Hour 2 - All About the Clout

Ben Maller talks about Rams WR Puka Nacua calling NFL referees 'the worst' saying they make calls to be on TV, the fallout from Puka's rant, Geno Smith saying he expects to 'win a lot of games' as a Raider, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you do? It's our number two, our number two,
and it's all about the stream, the Internet stream RAMS
wide receiver Puka Nikoua takes the center square here an
hour two of the Ben Mathers Show, calling NFL referees
the worst says they make calls sometimes just to be

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on television. Can you unscramble this one? Also? What is
the fallout going to be from RAMS wide receiver Pooka
Nakua's referee rant? And how do you evaluate Geno Smith's
status with our raiders as he talked about his future
making it seem like he has a future in Las Vegas.

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we are back at it again here this hour. And
where we go? How about we go to La La Land.
The l Ams they're taking on the Seattle Seahawks. It's
say kind of a big game. Told, it's a big deal.
It's the Thursday night NFL game. That game though, taking
a back seat to the subplot. And as the Rams

(03:28):
had their flight delayed, We're supposed to have this, I think,
said prayer for the Rams. I mean had sent a
plane has some mechanical issues that never happens when you
travel it never I've never had any issues traveling. Planes
have always been on time. I've never had to sit
at airports and wait for plants at all. Anyway, get
to a point. So the Rams are in Seattle now

(03:50):
show down with the Seahawks. On Thursday night. They made
headlines on the socials. Well I say they at one
of their players did at least Pooka no Kua guy
came out of nowhere and it's like, did this guy
dial the wrong number? Who's Pooka? And Nakua. This guy's
not that good. Well, he is that good ball of
fire for the ai R Rams and apparently a ball

(04:12):
of fire off the field as well as if you
have not heard yet and perhaps perhaps not Rams wide
receiver Pooka to Koua, taking aim at NFL officials, calling
them the worst. He did this all on camera. Now,
was this on ESPN? Was this on Fox? Was this
on CBS or NBC or Amazon? No? He did it

(04:37):
on an internet stream a couple of internet streamers no
one's ever heard of. They're like fake stars. Anyway. He
went on a rant. Do we have the rant? I
think we might have the rent. I don't know that's
it we do. Thes are the worst because there's some
of the rules aren't then, like these guys want to
be These guys are lawyers and like real they want
to be.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
On TV too, brother, like the game, you don't think
he's he's texting his friends in.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
The group chat, like yo, you guys just saw me
Sunday night football like that. That wasn't p I like,
but I called it was serious? Did you do that?
I mean, these guys are noble human beings too, all right,
So that was that was most of it, if you
could understand, he said. The rest of the worst. These
guys are lawyers. They want to be on TV too,
Like pok was like, ah, they're in group text and like, hey,

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you see me on Sunday Night Football. All right, So
one of the hosts also mentioned that Pooka could be
fine for saying what he said, and very calmly, Pooka
Naku responded to one hundred percent. So that is a
good jumping off point. This stuff's gone viral. So let's
discuss the question rams wide receiver Puka Nicou going off

(05:44):
the reservation calling NFL referees the worst, saying that they
make calls to be seen on television. Can you unscramble
this one as we attempt to seize the hour to
win the hour. So my observations, I have CBS, Neon highlighter,
and shrimp cocktail, and we will combine all of these

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things together and we are going to be honor bound
as we play Connect three. That's what we're going to do.
So number I said number one. All right, So Puknaku
did not break news. He did not uh, he broke
the fourth wall, mom Man the fourth wall. He got

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all slobbery, slapper slaughter, slobbery, calling NFL referees the worst.
That is not some kind of scandal. It is a confession.
It is a trip to the confessional booth. We're not
talking about a modern day watergate here. It was human
nature with a Wi Fi signal. Right. Officials are people too.

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They're not gas pumps. They're actual people. They have egos,
they have friends, they have text messages, they have social
media group chats, they have mirrors, and they have a
deep desire to be seen. Now a lot of them
serve as mouthpieces for the NFL. That's fine, but anyone
pretending otherwise is selling air fried food. Puka just set

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the quiet part into a live stream. Well chasing. See,
the thing that's interesting is not that he said this,
it's the way that he said it, trying to get
some clout, some cool points. It was like a like
a puppy dog chasing a laser pointer. And he was
He wasn't auditing the officiating. He was auditing or I

(07:40):
guess auditioning is the word for the for the Internet.
He wanted to he wanted to be popular. He's clearly
a major fanboy for these I don't know who these
two Jabbronis are, but he's a big fanboy for these guys,
these internet streamers. And you got an NFL star, a
top level wide receiver, one of the five top receivers

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in the NFL. Pooka NAKA trying to sit with the
cool kids, and in his mind, football players are not cool.
He'd much rather be a streamer. So he gets to
sit down and have a lunch date with these two guys,
nodding along, laughing out loud, hoping that he'll be accepted
by these two dopes. So it's so good. It wasn't

(08:24):
really rebellion. It was in doctrination into the matrix. Pooka
such a fan of these internet streamers that he went
down to the local CBS pharmacy and he got his
prescription and swallowed the red pill. And the rabbit hole
has been entered, and wonder Land is unlocked for Pooka,
and the Rams knew about it. Sean McVay, the RAM

(08:48):
head coach, crossed his arms like a bouncer guarding bottle
service as Pooka attempted to bring the influencers into the
Ram facility. And McVeigh said, on the influencer, a short week,
no content farm at the facility and football first. You

(09:08):
can chase clout later. So Puka Nakua said, Okay, you
don't want them there, I'll just go I'll go meet
them somewhere else and pook us right. Though. Referees obviously
they love the spotlight. And there's some referees you see
on TV. You know when they're doing a game, there's
going to be twelve to fifteen penalties in that game.
Of course, the argument has always been that you can

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buy the letter of the law call the penalty on
every play. In the NFL, at least one person is
effing up on every play, So it becomes a case
of do you go by the spirital law or the
letter of the law. By the letter of the law,
you can tear up the dance floor and call penalties
on every play because somebody's holding, somebody's grabbing, someone's lined

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up the wrong way. There's all those little the minutia
of the rule book where you can call penalties on
every Now, obviously you can't do that because the game
will go on forever. So there's this this yin and yang,
there's this nip and talk about how much do you call?
What do you do? It's like a game of tug
of war? How far do you go? And then, of course,
the other argument is if the referees called no penalties,

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they'd get in trouble, wouldn't they. Now if the NFL
officials said we're not. And there have been there have
been one. There was one game earlier this year where
there's hardly any penalties called and like nobody died, it
was everything was okay, life went on. There's this like
you have to be justified for your salary because they
get paid a lot of it's part time job, but
they get paid a lot of money. They get travel

(10:37):
expenses paid for and all that stuff. So it's it's
one of those it's like, well, okay, so you've got
to justify the amount of money that you're you're being
paid even though it's a part time gig, and so
you have to call penalties and all that stuff. And anyway,
the end game on this, well, right now you can
get a fine, a tax deductible donation to an NFL

(11:00):
charity of your choice. And the refs do love the spotlight.
They just don't love being told told that, so they'll
be a fine now, page two, continuing the hour of Pooka, Pooka, Pooka, Pooka.
All right, so pin the tail on the Pooka. What's
the fallout from rams wide receiver Puka Nakua and his

(11:21):
referee ran. Now, we mentioned there'll be a donation, small
donation to NFL charities. They're attacked deductible. But this was
an Emmy winning performance that nobody asked for. Now, Yeah,
I have no problem with this kind of stuff I get.
I always say this. I put this qualifier that I
have a daily talk show to do every night I
come in here, and if everyone just did what they're

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supposed to do, what fun would this job be? It
wouldn't be any flight at all. So it's an Emmy
Award winning performance by Pooka as in mental error me,
mental error unforced, self inflicted, self inflicted. It's kind of
like spiking the ball on first down? What are you doing?
What are you doing? And he didn't pull any punches here, Pooka.

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He ignored the Teddy Roosevelt rule book talk softly, carry
a big stick. Instead, he grabbed a megaphone and was
tap dancing on top of a rake and said, look
at me, everybody, I'm the clown. Look at me. I'm
gung ho. Here we go. I'm juggling. I'm juggling. I'm joggling,
all right. So he obviously wadded again these internet streamers love.

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He chased that streamer c Puka Nakoa, and he ended
up spilling some tea to try to get in the
good graces with these two people I've never heard of.
And now now he has just put a Neon green
highlighter on his jersey. Spotlight blazing, spotlight ba lazing, big brother.
The league office, they pay attention to this stuff. The officials,

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you know they heard about it. So Pooka's tempting fate here.
You just did the belly whopper into the devil wide
out pool, the deep end of the diva whiteoutpool. So
no lifeguard on duty. Move on over, old Dell Beckham.
There's a new character actor in town, and his name
is Pooka and cool. And now we love the player,

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a great ballplayer, good game, all that stuff. We love.
The quirks. He doesn't like vegetables. I don't like vegetables.
He doesn't even like fruit. I'm okay with most fruit,
but he didn't like fruit. Either he's on the chuck
e cheese diet is what he's on there, or some
kind of Neanderthal diet. As for the fall out, we
mentioned the fine there. If Pooka balls out in the

(13:34):
game here on Thursday night and the Rams win, this
story fades away, It fades into thin air. It's a
cute little sidebar. And that's that. If they lose, or
if Pooka plays poorly and they win, it will be well,
he slapped the whammy, no whammy, no wammy, big money,

(13:56):
big money and no wammy stop. Well, if they lose,
then it's like, well he put the whammie on the season,
and I will get wrong team mark it down. I
will guarantee you that that happened. Like they'll say, oh,
the Rams lost because of Pooka going on a live stream,
which like ninety eight percent of football fans don't watch,
and so it's not real crossover crowd the people that

(14:18):
have season tickets to NFL games and the people watching
internet streamers. But if it does happen to like the
jinx is applied, season karma in a negative way has
been activated, I redy know. I'll tell you right now.
No Stradinas has those comments saved in his draft, on
his on his ex He's got those ready to go.
He's gonna fire those off as soon as the game ends,

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as he'll be like, okay, let's set time to jump
through the hoop here and try to bust mallards balls.
All right, final point, We move away from Pooka and
we head to Vva Las Vegas. Viva Las Vegas, as
we were say, mile amitt it. We go to Vegas
where Gino Smith of the Raiders, who currently would have

(15:00):
the number one overallfen Sho. Gino Smith addressed the long
standing chatter that's been going on for a couple months now,
is Gino actually going to be a one and done Raider?
His time with the Raiders has not gone very well.
He was asked about staying in Lost Wages Nevada for

(15:21):
the duration of his contract, as the Raiders are the
worst team in football right now. He said, quote, he
is expecting to win a lot of games here, he said,
I'm expecting to win a lot of games here close quote.
All right, So the question how do you evaluate Geno
Smith's status with the Raiders? All right? So here here's

(15:46):
how I would evaluate this is a it's a storm,
it's stormy with a splash of shrimp cocktail, looks fancy,
smells fishy and risky, Gino. In Vegas, if there's anyone
there with a pulse, and who knows if there is

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anyone with a pulse. The way the Raiders are being
run by Tom Brady, it doesn't look like there's anyone
there that knows what they're doing. Man the lifeboats. The
ship be sinking anyway, Gino, if you look at what
he's done here, you got to think that in Vegas,
this is the last supper before the buffet closes, and
certainly not the start of some kind of great dynasty.

(16:28):
This is not a charity. I believe it's not a charity.
The Raiders are not a in the witness protection program
for quarterbacks who ran out of runway, and so they'll
just pick up another suck bag quarterback and try to
get lightning in a bottle. We'll call it what it is.
Gino does not have not a leg to stand on.

(16:50):
He does not have a Pro Football reference page or
a Wikipedia page to fall back on under any and
I mean any reasonable measurement, Geno Smith stinks. He does
thirty third rand quarterback. You don't need the rankings. You
just watch the games. Just pay attention to the games.

(17:10):
If you're blind, just listen to the games. Geno Smith
is worse than a handful of quarterbacks who've already been benched.
They've already been demoted for malfeasance to a tongue of
iy loa more on him later. He was benched by
the Dolphins, justin fields with the Jets, he's out. Spencer Rattler,
New Orleans got benched, Kyler Murray got benched, and they

(17:32):
all had better numbers than Geno Smith. So it's like
finishing last in a race and you finished last and
half the field pulled hamstrings. Well, how did you finish
last when half the people just pulled It doesn't make
any sense. They pulled the hamstrings. This theme song is
from the trash Men. For Geno Smith, the bird is

(17:55):
the word. The bird is the word. And that's what
he did. He gave the raider fans the bird on
his way off the field. And that's the signature moment
of Geno Smith. If this was a Vegas residency, If
Gino Smith was a Vegas residency, like Penn and Teller,
Carrot Top or something like that. They would have to

(18:16):
offer refunds after day three, and let's give money back
day three. Here Gino got his shot and he was
the flavor of the week, and he fetched it all away.
The dew Hickey did not work. And if this thing
goes sideways anymore, it's already gone sideways. Tom Brady should

(18:37):
go down to Low's. My advice, professional advice from overnight
Talk radio. Tom Brady should go down to Low's in
a fever pitch and buy a giant gas powered leaf
blower and clean away all the leaves and all the
things around his house there, loud and proud with zero sentiment,

(18:57):
zero sentiment, and just go, just go for it. It's
just such a bleeping mess, just a bleeping mess. And
Tom Brady he's seeking El Dorado with the Raiders, like
I'm gonna figure this thing out. I'm gonna find my
pot of gold and not the case. It is the

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Of the door into the slow when oh yeah, another
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Mike in Florida. It's a big state. I guess he
just wants to represent the entire state. I love Florida,
You love all of Florida? Yes, because Florida is like

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four or five different states. It depends have you spent
a lot of time there, because you've got like Miami's
like kind of like New York, right, you got that,
Orlando's got its own vibe, Tampa's got its own vibe,
and then you've got the redneck riviera where Jed who
Fled lives. Yeah, I technically have only been to like
the Orlando area where Disney is, and then we're like
pert Canaveral is. But okay, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
I feel like I like it.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
I like the look of it on the map.

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And then there's the other part I've not been to,
like Fort Myers, where I think Tony Bruno Fox Sports Radio,
a legend, forefather of Fox Sports Radio. I believe he
lives in Fort Myers, and so that area. I've not
been down there much. But anyway, that's the deal. But
man Mike asked, he said, well you have, He said,
inca terror has been a judge on the Mallard Palooza

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a couple of times. And you say, he's a classically
trained musician, And Mike was wondering why he hasn't sent
a Christmas song in And I think it's rather obvious
he's not inco terror A. He's a professional musician as
far as we know, and he he's not a singer.
He just like he plays the piano. Right, that's his
that's his deal, which is very difficult to do at
a high level, and that's his thing. So if he

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were to make a song, we'd have to pay him.
We don't have any budget for that. So uh And
normally the songs we have are just people singing. That's
usually how that goes. So it's not it's not that deep.
Mike and Inca. Terror loves the show and he listens
as often as he can, and we appreciate alf. The
alien Opiner rights In says, if I only had a

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nickel for every time the late night drug tester has
told me how hard it is to be an overnight
radio caller. This job is not that easy. Late night
drug Tester of the aforementioned right sinces, I think, I
really think Gino is going to win a lot of
games in Vegas if he sticks with the penny slots.

(25:24):
They have a ninety percent or better payout rate. Yeah,
that's that's completely completely wrong, but it's a way to
go completely wrong. That's the way to go. Fact, if
you look at the numbers from the Nevada Gaming Commission,
just in Nevada, the place where the casino makes the

(25:44):
most revenue penny slots. Penny slots, they make more money
from that than anything, and it's often by a wide margin.
I haven't looked at the numbers recently, but it's often
by a wide margin. No, that's right, Nostredina rights in
all those little grandmothers who are like rubbing the slot
machine for good luck. You know, they do that whole

(26:05):
thing up and down, right and left, up and no
Streetia says, Ben finally stated something correct about me. I
do have lots of comments, all cueued up. Yeah, no,
I know, I know, I know you're ready to go here.
I know if the first time Pooka drops a pass,
no stredenus, he's got a comment ready to go. Rams
lose the game because Poka doesn't play well. Told you so.

(26:25):
A season ruined by by the stream, No Streetia says.
Last week Pooka livestream from the locker room against NFL rules,
pissed off his teammates, and now he insulted the referees
before the most important game of the season. What a moron,
he said, and he he of course loves it. Of
course everything you said is accurate. The one advantage the

(26:49):
Rams have, Sam Darnold is playing for Seattle. That is
always the ace in the hole. You're going against the
one and only Sam Donald. And when you're going against
Sam Donald, life's pretty good. Life's pretty good when you're
going against Sam Donald. In honor of no Stridinas, let
me see, I got I got a bunch of notes,
he let me see, I can find I saved one here,

(27:11):
and I was gonna use this later on, but I
think I will do it right now in honor of Nostradinis,
because here we go. This is this is an amazing
it's a fun fact, a Ben Mallor Show fun fact.
Are you ready for a fun fun fact? All right? So, uh,

(27:31):
Sam Donald throwing into tight windows the past three weeks
oh for nine, oh for nine, And if you go
back the last couple of weeks prior to that, he
is two for twenty, throwing into tight windows for sixty
nine yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. And before that

(27:56):
game against the Rems, that's when everything fell apart, and
that was when glass Slipper became a crappy old shoe
and that was the witching hour for Sam Donald. Before
that he was the top ranked quarterback in the NFL,
throwing into tight windows. However, since then he is seeing ghosts.

(28:19):
I'm seeing goos. Inconsistent, very very inconsistent. Absolutely, we'll take
some calls here. It is a call in show, plausibly,
a call in show with ask Ben coming up a
little bit later. Let's say hello to any meanie miney mode.

(28:40):
Let's go down to the redneck riviera and we say
a loa to Jed who fled. Hello, Jed, Welcome.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
I'm gonna think it was a regular car out show
kind of good job with you, dude, That'd be my
kind of job. I can't dang time with the Chiefs fans.
It is upon all things word Chance, it's this chief
name and the skin mascot I got up there in
Kansas City is bringing up playing and didn't they start
doing the work Chance in a skin Walker's transpersons down

(29:06):
aping and I'm not all about cannability. Kansas City is
destroying the four second versal program and Patrick Huts is
playing a big part of it, dude, And that's why
you get a fat belly Satan set the follow of
our Lives. He said, Hey, you're you're you're playing with
the dad bought eating other pump tart and he does it, dude,
he wished he was probably playing the pump tart bowl.
I wouldn't mind that. I don't mind that at all.

(29:27):
How you doing right, man? You'll have to answer, well, yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Jed, take it. Take a brak for first of all
bad mascot knowledge by you.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
I went to ally to Josh that I'm Ben Mallars. Sorry,
no whit out ye is his cousin. I'm sorry, I.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Said, I went to for the first time last year.
You're over modulate you. You're yelling in your overmodulate. I
don't even know if he know what that means, but
you're popping the phone. Take a breath, make fun of him.
Calm down. Coming. So the Chiefs mascot is not skin
Walker or whatever. It is one of the great fat mascots,
underrated mascots.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
K C.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Wolf is the mascot at Arrowhead That is a boss.
That is a fat obese mascot and one of the
all time great highlights when some DRABBRONI ran on the
field that arrowhead years ago and Casey Wolf like a
knight in shining armor or a mascot in a fat suit,
ran over and jumped on top of This guy was outstanding.

(30:25):
He aided security guys like twenty years ago. This guy
aided security guards and taking down a fan that ran
out in the field. One of the great highlights in
NFL history.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
A listening audience then just damed himself and just kind
of his argument with DRABRONI the Rock says, no, he's right,
you should listen to me.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
I didn't date myself. I watched it. I watched it
on YouTube. I wasn't alive when that happened.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
You know, I'll tell you this is that Damien though
in there. That's why that's the place to have it.
Travis Kelty, this Taylor Swift situation that had that girl
in the booth with him go to the Satan sign.
It all makes sense, dude, maybe more so than my
usual call. Absolutely, uh wait for it, wait for it.
I thought I was gonna go wrap it up. You know,
you said something about a dungeon earther. I could, and

(31:09):
obviously that's what I tell Jake's you said something about
a dungeon earlier and I just said I was thinking
of all tounions. I hadn't heard about fundions in a
long time. They got it in the bankruptcy. They think
a pill of dungeons from d to bottom of funions.
You call it funtion, Dude, tell me people would check
themselves in to get tortured the iur won earlier this week.
I love that guy called back in. If you're listening,
and please don't let this call it be an example

(31:31):
of the fill in radio material I'll be doing. And
when you find me out to La when Truth and
Ben are on set for the mau Show movie, And
uh I, what are the rocks like there at the studio?
Is the doors work pretty well? How long? Could I?
How long? Got four or five myself in there?

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, yeah, we've got we've got bank fault doors in
the studio. We have professional it's like going into a
bank in the back ye large stores.

Speaker 6 (31:56):
You think your teammates were on game day or whatever,
they were having meals together. We're trying to help the
team by not inviting you to the meal.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yes, they were trying. They were trying to help team
are out by not inviting the host of the show.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
I mean you were there was a whale position, you're
playing soccer, you're pretty round that you just I was
was cool? Were you left here? I gotta I gotta
go take all You've.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Been on there way too long. You do like twenty
minutes of content in like ninety seconds, like you're you're
all over the map. Okay, that's that's a Jed who
fled call right there. That's how that works. I did
see some more rumors the Chicago Bears are threatening to
leave Illinois and go to Northwest Indiana. And it's all
they're fighting for tax dollars. I guess the Illinois politicians. Now,

(32:43):
I have some family in Chicago, and I don't live
there obviously, but I have a family there. And then
it's the legend you have to have family there and
wet a bunch of listener tree. You fee me all
the guys in Chicago that are fans of the show.
And the politics in Illinois is essentially, yeah, if you
want something done, and this is true most places in America,
you just have to buy off politicians. It sounds like

(33:04):
the Bears haven't bought off the right politicians to get
what they want. So now they're like, well, we can
go to Indiana and maybe they'll pay us, they'll buy
us off, and then we'll be good on that. So
they're threatening to move just across. I guess it's like Gary, Indiana.
This was a rumor a couple months back. It's back again,
the Bears threatening to leave a Soldier field. They were

(33:26):
supposed to go out to the Arlington Heights area, which
is like a race track. Actually, have my relatives in
Chicago live in that part. In fact, the one of
the my my cousin's husband, he's a big Bears fan,
and he's all fired up. He's like, Oh, if they
move out here, it's like right near the house, I
don't have to go downtown. It's he's all excited about that.

(33:46):
And he used to have season tickets. I don't think
he has season tickets anymore to dub Bears. Dub Bears.
All right, let's let's see blah blah blah blah blah,
Nostrada says, as a rebuttal to Ben's misguided fun factor
about Sam Donald's last three games. He forgot to mention
Sam led the team in all three games to wins.
That's a truly fun fact. No, that's not a fun fact.

(34:08):
That's not actually a fun fact. The reality is he
played terribly in the first half of the Atlanta game,
lucky to win. That barely beat a forty four year
old quarterback that was coaching high school football in the
boondocks of Alabama prior to playing quarterback for the Indianapolis
Colts last week. That things are not going well. You're

(34:30):
in denial. You are in denial. You know someone who's
not in denial. That would be Lucky Tony, And Lucky
Tony is next on the Ben Mathers Show. Hello, Lucky Tony, welcome,
Hey man.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
I like my Bears football, like I like my host
smash Mountain six thing.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
All right, there he goes, Lucky Tony. That's called a
quick hitter on and off. And as always with Lucky Tony,
you don't know if it makes the air or not.
Stay tuned. If you didn't hear it, you'll hear it
on the podcast. That's how he operates and that's the
way it goes. So this is an amazing factoid, not
a fun fact, a factoid. There's a difference between a
fun fact and a factoid. So there's a report going

(35:09):
around that the NFL team that has the smallest local viewership,
meaning the town where nobody gives a you know what
about the hometown team.

Speaker 6 (35:20):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (35:21):
You know what team it is? You want to take
a guess here? What team it is?

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Here?

Speaker 1 (35:25):
You think the Bengals. Loraina is going to Bengals. So
this is the smallest local viewership. Do a round robin.
Coopy won in on this the smallest local TV audience
in the NFL this season. Oh okay, this season. I'm
gonna go, dude, let's go Commanders. All right, Coop says Commanders.

(35:51):
Loraina says Bengals. You lock your bed in and reveal answers.
Reveal answers. The Raiders. Yea, The Raiders have the smallest
local viewership in television, according to report. They this is
amazing to me. We have more people listening in the
middle of night, where we have tons more people listening

(36:13):
to the show live in the middle of the freaking
night than the Raiders have watching in Vegas. The Raiders
average eighty two thousand viewers per game on Sunday. That's it.
That's all in Vegas. Lowest local viewership now obviously we're national,
We're on six hundred radio stations. But still the Raiders,

(36:36):
oh man, they got that shiny new stadium that it's
everybody in the stadium is a tourist. Yeah, it's like
a Vegas residency. The Raiders are essentially like, they're no
different than when eventually Taylor Swift will do a residency
in Vegas, right, or Britney Spears did one, or I
don't know who's doing them now, but they go to
cod to Vegas for a couple of months. The Raiders

(36:57):
every year go to Vegas for a couple of months
do a residency. That is an unbelievably low number of
people watching them.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
If you're not at the game, you're not gonna you're
not gonna watch it, you know, because you're in Vegas,
you're doing other things.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Well, if you live there, it's just home, right, if
you live in Vegas, well right.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
But that's that's what I'm That's what I'm saying, is
that the Raiders have no actual local fans.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, you know, it's true. It's just right now. I
can hear, I can hear our buddies in Oakland say,
what the f we love the Raiders in Oakland. I
can't blive me, what are you doing? Because I don't
know that anyone's watching them when they were in Oakland
either on television. I know they had a very passionate
group of fans. But uh, that is that is a stunning,
stunningly low number, is what it is? All right, Spent

(37:41):
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(39:44):
right now. You can be part of this a couple
of different ways. Now, there's there's the ease drop in
you're kind of in the back of the room. You're listening,
you're kind of spying.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
It's like when you're at the grocery store and somebody
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A bunch of random names. George Seffert was guessed by Matt.
That seems like a legitimate guest. Don Trula's kid was

(41:21):
guessed by Steve in Missouri. Let's see here E Warrior
from malor prop guy Jonathan Coachman from Alftia, Lorraina. Do
you have an answer? It's Curly Lambeau of all people,
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Speaker 2 (41:36):
Wow.