January 23, 2026 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Lamar Jackson reposting a fan speculating about him being traded to the Raiders, Dallas fans hyping new DC Christian Parker as a whiz kid, a cryptic message from new Titans coach Robert Saleh, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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Boom shaka laka, it's our name birth three hour number three,
and we go to the rumor mill. Feeding the rumor
mill would be Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, the multi time
platinum MVP, who reposted a fan speculating about him being
traded to the writers. Is this harmless social media fun
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or something more nefarious involving Lamar Jackson? Also, Dallas fans
are already hyping up the new defensive coordinator Christian Parker
as a whiz kid. Do you buy the hype coming
out of Jerry's world? And would you translate the cryptic
message from New Titans coach Robert Sala for the regular guy.
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Sala hired as coach in Tennessee and opening salvo, we'll
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love the business. But time to talk about sports. It's
all about the sports. What kind of We will have
lame jokes of the week coming up a little bit
later this hour. But our lead is from Maryland, where
Rick lives. Morning time so mister envypy has raised a
hullabaloo in the microblogging world. You might not have seen it.
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Maybe you were not in that world. Good for you
missing that world. So give you the thumbnail recap. Lamar
Jackson randomly in the afternoon reposted a fan It was
like a photo of a kid wearing a Lamar Jackson
raven jersey. However, the verbiage on that post that Lamar
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Jackson clicked on and said, well, this is good, predicted
that he would be traded to the Raiders. Now, this
thing went viral, even though he attempted to cover his tracks.
It went viral in theory, highlighting the fact that Lamar
is dissatisfied with some things going on in Baltimore, and
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there's a lot to this. Now, Jackson immediately did attempt
to cover the track and get rid of the evidence
and tried to clarify that he only shared the post
because it had an image of a cute little kid
in a Ravens jersey and he didn't read the caption
and all that stuff. So that is a good jumping
off point. Let us discuss the question you got Ravens
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quarterback Lamar Jackson reposting a fan social media post with
a kid speculating about him being traded to the Raiders.
Is this harmless social media fun or something more nefarious?
So my observations on this, I've got fire alarm, sneak, preview,
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and lifeboat, and we'll throw all these ingredients together and
we're gonna make one of the great food dishes that
comes out of Saint Louis, Missouri. Have you ever had
toasted ravioli? That is a chef's kiss, It's the local
delicacy there in sam Was. I guess no one ever
thought about toasting ravioli before someone in Saint Louis. All right,
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so first of all, let's cut through the fog, not
of war, the social media battlefield. Let's cut through the
fog like a chef's knife through a ripe tomato. And
Lamar Jackson again reposting this this photo sending him to
the Raiders. The language and all that stuff, and then
he says, whoops, who goofed? I've got to know, And
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he said, I only liked it because it was a
kid in a jersey and I wasn't reading it. Trip.
That's the ticket, right, And it's just like men we
only look at the Instagram booty models because we want
to see what fashion tips they have for us. Absolutely,
that's one hundred percent grad now using ben logic, all right,
using ben logic, and we'll break it down. So there
are three doors. Think of this like a game show.
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There's three doors behind door number one. Number one, you've
got Lamar being just sloppy and lazy and clueless, and
his thumb slipped and he was multitasking. He was maybe
eating some orange chicken, playing a video game, and he
just kind of took a brain nap. So that's door
number one. Door number two is that this was an
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intentional act. It was a breadcrumb from Lamar j Acs,
so he just it was intentional, and then he deleted
it because he knew the internet is forever, and so
he played dumb like a cat knocking a glass off
the table, right, like a kiddy cat. You knocked the
glass off in the class, I didn't do it. What
are you looking to be for now? Door number three
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is that this was a combination of performance art and leverage. Right,
if the goal was to light the echo chamber on fire, burn,
maybe burn mission accomplished to some degree. This thing ricocheted
around the echo chamber harder than a loose puck at
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a NHL practice. Right, context does matter. Lamar's contract runs
through twenty twenty seven. The Ravens owner Bashati this week,
I guess last week said that the goal is to
extend Lamar Jackson. Now, we have heard whispers about irritation
in Baltimore. There have been some rumors, some credible, some not,
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that the Raiders are a possibility for Lamar Jackson in
a trade. They have the top pick in the draft,
so it's an obvious move. You just trade that and
a couple other picks and you can get Lamar Jackson
and swap some picks and you're good to go. The
Ravens are at a fork in the road. Now, this
came out hours before they announced their new coach. Is
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it possible. Is it possible that the Ravens likely told
Lamar before the announcement, we're going to hire Jesse Minter,
the guy from the Chargers, the defensive guy, as the coach.
So it's more likely than not that Lamar was in
the loop, the loop, that he was aware of this.
So is it possible that Lamar when he heard that
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news This was not who he wanted to get the
head coaching job. He was annoyed by that. He popped
up on X and started futzing around, and he saw
this person that said, hey, I'd like to see this
trade at predict Lamar is going to go to the Raiders.
And he clicked on it and then immediately had like
second thoughts. It's like, well, I probably shouldn't have done that.
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I click it, and you know the whole thing. So
the Ravens, though, they're at the fork in the road
because if they turn right, turn right, they extend. You
extend the contract and Lamar stays in Baltimore, and that's it.
If you go left your trade. The other option is
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standing pat that's the middle lane, and that goes right
into a brick wall. You don't want to do that.
You drive right into a brick wall. And the betting market,
the gambling market says there's a twelve percent chance, a
twelve percent chance that Lamar Jackson is traded prior to
twenty seven, So low risk, a lot of noise, a
lot of noise. Keep an eye on this one. I
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would keep an eye on this one. As we get
to the silly season, in the NFL once all these
playoff games are over. My experience has been that when
you see smoke, it usually means someone's testing the fire alarm.
You know what I'm saying, Like this was just kind
of let's test the fire alarm. Wink wink, nudge, nudge,
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and Lamar still has plausible deniability. That is the way
the game is played in the modern NFL. That's how
this works. Now, secondly, we go to Dallas. How about
them Cowboys. The search has been called off. Jerry Jones has,
according to multiple reports, as this new defensive guru. The
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Cowboys are hiring thirty four year old Christian Parker as
their new defensive coordinator. Who. Now, I present this based
on the feedback that I'm getting from our listeners in
the greater Dallas area. And I don't know some of you,
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probably not even in Dallas or just in Texas. It's
kind of a big state, and so you send me
some messages from time to time. And so they're very excited.
Right the way this guy is being promoted as Christian Parker,
who was with the Eagles, is genius, right, genius. So
Dallas fans are buying into this. They're hyping up the
former Eagles coach as the new defensive coordinator, Christian Parkers,
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a whiz kid the whiz Kid cometh. Do you buy
the hype? Do you buy the hype when it comes
to the new Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator? So I'm going
to go police with a capitol pep. You gotta be
joking on this one. You've got to be joking on
the idea that we're buying the hype. My default position,
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my default position is always no, you don't buy the
hype with the Dallas Cowis. I enjoy the hype. I
have fun with the hype. I'm in the hype business.
I react to hype. Do I believe the hype? No? No,
I am the referee and I am going to throw
a flag on the field for excessive nonsense fifteen yard
penalty for the Dallas Cowboys. This is a sneak preview
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of the blockbuster of the NFL off season. Every off
season Cowboys off season theater. They dominate, they don't. They
win all the awards, They win all the awards. They
always get the girl, they always win the title. They do.
That's what it is. The special effects are bigger every year.
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This is Jerry Jones rolling out the new Guardian of
the Galaxy, complete with slobbering leaks to the media. Let's
puffed the tires on this guy. So I didn't really
know much about it. Christian Parker hasn't been even beta
tested for this job. So we are in the Missouri
show Me state of Mind here to show me state
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of Mind as the new defensive Quinta. You look at
this guy Parker's resume, it looks shiny until you read
the fine print. And you read the fine print, I
don't know but that he was essentially his entire NFL
career recently anyway, he's been riding the caboose on the
Uncle Vic Traveling Circus train. Meaning I was in Denver
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with Fangio, I went to Miami, then I went to Philadelphia,
and so he's in the caboose, which a nice view.
It's not the steam engine, it's not the locomotive. It's
not the locomotive. And the Cowboys could hire the way
I've learned over the years, the Dallas Cowboys. I don't
think I'm making this up. The Dallas Cowboys could hire
mister potato Head as their defensive Wardet and the kool
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Aid sycophants. That crowd would rave about mister potato Head's
ability to disguise coverages by swapping the glasses. A savant
when it comes to defense, because not only the glasses,
you got the different expressions with the mouth and the hat.
That defense is all about confusing the opposition. And who
does that better in the toy game than mister potato
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So clearly, mister potato ad is qualified to be a
defensive coach for the Cowboys. So same clown car, new passengers,
new passengers, and let's see. Let's see, we'll see what
he does. Give me the greatest defensive coordinative of all
time does such a great job. Jerry Jones fire Shotty
and hires this guy as the head coach a year
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from now. I'll believe it when I see it. I
believe it when I see it now. Final thought to Nashville,
we go. Robert Salah, the failed coach of the Jets,
was asked about his decision to join the Titans, and
remember the Titans. Here's what Robert Salas said. He said,
quote of the Tennessee job, this is the most desirable location,
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the most desirable location, the most desirable team, Salas stated,
what I learned about the organization the more phone calls
I made, Salah said, the more people I spoke to
this building. As he was in the building, I feel
like it fits me, will fit us. The best clothes quote.
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All right, question, would you translate the cryptic messaging from
the new Titans coach Robert Sala for the regular guy?
So I will translate the cryptic message for the regular guy.
This is my word is bewitching. It is bewitching. Kill
him with kindness. Keep in mind the term best means
as good as all the rest. So really, what Robert
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Sala was saying that was a tell. He was like, yeah,
this is the best, like every other job. Using the
malar Rosetta stone to translate Robert Sala telling us again
in the NFL's worst team in recent years, the Titans
were the most desirable location. This is coach speak for
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this was the only chair that was open for me
when the music stopped, or go. Had Baltimore called or
Buffalo text Robert salap he would have been on the
first flight with his neck pillow and his Gucci bag
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and he'd send out a gratitude tweet about one of
those teams, but those calls never came because Robert Sala's
resume still smells like the Jets' locker room mildew. It's
a mil dewy resume and takes a lot of deep cleaning,
a lot of deep cleaning to get rid of that
mildew smell. And so this becomes reality TV. The Titans
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went full bachelor and they dimmed the lights dramatic pause
and said, Robert Salah, whether you accept this rose? And
Sally grabbed that rose with both hands like it was
the last lifeboat off the Titanic. And we know that
beggars can't be choosers. You got to take what you
can get, play the cards, you dealt every other cliche.
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When you starve, I do know we're really hungry. When
you're really hungry, you don't complain about the flavor of
the chicken. And I see people complaining that, well, that
person's not hungry. You know, if you're really starving, you'll
eat dog food if you have to. So good luck
to Robert Salad. As cam Ward pointed out, the Titans
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mantra is we ass so that's appropriate here. Good news
is I'll be Benny Bright's side. The AFC South is
ass and it's a walk in the park. You got
Houston and Jacksonville who have no quarterback C J. Stroud
and Trevor Lawrence. In big games anyway, those guys come
with warning labels. In a playoff game, You've got Indie.
We don't even know what's gonna happen there. That's a
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mystery box under center because Danny Dimes, who briefly became
Indiana Jones, is hurt. And that said, you got Robert Salad.
What was his mantra with the Jets. You remember what
his montre was with the Jets, you don't. Mantra was
all gas no break, All gas, no break, which sounds
like a Kamakazi mission. And that was with the Jets.
And so that ride ended up in a ditch, like
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an ox in the ditch. You might want to try
something new, maybe go down to Pet Boys or something
like that, to Ato Zone and invest in a brake pedal.
But what do I know. I'm just doing the Overnight.
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Time now though, for the riddle of the day, and
here it is. Indiana Hoosio's coach Kurt Signetti was honored
with a food dish at Blank Again. Indiana coach Kurt Signetti,
the weirdo, was honored with a food dish at blank.
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That is the malor we're really love today the answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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to pay off the Mallord Riddle of the day. Indiana
coach the toast of college football, Kurt Signetti was honored
with a food dish at blank. A food dish at blank,
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That is the Mallard riddle of the day. And see
does anyone know the answer? We go to the great
unwashed Femi's going with the Mallor mansion far out. Dave says,
French Lake, Indiana. I wonder if he had Fried Larry Bird.
It's French lick, not French Lake. Get it right, Come on,
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bat job by you. Fergduck says at the landing in Liberty, Missouri.
I hope it comes with ranch like the the Ben
Mallard chicken heres. Well, no, no, you order the Ben
Mallard chicken fingers and you get the get the honey mustard.
You can get the Cajun if you want Cajun spice
on that, but you get the honey mustard. And keep
in mind, I have a rivalry at the landing because
my guy, Bob Fesco, is the morning guy in Kansas City.
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Bob has a pretzel named after him, and he lies
on his show and says that more people like the pretzel,
and that's not true. The chicken fingers are the goat
to Eider. There have been people that have driven thousands
of miles for the Ben Maley chicken fingers, like Moving
Man and others. So that's it anyway, all right? Who else?
Donkey Sausa says, A restaurant dumpster, Jones barbecue and foot
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massage from Bobby in Florida. A special platter at the
local taco truck from Big Greg in Iowa. Who else
do we have? Page Nan, I can't read that. We'll
skip over that one. Kenny Rogers Roasters, that's funny from Rob.
A sixteen piece crave case of burgers from Milkman Mike
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in Colorado, JJ's Diner in Pawnee from Alf the Allen Opotter.
Let's see Ike and Rosevio Minnesota said Signetti spaghetti at
the Bengals interviews Sengetti's spaghetti. Who else do we have?
Page down. He was honored with the Jeffrey Dahmer Special
from mcguel on Fire Dairy Queen from King Rory the
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Soup Kitchen Guests by courtesy Flusher. Who else do we have? Culvers?
From JT the wing Man. Oh man, it's so good.
I was in Arizona over the end of the year,
rare and appropriate break, and they have culvers in Phoenix,
so I make sure to stop by on my way
intown and my way out of town. Doug in South
Korea is going with Bucky's Restroom. Several of you, including
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Filler up Phill went with Chuck E Cheese as the answer.
Gunner in Minnesota says the answer is olive Garden. Who
else do we have? Busting Diamond got it right. Bad
job by him. It is see anyone else? We got
most of the most of the big ones, all right,
Lorena again. Indiana College football coach Kurt Signetti after the
championship was honored with a food dish at Blank Oh.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
This one was really hard, but I'm hoping he got
honored with a food dish at the Blue Bayou restaurant
in Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, have you eaten at the Blue Bayou.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Restaurant a couple of times. It's okay, yeah, I heard.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
The food's not that great media ambiance. Yeah, all right,
that's wrong. The correct answer is the restaurant that you
know what restaurants right off the street from Fox Sports
Radio know what that is? That would be no chicken.
They added the I Wind Bowl to the menu. What
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is the eye Wind Bowl? It features chicken brown rice
where okay, black means I'm out side of guac and
that Signetti orders that from Chipotle every day for lunch.
That's just every day. That'll cost you. The eye Wind
Bowl will cost you eleven dollars and eighty five cents
in California, to be three hundred dollars. Across the street,
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Yeah there is, Yeah, I thought there was. There's not
I thought there was down the street.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
No, there's an right across the street.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well I know, I know that, but I mean I
thought there was one in Sherman Oaks. No, I swear.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Really, Oh, I know there's one up by.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
It isn't Van Eyes or something.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Now there is one up the road, but it's not
across the street.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well I was doing it. Oh my god. All right,
you guys are so you got to be accurate with
the name of before the restaurant is location. Oh my god. Anyway,
so there you go. Isn't that like Nick saban ate
little debbies every day? Right? That was his thing he
had for breakfast. He had little debbies, And so this
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is Signetti's way of copying Saban.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
So I just finished the last of my tasty cakes.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Oh yeah, it was so good man. We were so
spoiled and there was like a stretch. We were getting
stuff all the time.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I have news for you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, breaking news. Is this breaking news?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I suppose you know? Honestly, Yeah, let's make it. Let's
make it breaking news. Are you me finely?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I have big news here, big news, breaking news here,
This is breaking news.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I have fake news.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh sorry, fake news.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
A key lime pie from Bobby and Florida will be
showing up Tuesday. Yes, I knew you would be excited.
I not be here Tuesday or Wednesday. Thursday. I might
have Ninja's come in and grab said pie.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You guys better at the compound at the Mothership. Well,
we also have breaking news here. Check this out. Nick
the Windy's Guy is back. Nick the winds guy is
back Big News Nick the Wendy's Guy Sports. He says
he did not disappear off the face of the earth.
He's just been working oddball hours. So that is exciting.
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Ala Mina Lou in the Bay Area right, so, he says,
awesome show more so than usual. Have a good story
about the champ, Fernando Mendoza from the Kingfish. If you
can get it, well, look, we gotta we gotta figure
out a plan. We're getting closer now. I will be
in the Bay Area for the Radio Row crap. I'll
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be there Radio Row for a couple of nights anyway
during the week on Super Bowl week, So I'm excited
about that. Lorrain is going to be there doing some
stuff also.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yes, I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
We were talking about possibly meeting at the Kingfish and
doing kind of a casual I don't think this will
be a formal meet and greet. Kind of a casual
meet and greet. We can do formal if you want.
We can do form if you want. Anyway, So I
have to check with Lewis mean sometime on that Friday,
I would think we got to figure out if we're
going to do it how geographically. I don't know that.
I know traffic sucks everywhere. So we have to be
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able to get from where Radio Row is to the
Kingfish in a decent amount of time. Otherwise it's not
really working. Yes, so we got to cross the bridge
and all the Bay bridge and get over there.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And so I'll have a car. Are you guys flying
or driving?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Uh no, I'm driving it. So we'll be able to
do it. And I mean no, no, no issue. But
we gotta figure out the time. So that is that.
Let's take some calls. We have lame jokes of the
week coming up in a little bit, actual jokes by
actual listeners to the show. And let's say hello, eeny meenie,
miney moe. Let's say hello to hel met Man. Hello,
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helmet Man, welcome.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
The top of the morning.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You can hear the show in the background. I can't
hear you. There he is helmet man right there. I
cannot hear helmet man at all. Don't know where did
helmet man go. I have no idea second. Everything okay,
it sounds like you're coughing up a bunch of fleam everything.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
All right, Yeah, I'm all right. I just got out
of the weather.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
I just.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Took shopping for it.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Did you have did you rainy weather in l A?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Yeah, I'm thinking about the Rams game plan is uh,
they gonna meet up and match up with the Seahawks
in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
In that crowd, the crowd. It's not playing in the game.
It's no. No, I thought you're a Ravens fan. What
do you? What do you? I thought you're a Ravens fan.
You don't want to talk about the Ravens.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
No, the Rams? No, no, no, the team that's in it.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
If if you make the playoffs, if you win a game,
you win two games?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Is that true? I did? I had no idea. That's amazing.
So is it accurate? There are reports on the internet,
Helmet Man, that you are going to be on Jesse
Mentor's staff when he puts his staff together in Baltimore.
Are you going to confirm or deny that you will
be part of the Ravens coaching staff in twenty twenty six? Okay,
(29:42):
send that out, Coop. Helmet Man is denying that he
will be on the staff.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
It's like Michael Irvin said, if you make the playoffs
and if you win a game, you had a good season.
Just they make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Well, that's Michael Irvin's opinion. That's not that's necessarily fact.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Even if win on lose, they still had a great season.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Great, good, like go great. What's going on with you,
helmet man? We haven't heard from you in a while.
This is your first call of twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Because that other phone, I had to transfer the chip
and put it in another phone.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
No, don't you know to plug where you put the
whole way?
Speaker 4 (30:28):
You pugged your phone to charge it damage side, and
then the battery was the week on.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
The other So do you still have the same phone number?
You still got the same number or is it a
different number?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah? I put it in another phone the chip you know,
the chimp card.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, so you have the same number I got you?
All right? Good?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
How do I transfer the information on the other phone
to this phone? But one time?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
As as you know, I worked, I've for Hoverzon for years.
I just pretend to be a radio guy. So what
you do is you bring the phone in there, and
I'll take a hammer and I'll hit the hammer and
I'll break into a million pieces. And then we'll take
some glue and some tape and we'll put it back
together and then it'll work. Fine. That's that's all I'm
gonna I'm gonna go in there. You give me your phone.
(31:17):
I promise your helmet man. I've known you for over
twenty years. We are we are good friends. Right we
go me and you go way back, don't we? Righte?
We go way back? And I will. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
When you said do you know who that guy is?
I said no, yeah, and then you said it was Kleine.
It was down by the Staples.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's right. I remember we were walking out and I
saw a guy wearing a helmet and I was like,
what the heck is that? Who is that man? Right there?
And that was the legend of helmet Man.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
And yeah, I like those parking lots that they had
across the street. Remember when you go through the park.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, when they when they opened, you know, jenn Ration
to Go, they had parking lots. Now they have stores
and restaurants and hotels and stuff like that. It's all
all that stuff. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
All right, we'll call me more often now that your
phone's working. And who are you picking helmet man? Real quick?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Who are you picking the rams? And I'm the AFC.
I'm picking the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, okay, sucking up to both of us. Very nice. Okay,
thank you, helmet man. There he goes, helmet man. Tilio
is in the Sunshine State. Hello, Tillio, welcome, and we're
gonna give you a big welcome. And you know we're
gonna serve for you, Tillio. Do you know the we're
gonna give you the gobba ghoules what we're gonna get,
that's right?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Hey, Before I have my comments, all I know was
that Octagon didn't need two but three dude wipes. My god,
was it awful?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
That should have been sponsored by dude wipes is what
it should have been.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
That was.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Now I gotta know, did I hit a triple or
a home run with these I sent you last week?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
You spoiled us there, Tillio. Thank you so much. Man.
We were living high on the hog because of you.
You gave us. You have so much stuff. We were
walking out with bags of stuff from Tilly who made it.
You made a BUCkies run for those who don't know,
and you Caven threw in a little uh little key
chain thing of a jig and all that. So it
was great. Wonderful.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Well ask you that was for I look she got
that was for Lorraine if she wanted it. Did you
guys read what I put on the ziploc bags? I
n closed.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I did. Yeah, we we have. We all took our.
You gave it my official Italian nickname. I appreciate that,
so thanks.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Before I let you go. I know you're busy. It
was two Saturdays ago the first call for Bernie on
Bernie's product show. He was supposed to talk to this
guy named Joe Gibbs. He does handicapping I guess for referee, cruise,
tend and fief and the first call, I swear he
sounded like a drunken grizzly bear was hollering James. It
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was the funniest damn thing perfect. What the hell was
going on?
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Yeah? No, that's great. Yeah. We love the people that
do regular radio show. When James calls them, well, actually,
I would say, Tillyo, when most of these people call up,
they have no idea what to do, right, no idea.
I don't know how to handle these people. These are
my people, these are my friends. They're my friends. All right,
Thank you so much, Tilleo for your generosity. I do
appreciate a great night, buddy. Thank you man. Very kind.
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They're helping starving overnight people that do talk radio, and
we are grateful for that. We're kind to take part.
And all right, very good. We will pause for the
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Boom shaka laka, it's our name birth three hour number three,
and we go to the rumor mill. Feeding the rumor
mill would be Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, the multi time
platinum MVP, who reposted a fan speculating about him being
traded to the writers. Is this harmless social media fun
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or something more nefarious involving Lamar Jackson? Also, Dallas fans
are already hyping up the new defensive coordinator Christian Parker
as a whiz kid. Do you buy the hype coming
out of Jerry's world? And would you translate the cryptic
message from New Titans coach Robert Sala for the regular guy.
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smarter and faster. Business is out of the way. We
love the business. But time to talk about sports. It's
all about the sports. What kind of We will have
lame jokes of the week coming up a little bit
later this hour. But our lead is from Maryland, where
Rick lives. Morning time so mister envypy has raised a
hullabaloo in the microblogging world. You might not have seen it.
(04:09):
Maybe you were not in that world. Good for you
missing that world. So give you the thumbnail recap. Lamar
Jackson randomly in the afternoon reposted a fan It was
like a photo of a kid wearing a Lamar Jackson
raven jersey. However, the verbiage on that post that Lamar
(04:30):
Jackson clicked on and said, well, this is good, predicted
that he would be traded to the Raiders. Now, this
thing went viral, even though he attempted to cover his tracks.
It went viral in theory, highlighting the fact that Lamar
is dissatisfied with some things going on in Baltimore, and
(04:54):
there's a lot to this. Now, Jackson immediately did attempt
to cover the track and get rid of the evidence
and tried to clarify that he only shared the post
because it had an image of a cute little kid
in a Ravens jersey and he didn't read the caption
and all that stuff. So that is a good jumping
off point. Let us discuss the question you got Ravens
(05:16):
quarterback Lamar Jackson reposting a fan social media post with
a kid speculating about him being traded to the Raiders.
Is this harmless social media fun or something more nefarious?
So my observations on this, I've got fire alarm, sneak, preview,
(05:40):
and lifeboat, and we'll throw all these ingredients together and
we're gonna make one of the great food dishes that
comes out of Saint Louis, Missouri. Have you ever had
toasted ravioli? That is a chef's kiss, It's the local
delicacy there in sam Was. I guess no one ever
thought about toasting ravioli before someone in Saint Louis. All right,
(06:02):
so first of all, let's cut through the fog, not
of war, the social media battlefield. Let's cut through the
fog like a chef's knife through a ripe tomato. And
Lamar Jackson again reposting this this photo sending him to
the Raiders. The language and all that stuff, and then
he says, whoops, who goofed? I've got to know, And
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he said, I only liked it because it was a
kid in a jersey and I wasn't reading it. Trip.
That's the ticket, right, And it's just like men we
only look at the Instagram booty models because we want
to see what fashion tips they have for us. Absolutely,
that's one hundred percent grad now using ben logic, all right,
using ben logic, and we'll break it down. So there
are three doors. Think of this like a game show.
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There's three doors behind door number one. Number one, you've
got Lamar being just sloppy and lazy and clueless, and
his thumb slipped and he was multitasking. He was maybe
eating some orange chicken, playing a video game, and he
just kind of took a brain nap. So that's door
number one. Door number two is that this was an
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intentional act. It was a breadcrumb from Lamar j Acs,
so he just it was intentional, and then he deleted
it because he knew the internet is forever, and so
he played dumb like a cat knocking a glass off
the table, right, like a kiddy cat. You knocked the
glass off in the class, I didn't do it. What
are you looking to be for now? Door number three
(07:31):
is that this was a combination of performance art and leverage. Right,
if the goal was to light the echo chamber on fire, burn,
maybe burn mission accomplished to some degree. This thing ricocheted
around the echo chamber harder than a loose puck at
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a NHL practice. Right, context does matter. Lamar's contract runs
through twenty twenty seven. The Ravens owner Bashati this week,
I guess last week said that the goal is to
extend Lamar Jackson. Now, we have heard whispers about irritation
in Baltimore. There have been some rumors, some credible, some not,
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that the Raiders are a possibility for Lamar Jackson in
a trade. They have the top pick in the draft,
so it's an obvious move. You just trade that and
a couple other picks and you can get Lamar Jackson
and swap some picks and you're good to go. The
Ravens are at a fork in the road. Now, this
came out hours before they announced their new coach. Is
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it possible. Is it possible that the Ravens likely told
Lamar before the announcement, we're going to hire Jesse Minter,
the guy from the Chargers, the defensive guy, as the coach.
So it's more likely than not that Lamar was in
the loop, the loop, that he was aware of this.
So is it possible that Lamar when he heard that
(09:03):
news This was not who he wanted to get the
head coaching job. He was annoyed by that. He popped
up on X and started futzing around, and he saw
this person that said, hey, I'd like to see this
trade at predict Lamar is going to go to the Raiders.
And he clicked on it and then immediately had like
second thoughts. It's like, well, I probably shouldn't have done that.
(09:24):
I click it, and you know the whole thing. So
the Ravens, though, they're at the fork in the road
because if they turn right, turn right, they extend. You
extend the contract and Lamar stays in Baltimore, and that's it.
If you go left your trade. The other option is
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standing pat that's the middle lane, and that goes right
into a brick wall. You don't want to do that.
You drive right into a brick wall. And the betting market,
the gambling market says there's a twelve percent chance, a
twelve percent chance that Lamar Jackson is traded prior to
twenty seven, So low risk, a lot of noise, a
lot of noise. Keep an eye on this one. I
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would keep an eye on this one. As we get
to the silly season, in the NFL once all these
playoff games are over. My experience has been that when
you see smoke, it usually means someone's testing the fire alarm.
You know what I'm saying, Like this was just kind
of let's test the fire alarm. Wink wink, nudge, nudge,
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and Lamar still has plausible deniability. That is the way
the game is played in the modern NFL. That's how
this works. Now, secondly, we go to Dallas. How about
them Cowboys. The search has been called off. Jerry Jones has,
according to multiple reports, as this new defensive guru. The
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Cowboys are hiring thirty four year old Christian Parker as
their new defensive coordinator. Who. Now, I present this based
on the feedback that I'm getting from our listeners in
the greater Dallas area. And I don't know some of you,
(11:09):
probably not even in Dallas or just in Texas. It's
kind of a big state, and so you send me
some messages from time to time. And so they're very excited.
Right the way this guy is being promoted as Christian Parker,
who was with the Eagles, is genius, right, genius. So
Dallas fans are buying into this. They're hyping up the
former Eagles coach as the new defensive coordinator, Christian Parkers,
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a whiz kid the whiz Kid cometh. Do you buy
the hype? Do you buy the hype when it comes
to the new Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator? So I'm going
to go police with a capitol pep. You gotta be
joking on this one. You've got to be joking on
the idea that we're buying the hype. My default position,
(11:53):
my default position is always no, you don't buy the
hype with the Dallas Cowis. I enjoy the hype. I
have fun with the hype. I'm in the hype business.
I react to hype. Do I believe the hype? No? No,
I am the referee and I am going to throw
a flag on the field for excessive nonsense fifteen yard
penalty for the Dallas Cowboys. This is a sneak preview
(12:15):
of the blockbuster of the NFL off season. Every off
season Cowboys off season theater. They dominate, they don't. They
win all the awards, They win all the awards. They
always get the girl, they always win the title. They do.
That's what it is. The special effects are bigger every year.
(12:36):
This is Jerry Jones rolling out the new Guardian of
the Galaxy, complete with slobbering leaks to the media. Let's
puffed the tires on this guy. So I didn't really
know much about it. Christian Parker hasn't been even beta
tested for this job. So we are in the Missouri
show Me state of Mind here to show me state
(12:58):
of Mind as the new defensive Quinta. You look at
this guy Parker's resume, it looks shiny until you read
the fine print. And you read the fine print, I
don't know but that he was essentially his entire NFL
career recently anyway, he's been riding the caboose on the
Uncle Vic Traveling Circus train. Meaning I was in Denver
(13:23):
with Fangio, I went to Miami, then I went to Philadelphia,
and so he's in the caboose, which a nice view.
It's not the steam engine, it's not the locomotive. It's
not the locomotive. And the Cowboys could hire the way
I've learned over the years, the Dallas Cowboys. I don't
think I'm making this up. The Dallas Cowboys could hire
mister potato Head as their defensive Wardet and the kool
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Aid sycophants. That crowd would rave about mister potato Head's
ability to disguise coverages by swapping the glasses. A savant
when it comes to defense, because not only the glasses,
you got the different expressions with the mouth and the hat.
That defense is all about confusing the opposition. And who
does that better in the toy game than mister potato
(14:08):
So clearly, mister potato ad is qualified to be a
defensive coach for the Cowboys. So same clown car, new passengers,
new passengers, and let's see. Let's see, we'll see what
he does. Give me the greatest defensive coordinative of all
time does such a great job. Jerry Jones fire Shotty
and hires this guy as the head coach a year
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from now. I'll believe it when I see it. I
believe it when I see it now. Final thought to Nashville,
we go. Robert Salah, the failed coach of the Jets,
was asked about his decision to join the Titans, and
remember the Titans. Here's what Robert Salas said. He said,
quote of the Tennessee job, this is the most desirable location,
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the most desirable location, the most desirable team, Salas stated,
what I learned about the organization the more phone calls
I made, Salah said, the more people I spoke to
this building. As he was in the building, I feel
like it fits me, will fit us. The best clothes quote.
(15:16):
All right, question, would you translate the cryptic messaging from
the new Titans coach Robert Sala for the regular guy?
So I will translate the cryptic message for the regular guy.
This is my word is bewitching. It is bewitching. Kill
him with kindness. Keep in mind the term best means
as good as all the rest. So really, what Robert
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Sala was saying that was a tell. He was like, yeah,
this is the best, like every other job. Using the
malar Rosetta stone to translate Robert Sala telling us again
in the NFL's worst team in recent years, the Titans
were the most desirable location. This is coach speak for
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this was the only chair that was open for me
when the music stopped, or go. Had Baltimore called or
Buffalo text Robert salap he would have been on the
first flight with his neck pillow and his Gucci bag
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and he'd send out a gratitude tweet about one of
those teams, but those calls never came because Robert Sala's
resume still smells like the Jets' locker room mildew. It's
a mil dewy resume and takes a lot of deep cleaning,
a lot of deep cleaning to get rid of that
mildew smell. And so this becomes reality TV. The Titans
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went full bachelor and they dimmed the lights dramatic pause
and said, Robert Salah, whether you accept this rose? And
Sally grabbed that rose with both hands like it was
the last lifeboat off the Titanic. And we know that
beggars can't be choosers. You got to take what you
can get, play the cards, you dealt every other cliche.
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When you starve, I do know we're really hungry. When
you're really hungry, you don't complain about the flavor of
the chicken. And I see people complaining that, well, that
person's not hungry. You know, if you're really starving, you'll
eat dog food if you have to. So good luck
to Robert Salad. As cam Ward pointed out, the Titans
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mantra is we ass so that's appropriate here. Good news
is I'll be Benny Bright's side. The AFC South is
ass and it's a walk in the park. You got
Houston and Jacksonville who have no quarterback C J. Stroud
and Trevor Lawrence. In big games anyway, those guys come
with warning labels. In a playoff game, You've got Indie.
We don't even know what's gonna happen there. That's a
(17:47):
mystery box under center because Danny Dimes, who briefly became
Indiana Jones, is hurt. And that said, you got Robert Salad.
What was his mantra with the Jets. You remember what
his montre was with the Jets, you don't. Mantra was
all gas no break, All gas, no break, which sounds
like a Kamakazi mission. And that was with the Jets.
And so that ride ended up in a ditch, like
(18:09):
an ox in the ditch. You might want to try
something new, maybe go down to Pet Boys or something
like that, to Ato Zone and invest in a brake pedal.
But what do I know. I'm just doing the Overnight.
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Time now though, for the riddle of the day, and
here it is. Indiana Hoosio's coach Kurt Signetti was honored
with a food dish at Blank Again. Indiana coach Kurt Signetti,
the weirdo, was honored with a food dish at blank.
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to pay off the Mallord Riddle of the day. Indiana
coach the toast of college football, Kurt Signetti was honored
with a food dish at blank. A food dish at blank,
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That is the Mallard riddle of the day. And see
does anyone know the answer? We go to the great
unwashed Femi's going with the Mallor mansion far out. Dave says,
French Lake, Indiana. I wonder if he had Fried Larry Bird.
It's French lick, not French Lake. Get it right, Come on,
(21:25):
bat job by you. Fergduck says at the landing in Liberty, Missouri.
I hope it comes with ranch like the the Ben
Mallard chicken heres. Well, no, no, you order the Ben
Mallard chicken fingers and you get the get the honey mustard.
You can get the Cajun if you want Cajun spice
on that, but you get the honey mustard. And keep
in mind, I have a rivalry at the landing because
my guy, Bob Fesco, is the morning guy in Kansas City.
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Bob has a pretzel named after him, and he lies
on his show and says that more people like the pretzel,
and that's not true. The chicken fingers are the goat
to Eider. There have been people that have driven thousands
of miles for the Ben Maley chicken fingers, like Moving
Man and others. So that's it anyway, all right? Who else?
Donkey Sausa says, A restaurant dumpster, Jones barbecue and foot
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massage from Bobby in Florida. A special platter at the
local taco truck from Big Greg in Iowa. Who else
do we have? Page Nan, I can't read that. We'll
skip over that one. Kenny Rogers Roasters, that's funny from Rob.
A sixteen piece crave case of burgers from Milkman Mike
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in Colorado, JJ's Diner in Pawnee from Alf the Allen Opotter.
Let's see Ike and Rosevio Minnesota said Signetti spaghetti at
the Bengals interviews Sengetti's spaghetti. Who else do we have?
Page down. He was honored with the Jeffrey Dahmer Special
from mcguel on Fire Dairy Queen from King Rory the
(22:57):
Soup Kitchen Guests by courtesy Flusher. Who else do we have? Culvers?
From JT the wing Man. Oh man, it's so good.
I was in Arizona over the end of the year,
rare and appropriate break, and they have culvers in Phoenix,
so I make sure to stop by on my way
intown and my way out of town. Doug in South
Korea is going with Bucky's Restroom. Several of you, including
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Filler up Phill went with Chuck E Cheese as the answer.
Gunner in Minnesota says the answer is olive Garden. Who
else do we have? Busting Diamond got it right. Bad
job by him. It is see anyone else? We got
most of the most of the big ones, all right,
Lorena again. Indiana College football coach Kurt Signetti after the
championship was honored with a food dish at Blank Oh.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
This one was really hard, but I'm hoping he got
honored with a food dish at the Blue Bayou restaurant
in Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, have you eaten at the Blue Bayou.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Restaurant a couple of times. It's okay, yeah, I heard.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
The food's not that great media ambiance. Yeah, all right,
that's wrong. The correct answer is the restaurant that you
know what restaurants right off the street from Fox Sports
Radio know what that is? That would be no chicken.
They added the I Wind Bowl to the menu. What
(24:13):
is the eye Wind Bowl? It features chicken brown rice
where okay, black means I'm out side of guac and
that Signetti orders that from Chipotle every day for lunch.
That's just every day. That'll cost you. The eye Wind
Bowl will cost you eleven dollars and eighty five cents
in California, to be three hundred dollars. Across the street,
(24:35):
Yeah there is, Yeah, I thought there was. There's not
I thought there was down the street.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
No, there's an right across the street.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well I know, I know that, but I mean I
thought there was one in Sherman Oaks. No, I swear.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Really, Oh, I know there's one up by.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
It isn't Van Eyes or something.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Now there is one up the road, but it's not
across the street.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well I was doing it. Oh my god. All right,
you guys are so you got to be accurate with
the name of before the restaurant is location. Oh my god. Anyway,
so there you go. Isn't that like Nick saban ate
little debbies every day? Right? That was his thing he
had for breakfast. He had little debbies, And so this
(25:17):
is Signetti's way of copying Saban.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
So I just finished the last of my tasty cakes.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Oh yeah, it was so good man. We were so
spoiled and there was like a stretch. We were getting
stuff all the time.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I have news for you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, breaking news. Is this breaking news?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I suppose you know? Honestly, Yeah, let's make it. Let's
make it breaking news. Are you me finely?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I have big news here, big news, breaking news here,
This is breaking news.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I have fake news.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh sorry, fake news.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
A key lime pie from Bobby and Florida will be
showing up Tuesday. Yes, I knew you would be excited.
I not be here Tuesday or Wednesday. Thursday. I might
have Ninja's come in and grab said pie.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You guys better at the compound at the Mothership. Well,
we also have breaking news here. Check this out. Nick
the Windy's Guy is back. Nick the winds guy is
back Big News Nick the Wendy's Guy Sports. He says
he did not disappear off the face of the earth.
He's just been working oddball hours. So that is exciting.
(26:31):
Ala Mina Lou in the Bay Area right, so, he says,
awesome show more so than usual. Have a good story
about the champ, Fernando Mendoza from the Kingfish. If you
can get it, well, look, we gotta we gotta figure
out a plan. We're getting closer now. I will be
in the Bay Area for the Radio Row crap. I'll
(26:52):
be there Radio Row for a couple of nights anyway
during the week on Super Bowl week, So I'm excited
about that. Lorrain is going to be there doing some
stuff also.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yes, I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
We were talking about possibly meeting at the Kingfish and
doing kind of a casual I don't think this will
be a formal meet and greet. Kind of a casual
meet and greet. We can do formal if you want.
We can do form if you want. Anyway, So I
have to check with Lewis mean sometime on that Friday,
I would think we got to figure out if we're
going to do it how geographically. I don't know that.
I know traffic sucks everywhere. So we have to be
(27:26):
able to get from where Radio Row is to the
Kingfish in a decent amount of time. Otherwise it's not
really working. Yes, so we got to cross the bridge
and all the Bay bridge and get over there.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And so I'll have a car. Are you guys flying
or driving?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Uh no, I'm driving it. So we'll be able to
do it. And I mean no, no, no issue. But
we gotta figure out the time. So that is that.
Let's take some calls. We have lame jokes of the
week coming up in a little bit, actual jokes by
actual listeners to the show. And let's say hello, eeny meenie,
miney moe. Let's say hello to hel met Man. Hello,
(28:00):
helmet Man, welcome.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
The top of the morning.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You can hear the show in the background. I can't
hear you. There he is helmet man right there. I
cannot hear helmet man at all. Don't know where did
helmet man go. I have no idea second. Everything okay,
it sounds like you're coughing up a bunch of fleam everything.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
All right, Yeah, I'm all right. I just got out
of the weather.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
I just.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Took shopping for it.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Did you have did you rainy weather in l A?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Yeah, I'm thinking about the Rams game plan is uh,
they gonna meet up and match up with the Seahawks
in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
In that crowd, the crowd. It's not playing in the game.
It's no. No, I thought you're a Ravens fan. What
do you? What do you? I thought you're a Ravens fan.
You don't want to talk about the Ravens.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
No, the Rams? No, no, no, the team that's in it.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
If if you make the playoffs, if you win a game,
you win two games?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Is that true? I did? I had no idea. That's amazing.
So is it accurate? There are reports on the internet,
Helmet Man, that you are going to be on Jesse
Mentor's staff when he puts his staff together in Baltimore.
Are you going to confirm or deny that you will
be part of the Ravens coaching staff in twenty twenty six? Okay,
(29:42):
send that out, Coop. Helmet Man is denying that he
will be on the staff.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
It's like Michael Irvin said, if you make the playoffs
and if you win a game, you had a good season.
Just they make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Well, that's Michael Irvin's opinion. That's not that's necessarily fact.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Even if win on lose, they still had a great season.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Great, good, like go great. What's going on with you,
helmet man? We haven't heard from you in a while.
This is your first call of twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Because that other phone, I had to transfer the chip
and put it in another phone.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
No, don't you know to plug where you put the
whole way?
Speaker 4 (30:28):
You pugged your phone to charge it damage side, and
then the battery was the week on.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
The other So do you still have the same phone number?
You still got the same number or is it a
different number?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah? I put it in another phone the chip you know,
the chimp card.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, so you have the same number I got you?
All right? Good?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
How do I transfer the information on the other phone
to this phone? But one time?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
As as you know, I worked, I've for Hoverzon for years.
I just pretend to be a radio guy. So what
you do is you bring the phone in there, and
I'll take a hammer and I'll hit the hammer and
I'll break into a million pieces. And then we'll take
some glue and some tape and we'll put it back
together and then it'll work. Fine. That's that's all I'm
gonna I'm gonna go in there. You give me your phone.
(31:17):
I promise your helmet man. I've known you for over
twenty years. We are we are good friends. Right we
go me and you go way back, don't we? Righte?
We go way back? And I will. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
When you said do you know who that guy is?
I said no, yeah, and then you said it was Kleine.
It was down by the Staples.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's right. I remember we were walking out and I
saw a guy wearing a helmet and I was like,
what the heck is that? Who is that man? Right there?
And that was the legend of helmet Man.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
And yeah, I like those parking lots that they had
across the street. Remember when you go through the park.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, when they when they opened, you know, jenn Ration
to Go, they had parking lots. Now they have stores
and restaurants and hotels and stuff like that. It's all
all that stuff. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
All right, we'll call me more often now that your
phone's working. And who are you picking helmet man? Real quick?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Who are you picking the rams? And I'm the AFC.
I'm picking the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, okay, sucking up to both of us. Very nice. Okay,
thank you, helmet man. There he goes, helmet man. Tilio
is in the Sunshine State. Hello, Tillio, welcome, and we're
gonna give you a big welcome. And you know we're
gonna serve for you, Tillio. Do you know the we're
gonna give you the gobba ghoules what we're gonna get,
that's right?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Hey, Before I have my comments, all I know was
that Octagon didn't need two but three dude wipes. My god,
was it awful?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
That should have been sponsored by dude wipes is what
it should have been.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
That was.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Now I gotta know, did I hit a triple or
a home run with these I sent you last week?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
You spoiled us there, Tillio. Thank you so much. Man.
We were living high on the hog because of you.
You gave us. You have so much stuff. We were
walking out with bags of stuff from Tilly who made it.
You made a BUCkies run for those who don't know,
and you Caven threw in a little uh little key
chain thing of a jig and all that. So it
was great. Wonderful.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Well ask you that was for I look she got
that was for Lorraine if she wanted it. Did you
guys read what I put on the ziploc bags? I
n closed.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I did. Yeah, we we have. We all took our.
You gave it my official Italian nickname. I appreciate that,
so thanks.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Before I let you go. I know you're busy. It
was two Saturdays ago the first call for Bernie on
Bernie's product show. He was supposed to talk to this
guy named Joe Gibbs. He does handicapping I guess for referee, cruise,
tend and fief and the first call, I swear he
sounded like a drunken grizzly bear was hollering James. It
(34:00):
was the funniest damn thing perfect. What the hell was
going on?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah? No, that's great. Yeah. We love the people that
do regular radio show. When James calls them, well, actually,
I would say, Tillyo, when most of these people call up,
they have no idea what to do, right, no idea.
I don't know how to handle these people. These are
my people, these are my friends. They're my friends. All right,
Thank you so much, Tilleo for your generosity. I do
appreciate a great night, buddy. Thank you man. Very kind.
(34:27):
They're helping starving overnight people that do talk radio, and
we are grateful for that. We're kind to take part.
And all right, very good. We will pause for the
cause and we're gonna have Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. Is weed man? There is he? Is he
standing by? Okay? Good, look at that he shows up.
(34:50):
If he showed up like this for jobs, he would
always have have employment. But he didn't want to work.
This is his job, his love radio straight ahead, Big
Ben Lame Jokes of the Week. We'll get to that
and we will.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Next.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
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Speaker 1 (36:13):
Lame jokes the week, Actual jokes by actual listeners. We
have our laugh track from South Florida. Hooray for Holly?
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Weed Man Hippie? His name legally is Billy Hello, weed Man, Hippie.
Hey Ben, I love you.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Hey, I work I work too, Yes, you work more.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
There's a lot of work. This is This job is
not that easy. You still listen? Do you still listen
weed Man the other nights? Or you only listen to
the nights that you're on the shows every night? All right, Well,
let's get to the jokes. Here we go. These are
actual jokes by actual listeners. If you'd like to send
one in in a future episode of the show, send
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Ben Maler Show at gmail dot com. Put jokes in
the headline. Put jokes in the headline. How has Lisa
been able to stay with weed Man for all of
these years?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
How? Say hi, Hi, Ben?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Hi Lisa? Yes, the reason Lisa's being able to stay
away or stay with weed Man all these years is
because he lives a thousand miles away. That is why.
That's a certain time the comedian. What's the difference. What's
the difference between weedman hippie and a used toothpick? What not?
(37:38):
A damn thing? That's not very nice? Tg hout?
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Dare you we?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Lisa didn't like that one? Weed Man hippie is so poor?
How poor is he? He's so poor? When you watch
when you watch Benny versus the Penny on YouTube, the
penny gets blurred out. That's how poor are that's Kurt
from Earth who said that one in Why does weed
Man have a splitting headache?
Speaker 4 (38:05):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Well, he's been diagnosed with a crackhead. That's Drew in Minnesota.
I come on, Who's weed Man's favorite agent? Is the
favorite sports agent? Rich Paul? Rich Paul? That's Eric. Eric
in Kansas is Big Ben's lame jokes of the week
with our friend Billy. What is weed Man's definition of
(38:28):
streaming a streaming service? What when a dog approaches you
while you're sleeping on the ground. Wow, that's not nice.
That's Drew in Minnesota. Well, exciting news. Exciting news. What's
weed Man's New Year's resolution? What to remember his email address?
(38:49):
Do you remember your email address? We've man?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Now you don't?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Oh my god. Why does weed Man always feel crowded?
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Why?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Because he has no room? That Mike the Leprechon. That
last joke was from Eric in Kansas. What has weed
Man been working on in his spare time? Why he's
making the largest rolling paper ball in the world. Congratulations
on I.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
We bound him.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Why don't beg buds? Why don't beg bugs fear weed Man?
Speaker 5 (39:27):
Why?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Because they know he can't bite? They know he cannot bite.
Did you ever find your teeth? I don't think you
found your teeth there. How did Ferg Dog? How did
Ferg Dog describe learning Braille? He said it was a
bumpy ride. A bumpy ride. Noah in Austin. Thank you
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