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Hour 3 - Feeling Brown and Down · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-day! It's hour number three! Hour three, we are
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  Speaker 1: always kept in the dark because we work when the
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  Speaker 1: moon is up and the sun is down. Here in
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  Speaker 1: hour three, we remind you of the Fifth Hour Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour Podcast, new episodes dropping today. Might already
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  Speaker 1: then on Saturday... And Sunday we'll have another mail bag.
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  Speaker 1: So all that to look forward to. But here in
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  Speaker 1: our number three are the Cleveland Browns players sending Jared
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  Speaker 1: verse a message by refusing to defend him. There was a,
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  Speaker 1: kerfluffle against pittsburgh and nobody came over to help have
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  Speaker 1: the back of the browns young defensive player jared verse
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  Speaker 1: also what do you make of the raiders public position
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  Speaker 1: that they will not will not consider trading away kirk
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  Speaker 1: cousins huh and how much sympathy do you have for
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  Speaker 1: jets running back breese hall he's having a social media
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  Speaker 1: nightmare he's deactivated his ex account we'll talk about that
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  Speaker 1: as well right now here we go rubber stamping with
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  Speaker 1: lame jokes of the week as well our number three
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  Speaker 1: well feeling brown and down down down down down down
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  Speaker 1: NFL Week 9 is here. Packers versus Patriots. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you know this. It's Sunday's America's Game of
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the land, as
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Remember, the Cleveland Browns typically bad at football,
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  Speaker 1: although not yet. They're pretty good at content. Pretty good
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  Speaker 1: at content. And we're waiting for them to sink like
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  Speaker 1: a stone. That should happen soon. But we've got a
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  Speaker 1: good story here. We have locker room drama with the Brownies.
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  Speaker 1: So if you didn't see this, perhaps not. The big
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  Speaker 1: pickup for Cleveland from the Rams, Jared Verse, the defensive end,
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  Speaker 1: who hasn't been making as many plays as he did
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  Speaker 1: with the Rams, with the Browns. Anyway, Jared Verse, who's
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  Speaker 1: a rusher, edge guy, not a happy camper. Has he
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  Speaker 1: asked for a trade? No, he has not asked for
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  Speaker 1: a trade. What's he upset with? He's upset with the coach. No,
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  Speaker 1: he's not upset with the coach. What's he upset with?
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  Speaker 1: He's upset with his teammates. Jared Verst not happy with
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  Speaker 1: his teammates. This following the situation that took place where
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers lineman Mason McCormick tossed Jared Verst to the turf.
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  Speaker 1: and nobody ran over to his defense. Very similar to
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels in Washington. Remember Jaden Daniels down for the count,
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  Speaker 1: and no one went to go check on him with Washington,
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  Speaker 1: and they tried to spin that and say, oh, there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing going on here and all. Well, Jared Verst is
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  Speaker 1: not happy. He says he confronted his teammates about the
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  Speaker 1: lack of support, In fact, we apparently have the audio.
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  Speaker 1: So here is Jared Verse on people taking shots at
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  Speaker 1: him and his teammates twiddling their thumbs. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'll be quite honest with you. That
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  Speaker 3: was the play that made me kind of get really angry.
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  Speaker 3: I was really upset about the game and the way
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  Speaker 3: things were moving. But at that point, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: it became like really deep, like you're doing dirty s * * *.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to try to sweep my legs. That honestly
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  Speaker 3: could have put me in a position to not be
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  Speaker 3: able to finish the season, put me in a position
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  Speaker 3: to change my life in a very bad aspect. So
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  Speaker 3: that upset me. The lack of reaction by those around
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  Speaker 3: me had upset me a lot, not in the aspect
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  Speaker 3: of anybody. We're focused on the game and everything like that. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the similar play that happened to Derek Barnett on,
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  Speaker 3: I think, the next field goal, and I spazzed. I
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  Speaker 3: lost it because it was my brothers, it was my teammates. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when you do something like that to them,
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  Speaker 3: it upsets me very deeply. So I could tell that
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  Speaker 3: from that point on, I was like, we have to
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  Speaker 3: be better. We have to get better on every aspect
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  Speaker 3: of the game of being mentally aware of these are
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  Speaker 3: my teammates, these are my brothers, and we're not fighting
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  Speaker 3: for each other. We're just trying to focus on the
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  Speaker 3: one aspect of the game.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so he's complaining about the lack of support,
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  Speaker 1: and it's pretty obvious this is a standard situation. So
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  Speaker 1: let's discuss. That's a good jumping off point. Let's discuss.
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  Speaker 1: The question, are Browns players sending Jared Verse a message
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  Speaker 1: by seemingly refusing to defend him? Is there a message
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  Speaker 1: being sent, or is this just a one-off situation? So
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  Speaker 1: I've got Daily Double, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and Drawbridge.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to chew on your ear. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to nibble. That's what we're going to do. All right,
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  Speaker 1: to lead off, though, this particular situation is about as
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  Speaker 1: subtle as going down to Home Depot, to the lumber
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  Speaker 1: section at Home Depot, and grabbing a 2x4 and then
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  Speaker 1: hitting yourself on the forehead. It's that subtle. The factory
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  Speaker 1: of sadness has reopened, baby. Its assembly line is back
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  Speaker 1: open and now producing industrial strength, resentment, and apparently defective brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: The Browns have invented a brilliant new defensive scheme. Every
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  Speaker 1: man for himself. Every man for himself. They didn't just
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  Speaker 1: leave Jared Verse hanging. They left him on an island
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  Speaker 1: without a boat, without a boat, without a paddle or
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  Speaker 1: any Coast Guard to come rescue him. And in many ways,
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  Speaker 1: when you think about it, as I get in my
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  Speaker 1: soapbox here, this is a daily double situation. It's a
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  Speaker 1: daily double, daily double. Cleveland broke the unwritten locker room code. Protect...
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  Speaker 1: Your own. Protect your own. And while Jared Verse violated
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  Speaker 1: the bubble of trust. So both mentioned the Daily Double.
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  Speaker 1: So the Cleveland roster, they didn't come to defend their guy.
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  Speaker 1: Protect your own. And Jared Verse violated the bubble of
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  Speaker 1: trust by publicly airing his grievances. And as the NFL
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  Speaker 1: community likes to say, the media is not your team therapist. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as a talk show host, I would like to thank
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  Speaker 1: Jared Verse. I don't care if that looks terrible that
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  Speaker 1: he called out his teammates publicly. I think it's great
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  Speaker 1: for talk radio. It's logical to think that his teammates
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  Speaker 1: are not big fans of his work. Otherwise, at least
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them would have come over there to
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  Speaker 1: try to have his back. So things are not going
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  Speaker 1: great for Todd Munkin. The record is not bad. This
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  Speaker 1: is not wonderful. The only thing missing from the family
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  Speaker 1: portrait of the Cleveland Browns is everybody turning their back
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  Speaker 1: to the camera. Now, that would be hilarious. If the
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  Speaker 1: Browns took a team photo this year and every single
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  Speaker 1: player had their back turned to the camera, boy, that
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  Speaker 1: would be great. That would be really funny. The Browns
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  Speaker 1: are held together by duct tape, chewing gum, and some
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  Speaker 1: motivational poster they bought at Hobby Lobby on sale. It
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  Speaker 1: was in the discount bin. at hobby lobby all right
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  Speaker 1: furthermore to the hustle and bustle in lost wages nevada
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  Speaker 1: we go where the writers apparently have no no intention
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  Speaker 1: of trading quarterback kirk cousins despite growing chatter that the
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  Speaker 1: minnesota football team is interested in specifically if the vikings
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  Speaker 1: go out there and Carson Wentz rides the Vomit Comet
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night against Buffalo. Trade deadlines on Tuesday that
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings will up the ante and attempt to get
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  Speaker 1: their former quarterback, Kirk Cousins, back in purple. So Adam Schefter, though,
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  Speaker 1: says that this is great. So Schefter. had a report
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  Speaker 1: that Cousins is too valuable as a starter and a
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  Speaker 1: mentor to Fernando Mendoza to trade. Say what? That this
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  Speaker 1: is somehow a quandary? The Raiders are a 500 team.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be under 500 after the game on Sunday. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Cousins has some good stats, a lot of those in
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  Speaker 1: garbage time, 19 touchdowns against five interceptions. The question is this.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of the Raiders' public position, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: leaking stuff to Schefter, that they won't consider dealing quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins? So I always take this stuff with a
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  Speaker 1: grain of salt. Because you always say, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to trade the player until you trade the player. The
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  Speaker 1: idea that, oh, my God, the Raiders simply cannot afford
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  Speaker 1: to trade Kirk Cousins. Yeah, it's Ben. I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: back of the room. Can I ask why? Yeah, my
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  Speaker 1: hand's raised. No? Because apparently, what is he, 38 years
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  Speaker 1: old or something like that? He's a load-bearing wall holding
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  Speaker 1: up the entire franchise at their facility there in Henderson.
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  Speaker 1: We might have to check in with Metaphor Kyle. Boots
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  Speaker 1: on the ground there to get to the bottom of this.
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  Speaker 1: But remove Cousins, what happens? The entire thing collapses? The
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  Speaker 1: building collapses into a pile of silver and black rubble?
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  Speaker 1: This is what bad teams do. Now, again, I take
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  Speaker 1: this with a grain of salt. I'd like to believe
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  Speaker 1: that somebody over there with the Raiders will come to
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  Speaker 1: their senses and say, okay, we'll trade Cousins because he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be there next year. Get rid of him.
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders are such a poorly run operation, there is
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  Speaker 1: a chance that they actually hold on to Cousins. And
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  Speaker 1: they provide a lot of reminders that they don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing over there. They don't. And that's just
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  Speaker 1: the way it is. And we're told Cousins, Kirk Cousins,
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  Speaker 1: must stay because he's got a mentor, Fernando Mendoza. This
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  Speaker 1: always gets me. It's always a gut punch. So the mentorship,
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  Speaker 1: you know what that is?
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  Speaker 2: Manure.
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  Speaker 1: Manure is what that is. What is this? It's the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about a professional football team. Or is this
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  Speaker 1: the big brothers, big sisters chapter of Clark County? Is
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  Speaker 1: that what the Raiders are at this particular point? If
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  Speaker 1: Cousins is indispensable, what does that say about Fernando Mendoza?
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  Speaker 1: It's not good. It's not good. Now, privately, the Raiders know.
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  Speaker 1: that he has quite the learning curve, the size of
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  Speaker 1: the Bellagio. So they're hiding him. At this point, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to think the Raiders are just hiding Fernando Mendoza.
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  Speaker 1: In this case, they're hiding him behind Grandpa Kirk. They're
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  Speaker 1: treating Fernando Mendoza like a fine bottle of wine. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: I checked, quarterbacks are not a 1945 Bordeaux. They don't
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  Speaker 1: improve collecting dust in a cellar. This is not the
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  Speaker 1: wine off the Titanic. This is not that. All right,
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  Speaker 1: last thing, to Jersey we go. We're just running back.
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  Speaker 1: Brees Hall has said bye-bye to his ex-account. He has
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  Speaker 1: deleted his ex-account. He claims he has received threats against
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  Speaker 1: himself and his family members. The Jets running back during
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  Speaker 1: the five games he has been away because of a
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  Speaker 1: quad injury. And a lot of people accusing him of
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  Speaker 1: faking the injury or embellishing the injury, hoping to get traded.
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  Speaker 1: He acknowledged that he has a love-hate relationship with the
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  Speaker 1: Jets backers. Now, meanwhile, his replacement... Braylon Allen has done
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  Speaker 1: pretty well. 504 yards and five starts. The numbers are
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  Speaker 1: pretty solid on that. However, Brees Hall, $ 45 million plus
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  Speaker 1: contract Brees Hall has with the Jets. He hopes to
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  Speaker 1: return this weekend against Kansas City. His name floated again.
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  Speaker 1: Trade rumors bouncing around the pinball machine. So we've got
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  Speaker 1: that question. How much sympathy do you have for just
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  Speaker 1: running back Brees Hall over the Social media nightmare. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so my sympathy is limited. Dirtbags are the toxic reality
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  Speaker 1: of the digital age in professional sports. However, nobody is
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  Speaker 1: required to spend their afternoons swimming in the interweb sewer.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to do it. I've managed to pull
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  Speaker 1: it off. I used to be on there all the time,
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  Speaker 1: but I go on. I'll do some drive-bys occasionally on
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  Speaker 1: social media, but I'm not on there all day, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't look at the comments. Very rarely does that
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  Speaker 1: happen during the day. So just do that. You're dealing
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  Speaker 1: with a vocal minority of schmucks mixed with weaponized bot
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  Speaker 1: troll farms operating out of Moldova. That's what you've got.
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  Speaker 1: You can't control... The clowns, right? You're in control over
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  Speaker 1: whether you participate in the online circus. You are. You
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  Speaker 1: can't control the clowns, but you can control whether you
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  Speaker 1: buy a ticket. And there's no direct way for those
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  Speaker 1: bot accounts, even the people that are real, to get
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  Speaker 1: a hold of you. These are digital mosquitoes. You don't
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  Speaker 1: negotiate with mosquitoes. You close the screen door. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And the beauty of social media is it is a
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  Speaker 1: voluntary situation. Participation is voluntary. Now, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are addicted to it, and I get it, and you
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  Speaker 1: think there's no way you can live your life without it,
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  Speaker 1: but believe it, there is. Now, I use it for
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  Speaker 1: the show, and I'm on here during the overnight show,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's why I have it as a way
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  Speaker 1: to communicate with you. But if they got rid of
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  Speaker 1: this and they said, okay, we're going to do the
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  Speaker 1: text line, which we used to have, I'd just use
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  Speaker 1: the text line. That's it. So the advice is, and
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  Speaker 1: Brees Hall's doing this, you raise the drawbridge around the
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  Speaker 1: medieval castle. You release the crocodiles into the moat. You
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  Speaker 1: boil the oil. You don't have to invite every village
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  Speaker 1: idiot into your living room. Don't give them access. Cut
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  Speaker 1: them off. And remember, a lot of these are all
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  Speaker 1: fake people. They're not all fake, but a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them are fake. So it's onwards and upwards. And he's
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  Speaker 1: not alone, by the way. I saw Pat McAfee. Also
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  Speaker 1: had to take a time out, the YouTube guy, Pat McAfee,
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  Speaker 1: because he was too burned out by social media. So
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  Speaker 1: he had a statement. He said he's taking a break
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  Speaker 1: because I guess people are being mean. They're being mean
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  Speaker 1: to him. Okay. There you go. Well, people are a-holes.
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  Speaker 1: That's my book right there. People are a-holes. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: coming to a bookstore near you. It's a good book.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good book. That's it. Just people are a-holes. Anyway,
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• 19:51
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• 20:05
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. As we
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  Speaker 1: continue on, heading into the weekend, the Fifth Hour Podcast
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: will be back. New episodes will drop later this morning
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and then on Saturday and again on Sunday with the
• 20:21
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• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and the rest of the NFL games, which will be
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. And you know what that means. Ding, ding, ding.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: That's right. Good job by you. NFL Week 9 is here.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Packers versus Patriots. Sunday is America's Game of the Week.
• 20:45
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• 20:48
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• 20:53
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• 20:56
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• 21:08
  Speaker 1: say hello on X at Ben Maller. Lorena is here
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: using her pretty privilege to get out of multiple tickets
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: just a few hours ago. It's amazing how that seems
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to happen more. I'm not even cute today. I don't
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: know what that is. Oh, wait, I'm cute every day. Oh,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: look at that. All right. FSR Tech Queen for Lorena
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and Koopa Loop at a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Your comments can and will be used against you in
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the court of the Malheur Militia, so please act according.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, time now for the, and we'll
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: get to the calls. We have lame jokes later this hour.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: We'll take some calls before we get to the lame jokes.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: But time now for the always popular Mallory riddle of
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the day. We go to college football. Researchers are collecting
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: blank of fans who attend the Michigan-Michigan State game on Saturday.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: That would be tomorrow. For science. They're doing it for science.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? Let's see.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Does anyone know the answer? Alf, the alien opiner, says
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: toenails from relatives in Nutley, New Jersey.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: That's a great tribute to Angry Bill, who used to
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: call the show. Robbie the Mariner fan says they have
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to collect fans' Social Security numbers for science. Yes, it's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: for science. JT the Wingman's going with toenail samples. Wow,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that is quite the— that' s got to be AI, right? They
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: can't be real. He sent me a photo of a
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: happy face, a smiley face with just nothing but toenails.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? Courtesy Flusher says they'll be
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: donating sperm samples. I don't think that's true. Trolls.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: Oh, you can get paid for that, you know.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear that. Like 50 bucks. Michael in Tulsa
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: says trolls. What else do we have? Peanut shells from
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Filler Up Phil. That's his answer. Donkey Sausage obviously cheated.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: He got it right. Bad job by him. Johnny Q
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: says belly button lint. Is the answer. Who else? Page down.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun. He cheated. Bad job by him. He
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: got it right. OG Art Puffin says they're collecting pickle
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: juice to turn into gasoline for science. All right, Lorena,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: do you have an answer? Researchers are collecting a blank
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: of fans who attend the Michigan-Michigan State game. They're doing
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: it for science.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they're collecting hair samples like Britney Spears.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Is hair samples correct? Survey says no. They are collecting
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: urine samples. Urine samples. The big house becoming the outhouse.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: On Saturday, there's a team collecting urine. Imagine that's your job.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: My job is to collect the pee. That's my job. And,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: of course, you don't have to donate your pee. Fans
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: who choose to donate on behalf of Michigan or Michigan State.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: So there's a battle to see which school donates more piss.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens with that. There are two
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: collection sites stationed. We're on there. So if you're in Michigan,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Ann Arbor Golf Club near Michigan Stadium. And why are
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: they doing this? Why do you think they're doing this, Lorena?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: You want to take a guess? Why would they be
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: collecting urine? What part of science are they collecting this for?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. What do you think? Nothing? Nothing? Bad job
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: by you, Lorena. The correct answer would be none other
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: than they're going to turn the urine into fertilizer.
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: How?
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: How?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm not a scientist. It's a process called pea cycling.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Human urine. I'm reading this right off their thing. Human
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: urine contains nitrogen and potassium and a bunch of other stuff,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: nutrients that help plants grow. You know what I'm thinking?
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: That if I went to the game, I'd start growing
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: marijuana plants?
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Well, there's that. How about this as a hustle? I mean,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: we all just pee and we forget about it. Why
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: don't we start collecting pee and we can sell, we
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: can turn the urine.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: We're missing out on revenue.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Right? Come on. It's a money-making opportunity. You know, I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: pee a lot. I'm a big peer. I got to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: go right now.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Can I?
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: Right?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I drink a lot of water during the day. I
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: love water. You drink a lot of water, you got
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to take bathroom breaks. Think about it. Be great. They're
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: going to turn this into they're going to process it
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: into fertilizer pellets to use on university gardens. And they're claiming,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: according to a Michigan researcher, they plan on collecting hundreds
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: of gallons of pee. And you know who should go there?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Doc Mike. This would be orgasmic for Doc Mike. Can
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: you imagine, Doc? This is like a porn film.
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: Smorgasbord.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Right? Come on, man. This is like a fat kid
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: in a bakery. My God. Capacity, they say, is just
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: under 300 pounds. Or 300 gallons, rather, not pounds. 300
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: gallons of pee. So that's great. There you go. That
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: is outstanding. Just awesome. Have big collection tanks and knock
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: yourself out and go for it. Why not? All right,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. And let's say hello to James,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: who's in Tacoma. What's going on, James? Welcome. James?
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so see if I got this correctly. Lorena is
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: going 83 miles per hour, and she's got an expired license,
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: and she did not get a ticket. And yet, in
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: Seattle the other day, we had a driver. All he
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: did was use a dummy as a second person in
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: a two-person HOV lane, and he got a $ 368 ticket. Yeah.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: No, I know. I got a ticket. I was driving
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: one block with my lights off, and I got a
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: $ 400 ticket. Holy biscuits. One block with my lights. And
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: it was right near our studio in Sherman Oaks. $ 400 ticket.
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Well, there really is. James, you know, justice is a
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: couple of tiers. It's justice for regular and ugly people,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and then justice for pretty people and famous people. There's
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: two different scales of justice. You can go follow my
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: pretty self on my Instagram.
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: Why don't you get the famous person treatment, Ben?
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not famous. I do overnight talk radio. That's why.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: That would be the problem.
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: You were on TV.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: TV. I know, but yeah. One time I got pulled over.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I've told this story before, but I got pulled over.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: The cop says, where are you going? I said, there's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: my opportunity. I'm going to the radio station. Oh, really?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: What radio station? I named the station. We're on in L.A.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: And he said, oh, really? And what time are you on?
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I said, well, I'm on at night. That's why I'm
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: going to work right now. I'm doing the show. Oh, really?
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: You're on at night?
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And then I thought he would ask, can I tell
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: me more about the show? He asked if I knew
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: who Petros was. That's who he asked. That was his question.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: One last thing for you, Ben.
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: One last thing for you is for both football and basketball,
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: would you be in favor if they use a running
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: clock when a score gets to a certain point? Because
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: last night, LSU was playing somebody basketball. Final score is 143-25.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, that must have been women's basketball, right?
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Kim Rocky? Yeah, I'm okay in women's, but I don't know.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I think you should not have that big a disparity
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: between teams. How about that? Is that outrageous to say, James?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: You should not. I love that they still have that
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: in women's basketball. When I was a kid and women
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: were playing basketball, the same thing happened. It was ridiculous mismatches.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: And here we are all these years later, and it's
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: still the same thing. They can't level the playing field.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. All right. Thank you, James. All right.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Go away.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: There's James in Tacoma. Let's say hello to Chris in Toronto,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: who is next. Hello, Chris.
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: Welcome.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show. By the way, fun fact. Chris,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: you want a fun fact? Chris in Toronto, I got
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: a fun fact. You want a fun fact?
• 29:36
  Speaker 10: Of course.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller fun fact.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Congratulations.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: To the Baltimore Ravens. They became the first NFL team
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to start three different quarterbacks, three straight games, and lose
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: all three by 20 or more points since... The Dallas Cowboys,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: during their inaugural season of 1960, they went 0-11-1, and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: they started three different quarterbacks in Week 6, 7, and 8,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: including Don Meredith, the legend, and they lost all three
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: in blowouts. But you didn't call about that, Chris. Welcome
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to the show. What's going on?
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: How's it going, man?
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: How are you?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: If I was any better... I would be a Viking,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: but not a Minnesota Viking because they don't have a quarterback.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: They don't have a good quarterback.
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: That's part of the.
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: Reason why I'm calling right now, man.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: All right, what do we got? We got the Bills
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: this week.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: We got Carson Wentz starting. How do you feel about
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: Carson Wentz over K-1? Obviously, Kyler Murray can't play right now, but,
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: I mean, if he could, would you be starting Carson
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: Wentz over him?
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I would. I would rather have Carson Wentz. I'm not
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: saying Carson Wentz is good, but if you put a
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: knife to my throat, I would rather have Carson Wentz
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: than Kyler Murray. And I think Kyler Murray's proven he's
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: not the guy. He's not the answer. Does anyone disagree?
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Do you disagree with that?
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: No, I agree.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: All right. Now, here's the other thing. What's your move?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: What's your move here? I would trade for Kirk Cousins.
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: I would trade for Cousins, or I would try to
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: make a trade for Stafford.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: You think the Rams are going to trade Matthew Stafford?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: How about Justin Herbert? They can get Justin Herbert, maybe.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think the Chargers are going to trade him either.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Why are you a Viking fan?
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: Um, I started watching football about seven years ago and
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: there's no, we don't have any Canadian teams obviously. So
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: I kind of had to pick and everyone else went bills.
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: So I just went Vikings cause I liked, uh, I
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: liked the quarterback cousins.
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: At the time.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I gotcha. All right. Fair enough. Do you watch the,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: do you watch the Argonauts? Do you go to the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: CFL at all?
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Very good. Who's going to win? We have the Montreal.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: They're a big favorite over the Blue Bombers. My favorite
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: team is the Blue Bombers. I love the name Blue Bombers.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: What a great name. I'm glad they haven't. I know
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a bunch of those teams have changed names in the CFL,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: but I like that they have not changed their name.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: The Blue Bombers. That's good.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: I want them to win, but I feel like Montreal
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: is probably going to.
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I got you. All right.
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: One last question for you guys. If you were the
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: Vikings and you can make one blockbuster trade, are you
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: trading for a star quarterback or a star running back?
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, definitely a quarterback. Are you kidding me? Come on.
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: Big time.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: You've got the ball in their hands all the time,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: and you've got Justin Jefferson who's being absolutely wasted because
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you can't get him the ball. He's not making plays.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: You've got a $ 35 million receiver who's playing like a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: $ 4 million receiver. That's not good.
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Call anytime. There we go. Viking fan. Not
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: He's in Toronto. How about that? All right. It is
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the Ben Maler show as we are continuing on and
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: on and on through the overnight hours. We've got Big
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. Do you think I'm
• 33:01
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• 33:03
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• 33:04
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• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the Week? Is this something I'm going to question after
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the show when I Think about what we did and
• 33:12
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• 33:13
  Speaker 1: be like, oh, my God, what was I thinking? Like
• 33:16
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• 33:16
  Speaker 7: On certain collars that you immediately regret?
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes. Like certain, I forget, there's some collar that
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: calls out of the Boston area that I somehow, I
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: don't know what it is. I put that person on,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing.
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: Well, maybe you being early explains why somebody else is late.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, is that right? Our friend is not there?
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: He's not.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: He's late.
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: He's late for a very important date.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Interesting. He usually calls by now, yes? Our friend from Hollywood, Florida?
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: Typically.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Interesting. You know what he's doing? He's probably waiting for
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: me to do the Fox One read.
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: Ah, that's probably it.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: That's it. It's got to be it, right? Weed Man knows,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: don't call Mallard until he does the Fox One read.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: And I've never done this. This is a new copy.
• 34:02
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• 34:04
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• 34:07
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• 34:10
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• 34:14
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• 34:18
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• 34:22
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• 34:24
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• 34:26
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• 34:29
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• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. The top singers,
• 34:41
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• 34:45
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• 34:48
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• 34:55
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• 36:04
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• 36:06
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• 36:10
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• 36:15
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• 36:18
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• 36:27
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• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Lame week. Lame week who?
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's Lame Joke of the Week. And away
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: we go. Back at it again, Big Ben and you
• 36:39
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• 36:41
  Speaker 4: Big Ben.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, Weedman. You were late, Weedman. What happened?
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: I was late.
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: I'm here.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Were you sleeping?
• 36:50
  Speaker 10: No.
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: I never sleep.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: What were you doing, though? You're almost always on time now.
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: I know. I was watching David Letterman.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: You know he's not doing new shows.
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: I know, I know, I know.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Weed Man, you're supposed to at least give the illusion
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: that you listen to the show. You're supposed to say, oh,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I was listening to your show and I got carried away.
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: You've done a good job recently, but next time this happens,
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: Weed Man, we're going to have to write you up.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to write you up, and we'll replace you.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: And you could, when I was a kid, there used
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: to be this Wally, the Wally Pipp thing. You might
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: get Wally Pipped, you know. Oh, no.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: All right, well, let's do it. Here we go, Big
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Ben's Lame Jokes. If you would like to send a
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: joke in for a future episode, it's bedmallershow at gmail.com,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: bedmallershow at gmail.com, name and city, name and city. Jokes
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: in the headline, jokes in the headline, name and city,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: name and city, name and city. Ben Maller Show at gmail.com.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Why does Weed Man like raccoons?
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Well, they help you find food. That's Michael in Tulsa.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Did you know that Weed Man Hippie has a long-term
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: relationship with his furniture?
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: No, really?
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Apparently you and your recliner go way back.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: You know, way back, way back. That's George from Uvalde, Texas.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: What's a word that begins with N and ends in R?
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: Uh-oh.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: I'm having my say.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't say that. It's neighbor, actually. And that's the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: word you never want to call Weed Man, is neighbor.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: That's John in Youngstown, Ohio.
• 38:33
  Speaker 9: That's great.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I love that, John. If Weed Man was one of
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Snow White's dwarfs, which one would he be called?
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Toki, that's Noah in Austin. There you go. Noah in Austin, Texas.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: What is the best thing about Weed Man?
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: What?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: What is the best thing about being Weed Man?
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: What?
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Well, if you get punched in the mouth, you don't
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: have to worry about losing any teeth. So that's good.
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: That's how Eek.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: That's true. That was actually funny. That's Eek in Roseville, Minnesota.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Why did Weed Man get kicked out of the movie theater?
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Well, apparently you kept yelling this is the best documentary
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: ever during the previews. That's not good. That's Scotty on
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the Pike. Why does why doesn't Weed Man vote? Why? Well,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: apparently his couch is not high enough. So. that's uh
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: that's why that's michael michael and.
• 39:33
  Speaker 10: Tulsa it's big man's land jokes of the week uh
• 39:38
  Speaker 10: weed man was voted king of miami this week what
• 39:41
  Speaker 10: do they call what do they call him now what Your.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: High-ness is what we call you. Mike, the leprechaun there
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: with that one. What is Weed Man's favorite movie?
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: What?
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke. You like that one.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Why doesn't Weed Man like Kyler Murray?
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: His joints are too small. That's from Brendan in Boston.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: All right. There you go. Last one. What's Weed Man's
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Christmas wish going to be?
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: What?
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Weekly appearances on the Fifth Hour Podcast. Is that accurate?
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Can I get on the freak? No, no, we're good
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: this week, I think. I think we're good.