January 5, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Justin Jefferson saying all the right things and not asking out of Minnesota, Bills QB Josh Allen extending his Iron Man streak by taking one snap, Eagles coach Nick Sirianni saying he has no regrets resting Eagles players, Maller Militia Feud, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka, Laca. It's our number four. Hour four is
ready to go as we begin the Ben Malerschow Podcast.
Stayed up all night to give you this pod. Now,
many people, many people heard Justin Jefferson, the wide receiver,
say all the right things and decided case closed. He's
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not asking out of the vikings. What is your position
on this? Also? Are you okay with Bill's quarterback Josh
Allen extending his iron Man streak by taking one snap
and then running off the field. Running off the field
for Buffalo and Nick Sirianni says that he has no
regrets about resting the Eagle players. Being healthy, he said,
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is a big deal. The Eagles missed a chance at
the number two seed in the NFC. Give me your
reaction to that as well. It's all coming your way
right now. Having wonderful Monday, this fifth day of January.
Here it is our number four. In a purple state
of mind. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
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The crown is yours, so our lead this hour is
the NFL regular season is over. Pittsburgh gets the final
playoff spot. They eliminate the Ravens thanks to the idiot kicker.
Idiot kicker for the Ravens. But our lead this hour
from Minnesota. Are the Vikings in the playoffs? Hell no,
they're not in the pluffs, but the Vikings beat the
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Packer backups in they close out the regular season nine
and eight. Now the focus, it's all about the future.
It's all about the future. No, if you've not been
following along, much of the scuttle butt has been about
the star receiver in Minnesota who's not very happy right
now and could be with your team, could be with
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your team if the price is right. So wide receiver
Justin Jefferson issued a public decree of support for quarterback
JJ McCarthy despite the Vikings getting substandard quarterback play all season.
Jefferson said, quote, I would love for him meeting McCarthy
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to be the quarterback show everybody. He is that number
one guy. That's a quote from Justin Jefferson. Vikings are
rumored to be considering an upgrade from the down Raid
at quarterback, although many wonder how much of an upgrade
a guy like Alligator Arms Murray of the Cardinals would
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be he's expected to go into the transfer portal out
of Arizona as the game of musical chairs will begin
soon enough, as we have the playoffs starting next week
next week, So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question many so called experts, many
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people saying that Herbert Justin Jefferson had to say, and
he said all the right things, and they've now decided
the case is closed. The case is closed. He's not
asking me out from the vikings, what is your position
on the future of Justin Jefferson and what is your
position on all of this? So I've got bedtime, Lullaby, Mona,
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Lisa and Feline and we will combine all of these
things together and we're going to make some fresh baba
ganoosh is what We're gonna make, delicious baba ganoosh. Get
the eggplant ready for the baba ganoosh. So to lead off,
we we do not buy that this ends anything. We don't.
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It's not our first rodeo. We've been to the rodeo
a few times here and this is a campaign stop
by Justin Jefferson. At the diner. You know, it's like
you eat the half of tamali, eat half of tamali,
and you promise you're gonna fix the infrastructure. Everything's gonna
be good. There have been presidential candidates that have lost
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elections because they didn't know how to eat food. There
was a famous star I heard years ago, and I
was in school about guy ran for president reelection and
he lost votes because he went to eat tamali's and
he didn't know that you're supposed to take, you know,
unwrapped the tamali and are you kidding? Yeah, yeah, I
don't forget who I was years ago, but the guy
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bit into the Tamali with the husk on the Tomali.
It's like, wait, dumb Anyway, I don't know why that
popped into my head. It just random thought popped in
my head as I mentioned Tamale. And when you hear Tamali,
that's what I see it, Tomali. I hear Tomali. It
was Gerald Ford. By the way, how old that's like
the seventies, right, my seventies six? Holy crap? Okay, anyway,
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all right, listen, but this is the public versus private
debate and all that stuff. It's weasel stuff, is what
I call pop goes Louise All thinking this story is over,
You're admitting you're glible. It's similar to believing that you
like what you hear in a in a press conference
is legit, Like these comments are a bedtime lullaby, Twinkle twinkle,
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little star, public versus private. Yet again, and so this
is this is where you're smiling at the voters and
yet you're cutting deals in the back room. And you
don't torture your image. You do not tortu your image
with the fan base. Yeah, that's the rule number one.
So you say all the right things publicly and then
privately you take meetings and you're like, eh, I don't
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know if I want to be here. I don't know
about that. And and listen, you look at jefferson situation.
He's being paid like an alph and with JJ McCarthy
at quarterback, he has turned into an omega. He had, now,
what's my evidence? Last nine games? Jefferson played the last
nine games. He had as many receiving touchdowns as I had,
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and you had nothing. He had zero. As Jim Moore,
our old coach who used to work, he couldn't do
Diddley pooh in that offense getting in the end zone
and even after a relatively big game for the Vikings
to close out in losing. See they had a winning record,
they didn't make the pluffs which a losing season. So
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had one hundred one yards on eight catches justin Jefferson,
and he still averaged four point one catches per game
and forty four point three yards per game the last
nine weeks of the regular season. That is not super stardom.
That is back up for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, is
what that is. So the smart money says that the
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Pirates will be circling. The Pirates will be circling, and
keep your bingo card ready, and teams like the Chiefs
and the Chargers will be plundering at sea trying to
loot the Viking ship. What they will be doing, well,
we'll see what this happens. It's not over. It's just
whispering right now, just a little whispering. We'll keep an
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eye it. Now to Buffalo, about to annoy Derek, the
Bill's Monster and the Bill's Mafia. Guys that listen to
the show. Felexus, America's favorite drag queen, caller will not
be happy with me. But Josh Allen took the first
snap of the Bill's blowout win over the Jets. Suck, Suck, suck.
That extended his consecutive game started streak to one hundred
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and twenty two. I believe is the number. And that
was it. He jogged off the field and said, my
time here is done. You other losers you get to play.
I am too important to risk my body and play
against the Jets.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And that was that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Backup Mitch Trubisky came in and took over. So the question,
are you okay with Bill's quarterback and former MVP's not
winning it this year? Are you okay with Bill's quarterback
Josh Allen extending his iron man streak by taking one snap?
Not two, not three, not four, not five. I'm not
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getting one snap. So the answer is a hard no
capital and capital.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
This was a banana peel moment for Josh Allen. He
slipped on the banana peel. Now, this is not the
first time he's done this. In fact, in many ways,
this has become standard operating procedure for Josh Allen. It
doesn't make it right. One snap, that's it. That's one
ceremonial toe dip into the pool. That's it. That's that's
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not toughness that you think iron Man streak. It's like
getting a marathon on metal. For standing near the starting line,
they give you a medal congratulations on that. It's silly.
It's really in many ways fraud and loops. Just the
little loophole that you worked through, and it's like it belongs.
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It's flimsy, belongs like something they would serve in a
store at Halloween, like Spirit Halloween, Like the costumes are
really not made with the greatest materials and all that stuff.
So and I'm not going to go stolen valor, although
you could argue that Brett Farve if he does break
the record, the real iron Man streak, the hard way,
was done by Brett farv or Farvara back in the
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day when men were men, they had hair on their
chest and quarterbacks actually got hit the wussification of the NFL.
Brett farv never think about this. He never took one
of these dopey ceremonial snaps, which which the quarterback of
the Bills, Josh Allen, is mastered. He never did a
one snap exit to extend his iron Man streak, Brett
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far if he didn't do it. In fact, I remember
I may or may not have been working here. Don't
tell anybody, but the idea was floated late in his
career with the Minnesota Vikings. They said, hey, Bret, why
don't we just start you and that won't take you out?
And the Viking, I don't know, Fret Farv refused, but
the Vikings said, we're not doing that. That's phony. Now
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Here we are, all these years later, the Buffalo Bills
that we like phony. We love phony. We're the Buffalo Bills,
and we like bogus numbers. We do now. Brett Favre
streak ultimately did end because he couldn't play because he
injured his shoulder, not because he took a token snap
like Josh Allen. And this was the total me guy move,
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the total me guy moved by Josh Allen. Shameless stat padding.
Lebron was doing this with some of his records with
the Lakers. It's embarrassing what it is protecting an irrelevant
record like it's the Mona Lisa at the Louver, Like
what do you do you read the room? If you're
streak your iron man streak needs legal gymnastics to keep
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the thing going. It's not really a streak, it's not.
It's like a typo in the Media Guide, not that
they really make those anymore, the online Media Guide. All right,
last thing, the Felladelphia. We go where Fried Daddy hangs out,
and just across the Delaware River there you've got our
friend or the man, the myth legend, Jonathan and Delaware
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they're all there. So Eagles coach Nick Sirianni, Fats and Phill.
You see Fats if you have to see the video
on X to celebrate over the holidays. Fats the legendary
Eagle fan member of the Mallain Militia. On a very
cold day, he did a plunge, an Arctic plunge into
the water there at his home, and he screamed my
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name prior to that. It's it's literally if you go
to my Twitter or x page whatever, it's at the
very top. That's dedication. Fats is the guy during the
pandem that lit himself on fire and screamed the name
of the show while the draft was going on. He's
a he's an interesting character anyway. The Eagles, Nick Sirianni
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was was not really worried about second guessing himself, because
coaches never second guessed themselves.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Uh, he was not.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
The Eagles played their backups intentionally and then lost to
the Commanders. And now the reason this is the story
is that while Sirianni said, you know, I'm gonna I'm
gonna opt to rest my guys, the team had an
opportunity to get the number two the number two seed
in the NFC, and well, I don't remember the gonna
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deviate from my path, you know. The the Bears fell
behind and ultimately ended up losing to the Lions in Chicago, embarrassing,
embarrassed playing their starters. Now, the Eagles, if they had
won their game and the Bears ended up losing their game,
that would have pushed the Eagles into that number two
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spot on your playoff card. But Sirianni says he doesn't
think that was fair to the players to have them
play in the second half. Oh, it's so good. We
are at the point now where it's not fair to
have the players play in the second alf, even though
it's there possibly their job to play in the second
It's so great. This NBA level bull crap is what
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they says, oh, yeah, so we're going to manage the
load in the NBA. It's very important. Okay, Well now
they're doing it in the NFL. So the Eagles lost
the game, so they were not the number two seed. Instead,
they will play host to the forty nine ers that'll
be coming up this wild card weekend. So the question,
Nick Sirianni says he has no regrets about resting the
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Eagle starters even though they're healthy. He said, wow, the
bigger deals, they have to stay healthy. He says, that's
a bigger Give me your reaction to all of this.
So this was not I said, load management is really
not load management. It's a bad job by me. This
was feline capital, f feline coaching. Not a lion or
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a tiger. No, no, this is this is not a
rag doll cat. It's not. This is a scaredy cat, scaredy, scaredy, scaredy.
There it is right there. This wasn't chess, it was checkers.
The pieces were glued to the board. Bad job by you.
You had a shot. Now you don't get a buy
as a number two seat. I understand that, and instead
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you decide I don't even try. I'm gonna curl up
in the sunbeam and that's it. And football karma. If
you believe in ball, don't lie like Rashid Wallace back
in the day old basketball player. Then the Eagles should
lose to the forty nine ers. They should lose to
the forty nas because of the way they approached this here.
And so sirian is all about healthy. Oh, we have
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to be healthy. That sounds a lot to me like
a coach that is afraid. And you could have gotten
conceivingly an extra home game. You know, we'll see how
this all shakes out. It's pretty wide open. It would
appear in the playoffs. And so he essentially told the
locker room, Nick Sirianni, you know, rather than get that
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whole extra home game thing, well, just we'll deal with
that later. We'll just do we'll deal with that later.
It's the Hubris, the Hubris with a headset, and so
we'll see how this place. It's kind of like saying, hey,
we're smarter, we know the math, we know the numbers.
And of course your players can go out and get
injured brushing their teeth. They could jam the toothbrush into
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the side of their mouth and then need dental work
and not be able to play. It's all about matchups.
It's all about the matchups and all that stuff. So
good luck, and here come the forty nine Ers who
lost their game, got smashed around by Seattle's defense over
the weekend. They are a physical team, seemingly will be
an angry team, and we'll see it now. Last time
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the Ego and Niners played in the playoffs, I remember
Rock Perdy got hurt on like the first series of
the game, and then Josh Johnson came in and he
couldn't play. He couldn't play. And so the Eagles also,
if this team comes out and they fall behind earlier
and they don't even play their starters in the playoffs,
I would assume so Nick Sirian is never gonna hear
the end of that. As a good player guy, don't
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coach scared. That's coaching scared. I hate it. I've always
hated it. And so we'll see what happens with the
Eagles next week. The Rams played their starters and they
played them all the way into the fourth quarter and
they won. Shocking. Shocking anyway, It is the Ben Mahler Show.
Will take your calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox. Coming up later this hour, we'll have the
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Malard Militia funer will take a bunch of your phone calls.
And did the Steelers have a higher power a cheat
code in their game against the Baltimore Ravens. Interesting story
bouncing around. We will get to that. Also the horse play.
It's horsey time. But is it legit? We'll get to
all that. We will do it next.
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Kooper Loop all Bronco fan. That's all Bronco fan in
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your comments, Ken and will be used against you in
the court of sports radio, so please act accordingly. Back
to it. Back to it we go. And Gunner from
the Walmart in Northern Minnesota, whose team is the laughingstock
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of the NFL. Now, he's not a Viking fan, He's
a Carolina Panther fan. And Gunner will not address the
snuff alepgus of the room as his Carolina Panthers are
the biggest underdog on Wildcard weekend. The Rams are a
double digit favorite on the road, and Carolina congratulations. The
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Panthers the first franchise in NFL history to make the
playoff twice with a losing records. So very impressive work there, boys.
You're in the right division. The NFC South is a terrible. Absolutely.
I think a bowl of mayonnaise would provide more resistance.
I believe that to be true. Let's go to the phones,
and let's say a load of hollering James in Minneapolis,
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minnesot Hello, hollering James, Hello, Big Benny James. James, James, James, James,
James of the Jungle.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
James of the Jimmy James, of the Jimmy James Market
for Jimmy John's.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, so the smells are free, The smells are free. Yes,
are the girls. I didn't know the girls were wild,
that Jimmy Johns. I had no idea, only tip them
bag like Jack and you met Jack. I did, That's right.
I met Jack. The great about that, I love them
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about that.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I had the Christmas wish list I met.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Christmas wish list was fleshed at all four fifty four
pay reliever. You get three supplements with it. Because I
didn't ever write credit card or Debbie cards, I.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Couldn't order James, James, don't you take enough medica? No,
you don't know, you don't need No, No, we've already
established you don't. We made the song, James, we don't
need to change the song. Thirty six pills in the morning,
thirty six pills at night. We can't go thirty seven
pills in the morning, thirty nine pills at night. It
doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Thirty do whatever he want. He's the producer.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
He says, we didn't make the song. Though he didn't
he didn't know Jay Scoop made the song.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh okay, just y'all, man, what did you think about
my upset pas? Did you hear them?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
How would I have heard them?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I thought you were listening to your show while you
were away?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
God, no, no, I was. I was sleeping. I kept
normal hours. It was amazing. It was wild.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It was wild. Yeah, yeah, a wild time too.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You think, well, you think I'm hearing a hollering James
phone call while I'm away?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
My god, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I had some good pics, so Ben, I had some
good picks.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I take Minnesota over Green Bay, Yeah, I took that one.
I took the Bears hitting beat, and I took Pittsburgh winning.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Okay, congratulations session.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
They went to mister Rogers's neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, they took the trolley to mister rogers neighbors. Well,
how about this now, James, you brought this up. I
was a tease, and your teas you got a payoff.
So the Steelers called in some extra help. Do you
see this before their game on Sunday night at the
stadium formerly known as Hinz Field. Yeah, that's right. There
was a priest that was blessing that fear holy water.
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Can you buy holy water? How much does it cost?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
The holy was free?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Well it was free for the Steelers with them.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Usually free Jesus, my grandma's I.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
See, let's see look at this. You can buy holy
water on Amazon.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
You can just go to a Catholic church and the priest.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Really, they'll hook you up. Oh nice again. I can
buy forty forty bottles two ounces of holy water for
twenty five dollars.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
That seems like you bless that though. Do you know
who blessed that holy China?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I believe bless I don't know. Calm down, Come down,
This is not a political show moment. Calm Downing's okay,
forty pieces doesn't say Catholic church?
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Yes, yes, I would get my well, James.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
James used to call up and give a prayer when
your mom was sick. You would give a prayer, Jane,
I know.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
She passed away. Then, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
For it worked for a while and then they still
you know, you know, you sick for quite a while.
She got then I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
That's that broke that New year's resolution.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You've already broken your New year's resolution. January fifth today,
You've already know.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And that was only until about three days.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
It's good time to go to the gym, though. You
go to the gym and there's a bunch of people
they just got their new workout clothes, and then by
next week none of them will be there.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
So it's a good time to go to the quit
right after the holidays are completely over with, and then
they throw through trees and they don't know what to
do with something. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
There's other big names on holding. I feel like I
need to take some more car You want to hold
on these? I go back to you, all right, all right,
hold on, sec Let's go to Dick and Dayton, the Legend.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Heppy New Year.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Hello Dick and Dayton, how's like you? Another year of
me and you're together? Unbelievable? How long were you? How
long you been calling this show?
Speaker 8 (25:11):
I'd say at least twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh my god, twenty two years of the entire generation
of phone calls we've had.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Hey, Ben, what's that the Browns did the last two
I could not believe they beat the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You know, are you optimistic or pessimistic? You are optimistic,
not pessive. You're always optimistic.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yes, all right?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Right now, the Browns are likely going to fire their
coach today. By the time I wake up, Stefansk, he'll
be out. Who do you want? Dick and Dayton? Right now?
The Browns are listening. You're up early here. Who do
you recommend? You are now a consultant? You know the
Dolphins hired Troy Aikman as a consultant. The Browns are
going to turn to Dick in Dayton. The Browns need
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some Dick from Dayton, and you're gonna help him out.
So help him out, Dick, give some advice right now?
Who should the Browns hire?
Speaker 8 (26:02):
I'd like to see Bill Belichick come back?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
There?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You go send that out? Who Bill Belichick leaving North
Carolina coming back to the NFL to his old stopping grounds,
the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
And you know what that the Bengals. I it was
a shame because Bill Burrow got hurt. I think they
would have won more games, but you know they Yeah,
they had that. But I want to say something about
Ryan Day. I thought he did a really good he
had a good year, and Miami beat him. But a
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lot of people want heads to.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Roll up there, but well that always have every time
the Buckeyes lose. You gotta fire the coach.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
What we do?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah, well you're doing okay though. Are you back doing
your music? Everything's good, yes, my music, yeah, a little
bit of mine, the banjo out, you got the mandolin,
the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
And Dave came down and we went down to see
my friend.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
But is that day from Dayton?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
From Dayton?
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Are you going to come see me this year?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
That is the plan. We're going to have an epic
meet and greet. We're gonna and I have to go
somewhere kind of close to but you can't. We'll fool
arrange transportation. Yeah, we'll figure out how to get you
to our venue. We don't have a venue yet, so
if anyone wants to recommend a venue in the Greater
Cincinnati area or the Dayton area, let us know, and
well we had a place last year, but it kind
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of fell through. So all right, we'll figure it out. Though,
even if I have to come to your house, I'll
harass you at your house.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, you're welcome there.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
You just give me on looking up and you.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Know, just say I'm looking for Dick and then they
just signed me out and I can stay a long time. Buddy.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Well that'd be a great time knock on the doors
in the Dayton area and say you're looking for da
He's like, can I yeah, I think I'll If I
said that, fella, a lot of people would show. But
if I say that, probably not. But all right, well
I dig I know you're you're getting older. I met
a guy though over the break World War two veteran
(28:05):
hundred and five years old, bazooka Joe one hundred and
five years old. So you you got many more years
to go here, Dick, you get a lot of time left, Okay,
all right, bye bye there he goes Dick and Dayton.
So I met this guy. We're out one hundred five
years old, yeah, selling up partying at night. He's a
(28:26):
hundred five yeah how And I was like, man, yeah,
he was old when I was born. You know, man,
that's pretty wild. And I still he's still talking and
he didn't move around that well. But he's hundred and five,
you know. So he went out and was out late
at night. I thought, well, that's pretty cool. You know,
he was in the Battle of the Bulge, when the
legendary battles back and back funding World War Two. The
(28:48):
guy's out. There's crazy. What a great thing to meet
this guy and he's talking to me for a little bit.
So it was pretty cool. And he think about what
he's seen before the obviously for the internet. He was
born in nineteen twenty one hundred and yeah. Oho, he'll
be one hundred and six this year. Let's go to
the front. Marcel in Brooklyn, who we have not talked
(29:09):
to in many weeks.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Marcel, this guy's such a big star. This Marcel and Brooklyn.
He took like the last three weeks off. You're like
Howard Stern with all your vacation time. Marcel and Brooklyn.
You're a big, big star.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
You are.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Oh yes it is. Shouts to Howard Stern you might know.
Good morning, Ben Maller, welcome back and happy New Year.
I really miss you guys, and I really where have
you been?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I who you been doing?
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Here?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Are you living the life of a celebrity? Is a
multi time caller of the Year. Are you living the dream?
Speaker 9 (29:39):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yes, it is?
Speaker 9 (29:40):
Looking for five netts in just two months away from
your Beny Awards. I'm going to defeat Mike though, idiot
Kahn and of course Blair in May.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
All right, hold on, sech here, Mike the leprechaun. Marcel
says he's going to beat you.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
He's a dead duck dynasty.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
And Marcel, are you the secret wife for Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All right? Let me see here, Marcel, is it true
that you are the wife of Aaron Rodgers? No, all right,
let's see here. Mike de leepgun He says he is not.
And by the way, I'm upset with you, Michael leppergun.
So I got this holiday card in the mail our
favorite moments of twenty twenty five, and I did not
make your holiday card. I almost lost my job when
(30:30):
you visited me. Only part of my face made your card.
I want my full face on there. Why is my
full face not?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
I love that you're like half cropped out?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I know, like so is he?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Though?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Like it's a it's a non centered Yeah, I need
my full face on there.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Listen all right?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Anyways, well, no, no, no, I want to know how
come only half my face is on your car?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Because bigger than most people's face.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Okay, see that's a cheap shot, Marshall. You see what
he did there, Marcell. He took a cheap shot at me.
You see that, Marcel?
Speaker 9 (31:07):
What is that true? Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yes, my face is the size of the Goodyear blimp.
Do you even know what that is?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Blimp?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yes? Yes, exactly. There's photos of him with his kids, snow,
some old building. There's a beach thing here and he
didn't even sign it. He didn't sign it. I couldn't
autograph it. What's up with that?
Speaker 9 (31:42):
This is?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
This is.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
James?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
You met me?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Do I have a giant sized head? James hollering James.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
No, you have a cute, medium sized face.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I don't know. Don't use the word cute. That's Michael leprekun.
I don't have a giant face.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Do you lie?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You're a liar?
Speaker 9 (32:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Okay, And I have to I was bar hopping yesterday
watching the Patriots, and I wanted to give a shout out.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
To a new friend Troy who loves your show, and
his beautiful daughter of Sophia.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
We were bar hopping all around the Boston.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You're making that where Who's what does Troy do for
a living?
Speaker 8 (32:17):
He works in some.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Summing or something, bumming a plumber. That's an important job. Construction, construction,
that's a good job too.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But that.
Speaker 10 (32:27):
Ask Marcel, where were the giants?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
And all right, let me ask you, Marcel, where are
the Giants and jets? Marcel?
Speaker 9 (32:34):
Oh the one will the Giants have the big time
back to back once against the Cowboys, and while the
final game at the Hallmark Stadium taking place, the Bill defeats.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
The chefs thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, I know nobody cares about that, all right, Marcell.
Food picks, I say that you had first food picks,
all right, I believe that you had. I'm gonna go
oodles and noodles, oodles, noodles and the mixed maac it
go ahead, Larda, what are you going to be back?
Speaker 6 (33:03):
I'm gonna go with a saucy meat ball sandwich, all right?
Speaker 9 (33:08):
Oh? Not a mix fatch and coopty loop. This is
gonna be a chance with me, Ben for let's go.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Marcel I think that you had a blackened salmon pasta
with sun dried tomato cream sauce.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Oh you know what that means with the word pasta.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
He gave you candy.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
He gave you grandy with the pasta.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Now, Marcel, do you know what type of animal? Marcel?
The salmon is. What type of animals?
Speaker 8 (33:39):
For fish?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Look at you, Marcell, unbelievable. Yes, he's so proud of himself.
That's amazing. Well do you like it? Do you like fish, Marcel?
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Well, my brother's got fish. I never ate fish.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
All you never eaten fish. That's I don't like fish,
but I've eaten it. I don't I don't enjoy that.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
You should try it.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
The problem with fish is it tastes fish. That's the problem,
not all fish.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Fish.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Yeah, hey Ben, good luck, good to be back. You
want one, say.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
That's right, but first we say a lot to Alam
d Lou in the bay. Hello, Alamyda Lou, Welcome.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Hey Ben, happy to hear to you guys.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Thank you Lou. The Super Bowl's coming up, Lou. It's
like thirty something days away. Alam to Lou, I'll be
up in the bay, so we might have to come
buy your place.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
You know, what a what a time to do it.
Speaker 11 (34:26):
Super Bowl in Santa Clara and you can fish will
be wide opening for you guys anytime you want. And
congrats to Justin Cooper for his Wait, what's open?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Let's bar the bar here? Sleep there you see?
Speaker 11 (34:38):
Yeah, there's actually there's a pull out bed like in
the old fashioned Disney movies?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Is that amressa Murphy bed? They call that a Murphy bed.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
I'll take it sad.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Lost my focus listening to what just happened. I'm so sorry.
I was at the forty nine Ers Seahawks game yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Actually oh okay, well that was not Yes, that would
be like on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
That would be the sorry West Coast time, just like
you guys.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Still it's Monday, it's Saturday.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Yeah anyway, Ben, what the you were talking?
Speaker 11 (35:14):
Forty nine ers Eagle and I've had zero expectations for
the forty nine ers team since about week five?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, well when they lost all their players defensively, Yeah,
I understand.
Speaker 11 (35:27):
Usually I've neurotic about the Niners and I couldn't even
tell you after starting defense right now?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, I couldn't either. And I supposedly have this as
my job. They got no names, but can they cover
the three and a half or the four? That's the question.
Speaker 11 (35:41):
Are the Eagles favorites by three and a half?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah? The line the overnight, the opening line had the
Eagles favored by three and a half. I think it's
still three and a half. So it's that's where.
Speaker 11 (35:51):
That'll that'll probably that'll probably go up. I wouldn't be
shocked to see the Niners go on and win.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
And Fats and Philly.
Speaker 11 (36:00):
You want you to know I hate you.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Oh, keep listening because he's he said he's calling me
up one night this week. Fat's in Philly.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
So I listened every night and I have to say
something on the airwaves. It's gonna probably take the world
by storms. And it's two parts.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I love the.
Speaker 11 (36:16):
Disdain in Lorena's voice. When Michael Lefrekhan.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Somethings on the show and got posted a picture of
his surgically created on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Really, oh man, I don't know. I mean, I don't
want to you know, why would why would you say that?
I don't want to hear about that. I mean, I'm
trying to do a nice show. I don't do you
want to hear about that. Danny DeVito. You don't want
to hear about that, the great Danny DeVito.
Speaker 10 (36:44):
Ben Now, welcome back, Thank you, sir, Thank.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
You, sir.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I heard you picked the Ravens.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
You picked the Ravens to win the whole thing. I
hope you didn't pick the Ravens. You didn't pick the
Ravens right that.
Speaker 10 (36:53):
I was on your show when I did that. But
that's one of a thousand bets I got funny more,
Oh my bag, Yeah, that's going to happen. So I
was pretty impressed with that blond So remembering that from
six months ago, that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
There all the time on, So he's got nothing else
going on, No.
Speaker 10 (37:09):
Exactly right, So Ben, Uh, there's something wrong with a
team that's been based the best team all season long
and they're traveling on the road the Rams.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
I can't every year.
Speaker 10 (37:20):
It is a problem like that. And like you said,
the Panthers back to back year bad team, and uh,
the Rams. They're basically punished in the Rams. I don't
know if you want to know that.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
These they got to change the rule. They've been talked
about this. They've been a bunch of teams I think
it's just been a handful of It seems like a bunch.
That's a bunch, right fives, A bunch that have made
the playoffs with losing records and then they get the
home game. It's always almost always the NFC South, right.
They the Carolina sent it twice, Atlanta did it. I
think Tampa did it one year they were under five
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hundred and.
Speaker 10 (37:51):
Made the PLAYOFFSA did it, yes, and Ben the MVP
of the league is Drake May.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
It's got to be better.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
It's gonna be it's gonna be closed. It's not. It's
not a lock. It's a pigeons plit a terrible schedule,
and Stafford led the NFL in touchdowns and yardage and
all that, and so he's the better store Stafford's. It's
not decided it.
Speaker 8 (38:10):
I agree.
Speaker 10 (38:11):
But if you take Drake May out of that lineup
and you're putting Josh talks, come on, you know, if
you'll winning Paul Watt.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Well, you could say that about the Rams with Garoppolo too.
I gotta go Coops yelling at me. We're gonna have
a short edition of the Mallard Militia feud. We'll get
to that you want to play eight seven, seven ninety
nine off. Excuse to see danvid veto back and James
and Marcella and Dorco and all the legends. We'll get
to that. We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
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Speaker 6 (39:05):
Please, it's winning so important.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Listened winning and everything takes time for another Mallard game show.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
You're so gone.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
We surveyed one hundred people name sports teams associated with losing.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Let's got a good the game, real quick short game.
We have Mike in New Hampshire's gonna play and Railroad
John in Duluth. Hello, gentlemen, you're both on the air.
Here we go. One hundred people surveyed the top one, two, three, four, five, six,
answers on the board. Name a common New Year's resolution
people make in the month of January. Your name is Mike. Mike. Wait,
(39:45):
that was the It was the number one answer. You
get to go again, Mike. Name a common New Year's
resolution people make in January quit smoking? Not yeah, it
is it is on there, that that was on there,
that was on there, right, keep you on, Mike. Anything else, no,
all right, Railroad John common common new Year's resolution. No, no, nothing.
(40:12):
We have exercise more, eat healthier, save money, get organized.
All right. That was the shortest game show in the
history of game shows, and Mike won.
Boom, shaka, Laca. It's our number four. Hour four is
ready to go as we begin the Ben Malerschow Podcast.
Stayed up all night to give you this pod. Now,
many people, many people heard Justin Jefferson, the wide receiver,
say all the right things and decided case closed. He's
(00:20):
not asking out of the vikings. What is your position
on this? Also? Are you okay with Bill's quarterback Josh
Allen extending his iron Man streak by taking one snap
and then running off the field. Running off the field
for Buffalo and Nick Sirianni says that he has no
regrets about resting the Eagle players. Being healthy, he said,
(00:45):
is a big deal. The Eagles missed a chance at
the number two seed in the NFC. Give me your
reaction to that as well. It's all coming your way
right now. Having wonderful Monday, this fifth day of January.
Here it is our number four. In a purple state
of mind. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
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The crown is yours, so our lead this hour is
the NFL regular season is over. Pittsburgh gets the final
playoff spot. They eliminate the Ravens thanks to the idiot kicker.
Idiot kicker for the Ravens. But our lead this hour
from Minnesota. Are the Vikings in the playoffs? Hell no,
they're not in the pluffs, but the Vikings beat the
(02:55):
Packer backups in they close out the regular season nine
and eight. Now the focus, it's all about the future.
It's all about the future. No, if you've not been
following along, much of the scuttle butt has been about
the star receiver in Minnesota who's not very happy right
now and could be with your team, could be with
(03:16):
your team if the price is right. So wide receiver
Justin Jefferson issued a public decree of support for quarterback
JJ McCarthy despite the Vikings getting substandard quarterback play all season.
Jefferson said, quote, I would love for him meeting McCarthy
(03:38):
to be the quarterback show everybody. He is that number
one guy. That's a quote from Justin Jefferson. Vikings are
rumored to be considering an upgrade from the down Raid
at quarterback, although many wonder how much of an upgrade
a guy like Alligator Arms Murray of the Cardinals would
(04:00):
be he's expected to go into the transfer portal out
of Arizona as the game of musical chairs will begin
soon enough, as we have the playoffs starting next week
next week, So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question many so called experts, many
(04:22):
people saying that Herbert Justin Jefferson had to say, and
he said all the right things, and they've now decided
the case is closed. The case is closed. He's not
asking me out from the vikings, what is your position
on the future of Justin Jefferson and what is your
position on all of this? So I've got bedtime, Lullaby, Mona,
(04:46):
Lisa and Feline and we will combine all of these
things together and we're going to make some fresh baba
ganoosh is what We're gonna make, delicious baba ganoosh. Get
the eggplant ready for the baba ganoosh. So to lead off,
we we do not buy that this ends anything. We don't.
(05:08):
It's not our first rodeo. We've been to the rodeo
a few times here and this is a campaign stop
by Justin Jefferson. At the diner. You know, it's like
you eat the half of tamali, eat half of tamali,
and you promise you're gonna fix the infrastructure. Everything's gonna
be good. There have been presidential candidates that have lost
(05:28):
elections because they didn't know how to eat food. There
was a famous star I heard years ago, and I
was in school about guy ran for president reelection and
he lost votes because he went to eat tamali's and
he didn't know that you're supposed to take, you know,
unwrapped the tamali and are you kidding? Yeah, yeah, I
don't forget who I was years ago, but the guy
(05:50):
bit into the Tamali with the husk on the Tomali.
It's like, wait, dumb Anyway, I don't know why that
popped into my head. It just random thought popped in
my head as I mentioned Tamale. And when you hear Tamali,
that's what I see it, Tomali. I hear Tomali. It
was Gerald Ford. By the way, how old that's like
the seventies, right, my seventies six? Holy crap? Okay, anyway,
(06:12):
all right, listen, but this is the public versus private
debate and all that stuff. It's weasel stuff, is what
I call pop goes Louise All thinking this story is over,
You're admitting you're glible. It's similar to believing that you
like what you hear in a in a press conference
is legit, Like these comments are a bedtime lullaby, Twinkle twinkle,
(06:37):
little star, public versus private. Yet again, and so this
is this is where you're smiling at the voters and
yet you're cutting deals in the back room. And you
don't torture your image. You do not tortu your image
with the fan base. Yeah, that's the rule number one.
So you say all the right things publicly and then
privately you take meetings and you're like, eh, I don't
(07:00):
know if I want to be here. I don't know
about that. And and listen, you look at jefferson situation.
He's being paid like an alph and with JJ McCarthy
at quarterback, he has turned into an omega. He had, now,
what's my evidence? Last nine games? Jefferson played the last
nine games. He had as many receiving touchdowns as I had,
(07:22):
and you had nothing. He had zero. As Jim Moore,
our old coach who used to work, he couldn't do
Diddley pooh in that offense getting in the end zone
and even after a relatively big game for the Vikings
to close out in losing. See they had a winning record,
they didn't make the pluffs which a losing season. So
(07:42):
had one hundred one yards on eight catches justin Jefferson,
and he still averaged four point one catches per game
and forty four point three yards per game the last
nine weeks of the regular season. That is not super stardom.
That is back up for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, is
what that is. So the smart money says that the
(08:04):
Pirates will be circling. The Pirates will be circling, and
keep your bingo card ready, and teams like the Chiefs
and the Chargers will be plundering at sea trying to
loot the Viking ship. What they will be doing, well,
we'll see what this happens. It's not over. It's just
whispering right now, just a little whispering. We'll keep an
(08:25):
eye it. Now to Buffalo, about to annoy Derek, the
Bill's Monster and the Bill's Mafia. Guys that listen to
the show. Felexus, America's favorite drag queen, caller will not
be happy with me. But Josh Allen took the first
snap of the Bill's blowout win over the Jets. Suck, Suck, suck.
That extended his consecutive game started streak to one hundred
(08:48):
and twenty two. I believe is the number. And that
was it. He jogged off the field and said, my
time here is done. You other losers you get to play.
I am too important to risk my body and play
against the Jets.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And that was that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Backup Mitch Trubisky came in and took over. So the question,
are you okay with Bill's quarterback and former MVP's not
winning it this year? Are you okay with Bill's quarterback
Josh Allen extending his iron man streak by taking one snap?
Not two, not three, not four, not five. I'm not
(09:24):
getting one snap. So the answer is a hard no
capital and capital.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
This was a banana peel moment for Josh Allen. He
slipped on the banana peel. Now, this is not the
first time he's done this. In fact, in many ways,
this has become standard operating procedure for Josh Allen. It
doesn't make it right. One snap, that's it. That's one
ceremonial toe dip into the pool. That's it. That's that's
(09:54):
not toughness that you think iron Man streak. It's like
getting a marathon on metal. For standing near the starting line,
they give you a medal congratulations on that. It's silly.
It's really in many ways fraud and loops. Just the
little loophole that you worked through, and it's like it belongs.
(10:14):
It's flimsy, belongs like something they would serve in a
store at Halloween, like Spirit Halloween, Like the costumes are
really not made with the greatest materials and all that stuff.
So and I'm not going to go stolen valor, although
you could argue that Brett Farve if he does break
the record, the real iron Man streak, the hard way,
was done by Brett farv or Farvara back in the
(10:38):
day when men were men, they had hair on their
chest and quarterbacks actually got hit the wussification of the NFL.
Brett farv never think about this. He never took one
of these dopey ceremonial snaps, which which the quarterback of
the Bills, Josh Allen, is mastered. He never did a
one snap exit to extend his iron Man streak, Brett
(10:59):
far if he didn't do it. In fact, I remember
I may or may not have been working here. Don't
tell anybody, but the idea was floated late in his
career with the Minnesota Vikings. They said, hey, Bret, why
don't we just start you and that won't take you out?
And the Viking, I don't know, Fret Farv refused, but
the Vikings said, we're not doing that. That's phony. Now
(11:21):
Here we are, all these years later, the Buffalo Bills
that we like phony. We love phony. We're the Buffalo Bills,
and we like bogus numbers. We do now. Brett Favre
streak ultimately did end because he couldn't play because he
injured his shoulder, not because he took a token snap
like Josh Allen. And this was the total me guy move,
(11:44):
the total me guy moved by Josh Allen. Shameless stat padding.
Lebron was doing this with some of his records with
the Lakers. It's embarrassing what it is protecting an irrelevant
record like it's the Mona Lisa at the Louver, Like
what do you do you read the room? If you're
streak your iron man streak needs legal gymnastics to keep
(12:07):
the thing going. It's not really a streak, it's not.
It's like a typo in the Media Guide, not that
they really make those anymore, the online Media Guide. All right,
last thing, the Felladelphia. We go where Fried Daddy hangs out,
and just across the Delaware River there you've got our
friend or the man, the myth legend, Jonathan and Delaware
(12:29):
they're all there. So Eagles coach Nick Sirianni, Fats and Phill.
You see Fats if you have to see the video
on X to celebrate over the holidays. Fats the legendary
Eagle fan member of the Mallain Militia. On a very
cold day, he did a plunge, an Arctic plunge into
the water there at his home, and he screamed my
(12:50):
name prior to that. It's it's literally if you go
to my Twitter or x page whatever, it's at the
very top. That's dedication. Fats is the guy during the
pandem that lit himself on fire and screamed the name
of the show while the draft was going on. He's
a he's an interesting character anyway. The Eagles, Nick Sirianni
(13:11):
was was not really worried about second guessing himself, because
coaches never second guessed themselves.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Uh, he was not.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
The Eagles played their backups intentionally and then lost to
the Commanders. And now the reason this is the story
is that while Sirianni said, you know, I'm gonna I'm
gonna opt to rest my guys, the team had an
opportunity to get the number two the number two seed
in the NFC, and well, I don't remember the gonna
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deviate from my path, you know. The the Bears fell
behind and ultimately ended up losing to the Lions in Chicago, embarrassing,
embarrassed playing their starters. Now, the Eagles, if they had
won their game and the Bears ended up losing their game,
that would have pushed the Eagles into that number two
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spot on your playoff card. But Sirianni says he doesn't
think that was fair to the players to have them
play in the second half. Oh, it's so good. We
are at the point now where it's not fair to
have the players play in the second alf, even though
it's there possibly their job to play in the second
It's so great. This NBA level bull crap is what
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they says, oh, yeah, so we're going to manage the
load in the NBA. It's very important. Okay, Well now
they're doing it in the NFL. So the Eagles lost
the game, so they were not the number two seed. Instead,
they will play host to the forty nine ers that'll
be coming up this wild card weekend. So the question,
Nick Sirianni says he has no regrets about resting the
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Eagle starters even though they're healthy. He said, wow, the
bigger deals, they have to stay healthy. He says, that's
a bigger Give me your reaction to all of this.
So this was not I said, load management is really
not load management. It's a bad job by me. This
was feline capital, f feline coaching. Not a lion or
(15:11):
a tiger. No, no, this is this is not a
rag doll cat. It's not. This is a scaredy cat, scaredy, scaredy, scaredy.
There it is right there. This wasn't chess, it was checkers.
The pieces were glued to the board. Bad job by you.
You had a shot. Now you don't get a buy
as a number two seat. I understand that, and instead
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you decide I don't even try. I'm gonna curl up
in the sunbeam and that's it. And football karma. If
you believe in ball, don't lie like Rashid Wallace back
in the day old basketball player. Then the Eagles should
lose to the forty nine ers. They should lose to
the forty nas because of the way they approached this here.
And so sirian is all about healthy. Oh, we have
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to be healthy. That sounds a lot to me like
a coach that is afraid. And you could have gotten
conceivingly an extra home game. You know, we'll see how
this all shakes out. It's pretty wide open. It would
appear in the playoffs. And so he essentially told the
locker room, Nick Sirianni, you know, rather than get that
(16:15):
whole extra home game thing, well, just we'll deal with
that later. We'll just do we'll deal with that later.
It's the Hubris, the Hubris with a headset, and so
we'll see how this place. It's kind of like saying, hey,
we're smarter, we know the math, we know the numbers.
And of course your players can go out and get
injured brushing their teeth. They could jam the toothbrush into
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the side of their mouth and then need dental work
and not be able to play. It's all about matchups.
It's all about the matchups and all that stuff. So
good luck, and here come the forty nine Ers who
lost their game, got smashed around by Seattle's defense over
the weekend. They are a physical team, seemingly will be
an angry team, and we'll see it now. Last time
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the Ego and Niners played in the playoffs, I remember
Rock Perdy got hurt on like the first series of
the game, and then Josh Johnson came in and he
couldn't play. He couldn't play. And so the Eagles also,
if this team comes out and they fall behind earlier
and they don't even play their starters in the playoffs,
I would assume so Nick Sirian is never gonna hear
the end of that. As a good player guy, don't
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coach scared. That's coaching scared. I hate it. I've always
hated it. And so we'll see what happens with the
Eagles next week. The Rams played their starters and they
played them all the way into the fourth quarter and
they won. Shocking. Shocking anyway, It is the Ben Mahler Show.
Will take your calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox. Coming up later this hour, we'll have the
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Malard Militia funer will take a bunch of your phone calls.
And did the Steelers have a higher power a cheat
code in their game against the Baltimore Ravens. Interesting story
bouncing around. We will get to that. Also the horse play.
It's horsey time. But is it legit? We'll get to
all that. We will do it next.
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Kooper Loop all Bronco fan. That's all Bronco fan in
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your comments, Ken and will be used against you in
the court of sports radio, so please act accordingly. Back
to it. Back to it we go. And Gunner from
the Walmart in Northern Minnesota, whose team is the laughingstock
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of the NFL. Now, he's not a Viking fan, He's
a Carolina Panther fan. And Gunner will not address the
snuff alepgus of the room as his Carolina Panthers are
the biggest underdog on Wildcard weekend. The Rams are a
double digit favorite on the road, and Carolina congratulations. The
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Panthers the first franchise in NFL history to make the
playoff twice with a losing records. So very impressive work there, boys.
You're in the right division. The NFC South is a terrible. Absolutely.
I think a bowl of mayonnaise would provide more resistance.
I believe that to be true. Let's go to the phones,
and let's say a load of hollering James in Minneapolis,
(20:25):
minnesot Hello, hollering James, Hello, Big Benny James. James, James, James, James,
James of the Jungle.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
James of the Jimmy James, of the Jimmy James Market
for Jimmy John's.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, so the smells are free, The smells are free. Yes,
are the girls. I didn't know the girls were wild,
that Jimmy Johns. I had no idea, only tip them
bag like Jack and you met Jack. I did, That's right.
I met Jack. The great about that, I love them
(21:05):
about that.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I had the Christmas wish list I met.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Christmas wish list was fleshed at all four fifty four
pay reliever. You get three supplements with it. Because I
didn't ever write credit card or Debbie cards, I.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Couldn't order James, James, don't you take enough medica? No,
you don't know, you don't need No, No, we've already
established you don't. We made the song, James, we don't
need to change the song. Thirty six pills in the morning,
thirty six pills at night. We can't go thirty seven
pills in the morning, thirty nine pills at night. It
doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Thirty do whatever he want. He's the producer.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
He says, we didn't make the song. Though he didn't
he didn't know Jay Scoop made the song.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh okay, just y'all, man, what did you think about
my upset pas? Did you hear them?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
How would I have heard them?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I thought you were listening to your show while you
were away?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
God, no, no, I was. I was sleeping. I kept
normal hours. It was amazing. It was wild.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It was wild. Yeah, yeah, a wild time too.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You think, well, you think I'm hearing a hollering James
phone call while I'm away?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
My god, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I had some good pics, so Ben, I had some
good picks.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I take Minnesota over Green Bay, Yeah, I took that one.
I took the Bears hitting beat, and I took Pittsburgh winning.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Okay, congratulations session.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
They went to mister Rogers's neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, they took the trolley to mister rogers neighbors. Well,
how about this now, James, you brought this up. I
was a tease, and your teas you got a payoff.
So the Steelers called in some extra help. Do you
see this before their game on Sunday night at the
stadium formerly known as Hinz Field. Yeah, that's right. There
was a priest that was blessing that fear holy water.
(23:02):
Can you buy holy water? How much does it cost?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
The holy was free?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Well it was free for the Steelers with them.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Usually free Jesus, my grandma's I.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
See, let's see look at this. You can buy holy
water on Amazon.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
You can just go to a Catholic church and the priest.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Really, they'll hook you up. Oh nice again. I can
buy forty forty bottles two ounces of holy water for
twenty five dollars.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
That seems like you bless that though. Do you know
who blessed that holy China?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I believe bless I don't know. Calm down, Come down,
This is not a political show moment. Calm Downing's okay,
forty pieces doesn't say Catholic church?
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Yes, yes, I would get my well, James.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
James used to call up and give a prayer when
your mom was sick. You would give a prayer, Jane,
I know.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
She passed away. Then, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
For it worked for a while and then they still
you know, you know, you sick for quite a while.
She got then I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
That's that broke that New year's resolution.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You've already broken your New year's resolution. January fifth today,
You've already know.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And that was only until about three days.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
It's good time to go to the gym, though. You
go to the gym and there's a bunch of people
they just got their new workout clothes, and then by
next week none of them will be there.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
So it's a good time to go to the quit
right after the holidays are completely over with, and then
they throw through trees and they don't know what to
do with something. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
There's other big names on holding. I feel like I
need to take some more car You want to hold
on these? I go back to you, all right, all right,
hold on, sec Let's go to Dick and Dayton, the Legend.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Heppy New Year.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Hello Dick and Dayton, how's like you? Another year of
me and you're together? Unbelievable? How long were you? How
long you been calling this show?
Speaker 8 (25:11):
I'd say at least twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh my god, twenty two years of the entire generation
of phone calls we've had.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Hey, Ben, what's that the Browns did the last two
I could not believe they beat the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You know, are you optimistic or pessimistic? You are optimistic,
not pessive. You're always optimistic.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yes, all right?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Right now, the Browns are likely going to fire their
coach today. By the time I wake up, Stefansk, he'll
be out. Who do you want? Dick and Dayton? Right now?
The Browns are listening. You're up early here. Who do
you recommend? You are now a consultant? You know the
Dolphins hired Troy Aikman as a consultant. The Browns are
going to turn to Dick in Dayton. The Browns need
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some Dick from Dayton, and you're gonna help him out.
So help him out, Dick, give some advice right now?
Who should the Browns hire?
Speaker 8 (26:02):
I'd like to see Bill Belichick come back?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
There?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You go send that out? Who Bill Belichick leaving North
Carolina coming back to the NFL to his old stopping grounds,
the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
And you know what that the Bengals. I it was
a shame because Bill Burrow got hurt. I think they
would have won more games, but you know they Yeah,
they had that. But I want to say something about
Ryan Day. I thought he did a really good he
had a good year, and Miami beat him. But a
(26:37):
lot of people want heads to.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Roll up there, but well that always have every time
the Buckeyes lose. You gotta fire the coach.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
What we do?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah, well you're doing okay though. Are you back doing
your music? Everything's good, yes, my music, yeah, a little
bit of mine, the banjo out, you got the mandolin,
the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
And Dave came down and we went down to see
my friend.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
But is that day from Dayton?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
From Dayton?
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Are you going to come see me this year?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
That is the plan. We're going to have an epic
meet and greet. We're gonna and I have to go
somewhere kind of close to but you can't. We'll fool
arrange transportation. Yeah, we'll figure out how to get you
to our venue. We don't have a venue yet, so
if anyone wants to recommend a venue in the Greater
Cincinnati area or the Dayton area, let us know, and
well we had a place last year, but it kind
(27:26):
of fell through. So all right, we'll figure it out. Though,
even if I have to come to your house, I'll
harass you at your house.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, you're welcome there.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
You just give me on looking up and you.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Know, just say I'm looking for Dick and then they
just signed me out and I can stay a long time. Buddy.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Well that'd be a great time knock on the doors
in the Dayton area and say you're looking for da
He's like, can I yeah, I think I'll If I
said that, fella, a lot of people would show. But
if I say that, probably not. But all right, well
I dig I know you're you're getting older. I met
a guy though over the break World War two veteran
(28:05):
hundred and five years old, bazooka Joe one hundred and
five years old. So you you got many more years
to go here, Dick, you get a lot of time left, Okay,
all right, bye bye there he goes Dick and Dayton.
So I met this guy. We're out one hundred five
years old, yeah, selling up partying at night. He's a
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hundred five yeah how And I was like, man, yeah,
he was old when I was born. You know, man,
that's pretty wild. And I still he's still talking and
he didn't move around that well. But he's hundred and five,
you know. So he went out and was out late
at night. I thought, well, that's pretty cool. You know,
he was in the Battle of the Bulge, when the
legendary battles back and back funding World War Two. The
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guy's out. There's crazy. What a great thing to meet
this guy and he's talking to me for a little bit.
So it was pretty cool. And he think about what
he's seen before the obviously for the internet. He was
born in nineteen twenty one hundred and yeah. Oho, he'll
be one hundred and six this year. Let's go to
the front. Marcel in Brooklyn, who we have not talked
(29:09):
to in many weeks.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Marcel, this guy's such a big star. This Marcel and Brooklyn.
He took like the last three weeks off. You're like
Howard Stern with all your vacation time. Marcel and Brooklyn.
You're a big, big star.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
You are.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Oh yes it is. Shouts to Howard Stern you might know.
Good morning, Ben Maller, welcome back and happy New Year.
I really miss you guys, and I really where have
you been?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I who you been doing?
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Here?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Are you living the life of a celebrity? Is a
multi time caller of the Year. Are you living the dream?
Speaker 9 (29:39):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yes, it is?
Speaker 9 (29:40):
Looking for five netts in just two months away from
your Beny Awards. I'm going to defeat Mike though, idiot
Kahn and of course Blair in May.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
All right, hold on, sech here, Mike the leprechaun. Marcel
says he's going to beat you.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
He's a dead duck dynasty.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
And Marcel, are you the secret wife for Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All right? Let me see here, Marcel, is it true
that you are the wife of Aaron Rodgers? No, all right,
let's see here. Mike de leepgun He says he is not.
And by the way, I'm upset with you, Michael leppergun.
So I got this holiday card in the mail our
favorite moments of twenty twenty five, and I did not
make your holiday card. I almost lost my job when
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you visited me. Only part of my face made your card.
I want my full face on there. Why is my
full face not?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
I love that you're like half cropped out?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I know, like so is he?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Though?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Like it's a it's a non centered Yeah, I need
my full face on there.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Listen all right?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Anyways, well, no, no, no, I want to know how
come only half my face is on your car?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Because bigger than most people's face.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Okay, see that's a cheap shot, Marshall. You see what
he did there, Marcell. He took a cheap shot at me.
You see that, Marcel?
Speaker 9 (31:07):
What is that true? Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yes, my face is the size of the Goodyear blimp.
Do you even know what that is?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Blimp?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yes? Yes, exactly. There's photos of him with his kids, snow,
some old building. There's a beach thing here and he
didn't even sign it. He didn't sign it. I couldn't
autograph it. What's up with that?
Speaker 9 (31:42):
This is?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
This is.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
James?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
You met me?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Do I have a giant sized head? James hollering James.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
No, you have a cute, medium sized face.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I don't know. Don't use the word cute. That's Michael leprekun.
I don't have a giant face.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Do you lie?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You're a liar?
Speaker 9 (32:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Okay, And I have to I was bar hopping yesterday
watching the Patriots, and I wanted to give a shout out.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
To a new friend Troy who loves your show, and
his beautiful daughter of Sophia.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
We were bar hopping all around the Boston.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You're making that where Who's what does Troy do for
a living?
Speaker 8 (32:17):
He works in some.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Summing or something, bumming a plumber. That's an important job. Construction, construction,
that's a good job too.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But that.
Speaker 10 (32:27):
Ask Marcel, where were the giants?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
And all right, let me ask you, Marcel, where are
the Giants and jets? Marcel?
Speaker 9 (32:34):
Oh the one will the Giants have the big time
back to back once against the Cowboys, and while the
final game at the Hallmark Stadium taking place, the Bill defeats.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
The chefs thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, I know nobody cares about that, all right, Marcell.
Food picks, I say that you had first food picks,
all right, I believe that you had. I'm gonna go
oodles and noodles, oodles, noodles and the mixed maac it
go ahead, Larda, what are you going to be back?
Speaker 6 (33:03):
I'm gonna go with a saucy meat ball sandwich, all right?
Speaker 9 (33:08):
Oh? Not a mix fatch and coopty loop. This is
gonna be a chance with me, Ben for let's go.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Marcel I think that you had a blackened salmon pasta
with sun dried tomato cream sauce.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Oh you know what that means with the word pasta.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
He gave you candy.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
He gave you grandy with the pasta.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Now, Marcel, do you know what type of animal? Marcel?
The salmon is. What type of animals?
Speaker 8 (33:39):
For fish?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Look at you, Marcell, unbelievable. Yes, he's so proud of himself.
That's amazing. Well do you like it? Do you like fish, Marcel?
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Well, my brother's got fish. I never ate fish.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
All you never eaten fish. That's I don't like fish,
but I've eaten it. I don't I don't enjoy that.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
You should try it.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
The problem with fish is it tastes fish. That's the problem,
not all fish.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Fish.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Yeah, hey Ben, good luck, good to be back. You
want one, say.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
That's right, but first we say a lot to Alam
d Lou in the bay. Hello, Alamyda Lou, Welcome.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Hey Ben, happy to hear to you guys.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Thank you Lou. The Super Bowl's coming up, Lou. It's
like thirty something days away. Alam to Lou, I'll be
up in the bay, so we might have to come
buy your place.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
You know, what a what a time to do it.
Speaker 11 (34:26):
Super Bowl in Santa Clara and you can fish will
be wide opening for you guys anytime you want. And
congrats to Justin Cooper for his Wait, what's open?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Let's bar the bar here? Sleep there you see?
Speaker 11 (34:38):
Yeah, there's actually there's a pull out bed like in
the old fashioned Disney movies?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Is that amressa Murphy bed? They call that a Murphy bed.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
I'll take it sad.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Lost my focus listening to what just happened. I'm so sorry.
I was at the forty nine Ers Seahawks game yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Actually oh okay, well that was not Yes, that would
be like on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
That would be the sorry West Coast time, just like
you guys.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Still it's Monday, it's Saturday.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Yeah anyway, Ben, what the you were talking?
Speaker 11 (35:14):
Forty nine ers Eagle and I've had zero expectations for
the forty nine ers team since about week five?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, well when they lost all their players defensively, Yeah,
I understand.
Speaker 11 (35:27):
Usually I've neurotic about the Niners and I couldn't even
tell you after starting defense right now?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, I couldn't either. And I supposedly have this as
my job. They got no names, but can they cover
the three and a half or the four? That's the question.
Speaker 11 (35:41):
Are the Eagles favorites by three and a half?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah? The line the overnight, the opening line had the
Eagles favored by three and a half. I think it's
still three and a half. So it's that's where.
Speaker 11 (35:51):
That'll that'll probably that'll probably go up. I wouldn't be
shocked to see the Niners go on and win.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
And Fats and Philly.
Speaker 11 (36:00):
You want you to know I hate you.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Oh, keep listening because he's he said he's calling me
up one night this week. Fat's in Philly.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
So I listened every night and I have to say
something on the airwaves. It's gonna probably take the world
by storms. And it's two parts.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I love the.
Speaker 11 (36:16):
Disdain in Lorena's voice. When Michael Lefrekhan.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Somethings on the show and got posted a picture of
his surgically created on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Really, oh man, I don't know. I mean, I don't
want to you know, why would why would you say that?
I don't want to hear about that. I mean, I'm
trying to do a nice show. I don't do you
want to hear about that. Danny DeVito. You don't want
to hear about that, the great Danny DeVito.
Speaker 10 (36:44):
Ben Now, welcome back, Thank you, sir, Thank.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
You, sir.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I heard you picked the Ravens.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
You picked the Ravens to win the whole thing. I
hope you didn't pick the Ravens. You didn't pick the
Ravens right that.
Speaker 10 (36:53):
I was on your show when I did that. But
that's one of a thousand bets I got funny more,
Oh my bag, Yeah, that's going to happen. So I
was pretty impressed with that blond So remembering that from
six months ago, that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
There all the time on, So he's got nothing else
going on, No.
Speaker 10 (37:09):
Exactly right, So Ben, Uh, there's something wrong with a
team that's been based the best team all season long
and they're traveling on the road the Rams.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
I can't every year.
Speaker 10 (37:20):
It is a problem like that. And like you said,
the Panthers back to back year bad team, and uh,
the Rams. They're basically punished in the Rams. I don't
know if you want to know that.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
These they got to change the rule. They've been talked
about this. They've been a bunch of teams I think
it's just been a handful of It seems like a bunch.
That's a bunch, right fives, A bunch that have made
the playoffs with losing records and then they get the
home game. It's always almost always the NFC South, right.
They the Carolina sent it twice, Atlanta did it. I
think Tampa did it one year they were under five
(37:51):
hundred and.
Speaker 10 (37:51):
Made the PLAYOFFSA did it, yes, and Ben the MVP
of the league is Drake May.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
It's got to be better.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
It's gonna be it's gonna be closed. It's not. It's
not a lock. It's a pigeons plit a terrible schedule,
and Stafford led the NFL in touchdowns and yardage and
all that, and so he's the better store Stafford's. It's
not decided it.
Speaker 8 (38:10):
I agree.
Speaker 10 (38:11):
But if you take Drake May out of that lineup
and you're putting Josh talks, come on, you know, if
you'll winning Paul Watt.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Well, you could say that about the Rams with Garoppolo too.
I gotta go Coops yelling at me. We're gonna have
a short edition of the Mallard Militia feud. We'll get
to that you want to play eight seven, seven ninety
nine off. Excuse to see danvid veto back and James
and Marcella and Dorco and all the legends. We'll get
to that. We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
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Speaker 1 (38:48):
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Speaker 6 (39:05):
Please, it's winning so important.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Listened winning and everything takes time for another Mallard game show.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
You're so gone.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
We surveyed one hundred people name sports teams associated with losing.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Let's got a good the game, real quick short game.
We have Mike in New Hampshire's gonna play and Railroad
John in Duluth. Hello, gentlemen, you're both on the air.
Here we go. One hundred people surveyed the top one, two, three, four, five, six,
answers on the board. Name a common New Year's resolution
people make in the month of January. Your name is Mike. Mike. Wait,
(39:45):
that was the It was the number one answer. You
get to go again, Mike. Name a common New Year's
resolution people make in January quit smoking? Not yeah, it
is it is on there, that that was on there,
that was on there, right, keep you on, Mike. Anything else, no,
all right, Railroad John common common new Year's resolution. No, no, nothing.
(40:12):
We have exercise more, eat healthier, save money, get organized.
All right. That was the shortest game show in the
history of game shows, and Mike won.
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