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August 20, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Aaron Glenn laughing off criticism of Justin Fields, Saints coach Kellen Moore saying the Saints QB battle is 'really really close', Arch Manning's response on speculation of him declaring for the 2026 NFL Draft, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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Here an hour number four is Aaron Glenn Wright to
laugh off the criticism of Justin Fields that's the Jets coach?
Or is he ignoring the real concerns about the Jets
passing game?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
We'll talk about that.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Can you decode what coach Kellen Moore means when he
says the Saints quarterback batter battal if you will, between
Tyler Shuck and Spencer Rattler is really really close? And
did you read anything into Arch Manning's day by day
response the Longhorns quarterback on the twenty twenty six NFL Draft.
All that and more right now here it is. Have

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lead this hour is from Jersey, and that is where
the Jets head coach Aaron Glenn told reporters that he
has quote very confident, very confident he said in the
passing offense, which tells you that Aaron Glenn is ready
to do stand up comedy. And he says he's not concerned,

(02:56):
not concerned about Justin Fields, who is a two time
loser with the Bears and the Pittsburgh Steelers. And Fields
has played in a couple of exhibition games. You likely
don't know about it because he's been ho hum, ho hum.
That's not a positive term. The Jets have played a
couple of exhibition games at about seventeen people have paid

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attention to So if you didn't see what Aaron Glenn said,
maybe not.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Why would you.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's why we're here, So Glenn, Aaron Glenn sounded both
amused and annoyed.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Both those emotions. Yes, a mused and annoyed.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
He was upset with the reaction that the fields are
lack thereof play from Justin fields, lack of talent, not
showing any real skill set to be a good quarterback
in the NFL, which makes him the perfect, perfect Jets quarterback.
But just to prove that I'm not making this up,
Hopefully we'll be able to hear Aaron Glenn. We played

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some sound earlier that I still don't know what was
said by Anthony Richards.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Heyway, let's go to the audio.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Tip.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Here's Aaron Glenn, head coach. You made it.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
You're in the Big Apple, your head co ash New Jersey,
but you're head coach of the Jets. Here's Aaron Glenn
back and forth with the media on Justin Field.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Obviously, it's very much a passing league.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Is there any concern about your ability to.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Go down fields and whatnot?

Speaker 6 (04:19):
Say?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Is it the passing league?

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Isn't it passive?

Speaker 6 (04:22):
It's not kind of fifteen that won the Super Bowl
four there and passing twenty nine. Yeah, before they and
running first defense.

Speaker 7 (04:31):
Shit, fucking step.

Speaker 6 (04:32):
Well, we talked about offense and then everything is falling
down because we throw six passes, you know. Then then
then I mean he's Johnny United. When we throw four passes,
you know, so it bothers me and I laugh at
it quite a bit. But the thing is, I understand
it because that's just that's the noise that happens on

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the outside. That's how guys can't really listen.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
To ah the noise you outsiders, either with us or
against us. That is a staple of the coaching handbook,
the coach cliche handbook. So let us discuss the question.
Is Aaron Glenn right to chuckle and laugh off the
criticism of Justin Field or is he ignoring legitimate concerns

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for the Jets passing offense. So my take on this,
I have lawnmower, Solitaire, and windsor castle, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
The Gaba goul. You gotta make the Gabba gul. We're
making the Gaba gol.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
So to kick off, I love the fact that if
if I'm right in the headline on that sound that
we played of Eron Glend, the headline is NFL head
coach Demeans Jalen Hurts, NFL head coach Bill Liittle's Super
Bowl winning quarterback Jaylhurs because he was praising the Eagles

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running game, therefore meaning that Jalen Hurts did little in
the passing game, which is, by the way, accurate. That's accurate.
So this is a deflection with a capital D. Plain
and simple, plain and simple. Right, Glenn doing the classic

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preseason coach speak. Don't worry. We're installing its new coaching staff.
We're installing, we're evaluating. We're not showing our hand. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Just like that. Now.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Meanwhile, Justin Fields has not thrown a pass I believe
over nine yards in the air.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
But it's only exhibition.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's not installing, by the way, You're not installing some
new fangled offense or something like that. That's that's essentially
insulating Justin Fields, is.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
What you're doing.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Right.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
You're bubble wrapping the guy like he's a somanic or
a ceramic mug.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
You know those mugs you get the gift shop that
we have. You know you're getting old.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
There's another sign you know you're getting old when you
go into your kitchen you realize, my god, I have
too many mugs and I don't even use them like you.
That is a sign you've become like middle aged or
older when you just you don't even realize how many
mug I should go a rant about that on the podcast.
You just all of a sudden one day you wake
up and you have so many mugs with different logos

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on them. They're like, I don't need that, Like I
never use it. I don't understand anyway. It's like a
ceramic mug is what it is. And so it's essentially
watching watching the Jets offense, it's like watching someone try
to start a lawnmower that has been in the garage
since twenty nineteen. You're covered in dust and spiderwebs, and

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you take that bad boy out there and you gonna
you're gonna pull the cord. It spotters and it coughs
a little bit like it's got COVID and you know,
a little smoke there, and then it dies. That's it done.
That's the Jets offense right now. And Aaron Len's out here,
the coach of the Jets, is said, wow, now it's fine.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
We are fine.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Just warming it up. Warm lawnmower up. That's all we're doing.
And fields I have not watched the Jets ex submission games.
The great thing is the Jets don't throw the ball
very much, so it's easy to see the highlights on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
The sizzle reel not a lot of sizzle.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
So feels looks to me, based on my expert I
doing overnight talk radio, he looks like the same guy
he was in Chicago and Pittsburgh. A quarterback who plays
like he's got some some kind of like shot collar
on where you can't go beyond the sticks. You know,
it's like there's a limit, you can't do it. And

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Jet fans they're not wrong. See that's the thing, Like
there's another example where the fan is not wrong. You
should be anxious. Not I've worked in sports radio for
a long time. Everywhere I've worked, there's always a Jet fan.
There's a requirement. There's a Jet fan, and the Jet
fans also a Met fan, and the Met fans also
you get the Jets in the Mets, and so they're
the nick fan. But you know, it's just breakdown, there's

(08:57):
a scientifical breakdown all this stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
But the fan is not wrong to be anxious.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
And here's why they have been through the quarterback carousel
of doom. More times than we all got that uncle
that likes to drink a little bit too much and
the drunk uncle at the wedding who's trying to find
the dessert table before it's time for dessert.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
You know, I wanna go find the dessert table. Well, no,
we're not.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
They're not serving the dessert. No, no, you no, you
want the dessert because you're drunk and you want to do.
They've had Sam Darnold, They've had Zach Wilson. This is
just recently, Zach Wilson, Aaron Rogers, and now they have
Justin Fields, and there's a bunch of other suck bad
quarterbacks mixed in there, but those are the big ones.
And so that's not drama. That's not addicted to drama.

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That is a trauma response by the Jet fan. It
is you're addicted to.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
It's like, you're.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Not addicted to quarterback drama because there's not a lot
of that. It's like a toxic relationship that you signed
up for when you were a kid or you inherited
it because your parents were fans of the team, and
it's just part of who you are and you didn't
make that decision. You made it when you were a kid.
You know, you can't vote when you're a kid. You
can't join the army when you're a kid, or the

(10:13):
Marines or whatever. But you, you know, make this decision
to be a fan as a kid, and then if
you change that, you're a bad person. You're you know,
you're a schmuck if you change that. All right, Now, furthermore,
we go. Speaking of schmucks, we go to the Bayou,
and we got to get all these monologues in on
crap teams, jack wagon teams. We've got to get these
monologues in. So we've done a lot of the Browns.

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Now we're going to do one about the Saints. So
the Colts and the Browns, they have both announced their
starting quarterback. Now Joe Flacco's washed up and Daniel Jones
was you know, never was anything good. The Saints, though,
are not ready to take that step. They're on an island.
They're living the island life all by themselves. So Saints

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head coach Kellen Moore the next coach to be fired.
His coach with thing. So Kellen Moore told reporters that
the quarterback competition and evaluation process will go on through
the week it had been expected the Saints, we're going
to name a quarterback.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
This is a two horse race.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
One horse has three legs, the other horse has a
half a leg. So you've got Tyler Shuck versus Spencer Rattler. Yeah,
that's a dog and pony show. Coach of the Saints said, quote,
it's really really close. Numbers, experience, reps, everything, it's going

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all the way to the start of training camp, going
back all the way to start a training camp. Kellen
Moore said, everything is very very close between this group close.
Quote Okay, can you decode Can you decode what coach
Kellen Moore means when he says the Saints.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Quarterback battle is really really close.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, so it means that both of these guys are
standing side by side at the clearance racket Marshalls, and
they're fighting, like our friend Rob Parker that works here
for the polo that's supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Nine to ninety nine, but for some reason.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
It got marked incorrectly at five ninety nine, and they're like,
they're back the clothes.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah. Of course, it's.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Technically not wrong to say the Saints quarterback controversy is close.
Neither one of them is separating because neither one of
them Spiler Alert is any good. They suck on one side,
you got sucked. On the other side, you got blow.
That's what you got, right. I mean, this is not
Mahomes versus Burrow or Josh Allen versus Lamar Jackson. This

(12:50):
is two contestants on the price is right, both guessing one.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Dollar one dollar, one dollar on the showcase showdown.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
You know, someone technically is going to be named the winner,
but you don't really feel great about You don't really
feel great about it, and it's like you're you're trying
to sell this thing like a reality show, like it's
the Bachelorette or something. And you've got Tyler and Spencer,
which do sound like names that would be on the Bachelorette,

(13:21):
right those? I meant, Well, I don't watch so, but
doesn't that seem like like those would be like Tyler
and Spencer anyway, Kellen Moore, he said. Also the word statistically,
he said, which is how many Sharknado movies have they made?
We know, like five, six seven or something like that
they made. I don't think they're making them anymore, but
they used to make a lot of Sharknado movies, and

(13:44):
I was always hoping we're such a cheesy show. I
thought we'd get in there at some point, we'd be
in the Sharknado thing.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
But we never.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
We never got invited into Sharknado. But it would be
like comparing the third Sharknado versus the four Sharknado and
debating which one was better. And it's really which one's
a little less embarrassing, a little less embarrassed, which is
what the sants a society. The Saints coaching staff is like, well,
this guy sucks and that guy's terrible, but we got
to name somebody who as the starting quarterback.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
So what are we gonna do? And you've got boring?
It's so boring? How boring is it?

Speaker 2 (14:16):
The Saints quarterback controversy that while this is going on,
Stephen A. Smith is literally playing solitaire during the preseason games, right,
not even computer solitaire on his phone or you know,
a smartphone.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Leader he's he's like, I'm talking about I'm real cards.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Like he's in the press box, like he's at Circa
in Vegas and he's you know, he's fussing around with
the cards.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
But it's like New Orleans. You think of the great.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Food New Orleans one of the great food cities in America, right,
if you'd like the Southern food.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
The jambalaya and the Bennet's and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
And you got all that, and you go down there,
and I'm gonna go to this top restaurant in New
Orleans right down on Bourbon Street where all the tourists go.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'm going ahead, and.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I get some jumbalaya, and I guess some of that
that the Beignets for dessert. And they say, well, listen,
we're out of We're out of the Beignets. We don't
have any jumbalaya, but we we may hand you what
we have. And it's it's a meal. It's a ham sandwich.
It's a it's a lukewarm ham sandwich. And uh, and
that's it. So you've got two pedestrian, unremarkable quarterbacks and

(15:24):
you throw them into the pot, try to make some
gumbo there, and uh, you know, it's not exactly Cajun cooking.
I thought Cajun cooking had a little kick to it.
Oh spice. Uh, these guys do not have any of that.
But ultimately, one of these guys is going to win
the job, and they.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Might win a game. I play well for a game, right,
dumb luck.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
They might play well for a game, and then eventually
they'll settle in be one of the worst teams in
the NFL. And it's like getting a participation trophy in
youth soccer when you are named the starting quarterback of
the New Orleans Saints. Now speaking of the Saints in
a related note, but we go to college football. Are
you ready for some college football?

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, you are loocking live. Well, you're listening live this
weekend some college football games. Hell to the yah. I
know it's crazy zero week, So I bring this up.
We go to Austin, Texas. Austin Texas quarterback arch Manning.
You'll hear that name a lot. You'll hear that name
a lot. He was asked about Grandpa Archie Manning's comments

(16:25):
recently where Archie Manning said that listen, listen this, My
grandson is not going to declare for the twenty twenty
six NFL draft. So arch Manning responded by saying, yeah,
I don't know where he got that from talking about
his grandfather. I'm really just taking it day by day

(16:45):
right now.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
He said close quote.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
All right, question did you read anything in to Arch
Manning's day by day response on the twenty twenty six
NFL draft in late April of twenty twenty six. So
obviously this is a non answer answer. You don't need
me to tell you that. Well, that's a non answer answer.
Why are you talking about this? It makes money. Arch

(17:11):
Manning is a two sports star. No one else is
talking about this.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
They're not. He's a two sports star. He's not only
a quarterback. He's also very good.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
At playing possum, very good at playing posim. And so
it's like he's not saying yes, he's not saying no.
Arch Manning, he isn't kind of floating in that gray
area on the margins. He's floating on the margin. And why,
I'll tell you why. Because the Mannings they don't operate
like normal people. I'm not saying they're lizard people. I'm

(17:44):
not saying that. But the Manning family is the royal
family of the NFL. Now, how do I know that?
I first learned that when Eli Manning was going to
be drafted by a team. They used to be a
team in San Diego called the Chargers, and his dad
Archie Manning raised a hull of blue and then at

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that point Eli Manning ended up going to the Giants
instead in a trade. I then also learned of the
power of the Manning family when Peyton Manning was exposed
in the Dark Side documentary of using performance enhancing drugs
and the button was pressed and it all went away.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Nothing to see here. He had Jim Nance, he had all.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
The football commentators on television who were literally licking the
toes of Peyton Manning.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
So I learned.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
I said, this is a royal family situation. Is what
the Manning's run around like. It's windsor Castle. It's the
monarchy of the NFL. And so it's not about Arch
and his draft stock. He could go out there and
vomit all.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Over the field, hook him horns all over the field.
This is about the fame and lead business. Right.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
He's not deciding where he goes. That's the thing that
people don't understand. He's not deciding where he goes. They're
hand picking where he goes, just like Eli with the
Chargers back in the day. And yeah, Arch has to
play well enough, you would say, but ultimately it's it
doesn't really matter because the brand. The Manning brand is bigger.
There are generations of football fans that have have been

(19:25):
given this Manning potion where oh, it's another Maning and
all oh man and so they're not gonna put arch
Manning in some dysfunctional place like Arizona or Carolina or
something like that. And so the whole conversation is pretty funny.
The question isn't will Arch Manning declare for the draft?

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The question is which teams do the Manning family want
to have in play?

Speaker 1 (19:54):
And the obvious ones you don't need me to remind
you of that. The obvious ones are the Colts have
made a move to try to get that pick when
you start Daniel Jones, and really, even if they started
Anthony Richards and you're trying to get the number one pick,
how about the Colts.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Manning family had no problem with Peyton in Indianapolis and
all that. The Saints keep him in the family parish.
There channel back to the gold the good old days.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
There.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
It's like asking the Pope, where's the Eastern Mask going
to be? You know, it's like, well, not really some
democratic decision and all that stuff, but it's all orchestrated.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
By the Manning family and all that, and the Mannings
have the clout good for them.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
And so when Arch Manning at Texas says, day to day,
I'm not really thinking about the twenty twenty six draft,
the malor translation using the Malar Rosetta stone is we're
waiting to see who really sucks this year. And if
it's a team that my grandpa and my and my
uncle's like, then I'm in.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
And if it's a tire fire frame, I'll be back
in Austin.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
It's it's kind of like the NFL's version of secession,
and it's like Art thinks he's in charge, but it's
a family will decide.

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I did not know this that Tom Brady has his
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Speaker 1 (23:11):
Back to it. Back to it we go. As we're
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Speaker 2 (23:14):
Coming up later this hour password the word Game of
the Stars. Alf says Tom Brady has a petting zoo
that you can visit. A terry in England. Always going
below the Belt says Brady has his own Brazilian personal trainer.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Well, I know his ex wife does, but I'm bumped.
There you go.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
No, I'll pay that off right now before I forget So,
Tom Brady, I did not know this, but in Vegas
there's like a Tom.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Brady museum thing in Vegas. I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh really, yeah, I guess it just opened in the
summer at the Fountall Blue that's apparently a luxury hotel
I've never been to the found Home Blue. I know
there's one in Miami where a lot of people have
been arrested over the year, and there's been incidence he
has a famous hotel Miami. Anyway, in Vegas, is he
blew me off at a hotel near lax That I

(24:08):
was Wayne Gretzky who refused to do an interview that
when he was traded from the Kings he did.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah. So it's the.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Hall of Excellence, I say there and Jim Gray is
part of this thing, Brady's it's the brainchild of Tom Brady,
Jim Gray. What did Jim Gray do to get in
with Tom Brady? Wouldn't you love to know that? How
did they become besties? Jim Gray generic site and I
don't have nothing against Jim Gray, but Generic SciTE on

(24:37):
reported Tom Brady very odd and a producer.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I've never heard of.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
This opened up this summer and it's not just all
about Tom Brady. Apparently there's a bunch of other stuff
in there. They have three hundred and ten rare artifacts
at the Hall of Excellence, and they've got Babe Bruce
bat from the nineteen thirty two CA Oh, Jackie Robinson's

(25:03):
nineteen forty seven bat a pair of Air Jordan's worn
by Michael Jordan his rookie season. Like those guys that
did sports casting in the eighties, AVERSA. We used to
work with Pat O'Brien who worked here, who was a
famous sports cast.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
You might not know who it is. He also had
some issues with voicemail.

Speaker 10 (25:20):
I think there's a pub named after him.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, yeah, something like that.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
But pob was a legend in sports media and the
story and Pat talked to us. He has in his
house or he had, I don't know if he still does.
He had Kareem Abdul Jabbar's goggles just like laying around
his house, those iconic goggles that Kareem wore in.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Those battles with the Celtics.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
And it's like, you wonder, like how do these guys
pick up this crap and it just like ends up
around their house and it's like this, it's why anyway
Jim grays on that list, And so there you go.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
I don't know, I get other things I want. I
don't know. I want to go to a Tom I'm
not that.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
I don't not that I have anyth against the Tom
Brady Museum. I think there's other things I would like
I would like to do in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
You know what I'm saying? Yeah, like what Ben gamble?
Uh yeah, a lot of gambling and other things.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Let's go to Let's go Rick, who's sang an ad
at Beautiful Lake?

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Have a suit? Hello? Rick, Welcome.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
Speaking of gambling, I'm actually technically at Moroco Casino right
now and did some gambling tonight.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
I was there.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Are you ahead or are you ahead or behind?

Speaker 3 (26:24):
I thought Chris Poker.

Speaker 5 (26:25):
I bought it for three hundred. I cash out through
seventy five, so that's about even, okay, not breaking even,
and then everything else, you know, I throw it all
in the bubble of craft. So I lost a little
in that the bubble Craft's machines. But listen, dude, I
was here about a week ago, also two weeks ago.
And I don't want to blow smoke up your butt,
whatever compliment you, but that was a night whole Hogan died.
I was sitting there eating to staking eggs and listening

(26:49):
to that monologue you gave about Hulk Hogan and I
could have it was just incredible. I thought it was
It's why you're so good at this.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Uh you know, well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
I appreciate it. I like everyone else, I don't like compliments.
It makes me feel.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Awkward, but I do appreciate. I know, I appreciate it.
I think you missed a spot. But no, but no,
I was.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
I was a huge wrestling fan growing up, like many
people around my age, and even today. I think kids
are still wrestling fans, and they probably grow out of
it sooner than I grew out of it. But yeah,
Hulk Hogan was a big part of my childhood. Man
that was haulk of maniac Man Me and Gene Oakland,
that whole vibe. I remember going with my brother that
talked about it in that monologue. But going out and
seeing wrestling it's huge.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah, I could tell. I could tell it was genuine.
It was genuine. Yeah, okay, if you want me to
go back with a butt. But as I was the
first call after, I got to say, I've been listening
to the show and for a long long there's a butt.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
There's a butt coming here we go. It's a big, fat,
but big booty coming here we go.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
I hate Phil Miller. I don't like him.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
I don't like him either. I think they should bring
they should bring Eddie back or something like that.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Yeah, do you want to do with Phil Miller? And
my suggestion is try an accent or some other thing
because people might confuse, you know, and call up it's
to get us the Bill Miller show.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
You don't want that to happen. That would be horrible
if they thought that. It would be the worst.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Just do it, or Lorena, could I know you?

Speaker 5 (28:11):
Eddie was great at that lead in obviously. Yeah, dude,
I played Eddie trivia craft back in the day, and
I I was one of his first followers on his
new TikTok podcast.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Why don't you play me? A Why don't you play
me at scrabble? Kick your ass of scrabble. I'll play scrabble.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
I'm not a scrabble guy because you don't have that.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
You don't have the lexicon that I have. I kicked
your ass at scrabble.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Oh I know, but one day I want to call
back and play passwords.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Though I think, all right, call back, I gotta go,
all right, thank you.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
I'll tabatu on Thursday. So I am rich from Lake
Tavatou City or a c as we call it.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
All right, Well we're here every night, So feel free
to whenever you want to call. If your board calls up,
we'll be here. Okay, I think I gotta go. That
guy brings up a good point.

Speaker 10 (28:54):
You know, people might get confused, The company might even
get confused. And you know, put put Bill Miller's name
on the website. That could happen.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Be tough. It's not like they didn't do that twenty
years ago. You know, it wouldn't be the most hair brains.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
People don't understand the legend of Bill Miller started by
the company, and I don't think I have time to
get into it because I will not be able to
take any more calls. But if you want send me
a message, I do a podcast on the weekend Fifth
Hour podcast. I can go into the legend of Bill Miller.
But I didn't come up with Bill Miller. Bill Miller
was not my invention. Bill Miller was Iheart's corporate invention.

(29:28):
So if you want to blame anyone, blame my Heart.
Am my fault.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
No, I'm serious, what you what do you do? I
just told her the story. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Do
you want me to give the thumbnail version? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (29:40):
Do it?

Speaker 2 (29:40):
So twenty years ago they relaunched the Fox Sports Radio website.
It's a big deal for the company. Spent a lot
of money on it. They contacted all the talent. They
were very proud of it. They wanted everyone to go
on the website. They wanted everyone to look at the website.
They wanted everyone to celebrate the website. It was a
great accomplishment for Fox Sports Radio. Yes, so we were
all excited. This was in the days before social media.
We all got on the website, all excited. We're all

(30:00):
fired up. Went on the website, clicked a couple buttons,
went to my page on the website.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
There was no page. I said, maybe they made him
say so.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
I started fussing around, and sure enough, there was my
photo and right next to it, Bill Miller right there.
They not only screwed up my first name, they screwed
up the last name. I look at the last name.
So then I I got angry. I said, I contacted

(30:28):
a woman named Annie, a very nice woman who does
not get my sarcasm. I said, Annie, listen, you told
me to look at this website. You screwed up my name.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
I said, don't worry, but I apologize.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
We're going to fix that. We are absolutely going to
fix that, no problem. And so she said, give a
give us a half an hour go back and check out.
And I said, okay, I'll give you a half hour.
So I waited half hour. I went back on the website.
Sure enough was changed. I was now, Ben Miller.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
You've got to be kidding me. So there you go.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
All right, let's go to the phone and let's say hello,
let's go to Dick in Dayton, Matten legend, Dick and Hello,
Dick and Dayton, good morning.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
How are you Ben? And everybody?

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
So I saw a story in Kettering, Ohio, and I
thought of you. I saw the same story, saw the
same one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you you're famously part
of the Kettering Banjo society, which I don't think is
around anymore.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (31:22):
That's true. But we're gonna I think my friends John
and Doug are gonna call me. We're going to have
a little Christmas party. Uh. Somebody told me, oh.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Good, all right, Now that's is that Doug from? Where's
Doug from? Is he Doug from Dayton?

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah? He's uh. He lives at Waynesville over there by Caesars, uh,
over there by sea he always is. Uh, he played
his dad, Caesar Florida.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Interesting, So Beaver Creek is near Caesar's Creek?

Speaker 5 (31:51):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (31:52):
No, No, that's a little bit farther.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh, Beaver's Creek is okay, I got you.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Practically at Wilmington. They're almost forty miles from Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
All those creeks are the same, you know all those Yeah, sure, yeah,
all y uh so so Dick and Dayton. So this
is this? Is it a chick fil A?

Speaker 1 (32:10):
I believe.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
I think it's a Chick fil A and Kettering And
they have a rule in there that anyone is it
under the age of seventeen or something, anyone has to
be with an adult.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah that's why. Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah that's great. Hey, I like the new I watched
the Browns The Lasting Boy. Then there's a Gabriel look
pretty good, Ben.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
You know, but they they named Joe Flaka.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
We need to get your hot take Joe Flacco, QB
one your thoughts.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
I don't I actually don't like them starting.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Oh my god, No, I don't. Why not?

Speaker 3 (32:46):
I don't know. I think they should put put one
of the there's Gabriel in there because they looked pretty good.
The defense look good too, you know.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
And I loved Chris Rose and Joe to almost in
the pregame. They were good.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
They were great.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
So the good Cleveland Brown's pre season pregame. Good coverage, gotcha, okay?

Speaker 3 (33:08):
And I always call up Jeff and Titus at there
and yeah they always say Dixon Dayton and yeah, they're
always always good to me.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Then give me a little taste of that, Dick. Well,
they should.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
They should be good that you're You're a Leeged and
you're one of a kind. You're an original, and you
should be hired by the Browns. You should be fan
ambassador for the Cleveland Browns. They should hire you.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
I was just going to ask you, Ben, are you
still going to be coming? Uh?

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Well, we are. We are going to be visiting you,
Dick and Dayton. Now we do not have a date yet.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
I promise you I I have I have your number
and uh and by the way, my friend, one of
the big radio guy, big radio.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Muckety mucky just sent me a message.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
You wanted to know, have you ever been to a
Chick fil A?

Speaker 3 (33:55):
No? I don't think I have no.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Okay, it's a it's a new restaurant they started. They
sell chicken. You ever had chicken?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
I don't care for chicken.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Okay, you don't reach it? Interesting?

Speaker 3 (34:08):
I like Italian food. I guess they go to.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
His only, and you don't eat like the chicken parm No.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
No, I used to get spaghetti. They always have it
on you know, on sale for how much? Oh?

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Wait, wait, let's guess.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Hold on, how much is the spaghetti at the Italian
restaurant Dick and Dayton goes to in Ohio. Uh, I'm
gonna say eight dollars? Anyone else want in on this game? Lorena,
I'm gonna go for.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Those are with garlic, bread and salad. What about meat, Pauls?
Any meatballs in there?

Speaker 10 (34:41):
No, he doesn't get the meat palls. He might even
just get it with butter. All right, how much I'm
gonna go. I'm gonna say ten dollars even.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay, reveal answers, Dick and Dayton, how much for that spaghetti?

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Five buck?

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Why we're all moving to Ohio, Baby, we're moving to Ohio.
Five dollars spaghetti? There you go.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
That's how they should get people to visit Ohio. Come
to Ohio. Five dollars spaghetti. We're in Boom. You're done, alright,
I gotta go, Thank you, Nick. Bye bye, there you go,
said Dick and Dayton. Hang up on him. We'll say
hello to cowboy John Brady brief Cowboys Corner.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Hello, Cowboy John Brad.

Speaker 7 (35:24):
Hello, Loraina and Ben and Coop. How do you know
snakes have a long life? Less Ben, I don't know how.
Don King's ninety four today, Great Nettles, who should be
in the MLB Hall of Fame, is eighty one today.
And Michael Drosie, who briefly was duke to Dumpster Drosie

(35:45):
and the WWE and seems to have a fondness for
Kidny Porn's fifty seven and if he's convicted, he's spent
a few birthdays in prison.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
After that, I was throwing a fire here.

Speaker 7 (35:57):
My favorite rocker, Phil Up from the band ten Lizzie,
my favorite band would have been seventy six today, but
like he died of our trouble caused by years of
drug abuse on Joanna rapit up January fourth, nineteen eighty quickly, okay,
and see if the few people tomorrow remember that be
a boy to be a cowboy we'll bind hang up.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Password the word game of the start now if line
one and two one to play, will do that. But
otherwise eight seven seven ninety nine on Foxwall password the
word Game of the Stars.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to
listen live.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
It is Bill.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Miller, much to the annoyment of the gentleman that called up.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
From the casino does not like that at all.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
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overnight show, the Ben Mallers Show, you'll want to catch
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You can even provide a witty review. Again. Just search
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Speaker 2 (37:16):
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Speaker 4 (37:24):
Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Password the word Game of the Stars.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
Here's Ben Meller.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Here we go. Password time.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
We will hear by the way hopefully tomorrow from our
astrology insider Andrea.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Good check in, meet Andrew. At some point we'll do
a Bay area meet and greet and make that happen.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Let's welcome in our contestants, boy Battle of Netwitz.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
We have.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Mike the Leprechaun in the Commonwealth.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.

Speaker 7 (37:58):
Good morning, Ben, I have good luck to and my
dunk acculting me.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Who do you want to they got that damn duck?
Who do you want to partner up with?

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Well? Can I have Eddie Garcia?

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (38:08):
Can I have them?

Speaker 7 (38:10):
Okay, I'm gonna go with the one who picks on me,
the Lease.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Coop, Coop the Loop?

Speaker 2 (38:14):
All right, very good? And Marcel and Brooklyn. Hello Marcel,
who do you want to partner up with?

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Marcel?

Speaker 3 (38:20):
I'm gonna be with you, bet Mike.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Oh oh that's right. These are rivals.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Okay, Coop, you're with Mike the Leprechaun and I am
with Marcel.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
We have a list of words. Let's get started. Here
we go. Battle of Itwitz.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
We've got Mike the Leprechaun versus Marcel and pick a
number please one to ten.

Speaker 9 (38:38):
Mike the Leprechaun, Dad Ducks Dynasty anyway, number two, number two.

Speaker 10 (38:48):
Okay, Uh, let's go with with ten.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Let's see yup, let's let's go with uh.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Come outdoors, hurry us, hurry up, say something.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Five four three outdoors? What do you say? All right?
Jesus So he didn't have a guess.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Marcel Coop said, outdoors, I'm gonna use the mallorw maneuver.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
Here we go, let's go mother.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
All right, Mike, do you know what it is now?

Speaker 7 (39:38):
I don't?

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Oh my god? Did I said? Your doors? Hurry y'all?
Tucking over me? Outdoors?

Speaker 2 (39:48):
What mother load? La la, you're you're all loser? It
was Marcel was funnier. The word was nature. I'm ending
the game right, No, the word was nature, ending the
game
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