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- 0:23Speaker 1: number three. Can you unscramble what this Terry McLaurin contract
- 0:28Speaker 1: kerfluffle with the commanders is all about? What is your
- 0:31Speaker 1: reaction to the players' contractual issues getting into the public square.
- 0:37Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. Also, Rams head coach Sean McVay says,
- 0:40Speaker 1: the idea of not coaching feels laughable. Now, how does
- 0:44Speaker 1: that sound to you? We'll talk about that as well.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Come in your way, hot from the top rope. It's
- 0:52Speaker 1: our number three, but more bad blood in the Beltway
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- 3:15Speaker 1: just down the road from Capitol Hill, fresh off the
- 3:20Speaker 1: feel good story, feel good story of the NFL season
- 3:24Speaker 1: trip to the Final four, the upstart Washington football team,
- 3:29Speaker 1: trouble in paradise developing hot. That's right, the plot thickens.
- 3:34Speaker 1: If you have not heard, and possibly possibly not, we
- 3:39Speaker 1: have learned that the wide receiver Terry McLaurin is not
- 3:44Speaker 1: a happy camp. Turns out that the player has grown
- 3:47Speaker 1: frustrated with the commanders. He would like the money, money
- 3:51Speaker 1: many he wants the money money, many and there is
- 3:54Speaker 1: no progress on that on a long term contract extension.
- 3:57Speaker 1: So McLaurin is in the final year of his deal.
- 4:01Speaker 1: He recently left voluntary workouts. O MG, there are dark
- 4:09Speaker 1: clouds around the commander's building. He left voluntary workouts. That
- 4:13Speaker 1: is a universal sign. That's the bird. That's that's baller bickering.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Ballers bickering when you leave voluntary workouts. Now there is
- 4:23Speaker 1: a mounting belief that's weasel terminology run amock, mounting belief
- 4:28Speaker 1: that twenty nine year old Terry McLaurin could potentially be
- 4:35Speaker 1: traded bye bye the end of the transfer. Oh I know, shocker,
- 4:41Speaker 1: Oh my god. If he doesn't get the money, he'll
- 4:45Speaker 1: be a bad apple. And when you have a bad apple,
- 4:49Speaker 1: you got to get rid of the bad apple. So
- 4:50Speaker 1: let us discuss the question. Can you unscramble what this
- 4:58Speaker 1: Terry McLaren contractor fluffle with the commanders is really about
- 5:04Speaker 1: other than the obvious? Right, So I've got thumb wrestling,
- 5:08Speaker 1: Court of Appeals, judge, and big book, and we will
- 5:12Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
- 5:16Speaker 1: to make the Baba goosh. We're gonna make the Baba
- 5:19Speaker 1: ganoush is what we're gonna do. So first of all,
- 5:23Speaker 1: this is a game. It is the brain game, all right,
- 5:28Speaker 1: brain game. That is it battle of the brain. Think
- 5:32Speaker 1: of this like thumb wrestling, except you've got the right
- 5:36Speaker 1: and the left side of your brain that are wrestling.
- 5:39Speaker 1: It's a big puzzle. It's a big puzzle. Then me explain.
- 5:42Speaker 1: For those of you in the back of the room,
- 5:44Speaker 1: I'll explain. So you've got the right brain. You heard
- 5:46Speaker 1: this right when you're growing up. The right brain that's
- 5:49Speaker 1: the emotional center, and that's where your your lovey dovey
- 5:54Speaker 1: and everything's wonderfully very emotional. Thus it's called the emotional center.
- 5:59Speaker 1: So the right brain that says, pay the man, plain
- 6:04Speaker 1: and simple, pay the man. Right, Let's get an understanding here.
- 6:07Speaker 1: And the reason your right brain believes that is because
- 6:10Speaker 1: the Washington football team was flying through some dark clouds,
- 6:13Speaker 1: bogged down for years. The only shining light was the player.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Now this is this is a guy in the darkness
- 6:20Speaker 1: that was a beacon of hope. And now the team's
- 6:23Speaker 1: got a quarterback and so now they're at full strength,
- 6:26Speaker 1: and so you got to pay the guy. Now, the
- 6:28Speaker 1: left brain, remember this is a thumb war but it's
- 6:30Speaker 1: really a brain war. It's a battle of the brain,
- 6:32Speaker 1: the brain game. So the left brain, that's the logic center,
- 6:36Speaker 1: all right, that's the logic center, and that part of
- 6:38Speaker 1: the brain says, wow, you know, this guy is about
- 6:40Speaker 1: to become a falling star. And don't let a falling
- 6:43Speaker 1: star fall on you. You see, Scary Terry is in
- 6:48Speaker 1: a battle that no one has been able to win,
- 6:51Speaker 1: the battle against time. Now, mcclaurin is not old, right,
- 6:57Speaker 1: he's not old, but he isn't a crossroads. He's at
- 6:59Speaker 1: a fork in the road in terms of another NFL payday.
- 7:02Speaker 1: He knows if he's gonna get one more my numbingly
- 7:06Speaker 1: large contract, it's gonna have to happen. Now, why he
- 7:11Speaker 1: turns thirty, Oh my god, this NFL season, get him
- 7:18Speaker 1: an AARP card thirty. Now, in football, that is middle aged.
- 7:25Speaker 1: In fact, it's actually not even middle aged. It's more
- 7:27Speaker 1: than that, because most players don't even make it the
- 7:29Speaker 1: thirty days, forget about it, whether they just aren't good
- 7:33Speaker 1: enough or they're quit because they don't love football, like
- 7:35Speaker 1: that offensive lineman from the Lions, which means this is
- 7:38Speaker 1: a last ditch effort by the player to procure the
- 7:44Speaker 1: pink piggy bank filled with shekels, bring on the Mucho
- 7:50Speaker 1: de Niro. But you gotta do it quick, because if
- 7:54Speaker 1: you don't do it now, you're not gonna do it.
- 7:56Speaker 1: No one's gonna pay a thirty thirty one year old
- 7:59Speaker 1: receiver for four or five years. That's not gonna happen.
- 8:02Speaker 1: So you gotta get the money right now. If that
- 8:05Speaker 1: means you have to get traded to the Chargers, or
- 8:07Speaker 1: you have to go play for the Cowboys or whoever,
- 8:11Speaker 1: and you gotta do it. You can no longer maintain
- 8:13Speaker 1: a low profile now. Second, speaking of that, what is
- 8:17Speaker 1: your reaction as we app here on the Ben Maler
- 8:21Speaker 1: Show on Fox, what is your reaction to the player
- 8:26Speaker 1: Terry McLaren his contractual issues getting into the public square.
- 8:32Speaker 1: This is out there, it's in the public square now,
- 8:35Speaker 1: extra baggage. It's a distraction, all right. So this is
- 8:40Speaker 1: part of the blueprint. It's part of the design to
- 8:43Speaker 1: try to get that big pile of pesos that Roberto
- 8:47Speaker 1: or old board Op who's now a bus driver left behind.
- 8:50Speaker 1: So if you want to get that pile of pesos,
- 8:52Speaker 1: McLaurin is acting like a court of appeals judge, a
- 8:57Speaker 1: Court of Appeals judge. He's holding a ceremonial, swearing in ceremony,
- 9:03Speaker 1: he's gonna stop playing mister humble soldier guy. And he
- 9:09Speaker 1: is now appealing, tugging at the heartstrings of the Commander
- 9:12Speaker 1: fan base. He's deputizing them, he's swearing them in to
- 9:18Speaker 1: try to get the money. And it's a time tested strategy.
- 9:23Speaker 1: It works. You go straight to the fan, the people
- 9:26Speaker 1: that actually care, the people that aren't getting paid, the
- 9:29Speaker 1: people that do this. It's a passion play. You love
- 9:32Speaker 1: your teams. You're a fan. That's the real passion, right.
- 9:37Speaker 1: You don't do it for the money. You know, getting
- 9:39Speaker 1: many it costing you money. It's costing you money. So
- 9:42Speaker 1: you go through the pressure cooker called social media. That's
- 9:45Speaker 1: your battlefield. Instagram, x TikTok, cryptic post over there, all right,
- 9:50Speaker 1: throw in a Bible verse, talk at to the Bible belt, unfollow,
- 9:54Speaker 1: unfollow the team. Oh my goodness, you do all that
- 9:59Speaker 1: everything that is the universal language. That is a language
- 10:03Speaker 1: the NFL community understands. It's getting serious. He unfollowed the team.
- 10:09Speaker 1: The admins can't believe it. Oh my goodness, what are
- 10:13Speaker 1: they gonna do. And it's not the contracts, per se.
- 10:17Speaker 1: It's the optics, right, It's all about the optics. The
- 10:20Speaker 1: minute the fan base starts turning on the team for
- 10:24Speaker 1: strewing over McLaurin, you better believe ownership is gonna start
- 10:29Speaker 1: squirming a little bit, because the only reason rich people
- 10:31Speaker 1: buy teams other than the obvious making money. You can
- 10:34Speaker 1: make a lot of money not owning a sports team.
- 10:36Speaker 1: You do it because you want people to know who
- 10:39Speaker 1: you are, number one and number two. You do it
- 10:41Speaker 1: because you want people to kiss your ass. And if
- 10:44Speaker 1: the fan base is upset, that's a lap laps in judgment.
- 10:48Speaker 1: Because you didn't get a deal done with the player,
- 10:50Speaker 1: You're not going to be feeling the love. People will
- 10:52Speaker 1: be upset with you, right, and so teams care and
- 10:55Speaker 1: the people that own the teams care much more about
- 10:57Speaker 1: the backlash than the balance sheet.
- 11:00Speaker 2: All right?
- 11:00Speaker 1: Final thought to La La land we Go follow up
- 11:04Speaker 1: follow up to the follow up follow up to the
- 11:07Speaker 1: follow up. After several years of chatter and numerous mal monologues,
- 11:13Speaker 1: will he or won't he say goodbye? Leave the NFL
- 11:18Speaker 1: sidelines because it burntout, Ram head coach Sean McVay has
- 11:24Speaker 1: made a declaration. He says, the very idea of the
- 11:27Speaker 1: premise of him not coaching feels quote laughable. He said,
- 11:33Speaker 1: it feels laughable. So how does that one sound to you?
- 11:40Speaker 1: So it sounds to me like a sweet symphony. It
- 11:43Speaker 1: is music to my ears. McVeigh who had one foot
- 11:48Speaker 1: in the Amazon as he was going to take over
- 11:52Speaker 1: as the lead commentator with Al Michaels on Amazon NFL
- 11:57Speaker 1: broadcast a couple of years ago, and he the very
- 11:59Speaker 1: last set second he had an offer a deal. He
- 12:02Speaker 1: did not sign the deal, but McVeigh credited his new
- 12:05Speaker 1: outlook on life to a conversation with the old Washington
- 12:08Speaker 1: Huskies and Boise State head coach Chris Peterson, who is
- 12:12Speaker 1: on television on Fox. He said, quote this is McVeigh.
- 12:16Speaker 1: Quote he meaning Chris Peterson has helped me see this
- 12:21Speaker 1: game and this profession in such a totally different lens
- 12:27Speaker 1: that the idea of not coaching feels so laughable. McVeigh said,
- 12:32Speaker 1: I get so much joy out of things that I
- 12:35Speaker 1: just didn't give a blank about before post quote. So
- 12:40Speaker 1: thank you, Chris Peterson, good job by you. Mcvay's thirty nine.
- 12:44Speaker 1: He's thirty nine, he's the NFL's second greatest coach right
- 12:50Speaker 1: now among active coaches, Andy Reid is ahead on Big
- 12:52Speaker 1: Ben's Big Board. Not a list, not a list, Big
- 12:55Speaker 1: Ben's Big Board. You've got McVeigh at number two. Andy
- 12:59Speaker 1: Reid is at nonumber one. Andy Reid got to the
- 13:02Speaker 1: Super Bowl with Donovan McNabb. And if you look at
- 13:06Speaker 1: the resume of Sean McVay, he got to a Super
- 13:09Speaker 1: Bowl with Jared Goff. That's about the same. Stafford and
- 13:13Speaker 1: McNabb about the same. And then you look at Andy
- 13:16Speaker 1: Reid coaching Mahomes all these years, and so that's like,
- 13:19Speaker 1: that's great. But the Rams got there with Matthew Stafford,
- 13:23Speaker 1: and my friend Rob Parker and so many other people
- 13:27Speaker 1: who have watched the Lions over the years, they say,
- 13:29Speaker 1: there's no way a team could win a Super Bowl
- 13:31Speaker 1: with Matthew Stafford, and he did it. He did it.
- 13:35Speaker 1: Now here is where things get interested. What if I
- 13:38Speaker 1: told you that Sean McVay, if he continues to have
- 13:44Speaker 1: this love of football, has a legitimate path, a legitimate
- 13:50Speaker 1: path to end up writing his name at the very
- 13:53Speaker 1: top of the Big Book of Legends as the NFL's
- 13:57Speaker 1: winning as coach. Peter ram Holmer. A right, calm down,
- 14:03Speaker 1: I know Terry in England that schmuck. He'll hill said.
- 14:06Speaker 1: Not her nest though, because her nesto is a classy
- 14:08Speaker 1: forty nine er fan. He's not gonna say that. But
- 14:11Speaker 1: let's do some malar math. What do you say you
- 14:13Speaker 1: want to some all right, you're shaking your head. Yes,
- 14:15Speaker 1: let's do some maler math. So I've done the basic outline. Okay,
- 14:19Speaker 1: malar math. McVeigh at this point has coached eight years
- 14:22Speaker 1: in the NFL. He's got eighty wins. So using back
- 14:28Speaker 1: of the napkin malar math, loud and proud, McVeigh ten
- 14:31Speaker 1: wins a year, So eighty wins, eight years, ten wins
- 14:34Speaker 1: a year. At thirty nine, McVeigh could easily coach another
- 14:40Speaker 1: twenty five years easily, right. Coaches going to their sixties
- 14:44Speaker 1: all the time, some of them going to their seventies.
- 14:47Speaker 1: You look at the the Raiders just hired Pete Carroll
- 14:49Speaker 1: because Tom Brady doesn't know what he's doing. But Pete's
- 14:52Speaker 1: in his seventies, he's coaching whatever. So again this is
- 14:57Speaker 1: my take. Do not challenge my take. So twenty five
- 15:01Speaker 1: more years McVeigh would be in his mid sixties. If
- 15:06Speaker 1: you average ten wins a year, that gets you to
- 15:09Speaker 1: an extra two hundred and fifty wins. You canbine the
- 15:12Speaker 1: two fifty with the eighty wins he's already got in
- 15:15Speaker 1: his back pocket. That gets you to three hundred and
- 15:18Speaker 1: thirty wins. Do you know what the record is right now?
- 15:22Speaker 1: I know Stevie Meatballs knows what the record is. He's
- 15:24Speaker 1: not gonna like it. Don Shula. Don Shula has the
- 15:29Speaker 1: record three one hundred and twenty eight wins. So all
- 15:33Speaker 1: McVeigh has to do. Easy for me to say behind
- 15:35Speaker 1: the bully pulpit is coach twenty five more years and
- 15:39Speaker 1: average ten wins a year. Now, keep in mind, the
- 15:43Speaker 1: math is going to get easier for McVeigh. At some
- 15:46Speaker 1: point in the next five to ten years, they're going
- 15:49Speaker 1: to add an eighteenth game. There will be an eighteenth
- 15:53Speaker 1: week to the NFL regular season in terms of games,
- 15:56Speaker 1: and then after that they will add a nineteenth game,
- 15:59Speaker 1: and eventually they want to get to twenty games. They
- 16:01Speaker 1: want twenty weeks of the NFL season. They'll throw in
- 16:04Speaker 1: some extra bye weeks. But if you have twenty weeks,
- 16:08Speaker 1: if you go ten and ten, you're five hundred. So
- 16:11Speaker 1: then you're talking about McVeigh getting the twelve wins, and
- 16:14Speaker 1: then you don't have to coach twenty five years because
- 16:17Speaker 1: you're gonna get there quicker because the NFL is gonna
- 16:19Speaker 1: have more games, there's more opportunities to win, more chances
- 16:22Speaker 1: to win. And so this is legit. This is not
- 16:26Speaker 1: just some ram fanboy rambling on. And at some point
- 16:32Speaker 1: you and I will be able to say that Sean
- 16:34Speaker 1: McVay can truly ram it all day and ram it
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- 17:45Speaker 1: publicly in his entire life. Again, Brown's quarterback Joe Flacco
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- 19:49Speaker 1: malor riddle of the day, the malor riddle of the day.
- 19:55Speaker 1: And here it is art so so mention this that
- 20:01Speaker 1: Brown's quarterback Joe Flacco recently told fellow quarterback Shader Sanders
- 20:06Speaker 1: that he hasn't blanked publicly. That is the riddle of
- 20:12Speaker 1: the day. What is the answer? Fudgie in Boston, one
- 20:16Speaker 1: of our favorites, says he has not worn high heels. Okay.
- 20:20Speaker 1: Scrooge says has never eaten Wisconsin cheese curds in public.
- 20:26Speaker 1: Well when in Wisconsin, eat like a wisconsinite. And every
- 20:30Speaker 1: five miles there is a restaurant that serves cheese kurds
- 20:35Speaker 1: every five miles. Stevie meat Poulse says. Joe Flacco said
- 20:39Speaker 1: he always displays his resting dunce cap face and has
- 20:45Speaker 1: never publicly closed his mouth. Always catching flies. There you go.
- 20:52Speaker 1: All right, let's see here, page down. Let's see here.
- 20:57Speaker 1: Marcello says he has never blanked blanked in public. I
- 21:01Speaker 1: don't think I can say that, but thank you for playing.
- 21:04Speaker 1: Bergdog says he hasn't called Terry in England a schmuck yet.
- 21:07Speaker 1: Everyone should at least once. Well, yeah, that's Terry's nickname,
- 21:11Speaker 1: Terry Schmuck. That's I think it is the last name. Actually,
- 21:14Speaker 1: who else do you have? Page down Stuck in Sacramento,
- 21:18Speaker 1: says Flacco, the flatulator has not blown gas in public
- 21:22Speaker 1: because it would smell like Sacramento. All right, Our buddy
- 21:28Speaker 1: Alf in Springfield, mass Boy, if they pick up the
- 21:34Speaker 1: TV show, and it's up in the air right now,
- 21:35Speaker 1: but if they pick up the TV show, I'm gonna
- 21:37Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna meet out. I almost met him
- 21:39Speaker 1: last year. He couldn't make it because it was a
- 21:41Speaker 1: big storm. Alf says he had that. Flacco has never
- 21:44Speaker 1: gotten a massage from a booty model, all right. Robin
- 21:49Speaker 1: Minnesota says he's never eaten his ear booger in public.
- 21:53Speaker 1: He's really missing out, Milkman Mike in Colorado says he's
- 21:56Speaker 1: never used Blind Scott's plunger. Potty King Roy he says,
- 22:00Speaker 1: never had the mc lobster. I'm missing out on that
- 22:02Speaker 1: as well. Who else do we have? Pitch now? Tom
- 22:05Speaker 1: and Cansas City says never eaten a hot dog or
- 22:11Speaker 1: something like that. What do we have? Never taken an
- 22:13Speaker 1: escalator from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Page Down.
- 22:19Speaker 3: J T.
- 22:20Speaker 1: The Wingman says never played beach blanket bingo publicly. You know,
- 22:25Speaker 1: long rip from far out, Dave our Buddy Mark in
- 22:28Speaker 1: Santa Monica says never sang a Taylor Swift song publicly.
- 22:33Speaker 1: All right. Mike the Leprechaun says Flacco has never used
- 22:37Speaker 1: a binkie in his adult life. I think that's enough, right, Yeah,
- 22:43Speaker 1: I think that's enough, all right. Yeah, the correct answer
- 22:47Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. This is the mala riddle of that. Joe
- 22:49Speaker 1: Flacco recently told you Der Sanders that he hasn't blanked publicly.
- 22:52Speaker 1: That would be danced. He has not danced publicly. No
- 22:57Speaker 1: dance Joe, no dance Joe Hey, Terry and England. The
- 23:05Speaker 1: Schmack did write in. He said, Ben, that was an
- 23:07Speaker 1: impressive mallet monologue. No toast sucking, no knee pad slurping.
- 23:12Speaker 1: That was honest down the middle conversation about Sean McVay.
- 23:16Speaker 1: Good job by you. I expected you, Ben to be different.
- 23:19Speaker 1: I thought you would be a fanboy. You were not.
- 23:21Speaker 1: And I'm glad that you're a better commentator than I
- 23:24Speaker 1: am when it comes to my team. The forty nine Ers. Well,
- 23:26Speaker 1: that's very honest of you, Terry, to say all that.
- 23:28Speaker 1: I didn't think you would go there, but you did,
- 23:30Speaker 1: and I appreciate that very kind. We've got lame jokes
- 23:34Speaker 1: of the week coming up in a little bit. Let's
- 23:35Speaker 1: get to the phones at eight seven, seven ninety nine
- 23:38Speaker 1: on Fox and let's say hello to Andrea, who's in
- 23:44Speaker 1: the Bay Area, and she's got inside skinny on Aaron Rodgers,
- 23:49Speaker 1: who has ended the biggest storyline of the NFL offseason.
- 23:53Speaker 1: Rogers agreed to a contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But
- 23:55Speaker 1: what does the star chart say. Let's find out right
- 23:59Speaker 1: now and go to the source. Andrea, Yes, Hi, Ban,
- 24:05Speaker 1: how are you hello? Andrea? Welcome?
- 24:08Speaker 3: Yes, Well, I heard you saying Aaron Rogers when they
- 24:12Speaker 3: made that announcement, so I just had to put in
- 24:15Speaker 3: a call.
- 24:16Speaker 1: That's right, Aaron Rogers. And right who went to school
- 24:20Speaker 1: right down the street from where you live, Andrew, he
- 24:22Speaker 1: went to college right out there, Like I was, so, yeah,
- 24:25Speaker 1: there you go.
- 24:26Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 24:27Speaker 3: So it's you know, kind of full circle here. And
- 24:31Speaker 3: you know his birthday December second, nineteen eighty three, two
- 24:36Speaker 3: fifty pm, Chico, California. Remember, he's really into astrology, so
- 24:42Speaker 3: I have his birth time and you know, basically that sagittarius,
- 24:47Speaker 3: free spirit. The football gods and goddesses have quite a
- 24:51Speaker 3: sense of humor because week one they're going to play
- 24:54Speaker 3: against the.
- 24:55Speaker 1: Jets in a made for TV extravaganza.
- 25:00Speaker 3: You can't make it stuff up, So you know that's
- 25:02Speaker 3: the thing. He's having his midlife crisis. He's a Sagittarius.
- 25:06Speaker 3: He wants to get another year in and you know
- 25:10Speaker 3: he's kind of restless and easily bored. So variety is
- 25:13Speaker 3: a spicy life. Will try this team and see how
- 25:16Speaker 3: it goes. And you know he's got that on a
- 25:20Speaker 3: wonder lust. He's freedom loving and very out you know,
- 25:24Speaker 3: outspoken and kind optimistic, so he wants to try something new.
- 25:29Speaker 3: For the midlife crisis is a time of rebirth and renewal,
- 25:33Speaker 3: so there he goes. He's forty one, the oldest player
- 25:36Speaker 3: in the NFL, which is not that old for the
- 25:40Speaker 3: rest of us. But anyway, Yeah, I don't know.
- 25:43Speaker 1: About you, Andrew. I stopped aging at about thirty five,
- 25:46Speaker 1: so I stopped counting it after thirty five.
- 25:50Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like a plan. And I wrote about
- 25:52Speaker 3: apology for the Athletic well over a year ago in
- 25:55Speaker 3: the Ayahuasca journey and him finding himself well.
- 25:58Speaker 1: And also don't forget now you mentioned the Jets game
- 26:01Speaker 1: in week one, but in week eight the Green and
- 26:03Speaker 1: he's not going to Lambeau but the Green Bay Packers
- 26:05Speaker 1: go into Pittsburgh. So Rogers will play the Packers in
- 26:09Speaker 1: week eight. That's a good matchup. And then there's a
- 26:12Speaker 1: bunch of showcase games. But you're in a division where
- 26:16Speaker 1: you got to play Lamar Jackson twice and you got
- 26:20Speaker 1: to play Joe Burrow twice. So and Pittsburgh has Buffalo
- 26:23Speaker 1: in the schedule and there's some big time matchups for
- 26:26Speaker 1: the Steelers, So we'll see how this goes.
- 26:29Speaker 3: Yeah, I know he's got his work cut out for him.
- 26:31Speaker 3: But again, being as Sagittarius, you know, he's not the
- 26:34Speaker 3: retiring type. He really wants to keep on playing. And
- 26:37Speaker 3: the midlife crisis is a time of rebirth and manual,
- 26:40Speaker 3: so in his own strange way, he's going along with
- 26:44Speaker 3: that divine plan. So it'll be interesting to see what
- 26:48Speaker 3: manifests for him. But he wasn't quite ready to hang
- 26:51Speaker 3: it up.
- 26:52Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well, thank you, Andrea, appreciate that. Yes,
- 26:56Speaker 1: all right, have a wonderful weekend. We'll talk to you
- 26:59Speaker 1: next weekend. Okay, all right, Our friend Andrea is the
- 27:04Speaker 1: astrology lady. Virgo in service on the X machine. That's
- 27:09Speaker 1: Virgo in service on the X machine. And we are
- 27:13Speaker 1: not that far away from the Pittsburgh Steelers taking the field. Now,
- 27:18Speaker 1: Rogers won't play in this game, but the first exhibition
- 27:21Speaker 1: game for the Pittsburgh Steelers is against Jacksonville. How exciting
- 27:26Speaker 1: is that? That is sixty four days. We're two months away,
- 27:30Speaker 1: a little over two months away from the exhibition game,
- 27:33Speaker 1: first one for Pittsburgh. So that's right, I mean right
- 27:37Speaker 1: down the line there. It's on a Friday night in August,
- 27:41Speaker 1: and that'll be the first the first day. But he
- 27:45Speaker 1: won't play. He won't play. Let's go back to the phones.
- 27:47Speaker 1: Tony in the Bay Area, get that dump button ready, Hello,
- 27:50Speaker 1: Tony in the Bay Area. Welcome, Hey Ben.
- 27:53Speaker 4: What did the bear say to the guy in the wheelchair?
- 27:57Speaker 1: I don't know, walka walka.
- 28:02Speaker 3: He?
- 28:02Speaker 4: Is there anything new with Coachino and Snitch or they are?
- 28:07Speaker 1: Oh no, I guess that was a misunderstanding. I was
- 28:11Speaker 1: told they didn't Ashley, it was a joke. And then
- 28:14Speaker 1: Danny DeVito he heard it secondhand and then uh now,
- 28:18Speaker 1: unfortunately no, but if you want to go to war
- 28:20Speaker 1: with David Vasse, you can Tony, because he's still a schmuck.
- 28:24Speaker 4: Oh he's up, he's up to stuff. Or he's just
- 28:26Speaker 4: a smuck.
- 28:27Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I'm here and he's been trashing me, uh
- 28:30Speaker 1: on local LA radio. So uh, the guy that spends
- 28:34Speaker 1: all his time licking the toes of Dodger players is
- 28:37Speaker 1: upset with me. I don't understand why.
- 28:40Speaker 4: All right, I'll keep that in mind.
- 28:42Speaker 3: Uh.
- 28:42Speaker 4: Would you like to hear about a dream?
- 28:45Speaker 3: Oh? Of course.
- 28:45Speaker 1: I love your dreams. Come on, that's that's how you
- 28:48Speaker 1: became a famous caller, Tony your dreams.
- 28:51Speaker 4: I love your dream go hey, geez, calm down, man,
- 28:55Speaker 4: keep your pants on.
- 28:57Speaker 3: Uh.
- 28:57Speaker 4: Well, this one's kind of complicated, beca because it's mainly
- 29:01Speaker 4: based on recent events. But so I can maybe explain that.
- 29:07Speaker 4: But so the dream, I remember, it was me digging
- 29:10Speaker 4: into a trunk to find a weapon, and I guess
- 29:14Speaker 4: I found a middle pipe about four feet long, and
- 29:18Speaker 4: I wind up talking to this guy who I got
- 29:20Speaker 4: an issue with in real life, and we were going
- 29:23Speaker 4: back and forth and he's like you know, like, what's
- 29:24Speaker 4: your deal?
- 29:25Speaker 2: Whatnot?
- 29:25Speaker 4: On my dude, you're a coward, you know, and this
- 29:27Speaker 4: that and the other, and so basically the conversation went
- 29:31Speaker 4: back and forth, and so the dream is really not
- 29:34Speaker 4: that interesting, but it just relates to real life because
- 29:38Speaker 4: I need to dig up that bat from the trunk
- 29:40Speaker 4: because I'm pretty sure things are going to come to
- 29:42Speaker 4: a Headscine, Okay.
- 29:45Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, Okay, let's go to Let's go
- 29:51Speaker 1: to Hunter. Who's in North Carolina? Hunter? What's up you are?
- 29:54Speaker 1: Next year? Hunter? Welcome?
- 29:56Speaker 5: Hey Ben, I've been meaning to call this week. Just
- 30:01Speaker 5: tell you guys how much I enjoyed the content from
- 30:03Speaker 5: the trip. I want her to know the backstory on
- 30:07Speaker 5: that La hat with the with the trees and just
- 30:11Speaker 5: and I hope Cooper got out and explored as much
- 30:13Speaker 5: as the two of you guys. Did I mean banana
- 30:16Speaker 5: slug in the wild for Lorraina Kills. I know she's
- 30:18Speaker 5: not there, but I had something that had a rare
- 30:21Speaker 5: and appropriate positive comment for blond Scott. I mean, when
- 30:25Speaker 5: you called him in yesterday to tell how to call
- 30:28Speaker 5: in a radio show. I was floored. Hats off to him.
- 30:32Speaker 5: That was a tutorial when he got.
- 30:34Speaker 6: Right to it.
- 30:35Speaker 3: He I never heard such a straight, straight.
- 30:38Speaker 5: Line talk out of him, normally like a pinball machine,
- 30:41Speaker 5: but just just great, yeah, yeah, the guy go ahead.
- 30:46Speaker 1: No, No, I just want to follow up on that,
- 30:48Speaker 1: because I did get it a couple of emails. That
- 30:50Speaker 1: blind Scott I was like the greatest call he's ever
- 30:53Speaker 1: had because it was right to the point he went.
- 30:55Speaker 1: He went paint by numbers on what you need to
- 30:58Speaker 1: do to be a good caller, and I you're absolutely right,
- 31:01Speaker 1: all right, what else you got?
- 31:03Speaker 3: No?
- 31:03Speaker 5: I mean, I didn't want to get into sometime with
- 31:06Speaker 5: the with the oaths, but the guy yesterday almost intimidates me.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Now, I don't worry about one guy. Yeah, don't worry
- 31:12Speaker 1: about that.
- 31:15Speaker 5: Sometime. I would like to try to get that number
- 31:19Speaker 5: five drop for you. I'm I got at.
- 31:22Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 31:23Speaker 5: I don't carry the note, but I can hold it
- 31:25Speaker 5: till it's almost comical.
- 31:27Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you're gonna have to call back when the
- 31:29Speaker 1: rain is here, because otherwise, I mean, yes, yeah, so
- 31:33Speaker 1: give us a call back on her. And and why
- 31:35Speaker 1: were you? I was in North Carolina. I did a
- 31:37Speaker 1: Mallard meet and greet in Charleston, was it last year
- 31:41Speaker 1: or two years ago? You didn't go to that bad job,
- 31:44Speaker 1: are you?
- 31:45Speaker 5: Well?
- 31:46Speaker 3: This is true, This is true.
- 31:47Speaker 5: I don't drive the interstate. I got a little phobia
- 31:49Speaker 5: with that. I'm I'm basically on tobacco roads. So uh,
- 31:52Speaker 5: I got a little bit away from Charleston.
- 31:54Speaker 1: But I was fine though.
- 31:56Speaker 5: Yeah, I got you.
- 31:57Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you on a callback. Well we'll
- 31:59Speaker 1: do the oath and we'll do the whole thing. There's
- 32:01Speaker 1: a hunter checking it, very very nice, right, real quick,
- 32:07Speaker 1: let's get Eric and we got lame jokes of the week.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Eric is in the Yosi. What's going on? Eric? Welcome?
- 32:12Speaker 6: What's going on? Big Ben? You know, watching the NBA
- 32:15Speaker 6: Finals once again the rafts are trying to ruin the game, man,
- 32:20Speaker 6: just like Jerome was staying on that one play. If
- 32:22Speaker 6: they should go out for a laya, there's a collision
- 32:25Speaker 6: in the air, there's no call, right. I had to
- 32:27Speaker 6: tell my wife and my living mame. Do they change
- 32:29Speaker 6: the rules? There was you know, if you don't want
- 32:31Speaker 6: to get a foul and Leah dance right up, no
- 32:34Speaker 6: jumping hens hands up in the air, right, But then
- 32:37Speaker 6: he here George burst over here. The experts folly said, Wow,
- 32:41Speaker 6: how fascinating. He said straight up as he jumped. I'm like,
- 32:44Speaker 6: get the collision in the air, that's a foul.
- 32:48Speaker 1: How much how much did you how much did you lose? Eric?
- 32:50Speaker 1: How much do you lose on the game?
- 32:52Speaker 6: I don't gamble, but I just say that drags me crazy.
- 32:55Speaker 6: How the officiated so bad? If yet that gun he
- 32:58Speaker 6: was there, he would have been like, wait a minute,
- 33:01Speaker 6: there's no calling that call that he got knocked down.
- 33:04Speaker 1: Well, that's why Van Gundy is not there, because that
- 33:07Speaker 1: he did say that stuff and it was preposterous. The
- 33:10Speaker 1: NBA is like, you got to get rid of this guy. Man,
- 33:13Speaker 1: he's on the wacky Tobacci man. Van Gundy was calling
- 33:16Speaker 1: out the officials and that drove people in the NBA
- 33:18Speaker 1: up said that they went bonkers. So but but, but,
- 33:22Speaker 1: but listen, it's a there's a lot of there's a
- 33:25Speaker 1: lot of judgment we're talking over here. There's a lot
- 33:27Speaker 1: of judgment calls, right, there's a lot of fault and
- 33:32Speaker 1: that's you know, that's the problem because you know one
- 33:34Speaker 1: person's fouls another person let him play and all right,
- 33:37Speaker 1: I got to leave it there. But thank you, Eric,
- 33:41Speaker 1: I don't know. I think he bet. He says he
- 33:42Speaker 1: didn't bet, but normally the guys that call up a
- 33:44Speaker 1: guy in southern California upset about the thunder and the pacers,
- 33:50Speaker 1: I'm thinking he had a bet. That's what I'm thinking.
- 33:52Speaker 1: He says no. He says no, but I'm thinking there
- 33:54Speaker 1: was a bet. We've got big bangs, lame jokes. Is
- 33:58Speaker 1: weed man there? Do we have weed man?
- 34:00Speaker 3: Is he on? Hold?
- 34:01Speaker 1: Okay? Good? Are we'd managed there? We're gonna have big bands,
- 34:04Speaker 1: lame jokes of the week. I think we finally gotten
- 34:06Speaker 1: rid of the lizo jokes. We'll get to that and
- 34:08Speaker 1: we'll do it next.
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- 35:27Speaker 1: we go, Knock knock, Who's there? Blame We blame wee too.
- 35:34Speaker 1: It's Big Man's lame joke of the week, and we go,
- 35:40Speaker 1: we go to South Florida, one of our favorites. He's
- 35:43Speaker 1: got his own segment on national talk radio. He's a
- 35:46Speaker 1: star in six hundred cities. For some reason, they carry
- 35:49Speaker 1: this dumb show, weed Man, Hippie, Hello, weed Man. I
- 35:57Speaker 1: love is you're still by yourself. There's no roommate, right
- 36:03Speaker 1: dot hell, there's a weed man's got a friend? All right,
- 36:11Speaker 1: what's your what's your roommate's name? Weed Man?
- 36:14Speaker 3: Mark?
- 36:15Speaker 1: Mark Hi Mark? All right, let's say get to the
- 36:20Speaker 1: good Mark. We're going to do the jokes. But this
- 36:22Speaker 1: is great. Weed Man's got his own like his sidekick.
- 36:25Speaker 1: This is awesome. All right. These are actual jokes sitting
- 36:27Speaker 1: by actual listeners all over the country and around the world.
- 36:30Speaker 1: Here we go. You can send these jokes in care
- 36:32Speaker 1: of Benmaller Show at gmail dot com. Ben Malors Show
- 36:35Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Who was the last doctor that
- 36:38Speaker 1: weed man went to see? Doc Gooden? That's I know
- 36:46Speaker 1: you do. That's the joke. That's Chip in Maine. What
- 36:50Speaker 1: does a certain type of worm and weed man hippie
- 36:53Speaker 1: have in common? What an inch? That's John and Yustana Hi?
- 37:02Speaker 1: All right? Which garden tool does weed man hate the most?
- 37:06Speaker 1: What the weed whacker? That's Dennis in Detroit that sent
- 37:11Speaker 1: that joke in Thank you Dennis. Why doesn't the lifeguard
- 37:15Speaker 1: save weed man hippie?
- 37:18Speaker 4: Why?
- 37:19Speaker 1: Because he's too far out man, He's too far out.
- 37:22Speaker 1: That's a Bobby Bobby in Florida sent that one in.
- 37:27Speaker 1: Why were weed Man's appearance fee demands to do lame
- 37:32Speaker 1: jokes rejected by Fox Sports Radio management. Why, Well, it
- 37:37Speaker 1: turns out that he's being replaced by an alternative free
- 37:41Speaker 1: segment of jokes called Poppy's Picks. That's Tom in Indiana. Well,
- 37:49Speaker 1: we got one Lizzo joke this week. How is Lizzo
- 37:52Speaker 1: like the Detroit Red Wings? Oh well, according to Monkey
- 37:58Speaker 1: Bone in yellm Washingt, she showers just like the Red
- 38:02Speaker 1: Wings at the end of every game, after all the
- 38:05Speaker 1: periods are done. She showers right there, three periods right there?
- 38:08Speaker 1: All right? Oh man, I got both you guys laughing.
- 38:14Speaker 1: This is like a live studio audience. A truck full
- 38:17Speaker 1: of Vicks vapor rub crash in the middle of the
- 38:19Speaker 1: highway during rush hour this week.
- 38:22Speaker 4: Wow?
- 38:23Speaker 1: Really yeah, amazingly no congestion at all. I don't know
- 38:27Speaker 1: why that's Hank. Hank and Cleveland sent that one in.
- 38:32Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners. What else do
- 38:35Speaker 1: we have here? How did Angel Reese recently hire or
- 38:37Speaker 1: who did Angel rees recently hire as a new shooting coach? Wow,
- 38:43Speaker 1: blind Scott, she hired Line Scott. That's Georgia and Uvaldi Texas.
- 38:49Speaker 1: Very nice. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Why?
- 38:54Speaker 1: Because he was outstanding in his field, The great Dominican
- 38:58Speaker 1: Mike I loved Aminican Market. It's great to hear that
- 39:01Speaker 1: he's still out there every day hollering. James tells Tammy
- 39:04Speaker 1: and Montana he's going jogging and he doesn't do it.
- 39:06Speaker 1: Weed man. Why it's a running joke. That's why it's
- 39:10Speaker 1: a running joke. What is blind Scott going to try
- 39:14Speaker 1: as his next service animal? What a blind nut? Defined
- 39:21Speaker 1: a squirrel? That's it. There you go, all right, Big
- 39:24Speaker 1: Ben's La chip in Maine, Big Ben's lame jokes of
- 39:27Speaker 1: the week. Thank you,