Hour 2 - Punish Them

Ben Maller talks about Tom Brady saying that quarterbacks should be penalized for late slides, what to make of the NFL's adjudication of Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, Urban Meyer's "accidental" endorsement of Ben Johnson as Jags coach, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, hour two, and
we react to Tom Brady and his comments. He supports
penalizing quarterbacks for late slides. Your your thoughts on that. Also,
what didn't you make of the NFL's adjudication of Texans

(00:21):
linebacker Aziz Al Schier I got a three game a
suspension which Brady was reacting to. Also, what was your
thought on urban Meyer? Urban Meyer and your reaction to
urban Meyer's accidental if you will endorsement of Ben Johnson
as the Jags head coach. He did it on a cameo.

(00:45):
We'll talk about that as well. It's all coming your
way right now here. It is our number two. It's
what everybody's talking about. Well, Gun, in the beginning, you
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story that everyone's talking about. We didn't start to show
with this. I thought the Kyle Shanahan story was more interesting,
but early this hour is from the post mortem on
the suspension herd around the NFL. The other shoe dropped

(02:17):
on Tuesday, the NFL Big Brother came down the hammer
of God, suspending Texans linebacker Aziz all Shire for not one,
not two, but three games they claim for repeated violations
of players safety rule guidelines. This after the hit to

(02:40):
Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence, which started a melee in Jacksonville.
Now reactions have been pouring in from around the NFL.
NFL media elites have commented on this players former players.
The one with the most traction is an ex pat,

(03:01):
so that's the one we're going to focus in on here.
If you didn't hear, perhaps not foxes Tom Brady, Tom
Brady suggesting that quarterbacks be penalized or even fined for
plays like Trevor Lawrence made that resulted an Aziz al

(03:21):
Shier being suspended for three games. Now, he appeared on
FSR here with our colleague Colin Cowherd, and Brady said,
maybe they fine or penalize quarterbacks for sliding. Ladies said, look,
if we don't want these hits to take place, Brady continued,
we've got to penalize the offense in the defense rather

(03:43):
than just penalize the defensive player for every single play
that happens when there's a hit on the quarterback. Okay,
close quote. Let us discuss the question, Tom Brady supporting
the penalizing of quarterbacks for late slaes and that type
of activity on these bang bang plays. Your thoughts. So

(04:07):
I've got pendulum, popular vote, and oprah, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to put the biscuit in the basket. So num Burn. Now, now,
generally speaking, which is what we do, we do general
talk radio, the sports variety. But generally speaking, if you've

(04:31):
heard this show over the years, you know that my
position is one where I'm in agreement with Tom Brady
on this. I had the unpopular opinion, which clearly the
NFL did not agree with, that this was not a
war crime. That the hidden question the other day. But
as far as what Brady said now supporting the penalizing
the punishment of quarterbacks for late slides, the pearl clutching

(04:55):
crowd who hide behind their smartphones are going to have
to sit this one out. Eighty is saying for me
is just common sense. But again, I grew up in
the era with the NFL's hardest hits by NFL films
and celebrating that type of football. And we've done a
one eighty, like we've done a one eighty from what
that was to what this is now, and it's I

(05:19):
just I can't imagine where we're going next. But how
is the defence, let me ask you this serious question,
how is the defender supposed to know what you, as
the quarterback, are going to do when you haven't started
sliding until it's too late for them to stop. Now,
a lot of this is gamesmanship. That's the word. It's
games and ship the quarterbacks realize that they're special people.

(05:43):
They're a protected class if you're a quarterback, so they
are taking full advantage of dumb people. That's the key
to life, You take advantage of dumb people. So quarterbacks know,
since they are a protected class, that they're going to
take advantage of the rule book and they'll wait to
slide the very last moment, trying to get as many yards,

(06:04):
of course as possible. They also know that they're more
likely to draw a penalty. And the whole thing is
horse poop. It's fifty shades of greg The pendulum has
swung too far in favor of the quarterback rights, and
we need the pigskin Supreme Court to get involved. Rules
need to be changed. Quarterbacks should not be able to

(06:26):
fake a slide or stutter step along the sidelines and
pretend like they're going out of bounds and then do
the old psych just kidding and get some extra yards. Right.
Shouldn't be able to do that? Should not happens all
the time, All right, now, pitchdo as far as the
big picture, because we're all about the big picture here

(06:48):
on the Overnight Show, what did you make of the
NFL's adjudication of Texas linebacker Aziz al Shire, which included
from some very very saucy language directed at the ballplayer,
so that aside just focusing on the punishment. So the

(07:09):
sentence was handed down to win the popular vote. The
sentence was handed down to win the popular The NFL
knew that that is going to get support from the casuals,
and that's who most of their customers are. They're not
hardcore people. Most of the people that support the NFL
are casual fans and people who don't understand how fast

(07:34):
the game of football is played. People that believe that
these are actually robots and that they can stop on
a dime, and that people over at Tesla Elon Musk
and the people at Tesla have cooked up a wonderful
way to make these people seem human. But they're they're not.
Maybe they're they're robots or lizard people whatever, but they're

(07:57):
not humans. And so they can stop in air. And
the low information fans seize this punishment and they just
licked their chops and they love it and they can't
get enough. It will get matrix level approval in the
NFL in many ways. And all these these teams have
not figured out that that social media is not real, right,

(08:19):
It's that it's it's a fake world that is manipulated.
They haven't figured that out. So the bots, the cyborgs,
the sock puppet accounts will support this punishment and make
an example out of a ziz al Shire. Now, by
MO means do I support his politics. I think the
guy's alluding to him, But we're merely judging him on

(08:40):
the football play, which is all I care about. I'm
in it for the football stuff and that other you know,
other nonsense. You can save that for somewhere else, but
just from a pure football standpoint, and they absolutely buried him.
And I did see the Texans come out, the GM
of the Texans, and he came out and supported his player,
which you would expect him to do. He used some
saucy language. He used the naughty word. Oh my god,

(09:04):
he used the naughty word. Oh he's gonna get punished,
all right. Now, final point, I'm gonna turn the page.
Now turn the page from the Tom Brady and his
reaction to aziz Au Schier, the Texas linebacker. We'll get
your thoughts on that if you want. But final point.
We turned. Now the pinwheel Lands, and we are going
to Jacksonville, another crap bag team. And that's the other

(09:27):
half of this question, right the Texans Jags Trevor Lawrence,
according to some Internet reports, decapitated. He was not. So
I saw this and I thought this was amusing. A
fan shared what appears to be a cameo video of
former Ohio state coach.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Urban BYR Urban BYR Yeah Urban Mayer so in this
clip which has gone round and round and round.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
The echo chamber. In the clip, Urban, who was coach
in Jacksonville for about a minute about a minute, endorsed
Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. He's all about the Johnson
Urban Meyer to replace Doug Peterson as Jacksonville's head coach.

(10:18):
In the clip, which has picked up a lot of
steam here, Irbin Meyer says, all right, mister shad as
in Shod Cohn, the owner there, you invest a lot
into this franchise, Urban said, and now it is time
to make the right decision to get a return. Meyer

(10:40):
went on to say, the kid you've got down there
as a gunslinger, Frank Trevor Lawrence, A build it around him,
building around him. Don't go for the old guard, go
for the Young and the Fresh Higher Band, not Bill Well,
I like that, meaning Belichick of course, hire Ben? All right,

(11:00):
So how do you react to ermban byer and his
They're calling it accidental endorsement of Lions offensive coordinator Ben
Johnson for the Jacksonville coaching job. So I love this, right,
I think this is hilarious and this is the world

(11:20):
we're in, and it's it was oprah like. It was
oprah like. Remember during the election, which was just a
few weeks ago, when when Kamala Harris's campaign paid Oprah
Winfrey like two and a half million dollars or something
for some town hall and there was this big consciousy
about that bunch of celebrities got paid. They claimed it

(11:42):
wasn't for endorsements, but most people that have a brain,
picket was for endorsement. So in that respect, Urban Meyer
is a cheap date, okay, because I looked it up
and on cameo he charges three hundred and forty five dollars.
So some we'll call the fan, I don't know the
fans name Joe Blow. So Joe Blow fan pays three

(12:05):
hundred and forty five dollars, Has Urban Meyer do a cameo?
Sending a pep talk to Shad Khan, the owner of
the Jacksonville football team. It then goes viral. You talk
about a discount rate. Now I should raise my rate.
I'm on cameo. I don't promote it much, but if
every once in a while a few people are are
big super fans and there's a couple of guys every

(12:27):
year your birthdays come up or some event, and I'll
do a little cameo for him. But I'm I'm charging
a fraction of that. I mean, as someone on cameo.
It does go with the territory. It does go with
the territory. And you get these requests and you have
to decide a do I make this public? What's the
point of not making a public because anything you do
is going to be public anyway. And then you're like,

(12:49):
do I accept this or not? Like there's a lot
that goes into it. And then you're like, well, I'm greedy,
I want the money, so I'll do it. And that's
normally how how that goes. I have turned some down.
There have been something that I've hearned down that I
felt like would come back and cause problems down the line.
So I've rejected those for a nominal fee that I

(13:11):
did turn down. Every once in a while. It does happen.
Urban Meyer for three hundred and forty five dogs. We
should have Urban Meyer. We should we should pay him.
I endorse the Ben Malager. We just get a bunch
of celebrities to endorse the show and then we'll just
play that on the show and then we're we're good.
We make it seem like we're very popular with powerful people,
but we're more popular, which just like regular people. Anyway.

(13:33):
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and you will be punished. You will be punished, allegedly,

(14:21):
we'll get to those stories. We'll do it all, and
we will.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Do it.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Next.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
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All right, thank you. Now we have a walking talking conundrum.
Have you seen the sizzle reel making the rounds? You
heard about this. There's an Aaron Rodgers documentary coming to
Netflix called Enigma, and it's going It's going there, It's

(16:11):
going there. Rogers had to agree to this. The trailer
debuted yesterday. The doc drops on December seventeenth. It's a
three part docu series on Netflix called Enigma, and it's
about Airin Rogers, Eirin Rogers, and it goes. It goes

(16:37):
all over the map and the way it's being described here,
it was created over the last couple of years. Buzzworthy
buzzworthy praise comments about Rogers. It goes. It talks about
him traveling to remote South American countries to drink ayahuasca,

(16:58):
and it shows video him doing this and just things
that you know, most normal people would think, well, that's
a little on the spectrum. Hanging out with his buddy
Robert F. Kennedy junior there and rehabbing from the Achilles
and so it drops December seventeenth. I'll watch it. I'll

(17:19):
check it out. You know, it's fine. Behind the scenes documentary.
I used to love documentaries. I used to watch so
many documentaries and then at some point I realize, yeah,
I like him, but I don't like him as much
because I realized that most of them are all biased.
Who Ever made, who are paid for the documentary has
kind of giving you a bias view on whatever you're watching.
But I still watch them, not as much as I

(17:41):
used to. But behind the scenes documentary, you can watch
Aaron Rodgers go into the Amazon and you know, eat
some weird bushes and things like that and all of it. So,
and that's going to be more entertaining than watching the
three and nine Jets. That'll be more in entertaining than
watching the Jets. But Enigma and the Jets, yeah, well

(18:07):
they are in New Jersey. Remember Brian Cox who hated
me when he worked here and he played for the Jets,
and he said, the number one complaint for the players
of the Jets is the tax because at the time,
and I don't know if it's still the situation where
they had at the time Cox played for the Jets,
they had their practice facility was in New York. They

(18:29):
played their games in Jersey, and so they ended up
paying taxes in both places and it was a big,
big pain in the behind. But that's why you hire
a really good accountant, because if you have a really
good account, you don't have to pay taxes. Rich people
don't pay taxes. Just have a good account and then
you get out of paying taxes. It's an amazing thing.
Who knew? Yeah? All right, anyways, go to the phones,

(18:51):
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(19:16):
Nothing all like that. Let's call the phones. Angry Bill
always upset about something. He's in the sunshine state with
very little sunshine. Hello, angry Bill.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Ben. Did you see or hear Tom Brady say that
Trevor Lawrence's slide was too late? Anywhere in his comments?
Did he ever say Trevor Lawrence slid too late?

Speaker 1 (19:40):
What's called an implication. I know you're I know that
you're not that bright, but the implication was there. He
did slide too late. I think anybody that has working eyeballs,
even blind Scott will tell you that.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
Who doesn't answering the question I'm asking you a question?

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Did the implication again? The implication was made just because
you I know you're not that smart. Thank you? All right,
thank you. Let's who's next. Let's say hello to uh
how about sir scratch Off. Oh he's back. I thought
he retired from the show. Hello, sir scratch Off in Arkansas.

(20:15):
I didn't know. I thought you were retired. I had
you on the retired list.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
No, man, you don't retired. When your militia mine.

Speaker 7 (20:22):
You gotta.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
You gotta get all their backs. Man, when they need
they got to come and call me, because I got
your back.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh you got you? Sure you got my back? You
ready to go to battle? Are you ready to go
to cyber battle?

Speaker 6 (20:33):
You didn't go right you put your gloves on right
now because men you fished go around too. Right now,
because I'm gonna tell you something right now. What's going
on your regular station? I ain't gonna put up with it.
I wanted resonation. I want a band from the show.
And I'm gonna go find him when we gonna hook
you hook him up with the fist. You don't get
on there and wish my girl and she wished she
was dead and ERNI burn her account. You need to

(20:56):
go to hell because you don't be treating her like that.

Speaker 7 (20:59):
Man.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
That's wrong, that's wrong.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
I don't have no idea what you're talking about, but
I'm sure it's terrible.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
But but yes, there it is. He told he told
that girl you want her?

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Dad?

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Well, the guys whoever, it's a loser, who can why
give him attention? To scratch off? It's I get I
get death threats all the time. I don't. I don't
worry about that. I just I just block people and
that's it. Who cares? Just ignore them and it's all
fake tough people. These people are cowards, but that's fine.
Just ignore them. These people. Imagine how pathetic your life

(21:35):
must be to put something like that out there. So
they're losers. Don't pay attention to losers. Who cares about losers?

Speaker 6 (21:43):
Dad gums got your back, man, I ain't.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Daddummit. You actually have to show now, Dad govement. You
actually have to show up though, because you often you
talk a good game, but you actually got to show up.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
I had a good reading, bro.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
You know, if my wife man, you know, three years
bringing in that big money, I'm not gonna not go
with her. You see how many bro?

Speaker 7 (22:04):
I mean, you kiss?

Speaker 6 (22:06):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
I understand, but I grew up. You know, if something
is important enough, you'll make time to do it. That's
how I grew up with you. But you're different. That's fine.
You're you're different than I am.

Speaker 6 (22:16):
I bet you had mom and daddy. I know you
bragged a lot of them and stuff like that. They've
been gone with the wall, you know, but up to you. Really,
let's get some serious business.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Okay, now we're now we're getting that, and then we'd
like to alert all the affiliates. We are now getting
in to the nitty gritty right now here we go.

Speaker 6 (22:34):
We're about We're about the rams. Man. You know, we
we waited like a half the game, three quarter game
to even get a point. We're down three to nothing
and we finally come on back. What we gonna do
against Buffalo?

Speaker 5 (22:44):
Really?

Speaker 6 (22:44):
I mean, Alan went out to Cancity, but mahone, but
what's he gonna do? To us.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
I mean, well, I think you know, I think you
know the answer here that the Rams this year when
they play mediocre to bad teams are fine. When they
played good teams, it's ugly, it's choking, brutal. So there
you know the answer. They're gonna get run off the
field by the Buffalo Bills. The only hope you have

(23:11):
if you're a Rams fan is that all of the
Bills players will be suffering from flu like conditions because
they were all playing in the snow when they ran
up the score against the forty nine ers. So maybe
they'll be sick by the time they get to LA
and they won't be able to play. But other than that,
good luck.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
I got you, man. If you're talking to you again, Man,
I'm in back of my truck turning load twenty seven
degrees out her heart.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
The beautiful twenty seven Chamber of Commerce. Kind of a
day there, Chamber of Commerce. Kind of a day.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
Yes, they're i'mist send you almost send you on these
lit up, lit up Christmas lives slid road. Man, I
almost send to you by the train train blackfoot, take
me out of town.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
All right, there you go, thank you? All right, we'll
take you all right, go away, let's or scratch off
back on the show. No longer retired. No longer retired.
The Late Night Drug Test says, missing the urban Myyer chant.
Maybe instead of a nickname Rundown, we need a rhythmic
chant rundown. Yeah, I love the rhythmic chance. I'm all

(24:09):
about it. And uh yeah, hopefully we'll find those I
know we have them in the archive. Lorraina is still new.
She didn't know a lot of the old bitch that
we did, but we The urban Maya rant was great,
seven or eight people standing outside the stadium in Columbus
and chanting and echoing throughout the empty stadium. There was wonderful.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yes, is it spelled I r V I N ha.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Ha, Well that's unfortunate, Lorena. And is it Meyer like
Oscar Meyer? Or like, well it's urban. You are b
A N Urban? And then m E y E r
urban myyer.

Speaker 8 (24:53):
Urban twin brother, I'm sorry you r V A N
the urban like an urban l escape.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Oh hold on.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Are you self medicating here, Lorena? Are you maybe you
should be self?

Speaker 7 (25:07):
Man?

Speaker 3 (25:07):
I just go ben, Oh I think I found it.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, there it is. Yeah, some guy Caleb, I don't
know who that is. He's though Tom Brady can imply
whatever he wants. But another former player said it was
a dirty and I don't care what other former players say.
And I formed my own opinion, So maybe you're not

(25:35):
that bright, Caleb. You can't form your own opinion. But
that's how I do things. I don't need other people
to tell me how to think. Legally Blind Christopher wrights
and says urban Meyer's endorsement means as much as me
and his endorsement much as me as my endorsement of
an eye doctor keeping my sight. He has a profound

(25:56):
knowledge of talent and skills for college football, but his
wonderful time in Florida has me wondering Ben Johnson will
go after the Dallas Cowgirls opening, says legally Blind Christopher.
There is a rumor bouncing around that Ohio State is
going to make a coaching change. Well, that's not really
that shocking after they were whacked by Michigan again, another

(26:19):
embarrassing Michigan team. It's man, imagine those seniors at Ohio
State four years in a row losing to Michigan. Anyway,
there's a report that they'll get rid of Ryan Day,
and it's pretty obviously he's on the hot seat. It
depends how much money they can raise from the boosters
to get rid of Ryan Day and then bring back
Urban Meyer as head coach. And Urban's hanging out doing

(26:40):
TV right now. That would make sense for Urban. He
wants to coach again. He's at the age where you
can probably coach another five six years something like that.
Who knows, maybe longer, depending on health than if he
wins at Ohio State and can go back there. And
he supposedly never wanted to leave the Ohio State University,
so there's that possibility bouncing around. I also saw this.

(27:04):
We go to Vegas on a semi regular basis. Coop
tells me they're raising the major hotels there resort fees
and parking at the largest casino operator on the Vegas trip.
Everything going up. And I guess that started or it
starts today, effective today, all MGM resorts sticking it to

(27:27):
their customers. There is there a bigger scam than the
resort fee. No, it's for dition, nothing more useless than
the resort fee, and yet they're able to get away
with it.

Speaker 8 (27:40):
This is this is what the resort fee. This is
what you're paying for. This is what it lists here.
Unlimited local and domestic long distance phone calls.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay, I have that. I have a phone. I pay
my phone bill every month.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
I have that in room Wi Fi access, So I
guess there's that.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
No.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
No, but I have on my phone I can use
the internet, exactly. I didn't use my phone.

Speaker 8 (27:59):
Okay, did newspaper and magazine downloads through press feeder.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
It's very important. Yes, I need to get my magazines
that I need. Yes, I need to read my magazines.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Access to the fitness center.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah. People go to Vegas to go to the buffet,
not to go to the fitness center. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
I've never been to the fitness center.

Speaker 8 (28:18):
The only people that use fitness I don't do your
complimentary drinks anywhere in this No, But the only people
who use.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Fitness centers are people like I'm business travelers that have
to you know. But people that go to Vegas or not,
most of them are not going there for business. They're
going there for pleasure, all right, what else?

Speaker 8 (28:32):
And then paramount plus with showtime on demand, don't need that.
I'm good, which, by the way, the last time I
was there, like a couple of weeks ago. I tried
to use that. Yeah, and the Wi Fi is not
fast enough to stream anything, so it would pause every
like fifty seconds and try to like buffer.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
You couldn't watch anything. It was terrible.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
You gotta pay more, Yeah, you gotta pay more for
the high speed WiFi.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
And then you also get boarding pass printing as if
it's nineteen ninety two. Yeah, don't, don't. Most of us
just use our phones there and flash the phone.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
When you go through the thing the report there. Yeah,
that's great, what a scam.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
So now it's fifty five dollars a day for that day.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
So yeah, so the room really cheap, you know, actually
they're not cheap at the Blagio, but expensive room. And
then they tack on fifty five bucks and the parking,
which I know, Coop, you're a big time gambler, so
you don't have to worry about for the rest of us, though,
they raised the parking fees. Now during the week it's
up to twenty bucks and on the weekends it's twenty

(29:39):
five dollars on the weekends, and at at the big hotels.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
There per day.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
That is such a such a joke. Man, you're gonna
get the money. Who's going there and not spending money,
whether it's on food or gambling, And I just it's ridiculous,
but hey, people keep paying it. At some point, if
people stop paying it, they would, you know. It's like
these prices for tickets and everything. Well, look what happened

(30:07):
with cable television. People stop paying for cable television and
they started paying for streaming services. And cable tv is
not doing that great. And but yet now the streaming
services are going up, so you can get your money
one way or another. But man, alive, what a what
a joke that is. Anyway, let's go back to the phones,

(30:28):
and who do we have this? Yere eeny meeny miny mo.
Pick a caller by the day. Let's go to salsa.
We'll do the salsa with our buddy Salsa. Who's I
think he's in Dallas. They're traveling around. Hello, Salsa, what's
going on?

Speaker 7 (30:42):
Good morning, Ben, just getting away. It's my birthday Saturdays.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh boy, we don't do birthday shout outs. So we did,
we'd wish you a happy birthday, but we don't really,
we don't really.

Speaker 7 (30:57):
I appreciate the sentiment. Hey, Ben. Last hour you talking
about getting with things with belts do and you know
what a switch is?

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, that's uh, I know that because Adrian Peterson got
in trouble with that. That's a branch from a tree,
right like.

Speaker 7 (31:12):
Yes, yeah, And so I didn't never got to beat
Hick with one, but my cousins diet and the mental
torture that they do is your parents would send you
to pick the switch off of the tree. So they
get you to get get it and then they come
back and beat you.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
With its wonderful. Now, what if you got to really
meet branch it wasn't that strong? What if you got that?

Speaker 7 (31:35):
Ben? Come on, now you know that it's not gonna work.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'll send you back out. It's that's not good enough.

Speaker 7 (31:41):
Now you got to go out and get a bigger
one and then you get hit worse. Uh yeah. So
then when you come to Texas, man, what's what city
would you prefer to come to.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
I do have a buddy of mine that lives in Dallas,
so maybe i'll maybe I'll go visit you your your
stomping grounds there. I don't know if I'm allowed in
Houston because I've ripped the a holes over the years.

Speaker 7 (32:04):
So I don't Yeah, I was thinking you probably don't
want to go go down here.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, that would be uncomfortable.

Speaker 7 (32:10):
So good, it's a nice fifty four degree.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
So uh that is and great airport hub airport in Dallas.

Speaker 7 (32:19):
They had the best airport in the US. Actually this
Dallas airport.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Are you sure about that? And I think Atlanta is
pretty good, like.

Speaker 7 (32:27):
Actually they're building another terminal here in Dallas soon.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
They just got yeah, yeah, big big airport. Now you've
been to all the airports.

Speaker 7 (32:35):
Right, you've been to every I've been to quite a few.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, what's the worst airport is in l a X?
Is that the worst airport?

Speaker 7 (32:42):
I'll say Boston?

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Boston? Really Logan's why why why Logan rats? I've seen
rats at LaGuardia. I'm sure there's rats at JFK.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
Yeah they have rats so kind of like everywhere in airport,
but I've seen the most in Boston, way too many
for my comfort.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Gotcha? All right? Fair enough? Yeah, there are parts of
Logan that look like they haven't been renovated in about
fifty years, exactly, exactly. Yeah, there's some old parts there
at Logan. All right, So why what do you do
for your birthday, and I guess you're dancing. You're going
out dancing Sausa for your brother.

Speaker 7 (33:19):
Are you going to do that? Actually, what's going to Mexico?
But I dis canceled my hotel, so I figured that's
something tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
All right, Well, there you go. Enjoy salsa. The only
man that's getting younger. You're not getting older, Sausa, you
look younger.

Speaker 8 (33:32):
Enjoy your early weekend.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, all right, there you go, our buddy salsa. It
is the ban Malor show as we roll on. So yes, yes,
what what do you want? No, No, you did not
lose me. Don't put that out in the ethos. Bad
job by you, Shame on you. So the College Football
Playoff Committee, which is not a big thing because everyone's
getting it, even Alabama, who lost the Vanderbilt lost a

(33:58):
couple of bad games. They're still in the playoff college
Football Playoff because they're Alabama and they have a national
fan base. But the College Football Playoff Committee has implied
and no angry Bill doesn't like this because they didn't
actually say it word for word, but they've implied punishing
teams for losing the conference championship game on Tuesday, they

(34:20):
had the release of the College Football Playoff rankings, and
we haven't spent much time on this. I don't find
it all that compelling. The rankings are out twelve team bracket.
If the season ended to day, here's who would play
who blah blah blah blah blah. Right now, you've got
the SMU, Boise State who are benefiting If you look

(34:43):
at the breakdown here from the way it sets up
the highest seeds, there's some buys in the College Football Playoff.
There's four teams that have I don't get in all
that right now, but anyway, the implication is if you
lose the conference championship game, like if SMU loses the Clemson,
SMU would then conceivably drop below Alabama and so that

(35:08):
is that is in the cards allegedly. See how that
goes down. Anyway. It is the Ben Maler Show. Time
Now for the Insta Trivia. We'll keep it simple. You
can answer this on x at Ben Mahler. Blank has
the most receiving touchdowns from outside the red zone this season. Again,
most receiving touchdowns from outside the red zone this season.

(35:31):
Fill in the blank. That's the Insta Trivia the answer.
We'll get to it, and we will do it next.

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back to bloviating Benny. That's right, all right, here we

(36:13):
go Insto trivia time, Bill and for you listening, Blank
has the most receiving touchdowns from outside the red zone
this season outside the red zone this season, most receiving touchdowns.
Shane in Des Moines going with Mookie Wilson as his answer.
That's an interesting photo of Mookie Wilson. Who else do
we have? The godfather from Slim Tim that's his answer. David,

(36:36):
by the way, said I would be welcomed, they would
forgive their they would have a truce if I came
to Houston. Well, thank you, David Rod, the ambassador of
Bakersfield the Great Rod going with Saquon Barkley unless it's
not Sir scratch Off from malor prop guy, that's his answer.
Who else do we have? Marvin Miracle Mims from Milkman,

(36:56):
Mike and Colorado Sonic, the Hedgehog, guess by the Cowboy
Tiler Paige Dawn, Joe Joe Thomas, former Brown Tackles forty Today,
Late Night Drug Tester, Sparky Anderson from Alf the Alien
o Piner. Wow, he always looked old Alf. He did
all right, Lrada.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Do you have an answer the right Yes, my amazing postmate, Ben?

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Is that right? Interesting?

Speaker 5 (37:19):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (37:19):
No, The correct answer is Jamar Chase So the Ben
gal with seven touchdowns outside the Red jelsa quad bark
with a second It's maller. How about that?

Speaker 4 (37:32):
To the third degree?

Speaker 1 (37:34):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.

Speaker 8 (37:37):
Gooblu Coldead coach Shane Steiken gave a recent interview and
talked about how Anthony Richardson has quote made great strides
and shown growth in all aspects of his game since
his demotion earlier in the season.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Ben, do you agree with stichen?

Speaker 1 (37:52):
No, he had. The one thing that Anthony richards has
done is he's shown that he can make plays in
the clutch, that at nineteen play drive against the Patriots.
All though he's been bad. He's the thirty third ranked
quarterback in the NFL over the last month. He's actually
played worse statistically than Joe Flacco. So I don't know
what the bleep Shane Stike is talking about other than

(38:12):
a few plays late in the game, which if you
look at the Patriot game, that two point conversion he
made with his legs, not his arm. And they're paying
him to be a quarterback. That's the problem. So I
do not agree with Shane Stike it overall.

Speaker 8 (38:24):
Next, it is being reported that multiple teams have inquired
about signing All Star closer Clay Holmes.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
What up Holmes as a starting pitcher?

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Ben, do you think Holmes will go that route? And
will it be successful?

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Well, he was so bad with the Yankees last year.
I think he led baseball and blown saves. That this
is this makes it. You make more money as a
starter than you do as a reliever. And if you
suck as a reliever and you can build your arm
up and be a starter, why would you not do it?
You can continue one get fully vested in that MLB pension.

(38:57):
That's the way to go. Next.

Speaker 8 (38:59):
The a that I've seen popping up all over social
media lately, Ben, and that is that Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Is the next Dan Marino. How do you feel about
this comparison?

Speaker 1 (39:08):
How about the next Philip Rivers? You know, I don't
know about Dan Dan Rago, Philip Rivers. Oh yeah, Burrow
got to a Super Bowl, lost to the Rams, and
it seems unlikely the Bengals are ever going to get
back to another super Bowl in my lifetime, at least
anytime soon with Burrow. So uh yeah, all right, how'd
wead dot?

Speaker 3 (39:25):
You pass this edition?

Speaker 1 (39:26):
That is a win? Put it on the board. I won.
Who