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January 23, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about Jaguars owner Shad Kahn giving the pink slip to GM Trent Baalke in the middle of a coaching search and why he had a change of heart, the Ravens GM praising Lamar Jackson, #AskBen, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding Dong.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Here it is our number three shake up in Duval County,
Jacksonville getting rid of their GM in the middle of
a coaching search. What is your takeaway from owner Shod
Cohn whacking the GM Trent Balky in the middle of
a search for a new coach? Also, why the change
of heart from Shod con with the Jags front office.

(00:24):
We'll talk about that and the Ravens GM praising Lamar Jackson.
What's the big picture on the Lamar Jackson storyline going
forward in Baltimore. We'll talk about all of that and more.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Here it is our number three. You're just a jag.
That's all you are. You're just a jag.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
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(01:55):
So you can send a question and use the hashtag
ask Ben and then ask any question want.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I will answer them. Lorraine's here Cooper Loop will answer
all of your questions. But our lead this hour from Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Normally talking about the Jacksonville Jaguars is talk radio suicide nationally,
but it's not in this case. Big shakeup in the
nine oh four area code. Now Jacksonville did not hire
a new coach. There were rumors in the overnight the
day before that they were about to hire a new coach,
that it was down to Robert Salah or the other

(02:33):
candidate from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the offensive guru, Liam Cohne.
But it turns out they didn't hire either one of
those guys. And you didn't hear what happened, perhaps not,
We learned the Jacksonville football team.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Instead, they pulled a crazy ivan.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
They whacked their general manager, Trent Balky, the much despised
Trent Balkey. Now I've never met the guy, but people
on social media hate him, Fans are annoyed by him,
and it appears other coaches are annoyed by Trent Balke
as well. Following a statement issued by Shad Khane prepared statement,

(03:15):
he said that following several discussions with the GM Trent Balke,
that we both arrived.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
At the conclusion. He said that it is in.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Our mutual best interest to respectfully separate, effective immediately.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Close quote. I was from the.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Longtime owner of the Jacksonville football team. So let us
discuss the question. What is the takeaway from owner Shad
Khan giving a pink slip to the general manager, Trent
Balkey in the middle of a coaching search, right in
the middle of it. So I've got soup, kitchen, cobra,

(03:59):
and soft underbelly, and we will combine all of these
things together and we'll say it's in the game.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's all in the game.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Something that Jacksonville doesn't play a lot of games where
they win, but it's in the game, all right. So,
first of all, shot con it's fair to say he
is a gradual learner.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now he's a gradual learner.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
He had been pestered for several months, if not longer
than that, from people saying, hey, you got to get
rid of this guy, Trent Balk.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Even when he made the coaching change, peoplere like, wow,
you gotta get rid of the GM too.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
He said, noa nah, We're gonna keep the gym around
everyone once in a while.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Everyone once in a.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
While is so full of themselves they don't realize how
wrong they are right. And also, every once in a while,
the fans know more than the people that actually work
for these multi billion dollar NFL teams. This is a
great example case in point. There was that grassroots movement
to have Trent Balke removed as the general manager.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
As we said a couple months ago.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Ignored by Shod Khan. Ignored by Shod Khan, right, no, no, no, no,
I'm ignoring you. He was so pigheaded when it came
to dumping the guy.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
And he's only been there.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I think Trent Balky's been there like four years or
something like that. But since he's a late bloomer and
a gradual learner, and all that. It took multiple not one,
not two, but multiple rejection letters from would be coaches
to get the message in to have that sink in.
Trent Balke, You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy.

(05:41):
So even in removing the GM though, the thing that
stood out to me, I don't have any empathy for
Shod Cohn because he owns the team.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
He made a lot of money and auto parts.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Good for him. But you look at how the franchise
is being run. They don't seem to know what they're
doing there, and Shodkhan continues running a centctually a football
soup kitchen infested with roaches. The soup kitchen infested with roaches,
a poorhouse franchise. They're serving an alphabet soup of mumbo
jumbo is what they're serving. Now, we both arrived at

(06:15):
a mutual best interest?

Speaker 1 (06:18):
What is that? What kind of who says words like that?
Mutual best interest? Stop? What in the world? Go on?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Very weak language as it's alphabet soup is what it is.
You throw a bunch of words in there, a bunch
of letters, and there you go. There is no such
thing as a mutual decision. It is not the only
reason that Shad Khan did this is because he kept
getting rejection letters from would be coaches and he realized, well,

(06:49):
wait a minute, nobody wants to work here. I wonder
why they don't want to work here. And then he
reached his boiling point and there you go.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
All right. So secondly, let's get let's get into that
a little further. Let's get into that a little deeper.
We'll get into the weeds.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
So why now, why the change of heart for shod
Cohn involving the Jags front office? So this is one
of those old things. Fool me once, shame on you, right,
fool me twice, shame on me. But fool me three times,
shame on both of us.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
And that's it. That's the thumbnail recap of what happened.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
If that was if the same situation had happened in
a different dimension and Ben Johnson had said yes, then
then Trent Balky would still be the GM, or even
if Liam Kohane had said yes, Trent Balky would still
be the GM. But from what we're hearing, I know

(07:45):
it might be lost in translation. The Jags originally offered
Ben Johnson the job. He said no, I reject. I'm
going to go with Tombo. I'm gonna reject that. So
then they pivot. They said, all right, well, Ben Johnson,
he doesn't want the job. Let's go to this offensive
guru from Tampa, Liam Kohne.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
We'll go to him. And it's one thing.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
For Ben Johnson, who's now the coach of the Bears,
to say, I'm not interested, right, I'm not interested because.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
He had other options. Okay, he had other options.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
However, when a guy like Liam Kohne wants nothing to
do with you as a chance to be promoted to
a penthouse on the upper east side in the sky.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
And he said, you know, I'm not interested.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
So you've got deeper problems, right, And that is about
the moment in time. That is about the moment in
time when the cobra was released from the cage. Now,
I mean the surrender cobra. And in the cartoon bubble
in my head, Shad Khan, the owner in Jacksonville, when

(08:51):
he found out that Liam Kohne, the offensive coordinator in Tampa,
was not interested, he flew off the handle, right, he
went on the rampage and when he got the thumbs
down from this guy in Tampa. He got into the
surrender cobra position. And you know what that is, right,
you watch college basketball or a football game, and uh,

(09:12):
really any sporting event where you have your hands on
top of your head, right, and uh, you just know
that moment of clarity, that Eureka moment where you just realize,
oh man, we suck, We're gonna lose.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
You know that's that shotgun.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Now, whoever he hires, whoever he hires, needs to be
a motivator.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
We you know, you know what you should hire John McClair.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
And this is what John McClaren would say to the
Jacksonville football team.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Take a listen.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
We're playing our off every day and got nothing to
show for it.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I'm tired of losing. I'm trying to get my beating.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
So those guys, we're gonna change this around to get
after it.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
And only we can do it. The fans are.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Pissed off, and I'm pissed off, and.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
The players are pissed off. And that's the way it is.
Here's no easy way out of the camfield. Sorry for ourselves.
Gotta buckle it up and get after it.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Try to damn losing his every night and we bust her.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's gotta be a toe team. Never turn this thing around.
And that's the it. No so good. Don't you want
a football coach?

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I thought that was a baseball manager, But don't you
want a football coach like that?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
All right, final foul.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Let's go now to Baltimore where the Ravens are on
vacation right now sports with coleman is waiting for.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
The Bills to lose.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Baltimore had their last chance to meet with the media
before the offseason.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Then, but the offseason has begun.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
But they've had Lamar Jackson now for not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, not six, how about
seven seasons, seven years, multiple MVP awards, But they've only
been to one AFC Championship Game one with Lamar Jackson.
And you look at some other quarterbacks who aren't as
gifted as Lamar, but yet they've been to as many

(11:03):
championship games in the last seven years as Lamar Jackson.
So the Ravens GM Eric DaCosta. He said that he
wants the world to know. He wants you to know,
and you and you and you and you that boy,
do they believe in Lamar?

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Boy?

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Do they believe in Lamar and they would take him
over any other quarterback.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
In the NFL.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I don't think we have the sound on this, but
DaCosta said, I can say there's no player I would
rather have on my team than Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is what he said.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
I think he's the best quarterback in the league. That's
my answer to that question. All right, So what is
the big picture? What is the big picture on this
Lamar Jackson storyline in Baltimore? Did you really expect the
Ravens GM to say, yeah, Lamar.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Sucks, we can't win with this guy. He's a zero.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Of course he's not gonna say that, right, of course
he's not gonna say that. But this is going to
shadow box That franchise is going to shadow.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Lamar Jackson until they figure it out, until.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
They actually get to the super Bowl. They've got to
square the circle. They've got to plow the ocean, is
what they have to do. Because based on years and
years of watching Lamar Jackson, he's got a pressure point
where it all falls apart. When the playoffs come around,
bright lights, everyone's watching, he often becomes but draggled right

(12:36):
the soft underbelly shows up. Playoff Lamar in his career
thirteen total touchdowns, eleven turnovers.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
That's almost one to one.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
That's like a gluten gluten free flower, a one to
one alternative. Eight games, eleven turnovers, thirteen touch downs. Normally
it's one or two touchdo He's had like a couple
of games with no turnovers and then the rest of
them have been usually one or two turnovers per game.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
And turnover march by far and away.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Is the holy grail, the holy grail of determining who
wins these games. I spend a lot of time handicapping
NFL games for the TV show, and you look at
the numbers and you put them all together. The thing
that's hard to wrap around is the turnover, because some

(13:33):
teams turn the ball over more, but it doesn't happen
every week, and a fumble does not mean you're gonna
lose possession of the ball. But a turnover is worth
four points in terms of outcome of the game. A
sack is worth two points. So if you get sacked
a lot, it's like turning the ball over a lot.
Play clean, you're gonna win more times than not, which

(13:55):
makes the Philadelphia Eagles win in their game against the Rams.
The equalizer for Philadelphia was the Rams turna of us
because the Jalen Hurts kept getting sacked. But it didn't
matter because the Rams gave the ball to the Philadelphia
Eagles a couple of times inside Eagle territory early in
the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
For example.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
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The Philadelphia Eagles, I just mentioned them, beat the Rams.
They're into the NFC title game take on Washington this weekend.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
The Philadelphia Eagles are selling.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Souvenirs of blank from their playoff win over the Rams. Again,
the Philadelphia Eagles a very unique souvenir. The Philadelphia Eagles
are selling souvenirs of blank from their playoff win over
the La Rams last weekend, authenticated souvenir.

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You in the court of sports talk radio. And now
back to the talk fiesta we go. Yeah, what a
what a wonderful talk fiesta all night, no stopping, no
stopping it man, all right, so later thist out we

(17:11):
have asked spend time now for the mallor riddle of
the day. And here's the mallor riddle of the day.
The Philadelphi Eagles so happy they beat the Rams in
the vision around of the playoffs. The Philadelphi Eagles are
selling souvenirs of blank from their playoff win over the Rams.
That is the malor riddle of the day.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Malon ridle it? What is the answer? Let's see does
anyone know the answer?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Leftover soft breakfast pretzels from late night Drug tester Robin
Minnesota says they're selling chunks of Greenland, which will be
the next US territory.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Who else you have?

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Jay Dot in Utah says cheap ass Olympic medals, Limic
gold medals.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
King Roy says hooked on phonics? Is the the end?

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, really, the mayor, do we have the Mayor of Philadelphia.
She's standing by over there, the Mayor of Philadelphia.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Oh, yes, we always have her in studio. Now she
pretty much lives here.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
Really yeah, I can call it right.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Now, Mayor.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
Let me hear you all say he owe me.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
No, Let's go birds, Let's go Burts birds. Let's go birds.
Right there, go Berts alf.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Says a limited edition Speak and Spell autographed by the
Mayor of Philadelphia. Berg Dog says, Souvenir receipts from the
paid off referees.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
There you go from Ocean City, New Jersey. Jose Niner.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Let's see your lady sideburn says souvenir. Colostomy bags very nice.
A selling a commemorative Jerome Brown Pearl Harbor medallion. One
of the all time great rants. It's been lost in time.
Mason in Huntington Beach is dating himself. But Jerome Brown

(19:05):
went on an epic rant while playing at Miami before
a Bowl game. If I remember correctly, and said, did
the the Japanese sit down and have dinner with Pearl
Harbor before they bombed? It was an amazing rant, but
was way before, way before social media. A horse poop
guessed by Donkey sausage. That's his answer.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Used used jockstraps from Joe the Ghost Unner. JT.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
The Wingman says, a spelling beach trophy, A lot of
spelling bees. John McLaren bobblehead doll has to be the
answer from the grill Sergeant.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Who else do we have? Page down?

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Milkman Mike said, they're selling some of that Philly grass
is what they're selling.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Egan Rosio, Minnesota. He cheated.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Who else do we have page down? I can't read
that on the air. All right, let's see here.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oh Morena, Yes you have an answer, Loredo, Yes.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
I think they were giving away frozen tears from the
losing team.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Frozen tears from a losing team. All right, let's see
is that correct? No?

Speaker 2 (20:12):
It turns out this is one of the great hustles
of all time, one of the outstanding hustles of all time.
The Philadelphia Eagles. You talk about being Charlatan's and con artists.
The Philadelphia Eagles are selling containers of snow.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah that's right. Yeah, the Eagles are selling on online.
You can get it.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
It looks like in ice cream, kind of like an
ice cream carton.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
I was curious how are they going to send it
without it melting?

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well, I'm glad you asked, so the Philadelphia Eagles, you
know how much this cost?

Speaker 1 (20:52):
How much do you think a container of snow?

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Thirty five dollars?

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Ben, how about fifty dollars? What fifty? And check this out.
They're sold out, which.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Either tells you they're lying and no one bought it,
or there's a lot of dumb people in Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Right, I mean, what are you doing? Seriously?

Speaker 2 (21:14):
They say it's snow that was collected from the end
zone at the link after the Eagles playoff win over
the Rams, packaged and insulated containers with dry ice and
detailed care instructions.

Speaker 6 (21:28):
Can you imagine keep it in your freezer?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Fifty dollars?

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Fifty dollars and shipping fifteen dollars, so it's really sixty
five dollars And they got to be the dumbest fans.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
In the world. What are you doing? Seriously? What are
you doing? That is humble?

Speaker 2 (21:51):
And they're also selling what do you got containers of
grass clippings from Lincoln Financial Field you buy the those
only cost you thirty dollars, But my god, what a
On the podcast, I do with Danny on the weekends.
We were talking about there was a story in Italy

(22:11):
where they were selling hand air.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
These things pop up every once in a while. Yeah,
so we were like.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
We should sell like air from California, you know, sell
Maybe not now because the fires and all that, but
what a what a sucker move, you know, let's just
get that they say on Wall Street, they say get
that dumb money on Wall Street, get that dumb money.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Pretty much. I mean fifty spend fifty dollars.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
Okay, Now, if you did spend fifty dollars on it,
would you get something to display it in? So like
a mini freezer that has an open you.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Can't get in, No, you'd have to get an igloo.
Well that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
So, like you know the mini fridges that have like
you can see through, like a monster fridge, but you
could do a mini one that's a freezer, so you
could have like.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Your I love that.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
You can sell anything if you stick a seal of
authenticity on it, people will will buy it.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Oh my god, what a hustle?

Speaker 2 (23:06):
What and at And they are probably laughing behind the
doors at the Eagles Facility that we suckered all these
dumb Birds fans to uh to end up buying this.
I bet the mayor of Philadelphia bought one of these things.
Don't you think the mayor bought one?

Speaker 5 (23:21):
She definitely bought one.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
I wanted to drop n I was gonna say, yeah,
let me.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Hear you all saying, oh.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, let's go birds, Let's go birds, let's go to
the phones. We'll say hello to sir scratch Off who's
driving around Arkansas. Hey, sir scratch Off, do you buy
any of that packaged ice from Philadelphia?

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
I got a package going towards tan Sity, Missouri. They're
gonna bend. My home's over and he's gonna be all warm.
I was all real cool what he gets? If you
know what I mean? How you know being I'll say,
what would have been fun to watch the Rams play the Chiefs?

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Well?

Speaker 2 (24:10):
How would the Rams have played the Chiefs if they
would have had to play in the Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (24:15):
That's what I'm saying. Oh, all right, like we should
be diggles. I go around throwing dum What do you
say it when you when you have things kind of
mess up your game?

Speaker 1 (24:29):
I did think I don't know what you're talking about game.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
And I wouldn't got to play that. We should have
played the Chiefs because when the Rams lost. When the
Rams left Saint Louis, Missouri, when I moved out of
Stock to Missouri Stock California, moved to Missouri in nineteen
seventy or nineteen sixty, said when I bought six six California,
I'll get out here a minute.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
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your whole life story? Now subscribe?

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Hey, no, hang on, you's been let's play on saying okay.
When we moved up to Saint Look, Missouri from California,
I started to get hosts of Rams of late nineteen
seventy and every since everybody wanted to be Rams fans. Well,
soon the Rams moved to California a couple of times
and keep coming back saying, look, everybody all jumped on
that vand wagon again, and then when they left the

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last time, all can't see Chiefs fans.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Is there a question? Can I buy a question? Can
I buy a question? For a thousand?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Please get sir, thousand dollars?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, what is the question?

Speaker 3 (25:27):
No, my question is to be used.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yes, do you think here? We go here? We go.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Do you think would have had any chance I'm gonna
say it's clean. Do you think would have had any
chance at hell to be the Chancy Chiefs back two
years ago and I had my mini stroke out on
my route. I was in the hospital the week we played.
You mean we played Kasey Chiefs and we beat him
like it's one hundred and five for going to score
from above the hole.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Well that was that was many that was at the coliseum.
But yeah, I do remember that Jared Jared Golf played.
But yeah, of course the Rams, the Chiefs don't blow
anybody out.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
So the Rams, by just looking at how the Chiefs play,
it would be a close game.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
And the Bills and the Chiefs this week, it'll be
a close game if the Rams had won and played them.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Whoever wins the NFC, it'll be a close game in
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Every game can but with rare exception, every game they
play has been nip and tuck.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
That's almost all of them. There's only a couple of
games that weren't.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, which we came back to the end of the year.
You don't we start playing football. But I will say here,
what I'll go is right Now, if I'm going to
walk into Vegas right now, put my money down super Bowl.
Here's who I want to pick. I'm going to pick
the Bills and the Washington Redskins.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well I wouldn't do that. I don't know if they
take the bet on the Redskins, but maybe they weren't.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
No idea.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
I want to say that game happen. I want Alan
to win the Super Bowl because he deserves it, he
really does.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah. I like when the Bills lose because Bill's mafia.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
They can't handle it. They going to hiding and all that.
It's more fun when they lose.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
All.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
I gotta go, thank you? What what? I'm thank you?
I'm moving on.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
All right, let's go to weed Man Hippie. We're gonna
have asked Ben coming up. Your questions are answers just
moments away. Hello weed Man hippie in Miami, Miami, Miami,
Hello weed.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Man, Ben. I love you, Thank you man.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
You got.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
You got, you got what you gotta? You got headache. Yeah,
we got big fires in California.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
There's multiple Well, no, the the original fires are out
and now there's there's two big fires that have started
since then, so there's more.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
There's more fires.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Wow, and there's slow and.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah I saw that.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
I mean, come on, man, and cool. You're going to Alaska?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
I mean, is it how cold?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Is Alaska real?

Speaker 7 (27:56):
When I'm gonna be there, It's not gonna be that cold.
It's gonna be like high, like fifty eight low of fall.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
No way, no way, I had no idea. I never
forgot the.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, you're blowing the mind of weed man. You can't
believe it. Wait a minute, it actually gets up to
the fifties.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
And the last just good, come on, I go last
like zero the green over there, wom.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
No, No, are you going to do a Malord meet
and greet in Alaska?

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Coop be?

Speaker 7 (28:26):
Probably well, I mean I have no idea where whatever
that guy say he was from Wascilla.

Speaker 6 (28:31):
Yeah, I don't know where that is.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Like are you going to Juno? Are you going to
are you going to June? Are you going to Anchorage also?

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Or just Juna just Juna? Okay, Well we're on in jail,
so maybe some blusters want to meet you.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Like it it's like seventy degrees to get Alasta.

Speaker 6 (28:47):
I mean, I don't know about seventy degrees.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Been weed man. They have this thing called the internet.
You can look up the weather in Alaska. It's not
that hard to find the weather man. It's an amazing content.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
It's forty degrees right now in Juno.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Oh my god, I swear to that. I never knew
ever got that role.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
In the least.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Wow. I think I think what we should do.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
You know, the game we're talking about playing Lorraine, which
I'm not going to talk about right now. How about
the first matchup should be weed Man Hippie and you Lorraine.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
The ultimate matchup.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
Yeah, I think that would be the perfect matchup.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, we're weed Man. We're planning a new game.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
I've been planning it for a month, but we had
the fires and some other stuff happened.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
So well, I keep pushing it.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Back, but we want you to first contestant in the new
game when we play.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Okay, yeah, what is it? I can't say. I don't
want to give it away. Okay, okay, okay, I'll play
all right, And everything's good with you though you're it's
not snowing in.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
My never get me a place, get me a lit
the place.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
I can't leave.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
I can't leave people, I really can't. I can't sit anybody.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
You hate your people person, but you hate people except
that I hate the people in a couple of people.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
I might have a roommate. I can't have a roommate.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
I know.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
You're too old for a roommate. Weed Man, you're too old, right,
you're too old for a roommate, right, I know.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
I can't have a roommate. My wife Lisa that she's
going for. I don't know if you're sleep that?

Speaker 1 (30:24):
What do you Why do you move in with Lisa?
How about that?

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Probably that would be wonderful and perfect.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Would you move back to New York? Weed Man? When
you moved back to New.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
York, I gotta be there. I got you.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
See you would even if Lisa said come back to
New York, you wouldn't go.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
I got you, all right, I gotta go. I gotta go.
Thank you, all right, weed Man?

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Hippie there amazed that it's not always sub fifty. I
guess in Alaska, he thought all the time. Our friends
in Alaska always have the worst possible brother. All right,
it is the Ben Malor Show. We're gonna have ask Ben.
Your questions are answers, and so if you want to
send a question and use the hashtag ask Ben for

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Speaker 1 (31:05):
We'll get to that. We'll do it next.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
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Speaker 2 (31:13):
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Speaker 1 (32:03):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
It's now time for horry.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Horry wait ask Ben Twitter. Send us your questions on Twitter.
Now man, no wait, we go to ask Ben. Your
questions are answers for the.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Rest of the hour, used the hashtag ask Ben the
reading of the questions a turning point in the overnight hours.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
An audio feast is about to begin.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
We go over to the Koopal loop for the reading
of the questions Google Loop.

Speaker 7 (32:34):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start with a question for you,
Fra right from Tammy and Montana.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Hi, Tammy and Montana.

Speaker 7 (32:41):
Hello tam She wants to know how many times a
night do you go into the surrender cobra with callers?

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Pretty much twice an hour on average.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
I think I've I've done the math Tammy in Montana,
and it's usually every time Angry Bill gets on hollering,
James Mars, Brooklyn, all the regulars, all the regulars. But
it's onward and upwards. So I do get in that
surrender cobra quite a bit. What is next year cool?
What do we have to hear from? Tammy in Montana?

(33:11):
A fan favorite? Everyone loves Tammy in Montana.

Speaker 7 (33:13):
Emmett would like to know, Hi, em It, what is
your favorite gas station food?

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Well, back in the day when I would go, I
would love the the am PM would go there and whole.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Cadre like nachos. That was my big thing.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Seven eleven there was like a seven eleven connected to
a gas station.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Big slurpy guy back in the day, love the slurpy.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
I would would fill it up, drink it in the store,
fill it up again, then pay for it so I
get two for one.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
I love that. Is that for everybody?

Speaker 5 (33:44):
Drink it that fast back.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
You didn't know me, Freeze, you didn't know me. I
had amazing.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
My superpower was consumption of massive quantities of food.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Wow. Although that doesn't really count as food, right, it's
just no icy water, sugar water.

Speaker 6 (34:00):
But yes, that is for everybody.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
The rain and favorite fast food. We're not fast food.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Gas station chos hot dog those disgusting like green hot dogs.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
That's funny.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
I absolutely refuse to eat them now, but I'm somewhere.
I think the gas station corn dogs were always my favorite.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
What was better? Elementary school corn dogs are gas station.

Speaker 6 (34:21):
Gas station corn dogs?

Speaker 5 (34:21):
Because I have the halapino cheese ones, the ones as
you go to Yeah, and I like the crispy around
the stick, you know, the little wooden part.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
But I like the Arco hot dogs too. When you
said Arco, I was like, Oh, when I was a kid,
I eat those all the time. My dad loved taking
us to Arco to eat lunch.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
I used to eat everything back in the day, so
I would go to a gas station.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
It was my favorite.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
But you know, I love those late like here in
La those late night Mexican fast food places that are
kind of like somewhat like Albertos and places like that.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
I ate ransom meat from Alberto's last night.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Actually, all right, Loraina that said that, Lawyers Cupolo.

Speaker 7 (34:59):
I like the taketos.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Good.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
Yeah, I've never had the taketos.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Taketo's one of those foods it's hard to have off.

Speaker 7 (35:08):
Yeah, and they've got like different kinds, like some of
them are like buffalo chicken and cheese or the pizza sticks.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
Did you guys ever have the pizza sticks?

Speaker 7 (35:17):
Okay, you're making hungry.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
I'm in the middle of a fast okay, killing me.
You're always I know, it's a problem.

Speaker 7 (35:25):
It's my miser go King Rory would like to y Rory,
what would be worst going skydiving in your parachute not opening,
or going bungee jumping in the cord breaking.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Well, I would think skydiving because that's a that's a
one hundred percent done.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
It'd be quick so I guess that's so.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
I guess the the bungee you'd survive possibly, right, you
could get water. Yeah, okay, So the bungeee thing's worse then,
because if you jump out of a plane the parachute
doesn't open, you're dead. But it's a kind of a
quick thing. Now, probably out while you're falling, you smash
into the ground. It probably doesn't feel that quick, but
you're relatively dead fast.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
The bungee thing, you might end up in the hospital.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
Lorena, but you'd be alive. Yeah, but you I mean,
but you could be paralyzed, crippled, or you could have
a really cool story.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Right, here's the thing. Would you rather die or live
and have everything?

Speaker 5 (36:18):
I think I think life is cool no matter which
experience you're taking.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
So I think I would rather vegetable.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
You'd be okay, I'd be okay, I could have still
really cool dreams.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Really, I don't know about that. I don't know. We'll
talk tough situation.

Speaker 7 (36:34):
Yeah, it's a really good it's a good question. I
think I gotta agree with you, Ben.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
Yeah, all right, nothing, it is.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
All right, quick painless death, relatively speaking. What is next year?

Speaker 2 (36:45):
It is asked Ben, your questions are answers.

Speaker 7 (36:49):
This is a good one, uh JT the Wingman. He
would like to know. Did you have any magazine subscriptions
as a kid growing up?

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yeah, I'm old. I had Sports Illustrated.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
I always loved the swim Suit Issue when that came
out every holiday season. And then I had the Sporting
News because they had all the stats in there.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
The Sporting News, I waited for that every week. My
dad was a big Mad Magazine fan, so he had
Mad Magazine. So that was around the house. My mom
he weave those elementary school things when I was I'm of.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
The age where you could sign up for all these
different magazines and whatever and so to help support the school,
and so we had so much crap.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Come into the house.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
There was this thing called Sport Magazine that we had
at one point, and it was looking back on I
was like, why what It's terrible compared to now everything's
just online.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
What about you, Lorraine up?

Speaker 5 (37:37):
My grandma had so many magazines. They were under tables
and on the sides of everything.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Was it those like entertainment like People magazine was at
home and was at home housekeeping?

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Right?

Speaker 5 (37:47):
No, they were all fashion like Cosmopolitans girl.

Speaker 6 (37:51):
Did you have any magazine collection?

Speaker 5 (37:53):
Well, no, I went through hers. I didn't need to
get my own, and I don't yeah know, but she had.
She never got rid of them. She'd hold onto the
ones from the seventies. She had them from the seventies.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Oh a Playboy, you just.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
Don't even get rid of them. Yeah, playboy collection, yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Old school playboy. All right. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
So when I was a little kid, I had Highlights.
Do you remember that?

Speaker 1 (38:19):
I do not that. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (38:21):
I thought that.

Speaker 7 (38:22):
Yeah, I thought that went like way back, but maybe it's.

Speaker 6 (38:24):
Just my you see him at doctor? Yes, yes, I.

Speaker 7 (38:29):
Had that, And then later on into my preteen era,
I had WWF magazine.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Oh that's big. Well, all right, what's the next year?
To ask? Man? Your questions are answers.

Speaker 7 (38:44):
Late Night Drug Tester would like to know if you
had a paid year off from work, what would you
do so fully paid?

Speaker 1 (38:53):
I would go crazy? Probably, I'm used to working, so no.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
I would love to travel, drive across the country, visit
places I've never been, see people I don't see very often,
do that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
What about you, Lorraina, Well.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
First, I'd want to do nothing then I would.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Want to I don't do nothing well responsibility.

Speaker 5 (39:10):
And then yes, I want to travel.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Cool.

Speaker 7 (39:14):
I would spend half of it traveling and the other
half playing in poker tournaments.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Yeah, that's your dream, right, The professional poker player Poople
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