Hour 2 - Chirp Chirp

Ben Maller talks about Donovan McNabb urging the Eagles to trade A.J. Brown amid "toxic culture" brewing in Philadelphia, Bruce Arians' criticism of J.J. McCarthy's alter ego "Nine," the chances LeBron skips a retirement tour, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dingdal. It's our number two. Our number two is ready
for you here an hour two. What is your verdict
on Donovan McNabb urging the Eagles to trade aj Brown
even though the trade deadline has already passed. He talked
about the toxic culture brewing in Philadelphia. We will psychoanalyze

(00:22):
Donovan McNabb. Also is Bruce Arian's criticism a Vikings quarterback
JJ McCarthy and his alter ego of nine fair or foul?
And what are the chances in basketball that Lebron James decides,
you know, I'm just gonna skip out on that whole
retirement tour and I'm just gonna sit here and just
retire at the end of the season. What are the

(00:43):
chances of that We'll get to that as well. All
of it's coming away right now here. It is our
number two. It's always fun when old quarterbacks you talked
about years ago returned to feed the content machine. We
had one of those NFL corps from days of yore
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crown is yours in our lead this hour from the
ongoing Days of Our Lives drama in the Delaware Valley.
We go to phil Delphia where the Eagles trying to

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get off the schneide. They a twenty one point lead
on the road at Dallas. Bad job, bad job by them.
Now this cloud was an ominous cloud with wide receiver A. J.
Brown throwing jabs at the quarterback frustrated with the Eagles offense.

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There you had former Philadelphia Eagle Donovan McNabb who has
entered the chat, McNabb urging the Eagles to say bye
bye to AJ Brown. Do you see this? Yeah? I know,
I know. Well he's like the trade him or whatever.
The trade deadline has already passed, so that's not gonna happen.

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If you didn't see it, Donovan McNabb popped up on
Philly's sports radio, So put anyone on Philly Sports Radio,
So they put McNab up there. He called in earlier
this week and he used as an example a point
of reference. He used his former coach and now the
coach of the chiefs Andy Reid, as an example. Is

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that Andy trying to explain why a toxic culture can
hurt the entire team. McNabb said quote, among other things,
he said, it's when you start bringing pieces in that
the toxic talk starts to create a bad aura around
the team when discussing AJ Brown. So that is a

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good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question, what
is your verdict on Donovan McNabb urging the Eagles to
unload AJ Brown because of the toxic culture brewing in Philadelphia.
It must be in the water supply. So my observations
on this, I've got South Park x men and a

(04:47):
Windy's Frosty, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are gonna make the Gabba Ghoul with
a side of Baba Ganoosh is what we're going to make. Yeah,
all right, so number one, number one. Yes, So we
agree that the relationship between A. J. Brown and the

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Eagles is crack a lacing like the old pavement there.
If you've been to Philadelphia on the Vine Street Expressway
right there in downtown Philadelphia, it's it's not looking good.
It's not looking good. And we love it. From a
talk radio standpoint. We're not Eagle fans, so we think
it's just freaking great. Uh, that AJ and the Birds

(05:29):
are heading towards Splitsville and how Howie Freeman, Howie Freeman,
Howie Roseman, the GM of the Eagles there who's loves
the camera and broadcasters love him. This was a misstep
by the Eagles front office. They had offers, standing offers
to trade AJ Brown, and they're hubris. They're like, oh no,

(05:50):
we don't need to do we can we can navigate
this well. Okay, we'll see if you're correct or not.
It doesn't look like you're navigating it very well at
this particular point. You know, I'm gonna keep this guy.
And so they are heading towards Splitsville in Philadelphia, but
the trade deadline has passed. Now that said, you are

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not the guy, Donovan McNabb. You're not the guy to
give the state of the Bird's address when it comes
to the relationship between Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown. Here's why,
because you are the former quarterback who needed a birf
bag in the Super Bowl, a literal barf bag, vomit

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in the air everywhere in Jacksonville against the Patriots. We
don't forget, we don't forget keeping it real. It's not
really analysis by Donovan McNabb. The former Eagles quarterback. No, no,
this is unresolved. Trauma is what this is. It is
t O Terrell Owens broke Donovan McNabb's spirit so much.

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He did it before social media. Social media was not
really a thing the way that it's become now. It's
the matrix, it's the full matrix. It was people dabbling
in that world, but it was nothing like it is today.
Right when that was going on, they were able to
go mano amano toe to toe, eye to eye, belly
to belly without social media. McNab on one side and

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Owen's on the other. And so it wasn't documented in
memes and gifts and all that stuff. It wasn't There
weren't bot farms in Maldova that were keeping track of
everything and weaponizing all that. So t O for McNab
was the horror movie villain for mister McNabb there, and

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he can hear the theme music in the back of
his head. It's just it's it's subtle, but it's there.
It's kind of like in the background. And so now
he sees aj Brown McNab he's not played in years.
He sees Aj Brown and that triggers a flashback. Oh
so it's not only commentary so much from McNab as

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it's a therapy session disguised as a call into a
sports radio show from from Donovan. Here he's going cartman
from south Park and he's going cartman from south Park.
What does that mean? Well, why don't you show me,
Donovan on the doll where t o hurt your confidence?
Can you show me where? Okay, right right there? Okay

(08:23):
where else? Okay there to Okay, we'll see that. Yeah.
Uh So a J.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
A J.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Brown has been chirping, because that's what birds do. They chirp.
Trip trip trip trip trip trip trip trip. And uh
he's also been chipping the paint off the the Eagles.
They just won the Super Bowl a year ago with
A J. Brown. But he has been in Jalen Hurts
business in his face literally and figuratively. Toxic guy. Toxic guy.

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And from that standpoint, and normally, if your production is good,
you stick around. If your production is bad, you go away.
This is a career low in many areas for AJ
Brown this season. So the production is going down. And
McNabb referenced Tyreek Hill and he used Tyreek as an
example to make his case. He didn't bring up t Oh,

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mind you. He brought up Tyreek Hill and Andy Reid
getting rid of Tyreek in Kansas City and the Chiefs
continuing to win Super Bowls after Tyreek went off to Miami.
So he was a fifty to fifty ball kind of guy, right,
fifty to fifty maintenance, fifty to fifty ball and aj
brown stats are starting to go down, as mentioned, just

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a little subtle thing at this point. So there's that,
and Brown is problematic. McNabb though, is really projecting here.
And it's my analysis on this that Donovan McNabb is
projecting and Philadelphia's culture, the crack of lacking and all
that stuff. It's like the it's like if you go
to any gas station they have they all like if

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you're in Philadelphia, they have like the little Philadelphia souvenirs.
Very proud of the fact to the history of Philadelphia
in America, so they have like little souvenirs. At the
gas station. You can get a little replica Liberty bell
that has like the fake crack in it and all
that stuff. That's kind of what that is. The Liberty bell,
like the cheap ripoff toy that you get at some
gas station in Philadelphia. That's where that is not pay sue.

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We now go to former NFL coaches for a thousand. Please,
can I get former Bucks coach and Cardinals coach Bruce
Arians online? Yes? All right? So Bruce Arians unloaded unloaded
on the Minnesota Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy, Arians ripping McCarthy

(10:39):
demanding the former NFL coach demanding that the Vikings quarterback
ditch is very dramatic alter ego. And we talked about
in a previous episode of the show. Quote, we don't
need all this ball one two one thousand ship. We
don't need it. We don't need the bull bucket, the

(11:02):
bull pucky, we don't need it, don't want it. Talking
about the alter ego thing, Bruce Arians said it needs
to be a p he washed up. Former coach stated
accurate passer was the way he described it. Bruce Arians
saying that, and they paid appearance on YouTuber Pat McAfee show.

(11:24):
He said, you don't need snot bubbles and tears. The
former NFL coach stated, you play quarterback, not linebacker. He said, Okay,
we don't need all this bull shoy, the bullshoi ballet
I don't need it. I don't need it, he said.
So there you go. He said, you're just an effing quarterback.

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Play quarterback. That's all you're supposed to do. You're not
a linebacker. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Right,
so let us discuss the question. Is Bruce arians criticism
is Bruce arians criticism of Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy and
his alter ego nine, that's his alter ego nine, his
imaginary friend nine. Is that fair or foul? Fair or foul?

(12:16):
That's the question. So Bruce Arians, Now, we went back
and we watched the replay. We did an expedited review,
and Bruce Arians did not tiptoe into the take. He
didn't tiptoe into the take. He kicked the door off
the hinges is what he did. And he's right based
on a expedited review. Fair ball, fair ball, that's what

(12:40):
we call. Right. There you go, and nobody cares about
your inner spirit, animal, your imaginary pal, nobody cares about
that's it's not stage play. We're not on Broadway or
off Broadway. We're not doing that McCarthy's whole nine routine,
which is his jersey number. It's kind of like him

(13:03):
doing that and playing the way he's playing is akin
to sacking the quarterback while your team is down fifty
five to nothing and then doing the river dance after
you've sacked. Well, you could do the river dance after
you sacked the quarterback down fifty five. It doesn't generally
look that good. You know. It's not a great look.

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And this does not fire the guys up. The whole
alternative persona doesn't fire anybody up. In fact, it makes
a lot of people roll their eyes like, like, what
a douche, What an absolute JABBRONI this guy is? You
talk about Schmendrick and look it up. This is a
Mama Luke if there ever was a Mama Luke. And
Justin Jefferson does not need drama. He needs the ball

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to be placed in a position where he can catch it.
He needs he needs completions, he needs yards and touchdowns
and all those things. He's not getting that, Justin Jefferson,
he's not. And so let me tell you a little
bit from what I've learned over my years here behind
these microphones on how they make the sausage stuffed pigskin.

(14:08):
How do they do it how do they make the
pigskin sausage. So the alter ego stuff, while it's lame
to the membrane, lame to the membrane. The way it
works is it's fine if you're good and people are India,
it works if you win. You know, Aaron Rodgers is

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mysterious and he's a deep thinker. And then when he
doesn't win, he's a whack a doodle. He's a jackwagon
and a cuckoo for cocoa Puff's guy is what he is.
And if you and so that's the word, it's the
same name. I say. If you lose your JaMarcus Russell,

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your Ryan Leaf doing cosplay as those guys, that's just
the way it is. And so you become Bozo the clown. Congratulations,
you are Bozo the Clown. And right now, JJ McCarthy,
I'm going up the ladder here looking down at the room.
JJ McCarthy. The Viking quarterback is a founding member of

(15:16):
x men. Did you know that? You didn't know that? Okay, well,
have you learn something new when you listen to late
night radio. He's not nine. He's a founding member of
x men. He actually iceman. That's it. He's iceman, and
he's a mutant, doesn't play like a mutant. He's a
mutant that was born with superhuman skills. Congratulations. McCarthy has

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the ability to manipulate the ice and cold by freezing water.
He takes water vapor and freezes it and then in
the process has absolutely destroyed any kind of good mojo.
The Minnesota Vikings happen to have their drives with wobbly
throws and just so bad. The Vikings often don't even

(15:59):
bother throwing because they don't will be an incompletion. So
why would they do that? You know that that whole thing,
we don't want any part of that. Went another new
with that, So so there you go, and just horrible.
And Bruce Aaron's giving him the playbook. He's like, well,
ditch the whole theater thing, push that, push that off
to the side, get rid of the whole theater thing
like that. We don't need that, and and that's it,

(16:21):
and just throw completions and it's wild. He didn't look
at Michigan when I watched McCarthy, but I hadn't say, well,
this guy's an NFL quarterback. I didn't look like it
at all. The marketing campaign that has taken place over
the last fifteen years or so with these guys before
the draft. And it goes back to a previous point.
We talked about in a previous hour how dumb many

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people are working sports and they buy the marketing Like
there's my theory is they're so lazy that they just
like they don't do their homework and they just kind
of look at the Oh, this agent's really selling this guy.
He's got the whole work, the whole package. Like Kyler
Murray had no business being in he was the number
one overall pick in the draft because they sold Kyler

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Murray he can't play. The guy's a good gamer, he's
not a good quarterback. But they were able to sell
the Cardinals because there are a bunch of idiots there
the draft again, and now JJ McCarthy was not the
top pick in the draft, but the same concept applies
where he had no business being a first round pick.
You look at his resume, he said, well, they hardly
threw at Michigan. You know, this is a guy that
should have been drafted in the fifth or the sixth round.

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And even there you're like, well, probably not that great.
All right final point, we shift over to pro bouncy ball.
Why well, Lebron James. There was a report making the
rounds here that Lebron James is insisting through his posse
that he doesn't no, does not know if he will

(17:48):
retire from the Lakers after this current NBA season, a
story that was conveniently leaked by Camp Lebron, letting the
world know that this could that's a weasel word, could
be Lebron's last season. However, he's undecided me, yes, you

(18:10):
undecided there, and he might feel even more responsibility to
play in every game because he's God's gift of basketball
every game. And if it was like a retirement tour situation,
So let us talk about this one. The question what
are the chances? What are the chances is that Lebron

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James skips out on a retirement tour, that he just
quietly retires at the end of this season and says,
I'm gone, I'm going fishing. I know this a really
good lake back back in Ohio I love and I'm
just gonna go to that lake and that's just gonna
be it. And that's all. Yeah. So the malaradds the

(18:53):
Ben Malor Show malarods from the Malor Sports Book. These
are non official odds. These are Ben Malor Show odds.
Ron James skipping a retirement tour to quietly go away. Now,
I'm gonna be fair. The odds are gonna shock you. You
don't know where they are. Even Anthony and Anaheim doesn't
know what they are. The odds are zero point zero

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point zero zero zero zero zero percent. I'm talking buzz
Lightyear to Infinity and beyond Squad. Yeah, the whole thing.
Lebron James is not Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan snuck out
the fire escape at the Spurs facility wearing Dad jeans

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and holding a Windy's Frosty Lebron. Ain't that That's not Lebron. No, no, no, no,
this is the quinnessential prima Donna. Lebron James. He's addicted
to the spotlight. He's made tons and tons of money
doing it. He hears a basketball bounce, bouncy bouncy, bouncy
bouncy bouncy, and the camera lens opens up. It's who

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he is. He is not built. Lebron is not built
for an Irish goodbye. I'm not Irish, but I love
the Irish goodbye. You just leave and don't tell anyone. No,
Lebron's got the Hollywood goodbye. He's all about the Hollywood long, cinematic, dramatic,
tears soaked monologue filled farewell from Lebron. He's got to

(20:29):
have a lighting crew to the left. He's got a
big production budget, the whole thing, and he'll do the
Hollywood goodbye mix with the Minnesota goodbye. Do you know
what the Minnesota good You know, our friends in Minnesota
are shaking their head, They're nodding their head. Yes, I
know what a Minnesota goodbye. Yes, a Minnesota goodbye is.
You have to go around the room multiple times, circle

(20:50):
the room multiple times. Well, I really should get going.
I really should get going. Then you talk for thirty
more minutes. I really need to go. I got something
to do. I gotta make a stew But no, you stay.
That's it. The man once held at a boys and
girls club in Connecticut with Jim Gray, the great hang around.

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Jim Gray put together a show called The Decision for
the Children. You realize you can do anything you want
in the world as long as you say it's for
the children. No one questions them. Yeah, and so that's
not the guy that's going to retire quietly. Not that guy.
Pal that's hosting your own prom is what that is

(21:32):
from Lebron. It's hosting your own prom. It's hey, listen, Madonna,
bring back the Vogue song strike a pose. You just
got to strike a posed there. We're talking about mirror gazing,
belly button staring, four k HD, self worship with all

(21:53):
that stuff, like all of that like mix that in
together there and put that in there. Your own, your
own gulash, make your own gulash there. Lebron does not
walk away. He curates content for Lebron properties. He does.
He'll have merch, he'll have special emojis for the Lebron Goodbye,

(22:17):
can't wait. There'll be a Netflix camera crew there to
document everything, a docu series from Netflix. So again, Lebron's
not exiting through the escape the You know, our celebrities
will walk through the kitchen at rest at hotels or whatever,
like they'll try to sneak out the bank. Lebron's not that.
He's not leaving through the service entrance or exit. He's

(22:39):
going out on a red carpet. He wants everyone to
lick his toes and yeah, that's right. I get get Yeah,
that's it. I mean, that's the vibe you get right
under the toes, all that green gob of bacteria. Just
lick that right out and that's it and he'll be carried.
It'd be like you know that that video of the

(22:59):
the uneral. I think it's somewhere in Africa. I don't
know where, but they carry the casket. They're they're they're
pushing it up in the area. They're doing the whole thing.
Have you seen that clip? Yeah, justin and Cincinnati says,
sends that to me all the time, Louisiana. Yeah, I know,
I think there was one in It was like from
some country in Africa. But whatever, you've seen the clip online. Right,
that's how Lebron's gonna leave the NBA. Right, They're gonna

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be pushing them up, you know, dancing the whole thing
and the farewell tour is inevitable. It is the Ben
Mahlor Show. As we are just getting the party started
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So a lot to get to and your wonderful commentary
A Scrooge in the Younger Demo. He loves to brag
about that, he says, speaking of toe licking and ass kissing,
he says, I was hearing commentary commentators. I think he
meant to do that to Chris Paul talking about how
he's a Hall of Famer and what a great legacy question,

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Scrooge says, what the hell is Chris Paul's great legacy
other than choking in the playoffs? Well, his legacy is
that he was really nice to a lot of people,
and he was a great regular season player. And when
the lights got the brightest, it was like he was
in a sun tan booth and fell asleep and got sunburned,

(27:03):
unfort And it still blows my mind that the Lob
City Clippers did not win. Uh, And that was a
team set up to win. They had everything, and they
had they hired the wrong coach. I guess they didn't
have everything. Doc Rivers couldn't coach his way out of
a wet paperback. He's still making money as an NBA coach.
What a con artist? Doc Rivers says, holy crap. Seriously,

(27:25):
he's still getting paid as an NBA. Did you know that,
Doc Rivers has he's living off that Celtic championship where
he was carried by a certain player from Minnesota who
came to Boston and carried them to a championship, and
he's still the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. Doc frickin'
Rivers's that's wild. Ferg Dog says, hey, Ben Lebron could

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be Irish, for all we know. The black irishman proved
it is possible. That's fair point, fair point. Just Josh said,
Stranger things have happened, but I'd take eleven over nine
every freaking day of the week. JJ McCarthy is, and
he's quoting here. McCarthy's actually, well, Just Josh is quoting

(28:14):
the great quarterback cam Ward of the Tennessee Titans, saying,
we ass talking about McCarthy just being ass which would
be accurate and breaking news, breaking news from our buddy
Matt de Bears fan who sent me this. I have
really no idea what this thing is and I'm not

(28:34):
sure if it's legit or not. I don't know it's
from a website I've never heard of, and Matt said, hey,
you're in this thing. So I said, well, what is that?
I clicked on it and I was like, I was
kind of early in the morning and I clicked on it,
and I was like, I don't really know what that is.
It's like this tournament thing, and I'm like, I don't
really do tournaments, but I'll click on it. So I
clicked on it, and then they had the America's Best.

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That means it's good us all the rest best sports
talk radio and slash podcast. So this is like you
could vote on who the top thing, and we somehow
got in there. I mean, maybe there's a lack of
sports radio and podcasts. I guess I don't know what.
We got in there, and we knocked off in the
first round. We're in Division three. We took down a

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sports talk radio legend, the Mallard Militia, and again big
props to Matt the Bears fan, but the Mallard Militia.
We took down Chris mad Dog Russo from Mike and
the mad Dog in round one and we just eliminated.
Sorry to our guys in Seattle. Was Mallard versus Maller

(29:41):
in the second round. We took out Dave Softy Maller,
the sports radio legend in Seattle. We had to take
him out to Mallam Militia. And now we're going against
the sports junkies. I don't know if I know who
those guys are there in DC, but we're going ask
those guys, the sports junkies. So that's up next. And

(30:03):
we were setting this up. There's there's a there's a
good chance we're gonna get the Power Trip in the
next if we beat the sports junkies. I want to
get ahead of myself. You gotta take it one We
take it one game at a time. Of course, you
know we were somehow able to beat the sports junkies.
We're setting up for a steelcage death match against the

(30:24):
Power Trip, the big morning show in Minnesota. That packed
absolutely packed a bar in Vegas at four in the morning,
and I went on their show. So that could that
could be the matchup. You start looking ahead for TV ratings.
You know, a lot of this stuff is for television rating,
in our case is radio ratings. So think of that matchup.
But we got I don't want to get at or
we got to beat the sports junkie. We could lose.

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We could lose to the sports junkies. I don't want
that to happen. I don't want that to happen. But
that's that's where it's at. So the next round, Well,
you can't vote right now, so I'm not gonna bother
mentioning it. But the next round will be in a
couple of days. So that sounds like good podcast fodder.
In the meantime, let's go to the phones, and we
go to Vegas and everyone's favorite homeless person. Right now,

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we have a lot of great homeless callers with your
Obama phones. But let's say hello to mouth wash Mike.
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas, Hello, Mouthwash Mike. There
it is. I mean, listen, a lot you're calling all

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the time. Now you stop calling. You were in the hospital,
you were arrested, but now you're calling a couple times
a week we get to talk to you. How lucky
are we?

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Oh my gosh, I know it's probably because I'm going
through my period or something like that.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Well, listen, you must make to your shower and take
care of yourself. Please stay clean.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
You know, I think you're talking about Nelson Mandello and
you're talking about them putting that what well you're you're
talking about somebody who died in well, hold on, No.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
I was talking about there's a there's a like a
gift or me whatever of this this funeral and they're
carrying the casket and they're they're raising it up and
down like it's like a like a party.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
Yeah, you're talking about Nelson.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
No I did not mention Nelson Mandel. Okay, yeah, I
didn't see his his what what are you doing? What
the it's the coffin. The coffin dance is what it is. Okay,
it's it's going out with a dance, you know, do
a little dance and that whole thing. Yeah, they have

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souvenirs you can buy all that. I guess it's uh,
it's in Ghana, the Ghana dancing coffin pall bearers there
you go, all right, that's funny. Everyone has to have
a job, right to be productive in society. Not well,

(33:09):
not you, but everyone else has to have a job.
And so your I guess your job is calling sports radio.
Would that be correct? Your job?

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah? You know what that is?

Speaker 5 (33:17):
What it is right now?

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:20):
I hear you? And how's that working out for everything. Good.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, I'm old. I'm fort yeah, okay,
Vegas or whatever and uh and uh you know what
what what?

Speaker 3 (33:40):
So what?

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Why?

Speaker 5 (33:43):
Okay? As far as the Minnesota Vikings go, because I'm
from Minnesota, so I have to be I'm forced to
be a Vikings fan. Uh. You know, I think their
problem is they're paying one wide receiver way too much money.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
That is not their problem. Their problem is the guy
that they drafted to be the quarterback blows. That's the problem.
If McCarthy knew what he was doing, it wouldn't be
an issue.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
All right, all right, well, you know that's probably part
of it. But you know the okay then, yeah, maybe
there's two parts.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Of that, you know, A more important What are you
doing for Thanksgiving? You got plans? You're going down the.

Speaker 5 (34:33):
Oh jeez, yeah plans. I don't know. I'll probably get
some instant mashed potatoes and maybe a turkey sandwich.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Well that sounds like a wonderful Thanksgiving, really honoring the
history of America. In fact, with the Pilgrims when they
they had that big Thanksgiving dinner, they actually ate instant
mashed potatoes. A lot of people don't know that. They don't.
They don't realize that that they came across on the Mayflower.
They ate the instant mashed potatoes. It was very odd
that they would do that, but they did, and it

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was a peace offering. They gave him a turkey sandwich
with mayo and people love that. So yeah, all right,
we love your mouthwash, Mike, but I gotta go. Well man,
but you're there, thank you. All right, be safe out
there on the mean streets of Las Vegas. Be good. Well.
The one hundred percent guy that would be Lincoln Riley,

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who was asked about whether or not he's going to
leave to take one of these other big time coaching
jobs in college football. The Southern Cow coach Lincoln Riley
said that he is one hundred percent staying as the
USC coach, which means he's on a flight out to
where's he gonna go? Gainesville? Where's he going? No, he's
going Baton Rouge. But here is Lincoln Riley one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Leaving.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
No room. Didn't say ninety nine percent or ninety nine
point nine percent, said one. He said it. He said
one hundred percent. And I saw that. The former UCLA
coach Jim Mora, the son of the very nice Jim Mora,
the old man with his kid, Jim Mora will be
leaving Yukon going to Colorado State. How embarrassing is that

(36:13):
going to be for Dion? When Colorado State has a
better team than Colorado. That's not gonna go over well
for Dion. It is the Ben Maler Show. Time now
for the instat trivia, and then we will have Maler
to the thirty gree But here's the insta trivia. Blank
leads the NFL with thirty quarterback pressures in the fourth quarter.

(36:33):
Nobody has more in the fourth quarter. Again, Blank leads
the NFL with thirty quarterback pressures in the fourth quarter
of this season. That is the instant trivia. The answer next.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
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we get to Mallard the thirty Degree. Here's the instant trivia.
Blank leads the NFL with thirty quarterback pressures in the

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fourth quarter this season. And that is the question. What
is the answer? Tommy Kelly guests by Scrooge in the
Bay Area Angry Bill. He says, I hope he's okay.
I don't know what happened, angry, but I I don't know.
I hope he's all right. I haven't heard from him
in months. Who else? We have Jared Verse from Eke

(38:03):
and Roseville, Minnesota. Robbie the Mariner fan. Good image of
Robbie there from Rob the goat Man. Shanon Moyes says,
it's goat Man Rob Doc Dan in Minnesota, going with
the quiz Dan Quizzenberry Wally Gator from Donkey Sausage, that's
his answer. Huggy Bear from Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota,
Joe the Ghost Hunt going with mouthwashed Mike and his

(38:24):
Turkey sandwich. JT the wing Man says ed two tall Jones. No,
the correct answer is none other than Aiden Hutchinson of
the Detroit Lions. We got half of his sacks in
the fourth whour Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, thirty to sixty fresh degree.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
This is one big.

Speaker 6 (38:49):
Eagles all pro tackled Jordan Malita my lot whatever push
back against the notion that Saquon Barkley is quote in
a funk and stressed that the team struggles on offenses,
not on Saque. And how much blame do you think
can be put on the lack of production from Saque?

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Hundred percent? He had a career year. Extreme outcomes are
followed by more modern rous even say Quan's admitted he's
not playing that well, so I stopped covering for him.
The guy's not having a good year. It happens.

Speaker 6 (39:15):
Next, Briles landed his first college head coaching job since
he was fired from Baylor a decade ago, was announced
Monday that he will be leading Division two Eastern New Mexico. Ben,
do you think he could work his way back into
a job at a maja.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
The problem is his age. He would have to go
somewhere in the deep like South, but that they where
they would overlook pretty much anything if you can win
football games. So outside of that, good luck. I think
he's too old.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
Next, it was reported this week that part of the
reason Steph Curry decided to leave the under Armor brand
is due to their failed attempt at signing Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
You're buying that that sounds like an excuse to me, Coop.
If under if he was selling from when I've heard,
he's not, you know, people love him at all. He's
not selling enough merch and so the offer was lower
than he wanted. If he was selling merchandise, they would
have worked out a deal. So I don't I think
that's that's an excuse. It's embarrassing for him. How do

(40:07):
we do? You passed? Saturday went by?

Speaker 3 (40:08):
I won the game.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
I won the game, mister wonderful. I won the game.