October 1, 2024 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Lions dropping 42 points on Seahawks in the MNF double-header, where things are for Dan Campbell and the Lions after this win, the Cowboys preparing to play without Micah Parsons, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our nuber one of the
weird and wonderful overnight show. This is a podcast, though
we were up all night providing you fresh pod when
you want, how you want, And here an hour number one.
It's all about that prim time Monday night football game,
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the Seattle football team versus the Detroit football team and
a domination situation for both offenses. But how does this
performance by that Mike McDonald Seattle defense hit you? As
they were torched by the Lions. A perfect game from
Detroit's quarterback Jared Goff. Also, where are things for Dan
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Campbell and the Lions after they get into the win column.
Plus we'll talk about the Cowboys who are preparing to
play without Micah Parsons this weekend and a made for
TV matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Is there a silver
lining for the Cowboys? We'll talk about all that and
more right now give it up for our number one.
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lead is going to be from football. Got a number
of you reached out to me throughout the day the
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passing of Pete Rose, and we will talk about that
as we go through the overnight hours, and certainly open
to calling up and sharing some of your memories of
Pete Rose. But we're gonna start with football and we'll
work our way through. We've got a long trip on
the Red Eye overnight, but we'll start in Motown, the
scene of the main event. Now, there were two games
on Monday night. You get the A side and the
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B side. Now the A side on the twin bill,
that would be where Troy Aikman and Joe Buck the
Fox refugees had to call there in NFC Battle Royale.
That was billed the MotorCity Kitties playing host to the
Sea Birds in this game starting about forty five minutes
or so after the first Monday Night game, which we'll
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try to avoid talking about for as long as we can,
involving the Tennessee back up versus the Miami four string guy.
It was bad, bad in the home, but it was
not bad if he liked touchdowns in the game that
was played in Michigan, as Jared Goff ram trash. Jared
Goff went out there and threw a perfect game, a
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perfect game, el perfecto for Jared Goff. He sits an
NFL record. Now he didn't reach the threshold that is
required for the all time record of twenty pass attempts,
but he had eighteen pass attempts, all eighteen of them
completed eighteen for eighteen, helping the Lions raar pass the
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Seahawks forty two to twenty nine Monday Night, and he
had a pair of touchdown passes as well. Mixed in
he also caught a touchdown reception for the first time
in his career, a trick play from aman Ra Saint Brown. Now,
Kurt Warner had the previous record, previous record we're going
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ten for ten for Arizona against Houston. That was back
many years to go almost twenty years ago in twenty five.
But the better story here is not in the Detroit
locker room. There'll be plenty of people talking heads over
the next twenty four to forty eight hours that will
be licking the toes of Jared Goff, a lot of
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I told you so. So. Instead, we will focus where
the real drama is. Seattle. We got a problem. Let
us discuss the question. All right, how does this performance
leave Mike McDonald, the new coach there, and that Seattle
defensive unit. How does it hit you? How does this
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performance hit you? All right? So I've got Gucci handbag,
mister peanut, and form letter, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to reduce swelling,
is what we're gonna We're reduce soaring. We'll do it. Yeah,
all right, So this hit me like a dereliction of
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duties is what it hit me like. I got no
skin in the game. As you know, I'm neutral, I'm
Switzerland when it comes to these things. But watching this
game play out, it flashed back to a conversation I
had on the TV show we did this past weekend,
Benny Versus the Penny, and we were talking about the
Seattle Seahawks and we were like, wow, that Seattle team.
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I'd been feasting on the hostess schedule. They hadn't really
playing anybody. And then this is about the point in
the schedule now where you start looking around. They hadn't
been tested, and they had the three and zero and
raw ra and the low information fan, the unknowledgeable fan
gets all horny because their team's undefeated, and you're like, well,
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wait a minute, this is this is a checkpoint on
the schedule. It's like, okay, so now four weeks in
to the season, you played Bo Nicks in his first start.
Now he's not very good right now. He was really
bad in start number one. You had Jacoby Burssett, who
should be doing uber eats at this point rather than
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playing quarterback for the Patriots. And someone named Skuyler Thompson
who sounds like a WNBA player, who started for the Dolphins.
So that's that's who you face. That's it. I mean,
so is this real or is this a mirage? And
after four weeks, at this moment in time, remember we
do the show today. We don't need the show tomorrow.
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This is not yesterday shows, Today's show. So, in this
moment in time, the Seattle Seahawks with all precincts, reporting
in after four weeks of NFL football, this Mike McDonald
defense is a handbag. It's a Gucci handbag, but it's
a knock GoF version. It's a knock gon version, counterfeit.
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And if I hear one more NFL tody, tell me, well,
he's got that Ravens pedigree. Okay, okay, Ravens pedigree. How'd
that work out? How'd that work out? In this game?
Demoralizing the D word, demoralizing performance here, and it was
on island time, It was on island.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That other game was unwatchable, Like I watched it because
I have no life. But if you have a life,
you got sex and friends of mine during the Tennessee
Miami games, like, hey, you watching this game? No, you
only get one life? Time is limited. Why would I
waste my time watching that game? I was watching. I
was slipping back and forth. But my god, this Seattle
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Seahawks defense living the island life. This was it, and
the Seahawks could not get Jared golf. Jared Goff to
throw one incomplete pass, you should be sent to the
CFL as a defense and bring in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Bring the Blue Bombers in. If you can't get Jared
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Goff to throw an incomplete pass, for the love of God,
what is wrong with you? Right?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It was hideous on every level, every level. Now, I
know the Seattle suckops that you know. They Oh, you're wrong,
You're just a ram fit. No, I'm not. I'm just
reporting what I saw. That's all I'm reporting. Okay, Lions
had ten possessions. We're not gonna include the kneel down
at the end of the game. That doesn't count. So
ten possessions to scrot Detroit score touchdowns on six of
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the ten. They're like they were like the Navy against
the Seahawks. Defense by by land, by air, by sea,
by all a pre I could run, they could pro this,
that and the other thing. You want a trick play, Yeah,
we'll do a trick play. You run it over there, touchdown,
pass up ahead, all that. Five trips to the red
zone one hundred percent conversion, one hundred percent, five for
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five in red zone play. Now old MacDonald had a farm.
He'll be back on a farm. And if they keep
playing defense like that, my god, there's a lot of
adjustments to make, like maybe force an incomplete pass now
and again, that would help as well. Unfortunately, I don't
think you have any more games against Skyler Thompson the
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rest of the year, which is a problem. Now page two.
Here on the other side, the winning side here, where
are you on? Where are things?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Rather?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Where are things for Dan Campbell and the Lions after
that this particular win. So as far as the Lions
are concerned, while it was a absolute masterpiece, a total
masterpiece for the Lions getting the victory here on offense,
we are ambivalent in terms of the big picture for
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Detroit because they also have a lot of issues. Even
though they won, and they won by double digits and
that's great and all that. It was what I call
it a Planter's performance, A mister Peanut performance is when
you you get out the monocle. It's it's a mixed
nuts kind of night here. Because you got the peanuts,
you got the all means, you got the cashews, you
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got those brazil nuts. I don't like those. The pecans
you get all that in the offense. While it was
a chef's kiss, we also truth and broadcasting. He must
point out the Lions defense continues to be the weakest link.
You are the weakest link, Gino Smith. Another suckback court.
This guy blows. You wouldn't know it from watching this game.
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Gino Smith second rate and we all know these it's
a temporary fill in guy there in seat until they
decide they actually want to try to win a championship again. Yeah,
win with Gino Smith. But Gino Smith put up three
hundred and ninety five passing yards. Seattle had like thirty
eight first downs. I believe in this game it was
ridiculous over five hundred yards of offense and the Motor
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City Kitties. We saw it when the Rams took him
to overtime in week one. We saw it against the
Buccaneers in week two. Not so much against there as
I know they were their options that were there were
plays open. But there is this stigmatism to the Lions
defense in that secondary, and we saw it with DK
Metcalf who went ballistic in this particular game for Seattle.
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Every other receiving corps has their way pushing around this
Lion's defense. It's open season. It is open season, and
it's not like the Lions defense is gonna be saved
because they play a bunch of cold weather games. They
play in a dome, so the elements are not going
to help them defensively. Uh, they got issue sighed. The
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trade deadline's coming up about a month from now, so
we'll see what they do. All right, last word here,
we're gonna pivot over to Dallas. The Cowboys did not
play on Monday night, but we have learned now the
Cowboys are preparing to play without linebacker Micah Parsons. He's
got a high ankle spray. Now. He tried to downplay
at Michael Parsons and say it's not that big a deal,
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but the word in the street is he's gonna miss action.
Here is there a silver lining to the injury to
Michaeh Parsons, So there is absolutely for Mike Zimmer, the
defensive guru, wink wink, and for Mike McCarthy, the rotn
coach of the Dallas Cowboys. It's my opinion, you consider
this injury to Michael Parsons, it's like a form letter.
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It's an excuse note from your parents because you were
you were absent, guilty of absenteeism. The Cowboys play the
Steelers Sunday Night football this upcoming Week five Must see
TV be the highest rated game in Week five. Everyone's
gonna be watching this. You got two national fan bases
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of the Steelers and the Cowboys in the Land of
the Insurer. As they get together, and the Cowboys, it
would appear, will be without DeMarcus Lawrence and Michaeh. Parsons
on defense against the Pittsburgh football team. And now they
have an alibi. They have an alibi for oose. I
used place that if you're Mike McCarthy, you take out
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your bag of potato chips and you put that excuse
in your pocket. There, your back pocket, just in case
you happen to need it. Will you probably will, Dak
Prescott primetime game against a pretty good defense. It's usually
a recipe for heartache, a absolute recipe for heartache. It
is the Ben Mahler Show. If you like to be part.
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the hits just keep on coming. A megamegamegastar in the
NFL suffering an injury setback? How bad is the injury setback?
We'll get to that. And an NFL coach admitting I
grouped up. I screwed up. I didn't know that, But
what did the coach not know? We'll go there as well.
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We'll get to all of it, and we will do
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Speaker 1 (14:57):
Recapping, Oh, Monday night Ball, the Detroit game. There's the
Lions get it done never in Jeopardy against the Seattle Seahawks.
FEMI the number one uber each driver in Minnesota, right, since,
says Ben, are you sure Jacoby Brissett can successfully be
an uber each driver through the snow and the rain,
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through the heat and the gloom of night. That's a
good point. And watching Brissett play quarterback, he would likely
fumble away the bag of fries. He would not be
able to successfully deliver the bag of fries, which would
be a problem. Now, Josh says, don't you know it's
all about the old line that Kneecap Campbell nurtured. He says, ps.
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Coming into Thursday game, Seahawks were number two in team defense.
The Lions were number ten. Yes, but as we pointed out,
as we did point out, you should be number one
when you played that list of stiffs at quarterback, which
is who Seattle went against. Nostra Dinis writes in Force,
hiding behind his smartphone, not able to call up conveniently enough,
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he says, there's a better chance of weed Man applying
for a job this week than Ben assessing the Seahawk
Lion game correctly. Of course, that's what we call a
river called denial that no Strudenis likes to float on
there and never wants to admit the truth when it
comes to his team. Yes, now, King Roy says, I
don't want to be that guy and properly inform you
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that peanuts are not nuts. They are in fact the
goomes and part of the pea family, along with beans
and lentils. I know it's a common mistake, but I'm
sure you already knew that. And King Roy, you have
just been eliminated from consideration for any kind of Beny awards,
So I hope you appreciate sending that message. It's not
over for you have no chance. You have now been
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eliminated from any consideration for a Benny award. And as
I pointed out in the Mall monologue, I said mixed
nuts which include brazil nuts. Are you gonna tell me
that the brazil nut is not a nut? That's a nut, right,
It's in the name nut, brazil nut. It's right there.
The almond, that's a nut, right? The almond is a nut.
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How about the cashw does the cashi acount as a nut?
What about the car? I think it does count as
a nut. You're a sergic to it, right, Coop?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
No cashio is one of the few I'm not allergic.
Maybe it's not a nut, But at the brazil nut?
Are you allergic to brazil nuts? Let me get a
handful of brazil nuts and see what happens.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
To try different nuts, Coops.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Every night, we can try a different nut. How about that? Yeah,
I'm gonna try that. I think I'm fine with brazil
nuts too.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Cowboy Killer says Pete Rose is gone, and these idiots
didn't let him in the Hall of Fame. Old head
baseball writers are the absolute worst. Well, the new guys
aren't much better. Rob in Vegas, who's from Michigan, but
his heart is in Vegas, he says, the NFC runs
through Detroit this year. Benjaminon, Well, I'm looking at my
standings here, Rob, it would appear at this particular moment
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in time truth and broadcasting. The top player in the
NFC is Sam Darnold, and the meat is sort of Vikings.
The meat is sort of Vikings. Yeah, so put that
in your pipe and smoke Bill's Monster. He writes it.
He says, Jared Goff is the pretender, not an upper
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tier quarterback. He is the genocide brand you buy at Walmart.
Lions won't win another playoff game with him. Well, Bill's
Monster said that. Did we hear from Bill's Monster yesterday
after Bill's I don't think he called it? Who Bill's Monster?
This is a famous Bill's Mafia guy. You know when
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they show the Bill's Mafia at the stadium there. He's
one of the guys they show on TV all the time,
who Bill's You don't know who the Bill's Monsters. That's
bad knowledge of Bill's Mafia. This guy's a big one
of my one of my core guys. Big fat guy,
jumps on tables. He wears a mask, the whole thing,
he's got, the whole outfit. No, I'm serious. He's a
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legit member of Bill's Mafi. He's not like a fraudulent guy.
He's not all right. So there is an interesting injury
news to pass along. We had an inkling when we
heard that Christian McCaffrey flew five thousand miles to Germany
to see a specialist. We had we had a thought
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in our head, Well that was not just because he
loves eating schnitzel. There's something going on there. Andel Yeah,
well German schnitzel. Sure, pretzels. Isn't that like a hot dog?
Oh boy, no, right, I find you don't know sports,
but the food things. I'm usually really great with food.
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I really am sure that.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
What's a snitzel?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's like bread and meat, like fried, like pounded, yes,
thin pounded anyway, to the point at hint, So Christian
McCaffrey went to Germany. We when the Rams were playing
beating the forty nine ers. He went to Germany and
there was a report, kind of a vague report said
that there's major question when he will return. There was
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one story that said McCaffrey will be back for the
Niners sometime in November. Well, now this is what the
Niners are saying. Public. We know the Niners lie. I
remember they got caught lying about their running back situation,
and they told they had said McCaffrey was gonna play
against the Jets, and then the whole time it was
a ruse and they were lying, and Shanahan, of course,
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the NFL didn't care about it. They didn't punish him.
But Kyle Shanahan now is it is what he's admitting publicly,
that there's a second injury, that the injury the other
leg over compensating And this happens all the time. Like
last week, I won an award here I did talk radio.
I had a burn tongue on my left side of
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my tongue, and I overcompensated with the right side of
my tongue, so then I injured the right side of
my tongue. That's the way right. Then I had my
entire tongue was messed up. But I can, unlike McCaffrey,
who's a wus, I did talk radio still right. I mean,
that's where's my award? Where's my Marconi award? Alf get
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me a Marconi award? Come up, fer Dog? Where are
you at? Fer Dog?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I came every every word, every wonderful take. I felt
a twinge of pain, the agony of talk radio. But
I did it. I came in here one word after another,
I put my head down, headphones on, the tools of
ignorance and just performed. Unlike McCaffrey. And did I go
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see some voice specialists in Amsterdam. No, I did not,
did not do it, didn't happen.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
I'm sure Ferd Dog would help you with your tongue
right then, I'm sharing, he Lynn, just because you're jealous
of the relationship that I have with the list Eddie,
and you do not enjoy that kind of relationship.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You do not need to make fun of anyone that
is a fan of this. Just saying I'm sure he
would enjoy helping you out with your tongue is unnecessary
and un Eddie spit all over me unbecoming of you.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
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Speaker 5 (22:18):
We had a couple of notable passings on Monday. Baseball's
all time hit king Pete Rose died at the age
of eighty three. Four and fifty six were hits. Also
the most games ever played in baseball history, seven time
All Star MVP in a three time World Series champ
and Basketball Hall of Famer de Cambid Mtumbo passed away
at the age of fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, ya, close to home. I covered the NBA a
lot in Mutombo's prime and interviewed him many times. And
I loved interviewing him because I felt like I was
a child interviewing Cookie months And just remember the highlight
of mutamball was, wasn't he He was on the Nuggets
team that beat the Sonnets? Yeah? Yeah, he was laying
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on his back, remember that, I believe first in all
like eight Z I think, I think what's happened since then,
But that was back when the NBA was good, so
it met more when that happened. But yeah, I mean
that he was laying on the floor. He was hugging
the basketball. It was pure bliss he had but brain cancer. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Four time defensive player there, one of the great shop blockers,
certainly of his era.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Eight time All Star. Rest in peace. The ken finger
wag you entertained forget the finger wag? Yeah, oh yeah,
for sure. And you think Marcel knows about.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
This yet, I don't know. I was thinking I thought
of Marcel. I thought I thought of two of our
classical listers.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I know, I know you were emailing me and we
check on Dick dating for Pete Rose and Marcel for
de ken Mate. Even in death, Dick probably still wants
Pete Rose to be the man you could probably do
as a bit of a job. Let's be honest, and then Pete,
you know, we talked about this all the time. By
the early days of Fox Sports Rado, Pete literally was
across the street from where we're broadcast from that there
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was an Italian restaurant right across the street here and
Paul and he would be there four nights a week
and just holding court before he moved to Vegas. And
you did a show with our old buddy JT. The
brick for a while radio show with him, and so
rest in peace. I'd heard a couple of months ago
Pete was not doing well and it turned out, unfortunately
that was it was accurate.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We go from that to, uh, well, let's just have
some goofy fun fun fact. Now you want a sporty
fun fact for first, or a goofy fun fact, Loraina,
you can decide sporty or goofy. Who I say goofy first?
All Loreena get to decide because she's a woman, and
unless you you want to identify as a woman, Eddie,
then you.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Can decide we have a caller who does that.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Apparently have many that actually do that? Yeah, one, Yeah,
there's a couple. Uh so the ray is pecky. So
you want goofy goofy man. All right, So if you
want to get back at the man, okay, if you
want to get back at your bosses, they've done the
math on this by by going to the bathroom for
ten minutes every day at work. By the end ad
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here the check this out. By the end of the year,
you have been paid for over forty hours just for pooping.
So if you want to get forty hours of pay
for dropping a deuce, ten minutes a day is all
it takes. That's it. Ten minutes a day. Is that
not a fun fact? It's the funnest fast then yeah.
But the problem with this like like my we don't
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have ten minute pauses, Like I can't spend I could
do like two minutes, two minutes, two minutes too nuch. Yeah,
you're in trouble for me, Like you know, yeah, you're fine,
you're opening modelog nice long oh yeah, I opelge fifteen
minutes right at the top of the show. Get that
out of the way right away. You could get eighty
hours aaty you do that twice a show. That's eighty
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hours of pay for pooping. God forbid. I got a
tummy because the show would be off the air.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Well what we used to do now the rain that
gets five minutes max, No, I get four and half.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You had be like when I was at DJ at
A I was learning radio. I was a DJ at
a jazz like a college station was the jazz station.
And there was a Branford Marsalis song which was like
eighteen and a half minutes. Whoa how was We called
that the bathroom song. That's better than any led zeppein
So yeah, yeah, we put that on. We're like, all right,
go to the bathroom. Boys, here's a Brandford myself I've
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been talking about you like, is this the same song?
It's still going a new song. I got the same same.
You think when he was writing the song and the
people that wrote it with him, you think they said,
maybe we should started out, you know, stop outter me
seven minutes. No, let's keep going. How about ten, No,
we'll go eighteen, We'll see, lets keep going.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I'm guessing there were a lot of different solos involved
in that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Was it was a lot, It was a lot. I
guess I'll save my sporty fun fact for later. Let's
go to the phones and we'll say hello to Enie Meanie,
miney Mo. Let's say hello to our friend in Montana.
We say hello to Skeeter, the man who was responsible
for the malor militia. Oh, hello Skeeter.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Hello there, mister Maller, thank you for taking my call.
Uh and another death sadden me when I learned that,
uh Chrisson.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, I saw that country music icon.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Yes, yeah, here's song Sunday Morning Coming Down. I lived
on the streets of San Diego my first tour duty
in the Navy back in the early sixties.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
So that was a song that meant a lot for
you at that point in your life. And you still
still hold that close to your heart. Yeah, I watched that.
Did you watch There was a great documentary on PBS
a few years back called It was about country music,
but it was about radio and the relationship between radio
and country music, and it was wonderful and there was
a he was in there quite a bit Chris Chrastofferson
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and yeah, his relationship back.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
I watched the whole series.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I was wonderful it was. It was good as a
radio nerd. It made radio seem very important, which I love.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
So yeah, yeah, anyway, great monologue and uh more.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Importantly, don't bear the lead, my man. How are you doing?
How are you doing? You sound good? You sound good
to me. I'm not a doctor. You sound good.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Yeah. Well, like I said before, I've been downgraded to
stage one. All the radiation, my love have been completed,
be two months before they it takes time to do
any healing.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
And then in two months they're going to do a
biopsy a spot on my livery and then they do
the say they inject a little die and then when
you go through the half tube that goes over and
pinpoints and many zapp it. And so I'm feeling good,
(28:49):
living good.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You look good, right, you look marvelous. All right, listen
it'll be your big stunt. How old the annunciator eighty
one eighty one? God bless you? Yeah, thank you, keep
feeling good, Skeeter, We love you man, check it. Make
sure you give us updates, all.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Right, sure will all right buddy, they take care, get
some sleep.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
There's our buddy Skeeter in Montana. He's been with the
show a while, and we haven't had anyone do the
oath in a while. If you want the oath, we
only do it once a night. But if you want
the oath, you are more than welcome to call up
and say, hey, I'd like to do the oath?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Has anyone successfully done it since I started working here?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I feel like they always get caught up and failed.
The problem we've had is it's the same guy that
calls up from Montana who's a bartender, and he calls
up the same night, completely hammered after work and he
can never make it through the show. Nope, he can't
do it. And yeah we did, you've been here. I
don't think we've had anyone who's been able to pull
it off. And that's been been a problem. Is it
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really a problem or is that? Does that make it
those that have successfully taken the oath? That's that more
impressive that not everyone can do it when they'repletely schnockered
that they can't handle the oath. So an NFL coach
has admitted, Hey, I who goofed I've got that. I
didn't know that. Dan Campbell said that he had not
(30:11):
realized that Jared Goff had no incompletions. He announced after
the game when he gave out the game balls, he
didn't give Jared Goff the game ball because he didn't
realize Jared Goff was eighteen for eighteen. He said, I
feel awful I gave it to somebody else. Dan Campbell
(30:35):
better be careful because they keep winning games like this
and he might have to move again. You know, some
kid might rat out Docs him in Docs's house and
all that, and then that's it could have to move again.
You never know, all right? Is the Ben Mahler Show.
King Rory says, I will accept my punishment for being
disqualified for any Benny Awards. It's got an upcoming year,
(30:55):
and let's be honest, no one likes a smartass. Yeah.
Stevie Meatballs rides in from Florida, representing the entire state
of Florida. I think he's in whereas he told me
where it was. I forget the redneck Rivier. I'm gonna
go redneck Rivier anyway. Stevie Meatball says it has become
painfully obvious to me that Mike McDaniel has done such
(31:18):
a great job reinventing the wheel to allow one oddball
quarterback to succeed for his GM, that is impossible for
any other human being to step in and run his
best awkward convoluted machine. Leasy for me to say, I
think he missed the word there, Stevie meatballs, But what
do I know? Time now?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Four?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Who am I game? And we'll go to the NFL
one more time? And here it is Jared Goff. Jared
Goff averaged sixteen point two yards per pass on Monday
night against the Seahawks, and since nineteen ninety only current
Warner and me have averaged more yards per pass on
(32:01):
fifteen or more attempts. Again, Jared Goff, the Lions against
that really tough Seattle defense, but they could. Man, you
know what, You're right all the nasty things that Noster
Dinis has wroten on social medium, I've written, You're absolutely right,
but I was completely wrong about the sea oars. That's
a good defense. So Jared Goff average sixteen point two
(32:21):
yards per pass on Monday Night for Seattle against Seattle
rather and only Kurt Warner and me have averaged more
on fifteen or more attempts since nineteen ninety. Who am I?
That is the question? The answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (33:11):
It's Ben Maller. Unfortunately a big week for death, but
we're still alive as far as I know. Here is
the who Am My? Game? Where we pretend to be
somebody else. Jared Goff averaged a mind boggling sixteen point
two yards per pass on Monday Night Football for the
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lines Good Defense by Seattle. Only Kurt Warner and me
have averaged more on fifteen plus attempts going all the
way back the last thirty four years to nineteen ninety.
That is the question. What is the answer? Lit'sten? Does
anyone know the answer? We go to the Great Unwashed
(33:52):
and Cowboy Killer says it has to be Bobby Surah
who calves guard Bobby Surah, mister Perfect, Kurt Henning Rob
in Vegas and Trophy for Manly Toughness winner Ben Maller
from Ferg Dog, Thank you Fergy, the Famous Chicken guest
by King Rory, See what you did there? Gary Maddox
(34:16):
from Mister Nice Guy. Gus Farott tossed out by Josh
Brie Larson, who is thirty five today from the Late
Night Drug Tester. Who else do we have? Page down?
Let's see hear the new Ben Maller game show to
tell the truth? Will the real burn tong Ben Maler
please stand up? Wow? Okay, a lot of work done
(34:38):
on that. Who else do we have page down? Grandpa Boff,
the B fifty two Bomber from Big Greg in Iowa,
Randall Cuttingham from Andy from Lionel Lakes in Minnesota. Eric
Shao who gave up Pete Roses a hit number four
ninety two from I forty Ian. Who else you have?
(35:00):
Page down? Page down? Brock Heward from Shane de Moine
and No. Stredenis, by the way, is activator, his excuse machine,
seek excuse machine. It's so good. I love it. See
the Rams loss here, here's the way you do it
as a real fan. No streets. The Rams lost to
the Bears, and they had two offensive linemen, two receivers out.
(35:22):
But I didn't see here and say that's why they lost.
They didn't play well. They didn't play well. I have
to win. See that's how it works. No Stredenis, guys
get hurt. It's called tackle football. Dummy eat in Roseville, Minnesota,
going with Randall Cunningham is his answer weird Al for
Milkman Mike in Colorado. Robbie the Mariner fan says just
(35:42):
being a Mariner fan is the answer to whom my game?
Eddie Garcia, the kicker for the Green Bay Packers from
Malibu Rubin, that's his answer to the red Rifle. Andy
Dalton Eloy from Compton. Rick Sutcliffe guessed by Rob in Minnesota.
Who else do you have? Joe Wolf he died also
from Big Lou in the LBC former Clipper back in
(36:04):
the day, you have an answer? Do you have an answer?
Eddie to the who am I game? And again Jared
Goff of the Lions averaged sixteen point two yards per
pass on Monday Night, and he, along with Kurt Warner
and me the only ones to average more than fifteen
plus attempts and more yards per pass on fifteen plus attempts.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
H Yes, Ben, the answer is former Bengals quarterback Turk
sen Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Any relation to Turk Stevens that used to work here
in talks? No relation, not all those Turks different. I
understand is that?
Speaker 4 (36:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
That is incorrect? The correct the answer. Here's a blast
in the past. He played for the nineteen ninety six
Saint Louis Rams. Tony Outer Banks. The answer Tony Banks
money random December day. Tony Banks averaged eighteen yards per
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pass against the Atlanta Falcons in December of nineteen ninety six.
Kurt Warner back in two thousand, the Greatest Show on
Turf with the Rams as well, seventeen point seven yards.
You don't say, I just said it? And Jared Dolph
on Monday Night another ex ram sixteen point two yards.
The only other non player who never played for the
Rams on that list, and it's Lamar Jackson. Lamar that
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was in his MVP season of twenty nineteen, he averaged
sixteen point two yards per pass in a wild game
against the Dolphins back in the day,
Here we go. Welcome, it's our nuber one of the
weird and wonderful overnight show. This is a podcast, though
we were up all night providing you fresh pod when
you want, how you want, And here an hour number one.
It's all about that prim time Monday night football game,
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the Seattle football team versus the Detroit football team and
a domination situation for both offenses. But how does this
performance by that Mike McDonald Seattle defense hit you? As
they were torched by the Lions. A perfect game from
Detroit's quarterback Jared Goff. Also, where are things for Dan
(00:43):
Campbell and the Lions after they get into the win column.
Plus we'll talk about the Cowboys who are preparing to
play without Micah Parsons this weekend and a made for
TV matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Is there a silver
lining for the Cowboys? We'll talk about all that and
more right now give it up for our number one.
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lead is going to be from football. Got a number
of you reached out to me throughout the day the
(02:12):
passing of Pete Rose, and we will talk about that
as we go through the overnight hours, and certainly open
to calling up and sharing some of your memories of
Pete Rose. But we're gonna start with football and we'll
work our way through. We've got a long trip on
the Red Eye overnight, but we'll start in Motown, the
scene of the main event. Now, there were two games
on Monday night. You get the A side and the
(02:34):
B side. Now the A side on the twin bill,
that would be where Troy Aikman and Joe Buck the
Fox refugees had to call there in NFC Battle Royale.
That was billed the MotorCity Kitties playing host to the
Sea Birds in this game starting about forty five minutes
or so after the first Monday Night game, which we'll
(02:55):
try to avoid talking about for as long as we can,
involving the Tennessee back up versus the Miami four string guy.
It was bad, bad in the home, but it was
not bad if he liked touchdowns in the game that
was played in Michigan, as Jared Goff ram trash. Jared
Goff went out there and threw a perfect game, a
(03:18):
perfect game, el perfecto for Jared Goff. He sits an
NFL record. Now he didn't reach the threshold that is
required for the all time record of twenty pass attempts,
but he had eighteen pass attempts, all eighteen of them
completed eighteen for eighteen, helping the Lions raar pass the
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Seahawks forty two to twenty nine Monday Night, and he
had a pair of touchdown passes as well. Mixed in
he also caught a touchdown reception for the first time
in his career, a trick play from aman Ra Saint Brown. Now,
Kurt Warner had the previous record, previous record we're going
(04:02):
ten for ten for Arizona against Houston. That was back
many years to go almost twenty years ago in twenty five.
But the better story here is not in the Detroit
locker room. There'll be plenty of people talking heads over
the next twenty four to forty eight hours that will
be licking the toes of Jared Goff, a lot of
(04:23):
I told you so. So. Instead, we will focus where
the real drama is. Seattle. We got a problem. Let
us discuss the question. All right, how does this performance
leave Mike McDonald, the new coach there, and that Seattle
defensive unit. How does it hit you? How does this
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performance hit you? All right? So I've got Gucci handbag,
mister peanut, and form letter, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to reduce swelling,
is what we're gonna We're reduce soaring. We'll do it. Yeah,
all right, So this hit me like a dereliction of
(05:04):
duties is what it hit me like. I got no
skin in the game. As you know, I'm neutral, I'm
Switzerland when it comes to these things. But watching this
game play out, it flashed back to a conversation I
had on the TV show we did this past weekend,
Benny Versus the Penny, and we were talking about the
Seattle Seahawks and we were like, wow, that Seattle team.
(05:27):
I'd been feasting on the hostess schedule. They hadn't really
playing anybody. And then this is about the point in
the schedule now where you start looking around. They hadn't
been tested, and they had the three and zero and
raw ra and the low information fan, the unknowledgeable fan
gets all horny because their team's undefeated, and you're like, well,
(05:49):
wait a minute, this is this is a checkpoint on
the schedule. It's like, okay, so now four weeks in
to the season, you played Bo Nicks in his first start.
Now he's not very good right now. He was really
bad in start number one. You had Jacoby Burssett, who
should be doing uber eats at this point rather than
(06:09):
playing quarterback for the Patriots. And someone named Skuyler Thompson
who sounds like a WNBA player, who started for the Dolphins.
So that's that's who you face. That's it. I mean,
so is this real or is this a mirage? And
after four weeks, at this moment in time, remember we
do the show today. We don't need the show tomorrow.
(06:30):
This is not yesterday shows, Today's show. So, in this
moment in time, the Seattle Seahawks with all precincts, reporting
in after four weeks of NFL football, this Mike McDonald
defense is a handbag. It's a Gucci handbag, but it's
a knock GoF version. It's a knock gon version, counterfeit.
(06:51):
And if I hear one more NFL tody, tell me, well,
he's got that Ravens pedigree. Okay, okay, Ravens pedigree. How'd
that work out? How'd that work out? In this game?
Demoralizing the D word, demoralizing performance here, and it was
on island time, It was on island.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That other game was unwatchable, Like I watched it because
I have no life. But if you have a life,
you got sex and friends of mine during the Tennessee
Miami games, like, hey, you watching this game? No, you
only get one life? Time is limited. Why would I
waste my time watching that game? I was watching. I
was slipping back and forth. But my god, this Seattle
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Seahawks defense living the island life. This was it, and
the Seahawks could not get Jared golf. Jared Goff to
throw one incomplete pass, you should be sent to the
CFL as a defense and bring in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Bring the Blue Bombers in. If you can't get Jared
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Goff to throw an incomplete pass, for the love of God,
what is wrong with you? Right?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It was hideous on every level, every level. Now, I
know the Seattle suckops that you know. They Oh, you're wrong,
You're just a ram fit. No, I'm not. I'm just
reporting what I saw. That's all I'm reporting. Okay, Lions
had ten possessions. We're not gonna include the kneel down
at the end of the game. That doesn't count. So
ten possessions to scrot Detroit score touchdowns on six of
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the ten. They're like they were like the Navy against
the Seahawks. Defense by by land, by air, by sea,
by all a pre I could run, they could pro this,
that and the other thing. You want a trick play, Yeah,
we'll do a trick play. You run it over there, touchdown,
pass up ahead, all that. Five trips to the red
zone one hundred percent conversion, one hundred percent, five for
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five in red zone play. Now old MacDonald had a farm.
He'll be back on a farm. And if they keep
playing defense like that, my god, there's a lot of
adjustments to make, like maybe force an incomplete pass now
and again, that would help as well. Unfortunately, I don't
think you have any more games against Skyler Thompson the
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rest of the year, which is a problem. Now page two.
Here on the other side, the winning side here, where
are you on? Where are things?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Rather?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Where are things for Dan Campbell and the Lions after
that this particular win. So as far as the Lions
are concerned, while it was a absolute masterpiece, a total
masterpiece for the Lions getting the victory here on offense,
we are ambivalent in terms of the big picture for
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Detroit because they also have a lot of issues. Even
though they won, and they won by double digits and
that's great and all that. It was what I call
it a Planter's performance, A mister Peanut performance is when
you you get out the monocle. It's it's a mixed
nuts kind of night here. Because you got the peanuts,
you got the all means, you got the cashews, you
(10:06):
got those brazil nuts. I don't like those. The pecans
you get all that in the offense. While it was
a chef's kiss, we also truth and broadcasting. He must
point out the Lions defense continues to be the weakest link.
You are the weakest link, Gino Smith. Another suckback court.
This guy blows. You wouldn't know it from watching this game.
(10:28):
Gino Smith second rate and we all know these it's
a temporary fill in guy there in seat until they
decide they actually want to try to win a championship again. Yeah,
win with Gino Smith. But Gino Smith put up three
hundred and ninety five passing yards. Seattle had like thirty
eight first downs. I believe in this game it was
ridiculous over five hundred yards of offense and the Motor
(10:51):
City Kitties. We saw it when the Rams took him
to overtime in week one. We saw it against the
Buccaneers in week two. Not so much against there as
I know they were their options that were there were
plays open. But there is this stigmatism to the Lions
defense in that secondary, and we saw it with DK
Metcalf who went ballistic in this particular game for Seattle.
(11:14):
Every other receiving corps has their way pushing around this
Lion's defense. It's open season. It is open season, and
it's not like the Lions defense is gonna be saved
because they play a bunch of cold weather games. They
play in a dome, so the elements are not going
to help them defensively. Uh, they got issue sighed. The
(11:36):
trade deadline's coming up about a month from now, so
we'll see what they do. All right, last word here,
we're gonna pivot over to Dallas. The Cowboys did not
play on Monday night, but we have learned now the
Cowboys are preparing to play without linebacker Micah Parsons. He's
got a high ankle spray. Now. He tried to downplay
at Michael Parsons and say it's not that big a deal,
(11:57):
but the word in the street is he's gonna miss action.
Here is there a silver lining to the injury to
Michaeh Parsons, So there is absolutely for Mike Zimmer, the
defensive guru, wink wink, and for Mike McCarthy, the rotn
coach of the Dallas Cowboys. It's my opinion, you consider
this injury to Michael Parsons, it's like a form letter.
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It's an excuse note from your parents because you were
you were absent, guilty of absenteeism. The Cowboys play the
Steelers Sunday Night football this upcoming Week five Must see
TV be the highest rated game in Week five. Everyone's
gonna be watching this. You got two national fan bases
(12:42):
of the Steelers and the Cowboys in the Land of
the Insurer. As they get together, and the Cowboys, it
would appear, will be without DeMarcus Lawrence and Michaeh. Parsons
on defense against the Pittsburgh football team. And now they
have an alibi. They have an alibi for oose. I
used place that if you're Mike McCarthy, you take out
(13:03):
your bag of potato chips and you put that excuse
in your pocket. There, your back pocket, just in case
you happen to need it. Will you probably will, Dak
Prescott primetime game against a pretty good defense. It's usually
a recipe for heartache, a absolute recipe for heartache. It
is the Ben Mahler Show. If you like to be part.
(13:26):
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free to call. Also on X at Ben Mallard. So
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the hits just keep on coming. A megamegamegastar in the
NFL suffering an injury setback? How bad is the injury setback?
We'll get to that. And an NFL coach admitting I
grouped up. I screwed up. I didn't know that, But
what did the coach not know? We'll go there as well.
(14:10):
We'll get to all of it, and we will do
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Recapping, Oh, Monday night Ball, the Detroit game. There's the
Lions get it done never in Jeopardy against the Seattle Seahawks.
FEMI the number one uber each driver in Minnesota, right, since,
says Ben, are you sure Jacoby Brissett can successfully be
an uber each driver through the snow and the rain,
(15:18):
through the heat and the gloom of night. That's a
good point. And watching Brissett play quarterback, he would likely
fumble away the bag of fries. He would not be
able to successfully deliver the bag of fries, which would
be a problem. Now, Josh says, don't you know it's
all about the old line that Kneecap Campbell nurtured. He says, ps.
(15:40):
Coming into Thursday game, Seahawks were number two in team defense.
The Lions were number ten. Yes, but as we pointed out,
as we did point out, you should be number one
when you played that list of stiffs at quarterback, which
is who Seattle went against. Nostra Dinis writes in Force,
hiding behind his smartphone, not able to call up conveniently enough,
(16:04):
he says, there's a better chance of weed Man applying
for a job this week than Ben assessing the Seahawk
Lion game correctly. Of course, that's what we call a
river called denial that no Strudenis likes to float on
there and never wants to admit the truth when it
comes to his team. Yes, now, King Roy says, I
don't want to be that guy and properly inform you
(16:26):
that peanuts are not nuts. They are in fact the
goomes and part of the pea family, along with beans
and lentils. I know it's a common mistake, but I'm
sure you already knew that. And King Roy, you have
just been eliminated from consideration for any kind of Beny awards,
So I hope you appreciate sending that message. It's not
over for you have no chance. You have now been
(16:49):
eliminated from any consideration for a Benny award. And as
I pointed out in the Mall monologue, I said mixed
nuts which include brazil nuts. Are you gonna tell me
that the brazil nut is not a nut? That's a nut, right,
It's in the name nut, brazil nut. It's right there.
The almond, that's a nut, right? The almond is a nut.
(17:10):
How about the cashw does the cashi acount as a nut?
What about the car? I think it does count as
a nut. You're a sergic to it, right, Coop?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
No cashio is one of the few I'm not allergic.
Maybe it's not a nut, But at the brazil nut?
Are you allergic to brazil nuts? Let me get a
handful of brazil nuts and see what happens.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
To try different nuts, Coops.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Every night, we can try a different nut. How about that? Yeah,
I'm gonna try that. I think I'm fine with brazil
nuts too.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Cowboy Killer says Pete Rose is gone, and these idiots
didn't let him in the Hall of Fame. Old head
baseball writers are the absolute worst. Well, the new guys
aren't much better. Rob in Vegas, who's from Michigan, but
his heart is in Vegas, he says, the NFC runs
through Detroit this year. Benjaminon, Well, I'm looking at my
standings here, Rob, it would appear at this particular moment
(17:56):
in time truth and broadcasting. The top player in the
NFC is Sam Darnold, and the meat is sort of Vikings.
The meat is sort of Vikings. Yeah, so put that
in your pipe and smoke Bill's Monster. He writes it.
He says, Jared Goff is the pretender, not an upper
(18:19):
tier quarterback. He is the genocide brand you buy at Walmart.
Lions won't win another playoff game with him. Well, Bill's
Monster said that. Did we hear from Bill's Monster yesterday
after Bill's I don't think he called it? Who Bill's Monster?
This is a famous Bill's Mafia guy. You know when
(18:40):
they show the Bill's Mafia at the stadium there. He's
one of the guys they show on TV all the time,
who Bill's You don't know who the Bill's Monsters. That's
bad knowledge of Bill's Mafia. This guy's a big one
of my one of my core guys. Big fat guy,
jumps on tables. He wears a mask, the whole thing,
he's got, the whole outfit. No, I'm serious. He's a
(19:02):
legit member of Bill's Mafi. He's not like a fraudulent guy.
He's not all right. So there is an interesting injury
news to pass along. We had an inkling when we
heard that Christian McCaffrey flew five thousand miles to Germany
to see a specialist. We had we had a thought
(19:23):
in our head, Well that was not just because he
loves eating schnitzel. There's something going on there. Andel Yeah,
well German schnitzel. Sure, pretzels. Isn't that like a hot dog?
Oh boy, no, right, I find you don't know sports,
but the food things. I'm usually really great with food.
(19:45):
I really am sure that.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
What's a snitzel?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's like bread and meat, like fried, like pounded, yes,
thin pounded anyway, to the point at hint, So Christian
McCaffrey went to Germany. We when the Rams were playing
beating the forty nine ers. He went to Germany and
there was a report, kind of a vague report said
that there's major question when he will return. There was
(20:08):
one story that said McCaffrey will be back for the
Niners sometime in November. Well, now this is what the
Niners are saying. Public. We know the Niners lie. I
remember they got caught lying about their running back situation,
and they told they had said McCaffrey was gonna play
against the Jets, and then the whole time it was
a ruse and they were lying, and Shanahan, of course,
(20:29):
the NFL didn't care about it. They didn't punish him.
But Kyle Shanahan now is it is what he's admitting publicly,
that there's a second injury, that the injury the other
leg over compensating And this happens all the time. Like
last week, I won an award here I did talk radio.
I had a burn tongue on my left side of
(20:51):
my tongue, and I overcompensated with the right side of
my tongue, so then I injured the right side of
my tongue. That's the way right. Then I had my
entire tongue was messed up. But I can, unlike McCaffrey,
who's a wus, I did talk radio still right. I mean,
that's where's my award? Where's my Marconi award? Alf get
(21:13):
me a Marconi award? Come up, fer Dog? Where are
you at? Fer Dog?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I came every every word, every wonderful take. I felt
a twinge of pain, the agony of talk radio. But
I did it. I came in here one word after another,
I put my head down, headphones on, the tools of
ignorance and just performed. Unlike McCaffrey. And did I go
(21:42):
see some voice specialists in Amsterdam. No, I did not,
did not do it, didn't happen.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
I'm sure Ferd Dog would help you with your tongue
right then, I'm sharing, he Lynn, just because you're jealous
of the relationship that I have with the list Eddie,
and you do not enjoy that kind of relationship.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You do not need to make fun of anyone that
is a fan of this. Just saying I'm sure he
would enjoy helping you out with your tongue is unnecessary
and un Eddie spit all over me unbecoming of you.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 5 (22:18):
We had a couple of notable passings on Monday. Baseball's
all time hit king Pete Rose died at the age
of eighty three. Four and fifty six were hits. Also
the most games ever played in baseball history, seven time
All Star MVP in a three time World Series champ
and Basketball Hall of Famer de Cambid Mtumbo passed away
at the age of fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, ya, close to home. I covered the NBA a
lot in Mutombo's prime and interviewed him many times. And
I loved interviewing him because I felt like I was
a child interviewing Cookie months And just remember the highlight
of mutamball was, wasn't he He was on the Nuggets
team that beat the Sonnets? Yeah? Yeah, he was laying
(22:57):
on his back, remember that, I believe first in all
like eight Z I think, I think what's happened since then,
But that was back when the NBA was good, so
it met more when that happened. But yeah, I mean
that he was laying on the floor. He was hugging
the basketball. It was pure bliss he had but brain cancer. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Four time defensive player there, one of the great shop blockers,
certainly of his era.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Eight time All Star. Rest in peace. The ken finger
wag you entertained forget the finger wag? Yeah, oh yeah,
for sure. And you think Marcel knows about.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
This yet, I don't know. I was thinking I thought
of Marcel. I thought I thought of two of our
classical listers.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I know, I know you were emailing me and we
check on Dick dating for Pete Rose and Marcel for
de ken Mate. Even in death, Dick probably still wants
Pete Rose to be the man you could probably do
as a bit of a job. Let's be honest, and then Pete,
you know, we talked about this all the time. By
the early days of Fox Sports Rado, Pete literally was
across the street from where we're broadcast from that there
(23:56):
was an Italian restaurant right across the street here and
Paul and he would be there four nights a week
and just holding court before he moved to Vegas. And
you did a show with our old buddy JT. The
brick for a while radio show with him, and so
rest in peace. I'd heard a couple of months ago
Pete was not doing well and it turned out, unfortunately
that was it was accurate.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We go from that to, uh, well, let's just have
some goofy fun fun fact. Now you want a sporty
fun fact for first, or a goofy fun fact, Loraina,
you can decide sporty or goofy. Who I say goofy first?
All Loreena get to decide because she's a woman, and
unless you you want to identify as a woman, Eddie,
then you.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Can decide we have a caller who does that.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Apparently have many that actually do that? Yeah, one, Yeah,
there's a couple. Uh so the ray is pecky. So
you want goofy goofy man. All right, So if you
want to get back at the man, okay, if you
want to get back at your bosses, they've done the
math on this by by going to the bathroom for
ten minutes every day at work. By the end ad
(24:57):
here the check this out. By the end of the year,
you have been paid for over forty hours just for pooping.
So if you want to get forty hours of pay
for dropping a deuce, ten minutes a day is all
it takes. That's it. Ten minutes a day. Is that
not a fun fact? It's the funnest fast then yeah.
But the problem with this like like my we don't
(25:19):
have ten minute pauses, Like I can't spend I could
do like two minutes, two minutes, two minutes too nuch. Yeah,
you're in trouble for me, Like you know, yeah, you're fine,
you're opening modelog nice long oh yeah, I opelge fifteen
minutes right at the top of the show. Get that
out of the way right away. You could get eighty
hours aaty you do that twice a show. That's eighty
(25:39):
hours of pay for pooping. God forbid. I got a
tummy because the show would be off the air.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Well what we used to do now the rain that
gets five minutes max, No, I get four and half.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You had be like when I was at DJ at
A I was learning radio. I was a DJ at
a jazz like a college station was the jazz station.
And there was a Branford Marsalis song which was like
eighteen and a half minutes. Whoa how was We called
that the bathroom song. That's better than any led zeppein
So yeah, yeah, we put that on. We're like, all right,
go to the bathroom. Boys, here's a Brandford myself I've
(26:12):
been talking about you like, is this the same song?
It's still going a new song. I got the same same.
You think when he was writing the song and the
people that wrote it with him, you think they said,
maybe we should started out, you know, stop outter me
seven minutes. No, let's keep going. How about ten, No,
we'll go eighteen, We'll see, lets keep going.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I'm guessing there were a lot of different solos involved
in that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Was it was a lot, It was a lot. I
guess I'll save my sporty fun fact for later. Let's
go to the phones and we'll say hello to Enie Meanie,
miney Mo. Let's say hello to our friend in Montana.
We say hello to Skeeter, the man who was responsible
for the malor militia. Oh, hello Skeeter.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Hello there, mister Maller, thank you for taking my call.
Uh and another death sadden me when I learned that,
uh Chrisson.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, I saw that country music icon.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Yes, yeah, here's song Sunday Morning Coming Down. I lived
on the streets of San Diego my first tour duty
in the Navy back in the early sixties.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
So that was a song that meant a lot for
you at that point in your life. And you still
still hold that close to your heart. Yeah, I watched that.
Did you watch There was a great documentary on PBS
a few years back called It was about country music,
but it was about radio and the relationship between radio
and country music, and it was wonderful and there was
a he was in there quite a bit Chris Chrastofferson
(27:43):
and yeah, his relationship back.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
I watched the whole series.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I was wonderful it was. It was good as a
radio nerd. It made radio seem very important, which I love.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
So yeah, yeah, anyway, great monologue and uh more.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Importantly, don't bear the lead, my man. How are you doing?
How are you doing? You sound good? You sound good
to me. I'm not a doctor. You sound good.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Yeah. Well, like I said before, I've been downgraded to
stage one. All the radiation, my love have been completed,
be two months before they it takes time to do
any healing.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
And then in two months they're going to do a
biopsy a spot on my livery and then they do
the say they inject a little die and then when
you go through the half tube that goes over and
pinpoints and many zapp it. And so I'm feeling good,
(28:49):
living good.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You look good, right, you look marvelous. All right, listen
it'll be your big stunt. How old the annunciator eighty
one eighty one? God bless you? Yeah, thank you, keep
feeling good, Skeeter, We love you man, check it. Make
sure you give us updates, all.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Right, sure will all right buddy, they take care, get
some sleep.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
There's our buddy Skeeter in Montana. He's been with the
show a while, and we haven't had anyone do the
oath in a while. If you want the oath, we
only do it once a night. But if you want
the oath, you are more than welcome to call up
and say, hey, I'd like to do the oath?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Has anyone successfully done it since I started working here?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I feel like they always get caught up and failed.
The problem we've had is it's the same guy that
calls up from Montana who's a bartender, and he calls
up the same night, completely hammered after work and he
can never make it through the show. Nope, he can't
do it. And yeah we did, you've been here. I
don't think we've had anyone who's been able to pull
it off. And that's been been a problem. Is it
(29:51):
really a problem or is that? Does that make it
those that have successfully taken the oath? That's that more
impressive that not everyone can do it when they'repletely schnockered
that they can't handle the oath. So an NFL coach
has admitted, Hey, I who goofed I've got that. I
didn't know that. Dan Campbell said that he had not
(30:11):
realized that Jared Goff had no incompletions. He announced after
the game when he gave out the game balls, he
didn't give Jared Goff the game ball because he didn't
realize Jared Goff was eighteen for eighteen. He said, I
feel awful I gave it to somebody else. Dan Campbell
(30:35):
better be careful because they keep winning games like this
and he might have to move again. You know, some
kid might rat out Docs him in Docs's house and
all that, and then that's it could have to move again.
You never know, all right? Is the Ben Mahler Show.
King Rory says, I will accept my punishment for being
disqualified for any Benny Awards. It's got an upcoming year,
(30:55):
and let's be honest, no one likes a smartass. Yeah.
Stevie Meatballs rides in from Florida, representing the entire state
of Florida. I think he's in whereas he told me
where it was. I forget the redneck Rivier. I'm gonna
go redneck Rivier anyway. Stevie Meatball says it has become
painfully obvious to me that Mike McDaniel has done such
(31:18):
a great job reinventing the wheel to allow one oddball
quarterback to succeed for his GM, that is impossible for
any other human being to step in and run his
best awkward convoluted machine. Leasy for me to say, I
think he missed the word there, Stevie meatballs, But what
do I know? Time now?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Four?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Who am I game? And we'll go to the NFL
one more time? And here it is Jared Goff. Jared
Goff averaged sixteen point two yards per pass on Monday
night against the Seahawks, and since nineteen ninety only current
Warner and me have averaged more yards per pass on
(32:01):
fifteen or more attempts. Again, Jared Goff, the Lions against
that really tough Seattle defense, but they could. Man, you
know what, You're right all the nasty things that Noster
Dinis has wroten on social medium, I've written, You're absolutely right,
but I was completely wrong about the sea oars. That's
a good defense. So Jared Goff average sixteen point two
(32:21):
yards per pass on Monday Night for Seattle against Seattle
rather and only Kurt Warner and me have averaged more
on fifteen or more attempts since nineteen ninety. Who am I?
That is the question? The answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
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Speaker 5 (32:49):
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Speaker 1 (33:11):
It's Ben Maller. Unfortunately a big week for death, but
we're still alive as far as I know. Here is
the who Am My? Game? Where we pretend to be
somebody else. Jared Goff averaged a mind boggling sixteen point
two yards per pass on Monday Night Football for the
(33:32):
lines Good Defense by Seattle. Only Kurt Warner and me
have averaged more on fifteen plus attempts going all the
way back the last thirty four years to nineteen ninety.
That is the question. What is the answer? Lit'sten? Does
anyone know the answer? We go to the Great Unwashed
(33:52):
and Cowboy Killer says it has to be Bobby Surah
who calves guard Bobby Surah, mister Perfect, Kurt Henning Rob
in Vegas and Trophy for Manly Toughness winner Ben Maller
from Ferg Dog, Thank you Fergy, the Famous Chicken guest
by King Rory, See what you did there? Gary Maddox
(34:16):
from Mister Nice Guy. Gus Farott tossed out by Josh
Brie Larson, who is thirty five today from the Late
Night Drug Tester. Who else do we have? Page down?
Let's see hear the new Ben Maller game show to
tell the truth? Will the real burn tong Ben Maler
please stand up? Wow? Okay, a lot of work done
(34:38):
on that. Who else do we have page down? Grandpa Boff,
the B fifty two Bomber from Big Greg in Iowa,
Randall Cuttingham from Andy from Lionel Lakes in Minnesota. Eric
Shao who gave up Pete Roses a hit number four
ninety two from I forty Ian. Who else you have?
(35:00):
Page down? Page down? Brock Heward from Shane de Moine
and No. Stredenis, by the way, is activator, his excuse machine,
seek excuse machine. It's so good. I love it. See
the Rams loss here, here's the way you do it
as a real fan. No streets. The Rams lost to
the Bears, and they had two offensive linemen, two receivers out.
(35:22):
But I didn't see here and say that's why they lost.
They didn't play well. They didn't play well. I have
to win. See that's how it works. No Stredenis, guys
get hurt. It's called tackle football. Dummy eat in Roseville, Minnesota,
going with Randall Cunningham is his answer weird Al for
Milkman Mike in Colorado. Robbie the Mariner fan says just
(35:42):
being a Mariner fan is the answer to whom my game?
Eddie Garcia, the kicker for the Green Bay Packers from
Malibu Rubin, that's his answer to the red Rifle. Andy
Dalton Eloy from Compton. Rick Sutcliffe guessed by Rob in Minnesota.
Who else do you have? Joe Wolf he died also
from Big Lou in the LBC former Clipper back in
(36:04):
the day, you have an answer? Do you have an answer?
Eddie to the who am I game? And again Jared
Goff of the Lions averaged sixteen point two yards per
pass on Monday Night, and he, along with Kurt Warner
and me the only ones to average more than fifteen
plus attempts and more yards per pass on fifteen plus attempts.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
H Yes, Ben, the answer is former Bengals quarterback Turk
sen Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Any relation to Turk Stevens that used to work here
in talks? No relation, not all those Turks different. I
understand is that?
Speaker 4 (36:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
That is incorrect? The correct the answer. Here's a blast
in the past. He played for the nineteen ninety six
Saint Louis Rams. Tony Outer Banks. The answer Tony Banks
money random December day. Tony Banks averaged eighteen yards per
(37:01):
pass against the Atlanta Falcons in December of nineteen ninety six.
Kurt Warner back in two thousand, the Greatest Show on
Turf with the Rams as well, seventeen point seven yards.
You don't say, I just said it? And Jared Dolph
on Monday Night another ex ram sixteen point two yards.
The only other non player who never played for the
Rams on that list, and it's Lamar Jackson. Lamar that
(37:25):
was in his MVP season of twenty nineteen, he averaged
sixteen point two yards per pass in a wild game
against the Dolphins back in the day,
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