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December 5, 2024 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair's posts on social media saying he will be the villain, Aaron Rodgers saying it's ridiculous to think he has to prove something to the Jets, WR Dionte Johnson getting suspended for failing to enter the game for the Ravens, and much more!

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

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, it's our number one of the original Recipe podcast.
You have found yourself here on this Thursday, the fifth
day of December, and we thank you for that. As
the NFL weekend, we'll kick off tonight. We were up
all night recording this podcast. In our number one, it
is all about the reaction from the suspension, our in

(00:25):
depth team coverage. What do you make of Texans linebacker
Aziz al Schier and his social media game as he
gave fans the bird?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
He's the villain, Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Aaron Rodgers says it's ridiculous to think that he has
to prove something the final five games of the year
to the Jets. Is that how you see it? And
wide receiver Deontay Johnson has been suspended for failing to
enter the Ravens game over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
He went a wall.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Where you're at on this very public punishment. We'll get
to that and more right now. Give it up to
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Speaker 1 (02:05):
In the NFL.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Everyone's been yapping about the hit breaking it down, Trevor
Lawrence and his situation in Jacksonville. Not a glamour game
the Texans and the Jaguars, but everyone.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Focused on this.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
The lead this hour from the Appeals Court, the Pigskin
Appeals Court, a follow up on that big punishment handed
down earlier this week. We have learned now that the NFL,
after the proper adjudication, has determined that the NFL's own
ruling was accurate. So you've appealed to the NFL to

(02:43):
ask them to change.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
The ruling they just made earlier the week.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
And shockingly, the NFL upheld the three game suspension to
the Texans linebacker Aziz al Shier.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
So he's gone. The hit to Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Bang bang play and lights out, looney tones, you're seeing
birdies circling over your head.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now, I'll shire the hit on that play.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
He was tackling Lawrence as Lawrence was sliding, and the
NFL believes that he should have been able to stop
in mid air and just freeze time, and he didn't
do that. And so as a result of that play,
Lawrence suffered a concussion and he has been put on
injured reserve, which means a LA da good by, he's out.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
He's done for the year.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
So the fact that the punishment was upheld was not
surprising based on the infamous, infamous letter that John Runyon,
a former player offensive lineman, the NFL's VP of.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Justice.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
That's not his actual ty, nobody, he's got some corporate
bull crap title with the NFL, and he wrote a
public letter to al Shire that the league teamed to
hit unacceptable and continued disregard for the rules of the
game and will not be tolerated and all.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
This blah blah blah blah blah. All right, So.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
That part of the story we know about, but do
you know the rest of the story. Are you aware
of the rest of the story here?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Did you hear how the player who was punished respond?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well?

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Maybe not here.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
So al Shire went on social media around the time,
around the time the news came down that he would
miss the next three games, and he wanted to get
something off his chest. So he went on the social
media platform believe this was an Instagram, and he wrote
the following. Now I am not as he's al Shire,

(04:54):
but I will pretend to be. And he said, if
you want me to be your villain, I'll be your villain.
Al Shire has stated. Then he used the middle finger emoji.
He gave you the bird right there, right in your eyes,
the bird see you soon.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
And that's it, all right.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
So let us discuss the question what do you make
of the Texans linebacker as he's al Shire and his
social media reaction. Forget the punishment, the reaction to the punishment.
So I've got four olive garden and jailbreak. So and
we'll put all these things together and we are going

(05:33):
to make a major motion picture is what we're going
to make. So first of all, it's fair to say
I have not ever ever wanted A.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Z's al Shire to be my villain.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I hadn't even thought about the guy up until a
couple of days ago.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
But here we are right.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
And it's also fair to say there's no cooling off period.
There's no cooling off period.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Here that my man is. He's there.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
He did not follow the teachings of Abraham Lincoln, who
famously he had this this ability to write these very
angry letters, the poison pen letters there, the lost art
of the unsent angry letter.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Of course, that's before social media.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I bet you if honest A But had had like
X or Facebook, he would have posted like mean stuff
on there, because you can do it real simple. But
back in his day, you know, you don't write a letter,
and you had to get like a messenger pigeon to
deliver the bird, you know, the letter via the burd
and holding anyway. So but he would write these very
nasty things, Lincoln, and he never signed the letters, and

(06:35):
he just put him in a.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Desk, in a drawer in his desk and that was it.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
But in the digital age, your finger is on the
trigger twenty four to seven. And there's an Alfred Hitchcock
quote which kind of applies in some way to this,
where Hitchcock, who in his day in Hollywood, the horror
movies were his you know, his genre, the horror movies,
and his the more successful the villain, the more successful

(07:04):
the picture. And that's the problem with this because al
Shire is not a good villain.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
He's not.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
And he's just a linebacker on a team that's not
a glamour team, the Texans.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
They're just kind of there.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
They're a good team, but they're not a sexy team.
They're not a team that gets people buzzing. So you
got that. And he's just not a household name.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
He's not May better storeview was right, better store if
you was, he's not. He's just some random dude who's
played in the NFL for a number years now. That said,
it was the Great Four who pointed this out that
every villain, even low level villains like this linebacker from
the Texans, every villain is a hero in their own mind.

(07:45):
Right now, we thought that this was a bit of
an overreaction by the NFL. A bit of an overreaction
by the NFL. However, Al Shier is not not a
sympathetic figure by any mean. And I really thought the
middle finger emoji was a wonderful touch. You stayed classy

(08:08):
way to go right. When they go low, you go lower. Absolutely,
And to quote another villain from Cinema, the Joker, He's like, hey,
I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve,
Just ahead of the curve on that.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
That's what I am.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Throwback player back when the NFL actually embraced heart hits,
right that era of the NFL, which you know, they
had bigger foot balls back then. All right, now we
turned the page. We head not a Jersey, the swamp
land of Jersey. That is where Aaron Rogers is yet

(08:47):
again feeding the content machine.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
So Aaron Rodgers says, it.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous to think that he has to
prove something or anything for that matter, to the j
e ts suck, sucks, suck over the last five weeks
of the NFL season. Is that how you see it
with Aaron Rodgers? Because he said that is that acy.
So this is a man floating on the river of denial.

(09:13):
Is what that is now under any reasonable measurement, any
reasonable measurement, Aaron Rodgers has broken even the heart of
Fireman Ed. Even Fireman D is a broken fireman with
this little hat there at those Jets games. Right, Rogers,
with only a few weeks to go in the season,
is the twenty fifth rank quarterback in the NFL. Now,

(09:34):
I didn't play in the NFL. I just do an
overnight show.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
I don't think that's good. Am I wrong? Is I'm
being mean?

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Being a mean?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Parents aid twenty fifth rank quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert, Hey Aaron, you're not at lambeau
Field anymore. You're not?

Speaker 2 (09:52):
And what have you done for me lately? It's like
the going to the Olive garden and they every once
in all have this. They usually lose tons of money.
It's the never ending up bowl of a proof posta
if you or the posta bowl of proof for everyone. Right,
whatever you end up doing in life, whatever you do,

(10:12):
you have to every day. It's like the John Wooden quote,
you have to make every day your masterpiece. And you're
constantly trying you should be anyway, constantly trying to prove yourself,
even after you've supposedly made it. And the people that
don't try to do that, there's a word for him.
They called losers or government employees. Right, they work at

(10:33):
the DMV or whatever. You know, we've all been in
line at the DMV, and the people take take their
sweet ass time. They don't hurry, They do shoddy work,
and they don't they don't want to improve themselves. They're
just happy where they are. Make the rest of us miserable.
That's the way it goes. Anyway, Rogers is you know,
he's not that guy, Pal, He's not the Packers version

(10:55):
of Anon.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Roggine knows this, he knows this.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Maybe I'll make another Netflix documentary, which this one hasn't
even come out yet.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
I guess it comes out in a few days.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
But anyway, past results, as they say at Wall Street,
past results do not guarantee future outcomes.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
They do not.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
All right, last word, we go to Baltimore, where the
charm was lacking. This past weekend for the Ravens did
not have much charm against the Philadelphiagas.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
But the story here a follow up.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
There was a vague comment made by John Harbaugh. John
Harbaugh regarding the status of Deontay Johnson. Now it had
been speculated he might end up being fired by the
Baltimore football team. Well, now we have an update. Wide
receiver Deontay Johnson formerly the Steelers, but he was traded

(11:45):
from Carolina to Baltimore during the season for a scratcher ticket,
but a low level scratcher ticket, not one of the
fifty dollars tickets, not one of the thirty five dollars,
like a two dollar ticket. It was like a two
dollars scratcher ticket anyway. So Deontay Johnson, the wide receiver,
was he suspended by the Ravens because he failed.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
To enter a game. He was asked to enter the game,
he said, yeah, I don't. I feel like it. I
feel like playing today. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, where are
you at on this one? Where you're at?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
On Deontay Johnson being suspended for conduct detrimental to the
team as he defied orders, he said, I'm not doing it.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
I'm going a wall. He went a wall. So it's
rather clear here that.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Deontay Johnson is not not looking to be a long
term Raven that in fact, he would like a jail break.
He's chipping away at the wall, and he thought this
would be the means to an end here, and he
can enter the transfer portal and say bye bye and
would go to some other NFL outposts. For whatever reason,

(12:52):
he just hasn't worked out and all that, And so
he's using the ancient art of malfeasance as a weapon.
He's weaponizing the defying of orders that you're not in
the same foxhole, that you're fighting a different battle. And
so it is refreshing to see that Baltimore is fighting

(13:13):
fire with fire here on this one. The Ravens are like,
all right, you don't want to get in the game,
you want to be released. All right, We're gonna publicly
embarrass you. We are going to not only suspend you
for a game, but we are going to announce to
everyone that you chose not to go into an NFL
game because you didn't feel like it, and we're going
to embarrass you.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Now.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Deontay Johnson is unlikely to be embarrassed by this. If
he was embarrassed by people calling him out, he would
have actually played for Mike Tomlin at a higher level.
But I digress, right, And so what they've done is
they've gone legislation, legislative branch. The Ravens, they've gone much
like Congress. They will censure a member of the House

(13:57):
there and so Deontay Johnson. It's public humiliation, is what
it is. And what a great trade. Deontay Johnson has
one catch and one suspension.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
As a Raven's he's got one catch and he's been
suspended for one game.

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Speaker 1 (16:45):
No, Gunner is an influencer.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
We're set at Walmart in Northern Minnesota, way past the
loop there, he says, Ben, I just Rember. The Clippers
are like my phone calls to your show. They suck.
It's very funny, Gunner, because you're calls do suck. And
the Clippers took the night off. They felt bad for
the Tea Wolves, so they decided to allow them to
win that game. Keith writes in says, hey, plus on

(17:08):
the malle monologue, it reminds me of what meat Loaf
saying about villains.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Every hero was once. Every villain was once just a
boy with a bad attitude.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
Come mom for Melaus, we want it now.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Well that doesn't let me love you, but it does
open up Keith a different conversation. Right, Like, most people,
even that we've determined this polite society or doing bad things,
they don't think they're doing bad things, right, otherwise they
probably wouldn't be doing them.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
They think they're doing pretty good things. They're like, that's
not that bad. Yeah, they it's fine. So that's the
that's the run. That's the run on that who else that?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
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Speaker 1 (18:00):
The Diamond Man.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh hell, Bill Miller.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
No true. Listen.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
People that don't really put any effort into their jobs
I have no use for. I have battled this. Now
we're going to radio. It's a lot of lazy people
in radio, and I've dealt with a lot over theears,
and it's just frustrated. You know, It's like, you should
work hard. Whatever you do, work is you have pride
in your work. I talk about the Code of the
West all the time, and Aaron Rodgers has pride in

(18:26):
his work. But the way those comments came across was
just embarrassing. JC writes in says extremely arousing modeling. Well,
thank you, JC, But I disagree regarding the suspension of
the Texans linebacker. Who are you disagreeing with? You disagree
with the NFL. I also thought the thing was too much.
He says, three games is far too much. JC says

(18:48):
it was a dirty hit, but players never get suspended
multiple games for a single play. Well in the NFL
is claiming it's a lifetime Achievement award for al Shire,
that he's such a dirty doll, such a dirty dog.
That's a lifetime Achievement award. So they made an example
out of him, and he says a middle finger to
Roger Goodell. All day he points out middle finger, Yes,

(19:16):
not a burner, right, since you know this show's popular.
When we get not a burner calling, and he says, Ben,
I'm having a major dilemma. I only have room for
one more prayer on my prayer list, and I can't
decide between praying against the Golden bat rule in baseball
or praying away the pick six for Jameis Winston. Well, listen,

(19:39):
whether you pray to stop the golden bat rule or not,
the owners are hell bent on putting something like that
in baseball, so you might as well go with Jameis Winston.
He's fun, he's entertains, exciting, and he's the guy's a
one man band. We want to see Jameis Winston start
for the Browns next season. Late Night Drug Tester says,

(19:59):
if an the athlete wants to become a villain, then
they should start torturing animals, beating kids, and knocking elderly
people on the ground. Tremendous advice. Ferg Dog writes in
from Sokel says, if I were you, Ben, I wouldn't
put Gunner on the air tonight. He must be pretty
proud of himself after the Wolves ended the Clippers nine
game home winning streak. Well, we have to wait for Gunner.

(20:24):
We have to wait for Gunner to have his break.
Once he has his break there, well we'll be good
to go. O g art Puffin, He's he's got the
break room. A lot, a lot of magic happens at
the breakroom at walmart O g art Puffin right, since
has always a number one Mallard monologue, the Blast Aaron Rogers.

(20:45):
If the Jets suck, suck, suck, bring back Aaron Rodgers
next year. They'll be doing my Dolphins a solid with
two guaranteed divisional wins. You got to figure out how
to compete in the cold. Uh, yeah, you wouldn't beat
the Jets. If you play the Jets and it's below
thirty five degrees, that would be a tough one. That

(21:06):
would be problematic. Yeah, that would not be good.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
So we tease this.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
When you tease something, you got to pay it off.
The teas was an NFL team? Does an NFL team
have the voodoo Bugaloo advantage, and that would be Travis
Kelsey acknowledging what many are calling the Tay voodoo, as
in Taylor Swift black magic now something that Taylor Swift

(21:33):
is actually a lizard person, that she's not human, that
she's from some other subspecies.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
I don't know whether that's true or not. I've ever
met her. I doubt that, but you never know.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
People said the same thing about Tom Brady, and so
Kelsey acknowledged that on his little Fledgling podcast where he
gets like one hundred million dollars or something like that.
I don't know, some ridiculous things like that. But all
the things that have happened, all the decision by officials,
all of the balls bouncing the right way for the chiefs,

(22:07):
and it's the the Tay voodoo. It's being described now.
This is one of those things. It goes back to
what I call the tinker Bell effect. Can I see
your balls, sir, I'd like to see. It does not
involve balls, well, it does in this respect does not.
So the tinker Bell effect is very simple. If enough
people believe that fairies are real, fairies are real, enough

(22:27):
people believe that tinker Bell is real, it's not just
an imagination thing from Disney, then then it's real. So
if enough people believe that the tay Voodoo bugaloo like
Santa is real, it's it's well, Santa is real. Santa
is absolutely every time this time I go to the mall,
I see Santa. I I even honor Santa. I dress

(22:50):
up once a year as Santa. So Santa is absolutely real.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
You put a big old pillow in your belly too.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well, for years I didn't have to put a lone
my Bellyah. I was naturally gifted to look like Santon.
So yeah, there you go, Ho ho ho. Anyway, this
whole thing reminds me of doing this job so long.
Does this all remind you of the Patriots? Like all
the storylines about the Patriots and the NFL wanted the
Patriots to be good, and all the officials were biased

(23:19):
towards the Patriots.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
And it's the same thing.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
We've just changed out the Tom Brady storylines for Patrick
Mahomes now the Gronk Kelsey things different because Gronk was
a goofball and all that, but he did not date
the most famous woman in the world while he was
playing with the Patriots. We did not have that as anyways,
go to the phones and we'll say hello to the

(23:44):
guy that's always complaining about something. Not Angry Bill, but
I'm sure he would get along with angry Bill. Jerome
in Charleston, Hello Jerome.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Hey Hey.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
I listened to one of my favorite people with Lorama
talk about Senecal. I never believed that, as a black
kid growing up, that a white man was coming down
a chimney pie for me, because first of all, we
never had a chimney, okay, and second of all, I
never saw it happened in my whole life.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
I didn't have a chimney either.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well, Santa, see you don't know the real state. And
the myth is that Santa only comes down the chimney.
But Santa is obviously too fat to go into a chimney,
so he has got magical powers and he can go
through like the little keyhole on your door or under
the door. You were saying, how do you not believe
in Santa? Didn't you leave cookies for Santa when.

Speaker 6 (24:40):
You were little?

Speaker 3 (24:40):
What?

Speaker 4 (24:41):
I don't even like the holidays.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
You are You are ball humbug, you are, but you
are the ultimate ball humbug You are What happened?

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Why?

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Why did you become ball humbug guy?

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Why?

Speaker 5 (24:53):
When?

Speaker 2 (24:53):
When did this happen? I bet you at some point,
when you were a little kid, you weren't like this.
Right somewhere along the way you became ball humbug guy.
You did, you became You're You're the You're the living
personification of the like grumpy ball humbug guy.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
When I was a very small child, years many years ago,
my father promised me to bring yourself to Christmas. And
it never happened. And ever since then, ever since that
day happened, I said, when you get old enough to
make your own money, you buy your own stuff, don't
you worry about.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Well listen, I know, but you don't have to be
the you don't have to be the grinch for everyone else.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
I told, look, I hate the holidays.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
I know.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
I know that you are such You're such a buzz kill,
my god.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
I mean, hey, I had a couple of turkey dinners
that I got for free, and I'm happy with that.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
There you go, so you got something. You got something
for free. Pantic, Yeah, you don't have to be the
profit of doom. There's no need to be the profit
of doom.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
Hey, look here she talked about Clark. She lost me
when she talked about she willn't mind having an allergend. Okay,
I saw a cross on Monday night football. They got
the damn mom and the thing ship. Because they're so
friend that's gonna bite somebody. And you can't teach some tricks,
Jesus teaching the alligator tricks?

Speaker 5 (26:17):
What can you teach you?

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Hey, take my arm off.

Speaker 7 (26:20):
I actually can do tricks like what.

Speaker 8 (26:24):
Well, the guy who was feeding them on the alligator
tour that we went on, he was feeding the.

Speaker 7 (26:29):
Marshmallows and he got them to roll over and stay.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
He boots their news.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
He got them to go on the land.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
I have videos on the.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Dogs.

Speaker 7 (26:42):
They looks like dogs to me.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
You're gonna compare alligator to a dog?

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, okay, Well it depends what kind of dog. If
you get like a little poodle.

Speaker 7 (26:53):
Was once attached by a three legged dog.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
If you get if you get in a pit bull
or something like that, there's always the inherit a chance
that the people will have a bad day.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
And have you for lunch.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
What kat could be mean too. I saw this man.
She had a cat and she couldn't do anything good.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
You are?

Speaker 1 (27:11):
You are next Ledger Jerome. You are, you are, You're on.
You're on a burner right now.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
Man.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
People you can't trust people, Okay.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
You can't. You can't trust people. You can't trust animals.
You hate the holidays?

Speaker 4 (27:27):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (27:27):
What am I missing?

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Anything?

Speaker 4 (27:29):
Here?

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Is anything else here?

Speaker 4 (27:30):
You are trying to send al Shire put our hid
on on Trevor Lawrence, the head of the Do you
let me hit you?

Speaker 5 (27:39):
My dad?

Speaker 4 (27:39):
Damn?

Speaker 1 (27:41):
You're a You're an old guy. I could. I can
handle you. I can handle you.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Number another sixty million dollars like and Jake Paul.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, let's do it man, right now, let's sign up
for that right now. Of course you wouldn't show up
because I was in Charleston. You wouldn't show up.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
You know I was in your town. You didn't show up.
Oh it's too far, it's two blocks away, it's too far.
Oh my god, I can't go meet you model.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
I'm not a damn. You only hang up with supermodels. Okay.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Uh, clearly you've never been to a Mallard meet and greet.
Come on.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
The way.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
By the way, Hey, you know what does that comment
you made with so ridiculous? It reminded me about the
buyout the Jams fragment had a pants kit. I almost
tell off my bed when I found out about it.
Fifty shakes a million dollars buyout, yeah, eight million a year.
And you know what else? I got some mother stuff

(28:37):
for you bad?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Oh yeah, well what what what do you think about?

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Wait? Wait, hoh wait wait, hold, I say, what do
you think about Jimbo Fisher and his biot?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Did you see what he's getting it?

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Seventy seventy seven million Texas A and M is paying
him over seventy seven something.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Cow Roley's about his ninety million. Oh god, please, someone
help me. I can't.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
No, you know you're beyond help at this point. You're home.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
You just you just want to complain. I listen, it's
good talk radio. You complain about everything. You're upset. Well,
you'll be happy to know Jerome I am Jerome, I
am more relatable. My buyout is about seventy five cents.
That's a fruit pie out of the vending machine. That's
how much my buyout is.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
So if they are playing art in this weekend. I
can't believe.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
All right, all right, you're bug out in the airtime.
You're stealing all the airtime. I gotta god, thank you,
go complain to somebody else. Let's hello to Andre and
the Commonwealth and it's dog Willis, Hello Andre, what is
going on?

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Ben?

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Good to be with you.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Willis is getting a snack right now, we'll go ahead.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
And what kind of snack does Willis?

Speaker 6 (29:49):
Like?

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Scooby snack? What are we looking at here?

Speaker 3 (29:52):
We get the uh, you know, the dog bones, and
they got to be a certain variety, you know, so
they don't interfere, you know, So we get dog bones
at the local Garrett.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Uh oh, you're bougie man, you're bougie getting a high
end dog ball.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, that's the way, you know.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
I gotta they gotta support my local people because you know,
they're open late late for us on the cape.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
You know, we have this Yes, it's a resort. It's
a resort town. And this stuff's not openly right on here.
And you live in a resort town. Things close early
and it's a daytime thing. It's a pain of the butt,
I hear you.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Good folks of Garrett are open till one. So got
to go out and support and appreciate them. So we
get the dog bones.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Now do you remember Now, I don't know if this
was like this on the cave, but back in the
day before COVID, a lot of stores were open all night,
and then once COVID they never a lot of them
never reopened all night.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
But they used to be a time there were stores
everywhere that were open all night.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
But anyway, that's what unfortunate.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
But the Wilis is doing good. He's hanging out, he
got his snack and he'll be getting ready. I don't
know if we're going to do any barking, but he's
he's hanging out and he's involved.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
You know he's not involved.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Then that's Rob Manfred in terms of this Golden bat well,
I don't care what client of conspiracy is going on
with the owners. Listen, when is enough enough? They got
one thing right, that's a pitch clock, all right on
points game moves, you know, seamlessly.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Under two hours.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Doesn't impact any of the fundamentals.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
You know, pitchers, you know, you don't got to rub.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Your belly and do all this thing every you know,
you just throw the ball and it works after that,
the shift getting rid of a defensive strategy because the
offense is used to adjust no reason. And mister sho
hail Tani ben okay, fifty home runs, fifty stolen bases,
they win the World Series, but he's running in the
pizza boxes? Ben okay, what's the why do we need

(31:36):
to grow expand the bases? It just diminishes what would
have been an overarching achievement. I can't put that up
against what Ricky Henderson did in terms of him stealing Basis.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
So back to Rob Man, Well, Andre, you know the
answer he put.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
He put a man for put a blue ribbon panel together,
and whatever suggestions they have, they have the Savannah bananas
es sense. It makes Basbell's turning into the Savannah bananas
in front of our eyes any gimmick. I'm telling they're
gonna have fans catching foul balls in the battle will
be out.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
That's coming and it's unnecessary because they started off on
the right spot. So the only thing I give them
credit for is this is just a get r and
it kicks some stuff around. So we're talking about baseball
when football and it's privacy and the NBA is coming
going towards the Christmas Day games in success. You know,
baseball is relevant at a time where it's generally not relevant.
But the rules, it just it doesn't make sense. It

(32:30):
doesn't help the game, and frankly they need to roll
back some of the other changes that they make, keep
the pitch clocks and get rid of the other foolsness.
For me and Willi Spence, it's great to be with you,
and I'm looking forward to getting back during the holidays,
you know, as we get some vacation time.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
That's right, you'll be back. I was very I know
justin it's just as excited about that and some others.
But Andre will return as a regular holiday caller. Another
reason to love the holidays right there, it'll be back
amazing time. Now for the who am I getting? You
can answer this on X at Ben Maller. Here's the
who am I game?

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Who I am?

Speaker 2 (33:04):
A starting NFL running back who is averaging a league
high four yards per carry when hit or behind the
line of scrimmage. So averaging four yards per carry when
hit at or behind the line of scrimmage. The average,
by the way, for a running back this season is

(33:24):
one point six yards per rush. One point six yards
per rush. Again, I'm a starting running back in the NFL.
I'm averaging a league high four yards per carry when
hit at or behind the line. The average for running
backs this season one point six yards per rush.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Who am I? That is the question. The answer. We'll
get to it. We will do it next.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
It is i Bill Miller reminding you, the consumer of
overnight audio content, that you need to be more interactive
with this show on things like Facebook and Instagram. The
show Facebook page is Ben Mahlor Show. You can interact

(34:12):
with other fans of the show, trade secrets, trade recipes,
complain about Jerome and Charleston and other callers that annoy you.
Facebook page Ben Malor Show. Also Ben Mallor on Fox,
on Instagram and now on Blue Sky as well.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Whatever that is.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Not not on TikTok, Not on TikTok. And now back
to the show. All right, Bill, thank you, Bill. Time
now for the who am I?

Speaker 6 (34:45):
Game?

Speaker 2 (34:45):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I Game? A blatant
attempt to try to convince you to listen a little
bit longer.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
The who am I?

Speaker 6 (34:54):
Game?

Speaker 2 (34:55):
The question of the hour? The question of the hour
is as follows here. It is from the NFL. I'm
a starting running back who is averaging a league high
four yards per carry. That's when hit at or behind
the line of scrimmage, bouncing off defenders and getting four

(35:17):
yards per carry. The average for an NFL running back
this season is one point six yards per rush after
being hit at or behind the line of scrimmage.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
So who am I? That is the question? What is
the answer?

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Big Gregan Iowa says, Rhino is the answer. Og Art
Puffin says al Shire, The Uber Driver is the way
to go?

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Who else do we have? Page down? Let's see you
can't read that.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Cowboy Killer says it has to be the iconic mascot
that Rob Manford canceled. That would be Chief Wahoo, Yes,
the Great Chief Wahoo. King Rory says, the Bill Doze
is the answer.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's from the King. Who else?

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Omar Infante from mister nice Guy Ducky from Pretty in
Pink guessed by Milkman Mike in Colorado, Christopher and Kansas
City going with our former Fox Sports radio teammate Goobi
Mark Goobaza, longtime Angels broadcaster. He did a time, he
did his time here. Who else do we have Bay

(36:24):
City Tony rights and says Blake Brocker Meyer is the
answer there.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
It's the great Bay City Tony.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
He's the guy that calls up Bay City Tony and
he's in the Bay Area and he says something really
nasty and.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Then we hang up on him. And he's a Bears fan.

Speaker 7 (36:38):
I love him.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, I enjoy his work too. Yeah, and we make
sure that the delay system is working. Elloy from Compton
says it is Lae her favorite cowboy, Zeke Elliott. Is
that your favorite Cowboyszeke Elliott?

Speaker 7 (36:52):
Oh my gosh, yeah, him and Troy Aikman.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Really Troy Aikman, which I heard Lvar.

Speaker 7 (36:57):
Made him go into retirement, which is crazy.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
I thought I thought Jimmy Garoppolo was your favorite forty
nine er or cowboyer.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
I screwed up the joke, all right.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Who else a SpongeBob guest by Alf the Alien Opiner?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Who else?

Speaker 2 (37:10):
We have a Tonka truck from legally Blind Christopher in
the Carolinas Eat in Roseville Minnesota, going with Tank Bigsby
as his answer. Else a late night drug tester says,
you are Walt Disney, who would have been one hundred
and twenty three years old.

Speaker 7 (37:28):
Happy birthday, Walt. Yeah, thank you for taking all my money.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Well, back when Walt owned Disneyland, it was actually reasonably priced.
The people that have honored Walt's legacy by sticking it
to the people that go to Disneyland.

Speaker 7 (37:43):
The nineteen Walt for a different time.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Walt Disney actually cared about, you know, price points and
if you look at the level of inflation. We did
this on the Fifth Hour podcast. Danny g was complaining
because he spent thousands of dollars to take his family
to Disneyland. Oh yeah, and so we were doing the
math based on inflation, like the price. I forget exactly
what the number was, but I think it was like,

(38:05):
the cost to go to Disneyland, based on normal US
inflation from where it started, should be like thirty seven
dollars a ticket. How much does it cost to go
to Disneyland.

Speaker 8 (38:18):
They have flex days now, so it's anywhere from ninety
eight to one hundred and sixty three on a single day.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
But that's during the week but on the weekends, isn't
it much more.

Speaker 8 (38:27):
Than still about there on sixty three for top tier,
But that doesn't count park Copper though, if you want
to park Copper then it's going to be well.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
The point is that they have not they've they've gone
way above and beyond that super market. Steve says, you
have to be Zeke Elliott because God knows the cowboys
don't need Dereck Henry. He says, not a Burner writes,
and he says weed Man hippie giving a weather report
outside during a hurricane. One of the great moments in
show history. Weed Man reporting from a lifeguard tower in

(38:59):
South Florida while a hurricane was making landfall, and he
was giving us updates on that and it was an
amazing night, an amazing.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Night, he said. He's good to go far out.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Dave says, Mookie Blaylock is the answer, dingle Berry mccringleberry
from John very funny. Who else, Mike, You're in the
good hands, good hands with Allstott, Mike Allstot. There Bucks Legend,
Tom Rathman guests by Rob in Minnesota, Brett the hit Man,
Hard from Gil Who's up with us in Sun Diego.

(39:31):
All right, Lorena, last chance saloon for you. I am
a starting NF for a running back who is averaging
a league high four yards per carrier when hit ad
or behind the line. The average for running backs this
year is one point six yards per rush.

Speaker 7 (39:45):
Yeah, I think it's Luka don chis.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
All right, Well, he's certainly'd be a great running back.
He's fat. No, that's incorrect.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
The correct answer is Buccaneer running back Bucky Irving.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
No relation to BUCkies, but Bucky.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Irving, who is a pinball bouncing off defenders for the Buccketeers.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Bucky Irving
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