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November 20, 2025 41 mins

Ben Maller talks about Bengals QB Joe Burrow being a full participant in practice and if he should make a surprise return in Week 12, the level of concern for Vikings QB J.J. McCarthy, Fact or Fiction, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Philipbuster, Philipbuster, it's our number four, our number four. A
reminder that Benny Versus the Penny is back for the
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But here in our number four. Your thoughts on Stevens
coach Mike Tomlin endorsing Jalen Ramsey's response to getting a
loogie airmailed his way. We'll talk about that. Also, any
advice on how Odell Beckham can get another NFL job.

(00:44):
He's free to roam around the NFL and should injured
quarterback CJ. Stroud be looking over his shoulder at Davis
Mills in Houston. We'll take a look at that interesting story.
We'll go there as well. Here it is our number four.
Have a wonderful hump day and here's our four. Joe
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hour from Cincinnati. That is where Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
He's back kind of well, one step closer to returning

(02:39):
to the grid iron. If you have not been following
perhaps not. Joe Burrow was a full participant, oh mtree
at practice. Full participant. Now what does that mean in
Layman's terms? Now, it's the first time that Joe Burrow
has been one hundred percent in practice since he suffered

(03:01):
a turf toe injury. That was in September against Jacksonville.
Now Bengals coach Zack Taylor somehow still has a job.
Zach Taylor was asked if Joe Burrow could start Sunday.
He Bengals a massive dog, not the biggest dog, with
the pretty big underdog against the Patriots. Well, here's what

(03:23):
Zach Taylor had to say about Joe Burrow. Take a listen.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Is your scenario that Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow hasn't practiced
s eleven on eleven yet?

Speaker 3 (03:30):
So, like I said the other day, until we get
through some practice, there's no reason for me to even speculate.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
On that, all right, So he was dismissive that he
said that before practice Burrow did practice eleven on eleven.
So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question for the esteem panel. Should Bengals quarterback Joe
Burrow make a surprise return surprise return in week twelve,

(03:55):
this Sunday against the New England Patriots, who were sitting
in the Penthouse in the American Football Conference. So my
take on this, I've got sour cream, meat loaf, and
cracker barrel, and we'll combine all of these things together
and we are gonna make an amazing Smorgesborg. We're gonna

(04:15):
have some babaganoosh. We're gonna have that. We're gonna have
a little gabba gool. We'll get the gabbaghool. Now, to
lead off here, the answer to the question should Joe
Burrow return for the Bengals on Sunday, Yes, one hundred percent. Absolutely.
This is the entertainment business. We're not at some meditation

(04:38):
retreat in the Bahamas. You don't pay a guy two
hundred and seventy five million dollars to stand there and
twiddle his thumbs on the sidelines. You don't build the
Joe Sisty legend with the billboards and the hoodie and
the all that stuff to have him carry a clipboard
and get ten thousand steps walking up and down the sidelence.

(05:00):
He's played two games this season, two two. You only
get seventeen of these now, Would I rather watch Joe
Burrow or Joe Flacco? Would you rather watch Joe Burrow
or Joe Flacco? It's all about the Joe's That's like
asking if you ask me, hey, Ben, would you rather

(05:20):
have a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream delicious slowly
turned chocolate chip ice cream? That's a marketing term, slowly turned?
Or do you want a bowl of generic brand sour cream?
So who's taking the sour cream? Only six bastards would
take the seurgre. The doctors cleared Joe Burrow to practice.

(05:42):
If he's been given the green light, you play him.
That's it. That's all, no debate. You put on the pad,
you go out there and go. Green light go. And
the turf toe, which is like a big deal. I
turned into like the Looney Tunes balloon foot in my head. Anyway,
Joe Burrow's foot looked like that. And Burrow's had every

(06:04):
injury known to mankind. He's got bad risk, knee injury,
a couple of those, calf injury, mangled finger, oh my
aching toe that too. So that's the deal. That's what
you sign up for. Franchise quarterback. You live with it,
you risk it. That's how it goes. And so if
you're saving this is always the arm. If you're saving

(06:26):
Joe Burrow, it's out of an abundance of caution. If
you're saving Burrow for the future, this just in the
Fox Sports Radio, the Bengals future is not that bright. Okay,
you'll be saving him forever. You might as well put
him on ice right near the head of Ted Williams.
Play him, play him. Now, you don't ground the jumbo

(06:47):
jet because the trade table on the row B three
is broken. We can't fly the American Airlines jumbo jet
because the trade table in three B is not working. No,
you fly the But if Burrow is healthy enough, and
he obviously practiced, so he's cleared, he's medically healthy enough

(07:09):
to practice, then what are you doing? Just there's no question,
get him out there all right. Furthermore, we continue the
theme of quarterbacks. In this case he struggling quarterback to
Mi Minnesota. To Mi Minnesota, we go the land of
ten thousand Lakes, even though there's more than ten thousand lakes,
and the home of Viking quarterback J. J. McCarthy. Now,

(07:33):
if you like JJ McCarthy, you're gonna say he's a
work in progress. He's a work in progress. If you
don't like JJ mccarthy're gonna say he's the captain of
the vomit comet. Now he believes that he is making progress, shocking.
McCarthy likened his situation. He used to very a couple
of weird analogies here, which I'm fine with because I

(07:55):
do a lot of that too. I'm in the weird
metaphor weird analogy business. McCarthy likened his situation to a
cork about to come off a bottle, and he said,
quote coming in here, I was taught, this is JJ McCarthy.
I was taught how to play quarterback in a very
different way, he said. Expected going into this league, going

(08:17):
into a new team, a new system. He said, you're
rewiring neurological pathways. McCarthy said, and that's not something that
happens overnight. Yes, he used a cork analogy and neurological
pathways to describe what's going on in Minnesota. So the

(08:39):
question for the esteem panel, what is your level of
concern for the Vikings quarterback J. J. McCarthy. So on
the mald scale of concern one to ten, with ten
being turnout, the 's the parties over. I'm going to seven.

(09:01):
I'm gonna seven. And here's why. This interview with the
Viking Beat reports it sounded like a self help podcast,
like a couple of people drinking coffee and just complaining.
Not the NFL. We don't want to hear about neurological
pathways and rewiring the brain. We don't. You're not a

(09:24):
neuro scientist. You don't work on brads. You're an NFL quarterback.
And here's the biggest problem. And there's really no way
around this. For so long, we have a battle every
NFL draft. We have a battle to play the man
or to shut the man. Well, young quarterbacks need to

(09:46):
sit on the bench. Patrick Mahomes sat on the bench
and oh my god, he was so good, oh goody,
goodie good. But okay, so McCarthy because he got hurt,
he had a red shirt injury year in the NFL.
He sat, he learned, he was soaking in all the knowledge,
he was recalibrated and all that stuff, and yet he

(10:09):
looks like he has no idea what he's doing. He
looks like a wide eyed I don't know, Oh my god,
what is going on? I'm drinking out of a fire
hose is what he looks like for most of the games. Now,
there have been spots where he's looked fine, but very few,
very few. And this was supposed to be the launch pan.

(10:29):
Everyone tells us how great the coaching is in Minnesota.
They've got great players there, So this was supposed to
be a launchpad, not a science experiment. At this point,
it's a science experiment, right. McCarthy's talking like a kid
going back and doing book reports on brain chemistry, rewiring

(10:50):
pathways and all that. And last I checked, we're not
talking about mit. You just have to hit the open receiver.
You are the forty fifth rank quarterback in completion percentage.
That is not bad. That is seeing eye dog bad

(11:12):
is what that is. That's like the old dog Kramer,
blind Scott's dog Kramer back in the day. That's how bad.
That is what McCarthy says, that he was taught to
play quarterback a very different way. That is a dead
d what that is a low blow and it's at
Jim Harball. That is shrapnel directed at Jim Harball, the

(11:36):
Michigan coach at the time, because Jim Harbaugh, he's an
NFL coach Jim Harbaugh doesn't know how to school a quarterback. Now,
I translated that as well. When I was at Michigan,
I just handed the ball off and threw the ball
like ten times a game, And now they want me
to throw the ball forty times a game and I
don't understand it. Yeah, so he's essentially saying I wasn't

(11:59):
developed as a an NFL quarterback when everyone said that
was one of the advantages. And everything with him sounds
like the poem JJ McCarthy day after day, rep after
rep excellent. Meanwhile, he's second to last all time in
on target throw rate. Since that's stat became a stat.

(12:22):
That is meat loaf, that is dead meat loaf, that
is cold, soggy in the refrigerator for two week old
meat loaf thrown in the trash is what that is.
And so his fire hose whatever, Now do you want
to use corks about the pop? That was the quote
quarts about the corks about the pop? More like he's

(12:44):
vacuum sealed in shrink wrap. So again the concern levels high.
It's seven out of ten, one to ten, seven out
of ten. The cork isn't popping. It's not popping. All right,
last thing to Dallas we go. Follow up, follow up,
follow up to the story that we talked about in
a previous episode of the show. Wide Receivers, Gone a Wall,

(13:06):
Wide Receivers, Gone a Wall, Make it make sense. George
Pickens and Ceedee Lamb were both benched. There was that
shot on Monday Night Football of them looking like dumb
and dumber as they stood there like numb nuts as
the Cowboys opened up against the Raiders on Monday Night Football,
Monday Night Football. However, no one, no one reported what

(13:29):
they were actually doing. What were they Were they out
hookers and cocaine? What were they doing? I don't know,
were they partying anything wild? Well, there is a report.
It came from one of the Cowboy Beat reporters who
claims that the players were not out doing anything tawdry.

(13:49):
Nothing tawdry. They were allegedly reportedly at a dinner with
teammates on Sunday night, and they missed some meetings because
they were having a nice meal, having some supper, and
they missed some meetings afterwards. So the question, this is
a stupid test. Do you believe that the Cowboys stars

(14:13):
George Pickens and Ceedee Lamb were just late for supper.
Do you do believe that? Because if you do, I
got some really nice beach front property. I'd like to say.
It's right there in Omaha, Nebraska, and you're right on
the beach, just freaking beautiful, and a very large mountaintop
in Iowa. Also, I'll teach you where that is as well. Pollee's, Paulle's.

(14:38):
Come on, they were at dinner and lost track of time.
Is that the story that somebody's planting. Did that come
from George Pickens agent or Ceedee Lamb's agent or who
that's the story you're going with. You're telling me that
George Pickens and Ceedee Lamb two lightning rod personalities. Certainly
George Pickens, he's at the very top. They just got

(14:59):
stuck at the south. They were getting some more crutons
and they wanted some thousand island dressing and they couldn't
they couldn't leave. Come on. And the other thing is,
if it were truly that innocent of a situation, don't
you think dollars to donuts the cowboys would have said, well,
they were a little late because they were having a

(15:20):
nice meal. They would have told the world immediately, rather
than just check with the coach after the game it's
PR one oh one. Instead, we got everyone giving vague quotes,
Jerry Jones saying it's in house. They had a late problem. Translation,
we don't really want to talk about, Like, what are

(15:41):
you hiding if they were having a meal in the
NFL lateness if you're a star player. If you're a
star player, lateness is a warning. It is a warning
you don't start the game on the bench unless it
isn't your first row, or it's something more nefarious. It's

(16:02):
like to think that these guys were it was like
six pm. They were having a waffle at the cracker barrel. No,
now there is a couple of cracker barrels in Vegas,
but they were in Vegas, young stars, a lot of money,
Sunday night, bright lights, neon everywhere, twenty four hours of

(16:23):
debauchery in that town. We still wasn't believe they were
at Applebee's. Right, No, more likely than not. They were
having bottle service. There's fingerprints all over it. And you
know they weren't arguing over who got the last mazzarella
stick at Applebee's. They were not doing that. You don't
miss meetings because the waiter forgot you check right, you

(16:45):
know you don't do that. You miss meetings, okay, because
time disappeared because you were in the VIP lounge or
the high rollers lounge or whatever. Again, it's just common sense.
If there was nothing there, it was just they were late.
They were having they were having a drink at the

(17:05):
bar after the meal. That's it, you know, you know,
you just give it out and that's it. The vagueness
is the tell. That is a dead give what dead?
You what it is? It's a tell they were late.
Is the version of the truth. It's just not the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth. They're hoping that

(17:27):
this stays buried until somebody that works at the Bellagio
who has access to the cameras, wants to make an
extra twenty thousand dollars and records the video on their
cell phone and then sends it over to TMZ the
Harvey Levin and then all of a sudden, the footage
is everywhere. If Sunday Night was truly again harmless, harmless,

(17:48):
they would have already said it. You're not being benched
because you wanted an extra order of fries. You're not
come on, that's that's the story. That's I don't believe it.
I just I don't. I don't buy that at all.
That is nonsensical to believe. That's all this was. It

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(18:31):
We'll get to that. Also. It's a clown show, bro.
We'll get to that story. It's a clown show, bro.
And less is more and less less is less. It's
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your fault for turning the audio up too much. Fact
or fiction also coming up a little bit later on.
So we have a coach against a Viking legend and
this is Chris Carter, the guy that was the stud.
If you're old, you remember Chris Carter with the Vikings

(21:30):
back in the day. It was like a great player
in the eighties and nineties whatever, but he was really
good back back at the nineties. But anyway, Carter made
some derogatory comments about JJ McCarthy because he actually watched
the Vikings game against the Bears and took some shots
at his performance. And so JJ McCarthy's coach, his quarterback coach,

(21:55):
his private coach. This guy's been coaching him since he
was like in seventh grade. He used a clown emoji
to attack Chris Carter and called him an effing clown.
There you go. Of course I would say, Chris Carter
just you know, he's just right. That's that's all he is. Now.
I also wanted to do this before I made mentioned

(22:16):
this earlier. I didn't get to it. Make a run
for the border. So DeVante Adams, did you see this? Coop?
DeVante Adams is revealed the top three Taco Bell menu
items that he loves.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
Oh this is this is good?

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah yeah, so I want to judge him a lot
right now. Okay, but no, no, I would like from you, Coop,
because I saw this and I think he's not as
big a fan of Taco Bell as I thought because
the food items are I don't want to give it away,
but do you have Coop's top three food items at
You're a huge, sick a fan of Taco Bell. You

(22:49):
love Taco Bell. That's correct, and it's it's great. You know,
some of us eat prunes. If we want to clear
out our system, other people go to Taco Bell. So
what are your favorite foods at Taco Bell? Three things
Coop you love it? Taco Bell three things on the
menu that you love, and Taco.

Speaker 6 (23:03):
Bell top So we're talking regular menu. It itam is
not limited time.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
No, they could be limited time. They could be limited ok.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
So then this is easy, okay. Number one on the
list is the double Decker Taco Supreme.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Okay, double let me write this down, Double Decker Taco Supreme.
They're not paying for commercial by the way. I just
thought this would be fun, okay. Number two.

Speaker 6 (23:24):
Number two is the Cheesy Gordida Crunch.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Cheesy Gordida Crunch duly noted.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
Number three and then number three, even though it's there's
nothing like super Special about it. It's just very versatile
and it's a good add on to any meal that
you get. I gotta go with the spicy potato soft taco.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Okay, spicy potato soft talko Okay, Loreina, do you enjoy
you want to play the game coops loves? I don't
think you love taco.

Speaker 7 (23:50):
I do love taco bell born and raised. Oh yes,
indeed since I was a young child.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
You know that's not authentic Mexican food.

Speaker 7 (23:56):
You know, no, but yeah, when you have and raise
on it, it doesn't affect you like you know, like you said,
that's true.

Speaker 6 (24:03):
It doesn't make me have a time.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
You're you're still a young woman. Wait a few years
you are you right? You're right? Well this is my top.
Have you have your gall and then we'll see what happens.

Speaker 7 (24:13):
Go ahead, yes, okay, So I like the chicken chiloopa.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
Always, always, al right.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
I'm a classic side chips and nacho cheese type of girl.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
That doesn't count.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
It does too? Yes, come on, did you just say
nachos and chips in a side of cheese? Turn off
your heads? What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
And then also the cinnamon twisty you love chips in
a cup of cheese. I like the cheese yea.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
And sometimes I'll put the nacho cheese on my chalupa.
Are you laughing at memes?

Speaker 1 (24:43):
What a rebel? What a freaking rebel? Okay? What's the
last thing?

Speaker 7 (24:47):
The cinnamon twisties.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Oh, those are actually good.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
I don't I don't you know?

Speaker 7 (24:51):
They're just deep fried noodles.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh is that right?

Speaker 8 (24:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well, unfortunately none of the items either one of you
mentioned or on DeVante Adams, who does the Taco Bell commercials.
He said, number one, the crunch Rap Supreme, he said,
is at the very top. That is the top item
at Taco Bell.

Speaker 6 (25:12):
Okay, that's an answer a lot of people will give it.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
He said, he gets a Supreme with no tomatoes because
tomatoes are a cousin of the devil. He says. Number two,
he would go with the caramel apple and panada. What
is that? I think I know what that is, but
it's just a dessert with.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
Yeah, it's like a deep fried with the pie filling
and it's delicious.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Okay. And then number three kind of is similar to
the Raina with chips and cheese. I feel like this
shouldn't count, he said. The bahaw Blast Freeze or the
Mingo Whip Freeze.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
See yeah, look at him.

Speaker 7 (25:50):
He chose a main entree item, a dessert and a side.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
Look just how convenient he chose a complete meal for
people to order.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
I wonder if I wonder, Coop, if that'll be on
the Taco Bell menu. Did DeVante Adams meal you that'll
be on there? You know they get the Davante I
guess the Rams will have to win a lot. McDonald's
does it.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
McDonald's gives you know, celebrities and sports people their own meals.

Speaker 6 (26:15):
Why not talk?

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, well, Devonte Adams has been in all these commercials
with talking about all the phones. Hello to Dick in Dayton,
the great Dick in Dayton. Hello Dick, Welcome morning guys.
How are you great? Good to talk to you, Dick.
Big plans for Thanksgiving? You famously called me, didn't you.
The first call you ever made to me was on
Thanksgiving if I remember correctly, And you were having Thanksgiving

(26:38):
dinner and you paid like four bucks for it or
five bucks or something like that. Remember that.

Speaker 8 (26:42):
Yeah, the Activity Center, they're a little bit early, are
having to dinner tonight and this is for the assisted
living people and the guests. But see, they wanted a
little bit more money, and I don't know. I was
talking into activities. I don't know how many people will get.

(27:03):
But I'll be going next week to my friends.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
But oh nice, all right.

Speaker 8 (27:08):
Ben and guys, it's bad for the Browns. I think
they need new leadership. They need to get rid of
the codes, they need to get a defensive coordinator. It's
just every week it's just ridiculous, and fans are just weary,
you know what I mean. Ben, And I hear you.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
I hear you. Now. The big excitement, Dick, and you're
the number one Cleveland Brown fan, so you're the perfect
person to ask you. So the big story, Dick and
Dayton is Shadua Sanders, who's going to start this weekend
against the Raiders. Your level of excitement, Dick's level of
excitement for Shadura Sanders.

Speaker 8 (27:49):
I think he's going to be good. I liked it.
I just didn't understand when they were down there clothes.
Well he didn't run the ball, but a lot of
people were happy. But it's just I'm telling you on
ninety two is a fan.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Everybody's man, you know, It's just terrible, angry, angry, angry?
What How's how's Titus doing his Titus doing all right?

Speaker 8 (28:12):
Yeah? Titus and Jeff, Yeah, I talked to him yesterday.
They were talking about so.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Dick and Dayton. Now, before you continue, I met a
guy named Ed from Dayton. You know a guy named
Ed from Dayton?

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, yeah, you do.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, yeah, So this guy Ed was out here. He
drove to California. He was in studio hanging out with us,
and we were talking about Dick in Dayton and we
were like, we're gonna do this Mallard meet and greet.
Ed's gonna be there, I said, we get and he
knew all your calls, Dick. He hears you all the
time on the radio. You're famous. He's oh, you know,
you know Dick and Dayton was great.

Speaker 8 (28:45):
Yeah, he used to I'm trying to think. He used
to come over to Low's to see me. Is is
sun work there? It was great.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
But yeah, so he's a good guy and he's a painter,
so he probably bought painted Lows all the time. I
would thank you. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
Yeah, Hey, I'm thinking the Buck guys are going to
go all the way. They're going to go all the way.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, and you win the championship this year again.

Speaker 8 (29:11):
Back to back, yeah, back to back this year.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
You're not worried about the Indiana Hoosiers.

Speaker 8 (29:18):
Oh a little bit, a little bit. They're gonna Yeah,
I think they're going to give the Buck guys a fit.
And we've got to beat Michigan this year.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
You know, so every every year you have to beat Michigan. Right,
It's been a little rough here recently, but yeah, all right,
well listen, I enjoy your Thanksgiving. I'll be here next week.
I know you're you're out doing Thanksgiving with your family,
but I'll be doing the radio. So if you want
to call up you, I'll be here next week, all.

Speaker 8 (29:41):
Right, yeah, sure, I'll be glad to call.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
All right outstare all right, Well.

Speaker 8 (29:46):
Thank you, Dick, been welcome. Bye bye.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Get a taste of that Dick. There is Dick and Daton,
one of the great talk radio callers, and we got
him right here on this show. How lucky are we.
Let's say hello to Moe Joe Rising. Hello, mo oh
Joe Rising in the.

Speaker 9 (30:02):
Bay right, gone through to the other side of Ben
Mahlor Show. You never want to hide. Every single night
it hits a new stride. What's up the Godfather, Mister
Leonardo da Vinci of Overnight Radio, Your analogies are unreal,
Mister Ben Maller on Ja McCarthy on Joe Burrow on
the Cowboys receivers in Vegas. When you know they were

(30:23):
at a strip club, Well.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
If they were at a strip club, that's that's benign.
Considering some of the other stuff you can get into
in Vegas, you know what I'm saying, Mojo Rising, there's
some real dark stuff there.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Man.

Speaker 9 (30:38):
I've been to Vegas one time, way back in the day,
and oh yeah, you can get into a lot of
trouble when I was just a young as Buck David. Anyway,
I just want to say I want to wish everybody,
especially you the group. I mean, he's lucky to eat
the Broncos fam and tied me in a Raiders fan
then God, we're so horrible and lovely. Lorea, she just
played America with No Name, I mean, what a classic song.

(31:02):
She's obviously got a very good head on her shoulders.
I'm sure she's a very lovely lady, and whoever's gonna
end up with her is going to be the luckiest
man in the world or.

Speaker 7 (31:10):
The most tortured.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I don't know, ye.

Speaker 9 (31:16):
Hey, but yeah, I just want to say that the
Raiders like Gino Smith. Why in God's name with the
Raiders trade a third round drafting for Gino Smith. I
know you were talking about mccartheen. Yeah, he's just a
rookie year, second year, but Geno Smith is really the
worst quarterback in the NFL. You got thirteen interceptions and
what eleven touchdowns? I mean, he can't he can't maneuver

(31:37):
in the pocket. Like the Cowboys didn't have a pass rush,
but all of a sudden they did. Like, the guy
is horrible, pet Carroll Man. He should have stayed in retirement,
like he's like see now, like he used to be
a great coach. I don't know what he does. He's
sin over there. He chooses gum that they always show
him tune his gum, chune his gum, Like, give me
a break. They didn't even guard anybody. What was the
defense doing against the Cowboys? You got guys running eye open?

(32:00):
I mean, the poor Raiders are the worst run organization. Like,
I mean, I've been a Raider, But.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
What about Tom Brady though? What about how does Tom
Brady get a pass. Tom Brady's influencing every decision, every
decision the Raiders make, and nobody wants to criticize Tom Brady.
It's fascinating to me. It's like, no, he's as bad.
He's as bad. People used to kill, people, used to
kill Michael Jordan for being incompetent, and Tom Brady so

(32:28):
far is worse than Michael Jordan. It's unbelievable how bad
he is as an executive.

Speaker 9 (32:33):
Yeah, I agree, man, he like he was, you know,
the goat whatever quarterback. Okay, but you're right, he like
what decisions are they making? Like we miss genting kids,
Like he's okay, but you took him with the sixth
overall pick. Like I don't know what the Raiders are doing.
Like they're just they're just horrible. Like I said, I've
been a Raider fan my whole life in the last
twenty years. How do you have all these first round
draft picks every single year, Top one, top five, top

(32:56):
ten and you squander almost every single one except for
the Flowers kid, the tight end. You know, it's like,
oh my god, they're just they're horrible, man, they really are.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, I don't I know I saw, I've watched them.
I know they suck. I understand they're bad, they're terrible. Whatever,
But there you go. But Brady looks good in those
skinny jeans. He wears a skinny pants, so he looks good.
All right, listen, thank you, we'll talk to you. Enjoy
your holiday. Thank you for the holiday. Love there, mo
Joe Rising. So I want to spend about twenty seconds

(33:28):
ripping Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr yet again got on the
bully pulpit, the coach of the Golden State Warriors, and
he campaigned, he lobbied for a shorter NBA season and
the injuries historically bad this year in the NBA. And
that is not the answer, because I promise you, if

(33:50):
the NBA cut down, they've been talking about a sixty
five game season, getting rid of seventeen games. If they
got down to sixty five games, the players would play
fifty games. And they do it out of an abundance
of caution, because they're a bunch of pussy willows, is
what they are. They're a bunch of flowers, pussy willows.
They would not play the whatever the number is, they
would miss whatever the number is. You have to drop

(34:12):
another ten games or fifteen games because the stars won't play,
I'm telling you, and that's how they're wired. And this
is pussy right there. Yeah, exactly, the great delayed dick
Enberg there with that line. Anyway, enough of that, I
gotta see it some time. We got fact or fiction.
If you'd like to be one of my celebrity judges, well,
have a little bit of time for that. Call up
right now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight

(34:33):
seven seven nine nine six six three six'. Nine we'll
get the fact or fiction and.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
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long very long today posted right after the end of the.
Show please trans a bit. Immedia is it fact for?

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Fiction let's face some raw facts on The Ben Mallor.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Show let's do. It time out to have some. Fun
that's wringing our celebrit pretty panel of judges that have
Formed voltron from all. Over we say hello to Hollering
james In, Minneapolis. Minnesota, hello Hollering. James you gotta be.

Speaker 6 (36:12):
Kidding just talk to.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Him he's. Sleeping that's. Perfect, okay we'll put the names on.
Holidays you want to bet? You, yeah, yeah we we love, You.
James you're gonna be one of My you're gonna be
one of my. Judges, okay we're gonna call you. Sleepy.
Okay Blind scott is. Online, Hello Blind scott been online

(36:36):
the entire. Night get into a fight.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
To have The Super bowl In San francisco because it
screwised over The East coach. Media we're not going there
to do radio at two point thirty in the morning
around the crest of homeless. People people in The West
coach do not care about sports. Teams they just don't.
Care they should even have sports teams in The West.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Coach it's a, YES i think they. Should The West
coast should be a different. COUNTRY i, agree all, right
it is a Different Texas, Jack, Hello Texas. Jack the
number one Day's. LUCAS i am, HERE i am a
white AND i am. Ready all. Right maverick's looking good With.
Luca they're a solid. Team they got, there The.

Speaker 9 (37:16):
Mavericks huh, okay, man, listen that's. Enough that's enough by of.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
You how The cowboys, Doing they're doing? Good, no, Right.
No daniel's In Fort. Wayne we Love. Daniel He's america's
favorite crossing. Guard he played. Password we're going to try
to forget about. That Hello, daniel, welcome good.

Speaker 8 (37:38):
Morning at Least i'm committed to my job on like
SOME nba.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Players that's.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Right you don't take days off for load, management, Right, no.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Nonms i'm sick.

Speaker 8 (37:50):
NOW i don't want to get the kids sick, either
that's the only.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
EXCEPTION i got, YOU i got, you all. Right you
enjoying the cooler, Weather, Daniel, Yep, yeah all. Right Milkman
mike is In colorado a legend on the show as. Well,
Hello Milkman, MAN.

Speaker 8 (38:09):
I love, you make me.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
LAUGH i was worried we were gonna have to call
you in out of a. Bullpen we man fixed his,
phone but we might have needed you for the jokes.
Tomorrow but we're good on. That but here's The, milkman
the Great bronco. Fan that's Why coop loves. Him And Johnny,
oh here's a new, Name Johnny oh From Grand. Rapids,
Hello Johnny, oh.

Speaker 9 (38:32):
Ladies and.

Speaker 8 (38:33):
Gentlemen he's the Pride Fox Sports.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Radio he's the, undefeated the understudd.

Speaker 8 (38:39):
Help And ben Door, smeller, gentlemen good.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
MORNING i love.

Speaker 8 (38:46):
IT i love. It i'm fired.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Up that was really, good, man was that ai Or?
So that was really? Good? JOHNNY i like.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
That oh, no this is the real.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Deal you got some. Pipes my, man got some, Pipes Johnny.
Oh i'm. Impressed i'm.

Speaker 8 (39:03):
Blessed we, are we are all.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Blessed, yeah everyone's got a superpower and yours appears to
be your. Pipes very, Good JOHNNY. O hold, on sec
here we. Go these are the three. Stories. Panel you
have to figure out which of the three is not,
true separating fiction from. Fact story number, one number. One
earlier this, week we made fun Of lorena as she

(39:26):
claimed to be A cowboy, fan but she watched a
premiere Of wicked rather than The. Cowboys, well This sunday
night football fans won't have to make that. Decision at
halftime of The sunday night game ON nbc between The
bucks and The, Rams Ariana grande And cynthonia Er Evo
rivo will perform A revo said it with a. Question

(39:50):
mark will be performing the hit song from the Movie
wicked for good in theaters this. Weekend OH i can't. Wait,
yeah calm, Down, taman you'renna actually watch the. Game story number.
Two The grammy nominated singer performed the national anthem at
The Dolphin commanders game In madrid this past, weekend was
forced to issue a statement defending. Herself fans were enraged

(40:13):
to watching the, game calling the singers get up a
stripper outfit and. CLASSES i guess have my look what
she was. Wearing she Said monday that THE nfl approved
her outfit, choice and she belted before she built. IT
a single note and. Story number Three Bill. Belichick he's
seventy three years. Old he was spidered at A Cheer
Extreme All stars event In raleigh for adult cheerleaders Supporting Jordan,

(40:36):
hudson who is apparently a member of a co ed
adult cheerleading. Team unless we made that. Up all, right,
quickly let's go. Around celebrity panel, one two or, three
Hollering james In, minneapolis minnisodaree number, Three yeah, back go
back to bed Blind scott one, Tour Scott, Hant Scott
scott's gone all, Right Texas jack one, tour, Three Texas.

(40:58):
Jack i'm gonna, three number, Three. Okay daniel and Fort,
Wayne daniel Well man one two or, Three daniel, two number,
two all, Right, Milkman mike In, Colorado, milkman.

Speaker 9 (41:12):
That's number. Two all?

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Right Johnny, oh, Quickly Johnny olle quick way now number,
one number, one number, One JOHNNY o was number. One
that was the halftime. Thing that was number one
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