Latest / The Ben Maller Show / Hour 3 - Calling Out the QB
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Did Cowboys owner Jerry Jones cross the line, cross the
- 0:05Speaker 1: line by calling out Dak Prescott for his costly interception
- 0:10Speaker 1: at the end of the Cowboys opener? We'll take a
- 0:13Speaker 1: look at that. And how concerned should the Steelers be
- 0:16Speaker 1: with DK Metcalf's performance? We'll talk about his drops and
- 0:22Speaker 1: mistakes and whatnot. And Titans quarterback Cam Ward. Says he's
- 0:27Speaker 1: a very good quarterback. Does that pass? Basic fact-checking. We'll
- 0:33Speaker 1: have that. Lame jokes of the week. Also, of course,
- 0:36Speaker 1: don't forget, back in Hour 2, we had Benny versus
- 0:38Speaker 1: the Penny. You probably already heard that. But here's Hour 3.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Calling out....
- 0:48Speaker 1: The quarterback, or was it really calling out the quarterback?
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- 2:59Speaker 1: with that being said we are back at it here
- 3:01Speaker 1: this hour fighting the good fight in sports radio and
- 3:05Speaker 1: our lead from dallas we had a major major turning
- 3:09Speaker 1: point in the cowboy season opening loss in prime time
- 3:14Speaker 1: it came when dac prescott coughed up a furball he
- 3:18Speaker 1: was trying to throw the ball out of bounds and
- 3:21Speaker 1: somehow got picked off who goofed i've got to know
- 3:25Speaker 1: that was just before halftime new york was able to
- 3:28Speaker 1: score off the turnover and if you were not paying
- 3:32Speaker 1: attention this week you might have missed it jerry jones
- 3:35Speaker 1: on his weekly radio show in dallas publicly called out
- 3:40Speaker 1: dakota prescott for that particular interception the owner of the Cowboys,
- 3:45Speaker 1: he liked the team so much he bought it. He's
- 3:47Speaker 1: the GM there, the great Jerry Jones, on his weekly
- 3:50Speaker 1: radio show said that that play was impactful for the
- 3:55Speaker 1: entire game. Now, because of that statement, Jerry Jones is
- 4:00Speaker 1: being criticized. Believe it or not, Jerry Jones is being
- 4:02Speaker 1: criticized for pointing out an obvious thing, an obvious thing
- 4:05Speaker 1: for calling out his franchise quarterback, saying, I don't think
- 4:09Speaker 1: he should have done that. All right, so the question.
- 4:13Speaker 1: We're going to get to this. It's a good jumping
- 4:14Speaker 1: off point. So the question is this. Did Cowboys owner
- 4:18Speaker 1: and GM Jerry Jones cross the line, cross the line
- 4:23Speaker 1: by calling out Dak Prescott on his radio show for
- 4:27Speaker 1: that costly interception? So I've got Chevron, FedEx, and Italian Bistro. Bistro.
- 4:39Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
- 4:43Speaker 1: we are going to hop on the bandwagon. Choo-choo! So
- 4:48Speaker 1: it's a lead-off here. To answer the question, did Jerry
- 4:52Speaker 1: Jones cross the line by calling out Dak Prescott for
- 4:54Speaker 1: the interception? Hell no. All right, hell no. Jerry Jones,
- 5:00Speaker 1: there's no line to cross. He barely scuffed the paint
- 5:06Speaker 1: is what he did. That wasn't a public flogging. It was,
- 5:10Speaker 1: if anything, taking a MyPillow and slapping Dak Prescott with
- 5:16Speaker 1: the MyPillow at a sleepover. Now, last I checked, Dak
- 5:21Speaker 1: Prescott is past his athletic prime. He's 33 years old.
- 5:23Speaker 1: He's a man.
- 5:24Speaker 3: 33 years old.
- 5:24Speaker 2: He's also.
- 5:29Speaker 1: making, I believe, $ 60 million per year. He's the second
- 5:32Speaker 1: highest paid player in the NFL. At that price point,
- 5:38Speaker 1: you're not ordering off the kid's menu. You're not. You're not.
- 5:42Speaker 1: And if Dak is such a softy, which, by the way,
- 5:44Speaker 1: he certainly appears to be based on his body of
- 5:46Speaker 1: work and big moments, then that's more of a Dak
- 5:49Speaker 1: Prescott problem than it is a Jerry Jones problem, although
- 5:52Speaker 1: Jerry gave him the contract, so what a dum-dum he is.
- 5:56Speaker 1: And so... You're expected to pick up the check when
- 6:01Speaker 1: you're at $ 60 million a year. It's kind of like
- 6:06Speaker 1: if your Uber driver drops you at the airport 30
- 6:09Speaker 1: minutes after your plane leaves, you're not going to give
- 6:13Speaker 1: that person five stars. You're just not going to give
- 6:15Speaker 1: them five stars because you missed your flight and it's
- 6:17Speaker 1: a big pain in the butt. And Dak, he threw...
- 6:22Speaker 1: A costly interception. Then there was still time for the Cowboys, obviously,
- 6:25Speaker 1: to come back and all that. They didn't do that.
- 6:27Speaker 1: But if you're trying to throw the ball away, you
- 6:30Speaker 1: should find a fat guy in the upper deck and
- 6:33Speaker 1: have him catch the ball, not throw it in a
- 6:36Speaker 1: position where one of the other team members can get
- 6:38Speaker 1: it on the other team. It's kind of like trying
- 6:40Speaker 1: to put out a grease fire using Chevron with Tecron gasoline. Well,
- 6:45Speaker 1: that's not going to work. You're going to cause more
- 6:47Speaker 1: problems with that. Not a great idea. And Jerry simply
- 6:51Speaker 1: pointed out And this is another example, another example of
- 6:56Speaker 1: certain factions who think that any kind of criticism is taboo.
- 7:02Speaker 1: You cannot do it. What happened to the old days
- 7:06Speaker 1: where these guys all used to lie and say, I
- 7:08Speaker 1: don't listen to the media, I don't listen to radio,
- 7:10Speaker 1: and I don't watch TV and all that? They don't
- 7:14Speaker 1: do that anymore. They all apparently do consume all the media,
- 7:17Speaker 1: because they've always consumed the media, but they don't even
- 7:19Speaker 1: try to pretend like they don't. And it's ridiculous. So
- 7:22Speaker 1: you want to be the franchise quarterback. You've been the
- 7:24Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. You're paid like the franchise quarterback. You get
- 7:28Speaker 1: franchise quarterback accountability. So it's rather simple. And this has
- 7:31Speaker 1: been the same argument we've given through all the chills
- 7:35Speaker 1: and thrills and mostly chills for Dak Prescott. Do better.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Be better. You're cashing the check. Good for you. You've
- 7:43Speaker 1: got the money. Now earn the money. You haven't earned
- 7:45Speaker 1: the money. Furthermore, to Pittsburgh, PA we go. We go
- 7:52Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh where Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf has been
- 7:55Speaker 1: called out, called out for his suck bag play in
- 8:00Speaker 1: the season opener. Steelers did win that game against Atlanta.
- 8:03Speaker 1: He was asked about all the mistakes he made in
- 8:07Speaker 1: that game against the Dirty Birds. He says that he
- 8:10Speaker 1: refuses to dwell on his terrible play. And he says,
- 8:16Speaker 1: I can't change it. His philosophy is, quote, this is
- 8:18Speaker 1: from DK Metcalf. He says, if I catch the ball,
- 8:21Speaker 1: I catch it. Well, that's a deep quote. That is
- 8:25Speaker 1: a deep quote. So he said, if I catch the ball,
- 8:28Speaker 1: I catch it. Quote continues. If not, move on to
- 8:32Speaker 1: the next play. Close quote. Okay. So Aaron Rodgers targeted
- 8:38Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. I believe the number was 10 times. And
- 8:42Speaker 1: out of those 10 pass attempts, DK Metcalf got one.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Four catches. That means that he had a 40% catch rate.
- 8:53Speaker 1: He had four out of ten targets, 40 yards, 27%
- 8:59Speaker 1: target share compared to all the other players on the team.
- 9:03Speaker 1: And so Metcalf was also, beyond the drops, he was
- 9:07Speaker 1: also penalized for twice for offensive pass interference. I can
- 9:12Speaker 1: hear Nostradamus and J.J. and Renton. I told you, that's
- 9:14Speaker 1: what he does. I told you. But Pittsburgh did win
- 9:18Speaker 1: the game. It was not something that will end up
- 9:21Speaker 1: at the Louvre. It will not be hung at any
- 9:24Speaker 1: art museum. So the question, how concerned should the Steelers
- 9:28Speaker 1: be with D.K. Metcalf's performance? So DK Metcalf is built
- 9:36Speaker 1: like Adonis, and it seems like he's been executing like
- 9:41Speaker 1: he's got some kind of software glitch, some kind of
- 9:45Speaker 1: Trojan horse in the thingamajig. It's not really the player
- 9:50Speaker 1: he was supposed to be when he came over to
- 9:52Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. You look at DK, and this guy,
- 9:56Speaker 1: you think, well, he's Calvin Johnson 2.0, if you're old
- 9:59Speaker 1: enough to remember Calvin Johnson Megatron for the Lions and
- 10:04Speaker 1: then you check the box score most of the time
- 10:07Speaker 1: with DK Metcalf and you're like well that's not Calvin
- 10:11Speaker 1: Johnson that's Calvin from accounting is what that is well
- 10:14Speaker 1: that's not good And so he has been guilty so
- 10:17Speaker 1: far of false advertising with really good-looking abs. Really good-looking abs.
- 10:24Speaker 1: And the last season was not a top-10 wide receiver
- 10:27Speaker 1: for the Steelers, was not a top-20 wide receiver in
- 10:29Speaker 1: Pittsburgh a year ago, and he's off to a bad
- 10:32Speaker 1: start here. So Pittsburgh ordered the Terminator. We want the Terminator! Apparently, though,
- 10:39Speaker 1: the FedEx guy messed up the order, and they received
- 10:42Speaker 1: the Pillsbury Doughboy order, in a tinted visor when you're
- 10:46Speaker 1: supposed to make plays. Doesn't look like the Pillsbury door boy.
- 10:48Speaker 1: Plays like the Pillsbury door boy. Plays like the Pillsbury
- 10:51Speaker 1: door boy. So the Steelers built their entire passing attack
- 10:55Speaker 1: around DK Metcalf. There's not a lot of inventory on
- 10:59Speaker 1: the shelves other than DK Metcalf. He's supposed to be
- 11:03Speaker 1: the big, bad boogeyman and game-changing number one wide receiver.
- 11:09Speaker 1: Number one. And a bag of chips. And yet, watching
- 11:14Speaker 1: this play out, you can say it's all Aaron Rodgers,
- 11:17Speaker 1: but I've seen a lot of catchable balls that DK
- 11:20Speaker 1: Metcalf has not been able to catch. And his performance
- 11:24Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh has been a constipation situation. A lot of agony.
- 11:30Speaker 1: A lot of agony. It has not been a walk
- 11:33Speaker 1: in the park at all. So DK, who does again
- 11:36Speaker 1: look like he eats linebackers for breakfast with eggs on
- 11:40Speaker 1: the side, and then when the football arrives, suddenly he's
- 11:45Speaker 1: on a liquid diet. Well, that's not good. Yeah, he's
- 11:49Speaker 1: intermittent fasting with the football. And he was built in
- 11:52Speaker 1: a laboratory. Clearly, they forgot in the lab to put
- 11:57Speaker 1: the proper hands in there. He's got oven mitts, which
- 12:00Speaker 1: is a bit of a problem there. And as a result,
- 12:04Speaker 1: it has enhanced the problems in Pittsburgh, where they have
- 12:08Speaker 1: pretty good defense, but that offense is plodding along there.
- 12:12Speaker 1: It's a glitchy mess there. Is what it is. It's
- 12:16Speaker 1: a glitchy mess. All right, meanwhile, we head to Nashville,
- 12:21Speaker 1: the music city, where Titans quarterback Cam Ward getting called
- 12:27Speaker 1: out again. And despite a horrific performance against the Jets
- 12:34Speaker 1: in the season opener for Tennessee, Cam Ward says he
- 12:38Speaker 1: remains confident, which is impossible. You lose to the Jets.
- 12:43Speaker 1: That's like a 10-game losing streak when you lose to
- 12:45Speaker 1: the Jets. It really is. Does anyone disagree with that?
- 12:50Speaker 1: The Jets. Come on. Anyway, Robert Sala, who knows a
- 12:54Speaker 1: thing or two about the Jets, he was part of
- 12:56Speaker 1: their legacy there, now coaching in Nashville. Robert Sala said
- 13:00Speaker 1: that Cam Ward is currently, quote, at the floor of
- 13:04Speaker 1: what it takes to be an NFL quarterback, which is
- 13:07Speaker 1: about as close to a criticism as you're going to
- 13:10Speaker 1: get from the Tony Robbins of coaches, Robert Sala.
- 13:14Speaker 4: Mr.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Rah-Rah, I love my players. I'm into the whole new
- 13:18Speaker 1: age thing and all that. So Cam Ward pushed back
- 13:22Speaker 1: when asked about Robert Sala's quote. And what did he say?
- 13:27Speaker 1: Cam Ward said, the Tennessee quarterback said, I think I'm
- 13:30Speaker 1: a very good quarterback. Okay. I think I am. I
- 13:34Speaker 1: think I am. I think I am. I think I can.
- 13:36Speaker 1: I think I can. I think I can. He said
- 13:38Speaker 1: he can do things many quarterbacks can't do. That's according
- 13:41Speaker 1: to Cam Ward. He also acknowledged that there needs to
- 13:44Speaker 1: be improvement. You think? Ward, the bottom line here is
- 13:48Speaker 1: Ward remains very confident. He said he believes in the
- 13:51Speaker 1: Tennessee coaching staff. Could you imagine if he said he
- 13:53Speaker 1: didn't believe in the Tennessee coaching staff? He said he
- 13:55Speaker 1: believes in the Tennessee coaching staff. He predicted that when
- 13:58Speaker 1: the tide turns, it's going to be a different story.
- 14:01Speaker 1: Close quote. So the two quotes are, I think I'm
- 14:04Speaker 1: a very good quarterback, and when the tide turns, it's
- 14:08Speaker 1: going to be a different story. So the question, you
- 14:10Speaker 1: got Cam Ward, who was the top pick in the
- 14:12Speaker 1: NFL draft a couple years back. Cam Ward says he's, quote,
- 14:16Speaker 1: a very good quarterback. Does that pass basic fact-checking? Does
- 14:22Speaker 1: that pass basic fact-checking? So we put this under the
- 14:28Speaker 1: Maller microscope, and under any reasonable measurement, Cam Ward has
- 14:33Speaker 1: been a total abject failure of the heart. And we
- 14:39Speaker 1: love the confidence. It's what you're supposed to have. Unfortunately, confidence,
- 14:46Speaker 1: I looked on all the nerd sites, and there is
- 14:48Speaker 1: not a statistic that even the nerds have come up
- 14:51Speaker 1: with for the most confident quarterback. Pro football focus, all
- 14:56Speaker 1: the other statistical arms do not have a stat for
- 14:59Speaker 1: quarterback confidence. Does not exist for Pete's sake. Okay, so
- 15:04Speaker 1: that's unfortunate. So Tennessee drafted Cam Ward thinking they were
- 15:09Speaker 1: headed on the elevator, the express elevator to the penthouse.
- 15:15Speaker 1: But currently the Tennessee Titans franchise is sleeping underneath an
- 15:20Speaker 1: overpass that leads straight into Skid Row. And Cam Ward
- 15:26Speaker 1: has been the Teemu franchise quarterback. The picture looked fantastic
- 15:33Speaker 1: when Tennessee ordered it. And it's like, well, he's got
- 15:36Speaker 1: all the tools and all that at Miami. But they
- 15:40Speaker 1: immediately had regrets when they drafted him right after the draft.
- 15:45Speaker 1: And Cam Ward is guilty of complete false advertising at
- 15:50Speaker 1: this point. And so he can sit there and brag
- 15:53Speaker 1: that he does things that other quarterbacks can't do, and
- 15:56Speaker 1: that's a great thing to say. And it's correct. Most
- 15:59Speaker 1: quarterbacks don't average 5.9 yards per pass attempt and boast
- 16:05Speaker 1: about that. That generally does not happen. And the reason,
- 16:08Speaker 1: we all know the reason that Cam Ward continues to play,
- 16:11Speaker 1: because of the draft capital. That's why. Based on his
- 16:16Speaker 1: own performance, he should have been benched a long time ago.
- 16:21Speaker 1: though Tennessee will not do that they are going to
- 16:23Speaker 1: let him continue to dig a bigger and bigger and
- 16:26Speaker 1: bigger and bigger hole so when he called himself very
- 16:32Speaker 1: good it's kind of like a chef at a one-star
- 16:35Speaker 1: Italian bistro complimenting his own lasagna well you're the chef
- 16:42Speaker 1: at that one-star Italian bistro of course you're going to
- 16:46Speaker 1: compliment your own pasta your own lasagna so Cam Ward,
- 16:53Speaker 1: based on what we've seen, he's not all he's cracked
- 16:55Speaker 1: up to be. And look, we've all made dumb purchases.
- 17:00Speaker 1: It happens. Now, that said, Cam Ward. Still, his signature
- 17:04Speaker 1: moment as an NFL quarterback is literally telling everyone, quote,
- 17:09Speaker 1: we ass. That's it. That's all. That's the big board.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Cam Ward, we ass. That is his moment in the NFL.
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- 18:22Speaker 1: his Las Vegas addiction problem. That is the Maller riddle
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- 21:32Speaker 1: to pay off the Mallard riddle of the day. And
- 21:36Speaker 1: here's the Mallard riddle of the day. Raiders quarterback Kirk
- 21:40Speaker 1: Cousins recently admitted that blank is his Las Vegas addiction.
- 21:48Speaker 1: Courtesy Flusher says, showgirl boot camp experience. I don't remember that.
- 21:56Speaker 1: Art cheated. He got it right. What else do we
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- 22:03Speaker 3: What else?
- 22:04Speaker 1: Page down. Skip over that. We've got Miguel on fire says,
- 22:09Speaker 1: walking down Fremont Street only wearing a banana hammock. In
- 22:13Speaker 1: his new Las Vegas, is his new Las Vegas addiction.
- 22:16Speaker 1: That's Miguel on fire. Extra pillow for the bed. Late
- 22:20Speaker 1: night drug tester. Peeing in a back alley. Oh, that
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- 22:35Speaker 1: the Bears fan, though, says he got addicted to jumping
- 22:39Speaker 1: into the fountains around Las Vegas. Bathing in the Bellagio
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- 22:52Speaker 1: the Bellagio pool. I was hoping to see him. I know,
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- 23:00Speaker 1: him since then. Donkey Sausage says the Neon Museum. I've
- 23:04Speaker 1: been there. I've been to the Neon Museum. You ever
- 23:05Speaker 1: been to the Neon Museum in Vegas? It's pretty good.
- 23:08Speaker 4: Not bad.
- 23:09Speaker 1: As you would imagine, the Neon Museum in Vegas would
- 23:11Speaker 1: be pretty good. There's one in L.A. Not as good.
- 23:13Speaker 1: It's in Glendale. The Neon Museum. What else do we have?
- 23:17Speaker 1: The We Are Redskins account says the answer to the
- 23:21Speaker 1: riddle of the day is golf. That's Will from St. Augustine.
- 23:28Speaker 1: That's his account. What else do we have? Page down.
- 23:31Speaker 1: Let's see here. Alf the Alien O'Piner says Sigma Derby
- 23:36Speaker 1: at the Golden Gate Casino is the answer. Poppy's Picks
- 23:43Speaker 1: from Kathy and Madison. How dare you? Stevie Meatball says
- 23:46Speaker 1: propane and cookers from Stevie Meatball. Giant honey buns from Dante.
- 23:55Speaker 1: Page Dan, Milkman Mike in Colorado says he spends his
- 23:58Speaker 1: nights listening to Lionel Richie's greatest hits. Or Lion-O Richie.
- 24:04Speaker 1: Excuse me, I butchered that. What else do we have?
- 24:06Speaker 1: Page down. Hooters while in Las Vegas from Sir Smokes-A-Lot.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Overpriced parking. Who doesn't love being gouged for $ 25 or
- 24:18Speaker 1: $ 35 to go in and lose your money? What a
- 24:20Speaker 1: great business model that is in Vegas. Way to go, boys.
- 24:24Speaker 1: You're on the pulse of society. Johnny Q goes with
- 24:27Speaker 1: Pawn Shops as his answer. Steelers Nasty says shrimp cocktail.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Arik in Minnesota says the Walnut Creek salad at the
- 24:37Speaker 1: Peppermill is his addiction. I've heard about the Peppermill for years.
- 24:41Speaker 1: I went to the Peppermill, and I did not enjoy
- 24:44Speaker 1: my meal at the Peppermill. It must have been a
- 24:46Speaker 1: bad night, and I have not been back. That was
- 24:49Speaker 1: a long time ago. The Peppermill is one of those
- 24:51Speaker 1: spots that's legendary late night, all night. I don't even
- 24:55Speaker 1: know if it's open all night. A lot of places
- 24:57Speaker 1: after the pandemic. Did not stay open all night. Eek
- 25:00Speaker 1: in Roseville, Minnesota. Got it wrong. Bad job by him.
- 25:03Speaker 1: Filler up, Phil, says 99-cent shrimp is the answer. Georgia
- 25:07Speaker 1: boy going with hookers. That's it. The abundance of Tierra
- 25:13Speaker 1: Masu at the Bellagio's Hotel Buffet from Rob in the 3-2-1.
- 25:17Speaker 1: Our buddy Timmy from Busco, Indiana, says his addiction is
- 25:21Speaker 1: selling old memorabilia at Pawn Stars. That's it. Duke got
- 25:27Speaker 1: this right. Bad job by him. All right. Do you
- 25:31Speaker 1: have an answer, Lorena? Do you have an answer? The
- 25:36Speaker 1: riddle of the day. Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins admitted recently
- 25:39Speaker 1: that blank is his Las Vegas addiction. So that is
- 25:43Speaker 1: the question. What is the answer? I'm going to go
- 25:45Speaker 1: with late night White Castle addiction. Late night White Castle.
- 25:50Speaker 1: Is that correct? Let's see here.
- 25:52Speaker 2: No.
- 25:53Speaker 1: Cousins admitted that his addiction is In-N-Out Burger in Las Vegas.
- 26:01Speaker 1: In-N-Out Burger.
- 26:01Speaker 4: I was close.
- 26:05Speaker 1: And let me point out, I know Alf right now
- 26:07Speaker 1: and Ferg Dog and Mallard Prop Guy are all saying, well,
- 26:10Speaker 1: wait a minute, Mallard, don't you remember the Cousins thing?
- 26:12Speaker 4: Yes.
- 26:13Speaker 1: There was a guy in Minnesota that called us up
- 26:15Speaker 1: that said Kirk Cousins loved Raising Cane's. And when he
- 26:20Speaker 1: played for the Vikings, he would go to the Raising
- 26:22Speaker 1: Cane's near the Viking facility, and he'd pick up food
- 26:26Speaker 1: on his way home for the family. And so this
- 26:28Speaker 1: is a guy. I love that. I love the fact
- 26:30Speaker 1: that Raising Cane's and In-N-Out Burger are the diet of
- 26:34Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. He's very relatable. He's not talking about eating
- 26:38Speaker 1: kale smoothies and broccoli and cauliflower and all that crap.
- 26:42Speaker 4: No, no, no.
- 26:43Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I played quarterback in the NFL, and
- 26:46Speaker 1: I'm going to get a double-double, or I'm going to
- 26:48Speaker 1: go to get the Caniac combo at Raising Cane's, and
- 26:51Speaker 1: that's that. And so there you go. All right, we'll
- 26:54Speaker 1: take some calls here. 877-99 on Fox. By the way,
- 26:57Speaker 1: the Baltimore Freeloader account says, nothing really kills insomnia like
- 27:02Speaker 1: this show. It doesn't make me hungry. And I love
- 27:06Speaker 1: free food. It doesn't even bore me. God, no. But
- 27:09Speaker 1: it does wear me down like those Bills Mafia losers.
- 27:14Speaker 1: They wear me down, too. But they still won't win
- 27:17Speaker 1: anything in our lifetime. He says, did you see Peter Kirk?
- 27:22Speaker 1: The dog has a commercial. Kirk's dog has a commercial.
- 27:26Speaker 1: I did not. I've tuned out the commercials. Is that right?
- 27:31Speaker 1: There's a commercial for Kirk Herbstreit's dog? I haven't seen that.
- 27:37Speaker 1: I've not either. It says, this is great news for you,
- 27:39Speaker 1: finding a sponsor for Benny versus the Penny. And then
- 27:42Speaker 1: he says, Perina, dog food is clearly a client. If
- 27:46Speaker 1: Peter can land them, that's the way to go. All right. Well,
- 27:49Speaker 1: there you go. Try to get dog food. Let's sell
- 27:53Speaker 1: dog food. They want to contact the sales department. Let's
- 27:55Speaker 1: go to the phones and we'll say hello to, let's
- 27:58Speaker 1: go to Ohio. And we'll check in with the Dixter,
- 28:03Speaker 1: Dick in Dayton. Hello, Dick. Up early today, Dixter.
- 28:07Speaker 4: I'm up early today. How you guys been? I've been
- 28:11Speaker 4: a little busy down here. We've been having a lot
- 28:16Speaker 4: of music, you know, celebrate September. We had, like, free-for-all concerts.
- 28:23Speaker 4: What was it called? Show Your Talent. And last night
- 28:27Speaker 4: we had a tribute to the oldies. It was pretty good. Oh,
- 28:30Speaker 4: I enjoyed it. It was really nice.
- 28:32Speaker 1: You're living large. You're living large. Outstanding.
- 28:35Speaker 3: Way to go.
- 28:37Speaker 1: All right. And may I point out, Dick, you're doing
- 28:40Speaker 1: better than the Browns.
- 28:42Speaker 4: Better than the Browns. You can't hardly get on 92 anymore.
- 28:48Speaker 4: I mean, it's always busy. So busy. People want... you know,
- 28:53Speaker 4: it's just bad. They want to get a new coach
- 28:56Speaker 4: or a new team because it's downright pathetic, Ben, to
- 29:00Speaker 4: see them lose like that, you know?
- 29:02Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 29:03Speaker 1: Now, how bad is this current run? You're a longtime
- 29:05Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown backer, Dick. Where does this rank? How bad
- 29:09Speaker 1: is it right now?
- 29:11Speaker 4: It's bad. It's really bad. Everybody wants to, you know,
- 29:15Speaker 4: they're not going to watch the game, but... It's sad, but.
- 29:20Speaker 1: What is your advice as an insider, Dick? You've seen
- 29:23Speaker 1: a lot of football over the years. What is your
- 29:25Speaker 1: advice to the Cleveland Browns?
- 29:28Speaker 4: I think they should maybe get a new coach, new
- 29:33Speaker 4: general manager or something because...– All right.
- 29:39Speaker 1: Do you have any recommendations?
- 29:41Speaker 4: That was– last week I was a little bit– I mean,
- 29:45Speaker 4: Ohio State had that lead and they– Oh, geez, that
- 29:49Speaker 4: was kind of bad. I didn't like it.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Well, they were playing great. Well, I don't know great,
- 29:54Speaker 1: but they had the lead after three quarters. You've got
- 29:56Speaker 1: to finish the game, Dick. Come on now. Everyone knows that.
- 29:59Speaker 3: You finished the game.
- 30:00Speaker 1: Come on now. What's wrong with you, Buckeyes?
- 30:03Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 30:04Speaker 4: It's not right. I watched the Bengals. They looked pretty good.
- 30:08Speaker 4: They looked pretty good, I thought.
- 30:10Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're more of a Browns guy, though.
- 30:13Speaker 4: Yeah, more of a Browns guy.
- 30:15Speaker 1: Now, more importantly, wait a minute. Have you been to
- 30:18Speaker 1: Buc-ee's yet?
- 30:20Speaker 4: Not yet. No, not yet. I don't know. Dave must
- 30:23Speaker 4: be busy. Last time I talked to him, he wasn't
- 30:26Speaker 4: feeling well, but I need to get there. But I'm
- 30:31Speaker 4: going to a class reunion tomorrow, 60 years from Centerville
- 30:36Speaker 4: High School.
- 30:37Speaker 1: Outstanding, Dick. Look at that. Now, the ladies are going
- 30:41Speaker 1: to be all over you, so be careful when you're
- 30:42Speaker 1: out there, Dick.
- 30:43Speaker 4: All right?
- 30:43Speaker 1: Be careful. Those women are going to be all over you, Dexter. But.
- 30:48Speaker 4: Everybody, yeah, it's been nice. She was talking about, a
- 30:55Speaker 4: lot of my friends called about the get-together. Oh, my gosh,
- 31:00Speaker 4: it was good, you know. Nice.
- 31:03Speaker 1: All right, well, Dick, enjoy your weekend there. Keep us posted.
- 31:06Speaker 1: I want a full report, detailed report on Buc-ee's, okay?
- 31:11Speaker 4: Okay, have a good day. Bye-bye.
- 31:12Speaker 1: All right, bye-bye. There's my friend.
- 31:14Speaker 4: Bye.
- 31:15Speaker 1: There he goes, the great Dick in Dayton. What a
- 31:18Speaker 1: day it was. Ohio Al, the legend who's so much
- 31:21Speaker 1: a part of our podcast. The great Ohio Al and
- 31:25Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton on stage there in Newport, Kentucky, right
- 31:29Speaker 1: across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. It was awesome. Strong's
- 31:33Speaker 1: Brick Oven Pizzeria there. They were very kind to host us,
- 31:36Speaker 1: and it was a lot of fun. Had a good
- 31:39Speaker 1: time that day. Great memories. Great memories. Legends. Justin in Cincinnati.
- 31:43Speaker 1: Just Josh there. The Ghost Hunter. All our buddies are
- 31:47Speaker 1: hanging out right there. Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome. All right,
- 31:52Speaker 1: it is the Ben Maller Show, and we are moments
- 31:57Speaker 1: away from Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. All
- 32:01Speaker 1: the top jokes, all the top one-liners sent in by you,
- 32:05Speaker 1: the people. And that'll be coming up. We have Weed
- 32:08Speaker 1: Man ready to go. He's our laugh track. So we'll
- 32:11Speaker 1: get to that. Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week.
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- 33:32Speaker 1: thank you, thank you.
- 33:35Speaker 4: Knock, knock. Who's there? Lame Week. Lame Week who?
- 33:39Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's Lame Joke of the Week. I can't
- 33:43Speaker 1: get over this Herb Street story. He's got a dog
- 33:46Speaker 1: food endorsement. That's real. Man, I guess I should take
- 33:51Speaker 1: Moxie with me. Maybe I'll get a dog sponsor. My
- 33:54Speaker 1: dog Moxie, my dog would kick Herb Street's dog's ass.
- 33:58Speaker 1: All right, let me tell you, right now, that dog
- 34:01Speaker 1: has no Moxie. Much better dog. Your dog mogs that dog? Yeah,
- 34:07Speaker 1: come on, Coop, please. Not there. All right, here we go.
- 34:10Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lame jokes. Are you there, Weed Man? Yeah,
- 34:14Speaker 1: I'm here, Ben.
- 34:15Speaker 4: I want to thank Torito for sending me steak and
- 34:18Speaker 4: baked potato. Thank you very much. All right.
- 34:22Speaker 1: Well, you do beg him for food every week. He
- 34:24Speaker 1: is keeping you fed. Look at that. He's going to
- 34:27Speaker 1: get you fat. You're going to become fat, Weed Man.
- 34:30Speaker 1: He feeds you too much, you know.
- 34:31Speaker 4: That'd be great.
- 34:32Speaker 1: That'd be great. You'd like to be fat? I'll trade
- 34:35Speaker 1: with you if you want. All right. Here we go.
- 34:39Speaker 1: Did you know that Weed Man, this is from Rosie,
- 34:41Speaker 1: by the way, our friend Rosie. Did you know that
- 34:43Speaker 1: Weed Man Hippie was once engaged to a hot hula dancer?
- 34:49Speaker 4: Wow, really?
- 34:50Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but she called off the wedding because apparently,
- 34:53Speaker 1: Weed Man, you kept trying to smoke her grass skirt.
- 34:56Speaker 1: What's up with that, Weed Man? That's a true story.
- 35:02Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners. Thanks to our
- 35:04Speaker 1: radio friend, Rosie. You can send these jokes in. Care
- 35:07Speaker 1: of BenMallerShow at gmail.com. That's BenMallerShow at gmail.com. Who is
- 35:13Speaker 1: Weed Man's favorite all-time NFL head coach?
- 35:17Speaker 2: Who?
- 35:19Speaker 1: Bum Phillips. What is Weed Man's favorite football player?
- 35:28Speaker 4: Who?
- 35:29Speaker 1: No, the play. The play is the Bum Arooski. The
- 35:33Speaker 1: Bum Arooski is your favorite play. Those jokes from our
- 35:38Speaker 1: friend Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Why did Weed Man love
- 35:42Speaker 1: it when he became the King of America? Why did
- 35:46Speaker 1: Weed Man love that?
- 35:48Speaker 4: Why?
- 35:49Speaker 1: Well, it was great, Weed Man, when everyone called you
- 35:52Speaker 1: your high-ness. You got very excited by that. It's Mike
- 36:00Speaker 1: the Leprechaun set that one in. Who is Weed Man's
- 36:02Speaker 1: favorite caller?
- 36:04Speaker 2: Who?
- 36:05Speaker 1: No Job Jerome. That's from Eric in Kansas. That is
- 36:12Speaker 1: both a great reference and a dated reference. We have
- 36:15Speaker 1: not heard from No Job Jerome in some time. We
- 36:18Speaker 1: think he got a job, and we lost him because
- 36:20Speaker 1: he went out and got a job. Bad job by him.
- 36:22Speaker 1: What else do we have? Let's see. Page down. Can't
- 36:24Speaker 1: read that. Did you hear that Weed Man thought he
- 36:27Speaker 1: had come up with a plan to comfortably retire by
- 36:30Speaker 1: marrying into money? Really?
- 36:33Speaker 4: Really.
- 36:34Speaker 1: Yeah, but apparently it all went up in smoke, Weed Man,
- 36:37Speaker 1: so I guess it didn't work out. It's a bad
- 36:41Speaker 1: job by you. I don't know why that would happen,
- 36:43Speaker 1: but apparently it did happen. Alf writes in, Alf the
- 36:49Speaker 1: Alien O'Piter, and he says, Hey, Weed Man, Bozo the Clown,
- 36:56Speaker 1: that's it. That's the joke. Bozo the Clown. You like
- 37:03Speaker 1: Bozo the District Attorney, right? You're a big fan of
- 37:05Speaker 1: his work?
- 37:07Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of Bozo the Clown.
- 37:10Speaker 1: We have Bozo the District Attorney, though. He sends you
- 37:13Speaker 1: questions every time you do that Ask a Weed Man thing.
- 37:15Speaker 4: Remember? Yeah, he's funny.
- 37:18Speaker 1: All right. No, he's not. Did you hear that Weed Man,
- 37:23Speaker 1: let's see here. Oh, I can't read that. I've already
- 37:24Speaker 1: done that one. What are two things that you will
- 37:28Speaker 1: never see in or around a Chinese restaurant?
- 37:32Speaker 4: What?
- 37:35Speaker 1: According to John in Youngstown, Ohio, you'll never see stray
- 37:38Speaker 1: cats or Weed Man Hippie, for that matter. So you
- 37:41Speaker 1: will never see that. Not going to happen. What are
- 37:45Speaker 1: the chances Weed Man will figure out his email account? What?
- 37:51Speaker 1: Highly unlikely. Highly unlikely. That's from Mike the Leprechaun. Why
- 37:58Speaker 1: does Weedman secretly go to the dentist's office even though
- 38:03Speaker 1: he's lost all his teeth?
- 38:05Speaker 4: Why?
- 38:06Speaker 1: Because they give him laughing gas. That's from Michael in Tulsa. Weedman,
- 38:15Speaker 1: you'll laugh at anything, right, Weedman? By the way, our
- 38:20Speaker 1: friend Weed Man, his real name is Billy. He lives
- 38:22Speaker 1: in Hollywood, Florida. He loves free food. He loves free food.
- 38:26Speaker 1: Everyone loves free food.
- 38:28Speaker 4: Are you going to call me for a five-hour podcast
- 38:31Speaker 4: this week?
- 38:32Speaker 1: I just told you, Weed Man, we've got other people
- 38:34Speaker 1: ahead of you, but I will call you again. You'll
- 38:35Speaker 1: be on again. Not this weekend. Why does Weed Man
- 38:38Speaker 1: secretly go to the dentist's office? Oh, I already did
- 38:40Speaker 1: that one. Bad job by me. What is Weed Man's
- 38:42Speaker 1: favorite animal?
- 38:44Speaker 4: What?
- 38:45Speaker 1: A camel, because he knows it won't drink as much
- 38:49Speaker 1: of his bong water as the other animals. That's Michael
- 38:53Speaker 1: in Tulsa. All right. Very nice. This one's from Sarah
- 38:58Speaker 1: in the Bay. After a massive public outcry from users
- 39:03Speaker 1: believing Alexa was listening to everyone, Amazon, they're making changes,
- 39:07Speaker 1: Weed Man. Did you hear about that?
- 39:08Speaker 4: Really? No, I didn't hear.
- 39:10Speaker 1: Yeah, according to Sarah, Amazon announced it will be releasing
- 39:13Speaker 1: a male version which won't listen to anything said. So
- 39:17Speaker 1: there is that. There you go. Very funny, Sarah. How
- 39:22Speaker 1: you doing? Did you hear that Marcel in Brooklyn has
- 39:25Speaker 1: dipped his balls in glitter?
- 39:28Speaker 4: Really?
- 39:28Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty funny. nuts, right?
- 39:30Speaker 3: Yeah. There it is.
- 39:32Speaker 1: Lame jokes of the week. Thank you, Weed Man.
- 39:35Speaker 3: There he goes.
- 39:36Speaker 1: Weed Man hippie.