February 7, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Eli Manning not getting into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot, former Panthers LB Luke Kuechly also not getting in, how he classifies the Hall of Fame Class for 2025, and much more!
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We go. Welcome, It's our number? What our number? One
of the Original Recipe podcast, Happy Friday. It's the seventh
day of February, the last Friday before the Super Bowl weekend,
which is upon a couple of notes for you here
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I know, but today the rare and appropriate chat with
almost Andy Reid. Now he's not Andy Reid, he's almost
Andy Reid. This is an Andy Reid impersonator who's from
Kansas City. He's well known. He's been in commercials with
Andy Reid, and he is he looks exactly like I know.
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It's an audio only thing. I'll put some photos on
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He was a listener of the Ben Malers show back
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now here an hour. Number one, it's all about the
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Hall of Fame. How do you classify Ely Manning not
not getting into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot?
A lot of outrage Internet outrage over that. Also where
you're at on former Herolina linebacker Luke Keikley, He wasn't
voted in the Canton on the first ballot. And how
would you describe in general the new Hall of Fame class?
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There are four members that were voted in on Thursday
in the Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty five.
We'll talk about all that and more right now here.
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And our lead story here to begin the Overnight Talk
Festivas from the Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty five.
Now big night in New Orleans. A lot of boozing,
Not just the media elites boozing. There's an NFL big
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shots that came in there. As the NFL tries to
cross over. They've been doing this for years. They want
to be seen as entertainment and glitz and glamour, and
when it's just a bunch of meathead football players giving
awards to other meathead football players. But for our purposes,
to begin the night, we'll push back, push back the
MVP Award, which did go to Josh Allen over Lamar Jackson.
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So crank up the outrage machine. I did not share
the outrage with that. But if you did not pay attention,
the big one is the living cemetery of the NFL.
It's in Canton, Ohio. It's not technically the NFL, it's
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But if you do
not see the class of twenty twenty five, that would
be tight end Antonio Gates, cornerback Eric Allen, defensive end
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Jared Allen, so a lot of Allen's wide receiver Sterling Sharp.
He joins his brother. They're the newest members of the
Pro Football Hall of Fame and they will be inducted
in a Gallas ceremony in early August, where everyone will
be focused on Canton, Ohio as they will be enshrined
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in that mausoleum. Now, the class was chosen in a
smoke filled room, well, actually it was a virtual meeting
used to be a smoke filled room, but now everything's
on zoom. So the Board of Selectors, a group of
fifty voters, randomly decided who's in and who's out, who's
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in and who's out. So it's the smallest class in
twenty years. You're gonna go back to twenty oh five.
I was barely alive then, and that was also a
four member class for the Hall of Fame. Now, the
better story is in the losing the losing locker room,
or in this case, the losing campaign for the Hall
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of Fame. Now I mentioned moving man Matt and he
has been one of the great advocates him and guys
like Spacoli and these other losers for Eli Manning to
get into the Hall of Fame. Well that's the story.
Don't bear the lead by man. Don't bear the lead.
Better story in the losing locker room. So you've got
former Colts and Patriots kicker Adam Venteri did not make it,
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Panthers linebacker Luke Keigley, and Giants quarter back Elijah Manning,
all of them in their first year of eligibility. None
of them were selected. The big one is the quarterback
and the headlines all over the world wide web, shocking,
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outrageous snub Eli blocked from Canton, Ohio at the NFL Honors,
and that made the rounds bouncing around the pinball machine.
So let us discuss the question, how do you classify
Eli Manning not getting in to the Hall of Fame
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on his first ballot? So I have David Copperfield, I've
got Hans Solo and Wendy's three things that have never
ever been combined together. Will ring the bell and we'll
make some magic here. So my first thought, how do
you classify Eli Manning not getting into the Hall of
Fame on the first ballot? I classify it as justified. Right, Bravo,
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bravo to the voters. I don't know who you are,
but I didn't think that the people that voted for
the Pro Football Hall of Fame had the intestinal fortitude,
had the manhood. I don't know. I haven't gonna say it.
They had hair in their chest to do this. But
Eli Manning being a first ballot Hall of Famer would
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have been criminal. He is not that. I wouldn't even
put him in the Hall of Fame, and I think
eventually he's gonna get in the Hall of Fame. But
he doesn't deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.
And here's why he is m d mid. He's a
mid player. He's David Copperfield. He's used smoking mirrors trickeration
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to convince dumb people that he's better than he is.
He's just an average ballplayer that low information fans get
all excited about because a couple of Fluke playoff runs.
But he never won a playoff game. Outside of those
two Fluke runs in the playoffs. He was not at
any point, at any moment, an elite ballplayer. Now my evidence,
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Elijah in his NFL career was a five hundred player,
one hundred and seventeen wins, one hundred and seventeen losses.
He never won an MVP Award, never really came close
to that. He never finished as the league leader in
passing yards. He was never considered one of the top
two or three quarterbacks in the NFL at any point.
He was never named an All Pro. And that's a
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big one. That is, how can you be a Hall
of Famer if not one time were you considered an
All Pro? Sixteen years, not once did anyone say this
guy's an All Pro none and the Super Bowl wins.
While they're nice and all that, it's a team award,
it's not an individual award. And in terms of judging
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Eli Manning on his own resume, not your imagination, your perception,
your fairy tale, but the actual raw numbers if you
go and look at him and also watching him play.
But that's a different conversation. But the math isn't mathing
when you look at the Pro Football Reference page of
Eli Manning, Eli led the NFL in only one category
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over sixteen years in the league. Only one. Now, I'll
give him credit. He did lead the league three times
in one category. That category was that's right, interceptions, So
he was elite at throwing interceptions. So good job by him.
Other than that, bupkis and the comp on Eli Manning
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is Donovan McNabb. Would you put Donovan McNabb on the
Hall of It? Would you put Carson Palmer in the
Hall of Fame? That's the type of ballplayer that Eli
Manning is. Again, I think eventually he'll get in, but
it's nice that he didn't get in right away. He
won't likely get in next year and he should have
to wait a long time. I would never put him in,
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but I know how this works, I know the politics
of this, and eventually he'll end up in the Hall
of Fame. Now, page two, So where are you at
on former Carolina linebacker Luke Keighley not getting voted in
as well in the can So to me, this was
the snub in the room. I can't get all worked
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up about Adam Vinti because he's a kicker and kickers
aren't real football players. But Luke Keighley I can get
worked up for. Since Keighley did not play in the
New York New Jersey tri state area there with Connecticut,
he doesn't have the last name Manning the royalty of
the NFL, this part is mostly being ignored. And while
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Eli Manning clearly does not belong in the Hall of
Fame based on his resume, Luke Keighley checks just about
every box, just about every box. And this is a
Han solo situation saying, Luke, may the Force be with you,
and the force is with Luke Keighley, And I'm gonna
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make my elevator pitch as to why Luke Keighley was
a five time All Pro, a five time All Pro
in his career. Remember, Eli Manning was not he was
on the All Decade team Luke Keighley for the twenty tens.
Eli Manning never made an All Decade team. He was
the Rookie Defensive Player of the Year and then Defensive
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Player the Year. The only red flag, the only bumpety
bump for Luke Keikley is that he did not have longevity.
But football is not a sport designed for longevity. He
played eight seasons, which seems like a lot longer than
most NFL careers. However, and you merely judge him on
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those eight years. He ended up in the upper crust
All Pro statics, not Pro Bowl where they play game
shows and water balloon toss All Pro, All Pro. Sixty
two percent of his career he was in the Krem
de la Krem of the NFL. So, Luke Keighley, that
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was a bad job by the voters. I agree with
the Manning thing. I do not agree with Luke Keighley.
But you can't get too worked up because it's a
Carolina Panther player and there's not a lot of people
that get all worked out and more on in North
Carolina and the Carolinas and all that but yeah, kind
of calm and all. All right, last word, So, how
would you describe the new members, the brand new members
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of the Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty five.
So I would describe them as good, not great, good,
not great. In fact, I would go back to an
old forty some year old marketing campaign from Windy's Where's
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the Beef? Where's the beef? Yeah, king the wow factor.
None of these guys are bad. They're not bad. Eric
Allen played fourteen seasons, so he had longevity. He made
one All Pro team? Why is he now a Hall
of Famer? Win a Hall of Famer? The last couple
of years, Antonio Gates made three All Pro teams and
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was a good player, one of the great tight ends
of his ear for the San Diego charge the old
San Diego Chargers. He was on an All Decade team,
which is nice. And I'm trying to remember. Maybe I'm
just my memory is going, but I can't remember a
signature moment of Antonio Gates' career, can you? I can't.
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What was his defining moment that you said, well, that's
a Hall of Fame moment? What was it? Jared Allen?
He had a good player with the Vikings and the
Chiefs and was a four time All Pro and mostly
mid middling teams that he played on, but individually he
was very effective. So he's in good but not great
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and Sterling Sharks who made three All Pro teams if
you're old enough to remember him with the Green Bay
Packers and got hurt and that was it and he
played I think it was seven years and he got
in in the Hall of Fame. And you're like, okay, fine,
you know it doesn't get you all Tingley doesn't get
you all excited. But those guys are in the Hall
of Fame. Okay, that's fine, they're in. But I'm not
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gonna go raw rah. I mean, you know, that's just
the way it is. So anyway, it is the Ben
Mallor Show. We are here all night, every night during
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a listener to our show, which is kind of cool.
It's always neat when you meet someone and you're like, hey,
that guy, and then they know who you are. So
this guy known as almost Amy read if you were out,
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if you're one of our listeners in Kansas City, you
came to the Kansas City Meet and greet, you saw
this guy that looks just like Andy Reid. That's almost
Andy Reid, and he's a he's a listener of our show.
I met him. We have mutual radio friends, and he's
gonna be on the pod later today, the Fifth Hour podcast,
so we'll catch up with him. And I told one
of my my big muckety muck radio friends, I said,
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I'm gonna have the Andy Reid impersonator guy on And
he said, Ben, you do a podcast you're having in
it's no video. You're having an impersonator whose claim is
that he looks like Andy Reid, and you're having him
on an audio only podcast. I said, Yes, I am,
because that's how I roll, that's how I operate. Yes, anyway,
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at FSR Tech, Queen and Koople Loop a Bronco fan,
the cast of characters, and now man who loves the
number sixteen? Well, actually, Bill, I do, I now love
the number sixteen. I did want to mention this if
you don't follow the show on social media. Bill's referencing
the fact that a radio trade website, which is probably
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not the most interesting thing for you to read if
you're not in radio, but one of the websites that
tracks the radio industry, and they come out every year
with a list, which I know Terry in England loves
when you do a list. He loves the list. But
they vote on all the different radio shows on what's
good and what's bad and what sucks and all that,
and I normally don't pay attention to it. I saw
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this and some of you send it to me, so
I thought, well, that's kind of cool. So they vote
on the top twenty. They do by local radio, like
local big market media market. They do national radio, which
is what we're part of doing national radio, and there's
a lot of different radio shows, and many of them suck.
But fortunately, I guess we're not technically one of those
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that sucked because they did the Top twenty and we
were number sixteen, which is cool. So it's a testimonial
to you listening to Lorena coop our thanks of course
to Ady who was a big part of the show
last year. And yeah, so we were number sixteen. And
the cool thing is for me knowing how radio works,
and there's two different worlds in radio. There's six am
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to six pm, which gets to go to the super
Bowl and gets all the perks and all that cool stuff,
and then there's overnight late night radio which is six
pm to six am. Two totally different worlds. Right, It's
like the haves and the have nots. And so we
were the highest ranked have not show. Every other show
ahead of us was a daytime show. So I was
very proud of that that we're like the top in
the have not category. We'd like the top of the
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half nine. And several people have pointed out that we
need now to get a number sixteen drop. I don't
know how we can get a number sixteen drop, but
we should promote that we're number sixteen and we've made
the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That is so cool.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It was pretty neat, So it was cool. So you
know who knows one And it was like a panel
of radio executive so it's not just like one dude
in his basement that did this. There's like people and
they don't all work for my company, iHeart they work
for the different radio companies. So that was kind of cool.
So thank you. That was neat. It was neat. So anyway,
all mister nice guy writes in he has an update
he'd like to learn all you affiliates down the line
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that he has finished it in time for the super Bowl.
His lego project, his love lego project, which I think
is a crossover for Valentine's Day. So that is done.
So good news. Mister nice guy has finished it in
time for the super Bowl, so there will be love
at the super Bowl. Late Night Drug Tester says if
Eli Manning ever does get in, it should be as
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a San Diego Charger. He threw two hundred and forty
four fewer interceptions when he was playing for the Chargers.
Ferg Dog says, Hey, Ben Well, most of Orange County
is enjoying a little rain right now. Fullerton getting pounded
in the eye of the hurricane. I am hunkered down,
hunkered down. Oh yeah, Loraina, you were a little late today,
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but you have a good excuse, right. There was a
lot of a lot of weather in the LA area.
We have extremes here. We go from the whole city
burning down to flood conditions the matter of a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Win those big signs on the freeway that usually tell
you not to drink like and drive, they say severe weather,
drive with caution.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, usually they just say that it's nonsense. But there
were some highways flooded in the in the LA area.
And I know the the one oh one in Hollywood
is the worst, but to me, it's the worst I've
I've almost died there several times over the years. Driving
in bad weather. It is a freaking nightmare.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I love near death stories. They had these big old
trucks out on the freeway that were like pumping the
water up into them.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Oh really, so they were trying to get rid of the.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, that's why I was stopped for so long. Like
they were literally like trying to get the water out
of the road.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh you know, that's well, they need that because the
cars have to go through there. Yeah, I understand, Jonathan
writes in He's upset with my Mallard monologue. He says,
you're just going to ignore the fact that Antonio Gates
went from undrafted free agent basketball player to top fifteen
touchdown score in NFL history because he didn't have a
notable moment. He says the moment was fifteen years, a
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one thousand receptions, blah blah blah blah. I'm my opinion, Jonathan,
I don't recall a moment. I said that guy's a
Hall of Famer. He was good. This guy's clearly you know,
no NonStop express train to the Hall of Fame. Viva
los Vicki writes and says Buenos Noche's been. He says,
I beg to differ Eli no Hall of Fame vote
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because of two flukes super Bowl wins. The definition of
a fluke is defined as a chance occurrence. One super
Bowl ring is a fluke, two is something else, grasshopper. Yeah, well,
how many other playoff wins did he have other than that?
I'll give you the answer, zero, as many as I
did and you did zero zippo. A good job by
the Hall of Fame voters. Good job by the Hall
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of Fame voters there again. So that's just that's the
way it is. That's it. Let's see here late night
drug tester said quiet before the super Bowl top of
the hour trending report, A couple of minutes of silence
is good to help reset your mind and body. That's
why we did. That was our tribute to Eddie. Anytime
the update doesn't play, it's our tribute to Eddie. And
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so that's what we did there at the top of
the hour.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Or it's your sign that Loraina is not in the building, or.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Lorena is stuck in traffic and not here, and either
one of those. Slim Tim a cheese head writes and
says it's been a crummy day, but the malor militia
will surely bring some sunshine. Well, that's pressure. We got
to cheer up, Slim Tim. We got to cheer him up.
You gotta make that happen. Yeah, all right, anyway, go
to the phones. It is a call in show. You're
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you're listening alive to the Ben Malls show. We do
thank for that. And lame jokes coming up in our
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Let's go to the phones and let's say hello to Ricky.
(24:03):
Who's in so caow Ricky in Van Eyes? Hello, Ricky,
Welcome in the valley right down the street. What's going on? Ricky?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Ben? How are you? Ricky? If I was any better,
I'd be sleeping. But I'm talking talk talk talk talk
talk talky. Okay, good evening.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
And I heard you talking about the number sixteen.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Very interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
When I used to play softball, I used to wear
the number sixteen.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Why did why did you wear number sixteen? Was that?
Was there another player that inspired you.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
No, no, no, no, I'm going to give you three names, Monday, La,
Duca and Easier.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Okay, I got you, all right, Laduka remember that number sixteen?
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Yeah, they all played, They all played number sixteen. They
were all good players. So much anyhow, I want to
talk about the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh of course, So I just did an NFL monologue
and you want to you want to bogart the show
with Baker prop again? Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
That is correct?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I want to ask, first of all, yes, what do
you think about how good the Lakers defense has been
over the last five six games? And my second question is,
and I'll let you go, how come nobody is talking
about JJ Reddick and you.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Know how good he's been doing this performance with.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Them, because I don't think he's doing that good a job.
Number one. We'll start with that, but thank you. And
if the problem with the Lakers is not like five
or six games, Ricky, it's that ultimately in a seven
game playoff series, they're going to have at some point
Lebron and Luca on the court or at least I
would say forty minutes of a forty eight minute game,
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which means they will be on the power play on offense,
and they will be shorthanded on defense because they will
be playing three on five defense. And you could argue
they'll be playing seven on five on offense because Luke
is such a great offensive player and Lebron can still
get past anybody and get to the basket even though
he's forty. So that's the It's like a zero sum game,
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is what it is. For that that's the the issue.
And also I was reading a story about this guy
Mark Williams who they got, who apparently is a dog
with fleas, that he is just lazy and he doesn't
doesn't hustle, and that that is totally against the propaganda
coming out of Lakerland about how they've got there Forever
Center now and it's going to be a two man
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team with Luca and then this guy Williams. I mean,
they just the last game this cat played for the
Charlotte Hornets, the broadcaster for the Hornets, like Red in
the Riot Act and the guys on the payroll, you're
not supposed to do that. It's not allowed. You're not
supposed to rip guys on your own team. But he
did it, and that I imagine how pathetic the effort
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must have been by that cat Mark Williams, where one
of the own broadcasters for the Hornets eat him out
on what a terrible effort he was given, how lazy
he was on defense. So I'd be very concerned if
I was I was a Laker supporter. There a historian
that you got a guy who's fools gold in this
guy Williams. He's a young guy, he's got good raw
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numbers on a bad team. And I know because I
spent a lot of time back in my younger days
around bad NBA teams, and someone's gonna have to get
a lot of rebounds, someone's gonna get after. You get
a lot of points on bad teams. It doesn't mean
they're good and it doesn't mean they're winning players. So
be very very careful, very very careful, please all right,
back to the phones. Eight seven seven ninety nine on
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Fox is the number. Let's go to Kevin, who's in
the Bay area. Hello, Kevin, welcome, you're on Fox.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Okay, can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
You can't hear me?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
No, I can't hear you. Can you can hear Can
you hear this guy? Coop? I can who you're talking? About.
I mean, there's some guy. We're trying to hear this guy, Kevin.
I don't know what you can't. Let's try to. Let's
go to Kevin and he's in Hayward. Hello, Kevin. Hello.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
I think Manning should make it because he's the only
one to beat Brady in his heyday twice.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So it doesn't matter that he was average. It doesn't
matter he was not at any point because he Isn't
the Hall of Fame about dominance. Isn't the Hall of
Fame about being the top one percent of all players?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:36):
I know, but that ain't the way things work. I
don't think I think they were.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
They were on Thursday, and they were on Thursday night, though, Kevin,
because he didn't get voted in right I mean, otherwise
he would have been voted in right away. But your
I mean, I understand what you're saying. And you're in
the You're on the majority. I'm in the minority. You're
on the majority side, Kevin, I'm on the minority side.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I know.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
I don't think he's necessarily a great quarterback. I just
think to the fact that he beat the out twice
in the.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Day, So the fact that he didn't win. The fact
that he didn't win another playoff game outside of those
two years asn't matter. And he was a five hond
quarterback and it only led the NFL in interceptions.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
That's the only I get all that.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
And he doesn't actually play against Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's a fair point. And you could also who was
the defensive back to the Patriots to drop the interception
that would have won one of those two Super Bowls?
So then we're not even having this conversation.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And then there was that that fugazy helmet catch which
was bull crap.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Well it wasn't because he did catch it, So.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I know, I disagree. I think that he was in
he was in the grasp. I remember we did a
monologue about that after the game. Eli Manning was in
the grass. They didn't call it. The official didn't have
the balls to call it. He was in the grasp.
It should have been a sack.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Well, just like when the Raiders lost, right, Uh, that
was the tech girl. That shouldn't happened either.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Well, what about you're doing? What about ism? Kevin? How
dare you? How dare you?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Thanks for listening, Kevin? All right, I'm gonna go Kevin. Hey.
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Mister Irrigation one of our favorites. Even though he's in Houston,
we still love the guy. Mister Irrigation is on the
Ben Malashow, what's going on, mister Irrigation?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Ben, You're number sixteen. That's awesome. I mean that is awesome.
It comes right after fifteen. I mean, hey, I'm gonna
tell you. When I found you, I was listening to
Coach Kussman. I mean, you're no Art Fell, but you're
better than Jorgean Orrick.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Well. I like George. I like George. I offered most nights.
I parked next to Georgia's car and and uh yeah,
I'm I definitely have no. I'm definitely no Art Bell.
Art's a legend, and Art I think he's got a
I think he's got either a plaque or a statue
in Perumpt, Nevada, and I was actually in Perumpt, Nevada
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because I was there for an event. My wife's work
had a race baker to Vegas and I was there
and I didn't have a chance, and I was so
pissed because it was the only time I'll probably ever
be in Perumpt, Nevada. And I wanted to find that
damn Art Belf tribute thing and I could you know,
I couldn't. I didn't have time to do it. I
couldn't find it. And the only other reason to go
to Prompt, Nevada is that's where all the whorehouses are.
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So yeah, I mean, you know, that's where it's legal.
People think prostitution are legal in Vegas. It's you got it.
They drive you out to Perump and then you can
get some rump out there in Perump. That's I think.
That's why I call it Perump. I think so.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
As an Oiler fan band, the last thing we really
have is the fact that the Oil almost became the
first team to win three in a row. They lost
to a team called the Dallas Texans, which are now
the Kansas Students. Cheap and so I hopefully kicks the
crap out of the Chiefs thirty five to ten, like
the first sum Well, I think of.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
The great moments. When I think of the great moments
and oilers history, I will never forget the AFC playoff
game bills and oilers.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
And that was kind of like the fifth game of
the Dodgers and the Astros in the World Series.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Man, I oh, sorry, are you are you saying that?
Are you saying the bills were cheating? Is that what
you were saying? There were the bills using trash cans?
Is that what you're saying. You're saying they were cheating?
Is that what you're saying, You're saying they were cheating? Right?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
And I found out the Dodgers had lost.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, yeah, and then and then and then like two
years later, you found out your team was cheating. It's like, wow,
wait a minute, what happened? I can't believe it is wild,
wild and crazy.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
He's an oiler fan. I was an oiler fan. And
when the oilers were hot, man, that were better than
the Astros. I mean, when Bid left town, he was
written from the Astros. Man. I mean, the media in
this town just gets it so warped, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Well, the issue too, as I remember those oiler teams
and maybe you know you were there in the belly
of the beast, but like they were great in the dome,
and then inevitably they'd have to play on the road
in the playoffs at some point and it was just
a poop show. They didn't just couldn't get it done
because they were dome team. And that's how all dome
teams were in that era. They couldn't went on outdoor,
you know, outdoor cold weather, they were done.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
You're right, I mean, hey, when they almost won three
in a row, it was outside winter overtime. I don't
think the Chiefs will win it. I think I don't
think they want them to win it. I don't think
they want a free peace.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Why would they not want a three P Why would
not think.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
The NFL is rigged? I mean ever since.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Written stop stop out there, you spent too much time
in the irrigation businesses. That's that's the problem, is irrigation. Shot.
You're laying a lot of fight. All right, thank you,
mister irrigation. I'm gonna hang up on you now, all right,
(34:12):
go away. It is the the Ben Mau Show. We're
hanging out with you, and uh, we have some great audit.
Can we play that right now to we have so
NFL players say the darnedest things. We take it to
the Hall of Fame. Not the Hall of Fame. It
was the NFL Honors thing. And Justin Jefferson is the
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Minnesota Viking star player and they were doing a tribute
to Randy Moss, I believe. And so Jefferson's up there
on stage and he's talking to the big hall of
all these NFL big shots and all, and let's just
say he channeled the guy I do a TV show
and listen to what happened. It's unbelievable. Listen closely.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
Planning Robins the NFL is a jam jile, but playing
a position in Minnesota it means something.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
A little extra. Oh, I'm sorry, that's the first day
he hit the mic.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
Because of the tradition and excellence we've got going on there,
here we go.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
The prompter.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
I'm sorry, guys, but.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
All right, that's good. Right now, we're gonna start it over.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Claire Roberts in the NFL as a dream job. Planning
this position, it means something.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
A little extra. Oh, it is so great. I gotta
tell you. Doing the TV show this the last couple
of years with Loony and I don't have a prompt,
like we call him teleprompter. Tom's what we call Tom
Mooney and the prompter. They're very good. The guy does
the prompter in Boston, very good. But every once in
a while they'll be in that fo and Looney will
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start going off the script because he doesn't have the script.
It's not on the prompter, and it's hilarious and he's
mumbling and stumbling and bumbling and oh, it's so good,
it is so good. Uh So I love that way
to go. And he's all decked out. Man, he's got
his church clothes on. He's ready to go to the prompter.
Speaker 8 (36:24):
To be fair, if I was him, I wouldn't memorize
that either.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah, but there's there are I know he's not a
trained media guy, but it's just hilarious because there are
ways to handle that. And you know, you know, it's
like kind of like me when I and I go,
what I do is I say any media mind when
I'm waiting for the calls.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
I wouldn't I if I was saying and I wasn't
trained to know what to do, I would have just
been you know, let's get to the wall. Although I
guess the does he know the nomination?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
They probably told him, hey, well just just read off
the prompter. I get the prompter, just go straight to
the award. But that's probably on the prompter. Jow. I
don't know. I think he was doing something for Randy Moss.
But anyway, we'll leave it there. It is the Ben
Mahler Show. We'll bring that back. That's good audio. When
you got good audio, play good audio. Time out for
the who Am I?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Game?
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Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow joined me as the only two
time winner of NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Who
Am I? That is the question the answer. We'll get
to it and we will do it next.
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I Games? Where I pretend to be somebody else has
called to who am my game? Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
He joined me as the only two time winner of
NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Who two time winner
Comeback Player of the Year? Who am I? That is
the question. What is the answer? And let's see does
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anyone know the answer? Donkey Sausage going with one of
my favorite receivers of all time and one of the
great names of all time in NFL history, in my
life anyway, Willie Flipper Anderson, the rims great Flipper Anderson.
Andy in Line ol Wakes Minnesota says, painting Manning and
his bad neck. That's from Andy in Line ol Wakes.
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Who else do we have? Rosie Perez, everyone's favorite soul
trained ancer that was tossed out by og Art puffin
Late Night Drug Chester. She says, you are La Rams
quarterback Matthew Stafford, who is thirty seven today, mister nice guy,
the lego guy going with Rick and Keel. I saw
Ricky and kill in spring training when he was had
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not been in the major leagues, and the Saint Louis
Cardinal executives that were there in spring training were in Jupiter.
Floor said, this guy's going to be a Hall of Famer.
Can't miss how'd that work? Who else do we have?
Ronald McDonald throwing Big Max to the crowd, And that's
from the man that goes by the nickname Sir scratch
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Off Dick but gis from the Dick Pole account. Damar
Hamlin tossed up by King Rory. Who else do you have?
Kathy Ireland from I forty Ian The Big boss Man.
Guess by courtesy Flusher Burt Jones from the New York
Bozo Super Marcus Steve says the Idy Biddy Committee, he
changed it up. I don't say that that word there,
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but he used the word that's like bitty, but it
doesn't starts with a different letter. Hayes in Minnesota. Guess
by Shane in Des Moines. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Great,
what a great guy. Iks I loved meeting him years ago.
Joe Flacco is his answer. Maurice Clorette from Robin, Minnesota.
Also a cool dude. Who was at that Mallard meet
and greet? Who else do we have? Page down? That's enough,
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we don't have time for more. So Bengals quarterback Joe
Burrow joined me as the only two time winner for
NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Who am I lore No?
Speaker 4 (41:03):
It's Gossamer from Looney Tunes.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Bed You are so smart unless you're not. The correct
answer is actually Chad Pennington Jet's legend Chad penningson Turee
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Hall of Fame. How do you classify Ely Manning not
not getting into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot?
A lot of outrage Internet outrage over that. Also where
you're at on former Herolina linebacker Luke Keikley, He wasn't
voted in the Canton on the first ballot. And how
would you describe in general the new Hall of Fame class?
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There are four members that were voted in on Thursday
in the Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty five.
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Festivas from the Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty five.
Now big night in New Orleans. A lot of boozing,
Not just the media elites boozing. There's an NFL big
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shots that came in there. As the NFL tries to
cross over. They've been doing this for years. They want
to be seen as entertainment and glitz and glamour, and
when it's just a bunch of meathead football players giving
awards to other meathead football players. But for our purposes,
to begin the night, we'll push back, push back the
MVP Award, which did go to Josh Allen over Lamar Jackson.
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So crank up the outrage machine. I did not share
the outrage with that. But if you did not pay attention,
the big one is the living cemetery of the NFL.
It's in Canton, Ohio. It's not technically the NFL, it's
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But if you do
not see the class of twenty twenty five, that would
be tight end Antonio Gates, cornerback Eric Allen, defensive end
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Jared Allen, so a lot of Allen's wide receiver Sterling Sharp.
He joins his brother. They're the newest members of the
Pro Football Hall of Fame and they will be inducted
in a Gallas ceremony in early August, where everyone will
be focused on Canton, Ohio as they will be enshrined
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in that mausoleum. Now, the class was chosen in a
smoke filled room, well, actually it was a virtual meeting
used to be a smoke filled room, but now everything's
on zoom. So the Board of Selectors, a group of
fifty voters, randomly decided who's in and who's out, who's
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in and who's out. So it's the smallest class in
twenty years. You're gonna go back to twenty oh five.
I was barely alive then, and that was also a
four member class for the Hall of Fame. Now, the
better story is in the losing the losing locker room,
or in this case, the losing campaign for the Hall
(05:34):
of Fame. Now I mentioned moving man Matt and he
has been one of the great advocates him and guys
like Spacoli and these other losers for Eli Manning to
get into the Hall of Fame. Well that's the story.
Don't bear the lead by man. Don't bear the lead.
Better story in the losing locker room. So you've got
former Colts and Patriots kicker Adam Venteri did not make it,
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Panthers linebacker Luke Keigley, and Giants quarter back Elijah Manning,
all of them in their first year of eligibility. None
of them were selected. The big one is the quarterback
and the headlines all over the world wide web, shocking,
(06:17):
outrageous snub Eli blocked from Canton, Ohio at the NFL Honors,
and that made the rounds bouncing around the pinball machine.
So let us discuss the question, how do you classify
Eli Manning not getting in to the Hall of Fame
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on his first ballot? So I have David Copperfield, I've
got Hans Solo and Wendy's three things that have never
ever been combined together. Will ring the bell and we'll
make some magic here. So my first thought, how do
you classify Eli Manning not getting into the Hall of
Fame on the first ballot? I classify it as justified. Right, Bravo,
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bravo to the voters. I don't know who you are,
but I didn't think that the people that voted for
the Pro Football Hall of Fame had the intestinal fortitude,
had the manhood. I don't know. I haven't gonna say it.
They had hair in their chest to do this. But
Eli Manning being a first ballot Hall of Famer would
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have been criminal. He is not that. I wouldn't even
put him in the Hall of Fame, and I think
eventually he's gonna get in the Hall of Fame. But
he doesn't deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.
And here's why he is m d mid. He's a
mid player. He's David Copperfield. He's used smoking mirrors trickeration
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to convince dumb people that he's better than he is.
He's just an average ballplayer that low information fans get
all excited about because a couple of Fluke playoff runs.
But he never won a playoff game. Outside of those
two Fluke runs in the playoffs. He was not at
any point, at any moment, an elite ballplayer. Now my evidence,
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Elijah in his NFL career was a five hundred player,
one hundred and seventeen wins, one hundred and seventeen losses.
He never won an MVP Award, never really came close
to that. He never finished as the league leader in
passing yards. He was never considered one of the top
two or three quarterbacks in the NFL at any point.
He was never named an All Pro. And that's a
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big one. That is, how can you be a Hall
of Famer if not one time were you considered an
All Pro? Sixteen years, not once did anyone say this
guy's an All Pro none and the Super Bowl wins.
While they're nice and all that, it's a team award,
it's not an individual award. And in terms of judging
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Eli Manning on his own resume, not your imagination, your perception,
your fairy tale, but the actual raw numbers if you
go and look at him and also watching him play.
But that's a different conversation. But the math isn't mathing
when you look at the Pro Football Reference page of
Eli Manning, Eli led the NFL in only one category
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over sixteen years in the league. Only one. Now, I'll
give him credit. He did lead the league three times
in one category. That category was that's right, interceptions, So
he was elite at throwing interceptions. So good job by him.
Other than that, bupkis and the comp on Eli Manning
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is Donovan McNabb. Would you put Donovan McNabb on the
Hall of It? Would you put Carson Palmer in the
Hall of Fame? That's the type of ballplayer that Eli
Manning is. Again, I think eventually he'll get in, but
it's nice that he didn't get in right away. He
won't likely get in next year and he should have
to wait a long time. I would never put him in,
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but I know how this works, I know the politics
of this, and eventually he'll end up in the Hall
of Fame. Now, page two, So where are you at
on former Carolina linebacker Luke Keighley not getting voted in
as well in the can So to me, this was
the snub in the room. I can't get all worked
(10:23):
up about Adam Vinti because he's a kicker and kickers
aren't real football players. But Luke Keighley I can get
worked up for. Since Keighley did not play in the
New York New Jersey tri state area there with Connecticut,
he doesn't have the last name Manning the royalty of
the NFL, this part is mostly being ignored. And while
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Eli Manning clearly does not belong in the Hall of
Fame based on his resume, Luke Keighley checks just about
every box, just about every box. And this is a
Han solo situation saying, Luke, may the Force be with you,
and the force is with Luke Keighley, And I'm gonna
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make my elevator pitch as to why Luke Keighley was
a five time All Pro, a five time All Pro
in his career. Remember, Eli Manning was not he was
on the All Decade team Luke Keighley for the twenty tens.
Eli Manning never made an All Decade team. He was
the Rookie Defensive Player of the Year and then Defensive
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Player the Year. The only red flag, the only bumpety
bump for Luke Keikley is that he did not have longevity.
But football is not a sport designed for longevity. He
played eight seasons, which seems like a lot longer than
most NFL careers. However, and you merely judge him on
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those eight years. He ended up in the upper crust
All Pro statics, not Pro Bowl where they play game
shows and water balloon toss All Pro, All Pro. Sixty
two percent of his career he was in the Krem
de la Krem of the NFL. So, Luke Keighley, that
(12:12):
was a bad job by the voters. I agree with
the Manning thing. I do not agree with Luke Keighley.
But you can't get too worked up because it's a
Carolina Panther player and there's not a lot of people
that get all worked out and more on in North
Carolina and the Carolinas and all that but yeah, kind
of calm and all. All right, last word, So, how
would you describe the new members, the brand new members
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of the Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty five.
So I would describe them as good, not great, good,
not great. In fact, I would go back to an
old forty some year old marketing campaign from Windy's Where's
(12:55):
the Beef? Where's the beef? Yeah, king the wow factor.
None of these guys are bad. They're not bad. Eric
Allen played fourteen seasons, so he had longevity. He made
one All Pro team? Why is he now a Hall
of Famer? Win a Hall of Famer? The last couple
of years, Antonio Gates made three All Pro teams and
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was a good player, one of the great tight ends
of his ear for the San Diego charge the old
San Diego Chargers. He was on an All Decade team,
which is nice. And I'm trying to remember. Maybe I'm
just my memory is going, but I can't remember a
signature moment of Antonio Gates' career, can you? I can't.
(13:38):
What was his defining moment that you said, well, that's
a Hall of Fame moment? What was it? Jared Allen?
He had a good player with the Vikings and the
Chiefs and was a four time All Pro and mostly
mid middling teams that he played on, but individually he
was very effective. So he's in good but not great
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and Sterling Sharks who made three All Pro teams if
you're old enough to remember him with the Green Bay
Packers and got hurt and that was it and he
played I think it was seven years and he got
in in the Hall of Fame. And you're like, okay, fine,
you know it doesn't get you all Tingley doesn't get
you all excited. But those guys are in the Hall
of Fame. Okay, that's fine, they're in. But I'm not
(14:20):
gonna go raw rah. I mean, you know, that's just
the way it is. So anyway, it is the Ben
Mallor Show. We are here all night, every night during
the week and then also on the weekends. You can
find me on the Fifth Hour podcast. And I am
excited because today on the Friday pod, the Fifth Hour
(14:41):
pot which will be up later today, I'm catching up
with a very famous fan, very famous fan who is
a listener to our show, which is kind of cool.
It's always neat when you meet someone and you're like, hey,
that guy, and then they know who you are. So
this guy known as almost Amy read if you were out,
(15:02):
if you're one of our listeners in Kansas City, you
came to the Kansas City Meet and greet, you saw
this guy that looks just like Andy Reid. That's almost
Andy Reid, and he's a he's a listener of our show.
I met him. We have mutual radio friends, and he's
gonna be on the pod later today, the Fifth Hour podcast,
so we'll catch up with him. And I told one
of my my big muckety muck radio friends, I said,
(15:24):
I'm gonna have the Andy Reid impersonator guy on And
he said, Ben, you do a podcast you're having in
it's no video. You're having an impersonator whose claim is
that he looks like Andy Reid, and you're having him
on an audio only podcast. I said, Yes, I am,
because that's how I roll, that's how I operate. Yes, anyway,
all right, it is the Ben Mahler Show. We're going
(15:47):
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Who's there and Who's Not eight seven seven ninety nine
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chapter in the never ending book. NFL players do the
darnedest things. NFL players do the darnedest things. We should
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Speaker 1 (16:38):
Heys I, Bill Miller. You're listening to the Ben Mallor Show,
heard and all night every night on this Fox Sports
Radio station and on the weekends the Fifth Hour podcast. Also,
Ben wants me to promote his cheesy TV show, Benny
Versus the Penny, with the big Super Bowl show coming up,
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which is already starting to air on on Peacock around
the country. But this is the part where I tell
you you can interact with the live show. Say hello
to Ben at Ben Mallor. It's at Ben mallor you
can send Ben a message. Also, Lorraine uh who had
a near death experience, you can say hello to her
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at FSR Tech, Queen and Koople Loop a Bronco fan,
the cast of characters, and now man who loves the
number sixteen? Well, actually, Bill, I do, I now love
the number sixteen. I did want to mention this if
you don't follow the show on social media. Bill's referencing
the fact that a radio trade website, which is probably
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not the most interesting thing for you to read if
you're not in radio, but one of the websites that
tracks the radio industry, and they come out every year
with a list, which I know Terry in England loves
when you do a list. He loves the list. But
they vote on all the different radio shows on what's
good and what's bad and what sucks and all that,
and I normally don't pay attention to it. I saw
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this and some of you send it to me, so
I thought, well, that's kind of cool. So they vote
on the top twenty. They do by local radio, like
local big market media market. They do national radio, which
is what we're part of doing national radio, and there's
a lot of different radio shows, and many of them suck.
But fortunately, I guess we're not technically one of those
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that sucked because they did the Top twenty and we
were number sixteen, which is cool. So it's a testimonial
to you listening to Lorena coop our thanks of course
to Ady who was a big part of the show
last year. And yeah, so we were number sixteen. And
the cool thing is for me knowing how radio works,
and there's two different worlds in radio. There's six am
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to six pm, which gets to go to the super
Bowl and gets all the perks and all that cool stuff,
and then there's overnight late night radio which is six
pm to six am. Two totally different worlds. Right, It's
like the haves and the have nots. And so we
were the highest ranked have not show. Every other show
ahead of us was a daytime show. So I was
very proud of that that we're like the top in
the have not category. We'd like the top of the
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half nine. And several people have pointed out that we
need now to get a number sixteen drop. I don't
know how we can get a number sixteen drop, but
we should promote that we're number sixteen and we've made
the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That is so cool.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It was pretty neat, So it was cool. So you
know who knows one And it was like a panel
of radio executive so it's not just like one dude
in his basement that did this. There's like people and
they don't all work for my company, iHeart they work
for the different radio companies. So that was kind of cool.
So thank you. That was neat. It was neat. So anyway,
all mister nice guy writes in he has an update
he'd like to learn all you affiliates down the line
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that he has finished it in time for the super Bowl.
His lego project, his love lego project, which I think
is a crossover for Valentine's Day. So that is done.
So good news. Mister nice guy has finished it in
time for the super Bowl, so there will be love
at the super Bowl. Late Night Drug Tester says if
Eli Manning ever does get in, it should be as
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a San Diego Charger. He threw two hundred and forty
four fewer interceptions when he was playing for the Chargers.
Ferg Dog says, Hey, Ben Well, most of Orange County
is enjoying a little rain right now. Fullerton getting pounded
in the eye of the hurricane. I am hunkered down,
hunkered down. Oh yeah, Loraina, you were a little late today,
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but you have a good excuse, right. There was a
lot of a lot of weather in the LA area.
We have extremes here. We go from the whole city
burning down to flood conditions the matter of a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Win those big signs on the freeway that usually tell
you not to drink like and drive, they say severe weather,
drive with caution.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, usually they just say that it's nonsense. But there
were some highways flooded in the in the LA area.
And I know the the one oh one in Hollywood
is the worst, but to me, it's the worst I've
I've almost died there several times over the years. Driving
in bad weather. It is a freaking nightmare.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I love near death stories. They had these big old
trucks out on the freeway that were like pumping the
water up into them.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Oh really, so they were trying to get rid of the.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, that's why I was stopped for so long. Like
they were literally like trying to get the water out
of the road.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh you know, that's well, they need that because the
cars have to go through there. Yeah, I understand, Jonathan
writes in He's upset with my Mallard monologue. He says,
you're just going to ignore the fact that Antonio Gates
went from undrafted free agent basketball player to top fifteen
touchdown score in NFL history because he didn't have a
notable moment. He says the moment was fifteen years, a
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one thousand receptions, blah blah blah blah. I'm my opinion, Jonathan,
I don't recall a moment. I said that guy's a
Hall of Famer. He was good. This guy's clearly you know,
no NonStop express train to the Hall of Fame. Viva
los Vicki writes and says Buenos Noche's been. He says,
I beg to differ Eli no Hall of Fame vote
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because of two flukes super Bowl wins. The definition of
a fluke is defined as a chance occurrence. One super
Bowl ring is a fluke, two is something else, grasshopper. Yeah, well,
how many other playoff wins did he have other than that?
I'll give you the answer, zero, as many as I
did and you did zero zippo. A good job by
the Hall of Fame voters. Good job by the Hall
(22:33):
of Fame voters there again. So that's just that's the
way it is. That's it. Let's see here late night
drug tester said quiet before the super Bowl top of
the hour trending report, A couple of minutes of silence
is good to help reset your mind and body. That's
why we did. That was our tribute to Eddie. Anytime
the update doesn't play, it's our tribute to Eddie. And
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so that's what we did there at the top of
the hour.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Or it's your sign that Loraina is not in the building, or.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Lorena is stuck in traffic and not here, and either
one of those. Slim Tim a cheese head writes and
says it's been a crummy day, but the malor militia
will surely bring some sunshine. Well, that's pressure. We got
to cheer up, Slim Tim. We got to cheer him up.
You gotta make that happen. Yeah, all right, anyway, go
to the phones. It is a call in show. You're
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you're listening alive to the Ben Malls show. We do
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Let's go to the phones and let's say hello to Ricky.
(24:03):
Who's in so caow Ricky in Van Eyes? Hello, Ricky,
Welcome in the valley right down the street. What's going on? Ricky?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Ben? How are you? Ricky? If I was any better,
I'd be sleeping. But I'm talking talk talk talk talk
talk talky. Okay, good evening.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
And I heard you talking about the number sixteen.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Very interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
When I used to play softball, I used to wear
the number sixteen.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Why did why did you wear number sixteen? Was that?
Was there another player that inspired you.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
No, no, no, no, I'm going to give you three names, Monday, La,
Duca and Easier.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Okay, I got you, all right, Laduka remember that number sixteen?
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Yeah, they all played, They all played number sixteen. They
were all good players. So much anyhow, I want to
talk about the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh of course, So I just did an NFL monologue
and you want to you want to bogart the show
with Baker prop again? Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
That is correct?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I want to ask, first of all, yes, what do
you think about how good the Lakers defense has been
over the last five six games? And my second question is,
and I'll let you go, how come nobody is talking
about JJ Reddick and you.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Know how good he's been doing this performance with.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Them, because I don't think he's doing that good a job.
Number one. We'll start with that, but thank you. And
if the problem with the Lakers is not like five
or six games, Ricky, it's that ultimately in a seven
game playoff series, they're going to have at some point
Lebron and Luca on the court or at least I
would say forty minutes of a forty eight minute game,
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which means they will be on the power play on offense,
and they will be shorthanded on defense because they will
be playing three on five defense. And you could argue
they'll be playing seven on five on offense because Luke
is such a great offensive player and Lebron can still
get past anybody and get to the basket even though
he's forty. So that's the It's like a zero sum game,
(26:09):
is what it is. For that that's the the issue.
And also I was reading a story about this guy
Mark Williams who they got, who apparently is a dog
with fleas, that he is just lazy and he doesn't
doesn't hustle, and that that is totally against the propaganda
coming out of Lakerland about how they've got there Forever
Center now and it's going to be a two man
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team with Luca and then this guy Williams. I mean,
they just the last game this cat played for the
Charlotte Hornets, the broadcaster for the Hornets, like Red in
the Riot Act and the guys on the payroll, you're
not supposed to do that. It's not allowed. You're not
supposed to rip guys on your own team. But he
did it, and that I imagine how pathetic the effort
(26:53):
must have been by that cat Mark Williams, where one
of the own broadcasters for the Hornets eat him out
on what a terrible effort he was given, how lazy
he was on defense. So I'd be very concerned if
I was I was a Laker supporter. There a historian
that you got a guy who's fools gold in this
guy Williams. He's a young guy, he's got good raw
(27:15):
numbers on a bad team. And I know because I
spent a lot of time back in my younger days
around bad NBA teams, and someone's gonna have to get
a lot of rebounds, someone's gonna get after. You get
a lot of points on bad teams. It doesn't mean
they're good and it doesn't mean they're winning players. So
be very very careful, very very careful, please all right,
back to the phones. Eight seven seven ninety nine on
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Fox is the number. Let's go to Kevin, who's in
the Bay area. Hello, Kevin, welcome, you're on Fox.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Okay, can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
You can't hear me?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
No, I can't hear you. Can you can hear Can
you hear this guy? Coop? I can who you're talking? About.
I mean, there's some guy. We're trying to hear this guy, Kevin.
I don't know what you can't. Let's try to. Let's
go to Kevin and he's in Hayward. Hello, Kevin. Hello.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
I think Manning should make it because he's the only
one to beat Brady in his heyday twice.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So it doesn't matter that he was average. It doesn't
matter he was not at any point because he Isn't
the Hall of Fame about dominance. Isn't the Hall of
Fame about being the top one percent of all players?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:36):
I know, but that ain't the way things work. I
don't think I think they were.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
They were on Thursday, and they were on Thursday night, though, Kevin,
because he didn't get voted in right I mean, otherwise
he would have been voted in right away. But your
I mean, I understand what you're saying. And you're in
the You're on the majority. I'm in the minority. You're
on the majority side, Kevin, I'm on the minority side.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I know.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
I don't think he's necessarily a great quarterback. I just
think to the fact that he beat the out twice
in the.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Day, So the fact that he didn't win. The fact
that he didn't win another playoff game outside of those
two years asn't matter. And he was a five hond
quarterback and it only led the NFL in interceptions.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
That's the only I get all that.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
And he doesn't actually play against Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's a fair point. And you could also who was
the defensive back to the Patriots to drop the interception
that would have won one of those two Super Bowls?
So then we're not even having this conversation.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And then there was that that fugazy helmet catch which
was bull crap.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Well it wasn't because he did catch it, So.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I know, I disagree. I think that he was in
he was in the grasp. I remember we did a
monologue about that after the game. Eli Manning was in
the grass. They didn't call it. The official didn't have
the balls to call it. He was in the grasp.
It should have been a sack.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Well, just like when the Raiders lost, right, Uh, that
was the tech girl. That shouldn't happened either.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Well, what about you're doing? What about ism? Kevin? How
dare you? How dare you?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Thanks for listening, Kevin? All right, I'm gonna go Kevin. Hey.
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Mister Irrigation one of our favorites. Even though he's in Houston,
we still love the guy. Mister Irrigation is on the
Ben Malashow, what's going on, mister Irrigation?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Ben, You're number sixteen. That's awesome. I mean that is awesome.
It comes right after fifteen. I mean, hey, I'm gonna
tell you. When I found you, I was listening to
Coach Kussman. I mean, you're no Art Fell, but you're
better than Jorgean Orrick.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Well. I like George. I like George. I offered most nights.
I parked next to Georgia's car and and uh yeah,
I'm I definitely have no. I'm definitely no Art Bell.
Art's a legend, and Art I think he's got a
I think he's got either a plaque or a statue
in Perumpt, Nevada, and I was actually in Perumpt, Nevada
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because I was there for an event. My wife's work
had a race baker to Vegas and I was there
and I didn't have a chance, and I was so
pissed because it was the only time I'll probably ever
be in Perumpt, Nevada. And I wanted to find that
damn Art Belf tribute thing and I could you know,
I couldn't. I didn't have time to do it. I
couldn't find it. And the only other reason to go
to Prompt, Nevada is that's where all the whorehouses are.
(31:41):
So yeah, I mean, you know, that's where it's legal.
People think prostitution are legal in Vegas. It's you got it.
They drive you out to Perump and then you can
get some rump out there in Perump. That's I think.
That's why I call it Perump. I think so.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
As an Oiler fan band, the last thing we really
have is the fact that the Oil almost became the
first team to win three in a row. They lost
to a team called the Dallas Texans, which are now
the Kansas Students. Cheap and so I hopefully kicks the
crap out of the Chiefs thirty five to ten, like
the first sum Well, I think of.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
The great moments. When I think of the great moments
and oilers history, I will never forget the AFC playoff
game bills and oilers.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
And that was kind of like the fifth game of
the Dodgers and the Astros in the World Series.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Man, I oh, sorry, are you are you saying that?
Are you saying the bills were cheating? Is that what
you were saying? There were the bills using trash cans?
Is that what you're saying. You're saying they were cheating?
Is that what you're saying, You're saying they were cheating? Right?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
And I found out the Dodgers had lost.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, yeah, and then and then and then like two
years later, you found out your team was cheating. It's like, wow,
wait a minute, what happened? I can't believe it is wild,
wild and crazy.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
He's an oiler fan. I was an oiler fan. And
when the oilers were hot, man, that were better than
the Astros. I mean, when Bid left town, he was
written from the Astros. Man. I mean, the media in
this town just gets it so warped, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Well, the issue too, as I remember those oiler teams
and maybe you know you were there in the belly
of the beast, but like they were great in the dome,
and then inevitably they'd have to play on the road
in the playoffs at some point and it was just
a poop show. They didn't just couldn't get it done
because they were dome team. And that's how all dome
teams were in that era. They couldn't went on outdoor,
you know, outdoor cold weather, they were done.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
You're right, I mean, hey, when they almost won three
in a row, it was outside winter overtime. I don't
think the Chiefs will win it. I think I don't
think they want them to win it. I don't think
they want a free peace.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Why would they not want a three P Why would
not think.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
The NFL is rigged? I mean ever since.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Written stop stop out there, you spent too much time
in the irrigation businesses. That's that's the problem, is irrigation. Shot.
You're laying a lot of fight. All right, thank you,
mister irrigation. I'm gonna hang up on you now, all right,
(34:12):
go away. It is the the Ben Mau Show. We're
hanging out with you, and uh, we have some great audit.
Can we play that right now to we have so
NFL players say the darnedest things. We take it to
the Hall of Fame. Not the Hall of Fame. It
was the NFL Honors thing. And Justin Jefferson is the
(34:32):
Minnesota Viking star player and they were doing a tribute
to Randy Moss, I believe. And so Jefferson's up there
on stage and he's talking to the big hall of
all these NFL big shots and all, and let's just
say he channeled the guy I do a TV show
and listen to what happened. It's unbelievable. Listen closely.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
Planning Robins the NFL is a jam jile, but playing
a position in Minnesota it means something.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
A little extra. Oh, I'm sorry, that's the first day
he hit the mic.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
Because of the tradition and excellence we've got going on there,
here we go.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
The prompter.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
I'm sorry, guys, but.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
All right, that's good. Right now, we're gonna start it over.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Claire Roberts in the NFL as a dream job. Planning
this position, it means something.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
A little extra. Oh, it is so great. I gotta
tell you. Doing the TV show this the last couple
of years with Loony and I don't have a prompt,
like we call him teleprompter. Tom's what we call Tom
Mooney and the prompter. They're very good. The guy does
the prompter in Boston, very good. But every once in
a while they'll be in that fo and Looney will
(36:02):
start going off the script because he doesn't have the script.
It's not on the prompter, and it's hilarious and he's
mumbling and stumbling and bumbling and oh, it's so good,
it is so good. Uh So I love that way
to go. And he's all decked out. Man, he's got
his church clothes on. He's ready to go to the prompter.
Speaker 8 (36:24):
To be fair, if I was him, I wouldn't memorize
that either.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah, but there's there are I know he's not a
trained media guy, but it's just hilarious because there are
ways to handle that. And you know, you know, it's
like kind of like me when I and I go,
what I do is I say any media mind when
I'm waiting for the calls.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
I wouldn't I if I was saying and I wasn't
trained to know what to do, I would have just
been you know, let's get to the wall. Although I
guess the does he know the nomination?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
They probably told him, hey, well just just read off
the prompter. I get the prompter, just go straight to
the award. But that's probably on the prompter. Jow. I
don't know. I think he was doing something for Randy Moss.
But anyway, we'll leave it there. It is the Ben
Mahler Show. We'll bring that back. That's good audio. When
you got good audio, play good audio. Time out for
the who Am I?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow joined me as the only two
time winner of NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Who
Am I? That is the question the answer. We'll get
to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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Bill Miller, that would be me and you are you?
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what the other shows are. They're all daytime shows ahead
and so again. Facebook page, Ben Mallor Show, Instagram, Ben
Mahler on Fox. And now back to the blow viating. Yes, yes, yes, Bill,
the blow viating continues, and here is the who am
(38:43):
I Games? Where I pretend to be somebody else has
called to who am my game? Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
He joined me as the only two time winner of
NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Who two time winner
Comeback Player of the Year? Who am I? That is
the question. What is the answer? And let's see does
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anyone know the answer? Donkey Sausage going with one of
my favorite receivers of all time and one of the
great names of all time in NFL history, in my
life anyway, Willie Flipper Anderson, the rims great Flipper Anderson.
Andy in Line ol Wakes Minnesota says, painting Manning and
his bad neck. That's from Andy in Line ol Wakes.
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Who else do we have? Rosie Perez, everyone's favorite soul
trained ancer that was tossed out by og Art puffin
Late Night Drug Chester. She says, you are La Rams
quarterback Matthew Stafford, who is thirty seven today, mister nice guy,
the lego guy going with Rick and Keel. I saw
Ricky and kill in spring training when he was had
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not been in the major leagues, and the Saint Louis
Cardinal executives that were there in spring training were in Jupiter.
Floor said, this guy's going to be a Hall of Famer.
Can't miss how'd that work? Who else do we have?
Ronald McDonald throwing Big Max to the crowd, And that's
from the man that goes by the nickname Sir scratch
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Off Dick but gis from the Dick Pole account. Damar
Hamlin tossed up by King Rory. Who else do you have?
Kathy Ireland from I forty Ian The Big boss Man.
Guess by courtesy Flusher Burt Jones from the New York
Bozo Super Marcus Steve says the Idy Biddy Committee, he
changed it up. I don't say that that word there,
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but he used the word that's like bitty, but it
doesn't starts with a different letter. Hayes in Minnesota. Guess
by Shane in Des Moines. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Great,
what a great guy. Iks I loved meeting him years ago.
Joe Flacco is his answer. Maurice Clorette from Robin, Minnesota.
Also a cool dude. Who was at that Mallard meet
and greet? Who else do we have? Page down? That's enough,
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we don't have time for more. So Bengals quarterback Joe
Burrow joined me as the only two time winner for
NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Who am I lore No?
Speaker 4 (41:03):
It's Gossamer from Looney Tunes.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Bed You are so smart unless you're not. The correct
answer is actually Chad Pennington Jet's legend Chad penningson Turee
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.