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January 20, 2025 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Texans loss to the Chiefs and how much C.J. Stroud is to blame, how the Chiefs benefit from the officials, storylines we can expect heading into Championship Weekend, Maller Militia Feud, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka laka. It's our numbber four, our four ready
to go. And we take a look back at the
AFC game back on Saturday. As we know Buffalo winning
on Sunday night, But what about that game on Saturday?
How much of the blame goes to CJ. Stroud and
the Texans loss? Also, how do Andy Read's chiefs benefit

(00:25):
from the officials? A big storyline all weekend, people losing
their marbles because of the refereeing and can you foreshadow
these storylines we can expect to hear this week for
Championship week in the NFL. We'll get to all of that,
and who knows what else. Enjoy your MLK Day holiday.

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And also, if you're into politics, president Trump taking over
again and whatever else is going on today, I don't know,
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Burners many different big fan of the number ten thousand.
So we are doing a retrospective on the NFL plus
the games on Sunday. Go to the team from Buffalo
as they have won at advanced. The Ravens yet again eliminated.
Lamar Jackson had better stats than Josh Allen, but yet

(02:17):
his mistakes cost the Ravens the game. We've seen that before,
We'll see it again. That's playoff Lamar. Playoff Lamar much
different than regular season Lamar. And the beat goes on
and in the NFC game the Rams, the soft West
Coast Rams statistically dominated the Philadelphia Eagles on a snowy day,

(02:38):
yet in the end, despite having more yards and more
first downs, the Rams fumbled a couple times early in
the fourth quarter, and that was their demise right there,
all right, But our lead this hour from Canna City.
That was the stage for the first game of the
NFL weekend. We take you back to Saturday in the

(03:02):
early part of the television window, the least attractive television window.
That's the Houston Texans personal playground in the playoffs. I
don't even saw this game or not. Patrick Mahomes. Patrick
Mahomes threw for one hundred and seventy seven yards and
a touchdown. That's not a Gotti stat line. That's not outrageous,

(03:23):
that's not crazy, That's okay. That's if you said before
the game, Houston's gonna hold Mahomes under two hundred yards
and only one passing touchdown, you say we are shot,
And they had a shot. Most most of the yardage
Mahomes had went to Taylor Swift's boy toy, Travis Kelcey.
The Chiefs beat the Texans twenty three to fourteen, so

(03:46):
they advanced to the AFC Championship Game, where they will
host the Buffalo Bills. We've been there and done that.
It'll be the seventh consecutive, seventh consecutive AFC title game
for Kansas City. When you buy tickets to the Chiefs,
you're pretty much guaranteed to get an AFC title game
at home. Most of those have been at Arrowhead Stadium.

(04:07):
So Kelsey had seven catches one hundred and seventeen yards.
So my malar math and compewter like brain tells me
so if Mahomes had one hundred and seventy seven yards
and Kelsey had one hundred and seventeen, the rest of
the team had hardly any, hardly any. So the Chiefs
get to sixteen and two when you combine regular and postseason,

(04:29):
and they keep the dream alive. The dream is very
much alive for the third consecutive Super Bowl that has
never happened before. This would be unprecedented if Kansas City
can win two more games two more games. However, the
better story is in the losing locker room. The Texans

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are the first team in NFL postseason history to outgame
their opponent by one hundred yards, have no turnovers, and lose.
Prior to the Texans, the teams that were in that
situation had played forty nine times, and they were forty
nine and all. You are the exception to the rule, Houston.

(05:14):
Now let's discuss let's discuss the wide angle lens on
this one. How much of the blame goes to CJ.
Stroud in the Texans loss. So I've got grandfather clock,
Andy Warhol, and four leaf clover, and we will combine

(05:35):
all of these things together and we're gonna send you
to boot camp because the Texans next time they get
together in any meaningful practice will be training camp, which
is the NFL's version of boot camp. All right, So
to kick off here, CJ. Stroud gets the Texas size
share of the You can't say that you didn't watch
the game. You don't know what you're talking about. What's

(05:56):
wrong with you? Shut up? He didn't suck. That's not
the point, right. He simply wasn't good enough. He simply
wasn't good enough. CJ. Stroud. The Barisie Houston's offense scored
twelve points. If you're only scoring twelve points and you
lose the game, you're part of the problem. Remember, even

(06:17):
though they finished with fourteen, there was that safety at
the end of the game to get the other two points.
So they had twelve points in the game. It was
historically terrible the Texans offense. Now, what is my evidence
the Houston Texans are the one hundred and forty seventh
team to have three hundred and twenty or more yards

(06:38):
of offense no turnovers in a playoff game, and they're
the only team out of those one hundred and forty
seven to not score more than fourteen points and their
offense only generated twelve points. Why, I'll tell you why.
It's it's the hidden thing between the margins. CJ. Stroud.
Somebody needs to buy him, maybe Chris and Hughes Houston

(07:00):
or mister Irrigation or one of the other guys that
listen to Houston. They can buy c. J. Stroud a
grandfather clock because his internal clock is broke. He needs
a grandfather clock to tell the time Stroud was sacked.
Not once, not twice, not three times, not four times,
not five times. How about eight dimes. The man was

(07:20):
sacked eight dimes. Now, the sack is a quarterback stat.
It's not an offensive line sack stat. It's a quarterback
stat derailing drive after drive after drive. Now, for those
of you that don't understand ball, the real ones know
a sack is half a turnover. So therefore, if you

(07:43):
have eight sacks, you've turned the ball over. Four times.
Do you understand eight sacks? Each sack worth half a turnover,
So eight sacks equals four turnovers. So if I told
you c J. Stroud turned the ball over four times,
he said, oh, he didn't play well. But the way
you break down the game, they say that a fumble
or an interception's worth four points in terms of the

(08:06):
outcome of the game, a sack is worth two points.
So again through the math, all right, that's sixteen points
that CJ. Stroud cost the Houston Texas. And there were
special teams blunders. There was about as bad a field
goal miss as you can possibly have. There was an
extra point miss. You even had some guy I have
never heard of on Houston shoving one of the coaches,

(08:29):
and then Joe Buck and Troy Aikman pretending like he
didn't happen. It seemed like kind of a big deal.
So a playoff game and one of your guys is
shoving the coach and screaming at him on the sidelines.
I would think that would deserve more attention, but what
do I know. I just do the Overnight show. So
they needed to be perfect. They were not. Now furthermore,
the story after the game was all about the officials.

(08:51):
It was all about the officials. You had Joe Mixon
say everybody knows how it is playing here, meaning Kansas
City at Arrowhead. You never leave it into the ref's hands.
The whole world, see man, Okay, I don't think that's
the king thing. Which, Wait, there's more here. How about
to Meetko Ryans, the head coach of the Texans. Here's
to Meetko Ryans and talking about the officiating and what

(09:14):
it was.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Like we knew going into this game. Man, it was
us versus everybody. Right when I say everybody is everybody,
all of whatever, everybody the naysayers a doubt, right, everybody
we had to go against to day.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay, everybody, there's a common theme. Here is the man
we just talked about, CJ. Stroud. Here his take on
the controversial calls that went in favor of Houston.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
I'm not going to go back and forth on what
I thought was a call when I thought it wasn't
a call. Now and on those teams, you kind of
know what's up before you even walking the arena. We
got to be better and just demed accountable and sound
and you know some things, you know, I think we
had a couple of calls that weren't call that I'm
begging for. But at the same time, it is what
it is, you know, like I can't argue with the
ref and at the same time, you know this kind
of thing. You know, it's us against the world when

(09:59):
you're playing. He's talking of environments and games.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
So this is like when Republicans or Democrats send out
talking points, like they clearly told the team listen, here's
what you can say. It's us versus the world. That's
the talking point. Us versus the world. Yeah, okay, us
versus the world. So how do Andy Reid's chiefs benefit
from the officials? So this is one of those things.

(10:22):
It reminds me of my life. There have been some
teams that have home field advantage, but it doesn't seem
to just happen at Arrowhead Stadium where there's controversial calls.
The Texans are a mentally weak team. They crumbled from frustration,
from distraction, They lost their composure, and it helps Andy

(10:44):
Reid's team more times than not, because, as Andy Warhol
famously said, perception precedes reality and our thoughts are shaped
by our own reality. And so no matter if I
gave you all kinds of numbers to tell well the
officiating on a call by call basis, when you add
it all up, it's not lopsided in favor of Kansas City.

(11:09):
You don't want to hear that, right, You're like, well,
I just saw what happened, and there were some calls
that certainly looked soft, absolutely soft, that went in favor
of the Chiefs. The data of those shows since Patrick
Mahomes became a starting quarterback for the Chiefs in twenty eighteen,
so seven years ago, Kansas City has been penalized six
hundred ninety three more yards than their opponent, including the playoffs.

(11:35):
You can't say that that's not right. I know, my
eyes tell me somebody, yea, you can't say that six
hundred ninety three more yards penalized against Kansas City. In fact,
that is the fourth worst penalty yard differential since twenty eighteen.
So they're in the bottom percent dile when it comes
to this kind of thing. But wait, there's more. But

(11:57):
wait there's more. When the game is close, late and
close game on the line, Kansas City must get all
the calls, then, right, every key call goes in favor
of Mahomes and Andy Reid. The Chiefs have the seventh
worst yard differential since Mahomes took over in the fourth
quarter and overtime of games decided by one score. However, again,

(12:18):
perception proceeds reality, and we've seen this. I remember when
I was a kid, I used to watch the NBA
a lot and the Celtics with Red Aarbach. There was
this belief that the Celtics got every call at the
old Boston Garden, and they had these dead spots on
the parquet, and the Celtic players knew where they were,
but the opponent didn't. I had when I was doing
stuff with the Dodgers, there was a guy that passed

(12:39):
through the Dodgers who had played for the nineteen nineties Yankees.
George Steinbrenner was the owner, and he told me. This
guy told me said, they they played at Yankee Stadium,
the other team was intimidate the umpire. They believed they
were invincible. They got every call. The other team thought
that got every fifty to fifty call at Yankee Stadium.

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There's certain situations like this, whether they're real or imagined.
And the Chiefs right now are riding high and Andy
Reid is benefiting in Mahomes and Kelsey from the perception,
which is the reality that they're getting all the calls,
even though the numbers indicate that is not the case. Now,
last thing, we have reached the final four of the

(13:22):
NFL down to the final four NFC Championship game. The
Super Bowl will be either Philadelphia at home or Washington
on the road going to New Orleans, the AFC, Buffalo
and can City. So what kind of storylines can we
expect this week? What kind of storylines can we expect
from Championship week in the NFL the road to New Orleans? Well,

(13:47):
this is a four leaf clover situation. We've come down
to the four leaf clover for Super Bowl fifty nine.
Pretty good drama. The obvious big one is Josh Allen
trying to get the Komodo dragon off his back and
end the misery against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. That
is the main event. The Chiefs on the road to

(14:07):
history three consecutive super Bowls. Three consecutive super bowls. So
that's the big one. Does Allen get it done or
the Bill's good enough? They already beat Kansas City once,
but that was a close game that was a home game.
The weather is also an issue here. We're going to
get bad weather in Philadelphia, bad weather in Kansas City.

(14:28):
That'll be a factor. What about the officials, they'll announced
the officiating. I think that we have announced it. But
does the officiating bias go towards Kansas City? Is Taylor
Swift going to be there? Of course? What about Caitlin
Clark so angry Bill can get all excited and the
Swifties versus Bill's mafia. You've got that and the undercard

(14:48):
Jaden Daniels on this magic carpet ride. Does it continued?
Does he complete the greatest rookie season of all time
and go to a Super Bowl as a rookie and
be the reason there have been other rookie quarterbacks that
have had success, but to be the central reason behind that.
Washington doesn't have a great defense, they don't their special

(15:11):
teams are okay, but it's really about the magic the
Gennis aquah of Jaden Daniels at quarterback. And then you've
got Sekwan Barkley shoving it down the throat of the
New York Giant ownership every time he has a massive
run and trying to put the Eagles on his back
and get them there. They don't have much of a quarterback.
Jalen Hurts in that good. And then there's the other

(15:32):
storyline with Jalen Hurts his health. He refused to answer
whether or not he was going to be okay, does
the clock strike midnight on Jalen Hurts. Philadelphia's defense didn't
look all that good to me. That's a beatable defense.
If you're Washington. Rams went up and down the field
that had a lot of yardage against the Philadelphia Eagles

(15:54):
in bad weather, So that is a beatable Eagles defense.
I would not be shocked at all if Washington ends
up in the bleeping super Bowl. That's insane. I did
not think I would be saying that when the playoffs began. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahler Show. If you would like
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a FanFest doesn't go well, great story, we'll mix it in.
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(17:21):
Your comments, Canon, We'll be used against you in the
court of sports talk radio. And now back to the talk. Yeah,
it's a talk show, is what it is. We are
set for the final four. If you're wondering what the
gambling market says about the final four of the NFL.

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Down to just a few games left and then we'll
have the Super Bowl matchup Championship Sunday, January twenty six,
six days away, the early game, and that game will
kick off at what are we looking at? Three o'clock
Eastern time? I believe yes, Commanders, not very early. Well, no,

(18:02):
in our time. So the Commanders and the Eagles. Eagles
opened up a six point favorite and they are currently
Philadelphia a five point favorite in that game. So Philly
getting lay in five, Commanders getting five. And let's see
where the early money is on that game. It's pretty even,

(18:23):
So that's that's what they want. They want the money
even on the late game. Bills and Chiefs game open
to pick them. Kansas City favored by one. Most of
the early money is on the side of the Buffalo Bills,
So the early money is on the side of Buffalo,
but the Chiefs one point favorites as far as the
line's already moved since the opening line. And uh and

(18:46):
there you go, just like that. All right, we'll go
to the phones. I will tell you we're gonna mix in.
I thought one of the funnier stories from the weekend.
You might not have heard about it, but I laughed
my ass off when I when I saw this, and
I wanted to share the joy that I had with you.
And if you enjoy Shodenfreude, I think you'll enjoy this story.
But let's go to the phones. We'll say he lo

(19:07):
to the winner, Congratulations, you you missed it an hour two,
we had the verbal Octagon to decide the National Championship
game Notre Dame and Ohio State, and Alameda Lou said,
I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna bring the power, I'm
gonna bring the flame thrower, and this guy, Alameda Lou
did not lie. Unbelievable win. Congratulations Alameda Lou. Victory speech.

(19:32):
Tremendous job by you.

Speaker 5 (19:35):
No, there's a victory speech. Say, Ben, I want you
to tell me to my faith I'm seeing on X
that you let blind Scott stand in for me. Is
that true?

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well, we have a show. You last week, then explain
what I so last week you said you wanted to
do it the guy that you were going to go
against time, right then you showed up on time. So
then you said, hey, I said, why don't we do
it on Sunday night? You said, I'll do it, but
I can't do it an hour one. I'll do it
in our So I was okay, our two done?

Speaker 5 (20:02):
God, so bid I communicate with your producer about my
availability leading up to it as well.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well, we have a show. We have a show. People
people wanted. People wanted the model, they wanted the octagon
they said we need the octagon. Let me tell you
what happens in boxing. What happens in boxing move if
one of the boxers doesn't show up, they get somebody
the last minute. This is boxing, this is the octagon,
it's the Oca gunn And we looked up your bar,

(20:29):
and your bar according to the Internet, your bar was closed.
So what were you doing?

Speaker 5 (20:34):
So, Ben, I'll lay it out for you plainly, right. So, uh,
I went on Thursday when I showed up on time
and my opponent Buck whatever his name was, Buck Nuts. Yeah,
Buck buck Nuts did not show up. I cared enough
about this show to try to reschedule to another time.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
We agreed.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
We agreed on a time.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
You know, admittedly it is my fault because I I
turned to find out the fact that was a three
day weekend and the Kingfish might be busy on a
Sunday because nobody has worked the next day.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
I communicated this to your producer, the good Justin Cooper,
and I'm sorry that I couldn't come through.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Well, no, you won the fight though, It's okay. We
had a stand in and he played you your character.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
You won? He did you just say? He?

Speaker 1 (21:22):
I don't know whatever he the person won, Ben.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Ben, Ben, tell me unequivalently right now, did you let
blind Scott stand in for me?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
We needed alame to Lou? And is said on my board,
alame to Lou. It's kind of sounded like you a
little bit. I gotta tell you, Oh.

Speaker 5 (21:37):
My god, Ben. Okay, So first of all, you know,
I'm gonna go into a little tangy right now. If
you'll allow me to speak, I have a lot of
things I want to say, but I'll keep it briefed.
Oh my god, Blind Scott and Ohio State fans who
intend on going to the game in Atlanta tomorrow, all

(21:59):
you have to do is put in an Ohio State
diploma on your dash and you will get handicapped parking forever.
And if blind Scott would put an Ohio State dash
on his car as well, you could probably park inside
the stadium.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Okay, is that your material? This is the materials?

Speaker 5 (22:18):
Ben. I cannot believe you let blind We had.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
A show to do. We had a show. He was
either not do the octagon or the only time we
could do it was that time. That was it. You
agreed to it. You agreed to it.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
There were probably there were probably so much better options.
I think you decided to slight me.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
And no, I did not slight you. I is incorrect, Alamir,
you slighted me. You slighted me. You you you slighted me, Alamy, Lou,
you did.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
I did not slight you. I communicate at the end
of the week, we had me.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
I have a show torom, I'm a promoter. I promoted
the show, Coop. Do we not promote the Octagon?

Speaker 7 (22:53):
That's shoe and and I like and I like alam
to Lou. But let's let's be one honest here. Yeah,
he might have done a better job than you would have.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oh shot, fine, he just said Blind Scott.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
Look, look it's it's not like right now. It's not
like he had some stiff fill in for you. This
is this is an Octagon.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Multi time champion, one of the great the respected callers
in the history of the show, Blind Scott, who goes
through generations, by the way, he goes back to the
Pete and Pittsburgh days. Blind Scott's lost you, by the.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
Way, and who was my who was my interest?

Speaker 4 (23:28):
And I'll make you.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
I'll make a deal with you, because no name is
gonna lose by a thousand points on Monday night. So
I'll make a deal with you, O kid, you want
to make I'll make a deal with you. I want
to say, all right, you want to you want to
go and you want to go into the octagon against
blind Scott. You want to do that sometime this week?

Speaker 5 (23:43):
We can do take on blind Scott anywhere everywhere. I
cannot stand that, Okay.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
All right, all right, fine, all right, let's see if
he shows up. Hate him for who you might have
to work lady at the Kingfish though you don't know.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
I hate him for how he is.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
I got you, all right, whatever I don'tkay, all.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
Right, listen to me real quick if I can address
Justin on what you just said. This is a reminiscence
of Justin having an absolute meltdown when we had the
Warriors versus Lakers verbal octagon, which I won, by the way.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Okay, all right, I got but listen, here's the deal.
Nordame's gonna lose tonight and then we'll have the you
and blind Scott. Okay, all right, no.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
On me anytime.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
If you don't if you don't show, if you don't
show up.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
The originally schedule time.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Is well, you agreed to the rematch, and then you
didn't show.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
But I communicated to the show that you know, the
circumstances changed, and I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
All right, all right, we'll have you in blind Scott.
I I gotta go. Thank you. I know you're upset
and blame Lorena. That's why I blame Hey's okay, I'll
take the blame man when in doubt, blame one. That's
what I always coop to. Yeah, let's go to Keg
Drinking Steve in Canauh City. Hello, Keig drinking Steve.

Speaker 8 (24:58):
Oh the day, it's the new day, the currently new down.
The circumstances change sounds like a bunch of loser talk
to me, like kind of like Joe Buck and Joy
Akmen who were winding like little girls after after a
true champion and a winner. Uh, she goes out of

(25:18):
bound and gets penalties like like the rules say, do
you think Patrick Mahomes is still the understudy for the
Pro Bowl? You think he's going to be a world champion?

Speaker 1 (25:29):
There is no Pro the Pro Bowl. They play water
balloon costs, there is no Pro Bowl. Who cares about
the Pro Bowl? Stopping the hoop contest.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
I'll go on the Thunderdome ball. I'll go on the
Thunderdome after when the team's getting to get into the
super Bowl. After we slapped the snack down Josh Allen
again after in the Arrowhead Invitational for the seventh seventh
year in a row Man. Aren't they being a little
bit hard on Patrick Mahomes? You know, he's he's he
plays by the rules and the and these these numb

(26:03):
nuts like Joe Buck and Troy Aikman can't seem to
figure out that the referees will call penalties if you
if you do what the rules tell you to do.
It's a very difficult thing for for national media people
to understand that the rules actually are enforced and applied.
That's it seems to be. It seems to be beyond

(26:26):
I have a question for Loraina too.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Okay, Loda, there's a gentleman named Keay drinking Stevie. Is
a question for you, Lorena? Would you really answer the question?
I question? All right?

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Go ahead, Okay.

Speaker 8 (26:37):
I haven't been able to get through during the week
I was reading this, said Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively lost. Yeah,
and the New York Times he's suing her for four
hundred million.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Dollars That seems like a lot of money.

Speaker 8 (26:52):
Yeah, suing her for deadpool Now, she wrote an email
telling him to come in and run lines with her
for work while she was looking her breath. Do you
think that's kind of like a like a trap, like
a Then she complained afterwards that that mister Baldoni was

(27:12):
allegedly watching her, watching her breast, but she already in emails,
she already admitted that that was happening.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Is there a question? There is no question?

Speaker 8 (27:24):
And should should miss? Should you Broni have run lines
and looked away from her breath. She's the one that
invited him in while she was you know, she probably
was covered up.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Let me just let me just put this out here
really fast. What are we doing? He wants to know
about It's a sports show. Who can their relationships?

Speaker 7 (27:47):
See, he's like relationship wise, they're really back and forth
right now, to be honest, and it's really messy.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Okay, it's messy. There's your as Goway, hang up, hollering James.
This guy knows a thing or two about relationships. Hell
hollering James.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
Is trying to hold that the tammy with the skin.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Oh my God, it's every skin. Are you the toothless caller?

Speaker 5 (28:10):
Right? Only he send me a ticket.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Legally blind Christopher, Hello, legally blind Christophers. Every night on
this show, there's a full move every freaking night.

Speaker 9 (28:26):
Mister Maller. I'm really just amazed on some of the
anger that's coming out here. Before I begin, I need
to ask your help, mister Maller. Can you get me
in with a fosh mike because I'm gonna need a
little botomy after it went through the other another season
of Lion fakeness and I just have to have my
memory wife. So is there any way.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, well, no, we're gonna do. They're gonna make another
Men in Black movie and then we'll zap you and
you'll forget all about watching the Lions. Just completely back
see the Lions at least remember. For years they're like, well,
the Lions shouldn't play on Thanksgiving because they're bad, they
shouldn't plan. Well, now it's not that they're bad, they're
just fake good. The Lions are fake good.

Speaker 9 (29:06):
Well, I have two pieces of info for you, and
I'll let us go because I know if you have
other calls, you're turning issue number one. Mister Maller. Do
you remember when the last time the Lions been on Washington?
What happened with Washington? They won the Super Bowl? Oh,
this is going to be so much fun. Number two,
mister Maller. All four teams that had the most yards
in this weekend everyone lost. I am so happy that

(29:26):
I have the three stooges of coaches in the Lions organization.
They're more fun to watch than when I just told
over the weekend. O. Wait a minute, I fell asleep.
I didn't even see the game, mister Maller.

Speaker 8 (29:35):
Thank you for taking this.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
That's right, because you're blind. You're legally blind. Christmaer. You
can't see the game that you didn't have to watch
it at least, I thank you, Christine appreciate. James. You're
still there? James? Why Why are you still there? James?

Speaker 5 (29:48):
Because I love?

Speaker 6 (29:49):
Don't you know?

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Oh? Is that what I'm dumbe Marcel and Brooklyn? Hello,
Marcel pointing.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
To you, Ben Eddie, what shall I say? Bed now?

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Outside? Eddie? I don't know if you don't say high
back unfortunately, but yes, so I have this great story. Mark,
So did you see the story involving fan fest? Did
you see this.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
Fast here in New York.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
No, why not, no, no, no, Pittsburgh Pirate fan fests.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
In Pittsburgh, home of the Pirates and the Steelers.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah. So they had a fan fest this
weekend in Pittsburgh, and the fans started heckling the owner
of the team at the fan fest and it was hilarious.
The Pirate play by play announcer passionally it was a
Q and A session. This guy Travis Williams, he's a

(30:42):
CEO of the Pirates, and he taught He was like, oh,
we're committed to winning, which is obviously a lie. They're
not committed to winning. They were committed to make a
lot of money. And so uh, several fans started chanting
sell the team the Pirates. Longtime TV play by play
announcer Greg Brown partially defended his boss. Why not, but

(31:03):
then he gets even better. So the star of the Pirates,
you know who Paul Skeens is. Uh, you know who
that is, Marcel.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
He's a baseball player, that is correct.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yes, you know who he's hooking up with.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
A woman, uh that famous woman who cares whatever. So
Paul Skeins won the rookie of the Year this year,
and he was asked about signing a long term contract extension.
He says, I really thought too much about it with
the Pirates. So the owners getting heckled, the CEO is
getting heckled by fans, the star players like, doesn't sound

(31:38):
like he wants to stay in Pittsburgh. That's your fan fest?
That is so good? Oh my god, what a debacle.
I bet you. I bet you. They don't have fan
fest next year, Marcel Well, believe it or not, the.

Speaker 6 (31:50):
Mets and Yankees have a fun fest this year. As
a matter of fact.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
You know, is it true Peter Alonso signed with your
personal weekend softball team?

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Oh yeah, wow, baseball player, not a football player.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Oh is that right?

Speaker 6 (32:04):
It's that right, it is. Okay, get ready for some
fun fact coming away for you. And you're right, believe
it or not. It's not just for baseball. It's about football.
And I'll tell you why in this fun fact along
with yours.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Ah, yes, fun fact?

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Are you asking? Are you demanding a fun fact? You think?
Just on demand? I end up giving you a fun
all right. Here's a fun fact. Mark Andrews in his
postseason's played eight games twenty nine receptions on fifty three targets,
he has three hundred and fifteen receiving yards, one fumble,
and no touchdowns. That means he's averaging his playoff career

(32:45):
less than forty yards receiving per game. That's not good
for a guy who has been rock solid in the
regular season. Playoff good playoff, Mark Andrews. Is that not
a fun fact? How about that? Do it again? Hit
again the Raider?

Speaker 4 (33:02):
Another malor fun fact.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
The Ravens are the first team in NFL history to
run for one hundred and seventy five or more yards,
complete seventy percent of their passes, average ten plus yards
per pass, convert seventy percent of the third downs, have
no punts or missfield goals in the same game, and
still end up losing the game.

Speaker 6 (33:21):
And speaking of the Ravens, there man, the Buffalo Bills
beat Baltimore. It's time to hit the showers twenty seven
to twenty five.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
I got another fun fact? Hit a Gago ran Another
fun fact?

Speaker 4 (33:32):
That Malard fun fact.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
There have been ten quarterbacks in any of A history
who have won multiple MVP Awards. Lamar Jackson is the
only one with a losing record in the playoffs and
the only one without a super Bowl championship. Oh yes,
that's a fun fact. Mar sound we're pregn up for
fun in fun.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
Fact truck me it is?

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Should we do?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Did you just at you?

Speaker 6 (34:02):
I said?

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Should we do some food picks? On food picks? Alright,
food picks? I think you had. See here, I think
you had, uh, cheeseburgers, cheeseburgers last night?

Speaker 6 (34:14):
What got the cheeseburgers? And I got the mixed match? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (34:18):
The cat shop all right. By the way, our friend
in Vegas, he says, you had pizza.

Speaker 6 (34:23):
All pizza pie.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
That's right, Robin Vegas, the great Robin. I just see
I did just see a lion trash talk from Robin Vegas.
I wonder what happened round He must have choked on
his pizza. What about you, Loreena, I think you had overpriced.

Speaker 6 (34:39):
Nacho, not a mixed match.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
It is all right, buddy, I think you had barbecue
chicken pizza.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
You know what that means?

Speaker 1 (34:52):
The mixed match? All right? Go ahead for real answers.
Here we go picks with Marcel and Brooklys.

Speaker 8 (35:03):
And yes Ben, Yeah, such a love run.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
Go up with Mala muster feud if you want to
play along eight seven ninety nine on Fox, getting closer
to two pros and a couple of back with a
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Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, Robin, that's right. We're gonna play it for you
and you can take on mouthwash Mike if you want
to take him on. He called back, We'll do that.
We'll do it next.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
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Speaker 1 (35:37):
Bill Miller here. Reminder you're gonna have Mallard Militia Feud
coming up. Need one more contestant at eight seven seven
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Speaker 8 (36:34):
It's winning so important.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Listened winning and everything. It's the only thing.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
It's time for another Mallard game show.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
You're so go.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
We surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Kurs. I believe the answer is to Clippers.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
That is the top answer forty points. It's Mallard militia.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Lets come on now, let's play the feud right now,
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(37:22):
It's welcome in a man who loves swimming in the
fountains outside the Malagio. He's back one of our friends.
We love this guy. What a character. Mouthwash Mike from Vegas, Hello,
mouthwash monkey, such a legend, unbelievable, and you will be
going against Zachary from beautiful Lubbock, Texas. Hello, Zachary, welcome.

(37:46):
You better beat this guy, Zachary, You better beat this guy.
That's all I say. I'll all say, buddy, but good luck,
good luck to you. All right, we got one, two
or three? Which one do you want? You too? All right,
we'll do number two. All right, here we go. This
is number two.

Speaker 9 (38:03):
Alight.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
The top one, two, three, four, five, one two, three, four,
five six answers, Top six answers on the board. One
hundred people surveyed. Name something specific you'd probably see on
a brochure for Las Vegas. Your name is your buzzer, Zachary, Zachary, Zachary.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
Gambling Hotel.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yeah, yeah, all right, that's where we go. That was
the number one answer. We'll give you that slot machines
and you get to go again Zachary again. The top
six things I name something specific, you'd probably see it
on a brochure for Las Vegas or advertisement fit but
featen Okay, we'll give you that bar, restaurant. We'll give

(38:49):
you that. Why not keep going there? That was the
number four answer. What do you say? Rip club? Is
that on their coope? What do you think? Nah? Look
at mouthwatch Mike's all right, mouthwatch Mic. Name something specific

(39:12):
you'd probably see on a brochure for lost Vegas. You
live there, you should get this right.

Speaker 5 (39:22):
If we already got a lawyer, I'll give you real
city agent.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Is that a bad answer? Holy crap? Does that suck?

Speaker 6 (39:36):
No?

Speaker 1 (39:36):
That is incorrect, alright, Zachary.

Speaker 7 (39:39):
That you would see on a brochure for Vegas, not
a billboard in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Yeah, I know. There's a lot of ambulance chasing lawyers
on billboards in Vegas. Zachary, go ahead, Zachary, Okay, therol,
the brothel, a whorehouse?

Speaker 4 (39:52):
Is that on there?

Speaker 9 (39:53):
No?

Speaker 4 (39:54):
Not on there?

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Shocking Mike, all right, you got you got nothing? All right?
What do you call it? We have a casino, money, poker, chips,
show girls, and a fountain. A fountain, Mike, A fountain
is the answer.
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