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know the drill here, it's a seasonal thing. We are
in the middle of the pep Rally season. Now. The
pepper Rally season is where NFL coaches are introduced, right,

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And we were on during the week, and these news
comments all happen while we're on, so we get to
play the audio from said pep Rally where you're trying
to get the natives very happy. When the people that
follow your team to get all excited and all that.
And it's always find these things interesting, even though most
most of them feature the same comments. You know, I've

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noticed over the years that when a coach gets hired
they say pretty much the same thing some version of
the same things when they get hired, just like when
they get fired they say the same things. Right, so
you can go down the list of the cliches that
take place when a coach gets hired. You know, I'm

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excited for the opportunity. I'm looking forward to the challenge
those kind of line. I have high expectations. I'm gonna
hold these players accountable. You know, all that crap that
you're supposed to say. And you have to praise the
franchise you have so great it is to work for
the team, whatever team it is, even if the team sucks,
you have to say it. You have to talk about
how this is a good opportunity. Even when it's not

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a good opportunity. You st have to lie. You have
to say it's a good opportunity. Then you always are
supposed to celebrate the fan because they're the ones that
buy the ticket, right, They're the ones that buy the merchandise.
So you have to always say how great the fans are.
Even if you think the fans are scumbags and a
bunch of morons, you still have to say they're good.
All right? With that as the backdrop, it was the

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New York Giants opportunity in the batter's box. There, Joe Judge,
did you see this? Did you watch any of this?
I was sleeping, but I watched it on the YouTube,
a virtual unknown for most of the football fan bases
around the United States and Canada and Mexico. So Judge

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is now the head coach of the most popular NFL
team in the New York City metropolitan area in Gotham.
So let's discuss as news conference the question what are
the big takeaways? There? Now, you didn't watch it, And
the good thing about this is you don't now have
to watch it because I watched it for you thirty
minutes of nonsense and I spent Someday I'll be on

(05:23):
my deathbed and I wish I had an extra thirty
minutes and I will remember I watched Joe Judge is
what I watched. That was the guy that I watched. Yeah,
all right, So what were your takeaways from Joe Judge's
opening news conference. You've got mister Rogers, house of cards,
and peewee, and we will tie all these things together. Now, hey,

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Joe Judge is not here to make you laughter. The
immediate reaction I had a man as this guy intense,
He is never going to tell a joke in his life.
He sounded so over the top series it was like,
WHOA wait a minute, what's going on with this guy?
Does he have any other thing that he cares about?

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It all in life? And you know, of course, I,
of all people, don't have a lot of balance in
my life. But you could say, if you like him,
he's a no nonsense kind of guy. But to give
you a little taste of what it sounded like, here
is the coach of the Giants, here, Joe Judge, who
says he's from the old school. There's a question out there.

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I'm sure a lot of people are asking. That's number one?
Who am I? Maybe I can explain gaming who am I?
By telling you what's relevant this conversation with being a
coach of New York Giants. What I'm about and what
I'm about is an old school physical mentality. We're gonna
put a product on the field that the people of
this city and region, because this team will represent this area.

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That could be a drop who am I? That's the
who am I? Again? You think he's a closeted listener
of the show, He could be be a fan of
who am I? Game? How about a great homage from
the Giant's head coach there clearly knows our show. He said,
who am I? It's great? Who Now? In the next
sound bite, if he says instant trivia, I'm leaving. Am done.

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I'm out of here. If he says mallard to the
third degree at any point, I'm retiring. That's it, all right.
Here's more from the new coach or the Giants, and
he's talking about violence. He wants violence. We'll play fast,
we'll play downhill. We'll play aggressive. We'll punch you in
a nose for sixteen minutes. We'll play every d like
it's a history in a life of its own. Wow.

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With a relentless competitive attitude. We'll play fundamentally sound. We'll
not beat ourselves. That's our ambition right here there, you go.
Don't beat yourself. Please, very violent. I'm a peacenick I
don't know that I can handle this violence. Can't we
make love not war? Why do you have to punch
someone in the face. Why can't you punch him in
the shoulder? You know, I got friendly punch in the

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shoulder like that. Now, all right, so we'll play some
more here in a little bit. But he's the guys
you heard in this sound is I don't believe in gimmicks.
You know, he's not about the magic schemes and all that.
Reinventing the wheel. Now, that was fine for like the
first five or ten minutes, but then you're like, does
this guy have anything else? Does he have any else? Now?

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Dave Gettelman, who should be repairing refrigerators or something like that.
He's the jam of the giants. He likes to position
himself as the no nonsense kind of guy. And it
was I will say the word uncomfortable. How serious this
Joe Judge guy was. I mean, I would say, and I,

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of all people, loosen up, that would be my you know,
it's okay, it's all right. You know. He was talking
about empathy and taking care of players. But he sounded
angry while he was talking about empathy, which I thought
was ironic, and I would ask him to take the
advice of mister Rogers. Not mister Rogers, the beloved children's

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TV host who they've made several movies about recently. But
I'm talking about Aaron Rodgers. That would be the advice, right,
that would be the advices. Relax, There's no need to
get all stressed out. Judge talked about as we played
the sound bite they being a blue collar team, working class, right.

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I want to I want the people love this area
to love our team, the way we play, and all
this stuff. I'll believe it when I see it. Now.
Judge says he won't be the offensive, defensive or special
teams coach. He's just he's gonna stay in his lane,
stay in your lane, as LaVar Ball said back in
the day. And to tell you that I'm not lying
about this, listen to him talk about how the Giants

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are going to be a spitting image of the New
York metropolitan area. I want the people to pay their
hard earned money in the neighborhoods of New York to
come to our games and note the players on the
field play with the same attitude they wake up with
every morning. That is blue collar it's hard work. It's
in your face. We're gonna come to work every day

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and grind it out the way they do in their
jobs every day. And they can invest their money in
our program. But is representing their neighborhoods, their communities, and
their families with the values they have instill in their children.
It's all about value talking about children values. What about
the people that are unwelfare? Are they allowed to go
support your team? Only the people that have jobs? What
about them? I don't know? All right. He also talked

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about how the giants are going to be physical and
they're not going to be a bunch of pussy willows.
We will practice with a physical attitude. We will practice
in pads. That's will practice live tackling. Yep. Not to
make a statement that we're trying to be tough. No,
we're gonna practice live tackling because I believe in doing
it safely. That's right. There's not going to be shortcuts
what we have to do. That's a tough division. There's
a tough division in cities, full of tough people. Not really,

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I mean for the division sucks, the worst division in football.
Have you not seen the NFC? I mean the team
made the playoffs, they were they were almost gonna have
a losing record. Was up until the end of the
last couple of weeks they were gonna have a losing records.
What's up with that tough division? It ain't nineteen eighty
seven anymore. I mean, what's up on that? All right? Anyway,

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so live tackling. That's very very exciting indeed. All right,
So anyway, continuing the mantra here of the new hire
in the NFL, Joe Judge, the Giants part Beer. This
is the Giants have built what I believe is a
house of cards in terms of the roster. This has
been a franchise who has been trending water in the sewer,

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you know that dirty sewer water. That's essentially what they've
been doing here. I believe they have over the last
three years the worst record in the NFL. You can
smell the sulfur and the feces when watching Big Blue play.
And is Judge gonna be the guy that's the messiah
and the savior and the person that can direct the

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franchise out of said sewer stop being a pushover? Well
that's an old question. Now we are going to give
him the standard thirty day package that we give coaches
when they're high. We wait about a month and then
we go full arsenal. We weaponize is what we do
on this show, and then we attack, even though we
don't really have any skin in the game. Although there
are a lot of Giants fans that listen to the show,

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both San Francisco Giants and New York Giants that you
mentioned today, if they started sports, they they've never had
teams in football and baseball with the same names. But
we do have the Cardinals that the Giants and these
It's an odd, odd dynamic. But I'm getting carried away.
Get back to the point of place. So as far
as the Giants roster is concerned, Now, if you're an optimist,

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I'm not. But if you're an optimist to say, well,
look the Giants have Daniel Jones min This guy was
a top ten pickup a couple of years back. I mean,
you're saying you got a franchise quarterback. I have not
seen him perform like a franchise I know it's a
small sample size. I've not been overly impressed. I'm not.

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I was like, fine, young quarterback. There's a point of
demarcation where you have to get it done or you don't.
It would help if the Giants defense, which is detached
from all the other good defenses, actually you know, tackled somebody.
That would be a start for the Giants. And Joe
Judge has his work cut out for him for several reasons.
There is a reason that big names in coaching did

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not want the Giant job. They wouldn't touch the Giant
job with a ten foot pull because it is a
mega project. There is no rest for the wicket, as
they say there. They have been doing demo on the
Giant roster for how many years? But the problem is
they're unable to When you do the demo, you then
have to put something in there. They can't modernize, right.

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They can't find gems. They don't find them there in
the locker room. Apparently the disease of losing the pandemic
all over the Giants franchise. Now, the other thing about
Joe Judge is no one had ever heard of him.
I mean, who the hell is he? He addressed that
he was asked about about that, not being the guy

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and not being the person that people were hoping for
to be completely honest with you, I'm not really concerned
about whoever interviewed for this job. Really, all I'm concerned
about is the opportunity I have in front of me
and what I have to do going forward. And I'm
gonna tell my players the same thing. It doesn't matter
how you got there, it doesn't matter how high profile
you may be or may not be. It's what you
do on a daily basis. You're in a position earn it,

(14:24):
earn it every day, and I appreciate the opportunity. I'm
working every day to earn it. Gotta earn it, man,
I always say, you gotta earn it. Yeah, of course,
what's he gonna say. I'm very upset and I'm offended
that people don't know who I am, even though my
family didn't know who I was until a week ago.
All right, last word here. So Joe Judge a stark

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contrast from the recent giant coaches he had Pat Well.
Pat Shermer was more recently. He was always annoyed and
confused with the media. You had Ben McAdoo, who was
kind of like a snake oil salesman. Then before that,
you had Tom Coughlin, who people like because they won
occasionally and was very serious and all that Judge is
more like Tom Coughlin. Like he talked about the Giants.

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You know, we played some of the soundbites. They're all fundamentals.
In fact, I gonna tell you just between us, he
sounded like a peewee football coach trying to teach a
bunch of eight year olds the first time, Like I
think the first day of Giants training camp. All right,
here's how you put your shoulder pads on him, Here's
how you put your knee pads in. This outworks. That's
what he sounded like. Show up on time, dressed properly,

(15:30):
know the playbook stretched the right way. He said, all
these things run, tackle ball security, blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. Now, the one thing that Joe Judge
said that really stood out that I like, And this
was good because this is one of my pet peeves
and I feel like this this defeatist attitude among coaches
and a lot of these guys are the village idiot
when it comes to rosters and talent of players. And

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it was what Joe Judge learned from Bill Belichick. And
this if this is what Joe Judge does as a coach,
then I'm in. I'm in. I'll buy some stock and
Joe Judge the Giants coach. And what I learned from
Coach Belichick was real simple. Be flexible within your personnel.
Don't try to shove round pegs and the square holes.
Figure out what you have, Let them play to their strengths.

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Don't sit in a meeting and tell me what you
don't have in a player. Don't tell me they can't
do a certain thing. Tell me what they can do,
and then we'll figure out as coaches, because that's our job,
how we can use that, that's our responsibility. Everybody has
something they can do. How many cast offs you see
around the league end up another team? Everyone says, Wow,
how'd they get that out of them? Maybe they just
weren't closing her eyes to what they could do about that.
That is a direct shot at how many NFL coach

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I mean, but that's right out of Belijick. That sounds
like something that Belichick said sometime in a meeting, and
he just parroted Belichick. He just repeated Beligick. It's sound
bite point. Like Belichick has been the Jedi master. He
asked me this Belichick, you know, rip him, call him
a cheater, or whatever you want to do. But Belichick
has been the master at finding unheard of an unsung

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players and turning them into maybe not great players, but
certainly pivotal players on a team that regularly makes the
playoffs and goes very far in the playoffs. And every
great coaching handbook do you just teach that? Right, you
just teach that? And that's it. Too many of these
coaches are so stuck in their ways. They're so stubborn.

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We drafted you as a defensive buck and you're gonna
play a defensive bucket. If you can't play defensive back,
that's it. We're gonna trade your ass. Your ass is grass. Meanwhile,
that guy could play another position, maybe as a receiver
or something like that, and be an effective performer for
your team. But they're unwilling to adapt. That's why I

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go back to the defeatist attitude. All right, is the
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Welcome Ryan, Thank you Ben. It is good to be back,
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Any problems on Twitter tonight, Everything good, Everything all right.
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it's the call screener screen, as long as the picture
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I could reset it. I can go back into master
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I need it's okay. It's it's my burden to because
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a half or whatever it was the other earlier this week.
So oh yeah, well see you're Here's what you're doing.
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you what you do, all right.
You just spit at it and you know, put some
glue on it, and you're good. That's that's our That's
how we repair things around here. Just spit and glue.
That's it. Everything's put together was spit and glue. Got it? True?
I got a lot of that. Yeah, Oh you're a

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last spit. I do really do a lot of flegm. Yeah,
you're very very clemped. Yeah, well a little bit, a
little bit, I understand, in better health than Coop. How's
the acting? Yeah, Coop's on his deathbed. Pray for Coop.
So are you now? We talked a long time ago.
I know you don't want to work here. You really
don't like being here, and you would like to be
an actor. So any any luck on that? Uh no, no, okay,

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So you're still here. So when I see you, it
means you've not made it big on some Netflix show.
That's correct? Yes, all right? I got John very good?
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and I from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller. You never complain about anything breaking in your
room any what happened every other room around here? Everything's breaking,
but you don't complain in your room, the little studio
they have over there. Yeah, it does nothing really gets
my goat that. I mean something the printer when it

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doesn't work. Problem. That bothers me because I print a
lot of things for some reason. You're a printer. You
kill trees, is what you do. I don't. I don't
print stuff. I don't believe in that. Yeah, not at all.
I like, I don't use any paper at all. Our
friend Steve de Seger enjoys, uh putting the used paper
back into the printer. Why. I guess he wants to
save trees. Hey, news flash, it ain't gonna save the planet.

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We're all dying. Yeah. I it annoys me when I
print something out and there's like other stuff. Oh yeah,
that's terrible. Does he go to the room the recycled
paper thing over there, there's a bunch of paper. Does
he take that at all? Because that's a night. I
don't know. I think maybe it's just whatever he uses.
I don't think he people's stuff. Okay, but no, they
have a whole band in the down the hallway. There's

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there's no there's there's one here too. Oh really, Yeah,
this company is very concerned about the environment. Let me
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save the planet. Or they're trying to save money one
piece of paper at a time. We are going to
save the damn planet is what we're gonna do. So
we talked about Joe Judge and there's a lot of
fallout from the different coaching hires around the NFL. Now,

(22:30):
Joe Judge, there's no fallout. But Matt Rule, you talk
about NFL owner outraged. Matt Rule, the guy that was
hired by Carolina has a seven year contract for sixty
million dollars. This is great. So the quote going around
is from an NFC South coach allegedly who told a

(22:50):
reporter talking about the contract that Matt Rule got that
Dave Tepper, the owner of Carolina, just drove the price
up of port and I know the owners are pissed.
They're gonna hurt him at the next league meetings. They
might even just shut him out of the room. That
this coach is claiming. Now, NFC South, so we can

(23:14):
we can do the list here and go through the
NFC South and try to determine which coach this is.
Should we do that? Because uh, see NFC South Coaches
for a thousand any meany mighty mo? Is it dan
Quinn of the Atlanta Falcons? Is it dan Quinn from

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the NFC's that Pebbly? Not? The one I've got here?
Is Sean Payton? Maybe? But I think it's Bruce Arians.
I'm going Bruce Arians. That's that's my vote. Anyone who
want in on this. Roberto Eddie, Yeah, his opinions on things. Yeah,
because I think to Peyton's not either, but not as

(23:58):
much as Yeah, that sounds like to me, that sounds
like a classic Bruce Arians like line. You're talking about
the price of pork going up or pork barrel spending
or something like that. That's what it sounds like to me.
A man cashing a golden ticket and I believe it's
his birthday today. Dominican Mike, Hello, Dominican mic Hey, Now,

(24:20):
is this a legit golden ticket or is this a
bogus rip off? Golden No, it is a golden ticket.
I wanted the amount of money back in uh November.
Oh see the only last amout. So this is a
rip off, counterfeit expired. It's like it's like old milk,
is what it is. Yeah, But it's my birthday. So
I hope you know you can overlook that. You know,
you're a show legend. You get an extra golden ticket old,

(24:44):
thank you, thank you man. And you know, like I said,
I sent you a tweet and it's, uh, yeah, I'm Dominican,
so you know I'm supposed to be my mid thirties,
but I'm actually like seventy five. You know, you know
how that worked. Bro? You know what I'm saying with
Dominican people. So you've enjoyed life. You've had a hard life,
is what you're saying. Oh, absolutely absolutely, Benny. You know. So, Hey,

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I want to tell you about an take one of
the things that I like. I only like to call
when I have something to say. Like I don't call
just to hear my boy. People don't say that because
you're making fun of the other callers that only call
up just to talk when they have nothing to say.
That's what I'm saying, though, you know, I only like
to call when I have something to say. And there
was an old take about Tannehill Ryan Tannehill a couple
of weeks ago you had Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I

(25:27):
want to say, hey, Tannehill is probably the next Ryan Fitzpatrick,
and there's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, no, he can
certainly be that. I would not give him a big contract.
And if Tennessee beats Baltimore, they've Titans have to keep
Ryan Tannehill even if he has a terrible game, because
they will be in the AFC Championship game. So they

(25:47):
have to keep Ryan Tannhill. But I would give him
like the franchise tag. I wouldn't sign him to a
long term contract. But yeah, I think he's gonna be
Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Amish rifle two point zero. He'll be.
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, exactly, he can. He can.
He can keep milking that thing forever. Man, he can
be playing forever. Just a one year contract making I
don't know, twelve million dollars, and that is a good

(26:08):
neighborhood if you ask me, I would love He's like
he's in his early thirty so, like when you celebrate
your forty fourth birthday, he could still be playing quarterbacks
somewhere probably, although that was that was supposedly that was
a long time ago for me, But you know, I'm
still like tenny years away from now. Yeah, No, I
don't know what. I don't age. I'm not aged here,

(26:29):
you know. Yeah, you're like my brother. You know, my
brother keep passed me. He once we turn like twenty nine. Yeah,
he's older than me by two years. But once we
turned turned twenty nine, he passed me. He stopped. That
was it. Yeah. No, I don't even know how old
I am. I don't know. I though it is odd
when people say, hey, I called you when my kid
was born, my kids in high school. That's a little odd.
It's a little scary. You're you're acelist man, You're a

(26:51):
list there you go. I'm like honey, I have a
shelf life thing. You know, if you open like honey,
answer sure, No, I'm like honey. You know, honey is
the perfect money. If I want to business Dominican Mike
and Eddie, I would sell honey because honey never expires.
And you know in business, you know there's a lot
of stuff you buy eating a food business. One of
the biggest problems with running food business is food expires
and you got you know, if you don't sell it,

(27:13):
you got. But honey never expired. It's the perfect product.
Dominican Mike, right, I can sell I can open a
honey shop, and I don't have to ever change inventory. Ben,
you got it all. Figure it out, my brother. I
don't know what you still do radio making, you know,
like no money whatever. I'm just saying, all right, I
thank I gotta thank you, happy birthding. One more thing,
Oh no, Eddie they had of the producer. Right, that's

(27:35):
all I know. There you go, I go, all right,
thank you, Dominican. Right, go out and do something other
than call a radio show for your birthday. Okay, yeah, yeah,
you're more like salt than honey. I don't need the
peanut gallery checking in. I don't I do not need
the peanut gallery. Lee and Phoenix sharing a birthday with Dominican. Really, yeah?

(27:56):
Well Lee was the sign guy, right, Lee, the sign
got you're a frank He's he brought the Kyler Murray
sign alligator arms, Murray misspelled some words. People got upset.
The spell police got upset with Dominican and the Mexican
have a birthday on the same day. Cool, all right,
it's racist, man. How dare you there? You go? How

(28:16):
do you get seven hundred people to volunteer? How do
you get seven hundred people? Well? No, I mean they're
not I guess they were technically paid a little bit,
paid a little bit. Well, I'll say this has involved sports, Eddie,
and it's a yearly it's a yearly thing, well plausibly

(28:39):
a theoretically it's a sports show. I will press on.
Better late than never, Hey, but it was Dominican Mike's birthday,
so we had to give him a little bit of
time because it was his birthday. You can't be a
douche to a guy on his birthday, so we will
press on. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Man,
did you see that one of the more beloved college
football coaches as far his sports talk radio goes is

(29:01):
on the move of Mike Leach has left Washington State
and he's headed for Mississippi State. Had eight seasons with
the Cougars there in Wazoo at a fifty five and
forty seven record. Also was a head coach of Texas
Tech for ten seasons. In his eighteen seasons as a
hit football coach, his teams have made it to bowl
games sixteen times. So you now have Lane Kiffin coaching

(29:22):
Old miss and Mike Leach coaching Mississippi State. I might
actually have to watch the egg Ball coming year here.
I didn't think I would have to. Yeah, I'll talk
more about Mike Leach. We love Mike Leach in the show.
I'm happy for him. He wanted to get into a
more high profile thing. Although Mississippi States not exactly the
big leagues, but they get to play in the big leagues. Right,

(29:42):
They're like they're out in the boondocks, but they get
to play the big boys in the Southeastern Conference. So
good for Mike Leach. And they were actually then I remember,
I'm only enough to remember when Mississippi State was the
number one team in the country with Dan Mullen as
their coach. All of what a week, now, five weeks
they were the number one team and the yeah that

(30:03):
was like I think he was him, but they had
beaten three top ten teams in a row. And then
they don't remember that. That was like twenty fourteen. Remember,
were pretty good. I didn't remember number one. They were
number one for a few weeks and then they played
Alabama and they lost like a close game to Alabama.
But yeah, Mississippi State was number one for oh yeah,
you look it up. I don't think I'm lying. I mean,

(30:23):
maybe I'm making it up, but I don't think so.
All Right, it is the Ben Mathers Show, where company
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Geigo dot com for a free rate quote. So I
miss spoke slightly. I said, you know, seven hundred people
for charity for for for goodwill. MA come on. But

(30:47):
in NFL team this happens every year. It pops up
the Green Bay Packers, who will be at Lammo Field
to take on the Seattle Seahawks this weekend on So
I don't know if you know about that. That's the
Fox game. That's the big game on Fox. It's on Fox.
You better watch. So the Packers have asked for seven

(31:07):
hundred fans to come to Lamba Field at six in
the morning on Sunday with snow falling to shovel said
snow out of Lambo. So they want seven hundred people
and they'll be they'll be working all the way up

(31:28):
until kickoff against the Seahawks on The game starts Sunday
evening in Green Bay and apparently they're willing, willing fans
will be paid twelve dollars an hour? And is that?
What is the minimum wage right now? Is it over?
Is it twelve? Is that minimum wager? Is it higher
than I thought it was? Higher than he's making it

(31:49):
right now? But I'm bumped. You're not supposed to say
that that's bad yet about you? Is it twelve dollars
an hour? Run? Is that? I actually don't know. That's
well in California's probably seven hundred dollars an hour. In
the rest of the country, like Wisconsin. What Wisconsin, it
couldn't be you know, it's back and forth Wisconsin. Anyway,
twelve bucks an hour. You receive payment right when you

(32:11):
stop shoveling, right when you should. We know we should
do have weed man hitchhike to Wisconsin and then he
can get twelve bucks an hour and that's probably like
twelve hours of work. Hey, weed Man, when you go
to Wisconsin and will you shovel snow? Are you joking?
Apparently not? But that wasn't a dropp Reberto. That was

(32:31):
actually him right, that was not a shoveling snow. I've
never done it, but I've heard it's very hard work.
You can't see weed man doing that. He come on
twelve bucks an hour though easily does not get he's
not gonna work hard for anything. Come on, all right,
we gotta go to a different dimension right now. These
sports sorceresses standing by. She's got a star charts out,
and we say hello to Andrea Virgo and service from

(32:52):
her compound in Berkeley with all their star charts out.
Hi man, how are you? Oh? Andrea? Hello? Hey? Yes,
happy full wolf moon around? Is a full wolf moone?
We're all gonna die? Oh? Quite To the contrary, she's
very beautiful up in the sky. No, I didn't look

(33:13):
at the moon. I should I go outside and look
at the moon? Yeah, I give it a good howl. Yeah,
it's really beautiful. Is this the first full moon of
January and of the new year? Yes, all right, yeah,
January tenth, actually two twenty one TM. This is the
lunar magic that you are providing. Is we would not
know this without you? Andrea? Yes, well, the sports horceress,

(33:34):
you know this is a privilege to share this celestial
Why is it called the wolf moon? Does it look
like a wolf? I was hoping you'd ask that. Of course, yes,
the wolf start howling in January around this time, hence
the name wolf moon. Ah look at that. Yeahs an

(33:54):
annoying that they howl like that. Imagine if you had
a pet wolf. We actually many of us do have
pet wolf's called dog. But yeah, but the dogs don't.
Most dogs don't howl these days, right, maybe on the
full moon they might get like a hound dog or
something like that. It might do that, but Bella does
not do that. Bella, my dog, Bellow, the ship suit
does not howl. Oh okay, kind of mellow, Yeah, very mell.

(34:17):
I like the dog because of mellow. It doesn't bark
a lot. Very mellow. Yeah, pretty good. No, mellow is
good for taurists. Yeah, yeah, kind yeah, because I had
a dog earlier that would always run away when I
even opened the door for a second when they would
run away, and then and then when I try to
get the dog, the dog would kind of play this
cat and mouse game with me where the dog would

(34:37):
come over and then run away again. So it's a nightmare. Andrea, Yeah,
I hated that dog. Yeahs, I hope that dogs and dog. Hell,
I hate that dog. I'm a cat person myself, but
it's all good. Oh yeah, cats and dogs, but apples
and oranges. And you know, I just wanted to share

(35:00):
if I'm a Joe Judge, his sports astrology. He just
had his birthday been he's born December thirty first, nineteen
eighty one. Very serious, you know, it's so funny. He's
a Capricorn. You hit the nail on the head. He's
talking about old school Capricorn is like the old school
sign of the zodiac. Just really practical and very pragmatic,

(35:22):
very methodical, cautious really, so the whole old school mentality
is really quite fitting for him, and you know, quite
ambitious certainly. And the Saturn Pluto conjunction in Capricorn by
on his Mercury and Capricorn, and the full moon just
illuminating everything. He just had his birthday, so I guess
this is like a related birthday gift and full moon

(35:45):
treat that he got to be manager of the giants. Yeah,
that's right, all of that stuff. Very serious guy. I
love the sound by the one soundbody had was good
and all that. We'll have a great wig in Andrea,
Thank you, thank you, Happy fullmo All right, there you go,
Virgo and service there is on Twitter, thank you twenty
five minimum wage Wisconsin. California minimum wage thirteen dollars an hour.

(36:05):
But in Wisconsin, if you The great thing about this Superberto, though,
is that this audience immediately, I had a bunch of
people say what the minimum wage was? Right? I had
a bunch of people. So wait a minute, Cody's like
seven twenty five an hour, my guy, Yeah, there you go.
The main trucker pulled out the calculator on his smartphone
and said, if seven hundred people show up per hour,

(36:28):
that is eight thousand, four hundred dollars per hour, that
they will pay to have these snow removal. Yeah. I
think they can afford it. Just Josha's shoveling snow weed
man would have a heart attack. Let's send weedman to Wisconsin.

(36:48):
That's not right, That is not right. Bad job by you.
All right, we will press on time now for the
who Am I Game? Seattle's dk Metcalf, who had one
hundred and sixty seving yards in his first season debut
last weekend, the most by a rookie in a playoff game.
He broke my record, broke my record for the most

(37:09):
receiving yards by a rookie white out, Who am I that?
And the NFL pick him? We'll get to that, We'll
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(37:33):
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(37:54):
pick him? Coming up momentarily. We look forward to that.
And Reek says, real men shovels snow in shorts. He
lives in the Twin Cities, so he would know about that.
He sent a photo which looks amazing, and he says
a weed man would not last thirty seconds shoveling. So
I think he's pretty much admitted that a job that
would pay him over minimum wage, a job that would

(38:16):
pay him over minimum wage. He is not one again.
He said get me a memory, told me get me
a job. I've now found a job. He has plenty
of time to get to Green Bay from Miami. That's
a short drive, right, No, anyway, it is the Ben
Mallers Show. As we press on the who am I? Game?
Here is the who am I? Game? DK Metcalfe seat

(38:39):
one hundred and sixty receiving yards in his postseason debut
with the most buy a rookie in playoff history, breaking
my record. Who am I? That is the question? What
is the answer? Skeeter in Montana says the answer is
Brenda Lee. I'm sorry is the answer? No? Who else
do we have here? Let's see Queen Roxanne is going

(39:01):
with Angry Bill's emotional support dog Frenchy as the answer.
That's a good answer, Queen Roxanne Tory Holt from Manick
Mike Rowdy Roddy Piper from our friend Rob i Am
Percy Harvin guests by Ken Who else do we have here?
Willie Galt of the Bears back in the Day from
Big Lou in the LBC. John Morrison tossed out by

(39:23):
Adrian will is going with the Cooper Loop. I don't
even know who that is at this point. T O
guests by MGM John Anthony Carter. Now, which Anthony Carter? Eke?
Is that the basketball player? All right, and we don't
have time. Eddie, do have an answer? Eddie? Is it
Fred Blitnikoff? No, it's not Fred. The correct answer, Eddie.

(39:45):
Jeremy Macklin of the Philadelphia Eagles back in the day.
We gotta fly. We got an extra round. We can
get it in. Everyone focus, here we go. It's time
now for the NFL. Pick him. I'm going first because
I dominated hockey, Eddie. With the first selection team, Mallard
gonna select any meeny miny mo, Patrick Mahomes. Eddie, Uh,

(40:09):
let's go with Lamar Jackson, all right, Roberto Russell Wilson, Ryan,
give me DeAndre Hopkins, j Brown? Who interesting choices? Roberto? Uh,
Derrick Henry all right, you got Derrick Henry, Eddie, Aaron Jones,
Aaron Jones. Uh, I think he's gonna play mark Ingram.
I'll take him Wayne, right, what the hell? Uh? And

(40:30):
I need a receiver, I need a Tydy. I'll give
me George Kittle. I'll take George Kittle. Eddie, Travis Kelsey,
Roberto rap Hi, Adam Yan, Aaron Rodgers one More and
Mark Andrew Roberto, Tyreek Hill Edie, all right, I'm gonna
take Davante Adams and who else? Tyreek? I did? I

(40:54):
don't know. He just picked two, right, Yeah, I gotta
pick somebody else, all right. Be sure to catch live
iHeartRadio apps. The immovable object, the unstoppable force That would
be Lamar Jackson. But will it continue now that the

(41:17):
playoffs have arrived for him? The Ravens is not playing
on Wildcard weekend because they were good. Welcome in the
beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show. We
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(41:37):
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the game on Saturday night in Baltimore, the Ravens and
Tennessee's Titans going mono omano. Now, the point spread on

(42:00):
this game opened at ten ten, a ten point spread
in a playoff game. But that's how much the gambling
market knows that people are going to bet on the Ravens.
They try to factor in where the money is going
to be, and the money has actually been even, which
tells you as far as against the spread, the number
is about even, which tells you that number is about right,

(42:22):
that there's enough people that think the Ravens are gonna
blow the doors off Tennessee, and there's other people that
think the Tennessee is gonna kind of hang around. Now,
as far as handicapping the game, I do that on
a podcast called The Fifth Hour. I do Benny Versus
the Penny. If you used to listen to it on
the radio, say what happened to Benny versus the Penny.
We've got a podcast now and I put that up.
It's up right now. You can hear my pick on
the game. But one of the parts of the game

(42:44):
here that I would like to talk about is Lamar
Jackson's I revealed at the very beginning here. Many in
the NFL media in particular, seem convinced that this postseason
is a waste of time that the Ravens are head
and shoulders above everyone else, and it is just how

(43:04):
quickly we can get to the Super Bowl and annoint
the Ravens the champions of the NFL and appoint them
at the top of the mountain. It is the year
of Lamar Jackson, and Baltimore has gotten better and better
as the year has gone on. You look like they
might be a fraud because they played the Dolphins and
Bengals really well, but then they played everybody really well

(43:25):
as the season went on. So they begin the postseason
as the de facto overwhelming favorite, and certainly this weekend
against the Tennessee Titans, a massive favorite, a Tennessee team
to beat the Patriots last week. Now, we have talked
about the struggle of Lamar Jackson and the playoff debut
last season where John Harbaugh was so afraid of having
Lamar Jackson throw the ball that he I believe attempted

(43:48):
about ten passes or something like that. The first three
quarters of the game had a passer rating of two
point seven going to the fourth quarter of his first
playoff game, and then when the Chargers played, he prevent
defense put up some good numbers in the fourth quarter.
So that's what happened last year. What's going to happen
this year? It's no longer a playoff debut. Well, Greg Roman?

(44:08):
Who Greg Roman? He's the offensive coordinator of Baltimore. He
said that playoff dud against the LA Chargers. Quote ancient history.
He said, ancient history. So now, what, of course, what
did you expect him to say? I like the I
like the fact that a guy with the last name

(44:29):
Roman is talking about history. I like that in ancient history,
by the way as well, it's pretty good, not bad
at all. So the question, are the Titans good enough
to slow down the Lamar Jackson battering Ram? And I
believe they are. I believe they are good enough to
lurk like a snake in the grass and cause problems.

(44:50):
Now my observation, you've got boondoggle, carbon copy, and emotional
support animals, and we will combine all these things together.
Now Number one analysis, which you can hear on the
fifth Hour podcast, which is available right now to download
at iHeart apple pot wherever you get podcasts. You can
download that. And we handicapped every game. But the spread

(45:12):
is too high in this game, Tennessee matches up with
Baltimore relatively well, considering the disparity in record and the
fact that the Titans have lost five more games than
the Baltimore Ravens have during the course of the regular season.
And now Tennessee had picked up their tenth win playoff

(45:32):
win against the Patriots, but they were nine and seven
during the regular season. So the Ravens are banter. I'm
not gonna sit here and tell you the Ravens are
are equal to the Titans, and they're they're on the
same level. But the Ravens obviously have a better team.
But the margins are thinner than I think many people believe.
So what's the cheat code. I've got some advice. I'm

(45:54):
gonna do a hard o xs and os Malan Mulock
because I think that's what you want. You want a
hard sports monologue, don't you come on? No, But my
advice to the Titans is to cheat, to be like
they asket. No, my advice to the Titans is, possession
is nine tenths of the law. Give Baltimore a taste
of their own medicine in basketball parlance. You know they

(46:16):
got rid of this. The reason we have the shot
clock is because of the four corners offense, and I
would advise the team in Tennessee, the team from Nashville
to play the football version of the four corners offense,
which means keepaway, stall, run the play clock down, turn
the game into a physical boondoggle where your offensive line

(46:39):
and your stud bell cow running back Derrick Henry is controlling. Again,
obviously that's what you want to do. Can they actually
do it? Can they actually do give Baltimore a little
bit of their own medicine, right as we said, and
turn the game into that kind of slow, ugly the
no rhythm to it. But you've got the ball, run

(47:00):
the ball down there. Throws Ryan Tannehill was mostly a
decoy for large chunks of the game against the Patriots.
I would think if you're Mike Rabel, you have that
same strategy here. This is the Derrick Henry show. Along
with the big fat guys on the offensive line, the
big pigs. You've got to have those guys, the cows
dominant game, control the trench at at the line of

(47:23):
scrimmage there and you will have a very good opportunity
to beat Baltimore. It's the only path. It's very straightforward.
It's not uncomplicated at all. Not doing it is a
different situation, but you know what you need to do now.
The second thing Lamar Jackson, who was a side show
and was a gimmick last season, his rookie season. But

(47:45):
he's not anymore. He has been breathtaking at times. Now
some of the numbers here, let's go to the stats.
Lamar Jackson almost fifty percent of his rushing yards came
after contact. Forty seven recent of his rushing yards came
after contact, per Pro Football Focus. He's also credited with

(48:06):
avoiding forty two tackles, which is the highest among all
quarterbacks in pro football. But he is not invincible. Everyone
is fallible. You're fallible. I'm fallible. Listen to the show.
You know I'm fallible, right. Lamar has weaknesses, just not
that many. He doesn't have that many right now, but
he has weaknesses. He absolutely does. So. The Titans have

(48:30):
a slightly worse defense than the Buffalo Bills. In my
expert football opinion, Tennessee statistically was twelfth against the run. Now,
twelfth is not great, but it's not horrible. It's certainly
closer to the top than it is. The middle of
the Bell curve if you're doing the grading system. So

(48:51):
they have shown the ability to hold their own. Tennessee's
defense not an all time great defense, but they can
make some plays or something. Made some plays against the Patriots,
but everyone makes plays against the Patriots offense right now.
So Baltimore, they have been in this different dimension running
the football. They'd been unreal there. The Ravens ran for

(49:13):
nearly a thousand yards more than the forty nine ers.
Now that means something. The forty nine Ers were the
second ranked running offense in the NFL rushing team and
the Ravens had almost a thousand yards more. That's staggering,
all right. Nevertheless, that tells you, as my friend Dick
Stockton said years ago to me, he said, that tells you, Ben,

(49:34):
what has happened, not what's going to happen. And it's
true even blocking and tackling. Right wrap up for the
Tennessee Tites. Now, Buffalo showed everyone the game plan to
contain the Ravens quarterback. And before you call up and say, hey, dummy,
they lost the game. I understand the Bills lost to
the Ravens, but they didn't lose the game because of
their defense. They lost because at Josh Allen the compass

(49:57):
rose at quarterback, who did nothing for the first quarters
of that game. Right. So my advice to Tennessee's not
only do you keep the ball on offense, obviously try
to take time off the clock, control possession of the football,
the running game, but you have to try to reproduce
the performance that the Bills Mafia had holding Lamar Jackson.
I think it was like one hundred and forty five

(50:18):
yards passing, had less than fifty yards on the ground.
If the Titans can get anywhere near those numbers, they
are going to have a tremendous opportunity to win the
game in the fourth quarter. Here and considering the point spread,
I mean, command, now, what are we doing at final point?
So for all the tools in the toolbox of Lamar Jackson,

(50:41):
he does not possess one thing, which is another tentacle
of this bazuka. He does not have a cannon arm.
Lamar Jackson he does. That was the argument of him
at Louisville coming into the NFL draft. Now it's turned
out it hasn't mattered because he can run the ball
and the Ravens have been able to complete enough short

(51:01):
passes where not those far out passes. But in baseball parlance,
he throws a lot of slop right, he's a junk
ball pitcher. He throws in the load of mid fifth.
He's a lot of breaking pitches from Lamar. And not
a great fastball, not a great heater there. But it's work.
I get it's working. So Tennessee, here's some more advice
I'm giving. We got to send this podcast to Mike Vrabel.

(51:23):
He should listen to it. So Tennessee must do a
not just better than average job, like an elite job
of being disciplined. Because we mentioned that the statistic forty
seven percent of Lamar Jackson's rushing yards have come after contact.
He's very very slippery. He's very very very slippery there,
and so you've got to you've got to be all

(51:45):
over the guy, very discipline in that. You've also got
to cover the tight ends. You got to come to me.
That's the big I wouldn't even cover the wide receivers.
Getting kind of but but the key here to beating
Baltimore time of session. But when I've watched the Ravens,
and I happen to have watched them a lot as
the season's gone on, because they've been one of the

(52:06):
top teams in the NFL. But what does Lamar Jackson do?
What does he do when he's looking for his safety
blanket tight ends? Right, Lamar's happy plays is when he's
throwing to Nick Boyle and Mark Andrews, the two tight ends.
They got three tight ends actually, but those two in particular,
they are his emotional support animals. The tight ends, those

(52:29):
are Lamar Jackson's emotional support animals. Andrews led the ravens
and catches and touchdowns. Mark Andrews the tight end, that's
the lead, not Hollywood Brown. Mark Andrews number one. Now
Boyle was third. The other tight end was third on
the team in catches with thirty one. So if they

(52:51):
play well, obviously that means Lamar Jackson's finding them. But
if they get bogged out, if the Titans are able
to put linebackers on those guys and then all of
a sudden, Lamar Jaxson is what He's forced to either
beat you running, which is maybe maybe he'll be able
to do this, He's done that a lot, or if
he has to throw to the white outs, that is

(53:11):
where not having a good fastball becomes a problem and
it becomes an Armageddon situation for the Ravens. And that's
how a shocking upset can take place on Saturday night
in the second round of the NFL playoffs. We have
seen top teams over the years go could put and
do a face plant like a trapdoor opens up, and

(53:31):
then they end up going And it hasn't happened too
much in recent years, but there was a stretch me
and Roberto are remember where this used to happen quite
a bit where teams would come down and just now,
do I think they're gonna lose the game? Well, you'll
have to hear the podcast I did the fifth hour
to find out about that. But again, that's the strategy.
Right bullet points, right bullet points. Just run the ball

(53:52):
with Henry, keep the ball, run the play clock down,
cover the damn tight ends, cover the damn tight ends,
and pretty much copy with Buffalo did to give me
an idea of the lack of production from the receivers
for the Ravens, Hollywood Brown had forty six catches. He
was the top wide out for Baltimore Hunter renfro of

(54:16):
radas he had more catches. Jen Jalen Samuels are the
Steelers had more than the leading receiver for the Baltimore Ravens,
the top team in football. So again that is the
kryptonite for Lamar Jackson. It's not much because he seems
because he's able to run the ball, you can't really

(54:37):
be as focused on the tight ends because normally the
people that cover the tight ends are the ones that
are supposed to be hanging out waiting for Lamar to run.
So it's it's one of those catch twenty two situations.
But you'd rather, you know, the argument had been you'd
rather have Lamar throw to the tight ends than run.
But maybe not. Maybe not all right? Spen Malo's show
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(54:57):
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have Mallard to the third Degree coming up a little
bit later in the hour. We're gonna warn you there's
like a wolf moon tonight. There's a wolf moon, which
is a who I don't know, it's named the Wolf.
Andy writes and says, hey, Ben, please stop putting weed

(55:22):
Man on the radio. He said, that's from me. Andy.
He made sure to tweet us, and he's very excited
about that. He wanted to get that message out so well.
I think we will have a weed man free hour.
I think we will. Eric says, we have enough weed
man in Wisconsin. Last thing we need is the weed man.

(55:42):
She says, Can I take a shower? Yeah? I understand.
That's the last time he took a shower. By the way,
when she said take a shower, and that was the
last time. Calm down, Calm down, all right, spend out show.
We'll take your phone calls. Also, what if I told
you that Luke good Don Chick of the Dallas Mannish

(56:03):
Break got star here in the NBA this year, one
of the candidates for the Most Valuable Player Award. What
if Luca could be guilty of a misdemeanor? Hmm, tell
you about that. We'll get to that and we will
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Maller and you can tweet at and follow Tonight's executive producer.
His first name is Ryan, his last name is Burshinger.
Everything okay, Eddie, Yeah, I feel like you're talking slowly.
I feel like you don't know what you're about to say.
I feel like building up drama. Thanks for ruining it, Okay.
I don't think you were doing that at all. I

(57:09):
think you didn't know what you were saying. Are you done? No,
I'm not done. Could be done in a few hours. Yeah,
would you like? Would you like me to give Ryan's
Twitter account? Or no? I feel like you were looking
it up. I feel like you were just looking it up.
I wasn't all right. Hand to good, hand to guide.
Think you're lying and be struck by lightning. It's a

(57:32):
full moon, Eddie, there's a wolf moon out there. Be
careful anyway. Ryan's Twitter account is at Ryan Burschinger. I'll
spell it for you. Yeah, bu R s C H
I N g R. Legitimately, I still go out for
high school. Do you think someone Eddie? Someone working in
a factory right now, Yes, I do write down the hammer. Yeah,

(57:58):
and they're going to their phone and they're going to
follow Ryan. All right. So like the police officer who's
cruising around, he's pulling over to the side of the
road before Ryan Burston, not, you know, use your phone
while you're driving. That's they'll see you. Keep trying Ryan.
Now's Ryan a millennial or is he? I think he's
a millenial. A millennial, right, yeah, how are you? I'm

(58:20):
twenty seven. Yeah, you're definitely a millennial. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, got you. Well, I tweet a couple of
times a month, so people will be able to see those.
It's very exciting. Speaking of millennials, Nathan the millennial has
called up, and typical millennial. He's complaining that he's been
on hold. Hello, Nathan, is mathon first? Mathan not Nathan? Correct, Lastica,

(58:46):
Why why are you named Mathan not Nathan? It's a
long story, I asked, Did they misspell? Did your parents
misspell on the birth certificate? Was it supposed to be
a Nathan and you became Mathan and and we're just
too embarrassed to change it. No. I think the letters
are all different. I don't know how that would happen. Okay,

(59:09):
well this is fascinating. Mathan not Nathan Mathan who correct?
You got it? Yes, sir, yeah, that must That must
have sucked when you were little, because you can't go
to like you go to like Disneyland or something. You
can't get one of those little little license plates because
they don't have a Nathan. They have Nathan, but they
don't have Mathan on those little license plates. That's right. Hey,

(59:31):
Actually I was passing through you know, I'm from the
Bay Area shout out bay Area on the four h five,
and I passed five o'clock sports radio station over there
in Sherman. Oh yeah, shout out Sherman Oaks. Baby, that
damn right. I was like a freaking puppy out the
window looking at you guys. Oh, you were saying you

(59:52):
were stalking us? Really? What? What was this? Was this?
What I actually put close on? This is good? So
what what? Let's let's see if he's being honest here.
So what color shirt am I wearing? No, No, it
wasn't anything recent. I thought it was like I thought
it was like an hour ago or something like that. Yeah,

(01:00:13):
you're probably over there in Portland. Year just said when
I was in Seattle actually was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, so I wish well you should have gone.
It was a lot of fun. We had a good time,
We had a good turnout. Everyone seemed to have a
good time. So anyway, what do you call about? No,
Actually I got a little proposal, trade proposal. Uh, all right,

(01:00:35):
Derek from Rose for the lanker people, Kyle Kuzma for
Derek Rose. Let's make the trade right now. No, no,
no, no no, I thought about that. They got no one
to offer, but yeah, I mean it was a super position.
That's why Blake Griffin was mitigating the whole little trade thing.
He's like, are you guys gonna get rid of me?

(01:00:56):
And then that's when he decided he's gonna go have surgery.
And I think that you're saying that Blake Griffin had
surgery because he wanted to stay in Detroit. Is that
why you're now that he mentioned that? He remember he
mentioned it before he fully went into surgery. He's been
like he was mentioning going into surgery, probably like mentioning

(01:01:17):
to the pistons. So you're gonna trade me before I
go on injury with Yeah, and it just worked out
like that, Nolan're gonna keep you how annoyed is Blake
Griffin gonna be when the Clippers win the championship this summer,
He's gonna drive him and and he's missing the party
in La I know, And he was. And that trade

(01:01:38):
with the Pistons led you know, you follow the chain
of trades, but that led to the players they traded
to Philadelphia for the draft pick, which eventually was thrown in.
All those draft picks they got were sent away to
get Paul George so and that led to anyway, all right,
well I'm glad you came by Mathan not Nathan. Yeah,
all right, Yeah, I got a first time caller looking

(01:02:01):
to be a frequent caller than having very nice, very
very nice. Bob is in Bowling Rain. Hello, Bob, Hey,
what's up? Brother? Are you going right? If I was
any better, people would stop asking me that question. But
they don't, so I must not be doing that. Well,
I think I'm all right, I think I'm okay. Well,

(01:02:25):
I'm not going to talk about sports. I want to
reach out directly to Coop. I do praise that he's
getting better, But you know, I had sent him a
few things to autograph for me, and I just would
ask that, you know, if he can get to that,

(01:02:46):
just in case he takes a turn for the worst,
I would really appreciate it. Yeah. Well, you know though,
Coop is famous for not getting the mail. In fact,
there was one of our friends who does television in
Kansas City, sent a holiday card. Do you remember this?
It was last year he sent a Holliday two years ago. Now,
he sent a holiday card early December. I got the

(01:03:08):
card in April. I got the card in April, like
four and a half months after he sent the Christmas card.
I got the Christmas card in the mail. Well, see,
I sent you a Christmas card last year too, and
you never mentioned anything about it. I have not gotten
since I got You know, Coop's gone and he's I
don't know what he's doing, but but I have not

(01:03:28):
gotten any meal since I came back. I'm sure there's
a ton of mail there, but I don't have any mail. Well, yeah,
I sent your Christmas card when I included a Honkah
wish because I know you're Jewish. Thank you, Mazletok, you
gotta cover everything, you gotta cover everything. Bob, you know,
cover all your bases. What else you got, Bob got
you got something more than that? Yes? Well, I mean

(01:03:49):
I was just kind of being selfish because if you know,
if Coop kicks the bucket, then his autographs gonna be
worked a little more on eBay. Oh so you want
we'll fake an autograph for cool? How about that we
all made a sign and I'll pretend I'm cool. I'll
sign I appreciate it. Yeah, all right, Well good luck,
Bob you sign? Are you the guy? Are you the
guy that took Kyle Rudolph's gloves? Bob? No, but I

(01:04:11):
did think about it. Yeah, I understand, all right, thank you?
Sell that on eBay? You know, would be funny. A
funny bit is if we all autograph something and put
it on eBay to see who would get the most money, Like,
who would generate the most money? Yeah? Do we have
to say it's for charity or can we keep the money?
How's that we're supposed to say it's for charity? Right?

(01:04:33):
We will get to Mallard of the third degree. We'll
get to that coming up here shortly. Also, this Luca
don Chick story, well it's kind of a Luca don
Chick story. Could he be guilty of a misdemeanor? Fox
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(01:04:55):
listen live. So here's a wild story. Now, this is
most a story about if you're if you're under the
age of twenty one, then you're gonna be like, whoa,
this is a crazy story. I can't believe this story.
We go now to the state of well should I
don't have to say, I'm not gonna say the name
of the state. Actually, yet there is a bill in

(01:05:18):
the state Senate of one of the fifty United States
that would ban anyone under the age of twenty one
from using a cell phone. How about that. Let's see
if you guys can take a guess. There is a
state in the United States. Wouldn't be a state in Canadate,
that would be a province, But in the United States,

(01:05:40):
one of the states has a a bill that would
ban cell phone use for anyone under the age of
twenty one. And if you possess a cell phone like
I brought up, Luca Donsha guilty of a misdemeanor because
according to this, possession or use, even possession of a phone,
would be a misdemeanor punishable. Check this out by up

(01:06:02):
to a year in jail. Can you imagine being in
jail for using your falls? This is absurd and also
a thousand dollars. You want to take a guess which
state do? Alright? Go ahead? Is it the state that
banned like big gulps? New York? No, it is not, Roberto.
You want to take a guess, I'm gonna say New Jersey,

(01:06:24):
New Jersey? All right? Is it the Garden State? No,
it is not New Jersey, Ryan Burshinger, Ryan Burschinger, You
have a chance here. How about Montana? Montana? That's a
good guess. Moose and Skeeter and Tammy in Montana? Uh No,

(01:06:44):
all right? How about this. I am gonna give you
a clue. This state has is associated more than any
other state with one presidential candidate, a well known presidential
candidate in the twenty I'm gonna Illinois. No, No, not Illinois.
Oh for too, Eddie, Roberto, would you like to do

(01:07:07):
a right? Minnesota? No, not Minnesota? All right? It is
the state that Bernie Sanders is from Vermont. Vermont, the
state of Vermont. Now, fortunately for isn't that where Arnie lives?
I believe so. Yeah, yeah, when I did work in Boston,
a lot of the guys would it's just cheaper to
live in Vermont for taxes and not that far away

(01:07:29):
you can drive, and a lot of guys would you know, Vermont,
New Hampshire. It's a long drive, but why not save
some money on taxes. There's no chance this passes, right,
there's no chance that they pass. I mean, what are
we doing. It's twenty twenty now. I will tell you
My advice to parents is you have a kid, keep
him off the phone as long as he can, because
once they go on the phone, they go to the
dark side. But who keep him off the phone as

(01:07:50):
long as he can. That would be the advice. But yeah,
you can't be banning people under the age of twenty
one from using a phone. Pretty deep, pretty decent. Yeah,
it's crazy as with it. I mean, we don't agree
on that. And they were claiming that, you know, they
were talking about preventing suicides because of bullying and all this.

(01:08:10):
I'm trying, come on, stop by it, and I'm skills.
I'm broadcasting. Yeah, all right, anyway, let's get to it.
Here we go. It's maller. How about that to the
third degree? This is one big band. Get squailed. I
think we should just lock everyone up to their twenty
one and then we'll release them. We won't educate them,
we'll just release them. All right, Go ahead there, bur Shinger.

(01:08:33):
What do we have for the mallard of the third degree?
By the way, in its regular slot piece, I'm back
on the clock, on the clock, mallard by the clock
for the clock, plausibly all about the clock. Nicely done,
Thank you well. First off, appearing on WWL radio's Sports
Talk on Wednesday, Drew Brees hinted at playing until forty
four or forty five, saying, say, I know I can

(01:08:55):
still play. I know I could play another three to
four years. Yeah, I want to do it on my own. Ben.
Who do you think plays longer? Drew Brees or Tom Brady?
I believe Breeze was talking about he wants to still
be able to play with his kids when he's forty
five years old. But no, the answer is Tom Brady.
And I'll tell you why. This one is easy, right, Hey,
tom Brady's forty two years old. He's a year older,

(01:09:16):
so he's in the clubhouse the leader over Drew Brees
in that category. Plus he's got that whole TV twelve
formula twenty five glasses of water and stretching and all
that stuff. Tom Brady is convinced that he has not
regressed at all and he's still great. The Patriots, the
smart money says they're still likely to bring him back,

(01:09:38):
that he's not gonna leave, and if he does leave,
he'll go to another team. He's football royalty who have
plenty of opportunities to play another season, go year to year,
and Drew Brees he doesn't seem as married to play.
You know, the rumor going around is that Breeze is
going to be offered the Monday night football job, that
he could replace Booger in the Monday night booth. And

(01:09:59):
we know Breeze love's attention. He's an attention horror. He
popped up on TV shows like that reality show he
was on this week, so you got that as part
of the deal. And also people don't like to talk
about this, but the last two years, for the first
twelve weeks of the same season, Drew Brees was great
the last four weeks. Peu, what stinks? Turnovers all over there?

(01:10:21):
He had seven turnover worthy throws over the last three
weeks of the same season. I got away with most
of them, certainly weeks sixteen and weeks seventeen. He didn't
get away with it against the Vikings and Teddy Bridgewaters
hanging around. So I'm gonna go with Tom Brady next.
Former NFL quarterback Carson Palmer said on The Rich Eisen

(01:10:44):
Show on Wednesday, Oh, that's what's what network is that on?
That is on Fox Sports really on Fox Sports Radio.
It's right, okay? Who yeah? Uh. Carson Palmer said that
if Jameis Winston is back in Tampa, Bruce Arians, he
expects year two to be a massive year for him. Yeah, Ben,

(01:11:05):
do you buy that Jamis will clock big time in
Tampa next year? Well, he's not gonna be in Tampa
and my evidence on that. Did you see Bruce Arians
his comments at the end of the year. Yeah, well
I might have been on hiatus, but I was still
looking around here. First thing here at the end of
the regular season, Bruce Arians sounded so fed up, so

(01:11:27):
disgusted with all the turnovers of Jamis Winston, that he like,
he had spent all year working with Winston. And what
does Winston doing his final game. It's a pickupalooza. In
his final game with Tampa Bay during the regular season,
he continued to make the same mistakes he made Game one,
he made in game sixteen for Tampa Bay. And it
was enough to give heartburn to Bruce Arians and all

(01:11:50):
that stuff, those little mistakes to get blown up. That
the simple outpasses where famous Jamis gets caught telegraphing throws
and he gets picked off and all stuff. So it
is a long shot that Jamis Winston comes back to
Tampa Bay. But I'll tell you what, if he does
come back to Tampa Bay, he's got a chance to
go forty for forty. I think forty touchdowns forty interceptions

(01:12:13):
should be the bar for Jamis Winston. And as far
as Carson Palmer is concerned, all right, the fact that
this was said by Carson Palmer means nothing. He is
a surrogate of Bruce Arians. Right. They worked together with
the Arizona Cardinals. They were together there in the Valley
of the Sun, so Tega with a grand assault all
right next, Well, Ben, I'm sure he saw. Earlier tonight,

(01:12:37):
Kevin Durant is back at it again on social media.
He was changing barbs with his former teammate Kendrick Perkins.
Had multiple rants this week. Durant has been all over
the case over place, I should say, Yeah, one of those.
Earlier in the week, he was going back and forth
with NBA fans defending the relevancy of the Brooklyn Nets. Yeah.
Why does Katie continue to get into these uh these

(01:12:58):
dust stuff? Because he wants to get us content in
sports radio and he feels like if I continue to
be a just I can't say the word I was
gonna say, but if I continue to be a so
and so on social media. First of all, Kevin Durant,
we know he's got a few issues. Right. He's bored
because he's not playing. That's the biggest problem Durant has.
If he was playing, I don't think he would be
doing this as much. But he's not playing. He's hurt

(01:13:20):
and he has a lot of free time on his hands.
He's also he's got the same problems he had in
Golden State and Oklahoma. He's got rabbit ears and he's
thin skinned. That is a lethal cocktail, is what it is.
And those are the secret blend of eleven herbs and
spices that create these knockdown, drag out tussles on social media. Second,

(01:13:41):
Kadie is very defensive about whatever decision he makes, right,
every whatever choice meant. Most people defend the choices they make.
I get that, but he is over the top, temperamental,
and now his points are like misguided, right, he's Durant
reminded all these people. Now, he did make one point
that I agreed with. He reminded all these people that
were ripping the nets that they're not relative enough to

(01:14:05):
the NBA. They're not They don't mean anything to the NBA.
And he pointed out that they clearly the nets are
relative enough where these idiots were commenting on the nets
on social media, so obviously they matter to these people enough.
But yeah, Kevin Durant needs an intervention. He needed an
intervention in Golden State. He never got one. And it's
that old line we always talk about, when you feed
the monsters, you create more monsters. When you throw food

(01:14:28):
to the trolls, the trolls not only eat the food,
they want more food. But hey, it's good for the show.
All right, there, it is Mallard to the third degree
for the final time this week with three different producers.
How did we do? Congratulations Ben, you have passed and
you keep trying. Ryan can continue on for another couple
of hours. Time now for the instant trivia. We're heading

(01:14:50):
into the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. Oh, I'm
so giddy. Divisional round of the playoffs. Blank holds the
NFL record with the longest reception a divisional playoff game.
Again only the divisional round. Blank holds the NFL record
longest reception in the divisional round of the postseason. The
answer next. Be sure to catch live editions of The

(01:15:11):
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time now for the instad trivia and here it is
brought to you by Discover Card. We treat you like
you'd treat you. Blank holds the NFL's record for the

(01:15:56):
longest reception in the divisional playoff round. That's the question.
What's the answer? Rob in Minnesota's going with Hunter Henry
will will Gooth in Pennsylvania says it is Ryan Berschinger
is actually Ryan. A lot of people don't know this,
but Ryan, before you start working here was a receiver
for the Atlanta Falcons. That's right, and yeah, pretty good

(01:16:17):
run in Atlanta, right, Yeah, I felt good about it.
You got hurt though, and you had to retire. Let's
see here al tune was guessed by mediocre kabuki Eric Mold.
There's a good name from manic Mike. Rob i am
is going with Rich Eisen as his answer. The Ozzie
Guys says it might be Brian Finley. Who else do
we have here? Page down? Page down? I can't read

(01:16:39):
that one on the air. We'll skip over that one.
Quadre Ismail guests by Eke in the Twin Cities. Curtis
Conway from Sean in Portland. Let's see. Oh, come on, Justin,
how dare you? That's Webster slaughter from LaMotte the iron
sheet tossed out by Rob in Vegas. By the way, guys, Philly,

(01:17:01):
Rob has invited us to a nice meal. By the way,
I don't know we can make it though. All right,
all right, do you have an answer, Eddie? Please? I
need an answer. Yes, the answer is Pat Tilly. Pat
is it Pat Tilly? No, believe it or not? Though
it is former Los Angeles right Tim Brown way back
in the early nineties against Buffalo from Jeff Hostedler eighty

(01:17:26):
six yards. Of course, the Raiders lost that game, but
still the record for a divisional round playoff game. Remember that.
This weekend, Manuel in Gardena, Hello, Manuel, Hey, why are
you bringing up old memories from that fifty one to
three beat down we took from Buffalo? That's not good
by you, Benny. Well, I don't think it couldn't have

(01:17:47):
been that game. It must have been a different brother.
All right, Well, there you go. Yeah, they only scored
a field goal in an eighty six yard reception. How's
that possible? Box? Yeah, it happened then, I don't know anyhow.
That title game, Yeah, that's what I thought. I think
they played games fifty one three. That a title game. Yeah,

(01:18:08):
this is a different game. Any whatever. What are we
doing here? How you been? Man? What's our first time?
We're sing La Raider football, Baby, that's what we're doing.
The La Raiders are back because Vegas is a suburb
of LA, so they're back in La. Damn f being skippy.
Hey man, gotta give it up. Man, you are not

(01:18:31):
the babbling sports buffoon of the Who's that quickly? Quickly?
Who is it? Oh? You are the hype man of
the Fox Sports mic stand my man. I like that.
That's a makeup promo out of that. I like that
every day. Eddie Garcia, well, honestly, now you're giving everyone
else nicknames. I want the only nicknames on the shot Man. Well,

(01:18:54):
but that check it in it strong. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. We gotta shake up
in college football, or not that kind of shake up,
A different kind of shakeup. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show. We are in
the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports Radio network, emanating

(01:19:20):
live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. Fifteen minutes
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Just visit Geico dot com for a freeway quote. We
await the LSU versus Clemson showdown Monday to decide the
champion of collegiate football, which will take place. By the way,

(01:19:42):
that game LSU and Clemson, LSU favored by six. Now
the line's up to six in that game. You want
to hear my handicapping. We don't usually do college football
and Benny versus the Penny, but we did. It's on
the podcast. It's available right now to down and I
handicapped it the matchup of Tigers versus Tigers, and yes,

(01:20:03):
I picked the Tigers to win the game. I did
pick the Tigers to win the college football Championship game.
But we have coaching news to dissect. Like a laboratory
frog a Mike Leech, our guy is on them now.
It takes something like this for us to talk about
college football. We love Mike Leech. Leech is leaving his

(01:20:25):
home for the last couple of years in Washington he's
saying goodbye to Wazoo. Did you see this? I don't
know if you saw this soon now, maybe maybe you
weren't listening earlier. Mike Leech leaving Washington State for the
Southeastern Conference, the Jewel, so they say, of college football,
Will Leach is the coaching vagabond. He's going to pack

(01:20:47):
up his suitcase and he's on the move again, like
a traveling salesman. It's all signed, sealed and delivered. He
is the new coach at Mississippi State. But that so,
let us discuss the question will Mike Leech be able
to find success at Mississippi State contending with the top

(01:21:07):
teams in the big bad Southeastern Conference. Now my answer, no,
I disagree. I believe he will have success. You're a hater, Roberto,
with your little buzzers over there, you're a hater. All right, listen,
we've got now, of course, what's your definition of success?
That's the question. So it's a sliding scale of success.
You've got doctorate blueprint and hope diamond and we will

(01:21:30):
connect all of this together. Now, first of all, the
bar is so low at Mississippi State. That's the main
reason I like Mike Leach's chances of finding success here
plus Listen, you can trash the guy if you want.
Some people think he's a side show and a gimmick,
but he has a track record that has done very

(01:21:52):
well at schools that are off the map, that are
off the grid. You don't need a ven diagram to
know how good he has been around the college football
world for the game of football and Mississippi State. Listen,
I get it. It's not exactly the big apple of
you know, the spot like the jewel where everyone's looking
at it in the galaxy of college football. They they're

(01:22:15):
outside the main meet in potatoes, but they get to
play the big boys. Mike Leach is going to play
Nick Saban, gonna lock horns with Nick Saban next college
football season. Mississippi State plays in Tuscaloosa this October and
then the following week they visit LSU and the cagent,

(01:22:37):
Fred Flintstone from the Bayou There coach Oe in the
following game, So we look forward to that down the line.
It's not trigonometry. Mike Leech is a prodigy of offensive football.
He's a pioneer of the air raid offense. He earned
a doctorate in providing what I popping offensive numbers from

(01:22:58):
his quarterbacks and skill player. Now, it was a collective
collaborative effort between himself and how Mummy that created this offense.
That's it's been stolen more than intellectual property in China,
the air raid offense, versions of it might leech. His
fingerprints are all over college and now starting to spread

(01:23:18):
to the NFL. His disciples on his coaching tree, his
glorious coaching tree, which is not poison ivy. It's one
of those big redwoods in California. It's just beautiful. So
he's He've got Cliff Kingsbury in the NFL. Listen, I'm
not a big fan, but he's an NFL coach. He's
got cell phone breaks for his players in Arizona. You've

(01:23:39):
got that Kingsbury. You've got Dana Holksum of Houston, the
old coach at West Virginia Holgerson. And then you've got
Lincoln Riley of Oklahoma. There's several others, but those are
like some of the big ones, and they're all branches
on the tree. So Mississippi State, now, are they going
to be a juggernaut? Of course not. They're not gonna
be a juggernaut. Don't get crazy. But here's the thing.

(01:24:01):
They will have an uber, exciting team from the very beginning.
They're gonna score a bunch of points. Mike Leach has
a knack for finding diamonds in the rough, especially at quarterbacks.
Quarterback percent Gardner Minshew of Jacksonville, who played decently as
a rookie at times, wasn't a product of Washington State,
was almost gonna quit football at one point. Now he's

(01:24:22):
an NFL player because of Mike Leach. Of the fifty.
Check this out. This is an amazing stat about how
good Mike Leach is at offense. Of the fifty greatest
passing seasons in the history of big time college football,
ten of them have come from quarterbacks coached by Mike Leach.
Ten of them. Ten out of fifty one coach Mike Leach.

(01:24:51):
Think about that, in the history of college football, twenty
percent of the greatest quarterbacks have played for Mike Leach.
As just this guy. Now you said that. The other
argument is, well, they don't make it in the NFL. Okay,
he's a college football coach. He's really good at college football.
The NFL spin spin, the Roulette wheel right now. Secondly,

(01:25:14):
the question was raised, can you win at Mississippi State?
The answer is somewhat like Jackie Sheryl, I remember was
there years ago, and I think he occasionally had a
good team, but most mostly bad. And that guy Sylvester
Kroum was terrible, the guy that was there as well.
But Dan Mullin laid the foundation in Starksville. He was

(01:25:35):
the guy. He provided a blueprint, is what he did
for success. Dan Mullin now he's the coach at Florida.
He exited stage right. But Mullin had the Bulldogs going
blow for blow, punch for punch against those monsters in
the SEC. And I mentioned this earlier and I looked
it up and I am correct. In twenty fourteen, Mississippi
State beat not one, not two, but three top ten

(01:25:59):
team in a row. Line them up, knock them down.
Line them like dominoes, Line them up, knock him down.
And they were the number one team. I believe it
was for like four or five weeks that year. They
got to the Orange Bowl. They played Alabama after they
had rolled off all those wins, and then they lost.
But you can find success in the shadows of the

(01:26:23):
Southeastern Commerce Plus. To my knowledge, the academic requirements to
get into Starkville are a pulse and that's about it.
You don't need much more than that. You just gotta
have a pulse. I don't think they're letting cadavers in there.
But but Leech should have he should have already been
in the SEC. We used to have this guy, Danny
from Nashville, that was one of our callers. I don't

(01:26:45):
know what happened to Danny. Danny disappeared. You know, we
gotta get a new regular caller from from Nashville and
from at least one or two from from Tennessee that array.
But Danny was a big Tennessee apologist. And at one
point it looked like Mike Leach was going to be
the code in Knoxville, and they left it up and
now they're stuck with Jeremy Pruitt, who's got the valls

(01:27:07):
in the pool of mediocrity. He's only been there a
couple of years. But I would expect the people of
Knoxville to be haunted by Mike Leach, who's going to
be in the Southeastern Conference. And they passed on this
guy and they got an inferior coach compared to Mike Leach.
Now the final thought, so we are open occasionally, we're
even honest about our appreciation from Mike Leach. This guy

(01:27:30):
is a gem, all right. We love this guy, Mike Leach.
He is the Hope Diamond of college football. He has
gone to outpost off the reservation like Texas Tech and Lubbock, Texas, Pullman,
Washington and found success. All right. He's done it in
places you're not supposed to do it. And then I
get Starkville is another place you're not supposed to do it.

(01:27:52):
But we get no less than five sound bites a
college football season from Mike Leach that we talk about
on our show. He is equal parts whimsical and temperamental.
He's unpredictable, he's got a loose tongue, and he's a blabbermouth.
Those are all good qualities, right, He's got the gift

(01:28:16):
for gab, and in the sporting world where everyone is
so paranoid about saying the wrong thing, they don't say anything.
They don't say anything. Mike Leech is an outlandish and
fantastic sound bite. And he's a pretty good football coach,
which means it's it's better that way. And I know

(01:28:36):
political correctness is really the issue here, it's prevalent, but
Mike Leach doesn't even care about that. He will be abrasive.
Mike Leach will absolutely be abrasive. He's unsympathetic. I like
to think of him as a truth teller. I know
there's a certain former NFL player that played for the
Patriots who was a politician who does not believed that

(01:28:59):
because of his kid anyway. Now, the other thing about Leech,
he's so perfect for college football because his stick is perfect.
College guys can put up with the swashbuckling talk of
pirate ships and all that for a couple of years
because the roster changes over. The roster changes over, so
you have a new audience for your rhetoric and you

(01:29:22):
got new recruits and so it's not the same people.
You can use the same stories because the players change
over every few years. All Right, it is the Bend
Mathers Show on Fox. As we press on here, Congratulations
to Mike Leach, Good luck to you. We've got lame
jokes coming up later this hour. Let's go now Bang
Bang to Houston. I'm sorry that was at Taurette's let's

(01:29:46):
say hello to Chris in Houston. Hello, Christopher. You know
why I don't get it. I don't give how these
clowns were't I always complain about being on hope. I'll
be a hole. Oh mighty, I mean all you doing
blabber and anyway I'm listening to y'all hole, so mighty,
well listen to your hope. That is, by the way,
Chris's way of announcing that he was on hold for
a long time, but not doing it an offensive ruck.

(01:30:07):
He didn't want to do it in an offensive way
because I mean being nation to know that already. If
you are long, listen to Ben Mallor you might be
a hope for a while. Yeah you might, exactly. It's
a show. We take calls, but sporadically we take calls.
We mix them in, we spice them in like Roberto
spices up his food there with cooking with Roberto. So
are doing. But you know, I gotta beat I gotta

(01:30:27):
beat man. You know what I need to find me
a new mentor you know what I need to think
Eddy the podcast? You want to be my mentors of Ben?
He it ain't on mint if Ben Roller going mentor
that guy that got got fired from a college radio show. What.
Oh yeah, that's right, that's right our friend. Yeah, he's
here to become a truck drive right now though. So

(01:30:47):
that's sorry, I mean because I mean you you are
horrible at mentor. Man, I don't get nothing from you. Dude,
Well you're done. He sent me no email. You've never
reached out to me other than the show. You don't
send me messages. Other than that, I've not got any
email from you. I check my inbox, I don't get
any email from you. But but you know what, I
don't want to talk about that too much. You know

(01:31:08):
what you just exposed. You didn't send an email. No, no, no, No.
That kid I met that goes to Washington State last week,
he was he wants to get into radio, he emailed me.
So I'm like, all right, I'll help the guy out.
Why not? But you know, I just looking to the
daytime being and yeah, that's fine, But I don't you know,
Walker is gonna be a big star. You're not gonna

(01:31:29):
be a big star. Walker the radio kid is gonna
be a big start. You could be a big star,
but you're gonna you know, make an effort. Oh come on, man,
come on, I don't communicate with you. I don't want
to hear that. Nah, it is daytime, not not not
Chris Brussa to the boys, man. I mean, I don't
think that's an evening an evening. That's an evening show.
And I like, I love one of my good friends.

(01:31:49):
I like Chris Perso, but one of my really good
Rob Parker. I love Rob. We'll see he was He
was on earlier with First Things First with Nick Rich,
a Leger apologist. Rosary was okay, guy, yeah, yeah yeah.
And I don't get it. Why does these people run
around talking about the Lakers. Is the is the total
favorite of that's gonna win the championship, that's gonna I'll

(01:32:09):
tell you. I'll tell you on that show. Who's the
guy's name the whole one of the hosts, Yeah, Nick right,
a Laker fan boy. So that's why that's why they talk. Now,
he's been a Laker fanboy from I've been told I
don't watch that show, but I but I've been told
he's a big Laker fan. No, he's a he's a
Lebron guy, great Lakers. I think he's a Laker guy.
He loves Lebron too, but he likes the Lakers also.

(01:32:30):
It's like a perfect storm for him. It's like a
perfect storm being And I was just disgusted hearing this.
I mean, because I know Tweeter dumb and Tweeter doo.
I don't have that much faith in them. I mean,
they lost the okay see, and people rag about that,
But at the end of the day, you can't worry. Yeah,
you know, you can't worry about all that with the
whole you know, until it gets the playoffs. You're gonna

(01:32:50):
lose sporadically during the season. But it's embarrassing when your
guys perform and they don't show up, you know, Harden,
I mean, what's going on with Harden here? Shoot? But
you know that trying to throw everything at him because
he he scores too much and they feel like, well
he's stow. Yeah, but he's throwing everything at the rim
and everything at the kitchen in the kitchen, sink at
the rim and not making many of them. Braids too tight.

(01:33:13):
I think it's the braids of too tight. I don't
know what to dude, He's trying to find himself for something,
like why do you got braids in your head for well,
you're you're you're allowed to rip him on that. I
don't think I'm allowed because I'm getting trouble. But you can.
You can rip them all you want, but I didn't.
And the PC and the PC going at b Line
because he said stugs. I mean, if they're playing like
thugs and slugs, you should be named at I mean,

(01:33:36):
you know what, you know how this guy after because
of them some stfty players where he called two, Well
I didn been called fall work. That's what you should
have been called. Yeah, yeah, because I wanted to drop,
I understand. But the thing about be Line, the guy's
been coaching in college and now in the NBA, and

(01:33:57):
he's coached mostly black players in his time right, and
the think that you know, somehow he's raised he missed
spoke or whatever if he did find but I mean everyone,
everything's an outrage. You gotta he might lose his job.
What are we doing so stupid? But you know what
I tell you, look like somebody's got their balls back.
And okay, see what's the coach's name that used to
be the poorer? Because I can't see Billy Donovan you're

(01:34:18):
talking about it looks like if you actually get young
players with these college coaches and left them coach, because
look at Boston, you got rid of the headache, and
all of a sudden they one of the best teams
in the league. You know again, Yeah, you know, you
get rid of the DA, you get these coaches, some
players that are actually want to be coached. It looked
like you actually have a great basketball team instead of

(01:34:39):
trying to pand it to all these stars all the
doll Well, it is nice, and it's very rare in
the NBA. You're right, where teams don't tank, they actually
try to win and build a roster. It very rarely Happensta.
I gotta go, Chris, Thank you, buddy. Sorry, your broadcasting
career is in the toilet. But there's not much I
can do. Gotta reach out this guy Walker, and someday

(01:35:04):
I'll be asking Walker for a job. He'll be running
a radio station. I'll be asking for a job. Who Walker. Well,
he's from the very Walker No, no, Walkers is for him.
That's a good radio name. And you know Walker radio guy.
And he's from from San Francisco and he's going to
Washington State. Yeah, that's like the Syracuse of the Pac

(01:35:25):
twelve right, all the radio broadcasters that have come out
of Washing this day. You know, of course, I went
to Saddleback, which is where all I mean legends. I
love lame jokes, lame jokes. Later in the hour and
it turns out that it really is a popularity contest.
We'll get to that. We'll do it next doing it
with so many guys, real, that's a lot of guys.

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(01:36:30):
It really is a popularity contest. We'll get to that
can went up. Also big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
But to the phones we go and Chris in Plainville,
Massachusetts his next. Hello, Chris, you're on Fox. What's up?
Good morning, easiest NBA lay up here being in Boston.
News flash, Celtics do not miss Kyrie Irving and I

(01:36:51):
am very glad he is out of town. Well they
miss him this week though this has not been a
good week for the Celtics. Things are not going well
this week. No Nope, Games called him out and said
having an effort issue in that mister the head coach
there has to address that. So well, they're they're trying
to They're trying to recover Chris from the Hollywood the
holiday hangover, right, all the holiday festivities and all that. Yeah,

(01:37:13):
it's always tough be and second fiddle to Tom Brady
here in Boston. So you know, they need a little love.
But the only way to me Brady stays in Boston,
and I hope he does, is that they he continues
to take a hometown discount. I mean, I think two years,
fifty million total would be um probably sufficed. Now, Christ,

(01:37:33):
do you what do you do for work? Chris? Do
I do? Well? What kind of job you have? Uh? Well,
I work at a golf course. All right. So if
the people that run the golf course came to you,
that's a good job, by the way. But people came
go to the golf course say hey, you know, could
you do a homecount and discount? Because I you know,
a little tough. People aren't playing golf, it's cold, you know,
they're not making a lot of money. So could you

(01:37:54):
would you do a hometown discount at your job? It
depends on what I had for perks? Okay, so if
you got some purse, like what would you what do
Let's make a deal right now, what would you need
to get a hometown discount? What are you looking at? Like?
Really good benefits? What are we looking at? Yeah? I
need all my family members to be able to play
free golf there and unlimited uh you know, access to

(01:38:14):
other amenities. Okay, So and how many family members are
we talking about in my house? Or yeah? Well I
would say you know five? All right, done, I'm gonna
cut your pay seven thousand dollars all right? Yeah? Oh,
look at you, Chris. Yeah, worth more than seven but
that's okay. Um, But anyways, fifteen thousand, then I don't

(01:38:38):
know you'll hire. Yeah, the offensive line needs to be upgraded.
That's the reason why the hometown discovered there's no reason
to bring back Tom Brady unless they upgrade that offensive line.
You can better your off going with Stidham if you're
gonna not spend if you're going to spend money on
the quarterback or whatever, because they've got too many holes
to fill, too many contracts coming up this year. If
they don't upgrade that offensive line, it doesn't make sense

(01:38:58):
to even bring Braided back. I just hope they do,
and he needs to take that discount for it to work,
because I think Belichick can piece together the rest of Now,
would you need a therapy dog if Tom Brady is
wearing a Charger's uniform, I don't think that's gonna happen,
or a Buccaneers uniform or some other I mean, this
is gonna be very traumatic for these Patriot fans. No, no,

(01:39:18):
it's not. It's like say you dated a girl, then
she you know, she had four kids and turned out
fat and ugly, and you're like I had it when
she was awesome. Did you just compare Tom Brady to
a woman with four kids who's fat and ugly? I
believe you did. Look at you, Chris throwing it down?
All right, all right, get out of here and the
hometown discount thing. Like early in my career, I was like, oh, yeah,

(01:39:41):
should take less money. But now as an adult, I'm like, oh,
I don't want to take less of money. Do you
want to take less money at your job for the
same job? No? Hell no? Right, Who's like, I'll give
back some money, you know, I want to. I want
the company to be all right, she get rid of
the salary cap is what they should do in the NFL.
That's what I would advise them. Let's go to Skeeter
in Mondanah. Hello, Skeeter, Good morning, Lester. I'm concerned about

(01:40:09):
one thing that surprise uh uh okay, yeah, because I
talked about the mail. But if you let us know
when you send it, Skeeter, I will go and try
to find it now. Is it is it time sensitive?
Is it gonna blow up? It's better not blow up
because that's no, no, no, no, you'll be surprised. I

(01:40:33):
got come up myself now for you. All right, well,
look at you, Skeeter. You're like Santa Claus. You're sending
this all kinds of stuff. That's very nice thing to say.
Oh no, not that, Skeeter. You know, I don't like
one more thing. It never goes best. All right, thank you, Skeeter.

(01:40:57):
You're like my own personal cheerleader. You now, Skeeter, next
time you call up and say, because I think Skeeter
wanted to be a sound bite, he wants to be
a drop on the show, but you were overmodulated. Skeeters,
next time you call, Skeeter, call back next time, and
then make sure you use your regular voice, because we
can't play a sound bite that is overmodulated, right, my

(01:41:18):
technical director engineer, Yeah, it's not. It's just not gonna work.
It's unfortunate. But I do like the sentiments for a
kind of you to say that blushing a little bit here,
just just a wee bit, just a wee bit. Yeah,
all rights, Ben Maler show. So it really is a
popularity contest. We'll get to that. And we have Big

(01:41:38):
Ben's Lame Jokes of the week. We have so many jokes.
As I've been away for a while, that we okay, yeah,
I think you should use that on the you're planning
on leaving? All right, yeah, we'll press on. You should
tell the sword of that joke is what you should do.
You should tell the solar joke. Yes. Be sure to

(01:41:58):
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(01:42:18):
free rate quote. And so the popularity concients. I have
now figured out, through the magic of doing this show,
that I could get a coach hired. By using Russian bots,
I could we could rig a coaching hire. Did you
see this story going around? It involves Mike Leach and

(01:42:40):
the decision of Mississippi State to hire Mike Leach. There
is a published report that says that Mississippi State and
they're not alone in this. There's some other Power five
teams that have done this that they used a third
party like a head hunting firm. But this is not
a head hunting firm. It's a social media company that
measured the metrics on social media to fan reaction as

(01:43:04):
they leaked different names that could end up coaching at
Mississippi State. And it turned out that Mike Leach did
very well in that metric, and that's one of the
reasons he got the job. Some say it's the main
reason he got the job. It was a popularity contest.
I can put Russian body accounts out there and I
can make some nope, some joke blow number one. How

(01:43:29):
great is that? Who we live in the world now,
you know, there's very few persons I use Twitter all
the time. We use Twitter for the show. We used
to have the Fox text line back in the day,
in the early days of Fox Sports Radio, where people
would text in, and we got rid of that. So
we use Twitter now kind of as the text line
mostly during the show. But a very small percentage of
people are on Twitter compared to like the real world, right,
and there's a lot of people listen to the show

(01:43:50):
that never go on Twitter And don't understand why I
say Twitter so much. But it's amusing to me that
big businesses would use Twitter as the tool to determine
who to hire and who not the all right's been
out the show on Fox. Let's get the funny bone
out right now here we go. Funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny,
knock knock. Who's the blame week? Blame week too? It's

(01:44:12):
Big bands lame joke of the week. That it is
Big Man's lame jokes a week he and every weekend
about this time unless I'm away, and we will read
the jokes he is are actual jokes sending by actual listeners.
I was a little concerned because I've been away for
a couple of weeks. I was worried that we might
lose some of the joke riders. But now they're all back.
They're all back, They're lined up, they're ready to go.

(01:44:33):
Are unpaid, underappreciated joke writing staff guys all over the country.
A lot of guys in Iowa, Minnesota, a lot of
funny people there. California we do very well. Ohio. Some
of the states that start writing the lame jokes. Tennessee
another one. All right, so I'll read the joke. I'll
bounce it off Eddie, He'll bounce it back to me. Blah.
Blah blahlah, Roberto will do his thing over there, and

(01:44:56):
a weed Man? Are you there? We been? Now? They
don't want me to put you on the air, so
but I got I kind of want to. Are you okay?
Weed Man? Is he gone? Wow? I don't hear him?
Is he pot it up? Yep? Oh wow? Did he
fall asleep? You think, weed Man? So if you wanted
a weed Man free edition of jokes, well maybe he'll

(01:45:17):
call back. Maybe not, though, if you're lucky, let's get
to it. Here we go, Big Man's lamb jokes of
the week. The Dallas Cowboys have set the NFL back
more than sixty years, Eddie? How they do that? They're
reverting back to McCarthyism. That's right, that's for manic Mike
who sent that one in? Why is one of OJ
Simpson's New Year's resolutions to get a sleep number bed

(01:45:39):
because he wants to make you happy? But no, Yeah,
I heard that sleep numbers stores are having New Year's
sales and slashing prices, so it's a buzzword. OJ heard that.
He's like, I'm in sign me up for that, all right? Besides,
this is one I would have given to Coop. But
he's not here besides New York City? Where else on
New Year's Eve? Was they're a lone ball drop? I

(01:46:03):
don't know Lance Armstrong's house, Gary from Youngstown. Yeah, you
can goof on Lance Armstrong. He's a punk and a
loser in a scumbag. Let's see what else do we have?
What does a Jedi do when he is constipated? Um
uses the force? Oh? Thank you. You've heard that joke
a million times as I have. I'm rand though thought

(01:46:24):
it would it would be funny. Here's another classic. This
is from Gordon in Tacoma. I met Gordon. He's a
good guy. Who is Monica Lewinsky's favorite college football player?
I don't know. Oh you don't know that one? Ha ha.
Clinton Dix is the answer. There there you go, all right,
very nice. Why don't fisherman complain about the lack of

(01:46:46):
Wi Fi up in the mountains? Fisherman in the mountains,
I don't know, because they're always live streaming. That's why.
So Surfer Todd the comedian sent that one in and
thank you for that. What else do we have here?
What does skull stand for? Eddie? Oh? My wife asked
me that same question. What does it stand for Saints?

(01:47:06):
Keep on losing? Is actually what it stands for? After
the game rash, So I'm ran again. Why should Tom
Brady come to SoCal? I don't know. Why should you
come here so Giselle can charge it? No? Should I
give im? Will give credit to that? All right? Jamis
Winston was in a very grumpy mood during his exit

(01:47:28):
interview with the Buccaneers. Eddie was all right. Yeah, reports
say Winston was crabby from Cowboy and Windsor sending with
another new email address, Cowboy and Windsor. Did you know
that the Lakers Anthony Davis has some new bling around
his neck? I was unaware of that. Yeah. After this week,
the Laker training staff got him a life alert button.

(01:47:51):
So he just hits that button right there. He's good
at guts, Gary and Youngstown. See here, I don't know
a phone or read that. Oh, this is actually kind
of an interesting story. So a woman addicted to eating
baby powder wants other people to know they're not alone.
We talk, We talked about this thing. Yeah, yeah, unfortunately Eddie,
she doesn't want to talk about it. Come on, you guys, Yeah,

(01:48:16):
that's funny. Come on, I mean, what are we doing.
You want some David Stern jokes? Or is it too soon? Um?
You can throw it in there. Okay? What will be
the first thing listed on David Stern's funeral program? I
don't know, Patrick Ewing right there from World? Where will
the surviving family members of David Stern sit at the funeral?

(01:48:40):
I don't know behind Patrick Ewing actually Kurt from Earth there?
And when was the exact moment that David Stern realized
that he was in hell? Oh my god, I don't
know when he saw everyone wearing Sacramento Kings jerseys and
we kid because we care. I actually like David Ston

(01:49:01):
a lot scary in Youngstown. We had a bunch more,
but I edited them out. We will pause for the cause,
as they say, and we will continue Big Man's lame jokes.
So we'll see if weed Man calls in. I see
his name there, maybe he's called back. We'll get to
that and we will do it next. Be sure to
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back to jokes we go. I guess Weed mall you there,

(01:49:43):
Weed Man? Hey, Ben. Then your station is given away
a thousand dollars an hour, and then they make it
a million dollars an hour, and Lisa said to me
away a million dollars an hour. Well you know that,
all right, nobody cares. What do you call a drone
Reich of an Iranian general? I don't know, an economic

(01:50:03):
boom and it's just Josh, you sent that one in. Oh,
it turns out the Iranian general was standing under the
missiletoe Eddie. Yeah he got the uh he got the
drone kiss of death there apparently from the missus Kurt
from Earth. I cleaned that up a little bit. Uh.
I think guy's lamb jokes. What's the difference between Danica

(01:50:25):
Patrick and the Ben Maller Show. Oh, we haven't had
a danik A joke in a while. Yeah, what's the
difference well, the Ben Maller Show actually got Lee the lap.
This week's where we lead lead lap? No, all right's
joshn't that one in? Why does Hollowing James keep falling
asleep before he gets on the air. I don't know
why he's calling from a sleep number. Bet of course, Eddie,

(01:50:47):
that's why. That's from Matt the Warrior Rador as fan.
What was Angry Bill's favorite part of Christmas? You tell
me putting up the white Christmas lights? He really enjoyed that.
That was his favorite. So Eric and Iowa? Who sent
that one? Weed Man's back? How did Marcel have an
international celebration on New Year's Eve? We're talking about Marcel

(01:51:08):
and Brooklyn. Of course, I don't know how did he
do that? He went to I hop Eddie is what
he did. He went to I Hoping. Eric and Iowa again,
keep battling there, Erica, what record did Marcel in Brooklyn break?
I have no idea longest time spent in a coma
from nineteen twelve to twenty nineteen, shout out, shout out Titanic.

(01:51:34):
That was from Medley in Louisville, Kentucky. He's a funny guy.
What's the difference between Justin and Cincinnati and Jerry Jones.
That's a good question. Once Jerry Jones still has a
job after picking up the wrong stiff, that's good. That's
Gordon to coma, not that funny. What do Ice and

(01:51:54):
Jonas Knox have in common? That's a good inserting question.
I don't know what do they have a common? They
have been chased you seeing Mexicans for years, Eddie for years?
Bill the only one? Okay, what's louder than hollering James?
I don't know what's louder, sleeping James or snoring James.
Bill from said that one. And why why can't blind

(01:52:17):
Scott go skydiving anymore? I don't know. Why can't you
do that? Because it scares the hell out of Cramer.
That's why Ernie the Great o finer. Yeah, blind Scott's
got a medical condition. I don't know if he said
it on Twitter, so I don't know if I should. Yeah,
I said, why don't you call? He said he might
call if he was filling up to it. I guess

(01:52:37):
he's not. When Justin Cooper is at home getting high,
why does he always use the dead boat? I don't
know why he likes to be locked and loaded Eddie Surfer.
Todd the Comedian sent that one in It's Big Ben's
Lame Jokes. Louis, what's better than a fathead of me? Eddie?

(01:52:58):
I don't know what could be better than a fat
wallet of me? That would be? That would be? Don't
say that. I'm gonna hang up on your ass. That
was from Eke and Rosu in Minnesota. What does an
iPhone five s and this show's producer have in common?
I don't know. Both rarely answer calls and barely work
at all. That's from Matt the Warrior, raid A's fan.

(01:53:22):
We sent that one in its Big Band's Lame Jokes
of the Week. We had a couple of jokes that
came in late. Normally I don't allow these on the air.
Here's a classic tiger Woods joke from Jeffrey. Why do
tiger woods and baby what? What do baby? What do
tiger woods and baby seals have in common? Here? You?
I don't know? They both get clubbed by Scandinavians. All right,

(01:53:48):
let's see here, very nice. Why does weed man want
to move to Mississippi? I don't know why he heard
that they hire leeches in them in Mississippi. Mann, that's
true man. Mike shent that one in. What was what

(01:54:08):
was Coop and weed Man's favorite ball game this year?
I don't know what the weed ball They loved it.
They couldn't get Eric and Iowa? Who sent that one in?
It's big Man's lame jokes of the week. What did
the peloton say to weed Man, hippie? I don't know
what it's say? Just like your life, this ride is
going nowhere? George, George and Rochester, Minnesota. What do Wade

(01:54:36):
Phillips and weed Man's kid have in common? Weed Man
as a kid, I don't know. Yeah, he goes to Georgetown, George.
That's a real school. Who knew? I guess the apple
does fall far from the tree. Uh. The answer is
the dads are both bums, says the answer. That's Eric

(01:54:56):
and Iowa sent that one in. Did you know some
of weed Man's home was ripped away? It was a
really sad story over the holidays. I didn't hear that. Yeah,
a couple of hoboes needed to make a cardboard sign,
so they tore off the back of weed Man's home
and it was it was pretty It's pretty devastating. It
was pretty devastated. It absolutely was. It's Big Bend's lame

(01:55:19):
jokes a week. Let's just get to the closer. Already,
here we go, you're ready for the closer. Here it is,
Here we go. Everyone's what did the Houston Astros dugout,
Wilt Chamberlain's bed and JFK's limo have in common? Wow?
Could you repeat that? Yes, Houston Astros dug out, Wilt
Chamberlain's bed and JFK's limo. What are they have in common?

(01:55:42):
I don't know. Tell me they are all the sites
of multiple bangs bank bang. There it is. That's what
Matthnew Warrior Rayer ays fan lame jokes of the week,
and only limited interruption from weed Man Hippie because he
for some reason wasn't on hold. But thanks to all
the joke riders. If you want to send a joke,

(01:56:04):
if you think you're funny, send it to my email
Ben Maller's show. Make sure the show's in there at
gmail dot com. Put jokes in the headlines and we
might use it on there. There's a lot of jokes
we use. Obviously there's something we don't I think we
got like thirty five jokes today. I left a lot out.
I should have left several others I used out of
the show. But yeah, we love the jokes and racist

(01:56:24):
jokes too. Well yeah, well of quit. You had that,
but you didn't use it, Roberto. That'll be in the
fifth hour, right. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
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(01:56:47):
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Just visit geitko dot com. So it's a divisional round

(01:57:10):
of the NFL playoffs. We are excited about that, mildly
excited about that. And as I like to do at
least once a day, and this, You're so lucky that
this is the hour I do. I mean, you are
so blessed. How lucky are you? This is amazing? This
is a dream come true? Right, it's not a dream
come true. All right. Well, we're gonna take a look

(01:57:30):
at the games on the NFL schedule, and I like
to look at the gambling market and I like to
take a look at it and see where people are betting.
Where is the money, follow the money, as they say,
So the Ravens and the forty nine, the Ravens and
the Titans. Rather, that's the Earth the Lake game. We'll

(01:57:51):
start with that, Ravens and Titans the Lake Game. The
Ravens opened a nine and a half point favor there's
still at nine and a half, and the money is
starting to go up now. And the money was even
pretty even when we recorded Benny Versus the Penny of
the podcast, which is up right now on iHeart and
Apple and all where you get podcasts. But the money's

(01:58:12):
starting to skew in favor of the Baltimore Ravens, and
it's it's going pretty pretty high. It's close to seventy
percent now, so that a couple of days ago it
was much closer, much more Even then, you got to
forty nine ers in the early game and they're taking
on the Vikings on Saturday. Niners open an eight point
favorite at home. They are favored by seven right now,

(01:58:36):
and the money is more more even, at least the
numbers I have on this particular game. People excited about
the Vikings. Some people excited about the Vikings because, hey,
they actually beat a team on the road in the
playoffs and beat the Saints, who a lot of a
lot of the geniuses had the Saints going all the

(01:58:57):
way to the super Bowl. How did that work out? Well,
it didn't work out very well. It did not work
out very well. But as far as that game is concerned,
the money, the number of bets pretty even. The forty
nine ers are getting more of the money now. The
Divisional playoffs on Sunday, the early game the Chiefs and

(01:59:17):
the Texans, and that's a nine and a half point
spread in favor of Kansas City. The Chiefs opened a
touchdown favorite. This is really close as far as where
the money is a slight lean to Kansas City, but
it's pretty close. And then you got the Packers and
the Seahawks and that game at Lambo Field, and you're

(01:59:38):
going to dig up the snow on Sunday morning. If
you're in Green Bay or Milwaukee or anywhere in Wisconsin,
you want to drive up to Green Bay. You like
twelve bucks an hour shoveling snow. You gotta be there
at six in the morning, and you can. You don't
get a ticket of the game. But yeah, anyway, the Packers,
who are four and a half point favorite. It's actually Seattle,

(01:59:58):
which is the popular pick by popular people. The Seahawks
as a live rude dog. Let the dogs. I don't
need a can't. I want to know is what I want. Anyway,
So we move on from that with that as the
backdrop as we await the football closed season, we have
seen a player who has been celebrated for getting hurt

(02:00:23):
and how he got hurt. I don't know if he
saw this we talked about a little bit earlier, but
we'll get into it more here. The NFL's chief medical
officer has called Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz heroic for what
what did he do? Did he save child from a
burning building? Like that Agalar guy? Remember the Aglar guy.

(02:00:44):
They were dropping babies out of the building. Unlike Aglar.
We caught him. Yeah, no, that he didn't save anybody
out of a burning building? Did he did he help
a damsel in distress? No? Carson Wentz did not do that.
He's being celebrated by the chief Medical officer of the
National Football League for reporting a concussion. That's right, reporting

(02:01:06):
a concussion during the playoff game with the Eagles lost,
and the guy disputing the notion that the NFL system
failed the Eagles and all that stuff. Of course he's
of course he's gonna say that Wentz was injured when
Jadevi and Clowney hit him in the helmet to helmet
collision in the first court hidden from behind. Now, the

(02:01:27):
NFL doctor says that he wants Carson Wentz to be
highlighted and use as a shining example, if you will,
for doing the right thing, doing the right thing. I'm
guessing some Eagle players, coaches, and a lot of fans
feel much differently, like they would have liked if he

(02:01:47):
had pretended to be okay and played. But I know
that's not politically correct. You're not supposed to say that.
I know you're supposed to say what a great guy
Carson Wentz is and all night, I got it. Then
you have the curious case of former Eagles defend some
lineman Chris Long, who has a lot to say it
sounds like he's trying to get a TV job like
his dad. He circled the wagons to support his former teammate,

(02:02:10):
now Long defending Carson Wentz from a media firestorm. A
lot of people like myself calling Carson Wentz injury prone. Well,
that that pressed a button for Chris Long. And here's
how we don't have apparently we don't have all right, brushing,
that's a bad job by you. Anyway, Chris Long went

(02:02:30):
on a rant. He said, I just think it was
kind of a cheap shot and a short cut for
media members trying to make Hay. Long said of calling
Carson Wayne's injury prone, and then he waxed poetic. If
you two are we have it. I was doing a
pretty good job. All right, let's play it. Here we go.
I just think it was kind of a cheap shot

(02:02:51):
and a shortcut for media members trying to make Hay
you know, down talking a dude who just got drilled
in the back of the head with only the ground
to stop the force by a two hundred and eighty
pound man. And some of them played, and I think
some of the guys that played should be ashamed of themselves, because,
you know, you talk about a guy's battle back from
injuries carried the team the last month this season, and
bring up a pattern of injuries. Sure, Carson has an

(02:03:13):
injury history, but that concussion has nothing to do with
any pattern. All right, so let's discuss the question. Is
it a cheap shot to call Carson Wentz injury prone? No,
it would be disingenuous to say anything else. Now my take,
You've got renting a room, dingle Berry and Jimmy Rowlins.
Not to lead off. I understand that tribalism is alive

(02:03:37):
and well in the Delaware Valley, but they are putting
eight men in the box trying to defend Carson Wentz.
All right, stop. We believe in truth and broadcasting. When
the legend becomes the fact, to print the legend the legend,
shout out liberty vallence. The legend of Carson wentz career
arc has been it has been changed because of his

(02:03:58):
body failing him. It's not my opinion, it's a fact.
Wentz has been renting a room. But he's been renting
a room, not at a swanky hotel. He's been renting
a room in the injury tent is what he has
been doing. And my evidence. We've talked about this a
lot since college at North Dakota State. Broken wrist, he
had that in college, Haroline rib fracture, torn ACL injured back.

(02:04:21):
Now you can put concussion on there. Furthermore, Chris Long
is simply being a good ex teammate. Right stand by
your man. I'm supposed to do. He is part of
the fraternity of now former NFL players. You're not supposed
to rock the boat. This is a brotherhood. And Chris Long,
to me, he sounded like a dingle Berry is what

(02:04:44):
he sounded like. The Only person who should be ashamed
of themselves in this conversation is Long. The postseason was
supposed to be what for Carson Wentz his coming out party.
This was supposed to be where Carson Wentz said, Yeah,
I might have been hurt and missed the Eagle Super
Bowl around a couple years and we didn't make the
playoffs last year, but this has gott obey the year.
But they didn't make the plus he didn't play, they

(02:05:05):
get hurt again. But the point is this is that
this was supposed to be the opportunity for Carson Wentz
to pump his chest out and say look at me, right,
look at me. And instead he got injured. He didn't
even make it through the first quarter of the game.
He attempted four passes, completed one of them. Now, for
those that say they hit by Jadevion Clowney was dirty,

(02:05:27):
He's a dirty dog. Didn't look like that on my TV.
Did you see what Doug Peterson had to say, the
Eagles coach, He said that Clowne sit on Carson Wentz
was part of the game. You know what, that's the
right answer, that's the grown up answer. Does it suck
for the Eagles? Absolutely, However it happens. It happens all
the time. Now the last thing here, so Carson Wentz

(02:05:49):
is going to have to do some soul searching, a
little bit of self examination in the off season. Now,
my advice to the Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz is to
bring in Jimmy Rollins and put him on the payroll. Now,
Jimmy Rollins, if you don't know, he wont an MVP
in Philly as a shortstop for the Fighting Fills back
when they won the World Series. Now, why would you
hire Jimmy Rollins if you're a football player, Because the

(02:06:12):
former Philly Star can teach Carson Wentz the art of sliding.
And the one thing this dumb, dumb Chris Long forgot
is the reason you can blame Carson Wentz for the
injury is because that slide led directly to the injury. Right,
he pulled off a clumsy first You know, it wasn't

(02:06:33):
head first, but it was. It was the wish he
was kind of head first like Pete Rose kind of
back in the day. If Winz had done the traditional
feat first slide, he would not have been contacted in
the head by Jadevi and Clowney, and his eyeballs would
not have been knocked a little bit goofy, as the
old line goes back in the day. Now, I want
to Chris Long in particular, he says Carson Wentz is

(02:06:56):
getting a bad rap right, says he's getting bad injury
own means you get injured a lot and can be injured,
you know, on a regular basy like three times. I
think in four years Carson Wentz and Philly has been injured.
That does qualify as injury prone. Now, it's possible that
the concussion was Buzzard's luck. Even though he slid poorly

(02:07:20):
and that led to the concussion. It's possible that this
bad luck and he's also injury prone. These things are
not mutually exclusive. Both can be true now until proven otherwise.
As we said earlier in the week, this tag of
injury prone is going to continue to be a personal
burden for Carson Wentz. And it's something the Eagles or

(02:07:43):
they're not gonna say, Wow, we're not worried about it.
We believe in Carson Wentz. Players get hurt in football.
But in the back of their head, everyone associated with
the Eagles organization, every one of them is thinking, wait
a minute, what do we have here? Can we trust
this guy? Is he gonna get hurt every single year?
I mean, what are you doing here? And so the
Eagles are gonna have to continue with that extra cautious

(02:08:07):
approach and be very vigilant with Carson Wentz. You cannot
avoid the Komodo dragon in the room. Cannot do it,
cannot do it. All right, So Bett Maller's show on Fox.
I assume Skeeter called back because he wants to do
a proper sound. But all right, Skeeter, you would like
to be a drop on the show? Is that correct? Skeeter. Yes,

(02:08:30):
and another thing, yes to you. All right, we'll deal
with that next week. Don't mail it until next week, okay, okay, yeah,
are you? Are you? Is the Pony Express going to
be delivering it? Wow? I'm regular? Okay, guys, all right,

(02:08:51):
so let's try this quickly. I understand right now talking
your regular inside voice, Skeeter, not your outside voice. Inside voice.
All right, and and try let's try again. Here we
go three two, one go matters the best. Then there's
the rest. Oh you send it almost too mellow. You

(02:09:11):
can crank it up a couple of notches. Try to
get crank it up a couple of notches. Mars the best.
There's the rest. Reb that'll work right, all right, thank you, Skeeter.
All right, yeah, all right, I'm very respectful, mister Maller.
No one ever calls me. Let's say hello to a

(02:09:35):
man who is killed. He's got more kills than anybody.
I'm talking about roaches. Helmet man from the Roach Motel, Hello,
helmet man. Hop morning, there it is hellmer Man, the
pride of Baltimore, Maryland, but not a Ravens fan. Right yeah,
and I'm I'm Titans are going down there. Wait wait wait, wait,

(02:09:57):
wait wait wait, I'll fell sleep. Wait Helmet man, you're
not You're now cheering for the Ravens. Yeah, I've said
the Titans are going down. But Helmet Man, when the
Ravens were you live in La Helmet Man, when the
ra when the Ravens played the Rams, you went to
that game? Who did you root for in that game?
I rooted for the Ravens. No, you said no. Wait

(02:10:20):
is this the Twilight Zone? Are we in a parallel dimension?
You called up and said you were rooting for the
Rams because you live in La Now, yeah, I'm talking
about the Charger game. I'm confused. Let's go to our translator,
Eddie Garcia. Eddie, what does he mean by this? I
don't know. He said he wore Rams paraphernalia when he

(02:10:42):
went to the Rams Ravens game. Yes, he said that
on the live air. Yeah I did. I'm talking about
when they were out here the year before. Okay, I'm confused.
So you just you're like a kaleidoscope every year you change. No,
I went this year. I went through the collar right

(02:11:02):
because I told you I went to the media area,
and are you trying to mess with my head. You're
trying to mess with my head, aren't you. No, I
went to Gate fourteen. You're trying to You're trying to
mind f me is what you're trying to do all
right now. And you're now a Ravens fan, even though
when you had a chance to see the team in
person and they they kicked the ass of the Rams,

(02:11:26):
you were a Ram fan. Yeah, but I'm seeing all
the people jumping on the Ravens bandwagon. They was buying
all the Ravens stuff. So you were like, I want
to I want in on that. I want a piece
of that action. I would like to be on the
Ravens bandwagon. So you're back on the bandway. Well, more importantly,
people want to know, helmet man, how many roaches have
you killed this week? Oh? When I was eating some cereal,

(02:11:51):
I thought it was some uh like a nut in it.
You're lying, you're making that that's not your No, No,
you ate a roach. No. I thought when you saw

(02:12:14):
it was it was it alive or dead? Well, when
I took it out with another spoon, it was moving.
Oh God, God, sweet baby Jeese, No way, come on,
no Eddy, he had a roach. It is cereal? What

(02:12:36):
kind of cereal. Wait, wait, what kind of cereal was it?
It was a it was an organic one. Uh you're
eating or d apple? No apple, cranberry? Uh centnament cereal.
It was an organic one, organic cranberry. Roaches, Stay away

(02:12:56):
with that. Let's stay away from that organic cereal. Man,
That is gonna kick you in the ass. Everything. Well,
that's maybe the greatest thing you've ever said on radio,
Helmet Man. I would never eat again if I was you.
And I went in to get some cereal and there
was a roach crawling around my cereal. I had it
a vanilla almond milk. I put it. Well, that's fine.

(02:13:17):
As long as you had vanilla almond milk, you can
eat a few roaches, you know. No. I took it
out and I took another bowl and get it. But
was it the same bag of cereal? Did you throw
the cereal out or like? Does that work? Oh? I
thought it in the trash? Oh good, all right, Well

(02:13:39):
that thank goodness for that. The hood roaches are very
happy to get it. You might. You know, I don't
want to tell you what you might, helmet man, and
I don't want to speak. I know you don't have
a ton of money. But you might want to invest
in some you know, some someone to come kill the roaches.
You know. Well, I don't want to use disinfected. I

(02:14:01):
want to use something else. How's that working. No, I'm
trying to get something like some moth balls or this
just gets better at it. I don't think the moth
balls are gonna work on roaches. Want well, how you
get rid of them? Kill them with poison? I I

(02:14:22):
don't know. The worst is the flying roaches. Are your
roaches flying? No? Good? I was, I was, I was
in Hawaii. They flying roaches. It's scared the hell I've seen.
I've seen one clam on my bed. That's a drop number.
That's a no, not a sleeping the roaches do no, no, no,
all right, say I gotta go, helmet I could talk

(02:14:44):
to you all the all morning, but I must move on.
I love your helmet man. Come come see us in
twenty twenty, helmet man. Yeah, oh I will. Yeah. Good
for your trip, for your trip, Oh thank you. Yeah.
I had a good trip in Seattle. Was fun. I
thank you, helmet man. Ben. I want to talk with you.
That is literally a scene out of a horror movie.

(02:15:05):
Will you go to get a bowl of cereal and
there's a roach crawling around. Wow, we will press on.
We'll check in with our friend in Brooklyn. Also, we
will have Balderdash later in the hour, and a shadow
government will work that in as well. We'll get to
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(02:16:14):
in months, and the first thing I hear when I
turn on the radio is roaches in cereal? Is the
first thing? Well, yeah, we haven't missed a beat. We
have not missed a beat. Robin Vegas says helmet Man.
How do you get rid of roaches? Answer, Robin Vegas,
move would be the answer. Gumby Dave in Florida's his

(02:16:37):
helmet man and roaches in his cereals. So he must
have been eating wheaties, is his answer. There, let's see
you can't read that on the air. We'll skip over that.
Justin and Cincinnati says, so helmet man found a roach
in his cereal. And in other news, the Buffalo Bills
found a roach as their quarterback's indirect shot at Robbie

(02:16:58):
the Josh Allen fan an Mike in Nashville says, helmet
man needs to get some roach bait traps and clean
his freaking house. The roaches are attracted to fifth is
what man? What's your being too serious? Mannick Mike. I
don't think he was kidding though, Like I've met helmet
Man a few times over the years, and he doesn't

(02:17:18):
normally kid about Like, I don't think that was a joke.
I think he really went to get cereal and there
was a roach crawling around, a little critter. Yeah, I
don't think he was kidding. Wow, it's wild. All right
till the phones we go Sean in Reno, Hello, Sean, Hello,

(02:17:41):
do you want to get on the air? Ye? All right,
let's see. Let's see we can make that happy. Can
we make that happen a week? Yeah, let's let's go.
Let's do it. Let's try this year. Can we get
a little more energy? Hen? All right, that's not a
little more than that? Hausey, All right, let's try this
again from the top. Yes. Three. Let's go to Sean
in Reno. Hello, Sean. Hey, Then, and I just agree

(02:18:09):
with the whole okay, So what do you possibly disagree with?
Because I'm looking at the play here. He's going forward.
He's not sliding feet first, He's going forward, and that
is absolutely true. But there is an absolute intention, No,

(02:18:29):
not at all, because the NFL hasn't to my knowledge,
punished Clowney yet. Right, he hasn't been even fined for
that fun But if you look at it, I mean
him or not? What do you what do you think
when someone leaps that there I mean, you really think
that j Deevi and Clowney when he has that kind

(02:18:52):
of body control, he should be like a gymnast or
something like that. Does he not turnis to the side
and lean. That's well, it's not I don't know's it's
it's grown ups. It's not college. It's adults in the NFL.
So but all right, we disagree. All right, thank you.

(02:19:13):
I'm you're a big fan. Thank you. I mean, what
do you want me to do? I'm looking at the
I mean Eagle fans are wearing as I get this
dope Kobe who's like very upset and all that stuff.
He says, I'm convinced you didn't even watch the Seahawks
Eagles game. All these guys are wearing Eagle colored glasses,
these fanboys of the Eagles. Is tribalism? Just admit your

(02:19:33):
guy screwed up. Just admit it and move on. Clowney
didn't do anything illegal speaking about Kobe, Yes, isn't Joel
and be a softie? You didn't Kobe had the same
injury and played the whole season. Anything to praise Kobe
Bryant from Roberto who's wearing his Laker hat. You have
like seven different Laker hats. I have like one Clipper
hat on ram hat. I'm not I'm I'm gonna stops,

(02:19:57):
are you? Yeah? All right? Expensive man? Yeah, I have
a Lid's card. But even with that, it's still expensive.
It is pricing. Have you tried going to the Chinese
market to buy a merchandise? Uh? No, No, I shouldn't
do that because it's illegal. Not do that. The local
the local park where my father in law plays Basebather's
the guy always telling your hats that look just like

(02:20:19):
the one you have and a lot cheaper. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm gonna go that way. There you go. Yeah, then
then a few people will shame you, say, well those
stowing authentic. You know it's authentic. It is, okay, so
it's probably stolen. Yeah, yeah, all right, it's that The
Ben Maller Show on Fox. Be sure to catch live

(02:20:40):
iHeart Radio app. Alright, Ben Mallers Show. A lot of
people real I'm still getting this is a great thing
about this show. And I've I've tell my bosses is
all you know I do this that this ran about
car Now. We had a guy call up upset about
Carson Wentz and a guy on Twitter was upset. But
it has been overwhelming the real time feedback that we get.

(02:21:00):
The cool thing about radio on podcasting is you get
real time feedback from people who are listening to the
show as we're doing the show, and everyone wants to
talk about roaches. Everyone's going on finding roach of you know,
memes and all that stuff. It's crazy, absolutely crazy. Aussie
the Dog says, Ben, one more thing. I am a
p one for over a year now, listening every night

(02:21:23):
on delay as I travel across Alligator Alley. Oh he's
he's in South South Florida. Well, thank you. I've driven
across Alligator Alley when I wasn't going to I went
to spring training years ago in the Grapefruit League. There
you go, Aussie the Dog. Let's go to Brooklyn. And
before we go to Brooklyn and talk to Marcel, if

(02:21:43):
you want to play balder Nash call right now. I
need two people for Balda Dash eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. Operators are standing by. When I say
operators and I say standing by, He's really, Ryan burshing,
you're sitting keep trying. Ryan, the man that got the
Fox Radio Twitter account locked because he used the wrong password?

(02:22:04):
Is standing by? Yes? Or sitting by? That's right? I
am here? Everything good? Yes? Oh? Yeah, how the show
has been so far? I think it's been a strong one.
I really do. Have you ever had a roach infestation? No?
I have not. I have had one cockroach in an
apartment in my life. Have you ever seen flying roaches? No? No,

(02:22:25):
and that the thought of it terrifies me. Yes. I
was in Hawaii a few years ago and there were
some roaches in the kitchen, like on the floor, right,
and so I went over to, you know, kill him
with my foot and the thing when when I got
close to it, it started flying. I thought, what is
this like the twy? I mean it was a horror
movie or something like that. Is that it was a

(02:22:46):
big one too? It was a big old roach. Yeah, oh,
the big old water bugs. Yeah. Let's go to Marcel
in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel, Eddie, were Bertel and Ryan in
for Coop. It's a good morning. It's a good morning.
T minus four. So the College National Football Championship, the

(02:23:09):
Tigers of the South number one Clemson taking on number
three LSU Monday in New Orleans, home of the Pelicans
and the Saints. I have heard about. Have you ever
been to Louisiana? I don't think so. Okay you not.
You might have forgotten. You're a world traveler. I know,
I know it. Hey, it is a new dawn, it

(02:23:33):
is a new day. We're getting you ready for the
big sports action for the weekend. So mala militia. Let's
get into X with our foot picks this morning. All right.
So I'm trying to you've thrown me off a little
bit in twenty twenty. I understand. I'm gonna go chef Boyard. Okay,

(02:23:55):
I'm chef board Eddie. Oodles of noodles, Hoodles and noodles, Roberto.
What do you think our guy here, Marcel and Brooklyn
had to eat? Let's play foot picks? Uh, trust a
Gordon fisher Man. Oh that's a good one. That's one
of the earlier ones. You have not eaten that in

(02:24:17):
a while. That's a good call by you. Maybe Uncle
Dynamite brought some fish. What about you over there? Keep trying.
Ryan Bershinger shocked it. Yes, pizza, pizza, that's to see.
That's a good choice by you. Pizza is one of
his regular answers. The best food picks we've ever had.
This is so damn competitive. Oh my god. All right,
reveal answers, reveal answers. Okay, that's good to me. And

(02:24:43):
now for my foot picks from last night, just like
Eddie Karen's husbands. But that's a pasta dish kind of
so I had PI. Proud of you, mister Eddie on Fox.
I'm thank you. Now, Marcel, are you going to report
the breaking news? I will have the tablet, will have

(02:25:06):
new one will take place tomorrow, okay, because if you
had your tablet you would be able to report this
big news to I don't know if Marcel saw this,
but the fall of the Roman Empire has taken place,
and it's a I didn't see that one coming, Eddie.
The Roman Empire has fallen. Oh I knew it. I
really knew it. Then, Yes, you did. You are, of course,

(02:25:27):
you're a man of the world. Just fish have Now
the New York Giants have the new football coach. Yeah,
what do you think of that coach? What do you
like to move here in Marcell? Yeah, just like Aaron
Judge not just for the Yankees. But Aaron Judge is

(02:25:47):
a great player. But I'm talking about mister Joe Judge. Okay, now,
can can Joe Judge stay with you? He needs a
place to stay until he finds a home. Can he
stay with you in Brooklyn? Well? I guess yes. Do
you have any do you have any extra French fries, pizza,
oodles and noodles and Chef Boyard for him? I sure

(02:26:08):
am all right, New York Rangers beating the devils in
a battle the Hudson River. Alright, I got Maller Malaysia.
Now my player, player night. All right, here we go?
Are you ready? Here we go? Then come cut it.

(02:26:33):
Congratulations Russell of the Oklahoma City Under, of the Oklahoma
City Under beating the Houston Rockets last night at Martha
Mark Stephany on Twitter. Be sure to follow me right now.
It's right back here. It's like Madonna. There is only
one of Pelee. There's only one name. Russell's like the

(02:26:55):
area play soccer play. The funniest part about what's the
westbrook of the seat? He just said it the other
day and now he can't say it, like what's uphere
that happen. Why will explain that to me? You know
why this is gone off the rails, Eddie. It's a

(02:27:16):
wolf full moon, that's why, right, yeah, we should. We
were warned by Andrea a Virgo and service Wolf full
Moon and it's crazy town. On the show. We had
roaches in in Cereal and this nonsense. I love that.
I tell Marcel that the fall of the Roman Empire

(02:27:36):
just happened last night. He's like, yep, that's right, all right,
We're gonna have balderdash. We'll get to that. What the
hell can go wrong there? And we will do it next.
Also another breaking overnight news while everyone is slapped, the
RMS Titanic has reportedly hit an If I'm under from

(02:27:59):
New York a tragedy, yes, can I get it right? Yeah? Sure.
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(02:28:20):
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We're gonna get the ball to dash in a minute.
I just wanted to mention I should have mentioned this earlier,
but this wild story about Kyle Shanahan, the Niners coach.

(02:28:42):
Did you see? He admitted the Niners actually have a
shadow coaching staff that his old man, Mike Shanahan, the
old Broncos and Raiders coach and Redskins back in the day.
His dad, Mike Shanahan watches forty nine er practices, watch
is all the drills, all and the team meetings from

(02:29:03):
his home in Denver, and then talks to his son
and reviews how his kid coached the team. But that,
I mean, you know, that's nice that your dad was.
I mean, do it yourself, though, right, it's a lot strange, right,
all right, let's get to it. Here we go, And
now it's just what you've been waiting for. It's Ben's

(02:29:27):
balder dash. What the hell is this? Formerly known as
something we're not allowed to say? Hit it all right,
let's do it. Here we go. It's balder Dash brought
you by a discovered card. We treat you like you
to treat you. We have our contestants lined up for
this edition. Oh Balderdash. We say hello to Scott the
cabby who's driving around the Twin Cities. Hello, Scott sat

(02:29:53):
in the Twin Cities. Oh all right, well Ryan almost
jam all right, calm down, cowboy, all right, so cowboy
didn't call, by the way, I know it's no Cowboy today.
Cowboy out of the show, all right. So what's the
cab business like in Duluth? It is slow tonight slow? Yeah?

(02:30:17):
Is it ever busy? Oh yeah? Yeah? All right? Most
lay on the weekends. But you know, you ever had
anybody famous in your cab? Danny Glover? You no way, really,
Danny Glover was in Duluth and you he was in
your cab, Right, that's pretty cool. Did he tip you? Uh?

(02:30:41):
That's kind of a sore subject there, But he didn't
tip you. All right, you're still nicer. We had a
guy the other day. It ripped somebody because they didn't
tip him. All right. Anyway, hold on, and Ben in
New York is gonna play Hello Ben? Yeah, okay, excited?

(02:31:02):
You sound very excited. What part of New York are
you in there? Ben? I'm there, Sarah pas Frans, all right,
what do you do for a living? There? Ben? I'm
unemployed right now, so am I? After this show, I
will be unemployed also, so we have that in common.
All right, Well, I hope you find some work here. Ben.
You sound full of energy. Let's say we got Ben there,

(02:31:22):
we got cab drivers. Scott's goot the cabby in Minnesota.
So the categories are and there you go as follows.
We have the nickname game. This is provided by Justin
and Cincinnati, by the way, the Nickname Game Alumni Association,
and this team originally drafted this player. Where do you
want Scott, you were on first? All right, nickname game.

(02:31:45):
I give you the nickname. You tell me the athlete
it belongs to. I hear some heavy breathing from Ben.
Let's go with Joe Cool for two hundred Joe Cool,
Joe Montana. You gotta say your name. Your name is
your buzz are who said Dad? Scott Scott? What's the
answer that's correct? It's still Joe Montane? All right? Two

(02:32:08):
hundred bucks, four hundred dollars. I give you the nickname
tell me the name of the athlete. Sweetness, sweetness Scott
Walter Baton, correct, boom, the Minister of Defense for six
hundred Scott, Reggie White. That is correct, the Minister of Defense. Ben?

(02:32:32):
Are you Ben? Ben? I'm here. Test your buzzer? Ben? Okay,
good test? Have you ever had any roaches in your cereal? Now? Okay?
I'll what's going on? Eddie? I don't know? I mean,

(02:32:53):
what do we do? Wolf Moon? Yes, the wolf Moon.
That's right. Andrea told us no, she said it's she
gave me the proper name here. I got a yes,
the wild wolf Moon, not just the wolf Moon, the
wild wolf Moon. Yeah, all right, I'll give you that. Oh, okay,
what's the answer, Ben, I don't know. Okay, you're right.

(02:33:17):
The I don't know is the uh the snake? The snake? Scott?
That is correct, Canny stay all right? A thousand dollars
last question category balderdash thanks to Justin and Cincinnati. The
Galloping Ghost Scott Scott. Wow, Scott, you got that. That's impressive.

(02:33:43):
This game's I'm in, and I think you Your competitor
is asleep. Alumni Association. I give you the athlete. You
tell me where they went to college. Two hundred dollars.
Marshawn Lynch, Ben, the University of California. Ben, You're not

(02:34:11):
a dope, all right? Four hundred dollars. Well, all right,
I'll name the athlete. Tell me when they went to college.
Ryan Tannehill. Oh yeah, nobody knows that he was a
receiver in college. Some of the time they were at
Texas A and M all right, here's another tough one.
Six hundred dollars. I'll give you the name of the athlete.

(02:34:31):
Tell me when they went to college. Jimmy Garoppolo. Yeah,
suddenly got the degree of difficulty, went up. Eastern Illinois. Yeah,
all right. Eight hundred dollars. Marquise Hollywood Brown of the Ravens,

(02:34:52):
and we reached a dead end. What shut Yeah, No,
you're wrong. He doesn't matter. St you win the game.
It was Oklahoma. Watch out for the Wolf. The wolves
are howling. Gotta murder, Gotta go. Fox Sports Radio has
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