December 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Philip Rivers saying he didn't join the Colts to become the savior or hero, the grainy video of Rivers at practice, the Philadelphia Eagles removing the "Positivity Rabbit" from the locker room, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shaka Laca. It's our numb bird two, our number two,
and how new you knew? As Philip Rivers says he
did not join the Colts to be the savior the hero.
Is that how it works? Do you want to be
the person to tell Philip Rivers that's not how it works. Also,
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are you drawing any conclusions from the grainy video of
Philip Rivers getting some practice in some practice tape didn't
look particularly great? And the Philadelphia Eagles have removed the
positivity rabbit Rabbit, Rabbit rabbit from the locker room. Give
me your reaction to the inflatable rabbit being removed from
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the reigning Super Bowl champs. That and more. Right now,
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Crown is yours and or lead this out. We'll get
away from the Michigan scandal. We'll go back to that
at some point, but in the moments that we have
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ahead of us right now, we head to Indianapolis. Who's
your bill? Very excited that the Colts are getting a
lot of attention. So the story of the week continues
to be that the grandpa left his grandson and left
the loyal Order of the Moose Lodge to return to
the league. And Philip Rivers had his first dance with
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the media on Wednesday. The Beat reporters who cover the
Indianapolis Colts. I don't know if you heard any of
what he had to say. Perhaps you did not, But
Philip Rivers said the money quote here is he said
he is not the savior or a hero. He said,
quote I'm not here to save the year or to
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be the hero by any means, he claimed. At his
news conference, he said, we got to stink and run
the crap out of the football and play defense, he said.
He also acknowledged the legitimate possibility of injury and says
you essentially said you don't know until you do it
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whether or not that's going to happen. So whether you
can do it, that is a good jumping all points.
I'll let us discuss the question Philip Rivers. That will
work off the money quote the question Philip Rivers says
he didn't join the Colts to save the year or
to be their hero. Is that how this works? So
I've got terry toons, finesse and penalty flag, and we'll
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put all of these things together. We're gonna play Connect
three is what we're gonna do. So number number all right,
So I am shaking my head. Stop I'm shaking my head. No,
my eyes are closed. I'm shaking my head. No, rapidly, rapidly, rapidly, rapidly. No,
all right, so stop it, all right. Message to Philip
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Rivers from the overnight. That is exactly why you are
in Indianapolis. But that is exactly why, Philip Rivers, you
are wearing a Colt uniform. They did not wake up
one morning and say, you know what, we need a
forty four year old game manager who is not going
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to be our hero. Come on, Daniel Jones, who was
going the wrong direction. Let's be honest here he was
not playing that well. He then went snap, crackle pop.
The season's wobbling like a three legged table at a
diner at a bistro. And the Colts, what do they do?
Who are you gonna call? They called the Grandpaul Emergency line,
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and they called the Grandpa Emergency hotline. They wanted the
old gun slinger riding in with his bolo tie glistening,
ready to play firefighter. Put out the fire firefighter. All right,
I will fine whatever, and don't tell me that he's
not there to save anything. Come on, if they wanted
just a warm body, they did pick up Brett Rippon,
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who is just a warm body. They could have gotten
anyone to play quarterback who would have been as cam
Ward would say, ass And the Colts what they are
banking on and what they're counting on with Philip Rivers
is terrytoons. Rivers is the iconic cartoon character Mighty Mouse,
whether he likes it or not, Here I come to
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save the day. It's Mighty Mouse. How come all the
cartoon characters in the early days were all like Mickey Mouse,
mighty mouse. What's up with that? Anyway? That is the assignment.
That is the assignment for philip Rivers. And the quotes,
and we gave you some of them. The quotes are
just philip Rivers trying to downplay the expectation, soften the landing,
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lower the bar either way, Indie, they need more than
just the training wheels if this is gonna work. They
go into Seattle hostile situation. All Seattle's not that great
at home, and you got Sam Darnol, who's a walking mistake,
as no Stredinas knows. And so the Colts, though, they're
banking on that this guy is going to be someone,
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not just another guy. He's gonna be someone who can
transform that harmless goldfish offense and turn that into an
offense that's as fearsome as a Barracouda and as leath
as in a giant anaconda. That's what they're banking on now,
page two. So with the Colts going into full Grandpa
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mode as they are, there's some video clips of philip
Rivers practicing. And I don't know if you've seen this.
I don't think Stevie Meatballs has seen it, or Ink
and terror or blind Scott. But there's video clips of
Rivers practicing with Indy and they've gone viral and many
people are saying, well, he looked terrible. Looks like he
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hasn't missed a meal and the throws were not that great.
So the question are you drawing any kind of conclusions
from the grainy philip Rivers practice tape? Are there any
conclusions that you are drawing? So we find this to
be hilarious, like people are losing their collective minds over
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what I saw was kind of grainy. I don't know
if it was really Bigfoot quality Bigfoot quality philip Rivers
practice tape shot on what appears to be like an
three Nokia flip phone. Like everybody grab a brown paper bag.
There is no need to hyperventilate. You do not need
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to hyperventilate. The critics are shouting, there's no velocity, he's
got no zip on the throws, and that one throw
looks like it took five business days to get to
the receiver and all that. But spoiler alert, philip Rivers.
This has not been talked about it at all. Nobody
else has this take. I'm the only one. It's an
original take. He's a grandpa, and he's forty four years old.
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By NFL standards, Philip Rivers is the epitome of a
museum exhibit. It's a traveling museum exhibit wearing cleats. Now, regardless,
here's the plot twist in the Malor movie, because we
make movies here the Malor movie. Rivers, based on the
clip that I saw, looks almost identical to the way
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he looked when he last played in the NFL. He
is a right handed craftsman. He never even in his
salad days with the old San Diego Chargers, he never
threw the heater. Never. He made a career out of
being a finesse pitcher, beguiling defenses right, mixing the change
up with the slider and the loopy, loopy, loopy breaking
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ball that defy physics and the ball flutters and it
wobbles and all that, and it doesn't look like it
should work. And think of it more along lines of
two a tongue of eyeloa, although more success like an upgrade.
I don't know if he's got fewer dance and played
a few years, so it's likely in good condition there
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and that kind of funky shot put delivery and it's
still there. It was effective. Will it be effective still?
We'll find out. The real superpower, the real superpower of
Philip Rivers has always been the A and a game,
anticipation and accuracy and the most important skill set. Remember
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the great Mike Leach. I loved Mike Leach. She died
not that long ago, and he always said, the most
important thing is accuracy. Everything else you can figure out.
You don't have to have the cannon for the arm.
People get all horny for the cannon for the arm,
but you got to have accuracy. That's the most important
skill and Rivers has usually had that. And anticipation, which
is another way of saying reading defenses, knowing when to
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get rid of the ball so you don't get killed.
It's not about arm strength. And a lot of people
don't like to hear that because they get all excited
the NFL draft because this guy throws the ball really
amazingly and then he's not accurate and all that. And
Rivers during the regular season has been fine. He's never
been a good big game quarterback. And so in terms
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of putting the bow on this any conclusions from the tape,
the conclusion I have is simple. He is who he's
always been, He's who he thought he was. And the
Colts know exactly that type of play he played for
them at the end before he retired and then came back,
and so they know what they're getting. Now. If Seattle
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ends up jumping out to a two touchdown lead early,
this can get really bad. And it's gonna get Ugo
lead with a Capitol U. All right, final point to Philadelphia.
We go and fresh off that turnover debacle in the
hood in Inglewood and up to no good game. I
was at the Charger Eagle Monday night game. I was
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an eyewitness there. The Eagles got back to the Delaware
Valley and much to the surprise of Daddy and Jonathan
in Delaware, the Eagles have said we no longer are
in the rabbit business. Rabbit rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Yep, they
said bye bye to the positivity rabbit. You remember we
talked about this last week. In an effort to help
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team morale, the Eagles did whatevery grown up would do.
They brought in an inflatable rabbit. They put the rabbit
on waivers. Now the inflatable Easter Bunny has been cut fired,
sent to the waiver wire. Whatever you want to say,
given the pink slip, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So the question, here's the question, the Eagles removing the
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positivity rabbit rabbit, rabbit rabbit from the locker room. Give
me your reaction, because this is the kind of stuff
you need on your sports talk radio, all right, this
is the kind of stuff this Only in Philadelphia could
an inflatable rabbit become part of the Eagles crisis management
strategy that Age Brown has messed that group up so
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much and lately Jalen hurts that they have now gone
to inflatables speak absurdity, and fresh off the turnover debacle
in La where they literally got rid of the ball.
They tried to get rid of it like it was
a live hand grenade, the Birds have determined that that
Easter bundy in the locker room was not a positivity rabbit.
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It was a bad bunny and they don't want bad bunny.
And that's it. Get out of here, see you later.
So let's call this what it was, and what it
is it is a sawing bada saw wing bata swinging
a miss with city. You don't mess with the holiday calendar.
And that's one of the problems here. Everything happens rat
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a tat tat, rat a tat tat, and they messed
with the holiday calendar. And when you mess with the
holiday calendar, you get the record setting turnover performance, meaning
you rolled out the Easter Bunny in December, and you're
asking for a cosmic penalty flag, as Andrea the Astrology
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Insider would say, and they got a cosmic penalty flag,
they being the Philadelihagos. And sure enough, the giveaway squad
of Philly handing out possessions like promotional T shirts at
a birthday party for like the Philly fanatic and Jalen
Hurts I saw it. He made NFL history with an
interception in fumble on the same play. And there's two
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plays now that I've seen in my life as a
witness that will likely not happen again, at least in
my lifetime. I was at a Cardinal Dodger game little
Humble Brag here way back in the steroid boom times,
and the Cardinals had this guy for Nando Tatis, who
was either really gifted athletically or I don't know, maybe
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he might have been on something. I'm sure he would
never do anything like that. But this guy hit two
two grand slams in the same same inning.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
It was.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It was insane. It was absolutely ridiculous against the against
the Dodgers. But and so now Jalen hurts the fumble, well,
the interception then the fumble and all that stuff. But
it's listen, it's not that was not quarterbacking. That was
like riding shotgun on a vomit comet, is what that was.
And that's what happened. And the inflatable rabbit never had
a chance, and it was it was. It was jinxed
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with a with a pump to blow it up with
air and all that. And so I say, forget balloons.
The Eagles are in such a bad spot. They're they're
Mojoe's so messed up there in Philly that they need
an emotional support animal. Now I recommend Fats in Philadelphia,
but I understand he's got a family and he's not available,
So they can't hire Fats as an emotional sport animal.
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How about a miniature horse, a horse, of course, how
about that, right, because right now they're playing like Rhode Apples. Yeah,
they can get a horse in there. They're like they
drop road apples all over the fifty yard line, So
bring in the horse, of course, of course, of course,
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Late Night Drug Tester writes in he says that's e
dog's favorite caller to the show. Late Night Drug Tester
loves Late Night Drug Tester and Late Night Drug Tester says,
ready for the car wreck. Seattle's defense will put on
whoever his quarterback for Indy. Also, Philly doesn't need comfort
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animals when the city has the comfort food duo of
soft pretzel and cheese steak. Well, that is correct. Although
you showed a clip of the wrong cheese steak, you
don't get the whiz on it. You get the prov alone.
And that is from my Philadelphia insider. The greatest sports
talk show host ever to work here at Fox Sports Radio,
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the great Tony Bruno, who's now retired living life in Florida.
But Tony, he told me early on I first met
I met Tony before I worked here, NEWTONI was working
at ESPN Radio back.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
In the nay.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I thought you've worked here since you came out of
the womb much much. But anyway, Tony told me, he
said right away when I first when when you go
to Philly, you got to get it with provolone. That's
the authentic way. You don't get it with the cheese whist.
That's not how you do it. And the soft pretzel thing,
oh god, that we need better. Like living in la
there's not really good pretzels here. They need really a
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soft pretzel. And that's the modern pretzel in Philadelphia. The
modern what we know is the American pretzel was brought
to Philadelphia by immigrants from the Old Country and they
created what is the modern pretzel. Stevie Meatballs writes in
says this Philip Rivers business has Jim Ursa still calling
crazy shots from the grave written all over, and Stevie
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Meatball says, as for Rivers, he doesn't want to be
a hero. He just is in it for a free physical,
which includes a thorough prostate exam at his age. Doc
says he passed the sniff test. That's from the great
Stevie meat Balls JJ from Renton says if Philip Rivers
starts this weekend that Seattle Defense is going to destroy him.
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That's from JJ and Renton. Who's a made man in Seattle,
made made man for sure. And see, I don't know.
Shane sents something about Esteban lowisa, I don't. I don't
know what that's all about. Uh So we'll skip over that.
Not a burner, says Ben Will. The Eagles also be
adding nap time and show and tell to boost morale.
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I hope they will be assigning a class helper to
hand out crayons and water paints. Ps they chose the
wrong rabbit, Well, that would.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Be naps proven to like help with morale.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
No, I'm not a napper. I don't. I don't nap.
Some people. If you're into napping, I guess that's that's good.
I wish I wasn't. I wish I was a good napper.
The problem is I wake up napping. I don't feel good.
I feel like I'm groggy. What's the point And it's
just not not my thing, he said. Jessica rabbit, which
is is she the hottest cartoon rabbit? If you were?
And now we don't do this, as you know. But
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if you were to do a big board, not a
list Terry in England, but a big board, would Jessica
Rabbit from the Roger Rabbit franchise be the be the
one I just drove through that tunnel where they filmed
the it's here in La the Roger Rabbit tunnel. Yes,
it's believe, right up the hill from where we we
broadcast from im Partial to Lola Bunny. I don't know
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Jessica Rabbit man and the pretty good pretty good anyway,
Let's take some calls. It is a call in show
and Enie Meanie miney mo. Let's say hello to Jola,
who's in Dallas and always smiling about something. What's going on, Joela? Welcome?
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Oh Joel? Did Jola fall asleep?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Maybe he's thinking of his favorite bunny.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I should have done Joel on earlier. It's about that's
user error and that's my mistake. Joela was on hold
for a while, but I had I had to take
our guy hauling steel and then we didn't have well seatball, Joel,
get the dump button ready, that's going out to the
Bay area and the number one Chicago Bears apologist that
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I know Lucky Tony. Hello, Lucky Tony.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Hey man, what does Lorraina's microphone have in common with
the alexur Idell's bro.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I don't. I don't know. I'm actually very curious about
this myself.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
I would love them off, I think then.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I'm sure you wanted to know the answer on that. Yeah,
did that make the aend? Didn't you say that?
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
He said them off? He would love them off, as in,
he would love your microphone to be off.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh that's not what I heard. Okay, well that's your though.
Your mind went to a very dark place. It did.
Of Lorena likes to work blue. As we said, you
know comedy, you work blue? Right, Lorena? You like the blue?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I don't know that phrase.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I don't know what that means. Oh really, man, I
guess I'm dating myself. Yeah, in comedy, if you look
it up, Coop, I'm not making it up. You work blue?
I think that goes back. What was the comedy kept
getting arrested Lenny Bruce? Yeah, comedy named Lenny Bruce and
the you know working blue?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
They had a blue comedy is comedy that is off
color the actual music words and discussing things that people
would not discuss in polite society.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Oh yeah, no, that's totally me. You never heard that
Coop Blue Blue Working Blue. No, I have never heard
that before. I guess I'm a dinosaur. Let's go to
Keith and Michigan. What's going on? Keith and Michigan. Welcome.
Keith got insider information on the greatest scandal of the
college football season and with the Michigan Wolverines. I've gone
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full Jerry Springer show. What's going on? Keith?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Hey Ben, I've only been listening to you for six months,
and I love your show. I love Coop, and love Lorena,
love Sports Drive all night and listen to you every night,
and love it when Lorena chimes in and you you say,
don't talk to me. That's like brings a smile to
my face every time. The all that's scuttle butt is
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obviously who's gonna step in? And I wanted to get
your thoughts because I think it needs to be a
coach of integrity. I know how you rip on the
cheating astros, and we sent you our ball who obviously
had cheating problems here and Tron Moore was tied up
into that and obviously has proven himself to be someone
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of you know, less than moral character. And it seems
like to me that we need a coach like Landing
or maybe Riley who's good with quarterbacks, if we can
even Keith Underwood. And it just seems to me regardless
of whether it's a Michigan.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Man or not.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
And I love your monologue in the first hour, but
it seems like we need an integrity hire. But I
don't necessarily think that's at odds with being a winner,
but I wanted to see what your.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Thoughts were on it. Yeah, well, first of all, I
think they will hire someone that's got a clean resume.
I think that's going to happen. To me, the most
important thing in all this it's semi pro football. I think.
Can we all agree Keith with nil and the transfer
portal and all that stuff, it's semi pro football. It's
not you know. So it's not like the argument that
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you need to be on this straight and narrow now
you can't really be sleeping with your football assistance and
give them fifty five percent raises and all that. It's
generally not great, but there's got to be a middle
ground there. And to quote the great Mike Singletary when
he briefly coached the forty nine ers, he said, I
want winners. I want people that want to win. So
let me ask you, Keith. You you're there, You're in there,
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You're right there on the ground, boots on the ground. Keith,
do you think the mission of snow man? All right,
you're you're right in the middle of the snow. That's
a true Michigander.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So here's the aner.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Do do you believe the fan base would accept because
Sewan Moore had pretty you know, they weren't great teams,
rather on four lost teams? Would you take that? Or
would you rather have a guy that's got a few
skeletons and you're playing in the college football playoff?
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Come on, Ben, you know you know the answer was
a rhetorical question. You know the answer. Come on, Yeah,
we want a winner.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
We hands down, we want to win.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Okay, all right, never.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Going to accept the four loss season and and take
that sitting down. It's not gonna happen. Yeah, it will
not happen here, no way.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
All right, So you answer your own question. We've had
a night. What we've done here? You and I have
workshop this and we've determined that they're they're going to be.
They're gonna find whether it's Jedfish, I don't know if
he's got any scandals at Washington or you know Klin
the boar at Alabama, who seems to be pretty clean.
I guess it's one of those kids.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
No, No, the board.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
I know everyone seems running on the board and bore
to board. What's he done with Alabama?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mean, well, they are they are, they are, They
are in the college for wall playoff. I know they lost.
They got smoked by Georgia, but.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
They didn't do it. But yeah, yeah, I didn't do it.
But yeah, whatever, I know.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I hear you, man, all right, call me more on.
I like you, Keith, what are you doing out there
by the way, what do you what are you driving
truck or something? What do you got going on? No?
Speaker 7 (28:39):
I actually I deliver drugs. I'm legal drugs, not not.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You're a drug dealer, Keith the drug dealer, drug mule, band,
drug mule.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
No, don't say that, Coop. I deliver narcotics the hospitals,
uh in the middle of the night, so that it's
less risky and it's on the down low. And no,
you know it's and that's the way they want it.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Don Ben, I hear you, all right, be safe out there,
enjoy the snow. Keith, thank you man, you man. Look
at that Keith. And I remember my dad, you're you know,
he's long gone now. But my dad used to rant
at me when I started doing the overnight, says, you
gotta be carefully, and all the crazy chemicals at night
are on the roads, and all the bad stuff they
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transported at night. You know, give me this whole dad lecture.
I was like, okay, thanks Dad.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I never knew that.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, And so that's what they do. Let's say hello
to Jed who fled? Who is next? Hello Jed who
fled in the Redneck Riviera? Is he not there either?
What is going on here? Jed? Jed? Jed Jed Jed
Jed Jed? Jeez, he fled? What does he do? He's
(29:58):
up all night doing drugs? How about Yeah? We go
from Keith who's delivering drugs to Jed, who's using the drugs.
What a world? What a world? All Right'm done with him.
So the trickle down of suck? What is the trickle
down of suck? The trickle down of suck. That would
be Donovan McNabb now McNab. I love the fact that
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the Eagles have crumbled this year, and a lot of
it is because of the Diva wide receiver. Because I've
done this kind of work for a while, and i
remember doing monologues about McNab and to million years ago, right,
And so these guys are all retired now, and for
some reason, I'm still blabbing into microphones. But McNabb could
(30:43):
not stand t O and it was vice versa. So
here we are. McNabb now former Eagle, right, you know Eagles.
He's in the Eagles Hall of Fame, and he revealed
this week how AJ Brown's comments, his polarizing comments about
essentially demanding the ball on you. I'm making comments like
that have led to the dramatic decline of DeVante Smith
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and the Eagles off. And so McNabb is playing connect
the dots and everyone's bias based on your life experience. Right,
You've lived a different life than me. I've lived a
different life than you. We know different people, and you're
bias based on your life experience. Right. We all start out.
I think out of the box, you know, as a
(31:27):
blank canvas and then everything we experienced we kind of
that makes us who we are. And so McNabb though,
I love the fact here he is kind of be
in his probably late forties at this point, I would
I think maybe maybe older than that, probably late forties,
and he's still just just so bitter about the devil
wide receiver. Well, another story that caught my attention to
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the how does it feel question? I have a buddy
of mine I've talked about. This boy used to be
a big newspaper editor back in the day, a major newspaper,
one of the great news back when people read newspapers
and they did really well and all that. And this
guy was a big time player in the newspaper business.
And he's a buddy of mine and we talk and
he's retired now and all that. And he will send
me messages. He watches all the He loves two things.
He loves chases, car chases, like the cops chasing the
(32:13):
back guys. Loves that. Always sends me a text, Hey,
turn on channel nine there's a chase or channel five.
Order it's like, okay, great, I'm not near a TV,
but thank you. And he also loves the sideline reporters,
and once I tell you this, when I'm about to
tell you, you'll never watch sports the same way. So
just turn down the ball and if you don't want
me to ruin your sports watching experience, Roughly ninety nine
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percent of the time when the sideline reporter interviews the
player of the game, the question is how does it feel?
That is ninety nine percent of time, and they only
talk to winners. They don't talk to losers, all right,
so it's always you won the game, How does it feel?
What are they gonna say? Well, it feels like hemorrhoids,
it feels like I got kicked in the testicles. What
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are they gonna say? Right, So of course he goes, oh,
it feels great.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
And then Travis Kelsey, who's looks like a podcaster trying
to play football, like if you put Joe Rogan, if
you put Joe Rogan on the Dallas Cowboys, he would
play about as well as Travis Kelsey's played recent and
so Kelsey had a falling down moment on his Fledgling podcast,
which does very well with bots, and he said, quote,
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it's a blank, blank feeling. That's s word fward about
dropping passes and just the way that he's spent. He
sounded like a guy that knows he's cooked. It sounded
like a guy that knows I could just do game
shows and just follow my you know, I could be
the trophy husband for my soon to be wife here
and just live that life. You know, yeah, exactly, So
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make that make that money. So he cursed a lot.
We're gonna I was gonna play it. I don't know.
He gets so many bleeps, it's like whatever, Fine says,
like a Lucky Tony phone call. We've got mallor to
the third degree. That is ahead time now for the
Insta trivia, and we're gonna do a baseball monologue next hour.
Big news in baseball is Pete Alonzo going to the
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Baltimore Orioles to hang out with Sports with Coleman. I said,
I text my buddy, Sports with Coleman is the media mogul.
This guy runs Baltimore media. He's a boss. And I
told him, I said, Pete A. Lonzo might think, you know,
he's leaving New York in that New York media, but
wait till he has to be grilled. After the Orioles
lose three to two to the Red Sox on July seventeenth,
(34:30):
and Sports with Coleman shoving a microphone down his throat
examining his tonsils. Anyway, here's the instat tribua. I am
the minor league teammate who you may have heard of
who gave Pete Alonzo his famous polar bear nickname. Again,
I am the minor league teammate credited with giving Pete
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Alonzo his famous polar bear nickname. That is the insta here.
We have the answer. We'll get to it. We will
do it.
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Here's the Insta Trivia question of the day, and we
go to baseball. A blank is a was a minor
league teammate who you may have heard of, who gave
Pete Alonzo his famous polar bear nickname. That is the
insta trivia. What is the answer? Let's see does anyone
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know the answer? We go to the Mallard Militia the
Great Unwashed here Miguel to Hot I guess by Shane
and des Moines Hack saw Jim Duggett a legend from
Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Bartolo Cologne from Big Greg
and Iowa, who's on our starting offensive line? Already Lang
from alf the Alien o Pineer Is he still okay?
I already worked at our company for a little bit.
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He did a show and amazingly that didn't last very
long because he had some issues. A Gunner guest by
King Roy. He's a good photo of Gunner, so it
looks like he's hungry. Sports talk radio psychologist Fraser Crane
from Malard prop guy Ron Howard guests by Rob Who
else we have iHeart alum Nicky six who is sixty seven? Yeah,
(38:44):
Niky six. Funniest thing ever was seeing Nicky six at
the ATM machine to get money wearing the hat. That
was the funniest thing. What else we have of the
North from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Travis Kelsey, his brother
Darrel and his other Brother, Daryl from Milkman, Mike Yukon,
Cornelius the Great Prospector of the North from Stevie Meatballs,
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Evan Gaddis from Robbie the Falcon, fan Booth, Bondzer from
j T the Wingman. That's a good name, Larry Dobie
from Manuel, and Guardina crash Davis from Via the Right.
Do you have an answer that ran quick? Right? Yeah,
I'm gonna go with Connor Griffin. Now the answer is
actually Tim Tebow of all people, as in Port Saint Lucy,
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Fort Saint Lucie, saw Tito, saw Peter Lonzo who said,
now you're a big guy, you walk like a polar bear.
It's maller. How about that? To the third degree, this
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Speaker 2 (39:45):
The Steelers have to win two more games this season
to break an NFL record and have twenty two consecutive
seasons above five hundred. Do you think it's a lock bend.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Based on the schedule, Yes, obviously injuries changed that. But
the Dolphin, they play the Dolphins. I believe we have
the Browns also and they play the Ravens. They also
played Detroit. They'll lose that game. But there's three winnable games.
They'll win two of those. They win the Browns game
and I don't already lost to them, and they'll they'll
beat the Dolphins, so they'll get that number, even with
Aaron Rodgers having issues.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Next, the Lakers are seventeen and seven, and there are
a couple games out of second place, Aaron game out
of second place in the Western Conference. However, in a
recent podcast appearance, Lebron's agent Rich Paul said, quote, I
personally don't.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Think the Lakers are good enough to be contenders, not
right now. And what do you think that's about, Well,
he wants to be fired by Lebron or he's trying
to downplay. Yeah, the Lakers have issue. I mean they're
not a great interior defensive team. It's little stuff like
it depends on matchups in the playoffs. They're not a
great perimeter defensive team. They also turn the ball over
a lot, So I mean there are it's like minor stuff,
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but it's the kind of stuff that will have you
lose a playoff series. So and I did actually watch
some of that Spurs game, and they got their ass
get every down by twenty most of the second and
Wendy was on the bench. That was not good. Next.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Oh, the Orlando Magic have won eleven of their last
fifteen games and have seven players averaging double digit scoring.
But you think they've established themselves as legit contenders.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Well, I love Desmond Man. He didn't play well early
this year is still early, but he's played well lately.
And they are I'd say there's a threat. There's no
one that's unbeatable or invincible in the East. They are
a top five defensive team so far, and they're a
physical team. Yeah, they look like a good bet in
the Plauffs. How do we go pass this edition?
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and how new you knew? As Philip Rivers says he
did not join the Colts to be the savior the hero.
Is that how it works? Do you want to be
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Philip Rivers getting some practice in some practice tape didn't
look particularly great? And the Philadelphia Eagles have removed the
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Crown is yours and or lead this out. We'll get
away from the Michigan scandal. We'll go back to that
at some point, but in the moments that we have
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ahead of us right now, we head to Indianapolis. Who's
your bill? Very excited that the Colts are getting a
lot of attention. So the story of the week continues
to be that the grandpa left his grandson and left
the loyal Order of the Moose Lodge to return to
the league. And Philip Rivers had his first dance with
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the media on Wednesday. The Beat reporters who cover the
Indianapolis Colts. I don't know if you heard any of
what he had to say. Perhaps you did not, But
Philip Rivers said the money quote here is he said
he is not the savior or a hero. He said,
quote I'm not here to save the year or to
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be the hero by any means, he claimed. At his
news conference, he said, we got to stink and run
the crap out of the football and play defense, he said.
He also acknowledged the legitimate possibility of injury and says
you essentially said you don't know until you do it
(04:02):
whether or not that's going to happen. So whether you
can do it, that is a good jumping all points.
I'll let us discuss the question Philip Rivers. That will
work off the money quote the question Philip Rivers says
he didn't join the Colts to save the year or
to be their hero. Is that how this works? So
I've got terry toons, finesse and penalty flag, and we'll
(04:27):
put all of these things together. We're gonna play Connect
three is what we're gonna do. So number number all right,
So I am shaking my head. Stop I'm shaking my head. No,
my eyes are closed. I'm shaking my head. No, rapidly, rapidly, rapidly, rapidly. No,
all right, so stop it, all right. Message to Philip
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Rivers from the overnight. That is exactly why you are
in Indianapolis. But that is exactly why, Philip Rivers, you
are wearing a Colt uniform. They did not wake up
one morning and say, you know what, we need a
forty four year old game manager who is not going
(05:11):
to be our hero. Come on, Daniel Jones, who was
going the wrong direction. Let's be honest here he was
not playing that well. He then went snap, crackle pop.
The season's wobbling like a three legged table at a
diner at a bistro. And the Colts, what do they do?
Who are you gonna call? They called the Grandpaul Emergency line,
(05:33):
and they called the Grandpa Emergency hotline. They wanted the
old gun slinger riding in with his bolo tie glistening,
ready to play firefighter. Put out the fire firefighter. All right,
I will fine whatever, and don't tell me that he's
not there to save anything. Come on, if they wanted
just a warm body, they did pick up Brett Rippon,
(05:56):
who is just a warm body. They could have gotten
anyone to play quarterback who would have been as cam
Ward would say, ass And the Colts what they are
banking on and what they're counting on with Philip Rivers
is terrytoons. Rivers is the iconic cartoon character Mighty Mouse,
whether he likes it or not, Here I come to
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save the day. It's Mighty Mouse. How come all the
cartoon characters in the early days were all like Mickey Mouse,
mighty mouse. What's up with that? Anyway? That is the assignment.
That is the assignment for philip Rivers. And the quotes,
and we gave you some of them. The quotes are
just philip Rivers trying to downplay the expectation, soften the landing,
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lower the bar either way, Indie, they need more than
just the training wheels if this is gonna work. They
go into Seattle hostile situation. All Seattle's not that great
at home, and you got Sam Darnol, who's a walking mistake,
as no Stredinas knows. And so the Colts, though, they're
banking on that this guy is going to be someone,
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not just another guy. He's gonna be someone who can
transform that harmless goldfish offense and turn that into an
offense that's as fearsome as a Barracouda and as leath
as in a giant anaconda. That's what they're banking on now,
page two. So with the Colts going into full Grandpa
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mode as they are, there's some video clips of philip
Rivers practicing. And I don't know if you've seen this.
I don't think Stevie Meatballs has seen it, or Ink
and terror or blind Scott. But there's video clips of
Rivers practicing with Indy and they've gone viral and many
people are saying, well, he looked terrible. Looks like he
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hasn't missed a meal and the throws were not that great.
So the question are you drawing any kind of conclusions
from the grainy philip Rivers practice tape? Are there any
conclusions that you are drawing? So we find this to
be hilarious, like people are losing their collective minds over
(08:13):
what I saw was kind of grainy. I don't know
if it was really Bigfoot quality Bigfoot quality philip Rivers
practice tape shot on what appears to be like an
three Nokia flip phone. Like everybody grab a brown paper bag.
There is no need to hyperventilate. You do not need
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to hyperventilate. The critics are shouting, there's no velocity, he's
got no zip on the throws, and that one throw
looks like it took five business days to get to
the receiver and all that. But spoiler alert, philip Rivers.
This has not been talked about it at all. Nobody
else has this take. I'm the only one. It's an
original take. He's a grandpa, and he's forty four years old.
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By NFL standards, Philip Rivers is the epitome of a
museum exhibit. It's a traveling museum exhibit wearing cleats. Now, regardless,
here's the plot twist in the Malor movie, because we
make movies here the Malor movie. Rivers, based on the
clip that I saw, looks almost identical to the way
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he looked when he last played in the NFL. He
is a right handed craftsman. He never even in his
salad days with the old San Diego Chargers, he never
threw the heater. Never. He made a career out of
being a finesse pitcher, beguiling defenses right, mixing the change
up with the slider and the loopy, loopy, loopy breaking
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ball that defy physics and the ball flutters and it
wobbles and all that, and it doesn't look like it
should work. And think of it more along lines of
two a tongue of eyeloa, although more success like an upgrade.
I don't know if he's got fewer dance and played
a few years, so it's likely in good condition there
(10:02):
and that kind of funky shot put delivery and it's
still there. It was effective. Will it be effective still?
We'll find out. The real superpower, the real superpower of
Philip Rivers has always been the A and a game,
anticipation and accuracy and the most important skill set. Remember
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the great Mike Leach. I loved Mike Leach. She died
not that long ago, and he always said, the most
important thing is accuracy. Everything else you can figure out.
You don't have to have the cannon for the arm.
People get all horny for the cannon for the arm,
but you got to have accuracy. That's the most important
skill and Rivers has usually had that. And anticipation, which
is another way of saying reading defenses, knowing when to
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get rid of the ball so you don't get killed.
It's not about arm strength. And a lot of people
don't like to hear that because they get all excited
the NFL draft because this guy throws the ball really
amazingly and then he's not accurate and all that. And
Rivers during the regular season has been fine. He's never
been a good big game quarterback. And so in terms
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of putting the bow on this any conclusions from the tape,
the conclusion I have is simple. He is who he's
always been, He's who he thought he was. And the
Colts know exactly that type of play he played for
them at the end before he retired and then came back,
and so they know what they're getting. Now. If Seattle
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ends up jumping out to a two touchdown lead early,
this can get really bad. And it's gonna get Ugo
lead with a Capitol U. All right, final point to Philadelphia.
We go and fresh off that turnover debacle in the
hood in Inglewood and up to no good game. I
was at the Charger Eagle Monday night game. I was
(11:53):
an eyewitness there. The Eagles got back to the Delaware
Valley and much to the surprise of Daddy and Jonathan
in Delaware, the Eagles have said we no longer are
in the rabbit business. Rabbit rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Yep, they
said bye bye to the positivity rabbit. You remember we
talked about this last week. In an effort to help
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team morale, the Eagles did whatevery grown up would do.
They brought in an inflatable rabbit. They put the rabbit
on waivers. Now the inflatable Easter Bunny has been cut fired,
sent to the waiver wire. Whatever you want to say,
given the pink slip, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So the question, here's the question, the Eagles removing the
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positivity rabbit rabbit, rabbit rabbit from the locker room. Give
me your reaction, because this is the kind of stuff
you need on your sports talk radio, all right, this
is the kind of stuff this Only in Philadelphia could
an inflatable rabbit become part of the Eagles crisis management
strategy that Age Brown has messed that group up so
(13:02):
much and lately Jalen hurts that they have now gone
to inflatables speak absurdity, and fresh off the turnover debacle
in La where they literally got rid of the ball.
They tried to get rid of it like it was
a live hand grenade, the Birds have determined that that
Easter bundy in the locker room was not a positivity rabbit.
(13:25):
It was a bad bunny and they don't want bad bunny.
And that's it. Get out of here, see you later.
So let's call this what it was, and what it
is it is a sawing bada saw wing bata swinging
a miss with city. You don't mess with the holiday calendar.
And that's one of the problems here. Everything happens rat
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a tat tat, rat a tat tat, and they messed
with the holiday calendar. And when you mess with the
holiday calendar, you get the record setting turnover performance, meaning
you rolled out the Easter Bunny in December, and you're
asking for a cosmic penalty flag, as Andrea the Astrology
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Insider would say, and they got a cosmic penalty flag,
they being the Philadelihagos. And sure enough, the giveaway squad
of Philly handing out possessions like promotional T shirts at
a birthday party for like the Philly fanatic and Jalen
Hurts I saw it. He made NFL history with an
interception in fumble on the same play. And there's two
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plays now that I've seen in my life as a
witness that will likely not happen again, at least in
my lifetime. I was at a Cardinal Dodger game little
Humble Brag here way back in the steroid boom times,
and the Cardinals had this guy for Nando Tatis, who
was either really gifted athletically or I don't know, maybe
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he might have been on something. I'm sure he would
never do anything like that. But this guy hit two
two grand slams in the same same inning.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
It was.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It was insane. It was absolutely ridiculous against the against
the Dodgers. But and so now Jalen hurts the fumble, well,
the interception then the fumble and all that stuff. But
it's listen, it's not that was not quarterbacking. That was
like riding shotgun on a vomit comet, is what that was.
And that's what happened. And the inflatable rabbit never had
a chance, and it was it was. It was jinxed
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with a with a pump to blow it up with
air and all that. And so I say, forget balloons.
The Eagles are in such a bad spot. They're they're
Mojoe's so messed up there in Philly that they need
an emotional support animal. Now I recommend Fats in Philadelphia,
but I understand he's got a family and he's not available,
So they can't hire Fats as an emotional sport animal.
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How about a miniature horse, a horse, of course, how
about that, right, because right now they're playing like Rhode Apples. Yeah,
they can get a horse in there. They're like they
drop road apples all over the fifty yard line, So
bring in the horse, of course, of course, of course,
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animals when the city has the comfort food duo of
soft pretzel and cheese steak. Well, that is correct. Although
you showed a clip of the wrong cheese steak, you
don't get the whiz on it. You get the prov alone.
And that is from my Philadelphia insider. The greatest sports
talk show host ever to work here at Fox Sports Radio,
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the great Tony Bruno, who's now retired living life in Florida.
But Tony, he told me early on I first met
I met Tony before I worked here, NEWTONI was working
at ESPN Radio back.
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In the nay.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I thought you've worked here since you came out of
the womb much much. But anyway, Tony told me, he
said right away when I first when when you go
to Philly, you got to get it with provolone. That's
the authentic way. You don't get it with the cheese whist.
That's not how you do it. And the soft pretzel thing,
oh god, that we need better. Like living in la
there's not really good pretzels here. They need really a
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soft pretzel. And that's the modern pretzel in Philadelphia. The
modern what we know is the American pretzel was brought
to Philadelphia by immigrants from the Old Country and they
created what is the modern pretzel. Stevie Meatballs writes in
says this Philip Rivers business has Jim Ursa still calling
crazy shots from the grave written all over, and Stevie
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Meatball says, as for Rivers, he doesn't want to be
a hero. He just is in it for a free physical,
which includes a thorough prostate exam at his age. Doc
says he passed the sniff test. That's from the great
Stevie meat Balls JJ from Renton says if Philip Rivers
starts this weekend that Seattle Defense is going to destroy him.
(21:08):
That's from JJ and Renton. Who's a made man in Seattle,
made made man for sure. And see, I don't know.
Shane sents something about Esteban lowisa, I don't. I don't
know what that's all about. Uh So we'll skip over that.
Not a burner, says Ben Will. The Eagles also be
adding nap time and show and tell to boost morale.
(21:33):
I hope they will be assigning a class helper to
hand out crayons and water paints. Ps they chose the
wrong rabbit, Well, that would.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Be naps proven to like help with morale.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
No, I'm not a napper. I don't. I don't nap.
Some people. If you're into napping, I guess that's that's good.
I wish I wasn't. I wish I was a good napper.
The problem is I wake up napping. I don't feel good.
I feel like I'm groggy. What's the point And it's
just not not my thing, he said. Jessica rabbit, which
is is she the hottest cartoon rabbit? If you were?
And now we don't do this, as you know. But
(22:09):
if you were to do a big board, not a
list Terry in England, but a big board, would Jessica
Rabbit from the Roger Rabbit franchise be the be the
one I just drove through that tunnel where they filmed
the it's here in La the Roger Rabbit tunnel. Yes,
it's believe, right up the hill from where we we
broadcast from im Partial to Lola Bunny. I don't know
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Jessica Rabbit man and the pretty good pretty good anyway,
Let's take some calls. It is a call in show
and Enie Meanie miney mo. Let's say hello to Jola,
who's in Dallas and always smiling about something. What's going on, Joela? Welcome?
(22:53):
Oh Joel? Did Jola fall asleep?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Maybe he's thinking of his favorite bunny.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I should have done Joel on earlier. It's about that's
user error and that's my mistake. Joela was on hold
for a while, but I had I had to take
our guy hauling steel and then we didn't have well seatball, Joel,
get the dump button ready, that's going out to the
Bay area and the number one Chicago Bears apologist that
(23:19):
I know Lucky Tony. Hello, Lucky Tony.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Hey man, what does Lorraina's microphone have in common with
the alexur Idell's bro.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I don't. I don't know. I'm actually very curious about
this myself.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
I would love them off, I think then.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I'm sure you wanted to know the answer on that. Yeah,
did that make the aend? Didn't you say that?
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
He said them off? He would love them off, as in,
he would love your microphone to be off.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh that's not what I heard. Okay, well that's your though.
Your mind went to a very dark place. It did.
Of Lorena likes to work blue. As we said, you
know comedy, you work blue? Right, Lorena? You like the blue?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I don't know that phrase.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I don't know what that means. Oh really, man, I
guess I'm dating myself. Yeah, in comedy, if you look
it up, Coop, I'm not making it up. You work blue?
I think that goes back. What was the comedy kept
getting arrested Lenny Bruce? Yeah, comedy named Lenny Bruce and
the you know working blue?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
They had a blue comedy is comedy that is off
color the actual music words and discussing things that people
would not discuss in polite society.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Oh yeah, no, that's totally me. You never heard that
Coop Blue Blue Working Blue. No, I have never heard
that before. I guess I'm a dinosaur. Let's go to
Keith and Michigan. What's going on? Keith and Michigan. Welcome.
Keith got insider information on the greatest scandal of the
college football season and with the Michigan Wolverines. I've gone
(25:02):
full Jerry Springer show. What's going on? Keith?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Hey Ben, I've only been listening to you for six months,
and I love your show. I love Coop, and love Lorena,
love Sports Drive all night and listen to you every night,
and love it when Lorena chimes in and you you say,
don't talk to me. That's like brings a smile to
my face every time. The all that's scuttle butt is
(25:32):
obviously who's gonna step in? And I wanted to get
your thoughts because I think it needs to be a
coach of integrity. I know how you rip on the
cheating astros, and we sent you our ball who obviously
had cheating problems here and Tron Moore was tied up
into that and obviously has proven himself to be someone
(25:53):
of you know, less than moral character. And it seems
like to me that we need a coach like Landing
or maybe Riley who's good with quarterbacks, if we can
even Keith Underwood. And it just seems to me regardless
of whether it's a Michigan.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Man or not.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
And I love your monologue in the first hour, but
it seems like we need an integrity hire. But I
don't necessarily think that's at odds with being a winner,
but I wanted to see what your.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Thoughts were on it. Yeah, well, first of all, I
think they will hire someone that's got a clean resume.
I think that's going to happen. To me, the most
important thing in all this it's semi pro football. I think.
Can we all agree Keith with nil and the transfer
portal and all that stuff, it's semi pro football. It's
not you know. So it's not like the argument that
(26:43):
you need to be on this straight and narrow now
you can't really be sleeping with your football assistance and
give them fifty five percent raises and all that. It's
generally not great, but there's got to be a middle
ground there. And to quote the great Mike Singletary when
he briefly coached the forty nine ers, he said, I
want winners. I want people that want to win. So
let me ask you, Keith. You you're there, You're in there,
(27:04):
You're right there on the ground, boots on the ground. Keith,
do you think the mission of snow man? All right,
you're you're right in the middle of the snow. That's
a true Michigander.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So here's the aner.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Do do you believe the fan base would accept because
Sewan Moore had pretty you know, they weren't great teams,
rather on four lost teams? Would you take that? Or
would you rather have a guy that's got a few
skeletons and you're playing in the college football playoff?
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Come on, Ben, you know you know the answer was
a rhetorical question. You know the answer. Come on, Yeah,
we want a winner.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
We hands down, we want to win.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Okay, all right, never.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Going to accept the four loss season and and take
that sitting down. It's not gonna happen. Yeah, it will
not happen here, no way.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
All right, So you answer your own question. We've had
a night. What we've done here? You and I have
workshop this and we've determined that they're they're going to be.
They're gonna find whether it's Jedfish, I don't know if
he's got any scandals at Washington or you know Klin
the boar at Alabama, who seems to be pretty clean.
I guess it's one of those kids.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
No, No, the board.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
I know everyone seems running on the board and bore
to board. What's he done with Alabama?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mean, well, they are they are, they are, They
are in the college for wall playoff. I know they lost.
They got smoked by Georgia, but.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
They didn't do it. But yeah, yeah, I didn't do it.
But yeah, whatever, I know.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I hear you, man, all right, call me more on.
I like you, Keith, what are you doing out there
by the way, what do you what are you driving
truck or something? What do you got going on? No?
Speaker 7 (28:39):
I actually I deliver drugs. I'm legal drugs, not not.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You're a drug dealer, Keith the drug dealer, drug mule, band,
drug mule.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
No, don't say that, Coop. I deliver narcotics the hospitals,
uh in the middle of the night, so that it's
less risky and it's on the down low. And no,
you know it's and that's the way they want it.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Don Ben, I hear you, all right, be safe out there,
enjoy the snow. Keith, thank you man, you man. Look
at that Keith. And I remember my dad, you're you know,
he's long gone now. But my dad used to rant
at me when I started doing the overnight, says, you
gotta be carefully, and all the crazy chemicals at night
are on the roads, and all the bad stuff they
(29:27):
transported at night. You know, give me this whole dad lecture.
I was like, okay, thanks Dad.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I never knew that.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, And so that's what they do. Let's say hello
to Jed who fled? Who is next? Hello Jed who
fled in the Redneck Riviera? Is he not there either?
What is going on here? Jed? Jed? Jed Jed Jed
Jed Jed? Jeez, he fled? What does he do? He's
(29:58):
up all night doing drugs? How about Yeah? We go
from Keith who's delivering drugs to Jed, who's using the drugs.
What a world? What a world? All Right'm done with him.
So the trickle down of suck? What is the trickle
down of suck? The trickle down of suck. That would
be Donovan McNabb now McNab. I love the fact that
(30:21):
the Eagles have crumbled this year, and a lot of
it is because of the Diva wide receiver. Because I've
done this kind of work for a while, and i
remember doing monologues about McNab and to million years ago, right,
And so these guys are all retired now, and for
some reason, I'm still blabbing into microphones. But McNabb could
(30:43):
not stand t O and it was vice versa. So
here we are. McNabb now former Eagle, right, you know Eagles.
He's in the Eagles Hall of Fame, and he revealed
this week how AJ Brown's comments, his polarizing comments about
essentially demanding the ball on you. I'm making comments like
that have led to the dramatic decline of DeVante Smith
(31:07):
and the Eagles off. And so McNabb is playing connect
the dots and everyone's bias based on your life experience. Right,
You've lived a different life than me. I've lived a
different life than you. We know different people, and you're
bias based on your life experience. Right. We all start out.
I think out of the box, you know, as a
(31:27):
blank canvas and then everything we experienced we kind of
that makes us who we are. And so McNabb though,
I love the fact here he is kind of be
in his probably late forties at this point, I would
I think maybe maybe older than that, probably late forties,
and he's still just just so bitter about the devil
wide receiver. Well, another story that caught my attention to
(31:50):
the how does it feel question? I have a buddy
of mine I've talked about. This boy used to be
a big newspaper editor back in the day, a major newspaper,
one of the great news back when people read newspapers
and they did really well and all that. And this
guy was a big time player in the newspaper business.
And he's a buddy of mine and we talk and
he's retired now and all that. And he will send
me messages. He watches all the He loves two things.
He loves chases, car chases, like the cops chasing the
(32:13):
back guys. Loves that. Always sends me a text, Hey,
turn on channel nine there's a chase or channel five.
Order it's like, okay, great, I'm not near a TV,
but thank you. And he also loves the sideline reporters,
and once I tell you this, when I'm about to
tell you, you'll never watch sports the same way. So
just turn down the ball and if you don't want
me to ruin your sports watching experience, Roughly ninety nine
(32:36):
percent of the time when the sideline reporter interviews the
player of the game, the question is how does it feel?
That is ninety nine percent of time, and they only
talk to winners. They don't talk to losers, all right,
so it's always you won the game, How does it feel?
What are they gonna say? Well, it feels like hemorrhoids,
it feels like I got kicked in the testicles. What
(32:57):
are they gonna say? Right, So of course he goes, oh,
it feels great.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
And then Travis Kelsey, who's looks like a podcaster trying
to play football, like if you put Joe Rogan, if
you put Joe Rogan on the Dallas Cowboys, he would
play about as well as Travis Kelsey's played recent and
so Kelsey had a falling down moment on his Fledgling podcast,
which does very well with bots, and he said, quote,
(33:21):
it's a blank, blank feeling. That's s word fward about
dropping passes and just the way that he's spent. He
sounded like a guy that knows he's cooked. It sounded
like a guy that knows I could just do game
shows and just follow my you know, I could be
the trophy husband for my soon to be wife here
and just live that life. You know, yeah, exactly, So
(33:45):
make that make that money. So he cursed a lot.
We're gonna I was gonna play it. I don't know.
He gets so many bleeps, it's like whatever, Fine says,
like a Lucky Tony phone call. We've got mallor to
the third degree. That is ahead time now for the
Insta trivia, and we're gonna do a baseball monologue next hour.
Big news in baseball is Pete Alonzo going to the
(34:08):
Baltimore Orioles to hang out with Sports with Coleman. I said,
I text my buddy, Sports with Coleman is the media mogul.
This guy runs Baltimore media. He's a boss. And I
told him, I said, Pete A. Lonzo might think, you know,
he's leaving New York in that New York media, but
wait till he has to be grilled. After the Orioles
lose three to two to the Red Sox on July seventeenth,
(34:30):
and Sports with Coleman shoving a microphone down his throat
examining his tonsils. Anyway, here's the instat tribua. I am
the minor league teammate who you may have heard of
who gave Pete Alonzo his famous polar bear nickname. Again,
I am the minor league teammate credited with giving Pete
(34:53):
Alonzo his famous polar bear nickname. That is the insta here.
We have the answer. We'll get to it. We will
do it.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
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Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, Morning time. That's Rick and Merland. It is Bill
Miller here. We got to end the last part. We're
gonna edit that little tier. But it is Bill Miller,
The Ben Maller Show, and we're here all night long
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(36:12):
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It'll always pop up right at the top of your
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screen all right time. Now to payoff the Insta trivia
and then we are going to have Mallor to the
third degree. Oh my god, the level of content that
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That's That's what it is. And by the way, let
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Here's the Insta Trivia question of the day, and we
go to baseball. A blank is a was a minor
league teammate who you may have heard of, who gave
Pete Alonzo his famous polar bear nickname. That is the
insta trivia. What is the answer? Let's see does anyone
(38:01):
know the answer? We go to the Mallard Militia the
Great Unwashed here Miguel to Hot I guess by Shane
and des Moines Hack saw Jim Duggett a legend from
Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Bartolo Cologne from Big Greg
and Iowa, who's on our starting offensive line? Already Lang
from alf the Alien o Pineer Is he still okay?
I already worked at our company for a little bit.
(38:23):
He did a show and amazingly that didn't last very
long because he had some issues. A Gunner guest by
King Roy. He's a good photo of Gunner, so it
looks like he's hungry. Sports talk radio psychologist Fraser Crane
from Malard prop guy Ron Howard guests by Rob Who
else we have iHeart alum Nicky six who is sixty seven? Yeah,
(38:44):
Niky six. Funniest thing ever was seeing Nicky six at
the ATM machine to get money wearing the hat. That
was the funniest thing. What else we have of the
North from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Travis Kelsey, his brother
Darrel and his other Brother, Daryl from Milkman, Mike Yukon,
Cornelius the Great Prospector of the North from Stevie Meatballs,
(39:07):
Evan Gaddis from Robbie the Falcon, fan Booth, Bondzer from
j T the Wingman. That's a good name, Larry Dobie
from Manuel, and Guardina crash Davis from Via the Right.
Do you have an answer that ran quick? Right? Yeah,
I'm gonna go with Connor Griffin. Now the answer is
actually Tim Tebow of all people, as in Port Saint Lucy,
(39:28):
Fort Saint Lucie, saw Tito, saw Peter Lonzo who said,
now you're a big guy, you walk like a polar bear.
It's maller. How about that? To the third degree, this
is one Big Ben gets graill cool Ben.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
The Steelers have to win two more games this season
to break an NFL record and have twenty two consecutive
seasons above five hundred. Do you think it's a lock bend.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Based on the schedule, Yes, obviously injuries changed that. But
the Dolphin, they play the Dolphins. I believe we have
the Browns also and they play the Ravens. They also
played Detroit. They'll lose that game. But there's three winnable games.
They'll win two of those. They win the Browns game
and I don't already lost to them, and they'll they'll
beat the Dolphins, so they'll get that number, even with
Aaron Rodgers having issues.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Next, the Lakers are seventeen and seven, and there are
a couple games out of second place, Aaron game out
of second place in the Western Conference. However, in a
recent podcast appearance, Lebron's agent Rich Paul said, quote, I
personally don't.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Think the Lakers are good enough to be contenders, not
right now. And what do you think that's about, Well,
he wants to be fired by Lebron or he's trying
to downplay. Yeah, the Lakers have issue. I mean they're
not a great interior defensive team. It's little stuff like
it depends on matchups in the playoffs. They're not a
great perimeter defensive team. They also turn the ball over
a lot, So I mean there are it's like minor stuff,
(40:50):
but it's the kind of stuff that will have you
lose a playoff series. So and I did actually watch
some of that Spurs game, and they got their ass
get every down by twenty most of the second and
Wendy was on the bench. That was not good. Next.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Oh, the Orlando Magic have won eleven of their last
fifteen games and have seven players averaging double digit scoring.
But you think they've established themselves as legit contenders.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Well, I love Desmond Man. He didn't play well early
this year is still early, but he's played well lately.
And they are I'd say there's a threat. There's no
one that's unbeatable or invincible in the East. They are
a top five defensive team so far, and they're a
physical team. Yeah, they look like a good bet in
the Plauffs. How do we go pass this edition?
Speaker 7 (41:32):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
They's play on the board. I got it done, Johnny Q.
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