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September 24, 2024 38 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Commanders win over the Bengals and if it's time to write the eulogy for Cincinnati in 2024, why the Bengals are 0-3 to start the year, the big time performance from Jayden Daniels, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome.

Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's our number one, our one of a podcast, the
original Recipe podcast. We handcrafted the audio artisans that we are,
this podcast all night Here in our number one Monday
night doubleheader, we start with the better game, the Commanders
and the Bengals. Are you prepared to write the eulogy?

(00:24):
Are you prepared to write the eulogy for the Joe
Burrow twenty twenty four Bengals as they lost again? They're
zero to three?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Holy conoli?

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Also, why why are the Cincinnati Bengals in the ditch
alongside the road? And how would you describe rookie quarterback
Jaden daniels breakout performance for the Commanders.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
We'll talk about all that and more right now here.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
It is our number one heal to victory.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
What kind of yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm glad that the imagery department we said we need
new music. You can't play that Diddy stuff anymore, and
this is what they came up with. Really, really, who
wrote this song? Can they go to jail too? Can
they go No? We don't even know who wrote this song. Anyway,
Welcome in. It is the beginning of another night. How
am I supposed to do a serious sports talk radio shout,

(01:27):
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day in Boston there loves the number ten thousand. So
our lead this hour is from the Natty, the scene
of the main event on Monday Night football. You had
the Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They were
there hanging out Joe Burrow's Club, a massive, massive favorite

(02:46):
expected to dominate, get in the win column, put on
a happy beat dance. They were big time favorites over
the Commanders in that game on Monday night. Now, I
don't if you saw it or not. We had two games.
Two game, now, now why not just stagger the games?
That one started about forty minutes before the other.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
That would be the Bills Jaguars game.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Fortunately, Jacksonville decided not to show up to that game,
so we could focus in on the Cincinnati Washington game.
But it was a night that was stolen by Jaden Daniels,
who upstaged his fellow LSU comrade Joe Burrow. He threw
not one, but two touchdowns. We had a fat guy touchdown,

(03:29):
fat guy touchdown first, Jadeen Daniels touchdown to a fat
guy one of his offensive linemen. He if he actually
turns out to be as good as people think he's
gonna be, It's one of those great who am I
game questions? Who caught the first touchdown for Jaden Daniels,
But he also ran for a score and did a
little bit of this, a little bit of that. The
whole thing a historical performance for Jaden and Daniels. The

(03:53):
Washington football team, leaving the Bengals stunned, dazed, confused, thirty
eight to thirty three final Jayden Daniels twenty one of
thirty three. If you're you're like stat humping, that's really good.
Two hundred and fifty four yards, an NFL rookie record
for a completion percentage of over ninety percent, ninety one.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Point three on the FM dial.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Ninety one point three. So the Commanders at two and one,
they scored on every possession except when they kneeled down.
You can't score when you kneel down at the end
of each half. And they have not punted now in
the past two games, and they have not turned the
ball over in the past two games. Now, I didn't

(04:39):
play in the NFL, but I think that's a recipe
for success.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
But what do I know now?

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Neither Washington or Cincinnati, either one of these teams punted
or turned the ball over collectively. We're told by the
nerds it's the first time that's ever happened in the
Super Bowl era, the modern era of the NFL. But
the better story, the better story, is in the losing
life locker room. So let us discuss the question. All right,
are you prepared to write the eulogy for Joe Burrow's

(05:08):
twenty twenty four Bengals. They sit zero to three. Historically,
the odds are against them based on what has happened,
not what's going to happen. So I've got Dandy Don,
Monster Mash and frosted flakes, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to slide

(05:29):
on in deeper.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Into your ear drums, is what we're going to do.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
So Ay, to answer the question, are you prepared to
write the eulogy for Joe Burrow's twenty twenty four Bengals.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
I am nodding my head.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yes, I am nodding my head, yes, yes, And I
don't want to do it. I like Burrow. You know
that I'm a Burrow sick of phant and all that,
but I am a realist here. I hope I'm wrong. However, However,
the mantra on this show, what are the many mantras
that we have here late at night, is the never
ending battle. I stole this from a cartoon character, the

(06:03):
never ending battle for truth, justice and the sports talk
radio way. That's exactly what Superman taught me when I
was a kid, and we can all agree, every man,
woman and child can agree that you are not allowed
more than one really snink bomb loss. Can we read
on that like every team's gonna lose a game, You're like,
oh crap, why they lose that game? That's embarrassing. You

(06:25):
get one of those. What the Bengals have done in
the first month of the season is impossible. It was
unimaginable if I told you this before the season. It's
unthinkable that it's happened. They have picked up the double whammy.
They have the double whammy. They lost at home to

(06:45):
Jacoby Brissett and the Patsies. They lost to the.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Patriots in week one.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
They said, okay, well, okay, you'll forgive them, but they
can't have another bad loss. And here we are ta Da.
They have lost to the Commanders. Now you might think
Washington's going to have a good team, and they're off
to a good start to wins. They beat the Giants,
which is hardly an impressive win. But all of that
for Cincinnati, coming in the first month of the season,
you don't come back from that. That's good evening and

(07:15):
good night is what that is. Forget even good afternoon.
The ghost of Dandy down is warming up somewhere right
turn out the last the parties over Cincinnati is porked.
They're cooked, however you want to say it, whatever you
want to.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Use to describe it.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
At this moment in time, the ben Gals are dun Skies.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
They're back to be in the bungles. And do we
still love Joe Brow?

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Does that matter? No, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
I don't see a scenario at this moment, based on
the way they're playing right now today, that that is
a playoff team. Oh that's an outrageous take. No, it's
not all right now. Page two. Here why the question
of why why why are the Bengals in the ditch
along the side of the NFL road at this point
after three weeks and my theory on this and I

(08:08):
coocked this up on the long drive from the north
Woods here to the Mothership. And I want to thank
management for making sure that I have that long drive
from the mothership here into the mothership. But Cincinnati their
problem now, they got a lot of problems, but the
big one is the monster Mash. We're gonna call it
the green Eyed Monster. That's the problem. Under attack, under

(08:30):
siege by the green eyed monster because they made a
strategic decision. This is one of those deals. I was
talking to De Saga in the hallways here. I saw
him passing like ships in the night. That it's you're
damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. Because
some of these teams have paid their players, like the Cowboys.
Dak Prescott blows right, we know that not a big

(08:53):
game guy. Now, just looked terrible last couple weeks. Fine
got some garbage time stats, so people that don't watch
the games think he's better than he is. But Cincinnati
went the other way that we're not paying anybody, and
so t Higgins he's playing, but he didn't get the extension.
Jamar Chase playing didn't get massive extension. Pretty much everyone

(09:14):
got paid. Everyone around the NFL got paid. Even turds
like Trevor Lawrence got paid. Right, he sucks. He got
paid for some reason. He must have compromising photos of
Shad Khan, the owner. I don't know, but the Bengal said, Noah,
we're gonna draw a line in the mud, is what
we're gonna do.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
We're not paying anybody.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
So you started out with Higgins and Chase bitter had
that bitter beer face on offense. But you mix in
a defensive star Trey Hendrickson, who also requested a trade
out of Dodge. He wanted to get out of Dodge,
and he's on the defensive side and everything starts bubbling up. Resentman,

(09:57):
bad vibrations, all of that, and so you have a
quagmire now for Insincinnati. Nobody is going to confuse, not
a single person is going to confuse Zach Taylor as
the second coming of Vince Lombardi. Uh So he's the
head coach and he's got he's always got this kind
of I don't.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Know what's going on here. He's got that kind of look.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
But then you look at the defensive coordinator and you've
got Lou and Romovemo.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
What's his name?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Mumo?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
That's not his name. What's his name?

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Coop?

Speaker 1 (10:27):
You got his name? Coop has no idea the defensive
coordinator for the Bengals. Coop is looking it up right now. Uh,
Martin has it. Martin has it.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
What's his name?

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Martin?

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Lou and Umo and a Rumo.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's a weird name. The reason I know his name,
Martin heard that name, I know.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
I would I would fire his If I own the Bengals,
I would fire him, is what I would do after
that performance.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
But I don't think he's in Ex's and O's with it.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
One thing about the broadcasters, though, I've noticed, they're all
friends with the coaches, so they don't criticize anybody every
time I watch an NFL game, So it's like it
doesn't matter. There could be a toxic cloud billowing of
smoke up from the coaches room, and they're everything's great.
These guys are wonderful. They're they're just great and all
that stuff. But we have now I did the math.

(11:13):
We have forty three shopping days left till the trade deadline.
It's on November fifth, is the trade deadline. And Cincinnati's
in business here. They keep going like this and they
don't want to pay anybody. Why wouldn't they trade one
of these cats that are available right now?

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Jamar Chase, who knows.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
I don't even know if they can trade T Higgins
because of the salary cap stuff and he's on the
franchise tag. But there are players available if you want.
They're in the display case there in Cincinnati. Our last
word here, so we go to the winning locker room.
Not the better story, but we go to the winning
locker room, and how would you describe Jaden Daniels and
his performance for the Commanders. So you know, normally we

(11:55):
have the Malor report card, but there's no reason to
even bother with the Malor report card because it was
picture perfect. It was impeccable and very rarely do you
see an unblemished performance.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
But that was what I watched.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
It was great. It's like he was back at LSU
playing Vanderbilt or something like that. My god, good for him.
It was a Frosted Flakes type performance. And you watch
the box score. You look at the game, you're like, oh, man,
look a those numbers. It's like Tony the Tiger. They're great.
And they were, and that is a snapshot on what

(12:31):
the future could hold. Now, this does not just budge
the needle. The performance of Jaden dangles, It moves mountains.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Right.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
That's must see TV. If he can recreate that. Of course,
the key is you have to do that consistently right
most of the time. That's the difference between being just
good occasionally and then being Baffosaco and a franchise quarterback
and but man alive that was that was great. I
would advise the owner of the Washington football team to

(13:02):
get rid of the dumb commander's placeholder nickname. Get a
real nickname. If you do have a real quarterback, you
want to get a real nickname. And you look at
the Washington Commanders. Here dumb name, but they're two and
one and they've got Arizona beatable opponent. It's in Arizona.
But Cardinals can lose every game. They win most games,

(13:24):
so they can lose them too, So that's a'sss up.
Then you play their creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson after that,
so those are Cleveland, Come on back up, I should
win those games. So now you're sitting in four and one,
and at four and one you start daydreaming. The other thing.
You look at the collateral damage from Jaden Daniels putting
up a Mona Lisa performance like this on Monday night

(13:46):
football with everyone watching in Chicago. You've got Caleb Williams
who is not putting up Mona Lisa performance this year,
and so you're gonna have the finger biting and all that,
people pointing what's going on. I don't understand how come
he's not playing like this other guy and we have

(14:07):
the number one pick we passed over Jayden to answer
this guy. What's up with that?

Speaker 3 (14:11):
All right?

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Is the Ben Maler Show. If you would like to
be part, you.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Can join us. Speak easy rules in effect, but every
line is up. We had two Monday night football game two,
so there's a lot to talk about here. You can
be part of the show if you would like, and
yap of the yapp and all that and yeah, you
know the number also on act at Ben Mahlor, that
is at Ben Malor if you would like to be

(14:36):
part of said program, and we will mix in your
commentary as we work our way through the overnight. Some
value shopping, some value shopping. We'll go down that road
and we will do it.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Next.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malor Show.
He said two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
The great title of majority of listeners to the Ben
Malor Show sit on the sidelines.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Never having their opinions heard.

Speaker 6 (15:11):
You're invited to break the glass ceiling by taking up
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in for Eddie Garcia. I'm at Martin Weiss. He'll thank
yourself later. Now back to Ben Maller.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Thank you Martin.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
And my one of my radio friends sent me a text.
He says, is Eddie moving to Pittsburgh? No, but Eddie. Yeah,
Like a lot of radio people in neurotic and they
don't want to miss work because they love their jobs.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Like Eddie is not like that at all.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Like Eddie is perfectly fine taking as much time off
as he wants. He does not believe in rushing back.
And it's it is, it is different. I I people
in the business, they send me message like why is
Eddie not there? It's like, well, he just doesn't care.
He's fine, it's fine. I mean, that's that's great and
all that. But it is it is amusing for those
that are like in the business a long time, They're like,

(16:06):
I can't believe he's not there. Didn't he rush back?

Speaker 7 (16:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
No, no, no no no.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
I think he traveled by like a buggy like horsemorrow though, right,
he'll be back to I don't know, maybe not. Maybe
it's another I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
You know, but it's ironic. Because I did rush back.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
You rush back.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
I did not wake up in California. Where were you Detroit, Michigan?

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Look at that this made on a plane? Wowa.

Speaker 6 (16:29):
Mar Dan Bayer said, you got a chance to anchor
the Malors show off Like, well, you're.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Like, who's that? I mean, come on now, wouldn't miss it.
See that's the thing. I've done the same. You know,
I've traveled, I've flown across the country and you come
in and do the radio show. But you know, some people,
it's not for everybody, Martin, those of us that can
handle it, some people cannot handle it.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Well, yes, Lorraine, No, it's it's me. It's is this
coop defending Eddie? Yes, and again not rushing back to
do his job.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (16:58):
Uh well, first of all, i'm and we get vacation time.
That is a perk of being a full time employe.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Correct.

Speaker 8 (17:04):
And the second of all, you host the show, so
you being gone extra time makes way more of a
difference than Eddie being gone.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
See that's there because my philosophy is and this is
just me.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Even when I was a filling weekend guy here I
started out of Fox Sports Radio, I always took ownership
when I was on the air, that was my product,
so I took it.

Speaker 8 (17:25):
You were on, it was your show, even on the weekends.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
I wouldn't always host shows I eventually I did, but
I actually hosted. I co hosted shows with other people.
I worked with, Chris Meyer's a bunch of other people
that were their shows. I just happened to fill in.
But point is, when I was on it, I took ownership.
I took pride in it that it was my product
that I was putting out there.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
We aren't like a clock. Okay, without the proper elements,
we don't really know the timing is.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Gonna be off. I'm just I'm just reacting because people
send me messages and I'm tired of answering questions about
why Eddie doesn't rush back.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I don't care he get dead vacations.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
I know most people don't take it in this business
during football season, but Eddie does, and that's fine. That's
his deal. I don't care if he's here or not.
I do the same show, the product is the same
on my end. I prepare the same way, I do
the show the same way.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
So stop.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
I don't know what's going on with talk to him.
He blew me off. He doesn't care.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Trust me, he does not care whether he's here or not.
Let's go to.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Terry in England on the International Line. Terry conveniently was
not here when his forty nine ers went belly up
against the Rams, but now he has Hello Terry.

Speaker 9 (18:36):
Good morning Ben. You taking ownership. That's an absolute scream unbelievable,
you taking ownership. I don't believe he said that, would
your fair straight?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
But anyway, now, just for the record, you said ship
and not now double check the last ten seconds is up.
That's the British accent that he Yeah, the ship ownership
like a ship.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Out on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere.

Speaker 9 (19:00):
Yes, actually the actually the other word is probably more
likely to what you what you're actually going on about.
But by the bye, you know, sometimes when people are
in work, it's not always easy to ring. I couldn't
even listen to.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
The first Okay, this is a sob story. Now let
me get my violin out. Hold on a second, Yeah.

Speaker 9 (19:16):
I'm on a minute. Did you check X as the
game ended?

Speaker 3 (19:20):
No?

Speaker 2 (19:20):
I don't, I don't.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
I stay off there. That's a cesspool, man, I go
on there for the show. I'm only on there for
the show.

Speaker 9 (19:26):
So you didn't see my message to you saying you're not.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
The most compelling guy. I don't. I don't hang on
every message you post on social media.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
No no, but when I when I.

Speaker 9 (19:37):
Checked you, I expect you to read it and then
win you well.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
You expect. That's a lot of expect I don't get
paid to read X. I get paid to do the show, okay.

Speaker 9 (19:45):
But then I don't get paid to listen to you neither.
And I don't get paid.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's why it's a public service. This is a public service. Thery,
public service.

Speaker 8 (19:54):
And Ry, I read every tweet that I mentioned in
because I'm a man of the people.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
That's a lie.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
He's an He doesn't, that's incorrect. His nose is growing.
He did start in a movie about a liar. Remember that.

Speaker 9 (20:05):
Okay, you're only jealous because you've not got a movie
to making a living from lying. Behave yourself.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
I don't lie. So I am in pursuit of truth.
And the truth is your forty nine ers blow You
lost You lost a Sam Darnold and the Viking, and
then follow that up to a bunch of ram backup.
The rams are signing guys off Craigslist to play the
offensive line, and they beat the big bad forty nine ers. Mike,
I what a fraud team. The forty nine ers are

(20:36):
I like losers.

Speaker 9 (20:39):
You said that all lust to you, and then I
was right.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
In the end, they went belly up when it mattered
most Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs stood atop the mountain.

Speaker 9 (20:50):
Okay, okay, there's only one mountain. Somebody's got to get
there to help them climb. The rams weren't there.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Well, they won a few years ago. Can't win every year,
you know.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, forty nine ers haven't won since the eighties though,
I think or nineties?

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Was it nineties?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Do they one of the No?

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I don't they won the night eighty?

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well?

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Steve Young might have been early nineties, maybe early.

Speaker 9 (21:10):
Ninety Young was the last one the night was there?

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, you sound like a beaten Manitarry, You sound like
a broken horn.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
You sound broken to me because you won't let me.

Speaker 9 (21:20):
You won't let me, you won't want me come back
at you. But that's go ahead, say what you want.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
I'm right here. Go ahead, say what you want. Say it.

Speaker 9 (21:29):
I'm saying that I were I was special teams was appalling.
Did mister field goal a load of a load of
fake pumps? I mean, what's going on with that? Can
you not be ready for a fake pumps off? Off?
For two?

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well, they must have been terry, terry.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
They must have been distracted by all those forty nine
er fans that were sofi stadium.

Speaker 9 (21:48):
Yeah, well that's another thing, and I must did you
pay for your ticket? Then?

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Well, I was a working member of the media. As
you know, when you're working member of the media, you're
representing the people. I'm the man of the people.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
That's what I was.

Speaker 9 (21:59):
Yeah, man of people who doesn't calls people out but
doesn't actually check that they reply.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I was there. I was right there. And then to listen,
I ripped the rams okay, on that TV show that
I do, I ripped them.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
I look like a total Jackie ass I was.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
I was tearing into Sean McVay saying, all of a sudden,
he's got the sadom touch, the opposite of the minus touch.
And then they go out there, then they go, how
did you watch? It's not availab morn England. You're watching
an illegal stream? How dare you?

Speaker 9 (22:25):
Well? I am it's easy to get illegal streams and
watch what you want, and it is to try and
navigate the way that the NFL over the only way, well,
the only way you can watch college football and the
NFL football.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Are you really watching college football in England?

Speaker 9 (22:42):
I never missed game day on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (22:45):
Never that at two o'clock on Saturday afternoon my time,
and then the game starts at five pm.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah all right, I kind of go.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
You've been on the air a long time. You're bore
guarding the show.

Speaker 9 (22:57):
Yeah, well it's customy of fortune.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
I know, I know, yes, all right, bye bye?

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Put a socking him mouth.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Terry in England?

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Where he is?

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Uh? Well, I know he's in England.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
I don't know what part Fergdog says. Since Martin Weiss
is making his Ben Malor show debut, can you ask
him the one question we're all dying to know. Have
you been on Blind Emmett's podcast yet? That is a
great question. I have you have?

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Of course?

Speaker 3 (23:23):
This podcast? It was a great time.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, yeah, did you see eye to eye on his podcast?
Did you know?

Speaker 6 (23:29):
The first thing I did? And no joke, I wanted
to literally fall into a hole afterwards. But I was like,
you know, it's like, can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (23:35):
We're on zoom. Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well yeah, can you hear me? Can you see me?
He's like, actually, I'm blind?

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well you did know?

Speaker 2 (23:43):
How about those tigers?

Speaker 1 (23:44):
No one thing? No more blind people. They love blind humor.
That most every We have a lot of blind people
that call the show number. We're number one with the blind.
Love the blind, human love the blindy And if they
don't love the blind humor, they don't call up.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
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Speaker 3 (24:05):
Short day, Ben in sports.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Really just make some stuff up, then, Martin. That's what
you know. That's what I would do, Just make some
stuff up so I could talk longer.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well, let me go to the w NBA.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Oh no, no, no, no, out there. You don't do
that now, please, Martin, come on, I've had enough of
that during the during the week, there no if Finley
was here, he would do a thirty minute update and
there's no sports going on anyway. DraftKings, hey, listen, they
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(24:34):
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fun fun fact. So if you hear this, Stant Martin
just mentioned it. Highest completion percentage for a rookie quarterback
since the merger twenty more attempts. Jayden Daniels has the record.

(24:57):
But whose record did he break? That would be no
one other than Dakota Prescott way back. I barely remember
twenty sixteen where the Cowboys at home against Tampa Bay,
but dak Prescott completed eighty eight point nine percent like
a college radio station.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Cowboys, Yeah, and Jayden Daniels ninety one point three on
the FM dial.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
All right, it's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to Marco, who is in Texas.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
It's kind of a big stick.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
What part of Texas are you in, Marco, Texas?

Speaker 7 (25:33):
I'm in I'm in Edinburgh, Texas. Anna McCallen pretty much.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Mexico, So you're all right, And how's Mexico.

Speaker 7 (25:43):
Mexico's fantastic, The food's great and the Cowboys still sucks.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
So life is good.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, we're suck wonderful. That's all you need. You've hit
every big point, every big talking point.

Speaker 7 (25:53):
Absolutely, I'm all about it. I just want to say
you've been a staple of my life for you know,
awards of like seventy eight is looking for a long time,
so I just want to say thank you. I had
to call in. We're talking nonsense. The Washington Arizona game
next week is absolutely not a pass up. Arizona proved
so much with their defenses last week. They're gonna have
a lot to say about Jaden Daniels. And then the

(26:15):
last thing I wanted to say, and I wanted your
opinion show Heltani Aaron Judge. If we had an interleague MVP,
who would it be?

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Uh So, from a marketing standpoint, it would be Otani,
But in terms of actually unpopular opinion, it would be
Aaron Judge. But if you went just by marketing for
Major League Baseball, they would go with Otani. They love Otani.
But are you from You must be from Arizona. I've
never met a Cardinals fan not from Arizona.

Speaker 7 (26:43):
No I am. I am from California and I actually
called into, what.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
The hell's wrong with you? Why you're a Cardinals fan?
A football Cardinals fan? What happened to you?

Speaker 7 (26:52):
I grew up in LA and yeah, and grew in LA.
And they didn't have any they didn't have any teams.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
No, I understand that.

Speaker 7 (26:59):
I get that.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
That's there's so many That's why there's so many forty
nine er fans you like, because they didn't have a team.
But the Cardinals, that's the key. The team you picked
as a child, The Cardinals.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
Oh you know, you told me years ago, and I'll
tell you what they're on the come up and like
I said, you never look better.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
All right, listen now the only I haven't handicapped any
of the games next week, but I think the point
spread the Cardinals are like a five and a half
point favorite. That is a classic letdown spot for the
Commanders because I will guar yes, Okay.

Speaker 8 (27:32):
He still didn't answer, though, why he chose the Cardinals?

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Who cares you care?

Speaker 7 (27:36):
Okay? I chose the Cardinals because of Larry Fitzgerald, the
go okay Gerald's.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Fact, Larry Fitzgerald's Oh you did and you named him Ben?

Speaker 9 (27:47):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (27:47):
Yes, no, I my my wonderful girlfriend. Nadia said, no,
I love you.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Oh, come on, man, but we will.

Speaker 7 (27:56):
Have one more Cardinals fan in this world, and you
better believe it. He's going to be ready when we
go to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
That kid will be in his fifties by the time
that happens.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
But that's fine, all right, man, listen the congratulations have
another kid. Ben's a great name. I have a cow.
There's a cow, the mad clown.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
What what I tell you?

Speaker 7 (28:17):
I tell you what if if the Cardinals win, you
gotta go Marco for the next one. But if the
commanders of the Commander's cover, let's let's let's call my
next one Ben.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Okay, oh wow, okay, all right, all right, and I
can can you talk to the to the woman who's
involved in this, Marco and make.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Sure I mean that, because it seems like there's your
voice here. Yeah, you might get the tub card.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, the one that's actually like baking the baby, you know,
cooking it.

Speaker 7 (28:46):
I gave up naming rights then on the on the
first baby, I gave up naming rights because down here
in Mexico they want juniors, and my lady.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Oh you had to go junior.

Speaker 7 (28:56):
Yeah, I got I wasn't allowed to go.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
You want want to do?

Speaker 3 (29:00):
I got you?

Speaker 2 (29:01):
I got you?

Speaker 1 (29:01):
All right, Well listen, I gotta go. Thank you for listening.
I appreciate that, and we'll see what happened. That is
a classical letdown spot, though, because all those TV shows
that talk football twenty four hours, it's gonna be they're
gonna be licking the toes of Jayden Daniels and talking
about Cliff Kingsbury and how great the Commanders are and
all that stuff, and those guys are gonna take the

(29:23):
field and they're gonna be smelling themselves on Sunday against
the Cardinals. But that's such a big spread.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Five and a half. That's a man.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
I mean, that's a big number, five and a half.
I don't think the Commanders and Cardinals are separated by
that many points. But that letdown thing is a real deal.
That is a legit thing and a factor when you
look at these games and some it's like the Raiders
the Raiders, where everyone's justing the Raiders, ask because they
beat the Ravens and then they lose to Andy Dalton
and the Panthers. How do you?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
How do you? I mean, it's ridiculous things that make
no sense.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
That Commander's Arizona games a Cliff Kingsbury revenge game.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh that's right back in. Does he still own that
house with a nice fireplace? And remember the drafty they
showed his house there, the bougie house with all that,
probably not probably rented them.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
I thought those were a fake ben and they just
they literally rent them out and dress them up real nice.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Could be, you know, or they just make ridiculous amounts
of money. Can afford houses like that? That's also the possibility.
Bill Belichick, this is a classic BELICHICKI intake he had
this week. He's talking about the quarterback situations in the NFL,
and Belichick, who there's one thing he loves, a value deal,

(30:36):
a cheap deal. So he's claiming that even though the
Steelers offense has not been amazing, I have been scoring
a ton of points, but Belichick saying the Steelers, he said,
might have the best quarterback situation in the NFL. Of course,
the implication was they're not paying anyone, so it's not
real money. These other teams are paying stiffs like Trevor

(30:59):
Lawrence a lot of money, and the guys aren't that good.
And so it is true if you look at it
through that prism, the Steelers are getting essentially Trevor Lawrence
like production for not having to pay that money, which
is I don't think that's a compliment. They're averaging, I believe,
less than twenty points a game with Justin Fields at quarterback,
and yet the perception is he's got this lock on

(31:22):
the starting job at Belichick.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
He loves the salary cap ramifications of it all. So
he was waxing.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Poetic and as far as the looking for the schnitzel,
this is not good news for Terry in England, who
was just on from the UK. The number number one
forty nine. Turns out that Christian McCaffrey the injury likely
much worse than the forty nine ers are saying. As

(31:51):
he spent the weekend in Germany eating schnitzel and pretzels,
he was seeing some high falutin German doctor to try
to figure out how to properly treat the injury, which
my experience. I remember when Kobe was playing for the

(32:12):
Lakers and he had some issues and he flew over there,
and it's like they can do certain things in other countries.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
They can't do here legally.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
I remember a few years ago it was like blood spinning.
They were like splinting, you know, spinning blood and all.
I don't know what they're doing now, but anyway, he's
over there getting some Frankenstein treatment. Time out for the
who Am I?

Speaker 8 (32:34):
Game?

Speaker 1 (32:35):
And we go to Sweet Home Chicago, where someone named
Abe Gibron owns the Bears record for the lowest winning
percentage as head coach. I am second worst, just ahead
of Matt Eberflus on the suck list.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
In franchise history.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Who Am I? The answer?

Speaker 2 (32:58):
We'll get to it, and we will do it next.

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Speaker 3 (33:31):
Now, let's get back to the show with Big Ben.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
The nature Boy says, the Rams are in perfect position
to have a big let down against Stop Bear. Take
that to the penny. I'll worry about that. I got
it a day, and then tomorrow I'll start worrying about
the the I'll look at some numbers tonight after the
this morning, after the show, and that's it.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
There you go. How do you think the penny preps?

Speaker 1 (33:55):
The penny actually just flips in like actually, yeah, you
spin the penny, Martin, you can like spin it, you know,
that's how it does.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
It spins.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Super Market Steve says, I can't really decide if Martin
Weis's filling in for Eddie is excellent or Brian Finley
is just that bad that anyone else here. See that's
a shot. That's a cheap shot by Supermarket Steve. There,
how dare you? Eloy from Compton says tough guy huh
Ben talking smack when he's not around. Tell him to say, oh,

(34:27):
trust me, I don't have no problem talking to Eddie
to his face. That's how he got the nickname. Most
of his nicknames are from him not showing up the work.
That's how the Steamboat Willie. The first nickname was because
he missed the NFL Draft show.

Speaker 8 (34:41):
Keep Eddie's name out, SHAWF and mout.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
He missed the NFL j justsh show to go to a
draft party at Disneyland, one of the most important nights
we do in sports radio, and we give him the
nickname steamboard Willie. Anyway, time now for the actually, well,
let let me take a call real quick. Let's go
to Tiger Man because I know he's going to hang
up and he wants to give some L s U propaganda.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Hello tier Man, and then I'll pay off to who am.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
I And it's it's not propaganda. It was an amazing night.
Javar looked amazing, Jada was amazing, Joe looked amazing. Social
media accounts were going, uh, you know, off the walls
of course, Utah Hockey Club a good dumb game.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Oh man, you beleeve If you're in Utah unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Then I don't know why. A few weeks ago you
are early well on Jaden and you were like, oh,
it's going to be a bus I keep the seeds
around here. I don't know, do you feel like maybe.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Uh after one one I didn't say he was going
to be a bus By the way, most of these guys,
my default position is none of them are going to
be as good as advertised, and more times than not,
I'm right. More times than not, having that position is
the right side of history.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Well, all right, hey, ben, Uh, when is Zach Taylor
gonna get the I'm gonna get the bill. I don't
know what he is.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Well, yeah, he works cheap, and the Bengals are a
cheap franchise, So why would.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
They get rid of him because he can't win a game?

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, but then they have to pay somebody else and
they're already paying him.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
But if you can't win games.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
And you're what do you want less miles to come
in there? Who do you want?

Speaker 4 (36:23):
I mean, anybody? Anybody?

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Anybody they have, anybody they have a nobody.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
He couldn't He couldn't even coach a softball team. I
don't understand what he's doing there.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I think he'd a softball. I think he'd be all
right at softball. How hard is it coach softball? Come on,
It's easy to get out to drink some beer and
run around. All right, man, all right, tiger man, all right,
A Big night for you, Big night as a proud
baton Rouge Homer.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Go Tigers.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
All right, here's the who am I? Game? And we
go to a sweet Home Chicago, where someone named Abe
Gibron owns the Bears record for the dumber lowest winning
percentage as a head coach. I am second worst, just
ahead of Matt Eberflus on the all time suck list
in franchise history. Who am I? That is the question?

(37:19):
What is the answer to The American therapist says pee
wee Herman is the answer? Matt the Warrior Raider fan cheated,
so that does not count. Who else do we have?
Lou Brown give him the Heater from Cowboy Killer, the
Sausage King of Chicago, Abe Frohman from I forty Ian,

(37:40):
I like the Sausage Pete and Pittsburgh guessed by Adrian
the Pokey Pokey pokey guy disturbing Urban Meyer from og
Art Puffin. Robin Vegas is going with Jesse the Body Ventura.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Jesse was in here years ago.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Remember he was on the The Steve Harvey Show and
was waxing poetic about politics and everything he said was
spot on. He predicted the future of the political climate
in America, Sleepy Dwarf from Nick.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Who else do we have? Is that Nick?

Speaker 1 (38:13):
In Wisconsin? We have Joe Jarvicius from mister nice Guy.
That's his answer? Who Yeah, Jojo? You know a lot
of Lou Brown answers. Drew Gooden, who turns forty four today?
From Late night drug tester Martin? Do you know who
it is? Martin? In the idea? I want to throw
a crazy name out there, Lori Lightfoot. That's a great name. No,

(38:34):
that is it correct? The correct answer. He is the
guy that was in the Super Bowl with Carolina. John Fox,
John Fox twos, Matt Eberflus third worst in Bear's history,
third worst
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