Star Track
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2017
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Jonas Knox fills in for Ben Maller and talks Thursday Night Football, the mania surrounding LeBron & Lonzo's post-game conversation, Star Wars, a coach admitting the team quit, and more!
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| 0:34.5 | It's yet another example why the NFL continues to dominate. |
| 0:39.5 | Believe it or not, the NFL dominated on Thursday night. I'll explain how. |
| 0:45.7 | Coming up here in just a couple of minutes. Jonas Knox in for Big Ben here on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:55.9 | You can always listen to the show on the IHeart Radio app. And you can find us on Sirius XM Channel 83 as we do it all live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. |
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| 1:11.5 | Have no fear now. I do have bad news. Obviously, Ben Mallor is not here, and we will get to exactly why Ben Mallor is not in on the program. |
| 1:17.2 | But also, we're going to talk a lot of NFL. |
| 1:23.2 | I don't know if anybody is big fans of Last Jedi, whatever that new Star Wars movie is. So I regret to inform you that it is in fact true. |
| 1:26.9 | He-Man kills Zit Boy in the end, and the whole galaxy explodes. |
| 1:32.2 | So there's you, spoiler alert for you nerds out there that are standing in line dressed as stuffed animals in your 40s. |
| 1:40.5 | That's what you can expect to go on at the ending. |
| 1:42.5 | He-man kills Zit Boy with a proton pack and an |
| 1:49.1 | Abba-Zabba wand. That's the latest out of Star Wars. |
| 1:56.0 | Geeks. Unbelievable, man. We'll get to them later. Don't worry about it. We've got all sorts of fun stuff for them later. |
| 2:03.0 | I do want to talk about the NFL because the NFL is king, man. |
| 2:08.1 | And you're going to hear this. |
| 2:09.9 | A lot of people are going to be ripping into the NFL for the Thursday night game. |
| 2:14.4 | You had the Broncos in the return of Brock Osweiler on Thursday night football |
| 2:19.3 | taking out those devastating Indianapolis Colts. And people are going to mock the NFL |
| 2:24.7 | and they're going to take their pot shots. And it's this whole standalone theory. Like if you're |
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