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January 13, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about Wild Card Saturday with Russell Wilson saying he hopes to be a Steeler going forward after their loss to the Ravens, George Pickens saying he isn't optimistic, Jim Harbaugh's maiden voyage as the Chargers lose to the Texans, Insta-Advice Line, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What in the world. Welcome, come in. It's our number three.
A Happy Monday too, It's a thirteenth day of January.
The original recipe Ben Mather Show podcast. We take a
look back at wild Card Saturday. These Steelers ravens the
Chargers Texans Russell Wilson said he hoped to be a
Pittsburgh Steeler going forward. How is his future looking after

(00:23):
the less than spectacular performance over the weekend. Also, wide
receiver George Pickens says he has been he has seen growth. Rather,
he has seen growth from the offense since he's been
with the Steelers, but admits he's not optimistic of the
offense going forward. How did you interpret this? Patrick Queen
said the Steelers defense got too comfortable during the season.

(00:44):
How do you interpret that one? And what do you
make of Jim Harbaugh's maiden voyage in the playoffs as
coach of the Chargers? And will play a word association game.
Say the first word that comes to your mind when
you think of Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert. We'll talk about
all that and who knows what else, we'll have the
malar Riddle of the day as well. All of it's

(01:06):
coming your way. Right now. It's our number three. Time
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(02:17):
So we hit the pause button. Hit the pause button.
On the wild Cards Sunday, we go to wild Card
wild Card Saturday. That's right, Wildcard Saturday. We'll get back
to the nonsense some Sunday. But I didn't want to
completely forget about what took place on Saturday because there
were some interesting things that happened. We'll start out in Houston,

(02:40):
where wide receiver not wide receiver, defensive back Derek Stingley
making a big play in that game. In fact, not
one but two of Justin Herbert's four mistakes for turnovers there,
and the Texans get a thirty two twelve wildcard playoff
when they were home dogs in that game and they

(03:03):
absolutely crushed the pathetic Chargers. Someone named Eric Murray, I'm
not sure who that is, but if you saw the game,
he returned one of those interceptions to the house pick
six for the defense. In Houston, CJ. Stroud had a
bunch of mistakes himself, but he did throw a touchdown
pass and Houston ends up getting the win. In Baltimore,

(03:25):
Lamar Jackson threw two touchdown passes to not have overly
impressive stats, but the performance led by Derreck Henry. He
scored not one but two of the touchdowns there in Baltimore,
running the ball right down the throat of the Pittsburgh
sci So you used to have a good defense, not anymore.
They suck on defense, and so they get to win.

(03:49):
Henry and Jackson combining to outrush Pittsburgh all night Baltimore
outrushed the Steelers two hundred and ninety nine yards to
twenty nine. Now I didn't in the NFL. I just
do an overnight show. That seems like a lot. Two
hundred and ninety nine to twenty nine rushing yards in
that game. In fact, it was the most rushing yards

(04:09):
allowed by Pittsburgh in a playoff game all time, all time,
and so the previous record was fifty one years ago
by the old Oakland Raiders who put up two hundred
and thirty two yards. For what it's worth. But the
better story in both of these games is in the
losing locker room. So that is where we will begin.

(04:30):
We'll start out with the insers, and I want to
focus in on the quarterback Russell Wilson, mister limited, Russell Wilson,
who said in the moments after the game that he
hoped to be a pitt Spurg Steeler going forward. How
is his future looking? So I've got National Weather Service,

(04:52):
aerial attack and cosplay, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to pour bl
each all over the Steeler locker room. Because there's a
lot of a lot of viruses in that locker room
right now, what a mess? What a mess? But to
answer the question on the table, Russell Wilson saying he

(05:13):
hoped to be a Pittsburgh Steeler for a long time.
How is his future looking all right? So if you
when you look ahead, right, you gotta look back before
you look at it. So we're gonna look back. Russell
Wilson had the stage to himself. He had the opportunity
to prove that the narrative around Russell Wilson was bogus right,

(05:35):
that this was a chance to show all the haters,
all the doubters, that they were wrong and he was legit.
I'd show the world he could still step up. He
still had it in his bones to step up against
a good opponent on the road in the playoffs, and
he went out there. Now, if you're a box score reader,
you're like, oh, he played really well. You know, it's

(05:56):
not his fault. The Steelers lost the game. You can't
blame Russell Wilson. I've already seen that commentary in the
hours and the day, a day or two since that game,
that you can't blame Russell Wilson. So the box score
readers who didn't watch the game like, it's not his fault.
For those that know ball, the ones that really know ball,
you say, of course, he coughed up a hairball. He

(06:19):
coughed it up. A dreadful first half, didn't do a
damn thing. Pittsburgh down twenty one to nothing at halftime,
and Russell Wilson is not the answer. He is not
the answer. In fact, the National Weather Service has issued
a red flag warning for RUSS and it's trying to

(06:39):
inform the public here for those of you that are
still delusional when it comes to Russell Wilson in the
National Weather Service trying to inform you that the conditions
are ideal for bad football. It is a combustible situation
with RUSS and really the rapid spread of crap bag
football with Russell Wilson as your quarterback. And it's fair

(07:01):
to say the quarterback who starts in Pittsburgh is not
on the roster the quarterback next year who starts because
as bad as Russell Wilson was, justin fields is not
the answer. Because Mike Tomlin's going to continue on as
the coach in Pittsburgh and he has no confidence in
justin fields. How do I know that? Because it would
have been easy to take Russell Wilson out of the

(07:22):
game and give Justin Fields all the snaps in the
second half of the game, and he didn't do that
because he thinks that Justin Fields sucks. Also, otherwise you
would have put Fields out there and allowed him to play.
It's the only way to interpret that now. Meanwhile, wide
receiver George Pickens, he says that he had seen growth
in the offense since the he got to the Steelers

(07:45):
a couple of years back. But he admits, well, by
let me tell you what he means. Let's go to
the audio. Tip here is George Pickens. Listen closely as
he has a back and forth with the media. Take
a list where you've done with this offense?

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Out of three years, have you seen side of the
rochers and how much dat is?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, I've seen it.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Sounds like growth for sure from from past, you know,
the first year I've been here, just just way more
grow for sure?

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Make you optimistic going forward?

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Uh nah, not optimistic? Not optimist. Well, I've seen growth,
I'm just not optimistic, all right. So how do you
interpret the comments from George Pickens? How do you interpret
the comments from George Piggins. So Piggins spoke unfiltered. All right,
there are those Steeler apologists that you don't think that,

(08:34):
oh he didn't mean what he said. I think he
meant exactly what he said. He sounded like he stopped
and listened to what the reporter said. He said, nah,
because he knows that the Pittsburgh offense is a food
ration offense.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
All right.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
That is the marcel In Brooklyn offense. That is the
noodles and noodles, that is the frozen pizza. Uh, that's
what that is, right, and they're not close to being good.
If you look at the gap between where the Steelers
offense is with the incompetent Russell Wilson and the even
more incompetent Justin fields compared to teams like Baltimore, it

(09:11):
is the size of the Grand Canyon, the gap, all right.
It is a giant ravine, is what it is. Now
turning the page. Speaking of Pittsburgh linebacker Patrick Queen, a
former Raven. Former Raven, Patrick Queen said the Steelers defense
got quote too comfortable, is what he said. They got
too comfortable during the season, So how do you interpret this?

(09:35):
He claimed, that's why they lost. They got too comfortable.
The defense was terrible the last five games of the year.
So my response to that is aerial attack is my response,
or go passing the buck the old passing offense. No
attention to detail, players not held accountable. They failed to

(09:56):
do the basics, all of those things right, all of
those If you talk about attention to detail, you got
you got to cover. That's that's attention to detail. A
poor technique that the tackling was biblically bad for Pittsburgh.
Now I don't watch every second of every Steelers game.

(10:16):
I can just tell you what I watched and what
I witnessed on the game over the weekend, And what
I saw were players who just were not They were
in position, but they were unable to make plays. So
the running back Derrick Henry for Baltimore was running sometimes
he wouldn't be touched until he got past the line,
but even when he was he was it was like

(10:39):
a pinball bouncing off the side, and the defenders were
bouncing off Derrick Henry was. It was ridiculous. And Patrick Queen,
who I thought was a good player in Baltimore, maybe
he was a good player in Baltimore, but watching him
play just in that game on Saturday. It's one of

(10:59):
these guys. He looks like a Donnas, right, he looks
like a Donnas, but he plays like Athenia when he's
out there. It's it's fascinating. He was a traffic cone
in this game. There was one play in particular which
has gone viral where Queen was in position to make
a tackle and took the worst possible route to make
the tackle, like he did not want to make the tackle.

(11:21):
He was trying not to make the tack. I don't
know what was going on there, but big picture, for
Mike Tomlin, the standard is the standard, and the standard
was meant. The standard is to make the plus, have
a'm winning record, get to the playoffs. And so they
met the standard. They made the playoffs. They lost on
wild card weekend and on a six game postseason skid.

(11:43):
Now the in Insers. Last time the Steelers won a
playoff game, Barack Obama was the president. Okay, it's it's
been a minute since the last time the Steelers won
a playoff game, bringing new meaning to the terrible towel,
because the man, are they terrible in these playoff games.

(12:03):
OI and double OI. That's an outdated reference. But look
at up right finalfuight. So we pivot away from that,
we go to the other side of the Saturday playoff card.
What do you make of Jim Harbaugh's maiden voyage as
coach of the Chargers in the playoffs? Playoffs, so this
was supposed to be different. The reason you bring Jim

(12:25):
Harbaugh in is because you're good enough to be a
playoff team, but you're not good enough to make any
noise in the bloods. So you bring Harball in to
fix that. And he talked a good game, He gave
us goofy soundbites. He did all of that. The blueprint
supposedly had changed that Harball was a no nonsense guy,

(12:45):
that he was gonna get it done, and he was
his advertise. He brought in the grit. These were not
your soft powder blue Chargers anymore. No, they had great
mental toughness, all those big phrases, right, detailed approach, all that,
and what the Chargers got in the first playoff game
under Jim Harbaugh was cosplay. They got cosplay that Hardball

(13:08):
was dressed up. Might as well have had Anthony Lynn
out there or Brandon Staley, because that's the Chargers. I
remember under Anthony Lynn and Brandon Staley, not a damn
thing a changed right. And Charger fans, as the great
Brian Wheeler used to say on his radio broadcast, we're mystified,
mesmerise and mortified watching the Chargers play in that game.

(13:30):
Mistake filled, sloppy, unprofessional, all of that. Now, how about
the quarterbackout? How about the Charges quarterback? So let's get
to the word association game. No word association game, word
association game. Say the first word, the first word that
comes to mind when you think of Justin Herbert's performance

(13:51):
against the Texans in the wild card game over the weekend.
So the word I came up with is kersh, as
in Kershaw, Clayton Kershaw. Much like Clayton Kershaw, Justin Herbert
celebrated universally by NFL media. Chargers play two to three,

(14:12):
if not more, primetime games every year, and during the
NFL season, Chris Collinsworth, Troy Aikman, Herbie take turns giving
Justin Herbert a manny and a petty. The national NFL
broadcasters can get not get enough of Justin Herbert. And
yet we have seen here despite all the shoulder rubs,

(14:35):
and the bubble bass and the toe licking and all
that in opportunities to step up in the playoffs. Justin
Herbert is lacking that Gennis at Quah. He just doesn't
have it right. Herbert as impressive Hall of Fame start
to his career for the regular season, and he crumbles

(14:58):
in big games. Crumbles, he said, two playoff games, thlew
a twenty seven nothing lead to Jacksonville, lost thirty one
to thirty in that game, and he had a seventy
five point three passer rating in the second half of
the game, only had one touchdown the entire game. The
reason the Chargers were up big in that playoff game
in Jacksonville was because of mistakes by the Jaguars. Trevor

(15:19):
Lawrence had four interceptions in that game. They still won.
And now he throws. Herbert throws four interceptions and has
a passer rating of forty point nine against a Texans
team that was so bad, thought of so little by
football people and by the gambling community that they were
actually a home dog. And Herbert went out there and

(15:43):
he rode the vomit comet and really more of a
Kamakazi mission. And then the Texas tried to give the
Chargers the game in the first quarter. I was texting
a buddy of mine does radio stuff back east, and
we were going back and whether they're like, this is unbelievable.
The Chargers should be up like seventeen nothing at this point.
It's a six to nothing game. And sure enough, as

(16:03):
the game progressed, Herbert kept making mistakes and even though
the Texas were making mistakes, it didn't matter. The Chargers
made bigger mistakes and they end up losing the game.
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(16:45):
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It is malar riddle of today. A Philadelphia police officer
was spotted in uniform, blank and blank during the Eagles tailgate.

(17:08):
All right, it was Philadelphia. Philadelphia police officer rather was
spotted on camera in uniform and the blank in the
blank during the Eagles tailgate. That is the malor riddle
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(18:24):
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malor riddle of day. By the way, Eugene in Chicago says, yeah,
you're grade for Russell Wilson is an F. Well, yeah,
of course it's an F. When the game was it
was Dak Prescott like playoff performance. Well, he did nothing

(18:45):
until the game was already lopsided, and then people are
Lamar had one of those couple of years back. He
had big numbers after the game was lopsided and the
Ravens were getting blown out. I think it was against
the Titans, if I remember correctly. But here is the
the Mallor riddle of the day, the Mallor riddle of
to day. A Philadelphia police officer was spotted in uniform,

(19:07):
in uniform, blanket blank during the Eagles tailgate over the weekend.
That is the malar riddle of the day. And see
does anyone know the answer? Alf The alien ol Piner
says he was spotted in uniform drinking urine and eating chili. Interesting.
Donkey Sausage says smoking the Devil's lettuce and watching Wren

(19:30):
and Stimpy from Donkey Sausage, Malar Riddle. Answer from Fudgie
says smoking and drinking King Rory going with playing Tug
of War with gutter what a nightmare? Well is that
how he plays tug of War? Interesting? That says a lot.
What else do we have? Page down? Ferk Duck says
watching the Australian Open like I am now, Well, I'm

(19:52):
sure we'll have our update guy, We'll have live updates
on the Australian Open, right, Yes, that'll be going on.
No appellently not. Who else do we have? Page down?
Eating corn the Long Way from Asher took jelly shots
with Eagle Fans from Rob in Minnesota. Whistling and whittling,
Whistling and whittling from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
J T.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
The wing Man's been to the last four mal meets
in four different states says he was spotted itching and
scratching D's nuts is the answer? Who else do we have?
Page dan? Let's see here. Joe the ghost Hunter from
Ohio says, sucking down a Philly cheese steak is the answer.
Oiling and lubricating his main frame from Christopher in Kansas City.

(20:36):
DJ spin Patrick in San Diego says dancing with a
bachelorette is the answer. Lady Sideburn says was spotted doing
a rewipe and failing to wash his hands. Well, that
would be, that would be unfortunate, unfortunate. Let's see. Incatara says,

(20:56):
just Josh and Jay Scoop is the answer. The talented
music duo. Who else do you have? Page down Gunner
says something about the Clippers uniforms, which he wishes the
Timberwolves would wear. All right, that's enough anyway, Lorraine, do
you have an answer? A Philadelphia police officer was spotted
in uniform on camera blank and blank during the Eagles

(21:20):
tailgate over the.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
Weekend, watching porn and eating cookies.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Back all right, bench pressing and working out is the
actual as ex pressing and working out. We're a little
off by that, a little off, Lorena, But yeah, the
guy was in full uniform. And now why would you
bring it like a gym set to the tailgate? That
seems a little lot. The tailgates all about eating massive

(21:47):
amounts of food. And drinking lots of alcohol.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
But they got kind of get pumped back, apparently so and.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
This Philadelphia cop right there in uniform has badge on
the whole thing, and he was he was bench bench pressing,
working out.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
Did you hear about that cop?

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Though?

Speaker 5 (22:01):
Oh no, what about there was a cop over the
weekend who actually ran into another car because he was.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Watching all I did see, I did see. Where was that?
I don't know, you don't know what.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
That's why I guess that though, That's why I sold. Yeah,
I mean, well, if you're on patrol, why not?

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well he was, he was observing. He was on patrol.
He was observing.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
You know, I wonder what protectedn't sirt?

Speaker 1 (22:25):
What website?

Speaker 5 (22:26):
Do you think he was probably a free one? They
don't get paid much.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Well, yeah, no one's really paying for porn anymore? Right,
who's paying for.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
Porn fan subscribers?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Well, I mean, yeah, I don't know. I guess there's
a lot of people paying for only fans. All right,
It's very odd.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
It's only what ten dollars a month. We spend more
on coffee.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
I know, But I'm yeah, I'm old. I'm a purist
when it comes to poort. I like it free, and
it's free, it's for me. Pay for it, Nah, not
so much. Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello
to Angry Bill, who's in the Sunshine State. Hello Angry Bill.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Hello everybody. Ben. If you and your gentleman that fills
in for you doesn't want to work like on Saturday,
you don't need to keep playing twenty twenty four highlights.
And I got to listen to your garbage Dodgers again.
You know you almost fooled me again. I almost called
in again. That's a second time, ye angrybody.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
I know you're a little slow. The studios were evacuated
because the fire was in the hill above the studio,
so there was no live programming.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Go get your two dogs and yourself and go pee
on the fire. I don't give a damn stop playing
a four.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well, you're so understanding, you're so understanding, Angry Broll. He's
very kind of you to say.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
That play in twenty twenty four. I don't want to
hear about your garbage Dodgers. And you complain about Clayton Kersher,
this fine young man, young man, you complain about him
getting a ring. He went ahead and gave them support and.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Momentum the moment as he gave him a lot of momentum.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
The guy alone.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
I know, I know, it's very rude of me, very
rude of me to point out, very rude of me
to point out how bad Claton Kershaw is in the playoffs.
I should not mention it. I want you to know
how angry. Yeah, you're you're I know, you're just being
a goofball because you're a Yankee fan. But the amount
of Dodger fans that are upset with me angry Bill,
like they think that I'm out out of bounds here,

(24:29):
that I've I've crossed some kind of line. It's really
fascinating to me that that's out there, because I would
think that we could all agree. Is that people that
like the Dodgers that Kershaw is terrible in big games?
Like why can't you say he was a great regular
season player. He sucks in big games, kind of like
your guy, Garrett Cole. Kind Of like your guy Garrett.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
I think, I think, Oh, I told you about Derek Cole,
but you don't want to believe me. Yeah, remember I
told you about him.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
He is no ye I told you about I told
you about a guy, and that's what you are. I
told you about a guy, and that's what this is.
I told you about a guy.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Winner garbage picture.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
He was my favorite, my favorite inning of Yankee baseball,
the fifth inning. I love the fifth inning of Yankee baseball.
It's so good.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah, thirty million dollars and he couldn't run fifteen to
twenty feet.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
They don't pay him to cover first base. Man, they
don't pay him to cover first base.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
I'm still puking in my mouth.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Good, Okay, you might want to get you throw that
out out of your mouth.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
I want I don't want to listen to your twenty
twenty four again.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Well, well, if the fire comes back, guess what you'll
hear it again. So deal with it, all right, all right?
I only have one dog left. We got Luigi's. We
moved on from Luigi. You got one. We got Moxie.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
What.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, Luigi I could not control. Luigi was eating the
entire house. Could not control needed you know that. We
we borrowed Luigi on a trial basis. So we took
Luigi back to Luigi's original home. Because Luigi could not
the whole house was being eaten by Luigi and Luigi

(25:58):
bad influence on my other dog, Mack okay, because Moxie
was acting like a lunatic around the other dog, Luigi.
So Moxie now that Luigi's out of the picture. Moxie
sleeps twenty three hours a day. She's awake for half
an hour and the other half hour she's going to
the bathroom. So it's perfect. She just lays there and
snores and it's just wonderful. She was freaking out though.

(26:20):
I mentioned the story over the weekend because during the
windstorm last week and the fires and all the noise
and all that, Moxie there's this syndrome, which I didn't
even know is a thing that English bulldogs get where
their heads start shaking. I thought she was having a
seizure or something like that, but it's like a condition
that bulldogs get, and so I was freaking out. Oh, man,

(26:44):
Moxy's dying.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
But she was just, what's that thing that old people
get where they shake.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Well, there's a couple of things you can get when
you're what are you talking about, like.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
Cerebral palsy parkins Parkinson's yeah, no, but the sury I
ain't talking to you.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, So the dog, these bulldogs, and I had no idea.
I had no idea that they suffer from this condition.
And it's uh, it's wild. It's a bulldog head shaking syndrome.
And if they get too stressed out they have too
much anxiety, their heads starts shaking uncontrolled.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
Do you think that's why they make the bulldog bibbleheads.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yes, that's exactly what makes sense, exactly why. Let's salo
to weed man hippie who, much like a bulldog his ship,
his head also shakes uncontrollably up and down. Hello weed
Man hippie, Hey man, how are you.

Speaker 6 (27:36):
How's everybody with the fires? With fires here? Anybody?

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well? I mean hear the studio over the weekend they
evacuate the Fox Sports radio compound here, but they've pushed
back into the hills for now, so we'll see.

Speaker 6 (27:49):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yeah. Fuck.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
You know, Darl's Strawberry got twenty five million dollars five
million a year.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
You are still upset by this, Daryl Strawberry, You're still angry.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
No, I'm saying now, these guys are getting one hundred
and seventy five million dollars.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah. Yeah, they're all making ridiculous. Justin Herbert, who is
beyond criticism according to many NFL fans, makes thirty seven
and you know whatever, over thirty seven million dollars. But
we're not allowed to point out when he sucks. We
can't part that out. Thirty seven Yeah, next year he's
gonna make forty six million. Actually, well this year he's
making thirty seven, next year forty six.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
So yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Hey, so, Walker Buller, you're all choked up talking Walker Buller.
Here he is with the Red Sox. Now, Walker Buller, he.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
Was your guy, and now he's on the Red Sox.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, he's on the Red Sox. Yeah he's he's hurt.
The guy's had to Tommy Johnson's he couldn't get more
than a one year contract, so everyone's assuming he's gonna
get hurt again. Otherwise he would have gotten more than
one year. He couldn't get get anyone to get more
than one year.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Well, but you were liking to stay with the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Well, yes, because I know that he has shown the
ability to step up in the playoffs, unlike Clayton Kershaw,
who steps down. Although you know Kershaw matter, he'll be
hurt by the time, even if he's on the team again,
he'll be hurt by the time the playoffs come around,
so you do not have to worry about that. Yeah, he's done.
His playoff days are done. He'll never pitch in another

(29:25):
playoff game. I'd be shocked. He can't handle the season,
and they baby him and all that and all that.
The funniest was a couple of years ago when Dave Roberts,
for the last month and a half of the season,
only started Kershaw on Saturday because he said, we only
want to pitch once a week, so he's ready for
the playoffs. We're gonna have him pitch on a Saturday
home game at Dodger Stadium. And the game ended right
after the flyover. He got absolutely bombarded by the Diamondbacks

(29:49):
in this playoff game. It was embarrassing.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
Hey, so everybody joke, Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
We need jokes. Lame jokes are on Friday Thursday in
the Friday Weed Man is the laugh track of the
lame jokes. Yeah, what kind of jokes do you want?
You want jokes about you?

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Eaed man?

Speaker 1 (30:07):
You want jokes about it? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Makes about anything?

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Okay? You like it? You like when people go for you.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, your home homeers, no money.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
You know, all the material, you've heard, all the jokes there, Yeah,
I got you, all right, all right, fair enough, all right.
We'll send you jokes and send them to Benmatherer Show
at gmail dot com. Benmathershow at gmail dot com. They
should have put jokes in the headlines and we will
use those jokes at the end of the week. And
it's in the hour three of the show. It's lame

(30:41):
Jokes of the week. It's very exciting. I thank you,
eat man. Go ahead, there's a weed man hippie checking in.
Legally blind Christopher. Hello, legally blind Christopher. I also saw
over the weekend that Khalil Mack is considering retirement allegedly.
See that he's been around for a minute there with
the Chargers. Hello legally blind Christopher.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Well, good morning, mister Mallow. Thank you for taking my call.
But I'm celebrating in a big way about how mister
Bubball was so important, just emphasizing how his defense and
run game we're going to dominate his Chargers. Oh, at first,
I'm so happy. It's just so great to see him suffer.
I'm going to see one in eight scenario like he

(31:27):
used to do with Ohio State in Michigan.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
At that, I look at that. There we go. You're
a proud Michigan fan even though you're not in Michigan anymore.
You're holding that grudge against her. But he didn't win
a championship on his way out of Michigan, So you
got to give him that.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
I cheated the whole way. There was no way it
was a true win. I know it. Everyone knows it.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
It was a cheap.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
That's the only reason Nick gave it to us is
because he cheated. What else is new with him? But
more important?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yes, no, no, I what exotic location are you at?
You want to annoy blind Scott? Where are you at? Right?

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Well, that's going to happen no matter what I say
or where I go.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
So going there?

Speaker 3 (32:04):
So hey, let's where do we all want to go.
Let's go somewhere all together and then we can all
talk about it.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Let's just go hang on Hawaii, you know, go enjoy
this service. I've never been, you've never been. All right, Well,
it's beautiful. We'll go to Hawaii, will sit on the beach,
it'll be marvelous, lovely.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
But mister Mallifle. The question to you is, Okay, my Lions,
are they gonna choke like a traditional lion? We'll do
against the Commanders because I'm just feel there's a big
lose coming and I just don't think it's gonna happen
that we're going to move on. I know.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
So here's my my position on that. Now, keep it right.
I've gotten everything wrong. Literally, everything I thought was going
to happen the NFL playoffs has not happened. So I'm
zero for five right now going into the game on
Monday night. That being said, I do not believe that
the renaissance of the Detroit Lions defense is legit. I
played well, that was more about Sam Darnold not being
able to handle the moment for the Minnesota Vikings than

(32:59):
it was about great deal fence by the Detroit Lions. Therefore,
I believe the point spread, the opening point spread, is inflated.
Allion's over a touchdown favorite in that game against the
Washington Commanders, and I think that's that's a bit too far,
bit too far up. I will believe it there though, Christopher,
thank you legally blind Christopher checking in, Hey speed up

(33:21):
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line Who needs advice? If you'd like to submit an idea? Now,

(33:44):
I have an idea who I think needs our advice.
But if you would like to give a suggestion to
the a panel, feel free to send that in on X.
I will read and review those questions here over the
next couple of minutes, and then I will decide whether
you come up with something better than mine or you
agree with my idea in my head. Here the install
advice Line, unscreened radio, Who needs the advice? Who needs

(34:08):
the wisdom of the malor militia? The unscreened phone calls.
We'll get to all that, and we will do it next.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Ben Miller here reminding you The Ben Mallor Show for
some reasons archived in an audio vault save for future
generations and really just for those of you that worked
the dread a day shift give you a chance to
consume the overnight audio content fresh out of the audio oven.
You can follow the show, the Ben Mahler Show and

(34:45):
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g There
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get your podcast. There's a whole archive of weekend podcasts
you might have missed from the Fifth Hour available for
you to listen today or whenever iHeart app wherever you
get your podcast. Now back to it.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Hey, you sports figure, guy or girl?

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Were you talking to son.

Speaker 6 (35:12):
Or some internet advice?

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Hold that though no one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds. And if you don't like it, po
we go. It's the in advice line onscreened radio. The
safety net is off. Who needs our advice? Who needs
our advice? Let's see any meenie money more. How about

(35:36):
Baker Mayfield. He did the thing you can't do at
the time. You can't do a Baker Mayfield in the
Sunday night game fumble that turned the game. Tampa was
in the lead, they had the ball, they just picked
up a first down. They were going to extend the lead,
most likely on that drive against the futile Washington defense,
but unable unable to get it done, they handed a touchdown.

(36:01):
They did the Buccaneers to the Washington football team. So
advice to Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers. You're live on
the air when you hear my voice at eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox unscreened radio. We are trained professionals.
The safety is off. Line one, you're on the air.
Advice to Baker Mayfield. Line one, all right? Line one,

(36:23):
not quick enough? Line two. Advice to Baker Mayfield. Line two, you.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Should call his good friend Shannel Elizabeth or Jay Moore?

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Does that guy?

Speaker 1 (36:31):
All right? Thank you for that. Line three, you're on there.
That's former talk shows Jay Moore here at the Fox
Sports Radio. Line three. Hello, line three in the morning time.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
According to my version, there's a book of Daniels and
will be in the Lions.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Dan Oh is that? Oh interesting? Okay, that's a rick
from Maryland morning time. Line four, you're on the air.
It's the instant advice line for Baker Mayfield, unscreened radio. Hello,
line four.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Take monster lessons from Ben.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
That was so much fun at the park, Ben if Ye.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, well, I'm not there for you. Line five, you're
on the Airline five. Hello, we are giving advice. Line
number five to Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
But something sticky on your hands, all.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Right, stick them a. Line six, you're on the air
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello, Line six.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Mayfield should open Baker's bakery because he's a different making turnover.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
All right, that kind of sounded like Manuell and Guardiana.
Line one, you're on the air. It's the instant advice
line for Baker Mayfield at eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. Hello, Line one, Man.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
I want Baker back in Seattle.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Let's go, all right, put him back in Seattle. Why not?
He's never been to Seattle other than the play there.
Let's go. Line two. You're on the airline too.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
Hello, I need an ambulance.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
All right, well call a different number. Line three. Hello,
Line three, come.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
To the Patriots, Baker.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
We'll pay the reps and overturn that call.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Hey, you got Mike Vrabel. Now all's good in the world.
Line four. Hello, Line four, you're on the airline for
instant advice. Line Line four not paying attention. Line five,
advice to Baker Mayfield. Line five, I got sticky on
my hands. All right, well you might want to go
wash them. Line six, you're on the airline six.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Hello, not being the bad news Beyers.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Maybe okay, that was terrible. Line one Hello, Line one.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
He needs to hold his ball like Flexus.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, Flexus holds multiple balls a line too. Hello.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
Line two, he's got a feed of barbs.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Baba good noos. How about the gobbagool? How about the
goppagol eight seven seven ninety nine. Fox were giving advice
to Baker Mayfield after he had the big mistake. Tampa
Bay loses the playoff game to Washington. Line three, Hello,
I miss you Ben.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
This is Luigi.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
I'm hungry.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
I didn't know Luigi could talk. I would have kept
Luigi if Luigi can talk. Line four Hello, line.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Four, yeah, just show Saturday morning when Edmund was let
go morning time time.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Line five, you're on the airline five.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
Go havelg Scoop do a song for him and he
needs to go back to planting flags.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Hello, Yeah, we need Morse music on the show for sure.
Line six, you're on the airline sex.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
Hello, go Missus. Maller is sleeping with Bill Miller.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Oh, No, that's outrageous. Oh man, I can't believe Bill
Miller would do that. All right's the incident of ice
Line unscreen Radio eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
I think we only have time for one more. If
it's could all take credit off. If not, I will
blame the Kooble loop final call on the incident of
ice Line for Baker Mayfield. Pick the line coopble Lope,
go head mine too, line numb bird too. You're on

(39:39):
the airline to go. Oh, you should have picked line one.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
Call Cleveland'll take Yeah, call Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
There you go, call Cleveland. That was a tough ending
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