December 10, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about reports that Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman is drawing interest from NFL teams, Jerry Jones saying he's not concerned about George Pickens' effort for the Cowboys, Taylor Swift being downgraded on NFL broadcasts, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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or sell. Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman drawing legitimate interest
from NFL teams in the coaching cycle the coaching carousel. Also,
Jerry Jones says he's not concerned, not concerned about George
Pickens's effort for the Cowboys, even though it was called
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out by a number of former players. Does he actually
believe it? Though? Does Jerry actually believe it? And give
me your reaction to Taylor Swift being downgraded on NFL
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crown is yours. So our lead this hour is from
South Bend. Are they still having a hissy fit? I
think they're still having a hissy fit there, Notre Dame
skipping the ball season to get back at ABC, Mickey Mouse,
ESPN and all that. So they had their college football
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conniption fit, which was it's enjoyable. I got a kick
out of it anyway. Now they're apparently going to have
to contact Express Pros for a coach. What are you
talking about? I don't if you saw this. There's a
lot of rumors bouncing around the pinball machine. The echo
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Chamber and Notre Dame Athletic director Pete Bavaqua. Bavakua, he
couldn't water if he fell off a boat. So Pete
Bavaqua acknowledged the NFL looking to poach Marcus Freeman, saying
that he will push to make him one of the
highest paid coaches in college football because the NFL lurking
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in the shadows. That's good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question by or Sell. By or Sell, Notre
Dom coach Marcus Freeman, the Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman
drawing legitimate interest, legitimate interest from NFL teams on the
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coaching carousel, this cycle of coaching. So I've got Abra kadabra,
big store and quantum physics, and we will combine all
of these things together. We're gonna make a nice spread
of Baba ganoosh and the Gabba ghoul and we'll combine
those together, and then we're gonna make a little rice.
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We'll have that yell me yeah, some bread, a little
bit of this, a little bit of that. Put it
all together, all right. Not to kick off, I am
buying this. I'm gonna buy this rumor like it's on
the clearance rack at the whistle warehouse. That's where these
coaches all hang out, the whistle warehouse. And here's why,
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because we are living in a drought. What's that, Yeah,
it's a coaching drought. There is a supply chain shortage.
Remember during the pandemic then there were supply chain issues
and all. Yeah, in this case, where have our sideline
saviors gone? America needs you, we need you. Where have
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you got the NFL coaching carousel? Round and round and
round and round the coaching carousel there goes. It's spinning
around and instead of blue chip, I gotta hire that
guy coaching candidates. You've got recycled leftovers. If you look
at the tupperware in the back of the fridge, the
meat loaf in there. Yeah, the meat loaf I think
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is from October. There's some orange chicken in a little
to go Chinese takeout box that's from July. It's in
the back of the fridge. Okay, so that's what you got.
Do you want the takeout box with the orange chicken
in it? And there's a little I think there's some
chow maine in there. And then you've got the meat
loaf and it looks a little gray. I don't know
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that i'd eat it. I guess if you cook it enough,
it might be fun. Look at the recycled leftovers. Robert
Salah an abject failure with the Jets. Robert Salah forty
nine as defensive cordator. Matt Naggy of the Chiefs has
gotten some atten. Shoudn't even know. Kansas City's not having
that good a year. Those are a couple of examples.
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And those coaches lukewarm. It's lukewarm at this point. Mike
McCarthy also a hot name that's being tossed a bandied about.
I like the word bandied. You only use that when
you said bandied talking about coaches bandied about. So it's
like lukewarm oatmeal is what it is. Not that exciting
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to look at. So now entering the chat from the
left is Marcus Freeman. He's the prototype central casting coach.
He's I believe thirty nine. I think he's thirty nine.
He's got the matinee idol looks. He can inspire boosters
to open up their wallets or direct deposit, and he
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can intimidate the eighteen year old recruits to come to
South Bend for the giant check and all that. The
guy led Notre Dame to the National title game that
didn't go so well, but I got there and has
a forty three and twelve record, helps to play the
Service academies every year, and looks good enough, good enough
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in a headset where you're like, okay, you can convince
the owner of some NFL team to give you a contract.
And I remember reading a story it was about baseball
a couple of years back, and they said that if
you have a big chin like you have this certain
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look in baseball managers, if you have a giant chin,
you have a better chance of getting a job as
a manager. But just in general, we know this from
the age of television. Typically there are some exceptions. I know,
you can insert your own jokes, but for the most part,
the better looking person wins a political election that in
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the all days before it was just radio, it didn't matter.
Television came along, obviously. Now television has been usurped by
the Internet and social media, which is the same concept
and all that stuff. But regardless of that, right, using
the Mallard Dekoda ring that I got at a chucky
cheese in the nineteen nineties. The rumor has leverage. This
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rumor has leveraged. Even if it's abra cadabra, hocus pocus presto,
just like that, taken right out of thin air, it
doesn't matter. It has it has legs. Here's why. And
I've had we've had a couple coaches that have worked
here over the years. I actually in the old days,
I did some shows with a few of the old
NFL coaches that passed through here, and they've all said
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essentially the same thing. They've used different words, they've said
essentially the same thing, that it's the oldest hustle around
and it goes on in every sport in football though.
This is the way the hustle works. I think you
know this. The agent for the coach in this case,
Marcus Freeman, leaks NFL interest. The NFL is knocking on
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the door. Okay, they're knocking again. Why they knocking so much?
Ring the bell? And so the agent leaks the story
to a useful idiot in the media, one of these
insigner guys, and so that gets put out there and
it gets leaked the way like a pitcher in baseball
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would lick their fingers, it's strategic, it's illegal, borderline illegal,
and they step off the mountain or the second the
most passionate fans of that team, this case Notre Dame,
the boosters. They believe in this case that the New
York Giants, for example, are all hot and horny for
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Marcus Freeman. Kut ching, kut ching, kut ching. Notre Dame
then rips up the old contract money manny, make it
rain like a stripper at a nightclub. Just make it rain. Historically,
here's the great thing about this. Notre Dame has actually
not had many coaches that have left to go to
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the NFL. I did a little digging because I have
no life and I'm a loser, and based on my
minutes long mallor investigation, I determined there have only been
three head coaches that have at one point coached at
Notre Dame in South Bend, hung out with touchdown Jesus,
and then gone to the National Football League. The most
famous is Lou Holtz. If you're old, you know who
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that is. And Lou Holtz is the most famous. But
if you go back and look at the other coaches
back in the Stone Age, collectively, Notre Dame. Coaches in
the NFL have a three to twenty three winning percentage.
No hardware, no confetti, none of that stuff. And yet
this cycle, Marcus Freeman's name is the not the golden ticket,
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it's the gold than Domer ticket. Is it true? Is
it false? Is it fabricated? Well, even if it's fabricated,
and I believe there is something there because I've talked
to some of my people. I go, you go to
these stupid NFL games. If people talk to me, I
don't know why they talk to me. I don't want
to talk to anyone. And you know, like gossip, you know,
eat your meat balls and people tell you gossip and
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they're like this, for example, some of the stuff I heard.
I was at the Monday night game, the Chargers game
with the Eagles, and they're like, well, no one's in.
The Steelers are't gonna fire Tomlin even if they flame out,
although they did win this weekend, because there's no one
there to replace them, and that was there, right, Maybe
there are, Well, there's just not enough candidates. There's gonna
be more jobs open up. Tennessee's open, the Giants is open,
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Atlanta is likely to be open if Tampa Bay falls apart.
They lose to the Falcons on Thursday, and Todd Bowles
doesn't get it done there, then he'll likely be out
in Tampa. And you can go around. I mean, there's
like every year there's anywhere from six to ten jobs
that open up. There's not six to ten candidates for
these jobs. So the argument that welf Tomlin gets let
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go in Pittsburgh, he's just gonna run off to another
job right away and if he wants and if he doesn't,
he can sit it out or whatever. All right, Now,
furthermore to Dallas, how about them Cowboys? Same old Sorry
ask cowboys? Will more fallout from Richard Sherman on the
Amazon ripping George Pickens. Now, we talked about this in
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previous episodes of the show, he said. According to Richard Sherman,
there he said, George Pickens looked uninterested in playing football. Now,
I've said this over the years about Pickings, but I
didn't play in the NFL, so no one cares so
uninterested in playing football now. During his weekly appearance on
Dallas Sports Radio, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked if
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he had changed his opinion regarding the effort of George Pickens.
What did Jerry say? Jerry said, quote one of the
things that you've got to appreciate about George Pickens is
his intensity for the competition, Jerry Jones said, with his
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deadpan delivery. Now he is a big time competitor, Jerry
Jones continued, when it comes to competing and when it
comes to loving the game, I emphasize that point right there,
loving the game, and I give him a pluses. Close quote.
So Jerry Jones laying it, I'm thick the question. Jerry
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Jones saying he's not concerned in so many words about
George Pickens' effort for the Cowboys, said, but does he
actually believe it? Does Jerry actually believe it? So Jerry's
out there even though it's a morning radio show that
he goes on. It's bedtime Stories with Jerry, Bedtime Stories
with Jerry, and we are supposed to believe. We're supposed
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to believe here that George Pickens is an A plus
competitor because he likes football. Huh okay, because he loves
the game for the love of the game. It's a movie,
it's a book, the whole thing. Yeah, And Jerrybody. That's
not the debate. See the debate is not that. That's
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not the debate. The whole issue is George Pickens is
starting to turn into that guy, the guy that Mike
Tomlin couldn't wait to give away and all the Cowboy
fans were doing a victory lap a couple of weeks ago,
and all of a sudden like, well, wait a minute,
this isn't very good. And Pickens has in that game.
It have been some games he hasn't been that guy.
But in the game against the Lions, George Pickens literally
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stopped playing when the ball wasn't coming his way. Like,
that's not love of the game. That is love of
the big box store. His favorite big box store. You
know what it is. It's not Costco it No, it's
not Walmart. It's Target. He loves his Target. Chair can't
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get enough. That is the trickeration. I believe what Jerry
Jones is doing here. Some would say Jerry's not smart
enough to pull this up. I believe he is. Jerry
Jones is using reverse psychology bull crap. That is what
he's doing here. Like Jerry's talking like a proud father,
a proud proud Papa, and it's like career day and
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he's celebrating George Pickens, singing the virtues of George Pickens,
like he's out there giving forgetting, he's giving up on
routes or roots like their expired coupons and all that.
Just pretend that part didn't happen. The tape does not lie.
There are clips on the YouTube, many of them have
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already been deleted because the NFL overlords don't want you
to see it. The effort meter, if you were to
grade the effort meter, it's a capital E, as in
very little empty empty, empty empty is what it is.
And let's be the cowboys are gas lighting themselves. They are,
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they don't want The nightmare is that the Pittsburgh version
of George Pickens shows up sulking, bad body language, the
arms crossed, the give me the ball or else diva mantra,
and so they're tiptoeing around him like he's a skunk
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in the garage, and well, there's a grudge, there's a skunk.
How'd the skunk get in the grudge? I don't care,
just I don't want it to squirt the skunk smell.
So let's let's all be good. Okay, we'll be good.
Let's tiptoe around. Maybe the skunk won't won't bother. Okay,
I'll find and it's simple. He really listen, if the
play call features George Pickens, he is a monster, but
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a good kind of monster, good kind of monster if not.
It's the thing I like when when the play's going
his way, he's a lion, and when the play is
not going his way, he's a housecat. He's a house cat,
and Jerry knows it, and you look at Schottenheimer. Schottenheimer
knows it, and everyone knows it. Everyone's aware, and you
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know it's like it's kind of like the Raiders can't
say anything bad about Geno Smith even though he sucks,
because Geno's soft and he can't handle criticism. It's the
same concept like George Pickens, if you rip him, if
you if you speak the truth about George Pickens, you're
going to completely lose George Pickens. That's it. So in
terms of competitor, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go zero.
I'm gonna go F minus on the explanation from Jerry Jones.
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Not a zero for Pickens, but F minus on the
explanation from Jerry Jones, all right, now, last thing to
TV land. We go, We go to TV land, and
we have a change this year. We noticed it a
couple of weeks ago. We mentioned it in passing. Other
people have picked up on the story that if you
haven't noticed them, maybe not, whether it's and Fox or
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CBS or ABC. The pop diva, America's sweetheart, America's entertainment
Taylor Swift, well, for years, a couple of years anyway,
she was constantly shown on NFL broadcast and some people
loved it, other people were annoyed by it. However, it
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didn't matter. She was shown no matter what, for better
or worse. Taylor Swift was a constant presence on NFL
broadcast in America. However, this season, if you watch the
Kansas City Chiefs, things have changed dramatically. Taylor Swift is
not on television very efect the game the other day
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for the Chiefs against the Texans, she was shown one time.
That's it. Robert Kraft gets more TV time. Has anyone
watched the Patriot game without seeing Robert Kraft on TV
multiple times futzing around with his phone? Has anyone the
Taylor Swift right now, she's getting less TV time than
Robert Kraft at a Patriot game. And people are putting
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the dot they're connecting the dots and they're putting everything
together here. And they pointed out that the NFL broadcasts
they've changed, and they've changed pretty dramatically this year, and
their reports saying the reasons include fan fatigue and more importantly,
Taylor Swift and her desire to not be on television
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all that much. So the question, give me your reaction
to Taylor Swift being downgraded on NFL television broadcast here
in twenty twenty five, so real quick, the NFL has
completely screwed this up. They have downgrading Taylor Swift on
the broadcast. This is an unforced error. It's a big mistake.
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It is a massive bobo. Have the Golden goose right there,
the ratings rocket ship that crosses over and gets people
that aren't just football fans to watch the pop culture
cheat code drop in your lap and you voluntarily unplugged it.
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Say what, that's brilliant unless it's not. Now, there is
this thing called quantum physics where there are two truths
that exist at the same time. So looking at it
through looking at it through that that perspective, Taylor Swift's camp,
it's pretty clear that this is an intentional thing. They've said, hey, listen,
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ease off on the circus is getting too loud here,
and just kind of ease up on it. That's fine.
The real snuffle figous in the room. You can make
the request. They don't have to honor the request. The
real snuff alopigus in the room. Travis Kelcey suddenly looks
like he's retired, and it's like you put a podcast out.
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In an NFL game, he'd play like Kelsey's playing this year.
A lot of drops, a lot of slipops, roots that
the pass bounces off his hands and gets tipped and intercepted,
and it's like these things are drawn with cramps. Is
Travis Kelcey a top five tight end?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
In terms of playmakings? He a top ten player in
the NFL this year?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Is he a top fifty. He's gotta be top fifteen, right,
Is he top twenty? No, he's not, And he's pretty
much in the middle of the pack. You know, look
at the eyeball test and you look at the statistics,
and this would have been the perfect time. If I
was directing an NFL broadcast, this would have been the
perfect time to lean in to those reaction shots. While
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Taylor Swift is eating the chicken wings in the luxury
box at Arrowhead and Travis Kelcey just butterfingers Kelsey the
past bounces off his hands, gets tipped in the air
everywhere and intercepted, I want to see Taylor Swift's reaction.
Show the agony, show me the eye roll, show me
the shoulder shrug from Taylor Swift. Let the audience marinate
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in the mellow drama. We don't get that, we don't.
We get a sanitized NFL broadcast, which is rainbows and
lollipops and puppy dogs. It's the training wheels of television,
is what we get. And they scrub really the only
compelling subplot that's going right now for the Chiefs. They're
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falling apart, they're losing games they in the past would
have never lost, and you have this opportunity with Taylor Swift,
and the NFL is like, well, we fixed the problem. No,
you didn't. In reality, this is the greatest crossover promotional
vehicle you've ever had, and you've screwed it Up, Epic Fumble,
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all right, back to it we go. There's a bit
of controversy here on the show, and there's a there's
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all this a guy named super Marcus Steve, who's a troublemaker.
Point that out right away, the big time troublemaker, he
tries to start a lot of radio wars. Uh that
that's that's how he operates. And so he had he
sent me something. I don't know about this, and I
didn't really know much about it, but he claims that
a Fox Sports radio your host has admitted to stealing
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the Chicken Parmersana line from Marcel and Brooklyn. Is it
true that LeVar Arrington, big time morning host, has admitted
to stealing the Chicken Parmergana line.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
The chicken.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Developing story development? Uh, Marcel, your thoughts on LaVar Arrington
stealing your line Marcel and Brooklyn?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Ooh, LaVar Arrington from in the NFL. Huh. Good morning
to you, Ben, Lorena and Cookie Loup. Good morning to
everyone at Happy Humpday.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Let's sell it to Jerome and Charleston. Good take Marcel, Jerome,
what's going on? Jerome?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
LeVar arringtons met for forty five millions?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
As you are so sessed with money, by the way,
you were so obsessed.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
With money man when you're poor.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I know, but you gotta look at it this way. Jerom, Jerome, Jerome.
You listen, You enter this world with no money and
you leave with no money. So yeah, that's kind of
the way it works.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yes, I understand that, but I just, I just I
just wanted to when you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
That, where where have you been? By the way, dream?
Where have you been? I love when you call up
and annoyed me? Where have you You've not annoyed me
in a while? Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I love a very low profile man.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I know, I know, you know how I know that true?
You know how you know you know I know that's
wrong because I was in Charleston. I was like five
blocks away from you, and you didn't leave your house.
You did not leave your house. I was in your town.
I offered to buy you a meal. I said, I'd
buy you some burger.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I've lived here a long time. Your geography is way off. Okay, okay,
where I'm located, it's about forty five minutes, half an
hour maybe from.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Where I Is that a walk though? It's a walk,
though it's a walked room. Look, it's not a it's
not a drive. It's not a drive. It's a forty
five minute walk to Rome, which means it's about what
a ten minute drive or something like that. Come on, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm just saying, Jerome, I was literally there. What's closer?
We do the show from Los Angeles. What's closer Jerome,
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Los Angeles or down the street in Charleston.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That a rhetorical question, you think, God, you know what
the answer?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I know you are a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Closer than in Los Angeles in California, like twice, and
I haven't been there in yet.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
All right, all right, so you're a hermit. Just for
the record, attention advertisers. You're a hermit. You don't leave
your house, you have no money. But other than that,
everything's good.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Recluse. Yeah, I just got good news for my doctor Todd.
I don't have to take any more answering for a while.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh that's good. There you go. See that's a pot.
Now now you're Jerome bright Side.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, you know, it took me about twenty years there,
fifteen years to get off. But hey, once I get
off whatever, I intend to stay off of it, you know.
But uh, hey, I was I wanted to bring up
the story about Odell Beckham saying that it's hard to
live on one hundred million dollars. Is there something cognitive him?
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There's something you know? It means you. Well.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
The best part about that, Jerome, there's million I know.
I'll come down, take a breath. The best part about that,
there's two things. There's two things, Jerome that are great
about that. There were actually people defending Odell Beckham, which
I thought was hilarious, and then Odell Beckham said, you
have to you have to flash your money. Where is
there a rule, Jerome, you have to flash your money?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Sorry too, don't leave the judio, don't leave the cars out,
don't leave all this, and you gotta go and let
everybody know.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I gotta tell you, Joe, if I ever made the
big money, I'm not gonna be like even Tom Brady.
He wore like a five hundred dollar watch the other day.
I wouldn't do that. It's not whether you it's not
whether you're gonna it's not whether you can afford it
or not. Like you just make yourself a giant target
when you wear stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Why boss, I'm so cheap man. I bought something like
two do something from Amazon, and I'm excited. I was
excited about I am so cheap. I can't help it man.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yes, you gotta call me Joe. Listen, I gotta go.
You gotta call me more off and okay, all right,
go away. There's a zerole. Let's say hello to Eenie
Meenie miney Moe. Let's go to Mike in New Hampshire.
What's going on? Mike? Welcome?
Speaker 8 (31:43):
Hey, you guys get into like sports memo and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Like sports member of Billia. Yeah, well, Lorrain, of course
she she loves uh fluff mellows or whatever it's called
their swish squish. My bad, Ben. I know I'm good,
but only squish smelling, is that right? Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I want to send out some gifts to you guys.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh well, now you've got our my hat guy, Mike.
That's what I like. I got. I'm a hat guy
ever since the hair went away. I love my hats,
So that's my thing. Lorena, What anything surprise me? I
like surprising? Sure about that?
Speaker 6 (32:25):
All right?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Not to be on the same pitch coop anything? Uh
holiday season, Mike's gonna spoil us here in New Hampshire.
I like sports memorabilia, Like you want some Broncos stuff
or something that Broncos and Lakers those are the only
two teams. Like I got a little about the Angels,
you can send a big a Yeah, you don't have
(32:48):
to send Mike. You know, you don't have to send
it to any Mike. You know that we're.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Finding I know that. Yeah, you know, I'm just being nice.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I got a ton of stuff.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
So I uh, that's.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
A home that's a humble brag by Mike in New Hampshire.
Humble brag. I got a ton of stuff. Humble brack.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
That's why Lorena likes the Cole Girls so well.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
She does unless there's a movie that she needs to
watch while they're playing, and then, uh, you know, then
she's she's out tri ya exactly. Uh, unless any of
her friends want to hang out, then she will not watch.
All right, thank you? Yeah, you want to talk to
(33:29):
your buddy Marcel. You want to say to Marcel, let's
see block that guy, all right, Marcel, I have to
block you. Mike in New Hampshire wants me to block you.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Not this time, Not Marshall, Marcel, the champ is here
here block block that.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Wait, Marcel, Marcel, why are you more upset with Mike
in New Hampshire, than LaVar Arrington, who's been accused of
stealing your line, your chicken palmersanline.
Speaker 8 (34:00):
Oh that Mike, and.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
New Hampshire is going to store my chicken parme sean
the chicken Parmesan. But especially but not for voting for
mikel were actually voting for.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That, Marcel, Marcel, take a break? Can you can you
give us a new drop? Can you say feeccini Alfredo.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Fredo for that New Hampshire sweet Genilie wish.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I thought Marcel said it better. Personally. I thought that was.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Believe it or not. Put this Mike in New Hampshire
and the rest of.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
These let's try that again. Say one more time, Marsa,
we're gonna record this. Fccini Alfredo Fredo. That's my god.
That is why you are the five time caller of
the year. Marcel, right.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Some TV pick.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Oh you don't have time for that. Uh, leave time
for passwords. Mike the Leprechaun, anything you'd like to add?
You're friends with Mike in New Hampshire and then you
want to add there, Mike the leprechauns I'm pretty rich. Okay,
he's rich. Mark on the North End, Hello, Mark, Hey.
Speaker 9 (35:06):
Good morning. But before I get to the tail of
swift nonsense, I just want to let Coop to Loup
know that I'm sitting Jared Golf this weekend and I'm
going with Bownicks and Courtland Sutton to keep me alive
in my fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Ooh, you're sitting who for both Jared Goff against the
Rams defense.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
I'm sitting Jared Goff. I'm sitting Jared Golf, and I'm
putting in Bonnicks.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I have well and you enjoy that. One eighty yards
and one touchdown. That'll be good for you.
Speaker 9 (35:35):
But anyway, Ben on the tail of swift nonsense, I
believe it's the fans that have spoken. They don't want
to see her face on TV during football games because
nobody cares. Nobody cares, and it's kind of hard to
show her when the Chiefs sucked the way they do
this year.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Travis isn't doing anything, so they're don.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
She does get a reaction though. People care, They care,
even if they hate her, they react to her. They
react to it.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
Well, then all I know is this. I think it's all.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
To be honest, you could say that, but a lot
of things I got you all right, all right, Mario,
we love you man.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
There's Mark. He's the boss of the North and not
blind Scott. Mark runs the North End. He does. This
is my favorite part of Boston. I love hanging out there.
It's really cool. I always make sure to visit the
North and when I come to Boston, it is the
Ben Mahlor Show. By the way, Jerry Springer of coaches,
that would be Bill Belichick. Thirty days after asking Bill
(36:36):
Belichick to decide, Belichick was given an ultimatum between Jordaan
Hudson and his family. Well, the daughter in law of
Bill Belichick was spotted by the tabloids partying with Bill
Belichick's x Linda Holiday. Is that not Jerry Springer stuff?
That's wild, right, Yeah, the daughter in law is hanging
(36:57):
out with his ex. And that's a statement that some
Jerry Springer action right there. Who knew Belchick was like that.
I guess everyone's got multiple sides. We got password the
word Game of the Stars. We'll get to that and
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Game of the Stars, Here's Ben Mahler, Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Welcome into our contestants for password the word Game of
the stars. We have let's see your any meaning. We
have far out Dave, who's going to play? Hello far
out Dave?
Speaker 7 (38:58):
Hey, good morning?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
If I was any better, I would be a Swift
but not Taylor Swift?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
So why not?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Because you're boyfriend's not playing?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Very what's the over under on most of the listeners?
Speaker 8 (39:13):
Are they beating traffic or beating something else?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Who dogged a partner up with Dave?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
How about you?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Oh boy? All right? All right, Loraina picked one or three?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Loraina?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Umb well, you have picked blind Scott? Hello, blind Scott.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah, the ratings book in Radio End Friday. I'm gonna
pick Lorraina. Let's make America nut again?
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Okay, all right, well you just screwed up the whole thing. Okay,
let's play the game here and Dave pick a number
one to ten? Please? Number one to ten? All right,
let's go with that's the eeny meenie miney moe. Wait,
which one did you choose? Ten? Yes? You picked number ten.
(40:06):
I'm going first. Don't worry. Let's go with uh kind hearted?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Kind hearted? Kind hearted?
Speaker 3 (40:17):
What? No?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Horrible?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
A double word?
Speaker 1 (40:24):
It's one word. You can look it up.
Speaker 10 (40:26):
Got you ready, yep?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Charitable fundraise? No, how about giving giving.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Donation? Donation?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
No, all right, let's go this way. Santa, that's what
that's not gonna that's a terrible clue. You've just given
a terrible put everything together? What is Santa? These people
can't put they can't put two words together. Oh no,
they're not gonna get all right. Yeah, the word was generous.
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A pick a number, Scott, So what time is it?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Number six?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Number six? Go ahead, lorraina number six. Oh gosh, is
that your clue? Gosh? No, no, no, guard?
Speaker 3 (41:18):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (41:19):
Guard?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Bioh? Dave is a pizza crap he takes shot?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
All right, borrow Dave. Let's go with uh. Protect. Oh
that's what I was gonna say, God protect, Oh my god,
why do we even do this? The word is defend.
The word is defend. We're all dumber. Everyone's dumber for this.
The word was defend.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
It was defend.
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crown is yours. So our lead this hour is from
South Bend. Are they still having a hissy fit? I
think they're still having a hissy fit there, Notre Dame
skipping the ball season to get back at ABC, Mickey Mouse,
ESPN and all that. So they had their college football
(03:43):
conniption fit, which was it's enjoyable. I got a kick
out of it anyway. Now they're apparently going to have
to contact Express Pros for a coach. What are you
talking about? I don't if you saw this. There's a
lot of rumors bouncing around the pinball machine. The echo
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Chamber and Notre Dame Athletic director Pete Bavaqua. Bavakua, he
couldn't water if he fell off a boat. So Pete
Bavaqua acknowledged the NFL looking to poach Marcus Freeman, saying
that he will push to make him one of the
highest paid coaches in college football because the NFL lurking
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in the shadows. That's good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question by or Sell. By or Sell, Notre
Dom coach Marcus Freeman, the Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman
drawing legitimate interest, legitimate interest from NFL teams on the
(04:52):
coaching carousel, this cycle of coaching. So I've got Abra kadabra,
big store and quantum physics, and we will combine all
of these things together. We're gonna make a nice spread
of Baba ganoosh and the Gabba ghoul and we'll combine
those together, and then we're gonna make a little rice.
(05:15):
We'll have that yell me yeah, some bread, a little
bit of this, a little bit of that. Put it
all together, all right. Not to kick off, I am
buying this. I'm gonna buy this rumor like it's on
the clearance rack at the whistle warehouse. That's where these
coaches all hang out, the whistle warehouse. And here's why,
(05:37):
because we are living in a drought. What's that, Yeah,
it's a coaching drought. There is a supply chain shortage.
Remember during the pandemic then there were supply chain issues
and all. Yeah, in this case, where have our sideline
saviors gone? America needs you, we need you. Where have
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you got the NFL coaching carousel? Round and round and
round and round the coaching carousel there goes. It's spinning
around and instead of blue chip, I gotta hire that
guy coaching candidates. You've got recycled leftovers. If you look
at the tupperware in the back of the fridge, the
meat loaf in there. Yeah, the meat loaf I think
(06:22):
is from October. There's some orange chicken in a little
to go Chinese takeout box that's from July. It's in
the back of the fridge. Okay, so that's what you got.
Do you want the takeout box with the orange chicken
in it? And there's a little I think there's some
chow maine in there. And then you've got the meat
loaf and it looks a little gray. I don't know
(06:43):
that i'd eat it. I guess if you cook it enough,
it might be fun. Look at the recycled leftovers. Robert
Salah an abject failure with the Jets. Robert Salah forty
nine as defensive cordator. Matt Naggy of the Chiefs has
gotten some atten. Shoudn't even know. Kansas City's not having
that good a year. Those are a couple of examples.
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And those coaches lukewarm. It's lukewarm at this point. Mike
McCarthy also a hot name that's being tossed a bandied about.
I like the word bandied. You only use that when
you said bandied talking about coaches bandied about. So it's
like lukewarm oatmeal is what it is. Not that exciting
(07:27):
to look at. So now entering the chat from the
left is Marcus Freeman. He's the prototype central casting coach.
He's I believe thirty nine. I think he's thirty nine.
He's got the matinee idol looks. He can inspire boosters
to open up their wallets or direct deposit, and he
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can intimidate the eighteen year old recruits to come to
South Bend for the giant check and all that. The
guy led Notre Dame to the National title game that
didn't go so well, but I got there and has
a forty three and twelve record, helps to play the
Service academies every year, and looks good enough, good enough
(08:10):
in a headset where you're like, okay, you can convince
the owner of some NFL team to give you a contract.
And I remember reading a story it was about baseball
a couple of years back, and they said that if
you have a big chin like you have this certain
(08:30):
look in baseball managers, if you have a giant chin,
you have a better chance of getting a job as
a manager. But just in general, we know this from
the age of television. Typically there are some exceptions. I know,
you can insert your own jokes, but for the most part,
the better looking person wins a political election that in
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the all days before it was just radio, it didn't matter.
Television came along, obviously. Now television has been usurped by
the Internet and social media, which is the same concept
and all that stuff. But regardless of that, right, using
the Mallard Dekoda ring that I got at a chucky
cheese in the nineteen nineties. The rumor has leverage. This
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rumor has leveraged. Even if it's abra cadabra, hocus pocus presto,
just like that, taken right out of thin air, it
doesn't matter. It has it has legs. Here's why. And
I've had we've had a couple coaches that have worked
here over the years. I actually in the old days,
I did some shows with a few of the old
NFL coaches that passed through here, and they've all said
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essentially the same thing. They've used different words, they've said
essentially the same thing, that it's the oldest hustle around
and it goes on in every sport in football though.
This is the way the hustle works. I think you
know this. The agent for the coach in this case,
Marcus Freeman, leaks NFL interest. The NFL is knocking on
(10:07):
the door. Okay, they're knocking again. Why they knocking so much?
Ring the bell? And so the agent leaks the story
to a useful idiot in the media, one of these
insigner guys, and so that gets put out there and
it gets leaked the way like a pitcher in baseball
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would lick their fingers, it's strategic, it's illegal, borderline illegal,
and they step off the mountain or the second the
most passionate fans of that team, this case Notre Dame,
the boosters. They believe in this case that the New
York Giants, for example, are all hot and horny for
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Marcus Freeman. Kut ching, kut ching, kut ching. Notre Dame
then rips up the old contract money manny, make it
rain like a stripper at a nightclub. Just make it rain. Historically,
here's the great thing about this. Notre Dame has actually
not had many coaches that have left to go to
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the NFL. I did a little digging because I have
no life and I'm a loser, and based on my
minutes long mallor investigation, I determined there have only been
three head coaches that have at one point coached at
Notre Dame in South Bend, hung out with touchdown Jesus,
and then gone to the National Football League. The most
famous is Lou Holtz. If you're old, you know who
(11:34):
that is. And Lou Holtz is the most famous. But
if you go back and look at the other coaches
back in the Stone Age, collectively, Notre Dame. Coaches in
the NFL have a three to twenty three winning percentage.
No hardware, no confetti, none of that stuff. And yet
this cycle, Marcus Freeman's name is the not the golden ticket,
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it's the gold than Domer ticket. Is it true? Is
it false? Is it fabricated? Well, even if it's fabricated,
and I believe there is something there because I've talked
to some of my people. I go, you go to
these stupid NFL games. If people talk to me, I
don't know why they talk to me. I don't want
to talk to anyone. And you know, like gossip, you know,
eat your meat balls and people tell you gossip and
(12:20):
they're like this, for example, some of the stuff I heard.
I was at the Monday night game, the Chargers game
with the Eagles, and they're like, well, no one's in.
The Steelers are't gonna fire Tomlin even if they flame out,
although they did win this weekend, because there's no one
there to replace them, and that was there, right, Maybe
there are, Well, there's just not enough candidates. There's gonna
be more jobs open up. Tennessee's open, the Giants is open,
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Atlanta is likely to be open if Tampa Bay falls apart.
They lose to the Falcons on Thursday, and Todd Bowles
doesn't get it done there, then he'll likely be out
in Tampa. And you can go around. I mean, there's
like every year there's anywhere from six to ten jobs
that open up. There's not six to ten candidates for
these jobs. So the argument that welf Tomlin gets let
(13:03):
go in Pittsburgh, he's just gonna run off to another
job right away and if he wants and if he doesn't,
he can sit it out or whatever. All right, Now,
furthermore to Dallas, how about them Cowboys? Same old Sorry
ask cowboys? Will more fallout from Richard Sherman on the
Amazon ripping George Pickens. Now, we talked about this in
(13:23):
previous episodes of the show, he said. According to Richard Sherman,
there he said, George Pickens looked uninterested in playing football. Now,
I've said this over the years about Pickings, but I
didn't play in the NFL, so no one cares so
uninterested in playing football now. During his weekly appearance on
Dallas Sports Radio, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked if
(13:46):
he had changed his opinion regarding the effort of George Pickens.
What did Jerry say? Jerry said, quote one of the
things that you've got to appreciate about George Pickens is
his intensity for the competition, Jerry Jones said, with his
(14:08):
deadpan delivery. Now he is a big time competitor, Jerry
Jones continued, when it comes to competing and when it
comes to loving the game, I emphasize that point right there,
loving the game, and I give him a pluses. Close quote.
So Jerry Jones laying it, I'm thick the question. Jerry
(14:31):
Jones saying he's not concerned in so many words about
George Pickens' effort for the Cowboys, said, but does he
actually believe it? Does Jerry actually believe it? So Jerry's
out there even though it's a morning radio show that
he goes on. It's bedtime Stories with Jerry, Bedtime Stories
with Jerry, and we are supposed to believe. We're supposed
(14:55):
to believe here that George Pickens is an A plus
competitor because he likes football. Huh okay, because he loves
the game for the love of the game. It's a movie,
it's a book, the whole thing. Yeah, And Jerrybody. That's
not the debate. See the debate is not that. That's
(15:16):
not the debate. The whole issue is George Pickens is
starting to turn into that guy, the guy that Mike
Tomlin couldn't wait to give away and all the Cowboy
fans were doing a victory lap a couple of weeks ago,
and all of a sudden like, well, wait a minute,
this isn't very good. And Pickens has in that game.
It have been some games he hasn't been that guy.
But in the game against the Lions, George Pickens literally
(15:39):
stopped playing when the ball wasn't coming his way. Like,
that's not love of the game. That is love of
the big box store. His favorite big box store. You
know what it is. It's not Costco it No, it's
not Walmart. It's Target. He loves his Target. Chair can't
(16:02):
get enough. That is the trickeration. I believe what Jerry
Jones is doing here. Some would say Jerry's not smart
enough to pull this up. I believe he is. Jerry
Jones is using reverse psychology bull crap. That is what
he's doing here. Like Jerry's talking like a proud father,
a proud proud Papa, and it's like career day and
(16:22):
he's celebrating George Pickens, singing the virtues of George Pickens,
like he's out there giving forgetting, he's giving up on
routes or roots like their expired coupons and all that.
Just pretend that part didn't happen. The tape does not lie.
There are clips on the YouTube, many of them have
(16:43):
already been deleted because the NFL overlords don't want you
to see it. The effort meter, if you were to
grade the effort meter, it's a capital E, as in
very little empty empty, empty empty is what it is.
And let's be the cowboys are gas lighting themselves. They are,
(17:04):
they don't want The nightmare is that the Pittsburgh version
of George Pickens shows up sulking, bad body language, the
arms crossed, the give me the ball or else diva mantra,
and so they're tiptoeing around him like he's a skunk
(17:25):
in the garage, and well, there's a grudge, there's a skunk.
How'd the skunk get in the grudge? I don't care,
just I don't want it to squirt the skunk smell.
So let's let's all be good. Okay, we'll be good.
Let's tiptoe around. Maybe the skunk won't won't bother. Okay,
I'll find and it's simple. He really listen, if the
play call features George Pickens, he is a monster, but
(17:51):
a good kind of monster, good kind of monster if not.
It's the thing I like when when the play's going
his way, he's a lion, and when the play is
not going his way, he's a housecat. He's a house cat,
and Jerry knows it, and you look at Schottenheimer. Schottenheimer
knows it, and everyone knows it. Everyone's aware, and you
(18:16):
know it's like it's kind of like the Raiders can't
say anything bad about Geno Smith even though he sucks,
because Geno's soft and he can't handle criticism. It's the
same concept like George Pickens, if you rip him, if
you if you speak the truth about George Pickens, you're
going to completely lose George Pickens. That's it. So in
terms of competitor, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go zero.
I'm gonna go F minus on the explanation from Jerry Jones.
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Not a zero for Pickens, but F minus on the
explanation from Jerry Jones, all right, now, last thing to
TV land. We go, We go to TV land, and
we have a change this year. We noticed it a
couple of weeks ago. We mentioned it in passing. Other
people have picked up on the story that if you
haven't noticed them, maybe not, whether it's and Fox or
(19:02):
CBS or ABC. The pop diva, America's sweetheart, America's entertainment
Taylor Swift, well, for years, a couple of years anyway,
she was constantly shown on NFL broadcast and some people
loved it, other people were annoyed by it. However, it
(19:25):
didn't matter. She was shown no matter what, for better
or worse. Taylor Swift was a constant presence on NFL
broadcast in America. However, this season, if you watch the
Kansas City Chiefs, things have changed dramatically. Taylor Swift is
not on television very efect the game the other day
(19:47):
for the Chiefs against the Texans, she was shown one time.
That's it. Robert Kraft gets more TV time. Has anyone
watched the Patriot game without seeing Robert Kraft on TV
multiple times futzing around with his phone? Has anyone the
Taylor Swift right now, she's getting less TV time than
Robert Kraft at a Patriot game. And people are putting
(20:09):
the dot they're connecting the dots and they're putting everything
together here. And they pointed out that the NFL broadcasts
they've changed, and they've changed pretty dramatically this year, and
their reports saying the reasons include fan fatigue and more importantly,
Taylor Swift and her desire to not be on television
(20:32):
all that much. So the question, give me your reaction
to Taylor Swift being downgraded on NFL television broadcast here
in twenty twenty five, so real quick, the NFL has
completely screwed this up. They have downgrading Taylor Swift on
the broadcast. This is an unforced error. It's a big mistake.
(20:56):
It is a massive bobo. Have the Golden goose right there,
the ratings rocket ship that crosses over and gets people
that aren't just football fans to watch the pop culture
cheat code drop in your lap and you voluntarily unplugged it.
(21:18):
Say what, that's brilliant unless it's not. Now, there is
this thing called quantum physics where there are two truths
that exist at the same time. So looking at it
through looking at it through that that perspective, Taylor Swift's camp,
it's pretty clear that this is an intentional thing. They've said, hey, listen,
(21:38):
ease off on the circus is getting too loud here,
and just kind of ease up on it. That's fine.
The real snuffle figous in the room. You can make
the request. They don't have to honor the request. The
real snuff alopigus in the room. Travis Kelcey suddenly looks
like he's retired, and it's like you put a podcast out.
(22:00):
In an NFL game, he'd play like Kelsey's playing this year.
A lot of drops, a lot of slipops, roots that
the pass bounces off his hands and gets tipped and intercepted,
and it's like these things are drawn with cramps. Is
Travis Kelcey a top five tight end?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
In terms of playmakings? He a top ten player in
the NFL this year?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Is he a top fifty. He's gotta be top fifteen, right,
Is he top twenty? No, he's not, And he's pretty
much in the middle of the pack. You know, look
at the eyeball test and you look at the statistics,
and this would have been the perfect time. If I
was directing an NFL broadcast, this would have been the
perfect time to lean in to those reaction shots. While
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Taylor Swift is eating the chicken wings in the luxury
box at Arrowhead and Travis Kelcey just butterfingers Kelsey the
past bounces off his hands, gets tipped in the air
everywhere and intercepted, I want to see Taylor Swift's reaction.
Show the agony, show me the eye roll, show me
the shoulder shrug from Taylor Swift. Let the audience marinate
(23:08):
in the mellow drama. We don't get that, we don't.
We get a sanitized NFL broadcast, which is rainbows and
lollipops and puppy dogs. It's the training wheels of television,
is what we get. And they scrub really the only
compelling subplot that's going right now for the Chiefs. They're
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falling apart, they're losing games they in the past would
have never lost, and you have this opportunity with Taylor Swift,
and the NFL is like, well, we fixed the problem. No,
you didn't. In reality, this is the greatest crossover promotional
vehicle you've ever had, and you've screwed it Up, Epic Fumble,
Epic Fumble. It is the Ben Mahler Show. If you'd
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We've got password. Later this hour the Word Game of
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Out the weather in Boss of fried Phone Lorena is
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Since there's no place to go.
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Malor show Malor show Malor show Marcel shows the sign
of stopping, always bragging and the blocking n Scott got
lost outside looking for his fantasy broad.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Finally met that day.
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I landed on not Seem Lake.
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I almost got in.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
The fights all the way home. I was scared and
soon the show was playing.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Big Ben was almost dying.
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Speaker 1 (25:57):
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all right, back to it we go. There's a bit
of controversy here on the show, and there's a there's
(26:39):
all this a guy named super Marcus Steve, who's a troublemaker.
Point that out right away, the big time troublemaker, he
tries to start a lot of radio wars. Uh that
that's that's how he operates. And so he had he
sent me something. I don't know about this, and I
didn't really know much about it, but he claims that
a Fox Sports radio your host has admitted to stealing
(27:06):
the Chicken Parmersana line from Marcel and Brooklyn. Is it
true that LeVar Arrington, big time morning host, has admitted
to stealing the Chicken Parmergana line.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
The chicken.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Developing story development? Uh, Marcel, your thoughts on LaVar Arrington
stealing your line Marcel and Brooklyn?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Ooh, LaVar Arrington from in the NFL. Huh. Good morning
to you, Ben, Lorena and Cookie Loup. Good morning to
everyone at Happy Humpday.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Let's sell it to Jerome and Charleston. Good take Marcel, Jerome,
what's going on? Jerome?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
LeVar arringtons met for forty five millions?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
As you are so sessed with money, by the way,
you were so obsessed.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
With money man when you're poor.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I know, but you gotta look at it this way. Jerom, Jerome, Jerome.
You listen, You enter this world with no money and
you leave with no money. So yeah, that's kind of
the way it works.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yes, I understand that, but I just, I just I
just wanted to when you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
That, where where have you been? By the way, dream?
Where have you been? I love when you call up
and annoyed me? Where have you You've not annoyed me
in a while? Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I love a very low profile man.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I know, I know, you know how I know that true?
You know how you know you know I know that's
wrong because I was in Charleston. I was like five
blocks away from you, and you didn't leave your house.
You did not leave your house. I was in your town.
I offered to buy you a meal. I said, I'd
buy you some burger.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I've lived here a long time. Your geography is way off. Okay, okay,
where I'm located, it's about forty five minutes, half an
hour maybe from.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Where I Is that a walk though? It's a walk,
though it's a walked room. Look, it's not a it's
not a drive. It's not a drive. It's a forty
five minute walk to Rome, which means it's about what
a ten minute drive or something like that. Come on, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm just saying, Jerome, I was literally there. What's closer?
We do the show from Los Angeles. What's closer Jerome,
(29:21):
Los Angeles or down the street in Charleston.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That a rhetorical question, you think, God, you know what
the answer?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I know you are a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Closer than in Los Angeles in California, like twice, and
I haven't been there in yet.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
All right, all right, so you're a hermit. Just for
the record, attention advertisers. You're a hermit. You don't leave
your house, you have no money. But other than that,
everything's good.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Recluse. Yeah, I just got good news for my doctor Todd.
I don't have to take any more answering for a while.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh that's good. There you go. See that's a pot.
Now now you're Jerome bright Side.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, you know, it took me about twenty years there,
fifteen years to get off. But hey, once I get
off whatever, I intend to stay off of it, you know.
But uh, hey, I was I wanted to bring up
the story about Odell Beckham saying that it's hard to
live on one hundred million dollars. Is there something cognitive him?
(30:23):
There's something you know? It means you. Well.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
The best part about that, Jerome, there's million I know.
I'll come down, take a breath. The best part about that,
there's two things. There's two things, Jerome that are great
about that. There were actually people defending Odell Beckham, which
I thought was hilarious, and then Odell Beckham said, you
have to you have to flash your money. Where is
there a rule, Jerome, you have to flash your money?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Sorry too, don't leave the judio, don't leave the cars out,
don't leave all this, and you gotta go and let
everybody know.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I gotta tell you, Joe, if I ever made the
big money, I'm not gonna be like even Tom Brady.
He wore like a five hundred dollar watch the other day.
I wouldn't do that. It's not whether you it's not
whether you're gonna it's not whether you can afford it
or not. Like you just make yourself a giant target
when you wear stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Why boss, I'm so cheap man. I bought something like
two do something from Amazon, and I'm excited. I was
excited about I am so cheap. I can't help it man.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yes, you gotta call me Joe. Listen, I gotta go.
You gotta call me more off and okay, all right,
go away. There's a zerole. Let's say hello to Eenie
Meenie miney Moe. Let's go to Mike in New Hampshire.
What's going on? Mike? Welcome?
Speaker 8 (31:43):
Hey, you guys get into like sports memo and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Like sports member of Billia. Yeah, well, Lorrain, of course
she she loves uh fluff mellows or whatever it's called
their swish squish. My bad, Ben. I know I'm good,
but only squish smelling, is that right? Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I want to send out some gifts to you guys.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh well, now you've got our my hat guy, Mike.
That's what I like. I got. I'm a hat guy
ever since the hair went away. I love my hats,
So that's my thing. Lorena, What anything surprise me? I
like surprising? Sure about that?
Speaker 6 (32:25):
All right?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Not to be on the same pitch coop anything? Uh
holiday season, Mike's gonna spoil us here in New Hampshire.
I like sports memorabilia, Like you want some Broncos stuff
or something that Broncos and Lakers those are the only
two teams. Like I got a little about the Angels,
you can send a big a Yeah, you don't have
(32:48):
to send Mike. You know, you don't have to send
it to any Mike. You know that we're.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Finding I know that. Yeah, you know, I'm just being nice.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I got a ton of stuff.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
So I uh, that's.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
A home that's a humble brag by Mike in New Hampshire.
Humble brag. I got a ton of stuff. Humble brack.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
That's why Lorena likes the Cole Girls so well.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
She does unless there's a movie that she needs to
watch while they're playing, and then, uh, you know, then
she's she's out tri ya exactly. Uh, unless any of
her friends want to hang out, then she will not watch.
All right, thank you? Yeah, you want to talk to
(33:29):
your buddy Marcel. You want to say to Marcel, let's
see block that guy, all right, Marcel, I have to
block you. Mike in New Hampshire wants me to block you.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Not this time, Not Marshall, Marcel, the champ is here
here block block that.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Wait, Marcel, Marcel, why are you more upset with Mike
in New Hampshire, than LaVar Arrington, who's been accused of
stealing your line, your chicken palmersanline.
Speaker 8 (34:00):
Oh that Mike, and.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
New Hampshire is going to store my chicken parme sean
the chicken Parmesan. But especially but not for voting for
mikel were actually voting for.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That, Marcel, Marcel, take a break? Can you can you
give us a new drop? Can you say feeccini Alfredo.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Fredo for that New Hampshire sweet Genilie wish.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I thought Marcel said it better. Personally. I thought that was.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Believe it or not. Put this Mike in New Hampshire
and the rest of.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
These let's try that again. Say one more time, Marsa,
we're gonna record this. Fccini Alfredo Fredo. That's my god.
That is why you are the five time caller of
the year. Marcel, right.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Some TV pick.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Oh you don't have time for that. Uh, leave time
for passwords. Mike the Leprechaun, anything you'd like to add?
You're friends with Mike in New Hampshire and then you
want to add there, Mike the leprechauns I'm pretty rich. Okay,
he's rich. Mark on the North End, Hello, Mark, Hey.
Speaker 9 (35:06):
Good morning. But before I get to the tail of
swift nonsense, I just want to let Coop to Loup
know that I'm sitting Jared Golf this weekend and I'm
going with Bownicks and Courtland Sutton to keep me alive
in my fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Ooh, you're sitting who for both Jared Goff against the
Rams defense.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
I'm sitting Jared Goff. I'm sitting Jared Golf, and I'm
putting in Bonnicks.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I have well and you enjoy that. One eighty yards
and one touchdown. That'll be good for you.
Speaker 9 (35:35):
But anyway, Ben on the tail of swift nonsense, I
believe it's the fans that have spoken. They don't want
to see her face on TV during football games because
nobody cares. Nobody cares, and it's kind of hard to
show her when the Chiefs sucked the way they do
this year.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Travis isn't doing anything, so they're don.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
She does get a reaction though. People care, They care,
even if they hate her, they react to her. They
react to it.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
Well, then all I know is this. I think it's all.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
To be honest, you could say that, but a lot
of things I got you all right, all right, Mario,
we love you man.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
There's Mark. He's the boss of the North and not
blind Scott. Mark runs the North End. He does. This
is my favorite part of Boston. I love hanging out there.
It's really cool. I always make sure to visit the
North and when I come to Boston, it is the
Ben Mahlor Show. By the way, Jerry Springer of coaches,
that would be Bill Belichick. Thirty days after asking Bill
(36:36):
Belichick to decide, Belichick was given an ultimatum between Jordaan
Hudson and his family. Well, the daughter in law of
Bill Belichick was spotted by the tabloids partying with Bill
Belichick's x Linda Holiday. Is that not Jerry Springer stuff?
That's wild, right, Yeah, the daughter in law is hanging
(36:57):
out with his ex. And that's a statement that some
Jerry Springer action right there. Who knew Belchick was like that.
I guess everyone's got multiple sides. We got password the
word Game of the Stars. We'll get to that and
we'll do it next.
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Speaker 7 (37:22):
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Speaker 1 (37:41):
Phileasnave Dot a classic flea classic Mallard holiday song. It
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Speaker 10 (38:35):
Attention everyone, word is password, you idiot? Password the word
Game of the Stars, Here's Ben Mahler, Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Welcome into our contestants for password the word Game of
the stars. We have let's see your any meaning. We
have far out Dave, who's going to play? Hello far
out Dave?
Speaker 7 (38:58):
Hey, good morning?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
If I was any better, I would be a Swift
but not Taylor Swift?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
So why not?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Because you're boyfriend's not playing?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Very what's the over under on most of the listeners?
Speaker 8 (39:13):
Are they beating traffic or beating something else?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Who dogged a partner up with Dave?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
How about you?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Oh boy? All right? All right, Loraina picked one or three?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Loraina?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Umb well, you have picked blind Scott? Hello, blind Scott.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah, the ratings book in Radio End Friday. I'm gonna
pick Lorraina. Let's make America nut again?
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Okay, all right, well you just screwed up the whole thing. Okay,
let's play the game here and Dave pick a number
one to ten? Please? Number one to ten? All right,
let's go with that's the eeny meenie miney moe. Wait,
which one did you choose? Ten? Yes? You picked number ten.
(40:06):
I'm going first. Don't worry. Let's go with uh kind hearted?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Kind hearted? Kind hearted?
Speaker 3 (40:17):
What? No?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Horrible?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
A double word?
Speaker 1 (40:24):
It's one word. You can look it up.
Speaker 10 (40:26):
Got you ready, yep?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Charitable fundraise? No, how about giving giving.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Donation? Donation?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
No, all right, let's go this way. Santa, that's what
that's not gonna that's a terrible clue. You've just given
a terrible put everything together? What is Santa? These people
can't put they can't put two words together. Oh no,
they're not gonna get all right. Yeah, the word was generous.
(41:03):
A pick a number, Scott, So what time is it?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Number six?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Number six? Go ahead, lorraina number six. Oh gosh, is
that your clue? Gosh? No, no, no, guard?
Speaker 3 (41:18):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (41:19):
Guard?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Bioh? Dave is a pizza crap he takes shot?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
All right, borrow Dave. Let's go with uh. Protect. Oh
that's what I was gonna say, God protect, Oh my god,
why do we even do this? The word is defend.
The word is defend. We're all dumber. Everyone's dumber for this.
The word was defend.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
It was defend.
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