Hour 4 - Living Up to Expectations

Ben Maller talks about where this blowout loss to the Bears leaves Jerry Jones and the Cowboys, how do you explain what happened to Mike Vrabel's Patriots, what the hell the Texans do with struggling QB C.J. Stroud, Maller Militia Feud, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. It's our number four. Our four is
ready for you. And we start out with America's embarrassment
the Dallas Cowboys who got smashed by the Chicago Bears.
So where does this performance leave Jerry Jones Cowboys As
the Bears were running around like gazelle's across the field,

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no one's stopping them. Also, how do you explain what
happened to Mike Rabel's patriots as they were baking turnovers
one after another? And what the hell do the Texans
do with struggling quarterback CJ. Stroud Houston off to the
oh to three start. We'll talk about that as well.
All of it's coming your way in a jam packed

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our number four. Have a wonderful Monday. Here it is,
don't forget fifth hour podcast also available from the weekend.
But here's our number four living up to expectations, which
is not necessarily a positive thing. Well come, in the
beginning of another hour of the Ben Malor Show. We

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right now and our lead this hour, our lead story
this hour from Chicago, that is where America's Game of
the Week took place. Tom Brady and Kevin Burkhardt had

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to call the Cowboys and the Chicago Bears. Did you
watch where you engaged in this particular game? Maybe not?
You didn't really miss much. He much maligned and ridiculed
Chicago Bears, and they deserved all the ridical all the
ridicule they deserved, all the all the crap. Well, they
turned things around dramatically and all they needed was a

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playdate with the Cowboys. As Caleb Williams tied a career
high with not one, not two, not three, not four bosh.
He had four four touchdown passes, four of them, and
Chicago gave their rookie head coach Ben Johnson a victory,
his first NFL head coaching victory. And it wasn't even close.
The game was tied at fourteen, and then it wasn't anymore.

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The Bears get a thirty one fourteen spanking of the
Dallas Cowboys. The Bears get a win after losing fifty
two to twenty one to the Detroit Lions the previous week.
They bounce back and get a big win. Ben Johnson, remember,
called out his team. We did a couple of monologues
on this during the week, much to the dismay of

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Yafimi and Tree and Cago and all the other gang
of listeners. We have their Eugene and whatnot. So Ben
Johnson called out his team, said they were not practicing right.
They didn't play hard against the Lions and didn't have
championship caliber practice. And then they come back and they
win the game. But the better story is in the
losing locker room. And oh what a loss. It was

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a non competitive loss for the team from deep in
the heart of Texas. They're the Dallas Cowboys. So the
question is where does this performance leave Jerry Jones Dallas Cowboys,
as they were non competitive, needed an overtime win against
the Giants the previous week. So I've got punk Satani,

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Tiffany and Company, and what a burger, and we'll combine
all of these things together and for our friend in
the Sunshine State, We're gonna make some Goba goool. We're
gonna make the Goba goouls. What we're gonna do, all right,
So to kick off here, to kick off the festivities here,
the festivists of talk. Uh, it's really the same old

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song and dance, same old song and dance for the
Dallas copy. You don't need to watch the game because
we've seen the game many times. It is a He
used to call these reruns back in the day. I
don't call him reruns anymore. Uh, turnover, chunk plays, A
lot of chunk plays given up. That was the story here, Doc,

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Doc dak Dakota, Dakota tossing interceptions, the defense getting roasted repeatedly, Rinse, wash, repeat,
That's how it went there. Now, Jerry Jones is a
wonderful illusionist. He really is. Jerry Jones. Every summer he
finds some pixie dust and he sprinkles the pixie dust,

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he sprinkles it on top and is this our year?
This is the Cowboys are in it to win it,
even over the weekend. Jerry Jones. Oh, we could repackage
some of those draft picks we got for Micah Parsons
to fill out the roster and all that stuff. Yeah,
and then they hyped this up and then free falling down, down, down,

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down downtown. Now this cowboy team on Sunday, the flavor
of the day was the savory pot roast. That was
the flavor of the day. It was a Campbell's chunky
soup was the sponsor for the Dallas Cowboys there because
they had a roster that had some injuries. And they
went out there and looked hardy on the can and

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then what happened, Well, when you open it, it was
a dirty diaper stew. What it was, extra chunkie, extra chunky.
There they counted. I did the mathlist, not one, not two,
not three, and oo for five five chunk plays given
up by the Dallas Cowboys defense twenty nine yards or more.

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Five of them twenty nine yards or more. Somewhere named
Luther Burden. The third ran sixty five yards unscathed, playing
catch me if you can, and spoiler alert, the Cowboys
could not catch him into the end zone. So Brian
Schottenheimer's Cowboys a carbon copy of every single post Troy

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Aikman era Dallas team, every one of them. We know
that Schottenheimer is only the coach by proxy. He's not
actually coaching. Jerry Jones is doing the lifting on this.
And the reason Schottenheimer's there is because he's a sock puppet. Anyway,
I want to hear what a sock puppet sounds like.
Here is the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Coach Shoty.

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It's appropriate the way the Cowboys played, they played Shawnee football.
Here is the messaging from Brian Schottenheimer. Let's go to
the audio tape, take a list. What I pointed out
to the guys very clearly was, you know, we gotta
stop giving up big plays on defense, and we gotta
stop turning the ball over on offense. I mean, it's
a bad formula. Okay, thank you very much for that.

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So there again. The Cowboys no different then other Cowboy
teams since the glory days back back many many years
ago with Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson. It's the same,
the same old song and dance here for the Cowboys
where they have some star players. They got a little
bit of star plower and you're kind kind of excited
about that, uh, and then they sell the dream and

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then they self destruct coboom in big spots. They're the
NFL's version of the guy at the blackjack table who's, uh,
I'm gonna win a lot of money, and you know,
wins a few hands of blackjack, right, doing pretty well there,
and then when you check back in about an hour later,
completely broke, hanging out with mouthwashed Mike swimming through the

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Bellagio fountains because he's lost everything that you've got, the
death Star practice field, you've got that, you've got, changing coaches,
check that box. None of it matters. The players changed,
the coaches changed, and the venue changes. It doesn't really matter.
The Cowboys regularly play like they were up all night
at a honky tonk when they are out there playing

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and you give up thirty one points to Caleb Williams
thirty one points to Caleb was a rookie head coach
coming off a game that the Bears give up fifty
two points. That's not just bad. That is I don't
give an f bad is what that is. It's it's
February in Punk Satani forever forever and ever and ever

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and ever, and you keep seeing the shadow, and you
know what that means. The Cowboys are really the movie
Groundhog Day. They really are the movie Groundhog. They Jerry
Jones wakes up, he hits that alarm, and Sonny and
Chriff starts singing, I Got you, babe, and then it
just all starts over again. Dak throws a pick here,
and a pick there, and a pick everywhere, the defense

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gets torched, the Cowboys lose, and there you go, over
and over and over again. Speaking of bad losses, there
were a lot of them we mentioned earlier in the
show Go back and hear the podcast. The Rams lou
a nineteen point lead, although that was not the most
embarrassing loss. The Rams law nineteen point lead to Philadelphia.
My point is the most embarrassing loss that would be
the Green Bay Packers because they played a bad team.

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The Rams lost to a good team, the Chicago Chicago.
The Cleveland Browns are an embarrassment, right and well, we
go to good defense. Okay, But Jordan Love gave that game.
He gave that game all you want to crown him,
crown their ass. They are who we thought they were
and we let them off the hook. All right. Now.
Furthermore to New England, the Steelers get an ugly victory

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over the home standing Patriots, bringing back memories of the
days they were on the Patsy's what a performance there.
So question, how do you explain what happened to Mike
Rabel's Patriots at home against a so so Pittsburgh team.
So this one is rather simple. It's an Okham's razor situation.

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The simplest answer is the right answer, and you just
go with it. Most games are lost, they're not one
is a mantra that we followed. That is the way
it works. Most games loss because of incompetence, not because
of one because of greatness. So Mike Rabel lived that
lesson in technicolor right there. These Steelers did not go
out there and dominate. This was not a domination situation

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at all. No, what they did is, for the most part,
they sat back very patiently and they just waited. They
waited for the Patriots to hand them the game. And
sure enough, that's what happened. Mike Tomlin did not even
the coach. He didn't need to coach up the Steelers
because they didn't play that well. He didn't need to
do much of anything. Tomlin and Pittsburgh here because what happened.

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Pittsburgh had just two hundred and three yards of offense.
They scored fourteen points off fumbles, yes, fumbles, and this
shitd have scored more than that. The fact that the
Patriots still had a chance to tie the game late
considering how poorly they played as a stunner from down
under to Myke God and so Tom I what he

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should have done. Walk into the locker room and toss
the game ball to Ramandre Stevenson and another game ball
to to Drake May and say thank you boys. You've
got a place in our heart here and we're going
to give you a terrible towel as well and appreciate
your gift. That was a Tiffany and Company type situation,

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Like Formandre Stevenson, he's our running back. He's working part
time on Fifth Avenue. He must be at Tiffany and Company.
There he wrapping up the football, unless he's not wrapping
up fumbles in you know, like engagement rings and all that.
And just to put that little Tiffany blue box with
the ribbon, the nice white satin ribbon there, that's what
he was wrapping the football. And what a mess two

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of them. Two fumbles you got Drake May, who was
throwing out party favors as well at quarterback for the
New England Patriots. And so it's not just bad luck,
it's incompetence by the New England Patriots. Here Stevenson, it's
not new for Ramandre Stevenson. He's got a glitch. There
is a glitch there. He led the NFL in fumbles

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last year. You can't be surprised when someone that led
the league in fumbles then coughs up a hairball a
couple of times in a game like this. And if
I'm Mike Rabel, you know what I do. Let me
tell you what I do. I cut his ass. I say,
we will suck with you, we will suck without you.
You're done, get out of here, go play for the

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Raiders or someone like that. We don't want you. And
the first thing I do when I get back in
the office, if I'm Mike Rabel, I say, listen, it's
not us, it's you. You suck and we're getting rid
of you. You're a liability. And I don't care how
talented you are. It doesn't matter how great you run
the football. If one out of every ten carries you're
going to fumble, or one out of every twenty carries.

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We're not going to employ you. And it's again a
game you beat yourself. The Steelers were right there, ready
for the taking, and the Patriots decided, we don't want
the game. We're just going to give them the game instead.
And the whole thing his Mike Rabels, guys gift wrapped it.
They gift wrapped though, the whole damn thing. That's that's
why they lost all right. Now, last thing, speaking of

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gift rapping, Wow, what happened? I'm old enough to remember
in Houston there was this quarterback who's like the next
big thing. How lucky were the Texans they fell into
c J. Stroud? Holy crap? Now not so much, not
so much. The Texans lose to Jacksonville, a one touchdown loss.

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They are now off to the O and three start Houston.
Texans off to the oh and three start. So question questions,
what the hell did the Texans now do with the
struggling c. J. Stroud? And this is a elongated struggle,
this is not just three games, goes back to last year.
So I'll tell you what they need to do. I
know exactly what they need to do. They need to

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call Dan Hurley up. What do they need to call
Dan Hurley. He's a college basketball coach. Just go with
me on this. So Dan Hurley's nuts. The guy's a
wackadoodle at Yukon and you need to get him to
either fly down to Houston or give advice to the Texans.
And Dan Hurley. When Yukon plays basketball, what he does
is he lights some sage, he sprinkles some holy water,

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and he gets some garlic bulbs and he puts those
under the bleachers and all that stuff. It's that bad.
It's that bad for the Houston Texans at this point
with CJ. Stroud, where you gotta do it right. You
walk into a casino, like you walk into a casino
and you pull the slot one time, just one time.

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You pull the slot one time, Ding ding ding ding
ding jackpot right, jackpot. You think you're a genius. Well
that was c J. Stroud the first ten games. He
was the guy that had never gambled and hit the
jackpot and it's like there you go, way to go.
First ten games, c J. Stroud had seventeen touchdown fastes
and five interceptions, almost three thousand yards passing. Those are

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really good numbers. Those are really sexy numbers for c J. Stroud.
He's a prodigy. He's the next Mahomy, He's the next
Patrick Mahlmes. Then either the league caught up to him
or he forgot to take what he had been taking
and boom goes to dynamite. And yeah, the last ten games,

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c J. Stroud has gone with nine touchdowns, seven interceptions,
and under two thousand yards passing in the last ten games.
The numbers do not lie. The touchdowns are down forty percent,
the interceptions are up forty percent. That is not progress.
That is regression, is what that is. And keep in
mind that the assumption in Houston, the false assumption, was

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it's the offensive coordinator's fault. They fired Bobby Slowick, who
at one point was considered a head coaching candidate. They
whacked his ass as the offensive coordinator last year at
the end of the season, blaming him for these game
regression of c J. Stroud. So they got rid of
the guy. They had the fall guy. Gotta have a

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fall guy, so they had the fall game. They got
rid of him back in January. Bobby Slowig, Okay, fine,
so now what who's gonna be the next scapegoat for
the Houston Texans there, you're gonna blame the ball boy,
the DJ, and the stadium. Some of the strippers there
in Houston at the ballet maybe their fault. I don't know,
But at some point, you guys, who is the real CJ. Stroud?

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Is it the guy that played the first ten games
or is it the guy that's played the last ten games.
Because if it's the guy that's played the last ten games,
bye bye, see you later. You're not good enough to
play in the NFL. You're a bum, right, And I
would think even though I took a lot of c
I did a monologue that got a little steam going
at the beginning of the year, beginning of the football season
a couple weeks back, and I pointed out the shortcomings

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of c J. Stroud And of course, because it's like
a religion for these people, Oh you can't rip CJ. Stroud. No,
all these morons, you know, knuckle drager neander fALS who
go on the attack defending their guy. And I haven't
heard much noise about that. I hope they're okay. I mean,
maybe they had that come to Jesus moment where they realized, well,
this guy does blow what happened. So they're clinging on

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to those first ten games. Oh he was really good
the first ten games. It's like a wedding photo album
from back in the old days. You know, look how
good we looked, well, skinny, we were get married, all
that stuff. So news flash, the hunting moon is over.
The hunting moon of CJ. Stroud is over. The defense
has the tape. They've got the tape and they've adjusted.
Now it's c J. Stroud's turn to adjust, wonder boy.

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And it looks a lot like Mac Jones, which is
not a compliment or Zach Wilson the last ten games.
There just a different uniform, different uniform relights. So what
do I do now, Well, got a side coaching standpoint,
somebody's gonna lose their job. I would also recommend doing
some of these more sacrifice type moves, like the sacrificing
a waterburger and like a combo, not just the whataburger

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drinking fries water burger combo and sending that to the
football gods as a sacrifice. And it's just it's not
a minor dip though. That's the thing about this. It's
a belly whopper, is what it is. For CJ. Stroud,
and you're not the franchise quarterback. If you're playing like
he has ten games, it's more than half of an

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NFL season with incompetence and doing it against teams that
are not all that great, average defensive teams. So that
is on the man in the mirror, c J. Stroud.
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whole lot of kill bossa. We'll get to that and
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comments can and we'll be used against you in the
court of a sports radio And back to the nonsense
we go all right back to it and a lot

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of reaction on the X machine, so we'll get to
some of that and then we'll get to the calls
in a moment. See your page down. Can I make
an announcement real quick while you go ahead there, Coop
Cooper would like to make an announcement right now, justin
Cooper big announcement. You're all gonna get a million dollars.
Go ahead, Coop, let everyone know how they're gonna get
million dollars.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Not quite, but I would like to point out that
Cowboy Killer won the Mallard Militia DraftKings League this week. Yes, yes,
but we have to get those numbers up. We do
not have enough people in the contest. I want the
prizes to be bigger. So if you'd like to join
the Draft Kings League, go to my Twitter page, my
ex page. I'm just gonna call it Twitter for the

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rest at the time. The link is pinned to the
top of my page, or you can email me Ben Maller,
Producer at gmail dot com and I'll send you the link.
There was also three players in that DraftKings the league
or the three listeners that had the exact same lineup,
the exact same It seems a little you think it's like.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
A rig thing that one person just copied somebody else
or they It is odd that you would have the
exact game roster, the math on that. There's so many
players and so many options.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
Yeah's and I think these are different people, but I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Okay, all right, maybe they double posted the Bishop rits
in and says, hey, Ben, the Patriots had so many
stupid penalties in that game. I listened on Fox Sports
nine seventy year in Pittsburgh. The stadium atmosphere is so
different than it was with Belichick and Brady gun Boy, Yeah, obviously,
I mean, geez, Grandpa Rogers got the job done down
the stretch and the d held on ws ws W

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says the Bishop. There you go. It's good be back
on in Pittsburgh. We've been on and off there for many,
many years, and so it's nice. When I ran into Eddie,
we were bringing up We brought up the Breadman, who's
a big high school baseball coach there in the greater
Pittsburgh area. Been listening for a long time, mister irrigation
sending all kinds of negative things about c. J. Stroud,

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even though he's in Houston. He's had enough. He's upset
that he was wearing the Yankees hat as annoyed by that.
That's one of the phones. Cardiac Stanley is in the
Cincinnati area. Hello, Cardiac Stanley, Welcome.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Good morning from the East Coast.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Then, yes, welcome, what's going on Stanley Force. For those
that are new to the show, Cardiac Stanley famously had
a heart attack on the show, and he's doing very
well now, right, this is many years ago, cardiac Stanley,
you're a model of health.

Speaker 5 (23:44):
Yes, not really, but hey, I just got me a
new car. Let me ask you a few questions. Man,
are you going now to predict an NLCS between the
Dodgers and the Reds.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
No? No, and even one of those teams will be
in the n The way the Dodgers are played, they
don't deserve to go to the NLC. Yes, they They're
tremendous underachievers, the Dodgers.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
Now bear with me. Now, then, what you know that
Jimmy Kimmel, the Jimmy Kimmel Show was now hiring.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Oh they're hiring really. Oh I didn't know that. I
thought I thought they weren't hiring anybody because they're not
on the air right now.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
Man, that's your big chance.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
You guys were just talking.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
About making a million bucks.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
You would be a smash man.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Oh that's great, Well, you you'd be my ad. You
let the people know at ABC. I'm available. I don't
have any TV gigs right now.

Speaker 5 (24:37):
So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Okay, you people, No, you're you're you're my guy, Stanley.
Come on, make it happen cardiacs. Stanley, come on.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Man, he won't We am we going to have our
meet and greet with about from Dayton?

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Are you are you? Are you going to be there?
I gotta I've got to get there. My plans for
October got totally blown out of the water, and now
everyone's saying I should waituntil the weather gets better. But
that won't be until with the spring of twenty twenty six,
right with the next time you have really, I mean,
I guess it's it's hit and miss now. So all right,
I'll let you know. You be there, stan you better

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be there, Stanley. All right, Hey, what do you.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
Think of yo? Yeah? What did you think about the
Browns uniforms?

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think whoever made them is someone that's friends with
Blind Scott.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
Okay, right, yeah, let's get a petition going to fire
Zach Taylor. Get hear that guy talk. He has all
the answers.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Oh, he had no answers against the Vikings none none.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
Hey, Dan, Yeah, the Jimmy Kimmel thing.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, that's it done. All right, I'll give up this
empire of overnight talk radio. On the radio for the
Jimmy I saw Jimmy Kimmel. He does a one hour
talk show five days a week, has a staff of
close to two hundred. What the hell do they do
two hundred working on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. I wonder

(26:03):
if they need a new donut girl. Two hundred people
who are all likely making you know not, they're not
all making tons of money, but they're making decent money,
and that is nuts you every sig never mind, all right, yeah,
calm down. Blind Scott is somewhere on the north end
of Boston. Hello, Blind Scott.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
Hey, it's okay. I got to go to my social
worker at ten am today. So, like, that was so
much fun, that instant vice line. That was the most
fun I had had in a long time. I was
laughed and wick it loud and everything. Dude them, I've
mastered the calzone. It's the steak and cheese calzone is
by far the best calzone because the way the steak
cooks with the cheeses inside the calzones and you put

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stuff in it, it just complements the whole calzone process
in general. So I got a question for you. It's
a sports related question. It's we're talking Red Sox, Yankees Mariners.
Cal Rawley will throw the Larry and Judge talking there too.
So most people think the Red Sox will grab this
last wild card spot. I'm not sure how the manageable

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factor in, but I think Aaron Rodgers most likely will
be MVP over cal Rawly. I don't think you can
give cal Rawly the m VP.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Do you think Aaron Rodgers is going to win the
MVP over Cala?

Speaker 6 (27:16):
That would Judge?

Speaker 1 (27:18):
I said Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
I had to smoke for that bit last time.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
I understand this job is not that easy. This job
is not so we have what we have one week
to go in the baseball season. Right one week, the
Red Sox are in the second wild card spot. The
Cleveland Guardians and the cheating Astros are tied for the
final wildcard spot. I believe that's right. I think I
have my math correct on that.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
But who is the MVP?

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Then in the al cal Raley is your MVP?

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Cal rod But but they say Judge.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Is going to be because that's because it's East Coast bias.
But it's cal Rawley is going to win the MVP.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
But everybody in the national media is a New York
Yankees fans.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
That is true, that is accurate, But still Al Ray's better.
It's really exciting, Like you, I don't think it's that exciting,
to be honest.

Speaker 6 (28:07):
With me, better than anything else in sports right now.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Like that, justin Calros he got fifty eight home runs. Now,
it's insane for a catcher. Fifty eight home runs for
cal Raley, But judge, he's gonna get sixty. Cal Rod
He's got two. He had hit two home runs this week.
Cal Raley, he's at sixty. We love round numbers a catcher.

Speaker 6 (28:30):
It is a catcher too, so it's unheard of for
a catcher to that. Loraino probably didn't know that because
the guy had the squat behind the plate the whole time.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Loraina, like that.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
I'm going to tell you one thing right now, there
is a lot of things I don't Is that true?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Is that no Larado was in Loreado's in Chicago this
weekend and did not realize the Cowboys were also in Chicago.
She just thought there were a lot of Cowboy fans
walking around Chicago.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
Well you would think that, you would think that, O
the way where Chicago is you know, it seems like
it's all Cowboys fan. You know what I'm saying, Lorenda?
Did you go there for for an orgy?

Speaker 1 (29:09):
What the hell is that? All right? Thank you, jeezus,
what a schmuck. Let's uh oh that we got the
commuting couple. We got to get them one in Minneapolis.
They get up early to beat the traffic. Hello commuting couple.

Speaker 7 (29:21):
Welcome, Welcome, mister Maler. How are you Coop and Lorena
doing well?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
If I was any better, I'd be a Bengal, but
not a Cincinnati Bengal because they got stomped by the Vikings.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
Well, if I was any better, I'd be a talk
show host and making all that money like you do.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, yes, if you want they do. Tell you the
fastest way to get Richard's to overnight talk radio, very lottery,
right up there with Elon Musk.

Speaker 7 (29:47):
Yes, what Jenna wants to say?

Speaker 5 (29:49):
Hi? Real quick?

Speaker 1 (29:50):
All right, Hello, Hi Jena, Hello, Hello.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
So I just wanted to ask who this Aaron Rodgers
is when he got a new guy in the league.
But he's not new in the league, but he flashed
yesterday that Isaiah Rogers from the Vikings.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Well, yes, well that was the big play early in
the game, although it didn't really yet in the In
the end, he had the pick six, right, that was
the yeah, yeah, he had the pick.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
He had to pick six, and then he had another
touchdown and then he had.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Two for now, did you watch? You kids? Watched the
entire game? The game was over. It was thirty one
was it a half? A thirty four to three at halftime?
Did you watch the second half?

Speaker 7 (30:30):
We we uh, we watched most of the game and
then we watched the Charlie Kirk tribute.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, I got you, Yeah, I was. I watched, you know,
and the game's a blowout like that. I'm I move
on to it. I'm moving on to something else. But
I guess you kind of did too. Anyway. All right,
we'll be safe out there getting the work. Thank you
very well.

Speaker 7 (30:50):
I want you to know that your h your podcast
is fantastic. I've only had a chance to listen to
it a couple of times, but well, thank you, very
entertained and appreciate it. Continue to listen, all right.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
I will keep having bodily function problems for the podcast.
That's my goal. I think anytime someone goes wrong with
my life I will just say it's for the podcast.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
I have another observation, So do you remember years ago
because that was kind of a sporty.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Call from Scott. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, And I feel like years ago they were the
majority were like that sporty calls. Yet yeah, and they
were not like they were good calls.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Are you saying we've gotten too far away from that
kind of call? I mean maybe Scott has.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
But what blows my mind though, because I remember those
calls back in the day. Yeah, And Scott sounds like
he knows what he's talking about when it comes to sports.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
He hasn't watched the game in year, That's what at
the time. We play like a game with Scott.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
He's terrible.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, Well that's also because he's drinking and smoking weed
and he's not really paying attention to anything. That's also hard.
You know. It's like, remember Justin and Cincinnati was pulling
the great game show contestants of all time, and then
he's done so much weed and stuff. He's just like terrible.
But at one point he was the gold standard. Justin
in Cincinnati was we measured everything against him. Then we

(32:07):
he got blown out of the water by Uncle Moe.
From Brooklyn. Right, Uncle Moe was just dominating and all that.
So anyway, Marcel is in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel, Owen.

Speaker 8 (32:18):
Three Giants is not very good at all?

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Are you calling Marcell and Brooklyn for the benching of
Russell Wilson.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (32:27):
Yes, Walsell Wilson, Jackson Hart and the Big Blue are
in Owen three on Sunday Night football Jackson Hart?

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Interesting?

Speaker 8 (32:34):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Is he related to Kevin Hart? Gotta have heart? How
about you put a dart in the heart. How about that?

Speaker 8 (32:42):
I like that dart in the heart? Trust me. Okay,
I'll give you this player of the morning representing Kelsey
Swifties and the Chiefs is coming your way, so fingers
crossed if you can.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
All right, let's do food picks quickly here because they.

Speaker 8 (32:58):
Have a game on a new day. It's finally Hereno.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
It happens every year every year we get fall. It's amazing. Okay,
I think you had last night? You had oodles and
noodless and a mixed machico. Right, very nice, Lorena, lovely.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
Buddy.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
I'm gonna go with you, buddy. A foot long Chicago dog.

Speaker 7 (33:29):
In Chicago bears dumb bears.

Speaker 8 (33:33):
Well, the bears one and not a mixed match.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Okay, cool, please hurry, it's not that funny. That's not funny.

Speaker 8 (33:41):
Ahead, you got.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
It, thanks, Marcel.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
I think that you had crab cheese, rangoons and peynane
curry with chicken.

Speaker 8 (33:51):
Oh, not a mixed.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
You know what curry is, Marcel. That's right. Cut him
up into little bite sized pieces, that's right, yes, exactly. Yes,
he's retired. He's now serving his body parts for food.

Speaker 8 (34:07):
Yes, you're very my friend, not.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Really really, hurry up, all right, thank you for that.
All right, you've wasted so much time there. We will
have a cowboy call back tomorrow. Cowboy, we'll get you
on tomorrow. I apologize, but Marcel took all the airtime.
Bad job by him. We are going to have the
mather of militia food, by the way, the lots of

(34:35):
kill bossa story. Uh this, I guess. Back on a
couple of days ago, Caleb Williams the place in Chicago said,
Caleb wins thows four touchdowns against the Cowboys, that he
will end up everyone's gonna get free hot dog all
of Chicago on Tuesday. So Caleb wins through four touchdown passes.
So now the Wiener Circle, whatever that is. They're gonna

(35:00):
about a lot of hot dogs. Sounds interesting, good promotion,
a lot of kill boss. We're gonna have the Mallard
Militia feud. You want to play? Call right now eight
seven to seven ninety nine on Fox. We'll get to
the Mallard Militia feud and we'll do it next.

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Speaker 2 (36:05):
It's time for another Mallard game show.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah, so go.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
We surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Dot letter curs.

Speaker 7 (36:18):
I believe the answer is to Clippers.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
That is the top answer forty points. It's malor militia cute.

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(36:47):
Chris in Boston, Hello, Chris, welcome, Good morning, Buck, morning time.
You're gonna play here and you're going against keg drinking
Steve in Kansas City. Are you there, Steve?

Speaker 7 (36:58):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Do enjoy that brilliant chief victory? Not really that all right?
You're wasting time one or two here? What are we
doing at the top or the bottom, number one, number one?
All right, here we go. I feel like we did
this one last week, didn't we No, we didn't do
the this one last week?

Speaker 4 (37:19):
No?

Speaker 1 (37:19):
All right, maybe we didn't name something people put in
their front yard. The top six answers are on the board.
Top six answers are on the board. Chris or Chris
wants to go? Chris? Go ahead, Chris, go on furniture?
Lawn furniture? Is that on there? You not? I do
not see lawn furniture? All right, keg King, Steve, one

(37:42):
hundred people say, top six answers on the board.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
Ka, okay, you're.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Just deffing around. I see what you do. Chris, you're
taking the game seriously. Name something people put in their
front yard. Top six answers on the board?

Speaker 5 (37:59):
Flag?

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Flag? Is that does that? Oh man, we're not you guys,
don't do you know? Maybe don't put anything in front
of your house. Maybe they don't have houses. Go ahead, Steve,
a pool, Yes, most people put the pool in the Yes,
in the front of their house. They put a pool
so their neighbors can stare at them in their birthday suits.
All right, Chraig, go ahead, Chris, shut up, Chris now,

(38:28):
tree A tree, Yes, they decorate. No, we have. You
guys are terrible. We have garden, gnome, flowering plants, fence, letterbox,
fountain and signs signy What was that that mean? What
are we doing here? Come on now