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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald has spoken. I know. I don't care about it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to care about it. You got it. This
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  Speaker 1: has been going on for months, months and months and months.
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  Speaker 1: There's a resolution, a solution.
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  Speaker 3: Well, come in the beginning of another week.
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  Speaker 1: Of the Ben Maler show. We are in the air everywhere. Companions,
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  Speaker 1: As we feed your mind, not necessarily the healthiest food,
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  Speaker 1: but we're feeding your mind anyway, coast to coast, border
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  Speaker 1: to border, and beyond, on the vast and humongously powerful
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  Speaker 1: microphones of FSR emanating live from the wave, the tidal
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  Speaker 1: wave of hot takes guaranteed human from the world-famous Fox
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio Studios. where Alf, the Alien O'Piner, Ferg Dog,
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  Speaker 1: and Mallard Prop Grab were nowhere to be seen at
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  Speaker 1: the big Mallard meet and greet over the weekend. The
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  Speaker 1: three legends of the show, none of them showed up
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  Speaker 1: to the big event we had in Lost Wages, Nevada. However,
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  Speaker 1: we had the biggest turnout we've had at the Vegas
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  Speaker 1: event that we've done. We've done the third year in
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  Speaker 1: a row, and it's getting bigger and bigger. So thanks
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  Speaker 1: to everyone that traveled. In my head, they all traveled
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  Speaker 1: to come to the event. I'm sure that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure people had other plans in Vegas and just
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  Speaker 1: happened to be there and we were there. But in
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  Speaker 1: my head, every single man and woman that showed up,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think there were any kids there. Every man
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  Speaker 1: and woman that showed up was there just for the show.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. And I'm going to believe that. And
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  Speaker 1: you can't tell me otherwise. I believe that every single
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  Speaker 1: person that walked in there. was there because of the show.
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  Speaker 1: And they just happened to travel exclusively to Vegas, not
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  Speaker 1: to gamble, not to see a show, not to do
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  Speaker 1: any kind of debauchery up in Pahrump. No, they were
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  Speaker 1: there just to hang out and be part of the fun.
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  Speaker 1: And we had all ages, which I love. We had
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  Speaker 1: older people, we had middle-aged people, younger people, everyone. It
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  Speaker 1: was great. It's wonderful to see everybody. So we'll I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure we'll talk more about that as we continue on.
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  Speaker 1: But we're beginning the festivities, and thanks to everyone that
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  Speaker 1: did take the time out. Thanks to everyone else who
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  Speaker 1: said they were going to show up who didn't show up,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. There were a bunch of people we
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  Speaker 1: were promoting to be there who somehow did not make
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  Speaker 1: it there. And then there were other people that we
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  Speaker 1: didn't think were going to be there who did show up.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a mix-match situation. So I lead this out.
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  Speaker 1: Don't bury the lead, my man! All right, we'll go
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  Speaker 1: to Los Angeles. L.A., big roster news after months and
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  Speaker 1: months of chatter. The decision is in. Is Aaron Donald, A,
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  Speaker 1: not returning to the L.A. Rams, saying, I can't play anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I'm cooked. B, no comment on my future plans. Or C,
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  Speaker 1: you can ram it all day and you can ram
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  Speaker 1: it all night. Survey says... The answer is C. You
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  Speaker 1: can ram it all day, and you can ram it
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  Speaker 1: all night. So if you didn't see this, Aaron Donald
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  Speaker 1: humming bars there, and he's out of retirement two seasons away,
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  Speaker 1: and he has returned to the L.A. Rams for the
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  Speaker 1: 2026 regular season. Our long national nightmare is now over. Wee!
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  Speaker 1: Football player signed a contract that used to play football. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's exciting. Listen, I like the Rams. I hope Donald
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  Speaker 1: does well. I'm tired of the story, though. Tired of
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  Speaker 1: the story. I am. 35-year-old defensive tackle. And the good
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  Speaker 1: news is he's going to get out of poverty now
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  Speaker 1: because he no longer has to worry. That one-year contract
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  Speaker 1: for $ 20 million with playoff-based incentives is That could push
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  Speaker 1: the deal up to $ 30 million. So it'll be okay.
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  Speaker 1: One year, $ 20 million contract to come back and play.
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  Speaker 1: And then up to $ 30 million. I've not seen the
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  Speaker 1: fine print on what those incentives are. Good luck. Now,
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  Speaker 1: reports claimed that this went down to the wire. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see this bull crap? Yeah, the reports were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, Donald left the Ram facility on Sunday without
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  Speaker 1: telling the organization his decision? Yeah, that was the reporting.
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  Speaker 1: There were doubts, legitimate doubts about the comeback before he
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  Speaker 1: agreed to return less than two hours later. Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: had to go to Chipotle or something like that, get lunch.
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  Speaker 1: He went out and had a nice lunch, and then
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  Speaker 1: he came back, and he said, ah, psych, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to play. All right, so that is a good jumping-off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Defensive tackle Aaron Donald waiting
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  Speaker 1: until the 11th hour to return to the LARMs. Was
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  Speaker 1: this legitimate, the way it's being portrayed? Was it legitimate,
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  Speaker 1: soul-searching by Aaron Donald, or manufactured drama? So I've got iPad,
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  Speaker 1: Thousand Island Dressing, and Autopsy Report. And I do not
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  Speaker 1: have a fork in my mouth, but other people may.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so A. All right, listen. Oh, it's a flosser.
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  Speaker 1: That's all right. It's a flosser. It looked like a fork.
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  Speaker 1: That's very odd to talk with a fork in your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. In my peripheral vision, I looked across
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  Speaker 1: the glass, and I saw what looked to be a
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  Speaker 1: nice fork in the mouth. Just chewing on a fork
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  Speaker 1: over here. Well, some people enjoy that. It's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: why not? All right. So, again, the question, you got
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  Speaker 1: defensive tackle Aaron Donald, and he waited until the 11th hour,
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  Speaker 1: returns to the L.A. Rams. Was this legitimate play? Deep
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  Speaker 1: soul-searching or just manufactured drama. So, A, spare me the
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  Speaker 1: Hamlet routine with Aaron Donald. I do not need the
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  Speaker 1: Hamlet routine with Aaron Donald. It's not that deep. To
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  Speaker 1: play or not to play. Stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Please.
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  Speaker 1: All right, this was not soul-searching. This was manufactured drama-o-rama.
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  Speaker 1: It's humbuggery is what it is by the Rams. You
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  Speaker 1: get a little side here. The key part of this,
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  Speaker 1: the reason Donald waited here, he did not want to
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  Speaker 1: do training camp. The man said, no, ixnay on the camp, eh?
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  Speaker 1: And that's why. He skipped out on training camp. And
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this. I'd been hearing this for a while,
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  Speaker 1: that there were three options. Assign immediately. And show up
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  Speaker 1: and go through all the practices. There was that option.
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  Speaker 1: And then play in the regular season games. There was
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  Speaker 1: don't go to training camp and then sign. And then
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  Speaker 1: play in all the games. There was also an option
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  Speaker 1: of don't go to training camp. Don't sign right away.
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  Speaker 1: And wait and see. And make sure the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: as good as the hype. And then sign with them
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  Speaker 1: as a late season addition. You'll have to keep in shape.
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  Speaker 1: And then come back and play again. at some point
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  Speaker 1: around week eight or nine of the regular season, and
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  Speaker 1: that will be that. All right, so Donald spent the summer,
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  Speaker 1: and even before that, before the summer, giving the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: if you read the reporting here, it was the bachelor
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  Speaker 1: finale treatment from Aaron Donald here. And then he finally
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  Speaker 1: accepted the Rose, and I was shocked. Not surprised at all.
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  Speaker 1: I was getting messages. Did you see his sign? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. My buddy's arrested. A, I'm not that into it.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams don't necessarily need Donald. This is an add-on item.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams are so good. Seattle's freaking out. They're signing
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  Speaker 1: guys that have all kinds of issues and are broken
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  Speaker 1: down up there in the Pacific Northwest or facing legal ramifications,
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  Speaker 1: all because they're trying to catch the Rams because they
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  Speaker 1: know that was a fluke what the Seahawks did last year.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Rams are, it was before they added
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. So they didn't need Aaron Donald per se.
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  Speaker 1: And Miles Garrett, when he showed up and they traded
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of draft picks and whatever to get him.
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  Speaker 2: So fine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You got Miles Garrett flashing all the jewelry. And
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  Speaker 1: Donald's like, I don't want to come back and play.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to come back and play. And then
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  Speaker 1: Garrett's out there flashing all the individual awards, no team
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  Speaker 1: awards because you play for the Browns. And Donald got
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  Speaker 1: seduced to come back into the nightclub for one more
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  Speaker 1: dance under the disco ball at the nightclub there. And
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  Speaker 1: so if you look at it, being completely transparent, this
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest defense ever assembled. based on record of
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  Speaker 1: individual accomplishments. Now, does that mean, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: the iPad, no, I'm serious. Oh, you're just being a
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  Speaker 1: Homer Maller. You're being a Homer. No, I'm not. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. Look at the resume. Look at that bullcrap.
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  Speaker 1: You people love your little accomplishments. Look at all the accolades,
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  Speaker 1: defensive player of the year, here, there, and everywhere. Revamped secondary.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams went out and bought the Chiefs secondary that
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  Speaker 1: won all those Super Bowls. They got those guys. Now
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  Speaker 1: they've added Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald. That's unbelievably craziness.
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  Speaker 1: Greatest defense ever assembled. Wonderful. Frame that, put that up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the problem is always eventually you actually have
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  Speaker 1: to play football, which is always just a buzzkill. You
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  Speaker 1: actually have to play the freaking games. And Donald is 35.
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  Speaker 1: Last I checked, he has not been... cryogenically frozen the
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  Speaker 1: last two years. He's not hanging out with Ted Williams'
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  Speaker 1: brain somewhere in Arizona. Okay, that's not happening. So the
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  Speaker 1: Rams are betting on muscle memory here. They're betting on
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  Speaker 1: muscle memory here. Over father time. On a one-on-one tackle, Joel,
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  Speaker 1: muscle memory will take down father time, and so we'll
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  Speaker 1: see if this works. But if Donald comes back here
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  Speaker 1: and is merely mortal, think of him like a Clark Kent,
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  Speaker 1: all right, wearing a suit and glasses and all that stuff. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 1: But if he's not, that's not good. It's passable. They're
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  Speaker 1: betting on Superman up, up, and away is what they're
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  Speaker 1: betting on. The hype machine, if this is Clark Kent
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  Speaker 1: and not Superman, goes right in the ditch. Right in
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  Speaker 1: the ditch is where it goes there. So if someone else,
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  Speaker 1: and this is, I love the fact there's no margin
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  Speaker 1: for error. If someone else hoists the Lombardi trophy at
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  Speaker 1: SoFi Stadium in February of 2027, Valentine's Day, I believe
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  Speaker 1: is the date of the Super Bowl, then the Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: production is a E-F. Epic fail is what it becomes
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  Speaker 1: for the Rams. So, hey, I'm all for it. Every
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  Speaker 1: team should be like that. We're all in. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: are all in. They've got the fossil of Matthew Stafford,
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  Speaker 1: who they squeezed out an MVP last year. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: Puka Nakua hasn't been suspended for going around like a
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  Speaker 1: vampire and biting women, so he's still able to play.
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  Speaker 1: So you got that. All right, meanwhile, speaking of Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: let's now head to the Pacific Northwest where several of
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  Speaker 1: you reached out to me. For some reason, the 12s
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  Speaker 1: love the show. You'd think they wouldn't like the show,
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  Speaker 1: but they love the show. So I got some emails
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  Speaker 1: after the Seattle Seahawks had added defensive back Trevion Diggs.
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  Speaker 1: Remember they signed him, Trevion Diggs? They signed him, former Cowboy.
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  Speaker 1: defensive back, and they signed him not that long ago,
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  Speaker 1: like within the last couple weeks. And I was skeptical.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I'm always skeptical. It's kind of my default
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  Speaker 1: position on this. And so, well, the news came out
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  Speaker 1: with roster cutdowns around the league on Sunday. One of
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  Speaker 1: the surprise moves, the Seattle Seahawks have said, bye-bye! They
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  Speaker 1: have temporarily fired defensive back Trevion Diggs. So I guess
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  Speaker 1: all those emails, can I write back to you and
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  Speaker 1: do na-na-na-na-na-na? Yes. Now, supposedly, this is where it gets
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  Speaker 1: even better. So supposedly it's not a permanent goodbye. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: not a permanent goodbye. The GM, John Schneider, John Schneider,
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  Speaker 1: came out and said the Seahawks intend to bring Stephon Diggs' brother,
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  Speaker 1: Trevion Diggs, back to the practice squad in the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 1: And he waxed loquacious, John Schneider, about the players and
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff. They just love Diggs. Love him. They
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  Speaker 1: dig him. And he just needed more time to acclimate himself,
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  Speaker 1: acclimate himself to the Seahawks uniform. So as a vested veteran,
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  Speaker 1: from what I read, these things are never wrong. So
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  Speaker 1: Diggs does not have to clear waivers. He is free
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  Speaker 1: to sign with any team's 53-man roster or practice squad
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  Speaker 1: before returning to Seattle. So he can go somewhere else,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. Pretty sure that there's not a big
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  Speaker 1: market for this guy. I'm just saying. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: the question. Seattle. says that, hey, they love Trevion Diggs.
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  Speaker 1: Big fans. Of course, they also let go of Trevion Diggs.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's the deal. So Seattle says they love
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  Speaker 1: Trevion Diggs, but that doesn't an NFL team show love.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to shock you by actually giving the
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  Speaker 1: player a roster spot that they love. I know. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're such a boomer, Maller. I know. I know. I'm
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  Speaker 1: from the old country.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like some of the conversations I've had with program directors. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we really think you're good, Ben. Not good enough to
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  Speaker 1: put you on during the day or pay you real money,
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  Speaker 1: but we think you're—thank you! Just give me the bird.
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  Speaker 1: Just give me the freaking bird already. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: to answer the question, again, Seattle waxing loquacious about Trevion
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  Speaker 1: Diggs and how great he is and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And my point is they generally give you a roster
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  Speaker 1: spot if they think that way. And the answer to
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  Speaker 1: that is bingo bango. Seattle thought Trevion Diggs was hamburger helper. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Diamond in the rough. Big name and put
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  Speaker 1: them out there. Just add some water and presto. You
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  Speaker 1: got instant NFL starting level defensive back in the rotation.
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  Speaker 1: The reality, false advertising. That's soft soap. It is soft
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  Speaker 1: soap there. You're not good enough. John Snyder, what he's
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  Speaker 1: doing is he's pouring Thousand Island dressing on top of
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  Speaker 1: the story there and needs time to acclimate, which is
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  Speaker 1: code for you're not good enough. right now. So let's
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  Speaker 1: put some dressing on top of this and soften the
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  Speaker 1: blow because if Seattle believe that Trevion Diggs could still
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  Speaker 1: play at a high level based on their suck bag secondary,
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  Speaker 1: that he would absolutely be on the 53 man roster
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  Speaker 1: right now, not handed a RSVP at the kiddie table
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  Speaker 1: of the practice squad. Is it possible? This is one
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  Speaker 1: that Jerry Jones got right. Maybe Jerry Jones actually knew
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  Speaker 1: something when Dallas dumped the guy that had 11 interceptions
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  Speaker 1: and was all pro a couple years back. Think about that.
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  Speaker 1: 11 interceptions. You talk about the NFL, how fast stardom
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  Speaker 1: evaporates in the NFL once injuries mess with the... Margin
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  Speaker 1: for error. So this guy was the toast of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL a couple years ago with the Cowboys. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: battling for scraps. It's wild. That is not trying to
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  Speaker 1: acclimate yourself to the roster. That's the NFL moving you
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  Speaker 1: straight from the showroom over to the bargain bin. is
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  Speaker 1: what that is. All right, last word to more comings
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  Speaker 1: and goings in the NFL. We head now to Nashville, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: the music city. At some point, we've got to do
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  Speaker 1: a Mallory meet and greet in Nashville. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: get to Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: Soon.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to make that happen. Yeah, absolutely. And we
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  Speaker 1: can all stay at Clay Travis' house, you know, our
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  Speaker 1: old morning guy. I'm sure Clay will put us up,
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  Speaker 1: no problem. Unless he calls the cops. Anyway, the Titans,
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  Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, waving Will Levis. Bye-bye! Will Levis has
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  Speaker 1: been let go over the weekend. One of the many
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  Speaker 1: roster moves around the NFL. Ending his three-year run. He
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  Speaker 1: was the 33rd overall pick. The top pick in the
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  Speaker 1: second round of the 2023 NFL Draft. And Ixnay on
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback A. He gone. Tennessee reportedly tried desperately to
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  Speaker 1: trade Will Levis, and nobody wanted him. There was no market.
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  Speaker 1: That's depressing. And Levis became the starter when he was
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  Speaker 1: a rookie, and Ryan Tannehill sucked at a time you
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  Speaker 1: cannot suck. And so there you go. Actually kept the
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  Speaker 1: job in 2024, Will Levis, briefly. And some of the
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  Speaker 1: online chatter. saying that Will Levis was set up to
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  Speaker 1: fail in Nashville. I love that. Just no accountability. Blame
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  Speaker 1: somebody else. Blame somebody else. All right, so the question,
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  Speaker 1: who deserves more of the blame? We'll play the blame game.
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  Speaker 1: I love the game. It's the blame game. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so who deserves more blame for the quarterback Will Levis failure,
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  Speaker 1: the belly whopper that he did? With the Titans. Is
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  Speaker 1: it the Titans organization or is it Will Levis himself?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so my default position. Now, very rarely do
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  Speaker 1: I go away from my default position on this. My
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  Speaker 1: default position on this is stop blaming the Tennessee Titans
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  Speaker 1: in this case. Will Levis was given a great mitzvah,
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to play as a rookie, meaningful NFL snaps,
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  Speaker 1: to show something. And did he show something? No. He
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  Speaker 1: just wasn't good enough. That's what he showed. He sucked
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  Speaker 1: at a time he cannot suck. That's it. The autopsy
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  Speaker 1: report on the quarterback experiment in Tennessee reads, faulty wiring upstairs. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he did get hurt in the middle of that, but
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  Speaker 1: my God, Will Levis was your classic central casting quarterback today.
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  Speaker 1: Relatively big, strong arm. Some said rocket. He has a
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  Speaker 1: rocket launcher. Okay. Looked like a million bucks Will Levis
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  Speaker 1: on the catwalk, walking off the bus, doing a pirouette there.
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  Speaker 1: And then they had to show up and the actual
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  Speaker 1: football stuff took place there. And the stat of stats,
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  Speaker 1: the mother of all stats with Will Levis in 2024, 16.3%.
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  Speaker 1: of his plays in 2024 resulted in either a sack,
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  Speaker 1: a fumble, or interceptions. Like, that's impossible. 15% of the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: time it was a sack, a fumble, or an interception.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: He was a gridiron pinata, is what he is. And
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Tennessee couldn't trade him. Think about this. They couldn't even
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: get a bag of gumballs. Not even the good kind
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of gumballs. They couldn't even get crappy gumballs for Will Levis.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: And he gets tossed straight into the recycling bin. And now,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: is he going to find a job somewhere in a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: practice squad? Yeah, probably. He'll find work somewhere. But barring
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: a Hollywood plot twist... Will Levis goes from a guy
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that at one point was being tagged as a top
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: ten pick in the NFL draft to currently unemployed in
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: his chosen line of work at age 27. And the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Wikipedia page, you look at Will Levis, now he's given
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: us good talk radio. Will Levis has given us good
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: talk radio. We will forever be grateful for Will Levis,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: coffee mayo guy. Remember, Will Levis, coffee mayo guy. Like
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to put the mayo in the coffee, which I think
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: was a joke, and then it became a thing, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: he became like a brand ambassador for mayonnaise. And then
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: he was also the victim of a Eastern European hacking
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: group that put a sex tape of Will Levis all
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: over the internet, so... He's more known for those things
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: than he is playing quarterback. And just flying like he
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: thought he was Superman. There were a couple times carrying
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the ball with the Titans where he got hit and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: did the old helicopter. Got hit in the air.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Bane-Mallor Show. We are just beginning the
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• 21:16
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• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Everyone loved Lorena. Coop sat in the back there quietly.
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• 21:31
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• 21:33
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• 21:38
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• 21:41
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• 21:44
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• 21:47
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• 21:50
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• 21:52
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  Speaker 1: the rare and appropriate lead story from college football over
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the weekend. Now, we were busy dancing and playing. Having
• 24:53
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• 24:55
  Speaker 1: but we were having a great time at the Big
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  Speaker 1: still doing well. We had a record number of people
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  Speaker 1: for our Vegas event, so that was very cool. But
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from college football. We go
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to Ireland. When you think hotbed of college football, you
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: think Ireland. We're in North Carolina. They did not play
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: on Tobacco Road. No, they did not. They traveled and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: traveled and traveled. They opened up the second season, the
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: second chapter of the Bill Belichick novel, and they upset
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: North Carolina in a slobber knocker, 15-10, on a rainy
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: day in Dublin. And there it was, 15-10 the final.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: So North Carolina off to the 1-0 start. Bill Belichick
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: has his biggest win since taking over the Tar Heels.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: The bar is not that high. The bar is not
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: that high for Bill Belichick. So North Carolina's defense dominating
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: after the first quarter. They did not play very well
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: in the first quarter. After that, a domination situation holding
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: TCU scoreless over the final eight possessions. What happened to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the horny frogs? What happened to the horned frogs? 281
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: total yards of offense. That's it. The Tar Heels producing
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a couple of big-time stops in the fourth quarter in
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: this game near their own goal line in the second half,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and that sets up the win. So that is a
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. You're up
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: in the air, 30,000 feet in the sky. Does North
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Carolina beating TCU validate Bill Belichick's NFL-style blueprint for college football? Obviously,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: what's going on with the Tar Heels and all that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: So I've got manager special, surf report, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: we are going to go zoom, zoom, vroom, vroom is
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. Zoom, zoom, vroom, vroom. All right,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: so number one. Number one. One, one, one, one, one.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Number one. I said one, one, one. Number one. All right.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Number one. No. So on the Malheur report card, the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Malheur report card, Bill Belichick, validation. For North Carolina beating
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: TCU on a wet field there in Dublin, Ireland, I've
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: got S-S-S-P on my score. Not F, not D, C, A, B,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: none of that. S-S-S-P. Small sample size, please. That's what
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I wrote down on my scorecard. That's it. After a
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: minutes-long mallard deliberation of the available information... We're calling this
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: a baby step. That's all it is. It is not
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: yet time for hot take validation. It is not time
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: for anyone to sit here and say, well, there you go.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's blueprint works because they beat TCU, a team
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: that kicked their ass last season, the beginning of the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Belichick era in North Carolina there. The changes worked for now.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And all we have to worry about is today's show,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: as we like to say. So in this moment, when
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: you look at North Carolina, the quarterback, somebody named Billy
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Edwards Jr., whoever that is, had a respectable performance, 232
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: yards passing. The tight end, who looks like he can
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: play at the next level from Ohio State, transfer Jelani Thurman,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I believe is the guy's name. He looks like he's
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: going to be really good. for North Carolina. And Bobby Petrino,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: keep him off the motorcycles, keep him away from the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: hot co-eds, and he can coach an offense. Bobby Petrino,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator for Bill Belichick, and they had some
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: explosive plays. Remember how pathetic North Carolina was on offense,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: how they were just plodding along last year? They showed
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: some razzle-dazzle early in that game. And you had Grandpa Bill,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, who was calling the plays because his son
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: is on medical leave, and so Belichick leading the defense.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: They came up clutch there. Now, to be fair, TCU was,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: if they were a food, they'd be sloppy Joes is
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: what they would be. Sloppy Joes here. However, some of
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: that was forced by North Carolina. Got to give them
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: some level of credit here. So after a year of
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: pointing and laughing, like Nelson from the Simpsons, ha ha,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: at the North Carolina football program, Bill Belichick temporarily, keyword
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: there temporarily, gets a hall pass here from the football gods.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: He does, and he gets to pump his chest out
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and Say, hey, all you critics, you know who you are.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: You get served the manager's special. Now, what is the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: manager's special from Bill Belichick? Well, that would be a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: bunch of charbroiled crow. For the next week or so,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you get to eat charbroiled crow. Disgusting. But enjoy. But
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: how lucky are the crows they don't taste good? Otherwise,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: people would just be eating these things all the time, right?
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: That's the only reason we eat them. They don't taste good, supposedly.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: That's what I've heard. So anyway, this is just one,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: for the moment, enjoyable stop before the struggle bus comes
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: around the mountain. The struggle bus comes around the mountain.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So they've got upcoming North Carolina. They've got East Tennessee State.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: That is a cupcake with sprinkles for Bill Belichick. So
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: you get off to the 2-0 start. Then it starts
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: getting real. Now, Clemson isn't championship-level Clemson. However, compared to
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the North Carolina football program with Bill Belichick, They're smelling
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: themselves there, the pedigree. So you've got Clemson and then
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame up ahead for Bill Belichick. So let's check
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: back here. We'll revisit this as we get through, what,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: week four of the college football season? And is North
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Carolina going to be 3-1? Are they 2-2? Are they 1-3?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: What would the record be for Bill Belichick at that point?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned. Inquiring minds would like to know. Now, meanwhile,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: we stick with college football. A number of you reached
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: out and said, what has happened? What is wrong with
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the once mighty men of Troy? And one of the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: storylines from week zero of the college football season happened
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. We were enjoying ourselves at the Mallard meet
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and greet, and apparently no one else was enjoying watching
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the University of Southern California attempt to play football. USC,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: their week zero opener. became a viral sensation for Football Nation. Why?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Because of how empty it was. The empty seats everywhere
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: at the Coliseum in downtown Los Angeles. The Trojans entered
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the college football season ranked number 14 in the sport.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: And the reason this became a thing is because they
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: announced the crowd at 51,144 fans. And SC1. 42-26. They
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: had some issues there in garbage time against the Spartans
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: of San Jose State. Old Sparty from San Jose. So
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the smallest home crowd in the Lincoln-Riley era. However, the
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: 51,000 is Fugazi. That's some fuzzy math, man. That's not
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: even Mallarmath. That's a higher level of math than Mallarmath there. 51,000.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: 144 fans. They announced attendance there. The TV shots from
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the blimp above the stadium, the wide-angle shots, showed that
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of people dressed as empty seats
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: for the upcoming Halloween festivities. They had their Halloween costumes
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: ready to go there. Man. Now, it got so bad.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: How bad was it? Thanks for asking. It was so
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: bad that USC had to acknowledge how embarrassing the crowd was.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Because it became a thing. Well, they didn't have to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: do it, but they did. They stressed in a prepared statement,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: USC football stressed that they certainly need the electric Coliseum atmosphere. Okay,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: hadn't been like that since Pete Carroll was there back then.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: 20 years ago. And they said the obvious alibi was
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the weather. They blamed the weather for the lack of
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: souls that attended the game. Kickoff temperature at the Coliseum
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: in downtown LA was 94 degrees. The real feel was
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: with the humidity because apparently Southern California is now impersonating
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: South Carolina. And the feel-like temperature was 104 degrees. During that,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: they had a heat advisory in Southern California. So the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: USC is like, listen, we know why nobody showed up,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: because there was a heat advisory, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: All right, question. Are you buying USC's weather alibi? The
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: University of Southern California issuing a weather alibi, or are
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Trojan fans simply checked out? That's the question. All right,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: so here's the deal. After looking at the available evidence,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and I used to go to these games all the
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: time back in the day, and they always struggled SC.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: beginning of the year although they typically up until recently
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: did not play just open tomato cans like there was
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a point where they usually tried to play somebody halfway
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: decent to begin the year and then over the last
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: 15 years or so they've gotten away from that certainly
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: in the current era with lincoln riley it's let's get
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the jumbo size tomato can And we'll just line them
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: up there and knock them out. So USC, here's the deal.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: To answer the question, are you buying USC's weather alibi
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: or have fans simply checked out? USC does not have
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: a heat problem. The problem is not the heat here.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: It is a Lincoln-Riley problem. That's it. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: The Trojan faithful have decided to take a siesta, and
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: they're just not into it. It doesn't matter how hot
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: it is. If this team was the buzz and the
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: bee's knees and all that in college football, they would
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: have packed the Coliseum, and it would not have been
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: friends and family only. And Lincoln Riley, he arrived from Norman, Oklahoma.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: as the offensive wizard destined to restore the once-proud USC
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: football program to the penthouse of the sport. But high
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: expectations have harpooned, and now they have crashed down, and
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: they are residing, SC, in a little community called Dolesville.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: The entire football program scene is soft. They're competing in
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten now, and anytime they have to play
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: in colder weather, they appear to be frozen. That's not
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: a great way to play football, considering that in the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Big Ten, you're going to have to play every year
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: at least one or two road games late in the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: year in cold weather. That's the reality. So your program's
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: stuck in Dullesville here. And Lincoln Riley, with all that hype... True, true.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: The hype train and all that. God, legend. And now
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: you look at his old school, all the Boomer Sooner fans,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Alabama fans, Notre Dame, Ohio State. They look at the
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: empty Coliseum and just laugh. They think this is the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: funniest thing in the world. And the program, the University
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: of Southern California football program, they can put lipstick on
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the stadium. They can try to. Their claim that 51,000
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: people showed up, even our friend Anthony in Louisiana, who's blind,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and blind CBAS, they can see, even though they're blind,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: what's going on here. The actual attendance, it was like
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: they're using the Enron School of Accounting to get the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: number of people they said were at the game. So
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: if you don't know what Enron is, just Google it.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I know it's a little dated here. So here's the deal.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: You check the surf report, and we did for you.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: We checked the surf report, and the surf report says
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: this is not a heat wave. The attendance problem was
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: not because of a heat wave. It was because of
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: a wave of apathy. The apathy wave has hit that
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: program there, and USC has tried a bunch of different coaches.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Some of them have gone on and done nice things elsewhere.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: They just didn't work out at SC. And USC has
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: a total relevance crisis right now. And it's one of
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: the blue bloods of college football. And in this moment,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: there is just the whiff of indifference in the air.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: That's it. And it's spreading like wildfire. And Lincoln Riley's
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: approval rating is currently somewhere around the Arctic in terms
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: of wind chill. All right. Last part of this, the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: final point. Let's go to the Bay Area, a story
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: that has... overtaken all the social media. It's one of
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the great stories of our time. And I am guilty
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: as anyone else of falling prey to the storyline. And
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: it involves my favorite former 49er wide receiver who was
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: not actually a 49er wide receiver. Dejan Love. Man, is
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: this guy better than Jerry Rice in many ways. Better
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: than T.O.? So if you haven't followed the story, federal
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: prosecutors want the former, wink, wink, nod, nod, 49er wide
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: receiver who was not, Dejon Love, who's 35, kept behind bars.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Keep this man locked up. They're calling the alleged fraudster
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a serious flight risk and that he has every incentive
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: to flee. Every incentive to flee. Now, Love became a
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: social media sensation. For Football Nation, if you haven't been
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: following along, as he had been posing for years as
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: a 49ers player. And it was the old, usually the
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: honey trap works the other way, where it's a beautiful
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: young woman that seduces, uses her amazing abilities as a
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: woman to seduce a man. and to trap him in
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: the honeypot. In this case, it's the reverse. This is
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: like man bites dog. This is crazy. So this guy
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: pulled this off. What a fraudster. He pretended to be
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: a 49er player for years, and he popped up on
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: all the dating apps and all that and claimed that
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: he had all this insider information, which was bogus on investments.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: And these women apparently all fell for the ruse. They
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: gave him money. And he had an accomplice with him.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: They were arrested recently in Boise, Idaho, on wire fraud.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: They always get you on the wire fraud. They do. Now,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: prosecutors say this was a four-year scheme, over four years,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: targeting women across four states, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, California. I
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: believe there might be some others in there. There might
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: be some others. He and his accomplice, and they... They
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: claimed the guy that was his buddy was the financial advisor.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: So the question, when Netflix inevitably, when Netflix inevitably makes
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: this documentary on the fake 49er wide receiver Dejon Love.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Isn't the most fascinating part of this, and the question
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: going to be, how did nobody Google this guy? Isn't
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: that the obvious question? You can make a three-part Netflix docuseries.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Isn't that the question? So this guy, again, fake 49er
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: receiver Dijon. Boy, the Niners are having a time of
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: their life. Shanahan with the phantom accident that vanished for
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: 11 days. You got the owner who's looking for a
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: little making whoopee at a trailer park in Ohio. And
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: now you've got the fake 49er player. And of the three, boy,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: neck and neck. I would say Shanahan's third. billionaire owner
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: looking for a nookie at the trailer park would be
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: number one still for me. And then I would, and
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: not that we're doing a list, but I would put
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: on my big board, the love story, which is what
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: a great name, Dijon Love. And he was able to
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: hornswoggle all of these women. This is pure documentary gold.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Sign me up right now. I will watch whatever platform
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: this documentary ends up on. I'm in all weekend. I
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: was getting updates. All this played out on social media.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: All this played out on text message. And for some reason,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: the women who were taken by this guy, they were
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: posting what he was sending them. And so there you go.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: We're living in 2026 to think about where we are
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: right now with unlimited information, the information superhighway, which I
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: was promised when I was a kid. It's here. And
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: it's right there in your pocket. You have a supercomputer
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: right there. And even hollering James at the hospital with
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: his Obama phone he called last hour. And yet, 26 women.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Most of the, based on the photos I saw, most
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: of them young and pretty attractive. Some would call them
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: smoke shows, these young women. And they got absolutely taken
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: to the bank out of 1.3 million because a guy
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: wore a 49er helmet and ran on the beach claiming
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: to be an NFL player. It's the funniest thing ever.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: It's like, tell me you don't know anything about football.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Do you think Puka Nakua or Justin Jefferson, when they're
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: working out, they take their own helmet to the beach
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: to run? Come on. It's hilarious. Hello? Yeah, it's so, so,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: so good. And again, if only there was a way.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: In the year we're in now, to verify whether someone
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: was an NFL player or not in less than 15 seconds,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: if only that existed, man, that would be great. So
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: how much sympathy? How much sympathy are we supposed to
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: have here? Like, seriously. When your Tinder date starts asking
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: for thousands of dollars in investment money, shouldn't that be
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: an alarm bell? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Like,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: something's going on.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: However.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: The secret sauce, based on my review of the available information,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: the secret sauce of this situation, the con, it's as
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: old as time. It's like what men look for is
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: typically physical. Like a guy will date a woman who's
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: a janitor and won't mind at all. Now, a woman,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: you better look like a freaking stud if you're, you know,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: working the fast food aisle or you're not going to
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: get the time of day. But this had all this
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: guy claimed to have status. The women clearly obsessed with
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: celebrity and all that, desperately wanting the storybook thing to
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: be true. Right. And so they wanted to tell all
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: their friends that they had hit the romantic lottery. They
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: found the player. They found the baller. And so common
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: sense went right out the window. Or in this case,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: they turned on airplane mode and they couldn't get Wi-Fi.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: And so that was part of the problem, clearly. And
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, when this documentary drops, and
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they're already starting to work on it, even
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: though the story is not done yet. We don't know
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: how this legal case is going to play out. But
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: man alive, that is going to be the coolest sports
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: documentary since that fake high school. Remember that high school
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: in Ohio? That was fake and got on ESPN playing.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: It was real good. Anyway, as far as this, the
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Dijon Love story, this is going to be, all of
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: us who watch this, it'll be like the meme of
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Leonardo DiCaprio. We'll be screaming at the TV and pointing.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: And laughing for three straight hours or however long the
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: documentary is. How did you fall for this? How did
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: you fall for this? Anyway, it is the Ben Maller show.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: And you'd say, well, if these women maybe were unattractive
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, and they were having trouble finding
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: a man, you'd say, okay. These all seem like they
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: could find the men under any rock they wanted to
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: find them in. So very odd. It is the Ben
• 46:05
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• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Hey, you sports figure guy or girl.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Who the hell are you talking to, son? Here's some
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: instant advice. Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: me for 10 whole seconds. And if you don't like it,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: screw you. And away we go. It's the instant advice line,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: unscreened radio. Who needs our advice in the wacky, wacky, wacky,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: tabacky world of sports? Even though I'm a Rams fan,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I want to help out the Niners. How can the
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Niners stay out of the tabloids? In the last month,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: we've had their head coach, Kyle Shanahan, in this weird
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: accident where nothing was reported for 11 days. Then you
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: had the owner looking to make a little whoopee at
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: a trailer park. in Ohio. And you also have this
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: fake 49er wide receiver thing where he was seducing women
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: to give him money. There's a whole lot going on there.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: So advice to the 49ers to stay out of the tabloids.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: You're live on the air when you hear my voice
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: at 877-99 on Fox. Hello, line one. You're on the air.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Advice to the Niners, line one. All right, line two.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: You're on the air. James in a hospital, by the way.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Line two. That's why he's awake, because they're giving him
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: medication through IVs. Line two. You're on the air. Line two. Hello.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Line two is not there. We'll go to line three.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Advice line number three. to the 49ers on staying out
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: of the tabloids.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Hey, Ben, I don't think I can hold this table
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: much longer. I'm starting to get angry looks.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Hurry up.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: All right, I'll be right there. Line number four, you're
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: on the air. Line four, your advice to the Niners
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: to stay out of the tabloids. Line four.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Chastity Bells.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Okay. Chastity belt.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: Yes. Line.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: That sounded like the leprechaun. Line five. You're on the air.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Line five. Hello. Morning time.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Those are some gullible women. I ain't met.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: What is going on, girl?
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Well, they like the fairy tale there. That's the right guy.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Rick in Maryland. Line six. You're on the air. Line six. Hello. Hello.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Roberto. Yes, happy birthday, Roberto. We missed that guy.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Line one, you're on the air. Number one, advice to
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the Niners on staying out of the tabloids. The owner
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: at the trailer park, the coach car accident, the fake
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: wide receiver. A lot of tabloid fodder. Line one. Shut up, Fatso.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: You suck. All right, line two, you're on the air.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: Line two, hello.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Stop watching the 49ers.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Wear horse blinkers. Okay, see, there you go. That's Sean
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: the Hood guy. That's some good advice. Line three, you're
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: on the air. Line three, hello.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Is it true that USC is down to a 22-point
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: favorite versus Fresno State this Friday?
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Eddie Garcia will be at that game. The Godfather did
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: message me. He will be at the Coliseum. I said
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: you can sit in the whole section if you want.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: No one's going to those games. Line four, you're on
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: the air. Line four, hello. It's me.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: It's Luke, the vending guy.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Hey, we love Luke. Everyone needs a vending guy. They
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: always got extra snacks. Line five. You're on the airline five. Hello.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Two trailer park girls go around the outside.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: All right. That'll cost you $ 280, I think. That's the price.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: All right. Line six. Hello, line six.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Bill Miller, Miller, Miller, Miller.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Miller, Miller, Miller. All right, we'll do one more. If
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: it's good, I'll take credit. If not, I'm going to
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: blame Patty. Pick the final call, Patty. Pick a number.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Hurry up. What are you going to pick? Line one,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: you're on the air.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Go, line one.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: The 49ers are so much like San Francisco.