Latest / The Ben Maller Show / Best of The Ben Maller Show

Transcript

Best of The Ben Maller Show · The Ben Maller Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: from two to six Eastern eleven pm to three am
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and to find your local
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: station for the Benmahlers Show at Foxsports Radio dot com.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: You can find it there or stream us live every
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: night on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Mahler Show on
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: We knew head of Poetry. I guess that's what the
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: title is. I'll have to check into it. Welcome in
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: the beginning of another night of the Ben Mahler Show.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: We are together in the air ev reware as we
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: are audio buddies, and we are in the lounge. It's
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: called If you look, the door says loud lounge. If
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: you're blind, just imagine it says loud lounge. Coast to coast, border,
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: the border, and beyond on the vast and deafeningly powerful
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: microphones of fsre ammundating live from the carousel, round and
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: round the coaching carousel goes. It is slowing to a
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: stop right now from the world famous Fox Sports Radio Studios.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Now zach In Rhode Island reminds us that this hour
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: the show made possible in part by our friends at
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: ti Iraq. Over forty years, ti Iraq has been helping
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: customers find the right tires for how, what and where
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: they drive. Show legends like fer Dog, Alf the Alien
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Opinter and Mallard prop Guy. I love that their ship
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: fast and free and back by free road hazard protection,
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: and they've got that convenient installation option like mobile tire
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: installation as well. Mister Niskay reminds you to go to
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: tire raq dot com the way that tired buying should
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: be An Andrew in Bakersfield and Double O Mexican and
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: San Diego say what about the what about the wipes? Well, absolutely,
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: Paul and Ottawari knows. Paul and Ottawari knows, But for
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: over forty years this has been amazing dude wipes. It's
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: all about the dude wipes. Have you ever wiped with
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: let's just say, something that was not up to standard.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about is kind of dry
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: and it's like sandpaper. That's not good. Well, there's something better.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: Switched to life changing wet extra large flushable dude wipes.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: Come on be a dude because wetter just cleans better,
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: available at Amazon and at major retailers nationwide. Dude wipes
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: best clean pants down. So our lead this hour is
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: from the school of poetry, if you want to call
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: it that, the school of poetry. So the coaching carousel,
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: it's only a couple of seats open. Another seat has
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: been filled if you update your big board, not a
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: list big board. The game of musical chairs. So if
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: you have not heard, I don't know what you've been doing,
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: doing something else, perhaps you missed it. So we have
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: learned that the Ravens that's a football team, not a
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: good one. They didn't make the playoffs. The Ravens have
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: hired Charger defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, who Jesse Mintter. That
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: sounds like a picture for the Atlanta Braves. Anyway, jesse
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: Minter will be the new head coach. You can feel
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: the excitement unless you can't. Unless you can't, So he
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: replaces John Harbaugh with the title as an up and comer,
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: a fast rising coach, the flavor of the month. Jesse
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: Minter from the Chargers strong ties to the Harball family.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Mint who was at one point an assistant with the
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: Ravens and recently has worked with Jim Harball law around,
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: following him around like a puppy dog from Michigan to
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: the Chargers. And now he's going to replace Jim Harbaugh's
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: brother and tagged again forty two rising Star all that,
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: so that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: discuss the question now former Charger defensive coordinator Jesse Minter
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: taking over the Ravens job. Is it fair to expect
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: instant results from a guy who's never done the job before?
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: Is it fair to expect instant success? So my thoughts
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: on this, I've got claw machine, tennis, ball, and narcotics
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: and we'll put all of these things together and we
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: are going to make some delicious, amazing spaghetti and meatball.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: So a my first thought on this is the idea
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: that it's not fair is insane. Like there's some people
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: that think everything needs to be be completely fair. Life
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: is not fair. Your life will improve when you realize
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: that life is not fair. There's so many people that
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: don't seem to understand that concept. That is why these
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: guys get paid a lot of money, right, big money,
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: big money and big money, and they hope they don't
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: get away with me. Now, this is not last I
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: checked the Raider job. That's an outhouse, right, the Browns
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: of Porta Potti. It's not that in comparison to the
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: Raiders and the Browns. This is a five star restaurant.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: This is not a roach coach, as we used to
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: call food trucks back in the day. You've got an
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: MVP level quarterback, a really good gamer, really good gamer
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: in Lamar Jackson, a great regular season player who often
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: there's a glitch in the matrix and he goes a
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: wall when January comes around, Lamar if Lamar is still
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: in the building, and that's not a guarantee, right, there's
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: still a chance in the multiverse that the Ravens get
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: rid of Lamar Jackson to go completely scorched earth. However,
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: if he is still there, if you're still in the
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson business, then jesse Mincher, the new coach, has
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: zero elbow room. Does anyone disagree with that? Okay, I
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: don't see anybody raising their hand. There's no grace period here.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: There's no learning on the job. You hit the ground
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: running or you get trampled by a stampede. That's how
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: it works. And this is going to be Jesse Minter's
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: first head coaching job in Baltimore at any level, at
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: any level. And so now he will be managing the offense,
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: the defense, special teams, massive egos, annoying media people like
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: sports with Coleman, and the buffet line. He'll be making
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: sure the foods served at a certain time, like do
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: they want burgers? Maybe they don't want burgers. How about fish? No,
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: other players don't really like fish. Okay, chicken, Maybe we'll
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: do chicken. Well, now they kind of want burgers, and say,
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: how about steak. Okay, we'll do stick. We a forged
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: to get where the NFL we can afford anything we want.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: So you got to control all that stuff. And the
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: other problem is you don't know what you don't know
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: right hiring rookie coaches. There's certain teams that are just
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: loser teams, like the Raiders, now the Browns, the Titans.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: Even the Titans hired a either hire a rookie coach
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: or you hire a reject, right rookie or reject and
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: the Ravens. I didn't think that that was that job
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: that you would hire first timer and all that stuff.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: Now I have a theory I'll give you in a
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: minute when you'll hire a first time head coach. Having
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: been in this chair behind this microphone for a number
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: of years, I've noticed that it's kind of like going
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: to the arcade. When you hire a rookie head coach,
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: it's like playing the claw machine. Everything looks really good
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: in the claw machine, like all the stuffed animals. Maybe
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: they have some electronic devices in there. You're like, man,
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: that's really good. I like that new iPhone that's in there. Okay, good.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: So you put your money in there. You have a
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: lot of hope. There's flashing lights because it's an arcade, right,
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: and what happens normally you walk away with nothing and
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: you've lost your money. So what are the odds that
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: this guy is a good higher Jesse Mintor for the
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: los A, the for the Ravens, from the chargers, right
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: from the chargers to the rives. So I'm gonna set
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: the Mallard line at plus one fifty all right, plus
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: one fifty enough. You're not good at Matt. That is
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: very generous. I'm Benny Brightside, I'm mister Positive. I'm Sunshine, Rainbows, Lollipops,
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: Puppy dogs, the whole thing. So that is a generous
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: for now, the heat, if you look at this, the
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: heat's gonna be on right away unless Lamar Jackson is
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: let go and then that's you know, they trade him.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: But it's gonna be like you're a line cook and
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: you're in a top restaurant, a seafood restaurant in Baltimore,
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: and you're making crab cakes at dinner rush. You got
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: to keep throwing those crab cakes out. I mean, you
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: gotta do it otherwise forget about it. And the roster
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: is aging. It's not a smooth situation there. The quarterback
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: clock is ticking and so the margin for aero is
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: a very microscopic the margin for air. Now turning the page,
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: so we keep the theme here, at least for now,
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: the theme of the hour. So the question now is
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: what does the decision, now that we know who's replacing
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: the former coach, what does the decision to hire someone
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: tied to the Harbaugh family and even tied to John
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Harbaugh as the next Raven coach? What does that tell us? Right, So,
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: sitting in the psychologists chair, this was was not just
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: about football. It would it would indicate that the Ravens
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: ownership group. It was like couple's therapy, but everyone's wearing
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: like jockstraps and stuff. So the ownership looked at the Ravens,
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: the guys in Baltimore, and they realized that Lamar Jackson
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: and John Harbaugh were at loggerheads. They weren't speaking the
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: same language. You got a flip phone and the other
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: guy's doing the TikTok and all that stuff. So Jesse
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: Minter now enters the picture and he's the Harball family's
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: Swiss army knife. Now he's not a blood relative, but
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: this guy has been a tennis ball Jesse Mintor. You
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: look at his resume and it's whack a mole between
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh spent four years with the Ravens, Jim Harball,
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: and he's gone back and forth. It's like a kid
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: shuttled between divorced parents every other weekend and the Ravens again.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Four years they had this guy with John men Michigan,
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: then the Chargers. So this is in theory, it's a
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: peace treaty. It is a peace treaty by ownership for
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: the quarterback. The owner, Steve Bashati, wanted to keep John Harbor.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: To me hiring this guy is a dead giveaway. We
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: hired Jesse Mintor, who's tied to the Harballs. It tells
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: me that the owner decided to keep Lamar Jackson or
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: attempt to keep Lamar Jackson happy, and that's why he decided. Well,
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: I have to get rid of John Harbaugh because I
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: want to keep Lamar Jackson happy. So but I'm gonna
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: still go as close as I can get to the
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Harball bloodline without actually hiring a Hardball. Keep that alive,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: and then I can get Lamar Jackson happy and all that.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: So you get a new voice, but the same perspective
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: on football. So using some more Malard psychobabble, don't forget
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: the story. Dump dumpity, dumpity dumpity, do right the story
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: dump now Lamar and I was away from my post.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: It was the end of twenty twenty five, so it
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: was only a few weeks ago. But Lamar was accused
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: of sleeping in meetings, video games till sunrise, and essentially
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: just being like an overgrown kid. Even though he's got
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: this massive contract, he he doesn't take the job seriously.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: He gets star treatment. And so the theory I have
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: again amateur psychologists, I practice on the radio. So the
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: theory is that that was an intentional leak to try
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: to wake Lamar up, that embarrass him, send that story out,
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: and instead it blew up in the hands of John Harbaugh. Right.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: It nuked the relationship with Lamar Jackson, so Lamar shut
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: down even more. The moment, which we knew at the time,
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: was a big thing. Some of you dumb people didn't
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: know the moment after the Steeler Ravens game when he
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: was asked Lamar Jackson whether he wanted John Harbaugh back,
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: and he refused to answer the question. That was the moment.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: That was the tipping point. That was when things went
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: caugh boom. Is what happened right there, and the owners blinked.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: And again I theory is they did want to fire
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, so they essentially hired his steps on is
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: what they did. It's not really a full reboot for
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: the Ravens. It's like it's like, Hey, I'm gonna have
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: a diet coke instead of regular coke and I'm healthy
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: Now I'm good because I had I'm drinking diet coke.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: You know, it's get the super sized combo meal and
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: I'll get the diet coke. Okay, you're good, You're living
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: extra ten years, all right. Now, last word, we head
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo where the buffalo roam. So while the Bills
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: are turning their full attention to a coaching search, and
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: there are some really shady names on that coaching search,
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: there is a grassroots movement that has started. You see this, no, okay,
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: So there's a grassroots movement that has started among the
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: Bills mafia. And I'm not sure whether there are boots
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: on the ground for Alexis and Inka Terror and Derek
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: the Bill's Monster. He's one of the guys in the
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: Bills mafia that wears the mask and jumps on tables,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: So I don't know if these guys are part of it.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: The grassroots movement, though, has started among the Bills mafia
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: to tried to have their voices or they have petitioned
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: to reinstate Sean McDermott. So what let me repeat that
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: for those of you in the back there. So, yeah,
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: so the petition is to reinstate Sean McDermott, as you know,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: the coach. Now, as of a little bit before we
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: crack the microphones here on the Overnight Show at Fox,
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: the thing's only been up for a couple of days.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: The petition to reinstate the fired Bill's coach has over
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: thirty eight thousand signatures, over thirty eight thousand signatures and
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: county and county. So the question do you expect the
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: wack A Noodle owner Steve Pagola, who we featured in
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: a previous episode of the show. Do you expect owner
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Steve Pagola rather to see this and to pay attention
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: to the Bill's Mafia and their petition to bring back
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: the now former coach. Sean McDermott. All right, so my
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: first thought on this, it's like buying flowers for your
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: girlfriend after you forgot her birthday, your anniversary and Valentine's Day. Right,
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: it's a sweet gesture. You don't gain any real leverage,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: you don't. Do you think that the owner of an
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: NFL team, Steve Pagola, is sitting in a leather chair
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: somewhere in his estate and sipping to atobisk and trembling
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: because the Internet is upset? Do you think that's going on?
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe he's having French onion. He could be French onion. Soo,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: As Donnie Brasco would say back, in the day. Forget
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: a body, forget a body. Come on, now, this shows passion.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I thought it. Listen, Bill's mafia has passion. They still
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: have passion. The majority of Bill's mafia loved Sean McDermott.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: There was a great bond there between the coach and
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: the fan base, and for that, I say great. It's
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: also whoop de damn do passion. And this is another
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: thing that I've learned from working on the suburbs of
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: the industrial complex of sports. Passion does not run billion
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: dollar franchises. And there's an old saying in the industrial
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: complex of sports, and especially the NFL, that he who
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: listens to the fan base ends up sitting with said
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: fan base that you cannot listen to them. And ownership
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: doesn't crowdsource decisions. It's not like a bake sale or
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: something along those lines. And so you're asking what, like, like,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: what are you trying to send a message? Because I
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: don't think it's the message you want. And there is
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: a way to send a message. It's very painful message,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: very painful message to send it. It's painful to get
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: that message out. But it involves narcotics. It's the narcotic
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: known as apathy. It's a hell of a drug apathy.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: The loudest protest, the loudest protest you can make as
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: a fan base is not going on social media and
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: or attacking you know, random dot bots or whatever. The
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: thing that you can do that will get attention is
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: too And this is gonna scare you. It scares me.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: It's this thing I can't do. The sound of silence.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: The loudest protest is not noise. It's nothing. It's do nothing,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: say nothing, be nothing. Stop buying tickets, stop buying the merge,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: stop high fiving every team, tweet like it. You're a
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: trained seal. Just don't do it. Hit pause. Is it hard? Yeah? Absolutely.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Aloofness is no fun if you're fully invested. However, it
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: does work. There's a history of this working. The greatest
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: example is the Roman dynasty of baseball the Dodgers right now.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: And the reason the Dodgers have that is because the
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: fan base turned their back when they had this parking
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: lot magnet named Frank McCort that owned the Dodgers. People
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: actually stopped going to Dodger games. The attendants went down,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the TV ratings were terrible, and people stopped caring they
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: had apathy and Major League Baseball, the commission at the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: time was this used car salesman, this huckster named Bud Selik,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: who allowed all of the steroids to go on in
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: baseball and then also allowed to tie in the All
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Star Game back when that used to matter. That was
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: really the point of demarcation, when the All Star Game
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: started sucking because of Bud's selick in all sports. But anyway,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: the point is that at that time Baseball freaked out.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: This was one of their great cats, the Dodgers, and
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: so they worked out a deal to force Frank McCord out.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: They gave them the parking lots. Dodgers ended up with
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a sweetheart TV deal which is why they have this
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and finagling the contracts to have them deferred. And the
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are set up so you talk with your wallet, right,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and petitions are that's a whisper and until the revenue
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: needle moves the wrong direction, and are you in the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: red or in the black? Are you in the red
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: or in the black? And so this thing is just
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: a symphony. It's it's a you're looking for for some
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: help from I don't know who. You're not gonna get
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: it right.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Fox Sports Radio
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: was taking over YouTube and you can be.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: A part of it.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Juh Jed. Just go to YouTube and search Fox Sports Radio,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: hit that subscribe button and smash the notification bell and
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: catch all the videos from your favorite shows. Two Pros
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: and a Cup of Joe, Dan Patrick, Colin Cowherd, Doug
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Gottlieb Cavino and Rich The Odd Couple with Rob Parker
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and Kelvin Washington, The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: and The Ben.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Maler Show Sports Radio on YouTube. Subscribe, hit that thumbs
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: up icon and comment away our lead story. But I
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: do want to alert all the listeners down the line
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: and the the affiliates the Verbal Octagon. We have not
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: done this in twenty twenty six seven' done this in
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: a long time. Used to be a staple of the show.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: But the Verbal Octagon will be open for business. We
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: are going to have Blind Scott representing the Patriots in
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: three rounds of verbal chaos in the octagon, and we
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: will have him going against someone I've never heard of
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: named John in Colorado. So we'll see how that goes.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: That'll be coming up later this hour. Get your bets in.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: No fixing, no funny business here. I don't know what
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the line is on DraftKings. I'll have to check. But
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: our lead from Indianapolis and we have a true crime
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: mystery in the NFL. Yeah, are those still popular? Those
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: true crime shows? Are they still I don't know. I
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: don't know if they're still popular. If you haven't seen it,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: perhaps not. We have learned that the FBI, better known
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: by that name rather than the Federal Bureau of Investigations,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: is looking into the death of former Colts owner Jim
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Ersay and the doctor who was supplying him all of
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: those pills and whatnot, huge amounts of opioids and ketamine
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: and injections and all that stuff. All that stuff, and
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: so from the story it was reported by the Washington Post,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: they said the same California based doctor Ersa lives in
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: indian He lived in Indianapolis. Live anywhere now but Ursa
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: in He had a doctor in California who also signed
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: his death certificate, the same one that was handing him
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: all the good stuff and ruled the death natural. All right,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: discuss again the FBI. The question is the FBI sniffing
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: around the doctor who provided Colts owner Jim Mersay his
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: opi opiods? So how do you read this one? All right?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: How do you read this one? So my observations, I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: got deep pockets, nanny pod, and tub sales pitch again,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: deep pockets, nanny pod and tub sales pitch. And we'll
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: put all of these things together. One two, three, n ABC.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: So number one, number one a little faster number one. No,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: that was better. That was better. So this is not
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the Jim Mersey story. Is not a who done it?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: It is a how much is it? Story? In my opinion,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: it's a sad story, right, somebody dies a sad thing. However,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I don't believe this is worthy of violence. You know
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. We don't need to play the violin.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Jim Irsay was a lot of things. He was quite
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the character. He was good for what I do because
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: he said's anythings? And I appreciate people like that. If
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: everyone did the same thing, boy, life would be boring.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And so ever, say it was a character. He was
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and wasn't the greatest owner in the world. But who
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: cares because he said some wack of doodle stuff and
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: we love that. We love that. He also had demons.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: We all have demons, right, everyone's got demons. He had demons.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: He was an addict. He was very open about that.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: It was painful, and this went on for decades. And
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: one thing I know people in my world. I'm sure
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you have people in your world that are addicted to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: drugs or whatever. Alcohol. You always find if you're an addict,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: you're always gonna find your fix. It's like water finding
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: a crack, right, It's the water's going to find the crack. Well,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: there's no crack. Well, there's a crack. You didn't realize
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the water found it. And the other thing I know
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: from I'm not rich, but I know some people that
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: are rich. And when you have deep pockets, you can
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: find whatever you need. Right, And especially if you're an
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: attic and you have a lot of cash, there's always
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a doctor feel good. Right, there's always a doctor feel
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: good willing to play pharmacist for hire. Now that said,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: this is also one of those textbook one percent justice.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: You know how there's like different different things. And when
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: regular people die because they're addicts and they found a
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: doctor that is running a buffet of pills for them,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: it's bubcus, right, they get bupkus. There's no investigation. That's it.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: It's kind of a shrug. Maybe you get the emoji,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the shrug emoji, and then that's it. You move on. However,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: when a billionaire who happens to own an NFL team
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: keels over in the same situation, suddenly it is CSI rehab.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: We've seen some high profile cases over the years. I
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: don't know how old you are. They should be a
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: musician named Michael Jackson. He was kind of famous. His
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: doctor was giving him all kinds of stuff. It was convicted,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: went to jail. More recently that if you watch the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: show Friends back in the name Matthew Perry who died
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: in I think it was Malibu, and there's similar situation there.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: So these people had a lot of money, they were
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: famous people, and they were able to find doctors. According
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: to one was convicted. I don't know what happened with
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the I haven't kept track of the Matthew Perrys. So,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: but they had there's a lot of there's a lot
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: of opportunity, uh when you when you've got the money,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and so wealth buys uh confusion, it also buys you
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: plausible deniability. Now, I want to be clear, I got
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a very passionate reaction. Last year we talked about the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: sad story involving the pitcher Tyler Skaggs of the Angels,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and he also was a drug addict, and he, you know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: he died from an overdose at a hotel room in
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Texas and the Angels were playing the Rangers and the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: person that was giving him the drugs in that case
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: is currently in jail, will be in jail pretty much
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the rest of his life. And I had said I
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: did not believe that that warranted a conviction because that
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: was a couple of junkies that were sharing drugs. They
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: were both drug addicts. And so to me, this is
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: different than Jim Mersey story. And the reason it's different,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I'll say why, is because doctors, unlike just regular people
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that are addicted to drugs, they take the Hippocratic oath, right,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and when you take the hypocritic oath, which is the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: foundational ethical code of medicine for physicians, and I think
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: most of us know that we learned that in school.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: And so when you do that, you emphasize the principles
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of things like do no harm, right, do no harm,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and patient you get to be quiet about patients of
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the confidentiality and all that stuff, and so all of
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: those things go into it. And so it's different when
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: you're a doctor, when you're handing out the opioids like
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: tic TACs, it's problematic as opposed again to somebody who
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: is a low level staffer for the Angels and was
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: also a drug addict, and Tyler Skaggs reached out to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: him to get drugs. To me, that's a different situation,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: all right. Now we move away from that's sad tale.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: We go to the Bay Area where John Lynch the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: story still has legs the GM of the Niners confirming
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: confirming John Lynch that wide receiver Brandon Iuc will not return.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: John Lynch said he has played his last snap. Now
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: we are told the Niners are all horny to get
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: their hands on Vikings. Wide receiver Jordan Addison, who played
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: at Pitt and SC was a very good college player
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and had a great rookie year in the NFL for
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota football team. So the theory is based on
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: what I understand a minute long deliberation of the available information,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: that Jordan Addison would slide in to the Niners and
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: become the primary pass catcher and not likely sending Brandon
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Ayac back to Minnesota. Now, why would Minnesota want to
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: get to get rid of Jordan Addison. Well, there's some
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: financial stuff, but it's also he's just become a knucklehead.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Buffoonery has been taking place here. So Addison's production is strong,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: although it's not going the right direction of the off
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: field stuff. The buffoonery is the story here for Jordan Addison.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: So the question on this one for the class. And
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you're in the class. So the question is the forty
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: nine ers, according to various outposts making efforts to this offseason,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: they have targeted Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison as a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: guy they want do you approve or disprove? As you know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: it's very important. I'm at the bully pulpit here, and
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: at the bully pulpit very important that what I say matters.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: So I approve the Vikings going for Jordan Addison with
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the qualifier of adult supervision. The talent this guy is
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: absolutely is wonderful. The smarts does not have a high
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: football IQ. Okay, don't ask. Jordan Addison can play at
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: a very high level. He's got the tools in the toolbox. Unfortunately,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the toolbox is missing the instruction manual. So if you
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: get him, you're gonna have to go online and see
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: can I get the instruction man? Well, we don't. We don't
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: send that out. Well why not? I need it? I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: need the instruction man. Well, we don't do it anymore.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I can send it to your phone. I don't have
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: a smartphone. I have a dumb phone. Okay, you're screwed.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: That's it. So that's why he'll be available from Minnesota.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: If you believe these coupes, and really, anyone's available, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: anyone's can be available. Of the Dallas Mavericks can give
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: away Luca. Anyone can be available, and you can get
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Jordan Addison for pennies on the dollar. Because there is
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: a hole in his ozone layer when it comes to
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: decision making. So if you activate the Malard think Tank,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: which we like to do, you bring Jordan Addison in,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: then you hold an A and E style intervention. You
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: bring in that A and E style intervention. I'm talking
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the full babysitter package. You go on nanny pod, you
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: get the VIP package, you got the nanny, you got
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the babysitter, which I guess is different than a nanny.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Then you've got the chauffeur. Got to have the show
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: for guy. Now in San Francisco they got those self
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: driving waymos, which in LA they're turned into barbecues, but
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they do it in San Francisco too.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: So get one of those, you know, give him a
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: personal weymo and then you're good on that GPS ankle bracelet.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: If you have to. The court might give him that,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: anything to keep him from Buckley. Now he has served
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the vikings three years in the NFL. The three x
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: three combo. What is the three x three combo? That's
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: that's the meal, three by three combo meal. You've got
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: three seasons in the NFL and three arrests. Three arrests
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Now, I believe the last one, which
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: was at a hotel in Florida, I think the charges
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: were not They didn't go forward with that case. But
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: he still was arrested for it, but they didn't go forward.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: It worked out some kind of deal. It would appear
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and the production. That's the other issue. He's not terrible,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: but it's like a phone battery that every year you
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: have your phone, the battery drains a little bit faster.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. It's paying the ass, Yeah, exactly.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: So that's the issue. He's had fewer catches Jordan Nattison,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: fewer yards and fewer touchdowns every season since his breakout
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: rookie year. And nevertheless, here's the thing. I don't want
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: to see the Niners do well. But if I was
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the Niners, I would say, well, we don't really need
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: somebody that's acquired boy. We don't need acquire boy. So
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: they need a weapon, and we know that brock Purty. Really,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: what the Niners are saying is brock Purty's not that good,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: is what they're saying. Right, He's not good enough. Some
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks elevate wide receivers. Brock Purty is not. That guy's
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: very average talent. They overpaid him, and this is an
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: admission that he needs playmakers. Brock perty because he doesn't
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: make players around him better, They make him better. He
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: doesn't make them better. He doesn't elevate his teammates. That's
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: really what the Niners are saying by this rumor getting
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: out there and Kyle Shannon's offense. All you geniuses tell
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: me how great this guy is as a coach and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. His offense is hyped as a finishing
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: school and all that. So let's see. Let's see. Let's
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: see Lance the bus driver, Nest Do in the Bay,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: and Terry and England's a big forty nine er fan,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: and Jay Scoop and all these cats. Let's see how
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: this goes all? Right, now, final point, dud Jersey. We
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: go to Jersey. We are told that multiple defensive coordinator candidates,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: including two big names, two prominent names in the NFL,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: have said ix nay on the Jets say they have
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: declined to even interview with Jets head coach Aaron Glenn. Now,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the big Apple media having a field day, acting like
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: termites finding soft wood. They are consuming it from the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: inside out, so excited. This is so great for them.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: So the question, how do you process Aaron Glenn and
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the Jets being rejected by multiple big name defensive coordinators.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: So this is not Harvard law right, turning you down.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: This is not Harvard law. This is the NFL coaching
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: market telling you, eh, and we're good, we're good. We
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: don't need that. Now tells me that Aaron Glenn and
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the Jets front office aimed way too high, way too hot, right,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and you outkicked your coverage. Our old morning guy Klay
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Travis would like that, but you OutKick your coverage right.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: You tripped over your own shoelaces and you landed faced
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: first in a cloud of stardust. It's bad job by you.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: It shows you zero situational winners. They don't know where
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: they rank on the food chain in the NFL, and
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you really have to know where you rank the Jets.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: That's I guess. I'll use the analogy like this. Imagine,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: if you will. You are a tech startup. You've got
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit of venture capital, but you're not you're
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: not loaded, right, you're a little venture capital. So you're
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: a tech startup, You're gonna fix the world and all
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: that stuff. And you go out and you try to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: poach an Apple executive and you offer them a bunch
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: of stock options, and the Apple executive looks at you
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and said wait a minute, that's monopoly money, and said, well,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I know it's monopoly money, but we want you to
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: come work for us. We're a hot to try start up. Well, no,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: but I work at Apple. I have real money. I
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: don't need. I do not need that monopoly money. But
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: please come on. You're using the if you're the startup
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the Jets, you're using the tub sales pitch, what I
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: call the tub sales pitch. You know what the tub
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: sales pitch is. It's trust us, bro that's the sales pitch.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Just trust us brouh And we're building something. Yeah, that's it.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: That's a ticket. We're building something. It is an open
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: secret that coaches. No, you go to the Jets, Yeah,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you'll make a decent amount of money, but you better
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: not buy anything. Because the Jets have a stumble bump owner.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: The roster blows. There's chaos in the air everywhere, and
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: so there's also a lack of job security for Aaron
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Glenn and so it appears they've said hard passed. You're
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: gonna get someone. Ob mean, someone will take that job.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like going to Best Buy. The Jets
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: are like, I think I gotta get a refrigerator. And
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: so you look at the price of the refrigerators and
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: they're really expensive, and said, man, I can't afford that.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: And so you're not getting a shiny stainless steel model
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: with the ice maker and all the bells and whistles
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: and the dew hickeys and all that. You're in the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: back open box fridge, you know, the back where they
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: have all the stuff. That's damage. You got dents on
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: the door, it's missing the shelf. There's some kind of weird,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: funny humming sound thing. I don't know what that is,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: but don't worry about it. And by the way, all
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: sales are final. All sales are final. Good luck, good
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: luck yikes.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: This is one big event. Gets grilled.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Coobol.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: It was reported on Wednesday that Brian Daball is targeting
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: the Bill's head coaching job. Ben, what odds do you
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: give Dave Ball of actually landing it?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Well, of course everyone's targeting that job. I give him
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: a better than fifty percent I'd say a sixty percent yes,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: because he's bros with Josh Allen and Josh Allen they
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: got to suck up to Allen. So I say that
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Brian day Ball, I would say he's got about sixty
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: percent chance. He worked there. He was beloved in Buffalo, like,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: that's the one guy they can hire that people won't
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: be pissed off about.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: Next, in a piece where league executives, coaches, and scouts
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: were asked to make a bold prediction, one thinks that
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: the Falcons could start the season with Kirk Cousins not
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: only still on the team, but at the top of
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: the depth chart.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Ben, could you see that happening? Well?
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Could they? Yes? Could they? But if I'm Kevin Stefanski
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: and I'm taking over, I want to change it off.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I want to bring new people in there. Cousins look
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: pretty washed up at the end of last year, so
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I would make a change. But could he? Sure? I
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: could see that?
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Next?
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: On Wednesday, there was a report that sugg Justin Steve
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: Kerr's future with the Warriors is up in the air,
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: and that multiple assistant coaches on his staff are offerating
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: under the premise that Kerr will not be back next season.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Do you think this is it for Steve Kerr?
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I think it's fair. If Kerr realizes it's
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: all over for the Warriors, he's out. He'll go back
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: and do television or at Amazon or NBC, which he
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: did at TNT before and that did. How'd we do, Kobolo?
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: You pass this edition when I won the game?
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Unlike unlike that guy pretending to be John from Colorado
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: who did not win.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: listen live. Knock Knock Who's there?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Blame Weed? Blame week too. It's Big Ben's lame joke
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: of the week. We go lame jokes the week, actual
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: jokes by actual listeners. We have our laugh track from
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: South Florida. Hooray for Holly would hooray for Hollywood. Weed
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Man Hippie. His name legally is Billy Hello, weed Man, Hippie.
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: Hey Ben, I love you, Hey, I work, I work
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: two week, Yes, work, there's a lot of work.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: This is this job is not that easy. You still listen?
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Do you still listen? Weed Man? The other nights, or
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: you only listen to the nights that you're on the shows
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: every night. All right, well, let's get to the jokes.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Here we go. These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: If you'd like to send one in in a future
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: episode of the show, send it care of Benmahlor Show
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: at gmail dot com, Ben Maler Show at gmail. Black Tom.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Put jokes in the headline. Put jokes in the headline.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: How has Lisa been able to stay with weed Man
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: for all of these years? How? Say hi, Hi, Ben
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Hi Lisa? Yes, the reason Lisa's being able to stay
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: away or stay with weed Man all these years is
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: because he lives a thousand miles away. That is why
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: that's a certain time the comedian, what's the different? What's
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the difference between weed man hippie and a used toothpick?
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: What not? A damn thing? That's not very nice? Gg hout?
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Dare you we we? Lisa didn't like that one. Weed
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: man hippie is so poor? How poor is he? He's
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: so poor? When you watch when you watch Benny versus
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: the Penny on YouTube, the penny gets blurred out. That's
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: how poor are that's Kurt from her who said that
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: one in? Why does weed Man have a splitting headache?
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Well, he's been diagnosed with a crackhead. That's Drew in Minnesota.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I come on, who is weed Man's favorite agent? Is
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the favorite sports agent? Rich Paul? Rich Paul? That's Eric?
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Eric in Kansas? Is Big Ben's lame Jokes of the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: week with our friend Billy? What is weed Man's definition
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: of streaming a streaming service? What when a dog approaches
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: you while you're sleeping on the ground. Wow, that's not nice.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: That's Drew in Minnesota. Well, exciting news. Exciting news. What's
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: weed Man's New Year's resolution? What to remember his email address?
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Do you remember your email adds? We'man now you don't?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Oh my god? Why does weed Man always feel crowded? Why?
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Because he has no room? Michael lebret on. That last
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: joke was from Eric in Kansas. What has weed Man
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: been working on in his spare time? Why he's making
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: the largest rolling paper ball in the world. Congratulations, and
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I we bought. Why don't beg buds? Why don't beg
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: bugs fear weed Man?
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Because they know he can't bite? They know he cannot bite.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Do you ever find your teeth. I don't think you
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: found your teeth there. How did Ferg Dog? How did
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog describe learning Braille? He said it was a
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: bumpy ride, a bumpy ride. Noah in Austin, beg you
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Weed man, bye bye. There he goes our buddy Weed.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: I have the Morning News set Lines podcast after the
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: one minute what about look on my Instagram page is
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: coming up after this. But in the meantime, listeners theopon Entertainment,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: what a Fox Sports Radios, Great Friday, Mali Show, traditions,
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: sorts now and here, it's not of it, my man,
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: my man, Sword Juna Cooper and I say, broco Fan,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: take it away. I'm in my mind, brockle Fan on Nex.
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: Thank you Marcel's mentor, Coop your his mentor. That's that's
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: I'm it's a I'm proud to be that.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's your student. You're really doing a great job
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: teaching me so so good.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: It is, thank you, Yes it.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: Is, yes, it is, it's all yours, my man, take
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: it away, thank you, Marcel. I am taking it away,
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: all right, So we're gonna start off like we always
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: do in the theaters on Koop Scuba and Entertainment, but
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: we're gonna we're just gonna take a brief trip there
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: because the couple of releases this weekend have terrible reviews, uh,
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: but they're worth mentioning just because they've got some star power.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: The first is a movie called Mercy Now. This stars
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, and it is a action
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: adventure slash side fi. Stop calling, I'm not going to
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: screen your calls.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: In the near future, a detective step.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Oh my, people love to call the show a detective.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: A detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: advanced AI judge.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Oh Ai judge, That's just what I need in my world.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, it sounds it sounds like a like an interesting premise,
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: but the critics apparently did not like it. It's got
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: a twenty six percent on Rotten Tomatoes so far.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Did they did? They did? I don't know who made it,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: but they're like, we gotta get Ai in a movie.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Let's get Ai in a movie. Everyone do an Ai.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Let's get a people want to see that in the
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: movie though, well, I mean the the AI character is
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: played by a real actress. But you know, it's it's
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: it's it's what's going on in society, Ben, That's that's
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: you know what we gotta you know, that could be
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: a future we might be judged, you know, juried and executions.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: By a I kill plug it, you know, if to
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: worry about it, plug it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: H The second movie coming out this weekend is a
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: another installment in the Silent Hill series. This is returned
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: to Silent Hill. Uh, this one. I'm just gonna mention
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: it because it's a known brand. But it's got a
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: nine percent on Rotten Tomatoes and the nine that's true.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: That's that's something I guess. I'm moving over to television.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Television, the boob tube.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, that is correct. We have a documentary for you, Ben, Oh,
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: thank you. There we got and this one is mel
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: Brooks the ninety nine year old man.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: You're still around?
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, this is a documentary directed by jud Appatoo and
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: Michael you know what, jut outtime.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: With somebody else?
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, you don't know how to say it, leave it out.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Just mumble it, just mumble it.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Bonfiglio, Michael Bonfiglio. That's probably how Yeah, there we go.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: H It is a two part look at the comedy legend.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: Both parts are available to stream right now on HBO Max.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: Part one was actually last night at eight eight pm.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: If you don't do the whole streaming thing. Part two
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: will be tonight at eight pm on HBO.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I just stream it. I just stream it.
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: I'm good on that my music. Please thank you, Lauren.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Ye here, here's something interesting that is going to be
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: on Netflix, and it's it's gonna be on Netflix tonight.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: Actually you might have seen some advertisements for it. It's
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: called Skyscraper Live. So it is a live event and
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: it follows free soloist Alex Hanald.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: Who is going to climb one of.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: The world's tallest buildings type one oh one, which I mean,
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: that's the plan.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: This is live. Yes, Sophie dies.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: I guess we're gonna see a death on Netflix if
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: that happens.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't live.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: Look, I mean they might have, like you know, kind
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: of like we do a.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: A little bit of a delay just in case he falls.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Bay Area calls up and says bad words and things
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: Right, yeah, so and I and I imagine if the
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: cameras are following him if he falls. I doubt the
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: camera is going to pan down to see if he falls.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Everyone gets pancakes soon.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: Anyway, if you're interested to.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: See me somebody, I want to see him make it.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: I don't want to see any gad zukery. I want
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: to see the guy make Yeah.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: That is tonight at eight pm Eastern five pm Pacific
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: time on Netflix. And Last but not Least is the
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: premiere of the third season of Apple's acclaimed dramedy Shrinking,
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: starring Harrison Ford and Jason Siegel. This season, we'll see
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: Jeff Daniels and Michael J. Fox joined the cast. Rude yes,
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: oh yeah.
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: That is Michael J. Fox's first TV role in five years.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: And that will be on Apple TV Wednesday, January twenty eighth.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: Shrinking third season that is Coop Scoop on Entertainment