August 27, 2025 • 48 mins
Big Ben talks about the chances that Travis Kelce pulled off a "shock" engagement to Taylor Swift, Texas Longhorns QB Arch Manning saying he doesn't have a bullseye on his back, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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There was some debate in the newsroom that I have
a couple of I'm like blind Scott, I've got multiple
personalities and there's a couple of voices. I would like
to put it as a newby knight. So today is
a Newbie night, which means all new colors. So Mike
the Leprechaun out blind Scott out, no moss for hollering, James,
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Lucky Tony, No, No, that's a blow to me. No
Lucky Tony, I cannot do it. Jeedhu fled not gonna
be Now, what's gonna happen here? What normally happens is
some of the regulars the are such attention whos that
they will attempt to call up with fake voice and
try to get past the goalkeeper. So you have to
listen to see if any of the regulars get on
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with an alias. Always a fun degree of difficulty to
Newby Knight is which regulars are so desperate for airtime
that they will use Now angry Bill used to do
this all the time. But Bill has some health problems.
He didn't call a show much anymore. So, But who's
going to step off? That's the question. So it is
a newbie night. I'll give out the number in a
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little bit. I got a ranch here. It's called a
Mallard monologue. At the top of every hour, every hour
on the hour, it's a Malard monologue. Boom, just like that.
So I was going to lead the show with a
different story. However, my brigadier generals in the Malad militia.
I listen when they speak, So I really want to
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tip the cap to Justin and Cincinnati and Robbie the
Mariner Fan. They reached out to me. I was sleeping
and I woke up to a couple of frantic messages.
Justin in Cincinnati specifically requested that I lead off the
show with this story. Justin said, you know, he just
loves love. I think that's what he said. He just
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loves love, and he plays a schmuck on social media,
complete a hole all that, but it's just an act.
It's just performance art. That's all he does. And they said,
both Robbie the Mariner Fan and Justin and Cincinnati. The
way I interpreted their messages was that I would be
committing a sports talk radio felony if I avoided the
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Komodo dragon in the room, the story that everyone's been
yapping about here, it's crossover story. So boys, your wish
is my command. Tabloyd Mallord has arrived. Tada, Yeah, I know. Well,
we do broadcasting, not narrow cash and play the hits.
Mom Man, what of our old bosses used to say?
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So Taylor Swift, I'm told she's kind of a big deal.
I'm told she's kind of a big deal. Taylor Swift,
who apparently does some singing and gets paid for and
Travis Kelsey, who used to be good at football, and
then I don't know what that was in the Super
Bowl last year. Anyway, they're now engaged. Oh my god,
sweet baby Jesus, they're engaged. They announced the news in
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a joint post on The Graham very exciting. Kelsey went
into a garden, a literal garden. I don't know where
the garden was, and he asked Taylor Swift, the most
famous woman in the world, I'm told to marry him,
and apparently she said yes, So there you go. All right,
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So how does that work in sports radio? How is
that a sports talk radio talking point? Well, you're about
to find out. So let's discuss the question. What are
the chances that Travis Kelcey pulled off a shock engagement?
That this was a surprise, this was unexpected, that this
came out of nowhere. So I got on this one.
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I've got waffle House, humped back Whale, and and Roman Candle,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make your Babushka's favorite gulash is
what we're going to do for your babushka. We're going
to do that, all right. So A to answer the question,
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the chances that Travis Kelsey pulled off a shock engagement
that Taylor Swift had no idea that he was going
to pop the question, Uh, the chances are slimming none,
And slim took the first flight out of Dodge see
you later. This was obviously carefully curated for human consumption.
For your consumption, I guess from mine. I slept, I was,
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I woke up to it. But yeah, if you had,
you had the photos, you had the diamond ring, which
I guess could could like use as a reflector for
mahomes on deep passes and all that stuff. Uh. And
they had a little cute post there, your English teacher
and your gym teacher are getting married. I never had
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an English teacher like that. I never had a gym
teacher like that. I did not have a gym teacher
that looked like that. I had a gym teacher that
wore short shorts, had a whistle around his neck and
really short shorts. And then I had a lot of
English teachers that were very old, very old and had
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been beaten by life. That's what I had. That's what
I had. But this was cute, folksy, quirky, you know,
all that stuff, all those words right there, and it
was blasted across every single corner of the world wide
web there within seconds, the interweb all over the place.
Now does that sound organic? That maybe the back of
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the room it sounds organic. Possibly the back of the
answer is sure. If organic means like tupperware, there's a
place somewhere. I think it's in South America where they
grow tupperware. No, and we've learned this actually happened two
weeks ago. This is a two week old story. It
didn't get out for two weeks. Now, nothing I understand.
Nothing in celebrity culture is organic. It does not exist. Now,
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organic is a marketing term, we should point that out.
But organic is you know what organic is? An organic
proposal is going to Now this guy we met Dante
in Vegas and his plan he's going to do this.
I'm telling you, this guy's become loaded, a rich, loaded
guy with waffle house. He's going to open the first
waffle house in Vegas. So the organic way to propose
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is to ten years from Now go to Dante's waffle
House in Vegas in the parking lot at three in
the morning while eating the sausage egg gritz bowl, and
you've got the ring still in the You got the
ring and he came out of a plastic claw machine.
The engagement ring came out of a plastic claw machine
from inside. And then that's the engagement. Now, this, this
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was all the Kelsey engagement was obviously chorey craft. It
was I would say, months in the making, knowing a
little bit about how that world works. And you had
Taylor Swift's people, You've got Kelsey's got people. See, I
don't have people, like when you're that fit, you got people.
I don't have people. You know, we don't. I don't
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have that. But they got people. You had the jeweler involved.
So there's a jeweler. You know people. You know, there's
got to be a back. So everyone loves a story, right,
You go to restaurants and the menus at the restaurants store, Well,
here's our story about huh we became you know, blah
blah blah blah. We learned how to make fighter training
out for it on in Italy while drunk, you know,
it's an old family. Everyone's got to have a story, right.
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Everyone loves a story. We learned from stories. It's very
big deal. So you gotta have a story. It's it's
not just an engagement ring. There's a story to it, right,
It's got some special meaning that will come out. It's
all hands on deck, all hands on deck and uh.
And of course it's not a love story so much,
even though Justin and Cincinnati told me it was a
love story and Robbie the Mariner fan. It's an event.
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It's an event, and yet it's it's also in weird
way it is sporty. Right. That's the part that kind
of fascinates me that this is somehow he's sports story,
but apparently it is. And page two, will there be
a prenup? Will there be a prenup? Between Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelcey? Okay, so it does a humpback whale
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swim in the ocean? Does a humpback will Swift? Of course?
But he just saw Tyreek Hill who got married for
was his seventeen months, and he gave the woman he
was with five hundred thousand dollars for seventeen months plus
like twenty grand a month to spend, because we all
need twenty grand a month to spend plus a five
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million dollar house, plus lawyer fees, plus this plan. So
you cant dollars to donuts, dollars to absolutely right? Come
on now, of course you better believe there is going
to be a prenup here that Taylor Swift's legal team,
her lawyers have already draft did a prenup up that
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I believe runs longer than the United States Constitution. It's
bigger than the US Constitution. And Travis Kelce is rich.
It's not like Travis Kelsey doesn't have money. He's rich. However,
Taylor Swift is wealthy. There is a difference between rich
and wealthy, and that's the point of demarcation, right, that's
the point of demarketing. So does this engagement end in marriage?
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Not all engagements end in marriage. History tells us that
when it comes to celebrity engagements, it's a benny versus
the penny situation. It's a coin flip, it's a qui
has Taylor Swift already written a song about this? How
about that? You think she's already got a song in
the tank? Hell? Yes, absolutely, it's either on her phone's
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notes app, like I put a lot of stuff on
my notes app on my phone, Like I'll have a
random thought. I was driving in and I had there
was something I want it ran about on the podcast.
I'm gonna save it for this weekend. But there was
something I saw that really annoyed me, and I used
my weekend podcast this is therapy to complain about things
that annoyed me. So I saw this and I said,
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I want to rant about that because that really annoyed me.
So I'll do that at some point this weekend. But
I use the notes avange. So she's probably put it
on there, or other people wrote the song for her,
or maybe it's already been recorded. Who knows? Will they Elope?
Will they? Absolutely not? You think they're going to Elope.
They're not eloping. They're not going to the Elvis Chapel
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in Vegas with our favorite taxi cab driver from Boston
who lives in Vegas. He's not gonna take him to
the Elvis Chapel for a shotgun wedding. That is not happening.
And I've been told by people that are very important,
and this is American Royalty. This is an American royal wedding.
We've never had an American royal wedding. They put those
other weddings from Europe on and they get big numbers,
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big numbers, and so this thing will be it'll be tell, guys, commercialized.
You'll have the Swifties all over it, right, they'll be there.
You've got the chiefs Kingdom and Kelsey's crowd. They'll they'll
be blending together in one giant ven diagram right there,
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adoring fans. Oh my, wonderful. And of course I am
not a fan of either. I don't hate either or
anything like that, but I'll just be along for the
ride here. Some of you have sent me email telling
me that Travis Kelsey made a deal with the devil
and he's a lizard person. Now, so maybe that's the case.
I don't know if that's the case or not. But listen,
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I'll consume this. I'm in the content business. I will
consume it. I will mock it. That's what I do.
I get paid to consume things and to mock things.
And I'll either secretly love it or hate it, or
maybe a little bit of both, And that's fine. That's
the business. I've chosen that's what we do here. That's
also what you do as well. We all have strong opinions.
It's the culture and it's sports, but it's not sports
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except when it is sports. And now I gotta tell
you personally, I have not this is something that's changed
in my life time. I have not understood the obsession
of the tight end celebrity. I don't understand. It's something
that did not exist in my childhood. This is a
thing that has happened as I've grown and become an adult.
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I guess I'm not smart enough to figure it out.
But back in my day, here's a back in my
day story. A tight end was a glorified offensive lineman.
That's what a tight end was. And occasionally the tight
end would catch a pass, but really only if the
quarterback got bored, they'd throw the tight end a pass,
and that's about it. That's about it. Now they're dating
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pop stars, Now they're engaging in hosting podcasts, they're on
television like Gronkowski and all that stuff, and they're auditioning
for roles in movies. These tight ends. What a amazing
dacotomy from what it had been the tight end position.
Travis Kelsey's out there. He's galloping around like a golden
retriever who found a glitter cannon. And that's pretty much
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like now. Now the last word on this on a
newbie night, the last word does Chiefs tight end Travis
Kelsey's engagement? Did Taylor Swift mean Asta la vista? The
twenty twenty five NFL season is going to be? All
she wrote? Is that? It?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
If you look at this from thirty thousand feet up
in the sky, Travis Kelsey is going the old Aerosmith
Piece Out farewell tour. He's doing the old peace Out
farewell tour on this. Before he trades in the playbook,
he's going to give the playbook back and he's going
to get some horribly cheesy movie scripts. And you can
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play another waiter in a future Adam Sandler movie. Knock
yourself out here. Now, the Chiefs will not say their
brass will not say retirement the R word. They won't
say retirement. But I promise you they're already preparing a statue,
whether it be at Arrowhead or whether it be at
another venue in the Greater Kansas City slash Kansas, you know,
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across the state line there in the greater Kansas City area. Well,
we have a lot of friends. You know, the show
has done very well there. I recommend when they get
the wedding, I believe the people that should take care
of the food. Everyone's worried about wedding food. What better
at the Travis Kelcey wedding to Taylor Swift than the
landing in Liberty, Missouri? Serving Ben Mallard chicken fingers at
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the Kelsey Taylor Swift wedding. Perfect, They're right there. It's
a people think of Kansas City as a barbecue city,
but really it's a in many ways, it's more of
a chicken finger city. Would just be perfect, would just
be absolutely perfect. But you'll get a statue, get a
you know, they'll tribute video and all this stuff. Now
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this is not just random late night speculation, is not.
It is the slow motion exit, the slow motion and
then you've got the Swifties soundtrack that's playing underneath this
and Kelsey's body kind of like the haunted mansion at
Disney's creaking a little bit a little bit. His yards
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per catch numbers going down, down, down, down, down, down
down down down. That Super Bowl performance, My god, that
was about as flat as a Taylor Swift final record.
That was Wow. My god. Now Kelsey, not only is
he aging in front of our eyes, he's also his
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future is this he's auditioning. This is his future as
a distant relative of Nostradamis and friend of Nostra Denis.
He lives in Seattle. I saw him again. We had
a pow wow in Vegas with his wife, who's very
nice woman. Except she's a vegan anyway, So vegetarian being
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in the same anyway to me, it's the same thing.
So here's the future of Travis Kelcey. I've looked into
the future. His future is auditioning for the role of
former athlete Number three in the upcoming Netflix rom com
to be named later. That's what he's got in the future.
And he's got I know who he's got his little
meatthead podcast. I know the meathead megaphone. You guys love
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jock talk, And there you go, got Travis Kelcey and
his other meathead brother, Jason Kelcey. The two meatheads, two
slobs of meat right there, slabs of meat talking and
they can riff a couple of retired dudes and have
that little ring light on and that's the way to
do it right. Everyone loves audio content. Everyone's got a
podcast these days. Why not Travis kelcey, He'll be going
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out like a Roman candle. Just like a Roman candle
here a loud, flashy and slightly off target. It's a
little off target. And then in retirement, Travis Kelsey can
ride Taylor Swift's bejeweled body suits right right, why not?
And uh pot of gold at the end of the
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rainbow and all that stuff. So Kelsey's storybook ending. That's it.
It'll be storyboarded somewhere in Burbank at one of the
studios over there in Burbank, and a big movie coming
to a theater near you.
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in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malors Show.
We are in the air everywhere on a newbie night. Yeah,
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Rare and Appropriate, Rare and Appropriate College Football Malamool. Now,
if you've been with the show for a long time,
you know that this show broadcast live Sunday night in
the Monday and then Thursday night into Friday is the
end of our week.
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Now.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I do a podcast on the weekend, but during the week,
those are the nights that we broadcast. So we are
on Sunday night in the Monday after the NFL card
on Sunday, we're on Monday night into Tuesday. After the
Monday night NFL games, we're on Thursday and Friday after
the NFL doesn't leave us a lot of time for
college football, it just doesn't. We pick our spots. We
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pick our spots, which normally means we just focus on
the big names. We focus on the big names in
college football and that's about it, or some goofy story
that gets our attention. So the big game this weekend
is Oozing with Aura. Oozing with Aura, Ohio State dotting
the I trying to dot the Longhorns from Texas in
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the Horseshoe. It's on Fox this weekend. Kind of a
big deal. So the Buck guys have already banned David
Portnoy over at Barstool. All the barstool people have been
banned in an embarrassing mister softy move by the Ohio
State University. Why god. So, Texas comes into this game
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as the number one, number one team in both the
Associated Press Top twenty five and the Coaches poll. They're
still around, and that is how we begin the season.
The preseason poll has Texas right at the very top
of the mountain. Okay, and if you look at your
gambling odds, you see that right there there. It is
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around DraftKings odds, subject to change. Arch Manning is the
Heisman favorite. He is the quarterback for the University of Texas.
There So arch Manning, who has issued a prepared statement,
Arch Manning about his team's place in the order going
into the college football season. If he saw this or not,
(24:03):
maybe not, So I thought it was interesting. So arch
Manning the next in the line, the lineage of the
Manning family. So arch Manning says regarding Texas going into
this game, says, we don't have the target on our back.
Arch Manning said, we've got the red dot on everyone else,
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all right, So let us discuss the question buy or sell,
Buy or sell Texas quarterback arch Manning not having a
bullseye on his back. So my observations, I got Jeff Bezos,
bubble bath, and alphabet soup, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
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a delicious pastrami sandwich is what We're gonna make. Some
onions in there, oh, perfect chef's kiss. All right, so
number nice numb right now. So I'm gonna sell this, Okay,
I am going to sell this. Arch Manning saying Texas
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does not have the proverbial target on their back is
kind of like the Kardashians saying they don't really want attention. Okay,
let me, what are you doing? Please? Now, you can't
be the Heisman favorite, at least in the world. I
believe in the Mallard multiverse, but in my part of
the multiverse, you cannot be the Heisman Trophy favorite, the
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face of the sport, the only real star college football has,
the golden child of the Manning monarchy. And then try
to play that We're just another team. I'm just another quarterback,
that whole thing. You can't play that card. Not allowed. Sorry,
not sorry, not sorry. It's akin to Jeff Bezos trying
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to convince us that Amazon is just a small mom
and pop business. That's all it is. It's all it is,
that's all it is. Because listen, Arch Manning, the hype
on this kid is next level, right. The Longhorns are
at the very top based on all of the noise
of the hype food chain. They are the kings of
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the hype jungle. Congratulations on it. They're the Philemennon at
a Golden Corral buffet. They are that. And every college
football scribe and network, every radio gash bag and wanna
be podcast star drooling to get a taste. And I'm
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in line, I'm online, I am and arch Manning, he
is the five star dessert. At least, if you believe
all the stories that are out about college fall, arch
Manning is the five star dessert being carted out, wheeled
out with the sparklers. You know, those nice desserts they
have the chocolate drizzle at high end establishments. Yeah, and
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you don't get to sit there in the spotlight. I
don't believe. What do I know? You don't sit there
on the spotlight and claim, well, I mean really in
the shadows. Well, no, there's a spotlight on you. You're
not You're not exactly in the shadows. That's not at all.
He's talking about hunting other teams. Arch Manning the Texas quarterback,
you know, hunting other teams and all that stuff. And uh,
and Texas is the the gazelle out in the open prairie.
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There they're running around and every lion in the savannah
has circled them. That's the reality right there. The gazelle.
They say they're the Longhorns, but they're the gazelle in
this and that burnt orange jersey that Texas is known
for there, you know, might as well be camouflage. But
in reverse here, you know, it's screams, come get me, Bra,
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That's what it's. Come get me, Bra, That's what it's screams.
The Manning family, I don't know how many times you
have to say this. I'm not saying this. It bothers me.
But they're the royal family of football. Blah blah blah
blah blah. Archie, I've determined. I've looked at the the
family chart there the family tree. So arch Archie Manning
was the founding father. You all determined that Peyton Manning
was King Mike and then Eli, who he famously dubbed
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the punk, very mediocre NFL quarterback, but he became Prince
Clutch in the postseason. And then you've got arch Then
you have arch Manning. So where does he fall in
the Manning lineage? So Arch Manning is the heir to
the throne for now, he is the king hype. The
first he's king hype. The first is the way that
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he is the show pony, arch Manning. So he's the
show pony in a world full of plow horses in
college football. There's a lot of plow horses in college football,
a lot. And so you know, Texas might not they
might not have won the championship because they didn't last year.
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It's been a few years, but they did win the
headline championship. And in the game of publicity there at
the very top, the very top they are for this
college football season, something that Jones would love. They're like
the Dallas Cowboys of college football. They're bigger than their results, right,
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bigger than arch Manning started two games last year. Two
that was it, you know, used in two games. And
so the Cowboys though, in terms of the hype and
all that stuff, and you know, louder than their record
and all that and just being shoved in our fish.
Now they go out and get smoked by the Buckeyes.
That'll change a little bit, but the arch Manning story
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doesn't go away that much. Now, speaking of that, we're
going to move to a different sport, a different level
of the sport. But page two. Here we go to
the final decision on the quarterback competition. It's all over.
The last team left. There was only one that had
not named their starting quarterback. We go now to the
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Bayou and that is where the news came out. Question,
did the Saints make the right call as they picked
Spencer Rattler as QB one over Tyler Shuck? Aw shucks?
Did they make the right call? So we had. By
(30:14):
the way, before I get into this, let's let's hear
the This is Kellen Moore making the announcement. Here the
head coach of the Saints. Don't need to remember his name.
He will not be the coach long, But here's Kellen Moore,
coach of the Saints.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Spencer Ratlers are starring quarterback. Really really excited for him.
He's do an awesome job this off season. Oh, he's
just been consistent, made some really good decisions throughout this
whole entire process, and you know, his ability to make
plays with his arm and his feet have certainly shown up.
And so I'm really really excited about Spencer. He's earned
this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah. I literally see his nose growing in the video
there as he was saying that he does not believe
any of that, So there was no right call to
make here the way I read the room, here, there
was no right call to make. We mentioned in previous
episodes you talk about being stuck between the devil and
the deep blue sea. This is it, right. You got
a rookie head coach, Kellen Moore, who's in this case
(31:01):
not the devil in the deep blue c He's snuck,
but he was stuck between. He's got a rattlesnake bite
or a scorpion sting. Which one would you rather have?
He chose King Colber. He chose King Colber. And essentially
the Saints are going to be taking a bubble bath
in snake Venom with Spencer Rattler and Moore has a
(31:22):
Kellimore has a reputation, whether it's true or not, of
masking quarterback limitations, which is really what good coaching is.
You're hiding the limitations of your player. And so we
all know that, and that you talk about putting that
to the test here with Spencer Ratler, who has masters.
He's only played a little bit in the NFL, but
he played a lot in college football at Oklahoma and
South Carolina. Spencer Ratler has become the maestro of inconsistent
(31:46):
pocket presence and really bad decision making, which is a
death sentence if you're playing quarterback in the NFL. It's
more likely than not that Spencer Ratler is just a means. Now,
what is the end game, you ask arch Manning. That's
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the endgame. These Saints have the NFL's lowest playoff odds,
less than four percent in the league. That is designed
to give everyone the false hope of having a chance
to make the playoffs. The Saints have a less than
four percent chance based on the gaming odds, to make
the playoffs. They have an expected win total, which blows
Ozzie wase Away of five point two. Five point two. Now,
(32:31):
keep in mind, the Saints have no depth, so once
these guys start getting hurt, everyone has injuries. That's why
it works. They have no depth, so they'll be getting
guys off off or up, like hey, I put a
job posting on offer ups. Well, there's no plus for jobs.
But they'll be trying to get anyone to play on
the offensive line. So, and keep in mind the Saints
(32:51):
playing a division, you know the division, I mean the
division blows Carolina, Come on, Atlanta, who knows whether Michael
Pennix Junior is going to be that good in Tampa
has been a playoff team, but they don't scare anybody,
the Buccaneers, they don't really scare anybody, all right now,
final point to the Bay Area we go follow up,
follow up to a transaction. So Brian Robinson, we mentioned
(33:14):
this the other he got traded from the team. Fomian
knows the Redskins to the San Francisco football team, and
already he's out there with a strong hot take. Brian
Robinson let the world know that he and Christian McCaffery
are the best running back duo in the NFL. So
(33:36):
thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs up, or thumbs down on
this one. So this is a give me a break
situation that is a big helping of alphabet soup is
what that is. Of course, the first thought is what
else is he gonna say? Wouldn't that be quite the
story if Brian Robinson got to the forty nine ers
and said, ah, yeah, I stink and that's why I'm
(33:59):
here because I sucked in Washington and they thought I
couldn't play anymore, so they gave me to the forty
nine Ers and the Niners are a bunch of idiots,
and they added me. But here's the reality. Brian Robinson's
pretty good player, but he was given away, right, And
you know what your value is based in that business.
You know what your value is based on what you
were acquired for. Washington shipped I believe it was a
(34:19):
late round draft pick to get Brian Robinson. You know,
they shipped him out for a late round draft pick.
The Niners gave that up. And so that's the NFL.
You don't need the mavel Rosetta stone. That's the NFL's
way of saying you're a dima. Does it now? The
other half of the best duo, Christian mccaffree, who was
a really good ballplayer. Unfortunately he's got a glitch. He's
(34:41):
made out of glass. The main is made out of it.
He's unbelievable when he's out there playing for the Niners.
Right Eileen in San Francisco, she loves Washington run around
there and her nest O and the Bay and all
those they love them. They absolutely love him, Jay Scoop,
all those Niner apologies out there. They love this guy
when he's running around. However, here's the problem. All right,
(35:02):
he's made out of guys, and you cannot call it
the greatest running back. He said, the best, which means
we'll get to that in a minute. Best duo if
one guy's always camped out in the injury tent and
the other guy was basically free with purchase, so they
just tossed him in as an add on to sweeten
the pot. Best du us, so it's more like the
(35:24):
best solo act. And then Brian Robinson is holding the
mic stand all right, and so now there are other
good combinations. I don't know what we need to do.
I certainly do I don't want to do a list.
That's what Terry in England likes. He likes list. I
don't do that. I do Big Ben's big board. But
just looking around, off the top of my head, if
you were to look at other running back combo dishes
(35:46):
that stand out, like the Lions when things are going
right for Jamir Gibbs and David Montgomery, that's a pretty
good one two punch they have in Motown. And dare
I say that the Raiders have the makings of something
pretty good. If Ashton Genty is as advertised top ten
(36:07):
pick in the draft and Raheem Moster. It's been pretty productive.
He's old, but he's been pretty productive. That's got some explosiveness,
it does. And so no, I'm sure I can get
a bunch of crap from San Francisco for you. Just
compare the Niners to the Lines and the Raiders. What's
wrong with you? But remember the term best the legal
(36:27):
definition and advertising means as good as all the rest.
So if I can say we have the best radio
show and no one cansume me. If I say our
show is better than whoever. I think our competition's on
tape anyway. But if I say we're better, then I
have to I can be suon. I have to prove
it and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 1 (36:51):
It's mallard, how about that?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
To the third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
We're gonna get grilled here. But before we do that,
I got to pay off the Insta trivia. You got
a quick trigger finger there, Lorena.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Don't you know it's so sad because I was like, oh,
the song has to stop.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I know, all right, Well, well quickly. Blank was the
first rookie quarterback in NFL history to throw at least
two touchdowns in each of his first four games as
a starter. That is the question. What is the answer,
and let's see Lassie guessed by Alf the Alleno pinter
relevant guests. Who else do we have? Bill? Who's your bill? Want?
Was something botox Ozzie Guy and I from Robbie the mrierfan.
(37:33):
What happened to Ozzy Guy? Robbie he used to do
that Mallard Town podcast, you guys and then which was
nothing about the mather live in here in hell Town
but not talking about the Mallard Town. What else? Ferd
Dog says Robbie the celebrity couple fan. He can't wait
for the Aaron Rodgers update, helmet Man and Taylor Swift's
love child from Stuck in Sacramento, A snooker from Las Vegas.
(37:58):
According to Malthard prop guy, a right what say you have?
A right out?
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Oh my gosh, it has to be Taylor Swiss, bridemaids
Selena Gomesh.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
No, it's the great or Jake Cutler. Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go. I don't know, just
don't play the open, but we played the music. Go ahead,
what do we got here?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
The Lions did not do well in the preseason, going
one to three and getting outscored by forty six points.
Dan Campbell admitted that the performance is quote a little
bit concerning, Ben, How concerning should it be?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
It's only concerning from the standpoint. It shows you that
there's a lack of depth for the Lions because you're
playing backups in the exhibition season. But no, it doesn't matter,
and you didn't play your star players, you didn't game plan.
It is irrelevant. It is irrelevant other than the fact
that if you get down to your third string guys,
you've got some problems, because those are the guys that
play most of the exhibition games. And it would appear
(38:45):
that Dan Campbell has an issue there in that department. Now,
if the Lions get off to a horrible start, we
can revisit this, but at this point that's my take.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Next, the betting odds are out on who will be
the first NFL head coach fired this season, and Mike
McDaniel leads the field with two to one odds. Yeah, Ben,
do you think McDaniel should be the favorite?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah? I mean, it makes sense that Dolphins they feeling
feel like they're at the end of the run. Sean
McDermott also has to be high up in Buffalo. They've
been so close for so long they can't get over
the hump there. And I put Raheem Morris, who's only
been in Atlanta for a couple of years. I put
Raheen Morris on that big board of coaches that are
on the hot seat. And also Zach Taylor in Cincinnati.
(39:23):
Bengals are cheap though they don't want to pay anybody,
but they did spend a lot of money this offseason
on wide receivers. And if it doesn't get better there
in Cincinnati, I can see him getting the old whack next.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Russell Westbrook and his wife's deliberated ten years of marriage
together this past weekend by renewing their vows on a
boat in Italy. Yeah, been any plan any plans for
a bow renewal ceremony with you and your wife?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Well, this is something that rich people do coop you know,
poor poor people or people I'm not poor, but people
that make middle class money whatever, they don't do this
kind of thing. You can renew it at the courthouse exactly.
This isn't rich. This is a rich person move. This
is I have a lot of fu money. So I'm
gonna go to Italy and renew my butt. No h
and now I'm already past ten years anyway, if unless
(40:06):
my wife brings it up, I think we're good on that.
How'd we do you say? When I want dinner?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
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ten nine, clean up, hearts, going to help you.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Gear Rye, gear Rye to night, gear Rye to night.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
Dear Rye, you heard the man.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
We all know.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
It is definitely time for love here on the Ben
Malors Show, because Taylor and travel.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
My god, we got tea and tea together.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I love tees.
Speaker 7 (40:53):
You love teas. Everyone loves tees. Teas are great letters.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
You sure about that? Positive about that? All right? Well,
let's get to it, Lorena. These do you have any
opening thoughts or you just love love?
Speaker 7 (41:06):
And I love that. That's just today's subject on the show.
I think it makes it that much more.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
That I would say it's a theme to the show,
and I feel like they're very strong a statement to
say it's a theme. I don't know that we'd say theme.
But it is the Queen of Hearts, and let's get
right to it. Who is up? First year?
Speaker 7 (41:22):
Did you see the message I sent you?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Yeah, we just want to start with that, all right,
let's start there, all right? From Anonymous, how do you
go through a breakup while you're very attached to her dog?
Speaker 6 (41:35):
Okay, dogs can be just like children, and if you
really do have a strong connection, you have to come
up with like split things.
Speaker 7 (41:43):
You can do custody stuff. You can go to the
court and be like, this is also my dog's I.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Mean, I love dogs, Lorena, but that's a little much,
you know, come up.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
I'm obviously Anonymous has a strong connection with this dog,
and if they are breaking up, they're going to have
to figure out who gets to see who my cat kept.
My friend kept her cat in their divorce and he
still asks for pictures in the messages.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Weird, Rena.
Speaker 7 (42:07):
I mean, you know, I'm just saying just saying, okay,
next question, that was it?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
All right?
Speaker 7 (42:12):
Do pew right that's not all what I thought you
were gonna say.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Should I trust dating a woman with baby daddy issues?
Speaker 6 (42:20):
That's from Okay, So that's a hard one because a
lot of people have baby daddies and baby mamas who
are super problematic. Yeah, they don't have They don't have
control over it either. So you have to figure out
are you down for the ride to do you like
her enough or him not?
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah? Is the goodies good enough for the baddies exactly exactly?
Speaker 6 (42:44):
And is she responsible enough to keep him far enough
away to keep your relationship safe and protected?
Speaker 7 (42:49):
Something you really got to think about.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
All right, let's go to Joe and Jersey on the phones.
Who has a question? Hello Joe, you're on the Queen
of Hearts with Lorena Marcia. What are you doing here?
The first made it through Plucky Tony Cool Plucky Tony
Gun on the air. I kind of knew that was
Tony Ferg Dog rightow ferg Dog rites it? What's the
(43:15):
best area to pick up chicks at Disneyland? I'm striking
out in Tontown. Don't do Toontown.
Speaker 7 (43:23):
I would go to Star Wars Land and I would
go to the bar over and stall there.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Is a bar.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
Yeah, I would do that.
Speaker 6 (43:28):
And you know what, honestly, if they set up like
a date night, like a singles night type of thing,
that would be really fun.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
About like Main Street, there's a lot of restaurants around there.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
Yeah, but there's more kids over.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
In that area. Stay away from the kids.
Speaker 7 (43:40):
Yeah, we don't want kids.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
No, or just how about you just pay for parking
and don't go in, just saying out in the parking lot. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
In downtown Disney has a lot of good spots for
that too, a lot of little places you can go
and eat. You'll find people sitting alone at the bar
tops there, so also a good spot to go. Okay,
my gosh, if she's looking for cute stuff to buy,
you could be like, oh my gosh, that is so cute,
you should buy that.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
That sounds just something like Ferd Dog would say. JT,
the wingman in Knoxville says, if the show can have
newbie night, can I convince my fiance that I can
add a new lover to the mix? Asking for a friend? Yes,
didn't you just get hooked up? JT? What's going on? Man?
You're already born?
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Man?
Speaker 1 (44:15):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (44:16):
But really, though, I feel like you should be open
about that. And if you if you're interested in opening
the doors, maybe your partner might.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Be interested to the Bible belt. That might be illegal.
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (44:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I'm just saying you can repent.
Speaker 7 (44:29):
Yeah, for forgiveness.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Let's see. Shaneon the Moye says, how long are you
with someone before you let them drive your car or
you drive theirs? With Kelly and I, she drove mine
within weeks, but I waited nine months to drive hers.
Oh wow.
Speaker 6 (44:45):
I mean, if it'd be if I'm afraid to drive
the car or not. So I don't know, like a manual,
if it's a really expensive car, or if it's a
really big car and I don't feel comfortable, Like if
it's one of those semi trucks.
Speaker 7 (44:55):
I'm never driving that ever, and I'd never do it ever.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
I wouldn't drive a Semis too big.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
That's a that's a recipe for trouble with that.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Is password, you idiot.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Password the word game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller, let's.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Do it on a newby night. We've got the Beast
of the East in Rochester. Hello, Beast of the East,
How are you bad?
Speaker 7 (45:30):
I try and cow, but you're too popular.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
I never get in. All right, I apologize. I will
try to suck, so I will try to do bad.
Speaker 7 (45:38):
I will debate a couple of comics tonight.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
But to play your game, all right?
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Who would you like to partner up with? You? Play
with me, Ben, Loraina or Coop? Wow? You will of course,
of course, Beast. There's no other rocket popular? Not really?
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Can I give you one comment to think about first
or not?
Speaker 1 (45:57):
No? Sure, I don't have time, don't I really don't.
I really don't have time. Hold on, Beasts, you're gonna
play the game. Uh? And Tyler is in the Great
state of Maine. Hello, Tyler, welcome. Oh good morning man.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
This is the Beast of the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Oh look at that. Are you saying that Maine is
more well, it certainly is further east of Rochester, so
you definitely have that. Yes, all right, Tyler, who do
you want to partner up with? You got Cooper? Lorena?
All right, Coop, you're in. Yes, Loraina you're off the show. Bye, guys,
I'm finally finally something. Okay, all right, Beast of the East.
(46:36):
So we have a list of words one to ten.
Please pick a number one to ten, Beast of the East.
I will be my birthday ninth you were you were
born in the ninth month or on the ninth day,
ninth day? Sure, okay, just go with it. Why not,
let's go with Let's see there's I could do? How about?
(47:02):
Oh man, which direction do I want to go? How
about we go with loaf loaf? What? What did he say?
Speaker 3 (47:11):
He said?
Speaker 1 (47:11):
What he was asking to you to repeat your l
o A F loaf? Oh? Oh, here we go. This
is where spelled? What do you think that is? What
word are we looking for? I don't know, but we're
gonna win, all right? All right? Uh all right, so
(47:35):
let's go with Tyler. Tyler, let's go with you heard
Ben's clue. My clue is gonna be wheat. Repeat it
one more time? Wheat w h E A T wheat.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
Yeah, let's go What I was gonna say?
Speaker 3 (47:55):
Why did you say?
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Go ahead? Pick a number, Tyler? Go ahead, pick a number?
He said, number two. He didn't know it was his turn.
Oh my god, wait number two. Hurry up, hurry up,
let's go with let's see. Oh that's easy. Uh I swear,
I swear no. Yeah, let's go ticket. You know he
(48:29):
was supposed to play on the rolls. He did not
know the rules
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There was some debate in the newsroom that I have
a couple of I'm like blind Scott, I've got multiple
personalities and there's a couple of voices. I would like
to put it as a newby knight. So today is
a Newbie night, which means all new colors. So Mike
the Leprechaun out blind Scott out, no moss for hollering, James,
(02:44):
Lucky Tony, No, No, that's a blow to me. No
Lucky Tony, I cannot do it. Jeedhu fled not gonna
be Now, what's gonna happen here? What normally happens is
some of the regulars the are such attention whos that
they will attempt to call up with fake voice and
try to get past the goalkeeper. So you have to
listen to see if any of the regulars get on
(03:06):
with an alias. Always a fun degree of difficulty to
Newby Knight is which regulars are so desperate for airtime
that they will use Now angry Bill used to do
this all the time. But Bill has some health problems.
He didn't call a show much anymore. So, But who's
going to step off? That's the question. So it is
a newbie night. I'll give out the number in a
(03:27):
little bit. I got a ranch here. It's called a
Mallard monologue. At the top of every hour, every hour
on the hour, it's a Malard monologue. Boom, just like that.
So I was going to lead the show with a
different story. However, my brigadier generals in the Malad militia.
I listen when they speak, So I really want to
(03:49):
tip the cap to Justin and Cincinnati and Robbie the
Mariner Fan. They reached out to me. I was sleeping
and I woke up to a couple of frantic messages.
Justin in Cincinnati specifically requested that I lead off the
show with this story. Justin said, you know, he just
loves love. I think that's what he said. He just
(04:10):
loves love, and he plays a schmuck on social media,
complete a hole all that, but it's just an act.
It's just performance art. That's all he does. And they said,
both Robbie the Mariner Fan and Justin and Cincinnati. The
way I interpreted their messages was that I would be
committing a sports talk radio felony if I avoided the
(04:30):
Komodo dragon in the room, the story that everyone's been
yapping about here, it's crossover story. So boys, your wish
is my command. Tabloyd Mallord has arrived. Tada, Yeah, I know. Well,
we do broadcasting, not narrow cash and play the hits.
Mom Man, what of our old bosses used to say?
(04:51):
So Taylor Swift, I'm told she's kind of a big deal.
I'm told she's kind of a big deal. Taylor Swift,
who apparently does some singing and gets paid for and
Travis Kelsey, who used to be good at football, and
then I don't know what that was in the Super
Bowl last year. Anyway, they're now engaged. Oh my god,
sweet baby Jesus, they're engaged. They announced the news in
(05:14):
a joint post on The Graham very exciting. Kelsey went
into a garden, a literal garden. I don't know where
the garden was, and he asked Taylor Swift, the most
famous woman in the world, I'm told to marry him,
and apparently she said yes, So there you go. All right,
(05:34):
So how does that work in sports radio? How is
that a sports talk radio talking point? Well, you're about
to find out. So let's discuss the question. What are
the chances that Travis Kelcey pulled off a shock engagement?
That this was a surprise, this was unexpected, that this
came out of nowhere. So I got on this one.
(05:55):
I've got waffle House, humped back Whale, and and Roman Candle,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make your Babushka's favorite gulash is
what we're going to do for your babushka. We're going
to do that, all right. So A to answer the question,
(06:16):
the chances that Travis Kelsey pulled off a shock engagement
that Taylor Swift had no idea that he was going
to pop the question, Uh, the chances are slimming none,
And slim took the first flight out of Dodge see
you later. This was obviously carefully curated for human consumption.
For your consumption, I guess from mine. I slept, I was,
(06:38):
I woke up to it. But yeah, if you had,
you had the photos, you had the diamond ring, which
I guess could could like use as a reflector for
mahomes on deep passes and all that stuff. Uh. And
they had a little cute post there, your English teacher
and your gym teacher are getting married. I never had
(07:00):
an English teacher like that. I never had a gym
teacher like that. I did not have a gym teacher
that looked like that. I had a gym teacher that
wore short shorts, had a whistle around his neck and
really short shorts. And then I had a lot of
English teachers that were very old, very old and had
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been beaten by life. That's what I had. That's what
I had. But this was cute, folksy, quirky, you know,
all that stuff, all those words right there, and it
was blasted across every single corner of the world wide
web there within seconds, the interweb all over the place.
Now does that sound organic? That maybe the back of
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the room it sounds organic. Possibly the back of the
answer is sure. If organic means like tupperware, there's a
place somewhere. I think it's in South America where they
grow tupperware. No, and we've learned this actually happened two
weeks ago. This is a two week old story. It
didn't get out for two weeks. Now, nothing I understand.
Nothing in celebrity culture is organic. It does not exist. Now,
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organic is a marketing term, we should point that out.
But organic is you know what organic is? An organic
proposal is going to Now this guy we met Dante
in Vegas and his plan he's going to do this.
I'm telling you, this guy's become loaded, a rich, loaded
guy with waffle house. He's going to open the first
waffle house in Vegas. So the organic way to propose
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is to ten years from Now go to Dante's waffle
House in Vegas in the parking lot at three in
the morning while eating the sausage egg gritz bowl, and
you've got the ring still in the You got the
ring and he came out of a plastic claw machine.
The engagement ring came out of a plastic claw machine
from inside. And then that's the engagement. Now, this, this
(08:55):
was all the Kelsey engagement was obviously chorey craft. It
was I would say, months in the making, knowing a
little bit about how that world works. And you had
Taylor Swift's people, You've got Kelsey's got people. See, I
don't have people, like when you're that fit, you got people.
I don't have people. You know, we don't. I don't
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have that. But they got people. You had the jeweler involved.
So there's a jeweler. You know people. You know, there's
got to be a back. So everyone loves a story, right,
You go to restaurants and the menus at the restaurants store, Well,
here's our story about huh we became you know, blah
blah blah blah. We learned how to make fighter training
out for it on in Italy while drunk, you know,
it's an old family. Everyone's got to have a story, right.
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Everyone loves a story. We learned from stories. It's very
big deal. So you gotta have a story. It's it's
not just an engagement ring. There's a story to it, right,
It's got some special meaning that will come out. It's
all hands on deck, all hands on deck and uh.
And of course it's not a love story so much,
even though Justin and Cincinnati told me it was a
love story and Robbie the Mariner fan. It's an event.
(09:56):
It's an event, and yet it's it's also in weird
way it is sporty. Right. That's the part that kind
of fascinates me that this is somehow he's sports story,
but apparently it is. And page two, will there be
a prenup? Will there be a prenup? Between Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelcey? Okay, so it does a humpback whale
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swim in the ocean? Does a humpback will Swift? Of course?
But he just saw Tyreek Hill who got married for
was his seventeen months, and he gave the woman he
was with five hundred thousand dollars for seventeen months plus
like twenty grand a month to spend, because we all
need twenty grand a month to spend plus a five
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million dollar house, plus lawyer fees, plus this plan. So
you cant dollars to donuts, dollars to absolutely right? Come
on now, of course you better believe there is going
to be a prenup here that Taylor Swift's legal team,
her lawyers have already draft did a prenup up that
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I believe runs longer than the United States Constitution. It's
bigger than the US Constitution. And Travis Kelce is rich.
It's not like Travis Kelsey doesn't have money. He's rich. However,
Taylor Swift is wealthy. There is a difference between rich
and wealthy, and that's the point of demarcation, right, that's
the point of demarketing. So does this engagement end in marriage?
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Not all engagements end in marriage. History tells us that
when it comes to celebrity engagements, it's a benny versus
the penny situation. It's a coin flip, it's a qui
has Taylor Swift already written a song about this? How
about that? You think she's already got a song in
the tank? Hell? Yes, absolutely, it's either on her phone's
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notes app, like I put a lot of stuff on
my notes app on my phone, Like I'll have a
random thought. I was driving in and I had there
was something I want it ran about on the podcast.
I'm gonna save it for this weekend. But there was
something I saw that really annoyed me, and I used
my weekend podcast this is therapy to complain about things
that annoyed me. So I saw this and I said,
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I want to rant about that because that really annoyed me.
So I'll do that at some point this weekend. But
I use the notes avange. So she's probably put it
on there, or other people wrote the song for her,
or maybe it's already been recorded. Who knows? Will they Elope?
Will they? Absolutely not? You think they're going to Elope.
They're not eloping. They're not going to the Elvis Chapel
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in Vegas with our favorite taxi cab driver from Boston
who lives in Vegas. He's not gonna take him to
the Elvis Chapel for a shotgun wedding. That is not happening.
And I've been told by people that are very important,
and this is American Royalty. This is an American royal wedding.
We've never had an American royal wedding. They put those
other weddings from Europe on and they get big numbers,
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big numbers, and so this thing will be it'll be tell, guys, commercialized.
You'll have the Swifties all over it, right, they'll be there.
You've got the chiefs Kingdom and Kelsey's crowd. They'll they'll
be blending together in one giant ven diagram right there,
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adoring fans. Oh my, wonderful. And of course I am
not a fan of either. I don't hate either or
anything like that, but I'll just be along for the
ride here. Some of you have sent me email telling
me that Travis Kelsey made a deal with the devil
and he's a lizard person. Now, so maybe that's the case.
I don't know if that's the case or not. But listen,
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I'll consume this. I'm in the content business. I will
consume it. I will mock it. That's what I do.
I get paid to consume things and to mock things.
And I'll either secretly love it or hate it, or
maybe a little bit of both, And that's fine. That's
the business. I've chosen that's what we do here. That's
also what you do as well. We all have strong opinions.
It's the culture and it's sports, but it's not sports
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except when it is sports. And now I gotta tell
you personally, I have not this is something that's changed
in my life time. I have not understood the obsession
of the tight end celebrity. I don't understand. It's something
that did not exist in my childhood. This is a
thing that has happened as I've grown and become an adult.
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I guess I'm not smart enough to figure it out.
But back in my day, here's a back in my
day story. A tight end was a glorified offensive lineman.
That's what a tight end was. And occasionally the tight
end would catch a pass, but really only if the
quarterback got bored, they'd throw the tight end a pass,
and that's about it. That's about it. Now they're dating
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pop stars, Now they're engaging in hosting podcasts, they're on
television like Gronkowski and all that stuff, and they're auditioning
for roles in movies. These tight ends. What a amazing
dacotomy from what it had been the tight end position.
Travis Kelsey's out there. He's galloping around like a golden
retriever who found a glitter cannon. And that's pretty much
(15:10):
like now. Now the last word on this on a
newbie night, the last word does Chiefs tight end Travis
Kelsey's engagement? Did Taylor Swift mean Asta la vista? The
twenty twenty five NFL season is going to be? All
she wrote? Is that? It?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
If you look at this from thirty thousand feet up
in the sky, Travis Kelsey is going the old Aerosmith
Piece Out farewell tour. He's doing the old peace Out
farewell tour on this. Before he trades in the playbook,
he's going to give the playbook back and he's going
to get some horribly cheesy movie scripts. And you can
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play another waiter in a future Adam Sandler movie. Knock
yourself out here. Now, the Chiefs will not say their
brass will not say retirement the R word. They won't
say retirement. But I promise you they're already preparing a statue,
whether it be at Arrowhead or whether it be at
another venue in the Greater Kansas City slash Kansas, you know,
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across the state line there in the greater Kansas City area. Well,
we have a lot of friends. You know, the show
has done very well there. I recommend when they get
the wedding, I believe the people that should take care
of the food. Everyone's worried about wedding food. What better
at the Travis Kelcey wedding to Taylor Swift than the
landing in Liberty, Missouri? Serving Ben Mallard chicken fingers at
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the Kelsey Taylor Swift wedding. Perfect, They're right there. It's
a people think of Kansas City as a barbecue city,
but really it's a in many ways, it's more of
a chicken finger city. Would just be perfect, would just
be absolutely perfect. But you'll get a statue, get a
you know, they'll tribute video and all this stuff. Now
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this is not just random late night speculation, is not.
It is the slow motion exit, the slow motion and
then you've got the Swifties soundtrack that's playing underneath this
and Kelsey's body kind of like the haunted mansion at
Disney's creaking a little bit a little bit. His yards
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per catch numbers going down, down, down, down, down, down
down down down. That Super Bowl performance, My god, that
was about as flat as a Taylor Swift final record.
That was Wow. My god. Now Kelsey, not only is
he aging in front of our eyes, he's also his
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future is this he's auditioning. This is his future as
a distant relative of Nostradamis and friend of Nostra Denis.
He lives in Seattle. I saw him again. We had
a pow wow in Vegas with his wife, who's very
nice woman. Except she's a vegan anyway, So vegetarian being
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in the same anyway to me, it's the same thing.
So here's the future of Travis Kelcey. I've looked into
the future. His future is auditioning for the role of
former athlete Number three in the upcoming Netflix rom com
to be named later. That's what he's got in the future.
And he's got I know who he's got his little
meatthead podcast. I know the meathead megaphone. You guys love
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jock talk, And there you go, got Travis Kelcey and
his other meathead brother, Jason Kelcey. The two meatheads, two
slobs of meat right there, slabs of meat talking and
they can riff a couple of retired dudes and have
that little ring light on and that's the way to
do it right. Everyone loves audio content. Everyone's got a
podcast these days. Why not Travis kelcey, He'll be going
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out like a Roman candle. Just like a Roman candle
here a loud, flashy and slightly off target. It's a
little off target. And then in retirement, Travis Kelsey can
ride Taylor Swift's bejeweled body suits right right, why not?
And uh pot of gold at the end of the
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rainbow and all that stuff. So Kelsey's storybook ending. That's it.
It'll be storyboarded somewhere in Burbank at one of the
studios over there in Burbank, and a big movie coming
to a theater near you.
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Rare and Appropriate, Rare and Appropriate College Football Malamool. Now,
if you've been with the show for a long time,
you know that this show broadcast live Sunday night in
the Monday and then Thursday night into Friday is the
end of our week.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I do a podcast on the weekend, but during the week,
those are the nights that we broadcast. So we are
on Sunday night in the Monday after the NFL card
on Sunday, we're on Monday night into Tuesday. After the
Monday night NFL games, we're on Thursday and Friday after
the NFL doesn't leave us a lot of time for
college football, it just doesn't. We pick our spots. We
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pick our spots, which normally means we just focus on
the big names. We focus on the big names in
college football and that's about it, or some goofy story
that gets our attention. So the big game this weekend
is Oozing with Aura. Oozing with Aura, Ohio State dotting
the I trying to dot the Longhorns from Texas in
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the Horseshoe. It's on Fox this weekend. Kind of a
big deal. So the Buck guys have already banned David
Portnoy over at Barstool. All the barstool people have been
banned in an embarrassing mister softy move by the Ohio
State University. Why god. So, Texas comes into this game
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as the number one, number one team in both the
Associated Press Top twenty five and the Coaches poll. They're
still around, and that is how we begin the season.
The preseason poll has Texas right at the very top
of the mountain. Okay, and if you look at your
gambling odds, you see that right there there. It is
(23:43):
around DraftKings odds, subject to change. Arch Manning is the
Heisman favorite. He is the quarterback for the University of Texas.
There So arch Manning, who has issued a prepared statement,
Arch Manning about his team's place in the order going
into the college football season. If he saw this or not,
(24:03):
maybe not, So I thought it was interesting. So arch
Manning the next in the line, the lineage of the
Manning family. So arch Manning says regarding Texas going into
this game, says, we don't have the target on our back.
Arch Manning said, we've got the red dot on everyone else,
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all right, So let us discuss the question buy or sell,
Buy or sell Texas quarterback arch Manning not having a
bullseye on his back. So my observations, I got Jeff Bezos,
bubble bath, and alphabet soup, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
(24:48):
a delicious pastrami sandwich is what We're gonna make. Some
onions in there, oh, perfect chef's kiss. All right, so
number nice numb right now. So I'm gonna sell this, Okay,
I am going to sell this. Arch Manning saying Texas
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does not have the proverbial target on their back is
kind of like the Kardashians saying they don't really want attention. Okay,
let me, what are you doing? Please? Now, you can't
be the Heisman favorite, at least in the world. I
believe in the Mallard multiverse, but in my part of
the multiverse, you cannot be the Heisman Trophy favorite, the
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face of the sport, the only real star college football has,
the golden child of the Manning monarchy. And then try
to play that We're just another team. I'm just another quarterback,
that whole thing. You can't play that card. Not allowed. Sorry,
not sorry, not sorry. It's akin to Jeff Bezos trying
(25:52):
to convince us that Amazon is just a small mom
and pop business. That's all it is. It's all it is,
that's all it is. Because listen, Arch Manning, the hype
on this kid is next level, right. The Longhorns are
at the very top based on all of the noise
of the hype food chain. They are the kings of
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the hype jungle. Congratulations on it. They're the Philemennon at
a Golden Corral buffet. They are that. And every college
football scribe and network, every radio gash bag and wanna
be podcast star drooling to get a taste. And I'm
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in line, I'm online, I am and arch Manning, he
is the five star dessert. At least, if you believe
all the stories that are out about college fall, arch
Manning is the five star dessert being carted out, wheeled
out with the sparklers. You know, those nice desserts they
have the chocolate drizzle at high end establishments. Yeah, and
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you don't get to sit there in the spotlight. I
don't believe. What do I know? You don't sit there
on the spotlight and claim, well, I mean really in
the shadows. Well, no, there's a spotlight on you. You're
not You're not exactly in the shadows. That's not at all.
He's talking about hunting other teams. Arch Manning the Texas quarterback,
you know, hunting other teams and all that stuff. And uh,
and Texas is the the gazelle out in the open prairie.
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There they're running around and every lion in the savannah
has circled them. That's the reality right there. The gazelle.
They say they're the Longhorns, but they're the gazelle in
this and that burnt orange jersey that Texas is known
for there, you know, might as well be camouflage. But
in reverse here, you know, it's screams, come get me, Bra,
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That's what it's. Come get me, Bra, That's what it's screams.
The Manning family, I don't know how many times you
have to say this. I'm not saying this. It bothers me.
But they're the royal family of football. Blah blah blah
blah blah. Archie, I've determined. I've looked at the the
family chart there the family tree. So arch Archie Manning
was the founding father. You all determined that Peyton Manning
was King Mike and then Eli, who he famously dubbed
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the punk, very mediocre NFL quarterback, but he became Prince
Clutch in the postseason. And then you've got arch Then
you have arch Manning. So where does he fall in
the Manning lineage? So Arch Manning is the heir to
the throne for now, he is the king hype. The
first he's king hype. The first is the way that
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he is the show pony, arch Manning. So he's the
show pony in a world full of plow horses in
college football. There's a lot of plow horses in college football,
a lot. And so you know, Texas might not they
might not have won the championship because they didn't last year.
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It's been a few years, but they did win the
headline championship. And in the game of publicity there at
the very top, the very top they are for this
college football season, something that Jones would love. They're like
the Dallas Cowboys of college football. They're bigger than their results, right,
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bigger than arch Manning started two games last year. Two
that was it, you know, used in two games. And
so the Cowboys though, in terms of the hype and
all that stuff, and you know, louder than their record
and all that and just being shoved in our fish.
Now they go out and get smoked by the Buckeyes.
That'll change a little bit, but the arch Manning story
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doesn't go away that much. Now, speaking of that, we're
going to move to a different sport, a different level
of the sport. But page two. Here we go to
the final decision on the quarterback competition. It's all over.
The last team left. There was only one that had
not named their starting quarterback. We go now to the
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Bayou and that is where the news came out. Question,
did the Saints make the right call as they picked
Spencer Rattler as QB one over Tyler Shuck? Aw shucks?
Did they make the right call? So we had. By
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the way, before I get into this, let's let's hear
the This is Kellen Moore making the announcement. Here the
head coach of the Saints. Don't need to remember his name.
He will not be the coach long, But here's Kellen Moore,
coach of the Saints.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Spencer Ratlers are starring quarterback. Really really excited for him.
He's do an awesome job this off season. Oh, he's
just been consistent, made some really good decisions throughout this
whole entire process, and you know, his ability to make
plays with his arm and his feet have certainly shown up.
And so I'm really really excited about Spencer. He's earned
this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah. I literally see his nose growing in the video
there as he was saying that he does not believe
any of that, So there was no right call to
make here the way I read the room, here, there
was no right call to make. We mentioned in previous
episodes you talk about being stuck between the devil and
the deep blue sea. This is it, right. You got
a rookie head coach, Kellen Moore, who's in this case
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not the devil in the deep blue c He's snuck,
but he was stuck between. He's got a rattlesnake bite
or a scorpion sting. Which one would you rather have?
He chose King Colber. He chose King Colber. And essentially
the Saints are going to be taking a bubble bath
in snake Venom with Spencer Rattler and Moore has a
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Kellimore has a reputation, whether it's true or not, of
masking quarterback limitations, which is really what good coaching is.
You're hiding the limitations of your player. And so we
all know that, and that you talk about putting that
to the test here with Spencer Ratler, who has masters.
He's only played a little bit in the NFL, but
he played a lot in college football at Oklahoma and
South Carolina. Spencer Ratler has become the maestro of inconsistent
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pocket presence and really bad decision making, which is a
death sentence if you're playing quarterback in the NFL. It's
more likely than not that Spencer Ratler is just a means. Now,
what is the end game, you ask arch Manning. That's
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the endgame. These Saints have the NFL's lowest playoff odds,
less than four percent in the league. That is designed
to give everyone the false hope of having a chance
to make the playoffs. The Saints have a less than
four percent chance based on the gaming odds, to make
the playoffs. They have an expected win total, which blows
Ozzie wase Away of five point two. Five point two. Now,
(32:31):
keep in mind, the Saints have no depth, so once
these guys start getting hurt, everyone has injuries. That's why
it works. They have no depth, so they'll be getting
guys off off or up, like hey, I put a
job posting on offer ups. Well, there's no plus for jobs.
But they'll be trying to get anyone to play on
the offensive line. So, and keep in mind the Saints
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playing a division, you know the division, I mean the
division blows Carolina, Come on, Atlanta, who knows whether Michael
Pennix Junior is going to be that good in Tampa
has been a playoff team, but they don't scare anybody,
the Buccaneers, they don't really scare anybody, all right now,
final point to the Bay Area we go follow up,
follow up to a transaction. So Brian Robinson, we mentioned
(33:14):
this the other he got traded from the team. Fomian
knows the Redskins to the San Francisco football team, and
already he's out there with a strong hot take. Brian
Robinson let the world know that he and Christian McCaffery
are the best running back duo in the NFL. So
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thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs up, or thumbs down on
this one. So this is a give me a break
situation that is a big helping of alphabet soup is
what that is. Of course, the first thought is what
else is he gonna say? Wouldn't that be quite the
story if Brian Robinson got to the forty nine ers
and said, ah, yeah, I stink and that's why I'm
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here because I sucked in Washington and they thought I
couldn't play anymore, so they gave me to the forty
nine Ers and the Niners are a bunch of idiots,
and they added me. But here's the reality. Brian Robinson's
pretty good player, but he was given away, right, And
you know what your value is based in that business.
You know what your value is based on what you
were acquired for. Washington shipped I believe it was a
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late round draft pick to get Brian Robinson. You know,
they shipped him out for a late round draft pick.
The Niners gave that up. And so that's the NFL.
You don't need the mavel Rosetta stone. That's the NFL's
way of saying you're a dima. Does it now? The
other half of the best duo, Christian mccaffree, who was
a really good ballplayer. Unfortunately he's got a glitch. He's
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made out of glass. The main is made out of it.
He's unbelievable when he's out there playing for the Niners.
Right Eileen in San Francisco, she loves Washington run around
there and her nest O and the Bay and all
those they love them. They absolutely love him, Jay Scoop,
all those Niner apologies out there. They love this guy
when he's running around. However, here's the problem. All right,
(35:02):
he's made out of guys, and you cannot call it
the greatest running back. He said, the best, which means
we'll get to that in a minute. Best duo if
one guy's always camped out in the injury tent and
the other guy was basically free with purchase, so they
just tossed him in as an add on to sweeten
the pot. Best du us, so it's more like the
(35:24):
best solo act. And then Brian Robinson is holding the
mic stand all right, and so now there are other
good combinations. I don't know what we need to do.
I certainly do I don't want to do a list.
That's what Terry in England likes. He likes list. I
don't do that. I do Big Ben's big board. But
just looking around, off the top of my head, if
you were to look at other running back combo dishes
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that stand out, like the Lions when things are going
right for Jamir Gibbs and David Montgomery, that's a pretty
good one two punch they have in Motown. And dare
I say that the Raiders have the makings of something
pretty good. If Ashton Genty is as advertised top ten
(36:07):
pick in the draft and Raheem Moster. It's been pretty productive.
He's old, but he's been pretty productive. That's got some explosiveness,
it does. And so no, I'm sure I can get
a bunch of crap from San Francisco for you. Just
compare the Niners to the Lines and the Raiders. What's
wrong with you? But remember the term best the legal
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definition and advertising means as good as all the rest.
So if I can say we have the best radio
show and no one cansume me. If I say our
show is better than whoever. I think our competition's on
tape anyway. But if I say we're better, then I
have to I can be suon. I have to prove
it and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It's mallard, how about that?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
To the third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
We're gonna get grilled here. But before we do that,
I got to pay off the Insta trivia. You got
a quick trigger finger there, Lorena.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Don't you know it's so sad because I was like, oh,
the song has to stop.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I know, all right, Well, well quickly. Blank was the
first rookie quarterback in NFL history to throw at least
two touchdowns in each of his first four games as
a starter. That is the question. What is the answer,
and let's see Lassie guessed by Alf the Alleno pinter
relevant guests. Who else do we have? Bill? Who's your bill? Want?
Was something botox Ozzie Guy and I from Robbie the mrierfan.
(37:33):
What happened to Ozzy Guy? Robbie he used to do
that Mallard Town podcast, you guys and then which was
nothing about the mather live in here in hell Town
but not talking about the Mallard Town. What else? Ferd
Dog says Robbie the celebrity couple fan. He can't wait
for the Aaron Rodgers update, helmet Man and Taylor Swift's
love child from Stuck in Sacramento, A snooker from Las Vegas.
(37:58):
According to Malthard prop guy, a right what say you have?
A right out?
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Oh my gosh, it has to be Taylor Swiss, bridemaids
Selena Gomesh.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
No, it's the great or Jake Cutler. Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go. I don't know, just
don't play the open, but we played the music. Go ahead,
what do we got here?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
The Lions did not do well in the preseason, going
one to three and getting outscored by forty six points.
Dan Campbell admitted that the performance is quote a little
bit concerning, Ben, How concerning should it be?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
It's only concerning from the standpoint. It shows you that
there's a lack of depth for the Lions because you're
playing backups in the exhibition season. But no, it doesn't matter,
and you didn't play your star players, you didn't game plan.
It is irrelevant. It is irrelevant other than the fact
that if you get down to your third string guys,
you've got some problems, because those are the guys that
play most of the exhibition games. And it would appear
(38:45):
that Dan Campbell has an issue there in that department. Now,
if the Lions get off to a horrible start, we
can revisit this, but at this point that's my take.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Next, the betting odds are out on who will be
the first NFL head coach fired this season, and Mike
McDaniel leads the field with two to one odds. Yeah, Ben,
do you think McDaniel should be the favorite?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah? I mean, it makes sense that Dolphins they feeling
feel like they're at the end of the run. Sean
McDermott also has to be high up in Buffalo. They've
been so close for so long they can't get over
the hump there. And I put Raheem Morris, who's only
been in Atlanta for a couple of years. I put
Raheen Morris on that big board of coaches that are
on the hot seat. And also Zach Taylor in Cincinnati.
(39:23):
Bengals are cheap though they don't want to pay anybody,
but they did spend a lot of money this offseason
on wide receivers. And if it doesn't get better there
in Cincinnati, I can see him getting the old whack next.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Russell Westbrook and his wife's deliberated ten years of marriage
together this past weekend by renewing their vows on a
boat in Italy. Yeah, been any plan any plans for
a bow renewal ceremony with you and your wife?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Well, this is something that rich people do coop you know,
poor poor people or people I'm not poor, but people
that make middle class money whatever, they don't do this
kind of thing. You can renew it at the courthouse exactly.
This isn't rich. This is a rich person move. This
is I have a lot of fu money. So I'm
gonna go to Italy and renew my butt. No h
and now I'm already past ten years anyway, if unless
(40:06):
my wife brings it up, I think we're good on that.
How'd we do you say? When I want dinner?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
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listen live. It's of it buzz with little Rain at
ten nine, clean up, hearts, going to help you.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Gear Rye, gear Rye to night, gear Rye to night.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
Dear Rye, you heard the man.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
We all know.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
It is definitely time for love here on the Ben
Malors Show, because Taylor and travel.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
My god, we got tea and tea together.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I love tees.
Speaker 7 (40:53):
You love teas. Everyone loves tees. Teas are great letters.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
You sure about that? Positive about that? All right? Well,
let's get to it, Lorena. These do you have any
opening thoughts or you just love love?
Speaker 7 (41:06):
And I love that. That's just today's subject on the show.
I think it makes it that much more.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
That I would say it's a theme to the show,
and I feel like they're very strong a statement to
say it's a theme. I don't know that we'd say theme.
But it is the Queen of Hearts, and let's get
right to it. Who is up? First year?
Speaker 7 (41:22):
Did you see the message I sent you?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Yeah, we just want to start with that, all right,
let's start there, all right? From Anonymous, how do you
go through a breakup while you're very attached to her dog?
Speaker 6 (41:35):
Okay, dogs can be just like children, and if you
really do have a strong connection, you have to come
up with like split things.
Speaker 7 (41:43):
You can do custody stuff. You can go to the
court and be like, this is also my dog's I.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Mean, I love dogs, Lorena, but that's a little much,
you know, come up.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
I'm obviously Anonymous has a strong connection with this dog,
and if they are breaking up, they're going to have
to figure out who gets to see who my cat kept.
My friend kept her cat in their divorce and he
still asks for pictures in the messages.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Weird, Rena.
Speaker 7 (42:07):
I mean, you know, I'm just saying just saying, okay,
next question, that was it?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
All right?
Speaker 7 (42:12):
Do pew right that's not all what I thought you
were gonna say.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Should I trust dating a woman with baby daddy issues?
Speaker 6 (42:20):
That's from Okay, So that's a hard one because a
lot of people have baby daddies and baby mamas who
are super problematic. Yeah, they don't have They don't have
control over it either. So you have to figure out
are you down for the ride to do you like
her enough or him not?
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah? Is the goodies good enough for the baddies exactly exactly?
Speaker 6 (42:44):
And is she responsible enough to keep him far enough
away to keep your relationship safe and protected?
Speaker 7 (42:49):
Something you really got to think about.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
All right, let's go to Joe and Jersey on the phones.
Who has a question? Hello Joe, you're on the Queen
of Hearts with Lorena Marcia. What are you doing here?
The first made it through Plucky Tony Cool Plucky Tony
Gun on the air. I kind of knew that was
Tony Ferg Dog rightow ferg Dog rites it? What's the
(43:15):
best area to pick up chicks at Disneyland? I'm striking
out in Tontown. Don't do Toontown.
Speaker 7 (43:23):
I would go to Star Wars Land and I would
go to the bar over and stall there.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Is a bar.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
Yeah, I would do that.
Speaker 6 (43:28):
And you know what, honestly, if they set up like
a date night, like a singles night type of thing,
that would be really fun.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
About like Main Street, there's a lot of restaurants around there.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
Yeah, but there's more kids over.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
In that area. Stay away from the kids.
Speaker 7 (43:40):
Yeah, we don't want kids.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
No, or just how about you just pay for parking
and don't go in, just saying out in the parking lot. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
In downtown Disney has a lot of good spots for
that too, a lot of little places you can go
and eat. You'll find people sitting alone at the bar
tops there, so also a good spot to go. Okay,
my gosh, if she's looking for cute stuff to buy,
you could be like, oh my gosh, that is so cute,
you should buy that.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
That sounds just something like Ferd Dog would say. JT,
the wingman in Knoxville says, if the show can have
newbie night, can I convince my fiance that I can
add a new lover to the mix? Asking for a friend? Yes,
didn't you just get hooked up? JT? What's going on? Man?
You're already born?
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Man?
Speaker 1 (44:15):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (44:16):
But really, though, I feel like you should be open
about that. And if you if you're interested in opening
the doors, maybe your partner might.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Be interested to the Bible belt. That might be illegal.
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (44:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I'm just saying you can repent.
Speaker 7 (44:29):
Yeah, for forgiveness.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Let's see. Shaneon the Moye says, how long are you
with someone before you let them drive your car or
you drive theirs? With Kelly and I, she drove mine
within weeks, but I waited nine months to drive hers.
Oh wow.
Speaker 6 (44:45):
I mean, if it'd be if I'm afraid to drive
the car or not. So I don't know, like a manual,
if it's a really expensive car, or if it's a
really big car and I don't feel comfortable, Like if
it's one of those semi trucks.
Speaker 7 (44:55):
I'm never driving that ever, and I'd never do it ever.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
I wouldn't drive a Semis too big.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
That's a that's a recipe for trouble with that.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Is password, you idiot.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Password the word game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller, let's.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Do it on a newby night. We've got the Beast
of the East in Rochester. Hello, Beast of the East,
How are you bad?
Speaker 7 (45:30):
I try and cow, but you're too popular.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
I never get in. All right, I apologize. I will
try to suck, so I will try to do bad.
Speaker 7 (45:38):
I will debate a couple of comics tonight.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
But to play your game, all right?
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Who would you like to partner up with? You? Play
with me, Ben, Loraina or Coop? Wow? You will of course,
of course, Beast. There's no other rocket popular? Not really?
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Can I give you one comment to think about first
or not?
Speaker 1 (45:57):
No? Sure, I don't have time, don't I really don't.
I really don't have time. Hold on, Beasts, you're gonna
play the game. Uh? And Tyler is in the Great
state of Maine. Hello, Tyler, welcome. Oh good morning man.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
This is the Beast of the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Oh look at that. Are you saying that Maine is
more well, it certainly is further east of Rochester, so
you definitely have that. Yes, all right, Tyler, who do
you want to partner up with? You got Cooper? Lorena?
All right, Coop, you're in. Yes, Loraina you're off the show. Bye, guys,
I'm finally finally something. Okay, all right, Beast of the East.
(46:36):
So we have a list of words one to ten.
Please pick a number one to ten, Beast of the East.
I will be my birthday ninth you were you were
born in the ninth month or on the ninth day,
ninth day? Sure, okay, just go with it. Why not,
let's go with Let's see there's I could do? How about?
(47:02):
Oh man, which direction do I want to go? How
about we go with loaf loaf? What? What did he say?
Speaker 3 (47:11):
He said?
Speaker 1 (47:11):
What he was asking to you to repeat your l
o A F loaf? Oh? Oh, here we go. This
is where spelled? What do you think that is? What
word are we looking for? I don't know, but we're
gonna win, all right? All right? Uh all right, so
(47:35):
let's go with Tyler. Tyler, let's go with you heard
Ben's clue. My clue is gonna be wheat. Repeat it
one more time? Wheat w h E A T wheat.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
Yeah, let's go What I was gonna say?
Speaker 3 (47:55):
Why did you say?
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Go ahead? Pick a number, Tyler? Go ahead, pick a number?
He said, number two. He didn't know it was his turn.
Oh my god, wait number two. Hurry up, hurry up,
let's go with let's see. Oh that's easy. Uh I swear,
I swear no. Yeah, let's go ticket. You know he
(48:29):
was supposed to play on the rolls. He did not
know the rules
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