December 19, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Nick Saban complaining about James Madison making the College Football Playoff over Notre Dame, the latest comments from Giannis Antetokounmpo on his relationship with the Bucks, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you do. It's our number three, our number three,
as we do the arithmetic here in our three. The
college football Playoff about to get going, and a lot
of chatter about some of these lightweights that made it.
Thumbs up or thumbs down on former Alabama coach Nick
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Saban complaining about James Madison making the college football Playoff
over the fighting irish of Notre Dame. How do you
categorize these latest comments by Giannis Adentacumbo and pro Bouncy
Ball on his relationship with the Bucks and your thoughts
on the NFL shopping It's Australian TV package. I wonder
if Ozzy was is going to buy it. We'll take
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a look at that. Also Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. The comedy club is open for business later
this hour. It's all coming your way right about now.
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The rare inappropriate, rare in appropriate mention of collegiate football,
because that is our late, that is our lead. Former
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Alabama head football coach Nick Saban recently complaining Saban unhappy,
not happy with James Madison making the college football playoff
over Notre Dame. You heard this or not or saw it?
Saban making these comments on the past McAfee YouTube show.
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Here is Nick Saban, and he used the baseball analogy.
Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Look, would we allow the winner of the trip Away
Baseball League, the International League, whatever they call it. I
don't even know the name of it. Would you let
them in the World Series playoffs?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I don't think they do. No, No, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
No they don't. But I'm saying, but that's the equivalent
of what we do when JMU gets in to the
college football playoff and Notre Dame doesn't.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Nor. He also said, I don't want to start any
blank here, but we all know that when you say but,
it means everything you said before that is a lie.
It's a lie, lie lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie,
lie lie lie to lie. So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question are you
going to go thumbs up? Are you going to go
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thumbs down? So thumbs up or thumbs down on Nick
Saban complaining, complaining, complaining, complaining about James Madison making the
college football playoff over the fighting Irish. So on this one,
I've got Iron Pigs New York Times bestseller and vegamite
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and we'll combine all of these things together, and we
are going to create a monster, which is what college
football playoff football is. It's a monster. It's an absolute monster. So,
first of all, my answer is thumb up, thumb up,
going thumbs up on this on Nick Saban. Now we
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all know that that is an unpopular opinion, all right,
But unpopular does not mean wrong. It does not mean wrong.
And I stand by my position. And here's why. Saban's
baseball analogy, it was a lot of things. Was it harsh, Sure,
some people say it's harsh to compare James Madison to
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a minor league baseball team. Is it accurate? Absolutely? Would
you rather see the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs in the playoffs?
Or the Dodgers, the Doyers, or my favorite Triple A team,
the Toledo mud Hits. Would you see them in the
play No, Notre Dame. I guess they're more like the
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Savannah Bananas because they're not in any conference. That's part
of the issue here. They're an independent, traveling circus. It
should be it. College football is fighting the same demons.
I spent a few minutes thinking this through, and I
was processing everything and deliberating as a good member of
the jury, and I decided with my ruling that college
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football is fighting the same demons that NCAA hoops invited
to the party many many, many years ago. Trying to
make everyone happy. It never works. You cannot make everyone happy.
You can make some of the people happy some of
the time, but that means some other people are going
to be unhappy, and then you can make them happy,
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and then those other people they're gonna be unhappy, and
you end up pleasing nobody by the time it's all done.
Everyone claims. This is one of my pet peeves and
why you shouldn't really pay attention when people tell you
something public. It's kind of like exit polls and politics.
They're often wrong. They're often wrong exit polling. Everyone claims
that they want Cinderella. You know why that is because
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if you say you don't like Cinderella, you're a douche.
That's why. So you have to say, hey, I like Cinderella.
It's a total fairy tale pun intended. When Cinderella actually
shows up the ratings crater, which would be a dead giveaway,
dead giveaway if you love Cinderella, and everyone says they
love Cinderella, wouldn't you think the ratings would spike when
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you put one of these crap bag teams in like
college basketball, you know, deep in the tournament, and yet
they creter like you dropped your iPhone and the screen cracked. Now,
what is my evidence? In college basketball last twenty years,
we've had George Mason and Loyola of Chicago make the
Final four, small time underdog us against the machine programs
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and the ratings. It was like drinking bleach and convincing
yourself that it's a healthy, cleanse it. It sounds noble,
it tastes awful. It's gonna kill you. So let's stop
pretending it's a TV show, dummy. It's a TV show,
is what it is, and a billion dollar content machine. Money,
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man of money, money, man of money, a lot of money.
It's nil. It's name image, likeness, it's business. It's a paywall,
that's what it is. And so college football, what they're
doing right now with this playoff, it's the Wokester's got
some wokesters involved. So they're trying to play kate the
halves and the have nots, and you upset the halves
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because they're like, Wow, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Here.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Now. I guess the have nots are happy because they
get the four million dollars and all that, But the
halves aren't all that happy. You gotta pick a lane
or you end up getting absolutely steamroll. You get run over,
You get run over if you don't pick a lane.
All right, now, Secondly, we go to Milwaukee. A brief,
a very brief mention of the ennb a more chatter,
(09:20):
more chatter recently about the Greek freak being unhappy, not
a happy camper. I know, Matt, the Bears fan's very
upset by that, but Greek freak not happy with life
in Wisconsin. And Giannis dent Tokombo was asked again this
week about a potential mass exodus of the city of Milwaukee,
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and you know, asked whether he and the Bucks remained
on the same level. The Greek Freak leaned into spectacle.
He leaned into spectacle with the capital capitalists. He said, quote,
if my agent is talking to the Bucks about it,
he can have any kind conversation he wants. Yann has said,
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I personally have not had a conversation with the Bucks.
Close quote all right, question, how do you categorize these
latest comments from Giannis I dent to Coombo on his
relationship with the Bucks. So I say, pollice is what
I say. That's my word. This is a New York
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Times bestseller, a New York Times bestseller, The Complete Idiot's
Guide to Forcing an NBA Trade. Yannis he has changed.
When he first came into the NBA, it was all
gung ho, sunshine, rainbows and lollipops and could never imagine
playing in LA or New York or Chicago or anywhere
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like that. He's been around for a while now. He's
just like everyone else who's the star player in the NBA.
Eventually they want to play for the Lakers, Clippers, Warriors, Bulls, Nicks,
some or Miami or Miami or maybe one of the
teams in Texas. So that's about it. That's about it.
So my theory is again, Yannis knew exactly what he
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was doing. This was. This wasn't an answer, It was
a performance. It was performance art by Yanna's. He had
to know the question was coming. It's paint by numbers,
superstar kabuki theater is what it is, and Yannis piling
on the drama, all rama, the drama, all rama, making
the poudy face. I love the poudy face. I love
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the poudy face. And then says, hey, don't look at me,
talk to my agent. That's not confusion. That's known as
plausible deniability. Now I do relate to the story a
little bit bray. You might know if you've heard the
show over the years. I know Alf and Fergdog rolling
their eyes right now. But years ago, I had my
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first journey into television. I was working for both my
major TV jobs have been with NBC and the job
that I had about me it's been a few years.
So they flew me back to Stanford, Connecticut every month,
and I did like a week of television and it
was a great job. Had really good money, right and
I loved it. Was easy, much easier than radio. Radio
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is much harder than television, and so I loved it.
And I got to, you know, go to Connecticut and
see how my brother lives in Manhattan. I got to
see him pretty much every month. Well, I did it,
and I didn't have the job for that long, but
I had it, and I had a contract, and I
had an agent. So my I remember community my asient
ended up quitting on me because he's obviously heard my
my material. But when I had my agent, he told
me this whole thing. This, I'm the I'm the He
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didn't say fall guy. He didn't use that word because
it wasn't a thing yet. But he said, I'll be
the bad guy. I'll be the bad guy, and any
any issues just playing me. And and so that's how agents,
that's how they're all hardwired. That's out of the box.
You open the box. That's some people I know this
in the show who were agents because they emailed me
everyone in a while, and that's what they do, and
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they that's how you play the game. That's how that
game is played. So when you say, hey, this is
you know, that's my agent. He can do whatever he wants.
That gives you plausible deniability. It's like, hey, don't look
at me. It wasn't me. Talk to my agent. You
know that whole thing. It's a power move without fingerprints.
There's no blood at the crime scene. No, you know,
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it's a little bit of a flex. It's kind of
like sending flowers, really nice bouquet of flowers to your
boss and they're like, oh man, that's great, I love flowers.
And then they open up the little card that you said,
I want a sweet sweetheart to give them a card.
And your boss open ups the card and says, roses
are red, violets are blue, and I really hate this
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job and I hate you. I quit uh that you know?
It's like, okay, So you're voicing your displeasure without owning it.
El classico for GIANNISI dent to Cumbo, blame the agent.
Keep your halo polished on top of your head. That
is what's known as a surgical. Surgical shakedown is what
that is. And Giannis wants the bucks uncomfortable, not furious,
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little sweaty, not scorched, like the Mallard Dakota ring, which
is always right. The Mallard Dakota ring says it all
say honest's way of saying, I am unhappy. But you
didn't hear it from me. No no, no, no no,
didn't hear from me. It's modern day jiu jitsu for
the star athlete. Meanwhile, if you look to the upper right,
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even our blind listeners like Stevie Meatballs and InKo Terra
can see this. If you if you look hard enough there,
the doomsday clock is ticking. You can almost hear it. Yeah,
there it is, And so get closer to a Yannis trade.
The trade deadlines about a month away. Well it' said
early February, so it's a little over a month away.
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I know, we still got to get through a few
more days here in the month of December. All right,
final thought, we go to the boob tube. We're talking
boobies the boob tube. So the NFL sent out request.
I just saw this the other day and I thought, well,
this is an interesting story. It's an interesting story. So
the NFL sent out a request and the proposal to host.
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They want major media companies like you know, the usual
suspects of NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC, the streamers, the Amazon, Netflix,
all these people. But Netflix has apparently a lot of
money to burn, a lot of money to burn. Anyway,
They want the first ever NFL regular season game played
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in Australia. Holy Ozzie waz Batman, Where did Ozzie momentum go?
So this season is coming up here next year. Before
you know, these media deals are done way in advance
this past year. I guess the year is still going
on YouTube broadcast the Friday night Brazil game where the
Chargers upended Cansa City in week number one. Now, the
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year before that, Peacock took home the Brazil game. So
the question your thoughts on the NFL shopping shop, chop shop,
shop till you drop, shopping the Australian TV package and
trying to get the big money, big money, big money,
no way may stop. So this is the way it works.
I don't know how you can be surprised by this.
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The NFL is back at it again. They are doing
some cosplay of one of Justin and Cincinnati's favorite people,
Jeffrey Dahmer, the old Ohio State Buckeye. And so they're
playing Jeffrey Dahmer with the schedule, meaning they're slicing and
they're dicing, and they're cannibalizing their own body in this case,
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and the little neat bite sized pieces, which is they're
shopping the Australian TV package. They're waving around the package
like its wagu beef and it's up at auction. The
price per pound is extravagant, very expensive, bordering on criminal,
bordering on criminal. Uh. And and now of course the
NFL is like, oh they're all smiles, Hey, good day mate,
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just like Ozzie Wash, big money, big money, big money
down under. The league has turned its schedule. You have
a notice into it's like an airline snack box. Now.
I never eat on planes because I don't want to
use the bathroom. I don't drink on planes. I try
not to. I try not to eat on planes, but
some people do. My wife does, and she'll get sometimes
you'll get the snack box and you get snack box.
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And it seems like a good idea because it's like
the sampler at a restaurant when you go to Applebee's,
get the sampler, but it's got like a couple of
crackers in there. There's some dried fruit, maybe a little cheese,
and that's it. And you pay a premium for that,
and yeah, you get a few carbs and that's about it.
The malor math on this one, though, says scarcity plus
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addiction equals absolute pig skin madness. So picture this if
you will. Here's the selling the selling point. Imagine this
is the elevator pitch you or the NFL. You're trying
to get the networks to buy your Australian television game
every year. So just just imagine here's my elevator pitch.
You've got opening scene, kangaroos hopping through the streets like
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pigeons in Manhattan, bouncyat bounce sea, bounce seat, bounce sea,
bounce seat, bounce seat, bounce seat, bouncy. Then you go
to a shot inside a sports bar, a bunch of
fans stress up like Ozzie WA's Ozzie momentum, the guy
that used to be called the Ozzie Guy that quit
the show, all those guys. And then they're just eating
bloomin onions, you know, just right from the outback, because
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I think in the outpack they just grow bloomin onions.
I think. So that's what the onions look like. They're
deep fried and they're covered in breading delicious in the
NFL Australia. And then you do this, You go to
the opening billboard on the broadcast presented by Vegemite, a
national treasure. Vegemite. Of course it tastes like regret. And
then you can say, the play by play guy for
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the game, we will give you crocodile dundee. All right,
that's right, that's not a blitz. This is a blitz.
So the NFL is not expanding This is just more monetizing.
It's like, how much juice can you get out of
the orange? Well, I've gotten all the juice. Well there's
a little more juice. You just gotta squeeze it. You
got to turn it like one hundred and eighty degrees
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and a little just a little more juice there. They're
monetizing oxygen the NFL at this point. So and as
long as the media companies keep lining up, and it's
the last of the mohegans, it's the last thing that
we still consume live. Pretty much everything else is on demand,
even this radio show. We have many people that listen
to this show on demand via the podcast Just the
(19:38):
Way of the World. You listen when you want, how
you want, with military precision and Roger Goodell, he is
the chef at the carving station. He's just cutting away there.
And that's it all right. It's a Bean Mallor show.
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Big Ben's lame jokes later this week or later today,
which is this week, by the way, this is this
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fifth Hour podcast will be up a little bit later
time now though, for the Mallor Riddle of the day.
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And here's the Mallor riddle of the day, Bill Belichick,
I've heard of him. Bill Belichick and the North Carolina
football program spent close to fifty thousand dollars on blank
this past year. Again, Bill Belichick and the North Carolina
Football program spent close to fifty thousand dollars on blank
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this year. That is the Mallor riddle of the day.
The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do it.
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take some calls. But before then the payoff on the
Mallar Riddle of the day, Bill Belichick in the North
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Carolina Football program spent close to fifty thousand dollars on
blank this last year cost to fifty thousand dollars on supping.
Let's see how creative the Malard militia can be. Let's
see here Eenie meenie miney Moe. Mallard prop guy says,
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scratch off tickets on date nights with sir scratch off. Yeah,
what happened? He used to call the show a lot,
but he's he's cut back on that. I think he's
retired now. Ferg Dog says on hemorrhoid cream, maybe that
they could share some with Robbie the Mariner fan. All right,
I see page down. Keith said, spend it on purchasing
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the master to the Mallard Christmas Carols. That's from Ocho
Texto Boner pills from Rob the Goatman on a new
pair of grills from Scrooge. He's in the younger demo
Cose play outfits. Oh, look at that, he's a Belichick.
A furry looks like an e walk Is that an
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e walky outfit? Yeap? Why not? Have you ever dated
a furry Lorena? Have you?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I have not. Would that be a turn off to you?
I understand that's not my thing. I was in Pittsburgh
one time. They had a furry convention. I think they
still do. That was a long time ago. Milkman Mike
in Colorado. He spent Belichick spending on babysitters for Jordan Hudson.
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All right, who else do we have? On a Shaquille
O'Neal pregnancy test from King Rory Page and mister Pickham said,
fake lips is the answer? Ut see uh excellent OSSI
wahz content for my Leen in the Bay Jordan Hudson
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pet cures from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. I can't unsee
that on the trash girlfriend from Joe the Ghost Hunter
in Ohio. Men's hair products from JT. The Wingman on
Plan B for all the players from Truck or Joe
Got to have a fall guy on lit on licorice
flavored cereal from Donkey Sausage. It's his answer bodyguards for
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Jordaan's car from Mike the Leprechaun. Who else we have?
Page down deep? Let's see Donkey Sausage got it right?
How dare you? Uh? He can't read that? All right?
H Loraina? Do you have an answer to the Malard
riddle of the day? Not to be confused, Not to
be confused with the instant trivia or the who am I?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Game?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
This is the riddle of the day. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I think he spent that much money on the Tussy
and Strippers.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh, okay, Unfortunately it is incorrect. Belichick, he'd also did
not spend it, and he said he spent an andy
in Linel, Minnesota. Said he's spending on coloring books and
crayons for his girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Apparently in the North Carolina football program last year spent
close to fifty thousand dollars on balloons.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Balloon.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, a lot. Forty eight seven hundred and thirty three
dollars on balloons like that. That sounds sounds like someone
is taking North Carolina to the clan. That must be
a relative of somebody who's like a booster who's donating
money back to North Carolina or something like that. I
don't know how that like. I know those fancy balloon
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arches are expensive, but are they really that expensive? And
do you really need them? Can't you just go down
to the local Walmart and buy a bunch of balloons
and buy a machine to put the air in the
you know, the helium in the in the thing and
make it work. Come on, man, love anyway, it's the
ban Mallor Show and we have a man cashing a
golden ticket right now. We salo to following the Jays.
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I thought he was giving. It's Tammy and Montana. She's
using the golden ticket. Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Tammy didn't use the ticket, so I might as well
think you use some of it at Rayna.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yes, I agree, Oh selfie, you're getting selfish here, James.
G's up with that?
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Man?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I know she told me to go ahead. Hey Ben,
is Sam that really a good quarterback? We lose a
good quarterback for the Minnesota like you?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
No, next question, So jaj McCartney's the man. No next question?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Next question? I'm figuring at my question.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
James, James, have you ever James, have you ever heard
of an open James, have you heard of an open
ending question? You're asking me yes, no questions. You're not
asking to open any questions. You've got to ask open
end questions otherwise I'm just gonna go yes.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
No, Okay. The question is, hey, Ben, you like my call?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
No, next question? Question you asked another, you asked another Yes, no,
of course I like your calls. James, you're a character
on the show. I love when you're sleeping and you're snoring.
It's so good. And you had the greatest moment in
the history of game shows. I've been doing this a
long time, James. No one has ever been able to
(28:22):
match the magic. And we had some great ones. We
had Troy the gambling Man and uh, who was he
going against? Oh, gay Brad from Nashville. I think it
was gay. By twenty years ago, you were allowed to
call yourself that he was gay guy. But they when
they added seats to the Green Monster. We asked a
question on Jeopardy and he said, what what did they
(28:42):
add to the Green Monster? And he said, at Dracuzzie,
that was such a stupid answer. It was so I
still remember it twenty years later. I still remember that answer.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
What a mud bath?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
A mud bath? Onen's the last time you had a
mud bath? James? When yeah, all right, I go.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
On a real note.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I just to pay for sex, well, James, As an
old man told me when I was a young man,
an old man pulled me aside and said, men, you
will end up paying for it one way or another.
I said, okay, uh so, James, whether you pay for
it upfront or after the fact, you're paying for it
one way or other.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Right, you don't get pregnant.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I saw you, James. I think you might be pregnant.
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Are you expecting a child? James? I know? All right?
Can I move on? James? I feel like I need
to move on. Is that okay with you? Can I
move on? I've moved you? All right? That's great. That
reminds me of what's the guy's name from West Virginia.
(30:00):
You guy used to call the radio Rich? Yeah, Radio Rich,
who announced he'd called the show for years and I
don't think he's around anymore. And one of his final calls,
he talked about hooking up with hookers. He just like
went into like great detail and it was it was
very interesting. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, it was a
(30:22):
famous call Radio Rich that guy. Jeez, oh man, they
all it's like moth to a flame. They find our show.
Alameda Lou is in the Bay Area. What's going on,
Alamia Lou welcome.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Hey, obviously you want to talk a little bit about
the Seahawks and Rams game that just happened. The contact
is I'm a little upset with you for not even
thinking to mention Kyle Shanahan and your Coach of the
Year monologue last night.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
No, he's not gonna sniff coach of the year, So
why would I mention him?
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Why wouldn't he sniff coach of the year if his
team gets the one seed, which is now possible after tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Mike Rabel is going to be the coach of the year.
It's because that's just the way it is. So why
because the Patriots have been horrible for years and now
they're good.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
The Patriots have been horrible for years and now they're good.
But Kyle Shanahan and the forty nine ers injury.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I can see, Sean, you go down the list here.
I mentioned Liam Cohen and Jackson. All right, Mike Rabel,
Liam Cohne, Sean Tayton on that. Yes, Jacksonville currently doing well.
Ben Johnson in Chicago's another one.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yeah, thank you for saying that. I can't believe he
would say Liam Cohne before Ben Johnson.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Jacksonville is in a better situation than the the Bears,
if you will, considering how they played recently, Liam Cohen
will win it before Kyle Shanahan. You you have a
better chance, Alami Lou of winning Okay.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Oh my god, Ben?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
What why are you? Why are you offended? I'm complimenting you.
You have a better tend me constantly.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
But I think a lot of you, and for you
to not even be willing to see way acknowledge the
fact that maybe a depleted roster.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Well, first of all, I'm glad that you called in
before the Niners lose to forty four year old grandfather
Philip Rivers on Monday night. So I'm happy that you
got this call in. I'll remember this. I will be
thinking of you when the Colts win that game on
Monday night. I will think of this phone call, and
I will have a Cheshire Cat smile on my face.
Alami Lou from one ear to the other. I will
(32:45):
smile and I will think of that conversation I had
with Alami de Lou last week, and it'll be so great.
I'll smile.
Speaker 8 (32:54):
Apology still, Lorena for my performance last night. I'm sorry
that was on me.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm gonna blame the bar that you work at. You
were overserved. Yeah, all right, thank you? The great alame
to Lou where he goes. Only he knows what what happened.
I don't know what that what was that I was
at work last night? I don't know what you guys
talking about. Okay, I'm confused. Well we'll leave that one alone.
(33:25):
Let's say what do we have here? One more, Let's
go to Scott, who's in Ta Cob. What's going on? Scott? Welcome.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Hey, I just want to know your opinion on the
MC west and before you answer that, I have no
dog in that fight, So give me your honest answer.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, Rams will go farther in the playoffs in Seattle
or the forty nine ers. It doesn't really matter as
far as the Rams don't have a home field advantage.
So it's nice to not have to travel, but it
doesn't really matter. It's more about how far you go
in the playoffs and the Rams end up the six
or the seventh seed, that's fine, figure it out.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I will give you that there are two seasons in
the FL. There there's a regular season and then there's
the postseason.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yes, okay, all right, we agree, look at that. It's
bad bad talk radio if we agree, though.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
Okay, So what's your opinion on the AFC West?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Uh, the a f C. I'm not sold On's gonna
hate me, But I'm not sold on bow Knicks and
the playoffs and all that Broncos defense is legit. They're legit.
I don't know about bow Nicks, and I see the
Chargers play a lot, and I'm not as smitten with
Justin Herbert as Chris collins Worth. These guys that a
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their knee pads on for him. So the Chargers of
the Broncos are pretty simple. I think the Chargers defense
is pretty good.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Charges would you take Herbert over a de defense?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
It's the game in Denver's in La. I'll tell I'll
take I'll take the Broncos defense over Herbert because I
saw I've seen him play in a couple of playoff
games and he's been a choking dog against Jacksonville years
ago and against the Texans last year.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
Okay, I can't, I can't, I can't. I can't argue
with him about that.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
All right, we agree, Look at that, Look at me, Scott,
We pray. Unbelievable. All right, I gotta go. But thank you.
It's not you. It's the clock. We've got Big Bens
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We do part there a laugh track is there? If
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Knock knock, who's there? Blame week? Blame week too. It's
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Hello weed Man, hippie in Hollywood worked up a.
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Man.
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Speaker 1 (37:21):
Here we go. Why did weed Man sit on a
toddler's cup at the holiday party?
Speaker 6 (37:29):
Why?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Well, instead of being elf on the shelf, weed Man
wanted to be a hippie on a sippy. George and
Yuvaldi Texas sent that one in thank you, George. What
do weed Man and Santa Claus have in common?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
What?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
It turns out they both worked just one day a year.
That's it. That's Terry and Saint Paul. When's your day
to work? Weed Man? Do you know when you work?
I guess when you have to go pick up more weed?
And yeah, a lot. It's a lot of work there,
I understand, Yes, all right. Did they take eb t
at the weed shop? Weed Man?
Speaker 7 (38:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I wish they do. Make it a lot easier for you.
I understand they sell a lot more too. All right, Well,
weed Man Hippie he was seeing carrying an empty refrigerator
box around Hollywood, Florida. It turns out his family did
come to visit for the holidays and he needed a
place for them to stay. So it was a show.
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Why did the rabbi kick weed Man Hippie out of
the temple?
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Well, I guess weed Man Hippie was trying to turn
a menora into a nine bowl pipe and it just
upset the rabbit. That's George and Yuvalde, Texas who sent
that one, And how does weed Man get around without
a car?
Speaker 7 (38:54):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Well, he's a big fan of riding around in the cannabis.
Big fan, big fan, man loves it. That's Brendan from
Brendan from Boston who sent that one to thank you? Brendan?
What is weed Man Hippie's favorite Christmas movie? What Miracle
on Section eight Street? That's a good joke from Kurt
(39:24):
from Earth. You got anything? We coop? Any of your jokes?
All right, coops out If you have any offensive jokes,
contact Coop. Why did weed Man start lifting weights?
Speaker 7 (39:34):
Why?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
He wanted to become high and mighty. That's ship in Maine?
Who sent that one? In finger for that ship in Maine?
Weed Man is giving his wife and son a Christmas
they will never forget. Right, Yeah, you're giving him nothing.
That's Eke from Roseville, Minnesota. Why is Why is weed
(39:55):
Man jealous that people can buy a new mattress in
a box?
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Why?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Because weed Man had always used a box as a
new mattress. That's Surfer Todd, the comedian now living in
Lost Wages, Nevada. How about that Surfer Todd's moved to
Sint City. Why did weed Man move to New Hampshire
and not Boston because in Boston there's too much yellow snow.
In New Hampshire, he heard there's a lot of fresh
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white powder. Hello, that's a Mike a Leprecaun who sent
that one in? Why does weed Man love Donald Trump today?
Why he made pot legal everywhere here? It's a mikeehlepretan,
your favorite president. A weed Man's wife is giving him
a suv. Give him an suv for Christmas.
Speaker 7 (40:43):
Wow?
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Yeah, socks, underwear and viagra. That's Eke and Roseville. It's
a flat junk Solloway. Thank you, weed Man.
How do you do. It's our number three, our number three,
as we do the arithmetic here in our three. The
college football Playoff about to get going, and a lot
of chatter about some of these lightweights that made it.
Thumbs up or thumbs down on former Alabama coach Nick
(00:20):
Saban complaining about James Madison making the college football Playoff
over the fighting irish of Notre Dame. How do you
categorize these latest comments by Giannis Adentacumbo and pro Bouncy
Ball on his relationship with the Bucks and your thoughts
on the NFL shopping It's Australian TV package. I wonder
if Ozzy was is going to buy it. We'll take
(00:43):
a look at that. Also Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. The comedy club is open for business later
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Settle in. It's our number three. Just in the nick
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The rare inappropriate, rare in appropriate mention of collegiate football,
because that is our late, that is our lead. Former
(03:40):
Alabama head football coach Nick Saban recently complaining Saban unhappy,
not happy with James Madison making the college football playoff
over Notre Dame. You heard this or not or saw it?
Saban making these comments on the past McAfee YouTube show.
(04:01):
Here is Nick Saban, and he used the baseball analogy.
Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Look, would we allow the winner of the trip Away
Baseball League, the International League, whatever they call it. I
don't even know the name of it. Would you let
them in the World Series playoffs?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I don't think they do. No, No, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
No they don't. But I'm saying, but that's the equivalent
of what we do when JMU gets in to the
college football playoff and Notre Dame doesn't.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Nor. He also said, I don't want to start any
blank here, but we all know that when you say but,
it means everything you said before that is a lie.
It's a lie, lie lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie,
lie lie lie to lie. So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question are you
going to go thumbs up? Are you going to go
(04:55):
thumbs down? So thumbs up or thumbs down on Nick
Saban complaining, complaining, complaining, complaining about James Madison making the
college football playoff over the fighting Irish. So on this one,
I've got Iron Pigs New York Times bestseller and vegamite
(05:15):
and we'll combine all of these things together, and we
are going to create a monster, which is what college
football playoff football is. It's a monster. It's an absolute monster. So,
first of all, my answer is thumb up, thumb up,
going thumbs up on this on Nick Saban. Now we
(05:36):
all know that that is an unpopular opinion, all right,
But unpopular does not mean wrong. It does not mean wrong.
And I stand by my position. And here's why. Saban's
baseball analogy, it was a lot of things. Was it harsh, Sure,
some people say it's harsh to compare James Madison to
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a minor league baseball team. Is it accurate? Absolutely? Would
you rather see the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs in the playoffs?
Or the Dodgers, the Doyers, or my favorite Triple A team,
the Toledo mud Hits. Would you see them in the
play No, Notre Dame. I guess they're more like the
(06:19):
Savannah Bananas because they're not in any conference. That's part
of the issue here. They're an independent, traveling circus. It
should be it. College football is fighting the same demons.
I spent a few minutes thinking this through, and I
was processing everything and deliberating as a good member of
the jury, and I decided with my ruling that college
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football is fighting the same demons that NCAA hoops invited
to the party many many, many years ago. Trying to
make everyone happy. It never works. You cannot make everyone happy.
You can make some of the people happy some of
the time, but that means some other people are going
to be unhappy, and then you can make them happy,
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and then those other people they're gonna be unhappy, and
you end up pleasing nobody by the time it's all done.
Everyone claims. This is one of my pet peeves and
why you shouldn't really pay attention when people tell you
something public. It's kind of like exit polls and politics.
They're often wrong. They're often wrong exit polling. Everyone claims
that they want Cinderella. You know why that is because
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if you say you don't like Cinderella, you're a douche.
That's why. So you have to say, hey, I like Cinderella.
It's a total fairy tale pun intended. When Cinderella actually
shows up the ratings crater, which would be a dead giveaway,
dead giveaway if you love Cinderella, and everyone says they
love Cinderella, wouldn't you think the ratings would spike when
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you put one of these crap bag teams in like
college basketball, you know, deep in the tournament, and yet
they creter like you dropped your iPhone and the screen cracked. Now,
what is my evidence? In college basketball last twenty years,
we've had George Mason and Loyola of Chicago make the
Final four, small time underdog us against the machine programs
(08:09):
and the ratings. It was like drinking bleach and convincing
yourself that it's a healthy, cleanse it. It sounds noble,
it tastes awful. It's gonna kill you. So let's stop
pretending it's a TV show, dummy. It's a TV show,
is what it is, and a billion dollar content machine. Money,
(08:31):
man of money, money, man of money, a lot of money.
It's nil. It's name image, likeness, it's business. It's a paywall,
that's what it is. And so college football, what they're
doing right now with this playoff, it's the Wokester's got
some wokesters involved. So they're trying to play kate the
halves and the have nots, and you upset the halves
(08:52):
because they're like, Wow, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Here.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Now. I guess the have nots are happy because they
get the four million dollars and all that, But the
halves aren't all that happy. You gotta pick a lane
or you end up getting absolutely steamroll. You get run over,
You get run over if you don't pick a lane.
All right, now, Secondly, we go to Milwaukee. A brief,
a very brief mention of the ennb a more chatter,
(09:20):
more chatter recently about the Greek freak being unhappy, not
a happy camper. I know, Matt, the Bears fan's very
upset by that, but Greek freak not happy with life
in Wisconsin. And Giannis dent Tokombo was asked again this
week about a potential mass exodus of the city of Milwaukee,
(09:42):
and you know, asked whether he and the Bucks remained
on the same level. The Greek Freak leaned into spectacle.
He leaned into spectacle with the capital capitalists. He said, quote,
if my agent is talking to the Bucks about it,
he can have any kind conversation he wants. Yann has said,
(10:02):
I personally have not had a conversation with the Bucks.
Close quote all right, question, how do you categorize these
latest comments from Giannis I dent to Coombo on his
relationship with the Bucks. So I say, pollice is what
I say. That's my word. This is a New York
(10:22):
Times bestseller, a New York Times bestseller, The Complete Idiot's
Guide to Forcing an NBA Trade. Yannis he has changed.
When he first came into the NBA, it was all
gung ho, sunshine, rainbows and lollipops and could never imagine
playing in LA or New York or Chicago or anywhere
(10:45):
like that. He's been around for a while now. He's
just like everyone else who's the star player in the NBA.
Eventually they want to play for the Lakers, Clippers, Warriors, Bulls, Nicks,
some or Miami or Miami or maybe one of the
teams in Texas. So that's about it. That's about it.
So my theory is again, Yannis knew exactly what he
(11:06):
was doing. This was. This wasn't an answer, It was
a performance. It was performance art by Yanna's. He had
to know the question was coming. It's paint by numbers,
superstar kabuki theater is what it is, and Yannis piling
on the drama, all rama, the drama, all rama, making
the poudy face. I love the poudy face. I love
(11:30):
the poudy face. And then says, hey, don't look at me,
talk to my agent. That's not confusion. That's known as
plausible deniability. Now I do relate to the story a
little bit bray. You might know if you've heard the
show over the years. I know Alf and Fergdog rolling
their eyes right now. But years ago, I had my
(11:51):
first journey into television. I was working for both my
major TV jobs have been with NBC and the job
that I had about me it's been a few years.
So they flew me back to Stanford, Connecticut every month,
and I did like a week of television and it
was a great job. Had really good money, right and
I loved it. Was easy, much easier than radio. Radio
(12:13):
is much harder than television, and so I loved it.
And I got to, you know, go to Connecticut and
see how my brother lives in Manhattan. I got to
see him pretty much every month. Well, I did it,
and I didn't have the job for that long, but
I had it, and I had a contract, and I
had an agent. So my I remember community my asient
ended up quitting on me because he's obviously heard my
my material. But when I had my agent, he told
me this whole thing. This, I'm the I'm the He
(12:34):
didn't say fall guy. He didn't use that word because
it wasn't a thing yet. But he said, I'll be
the bad guy. I'll be the bad guy, and any
any issues just playing me. And and so that's how agents,
that's how they're all hardwired. That's out of the box.
You open the box. That's some people I know this
in the show who were agents because they emailed me
everyone in a while, and that's what they do, and
(12:56):
they that's how you play the game. That's how that
game is played. So when you say, hey, this is
you know, that's my agent. He can do whatever he wants.
That gives you plausible deniability. It's like, hey, don't look
at me. It wasn't me. Talk to my agent. You
know that whole thing. It's a power move without fingerprints.
There's no blood at the crime scene. No, you know,
(13:17):
it's a little bit of a flex. It's kind of
like sending flowers, really nice bouquet of flowers to your
boss and they're like, oh man, that's great, I love flowers.
And then they open up the little card that you said,
I want a sweet sweetheart to give them a card.
And your boss open ups the card and says, roses
are red, violets are blue, and I really hate this
(13:38):
job and I hate you. I quit uh that you know?
It's like, okay, So you're voicing your displeasure without owning it.
El classico for GIANNISI dent to Cumbo, blame the agent.
Keep your halo polished on top of your head. That
is what's known as a surgical. Surgical shakedown is what
that is. And Giannis wants the bucks uncomfortable, not furious,
(14:02):
little sweaty, not scorched, like the Mallard Dakota ring, which
is always right. The Mallard Dakota ring says it all
say honest's way of saying, I am unhappy. But you
didn't hear it from me. No no, no, no no,
didn't hear from me. It's modern day jiu jitsu for
the star athlete. Meanwhile, if you look to the upper right,
(14:26):
even our blind listeners like Stevie Meatballs and InKo Terra
can see this. If you if you look hard enough there,
the doomsday clock is ticking. You can almost hear it. Yeah,
there it is, And so get closer to a Yannis trade.
The trade deadlines about a month away. Well it' said
early February, so it's a little over a month away.
(14:46):
I know, we still got to get through a few
more days here in the month of December. All right,
final thought, we go to the boob tube. We're talking
boobies the boob tube. So the NFL sent out request.
I just saw this the other day and I thought, well,
this is an interesting story. It's an interesting story. So
the NFL sent out a request and the proposal to host.
(15:12):
They want major media companies like you know, the usual
suspects of NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC, the streamers, the Amazon, Netflix,
all these people. But Netflix has apparently a lot of
money to burn, a lot of money to burn. Anyway,
They want the first ever NFL regular season game played
(15:34):
in Australia. Holy Ozzie waz Batman, Where did Ozzie momentum go?
So this season is coming up here next year. Before
you know, these media deals are done way in advance
this past year. I guess the year is still going
on YouTube broadcast the Friday night Brazil game where the
Chargers upended Cansa City in week number one. Now, the
(16:01):
year before that, Peacock took home the Brazil game. So
the question your thoughts on the NFL shopping shop, chop shop,
shop till you drop, shopping the Australian TV package and
trying to get the big money, big money, big money,
no way may stop. So this is the way it works.
I don't know how you can be surprised by this.
(16:22):
The NFL is back at it again. They are doing
some cosplay of one of Justin and Cincinnati's favorite people,
Jeffrey Dahmer, the old Ohio State Buckeye. And so they're
playing Jeffrey Dahmer with the schedule, meaning they're slicing and
they're dicing, and they're cannibalizing their own body in this case,
(16:43):
and the little neat bite sized pieces, which is they're
shopping the Australian TV package. They're waving around the package
like its wagu beef and it's up at auction. The
price per pound is extravagant, very expensive, bordering on criminal,
bordering on criminal. Uh. And and now of course the
NFL is like, oh they're all smiles, Hey, good day mate,
(17:06):
just like Ozzie Wash, big money, big money, big money
down under. The league has turned its schedule. You have
a notice into it's like an airline snack box. Now.
I never eat on planes because I don't want to
use the bathroom. I don't drink on planes. I try
not to. I try not to eat on planes, but
some people do. My wife does, and she'll get sometimes
you'll get the snack box and you get snack box.
(17:28):
And it seems like a good idea because it's like
the sampler at a restaurant when you go to Applebee's,
get the sampler, but it's got like a couple of
crackers in there. There's some dried fruit, maybe a little cheese,
and that's it. And you pay a premium for that,
and yeah, you get a few carbs and that's about it.
The malor math on this one, though, says scarcity plus
(17:49):
addiction equals absolute pig skin madness. So picture this if
you will. Here's the selling the selling point. Imagine this
is the elevator pitch you or the NFL. You're trying
to get the networks to buy your Australian television game
every year. So just just imagine here's my elevator pitch.
You've got opening scene, kangaroos hopping through the streets like
(18:13):
pigeons in Manhattan, bouncyat bounce sea, bounce seat, bounce sea,
bounce seat, bounce seat, bounce seat, bouncy. Then you go
to a shot inside a sports bar, a bunch of
fans stress up like Ozzie WA's Ozzie momentum, the guy
that used to be called the Ozzie Guy that quit
the show, all those guys. And then they're just eating
bloomin onions, you know, just right from the outback, because
(18:34):
I think in the outpack they just grow bloomin onions.
I think. So that's what the onions look like. They're
deep fried and they're covered in breading delicious in the
NFL Australia. And then you do this, You go to
the opening billboard on the broadcast presented by Vegemite, a
national treasure. Vegemite. Of course it tastes like regret. And
then you can say, the play by play guy for
(18:56):
the game, we will give you crocodile dundee. All right,
that's right, that's not a blitz. This is a blitz.
So the NFL is not expanding This is just more monetizing.
It's like, how much juice can you get out of
the orange? Well, I've gotten all the juice. Well there's
a little more juice. You just gotta squeeze it. You
got to turn it like one hundred and eighty degrees
(19:16):
and a little just a little more juice there. They're
monetizing oxygen the NFL at this point. So and as
long as the media companies keep lining up, and it's
the last of the mohegans, it's the last thing that
we still consume live. Pretty much everything else is on demand,
even this radio show. We have many people that listen
to this show on demand via the podcast Just the
(19:38):
Way of the World. You listen when you want, how
you want, with military precision and Roger Goodell, he is
the chef at the carving station. He's just cutting away there.
And that's it all right. It's a Bean Mallor show.
If you would like to be part, you can join
us right now and say hello at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Got Lame Jokes of the Week
(19:59):
coming up a little bit later. This show always a
battle of the giants. A battle of the giants, So
Big Ben's lame jokes later this week or later today,
which is this week, by the way, this is this
week later today on this Friday, and reminder of the
fifth Hour podcast will be up a little bit later
time now though, for the Mallor Riddle of the day.
(20:21):
And here's the Mallor riddle of the day, Bill Belichick,
I've heard of him. Bill Belichick and the North Carolina
football program spent close to fifty thousand dollars on blank
this past year. Again, Bill Belichick and the North Carolina
Football program spent close to fifty thousand dollars on blank
(20:46):
this year. That is the Mallor riddle of the day.
The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do it.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Next.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 1 (21:02):
Hey is Covino and Rich from Fox Sports Radio. Now.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
In addition to hearing us live weekdays from five to
seven pm Eastern two to four Pacific on Fox Sports Radio,
We're excited to announce a brand new YouTube channel for
the show.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
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YouTube search Covino and Rich FSR. Check us out on YouTube, Subscribe,
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Speaker 6 (21:34):
Finn leads girl. We will never meet Man Tito is
girlfriend webter for fee. Sin leads girl, sin leads girl,
We will never meet man Tito his girlfriend wept for fee.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yes, Bill Miller, you're locked in the Hollow season. Happy holidays, Hanuka, continueing,
Christmas coming up next week, and we are here for
you just about every single night. Had a crazy Thursday
Night game last night. We're reacting to everything going on
and things that are not even going on. You can
be part of the show. And how do you do that? Well,
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(22:19):
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Also on X on X that's right, and that's at
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use a fake name, an avatar. It's a funhouse of
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up the FSR tech queen.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I'm a doctor.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He's well she's not a doctor, but she does play
one on the radio and coop a loop at a
Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan. As we are back
at it and the lame jokes coming up and Bill
take some calls. But before then the payoff on the
Mallar Riddle of the day, Bill Belichick in the North
(23:05):
Carolina Football program spent close to fifty thousand dollars on
blank this last year cost to fifty thousand dollars on supping.
Let's see how creative the Malard militia can be. Let's
see here Eenie meenie miney Moe. Mallard prop guy says,
(23:27):
scratch off tickets on date nights with sir scratch off. Yeah,
what happened? He used to call the show a lot,
but he's he's cut back on that. I think he's
retired now. Ferg Dog says on hemorrhoid cream, maybe that
they could share some with Robbie the Mariner fan. All right,
I see page down. Keith said, spend it on purchasing
(23:48):
the master to the Mallard Christmas Carols. That's from Ocho
Texto Boner pills from Rob the Goatman on a new
pair of grills from Scrooge. He's in the younger demo
Cose play outfits. Oh, look at that, he's a Belichick.
A furry looks like an e walk Is that an
(24:09):
e walky outfit? Yeap? Why not? Have you ever dated
a furry Lorena? Have you?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I have not. Would that be a turn off to you?
I understand that's not my thing. I was in Pittsburgh
one time. They had a furry convention. I think they
still do. That was a long time ago. Milkman Mike
in Colorado. He spent Belichick spending on babysitters for Jordan Hudson.
(24:39):
All right, who else do we have? On a Shaquille
O'Neal pregnancy test from King Rory Page and mister Pickham said,
fake lips is the answer? Ut see uh excellent OSSI
wahz content for my Leen in the Bay Jordan Hudson
(24:59):
pet cures from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. I can't unsee
that on the trash girlfriend from Joe the Ghost Hunter
in Ohio. Men's hair products from JT. The Wingman on
Plan B for all the players from Truck or Joe
Got to have a fall guy on lit on licorice
flavored cereal from Donkey Sausage. It's his answer bodyguards for
(25:23):
Jordaan's car from Mike the Leprechaun. Who else we have?
Page down deep? Let's see Donkey Sausage got it right?
How dare you? Uh? He can't read that? All right?
H Loraina? Do you have an answer to the Malard
riddle of the day? Not to be confused, Not to
be confused with the instant trivia or the who am I?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Game?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
This is the riddle of the day. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I think he spent that much money on the Tussy
and Strippers.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh, okay, Unfortunately it is incorrect. Belichick, he'd also did
not spend it, and he said he spent an andy
in Linel, Minnesota. Said he's spending on coloring books and
crayons for his girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Apparently in the North Carolina football program last year spent
close to fifty thousand dollars on balloons.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Balloon.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, a lot. Forty eight seven hundred and thirty three
dollars on balloons like that. That sounds sounds like someone
is taking North Carolina to the clan. That must be
a relative of somebody who's like a booster who's donating
money back to North Carolina or something like that. I
don't know how that like. I know those fancy balloon
(26:37):
arches are expensive, but are they really that expensive? And
do you really need them? Can't you just go down
to the local Walmart and buy a bunch of balloons
and buy a machine to put the air in the
you know, the helium in the in the thing and
make it work. Come on, man, love anyway, it's the
ban Mallor Show and we have a man cashing a
golden ticket right now. We salo to following the Jays.
(26:59):
I thought he was giving. It's Tammy and Montana. She's
using the golden ticket. Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Tammy didn't use the ticket, so I might as well
think you use some of it at Rayna.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yes, I agree, Oh selfie, you're getting selfish here, James.
G's up with that?
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Man?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I know she told me to go ahead. Hey Ben,
is Sam that really a good quarterback? We lose a
good quarterback for the Minnesota like you?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
No, next question, So jaj McCartney's the man. No next question?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Next question? I'm figuring at my question.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
James, James, have you ever James, have you ever heard
of an open James, have you heard of an open
ending question? You're asking me yes, no questions. You're not
asking to open any questions. You've got to ask open
end questions otherwise I'm just gonna go yes.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
No, Okay. The question is, hey, Ben, you like my call?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
No, next question? Question you asked another, you asked another Yes, no,
of course I like your calls. James, you're a character
on the show. I love when you're sleeping and you're snoring.
It's so good. And you had the greatest moment in
the history of game shows. I've been doing this a
long time, James. No one has ever been able to
(28:22):
match the magic. And we had some great ones. We
had Troy the gambling Man and uh, who was he
going against? Oh, gay Brad from Nashville. I think it
was gay. By twenty years ago, you were allowed to
call yourself that he was gay guy. But they when
they added seats to the Green Monster. We asked a
question on Jeopardy and he said, what what did they
(28:42):
add to the Green Monster? And he said, at Dracuzzie,
that was such a stupid answer. It was so I
still remember it twenty years later. I still remember that answer.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
What a mud bath?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
A mud bath? Onen's the last time you had a
mud bath? James? When yeah, all right, I go.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
On a real note.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I just to pay for sex, well, James, As an
old man told me when I was a young man,
an old man pulled me aside and said, men, you
will end up paying for it one way or another.
I said, okay, uh so, James, whether you pay for
it upfront or after the fact, you're paying for it
one way or other.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Right, you don't get pregnant.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I saw you, James. I think you might be pregnant.
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Are you expecting a child? James? I know? All right?
Can I move on? James? I feel like I need
to move on. Is that okay with you? Can I
move on? I've moved you? All right? That's great. That
reminds me of what's the guy's name from West Virginia.
(30:00):
You guy used to call the radio Rich? Yeah, Radio Rich,
who announced he'd called the show for years and I
don't think he's around anymore. And one of his final calls,
he talked about hooking up with hookers. He just like
went into like great detail and it was it was
very interesting. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, it was a
(30:22):
famous call Radio Rich that guy. Jeez, oh man, they
all it's like moth to a flame. They find our show.
Alameda Lou is in the Bay Area. What's going on,
Alamia Lou welcome.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Hey, obviously you want to talk a little bit about
the Seahawks and Rams game that just happened. The contact
is I'm a little upset with you for not even
thinking to mention Kyle Shanahan and your Coach of the
Year monologue last night.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
No, he's not gonna sniff coach of the year, So
why would I mention him?
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Why wouldn't he sniff coach of the year if his
team gets the one seed, which is now possible after tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Mike Rabel is going to be the coach of the year.
It's because that's just the way it is. So why
because the Patriots have been horrible for years and now
they're good.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
The Patriots have been horrible for years and now they're good.
But Kyle Shanahan and the forty nine ers injury.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I can see, Sean, you go down the list here.
I mentioned Liam Cohen and Jackson. All right, Mike Rabel,
Liam Cohne, Sean Tayton on that. Yes, Jacksonville currently doing well.
Ben Johnson in Chicago's another one.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yeah, thank you for saying that. I can't believe he
would say Liam Cohne before Ben Johnson.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Jacksonville is in a better situation than the the Bears,
if you will, considering how they played recently, Liam Cohen
will win it before Kyle Shanahan. You you have a
better chance, Alami Lou of winning Okay.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Oh my god, Ben?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
What why are you? Why are you offended? I'm complimenting you.
You have a better tend me constantly.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
But I think a lot of you, and for you
to not even be willing to see way acknowledge the
fact that maybe a depleted roster.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Well, first of all, I'm glad that you called in
before the Niners lose to forty four year old grandfather
Philip Rivers on Monday night. So I'm happy that you
got this call in. I'll remember this. I will be
thinking of you when the Colts win that game on
Monday night. I will think of this phone call, and
I will have a Cheshire Cat smile on my face.
Alami Lou from one ear to the other. I will
(32:45):
smile and I will think of that conversation I had
with Alami de Lou last week, and it'll be so great.
I'll smile.
Speaker 8 (32:54):
Apology still, Lorena for my performance last night. I'm sorry
that was on me.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm gonna blame the bar that you work at. You
were overserved. Yeah, all right, thank you? The great alame
to Lou where he goes. Only he knows what what happened.
I don't know what that what was that I was
at work last night? I don't know what you guys
talking about. Okay, I'm confused. Well we'll leave that one alone.
(33:25):
Let's say what do we have here? One more, Let's
go to Scott, who's in Ta Cob. What's going on? Scott? Welcome.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Hey, I just want to know your opinion on the
MC west and before you answer that, I have no
dog in that fight, So give me your honest answer.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, Rams will go farther in the playoffs in Seattle
or the forty nine ers. It doesn't really matter as
far as the Rams don't have a home field advantage.
So it's nice to not have to travel, but it
doesn't really matter. It's more about how far you go
in the playoffs and the Rams end up the six
or the seventh seed, that's fine, figure it out.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I will give you that there are two seasons in
the FL. There there's a regular season and then there's
the postseason.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yes, okay, all right, we agree, look at that. It's
bad bad talk radio if we agree, though.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
Okay, So what's your opinion on the AFC West?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Uh, the a f C. I'm not sold On's gonna
hate me, But I'm not sold on bow Knicks and
the playoffs and all that Broncos defense is legit. They're legit.
I don't know about bow Nicks, and I see the
Chargers play a lot, and I'm not as smitten with
Justin Herbert as Chris collins Worth. These guys that a
(34:46):
their knee pads on for him. So the Chargers of
the Broncos are pretty simple. I think the Chargers defense
is pretty good.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Charges would you take Herbert over a de defense?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
It's the game in Denver's in La. I'll tell I'll
take I'll take the Broncos defense over Herbert because I
saw I've seen him play in a couple of playoff
games and he's been a choking dog against Jacksonville years
ago and against the Texans last year.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
Okay, I can't, I can't, I can't. I can't argue
with him about that.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
All right, we agree, Look at that, Look at me, Scott,
We pray. Unbelievable. All right, I gotta go. But thank you.
It's not you. It's the clock. We've got Big Bens
lame jokes of the week. As weed Man there do
we have the great weed man Hippi from Hollywood, Florida.
We do part there a laugh track is there? If
only we paid him, he makes some real money. It's
Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. We'll get to
(35:48):
that and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yeah, it's Bill Miller. You're locked in on the Ben
Malor Show. Happy holidays as we wind down twenty twenty
five and wind up lame jokes in a moment. This
show is broadcast not only on terrestrial radio on the podcast.
It's on YouTube now. You can watch Mallard monologues at
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(36:20):
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thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Knock knock, who's there? Blame week? Blame week too. It's
Big Ben's lame joke of the week.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
And it's lame jokes. We could not afford that extras.
Hello weed Man, hippie in Hollywood worked up a.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Man.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
What you get from Hannikah, Harry weed Man? Did you
get anything from Hanicah Harry? No, not yet, you're still waiting. Okay,
these are actual jokes. If you'd like to send jokes
in for a future episode of the show, you can
send them in care of Benmaaler Show at gmail dot com.
Benmler Show at.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Here we go. Why did weed Man sit on a
toddler's cup at the holiday party?
Speaker 6 (37:29):
Why?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Well, instead of being elf on the shelf, weed Man
wanted to be a hippie on a sippy. George and
Yuvaldi Texas sent that one in thank you, George. What
do weed Man and Santa Claus have in common?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
What?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
It turns out they both worked just one day a year.
That's it. That's Terry and Saint Paul. When's your day
to work? Weed Man? Do you know when you work?
I guess when you have to go pick up more weed?
And yeah, a lot. It's a lot of work there,
I understand, Yes, all right. Did they take eb t
at the weed shop? Weed Man?
Speaker 7 (38:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I wish they do. Make it a lot easier for you.
I understand they sell a lot more too. All right, Well,
weed Man Hippie he was seeing carrying an empty refrigerator
box around Hollywood, Florida. It turns out his family did
come to visit for the holidays and he needed a
place for them to stay. So it was a show.
(38:36):
Why did the rabbi kick weed Man Hippie out of
the temple?
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Well, I guess weed Man Hippie was trying to turn
a menora into a nine bowl pipe and it just
upset the rabbit. That's George and Yuvalde, Texas who sent
that one, And how does weed Man get around without
a car?
Speaker 7 (38:54):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Well, he's a big fan of riding around in the cannabis.
Big fan, big fan, man loves it. That's Brendan from
Brendan from Boston who sent that one to thank you? Brendan?
What is weed Man Hippie's favorite Christmas movie? What Miracle
on Section eight Street? That's a good joke from Kurt
(39:24):
from Earth. You got anything? We coop? Any of your jokes?
All right, coops out If you have any offensive jokes,
contact Coop. Why did weed Man start lifting weights?
Speaker 7 (39:34):
Why?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
He wanted to become high and mighty. That's ship in Maine?
Who sent that one? In finger for that ship in Maine?
Weed Man is giving his wife and son a Christmas
they will never forget. Right, Yeah, you're giving him nothing.
That's Eke from Roseville, Minnesota. Why is Why is weed
(39:55):
Man jealous that people can buy a new mattress in
a box?
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Why?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Because weed Man had always used a box as a
new mattress. That's Surfer Todd, the comedian now living in
Lost Wages, Nevada. How about that Surfer Todd's moved to
Sint City. Why did weed Man move to New Hampshire
and not Boston because in Boston there's too much yellow snow.
In New Hampshire, he heard there's a lot of fresh
(40:21):
white powder. Hello, that's a Mike a Leprecaun who sent
that one in? Why does weed Man love Donald Trump today?
Why he made pot legal everywhere here? It's a mikeehlepretan,
your favorite president. A weed Man's wife is giving him
a suv. Give him an suv for Christmas.
Speaker 7 (40:43):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, socks, underwear and viagra. That's Eke and Roseville. It's
a flat junk Solloway. Thank you, weed Man.
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