November 28, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Carolina Panthers firing Frank Reich as their head coach, rumors that he was fired in large part because of his mouth, Greg Olsen wanting the job, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bertwo, our two ready
to go in a coaching change in the Carolinas. Did
Frank Wright get a raw deal from the Panthers? Also,
is it true that Frank W. Reich was actually terminated
in large part for his mouth? For his mouth in
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addition to his wretched coaching. Also Fox's Greg Olsen is
said to have an interest in the Panthers coaching job.
That be, the head coaching job replacing Frank Reich. Should
the Carolina football team want him, as in Greg Olsen
their former player, We'll talk about that and much more
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not not from that stinker of a Monday night game
where the Bears got their fourth winner the year, beating
the Minnesota football team twelve to ten. As there's panic
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at the disco or panic at the juicy Lucy VI
can still playoff team, but they suddenly have doubts about
Joshua Dobbs. More on that later, but our lead as
mention does come from Tobacco Road, where the acts fell
on a Monday morning. There were whispers over the weekend
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that a coaching change was intimate, and that rumor turned
out to be reality. If you did not hear, maybe
you missed it. The head coach there, Frank Reich no
longer the head coach. Bye bye. Don't let the door
hit you where the Lord split you as he is
out see you later. Frank Reich told to take a
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long walk off a short peer as he was whacked
as coach of the Panthers Carolina, making yet another coaching change,
but this one after eleven games the Panthers in NFL
wors one to ten. The person under Siege would be
the owner. David Tepper bought the team cup years ago.
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David Tepper had seen enough he couldn't take any more,
so he pulled the plug and moving on to his
third full time head coach in four seasons at the
Helm in the state of North Carolina. So let us discuss.
There's nothing that gets bigger ratings than talking Carolina Panther football.
And I'm here for all the ratings. I am here
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for all the ratings. So the question, did Frank Reich
get a raw deal from Carolina? Did he get the
old screw job Frank Reich? So I'm gonna shake my
head no on this. I know that's an unpopular opinion,
but I don't get where this narrative is that this
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is like the worst thing that's ever happened. I can't
believe it's unfair. I don't feel that way. I've got
the poet, laureate, whistleblower, and orthodoxy, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
provide a nice compensation package, which is what Frank Reich
is going to get, something we'd all like to have.
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When you lose a job and you get that giant
cartoon sized check. And it's just what it doesn't bounce.
It doesn't bounce. You get all that money, boys, that
a wonderful thing. So I've said in professional sports and
college sports, big time college sports, you can absolutely goof
on people that lose their job because it's not real world.
It's not real world anyway. So, answering the question, did
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Frank Write get a raw deal from Carolina? The answer
is no, and number one yes. Reading the sobs stories
and I call them sob stories from the NFL media,
it's not fair, it's so terrible. This is a respected
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coach of the NFL. You can't do Frank right dirty
like that? What's wrong with you? And I'm like, okay,
so this is now a Greek tragedy that this is
a SOB story here very confusing to me. I don't
get it by every and I mean every objective measurement.
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This guy's at JABBRONI. He's bad at his job. He's
a mama Luke. Frank Wright as a head coach didn't
succeed in Indianapolis, didn't succeed in Carolina, but it didn't
have enough time. Okay, if you're on a boat out
in the ocean and there's water coming into the boat.
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Do you say, why don't we wait a little bit?
You know, it's probably not that bad, or do you
think maybe we should get out of the boat. He's
the boat that's got a hole in it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
He is.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They don't block, they don't tackle. The quarterback looks like
he should be selling insurance somewhere, and he was the
number one overall pick in the draft. The offense blows,
the defense sucks, special teams is irrelevant. What else is there? Seriously,
and it's not ei. They're getting better. So you got
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the money, you on the team. You want to get
rid of the guy. What's to stop you from getting
rid of the guy? Any way you slice it, The
Carolina Panthers are bad to the bone, and that's why
they're doing this. And as the poet laureate of the
National Football League taught me in my youth, the great
Jerry Glanville, the now infamous phrase, the NFL stands not
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for long. And in this case, this ain't college. As
Jerry said, it's not your homecoming, none of that. It's
the NFL not for long, especially when you coach teams
like the way Frank Reich has coached teams bad all right?
Now page two. Here is there more to the story. Now,
this is where it gets good, nice and gooey. It
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gets nice and gooey good because buckle up, buckle up here.
So I sent out some feelers around NFL circles people
that I know, and there's an interesting story bouncing around
as to why this happened the way it happened in Carolina.
And I'm just gonna share with you what I've heard
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people tell me things. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not.
I believe it. So let me set this up. So
the owner, David Tepper, is a hedge fund guy. He's
a hedge fund aristocrat. He's a robber baron. And you
know you're a hedge fund guy. You're cold blooded, right,
You're only worried about the bottom line. You know, you
lay off people. It's all about balancing the books and
making the people money in the hedge fund, right, That's
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what it's all about. So you don't really care about
the human beings involved in that. And so he acted
like a guy that doesn't care about human beings. He
got rid of a coach before he even finished his
first season David Tepper. But the theory is this, he
was so mortified, r It's so mortified by losing to
the Titans, and the media is he didn't even hide it.
He did not even hide this on the media. David Tepper,
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the owner of the Carolina football team, was shouting the
F word as he stormed out of the losing locker
room following the Tennessee Carolina game. He was spitting fire,
and so that was part of the story. But that
doesn't tell you the whole story. Is the late Great
Paul Harvey would say, you're about to hear the rest
of the story, right, the rest of the story. So
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the popular opinion is that David Tepper is a lunatic,
he's a madman, he's drained, just another guy that made
a ton of money, didn't really earn it, hedge fun guy,
and then here he is running amuck in the NFL.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's the positive, or
actually the positive. That's the popular story that's going around.
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But there is an alternative reality which I am digging
my claws in more and more as I think about
how all of this went down. So and we're gonna
go there, We're gonna go deep state conspiracy, We're going there.
Is it true? Is it true in an alternative universe
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that the reason this move was made is because the
Carolina Panthers former head coach Frank Reich was possibly terminated
because of his mouth? Right? Is it true that Frank
Reich was let go because of what he had been
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saying in addition to his coaching that the final blow,
the thing that pushed the needle into the fire category
was the mouth of Frank Reich. So, to get into
the weeds on this a little bit, this is the
deep state conspiracy that Frank Reich is buddy, buddy, He's
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been around the NFL game forever. Every old crotchety sports writer,
every old washed up NFL media person knows. Frank Reich
played at Maryland, was a player in the NFL for
a number of years, has been an assistant coach bouncing
around the NFL. And so the theory is that Frank
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Reich had been leaking stories to the buddies of his
in the media that hey, this guy Bryce Young I
knew the kid couldn't play. I didn't want to draft him.
David Tepper wanted to draft him. I knew that CJ.
Strod was going to be good, And if it was
up to me, CJ. Strodd would not be in Houston,
he'd be in North Carolina and he'd be my quarterback
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and we'd have a great record. But if it wasn't
for that meddling owner, if it wasn't for David Tepper,
and that is what led ultimately that in the fact,
Carolina is horrific, But if Frank Reich had just kept
his mouth shut, he'd still be coaching the Carolina Panthers.
That it's whistle blower one oh one that Frank Wright
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went out, and the theory is he talked to his
buddies in the media, made him look good, made the
owner look like a country bumpkin. And I don't know
a lot of rich people, but the rich people I
know don't like to be made a fool. They don't
like to be made a fool. And so the fact
that this got out, and it's been repeated in the
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echo chamber over and over again, you put it all
together like okay, as the old slogan goes from past wars,
loose lips, sink ships, or in this case, they get
you fired from your head coaching job. Not that that's
the worst thing in the world, because Frank Reich has
a nice severance package and he's he's good to go,
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all right. Final part of this So, a surprising name
has emerged in the gossip mill as a potential suitor
for the Headhunters trying to find a coach for the
Carolina Panthers. Current Fox Sports commentator and former Carolina Panthers
start tied in Greg Olsen. Yeah, Greg Olsen's name has
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popped up behind a paywall on the Athletic They floated
Greg Olson's name. The Fox broadcasters said to want the
head coaching job with the Carolina Panthers, should the Panthers
want him. And I'm gonna vote thumbs up on this.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yes. Now.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
That is not because I believe Greg Olsen would be
a good head coach, not at all. I think he'd
be terrible. It's not that, but I love the story.
I'm all about the story. We saw this last year
in the NFL for selfish reasons, Carolina hiring Greg Olsen
would be tremendous, and it would be the Daily Double,
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the Daily Double. Let me explain why not only does
it provide great talk radio to watch this guy who
has never been a head coach at the professional level,
never been assistant coach at the professional level, never been
a college football head coach, never been a college football
assistant coach, never been a high school head coach or
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an assistant coach at high school. His experience is Pop
Warner football be awesome? Might be anesot hire a Pop
Warner coach to coach the Carolina Panthers, be just great.
I'd rather see that than some hot shot offensive coordinator
Ben Johnson of the Lions or some guy named Mike
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McDonald of the Ravens the defensive coordinator. There have been
mentioned for these head coaching jobs in this next cycle
of head coaching jobs, but why not? And this would
eventually lead to overnight talk show hosts getting coordinator jobs.
And I would be willing to be the play caller
for the Carolina football team. I know I would fail,
but I'd make a lot of money and I'd get
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a nice severance package and that would be a wonderful Mitchell, Right,
But the reason it's the daily double is. Let's assume
the position. Let's assume the position that Tom Brady does
actually end up doing games on Fox. Rather than have
Greg Olsen demoted or have a three man booth, Olsen
goes to the Carolina Panthers, gets a five or six
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year contract, coaches for one or two years, gets paid
a ton of money to leave the Carolina Panthers because
he fails. But then Tom Brady slides in, He does
the Collinsworth slide and gets the job at Fox. So
you're good to go on that. It is the Ben
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did a starting NFL quarterback apologize to his English teachers?
Why did a starting quarterback in the NFL apologize to
his English teachers. We'll get to that, and we will
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He'll tell you why a starting quarterback in the NFL
apologize to his English teachers. It's not what you think.
We had another Russell Westbrook confrontation with a fan Jarendy
Clippers Nuggets game on Monday night, Good email. Why didn't
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you not do a monologue about that? Why you're not
doing because it happens every team Russell Westbrook plays for.
He gets into it with fans. He has no ability
to tune things out. Russell Westbrook, It's fascinating that he's
been as successful as he has been as a professional athlete,
considering the fact that everything gets under his skin and
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he has to confront seemingly everyone. I know he's bounced
around a lot. I don't know if it happened in
Washington with the Wizards, but I know in Oklahoma City
he got into it with fans. I know the Lakers,
he got into it with the fans. Now with the Clippers,
he's getting into with the fans. And Houston, did anything happen.
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I think something happened when he was in Houston as well.
But Westbrook got into a verbal brewhaha with a fan
who was likely upset because the team was choking and
needed the Heimlich maneuver on the court, and while the
game was going away from them, Westbrook was on the
court not doing anything to stop what was going on,
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But what do I know? In Roseville, Minnesota's as Mike
Tye is another ex Maryland quarterback who coached in the NFL.
That's kind of a random non sequitor. Mike in the
Mountains says, I hope the Carolina Panthers hire Greg Olsen
then we don't have to hear him anymore on television.
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Is he that bad? I don't know, well, greg Olsen
though has and I love the fact that Fox did
this because they could have gone out and spend a
ton of money on big name broadcasters. In fact, they
tried to, and Tom Brady is so lazy he didn't
want to work. He needed the year off. That crueling
schedule of working one day a week is very hard
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on a guy like Tom Brady. But I love that
they did it because it has had no tangible impact
on the ratings. Like they have broadcasters calling these games
and it doesn't matter because they're not big name guys,
but the audience is still If they Fox team does
a Cowboy game, they have the number one rated broad
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cast on television that weekend, number one in all of television.
And if they don't call a Cowboys game, they don't
have the number one broadcast. But it doesn't matter that
these guys don't have big names. That you replace Joe
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Back and Troy Aikman with Kevin Burkhart, who's a nice guy.
I whatever. I talked to him a few times over
the years, and I'm not against Kevin Burkhart and Greg Olsen,
but they're not stars and it doesn't matter. And it
really made CBS paying Tony Rome all that money look
like idiots, made ESPN paying Akman all that money look
like morons. And Chris Collinsworth gets paid a ton of
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money in NBC, Like these guys get paid, and I'm
glad they get paid a lot of money. I'd like
to be overpaid also. I think it would be wonderful.
I mean, it's just absolutely great, but it doesn't impact
the actual broadcast. Who else do we have a page? Dan?
We will not that on the air. Let's see, I
can't read that. Shane from namoy and says, these speakeasy
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rules are making this show a lot better. Another great idea,
there you go. Yeah, well, we've had to trim the fat.
And when you don't give out, then I gave out
the number right now, I'd have seventeen drunks on the phones,
but I don't need that. Eugene in Chicago says been
the next head coach to be fired is in and
he says fill in the blank. Well, it's not gonna
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be Chicago, Eugene, because the Bears just won, so that
won't happen. And Ron Rivera, No, if they were gonna
fire Ron Rivera, they would have already fired him. They're
gonna wait until the season ends to get rid of
Ron Rivera. Belichick, I don't. I think the same thing
they was. Let Belichick ride it out and then they'll
get rid of Belichick. Otherwise what you would have fired
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him a couple of weeks ago. The Chargers are too
cheap to fire a coach. Otherwise they would have already
fired Brandon Staley. Atlanta should get rid of their coach.
I know they won this weekend against the Saints, but
Arthur Blank, the man that owns the team there, and
Atlanta the home depot guy and all that charge extra
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twenty five sets for lumber and you'll be good to go.
So we have a starting quarterback in the NFL who
has now apologized to his English teachers. It is not
who you think it is, that would be the new
starting quarterback, relatively new of your Tennessee football team, Will Levis.
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Will Levis Titans quarterback, got very upset. He apologized for
using the wrong word. Now this has gone viral here.
He used the word capitulate instead of matriculate, and he
wanted to apologize, he said to his all of his
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former English teachers, because he mixed up capitulate and matriculate,
which seems like that would be a hard thing to do. Matriculate.
That is a great tribute to Hank Stram back in
the day, who was a legendary NFL coach and then
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became a broadcaster and use the word matriculate to describe
when a team was marching down the field, they were
matriculating the ball down the field. And I brought this
up in the past, and I've always had that one
douchebag that will call up or send an email saying, well,
that's not the proper use of the term matriculate, and
I don't care that Hank Stram said it. It's not
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right and it's not good and all this stuff. But
Will Levis issuing an apology for the missing the screwing
up of the verbiage there, but capitulate versus matriculate.
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And I love this story, And oh good. If you
love the story, then talk slowly and loudly.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Okay, I love it. I'm actually not going to talk loudly.
I'll talk of my normal voice. But thanks to a friend,
Tim mcdarby, who loves to send us little notes. Yeah,
and I saw this about the pop Tart Bowl, which
I don't know how long it's been around, but I
like pop Tarts. It was originally the Blockbuster Ball back
in the day. It's in Orlando. Anyway, the folks at
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pop Tart have announced that they will be unveiling the
first ever edible mascot at the pop Tart Ball. Now,
they are going to have a normal mascot, you know,
like a person in a suit that will pop tart
and run around and wave at the kids. But at
the end of the game they will be bringing out
a giant pop Tart. I'm guessing I'll have like a
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face on it and arms and legs and the players
and I guess the coaches as well, would be encouraged
to celebrate their win the pop tart well by eating
the pop tarts.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That is a great story, almost like that would have
been a really good middle of the day EDDI, next hour.
We don't really need to do riddles anyway, No.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Need to do that now, the story now happy. The
flavor of the pop tart will not be revealed until
the game.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I think it's gonna be cherry.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
All right, Well we'll put sam down.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's probably my favorite. Definitely not going to be cherry.
Why be strawberry? Strawberry is a much more likely strawberry flavor.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I would vote for cinnamon myself.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It could be cinnamon, like cinnamon spice. That's why flavor
it's gonna be. But I like not cherry. Why why?
Why are you so convinced cherry information on this? No,
because it's just a weird flavor. Everybody likes cherry. Take
by you, what a cherry is? The best starburst, the
best skittle?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
You talk about the most popular pop tarts, it's strawberry,
and it's the cinnamon sugar or whatever that one is. Yeah,
I don't know, andmores. People like the smart I don't
really eat pop tarts very often.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I haven't. That's because you're a grown up. That's about
five years I'd say at least.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
They used to have pop darts in the vending machine.
Do they have that anymore? I haven't been so far away,
I can't go they do.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
It's like twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
They do accept the cards and you could swipe your card.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Upright, Fara. What about frosted fudge? Is that a popular pop?
I don't think sounds those are too filling.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to the pop tar.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Cherry I was. I was a frosted strawberry guy when
I was growing up. We love the strawberry, and we
got the grape every once in a while. But I
don't even if they still make the grape. Do they
still have the grape?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
I've never had a great You never had a great
pop tart When they were kids, they had, like I swear,
I remember eating a great pop.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
They're about the blue Do they do the blue raspberry? Still?
Wild berry? I think is what you're thinking of. Yeah,
well they have frosted sugar cookie. That's a limited edition item,
though they could do that for pop tart bowl.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Oh you know what, that's a good point because they
want to the low product.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Good call call.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
You know, an adult man who likes pop tarts. The
f SR is very on Brian. No, an adult man
who enjoys eating pop tarts.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
How about this confetti cupcake? Anybody say no to that? No,
take a bite out of that confetti cupcake.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I'm saying yes all day on that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Cookies and cream anything in there. No, I've never had
this s'mores one. I've had this. This moores one's actually
pretty good. I've had that, is it? It's been a
while though. The wild berry looks just like it's a
bunch of chemicals in it. It looks like a lot
of dust. You're all chemicals, I know, but it really
looks like it's just they went overboard on that. It
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say at Progressive dot com. So there's a guy online here,
Eddie who is no longer part of the show. But
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is this person begging for forgiveness? Is that what this is?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Okay, who who who? There's somebody that was banned from
the show for spitting a loogi at our show. Who's
now going to beg for forgiveness? No, I'll I'll leave
on holding. Maybe I'll go to them later. Maybe I
won't go to them later. I don't know. We'll see.
I was Sam does not want me to take this
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person on the air. I mean forgiveness or no no names.
We could just do without because it might make the
show better. Yeah, I mean, it's not someone that added
to the show. This is somebody that thought they were
adding to the show, that was not adding content to
the show. We tried to help them. They would not
take our advice. We tried to have an intervention, you say,
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and they thought we were kidding where. This is terrible.
The podcast numbers go down when you're on Damn, it
just got awful. I'm a good with a moratorium continuing. Yeah, well,
I see the person on hold, but I'm not gonna
take their call right now. I'm not because we have
to get to mallard of the third degree, which is
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straight ahead and you missed it yesterday. We had new
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Oh yeah, you know that could be strength tomorrow. Very exciting.
We get so excited the new copy. Oh, it's so good,
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And Mess. It's holiday songs a real good. I'll hate
them by next week, but I love them right now,
these old holiday songs to mal and Militia Orchestra.
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I don't think I was sam like something.
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I was dancing. You need to look over her. I
was swaying back, but you're always dancing. It's yeah, see,
because I don't mind. The first of all, our names
are in the lyrics, so we like those. But I'm
more this is a difference. I listen to music. I
listened to the rhythm like I don't really hear the lyrics.
Like my wife loves the lyrics. I don't really pay
attention to. Okay, so you're okay, good good, And she
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gets upset because I'll there'll be songs I like that
are so terrible. The lyrics are horrific, But I'm like,
I like the rhythm. I like the rhythm, so I
just listen to the lyrics like them. You don't list
your heart, you don't listen, No, I don't. I don't
care about the lyrics. I don't give a rats ass
about the lyrics. I just like the rhythm, the beat.
That's what I'm all about.
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Ben, we may run out of mallor holiday music originals
by like next week. Can I mix in some other
holiday music a little bit? Come on a little bit,
maybe a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Look at it, like the holiday stations that just keep
replaying the same holiday music. There's only so many holiday songs.
We're gonna hear that one though, like sixty times. You're
just upset. How about if so many sins they update
the lyrics and put Iowa Sam's name in there. I
think that'd be nice. But even that, after like ten times,
I'm going to want to vomit now. But again, the
listeners only listen for like one segment a day or whatever.
They don't listen to the whole show. But my sanity
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is on the line here, So I'm worried about mental health. No, no,
you're okay, No, we have malad music.
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Exactly all right, but we must move on. Please come
out for the insta trivia. Only two players in NFL
history have ninety plus sacks in the first one hundred
career games. Reggie White, the Minister of Defense back in
his day and Blank. That is the question. What is
the answer? And let's see does anyone in the mall
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and militia have the answer? Lee roy Selman, good name
from the past by Jason Who else? Do we have
a packer legend? Clay Matthews from Freddie I can't read that?
Justin in Cincinnati says f that guy on hold who
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brown sugar pop tart as the answer there, Captain Crutch
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Crunch or Crutch Captain Crunch from Cowboy Killer John Franco
of the Cincinnati Reds guest by mister nice Guy Eddie
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out by Sean in Portland, Casey Carl Holler says Kurt
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Dreben from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Don Meredith kissed by
Rob in Minnesota. Who else do we have? Page down?
Supermarket Steeve says you are the most popular flavor strawberry
or second cinnamon, but you are not the worst selling
flavor cherry. Oh, supermarket Steve calling you out. IOA, that's
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not the worst selling FLA. He works in the grocery store.
He's an expert in the grocery business. I go the
guys that perfect. He stocks the chefs, hey puts the
pop tarts on the chef he's looking at.
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In fact, he said, the unfrosted strawberry sells better than
the cherry in your face.
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Do you have an answer ready? Please?
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Yes, it's Pittsburgh Steelers star TJ.
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Watts. That is correct.
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T J.
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Watt just did it. They're the Steelers star joining the
Minister of defense, the late Reggie Wait, here we go,
here we go.
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One gets quilled and you know that was Dak Prescott
until I watched the Thanksgiving game.
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Isn't that great?
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I heard?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'm in my living room. I'm like, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I hear that all the time. I wish my quarterback
when I played football.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Had done that.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Just tell announcedly on his line, here we go, just
snap the ball. What was their other plan?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Uh?
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For a cadence? My god, let's get to it, tobolo, please,
my guy.
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I was reported that Chip Kelly will be returning as
UCLA head coach next year, right.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
So which reporter is right? Because he was getting fired
last week but now he's going back. Well this is
a newer report. Does this move surprise you? So there's
two things that have to happen UCLA A. They have
to find a booster to pay out Chip Kelly. He
didn't have a lot of money left. But then they
have to find a booster to pay a big name coach.
There is a shortage of big name coaches. So it
doesn't surprise me because they would have had and they
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would have made a lateral move and hired another like
former NFL guy, so it kind of makes sense.
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Next, speaking of college football, the Big Ten Championship is Saturday,
and Michigan is favored by twenty three points over Island.
That is actually one of the biggest point spreads in
a conference title game.
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Ever. Yeah, Ben, do you think I will will cover?
With all due respect to the company that we're keeping
here right now? No, this this game will be forty
one to three something along those lines years ago. I
my god, is Iowa and Neemak on office right?
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Next, the Bulls are off to a bad start this
season at five and thirteen, despite having a losing record
in his four years as head coach. Reports say that
Billy Donovan isn't on the hot seat should he be?
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They had a player's only meeting. First of all, after
game number one, they held the players only meeting, which
is the most use These player owners players only meetings
are so stupid. But yeah, he's absolutely in the hot
seat because the Bulls have been spinning their wheels in
mediocrity and they've got some big name but only had
injuries and all that. But I don't understand how Billy
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Donovan has been would keep his job. It's an easy
move to fire the coach there. It is Mallard of
the third degree. How do we go? Passes? Shot is
a way you can put it on the board. Yes,
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Hello and welcome. It's our numb bertwo, our two ready
to go in a coaching change in the Carolinas. Did
Frank Wright get a raw deal from the Panthers? Also,
is it true that Frank W. Reich was actually terminated
in large part for his mouth? For his mouth in
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addition to his wretched coaching. Also Fox's Greg Olsen is
said to have an interest in the Panthers coaching job.
That be, the head coaching job replacing Frank Reich. Should
the Carolina football team want him, as in Greg Olsen
their former player, We'll talk about that and much more
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not not from that stinker of a Monday night game
where the Bears got their fourth winner the year, beating
the Minnesota football team twelve to ten. As there's panic
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at the disco or panic at the juicy Lucy VI
can still playoff team, but they suddenly have doubts about
Joshua Dobbs. More on that later, but our lead as
mention does come from Tobacco Road, where the acts fell
on a Monday morning. There were whispers over the weekend
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that a coaching change was intimate, and that rumor turned
out to be reality. If you did not hear, maybe
you missed it. The head coach there, Frank Reich no
longer the head coach. Bye bye. Don't let the door
hit you where the Lord split you as he is
out see you later. Frank Reich told to take a
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long walk off a short peer as he was whacked
as coach of the Panthers Carolina, making yet another coaching change,
but this one after eleven games the Panthers in NFL
wors one to ten. The person under Siege would be
the owner. David Tepper bought the team cup years ago.
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David Tepper had seen enough he couldn't take any more,
so he pulled the plug and moving on to his
third full time head coach in four seasons at the
Helm in the state of North Carolina. So let us discuss.
There's nothing that gets bigger ratings than talking Carolina Panther football.
And I'm here for all the ratings. I am here
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for all the ratings. So the question, did Frank Reich
get a raw deal from Carolina? Did he get the
old screw job Frank Reich? So I'm gonna shake my
head no on this. I know that's an unpopular opinion,
but I don't get where this narrative is that this
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is like the worst thing that's ever happened. I can't
believe it's unfair. I don't feel that way. I've got
the poet, laureate, whistleblower, and orthodoxy, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
provide a nice compensation package, which is what Frank Reich
is going to get, something we'd all like to have.
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When you lose a job and you get that giant
cartoon sized check. And it's just what it doesn't bounce.
It doesn't bounce. You get all that money, boys, that
a wonderful thing. So I've said in professional sports and
college sports, big time college sports, you can absolutely goof
on people that lose their job because it's not real world.
It's not real world anyway. So, answering the question, did
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Frank Write get a raw deal from Carolina? The answer
is no, and number one yes. Reading the sobs stories
and I call them sob stories from the NFL media,
it's not fair, it's so terrible. This is a respected
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coach of the NFL. You can't do Frank right dirty
like that? What's wrong with you? And I'm like, okay,
so this is now a Greek tragedy that this is
a SOB story here very confusing to me. I don't
get it by every and I mean every objective measurement.
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This guy's at JABBRONI. He's bad at his job. He's
a mama Luke. Frank Wright as a head coach didn't
succeed in Indianapolis, didn't succeed in Carolina, but it didn't
have enough time. Okay, if you're on a boat out
in the ocean and there's water coming into the boat.
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Do you say, why don't we wait a little bit?
You know, it's probably not that bad, or do you
think maybe we should get out of the boat. He's
the boat that's got a hole in it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
He is.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They don't block, they don't tackle. The quarterback looks like
he should be selling insurance somewhere, and he was the
number one overall pick in the draft. The offense blows,
the defense sucks, special teams is irrelevant. What else is there? Seriously,
and it's not ei. They're getting better. So you got
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the money, you on the team. You want to get
rid of the guy. What's to stop you from getting
rid of the guy? Any way you slice it, The
Carolina Panthers are bad to the bone, and that's why
they're doing this. And as the poet laureate of the
National Football League taught me in my youth, the great
Jerry Glanville, the now infamous phrase, the NFL stands not
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for long. And in this case, this ain't college. As
Jerry said, it's not your homecoming, none of that. It's
the NFL not for long, especially when you coach teams
like the way Frank Reich has coached teams bad all right?
Now page two. Here is there more to the story. Now,
this is where it gets good, nice and gooey. It
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gets nice and gooey good because buckle up, buckle up here.
So I sent out some feelers around NFL circles people
that I know, and there's an interesting story bouncing around
as to why this happened the way it happened in Carolina.
And I'm just gonna share with you what I've heard
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people tell me things. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not.
I believe it. So let me set this up. So
the owner, David Tepper, is a hedge fund guy. He's
a hedge fund aristocrat. He's a robber baron. And you
know you're a hedge fund guy. You're cold blooded, right,
You're only worried about the bottom line. You know, you
lay off people. It's all about balancing the books and
making the people money in the hedge fund, right, That's
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what it's all about. So you don't really care about
the human beings involved in that. And so he acted
like a guy that doesn't care about human beings. He
got rid of a coach before he even finished his
first season David Tepper. But the theory is this, he
was so mortified, r It's so mortified by losing to
the Titans, and the media is he didn't even hide it.
He did not even hide this on the media. David Tepper,
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the owner of the Carolina football team, was shouting the
F word as he stormed out of the losing locker
room following the Tennessee Carolina game. He was spitting fire,
and so that was part of the story. But that
doesn't tell you the whole story. Is the late Great
Paul Harvey would say, you're about to hear the rest
of the story, right, the rest of the story. So
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the popular opinion is that David Tepper is a lunatic,
he's a madman, he's drained, just another guy that made
a ton of money, didn't really earn it, hedge fun guy,
and then here he is running amuck in the NFL.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's the positive, or
actually the positive. That's the popular story that's going around.
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But there is an alternative reality which I am digging
my claws in more and more as I think about
how all of this went down. So and we're gonna
go there, We're gonna go deep state conspiracy, We're going there.
Is it true? Is it true in an alternative universe
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that the reason this move was made is because the
Carolina Panthers former head coach Frank Reich was possibly terminated
because of his mouth? Right? Is it true that Frank
Reich was let go because of what he had been
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saying in addition to his coaching that the final blow,
the thing that pushed the needle into the fire category
was the mouth of Frank Reich. So, to get into
the weeds on this a little bit, this is the
deep state conspiracy that Frank Reich is buddy, buddy, He's
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been around the NFL game forever. Every old crotchety sports writer,
every old washed up NFL media person knows. Frank Reich
played at Maryland, was a player in the NFL for
a number of years, has been an assistant coach bouncing
around the NFL. And so the theory is that Frank
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Reich had been leaking stories to the buddies of his
in the media that hey, this guy Bryce Young I
knew the kid couldn't play. I didn't want to draft him.
David Tepper wanted to draft him. I knew that CJ.
Strod was going to be good, And if it was
up to me, CJ. Strodd would not be in Houston,
he'd be in North Carolina and he'd be my quarterback
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and we'd have a great record. But if it wasn't
for that meddling owner, if it wasn't for David Tepper,
and that is what led ultimately that in the fact,
Carolina is horrific, But if Frank Reich had just kept
his mouth shut, he'd still be coaching the Carolina Panthers.
That it's whistle blower one oh one that Frank Wright
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went out, and the theory is he talked to his
buddies in the media, made him look good, made the
owner look like a country bumpkin. And I don't know
a lot of rich people, but the rich people I
know don't like to be made a fool. They don't
like to be made a fool. And so the fact
that this got out, and it's been repeated in the
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echo chamber over and over again, you put it all
together like okay, as the old slogan goes from past wars,
loose lips, sink ships, or in this case, they get
you fired from your head coaching job. Not that that's
the worst thing in the world, because Frank Reich has
a nice severance package and he's he's good to go,
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all right. Final part of this So, a surprising name
has emerged in the gossip mill as a potential suitor
for the Headhunters trying to find a coach for the
Carolina Panthers. Current Fox Sports commentator and former Carolina Panthers
start tied in Greg Olsen. Yeah, Greg Olsen's name has
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popped up behind a paywall on the Athletic They floated
Greg Olson's name. The Fox broadcasters said to want the
head coaching job with the Carolina Panthers, should the Panthers
want him. And I'm gonna vote thumbs up on this.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yes. Now.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
That is not because I believe Greg Olsen would be
a good head coach, not at all. I think he'd
be terrible. It's not that, but I love the story.
I'm all about the story. We saw this last year
in the NFL for selfish reasons, Carolina hiring Greg Olsen
would be tremendous, and it would be the Daily Double,
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the Daily Double. Let me explain why not only does
it provide great talk radio to watch this guy who
has never been a head coach at the professional level,
never been assistant coach at the professional level, never been
a college football head coach, never been a college football
assistant coach, never been a high school head coach or
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an assistant coach at high school. His experience is Pop
Warner football be awesome? Might be anesot hire a Pop
Warner coach to coach the Carolina Panthers, be just great.
I'd rather see that than some hot shot offensive coordinator
Ben Johnson of the Lions or some guy named Mike
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McDonald of the Ravens the defensive coordinator. There have been
mentioned for these head coaching jobs in this next cycle
of head coaching jobs, but why not? And this would
eventually lead to overnight talk show hosts getting coordinator jobs.
And I would be willing to be the play caller
for the Carolina football team. I know I would fail,
but I'd make a lot of money and I'd get
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a nice severance package and that would be a wonderful Mitchell, Right,
But the reason it's the daily double is. Let's assume
the position. Let's assume the position that Tom Brady does
actually end up doing games on Fox. Rather than have
Greg Olsen demoted or have a three man booth, Olsen
goes to the Carolina Panthers, gets a five or six
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year contract, coaches for one or two years, gets paid
a ton of money to leave the Carolina Panthers because
he fails. But then Tom Brady slides in, He does
the Collinsworth slide and gets the job at Fox. So
you're good to go on that. It is the Ben
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did a starting NFL quarterback apologize to his English teachers?
Why did a starting quarterback in the NFL apologize to
his English teachers. We'll get to that, and we will
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He'll tell you why a starting quarterback in the NFL
apologize to his English teachers. It's not what you think.
We had another Russell Westbrook confrontation with a fan Jarendy
Clippers Nuggets game on Monday night, Good email. Why didn't
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you not do a monologue about that? Why you're not
doing because it happens every team Russell Westbrook plays for.
He gets into it with fans. He has no ability
to tune things out. Russell Westbrook, It's fascinating that he's
been as successful as he has been as a professional athlete,
considering the fact that everything gets under his skin and
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he has to confront seemingly everyone. I know he's bounced
around a lot. I don't know if it happened in
Washington with the Wizards, but I know in Oklahoma City
he got into it with fans. I know the Lakers,
he got into it with the fans. Now with the Clippers,
he's getting into with the fans. And Houston, did anything happen.
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I think something happened when he was in Houston as well.
But Westbrook got into a verbal brewhaha with a fan
who was likely upset because the team was choking and
needed the Heimlich maneuver on the court, and while the
game was going away from them, Westbrook was on the
court not doing anything to stop what was going on,
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But what do I know? In Roseville, Minnesota's as Mike
Tye is another ex Maryland quarterback who coached in the NFL.
That's kind of a random non sequitor. Mike in the
Mountains says, I hope the Carolina Panthers hire Greg Olsen
then we don't have to hear him anymore on television.
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Is he that bad? I don't know, well, greg Olsen
though has and I love the fact that Fox did
this because they could have gone out and spend a
ton of money on big name broadcasters. In fact, they
tried to, and Tom Brady is so lazy he didn't
want to work. He needed the year off. That crueling
schedule of working one day a week is very hard
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on a guy like Tom Brady. But I love that
they did it because it has had no tangible impact
on the ratings. Like they have broadcasters calling these games
and it doesn't matter because they're not big name guys,
but the audience is still If they Fox team does
a Cowboy game, they have the number one rated broad
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cast on television that weekend, number one in all of television.
And if they don't call a Cowboys game, they don't
have the number one broadcast. But it doesn't matter that
these guys don't have big names. That you replace Joe
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Back and Troy Aikman with Kevin Burkhart, who's a nice guy.
I whatever. I talked to him a few times over
the years, and I'm not against Kevin Burkhart and Greg Olsen,
but they're not stars and it doesn't matter. And it
really made CBS paying Tony Rome all that money look
like idiots, made ESPN paying Akman all that money look
like morons. And Chris Collinsworth gets paid a ton of
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money in NBC, Like these guys get paid, and I'm
glad they get paid a lot of money. I'd like
to be overpaid also. I think it would be wonderful.
I mean, it's just absolutely great, but it doesn't impact
the actual broadcast. Who else do we have a page? Dan?
We will not that on the air. Let's see, I
can't read that. Shane from namoy and says, these speakeasy
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rules are making this show a lot better. Another great idea,
there you go. Yeah, well, we've had to trim the fat.
And when you don't give out, then I gave out
the number right now, I'd have seventeen drunks on the phones,
but I don't need that. Eugene in Chicago says been
the next head coach to be fired is in and
he says fill in the blank. Well, it's not gonna
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be Chicago, Eugene, because the Bears just won, so that
won't happen. And Ron Rivera, No, if they were gonna
fire Ron Rivera, they would have already fired him. They're
gonna wait until the season ends to get rid of
Ron Rivera. Belichick, I don't. I think the same thing
they was. Let Belichick ride it out and then they'll
get rid of Belichick. Otherwise what you would have fired
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him a couple of weeks ago. The Chargers are too
cheap to fire a coach. Otherwise they would have already
fired Brandon Staley. Atlanta should get rid of their coach.
I know they won this weekend against the Saints, but
Arthur Blank, the man that owns the team there, and
Atlanta the home depot guy and all that charge extra
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twenty five sets for lumber and you'll be good to go.
So we have a starting quarterback in the NFL who
has now apologized to his English teachers. It is not
who you think it is, that would be the new
starting quarterback, relatively new of your Tennessee football team, Will Levis.
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Will Levis Titans quarterback, got very upset. He apologized for
using the wrong word. Now this has gone viral here.
He used the word capitulate instead of matriculate, and he
wanted to apologize, he said to his all of his
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former English teachers, because he mixed up capitulate and matriculate,
which seems like that would be a hard thing to do. Matriculate.
That is a great tribute to Hank Stram back in
the day, who was a legendary NFL coach and then
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became a broadcaster and use the word matriculate to describe
when a team was marching down the field, they were
matriculating the ball down the field. And I brought this
up in the past, and I've always had that one
douchebag that will call up or send an email saying, well,
that's not the proper use of the term matriculate, and
I don't care that Hank Stram said it. It's not
(23:39):
right and it's not good and all this stuff. But
Will Levis issuing an apology for the missing the screwing
up of the verbiage there, but capitulate versus matriculate.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
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Speaker 1 (23:59):
And I love this story, And oh good. If you
love the story, then talk slowly and loudly.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Okay, I love it. I'm actually not going to talk loudly.
I'll talk of my normal voice. But thanks to a friend,
Tim mcdarby, who loves to send us little notes. Yeah,
and I saw this about the pop Tart Bowl, which
I don't know how long it's been around, but I
like pop Tarts. It was originally the Blockbuster Ball back
in the day. It's in Orlando. Anyway, the folks at
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pop Tart have announced that they will be unveiling the
first ever edible mascot at the pop Tart Ball. Now,
they are going to have a normal mascot, you know,
like a person in a suit that will pop tart
and run around and wave at the kids. But at
the end of the game they will be bringing out
a giant pop Tart. I'm guessing I'll have like a
(24:47):
face on it and arms and legs and the players
and I guess the coaches as well, would be encouraged
to celebrate their win the pop tart well by eating
the pop tarts.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That is a great story, almost like that would have
been a really good middle of the day EDDI, next hour.
We don't really need to do riddles anyway, No.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Need to do that now, the story now happy. The
flavor of the pop tart will not be revealed until
the game.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I think it's gonna be cherry.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
All right, Well we'll put sam down.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's probably my favorite. Definitely not going to be cherry.
Why be strawberry? Strawberry is a much more likely strawberry flavor.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I would vote for cinnamon myself.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It could be cinnamon, like cinnamon spice. That's why flavor
it's gonna be. But I like not cherry. Why why?
Why are you so convinced cherry information on this? No,
because it's just a weird flavor. Everybody likes cherry. Take
by you, what a cherry is? The best starburst, the
best skittle?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
You talk about the most popular pop tarts, it's strawberry,
and it's the cinnamon sugar or whatever that one is. Yeah,
I don't know, andmores. People like the smart I don't
really eat pop tarts very often.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I haven't. That's because you're a grown up. That's about
five years I'd say at least.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
They used to have pop darts in the vending machine.
Do they have that anymore? I haven't been so far away,
I can't go they do.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
It's like twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
They do accept the cards and you could swipe your card.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Upright, Fara. What about frosted fudge? Is that a popular pop?
I don't think sounds those are too filling.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to the pop tar.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Cherry I was. I was a frosted strawberry guy when
I was growing up. We love the strawberry, and we
got the grape every once in a while. But I
don't even if they still make the grape. Do they
still have the grape?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
I've never had a great You never had a great
pop tart When they were kids, they had, like I swear,
I remember eating a great pop.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
They're about the blue Do they do the blue raspberry? Still?
Wild berry? I think is what you're thinking of. Yeah,
well they have frosted sugar cookie. That's a limited edition item,
though they could do that for pop tart bowl.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Oh you know what, that's a good point because they
want to the low product.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Good call call.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
You know, an adult man who likes pop tarts. The
f SR is very on Brian. No, an adult man
who enjoys eating pop tarts.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
How about this confetti cupcake? Anybody say no to that? No,
take a bite out of that confetti cupcake.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I'm saying yes all day on that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Cookies and cream anything in there. No, I've never had
this s'mores one. I've had this. This moores one's actually
pretty good. I've had that, is it? It's been a
while though. The wild berry looks just like it's a
bunch of chemicals in it. It looks like a lot
of dust. You're all chemicals, I know, but it really
looks like it's just they went overboard on that. It
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Eddie who is no longer part of the show. But
(28:09):
is this person begging for forgiveness? Is that what this is?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Okay, who who who? There's somebody that was banned from
the show for spitting a loogi at our show. Who's
now going to beg for forgiveness? No, I'll I'll leave
on holding. Maybe I'll go to them later. Maybe I
won't go to them later. I don't know. We'll see.
I was Sam does not want me to take this
(28:32):
person on the air. I mean forgiveness or no no names.
We could just do without because it might make the
show better. Yeah, I mean, it's not someone that added
to the show. This is somebody that thought they were
adding to the show, that was not adding content to
the show. We tried to help them. They would not
take our advice. We tried to have an intervention, you say,
(28:53):
and they thought we were kidding where. This is terrible.
The podcast numbers go down when you're on Damn, it
just got awful. I'm a good with a moratorium continuing. Yeah, well,
I see the person on hold, but I'm not gonna
take their call right now. I'm not because we have
to get to mallard of the third degree, which is
(29:14):
straight ahead and you missed it yesterday. We had new
tire rack copy made its debut yesterday, but we don't
have that right now. Tomorrow I assume the tire rack.
Oh yeah, you know that could be strength tomorrow. Very exciting.
We get so excited the new copy. Oh, it's so good,
so so good. Anyway, we have Mallard of the third degree.
(29:34):
Here is the insta trivia. Only two players in NFL
history have ninety or more sacks in their first one
hundred career games. Those players are Reggie White and Blank.
Reggie White and Blank. That is the insta trivia.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
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It's Ben mallor Ursy.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And Mess. It's holiday songs a real good. I'll hate
them by next week, but I love them right now,
these old holiday songs to mal and Militia Orchestra.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I don't think I was sam like something.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I was dancing. You need to look over her. I
was swaying back, but you're always dancing. It's yeah, see,
because I don't mind. The first of all, our names
are in the lyrics, so we like those. But I'm
more this is a difference. I listen to music. I
listened to the rhythm like I don't really hear the lyrics.
Like my wife loves the lyrics. I don't really pay
attention to. Okay, so you're okay, good good, And she
(31:32):
gets upset because I'll there'll be songs I like that
are so terrible. The lyrics are horrific, But I'm like,
I like the rhythm. I like the rhythm, so I
just listen to the lyrics like them. You don't list
your heart, you don't listen, No, I don't. I don't
care about the lyrics. I don't give a rats ass
about the lyrics. I just like the rhythm, the beat.
That's what I'm all about.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Ben, we may run out of mallor holiday music originals
by like next week. Can I mix in some other
holiday music a little bit? Come on a little bit,
maybe a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Look at it, like the holiday stations that just keep
replaying the same holiday music. There's only so many holiday songs.
We're gonna hear that one though, like sixty times. You're
just upset. How about if so many sins they update
the lyrics and put Iowa Sam's name in there. I
think that'd be nice. But even that, after like ten times,
I'm going to want to vomit now. But again, the
listeners only listen for like one segment a day or whatever.
They don't listen to the whole show. But my sanity
(32:23):
is on the line here, So I'm worried about mental health. No, no,
you're okay, No, we have malad music.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Well you're well compensated Sam for any mental.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Exactly all right, but we must move on. Please come
out for the insta trivia. Only two players in NFL
history have ninety plus sacks in the first one hundred
career games. Reggie White, the Minister of Defense back in
his day and Blank. That is the question. What is
the answer? And let's see does anyone in the mall
(32:54):
and militia have the answer? Lee roy Selman, good name
from the past by Jason Who else? Do we have
a packer legend? Clay Matthews from Freddie I can't read that?
Justin in Cincinnati says f that guy on hold who
wants back on the show? Ferg Dog's going with the
brown sugar pop tart as the answer there, Captain Crutch
(33:17):
Crunch or Crutch Captain Crunch from Cowboy Killer John Franco
of the Cincinnati Reds guest by mister nice Guy Eddie
Lacy from Late Night Drug Tester. Who else we have?
John Stockton from Chaine in Des Moines, Warren Sap tossed
out by Sean in Portland, Casey Carl Holler says Kurt
(33:38):
Warner working at a grocery store. Lewis Lips from the
Sinking Ships. Guessed by mister Mason in Huntington Beach. A
I Maholmes from alf the Alien O Piner. The answer
is Wednesday Adams. Guess by Mark in Santa Monica, Frank
(33:59):
Dreben from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Don Meredith kissed by
Rob in Minnesota. Who else do we have? Page down?
Supermarket Steeve says you are the most popular flavor strawberry
or second cinnamon, but you are not the worst selling
flavor cherry. Oh, supermarket Steve calling you out. IOA, that's
(34:21):
not the worst selling FLA. He works in the grocery store.
He's an expert in the grocery business. I go the
guys that perfect. He stocks the chefs, hey puts the
pop tarts on the chef he's looking at.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
In fact, he said, the unfrosted strawberry sells better than
the cherry in your face.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Do you have an answer ready? Please?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Yes, it's Pittsburgh Steelers star TJ.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Watts. That is correct.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
T J.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Watt just did it. They're the Steelers star joining the
Minister of defense, the late Reggie Wait, here we go,
here we go.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
One gets quilled and you know that was Dak Prescott
until I watched the Thanksgiving game.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 5 (35:08):
I heard?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'm in my living room. I'm like, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I hear that all the time. I wish my quarterback
when I played football.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Had done that.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Just tell announcedly on his line, here we go, just
snap the ball. What was their other plan?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
For a cadence? My god, let's get to it, tobolo, please,
my guy.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
I was reported that Chip Kelly will be returning as
UCLA head coach next year, right.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
So which reporter is right? Because he was getting fired
last week but now he's going back. Well this is
a newer report. Does this move surprise you? So there's
two things that have to happen UCLA A. They have
to find a booster to pay out Chip Kelly. He
didn't have a lot of money left. But then they
have to find a booster to pay a big name coach.
There is a shortage of big name coaches. So it
doesn't surprise me because they would have had and they
(35:51):
would have made a lateral move and hired another like
former NFL guy, so it kind of makes sense.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Next, speaking of college football, the Big Ten Championship is Saturday,
and Michigan is favored by twenty three points over Island.
That is actually one of the biggest point spreads in
a conference title game.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Ever. Yeah, Ben, do you think I will will cover?
With all due respect to the company that we're keeping
here right now? No, this this game will be forty
one to three something along those lines years ago. I
my god, is Iowa and Neemak on office right?
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Next, the Bulls are off to a bad start this
season at five and thirteen, despite having a losing record
in his four years as head coach. Reports say that
Billy Donovan isn't on the hot seat should he be?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
They had a player's only meeting. First of all, after
game number one, they held the players only meeting, which
is the most use These player owners players only meetings
are so stupid. But yeah, he's absolutely in the hot
seat because the Bulls have been spinning their wheels in
mediocrity and they've got some big name but only had
injuries and all that. But I don't understand how Billy
(36:59):
Donovan has been would keep his job. It's an easy
move to fire the coach there. It is Mallard of
the third degree. How do we go? Passes? Shot is
a way you can put it on the board. Yes,
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