular season. Ibra Flus responded and they made a big
deal about this over the weekend. They said, well, he's
moving up to the booth. He's moving from the sidelines
to the booth. And that's the problems. He couldn't see
the field from the sideline. So now that Eberflus, the
defensive bording of the Cowboy's gonna go to the booth,
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we're good to go. Okay, So fine, he'll go to
the booth and that's it. It's kind of like changing
hats while the building's on fire and the result cover
your eyes. The chargers with Eberflus I in the sky
from the press box. The Chargers carved Dallas off for
four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
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Four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
Justin Herbert played darts with the secondary and nearly eighty
percent completions, three hundred yards, passing, three touchdowns and apartures
in a pear tree. It was a bullseye, repeatedly, bullseye, bullseye, bullseye.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So what does all that mean? Now?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
We consulted with a fool proof arbiter, all right, one
of the great judges of our time, the magic eight ball.
We consulted with the magic eight ball. We said, all almighty,
all powerful.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Magic eate ball.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
We said, what does it look like for the future
of Matt Eberflus And we shook it, We rattled, We
rolled beside.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
That magic eight ball. The magic eight.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Ball said, outlook not so good. That's what the magic
gate ball said. This defense has been a revolving door
all season, a bunch of matadors ole y o l ole.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, it's just great.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
So it's a revolving door. You spin it and it
spins all night. The booth clearly did not help. So
the Cowboys have two games left. May I recommend that
the Cowboys have a drone over the stadium, the eber
Flues drone, and you can use the drone and see
where everyone's lined up on offense for the opposition. If
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that doesn't work, you can go nineteen eighties style and
bring back the goodyear blimp and get in the blimp
and then look down from the blimp and call the
defensive players from the blimp. If that does not work,
I think you get a small weather balloon if that's
more cost efficient for Jerry's world. Just keep experimenting, Just
keep experimenting. Something's gonna work.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Jerry already decided this will not be difficult, So what's
the big deal? It's not gonna be difficult, all right now?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Final point to social media we go or this has
become a thing. The admins celebrating the win, the social
media team, the admins, that's the word I'm looking for
for the Chargers there, they decided to have some fun,
so of course this becomes a thing.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Oh my god, I can't believe they did that.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So first, the Chargers on their online platforms jokingly referenced
the Cowboys we demn Boys slogan. Of course, Cowboys are
very good at slogans. Winning football games they're not good at,
but they leave the league in slogans they're really good
at that, We demn Boys. So the Chargers had some
fun with that. Then in the holiday spirit, they edited
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a clip from the four film The Polar Express, a
classic piece of cinema, where the conductor punches an l
on a ticket for the Cowboys. And they finished up
the troll buffet with a meme depicting a Cowboys wearing
Babushka insisting quote, this is our year, and then the
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Babushka's granddaughter leading her to bed, mocking mocking Dallas fans
perennial optimism.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
So that was the trifect. Of course this ruffled.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I don't think this really offended anyone, but the perception
is it offended some people. So we'll just play along
with it, calling the Bolts class lists and act like
you've been there before.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Do not kick the team while they're down the Cowboys.
So the question did the Chargers mess with the football
gods by poking fun? Where they off base by poking
fun at the Dallas Cowboy. So let's stop pretending that
this is somehow sacrilege.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Can we all do that? Thank you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, please? You know what that is. That's just what
you're supposed to do. The charger didn't anger the football gods.
They poke the Internet. It's the internet, dummy, it's fake.
It's the matrix. It's all that, and the Internet poked back.
And that's what's supposed to happen to the yin and
the yang. There's a big difference there. This wasn't blasphemy.
It was called commerce. It's called commerce. Social media is
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not a tabernacle. It's not the church. It's not a temple.
It's a carnival barker with a Bluetooth headset. It's some
low level intern. If you knew who actually runs the
social media departments ever favor an NFL team, you'd be
a guest. You'd say, god, zooks, who is that punk.
I've sat by some.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Of these people.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I go to the games occasionally, and I've sat behind
the people that take here of the social media, and
you know, good for them, that's a good job.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
But most of them are right out of college.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's like their first gig because the old boomers they
don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
About social media.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So like this, get these young punks, will give them
a job. We'll pay them, you know, sixty thousand dollars
a year. We'll let them run the Twitter account for
the team. But that's what that is, right, You're just
yelling for attention in social media. You're juggling flaming hot takes.
And the Chargers account rolled through, they really leaned into it,
rolled through it like they were eating at farmer Boys
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cheeseburger fries and a supersized order of engagement farming increase everywhere,
mission accomplished. The algorithm is a slot machine, chut ching,
chat ching, chut ching.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's the new one armed Bandit. It only pays. It
only pays.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
When you pull the outrage level lever. You gotta pull
the lever and the boom, just like and the bod Army.
The bod Army salivates. They salivate the rage clicks angry
cowboy fans who are not involved in understanding how deep
the rabbit hole goes. And it's not classless. It's called
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capitalism using emoji. It is capitalism with the mochi's and memes.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And all that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So if you can sell a dummy and a dummy
buys it, that's it. And so the Cowboy fans who
were clutching pearls about this is not right and all that,
please come on. This is our year. That has been
a recycled moniker. It's been around longer than a lumineu
of cans. And remember the Cowboys last won the Super
Bowl before there was an ADMIN working for the Dallas
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Cowboys or the Chargers. That job did not exist in
the mid nineties because there was no social media. People
were in America online, dial up internet and that's it.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
That was the World Wide Web at that particular point.
And so here we are. The meme just held up
a mirror.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
No curses were summoned, no gods were offended, just the
Internet doing what it does best, rewarding noise and punishing silence.
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of sports radio, so please act recording. Late Night Drug
Tester writes in and he says, I'm sure that Gunner
would agree that the winner of the offseason News is
going to be the Carol Lot of Panthers welcoming George
Pickens to the team.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Well, Pickens will be great you know, Pigings reminds me
of what I used to do.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
This rant about Michael Vick. He used to be this
guy named Michael vig Us to play in the NFL.
Michael Vick was like the greatest player in the NFL
for four or five hours a year, and then for
about five games or so he was very average, and
then for five or six games he was terrible. And
that's kind of what George Pickens is, That's kind of
what Pickens has become. Ferg Dogg says, the Cowboys have
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nothing to feel ashamed about. They just happened to run
into the two hundred ton freight train that is the Chargers.
Nobody's really talking about my bolts, but believe me, Ferg
Dogg says, they're the absolute last team anybody wants to
play right now. Now, does that mean Ladanian Thomlinson because
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you sent a gift of Ladinian Thomason. So is Thomlinson
gonna come back and play? Because if Thomlinson can get
into the hot up time machine and go back to
his prime with the Chargers, then I would agree with
you. You put you drop Ladanian Tomlinson prime.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Ladanian Thomason you're in you're in good shape.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
By the way, George Pickens did have seven catches for
one hundred and thirty yards and a touchdown. He had
to wait till the Cowboys were eliminated, and then he's like, Okay,
now we're eliminated. Let me get my stats. Let me
get my numbers. Baby, let's go back to the phones.
Let's see Aeni Meeni, Miney Mole. Let's say hello to
Let's go to Andrea in Berkeley. She's the astrology insider
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and she's with us right now. Hello Andrea, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Andrea. Where did Andrew?
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Andrea?
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Where are you? Could it be that she was kidnapped
by the Grays?
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Speaker 2 (21:57):
All right, hopefully she'll call back. Let's say hello to Mikey,
who's in Texas. What's going on, Mikey? Welcome Big Van?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
How you doing, sir? I just wanted to call him
first off, wish you all happy holidays hopeful as well
to you. I wanted also to say that I've been
listening to your show for over twenty years, since back
in you were doing the Weekend Overnight.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It's a long time ago. Mikey man, look at you.
We've gotten old. What happened, Mikey?
Speaker 12 (22:26):
How do we go?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
How do we become old people? I don't understand.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
Oh, I mean, you know, we get older, but we
still get better as well.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You know that's right, man, We get better. That's right, Mike.
We get better with h we get better with age.
Damn right. Well, thank you for your What part of
Texas are you in, Mikey?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Where?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, it's a big state. I don't know if you
know that. It's kind of a big state, Texas.
Speaker 12 (22:47):
Big all Shepherd Texas.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
It's like about fifty miles north of Houston.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
One of my good radio friends lives in Houston now,
he's lived there for years, loves it, loves it.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
So yes, sir, yes, sir. Also, just want to get
your take on with uh, you know, I think my
crappy ass Texans are going to do you know, they
they're they're disappointing game today or yesterday. You know what
I'm saying?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, that was I thought.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
I thought they win that game, Texans from playing down
to the company.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah that was I didn't see that.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I thought that the Raiders are so bad they quit
on Pete Carroll against Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I thought, well, you know, the Texans should win that game,
like thirty one to tench they won by two points.
And c J.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Stroud struggling for much of that game against the raided defense,
explain that to me.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I mean, that's mean, come on, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You had all the big playmakers allegedly on offense for
the Texans at the wide receiver, like guys like Nico
Collins or whatnot, and the offense very sluggish in that
game was disappointing.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
The Texas, and the Texans could win.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
How about this, They could win a game they got
out gained by the Raiders, which is embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
They can win a game in the plus, I don't
I don't trust c J. Stroud. How about that?
Speaker 10 (24:07):
I couldn't have said a better, big Man.
Speaker 12 (24:08):
Embarrassing.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
Thank you for taking my call, big Man, the show.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Happy, thank you for listening all these years. I appreciate man.
Good job, Happy holidays, you enjoy your enjoy your week.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, I have a fine time, way way back in
the hot top time machine, man Andrea has called back
the gremlins attack. But she's called back there, not gremlins.
Maybe it was the was it the lizard people?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I don't know. Hello Andrea, welcome, Hello Ben?
Speaker 8 (24:34):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
If I was any better, I would be a cowboy,
but not a Dallas cowboy because they are not going
to the postseason this year unfortunately.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Again, yeah, I know, it's getting down to the wire
for football. Kind of an exciting time of year. And
that said, we blessed winter solstice so long this night
of the year, and let's feel like that quite often
for you.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
So yes, I am. I'm very used to a long
long nights. They all are. Every night's long in these
parts here, every night's long.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Yes, right, So it's actually the longest sight of the year,
meaning light is returning even though this is the darkest hour,
so it's the longest side of the year. And then
it starts getting a little brighter out there, so the
sun enters Capricorn. So super ambitious time. We've got the
new moon and I'm working on my newsletter, so if
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it has the twenty twenty six mercury retrograde date. Spin
should I share that?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Well, when's the when's the first one? How about it.
You don't want to give away the product here, right,
you don't want to Yes, yes, you're better. It's all
about marketing, Andrew. You got to market the product you got.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You know, it's like they give you a costco, they
give you a free sample, and then you buy the
whole crate and then you're like, I only want it
a little bit, and but they gave it the whole
crate and I bought it, and I'm start with but no.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
But you got to get to give a little bit
and then they'll they'll want more.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, good point, Ben. So the first and it's
coming up soon. So I'm glad you mentioned that. The
first mercury retrograde of twenty twenty six February twenty six
to March twentieth, so it ends right before Spring equinox,
so February twenty six to March twentieth. So that's something
to keep in mind. And you know the you know,
(26:35):
the retrograde goos and don'ts, rethink, revisit, review, but not
the best time. You know, double check all travel, relex
time for some delays, some technology, snaff foods, double check
all communications. So there's just three mercury retrogrades this year.
Sometimes there's four, so just three mercury retrogrades, so that's
(26:58):
just something to keep in mind. And the sun enters Capricorn,
so it's just a very ambitious time with the Winter
Solstice and the new Moon of New beginning, so people
kind of making their New Year's resolutions. So that's something
to be thinking about and putting energy towards. So that's
(27:20):
something that's really timely to do that. So that's really, uh,
you know, nice to know the cycles of the universe.
And winter Solstice is the longest night of the year,
so nowhere to go but up, so the days start
getting a little longer. But just kind of pace yourself
when it's the winter solstice, I mean, Capricorn, you want
(27:42):
to be ambitious, but you know, it is a dark
time of the year, so you don't want to expread
yourself too sick or do too much.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah, not at all for sure, for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
So I reach out to Andrew she's on x formerly
known as Twitter.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
There virgo in service.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And thank you. Have a great night there, Andrea, shit
it there you go, you too, Andrea, you too. There's
our friend Andrea. Absolutely Mark from Queen's Right since says,
your frequent use of chubby is just spectaca. Please continue
early and often with the chubby references, he says, and
(28:20):
then enjoying the poor grammar that's mark from Queen's pointing
out the rather poor grammar that was used there. I
see Doc Dan checking in. He says, who is more
likely to get injured? A man hit by a bus.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Or JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Well, JJ McCarthy in his career has shown so far.
I know this is going to upset hollering James. I
don't think Eke and Roseville at this point cares, but
hollering James probably will be upset.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
If he's paying attention. He likely is not.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
However, JJ McCarthy, the one super part, the one truly
elite and JJ McCarthy has going for him is the
ability to get hurt.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Man. Is he good at that?
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Man?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Is he really really good at getting hurt?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
And he's mastered that? And I give him credit. Not
everyone has that ability. Most people try to avoid injuries.
He goes for the injury. Now, this is not an injury.
We're not sure what happened over the weekend. Johnny Manzell,
someone I spent a lot of my life talking about
years ago in another era here at Fox Sports Radio
and Johnny football was all the rage at Texas A
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and M for the Cleveland Browns and all that. Well,
Johnny Manziel, one of the great grifters of our time,
was scheduled to appear on the small cable network out
of Bristol, Connecticut, their college football.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Game day show over the weekend. Except one problem. He
didn't show up.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Manzel did not show up even though he was scheduled
to appear for the Texas.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
A and M game and Miami and all that.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Right, and where were you? What were you doing? Nobody really,
he seems to know. There's a lot of wild stories
on the interweb about what Johnny was doing, including him
out on South Beach just partying in Miami, having the
time of his life.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
He apologized.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
He gave a vague statement from what I saw earlier,
didn't really explain much. But yeah, no, it's one of
those things, right, when you're a kid you don't show
up the stuff you're scheduled to be at, you say, well,
you're a kid. But at some point, if you're an
adult and you don't show up the things you're supposed
to be at Well, that's on you.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
You know, that's on you.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You know, you get away with it when you're a kid,
but by the time you get to a certain age,
you just kind of kind of do stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Your name, your word is very important. And Johnny.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Obviously wasn't some kind of medical thing where he had
a sick relative or something like that, because he would have.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Really put that out there, right, that would have been everywhere.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Johnny had a death in the family, you know, his
dog died or something.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
But Johnny Mazel's thirty three years old. Okay, he's not.
He's thirty three. He's not you know, he's not sixteen
or seventeen. He's thirty three. He should be able to
show up. You've said you're gonna be somewhere, you show up.
That's what adults do. That's that's what they do. They
know the schedule and they show up. All right, let's
go back to the phones.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
We'll say hello to blind Scott, who's on the north
end of Boston.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Hello, blind Scott, welcome.
Speaker 12 (31:23):
Oh hey you yeah. Don't don't show up this stuff
all the time, though, Like I bet if you could
look up right now, like Johnny Mentel's greatest hits, Like,
I'm this guy, he's real, like superstar, like that's kind
of washed up. But I've been to detalks like fifteen times,
and I've seen many people like Johnny Mantel like similar
career flights to him in de talks, you know, wanting
(31:46):
to do the right thing, but not doing the right thing.
I mean, I couldn't. I can't speculate what happened to
Johnny Mentel. I'm thinking he maybe went to New York City.
I mean, I want say anything else because I just
don't want to hurt the guy anymore. Then he's hurt
himself on But I would about to see him on
college game day. Pat mcaffee's on that thing, and it's awful.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Well, he was in, he was invited, he was invited,
he didn't show up.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
He went a wall. That's what I'm telling you.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
Yeah, because you know why, because if you did like
a brain scan on his brain, and you'd probably see
like an age symmetry where there's like something's wrong with it,
maybe from football or from he might be. I think
I've seen all this stuff on him. I actually know
a lot about Johnny Mizzel because there's a lot out
there now. Because he talks all the time, he could
be predisposed to addiction or depression. I think it's too
(32:34):
much for him, Like he's more of a last minute guy.
He should do.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Are you making excuse? Why are you making excuses?
Speaker 12 (32:40):
I've been making an excuse for this guy. I Fevor
because I loved him that when he played college.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Well I loved him too when he played at Texas
A and it was ridiculous.
Speaker 12 (32:48):
Yeah, and then he went to Cleveland and he was
going to Vegas. So he was going to Vegas when
he had to play the next morning, and he was
staying up all night and he was doing lines, you know,
like like that movie Get Him to the Greek. Have
you ever seen that where they get that guy. He's
like the celebrity in the movie. That's like Johnny Mantel.
You know, I'm the Jonah Hill movie. You know what
I'm saying, Like Johnny Manzela should do gott Leaves two
(33:12):
hours in the afternoon, you know, because Gottleiave is he's
gonna be coaching more and he's not only doing a
podcast now, you know, he could do a radio show.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
I think we should hire blind Scott, I recommend Blinde.
What would you do if you got two hours of
talk radio blind Scott today?
Speaker 9 (33:28):
What were you do?
Speaker 12 (33:28):
I could fill it, no problem. I've been talking to
a lot of fans lately. I've been going, I've been
trying really hired. I got a lot of bets out there.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I be I would love it.
Speaker 12 (33:36):
The thing is, I'm like, yeah, I could do it,
probably like I would do it right now. I don't
think anybody's gonna hire me though. You think I'm hiable.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
No, you're not hirable.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
But if but in this dimension, but in other dimensions,
you could get the job. Like there's other dimensions out there.
Somebody would hire you because you definitely liked it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You like to talk.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You love talking about yourself. All all good, let me
tell you something. To take a breath. All talk show hosts, Yes,
all right, they love themselves. They love to talk about
telling them how great they are. You love to tell
everyone how great you are. Yes, yeah, So here t.
Speaker 12 (34:08):
How you could hire me? And I told Fred that
you do Ben LLC or Fred LLC and you can
pay me through that and started and we can get
some airtimes or like Nico, well we want to plan
with to have Nico Buya some airtime on like a
Saturday and then we get on there or something like that.
We need a venture capital. It's like Mike the Leprechaun
or like rain. You know, anybody went a little bit
(34:30):
of dough and then boom, we're in. We've talked about this,
like in twenty fourteen, I looked at Serious XM. It's
just no one's listening on there right now. There's so
many people listening. There's hundreds of thousands of people listening
even though this is weed Men's time. When you do
ask the.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Weed men when so you're jealous, you're jealous of asking
weed man. I know you're jealous of asking you are
you brought it up? I didn't bring it up. You
brought it up.
Speaker 12 (34:53):
You're jealous of That's like Johnny Manzel. Dude, you notice
he's not allowed to go to New York to see
his family.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
And he's like, I gotta go with that.
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How cool is that? Not bad? Not bad at all?
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But here's the.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
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touchdown run and touchdown catch of fifty plus yards in
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Speaker 3 (36:40):
Blank is the last rookie to pull it off.
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catch of fifty plus yards in the same game. Blank
is the last rookie to pull it off. That is
the question.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
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The real black hole? What a mess?
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Speaker 13 (39:34):
Over the weekend, the Miami Hurricanes celebrated their first college
football playoff berth with a defensive effort in a ten
to three road win at number seven Texas A and M.
And a lot of people think that this shows that
they are legitimate title contender.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Do you agree? Uh No, I don't. I mean, listen,
that was a nice win. It was an ugly game
and all that.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
I'm not there on Miami yet. You gotta have more
on offense and I don't think they do what you
gotta see my bracket, Coop, I gotta fill out management.
Scott contacted me. I have to fill out a bracket,
so you'll I don't want to give my bracket away, Coop,
as you do, but I'm not.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
I'm not on board with the Hurricanes winning the whole thing. Next.
Speaker 13 (40:16):
So a lot of people say that Caleb williams heroics
against the Packers on Saturday should silence the doubters. Ben,
you you have been one of those doubters. Have you
been silenced?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Well, I was silence Coop. I did not do shows.
We did the podcast, but we didn't talk about that game.
So I was technically silenced over the weekend on Caleb Williams. No,
it's nice, but he's you gotta play like that the
whole game. He has these stretches where he's great and
the rest of the game he stinks. It's problematic. But
I'm the bad guy because I'm pointing that out. Okay,
(40:50):
And yeah, do I take some cheap shots at the
nail polish?
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Yes, I do. Next.
Speaker 13 (40:54):
Late last week, Lebron James was asked about the play
of Keante George of the Utah Jazz and the said,
I'm the wrong guy to ask about that. I watch
YouTube golf these days, and a lot of Lakers fans
are concerned that his motivation is waiting Ben.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Should they be concerned about that?
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I thought Lebron looked great on Saturday Coop, my favorite Laker.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Game all year against the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
What a wonderful game, and we had it on the background.
I was not watching it, but the Clippers were leading
the whole game. But yeah, Lebron, I wouldn't be worried
about that. I'd be worried about some other Lebron.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
So how do we go? How'd we do pass?
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It's the Ben Maler Show podcast, Happy Monday, Monday Monday,
the twenty second day of December, Talking Cowboys. Jerry Jones
is the power center of the football universe. And when
Jerry speaks, we listen. Cowboys lose. That's what they're good at.
Who is Jerry Jones specifically calling out with his latest
postgame rant about the Cowboys underachieving this season. Also, Jerry
(00:33):
Jones says, Cowboy, the Cowboys decision on defensive coordinator Matt
Eberflu's future might not be difficult.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
How does that one hit you?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And did the Chargers mess with the football gods because
of their social media activity? We'll discuss that as well
and try to avoid some other loose wires here. It
is our number two. A wary Jerry, Welcome in the
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Now.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I fully admit this is low hanging.
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Fruit, and I believe that low hanging fruit is the
most delicious fruit. Thus I'm going to take a bite
of the forbidden fruit, the low hanging forbidden fruit. We
go to Dallas. How about them Cowboys. Now the Cowboys
eliminated from playoff consideration. Over the weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles
taking care of business there against Washington.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It was a struggle for a while. The Chargers, though.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Went out and molly wopped the Cowboys on site. It
was a beatdown in Jerry's world. Standard fair these days,
which led to the Man of the hour, Man of
the hour giving a truth bomb, well kind of giving
a truth bomb. If you didn't see this, perhaps night.
Jerry Jones the most powerful man in the NFL, Not
(03:15):
Roger Getdell, not any of us.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Jerry Jones. It's Jerry's world after all.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And Jerry was asked if the Cowboys underachieved this season,
and well, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He didn't tap dance around, He answered the quick here's
Jerry Jones. Let's take a listen. Let's go to the
audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Yes, from what we expected, what we thought, absolutely we did.
We all underachieved, really and the fact we're not in
the playoffs says that for you. But I thought we've
done some things out there that frankly, we can carry
forward to.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Us with us.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
That's always the case that there are some positive things.
The question is can we make some changes where we
need to. That's be pretty thorough and multiply a lot
of multiplication there with the way we played this year.
But still they're positive things, always are. And that's one
(04:19):
of the things about going in on coaches meeting and
looking at film. If you don't look out, you'll see
positive things when you really should be more critical to
the negative. And I think you have to do that
play the game being Bob again.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Hey Jerry, there's a forklift backing up.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You might want to get out of the way, Jerry,
don't get you to run over by the forklift. All right,
that's a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
the question. Who is Jerry Jones specifically calling out in
that rant about the Cowboys underachieving? He was asked the
leading question. He did not, He did not shy away
from it. He answered it. So he used the we
(04:58):
we are all in achieving. So my observation on this,
I've got the Juilliard School, magic eight ball, and farmer boys,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make macadamia.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Nut white chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Is what we're gonna make Yum yum to my Tom
tumb so number one.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Using Google Translate.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
They have a new feature. You can now interpret what
Jerry Jones means. So using Google Translate, I am. I'm
pretty confident here, pretty confident that Jerry. Well, he said, hey,
we all underachieved. This was not a blanket statement. It
was actually a laser pointer at two people, all right,
(05:50):
two people in particular. I was aimed right at Shoddy
who's naughty and Dak. Now, Jerry Jones went out and
fired the rotund Mike McCarthy because seven to ten was
not good enough, was not good enough. He then promoted
Brian Schottenheimer, the NEPO baby, the sock puppet coach, and he's.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like, okay, we're gonna we're gonna be better. Now.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Jerry's the only one that thought they would be better.
So they went out there and they have this. They
have the same stale leftovers. Sands, the big defensive star
who they unloaded right before the regular season.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
MICHAELH.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Parsons now Dak Prescott one of the all time great
stat compilers.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
All right, you look at the numbers.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He leads the Cowboy franchise all time in this category
and that category. Oh my god, you get a little
chubby because he's so good, and then you realize, well,
when the moment matters, he turns into a desert mirage.
It looks good until you close, until you get close,
right fourth quarter, close game, and then.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Poof, poof, poo poo poo poof. Hocus pocus. Now Vegas.
We mentioned this in a previous episode of the show
at Bears, repeating.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
So Vegas had Dallas as an eight ish win team,
right around eight wins. They are six and nine, and
they have Washington and the Giants up next. So if
they win those and the Giants are the worst team
in the NFL, tie with the Raiders right now, Washington
is not much better. So those are winnable games. You
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win those, and the Cowboys will be who exactly they
were supposed to be. They'll be exactly where Vegas had them.
They were right around eight wins on the look ahead
total for the season. And may point out that Jerry
Jones is not furious. He's not He took classes. I'm
convinced in his spare time at the Juilliard School.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Performance outrage is what this is. It's cowboy football.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Loud complaints, soft fixes, the eternal under achievement theater that
is Jerry's world. And let's be honest you, once the
season ends, that's when the Cowboys dominate. They will dominate
the headlines. The Cowboys are gonna make news.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That's what Jerry does.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
When he gets a little slow around there, he stirs
it up and so he's gonna get into it.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
One of the other people staying with Dallas page two here,
one of the other people who's got the laser pointer
pointed right at him. Following that loss to the Chargers,
Jerry Jones also was asked about defensive quarter to Matt.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Eberflus and his future.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And whatever decision he makes. Jerry said, will not be difficult.
That's what he said, will not be difficult. I might
not count it as difficult, Jones said, regarding the future
of Matt Eberflus, the former NFL head coach now back
as a defensive guru.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
He said, quote.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Jerry Jones, it's certainly something that we have to do,
and that is to look at the entire year and
look at what our options are and how to correct it.
So we're not here in the same at the same
time next year, which, of course they will be all right. Question,
So Jerry Jones says that the Cowboys decision on defensive
coordinator Matt Eberflu's future might not be difficult.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So how does that one hit you? How does that one?
He did?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So that is Jerry speak for the guillotine is being sharpened.
The guillotine is being sharpened, the speech is being written.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
The suits already dry, cleaned and ready to go for
the news conference.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
All right, because remember last week Jerry challenged Matt Eberflus
to show something over the final three games of the
regular season. Ibra Flus responded and they made a big
deal about this over the weekend. They said, well, he's
moving up to the booth. He's moving from the sidelines
to the booth. And that's the problems. He couldn't see
the field from the sideline. So now that Eberflus, the
defensive bording of the Cowboy's gonna go to the booth,
(09:54):
we're good to go. Okay, So fine, he'll go to
the booth and that's it. It's kind of like changing
hats while the building's on fire and the result cover
your eyes. The chargers with Eberflus I in the sky
from the press box. The Chargers carved Dallas off for
four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
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Four hundred and fifty two yards and thirty four points.
Justin Herbert played darts with the secondary and nearly eighty
percent completions, three hundred yards, passing, three touchdowns and apartures
in a pear tree. It was a bullseye, repeatedly, bullseye, bullseye, bullseye.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So what does all that mean? Now?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
We consulted with a fool proof arbiter, all right, one
of the great judges of our time, the magic eight ball.
We consulted with the magic eight ball. We said, all almighty,
all powerful.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Magic eate ball.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
We said, what does it look like for the future
of Matt Eberflus And we shook it, We rattled, We
rolled beside.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
That magic eight ball. The magic eight.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Ball said, outlook not so good. That's what the magic
gate ball said. This defense has been a revolving door
all season, a bunch of matadors ole y o l ole.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, it's just great.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
So it's a revolving door. You spin it and it
spins all night. The booth clearly did not help. So
the Cowboys have two games left. May I recommend that
the Cowboys have a drone over the stadium, the eber
Flues drone, and you can use the drone and see
where everyone's lined up on offense for the opposition. If
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that doesn't work, you can go nineteen eighties style and
bring back the goodyear blimp and get in the blimp
and then look down from the blimp and call the
defensive players from the blimp. If that does not work,
I think you get a small weather balloon if that's
more cost efficient for Jerry's world. Just keep experimenting, Just
keep experimenting. Something's gonna work.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Jerry already decided this will not be difficult, So what's
the big deal? It's not gonna be difficult, all right now?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Final point to social media we go or this has
become a thing. The admins celebrating the win, the social
media team, the admins, that's the word I'm looking for
for the Chargers there, they decided to have some fun,
so of course this becomes a thing.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Oh my god, I can't believe they did that.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So first, the Chargers on their online platforms jokingly referenced
the Cowboys we demn Boys slogan. Of course, Cowboys are
very good at slogans. Winning football games they're not good at,
but they leave the league in slogans they're really good
at that, We demn Boys. So the Chargers had some
fun with that. Then in the holiday spirit, they edited
(12:47):
a clip from the four film The Polar Express, a
classic piece of cinema, where the conductor punches an l
on a ticket for the Cowboys. And they finished up
the troll buffet with a meme depicting a Cowboys wearing
Babushka insisting quote, this is our year, and then the
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Babushka's granddaughter leading her to bed, mocking mocking Dallas fans
perennial optimism.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
So that was the trifect. Of course this ruffled.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I don't think this really offended anyone, but the perception
is it offended some people. So we'll just play along
with it, calling the Bolts class lists and act like
you've been there before.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Do not kick the team while they're down the Cowboys.
So the question did the Chargers mess with the football
gods by poking fun? Where they off base by poking
fun at the Dallas Cowboy. So let's stop pretending that
this is somehow sacrilege.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Can we all do that? Thank you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, please? You know what that is. That's just what
you're supposed to do. The charger didn't anger the football gods.
They poke the Internet. It's the internet, dummy, it's fake.
It's the matrix. It's all that, and the Internet poked back.
And that's what's supposed to happen to the yin and
the yang. There's a big difference there. This wasn't blasphemy.
It was called commerce. It's called commerce. Social media is
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not a tabernacle. It's not the church. It's not a temple.
It's a carnival barker with a Bluetooth headset. It's some
low level intern. If you knew who actually runs the
social media departments ever favor an NFL team, you'd be
a guest. You'd say, god, zooks, who is that punk.
I've sat by some.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Of these people.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I go to the games occasionally, and I've sat behind
the people that take here of the social media, and
you know, good for them, that's a good job.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
But most of them are right out of college.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's like their first gig because the old boomers they
don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
About social media.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So like this, get these young punks, will give them
a job. We'll pay them, you know, sixty thousand dollars
a year. We'll let them run the Twitter account for
the team. But that's what that is, right, You're just
yelling for attention in social media. You're juggling flaming hot takes.
And the Chargers account rolled through, they really leaned into it,
rolled through it like they were eating at farmer Boys
(15:14):
cheeseburger fries and a supersized order of engagement farming increase everywhere,
mission accomplished. The algorithm is a slot machine, chut ching,
chat ching, chut ching.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's the new one armed Bandit. It only pays. It
only pays.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
When you pull the outrage level lever. You gotta pull
the lever and the boom, just like and the bod Army.
The bod Army salivates. They salivate the rage clicks angry
cowboy fans who are not involved in understanding how deep
the rabbit hole goes. And it's not classless. It's called
(15:57):
capitalism using emoji. It is capitalism with the mochi's and memes.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And all that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So if you can sell a dummy and a dummy
buys it, that's it. And so the Cowboy fans who
were clutching pearls about this is not right and all that,
please come on. This is our year. That has been
a recycled moniker. It's been around longer than a lumineu
of cans. And remember the Cowboys last won the Super
Bowl before there was an ADMIN working for the Dallas
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Cowboys or the Chargers. That job did not exist in
the mid nineties because there was no social media. People
were in America online, dial up internet and that's it.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
That was the World Wide Web at that particular point.
And so here we are. The meme just held up
a mirror.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
No curses were summoned, no gods were offended, just the
Internet doing what it does best, rewarding noise and punishing silence.
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came and will be used against you in the court
of sports radio, so please act recording. Late Night Drug
Tester writes in and he says, I'm sure that Gunner
would agree that the winner of the offseason News is
going to be the Carol Lot of Panthers welcoming George
Pickens to the team.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Well, Pickens will be great you know, Pigings reminds me
of what I used to do.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
This rant about Michael Vick. He used to be this
guy named Michael vig Us to play in the NFL.
Michael Vick was like the greatest player in the NFL
for four or five hours a year, and then for
about five games or so he was very average, and
then for five or six games he was terrible. And
that's kind of what George Pickens is, That's kind of
what Pickens has become. Ferg Dogg says, the Cowboys have
(20:32):
nothing to feel ashamed about. They just happened to run
into the two hundred ton freight train that is the Chargers.
Nobody's really talking about my bolts, but believe me, Ferg
Dogg says, they're the absolute last team anybody wants to
play right now. Now, does that mean Ladanian Thomlinson because
(20:52):
you sent a gift of Ladinian Thomason. So is Thomlinson
gonna come back and play? Because if Thomlinson can get
into the hot up time machine and go back to
his prime with the Chargers, then I would agree with
you. You put you drop Ladanian Tomlinson prime.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Ladanian Thomason you're in you're in good shape.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
By the way, George Pickens did have seven catches for
one hundred and thirty yards and a touchdown. He had
to wait till the Cowboys were eliminated, and then he's like, Okay,
now we're eliminated. Let me get my stats. Let me
get my numbers. Baby, let's go back to the phones.
Let's see Aeni Meeni, Miney Mole. Let's say hello to
Let's go to Andrea in Berkeley. She's the astrology insider
(21:36):
and she's with us right now. Hello Andrea, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Andrea. Where did Andrew?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Andrea?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Where are you? Could it be that she was kidnapped
by the Grays?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Oo?
Speaker 10 (21:55):
Do do? Do?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Do?
Speaker 11 (21:56):
Do?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Do?
Speaker 10 (21:56):
Do?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Do?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
All right, hopefully she'll call back. Let's say hello to Mikey,
who's in Texas. What's going on, Mikey? Welcome Big Van?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
How you doing, sir? I just wanted to call him
first off, wish you all happy holidays hopeful as well
to you. I wanted also to say that I've been
listening to your show for over twenty years, since back
in you were doing the Weekend Overnight.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It's a long time ago. Mikey man, look at you.
We've gotten old. What happened, Mikey?
Speaker 12 (22:26):
How do we go?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
How do we become old people? I don't understand.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
Oh, I mean, you know, we get older, but we
still get better as well.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You know that's right, man, We get better. That's right, Mike.
We get better with h we get better with age.
Damn right. Well, thank you for your What part of
Texas are you in, Mikey?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Where?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, it's a big state. I don't know if you
know that. It's kind of a big state, Texas.
Speaker 12 (22:47):
Big all Shepherd Texas.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
It's like about fifty miles north of Houston.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
One of my good radio friends lives in Houston now,
he's lived there for years, loves it, loves it.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
So yes, sir, yes, sir. Also, just want to get
your take on with uh, you know, I think my
crappy ass Texans are going to do you know, they
they're they're disappointing game today or yesterday. You know what
I'm saying?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, that was I thought.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
I thought they win that game, Texans from playing down
to the company.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah that was I didn't see that.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I thought that the Raiders are so bad they quit
on Pete Carroll against Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I thought, well, you know, the Texans should win that game,
like thirty one to tench they won by two points.
And c J.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Stroud struggling for much of that game against the raided defense,
explain that to me.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I mean, that's mean, come on, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You had all the big playmakers allegedly on offense for
the Texans at the wide receiver, like guys like Nico
Collins or whatnot, and the offense very sluggish in that
game was disappointing.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
The Texas, and the Texans could win.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
How about this, They could win a game they got
out gained by the Raiders, which is embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
They can win a game in the plus, I don't
I don't trust c J. Stroud. How about that?
Speaker 10 (24:07):
I couldn't have said a better, big Man.
Speaker 12 (24:08):
Embarrassing.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
Thank you for taking my call, big Man, the show.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Happy, thank you for listening all these years. I appreciate man.
Good job, Happy holidays, you enjoy your enjoy your week.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, I have a fine time, way way back in
the hot top time machine, man Andrea has called back
the gremlins attack. But she's called back there, not gremlins.
Maybe it was the was it the lizard people?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I don't know. Hello Andrea, welcome, Hello Ben?
Speaker 8 (24:34):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
If I was any better, I would be a cowboy,
but not a Dallas cowboy because they are not going
to the postseason this year unfortunately.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Again, yeah, I know, it's getting down to the wire
for football. Kind of an exciting time of year. And
that said, we blessed winter solstice so long this night
of the year, and let's feel like that quite often
for you.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
So yes, I am. I'm very used to a long
long nights. They all are. Every night's long in these
parts here, every night's long.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Yes, right, So it's actually the longest sight of the year,
meaning light is returning even though this is the darkest hour,
so it's the longest side of the year. And then
it starts getting a little brighter out there, so the
sun enters Capricorn. So super ambitious time. We've got the
new moon and I'm working on my newsletter, so if
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any of the mal Militia would like their free astrology newsletter,
it has the twenty twenty six mercury retrograde date. Spin
should I share that?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Well, when's the when's the first one? How about it.
You don't want to give away the product here, right,
you don't want to Yes, yes, you're better. It's all
about marketing, Andrew. You got to market the product you got.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You know, it's like they give you a costco, they
give you a free sample, and then you buy the
whole crate and then you're like, I only want it
a little bit, and but they gave it the whole
crate and I bought it, and I'm start with but no.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
But you got to get to give a little bit
and then they'll they'll want more.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, good point, Ben. So the first and it's
coming up soon. So I'm glad you mentioned that. The
first mercury retrograde of twenty twenty six February twenty six
to March twentieth, so it ends right before Spring equinox,
so February twenty six to March twentieth. So that's something
to keep in mind. And you know the you know,
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the retrograde goos and don'ts, rethink, revisit, review, but not
the best time. You know, double check all travel, relex
time for some delays, some technology, snaff foods, double check
all communications. So there's just three mercury retrogrades this year.
Sometimes there's four, so just three mercury retrogrades, so that's
(26:58):
just something to keep in mind. And the sun enters Capricorn,
so it's just a very ambitious time with the Winter
Solstice and the new Moon of New beginning, so people
kind of making their New Year's resolutions. So that's something
to be thinking about and putting energy towards. So that's
(27:20):
something that's really timely to do that. So that's really, uh,
you know, nice to know the cycles of the universe.
And winter Solstice is the longest night of the year,
so nowhere to go but up, so the days start
getting a little longer. But just kind of pace yourself
when it's the winter solstice, I mean, Capricorn, you want
(27:42):
to be ambitious, but you know, it is a dark
time of the year, so you don't want to expread
yourself too sick or do too much.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah, not at all for sure, for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
So I reach out to Andrew she's on x formerly
known as Twitter.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
There virgo in service.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And thank you. Have a great night there, Andrea, shit
it there you go, you too, Andrea, you too. There's
our friend Andrea. Absolutely Mark from Queen's Right since says,
your frequent use of chubby is just spectaca. Please continue
early and often with the chubby references, he says, and
(28:20):
then enjoying the poor grammar that's mark from Queen's pointing
out the rather poor grammar that was used there. I
see Doc Dan checking in. He says, who is more
likely to get injured? A man hit by a bus.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Or JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Well, JJ McCarthy in his career has shown so far.
I know this is going to upset hollering James. I
don't think Eke and Roseville at this point cares, but
hollering James probably will be upset.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
If he's paying attention. He likely is not.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
However, JJ McCarthy, the one super part, the one truly
elite and JJ McCarthy has going for him is the
ability to get hurt.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Man. Is he good at that?
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Man?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Is he really really good at getting hurt?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
And he's mastered that? And I give him credit. Not
everyone has that ability. Most people try to avoid injuries.
He goes for the injury. Now, this is not an injury.
We're not sure what happened over the weekend. Johnny Manzell,
someone I spent a lot of my life talking about
years ago in another era here at Fox Sports Radio
and Johnny football was all the rage at Texas A
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and M for the Cleveland Browns and all that. Well,
Johnny Manziel, one of the great grifters of our time,
was scheduled to appear on the small cable network out
of Bristol, Connecticut, their college football.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Game day show over the weekend. Except one problem. He
didn't show up.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Manzel did not show up even though he was scheduled
to appear for the Texas.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
A and M game and Miami and all that.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Right, and where were you? What were you doing? Nobody really,
he seems to know. There's a lot of wild stories
on the interweb about what Johnny was doing, including him
out on South Beach just partying in Miami, having the
time of his life.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
He apologized.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
He gave a vague statement from what I saw earlier,
didn't really explain much. But yeah, no, it's one of
those things, right, when you're a kid you don't show
up the stuff you're scheduled to be at, you say, well,
you're a kid. But at some point, if you're an
adult and you don't show up the things you're supposed
to be at Well, that's on you.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
You know, that's on you.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You know, you get away with it when you're a kid,
but by the time you get to a certain age,
you just kind of kind of do stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Your name, your word is very important. And Johnny.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Obviously wasn't some kind of medical thing where he had
a sick relative or something like that, because he would have.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Really put that out there, right, that would have been everywhere.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Johnny had a death in the family, you know, his
dog died or something.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
But Johnny Mazel's thirty three years old. Okay, he's not.
He's thirty three. He's not you know, he's not sixteen
or seventeen. He's thirty three. He should be able to
show up. You've said you're gonna be somewhere, you show up.
That's what adults do. That's that's what they do. They
know the schedule and they show up. All right, let's
go back to the phones.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
We'll say hello to blind Scott, who's on the north
end of Boston.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Hello, blind Scott, welcome.
Speaker 12 (31:23):
Oh hey you yeah. Don't don't show up this stuff
all the time, though, Like I bet if you could
look up right now, like Johnny Mentel's greatest hits, Like,
I'm this guy, he's real, like superstar, like that's kind
of washed up. But I've been to detalks like fifteen times,
and I've seen many people like Johnny Mantel like similar
career flights to him in de talks, you know, wanting
(31:46):
to do the right thing, but not doing the right thing.
I mean, I couldn't. I can't speculate what happened to
Johnny Mentel. I'm thinking he maybe went to New York City.
I mean, I want say anything else because I just
don't want to hurt the guy anymore. Then he's hurt
himself on But I would about to see him on
college game day. Pat mcaffee's on that thing, and it's awful.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Well, he was in, he was invited, he was invited,
he didn't show up.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
He went a wall. That's what I'm telling you.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
Yeah, because you know why, because if you did like
a brain scan on his brain, and you'd probably see
like an age symmetry where there's like something's wrong with it,
maybe from football or from he might be. I think
I've seen all this stuff on him. I actually know
a lot about Johnny Mizzel because there's a lot out
there now. Because he talks all the time, he could
be predisposed to addiction or depression. I think it's too
(32:34):
much for him, Like he's more of a last minute guy.
He should do.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Are you making excuse? Why are you making excuses?
Speaker 12 (32:40):
I've been making an excuse for this guy. I Fevor
because I loved him that when he played college.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Well I loved him too when he played at Texas
A and it was ridiculous.
Speaker 12 (32:48):
Yeah, and then he went to Cleveland and he was
going to Vegas. So he was going to Vegas when
he had to play the next morning, and he was
staying up all night and he was doing lines, you know,
like like that movie Get Him to the Greek. Have
you ever seen that where they get that guy. He's
like the celebrity in the movie. That's like Johnny Mantel.
You know, I'm the Jonah Hill movie. You know what
I'm saying, Like Johnny Manzela should do gott Leaves two
(33:12):
hours in the afternoon, you know, because Gottleiave is he's
gonna be coaching more and he's not only doing a
podcast now, you know, he could do a radio show.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
I think we should hire blind Scott, I recommend Blinde.
What would you do if you got two hours of
talk radio blind Scott today?
Speaker 9 (33:28):
What were you do?
Speaker 12 (33:28):
I could fill it, no problem. I've been talking to
a lot of fans lately. I've been going, I've been
trying really hired. I got a lot of bets out there.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I be I would love it.
Speaker 12 (33:36):
The thing is, I'm like, yeah, I could do it,
probably like I would do it right now. I don't
think anybody's gonna hire me though. You think I'm hiable.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
No, you're not hirable.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
But if but in this dimension, but in other dimensions,
you could get the job. Like there's other dimensions out there.
Somebody would hire you because you definitely liked it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You like to talk.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You love talking about yourself. All all good, let me
tell you something. To take a breath. All talk show hosts, Yes,
all right, they love themselves. They love to talk about
telling them how great they are. You love to tell
everyone how great you are. Yes, yeah, So here t.
Speaker 12 (34:08):
How you could hire me? And I told Fred that
you do Ben LLC or Fred LLC and you can
pay me through that and started and we can get
some airtimes or like Nico, well we want to plan
with to have Nico Buya some airtime on like a
Saturday and then we get on there or something like that.
We need a venture capital. It's like Mike the Leprechaun
or like rain. You know, anybody went a little bit
(34:30):
of dough and then boom, we're in. We've talked about this,
like in twenty fourteen, I looked at Serious XM. It's
just no one's listening on there right now. There's so
many people listening. There's hundreds of thousands of people listening
even though this is weed Men's time. When you do
ask the.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Weed men when so you're jealous, you're jealous of asking
weed man. I know you're jealous of asking you are
you brought it up? I didn't bring it up. You
brought it up.
Speaker 12 (34:53):
You're jealous of That's like Johnny Manzel. Dude, you notice
he's not allowed to go to New York to see
his family.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
And he's like, I gotta go with that.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
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Speaker 3 (36:04):
How cool is that? Not bad? Not bad at all?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
All Right, Well, your words coming back to bite you.
We'll push that story back a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
But here's the.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Insta Trivia Raider running back. Raider running back Ashton Genty
became the fourth rookie with a touchdown run and touchdown
catch of fifty plus yards in the same game. Blank
is the last rookie to pull it off again. Raider
Rookie Ashton genty the running back. Fourth rookie with a
(36:35):
touchdown run and touchdown catch of fifty plus yards in
the same game.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Blank is the last rookie to pull it off.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
That's the Insta trivia. The answer, We'll get to it
and we will.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Do it next.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
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Speaker 3 (37:34):
It is the great Rick in Maryland. There between that
one and Kathy, I can't decide which is my new favorite.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
The amount of talent and they said overnight talk radio,
there's no talent.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
The most talented people are up late at night.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
It is I Bill Miller and you were locked in
on the Overnight show. Support the show, follow the podcast
and the Fifth Hour podcast Ben Malas Show podcast every day,
Fifth Hour podcast on the weekends. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Time Now for the Insta Trivia. Here we go back
to it. The Instana Trivia. Raider running back Ashton Genty
is the fourth rookie with a touchdown run in touchdown
(38:09):
catch of fifty plus yards in the same game. Blank
is the last rookie to pull it off. That is
the question.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
A bright spot in an otherwise dismal black hole of
a Raider season?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
The real black hole? What a mess?
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Holy crap, Although they did cost me a little cash
in that game.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Let's see, does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (38:33):
It's at Ben Mallard by the way, that's at Ben
Mahler if you want to send your answer in, although
you should have already sent it in. Santa Claus Guests
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Speaker 3 (38:54):
Very funny. Who else do we have you?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
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Speaker 3 (39:07):
Do you have an answer Lorena.
Speaker 11 (39:08):
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Speaker 3 (39:11):
No, it is not JT the wingman, said Nitro Tuggle.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
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two versus Kensa Cities.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 6 (39:26):
To the third.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Degree, this is one big Ben gets grilled a right,
Coopolo Ben.
Speaker 13 (39:34):
Over the weekend, the Miami Hurricanes celebrated their first college
football playoff berth with a defensive effort in a ten
to three road win at number seven Texas A and M.
And a lot of people think that this shows that
they are legitimate title contender.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Do you agree? Uh No, I don't. I mean, listen,
that was a nice win. It was an ugly game
and all that.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
I'm not there on Miami yet. You gotta have more
on offense and I don't think they do what you
gotta see my bracket, Coop, I gotta fill out management.
Scott contacted me. I have to fill out a bracket,
so you'll I don't want to give my bracket away, Coop,
as you do, but I'm not.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
I'm not on board with the Hurricanes winning the whole thing. Next.
Speaker 13 (40:16):
So a lot of people say that Caleb williams heroics
against the Packers on Saturday should silence the doubters. Ben,
you you have been one of those doubters. Have you
been silenced?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Well, I was silence Coop. I did not do shows.
We did the podcast, but we didn't talk about that game.
So I was technically silenced over the weekend on Caleb Williams. No,
it's nice, but he's you gotta play like that the
whole game. He has these stretches where he's great and
the rest of the game he stinks. It's problematic. But
I'm the bad guy because I'm pointing that out. Okay,
(40:50):
And yeah, do I take some cheap shots at the
nail polish?
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Yes, I do. Next.
Speaker 13 (40:54):
Late last week, Lebron James was asked about the play
of Keante George of the Utah Jazz and the said,
I'm the wrong guy to ask about that. I watch
YouTube golf these days, and a lot of Lakers fans
are concerned that his motivation is waiting Ben.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Should they be concerned about that?
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I thought Lebron looked great on Saturday Coop, my favorite Laker.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Game all year against the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
What a wonderful game, and we had it on the background.
I was not watching it, but the Clippers were leading
the whole game. But yeah, Lebron, I wouldn't be worried
about that. I'd be worried about some other Lebron.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
So how do we go? How'd we do pass?
Speaker 5 (41:28):
That is?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
They went put it on the board.
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