December 16, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Dak Prescott saying that he's "surprised, hurt, pissed off, and frustrated" about where the Cowboys are, Shane Steichen of the Colts announcing that Philip Rivers will continue to be the starting QB, if Pete Carroll deserves to return as Raiders coach, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How new you new? It's our number to our number two?
And Dak Prescott in the headlines here, Dak Prescott says
that he's surprised, hurt, pissed off, frustrated at where the
Cowboys are these days. It's like they're going to miss
the playoffs barring some kind of miracle. Here, how is
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it possible that Dak Prescott would be surprised, hurt, pissed
off and frustrated about the twenty twenty five Cowboys? And
why are people confused in Indianapolis by the Colts sticking
with Philip Rivers Grandpaul Rivers? And does Pete Carroll in
Vegas deserve to return as Raiders coach? The two win
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Raiders who quit on Pete Carroll in Philadelphia one of
the most gutless performances I've seen in some time. We'll
talk about all that and more right now here. It
is our number two. Let's kind of whack uh No,
it's actually just it's just Dak Welcome in the beginning
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the Monday night game, although some of you guys are
on hole still want to yap about that. We are
more than welcome to discuss the events that took place
in Pittsburgh as the Steelers went again on Monday night.
But our lead this hour from Dallas, well, the greater
Dallas area, as the Cowboys debacle continues, all but eliminated,
left for dead on the side of the road as
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the Cowboys got smacked around by J. J. McCarthy. Anyway,
Dak Prescott some quotes he made recently making the rounds
and bouncing around the echo chamber. They caught my attention
on the radar, so I thought we'd discussed. So Dak
Prescott said he was more surprised than he has been
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in years past at the Cowboys failures to get it
done here, and he pointed out that the way things
have gone, it just stings a little bit more than
some of the recent abject failure. Dallas Cowboy teams the money.
Quote from Dak Prescott, he said, quote, it's tough. I'm
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definitely surprised, hurt, pissed off, and frustrated. But all I
can do is get better tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day,
I said Dak Prescott. I added that last part. He
didn't actually say that last part. I sang that that
was an old song. I sang that, all right, So
let us discuss that is the jumping off point. Let's
discuss the question. Dak Prescott says that he's surprised, hurt,
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pissed off, and frustrated at where the Cowboys are right now,
more so than in previous years. How is this possible?
How is this possible? So my observations, I've got teleprompter,
boiled zucchini, and fifty shades, and we will combine all
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of these things together, and we are going to make
some Texas toast delicious when made properly. Well, anything made
properly is pretty good. But Texas toast is the way
to go. So number one, number um alright, So this
is adorable with the capital A. Adorable with the capital A.
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It's also fiction. It's just fiction, is what it is.
And so the Cowboys are exactly who we thought they were.
In fact, the Dallas Cowboys of twenty twenty five have
followed the preseason script. So nobody knows anything. We always hear.
The odds makers are pretty good. They know roughly where
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teams are going to be. If you look back to
the spring, when the odds came out right around the
NFL Draft, the odds on win totals for the upcoming season.
The script for the Dallas Cowboys said that they would
have a tough year, and they're having a tough year.
They're stuck in traffic on Boondoggle Boulevard and they can't
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get off Boondoggle Boulevard. Now it pays very well. Boondoggle
Boulevard hazard lights are blinking, no tro truck is anywhere around.
So this is not betrayal, it's not it's confirmation Vegas
set the twenty twenty five win total at eight and
a half for the Cowboys eight and a half. There
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are three games left. Dallas is hovering around five hundred.
They're right there and they've got they're rotting meat with flies.
It's got a piece of brisket Texas barbecue brisket laid
outside and there's flies who are hovering around right now.
So it's not a collapse. It's not. The Cowboys are
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meeting expectations. There were very low expectations. They're meeting expectations
with a slight limp. Slight limp. They'd have to win
a couple of these games here to go over the total.
More likely they'll finish half a game under the total.
Dak Prescott, though, let's address the heal a monster in
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the room when it comes to Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott
lives in that Derek Jeter, Michael Jordan media cocoon. He
just does. He's sanded down. When I hear Dak Prescott speak,
it's shrink wrapped media trained to death. It just is
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every answer. Have you noticed this? When Dak Prescott speaks,
every answer sounds like it came from the corporate teleprompter.
It just does. And I do a show with a
guy that loves the teleprompter, teleprompter Tom we call him
Looney Tunes. So in this case, Dak is always very polished.
That's a word. I was polished. He is professional. Also
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utterly lifeless, utterly lifeless, and a walking sound bite vending
machine is what it is. Insert question and you will
be given a nice platitude with no attitude. That's a
platitude with no attitude. And it pays pretty well. It
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pays pretty well to be very vanilla. It pays very well.
You don't upset anyone, You don't say anything any very interesting.
He worked for Jeter, work for Jordan. They were better
than Dak Prescott. However, Dak Prescott in pretty good shape,
in pretty good shape here. He has made roughly I'm
not gonna say he embezzled the money. You can say
he embezzled the money. I'm not gonna say that. You
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can say he embezzle it. I'm not saying hembezzled the money.
Roughly three hundred million dollars Dak Prescott has earned on
the field. He is the Cowboys all time stat compiler,
not their elevator operator. The elevator operator brings people up
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to a higher level, they also bring them down to
a lower level. But for the metaphor in the monologu,
we're gonna say, the elevator operator raises people up, they
take the elevator to the upper floors. And that's how
that works. And in big moments, Dak Prescott is nowhere
to be seen. He fills the box score a lot
of empties, a lot of empties, capitally empties for Dak Prescott.
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There's a lot of those. And when the room gets hot,
Dak gets cold. That's what happens. Seven playoff games in
all these years as Cowboy quarterback, a two to five record,
and he will become the answer to who am I game? Question?
No one has sucked as long as Dak Prescott has
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in terms of wins and losses in the postseason and
continued on as the starting quarterback. Dak Prescott is the
gold standard, the apps loot gold standard for that incompetence
and one win over the if you legals playoff here,
two playoff wins, one win over the rotting carcass of
Tom Brady at the end of his career's final game
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with Tampa when he was washed up was against the Cowboys.
So Dallas won that game. The other game was when
I remember this is we did some stuff after the game.
It was I think a Seattle, a Seattle game, Cowboys
and Seahawks playoff. I believe Russell Wilson was the quarterback
for Seattle and Dak Prescott had very beige numbers. His
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performance didn't really stand out. They won the game. So Dak,
he's not shocked. He's not shocked. He's not He's doing
performance art is what he's doing. It's the Cowboys. The
theater is opened twenty four hours a day. In Jerry's world,
it's Cowboys Kobookie. Theater is what it is, and he's
doing it. Never closes, is open all night. The snack
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bar gets some popcorns, they get some popcorn, they serve alcohol.
Knock yourself out now. Page two to Indianapolis We Go.
Follow up, follow up to old Man Rivers follow up
Old Man Rivers started almost beat the highly overrated Seattle Seahawks.
Highly overrated Seattle Seahawks. So I bring this up because
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Philip Rivers, it was announced, will remain the starting quarterback
for your Colts in week sixteen, Monday Night Football week
away from Monday Night Football to matchup as the forty
nine Ers and the Colts, and coach Shane Steichen made
the announcement. Now some people seem puzzled by this move.
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I don't under snare why are they playing Philip Rivers again?
And said the dumb person in the back of the room.
All right, So the question why are people confused? And
I don't know how many people. As I've pointed out
a thousand times, social media is fake. It's the matrix.
We've seen story after story about just bought armies attacking
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celebrities and politicians because it's not real. It's all just
it's all a big illusions. I don't know what's real
with not I do know there are people that, at
least some some people that seem to be bedraggled by
what's going on. So the question why are people confused
with this decision? For the Colt sticking with Philip Rivers.
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This is like that Doors song. People are strange and
apparently allergic to actually paying attention. I know you got
stuff going on. I got it. So let's review the menu.
Here's what the Colts have here. You're Shane Steichen, You're
the chef. You're going into the kitchen. Here are your ingredients.
Your other quarterback options are Riley Leonard, who's undercooked, Brett Rippin,
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who's overcooked, and maybe Trent Richardson. There were some whispers
he's able to come back now dusting off the shoulder pads.
His claim to fame as an NFL quarterback is quitting.
He took himself out of the game. So your options
are a guy who's clearly not ready and may never
be ready, Riley Leonard, the old golden domer, Brett Rippin, who,
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if only he was good as his relative, the better ripping.
And then you've got Trent Richardson, whose claim fame is quitting.
Now you know why Philip Rivers is back in. That
is not a depth chart. Okay, that is not a
depth chart. That is bleak, bleaker and bleakest is what.
That is a quarterback buffet where everything tastes like boiled
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zucchini and carrots. If you feel me on that from
the cafeteria, that soggy, unappetizing, disgusting appearance. Yes, was Philip
Rivers sexy. No, he did not bring sexy back. Philip
Rivers did not bring sexy back. He didn't. He was
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brought in to calm the waters. Calm the waters, drive
the speed limit, use your blinker when you change lanes,
all that stuff, keep the car between the lanes, between
the lines in the lanes. You know, that's what you're
supposed to do. So Grandpa Rivers went out there. He
didn't show up in a Ferrari. Is that here? I am, boys,
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I got my Ferrari. He showed up in a reliable
Buet with two hundred thousand miles on it and an
engine that still starts every morning. Is very reliable. And
that's what that's the car he used. That's it and
its method over madness. You keep chugging along. Chugglu chugg
with chocolate Chugglu chugg a lugga. Yeah. And as long
as the Colts have a playoff pulse, and they don't
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have much of one, Jacksonville's legitimize themselves. The Texans appear
to be very good. And Indianapolis is in that mix.
They're on the outside, right, they're on the outside. They're
in the mix, but they're on the outside. So as
long as they have a pulse, Philip Rivers will be
under center and the moment they are decommissioned, the moment
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they are sent to the glue factory, and that's it.
And you say Nana la la Na la da good by.
When that happens. Philip Rivers is on the first concord,
that smooth supersonic flight out of wherever the Colts are
and he's headed directly back to the backwoods. In fact,
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they won't even land the plane. They'll drop him in
a parachute into the woods, is what they're gonna do.
It's shocking, I know. Or final point to Vegas we
go during the offseason. Pete Carroll, good old Pete Carroll.
He was very Braggadocia's confident. He thought his poo poo
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didn't stink stink, and he was gonna go into Vegas
and the Raiders were gonna return to glory because he
knows how to coach and everyone else is the village idiot.
And Pete Carroll's gonna go in there and he's got
his little magic hocus pocus abracadabra and watch out, watch out.
So how's that working out? Well, the Raiders just quit
on Pete Carroll in Philadelphia gutlass Football. They are two
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and twelve, two and twelve. They are worse this year
than they were last year when everyone told me that
they you know, the guy didn't know what he's doing,
was coaching the team. So they hired this proven, savvy
veteran with a great resume from Express Pros, Pete Carroll.
They got him, and they might as well have just
kept Antonio Pierce. Antonio Pierce actually had them playing better
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football than Pete Carroll. So Pete was asked about like
what's going on, and he was asked whether or not
he's coaching for his job, whether that is a thing
or not, and Pete said, quote, no, I don't feel
like that at all. I really don't, Pete said at
his news conference on Monday, I'm well beyond that. I
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don't feel like that. Close quote from Pete Carroll. So
the question does Pete Carroll does to return as the
Raiders coach in twenty twenty six a topic that we
will broach many times when we get to the silly
season of the NFL. So I found Pete's response charming.
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I'm gonna use the word charming. I was around Pete
a lot back in the old days when he was
coaching at USC, and so I know all the bull
crap that Pete serves up. I heard it all when
he was coaching these amazing teams with Reggie Bush and
Matt Lionert and Mark Sanchez and all those guys at SC.
So I understand all that. On this one Pete Carroll,
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we know what he's having for breakfast. He's cuckoo for
cocoa puffs, is what he is. Absolutely the Raiders season
if you were to do, if you were to do
a NFL film style documentary, you would title it fifty
Shades of Puke. That would be fifty Shades of puke,
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is what you would do. That's it's a rainbow of
bad decisions. That's the Raiders and blown coverages to the
right players mailing it into the left and expired coupons
for success from Pete Carroll. Those coupons have run out
right now, So good luck on that. You are what
your record says you are. The Raiders are a two
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win team. They suck and when they don't suck, they blow,
and that's it. And they are right now a floating
tire fire. They're a floating tire fire there at the
burning man out in the Nevada desert, and our friend,
the mouthwashed Mike is walking by looking at the fire, saying,
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am I allowed to look at the fire? Have I
been banned from the fire like I'm banned from Caesar's
and MGM, I don't know. I don't know. Now if
you didn't watch the Eagles game, and I only watched
part of it, all I needed to do was watch
part of it. I saw a team quit. I saw it.
I've been around a couple of times, not my first rodeo,
and you can tell. You can tell when the team
quits on their coach. It's more obvious in the NBA
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than it is in football. However, the Raiders made it clear,
and it was clear as vodka, clear as vodka. In
that game thirty one nothing out gained by over three
hundred yards. That tells you that you are floating on
the lazy river that was too cold. You didn't prepare,
you gave up all of those things, all of those things.
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That is not a lost that is a hasty retreat.
Under Pete Carroll, white flag is a flappin'. The white
flag is a flapping That is a surrender. It's like
a boxing match you tossed in the sponge. That team quit,
Capitol Q, they quit. That's it. That's an unforgivable sin.
And now the Raiders have a double mess on their
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hands because Mark Davis he likes to spend his money
on PF changs. That's about it. And you got Tom Brady.
How dumb does Mark Davis looked at He's like, okay,
let's let let's let Tom Brady be the de facto
general manager and make all the plays for the football
ops department and decide who the coach and the players
are and the you know, the the key people, and
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every decision tom Brady has made his man a disaster
and nobody wants to talk about. It's conversation people aren't
ready to have. And they love Tom Brady and Tom
Brady's a hero and you're not supposed to say it.
It's odd though, because when Michael Jordan was a terrible
executive in the NBA, people had no problem pointing out
how terrible Michael Jordan was. Like, for some reason, Tom
Brady is getting an exemption. He is the GM by
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proxy of the Raiders. He hand picked Pete Carroll. He
hand picked now Grant. He didn't want Pete Cary, wanted
Ben Johnson, but he took Pete Carroll. And he didn't
want Geno Smith, but he took Geno Smith. He wanted
Matthew Stafford. And what the Raiders ought to do is
a two for one special. Send Pete Carroll and Geno
Smith together, put him on a dusty stage coach down
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the winnemuck A Road and get him out of there. This,
as the famous quote goes from a late NBA player,
the ship be sinking. In fact, the ship is already
sunk at this point, So you can cue the Tony
Bennett fly me to the Moon because the Raiders and
Pete Carroll's halfway there anyways, Big moon bat He's halfway
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to the moon at this point. Oh yeah, you don't
have Pete Carroll be the rebuild guy. Can's se in
his mid seventies. And I hope Pete lives to be
one hundred and twenty. But if you look at the comps,
if he's not gonna be alive by the time the
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Say hello to weed Man? Oh I don't care about it.
You're on ask a weed you can't.
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Are you annoyed with the new stars and the on
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with me longer than just about anybody these days. That's
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still with the show.
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Oh I was with you for years and years.
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See now we're gonna now, we're gonna get a fight.
Now we're gonna have I love it. Let's go have
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I know, I know anything. No one just want to
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was Floridas.
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It's is that?
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Is that true?
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Is we we?
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Weed Man? Is Hollywood Florida? Dump?
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Yes?
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Is it done?
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Warm?
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It's warm?
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I like that?
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Okay, Okay, well I'm sure I'm sure in Buffalo there's
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I got seven to drag Queen our friend for Alexis?
All right, all right, thank you for lexis. Okay, there
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In on ask a weed Man, he says, what was
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Oh?
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My favorite toys cabbage cash All that's because you made
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play with cabbage show no smell. You didn't play with
the cabbage patch.
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No.
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I didn't like the store.
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Yeah, and they only made a limited amount so they
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You couldn't, did you, yea obviously, so you you had
to sell them at the retail price, and you marked
him up at your toy store. We've been Oh yeah,
you're absolutely okay, So you you raised the price. I
got you all right.
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Lucky Tony had called in and wanted me to ask
weed Man a question for him. Lucky Lucky Tony wants, hey,
Lucky Tony wants to know why did you stop making
YouTube videos?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Girl, you know, I don't know how to get those
videos up anymore. I totally forgot use blue chee. You
just forgot how you smoked so much weed. You forgot
to do something you knew how to do.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Yeah, I don't know. Now, I have no idea how.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I do it every day?
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Yeah, you do very well on there. People love those
YouTube videos. And how did you do it before?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
I don't remember it was years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Well listen, wen, I'm not that bright and I'm able
to upload videos to YouTube. It's pretty simple. You just
take like, type a few words in, you put put
the video up there. It's not that are okay? And
you how's your email coming? Any update? You have an
email yet? Weed Man? Name right? Okay? So you get
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a new one. Why don't you get a new one?
And then you spell your name right? How about that?
Speaker 6 (29:27):
Yeah, I really have to look into that.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Try what kind what kind of cell phone do you have?
Weed Man?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
But an Android?
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So is it? So it's a smartphone? It's very similar.
You get the app. Why do you go to your
little app store get the YouTube app and then download
it and then boom?
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Yeah?
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No chance, he does that, by the way, day okay
Andy in Lionel lakes right. So he says, are you
going to see any family for Christmas? Weed Man? How
about that?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I wish, I wish, I wish I would see my wife.
That would be nice.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Lisa's not making the trip to Florida. No, did she
ever visit Florida? Lisa? No, she doesn't. And you don't
go to New York. You don't. You don't visit her,
but not in the summer. It's not too cold. It's
fine during the summer. Spring is nice. All right, late
night drug tester of the question. I was going to
(30:26):
get to earlier, but I saved it for this. Have
you asked weed Man? Have you asked Mallord for some
free ad time on Benny versus the penny as a
holiday donation?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
No, that would be great.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
You have you have? Not?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
All right? Dever, go let's say hello to Scott on
ask a weed Man. Hello, Scott, welcome.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Oh hey god man, Hey.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
What's up? Weed Man?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I mean we've man, We've been started calling it like
eleven years ago. For this was like around two thousand
and eight. I was on a hold with Dick and
Dayton did that famous Thanksgiving call. I'm actually doing pretty good.
I have like this whole I have this whole call playing.
My stomach is killing me, my palms are sweating.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I'm like so nervous.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Somebody somebody emailed me and said that you claim that
you were upset with the affiliate in Boston for not
accommodating you at a remote Somebody emailed me, Yes, I
haven't been.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Able to talk about this. Yeah, it's a good enough
time to talk about this. Nobody's going to hear this.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, you know, I don't say it like that. I
don't know you need to say it like that. It
was kind of a douche move what you just did there.
This is very popular sement is ask a weed Man,
and you're both.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Yeah, I'm sorry, just my feelings are wicked hurt because
I didn't get picked for this segment.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
But hey, anyway, well that's because you threatened to kill me,
you know. Yeah, that could do it, don't You don't
get your own segment. You threatened to kill the host
of the show. It usually doesn't go that.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Well, hope to.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Threaten weed Man, like I hope he goes on a
fishing trip with the cod Man and never come.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
No, that's not right. How king Ry writes in and says,
does weed Man prefer hot dogs or tacos coccos? That's
well interesting? Now do you like the soft taco? The
crunchy taco? Yeah, I'm right there with you, my man. Absolutely,
that's a gringoat taco. That's the way to do it.
Joe the Ghost Turner writes and says, well, Weed Man,
(32:26):
would you ever consider living with Filexus?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Okay, very nice. Rob the goat Man writes in, says
my pal Robbie the Mariner fan is too embarrassed to ask,
but has quite the case of external hemorrhoids. How can
you cure these at home? Weed Man? For Robbie the
Mariner fan and his hemorrhoids.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Hemoroid greed? You ever got?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
You ever gotten hemorrhoids? Who? Really? Uh? Just job rights
in from Cincinnati, Sis. Most people hang their stockings by
the fireplace for Christmas? Will you be hanging a Walmart
plastic shopping bag above the trash can this year? And
one more thing, do you leave a roach in the
(33:14):
ash tray for Santa? So?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
All right, Gil and San diego right since says what's
worse the the Mark Sanchez butt fumble or the Jalen
Hurts interception? Then fumble on the same play the butt fumble, okay,
and you'll be happy to know. Mallard prop guy made
a video of you, Weed man with AI and it's
(33:40):
very nice. There there's this weed man doing his thing,
calling a news conference, and you're wearing sunglasses. Yeah, it's
pretty pretty cool. Let's see. Daniel writes in he says,
I imagine weed man never did his homework and always
came up with an excuse thinking he got away with it.
Put in that his teachers didn't just didn't care. Is
(34:02):
that true? We made Did you ever do your homework
when you were in school?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
I didn't? You did?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Not? All right? Interesting? Okay, all right? Any any other
thoughts weed man here? We gotta move along, and I've
got a mallard to the third degree. But any final
thought here to put the both. You'll be on YouTube
this week. People can look for you. We'll promote your
YouTube channel.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yeah, I'm definitely looking into that.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You're looking into that. You're not looking at it.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Download YouTube?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Okay. But the problem, I know, I know exactly the problem,
because when you get a YouTube, you're gonna have to
get account and you're gonna have an email address. You
need to have an email address, So then you might
as well just get an email address first, and then
from that you can go to YouTube and then boom,
you're on your way. How about that? Okay, I'm all right,
(34:52):
all right, thank you weed Man. Happy holidays, Thank you buddy.
All right, big fan, thank you weed Man. There you
goes weed Man. Hippi from Hollywood, Florida. How lucky are we?
Burd Dog says, good luck with your hemorrhoids, Robbie the
Merendi fan. What we all are praying for Robbie's hemorrhoids.
And those are jumbo sized hemorrhoids. Those are not just
(35:13):
your normal hemorrhoids. Those are super sized hemorrhoids, is what.
Those are special hemorrhoids. Yes, absolutely, all right, straight ahead,
we're gonna have Mallard the third degree. Here's the insta trivia,
and this is where we pretend to be somebody else
and then you have to figure out who we are
and all that stuff. So the Denver Broncos defensive lineman
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Zach Allen of the Broncos and has joined Blank as
the only players with forty or more quarterback hits in
back to back seasons. Now, they've only been tracking this
since twenty oh six, so this only goes back about
twenty years. But Zach Allen Lebroncos joining Blank as the
only players with forty plus quarterback hits in back to
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back season since it began being tracked in six That
is the ins dot Trivia. The answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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instat trivia. Here is the Insta Trivia. So Zach Allen
of the Broncos joined Blank as the only players the
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only ones with forty plus quarterback hits in back to
back seasons that since it began being tracked in twenty six.
That is the question. What is the answer? Scrooge in
The Younger Demo in the Bay Area, going with Andre
Johnson as his answer. Who else do we have? Paige
Dan Malard prop guy says, just be honest, Ben, you're
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just trying to tease weed Man by mentioning forty hits, right. Yes,
well that's a better video. Weed Man is a dolphin player.
That's pretty good. What else do we have? Page down?
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about that? There you go? From the Curb Your Enthusiasm
Franchise Russell Maryland guest by Rob Who else? John Matuzak
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from j T The Wingman Up Early Jim McMahon and
the Ultimate Super Bowl Shuffle from mad Jack? That's his answer?
Barney Rubble from Rebecca She did Not Go? Fred Flintstone
Yabadabado hollering, James Wall asleep, guests by Kathy in Madison,
Mark Gastino from Larry, Reggie White from Johnny Q, Gary
(39:19):
the Snail from Natron in Stockton. Do you have an answer, Lorene,
I'm gonna go with Rudolph's girlfriend Clarice. All right? That
is incorrect. Correct answer A man who's now annoying us
on television? J J Watt Back in the day with
the Houston Texans. JJ Watt. Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go. Squee we go to
the third This is one big Ben gets grilled. Cooper Loop.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Josh Allen said that the love that the Bills have
for each other fueled their comeback against the Patriots, and
that wins like these have them quote battle tested heading
towards the playoffs, Ben, were the Bills written off too early?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
U Oh no, they were not. Is that like woodstock
in the locker room like for the Bills. Are they
all like, you know, hanging out loving each other over shoulders? Yeah, exactly.
I don't know. There's a fire they're singing cool bay ah.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
If the Bills don't win this year, Mahomes isn't in
the playoffs. Lamar Jackson may not be in the playoffs, right,
Uh you look around, Joe Burrow not in the player
like Josh.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Everything's clear that it's like the parting of the Red
Sea for Josh Allen. They got to win this year.
They gotta win the AFC this year. They got to
be in the super Bowl, all.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Right next So this has undoubtedly been a down year
for the AFC North. But the two teams still in
playoff contention are both led by former MVPs. You've got
the Steelers and the Ravens. Who do you think would
be more dangerous than the playoffs? Who do you not
want to see? Well?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
I don't. I don't take the Ravens seriously. Their defense
is not very good. And Lamar Jackson, who usually is
great in the regular season and then sucks in the playoffs,
he's been terrible. So the Steelers are actually the team
that you don't want to play. You want to play
the Ravens at this point. You don't want to play
the Steelers, which I'm shocked I'm saying, but that's the reality.
Like the Steelers haven't really played anybody played the Ravens
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and the Dolphins, and they look good in these two games.
I'd still rather avoid the Steelers and play the Ravens
the way Lamar's played all year.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Next, the Cleveland Cavaliers are one of the top teams
in the East. Last season, on Sunday, they lost to
the Hornets without LaMelo Ball to fall too mediocre fifteen
to twelve.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
In the year.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
The home crowd bowed them as the clock ran out,
and Donovan Mitchell told reporters that he would boot.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
And is this just a stumble or more serious problem
for Cleveland? I would say it's just a malaise. You
have a great year, you focus all year, and then
the NBA you come back and you're thethargic and you
just kind of get through the doldrums of the regular season.
That's what I would put that on. How did we do? Kooboalop?
You pass say, oh my god, I won. I won
the game. I'm a runner, I love the game. Win, win, win.
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How new you new? It's our number to our number two?
And Dak Prescott in the headlines here, Dak Prescott says
that he's surprised, hurt, pissed off, frustrated at where the
Cowboys are these days. It's like they're going to miss
the playoffs barring some kind of miracle. Here, how is
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it possible that Dak Prescott would be surprised, hurt, pissed
off and frustrated about the twenty twenty five Cowboys? And
why are people confused in Indianapolis by the Colts sticking
with Philip Rivers Grandpaul Rivers? And does Pete Carroll in
Vegas deserve to return as Raiders coach? The two win
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Raiders who quit on Pete Carroll in Philadelphia one of
the most gutless performances I've seen in some time. We'll
talk about all that and more right now here. It
is our number two. Let's kind of whack uh No,
it's actually just it's just Dak Welcome in the beginning
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the Monday night game, although some of you guys are
on hole still want to yap about that. We are
more than welcome to discuss the events that took place
in Pittsburgh as the Steelers went again on Monday night.
But our lead this hour from Dallas, well, the greater
Dallas area, as the Cowboys debacle continues, all but eliminated,
left for dead on the side of the road as
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the Cowboys got smacked around by J. J. McCarthy. Anyway,
Dak Prescott some quotes he made recently making the rounds
and bouncing around the echo chamber. They caught my attention
on the radar, so I thought we'd discussed. So Dak
Prescott said he was more surprised than he has been
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in years past at the Cowboys failures to get it
done here, and he pointed out that the way things
have gone, it just stings a little bit more than
some of the recent abject failure. Dallas Cowboy teams the money.
Quote from Dak Prescott, he said, quote, it's tough. I'm
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definitely surprised, hurt, pissed off, and frustrated. But all I
can do is get better tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day,
I said Dak Prescott. I added that last part. He
didn't actually say that last part. I sang that that
was an old song. I sang that, all right, So
let us discuss that is the jumping off point. Let's
discuss the question. Dak Prescott says that he's surprised, hurt,
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pissed off, and frustrated at where the Cowboys are right now,
more so than in previous years. How is this possible?
How is this possible? So my observations, I've got teleprompter,
boiled zucchini, and fifty shades, and we will combine all
(05:02):
of these things together, and we are going to make
some Texas toast delicious when made properly. Well, anything made
properly is pretty good. But Texas toast is the way
to go. So number one, number um alright, So this
is adorable with the capital A. Adorable with the capital A.
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It's also fiction. It's just fiction, is what it is.
And so the Cowboys are exactly who we thought they were.
In fact, the Dallas Cowboys of twenty twenty five have
followed the preseason script. So nobody knows anything. We always hear.
The odds makers are pretty good. They know roughly where
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teams are going to be. If you look back to
the spring, when the odds came out right around the
NFL Draft, the odds on win totals for the upcoming season.
The script for the Dallas Cowboys said that they would
have a tough year, and they're having a tough year.
They're stuck in traffic on Boondoggle Boulevard and they can't
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get off Boondoggle Boulevard. Now it pays very well. Boondoggle
Boulevard hazard lights are blinking, no tro truck is anywhere around.
So this is not betrayal, it's not it's confirmation Vegas
set the twenty twenty five win total at eight and
a half for the Cowboys eight and a half. There
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are three games left. Dallas is hovering around five hundred.
They're right there and they've got they're rotting meat with flies.
It's got a piece of brisket Texas barbecue brisket laid
outside and there's flies who are hovering around right now.
So it's not a collapse. It's not. The Cowboys are
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meeting expectations. There were very low expectations. They're meeting expectations
with a slight limp. Slight limp. They'd have to win
a couple of these games here to go over the total.
More likely they'll finish half a game under the total.
Dak Prescott, though, let's address the heal a monster in
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the room when it comes to Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott
lives in that Derek Jeter, Michael Jordan media cocoon. He
just does. He's sanded down. When I hear Dak Prescott speak,
it's shrink wrapped media trained to death. It just is
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every answer. Have you noticed this? When Dak Prescott speaks,
every answer sounds like it came from the corporate teleprompter.
It just does. And I do a show with a
guy that loves the teleprompter, teleprompter Tom we call him
Looney Tunes. So in this case, Dak is always very polished.
That's a word. I was polished. He is professional. Also
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utterly lifeless, utterly lifeless, and a walking sound bite vending
machine is what it is. Insert question and you will
be given a nice platitude with no attitude. That's a
platitude with no attitude. And it pays pretty well. It
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pays pretty well to be very vanilla. It pays very well.
You don't upset anyone, You don't say anything any very interesting.
He worked for Jeter, work for Jordan. They were better
than Dak Prescott. However, Dak Prescott in pretty good shape,
in pretty good shape here. He has made roughly I'm
not gonna say he embezzled the money. You can say
he embezzled the money. I'm not gonna say that. You
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can say he embezzle it. I'm not saying hembezzled the money.
Roughly three hundred million dollars Dak Prescott has earned on
the field. He is the Cowboys all time stat compiler,
not their elevator operator. The elevator operator brings people up
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to a higher level, they also bring them down to
a lower level. But for the metaphor in the monologu,
we're gonna say, the elevator operator raises people up, they
take the elevator to the upper floors. And that's how
that works. And in big moments, Dak Prescott is nowhere
to be seen. He fills the box score a lot
of empties, a lot of empties, capitally empties for Dak Prescott.
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There's a lot of those. And when the room gets hot,
Dak gets cold. That's what happens. Seven playoff games in
all these years as Cowboy quarterback, a two to five record,
and he will become the answer to who am I game? Question?
No one has sucked as long as Dak Prescott has
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in terms of wins and losses in the postseason and
continued on as the starting quarterback. Dak Prescott is the
gold standard, the apps loot gold standard for that incompetence
and one win over the if you legals playoff here,
two playoff wins, one win over the rotting carcass of
Tom Brady at the end of his career's final game
(10:12):
with Tampa when he was washed up was against the Cowboys.
So Dallas won that game. The other game was when
I remember this is we did some stuff after the game.
It was I think a Seattle, a Seattle game, Cowboys
and Seahawks playoff. I believe Russell Wilson was the quarterback
for Seattle and Dak Prescott had very beige numbers. His
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performance didn't really stand out. They won the game. So Dak,
he's not shocked. He's not shocked. He's not He's doing
performance art is what he's doing. It's the Cowboys. The
theater is opened twenty four hours a day. In Jerry's world,
it's Cowboys Kobookie. Theater is what it is, and he's
doing it. Never closes, is open all night. The snack
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bar gets some popcorns, they get some popcorn, they serve alcohol.
Knock yourself out now. Page two to Indianapolis We Go.
Follow up, follow up to old Man Rivers follow up
Old Man Rivers started almost beat the highly overrated Seattle Seahawks.
Highly overrated Seattle Seahawks. So I bring this up because
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Philip Rivers, it was announced, will remain the starting quarterback
for your Colts in week sixteen, Monday Night Football week
away from Monday Night Football to matchup as the forty
nine Ers and the Colts, and coach Shane Steichen made
the announcement. Now some people seem puzzled by this move.
(11:40):
I don't under snare why are they playing Philip Rivers again?
And said the dumb person in the back of the room.
All right, So the question why are people confused? And
I don't know how many people. As I've pointed out
a thousand times, social media is fake. It's the matrix.
We've seen story after story about just bought armies attacking
(12:04):
celebrities and politicians because it's not real. It's all just
it's all a big illusions. I don't know what's real
with not I do know there are people that, at
least some some people that seem to be bedraggled by
what's going on. So the question why are people confused
with this decision? For the Colt sticking with Philip Rivers.
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This is like that Doors song. People are strange and
apparently allergic to actually paying attention. I know you got
stuff going on. I got it. So let's review the menu.
Here's what the Colts have here. You're Shane Steichen, You're
the chef. You're going into the kitchen. Here are your ingredients.
Your other quarterback options are Riley Leonard, who's undercooked, Brett Rippin,
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who's overcooked, and maybe Trent Richardson. There were some whispers
he's able to come back now dusting off the shoulder pads.
His claim to fame as an NFL quarterback is quitting.
He took himself out of the game. So your options
are a guy who's clearly not ready and may never
be ready, Riley Leonard, the old golden domer, Brett Rippin, who,
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if only he was good as his relative, the better ripping.
And then you've got Trent Richardson, whose claim fame is quitting.
Now you know why Philip Rivers is back in. That
is not a depth chart. Okay, that is not a
depth chart. That is bleak, bleaker and bleakest is what.
That is a quarterback buffet where everything tastes like boiled
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zucchini and carrots. If you feel me on that from
the cafeteria, that soggy, unappetizing, disgusting appearance. Yes, was Philip
Rivers sexy. No, he did not bring sexy back. Philip
Rivers did not bring sexy back. He didn't. He was
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brought in to calm the waters. Calm the waters, drive
the speed limit, use your blinker when you change lanes,
all that stuff, keep the car between the lanes, between
the lines in the lanes. You know, that's what you're
supposed to do. So Grandpa Rivers went out there. He
didn't show up in a Ferrari. Is that here? I am, boys,
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I got my Ferrari. He showed up in a reliable
Buet with two hundred thousand miles on it and an
engine that still starts every morning. Is very reliable. And
that's what that's the car he used. That's it and
its method over madness. You keep chugging along. Chugglu chugg
with chocolate Chugglu chugg a lugga. Yeah. And as long
as the Colts have a playoff pulse, and they don't
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have much of one, Jacksonville's legitimize themselves. The Texans appear
to be very good. And Indianapolis is in that mix.
They're on the outside, right, they're on the outside. They're
in the mix, but they're on the outside. So as
long as they have a pulse, Philip Rivers will be
under center and the moment they are decommissioned, the moment
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they are sent to the glue factory, and that's it.
And you say Nana la la Na la da good by.
When that happens. Philip Rivers is on the first concord,
that smooth supersonic flight out of wherever the Colts are
and he's headed directly back to the backwoods. In fact,
(15:23):
they won't even land the plane. They'll drop him in
a parachute into the woods, is what they're gonna do.
It's shocking, I know. Or final point to Vegas we
go during the offseason. Pete Carroll, good old Pete Carroll.
He was very Braggadocia's confident. He thought his poo poo
(15:45):
didn't stink stink, and he was gonna go into Vegas
and the Raiders were gonna return to glory because he
knows how to coach and everyone else is the village idiot.
And Pete Carroll's gonna go in there and he's got
his little magic hocus pocus abracadabra and watch out, watch out.
So how's that working out? Well, the Raiders just quit
on Pete Carroll in Philadelphia gutlass Football. They are two
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and twelve, two and twelve. They are worse this year
than they were last year when everyone told me that
they you know, the guy didn't know what he's doing,
was coaching the team. So they hired this proven, savvy
veteran with a great resume from Express Pros, Pete Carroll.
They got him, and they might as well have just
kept Antonio Pierce. Antonio Pierce actually had them playing better
(16:30):
football than Pete Carroll. So Pete was asked about like
what's going on, and he was asked whether or not
he's coaching for his job, whether that is a thing
or not, and Pete said, quote, no, I don't feel
like that at all. I really don't, Pete said at
his news conference on Monday, I'm well beyond that. I
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don't feel like that. Close quote from Pete Carroll. So
the question does Pete Carroll does to return as the
Raiders coach in twenty twenty six a topic that we
will broach many times when we get to the silly
season of the NFL. So I found Pete's response charming.
(17:15):
I'm gonna use the word charming. I was around Pete
a lot back in the old days when he was
coaching at USC, and so I know all the bull
crap that Pete serves up. I heard it all when
he was coaching these amazing teams with Reggie Bush and
Matt Lionert and Mark Sanchez and all those guys at SC.
So I understand all that. On this one Pete Carroll,
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we know what he's having for breakfast. He's cuckoo for
cocoa puffs, is what he is. Absolutely the Raiders season
if you were to do, if you were to do
a NFL film style documentary, you would title it fifty
Shades of Puke. That would be fifty Shades of puke,
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is what you would do. That's it's a rainbow of
bad decisions. That's the Raiders and blown coverages to the
right players mailing it into the left and expired coupons
for success from Pete Carroll. Those coupons have run out
right now, So good luck on that. You are what
your record says you are. The Raiders are a two
(18:21):
win team. They suck and when they don't suck, they blow,
and that's it. And they are right now a floating
tire fire. They're a floating tire fire there at the
burning man out in the Nevada desert, and our friend,
the mouthwashed Mike is walking by looking at the fire, saying,
(18:43):
am I allowed to look at the fire? Have I
been banned from the fire like I'm banned from Caesar's
and MGM, I don't know. I don't know. Now if
you didn't watch the Eagles game, and I only watched
part of it, all I needed to do was watch
part of it. I saw a team quit. I saw it.
I've been around a couple of times, not my first rodeo,
and you can tell. You can tell when the team
quits on their coach. It's more obvious in the NBA
(19:06):
than it is in football. However, the Raiders made it clear,
and it was clear as vodka, clear as vodka. In
that game thirty one nothing out gained by over three
hundred yards. That tells you that you are floating on
the lazy river that was too cold. You didn't prepare,
you gave up all of those things, all of those things.
(19:27):
That is not a lost that is a hasty retreat.
Under Pete Carroll, white flag is a flappin'. The white
flag is a flapping That is a surrender. It's like
a boxing match you tossed in the sponge. That team quit,
Capitol Q, they quit. That's it. That's an unforgivable sin.
And now the Raiders have a double mess on their
(19:48):
hands because Mark Davis he likes to spend his money
on PF changs. That's about it. And you got Tom Brady.
How dumb does Mark Davis looked at He's like, okay,
let's let let's let Tom Brady be the de facto
general manager and make all the plays for the football
ops department and decide who the coach and the players
are and the you know, the the key people, and
(20:10):
every decision tom Brady has made his man a disaster
and nobody wants to talk about. It's conversation people aren't
ready to have. And they love Tom Brady and Tom
Brady's a hero and you're not supposed to say it.
It's odd though, because when Michael Jordan was a terrible
executive in the NBA, people had no problem pointing out
how terrible Michael Jordan was. Like, for some reason, Tom
Brady is getting an exemption. He is the GM by
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proxy of the Raiders. He hand picked Pete Carroll. He
hand picked now Grant. He didn't want Pete Cary, wanted
Ben Johnson, but he took Pete Carroll. And he didn't
want Geno Smith, but he took Geno Smith. He wanted
Matthew Stafford. And what the Raiders ought to do is
a two for one special. Send Pete Carroll and Geno
Smith together, put him on a dusty stage coach down
(20:56):
the winnemuck A Road and get him out of there. This,
as the famous quote goes from a late NBA player,
the ship be sinking. In fact, the ship is already
sunk at this point, So you can cue the Tony
Bennett fly me to the Moon because the Raiders and
Pete Carroll's halfway there anyways, Big moon bat He's halfway
(21:17):
to the moon at this point. Oh yeah, you don't
have Pete Carroll be the rebuild guy. Can's se in
his mid seventies. And I hope Pete lives to be
one hundred and twenty. But if you look at the comps,
if he's not gonna be alive by the time the
Raiders are any good again. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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at a Bronco fan. Your comments cannon will be used
against you in the Kangaroo Court of sports radio, so
please act the quarter back to it we go late
night or actually yeah, late night. Dructest and says, have
you asked? Oh this is a question for weed man? Okay,
I'm I'll give it to weed Man. We'll get him
(24:36):
on right now. I don't Yeah, well, I guess I
might have. Right there, I thought that was just a
regular comment. There was a special question. So let's bring
in the man, the myth legend. We go to Hollywood,
in the wood, in Hollywood and up to no good?
What's going on? Weed man? Big plans for the holidays here?
(24:58):
You celebrate Hanakas second night man? Come on, well, you
light a lot, You light a lot of things up
every night, though weed Man, you don't need you don't
need a special occasion to light something on fire. You know, no, no,
lots of weeds, lots of lots of weed. There you go,
the eight Nights of a weed. Is any opening thoughts,
weed Man? Or you just want questions? Any opening thoughts?
(25:21):
Or is that it magic?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
I love being on the magic radio.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That's right, we're inside the magic radio box and some
big names are lined up. This is amazing. These are legends.
Where do we go? All right? Let's say hello to
Felexus in Buffalo is on? Ask a weed man hello
for Lexus. Legends world's uniting here? What about weed Man?
(25:49):
Say hello to weed Man? Oh I don't care about it.
You're on ask a weed you can't.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Oh I'm right near Biggie right now. That's great, wonderful, Uh,
mister man like you wouldn't believe we are now, Felexis?
Are you annoyed with the new stars and the on
the show? Like weed Man, he's been around for a
long time, but you predate weed Man, Flexus, You've been
with me longer than just about anybody these days. That's
(26:25):
still with the show.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Oh I was with you for years and years.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
See now we're gonna now, we're gonna get a fight.
Now we're gonna have I love it. Let's go have
a fight here. Hi, all right, So I feel like you,
I know, I know anything. No one just want to
say hello, that's it? Oh I did not man, it
was Floridas.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
It's is that?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Is we we?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Weed Man? Is Hollywood Florida? Dump?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Is it done?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Warm?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's warm?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I like that?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Okay, Okay, well I'm sure I'm sure in Buffalo there's
no cockroaches. And how many toes do you have? Flexis?
I got seven to drag Queen our friend for Alexis?
All right, all right, thank you for lexis. Okay, there
you go. What do we have your ferg dog rights?
(27:25):
In on ask a weed Man, he says, what was
your favorite toy from your toy store that you sold?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
My favorite toys cabbage cash All that's because you made
a lot of money on them, right, But you didn't
play with cabbage show no smell. You didn't play with
the cabbage patch.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
No.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I didn't like the store.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, and they only made a limited amount so they
could charge more for them. There was no eBay though.
You couldn't, did you, yea obviously, so you you had
to sell them at the retail price, and you marked
him up at your toy store. We've been Oh yeah,
you're absolutely okay, So you you raised the price. I
got you all right.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Lucky Tony had called in and wanted me to ask
weed Man a question for him. Lucky Lucky Tony wants, hey,
Lucky Tony wants to know why did you stop making
YouTube videos?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Girl, you know, I don't know how to get those
videos up anymore. I totally forgot use blue chee. You
just forgot how you smoked so much weed. You forgot
to do something you knew how to do.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Yeah, I don't know. Now, I have no idea how.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I do it every day?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, you do very well on there. People love those
YouTube videos. And how did you do it before?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
I don't remember it was years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Well listen, wen, I'm not that bright and I'm able
to upload videos to YouTube. It's pretty simple. You just
take like, type a few words in, you put put
the video up there. It's not that are okay? And
you how's your email coming? Any update? You have an
email yet? Weed Man? Name right? Okay? So you get
(29:23):
a new one. Why don't you get a new one?
And then you spell your name right? How about that?
Speaker 6 (29:27):
Yeah, I really have to look into that.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Try what kind what kind of cell phone do you have?
Weed Man?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
But an Android?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
So is it? So it's a smartphone? It's very similar.
You get the app. Why do you go to your
little app store get the YouTube app and then download
it and then boom?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
No chance, he does that, by the way, day okay
Andy in Lionel lakes right. So he says, are you
going to see any family for Christmas? Weed Man? How
about that?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I wish, I wish, I wish I would see my wife.
That would be nice.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Lisa's not making the trip to Florida. No, did she
ever visit Florida? Lisa? No, she doesn't. And you don't
go to New York. You don't. You don't visit her,
but not in the summer. It's not too cold. It's
fine during the summer. Spring is nice. All right, late
night drug tester of the question. I was going to
(30:26):
get to earlier, but I saved it for this. Have
you asked weed Man? Have you asked Mallord for some
free ad time on Benny versus the penny as a
holiday donation?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
No, that would be great.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
You have you have? Not?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
All right? Dever, go let's say hello to Scott on
ask a weed Man. Hello, Scott, welcome.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Oh hey god man, Hey.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
What's up? Weed Man?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I mean we've man, We've been started calling it like
eleven years ago. For this was like around two thousand
and eight. I was on a hold with Dick and
Dayton did that famous Thanksgiving call. I'm actually doing pretty good.
I have like this whole I have this whole call playing.
My stomach is killing me, my palms are sweating.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I'm like so nervous.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Somebody somebody emailed me and said that you claim that
you were upset with the affiliate in Boston for not
accommodating you at a remote Somebody emailed me, Yes, I
haven't been.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Able to talk about this. Yeah, it's a good enough
time to talk about this. Nobody's going to hear this.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, you know, I don't say it like that. I
don't know you need to say it like that. It
was kind of a douche move what you just did there.
This is very popular sement is ask a weed Man,
and you're both.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Yeah, I'm sorry, just my feelings are wicked hurt because
I didn't get picked for this segment.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
But hey, anyway, well that's because you threatened to kill me,
you know. Yeah, that could do it, don't You don't
get your own segment. You threatened to kill the host
of the show. It usually doesn't go that.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Well, hope to.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Threaten weed Man, like I hope he goes on a
fishing trip with the cod Man and never come.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
No, that's not right. How king Ry writes in and says,
does weed Man prefer hot dogs or tacos coccos? That's
well interesting? Now do you like the soft taco? The
crunchy taco? Yeah, I'm right there with you, my man. Absolutely,
that's a gringoat taco. That's the way to do it.
Joe the Ghost Turner writes and says, well, Weed Man,
(32:26):
would you ever consider living with Filexus?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Okay, very nice. Rob the goat Man writes in, says
my pal Robbie the Mariner fan is too embarrassed to ask,
but has quite the case of external hemorrhoids. How can
you cure these at home? Weed Man? For Robbie the
Mariner fan and his hemorrhoids.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Hemoroid greed? You ever got?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
You ever gotten hemorrhoids? Who? Really? Uh? Just job rights
in from Cincinnati, Sis. Most people hang their stockings by
the fireplace for Christmas? Will you be hanging a Walmart
plastic shopping bag above the trash can this year? And
one more thing, do you leave a roach in the
(33:14):
ash tray for Santa? So?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
All right, Gil and San diego right since says what's
worse the the Mark Sanchez butt fumble or the Jalen
Hurts interception? Then fumble on the same play the butt fumble, okay,
and you'll be happy to know. Mallard prop guy made
a video of you, Weed man with AI and it's
(33:40):
very nice. There there's this weed man doing his thing,
calling a news conference, and you're wearing sunglasses. Yeah, it's
pretty pretty cool. Let's see. Daniel writes in he says,
I imagine weed man never did his homework and always
came up with an excuse thinking he got away with it.
Put in that his teachers didn't just didn't care. Is
(34:02):
that true? We made Did you ever do your homework
when you were in school?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
I didn't? You did?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Not? All right? Interesting? Okay, all right? Any any other
thoughts weed man here? We gotta move along, and I've
got a mallard to the third degree. But any final
thought here to put the both. You'll be on YouTube
this week. People can look for you. We'll promote your
YouTube channel.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yeah, I'm definitely looking into that.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You're looking into that. You're not looking at it.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Download YouTube?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Okay. But the problem, I know, I know exactly the problem,
because when you get a YouTube, you're gonna have to
get account and you're gonna have an email address. You
need to have an email address, So then you might
as well just get an email address first, and then
from that you can go to YouTube and then boom,
you're on your way. How about that? Okay, I'm all right,
(34:52):
all right, thank you weed Man. Happy holidays, Thank you buddy.
All right, big fan, thank you weed Man. There you
goes weed Man. Hippi from Hollywood, Florida. How lucky are we?
Burd Dog says, good luck with your hemorrhoids, Robbie the
Merendi fan. What we all are praying for Robbie's hemorrhoids.
And those are jumbo sized hemorrhoids. Those are not just
(35:13):
your normal hemorrhoids. Those are super sized hemorrhoids, is what.
Those are special hemorrhoids. Yes, absolutely, all right, straight ahead,
we're gonna have Mallard the third degree. Here's the insta trivia,
and this is where we pretend to be somebody else
and then you have to figure out who we are
and all that stuff. So the Denver Broncos defensive lineman
(35:37):
Zach Allen of the Broncos and has joined Blank as
the only players with forty or more quarterback hits in
back to back seasons. Now, they've only been tracking this
since twenty oh six, so this only goes back about
twenty years. But Zach Allen Lebroncos joining Blank as the
only players with forty plus quarterback hits in back to
(35:59):
back season since it began being tracked in six That
is the ins dot Trivia. The answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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close all right. Time. Now for the payoff on the
instat trivia. Here is the Insta Trivia. So Zach Allen
of the Broncos joined Blank as the only players the
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only ones with forty plus quarterback hits in back to
back seasons that since it began being tracked in twenty six.
That is the question. What is the answer? Scrooge in
The Younger Demo in the Bay Area, going with Andre
Johnson as his answer. Who else do we have? Paige
Dan Malard prop guy says, just be honest, Ben, you're
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just trying to tease weed Man by mentioning forty hits, right. Yes,
well that's a better video. Weed Man is a dolphin player.
That's pretty good. What else do we have? Page down?
Let's see here inca Terror guest by Shane in Des Moines,
Grizzly Adams from Alf the Alien O, Pineer John sena
tossed out by King Royal hanging out with a couple
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of his friends, Curly Coulp The Legend of Early Hollywood
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. What else do we have?
See page Dan? JB. Smooth who is sixty today? How
about that? There you go? From the Curb Your Enthusiasm
Franchise Russell Maryland guest by Rob Who else? John Matuzak
(38:58):
from j T The Wingman Up Early Jim McMahon and
the Ultimate Super Bowl Shuffle from mad Jack? That's his answer?
Barney Rubble from Rebecca She did Not Go? Fred Flintstone
Yabadabado hollering, James Wall asleep, guests by Kathy in Madison,
Mark Gastino from Larry, Reggie White from Johnny Q, Gary
(39:19):
the Snail from Natron in Stockton. Do you have an answer, Lorene,
I'm gonna go with Rudolph's girlfriend Clarice. All right? That
is incorrect. Correct answer A man who's now annoying us
on television? J J Watt Back in the day with
the Houston Texans. JJ Watt. Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go. Squee we go to
the third This is one big Ben gets grilled. Cooper Loop.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Josh Allen said that the love that the Bills have
for each other fueled their comeback against the Patriots, and
that wins like these have them quote battle tested heading
towards the playoffs, Ben, were the Bills written off too early?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
U Oh no, they were not. Is that like woodstock
in the locker room like for the Bills. Are they
all like, you know, hanging out loving each other over shoulders? Yeah, exactly.
I don't know. There's a fire they're singing cool bay ah.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
If the Bills don't win this year, Mahomes isn't in
the playoffs. Lamar Jackson may not be in the playoffs, right,
Uh you look around, Joe Burrow not in the player
like Josh.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Everything's clear that it's like the parting of the Red
Sea for Josh Allen. They got to win this year.
They gotta win the AFC this year. They got to
be in the super Bowl, all.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Right next So this has undoubtedly been a down year
for the AFC North. But the two teams still in
playoff contention are both led by former MVPs. You've got
the Steelers and the Ravens. Who do you think would
be more dangerous than the playoffs? Who do you not
want to see? Well?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
I don't. I don't take the Ravens seriously. Their defense
is not very good. And Lamar Jackson, who usually is
great in the regular season and then sucks in the playoffs,
he's been terrible. So the Steelers are actually the team
that you don't want to play. You want to play
the Ravens at this point. You don't want to play
the Steelers, which I'm shocked I'm saying, but that's the reality.
Like the Steelers haven't really played anybody played the Ravens
(41:10):
and the Dolphins, and they look good in these two games.
I'd still rather avoid the Steelers and play the Ravens
the way Lamar's played all year.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Next, the Cleveland Cavaliers are one of the top teams
in the East. Last season, on Sunday, they lost to
the Hornets without LaMelo Ball to fall too mediocre fifteen
to twelve.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
In the year.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
The home crowd bowed them as the clock ran out,
and Donovan Mitchell told reporters that he would boot.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
And is this just a stumble or more serious problem
for Cleveland? I would say it's just a malaise. You
have a great year, you focus all year, and then
the NBA you come back and you're thethargic and you
just kind of get through the doldrums of the regular season.
That's what I would put that on. How did we do? Kooboalop?
You pass say, oh my god, I won. I won
the game. I'm a runner, I love the game. Win, win, win.
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