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Hour 1 - Wings Clipped · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: It's time for the Maller Mumbo, and we're on our way.
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  Speaker 1: It's hour number one. Hour one of this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious week
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  Speaker 1: of the Ben Maller Show. So here in hour number one,
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  Speaker 1: Fifth Hour Podcast. We had three new episodes over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: including one of the great wackadoodles. In the history of
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  Speaker 1: of Boston chimed in and made it all about Blind
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  Speaker 1: Scott on the Fifth Hour Mailbag from Sunday. But we
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  Speaker 1: had two other episodes. If you don't want to listen
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  Speaker 1: to that, check out the Fifth Hour podcast this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So here in our number one, is this loss, the
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  Speaker 1: loss for the Atlanta football team, more damaging to Bajon
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  Speaker 1: Robinson and the Falcons' reputation than the final score suggests
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  Speaker 1: they lose to the Baltimore Ravens in overtime? What does
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  Speaker 1: this Baltimore victory do for Derrick Henry and his pals?
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  Speaker 1: as they win with their backup quarterback. And where does
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr. 's rib injury leave the Falcons? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's hurt again to a tongue of Iloa. Finish that
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  Speaker 1: game out for the Dirty Birds. We'll go there and
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  Speaker 1: everywhere right now. It's our number one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you had the Atlanta Falcons making it three
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  Speaker 1: It was all right. So there you go. Our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour. Now, it's debating whether to start with the baseball,
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  Speaker 1: but this is such an epic choke job by the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. It is worthy of the leadoff spot. And plus,
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  Speaker 1: it's football. And let's be honest here, as much as
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  Speaker 1: I love my baseball, football is king in these parts.
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  Speaker 1: So we begin... With the game on Sunday night, we
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  Speaker 1: start out in Georgia, the final chapter of the NFL
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  Speaker 1: Sunday card in week number five. That's right, number five.
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  Speaker 1: Out in the ATL, you had Lamar Jackson out left ankle. Uh-oh,
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  Speaker 1: goes to left ankle. Sideline, Tyler Huntley, the career backup,
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  Speaker 1: moved on up to a penthouse in the sky there
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  Speaker 1: as Huntley... He said this the other day. He said
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  Speaker 1: taking over as QB1 would be like riding a bike.
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  Speaker 1: He claimed the Falcons were like, okay, fine, riding a bike. Great.
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  Speaker 1: Falcons are like, we're going to shove the bike into
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  Speaker 1: the lake is what we're going to do. And the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons are trying to go three for three in primetime.
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  Speaker 1: And there was all this angst about, oh, no, the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons in primetime. By the way, Coop has arrived. We
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  Speaker 1: can announce Coop has arrived. So the Falcons looking to
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  Speaker 1: go three for three in primetime games with Michael Penix Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: Taking over there. And here we go. So Mike Tirico
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Collinsworth had the call on NBC. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: was doing some double duty here, flipping back and forth
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  Speaker 1: between the NBC broadcast and the NLCS game on Fox. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, I had the volume down. On both, because
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  Speaker 1: that's how I operate most of the time. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you were watching or not. Perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you were doing something else. But Tyler Huntley leading
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore to a game-tying touchdown and two-point conversion in the
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  Speaker 1: last minute of regulation. And then... And then a lengthy
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  Speaker 1: drive in overtime. A one-yard QB keeper. Touchdown in overtime.
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  Speaker 1: And the Ravens rally to stun the Birds in a
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  Speaker 1: battle of the Birds. The Falcons go down 30-27 in
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  Speaker 1: the Sunday night game. Derrick Henry ran for over 100 yards.
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  Speaker 1: And the Falcons' top-ranked run defense. proved to be fraudulent
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  Speaker 1: as they were unable to consistently stop Derrick Henry and
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  Speaker 1: so the Ravens go to 4-1 on the year and
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr. suffered a Rib injury late in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Tua Tungabailoa took over there at quarterback. How'd
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  Speaker 1: that go? Don't ask. Don't ask for the Falcons who
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  Speaker 1: are now back under. 500 at 2-3 as Tua Tungabailoa
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  Speaker 1: passed for Drake London. Picked off by Kyle Hamilton in overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Turn at the last. The party's over. Wow. See you later.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the Falcons blow an eight-point lead there
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. Here's Kevin Stefanski trying to put some lipstick
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  Speaker 1: on this pig of a performance. Take a listen. We
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  Speaker 1: can be better in those moments, and then you can
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  Speaker 1: put a good football team away late, which we did
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  Speaker 1: not do. And then, again, give them credit. They came
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  Speaker 1: back and scored and did a nice job. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: learn from it. Disappointing, frustrating, all those things, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: learn from it. Kevin Stefanski, his teams must learn more
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  Speaker 1: than any other team. And he coached the Browns, and
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  Speaker 1: now he's coaching the Falcons. That's a lot of learning.
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  Speaker 1: They learn a lot from losing. They learn. Boy, Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Stefanski coached teams learn the most. They do. They just do.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Is this loss more damaging for Bajon
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  Speaker 1: Robinson and the Falcons' reputation? Then the final score suggests, well,
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  Speaker 1: they lost in overtime to the Ravens. That's not that
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  Speaker 1: big a deal. If you're a cockeyed optimist, you'll say, ah,
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  Speaker 1: who cares? So I've got Rolex number five special and
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  Speaker 1: DNA test. And we will combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: And we are going to say hello to Common Sense.
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  Speaker 1: It's your Common Sense Sports Talk radio show. So, A,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the question, is the loss more damaging
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  Speaker 1: for the Falcons than the reputation, than it is just
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  Speaker 1: the final score, losing a close game in overtime? Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Nodding my head yes on that one. Atlanta's win over
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay and New Orleans, the last couple of games
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  Speaker 1: here in primetime, created this false sense of security. And
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  Speaker 1: there were people jumping on the Falcon bandwagon. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that train, that famous train in India, they
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  Speaker 1: have some religious pilgrimage and there's people standing on the
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  Speaker 1: roof of the train. You know, I'm sure you've seen
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  Speaker 1: the video or heard about it. happens like once or
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  Speaker 1: twice a year. And it's, I'm not even sure. I
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  Speaker 1: remember reading about it, but I've forgotten, but it's like
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  Speaker 1: some kind of religious pilgrimage and everyone, there's like one
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  Speaker 1: train from this remote part and everyone has to catch
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  Speaker 1: the train. And so people stand on top of the train.
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  Speaker 1: That was essentially the Falcons bandwagon. It was like filling
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  Speaker 1: up faster than a Waffle House after midnight on a
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  Speaker 1: Friday night. Man, they wanted those waffles. And they won.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Ravens, they drove that bandwagon for the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons straight into the ditch. Atlanta not exposed as a
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  Speaker 1: terrible team. Terrible. Terrible. They were exposed as a team
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  Speaker 1: that is not nearly as good as some of you
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  Speaker 1: people wanted to believe. That's the reality of the situation.
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  Speaker 1: And the Falcons are the NFL's version of a counterfeit Rolex,
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  Speaker 1: is what they are. They look expensive. They've got some
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  Speaker 1: big parts to it, like big-time players. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: time correct a couple times a day for sure. And
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  Speaker 1: in this case... It fell apart late. It did. And
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  Speaker 1: then Baltimore showed up with a backup quarterback. Backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And knocked the entire Happy Days narrative down a couple
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  Speaker 1: of notches. Just down a couple of notches. Now, John Robinson,
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  Speaker 1: who looks like he should be unstoppable all the time,
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  Speaker 1: he had 86 rushing yards. 38 of them came on
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  Speaker 1: one run. That's 44% of his rushing total. for the
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  Speaker 1: day for the Falcons. And it does remind you a
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  Speaker 1: bit of Barry Sanders. Some of you were not alive
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  Speaker 1: when Barry Sanders played for the Lions. He's considered the
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  Speaker 1: all-time craziest video game-style running back. There were many games
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  Speaker 1: with the Honolulu Blue Lions where Barry Sanders was like
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  Speaker 1: under 50 yards and not particularly great. And people forget
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  Speaker 1: about that because you block that out. You only remember
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  Speaker 1: the good. You don't remember the bad. Anyway, not exactly
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  Speaker 1: a game wrecker on this day, but John Robinson there.
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  Speaker 1: So Atlanta... A little overrated. Certainly overpraised. I think we
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  Speaker 1: can all agree on that. Overpraised and thoroughly outclassed at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game. In fourth quarter. and then overtime.
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  Speaker 1: That defense, defense, my God, talking about riding the vomit
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  Speaker 1: comet defensively. Meanwhile, to the Baltimore side of things, and
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  Speaker 1: the question here, what does the Ravens' victory do for
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  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and friends? What does it do? So it's
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  Speaker 1: a trip to the pharmacy. It's a booster shot, big-time
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  Speaker 1: booster shot for the confidence of the Baltimore football team,
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  Speaker 1: who didn't look all that great. They were not exactly dominating.
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  Speaker 1: In offensive football here, for most of the game, for
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  Speaker 1: about three quarters of the game, it was not going
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  Speaker 1: particularly well there. But in the end, they pulled it out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told the elite teams, the better teams in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: win these kind of games. They don't curl up in
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  Speaker 1: the fetal position and start sucking their thumb just because
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  Speaker 1: their franchise quarterback happens to be wearing street clothes. And
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  Speaker 1: that didn't happen here. So no Lamar Jackson. Not that
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  Speaker 1: it was no problem, but it didn't turn out to
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  Speaker 1: be a fatal problem for the Ravens here. And this
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  Speaker 1: will undoubtedly confuse and annoy many television talking heads who
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  Speaker 1: insist every single one of these wins is a direct
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  Speaker 1: result of the franchise quarterback. that without your franchise quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot do anything. In fact, the entire game of
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  Speaker 1: football stops if you don't have a big-time quarterback. That's
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  Speaker 1: always been the argument. Now, somewhere, Lamar's probably saying, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, guys, you're supposed to miss me a little
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  Speaker 1: bit there at the end of the game. That's a
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  Speaker 1: bad job by you. What are you doing? And sure,
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  Speaker 1: backup Snoop Huntley was wobbly for stretches of that game.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the fourth quarter, he wasn't wobbly. And
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  Speaker 1: certainly in overtime, that overtime thing, my God, that was
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  Speaker 1: a masterpiece for the Falcons to watch a team, the Ravens,
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  Speaker 1: shove it down their throat at the end there as
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley became Mr. Smooth Operator. a 14-play, 60-plus-yard drive.
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  Speaker 1: They took off over seven minutes. The overtime's only 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: They had the ball for over seven minutes, creating a
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  Speaker 1: hurry-up situation for the Falcons, who were clearly not prepared
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  Speaker 1: for that. And it was like a bulldozer of a
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  Speaker 1: drive for the Baltimore football team. And in the end,
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens taking the team bus, they actually went through drive-through.
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  Speaker 1: They ordered the No. 5 special. And he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: what is the number five special? Well, the number five,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked. The number five special is where
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens took the Falcons and the Dirty Birds and
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  Speaker 1: they deep fried them and got a supersized bucket of
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  Speaker 1: extra crispy falcon. Tastes like chicken. Tastes like chicken. So
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  Speaker 1: they had that. And I thought of our friend Big
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  Speaker 1: Balls Bob in Vegas there. That was a Big Balls
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  Speaker 1: type performance there for the team from the Baltimore area.
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  Speaker 1: Sports with Coleman's proud somewhere. My buddy from Baltimore there
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  Speaker 1: who annoys Lamar Jackson and all the coaches there in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: Very happy about that. Meanwhile, the last word. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: back to the Falcons. I must bring this up because
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  Speaker 1: I watched this game and I thought, well, here we
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  Speaker 1: go again. Here we go again. I bet you had
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  Speaker 1: the same reaction checking this game out. Because the Falcons quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr., as we said, suffered a rib injury. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my ribs! It was not Tony Romas. It was ribs.
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  Speaker 1: The actual ribs in the body there. He was sacked
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  Speaker 1: by a Ravens linebacker, Tavius Robinson, late in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: And he came out of the game. He was unable
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  Speaker 1: to finish the game. Penix said he was hopeful to
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  Speaker 1: return to play in the overtime. But the Ravens took
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  Speaker 1: so long on offense, Penix claimed he just cooled down.
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  Speaker 1: And God forbid he go back in the game, he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it. And so he stayed out and Tua
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  Speaker 1: Tungabailoa did what Tua Tungabailoa does. And so that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, here it is, where does Michael Penix Jr.
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  Speaker 1: 's rib injury leave the Falcons at this point? So
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  Speaker 1: some are saying, well, it's a minor deal. It's no
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  Speaker 1: big deal. We don't know that, first of all. And
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  Speaker 1: the one thing about the multibillion-dollar industrial complex of the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be MRIs up your wazoo. There'll be second opinions
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  Speaker 1: and third opinions and fourth opinions. How about five opinions?
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  Speaker 1: What about six? Do I hear seven opinions? Can I
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  Speaker 1: get more and more opinions? Why not? What the hell?
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  Speaker 1: But the words for this are soul-searching. Like that's a
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  Speaker 1: soul searching moment because the Falcons got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of mojo going. You guys got all horny for the Falcons.
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  Speaker 1: You got all excited. They got the quarterback. They're ready
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  Speaker 1: to roll. And then you're like, well, wait a minute here.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. All right. And then when you flashback,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, well, yeah, Atlanta bought. They bought the sports car,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr., but they knew the Carfax report looked
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  Speaker 1: like police blotter with all the marks on it. And
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  Speaker 1: you're like, whoa, what's going on with that? And the
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  Speaker 1: thing that made scouts nervous coming out of Washington, we
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  Speaker 1: loved him in college. Michael Penix Jr. was the ACL
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  Speaker 1: tears and the shoulder surgeries at Indiana and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And it was like, oh, full medical miracle. Penix was
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  Speaker 1: not ready to start the year. And they had to
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  Speaker 1: play their third string quarterback, the Falcons, so he wasn't ready.
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  Speaker 1: And the medical file starts popping back up. You're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. And the injury bug does not knock
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  Speaker 1: on Michael Penix's door. It's got the pass key to
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  Speaker 1: get in the building, and it's got the key to
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  Speaker 1: get into his home. The whole thing. And every setback
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  Speaker 1: for the Falcons now, the quarterback position, every setback turns
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcon coaching staff, the medical staff, into amateur meteorologists.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this will pass. Maybe it's no big deal. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: to see here. Why not? It could be nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And they get the exact experience they signed up for.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr. tantalizing enough to believe in Fragile enough
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  Speaker 1: to terrify. Now, we did do a radio DNA test.
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  Speaker 1: It's our public service for the Atlanta Falcons. We felt
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  Speaker 1: bad for them losing because Tua came in and did
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  Speaker 1: what Tua does. So we felt bad. So we did
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  Speaker 1: a radio DNA test. And it's more likely than not,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Pennex Jr. is a first cousin of Humpty Dumpty. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they're related. Blood related. Humpty Dumpty and Michael Penix Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Side by side. Of course, Atlanta just hoping and praying
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  Speaker 1: that all the Kings trainers can put him back together
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  Speaker 1: yet again. So that's how it's going to be for
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons. So imagine your whole season is depending on
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  Speaker 1: the health of Michael Penix Jr. Holy crap. That's not good.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: We did try to call a few other people. You
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  Speaker 1: did not answer your phone. Including our friend from Memphis
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: who hasn't yet. His phone doesn't even ring. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with that. He gave me
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: a number. Apparently it doesn't work. It's unfortunate. If Blind
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  Speaker 1: Scott hadn't answered, we'd be back to Robbie the Mariner fan.
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  Speaker 1: Not that we don't enjoy Robbie the Mariner fan. There's that.
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• 21:02
  Speaker 1: That's a Bronco fan, good luck to you. Our friend
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Eddie says, hello. I ran into Eddie at the Charger game.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: He was there schmoozing. And so Eddie passes on all
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the kind greetings there. He was hot.
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  Speaker 3: Nuts.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: His wife's not handling the season particularly well. She's a
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Charger super fan. They saw your boobies. No, I don't
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: think she's doing that, but it's not good. And I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: did want to say a message to the Charger fandom.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: There is a thing called the Charger fandom. One of
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the super fans of the Chargers, this gentleman named John Lopez,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I understand, passed away recently. He was a fan of
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the show. He listened to our show overnight. and clearly
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: put up with all the cheap shots I took at
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the Chargers over the years, and so rest in peace
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to Chargers superman. Eddie was telling me, this guy's such
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: a superfan. He would have medical problems. He had a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: few issues at games, and he loved the game so much,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: they told him to go home and rest. He said,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go back and watch the game. So anyway,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: rest in peace to John there. Passed away. recently, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Eddie was telling me a little bit about him. So
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: there is that. We'll have the Who Am I game
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: coming up a little bit later this hour. King Rory
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: writes in, says, just another day at the office for
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the Wisconsin sports teams as the Packers remind everyone the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Bears still suck and the Brewers take game one of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the NLCS by playing small ball. Well, they did a
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: home run. Let's hold off on the small ball. They
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: did hit a home run. King Rory says, we're not
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: getting swept this year, baby. There you go. Kev Atomics says,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: maybe we'll get to see Pennex sitting next to Marlins
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: man at an AL-NLCS game later this year. This week,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Tom from Fullerton says, how about my Chargers, Ben? 0-5, baby.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Do you think it's time for the 2017 Browns and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: 2008 Lions to worry their 0-16 seasons may soon be
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: destroyed by an 0-17? We have dueling 0-17 possibilities. Miami
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Dolphins legitimately deserve to go 0-17. They suck. And the Chargers...
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: They say, well, there's talent there. They shouldn't go 0-17.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: A lot of injuries already. That always happens. That's the
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: charger way. Guys get hurt. And you figure at some point,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: either Justin Herbert's going to get legitimately hurt or he's
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: going to fake an injury and they'll shut him down.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: And at that point, it's open season. to just keep
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: losing and stacking up losses. And that creates quite the quagmire,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: quite the quagmire for the Chargers if they get 0-17
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and they have a top two or three pick in
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  Speaker 1: the draft. Hard to believe you could be 0-17 and
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  Speaker 1: not get the top pick. This is a top two
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: pick in the draft, and there's always some hot shot
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: quarterback coming out of college. And Herbert's not the guy.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I think he's proved this year he's a fraud. Typically,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: if you have a true franchise quarterback, you don't lose
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: five games in a row. One of those games, a
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: franchise quarterback will win. Is that an improper take or
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: is that a proper take? I believe that's a proper
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: take because I gave the take. Michael in Tulsa says,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: great monologue, Ben. However, I'm surprised you did not lead
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: with the absolute debacle from the Giants and Commanders game.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: There were so many F-offs in that game on both sides.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: They ended in a tie. Pure idiocy. Yeah, we have
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a four-hour talk show, Michael in Tulsa. That was an
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: early game. Typically the way this works is whatever the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Sunday night game is, with a little exception. It's like
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the World Series is going on, assuming it's not Milwaukee
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and Tampa. We'll talk some NFL for sure. Sunday night
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: usually is the game that we start with. We will
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: certainly talk about the tremendous high football IQ of Jaden Daniels. Loser.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: My God. Holy crap. That is one of the all-time
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: great bloopers. You ran out the clock in a tie game. Congratulations, dummy.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Holy crap. How do you get out of that one? Seriously,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: how do you live that down? Jaden Daniels, if you
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: didn't see it or hear about it, and we'll talk
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: more about it. It's going to be in one of
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the monologues later. The Washington football team. Tie game. Field
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: goal position. Overtime. Clock running down. And you ran the ball.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And you didn't have a timeout and you couldn't snap
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  Speaker 1: the ball and spike it, and you lost the game. Well,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you didn't lose the game. You tied, which might as
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: well be a loss. That's it. Kathy in Madison said
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the Brewers sucked at a time you cannot suck, and
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: they still won.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Go figure. What else do we have? Let's see here.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Baltimore Freeloader account says besides the Ravens winning, which is
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: always the lead story, especially for an Island game, who
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: did the free spread better? The folks at SoFi or Atlanta,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: you make the call. Wow. Oh, those are some good-looking pretzels.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for pretzels.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: I am.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: The nacho bar, it's okay. It's all right. That soft
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: pretzel thing, I do lean to the soft pretzel. When
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: in doubt, I go that direction. Nick in Nebraska says,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Dan Quinn is an alien. His left eye grew twice
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the size when asked to explain the end of the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: loss with the Giants. All right. What else do we have?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Page down. Mark, the full-name guy who is
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: retired as a caller. He couldn't handle the grind of
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: overnight talk radio calling, so he hides behind his phone.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Mark says, one of the hardest-throwing pitchers of his era.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: He does a tribute to sudden Sam McDowell, which is nice.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Probably not appropriate at this particular point.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones. Hold on a sec here.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Let me.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Move this over here. We've got hand sanitizer like it's
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: 2020 around here. Let's see what we got here. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Let's start out with Lucky Tony, who's devastated and broken
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: by his Chicago Bears, but still able to call the show. Hello,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Lucky Tony. Welcome.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Hey, Ben.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Tip of the blue and orange to Mike Ditka. And
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: how do I like my chicks, in white socks or barefoot?
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, man.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: You're welcome. Yes.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to the worst bus driver in North America,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: a man who is so big time he could not
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: show up to our Maller meet and greet, even though
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: he was in Vegas. And he gave the false invitation
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: thumbs up and he ran away. The worst bus driver
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: who's no longer a bus driver, Lance, the bus driver
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Hello, Lance. Welcome.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Welcome. Thank you, Big Ben. Ben, the show was the
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: week after that, so I wasn't, and I didn't even go.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: I can't go in a wheelchair, Ben. I can't do it,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: you know. It's what it is.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: We'll carry you up. We'll carry you up.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right. No, no.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: We'll get everyone in the militia. We'll all pull the body.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: I'm not that big anymore, Ben. I'm thinner than you now.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Are you really? All right. All right. Donkey. Whatever you say, donkey. Yeah, whatever.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: So let me guess. The 49ers must have won. You're
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: calling up. Front runner, Lance the bus driver.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: That was like a playoff, Ben. That was like a
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: playoff game. But I got to tell you this. Everything's
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: heading down. Everything's a great game. Fred Warner is just amazing.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: He must have went to boxing camp or something during
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: the offseason because he knocks every ball out. That guy
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: hits like a rocket, jumps back up. You know, Patrick
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Willis is one of the probably best 49er middle linebackers ever.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: But in NFL, Patrick Warner's got to be one of
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: the top ones there, too. He's just all over the place, Ben.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Isn't he due to get hurt again? He plays for
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the Niners. Isn't he going to get hurt?
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: He got hit and hurt last year, big deal. That
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: guy's a tough guy.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: What about Dre Greenlaw? Is he going to go more
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: than one game? He got ejected, right? Didn't he get
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: kicked out of that game, Dre Greenlaw?
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: No, Ben, that was a late hit, but it wasn't dirty.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: It wasn't dirty. It wasn't dirty.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Because he was wearing the right laundry. It wasn't dirty.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: He's wearing the right laundry, so you're okay with it.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: But then on the other side, these guys are all
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: getting in his face and all that stuff. He's not
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: backing down. He's got to do what he's got to do.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: But it was a late hit, but it wasn't a
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: dirty late hit. There's been a lot of hits like that,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: and they just, you know, prophesied it more as, oh,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: my God, it's the end of the world. That's what
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: that guy did. You know, baloney, Mark. And you know what, Ben?
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you're still getting free seats at
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: the Dodger game, but boy, you better suck it up
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: and eat every hot dog you can, buddy, because I
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: don't know if it's going to last a long time.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, God forbid. They've only won the last two
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: World Series. They might not win this year. Oh, my God. Oh,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: it's so bad. I don't know how they're going to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: go on with life. They can't win three in a row.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Holy crap. My God, it's all over.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Mr. Never paid for a ticket.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Why would I pay for a ticket? You're a sucker.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: You pay for a ticket. What's wrong with you?
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: So, we go on the Monday night game. We're playing
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: the Commanders. You know, I don't want to kind of go,
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: but my son and my... They want me to go,
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: but I got to go in a wheelchair.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, man. Let me get better seating when you're in
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: a wheelchair. What are you talking about? Those are good seats.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: No, no. So far, I had the best, you know,
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: when we went to the championship game years ago. Yeah.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: We lost because the clown dropped the ball.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Well, you lost because the better team won. That's it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: It happens.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: So far, I had the greatest for, you know, people
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: with disabilities. Yeah. 49ers, Levi's game is the worst. It's
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: the worst. It's like 10 seeds. That's it. It's the worst. Levi,
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: so far it was awesome, Ben, when I went there.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful stadium. It's a wonderful stadium. It's a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: good time. You're very long-winded, Lance. You need to call
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: more often. You're very long-winded. You're bogarting all the time.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Now I'm in a cocktail hour. We call this cocktail
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: hour because I have a few cocktails. I'm watching the
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: game again over the Niner game.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? You're watching the All-22 for the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Niner game? You're doing the scouting report on the game there? Hey,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: where's all those Seahawks fans? How's your boy Sam Darnold
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: doing there? How's that going? How's Sam Darnold? Can we
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: do a check on Sam? I'm trying to rip Sam Darnold.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Why are you interrupting me? I'm trying to rip Sam Darnold.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Why are you ripping me?
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: What listen what you know when people you know and
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: when people retire it's like i want to do this
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: luckily but my wife works for the airlines my son
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: works for marriott i've traveled the world.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: You know you're bragging you're bragging i've been all over
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the world bragging.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: All the world yeah so i'm going to retire me
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: now because i'm just doing what i got to deal
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: with and i just sit back i have my cocktails
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: at night maybe smoke a little whatever and i just
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: chill out and that's You know what? Retirement's not that bad.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: I felt a little better, but it's what it is.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, listen, enjoy your retirement.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Hey, there's a lot of people out there a lot
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: worse than the bus driver.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: But the bus driver's hanging in there, Meathead.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, take care of yourself. Go away. You're
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: very long-winded. Thank you. A five-minute phone call from that guy.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Holy crap. Let me rip Big Daddy here. Big Daddy,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: you say you want to be on the mailbag. I've
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: called you three times, three different weeks. Your phone doesn't
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: even ring. I can't. I can't. What?
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: I understand, but this time, Ben, I have a reason.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: My mom passed.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, now, see, now I feel terrible. See, now I
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: feel bad. See, now I'm going to punch myself in
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the face. Boom. I punched myself in the face.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she passed Saturday, Ben.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: My condolences.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's probably one reason why I really didn't answer, man.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: All right, all right. Well, you know what? I would
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: like to let the record show I would like to
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: retract the complaint to the honorable Big Daddy. That's a
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: bad job, buddy.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: I appreciate your love and your condolences, man. I will
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: be kind to you. I just got to get my
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: mind together.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I hear you. All right. I'm sorry, buddy. I apologize.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: All right. Thank you.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: God bless you. I lost my mom years ago. It's
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: a terrible thing. It is the Ben Maller Show. Well,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: there you go. First time I've looked like a schmuck
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: this week. That's the way to do it. And it's
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: only Sunday night. Yeah, in the Monday. Tom from Fullerton
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: writes in, says, I disagree with you on Justin Herbert.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Herbert has Stafford 2.0 written all over. Ain't no QB
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: winning in the NFL with UFL caliber offensive line. Tom,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: don't get me started. I got into a hearty debate
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: in the press box there at SoFi. We're talking about
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: when you don't have a great offensive line, what do
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: you do? The really good quarterbacks, you adjust. You do rat-a-tat-tat,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: three-step drop, get rid of the ball. Three-step drop, get
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: rid of the ball. Future Ram, Justin Herbert? No, no,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's going to be the next Rams quarterback. Once
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Stafford's on, they're going to bring Joe Burrow in. No,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, at some point you'd think, they'd say, okay,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so the offensive line's not great, fine. I don't think
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: it's as bad as everyone else thinks, but you might
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: want to, I don't know, adjust? Possibly? Yeah? There you go.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Arik in Minnesota says Greenlaw got the boot because he
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: head-buttered a player without a helmet on. Not a cheap shot.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: What is he ripping Lance the bus driver? Our friend
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Arik there. Well, Justin Jefferson. This is great. I've got
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to try to find the audio on this. The Viking
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: wide receiver, he accidentally delivered a tremendous– Double entendre. Now,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: we love double entendres around here. We do. So, postgame, Minnesota.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about this game later. Minnesota beat the Saints.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I know our friend, the curmudgeon in Duluth. I was
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: all excited about that. So Jefferson was trying to pump
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: up the relationship that he has with the little quarterback,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the garden gnome, Kyler Murray. And good old alligator arms Murray.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: And he was explaining, Jefferson, their relationship on the field.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: And he used the phrase, playing with each other. We
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: have it? All right, here we go. This is Justin Jefferson,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Viking star wide receiver, and he realized right away, he
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: hit the pause button because he realized, wait a minute,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I should be using that phrase.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the audio tape. Here we go.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: This is our first full game playing with each other.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Pause. But we can take the paws out. That's a
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: good drop.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: We can do that. Play it again. Let's play it again.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: This is Justin Jefferson of the Vikings. Here we go.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: This is our first full game playing with each other.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: There you go. That is a good one. That's a
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  Speaker 1: solid drop. Anthony in Louisiana. Do you like that, Anthony?
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  Speaker 1: Are you a fan of that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I like football. All right. Well, that's football, right? Come
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  Speaker 1: on now. Please. My God. All right. Why don't we
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  Speaker 1: pause for the cause? Because I am on time, Mallard.
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  Speaker 1: By the clock, for the clock. Applause will be all
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: about the clock. Well, time now for the Who Am
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I game. And here we go. Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 1: All he needed was those Colts, and he looked like
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  Speaker 1: the old Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers now has nine career
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  Speaker 1: touchdown passes of 80 or more yards. That is tied
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  Speaker 1: with Hall of Famer Brett Favre and me for the
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  Speaker 1: most in NFL history. Again, Aaron Rodgers has nine career
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: touchdown passes of 80 or more yards tied with Pro
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  Speaker 1: Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre and me for the
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  Speaker 1: most in NFL history. Who am I? That is the question,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the answer. We'll get to it, and we will do it! Next.
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  Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. As we
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: roll through the overnight hours, reminder that this show does
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: not stop on the weekend. We have a spinoff called
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour Podcast. Don't listen now because we're doing
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the live show, however. Those boring daytime shows are on.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Crank up the old Fifth Hour podcast. There are three
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: new episodes. Check them out. The mailbag on Sonny Blind
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Scott popped up this week. So help us out on
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast. In the meantime, the beat rolls on.
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  Speaker 1: And we will pay off the Who Am I game
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  Speaker 1: coming up momentarily. We'll get to that. But first, back
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  Speaker 1: to the calls we go, and let's say hello to
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  Speaker 1: Anthony in Louisiana who survived the weekend. He had a
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: near-death experience last week, and he survived. Hello, Anthony in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, B.
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  Speaker 3: You doing all right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, thanks for asking. I appreciate that. You know, we're
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: a little bit tired, heavily caffeinated. Heavily caffeinated. I had
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: an early wake-up call on Sunday. Woke up at a
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  Speaker 1: time I'm normally sleeping. Which is not good. When do
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: you sleep, Anthony? Oh, I go to bed at 10, 30,
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  Speaker 1: or 11.
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  Speaker 4: I stay up a little late.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you go to bed at 10, 30, or 11
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  Speaker 1: in the morning? Yeah. You sleep during the day?
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  Speaker 4: No, I take a little nap.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you sleep, so you take naps. I got you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, because I was going to say it's way
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  Speaker 1: past that time where you are.
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  Speaker 4: Well, guess what, B?
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia, they lost the game.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, not only did they lose, they lost another eight-second loss.
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  Speaker 1: That's two this year, Anthony. They had a lead with
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: eight seconds left and lost the game. You know how
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: hard that is to do?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. What's wrong with Jalen Hurts?
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  Speaker 3: I think that coach might get fired.
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  Speaker 1: All coaches will get fired. Are you doing sports talk now?
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of you, Anthony. Hey, Drew.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I take that back.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Anthony.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing?
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  Speaker 4: How was your weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so good.
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  Speaker 2: So good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I saw this deal. I was excited there, Lorena,
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  Speaker 1: for a second. I thought we got some sports talk
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  Speaker 1: out of this guy. I know. I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is the farthest we've ever gotten. I know. We
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: were right there. We were doing really well. So close. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all have a good night. Here's my friend, Andrea.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We'll try to let Andrea know.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Get some rest.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: There he goes, Anthony. All right, well, let's pay off
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: the Who Am I game. This is where I pretend
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: to be somebody else. Let's call it the Who Am
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I game. So Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers now has nine
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  Speaker 1: career touchdown passes of 80 or more yards. That is
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: tied with Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre and
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: me for the most in NFL history. Who am I?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? And let's see.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: We have Vinny Testaverde, Guest by Nick. Thomas Edward Patrick Brady.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Junior from Femi, the top Uber Eats driver in the
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  Speaker 1: Twin Cities. What else do we have? Page down. We've
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: got Mr. Irrigation saying, Bad Bob, the meanest hombre in
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  Speaker 1: the West. All right. Thank you for that. Yes. We've
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: got Herbert upset that we're not wearing our knee pads
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  Speaker 1: for the Patriots. We will talk about the Patriots later.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I don't mean you want me to do it right now.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: You only do Patriot propaganda. It's not a local Boston show, dude.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr. guest by Robbie the Mariners fan. Oh, look,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: there's a good. I didn't know there was that gif
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: of Michael Penix Jr. Look at that, Robbie. Where'd you
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: find that? Alf the Alien O'Piner says, bin boy Justin Cooper. Oh, look,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: he's carrying the just in case Bo Nix needed to
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  Speaker 1: throw up. He's got the thing right there. He's ready
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: to go. Marlon Briscoe, guest by Eek in Roseville, Minnesota.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Christian Ponder, why would you even ponder passing? From Doc Dan,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: that's his answer. Joe Theismann from Dat Dude. Who else
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  Speaker 1: do we have? The Great Curmudgeon, Jeff George from Nostradinus.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: No commentary on your boy, Sam Darnold. Icky Woods from
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: The Nature Boy. There's a good name. Brian Bartlett Starr
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  Speaker 1: from our friend Kathy in Madison.
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  Speaker 4: Wrong!
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  Speaker 1: Tree from Chicago got it right. Bad job by you.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Shame on you. You're not supposed to get it right, Tree,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: and it's no fun. Elvis Gerbach from Big Rig Rob.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: He's back with us on the live show. Cam Scataboo.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that from Michael in Tulsa. Doing pretty well. Lorena,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: do you have an answer? Again, the question, Steelers quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers now has nine, nine career touchdown passes of
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  Speaker 1: 80 or more yards tied with Hall of Famer Brett
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  Speaker 1: Favre and me for the most in NFL history. John Elway.
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  Speaker 1: John Elway. All right, is it John Elway? No. The
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: correct answer, the one and only Ben Roethlisberger. Ben Roethlisberger.
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  Speaker 1: The correct answer, Roethlisberger. Burger, burger, burger.