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December 12, 2024 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Jalen Hurts & A.J. Brown attempting to clear the air on their relationship, Patrick Mahomes saying he doesn't have a good feeling about the Chiers upcoming schedule, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our no Bert too, our
two ready for you, and it's the Philadelphia football team
that has our attention. The Eagles having some chaos behind
the scenes. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and wide receiver aj

(00:21):
Brown attempting to clear the air. They've indicated publicly, both
of them that their relationship is not fractured, despite what
you might have read and heard. Do you believe them? Also,
Patty Mahomes says he does not have a good feeling
Mahomes about the Chiefs upcoming schedule. They played three games
in eleven days starting on Sunday. Is the glass half

(00:44):
full or is the glass half empty? And the NFL
will consider expanding replay assists to include face mass penalties
and other players thumbs up er thumbs down to that.
We'll get to all of it and much more right
now here. It is our number two Bertie Buddies, what

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hour is from the Delaware Valley. Our in depth team

(02:16):
coverage continues the obligatory Mallard monologue, a locker room drama
orama with one of the top teams in the NFL.
Sign me up for that, Sign me up for that.
So the catch of the day is in Philadelphia, High drama,

(02:38):
high drama. There. Despite a sparkling 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. Bryant. That's a wide receiver,

(03:02):
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

(03:24):
following a close win 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, coold. So if
you have not seen this, Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown

(03:44):
both want you to know 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

(04:08):
and Brown spoke spoke out of place, they said. They
said that Graham spoke out of place. He knows that.
That's what Hurts said. Anyway, 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, Jaymaen, I'll go

(04:30):
thereby love Gg. You know, he speak up on the heart.
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 uh 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 that was AJ Brown. So anyway,

(04:53):
so again both of them, said Brandon Graham, who announced
on his radio show that AJ Brown and Hurts don't
like he 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 Jalen Hurts a wide receiver, AJ Brown

(05:18):
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?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
So?

Speaker 1 (05:33):
I've got playhouse free refills and fatal flaw, and we
will combine 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. So num Burn to quote quote the great

(05:59):
speaker of words, Andy Furman, I was born at night.
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.

(06:19):
The Eagles got together. They had a closed door meeting
and AJ Brown was in there, and they had Jalen Hurts,
and there was a crisis meeting. How are we going
to own this store? What are we gonna 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 a Schmendrick,

(06:41):
and let's figure this thing out. And so somebody there
read them the Riot Act in the 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 kubooki theaters with they were doing there. They
were grand standing, they were playing to the cameras and

(07:03):
saying what they think needed to be said. 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, workplace 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

(07:25):
is not an office environment, but you're 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, 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

(07:48):
will tell you, up until 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 apps 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

(08:09):
wrap that up, and they hold the number two, number
two seed in the NFC. Now page two, So Cansah
City we go. Where the Chiefs are righting high by
the skin on their chinny chin chin. Kansas City is

(08:30):
about to embark on a journey. They're about to play
three games in eleven days. Holy grilled Cheese Batman. Uh 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 Mery Christmas. You get

(08:52):
to play mister unlimited. So I was practicing for when
I play Santa ho oh Merry 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

(09:13):
good feeling. That was his quote, not a good feeling,
even though 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

(09:35):
glass half empty? That's the question, all right? So is
it half full or half empty? So if you look
at the 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

(09:58):
to worry about. It's refillable. And one the thing about
the championship teams of the NFL, they generally just win
these games. They figure out a way. They won 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,

(10:20):
or Carolina. It 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.

(10:42):
That's what feeds everything. It is the last of the Mohegans.
It is the final frontier that has not been swallowed
up by streaming or the Internet and all that. So
it's just suck it up, Buttercup. The train's gonna keep
going down the tracks by now. Final point to the
rules of the game. The rules of the game. Now

(11:06):
we are told the NFL has announced they are going
to 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

(11:26):
LA when Sam Darnold had his face mask grabbed and
it was not called. So the NFL considering expanding the
replay Assist to include the face mask penalty and other penalties.
Are you gonna go thumbs up? Are you gonna go
thumbs down on the expansion of replay assists? To include
the face mask penalty. So I'm gonna go two thumbs

(11:49):
down on this. Let me explain why, because it is
another layer of overreach. 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

(12:10):
you actually go forward here, it's going to cause mortalays.
It's gonna cause mortalays. And while replay Assist has actually
been pretty good overall, it's been a good thing. It's
been relatively quick and all that, you keep adding more
things to keep an eye on, and eventually you cross

(12:30):
over and you're like, what are we doing here? You know,
there's a thin line that you cross over, and the
arithmetic becomes a problem. Now the problem with this, 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 hell

(12:51):
brend on that. So that's gonna happen. You're gonna have
the NFL. Eventually we'll go to a similar model. The NFL.
I promise you the NFL will find a way, 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

(13:11):
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
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, Oh, okay,
but having humans in any situation, okay, any activity, any process,

(13:32):
even programming AI, as we have seen, right, as we
have seen with some of the early AI stuff that's
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,

(13:55):
on all this stuff, and even with AI, at some
point it's taking stuff from humans. It initially was programmed
by humans, and then it's stuff that humans come up with,
it's added into it, so it's it's a bit of
a mess. Anyway, It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As
we roll on and so it's really just every NFL
game is like one dude who's watching and then just

(14:17):
seeing if they see any penalties and then calling in saying, hey,
we got a penalty on numb nuts. Number seventy two,
numb nuts. We got a penalty. It is the Ben
Mahlor Show. It's a Newbye night, all right for newby Night,
And if you would like to get in there's why
is there a line open? You're on a newby Night.
There's never a line open on a newbe Night. Shame
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(14:38):
now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
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pretty good hour to begin Newbie Night last hour, but
all the regulars have the night off, so it's all
newbies all the time at eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. Also on X at Ben Mahlor, that is

(15:00):
at Ben Mahler in the NFL and their woke tendencies
being put to the test. Very awkward position that Roger Goodell,
the commissioner of the National Football League has been put in,
how did he handle that particular loaded question. We'll get

(15:23):
to it and we will do it next.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
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I want to you a malor Christmas.

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Christmas from the bottom. There we go. It's Bill Miller
here a happy how at issue? The show continuing its
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beat the content machine. On a newbie night, we want
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(16:34):
at Ben Mallard. We want to coop the loop a
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the back to the nonsense. Shut up, that's right, Shut up, Bill,
you dope late night drug tester rights. This is the

(16:55):
only worry the chiefs have is if they don't get
the buye nobody. He is a bigger fan of the
MotorCity Kitties this week than the patrons of the landing
in Liberty, Missouri, the home of the Ben Mather chicken fingers. Yes,
the Buffalo Bill's Lions game massive, because if Buffalo goes down,

(17:19):
it doesn't really matter how bad the Chiefs play over
the next three games. Now, the likely News won anyway,
but they have a little more wiggle room here should
they end up getting that gift from the Detroit Lions.
Kevin and Florida, writes In says, just think how cool
the NFL will be with all the players who are
AI robots, he says, And there are no penalties and

(17:42):
they can actually use weapons, smashing heads and maces and
cutting off arms and swords. It'll be glorious. Yeah, well,
why not just have to have a robot version of
the NFL just to slap NFL logos on it. And
you're you're good to go now next hour, if you're
still with us, next hour, we will have the always

(18:03):
exciting Ask Ben. Your questions are answers that'll be coming
up next hour on the show, but you can send
in your questions right now. You use the hashtag ask
Ben and be part of the show. Milkman Mike and
Colorado says, it looks like Chris Kringle has started earlier
this year. Things you see working in the night shift.

(18:26):
That's pretty that's pretty cool. Somebody spent a lot of
money on I don't know how much that costs. You
sent a little video of what appears to be a
projection screen inside a window in somebody's home, and that
whole thing. But we begin this hour with the drama
o rama around the Philadelphia football team. There is also

(18:48):
some drama o rama going on with the NFL itself.
We'll get to that in a minute. Let's go to
the phones, though, and we'll say hello to Dennis, who's
driving around Maine on a newbie night. Hello Dennis, Welcome,
Hello Mann. Yeah I made that. I didn't take much
to make your day. Dennis her yard, Dennis, what's that?

Speaker 2 (19:11):
No power? I got no power? I'm sitting in my car.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
So oh no, no, how long has the power been out?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Hello? Welcome at two o'clock.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
So well, we'll get somebody on it right now. We'll
send somebody out there to fix it. No problem. In fact,
you know electrician, I'll get the cherry picker and I'll
climb up there with a cherry picker and I'll fix it.
I'll just turn the power back on.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
No, proud man, I appreciate that. You're the man.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
You're the man.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Whatever you need, man, we're here.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Man. I've been working nights for ten years and.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
I just did every night for ten years. And I
work days, but the dreaded day shift. Now what part
of Mayne are you in, sir?

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Me? Chelsea?

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Chelsea?

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Man?

Speaker 1 (19:48):
You know I did a Mallord meet and greet. I
was in Portland, Maine a couple of years ago and
we did the meeting that you didn't show up to.
That that's bad job.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh ship, I will be there.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
I will be.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
That's an honest well. No, I was told though, that
does not I've been the main a few times, but
people have told me that that's not real Maine, like
Portland Maine's fake Maine. That that's a tourist.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
That, yeah, that's not real Maine.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
How many hours up do I have to go from Portland,
Maine to get to the real heart of Maine? Like
how far into Maine does one have to go?

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Our our north of Maine at Portland.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
I mean, so one hour hour north I'm good, So
one hour north.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
I'm okay, yeah down there it's real main.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
So Blair and Maine lives about an hour north. Yeah,
oh yeah, you're your neighbors or are your neighbors with.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
No, I never talk to him, but he's close.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Well, it would be awkward. It'll be a little creepy.
If you talk to pretty, it'd be pretty weird. And
I guess the power must be on in his house
otherwise he'd call the show, right because all the guy
does is play video games all night, so the power
must be out of his house. Otherwise he'd call up.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes power, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
But but Blair also did not show up to the
mallor meet and greed. I did in Maine. He didn't
show up, and then I text actually called him. I
don't I didn't text her. I called him and I said, hey, Blair,
I'm doing this meet and greet thing in Maine last
minute and Portland. He says, no, he wanted me to
come to his like his street, to his house.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
He would need to go to like, Uh, what'd you
live devis Scotta?

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Uh No, I don't think that was. It was somewhere
right area, yeah, Scott yea yeah, yeah, I said Blair,
I went, I went order. Well, that happens a lot though.
I was in Charleston this earlier this year and Jerome
and Charleston because I wasn't like I was only like
a mile away, but I wasn't close enough, so he
didn't show up. Very very rude. It was very rude,

(21:33):
very rude. Here, Dennis Man, you show me and I
will be there next time. I will all right, all
right maybe next year, who knows, we'll see twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Let me know.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
All right, you got my number now, so.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
You know I have your number? Do we have his number?

Speaker 2 (21:46):
All right?

Speaker 1 (21:46):
I was drug? Yeah, sure, why not? Big brothers always
watching their Dennis all right? See, yeah, you woke up
the powers out. You like the show? You gotta go
to what I love?

Speaker 2 (21:57):
But I don't like the show.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
You love the show? Are you still listen to the podcast?

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Right?

Speaker 1 (22:01):
You're still a podcast listen.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'm not a podcast guy, but come on, you know
what you know what?

Speaker 1 (22:08):
How dare you? How dare you?

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Bit?

Speaker 3 (22:12):
No?

Speaker 1 (22:12):
No, the rule is listen. The rule is if you
leave the night shift to go to the dreaded day shift,
that you got to at least download the podcast. Now,
all we need I was told by Danny g He said,
all we need is one minute. If you listen for
one minute, we get credit for that. So just download it,
listen for one minute, and then that's it.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
So well no, I, well, no, I have to be
told you that. Now I got it.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
There you go, see now for we get credit. That way,
everyone's happy and no one's complaining a.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
General militia.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
All right, Well, if you're downloading the podcast but you're
not listening to the podcast, you're working in the day shift,
Oh my god, that's a nightment. That's the worst possible outcome,
the worst possible scenario. Man. Anyway, all right, it is
a snow there or no snow.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'm wearing a tea shirt in my.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Car, gotcha. Well be safe, all right, I hope the
power comes back on. All right, I gotta go. Thank you.
There's Dennis. We are reporting power out in that part
of me. I like when the power goes out. Why
would you like when the power goes out? No one
he wants, because then you have to cuddle and like candles.

(23:19):
Most of the time the power goes out, though it's
in the middle of the night, most people are sleeping.
They don't even know the power goes out. They wake
up and they're like, what happens? But no, no, no
power goes out in the daytime. Ben usually planned power outages. Yeah,
they're in California because they don't have enough power and
they rolling blackouts because not enough power. But let's get

(23:40):
electric yes, everyone, great leadership in California. Ever get electric car.
We don't have enough power right now, so we'll get
electric cars. Oh, let's have everyone plug in when they
get home. What could possibly go wrong with that scenario?
What could possibly go wrong at all? Let's go to
the phones and we'll say hello to Dale, who's in Muskegon?
Hellow Dale? Welcome Dale man? How have you been many? Dale?

(24:06):
You disappeared? Dale? Where have you been? Dale? You left
me in the lurch there I'm on a ditch on
the side of the Roaddal, you found somebody like more
than me? Dale? How dare you?

Speaker 2 (24:16):
No man? In the summertime, I own I owned a
few different small businesses, and in the summertime, I'm not
a third chick or so I guess what I'm doing
Ben and plowing snow?

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah all right, see look at that now? Now I'm in. Now,
I'm in. So you're back. You're a seasonal listening to
the show. It's snowplow season and then you're OK. I
remember I remember you doing that. I remember you tell
me that story.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, I remember, I'm the guy that fought in the
cage all the craziness in my life.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, yes, I do recall it.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
I still I still do listen once in a while. Ben, Like,
I'm out sometimes third shift checking some of my I
own a janitorial service and we clean third shift. I
just don't do it no more so. When I'm out
checking restaurants, I listen in, but I usually don't have
time to call in. I'm not like I am now, No,
I hear.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
I got you all right over there, guys all all's forgiving.
How's what what do you say?

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Life's been good for you?

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Live? Well, it's been interesting, that's been We're still we're
still alive. Every day is a great day. Every day
is great. On this side of the ground. It's a
good day, right, every every since it is.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
It's better than the other side of the.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Dirt man, exactly exactly. I wish we had snow. You
can come and plow for us.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, I would love to come and plow. It's like
gold bone from the sky for me. I love it.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, that's a solid. That's a good that's a good
side house. I should do that too. We don't have
I can't really do that here though. I can't be
the sand where are well, we're in l A. But
it does snow in the mountains around here, but it's
not it's not like there, l A.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Don't get me started here talking about how bad California?
Do you want to my gosh, what a horrible.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Places, the biggest Yeah, I went well aware. I'm well
aware of no. You know, no, no, no. I experienced that.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Better in this purple state over here. It's horrendous. In Michigan,
our governor's half slow. We won't say no no more.
She's not the sharpest. No.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I got you, I got you all right, Tom. All
I had to do is say California. All of a sudden,
Dale's like, wait a minute, I got a rant here, man.
Dale's going on the rain, like, hey, it's it's horrendous.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
I tell everybody, if you want to, I don't want
to get putical. I don't need to.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
That's a third rail. Mom, man, that's a third rail.
That's a third rail. Give give me an amazing sports steak. Dale,
you got an amazing sports steak here.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Dal, My Green Bay Packers are ahead of schedule. Baby,
that's my sports checking here. You want to you want
to know time. I was a bookie in prison for
sixteen years, and I'll tell everybody now begam is legal,
dun not with your heart.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yes, that was exactly, exactly exactly, and you're now.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
They're not a bookie. It's not as important to me.
I will let the secret out of the bag.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
No, no, no, and Dale, whenever the public is on
one side, go the other way. Run away from the
public and you'll do very well.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Get it. You just hit it, everybody, Dirk. Just say
though the Lakers back in the day and Kobe thing
you do that might be the out layer. Kobe was
a killer for me, that guy.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Let me ask you this, Dale. So, when guys you're
running a book in prison, like Ben No, I know
the famous story. I mean, that's a terrible story. But
but like guys like how much are they betting? Are
they betting cigarettes? Are they betting real money?

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Cigarettes? Well, used to be cigarettes. But now cigarettes are
gone in Michigan prisons, so you're betting food cosmetics.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
So what's the what's the biggest you're betting cosmetics? Is that?

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
The orderance? I got you, I got you, all right,
So shaving cream.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Or whatever, So sure, shaving cream, you don't get razors.
But let's theirs out. I have razors in Michigan prison
no more because we were getting about fifty. You want
to hear the worst story I ever saw, Guy'll make
it a really quick guy. A guy owed a bunch
of money to my qubi. He was they were both
in the same gang, and they bucked fifty to space.
They paid somebody to buck fifty them and they cut

(28:17):
him from over and that's where you take a razor
blade out of the razors cut him from over his eyes.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, all right, it was bad.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
It was the worst thing I've ever saw in prison.
I saw a guy get beat up there.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Oh my god, God, that's terrible. Makes you not want
to go to prison, makes you not want to go
to prison.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
I still have nightmares about it. It was horrendous for
ten years, wow, years, And it is some horrendous stuff
you see in the raad. You don't realize that when
you're in that light, Like you know what I mean,
I bet your everyday life and just deal with it,
you know how don bari move? Like I said, I'm
almost seven years sober now now they're away from it.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
It is definitely that's like out of a mob movie
or something like that.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Different. You know, some movies are accurate, some are completely bullcrap. Ben,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
You guys, weren't you weren't making Fecini Alfredo in prison
and having the boys over for you were?

Speaker 2 (29:15):
I know, you make cookups. You make what you can.
You know, people steal food from the kitchen and you
can buy it. I mean, make the best you can
do with some surprised Yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
All Right, I gotta go there, but thank you, buddy,
the great Dale in Muskeige and I'm glad you're back
with us. Dale all right, just be saying he's driving
the snow. But that's a character right there. Dale not
a regular because he hasn't called the show in months
because he's he wasn't doing the snowplow thing. Yeah, he's
so inspiring though, Ben, Like I really want to do
a mallor meet and greet where we go to different
prisons across Johnny Cash back in the day, exactly what

(29:51):
I was thinking. Yet the fulsome ben tour. Yeah, I'd
be done. Can we get an advertiser though, I think
we need an advertiser for that? I think we who
would advertise that? Would the squatty potty people advertise that
we get that? Bet on that squatty potty people. So
the NFL has got a quagmire on their hands. I
love this story. So the NFL, remember a couple of
years ago they went full woke, and now they've got

(30:13):
a bit of a problem. Roger Goodell was asked a
loaded question this week. Goodell was doing a news conference
the NFL. We're playing a game in Germany, Berlin, Germany,
and Goodell was answering questions. I don't think it was
just about that, but somebody asked about jay Z, whoa

(30:36):
jay Z and the allegations against jay Z. Jay Z
has been accused of taking part in the diddy lifestyle
with an underaged young lady there back in the day.
He's being soon in civil litigation I believe against jay Z.
And here's what Roger Goodell said. Did Roger Goodell a

(30:58):
distance himself for jay Z because he's been accused of
raping a child. B say no comment or see say
we stand with jay Z and his accusation of being
a child rapist. All right, well here's what Goodell said.
He said, we are aware of the civil litigation and
jay Z's strong response. Goodell said, the relationship is not changing. Right,

(31:24):
they're standing. They're standing You're innocent until proven guilty. Well
that that is true, but in corporate America over the
last fifteen years, they don't wait for you to be innocent.
All you are guilty, right, you are, Sully, You're You're
a problem. You're a problem with the NFL. They're standing

(31:47):
with jay Z. People were warning wasn't going to perform
because of this.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
Right, Honestly, I feel like this, what you just told me,
what I just heardeah, is the biggest evidence towards his
innocence that I've seen or heard yet.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Because think about it.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Would you take that kind of risk, Because let's say
it comes out that it's all true, some some huge
bomb drops and and there's I don't know evidence, you
know that's undeniable evidence that jay Z did this, Like
a video right, Yeah, then Roger Candell's gone, right, you
gotta go.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
No, He'll say, oh, listen with the information, we had,
no way he survives that. Hey, look, I mean there's
the people that hung with Diddy. I mean it's everybody, right,
like Lebron James was at those parties. But yeah, those parties.
He's still playing in the NBA every night he was

(32:48):
out partying with Diddy.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
I know, But I don't think you can conflate the
two because did he threw parties that everybody in Hollywood
went to? And then there was more private st off
in the back that I doubt everybody was getting invited to.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
A hold honesty though, Lebron James, who loves himself, he
loves the navel gazing at himself in the mirror. Though,
he's off social media right now. And the conspiracy is
because there's some stuff that's gonna come out about Lebron.
It hasn't come out yet, and that's why he's a
proactive strike by Lebron. He's never done this where he's
done it in for the playoffs, Lebron will get off
social media, but he doesn't do it early in the

(33:23):
NBA season.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Yes, but look, like I mean, just le Lebron has
gone his entire career without even so much as like
getting like a parking ticket, and all of a sudden
he's a secret like, you know, rapist, freak of I.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Never I never said rapist. I just said that there's
supposedly some stuff that's out there that hasn't come out yet.
And that's one of the reasons that people the conspiracy
that the reason Lebron's gotten off social media is because
he knows what I could pop out. I'm not buying it.
You don't believe it. So Michael Jordan had a great
repud too, and we learned later on that he was,
you know, a canoodling with porn stars in Denver or whatever.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
You know.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Is not so bad ben No, But I'm saying based
on his reputation, right, his reputation was one way, and
then you know, there's stuff. Stuff happens, So I don't know,
who knows. Maybe there's nothing to it. And even did
he maybe did he did nothing wrong and he just
liked baby oil. No, did he did he? I don't know.
There was a kid, there was a there was a

(34:28):
story about a like a kindergarten, a bunch of teachers
that were accused of, you know, messing around with kids
and it turned out with a completely bogus story. But
at the time they were all like and there's a
long time ago, so also but yeah, it seems it
seems unlikely that that did he didn't did he stuff?

Speaker 2 (34:45):
You know? And all that.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Anyway, all right, it is the Ben Mahler show as
we are pressing on. But the NFL is standing with
Jay Z. We have Mallard to a third degree. Here's
the instant trivia and here it is. Saquon Barkley can
become the fourth non rookie in NFL history to have
two thousand scrimmage yards in his first season with the team.
He would join Marshall Falk, Ricky Williams and me again,

(35:13):
Sakwan Mark can become the fourth non rookie in NFL
history to have two thousand scrimmage yards in his first
season with the team. He would join Marshall Falk nineteen
ninety nine, Saint Louis Where I Am is the greatest
show on turf? Ricky Williams with Miami back in O
two and me who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? We'll get to it. We'll do

(35:35):
it next.

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his own ride.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
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Speaker 2 (36:10):
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Speaker 1 (36:11):
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(36:34):
workers about the show so they can be part of
our community. Back to what we got. You didn't say
my name again, Bill, bad job by you. It is
I Ben and here is the insta tribut Sakwan Barkley
can become the fourth non rookie in NFL history, recorded

(36:55):
two thousand rec two thousand scrimmage yards in his first
season with a team, joining Marshall Falk, Ricky Williams and me.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer.
Let's see does anyone know the answer? We go to
the Hoy POLOI here the Great Unwashed to see if
anybody knows the answer. Junior Spivey from Mister Nice Guy,

(37:18):
Good Name mc lovin. Tossed out by Cowboy Killer Paul
Horning from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Colonel Klink from King
Rory Li Diddy James from Fergdog Roger Craig tossed out
by Andy and Lion o' lakes, Bill Miller, Voice of
the Raisin from malardprop Wendy from Alf the Alien o'pineer boy.

(37:42):
I don't remember Whndy's being like that? Who else do
we have? Td from the Broncos Pennyman's answer Anthony and
Anaheim guessed by Shane in Des Moines or Lendo Brown?
Who's fifty four today? From Late Night Drug Tester? Who else?
Stevie Meatball says Dion Sanders left Big Toe, Let's too soon?
Bobby Bouchet Junior from Eloy in Compton. Who else? Paige

(38:05):
Dan Paige, Dan Edwin in Carnassion for the American Therapist.
Pillsbury dough Boy tossed out by Slim Tim Lorraine. I
think it's Ben Okay, is that correct?

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Now?

Speaker 1 (38:19):
The correct the answer the other fourth, I should say,
the third non rookie NFL player to have two thousand
scrimmag yards in his first season with a team, that
would be Priest Holmes with Jamas City.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
What up?

Speaker 4 (38:33):
Holes?

Speaker 2 (38:35):
What up?

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Holmler? How about that?

Speaker 3 (38:37):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets grilled.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Kooper Lou 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 (38:54):
Ben, do you agree with him? No, Ty Law is
not running the team now. The the 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 a good way to hire a coach.
But but no, I mean the pitches every they get
blown out every game. At the end of the year

(39:15):
year and they and Drake may sucks, then they will
be pressure to fire Girodmeo. He's far from safe.

Speaker 5 (39:22):
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 (39:34):
Well, he's he's an aging player, right, Jimmy Butler's agent.
If you saw this, Cooopie exploded at sham Sharania following
that report and claiming, you know it's and it's not
what it's meant to be. 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 expect to get a premium return because Butler has

(39:58):
become old in front of your eyes. So you're not
gonna get that much in return. But do I think
the Heat would absolutely trade him?

Speaker 5 (40:04):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (40:04):
And pat Riley's likely kicking himself. He didn't trade Jimmy
Butler this past off season and he held autumn next.

Speaker 5 (40:11):
So Jamar 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 (40:17):
Yeah, 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,

(40:38):
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 it was just a general sense of drowning. Anyway,
how did we do? Koobaloo? You passed us? There it is,
that's a wee.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
I won again, Holloway, James, I won, James
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