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Hour 4 - Not Dead Yet · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: It's a small world after all. It's a small, small world.
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Speaker 1: It's such a small world that OBJ continues to find employment,
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Speaker 1: even though he hasn't been good in half a decade.
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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. landing with the Minnesota Vikings. Isn't this
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Speaker 1: another example of the NFL's old boy network rewarding familiar
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Speaker 1: names instead of actual performance? We'll discuss that. Also, are
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Speaker 1: you buying former NFL GM Ran Carthon's claim that Vikings
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Speaker 1: quarterback Kyler Murray is a bad fit for Kevin O'Connell's
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Speaker 1: offense in the Twin Cities? We'll discuss that. And how
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Speaker 1: big a deal is it that Patriots quarterback Drake May
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Speaker 1: admitted he's skeptical of the moon landing? Yeah, how big
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Speaker 1: a deal is Patriots quarterback Drake May admitting he is
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Speaker 1: skeptical of the moon landing? We'll talk about all that
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Speaker 1: and more right now. Have a wonderful Thursday and settle in.
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Speaker 1: It's hour number four. Here it is. Not dead yet.
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Speaker 1: JT the wingman, a couple of Big-time members in the
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Speaker 1: Mallard Militia. We've met them at the Mallard meet and
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Speaker 1: greets we've done over the years. And they said, hey,
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Speaker 1: let the people know about Fox 1. I said, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Because NFL Week 5 is here, and it's a bigot.
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Speaker 1: Bears versus Packers. That is Sunday's America's Game of the Week. Oh,
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Speaker 1: what a day it is. You've got the football all
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Speaker 1: day on Sunday. And then on Fox, you've got the
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Speaker 1: playoffs to the NLCS. That'll be kicking off there on
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Speaker 1: Sunday night. But the Bears and Packers, you miss it live.
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Speaker 1: You're just watching a highlight. Catch every play as it happens.
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Speaker 1: Bears-Packers live on Fox 1. So it was a big
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Speaker 1: day in baseball, but we're not going to talk baseball.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk some football here. So I woke
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Speaker 1: up to a text message from someone saying, hey, actually
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Speaker 1: it was a friend of mine who said, hey, you
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Speaker 1: might want to check your crystal ball. appears to not
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Speaker 1: be working and so i was a little sleepy and
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Speaker 1: i was kind of out of it and it turns
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Speaker 1: out that a player who should have stepped away from
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Speaker 1: the nfl is not stepping away from the nfl or
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Speaker 1: leave this hour from the high speed sports wire and
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Speaker 1: it turns out that obj has found another home this
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Speaker 1: is not a joke this is well it is a
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Speaker 1: joke but it's not fake it's real i thought this
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Speaker 1: was satire i thought ah another guy busting my balls
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Speaker 1: about beckham no turns out from what we are told
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Speaker 1: the vikings that's a football team in minnesota they signed
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Speaker 1: 33 year old odell beckham jr to their practice squad
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Speaker 1: and barely a week ago beckham was fired from his
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Speaker 1: forever team the new york giants That feel-so-good storybook reunion
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Speaker 1: lasted three games, and I'm happy to report that Odell
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Speaker 1: Beckham Jr. had as many catches as you had and
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Speaker 1: I had combined, and Wayne from Duluth. Zero catches. Zero catches,
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Speaker 1: 19 snaps, and that's it. That's all. that he had
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Speaker 1: so i bring this up justin jefferson is nursing an
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Speaker 1: ankle injury so beckham goes from the giants to the
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Speaker 1: undefeated vikings who have though the 31st ranked offense in
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Speaker 1: the nfl jefferson is hurt joan jennings has been a
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Speaker 1: bust a couple of catches nine yards he was a
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Speaker 1: stud for the 49ers and he ain't in san francisco
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Speaker 1: anymore however this is all about beckham The purple people eater,
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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. Good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. OBJ.
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Speaker 1: OBJ has landed in the Twin Cities. Isn't this another
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Speaker 1: example of the NFL's old boy network, the good old
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Speaker 1: boy network, rewarding familiar names instead of actual performance? So
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Speaker 1: I've got Hollywood action star El Ranchito saying, And sunny
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Speaker 1: side up. And we'll combine all of these things together,
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Speaker 1: and we are going to have some home cooking. As
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Speaker 1: long as you know how to make gabagool at home.
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Speaker 1: Those gabagool sandwiches, the baba ganoush, and the jambalaya. We'll
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Speaker 1: have a little bit of that, a little bit of this,
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. And we'll mix and match them all together.
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Speaker 1: So first of all, to answer the question, isn't this
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Speaker 1: another example of the NFL's good old boy network rewarding
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Speaker 1: the name... Instead of the performance, so the word, I
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Speaker 1: have one word, bingo! That's my word. Bingo, bucko, bingo.
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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. has mastered the greatest trick in the
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Speaker 1: industrial complex of professional sports, getting paid for what you
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Speaker 1: used to be. And it doesn't really happen much in
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Speaker 1: any other business other than sports. If you have a
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Speaker 1: couple of good years and a few people say this
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Speaker 1: person has the stardust, you're good. You are G-O-O-D. You're good.
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Speaker 1: And he's the NFL's version. Odell Beckham Jr. is the
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Speaker 1: NFL's version of a washed-up Hollywood action star who hasn't
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Speaker 1: had a hit movie in many, many years but keeps
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Speaker 1: landing leading roles. And you're like, what the hell is
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Speaker 1: the studio doing?
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 3: Why?
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Speaker 1: The Giants took one look at OBJ and said, boy,
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Speaker 1: we've seen enough. Pew! What stinks? Beckham. Beckham. And Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: they said, well, we'll take your leftovers. I know they're
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Speaker 1: covered in mold. We'll still take them. We'll brush the
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Speaker 1: mold off and we'll put that in the microwave. We'll
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Speaker 1: be good. Did you know since 2022, boy, I was
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Speaker 1: just much younger back then, 2022, Odell Beckham Jr. has
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Speaker 1: averaged a staggering 1.6 catches and less than 24 yards
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Speaker 1: per game. He's also been suspended for cheating as a
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Speaker 1: PED cheat and has missed two of the seasons because
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Speaker 1: of injury or suspension or sitting out and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: Which brings us to the obvious question, who has more lives?
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Speaker 1: Who has more lives, a house cat, a horror movie villain...
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Speaker 1: or obj and the only answer you probably think it's
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Speaker 1: a house cat no no the only answer is odell
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Speaker 1: that's it that's the answer beckham gets another opportunity despite
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Speaker 1: years and years of declining production because of the buddy
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Speaker 1: system and again in life whether it's sports or the
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Speaker 1: real world You spend a lot of money going to college.
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Speaker 1: And I've said this for years, and colleges change a
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Speaker 1: lot now. There's a lot of wackadoodles at these colleges
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Speaker 1: and all that. But here's the thing. It's not what
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Speaker 1: you know, it's who you know. I know in my business,
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Speaker 1: most of these jobs in media, the good jobs go
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Speaker 1: to people who know people. And I can't tell you
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Speaker 1: how many times I've seen over the years jobs get
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Speaker 1: posted for big-time jobs that they've already had somebody they
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Speaker 1: want to hire because they know someone. It's not what
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Speaker 1: you know. It's who you know. That's the key to life.
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Speaker 1: That's it. And so in this little ditty, Vikings coach
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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell was a disciple of Sean McVay. He happened
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Speaker 1: to be on the Rams coaching staff when Beckham came
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Speaker 1: over from the Cleveland Browns and they won the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl in 2021. So that means Kevin O'Connell suffers from amnesia.
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Speaker 1: And he's willing to block out everything Beckham has done
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Speaker 1: since he left the Rams. And while Beckham could ram
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Speaker 1: it all day and ram it all night, he did
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Speaker 1: get hurt in that Super Bowl against the Bengals and
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Speaker 1: has never been the same. The lesson is, welcome to
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Speaker 1: the NFL's favorite corporation. perk. Hire a friend. The buddy system.
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Speaker 1: All right, now secondly, staying in Minnesota, a nemesis of
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Speaker 1: yours truly is at it again, despite Minnesota being 4-0 ahead.
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Speaker 1: Things are not going well for that offense, and that
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Speaker 1: led to former Titans general manager Ran Carthon saying out
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Speaker 1: of nowhere that Kyler Murray is just not a good
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Speaker 1: fit in Minnesota. Now, Carthon, who was with the Titans,
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Speaker 1: argues that Kyler Murray does not play on time, clashing
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Speaker 1: with Kevin O'Connell and his offense. The Vikings offense is
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Speaker 1: a timing-based offense. And it's just a bad fit. It's
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Speaker 1: a bad fit. And Minnesota is already trying to adapt
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Speaker 1: their offense to the needs of the little fella, Alligator
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Speaker 1: Arms Murray. They've added more shotgun snaps in their offense.
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Speaker 1: They've modified other things in the running game. And just
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Speaker 1: all to accommodate Kyler Murray, who loves improv and playing
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Speaker 1: with a joystick, playing video games. So the question is,
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Speaker 1: Are you buying former NFL executive Rand Carthon's claim that
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Speaker 1: the Vikings quarterback Kyler Murray is a bad fit for
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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell's offense? So not only am I buying it,
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Speaker 1: I am soaking it all up. As a distant relative
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Speaker 1: of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradamus, I tried to tell
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Speaker 1: some of you people that this was going to be
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Speaker 1: a debacle. And Arizona did not pay millions and millions
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Speaker 1: of dollars to make Kyler Murray disappear because everything was
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Speaker 1: going swimmingly. The Cardinals essentially paid the airline cancellation fee
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Speaker 1: to end the relationship early. Why? Because Alligator Arms Murray
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Speaker 1: is the ultimate gadget guy quarterback. What kind of guy?
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Speaker 1: Gadget guy. Gadget guy, gadget guy, gadget guy, masquerading as
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Speaker 1: a QB1. That's what he is. And sure, Murray gives
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Speaker 1: you the occasional TikTok highlight. Great. So does a punter.
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Speaker 1: I was talking to a friend of mine recently, and
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Speaker 1: they pointed out there's a whole generation of football fans
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Speaker 1: that don't actually watch football. They either watch the Red
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Speaker 1: Zone or they watch TikTok, so they have no idea. Like,
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Speaker 1: if you just looked at the highlights of the little fella,
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Speaker 1: the Oompa Loompa, Kyler Murray, you'd say, oh, man, electric. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's got the razzmatazz. He's got the razzmatazz. You watch
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Speaker 1: the TikTok highlights, he's good. You watch a full game,
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Speaker 1: you're like, man, I want to puke in my mouth.
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is an appetizer on the El Ranchito menu.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's football tapas. He's got little bites, flashy presentation.
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Speaker 1: Got that somehow you're hungry. You know, you hate those
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Speaker 1: little finger food things. And you're like, that's not very filling.
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Speaker 1: Why did I spend money on that? By any measurement,
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray has failed both the eyeball test and the
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Speaker 1: physical test. Currently sitting as the 29th ranked quarterback in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. He's just a couple of hairs ahead of
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Speaker 1: the great bust of Nashville, Cam Ward. Not good. So
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Speaker 1: you have Coach Kevin O'Connell, who's supposed to be the
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Speaker 1: quarterback whisperer, but Kyler Murray putting that reputation through a
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Speaker 1: stress test at this particular time. The Vikings are 4-0,
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Speaker 1: as we said. However... The real MVP has been the
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Speaker 1: capital D defense, led by their defensive coordinator, Brian Flores.
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Speaker 1: Coming up a lot. There's a lot of stains, a
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Speaker 1: lot of imperfections in the hotel bedspread, and that defense
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Speaker 1: is cleaning up a lot of that mess. All right,
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Speaker 1: final point to New England. We go where Patriots quarterback
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Speaker 1: Drake May is. has publicly questioned whether or not the
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Speaker 1: United States of America landed on the moon way back in,
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Speaker 1: what was it, 1969, I believe. May said during a
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Speaker 1: weekly paid radio appearance on Boston Radio, not the station
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Speaker 1: we're on, so who cares. Drake May, though, said during
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Speaker 1: his weekly radio show that he wasn't completely certain, wasn't
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Speaker 1: completely certain the moon landing happened. Although he would not
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Speaker 1: go as far as to declare it a hoax, May
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Speaker 1: also revealed that while at North Carolina, he took a
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Speaker 1: course about conspiracy theories. Well, hanging out there in Chapel Hill,
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Speaker 1: topics included theories that Adolf Hitler survived World War II
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Speaker 1: and that the birds are government surveillance devices, that there
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Speaker 1: are no real birds. They're all part of the government's
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Speaker 1: evil plans. Now, it is interesting to note that someone
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Speaker 1: named Jared Isaacman, who I am told is the administrator
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Speaker 1: for NASA, the big cheese there, he responded to the
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Speaker 1: Drake Mays story, declaring, quote, I quite literally have the
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Speaker 1: receipts of the moon landing. Now, Mays' comments reviving a
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Speaker 1: classical meathead sports debate about athletes promoting The moon landing
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Speaker 1: not happening. The moon not being real. We've had the
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Speaker 1: flat earth as well. There's all kinds of these things
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Speaker 1: that bounce up. And they're always fun for talk radio.
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Speaker 1: They're always fun. So the question, how big a deal
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Speaker 1: is Patriots quarterback Drake May admitting he's skeptical of the
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Speaker 1: moon landing? So here's another turnover. Drake May just threw
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Speaker 1: an interception in a game nobody was even playing in.
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Speaker 1: And it reminds me of Tom Brady. This is another
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Speaker 1: unforced error of astronomical proportions. But Tom Brady did a
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Speaker 1: weekly radio show, and I briefly worked at that station.
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Speaker 1: And it was a running joke that Brady intentionally tried
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Speaker 1: to not answer any question with anything that could be used.
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Speaker 1: It was so boring. It was the biggest nothing-burger ever.
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Speaker 1: It was good for the fanboys, the jock sniffers that
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Speaker 1: worship these athletes. But for anyone else, it was like
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Speaker 1: just a channel turner. And you're like, this sucks. And
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Speaker 1: Brady loved back in his day just talking meat and potatoes,
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Speaker 1: football and eating avocado ice cream. And Drake May apparently
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Speaker 1: studies the grassy knoll, Area 51 and the Sea of Tranquility.
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Speaker 1: So the good news is that Drake May, teammate A.J. Brown,
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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, all those guys can have Sunday brunch. They
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Speaker 1: can discuss how Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing and
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Speaker 1: all that. Now, May, the good news, he can bring
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Speaker 1: the coffee. A.J. Brown can bring the tinfoil hats for everybody.
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Speaker 1: Kyrie can bring a globe. He refuses to acknowledge. And
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Speaker 1: when the waiter comes over to the table, oh, man,
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Speaker 1: look at this. We got Drake May. We got A.J. Brown.
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Speaker 1: We got Kyrie Irving, all these guys. And the waiter
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Speaker 1: will ask whether they want their eggs sunny side up.
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Speaker 1: And Drake May will demand proof that the sun exists.
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Speaker 1: You can't have the eggs sunny side up because what
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Speaker 1: if there's no sun? It doesn't exist. So that's good.
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Speaker 1: It's fun. Drake May. not exactly having a year to
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Speaker 1: remember so far. And the Patriots have now gone from
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Speaker 1: Spygate to Stargate. Is that what you'd call it? Stargate?
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Speaker 4: Moongate?
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Speaker 1: In the baseball playoffs, the Dodgers have advanced. They will
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Speaker 1: take on the Milwaukee Brewers, who have also advanced. So
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Speaker 1: that's two of the teams left in the baseball Final Four.
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Speaker 1: Dodgers and Brewers, rematch of last year. They'll meet again
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Speaker 1: in the NLCS. Milwaukee has home field advantage, and good
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Speaker 1: luck on that. Dodgers have the top pitching in terms
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Speaker 1: of starting pitching in all of baseball. The Brewers do
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Speaker 1: have the Miz. Brewers KO'd the Padres late last night.
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Speaker 1: And in the American League, the New York Yankees have
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Speaker 1: the longest World Series drought in their once-proud franchise's history.
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Speaker 1: They are slowly becoming the Dallas Cowboys in front of
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Speaker 1: our eyes. That's what's happening. And nobody wants to address it.
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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to talk about it. It's taboo. Taboo. Can't
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Speaker 1: bring it up. The Yankees are heading that way. The
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Speaker 1: Cowboys haven't won a Super Bowl in 30 years. The
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Speaker 1: Yankees are at 17 years. So they've got a little
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Speaker 1: ways to go to catch the Cowboys. The Cowboys aren't
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Speaker 1: going to win anytime soon. They've got another mediocre product
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Speaker 1: this year. But the Yankees are becoming the Dallas Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: Get a lot of attention. And they are a playoff
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Speaker 1: team most years, but just not a championship-level squad. And
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Speaker 1: they're in charge, from what I'm told, getting a little
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Speaker 1: bit older. A little bit older. I've got the White
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Speaker 1: Sox and the Guardians, that team named after a bridge.
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Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton's Cleveland baseball team. They will play today
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Speaker 1: in another opportunity for the White Sox to get her done.
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Speaker 1: Cleveland trying to even things up and head back to
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Speaker 1: life in the NFL. Over, under on Odell Beckham Jr.
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Speaker 1: one game left in the baseball playoffs. And what an
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Speaker 1: epic game. Game four, it's going to be Divisional Series.
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Speaker 1: The Cleveland baseball team is going to start someone named
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Speaker 1: slop together bullpen games. Who knows? Anyway, that is the matchup.
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Speaker 1: into the championship series, the final four of Major League Baseball.
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Speaker 1: We'll take your calls. My board needs to be reset, though,
23:18
Speaker 1: until I can take a call.
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Speaker 3: 877-99 on Fox. 877-996-6369.
23:20
Speaker 1: While that board gets reset, we can tell you the
23:21
Speaker 1: NFL player is an NFL player. going to be out
23:34
Speaker 1: of football because of Nanny Cam. Is it true? Well,
23:37
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill would be that NFL player, and Tyreek, the
23:42
Speaker 1: rumor a couple days ago was he was going to
23:44
Speaker 1: sign a contract, and it even had it all mapped
23:47
Speaker 1: out that Tyreek was going to join Kansas City, and
23:51
Speaker 1: it hasn't happened yet. And one of the reasons, one
23:54
Speaker 1: of the theories that Tyreek has not agreed to a contract,
23:57
Speaker 1: in addition to him having a knee that is the
23:59
Speaker 1: quality of shredded pork, is the fact that there is
24:03
Speaker 1: a court case going on in Florida, and it's getting dirty.
24:09
Speaker 1: It's getting dirty. So Tyreek Hill's estranged wife presented nanny cam. Oh, spaghetti. Oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: nanny cam footage. This is from a confrontation back in
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Speaker 1: April of last year at the infamous Miami condominium. And
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Speaker 1: this is during a civil trial. It's not a criminal case,
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Speaker 1: so Tyreek's not going to go to jail. It's a
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Speaker 1: civil trial. And on the nanny cam, the now estranged
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Speaker 1: wife could be heard screaming, stop, stop, stop, help, help, help.
24:48
Speaker 1: As Tyreek shouting insults. And you don't scare me, bro,
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Speaker 1: was part of it. You don't scare me, bro. So
24:58
Speaker 1: we'll see if anything happens in terms of that. I'm sure.
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Speaker 1: Tyreek trying to get back in the NFL. He's denied
25:04
Speaker 1: that anything happened. And he says that this is all
25:09
Speaker 1: a financial play. Tyreek, I guess he saved some of
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Speaker 1: his money. He's trying to get financial damages. He'll still
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Speaker 1: attempt to come back and resume his NFL career. See
25:20
Speaker 1: if Nanny Cam slows down Tyreek Hill. Let's say hello
25:24
Speaker 1: to Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe. Let's say hello to Kev Atomic.
25:30
Speaker 1: Who is next? Hello, Kev Atomic. Welcome.
25:35
Speaker 4: How are you, Ben?
25:36
Speaker 1: If I was any better, I would be a Padre,
25:41
Speaker 1: but not a San Diego Padre, because they were eliminated.
25:49
Speaker 3: So I didn't realize how this worked. So I was
25:52
Speaker 3: trying to call in for the Ask Ben. But I
25:56
Speaker 3: didn't realize it has to just be messages for that.
25:59
Speaker 3: So I'm still learning your show.
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Speaker 1: Okay. You are new. You are new to the show.
26:04
Speaker 1: I am. How did you find the show, Kev? How
26:06
Speaker 1: did you find the show?
26:07
Speaker 3: I actually found your show like late last year, like
26:11
Speaker 3: in 2025, like in the fall of 2025.
26:14
Speaker 1: So you've been with the show for years. Have we
26:16
Speaker 1: ever taken calls on Ask Ben?
26:20
Speaker 2: I don't know.
26:21
Speaker 3: That's... I'm still learning that. Okay.
26:24
Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: But my point was, so, like, can I do an
26:28
Speaker 3: Ask Ben question or no?
26:32
Speaker 1: For you, Kev, for you, I'll let you do it.
26:34
Speaker 1: Go ahead. This is the first time we're going to
26:36
Speaker 1: do an Ask Ben question with Kevin Tomic. This is
26:40
Speaker 1: going to be amazing. This question is going to be
26:42
Speaker 1: lights out. Go ahead. The floor is yours, Kevin Tomic.
26:44
Speaker 3: Go ahead. So I was going to ask you, like,
26:49
Speaker 3: I know you're in the same generation as me. But
26:52
Speaker 3: I think you're younger than me, so I'm not sure
26:55
Speaker 3: you'll get it. But I was going to ask you,
26:58
Speaker 3: like JCPenney or Sears? That's what I wanted to ask you.
27:04
Speaker 1: Well, that's a very important question. And I want you
27:07
Speaker 1: to know my mama, my mama, my mommy back in
27:11
Speaker 1: the day, Mommy Maller, she shopped at both stores. But
27:14
Speaker 1: I do remember spending more time at JCPenney. So I
27:18
Speaker 1: still remember that. The Sears catalog was always a big
27:22
Speaker 1: thing back before the internet. That was always huge.
27:25
Speaker 3: As was the JCPenney catalog.
27:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sears was bigger, and they had... By the way,
27:30
Speaker 1: we're doing old guy radio now. You're listening to old
27:33
Speaker 1: guy radio. And the next hour, we're going to talk
27:36
Speaker 1: about baseball cards and our bikes. We're going to talk
27:38
Speaker 1: about that. We're going to talk about when we were
27:40
Speaker 1: kids going outside and just making sure we were back
27:42
Speaker 1: in before sundown, right? When the sun went down, you
27:45
Speaker 1: had to get back in the house. All that stuff.
27:46
Speaker 3: Dude, and garden hose water. Yes. That's how we stayed hydrated.
27:51
Speaker 1: That's right. And these people spending money on bottled water.
27:54
Speaker 1: We just did it from the tap. And we all survived.
27:58
Speaker 1: Look at this. We're all grown up now. We're all
28:00
Speaker 1: old people. But we survived. We survived with hose water.
28:04
Speaker 4: Thank you.
28:04
Speaker 1: Thank you, Kip. Thank you, Kip. Hang up on yourself.
28:06
Speaker 3: Go away.
28:08
Speaker 1: Let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe. All right,
28:14
Speaker 1: let's do it. Mike the Leprechaun. Hello, Mikey the Leprechaun. Welcome.
28:21
Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 5: Congratulations on your Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you. As you know, I own part of
28:26
Speaker 1: the team, so I do get credit when they win.
28:28
Speaker 1: That is correct.
28:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, and also, as the Red Sox, we always like
28:32
Speaker 5: to say at Fenway Park, Yankee Sox, Yankee Sox.
28:37
Speaker 1: You should be happy. Former Red Sox Mookie Betts is
28:40
Speaker 1: on the way to win another World Series. That was
28:41
Speaker 1: a good trade for the Red Sox, right? That worked
28:43
Speaker 1: out well.
28:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's hot and cold, actually. But anyway, the Volpe
28:48
Speaker 5: play was very interesting last night, the home run.
28:52
Speaker 1: It wasn't a home run because somebody reached over and
28:55
Speaker 1: touched it.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I know, but it would have been a home run.
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Speaker 1: That's our guy, by the way. Remember? I know. Anthony
29:03
Speaker 1: Volpe was forced to watch my fat ass throw out
29:05
Speaker 1: a first pitch at that Woosox game. He was in
29:09
Speaker 1: the minor leagues playing for the Yankees' Triple-A team. He
29:11
Speaker 1: was at that game, and you were there as well.
29:13
Speaker 1: We were hanging out side by side, Mike the Leprechaun.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember.
29:18
Speaker 5: I have great memories. By the way, the marathon lady,
29:21
Speaker 5: you couldn't do that nowadays because all the major marathons,
29:24
Speaker 5: you have a chip in your shoe, a little chip
29:26
Speaker 5: that you put into your sneaker. So you can ride
29:29
Speaker 5: a bike or you can hop on the trolley. Oh,
29:34
Speaker 5: tell Coop I have good news for Coop.
29:38
Speaker 1: All right, I'll pass it on to him. You have
29:39
Speaker 1: good news.
29:40
Speaker 5: I found my chinchilla. The chinchilla escaped. One of them
29:44
Speaker 5: got out last night.
29:44
Speaker 1: That's very important. All right, we have Pig. Do you
29:46
Speaker 1: want to do this Pig thing with Poppy? You want
29:48
Speaker 1: to do this Pig thing with Poppy or no?
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Speaker 2: Now?
29:52
Speaker 1: Hold on. Let me see. Poppy, you're not ready.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
29:56
Speaker 1: Poppy, he's not ready. Mike the Leprechaun's not ready, Poppy.
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Speaker 3: Well, bad job on him. If I was a Padre fan,
30:03
Speaker 3: I would have got that home run and I would
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Speaker 3: have been the hero for San Diego.
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Speaker 4: I'm ready.
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Speaker 1: I'm ready. Let's go. What are you ready for? Mike
30:14
Speaker 1: said he's not able to do the picks. Well, okay.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's only one game, Leprechaun.
30:19
Speaker 4: It's easy.
30:19
Speaker 3: It's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or the Dallas Cowboys. Let's go, Menser.
30:23
Speaker 3: It's easy.
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Speaker 1: I'm ready.
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Speaker 4: All right.
30:25
Speaker 1: Just say it.
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Speaker 5: Just say it.
30:26
Speaker 1: Just say it. Say it.
30:28
Speaker 5: Say it.
30:28
Speaker 3: I like the Dallas Cowboys minus seven and a half.
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Speaker 1: Good. Good.
30:31
Speaker 4: What's that?
30:34
Speaker 3: Anytime touchdown, C.D.
30:37
Speaker 2: Lamb.
30:37
Speaker 5: C.D. Lamb. Sorry.
30:38
Speaker 3: C.D.
30:38
Speaker 1: Lamb. You said Dak Prescott. Now you're saying C.D.
30:40
Speaker 5: Lamb.
30:41
Speaker 1: It can't be Dak. No, C.D.
30:44
Speaker 3: Lamb because Dak Prescott will throw the ball to C.D.
30:46
Speaker 5: Lamb.
30:46
Speaker 1: Okay. There you go.
30:49
Speaker 3: He's playing the fiddle.
30:50
Speaker 1: Let's go, Leprechaun.
30:51
Speaker 4: Play the fiddle for C.D.
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Speaker 1: Lamb.
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Speaker 3: What do you like?
30:55
Speaker 1: Leprechaun?
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Speaker 5: I will go whatever. Whatever Papi says, I'll go against him.
30:59
Speaker 1: Well, that's not how. Oh, my God.
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Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
31:04
Speaker 1: That's not the way it works, Mike the Leprechaun. You're
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Speaker 1: supposed to have an opinion. You don't just go automatically.
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Speaker 5: I wasn't prepared for today. It's usually a Friday bit. Oh,
31:14
Speaker 5: my God.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. He called up today.
31:17
Speaker 1: That's his problem, not my problem. Well, it's becoming my problem.
31:20
Speaker 1: All right, thank you. All right, both of you go away.
31:24
Speaker 1: Both of you, run away. Let's say hello to Mark
31:30
Speaker 1: on the north end. And he's hanging out there in Boston.
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Speaker 2: Oh, crap.
31:35
Speaker 1: Sounds like dial tone. I accidentally just hung up on him.
31:40
Speaker 1: Fat fingers coop.
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Speaker 3: How dare you?
31:41
Speaker 5: Yep.
31:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, it happens. Well, meanwhile, how about this? Former NFL MVP.
31:46
Speaker 1: Did you see this the other day? Former NFL MVP
31:49
Speaker 1: has a presidential connection. You talk about things that you
31:52
Speaker 1: did not expect to be in the world that we're in.
31:56
Speaker 1: So President Donald Trump spoke the other day and revealed
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Speaker 1: that he personally knows the mother of a former MVP
32:06
Speaker 1: and still current NFL quarterback, Lamar Jackson.
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Speaker 2: What?
32:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is wild. So Felicia Jones, I guess, is
32:17
Speaker 1: the mom's name. And Trump claimed they met several times
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Speaker 1: in Palm Beach, where Trump hangs out down that way
32:27
Speaker 1: in Florida. And he was just waxing loquacious. Of course,
32:32
Speaker 1: he was speaking at an event in Maryland trying to
32:35
Speaker 1: suck up to the as all politicians. Right. You suck
32:37
Speaker 1: up to the people you're talking to. So he was
32:39
Speaker 1: waxing loquacious about Lamar Jackson's mom, fantastic, beautiful, and all
32:44
Speaker 1: the classic lines by the president. There were some Ravens
32:47
Speaker 1: players there. Four Ravens players attended this thing, including Marlon Humphrey,
32:53
Speaker 1: Tyler Loop, a couple of guys I've never heard of.
32:57
Speaker 1: And anyway, so apparently there's a connection between Lamar and Trump.
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Speaker 1: which I did not expect that. That was unexpected. But
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Speaker 1: apparently a thing, apparently. I'm sure they'll track down Lamar's
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Speaker 1: mom and try to verify. Lamar not expected to play
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Speaker 1: this weekend as he's hurt. Supposed to be out, I guess,
33:20
Speaker 1: a couple weeks at least. Concerned whether or not Lamar's
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Speaker 1: going to milk this. He does not have a contract.
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Speaker 1: He's going to get let go. At the end of
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Speaker 1: this year. Well, not let go. He's got to renegotiate
33:33
Speaker 1: his contract. Mark, real quick. Mark, I've got limited time. Mark,
33:37
Speaker 1: I've got to leave some time. But I'm going to
33:38
Speaker 1: give you a little time here. Factor Fiction is coming up.
33:41
Speaker 3: All right, Ben, real quick.
33:42
Speaker 2: The Kyler Murray thing, even though they think he doesn't
33:44
Speaker 2: fit in, they are 4-0. So I say if it
33:46
Speaker 2: ain't broke, don't fix it yet. And if there was
33:49
Speaker 2: a bet on the sports apps, would you bet who
33:52
Speaker 2: would retire first, OBJ or LeBron James? I say LeBron
33:56
Speaker 2: James because he's too full of himself to quit.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go Beckham. I can't imagine he has
34:02
Speaker 1: too many jobs left. He's sucked with the last three
34:04
Speaker 1: teams he's played for. Is there another? Are there the Vikings?
34:07
Speaker 1: I mean, how many more people does he know? All right,
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Speaker 5: Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.
35:51
Speaker 4: Is it fact or fiction?
35:52
Speaker 1: Let's face some raw facts.
35:54
Speaker 3: Lies, lies, lies, yeah.
35:56
Speaker 1: On the Ben Maller Show. Lies, lies, lies, yeah. All right,
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36:03
Speaker 1: Is it a fact or is it fiction? By the way,
36:05
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36:11
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Speaker 1: combatants we have a celebrity panel of judges milkman mike
36:35
Speaker 1: in colorado hello milkman welcome good morning ben great show
36:41
Speaker 1: as always we miss leslie and jack the judge i
36:45
Speaker 1: i don't know what happened to them but i hope
36:48
Speaker 1: they're okay Milkman's a legend. He's done a lot of
36:51
Speaker 1: the music stuff with just Josh and Jay Scoop. They've
36:54
Speaker 1: all worked together. All right, Milkman, hold on. We have
36:56
Speaker 1: Aaron in Minnesota. Top of the.
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Speaker 4: Morning, Aaron. Good morning, Ben.
37:01
Speaker 3: How's everything going this morning?
37:03
Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be Beckham. Actually, I
37:05
Speaker 1: would be Beckham because he's got another NFL job. Pretty wild.
37:10
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 1: All right, Aaron, hold on. We have Faze, the White
37:14
Speaker 1: Sox apologist there from Chicago. Hello, Faze. Good job by
37:17
Speaker 1: the Sox there. Tremendous job closing things out.
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Speaker 4: First off, I'm a Cubs fan.
37:22
Speaker 2: Also, free base suck.
37:23
Speaker 4: Free base suck.
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Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
37:25
Speaker 1: Got to get that in. I got you. All right. Oh,
37:28
Speaker 1: that's right, Faze. The woman you were with was a
37:31
Speaker 1: White Sox fan. Am I correct on that? Is that
37:33
Speaker 1: why I confused you two?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, my wife is a White Sox fan.
37:37
Speaker 3: Okay.
37:38
Speaker 1: I got you.
37:38
Speaker 5: All right.
37:39
Speaker 1: Bad job by me. All right. Coach Russell. Coach Russell
37:43
Speaker 1: is in the Orlando area. Hello, Coach Russell. Welcome.
37:46
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning.
37:48
Speaker 1: Good morning.
37:48
Speaker 3: I'm excited to be on here this morning. Got a
37:51
Speaker 3: big game tomorrow night for the district championship.
37:54
Speaker 1: All right. We're pulling for you, Coach. Get it done there.
37:57
Speaker 1: Get her done. Get her done. Get her done. Coach,
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Speaker 1: our favorite high school football coach there in the Orlando area.
38:03
Speaker 1: sent a bunch of his players off to big colleges
38:05
Speaker 1: playing college football. All right, here we go, gentlemen. Three stories.
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Speaker 1: Figure out which one of the three is not true.
38:09
Speaker 1: Separating fiction from fact. Story number one, world-famous DJ Steve
38:13
Speaker 1: Aoki is a well-known card collector. He recently just made
38:16
Speaker 1: the biggest poll of his life while filming an episode
38:20
Speaker 1: for a new YouTube show. Aoki said or paid about
38:25
Speaker 1: $ 3, 000 for a sealed box of 2018 Bowman Chrome baseball cards.
38:30
Speaker 1: Inside it, he found a Shohei Otani card Worth approximately $ 40, 000.
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Speaker 1: Story number two, unless we made that up. Story number two,
38:37
Speaker 1: if you need any more sign that baseball is headed
38:40
Speaker 1: to a work stoppage, the Baltimore Orioles decided to whack
38:45
Speaker 1: 16 employees, including Mr. Splash and the Oriole Bird. The
38:49
Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles fired the Bird.
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Speaker 2: What?
38:55
Speaker 1: Unless we made that up. Story number three, if you
38:59
Speaker 1: thought that the 15 minutes of fame for Bill Belichick's
39:01
Speaker 1: girlfriend Jordan Hudson was over, think again. It was reported
39:05
Speaker 1: this week that Hudson will be making her acting debut
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Speaker 1: in an upcoming R-rated comedy called Golf Trip, starring a
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Speaker 1: bunch of famous actors like John Stamos and Tom Segura
39:16
Speaker 1: and all that art. Those are the three stories. One
39:19
Speaker 1: of them is not true. The other two are true.
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Speaker 1: Let's go around the room here. We'll start out in Colorado.
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Speaker 1: Milkman Mike, one, two, or three, Milkman.
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Speaker 4: Number one.
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Speaker 1: One all right thank you Milkman uh Aaron one two
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Speaker 1: or three quickly Aaron which one's the fake story uh
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Speaker 1: it's got to be number three okay he says number
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Speaker 1: three phase one two or three phase.
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Speaker 3: Number two number two number two all.
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Speaker 1: Right coach Russell quickly coach Russell number two All right, Aaron,
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Speaker 1: you win number three. That was a Belichick girlfriend. That
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Speaker 1: was the fake one. Number three, number three, number three,
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Speaker 1: number three, number three.