Latest / The Ben Maller Show / Hour 4 - Melting Steel

Transcript

Hour 4 - Melting Steel · The Ben Maller Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Holy guacamole. It's our number four. Hour four. Ben Maller Show.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: We have been here all night with Fresh Pod. And
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: here in hour number four. How are things looking for
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's Steelers offense with Aaron Rodgers' latest performance or
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: lack thereof? Also, did Patriots coach Mike Vrabel expose himself
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: by getting defensive over perfectly legitimate Drake May questions? And
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: does C.J. Stroud get a mulligan? Because he did his
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: job in the Texans' loss. Or did he do his job?
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about all of those things and more right now.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: Have a wonderful Monday. It is the 21st day of September.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: And here it is, hour number four. Melting steel, or
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: just melting. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Polka pals, as we scrape out the good stuff and
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: put it here, there, and everywhere. Coast to coast, border
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: to border, and beyond. On the Vast. And spicily powerful
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: microphones of FS are emanating live from the stew. And
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: the clickety-click as we click this into place. Guaranteed human
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: from the world-famous Fox Sports Radio studios.
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: Where none other.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: Then Drip Heart and Crypto Ray all say, hey, Mallor,
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: can you please let us know about Webull? And I say,
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: you know what?
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: We will do that for you.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: Why not? You asked nicely. We'll do it for you.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: It's time to get your financial portfolio game ready with Webull.
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: Get powerful investing tools, real-time data, all in one platform.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Get started by downloading the Webull app today or visiting Webull.com.
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: Webull Financial, LLC, member SIPC, FINRA. Investing involves risk. For
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: more information, visit Webull.com. Now, Oziwaz and Jason the Diamond Man,
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: they reached out to me and they said, Hey, Mallard.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: You know, we really want to know about that DraftKings.
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: I said, are you sure you want to know about DraftKings?
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: They said, yeah. So the wait is over. Football is here.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: And so is DraftKings. That's right, JT, the wingman. DraftKings
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: is now live in all 50 states, one app, every sport,
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: all 50 states, even where Robbie the Mariner fan is
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: Use the promo code MALLER.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: That's M-A-L-L-E-R to claim your special offer at DraftKings. Again,
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: that's promo code MALLER at DraftKings. The crown is yours.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the game that
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: was played in the Commonwealth. Now, we'll work our way
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: back to the Sunday night game as the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs are back, baby. They are back as they
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: win in overtime. against a pathetic Colts defense. As Mahomes
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: putting up big numbers. Kelsey looked like it was six
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: years ago playing much younger. But we're going to focus
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: in on what happened in the Commonwealth now. We'll get
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: back to that game later on. The Steelers and Patriots,
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: mano a mano. Did you watch?
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: No.
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: Well, this is in the early television window. Aaron Rodgers.
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, P.U.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: What's next? Rodgers trying to take the blame, although he
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: did it in a classic passive-aggressive way, as he also
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: called out the coaching staff a bit. Rodgers trying to
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: take some of the blame. Pittsburgh ended up scoring how
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: many points? Not one, not two, but three points in
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: a loss to the New England football team, 20-3 the final.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: Rodgers said his performance, quote, wasn't good enough. and stressed
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: that the Steelers players need to look at themselves rather
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: than point fingers. All the standard nonsense. Rodgers also said,
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: got to watch the tape. Got to watch the tape.
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: He said Rodgers finished 23 of 39 for 187 yards passing,
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: four sacks, one of them a sack that he will
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: feel when he is in his 60s. Heck, he's going
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: to feel it right now. My God. It was just bad.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: Rodgers blindsided. Most of the time, sacks.
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: Are on the quarterback. Rather, this was on the offensive line.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: Most of the time, we point out that the quarterback's
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: got to get rid of the ball quicker. It's on
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: the quarterback. This time, it was on the offensive line.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: So he was sacked four times. One of them, a blindside,
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: just destroying, tear-the-body-apart type hit. And so through two games,
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: Rodgers has thrown just one touchdown pass on 79 pass attempts.
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh offense continues to flutter and sputter. It's a
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: hot mess. Well, here is Rodgers here. And this is
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: what I was talking about. Rodgers commenting, I wasn't good enough.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: But listen to his conversation about the coaching staff led
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: by Mike McCarthy. Take a listen. Let's go to the
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: audio tape.
• 5:30
  Speaker 4: In a game like today where there wasn't a lot
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: of flow to it, we need to be better, and
• 5:33
  Speaker 4: it starts with me, at making sure Mike knows what's working,
• 5:38
  Speaker 4: what's not working, our coaches know, and so we can
• 5:41
  Speaker 4: call stuff that we feel like has a better chance.
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: So that's his way of passively, aggressively saying Mike McCarthy
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: is a boob and doesn't know what he's doing. And
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: so I have to spoon feed Mike McCarthy because he's.
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: Bad at his job.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: And so I have to let him know it's going
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: to sound like I'm really the one being the bigger man.
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: But really, I'm throwing him under the proverbial team plane.
• 6:09
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: There you go. Now, the Steelers have a lot of problems,
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of problems. They went out and got their
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: forever wide receiver. DK Metcalf, who is now a plotting
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: possession receiver with hands of stone. DK Metcalf, they targeted
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: him nine times. He only caught four passes for 27
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: yards for the Sears.
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: Now, that sounds.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: Familiar because if you remember in week number one, back
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: in week one.
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: DK Metcalf was targeted. Ten times he had four catches.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: So that means my computer-like brain tells me 19 targets
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: for DK Metcalf, and that's only eight catches, which I
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: don't think is good. Oh, you're so mean, Maller. Why
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: are you going to be so mean? What's wrong with you?
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: Because he's trying. Oh, my God.
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what is the catch rate?
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: My computer-like brain tells me that is a percentage which
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: is embarrassingly low. Embarrassingly low is the percentage.
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: All right, so that is a good jumping off point.
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: Let us discuss the question.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: How are things looking right now for Mike McCarthy and
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: his Pittsburgh Steelers offense? McCarthy made his bread and butter
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: as an offensive coach before he became a head coach.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: So how are things looking for Mike McCarthy's Steelers offense
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers and his current performance or lack thereof?
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: So my views on this, I've got waffle. pep, and
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: won the election. And we will combine.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: All of these things together, and we're going to go fishing,
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: which would be more productive than watching the Steelers' offense.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: Just go out and go fishing somewhere. You won't catch anything,
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: but you'll be better off. Yeah, that's it. And we'll
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: also have a little gabagool, the baba ganoush, and some jambalaya.
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: Now, first of all, how are things looking for Mike
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: McCarthy today?
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: In the Steelers' offense. So we look at the AccuWeather forecast,
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: and it calls for gloomy with a side of doom
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: as Pittsburgh is being charbroiled, charbroiled on a weekly basis.
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: Whose harebrained scheme was it to bring back Aaron Rodgers
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy? It's hard to believe that this team's
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: been outfoxed. Even though they did beat Atlanta, that's more
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: about how bad Atlanta is, but my God, same deal?
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: So you got Watt, T.J. Watt and the defense holding
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: up the roof while Aaron Rodgers and the offense strip
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: away the load-bearing walls. That doesn't seem like it's a
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: good formula. Watt's unit allowing 13 points. Remember the Patriots,
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: one of the offensive scores, one of the touchdowns they
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: scored was not because of the offense. It was because
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: of the defense. mistake in the in the game but
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: anyway what and the defense allowing 13 points rogers so
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: far two games in the steelers are averaging eight points
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: a game which i don't think is good i don't
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: think eight points that's not really an offense when you
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: score eight points a game that's a clerical error on
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: the scoreboard and who goofed i've got to know so
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: mike mccarthy claims and he talked about this before the game,
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: that he was trimming back the playbook. Apparently, when coaches say,
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: and this has always been my position, when coaches say, hey,
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: we're going to cut back the playbook, it's too complicated.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: That's a coach's way of saying, my players are idiots,
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: and they don't know the playbook. That's always been my position.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: When I hear a coach say, we've got to dumb
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: it down, well, they say that because they're frustrated. Coaches
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: love multiple plays, and they love to brag about their playbook,
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: and when they're players their employees are that stupid they
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: don't know how to run the place it drives them
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: crazy drives them crazy so at eight points per game
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: you could print the playbook of the Pittsburgh Steelers on
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: a Waffle House placemat. Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers insists, I got
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: to look at the film. He said that multiple times.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: At some point, that film needs to be rated R.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: It's an analytical escape, a hatch that really answers nothing.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: Got to look at the film.
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: Got to look at the film.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Got to look at the film. Did you not watch
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: the film from last week? Rodgers is 42. You're not
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: waiting for the cake to bake here. This is not
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: a long-term situation. The timer already went off. And as
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: we said earlier, Rodgers looks like a guy that should
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: be hosting some fanboy jock podcast where ex-jocks go and
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: yap away. The reunion was sold a bit as Back
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: to the Future, and it worked out in Green Bay.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: And so far, instead of Back to the Future, it's
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: been grumpy old men in jock straps and shoulder pads.
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: That's it. And Rodgers and that offense, flying the vomit comet,
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: And there's really no end in sight for that stealer offense.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: How does it get easier? Seriously, I said, well, the
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: Patriots have a good defense, fine.
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: But everyone's got a bunch of first-round, second-round picks on
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: their defense. So you look at the wide-angle lens here
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: of the Pittsburgh Steelers. They're 1-1, and they get the
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Bengals next week, and then they play the Browns. A
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: lot of these teams are about the same. They're kind
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: of middling teams. There's a lot of middling teams... in
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: the NFL, but the way the Steelers play, they're like
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: a lower-level middling team. You feel me on that? All right, now, secondly,
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: on the New England side of things, the Patriots earned
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: their first win after gagging away that game in Seattle,
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: and it was a costly win. A number of key injuries,
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: I think the number I saw was six, either starters
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: or key players hurt for the Patriots, some of them
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: out for the season. They did get the win, beating
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh 20-3. And the offense, we mentioned the mistake, there
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: was only 13 points generated on offense for the Patriots. Now,
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: Drake May, who also was wobbly and shaky for the
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: second consecutive week, as we pointed out, his new nickname
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: is Drek May. When he plays like that, and it
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: was another Drake May performance. As the Super Bowl runner-up
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: last year, Drake May, no touchdown passes. He had one
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: interception and just mediocre. Passer rating below 80, which is
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: not good.
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: Particularly good.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Now, Ben Volin, longtime Patriot writer, asked Mike Vrabel postgame
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: whether Drake May might be, quote, pressing a little too much,
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: which is the colloquial term for he sucks, but we
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: can't say he sucks, so we're going to say he's
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: pressing a little too much. Now, Vrabel, do you think
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: Vrabel A confirmed that, yes, his quarterback, Drake May, or
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: as we call him, Drek May, was pressing a little
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: too much? B, no comment, or C, no. Vrabel dismissed
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: the line of questioning, saying, nope, just trying to win
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: the game, Ben, is what he said.
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: And then later on, Vrabel snapped.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: He said, you're not going to ruin my Sunday, but
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: I'll come back to you tomorrow, he said. All right.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: So the question, did Patriots coach Mike Vrabel exposed himself,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: not like with Diana Rossini, but did Patriots coach Mike
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: Vrabel expose himself by getting defensive over a perfectly legitimate
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: line of questioning regarding his quarterback? So ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yes, yes.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Vrabel treated a rather innocent question like someone insulted his
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: babushka's meatloaf. You don't talk bad about my babushka's meatloaf.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you?
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: He insisted that nobody was going to ruin his Sunday.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: But there you go. Drake May out there seemed perfectly
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: capable of ruining plenty of people's Sundays the way he's
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: been playing to begin the year. And if there's nothing
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: to worry about, if there's nothing at all that Drake
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: May is doing that you don't like, then why react
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: like that? It obviously hit a nerve. Just listen to
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: the tone. Just to prove I'm not lying, here's Mike Vrabel.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Let's go back and listen to what he had, this
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: interaction with the Patriot writers. Take a listen.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: Mike back here.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: 13 points by the offense a week after just scoring 10.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Just what's your concern level with Drake May and the
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: offense right now?
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: Are you worried he's maybe pressing a little too much?
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: Just trying to win the game, Ben. You're not going
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: to ruin my Sunday, but I'll come back to you tomorrow. Thanks, bud.
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: Mike related, too.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Me neither.
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: You're not going to ruin it either.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: Mic back here.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Don't want to ruin it.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: You know, he needs a massage from Diana Rossini.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: That would make his day. He'd be much happier if
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: he had a little massage. By the pool? Drinking cocktails?
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Who says no?
• 15:18
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Too soon?
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: No?
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Not too soon?
• 15:21
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Well, we know if May was humming along, Vrabel would
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: be out there bragging.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Instead, he's barking a little bit.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: A little barking. He came across as perturbed, condescending would
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: be a word we would use for that, reacting like
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: somehow the Boston media there accidentally opened the trap door
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: where they were hiding the May problems. When you go
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: to Baskin-Robbins... May right now is not that smooth French vanilla.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: He's extra chunky Rocky Road. And when the boys over
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: there at Pep Boys look under the hood in Foxborough,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: there's some wires that are missing, and there's some check
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: engine lights on the dashboard. The doohickey is processing. It's buffering.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: It's processing. It's buffering. It's processing. It's buffering. Mayday, mayday, mayday.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: All right, meanwhile, final thought.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: To franchise quarterback guy, not playing like franchise quarterback guy.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: So the big story, one of the big stories in Houston,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: not that there's many around the Texans, was that, hey,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: do we pay the quarterback?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Do we not pay the quarterback? Now, the Texans did
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the right thing. They did not cave in and pay C.J.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Stroud. And right now, they're looking okay. The Texans lost
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: 20-6 to Cincinnati. They fell to 0-2. However, the most
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: misleading box score you could possibly have, C.J. Stroud. We
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: talk about Dak Prescott being the stat bandito. Well, kick back, relax,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and enjoy C.J. Stroud, who attempted 55 passes in the
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: loss to Cincinnati. 55 passes for 353 yards. No touchdowns,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: no interceptions. A passer rating of around 75. Now, we
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: are told by those that keep track of such things
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: that C.J. Stroud became the first quarterback in NFL history
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: to throw for 350 or more passing yards, have no interceptions,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: while his team scored fewer than 10 points. You know
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: how hard it is to put up those kind of
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: numbers and not score? I mean, they scored six points.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: The Texans scored six points.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Yikes!
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: All right, question. Does C.J.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Stroud, because I've been hearing some of the noises like, well,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: it's not on him. Does C.J. Stroud get a mulligan
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: because he did his job in the Texans' loss? So
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I don't even know how you would come up with that. Like,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: how did he do his job? There's no mulligan for C.J. Stroud.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: The stat line is like the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Beautiful facade, and it's just plywood and paint.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Nothing behind it, right? Nothing behind it. And sure, 353
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: yards sounds terrific. It sounds splendid. 353 yards sounds really,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: really good. Until you notice the giant six on the scoreboard.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: And Stroud did not have a bad statistical afternoon. He
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: had an entirely meaningless afternoon.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: For the Houston football team. There is a difference there.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: His passing yards, 353, should have been sponsored by Ruffles.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: A lot of empty calories, a lot of empty calories. Now,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the good news is C.J. Stroud comfortably won the election
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: as the mayor. of Between the 20sville. He is the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: mayor of Between the 20sville. Congratulations.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Where have you gone, Nico Collins?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Because I am not good enough with mid-level wide receivers
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to get the ball into the end zone. That's essentially
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: what C.J. Stroud proved in this particular game. So he
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: is the mayor of Between the 20sville. Population irrelevant. The
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: red zone for the Texans became the Bermuda Triangle. Drives
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: went in. Touchdowns never came out. They had four trips
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the Texans did to the red zone.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: 0 for 4. 0 for 4.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: That means that Houston has now gone, I believe, 16
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: consecutive possessions. without a touchdown. Oh, you're being mean, Maller.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I'm the schmuck for pointing it out. As Jim Rome
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: used to say back in the day, he taught me
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: in the jungle there, that this is the ultimate stats
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: are for losers. Stats are for losers because truly the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: only stat that matters, scoreboard, scoreboard.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: How's that working out?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Not good. Not the good. At least the Texans didn't
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: sign C.J. Stroud to a big contract like the Chargers
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: did with Justin Herbert, the Chargers at 0-2. The worst
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: start in the NFL at 0-2 considering the opponent. In
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: 100 years. Way to go.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Show me your lightning bolt. No, keep it in your pants.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: It is the Ben Maler Show, as we are working
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: our way through the overnight.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: If you'd like to be part, 877-99 on Fox.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: That's 877-9966369.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Also on X, at Ben Maler. That's at bitmallin.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Now, straight ahead, we have a case of when broadcasters
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: do not listen.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: When they do not listen. We'll get to that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And has Tom Brady violated federal law? Has Tom Brady
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: violated federal law? We'll get to that as well. And
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: we will do it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: Next.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maler
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific on
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: Welcome to Football Doesn't Lie.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Hi, I'm Bill Parcells.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: I have a lot of experience in the game of football, Catherine.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: we're going to talk about the NFL slate through the
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: lens of Bill's expertise as he coaches me from novice
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: fan to football expert over the course of the season.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: hopefully we can give our audience a little in-depth look
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: into the inner sanctum of pro football that they can't
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: get anywhere else.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Tune in every Thursday for unfiltered stories from Coach Parcells,
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: analysis on the state of the modern game, and education
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: on how football really works.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: Continuity is very important but what happens when you get
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: good coaches on your staff and people begin to recognize
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: them then they want to hire them and then you
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: can't stop a guy from trying to improve himself but
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: you have to replace.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Them Because once you understand what's going on inside the
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: mind of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: haven't done, because I didn't have enough money, I don't
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: own the team. I never owned a team.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Listen to Football Doesn't Lie on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: or wherever you get your podcasts.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio as we
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: work our way all night long through the overnight. Yapping
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: away here, you and I, side by side in the early.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Morning hours now.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: And don't forget Fifth Hour Podcast every weekend. We just
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: had a brand spanking new week and three new episodes
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: of the Fifth Hour Podcast yesterday. You can go back
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and check those episodes out later on today and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. Now,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones getting very cozy. We'll get to that in
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: a minute. 877-99 on Fox is the number. 877-996-6369. You
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: can also say hello on the X machine.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: At Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: The cowboy game. Tom Brady there and Jeff Bezos and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Lauren Sanchez getting all cozy with Jerry Jones before Jerry
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: went out and pointed out that there's nothing more dangerous
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: than a old guy with money. An old guy... With money,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: watch out.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the phones. We'll say hello
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: to E-Dawg, who's on Long Island. Hello, E-Dawg.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Welcome.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show on Fox. What's up, E-Dawg?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Hey, Ben. How you doing?
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: I'm top of the warning to you. How you doing?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I would not be taking
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: your call. But I am taking your call. Here I am.
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: Okay, cool. Now, you know.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Melissa, right?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me and Melissa go way back.
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: Anyway, you know what she says to me? She says,
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: you do two things for me. I love your personality,
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: and to keep it clean, you're hung like a horse.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. Let's say hello to KegDrinkingSteve.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Who's next in Kansas City. He was doom and gloom
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: by the Chiefs. Not anymore, though.
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: Oh, man, the final boss is back.
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: You can't.
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: You know how, why are we getting such high ratings
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: for all these games? You know we're going to win anyway,
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: but they just love to watch us Oh, man, Taylor
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: looked so good in her $ 40 Aaron Andrews tank top,
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: pointing at her ring. It was so beautiful. The Nikki
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: Glacier promo was perfect. I mean, it just can't get
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: any better. I'm just fascinated by why the ratings are
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: so huge for these games every week.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: It's the third biggest– Monday night game of all time,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: this will probably be one of the biggest ratings ever.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: So you're back now.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Just for the record, keg-drinking Steve is back to being
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: a propaganda arm of the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Is that accurate?
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Listen, if NBC is leaning into this thing, too, I'm
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: loving it. If they're going to taunt their audience before
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Sunday night, I am all in on this. on this
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: leaning into Chiefs hatred campaign. This is my dream.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: The Nikki Glaser thing was getting absolutely blasted. There was
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: a Taylor Swift theme open, and it was like, I
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: don't know. They sit around these meetings in New York,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and they're like, all right. We got to do something big.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Let's get– and Nikki Lazor's fine.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: She's funny. But, like, do we really need to see
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: her on the beginning of the game? Like, I don't know.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Well, she's saying exactly– now, of course, it's scripted. But
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: she's saying exactly what most fans are thinking, that they
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: don't really dislike the Chiefs because they had bad character
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: like Tom Brady and the rest of the– the New
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: England Patriots. You know, they just like them because they
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: win all the time.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Well, you definitely don't want to question the character of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, especially when they're out racing around the streets
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: of Dallas.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: You don't want to question that at all because they
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: might run you over.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: They might run you over and.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Have to go to the hospital. I'm just saying. I'm
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: just saying.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Now, that's all been adjudicated. No one's been suspended for
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: deflating football shits. from being convicted of taping video at
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl and cheating to win a Super Bowl.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: So it's a small error.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: It's a small little thing.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I have to congratulate NBC for feeling the pulse of
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: America and calling America out on their hypocrisy. And Nikki
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Glaser was the perfect person to do it.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: What happened? So I thought I had read the NFL
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: or herself. What's her name?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Taylor Swift.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: She didn't want to be seen on television that much.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: They cut back.
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: Like, really?
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: It doesn't seem like, I guess that's over with now.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: They're all into it, man. They're fully embracing it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: I'm completely in the Nikki Glaser camp. I want more
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: cutaways to Taylor and her ring and her Aaron Andrews ring.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: All right, go away. All right, enough of you. You're
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: annoying me. Go away. I'm glad you're feeling better. Our buddy,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: keg-drinking Steve, who at one point, he must have been
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: on the heavy meds. He was very negative.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Things were not going to go well for the Chiefs.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden he's back. Let's say hello
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to Marcel, who's in Brooklyn, the mean streets of Brooklyn.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: He's from the baddest part of town. Hello, the one
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: and only Marcel in Brooklyn.
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: The myth, the legend, the still dynasty is back here. Ben, Lorena,
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: and Coopty Luke, good morning to.
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: All of you.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Hello to Lorena. She's been very quiet on this show.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know why Lorena's been so quiet. I don't understand.
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know why she was, too, instead.
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: All right, so did you see the big Tom Brady story?
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Did you see that?
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: Oh, from the New England Patriots.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Duh! Well, he's not playing. Did he play for the Patriots?
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: That would be breaking news if he played for the Patriots.
• 29:23
  Speaker 11: Oh, yes, it is.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Are you reporting that? He played for the Patriots in
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: that game on Sunday?
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: Oh, no, but he is a commentator on Fox instead,
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: or CBS, I think. Whatever.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Whatever. I got you.
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Well, no, Tom Brady. was reacting to the Jaden Daniels play.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: You saw Jaden Daniels got hurt again for Washington, right,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and all that?
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: Oh, from the commanders? Wow. I'm in shock for the
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: people of our nation's capital right there.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: So they showed the replay on the broadcast, and Tom
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Brady blurted out, oh, S-word, poopy. He said the S-word, Marcel.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: He said the S-word. Yes.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: What should we do with Tom Brady?
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Is that right?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: What should we do?
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: Is he wrong instead?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: That's a violation of the Federal Communications Commission.
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: That's correct.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: The FCC. All right, let's check in. We have an
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: FCC historian. Let's find out what punishment we should give him.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike. Mike, what punishment should we give
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Mike? What do you have? What kind of
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: punishment for Brady? He said the S word.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: On television when he saw the injury to Jaden Diggs.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, my.
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: This is a good instead.
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: Welcome to the show, idiot. Oh! What did he say
• 30:49
  Speaker 11: to us?
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: Excuse me, sir?
• 30:53
  Speaker 11: Can't people believe you said the I-word, mighty idiot con?
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: What is wrong with you?
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Is that the I-word? Wait, wait, wait. That's the I-word?
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: Idiot.
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the I-word.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize that.
• 31:04
  Speaker 11: The punishment for Tom Brady is he should listen to
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: your stupid calls. That would be torture. He would rip
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: off his head. And when Coop comes to New York,
• 31:16
  Speaker 11: you should put him up if your mama will give
• 31:19
  Speaker 11: you permission. Would you put Coop up?
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Marcel Koop's coming to New York. Can he stay with you?
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: Absolutely. And without the Mike the Idiot Con saying from Boston,
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: I hope your patrons are so proud of yourself thanks
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: to the big win.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Marcel, how much are you going to charge Koop if
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: he stays at your spot?
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: Oh, I give you $ 50.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: All right. Now, Coop, you are going to be saying
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: at the projects in Brooklyn, but you get for $ 50
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a night, you know, it's fine, right? Just, you know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: stay inside.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: He just said he'd give me $ 50.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought, oh, wait, Marcel, really? You're going to
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: give him money to stay? What kind of food can
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: he eat, Marcel, if he stays at your place?
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: Noodles and noodles? Exactly.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: Cool.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: That's exciting.
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: He's one of my child's best friends.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Are you near the train station right there, Marcel?
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Is there a nice train station there?
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: It's going to be F or N trains or R
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: trains instead. But please beware, people. This is private. You
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: don't say this to my parents.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: It's very private.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: We will not tell your parents.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Does Coop need to bring anything or just show up
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: with his wife?
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: Well, if that's the case, the answer is yes.
• 32:38
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the question was, but very nice.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you.
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: I have the player of the morning from Sunday Night
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: Football as week two of the NFL takes place in
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: just a few. But in the meantime, four picks, and
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: let's get into it, shall we? Ben, I would love
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: to start with you.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. Very kind that you would love to
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: start with me.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I think Marcel and Brooklyn had pizza. Pizza. That's what
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I'm going with.
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: Pizza.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Pizza it is.
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: And a double mix match.
• 33:07
  Speaker 11: It is.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: All right. Go ahead, Mark.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: You like to play food picks.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: We're trying to guess. This is the most exciting game
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: on radio. What Marcel had for dinner yesterday.
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: Oh, wait a minute. Mark is filling in for Lorena?
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: Oh, my God.
• 33:22
  Speaker 11: Marcel.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. He's been here for four hours, but
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: Thanks for listening. Thanks for listening.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a bad job by you, Marcel.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: You had a chicken pot pie. Chicken pot pie.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Chicken pop.
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: Chicken pop pie is not a mixed match. I'm sorry, idiot.
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: But you're.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Out. No, that was Mark. You yelled at the wrong guy.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: I'm so sorry, Mark.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: I'm so sorry, Mark.
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: What you got there from last night?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Occupational hazard.
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: What?
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: He has no idea what that is. It's the Ben
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Mello Show. Keep going.
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun, what do you think he had?
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: Quickly.
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: It's Mike the Idiot.
• 34:02
  Speaker 11: I had pizza. I had pizza.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I had pizza.
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: Double mix match it is. I win. I win. No,
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: you're not. No, you're not. Keep listening.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: All right, stop.
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: Don't say a thing.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Please. My God, I got a headache.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Marcel, I think you had sushi.
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: Not a mix match it is. And I'm so sorry
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: about the saying things about it, Mark. But in the meantime,
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: back to these two men. Mike, the Idiot Con, and Ben.
• 34:28
  Speaker 11: Pizza is in!
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: All right, all right. Thank you, Marcel.
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: And don't last, not forget, the player of the morning
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: goes to Patrick Mahomes! He's got 32 and 47.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right. Thank you. We have
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: now moments away. Thank you, Marcel. Get all worked up.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Give you a little extra time. We have the Malheur
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Militia Feud. Who wants to play the Malheur Militia Feud?
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Come on down if you'd like to play the Malheur
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Militia Feud. This is your opportunity.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: To have a little razzle-dazzle.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: 877-99 on Fox.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: The Mallard Militia feud is next.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsportsradio.com. And
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: within the iHeartRadio app, search FSR to listen live.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: The Ben Mallard Show on Fox Sports Radio. We've been
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: here all night. You likely only hear a little sliver.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: It's a little sliver. What's going on in these parts.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So if you would like to support the show, we
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: recommend the Ben Maller Show podcast. It has no calories.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: It's got limited commercial interruption. And they do keep track
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: of who downloads it and how long you listen. All
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: we need is a couple of minutes of your time.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: So check out the Ben Maller Show podcast. It's all
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: four hours, each hour individually packaged. There's a best-of version
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: that you can get as well, and that is today.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I looked at it. It is 3.1 seconds. Extra-long best-of version,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: like a candle in the wind. So check out the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Ben Malishow podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and don't
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: forget about the Fifth Hour podcast as well, with, of.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: All people, Hollering James.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: On the mailbag on Sunday. So check it out. You
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: will not regret it. Again, Ben Maller Show podcast, Fifth
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Hour podcast. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: Is winning so important? Listen, winning isn't everything.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: It's the only thing.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: It's time for another Maller Game Show.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: No, you're so dumb.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: We surveyed 100 people. Name sports teams associated with losing.
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: The Lakers.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: I believe the answer is the Clippers.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: That is the top answer.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: 40 points.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: It's Malheur Militia Feud.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: And come on down.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Let's play the Malheur Militia Feud.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: We welcome in our contestants. We have eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Jason is in the state of lovers. Virginia, hello, Jason.
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: Welcome.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: How you doing, man?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: What's going on here, Jason? Try to control your emotions.
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: I'm so jacked about this.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I know. It's a dream come true. I got you.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: All right, Jason, you're going to play, and we have
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Aaron in Minnesota.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: What's going on, Aaron?
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Welcome. Aaron?
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: I win by default.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: There he is.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: There's Aaron right there.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: He can complete more passes than Carson Wentz. All right.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Not that hard. All right, gentlemen, your name is your buzzer,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: and we'll go whoever answers first will go until they
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: get one wrong.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: And Coop and Marky, Mark, Coop, one or two?
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: One.
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: One.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: All right, gentlemen, we are what a day away now
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: from the start of fall. So here we go.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: A hundred people surveyed. Top five answers.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Are on the board. And name a smell you associate
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: with fall. Name a smell you... All right, Aaron.
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: Pumpkin.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll take that. Pumpkin pie was what we were
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: looking for, but we'll take pumpkin. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin, sure.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: All right, Aaron, good job by you. You got the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: first one right. There are one, two, three, four answers left. Aaron,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: name a smell you associate with fall.
• 38:36
  Speaker 11: How about apples?
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Apples, that is also.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: There you go. Good job by you. All right.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Apples is there. Jason's doing his own commentary, by the way.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Aaron, you've got two going, and there are three answers left.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Name a smell you associate with the time of the
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: year we're heading into fall.
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: Burning leaves.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Burning fire.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Which answer did you give?
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: Burning leaves.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. That was the number one answer.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Aaron making a mockery of the game. And there's two
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: answers left. Two answers left. What do you got? What
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: do you got, Aaron? You're doing very well. I'm stuck now.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: You're stumped.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, you got three right. You got the
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: number one answer. And Jason, here's your chance to get
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: on the phone.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: The board.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Two answers left. Name a smell you associate with fall.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: A hundred people surveyed. There are two answers left on
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the board.
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: I would say the coming of winter.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Look at Aaron rubbing it in.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Aaron, anyone want to give it another shot?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Anything else?
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: I got nothing. I can't think of anything.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: All right. Jason, you want to give it another shot here?
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: No.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Something involves the weather. It involves the weather.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: No?
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Think about... Possibly snow.
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: No.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Actually, rain.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Rain was on there. Smell of rain. Smell of rain.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: And Campfire was the other one.
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: Really?
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. People love their campfires. About that.
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 40:23
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Gentlemen, thank you for playing. Thanks for listening. More importantly, Aaron,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: you are the winner here.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I saw a documentary on why everything– people love the
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: smell of rain. It's actually not the smell of rain.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: It's the rain unleashes stuff in the grass and the
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: trees and And that's what people love. There's I forget
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: what it's called. And I probably should know what it's
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: called to talk about it. But I saw the documentary
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: a while ago and I was like, well, yeah, the
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: rain unlocks this this thing that humans love the smell of,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: which is actually buried in the grass and the trees.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: And it's just it cleans everything up. It's just great.