December 4, 2025 • 42 mins
Ben Maller talks about Ben Roethlisberger suggesting that the Steelers need to clean house and that Mike Tomlin should go coach Penn State, Chris Fowler swearing that ESPN plays no part in College Football Playoff influence, #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Omaha, Omaha. It's our number three. Our three is ready
to go, and the Natives are restless. In Pittsburgh, the
Ginsers are not happy. Ben Roethlisberger, calling for the dismissal
of Mike Tomlin, says he should get a college job
the head coach in Pittsburgh. So would Mike Tomlin even
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be interested in the Penn State job? Or is that
the wrong crowd for Mike Tomlin?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The Steelers coach.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Chris Fowler, the play by play voice of the Big
College Football Game, swears that ESPN plays no part in
college football's playoff.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
In terms of influence, where do you file this one?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
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lead this hour is from Pittsburg, PA.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
The confluence the Alleghany, the Managa Halo, forming the Ohio
River and forming a firestorm. As it is on like
don't get calling against Mike Tomlin. Couple of Steeler legends
have joined the chorus boo boo, and they're saying, Hey,
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it's time for Mike Tomlin to skid daddle, get out
of here Tomlin. That would be Ben Roethlisberger. I've heard
of him, Ben Roethlisberger. Hot take guy, Ben Roethlisberger now
suggesting that the longtime Steeler.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Coach and his coach.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
He'd been pretty good over the Penn State put over
there at Penn State.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Do you see any of this?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
No, you didn't see this though, all right, well, Roethlisberger
was joined by his former teammate James Harrison, that badass
defensive player James Harrison. They both weighed in on Tomlin's
future as the speculation machine crisis in the Burg. These
Steelers are struggling to tie their shoes, chew gum and
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walk at the same time. So will they actually get
rid of Tomlin. Will they bring in another coach that
has always been a tenured professor job in Pittsburgh. They've
had three coaches they've had we've had more popes. It's
it's the Steelers came around when they became good with
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Chuck Nole, Bill Kawer.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And Mike Tomlin. And that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You got to go back to like the nineteen sixties.
That's a long, long, long, long time obviously. But just
to prove I'm not making this up.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Here is Ben.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Roethlisberger on some podcasts that have seven listeners. Here's Roethlisberger
commenting that it's slightly time.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No, it's it's being talked about around here a lot.
Maybe it's time. Maybe it's a cleanhouse time. Maybe it is.
Maybe it's time. And I like coach Tomlin. I have
a lot of respect coach Tomlin. But maybe it's best
for him too. Maybe a fresh start for him is
what's best, whether that's in the pros, whether maybe go
be Penn State's head coach. You know what he would
do in Penn State. He'd probably go win national championships.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Okay, so that's Roethsberg. He did throw a butt in there, Yeah,
he said. I but Harrison he played under Tomlin for
parts of ten seasons in Pittsburgh. And he also said
this week he said something has to be done. That's
James Harrison. Something has to be done, he said, And
he added that he doesn't consider Tomlin a great coach.
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Body blow, buddy blow, body blow. Okay, So Roethlisberger is
stressed that he said that the Steers Obviously, as you
heard there, he said they should not fire Tomlin, but
he said they should reach an agreement, which is.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Semantics, to end his time in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That is a good jumping off point the question as
we discussed the question, like would Mike Tomlin even be
interested in the Penn State job?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Would he even be interested? So my views on this, I've.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Got shrimp, cocktail, joint bank account, and secret blend, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to howl like a manchie, is what we're
going to do, because that's what you do it now,
you howl like a banchie, you do. First of all,
would Mike Tomlin be interested in the Penn State job?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Get out of here? What are you talking about? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Not absolutely now This is Ben Roethlisberger tossing out a
left handed compliment like he's hanging out a free gas
station hot dog somewhere on the side of the interstate. Hey, coach,
I respect you. Now go take a demotionion to Happy Valley. Okay,
what are we doing here? Why would Tomlin, who has
a lifetime employment, he's never going to be fired. Why
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would Tomlan leave the Penthouse a great job, you don't
have to worry about being fired.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They don't do it, and then go coach to junior varsity?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Why would you want to go to junior varsity Penn
State in twenty twenty five. It's not the cushy joe
paw country club it was in the seventies and the
eighties and all that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Penn State in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's a war zone there. They can't even hire a
coach right now. I was busting LaVar Arrington's chops yesterday.
I think he knows who the new coach is going
to be. He wouldn't tell me. I said, you got
to tell me the war. He wouldn't tell me. Like,
come on, all right, tell me, I won't tell you.
He played, you know, he played over I don't run.
I think he knows. But that aside, it's nil warfare,
nil warfare, transfer portal mercenaries. You've got boosters fighting with boosters,
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and you've got nil guys that have more demands than
bride Zilla.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's a nightmare. It's an obstacle.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Course that is littered literally the college football world with
Kamakazi drones and booby traps.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Meanwhile, if you're an NFL coach, it's your royalty.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're flying private, you're eating shrip cocktails at thirty five
thousand feet in the sky, and you're laughing about those
college football guys. College football today is like trying to
navigate a minefield on roller skates.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Good luck, you know, can be done? Not likely?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And why would Tomlin who hasn't had a losing season,
as we want a playoff game in a while, but
losing what is seventeen freaking years or something like that,
I think.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Might be even more than that. But why would he
sign up for that?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Like Mike Tomlin left the Steelers, he would walk out
of Pittsburgh and right into the catmergency. He wouldn't have
to go to express pros. He would he would just
get Hey, it's the New York Giants. Hey, Mike, how
would you like to coach the Giants? Hey it's the Tennessee. Hey,
hey Mike, tom how would you like to come to Nashville.
We've got good country music. There's a Johnny Cash museum here.
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How about that Arizona? Hey, you like cactus. Many people
come here to retire and die. You want to come
to Arizona?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Sure? Why not? What the hell?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
How about Atlanta? I believe Tomlin's daughter goes to college
in Atlanta, the Atlanta area, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Take your pick. Take your pick.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Or Tomlin could always pull the Gruden slide on into television.
Put the tools of ignorance on, the makeup, the suit,
the telestrator, all that, and have a carnival in the
broadcast booth and just use your Mike tomlinisms.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And you're on your way.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But Tomlin at Penn State, please like, that's like giving
up first class. You're flying across the country and I
don't really want this first class seat.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Let me let me get the.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Middle seat in the back, near the near the toilet,
between two fat people.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Let me get that. Roethlisberger knows it right, Harrison knows it.
We all know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Every man, woman and child knows it's total nonsense. There
is a world in the multiverse where Tomlin does end
up leaving Pittsburgh, not to college.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
This doesn't make sense to me, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Secondly to TV Land we go where cottage football play
by playboys, Chris Fowler promised that ABZ and ESPN play
no part in pulling these strings. They're not the puppeteers
for the college football playoff committee.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The question on this one.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Chris Fowler, longtime loyal minion to that small, fledgling cable
network out of Bristol, Connecticut. He says they play no
part in college football selection, of no influence on who's
in the playoff and who's Where do you.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
File this one? All right?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So I file this one under fairy tales and bedtime stories,
right next to the tooth Fairy having dinner with Santa
Claus and the Easter Bunny. Okay, the refs don't favor superstars, please.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Like the same concept. I was like, well, there's no makeup.
I work with a.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Guy he's in Florida now, but he's retired, but he
we gotta fight.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
He said, Well, the NBA doesn't do makeup co Oh,
yes they do. No they don't.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Why would they do that? No, they do, they do.
They do the same concept. ESPN is the sugar daddy
of college football. And if you've ever had a sugar daddy,
I have not. But the sugar daddy pays the rent,
They stalk the fridge, they keep the lights on, all
that stuff. They buy your clothes, and we're supposed to
believe that they don't have a seat at the table,
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they don't have a voice in the conversation. You would
have to be the village idiot to buy that that
that is what's going on here, and without choking on
the packaging and all that stuff they've got. I did
some out of math on this. I think it's almost
eight billion dollars that they're paying out one point three
billion dollars a year. They have they being ABCSPN, they
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have exclusive rights. Plus they run the Southeastern Conference Network,
the SEC network. So that's not really a relationship. That
is a full blown corporate partnership. That's a marriage, a
corporate marriage, if you will, with joint bank accounts in
the whole thing. You think Alabama magically stumbles in with
three losses unless there's some kind of I'm not saying
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that's happening, but maybe there's a world where they say, hey,
we'd like Alabama in there.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We do very well in the ratings. They've got a
good national family, Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
They're the Dallas Cowboys, a college football bigger than that
because there's more Catholics than Cowboys fans. So there you go.
And they don't get priority seating. They don't say, hey,
we're paying a lot of money for this. We're paying
you one point three billion dollars. We know advertisers would
like the Notre Dame fighting. IRN spare me in this business.
The rights holders are not independent observers.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And I know from working in radio stations over the
years that you got to walk on eggshells. I've gotten
in trouble for things I've said when I used to
do local radio, because I would criticize the team we
had to deal with, and people would you can't do that?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Why not as a well, you can't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Because some executive has a stick up as tuck us
and he gets a fan, but who cares?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
They're a partner and all that, and so everyone plays
nice to protect the product and the payout, and you
get a lot of watered down commentary. And just like
team makes seven errors in a baseball game, you say, well,
they're not very good on defense.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But you shouldn't phrase it that way. You shouldn't say
they're not that good on defense. You should say they're
they're working on it, they're working on it. Well, they're
not really working on it. They're they're bad.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
But no, you shouldn't say that because we're you're a
rights holder, and they might upset some Joe blow.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
In the front office.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay, it's an open secret in sports media. When you
own the toy, you help decide who gets to play
with the toy.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Okay, that's it. And you sure no influence. And I'm
the King of England, by the way, and I want.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You to bow down to me legally blind Christopher there
in England, the ex pat who's now living in England.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
All right, final fault.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So we now go to victory lap lane. Where is
victory lap lane? You ask, well, that would be the
NFL social media world. Well, that's just social media.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I get.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'm on the email list for the NFL so they
send me a lot of his emails, and they sent
me the one that was.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Taking a bow. I saw this or not.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
The Cowboys victory over the Chiefs back on Thanksgiving average
fifty seven point two million viewers on CBS, making it
the most watched regular season game in NFL history. The
question is, what do these massive, massive ratings which were
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sent out by some intern at the NFL say about
the power of the National Football League on television. So
this was a viewing smorgas morgue on Thanksgiving. And it's
not because the football was phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It's not that it was fine. It was all right,
But this.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Was more like reheated turkey day leftovers. We shouldn't eat
leftovers the day of Thanksgiving. You should wait a day
at least you have them in the fridge. They taste
better in the fridge.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But I want leftovers right Well, we just served the
meal an hour ago. What are you doing? I just
like the leftovers.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
But a couple think about These are a couple of
non playoff teams. The Chiefs and the Cowboys are not
playoff teams at this point. But here's the truth. The
story that people don't want to talk about at least
in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I think it's all about football. The NFL is no
longer really, Ay, Okay, they're not. It's a content machine,
is what it is. It's an empire. It's not about.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Wins and losses, wins and losses, wins and blankety blank losses.
A late great Tony Phillips, that's a baseball player, told
me when he's very angry with me, probably high on cocaine.
It's storylines. It's storylines over stats. It's sizzle over steak.
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It's the soap opera.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Over the scoreboard. That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You had that secret blend of eleven herbs and spices.
You got Travis Kelcey's America's first Man, Taylor Swift's beefcake
mahomes Mahomie, the modern day Tom Brady Football Royalty. You
got Jerry Jones, the carnival barker of America's team.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It hit every note.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It was finger licking good, every demo, It checked every box,
every family, living room.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And Fox also they got if.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
We got forty seven million people to watch the Lions
and the Packers, and the.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Reason why, let me tell you what I think. You
know this because you live your own life and you're
not dumb.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
The reason why is because nothing distracts from dry turkey,
lumpy mashed potatoes, biscuits that have the density of cinder blocks,
or worse, your in laws asking very intrusive personal questions
quite like NFL football. All right, The ratings tell you
one thing, and one thing only if the NFL builds it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The American sports fan doesn't just come.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
They stampede like a herd of caffeinated buffalo and they
run in.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
They run in to celebrate and be part of it.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And I would argue that the total viewership this crossover, obviously,
but the about one hundred million, ninety nine million viewers
combined on the and CBS game. They went over one
hundred with the late game on Thanksgiving Night. There but
man alife, Man alive. Man, It's it's it's quite the deal,
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And so Waving left. Everyone else watches stuff on demand,
even on radio. I do the live show. We have
people that listen on demand.
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On the podcast. And that's how the world goes around.
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And time now for the Malor Riddle of the Day.
And here's the Mallor Riddle of to day. It is the.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Season of giving and even star people get gifts from
time to time. So the Mallor Riddle of the day.
The Yankees star Aaron Judge received eleven of blank this offseason.
They have received eleven of this thing blank this offseason.
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That is the Mallor Riddle of the day. The answer,
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And back to it, back to it, got to pay
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Happy, no one is happy.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Here is the riddle of the day, Yankee Star Aaron
Judge received eleven of blank this off season. Eleven of
blank this off season. That is the question. What is
the answer and this does anyone know? Eleven cases of
pork gravy from courtesy Flusher who else? Yeah, let's see
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a page Dan see eleven of the gifts from the
Twelve Days of Christmas. Eleven pipers piping from Fergdog who else?
Pairs of Christmas socks guests by Late Night Drug Tester.
Eleven garlic bread cheerios Italian style from King Roy says,
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that's that's zesty. Eleven pipers piping from Donkey Sausage, autographed
Marty Barrett cards. Yes, the great Marty Barrett. It's very
nice there with Judge. Did he get eleven of those?
Alf but he's standing there. I don't know about that.
Colonoscopis from clam that's his answer. Eleven golden crying erotic
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dancers from the American Patriot. Very specific there. Eleven first
place of votes that were actually for cal Raleigh from
Barbecuing Lynn.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That's his answer. Fudgie in Boston says, eleven golden tickets.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Rob in Minnesotaur, Buddy Rob, he knows where all the
good delis Are says, eleven bags of Rocky Mountain oyster jerky.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
He received eleven herbs and spices from Colonel Sanders himself.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
There j T the Wingman, tell me with that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Eleven calls in one day for his extended warranty, his car,
extent car warranty. Eleven golden doodle puppies of course, of
course from Philip Philip torpedo bats guessed by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Who else do we have? Page and I don't know
about that.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Let's see, all right, Eleven inches of mistletoe from Fat Daddy.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Eleven dad jokes from Mike the Leprechaun. Who else? Sugar
Daddy from Alf He says, you've never had a sugar daddy? Well, yeah,
the candy, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I've had that, all right, your sugar daddy, Yellow Laina.
The Mallard Riddle of the Day Yankee Star Aaron Judge
received eleven of blank this offseason.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
He received eleven pictures of Taylor Swift's cats.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Wow, that sounds like a night mirror, but that is
incorrect The correct answer, Aaron Judge. Yankee Star received eleven
write in votes to be the Mayor of New York City.
You have eleven votes the Mayor of New York City.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I would like to point out that I also share something.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I've never gotten a vote for New York City Mayor,
but I have had listeners send me screenshots from the
ballot box where I have been voted in as the
President of the United States. So I have received votes
to be the president write in votes, So thank you
for that. Unfortunately, did not receive enough to win the
electoral college for years. Doc Rivers, Doc Rivers, Doc Mike
(25:44):
forty so Doc Mike from Chicago, who didn't call a
show anymore. But Doc, he'd run for president from the
Health Party and I was his vice presidential guy. He
was the president and I was the vice president. And
that was how that. That was how that went.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And there you go. Let's go to the phones cashing
a golden ticket.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Right now, Mike the Leprechaun is cashing a golden ticket,
Old Michael, I gotta.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
I gotta golden dick. It's the phone moan today. Anyway,
I am like a bandsheet today because my daughter got
back to Reno and she took a one hour shower.
I don't know why women take a one hour shower.
But she did, and I got to play with my
grandson and my dog is real. He's a ship suit.
(26:33):
I hope I said that's the right way. But actually, Ben,
I'm got a sugar daddy on the way to the airport.
I got her a new phone.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Anyway, very nice.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Those phones are expensive and you're bragging great, I.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Got I got free phones. I just had to pay
for the extended clans. That's all it cost me. Thirty bucks.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You do understand there's nothing free. You're you're paying for
it in the back end. You do understand that, right,
You understand how that works. It's free, but they work
it into your phone bill every month, so you're paying
it every month.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
You're paying for the phone.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
What thirty bucks? I can't afford that, But Ben, the
thing is, maybe i'd spend one hundred and fifty on
the you know, the case and all that. Anyway, terrible.
What's the difference between Los Angeles and Kim Kardashian. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Let's see what's the difference. Well, she lives in Calabasas.
I don't know. I think she still lives in cal
I don't know what.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Okay, the difference in Kim Kardashian. Okay, what is it?
Dirty washed up place with many where many men have visited.
And the other one is a city in California.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, you suck. You use the golden ticket
for this. You realize that you're using the golden You're
using a golden ticke. You use your golden ticket. This
is what you've used here.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
So far, he was smart, Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
So far we've gotten that you your daughter takes hour
long showers, and that you got a phone you think
cost you thirty bucks.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I'll be cost you like eight hundred bucks by the time.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
To pay the phone go.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
My bill will be thirty box extra per month because
I have a good plan. Anyway, she left, so you're paying.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
So you're paying thirty dollars a month for the phone.
That's what you're paying every month. You're paying thirty dollars.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Ye, he's a baller, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So how long is Let's do some malor math.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Let's do some math. Hold on at so, hold on,
I'm doing some mal of math. I want to do
malor math. Can I do malor math? I want to
do some damn pound?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Hold on? Hold on? How long was it, all.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Right, So thirty obviously, how many we'll do terms twelve
because that's a year.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
So okay, how many years is that? How many years
is the contract? The phone contract?
Speaker 7 (28:42):
I have a name of this contract so forever, so it's.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
But it's most likely like let's say three years. So
that means that means you will be paying one thousand
and eighty dollars for the phone.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
So what that's for Christmas present?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Fine, you probably you probably get the phone for like
seven hundred something like that.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (29:01):
You know the phone's free.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's not free.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I'm telling you it's not. I know how business works.
It's not free. You're paying for it one way or another.
You're paying for the damn phone.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Okay, Okay, can I sing my song?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Does that mean the call is gonna end? Is the
call gonna end when you send your Okay? All right,
then go ahead. I'm not gonna. If I'm not gonna,
I have no control. I'm in the remote studio. If
Loraina cuts you off, I.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Have no control of the first is at the end. Okay, Tomorrow,
it's going to be cold in Boston. It's going to
be nine and it's going to feel like zero or below.
Let us know that it's still nine below.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
Okay, here it No.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
The weather outside was frightful, the charter was delightful. I
thinks I had no place to go.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Accept the malor show, Malo show, Malo show.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
Marcel, he shows no something.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
He's bragging. Then I'm blocking flying Scott got lost outside
looking for He's fantasye Bright, Holler and James. He keeps
this snow ring he's called or never bowl rings. Weedman
always is laughing. Poppy picks are never right. Lorena is
never listening. She dishes out some tough flows.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Coop is always cheerful.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Let it no, let it no, let it no end?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
All right, Well, Lorena, I mean you can put that
in the system there, Coop. I'm going to add that
to our collection.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Of holiday songs, and we need more. You got in there, Lorena,
your name was mentioned in the song He took shots.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
He say that Coop is the one who's in a
good mood.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
That is the most backwards thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, that's no normal people don't say that. But that's fine.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I mean that's the way he interprets the show and
that's that's his world, that's his how.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
He sees the show.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
And that meant.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Let's keep it going on the phones and who do
we have you?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Let's say hello to uh, let's go to Anthony. Who's
in New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
What's going on? Anthony? Welcome? Hello?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Hello, Hey Anthony bet Mala Hello Anthony in New Hampshire.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
Oh I today.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
If I was any better, I would be sleeping, but
I'm here.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
So yeah, yeah, So I just want to call in
to just talk about the okac Thundr's inn like on
a chier this year.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
What it they been winning like a fifteen in a
row now, is it?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well? They are if you look at the numbers, they're
one of the all time great teams in NBA history
based on the statistical data from the beginning of the season. Now,
the season, as you know, does not really begin for
most people until Christmas, and really now they've even pushed
that back back further. But if you look at your
NBA standings and you look at the Oklahoma City Thunder,
(31:59):
they they're like Secretariat at this point in the in
the Western counter twenty one and one, they've won thirteen
straight games and they have they've absolutely kicked out, but
yet they would only have like a five game lead over.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
The Lakers and the markets. Yeah. Yeah, but they're yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And the problem is they're not very interesting. They're good,
they're not interesting. They're not good for talk radio because
they're lo. It's like a traveling AAU team. They all,
you know, they do that hockey thing where they do
the postgame interview.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
They all like stand behind you know, that's their thing.
It's pretty corny. It's a corny team. But that's fine.
They're good.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
My main question was, do you do you think that
they could possibly beat the seventy three and nine those
day Warriors.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Well, I think they would beat them because all those
guys are old now, So yes, they would.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Beat like when the Warriors and team like seventy three
and nine for the seasons than you think they seventy
three and nine records.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Okay, so we're gonna okay, so we got the hot
top time machine. We're gonna take this team. We're gonna
send that team back to that team or that time.
I take Golden State, I take the Warriors. You asked
me the question, I take the wars all right, I
gotta go thank you man.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You're the man?
Speaker 9 (33:24):
All right?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, Scott? For how can I be the man? You're
the man, You're the man in that hole for all
of the bench. What's he doing these days?
Speaker 6 (33:32):
For?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I got to call him up. I had him on
my podcast.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
He was in a hotel in Jersey and he was like,
I don't know, I don't know what Scott was doing,
but he was having a good time, my man, Scott.
For all part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association.
We have asked Ben. Your questions are answers ask Ben.
We will We'll get to that and we will do it.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
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Speaker 2 (35:34):
It's now time for time for Hony. Wait ask Twitter said,
is your questions on Twitter?
Speaker 9 (35:42):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
And away we go to ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour,
and the.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Reading of the question we go over to the Koupoli.
Speaker 11 (35:57):
All right, Ben, this is a question for you, all right,
I guess that's for everybody.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
No, I think it's for you. Donkey sausage, sad donkey,
hi doggy?
Speaker 11 (36:09):
What he says other than then let me correct your
work here, donkey sausage, other than Bullball's jerky? What is
the most exotic thing that you have eaten?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I'm trying to think I have a pretty basic palate
when it comes to food.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I don't really leave.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I know what I like, and I like what I like,
and that's all I want. And so I'm trying to think, like,
what else I did eat? At one time, I ate
chicken fingers and I thought I was eating honey mustard
and I put a giant spoonful of horse radish into
my mouth and I cried. I cried like a baby.
It was so painful. But I don't eat exotic things.
(36:51):
And Lorraine, any weird stuff you eat, Pete?
Speaker 8 (36:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, I got sent that pack of really
weird beef jerkys.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah you ate all that.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
I'm still working my way through it.
Speaker 8 (37:03):
But the Python was a very.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Interesting one for sure.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
The Python.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Yeah, I like snails to the s cargo. I'm a
big fan who does cool I have also had s cargo.
I have had iguana grilled iguana. Ooh yeah.
Speaker 11 (37:21):
And I think I've had alligator and a couple other
things that I can't think of right now.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
All right, well, what is next? Years ask Ben?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour,
the whole hour.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
This is from Cowboy Killer High Cowboy.
Speaker 11 (37:38):
He wants to know what outside temperature do you consider cold?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, so that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
As I've gotten older, I guess I get a little
colder than I used to. I don't really think it's
cold until it's like to me, it's like under fifty.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Degrees, I think it's really kind of cold.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
But I think it's cool between fifty and sixty. It's
cold under fifty, so i'd say under fifty, what about you, Lorena?
Speaker 8 (38:10):
Under seventy is cold for me. And also I need
to be in the sun, so if it's.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Like, come you gotta grow some hair on your Even.
Speaker 8 (38:17):
If it's low seventies and it's in the shade, I
will be cold.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Wow, such a California softie. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 11 (38:25):
I think I agree with you, Ben. I gotta go
like right around fifty or under Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
You thun get it's at night and even in California,
we do you know, in the valley it gets into
the forties at night often this time of the Yearly.
Speaker 8 (38:37):
It's fifty three right now and I'm really cold when
I walk outside.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yeah, all right? What is when you see your breath?
It's like that's yeah, all right? What's next? What do
you got?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
Adrian would like to know? What is yo?
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Adrian? Yo? Adrian?
Speaker 5 (38:50):
What is everyone's favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Die Hard? No, Harry Potter, Harry Potter, exactly? What do
I watch?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
The last couple of years we watched Elf.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
That was not my favorite before, but the last couple
of years, I'll go with that. Lorena, that's a good one.
Speaker 8 (39:11):
Miracle on thirty fourth Street is one of my favorites.
But the kid with the Yeah, no, no, that's a
that's a Christmas story.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Also a really good.
Speaker 11 (39:22):
Movie, The Miracle on three whatever three fourth Street threes.
Speaker 8 (39:26):
That's the one with where Santa Claus gets arrested.
Speaker 9 (39:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Yeah, Santa Claus is played by the guy in Jurassic Park.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:31):
And it's got Young Matilda.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Yes, yeah, it's super cute.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Love that movie.
Speaker 11 (39:36):
No, mine's the Santa Claus. No, it's the Santa Claus
with Tim Allen.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
What about Bad Chance?
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Like I love Bad Santa.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
That's a great movie. He's not a bad movie. It
is not a bad movie. All right, what is next?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
It's ask Ben Your questions are answers. If you like it,
we're here every week. If you don't like it, yeah,
who cares?
Speaker 2 (39:55):
This once a week? Chill out due.
Speaker 11 (39:57):
Everybody's gonna get mad at me. But I have another
one from Donkey saw there it's just a good dog.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
This is where I get the email school. What does
Cooper only use certain people's questions and he doesn't use
my questions?
Speaker 11 (40:07):
I don't notice. If you mentioned sports in your question,
I'm not reading it. And if it's a lame question,
I'm not reading it. But anyway, this is a good one.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (40:15):
He wants to know what is the most embarrassing fashion
trend that you have ever rocked?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Well, I I will say I didn't know it at
the time because I was a child, But there are photos,
you know, my parents passed away and I went through
the old photo albums and there were photos of little
Fat Benny and bell bottoms.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
So I would say that would probably be, but I did.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Also when there was what were those pants that was
guy's name in Oakland?
Speaker 5 (40:39):
They were like mc hammer, Yeah, mc hammer.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
They had the weird puff pants or hairshoe pants. Yea
farashue pants Larina.
Speaker 8 (40:47):
I like the ones with the zippers on them. But
I really don't regret any of my fashion choices. Fashion changes,
and we'll constantly do that and I will rock every
single one.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Until okay, all right cool.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
I went through a little phase in high school, very short.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
That one you dressed like a tampon.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
No, that was for Halloween. But I did wear a
trench coat for a little bit.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Oh you weirdo?
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (41:10):
Look, I was trying to you know, I didn't know where,
you know, just finding myself.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
A teenager could have gone goth. You know, he was
thinking maybe golf.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Yeah, you know I was. I was questioning am I
going to go down that road?
Speaker 8 (41:21):
And you know, as a child start you can do
whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Yeah, wow, look at that? All right, what's next year? Quickly?
Speaker 5 (41:27):
If you could travel to a fictional land, what would
it be?
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Uh? Fictional land? Probably when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
I love Star Wars, so I'd go to like the
Death Star and walk around.
Speaker 8 (41:37):
What about you, Lorena, I'd go to where Alice in
Wonderland is. I go to Wonderland.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Think you do that?
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Day?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Baby? Cool?
Speaker 11 (41:47):
Setting myself up for a joke here, but never Land duh.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
Well, but the fictional one, not the real one.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
A lot of kids were there, Cooper, the change their
lives not maybe for the better, Coop. I'm it's saying,
you know, back in the day,
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
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The confluence the Alleghany, the Managa Halo, forming the Ohio
River and forming a firestorm. As it is on like
don't get calling against Mike Tomlin. Couple of Steeler legends
have joined the chorus boo boo, and they're saying, Hey,
(04:01):
it's time for Mike Tomlin to skid daddle, get out
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suggesting that the longtime Steeler.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Coach and his coach.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
He'd been pretty good over the Penn State put over
there at Penn State.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Do you see any of this?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
No, you didn't see this though, all right, well, Roethlisberger
was joined by his former teammate James Harrison, that badass
defensive player James Harrison. They both weighed in on Tomlin's
future as the speculation machine crisis in the Burg. These
Steelers are struggling to tie their shoes, chew gum and
(04:42):
walk at the same time. So will they actually get
rid of Tomlin. Will they bring in another coach that
has always been a tenured professor job in Pittsburgh. They've
had three coaches they've had we've had more popes. It's
it's the Steelers came around when they became good with
(05:02):
Chuck Nole, Bill Kawer.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And Mike Tomlin. And that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You got to go back to like the nineteen sixties.
That's a long, long, long, long time obviously. But just
to prove I'm not making this up.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Here is Ben.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Roethlisberger on some podcasts that have seven listeners. Here's Roethlisberger
commenting that it's slightly time.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No, it's it's being talked about around here a lot.
Maybe it's time. Maybe it's a cleanhouse time. Maybe it is.
Maybe it's time. And I like coach Tomlin. I have
a lot of respect coach Tomlin. But maybe it's best
for him too. Maybe a fresh start for him is
what's best, whether that's in the pros, whether maybe go
be Penn State's head coach. You know what he would
do in Penn State. He'd probably go win national championships.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Okay, so that's Roethsberg. He did throw a butt in there, Yeah,
he said. I but Harrison he played under Tomlin for
parts of ten seasons in Pittsburgh. And he also said
this week he said something has to be done. That's
James Harrison. Something has to be done, he said, And
he added that he doesn't consider Tomlin a great coach.
(06:09):
Body blow, buddy blow, body blow. Okay, So Roethlisberger is
stressed that he said that the Steers Obviously, as you
heard there, he said they should not fire Tomlin, but
he said they should reach an agreement, which is.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Semantics, to end his time in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That is a good jumping off point the question as
we discussed the question, like would Mike Tomlin even be
interested in the Penn State job?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Would he even be interested? So my views on this, I've.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Got shrimp, cocktail, joint bank account, and secret blend, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to howl like a manchie, is what we're
going to do, because that's what you do it now,
you howl like a banchie, you do. First of all,
would Mike Tomlin be interested in the Penn State job?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Get out of here? What are you talking about? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Not absolutely now This is Ben Roethlisberger tossing out a
left handed compliment like he's hanging out a free gas
station hot dog somewhere on the side of the interstate. Hey, coach,
I respect you. Now go take a demotionion to Happy Valley. Okay,
what are we doing here? Why would Tomlin, who has
a lifetime employment, he's never going to be fired. Why
(07:23):
would Tomlan leave the Penthouse a great job, you don't
have to worry about being fired.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They don't do it, and then go coach to junior varsity?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Why would you want to go to junior varsity Penn
State in twenty twenty five. It's not the cushy joe
paw country club it was in the seventies and the
eighties and all that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Penn State in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's a war zone there. They can't even hire a
coach right now. I was busting LaVar Arrington's chops yesterday.
I think he knows who the new coach is going
to be. He wouldn't tell me. I said, you got
to tell me the war. He wouldn't tell me. Like,
come on, all right, tell me, I won't tell you.
He played, you know, he played over I don't run.
I think he knows. But that aside, it's nil warfare,
nil warfare, transfer portal mercenaries. You've got boosters fighting with boosters,
(08:16):
and you've got nil guys that have more demands than
bride Zilla.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's a nightmare. It's an obstacle.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Course that is littered literally the college football world with
Kamakazi drones and booby traps.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Meanwhile, if you're an NFL coach, it's your royalty.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're flying private, you're eating shrip cocktails at thirty five
thousand feet in the sky, and you're laughing about those
college football guys. College football today is like trying to
navigate a minefield on roller skates.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Good luck, you know, can be done? Not likely?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And why would Tomlin who hasn't had a losing season,
as we want a playoff game in a while, but
losing what is seventeen freaking years or something like that,
I think.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Might be even more than that. But why would he
sign up for that?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Like Mike Tomlin left the Steelers, he would walk out
of Pittsburgh and right into the catmergency. He wouldn't have
to go to express pros. He would he would just
get Hey, it's the New York Giants. Hey, Mike, how
would you like to coach the Giants? Hey it's the Tennessee. Hey,
hey Mike, tom how would you like to come to Nashville.
We've got good country music. There's a Johnny Cash museum here.
(09:26):
How about that Arizona? Hey, you like cactus. Many people
come here to retire and die. You want to come
to Arizona?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Sure? Why not? What the hell?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
How about Atlanta? I believe Tomlin's daughter goes to college
in Atlanta, the Atlanta area, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Take your pick. Take your pick.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Or Tomlin could always pull the Gruden slide on into television.
Put the tools of ignorance on, the makeup, the suit,
the telestrator, all that, and have a carnival in the
broadcast booth and just use your Mike tomlinisms.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And you're on your way.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But Tomlin at Penn State, please like, that's like giving
up first class. You're flying across the country and I
don't really want this first class seat.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Let me let me get the.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Middle seat in the back, near the near the toilet,
between two fat people.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Let me get that. Roethlisberger knows it right, Harrison knows it.
We all know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Every man, woman and child knows it's total nonsense. There
is a world in the multiverse where Tomlin does end
up leaving Pittsburgh, not to college.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
This doesn't make sense to me, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Secondly to TV Land we go where cottage football play
by playboys, Chris Fowler promised that ABZ and ESPN play
no part in pulling these strings. They're not the puppeteers
for the college football playoff committee.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The question on this one.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Chris Fowler, longtime loyal minion to that small, fledgling cable
network out of Bristol, Connecticut. He says they play no
part in college football selection, of no influence on who's
in the playoff and who's Where do you.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
File this one? All right?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So I file this one under fairy tales and bedtime stories,
right next to the tooth Fairy having dinner with Santa
Claus and the Easter Bunny. Okay, the refs don't favor superstars, please.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Like the same concept. I was like, well, there's no makeup.
I work with a.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Guy he's in Florida now, but he's retired, but he
we gotta fight.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
He said, Well, the NBA doesn't do makeup co Oh,
yes they do. No they don't.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Why would they do that? No, they do, they do.
They do the same concept. ESPN is the sugar daddy
of college football. And if you've ever had a sugar daddy,
I have not. But the sugar daddy pays the rent,
They stalk the fridge, they keep the lights on, all
that stuff. They buy your clothes, and we're supposed to
believe that they don't have a seat at the table,
(11:54):
they don't have a voice in the conversation. You would
have to be the village idiot to buy that that
that is what's going on here, and without choking on
the packaging and all that stuff they've got. I did
some out of math on this. I think it's almost
eight billion dollars that they're paying out one point three
billion dollars a year. They have they being ABCSPN, they
(12:17):
have exclusive rights. Plus they run the Southeastern Conference Network,
the SEC network. So that's not really a relationship. That
is a full blown corporate partnership. That's a marriage, a
corporate marriage, if you will, with joint bank accounts in
the whole thing. You think Alabama magically stumbles in with
three losses unless there's some kind of I'm not saying
(12:41):
that's happening, but maybe there's a world where they say, hey,
we'd like Alabama in there.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We do very well in the ratings. They've got a
good national family, Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
They're the Dallas Cowboys, a college football bigger than that
because there's more Catholics than Cowboys fans. So there you go.
And they don't get priority seating. They don't say, hey,
we're paying a lot of money for this. We're paying
you one point three billion dollars. We know advertisers would
like the Notre Dame fighting. IRN spare me in this business.
The rights holders are not independent observers.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And I know from working in radio stations over the
years that you got to walk on eggshells. I've gotten
in trouble for things I've said when I used to
do local radio, because I would criticize the team we
had to deal with, and people would you can't do that?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Why not as a well, you can't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Because some executive has a stick up as tuck us
and he gets a fan, but who cares?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
They're a partner and all that, and so everyone plays
nice to protect the product and the payout, and you
get a lot of watered down commentary. And just like
team makes seven errors in a baseball game, you say, well,
they're not very good on defense.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But you shouldn't phrase it that way. You shouldn't say
they're not that good on defense. You should say they're
they're working on it, they're working on it. Well, they're
not really working on it. They're they're bad.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
But no, you shouldn't say that because we're you're a
rights holder, and they might upset some Joe blow.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
In the front office.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay, it's an open secret in sports media. When you
own the toy, you help decide who gets to play
with the toy.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Okay, that's it. And you sure no influence. And I'm
the King of England, by the way, and I want.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You to bow down to me legally blind Christopher there
in England, the ex pat who's now living in England.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
All right, final fault.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So we now go to victory lap lane. Where is
victory lap lane? You ask, well, that would be the
NFL social media world. Well, that's just social media.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I get.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'm on the email list for the NFL so they
send me a lot of his emails, and they sent
me the one that was.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Taking a bow. I saw this or not.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
The Cowboys victory over the Chiefs back on Thanksgiving average
fifty seven point two million viewers on CBS, making it
the most watched regular season game in NFL history. The
question is, what do these massive, massive ratings which were
(15:06):
sent out by some intern at the NFL say about
the power of the National Football League on television. So
this was a viewing smorgas morgue on Thanksgiving. And it's
not because the football was phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It's not that it was fine. It was all right,
But this.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Was more like reheated turkey day leftovers. We shouldn't eat
leftovers the day of Thanksgiving. You should wait a day
at least you have them in the fridge. They taste
better in the fridge.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But I want leftovers right Well, we just served the
meal an hour ago. What are you doing? I just
like the leftovers.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
But a couple think about These are a couple of
non playoff teams. The Chiefs and the Cowboys are not
playoff teams at this point. But here's the truth. The
story that people don't want to talk about at least
in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I think it's all about football. The NFL is no
longer really, Ay, Okay, they're not. It's a content machine,
is what it is. It's an empire. It's not about.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Wins and losses, wins and losses, wins and blankety blank losses.
A late great Tony Phillips, that's a baseball player, told
me when he's very angry with me, probably high on cocaine.
It's storylines. It's storylines over stats. It's sizzle over steak.
(16:26):
It's the soap opera.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Over the scoreboard. That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You had that secret blend of eleven herbs and spices.
You got Travis Kelcey's America's first Man, Taylor Swift's beefcake
mahomes Mahomie, the modern day Tom Brady Football Royalty. You
got Jerry Jones, the carnival barker of America's team.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It hit every note.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It was finger licking good, every demo, It checked every box,
every family, living room.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And Fox also they got if.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
We got forty seven million people to watch the Lions
and the Packers, and the.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Reason why, let me tell you what I think. You
know this because you live your own life and you're
not dumb.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
The reason why is because nothing distracts from dry turkey,
lumpy mashed potatoes, biscuits that have the density of cinder blocks,
or worse, your in laws asking very intrusive personal questions
quite like NFL football. All right, The ratings tell you
one thing, and one thing only if the NFL builds it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The American sports fan doesn't just come.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
They stampede like a herd of caffeinated buffalo and they
run in.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
They run in to celebrate and be part of it.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And I would argue that the total viewership this crossover, obviously,
but the about one hundred million, ninety nine million viewers
combined on the and CBS game. They went over one
hundred with the late game on Thanksgiving Night. There but
man alife, Man alive. Man, It's it's it's quite the deal,
(18:11):
And so Waving left. Everyone else watches stuff on demand,
even on radio. I do the live show. We have
people that listen on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
On the podcast. And that's how the world goes around.
It is the Ben Mather Show.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The latest episode of Benny Versus the Penny is up,
by the way, Yeah, Benny Versus the Penny. I believable.
You can check that out right now on YouTube. We
had our most views ever last weekend.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
So thank you for that. That was your gift to
the Benny Versus the Penny crew. And what a crew
it is. What a crew, My god. Anyway, it's at
Benny Vspenny on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
That's my picks against the spread for every every matchup,
every matchup. We have asked Ben coming up later this hour,
we'll take your calls at eight seven, seven.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
If you'd like to be part of the live program.
And time now for the Malor Riddle of the Day.
And here's the Mallor Riddle of to day. It is the.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Season of giving and even star people get gifts from
time to time. So the Mallor Riddle of the day.
The Yankees star Aaron Judge received eleven of blank this offseason.
They have received eleven of this thing blank this offseason.
(19:32):
That is the Mallor Riddle of the day. The answer,
we'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
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Speaker 2 (20:28):
Grown.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Lenstra wants.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No more games of notes. Oh you got rid of
those than they all died?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, classic Malard holiday song, spreading the joy of this
dropping knowledge bombs.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Right and left. Yes, amazing, absolutely amazing. We thank you
were listening. If you want to be part of the show.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
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Speaker 1 (21:32):
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Speaker 2 (22:06):
We don't do sporty. We don't do sporty. We don't
do sporty. We don't do sporty.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And back to it, back to it, got to pay
off the mallor Riddle of the day, or else Lady
Sideburns will be very upset with me. We do not
want Lady Sideburns upset. You don't want to upset Lady
Sideburns because if Lady Cyburns isn't.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Happy, no one is happy.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Here is the riddle of the day, Yankee Star Aaron
Judge received eleven of blank this off season. Eleven of
blank this off season. That is the question. What is
the answer and this does anyone know? Eleven cases of
pork gravy from courtesy Flusher who else? Yeah, let's see
(22:48):
a page Dan see eleven of the gifts from the
Twelve Days of Christmas. Eleven pipers piping from Fergdog who else?
Pairs of Christmas socks guests by Late Night Drug Tester.
Eleven garlic bread cheerios Italian style from King Roy says,
(23:10):
that's that's zesty. Eleven pipers piping from Donkey Sausage, autographed
Marty Barrett cards. Yes, the great Marty Barrett. It's very
nice there with Judge. Did he get eleven of those?
Alf but he's standing there. I don't know about that.
Colonoscopis from clam that's his answer. Eleven golden crying erotic
(23:32):
dancers from the American Patriot. Very specific there. Eleven first
place of votes that were actually for cal Raleigh from
Barbecuing Lynn.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That's his answer. Fudgie in Boston says, eleven golden tickets.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Rob in Minnesotaur, Buddy Rob, he knows where all the
good delis Are says, eleven bags of Rocky Mountain oyster jerky.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
He received eleven herbs and spices from Colonel Sanders himself.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
There j T the Wingman, tell me with that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Eleven calls in one day for his extended warranty, his car,
extent car warranty. Eleven golden doodle puppies of course, of
course from Philip Philip torpedo bats guessed by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Who else do we have? Page and I don't know
about that.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Let's see, all right, Eleven inches of mistletoe from Fat Daddy.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Eleven dad jokes from Mike the Leprechaun. Who else? Sugar
Daddy from Alf He says, you've never had a sugar daddy? Well, yeah,
the candy, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I've had that, all right, your sugar daddy, Yellow Laina.
The Mallard Riddle of the Day Yankee Star Aaron Judge
received eleven of blank this offseason.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
He received eleven pictures of Taylor Swift's cats.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Wow, that sounds like a night mirror, but that is
incorrect The correct answer, Aaron Judge. Yankee Star received eleven
write in votes to be the Mayor of New York City.
You have eleven votes the Mayor of New York City.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I would like to point out that I also share something.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I've never gotten a vote for New York City Mayor,
but I have had listeners send me screenshots from the
ballot box where I have been voted in as the
President of the United States. So I have received votes
to be the president write in votes, So thank you
for that. Unfortunately, did not receive enough to win the
electoral college for years. Doc Rivers, Doc Rivers, Doc Mike
(25:44):
forty so Doc Mike from Chicago, who didn't call a
show anymore. But Doc, he'd run for president from the
Health Party and I was his vice presidential guy. He
was the president and I was the vice president. And
that was how that. That was how that went.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And there you go. Let's go to the phones cashing
a golden ticket.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Right now, Mike the Leprechaun is cashing a golden ticket,
Old Michael, I gotta.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
I gotta golden dick. It's the phone moan today. Anyway,
I am like a bandsheet today because my daughter got
back to Reno and she took a one hour shower.
I don't know why women take a one hour shower.
But she did, and I got to play with my
grandson and my dog is real. He's a ship suit.
(26:33):
I hope I said that's the right way. But actually, Ben,
I'm got a sugar daddy on the way to the airport.
I got her a new phone.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Anyway, very nice.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Those phones are expensive and you're bragging great, I.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Got I got free phones. I just had to pay
for the extended clans. That's all it cost me. Thirty bucks.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You do understand there's nothing free. You're you're paying for
it in the back end. You do understand that, right,
You understand how that works. It's free, but they work
it into your phone bill every month, so you're paying
it every month.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
You're paying for the phone.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
What thirty bucks? I can't afford that, But Ben, the
thing is, maybe i'd spend one hundred and fifty on
the you know, the case and all that. Anyway, terrible.
What's the difference between Los Angeles and Kim Kardashian. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Let's see what's the difference. Well, she lives in Calabasas.
I don't know. I think she still lives in cal
I don't know what.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Okay, the difference in Kim Kardashian. Okay, what is it?
Dirty washed up place with many where many men have visited.
And the other one is a city in California.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, you suck. You use the golden ticket
for this. You realize that you're using the golden You're
using a golden ticke. You use your golden ticket. This
is what you've used here.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
So far, he was smart, Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
So far we've gotten that you your daughter takes hour
long showers, and that you got a phone you think
cost you thirty bucks.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I'll be cost you like eight hundred bucks by the time.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
To pay the phone go.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
My bill will be thirty box extra per month because
I have a good plan. Anyway, she left, so you're paying.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
So you're paying thirty dollars a month for the phone.
That's what you're paying every month. You're paying thirty dollars.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Ye, he's a baller, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So how long is Let's do some malor math.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Let's do some math. Hold on at so, hold on,
I'm doing some mal of math. I want to do
malor math. Can I do malor math? I want to
do some damn pound?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Hold on? Hold on? How long was it, all.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Right, So thirty obviously, how many we'll do terms twelve
because that's a year.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
So okay, how many years is that? How many years
is the contract? The phone contract?
Speaker 7 (28:42):
I have a name of this contract so forever, so it's.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
But it's most likely like let's say three years. So
that means that means you will be paying one thousand
and eighty dollars for the phone.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
So what that's for Christmas present?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Fine, you probably you probably get the phone for like
seven hundred something like that.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (29:01):
You know the phone's free.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's not free.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I'm telling you it's not. I know how business works.
It's not free. You're paying for it one way or another.
You're paying for the damn phone.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Okay, Okay, can I sing my song?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Does that mean the call is gonna end? Is the
call gonna end when you send your Okay? All right,
then go ahead. I'm not gonna. If I'm not gonna,
I have no control. I'm in the remote studio. If
Loraina cuts you off, I.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Have no control of the first is at the end. Okay, Tomorrow,
it's going to be cold in Boston. It's going to
be nine and it's going to feel like zero or below.
Let us know that it's still nine below.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
Okay, here it No.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
The weather outside was frightful, the charter was delightful. I
thinks I had no place to go.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Accept the malor show, Malo show, Malo show.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
Marcel, he shows no something.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
He's bragging. Then I'm blocking flying Scott got lost outside
looking for He's fantasye Bright, Holler and James. He keeps
this snow ring he's called or never bowl rings. Weedman
always is laughing. Poppy picks are never right. Lorena is
never listening. She dishes out some tough flows.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Coop is always cheerful.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Let it no, let it no, let it no end?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
All right, Well, Lorena, I mean you can put that
in the system there, Coop. I'm going to add that
to our collection.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Of holiday songs, and we need more. You got in there, Lorena,
your name was mentioned in the song He took shots.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
He say that Coop is the one who's in a
good mood.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
That is the most backwards thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, that's no normal people don't say that. But that's fine.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I mean that's the way he interprets the show and
that's that's his world, that's his how.
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He sees the show.
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And that meant.
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Let's keep it going on the phones and who do
we have you?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Let's say hello to uh, let's go to Anthony. Who's
in New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
What's going on? Anthony? Welcome? Hello?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Hello, Hey Anthony bet Mala Hello Anthony in New Hampshire.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
Oh I today.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
If I was any better, I would be sleeping, but
I'm here.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
So yeah, yeah, So I just want to call in
to just talk about the okac Thundr's inn like on
a chier this year.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
What it they been winning like a fifteen in a
row now, is it?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well? They are if you look at the numbers, they're
one of the all time great teams in NBA history
based on the statistical data from the beginning of the season. Now,
the season, as you know, does not really begin for
most people until Christmas, and really now they've even pushed
that back back further. But if you look at your
NBA standings and you look at the Oklahoma City Thunder,
(31:59):
they they're like Secretariat at this point in the in
the Western counter twenty one and one, they've won thirteen
straight games and they have they've absolutely kicked out, but
yet they would only have like a five game lead over.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
The Lakers and the markets. Yeah. Yeah, but they're yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And the problem is they're not very interesting. They're good,
they're not interesting. They're not good for talk radio because
they're lo. It's like a traveling AAU team. They all,
you know, they do that hockey thing where they do
the postgame interview.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
They all like stand behind you know, that's their thing.
It's pretty corny. It's a corny team. But that's fine.
They're good.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
My main question was, do you do you think that
they could possibly beat the seventy three and nine those
day Warriors.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Well, I think they would beat them because all those
guys are old now, So yes, they would.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Beat like when the Warriors and team like seventy three
and nine for the seasons than you think they seventy
three and nine records.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Okay, so we're gonna okay, so we got the hot
top time machine. We're gonna take this team. We're gonna
send that team back to that team or that time.
I take Golden State, I take the Warriors. You asked
me the question, I take the wars all right, I
gotta go thank you man.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You're the man?
Speaker 9 (33:24):
All right?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, Scott? For how can I be the man? You're
the man, You're the man in that hole for all
of the bench. What's he doing these days?
Speaker 6 (33:32):
For?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I got to call him up. I had him on
my podcast.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
He was in a hotel in Jersey and he was like,
I don't know, I don't know what Scott was doing,
but he was having a good time, my man, Scott.
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Speaker 2 (35:34):
It's now time for time for Hony. Wait ask Twitter said,
is your questions on Twitter?
Speaker 9 (35:42):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
And away we go to ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour,
and the.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Reading of the question we go over to the Koupoli.
Speaker 11 (35:57):
All right, Ben, this is a question for you, all right,
I guess that's for everybody.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
No, I think it's for you. Donkey sausage, sad donkey,
hi doggy?
Speaker 11 (36:09):
What he says other than then let me correct your
work here, donkey sausage, other than Bullball's jerky? What is
the most exotic thing that you have eaten?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I'm trying to think I have a pretty basic palate
when it comes to food.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I don't really leave.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I know what I like, and I like what I like,
and that's all I want. And so I'm trying to think, like,
what else I did eat? At one time, I ate
chicken fingers and I thought I was eating honey mustard
and I put a giant spoonful of horse radish into
my mouth and I cried. I cried like a baby.
It was so painful. But I don't eat exotic things.
(36:51):
And Lorraine, any weird stuff you eat, Pete?
Speaker 8 (36:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, I got sent that pack of really
weird beef jerkys.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah you ate all that.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
I'm still working my way through it.
Speaker 8 (37:03):
But the Python was a very.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Interesting one for sure.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
The Python.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Yeah, I like snails to the s cargo. I'm a
big fan who does cool I have also had s cargo.
I have had iguana grilled iguana. Ooh yeah.
Speaker 11 (37:21):
And I think I've had alligator and a couple other
things that I can't think of right now.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
All right, well, what is next? Years ask Ben?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour,
the whole hour.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
This is from Cowboy Killer High Cowboy.
Speaker 11 (37:38):
He wants to know what outside temperature do you consider cold?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, so that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
As I've gotten older, I guess I get a little
colder than I used to. I don't really think it's
cold until it's like to me, it's like under fifty.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Degrees, I think it's really kind of cold.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
But I think it's cool between fifty and sixty. It's
cold under fifty, so i'd say under fifty, what about you, Lorena?
Speaker 8 (38:10):
Under seventy is cold for me. And also I need
to be in the sun, so if it's.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Like, come you gotta grow some hair on your Even.
Speaker 8 (38:17):
If it's low seventies and it's in the shade, I
will be cold.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Wow, such a California softie. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 11 (38:25):
I think I agree with you, Ben. I gotta go
like right around fifty or under Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
You thun get it's at night and even in California,
we do you know, in the valley it gets into
the forties at night often this time of the Yearly.
Speaker 8 (38:37):
It's fifty three right now and I'm really cold when
I walk outside.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yeah, all right? What is when you see your breath?
It's like that's yeah, all right? What's next? What do
you got?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
Adrian would like to know? What is yo?
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Adrian? Yo? Adrian?
Speaker 5 (38:50):
What is everyone's favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Die Hard? No, Harry Potter, Harry Potter, exactly? What do
I watch?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
The last couple of years we watched Elf.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
That was not my favorite before, but the last couple
of years, I'll go with that. Lorena, that's a good one.
Speaker 8 (39:11):
Miracle on thirty fourth Street is one of my favorites.
But the kid with the Yeah, no, no, that's a
that's a Christmas story.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Also a really good.
Speaker 11 (39:22):
Movie, The Miracle on three whatever three fourth Street threes.
Speaker 8 (39:26):
That's the one with where Santa Claus gets arrested.
Speaker 9 (39:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Yeah, Santa Claus is played by the guy in Jurassic Park.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:31):
And it's got Young Matilda.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Yes, yeah, it's super cute.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Love that movie.
Speaker 11 (39:36):
No, mine's the Santa Claus. No, it's the Santa Claus
with Tim Allen.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
What about Bad Chance?
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Like I love Bad Santa.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
That's a great movie. He's not a bad movie. It
is not a bad movie. All right, what is next?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
It's ask Ben Your questions are answers. If you like it,
we're here every week. If you don't like it, yeah,
who cares?
Speaker 2 (39:55):
This once a week? Chill out due.
Speaker 11 (39:57):
Everybody's gonna get mad at me. But I have another
one from Donkey saw there it's just a good dog.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
This is where I get the email school. What does
Cooper only use certain people's questions and he doesn't use
my questions?
Speaker 11 (40:07):
I don't notice. If you mentioned sports in your question,
I'm not reading it. And if it's a lame question,
I'm not reading it. But anyway, this is a good one.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (40:15):
He wants to know what is the most embarrassing fashion
trend that you have ever rocked?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Well, I I will say I didn't know it at
the time because I was a child, But there are photos,
you know, my parents passed away and I went through
the old photo albums and there were photos of little
Fat Benny and bell bottoms.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
So I would say that would probably be, but I did.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Also when there was what were those pants that was
guy's name in Oakland?
Speaker 5 (40:39):
They were like mc hammer, Yeah, mc hammer.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
They had the weird puff pants or hairshoe pants. Yea
farashue pants Larina.
Speaker 8 (40:47):
I like the ones with the zippers on them. But
I really don't regret any of my fashion choices. Fashion changes,
and we'll constantly do that and I will rock every
single one.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Until okay, all right cool.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
I went through a little phase in high school, very short.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
That one you dressed like a tampon.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
No, that was for Halloween. But I did wear a
trench coat for a little bit.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Oh you weirdo?
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (41:10):
Look, I was trying to you know, I didn't know where,
you know, just finding myself.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
A teenager could have gone goth. You know, he was
thinking maybe golf.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Yeah, you know I was. I was questioning am I
going to go down that road?
Speaker 8 (41:21):
And you know, as a child start you can do
whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Yeah, wow, look at that? All right, what's next year? Quickly?
Speaker 5 (41:27):
If you could travel to a fictional land, what would
it be?
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Uh? Fictional land? Probably when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
I love Star Wars, so I'd go to like the
Death Star and walk around.
Speaker 8 (41:37):
What about you, Lorena, I'd go to where Alice in
Wonderland is. I go to Wonderland.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Think you do that?
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Day?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Baby? Cool?
Speaker 11 (41:47):
Setting myself up for a joke here, but never Land duh.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
Well, but the fictional one, not the real one.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
A lot of kids were there, Cooper, the change their
lives not maybe for the better, Coop. I'm it's saying,
you know, back in the day,
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