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Hour 2 - Your Eyes Were Not Lying · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? It's our number two and a yabba-dabba-doo.
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Speaker 1: It turns out your eyes were not lying to you
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Speaker 1: as this is our two of the Ben Maller Show
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Speaker 1: podcast on this first day of October. The NFL has
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Speaker 1: admitted the Rams got screwed. The referees botched the defensive
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Speaker 1: pass interference call late in the game in Denver. Is
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Speaker 1: the NFL's admission to Sean McVay a big deal, a
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Speaker 1: little deal, or a nothing burger? Also, what are the
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Speaker 1: odds that Sean McVay ends up leaving the Rams at
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Speaker 1: some point here for Amazon? It turns out that Kirk
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Speaker 1: Herbstreet has a clause that Amazon has a clause. They
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Speaker 1: can get out of the contract early with Herbie if
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Speaker 1: they can hire a bigger name like Sean McVay. And
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Speaker 1: Titans quarterback Cam Ward, um, says people are weird for
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Speaker 1: threatening his family online. How do you react? To this one,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that and who knows what else. We
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Speaker 1: also have Benny versus the Penny for the Steelers-Browns game,
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Speaker 1: which is tonight. We'll tell you who should win against
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Speaker 1: the spread. And we'll get to all that right now.
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Speaker 1: Here it is, our number two. Well, it turns out
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Speaker 1: your eyes were not lying. Your eyes were not lying.
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Speaker 1: We have confirmation of one of the great injustices in
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Speaker 1: the NFL history. It has happened again. It has happened again.
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Speaker 1: slash disclosures. And I think it was Ocho Texto, possibly Mr. Irrigation,
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Speaker 1: who said, hey, Mahler. Can you tell me where I
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Speaker 1: can watch that NL playoff action? I said, yes. There
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Speaker 1: is no time like October today, the first day of
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Speaker 1: the month of October. Happy early Halloween. And the NLDS
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Speaker 1: We'll find out who they'll play later today, but that
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Speaker 1: on Fox One. So we had a trade in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about this a little bit later, but the
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Speaker 1: Steelers agreed to trade Joey Porter Jr., who has been
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Speaker 1: a healthy scratch all season, was not going to play
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Speaker 1: in the game tonight. We will have Benny versus the
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Speaker 1: Penny later this hour to break that game down, but
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Speaker 1: Porter has just decided to take a wildcat strike. He
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Speaker 1: was upset. He had a hissy fit. He didn't get
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Speaker 1: paid the contract he wanted, even though he's getting paid
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars this year. So he has been unloaded,
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Speaker 1: excommunicated from Pittsburgh as the Dallas Cowboys. I think we
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Speaker 1: called that the other day.
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Speaker 2: I believe we did.
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Speaker 1: The distant relative of Nostradamus, friend of Nostradamus, we called
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Speaker 1: that shot. So the Cowboys get Joey Porter Jr. Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: gets a couple of scratcher tickets. as Robbie the Mariner
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Speaker 1: fan would say, a sixth-round pick next year, and a
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Speaker 1: 2028 second-round pick. So the Steelers, they get back what
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Speaker 1: they used in draft compensation for Porter, a second-round pick
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Speaker 1: back in the day, and it's kind of a big
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Speaker 1: deal because his dad, it's a legacy guy, his dad,
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Speaker 1: if you're old, you know who Joey Porter Sr. was,
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Speaker 1: the linebacker, a bad, bad man for the Steelers back
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Speaker 1: in the day, and now Joey Porter Jr. goes off
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Speaker 1: To the Cowboys. So we'll have more on that coming
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Speaker 1: up a little bit later. But don't bury the lead,
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Speaker 1: my man! Oh, boy, we got a humdinger of a story.
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Speaker 1: Humdinger of a story. Our lead from the NFL headquarters
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Speaker 1: on Park Avenue. That is where someone, some blowhard, some
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Speaker 1: jabroni at the NFL reached out to Ram coach Sean
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Speaker 1: McVay and said, Hey, Sean, we want to let you know, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know that defensive pass interference that looked fugazi? That
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Speaker 1: call on your defensive back, Josh Wallace? Yeah, we got
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Speaker 1: that one wrong.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: Yes. Did you see this? I'm not making this up.
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Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. Maybe you missed it. So
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Speaker 1: that play, if you did not watch the Sunday night game,
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Speaker 1: that penalty decided the game, decided the game. It wiped out.
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Speaker 1: An interception by Josh Wallace of the Rams with a
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Speaker 1: minute nine left in the clock. The Rams leading Denver
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Speaker 1: by a field goal without the flag. The Rams run
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Speaker 1: the clock out, and that's it. Na, na, na, na, hey, hey, goodbye.
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Speaker 1: But instead, some Rocky Mountain-loving referee gave Denver a first
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Speaker 1: and goal to go, keeping the drive alive. And eventually,
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Speaker 1: Broncos quarterback Bo Nix scored a bogus touchdown. as the
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Speaker 1: Broncos walked away with the shadiest W of the NFL season,
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Speaker 1: and that is a good jumping-off point. So let us discuss.
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Speaker 1: So here's the question. It turns out that the league, again,
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Speaker 1: for those of you a little slow in the back room,
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Speaker 1: the league has admitted the Rams got hosed. The refs
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Speaker 1: botched the defensive pass interference call in Denver. Is the
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Speaker 1: NFL's admission... Their confession to Sean McVay, a big deal,
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Speaker 1: a little deal, or a nothing burger. All right, so
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Speaker 1: I've got, on this one, I've got buttered popcorn. We've
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Speaker 1: got Motel 6 and Spaghetti Western. And we'll combine all
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Speaker 1: of these things together, and we are going to fold
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Speaker 1: up like a cheap tent, which is what the NFL
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Speaker 1: referees did when the game was on the line.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: To answer the question, is the NFL's confession, their admission
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Speaker 1: to Sean McVay, a big deal, little deal, or a
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Speaker 1: nothing burger? Well, number one!
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Speaker 2: Number one!
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Speaker 1: It is not a big deal. It is not a
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Speaker 1: little deal. It is not a nothing burger. It is
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Speaker 1: a wish sandwich. Rubber biscuit style. You got a kind
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Speaker 1: of sandwich where you take two pieces of bread and
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Speaker 1: you wish... You had some meat, or in this case,
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Speaker 1: some balls, to make the right call. And that's what
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Speaker 1: the NFL handed Sean McVay, a wish sandwich, a bucket
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Speaker 1: of buttered popcorn, and a ticket to the Kabuki Theater.
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Speaker 1: It's the public relations cabaret of the NFL. So how
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Speaker 1: great is that? You get the my bad statement, the
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Speaker 1: my bad statement, days later. Which, oh, by the way,
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Speaker 1: is not accountability. It is not accountability. It's being robbed
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Speaker 1: and receiving a handwritten note from the burglar. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: what you got. You say, okay, well, I robbed you,
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Speaker 1: but I got a note here. I really needed the
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Speaker 1: money more than you. So we got it wrong. Mazel tov.
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Speaker 1: We got it wrong. What a spectacularly useless admission that is.
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Speaker 1: The NFL, just like big-time college football, toothless admission. So
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Speaker 1: we all knew they effed up the call right away.
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Speaker 1: We all knew it. McVay doesn't need an apology. He
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Speaker 1: needed the official to take off his Bronco shirt and
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Speaker 1: put on an actual officiating shirt and keep the frickin'
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Speaker 1: flag in your pocket, buddy. Dum-dum. So the NFL investigated itself.
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Speaker 1: It then sentenced itself to absolutely nothing. Sounds like the government.
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Speaker 1: They just gave Sean McVay a shoulder shrug. What do
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Speaker 1: you want us to do? We screwed you over. So
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Speaker 1: the good news is now the Rams can have dinner
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Speaker 1: with the coaching staff at Western Michigan, and they can
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Speaker 1: trade notes on how it feels to be absolutely porked
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Speaker 1: out of a win. So the NFL is not fixing this.
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Speaker 1: They are not. The Broncos, you have to downgrade them
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Speaker 1: on your little dumb power rankings and all that. The
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Speaker 1: Rams got to host. And if I'm a Bronco fan,
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Speaker 1: I'm puking in my mouth right now. I'm embarrassed as
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Speaker 1: a Bronco fan, in shame. I have my tail between
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Speaker 1: my legs, and I'm sulking and puking in my mouth.
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Speaker 1: How bad that feels. Just horrific. And this is the
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Speaker 1: second consecutive year. The second consecutive year the NFL is
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Speaker 1: out to get their Rams. What did the Rams do?
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Speaker 1: other than try to get all the good players. Last
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Speaker 1: year in Seattle, the bogus two-point conversion where the play
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Speaker 1: had ended, everyone stopped, and then they just awarded Seattle
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Speaker 1: a two-point conversion, which was ridiculous, Everyone knows that. That
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Speaker 1: was an injustice. And here we go again. At least
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Speaker 1: this was early in the year as opposed to late
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Speaker 1: in the year. Try to pick which time the NFL
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Speaker 1: screwed the Rams. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. You've got a
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Speaker 1: lot to pick from. Meanwhile, to TV land we go, where... Amazon.
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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Video has extended Herbie, and we assume his dog,
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Speaker 1: Kirk Herbstreet, as its Thursday night football analyst for multiple seasons.
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Speaker 1: How much do you think Kirk Herbstreet's getting to do
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Speaker 1: a marginal job on Thursday night NFL football with Al Michaels?
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Speaker 1: What do you think? You think he's getting like $ 3
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Speaker 1: million a year? What do you think, $ 5 million? $ 7 million?
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Speaker 1: You think he's getting $ 7 million? All right, reveal answers,
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Speaker 1: reveal answers. The answer, no, none of the above. These
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Speaker 1: dum-dums at Amazon are paying Herbstreet $ 10 million per year.
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Speaker 1: He's a college football guy pretending to be an NFL broadcaster,
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Speaker 1: and he's getting $ 10 million a year. Can we lower
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Speaker 1: that salary and then lower the cost of Amazon Prime?
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Speaker 1: Does anyone say no to that? Like, I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: you could put my fat ass in there for $ 5
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Speaker 1: million a year, you'd save $ 5 million, and nobody would notice.
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Speaker 1: And I wouldn't bring my dog Moxie with me when
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Speaker 1: I'm traveling around, unlike Herbstreet, who can't go anywhere without
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Speaker 1: his stupid dog. Anyway, the new contract is supposedly shorter
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Speaker 1: than the original deal that he signed. This is where
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Speaker 1: the meat of the story is. So it's a shorter deal.
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Speaker 1: The exact length is unknown. Now, the Sports business nerds
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Speaker 1: who have chubbies for this kind of stuff. Amazon has
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Speaker 1: flexibility to get rid of Herbstreet if a preferred replacement
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Speaker 1: becomes available. Who do you think that is? You want
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Speaker 1: to take a guess? Yeah, that's right. It's Sean McVay.
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Speaker 1: They signed Herbstreet hoping that McVay will eventually replace him.
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Speaker 1: in the Thursday night booth. So the question, what are
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Speaker 1: the odds that Sean McVay ends up leaving the Rams
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Speaker 1: for Amazon's NFL package, their television package, on Thursday night?
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Speaker 1: So the Maller official odds, the Maller sportsbook odds, these
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Speaker 1: are not DraftKings odds, these are Maller sportsbook odds, that
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Speaker 1: is plus 300. That implies there's a 25% chance that
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Speaker 1: this happens. That's a 250 hitter in baseball. Now, Amazon
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Speaker 1: continues to have this schoolboy crush on Sean McVay. He
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Speaker 1: is the Moby Dick of NFL broadcasting. They've got their
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Speaker 1: whaling boat fueled up there over at Amazon. They've got
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Speaker 1: the harpoon polished, and they're just waiting for Moby McVay
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Speaker 1: to surface. And they're like, hey, that's our guy. Now,
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Speaker 1: McVay already turned down $ 100 million in back in 2022
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Speaker 1: when he was ready to quit the Rams. And supposedly
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Speaker 1: he still has a standing offer. It's going to be
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Speaker 1: more than $ 100 million now because of inflation. Enter Kirk Herbstreit.
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Speaker 1: So Herbie, he's pulling down $ 10 million a year. He's
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Speaker 1: got dental, and he gets to keep the chair warm
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Speaker 1: for a guy who isn't even in the building. This
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Speaker 1: is the ultimate temp job. I always thought the Cleveland
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Speaker 1: Browns coaching job was the ultimate temp job. This is
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Speaker 1: a pretty good temp job. And only in television, this
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Speaker 1: doesn't happen in radio, but only in sports television, can
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Speaker 1: you make $ 10 million a year and still be somebody's
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Speaker 1: plan B, the backup plan. Now, Amazon is essentially telling
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Speaker 1: Sean McVay, listen, we were big fans of Tom Bodette,
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Speaker 1: and we loved those old Motel 6 commercials back in
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Speaker 1: the day. So Sean McVay, wherever you are, we'll leave
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Speaker 1: the light on for you. That's it. We'll leave the
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Speaker 1: light on for you. So if the Rams post a
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Speaker 1: bad season, if this thing goes sideways and the NFL
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Speaker 1: is trying to screw them over, they already gave a
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Speaker 1: win that should have been the Rams to the Broncos,
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Speaker 1: great injustice there. Second consecutive year, the Rams have been
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Speaker 1: denied a victory. So Amazon executives, if the Rams go
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Speaker 1: sideways or if they win the Super Bowl, either way,
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Speaker 1: Amazon executives will be circling SoFi Stadium in the hood
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Speaker 1: in Inglewood like they're over at LAX. You know the
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Speaker 1: guys in the Cadillac Escalades, the limo drivers that are
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Speaker 1: waiting for someone? They're waiting for McVeigh. They're waiting for
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Speaker 1: McVeigh is what they're doing. They're going round and round
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Speaker 1: and round and round and round and round and round.
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Speaker 1: All right, final point. to Nashville, where the country music
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Speaker 1: is good and the football is bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
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Speaker 1: And there's a sidebar element to this. So the Tennessee
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Speaker 1: Titans were in position to beat the Giants until they
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Speaker 1: asked Cam Ward to make a play, and then he
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Speaker 1: pooped his diaper. It did not go well. Threw the
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Speaker 1: ball to the other team, which would have been great
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Speaker 1: if he hadn't done that and they had won the
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Speaker 1: game anyway. So Titans quarterback Cam Ward addressing the snuffleupagus
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Speaker 1: in the room, threatening social media messages, targeting his family,
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Speaker 1: his family after his sister publicly revealed the messages from. angry,
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Speaker 1: nut job fans. Well, here is, I haven't told we
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Speaker 1: have this, so rather than me pretend to be Cam Ward,
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Speaker 1: here is the man that gave the greatest quote we've
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Speaker 1: seen in recent years when he talked about the Tennessee
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Speaker 1: Titans offense and said, we ass. Here is Cam Ward
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Speaker 1: commenting on people sending nasty messages his way. Let's take
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Speaker 1: a listen.
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Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, people are weird.
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Speaker 3: They can say whatever they want at the end of
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Speaker 3: the day. But I think football will take care of
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Speaker 3: a lot of it. You know, my family know the
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Speaker 3: position I'm in and, you know, they know, you know,
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Speaker 3: what I wanted, you know, my whole life.
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Speaker 2: They're in this position as well with me.
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Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, you know, we all,
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Speaker 3: you know, take within ourselves, not only myself, but every
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Speaker 3: guy in the locker room who's going to go through
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Speaker 3: adversity at some point. And, you know, at the end
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Speaker 3: of the day, you just got to continue to, you know,
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Speaker 3: prepare the same way, continue to, you know, stay the
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Speaker 3: same person.
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Speaker 2: You can never get too high, never get too low.
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Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, I mean, you
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Speaker 3: make plays on the football field, everything else, you know,
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Speaker 3: handles itself.
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Speaker 1: Boy, he's been reading sportscloset.com. What about the start of
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Speaker 1: the day, Cam? How many times did he say at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day? At least three? How long
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Speaker 1: is that sound bite? We might have to play that again.
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Speaker 1: 34 seconds. 34 seconds.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: How many times do you think he said at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day? At least three. Probably four. How
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Speaker 1: many times did he say um? Yeah, um too.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: So let's... All right.
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Speaker 2: Let's see here.
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Speaker 1: Let's bet. How many ums did Cam Ward say? Let's
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Speaker 1: do a round robin bet here. I'm going to say
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Speaker 1: in 34 seconds Cam Ward said um... Nine times. Anybody
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Speaker 1: wanting on that? I was going to say eight.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we're close. Lorena?
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go with 12. Okay. Well, at least
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Speaker 1: you didn't completely box me in and say 10. So
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Speaker 1: I thank you for that. I appreciate that. All right,
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Speaker 1: so we're going to go. I'm saying nine. Coop says eight.
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Speaker 1: We'll just do the ums this time, and then we'll
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Speaker 1: count at the end of the day. But this is
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Speaker 1: just the ums. Let's count. Play along here as you listen.
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Speaker 1: Here is Cam Ward, professional football player, quarterback for the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. And a wonderful order. Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, people are weird.
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Speaker 3: They can say whatever they want at the end of
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Speaker 3: the day. But I think football will take care of
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Speaker 3: a lot of it. You know, my family know the
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Speaker 3: position I'm in. And, you know, they know, you know,
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Speaker 3: what I wanted, you know, my whole life. They're in
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Speaker 3: this position as well with me. And at the end
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Speaker 3: of the day, you know, we all, you know, take
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Speaker 3: within ourselves, not only myself, but every guy in the
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Speaker 3: locker room who's going to.
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Speaker 2: Go through adversity at some point.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, at the end of the day, you
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Speaker 3: just got to continue to, you know, prepare the same way,
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Speaker 3: continue to, you know, stay the same person.
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Speaker 2: You can never get too high, never get too low.
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Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, I mean, you
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Speaker 3: make plays on the football field, everything else, you know,
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Speaker 3: handles itself.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I won.
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Speaker 2: I won. I win.
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Speaker 1: I do want to point out, I had nine written down.
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Speaker 2: What do I win?
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Speaker 1: Do I get a golden ticket? You get a golden ticket, Ben.
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Speaker 1: I get a golden ticket.
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Speaker 2: I got a golden ticket.
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Speaker 1: I got a golden ticket. I got a golden ticket. Oh,
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Speaker 1: that's great. And I didn't cheat or anything. I just
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Speaker 1: thought it was easy. Because he normally does. No, I
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Speaker 1: don't cheat. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Surprised when
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Speaker 1: he actually gets it.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: Well, do we even need to play it again to
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Speaker 1: do the at the end of the day? I think
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Speaker 1: you said like three times. I think it might have
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Speaker 1: been four. I'm going to go four. All right, play
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Speaker 1: it one more time. Let's go. Here we go.
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Speaker 3: Cam Ward, one more time. I mean, at the end
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Speaker 3: of the day, people are weird. They can say whatever
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Speaker 3: they want at the end of the day. But I
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Speaker 3: think football will take care of a lot of it.
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Speaker 3: You know, my family know the position I'm in. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, they know, you know, what I wanted, you know,
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Speaker 3: my whole life. They're in this position as well with me.
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Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, you know, we all,
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Speaker 3: you know, take within ourselves, not only myself, but every
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Speaker 3: guy in the locker room who's going.
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Speaker 2: To go through adversity at some point.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, at the end of the day, you
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Speaker 3: just got to continue to– you know, prepare the same way,
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Speaker 3: continue to, you know, stay the same person. You can
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Speaker 3: never get too high, never get too low. And at
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Speaker 3: the end of the day, I mean, you make.
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Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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Speaker 1: Oh, no. Oh, all right.
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Speaker 2: Well, there you go. There's Cam Ward.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of end of the days, though. A
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Speaker 1: lot of ums and end of the days. You can
19:37
Speaker 1: never get too high or too low. If you cut
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Speaker 1: all those out, that might have been a 10-second soundbite.
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Speaker 1: That's the spokesman. That's the face of the Tennessee Titans
19:48
Speaker 1: right there. That's your CEO. Oh, my God. All right.
19:51
Speaker 1: It would be fine if he was good at football,
19:52
Speaker 1: but he sucks at that, too. So the question you
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Speaker 1: got Titans quarterback Cam Ward saying people are weird for
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Speaker 1: threatening his family online. How do you react to this one?
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: A man alive. Look, when Titans quarterback Cam Ward calls
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Speaker 1: people weird, it's actually, by the way, the song is
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Speaker 1: People Are Strange from The Doors. It's an old song,
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Speaker 1: People Are Strange. And sending online threats, he's missing the point.
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Speaker 1: Social media. is like a spaghetti western. It's the wild,
20:23
Speaker 1: wild west is what it is, except every cowboy is
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Speaker 1: hiding behind an anime avatar. Apparently, his family, I guess
20:32
Speaker 1: his sister just discovered the internet contains unpleasant people. If
20:36
Speaker 1: you really want to find out how unpleasant, do a
20:39
Speaker 1: daily talk show where you point out certain teams are
20:42
Speaker 1: frauds and see middle-aged and old Raider fans, for example,
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Speaker 1: lose their lunch because they're a bunch of morons. Anyway, listen,
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Speaker 1: stop the presses. Stop the presses. Back in the day,
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Speaker 1: the village idiot had to physically leave the village to
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Speaker 1: bother you. There was a time. There was a time.
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21:27
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21:37
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21:41
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21:44
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21:48
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21:59
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22:08
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22:11
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22:31
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23:03
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23:25
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26:30
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Speaker 1: There you go. Lawn God Larry writes in, you know,
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, he faced adversity, he said.
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Speaker 1: And Nada Burner says, does uh count as um? The
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Speaker 1: what sport, is the um and ah. And the people
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27:48
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Speaker 1: scramble to remember, although Cam Ward sounded like he was
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Speaker 1: He just kept saying um. Um, um, um, um, um.
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Speaker 2: Um, um, um, um, um.
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Speaker 1: Another great pet peeve of ours is the you know.
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Speaker 2: You know?
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Speaker 1: That's a good one, too.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Same thing. Same thing. You know is someone that has
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Speaker 1: poor conversation skills, and they keep saying, you know. It's
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Speaker 1: just a random factoid.
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Speaker 2: I guess.
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Speaker 1: Which one irritates you more? Well, they're both annoying.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Was always the one that got me, you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know, you know, got to go,
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Speaker 1: you know, got to go. Doc Dan writes in from Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: says the someone who works at the NFL who said
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Speaker 1: the call was wrong against the Rams has been identified.
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Speaker 1: I see what you did there. Eileen in San Francisco
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Speaker 1: the Monday night show, screeching about the Rams loss and
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Speaker 1: now more complaining. It's right. No justice, no peace, Eileen.
29:18
Speaker 1: I learned that from all you protesters. No justice, no peace.
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Speaker 1: Analog Al writes in, says they will fix it. They
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Speaker 1: being the NFL, they will screw another team before the
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Speaker 1: end of the season to make up for it. Probably
29:30
Speaker 1: a division game, especially after the last year two-point conversion debacle,
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Speaker 1: he says. Jerry in a Jar writes in. says cheating
29:41
Speaker 1: seems to follow Sean Payton. That was a terrible call.
29:45
Speaker 1: Absolutely terrible call. And our friend Jerry from Rhode Island.
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Speaker 1: friend of the show met jerry a couple times over
29:52
Speaker 1: the years she says great ripping of the red socks
29:56
Speaker 1: last hour i am severely fed up by watching 4a
30:00
Speaker 1: players when everyone has real mlb hitters well not the
30:04
Speaker 1: cubs uh like what contrera said computers not enough it
30:10
Speaker 1: does appear just having the supercomputer does not necessarily get
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Speaker 1: it done Curmudgeon Wayne in Duluth writes in, says, did
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Speaker 1: you see that J.J. McCarthy is number 18 now? I'm
30:24
Speaker 1: curious if he yelled at his new team that he's
30:27
Speaker 1: now 9 plus 9.
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Speaker 2: Hey-oh!
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Speaker 1: Curmudgeon Wayne will be at the Chuckles Comedy Club. He
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Speaker 1: will be appearing there all night. Let's go to the phones,
30:37
Speaker 1: and we'll say hello.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Anthony in Louisiana. Hello, Anthony.
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Speaker 2: Welcome.
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Speaker 4: Hey, man.
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Speaker 1: What's going on, Anthony?
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Speaker 4: How you doing?
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Speaker 1: And then I'm thinking about, well, maybe I should put
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Speaker 1: somebody on the podcast or maybe I should just rant.
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Speaker 1: You know, these are the things, Anthony, that go through
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Speaker 1: my mind. These are the things.
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Speaker 4: You pray for me now.
31:18
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to.
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Speaker 4: He's taking out today.
31:21
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. Today's the big day. Today is the day.
31:26
Speaker 1: It all goes down. We're thinking about you.
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Speaker 4: Be sure to call me tomorrow, Saturday.
31:31
Speaker 5: Check on me.
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Speaker 1: Oh, so don't call you today. Wait until Saturday to
31:35
Speaker 1: check on you?
31:35
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
31:37
Speaker 1: Are you going to be in the hospital for two
31:39
Speaker 1: days because you're having two teeth pulled? Is that what's
31:41
Speaker 1: going to happen?
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Speaker 4: No, I'm coming out the same day.
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Speaker 1: Oh, you're coming out the same day.
31:45
Speaker 4: All right.
31:46
Speaker 1: All right. Well, let's all pray for the mouth of
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Speaker 1: Anthony in Louisiana. Very important. Hey, cuz. Hey, guess what
31:53
Speaker 1: I made you?
31:55
Speaker 4: What? I like football.
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Speaker 1: You're a drop, Anthony. This is a big moment in
32:05
Speaker 1: a caller's life. Very few callers become a drop on
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Speaker 1: the show.
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Speaker 4: I like football. It's good to hear from.
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Speaker 2: You, Lorena.
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Speaker 1: Good to hear from you. Let me tell you, Anthony,
32:15
Speaker 1: how this is going to work, and we'll do a
32:16
Speaker 1: little play along with our friend Lorena. So if I'm
32:19
Speaker 1: talking baseball, and I say, hey, I think I've talked
32:22
Speaker 1: too much baseball. What should we talk about now?
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Speaker 5: I like football.
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Speaker 1: Okay, boom. See that?
32:27
Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: The man is overwhelmed. The man is emotionally overwhelmed. He
32:35
Speaker 1: can barely speak.
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Speaker 4: You pray for me, Lorraine.
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Speaker 1: I will, and I will play that drop while you're gone.
32:41
Speaker 1: I promise.
32:43
Speaker 4: And tell me to have the chicken.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
32:45
Speaker 4: All right.
32:46
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'll call you. I will try to remember
32:48
Speaker 1: to call you. And you will not answer your phone
32:51
Speaker 1: like all the other idiots that listen to the show
32:53
Speaker 1: that give me their number and then don't answer their phone.
32:55
Speaker 1: Just saying.
32:56
Speaker 4: I like football.
32:58
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:59
Speaker 1: Let's go to— here' s a blast from the past. This guy
33:02
Speaker 1: used to be a celebrity caller, and he retired. Sir Scratchoff. Hello,
33:05
Speaker 1: Sir Scratchoff. Welcome. In Arkansas. Sir Scratchoff going once, going twice.
33:16
Speaker 1: Sir Scratchoff has gone. Bye-bye. He's not there. Let's say
33:21
Speaker 1: hello to Jared, who's in South Dakota. What's going on, Jared?
33:25
Speaker 4: Welcome.
33:25
Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show on Fox.
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Speaker 4: Dave, this is great. I've tried to call in many
33:32
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33:35
Speaker 4: I never get a chance to get through because I
33:38
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33:40
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33:43
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33:46
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33:50
Speaker 4: night and I appreciate it.
33:53
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. And Coop, make sure to save that
33:56
Speaker 1: for a future open to the show. We need that.
33:59
Speaker 1: Can you do that again and say the Ben Maler
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34:17
Speaker 4: Well, the Ben Maller Show keeps me entertained at night.
34:20
Speaker 4: I never used to look forward to going to work.
34:23
Speaker 4: One day I'm flipping through the channels, used to listen
34:26
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34:34
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34:43
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34:47
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Speaker 2: No?
34:51
Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you for listening. And you're off
34:54
Speaker 1: work tonight? You're not obviously working because you're able to.
34:56
Speaker 4: No, I'm just between calls. Oh, okay.
35:01
Speaker 1: Okay. And you're driving... What city are you in?
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Speaker 4: Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It's the only town in this
35:09
Speaker 4: state that you would need... ride services because it's the
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Speaker 4: so the only town here it's very uh very small
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Speaker 4: population but about 200 000 people.
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Speaker 1: Here so well that's not bad and are you from
35:25
Speaker 1: there or did you move there i.
35:28
Speaker 4: Moved here from a farm in nebraska and so we're
35:32
Speaker 4: uh we're huge football fans you know we got the
35:34
Speaker 4: corn huskers but i got to remind you you know
35:37
Speaker 4: those those rams they got a call a few years
35:39
Speaker 4: back i don't know if you remember that pi.
35:41
Speaker 1: So That was a great call. That was a great call, sir.
35:46
Speaker 1: It was a tremendous officiating in New Orleans that day.
35:48
Speaker 1: I love that officiating. So I did. Thank you for listening.
35:52
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35:53
Speaker 2: All right.
35:54
Speaker 1: There you go.
35:55
Speaker 2: Our new friend.
35:57
Speaker 1: That's driving around. enjoying his life, listening to our show
36:01
Speaker 1: late at night. Let's say hello quickly. I got a
36:04
Speaker 1: little time. By the way, the Mike Tomlin going viral story,
36:09
Speaker 1: that would be he has revealed his Minecraft city. He
36:15
Speaker 1: had talked about this a couple weeks ago, and I
36:17
Speaker 1: guess he's now released it, and it's out and about
36:22
Speaker 1: and all that.
36:23
Speaker 4: So....
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Speaker 1: His highly detailed Minecraft said he spent 12 years building
36:28
Speaker 1: this across multiple console generations. There's a 19-minute YouTube video,
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Speaker 1: which has gone viral here, of Tomlin showcasing his work. Now,
36:40
Speaker 1: he did this because his kids, he wanted to relate
36:42
Speaker 1: to his kids. And, you know, kids hate football, I guess.
36:45
Speaker 1: And so your dad's the coach of the Steelers. Might
36:47
Speaker 1: as well not pay attention to that and just play Minecraft.
36:50
Speaker 1: And so that's what his kids did. And eventually this
36:53
Speaker 1: became a thing, a hobby. for Mike Tomlin, and now
36:57
Speaker 1: the world can see his hard work. And it was
37:00
Speaker 1: pretty funny, though. Le'Veon Bell, remember him, Le'Veon Bell, the
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Speaker 1: guy that, what was his line? He didn't know you
37:06
Speaker 1: could get driving under the influence smoking weed. Wasn't that
37:09
Speaker 1: Le'Veon Bell? I believe it was. Le'Veon Bell on social
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Speaker 1: media said, we were trying to win Super Bowls, and
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Speaker 1: Coach Tomlin was on a Minecraft building thing, building cities.
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Speaker 2: That's about right.
37:21
Speaker 1: All right, I've got to leave some time for Benny
37:23
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37:24
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37:45
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38:07
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Speaker 1: The NLDS is here streaming live on Fox 1. Padres
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Speaker 1: and Brewers, Dodgers versus either the Phillies or the Braves,
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Speaker 1: both NLDS series can be seen on Fox 1. Every
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Speaker 1: hit could be the one that changes everything. Stream the
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Speaker 1: MLB postseason live on Fox 1. All right, back to it.
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Speaker 1: Pay off the Insta trivia. Ben Johnson at 14-7-1 against
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Speaker 1: the spread. That's a 670 winning percentage as the Bears
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Speaker 1: head coach. The best against the spread start for any
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Speaker 1: Bears coach in the Super Bowl era, breaking the mark
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Speaker 1: held by me. Robbie the Mariner fan going with Jim Tomsulu,
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Speaker 1: who famously farted during a news conference. Lovey Smith from Mr. Irrigation.
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Speaker 1: And CJ Stroud, thank you, he says. What else do
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Speaker 1: we have? Jimmy Neutron from Gunner in Minnesota. Ranger Smith
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Speaker 1: from Chattanooga.
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Speaker 2: And the Q's.
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Speaker 1: Who else? Page Down. Daryl Bevel from Shane in Des Moines.
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Speaker 1: Dick Vermeule from Rebecca the Ram Fan. Antonio Santander from Natata. Natata.
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Speaker 2: Natata.
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Speaker 1: Natata from LAX. Do you have an answer? Very quickly.
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Speaker 2: Boosie the Beaver.
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Speaker 1: No. It is Matt Nagy. Matt Nagy had the previous record,
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Speaker 1: who's now the offensive coordinator, I believe, with the Giants.
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Speaker 1: Here we go.
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Speaker 2: Here we go.
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Speaker 5: Here we go.
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Speaker 2: Here we go. Here we go.
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Speaker 1: How about that?
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Speaker 2: To the third degree.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. I totally forgot.
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Speaker 1: It's just not what I'm used to anymore. I understand.
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Speaker 2: Hold on a second.
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Speaker 1: Let me get this one. It's all right. Well, we
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Speaker 1: don't have time.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. It's fine.
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Speaker 1: This is good.
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Speaker 2: This is good. All right.
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Speaker 1: We really don't have time.
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Speaker 2: Yes. All right.
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Speaker 1: Let's do it. Pittsburgh 2-1. And they're a two-and-a-half point
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Speaker 1: road favorite at Cleveland. It's on Amazon, Al Michaels and Herbie.
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Speaker 1: Temps in the 70s tonight in Cleveland. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: early October. A slight chance of rain. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: take the Steelers. Now, I went back and forth in
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Speaker 1: this game, but I feel more comfortable with the Steelers here,
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Speaker 1: mainly because of their defense here. The pass rush should
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Speaker 1: cause all kinds of problems to the creepy quarterback, Deshaun Watson.
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Speaker 1: And as long as you don't give the ball away,
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, control the field position, make Cleveland drive 70-plus yards,
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Speaker 1: the Steelers should... easily cover the spell i have to
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Speaker 1: do is win by a field goal so i'm going
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Speaker 1: to take pittsburgh aaron rogers and that defense kuba loop
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Speaker 1: you're representing the penny who does the penny like penny
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Speaker 1: agrees with you again on primetime likes the stealers i've
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Speaker 1: been doing well these thursday games i've been doing pretty
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Speaker 1: well so there you go penny versus the penny you
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Speaker 1: better not f this up pittsburgh don't screw this up
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Speaker 1: stealers do not do it