Scared & Visually Impaired

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We will have coming up in a little bit the
pregame show. We're gonna break format later this hour, our
fight pregame show, so we're gonna the Ben Maller Show
will cease within the first half hour here, and we

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will have pregame coverage of the Verbal Octagon, so we
have that to look forward to. A Buffosco free ride,
sound verbal sparring match and the wagering came to an end.
We'll have an update on that. But I wanted to
start with football and a little hand talk. It's always

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good when you hear men talking about other men's hands. Now,
I did a lot of radio yesterday, much more radio
than I'm doing today, and I think I'm gonna estimate
I've done. This will be my fourth Mallar monologue on
another man's hands. This reminds me of a similar situation.

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It was about hands. It was about feet years ago
when Rex Ryan was with the Jets and we found
out that Rex really really liked toes and feet and
he had a foot fetish. You know, we spent a
lot of time talking about that. There's no question that
was like seven or eight years ago. That was a
while back. But but now we're onto hand talk because

(02:55):
Tom braid, Oh my god, he missed, he missed. Even
now he misspracticed. That is because his throwing hand is damaged.
It's mangled. And by the end of the weekend, by
the time the Patriots kick off the AFC Championship game
in Foxboro with the Jacksonville Jaguarars in town, by the

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time that happens, you will be convinced that Tom Brady's
not only gonna have to have his hand chopped off,
his entire right arm is going to have to be removed,
but the Brady's hand injured. The thumb. He's got an
injured thumb. And the social media most of the early
part of the day was going crazy gaga over photographs

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that showed Tom Brady wearing a glove. Oh he was
wearing a glove. Now was that a TV twelve glove
at practice that he had. Were there electrolytes in the glove?
Maybe it was an avocado glove, Maybe it had to
avocado in it. He was wrapping his hand in avocado.
But this is big news, big, big, big, big, big news. Man,

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oh man, oh man. And so the question, let's talk
about this because why not? You can never you can
never spend enough time talking about it. Now, there are
some people convinced that this is the end of the
Patriots dynasty. Their reign is over, and it's gonna end
because of this. So what is the real story? That's

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the question. Now, I've not changed my position. I have not,
But the question to you is, what's what's really going
on here with the Tom Brady hands story. Now, my
thoughts on this. You've got gamesmanship, circumvent and opportunistic. You
got those three things now, and I'll tie them all together.
Number one, I have a very strong suspicion that the Patriots,

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what they're doing here is milking, milking this for everything
it's worth. Now, I am not saying that the New
England Patriots made up this story that Tom Brady was
involved in a situation where a player hit his hand.
I'm not saying they made it up. What I am
saying is they are making a gigantic mountain the size

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of the Rocky Mountains out of something that is very minor,
a very very minor situation. And if I am correct,
and I always think I am, If I am correct,
here this is a Belichickian move. This is gamesmanship at
its best. Belichick He's been the master, the master of
using all kinds of tactics to gain the psychological advantage.

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Now you say, oh, how is this a psychological advantage,
because you know the Jacksonville players are talking about Wait
a minute, if Brady doesn't play or if he's hurt,
oh my, we got even We got a really good
shot to win this game. We can play Brian Hawyer.
Oh he sucks. Brian Hawyer's terribly changes uniforms every couple
of years. He's got the greatest jersey collection in the world.

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He's a bomb. He's a bomb. So this also adds
a layer of intrigue. It works out well for the
NFL's in their best interests the marketing department of the NFL.
A lot more on this later, but the build up
for this game is essentially nothing. I mean, the Patriots
are big favorites. They should win the game even if

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Tom Brady's not playing great. I mean, I have a
good idea that if Tom Brady's hand was even let's
say it was really mutilated, just mutilated, that we we
likely would have heard about it. There's enough people with
loose lips even around the Patriots, that somebody would be
singing like a canary and would have been yapping about this.
Now it works out as a net positive for the

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Patriots quarterback because he gets to circumvent the media and
he's already missed a couple of days. The only time
Brady has spoken, the last time I should say Brady
has spoken, was on his w EI radio show in Boston.
That's it. He hasn't talked. He was supposed to meet
two days. This didn't do it now number two And

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there's a lot of vagueness to this. There's a lot
of vagueness to this story, and we're on it. We
have a team in depth team coverage here on Fox
Sports Radio Investigators. But the Tom Brady hand, the right hand,
it is getting presidential style media coverage, presidential style media coverage,
which means it's negative and they're going deep. They're going deep. Now.

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One thing that has happened for sure, there is no
doubt about this. There are some opportunistic gamblers that are
seeing a possible weakness and achilles heel for the Patriots,
and they're looking at that weak spot and they are pouncing.
They I try to pounce like a hungry lion, and

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they want to rip the flesh off that point spread
in lost wages and on lay off shore books. Now,
if you're not a gambler, if you haven't heard about this,
the news involving Tom Brady of course going all over
the place, right, this big story this week in the
lead up to the game. The Patriots, who had opened
the day on Thursday a nine point favorite, and then

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when Brady missed practice again and more importantly, when some
very large wagers started coming in on the other side,
that point spread moved and the line moved a point
and a half from nine from the Patriots being favorite
by nine at the beginning, it was nine and a half,
but at nine and now it's down to seven and
a half, so their favorite, but still over a touchdown.

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But the sharp gamblers stepped in and said, wait a minute,
this is an investment opportunity. I could get a team
with a healthy quarterback against the team with a quarterback
who's older and he's injured and all that. I'm gonna
jump on that. And one of the sports books reporting
that they had many big wagers, but they're not super big.

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We usually only talk about like one hundred thousand dollars wages.
These are like twenty thousand, and I have no idea
your financial situation. Twenty thousand bucks a lot of money.
Like I to bet twenty grand on a on a
sporting that's that's a good chunk of change. And so
they got a bunch of these bunch they got a
few of these twenty thousand dollars bets on Jacksonville as

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a live dog, and so the point spread moved down
to seven and a half and all of that money
is moving around changing hands here not because any of
this has been confirmed that Brady is not going to
be able to play at at a high level. It
is just the speculation game. It's it's no different than
the day trader who's looking around trying to find a

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deal on a penny stock or something. I mean, that's
that's essentially what you know Jacksonville is a penny Stock. Now,
every once in a while, a penny stock hits and
and you're doing pretty well, right, penny Stock becomes the
next Amazon or something like that. Doesn't happen very often.
Doesn't happen very often, but some people trying to take
advantage of this with Jacksonville at this point. And the
last thing, the last thing. Now, Tom Brady is in

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a perfect spot this week. And for a couple of reasons.
Number one, Jacksonville's being overhyped. The stories. We'll just we'll
dig deeper in that later, but it's pretty embarrassed what's
going on. But Brady is set up for success here.
Jacksonville has been sliced up against the better quarterbacks that

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they've played here, their defensive numbers. If you look at
the overall pictures the Macro versus the Micro, the Macro,
you're like, that's pretty good the Micro. When you actually
analyze the better quarterbacks they played against, they have not
stopped them as far as that the other teams scoring points.
They won some of those games, but they haven't won
them because they stopped the other team's quarterback. If Tom

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Brady has a malfunction, let's just say he has some
kind of malfunction here, which is very likely. Then very
unlike that should say it's likely he's gonna play well,
but it's unlikely he sucks. But if he does suck,
he's got these mitigating factors where he can say, listen,
it's not me, man, it ain't me. It's not the

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fact that I'm forty. It's my hand, it's my head.
Look at my head. Perfect scapegoat, right, gotta have a
fall guy and all that. Now, that's not gonna be
needed here. I'm very confident in that. But the story
continues to go around, and I would imagine we'll have
another layer of it coming up here on Friday. As

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we get through the day on Friday, that more of
this will come out and and it's bang more big news, big, big,
big news. All right, So the Ben Mallers Show on
Fox on Fox Edmund Dallas, Steamboat, Oily Garcia up. All right, Now,

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we're all very excited about the festivities coming up tonight.
What is the what is the schedule for the I'm
glad you brought that up, Eddie, and I was gonna
get to that. Now there is a buzz in the
air there's an excitement in the building. I was coming
in here, people were slapping high five. It's fight night, Mallard.
We're ready to go. There's there's the cigar smoke in
the air. It's it's exciting, Eddie. It's a big fight.

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When you remember when I would go to big fights
back when I was in mainstream media and they would
actually allow me, the promoters would fly me in for fights,
which happened twenty years ago, and I loved it. And
the scene in Vegas. You know, you got everyone dressed up,
you got the you got the degenerates, you got the
the guys that dressed like pimpas. You got the women
that are, you know, doing their thing, the whole thing, right.
It's just it's wonderful. We've got that kind of vibe

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right now. We've got that now. We actually have some polling,
we're into the pregame show. We've got everything planned out here.
There's a lot of work. We've had several production meetings
throughout the day to make this happen. This is not
a fly by night situation, Eddie. We're not some fly
by night operation. I've had people offer me food. I've

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had people offer me money to be on hold so
they can hear the unedited version, because they have a
feeling of a lot of people saying bad words on
this are combatants, blind Scott and real talk in New York.
They're like, I need to hear the unadded version. You
gotta put me on all I said, well, listen, you
know what you got for. You know, maybe we can
work some time. And they made offers they've been offers

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to and then there's a lot of questioning about the
judging process. Eddie, who will explain it to us? Snatching
the pregame show. Well, let's start that. This is not
the pregame shows. The pregame show start ten minutes, the
pregame shows. The game we're shouting down to the pregame shows.
What we're doing, all right, you ten minutes. It's like
a little Eddie the Christmas Morning wanted to open his presence.

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But no, no, Eddie, you got away a little bit.
H Yeah, I'm sorry. You gotta wait. You gotta do it.
That's the way it works. But I am excited about this,
you know what, I'm not excited about the All Star Game?
Do you see this? NBA? I just want to write
about this. Now, why am I supposed to care about
Lebron James and Steph Court Curry being voted captains of
the NBA All Star Game Because it's different the player.

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Let me tell you something. The players don't give it
after they're pussy Willows. I don't want to watch the
NBA All Star Game on all in on the pussy Willows. Well,
I can't see what I want to say, all right,
because he's idiots stumped me, So I'll say pussy willows there, Okay, listen,
let me tell you something. Uh, the NBA, they should
know what they should do the NBA All Star Game.
They should move it to well, they should move to
Europe or something like that. Torture the Europeans. They should

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make that an international game. That is the most despicable,
disgusting display of supposedly athletic competition. It's for the fans.
It's so PA and the NBA. There's such cancer in
the NBA. It's such a tumor in the NBA that
people who work in the NBA is say, well, we should,
we should. You know, the players should be named the
All Stars and they should all have a big party. No,

(14:39):
you know, play should play a damn game. Play with
some energy. It's some effort. Why is that so hard?
I don't know? Ben? And why? And why did I
get triggered? Because Lebron James and Steph Curry? I see
this all over, this big announcement from the NBA. They're captains.
Who cares? They're gonna sit there and play Patty Whack
with each other? What are you gonna do? I'm sorry,
what are they gonna do? Play what I'm done? Eddie?

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All right? Patti wa Yeah, I'm unfamiliar with that game. Well,
my right hand was getting a work out. It's not
that you've never heard of Patti Watie whack. Yeah, No,
I have never heard of Patty Whack's from a song.
I've never heard of that. No, you have a sheltered life, Eddie.
How do you play? And this is not the place
for that. This is not the place. Just want what

(15:24):
did you want me to say? Give a dog a bone? There?
You god? It's with their dog, Eddie? You play fetch
with their dog? All right? Geez? Now what do we
do on the phone? Now? Should we allow? Should we
we have a screening process? Because I'm telling you, Eddie,
this is the hottest ticket in radio. Everyone wants to

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be the people that can can have access to the
phones to be on hold. Everyone wants to be on
hold for this. I don't know how should we have
only pe ones? Is it first come, first serve? Should
we maybe have a line for newbies? I would say,
you know, you got to hook up your militia, the
senior pe ones, and then we'll have some commentary for them.

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It'll all be in the pregame, all right, we'll get
to that. It's fight night at the bottom of the hour,
So about fifteen minutes from now, Verbal Octagon we'll have
our pregame festivities kicking off. We will have the results.
Who the favorite is. What do we expect to happen
all of that Verbal Octagon night on the Ben Maller Show.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next on The

(16:29):
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now Why from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller and we are just minutes away from the
Verbal Octagon, the first verbal octagon of twenty eighteen. And now,
if you're new to our show, welcome. This is very exciting.

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What a night, Oh my god, what a night you
have decided to tune into the Ben Mathers Show. This
night different than all of the nights because we are
gonna have caller versus caller fisticuffs, verbal fisticuffs here. They'll
be haymakers flying in the air everywhere. And we can't
wait for that because we well on this show. When
one caller has a beef with another call and one

(17:32):
of our regulars, it is decided by the octagon. We
go into the verbal octagon, and eat is a verbal assault.
It's just candy to the ear, is what it is
for you. It's just just absolutely marvelous. We've done this
many times over the years. We don't do it very often.
It's a special event and this happened the last handful

(17:53):
of days. We're gonna have Blind Scott in Boston versus
Real Talk in New York City, that reigning caller of
the Year on the Ben Maller Show versus a previous
caller of the Year from a several years back. Blind
Scott and the Gambling Odds Eddie have been set for this.
Did you see this the gambling odds? Yeah, hundreds and

(18:15):
hundreds of people. This is a public vote, Eddie, with
hundreds of votes the public the bookmaker on this with
Blind Scott versus Real Talk and the verbal Octagon. Now,
I'm gonna start at the bottom. Now, do you know
what the odds are? Have you seen this? You know?
All right? Now, who do you think the favorite is?
Based on our conversations yesterday and his performance yesterday, I'm

(18:36):
gonna say blind Scott goes in as the favorite. That
is correct? And how big a favorite do you think
blind Scott is? Um, I'm gonna say slight favorite, Not
so much. He's actually more than that. He's at plus
plus one fifty, which means the implied chance is about
thirty eight percent, which is pretty good, right, thirty eight
percent is really good. He's the favorite by a thirty

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eight percent vote of the public, so he's got the
pulse of the people on the side of blind Scott
the next highest on the vote setting the odds for
the octagon. And this is with well, this is kind
of embarrassing. Thirty percent, thirty percent of those voting do
not think the fight's gonna happen, Eddie's that's a plus

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three hundred about thirty percent people said they don't think
it's gonna happen. Now with twenty percent, twenty percent of
the people voting think that the fight will happen, but
it will end with a disqualification. That the fight will end,
and they will we won't be able to declare a
legitimate winner. There'll be a disqualification. And then with just
eight plus nine hundred twelve percent chance, Real Talk overwhelming

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underdog in this particular matchup for the public. Here there
that people do not trust real talk. He you know
what real talk that's a value play. That is a
value play with real Talk. You've been on You'll Talk.
You're getting value. Here is what you're doing. Now. I
want to I want to talk to someone. We have
the red carpet here, Eddi. There's a lot of celebrities
coming up on the red carpet. You would expect for

(20:09):
such a big event, and uh man, it's just a
tremendous here. Uh the gold look Josh and Wisconsins. He's
he's got his he's walking, he's wearing gold shoes. Here,
Josh in Wisconsin, he's cashing his golden ticket. You know,
it's big when people are cashing their golden ticket to
be on the red carpet. That's you know what that is.
That's vip. Josh you hello, can I talk? Can Iver?

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Where were you? Josh? Josh? It it's fight night, baby, Yeah,
he's excited. That look, he's excited. What what what kind
of what kind of tuxedo are you wearing? Their? Josh?
What are you? What are you wearing? I've got I've
got my stylish white tuxedo on the night. I got
a big old fat tigar sitting in my mouth. Yeah,
I've got the trunk pulled over and the trunk stuff.

(20:52):
That's all they're talking about inside the Sucker's Lounge is
fight night night. Yeah. And and and you put a
bet down, and you don't have to tell me if
you don't want to. But did you wager on anyone? Hey,
I've got I've got my wiger. All my money is
on real talky Eddie he's betting on the dog. He's
betting on Real Talk here to win the fight. You're

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gonna make a lot of money if Real Talk wins. Josh,
you're gonna Have you seen any other celebrities while you've
been on the red carpet? Josh, No, I haven't seen
anybraes yet. I was the first one to show up.
All you know, you s early bird? Yeah yeah, you
are all right, not fashionably late like somebody else. All right, well,
get back behind the velvet rope. All right, thank you?
All right, there's a Josh all right, yeah, okay, all right,

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you listen. Well he's excited, Eddie. Oh look over, I'll
get that beautiful dress. Tammy in Montanas on the red
car women, Tammy can We haven't worried with you, Tammy.
Where did Tammy go? Oh my god, dammy, she's she
walked in us. I'm sure she'll walk back over here.
She walked away. Let's go to Chris and Houston. Maybe
I can get away with Chris and Houston. Chris, are

(21:58):
you there? Chris? And she's going no, no, no, she
she's talking to entertainment tonight over there. She'll be with
us in a moment. I'm going with real talk, going
underneath the belting in in in the show Man, He's
going unneath the belt. See you are you? You're picking
real talk. He's going underneath the belt. It's not gonna happen, Oh, Eddie, listen, listen.

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There's a lot of real talk noise here on the show,
some late money coming in. That's surprising because the social
media vote was the other way. Who else do we
see on the red carpet here? Let's see, I'm looking around,
aj Aj. Can I have a word with you, aj?
It's the red carpet show for yes, Yes, Excitement, wings

(22:41):
and rings is what I brought tonight. What are you
expecting to see in the octagon? What are you hoping
to see? I put a hundred down ten to one
real talk don't show up. Okay. I put another one
hundred down that blind Scott will keep it all clean
five to one, and I put another Park is going

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to be disqualified, which means blind Scott walks away with
the bells. Wow, all right, so he's going he's going
the other way. He's going with the favorite, He's going
with the chuck. He says, this qualification, Eddie, all right,
thanks Edja, get your seat, gets settled in there, AJ.
But there's a lot of excitement here. Uh oh, look,
Angry Bills. He's got a police officer with him. He's

(23:23):
wearing handcuffs, Angry Bill, can we ever wear with you?
Angry Bill? Sure? Go ahead, yes, Angry Bill. What are
you expecting to see tonight? Angry Bill? I got a
feel in a real talks and a crack. He's gonna
crack too, because blind Scott's gonna talk about his mommy,
his mommy, mommy. All right, all right, Uh I got

(23:44):
next the pair of depends on, so I don't have
to go to the bathroom. Oh that's good. And stay
I've been told by the manager of the ring here
to stay away from the dogs. Can you stay away
from the dogs? Please? Angry Bill? Better stay away from
my bella? All right? Get out? All right? Oh look
that Tammy's done with the entertainment tonight, Tammy. Can you
come over here, Tammy? Can I have a word with you? Tammy? Yes? Ben?

(24:05):
Can I sue on your lap? I'm a married man, Tammy.
I can't. I can't be doing that. Now. What kind
of dress are you wear? That's a beautiful dress? Tammy,
is that what designer is that from? It's a black
lace and it's very very short. Yeah, Coops, I gotta
tell you, Coops staring at you right now, Coop, pervert,
stop Coop. She's she's a lovely woman. Leave her alone.

(24:27):
That there you? Oh, it's okay, I'll take the stairs,
all right, Tammy. Now what are you What are you
expecting tonight? Tammy? What are you expecting? Well, we know
it's not going to be a clean fight, which is
okay because I like things dirty once in a while.
And I just hope that the judging is fair based
on both participants. Yeah, of course it will be fair.
All right, we'll settle in, Tammy. Thank you, all right, Eddie.

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That concludes our pregame festivities, our pre fight festivities. Next up,
we will have the big introductions. The boxers will make
their way into the octagon and they'll have the big introduction.
I don't know who's going to be in each posse.
I have no idea when they make their way into
the ring. Yeah, they're thought. They have songs picked out,
their entry music. The whole thing, man, is this exciting?

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The verbal octagon, the introductions, we will meet the boxers
will get to that right now, though Eddie Garcia is
here with the latest Eddie well Ben. Of course, the
big story is, of course, the verbal octagon, but there
was some other news going on, especially in the NFL,
where Patriots start quarterback Tom Brady did not practice thereis
day because of that hand injury suffered Wednesday and practice now.

(25:31):
X rays on his throwing hand where negative, and he
is expected to play against the Jags. But will he
be limited or not is the question. Rams head coach
Sean McVay selected as the Coach of the Year by
the Pro Football Writers of America. This season was mcbay's
first as a head coach in the NFL and NBA.
Action Rockets beat the Timberwolves one sixteen to ninety eight.
James Harden, back after missing seven games with an injury,

(25:51):
played twenty six minutes at ten points and seven assists
in the win. Sixers down the Celtics in Boston eighty
nine to eighty, although the Celtics did not have start
Kyrie Irving in the wind up due to a sore shoulder,
and the Cavaliers beat the Magic one h four one
h three, but Cleveland barely squeaking by an Orlando team
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NBA of course, announcing that Lebron James and the Cavaliers
steph career. The Warriors is going to be the two
captains to select the All Star Game rosters. Also selected
to the All Star Game out of the Eastern Conference
for Kylie Irving, jhannest Attendakoupo, Damarta Rosen and Jewel Embiid.

(26:37):
Out of the Western Conference is Kevin Durrant, James Harden,
Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins. All right, that's very exciting,
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In says, I think I'm putting my money on real Talk.
Real talk is more turned into new age millennials and
current events. Blind Scott is just a stronger version of
angry Bill Interesting Interesting valls fans Jimmy. Jimmy's very concerned
about he wants to know where the Twitter poll will be.
He wants to know about that. Ivans and Sam, Let's

(27:19):
get it on. Let's get it on, all right, let's
get it on. Here we go, Let's not waste any
more time. Here we go. It's caller versus collar, fistic cuffs,
variable boxing on the radio, no hold fart vocal card
bru ha Ha making his way into the ring, hailing

(27:40):
from the Big Apple, the raining caller of the Year
on the Ben Mallers Show, the self proclaimed the Sofa King.
He's the boss of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Brocks and
Staten Island. A rebel without a cause. He will get
in your face, is what he will do. He's an agitator,

(28:04):
a rabble rousing incomparable to anyone in the cosmos. Is
superpower is getting under the mallard malicious skin, and he's
very good with the ladies. As well. He'll fight dirty,
He'll do whatever it takes to win. Arguably the most
entertaining and annoying caller at the same time in the

(28:25):
history of the show, he does it his way. The
King of the Big Apple, welcome the Ball of Fire
to the ring. Let's hear it for real talk. He's excited.

(28:49):
He's fired off Talk Talk has showed up that so
much for that, He's not gonna show up Talk. You haters,
Screw you all right now. Eddie making his way into
the ring from the mean streets of Boston. A former
Caller of the Year and senior member of the Mallem Militia.

(29:12):
He's been blocked by William Shatner, Kurt Schilling, and endless
bean c and D list celebrities on social media. He's
the boss of the North End, Cambridge, East Boston and
Cape Cod everywhere in between as well. He gives out
terrible stock tips mixed with smoking hot sports takes. Currently
fighting the Mayor of Boston for bigger sidewalks on the

(29:36):
North End. He wants no cars on the North End
of Boston. Rapid fire insults. He's like a human blowtorch,
accompanied by his sidekick Kramer make way for this human dynamo.
Put your heads together for blind Scott, blinded by the light,

(30:06):
wrapped up in the night. Eddie, is he enjoying the music?
Or we got a problem going on? We got a problem, Eddie.
Oh no, he's not here, Eddie, he didn't show up.

(30:27):
I feel like, do we have his number? We can
call him. We've been down this road before, Cooper Loop,
you're producing this. Where is blind Scott? I just did
the introduction that we said what time it was gonna be.
We gotta say what time it was gonna be. Yeah,
we did say what time it was gonna be. Yes.
In fact, Blind Scott even sent me a message a
couple of hours ago asking me what time it was.

(30:47):
Then he has zero excuse whatsoever. I direct messaged him
on Twitter. I said the first hour, I said, it's
gonna be a two thirty Boston time, pre fight, post
fight coverage, the whole thing. Um Man, what is he
just that intimidating? No? Now, now, now, this'll be the

(31:07):
second time this happened. Last time, Real remember Real Talk
was gonna take down? Uh well, now Jed who fled?
He got the name because he was supposed to fight
Real talk. He didn't show up for that fight either.
Blind Scott was calling the wrong number trying to get
to the studio yesterday. Do you think that happened again?
I don't know. I went on listen. I mean, I don't.

(31:29):
I talked to him, we did the introductions. Everything's on
a tight schedule here. We don't have we can't spend
the entire show doing this. Uh, and he didn't, he
didn't show. I don't think I have a number for
blind Do you have a number for blind Scott? I don't,
I don't. I'm trying to direct message somebody on Twitter
that I know has a phone number for blind Scott,
but she's not checking her direct messages. Okay, all right,

(31:53):
Uh well let's let's see you real talk. How do
you feel about is if if blind Scott doesn't I
have a number for blind do all right? Hold on,
real talk, Let's see. Boy, that was such a great introduction.
I don't know. I can't do it again. So that's
we'll just have to go back and have him hear
the podcast for that. But yeah, well, if blind Scott
arrives in the next couple of minutes, yeah, then he'll

(32:13):
have to just walk to the ring with crickets and
a second was that not a great fight? Was? I'm
very proud of that? Please? Could this be gamesmanship on
the on the part of Blind Scott trying to ice
out real talk there, a little bit real talk. He's
in a lather, he's ready to go, and now he's

(32:34):
got to sit and wait. He's kind of icing the kicker.
This is not Blind Scott has been very loyal over
the years here. I can't imagine. Although he was complaining
earlier Eddy that he was he couldn't sleep, he was
like trying to he was trying to take a nap.
So I'm worried he might have might have taken a
nap and that could have been it. Cooper, we have
an update here, Coop, Oh boy, voicemail right to voicemail,

(32:58):
I'm not not right to Voicemai it rang rang a
good ten ten times before going to voicemail. Try again, Coop,
try again, No, I'll try. Do we have to give refunds?
What do we do? Right? Everybody's people asting gifts on
Twitter all hyped up. There was a fight poster. Did
you see the poster? Yeah? That was awesome? What that was?

(33:19):
That was it. That was really fired me up. I
was like, he was even more excited to do the
show tonight when I saw that was Maddie G. Maddie
G made the poster. Was awesome. He did a great
job with that. What are the chances that Real Talk?
I mean, it's not too far from New York to Boston.
What are the chances that Real Talk sends some goons over? Oh?

(33:40):
All right, every everyone standing and listen to me. All right,
it's not over it. We're gonna give blind Scott a
few more minutes. We're gonna continue to call blind Scott
and we're gonna try to wake him up. I guess you.
We're gonna assume he fell asleep or else he's just
smoking weeds somewhere and that maybe he's doing that. I
don't know, but we're gonna try to get ahold of
blind Scott and hopefully we can still have the fight.
It's gonna completely f up my clock, and my bosses

(34:02):
are gonna kill me. But that's okay, that's all right.
I mean, they give some something to yell about, which
is good. They'd like to have stuff to yell about,
so well, we'll get to that, hopefully, we'll have the
octagon and the means should I even bother doing the
whom am I getting? No? No, don't? We have no time.
We'll get to Blind Scott. Hopefully we'll get a hold
of him and we will finally get to the octagon
blind Scott versus real talk. We hope, we hope, divine intervention.

(34:23):
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(34:47):
we gonna be in a shoal with the FCC here?
I have been calling Blind Scott several times. I've been
calling him entire time. We were catching our breath there
and he is not answered. He has not answered if
you look at the time situation. I don't think this

(35:07):
is gonna happen. I am I don't know what to say.
I am blown away. By this I talked. He sent
me a message a couple of hours before the show,
and so I was convinced. Once I saw Real Talk
was ready to go, I said, okay, Real Talks there. Well,
of course, Blind Scott's gonna be there, because he had

(35:29):
just sent me a message a couple of hours ago
saying he was gonna do it. The people are very upset, Eddie,
the Mallard, Militia, the p Ones. We've got podcast guys
that stayed up late that don't normally listen live that
we wanted to hear this. They didn't want to wait
for the podcast. Here's a guy writing in simple and
Plaine says, I was looking forward to this verbal battle.
This is worse than when Kobe retired. But that that

(35:53):
is man. A lot of people want us to put
Tammy in Montana in the verbal lockdom as a last
minute placement, but I don't think the time's gonna work
out on that. Rod the Ambassador Jimmy actually also also
putting that out there. Other people just sending the emoji
or not the emoji. The the meme of the dumpster

(36:16):
on fire as our show. That guy said, our show
is a dumpster a smoldering dumpster. That is our show.
People have turned on blind Scott. People have turned on
blind I understand why they're upset. Yeah, I'm I'm upset
as well. This is a major leaddown. Yeah, let's see,
you can't read that one. On the air, Ruben says,

(36:37):
did Real Talk Nancy Carrigan blind Scott interesting? Andrew Andrew
says a Real Talk did not write a script for that.
If blind Scott doesn't show that needs to happen. I
don't know he's talking about. Oh, he wants Tammy and Montana,
That's what he's talking about. There, everyone's upset here, everyone's up.
Some people saying that blind Scott actually he used all

(36:59):
his material last night. He's got nothing left. Other people
Danny and Nashville blaming Cooper Loop for this, blaming him
and uh and now the Cowboy Killer says, if blind
Scott didn't show up, which appears that he hasn't shown up,
do we now have to change blind Scott's name like
Jed who fled? That's a good point. Does does blind

(37:21):
Scott get a suspension? Danny and Nashville? What rhymes? What
could we get the rhyme like blind? Oh? I'm sure
the listeners will come up with something blind and resigned.
I don't know, something like that. What else. I'm sure
we can come up with something there for there for him,
But someone of our masterminds will come up with that.
Well we've looked at the time. Oh my, and I

(37:42):
must say that this fight will not happen yet again
real talk in New York City, such such an intimidating presence,
such a polarizing caller, that these other people declined to
fight him. They say they want to fight him, and
then when his fight time, they're nowhere to be. Theorists

(38:03):
are going to be out there. But let me go
to Coop de loop. We know that Ben loves real talk,
and we know that Ben loves the cheat. Is there
any way possible that somehow Ben is I'm just want
to make sure, just want to make sure there's no
funny business. I wanted to have the fight. No, I
I too have Blind Scott's cell phone number, and I

(38:25):
have been calling him and it just it rings and
rings and goes to voicemail. I don't I'm stunned because
I actually, you know, I'm a fan of real talk.
I'm I'm usually I'm usually in his corner. But I
thought blind Scott was gonna win this. Honestly, I thought
he was. He was the guy. He was the one
challenge that real talk, you know, could maybe not get past.

(38:46):
But the legend of real talk lives on. Yeah, nobody
can step to him. This is another This should be
worthy of like three Caller or Year awards in a row.
I mean, this is now, let's not this is except lady.
I mean, he is such showing up his exceptional he
is such a piranha this real talk that these other

(39:07):
guys they conveniently oversleep or they have relatives that are ill.
It's fun. I can't see that he ran into something.
And let's get real talk. Let's go in now, real talk.
Prepared for this fight, he trained for this fight, real talk.
It's not gonna happen. Real talking yet again, you are
so intimidating you have walked out of winter. I bet,

(39:28):
ladies and gentlemen, it has come to our attention that
blind Scott cannot attend the match. That Ding said in
a starting victory and oh I fea god shop that
what New York finest the s no no listen, very

(40:01):
dignified he handled that well. When Jed didn't show up,
you changed his nickname. Is this going to happen to
Blind Scott? Here's the problem. See blind Scott's caller of
the Year, previous call year. You get special privileges with that,
but temporarily, temporarily, I am willing, on a temporary punishment
situation to change Blind Scott's name on the show. I

(40:25):
am willing to do that, and I'm very upset right now,
and I believe we should do that. So if you
will give some ideas to us and we'll change blind
Scott's name, we'll real talk. This is this is the
stuff a legends. This is Michael Jordan's prime. This is
Tom Brady at his best. Uh, this is the legends
of the game. Right here there he goes, all right?

(40:49):
Real tell where he goes? No one knows? All right,
anyone else? So I want to come up with other
people leaving the red carpet or very upset, Well, we
don't have time to talk to them. They're throwing stuff
at anything, they're th I gotta take cover in the
very upset. It's not my faults, dot my fault. A
Championship weekend in the NFL and you want picks. You

(41:11):
need picks. You need to know what's gonna happen. You
don't even have to watch the games this weekend. The
reality is you'll find out everything that's gonna happen in
those games in just minutes. Here on the radio. We'll
talk about that. Welcome in the beginning of another hour.
It's the Ben Mallers Show. We are in the air
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(41:35):
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is Championship weekend in the NFL. Now, before before we
get into the picking of the games, it would be

(41:56):
wrong of me to address what not to address what
happened Latre. I realized that some stations pick up our
show each hour, and that you might not have heard
what happened last dark because you had something else on
the radio, or maybe you just weren't listening and you
just turned the radio on. Right now, I had scheduled
the verbal octagon fisticuffs. It was gonna be just marvelous.

(42:17):
We were so excited about it. We had the introductions,
we had the pregame show, and then right before the fight,
as he was being introduced, we were making way for
Blind Scott versus Real Talk. Real Talk was there. He
showed up early, he was ready, He's in good shape.
He had trained for this fight. He didn't fail any
kind of drug test or anything at all, and he

(42:38):
was standing by. We introduced him. He did his stick.
We then introduced blind Scott from the North End to
Boston nowhere to be seen, and so we yeah, we're screwed.
People are very upset here, a lot of horrible things
being said on social media that the people are angry,
very angry. Brandon says, the new name for blind Scott,

(43:01):
how about blind chicken Scott. That's what he recommends. We
just throw chicken in the middle there. Yeah, the salty quacker.
Larry says, you mean blind Scott crap the bed. Yes,
I believe that is the I think that's the clinical term.
Eugene in Chicago claiming that blind Scott deserves a six

(43:22):
month suspension. He yells, this is unacceptable. Attila has a
nickname idea for blind Scott. How about no show Scott?
So now we gotta keep track of these. We got
blind Chicken Scott, No show Scott. We're gonna have to
change his nickname, at least for a little bit. Mute Scott,
Mute Scott. We could do that one in visa blind Scott.

(43:45):
I don't know about that. Who else do we have? Boy?
Everyone's angry. Everyone's got an opinion on this. Man. Chris says,
if you guys were a bad show, I would fall asleep.
So scared and visually impaired. Scott, he's still disappointed. Uh
Denver Rob says the chattah, the chatt ahead chickens he
says the chicken Mattie gee was. He's very disappointed. He

(44:11):
was so excited about this. Everyone's upset. Uh, no call,
no show Scott, he must be banned. Mark says, these
are reactions from actual people. Our carpet cleaning guy says,
I'm going to bed. I hope the podcast put some
light and uh, you know, pull some light out of

(44:31):
their blank Yeah, all right. He wants to hear blind
Scot's excuse. I gotta I gotta tell you. I want
to hear what he has to say. Also, I'm not
gonna lie Enzo says, the militia has been swindled, bamboozled, hustled.
Our lunch money has been stolen. The hype for this
was real, the clash of two Titans. Enzo says, we

(44:52):
have been robbed of the fight of the century. How
is there any coming back from this? It's a fair
point the Facts Network has sent to a new This
is a hot mess, is what it is. I don't
know how you come back. I mean, that's that's a
that's a tough spot to be in. That's a tough

(45:15):
spot to be in Nashville. Danny says, whoopee pie. Blair
suggests Blind Scott, who fled as the Henley says, oh, well,
I polished off my last jar of drink Great America
Legal moonshine, So oh, I'm sorry about that. Just very unfortunately.

(45:39):
We had a guy who claimed our Martin, why would
he lie about this? Martin saying, is shocking here he said,
And I was blown blown away by this. He said,
I'm terribly disappointed. I work at the airport and literally
held a plane from departing to listen to the verbal octagon.

(46:01):
Very disappointing. H and mister nice guy, blind Scott Field
the pre fight drug test. That's his commentary. Wally is
spitting fire. He says, somebody has to be fired over this.
Totally unacceptable. He points out horrible thirty minutes of radio.
Let the the name Blind Scott never be said again.

(46:22):
On the Ben Maller Show, Man, this is this is wild. No,
I'm a little worried, Ben. I hope this is not
like a Barrett Robins situation. Do you think he went
to Tijuana? Yeah, yeah, I was true. I wish you'd talk.
All right. Good talk shows will say, well, we'll do
a wellness check, all right, Thank you for that, Danny,

(46:44):
because if something is wrong, boy, well I feel like
a schmuck, all right, So, uh, should we wait and
then we can just kill him? Is that? How should
we do it? Are we're gonna wait to make sure
he's okay. Once we find out he's okay, we're gonna
bludgeon him. So that's what's gonna happen. Once we make
sure he's perfectly healthy and this is just a mistake
where he overslapped or he's in a gut or somewhere
because he smoked too much weed whatever that is, whatever

(47:05):
that is. At that point, at that point we will.
Then it'll be a pinata. And I think we both know.
I think, well, it's kind of tough because a playoff
weekend in the NFL. But I don't know how anyone
else needs advice other than this guy, you know what
I'm saying on our Monday show or Sunday in the
Monday Show. I don't know how anyone would get that

(47:26):
other than this guy. All Right, Tammy and Montana. Any thoughts,
I've got to get the pennies waiting around? Tammy, any
thoughts on this, you've you've been part of these things before. Well,
then I think bone Scott just couldn't find his balls
and I have a set because I was texting Coop
the minute somebody suggested me, I texted him and said,

(47:47):
get me on, I'm ready. Oh, I'm sorry, all right,
all right. Also, I'm I'm sorry about that. We would
love to see that, and I know you won't. You'll
show up, Timmy. I know that you are a You're
a woman of your word, and if you promised to
do something, you're gonna do it. So we'll try to
set that up, all right, I thank you, Tammy? All Right?
Anyone else out angry Bill, you were very very confident here.

(48:10):
You were very excited about your guy, your new man
crush didn't really work out for you. Well, Ben, I
gotta be honest, there is human beings. We have to
have compassion. I've been listening the Blind Scotts for two
years and it's quite obviously as emotional problems. And today
he started shaking him. Didn't know what to do. And
you know, we need to have compassion as human beings
and understand that he's just you know, as there's these

(48:32):
problems and at the end he couldn't come up with it.
That's all all right. We have to be kind and nice.
That's right, all right, angry already, look at angry Bill,
a new We're gonna make sure he's all right. Once
we find out blind Scot's all right. We think he's
all right. Once we find out he's okay, then we
will destroy him more. Okay, all right, We're good, all right,
And if he's not okay, we're going to hell. All

(48:53):
right anyway, yea, let's get to it. Here we go.
We got action, We got football action. This welcome, players, welcome.
It's time now, Benny. It is conference championship. Weekend in
the NFL Benny versus the Penny the last time we

(49:16):
will be handicapping multiple games. This is it last time
because there's only one game left that matters after this.
You might have heard about it. It is the soup
Ber Bowl. And before we look ahead to Jacksonville in
New England and the Minnesota Philadelphia game, we must look
back Coop the loop. How did we do the previous weekend,

(49:40):
the divisional round of the playoffs. Well, Ben, I'm surprised
that you want to look back on this fight. It
pretty well, actually pretty well. Did you were three and one,
three and one? Yes, you had the I lost the
first game, and then I know I was two and two.
I was two? Yeah, exactly, all right, one hour on

(50:01):
the same page. Yes, two and two, all right, And
how did the penny do? The penny was, let's see here,
two and two and two. Then if it was it
won two, then there was two two. I think the
penny No, I think there was more disagreement. Anyway. Well,
we're really good at keeping track of this stuff, aren't
we Really good? Go back into the podcast to find
out how we did. All right, So let's get to it.

(50:22):
The NFL as old. I'll keep in mind you go
in a championship weekend and what has happened in the
past does not guarantee it is going to happen again.
We always talk about that pass results don't guarantee future
success or failure in that department. But if you go
back since twenty thirteen, home teams in conference championship games
are eight and oh they have not lost since twenty thirteen,

(50:46):
the last decade in the NFL, if you are at
home for the conference championship, you're winning at a seven
fifty clip. Fifteen and five the record the last decade
for home teams in the conference championship game. And wait,
there's more. You go back to the beginning of the
Super Bowl. Here, it's a very large sample size different

(51:07):
generations of football. The game has changed. But in that time,
just simply picking on the money line the home team
to win, you will win sixty six percent of the time.
You would have won sixty six percent of the time.
But we'll start it out with the AFC Championship game
at three oh five pm Eastern time. They will kick
it off with Tony Romeo Waxing Poetic, and the game

(51:32):
will feature Jacksonville. They were ten and six regular season
against the New England Patriots, who come in thirteen and
three in the regular season off the Tennessee Titans. Victory
of the weather in Foxboro forty four degrees that kickoff
partly cloud It will be some clouds throughout the day,
but it's not going to be a horrifically frozen day

(51:55):
in Massachusetts. On Sunday, the Patriots opened up a nine
and a half point favorite. They are down out a
seven and a half. It has gone all the way
down to seven and a half because of the injury
status of Tom Brady. Sixty five percent over sixty five
percent of the money is on New England. The pick
here is the Patriots. The pick is the Patriots. Why

(52:18):
Jacksonville is going to need multiple, multiple game changing plays
from their defense and also their special teams in order
to win this game. I have zero zero confidence that
the Blake Bortles is going to make enough place here.
This is gonna be a poop fest with Blake Bortles
on the under center, I should say, on the mount
under center. Now, some of the foreshadowing of out of

(52:42):
body experiences that people are trying to throw out there.
These are what we call bleeding heart Optimus. I would
like to remind you that Blake Bortles before the season,
Remember he was benched in the exhibition season for Chad Henny.
Jacksonville wanted to get rid of Blake board they wanted
to give him away in the preseason. And while he

(53:03):
had a couple of good games in December, let's not
make it seem like these playoff games. Blake portals has
been all World Portals has a quarterback rating in the
two playoff games for Jacksonville of eighty five point five. Now,
the key jag fans will say the Jaguiars is that
he hasn't thrown interception yet. Now, the magic number for

(53:24):
the Patriots is twenty two when the Patriots. Historically, this
has been the number in the Belichick Brady year. When
the Patriots have gotten to that number twenty two points
or more, They've done it fourteen times. This is at
home home in the playoffs fourteen times with Belichick and
Brady have gotten to twenty two points Patriots fourteen and

(53:45):
no when they score less than twenty one points at home,
It's happened seven times. And the Patriots are four and three.
So for whatever reason, that number twenty two, that's a
magical number. Do you think that the Patriots will score
more or less than twenty two? I'm gonna the over
on that. Now. The second part of this the turnovers.
As we've talked about game changing plays, those are the

(54:07):
great equalizer of games like this. It's football, one on
one stuff, Tom Brady. If he plays a clean game,
there is what a five percent chance that Jacksonville is
going to even keep the game within the point spread?
And how bad is the hand? I am generally thought
of around these parts as a cynic, as a skeptic.

(54:28):
I use critical thinking. I don't buy it. I expect
him to come out and play great, even if he's
wearing a cast. I expect him to come out and
play great. And and what, by the way, what happened
to Brandon Cooks? He was supposed to be the all
world guy. He's been okay, but he hasn't been amazing.
In fact, at the end of the year for the Patriots,
the last six games, Brandon Cooks hasn't gotten even to

(54:51):
eighty yards receiving. So you gotta go back to week twenty.
He's been been shaky, but I mentioned earlier that the
Jacksonville def as being just celebrated all over the plays
for how great they've played here, But remember the past
six weeks. The past six weeks, when they've played good quarterbacks,

(55:12):
they have been gouged. Russell Wilson, Jimmy Garoppolo, Ben Roethlisberger
slicing up the Jacksonville defense. The quarterbacks that the Jags
have stopped over this last stretch. You know who they've
been able to contain here, Tyrod Taylor, who's about to
be a backup in the NFL he won't be starting again.
Marcus Mariota, who's hot and cold, and the infamous t J. Yates.

(55:37):
Those are the guys that Jacksonville has been able to
get to hold down at the quarterback position. Tom Brady
is going to eat them for lunch. The Jags defense
just I'm telling you now, I expect Jacksonville to come out.
They'll shoot their wad early in the first first quarter
of the game, and then after that, after that, the
Patriots will will settle in and they will pull a way. It's,

(56:00):
you know, the old rope adult move early on Patriots
thirty one Jacksonville thirteen. Interesting phrasing there, so gambling term. Okay,
all right, it's a gambling trim. All right, all right, Yeah,

(56:20):
you're right, that's that's fair. I know you're that's fair.
You got a dirty mind, But the penny disagrees. Going
with the jaguars, uh And and Ben I sorted out
the confusion here. There was a there was a push
actually last week. So you were a little better. You
were two one in one, okay, and the penny was
zero three in one. Yeah. The term shooting your wad

(56:41):
coopans blowing all of your cash at once, right, Yeah,
I don't know why you would think something else, no idea,
there's no sense. All right, we will we will get
to we will get to the NFC Championship game Minnesota
and Philadelphia. We will get to that and the calls
will have everyone. Here was people still yelling at me

(57:01):
because of blind Scott. We'll get to all of that
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(57:21):
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h Bronco fan Nli from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios.

(57:44):
It's Ben Maller. I'm afraid to even look at my
mentions here on social medium. And you know what the
word is for this? Any radioactive is what it is.
People are very upset. They're directing their rage at me now.
And I had nothing to do with this. I talked
to Blind Scott couple of hours before the show where
he had this verbal octagon we were supposed to do
last hour. He didn't show up. We hope he's okay.

(58:06):
I I called him again. No answer. Uh, maybe he
took some you know, sleep eid or something like that.
He's just gonna sleep the night away. Well, maybe that's it.
We did have a I thought a very good suggestion
for Blind Scott's new nickname. This is from Trucker Mike.
Blind flop the blind blind flop? Like that? I like

(58:27):
that one. I don't know about that. Uh, these stumbler, rumbler,
it was aj sent that that. That's random. Uh yeah,
it's been some decent nicknames. People upset I didn't go
to the bullpit, the carpet cleaning guys very upset that
we didn't go to the bulpit. Well I understand that,
but I mean to me, if it's not gonna be
what we all wanted, then everything else is This guy?

(58:49):
Nick had a good one, though. How about Scott who flopped?
Or Scott the flop? I just said blind flop? That's better? No,
this is better. No, no, this is better. No, no,
this works better. No it doesn't. I think it works.
I disagree. I'm going with this guy. I like this better.
People comparing Blind Scott's performers to you, Darvish. In Game
seven of the World Series, you took his medicine and

(59:13):
ran off the mound, and you think he was in
the Astro's locker room celebrating when the Astros won. He
might have been. He might have been. Okay, all right,
let's get to the other game. We get back to
the penny here. It's Benny versus the Penny Championship weekend
in the NFL Conference Championships decided, and we head to
the NFC game. It's on Fox. You better watch Joe

(59:35):
Buck and Troy Aikman calling their final football game of
the year on the Big Fox. They'll kick it off
at six forty Eastern time in Philly. Roger Goodell, he's
gonna be there. How exciting? All right? Minnesota during the
regular season, thirteen and three of the Eagles. Also thirteen
and three, Philadelphia the number one seed. That's why they

(59:56):
are at home here. The weather in Philly, it'll be
forty one degrees in the Delaware Valley on Sunday when
they kick it off, mostly cloud It's gonna be foggy.
If you're in Philadelphia, you'll notice fog in the morning.
I would have been a good weather person. I would
have been really good at given the weather. All right,
there's a there's a high pressure system up here, and

(01:00:17):
then then if you look down south, there's a low
pressure system. They could do that. How hard is that?
I can pull it off? Right training, I don't know
that i'd look good on a green screen, but other
than that, I think i'd be okay. I think I'll
be all right, all right. Eagles opened up a three
and a half point favorite the or the Vikings rather
three and a half point favorite. The Vikings are favored
by three in this game on the road. Most of

(01:00:41):
the money is actually on the home team, the Philadelphia Eagles.
I say most of it. You know, the numbers not
that gigantic, but over sixty percent, close to sixty five
percent in favor of the Eagles. I'm gonna take a
live home dog here. I'm gonna take the Eagles plus
the three, and I'll tell a white number one. The
Vikings are clearly the better team. They should win this

(01:01:04):
game by twenty plus points. But the reason I'm taking
the Eagles, why am I doing that? I have zero
confidence in Case Keenum and in a stead I saw,
which I think sums up the place the Vikings are
in with Keenum. Had Marcus Williams not gone what and
whiffed on that particular tackle, the Minneapolis miracle they're calling it,

(01:01:27):
Case Keenum would have lost that game, right, would have
lost that game, and the stat line on Case Keenum,
his stat line without that miracle touchdown at the end,
Keenum would have finished the game with no touchdown passes
against New Orleans, one interception, and a quarterback rating of
sixty eight point four and a home playoff loss. Now,

(01:01:51):
I'm pretty confident here. The Eagles bring a much better
defensive product than the Saints do. So every game is different,
everything's unique. I understand that. But the Eagles are are
more of a challenge than the Saints. Sorry, and then
the Vikings have been able to win in spite of
case Keenum, who's been okay, he's been see that. The

(01:02:12):
bar is pretty low for case Keenum. The bar is
pretty low. In fact, if you look at the last
eight games, Case Keenum has thrown two or fewer touchdowns
in eight consecutive games. The key to end that is
to get the ball to Stefon Diggs, Adam thelan who
did show up to practice on Thursday. And it's football

(01:02:32):
one a run football one on one. Get the Bady receivers,
let them make plays for you downfield and all that,
and so if that can happen, you can it? Can
it happen? Sure? Is it gonna happen? I'm not so
confident it's gonna happen. And Number two for the Eagles
It is all about a remedial offense. You know, how
is that gonna work? The Vikings have a very stout
defense here. Nick Foles is going to have to rely

(01:02:53):
on the same thing. The only thing you can do right,
the only thing you can do those dump off short
passes and outside of Minnesota having sloppy tackling, this is
not going to be a pyrotechnic show of offense for
either one of these teams. This is gonna be a
defensive game. It's gonna be a if you like defense,

(01:03:13):
you'll like it. Most people say it's boring. I would
say it's boring if it plays out the way it
should play out here, as the team's just trade punts
and the game will be decided by a turnover late,
the Vikings are gonna win it. The Vikings are gonna
go to the super Bowl, but they're not going to
cover the spread. Vikings eighteen, Eagles sixteen. There Penny agrees

(01:03:35):
with you on this one. Ben going with the Eagles,
all right, So we agree on that, And I've got
the Patriots laying just seven and a half. Now the
point spread has gone down to seven and a half.
So there it is. And remember home teams home teams again,
this is what has happened, not what's going to happen.
But home teams is twenty thirteen, eight and oh in
conference championships and fifteen and five the last ten years.

(01:03:59):
We have Mallard of the thirty three coming up in
a little bit. A lot of people want a yap
and complain about blind Scott will get some calls as well.
You get the NFL pick him later. This out a
lot to do right now, though. Eddie Garcia is here
with the latest on fox Well Ben. In the NFL,
Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady did not practice Thursday because
then hand injury suffered Wednesday in practice. X rays on
his throwing head We're negative and he is expected to

(01:04:21):
play against the Jaguards, but will be hand effect his performance.
RAMSAD coach Sean McVay was selected as Coach of the
Year but the Pro Football Writers of America. The season
was mcveay's first as an NFL head coach. In the NBA,
we had the Rockets top of the Timberwolves one sixteen
to ninety eight. James Harden back after missing seven games
with an injury, at ten points and seven assists in
twenty six minutes of action, Sixers down to Celtics in

(01:04:43):
Boston eighty nine to eighty, but Boston star Kyrie Eerby
did not play because of a sore shoulder. Cavalier's gonna
win over the Magic one oh four, one o three,
but Cleveland barely squeaking by an Orlando team that has
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be talking about this later. But there is a report
that Commissioner Rob Manfred expected you implement a new pace
of play rule the twenty season. I'm so excited about this.

(01:05:25):
What a hot mess this is. Apparently it's gonna be
like a twenty second pitch clock. The players are against this,
but apparently he's Eddie there. There is going to be
the word for this is rebellion. Okay, the baseball players
are going to they're going to dissent. There's going to
be an insurgency against the commissioner's office. This is going

(01:05:47):
to be awesome for us and talk radio. All right,
there will be so much misconduct with baseball players. Oh,
it's good job Rob Man for this is going to
be such a poop show. He is. He is all
in on making the ball games shorter. What's the punishment? Like,
what's the punishment? If I was gonna ask you that,
I assume it's a ball, If it's a pitch, I

(01:06:08):
haven't seen. They said there's several different possibilities, but I
don't know. I don't know what they are. If you
wanted to increase scoring, home run, right, let's see him
home gott to increase scoring? How about this? No got
If the pitcher takes too long, just bring out one
of those electronic pitching machines and then or put a
tea up there at home plate. About that. So when
it hits the twenty second clock, you have some some

(01:06:32):
ball boys or girls whatever run out. They have a
pitching machine and they're like, all right, and it's set
for like seventeen seconds. So every seventeen seconds, the pitching
machine throws a pitch. That's great. Ben. Can you imagine
Pedro Bayez on this clock? Oh oh yeah, well yeah,
they could explode. I'd like to imagine him pitching for
someone to far far, far, far, far far away. That's

(01:06:52):
what I wanted. Uh. Yeah, there's a lot of snow
pitchers in baseball. And what about like Madison Bumgarden, right,
who's not necessarily the slowest in the world, But what
if he's on the mound? Rights, I don't feel like
I don't feel like throwing in twenty seconds. You know,
somebody's gonna make a statement early on when when there's
the full defiance against baseball and you're gonna have some

(01:07:13):
pictures just gonna stay there every time for twenty second twenties,
And what's gonna happen if they give him a ball,
He's gonna walk in runs by not pitching it. I'm
telling it's gonna be good. Oh, it's wonderful, all right,
Ben Malis show, We are coming here from the Guico
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(01:07:35):
reaction here to Blind Scott. People very upset he was
a no show. We hope he's okay. We've not been
able to get ahold of blind Scott. We think that's
because he's a hard sleeper and he's just just sleeping
away the night, just having a great time, has no
idea that he's being roasted and charboiled in the radio. Now,
let's go to David pe One. David in Kansas. Hello, David,

(01:08:00):
Hey Ben, how are you doing. I just wanted to
say I was so excited about this. I'm getting older.
I'm seventy five, and I got bad Heart and all
this kind of stuff, and I was having more fun
with this, and I'm I'm really really disappointed. So I
got two names for your consideration for Blind Scott. Number
one is lost in Boston, Yeah, and the other one

(01:08:22):
is I'll see no show. By the way, you sound
very young, David. You know you sound like you're like,
you know, forty or something. No, I was born in
nineteen forty three. No way. Really? Yeah? True, man, you
sound great. Well, thank you. I really appreciate that. What's
what's your secret? Well, um, I hit up at one

(01:08:46):
o'clock in the morning, and I go for a walk
with my dogs. I have six dogs and uh eight
cats that I live with. You can't be walking six dogs, though,
because it's the right. I mean, you can't. They'll run
all over the place. It's hard. No, no, No, I've
got a I've got a leisher on my waist, and
each one's got its o little leash and we look
like the I did a rod. I call ourselves the

(01:09:08):
I didn't grudge. See that's a good line, all right.
See it's around your waist. You're doing your thing here.
It's one in the morning. Now you're in Kansas. No
one's around, right, You're like, there's no one as far
as you can see. Am I right on this or that?
That's what I'm imagining. No, I live real close to
the Missouri River, and it's there's bluffs there and it's

(01:09:30):
pretty killy. So we go down here, we go down
into a park down there, and there's a lot of
skunks and deer and now reprobates and everything else. Wow,
all right, well, listen, that's fascinating, David. I'm glad you
get some sleep at some point here. But I'm glad
you sleep during your show. As if as half of

(01:09:52):
this past holiday, you had a sub the sound of
his own blood. All right, all right, that's not help,
but thank you. I'm glad you're a fan. Thank you. David.
All right, be good, all right, there you go. There's
a David. It sounds good. I mean, it sounds young
he does. But that boy, that thing with the dog
seems like a really bad idea. You know, seventy five
year old guy walking at one of the attaching all

(01:10:14):
the dogs to like your belt or whatever. I mean
they see like a squirrel or something. I know he's
gonna get dragged. My man, David's gonna be dragged down
the street like you're down the down of the creek.
Oh man, I'd like to get a picture of that.
You imagine what that must look like. That must be
quite the visual. How all those animals must obviously keep
him busy and uh, you got stuff to do. I

(01:10:36):
liked that he goes out under the cover of darkness
too at night, like at one in the morning. He's like,
I'm gonna go, oh yeah, that's cool. See, when you're
seventy five, you can do that kind of stuff. You
don't have to worry about, like in certain parts of
the you know the world. Here you go out people,
you're you're a suspect at one in the morning when
you're walking around certain places, right the police pull you overs?
What the hell you doing out? You know? All right? Anyway,
So the Ben Rather Show on Fox, Should we do
the third degree? Should we do that? Real quick? Want

(01:10:58):
to push you to the other side? What anyone? We'll
push you? I will push the other side. We will
also have time shifting. We're also going to have the
always popular NFL Pick Them, the NFL Pick Him. Here's
the instant trivia. Which quarterback has the longest pass play
in NFL history during championship play Championship weekend, a conference

(01:11:19):
championship game. Understand the quarterback that has the longest pass
play in NFL history during a conference championship game. Looking
for the name. That's the instant trivia. We'll get to
that and we'll do it next. The only thing better
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(01:11:41):
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I got a lot to get to, a lot to
get to. As they say, we're gonna have in a

(01:12:03):
couple of minutes here we'll have the NFL pick and
we also have Mallar to third degree. Here's the answer
tribute which quarterback has had the longest pass play in
NFL history during a conference championship game? That is the question.
What is the answer? The longest touchdown pass during a
conference championship game? Greg is going with I can't throw

(01:12:26):
the short ball, Tim Tebow? Who else do we have here?
Jonathan and Philadelphia is going with Tom Brady. Tom Brady
is his answer. Philip Rivers guests by Andrew A lot
of Tim Tebow, Russell Wilson thrown out by Eke stock
Drops Scott guests by just Josh, I see what you

(01:12:49):
did there? Bernie Kozar from justin Let's see here? Ivans
is going with blind Scott Tolzine, Ben Roethlisberger guests by
Will what say you? Eddie? Is it? Randall Cunningham The
great Randall Cunningham. No is incorrect. The longest touchdown pass
in NFL Conference Championship game history belongs to Trent Dilford

(01:13:15):
of the Bald the More Ravens. Dilfor hit a ninety
six yard pass play to Shin and Sharp for the
Ravens against the Raiders in the year two thousand. Let's
get to it, week, It's Meller. How about that to
the third degree? This Ben gets great? All right, right

(01:13:40):
to it we go, no small talk, no grab ass,
third degree. Ben. We've been hearing for a few days
that Nick Saban wants to hire Hugh Freeze as his
offensive coordinator, But now we're hearing that the SEC may
not let him do that. Apparently SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey
isn't keen on Freeze coming back to the conference. Ben,
you think it's time that free he's got a second chance. Yeah,

(01:14:02):
why not? Why why not? He's got a coach again,
and a couple of things. Hey, Hugh Freeze, Now I
get the whole here. He was living a double life.
Right publicly he was an evangelical Christian guy, and then
privately he was doing whatever it takes to win a
game at Old Miss I get that, you know, calling
prostitutes one for one minute or whatever happened. I you

(01:14:23):
know that's fun. But here's the deal, Freeze, he's got
dirty hands, but all these guys have dirty hands and
pay his dues. He'll eat some humble pie. He'll work
his way back up the coaching mountain. He'll get another
job as a Eventually he'll be a head coach again
and be Hugh Freeze by all accounts. That's the thing here.

(01:14:44):
He was a pretty good head coach. Now how he
became a pretty good head coach with seedy, despicable activity,
you can question that, but he's gonna zoom back up. Look, Bobby,
but if Bobby Petrino has a head coaching job again,
then Hugh Freeze is going to get a head coaching
job again. It's it's going to happen. The moral compass

(01:15:05):
gets altered depending on wins and how many wins you
can provide next. Now, the hot stove seems to be
taking an extra long time to heat up. When asked
about the lull and free agent signings and if it
was due to teams colluding not to spend as much
as they once did, MLB essentially blamed super agent Scott
Boris for going and I quote late into the market. Yeah, Ben,

(01:15:30):
do you think that the league is right? Are they
just full of it? Now? That's corporate bass is what
it is. I'm with Scott Boris on this. I stand
with Scott the man I asked to be my agent
who turned me down. Number one, Scott Boris is doing
his job. He knows what the market for baseball free
agents is. He's been in the industry for for a

(01:15:50):
million years here, and he is willing unlike some other
spineless agents, he is willing to do whatever it takes, right,
whatever it takes. And baseball it's very odd. This is
an industry where pork barrel spending has been a rite
of passage every offseason for the past twenty five years,
just about and now now, all of a sudden, they've

(01:16:12):
decided these free agents just aren't good enough, just aren't
good enough here. Something else is going on. They want
to play these younger, cheaper minor league players. Now number
two Major league Baseball clubs apparently have decided they don't
want to spend their money, at least not what the
market rate should have been for free agents. Now, if
you like this. If you think this is the right

(01:16:33):
way to do it, you're gonna say that they are
being fiscally responsible. But I don't. I'm not like that.
One of the fastest way, the fastest ways, if you
look at it the sport of baseball, one of the
fastest ways to go belly up is to sign a
bunch of guys one hundred minute doll contracts that are
thirty two years old. It's bad news here. I do
believe these players. Eventually they become an albatross. But it

(01:16:54):
ain't my money. And and there's you know, JD. Martinez
a really good baseball player. He should be signed to
a contract already. Next now. Yesterday a big steroid ring
was exposed that had involvement from WWE star Roman Rains,
as well as actors Mark Wahlberg and Josh demal Ben.
Did you ever consider unnatural supplements or methods besides diet

(01:17:17):
and exercise when you decided to lose your weight? No,
I did not. I was. I kind of fell into it.
I fell into it. I wanted I started one of
the gym, I started cutting back a little bit on food,
But I didn't. I didn't have great intention. I didn't
say I'm gonna lose this amount of weight and all that,
and steroids were never an option. I am not anti steroid.
I am not antisteroid. And Sarah does sterohs do wonderful

(01:17:37):
things in the medical world and can improve your quality
of life. You're ill, absolutely, But my problem has always
been in sports competition, when there's not a level playing field,
it's it's shady, it's shady activity. But if they could
come up with a pill right with limited side effects,

(01:17:57):
limited side effects, and you could take it in the
morning and then like lose weight and without eating any
lass and without working out, everyone would take that. You
would be the richest person. Lord, you'd make more than
the people at Amazon, You'd make more than the people
in at Apple if you could come up with that product.
But yeah, so I'm not I'm not a guest. I've
never I've never dabbled that. Very bored. That's not the

(01:18:19):
right answer, but that's the that's that is the correct answer.
It's not the right answer, though, it's very confusing. All right, there,
it is the Coop de loop Ballard of the third degree.
We gotta get to the NFL pick him. So how
did we do Ben you passed this edition. That's a winner.
That is a winner. Time. Now here we go. It's
the n f L pick him for the final time?

(01:18:44):
Is it? We can't do the super Bowl? There's only
a couple of quarterbacks plan, so this is the last one.
Cooper Loop, who's the smartest man in the room. Who's
the best looking man in the room? Get right up there,
right now, Coop the Loop, go ahead, loud and proud.
You can thank Patri Spurger on it. My Boston Bruins,
thank you. Three goals. He loved Boston Boston radio figures

(01:19:08):
paid off? Eddie with that? All right? With the first
pick on the NFL pick him, I don't care about
his hand Tom Brady bam who winning? Cool? I will
go with Leonard Fournette. Leonard Fournette, all right, Eddie, Rob Gronkowski.

(01:19:30):
The Gronk is off the board. Danny give me case
Keenum all right, and I will go with his sidekick
Latavius Murray. Oh that's a shocking second pick. Who do
you got, Eddie? Well, I'm not gonna get stuck with
Blake Bortles, so give me Nick vol I have I

(01:19:50):
have a good wait, No, I don't you know. All right,
I'm gonna go with Stefan Diggs. All right, Stefan Diggs,
I him up. Next, I will take zach Ertz. Zach
Ertz will be my tight end. And I will take
Jagie of the Eagles or Jie or whatever. Cool. Hurre
you up. I will go with Kyle Rudolph the Red

(01:20:14):
Nose Man, all right, and Eddie Brandon Cooks all right,
and Danny Gee Marquis Lee Marcias Lee is off the board.
One more Danny. And how about Chris Hogan. Hogan is
going to run on receivers? Eddie? Did somebody think Jagie? Yeah,
I just lak gart blunt? You got your blunt? All right? Coop,
who you got? I'll go with Nelson Aguilar, all right, boy,

(01:20:36):
I am screwed on my wed receivers. I will takes
out Sean Jeffrey. No, I'll take out Adam I got.
He's got a baste. I'll take him anyway. I don't
I need somebody. Whop who you got? Blake bottle Coop
gets the booby prize? Eddie? Who you got Eddie? Chris Hogan,

(01:20:59):
Chris Hogan r okay, yeah, I think you're gonna have
it all right. The final pick on the NFL Championship
Round pick Um Danny j Well, the last tight end left,
Marcedes Lewis. Yeah, they misspelled that name right, there's a
little auth there's a letter missing there. It's all about us.
We're worried about our show and we want to find

(01:21:20):
out what would be be best for the Ben Maller
Show on Championship weekend in the NFL Conference Championship weekend
in the NFL. We'll get to that right now. Welcome
in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Mallers Show.
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(01:21:43):
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Conference Championship games this weekend. Now next week, when the

(01:22:05):
Mallard Militia get together again in the Cathedral of Sports
Talk Radio here at Fox Sports Radio, when we talk next,
super Bowl fifty two will be set. So we've got
this hour, we've got next hour, and then the next
time we get together, it'll be after the conference championship games.
They will have come and gone, the Patriots playing host

(01:22:26):
to Jacksonville and the Eagles playing host to the Minnesota Vikings. Now,
if the Chalk wins, if the Chalk wins, if the
favorite holds their ground, but the home team, i should say,
or the actually the favorite, which is not the home
team because the Vikings of the road favorite, then we'll
get a home team hosting the Super Bowl. The Patriots
will then go to Minnesota, they'll visit the Twin Cities.

(01:22:47):
They'll be the road team in Super Bowl fifty two.
So I wanted to talk about the possibilities now for us,
since no who cares about the players per se, we're
worried about what's best for us, what we can do,
and I wanted to try something a little different, that's
outside the box, shall we say, outside our comfort zone

(01:23:11):
in these in these parts because the way I look
at this, I've got little skin in the game now.
I have been doing some radio in Boston recently, and
so certainly for me, it would certainly help out if
the Patriots end up in the super Bowl, because that'll
I'll be able to squeeze a little more toothpaste out
of the tube here before the football season comes to

(01:23:31):
an end for those particular shows. But it's plus for me.
It's also good because on this show, the Patriots are
a polar rising, polar rising team. So if you were
asked what matchup would give us the best conversation, the
most buzz, the most juice, most excitement, it's almost any

(01:23:53):
combination involving Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and Rob Gronkowski in
the Super Bowl. Those are the headliners. Those are the headliners.
And certainly the Patriots should win this game. You know
a lot of odd things are gonna have to happen
for this to not take place. Now, everyone else, bit players,

(01:24:16):
everyone else, bit players. That doesn't mean a bit player,
a secondary actor can't win, but they are going into
this now based on listenership. We have a lot of
listeners in Boston. We do very well there, We do
very well, in Minnesota, a Patriot Viking super Bowl would
move the needle here. That's got a little bit of
Jews for us. So I'm good with that. If the

(01:24:38):
Favorites win, I ain't gonna complain. I'll be very happy.
I'm good to go. But for some creative thinking, and
I know it's a lot to ask. I mean, it's
after four in the morning on the East Coast here,
It's it's a tough time to have a lot of
creative thinking. But I want to do a little exercise here,
and rather than just go with the norm, I want

(01:24:59):
to see if we can correctly predict at least one
event that's going to happen. One event is going to
happen this week. Let's see your your sue saying ability
here on the Ben Mallory Show. Now, I want I'm
talking surprise. I'm talking something that is out in left field,
bizarro world, that's what I'm talking about. I want to

(01:25:21):
see who we can pull one of these things out.
So the question, and it's it's again very basic here.
And there's the great thing about this is there's no
wrong answer. There's no wrong answer because anything is possible conceivably.
This weekend. Right, So what sensational story is most likely

(01:25:44):
to happen or do you want to see happen in
the conference championship games. That's the that's the angle here.
Now again, I want you to think outside the box.
This is a creative thinking exercise. I want you to
think outside the box, not just go with the norm.
If Tom Brady is gonna throw for three hundred and
fifty yards and two touchdowns and the Patriots are gonna

(01:26:05):
win the game, okay, and don't I don't need that, Okay,
I gotta get a headache. Okay, So try to think
outside the norm and if you if you got something,
that's great. Now, I believe we have a lot of
psychic people. I'm gonna turn the Ben Mallow Show into
the psychic hot Lines. What I'm gonna do. That's what
I'm gonna do. Now you have been deputized, you have

(01:26:29):
a sixth sense. You can accurately horseshadow what is going
to happen in the future. So again we're looking for
sensational unexpected Tablloyd like yellow journalism. If you will on
the radio, they could happen this weekend. Now I'm gonna
go first, I see These are things that could have happened.

(01:26:52):
Championship weekend, Roger Goodell gets cheered in Philadelphia. Eagle fans
give Roger Goodell a standing ovation in the city of Broba. Loah,
could happen. How about this? Instead of punching, an Eagle
fan pets a horse. How about that one outside the box?

(01:27:15):
Right now, that's a that is a tawdry story right there.
Now here's a possibly Case Keenham goes out for a
bite to eat Saturday. He chokes on a cheese steak.
He can't start the NFC Championship game, and Teddy Bridgewater
steps in for the Minnesota Vikings as a last minute

(01:27:36):
replacement starter for Case Keen. How about this Nick Foles.
Nick Foles breaks his leg in the first offensive series
for the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Eagles are forced to
go to someone named Nate set Afield. I don't even

(01:27:56):
know if I'm saying that, right, their backup quarterback, the
old Indiana Hoosier, and then this guy leads him to
a win over that big bad Viking defense. Now that
is outrageous. That is unexpected. I don't know if it's sensation,
but it's unexpected. Now you can you can go more,
more seedy, more dirty if you want. There's been a

(01:28:18):
lot of talk this week about Tom Coughlin, Tom Coughlin,
the TSAR of football operations for Jacksonville, the mind like
he's got a cheat code due to Bill Belichick. I mean,
they just go on and on. Mike, I'm so annoyed
with that story. But anyway, Tom Coughlin, how about this,
I don't even know if he's on Twitter. Wouldn't it

(01:28:39):
be funny? And wouldn't it be just unexpected tabloid? Like
if during the game, Tom Coughlin is on Twitter and
tweets out a link to a porn site, wouldn't that
be great? That's unexpected Bill Belichick? What would Belichick do that?
We would be yapping? Well, Belichick doesn't do too much.
How about what if? How about this Belichick shows up

(01:29:01):
on the sidelines wearing like a nice suit and he
actually looks he looks at the part. You know, he's
not dressed like he's ready to push a shopping cart
and go sleep under an overpass somewhere. And I mean,
we'll go on and on here. There's endless possibilities. They're
absolutely endless possibilities. With this, so I honest see how
creative you can get, and maybe we'll get one right.

(01:29:21):
If we get one right, we'll send it out to
all the sports blogs, will the PR department, which doesn't
even know my show exists. We'll send out something and
we'll say we correctly predicted this event and everyone will
download the podcast. It'll be the number one podcast. Everyone
want to hear it, and it's just gonna be marvelous.
So that's what we're gonna do. And if you want
to be part of the show eight seven seven ninety

(01:29:44):
nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine six six
three six nine, if you would like to be part
of the festivities here, you can certainly do that. We
would love to have you, and you can you can
join the show and also on Twitter at Ben Mallett.
Now to pivot away from this, and we'll bring in
Edmund Dallas, Steamboat, Willie Garcia. But I want to get

(01:30:08):
serious FROMO and many of you have been so kind
to us, have been so so nice to the show.
Over the past a handful of days, we lost our
friend Genie and Medford are one of our favorite callers
in Medford, or and she passed away on Martin Luther
King Day, and we did a memorial for that the
following night that we were on the radio. And so

(01:30:30):
many of you have asked questions. You want to send
in flowers to the family, you want to you want
to pay a tribute to Genie and Medford. And I
told you as soon as we had information, as soon
as we had information, we were going to pass it
on to you. And I have the information, and it's
not good. I'm not gonna lie to you. It's not
good information, but I'm gonna pass it on to you anyway.

(01:30:52):
Calm down, Jennie. But here's the story. And I'm gonna
be totally straight with I'm not gonna be ask you.
This is the information as we have its time. We
told you the other day that our friend Genie and Medford,
we were her family. Um. She she loved the show.
She listened all the time, and she would call in
a lot and and you know, we were we were

(01:31:13):
the handful of people she would talk to regularly. She
didn't talk to too many people. Unfortunately, she had a
neighbor and whatnot around her, but there wasn't too much
going on. Uh. And we've come to find out since
Jeanie's passed away, that she had been a strange from
her family, that she had not been communicating. She she
had a family earlier in her life, but for whatever reason,

(01:31:33):
I don't know the backstory, and and maybe there's quite
the backstory, but I don't know, and I never found
that out, and it's probably none of my business. But
but the point is that that Geanie passed away in
money and no one has unfortunately claimed her. So we
what we would like to do here is uh, you know,
because because the family hasn't stepped in, and we're her

(01:31:56):
radio family, so we're gonna start a go fund meat campaign,
uh to give Genie and Medford a proper send off,
to do it the right way, because she she helped
us out. She made us laugh and yell at the
radio and uh and just did crazy Zanny crap which
we loved, which was wonderful, I mean, and that's right Genie, yes, Uh.

(01:32:18):
And the thing about it is we were we're gonna
play these sound bites. You know, I don't know how
long I've got left in radio, hopefully a long time,
and I'll keep these with me and we'll play we'll
honor Genie we'll mix it in and I'm sure other
stuff will come along the way. I have a Satin
night jone on. But I'll tweet out here in a moment,
and I guess all of us will. We'll tweet this out.
There's a go fund met campaign that started, uh, and well,

(01:32:40):
what were the plan here, as as we've talked about
off the air, is to to claim Genie and then
give her the proper send off, as we said here,
and it costs, uh, costs a decent amount of money
to do this. We're not gonna lie to you, but
not too much. I mean, I think it's a reasonable
amount that we're trying to get here. And the the

(01:33:00):
go fund me page where the goal is to get
to two thousand dollars, that's the goal, and anything over
that we will we'll take care of that, right, We're
gonna donate that, and we're gonna have a tribute to Genie.
We're putting together Cooper Loop. I believe that's the plan.
I think that's what we talked about. Yet. Yeah, we
we have a tribute planned in case that the goal
is surpassed. Yeah, but just get I mean, if we

(01:33:21):
don't go over, that's fine, as long as we get
to the goal. Uh, and then we can give Genie
the proper, proper set off, because let's listen, it's the
right thing to do. It's the right thing to do,
and that's that's the deal. So we'll tweet that out
here in them all. Are you there, Eddie? I am
am all right? I want additing, Eddie? Or did I
say enough is no? I mean I think you pretty
much covered it. I mean, look, we don't we didn't

(01:33:43):
know Genie. Uh personally, No, we did not. Um. And
I'm sure she was a flawed person like we all are.
And and but but look, she was a human being.
She was a member of our radio family, as you said. Uh,
and you know she she deserves to be the minimumount
of respect of any human being once they've passed away.

(01:34:03):
And yeah, you know, it's just not something for him
to shut up about it. And you you said you
were going to be straight with the listeners. And if
she goes unclaimed, then her body could be donated to science.
I mean, come on, we we need to do something
about this. And again, as you said, two thousand dollars
across the vast Yeah, it's like a ways we can

(01:34:25):
do that. You really can just and when I say we,
I mean us too, everybody, and we can get this
done and just have her as like I said, a
human being to be taken care of properly. So yeah, absolutely, so,
so that's it for now. And also, by the way,
even if you know not everyone can donate. I get it.

(01:34:46):
I understand that. But if you want to go to
the page, we'll tweet it out and you can actually
write a message. There's an oh bit for Genie and
so some people have asked about that, And so can
I sign as our guest book somewhere there is uh
and so I saw Bubba actually already found it, Bubba,
our guy in Alvin, Texas. So any well, we'll send

(01:35:08):
that out and that'll be we'll keep you updated. So
and we have, by the way, we I think the
reason I should I should really stress this um and
because there's a time situation here. We we only have
till Tuesday. We don't have like a month, We only
have a few days to that. If it doesn't happen
by Tuesday night Wednesday, it's over. She has We have

(01:35:33):
to we have to, we have to expedite the process,
as they say, so all right, So the Ben Maller Show, Danny,
anything else you want to good on that, Danny, And
then you want to add here and we missed here
that you can add. No, No, guys did a really
good job, you know. And I know money's tight for
a lot of us, but really ten dollars each and
we could get it done in a couple of days. Well,
two thousand people one dollars each. Yeah, that'll work also,

(01:35:55):
but or ten bucks yet. All right, So the Ben
Maller Show on Fox, we will pivot back because I
don't think the genie hate when people speak for the dead.
But I want a positive show. I want a happy show.
I want a fund show. So we'll get back to
the fund, the Shenanigans and all that, all the good times.
If you would like to join us, get at us

(01:36:15):
on Twitter at Ben Maller, that is, at Ben Maller.
We will dabble in bookmaker logic. Bookmaker logic, we'll get
to that. We'll do it next on the Ben Maller Show.
We specialize in sarcasm, snark, and satire, all things needed
to survive the shady late night characters. On Twitter, let

(01:36:36):
your thoughts be heard by the masses under the cover
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He plays all the music and most of the funny
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but you can follow him at Danny ge Radio, Never
go in against the Sicilian and out live from the

(01:36:57):
Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. It's Ben Maller. All right,
very now, later this hour, boy, this is gonna be
an odd hour or radio. We go from what we've
done here to the lame joke segment here, Big Ben's
lame Jokes of the week. How's that gonna go out?
It'll be fun, We'll be our We're all we're we're
gonna be okay, all right, uh And we'll get to

(01:37:17):
the phone calls here. You want some of you want
to add Coopa loop here? Is that my career? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
just real quickly, I've I've field it a few calls
from people who who are not on Twitter or social
media platform and they've been curious on how to get
to that. If you if you just go to go
Fundme's homepage. Just go fund me dot com. There's a
search bar in the top left corner and if you

(01:37:38):
type in Genie in Medford, that's J E A N
I E Genie And there's like seventeen ways to spell
genie I've learned. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. But yeah, so
if you if you type that in genie in Medford,
it'll be the very first search result that comes up.
It's got a picture of a Medford statue and the
description mentions the Ben Maller Show and all that, so
you'll see it there. All right, thank you. I know

(01:38:00):
not everyone can help, but if you can, it's cool.
We got to do it by tuesdays, so thank you. Now,
Bookmaker logic, we pivot away from that bookmaker logic the
super Bowl matchups, the hypothetical super Bowl matchups. Now, we
had some very creative people that came up with possible
tabloid stories that will take place here this coming weekend,

(01:38:21):
which I love. I mean, some of these things are great.
I was laughing as I was going through, and I
don't think I can read most of these unfortunately, But anyway,
here it is the current super Bowl fifty two odds
We don't know who's in it yet, But if the
Philadelphia Eagles and the Patriots play, say the chalk does
not win out that the Patriots win, but the Eagles,

(01:38:43):
as a dog win at home and again home teams
have been perfect since twenty thirteen. If the Patriots play
the Eagles, Tom Brady will be a touchdown favorite. Pats
will open a seven point favorite. This is according to
William Hill's sports book, The Big One the Eagles. Should
they play Jacksonville, that would be the worst possible matchup.
Would that not be the worst matchup? Nick Foles, Blake Bortles,

(01:39:07):
what a stink bomb? That game would be a pick
them in Minnesota, Philadelphia versus Jacksonville. Now, should the Vikings
and the Patriots win, that's what we want because that's
good for our show. The Vikings and the Patriots, and
those are the favorites in Championship Conference Championship weekend. Here,
the Patriots would open up a field goal favorite over

(01:39:28):
the Vikings and the last combination, the last possibility the
Vikings and the Jags, and the Vikings open would open
up the Super Bowl a four and a half point favorite.
Should Jacksonville upset the Patriots and the Vikings win in Philadelphia.
So that is the situation now. Now the Patriot Viking thing,

(01:39:53):
that'd be pretty good. I'd like to see the NFL
marketing department selling Eagle Jags Super Bowl. That would be
Just to see the high wire act, I would absolutely
like to see that. I think that would be a
be an interesting sales job. Now, at the beginning of
the show, we had promoted the hell out of this
Verbal Octagon. We had sold it. We had real talk here,

(01:40:15):
we did the introductions. My god, there's a lot of
time that went into it. Time I could have spent
with my wife and my family, and instead we were
preparing for the Octagon and a guy didn't show up.
He's as our friend. I hear a boxer's voice in
my head saying that little weasel the voice I hear,

(01:40:38):
and we said that we wanted to make sure he
was alive, and once we found out he was alive,
it was going to be open season. And so let's
do that right now. We he is alive, he's only
two hours plus late. Oh no, for his scheduled appearance

(01:40:59):
in the Verbal octag gone. The caller formally known as
Blind Scott in Boston, Scott. What happened. I had like
the worst two months, the past two months, and I
had like really good news today. I didn't I didn't
stay up all day, and then I reconnected with my
ex girlfriend and I just been like an emotional state

(01:41:19):
of distress. I just don't feel good about myself. I
was available for the verbal acting and I had all
the material, right, I could have took him on. I
just my mom's sister coming at suicide. And then I
got diagnosed with tempatitis see and I took medication. It
got out of my system. I notified my girlfriend today
that I was healthy, and then we just everything went
down hill from that. That was the worst decision I made.

(01:41:41):
You know, Wow, all right, So but I talked to
you like two hours before you you We were exchanging
messages play. Yeah. I was trying to like be like
I was trying to find a way out. I was like,
I don't know if I can handle this now, but
I thought it would be all right. But then everybody
started messaging me and stuff, and I was like, I
ain't in the mood for this right now, you know,
I mean I think I can't, But all right, Well, listen.

(01:42:03):
I mean, these things happen in life, blind Scott. But you,
I mean, you know you know how it works, though, Scott,
You're gonna be torn apart. You realize that. I mean,
this is yeah, schedule now, but the worst of this
is over. I mean, I don't have type tightest anymore.
I could care less about losing in a verbal octagon.
I was walking around with type tightest sea for like
eight years. I don't even know I had it. You know,
did you have it? Did you have it when we met? Yeah?

(01:42:24):
I probably had it? Oh no, maybe panel tested. Your
wife's gonna dump you now, No, blind Scott, because I
took the seventy five thousand dollars medication. That was stressful
just getting a hold of that. Oh my fuck. Sports

(01:42:44):
radio can pay for that, Sure they will unless they don't. Yes,
all right, well, blind Scott. Listen. Now I'm gonna go
to the doctor. But that's all right. You suck, But
thank you, Blind Scott. We're gonna change your name for
a little bit, Blind Scott. We're gonna punish you with
a new name. You know that, dude. No, I don't mind,
I understand as long as it's not Scott. Because I
don't have that anymore formally, hepsi Scott, I don't know. Alright, alright,

(01:43:12):
blind Scott, all right, thank you, go away. There is
blind Scott dropping the hepsi bomb and some other stuff there.
It's uh wow, that's pretty uh pretty interesting, yes, pretty interesting.
I was hoping that, uh, you'd have a better excuse
than just I wasn't feeling my snooze alarm and at

(01:43:36):
that and I went on a bender or fall it
fell off the wagon. I would have taken that. I
would have taken that over that what I just got there.
Hell's going on seriously depressing. Man. We pick it up here,
you know it's gonna pick it up. Jokes. I needed,
you know what I'm gonna break. I'm gonna two segments
of jokes. Okay, we need two segments of jokes. Go back, Yes,

(01:43:58):
we need two segments flame jokes. We're gonna do two
damn segments of lame jokes. But right now, Eddie Garcia,
well I didn't say they'd be good jokes, but Eddie
Garcia will give you the latest. Eddie. All right, let's
start in the NFL where Patriots start. Quarterback Tom Brady
did not practice on Thursday because of a hand injury
suffered in practice the day before. The X ray is
on that throwing hand. We're negative, but he's expected to

(01:44:21):
play against the Jaguars. But will he be affected by
the injury? Tune in and find out. Ram's head coach,
Sean McVay, selected his Coach of the Year by the
Pro Football Writers of America in his first season as
an NFL head coach. He's the coach of the Year
in the NBA. Rockets beat the Timberwols one, sixteen to
ninety eight. James Harden back from injury he missed seven games.
He played twenty six minutes, ten points, seven assists in

(01:44:42):
the win for Houston. Seventy six ers go into Boston
knocker off the top team in the East of Celtics
eighty nine to eighty. Kyrie Irving was out of the
lineup for the Celtics with the sored's shoulder and the
Cavalier is gonna win over the Magic one oh four,
one oh three, but Cleveland still squeaking by an Orlando
team that has the most losses in the NBA. Supports
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note from college football where Florida Atlantic starting quarterback Jason
Driscoll announced he's retiring from football was twenty spite having
a year of eligibility remaining and coming off the season

(01:45:24):
where he was the MVP and the Boka concussions. No,
he just, uh, he's graduating. He's an engineer, going to
be a guy, and he's a smart guy. I guess
he's just like, yeah, I'm done. That's why football coaches
love dumb guys because they might do stuff like this, right,
because I want the meat head guy, because the meat

(01:45:46):
head guy's not gonna go pursue a career in engineering.
Said he has no interest in playing in the NFL,
so he's out. I'm gonna guess the NFL doesn't have
a lot of interest in you. How about that? Probably fair? Yeah, Yeah,
I'm gonna go go down that highway, all right. So yeah,
the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. By the way, I've
been really quick before we get to the jokes. Yes,

(01:46:07):
what a great community we have, this little family of ours.
In just a couple of minutes, we're already up to
six hundred and seventy five dollars. Really, yeah, I have
not shocked. That's awesome. I haven't even posted on Facebook
and right now I haven't had it. I haven't. You know,
I'm doing the show, so I haven't been able to
put the my I'm gonna contribute as well, of course,
and all we all will, I'm sure and I I'll

(01:46:29):
do that. I'll do that in the morning. But thank you,
thank you, and I appreciate it. So and and wait
till the podcast people get because the podcast like time
shit time to laydon on. One caller called in and
made a suggestion. I think it's a great suggestion because
I think the caller was accurate. He believes that we're
gonna we're gonna blow past the goal. I agree, And

(01:46:51):
and he wants us to get a statue erected in
front of Staples Center. Happened, Well, yeah, we'll say she
played for the Lakers in the sixties, and uh put

(01:47:12):
a Laker jersey on. They'll give her a statue. What yes,
she was local from Compton. She's that's what she said.
I mean, why not? Yes, all right, to come down?
All right, Well this is we've had we started out,

(01:47:33):
this is how this is gone. We started out with
the the fight the Verbal Octagon, which was a complete
poop show. That's a good introduction though. I was very
proud of that. I was like, I spent, I want
to do the right way. Scott doesn't show up. We
did the genie thing and now uh and now then
Scott calls up and drops a HEPSI bomb. Uh and

(01:47:55):
so who was that? You said? Anonymous? We can't say
who that was. They called in with that. Yeah, I
don't think he wants Well, whoever you are, thank you.
That was good. Yeah, that was a good line. I
liked it. Yeah, Like, what if we do go over,
then I just want to get to the goal. But
if we do go over, I mean we've got to go.
We could get a star on the Walk of Fame,
right you can, Yeah you can put Jim graded. Yeah

(01:48:17):
you can absolutely do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.
What can we do to honor the right? Like, what
do you do to honor a radio caller? Like you know,
what's the way to do it? Well, AJ tweeted in
that we should have her ashes in the studio with us. Yeah,
we can. You could put as a monument. I was
gonna say, you know, you've got that trophy. Case I

(01:48:38):
don't know. That should be your final resting places we
honor Casey. Case I'm still across the hall. That's true, Casey.
We could maybe put her next to Casey there. Yeah,
I will do something. We'll figure it out. Let's uh,
we're getting we're getting ahead of ourselves. You can't what's
the old the hokey line, don't put the cart before
the horse. Yeah, I think something like that. Yeah, that's

(01:48:59):
the line. That's what I was looking for. Absolutely. All right,
let's let's get to it. Here we go, let's knock, knock,
who's there? Lame week? Blame week too. It's Big Bend's
lame joke of the week. All right, here we go.
It's Big Bend's lame jokes, and we let's have some fun.
All right. That's the serious life crap which we all hate.
All right, Well, I like life, but you know some

(01:49:19):
of the stuff we don't like. Okay, boy, getting old sucks, Eddie,
I gotta tell you that getting old sall hear. Can
we just go back a few years when people didn't
die around us and stuff? Yeah, that would be better.
All right, here we go. It's Big Ben's Lame Jokes
of the Week, actual jokes from actual listeners like yourself.
We got a ton of jokes. I was worried, I'm
not gonna lie. I woke up and I thought I

(01:49:40):
had a feeling we weren't gonna have too many jokes,
and I thought, oh, I'm screwed. We're just gonna not
even do the segment. And then I was like overwhelmed, flooded.
All day long, jokes were coming in. It was great.
And the way this works now, I will read the joke,
I will bounce it off Eddie. Eddie will then throw
a bounce pass back my direction and plausibly, I will
give you the punchline. That's that's what's supposed to happen.

(01:50:00):
I will give you the punchline. At that point, Danny
g will chime in and you'll hear this. If it
is funny, you'll hear this if it's not funny. And
if it could go either way, you'll hear this funny. Oh,
Genie out there. You all right? And Cooper Loop's got

(01:50:21):
his offensive jokes of the week, the whole thing I got. Now,
do we have our lead off hitter? I see some
some lines there. Maybe Coop's gonna try to find a
lead off hitter I have. If you want to smile,
you know who's's my laughter? My personal laugh track is
my personal laugh track. There, weed man, hippie, are you there?
Weed Man? Then? I love you? Make me laugh? All right,
we need to laugh? Yes, all right, now, Sirius Sean

(01:50:42):
is gonna be our lead off hitter. Sirius Seawan, do
you have a good joke for Sean? Hello, Sean, I
love you. I love you too. Man, all stop with
this shit, I mean please, I'm gonna throw off. Okay,
come on here. What do we have? Cohay? Okay, yeah.
What is the difference between the else cowboys in a
dollar bill? Dallas cowboys in a dollar bill? Oh? I think? Okay,

(01:51:05):
go ahead, I might have heard this a million times.
Go ahead, you can still get four quarters out of
a dollar bill. That joke goes back to like nineteen
seventy two. All right, thank you, shar bye bye bye bye.

(01:51:28):
All right, next week, a joke from the sixties. All right,
so very exciting. All right, let's get started. Why were
the London Jaguars fans so perplexed during the last playoff game? Um?
I don't know why, Ben. Why were those Jaguars fans
so complex they didn't want to root against Big Ben?
So Eric, Eric the Goblin King, He Eric sent me

(01:51:53):
the most jokes I've ever gotten from one listener. He
said he's leaving his job. So all week on the
third shifts, he just wrote jokes. All week, he just
wrote jokes. Yeah, good on top. Yeah. Did you hear
the latest weather report in Mexico at No? I did not. Yeah,
it's a chili today, hot Tamali. That's from Surfer Todd,

(01:52:18):
the comedian. Surfer Todd the Comedian. Uh, what do you
call a pig with no legs? Pig with no legs?
I don't know, Ben, what do you call it? Groundhog?
Just Josh set that one in All right? Why well,
all right, we'll do this. Ye. Why are NFL referees

(01:52:41):
buried ten feet under when they die? Eddie? Um? I
don't know why, Ben, because deep down they are good people.
Oh that isn't funny. Surfer Todd the comedian. All right,
why was weed Man Hippie absent from the Monday night
edition of the show. That's a good question. Why was
weed Man hit he absent? He was trying to climb

(01:53:02):
to the top of Mallar's Mountain of money. H Cooper Loop,
anything here, any any jokes? You got anything for him? Yeah?
You want my I go not so bad? Yeah? I
think you start out. You don't go right to the
to the kill shot. You know, when you do an interview,

(01:53:24):
you ask, you have to ask a softball question, and
then you go for the juggular. That's right, that's right,
all right? Yeah, what did Stephen Hawkings say when his
computer crashed? This is a soft all right, I don't
know nothing. Thanks weed Man. Weed Man didn't even care.

(01:53:45):
I was coming to laugh at everything. All right, Florida,
this is an amazing story. Did you see this? Florida
could declare poor and a health risk? Oh really? Yeah,
apparently doctors are warning against carpal tunnel and poor eyesight
from Brian in Portland. Does erk yourself away? Believe that's Portland, Maine,
not Portland, Oregon. Those cities don't care much for each other,

(01:54:09):
all right, let's pause for the cause. Here, here we go.
Everyone stand down. We've saved the better jokes. Those are
just the appetizer jokes. Those are the warm up jokes.
We'll get to the rest of Big Ben's lame Jokes
of the week. We will do that, and we will
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(01:54:50):
the lame jokes of the week, send in by listeners
like yourself. Get our laugh on here we are you
still there? We'd man, I will try to make you laugh.
Let's see here, trying to figure out I got it.
I got a lot of jokes, and I got pages
of jokes here. All right, let's see here. Why was

(01:55:12):
Nashville Danny not able to file his taxes on time.
Um no, I don't know, Ben, Why why was that? Well,
he went online to file, but he swears that the
internet was closed that day so he couldn't. Eric the
Goblin King send that one in? All right? President Trump
wants to have people from Norway immigrate to the US. Eddie, Yeah,

(01:55:35):
about that is going to start this weekend with the
Vikings invading the East Coast from all right? Nick and
Lamar's Eyoa. It's the ice cream capital of the world,
home of the Wells Blue Bunny ice cream brand. Yeah,
it's good ice cream. How does Danny and Nashville find
his family history? I don't know. How does Danny and

(01:55:57):
Nashville find his family history? Just sent this to Coop
in sstry dot com. David Opasso said that Sorry, sorry, Coop,
I was good. I should have sent that to Coop
all right? Whatever? Uh? Why did Angry Build cancel his

(01:56:19):
match dot com account? Oh? I don't know, Ben, Why
did he cancel that? He didn't need it. They built
a new pet shelter in his neighborhood. So that was
Eric the Goblin King? You sent that one in? All right? Uh?

(01:56:41):
What's the difference between a baby and a salad. This
is from John the jailer sent this one. And what's
a baby and a what? A baby in a salad?
Baby in a salad? I don't know, Ben, what's it called? Geez? Alright? Alright? Cool?
I don't think I give a punchline, right, Coop, I
don't think. Well, most people don't get angry when you

(01:57:03):
toss up a salad. They don't hit it, don't get upset. Wow,
he don't even know weds no idea. I might have
put an extra word in their shoes for Yeah, we
want to keep our our gig here. It's big Ben's
lamb jokes and we Cooper Loop? What you got anything

(01:57:23):
over there? Cooper Loop? Yeah? What what did Californians chase
a shot of fireball with? Californis? What do they chase
a shot of fireball with? I don't know? Mudslides? Weed man?
Have you seen the news? Wen? We man? Good situation?

(01:57:45):
We'd man? All right? Well, President Trump got some good
news and bad news last week, Eddie. The bad news
is that Mike Flynn rolled over on Trump and that
Russian probe apparently right, that's the bad news, all right,
what's good news. Well, the good news at least it

(01:58:06):
wasn't Governor Christie. Oh, that isn't funny. That's like a
that's a fat joke. I think that's a fat joke.
And Danny didn't laugh at a fat joke. He always
laughs at fatch jokes. He didn't like this fat joke.
All we're keeping going his Big Ben's Bartolo cologne, Joe,
that is not you're correct, that is not a Barto.
Has he signed with anybody? Bartolo cologne? We screwed as

(01:58:26):
he had a baseball I don't think he signed with anybody.
Has he? No, you hope he has signed. I mean
I hope he's not on a base Yeah, I know
that's what I'm saying. All Right, Big Ben's lame jokes
of the week. What else we have? All right? Saints
coaches told Marcus Williams to listen to Tupac music this offseason, right, Yeah,
they want him to download the song keep your head up, Kurt.

(01:58:50):
Kurt from Earth sent that you're a big Tupac guy,
Danny g That's yep, that's classic Tupacs on right. That
mask he wears every Christmas. No, it's a good, good mask, alright,
anything else? Who worries it all the damn time. Here's
another one from Kurt. I got a bunch from Kurt.
Did you hear, Eddie, Chris Paul is guaranteeing a championship?

(01:59:13):
I did not hear that. Now he said, yeah, he said,
if the Rocks loose, don't worry, they'll just break into
the winning team's locker room and steal the trophy. Kurt
from Earth it was a Resa, not CP three. Yeah whatever? Please?
All right? Well, Genie, we got Genie jokes. Genie's will

(01:59:34):
was filed and Metford, Oregon. Eddie, okay, that sense? According
to documents, she left Bartolo Cologne, her peach cobbler. You
didn't like that. I skipped over the other Genie. Genie
didn't even like it. She didn't like that either. All right,
I got the close anything else cool? I got the
clos here. So if you anything else or you know,

(01:59:54):
I don't know how to pronounce this, so I never
started you before, right, I mean I got some other
ones I could. I don't know. These are some of
these retrospect I don't here's a poser here, Well, President Trump,
it turned out it was revealed this week the President
Trump wanted the national championship game named after him. I

(02:00:15):
didn't know that. Unfortunately, Eddie, the Orange Bowl already taken.
The Big Bend's lame jokes all the week. That's from
Nick again and the high screamed capital of the World.
Lamar's Iowa. All right there it is Big Bend's lame jokes.
All right, stop laughing. It's annoying me. Now, thank you,
all right, the weed man hippie there helping us out

(02:00:37):
on Big Bend's lame jokes. That we thank you guys,
by the way, you've done a wonderful, wonderful job sending
those jokes in. And if you have a joke and
you don't have to just wait till the end of
the week. The way it works, whenever you find a joke,
just make sure you put jokes in the headline and
send it care of the Ben Mallers Show to Ben
Mallers Show at gmail dot com, see that Ben Mallers

(02:00:59):
Show at gil dot com. And then usually Thursday evening,
Thursday afternoon, I will go through all of the jokes
and after a while all of them, all of them
start sounding the same. And then I read as many
as I can on the air. Do you see the
NHL has decided to stand behind the Kid Rock pick

(02:01:19):
for the All Star get We talked about this yesterday.
My man Eddie was unaware of this, this Kid Rocks
scandal on social media. But NHL's not back. Now. This
is great publicity for hockey because the NHL's on the
front page all these sports blocks. People are talking about
the NHL and all time great defense. Have you lost

(02:01:42):
your bleeping mind? It's out of control of the lead
up to championship weekend? Conference Championship weekend in the NFL.
We will discuss welcome in the beginning of another hour.
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This is it. Here we are, This is the weekend
right the road to Super Bowl fifty two. We will
find out who's in and who's out. Of course, the

(02:02:25):
better stories than losing locker room, we know that. But
in the lead up to the games, this weekend, the
Viking Eagle game. I'm not gonna lie to you. There's
not a lot of buzz for that. Now. I realize
that we're on the radio in Minnesota right now, we
got people listening in Philadelphia also, and for you, yes, absolutely,
I get it, I understand. But we're looking for a
lot of a lot of juice, and there's not a

(02:02:47):
lot of juice around that game. There's not it's hard
to upsell Case Keenum and Nick Foles. And since the
quarterbacks are you know, the ken Dolls of the NFL,
and they're the pretty boys and everyone talks about with
them more than anything else, that's a that's a big deal.
And they're just not polarizing or even all that interesting.

(02:03:07):
And so that's that's a fact now that that could
conceivably change. I promise that should Minnesota win, for example,
and the Vikings are playing whoever in the Super Bowl,
you will see so many think pieces on case Keenum
and profile stories about him. You'll know everything. You'll know
when he learned how to flush the toilet, wipe his

(02:03:31):
own ass. You'll hear all of that about Case Keenum.
Should the Vikings win on Sunday, But the game this weekend.
That's getting the chatter. The most chatter is Jacksonville and
New England. It's mainly about New England. We've talked about this.
But if you're new, this hours and this is the hour.
A lot of people getting up early to try to
get the jump to go to work and you're you're
trying to beat the traffic if you will. But the

(02:03:54):
the story, at least that's what I'm told. I don't know,
maybe he just can't sleep. But here's the deal. Tom
Brady because he's missed practice, he missed part of a practice,
he's missed another practice. Because of that, the point spread
has changed in the Patriot Jags game. There's some sharp
betters that see value. They see that the point spread

(02:04:15):
was too big. The Patriots were favored by nine, and
it's gone all the way down to seven and a half.
It's a it's a surprising move. Surprising move considering the
fact that no one has said yet that Tom Brady's
not going to play, and the assumption is that he
will play the Patriots. My theory is they're using gamesmanship.
It's also possible they're just being extra cautious that you know,

(02:04:39):
and how horrid is he. I mean, there's a lot
of layers to this, but the part I wanted to
get into as far as this matchup, the thing that's
got my attention the state run NFL media. They have
been working themselves into assaulted Pretzel, trying to come up
with a way to sell Jacksonville, and they've they've settled in,

(02:05:01):
you can't sell Blake Bortles. No one's gonna buy it.
Blake Bortles is the product that's on the shelf that
no one buys. And so instead, the state run NFL
media is decided, we want to sell Jacksonville's defense. We're
gonna sell it. We're gonna sell it hard, and everyone's
gonna buy it. Everyone's gonna buy They're gonna want to
get a piece of Jacksonville's defense. Now, they really, they
really want you to believe that this ferocious front line

(02:05:25):
has a wonderful opportunity of dethroning the Patriots in Foxborough,
of taking them down in Foxborough. Now, if you've not
been paying attention to the propaganda that has been coming out,
you might have missed the NFL social media channels and
the NFL TV network trumpeting that Calais Campbell, Jalen Ramsey,

(02:05:51):
and the Jags are a historical defense. I am not kidding.
I'm not making this up. Now. Twenty seventeen Jacksonville Jags defense.
Let's get into this now. This is what the NFL
is promoting here. That this defense this year in Jacksonville
has allowed fewer points per game than the fifteen Bronco defense,

(02:06:15):
the twenty fifteen Brocco defense that won Super Bowl. That
the Jags this year have allowed fewer passing yards per
game than the Seattle defense, the great Legion of Boom
that won the Super Bowl a few years before that
in twenty thirteen. And that they have more sacks than
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the QB killing Warren Sap

(02:06:35):
way back in O two. And but wait, there's more.
That this Jacksonville defense better third down defense than the
Ray Lewis two thousand Baltimore in your face all the
way to the Super Bowl rate, and they even had
the hutspun the NFL marketing department no shame in their game.

(02:06:58):
They even went as far as to compare Jacksonville's defense
this year to the gold standard, to the thing everything
else is judged by in defensive football, the nineteen eighty
five Chicago Bears, and they said this Jacksonville defense had
more defensive touchdowns than the iconic Bears defense with Mike

(02:07:20):
Singletary and Richard Dent from those days back in the
Bronze age of the nineteen eighties. There's a lot of numbers.
There's a lot of numbers here, all right. So I
wanted to talk about this. I want to get into
it with you. Another question. I'm not buying this, but
do you buy this? Do the Jags, the Jaguires deserve

(02:07:41):
to be talked about alongside all time great defenses in
NFL history. Again, just to repeat my position is absolutely not,
absolutely not. There's a couple of things here, My my,
my thoughts, of my thoughts on this. You've got cherry picking,
premature puffery. And I'll toss on top of that country bumpkins,

(02:08:04):
all right, country bumpkins, And I'll tie all these things
together for I'll link them all together. Now. Number one,
I get what's going on here. I'm not naive to it.
But the NFL it's in their best interest to sell
Jacksonville and sell them hard. And I will give the
NFL pr department an A for effort, but I want

(02:08:24):
to give them a D minus for execution. That's what
I'm gonna do. Jacksonville is a regional team. And when
I see regional team, I'm talking about just about city
limits in Jacksonville. That's that's the region. Okay, which is fine.
I mean they've sucked for a long time. You should
not have sucked. But they're a regional team. They have
about the size following of your random w NBA team.

(02:08:48):
They're at that level. They're w NBA like. So in
order to drum up excitement, what they have done here
the NFL is they've cherry picked stats. That's what they've done. Now,
it's it's easy to do that. It's easy to do that,
and I get I understand what's going on, but it's
it's also the other thing is that it's called stacking

(02:09:08):
the deck. Right, You stacked the deck, and for this
to work, you have to ignore. If you're gonna stack
the deck, you have to ignore the counter evidence. Right,
You're you're a smart person. You know this, such as
if you look at this Ravens defense and compare them
to the greats the nineteen eighty five Chicago Bears defense
in the postseason. I believe they're still the only team

(02:09:29):
to do this. They had back to back shutouts in
the playoffs, and they gave up then ten points in
the Super Bowl. That's the that's the barometer that all
other defenses are judged by. Now, that Ravens defense in
two thousand, which the NFL mentioned, you know, Jacksonville was
better in third down defense. What a great stat that

(02:09:50):
is for everything else and said that, you know, they're similar.
That Ravens defense gave up twenty three total points in
four postseason games. They had to play the wild card
round the Ravens in two thousand and But you know,
we can go further and further if you want, I can.
I can go all night with this or all morning. Now,
the Buccaneers that won the Super Bowl with John Gruden,

(02:10:11):
they had a defense that gave up thirty seven points
in three playoff games. The Broncos of a couple of
years back, the twenty fifteen Broncos, they allowed forty four
points in three playoff games. This Jacksonville defense has already
given up forty five points in two playoff games. So
that doesn't sound doesn't sound like they're on the same

(02:10:33):
parallel level with the Bears, Ravens, Bucks, Broncos, and even Seattle,
who's on this list as well. Now, the second part
of this, the NFL is also guilty of dabbling in
premature puffery. Right premature Now, I think there's a pill
for that. I think you can get a pill and
it'll help you out. Jacksonville's got a hyper aggressive defense.

(02:10:56):
I get that they're not minced meat, they're not chopped.
This is a good defensive team, but based on years
of incompetence, that's how they got there. They've had been
in the top ten pretty much my entire life, it
feels like. And they've also had money because they have
to overpay to get people to come there, and so
they built. They built a defense with a bunch of

(02:11:17):
guys in the first round and some free agents that
they've paid a lot for that have played well, like
Calais Cannibell. They got a bunch of guys that looked
like a Donnis and he Man playing defense, which is fine,
but the eyeball test tells you that this is not
a historic defense. Minnesota and Denver this year, the Vikings
and Broncos and Broncos got gouged at points in the season.

(02:11:41):
The Broncos and Vikings this year were ahead of Jacksonville
in total defense. Do you know what? Jacksonville was third.
The Vikings also and the LA Chargers were ahead of
Jacksonville in terms of scoring defense, which is the most
important I believe, the most important category for a defense.
So it sounds like a compelling argument. Can you can

(02:12:03):
make a more compelling argument about the Minnesota Vikings defense
this year? The purple people eaters that that's a better
defense than the Jacksonville defense. So I guess if you
like defensive football, you'd have you'd be totally aroused if
Jacksonville and Minnesota play in the Super Bowl, because that
would be these top defensive teams. Boy, that'd be a

(02:12:25):
tough sell though, that would be a tough sell. Now,
the parting shot and the last thing, last thing on
this since I am an advisor and that's what I do,
I give that advice under the cover of darkness to
random NFL teams and the NFL in general. I want
to help out the PR guys at Professional Football market
mark that's right, marketing, one on one. This is how

(02:12:45):
you sell the game. You sell it the page. I'm
talking about the Patriots and the Jags AFC Championship game.
It's the halves versus the have nots, Right, that's how
you say it has versus the half nots. Jacksonville right,
fresh blood and all I pound the pound the whole
David versus Goliath storyline. But when you compare Jacksonville to

(02:13:07):
the hallow defenses of the NFL, you not only embarrass
yourself because everyone knows you're reaching, it also makes me
believe that you think the people that pay attention to
this kind of stuff are country bumpkins, that they are
a bunch of rubes and they're just gonna fall for
all your bs. I mean, come on now, please stop.

(02:13:31):
All right, it's the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. On Fox,
we say hello to Edmund Dallas steam boat, Willie Garcia
right over there. Well, it has been quite a night,
Ben Maller, It's been quite a night, and one of
the more zenie nights. This is one of those here

(02:13:52):
most I haven't talk any about sporting events. You only
remember the emotional peak and then you remember the ending.
Like when my radio career is over, I'll only remember
the end. Of it, and then I'll make this will
be like one of the handful of shows I'll probably remember,
this will be one of those. Well, we started on
a high note with the buzz and anticipation of a
verbal octicon. We flash of the Titans. They thought material.
I have to go back and here the podcast to

(02:14:13):
find out why that didn't happen. Blind Scott A no
show on that. But we are wrapping up the show
with the best of the Mallar militia coming through strong
with what we're doing for Genie and Medford. So yeah,
all's well, that ends well, I guess yeah, if you're
just joining us this hour. We found out we people
have been asking our friend Genie that called the show
for years and was a staple staple of our show,

(02:14:37):
and people have been asking, you know where can I sign?
Can I sign a guest book for Can I donate money?
Can I donate flowers to the family and all that,
And we've been saying, hey, well, as soon as we
find out information, we'll pass it on you. And we
found out and the information we found out it's not good,
but we want to do the right thing and we're
trying to raise a little bit of money to help
out the cost Genie. It was a strange from a

(02:15:00):
family and so if you want to read more about it,
you can go to my twitter feed. There's a go
fund me page that if we just go to the
GoFundMe dot com and type in probably type in our show,
I would think, and that would come up. Or yeah,
and you could type in Genie in Medford j E
A N. I Ea. We've done very well. We are
well on our way. Yeah, we're not there yet, and

(02:15:21):
there's still still a lot of work to do, but
we're a lot we're all I mean, we're what's the
percentage right now over we're over half where we need
to be in less than an hour. That's amazing, awesome,
keep it going, keep it going, Let's finish strong. Yeah, well,
we can just get this done right now tonight. I mean,
we have to get it done by Tuesday because we're

(02:15:42):
you know again, I don't want to get in too
much here, but it's all all the details are on
the go fund me page. But we're trying to give
her a human dignity, right, human respect when you check
out and all that. So we're trying to do the
right thing for our friend Genie in Medford. All right,
so Ben Maller's show on Fox later this So we're
gonna have Ballder Dash, Balleder Dash. We're also gonna have

(02:16:04):
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the Coop Scoop on Entertainment in a moment. A buddy
of mine, Steve, who's a long time p one. I've
actually met Steve back in the day. He told him,

(02:16:48):
I guess I can say this on the air now.
He believes he actually ran into Genie and Medford years
ago when she was in Southern California. So and he
had he had sent me this story like five years ago.
He had sent me the story, and he sent it
again just to remind me of at the ballet she
used to work at. No, not at not at the ballot.

(02:17:09):
Maybe the opposite of the ballet anyway, All right, to
the phones we go. Who better now than Rachel and
mana bellow, our friend, the lovely and talented Rachel and Manabello.
Hello Rachel, you wish upon a star Dan, Dan anticipation,
I was at the ready buy the phone, trying to

(02:17:30):
get into your lines to listen to the Octagon, and
my heart, Oh, I was so disappointed. Well, that was
a great octagon. I was a real talk. He had
a walk off when it was shocking he didn't get
bloodied at all. There were It was really impressive real
talks performance. Then the Mallar Friendship one was all fueled

(02:17:51):
up and ready with a team of bloodhounds at the
ready to travel through the snow laden skies of Boston
to search for blind Scott. Yeah, well you don't want
to get too close to him because he's got hepsi.
Well I guess he used to have hepsi, but from
what I understand, Ben, pepsi is not contagious. Or maybe
I'm wrong. Oh good, Okay, I don't have to worry

(02:18:12):
because I had pizza with him in Boston, right across
from an old hockey rink. Yeah, so I don't need
to I've been reading about hepsi here on the internet.
After that, it's like, Ben, blind Scott owes you and
you're Bennett's a pizza party. That's a good point. At
the very least, that's a good point. We should we

(02:18:34):
should get him to pay. That would start the healing process.
I think I would feel a little bit better about
blind Scott if we had a piece of pizza pie here.
I think I think he owes it to you. Ben.
You're good, Rachel. Let me tell you something waterfall idea. Rachel,
you're You're an ideas woman, is what you are. You
know it. Then, also, for Geanie, what about a little statue?
I'm sure that militia have we have some artisans or

(02:18:57):
sculptors that could make a little statue for you. That's
a good idea of the wondering thing about Genie. She's
a woman of mystery though, and people have been asking,
you know, where's the photo. We don't have one because
she was a strange from her family. We've been trying
to track one down. If we can get one, we'll
pass it on. But yeah, that'd be what we think.
A lot of people have ideas what Genie looks like,

(02:19:18):
but it's hard to it's hard to say. So, all right, Rachel,
everything good with you? Yes, thank you? All right, thank you, Rachel.
All right, there she goes, lovely Rachel. Where she goes?
Only she knows? Is Chris still there? Chris has been
on the entire show. He's been on Hold. Are you
you're not there, Chris? You hung up hours ago? Yes?
Oh my god, he's still there. You gotta golden ticket.

(02:19:39):
You gotta golden ticket. Never made my day? Right? Thank you? Then?
I still do because you sure you know, I know
you're disappointed, just like the NFL. You know, you must
have like an unbelievable phone battery or your phone is
plugged in here, because that's a lot of time on hold. Man,
I'll listen to your so night while it worked, so

(02:20:01):
I use that much battery. But I feel like I
was disappointed, like the NFL, disappointed with a lot of
these games this year. You know, we were so pumped
for the for the verbal so called verbal octagon, And yes,
it's so difficult. I admit that. It's like I took
a knee. I didn't blind Scott took a knee. I
didn't take any blind Scott took a knee. Bad job

(02:20:22):
by bad job. That's a bad job, man, I tell
you now, now I see you. Uh you show did
skip over the fact that the Rockets looked real good again,
you know last night, you know, you know we got
that big game coming up there? Did they have to
did they have to take a gang of goons and
run into the other team's locker room. They didn't do that,

(02:20:44):
did they? No, they took the fall guys out. Man,
You know, all right, he took out all the fill guys.
I would argue, this is the most embarrassing thing that's
ever happened to the Rockets? Am I wrong on? That's
Blake the Slake, That's what it is. You know what
I told you before? The two all the lovable losers
of the in what happened to? Names will never hurt me.
What happened to that? What like were man Blake? Because

(02:21:08):
Blake Griffin talked trash and Austin Rivers talk trash. All
NBA players talk trash. Who cares? But Austin Rivers is
hide behind his dad. That's the only thing. He wouldn't
even be in an NBA if it wasn't for his dad.
And you know what, Chris, you well, I would be
doing football games on TV if my dad was a
sportscaster that happened to be on TV. And if if

(02:21:30):
your dad happened to be an NBA coach, Chris, you'd
be a backup point guard in the NBA right now, no, no, now,
back on the NFL with the Championship weekend, after that
dud of the so called supposed to be this great, great,
great just battle of the two class tidis that it
didn't happen earlier. Now, my my uh prediction is Blake

(02:21:53):
Bortles well still, oh you needed a sound effect? Yeah,
I already gave you a going and you're now you're
boring me. You're all over the play, You're all over
the map there, no, no, no, no no. Wouldn't it
be crazy if Blake Bortle goes and throws for like
three hundred yards and four touchdowns, Now that would be

(02:22:13):
a shocker, wouldn't it. Oh yeah, that's what we were
doing the headlining. Yeah. That if Blake Bortles out placed.
If Tom Brady has like two interceptions no touchdowns and
Blake Bortles has four touchdowns three hundred and fifty yards passing, uh,
we're all gonna die. The world's a good end. Yeah
that's right. Yeah, you know, you know, but y'all take care.
All right, there he goes all right, that Chris, he's
got his golden ticket. Uh. We weed Man, real quick,

(02:22:36):
we gotta get to the Coop scoop on entertainment. Weed Man,
are you there? Weed Man? It's a family show, Ben,
and I'm all about love and you know, I don't
have any family, and you are as quotes as I
have to a family. I'm serious about that. And days
go by and you are the only person you and
Coop that I actually speak to physically. That's wow. I

(02:23:00):
love you and everyone love you, man. But we want
you know, you should go out and meet people though
week where don't you want a conference call with your wife?
That's a good point. Wait, hold on a seg man.
Coop brings up a good point. We've been on like
a three way conversation with us, and then your wife's
been on the phone. Also, my wife's on the phone
right now. Say something, Lisa, who would you say anything?

(02:23:30):
You just said you have no family? How you say
you don't talk to anyone? You did your wife not
count as a human being? You jerk out there? You
I love six hund Lisa, Lisa? Is that a true story? Lisa? Did?
Did Billy lose that amount of money? Lisa? Okay? Look,

(02:24:00):
I love you all right. Everybody focused on love with
the vibration of the world. Crap. I have not had
any entertainment, alright, delusions, There is no Leasa. He just
talks to himself on the phone. He's an imaginary friend, Lisa.
All right. Well, we'll get to the coop school here

(02:24:21):
in a moment, but first, Eddie is gonna give you
the latest on Fox. Eddie well been in the NFL.
Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady did not practice Thursday because
of a hand injury he suffered in practice the day before.
X rays on his story hand we're negative, and he
is expected to play against the Jaguars, but this injury
has brought up some concern for Patriots fans. Rams Head
coach Sean McVeigh selected as the Coach of the Year,

(02:24:43):
but the Pro Football Writers of America, and his first
year as an NFL head coach in the NBA, Rockets
get James Harden back in the line up. They beat
the Timberwolves one sixteen to ninety eight. Harden, who had
missed seven games with an injury, played twenty six minutes.
He had ten points and seven assists. Sixers without or
should say the Celtics without Kyrie Irving losing Home of
the six Ers eighty nine to eighty Irving out with

(02:25:03):
a sore shoulder, and the Cavalier is gonna win, edging
the Magic four to one oh three, but Cleveland barely
squeaks by Orlando, which has the most losses in the NBA.
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(02:25:24):
more confident card buying experience. But I don't know if
you saw this story about Joel and bead Now. He
was named as an All Star for the first time
and apparently he's been going after the music star Rihanna,
yeah and social media right, he had tried to tried
to get a date with her. Yeah, And apparently the

(02:25:45):
legend goes that she told him, when you're an All Star,
come back and talk to me. Well, now that he's
an All Star, was brought up, are you gonna now
try and approach Rihanna? And apparently he uh, he says
now I moved on. Gibby really says he's not interested anymore.
He's full of it. I would guarantee you if Rihanna says, hey,
I want to date UNA's hands and knees in her

(02:26:08):
ms right now with with a screenshot of his All
Star nomination, how much you want to bet Rihanna shows
up to the NBA All Star Game and there will
be a made for TV NBA marketing moment there. I'd
say it's likely that brings up a good question though,
like that when back in we're married Eddie, me and you.
But back in the day, there's two types of guys,
all right. There's the type of guy that when woman's

(02:26:31):
not interested and then comes back around it's interested, you
say no. Then there's the type of guy when the
woman is not interested, but then she comes back around
You're like, yes, yes, yes, I want to go out
with her. Which kind of guy were you at? I
was the second guy. Yeah, I'm the same way. I mean,
you know, women were so mean to me when I
was dating anything, anyone that showed interests. I was like,

(02:26:52):
oh my god, they actually were interested. I get. I
don't know if I guess there's certain guys that's just
you know, there's so the ladies men. I guess, Danny
g Yeah, Danny, do you probably? I was kind of bitter. Yeah,
Like I think about in my twenties and there was
a girl playing hard to get and it lasted for
too long, and then when she did come around, I

(02:27:13):
was like, Nope, already onto the next one, moved on,
turned the page. Yeah, Coop, you want to anything? Yeah, no,
no dating talking. All right, Oh, let's get to it.
Any I don't care about your stupid dating story, Ben,
Let's get to the entertainment. Holorady for Hollywood. A few
people left in Hollywood. The Coop Scoop on entertainment, which

(02:27:34):
is really just turned in to what's new on Netflix? Yes,
what's on Netflix this weekend? That's not completely true. I
also do like I like to go back and once
because I recommend stuff without having you know, seen it
it's up coming, I want to let you know what's happening.
But then after I've seen it, I do like to
revisit it and let you know how it was. I
did watch. I finally watched, and this is sports related

(02:27:56):
to I finally watched the movie. Iitonia uh the other day. Yeah,
I have that. I have a copy that. Yeah, you
didn't watch it yet. No, I have no interest in it. Really. Yeah,
it's pretty fantastic, man, I would I would check it out.
Did you go see it because of Margot Robbie. Well,
I also have a screen or DVD, so I didn't
go watch. I got the same screen or DVD, but

(02:28:17):
I haven't watched it. I found out that Margot Robbie
played in the ice hockey league that I play in,
so apparently she does have some experience skating before she
got this role. Wow, that's interesting. Yeah. No, Margot Robbie's
fantastic in the movie, and I definitely would recommend seeing it.
I would say that I watched it. I'm curious at
how much how much accuracy there is because at the

(02:28:38):
end of the movie, I felt I felt a lot
of sympathy for for Tanya Harding. So I'm a big
Alison was fantastic. She was so good. In fact, I
would even put her performance above Margot Robbie's sympathy for
Tanya Harding. Yes, watch the movie, man, I mean you don't.
You don't have sympathy for anyone, So I don't. But

(02:28:59):
but my point is local, like, if you position stuff
that it's like, it's my same argument, it's creative marketing.
It's like people are convinced Jacksonville is going to beat
the Patriots because the NFL and their PR people have
sitting out all these stats. They've cherry pick stats and
all that. It's they can position anything. You can change mind. Well,
sure exactly. I mean the movie was was geared towards that.

(02:29:20):
So that's why I wonder. I wonder how much of
that's you know, real, But you know, okay, anyway you're
you worked in movies, none of it's probably real, right,
it's not necessarily maybe, I don't know, all right, Moving
on premiering premiering today actually and not just on Netflix,
Ben uh today on HBO is the new season of

(02:29:43):
High Maintenance. It's the it's the half hour comedy. Yeah,
it's about it's about this weed dealer that rides around
on his bicycle. He's kind of kind of like this hipster,
kind of like hippie dude. Yeah, yeah, kind of. Actually, Ben,
you would like this show. Yeah, okay, Yeah, it's it's
pretty funny. My wife's always complaining that I only watch
sports and I don't like anything she likes, so we

(02:30:04):
can find something that we would like. Neutral ground, I'd
be all for. Well, it's about it's about weeds. I
don't know how much she'd like. Oh, look at you.
There's lots of there's lots of good storylines in this way. Yeah,
it's based on all the people he runs across in
his life. Oh yeah, exactly, gotcham And then later in
the week, I want I want to jump ahead. Uh,
there's a new drama on T and T. Actually that

(02:30:26):
premiere is on Monday at nine pm. It's called The Alienists. Uh.
It's an adaptation of a best selling crime novel set
in the late nineteenth century. But the reason I want
to check it out is because it starts Dakota Fanning,
who I think has pretty much been amazing and literally
everything she's ever been in. So I'm interested in checking
that out. And you know we're gonna we're gonna cut
that short because time is oh you know all right,

(02:30:47):
time is a factor here. It's on time, Mallord, on time, Coop,
buy the clock for the clock, all about the clock.
That's how we roll, That's right, that's how we do things.
So very patriotic. We are here when it comes to
the clock. We were all about. So do you guys
have your where are you staying in Minnesota? By the way,
you do you have your travel arrangements all worked out? Yeah? What?

(02:31:11):
Oh you don't? Okay? Interesting? You know when you were
doing your headlines at the start of the hour, you
know the shocking things that could happen during championship weekend? Yeah,
how about after the Vikings win. Stefan Diggs looks into
the camera and says, I can't wait to fly my
favorite radio program out here, the super Bowl, the Ben

(02:31:33):
Mallor Show. That's true, Yes, that would be this show
going anywhere would be a would be a total show.
I have enjoyed it. I'm not gonna lie. What I'm
about to tell you is total schadenfreud. All right, what
I'm about to tell you there are some of my
colleagues that work at Fox Sports Radio that were convinced
they were going to the super Bowl. They didn't make

(02:31:53):
the list, and they've been pouting and running around having
a hissy fit because they're not going to the super Bowl. Ha.
I love it. I am. I'm now, of course, not
to their face, but once they walk away, I am
just hysterical that these marons are like, Oh, it's so entitled.
I think that I should go to the super Bowl.
It's a distriment. Yes, all right, we need we need

(02:32:16):
a contestant, or we need a couple of contestants. We're
gonna play Balderdash. You want a chance to win your
own golden ticket, call right now if you want to
play balderdash in the full segment. Rest of the show
will play Balderdash eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
eight seven seven ninety nine six six three six nine.
Benny's Balderdash. We get to that, we'll do it next.

(02:32:37):
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(02:33:05):
we're gonna do that. But I can I get the
boom in on? Can I get the boom in on? First?
Real quick? I mean, when I see the boom man,
I gotta get to the boom man because I'm a
big boom man fan. Boo boo boo, Hello boom Man,
Hello Big Dan. How are you doing man? Happy New
Year you guys? Well thanks boo man. What you got
for me? Don't We don't have a lot of time,

(02:33:26):
but man, and your phone sucks, but we got That's
fine because listen, I really don't have any booze. I
just you know, I'm still recoverating from my knee surgery.
I'll be sixty four on Sunday, which I call upset
Sunday because we're gonna see Minnesota in Tennessee in the
Super Bowl Tennis. Um, yep, that would be something. Yeah, okay,

(02:33:47):
but that's okay, I'll take that. But anyway, really, what
I really want to call and do, man, is just
give my condolences to Jenie and Messer's family and and
and and you know, I feel really bad about that,
and I think what you should do name her Call
of the Year for twenty eighteen. Man, we're twenty seventeen, yeah,
or twenty eighteen. Yeah, all right, thank you boo man,

(02:34:07):
feel better? Man? Hey, whatever happened to mister Tibbs by
the way too? Whatever of that? Does he still call Coop?
Mister Tibbs? I haven't heard from him a little while.
He might have been caught peeping on something. I know.
He's a peeping tom in Arizona. Yeah, and he told
the whole story. It's quite the story. All right. We've
got the very eclectic mix, don't we. Let's get to

(02:34:27):
the game. Here we go, let's and now it's just
what you've been waiting for. It's Ben's balderdash. What the
hell is this? Formerly known as something we're not allowed
to say? Hit it? All right, let's do it. It's
Benny's balder dash. Let's get to the game. No small talk,
no grab ass. Who do we have here? We have
our defending champion, Justin in Cincinnati. Hello, Justin, what's going on? Ben?

(02:34:51):
You're ready to do this? Justin? I'm ready? All right?
Hold on a sex, Justin, and you will be going
against Fluffy Dave represent ending the Minnesota Vikings and all
things in the Twin Cities. Hello, Fluffy Dave. Oh, Fluffy
Dave is in the house and I just Ben, I
want to say, awesome things are coming from the Malla
Militia today with the Gene Medford, you know, I mean,

(02:35:16):
it's it's pretty amazing the impact that it's had today.
So yeah, well yeah, and I totally agree. Man, you
guys have been You guys are awesome. So thanks to everyone.
Keep keep up the good work. Guys. Yeah, that's not awesome, man.
You guys are doing it. We're not doing I will
be doing it, but I haven't done yet. All right,
let's get to the game here. The categories are Justin

(02:35:37):
and Fluffy Dave. The categories are Veggie Time, Mama said,
knock you out? And what's your talent? Bro? Those are
the category. These are from Anthony and Anaheim, who's in
Tempee or wherever the hell he is. All Right, Justin
you're a defending champ. Where do you want to go?
Let's just dogie time, all right, veggie time. Everyone in

(02:35:59):
this category is a vegetarian. Oh boy, Now now you're
driving around, you can play along as well. Here we
go for two hundred dollars. Your name is your brother,
A Dave, A fluffy Dave. And Justin this former Dolphin
running back and we love her Justin Ricky William correctly

(02:36:19):
four hundred dollars. Nicknamed the Big Red Deadhead, This father
of the current Lakers coach, was a vegetarian throughout his
Justin Bill correct six hundred dollars. This twenty fifteen American
League Comeback Player of the Year was the first baseman
he followed a strict vegetarian diet since the beginning of

(02:36:40):
twenty eight and he hasn't looked back. His father was
also a Big League baseball star. Anybody, Yeah, he just
retired last year, I believe announced his retirement because he's
Eddie Eddie Prince Fielder. Oh yeah, see, these guys should
have used their lifeline. That's right, it's Prince Fielder. They
didn't use their life Oh no, no, no, no, don't

(02:37:02):
finish that, all right, let's keep going. Here we go
eight hundred dollars, eight hundred dollars on ballard Ash. This
American professional tennis player is regarded as one of the
all time greats a women's tent Fluffy Uh Syriena Williams, No,

(02:37:24):
all right, I just named a female player. Yeah, this
is the first one that popped into your head. I understand.
This American professional tennis players regarded as one of the
all time greats women's tennis and became a raw vegan
following diagnosis of a rare syndrome. Unless she is, she
isn't quite as good as her younger sister, Justin Justin

(02:37:46):
Venus Williams. Oh, look at that. Yeah, Fluffy days, he's
gonna he's gonna have a nervous breakdown, Fluffy Dave here
if this continues, a thousand dollars, thousand dollars, Here we go,
last one veggie time the category on Balderdash. If you
like it, we do this every weekend about this time.
If you don't like it, we only do it once

(02:38:07):
a week. This former Calbart tight end was the thirteenth
overall pick Justin Tony Gondola. That's correct. Wow, he's not steroids.
I agree? Are you cheating? Justin? Stop cheating? I'm not hungover,
drunken ice. I'm good, I'm drunk, so so am I?

(02:38:31):
All right? Mama said, knock you out? Is the category?
Or we have what's your talent? Bro justin? Where do
you want to go? What's your talent? Broke? What's your talent? Bro? Okay?
This category as written by Anthony and Anaheim about athletes
who acted or released a musical album. Here we go,
two hundred dollars. This former champ and dominant Force was

(02:38:53):
a pretty good rapper an actor best known for his
movie Shazam. Justin Just to check that's correct? Very competitive? Uh?
Four hundred, four hundred dollars. This six time in all, Yeah,
six hundred six six time NBA champ and former Bruin

(02:39:16):
acted in the movie Airplane and also did a movie
with Bruce Lee. Oh fluffy, fluffy, Fluffy, Fluffy, fluffy fluffy.
You got me to yell fluffy? All right? Uh? Yeah,
it's Kareem abdul Jabbar is correct. Okay, good job, six

(02:39:36):
hundred dollars. Don't save that. Yeah. Uh. Known for being
part of the Fab five, this former king didn't Chris Weber,
What the what is going on here? Oh? You're just
getting You're getting stomped out like a cigarette on this sidewalk.

(02:39:57):
All right, Uh eight hundred dollars. This all around great
athlete not only acted in the Dirty dozen and Mars attacks,
but this former brown yea at is correct. All right,
that's the point of continuing. This is a public humiliation
at this point, Cooper Loop, what is the final score?

(02:40:18):
Don't think I'm curious. I don't even Coop can count that.
I don't. I got it. It's it's four thousand, no
to negative four hundred. You know what. That was such
a bad game. I'm giving you both a golden day.
That was all right, Thank you, Fluffy. That's the alcohol

(02:40:44):
that loves me, Thank you, Fluffy. Dave. There he goes,
Fluffy day, Fluffy Day. Where he goes. No one knows,
No one knows. A weed man's really desperate. He's like
very upset here because he's I have a wife. I
know she was on I know, maybe she vanished. Maybe
that was just like a voice on a computer though
that that hey weed Man? That was was that rio?

(02:41:05):
That that wife? Weed Man? All right, all right, I
can't wait to see that. I cannot wait to see that.
But on a serious note, listen, you guys have been
wondering we're not quite at our goal yet We're almost.
We're really close, man, are we close? Uh? And it's
it's just been tremendous that you guys have been wonderful.
You have really reached out shows and Genie and Medford

(02:41:27):
meant a lot to a lot of people. I tried
to tell her that the last couple of times I
talked to her and she was in the in the hospice.
I tried to tell her. I said, I hope you
know how many people and I would rather her when
I talked to her because I told her, I said,
you know, it's kind of annoying. Genie. I've been in
radio for over twenty years. I've done a million monologues
and people want to know about you. They don't really
care about anything. And it was It's true. I tell you,

(02:41:50):
it is absolutely true. So thank you for that, and
have a wonderful have a fabulous weekend. Yes, can we
please get some good football games? I I'm going to
talk about Sunday. Yes,

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