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Hour 4 - Doubling Down

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Ben Maller talks about Jerry Jones saying that he could and would hire Troy Aikman for a prominent job running the Cowboys, the temperature in the locker room surrounding George Pickens, if the Giants are sitting on QB goldmine with Jaxson Dart & J.J. McCarthy, Password, and more!

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Here we go. And a ding dong to you. It's our number for our for the Ben Mallor Show on this 28th day of October. And here on this hour for of the Ben Mallor Show, how much stock do you put in Cowboys owner Jerry Jones again, saying that he could and would hire TV's Troy Aikman for a prominent job running the Cowboys. We'll talk about that.

Also, what's the temperature in the cowboy locker room around George Pickens? Turns out that George by George, not getting that many snaps in the recent cowboy victory. And in New Jersey is Giant's general manager, Joe Shane, sitting on a quarterback gold mine with Jackson Dart and JJ McCarthy, or a football landfill. We'll talk about all that. It's a newbie night.

It's all new colors. If you haven't figured that out by now, we'll discuss all of this and more right about now. Settle in. It's our number four. Doubling down as only you can do the Jerry Berry.

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It's been three weeks since the Brewers last lost and there you go. So another game tonight on Fox and this is the pivot point. We did a monologue about this earlier, but this is really the pivot point. The Miz is on the mound in that game tonight and you figure well the Brewers have to win with him on the mound. If they somehow f this up and it's three to two going into game six, all of a sudden the pendulum swings back tight took a syndrome as we call it goes back to the Brewers and all of a sudden it's like, wait a minute. If we lose

this, it's game seven winner take all anything goes into game seven. So there's a lot on the line tonight. Might just seem like, Oh, it's just a fate of Compley. The Brewers are going to win. They should win with Mizaraski on the mound. You start messing around. You start

the futzing around next thing you know, whoa, whoa. Now speaking of what, whoa, I fully admit that I am a total soccer for Jerry and our lead this hour from Dallas following a near 10 minute, 10 minute conversation caught on camera because it was on the field before a Monday night football game. Cal, was under Jerry Jones said on his weekly radio show that he could and would bring Troy Aikman into a significant organizational role. He then sang the praises of Troy Aikman and his football knowledge and his work ethic. He did not talk about his love of Joe Buck because there is no love of Joe Buck. All right. Anyway,

Aikman who's hanging on, hanging on by a thread there at Aspen, that little cable outfit out of Bristol, Connecticut, and his future is not looking so good, at least if he plans on continuing to do Monday night football, Joe Buck got an extension and Aikman did not Aikman has publicly flirted with the idea of going to the cowboy who lives in Dallas and lives in Dallas, got a house in Santa Barbara, who knows where else. Anyway, he has been a consultant most recently with the Miami Dolphins. That's going very well. That is going very well. Unless it's not now, not only is Aikman said to be in the running, there's also some whispers in the echo chamber that another failed broadcaster, Tony Romo, he knows where all the good bars are, Tony Romo is a possibility as well after he was decommissioned by Subias for driving all boozed up in Wisconsin. So let's focus in on Aikman. We're going to

focus on the Aikman part of the story and Jerry commenting on his radio show. That's a good jumping all points to let us discuss. So how much stock do you put in Cowboys owner and GM Jerry Jones saying that he could and would hire television's Troy Aikman in a prominent role with the Dallas Cowboys. So I've got Sonic the Hedgehog, Brazilian, a cybe bowl and Confucius. And we will combine all of these things together. And we are going to be a

cock-eyed optimist, otherwise known as my split personality, Benny Brightside. Yes. All right. So first of all, how much stock do we put in Jerry Jones going on the radio and saying, Oh, yeah, I could could and would hire Troy Aikman. This is a penny stock is what it is. It's a penny stock. Jerry Jones did not say that he will hire Troy Aikman. He said

he could hire Troy. Could is the Cadillac Escalade of Weasel words. It is the ultimate escape hatch. You know how you call a call service or car service and they usually bring like a Cadillac Escalade if you're bougie, I can do York or something like that. You can actually them all the way around here. We do the show from LA and there's a bunch of Cadillac escalates

all over driving the important people around. But could again is the Cadillac Escalade of the Weasel words. It's the ultimate escape hatch in the English language. I could I could win the power ball. I could become a power ranger. I could. So Jerry gets all the upside of making

it seem like it's a promise. It's the same deal as as we get with every every every year. It's the every every time you go shopping, it's up to 50% off, you know, 75% off and you don't read the fine print select items. And there's other things involved in that. But you know, Jerry gets all the excitement about people think that he's going to go on higher Aikman. There's no accountability because Jerry over the years we've learned he's fluent

in three different languages. One of the languages. Thanks for asking Jerry is fluent in English, Texan, and most importantly, plausible deniability, plausible deniability. The man is the human version of Sonic the Hedgehog. He's turned hedging into an Olympic sport. Meanwhile,

the sports media in my hand is raised. I'm guilty. The sports media industrial complex. This eating out of Jerry's hand. We're just eating out of Jerry's hand at this point, pigeons in the park. We're just munching away and that's it. And Jerry, Jerry has this

all trained. We're like Pavlov's dogs. We are he rings the Cowboys bell goes on the radio show, spends 10 minutes standing on the field playing grab ass with Troy Aikman throws down a few bread drums. And everybody comes flapping in every direction, salivating. What did Jerry say? The man is master the art for 30 plus years. It's been forever. It's been almost 40

years. That Jerry bought the team in the late 80s. And we're only a few years away from the 40th anniversary. But Jerry, you look at what he's done. He's master the art of saying everything without actually saying anything. It is a skill. Major corporations spend a lot

of money to hire professionals to say nothing, but sound like you're saying something. All right. Secondly, staying on the field, we have a developing story. The reason I'm bringing this up, we'll go to stay with Dallas because the trade deadline is November 10th. The Colts started unloading, which is a rather odd move. The Colts don't have their first round pick,

yet they're tanking to help the jets out, which is very kind of them to do that. They traded an offensive lineman, a defensive player in the first part of the purge on the trade rumor mill, which not no longer rumors. A fact it happened on Tuesday. But the Cowboys are an interesting team. They beat the Eagles. They're not a good team. They did beat the Eagles.

We beat the backup quarterback and Eagles. And there's some debate whether or not Jerry Jones would ever unload a certain unhappy wide receiver. I bring this up because coach Brian Schott andheimer publicly challenged George Pickens, George, George, George, George Pickens, to improve the run blocking and embrace doing the dirty work required to be a top starting receiver in the NFL. So against Philadelphia, they went back and tracked how much George Pickens played. It turns out that he played 12 fewer snaps than someone named Ryan Flanoi and including just 13 running plays compared to Flanoi's 28 Pickens received only six targets. He did score a touchdown,

but only six targets asked about the limited involvement being an afterthought in the Cowboys offense. Pickens said, quote, I'm doing what they tell me to do. Close quote. All right. Here's the question. What is the temperature in the cowboy locker room? The temperature in the cowboy locker

room around George Pickens. So Shawnee, Brian Schottheimer, I actually think he's making a reasonable demand. This is not an outrageous demand by Schottheimer. And it's not a one man Broadway production when you're playing in the NFL. And even the star wide receivers do have to roll up their sleeves and do some of the dirty work. And you got a block. And if you don't block, it doesn't matter how great the

offensive line blocks and how great everyone up front blocks, if the player coming off the edge runs through the wide receiver, that's not going to get it done. But you already knew that you already knew that this was a message from Shawnee. It was a message in a bottled snap count. How many snaps do these guys get? And George Pickens, when you look at how little he actually played and was targeted, it was a soft benching, a shadow band. He was shadow band by the Cowboys offensive Algorethum,

is what he was. And they're not taking away his Instagram account. Thank God for that or his X account. They're taking away his offensive snaps. And they're trying to convince it would appear based on just observing what's going on in Dallas. They're trying to get him to do the grunt work

to be the lumberjack. You got to be the lumberjack. You got to chop down the trees, you got to clear the brush. You got to do all that. Meanwhile, Pickens, it's pretty obvious he wants to be the guy living in the luxury log cabin on the top of the hill overlooking the forest with room service.

He would like the room service to deliver the Brazilian acai bowl while he's sitting in that log cabin and drawing the view. Now, Pickens is playing last I checked for a new contract. He's on a franchise tag. And so right now at this moment, he is renting a room, George Pickens, in the very back of Shoddy's doghouse or just like that. So month to month lease, no security deposit.

And the eviction notice could be coming here before November 10th. Don't you have to call? I don't work out the contract stuff. There's always a way to futz around with the salaries and all that. But don't you think if you're Kansas City or some of these other teams that need help at wide receiver, you're going to say, how much would it take to get George Pickens? And you at least make that phone

call. So it is a contract year nightmare. Pickens is getting fewer snaps, fewer targets, fewer dollars. As a result, it's a total powder keg for Jerry Jones to navigate this. And it's a powder keg, a stick of dynamite and a Roman candle stuffed into Jerry Jones luxury box. Good luck.

All right. Final point to New Jersey, where the giants are, if you believe the New York media, and they're never wrong, the New York media, the giants now have a quarterback dilemma. Oh my God. Yes, New York now has two, two quarterbacks in their early 20s, former first round quarterbacks, Jackson Dart and J. J. McCarthy, who was excommunicated from the Church of the Vikings.

And that's where they are. So creating a possible quagmire going forward, the GM Joe Shane of a giant insisting there is no problem. He said it, there's no problem to have two young guys with Jackson and J. J. Both talented players. It's a good position to be in close quote. All right.

So Dart suffered a season ending snap crackle pop injury. And then the giants called up the Minnesota football team said, Hey, what can we get for what we're already want for JJ McCarthy? And the Vikings said we will drive him to the airport. We will have a limo pick him up when he gets to the destination. Please just take this guy. Please take this guy. And so that's that's

how that went down. So the question here's the question quickly is giant's GM Joe Shane sitting on a quarterback gold mine, a quarterback gold mine with Jackson Dart and JJ McCarthy, or is this a football landfill? You make the call. So the GM Joe Shane with the giants is standing on top of a mountain of garbage. He is it's a mountain of holding two keynote cards in each hand. He's got a keynote card telling everybody I have discovered the buried treasure. I'm going

to win the game of keynote. It's going to happen until proven otherwise it is a landfill at the quarterback position. Joe Shane's the giants are prospecting trying to find gold. They're trying to find gold. Unfortunately, they're using a plastic shovel from Toys R Us, not very effective. So

at this moment, Jackson Dart and JJ McCarthy are not last I checked the reincarnation of Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen, neither Dart nor McCarthy is a force multiplier. What are you talking about, did you see McCarthy? Did you see the giants off? Did you see what they know? They were so gut mal. You don't watch the games. Okay, take a breath. Take a breath. Not exactly rising

tide. They're not changing. He's not a rising tide lifting all the boats. He's not that. And these are two guys. You have to do it consistently more than a game and a half before we

anoint you. These guys are paddling around the kiddie pool. And if McCarthy is performance, JJ McCarthy's performance is authenticated, which it cannot be in a couple of weeks. Even goes on place. Great. The next giant game. It doesn't matter. If it does turn out that McCarthy has

a little razzle dazzle to him, then the volcano bubbles over fast because last I checked, you can only play one and the ancient philosopher Confucius once said, or maybe it was some disgruntled offensive coach. If you have two quarterbacks, you don't really have one. So that's it. And one of those guys, if McCarthy shows that he's got a little something, then that means one of the two, whether it's McCarthy or Jackson Dart, we'll go back into the transfer portal. But before everyone gets all horny for JJ McCarthy, remember the Vikings, he must have really been the leader of all aholes in Minnesota for them to desperately try to get rid of this guy. This man's serving up bleach.

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I would. So the Milwaukee Brewers lost last night. So they will not sweep the world seriously. Brewers lost. So that means no team has been able to sweep the league championship series and the World Series in the same year since when that would be many, many years ago, a team called the Cincinnati Reds. The in fact, the Reds are the only team. The only team to sweep the LCS and the

World Series the same year. And no majorly baseball team has done it in the seven game series period. The two best of seven series. No NBA team has been able to sweep the final two rounds and only NHL teams. The only teams that have done it in the best of seven, the Penguins of 1992, the Islanders of the 80s, the Boston Bruins back in 1970, the Canadians in 1960 and the Red Wings in 1952. So

the Brewers had that. They could join the Reds as the only teams to do it. As far as the ratings are concerned for the World Series, we don't have the ratings for Game 3. The World Series ratings were down. This is how pathetic this matchup is in terms of hype. Everyone expected it to be the

ratings Armageddon. The ratings are only down 6%. So they're like, Oh, people are silver. This is great. It's only down 6%. That's within the margin of error. That's awesome. We'll see what Game 3

did was 10 to 1. And then last night Game 4, which was close and went extra ratings. Let's say low to Andy who somehow got he got he got and he got like caught in a time warp thing. I don't know what happened. It's Newbie night. You've been on hold way too long. Andy, I'm gonna give you a golden ticket.

You get a golden ticket. You get a golden ticket. I apologize, Andy. I don't know how that happened. But you're on the air now. Welcome. Welcome. All right. I'll enjoy that chocolate bar with it.

Hello, big Ben and LaRey Ray. I'm a newbie. Newbie, newbie, newbie, newbie. We need a newbie. We gotta get a newbie drop. I'm gonna work on finding a newbie drop. I'm gonna find a newbie drop. Oh, you just got one.

Oh, say, do it again. Do it again. Do it again. I'm a newbie. That's actually sound like a cow.

That's too long. I need a shorter version. It's got to be real ratatatat. He can't be ratatatatatatatatat. I'm a newbie. Is that working right now? Does that. No. She doesn't seem excited about that. I don't know why.

Sorry. You know, after the trades and everything here, what do you think about the NFC West? I'm a Seahawks guy. So you want me to give you a Seahawks propaganda and all that? I just want to know your thoughts.

Oh, here's my. I don't when the West. Well, it's either gonna be Seattle or San Francisco. Obviously the Rams are pretty much knocked themselves out of that. Although I don't trust the 49ers because they've got an older roster.

A bunch of guys already hurt. It's only going to get worse as we get later in the season as we get to the Thanksgiving and all that. My god, another month from now, that's going to be a wreck. And I don't mind losing your Seahawks. I still, I have Sam, Donald, I just, they don't, they clearly don't think they're good enough.

Otherwise they wouldn't have made the trade with Indianapolis. If they fought their offensive line was good enough and Donald was able to adjust. Well, I don't have a question at all. What? You need the perfect, well, then, you know, how do you, you know, Josh Allen or Jackson, Joe Burrow, but Sam has a championship already.

Yeah, and I would rather have Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson and all those other guys than Sam Brown. And so would you. If the bill's called up to see, I can say, we're going to trade Josh Allen for Sam, Donald. You would be orgasmic. You'd be like, oh my god, this is like the greatest thing in the world?

Yes, we'll drive him to Buffalo. Yes. You know, you're laughing. You know, I'm right. You know, I'm right.

Come on. All right. All right. You guys have a good night. I thought that was a decent drop.

All right. All right. You go to complain to Lorraine. I don't know what to tell you. Let's say hello to, oh, it's going to Rosie in Omaha.

Rosie, you're on a newbie night. Hello, Rosie. Welcome. Oh, my heart is beating so fast. I can't stand there.

Oh, no, no, you're fine. Oh, I can do the newbie thing. And I can do it in action. OK, what action are you going to do? What do you want to find out in a minute now?

OK, if I'm not in a minute, I hate to know it's going to be night. Oh, Lorraine, it seems to like that. I like that one. I think she's got a female bias. But go ahead and say it again.

It's newbie night. It's newbie night. Oh, I like that one. I think that was beautiful. I think that was good.

Thank you. Are you the person that sends the jokes in Rosie? Is that yours? I am the one that says the joke. Oh, well, thank you.

You're very funny. Yes, I should have been on your show. But I wasn't born yet. So there you go. I understand.

I am. It's hard to do something if you're not born yet. It's difficult to do things. It's exactly. Yeah.

I got you. Well, thanks for listening and being a newbie and all that. And you send the jokes in. Now you might have a drop if Lorraine puts that in the system. You might have a newbie drop.

So that's OK. Oh, and I can send you cookies too. Oh, cookies. Now we're back. We love cookies.

I've had some issues. I used to bake cookies all the time. But the problem is I ate them, which was a problem. And then the other problem is the oven starts and starts futzing around a little bit. I get it fixed.

So it's a. OK, easy. Get an easy bake oven. They're one of my 10 years old. So now what is the top cookie that Rosie is a classic chocolate chip?

Or something exotic? What are we looking at? Snickerdood. Yes. A solid cookie.

The snickerdoodled. It's my favorite cookie. What is the top cookie in Enoma? Is there like a top cookie there? Enoma?

Oh, God. It's probably something with red, like a red velvet cookie because of the Huskers. No, sure. Something like that. All right.

Well, Rosie, thank you so much for listening and sending the jokes and cookies and all that. I appreciate it. So thank you. Shall I? Yeah, shall I?

There you go. Thank you. Mazel to. Thank you. There she goes.

Let's say hello to Eni Minimow. Let's go to Doc Mikey's. Doc, it's nooby night. Doc, what are you doing? Doc, this is nooby night.

This is not your night. This is nooby night. Can you call tomorrow Doc? It's nooby night. No.

But Doc, you're taking time away from the noobies. I want to talk to Rosie. Oh, of course you're there. You dirty dog. I'm getting ready to hit for two found 21st of November.

You know, I'm actually, oh, no. See, I might be in Chicago next month, and you're not going to be in Chicago when I'm there. What's up with that? Are you getting here before the 21st? You know, I got to check my I got to check my I don't have to think here.

All right. I'll hit you up if I'm in town. I'll hit you up there. I got to get my my brother. So I'll get a bit of it.

Connie's. Oh, pizza. You're going to Chicago need a pizza. What are you talking about? No, Connie's.

Connie's. Yeah, Connie's. Yeah, definitely not pizza. All right. I'm going to go to Rob who's in Charlotte.

What's going on? It's newbie night. We've got also coming up in a couple minutes. It's a game show. A little thing we call password.

The word game of the story is hello. Hello. Hey, Long time listener first time, Paula. I am a newbie, you guys, but I had a joke for you guys of that I thought of a long time ago when JJ gave me what to giant thought it might be a controversy. But I also thought this might be a funny thing for him is Jim Harbaugh comes to his senses and realizes that Herbert is a dog and he wants to reunite with his old quarterback at Michigan and calls his brother up to sending him out for a foreground pick and let's get him a shot.

How funny was that? Well, he was traded to a Harbaugh, but it was the other Harbaugh. So that's what he called his brother and said, Hey, I'm this guy out here that we've got San Diego or L.A. is not any good. You know, and I'll give him a shot out here.

My head. I got had the college. That's not your joke, right? That's not the joke. That's what I'm just saying.

It's funny for the whole idea of what you were talking about. You need to go there. They are like the bottom of the bear's wife. You know, I enjoy your show and your take on everything. I have great takes.

Look at that piping hot takes every day popping hot takes. And I've been waiting for this controversy to pop up on the out of the yeah. Yeah. Whatever you want to say. Yeah.

Can't scan a little bit. Okay. I got you. Listen, Ron, I appreciate listening and calling in and it sounds like you're driving around and you're busy and all that I got it. So I just got to work.

I was listening to you on what it worked. And I'm like getting settled in at work and I work in a machine shop and what happened to when these guys were running when the machines really loud and I'm going to go. Yeah. Yeah. I got more about that.

I will be safe out there with the heavy machinery and all that we thank you, man. Listen, let's go. I've been told that you gave an incomplete fun fact. What did I not say the year that the Reds swept the who called up the bitch about that? Can I get names of the name of John?

You didn't tell me what he was calling. So John called up to complain that I gave an erroneous fun fact that I did not give a complete and total fun fact to approve. All right. I will I will update the fun fact. Let me let me click on this here.

So I got to click on this thing. Hold on a second. It's loading. The fun fact is loading. All right.

The 1976 Cincinnati Reds. Does that work for you? There we go. Okay. John, stop pitching 1976 Cincinnati Reds.

The only team that sweep the LCS in the world series the same year. They became the first to do it in two best of seven series. No NBA team has done it and the NHL it has happened, but not in basketball or anyone other than the Cincinnati Reds. Okay. Are we good?

We're good. I didn't want to mention if you tease you got to pay off the teas. So Tiger Woods in the tabloids. The tabloids claiming that Tiger is inching closer to getting married to Vanessa Trump, who I guess he's living together. What is Vanessa Trump?

Is she like, I don't know. Obviously related. Is he really attractive daughter that he's attracted to? I don't know. I don't really pay that close.

I have no idea. I've never been dating. I guess she's she divorced from somebody with a Trump name or she related to president. I don't know. Question.

I don't know. I don't know. Anybody cares. I suppose the tabloids was never wrong. I'm going to do this in San Diego to Tijuana and they told the people, said, park in the shopping mall and you'll be fine.

You can run a little half marathon and the finish line is in Mexico and then you can come back and get your car. Like almost all the cars got towed. And so there's images and videos of people all, you know, they just ran a marathon and then they had to go get their cars because they gave them erroneous information. Anyway, we have password. The word game of the stars.

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Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty. We've been trying to figure out how to describe what is Armstrong and Getty on demand for many years. I'm going to give it a shot.

So most media is either a gender driven. They intentionally leave parts out or they lie to you. They're so shallow. And boring. You don't learn anything anyway.

We're just shaping our world and help you understand what's actually happening. The Armstrong and Getty show. Practically perfect in every way. Yeah, I really like it. You guys have been listening for over 10 years.

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Here's Ben Mallor. Back to the game we go on a newbie night. We welcome in Brett from Ohio. Hello, Brett, welcome. How's it going?

What part of Ohio are you in there, sir? I'm in Gainesville. Between Columbus and Wheeling, West Virginia. Oh, beautiful. All right, we just have callers from Wheeling, West Virginia back in the day.

Radio rich. What's the big one? All right, are you going to play the game? Who do you want to partner with, Brett? Let's go with Lorena.

All right, Lorena, you're in. And we have Hector, who's in Hartford. Hello, Hector, welcome. What's up, how you doing? All right, you're playing password.

Who do you want to partner with, Hector? Since the other guy, I'm sitting there. All right, now good. That's the match up. All right, here we go.

Wow, this doesn't happen often. This is about 10 words. And who's on first, Brett? Brett, pick a number, Brett. Four.

All right, we start with 10 points, and we go down one point for every incorrect answer. Go ahead, Lorena. Um, porthole. Huh? It's a porthole.

Okay, Brett. Uh, whack up. Whoa. I'm sorry. No.

I'm going to dump that. No, I don't think you need to dump it. Go ahead, cool. Let's go. You heard Lorena's clue.

Let's go with pain. P-A-N-E pain. Hmm. Oh, um, medicine? Wow.

No, P-A-N-E. No, P-A-N-E. I'm spelling poop. I didn't see it. Is that Lorena?

Oh gosh. Yeah, one word password. Oh, this is hard. It's not that hard. I'm not going to help.

I'm not playing. I was not invited. I was invited. I was invited. I swear to God.

Come on, Lorena. Let's go. Come on, don't come on. Hurry up. Glass.

Glass, okay. No, wow. Hurry up. Hurry up. Let's go with shutters.

No. No. Wait, no. You get that or not. It was way better.

It was a good clue, but these guys don't know both. So it's not on both, Lorena. How do you know that Claude won't become manipulative? This is a constant worry. And you can actually catch the model thinking I think X is actually true, but I'm going to tell the user why.

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I'm going to get better shot. So most media is either a gender trigger or they're so shallow. And boring. Don't learn anything anyway. We try to get to the bottom of the stories that are shaping our worlds and help you understand what's actually happening.

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