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Hour 4 - Vague Statements · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Ding dong. It's our number four. Our four. The Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maller Show on this Monday, the 7th day of September.
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  Speaker 1: It's Labor Day. How are you decoding the messaging from
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  Speaker 1: past quarterback Christian Gonzalez as he talked about his contract situation?
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe that Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will completely
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  Speaker 1: vanish from public life after this year? That's what he
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  Speaker 1: said again. And how much stock do you put in
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay's last-minute Rams travel plan to Australia? Is it brilliant, bizarre,
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  Speaker 1: or somewhere in between? We'll talk about all that and
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  Speaker 1: more right now. Make way for our number four. Got
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  Speaker 1: to watch out for those vague statements. You have to
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  Speaker 1: watch out for those vague statements. Welcome in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: lead story this hour from the National Football League contract quagmire,
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  Speaker 1: developing hot, dot, dot, dot. So Patriots quarterback Christian Gonzalez
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  Speaker 1: remains in limbo, doing the limbo as he attempts to
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  Speaker 1: get a new contract just days before the NFL season begins.
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  Speaker 1: New England opens up on a West Coast roadie. They'll
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  Speaker 1: take on Seattle. in the traditional Wednesday night NFL. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night? That's not traditional, but they're going to start
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. So if you didn't see the latest
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  Speaker 1: update on this over the weekend, perhaps not, Christian Gonzalez
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  Speaker 1: says he will not, will not commit to playing in
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  Speaker 1: week one without a new deal. Meaning there's a possibility
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  Speaker 1: that Christian Gonzalez is a healthy scratch for the game
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. Say what? Asked about his status for
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  Speaker 1: the game against the Seahawks. Gonzalez was vague. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm focused on today. Asked whether contract negotiations were making
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  Speaker 1: any progress over the weekend. Gonzalez responded with simply, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Close quote. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. How are
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  Speaker 1: you decoding the messaging from Patriots defensive back Christian Gonzalez today?
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  Speaker 1: certainly implying that he might not play in the season opener.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got McFlurry, New Mexico, and Embassy Sweets from
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  Speaker 1: East Peoria. And we'll combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to make a giant buffet. And
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  Speaker 1: if you look off to the right at the buffet,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see the gabagool. There's a lot of gabagool. It's
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  Speaker 1: piled up. And if you look over to the other side,
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  Speaker 1: there's the baba ganoush, and in the middle is the jambalaya.
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  Speaker 1: And we even have some gumbo in the back, and
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  Speaker 1: there's a little matzo ball soup over there and some
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  Speaker 1: fettuccine alfredo. So there's a lot going on. Now, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, to answer the question, how do you decode...
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? The messaging with Patriots defensive back Christian Gonzalez.
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  Speaker 1: So New England, a lot of people say, well, they
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  Speaker 1: have all the leverage because they're the ones that have
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  Speaker 1: the money to offer him the contract. They have all
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  Speaker 1: the leverage except for the tiny minutia, the little fine
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  Speaker 1: print there, little fine print that they actually need Christian
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  Speaker 1: Gonzalez and he doesn't have to play in all the games.
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  Speaker 1: There's a misnomer that some people still have that in
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  Speaker 1: order to get paid your money, you and make everything
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  Speaker 1: on the up and up. You have to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and play in all the games. That is not true.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Gonzalez is not negotiating. He's holding the Patriots secondary hostage.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a high-stakes game of contractual, Bach!
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  Speaker 2: Bach!
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  Speaker 1: Check it!
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  Speaker 3: Bach! Bach!
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  Speaker 1: Check it! Just like that. He doesn't even have to
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  Speaker 1: say the word holdout. Because it's not technically a holdout,
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  Speaker 1: what the option is. Everybody and their uncle knows that.
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  Speaker 1: The way this works in the NFL, when you say,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll play, maybe I won't, it's the, hey, pay
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  Speaker 1: me my money or enjoy 17 weeks of will he
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  Speaker 1: or won't he perform? Will he or won't he perform?
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  Speaker 1: So Gonzalez is, in many ways, Christian Gonzalez of the Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: is double dog daring. The man that loves the Orchids
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  Speaker 1: of Asia Day Spa, Robert Kraft. He's double dog daring
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  Speaker 1: Robert Kraft here to not cheapen out. And he's threatening
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  Speaker 1: to become the ultimate shutdown defensive back, meaning he'll shut
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  Speaker 1: down when you need him the most. And he'll go
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  Speaker 1: on a wildcat strike and all of that. So without
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  Speaker 1: a new deal, here's how I read the room, decoding
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  Speaker 1: what Christian Gonzalez said. Without a new deal, his status
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  Speaker 1: becomes ridiculous. McFlurry. He's the McFlurry of the NFL, which
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  Speaker 1: means he'll randomly be temporarily unavailable. Patriot fans are going
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  Speaker 1: to have to download the McDonald's app just to find
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  Speaker 1: out whether or not the soft serve machine will actually
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  Speaker 1: be working for Christian Gonzalez. And on Wednesday, will he play?
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  Speaker 1: Will he not play? The Patriots are preparing to play
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle football team while simultaneously preparing for Gonzo to
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  Speaker 1: be Gonzo and adopt the Comcast service window and catch
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  Speaker 1: a mysterious case of Wednesday-itis. The Wednesday-itis. Watch out for
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  Speaker 1: the Wednesday-itis. A big problem. Now, meanwhile, you've got Mike Vrabel.
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  Speaker 1: who insist it is not a distraction, not a distraction,
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  Speaker 1: which is generally how coaches announce that something is a
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  Speaker 1: giant distraction. When you say it is not a distraction,
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  Speaker 1: that generally means it is a distraction. All right, secondly,
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  Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh we go, the land of the yinzer. And
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. He was at it again, Aaron Rodgers. over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, said he plans to disappear from public life
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  Speaker 1: after retiring. He said this before, he said it again.
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  Speaker 1: Jumbling down on this, said when this is done, meaning
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  Speaker 1: this season, it's Kaiser Soze, is what he said. Kaiser Soze,
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  Speaker 1: so you won't see me. Rodgers, who's 42... insists he
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  Speaker 1: has no interest in one of those no-show jobs, those jock-talk,
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  Speaker 1: grab-ass podcasts, or even worse, TV, where you just chuckle
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  Speaker 1: at everything on a pregame show. He says he's not
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  Speaker 1: interested in that. Asked about next year, Rogers said he
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  Speaker 1: hopes to be supporting my, quote, my pregnant wife because
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  Speaker 1: we're going to start a family. All right, so Rogers there.
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  Speaker 1: Rogers says he wants a life of quiet. He said
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  Speaker 1: after 22 NFL seasons focusing on healing, His body and
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  Speaker 1: starting a family. Oh, isn't that great? Storybook. Storybook, storybook, storybook.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Rogers and his wife, Brittany. Wink, wink, nod, nod. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Can you have... A baby with a chat bot. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I said. We'll find out. We'll find out. Can
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  Speaker 1: a chat bot give... Well, it's 2026, so I guess
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  Speaker 1: probably so. Anyway, he says that they're not currently expecting
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  Speaker 1: a child, but he hopes that she'll be pregnant by
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  Speaker 1: this time next year. I wonder how that'll work. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, do you believe, do you believe Steelers
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Aaron Rodgers will completely vanish... from public life. And
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  Speaker 1: he'll just go away, crawl behind the refrigerator and hang
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  Speaker 1: out with the cockroaches. All right. So I have two
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  Speaker 1: chances here. All right. Uh, And it's two words out there.
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  Speaker 1: It's fat chance. FC fat chance. We are not biased.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. What we know about Aaron Rodgers disappearing from
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  Speaker 1: public life. It's kind of like Caesar's Palace turning off
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  Speaker 1: the lights to become a monastery. It's not happening.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It's not happening. This man has been a 24-7 content
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  Speaker 1: machine going back to his days at Cal Berkeley, and
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  Speaker 1: now we're supposed to believe he's going to go radio silent. Please.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be no radio silence. Now, sure, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean he might not vanish into the Carlsbad caverns,
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  Speaker 1: the caves there in New Mexico for six months, and
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  Speaker 1: that's it. And he'll grow another layer to his beard
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  Speaker 1: and declare himself spiritually healed. And sooner or later, sooner
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  Speaker 1: than later, he will get the itch. It's the itchy
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  Speaker 1: and scratchy show. He'll get the itch. And the next
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  Speaker 1: thing you know, he's going to be on a private
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  Speaker 1: jet flying into Austin, playing grab ass with his BFF,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Rogan for four hours as they riff on society
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  Speaker 1: and what's real and consciousness and ayahuasca and whatever why
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  Speaker 1: things are messed up in the Western world and all this. Now, remember,
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  Speaker 1: this is a guy that seriously contemplated one of the
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  Speaker 1: great performative vice presidential runs in American political history. So
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  Speaker 1: he's like, I'll run for VP. You don't trade that for, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to live a quiet life clipping coupons to Target.
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  Speaker 1: And they've got the sale on the toilet paper at Target.
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  Speaker 1: That's the life that I want. And Rogers claims that
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  Speaker 1: he hates the spotlight, can't stand the spotlight, hates the spotlight,
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  Speaker 1: while at the same time demanding the spotlight, right? And
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  Speaker 1: he's an attention junkie at its core. That's who he is.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is not going to be a goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: He will take a little time off when he's done.
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  Speaker 1: It's just going to be an intermission is what it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, to travel.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we're going to talk about travel. And Marco Polo. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing.
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  Speaker 5: I know. I know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's a game coming up on Thursday, and it's
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  Speaker 1: very convenient for fans in America. It's in Australia. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we happen to be on the radio in Australia, so
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  Speaker 1: good for our friends there in Australia. The Rams are
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  Speaker 1: taking a rather unconventional path to take on their opponent,
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  Speaker 1: the 49ers. The game's on Thursday. They are traveling nearly
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  Speaker 1: 16 hours. The flight's nearly 16 hours from L.A. to Melbourne,
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  Speaker 1: where they will open the season against their NFC blood rival.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of leaving early to acclimate themselves to Australia
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  Speaker 1: like the Niners have done, Niners have been hanging out
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  Speaker 1: there for a while, The L.A. Rams. Well, they plan
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  Speaker 1: on waiting until not later today on Monday. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to leave on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the Rams are leaving on Tuesday night for the
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  Speaker 1: 16-hour flight. They're keeping players on their normal routine. And
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  Speaker 1: this became a thing. Now, Coach Sean McVay was asked
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  Speaker 1: about this. He said that the Rams studied multiple travel
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  Speaker 1: strategies before deciding that arriving later gave them a competitive advantage.
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  Speaker 1: rather than maintaining their normal body clocks. Well, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: the 49ers have already been in Melbourne for a few
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  Speaker 1: days as they have gotten ready for this particular game,
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  Speaker 1: hanging out with Kangaroos, Ozzy Waz, and Ozzy Guy. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so the question, how much stalk, how much stalk do
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  Speaker 1: you put in Sean McVay's last-minute Rams travel plans to Australia...
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  Speaker 1: Is this brilliant, bizarre, or somewhere in between? You make
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  Speaker 1: the call. All right, so this is a world... It
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  Speaker 1: is a world we call bizarro world. That's what we
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  Speaker 1: call it. So this is what happens when NFL teams
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  Speaker 1: have way too much money and too many people that
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  Speaker 1: have these highfalutin job titles. And I miss the mom
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  Speaker 1: and pop. You're doing old guy radio, Maller. But I
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  Speaker 1: did live in a world where the NFL was a
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  Speaker 1: mom and pop business. And in that NFL, that's when
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  Speaker 1: football teams would travel like a bunch of plumbers going
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  Speaker 1: to a convention at the Embassy Suites East Peoria. where
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  Speaker 1: they'd just eat a bunch of fast food, and they'd
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  Speaker 1: fart and vomit all over the place, and they'd live
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  Speaker 1: their life, and that was the NFL. And you didn't
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  Speaker 1: worry about sleep patterns and all that stuff. And now
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  Speaker 1: we look at the NFL now, and these guys are
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  Speaker 1: all treated like princes and kings and all that. So instead,
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  Speaker 1: we have what used to be called– this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be– Amazing. This term called jet lag. You ever
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  Speaker 1: heard of that? Oh, man, Mallor, you're such an old
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  Speaker 1: guy going jet lag. Yeah, there's a thing called jet lag.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's international circadian performative vision or optimization or optima something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Just throw a lot of big words
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  Speaker 1: together as long as you get circadian rhythm in there.
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  Speaker 1: That's very important. You get circadian rhythm. in here, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what you have to do. So you've got all
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  Speaker 1: this going on. Sean McVay's Rams are flying. It's about
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  Speaker 1: 8,000 miles from L.A. to Melbourne. So it's 8,000 miles
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  Speaker 1: to play a divisional game, a divisional game backed by
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  Speaker 1: a very carefully, methodically planned light exposure, sleep science, data, something, something, something.
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  Speaker 1: So what's next? Sean McVay personally... He's going to personally
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  Speaker 1: tuck in every player, make sure they have matching pajamas.
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  Speaker 1: They got to have the matching pajamas. Now, the NFL
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  Speaker 1: was about, hey, back in the old days, coaches, players,
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  Speaker 1: the playbook. That's it. Coaches, players, the playbook. Now, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't remember when exactly this happened. It happened
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  Speaker 1: in the last like 15 years or so. The NFL now,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have like a NASA mission control approach
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  Speaker 1: here to a road trip. Gotta have. Gotta have. So
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  Speaker 1: this is known as paralysis by analysis is what this is.
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  Speaker 1: They're flying to Australia. And this just in to Fox
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio. The Rams are not colonizing Mars. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to Australia. It's going to be okay. It just feels
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  Speaker 1: like unnecessarily useless, gimmicky nonsense. It's unnecessary nonsense. gimmicky bullcrap
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  Speaker 1: is what it is and now if the Rams look
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  Speaker 1: sluggish against the 49ers how much blame will be placed
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  Speaker 1: on the travel arrangements of Sean McVay and the Rams
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  Speaker 1: well the answer is rather obvious the result of course
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  Speaker 1: with all of these things the result will dictate how
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  Speaker 1: the story gets regurgitated over time if The Rams lose,
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  Speaker 1: and the Niners pull this off. It's like, well, Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Shanahan did things the right way because the Niners left early,
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  Speaker 1: and Sean McVay's a dum-dum, dum-da-dum-dum-dum, because he left late.
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  Speaker 1: So the outcome will determine this. This is always to
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  Speaker 1: talk about things like momentum and all the bull crap
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  Speaker 1: you people make up about sports and terms like that.
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  Speaker 1: And so those type of things, it's always the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: A team always has the momentum, and then if the
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: team that has the momentum loses, you forget about momentum
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  Speaker 1: because it doesn't fit the narrative. If the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: able to win the game on Thursday, it'll be, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay, the Rams, they just do everything better. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Now,
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  Speaker 1: a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan. So thank you,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you in advance. It is the Ben
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Maller Show as we press on here through the overnight.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: And we've been yapping away the night. There was something
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I was trying to find, but I can't seem to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: find it. I have a lot of messages in front
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of me. The one I was looking for, I cannot find.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Yafimi in Chicago says matching pajamas included the new analytics. Yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: if the Rams win and they wear matching onesies, then
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: everyone who travels to Australia in the future has to
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: wear a onesie. Cowboy Drew, who has the Malheur Cow,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: which I think went to the slaughterhouse. Cowboy Drew says,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Rogers is going to go the way of Alex Jones
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: and wear a tinfoil hat. I'm all for it. Do
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: not touch my cow! Okay, that's my heifer! Cowboy Drew,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: can we get an update on the Malheur Cow? Is
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: there another Malheur Cow? Did the Malheur Cow really meet
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: its untimely demise? Bill, who's your Bill? Says Ben Aaron Rodgers.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: First play, his leg will fall off again like every year.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: He'll be doing testosterone commercials with Doug Flutie before Thanksgiving.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Fergdog says, what gives, Ben? You didn't do any Labor
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Day staples like which athlete would you invite to your
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Labor Day barbecue or what's the best sports weekend of
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the year? Yeah, I failed. I have failed you. Yeah.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: How about this one? Which athlete has labored the most
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: in sports? So good. All right, let's go to the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: phones and we'll say hello. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: go to Jeremy. Jeremy. who's, I believe, driving around right now.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Let's see if he is out and about in the Commonwealth. Hello, Jeremy.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Welcome.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: What's up, guys?
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Hello, Jeremy. Well, you're not driving.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Hi, Lorena.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Why are you saying hello? Hi, Jeremy. You're being polite.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: You're being very polite.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: So I called you guys like a couple weeks ago,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: and I was playing. I forgot what we were playing.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: But you guys are like, oh, call back again. So
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: here I am.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, here we go.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Look at this.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: A repeat customer. A repeat customer. He's back for more, Jeremy.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: What's going on with you? It's Labor Day. What do
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you got going on today? You working today? You at home?
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: No, hell no. You know what's funny? I actually woke
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: up this morning.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, F.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: I'm fucking sorry. I'm late for work.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: That was strike one.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: All right, sorry, sorry, sorry.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Watch your mouth. Hey, we're men here, Lorraine. That's how
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: men talk, right, Jeremy? That's how we talk.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Lorraine. I'm sorry.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: He's a mass hole, right? You're a mass hole, Jeremy.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to talk like that.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: No, definitely not. No, I think of a pretty, like, cool, like,
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: calm collective.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: It's just a casual F word, that's all. Yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: I got it. I'm sorry, Lorraine.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: It's a soft F word, not hard F.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: What I was calling to talk about was, like, I
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: heard you guys talking before, like, the Christian Gonzalez contract.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I wanted to call you guys. I was actually on
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: hold before you guys were even talking about it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. So as I understand it, he only has
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: to play, like, six games, and that qualifies for him
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to become a free agent at the end of the year.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: I'm a die-hard patron. Maybe you remember that. My son's
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: name is Brady, okay? Oh, yeah.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I remember that. He told me that, yeah.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: All right. So I'm a die-hard patron.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: The point I'm trying to make is I am so
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: pumped for Wednesday night, which is so, like, crazy, like,
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: Wednesday night this year.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Like, I don't know what, like, that's weird.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: But anyway, I'll take it because I can't wait for
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: regular season football.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: But remember, though, now you know, now, Jeremy, you know
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: these first couple games are usually terrible. Very rarely do
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: we get good games early in the year. They're usually
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: bad games. They're usually bad games because it takes a
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: while because the starters don't play in the exhibition season
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So it's like temper your excitement.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: It would be fun to see if it actually counts
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: for something, but, yeah, it's a little tough. So are
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you going to go back to bed now? You woke up,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: thought you had work. You don't have work because it's
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Labor Day. So you go back to bed. That's the move.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: No? No.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Like, 3.30 every morning. Like, because I work in Boston.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah. But you're not working today, so you
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: don't know. You can go back to bed.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: No, sir.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I got you.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: So, um.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: All right. Oh, yeah. Seahawks are a three-and-a-half-point favorite. Seahawks,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: three-and-a-half-point favorite over the Patriots.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: I'm going to say 27-24 Patriots. Okay. And I'm not
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: being biased, because I know everybody's picketing.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Are you wearing your white or blue Tom Brady jersey?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Which one do you have?
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Jesus.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Well, actually, I have actually even a black Tom Brady.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Would you have a red one? I like the red one.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I like the clap.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: I get the throwback.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I like the Pat Patriot taking a deuce. That's my
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: favorite Patriots logo. I do. I love that one. That's classic.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: They need to bring that symbol back.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I agree. I love that logo, man. That's outstanding. All right,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I got to go. Thank you, Jeremy. Get some rest
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: or whatever you're doing. All right, there's Jeremy. He thought
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: he was late for work, but here he is. Let's
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: say hello to Hollering James. Hello, James. All right. Thank
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: you for that. Let's say hello to Poppy in San Diego. Hello, Poppy.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Hey, man. Beautiful day right here in San Diego. And,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: you know, Memorial Day. No, Labor Day.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Labor Day. Labor Day. Oh, sorry. Labor Day.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: But, yeah.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: You just said Memorial Day. And you said it's a
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: beautiful day. How is it a beautiful day, by the way?
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, well.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Poppy, Poppy, Poppy, we told you. Poppy, we record the show.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: You're not supposed to say it's daytime. We record it
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: during the day. You effed up the illusion that we're
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: on at night or the morning by saying it's during
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the day. Soft F, Ben. Soft F.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Sorry about that. Yeah, Poppy, remember that. Now, we're going
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to have to start over, Poppy. All right? Let's start over.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: We'll take it from the top here. I apologize.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Take it from one. Take it from one.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Take it from one. We'll clean it in post. All right,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: let's go to the phones again. Let's say hello to Poppy. Hey,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Poppy in San Diego, did you see the Roger Goodell
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: fun fact of the day? Have you heard about the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: fun fact of the day?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, I haven't, but I would love to hear the
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: fun fact of Mr. Roger Goodell. I'm excited for that.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that. Roger Goodell signs a four-year
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: contract extension. You continue as the NFL commissioner until 2030. However,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: did you know that Roger Goodell is poised to become
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the first ever billionaire commissioner? The first ever billionaire commissioner
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: that they've done the math on this. And Goodell's career
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: earnings are going to cross the Rubicon at $ 1 billion
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: in March of 2031. He'll be the first ever American
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: or any commissioner to make a billion dollars as commissioner.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Wow, lots of money in sports. That's very good news
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: for Mr. Roger Goodell. I'm excited.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Do you see how impressed Poppy is? Do you not
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: tell that legitimate enthusiasm from Poppy? Let's check back in. James,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: do you have that enthusiasm hollering, James?
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: James?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's alive.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: All right, so James agrees, Poppy. James agrees.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Yes, okay.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: And you know another thing, I'm so excited for the picks.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you guys picks for the NFL
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: season coming up. You guys, the best segment, always customers,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: always right. We're going to come back with Leprechaun on
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: the NFL pick. But I want to give you guys
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: a pick for tomorrow. Baseball, very special day on Labor Day.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: They're going to be playing in the game that I'm
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: looking at. Tomorrow it's going to be the San Diego Padres.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, shocking. Poppy in San Diego is going to pick
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the Padres. Is that right?
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm taking the Padres because they're playing against the
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Nationals and they're heating up.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: How are they heating up?
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Because, you know, it's NL West and, of course, the
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Padres are playing tomorrow.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: So the Padres, who are a minus 192 favorite, you're
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: taking the Padres, a massive favorite, who I think are the–
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: they're not the biggest favorite. I think the Blue Jays
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: are a bigger favorite against the Athletics. They're the second
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: biggest favorite on the Labor Day board.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Yes, and I'm liking that with the dog.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: All right, who cares about that? Let's say hello to,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: let's see here, Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, happy Labor Day. Coop-de-loop, the queen, or should I
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: say the king of Coop Scoop on Entertainment. We're right
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: up the queen of all things, ones and twos on
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: the buttons. And you, my man, the king of overnights
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: and podcasts are just like mine and everyone else.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: All right, hold on a sec. Time out. We have
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a update. We have breaking news, Lorena. Breaking news. Breaking news.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Breaking news. It's very exciting. I got to fire my
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: breaking news. All right, here we go. Breaking news. This
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: is a Fox Sports Radio Ben Maler show exclusive on
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Labor Day.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Yes, it is.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Some exciting news here we'd like to share. Give me
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: two more seconds. I'm tap dancing here, Marcel. I'm waiting
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: for the imaging so it sounds more official, the bull
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: crap I'm about to say here. Here it is. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: here we go.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Breaking news from fox sports this just into fox sports
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: radio cowboy drew tells us the mallor heifer is producing
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: around six and a half to seven gallons of delicious
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: healthy milk per day wow yeah the mallor cow baby
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: let me.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Tell you Congrats to him.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you for her. Yes, the Mallard Cow producing.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Cowboy is going to be joining my campaign for the
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: first time.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Cowboy Drew. Well, I didn't know about that. But the
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Mallard Cow, if you don't know, we have a cow
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: named Mallard and six and a half, seven gallons per
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: day getting ready to hit the stall here shortly, Cowboy
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Drew says. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Marcel, somebody wants to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: say hello to you, Marcel. You want to guess who
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: it is?
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: I'll put the random caller.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Number two.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Random caller. All right.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: The idiot cod people.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: No, let's see who this is. Random caller, you're on
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the air, random caller.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: It's following James.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, you knew that right away. We couldn't fool. You
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: can't fool Marcel in Brooklyn. Let's say hello to Mike
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the Leprechaun.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Hello, Mike. He's my total enemy, people.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: That's a stupid rubber check.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: How did the Yankees do yesterday?
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, they lost to the Padres, idiot.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: Is it true when you go to Yankee Stadium, you
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: pee in the sink?
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Sir, that is wholly unacceptable and incorrect.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: Well, you have to take off your leather pants first.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no, no, no. Ben, eliminate him right now, please.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I apologize, Marcel. Let's go back. Random caller, you're on
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the air. Random caller, hello.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, random caller. Don't mic the Idiocon, people. We want
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: random callers, and.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Can somebody tell what Fox Sports Radio listeners the name is?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I don't have a name on this caller. Who do
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: you think this caller is? What do you think here?
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Still hollowing, James.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: Duh.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I don't hear him.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, there he is.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: That's definitely. We'll put him back on hold. Yes, caller,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hello, caller.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Welcome.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, welcome, caller, to here and the Ben Malishow. Who
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: is this and where are you calling from?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Respect.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: To get respect, you.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Have to show respect.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, no! No! No! No! No! It's Mike the Idiot
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: called people to eliminate him! Eliminate him right now!
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Very emotional, Marcel. I don't know why. Let's go to
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: a random caller on the screen. Caller, you're live on
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the air. It's the Ben Maller Show. Hello, caller. You're
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: on the air. Line two. Hello, caller. Line two. Line
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: 2 not paying attention. I'm sorry, Martin. Line 2 did
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: not pay attention.
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: It's a bad job by Line 2. All right.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Talking for Line 2. I have the player of the
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: morning coming your way for you, my man. It's from
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: your Los Angeles Dodgers. I know you're back-to-back champs, going
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: to be in the winning streak so far. But in
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: the meantime, your food picks, and let's get into it.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: All right. I believe you had some fettuccine, Alfredo, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: some chicken parm.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: I get the chicken parmesan.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the chicken parmigiana. Lorena.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Lorena, you got the same thing with me and Ben.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Go right ahead.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I think you had a Bob's Big Boy burger.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, not a McFadden.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: With onion rings.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: In Toluca Lake? Yeah. Oh, that's a classic Bob's Big Boy.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: That's where all the car shows. So good. I got
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the Big Boy combo. Jay Leno likes that, yeah. Kupala, please.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, me with Ben with the war chicken. Go right ahead. What?
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I think you had Domino's.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, pizza?
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Not a mix match, it is.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Sorry. All right, reveal the answers.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Say it!
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a winner.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: All right. Very nice. Thank you for that, Marcel. We
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: do have coming up in a few minutes here. Well,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: we don't have that, but we do have Mallor Militia Feud.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: That'll be coming up in a couple minutes. But Slug
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: is cashing a golden ticket right now from Viva Las Vegas.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I've got a golden ticket. I don't know if you heard, Slug,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I dedicated a whole podcast to those mashed potatoes. I
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: just want you to know that.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: No, where do I find that? I didn't hear that.
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Saturday's pod was a tribute to the mashed potatoes. So
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that's it.
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: Okay, I'm going to have to check that out there.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: I got to get you the recipe.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You said you were, man. Come on, people.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: I really will.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I really will. All right. I'm going to make that
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: this weekend. If you send me the recipe, I'll make
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: it this weekend.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: Okay, tomorrow I'm going to go, print it out, and
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: I'll send it to you.
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: You're the man.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: But I got to tell you, that was a crap
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: take on the Rams going to Australia. You ever been
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: to Australia?
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: No, I've never been to Australia, no.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: I've been a few times. I was just in Melbourne recently,
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: and I got to tell you, you're out of your
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: mind if you think you're just going to go and
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: just roll out of bed and be, you know, 100%.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Do you understand the plane's going to be like a
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: lab slug? They're going to have sleeping pills for everybody.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: You've got to sleep a certain amount of time on
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the plane. They've got beds on the plane. It's a
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: whole to-do.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: I'm telling you, dude, the sky looks different down there.
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: everything will throw you off. I mean, it's awesome. They
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: should get there early and take in the sights and
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: everything and then get acclimated. I'm going to tell you
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: there's going to be an upset.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going over to the book there. As a
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Raider fan, Slug, a big Raider fan, you're calling a
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: shot right now, Slug, that the 49ers are going to
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: pull off the upset at the beginning of the year?
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  Speaker 6: I hate to say it. I hate to say it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't hate to say it.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: What do I care about the Rams? I used to
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: go to Rams games all the time with my best
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: friend's family back in the day when they totally blew.
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  Speaker 1: No, that must have been at the— Chris Everett and,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: you know— The Big A back in the day.
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  Speaker 6: Flipper Anderson.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Willie Flipper Anderson, the greatest receiver of all time. Willie
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Flipper Anderson, the greatest game in NFL history. All the greats.
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about, Coop? What are you laughing
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  Speaker 1: at me for? What are you chuckling at? Nothing. He
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: had the single greatest day for a receiver. He has
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the record for the most receiving yards in the game.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Willie Flipper Anderson. Against the Saints, I believe. It was
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: a nighttime game, I remember.
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  Speaker 6: I think. Wide receiver out of Broncos there for you.
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  Speaker 6: You better do some for me, Coop.
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  Speaker 5: Waddle? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I got a game.
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  Speaker 5: Love you.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: All right, love you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: This is a great slug. We're going to have, I
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: need some contestants. We're going to have a brief game
• 36:14
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• 36:25
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• 36:37
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio as we
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: work our way through the overnight hours here. Early morning
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: now on this Labor Day and the Maller-Millicent feud moments away. Reminder,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show podcast is up and running. Well,
• 36:57
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• 36:58
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• 37:01
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• 37:08
  Speaker 1: some point today the Ben Maller Show podcast and also
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast from the weekend. Yeah, it's amazing.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Check that out. Come on now.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Is winning so important?
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: Listen, winning isn't everything.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: It's the only thing.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: It's time for another Mallard Game Show. We surveyed 100 people.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Name sports teams associated with losing.
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers.
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  Speaker 6: I believe the answer is the Clippers.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: That is the top answer. 40 points. It's Mallard-Malicia-Pugh.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible imaging. Let's get to the game. We welcome in
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: our contestants. We have Greg in New Hampshire.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Greg.
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  Speaker 6: Hello.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Good to talk to you, man. Good to talk to you,
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  Speaker 1: my man. And you are going to play. And if
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: you don't win this game, there will be a federal investigation.
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  Speaker 1: You're going against Hollering James. Hello, James. You called back
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: to play the game. Is that correct, James? I called
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  Speaker 1: back and Coop said I was sleeping. Oh, you weren't
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  Speaker 1: sleeping at all. We would never put you on the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: air while you were sleeping. Yeah, whatever. All right, let's
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: play the game. One, two, or three, quickly, please. Lorraine
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  Speaker 1: or Coop, anybody? Oh, I'm going with number two. I
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: think that would be a good one for this. All right, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: your name is your buzzer, and here we go if
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: you want to answer. And 100 people surveyed the top one, two, three, four,
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  Speaker 1: five answers on the board. Name a food that is messy.
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  Speaker 1: A food. James.
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  Speaker 4: Crab.
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  Speaker 1: James.
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  Speaker 3: A food that is messy.
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  Speaker 4: Mash. Mush.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's shockingly incorrect, James. All right, Craig, 100 people surveyed. One, two, three, four,
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  Speaker 1: five answers on the board. Top five answers. Name a
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: food that is messy to eat.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say ice cream.
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  Speaker 1: Ice cream? No, ice cream is not on there. How
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: about that? It does melt. It does melt, though. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're right. It is messy. You've got to eat it fast.
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  Speaker 1: This survey is from.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Calm down. 100 people surveyed. Top five answers on the board.
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  Speaker 1: We're 0 for 2 so far. Name a food that's
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: messy to eat, James.
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  Speaker 3: Halloran James.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Mashed potatoes.
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  Speaker 1: What is you and mush? It's still not mashed potatoes, James.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I think he did. All right. Greg, go ahead. Name
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: a food. You guys haven't gotten one right. Name a
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: food that's messy to eat. Go ahead, Greg.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure it's probably like wings, buffalo wings.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll take that. Chicken wings. Yeah, that was on there.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: All right. Go again, Greg. Food that is messy to eat.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Top four answers on the board. Sloppy Joe's. That is messy,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: but that was not on there. Too specific. James. Come on, James. Spaghetti.
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  Speaker 4: Spaghetti.
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  Speaker 1: He's right. What? What are you doing? That's nuts. The
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: other answers were ribs, spaghetti, burgers, and watermelon. I thought
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: he said chicken. Did he say chicken? No, he said spaghetti.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Somebody said chicken. Who said chicken? You won, Greg.
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  Speaker 5: You won.