December 4, 2024 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about reports that the Bears are making a run at 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan, whether or not Shanahan is happy in San Francisco, why we don't see coaches traded more often in the NFL, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, it's our number one. A happy Wednesday to you.
It is hump Day and here in hour number one.
It is all about speculation, the speculation.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Involving a trade.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How does the report about the Bears making a run
at least calling the forty nine ers about coach Kyle
Shanahan and a trade hit you? Is Kyle Shanahan happy
in the Bay Area in San Francisco? And why don't
we see coaches traded more often in the NFL? We'll
talk about that and much more. Right now, make way
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Be about to happening in the NFL?
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Be So our lead this hour is from where else.
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But the NFL as a story that came across my
radar as I spend all of my free time trying
to find things that I find interesting to share with you,
to talk with you about my dedicated well, they pay
me for it. It's not like I do it out
of charity. When they stop paying me, I'll stop doing it.
But our lead from the Bay Area, a team that many.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Were buzzing about early in the year.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
They were going to get back to the championship of
the NFL the Super Bowl has not worked out for
the forty nine ers. They in fact are on the
outside looking in. They still have a chance because they're
in the NFC West, which blows you know, the division
not good of Geno Smith is in first place, but
right now the Niners are two games under five hundred
and things have shattered.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
They've hit rock bottom with back to.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Back blowouts, gutless weather soft West Coast team blown away
at lambeau Field and Green Bay, and then they went
to Orchard Park in New York and the Buffalo roamed
right over them. So now there is chatter after the
season ending injury to their MVP running back Christian McCaffrey,
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who got the Madden jinks, there's a lot of chatter
that the Niners coaching room could be to change.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't have you heard this or not. Maybe you
saw something about it, maybe you didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
But there was a.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Very speculative report which is bouncing around the echo chamber
that claims the Chicago Bears should could, would might call
the Niners, and the Bears would call the Niners up
and say, hey, hey, we'd like to have Kyle Shanahan
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coach the Bears.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Let's make a deal. You know how this works.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You send a couple of scratcher tickets over if you're Chicago,
you send those scratcher tickets back over to the Bay Area,
and boom goes to dynamite and you get a proven
commodity as coach. Granted, a guy that has not been
able to win the Big Game as a coach the
spawn of another NFL head coach, But it was positioned
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the report as pure speculation by the muck rakers over
at Pro Football Talk. But regardless of that, this storyline
has created some buzz around NFL circles and certainly worthy
of a few minutes of our time here. So let
us discuss the question, how does this report about the
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Bears making a run at a deal for forty nine
Ers coach Kyle Shanahan hit you?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I've got pigeon, alicia, keys and good table manners, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
will be like lambs at the slaughter, which is what
the Bears have been for years and what the forty
nine ers are right now.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So a lot to unpack on this one.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
While it is easy for the naysayer to dismiss this
as just purely clickbait headline reporting, I have a sneaking suspicion,
having worked in that world, that this is more of
a transformer storyline, meaning more than meets the eye, connecting
the dots here connecting the dots, it is more likely
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than that that someone of influence someone on the inside
helped craft this train of thought likely likely connected to
Kyle Shanahan now using Mike Florio as a useful.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Idiot, which many have said he is over the years.
Feed the pigeon. In this case, he is a messenger pigeon.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You throw out the story, say, well, what if the
Bears they need a coach? What if they called the Niners?
Would Kyle sh Shanahan want the job? Would the Niners
be willing to trade him? You toss this out as
a blind eye.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I'm just talking.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I'm just speculating harmless. It's benign, and you just toss
it out there. See where it goes. Does it gain
any traction? It actually makes some sense.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It does. It makes some sense. Now page two.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Here the question that must be answered, and I don't
know the answer, and you don't know the answer. Is
Kyle Shanahan happy in San Francisco? And are the Niners
happy with him? There's two sides to the room. Here.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
On one side of the aisle you have Shanahan. Is
he happy?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
On the other side you have the organization on Now,
I can't imagine anyone's happy because the Niners suck this year.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So it's the great unknown. It would appear that in.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
This moment, we do the show today, and in this
moment the forty nine ers window of success has closed.
That they got to a couple of Super Bowls. They
got there with Garoppolo. They got there, of course last
year losing yet again with brock Purty. So they got
to a couple of super Bowls. They ended up with Bupkis.
Brock Purty is about to get a bag, a giant
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bag filled with a bunch of dough and the roster.
If you look at the depth chart, they're growing old
at several key spots.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So they're growing old some key spots.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We just discussed a few seconds ago the star running
back Christian McCaffrey, who has now broken down. You're now
getting the full Christian McCaffrey experience.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
He's like the player he was in Carolina.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So if you're looking to escape, if you're Shanahan and
you're looking to escape the Titanic before it sinks out
in the ocean, the Bear's job would be a good
lifeboat to get into.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You feel me on that, Like, the Bear's Job would
be pretty good. It shoots in ladders, fresh start with
a young stud quarterback and a team in theory that
is climbing up the ladder.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Although you would know it based on their record this year.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
The Bears, they're climbing up the ladder, rather than your
current situation where you've already climbed up the ladder and
now you're on a trash choote going the wrong direction.
The Niners and the other part of this, which is
rather obvious if you look at this from the outside.
In your advising Kyle Shanahan, the reason you would be
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more likely than not to plant this story is Q
the Alicia Keys tune Show Me Love right, Because this story,
at some point John Lynch is going to be asked
the GM and the Niners is going to be asked
by the media dopes, Hey, do you support Kyle Shannan.
If the Bears called the Niners, would you trade him?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So then John.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Lynch has to say either we love Kyle Shanahan, we
would never consider trading him.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Ownership loves him, and they would have.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
To publicly endorse Shanahan, which is the most likely outcome,
or he would say something along the lines well, we're
not at that point yet.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But if Kyle's happy, we want him here and give
a vague answer. But in many ways, this is a
play out of the college football play.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
But you see this all the time in.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Big time collegiate football, where let's say you're the head
coach at Washington.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
It's just happened a few months back.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You're the head coach at Washington, and let's say Nick
Saban leaves Alabama and they're interested, and so then the
ball's in the court of the University of Washington. You're like,
all right, you either get a raise and you stay
at Washington, or you say bye bye and they give
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you a couple of Brinks trucks filled with cash to
head to Tusca, loose Alabama and take the money and
then last couple of years and get whacked because you're
not Nick Saban.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
All right now, the last word here.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
The entire story involving an NFL coach being traded, The
entire story brings up an interesting quagmire, a conundrum if
you will. That the question asked me is why don't
we see this more often where coaches are traded.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
In the NFL. Now it has happened, It has happened.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
John Gruden was traded. Bill Belichick famously traded from the
Jets to the Patriots, the most famous coach traded of
all time, and there have been some others. There have
been some others. There's also been some near misses. The
story was years ago Jim Harball when he was with
the forty nine ers. The Cleveland Browns tried to trade
for him, and it was gonna happen, and then it
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didn't happen. At the last minute, the thing fell apart.
But by and large, to answer the question why don't
we see coaches traded.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
More often in the NFL, have a theory on this.
I'll run this by you here.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
My theory is good table manners, good tableman out of
professional courtesy. You don't flirt with someone who's married to
another team some other teams coaches. It is seen as
a breach of etiquette, is what it's seen as. And
when you consider the shortage of quality coaches, the supply
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chain shortage of coaches, it does make you scratch your
head and like, what are we doing here? It's rather
odd that that has continued over the years. I've been
doing this job a long time and very rarely does
it get discussed a head coach being traded in the
NFL when you look around aside from a franchise.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Quarterback, and there's only a few of those.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Aside from a franchise quarterback, a top level head coach,
a quality coach is next on the big board, not
a list, not a list, big board, big board, big.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Bend's big board.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
But the point is a quality head coach, which is
also hard to find. There's a lot of Jabbroni's, right,
a lot of dingle Berry's head coach in the NFL, A.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Lot of them.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
You're much more likely to find another Matt Eberflus than
you are to find the next Mike Tomlin or Sean McVay, right,
the old line, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs
before you find a prince and all that.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But a quality coach, so they're worth their weight in goal.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
They set the foundation, the environment, They make the right
decisions on who.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
To play and who not to play, and all that.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So when it gets time to hire a new coach,
would you rather hire a retread coach who.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
May or may not have had success in their last.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Job, some unproven coordinator, some hotshot coordinator who's never been
a head coach or would you rather trade a third
round pick and a conditional draft pick for a battle
tested head coach with a track record of success. I
would be willing to trade a first round But now
Kyle Shannan is he even though he's got his foibles,
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he's got his weaknesses. Among the NFL coaches, at least
during the regular season, Shannan has proven to be a
pretty good coach in the regular season that has some
issues there in big games, going back to his days
as a coordinator with the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
No need to go back down that road.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
But the point stands that if you need a head
coach and you're not really sure, I mean, you can
hire some college coach, but who knows if they're going
to work out or not. It seems rather obvious, seems
rather obvious that would be the direction that you would
want to go. We'll see if anything happens because of
this report. Again, we always try to find out whole
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the story. And while manyel say it's just a made
up story, I tend to think it's coming from the
Shanahan camp. It's coming from the Kyle Shanahan camp, and
there's something there. There's some meat on the bone with this, now,
how much meat is on the bone.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I don't know. I'm not eating the meal. I'm not.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I'm just talking about the meal, but i'm not actually
I'm fasting through the meal.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I'm not actually eating the meal.
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That's right, and thank you Bill.
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I told that to Ben Bill, not you.
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Well listen, I might have told Bill Miller. We had
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Live table read we had to walk through. That might
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Speaker 2 (17:33):
Do they still wash the kid's mouth out with soap
and water. That's a corporal punishment. Now, like I got
the belt, I guess I'm getting old. I had the
belt when I was a kid, and my dad one
time I had the belt and then I had the
soap in the water.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I had both.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Were you never abused as a child, Coop, I.
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Mean I was suspained family. Come on, man, you.
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Put the belt. That just seems you know, something from
from ens era. Not wow, wow, something.
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From your era, Benny Bell Bottoms. Listen, the belt very effective,
I gotta tell you. Oh, I can imagine.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
But because just so he's going to use the old methods. Wow,
my dad's like seventy five, So wow are you.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Saying I'm not seventy five?
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But my dad one time he did it and the
rest of my childhood. My mom would threaten me, like
you want the belt again?
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You know that whole deal.
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And so just that alone, I was scared straight because
of that one one act right there.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So anyway, we are just getting started here.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We began with a story bouncing around the echo chamber
involving Kyle Shanahan. The Bears need a head coach. People
connecting the dots, would would the forty nine Ers trade
Kyle Shanahan? Would he want out of the Bay Area
as that team is heading the wrong direction? And we'll
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see it's similar to the Rams. The Rams that they
at least won a Super Bowl, unlike the Niners who
did not in this era, in this window of opportunity,
and everyone assumed the position that Sean McVay was going
to jump ship and he was not going to stick
around because the Rams roster had gotten old and they
didn't have any draft picks and blah blah blah, real
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Greek tragedy the La Rams. And they did make the
playoffs last year, They're not going to make the playoffs
this year. It's unlikely they could still win the division
because again Gino Smith and Seattle are in first place.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Not a great division.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
But McVeigh didn't leave. He thought about it. He almost
took a job at Amazon. I was told that's what
I was fed that he was contemplating with leaving, taking
the leave of absence, going to Amazon, and he changed
his mind at the last minute. Kyle Shanahan not as loquacious.
TV would not really want him. He's pretty much boring, so.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
That's not likely. Is he gonna stick around?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
There is something to be said for sticking around when
things aren't going great. You build something up and then
it gets kind of stale, and you gotta you gotta
knock down some parts of the town and redo it,
do a little demo and then rebuild some stuff, lay
some more concrete and go that whole direction. Right, Yeah,
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that's the whole thing. Uh, let's see here, Devin writes
in he says, had a bad accident the first time
getting in a car.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Cool hearing you.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Okay, that's I feel like that's a non sequitur supermarket Steve.
But I'm glad you're okay. You had a bad accident.
There's not a lot of details on that. James right
Sin says we do not care about Shanahan, who is
we James, Are you speaking for you and the other
voices in your head? Are you speaking for someone else?
Or is it I don't know who we are.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Ah, not sure who that is. What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Do you have multiple personalities? And if you do have
multiple personalities, do we get credit for all of them?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Listening to the show, I'd like to know.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, Cowboy Drew, who has given me the ultimate honor?
I don't know if Drew knows this. We actually showed
a picture of the cow on the TV show. One
of the episodes of Benny Versus the Paying the mal
Or Cow Made the.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
TV featured the cow.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
At very end, I told Vinnie, the producer of Benni
Versus the Penny was based in Boston, I said, this guy,
Cowboy Drew, claims to have named the cow after me.
He said really, And I said, touch my cow. Okay,
that's my heifer. That's not your half as mine. It's
a good looking cow. And so I sent him the
photo and he was very impressed. You know, it was
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a little jealous. I think Vinnie was a little jealous
that I have a cow named after me, and it's appropriate.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It's a cow.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
The boys were telling me it's appropriate on the TV
show it's a cow not a chicken, because I have
a number of chicken dishes named after me. There are
no meat dishes like no no burgers, no malar Burger,
no Benny Benny Burger.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I thought would be obvious.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
We used to have the mauzone at a mom and
pop restaurant in Syracuse.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Oh my god, you like the Chick fil A of radio.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Uh yeah, you'll call me a chick? Uh yeah, sure,
why not.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I've had three chicken dishes in Denver, Kansas City, and Lawrence, Kansas,
So I've got that.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But the cow there that's big and really a good
looking cow. I mean that is the hottest cow in
the barn. It really is. So thank you cowboy Drew.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But he says, my mom used to use this that
stick in those vinyl shades. Those things had some snap
to them. Oh yeah, sure, absolutely. Supermarket Steve writes in
from so Cal. He says, I got the belt many times, Coop,
Well that explains a lot of supermarket Steve. Nothing scared
me more than when I got in the car and
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my mom's only words were just waiting till your dad
gets them.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Oh yeah, that was big.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh yeah, when you ah and your mom told you
you're when you're dead, gets all the crap. And now
that I'm grown up, I think my dad probably wanted
nothing to do with this.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You know. My dad's like, oh crap.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
You know your mom, you know she's upselling me on this.
You know, I don't want to deal with this crap.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But but you have to play the role if you're
a parent, right, you got to play the role and
do that whole thing. Josh writes and says, why would
anyone want to leave the NFL to go and deliver packages?
Their warehouses are modern American sweatshops?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Are you coming?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Are you comparing the forty nine er job or the
bear's job to working at an Amazon warehouse or working
for ups?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
So is that what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I'm a little confused by that, just a little bit.
Who else do we have? Ferg Dog writes in from
from Sokal. He says, I watched snell zilla his Dodger
news conference, so you don't have to Ben, and he
came off as very likable. I think you should join
in the snelebration and give the guy another chance.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Uh No, I'm good for I'm good.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I've made my decision and I don't want to change
my mind. And he plus he blocked me on X,
so screw him. And I thought you were a foot.
I was led to believe, fer Dog that you were
a foot soldier in the Malor militia, and you had
my back.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
And now he's gonna have to retake the oath if
he has not yet, that's.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Not right for Dog.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
That's a shame on you, Late Night Drug Tester says,
in honor of the National Finals Rodeo starting tomorrow in Vegas,
you could have said Florio is loading up the bowl
instead of feeding the pigeons. Yeah, I could have done that.
I'll have to make sure to work that in for you,
Late Night Drug Tester into my lexicon there. And we
don't need to tell the story I tell every year
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about the National Rodeo Final, the rodeo event in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I've been there a few times in Vegas. Remember one time, Well.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I guess I'll tell what the hell I'll tell them briefly,
brefree capt I said.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
The mandala three time. Let's you know that's what we have.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
We have time, So I said the Mandale Bay in Vegas,
and there were a bunch of dudes in jeans, cowboy boots,
cowboy hats, and I thought they were doing like cosplay,
but it was just before cosplay became a thing.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
A lot of dudes dressed up as cowboys here.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I didn't get the memo. I didn't dressed as a cowboy.
And then I started seeing signs around the Mandalay Bay
there's this big rodeo event and all that. I was like,
oh man, okay, put two and two together. And these
guys were like real cowboys, like real, much more masculine
men than me.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And I talked for a living.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
They actually like ride horses and deal with cattle and
all that stuff. And I mean, these were like dudes
from my homing and uh, from Colorado and Texas and
places like that. Random Ryan writes in In Carolina. He says
eight plus on the opening Mallard monologue, I wasn't really
listening though, I was starting my pizza bites in the
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air fryer. But I'm sure you made some valid points. Yeah,
pizza bites in the air for it is a late
night show. That's not your meal. It's too late for
your dinner.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
That's like a late night's a pizza.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I broke my fast on Tuesday and I had little
pretzel bites in the air fryer.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Delicious.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And the reason I had those is because Cooper Loop
and Loraina talked about eating pretzels on yesterday's show and
that inspired me. I said, I have to have a
soft pretzel. So I got those these little soft pretzel
bites and I so good. They were great and honey Mustard,
they did not cost me thirteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, honeymus you got a bunch, huh yeah. And I
didn't eat the whole thing, only a few of them.
I have more. I'll have probably this weekend or whatever.
But they were they were great. Loved them, loved them.
Soft pretzel. Way to go. Now, Normally I only eat
soft pretzels when I go to the mall or the airport.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't eat them anywhere other than the all of
the airport. And that's my my routine. And I will
always try when I go to the airport, first I
try to find a cinamon, and if they don't have
a cinamon, I go pretzel.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
And that's my move at the airport.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Loves Cinnabon.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Cinnabon's great.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Uh do you get the little bag of little cinnamon
things or do you go with the full cinnamon roll.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
You have to get the full sized cinebon. The OG,
that's the OG. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, well they have the bag too, little cinebytes.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
I like the little hearts, like the middle of them.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah. Yeah, obviously fall center is the best.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Yeah, they have little cups of just the center.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. You can get the
cup option.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Oh yeah, you know those like they're not really the center.
They try to imitate the center, but it's not really
the center.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well, it's a version of the center.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
It's a I don't think it's the same as a
true center from a cinnabon.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Okay, but let's assume the position that that is out
of a scale of one to ten.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
The ripoff version is like a seven.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
It's every bite is a seven, as opposed to an
actual cinemond where you've.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Got to do a lot of work to get to
a tent. You got to eat a lot of that
to get to the tent, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Yeah, I can.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Agree with that.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
But I feel like that's kind of it's kind of
what makes it a ten. You know, you had to
go on to a journey, a mission to get there.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
I hate the struggle story. Just give me the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You do not want to do any of the work, Lorena,
You just want the payoff on that to do the work.
I know.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
JC writes in from Parts Undown, he says ten out
of ten on the mouth of the monologue. Whenever I
think of the Bears, Cowboys, or any other teams with
head coaching drama, I realize how lucky the Vikings are
to have the quarterback whisper himself the future goat. Well,
let's hold off on that till we see Sam Donald
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lead the Minnesota Vikings into the NFC Championship Game.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Then we can.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Revisit that Chip and the Ques rights and he's a
legend on the show. I've actually met Chip in the Ques.
We had one of the early Malard meet and greets.
What we did was at a chicken finger place in Syracuse,
and it was a Chip and his brother Dale, and
there was a professor from Syracuse who showed up who
was a fan of the show. I don't know if
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he's still teaching that Syracuse. But he was his very
nice gentleman. They all we all hung out at a
chicken finger place and right down the street from that
famous dinosaur barbecue place in Syracuse. Anyway, Chip says a
plus on the Mall monologue, it must be nice to.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Be a weatherman.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Who else can make so many mistakes at work and
still keep their jobs?
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, that is that is correct. And you just say, hey,
I'm a I'm a meteorologist. I it's like I should
say that on the TV show because I haven't had
a great year picking games.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
But I'm really just like a weatherman. I just happened.
My forecast is what's going to happen in the NFL.
That's my move. It's go to the phones and.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Let's say hello a lot. We got a golden ticket.
Right to the front of the line. We say hello
to weed man, hippie man.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
How about that? I got a golden chicken? I check game.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
How did you get a golden ticket? I forget? How
did we give you.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
An home too much and not enough?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Too much or not enough? You got a golden ticket.
It's amazing. What a great MIxS for?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
That is?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
You don't have to wait, you have to wait in line.
You go right to the front. Everyone else is upset
with you. They're angry with you, weed man.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
How about that? I love that when we play that
game again, we.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Play at the same time every week, weed man. It's
been been that way for twenty years. We say, Oh,
I'm asking you Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I don't know what day?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Well, for you, you don't have to you don't have a job,
weed man. There are no days for you, right, But
when arian I know, but I'm saying, like you're pretty
much retired at this point, right, we mean we met.
I mean you know what I'm saying. You really really
have to worry about days when you have a job. Otherwise,
who cares about days? That doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
You're right, You're right, it's today, weed man. But you
can't play the game two weeks in a row. Oh yeah,
you're out a lot, weed Yes today.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, it's a shame, what a devastating Yes.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
So I heard baseball talking about using like a golden
a golden arm, a golden bat.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah yeah, it's a golden bat. Like for you it
would be if you use the golden bong.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
H But for them it's a golden bat and so
it's their version of.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
What you would use, what you would call the golden bong.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Yeah, I like that, I like the idea.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah I don't.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I don't like the idea.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And I think it was Spaccoli pointed something out which
I didn't even contemplate when I was talking about this yesterday,
is that you you're talking about giving somebody like Otani
or Aaron Jo one hundred roughly one hundred extra ad
bats and a season. No, but I'm saying so you
would you would doctor the record. But if you gave
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the greatest players in baseball go back, Willie Mays, Barry Bonds,
you know, all the legends of the game, you gave
them an extra one hundred bats, that it destroys the
record book, right because they're getting one hundred more opportunities
than anyone else.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yeah, but that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You're okay with that. You're okay with that.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
But see, my issue is is like it's unnecessary. And
the reason they're they're the reason they're doing it, weed man,
is because they're jealous of basketball and football and that
baseball unlike all those other sports, and even hockey to something,
although it's even harder in hockey. But in the other sports,
the top players decide the game. In baseball, often the
(32:53):
top players don't decide the game, and it drives them.
It drives them nuts because these guys are making forty
to fifty million dollars a year and they don't have
an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
In the ninth inning to win the game most of
the time.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, we agree, that's bad talk radio. Weed man, we
agree it's not good talk radio.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Can you disagree? Can you pretend? Can you feign disagreement?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Weed man, Let's talk about Jameis Winston.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Oh, Jameis Winston. I love that.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I remember. I remember Jameis Winston stealing rops from the
storer crab legs.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It was a.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Was the name of the what was the grosser? I
forget the name of the grocery chan.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
But yeah, that wasn't Wiggly, I forget. Yeah, that would
have been even better if it was pick That's my favorite.
I don't go to the South Off, and when I do,
I always go to Pickley Wiggly.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
That is a great name for a grocery. And yeah, well,
oh we've been say hello, Larena. We've man wants to
say hello to you.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Yeah, happy Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
What do you do to kill the time? Weed Man?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
What do you You just watched like Russian websites with
the illegal streams, Like what do you do all day?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah you do.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
I've been watching.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Weeds, which is appropriate.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
You smoke weeds and you watch weeds, so you it's
uh yeah, okay, very good.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You're all about the weed. And how's Lisa. How's Lisa doing?
Weed Man? Everything good with Lisa? Your friend Lisa on
the phone. No, she's not. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
She is the lovely Lisa. That's Lisa. Now, this is amazing.
This is such a great couple, Arena.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Now Lisa's in New York.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Weed Man and Lisa they were a couple back in
the day. Weed Man's been in Florida for years. But
every night Lisa keeps weed Man company. Well she's supposed
to be sleeping, she stays on the phone with weed Man.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Isn't that? Isn't that great? It's it's like Romeo and Juliet.
It's amazing these two.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You gotta wait though. Once I don't want to talk
about here. But once something happens, we'll move back to
New York. Right we went here, go back? Yeah, all right,
all right, I gotta go, thank you?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
All right, go away, go talk to Lisa. All Right,
there is a weed man hippie checking in.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Uh. What a wonderful use of a golden ticket. Just
caught up on the life and times of weed man hippie.
So a walking talking, uh conundrum. How you wanted to scribe?
We'll get to that at some point. Here here's the
who am I?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Game? Here we go where I pretend to be somebody else?
I am the I'm the highest.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Graded NFL players so far this season according to Pro
Football Focus. Out of every player in the NFL, I
am the highest graded NFL player this season, according to
the nerds at.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Pro Football Focus. Who am I? That's the question? The answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it. Next.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weeked. He said two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific,
and is I Bill Miller.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Ben'll be back to pay off the who am I?
Game in a minute.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
But first, a reminder that you can interact with other
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And now back to a man hiding under the moonlight
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the malor moonlight, Ben, that's right, Bill, That's right, Bill.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Get it right, man, get it right tight. Now for
the who am I?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Game? I am the highest graded NFL player this season
according to the nerds over Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
That is the question? Well, that's the question, and what
is the answer? Josh writes in and says the great
Vi Sikahemma, NFL legend from back in the day, is
the answer.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Buddy Big Greg and.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Iowa A met him at the mal of Meat and
Greet in Minnesota says drunken, angry, drill Sergeant is the
way to go.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Cowboy Killer says it has to be Simba. That is
the answer.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Daniel Whalon from King Rory who else page down?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Let's see here?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Manuelan Guardina says it is a man perm mullet rocking
La Raider and American Gladiator legend is the is the
way to go? Who else do we have? Page down
the American Dream Dusty Rhodes, good name, Robin Vegas, that's
a good name. Ferg Dog says weed Man's girlfriend Lisa.
(37:58):
I don't know how you found a picture of so
that's very interesting. Burger Time from alf the Aleen A Pinter.
That's a great that's a great game, Burger Time. You
still see if those throwback arcades Burger Time solid game?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Can you rate?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Can you beat the game and put the burgers together
in time? Or will you get attacked and die of
death in that great Nintendo game Burger Time back in
the day, Andy says, Ray Nichke is the answer. Dread
Pie says Lucy and Charlie Brown's highest rated missed field
(38:32):
goals is the hugo Sean in the Valley of the Sun,
Sean writes, and he says Colin Bryant is.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
The way way to go on that question. Ozzy Osbourne, who,
to the.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Surprise of everyone including him, is seventy six today from
I forty Ian And there was a big board of
celebrities that you thought weren't going to make it to
old age, and Ozzy Osbourne was on that list, but
he has been able to make it.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Good job by him.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Milkman My in Colorado says it's the lady that's snuck
on the flight to Paris that that is the way
to go blind Scott guessed by og Art Puffin.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Who else do we have? Steve O, says.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
The caller and the show contributor formerly known as Justin
in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, I don't know what Justin's been.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
He's been quieter lately. He must be on some new meds.
Eke and Roseville, Minnesota going with Mac Jones. All right,
here's the who have my game? I am the highest
graded NFL player this season according to Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Lorrain up, Do you have an answer?
Speaker 6 (39:34):
This one's really hard, Ben, but you know, well you
got it here. So I'm a high Rudolph the Red
Nose rude.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Okay, well you have a high football IQ, so you
know you're right.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Rudolph a legend and he was the reason quarterbacks in
practice where the red jersey is because of Rudolph the Red.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Nose ring you love that? Yeah, that's true, unless I
made that up.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
The correct answer is Eagles tackle Jordan Mylotta.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Imported by a lot of highest rated player. This guy
was a rugby player.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
He was a seventh round pick, and now he's the
top graded player in the NFL. It's pretty good, right,
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Seems like that's good, yes,
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, it's our number one. A happy Wednesday to you.
It is hump Day and here in hour number one.
It is all about speculation, the speculation.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Involving a trade.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How does the report about the Bears making a run
at least calling the forty nine ers about coach Kyle
Shanahan and a trade hit you? Is Kyle Shanahan happy
in the Bay Area in San Francisco? And why don't
we see coaches traded more often in the NFL? We'll
talk about that and much more. Right now, make way
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for the wrecking ball. That is our number one. It
doesn't happen often, but could it about to happen?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Be about to happening in the NFL?
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Speaker 1 (02:01):
Be So our lead this hour is from where else.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But the NFL as a story that came across my
radar as I spend all of my free time trying
to find things that I find interesting to share with you,
to talk with you about my dedicated well, they pay
me for it. It's not like I do it out
of charity. When they stop paying me, I'll stop doing it.
But our lead from the Bay Area, a team that many.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Were buzzing about early in the year.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
They were going to get back to the championship of
the NFL the Super Bowl has not worked out for
the forty nine ers. They in fact are on the
outside looking in. They still have a chance because they're
in the NFC West, which blows you know, the division
not good of Geno Smith is in first place, but
right now the Niners are two games under five hundred
and things have shattered.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
They've hit rock bottom with back to.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Back blowouts, gutless weather soft West Coast team blown away
at lambeau Field and Green Bay, and then they went
to Orchard Park in New York and the Buffalo roamed
right over them. So now there is chatter after the
season ending injury to their MVP running back Christian McCaffrey,
(03:18):
who got the Madden jinks, there's a lot of chatter
that the Niners coaching room could be to change.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't have you heard this or not. Maybe you
saw something about it, maybe you didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
But there was a.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Very speculative report which is bouncing around the echo chamber
that claims the Chicago Bears should could, would might call
the Niners, and the Bears would call the Niners up
and say, hey, hey, we'd like to have Kyle Shanahan
(03:52):
coach the Bears.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Let's make a deal. You know how this works.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You send a couple of scratcher tickets over if you're Chicago,
you send those scratcher tickets back over to the Bay Area,
and boom goes to dynamite and you get a proven
commodity as coach. Granted, a guy that has not been
able to win the Big Game as a coach the
spawn of another NFL head coach, But it was positioned
(04:20):
the report as pure speculation by the muck rakers over
at Pro Football Talk. But regardless of that, this storyline
has created some buzz around NFL circles and certainly worthy
of a few minutes of our time here. So let
us discuss the question, how does this report about the
(04:41):
Bears making a run at a deal for forty nine
Ers coach Kyle Shanahan hit you?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I've got pigeon, alicia, keys and good table manners, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
will be like lambs at the slaughter, which is what
the Bears have been for years and what the forty
nine ers are right now.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So a lot to unpack on this one.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
While it is easy for the naysayer to dismiss this
as just purely clickbait headline reporting, I have a sneaking suspicion,
having worked in that world, that this is more of
a transformer storyline, meaning more than meets the eye, connecting
the dots here connecting the dots, it is more likely
(05:29):
than that that someone of influence someone on the inside
helped craft this train of thought likely likely connected to
Kyle Shanahan now using Mike Florio as a useful.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Idiot, which many have said he is over the years.
Feed the pigeon. In this case, he is a messenger pigeon.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You throw out the story, say, well, what if the
Bears they need a coach? What if they called the Niners?
Would Kyle sh Shanahan want the job? Would the Niners
be willing to trade him? You toss this out as
a blind eye.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I'm just talking.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I'm just speculating harmless. It's benign, and you just toss
it out there. See where it goes. Does it gain
any traction? It actually makes some sense.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It does. It makes some sense. Now page two.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Here the question that must be answered, and I don't
know the answer, and you don't know the answer. Is
Kyle Shanahan happy in San Francisco? And are the Niners
happy with him? There's two sides to the room. Here.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
On one side of the aisle you have Shanahan. Is
he happy?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
On the other side you have the organization on Now,
I can't imagine anyone's happy because the Niners suck this year.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So it's the great unknown. It would appear that in.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
This moment, we do the show today, and in this
moment the forty nine ers window of success has closed.
That they got to a couple of Super Bowls. They
got there with Garoppolo. They got there, of course last
year losing yet again with brock Purty. So they got
to a couple of super Bowls. They ended up with Bupkis.
Brock Purty is about to get a bag, a giant
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bag filled with a bunch of dough and the roster.
If you look at the depth chart, they're growing old
at several key spots.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So they're growing old some key spots.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We just discussed a few seconds ago the star running
back Christian McCaffrey, who has now broken down. You're now
getting the full Christian McCaffrey experience.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
He's like the player he was in Carolina.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So if you're looking to escape, if you're Shanahan and
you're looking to escape the Titanic before it sinks out
in the ocean, the Bear's job would be a good
lifeboat to get into.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You feel me on that, Like, the Bear's Job would
be pretty good. It shoots in ladders, fresh start with
a young stud quarterback and a team in theory that
is climbing up the ladder.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Although you would know it based on their record this year.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
The Bears, they're climbing up the ladder, rather than your
current situation where you've already climbed up the ladder and
now you're on a trash choote going the wrong direction.
The Niners and the other part of this, which is
rather obvious if you look at this from the outside.
In your advising Kyle Shanahan, the reason you would be
(08:29):
more likely than not to plant this story is Q
the Alicia Keys tune Show Me Love right, Because this story,
at some point John Lynch is going to be asked
the GM and the Niners is going to be asked
by the media dopes, Hey, do you support Kyle Shannan.
If the Bears called the Niners, would you trade him?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So then John.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Lynch has to say either we love Kyle Shanahan, we
would never consider trading him.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Ownership loves him, and they would have.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
To publicly endorse Shanahan, which is the most likely outcome,
or he would say something along the lines well, we're
not at that point yet.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But if Kyle's happy, we want him here and give
a vague answer. But in many ways, this is a
play out of the college football play.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
But you see this all the time in.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Big time collegiate football, where let's say you're the head
coach at Washington.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
It's just happened a few months back.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You're the head coach at Washington, and let's say Nick
Saban leaves Alabama and they're interested, and so then the
ball's in the court of the University of Washington. You're like,
all right, you either get a raise and you stay
at Washington, or you say bye bye and they give
(09:53):
you a couple of Brinks trucks filled with cash to
head to Tusca, loose Alabama and take the money and
then last couple of years and get whacked because you're
not Nick Saban.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
All right now, the last word here.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
The entire story involving an NFL coach being traded, The
entire story brings up an interesting quagmire, a conundrum if
you will. That the question asked me is why don't
we see this more often where coaches are traded.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
In the NFL. Now it has happened, It has happened.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
John Gruden was traded. Bill Belichick famously traded from the
Jets to the Patriots, the most famous coach traded of
all time, and there have been some others. There have
been some others. There's also been some near misses. The
story was years ago Jim Harball when he was with
the forty nine ers. The Cleveland Browns tried to trade
for him, and it was gonna happen, and then it
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didn't happen. At the last minute, the thing fell apart.
But by and large, to answer the question why don't
we see coaches traded.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
More often in the NFL, have a theory on this.
I'll run this by you here.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
My theory is good table manners, good tableman out of
professional courtesy. You don't flirt with someone who's married to
another team some other teams coaches. It is seen as
a breach of etiquette, is what it's seen as. And
when you consider the shortage of quality coaches, the supply
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chain shortage of coaches, it does make you scratch your
head and like, what are we doing here? It's rather
odd that that has continued over the years. I've been
doing this job a long time and very rarely does
it get discussed a head coach being traded in the
NFL when you look around aside from a franchise.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Quarterback, and there's only a few of those.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Aside from a franchise quarterback, a top level head coach,
a quality coach is next on the big board, not
a list, not a list, big board, big board, big.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Bend's big board.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
But the point is a quality head coach, which is
also hard to find. There's a lot of Jabbroni's, right,
a lot of dingle Berry's head coach in the NFL, A.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Lot of them.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
You're much more likely to find another Matt Eberflus than
you are to find the next Mike Tomlin or Sean McVay, right,
the old line, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs
before you find a prince and all that.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But a quality coach, so they're worth their weight in goal.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
They set the foundation, the environment, They make the right
decisions on who.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
To play and who not to play, and all that.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So when it gets time to hire a new coach,
would you rather hire a retread coach who.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
May or may not have had success in their last.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Job, some unproven coordinator, some hotshot coordinator who's never been
a head coach or would you rather trade a third
round pick and a conditional draft pick for a battle
tested head coach with a track record of success. I
would be willing to trade a first round But now
Kyle Shannan is he even though he's got his foibles,
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he's got his weaknesses. Among the NFL coaches, at least
during the regular season, Shannan has proven to be a
pretty good coach in the regular season that has some
issues there in big games, going back to his days
as a coordinator with the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
No need to go back down that road.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
But the point stands that if you need a head
coach and you're not really sure, I mean, you can
hire some college coach, but who knows if they're going
to work out or not. It seems rather obvious, seems
rather obvious that would be the direction that you would
want to go. We'll see if anything happens because of
this report. Again, we always try to find out whole
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the story. And while manyel say it's just a made
up story, I tend to think it's coming from the
Shanahan camp. It's coming from the Kyle Shanahan camp, and
there's something there. There's some meat on the bone with this, now,
how much meat is on the bone.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I don't know. I'm not eating the meal. I'm not.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I'm just talking about the meal, but i'm not actually
I'm fasting through the meal.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I'm not actually eating the meal.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Now, if you would like to be part, this is
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Speaker 1 (14:33):
The sun's up.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
During normal hours, we actually are feeling your agony. If
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I wish we were, but we're not. So if you
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Speaker 1 (15:02):
If you'd like to be part of the program.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So, a walking talking contradiction, A walking talking contradiction.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
In the NFL. What is that all about? We'll get
to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
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Speaker 2 (15:38):
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your prison Christmas.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You can see there's no such stagious harm.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Be drinking Bryan. He believe.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
She's been snorting too much.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Met all of that classic What a great era on
this show.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Ben Mallard tells, until Biller and You're drinking, Brian and
Half Pint were regaling us with amazing stories on a
nightly basis. What a magical time that was.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
The ature He's listening behind the play with Gates with
Penie and med Shart and Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay
and Masshole Mickey and all the other legends that have
checked out and from the valor of the show gone
to the great beyond.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
A reminder, Ben tells.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Me he doesn't have a lot of content, and yeah,
he needs your help.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
He needs your help to interact with the show.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Get live feedback in real time, not delayed, real time
on the X machine.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It is a collaborative effort. It's a big word to follow.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Ben on x at Ben Malor, the Cooper Loop, Bronco
Fan and Lorain the f SR Swell Tech Queen's.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Chris Back in the day had her mouth walked out
with soap and water.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Let's get back to the show now, and it's bloviating Benny.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That's right, and thank you Bill.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I told that to Ben Bill, not you.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well listen, I might have told Bill Miller. We had
a production meeting, had a.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Live table read we had to walk through. That might
have come up in conversation. Possible.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Do they still wash the kid's mouth out with soap
and water. That's a corporal punishment. Now, like I got
the belt, I guess I'm getting old. I had the
belt when I was a kid, and my dad one
time I had the belt and then I had the
soap in the water.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I had both.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Were you never abused as a child, Coop, I.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Mean I was suspained family. Come on, man, you.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Put the belt. That just seems you know, something from
from ens era. Not wow, wow, something.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
From your era, Benny Bell Bottoms. Listen, the belt very effective,
I gotta tell you. Oh, I can imagine.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
But because just so he's going to use the old methods. Wow,
my dad's like seventy five, So wow are you.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Saying I'm not seventy five?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But my dad one time he did it and the
rest of my childhood. My mom would threaten me, like
you want the belt again?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You know that whole deal.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
And so just that alone, I was scared straight because
of that one one act right there.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So anyway, we are just getting started here.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We began with a story bouncing around the echo chamber
involving Kyle Shanahan. The Bears need a head coach. People
connecting the dots, would would the forty nine Ers trade
Kyle Shanahan? Would he want out of the Bay Area
as that team is heading the wrong direction? And we'll
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see it's similar to the Rams. The Rams that they
at least won a Super Bowl, unlike the Niners who
did not in this era, in this window of opportunity,
and everyone assumed the position that Sean McVay was going
to jump ship and he was not going to stick
around because the Rams roster had gotten old and they
didn't have any draft picks and blah blah blah, real
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Greek tragedy the La Rams. And they did make the
playoffs last year, They're not going to make the playoffs
this year. It's unlikely they could still win the division
because again Gino Smith and Seattle are in first place.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Not a great division.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
But McVeigh didn't leave. He thought about it. He almost
took a job at Amazon. I was told that's what
I was fed that he was contemplating with leaving, taking
the leave of absence, going to Amazon, and he changed
his mind at the last minute. Kyle Shanahan not as loquacious.
TV would not really want him. He's pretty much boring, so.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
That's not likely. Is he gonna stick around?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
There is something to be said for sticking around when
things aren't going great. You build something up and then
it gets kind of stale, and you gotta you gotta
knock down some parts of the town and redo it,
do a little demo and then rebuild some stuff, lay
some more concrete and go that whole direction. Right, Yeah,
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that's the whole thing. Uh, let's see here, Devin writes
in he says, had a bad accident the first time
getting in a car.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Cool hearing you.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Okay, that's I feel like that's a non sequitur supermarket Steve.
But I'm glad you're okay. You had a bad accident.
There's not a lot of details on that. James right
Sin says we do not care about Shanahan, who is
we James, Are you speaking for you and the other
voices in your head? Are you speaking for someone else?
Or is it I don't know who we are.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Ah, not sure who that is. What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Do you have multiple personalities? And if you do have
multiple personalities, do we get credit for all of them?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Listening to the show, I'd like to know.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, Cowboy Drew, who has given me the ultimate honor?
I don't know if Drew knows this. We actually showed
a picture of the cow on the TV show. One
of the episodes of Benny Versus the Paying the mal
Or Cow Made the.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
TV featured the cow.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
At very end, I told Vinnie, the producer of Benni
Versus the Penny was based in Boston, I said, this guy,
Cowboy Drew, claims to have named the cow after me.
He said really, And I said, touch my cow. Okay,
that's my heifer. That's not your half as mine. It's
a good looking cow. And so I sent him the
photo and he was very impressed. You know, it was
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a little jealous. I think Vinnie was a little jealous
that I have a cow named after me, and it's appropriate.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It's a cow.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
The boys were telling me it's appropriate on the TV
show it's a cow not a chicken, because I have
a number of chicken dishes named after me. There are
no meat dishes like no no burgers, no malar Burger,
no Benny Benny Burger.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I thought would be obvious.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
We used to have the mauzone at a mom and
pop restaurant in Syracuse.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Oh my god, you like the Chick fil A of radio.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Uh yeah, you'll call me a chick? Uh yeah, sure,
why not.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I've had three chicken dishes in Denver, Kansas City, and Lawrence, Kansas,
So I've got that.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But the cow there that's big and really a good
looking cow. I mean that is the hottest cow in
the barn. It really is. So thank you cowboy Drew.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But he says, my mom used to use this that
stick in those vinyl shades. Those things had some snap
to them. Oh yeah, sure, absolutely. Supermarket Steve writes in
from so Cal. He says, I got the belt many times, Coop,
Well that explains a lot of supermarket Steve. Nothing scared
me more than when I got in the car and
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my mom's only words were just waiting till your dad
gets them.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Oh yeah, that was big.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh yeah, when you ah and your mom told you
you're when you're dead, gets all the crap. And now
that I'm grown up, I think my dad probably wanted
nothing to do with this.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You know. My dad's like, oh crap.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
You know your mom, you know she's upselling me on this.
You know, I don't want to deal with this crap.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But but you have to play the role if you're
a parent, right, you got to play the role and
do that whole thing. Josh writes and says, why would
anyone want to leave the NFL to go and deliver packages?
Their warehouses are modern American sweatshops?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Are you coming?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Are you comparing the forty nine er job or the
bear's job to working at an Amazon warehouse or working
for ups?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
So is that what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I'm a little confused by that, just a little bit.
Who else do we have? Ferg Dog writes in from
from Sokal. He says, I watched snell zilla his Dodger
news conference, so you don't have to Ben, and he
came off as very likable. I think you should join
in the snelebration and give the guy another chance.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Uh No, I'm good for I'm good.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I've made my decision and I don't want to change
my mind. And he plus he blocked me on X,
so screw him. And I thought you were a foot.
I was led to believe, fer Dog that you were
a foot soldier in the Malor militia, and you had
my back.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
And now he's gonna have to retake the oath if
he has not yet, that's.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Not right for Dog.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
That's a shame on you, Late Night Drug Tester says,
in honor of the National Finals Rodeo starting tomorrow in Vegas,
you could have said Florio is loading up the bowl
instead of feeding the pigeons. Yeah, I could have done that.
I'll have to make sure to work that in for you,
Late Night Drug Tester into my lexicon there. And we
don't need to tell the story I tell every year
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about the National Rodeo Final, the rodeo event in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I've been there a few times in Vegas. Remember one time, Well.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I guess I'll tell what the hell I'll tell them briefly,
brefree capt I said.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
The mandala three time. Let's you know that's what we have.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
We have time, So I said the Mandale Bay in Vegas,
and there were a bunch of dudes in jeans, cowboy boots,
cowboy hats, and I thought they were doing like cosplay,
but it was just before cosplay became a thing.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
A lot of dudes dressed up as cowboys here.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I didn't get the memo. I didn't dressed as a cowboy.
And then I started seeing signs around the Mandalay Bay
there's this big rodeo event and all that. I was like,
oh man, okay, put two and two together. And these
guys were like real cowboys, like real, much more masculine
men than me.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And I talked for a living.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
They actually like ride horses and deal with cattle and
all that stuff. And I mean, these were like dudes
from my homing and uh, from Colorado and Texas and
places like that. Random Ryan writes in In Carolina. He says
eight plus on the opening Mallard monologue, I wasn't really
listening though, I was starting my pizza bites in the
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air fryer. But I'm sure you made some valid points. Yeah,
pizza bites in the air for it is a late
night show. That's not your meal. It's too late for
your dinner.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
That's like a late night's a pizza.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I broke my fast on Tuesday and I had little
pretzel bites in the air fryer.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Delicious.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And the reason I had those is because Cooper Loop
and Loraina talked about eating pretzels on yesterday's show and
that inspired me. I said, I have to have a
soft pretzel. So I got those these little soft pretzel
bites and I so good. They were great and honey Mustard,
they did not cost me thirteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, honeymus you got a bunch, huh yeah. And I
didn't eat the whole thing, only a few of them.
I have more. I'll have probably this weekend or whatever.
But they were they were great. Loved them, loved them.
Soft pretzel. Way to go. Now, Normally I only eat
soft pretzels when I go to the mall or the airport.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't eat them anywhere other than the all of
the airport. And that's my my routine. And I will
always try when I go to the airport, first I
try to find a cinamon, and if they don't have
a cinamon, I go pretzel.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
And that's my move at the airport.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Loves Cinnabon.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Cinnabon's great.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Uh do you get the little bag of little cinnamon
things or do you go with the full cinnamon roll.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
You have to get the full sized cinebon. The OG,
that's the OG. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, well they have the bag too, little cinebytes.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
I like the little hearts, like the middle of them.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah. Yeah, obviously fall center is the best.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Yeah, they have little cups of just the center.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. You can get the
cup option.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Oh yeah, you know those like they're not really the center.
They try to imitate the center, but it's not really
the center.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well, it's a version of the center.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
It's a I don't think it's the same as a
true center from a cinnabon.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Okay, but let's assume the position that that is out
of a scale of one to ten.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
The ripoff version is like a seven.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
It's every bite is a seven, as opposed to an
actual cinemond where you've.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Got to do a lot of work to get to
a tent. You got to eat a lot of that
to get to the tent, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Yeah, I can.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Agree with that.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
But I feel like that's kind of it's kind of
what makes it a ten. You know, you had to
go on to a journey, a mission to get there.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
I hate the struggle story. Just give me the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You do not want to do any of the work, Lorena,
You just want the payoff on that to do the work.
I know.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
JC writes in from Parts Undown, he says ten out
of ten on the mouth of the monologue. Whenever I
think of the Bears, Cowboys, or any other teams with
head coaching drama, I realize how lucky the Vikings are
to have the quarterback whisper himself the future goat. Well,
let's hold off on that till we see Sam Donald
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lead the Minnesota Vikings into the NFC Championship Game.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Then we can.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Revisit that Chip and the Ques rights and he's a
legend on the show. I've actually met Chip in the Ques.
We had one of the early Malard meet and greets.
What we did was at a chicken finger place in Syracuse,
and it was a Chip and his brother Dale, and
there was a professor from Syracuse who showed up who
was a fan of the show. I don't know if
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he's still teaching that Syracuse. But he was his very
nice gentleman. They all we all hung out at a
chicken finger place and right down the street from that
famous dinosaur barbecue place in Syracuse. Anyway, Chip says a
plus on the Mall monologue, it must be nice to.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Be a weatherman.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Who else can make so many mistakes at work and
still keep their jobs?
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, that is that is correct. And you just say, hey,
I'm a I'm a meteorologist. I it's like I should
say that on the TV show because I haven't had
a great year picking games.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
But I'm really just like a weatherman. I just happened.
My forecast is what's going to happen in the NFL.
That's my move. It's go to the phones and.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Let's say hello a lot. We got a golden ticket.
Right to the front of the line. We say hello
to weed man, hippie man.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
How about that? I got a golden chicken? I check game.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
How did you get a golden ticket? I forget? How
did we give you.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
An home too much and not enough?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Too much or not enough? You got a golden ticket.
It's amazing. What a great MIxS for?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
That is?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
You don't have to wait, you have to wait in line.
You go right to the front. Everyone else is upset
with you. They're angry with you, weed man.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
How about that? I love that when we play that
game again, we.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Play at the same time every week, weed man. It's
been been that way for twenty years. We say, Oh,
I'm asking you Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I don't know what day?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Well, for you, you don't have to you don't have a job,
weed man. There are no days for you, right, But
when arian I know, but I'm saying, like you're pretty
much retired at this point, right, we mean we met.
I mean you know what I'm saying. You really really
have to worry about days when you have a job. Otherwise,
who cares about days? That doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
You're right, You're right, it's today, weed man. But you
can't play the game two weeks in a row. Oh yeah,
you're out a lot, weed Yes today.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, it's a shame, what a devastating Yes.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
So I heard baseball talking about using like a golden
a golden arm, a golden bat.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah yeah, it's a golden bat. Like for you it
would be if you use the golden bong.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
H But for them it's a golden bat and so
it's their version of.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
What you would use, what you would call the golden bong.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Yeah, I like that, I like the idea.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah I don't.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I don't like the idea.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And I think it was Spaccoli pointed something out which
I didn't even contemplate when I was talking about this yesterday,
is that you you're talking about giving somebody like Otani
or Aaron Jo one hundred roughly one hundred extra ad
bats and a season. No, but I'm saying so you
would you would doctor the record. But if you gave
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the greatest players in baseball go back, Willie Mays, Barry Bonds,
you know, all the legends of the game, you gave
them an extra one hundred bats, that it destroys the
record book, right because they're getting one hundred more opportunities
than anyone else.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yeah, but that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You're okay with that. You're okay with that.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
But see, my issue is is like it's unnecessary. And
the reason they're they're the reason they're doing it, weed man,
is because they're jealous of basketball and football and that
baseball unlike all those other sports, and even hockey to something,
although it's even harder in hockey. But in the other sports,
the top players decide the game. In baseball, often the
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top players don't decide the game, and it drives them.
It drives them nuts because these guys are making forty
to fifty million dollars a year and they don't have
an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
In the ninth inning to win the game most of
the time.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, we agree, that's bad talk radio. Weed man, we
agree it's not good talk radio.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Can you disagree? Can you pretend? Can you feign disagreement?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Weed man, Let's talk about Jameis Winston.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Oh, Jameis Winston. I love that.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I remember. I remember Jameis Winston stealing rops from the
storer crab legs.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It was a.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Was the name of the what was the grosser? I
forget the name of the grocery chan.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
But yeah, that wasn't Wiggly, I forget. Yeah, that would
have been even better if it was pick That's my favorite.
I don't go to the South Off, and when I do,
I always go to Pickley Wiggly.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
That is a great name for a grocery. And yeah, well,
oh we've been say hello, Larena. We've man wants to
say hello to you.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Yeah, happy Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
What do you do to kill the time? Weed Man?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
What do you You just watched like Russian websites with
the illegal streams, Like what do you do all day?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah you do.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
I've been watching.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Weeds, which is appropriate.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
You smoke weeds and you watch weeds, so you it's
uh yeah, okay, very good.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You're all about the weed. And how's Lisa. How's Lisa doing?
Weed Man? Everything good with Lisa? Your friend Lisa on
the phone. No, she's not. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
She is the lovely Lisa. That's Lisa. Now, this is amazing.
This is such a great couple, Arena.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Now Lisa's in New York.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Weed Man and Lisa they were a couple back in
the day. Weed Man's been in Florida for years. But
every night Lisa keeps weed Man company. Well she's supposed
to be sleeping, she stays on the phone with weed Man.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Isn't that? Isn't that great? It's it's like Romeo and Juliet.
It's amazing these two.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You gotta wait though. Once I don't want to talk
about here. But once something happens, we'll move back to
New York. Right we went here, go back? Yeah, all right,
all right, I gotta go, thank you?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
All right, go away, go talk to Lisa. All Right,
there is a weed man hippie checking in.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Uh. What a wonderful use of a golden ticket. Just
caught up on the life and times of weed man hippie.
So a walking talking, uh conundrum. How you wanted to scribe?
We'll get to that at some point. Here here's the
who am I?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Game? Here we go where I pretend to be somebody else?
I am the I'm the highest.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Graded NFL players so far this season according to Pro
Football Focus. Out of every player in the NFL, I
am the highest graded NFL player this season, according to
the nerds at.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Pro Football Focus. Who am I? That's the question? The answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it. Next.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weeked. He said two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific,
and is I Bill Miller.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Ben'll be back to pay off the who am I?
Game in a minute.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
But first, a reminder that you can interact with other
like minded members of the Mallard Militia on Facebook where
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Speaker 1 (36:20):
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Speaker 2 (36:21):
Away, you can see Sizzle Real videos promoting the TV
show every Friday. But you can like the radio show page.
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And now back to a man hiding under the moonlight
(36:43):
the malor moonlight, Ben, that's right, Bill, That's right, Bill.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Get it right, man, get it right tight. Now for
the who am I?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Game? I am the highest graded NFL player this season
according to the nerds over Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
That is the question? Well, that's the question, and what
is the answer? Josh writes in and says the great
Vi Sikahemma, NFL legend from back in the day, is
the answer.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Buddy Big Greg and.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Iowa A met him at the mal of Meat and
Greet in Minnesota says drunken, angry, drill Sergeant is the
way to go.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Cowboy Killer says it has to be Simba. That is
the answer.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Daniel Whalon from King Rory who else page down?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Let's see here?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Manuelan Guardina says it is a man perm mullet rocking
La Raider and American Gladiator legend is the is the
way to go? Who else do we have? Page down
the American Dream Dusty Rhodes, good name, Robin Vegas, that's
a good name. Ferg Dog says weed Man's girlfriend Lisa.
(37:58):
I don't know how you found a picture of so
that's very interesting. Burger Time from alf the Aleen A Pinter.
That's a great that's a great game, Burger Time. You
still see if those throwback arcades Burger Time solid game?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Can you rate?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Can you beat the game and put the burgers together
in time? Or will you get attacked and die of
death in that great Nintendo game Burger Time back in
the day, Andy says, Ray Nichke is the answer. Dread
Pie says Lucy and Charlie Brown's highest rated missed field
(38:32):
goals is the hugo Sean in the Valley of the Sun,
Sean writes, and he says Colin Bryant is.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
The way way to go on that question. Ozzy Osbourne, who,
to the.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Surprise of everyone including him, is seventy six today from
I forty Ian And there was a big board of
celebrities that you thought weren't going to make it to
old age, and Ozzy Osbourne was on that list, but
he has been able to make it.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Good job by him.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Milkman My in Colorado says it's the lady that's snuck
on the flight to Paris that that is the way
to go blind Scott guessed by og Art Puffin.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Who else do we have? Steve O, says.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
The caller and the show contributor formerly known as Justin
in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, I don't know what Justin's been.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
He's been quieter lately. He must be on some new meds.
Eke and Roseville, Minnesota going with Mac Jones. All right,
here's the who have my game? I am the highest
graded NFL player this season according to Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Lorrain up, Do you have an answer?
Speaker 6 (39:34):
This one's really hard, Ben, but you know, well you
got it here. So I'm a high Rudolph the Red
Nose rude.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Okay, well you have a high football IQ, so you
know you're right.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Rudolph a legend and he was the reason quarterbacks in
practice where the red jersey is because of Rudolph the Red.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Nose ring you love that? Yeah, that's true, unless I
made that up.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
The correct answer is Eagles tackle Jordan Mylotta.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Imported by a lot of highest rated player. This guy
was a rugby player.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
He was a seventh round pick, and now he's the
top graded player in the NFL. It's pretty good, right,
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Seems like that's good, yes,
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