February 10, 2023 • 27 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have a Super special BENNY VS. THE PENNY, live from Super Bowl 57! The fellas talk over the Big Game, with Maller-style analysis! Who will come out on top in the Super Bowl?
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Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of hot
takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
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Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere a
brand new weekend or the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
and Danny g Radio a little later than normal, Danny,
because we're hanging out at Radio Row. We're still here.
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I have not left. There are people who think they're
very important. We're walking around here as rock stars, especially
right over there. You see that. That's a rock star
walk right there. That's a Vince McMahon walk right over there. Yeah,
you know who just walked behind us a couple of
minutes ago. Who's the great Darren Waller? Oh, well, that's
you know. I was named Ben Waller. That was one
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of my radio names back in the day. So there,
So where's that so tattoo? I did? I got that? Actually,
when I got to Arizona, I went out and got that.
I thought that would be a good addition. But we
are here all weekend long. I know we're a little late. People.
Every time we put the podcast up late, people complain,
they blame they blame the company, they blame me, they
blame you, Danny. But but here we are, and there's
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a good reason for it. Now. The beauty of this
is at radio row, you never know who's gonna pop on.
So we don't even know who's gonna pop on. We
have no idea this weekend, but this podcast. We're gonna
keep it real on this podcast because why not. And
so we've been doing this all year. The final chance,
final opportunity for Benny Versus the Penny to close out
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the season. And yeah, this is a traveling Penny, exactly,
a wonderful I will not Danny a wonderful regular season.
The playoffs. Playoffs have gone to hell, absolute hell. In
the postseason has not gone well because if you remember
the last time we did Benny Versus the Penny, a
couple of weeks ago before the championship games, we had
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the forty Niners and the Bengals in the Super Bowl.
I'm looking around, I see I do not see the
forty Niners or the Bengals. I don't see any of
their logos. I see a lot of red and a
lot of green. That well, but the Penny also had
the forty Niners so this point that are there, Penny
had the Thes. Yeah, it was the Bengals as well
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in that one. Um So anyway, this this will be
the the Bowl on Benny Versus the Penny. And it's
been a fun season doing this on the podcast. Who
knows what the future holes for Benny Versus the Penny.
You have no idea we might be back on the podcast.
It might be somewhere else. You never you never know.
We've moved this thing around a lot over the years.
It's what happens when lawyers are in all in the
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NFL network, ESPN and FS one all fighting over there's
a major property. As you know, there's a major bidding
worthy intellectual property of Benny Versus the Penny. It's it's
in demand. I mean, there's so many moguls walking around here,
big important people that run major billion dollar media companies.
They all want a piece of it. They all want
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a piece of it. They had breakfast meetings this week
that lasted for minutes yeah, oh, I do have to say,
and I don't get in trouble for this, but our
boss we have both our bosses are here. Main bosses,
So Don Martin, who I love. I've known Don for years.
The amount of people that are lined up to get
some FaceTime with Don Martin, it is outstanding. I mean
they are lined up down the hall here in this
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massive facility trying to do old FaceTime with Don and
they just want to be part of the premier sports
line up in the nation. This set is insane to
the membrane here. They have outdone themselves. When I came in,
I thought I was at a KFC or an Arby's
because it felt like Chicken. I've never seen uh the
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have You've seen the videos online? You you probably know
what I'm talking about. But for our blind listeners, you're
talking about the spinner. I'm talking about the cube that
that puts it over the top. I don't see any
other cubes here. That's the only cube. And so they've
put the cube, as Danny said, it's got the Fox
Sports radio logo and it's spinning around like when I
was a kid and I would go to Kentucky Fried
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Chicken and they had the Colonel and it was kind
of like spinning the Colonel Pioneer Chi. That's right to
pioneered Chicken. Yeah, I love that. I've been staying. I've
been staring at that since I got to Radio Row,
and I mean like a trance like state, and I'm like, wow,
that's like amazing. I can't I can't believe it. It's
like it's it's spinning. It doesn't stop. It's been spinning
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all night when no one was here, it was spinning
and now it's still spinning. How is that working? Is
it battery powered? Is it? It must be tied to
the the the power of the building. Here, it's insane, spinning, Ninja,
They're spinning. It's a spinner. It's unbelievable. I cannot believe it.
So anyway, all right, let's get to the game at
hand here, And I don't know, are they actually playing
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the game? All these people are leaving, right, No one's
actually going to the game. I'm Covino and Rich. Earlier
in the week, we got to talk to Christian McCaffrey
and he said, I hope both teams lose. Yeah, and uh,
we need more spice now if I can nit pick
and why not, uh, you know, not not enough JUICEY know,
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no real out. What's the most outrageous thing that's happened
this week from the Chiefs uh and from the Eagles?
It was Kevin Durant. Yeah, ke exactly, Kevin Durant. Who
I think is he like a like a deep wide
out for the Eagles or something like that as he plays? No,
I just keep seeing his name and hearing his name
all week long. Yeah. The the trade deadline, uh, the
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NBA trumping all this. So we've got Super Bowl fifty
seven Sunday evening or eight afternoon, depending on where you are,
and the line on this game. The Chiefs originally opened
up a point and a half favorite at the beginning,
but that only lasted a couple of hours, and the
Eagles have been favored ever since that point one and
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a half point favorites. At last we checked, and I
don't think it's gonna change very much. We're getting close
to the weekend, but at last we the last number
we had as we are here at Radio Row pretty
much doing it live on tape right, yes, one and
a half point line in favor of the Eagles. The
money on this game is relatively even. It's actually gone
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in favor of the underdog. Kansas City at State Farm
Stadium on Sunday. The kickoff temperature sixties six degrees is
the kickoff temperture. But they've got the roof and all that,
so it's not gonna really matter. Some of the numbers
on this game leading into it, there's a there's all
kinds of trends through fifties six super Bowls, the favorite
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and the underdogs are actually even, Danny seven and two.
Does that make you like, like, you know, I think
that's the Illuminatis involved in that. But lately the underdogs
have dominated overall against the spread, their ten and five
the last fifteen Super Bowls, So it's a lean to
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the underdogs. And last year the ben Gals lost to
the Rams, but they did cover the spread. The spread
last year it was four and a half in the
Super Bowl, for whatever that's worth. Year. Uh yeah, listen,
there's still until the team wins on Sunday, Danny, they
still have the Lombardi Trophy and the chiefs Now. If
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you look at that Kansas City coming in this game
eight and eleven this year against the spread, and you say,
well that doesn't matter. They're the six team ever to
get to the Super Bowl that has had a losing
record against the spread, and four of the last five
lost the Super Bowl. So usually you gotta be living
up to expectations, and when you're losing against the spread,
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you have you have not done your job in the
eyes of the bookmaker. And so eight and eleven the
Chiefs eleven losses against the spread, the most ever by
a team entering the Super Bowl. There, as we said,
eight and eleven, The last time we had a team
this bad the Green Bay Packers way back in the
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nice that guy who's suing everybody, the quarterback who's like
filing loss. Have you been sued, by the way, not yet? Yeah,
it's uh, it's it's right around the corner. Uh. The
Packers were six nine and three and they lost the
Denver Broncos. Uh. So the Chiefs, if they win, they
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they would have the most losses ever for a team
entering the Super Bowl, second worst percentage entering the game,
behind that that team from Green Bay back in the day.
But wait, there's more. We're not done. You play any prophets,
Danny into the pro bets at all. The exotics, any
of that stuff, you mean, like the different colored gatorade
and national anthem is gonna go. Yeah, some of those
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are kind of cool. Yeah, they're kind of fun. Uh.
And some of the other props, like Jalen Hurts, Patrick Holmes,
who's gonna win the m v P. Hurts was favored,
but now that switched, And now Patrick Mahomes is favored
to win the m v P. Uh. Last last we saw,
but earlier before that switched, he had the shortest odds
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of any player as an underdog, and I guess that
wouldn't change because now it's even better because more people
think he's gonna be the m v P and all that. Uh.
In this particular game, super Bowl fifty seven, Jalen Hursts
trying to be just the fifth, he was the fifth favorite.
Uh if he if he were to win, Now Mahomes
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I guess would slide into that number five spot to
win Super Bowl MVP. The last fifteen seasons, the last
time we had had a betting favorite win Super Bowl
m v P, it wasn't actually that long ago, was
Patrick Mahomes in ten. He was favored. He ended up winning.
Tom Brady did it a couple of times, but it
doesn't actually happen all that much where the favorite ends
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up winning the m v P in the Super Bowl.
And the the other thing to remember here on these
games we point this out all the time for these
Super Bowls, is the reality is that when you have
so much money being wager and they were talking about this,
they're more people that are gonna bet on the football
game on Sundays, have some kind of skin in the
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game on the football game. Then like people that run
like they were talking about how popular a hobby it
is and all that, and it's like it's just nuts.
So it's absolutely nuts, and it's I believe it's always
been like this, Danny, but now it's more, Uh, it's
it's more allowed in polite society, right because now you
have gambling legal in so many states and it's not
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even fully mature like we live in California. You can't
get them here in Arizona. You can gamble. And I'm
looking around here and some of the biggest tables and
not really tables like setups here is are the gambling places. Yeah,
you're right, it's taken over and not just that, Ben,
But have you noticed the trend. These gambling companies are like,
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let's get a girl who's about twenty three years it
was a smoke show, Yes, and she'll be the face
of our gambling. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. They know exactly
the clientele they're looking for. They have that, Yeah, the
horn dog degenerate. That's like, hey, I think that this
guy will will give us all of his money to bet,
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simply because we have a twenty three year old smoke
show who's telling you to bet. That's all we need.
That's all we need right there. All right. So some
of the exotic bets and I want to spend too
much time on this, but they're these are always fun.
For years on the Overnight Show, one of the off
shore books we you to give out, we had a
contest and we would have listeners submit weird prop bets
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we actually want. It was a national contest and the
fans of the show. We won a couple of times.
But they're they're exotic something. Sometimes they call him novelty
prop bets. And and these are the things that you
said that kind of not even the gatorade anymore. I
mean that the coin toss has been around for a
long time. The Gatorade. Thing has been around a long time,
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but there's like combining different sports. One of the ones
that's also been around a fair amount, which I like,
is when they give out the n v P Trophy,
you can bet on what will be mentioned first, and
people bet a decent amount of money on this, like
will you will the person come out? It's kind of
like when Lebron the other night set the scoring record
and people like, was he gonna thank his wife? Is
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he gonna thank his kids, his mom? Is he gonna
thank himself? Is he gonna thank God? Who's he gonna
thank that? No? I did not. I did not see
the Lebron violating rules, But he didn't actually violate an
FCC rule. He didn't do that because yeah, listen exactly
you you're allowed to curson on cable TV. But the
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favorite that the m v P of the Super Bowl
will say is he will thank the team he plays
for or his teammates. That will be first, and then
after that you've got the city and the fans, and
then number three. And I think you might want to
go higher than this, depending on who wins your MVP award.
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God God is number three on the list. Family anyone,
anyone in the family. Yeah, coaches and then ownership. And
you can also got some of the other nonsense. You
can bet on whether a player will propose following the
game doesn't happen very well, well, proposed to get the
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lifetime contract, right, lifetime, a lifetime agreement. And uh, if
you're very romantic, you know it's Valentine's Day coming up here, right,
and the big Valentine's Day. We can all that. So, uh,
if you're a big fan of romance, you can go
with that. You can bet on which here's a good
one on the exotic bets, which chip company commercial will
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air first, and the two to choose from our Derrito's
and Pringles. So I'm gonna go first on this, Danny,
I'm gonna take Derrito's. I'm gonna take de Ritos. You
want to take de Ritos? You want to go with
the pringlest He's not the Penny's pick. This is Danny
G's pick. This is very important. This is the kind
of content that people tune into, Benny versus the Penny four.
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This is what gets you through the weekend. I'm gonna
go Tostitos. Tostitos off the board, Now you probably have
some into if you go walking around in the back
and the bowels of Radio Row and you look at
all the food options and all that stuff. Right, did
I point you in the right direction? It was like
walking into a Costco over there is I I turned
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the corner and it's like, oh, Danny's like probably pulling
my chain here. It's probably not that much beverage, and
it up going It was like unreal, man, the Mallard
calculator must have been going off the off the Richter scale. Yeah,
although I did see I was a little concerned when
I came in. I thought, what has happened to the
media business. When I came in, I saw them charging
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for food. There was like a restaurant over there and
they were charging for foodos, Like what the hell? Yeah,
that's the fancier items. Those are the more bouge items.
I did see chicken fingers over there. That caught my attention.
But you know what, you're right about the Costco because
it's like family size peanut m and m's family size
things of gum, family size this like they did shop
at Costco. They had nowhere to store it that was private,
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so they said, let's just put it behind the stage
right there. No one will see it. Yeah, well we
saw it. We found it on Monday and we've been
going back there solid. Yeah. First of all, you never
underestimate the freeloading abilities of radio people. You never underestimated
we could smell the free stuff. Oh yeah, exactly. Were
like hound dogs. We were able to sniff out that
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be shut. To catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Alright,
some of the other exotic profits. Which snack company commercial
will air first on Sunday's Super Bowl. You've got M
and M's as a minus one fifty fabite where they
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winking a nod to to Rito's. So Derito's who I
bet on de Rito's to be the first chip. But
Eminem's big money, big money, big money, big money, big money,
Eminem's favorite there, You're gonna go with Eminem's going with
a chalk on that? All right? Which beer brand commercial
will air first during Super Bowl fifty seven? Also very important,
You've got this is even on this bud Wiser is
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minus one fifteen and Heineken minus one fifteen, both of
these companies, over the years known for spewing out millions
of dollars in Super Bowl commercials. I'm a purist, though, Danny,
I'm a purist. I'm going with the Clydesdales. I'm going
with the Clydesdale's. Uh. And so I'll never forget. Budweiser
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had a deal at Dodgers Stadium years ago when I
was covering the Dodgers, and they had they had the Clydesdale's,
the famous Clydesdale's walk around the warning track the Dodgers Stadium,
which was great and oh yeah, right, you're writing further
dodging dugout there. It was a poop testing disaster. I
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mean it was, oh my god, there was so much.
I had no idea we are allowed to curse. There
was so much dog shit it was forgotten. Yeah, you
gotta be careful the bosses around. But it was insane
and so of course immediately because these are you million
dollar baseball players, they were like seven eight guys that
jump out with shovels trying to clean up all of
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the horse crap. And of course, the great thing about
being a horse you don't care. You don't you have
to wipe, You don't wipe anything. Just keep going. They
just kept going around the warning track. It was hilarious
and all the kids, little kids in the crowd of
Dodger stading were like pointing and laughing, and it was
it was great, all right. Some of the more uh,
some of the other obvious exotic bets here on this
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Benny versus the penny, You've got heads two tails, first
to air commercial props, so these are the first to air.
The favorite on this the avocados from Mexico versus Hellman's.
You've got avocados of Mexico favorite at minus three thirty
three Hellman's. So this is a battle between mayonnaise and avocado.
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And can you explain to me, Danny, I'm not an
avocado guy. Why the Super Bowl is the end all
be all for avocado? How did that happen? Danny? Explain
that to me? I don't understand. Well, everybody knows, Ben
that avocado is a healthy fat that you need in
your diet. That right, yeah? Is that? And you know
super Bowl it's some of the most fit athletes in
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the world, so of course avocados are going to be
part of the weekend. Yeah, some of the other bets
here that you have the pop corners. What is that?
I don't even know what pop What are popcorners do?
I don't think I've ever had those. Oh they're they've
been giving free bags. Oh that's all you'll have to wait.
That's a giveaway. It's pop corners versus pringles. Yeah, they're
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they're the lightweight chips. They look kind of puffy. Okay, yeah, yeah,
they're healthier. So that must be a rival of Pringles. Yes,
there we go. Hold oh oh pop Brian Cranston talks popcorners,
super Bowl ad, breaking bad and more. Okay, so I
think we've got some insight here. I think you've gotta
go popcorners. I think so too. All right, we're taking popcorners. There.
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We've got Eminem's versus PEPSI zero. I go Eminem's man.
Eminem's not very expensive to make Eminem's. They charge a
fair amount for them. Can follow the bread crumbs. There's
a tod of family sized Eminem's here at the NFL.
All right, you gotta direct me to that. I saw,
I saw the beverage. Well, no, you gotta show me
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the stash. You've been here all week, man, you're the insider.
I'm late to the party, man, people are I was
coming in here, people were leaving. They were heading to
the airport to get out of Dodge, go back wherever
the heck they came from. They're like, I'm not part
of this nonsense. Get me the heck out of herege. Yeah, alright,
So those are some of the exotic prop beds. And
good luck. Every year there's some some Yahoo that ends
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up betting a ton of money on the coin toss
and right away either wins a lot of money or
loses a lot of money. It happens year after year
after year, and so why would this year be any different?
Of course it will not, And good luck on that.
And of course you can bet a number of places.
We're a little bias here, though we are. We like
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that DraftKings. We're all about that DraftKings action. Boss, That's
what we're all about, absolutely all right. So as far,
let's go back to the actual game on the field here,
as we put the bow on Benny versus the penny,
and the pick is in and the selection, I am
taking the Cansah City Chiefs, your super Bowl champions, as
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they will be the Kings of the NFL. They will
take the title from the l A. Rams as the
new Super Wrunners. Now I've been accused, Danny. I've been
saying I've been teasing that I like the Chiefs this week,
and people have been accusing me of being a homer
and a house because I go on the radio every
week in Kansas City. But that is not it. That
is not it. We are betting. It's more of a
bet against the Birds than it is on the Chiefs. Now,
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I am a conspiracy theorist, and I am I am
concerned about the health of one Jalen Hurts and his
shoulder here who he has yet to dominate on the
big stage. He did not play well in that National
Championship game. I can't get that out of my head
because we were on the air that night Alabama and
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Georgia a number of years ago, and I had to
go to YouTube to learn how to play how to
say to a tongue of iloa. I know, I know,
I do. This guy was. He came in at halftime
and led Alabama back to the championship over Georgia in
the National Title Game. And if you look at Mahomes
now in the NFL playoffs, and that was a small
sample size, but he's played three games in the postseason,
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three of them, and his career passer rating these playoff
games collectively is below eighty. He's had one good game
that was against the Giants. That was a blowout. Um,
I just trust Patrick going Holmes more. Now, the Chiefs
have been inconsistent. One of the reasons that they have
such a crappy record against the spread is they've usually
played one really good half and one so so half,
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and so that is obviously problematic. There's the Andy Reid angle.
As I ranted about the other day, Danny, of all
the people in the Super Bowl, not to flog a
dead horse, Andy Reid's the that's got the most in
the line. And one of the criticisms of Andy Reid,
We've talked about this at a nauseum on the radio,
is that Andy is not known for the greatest clock management. Yeah,
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whenever you blow past uh the stop signs at the
network on your live show for years, we've called you
the Andy Reid of clock management at the network. Now,
before I forget speaking of Andy Reid, I I came
in here and I saw I thought I had seen
Andy Reid. I thought like, well, there must be and
it was not. It was not Andy Reid. It was
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the Andy Reid impersonator who in this guy we've we've
seen him on the internet, on television, but me and
a lot like I've I've seen Andy Reid in person before.
And I I had to look at the guy like
multiple times. And then I thought like, why on God's
green Earth would Andy Reid be walking around in his
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game day outfit? That makes no sense, right, makes no sense.
But it was the Andy Reid impersonator who that guy?
I should have taken a picture with that guy. If
he's here, I'll go around. I'll find the guy. He
looks more like Andy Reid than Andy Reid does. Oh man,
it was nuts. It's like there's the wall where No,
it's the there's big red No anyway, So I'm gonna
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take the Chiefs. That's the play here in the Super Bowl.
The only thing that gives me pause is the clock
management issues and all that we talked about Kansas City
being choppy and uh. But in the end, it'll be
a close game. Jalen Hurts not gonna play all that great,
and the Birds go down Chiefs twenty seven and the
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Eagles twenty four the final, and the penny is about
to pick. It's always a sad time when the penny
makes its last pick. As we end man versus an
adamant object here on, benny versus the penny, and the
pick is in for the penny. And and first let
me double check. Okay, the Eagles are the home team, correct, uh,
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because when I looked at it showed it's a neutral set.
But they got to wear their home uniforms to deal
if you're a home team, right, because we got to
decide that before. Okay, all right, yeah, alright, alright, that
is a fair point, right we are. If there's one
thing we stand for, it is accuracy. Yes, that's why
people tune into audio content for accuracy. They need the accuracy. Alright,
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So here we go this it's very important. You're not
gonna hear the penny on the table because it's a
digital flip. Since that's right, the pennies hanging out at
a resort here in Arizona and the penny simulator on. Alright,
here we go, where is it gonna go? Philly? Is
it gonna go Kansas City. It's a head. Oh look
at that head. Yeah, dare you? How dare you? Danny
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g Well, the writing has done better than you in
the playoffs. This is no different. I'm gonna get my
mojo back. And here's how I'm gonna get my mojo back.
Roscoe the Parrot, No, no, listen to me. Roscoe the
Parrot and David in winter Park, Florida. David pointed this
out the other day. During the regular season, I kept
mentioning David and Roscoe the Parrot. David lives in winter Park, Florida,
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and I was mentioning that. And during the regular season
I killed it. I dominated, and then in the playoffs
I got away from my roots. I went away from
praising and celebrating Roscoe the Parrot and David and so
as a direct result of that mistake, that was a
self inflicted wound. I have had a terrible postseason, but
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we'll get it back. So listen has been great all year,
and now I guess we've got to get back to work,
Danny on these Friday podcasts. And uh, I just saw
Brian Billick the other day, So maybe Brian the we're
chasing the He's like our white whale, Brian Billick. We
we can you know, but somehow Doun Gottlieb got him
in people I know, well, you know, he's stuck man.
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People want to talk to dog. He's a legend. Come on,
my god. Yes, we will have a full Saturday podcast
and a Sunday podcast. Yeah, it will be a little
different though it might be a mix of us a
little bit and some live slash recorded from what they're
now calling media. I don't like that man bull crap
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by the NFL. Forever radio row. It became a thing
because of radio. And I'm looking around here and I
see radio. I see a little gambling company here and there,
but I see mostly radio. And we're radio guys, Danny.
We might be the last in the Wahgans, but we're
radio guys. We gotta keep it real. Anyway, have a
great week, and thank you for listening to the PAKA.
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Sorry it's late, but hey, I'm hanging out. I get
to go to radio radio right. Send it again, dare
all right, We'll catch you next time. Have a wonderful
rest of your day. Later, Skater
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and Danny g Radio a little later than normal, Danny,
because we're hanging out at Radio Row. We're still here.
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I have not left. There are people who think they're
very important. We're walking around here as rock stars, especially
right over there. You see that. That's a rock star
walk right there. That's a Vince McMahon walk right over there. Yeah,
you know who just walked behind us a couple of
minutes ago. Who's the great Darren Waller? Oh, well, that's
you know. I was named Ben Waller. That was one
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of my radio names back in the day. So there,
So where's that so tattoo? I did? I got that? Actually,
when I got to Arizona, I went out and got that.
I thought that would be a good addition. But we
are here all weekend long. I know we're a little late. People.
Every time we put the podcast up late, people complain,
they blame they blame the company, they blame me, they
blame you, Danny. But but here we are, and there's
(01:30):
a good reason for it. Now. The beauty of this
is at radio row, you never know who's gonna pop on.
So we don't even know who's gonna pop on. We
have no idea this weekend, but this podcast. We're gonna
keep it real on this podcast because why not. And
so we've been doing this all year. The final chance,
final opportunity for Benny Versus the Penny to close out
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the season. And yeah, this is a traveling Penny, exactly,
a wonderful I will not Danny a wonderful regular season.
The playoffs. Playoffs have gone to hell, absolute hell. In
the postseason has not gone well because if you remember
the last time we did Benny Versus the Penny, a
couple of weeks ago before the championship games, we had
(02:17):
the forty Niners and the Bengals in the Super Bowl.
I'm looking around, I see I do not see the
forty Niners or the Bengals. I don't see any of
their logos. I see a lot of red and a
lot of green. That well, but the Penny also had
the forty Niners so this point that are there, Penny
had the Thes. Yeah, it was the Bengals as well
(02:38):
in that one. Um So anyway, this this will be
the the Bowl on Benny Versus the Penny. And it's
been a fun season doing this on the podcast. Who
knows what the future holes for Benny Versus the Penny.
You have no idea we might be back on the podcast.
It might be somewhere else. You never you never know.
We've moved this thing around a lot over the years.
It's what happens when lawyers are in all in the
(03:01):
NFL network, ESPN and FS one all fighting over there's
a major property. As you know, there's a major bidding
worthy intellectual property of Benny Versus the Penny. It's it's
in demand. I mean, there's so many moguls walking around here,
big important people that run major billion dollar media companies.
They all want a piece of it. They all want
(03:21):
a piece of it. They had breakfast meetings this week
that lasted for minutes yeah, oh, I do have to say,
and I don't get in trouble for this, but our
boss we have both our bosses are here. Main bosses,
So Don Martin, who I love. I've known Don for years.
The amount of people that are lined up to get
some FaceTime with Don Martin, it is outstanding. I mean
they are lined up down the hall here in this
(03:42):
massive facility trying to do old FaceTime with Don and
they just want to be part of the premier sports
line up in the nation. This set is insane to
the membrane here. They have outdone themselves. When I came in,
I thought I was at a KFC or an Arby's
because it felt like Chicken. I've never seen uh the
(04:05):
have You've seen the videos online? You you probably know
what I'm talking about. But for our blind listeners, you're
talking about the spinner. I'm talking about the cube that
that puts it over the top. I don't see any
other cubes here. That's the only cube. And so they've
put the cube, as Danny said, it's got the Fox
Sports radio logo and it's spinning around like when I
was a kid and I would go to Kentucky Fried
(04:26):
Chicken and they had the Colonel and it was kind
of like spinning the Colonel Pioneer Chi. That's right to
pioneered Chicken. Yeah, I love that. I've been staying. I've
been staring at that since I got to Radio Row,
and I mean like a trance like state, and I'm like, wow,
that's like amazing. I can't I can't believe it. It's
like it's it's spinning. It doesn't stop. It's been spinning
(04:48):
all night when no one was here, it was spinning
and now it's still spinning. How is that working? Is
it battery powered? Is it? It must be tied to
the the the power of the building. Here, it's insane, spinning, Ninja,
They're spinning. It's a spinner. It's unbelievable. I cannot believe it.
So anyway, all right, let's get to the game at
hand here, And I don't know, are they actually playing
(05:10):
the game? All these people are leaving, right, No one's
actually going to the game. I'm Covino and Rich. Earlier
in the week, we got to talk to Christian McCaffrey
and he said, I hope both teams lose. Yeah, and uh,
we need more spice now if I can nit pick
and why not, uh, you know, not not enough JUICEY know,
(05:32):
no real out. What's the most outrageous thing that's happened
this week from the Chiefs uh and from the Eagles?
It was Kevin Durant. Yeah, ke exactly, Kevin Durant. Who
I think is he like a like a deep wide
out for the Eagles or something like that as he plays? No,
I just keep seeing his name and hearing his name
all week long. Yeah. The the trade deadline, uh, the
(05:54):
NBA trumping all this. So we've got Super Bowl fifty
seven Sunday evening or eight afternoon, depending on where you are,
and the line on this game. The Chiefs originally opened
up a point and a half favorite at the beginning,
but that only lasted a couple of hours, and the
Eagles have been favored ever since that point one and
(06:15):
a half point favorites. At last we checked, and I
don't think it's gonna change very much. We're getting close
to the weekend, but at last we the last number
we had as we are here at Radio Row pretty
much doing it live on tape right, yes, one and
a half point line in favor of the Eagles. The
money on this game is relatively even. It's actually gone
(06:37):
in favor of the underdog. Kansas City at State Farm
Stadium on Sunday. The kickoff temperature sixties six degrees is
the kickoff temperture. But they've got the roof and all that,
so it's not gonna really matter. Some of the numbers
on this game leading into it, there's a there's all
kinds of trends through fifties six super Bowls, the favorite
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and the underdogs are actually even, Danny seven and two.
Does that make you like, like, you know, I think
that's the Illuminatis involved in that. But lately the underdogs
have dominated overall against the spread, their ten and five
the last fifteen Super Bowls, So it's a lean to
(07:19):
the underdogs. And last year the ben Gals lost to
the Rams, but they did cover the spread. The spread
last year it was four and a half in the
Super Bowl, for whatever that's worth. Year. Uh yeah, listen,
there's still until the team wins on Sunday, Danny, they
still have the Lombardi Trophy and the chiefs Now. If
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you look at that Kansas City coming in this game
eight and eleven this year against the spread, and you say,
well that doesn't matter. They're the six team ever to
get to the Super Bowl that has had a losing
record against the spread, and four of the last five
lost the Super Bowl. So usually you gotta be living
up to expectations, and when you're losing against the spread,
(08:04):
you have you have not done your job in the
eyes of the bookmaker. And so eight and eleven the
Chiefs eleven losses against the spread, the most ever by
a team entering the Super Bowl. There, as we said,
eight and eleven, The last time we had a team
this bad the Green Bay Packers way back in the
(08:25):
nice that guy who's suing everybody, the quarterback who's like
filing loss. Have you been sued, by the way, not yet? Yeah,
it's uh, it's it's right around the corner. Uh. The
Packers were six nine and three and they lost the
Denver Broncos. Uh. So the Chiefs, if they win, they
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they would have the most losses ever for a team
entering the Super Bowl, second worst percentage entering the game,
behind that that team from Green Bay back in the day.
But wait, there's more. We're not done. You play any prophets,
Danny into the pro bets at all. The exotics, any
of that stuff, you mean, like the different colored gatorade
and national anthem is gonna go. Yeah, some of those
(09:09):
are kind of cool. Yeah, they're kind of fun. Uh.
And some of the other props, like Jalen Hurts, Patrick Holmes,
who's gonna win the m v P. Hurts was favored,
but now that switched, And now Patrick Mahomes is favored
to win the m v P. Uh. Last last we saw,
but earlier before that switched, he had the shortest odds
(09:31):
of any player as an underdog, and I guess that
wouldn't change because now it's even better because more people
think he's gonna be the m v P and all that. Uh.
In this particular game, super Bowl fifty seven, Jalen Hursts
trying to be just the fifth, he was the fifth favorite.
Uh if he if he were to win, Now Mahomes
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I guess would slide into that number five spot to
win Super Bowl MVP. The last fifteen seasons, the last
time we had had a betting favorite win Super Bowl
m v P, it wasn't actually that long ago, was
Patrick Mahomes in ten. He was favored. He ended up winning.
Tom Brady did it a couple of times, but it
doesn't actually happen all that much where the favorite ends
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up winning the m v P in the Super Bowl.
And the the other thing to remember here on these
games we point this out all the time for these
Super Bowls, is the reality is that when you have
so much money being wager and they were talking about this,
they're more people that are gonna bet on the football
game on Sundays, have some kind of skin in the
(10:37):
game on the football game. Then like people that run
like they were talking about how popular a hobby it
is and all that, and it's like it's just nuts.
So it's absolutely nuts, and it's I believe it's always
been like this, Danny, but now it's more, Uh, it's
it's more allowed in polite society, right because now you
have gambling legal in so many states and it's not
(10:59):
even fully mature like we live in California. You can't
get them here in Arizona. You can gamble. And I'm
looking around here and some of the biggest tables and
not really tables like setups here is are the gambling places. Yeah,
you're right, it's taken over and not just that, Ben,
But have you noticed the trend. These gambling companies are like,
(11:20):
let's get a girl who's about twenty three years it
was a smoke show, Yes, and she'll be the face
of our gambling. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. They know exactly
the clientele they're looking for. They have that, Yeah, the
horn dog degenerate. That's like, hey, I think that this
guy will will give us all of his money to bet,
(11:42):
simply because we have a twenty three year old smoke
show who's telling you to bet. That's all we need.
That's all we need right there. All right. So some
of the exotic bets and I want to spend too
much time on this, but they're these are always fun.
For years on the Overnight Show, one of the off
shore books we you to give out, we had a
contest and we would have listeners submit weird prop bets
(12:06):
we actually want. It was a national contest and the
fans of the show. We won a couple of times.
But they're they're exotic something. Sometimes they call him novelty
prop bets. And and these are the things that you
said that kind of not even the gatorade anymore. I
mean that the coin toss has been around for a
long time. The Gatorade. Thing has been around a long time,
(12:26):
but there's like combining different sports. One of the ones
that's also been around a fair amount, which I like,
is when they give out the n v P Trophy,
you can bet on what will be mentioned first, and
people bet a decent amount of money on this, like
will you will the person come out? It's kind of
like when Lebron the other night set the scoring record
and people like, was he gonna thank his wife? Is
(12:46):
he gonna thank his kids, his mom? Is he gonna
thank himself? Is he gonna thank God? Who's he gonna
thank that? No? I did not. I did not see
the Lebron violating rules, But he didn't actually violate an
FCC rule. He didn't do that because yeah, listen exactly
you you're allowed to curson on cable TV. But the
(13:08):
favorite that the m v P of the Super Bowl
will say is he will thank the team he plays
for or his teammates. That will be first, and then
after that you've got the city and the fans, and
then number three. And I think you might want to
go higher than this, depending on who wins your MVP award.
(13:28):
God God is number three on the list. Family anyone,
anyone in the family. Yeah, coaches and then ownership. And
you can also got some of the other nonsense. You
can bet on whether a player will propose following the
game doesn't happen very well, well, proposed to get the
(13:49):
lifetime contract, right, lifetime, a lifetime agreement. And uh, if
you're very romantic, you know it's Valentine's Day coming up here, right,
and the big Valentine's Day. We can all that. So, uh,
if you're a big fan of romance, you can go
with that. You can bet on which here's a good
one on the exotic bets, which chip company commercial will
(14:10):
air first, and the two to choose from our Derrito's
and Pringles. So I'm gonna go first on this, Danny,
I'm gonna take Derrito's. I'm gonna take de Ritos. You
want to take de Ritos? You want to go with
the pringlest He's not the Penny's pick. This is Danny
G's pick. This is very important. This is the kind
of content that people tune into, Benny versus the Penny four.
(14:33):
This is what gets you through the weekend. I'm gonna
go Tostitos. Tostitos off the board, Now you probably have
some into if you go walking around in the back
and the bowels of Radio Row and you look at
all the food options and all that stuff. Right, did
I point you in the right direction? It was like
walking into a Costco over there is I I turned
(14:53):
the corner and it's like, oh, Danny's like probably pulling
my chain here. It's probably not that much beverage, and
it up going It was like unreal, man, the Mallard
calculator must have been going off the off the Richter scale. Yeah,
although I did see I was a little concerned when
I came in. I thought, what has happened to the
media business. When I came in, I saw them charging
(15:15):
for food. There was like a restaurant over there and
they were charging for foodos, Like what the hell? Yeah,
that's the fancier items. Those are the more bouge items.
I did see chicken fingers over there. That caught my attention.
But you know what, you're right about the Costco because
it's like family size peanut m and m's family size
things of gum, family size this like they did shop
at Costco. They had nowhere to store it that was private,
(15:38):
so they said, let's just put it behind the stage
right there. No one will see it. Yeah, well we
saw it. We found it on Monday and we've been
going back there solid. Yeah. First of all, you never
underestimate the freeloading abilities of radio people. You never underestimated
we could smell the free stuff. Oh yeah, exactly. Were
like hound dogs. We were able to sniff out that
(15:59):
be shut. To catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Alright,
some of the other exotic profits. Which snack company commercial
will air first on Sunday's Super Bowl. You've got M
and M's as a minus one fifty fabite where they
(16:19):
winking a nod to to Rito's. So Derito's who I
bet on de Rito's to be the first chip. But
Eminem's big money, big money, big money, big money, big money,
Eminem's favorite there, You're gonna go with Eminem's going with
a chalk on that? All right? Which beer brand commercial
will air first during Super Bowl fifty seven? Also very important,
You've got this is even on this bud Wiser is
(16:42):
minus one fifteen and Heineken minus one fifteen, both of
these companies, over the years known for spewing out millions
of dollars in Super Bowl commercials. I'm a purist, though, Danny,
I'm a purist. I'm going with the Clydesdales. I'm going
with the Clydesdale's. Uh. And so I'll never forget. Budweiser
(17:06):
had a deal at Dodgers Stadium years ago when I
was covering the Dodgers, and they had they had the Clydesdale's,
the famous Clydesdale's walk around the warning track the Dodgers Stadium,
which was great and oh yeah, right, you're writing further
dodging dugout there. It was a poop testing disaster. I
(17:26):
mean it was, oh my god, there was so much.
I had no idea we are allowed to curse. There
was so much dog shit it was forgotten. Yeah, you
gotta be careful the bosses around. But it was insane
and so of course immediately because these are you million
dollar baseball players, they were like seven eight guys that
jump out with shovels trying to clean up all of
(17:49):
the horse crap. And of course, the great thing about
being a horse you don't care. You don't you have
to wipe, You don't wipe anything. Just keep going. They
just kept going around the warning track. It was hilarious
and all the kids, little kids in the crowd of
Dodger stading were like pointing and laughing, and it was
it was great, all right. Some of the more uh,
some of the other obvious exotic bets here on this
(18:10):
Benny versus the penny, You've got heads two tails, first
to air commercial props, so these are the first to air.
The favorite on this the avocados from Mexico versus Hellman's.
You've got avocados of Mexico favorite at minus three thirty
three Hellman's. So this is a battle between mayonnaise and avocado.
(18:37):
And can you explain to me, Danny, I'm not an
avocado guy. Why the Super Bowl is the end all
be all for avocado? How did that happen? Danny? Explain
that to me? I don't understand. Well, everybody knows, Ben
that avocado is a healthy fat that you need in
your diet. That right, yeah? Is that? And you know
super Bowl it's some of the most fit athletes in
(18:57):
the world, so of course avocados are going to be
part of the weekend. Yeah, some of the other bets
here that you have the pop corners. What is that?
I don't even know what pop What are popcorners do?
I don't think I've ever had those. Oh they're they've
been giving free bags. Oh that's all you'll have to wait.
That's a giveaway. It's pop corners versus pringles. Yeah, they're
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they're the lightweight chips. They look kind of puffy. Okay, yeah, yeah,
they're healthier. So that must be a rival of Pringles. Yes,
there we go. Hold oh oh pop Brian Cranston talks popcorners,
super Bowl ad, breaking bad and more. Okay, so I
think we've got some insight here. I think you've gotta
go popcorners. I think so too. All right, we're taking popcorners. There.
(19:44):
We've got Eminem's versus PEPSI zero. I go Eminem's man.
Eminem's not very expensive to make Eminem's. They charge a
fair amount for them. Can follow the bread crumbs. There's
a tod of family sized Eminem's here at the NFL.
All right, you gotta direct me to that. I saw,
I saw the beverage. Well, no, you gotta show me
(20:07):
the stash. You've been here all week, man, you're the insider.
I'm late to the party, man, people are I was
coming in here, people were leaving. They were heading to
the airport to get out of Dodge, go back wherever
the heck they came from. They're like, I'm not part
of this nonsense. Get me the heck out of herege. Yeah, alright,
So those are some of the exotic prop beds. And
good luck. Every year there's some some Yahoo that ends
(20:31):
up betting a ton of money on the coin toss
and right away either wins a lot of money or
loses a lot of money. It happens year after year
after year, and so why would this year be any different?
Of course it will not, And good luck on that.
And of course you can bet a number of places.
We're a little bias here, though we are. We like
(20:52):
that DraftKings. We're all about that DraftKings action. Boss, That's
what we're all about, absolutely all right. So as far,
let's go back to the actual game on the field here,
as we put the bow on Benny versus the penny,
and the pick is in and the selection, I am
taking the Cansah City Chiefs, your super Bowl champions, as
(21:18):
they will be the Kings of the NFL. They will
take the title from the l A. Rams as the
new Super Wrunners. Now I've been accused, Danny. I've been
saying I've been teasing that I like the Chiefs this week,
and people have been accusing me of being a homer
and a house because I go on the radio every
week in Kansas City. But that is not it. That
is not it. We are betting. It's more of a
bet against the Birds than it is on the Chiefs. Now,
(21:45):
I am a conspiracy theorist, and I am I am
concerned about the health of one Jalen Hurts and his
shoulder here who he has yet to dominate on the
big stage. He did not play well in that National
Championship game. I can't get that out of my head
because we were on the air that night Alabama and
(22:05):
Georgia a number of years ago, and I had to
go to YouTube to learn how to play how to
say to a tongue of iloa. I know, I know,
I do. This guy was. He came in at halftime
and led Alabama back to the championship over Georgia in
the National Title Game. And if you look at Mahomes
now in the NFL playoffs, and that was a small
sample size, but he's played three games in the postseason,
(22:28):
three of them, and his career passer rating these playoff
games collectively is below eighty. He's had one good game
that was against the Giants. That was a blowout. Um,
I just trust Patrick going Holmes more. Now, the Chiefs
have been inconsistent. One of the reasons that they have
such a crappy record against the spread is they've usually
played one really good half and one so so half,
(22:50):
and so that is obviously problematic. There's the Andy Reid angle.
As I ranted about the other day, Danny, of all
the people in the Super Bowl, not to flog a
dead horse, Andy Reid's the that's got the most in
the line. And one of the criticisms of Andy Reid,
We've talked about this at a nauseum on the radio,
is that Andy is not known for the greatest clock management. Yeah,
(23:11):
whenever you blow past uh the stop signs at the
network on your live show for years, we've called you
the Andy Reid of clock management at the network. Now,
before I forget speaking of Andy Reid, I I came
in here and I saw I thought I had seen
Andy Reid. I thought like, well, there must be and
it was not. It was not Andy Reid. It was
(23:33):
the Andy Reid impersonator who in this guy we've we've
seen him on the internet, on television, but me and
a lot like I've I've seen Andy Reid in person before.
And I I had to look at the guy like
multiple times. And then I thought like, why on God's
green Earth would Andy Reid be walking around in his
(23:53):
game day outfit? That makes no sense, right, makes no sense.
But it was the Andy Reid impersonator who that guy?
I should have taken a picture with that guy. If
he's here, I'll go around. I'll find the guy. He
looks more like Andy Reid than Andy Reid does. Oh man,
it was nuts. It's like there's the wall where No,
it's the there's big red No anyway, So I'm gonna
(24:15):
take the Chiefs. That's the play here in the Super Bowl.
The only thing that gives me pause is the clock
management issues and all that we talked about Kansas City
being choppy and uh. But in the end, it'll be
a close game. Jalen Hurts not gonna play all that great,
and the Birds go down Chiefs twenty seven and the
(24:38):
Eagles twenty four the final, and the penny is about
to pick. It's always a sad time when the penny
makes its last pick. As we end man versus an
adamant object here on, benny versus the penny, and the
pick is in for the penny. And and first let
me double check. Okay, the Eagles are the home team, correct, uh,
(25:03):
because when I looked at it showed it's a neutral set.
But they got to wear their home uniforms to deal
if you're a home team, right, because we got to
decide that before. Okay, all right, yeah, alright, alright, that
is a fair point, right we are. If there's one
thing we stand for, it is accuracy. Yes, that's why
people tune into audio content for accuracy. They need the accuracy. Alright,
(25:26):
So here we go this it's very important. You're not
gonna hear the penny on the table because it's a
digital flip. Since that's right, the pennies hanging out at
a resort here in Arizona and the penny simulator on. Alright,
here we go, where is it gonna go? Philly? Is
it gonna go Kansas City. It's a head. Oh look
at that head. Yeah, dare you? How dare you? Danny
(25:51):
g Well, the writing has done better than you in
the playoffs. This is no different. I'm gonna get my
mojo back. And here's how I'm gonna get my mojo back.
Roscoe the Parrot, No, no, listen to me. Roscoe the
Parrot and David in winter Park, Florida. David pointed this
out the other day. During the regular season, I kept
mentioning David and Roscoe the Parrot. David lives in winter Park, Florida,
(26:15):
and I was mentioning that. And during the regular season
I killed it. I dominated, and then in the playoffs
I got away from my roots. I went away from
praising and celebrating Roscoe the Parrot and David and so
as a direct result of that mistake, that was a
self inflicted wound. I have had a terrible postseason, but
(26:36):
we'll get it back. So listen has been great all year,
and now I guess we've got to get back to work,
Danny on these Friday podcasts. And uh, I just saw
Brian Billick the other day, So maybe Brian the we're
chasing the He's like our white whale, Brian Billick. We
we can you know, but somehow Doun Gottlieb got him
in people I know, well, you know, he's stuck man.
(27:00):
People want to talk to dog. He's a legend. Come on,
my god. Yes, we will have a full Saturday podcast
and a Sunday podcast. Yeah, it will be a little
different though it might be a mix of us a
little bit and some live slash recorded from what they're
now calling media. I don't like that man bull crap
(27:20):
by the NFL. Forever radio row. It became a thing
because of radio. And I'm looking around here and I
see radio. I see a little gambling company here and there,
but I see mostly radio. And we're radio guys, Danny.
We might be the last in the Wahgans, but we're
radio guys. We gotta keep it real. Anyway, have a
great week, and thank you for listening to the PAKA.
(27:41):
Sorry it's late, but hey, I'm hanging out. I get
to go to radio radio right. Send it again, dare
all right, We'll catch you next time. Have a wonderful
rest of your day. Later, Skater
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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!