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Hour 1 - This Is Where Democracy Lives · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Mama, there goes that man. It's our number one, our
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  Speaker 1: one Ben Maller show. Happy hump day to you. It
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  Speaker 1: is the fourth day of November, the day after that
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  Speaker 1: whole political thingamajig. And we're back at it. Stayed up
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  Speaker 1: Here in hour number one, where is the line between
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  Speaker 1: legitimate disrespect of Marcus Freeman's program and Notre Dame fans
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  Speaker 1: having an inflated sense of entitlement, the fighting Irish feeling
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  Speaker 1: the sting of the first college football ranking that came
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  Speaker 1: out yesterday? Also, is North Carolina State seriously considering former
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks star Russell Wilson as its next head coach, or
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  Speaker 1: is Is this nothing more than a publicity stunt? We'll
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  Speaker 1: discuss that. In the NFL, does Bo Nix deserve a
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  Speaker 1: standing ovation? One of our listeners emailed to complain from
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  Speaker 1: Colorado that I disrespected Bo. He says Bo deserves a
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  Speaker 1: standing ovation for 15 game-winning drives. Or should we be
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  Speaker 1: asking why the Broncos keep finding themselves in situations where
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  Speaker 1: they need to come from behind? We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 1: and more right now. Here it is, our number one.
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  Speaker 1: This is where democracy lives. Is that the slogan?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour. Don't ban the lead, my man! The
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  Speaker 1: rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate college football. Much like
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  Speaker 1: a moth to a flame, I like a good controversy.
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  Speaker 1: It makes for compelling talk radio. And we have some
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  Speaker 1: of that in the college football world. The undefeated Miami Hurricanes.
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  Speaker 1: Receiving the number one spot overall in the college football
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  Speaker 1: playoff ranking. The first, ooh, ooh la la. The first
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  Speaker 1: college football playoff ranking. Followed behind the Canes, you've got Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: the Bulldogs, undefeated Utah. What is a Ute? The reigning
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  Speaker 1: national champions, Indiana, fill out the top four spots in
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  Speaker 1: the initial projected playoff bracket. And if you have not
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  Speaker 1: been following here, perhaps not, the big controversy, the reason
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  Speaker 1: that we're bringing this up, is because the Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: Marching and Chowder Society, very upset, very angry. The Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame fan base, up in arms. No justice, no peace.
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  Speaker 1: They think they got the royal screw job here. So
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  Speaker 1: the committee, getting a lot of backlash, mostly from Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame fans, The Golden Domer fan base upset, and there
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  Speaker 1: are some pundits who are banging the table, complaining about this.
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  Speaker 1: They believe the Fighting Irish were unfairly punished. Now, Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame is 7-1 on the year, and they were ranked No. 11.
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  Speaker 1: In the first college football playoff ranking. Now, that wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be that big a deal if they were not number four.
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  Speaker 1: Number four.
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  Speaker 3: Number four.
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  Speaker 1: In the AP Top 25. So you've got the number
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  Speaker 1: four team according to the Associated Press ranking. Number 11
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  Speaker 1: via the playoff. Now, you bring that up. Also, Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: which is 6-2. Roll Tide! Alabama 6-2. They landed at No.
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  Speaker 1: 5 on the college football playoffs, six spots ahead of
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, despite having twice as many losses. So that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. We have our controversy of
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  Speaker 1: the night. We embrace that. So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Where is the line between legitimate players disrespect for marcus
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  Speaker 1: freeman's program and notre dame fans having an inflated sense
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  Speaker 1: of entitlement where's the line so i've got macbook pro
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  Speaker 1: guy fieri and hook and ladder and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we'll be your favorite
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  Speaker 1: care bearer Yeah. I don't know. I don't remember the
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  Speaker 1: Care Bear names. What would be your favorite Care Bear?
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  Speaker 1: Einstein Bear.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So, A, listen, I love the outrage. Reminds
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  Speaker 1: me of the late, great T.J. Simers, who was a
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  Speaker 1: casual friend of mine. He was a big-time columnist in L.A.,
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  Speaker 1: worked at ESPN for a while. But T.J. always told
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  Speaker 1: me about, well, not always, a few times, he told
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  Speaker 1: me about these lists. and how it's great, the list thing.
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  Speaker 1: People get so worked up into a lather. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is a legitimate ranking. It's not just a list, but
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  Speaker 1: it's the first list, the first ranking, right? So people
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  Speaker 1: get all worked up into a lather, and they're foaming
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  Speaker 1: at the mouth, furious. How dare you? And apparently the committee,
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  Speaker 1: the college football committee here, forgot to give bonus points
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  Speaker 1: for the classic movie Rudy for Notre Dame. Bad job
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  Speaker 1: by them. So what we're dealing with here, is blurred lines.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're dealing with. Blurred lines. The Fighting Irish
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  Speaker 1: have a championship caliber marketing department. They've always had that
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  Speaker 1: my entire life. But their resume, the resume looks like
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  Speaker 1: it was assembled... at a church bake sale that's the
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  Speaker 1: problem the problem is the resume and marcus freeman does
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  Speaker 1: not have a r-e-s-p-e-c-t problem does not have the respect
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  Speaker 1: problem he's got a quality win problem that's the issue
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  Speaker 1: here notre dame is the trust fund baby of college
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  Speaker 1: football living off the family fortune With, if I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 1: I looked. I didn't see a top 25 win. Did
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  Speaker 1: I miss it? Maybe I missed it. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: a top 25 win. However, Marcus Freeman, despite that resume,
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman looking around here. And he's like, well, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute. He's got something. He's got a MacBook Pro. Ooh.
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  Speaker 5: Ooh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He's sitting right in front of it. He's got that
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  Speaker 1: MacBook Pro. He's at the table. And this is setting up.
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  Speaker 1: a rewrite, a made-for-TV redemption story. That's taking some embellishment,
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  Speaker 1: but you get the point. The script has not been
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  Speaker 1: fully written. The ending can certainly change here. All Freeman
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  Speaker 1: has to do is get his golden domers. Standing tall
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, because on Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, number one Miami
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  Speaker 1: comes to South Bend. And they will take on Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame in a classic matchup. Well, it used to be
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, it was a massive matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Over the years, it's lost a little bit of its luster.
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  Speaker 1: But this year, it doesn't get much bigger than that
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  Speaker 1: for Notre Dame tonight. Taking on Miami, which comes in
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  Speaker 1: with a pass defense ranked 122nd nationally. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that's good. Oh, you're being mean, Maller! I know. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the schmuck. 122 is really, really good if you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to finish near the bottom. Really, really good. If
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame can go out and beat the Hurricanes and
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  Speaker 1: then they rewrite the narrative. And they have that power. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if they lose, stop your bitching. Stop your whining. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: You got to earn it. And you got a chance.
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  Speaker 1: You got an opportunity to go out and do it
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday and earn it. And that's it. And Miami
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  Speaker 1: will go free falling. There you go.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, page two. To Raleigh, North Carolina. Did not anticipate
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  Speaker 1: when I went to bed this morning or whenever it was.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know when I went to bed. Did
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  Speaker 1: not anticipate talking about NC State football. But here we are. Why?
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because of Mr. Mr. Unlimited. He's back. Yeah. Yeah, baby.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't he still getting paid by the Broncos? I think
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  Speaker 1: he is. Anyway, a former NFL quarterback, Russell Wilson, who
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  Speaker 1: immediately started sucking the moment he left the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson has interviewed for the vacant North Carolina State
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  Speaker 1: coaching job.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He won a Super Bowl back a million years ago,
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  Speaker 1: 10-time Pro Bowler that's gotten rid of the Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: That's how irrelevant that is. And played for the Wolfpack
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  Speaker 1: back in the day before transferring to Wisconsin. So he
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  Speaker 1: spent some time there. And he has as much coaching
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  Speaker 1: experience as Eileen in San Francisco, who listens to the
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  Speaker 1: show and Kathy in Madison. And even legally blind Emmett,
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  Speaker 1: who's a retired caller, gave up, couldn't handle a call
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  Speaker 1: on the show. But he's got as much coaching experience
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  Speaker 1: as those people. And I think Stevie Meatballs coached back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. So I think Stevie Meatballs actually has
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  Speaker 1: more experience than the aforementioned Russell Wilson. So the former
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks star back in the day would be going back, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: to the place he played for a couple years and
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  Speaker 1: all that, trying to relaunch. And reinvent himself as a coach. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Phillip Rivers is also said to be neck and neck
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  Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson. Neck and neck. Mr. Unlimited and Phillip Rivers.
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  Speaker 1: Old man Rivers and his bolo tie. So that is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So the question here, is North Carolina State seriously considering
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  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson as their next head coach, or the other option,
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  Speaker 1: this is nothing more than just a cheesy publicity stunt
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  Speaker 1: by the Wolfpack, knowing dummies like me would see this
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  Speaker 1: and jump on it. So I do not believe it's
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  Speaker 1: just a publicity stunt. This is the era that we're in,
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  Speaker 1: in college football. We talk about baseball managers, and I
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  Speaker 1: know we'll talk about this a little bit later because
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  Speaker 1: of one of the hires in baseball, where they don't
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  Speaker 1: really matter anymore. Dave Roberts doesn't know what the hell
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  Speaker 1: he's doing. Aaron Boone doesn't know what he's doing. But
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  Speaker 1: these guys won a lot of games, and they just
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  Speaker 1: follow the script, and they follow the analytics. Now, in
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  Speaker 1: college football, it's obviously different, where it's more about what's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest name that can really, really impress the booster,
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  Speaker 1: the alumni, the that have a ton of money and
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  Speaker 1: want to give that money to the program, but they
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  Speaker 1: need to get massaged. They need the mani and the
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  Speaker 1: pedi from the big name ex-jock. And so this is
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  Speaker 1: the era that we're in. And it's like, okay, so
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  Speaker 1: you're coaching. And North Carolina State is looking at an
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  Speaker 1: alumni reunion situation here. It always comes down to NIL, NIL, NIL, NIL,
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  Speaker 1: but you already knew that. And Russell Wilson has not
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  Speaker 1: moved the needle at all on television. Nobody even knows
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  Speaker 1: he's on television. He's boring, which is not surprising considering
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  Speaker 1: how robotic he was at those news conferences. He's never
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  Speaker 1: coached a game in his life. Apparently just winning a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl because you happen to tag your caboose along
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  Speaker 1: the Legion of Boom defense back in the day, that
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  Speaker 1: qualifies you to run an ACC program or at least
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to It's kind of like if you
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  Speaker 1: were to hire Guy Fieri to run the Pentagon because
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  Speaker 1: he's the founding father of Flavortown. Well, I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 1: he runs Flavortown so he could run the Pentagon. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Similar skill set. Yep. Now, Philip Rivers, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: he's at least coached. in the backwoods of Alabama. So
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  Speaker 1: he has done some coaching there.
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  Speaker 5: Whee!
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  Speaker 1: Way to go. North Carolina State. Now, I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: some other names that we don't know about. They're not
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  Speaker 1: big names, not sexy names. But North Carolina State is
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  Speaker 1: essentially choosing, if it's between these two, they're choosing between
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  Speaker 1: one former quarterback who coached high school and another who's
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  Speaker 1: coached absolutely nobody. Now, will Russ bring those nano-bubbles to
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina State if he goes and coaches there? You
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  Speaker 1: have no idea what I'm talking about. Just Google it
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, nano bubbles. That's the way to go.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way to go. Of course, we all know
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  Speaker 1: just because you happen to play the piano does not
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  Speaker 1: mean that you can conduct the orchestra. And college football
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  Speaker 1: coaches are basically at this point Girl Scouts. Let me explain.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're coaching college football, you're like a Girl Scouts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they pimp out the Girl Scouts to sell cookies outside
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  Speaker 1: every grocery store. And I have to be the douche
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  Speaker 1: and say, I don't want your cookies. And then you
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  Speaker 1: get that sad girl look and they make you feel
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  Speaker 1: guilty when you're just trying to go buy potato chips.
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  Speaker 2: Buy my cookies.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man. Whoever's in charge of the Girl Scouts schmucks.
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  Speaker 1: These cute, innocent girls. And I have to go and say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not buying your stupid cookies. And that's it. But
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  Speaker 1: if you're a college football coach, you're a Girl Scout
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  Speaker 1: selling cookies in front of a local Piggly Wiggly. It's
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing. Except the thin mints cost $ 800, 000.
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  Speaker 7: Ha ha ha!
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  Speaker 1: And that's just to get a defensive end. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And so whoever gets that job at North Carolina State
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  Speaker 1: will be spending roughly 80 percent of every day begging.
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  Speaker 1: They should contact Weed Man Hippie to find out how
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  Speaker 1: to panhandle and get money.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, they will be not panhandling on the
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  Speaker 1: side of the highway anymore. at the off-ramp, they will
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  Speaker 1: be panhandling to the person that owns 14 car dealerships
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  Speaker 1: in town because they say, hey, I want to buy
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  Speaker 1: some more players. Why don't you raise the price of
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  Speaker 1: those Toyotas so we can, you know, we want to
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  Speaker 1: make some better roster moves here. All right, now last word.
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  Speaker 1: To the NFL we go. The Mile High City where
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  Speaker 1: a listener named Louie From Colorado. I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: who this person is. He emailed. They say, Louie says
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  Speaker 1: he listens to the show a couple days a week.
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  Speaker 1: He heard me trashing Bo Nix the other day. Now,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, I don't think I trashed Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 1: I merely pointed out that he's not very good. So,
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  Speaker 1: of course, this guy sent me some Bo propaganda. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Louie says, I owe Bo Nix an apology. Clearly, Louie,
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  Speaker 1: you must not listen to this show very often. he
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  Speaker 1: sends this in. So Broncos quarterback Bo Nix has made
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  Speaker 1: NFL history now. He has 15, and I double-checked this,
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  Speaker 1: it's true, he has 15 career game-winning drives, the most
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  Speaker 1: by any quarterback in his first three seasons in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: The previous record was held by Dakota Prescott. Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: now in company with Dakota Prescott. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I'd get too excited about that. Yeah, Nix had three
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  Speaker 1: As a rookie in 2024, three comebacks. He led the
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  Speaker 1: NFL with seven last year. He leads the league with
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  Speaker 1: five this season in Denver. Tom Brady, the all-time leader.
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  Speaker 1: And Bo Nix is a quarter of the way to
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady. He will not end up getting that, but
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  Speaker 1: it's nice to think about. All right, so let's address this.
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  Speaker 1: This is Dope Louie. So the question, does Bo Nix
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  Speaker 1: deserve a standing ovation, 15 game-winning drives? Or the other option,
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  Speaker 1: should we be asking why the Broncos keep finding themselves
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  Speaker 1: in these situations where they have to come from behind? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I'm not here to spit a loogie at the
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix propaganda machine, which is working overtime. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: here to do that. The media keeps feeding us this
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  Speaker 1: fairy tale. I shouldn't say the entire media. There are
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  Speaker 1: factions of the media, most of them in Denver, and
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  Speaker 1: their fanboys wearing their blue and orange and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But they keep feeding us this fairy tale. And this
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  Speaker 1: is the NFL's most fraudulent feel-good statistic. I remember there
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  Speaker 1: was a quarterback who I used to rip all the
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  Speaker 1: time named Joey Harrington. And Joey Harrington was called Captain
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  Speaker 1: Comeback himself at Oregon and had some dramatic comebacks for
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  Speaker 1: the Ducks. Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack. And we used
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  Speaker 1: to goof on him. And then, of course, like everything else,
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  Speaker 1: I used to rip him all the time. He got
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  Speaker 1: a job here. Which briefly, very briefly worked here, which
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  Speaker 1: was somewhat awkward. Somewhat awkward. The piano man, Joey Harrington. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the point is, I pointed out when he was playing,
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  Speaker 1: they called him Captain Comeback because he would be so
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  Speaker 1: bad at the beginning of games, early turnover and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And proven correct eventually when he got to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I look at this and it's like we're celebrating with
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix. You're celebrating the cleanup crew instead of investigating
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  Speaker 1: who made mistakes. The mess. Who made the mess? Bo Nix,
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  Speaker 1: he's a fourth-quarter assassin. However, you can't say that without
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  Speaker 1: also pointing out, while he's a fourth-quarter assassin, he's a
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  Speaker 1: three-quarter accomplice to football murder. It's not good. The Broncos
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  Speaker 1: love to play with their food, and they do it
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of games here. And it's like they're
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  Speaker 1: a spoiled six-year-old kid at a steakhouse somewhere in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly Bo remembers, wait a minute, I think I'm
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  Speaker 1: supposed to eat that. I should stop playing with my steak.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm supposed to eat it. But if Bo
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  Speaker 1: Nix were the end-all, be-all, which this guy Louie and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure the other big Bronco fanboys are like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's so good. Why does Denver consistently need a rescue mission?
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  Speaker 1: If Bo Nix is all that and a bag of chips.
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  Speaker 1: To me, Bo Nix is the guy driving the hook
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  Speaker 1: and ladder truck. And he's got the cherry tops on
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  Speaker 1: it in a gas can in the passenger seat. You
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  Speaker 1: feel me on that? You know what I'm saying? Hook
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  Speaker 1: and ladder, gas can. He's the firefighter. part-time and the
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  Speaker 1: arsonist the rest of the time. He's the guy that
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  Speaker 1: starts the blaze for the first 55 minutes of a
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  Speaker 1: game and then puts it out in the final five
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  Speaker 1: minutes before posing for the fireman calendar. So the Denver
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• 20:16
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• 20:18
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• 20:22
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• 20:26
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• 20:31
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• 20:35
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• 20:39
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• 20:40
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• 20:43
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• 20:55
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• 20:59
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• 21:01
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• 21:05
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• 21:07
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• 21:13
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• 21:17
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• 21:19
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• 21:22
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• 21:26
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• 21:29
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• 21:34
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• 21:37
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• 21:43
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• 21:45
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• 21:49
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• 22:12
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• 22:14
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• 22:17
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• 22:20
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• 22:23
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• 22:25
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• 22:40
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• 22:46
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• 23:01
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• 23:07
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• 23:22
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. As we
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: continue on through the overnight, just beginning the red-eye flight.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Talking about the college football playoff ranking and the controversy.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Oh, they're upset. The fighting Irish fans are angry.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Or is that just bots online? I don't know. I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: fell for it. It's possible. It's possible I just fell
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: for the... The move. Nonetheless, we're talking about that. Also,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, a candidate for the North Carolina state job.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: And Bo Nix, according to one of our listeners in Denver,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I should apologize to Bo Nix because he's capped and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: come back. You better apologize. Yes, I'm sure. I'm sure
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Bo's up listening right now. He can't sleep. He's waiting
• 24:13
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• 24:16
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• 24:20
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• 24:22
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• 24:28
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• 24:32
  Speaker 1: You can say hi to... Everyone loves the donkey, and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I like being the donkey.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Big, giant jackass. And Lorena... She's in a good mood.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: She almost quit the show yesterday. We almost lost Lorena.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: She was going to leave and abandon her post. She
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: was considering going AWOL. We've got to be here. Even
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: if the building burns down, Lorena, we've got to be here.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: It's in the contract. FSR Tech Queen. You want to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: say hello to Lorena? I got a message today, Ben.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: No longer her birthday. Oh, you did get a message.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: What was it?
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: I did.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: What was the message? Curious.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: He said that the exterminator was in here today.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, good. So there won't be any cockroaches crawling out
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: of the equipment? Hopefully.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Hopefully.
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: I'm not keeping my fingers like, I'm not like, oh,
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: I'm safe.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: There's none.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: No, I don't feel that way, but I do feel better.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: You feel better. Okay. Keep in mind, I've been here
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: my entire adult life and every couple of months an
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: exterminator comes in and it does nothing. That's the greatest.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: They might as well have Kawhi Leonard come in here
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and be the exterminator. It's a no-show job. It's like nothing.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they do. They'd probably just eat
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a burrito across the street at the Crazy Chicken. Don't
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: say that. She's making me keep the lights on. Oh, okay.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: You can't keep the light. It's bad enough I got
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: to have all these dumb lights because these cameras, I
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: can't turn these things off.
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: Don't act like you guys pay the power bill in here.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: That's not going.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: To do anything.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: No, we do, actually. I think me and Coop both
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: take a little less to pay the power bill, right, Coop?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: You know, we could get paid a lot more. That's
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: what Coop told me.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: No?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: All right. Coop's shaking his head. Coop's here at a
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Bronco fan that's a Bronco fan. Your comments can and
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: will be used against you in the court of the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Malheur Militia, so please act accordingly. Thank you. All right.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: What do we got here? Let's see. Page down. Joe
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the Ghost Hunter. Met Joe in Ohio. Good dude. Joe says,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: no excuses. I'm a Notre Dame fan. You can't lose
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: even one game to get to the top over the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: college crap. win be better. I think there's a word missing,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: or maybe I just am having a psychotic issue. I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: don't know. I think there might be a word missing.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Curmudgeon Wayne, what's he complaining about? Let's see here. Oh,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: here it is. He says, nothing to talk about tonight,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: so you finally go to college football.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Sheesh.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Wayne, take a breath. Everything will be okay, Wayne. The
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: reason that I talked about college football... It's because there
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: was an interesting story in college football. If there wasn't
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: an interesting story in college football, I have plenty of
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: other things to talk about. You understand, I started in
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: radio in the Stone Age. I hear these young bucks,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: these young blood in radio, and they're like, oh, man,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: there's nothing going on today. Oh, my God. I hear
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: these guys complaining. And I'm like, this is my, I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: walked 15 miles in the snow uphill in a blizzard.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: When I got into the radio business.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: Back in my day.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Exactly. There was no internet. Think about that. I did
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: this job without the internet. Right now, there are thousands
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: of meathead athletes giving content online and their wives and girlfriends. Okay?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't have any of that. I had none of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: that back when we got started. I remember when I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: was interning for Lee Hacksaw Hamilton at the great Mighty
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: 690 in San Diego, Baja, California. And a border blaster
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: station where Wolfman Jack, you don't even know who that is.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: He's a radio legend from back in the day. He
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: worked at that station. So I remember being at that station.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: We'd go in the newsroom. I actually had a newsroom.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: And on one side, on the right-hand side, there was
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: a long table and there was an AP sports wire.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And on the left-hand side was the sports ticker. And
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: that's how we got all the news. That was it.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And then eventually they came up with like AOL online.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I think it was like the stone age of the internet.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: So there's plenty of stuff to talk about, Wayne. I
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: just thought that was interesting. It's always fun. That's a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: big brand, Notre Dame, right? It's basically a college football
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: team for an entire religion, a very popular religion. So therefore,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: they're upset. That's good talk radio. Those are the ingredients.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Curmudgeon Wayne, I'd like you to read my book, Sports
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Talk Radio for Idiots. I think I wrote it for you.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Monkey Biz Doug in South Korea writes and says, Ben,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I'm truly dumbfounded how my beloved Gators managed to sneak
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: into the rankings at number 24 after spending the season
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: dropping deuces. in their collegiate diapers. There were a lot
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: of Southeastern Conference teams that did very, very well. You
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: break it down, you're like, well, wait a minute. The
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: SEC dominating the rankings. Five teams in the top 12.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: You got Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Texas, and Ole Miss. All
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: part of that. And you go down. Ohio State's the
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: one that's on the outside looking in. They did beat
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Indiana head-to-head. They lost their quarterback, and they are ranked
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: 12th right now. We'll take some calls. It is a
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: call-in show. and I gotta move this over here and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I gotta hold on a sec I gotta move this
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: see I move this here and then I gotta move
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: that laptop right there and I and now we're good
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: now we're good let's say hello to Andrew in Bakersfield
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: hello Andrew welcome Hey, Ben.
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: I was going to send my message by Morse code,
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: but I decided to use the rotary phone instead. So
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: I got two things.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: You ready? No, I'm not. I'm not ready. I need
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: a drink. I need a cocktail. Number one.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: What analytics was Dave Roberts using when he put Shohei
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: Otani back at the leadoff spot in Game 4 of
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: the National League Championship Series? Number two, I'd like to
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: amend what I said about never being to a UCLA game.
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: I went to a UCLA soccer game quite.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: A while ago. Congratulations. Congratulations.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I went with a Christian soccer team called the Seahorses.
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: And from what I remember, it was like a cement stadium,
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: and we kind of sat up at the top and
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: looked down. But I have been to a UCLA game.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: That's not a football game.
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: Well, you said, have you ever been to a UCLA game,
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: I think.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: We were having a conversation about football.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: Talk to you soon.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Thank you. If you don't know what a non-sequitur is,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you just heard it. It was that. Yeah, that's what that,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: if you want a definition of a non-sequitur. Guy calls
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: up in early November and asks about Dave Roberts and analytics.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Issa writes and says, Ben, you're definitely losing Maller to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the third degree. Oh, because of my commentary about Bo Nix. No,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Koop will be fair and balanced and he will not.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: He will not ding me for that. Coach Cliché writes,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: since it's only the NHL on election night, the rest
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: of us stuck on swing state bingo waiting on the wave.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: It is what it is. B-plus Mahler monologue. Then at
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, you got to give 110%.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr. Cliché. Right there. We will discuss the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: light night in sports and one league that is the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: king of arrogance. in the industrial complex of professional sports.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Moving Man Matt writes in, says, doing it live, moving
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the Bezos Bucks around New England. Louie and I get
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the full Maller experience, start to finish, in the air, everywhere. Well,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Louie tapped out. I guess that opening monologue about college
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: football did in Louie. And Louie's snoozing in that giant
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: truck there with the Moving Man, who's got the mobile
• 32:40
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• 32:42
  Speaker 1: to check that out. Absolutely. Absolutely. What else do we have?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Page down. Will T says, quit raging on
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: my Broncos.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Eh.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: It's a talk show. We got to do the talk show.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: There you go. Oh, here's a curmudgeon. Wayne's now ripping.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: He's ripping our music director. Lorena says, get better bumper music.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: That's from Curmudgeon Wayne.
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: You obviously have horrible taste in music if you don't
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: like heart.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: What do you listen to, huh? Banjos? Polka music. I've
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: guessed it. Curmudgeon Wayne's a big polka guy. That's what
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going with. Let's go to 2% Chance. He's back.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: We smoked him out. 2% Chance. You're on the Ben
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Maller Show.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Welcome. Man, I went on hiatus.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I'm back, though.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: I'm glad to be back.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: I'm glad to.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: Talk to y'all. I really appreciate what y'all do. Y'all
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: help me on these late nights where I can't sleep
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: and I need someone to talk to about sports and
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: get my fix. I appreciate y'all.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: So, college football.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: First, whatever you want to call it. Man, I'm a
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: huge Alabama fan, as you know. I'll even tell you,
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: I think they rank just a little too high.
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: I'll be honest.
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: I think we should probably be around 7, 8, 9
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: in that range. My reasoning why I think they.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: I think they look at that Georgia game as not
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: like a loss-loss because we got Rob, man. There should
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: have been a PIN zone. We should have been set
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: up for go-ahead touchdown. We got Rob.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Well, you're doing the shoulda, coulda, woulda thing, though. That's
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the problem. I don't know that the committee, they look
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: at the shoulda, coulda, woulda thing. Do they look at that?
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I'd like that. If they do the shoulda, woulda, we
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: got screwed situation. There have been several games. Remember the
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Michigan game? Not that Michigan's any good this year, but
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Michigan's start of the year. They should have lost. And
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: then that one-point play. In the NFL, the Rams and Broncos,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the Broncos should have a loss. So you can nitpick.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I'm all for it. I endorse it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: I guess the only reason they got it so high
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: is because we beat Kentucky, which is, what, sixth? And
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: South Carolina, which is ranked. We got some pretty darn
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: good wins, man. But, you know, LSU and, you know,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: if we make it to the championship game, we can
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: still find out how good we are this year.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: And again, for the record, for those who don't know,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: this man right here, not only is he an Alabama
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Crimson Tide fan, but, of course, Buffalo Bills. A very
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: odd combination. And yet he is supporting both teams. So
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: he's got that.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: Did I explain it to you? Mother from western New York,
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: father from down.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Here, man. I know.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: And you've told us some ghost stories. You've told us
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: some ghost stories as well. Ghost stories. Yeah.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: Man, I love telling y'all stories, man.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: How's the dating? One of the last times we talked,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: you were trying to find a lady. Have you had
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: any luck? Have you had any success with the ladies?
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: No, man.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: I'm still single as can be.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: All right. Now, we're supposed to play the dating game
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: with Stevie Meatballs. We can play one with you as well.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: We can just do back-to-back dating games. That would be great.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: Yes. What should I call back?
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we haven't set it up yet. I keep
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: talking about it, and then I don't actually do it.
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: My cousin was talking about AI relationships the other day,
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: how people are creating it on their phones or laptops.
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: And then I told her, I was like, yeah, and
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: then they're going to pair it with actual robots, and
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: you'll be able to put that AI mind that you've
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: created into a.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: And will you give birth to a half-human, half-robot? How's
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: that going to work? Like a Terminator baby? Exactly that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: That'll be great. That'll be wonderful. That'll be good.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Well, 2% chance. I'll talk to you in about three months.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll see you in three months. All right.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: There you go. There's a 2% chance. Nah, nah, nah, nah. Nah, nah, nah, nah. Hey, goodbye. Yeah,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: there he goes. Is that old or is that new?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: That's very old.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Is that old? Oh, man. It's one of my go-to lines.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: How old is that? What does that drop from? Do
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: they put a date on that? I don't see a
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: date on it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: It just says, Ben, nah, nah, goodbye.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: All right. That's solid.
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: I think I heard Eddie in the background laughing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. So it was at least a few years
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  Speaker 1: ago for sure. Well, the wives have done it again,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: feeding the content machine. Matthew Stafford's wife criticizing the National
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Football League on social media, complaining about the Rams' bi-week schedule.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams will have just 10 days off. On their
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: bye week, instead of the traditional 14-day break, Rams will
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: play the Cardinals and then enter the bye. Week 11,
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  Speaker 1: Rams will return to play Green Bay on Wednesday, the
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: day before Thanksgiving. So four days are lost. And the
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: wife of Matthew Stafford is complaining. Of course, the flip
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: side of that is the Rams get actually two byes.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Because they play, if you look at the schedule, they
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: play on Wednesday, Tuesday. And then they don't play again
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: until after that. So they got another extended break. So
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: instead of complaining about it, you should celebrate the fact
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: that even though it's not one full two-week bye, you
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: get the two byes. So anyway, we'll expand on that
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: more later if you'd like. It is the Ben Maller Show.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Time now for the Who Am I game. It's where
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: we pretend to be somebody else according to the NFL's
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: next-gen stats through Week 8. I rank dead last, 87th
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: out of 87 qualifying running backs, in total rushing expected
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: points added. Who? Rushing EPA.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Among all players with at least 10 carries. Again, according
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: to the NFL Next Gen Stats, through Week 8, I
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: am dead last, 87th out of 87 qualifying running backs,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: in total rushing EPA expected points added. Who? Among all
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: players with at least 10 carries, who am I?
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: The answer.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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• 39:27
  Speaker 1: we'll pay off the Who Am I game. And here
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: it is. You can answer this on X, at Ben Maller.
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  Speaker 1: You have to follow the account, or I can read
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: your answers. All right, here it is. According to the
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: NFL's next-gen stats, that's the nerd stats, through Week 8,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I ranked dead last, 87th out of 87 qualifying running
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: backs in total rushing EPA. That's expected points added among
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: all players with at least 10 carries this season. Who
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: am I? That's the question. What's the answer? Alf the
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Alien O'Piner says, Moxie the Wonder Dog. Yeah, I had
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: to put Moxie on timeout this week. Bad job by Moxie.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: But does look like a stuffed animal. That photo looks
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: like AI. That's not AI. Who else do we have?
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Isaiah Crowell from Nick. Who else? Page down. The Bionic Man,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert from Femi. The Uber Eats driver in Minnesota.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Malaprop guy going with 2% chance. That's a good photo.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix from King Rory. Chris Christie, guest by Frank Hauser.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Pauly Walnuts, tossed out by Eileen in San Francisco. Merrill
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Hodge from Steeler Nasty. Fun fact, Merrill Hodge, Mallard Militia guy,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: follows the show. Yeah, that's a fun fact. At least
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: he follows my Twitter account. Kyle is going with Cadillac Williams.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Great name. OJ Simpsons from Lego Chuck outside Austin. Page down.
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  Speaker 1: I can't read that. All right. Do you have an answer, Lorraine?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to go with Buck Irving.
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  Speaker 7: Who?
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Buck Irving.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I just want to make sure you said that.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Now, the correct answer from the Raiders. Running back Ashton Gentry,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: the number six pick in the draft, and dead last
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: in that stat. Dead last. Worst in the NFL. Worst
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Valerie.