November 3, 2023 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about the Steelers coming back to win against the Titans, RGIII's comments about biases among the NFL refs, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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our headline this hour out of the Steel City. If
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you were paying attention, you know that Week nine is
now underway in the NFL. The curtain went up in Pittsburg, PA,
and al Michaels was there, Kirk Herbstreet in the cat
bird seat. And I don't know if you watch the
game or not. I checked it out. I went into
the Amazon. I had my machete and I went into
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the Amazon, and I didn't buy anything. Kenny Pickett, who's
not very good, but he did throw a three yard
touchdown pass to Deontay Johnson, who hadn't scored a touchdown
in about twenty years, with about four minutes to go
in that game, and the Steelers squeezing past the Titans
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thanks to the hair and their chinny chin chin twenty
to sixteen. The final Pittsburgh somehow is five and three
despite having a futile offensive football team. Tennessee dropped the
three and five as the good luck charm did not
show up in this game, So a lot to unpack.
Let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs down?
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Has Mike Tomlin solved the Steelers' issues after a clunker
last week against the Jacksonville football team. So I am
going to go thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down on
that question whether or not Mike Tomin has solved the
Steelers issues. I've got jigsaw puzzle, moose jaw and hey Mona,
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and we will tie all of these things together and
we are going to make a sandwich with fries on top.
That's the Pittsburgh Samish right to put the fries on
top and all that. So my first thought, work in
progress work in the Steeler offense. They were still very
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clunky in this game. Now supposedly there are building blocks there.
You really have to be a cock eyed optimist to
see those building blocks. The underlying condition remains, and so
Mike Tomlin is still trying to find those uzzle other pieces.
He's digging around the sofa cushions and around the sofa there,
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trying to find those other puzzle pieces to the jigsaw puzzle.
The struggle is real. It's grit and grind, and they
have to scratch and clow. Four of Pittsburgh their five wins.
Four their five wins this year have come in games
where they trailed entering the fourth court, and it doesn't
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matter who they play, they're not good enough to really
blow the doors off anybody. The Steelers were sloppy yet again.
They had ten penalties for eighty yards, and you might
believe the officials are compromised. We'll talk more about that later,
but they did hand over six first downs via penalty
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to the Tennessee football team. Now, another topic of conversation
here and one of the big talking points in the
lead up to the Thursday night game in NFL circles.
The chatter was about these Steelers who had moved their
and battled offensive coordinator all Ah Da Da Matt Canada.
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Now he went from the coaching booth down to the sidelines. Now,
the talking points memo was that this was in an
effort to jump start the offense, which in every meaningful
statistical category blows spoiler alert, it didn't work, right, it
didn't work. Now, how concerned should Matt Canada be with
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his relocation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' sidelines. So this is
a clear demerit. It is a demotion for the offensive coordinator.
His offense continues to be lost in the wilderness. And
if it doesn't change and It didn't change in this game,
even with a win. He will soon be excommunicated from
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Steeler mation and Matt Canada. I think he's headed to
Moosejaw that's in Saskatchewan. There and he can try to
work with the high school football team in moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
because he will be abandoned even though the Steelers are
tremendously loyal. It can't go on forever, right, There's gotta
be an endpoint. Everything has an endpoint. We all have
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an endpoint. Why would that not have an endpoint? Now?
To be fair to the offensive coordinator, not that we're
ever fair in sports radio, but his quarterback sucks. That's
a tough Kenny Pickett. I mean I would rather have
a nose picker than Kenny Pickett. Kenny Pickett dealing with
a rib injury. But he was able to play. And
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so my rule has always been, if you're able to play,
we judge you on your performance. You don't get points
for playing hurt if you blow. And so he played,
but he wasn't good. He served up soup, but it
was not a creamy tomato bisk It was a chunky
arted choke, is what it was and nothing smooth about it.
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And it's not like Tennessee is a great defensive team,
twenty second in the NFL, and in most of the
defensive categories they're either a middling team or bad. And
yet against a rather weak Tennessee defense who at the
trade dead line or before it traded one of their
better defensive players to the Philadelphia Eagles, Tennessee ranking twenty second,
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as we said, and Kenny Pickett went out there and
averaged a poultry five point three yards per pass. Now,
if you want to be Benny Brightside, they'll say the
running game was good, that woke up. They had one
hundred and sixty six yards. Najee Harris and Jalen Warren
combining for one hundred and sixty six yards. They had
more rushing yards than passing yards. Right, last word here.
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So now we go to the losing locker room, which
is the better story. But we waited because the Steelers
are the bigger team. So what is your evaluation of
Will Levis, the breakout star from last week? What is
your evaluation of Will Levis in his encore performance? So
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this is another simple the sequel is not the equal.
Now against Atlanta, you're paying attention. You were listening last week.
You know that Will Levis played the piano like InKo Terror,
just amazing, classically trained musician in Ko Terror, and it
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was wonderful. In this game against Pittsburgh, He's saying, like
Kathy in Madison, Hey Mona, you know, a little rough,
a little rough regression versus progression. And I'm watching the
Titans office and maybe I'm wrong about this. What do
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I know? I just do the overnight show. But that
look like, excuse my French, the basic bitch offense, a
lot of underneath stuff, very elementary, vanilla, predictable, unoriginal, nibbling
around the edges, and Mike Rabel's showing the utmost respect
for the Steeler defense or the lack of respect for
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his quarterbacks. So the malor report card we give the
Titans quarterback Will Levis a D. He gets the D
for this performance. Why only sixteen points? The object of
the game is to matriculate the ball down the field
and put the ball in the end zone. It's not
that hard. Well, apparently it is very hard for most people,
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but that's the object. So sixteen points, that's not going
to get it done. And was singing off a different
song sheet than DeAndre Hopkins in this game. Hopkins last
week they made sweet music together. This week, eleven times
Will Levis targeted DeAndre Hopkins and he only had a
success rate of thirty six percent four of eleven, which
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again I think that's particularly great. Oh, you're being too critical.
How about third down? Three of thirteen the Will Levis
offense on third down against the Steelers and seventeen first
downs generated by offense without penalty. Also bad in the
red zone, that's why they only scored sixteen points. They
got the red zone four times, only successful once in
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those four trips of the red zone. That is a
twenty five percent success rate. It is the Ben Malors shown.
As far as the post game flavor flav as we
like to do, we'll start now. I get my evaluation
of Will Levis. How about Mike Rabel, the surly coach
of the Tennessee football team. Let's go to the audio tape.
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Here's Mike Rabel on his quarterback.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Fairly well again, no no, no delayed games, get getting
us in and then again there were some things that
you will have to be better as far as just
directionally and but.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I think that it's it was then we lost, So
I'm not gonna sit there glorify that and his performs
play there with some big pros. There's some good protections
close on a couple of runs. Third down was certainly
a large factory in this good.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It was very nice of Mike. We're able to hold
his postgame newser in the bathroom. It was very nice
of Actually, we had our microphone was set up over
in Harrisburg, so it was one of those boom mics
and we picked up from Harrisburg as he was standing
in the bathroom. How about the man Will Levis. You
know he showed up. I don't know if you saw the
video heard about it. He showed up to the stadium
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wearing a letterman's jacket Tennessee Titans, like like a high
school letterman's jacket, and parts of that game he did
play like high school quarterback. Here's Will Levis who points
out the Komodo dragon in the room for the Titans.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, no, I mean gott to finish drives. The yards
don't mean anything if you don't finish those drives, for sure,
I mean we're not going to force anything, but or
we're just gonna do our jobs and play the field
position batt if we need to, but obviously you want to.
You want to score points, and couldn't get it done
as much as we needed to tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Do your job, Boo, your job.
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a win for the Steelers and a cover by the way,
thank you very much. Mike Common does it again at home,
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small points, spread, late touchdown by Pittsburgh and they get
the w there. If you're a gambling type and you've
been on Pittsburgh by our headline is from the NFL,
but it's a former NFL player who is tossing around
some rather serious accusations against the Zebras for being the
D word dirty dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty dirty dirty dirty
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dirty dirty. Did you see this? Yeah, this is a
danger zone story. You didn't see this bat job by you?
All right? Maybe you missed it. Robert Griffin, IID, a
failed NFL quarterback, was a total studd at Baylor, and
now he's a blowhard on television. He has a wild
theory based on what he claims players are telling him. Now.
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RG three said that the players in the NFL today
believe that one of the reasons the officiating is terrible
is because of local bias and rooting interest influencing how
games are called. Say what does that perk your interest
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in all? That's kind of a sexy story, right, all right,
So here's the quote from RG three. He said, quote,
these guys are from places, they have favorite teams. How
do you assess that with a referee who has a
flag in his pocket and can make calls that can
change the outcome of a game based off of where
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he's from, or who his favorite team was, or who
he rooted for when he was a kid. Quotes quote.
Implications rather obvious here that an official who grew up
a Green Bay Packer fan is going to give the
benefit of the doubt to the Green Bay Packers. Now,
RG three said, it also cuts both ways that occasionally
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somebody who grew up a Packer fan will not call
a penalty on the Packers because they don't want to
be seen as having a bias towards the Packers, which,
as a result, will thus be a bias against the Packers.
All right, so let us discuss the question as you
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as I just gave you the quote. RG three's saying
that NFL players believe the referees have a rooting interest
which is causing bad officiated games. What does this say
about the players? What does this say about the referees?
So I've got four to zho, four trifecta and spoiler,
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and we're going to lock all of these things together
and flag is up, just like at the Breeders' Cup,
which will be coming up here today and tomorrow. So
number on. My initial take was a chuckle. I'm not
gonna lie. When when I saw this story and it
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caught my attention, it was on my radar, I said, oh,
come on, these NFL players are so paranoid. They were
on that shuttle service to the nuthouse, right, What do
they live in Goofy's Playhouse? Are they sneaking around to
the back of Goofy's Playhouse? Are they are cuckoo for
cocoa puffs? Is that where they are? But then I
paused for a second. I took a deep breath, and
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I actually in that little cartoon bubble over my head,
I like contemplated the situation. And I gotta tell you,
maybe I'm I'm Looney Tunes too, but I kind of
see what he's saying. It's not as far fetched as
you may think. And I'll tell you why. It's the
four to oh four. And I'm not talking about the
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area code of Atlanta. We're talking about the four to
oh four as in the error code you ever type
something wrong in on the internet and four to oh
four comes up. It's human error, and it's part of everything.
It's part of everything. The typical failure rate. I've read
a study on this couple of years ago. The typical
failure rate among humans for common work practices. The range
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is anywhere from ten to thirty mistakes per one hundred opportunities.
So let's extrapolate that out. That means for every one
hundred calls made by an official in an NFL game,
you are going to have anywhere from ten to thirty
blown calls. But then you add on to that personal bias.
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Everyone's got personal bias. This it's called life experience, right.
Who you grew up with, who you were around, How
your thoughts on the world are shaped by the people
around you. If you grew up with certain people who
are are racist, you're racist. If you grow with people
that are aniseemitic, you're probably anisymitic. That's just the way
we're shaped by how our environment. Is not to go
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too deep, because I mean, we're just doing overnight radio.
But the other issue with the officiating is it is
subjective versus objective. Subjective are beliefs, and objective is a
measurable fact, and most calls are subjective. It's like something
you believe is a penalty, but it could go either direction.
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And also, never forget that we have seen crooked officials.
I interviewed one on my podcast a couple of years ago,
Tim Donahey, Who's the gold standard example a of a
crooked official. Now he was doing it for gambling reasons,
but the point is still the same, so you can
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factor that in. And I don't believe it's as nuts
as I originally thought when I first saw the headline.
It makes it And the other issue here is just
bad leadership by the NFL and the fact that the NFL,
they're a multi billion dollar conglomerate. They don't give a crap.
If the NFL gave a crap, the officiating would be better.
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They don't because ultimately it's good for business. There's controversy,
it gets people talking about it, Nobody stops watching because
of the bad officiating. It just raises people's blood pressure,
and ultimately you're still gonna watch anyway, So who the
hell cares?
Speaker 7 (19:35):
All?
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Pace two headline Lost Wages Nevada, where Devonte Adams has
given a state of the Union address on the Writers
coaching change. Now give you a little snippet here. Adams
told reporters that the change that happened, the whacking, the
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poll axing of Josh McDaniels and the GM. There the
change of some variety was needed. I'll give you a
little snippet of the quote. He said, quote one way
or the other. It was time for some sort of change,
just to bring a little juice in and revitalize the
team a little bit. He said, close quote. So let's
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decode what do you say. Let's decode the message said
in the State of the Union addressed by Davonte Adams.
So the way I interpreted this, Adams hit the trifecta
this week. He did. He hit the trifecta because Josh
McDaniels gone, GM, gone, quarterback benched. It was like the
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Gong Show for the Raiders. And whether or not he
will admit it, he probably won't. One of the main
reasons that Josh McDaniels is no longer coaching the Raiders
is because of Davonte Adams. Davonte Adams coach killer, coach killer.
Let me give him my evidence. I went back to
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the archives. I keep my notes, my bullet points on
these monologues. On September twenty seventh, Davante Adams said the following,
we're not doing things the right way to establish a
winning culture. Close quote. That was a direct torpedo right
into the schnazzola of Josh McDaniels, your highest paid wide receiver,
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your most dynamic offensive player, your big kahuna, the big
raggu Davante Adams saying, we're a bunch of losers here.
The culture, that culture's coaching culture's the GM that's who
supposedly builds the culture. And he said, we have to
we don't have a winning culture. We're not doing that,
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And essentially a month later, the guillotine dropped for the Raiders.
All right, Finally headline headline from Cincinnati where Jamar Chase
revealed to reporters that if he were to score a
touchdown in Sunday Night Football against the Bill's Mafia, Jamar
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Chase said he would recreate one of the iconic NFL
touchdown celebrations on one condition. That condition, Chad Johnson, Bengal
icon has to pay the fine. That's the condition that
Chad Johnson would need to pay. A finalite celebration. If
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you know Ocho Sinko, he had every celebration. My favorite
was the river dance that he used to do. I
love the river dance. But this was pretty good too,
where he scored a touchdown and then went over and
manned the television camera. You know, the big fifty thousand
dollars one hundred thousand dollars camera on those big bulky
cameras that they use on these NFL broadcasts. So he
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went over there and man the cameras. It was great.
It's funny he got fined for well, o Cho Sinko
has confirmed that he will pay up. So it's on
like don't get Kong. But there's always the party pooper
out there. And I've been reading some people saying the
Devil's advocate argument, this is not good for the Bengals,
this is not good for Cincinnati. That somebody should have
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a talk with Jamar Chase that this is these are
shenanigans and it's unbecoming that this is an distraction as
Cincinnati gets ready to play Buffalo. So I wanted to
address that part of it. Should Bengals coach Zach Taylor
have a talk talk talk talk with Jamar Chase about
his priorities, and I am shaking my head. No, I
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am shaking my head no on this. I'll tell you why.
Jamar Chase is plotting for the end zone. If you
do the arithmetic and you use the malamath, that is
a net positive for Cincinnati. Now, my only the problem
is not that he's planning on scoring a touchdown. My
only problem is the promotion. What are you doing? This
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is a spoiler alert. This is a spoiler alert. It
would have been much more powerful and meaningful had these
two knuckleheads done this behind closed doors and then unbeknownst
to anyone. Almost organic. So it seems Jamar Chase honored
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Ocho Sink. But by telling everyone what you're planning on doing,
it takes away the rasthma task. It does. Maybe it's
just me, but it takes away the rasthma task.
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because this guy is over promising things we never have
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Speaker 1 (25:52):
How about that to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
This is one big, Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 11 (25:59):
Who do An NFL insider said on Wednesday that aj
Brown is an MVP candidate this year. Ben, we already
know that you don't think a wide receiver will ever
win MVP. Who do you having the lead for the
award this season?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So I'm going Chalky mcchalk here, Coop, I got Patrick
Mahomes even after losing to your Broncos. It is a
quarterback award. Ultimately, he's the top quarterback Kansas City. They've
got dump truck wide receivers. They do have Taylor Swift
on their side, though, so that's good. It's pretty much
whoever plays well the final five or six games of
the year, and Mahomes is in the lead, but Jalen Hurts,
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Lamar Jackson, Tua Tonguabai Loa Evans in the conversation, it's
a down the stretch award. What's next? Cool?
Speaker 11 (26:43):
It's well known now that the Padres are having some
financial struggles, as they were just approved for a fifty
million dollar loan. Now that is leading to speculation that
Juan Soto could be shipped out of town to save money. Ben,
do you think Soto gets traded?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh? Yeah? A little Birdie months ago, who eats fish,
tacos and likes to walk around. La Joya said that
Juan Soto pretty much knows he's going to be traded.
He don't know where, but he knows he's gonna be traded.
It's gonna be one of the East Coast teams, probably
the Red Sox, Yankees or Mets, but he's out of
San Diego next.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
The Seahawks win over the Browns last weekend lifted them
to five and two on the year end. Geno Smith
proclaimed in a recent interview that the team can match
up with anybody. Ben Are the Seahawks legit?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
No? Because of Gino Smith last five weeks Gino Smith
six touchdowns, six interceptions, two fumbles, No matter what.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Stratenas and JJ and Retten and crying Craig say they're
not legit with Gino Smith, How did.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
We do you pass this?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
That is a win.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
You can put it on the ball Coast the week
in the win column to King.
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Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'll do a couple of jokes, just a little teaser,
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Coming up here, we welcome in from a beach somewhere
in Miami, our favorite homeless guy. Yes, weed Man, Yes,
I love you Ben weed Man hippie, who if you
have not been listening the soap opera that is weed
(28:28):
Man Hippie was kicked out of his home and he
is homeless right now.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Totally homeless. I need don't fund me and weed Man
hippie with why do fund me? I need an apartment.
I need to be inside. I haven't been inside in weeks,
all right, So.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
And your promise, weed Man, I am I'm seeing your
go fund me. Are you're holding up the Malard ring there,
weed Man, you're holding up the Ben Malar show ring
that we got for you.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I love that ring. I now I got blown out
of my.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Oh no, they broke.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Down my door, threw me out.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
The ring is gone. And actually the other rings more
valuable if you have one, they're more valuable. Well, weed Man,
you promise you're not going to spend the money on weed, right,
You're gonna actually get.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
A home I need, I needed and I need a
place to be inside.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
All right, but you got to promise, I mean, weed
Man will promote it, but you got to promise you're
not going to blow the money on the weed or
whatever else. You're laughing. I don't know that you want
to laugh.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Spend You can't, you can't. You can't spend that much
money on weed a all right, I don't know your name.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
Spend.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, we wasted too much time. We just right now
and then we'll have a long block. How about that.
I lied, We'll have a long block. It's Big Bend's
lame Jokes of the week. He really does. If you
want to see what weed Man looks like, he really
does have a GoFundMe. I'm looking at it, right. I
like that drawing of him though. That looks good. We'll
get to it. Lame Jokes of the Week.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Next, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And the jokes roll on. It's Big Bend's Lame Jokes
of the Week. As we continue on our buddy from Miami.
He's on the beach in Miami. He's homeless, see forcibly
removed from.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Men. You want?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
You want the good news of the bad news? Weed man, I.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Would lie it. I'd like some good news because I
might kill my show.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I don't say. Don't say that, weed man, Well, come on,
I don't say that.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
The good news is I looked at I looked at
your GoFundMe page. It looks very good. Okay, that's the
good one.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
Wow, thank you, Yeah, it looks good.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
You want the you want the bad news?
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Really?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Okay? All right, I won't tell you the bad news anyway.
What what happened? What happened when Lizzo paid for a
twelve month gym membership, Well, it turns out her bank
called to see if her credit card had been stolen.
(31:27):
What's the real cause of world pollution? It turns out
it's Lizzo's bo that that is the real Noah in Austin.
What What do Lizzo and Joe DiMaggio have in common? Well,
funny enough, funny enough, they both left hotels through the kitchen. Yeah,
(31:48):
that's a true story. When I was, when I was,
when I was a kid. I tried to get Joe
Deamagin's autograph. He was really old. I was young, and
we were We staked out a hotel in San Diego
and he snuck out through the kitchen. I told you
that's a good Listen back what you're saying, Well, you'd
have to talk to Marilyn Monroe about that. Why isn't
(32:10):
Lizzo going to watch the Breeders Cup? Well, it turns
out to she can't fit on the edge of her seat.
That is uh, that's from a chip in the queues.
Why did Lizzo have a good thing going with her
elephant sized background dancers. Yeah, she was able to pay
(32:34):
them in peanuts, so she was happy about that, sir.
For Todd the comedian, Why is the why is the
Breeders Cup suing Lizzo for damages? Yeah, apparently she tried
actually sitting on the edge of her seat and that
did not go well either. So that was a problem.
That's inca terror. How does Lizzo save money on food?
Speaker 8 (33:00):
No clue.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
She bundles lunch and dinner together, is what she does.
Got any jokes? Iowa, Sam Absolutely, Okay, what do you got?
Speaker 11 (33:13):
Uh, let's see yeah, all right, this is from Noah
and Austin.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Which car is the biggest.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Slut slutty car? I don't know.
Speaker 12 (33:24):
It's the Tahoe anything over there, Coop anything else?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Let's see. Uh no, no.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
No, you're not doing okay? All right?
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Did you hear about the new or about the big
trade actually between Miami and New York? No, it turns
out weed Man goes to New York Miami gets a
case of lysol in the trade. That's uh, Gordon and Tacoma.
All right, we'll skip over that one. Why was weed
(34:07):
Man evicted? It turns out he was a He was
actually he ruled a health threat to the mice. To
the mice chip chip chip in your teeth are in
a dumpster somewhere. Why is Why is Halloween weed Man's
favorite holiday? Well, well, because he gets to pretend that
(34:31):
the cobwebs in his apartment are decorations. So what does
weed Man go ask for Halloween? Turns out he goes
as a homeless guy. That's what he goes at. That's
Eric in Kansas. Did you did you hear that? We
weed Man thinks Halloween. He does think it's the greatest,
(34:51):
that's true. The reason why is because it's also called
Beggars Night. He loves the beggers Knight. All right, let's
see did.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
You hear that?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Tom Mooney? Tom Mooney and I now have our own
Italian cooking show.
Speaker 8 (35:10):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Really, it's called Benny Versus the Penny? How about that penny?
That's pretty good? Right, that's not bad? Lame jokes in
the week. Good luck We've man.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
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Speaker 1 (35:36):
It's hooray for Holly? Would all right for Holly? Would
the coop Coop on Entertainment with Justin Cooper.
Speaker 8 (35:49):
Where's the time gone?
Speaker 11 (35:50):
Wow?
Speaker 8 (35:50):
All right?
Speaker 11 (35:51):
So I'm gonna start off in theaters this weekend. We
have a new movie out right now. It is called Priscilla.
And yes, it is about that Priscilla, the one that
married Elvis Presley. And this is a Sophia Coppola movie.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (36:07):
And it is told, uh, you know, through the eyes
of Priscilla Presley. And it tells the unseen side of
a great American myth in Elvis?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
So that is what is the myth? What is the
I guess you have to watch the.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's the tease.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Is it fake that he died on the toilet? Is
that fake?
Speaker 7 (36:27):
No?
Speaker 8 (36:27):
I'm pretty sure that's real.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That's real.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
Yes, what did they do with the toilet? That's a
good question.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Is it still with Graceland? Have you been to Graceland?
Speaker 8 (36:37):
I have been to you have I've been there too.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I heard it wasn't that it's not that.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
I thought it was cool.
Speaker 11 (36:42):
I mean I'm a huge Elvis fan, or grew up
a huge Elvis fan. I used to collect Elvis memorabilia,
So for me, it was awesome. Okay, there's there's a
room you go in there and all of his gold
and platinum records are like lining the walls, the ceiling.
You remember that coup, right, Yeah? Yeah, and there, I
mean tons of them. The house is still like decorated
(37:03):
like it was that.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Cart Yeah it's a time capsule.
Speaker 11 (37:07):
Yeah, it's seventies and I stayed in the the Heartbreak
Hotel near Graceland Elvis themed rooms and you could.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Did you neat a was it banana and Mayo.
Speaker 8 (37:19):
Absolutely, no, it was. It's fried banana peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Isn't it like a car driver likes Mayo bananas.
Speaker 8 (37:26):
That's a sandwich. No, it's not. It's between bread.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Isn't Dale Earnhardt like the banana? I think so?
Speaker 8 (37:32):
Yeah, yeah, Mayo. But yeah.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
At the hotel that I stayed at, they had like
a little twenty four hour like kind of diner thing,
and I just ate a bunch of those constantly the
entire trip.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
It's delicious. Uh yeah. So moving over to television, we
have a.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Oh what's on TV this weekend? Coop?
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Yeah, we have a few new things here.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I know a show that's on TV this weekend?
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Oh do you? I'm sure you sell? That's all about it?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well, no, it's gonna be in the coop, scoop. I
don't have to promote it. You're my promotion guy.
Speaker 11 (37:59):
It's not be in the coop, scoop. Come on, I
don't know to talk about the same show every week with.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
The new every week. There's new episodes every week.
Speaker 8 (38:11):
Yeah, I don't talk about new episodes. I talk about premieres.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Wow, okay, all right, if you get back on TV,
I will remember this school, you know.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (38:23):
Premiering are available right now actually on Apple TV Plus
is a new sci fi drama movie. It's called Fingernails,
and it is a sci fi romance set in an
alternate world in which a machine can accurately determine whether
two people are in love by prying off a fingernail
from each person. Yeah, it's interesting, but it stars. There's
(38:48):
a couple a couple of big names in here that
you might know. Maybe not you specifically, Ben, but you
the the people listening. Uh Riz Ahmed is in it.
Luke Wilson and Jeremy Allen White. Do you know any
of those three people?
Speaker 7 (39:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
No, I have no idea.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Who are not even Luke Wilson Wilson right? Okay?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Those other people?
Speaker 8 (39:12):
Yeah? Well other two other great actors right there.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (39:16):
Moving on to Hulu. Also available right now to stream
on Hulu is a new comedy movie. This one's gotten
mixed reviews, but a big cast with names that you
I think you know what I'm looking at these names.
I think that Ben, I think you will know at
least three of them.
Speaker 8 (39:35):
We've got Sandra Oh do you know Sandra Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Comedian? Right?
Speaker 11 (39:40):
Yeah, Gray's anatomy. Yeah, I think she does some sideways. Yeah,
but yeah, Gray's anatomy. Then you've got aquafinat she's a comedian, yes,
she she is a comedian water and she does a
lot of voice work.
Speaker 8 (39:59):
Jason Schwartzman, No, no.
Speaker 11 (40:04):
He's uh, he's in a lot of Wes Anderson movies,
Rushmore Yeah.
Speaker 7 (40:09):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
And Will Ferrell, Oh.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I went to the same high school
as Will Farrel.
Speaker 8 (40:13):
Did you I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (40:16):
Well, yeah, this is uh.
Speaker 11 (40:17):
This is a comedy about a dysfunctional family that seeks
to raise much needed money through the only means available,
winning on a game show.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Oh that's like Poppy, that's the life.
Speaker 11 (40:30):
Uh, it's the The movie is called Quiz Lady. It
is on Hulu and it also features the final performance
from Paul Rubins, the late Paul Rubins, Pee.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Wee Yes, Peahouse.
Speaker 11 (40:43):
And lastly, Ben I wanted to bring this up. The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is live
today at eight pm, and it'll be streaming live for
the first time. It moves over from HBO, which it
has been on for decades, over to Disney Plus and
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so at eight PM that will stream live and being
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today
is Kate Bush, Cheryl Crow, Kate Bush, yeap, why I
don't know, Cheryl Crowe, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie George
Michael Ye, Willie Nelson, and Rage Against the Machine.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Are they all gonna, yes, show up a by the
ones that are alive or they.
Speaker 8 (41:29):
I would have imagine.
Speaker 11 (41:30):
So yeah, and then the Spinners, who I've actually Hell, yeah,
I don't know the Spinners.
Speaker 8 (41:36):
Rubber band man, let's go the Detroit Spinners. All right,
love the Spinners, and we're running out of time. So
that is scoop scooping entertainment.
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our headline this hour out of the Steel City. If
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you were paying attention, you know that Week nine is
now underway in the NFL. The curtain went up in Pittsburg, PA,
and al Michaels was there, Kirk Herbstreet in the cat
bird seat. And I don't know if you watch the
game or not. I checked it out. I went into
the Amazon. I had my machete and I went into
(02:04):
the Amazon, and I didn't buy anything. Kenny Pickett, who's
not very good, but he did throw a three yard
touchdown pass to Deontay Johnson, who hadn't scored a touchdown
in about twenty years, with about four minutes to go
in that game, and the Steelers squeezing past the Titans
(02:25):
thanks to the hair and their chinny chin chin twenty
to sixteen. The final Pittsburgh somehow is five and three
despite having a futile offensive football team. Tennessee dropped the
three and five as the good luck charm did not
show up in this game, So a lot to unpack.
Let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs down?
(02:49):
Has Mike Tomlin solved the Steelers' issues after a clunker
last week against the Jacksonville football team. So I am
going to go thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down on
that question whether or not Mike Tomin has solved the
Steelers issues. I've got jigsaw puzzle, moose jaw and hey Mona,
(03:17):
and we will tie all of these things together and
we are going to make a sandwich with fries on top.
That's the Pittsburgh Samish right to put the fries on
top and all that. So my first thought, work in
progress work in the Steeler offense. They were still very
(03:37):
clunky in this game. Now supposedly there are building blocks there.
You really have to be a cock eyed optimist to
see those building blocks. The underlying condition remains, and so
Mike Tomlin is still trying to find those uzzle other pieces.
He's digging around the sofa cushions and around the sofa there,
(04:01):
trying to find those other puzzle pieces to the jigsaw puzzle.
The struggle is real. It's grit and grind, and they
have to scratch and clow. Four of Pittsburgh their five wins.
Four their five wins this year have come in games
where they trailed entering the fourth court, and it doesn't
(04:21):
matter who they play, they're not good enough to really
blow the doors off anybody. The Steelers were sloppy yet again.
They had ten penalties for eighty yards, and you might
believe the officials are compromised. We'll talk more about that later,
but they did hand over six first downs via penalty
(04:42):
to the Tennessee football team. Now, another topic of conversation
here and one of the big talking points in the
lead up to the Thursday night game in NFL circles.
The chatter was about these Steelers who had moved their
and battled offensive coordinator all Ah Da Da Matt Canada.
(05:02):
Now he went from the coaching booth down to the sidelines. Now,
the talking points memo was that this was in an
effort to jump start the offense, which in every meaningful
statistical category blows spoiler alert, it didn't work, right, it
didn't work. Now, how concerned should Matt Canada be with
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his relocation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' sidelines. So this is
a clear demerit. It is a demotion for the offensive coordinator.
His offense continues to be lost in the wilderness. And
if it doesn't change and It didn't change in this game,
even with a win. He will soon be excommunicated from
(05:51):
Steeler mation and Matt Canada. I think he's headed to
Moosejaw that's in Saskatchewan. There and he can try to
work with the high school football team in moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
because he will be abandoned even though the Steelers are
tremendously loyal. It can't go on forever, right, There's gotta
be an endpoint. Everything has an endpoint. We all have
(06:12):
an endpoint. Why would that not have an endpoint? Now?
To be fair to the offensive coordinator, not that we're
ever fair in sports radio, but his quarterback sucks. That's
a tough Kenny Pickett. I mean I would rather have
a nose picker than Kenny Pickett. Kenny Pickett dealing with
a rib injury. But he was able to play. And
(06:34):
so my rule has always been, if you're able to play,
we judge you on your performance. You don't get points
for playing hurt if you blow. And so he played,
but he wasn't good. He served up soup, but it
was not a creamy tomato bisk It was a chunky
arted choke, is what it was and nothing smooth about it.
(06:56):
And it's not like Tennessee is a great defensive team,
twenty second in the NFL, and in most of the
defensive categories they're either a middling team or bad. And
yet against a rather weak Tennessee defense who at the
trade dead line or before it traded one of their
better defensive players to the Philadelphia Eagles, Tennessee ranking twenty second,
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as we said, and Kenny Pickett went out there and
averaged a poultry five point three yards per pass. Now,
if you want to be Benny Brightside, they'll say the
running game was good, that woke up. They had one
hundred and sixty six yards. Najee Harris and Jalen Warren
combining for one hundred and sixty six yards. They had
more rushing yards than passing yards. Right, last word here.
(07:40):
So now we go to the losing locker room, which
is the better story. But we waited because the Steelers
are the bigger team. So what is your evaluation of
Will Levis, the breakout star from last week? What is
your evaluation of Will Levis in his encore performance? So
(08:01):
this is another simple the sequel is not the equal.
Now against Atlanta, you're paying attention. You were listening last week.
You know that Will Levis played the piano like InKo Terror,
just amazing, classically trained musician in Ko Terror, and it
(08:22):
was wonderful. In this game against Pittsburgh, He's saying, like
Kathy in Madison, Hey Mona, you know, a little rough,
a little rough regression versus progression. And I'm watching the
Titans office and maybe I'm wrong about this. What do
(08:42):
I know? I just do the overnight show. But that
look like, excuse my French, the basic bitch offense, a
lot of underneath stuff, very elementary, vanilla, predictable, unoriginal, nibbling
around the edges, and Mike Rabel's showing the utmost respect
for the Steeler defense or the lack of respect for
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his quarterbacks. So the malor report card we give the
Titans quarterback Will Levis a D. He gets the D
for this performance. Why only sixteen points? The object of
the game is to matriculate the ball down the field
and put the ball in the end zone. It's not
that hard. Well, apparently it is very hard for most people,
(09:26):
but that's the object. So sixteen points, that's not going
to get it done. And was singing off a different
song sheet than DeAndre Hopkins in this game. Hopkins last
week they made sweet music together. This week, eleven times
Will Levis targeted DeAndre Hopkins and he only had a
success rate of thirty six percent four of eleven, which
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again I think that's particularly great. Oh, you're being too critical.
How about third down? Three of thirteen the Will Levis
offense on third down against the Steelers and seventeen first
downs generated by offense without penalty. Also bad in the
red zone, that's why they only scored sixteen points. They
got the red zone four times, only successful once in
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those four trips of the red zone. That is a
twenty five percent success rate. It is the Ben Malors shown.
As far as the post game flavor flav as we
like to do, we'll start now. I get my evaluation
of Will Levis. How about Mike Rabel, the surly coach
of the Tennessee football team. Let's go to the audio tape.
(10:33):
Here's Mike Rabel on his quarterback.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Fairly well again, no no, no delayed games, get getting
us in and then again there were some things that
you will have to be better as far as just
directionally and but.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I think that it's it was then we lost, So
I'm not gonna sit there glorify that and his performs
play there with some big pros. There's some good protections
close on a couple of runs. Third down was certainly
a large factory in this good.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It was very nice of Mike. We're able to hold
his postgame newser in the bathroom. It was very nice
of Actually, we had our microphone was set up over
in Harrisburg, so it was one of those boom mics
and we picked up from Harrisburg as he was standing
in the bathroom. How about the man Will Levis. You
know he showed up. I don't know if you saw the
video heard about it. He showed up to the stadium
(11:32):
wearing a letterman's jacket Tennessee Titans, like like a high
school letterman's jacket, and parts of that game he did
play like high school quarterback. Here's Will Levis who points
out the Komodo dragon in the room for the Titans.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, no, I mean gott to finish drives. The yards
don't mean anything if you don't finish those drives, for sure,
I mean we're not going to force anything, but or
we're just gonna do our jobs and play the field
position batt if we need to, but obviously you want to.
You want to score points, and couldn't get it done
as much as we needed to tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Do your job, Boo, your job.
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a win for the Steelers and a cover by the way,
thank you very much. Mike Common does it again at home,
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small points, spread, late touchdown by Pittsburgh and they get
the w there. If you're a gambling type and you've
been on Pittsburgh by our headline is from the NFL,
but it's a former NFL player who is tossing around
some rather serious accusations against the Zebras for being the
D word dirty dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty dirty dirty dirty
(13:45):
dirty dirty. Did you see this? Yeah, this is a
danger zone story. You didn't see this bat job by you?
All right? Maybe you missed it. Robert Griffin, IID, a
failed NFL quarterback, was a total studd at Baylor, and
now he's a blowhard on television. He has a wild
theory based on what he claims players are telling him. Now.
(14:08):
RG three said that the players in the NFL today
believe that one of the reasons the officiating is terrible
is because of local bias and rooting interest influencing how
games are called. Say what does that perk your interest
(14:29):
in all? That's kind of a sexy story, right, all right,
So here's the quote from RG three. He said, quote,
these guys are from places, they have favorite teams. How
do you assess that with a referee who has a
flag in his pocket and can make calls that can
change the outcome of a game based off of where
(14:51):
he's from, or who his favorite team was, or who
he rooted for when he was a kid. Quotes quote.
Implications rather obvious here that an official who grew up
a Green Bay Packer fan is going to give the
benefit of the doubt to the Green Bay Packers. Now,
RG three said, it also cuts both ways that occasionally
(15:15):
somebody who grew up a Packer fan will not call
a penalty on the Packers because they don't want to
be seen as having a bias towards the Packers, which,
as a result, will thus be a bias against the Packers.
All right, so let us discuss the question as you
(15:36):
as I just gave you the quote. RG three's saying
that NFL players believe the referees have a rooting interest
which is causing bad officiated games. What does this say
about the players? What does this say about the referees?
So I've got four to zho, four trifecta and spoiler,
(15:57):
and we're going to lock all of these things together
and flag is up, just like at the Breeders' Cup,
which will be coming up here today and tomorrow. So
number on. My initial take was a chuckle. I'm not
gonna lie. When when I saw this story and it
(16:20):
caught my attention, it was on my radar, I said, oh,
come on, these NFL players are so paranoid. They were
on that shuttle service to the nuthouse, right, What do
they live in Goofy's Playhouse? Are they sneaking around to
the back of Goofy's Playhouse? Are they are cuckoo for
cocoa puffs? Is that where they are? But then I
paused for a second. I took a deep breath, and
(16:42):
I actually in that little cartoon bubble over my head,
I like contemplated the situation. And I gotta tell you,
maybe I'm I'm Looney Tunes too, but I kind of
see what he's saying. It's not as far fetched as
you may think. And I'll tell you why. It's the
four to oh four. And I'm not talking about the
(17:03):
area code of Atlanta. We're talking about the four to
oh four as in the error code you ever type
something wrong in on the internet and four to oh
four comes up. It's human error, and it's part of everything.
It's part of everything. The typical failure rate. I've read
a study on this couple of years ago. The typical
failure rate among humans for common work practices. The range
(17:28):
is anywhere from ten to thirty mistakes per one hundred opportunities.
So let's extrapolate that out. That means for every one
hundred calls made by an official in an NFL game,
you are going to have anywhere from ten to thirty
blown calls. But then you add on to that personal bias.
(17:52):
Everyone's got personal bias. This it's called life experience, right.
Who you grew up with, who you were around, How
your thoughts on the world are shaped by the people
around you. If you grew up with certain people who
are are racist, you're racist. If you grow with people
that are aniseemitic, you're probably anisymitic. That's just the way
we're shaped by how our environment. Is not to go
(18:13):
too deep, because I mean, we're just doing overnight radio.
But the other issue with the officiating is it is
subjective versus objective. Subjective are beliefs, and objective is a
measurable fact, and most calls are subjective. It's like something
you believe is a penalty, but it could go either direction.
(18:35):
And also, never forget that we have seen crooked officials.
I interviewed one on my podcast a couple of years ago,
Tim Donahey, Who's the gold standard example a of a
crooked official. Now he was doing it for gambling reasons,
but the point is still the same, so you can
(18:56):
factor that in. And I don't believe it's as nuts
as I originally thought when I first saw the headline.
It makes it And the other issue here is just
bad leadership by the NFL and the fact that the NFL,
they're a multi billion dollar conglomerate. They don't give a crap.
If the NFL gave a crap, the officiating would be better.
(19:19):
They don't because ultimately it's good for business. There's controversy,
it gets people talking about it, Nobody stops watching because
of the bad officiating. It just raises people's blood pressure,
and ultimately you're still gonna watch anyway, So who the
hell cares?
Speaker 7 (19:35):
All?
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Pace two headline Lost Wages Nevada, where Devonte Adams has
given a state of the Union address on the Writers
coaching change. Now give you a little snippet here. Adams
told reporters that the change that happened, the whacking, the
(19:56):
poll axing of Josh McDaniels and the GM. There the
change of some variety was needed. I'll give you a
little snippet of the quote. He said, quote one way
or the other. It was time for some sort of change,
just to bring a little juice in and revitalize the
team a little bit. He said, close quote. So let's
(20:20):
decode what do you say. Let's decode the message said
in the State of the Union addressed by Davonte Adams.
So the way I interpreted this, Adams hit the trifecta
this week. He did. He hit the trifecta because Josh
McDaniels gone, GM, gone, quarterback benched. It was like the
(20:44):
Gong Show for the Raiders. And whether or not he
will admit it, he probably won't. One of the main
reasons that Josh McDaniels is no longer coaching the Raiders
is because of Davonte Adams. Davonte Adams coach killer, coach killer.
Let me give him my evidence. I went back to
(21:04):
the archives. I keep my notes, my bullet points on
these monologues. On September twenty seventh, Davante Adams said the following,
we're not doing things the right way to establish a
winning culture. Close quote. That was a direct torpedo right
into the schnazzola of Josh McDaniels, your highest paid wide receiver,
(21:30):
your most dynamic offensive player, your big kahuna, the big
raggu Davante Adams saying, we're a bunch of losers here.
The culture, that culture's coaching culture's the GM that's who
supposedly builds the culture. And he said, we have to
we don't have a winning culture. We're not doing that,
(21:51):
And essentially a month later, the guillotine dropped for the Raiders.
All right, Finally headline headline from Cincinnati where Jamar Chase
revealed to reporters that if he were to score a
touchdown in Sunday Night Football against the Bill's Mafia, Jamar
(22:13):
Chase said he would recreate one of the iconic NFL
touchdown celebrations on one condition. That condition, Chad Johnson, Bengal
icon has to pay the fine. That's the condition that
Chad Johnson would need to pay. A finalite celebration. If
(22:35):
you know Ocho Sinko, he had every celebration. My favorite
was the river dance that he used to do. I
love the river dance. But this was pretty good too,
where he scored a touchdown and then went over and
manned the television camera. You know, the big fifty thousand
dollars one hundred thousand dollars camera on those big bulky
cameras that they use on these NFL broadcasts. So he
(22:57):
went over there and man the cameras. It was great.
It's funny he got fined for well, o Cho Sinko
has confirmed that he will pay up. So it's on
like don't get Kong. But there's always the party pooper
out there. And I've been reading some people saying the
Devil's advocate argument, this is not good for the Bengals,
this is not good for Cincinnati. That somebody should have
(23:18):
a talk with Jamar Chase that this is these are
shenanigans and it's unbecoming that this is an distraction as
Cincinnati gets ready to play Buffalo. So I wanted to
address that part of it. Should Bengals coach Zach Taylor
have a talk talk talk talk with Jamar Chase about
his priorities, and I am shaking my head. No, I
(23:44):
am shaking my head no on this. I'll tell you why.
Jamar Chase is plotting for the end zone. If you
do the arithmetic and you use the malamath, that is
a net positive for Cincinnati. Now, my only the problem
is not that he's planning on scoring a touchdown. My
only problem is the promotion. What are you doing? This
(24:08):
is a spoiler alert. This is a spoiler alert. It
would have been much more powerful and meaningful had these
two knuckleheads done this behind closed doors and then unbeknownst
to anyone. Almost organic. So it seems Jamar Chase honored
(24:30):
Ocho Sink. But by telling everyone what you're planning on doing,
it takes away the rasthma task. It does. Maybe it's
just me, but it takes away the rasthma task.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
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Speaker 9 (24:47):
Hey, we're Cavino and Rich Fox Sports Radio every day
five to seven pm Eastern.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
We never have enough time to get to everything we
want to get.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
To, and that's why we have a brand new podcast
called over PROMI you see, we're having so much fun
in our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promising things we never have
time for. Yeah, you blubber me.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
Well you know what it's called over promise. You should
be good at it because you've been over promising women
for years.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
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want you to be a part of it. We're gonna
be talking sports, of course, but we're also gonna talk
life and relationships. And if Rich and I are arguing
about something or we didn't have enough time, it will
continue on our after show called over Promised.
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sure you check out over Promised and also Uncensored by
the way, so maybe we'll go at it even a
little harder. It's gonna be the best after show podcast
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Speaker 1 (25:52):
How about that to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
This is one big, Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 11 (25:59):
Who do An NFL insider said on Wednesday that aj
Brown is an MVP candidate this year. Ben, we already
know that you don't think a wide receiver will ever
win MVP. Who do you having the lead for the
award this season?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So I'm going Chalky mcchalk here, Coop, I got Patrick
Mahomes even after losing to your Broncos. It is a
quarterback award. Ultimately, he's the top quarterback Kansas City. They've
got dump truck wide receivers. They do have Taylor Swift
on their side, though, so that's good. It's pretty much
whoever plays well the final five or six games of
the year, and Mahomes is in the lead, but Jalen Hurts,
(26:36):
Lamar Jackson, Tua Tonguabai Loa Evans in the conversation, it's
a down the stretch award. What's next? Cool?
Speaker 11 (26:43):
It's well known now that the Padres are having some
financial struggles, as they were just approved for a fifty
million dollar loan. Now that is leading to speculation that
Juan Soto could be shipped out of town to save money. Ben,
do you think Soto gets traded?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh? Yeah? A little Birdie months ago, who eats fish,
tacos and likes to walk around. La Joya said that
Juan Soto pretty much knows he's going to be traded.
He don't know where, but he knows he's gonna be traded.
It's gonna be one of the East Coast teams, probably
the Red Sox, Yankees or Mets, but he's out of
San Diego next.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
The Seahawks win over the Browns last weekend lifted them
to five and two on the year end. Geno Smith
proclaimed in a recent interview that the team can match
up with anybody. Ben Are the Seahawks legit?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
No? Because of Gino Smith last five weeks Gino Smith
six touchdowns, six interceptions, two fumbles, No matter what.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Stratenas and JJ and Retten and crying Craig say they're
not legit with Gino Smith, How did.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
We do you pass this?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
That is a win.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
You can put it on the ball Coast the week
in the win column to King.
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Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'll do a couple of jokes, just a little teaser,
and then we'll get into the meat of the jokes.
Coming up here, we welcome in from a beach somewhere
in Miami, our favorite homeless guy. Yes, weed Man, Yes,
I love you Ben weed Man hippie, who if you
have not been listening the soap opera that is weed
(28:28):
Man Hippie was kicked out of his home and he
is homeless right now.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Totally homeless. I need don't fund me and weed Man
hippie with why do fund me? I need an apartment.
I need to be inside. I haven't been inside in weeks,
all right, So.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
And your promise, weed Man, I am I'm seeing your
go fund me. Are you're holding up the Malard ring there,
weed Man, you're holding up the Ben Malar show ring
that we got for you.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I love that ring. I now I got blown out
of my.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Oh no, they broke.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Down my door, threw me out.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
The ring is gone. And actually the other rings more
valuable if you have one, they're more valuable. Well, weed Man,
you promise you're not going to spend the money on weed, right,
You're gonna actually get.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
A home I need, I needed and I need a
place to be inside.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
All right, but you got to promise, I mean, weed
Man will promote it, but you got to promise you're
not going to blow the money on the weed or
whatever else. You're laughing. I don't know that you want
to laugh.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Spend You can't, you can't. You can't spend that much
money on weed a all right, I don't know your name.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
Spend.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, we wasted too much time. We just right now
and then we'll have a long block. How about that.
I lied, We'll have a long block. It's Big Bend's
lame Jokes of the week. He really does. If you
want to see what weed Man looks like, he really
does have a GoFundMe. I'm looking at it, right. I
like that drawing of him though. That looks good. We'll
get to it. Lame Jokes of the Week.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Next, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And the jokes roll on. It's Big Bend's Lame Jokes
of the Week. As we continue on our buddy from Miami.
He's on the beach in Miami. He's homeless, see forcibly
removed from.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Men. You want?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
You want the good news of the bad news? Weed man, I.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Would lie it. I'd like some good news because I
might kill my show.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I don't say. Don't say that, weed man, Well, come on,
I don't say that.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
The good news is I looked at I looked at
your GoFundMe page. It looks very good. Okay, that's the
good one.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
Wow, thank you, Yeah, it looks good.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
You want the you want the bad news?
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Really?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Okay? All right, I won't tell you the bad news anyway.
What what happened? What happened when Lizzo paid for a
twelve month gym membership, Well, it turns out her bank
called to see if her credit card had been stolen.
(31:27):
What's the real cause of world pollution? It turns out
it's Lizzo's bo that that is the real Noah in Austin.
What What do Lizzo and Joe DiMaggio have in common? Well,
funny enough, funny enough, they both left hotels through the kitchen. Yeah,
(31:48):
that's a true story. When I was, when I was,
when I was a kid. I tried to get Joe
Deamagin's autograph. He was really old. I was young, and
we were We staked out a hotel in San Diego
and he snuck out through the kitchen. I told you
that's a good Listen back what you're saying, Well, you'd
have to talk to Marilyn Monroe about that. Why isn't
(32:10):
Lizzo going to watch the Breeders Cup? Well, it turns
out to she can't fit on the edge of her seat.
That is uh, that's from a chip in the queues.
Why did Lizzo have a good thing going with her
elephant sized background dancers. Yeah, she was able to pay
(32:34):
them in peanuts, so she was happy about that, sir.
For Todd the comedian, Why is the why is the
Breeders Cup suing Lizzo for damages? Yeah, apparently she tried
actually sitting on the edge of her seat and that
did not go well either. So that was a problem.
That's inca terror. How does Lizzo save money on food?
Speaker 8 (33:00):
No clue.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
She bundles lunch and dinner together, is what she does.
Got any jokes? Iowa, Sam Absolutely, Okay, what do you got?
Speaker 11 (33:13):
Uh, let's see yeah, all right, this is from Noah
and Austin.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Which car is the biggest.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Slut slutty car? I don't know.
Speaker 12 (33:24):
It's the Tahoe anything over there, Coop anything else?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Let's see. Uh no, no.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
No, you're not doing okay? All right?
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Did you hear about the new or about the big
trade actually between Miami and New York? No, it turns
out weed Man goes to New York Miami gets a
case of lysol in the trade. That's uh, Gordon and Tacoma.
All right, we'll skip over that one. Why was weed
(34:07):
Man evicted? It turns out he was a He was
actually he ruled a health threat to the mice. To
the mice chip chip chip in your teeth are in
a dumpster somewhere. Why is Why is Halloween weed Man's
favorite holiday? Well, well, because he gets to pretend that
(34:31):
the cobwebs in his apartment are decorations. So what does
weed Man go ask for Halloween? Turns out he goes
as a homeless guy. That's what he goes at. That's
Eric in Kansas. Did you did you hear that? We
weed Man thinks Halloween. He does think it's the greatest,
(34:51):
that's true. The reason why is because it's also called
Beggars Night. He loves the beggers Knight. All right, let's
see did.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
You hear that?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Tom Mooney? Tom Mooney and I now have our own
Italian cooking show.
Speaker 8 (35:10):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Really, it's called Benny Versus the Penny? How about that penny?
That's pretty good? Right, that's not bad? Lame jokes in
the week. Good luck We've man.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
It's hooray for Holly? Would all right for Holly? Would
the coop Coop on Entertainment with Justin Cooper.
Speaker 8 (35:49):
Where's the time gone?
Speaker 11 (35:50):
Wow?
Speaker 8 (35:50):
All right?
Speaker 11 (35:51):
So I'm gonna start off in theaters this weekend. We
have a new movie out right now. It is called Priscilla.
And yes, it is about that Priscilla, the one that
married Elvis Presley. And this is a Sophia Coppola movie.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (36:07):
And it is told, uh, you know, through the eyes
of Priscilla Presley. And it tells the unseen side of
a great American myth in Elvis?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
So that is what is the myth? What is the
I guess you have to watch the.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's the tease.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Is it fake that he died on the toilet? Is
that fake?
Speaker 7 (36:27):
No?
Speaker 8 (36:27):
I'm pretty sure that's real.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That's real.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
Yes, what did they do with the toilet? That's a
good question.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Is it still with Graceland? Have you been to Graceland?
Speaker 8 (36:37):
I have been to you have I've been there too.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I heard it wasn't that it's not that.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
I thought it was cool.
Speaker 11 (36:42):
I mean I'm a huge Elvis fan, or grew up
a huge Elvis fan. I used to collect Elvis memorabilia,
So for me, it was awesome. Okay, there's there's a
room you go in there and all of his gold
and platinum records are like lining the walls, the ceiling.
You remember that coup, right, Yeah? Yeah, and there, I
mean tons of them. The house is still like decorated
(37:03):
like it was that.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Cart Yeah it's a time capsule.
Speaker 11 (37:07):
Yeah, it's seventies and I stayed in the the Heartbreak
Hotel near Graceland Elvis themed rooms and you could.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Did you neat a was it banana and Mayo.
Speaker 8 (37:19):
Absolutely, no, it was. It's fried banana peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Isn't it like a car driver likes Mayo bananas.
Speaker 8 (37:26):
That's a sandwich. No, it's not. It's between bread.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Isn't Dale Earnhardt like the banana? I think so?
Speaker 8 (37:32):
Yeah, yeah, Mayo. But yeah.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
At the hotel that I stayed at, they had like
a little twenty four hour like kind of diner thing,
and I just ate a bunch of those constantly the
entire trip.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
It's delicious. Uh yeah. So moving over to television, we
have a.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Oh what's on TV this weekend? Coop?
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Yeah, we have a few new things here.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I know a show that's on TV this weekend?
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Oh do you? I'm sure you sell? That's all about it?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well, no, it's gonna be in the coop, scoop. I
don't have to promote it. You're my promotion guy.
Speaker 11 (37:59):
It's not be in the coop, scoop. Come on, I
don't know to talk about the same show every week with.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
The new every week. There's new episodes every week.
Speaker 8 (38:11):
Yeah, I don't talk about new episodes. I talk about premieres.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Wow, okay, all right, if you get back on TV,
I will remember this school, you know.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (38:23):
Premiering are available right now actually on Apple TV Plus
is a new sci fi drama movie. It's called Fingernails,
and it is a sci fi romance set in an
alternate world in which a machine can accurately determine whether
two people are in love by prying off a fingernail
from each person. Yeah, it's interesting, but it stars. There's
(38:48):
a couple a couple of big names in here that
you might know. Maybe not you specifically, Ben, but you
the the people listening. Uh Riz Ahmed is in it.
Luke Wilson and Jeremy Allen White. Do you know any
of those three people?
Speaker 7 (39:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
No, I have no idea.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Who are not even Luke Wilson Wilson right? Okay?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Those other people?
Speaker 8 (39:12):
Yeah? Well other two other great actors right there.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (39:16):
Moving on to Hulu. Also available right now to stream
on Hulu is a new comedy movie. This one's gotten
mixed reviews, but a big cast with names that you
I think you know what I'm looking at these names.
I think that Ben, I think you will know at
least three of them.
Speaker 8 (39:35):
We've got Sandra Oh do you know Sandra Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Comedian? Right?
Speaker 11 (39:40):
Yeah, Gray's anatomy. Yeah, I think she does some sideways. Yeah,
but yeah, Gray's anatomy. Then you've got aquafinat she's a comedian, yes,
she she is a comedian water and she does a
lot of voice work.
Speaker 8 (39:59):
Jason Schwartzman, No, no.
Speaker 11 (40:04):
He's uh, he's in a lot of Wes Anderson movies,
Rushmore Yeah.
Speaker 7 (40:09):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
And Will Ferrell, Oh.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I went to the same high school
as Will Farrel.
Speaker 8 (40:13):
Did you I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (40:16):
Well, yeah, this is uh.
Speaker 11 (40:17):
This is a comedy about a dysfunctional family that seeks
to raise much needed money through the only means available,
winning on a game show.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Oh that's like Poppy, that's the life.
Speaker 11 (40:30):
Uh, it's the The movie is called Quiz Lady. It
is on Hulu and it also features the final performance
from Paul Rubins, the late Paul Rubins, Pee.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Wee Yes, Peahouse.
Speaker 11 (40:43):
And lastly, Ben I wanted to bring this up. The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is live
today at eight pm, and it'll be streaming live for
the first time. It moves over from HBO, which it
has been on for decades, over to Disney Plus and
(41:04):
so at eight PM that will stream live and being
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today
is Kate Bush, Cheryl Crow, Kate Bush, yeap, why I
don't know, Cheryl Crowe, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie George
Michael Ye, Willie Nelson, and Rage Against the Machine.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Are they all gonna, yes, show up a by the
ones that are alive or they.
Speaker 8 (41:29):
I would have imagine.
Speaker 11 (41:30):
So yeah, and then the Spinners, who I've actually Hell, yeah,
I don't know the Spinners.
Speaker 8 (41:36):
Rubber band man, let's go the Detroit Spinners. All right,
love the Spinners, and we're running out of time. So
that is scoop scooping entertainment.
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