September 12, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Commanders QB Jayden Daniels looking horrible in their Monday Night Football game against the Packers in Lambeau Field, who else gets the blame for the Commanders loss, the hype surrounding the Packers after their 2-0 start, and much more!
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the Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels looked horrific. How much of
this is on him? And how much of this is
on the Lambeau voodoo. Also, who else gets called the
Congress playing the Commander's blame game? And we'll also talk
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Any meanie miny moe. Oh, there was only one game.
It was an island game. You know we love island games. Yes,
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three nights a week. You get the Sunday night and
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then at the Monday and then Thursday, and so we've
got all that. But our lead this hour is from
the not frozen tundra, a few miles away from where
my younger brother resides. There lambeau Field and the week
two card in the NFL, kicking off in that hallowed venue,
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which is pretty whack. I've only been once. I went to.
There was no game. I didn't go to a game.
I went to the gift shop there, which is the
size of like Costco or a super Walmart. They got
a lot of stuff, and anyway, a couple of NFC
heavyweights there upstart quarterbacks, the next generation of quarterbacks, at
least in theory, the Commanders and the Packers. So if
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you did not see this game, and if you missed it,
well we got you. We watched it. It's our good
mits for the day, so you did not have to
Jordan Love feeling the love. The Packers ended up with
some bad field position, but as a coach told me
years ago, bad field position means good stats if you
make the plays, and Jordan Love made some of them,
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made to make all of them, and there there were
some points left on the field, but Jordan Love ended
up with two hundred ninety two yards and a couple
of touchdowns, and the Packers, who seemed like they were
up by fifty points, were not. They ended up beating
the Washington football team twenty seven to eighteen. The final
on Thursday night, and you couple that with the victory
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over the Lions back in Week one, and that was
all the way back on Sunday. So they Packers already
have two wins over teams that were in the play
offs last year. And someone named Tucker Craft, someone named
Tucker Craft a proarably it's a tight end had six
catches for a career high one hundred and twenty four yards.
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room,
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Jaden Daniels, you told me how great this guy was.
I bought in too, I did. I bought in. I
was a ah. Yeah, Thursday night, short week primetime. The
stars shine under the bright lights, and well, Jordan Love
did not. He had a horrific start to this game,
one of the worst halfs you'll ever see who You're
not supposed to say that, but he's a superstar. Okay,
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he sucked. He had forty nine yards passing in the
first half, and a lot of that was because he
was zipping the ball where it didn't need to go.
It was just bad all the way around. In the
balance of that game. You know, he had some garbage
time stats in the fourth quarter and mathematically the Washington
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team was in the game, but realistically they were not anyway.
Before we get into the meeting. The monologue this year
from Jaden Daniels here, the Washington quarterback, who points out
that the execution was slightly different than this game. Take
a list.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
They executed their scheme.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Okay, they executed it really well because they won the
game and we just didn't make plays. Starts with me,
he starts with everybody in France, starts with the whole
offensive skill group. So it's not playing a finger at anybody.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Collectively.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
We're all to blame and we'll get back to work.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay. So that's right out of the handbook. Is you're
supposed to say no one individually is to blame, when
absolutely individuals are to blame. Well, here's more from Jaden Daniels.
Here's Jane and Daniels saying, oh, I said no, No,
he didn't care about the fact they lost. He's already
moved on, right, Jaden, Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And then the dwell about it. You know, it's early
in the season. I wouldn't expect them by in this
locker room to hit the panic button. We faced a
really good team and we came up short, so we'll
move on to this game.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Okay, there you go. Well, I have a talk show
to do, so I'm not going to move on. You
can move on, but I have a talk show four
hours to do. So I'm gonna sit right here and
I'm going to slice it up and dice it. And
that's how I'm going to do it, because I have
a job. So that's my gig. And again I didn't
I rant about this the other day. Everyone freaks out
about the panic, but nobody wants to hit the Panama don't.
No panic, no panic, no panic anyway. All right, so
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let us discuss the question. You heard some sound there
from Jayden Daniels, So the Commander's quarterback, Jaden Daniels, who
looked absolutely horrible, I mean just horrific. How much of
this is on him? And how much of this is
on the lamboo Lambeau voodoo. You told me there's some
Lambeau voodoo there. Now that Micah Parsons is playing for
the Green Bay Packers, so again you've got Jaden Daniels,
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who look like he should be playing for the Winnipeg
Blue Bombers the way he performed in this game, and
how much of that is on him, and how much
of that is on the Lambeau voodoo. So I've got
coach meat balls and AOL dial up, if you know
what that is, and we'll come buying all these things together,
and we are going to make some brats and some
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cheese kurts. Is where we're gonna make, all right. So
a I do not want to hear about the Lambbo voodoo.
I don't the mystique of the frozen tundra. Anytime the
Packers get a halfway decent team, I have to hear
about this. I remember, they've lost so many big games
in my life at lambeau Field, like playoff cans. Remember
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Michael Vick had a terrible game years ago for the
Atlanta Falcons, went in there and beat the Packers. The
Falcons did at lambeau Field. There's been some other home
losses there with on the Aaron Rodgers years. So I
don't want to hear about that. This wasn't Vince Lombardi
rising from the grave to go cast a spell over
the Washington football team. Jayden Daniels did not trip over
some kind of cheese curd that was thrown on the
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field there he flatlined on his own. And while he
wants to move on, that's fine, we're not He was
flying coach, and he was flying coach, that's right, on
the vomit commet. He didn't even have a first class seat.
Jaden Daniels was sitting in coach on the vomit comet.
There was turbulence, There was no oxygen masks. There was
just projectile vomit that was flying in the air everywhere
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on the vomit comet. Now, he managed to suck at
a time he cannot mentioned the first half forty nine
yards passing in the first half forty nine right, and
he sucked at a time he can't suck. And that's
the NFL. In the NFL Rulebook, page one, when the
lights are bright and they're shining on you. When that's
the case there, you cannot soil the carpet. And there
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was a lot of urine that was on the field there. Now,
Jadan Daniels, I guess he tried to burn the rug,
which is one way to do it. Now, what did
I see? I saw a Chris Paul style performance CP
three with bounce passes, which would be great if it
was basketball, But unfortunately the NFL bounce passes don't work.
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You're supposed to throw to your guy, not the invisible
boogeyman running lance in another dimension. And I gotta tell you,
the invisible boogeyman running slants caught a lot of passes
from Jaden Daniels because those things were They were either
sailing in the air or they were bouncing on the ground. Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy,
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bouncy bouncy throw to the left, throw the right into
the Lambeau Field shadows, the shadow people at Lambo Field
anywhere but on target. So where were the big place?
Where were the big plays out? So I didn't see
them in a big plays running plays of more than
ten yards, passing plays of more than fifteen yards, And
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I didn't see too many of us. I did not,
And instead it looked like somebody unplugged the Madden controller
on what had been an amazing run there for Jaden
and Dan. Theyn't looked all great last week either, No
chunky soup, no chunk plays, just watered down broth. That's
all there was now pace two. So who else gets
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called the Congress playing the commander blame game? We love
the blame game. Who's going to be called to Capitol Hill.
So that performance in the first half in particular, now,
mathematically they were not out of the game, but it
just looked like that was Dan Snyder's Washington team, that
they had the charm of the old Redskins, right lawsuits
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of poenas. The team looked like it was doodling in
the margins instead of running an actual game plan. We're
not sure what they were doing. And don't let Cliff
Kingsbury slink away there. This is supposed to be X's
and O's genius offensive savant, the quarterback whisperer, And if
he was whispering to Jaden Daniels, he must have been
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Daniels must have been wearing those noise canceling headphones because
he didn't hear anything. The playbook looked like it was
scribbled in crayon on a Southwest Airlines flight to Green Bay.
And I don't even know if Southwest goes to Green Bay.
That's just what it looked like. There was nothing all
that creative, didn't seem like there were any in game
adjustments that were made. It's like, this is our game plan,
this is what we're gonna do. And it's the football
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equivalent of a gift stuck in a loop, you know,
just playing over and just a just a bad day.
That's it. That we'll move on. Just the groundhog day,
that's it. And what about the commander's defense? Now a
lot of this has been offensively focused, but what about
the commander's defense? You see the game dan Quinn and
you start worrying. This kind of looked like the Falcons
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when he coached there after a while, right, just kind
of a flat performance there. I said, well, it's a
Thursday and night, but dan Quinn is a defensive guy.
That's supposed to be his meat and potatoes. And instead
of the meat and potatoes, the Washington football team was
serving up vegan meatballs. And no one wants vegan meatballs.
Even vegans don't want vegan meatballs, right, they're soft, bland,
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nobody wants them. And they had this the vibe I guy,
and listen if you watched Benny versus de Penning on YouTube,
we hope you did. I obviously had the wrong side
in that game, and I knew right away. I started,
I don't go. I went on social media because I
was amazed at how my commercial Shaquille O'Neal was in
because every other commercial shack was in there. But then
(13:06):
I put the thing away, I turned the app off,
and I started texting some friends. I said, I'm cooked.
They got look at them. I knew right away the
body language very rarely. Are you wrong on that? With
the body language, it looked like they felt sorry for themselves.
That they all, boohooo, we got to go out here
and play on a Thursday. The body language just it
just reaked up. We don't really want to be here.
We really don't want to be We want to be somewhere.
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We don't be here, though, we want to go somewhere,
maybe maybe across the street, but we don't be here.
And you could see it, and they were half steps slow,
heads down, like they were just there's like playing some
kind of charity situation or something like that instead of
an NFL matchup. There's no edge to them, And I
was amazed that they still mathematically had a chance to
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even cover the spread. Forget whin the game in the
fourth quarter. It should have been forty one to ten
or something like that. The way that the separation between
these two teams and the Packers fumbled mallet and they
didn't put the hammer down. Otherwise you don't have to
be some kind of NFL guru to know this would
have been a full pantsing, a full humiliation situation. And
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the way, the best way to describe how Washington played
it was like a FedEx field pipe, sewage pipe bursting.
And that's how they played, just sewage raining down on fans.
That good fan experience, the all inclusive fan experience, is
that right, No, it's not ring. What is it? I
(14:31):
don't know, it's brown? I don't know. Why is it smell?
I don't Just keep watching the game, all right? Now,
last word here. So in the winner's locker room, we
will go over to the lesser story. The winner's locker room,
and the Packers are two and oh, two and oh
and everyone in Wisconsin and all the owners of the
Green Bay Packers, the stockholders are spiking the broughtwurst and
(14:57):
right into the cheese dip there. They're so excited they
just won the Super Bowl. So I asked the question,
are you, as a neutral party like me, are you
drinking the green kool aid? Are you voting yes? That
this is legit, that this is going to continue. So
I am an undecided voter on this. I was really
(15:20):
down on the Lions. I thought the Lions it was
more about what the Lions didn't do than anything special
the green Bay Packers did last week. The Lions look
a lot weaker than they have been in recent years,
and they had some kind of playoff hangover from losing
last year. And then Washington, as we pointed out, they
showed up like they just really didn't want to be
(15:40):
there like they had they they went to the DMV
and they didn't have an appointment, and then they had
to wait online and they ended up waiting for like
eight hours online and then it was they could to
another line that was like three hours, So they spent
eleven hours online and they were kind of tired and
they wanted to sit down. They want to play the game.
And so you look at it from that perspective, and
in those bifocals, it's two softballs that were lobbed right
(16:02):
down the middle underhanded. Green Bay swung. To their credit,
they hit home runs, but they're eating cupcakes. You don't
need a knife to eat a Cupcake's good for them,
It does not mean you're the nineteen eighty five Bears
defensively reincarnated, and don't even get me started on the
Amazon broadcast because they had Micah Parsons. I had to
(16:23):
mute them at one but now I love al Michaels.
But the other people on that broadcast, holy crap, man.
The way they were making it seemed like Michael Parsons
was the human version of he Man stopping on skeletor.
And I must have been using AOL dial up to
connect to Amazon, because I didn't see it that way.
(16:43):
I thought Parsons was fine standard, pretty good defensive players
used the highest paid player in the NFL other than
the quarterback. You should play really well every play every game.
And yet again, a lot of that came in the
second half. A lot of his production came in the
second half when even though mathematically Washington was in the game,
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he just didn't get the vibe they were And Parsons
made a couple of plays al Michaels and it was
really the random women. I don't know who they aren't,
I don't write their names down, and they're just an
you know. The the entire broadcast was annoying, uh, And
they made it seem like he was wearing Micah Parsons
a cape and he was leaping tall buildings in a
(17:23):
single mound. You know, calm down, by the way, Just
how bad is the Amazon broadcast in general? I mean,
do they deliberately assemble? Do they have meetings at Amazon's?
How can we get the most annoying group of human
beings and let them talk football while they talk over
each other like it's a holiday dinner with your in laws.
It's just brutal. Now again, we love al michaels Herb
(17:44):
Street's fine, he annoys me sometimes, but the rest of
the pregame, halftime, postgame crew, it's like the island of
misfit toys. There. You've got Ryan Fitzpatrick who gives out
that like kind of annoying, over the top uncle energy.
You've got Richard Sherman who's just filibustering. I don't think
he even knows what he's saying. And then you got
Tony Gonzalez who looks like he doesn't want to be
(18:06):
there because he's too cool to be there, and he
would like to take an Uber, but not just an Uber.
He wants a high end Uber home because he's like,
I'm look how good looking I am. I don't need
to be here. You people are ugly. I'm Tony Gonzalez.
I look marvelous. Why am I here? Anyway? It is
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Sunday Night football sucks as well. Mike Turrico is no
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Al Michaels, Well, yeah, Al's Al's a generational legend. Al Michaels.
I mean I could listen to Al Michaels read Wikipedia
pages and I'd be fine with that, you know, I'm ok.
Although it was weird the Amazon promo before the year,
they had a sizzle reel with al My walking alongside
herb Street and some other person I don't know who
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it was. And Al's old. He doesn't walk that fast.
He's an old man, how old, really old, like like
in his eighties old like he's old, and like, you
don't need to show a promo of a you know,
a guy that in that age range walking He just
think he walks like his age. You know, when you
get older, you things slow down and it's more of
(23:26):
a hobble. Yeah, it's not He's not running around like
a gazelle. You know he's not He's not exactly a gazelle,
but Al's he's exactly eighty turns eighty one in November.
So it's like, you know, come on, whose idea? Who
at Amazon thought that was a good idea? Because I
don't think that was a good idea. I don't anyway.
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Ryan says that Tarico is slightly better than Beth Mowens,
while he's a lot better than her. Can someone tell
her she's really really bad as an announcement? Well, I
think you just did. I think you just let her
know apps absolutely. Ryan then says he says, I have
a list. Well, we don't do lists, Ron, you can
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give me a big board. He said, the sad five,
not fab but sad five worst play by play announcers
in order. He says, number five Beth Mowens and number
four Mike Tarrico. Number three Chris Myers. Well that hits
that hits close to Chris is fine. Mark Jones, Oh
he's terrible. God is he bad? That guy does suck.
(24:30):
He must have I don't know what he's got to
get those gigs because he is really bad at his job.
My God is horrible. Uh and then he says tied
for number one, Beth Mowing. I thought she was number five,
Well how she number one? And then uh, pam pam
ward he said, so, all right, well whatever, that's your fine,
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fine opinion. There. Who else do we have? Let's see
page down. The Green Bay Gobbler checked in. He's there,
Fat Daddy, his big bang, great monologue to start the show.
As always, Daddy, you are at Well, that's Fat Daddy.
You're absolutely right on those want to be no names
on the telecast for Amazon Prime Football Thursday night. And
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not only not only do a majority of the people suck.
The game kept buffering, and then Amazon and then they
were the streaming service sucks. That's so his issue. They
would argue. The people that Amazon would say, well, that's
your WiFi. It's not our promise. You're a problem. You
have bad wife. I get better WiFi, That's what they
would say. And you would say, well, I you know
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I don't need better WiFi. My WiFi is fine. Why
why do I need better WiFi to watch your stupid show?
And they'll blame you. I did see truck Stop Fungus,
The Great truck Stop Fungus announcing his retirement. He said
he will still be part of the show as he's
leaving the trucking world and he's settling into his new
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life in the Sunshine States. So good luck to truck Stops.
One of the great characters. I told him, I said,
one of the great characters on the show. We're gonna
miss your daily contributions. But he's retired now, so he'll
be able to call in whenever he wants in theory,
because he's not like he has to get up to
go to a job or has to drive his truck
somewhere and has to be there by a certain time
and have to worry.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
About How exciting to retire.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I ever
want to retire, you can find a new hobby. I
have no hobbies. I don't like, I don't have any
I don't have any hobbies. I don't mean the new
Bob ross Well, that's a sad story. Bob ross Man,
he got he didn't make any money while he was
doing that, and then you know the people. It's like
other people have made a lot of money off Bob
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Bob Ross. One of the funniest things about his set.
I used to watch it. I used to skip schol
because I was a terrible student. And when I was
a kid, we didn't have the internet. It was a
stone age, so it was either game shows. I'd watched
the TV game shows in the morning, and then they
put soap operas on and I'm like, I'm not watching
that crap. So then I would flip around and I
wouldn't watch that. So I turned on Bob Ross over
(27:05):
on PBS, Happy Little Trees, right, And then I saw this,
this documentary about Bob Ross, and they said that he
was so poor that he decided that he couldn't afford
haircuts regularly. So he you know, back in the old days,
he had a perm and he hated it, but it
was cheaper than getting his haircut. And then that became
what he was known for because it looked so ridiculous
(27:26):
on television, and that became his thing. And then they
were like, you can't get rid of that. That's how
people know. And I don't want it. I can afford
a haircut, No, you got to get you you got
to keep it. That's and it became his and he didn't.
He didn't want it. He only did it. He only
did it because it was he was poor and he
wanted it. He's like, I can't. I want to spend money.
But you got to really be on the on the
(27:47):
wrong side of things of the ledger to be like,
I can't even afford to get my haircut once every
couple of you know, a couple of you don't get
your haircut back for a haircut. Well, yeah, but you
were getting paid three cents an hour, so that's the problem.
Thing was cheaper, but you were getting paid Penis. Let's
go to the phones and we'll start out now in
the belly of the Beast where they are celebrating their
(28:08):
Super Bowl. Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers. The season
is over. The Packers have gone undefeated two game season
and they they're gonna get their Lombardi Trophy. And now
to celebrate, boots on the ground, the Green Bay Gobbler, Gobble,
Gobba Gobbel, Hello, green Bag Gobbler.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Long time, no talk.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
It's been way too long, gobbled. It sounds like you're
feeling no pain.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
We have the best record in the NFL right now.
What can I say?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, undefeated, greatest team. I'm one of the all time
great defensive teams. Jordan loved better than Aaron Rodgers at
this point. Yes, yeah, well I am.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I am gobbling my way into the militia. And I'll
tell you what. I gotta give a shout out to
shanea to mine to talk me into calling in tonight.
Let's just do that.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Don't don't be don't be doing shout outs. You're not
a morning show. We're not a morning show. We don't
do shout outs. I can't say hey, I can't I
can't tell Kelly to feel better there our friend, don'tnut Kelly.
I can't tell because I'm not a morning show. I
don't do that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Let's thank you, Jerry, take you, Jerry. Defense wins games.
Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Does it win championships? Though might win games? Was does
it win championships?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
It absolutely wins championships. Thank you for correcting.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Okay, all right, if you have a time machine and
you can go back to like nineteen eighty five or
two thousand, yeah, sure, absolutely, that's why he's the Green
Bay gobbler. See between, I love it. I love it.
(29:51):
You're doing your own sound effects there and between every take.
Just gobble, gobble, gobble. That's all you got to do
that because you're the gobbler. That's what you do. Man.
All right, all right, thank you Green Bay Gobbler. All right,
go away. There's the great Green Bay Gobbler making his debut.
He's been very active on social media, but there he is.
He called in right there. Well, that leads us into
(30:14):
some tremendous rhythmic chanting from lambeau Field. The Green Bay
Packers had defeated the Washington football team and postgame celebration
on the Amazon broadcast, Michael Parsons, the NFL's highest paid
non quarterback, came out there and it turned out to
be a musical performance the crowd. There were about one
(30:36):
thousand people or so that stuck around lambeau Field to
watch MICHAEH. Parsons, and he was serenaded with some rhythmic chanting.
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Thank you, Jerry, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Jerry, thank you, Jerry, thank you. Yeah, Rick, there you go.
That's not bad. So we'll tribute to Jerry Jones.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
That's better than the fire and Nico Chance. Yeah, solid,
not quite as good as the Urban Byre. That's still
tops like the Urban Meyer chant from years ago because
it echoed. There was a lot of echo at the
Ohio Stadium there with the Horseshoe in Columbus, and then
they were Urban Myer. That was still better. But the
(31:28):
Jerry Jones one not bad. There were certainly more people
at the Jerry there. It is yeah, urban urban See
that one's also good because the guy who's like leading
the chance sounds like Homer Simpson. I know, yeah he does.
And that sounded like there were It sounded like there
were a lot of people that actually I thought there
(31:48):
were only a few people. That sounded like there were
a fair amount of people. But let's do the side
by side comparison. Now, close your eyes if you're driving,
do not close your eyes. Let's try to imagine what
is better here, and we'll present the Jerry chance first.
This is option A. Let's hit this one right here.
Thank you, Jerry, thank you. Jed Rube all right, not bad,
(32:18):
not bad? All right? Hell here's option b our friend
Urban Meyer. All right, do we have the Ed and
Spokane chant. You don't know this, Loraina, But when I
did a Mallard meet and greet in Seattle. We had
the event. It was great, big legends there. Nostradinas was there,
(32:40):
and we had who else was it? We had Robbie
the Mariner fan was there. And so then the day
after we marched through the streets of Seattle to go
to a Seahawks game. They were playing the forty nine Ers.
It was a Sunday night game to close out the
regular season. The winner made the playoffs. The loser, I believe,
went home if I remember correctly. Anyway, Ed and Spokane
(33:01):
decided that he wanted to chant my name as he
had a megaphone as we were walking through the streets
of Seattle, and it made for quite the scene. Notice
no one else's chanting. Notice the difference between the chant
for me and the chant for Urban Meyer. It's slightly different,
(33:34):
you know, very similar, very similar. This is a little
little different. The pace of it is similar. Yeah, that's
what a great night that was. Actually in the afternoon
that was That was fun. That was a good time,
and I luckily did not get shanked by some of
the homeless in Seattle who were giving us the evil
eye because they were trying to sleep because they were
on you know, doing drugs or what they were doing
(33:54):
laying around the streets, and they were like, what are
these idiots with the megaphone, you know, wandering through the streets. Anyway,
it is The Ben Malor Show. Will take some more
of these riving phone calls time now though for the
who am I? Game? This is where I pretend to
be somebody else? That's the who am I? Game? So,
Packer's running back Josh Jacobs has now had a touchdown
run in eleven straight games, that's playoffs included. I have
(34:17):
the longest touchdown streak since the merger. That is not
the longest streak I have it. Who again, Packer's running
back Josh Jacobs, the former Raider, has a touchdown run
in eleven straight games that includes the playoffs. I have
the longest touchdown streak since the merger?
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Who?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well? Who am I? That is the question? The answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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the guy that was sleeping with Marilyn Monroe back in
the day, the legendary merylnd Morrow. Yeah, she's dead, all right,
They're both dead. Everyone's dead, all right. Anyway, Well, let's
get to the payoff on the who am I? Game?
And here it is Packer's running back Josh Jacobs had
a touchdown, has now had a touchdown round eleven straight
playoff games, including plus rather eleven straight games including playoffs.
(37:35):
I have the longest touchdown streak since the merger, which
is like fifty plus years now since the merger. That
is the question. What is the answer? And we go
to Great Unwashed here to see if anyone knows the answer.
In the called the Twitter machine, the X machine, whatever
we want to call it. Here, we click this button here,
(37:56):
and then we clicked that button. I'm waiting for everything
to pop up there and then we start reading off
very funny names. Let's see here Malard prop guy who
was the Malerpluza seat filler back in twenty twenty four.
You gotta get him back in here, he says. The
answer is Alf the Malard Militia Brigadier General Alf. Who
else do we have? Django unchained from Manuel in Guardina,
(38:19):
Ammon Green from the Green Bay Gobler, Gobble Gobble Gobble,
Kathy and Madison said the answers the Green Bay Gobbler,
the Fabulous Moolah from Bobby in Florida. Bob Saggott guess
by Alf the Alien, O Piner, Miles Turner from King Rory,
Eddie Murray, Eddie Murray, Eddie Murphy from Scrooge and Eddie Murray.
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I guess who else? Chiefs Legend Priest Holmes from Eloy
from Compton. Who else? James going with Young Justin Cooper
or Mark Davis as his answer. Adrian Peterson from FEMI
in Minnesota, Who's the number one? Uber eats delivery driver? There?
Andy and Lionel Lakes going with Marshawn Lynch as his answer.
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Buck e the Beaver from Milkman Mike in Colorado. Touchdown,
Tommy Bardell from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Big Lou, he
is on number two because he cheated. You're a cheater,
bad job by you. Who else do we have Kyron
Williams running back from the Rams at Shine in Portland,
Tua Turna the ball over from the Nature Boy Kicker,
(39:28):
Tony Zendejas from mad Jack? Who else? Emerson Boozer from
Fat Daddy. Can't read that on here, Lorena? Do you
have an answer? Lorena? I can only think of Julia Roberts. Well, yes, well,
great NFL career, Julia Roberts. She was very elegant, marvelous, yes, dressed,
just one of the incorrect the correct answer the record,
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since the mergerer for touchdowns is John Riggins. Fifty John
the Clapper team called the Redskins back in the day,
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the Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels looked horrific. How much of
this is on him? And how much of this is
on the Lambeau voodoo. Also, who else gets called the
Congress playing the Commander's blame game? And we'll also talk
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everyone in Wisconsin is spiking the broughtwurst. They're all excited
about that as they are talking about the Super Bowl
like they've woned. Are you drinking the green kool aid
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Any meanie miny moe. Oh, there was only one game.
It was an island game. You know we love island games. Yes,
they designed the professional football schedule to accommodate the overnight
show because every night we're on there's a game, well
three nights a week. You get the Sunday night and
(03:26):
then at the Monday and then Thursday, and so we've
got all that. But our lead this hour is from
the not frozen tundra, a few miles away from where
my younger brother resides. There lambeau Field and the week
two card in the NFL, kicking off in that hallowed venue,
(03:49):
which is pretty whack. I've only been once. I went to.
There was no game. I didn't go to a game.
I went to the gift shop there, which is the
size of like Costco or a super Walmart. They got
a lot of stuff, and anyway, a couple of NFC
heavyweights there upstart quarterbacks, the next generation of quarterbacks, at
least in theory, the Commanders and the Packers. So if
(04:09):
you did not see this game, and if you missed it,
well we got you. We watched it. It's our good
mits for the day, so you did not have to
Jordan Love feeling the love. The Packers ended up with
some bad field position, but as a coach told me
years ago, bad field position means good stats if you
make the plays, and Jordan Love made some of them,
(04:31):
made to make all of them, and there there were
some points left on the field, but Jordan Love ended
up with two hundred ninety two yards and a couple
of touchdowns, and the Packers, who seemed like they were
up by fifty points, were not. They ended up beating
the Washington football team twenty seven to eighteen. The final
on Thursday night, and you couple that with the victory
(04:51):
over the Lions back in Week one, and that was
all the way back on Sunday. So they Packers already
have two wins over teams that were in the play
offs last year. And someone named Tucker Craft, someone named
Tucker Craft a proarably it's a tight end had six
catches for a career high one hundred and twenty four yards.
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room,
(05:15):
Jaden Daniels, you told me how great this guy was.
I bought in too, I did. I bought in. I
was a ah. Yeah, Thursday night, short week primetime. The
stars shine under the bright lights, and well, Jordan Love
did not. He had a horrific start to this game,
one of the worst halfs you'll ever see who You're
not supposed to say that, but he's a superstar. Okay,
(05:35):
he sucked. He had forty nine yards passing in the
first half, and a lot of that was because he
was zipping the ball where it didn't need to go.
It was just bad all the way around. In the
balance of that game. You know, he had some garbage
time stats in the fourth quarter and mathematically the Washington
(05:56):
team was in the game, but realistically they were not anyway.
Before we get into the meeting. The monologue this year
from Jaden Daniels here, the Washington quarterback, who points out
that the execution was slightly different than this game. Take
a list.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
They executed their scheme.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Okay, they executed it really well because they won the
game and we just didn't make plays. Starts with me,
he starts with everybody in France, starts with the whole
offensive skill group. So it's not playing a finger at anybody.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Collectively.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
We're all to blame and we'll get back to work.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay. So that's right out of the handbook. Is you're
supposed to say no one individually is to blame, when
absolutely individuals are to blame. Well, here's more from Jaden Daniels.
Here's Jane and Daniels saying, oh, I said no, No,
he didn't care about the fact they lost. He's already
moved on, right, Jaden, Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And then the dwell about it. You know, it's early
in the season. I wouldn't expect them by in this
locker room to hit the panic button. We faced a
really good team and we came up short, so we'll
move on to this game.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Okay, there you go. Well, I have a talk show
to do, so I'm not going to move on. You
can move on, but I have a talk show four
hours to do. So I'm gonna sit right here and
I'm going to slice it up and dice it. And
that's how I'm going to do it, because I have
a job. So that's my gig. And again I didn't
I rant about this the other day. Everyone freaks out
about the panic, but nobody wants to hit the Panama don't.
No panic, no panic, no panic anyway. All right, so
(07:19):
let us discuss the question. You heard some sound there
from Jayden Daniels, So the Commander's quarterback, Jaden Daniels, who
looked absolutely horrible, I mean just horrific. How much of
this is on him? And how much of this is
on the lamboo Lambeau voodoo. You told me there's some
Lambeau voodoo there. Now that Micah Parsons is playing for
the Green Bay Packers, so again you've got Jaden Daniels,
(07:41):
who look like he should be playing for the Winnipeg
Blue Bombers the way he performed in this game, and
how much of that is on him, and how much
of that is on the Lambeau voodoo. So I've got
coach meat balls and AOL dial up, if you know
what that is, and we'll come buying all these things together,
and we are going to make some brats and some
(08:05):
cheese kurts. Is where we're gonna make, all right. So
a I do not want to hear about the Lambbo voodoo.
I don't the mystique of the frozen tundra. Anytime the
Packers get a halfway decent team, I have to hear
about this. I remember, they've lost so many big games
in my life at lambeau Field, like playoff cans. Remember
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Michael Vick had a terrible game years ago for the
Atlanta Falcons, went in there and beat the Packers. The
Falcons did at lambeau Field. There's been some other home
losses there with on the Aaron Rodgers years. So I
don't want to hear about that. This wasn't Vince Lombardi
rising from the grave to go cast a spell over
the Washington football team. Jayden Daniels did not trip over
some kind of cheese curd that was thrown on the
(08:48):
field there he flatlined on his own. And while he
wants to move on, that's fine, we're not He was
flying coach, and he was flying coach, that's right, on
the vomit commet. He didn't even have a first class seat.
Jaden Daniels was sitting in coach on the vomit comet.
There was turbulence, There was no oxygen masks. There was
just projectile vomit that was flying in the air everywhere
(09:11):
on the vomit comet. Now, he managed to suck at
a time he cannot mentioned the first half forty nine
yards passing in the first half forty nine right, and
he sucked at a time he can't suck. And that's
the NFL. In the NFL Rulebook, page one, when the
lights are bright and they're shining on you. When that's
the case there, you cannot soil the carpet. And there
(09:33):
was a lot of urine that was on the field there. Now,
Jadan Daniels, I guess he tried to burn the rug,
which is one way to do it. Now, what did
I see? I saw a Chris Paul style performance CP
three with bounce passes, which would be great if it
was basketball, But unfortunately the NFL bounce passes don't work.
(09:54):
You're supposed to throw to your guy, not the invisible
boogeyman running lance in another dimension. And I gotta tell you,
the invisible boogeyman running slants caught a lot of passes
from Jaden Daniels because those things were They were either
sailing in the air or they were bouncing on the ground. Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy,
(10:16):
bouncy bouncy throw to the left, throw the right into
the Lambeau Field shadows, the shadow people at Lambo Field
anywhere but on target. So where were the big place?
Where were the big plays out? So I didn't see
them in a big plays running plays of more than
ten yards, passing plays of more than fifteen yards, And
(10:36):
I didn't see too many of us. I did not,
And instead it looked like somebody unplugged the Madden controller
on what had been an amazing run there for Jaden
and Dan. Theyn't looked all great last week either, No
chunky soup, no chunk plays, just watered down broth. That's
all there was now pace two. So who else gets
(10:56):
called the Congress playing the commander blame game? We love
the blame game. Who's going to be called to Capitol Hill.
So that performance in the first half in particular, now,
mathematically they were not out of the game, but it
just looked like that was Dan Snyder's Washington team, that
they had the charm of the old Redskins, right lawsuits
(11:18):
of poenas. The team looked like it was doodling in
the margins instead of running an actual game plan. We're
not sure what they were doing. And don't let Cliff
Kingsbury slink away there. This is supposed to be X's
and O's genius offensive savant, the quarterback whisperer, And if
he was whispering to Jaden Daniels, he must have been
(11:42):
Daniels must have been wearing those noise canceling headphones because
he didn't hear anything. The playbook looked like it was
scribbled in crayon on a Southwest Airlines flight to Green Bay.
And I don't even know if Southwest goes to Green Bay.
That's just what it looked like. There was nothing all
that creative, didn't seem like there were any in game
adjustments that were made. It's like, this is our game plan,
this is what we're gonna do. And it's the football
(12:04):
equivalent of a gift stuck in a loop, you know,
just playing over and just a just a bad day.
That's it. That we'll move on. Just the groundhog day,
that's it. And what about the commander's defense? Now a
lot of this has been offensively focused, but what about
the commander's defense? You see the game dan Quinn and
you start worrying. This kind of looked like the Falcons
(12:25):
when he coached there after a while, right, just kind
of a flat performance there. I said, well, it's a
Thursday and night, but dan Quinn is a defensive guy.
That's supposed to be his meat and potatoes. And instead
of the meat and potatoes, the Washington football team was
serving up vegan meatballs. And no one wants vegan meatballs.
Even vegans don't want vegan meatballs, right, they're soft, bland,
(12:46):
nobody wants them. And they had this the vibe I guy,
and listen if you watched Benny versus de Penning on YouTube,
we hope you did. I obviously had the wrong side
in that game, and I knew right away. I started,
I don't go. I went on social media because I
was amazed at how my commercial Shaquille O'Neal was in
because every other commercial shack was in there. But then
(13:06):
I put the thing away, I turned the app off,
and I started texting some friends. I said, I'm cooked.
They got look at them. I knew right away the
body language very rarely. Are you wrong on that? With
the body language, it looked like they felt sorry for themselves.
That they all, boohooo, we got to go out here
and play on a Thursday. The body language just it
just reaked up. We don't really want to be here.
We really don't want to be We want to be somewhere.
(13:28):
We don't be here, though, we want to go somewhere,
maybe maybe across the street, but we don't be here.
And you could see it, and they were half steps slow,
heads down, like they were just there's like playing some
kind of charity situation or something like that instead of
an NFL matchup. There's no edge to them, And I
was amazed that they still mathematically had a chance to
(13:48):
even cover the spread. Forget whin the game in the
fourth quarter. It should have been forty one to ten
or something like that. The way that the separation between
these two teams and the Packers fumbled mallet and they
didn't put the hammer down. Otherwise you don't have to
be some kind of NFL guru to know this would
have been a full pantsing, a full humiliation situation. And
(14:11):
the way, the best way to describe how Washington played
it was like a FedEx field pipe, sewage pipe bursting.
And that's how they played, just sewage raining down on fans.
That good fan experience, the all inclusive fan experience, is
that right, No, it's not ring. What is it? I
(14:31):
don't know, it's brown? I don't know. Why is it smell?
I don't Just keep watching the game, all right? Now,
last word here. So in the winner's locker room, we
will go over to the lesser story. The winner's locker room,
and the Packers are two and oh, two and oh
and everyone in Wisconsin and all the owners of the
Green Bay Packers, the stockholders are spiking the broughtwurst and
(14:57):
right into the cheese dip there. They're so excited they
just won the Super Bowl. So I asked the question,
are you, as a neutral party like me, are you
drinking the green kool aid? Are you voting yes? That
this is legit, that this is going to continue. So
I am an undecided voter on this. I was really
(15:20):
down on the Lions. I thought the Lions it was
more about what the Lions didn't do than anything special
the green Bay Packers did last week. The Lions look
a lot weaker than they have been in recent years,
and they had some kind of playoff hangover from losing
last year. And then Washington, as we pointed out, they
showed up like they just really didn't want to be
(15:40):
there like they had they they went to the DMV
and they didn't have an appointment, and then they had
to wait online and they ended up waiting for like
eight hours online and then it was they could to
another line that was like three hours, So they spent
eleven hours online and they were kind of tired and
they wanted to sit down. They want to play the game.
And so you look at it from that perspective, and
in those bifocals, it's two softballs that were lobbed right
(16:02):
down the middle underhanded. Green Bay swung. To their credit,
they hit home runs, but they're eating cupcakes. You don't
need a knife to eat a Cupcake's good for them,
It does not mean you're the nineteen eighty five Bears
defensively reincarnated, and don't even get me started on the
Amazon broadcast because they had Micah Parsons. I had to
(16:23):
mute them at one but now I love al Michaels.
But the other people on that broadcast, holy crap, man.
The way they were making it seemed like Michael Parsons
was the human version of he Man stopping on skeletor.
And I must have been using AOL dial up to
connect to Amazon, because I didn't see it that way.
(16:43):
I thought Parsons was fine standard, pretty good defensive players
used the highest paid player in the NFL other than
the quarterback. You should play really well every play every game.
And yet again, a lot of that came in the
second half. A lot of his production came in the
second half when even though mathematically Washington was in the game,
(17:03):
he just didn't get the vibe they were And Parsons
made a couple of plays al Michaels and it was
really the random women. I don't know who they aren't,
I don't write their names down, and they're just an
you know. The the entire broadcast was annoying, uh, And
they made it seem like he was wearing Micah Parsons
a cape and he was leaping tall buildings in a
(17:23):
single mound. You know, calm down, by the way, Just
how bad is the Amazon broadcast in general? I mean,
do they deliberately assemble? Do they have meetings at Amazon's?
How can we get the most annoying group of human
beings and let them talk football while they talk over
each other like it's a holiday dinner with your in laws.
It's just brutal. Now again, we love al michaels Herb
(17:44):
Street's fine, he annoys me sometimes, but the rest of
the pregame, halftime, postgame crew, it's like the island of
misfit toys. There. You've got Ryan Fitzpatrick who gives out
that like kind of annoying, over the top uncle energy.
You've got Richard Sherman who's just filibustering. I don't think
he even knows what he's saying. And then you got
Tony Gonzalez who looks like he doesn't want to be
(18:06):
there because he's too cool to be there, and he
would like to take an Uber, but not just an Uber.
He wants a high end Uber home because he's like,
I'm look how good looking I am. I don't need
to be here. You people are ugly. I'm Tony Gonzalez.
I look marvelous. Why am I here? Anyway? It is
the Ben Mahlor Show. You want to comment on any
(18:26):
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you know one of my weaknesses, the soft underbelly, that
I have a tremendous love of rhythmic chanting. And we
had some rhythmic chanting in the NFL, and we've got
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the audio tape. We will enjoy that. We will serenade
you with rhythmic chanting. We'll get to that and we
we'll do it next.
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against you in the court of sports Radio. Lorena is
here FSR Tech Queen and Cooper Loop at a Bronco fan.
That's a Bronco fan, and Ryan writes in he says, hey, Ben,
Sunday Night football sucks as well. Mike Turrico is no
(22:42):
Al Michaels, Well, yeah, Al's Al's a generational legend. Al Michaels.
I mean I could listen to Al Michaels read Wikipedia
pages and I'd be fine with that, you know, I'm ok.
Although it was weird the Amazon promo before the year,
they had a sizzle reel with al My walking alongside
herb Street and some other person I don't know who
(23:03):
it was. And Al's old. He doesn't walk that fast.
He's an old man, how old, really old, like like
in his eighties old like he's old, and like, you
don't need to show a promo of a you know,
a guy that in that age range walking He just
think he walks like his age. You know, when you
get older, you things slow down and it's more of
(23:26):
a hobble. Yeah, it's not He's not running around like
a gazelle. You know he's not He's not exactly a gazelle,
but Al's he's exactly eighty turns eighty one in November.
So it's like, you know, come on, whose idea? Who
at Amazon thought that was a good idea? Because I
don't think that was a good idea. I don't anyway.
(23:48):
Ryan says that Tarico is slightly better than Beth Mowens,
while he's a lot better than her. Can someone tell
her she's really really bad as an announcement? Well, I
think you just did. I think you just let her
know apps absolutely. Ryan then says he says, I have
a list. Well, we don't do lists, Ron, you can
(24:08):
give me a big board. He said, the sad five,
not fab but sad five worst play by play announcers
in order. He says, number five Beth Mowens and number
four Mike Tarrico. Number three Chris Myers. Well that hits
that hits close to Chris is fine. Mark Jones, Oh
he's terrible. God is he bad? That guy does suck.
(24:30):
He must have I don't know what he's got to
get those gigs because he is really bad at his job.
My God is horrible. Uh and then he says tied
for number one, Beth Mowing. I thought she was number five,
Well how she number one? And then uh, pam pam
ward he said, so, all right, well whatever, that's your fine,
(24:51):
fine opinion. There. Who else do we have? Let's see
page down. The Green Bay Gobbler checked in. He's there,
Fat Daddy, his big bang, great monologue to start the show.
As always, Daddy, you are at Well, that's Fat Daddy.
You're absolutely right on those want to be no names
on the telecast for Amazon Prime Football Thursday night. And
(25:15):
not only not only do a majority of the people suck.
The game kept buffering, and then Amazon and then they
were the streaming service sucks. That's so his issue. They
would argue. The people that Amazon would say, well, that's
your WiFi. It's not our promise. You're a problem. You
have bad wife. I get better WiFi, That's what they
would say. And you would say, well, I you know
(25:35):
I don't need better WiFi. My WiFi is fine. Why
why do I need better WiFi to watch your stupid show?
And they'll blame you. I did see truck Stop Fungus,
The Great truck Stop Fungus announcing his retirement. He said
he will still be part of the show as he's
leaving the trucking world and he's settling into his new
(25:56):
life in the Sunshine States. So good luck to truck Stops.
One of the great characters. I told him, I said,
one of the great characters on the show. We're gonna
miss your daily contributions. But he's retired now, so he'll
be able to call in whenever he wants in theory,
because he's not like he has to get up to
go to a job or has to drive his truck
somewhere and has to be there by a certain time
and have to worry.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
About How exciting to retire.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I ever
want to retire, you can find a new hobby. I
have no hobbies. I don't like, I don't have any
I don't have any hobbies. I don't mean the new
Bob ross Well, that's a sad story. Bob ross Man,
he got he didn't make any money while he was
doing that, and then you know the people. It's like
other people have made a lot of money off Bob
ross Oh yeah, yeah. There were some documentaries I mean
(26:43):
Bob Ross. One of the funniest things about his set.
I used to watch it. I used to skip schol
because I was a terrible student. And when I was
a kid, we didn't have the internet. It was a
stone age, so it was either game shows. I'd watched
the TV game shows in the morning, and then they
put soap operas on and I'm like, I'm not watching
that crap. So then I would flip around and I
wouldn't watch that. So I turned on Bob Ross over
(27:05):
on PBS, Happy Little Trees, right, And then I saw this,
this documentary about Bob Ross, and they said that he
was so poor that he decided that he couldn't afford
haircuts regularly. So he you know, back in the old days,
he had a perm and he hated it, but it
was cheaper than getting his haircut. And then that became
what he was known for because it looked so ridiculous
(27:26):
on television, and that became his thing. And then they
were like, you can't get rid of that. That's how
people know. And I don't want it. I can afford
a haircut, No, you got to get you you got
to keep it. That's and it became his and he didn't.
He didn't want it. He only did it. He only
did it because it was he was poor and he
wanted it. He's like, I can't. I want to spend money.
But you got to really be on the on the
(27:47):
wrong side of things of the ledger to be like,
I can't even afford to get my haircut once every
couple of you know, a couple of you don't get
your haircut back for a haircut. Well, yeah, but you
were getting paid three cents an hour, so that's the problem.
Thing was cheaper, but you were getting paid Penis. Let's
go to the phones and we'll start out now in
the belly of the Beast where they are celebrating their
(28:08):
Super Bowl. Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers. The season
is over. The Packers have gone undefeated two game season
and they they're gonna get their Lombardi Trophy. And now
to celebrate, boots on the ground, the Green Bay Gobbler, Gobble,
Gobba Gobbel, Hello, green Bag Gobbler.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Long time, no talk.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
It's been way too long, gobbled. It sounds like you're
feeling no pain.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
We have the best record in the NFL right now.
What can I say?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, undefeated, greatest team. I'm one of the all time
great defensive teams. Jordan loved better than Aaron Rodgers at
this point. Yes, yeah, well I am.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I am gobbling my way into the militia. And I'll
tell you what. I gotta give a shout out to
shanea to mine to talk me into calling in tonight.
Let's just do that.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Don't don't be don't be doing shout outs. You're not
a morning show. We're not a morning show. We don't
do shout outs. I can't say hey, I can't I
can't tell Kelly to feel better there our friend, don'tnut Kelly.
I can't tell because I'm not a morning show. I
don't do that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Let's thank you, Jerry, take you, Jerry. Defense wins games.
Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Does it win championships? Though might win games? Was does
it win championships?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
It absolutely wins championships. Thank you for correcting.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Okay, all right, if you have a time machine and
you can go back to like nineteen eighty five or
two thousand, yeah, sure, absolutely, that's why he's the Green
Bay gobbler. See between, I love it. I love it.
(29:51):
You're doing your own sound effects there and between every take.
Just gobble, gobble, gobble. That's all you got to do
that because you're the gobbler. That's what you do. Man.
All right, all right, thank you Green Bay Gobbler. All right,
go away. There's the great Green Bay Gobbler making his debut.
He's been very active on social media, but there he is.
He called in right there. Well, that leads us into
(30:14):
some tremendous rhythmic chanting from lambeau Field. The Green Bay
Packers had defeated the Washington football team and postgame celebration
on the Amazon broadcast, Michael Parsons, the NFL's highest paid
non quarterback, came out there and it turned out to
be a musical performance the crowd. There were about one
(30:36):
thousand people or so that stuck around lambeau Field to
watch MICHAEH. Parsons, and he was serenaded with some rhythmic chanting.
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Thank you, Jerry, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Jerry, thank you, Jerry, thank you. Yeah, Rick, there you go.
That's not bad. So we'll tribute to Jerry Jones.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
That's better than the fire and Nico Chance. Yeah, solid,
not quite as good as the Urban Byre. That's still
tops like the Urban Meyer chant from years ago because
it echoed. There was a lot of echo at the
Ohio Stadium there with the Horseshoe in Columbus, and then
they were Urban Myer. That was still better. But the
(31:28):
Jerry Jones one not bad. There were certainly more people
at the Jerry there. It is yeah, urban urban See
that one's also good because the guy who's like leading
the chance sounds like Homer Simpson. I know, yeah he does.
And that sounded like there were It sounded like there
were a lot of people that actually I thought there
(31:48):
were only a few people. That sounded like there were
a fair amount of people. But let's do the side
by side comparison. Now, close your eyes if you're driving,
do not close your eyes. Let's try to imagine what
is better here, and we'll present the Jerry chance first.
This is option A. Let's hit this one right here.
Thank you, Jerry, thank you. Jed Rube all right, not bad,
(32:18):
not bad? All right? Hell here's option b our friend
Urban Meyer. All right, do we have the Ed and
Spokane chant. You don't know this, Loraina, But when I
did a Mallard meet and greet in Seattle. We had
the event. It was great, big legends there. Nostradinas was there,
(32:40):
and we had who else was it? We had Robbie
the Mariner fan was there. And so then the day
after we marched through the streets of Seattle to go
to a Seahawks game. They were playing the forty nine Ers.
It was a Sunday night game to close out the
regular season. The winner made the playoffs. The loser, I believe,
went home if I remember correctly. Anyway, Ed and Spokane
(33:01):
decided that he wanted to chant my name as he
had a megaphone as we were walking through the streets
of Seattle, and it made for quite the scene. Notice
no one else's chanting. Notice the difference between the chant
for me and the chant for Urban Meyer. It's slightly different,
(33:34):
you know, very similar, very similar. This is a little
little different. The pace of it is similar. Yeah, that's
what a great night that was. Actually in the afternoon
that was That was fun. That was a good time,
and I luckily did not get shanked by some of
the homeless in Seattle who were giving us the evil
eye because they were trying to sleep because they were
on you know, doing drugs or what they were doing
(33:54):
laying around the streets, and they were like, what are
these idiots with the megaphone, you know, wandering through the streets. Anyway,
it is The Ben Malor Show. Will take some more
of these riving phone calls time now though for the
who am I? Game? This is where I pretend to
be somebody else? That's the who am I? Game? So,
Packer's running back Josh Jacobs has now had a touchdown
run in eleven straight games, that's playoffs included. I have
(34:17):
the longest touchdown streak since the merger. That is not
the longest streak I have it. Who again, Packer's running
back Josh Jacobs, the former Raider, has a touchdown run
in eleven straight games that includes the playoffs. I have
the longest touchdown streak since the merger?
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Who?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well? Who am I? That is the question? The answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
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(35:06):
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it we go and get to the payoff on the
who Am I Game in a minute, But first we
have the tire Raq play to night. Now you'd think
it came from the NFL game. That just happened. Talked
(35:51):
a lot about the NFL game, but very rarely does
an all time icon get passed in the red books
or tied or whatever. But it happened. And let's go
now to Yankee Stadium for the tire Iraq Play of
the Night. As Aaron Judge god her done in the
(36:11):
Bronx take a listen.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Pitch Darren swinging a drive looks like he's done to
a Jenny Up, don't into the bullpen again. Another home
run for Aaron Judge to second tonight forty six of
the sneazon at Tires, Joe DiMaggio fort place on the
all time Yankee franchise home run list.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
That's Joelton Joe Demascio tying DiMaggio on the all time
home un list. That is that blows me away. That
is the tire Iraq play of the night. That's right,
Tyraq play a night. For over forty years, Tirak has
been helping customers find the right tires for how, what
and where they drive, ship fast and freeback by free
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(36:52):
installation tire raq dot Com the way tire buying should be.
If only Aaron Judge had had followed through and become
Arson Judge with the San Francisco Giants, he would not
have tied DiMaggio on the Yankee home run list. But
there it is. That's that is a massive name. If
you're a baseball person, that is a huge, huge name.
So that's a huge bitch. That certainly is congratulations. He's
(37:14):
the guy that was sleeping with Marilyn Monroe back in
the day, the legendary merylnd Morrow. Yeah, she's dead, all right,
They're both dead. Everyone's dead, all right. Anyway, Well, let's
get to the payoff on the who am I? Game?
And here it is Packer's running back Josh Jacobs had
a touchdown, has now had a touchdown round eleven straight
playoff games, including plus rather eleven straight games including playoffs.
(37:35):
I have the longest touchdown streak since the merger, which
is like fifty plus years now since the merger. That
is the question. What is the answer? And we go
to Great Unwashed here to see if anyone knows the answer.
In the called the Twitter machine, the X machine, whatever
we want to call it. Here, we click this button here,
(37:56):
and then we clicked that button. I'm waiting for everything
to pop up there and then we start reading off
very funny names. Let's see here Malard prop guy who
was the Malerpluza seat filler back in twenty twenty four.
You gotta get him back in here, he says. The
answer is Alf the Malard Militia Brigadier General Alf. Who
else do we have? Django unchained from Manuel in Guardina,
(38:19):
Ammon Green from the Green Bay Gobler, Gobble Gobble Gobble,
Kathy and Madison said the answers the Green Bay Gobbler,
the Fabulous Moolah from Bobby in Florida. Bob Saggott guess
by Alf the Alien, O Piner, Miles Turner from King Rory,
Eddie Murray, Eddie Murray, Eddie Murphy from Scrooge and Eddie Murray.
(38:42):
I guess who else? Chiefs Legend Priest Holmes from Eloy
from Compton. Who else? James going with Young Justin Cooper
or Mark Davis as his answer. Adrian Peterson from FEMI
in Minnesota, Who's the number one? Uber eats delivery driver? There?
Andy and Lionel Lakes going with Marshawn Lynch as his answer.
(39:04):
Buck e the Beaver from Milkman Mike in Colorado. Touchdown,
Tommy Bardell from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Big Lou, he
is on number two because he cheated. You're a cheater,
bad job by you. Who else do we have Kyron
Williams running back from the Rams at Shine in Portland,
Tua Turna the ball over from the Nature Boy Kicker,
(39:28):
Tony Zendejas from mad Jack? Who else? Emerson Boozer from
Fat Daddy. Can't read that on here, Lorena? Do you
have an answer? Lorena? I can only think of Julia Roberts. Well, yes, well,
great NFL career, Julia Roberts. She was very elegant, marvelous, yes, dressed,
just one of the incorrect the correct answer the record,
(39:52):
since the mergerer for touchdowns is John Riggins. Fifty John
the Clapper team called the Redskins back in the day,
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