December 12, 2024 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about Bill Belichick signing on to be the North Carolina Tarheels next head coach, Jalen Hurts & A.J. Brown trying to set the record state about their relationship, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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we got boots on the ground in Chapel Hill. We
got other listeners there. But Spaccolei's very interactive with the
show and this the story everyone's been yapping about here. Uh,
have you've done a wellness check on, like Wayne and
Southee and some of those Belichick Belichickian fans. Uh maybe not,
But it isn't newby Night by Always get that out
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of the way. It's a newby Night all right for
Newby Knight. Yeah, it's a Newby Knight. So that means
all new callers. We'll see what happens here. The regulars
have the night off. That means no hollering James Felexis,
Tony in the Bay will not be able to curse
on the air, and Angry Bill and his woke Caitlin
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Clark there they can hang out together, but they will
not be selling our airwaves. So we'll have new callers.
Very exciting. So our lead this hour though, is from
the Hill. That would be Chapel Hill. That is where
the football world bizarro world turned upside down. The announcement
coming down on Wednesday. Assume you've heard by now and
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what's been talking about this North Carolina. North Carolina has
agreed to a five year contract with Bill Belichick to
be the new head coach. It's still pending supposed approval,
but that's just a mere formality at this point. Bill Belichick,
seventy two, gets a five year contract. God bless him.
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He's worked in the NFL since nineteen seventy five. Holy,
that's a long time ago. And now he took the
year off there after the Patriots gave him the boot.
We know what happened there after the twenty twenty three season.
This will be his first college job, first college job
at age seventy two. This has reality TV show, this
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has a movie, the whole thing. And Belichick made sure
to make it seem like this was a natural connection
because his father, Steve Belichick, served as the assistant for
the Tar Hills back in the nineteen fifties nineteen fifty
three to nineteen fifty five, and Belichick waxed loquacious about
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what it was like being around college football and smooched it.
You know, the whole thing. Right prepared statement from Bill
Belichick said he always wanted a coach in college. He says,
I look forward to building the football program in Chapel Hill.
So let us discuss the question is this, What does
this gig do for Bill Belichick? What does this gig
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do for the University of North Carolina. So I've got
Singing Cowboy, Hollywood Remake, and Quasi modo, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make the Dagger because Bill Belichick brings the dagger
with him to this jep so A we'll start with Belichick.
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So for Bill Belichick, my thoughts is I was just
cruising in from the north wits here. My thoughts it
just it keeps him busy, gets them back in the game, right,
not the game, but a game, and not the game
that he wanted. He'd much rather be an NFL coach,
but he took a sabbatical and was not his choice.
He should be coaching the Atlanta Falcons right now. But
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Arthur Blank's a dumb, dumb and hired Rahee Morris who
couldn't coach his way out of wet paper bag and
is proving that on a weekly basis now in Atlanta.
Bad job by Arthur Blank. If he ran home deepo
the way he ran the Falcons home, people would have
got out of business years ago, But I digress. So
Bill Belichick, after being rejected by the Falcons, has settled
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in to the life of playing grab ass with Pat
McAfee and Peyton Manning and his buddy who follows him
around and make sure that he has his shoulders rubbed,
Jim Gray. But those days are ending. Well. The Jim
Gray shoulder rubs will continue, but the other stuff's over.
And now he can say, Hey, my name is Bill Belichick,
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and I am the singing cowboy like Gene Autry back
in the day, Back in the saddle again, although this
is not a saddle he's ever sat on in terms
of college football. But here we are now for North Carolina.
What does Bill Belichick do for North Carolina? Well, it
gives them a seat at the grown ups table, it does.
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No one spends more than a split second thinking about
North Carolina and college football. They don't. It just doesn't exist.
It's a basketball school, It's been a basketball school, it
will continue to be a basketball school. But a program
that has been in a medically induced coma for forty
plus years and now here they are, Hey, Wait, all
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of a sudden, they got clout. All of a sudden,
dopes like me and other blowhards and know it, all's
in the media are suddenly talking about North Carolina and football.
All right now, Page two, Where is your Benny Oh
belief O meter? Your Benny belief oh meter on Bill
Belichick's succeeding with Ttario. So we're going to pull out
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the Benny belief ometer for Bill Belichick. So on the
Maller Benny belief Ometer one to ten, with ten being
Gay Gearn Tate garon tit. So I'm gonna seven, and
I believe that's high. I believe that's igh. Seven is
pretty high on the Benny belief O meter. And here's why.
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Now I'm gonna preface this by saying, I'm gonna couch
this by saying, Bill Belichick is not winning a national
championship at North Carolina. That ain't happening. However, you have
to judge this. My belief in Belichick is that the
mission is not to win a national championship. The Cantankeer
is coach Late of the Patriots.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Here.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This is a Hollywood remake of the Coach Prime experience.
He said, Well, well, Bill Belichick and Dion Sanders are
nothing like, what are you talking about? You dumb dumb?
Let me explain, Let me make my elevator pitch. Why
even though they are polar opposites, Right, you've got the
loquacious Dion Sanders, the debonair Dion Sanders, and the grumpy
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Bill Belichick. But yet the endgame will be the same.
Deon Sanders has gotten a lot of attention. We've talked
about him more than a lot of other college football.
We don't talk much college football on the show. We
talked a lot about Deon Sanders. He's thirteen and eleven
as head coach at Colorado, two games over five hundred
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and I expect similar results for Bill Belichick. But yet
it will be successful. Now he said, why will it
be successful? Here's why. My belief in Belichick is that
the Tar Hills will become a total clearinghouse of NFL guys,
a feeder program like Belichick envisions a stepping stone to
the NFL, and much like coach Prime. Coach Prime has
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multiple first round picks on his roster right now at Colorado,
and they're not winning as much as other schools. Bill
Belichick at North Carolina has already he's already starting to
hire his old buddies. I know this chatter is he's
going to hire his kids. The coach in waiting and
he's got I'm sure he'll call Matt Patricia and Josh
McDaniels and Joe Judge and those good Hey, how would
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you like to get the band back together here in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. So the Suns line up and
all that. But for Bill Belichick, he's gonna get a
chance to redefine himself, although it's how long he's going
to be there. But North Carolina, from what we understand,
has lined up the oligarchs. They are lining up the
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people with the deep pockets there and they will pay
the nil money to get the players, because it's pay
to play in college football. You pay players and as
we have seen as the old guard that loved their
their history, Ali, you're like Alabama or Ohio State or
Notre Dame or SC you know you'll go to a
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place like North Carolina if the check's big enough. And
that's the way this is. This thing's going to operate.
The top line players. Now, do we think that Bill
Belichick is going to go out and hit the recruiting trail.
He'll have other people do most of the work, and
it'd be like a Nick Saban model, where as we understand,
like Nick Saban the last few years at Alabama when
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he was there, he was the closer, like he'd fly
in on the helicopter at the very end to get
the deal done. But it was other people that did
the dirty work. And Belichick's never going to be mister Sunshine.
That's not gonna happen. And he's not gonna charm anyone,
although as we have said for some time, he does
have something. Belichick is in his seventies, his girlfriend is
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in her twenties, he's twenty four, so clearly he's got
some game somehow. But he'll get recruits because they'll buy
them at North Carolina, and we'll see him on the
sidelines wearing a disheveled North Carolina powder blue hoodie and
he'll be roaming around, grumbling, spitting and all that. All right,
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best word on this Belichick story. Does this move to
the Atlantic Coast Conference by Bill Belichick close the door
to his NFL coaching return a five year deal pending
approval by the Board of trustees that'll come down later
on Thursday. But does this close the door to Bill
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Belichick going back to the NFL. And I'm gonna go know,
it obviously moves closer to that. It's like the doomsday clock.
It moves closer, tic tic tic tic tick a little
bit closer. And it's kind of clearer to us. I
don't know about you that Belichick felt left off, left
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off the NFL radar, that even though he was doing
all these TV shows and radio shows or podcasts or whatever,
Belichick tossed this possibility out. He leaked this through his
useful idiots in the media as a as a vehicle
to get an NFL team interested. And he felt unwanted
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by the NFL and treated like Quasi Moto, the hunchback
of Chapel Hill Bill Belichick, and so he leaked in
the North Carolina. If somebody around him leaked at thinking
that the fish would bite, that some NFL aristocrat owner
would come out and say, that's why I want I
want Bill Belichick to be my coach. And they didn't
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take the bait. Nobody took the bait, and so here
we are, and so for now Bill Belichick goes to
THEU Tarist. Now the ultimate chess move, not Checker's chess,
would be Bill Belichick in mid januaries, and I've had
a change in plans. I've decided I don't want to
coach at North Carolina. I'm gonna let my son coach.
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I'm gonna take the head coaching job for the Giants.
Because just because he took this job does not mean
that there's all there's not a whole bunch of loopholes.
He can get out of the contract and depends how
it's all written. But Bill Belichick, six time champion with
the Patriots, can say hey, you a month or two
months from now, most likely a month because of the
way the coaching hiring process works in the NFL's eh,
(13:09):
you know, something open up And I decided I wanted
to do that instead. And it's not you, it's me.
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of the day is in Philadelphia, High drama, high drama.
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Despite a darkling record a nine game winning streak, the
Eagles are dealing with internal squabbling. Squabble, squabble, squabble, squabble, squabble.
Yeah now, if you have not been paying attention, I
will give you the thumbnail recap and then we'll get
to the newest information. So a J. Brown that's a
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wide receiver, a good one, and he has a beef
with Jalen Hurts. Now Jalen Hurts for one year was
an MVP guy. Since then, eh, but all of this
over the anemic passing attack for the Philadelphia football team.
When asked where improvement was needed following a close win
(15:46):
over a mediocre Carolina team, AJ Brown tersely responded one
word passing. Okay, So have you heard the latest? That's
the recap. Have you heard the latest? You have not? Okay? Good?
All right, good. So if you have not seen this,
Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown both want you to know
(16:06):
they are on the same page despite the headlines. Hurts said, quote,
we're good. He said, he said, we're good. Jalen Hurts.
When asked about this, AJ said teammate Brandon Graham was
just emotional and he misspoke, misspoke, misspoke when he said
the relationship was fractured. Both Hurts and Brown spoke spoke
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out of place, they said, They said that Graham spoke
out of place. He knows that that's what Hurts said. Hey,
we have some AJ. I think we have some AJ Brown.
So this little taste of what AJ Brown had to say,
Let's let's take a listen, BG just being BG is emotional.
In that case, he's a misspoke, you know, a man,
Jayleen god Thereby love Gg. I know he's speaking on
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the art, you know, he's just giving this perception or
something on the outside. So we actually had our microphone
was across the Delaware there and we had a lot
of ambient noise. So if you can make that out,
You've got better hearing than I have. And I'm wearing headphones,
so trust me. That was AJ Brown. So anyway, so
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again both of them, said Brandon Graham, who announced on
his radio show that AJ Brown and Hurts don't like
each other, that he spoke out of place, hurt said,
and that AJ said he misspoke. So let us discuss
the question on a new MEE Night Eagles Star Eagles start,
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Jalen Hurts a wide receiver AJ Brown attempting to clear
the air get rid of the bad fumes, indicating their
relationship is not fractured despite what you might have heard
and read. Do you believe them? Do you believe them?
So I've got playhouse, free refills and fatal flaw, and
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we will combine all all of these things together and
make a giant beach ball, which is what the Eagles
will be playing with when they get eliminated from the
NFL playoffs. They'll be going to a tropical destination playing
with the beach ball.
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So num Burn to quote quote the great speaker of words,
Andy Furman, I was born at night.
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But I was not born at last night. I was
not born last night. No, you would have to be
the sucker in the room, the sucker in the room.
If you think that these Schmendricks what they're doing now
is accurate. What they're saying now is accurate. Come on.
The Eagles got together. They had a closed door meeting
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and aj Brown was in there, and they had Jalen
Hurtz and there was a crisis meeting. How are we
going to own this store? What are we going to say?
Let's get on the same page here, let's all get
in the same page. And so the Schmendricks got together
and they said, all right, you're at Dingleberry and I'm
I'm musch Mendrick. And let's figure this thing out. And
so somebody there read them the riot Act in the
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Eagles organization, and so what we got was Jalen Hurts
and AJ Brown entering the playoffs and they were in
the theater. They were on the stage there and they
were doing some old fashioned kabuki theaters. What they were
doing there, they were grand standing. They were playing to
the cameras and saying what they think needed to be said.
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And AJ Brown was pointing the finger at Jalen Hurts
in his initial comments, and people didn't like that and
got uncomfortable. And then you know, workplaced tension, right, workplace
tension is a real thing. It happens all over every
day if you are in an office environment or in
the NFL is not an office environment, but you're you're
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hanging out together, you're showering together, those kind of things,
working out all that stuff at an NFL facility, and
so there are people. You bring groups of people together,
the people that don't like each other, It's okay, that's
how life works. Co workers kind of know this, right.
There's often conflict and tension. Those things happen, and it's
about maintaining productivity. Now, I will tell you. Up until
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this point, the Eagles have been very productive. The factory
is meeting all of the demands of the factory, all
the quotas they are meeting. So they are absolutely doing that.
The Eagles are eleven and two. They're gonna likely wrap
up the NFC East this weekend. Okay, So they're gonna
win this weekend and wrap that up, and they hold
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the number two, number two seed in the NFC. Now
page two. So Cansah City we go. Where the Chiefs
are right and high by the skin on their chinny
chin chin. Kansas City is about to embark on a journey.
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They're about to play three games in eleven days. Holy
grilled cheese batman. H Yeah. So they play the Browns
on Sunday, then they've got a date with the Texans
on Saturday, and then following that on Christmas, Ho ho
ho Mary Christmas, you get to play mister unlimited. So
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I was practicing for when I play Santa Ho Ho
Mary Christmas. That was pretty good, right, No, anyway, quarterback
Patrick Mahomes Mahomye. Now he says he's not looking forward
to it. Mahomes this week said it's not a good feeling,
that was his quote, not a good feeling. Even though
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he's excited. He said to play on Christmas. You never
want to play this many games in that short amount
of time, all right. So Patrick Mahomes says he does
not have a good feeling about the Chief's upcoming schedule.
Is the glass half full or is the glass half empty?
That's the question, all right? So is it half full
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or half empty? So if you look at a sign
when you walk into the restaurant and you look right
above the drink bar area there, it says free refills,
So it doesn't matter the glass is neither half full,
nor is the glass half empty. It's just refillable. It's
just refillable. So that's all you need to worry about.
It's refillable. And one thing about the championship teams of
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the NFL, they generally just win these games. They figure
out a way they'll win two out of three and
that'll be that, and they overcome adversity and all most
good teams. This is an honor. It's like one of
those things. It's a weird deal. No one's inviting Jacksonville
to play three games in eleven days or Carolina. It
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happens a few times a year every year where teams
are asked to play this amount of games and this
amount of time, and it is an honor. It's because
people actually want to watch you play, and it's a
big deal. It's a big deal. And as we know,
the sugar daddy of the NFL is television. That's what
feeds everything. It is the last of the Mohegans. It
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is the final frontier that has not been swallowed up
by streaming or the Internet and all that. So's just
suck it up, buttercup. The train's gonna keep going down
the tracks, all right. Now, final point to the rules
of the game. The rules of the game. Now we
are told the NFL has announced they are going to
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consider expanding replay Assist, expanding replay assist to include face
mask penalties. If you saw this past Monday night, Joe
Burrow had his face mask grabbed, it was not called.
There was a ram Viking game earlier this year in
LA when Sam Darnold had his face mask grabbed and
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it was not called. So the NFL considering expanding the
replay assyst to include the face mask penalty and other penalties.
Are you gonna go thumb up. Are you gonna go
thumbs down on the expansion of replay assists to include
the face mass penalty? So I'm gonna go two thumbs
down on this. Let me explain why, because it is
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another layer of overreach, like we have we have enough,
we have enough. In theory, it all sounds great. I
get theory, I get it. I understand why most people
are excited about this because it sounds fine. But in reality,
when you actually go forward here, it's going to cause mortlays,
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It's gonna cause mortalays. And and while replay Assist has
actually been pretty good overall, it's been a good thing's
been relatively quick and all that, you keep adding more
things to keep an eye on, and eventually you cross
over and you're like, what are we doing here? You know,
there's a there's a thin line that you cross over,
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and the arithmetic becomes a problem. Now the problem with
and this is going to be the problem with all
of these things that are coming to sports. AI is here, right,
AI is here. You're gonna have automated strike zones in
baseball within the next couple of years. Rob Manford's health
brend on that. So that's gonna happen. You're gonna have
the NFL. Eventually, we'll go to a similar model the NFL.
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I promise you, the NFL will find a way that
whether it's Elon Musk or Apple or someone's gonna cook
up a way to have the game adjudicated via an
algorithm or an AI program, whatever it is, and the
NFL will say, well, we should do that. We'll save money.
We only have to pay for one person, we don't
have to pay for all these other officials, and that'll
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be that. The problem, though, is the fatal flaw that
you cannot overcome with all of this technology, the human element.
So well, wait a minute to tell you, okay, but
having humans in any situation, okay, any activity, any process,
even programming AI, as we have seen, right, as we
have seen with some of the early AI stuff that's
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out there, when people have typed in certain search words
and what is popped up, it's programmed by somebody. So
you're not going to ever have one hundred percent accuracy.
There is a deviation from the intention on all this stuff, right,
on all this stuff, and even with AI, at some
point it's taking stuff from humans. It initially was programmed
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by humans, and then it's stuff that humans come up with,
it's added into it, so it's a bit of a mess. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahler Show as we roll on,
and so it's really just every NFL game is like
one dude who's watching and then just seeing if they
see any penalties and then calling in saying, hey, we
got a penalty on numb nuts. Number seventy two numb nuts.
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We got a penalty.
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How about that?
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To the third degree, this is one big event gets grilled.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Patriots Hall of Famer Ty Law appeared on Boston Sports
Radio this week when he said Drawn Mayo is quote,
definitely safe for next season, no matter what happens these
last four games.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Ben, do you agree with him? No, Ty Law is
not running team now. The odds are in favor of
that being the outcome, because Robert Kraft would have to
admit that he's really bad at picking coaches, and you
shouldn't just hire a coach because you liked hanging out
with him on a bus. Trip in Israel, So that's
probably in a good way to hire a coach. But
but no, I mean pitchers. If they get blown out
every game at the end of the year year and
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they and Drake may sucks, then no repressure to fire
girod Mayo. He's far from safe.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Next, that's being reported that the Miami Heat are open
to discussing a trade to send Jimmy Butler to a
new situation. However, they would want significant compensation. Ben, do
you think a deal will be made for Butler?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Well, he's an aging player, right Jimmy Butler's agent. If
you saw this cooopie exploded at sham Sharania following that report,
I mean, you know it's it's not what it's meant
to be. And I but here's the thing. Jimmy Butler
has been around for a while. He's thirty five. He
looks a step slower. So if you're Miami, you can't
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expect to get a premium return because Butler has become
old in front of your eyes. So you're not gonna
get that much in a return. But I do I
think the Heat would absolutely trade him. Yes, And Pat
Roley's likely kicking himself. He didn't trade Jimmy Butler this
past offseason, and he held autumn next.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
So Jamaar Chase admitted this week that he has always
wanted to work out with Randy Moss, but has always
been nervous to do so.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, I bet has there ever been to anyone that
you were nervous to work with? Well, I don't know nervous.
When I first started, I was around athletes a lot,
and so that was always awkward. There were people that
I like grew up watching and I was working with
him in radio, so that was very bizarre. But I
don't I'm as nervous, but it was more I was
just nervous in general. Coop, I had a lot of
stage fright when I first started. I had flop sweat.
(28:54):
You know. It was terrible my first ever radio show.
I prepared for my monologue and then I had three hours.
I had no material. I was drowning on the air.
So is this a general sense of drowning? Anyway? How
did we do? Coopleloo? You pass us in there? It
is That's a week I won again. Holloway Jones, I
wont James.
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For time for horr ask Bed. Twitter said this your
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questions are answers as we spring into action for the
rest of the hour. And here we go over to
the Coopleloo for the reading of the questions. The reading
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of the questions on this edition of Ask Bed. All right, JT.
The Wingman would like to know. And you know, I
guess this is i JT. I've seen him in four
different states that I guess this could just be a
question for your bodies. Now at this point we don't
need to I've seen him, you know, read I've seen JT.
The wing Man more than I've seen either one of
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my brothers the last couple of years. You know that story.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Yeah, he wants to know does FSR Does the FSR
building have squatty potties in the restrooms at the studios?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Uh no, no, they barely have toilet paper. They have
that thin toilet paper here where you have to use
out like a whole role. It's so bad like, I
know they're cheap and a half ply. Oh, it's so bad.
Everywhere every business is like that. But it's really stupid
because you just stand up using you go through more
toilet paper because people just go through it. That must
be so cheap to buy that kind of toilet paper,
right everyone everywhere you go, every every restaurant bathroom, every
(30:44):
mall bathroom, they have the cheapest quality toilet paper.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
I feel like squatty potties are meant for your home
and not for work business.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Because could you imagine our guy trying to clean that
in the men's bathroom, like discuss.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Well, you're supposed to put your feet on it. I
don't think you're supposed to.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Pro Why do you think I demanded my own back?
What happens below?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I know?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yes, this is how wonderful it is here since Lorena
got here. So we have about ninety nine dudes, and
there's like maybe three or four women that work here.
There's one toilet for the men and there's one toilet
for the four women. The ratio on that is really bad,
really bad. It wouldn't be a problem, really terrible. Bed
just go out to go like the vegan go out
(31:22):
to the bushes. That's what the vegan does. He goes,
eats out there, goes to the bathroom out there. He's
a damn caveman, the vegan. All right, what's next? Here
to ask Ben? Your questions are answers. Femi would like
to know my Femi. That's the number one Uber East
driver in Minnesota. Go ahead, what's the longest trip you've
driven solo? How long did it take you?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Nowhere really all that far. I I've driven from LA
to San Francisco. I've driven to Phoenix from LA. I've
driven from drove from Philadelphia over to Pittsburgh, up the
Buffalo back down to New York. But I mean, I'd
like to drive across there. But I knock on wood here.
I still I've kept a job long. If I've ever
(32:04):
lose my job, that's what I'm doing. But I'd say
probably eight nine hours that's about it. What about you
a long time the rain?
Speaker 7 (32:12):
I drive to Oregon all the time, all the time.
Was all the time, like two to three times a
year to and fro.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Now. The amazing thing about going from California Oregon is
how effin big California. Even when you get to Sacramento.
It's so long, you're still are you like still five
hours away from the Oregon border even in Sacramentos in
this nuts.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
And then you got to go through the mountainous treacherous.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Area because you look at a map and Sacramento looks like,
well it's right near the northern part of California. No,
it's like another five hours to get psych Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Now usually takes me twelve to thirteen hours if I
don't stop a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Wait, how from LA to Orgon.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
LA to where my hometown is?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Really? What's that? Okay? What about you? Coop?
Speaker 5 (32:56):
So as far as like Solo, that's probably just been
in La to San Diego. I mean the longest I've
driven that's period is from here to Portland. But I was, boy,
why are you guys driving far distances by yourself in
the car? I mean, I've driven to Portland before, but
(33:17):
I was with my Hey, my girlfriend had a couple
of years ago my cousin. A cousin lives in Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
He actually moved to Vegas, but he lived in Phoenix
and he got a very bad medical diagnosis. So I
I just spur the moment, woke up on a Friday
and I drove to Phoenix. I hung out with him
for two hours, got in the car and drove back
to LA Just like that. That I was crazy.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
It was nuts.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
What's next? Ye? What do we have here? It's ask Ben?
Your question is are answers for the rest of the ife?
You want to send a question in hashtag ask Ben.
If you like this bit, we do it every week.
And if you really like this bit, we have a
totally different bit which some people think is the same
as this on the Fifth Hour podcast on Sunday. And
if you hate the bit, we only do it once
a week. So who cares?
Speaker 5 (33:59):
A couple killer would like to know. Is there anything
you are constantly losing? Glasses, credit cards, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
No, I mean I've learned over the years, as it's
just adulting. You put your phone, your stuff down, your
keys down the same spot. Now, every once in a
while my phone will disappear. But I got the Apple
Watch thing. I hit this button and check this out,
just alive on the air, hit this button and then
(34:29):
here I'll do it again here. Yeah, that alarm goes
out to let you know where your phone is. How
cool is that? So I never since I got this,
I've never lost my phone. So nah, the worst is
when you can't find your keys. That's the worst. I've had.
That happen a few times, but not in a while. Portiately,
what about you about Rain, I have left my wallet,
(34:50):
dropped it in parking lots a few times.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Yeah, I'm gonna show you my wallet. This is This
is my wallet.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
That's not a wallet, and.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
I drop it all the time, and I.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Use a little that's how a coin.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
I leave it somewhere all the time.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And now this is a wallet, Lora, I see that
that is That is a massive They call it the
Costanza wallet. It's an old reference.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Mine's just a little jewelry bag. And I switch because
I have black ones and blue ones and pink ones,
so I just switched in between.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
Always lose them.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
All right, What about you? I have like old hotel keys.
I don't from hotels I stayed at. Yes, oh yeah,
all right. I have a I have a card from
Keith who I met in Charleston, who lives in the
Villages in Florida, but he's from Michigan, and he gave
me his card and I still have it in my
wallet from the Charleston, meet and greet. I have that right.
I have Andy Reid almost Andy Reid's card. I have
(35:45):
that right. What about you cool?
Speaker 5 (35:48):
I'm always losing the lighter uh and the remote.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, the remote gets lost a lot too. Not by
me because I put it back in the same spot.
The wife puts it all over the place. It's where's waldough?
Or you're getting hot? You're getting colder, getting hotter. No,
I am the problem when it comes to the remote.
What is next to? Ask Ben? Your hey? That Looney
commercials on again? Of him? Of the referee? All right,
what's next here? It's ask Ben? Your questions are answers?
(36:17):
All right? Ferd Dog wants to know what is Fergie?
Speaker 5 (36:20):
What is the right amount of cologne slash perfume to
put on?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So there's there's a couple of ways you can do
it the way. There's two ways I was taught. One
is you like sprayed two sprays and walk into it.
Another one is you spray your wrist, you rub the
other wrist, and then you rub the back of your neck.
That's how I was taught. One of those two ways.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
I like doing that, Like where you like sprayed above
your head and then you spin under it like Cinderella.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
But I get it in my eyeballs a lot like that.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, that kind of burns.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
So I've been doing it on my wrist and then
a full sprits on my wrist and I'll rub those together,
and then a full sprits on my neck.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
What about your coop?
Speaker 5 (37:02):
I rarely wear cologne, but if I were to, I
like the the two sprays and walk through method.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Walk through methods. Yes. When when Jerry was my producer
back in the day, there was a woman that worked
across the lot. I think the statute of limitations was
up and Jerry recognized her from the performed perfume she
was wearing. She was also apparently doing some dancing on
the side, and Jerry recognized that she and knew that
that was what he knew her from that anyway, all right,
(37:29):
what is next year? To ask man? Your questions are answers?
The King Rory would like to Rory. Have you ever
gone streaking before? Oh? God, no, look at me. Come on, please, no, Lorena,
I'd be arrested immediate. This morning, Ben, what's that?
Speaker 7 (37:43):
I went to my mailbox this morning?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
You did?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Really?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
The neighbors love you. You're a liar. There's always some
old person walking around, and there's always somebody out there
walking a dog.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Just trying to get some more, some more male.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah, all right, cool fans. I yes I have, really yeah. No,
that's no chance, zero chances are there is asked, Ben,
Your questions are answers. Get that squatty potty ready, no boo,
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Have Carolina on my mind? Well, Bill Belichick as Carolina
on his mind? Well, dum in not beginning of another
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(01:41):
we got boots on the ground in Chapel Hill. We
got other listeners there. But Spaccolei's very interactive with the
show and this the story everyone's been yapping about here. Uh,
have you've done a wellness check on, like Wayne and
Southee and some of those Belichick Belichickian fans. Uh maybe not,
But it isn't newby Night by Always get that out
(02:01):
of the way. It's a newby Night all right for
Newby Knight. Yeah, it's a Newby Knight. So that means
all new callers. We'll see what happens here. The regulars
have the night off. That means no hollering James Felexis,
Tony in the Bay will not be able to curse
on the air, and Angry Bill and his woke Caitlin
(02:22):
Clark there they can hang out together, but they will
not be selling our airwaves. So we'll have new callers.
Very exciting. So our lead this hour though, is from
the Hill. That would be Chapel Hill. That is where
the football world bizarro world turned upside down. The announcement
coming down on Wednesday. Assume you've heard by now and
(02:43):
what's been talking about this North Carolina. North Carolina has
agreed to a five year contract with Bill Belichick to
be the new head coach. It's still pending supposed approval,
but that's just a mere formality at this point. Bill Belichick,
seventy two, gets a five year contract. God bless him.
(03:07):
He's worked in the NFL since nineteen seventy five. Holy,
that's a long time ago. And now he took the
year off there after the Patriots gave him the boot.
We know what happened there after the twenty twenty three season.
This will be his first college job, first college job
at age seventy two. This has reality TV show, this
(03:28):
has a movie, the whole thing. And Belichick made sure
to make it seem like this was a natural connection
because his father, Steve Belichick, served as the assistant for
the Tar Hills back in the nineteen fifties nineteen fifty
three to nineteen fifty five, and Belichick waxed loquacious about
(03:49):
what it was like being around college football and smooched it.
You know, the whole thing. Right prepared statement from Bill
Belichick said he always wanted a coach in college. He says,
I look forward to building the football program in Chapel Hill.
So let us discuss the question is this, What does
this gig do for Bill Belichick? What does this gig
(04:13):
do for the University of North Carolina. So I've got
Singing Cowboy, Hollywood Remake, and Quasi modo, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make the Dagger because Bill Belichick brings the dagger
with him to this jep so A we'll start with Belichick.
(04:34):
So for Bill Belichick, my thoughts is I was just
cruising in from the north wits here. My thoughts it
just it keeps him busy, gets them back in the game, right,
not the game, but a game, and not the game
that he wanted. He'd much rather be an NFL coach,
but he took a sabbatical and was not his choice.
He should be coaching the Atlanta Falcons right now. But
(04:55):
Arthur Blank's a dumb, dumb and hired Rahee Morris who
couldn't coach his way out of wet paper bag and
is proving that on a weekly basis now in Atlanta.
Bad job by Arthur Blank. If he ran home deepo
the way he ran the Falcons home, people would have
got out of business years ago, But I digress. So
Bill Belichick, after being rejected by the Falcons, has settled
(05:15):
in to the life of playing grab ass with Pat
McAfee and Peyton Manning and his buddy who follows him
around and make sure that he has his shoulders rubbed,
Jim Gray. But those days are ending. Well. The Jim
Gray shoulder rubs will continue, but the other stuff's over.
And now he can say, Hey, my name is Bill Belichick,
(05:40):
and I am the singing cowboy like Gene Autry back
in the day, Back in the saddle again, although this
is not a saddle he's ever sat on in terms
of college football. But here we are now for North Carolina.
What does Bill Belichick do for North Carolina? Well, it
gives them a seat at the grown ups table, it does.
(06:04):
No one spends more than a split second thinking about
North Carolina and college football. They don't. It just doesn't exist.
It's a basketball school, It's been a basketball school, it
will continue to be a basketball school. But a program
that has been in a medically induced coma for forty
plus years and now here they are, Hey, Wait, all
(06:26):
of a sudden, they got clout. All of a sudden,
dopes like me and other blowhards and know it, all's
in the media are suddenly talking about North Carolina and football.
All right now, Page two, Where is your Benny Oh
belief O meter? Your Benny belief oh meter on Bill
Belichick's succeeding with Ttario. So we're going to pull out
(06:50):
the Benny belief ometer for Bill Belichick. So on the
Maller Benny belief Ometer one to ten, with ten being
Gay Gearn Tate garon tit. So I'm gonna seven, and
I believe that's high. I believe that's igh. Seven is
pretty high on the Benny belief O meter. And here's why.
(07:14):
Now I'm gonna preface this by saying, I'm gonna couch
this by saying, Bill Belichick is not winning a national
championship at North Carolina. That ain't happening. However, you have
to judge this. My belief in Belichick is that the
mission is not to win a national championship. The Cantankeer
is coach Late of the Patriots.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Here.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This is a Hollywood remake of the Coach Prime experience.
He said, Well, well, Bill Belichick and Dion Sanders are
nothing like, what are you talking about? You dumb dumb?
Let me explain, Let me make my elevator pitch. Why
even though they are polar opposites, Right, you've got the
loquacious Dion Sanders, the debonair Dion Sanders, and the grumpy
(07:58):
Bill Belichick. But yet the endgame will be the same.
Deon Sanders has gotten a lot of attention. We've talked
about him more than a lot of other college football.
We don't talk much college football on the show. We
talked a lot about Deon Sanders. He's thirteen and eleven
as head coach at Colorado, two games over five hundred
(08:18):
and I expect similar results for Bill Belichick. But yet
it will be successful. Now he said, why will it
be successful? Here's why. My belief in Belichick is that
the Tar Hills will become a total clearinghouse of NFL guys,
a feeder program like Belichick envisions a stepping stone to
the NFL, and much like coach Prime. Coach Prime has
(08:42):
multiple first round picks on his roster right now at Colorado,
and they're not winning as much as other schools. Bill
Belichick at North Carolina has already he's already starting to
hire his old buddies. I know this chatter is he's
going to hire his kids. The coach in waiting and
he's got I'm sure he'll call Matt Patricia and Josh
McDaniels and Joe Judge and those good Hey, how would
(09:04):
you like to get the band back together here in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. So the Suns line up and
all that. But for Bill Belichick, he's gonna get a
chance to redefine himself, although it's how long he's going
to be there. But North Carolina, from what we understand,
has lined up the oligarchs. They are lining up the
(09:27):
people with the deep pockets there and they will pay
the nil money to get the players, because it's pay
to play in college football. You pay players and as
we have seen as the old guard that loved their
their history, Ali, you're like Alabama or Ohio State or
Notre Dame or SC you know you'll go to a
(09:50):
place like North Carolina if the check's big enough. And
that's the way this is. This thing's going to operate.
The top line players. Now, do we think that Bill
Belichick is going to go out and hit the recruiting trail.
He'll have other people do most of the work, and
it'd be like a Nick Saban model, where as we understand,
like Nick Saban the last few years at Alabama when
(10:11):
he was there, he was the closer, like he'd fly
in on the helicopter at the very end to get
the deal done. But it was other people that did
the dirty work. And Belichick's never going to be mister Sunshine.
That's not gonna happen. And he's not gonna charm anyone,
although as we have said for some time, he does
have something. Belichick is in his seventies, his girlfriend is
(10:36):
in her twenties, he's twenty four, so clearly he's got
some game somehow. But he'll get recruits because they'll buy
them at North Carolina, and we'll see him on the
sidelines wearing a disheveled North Carolina powder blue hoodie and
he'll be roaming around, grumbling, spitting and all that. All right,
(11:00):
best word on this Belichick story. Does this move to
the Atlantic Coast Conference by Bill Belichick close the door
to his NFL coaching return a five year deal pending
approval by the Board of trustees that'll come down later
on Thursday. But does this close the door to Bill
(11:21):
Belichick going back to the NFL. And I'm gonna go know,
it obviously moves closer to that. It's like the doomsday clock.
It moves closer, tic tic tic tic tick a little
bit closer. And it's kind of clearer to us. I
don't know about you that Belichick felt left off, left
(11:42):
off the NFL radar, that even though he was doing
all these TV shows and radio shows or podcasts or whatever,
Belichick tossed this possibility out. He leaked this through his
useful idiots in the media as a as a vehicle
to get an NFL team interested. And he felt unwanted
(12:03):
by the NFL and treated like Quasi Moto, the hunchback
of Chapel Hill Bill Belichick, and so he leaked in
the North Carolina. If somebody around him leaked at thinking
that the fish would bite, that some NFL aristocrat owner
would come out and say, that's why I want I
want Bill Belichick to be my coach. And they didn't
(12:26):
take the bait. Nobody took the bait, and so here
we are, and so for now Bill Belichick goes to
THEU Tarist. Now the ultimate chess move, not Checker's chess,
would be Bill Belichick in mid januaries, and I've had
a change in plans. I've decided I don't want to
coach at North Carolina. I'm gonna let my son coach.
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I'm gonna take the head coaching job for the Giants.
Because just because he took this job does not mean
that there's all there's not a whole bunch of loopholes.
He can get out of the contract and depends how
it's all written. But Bill Belichick, six time champion with
the Patriots, can say hey, you a month or two
months from now, most likely a month because of the
way the coaching hiring process works in the NFL's eh,
(13:09):
you know, something open up And I decided I wanted
to do that instead. And it's not you, it's me.
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for that, Sign me up for that. So the catch
of the day is in Philadelphia, High drama, high drama.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
There.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Despite a darkling record a nine game winning streak, the
Eagles are dealing with internal squabbling. Squabble, squabble, squabble, squabble, squabble.
Yeah now, if you have not been paying attention, I
will give you the thumbnail recap and then we'll get
to the newest information. So a J. Brown that's a
(15:21):
wide receiver, a good one, and he has a beef
with Jalen Hurts. Now Jalen Hurts for one year was
an MVP guy. Since then, eh, but all of this
over the anemic passing attack for the Philadelphia football team.
When asked where improvement was needed following a close win
(15:46):
over a mediocre Carolina team, AJ Brown tersely responded one
word passing. Okay, So have you heard the latest? That's
the recap. Have you heard the latest? You have not? Okay? Good?
All right, good. So if you have not seen this,
Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown both want you to know
(16:06):
they are on the same page despite the headlines. Hurts said, quote,
we're good. He said, he said, we're good. Jalen Hurts.
When asked about this, AJ said teammate Brandon Graham was
just emotional and he misspoke, misspoke, misspoke when he said
the relationship was fractured. Both Hurts and Brown spoke spoke
(16:31):
out of place, they said, They said that Graham spoke
out of place. He knows that that's what Hurts said. Hey,
we have some AJ. I think we have some AJ Brown.
So this little taste of what AJ Brown had to say,
Let's let's take a listen, BG just being BG is emotional.
In that case, he's a misspoke, you know, a man,
Jayleen god Thereby love Gg. I know he's speaking on
(16:53):
the art, you know, he's just giving this perception or
something on the outside. So we actually had our microphone
was across the Delaware there and we had a lot
of ambient noise. So if you can make that out,
You've got better hearing than I have. And I'm wearing headphones,
so trust me. That was AJ Brown. So anyway, so
(17:13):
again both of them, said Brandon Graham, who announced on
his radio show that AJ Brown and Hurts don't like
each other, that he spoke out of place, hurt said,
and that AJ said he misspoke. So let us discuss
the question on a new MEE Night Eagles Star Eagles start,
(17:33):
Jalen Hurts a wide receiver AJ Brown attempting to clear
the air get rid of the bad fumes, indicating their
relationship is not fractured despite what you might have heard
and read. Do you believe them? Do you believe them?
So I've got playhouse, free refills and fatal flaw, and
(17:59):
we will combine all all of these things together and
make a giant beach ball, which is what the Eagles
will be playing with when they get eliminated from the
NFL playoffs. They'll be going to a tropical destination playing
with the beach ball.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
So num Burn to quote quote the great speaker of words,
Andy Furman, I was born at night.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But I was not born at last night. I was
not born last night. No, you would have to be
the sucker in the room, the sucker in the room.
If you think that these Schmendricks what they're doing now
is accurate. What they're saying now is accurate. Come on.
The Eagles got together. They had a closed door meeting
(18:44):
and aj Brown was in there, and they had Jalen
Hurtz and there was a crisis meeting. How are we
going to own this store? What are we going to say?
Let's get on the same page here, let's all get
in the same page. And so the Schmendricks got together
and they said, all right, you're at Dingleberry and I'm
I'm musch Mendrick. And let's figure this thing out. And
so somebody there read them the riot Act in the
(19:06):
Eagles organization, and so what we got was Jalen Hurts
and AJ Brown entering the playoffs and they were in
the theater. They were on the stage there and they
were doing some old fashioned kabuki theaters. What they were
doing there, they were grand standing. They were playing to
the cameras and saying what they think needed to be said.
(19:26):
And AJ Brown was pointing the finger at Jalen Hurts
in his initial comments, and people didn't like that and
got uncomfortable. And then you know, workplaced tension, right, workplace
tension is a real thing. It happens all over every
day if you are in an office environment or in
the NFL is not an office environment, but you're you're
(19:47):
hanging out together, you're showering together, those kind of things,
working out all that stuff at an NFL facility, and
so there are people. You bring groups of people together,
the people that don't like each other, It's okay, that's
how life works. Co workers kind of know this, right.
There's often conflict and tension. Those things happen, and it's
about maintaining productivity. Now, I will tell you. Up until
(20:08):
this point, the Eagles have been very productive. The factory
is meeting all of the demands of the factory, all
the quotas they are meeting. So they are absolutely doing that.
The Eagles are eleven and two. They're gonna likely wrap
up the NFC East this weekend. Okay, So they're gonna
win this weekend and wrap that up, and they hold
(20:30):
the number two, number two seed in the NFC. Now
page two. So Cansah City we go. Where the Chiefs
are right and high by the skin on their chinny
chin chin. Kansas City is about to embark on a journey.
(20:51):
They're about to play three games in eleven days. Holy
grilled cheese batman. H Yeah. So they play the Browns
on Sunday, then they've got a date with the Texans
on Saturday, and then following that on Christmas, Ho ho
ho Mary Christmas, you get to play mister unlimited. So
(21:15):
I was practicing for when I play Santa Ho Ho
Mary Christmas. That was pretty good, right, No, anyway, quarterback
Patrick Mahomes Mahomye. Now he says he's not looking forward
to it. Mahomes this week said it's not a good feeling,
that was his quote, not a good feeling. Even though
(21:37):
he's excited. He said to play on Christmas. You never
want to play this many games in that short amount
of time, all right. So Patrick Mahomes says he does
not have a good feeling about the Chief's upcoming schedule.
Is the glass half full or is the glass half empty?
That's the question, all right? So is it half full
(21:58):
or half empty? So if you look at a sign
when you walk into the restaurant and you look right
above the drink bar area there, it says free refills,
So it doesn't matter the glass is neither half full,
nor is the glass half empty. It's just refillable. It's
just refillable. So that's all you need to worry about.
It's refillable. And one thing about the championship teams of
(22:22):
the NFL, they generally just win these games. They figure
out a way they'll win two out of three and
that'll be that, and they overcome adversity and all most
good teams. This is an honor. It's like one of
those things. It's a weird deal. No one's inviting Jacksonville
to play three games in eleven days or Carolina. It
(22:43):
happens a few times a year every year where teams
are asked to play this amount of games and this
amount of time, and it is an honor. It's because
people actually want to watch you play, and it's a
big deal. It's a big deal. And as we know,
the sugar daddy of the NFL is television. That's what
feeds everything. It is the last of the Mohegans. It
(23:06):
is the final frontier that has not been swallowed up
by streaming or the Internet and all that. So's just
suck it up, buttercup. The train's gonna keep going down
the tracks, all right. Now, final point to the rules
of the game. The rules of the game. Now we
are told the NFL has announced they are going to
(23:29):
consider expanding replay Assist, expanding replay assist to include face
mask penalties. If you saw this past Monday night, Joe
Burrow had his face mask grabbed, it was not called.
There was a ram Viking game earlier this year in
LA when Sam Darnold had his face mask grabbed and
(23:50):
it was not called. So the NFL considering expanding the
replay assyst to include the face mask penalty and other penalties.
Are you gonna go thumb up. Are you gonna go
thumbs down on the expansion of replay assists to include
the face mass penalty? So I'm gonna go two thumbs
down on this. Let me explain why, because it is
(24:13):
another layer of overreach, like we have we have enough,
we have enough. In theory, it all sounds great. I
get theory, I get it. I understand why most people
are excited about this because it sounds fine. But in reality,
when you actually go forward here, it's going to cause mortlays,
(24:35):
It's gonna cause mortalays. And and while replay Assist has
actually been pretty good overall, it's been a good thing's
been relatively quick and all that, you keep adding more
things to keep an eye on, and eventually you cross
over and you're like, what are we doing here? You know,
there's a there's a thin line that you cross over,
(24:56):
and the arithmetic becomes a problem. Now the problem with
and this is going to be the problem with all
of these things that are coming to sports. AI is here, right,
AI is here. You're gonna have automated strike zones in
baseball within the next couple of years. Rob Manford's health
brend on that. So that's gonna happen. You're gonna have
the NFL. Eventually, we'll go to a similar model the NFL.
(25:16):
I promise you, the NFL will find a way that
whether it's Elon Musk or Apple or someone's gonna cook
up a way to have the game adjudicated via an
algorithm or an AI program, whatever it is, and the
NFL will say, well, we should do that. We'll save money.
We only have to pay for one person, we don't
have to pay for all these other officials, and that'll
(25:37):
be that. The problem, though, is the fatal flaw that
you cannot overcome with all of this technology, the human element.
So well, wait a minute to tell you, okay, but
having humans in any situation, okay, any activity, any process,
even programming AI, as we have seen, right, as we
have seen with some of the early AI stuff that's
(25:59):
out there, when people have typed in certain search words
and what is popped up, it's programmed by somebody. So
you're not going to ever have one hundred percent accuracy.
There is a deviation from the intention on all this stuff, right,
on all this stuff, and even with AI, at some
point it's taking stuff from humans. It initially was programmed
(26:21):
by humans, and then it's stuff that humans come up with,
it's added into it, so it's a bit of a mess. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahler Show as we roll on,
and so it's really just every NFL game is like
one dude who's watching and then just seeing if they
see any penalties and then calling in saying, hey, we
got a penalty on numb nuts. Number seventy two numb nuts.
(26:44):
We got a penalty.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. What up,
Hole Miller?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
To the third degree, this is one big event gets grilled.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Patriots Hall of Famer Ty Law appeared on Boston Sports
Radio this week when he said Drawn Mayo is quote,
definitely safe for next season, no matter what happens these
last four games.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Ben, do you agree with him? No, Ty Law is
not running team now. The odds are in favor of
that being the outcome, because Robert Kraft would have to
admit that he's really bad at picking coaches, and you
shouldn't just hire a coach because you liked hanging out
with him on a bus. Trip in Israel, So that's
probably in a good way to hire a coach. But
but no, I mean pitchers. If they get blown out
every game at the end of the year year and
(27:32):
they and Drake may sucks, then no repressure to fire
girod Mayo. He's far from safe.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Next, that's being reported that the Miami Heat are open
to discussing a trade to send Jimmy Butler to a
new situation. However, they would want significant compensation. Ben, do
you think a deal will be made for Butler?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Well, he's an aging player, right Jimmy Butler's agent. If
you saw this cooopie exploded at sham Sharania following that report,
I mean, you know it's it's not what it's meant
to be. And I but here's the thing. Jimmy Butler
has been around for a while. He's thirty five. He
looks a step slower. So if you're Miami, you can't
(28:10):
expect to get a premium return because Butler has become
old in front of your eyes. So you're not gonna
get that much in a return. But I do I
think the Heat would absolutely trade him. Yes, And Pat
Roley's likely kicking himself. He didn't trade Jimmy Butler this
past offseason, and he held autumn next.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
So Jamaar Chase admitted this week that he has always
wanted to work out with Randy Moss, but has always
been nervous to do so.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, I bet has there ever been to anyone that
you were nervous to work with? Well, I don't know nervous.
When I first started, I was around athletes a lot,
and so that was always awkward. There were people that
I like grew up watching and I was working with
him in radio, so that was very bizarre. But I
don't I'm as nervous, but it was more I was
just nervous in general. Coop, I had a lot of
stage fright when I first started. I had flop sweat.
(28:54):
You know. It was terrible my first ever radio show.
I prepared for my monologue and then I had three hours.
I had no material. I was drowning on the air.
So is this a general sense of drowning? Anyway? How
did we do? Coopleloo? You pass us in there? It
is That's a week I won again. Holloway Jones, I
wont James.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
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listen live. It's now time.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
For time for horr ask Bed. Twitter said this your
questions on Twitter now man, it is asked Man. Your
questions are answers as we spring into action for the
rest of the hour. And here we go over to
the Coopleloo for the reading of the questions. The reading
(29:50):
of the questions on this edition of Ask Bed. All right, JT.
The Wingman would like to know. And you know, I
guess this is i JT. I've seen him in four
different states that I guess this could just be a
question for your bodies. Now at this point we don't
need to I've seen him, you know, read I've seen JT.
The wing Man more than I've seen either one of
(30:10):
my brothers the last couple of years. You know that story.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Yeah, he wants to know does FSR Does the FSR
building have squatty potties in the restrooms at the studios?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Uh no, no, they barely have toilet paper. They have
that thin toilet paper here where you have to use
out like a whole role. It's so bad like, I
know they're cheap and a half ply. Oh, it's so bad.
Everywhere every business is like that. But it's really stupid
because you just stand up using you go through more
toilet paper because people just go through it. That must
be so cheap to buy that kind of toilet paper,
right everyone everywhere you go, every every restaurant bathroom, every
(30:44):
mall bathroom, they have the cheapest quality toilet paper.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
I feel like squatty potties are meant for your home
and not for work business.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Because could you imagine our guy trying to clean that
in the men's bathroom, like discuss.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Well, you're supposed to put your feet on it. I
don't think you're supposed to.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Pro Why do you think I demanded my own back?
What happens below?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I know?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yes, this is how wonderful it is here since Lorena
got here. So we have about ninety nine dudes, and
there's like maybe three or four women that work here.
There's one toilet for the men and there's one toilet
for the four women. The ratio on that is really bad,
really bad. It wouldn't be a problem, really terrible. Bed
just go out to go like the vegan go out
(31:22):
to the bushes. That's what the vegan does. He goes,
eats out there, goes to the bathroom out there. He's
a damn caveman, the vegan. All right, what's next? Here
to ask Ben? Your questions are answers. Femi would like
to know my Femi. That's the number one Uber East
driver in Minnesota. Go ahead, what's the longest trip you've
driven solo? How long did it take you?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Nowhere really all that far. I I've driven from LA
to San Francisco. I've driven to Phoenix from LA. I've
driven from drove from Philadelphia over to Pittsburgh, up the
Buffalo back down to New York. But I mean, I'd
like to drive across there. But I knock on wood here.
I still I've kept a job long. If I've ever
(32:04):
lose my job, that's what I'm doing. But I'd say
probably eight nine hours that's about it. What about you
a long time the rain?
Speaker 7 (32:12):
I drive to Oregon all the time, all the time.
Was all the time, like two to three times a
year to and fro.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Now. The amazing thing about going from California Oregon is
how effin big California. Even when you get to Sacramento.
It's so long, you're still are you like still five
hours away from the Oregon border even in Sacramentos in
this nuts.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
And then you got to go through the mountainous treacherous.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Area because you look at a map and Sacramento looks like,
well it's right near the northern part of California. No,
it's like another five hours to get psych Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Now usually takes me twelve to thirteen hours if I
don't stop a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Wait, how from LA to Orgon.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
LA to where my hometown is?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Really? What's that? Okay? What about you? Coop?
Speaker 5 (32:56):
So as far as like Solo, that's probably just been
in La to San Diego. I mean the longest I've
driven that's period is from here to Portland. But I was, boy,
why are you guys driving far distances by yourself in
the car? I mean, I've driven to Portland before, but
(33:17):
I was with my Hey, my girlfriend had a couple
of years ago my cousin. A cousin lives in Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
He actually moved to Vegas, but he lived in Phoenix
and he got a very bad medical diagnosis. So I
I just spur the moment, woke up on a Friday
and I drove to Phoenix. I hung out with him
for two hours, got in the car and drove back
to LA Just like that. That I was crazy.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
It was nuts.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
What's next? Ye? What do we have here? It's ask Ben?
Your question is are answers for the rest of the ife?
You want to send a question in hashtag ask Ben.
If you like this bit, we do it every week.
And if you really like this bit, we have a
totally different bit which some people think is the same
as this on the Fifth Hour podcast on Sunday. And
if you hate the bit, we only do it once
a week. So who cares?
Speaker 5 (33:59):
A couple killer would like to know. Is there anything
you are constantly losing? Glasses, credit cards, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
No, I mean I've learned over the years, as it's
just adulting. You put your phone, your stuff down, your
keys down the same spot. Now, every once in a
while my phone will disappear. But I got the Apple
Watch thing. I hit this button and check this out,
just alive on the air, hit this button and then
(34:29):
here I'll do it again here. Yeah, that alarm goes
out to let you know where your phone is. How
cool is that? So I never since I got this,
I've never lost my phone. So nah, the worst is
when you can't find your keys. That's the worst. I've had.
That happen a few times, but not in a while. Portiately,
what about you about Rain, I have left my wallet,
(34:50):
dropped it in parking lots a few times.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Yeah, I'm gonna show you my wallet. This is This
is my wallet.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
That's not a wallet, and.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
I drop it all the time, and I.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Use a little that's how a coin.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
I leave it somewhere all the time.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And now this is a wallet, Lora, I see that
that is That is a massive They call it the
Costanza wallet. It's an old reference.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Mine's just a little jewelry bag. And I switch because
I have black ones and blue ones and pink ones,
so I just switched in between.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
Always lose them.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
All right, What about you? I have like old hotel keys.
I don't from hotels I stayed at. Yes, oh yeah,
all right. I have a I have a card from
Keith who I met in Charleston, who lives in the
Villages in Florida, but he's from Michigan, and he gave
me his card and I still have it in my
wallet from the Charleston, meet and greet. I have that right.
I have Andy Reid almost Andy Reid's card. I have
(35:45):
that right. What about you cool?
Speaker 5 (35:48):
I'm always losing the lighter uh and the remote.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, the remote gets lost a lot too. Not by
me because I put it back in the same spot.
The wife puts it all over the place. It's where's waldough?
Or you're getting hot? You're getting colder, getting hotter. No,
I am the problem when it comes to the remote.
What is next to? Ask Ben? Your hey? That Looney
commercials on again? Of him? Of the referee? All right,
what's next here? It's ask Ben? Your questions are answers?
(36:17):
All right? Ferd Dog wants to know what is Fergie?
Speaker 5 (36:20):
What is the right amount of cologne slash perfume to
put on?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So there's there's a couple of ways you can do
it the way. There's two ways I was taught. One
is you like sprayed two sprays and walk into it.
Another one is you spray your wrist, you rub the
other wrist, and then you rub the back of your neck.
That's how I was taught. One of those two ways.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
I like doing that, Like where you like sprayed above
your head and then you spin under it like Cinderella.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
But I get it in my eyeballs a lot like that.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, that kind of burns.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
So I've been doing it on my wrist and then
a full sprits on my wrist and I'll rub those together,
and then a full sprits on my neck.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
What about your coop?
Speaker 5 (37:02):
I rarely wear cologne, but if I were to, I
like the the two sprays and walk through method.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Walk through methods. Yes. When when Jerry was my producer
back in the day, there was a woman that worked
across the lot. I think the statute of limitations was
up and Jerry recognized her from the performed perfume she
was wearing. She was also apparently doing some dancing on
the side, and Jerry recognized that she and knew that
that was what he knew her from that anyway, all right,
(37:29):
what is next year? To ask man? Your questions are answers?
The King Rory would like to Rory. Have you ever
gone streaking before? Oh? God, no, look at me. Come on, please, no, Lorena,
I'd be arrested immediate. This morning, Ben, what's that?
Speaker 7 (37:43):
I went to my mailbox this morning?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
You did?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Really?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
The neighbors love you. You're a liar. There's always some
old person walking around, and there's always somebody out there
walking a dog.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Just trying to get some more, some more male.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah, all right, cool fans. I yes I have, really yeah. No,
that's no chance, zero chances are there is asked, Ben,
Your questions are answers. Get that squatty potty ready, no boo,
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