September 10, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Broncos and Bears both planning to move their stadiums indoors and if the NFL is losing its grit with fewer cold-weather stadiums, Jared Goff saying that the Lions are moving in the right direction, Mike McDaniel saying things can't get worse for the Dolphins, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number four hour, number four,
ready to go. And with the Broncos planned move inside,
is the NFL losing its grit in fewer cold weather
stadiums as the Broncos. The Bears also planning to go indoors.
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The Cleveland Browns have been in talks to build a
dome stadium. We'll talk about that. Jared Goff said that
the Lions are moving in the right direction. He's optimistic.
Do you share his positive energy? And is Mike McDaniel
wright that things cannot get worse for the Dolphins. We'll
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talk about that as well. It's all coming your way
right now here. It is our number four. Have a
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food Boil. I want to do this something a little
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different because of the story that caught my attention. It's like,
like not a huge story, but it's one of those
things that just is annoying to me. So I wanted
to complain about it, because that's what talk show hosts do.
They complain. It's kind of part of the job, and
so I thought, well, I'll complain. So the headline's out
of Denver and it's about a stadium, so you generally speaking,
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I don't get all excited about a stadium stadium news.
So you might not have seen this. Maybe maybe you
missed it. So the Broncos, the Denver Broncos announced plans
for a new retractable roof stadium and they're they're eyeing
the twenty thirty one season. Well that seems like a
long way away. It's actually not be here before you
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know it, be twenty thirty one before you know it.
That's the target eight. So the good news is that
the Broncos don't need your money. They don't need taxpayer money.
They've got Walmart money, which is of course your money.
So if you've used your EBT card at Walmart, you're
helping the Denver Broncos out. So anyway, the Walmart money,
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they will privately fund this new taj Mahal Stadium and
they're not gonna raise taxes or collect public mine. Now,
of course there will be some public money that is
always used for for roads and enhancements and things like that,
so there'll be some, but it's not going to be
it's mostly almost all privately financed. That's the way that's
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going to go, which is great. All stadiums should be
privately financed. Course, the problem is they're going to build
this whole like village, because that's the new thing. Right,
you build a city, it's not just the stadium. You
got to have a bunch of shops, you know, you
got to have your cheesecake factory back in the old days.
Yet your TGI Friday's back, like those kind of places.
So they're gonna have that. But the Broncos have joined
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the Chicago Bears, who also announced they're going to move
out to the suburbs. They're gonna build the Dome Stadium.
The Cleveland Browns are also closing in on a Dome
stadium as well. So that, by my math, is three
traditional cold weather teams that are heading into the great indoors.
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And so let us discuss the question, with the Broncos
joining the Chicago Bears and likely the Cleveland Browns all
planning on moving inside, is the NFL losing its grit
with fewer cold weather stadiums. So I've got my take
on this. I've got time Square, Zulu and greyhounds, but
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not those kind of greyhounds. And we'll put these all
together and we'll go to the deli counter and we're
gonna order one pound of thin cut gobagool. We're gonna
have the gobbagol. So to kick off here, step by step,
franchise by franchise guys. The league is turning into a
climate controlled factory, that's what it is. And he said, well,
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it doesn't really matter if it's another retractable roof stadium here,
a dome over there, and pretty soon you turn on
an NFL game in December and it's gonna look like July,
except people have sweaters on. That that's it's it's the
indoor ification, the indoor ification of a sport. And maybe
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I'm wrongness, but my belief has always been that the
NFL was built on the outdoor football, that it's a
sport where it's designed to play in all the elements.
And again, this might be a generational thing that you know,
I grew up in my generation that we were raised
with classic NFL films. We didn't have the Interweb like
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you kids in your social media. We had the Oregon
Trail game. That's what we had. In elementary school. That
was our computer game. We had a computer lab that
we had to go to. That's how old I'm getting.
But anyway, in my generation, we were raised on classic
NFL films. The shot of the spiral that was thrown
and had to cut through the sleet in the bad weather,
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the defender who looked and it's hard to describe this
because you really have to see it, but it looked
like they had been dug out of a snowbank somewhere,
and you could see the great shot of the defensive
players and the offensive players, and every time they took
a breath there was a cloud. It was like a
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steam engine watching them play football. And they were snowmen,
and that was a badge of honor. That was like
a machiesmo thing. And I remember I first got into
the radio world, and I was like a stringer. I
was a radio reporter, and I remember covering the NFL.
I didn't do it that often, but the guys would romanticize,
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Oh yeah, I played that game, and you know in
Buffalo or Lamb Field. Oh my god, it was so
it was so great, and you look at it, it's like, well,
now it's gonna be all climate controlled, you know, climate controls.
Like that's a better fan experience, and yeah, there'll be
no lightning delays. You don't have to worry about that.
When you've got a roof on the stadium, you have
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to worry about lightning delays. And you know, nice warm
seat for your tushy and you can rent the roof
for the Super Bowl or whatever. And then we get
one Super Bowl every fifty years if you're in cold
Weather City, So once a generation you might get a
Super Bowl if you're lucky. If you're lucky, you'll get
that and uh oh, two generations actually. But the soul,
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like what is the soul? The soul it's on a
ventilator when you think about it, Like the domes. You
go to a dome stadium and they're fine and stuff,
but it's like going to a hotel. In the lobby
of a hotel, you know, it's all polished and it's
got that scent diffuser thing in there, and it's going
to really pricey. And the indoor palaces of the NFL,
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the indoor outdoor palaces, which really in their indoor most
of the year because of the cold weather. They're not
built for you and I. They're built for the robber barons.
They're built for the oligarchs, the people that show up
in the quarter zip and they have the concierge, private entrance, parking,
the whole thing there, and they drink their they're very
expensive Johnny Walker blue and all that stuff. But it's
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about year round profits. And I understand the business model.
It makes sense. You get an indoor stadium, you can
have a monster truck thing on a Wednesday in February,
where normally you wouldn't be able to do that. You
could have the Final Four, can go to your town.
You know, Beyonce on tour can show up and all
that stuff and shake her ass. But football side hustle,
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like when you have a domee it's also less compelling.
It's less compelling in a dome. It's the wissification like
weather is the great disruptor. And you you all told
me when I was a kid, you said, wow, you
know those West Coast teams are soft because it's I
remember the old San Diego charges they play in San Diego.
It's seventy five degrees every day in San Diego. Let's
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see what they can do in a town with that
snow game. You know. And you also told me about well,
the dome teams are weak. Two told me all that,
and I generally buy into it. I think it's legit.
I don't think it's made up. It exposes quarterbacks. There
are quarterbacks that just can't handle to a tongue of
eye law a great example. What happens you put him
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in cold weather. He turns into an ice cube. Cannot
do it. Coordinators panic. There's certain players that lack courage,
they can't handle the cold with So it's a plot
twist to the story of the NFL. And you erase
that and you're essentially watching the Netflix show, some Netflix show,
whatever it might be, and you with the skip intro
button right hit the skip intro button, and he's just
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kind of you know, you're trying to hit it, but
it's well to do the screen and that's it. But
the snow games, they're not just snow. They're like a postcard.
They really are the great moments. You think the Ice Bowl,
things that have been romanticized about pro football, the Ice Bowl,
the Blizzard games in Buffalo, the fog game at Soldier
Field in Chicago where they broadcast the game you couldn't
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even see the players, The Tuck Rule Game, the most
famous snow game in recent years, the Tuck Rule Game
in Foxboro, in a squall in Foxboro, and my childhood
watching football again look like a Times Square snow globe.
Some of my favorite memories that didn't happen all the time,
but I remember those games stand out, and I will
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say the quiet part out loud, why not dome teams
are softer and there are still going to be hold
outs Buffalo. It is true, Buffalo's building a new stads
can be open next year. It's an outdoor stadium, but
mainly because they couldn't afford a dome. The Packers still
have lambeau Field. They've spent a lot of money to
renovate that. They're not leaving lambeau Field anytime soon. The
Pittsburgh Steelers have relatively I say relatively, it's probably twenty
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years old now their stadium. The Ravens and the Patriots,
and there's there's others, but so there's there's somebody. We're losing.
The point is we're losing these a lot of these teams,
and so a league that often celebrated Vince Lombardi chewing
on ice in Green Bay, and now you have these
ribbon ribbon these ribbon cutting ceremonies where the mayor of
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it comes over and says, we have activated a retail corridor,
which is all right, we are going to get our
tax money from selling you over priced hogies. That's what
we're going to do. So I hope you enjoy the
hogies and good luck. And again, the economics are rather obvious,
and if I was in that business, I get it,
I would do it. But to me, football's greatest moments
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are when it's imperfect, and that's whether the ball slips out,
the footing is not good, and it separates who's got
the balls and who doesn't have the balls, if you
know what I mean. People that panic, and it's all
fun and the legends are made all right now. Furthermore,
we go to Detroit, a team that talk about a
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team that plays in a cold weather city but plays
in a dome. They've been doing that for my entire
life pretty much, the Detroit Lions. Jared Goff on his
weekly radio show, Yes Jared Goff has a weekly radio show.
That's a sign of the apocalypse anyway, Jared Goff said
that despite a pathetic, gutless performance by his Detroit Lions,
has nothing to see here. Everything's good. He said, quote,
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I'm not worried. It's all moving in the right direction.
Close quote from Jared Goff. So question Jared Goff saying
the Lions are moving in the right direction that he's optimistic.
Do you share his positive energy based on what you
saw from Detroit against the team from Green Bay. So no,
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this is a AOM situation, AOM situation art of manifestation.
Art of manifestation is that there's just be a character
on Saturday Night Live back back in the day when
it was Good Show before they went woke, and it
was like I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and dog
gonnet people like me. That was the catchphrase it was.
I think Stuart Smalley was the character. But gaslighting. It's gaslighting.
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It's pure gas lighting, that's what it is. And if
you saw the Lions Packers game, if you watched that
particular game, the Lions looked like they were trying to
speak that Zulu that click language, the Zulu click language
from Africa, except there was no clicking. They couldn't do it.
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Nothing was in sync at all. It was a throwback
to the dark days when dan Orlovsky. I always laugh
when I see dan Orolofsky on TV. I said, this
guy is like the worst quarterback ever and he's on television.
He's like talking about other courters, like the Footies. It's
like unbelievable. But he was on the sixties, started more
games than anyone else with the Owen sixteen Lions dan Orolovsky.
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But it's like when he ran out of the end zone, dumb, dumb.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You've got John Kittna throwing pick sixes like they were
going out of style that era of Lions football. However,
don't worry because Jared Goff is like, everything's fine, I'm optimistic. Yeah,
that's the ticket. That is the ticket right there. Have
you seen the schedule upcoming? Now they play Chicago, he said,
well they should win that game. Well, are you sure?
Ben Johnson knows a lot of the weaknesses. In fact,
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he would know all the weaknesses of Jared Goff, I
would think, and would give those to Dennis Allen and
the defensive staff on how to make Jared Goff look
like a stooge. So we'll see if that plays. But
you have the Ravens later on, the Bengals, the Chiefs
mixed in there, and so that's what's on deck. And
it's gonna get late early, is the point. Right, It's
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gonna get later early, And we can all chant all
the positive mantras you want, but in reality, the reality
thing punches you in the face. So I always get
a kick was, Oh, it's something to worry about here.
One loss in the NFL is worth ten losses in baseball.
So if you lose one game, it's on ten game
losing streak, and if you win, it's a ten game
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winning streak. It's pretty crazy, right, And we've seen this
movie before with the Lions in particular, over the years,
it's always we're building, We're going through some growing pains.
It's how they operate. We're building, we're going through some
growing pains. The next thing you know, you wake up,
it's week eight, you're one in six on the season,
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you're halfway through the year, just about you're one in six,
and Jared Goff is sitting there and he's putting signs
up like he's Tony Robbins in the locker room, and
he's telling everyone, this is the mindset. We're gonna run
on fire and walk on hot coals and everything will
be good here. And that's why. But the defenses don't
care about your positive affirmations and all that stuff. They
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just care about smashing you and having that success. And
so there you go. So do I share Jared Goff's
positive energy of course, dot hell no, I don't. And
it's the guy doing yoga in a earning building, the
way they play. And again this is we do the
show today and this is all we have to go with,
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is based on what we saw. And so that's my
scouting reporseping of that we do love the bad. Here
we go to Miami, Miami, Miami, as we continue our
in depth team coverage digging the grave of the Dolphins
after their debacle, Coach Mike McDaniel came out with a
quote that still has legs today. Following a thirty three
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day loss to the lowly Coults. He said, the good
news is, Mike McDaniel, it can't get worse. That's what
he said, all right, So question is Mike McDaniel right
that things cannot get worse for the Dolphins? So using
the Mallard truth o Meter, the Mallard truth Ometer, this
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ranks as a falsehood. Wow, sounded different. Now McDaniel thinks
that he's like Bob Ross back in the day on
PBA painting those happy little trees after a hurricane. You know,
it's like, well, essentially, what's going on? It was a hurricane.
He's out there painting those little trees and he said,
a good news. We bottomed out, all right. So that
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is tone death is what that is. Because it's like
going to red Lobster. It's a fish fry. Watching the
Dolphins play football, it just is. It can always get worse.
It can always get worse. You ever falling down a
flight of stairs and you just keep falling and tumbling
into Dante's inferno, right, And that's what the Dolphins looked like.
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They If it was basketball, we'd say they were trying
to get the coach fired, because that happens in the
NBA a lot where the team the coach, they don't
like the coach and they're like, okay, boys, let's just
pretend we'll play like zombie basketball. Get the coach fire.
That was zombie football. You don't fall behind thirty to
nothing the Daniel Jones and a middling Indianapolis Colts team
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unless you are not there. You're not focused. That's how
you do that. And just wait until things are bad now,
Mike mcdane, wait until you're zero to four and the
locker room is acting like we're ready to go on vacation, right,
now right, you wait for that and the whole patience message,
Who the hell's buying that? That's never been the way
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anyone's approached this. It's the NFL. It's not an episode
of Ted Lasso. Right, you don't go out, you don't
lose by twenty five points and smile and la la
la la la la la la la la la la
la Zipity dude, dah zippity day. It's like you're coaching
the Richmond Greyhounds while drinking a Greyhound. That's not how
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we're so McDaniels that cool whip coaching vibe that he
gives out, and it plays great when the Dolphins are
up by two touchdowns and it's eighty nine degrees in
Miami at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Sunday.
It plays great in September. However, when you're getting absolutely
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char broiled, char broiled by the Colts, the freaking Colts,
it looks like you're trying to run an NFL team
with the same energy of a guy who's teaching algebra
at a community center because he has to do it
for his probation. Right, And here's the other truth. When
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you think about this, and we say this all the time.
I believe it's the most accurate thing you could say.
You're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen.
You're either coaching this way and this is the way
the team is playing to reflection of you, or you're
allowing it to happen. And either way you're cooked. Either
way you're cooked. And McDaniel's obviously allowing it to happen.
And so the NFL is not on your side. Nobody cares, right,
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People either don't care that you're going through a tough
patch if you're the Dolphins, or they're happy because they're
fans of the Jets and the Bills and the Patriots.
And if you go out the Miami Dolphins go out
and lose to the Patriots, who also a crappy team,
the Patriots. If you lose the Patriots, I like Mike Vrabel,
but that was a pathetic start of the year for
the Patriots. Let's call it like it is. They suck.
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But we'll see, Like if McDaniel's team loses to the
Patriots and he goes out there and tries to play
mister Rogers, it's a teachable mall Man oh man. Now,
there's not a lot of passion among the Dolphin fan base,
but those that are passionate, Man, they're actually gonna skip
the beach for a day and just yell at Mike McDaniel.
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X machine. Ferg Dog, says Ben. The Oregon Trail is
proof that newer doesn't always equal better. I think it's
still the best game ever made. Yeah. It was great
because you felt like you were getting out of school
and playing the cheesy graphic game.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, and you got into groups with people, so each
group had to, you know, survive their own.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's a solid game. It's good. They shouldn't make more.
I'm not they probably do. I haven't been in school
in a long time, but that's how I learned. I
felt like I learned. Either that or I didn't learn,
but I just felt like I was learning. Let's go
to the phones, and who do we have to see?
Eeny meenie miney mo. Let's say along to color by
his tone. Let's go to Stephen Manhattan. Hello Steven Manhattan,
and go b Buchanan golb bu can of go? You
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can't go? You can't Stephen.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Manhattan playing my song? There Ben distinguished panel expanding audience.
Welcome to e U. Now listen, you are in drive time.
In New York City right now in the big time,
right now.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
That's right, man, we're glowing up. We're doing a m
Morning Drive in the Big Apple right now.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
That's it. That's it. You got to You got Steve
from Manhattan talking to you. Who's in New York City?
And uh, if you ever want your ratings to go
through the roof, just put on the you know in
the caption of the title that Steve from Manhattan is
going to be a guest on your.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Well, put that on the podcast. Coup that Stephen Manhattan
who Steven Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Hour never heard Mather Show, and just put in catching
Go Buchanan. Then you have like millions of people listening.
First off, if you look at that video really close
to that woman taking the kids baseball, that woman had
a honey badger on a hey, now she could she
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could have been Elizabeth Warren. But like you correctly said before,
I mean on the west side of Manhattan, there's like
millions of women look like that. You just had two
weeks of the US Open. I guarantee you if you
basically go right to the video and look at the crowd,
you'll see like hundreds of those women in the crowd
there at the tennis thing like that. I mean, it's
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not like when Martine and Avatoola was playing and stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And the point we did a monologue about it. You
can hear it on the podcast if you're miss it.
But the point is there's I said, there's about six
hundred thousand women in every state that looked just like
that woman. Uh. And I don't know what it is.
I do men do the same thing. I feel like
there's women get to a certain age and that's kind
of their look. There's a lot of women just go
with that look. I don't know if it's like a
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default setting. Is it like they give up or something?
Men pause and then Karen, Okay, so maybe that's it.
But I do men, I don't know that men now,
maybe they do that too. I don't know. It just
seems like women do that more than men. But I
don't know. Anyway.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
It could have been the o'donnald wearing a mask.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
She was she was too thin for that, so you know,
I don't know. I thought she I thought she moved.
Didn't she move somewhere far away or something like that.
I thought that's a huge Her daughter, she and her
daughter moved. What country are they? I want to say,
are they? Are they really?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
She swamped to Ireland. That's what she lost.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
She swam with a pot of whales.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
She went, I mean, yeah, we can lose a lot
of weight swing across the Atlantic. And you know the
thing is, I mean we could keep doing these who
they look like? Now people are saying that Rosie o'donnald
looks like Mike Francessa. Also talking about names and mixing
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things up. Earlier tonight, you mixed up Rocky Garciana with
Rocky Marciano. Let me get you said. You said, Susie
Q that was rotten.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You know, you know what I meant. You know what
I mean?
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Well, you know the audience wouldn't have a clue to
go right over there head.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But let me give you I barely remembered. I heard
that when I was a kid. I heard about that
a long time.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
You're a big you're a big fight fan. Listen. Now
I'm a former historian, and I'll give you a great
Rocky Marciano story. The news reporters, the guys back then,
who were legitimate guys, they went up to sugar. Let's
not mix up the names now because the other guy
was a born yet they went up to Sugar Ray
Robinson and they told Sugar Ray Robinson, why don't you
(28:00):
come up a few pounds and fight Rocky Marciano and
folks who want to know what? Sugar Ray Robinson told
the reporters, Hey, guys, what do you want to do?
Get me killed now? Because he did have Mark Rocky
Marcia did have the Susie here. You're not yeat with you?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
They oh, there you go, So I wasn't you know?
I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
There was devastating there. Now as the Jet fans are
bragging that they've lost the game, it's that's like stupid.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
You want to take a call? Somebody wants to tell
you want to take a call. Sure, all right, let's do.
Let's do. Steven Manhattan wants to take calls. It's very exciting. Uh,
let's see uh Scott in Boston. Scott, you're on with
the great Steven Manhattan.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Oh, Steve, that call when you did that call to
Anthony Gallo, I'm Steve. I'm a big fan of you.
I can't stand you, but I called wf an and
tell them who you are all the time.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
PJ.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Whoever you think you are. I'm the one that's getting
you banned from wf AN all the time. I recognize
your voice. I call the call screen, I say, look
at the logs, see who's on there. They see you're
on that. A lot of the people don't mind Steve
that much, but some of them really despite Steve. But
Steve's a fun I know who Steve is, and I
would never say it in real life. I ain't like
the other people. But Steve's a published author. He's smart
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enough to write published political books. He called sports Radio
All Day, Are.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Are Are come down? Steven Man, how do you answer
this claim that you you you use different names on
WFM when you call them. Is that true?
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Well, first of all, he's gonna get me banned. You
got to take a number to get me banned from
a banned from every show just about Look, I've said
this book and only call Ben Maley's show is Steve.
That I could call Howie car his show is Steve,
and nobody jumps out the window. I call these other
shows they jump out that you know, they jump out
the studio window. But I can tell you something a
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lot of times it's the host who does it? And
a lot of times it's the screen is that do it.
And some of these clowns are jealous because they're such
you know, they had.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Egos and they understood. All right, let's take another. All right,
Marcel in Brooklyn. Well, I got Manhattan and Brooklyn side
by side. Here, get all the bird Marcel Salo to
Stephen Manhattan. Marcel, I can't believe borders on us.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I'm from Brooklyn, my man Stevens in Manhattan. Oh what
a day it is, Thank you Heaven, save my man.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Welcome he Marcel, listen. I originally grew up in the Bronx.
And this is my take on you Brooklyn guys. Right,
you guys are either mama's boys or flat out killers.
There's no middle ground with you guys.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Which one are Marcel? Which one are you? Are you
a mama's boy or a killer? Marcel?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I'm a single one.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Okay, Well, I say, you know that's a there's a
third option, Steve single ones.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Well, yeah, but did he did he grow up in Brooklyn?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You grew up in Brooklyn, right, Marcel?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, yes, after I adopted from Harlem in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
So from har Harlem to Brooklyn. I got you, yeah, yes.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
And speaking of Haarlem's where the home of the Pollo
Theater was, where stars are born legendary.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Is it not there anymore? I thought it was still there.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
The street ste Morcel Marcel on one hundred and twenty
fifth Street. I was up there a few weeks ago.
What museum is going to be opening up pretty soon
on one hundred and twenty fifth Street. If you are
a real New Yorker?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Well, I'm still New Yorker?
Speaker 5 (31:29):
And what do you see?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
What happens? If not, things might be still living aground?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, well said, unbelievable, what a what a that's guy's
a scholar, alsos. I know you've barely written book Stephen Manna,
but so is Marcel. They're a coloring books.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Is the host that a doctor?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But go ahead, I got you. I gotta go see
with that another cour You want to take another call,
I will take another call. Let's say hello to Jed. Jed,
you are on with Steven Manhattan. Hello Jed from Florida
and Manhattan.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Steed, you probably want to transition to Stevens here. You
agree with me that Ben Mallis has obviously has relatives
working at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Alaska.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Why else what you want ruthless.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Games in the NFL. He has somebody.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Controlling the weather. He's got an inside man.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
He's going to be affecting these games.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
He's gonna be defaiously trying to effect outcome of these games. Steve,
what do you think? Well, I'll tell you what happened,
what he's doing it, and we don't need to be
probably a little Wayne Circus third two thousand and ninety
by no ceilings. That's the raper's advice. Dude, we don't
you well listen. Ben Mallat took the tests of Bronx
High School of Science right in. Two weeks later, he
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gets a postcard that tells him, all.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Right, gall, there's one more call. Let's go to Kathy
in Madison. Kathy, you're on with Steven Manhattan. Hello Kathy
and beautiful Madison, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Hello? What son you on mind today? Did you get
my pilnd.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
You send me a picture of a calendar?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
No? No, did I get I don't know? Have I
gotten a pick?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Have I gotten what calendar?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I remember? Oh that's right. I love Kathy sent you
a calendar ship. She's the center She's the centerfold. Come on,
she's a babe. Oh my gosh, Kathy, you got to
be this go ahead?
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Is Kathy there? I want to ask you a question now.
There is a beautiful name that's been really maligned in
the last several years. It starts with a K. I'm
not going to say because I'm not going to play it.
Don't you think it's disgusting that they they've turned this
name into something that's really bad when it's a beautiful name.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, I like you said it right away. It's beautiful Kathy.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
So an guy rabbis?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yes? Are you a rabbi that plays the ukulele? Steve Well, I.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Don't know about this guy's a cowboy who runs around
in his underwear out there and listen.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Is that guy must be called Curtis.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Fleewerd is auditioning to be the next Marlon Perkins, the
guy from Wild Kingdom? But how do you want for
May and what kind of what kind of act? Is this? Not?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
As much as I would love to break down Manhattan politics,
I think we're going to end the call right there.
There's a step in Manhattan checking in now amazing. We
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Who's gonna play? Hello Chris, Welcome, Good morning, Ben, How
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game says, what are you up to this morning? Chris
on my way to work? All right, very cool? And
tell the guy in sheboygen what you do for work?
What kind of work you do? You landscape to the start,
that's right. All the famous people in the Boston area,
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they go to Chris. A lot of people need landscaping.
That's right, good business. Yeah, those trees keep growing, the
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Who do you want to partner up with? Chris? Let's
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koop A little bits passed Lorena. Okay, oh yeah, are
you Are you working right now? George? It sounds like
you're working.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
I don't. You can't make any money work, do you
know that?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Yeah, well that's true. I've proven that for a long time.
All right, are you on speakerphone? George?
Speaker 5 (37:22):
I could remove the phone?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, well that would be the polite thing to do.
If you'll be a douche, just leave your speakerphone on.
But that's up to you. All right, let's play the game.
We have a list of words.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Here for.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
You're locked in and lock Chris. All right, Chris, pick
a number one to ten, Please, one to ten.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
In honor of Marcell, let's go number two.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Well, uh, in more ways than one. Let's go with
spoil spoil rock No good good guests there Thereina, I
gotta hear this. This ought to be good.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
You stole my word, Ben, just so you know. Okay,
five for three gifts? All right, gifts, George? This is
this would be the.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
Part I was listening. I thought I heard the word gift.
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yes? You did?
Speaker 5 (38:29):
Spoiled gift?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Uh? Five four three two one? All right? You got nothing?
How about Chris, let's go with coddle. Coddle, I got nothing. God,
should we throw away the word? Yeah, let's hurry. The
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word was pamper your coddle. You spoil someone, your pampering
the mark take a word, George, number one, number one. Yes,
that's the proper way. Go ahead, all right, we're gonna
go with dentures.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Dentures. Uh, fault cheese. What do he said? Fault cheese.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
No, that's nothing, not anywhere. Why would not be the word?
That's a bad clue of the Rada. Let's let's go
with boy, I don't know. I mean, there's not un
fang f a n g fang. Yeah, there you go.
All right, he got olf of my clue. He got you.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Don't lose you the Rada.
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We won the game, Chris and Boston. We won the game.
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food Boil. I want to do this something a little
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different because of the story that caught my attention. It's like,
like not a huge story, but it's one of those
things that just is annoying to me. So I wanted
to complain about it, because that's what talk show hosts do.
They complain. It's kind of part of the job, and
so I thought, well, I'll complain. So the headline's out
of Denver and it's about a stadium, so you generally speaking,
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I don't get all excited about a stadium stadium news.
So you might not have seen this. Maybe maybe you
missed it. So the Broncos, the Denver Broncos announced plans
for a new retractable roof stadium and they're they're eyeing
the twenty thirty one season. Well that seems like a
long way away. It's actually not be here before you
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know it, be twenty thirty one before you know it.
That's the target eight. So the good news is that
the Broncos don't need your money. They don't need taxpayer money.
They've got Walmart money, which is of course your money.
So if you've used your EBT card at Walmart, you're
helping the Denver Broncos out. So anyway, the Walmart money,
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they will privately fund this new taj Mahal Stadium and
they're not gonna raise taxes or collect public mine. Now,
of course there will be some public money that is
always used for for roads and enhancements and things like that,
so there'll be some, but it's not going to be
it's mostly almost all privately financed. That's the way that's
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going to go, which is great. All stadiums should be
privately financed. Course, the problem is they're going to build
this whole like village, because that's the new thing. Right,
you build a city, it's not just the stadium. You
got to have a bunch of shops, you know, you
got to have your cheesecake factory back in the old days.
Yet your TGI Friday's back, like those kind of places.
So they're gonna have that. But the Broncos have joined
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the Chicago Bears, who also announced they're going to move
out to the suburbs. They're gonna build the Dome Stadium.
The Cleveland Browns are also closing in on a Dome
stadium as well. So that, by my math, is three
traditional cold weather teams that are heading into the great indoors.
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And so let us discuss the question, with the Broncos
joining the Chicago Bears and likely the Cleveland Browns all
planning on moving inside, is the NFL losing its grit
with fewer cold weather stadiums. So I've got my take
on this. I've got time Square, Zulu and greyhounds, but
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not those kind of greyhounds. And we'll put these all
together and we'll go to the deli counter and we're
gonna order one pound of thin cut gobagool. We're gonna
have the gobbagol. So to kick off here, step by step,
franchise by franchise guys. The league is turning into a
climate controlled factory, that's what it is. And he said, well,
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it doesn't really matter if it's another retractable roof stadium here,
a dome over there, and pretty soon you turn on
an NFL game in December and it's gonna look like July,
except people have sweaters on. That that's it's it's the
indoor ification, the indoor ification of a sport. And maybe
(05:31):
I'm wrongness, but my belief has always been that the
NFL was built on the outdoor football, that it's a
sport where it's designed to play in all the elements.
And again, this might be a generational thing that you know,
I grew up in my generation that we were raised
with classic NFL films. We didn't have the Interweb like
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you kids in your social media. We had the Oregon
Trail game. That's what we had. In elementary school. That
was our computer game. We had a computer lab that
we had to go to. That's how old I'm getting.
But anyway, in my generation, we were raised on classic
NFL films. The shot of the spiral that was thrown
and had to cut through the sleet in the bad weather,
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the defender who looked and it's hard to describe this
because you really have to see it, but it looked
like they had been dug out of a snowbank somewhere,
and you could see the great shot of the defensive
players and the offensive players, and every time they took
a breath there was a cloud. It was like a
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steam engine watching them play football. And they were snowmen,
and that was a badge of honor. That was like
a machiesmo thing. And I remember I first got into
the radio world, and I was like a stringer. I
was a radio reporter, and I remember covering the NFL.
I didn't do it that often, but the guys would romanticize,
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Oh yeah, I played that game, and you know in
Buffalo or Lamb Field. Oh my god, it was so
it was so great, and you look at it, it's like, well,
now it's gonna be all climate controlled, you know, climate controls.
Like that's a better fan experience, and yeah, there'll be
no lightning delays. You don't have to worry about that.
When you've got a roof on the stadium, you have
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to worry about lightning delays. And you know, nice warm
seat for your tushy and you can rent the roof
for the Super Bowl or whatever. And then we get
one Super Bowl every fifty years if you're in cold
Weather City, So once a generation you might get a
Super Bowl if you're lucky. If you're lucky, you'll get
that and uh oh, two generations actually. But the soul,
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like what is the soul? The soul it's on a
ventilator when you think about it, Like the domes. You
go to a dome stadium and they're fine and stuff,
but it's like going to a hotel. In the lobby
of a hotel, you know, it's all polished and it's
got that scent diffuser thing in there, and it's going
to really pricey. And the indoor palaces of the NFL,
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the indoor outdoor palaces, which really in their indoor most
of the year because of the cold weather. They're not
built for you and I. They're built for the robber barons.
They're built for the oligarchs, the people that show up
in the quarter zip and they have the concierge, private entrance, parking,
the whole thing there, and they drink their they're very
expensive Johnny Walker blue and all that stuff. But it's
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about year round profits. And I understand the business model.
It makes sense. You get an indoor stadium, you can
have a monster truck thing on a Wednesday in February,
where normally you wouldn't be able to do that. You
could have the Final Four, can go to your town.
You know, Beyonce on tour can show up and all
that stuff and shake her ass. But football side hustle,
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like when you have a domee it's also less compelling.
It's less compelling in a dome. It's the wissification like
weather is the great disruptor. And you you all told
me when I was a kid, you said, wow, you
know those West Coast teams are soft because it's I
remember the old San Diego charges they play in San Diego.
It's seventy five degrees every day in San Diego. Let's
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see what they can do in a town with that
snow game. You know. And you also told me about well,
the dome teams are weak. Two told me all that,
and I generally buy into it. I think it's legit.
I don't think it's made up. It exposes quarterbacks. There
are quarterbacks that just can't handle to a tongue of
eye law a great example. What happens you put him
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in cold weather. He turns into an ice cube. Cannot
do it. Coordinators panic. There's certain players that lack courage,
they can't handle the cold with So it's a plot
twist to the story of the NFL. And you erase
that and you're essentially watching the Netflix show, some Netflix show,
whatever it might be, and you with the skip intro
button right hit the skip intro button, and he's just
(09:53):
kind of you know, you're trying to hit it, but
it's well to do the screen and that's it. But
the snow games, they're not just snow. They're like a postcard.
They really are the great moments. You think the Ice Bowl,
things that have been romanticized about pro football, the Ice Bowl,
the Blizzard games in Buffalo, the fog game at Soldier
Field in Chicago where they broadcast the game you couldn't
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even see the players, The Tuck Rule Game, the most
famous snow game in recent years, the Tuck Rule Game
in Foxboro, in a squall in Foxboro, and my childhood
watching football again look like a Times Square snow globe.
Some of my favorite memories that didn't happen all the time,
but I remember those games stand out, and I will
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say the quiet part out loud, why not dome teams
are softer and there are still going to be hold
outs Buffalo. It is true, Buffalo's building a new stads
can be open next year. It's an outdoor stadium, but
mainly because they couldn't afford a dome. The Packers still
have lambeau Field. They've spent a lot of money to
renovate that. They're not leaving lambeau Field anytime soon. The
Pittsburgh Steelers have relatively I say relatively, it's probably twenty
(10:59):
years old now their stadium. The Ravens and the Patriots,
and there's there's others, but so there's there's somebody. We're losing.
The point is we're losing these a lot of these teams,
and so a league that often celebrated Vince Lombardi chewing
on ice in Green Bay, and now you have these
ribbon ribbon these ribbon cutting ceremonies where the mayor of
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it comes over and says, we have activated a retail corridor,
which is all right, we are going to get our
tax money from selling you over priced hogies. That's what
we're going to do. So I hope you enjoy the
hogies and good luck. And again, the economics are rather obvious,
and if I was in that business, I get it,
I would do it. But to me, football's greatest moments
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are when it's imperfect, and that's whether the ball slips out,
the footing is not good, and it separates who's got
the balls and who doesn't have the balls, if you
know what I mean. People that panic, and it's all
fun and the legends are made all right now. Furthermore,
we go to Detroit, a team that talk about a
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team that plays in a cold weather city but plays
in a dome. They've been doing that for my entire
life pretty much, the Detroit Lions. Jared Goff on his
weekly radio show, Yes Jared Goff has a weekly radio show.
That's a sign of the apocalypse anyway, Jared Goff said
that despite a pathetic, gutless performance by his Detroit Lions,
has nothing to see here. Everything's good. He said, quote,
(12:26):
I'm not worried. It's all moving in the right direction.
Close quote from Jared Goff. So question Jared Goff saying
the Lions are moving in the right direction that he's optimistic.
Do you share his positive energy based on what you
saw from Detroit against the team from Green Bay. So no,
(12:48):
this is a AOM situation, AOM situation art of manifestation.
Art of manifestation is that there's just be a character
on Saturday Night Live back back in the day when
it was Good Show before they went woke, and it
was like I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and dog
gonnet people like me. That was the catchphrase it was.
I think Stuart Smalley was the character. But gaslighting. It's gaslighting.
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It's pure gas lighting, that's what it is. And if
you saw the Lions Packers game, if you watched that
particular game, the Lions looked like they were trying to
speak that Zulu that click language, the Zulu click language
from Africa, except there was no clicking. They couldn't do it.
(13:31):
Nothing was in sync at all. It was a throwback
to the dark days when dan Orlovsky. I always laugh
when I see dan Orolofsky on TV. I said, this
guy is like the worst quarterback ever and he's on television.
He's like talking about other courters, like the Footies. It's
like unbelievable. But he was on the sixties, started more
games than anyone else with the Owen sixteen Lions dan Orolovsky.
(13:54):
But it's like when he ran out of the end zone, dumb, dumb.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You've got John Kittna throwing pick sixes like they were
going out of style that era of Lions football. However,
don't worry because Jared Goff is like, everything's fine, I'm optimistic. Yeah,
that's the ticket. That is the ticket right there. Have
you seen the schedule upcoming? Now they play Chicago, he said,
well they should win that game. Well, are you sure?
Ben Johnson knows a lot of the weaknesses. In fact,
(14:20):
he would know all the weaknesses of Jared Goff, I
would think, and would give those to Dennis Allen and
the defensive staff on how to make Jared Goff look
like a stooge. So we'll see if that plays. But
you have the Ravens later on, the Bengals, the Chiefs
mixed in there, and so that's what's on deck. And
it's gonna get late early, is the point. Right, It's
(14:40):
gonna get later early, And we can all chant all
the positive mantras you want, but in reality, the reality
thing punches you in the face. So I always get
a kick was, Oh, it's something to worry about here.
One loss in the NFL is worth ten losses in baseball.
So if you lose one game, it's on ten game
losing streak, and if you win, it's a ten game
(15:02):
winning streak. It's pretty crazy, right, And we've seen this
movie before with the Lions in particular, over the years,
it's always we're building, We're going through some growing pains.
It's how they operate. We're building, we're going through some
growing pains. The next thing you know, you wake up,
it's week eight, you're one in six on the season,
(15:24):
you're halfway through the year, just about you're one in six,
and Jared Goff is sitting there and he's putting signs
up like he's Tony Robbins in the locker room, and
he's telling everyone, this is the mindset. We're gonna run
on fire and walk on hot coals and everything will
be good here. And that's why. But the defenses don't
care about your positive affirmations and all that stuff. They
(15:45):
just care about smashing you and having that success. And
so there you go. So do I share Jared Goff's
positive energy of course, dot hell no, I don't. And
it's the guy doing yoga in a earning building, the
way they play. And again this is we do the
show today and this is all we have to go with,
(16:05):
is based on what we saw. And so that's my
scouting reporseping of that we do love the bad. Here
we go to Miami, Miami, Miami, as we continue our
in depth team coverage digging the grave of the Dolphins
after their debacle, Coach Mike McDaniel came out with a
quote that still has legs today. Following a thirty three
(16:26):
day loss to the lowly Coults. He said, the good
news is, Mike McDaniel, it can't get worse. That's what
he said, all right, So question is Mike McDaniel right
that things cannot get worse for the Dolphins? So using
the Mallard truth o Meter, the Mallard truth Ometer, this
(16:48):
ranks as a falsehood. Wow, sounded different. Now McDaniel thinks
that he's like Bob Ross back in the day on
PBA painting those happy little trees after a hurricane. You know,
it's like, well, essentially, what's going on? It was a hurricane.
He's out there painting those little trees and he said,
a good news. We bottomed out, all right. So that
(17:12):
is tone death is what that is. Because it's like
going to red Lobster. It's a fish fry. Watching the
Dolphins play football, it just is. It can always get worse.
It can always get worse. You ever falling down a
flight of stairs and you just keep falling and tumbling
into Dante's inferno, right, And that's what the Dolphins looked like.
(17:36):
They If it was basketball, we'd say they were trying
to get the coach fired, because that happens in the
NBA a lot where the team the coach, they don't
like the coach and they're like, okay, boys, let's just
pretend we'll play like zombie basketball. Get the coach fire.
That was zombie football. You don't fall behind thirty to
nothing the Daniel Jones and a middling Indianapolis Colts team
(17:57):
unless you are not there. You're not focused. That's how
you do that. And just wait until things are bad now,
Mike mcdane, wait until you're zero to four and the
locker room is acting like we're ready to go on vacation, right,
now right, you wait for that and the whole patience message,
Who the hell's buying that? That's never been the way
(18:19):
anyone's approached this. It's the NFL. It's not an episode
of Ted Lasso. Right, you don't go out, you don't
lose by twenty five points and smile and la la
la la la la la la la la la la
la Zipity dude, dah zippity day. It's like you're coaching
the Richmond Greyhounds while drinking a Greyhound. That's not how
(18:42):
we're so McDaniels that cool whip coaching vibe that he
gives out, and it plays great when the Dolphins are
up by two touchdowns and it's eighty nine degrees in
Miami at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Sunday.
It plays great in September. However, when you're getting absolutely
(19:03):
char broiled, char broiled by the Colts, the freaking Colts,
it looks like you're trying to run an NFL team
with the same energy of a guy who's teaching algebra
at a community center because he has to do it
for his probation. Right, And here's the other truth. When
(19:24):
you think about this, and we say this all the time.
I believe it's the most accurate thing you could say.
You're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen.
You're either coaching this way and this is the way
the team is playing to reflection of you, or you're
allowing it to happen. And either way you're cooked. Either
way you're cooked. And McDaniel's obviously allowing it to happen.
And so the NFL is not on your side. Nobody cares, right,
(19:46):
People either don't care that you're going through a tough
patch if you're the Dolphins, or they're happy because they're
fans of the Jets and the Bills and the Patriots.
And if you go out the Miami Dolphins go out
and lose to the Patriots, who also a crappy team,
the Patriots. If you lose the Patriots, I like Mike Vrabel,
but that was a pathetic start of the year for
the Patriots. Let's call it like it is. They suck.
(20:08):
But we'll see, Like if McDaniel's team loses to the
Patriots and he goes out there and tries to play
mister Rogers, it's a teachable mall Man oh man. Now,
there's not a lot of passion among the Dolphin fan base,
but those that are passionate, Man, they're actually gonna skip
the beach for a day and just yell at Mike McDaniel.
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X machine. Ferg Dog, says Ben. The Oregon Trail is
proof that newer doesn't always equal better. I think it's
still the best game ever made. Yeah. It was great
because you felt like you were getting out of school
and playing the cheesy graphic game.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, and you got into groups with people, so each
group had to, you know, survive their own.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's a solid game. It's good. They shouldn't make more.
I'm not they probably do. I haven't been in school
in a long time, but that's how I learned. I
felt like I learned. Either that or I didn't learn,
but I just felt like I was learning. Let's go
to the phones, and who do we have to see?
Eeny meenie miney mo. Let's say along to color by
his tone. Let's go to Stephen Manhattan. Hello Steven Manhattan,
and go b Buchanan golb bu can of go? You
(24:20):
can't go? You can't Stephen.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Manhattan playing my song? There Ben distinguished panel expanding audience.
Welcome to e U. Now listen, you are in drive time.
In New York City right now in the big time,
right now.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
That's right, man, we're glowing up. We're doing a m
Morning Drive in the Big Apple right now.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
That's it. That's it. You got to You got Steve
from Manhattan talking to you. Who's in New York City?
And uh, if you ever want your ratings to go
through the roof, just put on the you know in
the caption of the title that Steve from Manhattan is
going to be a guest on your.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Well, put that on the podcast. Coup that Stephen Manhattan
who Steven Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Hour never heard Mather Show, and just put in catching
Go Buchanan. Then you have like millions of people listening.
First off, if you look at that video really close
to that woman taking the kids baseball, that woman had
a honey badger on a hey, now she could she
(25:24):
could have been Elizabeth Warren. But like you correctly said before,
I mean on the west side of Manhattan, there's like
millions of women look like that. You just had two
weeks of the US Open. I guarantee you if you
basically go right to the video and look at the crowd,
you'll see like hundreds of those women in the crowd
there at the tennis thing like that. I mean, it's
(25:45):
not like when Martine and Avatoola was playing and stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And the point we did a monologue about it. You
can hear it on the podcast if you're miss it.
But the point is there's I said, there's about six
hundred thousand women in every state that looked just like
that woman. Uh. And I don't know what it is.
I do men do the same thing. I feel like
there's women get to a certain age and that's kind
of their look. There's a lot of women just go
with that look. I don't know if it's like a
(26:09):
default setting. Is it like they give up or something?
Men pause and then Karen, Okay, so maybe that's it.
But I do men, I don't know that men now,
maybe they do that too. I don't know. It just
seems like women do that more than men. But I
don't know. Anyway.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
It could have been the o'donnald wearing a mask.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
She was she was too thin for that, so you know,
I don't know. I thought she I thought she moved.
Didn't she move somewhere far away or something like that.
I thought that's a huge Her daughter, she and her
daughter moved. What country are they? I want to say,
are they? Are they really?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
She swamped to Ireland. That's what she lost.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
She swam with a pot of whales.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
She went, I mean, yeah, we can lose a lot
of weight swing across the Atlantic. And you know the
thing is, I mean we could keep doing these who
they look like? Now people are saying that Rosie o'donnald
looks like Mike Francessa. Also talking about names and mixing
(27:15):
things up. Earlier tonight, you mixed up Rocky Garciana with
Rocky Marciano. Let me get you said. You said, Susie
Q that was rotten.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You know, you know what I meant. You know what
I mean?
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Well, you know the audience wouldn't have a clue to
go right over there head.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But let me give you I barely remembered. I heard
that when I was a kid. I heard about that
a long time.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
You're a big you're a big fight fan. Listen. Now
I'm a former historian, and I'll give you a great
Rocky Marciano story. The news reporters, the guys back then,
who were legitimate guys, they went up to sugar. Let's
not mix up the names now because the other guy
was a born yet they went up to Sugar Ray
Robinson and they told Sugar Ray Robinson, why don't you
(28:00):
come up a few pounds and fight Rocky Marciano and
folks who want to know what? Sugar Ray Robinson told
the reporters, Hey, guys, what do you want to do?
Get me killed now? Because he did have Mark Rocky
Marcia did have the Susie here. You're not yeat with you?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
They oh, there you go, So I wasn't you know?
I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
There was devastating there. Now as the Jet fans are
bragging that they've lost the game, it's that's like stupid.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
You want to take a call? Somebody wants to tell
you want to take a call. Sure, all right, let's do.
Let's do. Steven Manhattan wants to take calls. It's very exciting. Uh,
let's see uh Scott in Boston. Scott, you're on with
the great Steven Manhattan.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Oh, Steve, that call when you did that call to
Anthony Gallo, I'm Steve. I'm a big fan of you.
I can't stand you, but I called wf an and
tell them who you are all the time.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
PJ.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Whoever you think you are. I'm the one that's getting
you banned from wf AN all the time. I recognize
your voice. I call the call screen, I say, look
at the logs, see who's on there. They see you're
on that. A lot of the people don't mind Steve
that much, but some of them really despite Steve. But
Steve's a fun I know who Steve is, and I
would never say it in real life. I ain't like
the other people. But Steve's a published author. He's smart
(29:11):
enough to write published political books. He called sports Radio
All Day, Are.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Are Are come down? Steven Man, how do you answer
this claim that you you you use different names on
WFM when you call them. Is that true?
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Well, first of all, he's gonna get me banned. You
got to take a number to get me banned from
a banned from every show just about Look, I've said
this book and only call Ben Maley's show is Steve.
That I could call Howie car his show is Steve,
and nobody jumps out the window. I call these other
shows they jump out that you know, they jump out
the studio window. But I can tell you something a
(29:47):
lot of times it's the host who does it? And
a lot of times it's the screen is that do it.
And some of these clowns are jealous because they're such
you know, they had.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Egos and they understood. All right, let's take another. All right,
Marcel in Brooklyn. Well, I got Manhattan and Brooklyn side
by side. Here, get all the bird Marcel Salo to
Stephen Manhattan. Marcel, I can't believe borders on us.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I'm from Brooklyn, my man Stevens in Manhattan. Oh what
a day it is, Thank you Heaven, save my man.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Welcome he Marcel, listen. I originally grew up in the Bronx.
And this is my take on you Brooklyn guys. Right,
you guys are either mama's boys or flat out killers.
There's no middle ground with you guys.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Which one are Marcel? Which one are you? Are you
a mama's boy or a killer? Marcel?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I'm a single one.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Okay, Well, I say, you know that's a there's a
third option, Steve single ones.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Well, yeah, but did he did he grow up in Brooklyn?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You grew up in Brooklyn, right, Marcel?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, yes, after I adopted from Harlem in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
So from har Harlem to Brooklyn. I got you, yeah, yes.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
And speaking of Haarlem's where the home of the Pollo
Theater was, where stars are born legendary.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Is it not there anymore? I thought it was still there.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
The street ste Morcel Marcel on one hundred and twenty
fifth Street. I was up there a few weeks ago.
What museum is going to be opening up pretty soon
on one hundred and twenty fifth Street. If you are
a real New Yorker?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Well, I'm still New Yorker?
Speaker 5 (31:29):
And what do you see?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
What happens? If not, things might be still living aground?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, well said, unbelievable, what a what a that's guy's
a scholar, alsos. I know you've barely written book Stephen Manna,
but so is Marcel. They're a coloring books.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Is the host that a doctor?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But go ahead, I got you. I gotta go see
with that another cour You want to take another call,
I will take another call. Let's say hello to Jed. Jed,
you are on with Steven Manhattan. Hello Jed from Florida
and Manhattan.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Steed, you probably want to transition to Stevens here. You
agree with me that Ben Mallis has obviously has relatives
working at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Alaska.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Why else what you want ruthless.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Games in the NFL. He has somebody.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Controlling the weather. He's got an inside man.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
He's going to be affecting these games.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
He's gonna be defaiously trying to effect outcome of these games. Steve,
what do you think? Well, I'll tell you what happened,
what he's doing it, and we don't need to be
probably a little Wayne Circus third two thousand and ninety
by no ceilings. That's the raper's advice. Dude, we don't
you well listen. Ben Mallat took the tests of Bronx
High School of Science right in. Two weeks later, he
(32:40):
gets a postcard that tells him, all.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Right, gall, there's one more call. Let's go to Kathy
in Madison. Kathy, you're on with Steven Manhattan. Hello Kathy
and beautiful Madison, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Hello? What son you on mind today? Did you get
my pilnd.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
You send me a picture of a calendar?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
No? No, did I get I don't know? Have I
gotten a pick?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Have I gotten what calendar?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I remember? Oh that's right. I love Kathy sent you
a calendar ship. She's the center She's the centerfold. Come on,
she's a babe. Oh my gosh, Kathy, you got to
be this go ahead?
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Is Kathy there? I want to ask you a question now.
There is a beautiful name that's been really maligned in
the last several years. It starts with a K. I'm
not going to say because I'm not going to play it.
Don't you think it's disgusting that they they've turned this
name into something that's really bad when it's a beautiful name.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, I like you said it right away. It's beautiful Kathy.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
So an guy rabbis?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yes? Are you a rabbi that plays the ukulele? Steve Well, I.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Don't know about this guy's a cowboy who runs around
in his underwear out there and listen.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Is that guy must be called Curtis.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Fleewerd is auditioning to be the next Marlon Perkins, the
guy from Wild Kingdom? But how do you want for
May and what kind of what kind of act? Is this? Not?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
As much as I would love to break down Manhattan politics,
I think we're going to end the call right there.
There's a step in Manhattan checking in now amazing. We
have password the word Game of the Stars password. If
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Speaker 3 (36:02):
The attention everyone is passwork, you idiot, password the word
Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meler.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Let's do this. Here we go. We have Chris in Boston.
Who's gonna play? Hello Chris, Welcome, Good morning, Ben, How
are you? Good morning Chris. You're gonna play passworthy word
game says, what are you up to this morning? Chris
on my way to work? All right, very cool? And
tell the guy in sheboygen what you do for work?
What kind of work you do? You landscape to the start,
that's right. All the famous people in the Boston area,
(36:35):
they go to Chris. A lot of people need landscaping.
That's right, good business. Yeah, those trees keep growing, the
grass keeps growing. All right, very good. You're gonna play
Who do you want to partner up with? Chris? Let's
that's right. We're in it to win it, baby, We're
in it to win it. Hold on a second. We
have George George, George, George, George, George, George, George, Hello, George,
(36:56):
welcome in socow where hell, oh, George, who do you
want to partner up with? You got Lorena, you got
koop A little bits passed Lorena. Okay, oh yeah, are
you Are you working right now? George? It sounds like
you're working.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
I don't. You can't make any money work, do you
know that?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Yeah, well that's true. I've proven that for a long time.
All right, are you on speakerphone? George?
Speaker 5 (37:22):
I could remove the phone?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, well that would be the polite thing to do.
If you'll be a douche, just leave your speakerphone on.
But that's up to you. All right, let's play the game.
We have a list of words.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Here for.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
You're locked in and lock Chris. All right, Chris, pick
a number one to ten, Please, one to ten.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
In honor of Marcell, let's go number two.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Well, uh, in more ways than one. Let's go with
spoil spoil rock No good good guests there Thereina, I
gotta hear this. This ought to be good.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
You stole my word, Ben, just so you know. Okay,
five for three gifts? All right, gifts, George? This is
this would be the.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
Part I was listening. I thought I heard the word gift.
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yes? You did?
Speaker 5 (38:29):
Spoiled gift?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Uh? Five four three two one? All right? You got nothing?
How about Chris, let's go with coddle. Coddle, I got nothing. God,
should we throw away the word? Yeah, let's hurry. The
(38:52):
word was pamper your coddle. You spoil someone, your pampering
the mark take a word, George, number one, number one. Yes,
that's the proper way. Go ahead, all right, we're gonna
go with dentures.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Dentures. Uh, fault cheese. What do he said? Fault cheese.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
No, that's nothing, not anywhere. Why would not be the word?
That's a bad clue of the Rada. Let's let's go
with boy, I don't know. I mean, there's not un
fang f a n g fang. Yeah, there you go.
All right, he got olf of my clue. He got you.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Don't lose you the Rada.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
We won the game, Chris and Boston. We won the game.
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