Hour 2 - From Indiana Jones to Grandpa Simpson

Ben Maller talks about reports that the Indianapolis Colts are interested in 44-year-old retired QB Philip Rivers, 49ers WR Jauan Jennings saying that he didn't say anything bad to the Browns, the Jets missing the playoffs for 15 years running, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you do? It's our number two, our number two. Now,
what's crazier on the Ben Mathers Show The Colts being
interested in quarterback Philip Rivers or the fact that he
didn't immediately say no to the Indianapolis Colts who called
him up and said, Hey, how would you like to
play quarterback again in Indy? He's been retired for five years. Also,

(00:24):
forty nine Ers wide receiver Juwan Jennings says he didn't
say anything all that bad to the Browns even though
they called him a hoe. How do you break down
this one and any wisdom for the New York Jets
and their amazing streak of futility. They've now missed the
playoffs as a franchise fifteen years in a row, despite

(00:45):
having nine top ten picks in that stretch of time,
they still continue to miss the Plus we're talking about
all that and more right now here, it is our
number two from Indiana Jones to Grandpa Simpson. Huh well, come,
in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mahler Show,

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we are in.

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this hour, still talk about the Monday night game as
the Chargers up in the Philadelphia Eagles at SOFI Stadium.
A lot of angry birds, the Eagle fan base not
happy there. The Eagles go down and they go down
hard in overtime game. They should have lost in regulation,
but they ended up playing a little extra time there

(03:23):
in the overtime. But our lead this hour, all right,
let's go to Indianapolis. That is the lead story. And
a hum Edinger. What a Homedinger. So with Daniel Jones
out for the year, snapcrackle pop, and Riley Leonard listed
his week to week the old Golden domer Riley Leonard

(03:43):
who has a strained knee ligament. Oh my aching knee.
So the Colts are scheduled later on on Tuesday to
work out Philip Rivers yes, that Fillhilip Rivers, not his kid,
the same Philip Rivers, yep, the charger Colt guy, Yep,

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that guy. And the state sponsored the NFL and networked
a prob the news service of the NFL informing us
that the workout is scheduled. Now, if you didn't hear
about this, maybe not will it will coincide? It's it's
Philip Rivers' birthday week this week, So happy birthday, Philip
forty four years young, Happy birthday, Happy birthday. He last

(04:29):
played an NFL game during the pandemic season of twenty
twenty was the last time he played. And the Colts
are going to work out Philip Rivers. So they need help.
And so the Colts will work out Rivers. See what
type of shape he's in. Maginevy shows up and he

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looks like a sumo wrestler. It likely won't sign him,
but by all accounts, Rivers is in pretty good shape.
There So the former quarterback who is now a grandfather,
that's right, he's a grandfather, Philip Rivers, and he has
to figure out whether or not he wants to play
in the NFL or not. For now, he is clearly

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considering and contemplating playing quarterback in Indianapolis as he's willing
to fly from his native land in Alabama and go
to Indy to hang out with the Colts and have
a nice meet and greet, a nice luncheon and all that.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question what is crazier the fact that the

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Colts are interested in Philip Rivers or the fact that
Philip Rivers is considering this and it didn't immediately say no,
What is the more ridonculous part of this story? So
I've got family business, gold bar and turkey vultures, and

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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make delicious Saint Elmo's Surf and Turf,
which we had famous dinner there years ago. Is doing
some radio stuff in Indy. We had to meal at
Saint Elmos. It's really a right if you're in the
media to go to Saint Elmo's in Indianapolis and and
order the most expensive thing on the menu and just

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have your your company pay for it. That's the way
to do it. So number one, let me just start
with the fact. I know the fact that the Indianapolis
Colts are so desperate, they're so horny for a quarterback
that they're rummaging through the attic at their facility and

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they're opening up these dust covered boxes. And they came
across an old Philip Rivers jersey and said, okay, I'll
have I'll have an epiphany. Why don't we call Philip
Rivers and see if he wants to play. He last
played when TikTok was still a toddler. Philip Rivers, okay,
And now he's a forty four year old grandpa coaching.

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At last I heard he was coaching high school football
in Alabama. And so the arrow on this one, the
arrow on this one is pointing squarely at the Colts,
squarely at the Colts. That's just the way it is.
And what are the horseshoes thinking, even if Rivers comes
in and does okay? Right, even if he were to

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do okay, the risk factor at forty four years old,
not being in the NFL shape there is next level, right,
It's next level. So this franchise has yet again, this
is what the culture. This is what the culture. The
Colts have entered the wack A Doodle twilight zone. Wack

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a doodle do is what they do. And you thought that,
Jimmers said, when he crossed the pearly gates and left
this mortal coil, you thought, well, that's it. The Cults
are gonna be like every other NFL team. They're not
gonna do these wack a doodle things anymore, because Jim
Mersay would be on a bender and he'd do these
crazy things. So he had issues. Surprise, surprise, surprise, because hey,

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he might no longer be with us, Jim irsay, but
his sweet daughter is carrying on the family business. And
I guess the apple does not fall far from the tree.
The DNA it's baked into the ursa DNA. There the
family business, the whimsical football chaos, the same family that
brought us Jeff Saturday, the television guy who was like

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a high school coach as an NFL head coach a
couple of years back, and that was the Horseshoes. And
now we have the daughter going down a similar road
with the quarterback and it's just it's just next level.
So Indianapolis is is basically what Indianapolis is doing here
is there rebooting a classic sports movie, putting an NFL

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spin on me. Your League, the movie, remember that that movie,
Major League. It's a classic movie. And in this scene,
you've got the general manager, Chris Ballard of Indianapolis on
the phone, ring ring, ring, Hey, hey, Phillip, it's Chris Ballard,
the GM of the Indianapolis Colts. You want to play
quarterback in the NFL for the Colts again? And then

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Rivers responds, well, I mean, I don't know. Let me
get back to you on that, Chris. I got I
got a kid doing burpies here in high school football practice.
I'll get back to Rivers has been retired. I assume
when you retire, you play shuffle board and you play
bingo and you hum Jimmy Buffett tunes from Latitude Margaritaville.
That's what you do. No, all right? And so India

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is so desperate. How desperate are they? They're so desperate
Indianapolis here, they're so desperate that they are they're actually
doing this. They're checking aarp cards at quarterback and saying, hey,
you got a membership, You're good to go. Here we
go and uh and what a great gig. Though there's
only four games to go. Maybe you get to the

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playoffs and play an extra game or two if you're
Philip Rivers there and what are you gonna get a
million dollars to play the rest of the year or
something like that, some absurd amount of money. Let me
tell you something. The holidays are here, and those Christmas
gifts do not pay for them. Say you got he's
got like ten kids. I think he needs one more.
He can feel his own eleven man roster on the

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play both ways. But this is Malard theater is what
this is. Oh yeah, embracing the absurd. And while I
think it will not work, I love the fact that
cults are doing. It's so crazy, so bonkers. It's like,
what are you doing? And this is how the NFL's
operated current Warner told stories he left the NFL. He said,

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for like five years after he left the NFL, people
were calling up, Hey, how would you like to come
back and play quarterback? All right, now to San Francisco
we go, follow up, follow up to the mouth, the
wide out by the Bay forty nine is wide receiver.
Jawan Jennings not a household name. Not a household named
Jawan Jennings. He was asked about his war of words

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uh with the Cleveland Browns You might remember defensive tacker
tackle Shelby Harris who announced to the world that Juwan
Jennings is a what what is? That's right? Demand's a
how all right? And so he went on and said
that Jennings said things you should never say to another man,

(11:31):
that's right, And Shelby Harris went on as this big
rant and said, well he said that, and he says,
surprised he sees exactly why the Carolina Panthers punched him
in the nuts and surprised somebody hasn't punched him in
the jaw. And then Miles Garrett responded by saying he
also took issue with whatever Juwan Jennings said in that

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forty nine Ers Browns game. And then of course, well
Shelby Harris just again said you're a hoe and that's
that's it. But the question on this one, so the response,
let me let me give you responsible. So the response
by Juwan Jennings, he says he did not he did
not say anything that bad to the Cleveland Browns. So

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the question, all right, question on this Juwan Jennings says,
I didn't say anything that bad to the Browns. How
do you break this one down? So I'm gonna break
this down this way. So it's a he said, he
said situation. The whole Juwan Jennings Shelby Harris dust up.
It's like two guys arguing on who insulted who louder

(12:37):
in the nightclub bathroom while someone's there trying to get
a tip and hand you some cologne you don't need
and some candies you don't need in the bathroom. It's
that kind of thing. So the way I look at this,
and I am the judge, jury, executioner, all that stuff.
So nobody is innocent on this. Nobody is in everyone's guilty.

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Everyone's got blood on their hands and all it. The
only truth is somewhere floating in the stadium rafters there.
Uh you know, Shelby Harris calling Jennings A what that's right?

Speaker 3 (13:09):
A ho ho ho ho.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
That's right. That is radio gold. Is what that is?
That is radio gold. And it really is in the
holiday season in that we could make our own song
with just him saying ho ho ho, let's try it.
Let's see. Here's Shelby Harris his new holiday song. He's
now Santa Claus. Go ahead, say it, Shelby, come on,
He's a hope. No, no, no, oh oh man, we

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butchered it. Let's try that hope. Yeah, he's a hope. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
See there's a glitch. It's the Gremlins, but it would
be he's a ho, he's a ho, he's a ho,
he's hope. So anyway, listen, that is the kind of
sound bite when you do this job for a living.
That is the kind of SoundBite you wrap in velvet
and you keep that in a trophy case. How often
do we have someone call another player a hoe? It
doesn't happen very often. So here's the twist though, And

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I got to be an accurate arbitrator of what goes on.
And so the Malard scorecard as a longtime boxing judge
on these verbal rhubarbs. So the Malard scorecard that outburst
actually by Shelby Harris handed this to Juwan Jennings. I

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give the wind to Jennings. And here's why. Because the
moment it's the bro code, the moment you go public
with locker room or on field talk, locker room talk
or on field talk, the moment that you do that,
you have breaked the golden wall, if you will, You've

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broken the k fabe that they have in wrestling, and
you've ruined all the fun. You violated the code of
silence that what happens on the field stays on the field,
what happens in the locker room stays much like Vegas,
it just kind of stays there. And Jennings essentially said that, yeah,
I said something, but not that bad. And if he

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wants to smack me, you know, set your DVRs. Set
your DVRs. That's a pro wrestling heel energy by Juwan
Jennings and the that's a man right there popping the balloon,
popping the balloon and letting all the faux outrage, all
the faux outrage hiss out like a cheap air mattress

(15:38):
that gets popped right there. Let's be real. The chatter
almost certainly is a two way highway. It's not one way.
It was also guaranteed to be obscene in decent and
rated NC seventeen for language. Regardless. You kind of expect
that right in competition. You assume there's gonna be a

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lot of things said in the heat of the moment,
the fog of competition. That's what happens, and it's not
fit for broadcast. It's not for men, men, women and
children who can't handle it. If you're fragile, it's not
for you. And for us, it's absolutely perfect. We love it.
We love it all right now. The final point, we

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go to Jersey. We go to New Jersey where the
New York Jets over the weekend. Congratulations to the Jets.
Tremendous job boys, you have you have done it yet again.
The Jets, by losing to the Dolphins, have reclaimed sole
possession sole possession of the longest active postseason drought among
the NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA at fifteen years without

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the postseason fifteen That means if you were born and
are now in high school as a fifteen year old,
your entire life, the Jets have never made the playoffs,
in an age where they have more playoff teams than ever,
in an age where it's designed to be turvy, and
you suck for a couple of years, then you're good
for a couple of years. And that's the way they
do business in the NFL. So following the defeat, we

(17:06):
had multiple Jets players who spoke about the tradition of
the franchise, including Brees Hall, who went on a mini
rant Brisoll talking about, you know, the other players are
having fun around the NFL away from the Jets, he said, Brisall,
he said, quote, it's a yearly thing, he said, It's definitely.

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It starts to weigh on you. You see your peers,
you see other guys that you know you're just as
good as or better than, Brisall said, And they get
to have a lot of fun, and you don't have
any fun apparently when you play for the Jets. So
the question do you have any wisdom you'd like to
share for the Jets and this stretch of futility again,

(17:54):
they've missed the playoffs now for fifteen years in a row.
We are just a five years away from a full
generation without making the playoffs for the New York Jets.
So this is obviously not a slump.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
This is a lifestyle brand, is what this is. It's
a lifestyle brand by the Jets here. And I love
that Breese Hall, who wanted to be traded, who did
everything he thought he could possibly do to be traded.
I love the fact that Breese Hall's out here talking
like a philosopher on the Staten Island Ferry saying it
weighs on you. Thank you, Captain obvious. No kidding, my friend,

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the franchise they have more baggage than the Guardia over
the Christmas holidays. My God, and my advice, lean into it.
If I'm the Jets, I lean into this. I do.
Don't run from it. Do not run from it. Embrace
the annual misery tour. That's my advice to the Jets.

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Make this a right of passage. Make it a right
of passion. It's kind of like in Hinkley, Ohio, every
March they have the turkey vultures that return to Hinckley, Ohio,
and they celebrate. Most people would say, we don't want
to celebrate turkey vultures, But in Hinckley, Ohio, they celebrate
turkey vultures. They do. And so the Jets aren't the

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birds of prey. They're not that. They're like the buzzards
of the ball, the buzzards of the ball, circling another
lost season, yet again, waiting for the next carcass, for
a quarterback to drop into their lap. And I did
the malor math on this because I got a lot
of free time on hands, so I did the mather
of math the Jets have had in this fifteen years.

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They've had six head coaches, They've had twenty quarterbacks that
have started. They've had how many top ten picks? Nine
top ten picks in the last fifteen years, not top twenty,
top nine, top ten picks. It's musical chairs on the Hindenburg.
Kaboom is what it is. Every year someone new. This

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is what I love about Jets. Every year someone new
sits down and says it's gonna be different. I know
what I'm doing, and those other guys didn't know what
they were doing, and I know what I'm doing, and
the whole thing explodes yet again. It's the warehouse of
regret FC is what that is there. And the Jets
business model, which other teams have copied here is the

(20:23):
sad model. Suck and draft, suck and draft wash rints, repeat,
clog the drain. That's what they do. And so yeah,
I believe the Jets should just copy to the United
States Marines. Embrace the suck. Just embrace the suck. It's

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one thing for this franchise. If they're actually executing at
an elite level. They're not doing that, so maybe they
can execute an elite level on the other side. All right,
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a little north of Miami. So if you know the geography.

(24:40):
Late Night Drug tester says, I think it's great that
Philip Rivers is making a comeback. I I'm sure he
has grandkids by now who can see him play. Well.
He does have grandkids, athough I think they're like little kids. Yeah.
Eileen in San Francisco says Juwan Jennings said something that
hurt those grown men's feelings. Poor them. I doubt he

(25:01):
a hoe hurt Juwan's feelings. I don't know whether or not.
Just that what a great sound bite that is, That
is so perfect, that's so great. We make sure that
gets in the system. We need that in the system.
That is so so wonderful.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Now I gotta make a ho Ho Hovers.

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Let's go to Eni Meeni, miney Mo. Let's say hello
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they're all online. A weed man hippie is in south floor.
Let me make sure I punch up the right line there.

(26:03):
I think that said, Hello weed Man, hippy, Hey Ben,
I love you. It's ask a weed man, a staple
of the show. Any opening line, weed Man, you'd like
to give to the American people.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
I love everybody.

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I want everybody to be happy, and let's change the
World's all right, ferg Dog, says a weed man. What
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I got sheven teeth missing? O my god, we have attention, advertisers,
attention advertise. Who's got more toes on Felexus's feet or

(26:44):
teeth in weed Man's mouth? I'll bet you it's neck
and neck. I'll bet you it's neck and neck. What
a motley crew we have here? My god? All right, well,
let's welcome in some people here. We have Tom and
Rhode Island. Hello Tom, welcome.

Speaker 8 (27:00):
Coop. Good morning, say Cowboys fan, good morning, weed Man.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
How are you, Tom?

Speaker 8 (27:05):
I'm good. Listen. Uh, if you had to get a
good Christian man like Philip Rivers to smoke weed for
the first time, how would you do it? We love
everybody loves weed.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Like you as Coop right away, right, Coop's right? Yeah,
what a great question. Tom. You should be hosting the show. Tom,
thank you. Any other thoughts, Tom?

Speaker 3 (27:30):
You know?

Speaker 8 (27:32):
Yeah, well, I mean I don't want to ruin the segment,
but I would will like to say there's nothing more
enjoyable than the season than seeing the Philadelphia Eagles poop
all over themselves almost every single week. They're the most
insultable stand base in the world. I hate all the people.
They are not humans, They're sub human. And there's nothing
more enjoyable than realizing that there is going to be

(27:54):
no Philadelphia Eagles dynasty. It'll all blow up by next year,
maybe two years from now, in the NFC wide open again.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I love it. That's you just have a way with words. Tom.
You need to call me.

Speaker 8 (28:07):
No.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Look at that, Tommy, a greasy weed man agrees with you.
Look at that. There's agreement, all right. Be good, my man.
There's Tom and Rhode Island. Yeah, all right, let's keep
it going here. This is ask a weed Man. Very
exciting here. These are actual people that want to talk
to weed man. Ike in Roseville, Minnesota, says weed man.
What kind of relationship did you have with your in laws?

Speaker 6 (28:34):
Not great?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Not great? Well, it wasn't there. You were running the
family business, right, they owned the toy store. Right, wasn't
that the case? Oh? Your parents said, Okay, I thought
the in laws. I thought it was their their toy store. Okay,
got you. But yeah, it's to the point, we man,
where you're not even allowed to be in the same

(28:57):
area right with the in laws.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
They're in New York.

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I'm his bawl Hi Lorena, like I just transitioned to
High Lorena.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
High weed man.

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Lionel Lakes, Minnesota rights and says ask a weed Man.
Out of the holidays, do you light the manure or
smell the manure?

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I like the weed.

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He liked the weed, all right, no manure? All right,
very nice. Let's go to Jed who fled who lives
in your state of Florida, though he's in the Redneck Riviera. Hello,
Jed who fled?

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Hey, Jared N.

Speaker 8 (29:40):
Mallard called Siriani the gator Inflator? Is Siriani the same
thing as the Florida.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
State University football program who got beat by Florida Gators
bout twenty points when they had nothing.

Speaker 8 (29:52):
To blow.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Your thoughts? Weed Man?

Speaker 8 (29:56):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well as you as you know, Jed who fled?

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Van we Van?

Speaker 2 (30:07):
I got one more.

Speaker 8 (30:08):
If Dave's gonna claim to be Asian, shouldn't he be
smart enough to not use the word as in like
Randy Moss, you got Moss? John Wench has never been
hired to do a bit You got Lynch. Shouldn't they
be smart enough not to use that phrase on the air?

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Well, Dave, we're just friends made Dave in Houston and
Dave Field. You know, we're just bros. And that's how
men talk. We're just Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead wait
weed Man, Yeah, still ahead of weeds Man. I apologize.

Speaker 7 (30:34):
I was great.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
There you go, I Moss, All right, go away, Jed
who fled. Let's say a little Mike in New Hampshire.
It's ask a weed Man, a weekly staple on this show.
Our friend Billy He lives in Hollywood, Florida, just a
few miles away from Miami. What's going on, Mike in

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New Hampshire?

Speaker 5 (31:00):
Man?

Speaker 1 (31:01):
What Mike?

Speaker 3 (31:04):
How you good?

Speaker 1 (31:06):
I got a question that you didn't answer.

Speaker 8 (31:08):
What do you want for Christmas? I'm good?

Speaker 3 (31:15):
I don't mean anything.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Really have you set up your email account yet? Oh? No, No,
no you have not because very hard to set up.
I think you need a government license to set up
an email account? Is that accurate? Would that be fair
to say, well, you know I have one, It's just
not spelled right. I think I have to be.

Speaker 8 (31:36):
Able to change it.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
I don't know how.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Okay, Well you just start a new one and spell
it the right way, you know. That's that's it.

Speaker 8 (31:43):
It's gotta be something you want for Christmas?

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, we may. Is there something you want that's legal
that you know? Don't say something we can't get you,
but something you would like from you know, these people
want to help you out there? Weak man.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well that would be really great. I've lost some money.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
What are you gonna You're just gonna waste the money though, right,
be honest, You're not gonna spend it on anything? Good Man?

Speaker 2 (32:06):
What if it wasn't something that a listener could send you.
What if this was something you could ask Santa for.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Oh yeah, well he's listening on the North Pole there,
Santa and Honikah Harry is listening as well. So we
got Santa, Honka Harry everything. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
I want to again, you want toys.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
We mean that the business has changed, we made I
don't know that. How many toy stars are there still?
There really aren't any not. Yeah, I don't think there's
any toy store. Toy Toys r US is kind of
back a little bit, but they don't have if it's
mostly online.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Is f Al Schwartz still around?

Speaker 1 (32:42):
I don't think so, is it? I don't think so.
Then the New York Yeah, I think I thought that
closed a couple of years. Is it still there?

Speaker 8 (32:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
We'll get to the bottom of that.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
That's oh yeah, it's still there.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Is it really? Wow? Okay? Because I remember they had
they had Toys r Us in Times Square for years
and then obviously that closed when Toys with Us went
belly up, so that went out a bit. It was
a huge toy So I guess I got a ferris
wheel in the middle of the store there. Wow in Manhattan,
all right, we'ed man more people? Thank you. Mike in
New Hampshire, key drinking, Steve is on it. Ask a

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weed man. Everyone loves the weed Man. Here, ask a
weed man. Hello, Okaya, Stevey? How are you great?

Speaker 8 (33:29):
What?

Speaker 1 (33:30):
How is? How is Taylor Swift going to convince Selena
Gomez to be one of her groom's women?

Speaker 8 (33:37):
We got a big top of the Kansas City. You know,
we gotta we gotta get this wedding going next year.
But we do have a sixteen do you what?

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Also?

Speaker 8 (33:48):
What's what's our six Do you think we have a
sixteen percent chance to make the Super Bowl?

Speaker 5 (33:54):
Well?

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Great question? Weed Man as a football insider, your thoughts
on the Chiefs making cloffs?

Speaker 6 (33:59):
I love this.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
I wish there you go, Steve, look at that keg
drinking Steve, you get the endorsement from the weed Man?
I will Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. Are you going to be
going to the wedding? Weed Man the big Okay? Well,
if Travis Kelsey's listening or Taylor Swift, weed Man would
like an invitation, that's in Rhode Island. Can you make

(34:21):
it to Rhode Island? Taylor Swift slimy to Rhode Island.
Oh okay, all right, you need to once she got
your Greyhound bus ticket, will you take that? Absolutely? Yeah
you would. Okay, so you're willing to take a bus ticket? Y, will.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
You officiate the wedding?

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yes, of course I will. Okay, very nice there, and uh,
I think that's that's good. They're weed Man. Look at
you amazing as always no matter what people throw at you,
you're always prepared every week. And mister mister says, what's
the oldest stash you thought you lost then found again?
I don't know. I guess that's a weed question. I

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don't know.

Speaker 8 (34:59):
I wish I had weed now I don't have any.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Oh you don't. You're so you're not really weed Man.
You're you're the caller formally known as weed Man. You're
just a man without the weed. Just I haven't answer
to that question. Who asked that question? Was mister irrigation
in Houston? Who send those beautiful rings, those malord militia rings,
and so well.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I can't.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
I can't answer for weed Man obviously, of course, but
for myself. One time, a long time ago, with it
with an ex girlfriend, we found an old stash of
her mom's, which had to have been like four or
five years old, classic stack.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
At least.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
And my buddy and I at the time, we we
and it was a lot of weed, like it was
at least like a half ounce, like quarter rounds.

Speaker 8 (35:45):
Dead.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
No, it was not. Apparently it does go back.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
We smoked all of it and felt nothing.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
There you go, what it was fake weed? Maybe it
was imitation weed and it was like a ripoff, you know.
Oh god, that's like it was creative and all that. Well,
thank you, Billy. We'll talk to you on Friday for
lame jokes. Yes, I love you there, all right, be well,
the great weed man hippie there, our friend, the longtime
listener and supporter of our little radio program. I want

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to thank is it cowboy Killer. Do we need to
thank Cowboy Killer?

Speaker 8 (36:16):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yes, the great Cowboy Killer. He sent nice gifts here. Yes,
Oh my gosh, I love my little jersey. Thank you
Cowboy Killer and a nice cap. I appreciate that. And
we don't need anything. Uh size eight by the way, hat,
we don't need any size eight hat. I'm just saying,
you know, I'm hat guy hat guy, size eight hat.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Don't need anything, though, and I'll have to show you
the jersey beat.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Okay, yeah, I'll check it out. And uh, I saw
you were you were wearing some like Disney stuff.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
Here was Joah Bobby and Florida sent me a new
package from Disney World.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Really he sent you something? Well, I'm the host of
the shows. Is it like a pie for me? Is
he sent a key line?

Speaker 8 (36:50):
Park?

Speaker 1 (36:51):
No pie? There's no pie from no pie in the package.
But he's the pie guy, He's the new pie guy.
He didn't send any pie. Where's the pie? I need
my pie?

Speaker 8 (37:00):
Pie?

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I want my pie? How come you get stuff? I
want a pie? What about for some freeze drive skittles?

Speaker 7 (37:08):
Eh?

Speaker 3 (37:09):
My time?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Now for the instant trivia of Mallard of the third degree.
Here we go. So Seattle's Mike McDonald had his thirteenth
road wins since being hired as head coach in twenty
twenty four. That's tied with Mike Martz, Sean McVay, and
Nick Sirianni for the second most road wins by a
coach in his first two seasons in NFL history. Only
Blank has more road wins in his first two years

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than Mike McDonald and those other coaches mentioned. That's the
Insta Trivia the answer.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
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in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports
Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR
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Speaker 4 (38:05):
The polish it listen.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
But to you we.

Speaker 7 (38:14):
To the best Tshe on.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
The mall.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
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it's a if you count the one.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Backgro Hello, it's Bill Miller and you The Ben Mahlor Show.
Another chellous classic Mallard holiday tunes spreading joy this holiday season.
And you can interact with us on x at Ben
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Versus the Benny, Benny vs. Penny Check it out all right,
real quick time Now for the Insta Trivia. Seattle's Mike
McDaniel McDonald. Mike McDonald had to farm Ei e Io

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has thirteen road wins. Now he's tied with Mike Marshean
McVay and Nick Sirianni for the second most road wins
by a head coach their first two seasons in the NFL.
Only Blank has more. Milkman Mike's going with weed Man,
Hippie and Jed hu Fled. Who else do we have?
Car Fox from? That's from ostridch Aunt, ostriche ant in DC,

(39:39):
Judy Dench, who's ninety one today? Guests by Late Night
Drug Tester Madam from alf the alien O pinter Statue
of Liberty guess by Scrooge and the Younger Demo. Who
else do we have? Weeb you Bank from mister Irrigation,
Nathaniel Hacket from Eloy and Comptonent. What's say you, Lorena
Andy Reid? No, the answer is George Seaffort of the
Four back in the late eighties early nineties. It's Mallard.

(40:06):
How about that?

Speaker 3 (40:07):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets grilled.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
All right here wake go.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
It wasn't long ago that Mike McDaniel's firing seemed all
but inevitable. Now the Dolphins have won four straight, there's
still didn't playoff contention and McDaniel is talking about quote
a special connection in the locker room. Ben, has McDaniel
already saved his job?

Speaker 1 (40:30):
No, look at the Bills win was I guess legit?
But the Commanders, Saints and Jets are three of the
worst teams.

Speaker 8 (40:36):
No.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
No, In fact, it's more complicated now because the Dolphins
aren't terrible, They're not good. They're stuck in the middle.
He's gotta still be on the hot seat. Next.

Speaker 5 (40:46):
TMZ caught up with Calvin Johnson on Sunday, and Megatron
said that Matthew Stafford is already a Hall of Famer
and that an MVP award this year would cement it.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Is he right, Ben?

Speaker 1 (40:55):
No, he's never even been an Ald Pro. What are
you talking about? He's not all Now. We wouldnt see
MVP in the Rams winning the Super Bowl, Okay, even
though the Super Bowl is a team accomplishment. Then I
will say, yes, No, you just put them a lot
of empty stat Stafford Next.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
Early on in the season, Amika Agbuka seemed to be
running away with the Offensive Rookie of the Year award
now after fourteen weeks, he's a long shot. UH Panthers
wide receiver Ted McMillan is the favorite to win, with
Jackson Dart not too far behind Ben.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Do you see anyone else having a shot?

Speaker 1 (41:23):
No, this is a terrible year for rookies on offense.
It's a beg you. The only other name that you'd
throw out there is Tyler Warren, who's a tight end
for the Colts. That's it. And remember this when we
watch the NFL Draft in April. How how horny you
guys get. And these guys are mostly gonna snake in
the NFL's rookies. How do we do? You pass? I
passed out? My god, I pass hollering James, any dog