Hour 2 - Rivalry Redaction

Ben Maller talks about longtime Philadelphia Eagle Jason Peters getting signed by the Cowboys and what it tells you about the rivalry between the two teams, if this is an upgrade for the Cowboys, and more!

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Hello and welcome. It's our nume bird to our two
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So what does Jason Peters going from the Eagles to
the Cowboys with a stop in between, tell you about
that rivalry, the blood rivalry between Philly and Dallas. Is
this an upgrade for the fragile Cowboy offensive line? And
our sports rivalries all phony at the professional level. We'll

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talk about that as well. Jason Peter started a lot
of trash about Dallas and now he's playing for the Cowboys.
All of it coming up right here in our number two,
From Cowboy hater to Cowboy How that happened? Well, come
in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallers Show.

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off in a couple of days. Today's Tuesday, so we
gotta get through today Wednesday, and then Thursday night. Rams
and Bills will kick it off. The Cowboys they play

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in a plum primetime slot on Sunday Night. Dallas getting
ready with the Buccaneers this weekend, and Jerry Jones, the
owner in GM, making some last minute additions, or at
least one last minute addition to the team if you
have not heard now, possibly not, the Cowboys agreeing to

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terms on a deal with long time Philadelphia Eagle tackle
Jason Peters out of the NFL. He's forty years old
and he's gonna begin the season on the practice squad
in Dallas. Remember when the practice squad was only for
rookies or first or second year players. But Jason Peters
a season veteran. He will be on the Dallas practice

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squad at least for a couple of weeks. Once he
gets in shape, the plan is they will release the Kraken.
Now keep in mind, typically offensive lineman do not move
the needle for us in sports radio. They are clickbait,
but the wrong kind of clickbait, as when you hear
offensive lineman discussion, you click and you click to something else.

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But only two times are you allowed typically to talk
about lineman when they get drafted and when they have
a turnstyle performance where they give up six or seven
sacks in the game. But this is the rare and
appropriate exception to the rule. And I'll tell you why.
Bad blood, bad blood, and this cat. Jason Peters loathed

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the Cowboys during his over decade run in the City
of Brotherly Love, and now he has crossed enemy lines
and signed with the Boys. To give you an idea
some of the hits of Jason Peters, there's one quote
in particular four years ago. Let's go back in the
hot tub time machine to twenty eighteen and Peters hanging

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out there in the Delaware Valley famously said quote, I
don't like the Cowboys. They're just arrogant. The organization America's team,
he said, ripping the rigans. Well, Peters, now that he's
wearing the Dallas uniform, has had a change of heart
and his words are much different now. As Warner Wolf
would say, Let's go to the audiotape. Here is the

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newest member of the Cowboys, the same guy that famously
ripped the arrogance of the Cowboy franchise, and here he
is asked about that past bashing of Jerry's team and
the attitude in Dallas. Here's what he had to say.
I mean, I don't I don't really call it arrogance.
I mean they had swagger, you know, pretty much the

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same thing. You know, that swagger. You know they go
in weekend and week out with that swagger. You can
tell how the defense play, you know, Dak and Zeke,
you know, scorn and everybody showing the emotions on their shoulders.
And uh, I mean I like that to be honest.
You know, that's how we did it in Philly, and
that's how we're gonna do it here. The beginning of
this this last time was that not great? He's said,

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it's pretty much the same thing. Can we just play
the beginning part, Roberto, play the beginning part. This is
Jason Peters, who, again four years ago, said he hated
the arrogance of the Cowboys. When asked about it, he
used a different word, but then said, I it's the
same thing. I mean, I don't I don't really call
it arrogance. I mean they had swagger, you know, pretty
much the same thing. It's outstanding, all right, But wait,

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there's more. Here is the newest member of Jerry Jones's team,
saying well, he was asked that we'll have him answer
the question. He was asked, is it weird going from
long time Eagle to cowboy? Uh? Yeah, a little bit,
you know, Like I said, that was our robber, you know,
you know the Dallas and Eagle robber go deep. So

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it's kind of weird. But I'm here, you know, in
my home state and ready to role. Keep in mind
he's in his home state. He was asked if he
grew up a Cowboy fan, and he said his favorite
team was the Buffalo Bills. So because when he was
a kid, the Bills. How's a kid from Texas, a
Buffalo Bills man. When he was a kid, the Bills
were in the Super Bowl every year they were one,
but they were in the Super Bowl ever year. Alright, anyway,

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here's more a last one from Jason Peters. This is
what we call the money SoundBite, dotting the eye like
the Ohio State Band. Here is Jason Peters who found
love when Jerry Jones gave him a phone call. Me
and Jerry go back to Arkansas. So when he called me,

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you know, we sat down and talked and you know,
it was like love at first sight. You know. We
was talking about the Hogs. He was talking about the
National Championship and how I changed his life and me
being a raised the back changed my life and gave
me an opportunity to be here today. Just a couple
of guys talking hogs. Iyhill. We're doing the hog Hog
Hog Hog Hog Hog, all right. So let's discuss the question.

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What does Jason Peters, a cowboy hater going from the
Eagles to the Cowboys tell you about the rivalry. So
my take, I've got Vince McMahon, Gi Joe and fabricated
and we will line all of these things up and
we're gonna make cheese steak is what we're going to do,
all right. So the kickoff, Jason Peters is either one

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heck of a thespian or he is phony baloney. Peters
was shooting verbal torpedoes at the Cowboys for years. We
love the noise as a gas bag ourselves here in
these parts in sports talk radio. It's always fun when
the trash talk rhetoric gets cranked up. But Peters, while

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he was shooting those torpedoes, and it was great and
wonderful and all that. The fact that he was now
standing in the Dallas locker room talking the Cowboy beat writers,
wearing the Cowboy team merchandise is a dad giveaway that
all of that was for show, that he was really
just taking a page out of Vince McMahon's playbook, a

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masterful job of making fiction seem like reality, a k fabe,
if you will. Otherwise he wouldn't have been caught dead
wearing the Dallas uniform playing for the Cowboys. Peters was
singing from a much different song sheet here. Obviously he
broke character for his buddy Jerry Jones, and it's all

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about getting another one of those direct deposits I don't
blame him. He wants to make money. Nobody else offered
him a job, so he decided to go where the
money was. Business is business, and all those mean things
that Peters said about Dallas when he was in Philadelphia,
they can all be flushed into the sewer. Now. Furthermore,

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is this Jason Peters addition an upgrade for Jerry Jones
and the Cowboys. So we're not going to get into
the minutia too much on this, but if you look
at the Cowboys offensive line and you look at the
depth chart, you see a lot of flashing red. The
check engine light is on the dashboard there for the
Cowboys offensive line. So Jason Peters is a Gi Joe

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style old school plastic adhesive bandage. It's papering over the
crack in the sidewalk. Dallas's offensive line has been mangled, twisted,
and hobbled. They are looking now to fortify what has
become a very fragile part of the team and a
somewhat crucial part of the team. But let's be honest,

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Peters is forty years old. NFL teams ninety nine point
nine percent of the time, what do they do they
want youth over experience. They want good looks over savvy
veteran play. And last season Peters he wasn't in Philadelphia.
Last year he went to Chicago on a bad Bears
team and was the twenty second ranked tackle in the

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NFL according to the nerds at Pro Football Focus, whatever
that's worth. But if you look at the blueprint here,
in a perfect scenario, Peters would get in shape within
like ten days. He would then be the left tackle
for the Cowboys, which would allow the team to play
their hot shot first round rookie Tyler Smith inside, and

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that would protect all involved. Good luck, the best laid
plans of mice men and the oil barons like Jerry Jones.
Now the parting shot on this, let's take a couple
of steps back here, because we're talking about the rivalry.
The reason I think this is an interesting story is
not because the offensive line of the Cowboys is good

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talk radio. But this guy Peters again, was a Cowboy hater.
He was a card carrying cowboy hater, and then all
of a sudden he crosses over. It's very similar to
what we've seen with some of the guys on my
staff who hated Patrick Beverly. But now that Beverly's wearing
the right laundry, they're like all four. But our sports
rivalries all phony in the professional race, and in terms

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of the athletes, I am odding my head. Yes, it's
faux professional athlete sports hate, the bitterness, the hatred, it
is the word fabricated by the players. The malice at
the palace years ago was Indiana pacer players versus fans.

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It wasn't pacer players versus pistons. It was the fans
as an example. But the real malice here is my
belief that it's always been this way, that my entire
childhood was a lie when it comes to professional sports.
And there are rare examples of people that get romanticize,
but even those are often debunked. The greatest of them all.

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When I was a kid, I heard stories. There's a
long standing fairy tale and you might have heard this
as well if you're a baseball fan, that Jackie Robinson
retired from the Brooklyn Dodgers rather than play for the
New York Giants after he was traded to the Giants
from the Dodgers in the late nineteen fifties. That was

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the story I had heard in my youth well years ago.
It turned out that that was not exactly what happened.
Robinson was thirty seven years old. This isn't the days
before social media, before communication was where it is today
with obviously computers and all that. And so the real
story is Robinson had retired, and then a couple hours later,

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because he didn't tell the Dodgers that he was retiring
the same day he decided to retire, the Dodgers traded
him to the Giants. But Robinson, after he retired, he
had already accepted a job in the private sector, and
Jackie Robinson took a job as an executive at a
chain of coffee shops way before Starbucks. But it became

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a liberty valanced situation when the legend becomes the fact
to go with the legend, and the legend was that
Jackie Robinson wanted to retire rather than play for the Giants,
when in reality he would have played for the Giants,
but he'd already decided retired, and he'd already agreed to
take a job there and sell cups of java. But
it sounds better with the original story. It sounds much

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better than Jackie Robinson quitting to become a coffee mayfon
doesn't have the same sex appeal to it, but it's
happened across sports. How many times over the last twenty
years have we seen Red Sox players go to the
Yankees or Yankee players go to the Red Sox. We've
seen Celtics and Lakers interchange, Cardinals and Cubs, Dodgers and Giants,

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Jock Peterson, who was a great Dodgers on the Giants
right now, the Bears, Bears and Packers. You think of
all the great rivalries in professional sports, and Eagles and Cowboys,
we've got Jason Peters as the latest example. So the
moral of the story, there is no immunity. No one
has immunity to this. And despite all the robbers, the
rivalries are for us. It's for the fame. It's not

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for the players. The players. Now, some of them play
along and play nice and pretend, but ultimately, if they
want to check in, the only team that's offering the
contract is their blood rival. Suddenly they decide to go
across the rubicon to the other side. All right, here's
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FS Right now. It sounds like it smells rather, it
smells like tires now, Eddie, which is good as I liked.
I like the smell of tires. I like the smell
of gasoline. Those are two smells I like. Enjoy It
sounds like you should have gotten a job doing something
else that. Yeah, I should have worked at a car

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repair shop or something like that. That would have been good.
You don't enjoy the smell of tires. You don't feel
like more of a man when you walk into a
store and smell tires. Do I feel like more of
a man? Yeah, very masculine smell. When you go into
a store that sells tire tire rack dot com, you
look at all. I didn't realize there were that many
different brands of tires until we started partnering up with

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Tirera dot Com. It's an amazing thing. I I thought
tires were kind of all the same, but I've learned
they're not. Eddie. There's like high end luxury tires. There's
all kinds of things going on. It's crazy. Tires are
very important. That's what I'm told. And anyway, so that's
the deal on that. Jeff and Tulsa writes in says,

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a retired offensive lineman signs with a expert Cowboy team,
and then he yawns, yawns, yawns, yawns. Black Steve the Second,
not to be confused with Black Steve the First. He
writes in he says, five out of ten on that
Malan monologue, what a spineless trader he is. Couldn't be me.

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But hey, Jerry wanted more glory hole and Jason Peters
he helped him out to the black Seed. Frank writes
in Now this is a take I did not expect
to get. He says, Jason Peters is going to be
forty one years old. Yeah, well, that's typically what happens
when you're forty years old, unless you do not make
it to age forty one. In my experience, when you're

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forty and then you have a birthday, it's always forty
one that happens right after. So it's an amazing, amazing thing.
But his birthday is nine until January, so and then
he will be forty one years old. You think the
Cowboys will be playing a game around his birthdays. Peter's
birthday is January twenty. Second, there are two things. Let

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me pull out my crystal Ball as a distant relative
of Nostredamis and friend of Nostredinas. There are two things
that are more likely to happen than the Cowboys playing
a playoff game past January twenty second, Ay, Jason Peters
ends up hurt and doesn't make it to that point
in the year, or be obviously the Dallas Cowboys meet

(19:23):
there demise prior to that, and then they don't have
to don't have to worry about any of that. All right,
We're going to the phones. Eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox is the number. Let's say hello to Alama Lou,
who is next up here on the Big radio show. Hello,
alam to Lou. Then I'm back, Baby Lou has returned.

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We'd like to alert all the affiliates. After a brief sabbatical,
Alameda Lou has returned to the show. The ratings will increase,
skyrocketing up. Yeah. I have not much to talk about
with the San Francisco Giants, unfortunately, but you know, yeah, yeah,
it's a fine, fine baseball team the Giants to put together.

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But I was reading a story earlier that they're gonna
spend a bunch of money in free agency. I saw
that they're gonna sign a bunch of I think Carlos
Correa is where it starts. I'd love Carlos Korea to
be a hated Giant because that would give me. I
already don't like the Giants, but then you put Carlos
Correa cheating as stro on the Giants. That's the double whammy.

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We put five harm runs on your Dodgers today. But anyways, congratulations.
You know what you should do is you should save
a copy on your phone or your computer and then
watch that. When the Dodgers are in the playoffs, you
can watch them. They just don't usually win the World Series. Yeah,
well they're gonna win it this year. They wanted a
couple of years ago, hardest World Series of all time,

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twenty twenty, most teams ever in the playoffs had a
global pandemic going on, and they conquered all of that
in baseball history, and they'll want again here. Yes, one
good example. The Mallard monologue was awesome. Richard Sherman going
from Seattle to San Francisco is another good example. Yes,
and remember when the Cowboys and I don't know how

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old you are, but the Cowboys and Niners had a
huge rivalry back in the day, and there were guys flipping.
Dion Sanders played for both Norton. They were around what's
that Haley? That's right, Charles Haley's another one, ARLs Hailey
pissed on the Niners head coaches front deest epic story. Well,
who hasn't wanted to do that on their boss's desk?

(21:30):
Come on, I think it was on your death more
times than I can count. I've heard stories that some
of those guys in the nineteen eighty six mats would
defecate number two in some weird places when he was Yeah,
back in the back, Ben Gray Lancer, Jalen Hurts real quick.

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Oh well, I don't know enough about it. I'll take
Trey Lance because I don't know enough. I think I
know that Hurts is kind of I don't think he's
gonna be great. Lance got be great, So I'll take
a shot with Lance. And we got sexy Jimmy coming back.
It's nine er season. I'll be calling in much more often.
But all right, thank you for letting us know. We'd

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like to warn everyone. Alami to Lou has returned to
the show, and it's good to have him back. Some
fiery calls during the NBA Finals with Lou and Blind Scott,
and then Scott didn't show up, and then Lou didn't
show up, and it was a big to do the
big hot stew for Alami to Lou. So the Black

(22:34):
Ice bad news. That would be a documentary. You might
have heard about this, maybe not. So there was a
and this is right in Eddie's wheelhouse. I don't even
know if Eddie knew about this, but maybe not. But
the New York Post tells us a documentary made a
confab with Lebron and musicians Drake and Future. They're all

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being sued because of a documentary called Black Ice. And
they're being sued by the guy that used to run
the NBA Players of Space. You might know the name
Billy Hunter was around for a long time in NBA circles.
He's suing Lebron, Drake in Future for ten million dollars

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in damages. We are told that Hunter is also seeking
a portion of the profits from the documentary called Black Eyes.
He claims in the legal filing that he had the
exclusive intellectual property rights to produce the film. It's about
the Colored Hockey League, which existed from did anyone know.
I didn't know this eighteen ninety five to the nineteen thirties.

(23:43):
Who knew, Boy, those guys didn't. And then the negro
leagues got all the pub like baseball Baseball's operations. But
I didn't know anything about it. But anyway, so they
made a documentary about it. Lebron did with these musicians
and Billy Hunters like, screw you, I need that money.
And so it's going through the court system and the
people behind Lebron and the other side they're saying, well,

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Billy Hunter did have the movie rights, but a documentary
is it's different. They're claiming a documentary is different than
a than a movie. Is that true? Coup, Let's go
to our movie, Let's go to our Hollywood. Actually, good point.
There we have a Hollywood insider. You loved him, a liar,
liar he was Dennis the menis Cooper Loop. Is a
documentary different than a movie? I mean, I guess it. Well,

(24:33):
it really depends on I mean, a documentary is a movie,
but that answers it, so you don't have to go further.
That's it. Then it's a movie. And then Lebron's gonna
have to write a check, and Drake, I think they
can afford it. I think they'll be okay. Will the
court system agree that a documentary is a movie, because
that's what this is going to come down, Eddie. Have
you ever heard of this business? I have. I've heard

(24:53):
of the documentary, but not this story that you're talking
about now, the Colored Hockey League from the eighteen nineties
to the nineteen thirties. I don't know anything about that.
I've never heard that before I saw this story. So
you said that they had the rights to the story.
Now Billy Hunters claiming he owned the rights to make
a move movie about this, and then Lebron's size supposedly saying, well,

(25:16):
you can still make the movie. This is a documentary.
So this is different. It's gonna be a It's gonna
be a interesting argument because I get what they're saying,
because I mean, like, it's like fiction nonfiction, right, Isn't
that supposedly like a movie would be fiction and a
documentary in theory, even though I love documentaries, they're all biased,

(25:36):
but they're they're nonfiction, right, right, right? And so when
normally when you say you have the rights to a
to a movie, you're you're talking about like an adaptation
normally or or you know, But yeah, I guess I
think there's a I think there's probably a case there.
Oh oh, tweet that out Coop on the Flox Sports

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Radio Twitter feed, sources close to the Ben Maller Show
reporting there is a case here. Lebron's in Trouble Black Ice,
the documentary Radio Hunter. He paid two hundred and sixty
five thousand dollars for the movie rights. Wow, that seems
it seems exorbitant, but if it made a lot of money,
then he'd make his money back. Be sure to catch

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Maller if you want to be part of the program.
Stevie Meatball says, Hey, Ben, if you like the smell
of tires so much, you should have gotten a job
at some point working at sears. He says, here, the
whole damn store always smelled like tires. Yeah, well, tires
has a very strong smell. And like I go to

(27:25):
Costco a lot and they the whole store does not
smell like tires. They do a pretty good job of separating,
separating that. Let's see here, I can't read that on
the air. We'll skip over that one. Howard writes and says, Ben, Hey,
Jason Peter's fat ass would have taken a job with
any team he misses those NFL checks. Yeah, well of

(27:49):
course he does. But the fact that he was talking
crap about the cowboys for years and now he's a
cowboy's a good story. I enjoy the story. I liked
the story, so I thought that that's worthy of a
Mallard monologue and that's exactly what we gave him, a
marginal Mallard model. So the booth boss this weekend on Fox,

(28:12):
making his maiden voyage. Not they've done some games here,
but who's paying close attention to practice games. With Joe
Buck taking the money and selling out and going to
ESPN along with Aikman, they go on Fox is in
a bit of a holding pattern now. They're waiting for
Tom Brady to retire, although there's some that think Brady

(28:35):
might never actually call a game, that he's just it's
all the ruse, but who knows either way. The plan
is that's been announced that Brady will end up in
the booth as the lead commentator at some point. There
have been some rumors that if the Bucks don't advance
far in the playoffs, that Brady might slide into the
booth earlier, and that might happen in the playoffs, But

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if the Bucks got eliminated early, there's a lot of
hypothetic nicles, there's a lot of variables to that. But
Kevin Burkhart, he's got the gig replacing Joe Buck, and
he's been around. He's been around the business for a
number of years, been at Fox for a number of years,
and so Burkhardt is the new play by play guy
and his history he was working for the New York Mets.

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He was a sideline reporter for the New York Mets,
an in game reporter, and has risen up in the
span of eight years. He's gone from met sideline clown
guy to now the lead NFL broadcaster on Fox. SOT

(29:41):
pretty wild assent there, but I like it. He's like
he's a radio guy. He's an old radio guy back
in the day. So I always pull for the old
radio guys to get their start in radio and then
go to television because I think start out in radio
it's harder to do radio than it is television. Now.
You have to really learn your craft in the radio game.
But I'm biased, I admitted, and I've spent my life

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behind microphones in radio stations, but I do believe it's
a harder medium. I've done both UH and UH and
who knows, but not that I wouldn't want to do
TV again, because I would love to do TV again.
But but anyway, So, Kevin Burkhart was asked about people
who might not say kind things about him when he
begins this thing called Twitter, which is the bathroom wall

(30:26):
of society, truck stop bathroom wall. And so Burkhart was
asked about that and on people who are sour, he said,
some people are gonna be sour no matter what I do.
And here's the money quote. Kevin Burkhart, lead NFL play
by play at Fox said, if they don't like me,

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I doubt given F is what he's saying, said the
F word, which is which is great? And did we
believe that that he actually thinks that that if they
don't like me? You know? Is that that is that
just like the he grew up in Jersey, So is
that just the Jersey guy? Right? He's doing like the
tough New Jersey guy kind of thing and all that.

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And is my experience, first of all, is that we
all want to be liked. Nobody wants to be the
bad guy, right, So you want to be liked, But
if you have thick skin, you're gonna go further. And
Joe Buck always seemed to be bothered by the people
that hated him, like there was always always annoyed by
the people that didn't like I mean, he didn't hide it.
And Burkhardt, yeah, we'll see, we'll see how this goes.

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But he's got a great gig if he assuming he
doesn't screw this thing up, that's a job he could
have for twenty years, twenty five years. I mean, he's
in his late forties now, and he could he could
keep going and going and going and going and going
and do that all the way up until the twenty forties,
which seems far away, but it's not that far away.

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I'll be here before before you annoy it. Craziness, craziness, craziness,
that whole time thing. It does not slow down. Let's
say hello to Poppy in San Diego. Hello, Poppy, Hey,
how's it going? Man? Talk with Poppy. We're getting trucky
with the Poppy. Yeah, two on one, Sili went one

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and two. Whoever wants to listen to Eli's gonna lose money.
But um, you know, uh you know, uh dout Mexican
on with that fantasy football league. I put a Massachuset
and saying nothing football militially started. Uh yeah, there is

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a league. Some of the guys, I think Jay Scoop's
involved in it. Some of the super fans of the
show are starting a fantasy football league. So if anyone's
interested in that. They're all all these guys are on
social media, so you can track them down on Twitter
and whatnot. Put the now, Poppy, are you gonna guarantee
since you're you're a professional gambler, are you gonna gettee
that you're going to win professional gamber? You know with

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Benny Wise, there's a good days and bad days. You know,
we did good last month and uh, you guys ready
for the pigs, ready for the pick? All right, here
we go. This is so exciting professional game. They're chucky
with poppy picking with poppy arena. Call it. I don't care,
go ahead, please, Well that's for the topic again. You know,
after a hard flock game and a fabulous uh you know,

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the Giant lapped around the Dodgers, but that's okay, you know,
bounce back in. We're going with the best picture of
the Dodgers. Just go with Anderson. Uh free money line,
we're gonna catch right there. Doctors are gonna win. And
on my other big there's no line. There's no line
on that game because the Giants haven't announced the starting pitchers,

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so there's no line of the game. It's okay, Ben,
yesterday you were laughing another before we're laughing about Clampton
And what would Poppy say? I like twenty three and
a half. I like twenty No, no, you never said
you didn't even know what the line was on the game.
You know you did not know that it was on
the game. You're doing revisionist history, Poppy. How dare you point?
I said, I like it in cash. I hope you

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did a bad line and you cash with Poppy brand.
If not, you're losing money. You're pinning the Dodgers. There's
no line on the Dodging game. You're taking the Dodgers
and one other one other pick yeah, quickly, please quick
another one. We're going with the Houston Natals, Houston Nationals.
About there. I believe the lines. If you see it
all mine is two thirty it all no, no, no, no,
it's it's almost minus two seventy at this point. That's

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a big favorite. You're big yet again, you're chocolate with Poppy.
We're taking them and um and for the weekend. I
really got a sleeper for NFL, but I don't know
if you want me to give it to you right now.
It's too early in the week Poppy, and I gotta go.
But thank you there you picking with Chalky mc poppy.
That could be the name Chalkie mcpoppey. Nick Poppy eased

(34:54):
for me to say we could do that. At some point,
we should get Poppy and Eli in the octagon. But
Poppy does not want to do the octagon. He does
not like the pressure of the octagon for whatever reason.
All right, so the Ben Maller Show on Fox. We're
gonna time shift Mallard to the third degree for ratings purposes.
But here's the Insta trivia. So blanks winning percentage is

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the lowest of any NFL coach to get a second
full time chance since the nineteen seventy merger. Again, Blank's
winning percentage was the lowest of any NFL coach to
get a second full time chance to be a head
coach since the nineteen seventy merger. That is the Insta trivia,

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and time now for the instant trivia. A blatant attempt
to convince you to listen a little bit longer to
the show. And it appears that it worked here, which
is a which is a good thing for us, And
so here it is. Blank's winning percentage was the lowest
of any NFL coach to get a second full time

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opportunity since the nineteen seventy two merger. Again, this is
the worst coach record wise ever to get a second opportunity.
That is the question, and what is the answer. Frank
is going with Rich Cotight as his answer. Who else

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do we have? Page down? Page down? Very funny from
the goatman. Can't read that on the air, Hugh Jackson,
guest by the Midnight Walker and no, I did not cheat.
Who else do you have? Page down? Page down? Chuck
Pagano from The Late Night Drug Tester, Bengal fan Brian
going with Hayden Fox as his answer Page down, page down,

(37:31):
Jack Ramsey, doctor Jack Ramsey from The Late Night Drug Tester.
Who else do we have? Page down? We've got a tie,
IRAQ founder Peter Veldman from ferg Dog. That's his guest,
Major Burns from Alf the Alien Opiner, The American Nightmare,
Cody Rhodes guests by Rob in Vegas, Coach Klein from Melkoman,

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Mike in Colorado, Double O Mexican going with Grandmama Larry
Johnson as his answer, Fat bass Jar from Militia Twitter
King the correct answer none other than Dennis Allen. Dennis
Allen