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Hour 4 - Bad Language · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: in hour number four on this 17th day of September,
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Andre Johnson, pretty good wide receiver, good
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  Speaker 1: enough to make the Hall of Fame, called out Texans
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  Speaker 1: quarterback C.J. Stroud's bad body language. Are you rolling with
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  Speaker 1: this take or waving it off? Cowboys wide receiver George
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  Speaker 1: Pickens did not sound too concerned with his dropped passes
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  Speaker 1: in the season opener. Can you unravel what this means?
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of the Cowboys legend, Emmitt Smith says that
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens' Derrick Henry may, may break his NFL rushing record.
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  Speaker 1: What do the Maller odds tell us about that? We'll
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  Speaker 2: An NFL quarterback called out for their language, but it's
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  Speaker 1: pick against the spread as the Bills open up their
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  Speaker 1: the team that the Bills beat back in week one.
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  Speaker 1: We go to Houston. We're a Texans legend and Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Famer Andre Johnson. Good player, generic name. Right? Good player.
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  Speaker 1: If you remember Andre Johnson, very productive player. Put up
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  Speaker 1: big stats. He wasn't really a media darling, and he
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  Speaker 1: had just a generic name. So you don't really remember
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  Speaker 1: generic name guy. If you have a generic name, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to come up with a nickname. There's got to
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  Speaker 1: be something that makes you stand out from the crowd. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: you will be forgotten. Now, everyone eventually gets forgotten. That's
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  Speaker 1: just the way life is. We're just actors and those
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  Speaker 1: new actors that replace us at some point. That said, though,
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  Speaker 1: you can elongate. the thing if you have a nickname,
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  Speaker 1: like Babe Ruth, the Bambino. Oh, man, the Bambino. You
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  Speaker 1: got to have a nickname. Anyway, C.J. Stroud was criticized
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  Speaker 1: by Andre Johnson. I don't know if you saw this
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  Speaker 1: or not, perhaps not. And he called him out for
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  Speaker 1: a language violation. Now, what did C.J. Stroud do? Did
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  Speaker 1: he speak Pig Latin?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that kind of language, dummy. It's not the
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  Speaker 1: verbal language. It turns out that Andre Johnson, retired former
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  Speaker 1: NFL player, CJ Stroud for his body language, calling it, quote,
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  Speaker 1: bad and saying that it bothers Andre Johnson when watching
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  Speaker 1: Houston play. So Johnson's concern is that Stroud is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the face of the franchise, the leader, the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And he says the negative body language
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  Speaker 1: from CJ Stroud can, quote, trickle down to teammates during adversity. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Andre Johnson also challenged C.J. Stroud to deliver in critical moments,
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  Speaker 1: something that he has failed to do. He had butterfingers
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  Speaker 1: at the end trying to play hero against Buffalo. And
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  Speaker 1: who goofed? I've got to know. Got to hold on
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  Speaker 1: to the ball. Possession is nine-tenths of victory. So Johnson
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  Speaker 1: challenging Stroud to actually step up when the game's on
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  Speaker 1: the line if he wants to become one of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL's highest-paid quarterbacks. and matchups like the game against the
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  Speaker 1: Bills with Josh Allen, an example of that, which is
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  Speaker 1: not wrong. The only problem with that hypothesis from Andre
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  Speaker 1: Johnson is we're in the era where it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Total turd-burkers like Kyler Murray, they get paid. Justin Herbert,
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  Speaker 1: these guys aren't good. They get paid, though. Everyone gets paid.
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  Speaker 1: You really have to blow to not get paid as
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback in the NFL. Anyway, back to the Issue
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  Speaker 1: at hand. So Andre Johnson calling out the body language,
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  Speaker 1: the trickle-down effect, the fact that C.J. Stroud has been
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  Speaker 1: unable to get her done in big moments. Now, Stroud
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  Speaker 1: was asked about this. Do you think he said, A,
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely am a clown in big moments, B, no comment,
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  Speaker 1: or C, just kind of blow off the question and
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  Speaker 1: move on? Well, the answer would actually be C. Stroud responded.
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  Speaker 1: He tried to be diplomatic. He said, quote, I respect
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  Speaker 1: Dre as a person. I appreciate his critiques. He then declined,
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  Speaker 1: declined to actually respond to the question. So we can
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  Speaker 1: answer any way we want. Anyway, it's all a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. You got
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  Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, Andre Johnson, calling out Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud's, quote,
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  Speaker 1: bad body language. Are you rolling, rolling, rolling with this
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  Speaker 1: take by Andre Johnson, or are you waving it off?
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  Speaker 1: Are you rolling with it, or are you waving it off?
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  Speaker 1: So after a minutes-long deliberation of the available information, things
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  Speaker 1: got a little bit dicey. And, yeah, we've got our answer.
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  Speaker 1: I've got closed captioning, orthopedic surgeon, and iPhone battery. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll put these together. We'll make the gabagool. We'll use
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  Speaker 1: our elbows to have the baba ganoush. And then we'll
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  Speaker 1: have a little bit, not too much of the jambalaya.
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  Speaker 1: And first of all, to answer the question, are you
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  Speaker 1: rolling with this take by Andre Johnson that C.J. Stroud's
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  Speaker 1: body language is bad and he's got to step up
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  Speaker 1: in big moments? Or are you waving it off? So
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  Speaker 1: I am going limp biscuit on this one. And rolling, rolling, rolling.
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  Speaker 1: Andre Johnson is dead on. Right? Dead on. The Texans
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  Speaker 1: don't need C.J. Stroud to go full on. Walter White
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the crawl space there as the offense sputters around.
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  Speaker 1: They don't need that. You're paid to be a leader,
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  Speaker 1: a leader of grown men, in theory. You're not paid
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  Speaker 1: to sulk there because you're upset the restaurant forgot your
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  Speaker 1: honey mustard or, God forbid, your ranch. C.J. Stroud goes from,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the field general, to a glass case of emotion.
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  Speaker 1: Faster than Ron Burgundy in that old movie Anchorman. But seriously, C.J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud's body language, it ought to have closed captioning. And
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  Speaker 1: it kind of does because you watch him on TV, C.J. Stroud.
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  Speaker 1: The body language, it says in the closed captioning, we
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  Speaker 1: are currently losing. I'm not happy. Yeah. And he has
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  Speaker 1: the emotional poker face of a five-year-old who got told, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go to Disneyland.
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  Speaker 3: Psych!
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  Speaker 1: It's not open today. What? I'm talking shoulders down, head down,
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  Speaker 1: pouty face, all that stuff. Somebody get him a juice box, C.J. Stroud.
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  Speaker 1: He needs a juice box. And when the machine breaks down,
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  Speaker 1: and it often does. The machines always break down. It
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  Speaker 1: just happens. C.J. Stroud looks like somebody unplugged him. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a big deal. It has been estimated, according to
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  Speaker 1: people that have studied communication between human beings, 55% of
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  Speaker 1: communication is nonverbal. So more than half of all communication
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  Speaker 1: is nonverbal. And yet, when the going gets tough, and
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  Speaker 1: it often does for the Texans, C.J. Stroud starts picking.
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  Speaker 1: imaginary lint off his jersey. That's his default position. That's
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  Speaker 1: his default position. Now, secondly, to Dallas we go. I'm
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  Speaker 1: told I must mention the Cowboys at least once, at
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  Speaker 1: least once per show, or I'm not going to meet
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  Speaker 1: my quotas. So fresh off a humbling and stumbling loss
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  Speaker 1: to the New York football Giants, the Cowboys trying to
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  Speaker 1: get back on the wagon again. The winning wagon. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, that wagon going down the dirt road this week.
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  Speaker 1: They play the Washington football team. One underlying storyline from
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  Speaker 1: the Giants-Cowboys game is the play of wide receiver George Pickens. Now,
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  Speaker 1: some of you... are convinced this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: an amazing year. George Pickens is playing for a contract.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be great. Well, Pickens caught just three
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  Speaker 1: passes for 28 yards in the loss in Jersey. The
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  Speaker 1: Swamp Dragon must have gotten him. Now, I'm told that's
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  Speaker 1: not good. I didn't play in the NFL, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: told if you're a high-paid wide receiver and the franchise
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  Speaker 1: receiver and you only make three catches for 28 yards,
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's not good. Oh, you're so mean, Maller.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know. I'm a schmuck. So he also committed,
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  Speaker 1: the part of the story which is interesting is George
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  Speaker 1: Pickens had not one but two drop passes. Butterfingers, butterfingers, butterfingers.
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  Speaker 1: Catchable passes he dropped. Now I asked about the mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: Pickens gave a shrug. He said, quote, it's football. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to have some here. You're going to have some there.
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  Speaker 1: Close quote. Now that is a great quote. I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea. The Cowboys are playing football. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: were playing another sport. I am shocked. That is a
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  Speaker 1: hot take by George Pickens. Did you know that? Because
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys look like they've played football since, like, the 90s.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long time ago. I was a little kid
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  Speaker 1: back then. I mean, man. So that's the big revelation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Pickens acknowledged that he needs to, quote, limit those, you think,
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  Speaker 1: the mistakes, so he can make big plays and he
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  Speaker 1: knows he's capable of those plays. I'm sure he is. Question.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys wide receiver. By George. George Pickens. He doesn't sound
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  Speaker 1: too concerned here. George Pickens not too concerned with the
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  Speaker 1: dropped passes. Can you unravel what all of this actually means?
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  Speaker 1: So Pickens treating those drops kind of like... Some of
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  Speaker 1: you treat a letter from the Internal Revenue Service. Let
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  Speaker 1: me go get the mail. Oh, I got the mail. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: what's that? Oh, that's a letter from the IRS. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so if you don't open it, maybe it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: And they don't have any proof whether I got the
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  Speaker 1: letter or not, so I'm not going to open it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not real. If I don't open it, it's not real. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he says it's football. You can call it just football.
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  Speaker 1: But Jerry Jones, he calls it. Negotiating leverage. Leverage is
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  Speaker 1: what he calls it. How about leverage? So think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine you're playing for the Cowboys. You're somewhere in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: You go to the Baylor Medical Center. You go in
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  Speaker 1: there to have a procedure done. And you've got your
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  Speaker 1: orthopedic surgeon. And right before you're about to get put
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  Speaker 1: under for the operation, the surgeon's talking to you. Everything's
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  Speaker 1: going to be fine. And then they go in there.
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  Speaker 1: They operate. And the orthopedic surgeon operates on the wrong knee.
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  Speaker 1: and says, sorry, you know, it's just surgery. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to miss one here and there. I mean, it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of happens. That's it. I mean, I just, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I operate on the wrong knee, but I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: tried and, you know, that's it. And it just happens
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to miss some. And now you'll have
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  Speaker 1: two new knees. That's good. And you'll make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money in a malpractice lawsuit. That's good. So you're
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  Speaker 1: playing on the franchise tag, George Pickens. The franchise tag is,
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  Speaker 1: is a one-year audition. It's a 17-game dummy run to
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  Speaker 1: prove that you'll keep your nose clean and you'll perform
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And every drop is a withdrawal
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  Speaker 1: from the bank of Jerry. The Cowboys are paying... for
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens, and so far have received George Dropkins is
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  Speaker 1: what they've received here. So he's on pace, if my
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  Speaker 1: math is correct. He plays all 17 games. He's on
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  Speaker 1: pace there, Pickens, for 34 drop passes, which seems like
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  Speaker 1: a lot. That seems like a lot. So Pickens is
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  Speaker 1: essentially playing for the next payday, which likely will not
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  Speaker 1: come from the Cowboys. And so costly drops, you would say,
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  Speaker 1: would limit the amount of money that you're going to
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  Speaker 1: make in the next contract. That's just a logical conclusion
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  Speaker 1: to come to. All right, meanwhile, final thought. To the
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  Speaker 1: backfield we go. And interesting comments by the NFL's all-time
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  Speaker 1: leading rusher. One of the great Cardinals of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I always loved him with the Cardinals back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: Emmitt Smith. Emmitt Smith of the Arizona Cardinals. And the
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  Speaker 1: NFL's all-time leading rusher. He believes that the Ravens running back,
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  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, has a legitimate chance to break his NFL
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  Speaker 1: career rushing record. Emmitt saying, quote, oh yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's possible. Close quote. He's the Kool-Aid man. Henry, 32
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  Speaker 1: years old. He currently ranks number 10 all-time in rushing yards.
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  Speaker 1: Smith crediting the longevity, which is unusual at that position,
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  Speaker 1: based on conditioning and taking care of his body, saying
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  Speaker 1: that the bigger running back, like Derrick Henry, the bigger
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  Speaker 1: running back, As he is, he takes great care of
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  Speaker 1: his body, remains in great shape, and that's the game.
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  Speaker 1: So the question. The all-time leading rusher Emmitt Smith says
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  Speaker 1: Ravens back Derrick Henry may break his NFL rushing record.
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  Speaker 1: What do the Maler odds tell us? That's right. Time
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  Speaker 1: to turn to our favorite idiot, the Maler odds. All
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  Speaker 1: the scuttlebutt. Everyone wanted to know what the Maler odds say,
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  Speaker 1: so let's get to the Maler odds right now. So
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  Speaker 1: the odds that Derrick Henry plays long enough to pass
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  Speaker 1: Emmitt Smith. Well, let's just say Emmitt is being very gracious.
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  Speaker 1: The Southern hospitality is coming through. This is not mathematics.
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  Speaker 1: The Maller Sportsbook odds, the line sits at plus 10,000.
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  Speaker 1: What is that? That implies a grand total of a 1% chance, 1%
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  Speaker 1: chance that That's it. Henry mentioned he's 32. And asking
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  Speaker 1: him to catch Emmitt Smith, it's kind of like asking
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  Speaker 1: your iPhone battery to stay at 100% fully charged without
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  Speaker 1: being plugged in or on a charger until 2030. With
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  Speaker 1: the technology we have right now, forget about it. Forget
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  Speaker 1: about it. Running backs don't gracefully age. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like you let your dog, you have a wild dog,
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  Speaker 1: and the dog gets in the kitchen, and the dog's
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  Speaker 1: futzing around and knocks your ninja blender off the counter.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happens. Like one day you wake up, and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're running back, can't run. What happened?
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  Speaker 1: So if Henry plays four more seasons, four more seasons,
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  Speaker 1: he would need to average, if my math is correct here,
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  Speaker 1: the Mahler math is roughly... 1,300 yards per year to
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  Speaker 1: pass Smith. That means 76.4 yards every single week with
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  Speaker 1: no days off, with no injuries, no games missed. So
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  Speaker 1: you're asking a 32-year-old running back to basically put together
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  Speaker 1: another all-pro career starting right now. And besides, Henry, he
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  Speaker 1: has made FU money. times FU money to infinity. He's
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  Speaker 1: made $ 81 million before taxes. Now, even after taxes, he's
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  Speaker 1: still clearing about $ 90. So he's got a big fund
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  Speaker 1: of $ 90 after he pays all the taxes. So does
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  Speaker 1: he really want to continue to get pulverized by linebackers
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  Speaker 1: every single Sunday and Monday and possibly Thursday when he
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  Speaker 1: could be eating truffles on a luxury yacht or a
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  Speaker 1: poolside cabana? They're somewhere in the French Riviera, right there
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  Speaker 1: in front of the ocean. You know all that. So
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  Speaker 1: that's always the thing about these longevity records. You really
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  Speaker 1: want to do it when you've made the big money. Big,
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  Speaker 1: big money. Tom Brady did. Tom Brady did. Others, not
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  Speaker 3: I check it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe that. And Koopa Loop at A Braco Fan.
• 21:11
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• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in. The great Tim McDarby points
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: out the tabloid, the New York Post, one of the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: few newspapers still marching on. And the big headline on
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the back page, judge and worry, judge and worry. And
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: there's concern for the captain, Aaron Judge, after he exited
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the game with the Twins yesterday afternoon with leg tightness.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And also the next great Yankee. It was like a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: religious revival when he made his Yankee debut. We're talking
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: about the next great Yankee shortstop, of course, Mr. Lombard.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: who I think you'd rather have Lombard Street at this point,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the way things are going defensively. A lot of mistakes.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: That seems like that's something that's going to kick the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Yankees right in the balls during the playoffs, that he's
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: going to boot a play and he's going to F up.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: And that's not great. And the other issue with the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: new Yankee prodigy, And by the way, the Yankees did
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: something they almost never do. They lost to the Twins yesterday,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: which is like the Twins always just roll over. But
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the great face of Yankee baseball for years to come,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: George Lombard Jr., batting. 225 with three home runs in
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: his 34 regular season games. I don't think that's great. Oh,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you're being such a hater. What is wrong? How dare you?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I know. His OPS is. 627. There you go. Next
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: great New York Yankee. The pride of South Florida, George
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Lombard Jr. Let's take some calls. It is a call-in show.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And let's see. Who do we have? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Big Daddy. Big Daddy is up
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: next in Memphis. He's on aisle number five today. Hello,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Big Daddy.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Peace to the planet. Say hello to all my fans
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: and all my constituents. No, I'm on aisle nine today.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I'm two and three. I'm over here on nine.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I'm going to complain to Coop. Yeah, go ahead.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I sent my number in. I want to do the mailbag.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Did you get it?
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I did get your number. I have some people ahead
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of you, but I will put you on the big board.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Not a list, not a list, but we'll get you
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: on there.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: You do it on Sunday. You've got to call me.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I've got to be ready.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: On a Sunday.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I'll let you know when we do it. We do
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: it usually late Saturday, early Sunday, but I'll let you
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: know when.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, good, good, good. Okay, I got you. That's why
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: I'm checking in to make sure I know when I
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: get a call and I see something on there, I
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: make sure I pick it up.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: All right, very good, very good. What's going on with you,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Big Daddy?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Ain't too much, man. Got me a new boot. You
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: know how that is.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Hey, look at you. Big stud. Look at you.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I've been listening to Lorena. You know, sometimes them kids
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: do help.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: See that, Lorena? You're inspiring love in Memphis for our baby.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: You're right. I've been listening, man. Guys call in. You know,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: keep a little pad, writing them down, baby. Making them
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: do what they do.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: All right. All right, Big Day, we'll put you on
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the big, what's that?
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: $ 300, $ 400 million, and we can't win a game. That's ridiculous.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: All this money, and can't even win a game. That's
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: about $ 800 million, ain't it? All them guys getting all
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: that money over here.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of money. A little more than we're making,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Big Daddy. A little more than we're making.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I know that's right, man.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: All right, man.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I got to tune in. Yes, sir.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you. The great Big Daddy there from Memphis. Let's
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: say hello to, who do we have? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Hollering James.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Hey, Ben.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: I'm ready for the game show. Any game show you got.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I want to win a golden ticket for Tammy, and
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I promise to give her a lot. You know why
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I want to hear it a lot? Because you sent
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: me a Randy Moss gold and purple Mikey jersey.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: No! No!
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, Mikey.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Go away. Thank you.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: No, no. Put him on hold. If he wants to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: do factor fiction, he can do factor fiction. You can't
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: win a golden ticket on factor fiction, though. Well, he
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: didn't know that.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: He doesn't know that. Yeah. It's wonderful. So I woke
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: up to a, let's get Mike the Leprechaun. Are you there,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun? Are you there, Mike the Leprechaun? Hello, Mr.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Leprechaun guy?
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, of course I'm here, yes.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: How are you? So I woke up to a couple
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: of messages, and people say I'm asleep, but they know
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I'm sleeping, so they know I'll check my phone when
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I wake up. So I always say when somebody dies,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I know, because there's a lot of messages or something
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: like that. So I got a lot of messages, but
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the one that stood out was about a former NFL
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: legend ready for the catwalk. And we didn't talk about
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: this the other day. It's gotten bigger. Has anyone seen
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the Bill Belichick? I guess this was like his coach's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: show in Chapel Hill. Anyone see the appearance of Bill Belichick?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Have you seen that, Mike the Leprechaun?
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: No, but I'm not surprised. Was Jordan there?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Uh, no, it's Belichick was wearing his North Carolina gear
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and it appeared he had a really large rack, uh,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: man boobs Belichick with massive man boobs, uh, which is wild.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: And I, and so I, my buddy, my buddy sent
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: me the, the, the thing. And then I was looking
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: at some of the photos and stuff and I, some
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: people I used to work with, some women I used
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to work with on radio, and they were pointing out
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: their theory, and I want to run this by, I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: think this is an accurate theory, is the problem that
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Belichick has is if he's dating like a 25-year-old, if
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: she was a little older, she would have said, what
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: are you doing? You can't wear that. But Belichick, my
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: response has always been, Belichick's always dressed like a slob.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: So would it really be different? Like he was dating
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: older women until recently. And he's still dressed like he
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: was disheveled. So are you going to really blame it
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: on that? I don't know. Some people are.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: It's a late midlife crisis for him, I would say.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: We're past the midlife. If he's at midlife, he's going
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to live to be 140. It's good for him.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: 150 probably.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: How's the humidity in Los Angeles? Pretty good?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: No good?
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: It's good now. No humidity now. It's good. Solid.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Have you mentioned Caleb Williams, 69 points?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Have I mentioned that?
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think I've talked. I don't talk sports.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Anyway, so poor Holler and James. I hope you got
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: out of trouble with the Somalia lady and the judge.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: With the holy water.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Is he still there, Coop? Can we go back to
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: James and see? James, are you out of trouble with the–
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you said you were being attacked by a Somali woman.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Is that correct?
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: It's up to one decision by a Somali woman named
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Suska whether I face in courtroom, go to jail, or
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: get thrown out of my house. And it's not my house.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: I'm only the state's renter here. Okay.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: All right. You're renting. I got you. All right. Thank you.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: That's a little too deep for us. I appreciate that.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Poppy is in San Diego. Hello, Poppy. Welcome.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: Hey, man. I'm right here in San Diego.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great show.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: And, you know, I'm ready for the mailbox.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: You just let me know.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I'm right here.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I'm on the boat. Oh, my God. Now everyone wants to.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: It just started because they got rid of the person
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: they did the mailbag with, so we just decided to rotate.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Now everyone wants it. People love the mailbag. They should
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: do the mailbag. Just get rid of the show. Just
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: do the mailbag. Everyone loves the freaking mailbag.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you should have me. You know, you're a protege.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: You should always have me on there. But look, I
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: do want to talk about the game tonight, Thursday Night Football,
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: the Buffalo Bills game. and the Lions, and I really
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: love Josh Allen with the Buffalo Bills.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: No, don't pick the Bills. You're going to screw me.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Don't do it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, and I got a bonus one.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Anytime touchdown, Josh Allen.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Guys, it's the first.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: All the stars are aligning how, you know, the sports
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: sorcerer says, and the first game in the stadium, Josh
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: Allen will score a touchdown debut.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: It's like, wow.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: What do you think?
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Okay. I got my swagger back?
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: I think I got.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: My swagger back.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: What was that?
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: Well, yes, I went 1-0 on my pigs, and people
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: want to hear me.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: 1-0.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: 1-0.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's accurate. Who did you pick again?
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: The Kansas City Chiefs.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Did you?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll have to go back and check
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the tape.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: So now we're going to– people want more pics.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: One minute.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: I'm going to be the one-minute man.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Well, so– Yeah! Okay. Thank you. There's Poppy in San Diego.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: That call was weird. This whole hour has been weird.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: What's going on? You got Big Daddy, and I love
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Big Daddy. He just– It didn't have much going on there.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: And then we went to the Leprechaun, and that was
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a little odd. And then James, he was in there,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and it was like a lot of stuff going on.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Let's try Brandon. In Kansas City, he loved this segment
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: so much he hung up. He gone. He got, well,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: just like the janitor, and this story's been bouncing around,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: so Andy Reid admitted there was this weird play the
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Chiefs ran the other night in the game against the Broncos,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and Andy Reid admitted that that play was something that
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: came from a washed-up broadcaster, Chris Berman, had sent him
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: that play, and Andy Reid ran the play, and everyone
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: got all excited about this. They're like, oh, my God,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: it is pretty cool. It is pretty cool that Andy
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Reid will just take a play from someone. And the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: reason it's cool is a lot of these guys are
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: so arrogant. They're such schmucks that they don't want, they
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: think everyone else is below them and they don't want
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: anything to do with the public and they know better
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: than you and all that. Andy Reid, though, has been
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: a guy, he's done this before. It's not the first time.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: He said that Chris Berman sent him that play that
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: they ran. Now, if you did not see The play,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: it's two quarterbacks at the same time. Late in the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: game there, Patrick Mahomes, he lined up with backup quarterback
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Justin Fields beside him. And then the play, they had
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: several different options on the play. Fields moved left as
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: he might take the ball and all that. Mahomes flipped
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a short forward pass to Kenneth Walker. And then that
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: was a two-yard touchdown play. But Andy Reid said he
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: got that from Berman. It's an old NFL play that
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: was run back in like the 1930s or something like that.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: And it's not the first time. I remember we talked
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: about this a while back. Andy Reid took a play
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: from a janitor. I think he was with Green Bay
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: at the time or Philadelphia. Some guy was a janitor.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I forget all the specifics. It's been a few years.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: But he took a play from a janitor. So anyway,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: that particular play, the latest one was from an NFL
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: game in 1936. And this is actually a good idea.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: And so all these NFL teams spend a lot of
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: money hiring the top Ivy League executives. I watched that
• 33:24
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• 33:27
  Speaker 1: a link to it on the Internet. And so I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: watched it. And the Rams did a humble brag in there.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: They had some lady who had graduated from Stanford who
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: was in charge of analytics there. And it made me
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: want to puke in my mouth. What you should be
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: doing is hiring somebody to go watch old tapes of
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: NFL games and just take stuff, repurpose stuff from 60
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: years ago. Find some stuff and make it new again.
• 33:53
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• 33:56
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• 34:00
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• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Does it get any bigger than America's favorite crossing guard, Daniel,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: in Fort Wayne, Indiana? Hello, Daniel.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: It doesn't get any bigger than this.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: This is huge. You're enjoying that weather until it turns nasty,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and then you got to bundle up, so you got
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: to enjoy it.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, it's been raining lightning, but I don't have
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: to go out and cross the Kitts for at least
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: another half hour or so.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: All right, hopefully the storm will pass through. And there's Daniel.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: We have Patrick in San Diego. Hello, Patrick. Welcome.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: Hello, Benjamin, my old friend.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: You got your Manny Machado pajamas on today, Patrick? What
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: do you got?
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: Yes, I do. I'm not going to get into it
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: with you.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: You know I was mad, but I love you, Benjamin.
• 36:46
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• 36:47
  Speaker 1: All right, all right. It was just a take. You
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: can't get that upset about a take. It was just
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: a hot take. It was a really nice hot take.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: You did not enjoy the hot take. It was a
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: good hot take. Thank you, Patrick. We have Hollering James,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: who stayed on hold. Hello, Hollering James.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: What's up?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Are you drinking?
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: Drinking H2O.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Andrew is in Bakersfield, California. Hello, Andrew.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: Hey, Ben.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: What's the Internet?
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Attention, advertisers. You can reach this coveted demographic. Eddie is
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: in Charlotte. Hello, Eddie. Welcome. This is Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Eddie.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: The man's a legend.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Benjamin. I know you don't do birthday shout-outs,
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: so I'm not going to bring it up.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: As you know, I cannot wish you a happy birthday.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: It is odd, though, that you might share a birthday
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: with Andrea, who called in earlier. And I cannot, Eddie,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: say happy birthday to you. I'm not a morning show.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: The morning guys are coming.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: No problem.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: I appreciate the consideration.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I wish I could. I know turning
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: 27 again is kind of a big deal, Eddie, so
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I understand that.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: More like 62.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: That's close. 62 is the new 27. That's the way
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I look at it. Have a big piece of cake, Eddie.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Hold on. We have Kenny in Mobile. Hello, Kenny. Welcome, Kenny.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: Hi, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: The original home of Mardi Gras, I might add.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Is that right? I did not know. When I think
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: of Mobile, sports-wise, I think of that Senior Bowl. That's
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: what I think of Mobile every year.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Calm down, Ken. Try to control your emotions. Alright, here
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: we go, everybody. My judges, listen closely. We have three options.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: One of these stories is not true. That's the fictional story.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: You have to separate fiction from fact. We always start
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: with the first story here. Steph Curry, Golden State player,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: was recently asked about his plans after his career in
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the NBA. Curry said he isn't planning on hanging it
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: up anytime soon, but when he does, he is interested
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: in getting involved in politics. He's friends with The Obamas.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: And when pressed further, Curry said he could see himself
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: serving in the California State Senate. That sounds like a
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: nightmare to me. Story number two. Taco Bell announced this
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: week that the chain is launching its first ever Live
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Moss Open. It's a nine-hole golf tournament hosted by Kevin Hart,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: who does everything. Because, I mean, my God. Good for him.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: It's at the Ranch, something called the Ranch in Laguna Beach, California,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: November 2nd. Nine fans. will join a foursome consisting of
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: celebrities and pro athletes, rich, annoying people who think they're important,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: and content creators. Oh, my God. What a nightmare. And
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: the winner will get to choose a discontinued Taco Bell
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: item to bring it back in 2027. And story number three,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the Hawk to a Girl. who became an internet sensation,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: quickly disappeared, crypto scandal, all that. Well, now she's back
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: throwing shade at Lane Kiffin. She appeared in a new
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: commercial for an online sportsbook. She plays a woman from
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's hot yoga class in Mississippi and the whole thing.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: All right, those are the three stories. One of them
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: is not true. Let's go to our judges and find out.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Daniel in Fort Wayne. Daniel, one, two, or three, Daniel.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I want to take the lead, not to deceive. Number three.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Number three. All right, my man. Patrick Machado in San Diego.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: What's the answer, Patrick? Number one. All right, he's going
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: number one. Thank you, Patrick. Hollering James. One, two, or three, James.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Number three.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Andrew in Bakersfield. One, two, or three, Andrew. Quick break.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 4: Eddie.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: One, two, or three, Eddie.
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  Speaker 4: Number one.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Kevin, all right, it's number one was the fake story.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Number one, the Steph Curry story. We had a bunch
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: of winners. Number one, number one, number one.