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August 29, 2024 • 36 mins

Ben Maller talks about Russell Wilson officially being named the starter for the Steelers, if this is Wilson's last chance to 'save his legacy', another edition of #AskBen, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number three.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
It works like magic, our three regional recipe podcast. Now
this is the original recipe. On the weekends we have
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Malers show pot up all night in our three. How
should Steeler fans handle the news that Russell Wilson has
officially been named the starter in Pennsylvania? Also is this

(00:29):
Russell Wilson's last chance to save his legacy? And Mike
Tomlin teased the Pittsburgh media with using Justin fields in
a package of plays, can you decode this? We'll get
to that as well. All of it's coming your way
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Speaker 1 (01:56):
So our lead this hour.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
We buried it beginning, but we should circle back to
it or lead this hour from the confluence of the
Monongahela and the Allegheny Rivers. And as Lorena told me
in our production meeting, that forms the Ohio River right
there in Pittsburgh. So we had months of public voting.

(02:19):
It was a straw poll. The balloting has now ended.
The mail in ballots have been counted, and I assume
you know where I'm going with this, but maybe you're
a little clueless. So Russell Wilson has won the popular vote.
We yeah, he is the Steelers starting quarterback for the
season opener in the atl He beats out justin Fields.

(02:43):
Mike Tomlin made the announcement. He took care of the
DOCU sign on hump Day. So let us discuss the
question how should Steeler fans handle the news that Russell Wilson,
who's been washed up for several years, has officially been
named the starter. So I've got iPod, Breakfast Special and

(03:06):
Inspector Gadget, and we will combine all of these things
together and we're going to have a slice of the
pie is what we're going to have.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
So numb burn the word I have for this is
Steeler fans.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Your reaction should be blah. Now, I realize many of
you are in denial a right. You're trying to tell yourself.
You're trying to sell yourself that Russell Wilson what you
see is not reality. You're trying to tell yourself that
Russell Wilson is still good.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Spoiler alert, he blows. Okay, he sucked his last year
in Seattle. He was an embarrassment for the Broncos the
last couple of years. That's the reality right now. The
other thought I have on this, it was never a
fair fight. It was predetermined the illusion of a quarterback competition. No,

(04:08):
that's not reality.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
And for whatever reason, Russell Wilson got somebody with the
Steelers a little Tingley, and they agreed before he had
even had a practice that he was going to be
the starter there and certainly the fan base until proven otherwise.
Russell Wilson continues to be in a ditch on the
side of the road. It's unfortunate. He's got some name

(04:32):
brand value, but he's got very little game. The name,
but not the game. Now, will he prove me wrong? No,
I'm never wrong about these things. He will not prove
me wrong. Russell Wilson has been on the hamster wheel
of mediocrity for several years. You know what he is.
He's the iPod, very important. The iPod debut. People love

(04:56):
the iPod. Oh my god, the iPod's amazing, so good.
All my music right there? He Oh, it's great. They
sold a ton of them, but now discontinued. No longer needed, right,
no longer needed. Pittsburgh is in the same boat they
were in last season. They're in the same position they

(05:17):
were in last season. They have a defense that should
be an upper half of the NFL defense. I know
SPICCOLDI disagrees with us. He's a Steeler fan, but based
on my analysis, the Steelers should have a defense ranked
in around the top ten special teams should be pretty good,
so the offense will be carried and dragged along by

(05:37):
those other factions of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But mark my words,
the Steelers are making a lateral move. They're not improving.
People seem to think that this is an upgrade from
Kenny Pickett. It's not, despite having much better individual stats
last season. This is what I talk about low information.

(05:59):
Fans of these idiots are like, oh, I mean, get
an email from the Insers.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well, Malard, you don't understand. I'm gonna give you a
terrible towel, so you can shove it in your mouth.
Let me explain, let me explain my position. So you
just look at Russell Wilson stat lines. Oh, he's clearly
he's better than Kenny Pickett. Come on, you know what
you're talking about. That's what you're doing overnights.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Okay, So Russ last year had twenty six touchdowns eight
interceptions in fifteen games. Kenny Pickett played twelve games, so
we started the majority of the games. He had six
touchdowns and four interceptions.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
The Broncos with mister Unlimited, who had.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Much better stats than Kenny Pickett. The Broncos passing offense
averaged four point one yards more per game than the
El Stinko Steelers with Kenny Pickett. So that's what you got,
and that's because Sean Payton dumbed down the playbook and
tried to hide the quarterback, and he was able to
convince idiots that that was successful. But Sean Payton knew

(06:58):
that that was ridiculous, and so they didn't.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Bring him back.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
They're eating millions and millions and millions of dollars in
Denver because the guy can't play all right now, Page
two read several think pieces about Russell Wilson. The one
that stood out here is this Russell Wilson's last chance
to save his legacy.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, how dramatic is that?

Speaker 5 (07:21):
Right?

Speaker 3 (07:22):
How dramatic is his last opportunity, the fallen jock trying
to rise up them mount and again. So I read
this corny story and it paints the picture that this
is some kind of Greek tragedy. If Russell Wilson doesn't
concede in Pittsburgh. Now, I would argue that Russ has
already cemented his legacy, and that no matter what he

(07:45):
does in Pittsburgh outside of winning a Super Bowl, which
not gonna happen. That he is not elite. He was
never elite. Ever, we know better. There are some trying
to say, well, back on his younger days, his salad day,
he was elite. But if you look at the menu,
the breakfast special on the menu there says ham and Eggar.

(08:08):
That is Russell Wilson. He's a ham and Eggar. His contemporaries.
When I think of who are the quarterbacks similar to
Russell Wilson, I think of names, and some of these
might be dated.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm gonna date myself.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Carson Palmer comes to mind, right, Carson Palmer, Jeff Garcia,
that's an older reference from years ago, played for the
forty nine ers.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
How about Cam Newton?

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Cam Newton had one spectacular season for the Carolina Panthers.
You're gonna say it, a couple of decent seasons also,
but just completely fell.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Off the map.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
But those guys are not frontline all time greats. They
are more second line players.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
That had a blip on the radar. And that's it.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
And the problem with Russ is this, There's always been
somebody better, and usually two or three players better.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
And Wilson.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Who pulling this, but he was able to ride the
coattails of the Legion of Boom the adderall Defense there
in Seattle and won a Super Bowl, So good for
them and good for him. He never has picked up
an MVP vote. The next MVP vote he gets will
be his first. He's never been an All Pro. That's

(09:20):
what matters, right, The Pro Bowl doesn't matter. All Pro
status matters now. Even Carson Palmer finished in the top
five in the MVP voting a couple of times during
his career. Cam Newton won an MVP, so really, I
guess the comp would have to be Jeff Garcia and
Russell Wilson.

Speaker 6 (09:35):
All right.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Final point on this Steeler heavy Mallard monologue. Mike Tomlin
also teased the Pittsburgh media with the idea of using
Justin fields. Who lost the faux Battle using Justin fields
in a package of plays every single game? Can you decode?

(10:00):
Mike Tomlin was getting at talking about using Justin fields
in a certain certain package. So Tomlin, he's planting the seed.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Whether or not he actually does it or not is
a different story. Now.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
I think he will, but he was intentionally vague because
everyone's paranoid in the NFL worried about giving up the
nuclear codes, so he didn't say exactly what he was doing. Nevertheless,
he mentioned the idea to weaponizing Justin fields. Now, you
couldn't weaponize Justin fields. If he's holding a clipboard, it's
hard to weaponize him. Even blind Emmett can see that.

(10:35):
Tomlin what he wants to do it. Tomlin wants to
have opponent's game plan to try to stop Justin fields.
So he figures if they spend valuable time in resources
trying to come up with a strategy to stop Justin
fields and the versatility, that that will help the Steelers.
Maybe it only helps him in one game this year,
but that's all they need. So to rephrase this, Mike

(10:58):
Tomlin wants you to believe that he is going to
go inspector gadget, Go go gadget and open up the
Steeler playbook. Go back to the annals of Steeler football
when they had the player known as Slash Cordel Stewart
running around as a hybrid player. And so in the
case of Justin fields, when you're going go go gadget,

(11:21):
you've got the extendable arms like inspector gadget you've got
the gadget copter that can pop out of your hat. There,
gadget phone, you've got all that stuff. Use some gadget
football with Justin Fields, who says no, why not? Right,
and let's see what you got. It is the Ben
Mahlor Show. We'll see what we got later this hour.

(11:41):
We'll play the game known as Ask Ben. Is some
of the game, but some people think it's a game
hashtag ask Ben. It's a game to see whether or
not we'll actually read your questions. That'll be coming up
later in the hour. But you can send your regular
comments right now and again on the social media follow
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(12:02):
That's at Ben Mahller as we hang out on this Thursday.
And here is the malor Riddle of the Day again,
a blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
You can answer the riddle of the day right now.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
I'ven't given it yet, but when I give it, you
can answer it on the X machine at Ben Mahler.
So here is today's Mallar Riddle of the day. Lions
wide receiver. I'm on Ross Saint Brown said, Blank is
harder than running roots in the NFL. Again, Lions wide
out a'man ross Saint Brown said that blank is actually

(12:39):
harder than running routes or roots in the NFL. That
is the mallor riddle of the day.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
The answer, We'll get to it and we will do
it next.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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Speaker 5 (13:04):
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Speaker 7 (13:04):
As everybody knows, we're of the hosts of the award
winning Polly and Toni Foodsco Show. Yeah, but instead of
us telling you how great we are, here's how Dan
Patrick described us when he came on our show.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Quick, knowledgeable and funny, opinionated. What are you doing? Were
interrupting our promo?

Speaker 5 (13:19):
Yeah, you wasn't talking about you. You took those clips
totally of context.

Speaker 7 (13:24):
Oh yeah, well after this promo, I'm gonna take you
out and beat you.

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Let me put this into context. Shut up.

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(14:00):
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Speaker 1 (14:14):
Coming up in a bit. We'll have ask Ben.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Your questions are answers? Keep those questions in using the
hashtag ask Ben. Here's the malor riddle of the day.
We go to the NFL where Lions wide receiver.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
I'm on ross.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Saint Brown said recently that blank is harder than running
roots or routes. That's right, That is the malor riddle
of the day. What is the answers? Anyone know the answer?
We go to the great Unwashed. Let's see uh, let's
see page down, Texas Trucker said, dating Donkey Sausage said,

(14:53):
understanding the mind of women is harder than running roots
or routes in the NFL. Fir Dog says, working with
Eddie Garcia four hours a night, you have the patients
of a Saint Ben.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Well, thank you, Fergie, I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Making the Baba ganooche from Patrick DJ spin there in
San Diego, understanding what Jed who fled is saying. From
our pal Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Alf the Alien Olpiner says,
winning a Benny is harder. Oh that's a good looking store.

(15:28):
I wish I wish I had had that phot I
don't know where you found out there. Benny's Home and
Auto Stores. Very impressive. That's a nice sign. I like
to have that sign in my office. That would be
pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
King Rory says, Chinese arithmetic, All right? What else do
we have? Page down? Eating vegetables? That sucks?

Speaker 2 (15:47):
I do eat a lot of vegetable garlic. Garlic's of
vegetable rights of vegetable garlic counts.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
I eat a lot of garlic. Frozen gumballs from Nick?
What else do we have? Page down? Can't that?

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Reading a book from Mark in Santa Monica, A film
session is heard of the running routes or roots from
Josh That says Anthew Donkey sausage going with new Math.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Who else do we have a?

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Wally in Florida says listening to a certain presidential candidate,
playing Jenga from Robin Minnesota. JT the Wingman says buying
tires somewhere other than tire rack dot com. Oh, thank
you for fine advertiser here. On the Ben Matler Show,
Inca Terra says planting tomatoes is planting tomatoes harder than

(16:36):
running a route?

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Or a route?

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Marcus says, listening to Eddie Garcia cheat at Password, it
is hard to listen to that. I agree, playing Mario
Kart from Can't Close the Deal? Neil get to know
Neil's out there listening. Who else do you have? Page down?
We'll skip over that, all right. I think that's enough, Eddie.
Do you have an answer the Mallard Riddle of the day.
I'm on Ross sain Brown said that is harder than

(17:01):
running roots.

Speaker 8 (17:03):
Finding weed man a place to live?

Speaker 1 (17:05):
That is very difficult? Is that being no?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
That's not actually not the real answer though, unfortunately, uh,
I'm on rossain Brown said that podcasting is.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Harder than running routes or roads.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
See that.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah, try doing a live radio show that is also
a podcast. Mind blowing, mind blowing.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
I just brought that up to gloat on your own skills.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
I'm just saying what I do is harder than running
roots in the NFL, Right, I mean what we do
here to in a four hour NFL games are like
three hours. This show's four hours every night.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
And oh, by the way, not that I'm being bragging nocious,
but we have to do the show.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Whether there's stuff to talk about or not.

Speaker 6 (17:48):
We just we just.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Come in here and we have a there's actually in
the hallway when you come into the Robbie the maner
fan saw this. He actually pointed out when I gave
him the Grand Tour the other day, there's a there's
a little container filled with crap. And sometimes we just
take the crap and throw it against the wall and
we see what color crap sticks to the wall, and
then that's what we go with.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
So this job is not that f and easy.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
It is not that come in here and have to
do a four hour program in the middle of the night,
and that is a podcast.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Man.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Now, we mentioned earlier, the Otani bobblehead situation, right, and
that is a.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Ridiculous People were spent seven.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Hours online seven hours before the game started to get
the Otani bibble, but they gave away a few golden bibbleheads.
I don't I don't remember them doing this in the past.
This feels like this is just a thing they started
doing this year. Am I wrong on that? Maybe I am.
It's possible I'm rung with. Anyway, the Dodgers have tossed
in some golden bibble and those are the real valuable ones.

(18:55):
And so there's a frenzy going on on the eBay
for the golden Otani bobblehead, the golden Otani and how
crazy is it? So I thought we'd do a check
here now, Tim actually the great Tim mcdarby point of
this out here. But the ridiculous, the ridiculous prices that

(19:20):
some people are listing here for this bobblehead. There is
one listed for twenty thousand dollars. Hard to believe, no
one's actually there's a couple listed for twenty thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
There's one for.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Eighteen thousand that has thirteen people watching.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
It actually is more than one.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Seventeen thousand buy it now, though for the seventeen thousand one,
the buy it now is twenty two thousand, two hundred.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
You can get it right now.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Is there anyone I'd like to think the good people
of Japan are not that frivolous, Like, no one's going
to actually pay that much for the bobblehead, right, No
one's going to go forward with that and say that's
I have to have this item. I must have that
in my collection. The cheapest Otani golden bobblehead. Just see
what the price they have some older ones, but they

(20:09):
don't have I don't see the price here. Well, one's
like four hundred bucks. I guess that's the cheapest one.
Four hundred bucks. So some people will get trying to
get forty or twenty thousand, and other people like, ah,
four hundred bucks, you can have it. That one has
a bunch of people bidding on it. See, that's a
more reasonable amount of money. Twenty thousand. Come on, but hey,

(20:29):
you ask for the moon, maybe you'll maybe you'll get it.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
I did see this though.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
I wanted to bring up the schools, the public schools
in Morgantown, West Virginia, are going to be closed. I
believe today.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
I think this is.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Today that this is happening here. You know, why are
they closing the schools.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Is there some kind of event taking place involving civic leaders?

Speaker 1 (20:55):
There?

Speaker 3 (20:57):
No, No, the monog Guyhila County schools they have announced
they're gona because actually it's not today, it's tomorrow. It's
on Friday. They're closing the schools on Friday. So like
the elementary school, the high schools, the junior all closed,
and they're doing it as a proactive attempt to protect

(21:19):
people from the Pat McAfee show. Say, yeah, yeah, they anticipate.
I guess he's going there to do some event. He's
a college football game in Morgantown, West Virginia, and he's
going to be there West Virginia.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
And then he's going he's.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Leaving actually on Saturday, because on Friday is going to
be there anyway.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Either way, they're closing all the schools for like a YouTuber.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Geez, they've gotta be kidding me. Yeah, that's a little much.
Will will we have the like the local music? Is
there a museum in Morgantown? I don't know that be open.
Do they have a zoo there. I have no idea.
I have no idea. And how much traffic are they expecting?
There's not many people that live in Morgantown anyway, who knows?

Speaker 1 (22:11):
I got no idea.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
It is The Ben Maller Show. As we roll on.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
I have been pestered in recent days from the Texas
Trucker who is a big fan of the show, and
he started a Mallard Militia fantasy football league.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Now I am not affiliated with this in anyway. I
have nothing to do with this. I have no responsibility
of this. But he has been begging me. He's a
few more people to join that league. So if you're
type in how can you find this guy Texas Trucker.
That's not his handle, say his name, it's his name Kent,
but type in Mallard Militia and fantasy football.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
It'll it'll probably come up. He's on X.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
He sends a lot of messages during the show. But
let's answer there some other messages. What do you say here?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
We go hit that button right there, Yeah, that's the
button that's the button.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Man who was fully invested in the Denver Broncos. Although
I like the old logo more than the new one.
But he's got his Bronco hat on right now. The
Koopa loop for the reading of the questions, it's asked Ben.
Your questions are answered to the rest of the hour.
These are actual questions submitted with the hashtag ask.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
Ben Donkey sausage, Hi Donkey, he would like to know?
What are you all allergic to?

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Or the music stopped? I thought we were going away.

Speaker 9 (23:45):
He didn't stop, Ben, It's still there.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh really? Oh yeah, yeah, you're asking what I was
allergic to?

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Is that? What? What are you all allergic to?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well?

Speaker 3 (23:54):
When I was a kid, I was allergic to dogs,
but I grew out of that. I'm still certain dog
breeds i'm allergic to, so that was the big one
when I was a kid.

Speaker 8 (24:04):
What about you, Eddie? Well, I would say pickles. But
I don't believe I'm actually allergic to anything that I
know of.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Til you find out you are, Eddie, till you find
out your what about you?

Speaker 6 (24:17):
Right, I'm kind of like Eddie.

Speaker 9 (24:19):
I assume I'm not allergic to anything, but I've heard
We're all allergic to lactose, so I try to stay
away from milk, and I've noticed my gut does feel better.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
You're anti milk exactly, all right, what about you, koba?
I'm anti broccoli. I'm allergic to broccoli also, and all
green vegetables.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
I'm allergic.

Speaker 6 (24:40):
All of these allergies surfaced at around thirty years old.
I was never allergic to anything growing up, but it's
now almonds, macadamia nuts, hazel nuts. Oh no, the nut
allergy leachy light chylech But.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
You can eat peanuts because that's not a nut.

Speaker 6 (24:58):
I can't eat peanuts and it's not on that. I
can still eat cashews and pistachios and pecan You want to.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Hear a wild story.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
My mom was not allergic to really anything, and then
she had some dental work done. She was probably around
the age I'm at now, and then she became allergic
to corn. Huh, corn is in everything? Yeah's corn is
in literally?

Speaker 2 (25:19):
I mean you didn't even like stuff, You wouldn't even think,
like chocolate has corner highly produced chocolate as well.

Speaker 6 (25:25):
Yeah, and oh yeah, because like high fruit just corn syrup,
like yeah, everything, it's everywhere and the most recent discovery cannabis.
What yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:35):
What? Oh?

Speaker 8 (25:37):
No, Fortunately, it's just the plant, not the smoke.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I've tried my hand at growing some
and oh I broke out in hives while wow trimming
the plant.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yes ironic.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, so it's like me, I like the ketchup but
not the tomato. You like the final product, but not
the Yes I got?

Speaker 3 (25:57):
What is next year's ask man? Your questions are answers
the King Rory, Hi, King Rory. He's got two good
questions here. He's the new ferg Dog of asked Ben.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Oh, that's a shot at Ferg Dog.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Let's we're gonna go.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
With this one.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
It's a quick one, better game, better card game, know
or go Fish?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Well, I grew up on go fish and that was
my game validated Go Fish.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Shut up, Eddie. You're older than I am, but I
was not killed. It that an old maid dominated old
maid as well? What about you?

Speaker 8 (26:32):
Look, the answer is there's no question about it is
far superior fish.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Go fish.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Gold Fish is great. I kick your assid go Fish?
What about you, Lorena, I'm a go fish girl. That's right,
air high five. There we go, losers, Good job.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
Who knows definitely the answer.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
That's all you got. I stand with Lorraine. I stand
on the right side of history. Me and lorenais to
break up. Okay, the family.

Speaker 8 (27:00):
Can't know you didn't deserve to be together in the
first place.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oh gosh, I already know that, all right.

Speaker 6 (27:06):
Uh back to back belly.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
To belly King Rory.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
He's trying to win that Benny Award this year.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
And I hope you all have the same answer here,
he says, do you rinse your row chicken off with
water before cooking it? Well?

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, I mean you clean when you get the chicken, right,
you wash it?

Speaker 6 (27:25):
No, you do not wash chicken? Oh my god, you
know no, you do not know why not? You want
to spread.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Salmonilla all over the place? What you want? I cook it.
I put oil on it.

Speaker 6 (27:36):
Yeah, but you're just you're just supposed to pat it
dry with paper towels and then cook it.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Well, if I ever make chicken, all right, it's a
hole to do. I mean there's a hammer involved. That
chicken looks like a piece of paper by the time
I get done with that chicken. Okay, do you understand
it's a thin You see this piece of paper that
is the that is the there's no juiciness.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
There's nothing left to it.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
No, it's just a It's like a flat piece of
paper steak and covered in roasted chicken pepper.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
I use the paper chicken. As I've gotten older, I'm
a big pepper guy. I am.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Actually I love peppers great. I put pepper on everything.
I love pepper. I can't get enough pepper. What about Eddie?

Speaker 1 (28:23):
No washing? You don't even cook it? So why are
we even asking?

Speaker 8 (28:26):
How dare you? I am the master of the barbecue,
grill and grill at least a couple of times a week,
and but I don't prepare the food. My wife gives
me the sis. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
You gotta go from start to finish, man, I go
from start to finish.

Speaker 8 (28:39):
That's it's women's work.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Wows Lorraine. Chicken actually scares me.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
I'm afraid of cooking it in general.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
You just cook it well done. You got nothing to
worry about.

Speaker 9 (28:51):
I mean I was just touching it in general.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Like I said, have these things.

Speaker 8 (28:55):
Called don't fear the chicken lorena.

Speaker 9 (28:57):
When I see people washing it, though, I just imagine
the water like spraying down on the chicken and then
going and getting the step.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Nah, We're all We're all good on that Cooper loop,
you know, check in the stories, all right, check Why
don't we pause for the calls? We got another big
block of Ask Ben. Your questions are answers. You can
send those in right now. Use the hashtag ask Ben
as it rolls on for the rest of the hour.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
I'll get to it and we will.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
Do it.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
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Speaker 3 (30:06):
Let's get back to Ask Ben. Your questions are Answers.
For the rest of the hour.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Excited about this and coople loop the reading of the questions.

Speaker 6 (30:17):
All right, masshole, Mickey would like to know.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
I met him. He met me in the rain in Boston.
Came out there at the last minute.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
Have you ever hit an animal while driving a car?

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yes, I killed the rabbit, but I didn't really kill
the rabbit. The rabbit committed suicide jump. I saw the
rabbit out of my peripheral vision ran in front of
my car. So the rabbit wanted to die. The rabbit
had a death wish. Killed the rabbit killed bugs money,
What about you, Eddie?

Speaker 8 (30:44):
Yes, unfortunately I hit a possum. A possum, yeah, oh man.
We lived near a park and those are a messy.
There are a lot of critters running around, and this
thing was the size of the small dog.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
If you take the hose out and spray down the car, no,
was there a lot of blood.

Speaker 8 (31:02):
No, But it did make a dent in the front
of the car, so uh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
It's unfortunate.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Loraina, that's a big If it was you're from Morgan,
you probably killed sasquatch driving.

Speaker 9 (31:12):
Well, it's funny. One time I was driving up to
Oregon and it was during a big fire right. It
was super smoky, and we're taking like the side path
up around the five.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, and I.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
Can't see anything in front of me. I'm driving a hummer. Okay,
I cannot see anything.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
All of a sudden there's a black bear but.

Speaker 9 (31:29):
Running in front of the hummer, and I just scream, right,
I'm because I don't want to kill it.

Speaker 8 (31:35):
Like, well, that would help if you just scream that,
that would carything.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
Everyone in the car just jumped up. It's like two
am in the morning.

Speaker 9 (31:42):
So I luckily did not kill the bear.

Speaker 6 (31:44):
Okay, but I almost probably wouldn't kill the bear with
a hummer.

Speaker 9 (31:49):
You think it'd be hard to kill a bear.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
No, you kill a bear, But I was when I
was driving there, deer just bounce off after getting Like
when I was.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Driving a Vermont at night and there were no lights
in Vermont to visit Arnie. There were moose signs everywhere,
and we looked up on the internet. If you run
into a moose, you need to hit it on it
the moose ass because that you have the most likely
chance to survive survive it.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yes, if you you've.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Got to aim the car at the tooks of the
moose and you have a chance to for some reason
that well.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
I had a perfect lineup for this black bear.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Then yeah, all right, a coop. Any animals you've killed
driving around?

Speaker 6 (32:26):
Yes, I was on my way here.

Speaker 9 (32:28):
What m one on the way here?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (32:31):
A raccoon?

Speaker 1 (32:34):
I know I was.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
I was pretty bummed about it, not only because I
you know, it was bummed that I hit it. The
smell but no, it it cracked my bumper. No, yeah,
on your new vehicle. No, this was before I got uh,
this is my How does.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
The insurance claim on that is it? Look?

Speaker 5 (32:53):
Well?

Speaker 6 (32:53):
Luckily, what it cracked was like an added on kind
of like hit you know, So it wasn't the stock
portion of the car. It was something that I purchased
and added to the car. So I just took it off.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
If you're listening to Ask Ben, if you like this,
we do it every week about this time. And we
also have something on the fifth our podcast which is
nothing like Ask Ben called the Mailbag that's nothing like
ass Ben.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
But what is next?

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Your questions are answers with the hashtag ask Ben.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Good questions so far.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
This one's kind of similar to the allergy question, but
not really double a Mexican wants to know what is
the food that you love to eat but your body
disagrees with Well.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
As I've gotten older, many things that I used to
eat tremendous amount, so I got fried foods.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
I was the king of all fried foods.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
But as I've gotten older, I can't eat quite as many,
and I have these weird reactions to them. Plus I've
knowing a lot of fasting and stuff because I got
to have my model like looks on the TV show,
so that's also caused problems with my stomach and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
So there's actually many of these.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
But then the one right off the top of my
head is like a lot of fried foods does not
go very well, and mixing dairy and uh and and
said fried foods creates a nuclear reaction in the old
stomach theory.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
Because you're lactose intolerant.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Ben, thank you, doctor Eddie.

Speaker 8 (34:22):
I've mentioned this before, but probably the most infamous food
item for me is the apple fritter.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
I love them lily wonderful.

Speaker 8 (34:31):
And if I can only contain myself to eating half
of one, I'd be okay, But I have no self control.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
The apple is a large donut and so.

Speaker 8 (34:38):
I will always eat the entire thing, and every time
I tell myself, why did you do that? And it
just wrecks me.

Speaker 6 (34:46):
This sounds familiar.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Rain.

Speaker 8 (34:51):
I keep saying this time will be different, Lorraine, and
it never is.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
I gotta have self control. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 9 (34:59):
Anyways, No, I don't even know what mine would be,
to be honest with you, because I kind of regret
everything at some points. Greasy food for one, dairy like
I said, and sometimes cake type food, muffins and stuff
they make the top of my mouth hurt.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, that's weird to sugary.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
You know what I do.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
I am famous when I eat ice cream and you
get the brain freeze and boom right, I'm right back
and I get I get multiple brain freezing.

Speaker 6 (35:27):
That's horrible. It must hurt. So this is another recent
thing now within the last you know, six months or so,
I have to limit the amount of cheese that I eat.
And it's terrible, man, because it just it just wrecks me.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Cheese is wonderful.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Mexican food, Tacos covered in cheese, burritosnos.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
And tonight, tonight, Lorena brought me a cinnabon.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
And you didn't bring me a cinnamon. You don't eat
that's true.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
Well, she's like, I still have half of my cinabun.
Do you just want to share this? But there's a
whole cinnabun lottery And I was like, I was like, no,
I'm gonna have the whole cinnabun. And I ate it
within like two minutes. And I've been struggling.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
I didn't need a cinnabon in years. I was at
the Myrtle Beach airport and I ate a cinnamon. I
was so happy. I was like, this is heaven.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
I had an airport and Myrtle Beach. I'm eating it
and it was so oh. I wish I got in two.
I should have gotten too. They were so good. I
love that cinnamon.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Man, was that great
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