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Hour 1 - Boondoggle at The Big House · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Yabba-dabba-doo! It's hour number one! Hour one, ready for some fun.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Labor Day weekend. This would actually be the holiday.
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  Speaker 1: You knew that already.
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  Speaker 2: So here in hour number one of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: Show on this Monday, the seventh day of September, we
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  Speaker 2: start with the story of the weekend in college football.
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  Speaker 2: A very shady move by the Big Ten. Many people
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  Speaker 2: up in arms over the added second. The first time
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  Speaker 2: ever a team has lost a college football game when
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  Speaker 2: they led at the end of regulation. And that would
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  Speaker 2: be Western Michigan. What is the word for Michigan of
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  Speaker 2: the Big Ten getting an extra play, an extra second
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  Speaker 2: to beat Western Michigan on a Hail Mary also? Can
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  Speaker 2: new Michigan coach Kyle Whittingham exhale after his Hail Mary
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  Speaker 2: victory for the Wolverines on Saturday? Very controversial. And on
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  Speaker 3: Here it is.
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  Speaker 2: Give way, make way for our number one. The boondoggle
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  Speaker 2: at the big house. Well, that's what everyone's yapping about.
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  Speaker 3: A brand new week now. It is here Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the show there, idiot.
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  Speaker 2: We hear from people we don't normally hear from. So
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  Speaker 2: you'd figure, hey, it's... Heading into a Monday, a Labor Day.
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  Speaker 2: Start with some college football from Sunday. But the games,
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  Speaker 2: I guess I could talk about Ole Miss and Louisville.
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  Speaker 3: The story, though. Play the hits, my man. Play the hits.
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  Speaker 2: And there is no story more compelling, more redonkulous than
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  Speaker 2: what happened back on Saturday in the college football weekend.
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  Speaker 2: And my, oh, my.
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  Speaker 3: Who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 2: We go back to a game that was not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be close, a game that was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: blowout city, Michigan, playing one of those paycheck games where
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  Speaker 2: they pay the opponent, come on in, we'll kick the
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  Speaker 2: snot out of your nose and send you without any
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  Speaker 2: mucus in your nostrils out of town and we'll give
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  Speaker 2: you a check for your trouble. So show up, hey, win,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's happy, we're off and running and Well, that didn't happen,
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  Speaker 2: and it looked like it did happen. A second opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: a second chance, a game-ending Hail Mary as quarterback Bryce Underwood,
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  Speaker 2: who was not only a quarterback, he was terrible for
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  Speaker 2: the Michigan Wolverines, but he connected with somebody named J.J.
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  Speaker 3: Buchanan.
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  Speaker 2: For a stunning, heart-wrenching, I can't believe it. That didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: How was that allowed to happen?
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  Speaker 3: F-up.
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  Speaker 2: F-up city. A 47-yard Hail Mary. Touchdown pass. And number 16, Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: By the skin on their chinny-chin-chin, they get a win
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  Speaker 2: over Western Michigan 13-12. Even though the Big Ten magically.
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  Speaker 3: And it is magically delicious.
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  Speaker 2: They produced a replay center video claiming that it supported
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  Speaker 2: the one-second ruling. There's not a single man, woman, or child,
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  Speaker 2: not a single man, woman, or child that watched that
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  Speaker 2: broadcast on NBC that believes that's authentic. That is some
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  Speaker 2: fresh bull crap is what that is. Holy crap is
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  Speaker 2: that bull crap.
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  Speaker 3: They just added a second. They just gave a second.
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  Speaker 3: You can't give it.
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  Speaker 1: You can't give.
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  Speaker 3: Back a second. They did.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the point of having the clock on the TV?
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  Speaker 3: Dummies.
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  Speaker 2: My God. Live television. Game over. Western Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You just won the biggest game of your lives.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you going to go? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Back out to defend another play because Michigan needed another
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to win the game?
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  Speaker 3: My God.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the NBC rules analyst, Terry McAuley, said that the
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  Speaker 2: ball appeared to still be airborne when the TV clock
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  Speaker 2: hit zero.
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  Speaker 3: You know why it appeared to be that way? Because,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it was. It was.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the Big Ten has been trying to put out
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  Speaker 2: fires ever since this game ended. And they later on
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  Speaker 2: said they synchronized the stadium clock. And it showed that
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  Speaker 2: Western Michigan's Micah Davis touched the ball with one second remaining.
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  Speaker 3: And the Mac, of course.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much they got, but they play
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  Speaker 2: along saying that the supplied video and audio confirmed the explanation.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so that is a good jumping-off point. Let
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  Speaker 2: us discuss the question. Give me the word. What is
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  Speaker 2: the word? Give me the word for Michigan getting an
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  Speaker 2: extra second, an extra play, which turned out to be
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  Speaker 2: the difference in beating Western Michigan. So I've got goldfish tank.
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  Speaker 2: Auntie Anne's and Hammerhead Shark. And we will combine all
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  Speaker 2: of these things together and we're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: delicious dragon fruit is what we're going to have. It's
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  Speaker 2: a fun, fun fruit. It's an exotic fruit, the dragon fruit.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have a dragon fruit.
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  Speaker 3: So, A, my word.
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  Speaker 2: What is the word for Michigan getting the extra second
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  Speaker 2: against Western Michigan? My word is carnival. That is my word.
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  Speaker 2: As in, a pure, unfiltered carnival of stupidity and absurdity and.
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  Speaker 3: All of that. Welcome to the Big Ten bailout.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the stadium clock there at Michigan Stadium, 0-0-0. Apparently, though,
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  Speaker 2: that is merely a suggestion. That is not the actual time.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the point of having the stadium scoreboard clock.
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  Speaker 2: Can someone explain that to me? No, you can't because
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  Speaker 2: it makes no effing sense. No effing sense. So Western Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't give two rats' asses about Western Michigan. They
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  Speaker 2: got hosed, though, the Broncos of Western Michigan. So Western
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  Speaker 2: Michigan played until the clock ran out, which I guess
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  Speaker 2: I'm old. That's how you were supposed to play. Clock
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  Speaker 2: runs out.
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  Speaker 3: Game over. Move on.
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  Speaker 2: Celebrate or complain or any of that. So Western Michigan
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  Speaker 2: plays until the clock goes to zero. They celebrate because
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  Speaker 2: they'd won the game because that's what happens when the
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  Speaker 2: game ends and one team's winning and the other team's losing.
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  Speaker 2: The team that's winning celebrates. So they started their celebration.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: We need some help. Hold on. Big brother. Big brother.
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  Speaker 3: Big brother. My God. So the clock runs out. And
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize this.
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  Speaker 2: And nobody really other than, I guess, Michigan players realized
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  Speaker 2: that you need to play not just 60 minutes in
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  Speaker 2: but an extra second, an extra second. So now you
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  Speaker 2: want conspiracy theories, right up the wazoo, right up the
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  Speaker 2: wazoo here. This is how you manufacture conspiracy theories. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I remember talking to somebody a couple of years back
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  Speaker 2: and they said, well, Ben, the days of the great
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  Speaker 2: conspiracy theory are over because of the interweb.
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  Speaker 3: And you hear stories in the old days.
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  Speaker 2: About things that teams did to manipulate outcomes of games
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  Speaker 2: and leagues and You thought, well, with the internet age,
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  Speaker 2: it's really difficult. You can't really do that stuff anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And then Michigan and the Big Ten get involved. My God.
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  Speaker 2: It's that second. Where did it come from? Can you
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  Speaker 2: buy a second? Can any team trail?
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  Speaker 3: How about a minute? Can you buy an extra minute?
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  Speaker 3: What if you need an extra minute?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: Where do you buy that?
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  Speaker 2: Where do you go? It's like a clockmaker somewhere. You
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  Speaker 2: contact them.
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  Speaker 3: And no. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So the Big Ten replay booth performed CPR on Michigan season,
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  Speaker 2: just like that little CPR. And somewhere in the replay center,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, was in Chicago. The replay official, one of
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  Speaker 2: the guys in the back of the room yelled, wait,
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  Speaker 2: I found another second. What was in the back of
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  Speaker 2: the sofa under the pillow? Look, there's a second right there.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing. I always thought like we're all going to die.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of living. You know, it sucks, but we're
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  Speaker 2: all going to die. And I wouldn't be great if
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  Speaker 2: you're in your deathbed.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Let me call the Big Ten. I want to live
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  Speaker 2: a little longer. Let me get a little time. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten, replay center, can you give me some more time?
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like dying today.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, good. We'll give you a few more seconds. Why not? Okay, wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: They had that rubber-stamped block M on the extra second there.
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  Speaker 2: It was like going to see Penn and Teller. Like
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  Speaker 2: they pulled a second out of that goldfish tank thing
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  Speaker 2: that they do.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, look. Look, Teller just pulled out a second. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: So Michigan went from 0-0-0 on the clock to one second.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like those shady car people that turn
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  Speaker 2: back the odometer on those old cars. Yeah, it's turn
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  Speaker 2: back the odometer. So welcome to the Make-A-Wish Big Ten
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  Speaker 2: Replay Center, where your wish is our command.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. It's like Mario Kart officiating. It's what it was.
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  Speaker 2: Michigan hit the question box, and they got an extra life.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: You just play Mario Kart, hit the thing, and then
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  Speaker 2: you get an extra life, and that's it. And poor
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  Speaker 2: Western Michigan. They got the full airport experience, the Broncos–
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  Speaker 2: of Western Michigan. Your flight has departed, but somehow Michigan
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  Speaker 2: still got on the plane. Holy, I happened to be
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  Speaker 2: watching this game. A buddy of mine was at the game.
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  Speaker 2: We were texting back and forth. It was a terrible game.
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  Speaker 2: Not a lot of offense. And then it is now
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  Speaker 2: went from horrific to one of the most memorable games ever.
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  Speaker 2: in this generation of college football.
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  Speaker 3: What happened?
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  Speaker 2: All right, meanwhile, keeping the theme of the hour going here,
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  Speaker 2: and we focus in on longtime Utah Utes coach Kyle Whittingham,
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  Speaker 2: who is now.
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  Speaker 3: The head coach at Michigan. What is a Ute? Well,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't have to worry about that anymore. He has
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  Speaker 3: to worry about what a Wolverine is.
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  Speaker 2: So Kyle Whittingham made his, I wouldn't say much Ballyhoo debut,
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  Speaker 2: but he made his debut. Always put respectable, well-coached, disciplined
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  Speaker 2: teams on the field at Utah. They're in Salt Lake
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  Speaker 2: and now at Michigan after all these shenanigans.
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  Speaker 6: In recent years, they're like, we need an adult in
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  Speaker 6: the room is what we need. We need a seasoned
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  Speaker 6: football coach. So they brought this guy in. And he
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  Speaker 6: made his debut there with the Maize and Blue. And
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  Speaker 6: it was, again, a El Stinko. El Stinko of a game.
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  Speaker 2: And yet will be remembered for the ages because of
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  Speaker 2: what happened after the 60-minute mark, 60 minutes and one second.
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  Speaker 2: So the question is this. Can the new Michigan coach,
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Whittingham, exhale? Can he exhale now after that Hail
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  Speaker 2: Mary victory as Michigan is off to the 1-0 start now?
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  Speaker 2: And what was going to happen, what should have happened,
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  Speaker 2: did not happen at the end of that game.
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  Speaker 3: So, hell no! Hell no!
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Whittingham did not get the win. He survived a
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  Speaker 2: near-death experience with the toe tag already being filled out
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  Speaker 2: for winning him. The Michigan fans, this is how embarrassing
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  Speaker 2: this was. This was one of the all-time embarrassing moments
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  Speaker 2: in the history of major college football. Did you see
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  Speaker 2: what happened after the extra second was added that shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been added? If you were not paying attention. So
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  Speaker 2: the Michigan fans stormed the field.
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  Speaker 3: Let me repeat.
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  Speaker 2: The Michigan fans, big bad, bad-ass, Big Ten Michigan football
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  Speaker 2: stormed the field after beating.
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  Speaker 3: A Mac team. Hello? The Mac daddy.
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  Speaker 2: You beat the Mac at home and you sell it
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  Speaker 2: because the fans knew it was Fugazi.
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  Speaker 3: It was Fugazi is what it was.
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  Speaker 7: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Do you understand how humiliating this is?
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The Wolverines were.
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  Speaker 2: A 27 and a half point favorite at home against
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  Speaker 2: a Mac opponent.
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  Speaker 3: And the fans stormed the field. Embarrassed and angry mob
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  Speaker 3: would have been waiting for the coach. Anyway, here's the coach.
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  Speaker 3: I believe we have Kyle Whittingham.
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  Speaker 2: This is his commentary after the one or no start,
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  Speaker 2: which was really kind of embarrassing, but you'll hear what
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  Speaker 2: he has to say.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 5: This game will go down in history, Michigan history. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know if it's in a positive way, but it'll
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  Speaker 5: go down in history for certain. And, uh, Bottom line
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  Speaker 5: is we're 1-0, but the reality is we have got
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  Speaker 5: a lot to fix, a lot of things to address.
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  Speaker 5: The things that we didn't do well, we didn't play
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  Speaker 5: the run well on defense. We didn't run the ball
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  Speaker 5: well on offense. We lost the turnover margin three zip.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't make enough first downs. All this is squarely
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  Speaker 5: on my shoulders. There's no doubt about that, and I've
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  Speaker 5: got to do a better job preparing this football team.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm going to tell you right now, there was
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  Speaker 5: not a lot of hooting and hollering in that locker room.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, there was none because we understand that we've
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  Speaker 5: got a lot of work to do and that we
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  Speaker 5: have got to be much, much better than we were tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the fans were hooting and hollering.
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  Speaker 2: And if that extra second hadn't been added by the
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  Speaker 2: guardian angel for the Michigan Wolverines, then the angry mob
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  Speaker 2: would have had their torches all lit up, the pitchforks ready, ready.
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  Speaker 3: To storm the football office there. And there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Michigan, it's like a religious revival. Born again, the Michigan Wolverines.
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  Speaker 2: They sucked for 60 minutes, but they were great for
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  Speaker 2: one second. And that extra one second is all they
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  Speaker 2: needed there. It's like, I guess it's now like soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten football is like Premier League. They have stoppage
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  Speaker 2: time now where they just add a second.
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  Speaker 3: That's great.
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  Speaker 2: Is Ohio State going to need it? Who else in
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  Speaker 2: the Big Ten is going to need it? USC is
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  Speaker 2: going to need this? That's so stupid. USC is in
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  Speaker 2: the Big Ten, isn't it? My God, is that stupid.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of dumb things. That's the West Coast
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten contingent right up there with dum-da-dum-dum-dum. Now, Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned Kyle Whittingham at Utah, always known for putting
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  Speaker 2: disciplined teams together that were well-coached. Michigan had nine penalties
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  Speaker 2: for 80 yards. Western Michigan had more first downs than... Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: they lost in regulation, Michigan did. Got conference-issued resurrection papers
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  Speaker 2: from the Big Ten replay booth. And then Michigan, of course,
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  Speaker 2: needing that Hail Mary there to escape with a one-point victory.
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  Speaker 2: And Winningham went ride or die. The main point of
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  Speaker 2: contention is if you saw any of this game or
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  Speaker 2: heard it on the radio, that in any measurement, the
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  Speaker 2: Michigan Wolverines do not have a quarterback. How does that happen?
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  Speaker 2: I don't care how hard Bryce Underwood works. The guy's terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Holy crap. He sucks.
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  Speaker 2: You can't find a better quarterback than this guy? And
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  Speaker 2: winning him is ride or die. And maybe I missed it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't pay that close attention. But what did Underwood
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  Speaker 2: do to earn that level of trust from his head coach?
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  Speaker 2: Because he doesn't appear to know what he's doing. So
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  Speaker 2: he played... like it was Auntie Ann's pretzel shop. He
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  Speaker 2: was twisted into a soft pretzel by a Mac defense.
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  Speaker 2: By a Mac defense. And he's going to go out
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  Speaker 2: there and win the Big Ten and lead Michigan to
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  Speaker 2: the promised land and all that?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's your quarterback. You don't have a backup? Do they
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  Speaker 2: not carry a backup? Is it a one quarterback operation
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  Speaker 2: there in Ann Arbor?
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  Speaker 3: My God. They don't have a competent backup on the road?
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  Speaker 3: Apparently not.
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  Speaker 2: So, Obviously, you don't exhale Coach Whittingham. You don't. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't beat the executioner. The electric chair lost power.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody in Chicago turned off the power. All right, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: last word. I must mention this. Several of you reached
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  Speaker 2: out to me and said, did you see.
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  Speaker 3: What this a-hole's doing? I said, what are you talking about?
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: So Kirk Herbstreet, Herbie, as he's called, we go to
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the merch department over the weekend. So ABC's Kirk Herbstreet
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: has launched something called the Peter Fan Club. It's all
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: about his golden retriever, Peter.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: You seen it?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: No?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: You did see it. Okay, good.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: All right, so Peter, who succeeded Ben, the golden retriever.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Ben is dead. So they have Peter now, the golden retriever.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: This is the dog that gets VIP treatment on planes, trains,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: and automobiles, gets a press credential. All the things that
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: normal people don't get, the dog gets. Traveling companion. I
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: guess Herb Street doesn't have any family. Anyway, a Peter
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: fan club pop-up store. debuted in baton rouge this happened
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: during college game day lsu's visit there and all to
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: help all with the help i should say of the
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: people over at raising canes it is expected to travel
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: around with college game day merchandise includes t-shirts hats, hoodies, stickers.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I'm sure there's some koozies in there, dog bandanas, all
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: that stuff. And they claim that some proceeds go to charity.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: So the question.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: On the Malheur scale of absurd, the Malheur scale of absurd,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: 1 to 10, 1 to 10. How ridiculous is a
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: traveling Peter Herbstreet the dog?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Merch store.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: A pop-up merch store traveling around for college football. So
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: on the Mallard scale of absurd 1 to 10, I
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: wrote down on my scorecard a 75, which, oh, by
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the way, is the same price as a hoodie for
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Peter the dog. Who's spending $ 75 on a Peter Herbstreet
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the dog hoodie?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Just announce, hey, I'm a loser. I'm a loser. Capital
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: L loser. My God.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Now, I will point out, when I first saw this,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: and I was a little hazy when I saw this,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I thought this was satire. Another one of these stories
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: that happens at least once a week, I thought, no,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: this is AI. I was convinced, no, no, no, no,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: you're not going to do this. This is really good AI.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was the chat GPT or
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Grok or I don't know, or the Google Gemini.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but it was AI. No, it's real.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: At what point did a Saturday afternoon football matchup require
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: a canine haberdashery?
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: When did that happen?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: All right, so Peter has apparently become like a Ralph
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Lauren with the paws there. And I guess ABC, ESPN
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: are in cahoots on this. They helped create the monster.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: And now what does he get? Full-time cast member status
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: at Disney. They're going to have him in the Main
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Street USA parade and all that stuff. So I guess
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: college game day has now become QVC for a golden retriever.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Even Gene Simmons, the great Gene Simmons, looking at this thinking, yeah,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: that's a little much. That's just a little too much.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: He just went a little too far. So we can
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: now say.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Officially, without any doubt, that Kirk Herbstreit, beloved broadcaster of
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: college football who doesn't know much about the NFL but
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: for some reason is allowed to do Amazon games. Kirk Herbstreit,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: his dog schtick, his dog schtickala, has officially jumped the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: hammerhead shark. It has officially jumped. The hammerhead shark, that's it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: And they think sports fans are just complete rubes, total suckers.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: They must.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: To think that people are going to drop $ 45 on
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: a trucker hat for Peter the dog. It's not even
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: your pet. It's somebody else's pet. Maybe I should get
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: in on this also. Rather than ripping Herbstreet, my dog's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: cuter than his dog. Moxie kicks that dog's ass. Moxie
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: will kill that dog.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Damn straight.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Come on. I could sell Moxie merch. Mallor Moxie merch. Hey,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: why not? Dumb people are going to buy stuff. I
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: can sell that. What the hell?
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And the other thing that always annoys me, this really
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: drove me nuts, they hide behind the charity thing. Well,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: proceeds go to charity. That drives me insane. That is
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: the ultimate cover for a hustle. That's the ultimate cover
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: for a hustle, the charity angle. Peter is not a
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: golden retriever anymore. He's a golden revenue stream is what
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: he is.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: So there you go. By the way, your dog does
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: not need merch. Yeah, I know.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I know your dog does not need merch. You know
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: what your dog needs? This is going to blow you away.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: And I know it's an unpopular opinion. I know.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Your dog needs a bowl of water and a tennis ball.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. Oh, Mal, you're such a hater.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I know. Dogs don't need a.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Bowl of water and a tennis ball or another chew
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: toy or any of that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: But there you go.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Peter the dog, not man's best friend, man's best side hustle.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: It was fair to say. All right, it is the
• 24:09
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• 24:11
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• 24:14
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• 24:17
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• 24:22
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• 24:24
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• 24:25
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• 24:51
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• 25:32
  Speaker 2: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio on a
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend, laboring away over the red-hot microphones here
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: at Fox Sports Radio. We labored all weekend with new
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: episodes of the 5th Hour Podcast, including the first-ever round-robin mailbag.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Had to go out and buy a gizmo, so the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: tech-incompetent Weed Man, he's just not technically savvy.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Was able to be on.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: We had JT the Wingman, the legend, the great JT
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: the Wingman. Wow.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: And Lisa, by the way.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Weed Man had to get Lisa on there. So it
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: was four people to do a 30-minute mailbag podcast.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: We actually went longer than that.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: So you want to hear that? Fifth hour podcast. Don't
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: listen now, you idiot, because we're doing the live show.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: But later on today, when those boring daytime shows are on,
• 26:20
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• 26:24
  Speaker 2: the fifth hour podcast, the mailbag with Lisa. Zany questions
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: that often have nothing to do with anything. Just ridiculousness.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: And even a story where Weed Man again wanted me
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: to get him a job. He asked me during the
• 26:39
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• 26:41
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• 26:43
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• 26:43
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• 26:44
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• 26:47
  Speaker 3: It's A.I.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: And right over there, back from the injury tent and
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: made an amazing recovery, Lorena.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: I'm still sick. No, you're not.
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: Yes, I am.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: I don't believe you. You should hear me cough. That's all.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: You're doing a voice modulation thing.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: And I got a nose.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Lorena can be
• 27:18
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• 27:21
  Speaker 2: And Coop a Loop at a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Bronco fan, your comments can and will be used against
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: you in the.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Court of sports radio. So please act accordingly. Back to it.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: JJ in Renton writes in.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: It's nice to know JJ is giving us his weekend
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: video recap. He had the most masculine weekend you can have.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: There's a video JJ sent me. Our buddy JJ in Renton, Washington,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: who was at the Mallard meet and greet back years ago, 2019.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: And JJ firing guns at a shooting range and driving
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: a dirt bike. I can just feel the testosterone dripping
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: out of that post. What else do we have? Kev
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Atomic writes in. He says, hey, Maller, I wonder if
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: George Norrie will do a show on the Michigan game.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: It may have involved aliens or the paranormal.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Now, George is busy.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Are they still talking about chemtrails over there or shapeshifters?
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I didn't see George's car. Maybe he's
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: working remote. I didn't see his car in the parking
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: lot when I. When I got here, Doc Dan writes in,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: he says, the no-show explained this morning from his personal
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: previous working experience how the missing second was basically impossible.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: The TV, stadium, game, et cetera, clocks are linked together.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Of course, we love the no-show, but we don't need
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: the no-show to tell us. It's just common sense. And
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: what I want to know, if I was a Western
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Michigan backer, I don't know that they have powerful alumni.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I doubt they do at Western Michigan. It's more of
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: a smaller school. But how pissed would I be if
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I was a supporter of Western Michigan, these incompetent bozos,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: these boobs that are in charge of the football program
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: come out there and say, oh, there's really nothing going
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: on here. And the guy going on TV and bragging
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: about his credentials, the Western Michigan president cited federal prosecutor
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: credentials on CNN while reviewing the Michigan ruling.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: And that's a sign there's some silliness, in my opinion,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: going on. Can't sue me because it's my opinion. I'm
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: entitled to my opinion. When we lose that, I'm screwed.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: But my opinion, there's some funny business. Is it true that,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: let's say, Western Michigan got a little extravagant bumpity bump
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: in that paycheck to make sure that they didn't raise
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: a hullabaloo could that have possibly happened i'm just saying
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying it seems very odd to me. What
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: would have been the single greatest moment in the history
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: of that football program? Probably ever in our lifetimes anyway.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: And they were robbed of it by some bull crap.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: I got no skin in the game. I didn't bet
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: on the game. I was just happy to have it on.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I was watching it. And the main reason I was
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: watching is because the Clemson game. was delayed for two
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: hours because of what had happened with the weather in
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Baton Rouge.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: So that game was late. So I just said, all right,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: watch the Michigan game. It was close. Michigan was going
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: to lose. So I didn't turn over.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I was flipping back and forth, but I didn't really
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: focus on the Clemson game against LSU, which was not
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: much of a game. Tremendously terrible effort by Clemson.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: More on that later. So I was watching the Michigan game.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I got into it. I was like, all right, fine.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: This is crazy. It's going to be an upset.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Because Western Michigan was right there in striking distance to
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: pull off the upset.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: And then to have that happen in the end. Man.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Keith in NorCal says, hot Peter talk in the air everywhere.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Truth in broadcasting. You don't think that's ridiculous? Peter pop-up.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: A dog gets a pop-up store? Peter the dog?
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: What's wrong with you? Mark the Walker, who took shots
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: at me for my taste in meat. Mark says, top-notch
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Mallard monologue. The word I could use for that game
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: is criminal. That was the biggest televised ripoff since the
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Seinfeld finale. And that found second was only the tip
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: of the iceberg. The refs gift-wrapped at least six calls
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: for Michigan. There have been a lot of bad endings
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: to TV shows. Not that really they have to worry
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: about that anymore because TV– It's much different than it
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: was back in those days. Remember the end of The
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Sopranos was not particularly good. They were supposed to make
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: a Sopranos movie, and then Tony Soprano died, so that
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: kind of ruined the whole thing. Inca Terror writes in
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: from New York, classically trained musician, and he says, Benny,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: working for us on Labor Day, you are still a
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: man of the people. You should start a whole Malheur
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: merch line for dogs, past and present. You've got Kramer, Willis,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: and Parker the Snow Dog.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Rest in peace, Parker the Snow Dog, our beloved Parker
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: the Snow Dog. What a great dog that was. We
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: miss Parker the Snow Dog, the unofficial mascot of the
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Denver Broncos. Just absolutely, absolutely tremendous. And there's that. And
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: let's not also forget my dog, Bella. The late, great Bella,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: who's hanging out with Parker the Snow Dog and Kramer. Kramer,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: who famously, that was back when Blind Scott was with
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: the show and we were at a restaurant in Boston
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: and Kramer attacked the waitress at the pizza place. And
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Blind Scott didn't realize it because he's blind and it
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: was very awkward. And I didn't quite know how to.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: handle that situation. Let's see. Dan writes in. He says,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Maller will be fangirling out like a teenage girl at
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: a BTS concert when the Peter Herbstreet pop-up store arrives
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: in LA, ravaging all the merch he can get and
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: posting it on his social media like an influencer. Yes,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get the Peter poster. The Peter the
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: dog poster is what I'm going to get. That's so stupid.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: How hammered Do these people have to be like, I
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: know what I'm going to do. Let's get the Peter
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: the Dog pop-up store. That seems like a good idea.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Why not? What the hell? All right, let's go to
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: the phones, and let's.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Say hello to Van, who is in Duluth, and Van
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: is in the leadoff chair on this Labor Day weekend.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Hello, Van. Welcome. You're on the Ben Mather Show on Fox. Hello, Van.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Hello there, Ben.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: What's up? One term came to mind. as to what
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: happened to Western Michigan. They were anally Michigandered.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: They were probed.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: It was like an alien probe is what you're saying, Van.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying?
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: They bent over for Ann Arbor.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: That was crazy.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: It's hard to count your toes that way. But, you know,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: as for the dogs, rough. I mean, it was rough.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: So look at that. You know, really rough.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: But doesn't there have to be some kind of change
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: if the clock on TV and in the stadium doesn't
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: matter and you can just make up the... I've heard,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this, Van, people do
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: bet on these games. And I'm sure there's somebody out
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: there that lost an S-load of money on the money
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: line betting on Michigan to win because they were such
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: a huge favorite, thought they'd win easily, and they just
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: had to win by a point.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Just perhaps, Van, instead of going by... Greenwich Mean Time,
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: they were going by the Einsteinian theory of relativity, where
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: it's like a second can be a million years. Well, okay.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Then everybody break your clocks.
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: Oh, sure.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Or the other possibility. Break your what? Clocks, I think
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: you said. Do I need to do that?
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Or crotch. Or it's like the Big Ten.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: How about this?
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: So the Big Ten is so powerful, Van, They've got
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: so much clout, right? That's the top conference, not the
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: SEC anymore. The Big Ten's the top conference in college football.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: So they've somehow channeled like the Green Lantern or they
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: found a way, the Flash, to stop time or add time, right? Dr.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Strange. Maybe they hired Dr. Strange. How about that?
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: So they already sucked up the Pac-10 like a vacuum cleaner.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: But only the good teams from the Pac-10.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: The bad teams had to go to other conferences. The
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Big 12, a couple went there, and then the ACC.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: So it's crazy. All right, Van. Well, thank you, buddy.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: The great Van from Duluth. What a great leadoff, Peter.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. There you go.
• 35:52
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• 35:56
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• 35:59
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• 36:02
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• 36:06
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• 36:09
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• 36:10
  Speaker 2: You can answer this on X at Ben Maller. So
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Corbin Carroll leads Major League Baseball with 16 triples. He
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  Speaker 2: plays for the Diamondbacks. That's kind of a Major League team.
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  Speaker 2: But Corbin Carroll... Leeds baseball with 16 triples this season,
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  Speaker 2: eight more than the next closest Major League Baseball player.
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  Speaker 3: This would be... The largest gap.
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  Speaker 2: In triples between the MLB leader and the second place
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  Speaker 2: player since I had nine more triples than the next
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  Speaker 2: closest player.
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  Speaker 3: Who am I? The answer. We'll get to it and
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  Speaker 3: we will do it next.
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  Speaker 3: So check it out.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, time now for the Who Am I game. But first,
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  Speaker 2: the most amazing factoid. The most amazing factoid in the
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  Speaker 2: history of this show, and I don't think this is
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  Speaker 2: too outrageous. So prior to the Western Michigan-Michigan game, Lorena,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think the record was of college football
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  Speaker 2: teams when leading at the end of regulation? What do
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  Speaker 2: you think their record was? What do you think the
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  Speaker 2: record was all time? Um.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: 87.
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  Speaker 3: 87. All right. Close. Check this out.
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  Speaker 2: So prior to Saturday night when the Big Ten added
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  Speaker 2: a ghost second.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Ghost second.
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  Speaker 2: Prior to that game, college football teams, when they led
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  Speaker 2: at the end of regulation, were 110,332-0. That dates back
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  Speaker 2: to 1869.
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  Speaker 3: I was way off.
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  Speaker 2: So, yes, 110,332 when leading at the end of regulation,
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  Speaker 2: dating back to 1869. So congratulations to Western Michigan, first
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  Speaker 2: team ever to lose when winning at the end of regulation,
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  Speaker 2: and congratulations to Michigan, first team ever to win when trailing...
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  Speaker 2: at the end of regulation. Time now for the payoff
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  Speaker 2: on the Who Am I game. Someone named Corbin Carroll,
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  Speaker 2: who plays for Arizona, leads Major League Baseball with 16
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  Speaker 2: triples this season, eight more than the next closest Major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball player. This would be the largest gap in
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  Speaker 2: triples between an MLB leader and second-place person since I
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  Speaker 2: had nine more triples than the next closest player.
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  Speaker 3: Who am I?
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  Speaker 2: That is the question. What's the answer? Malopropguy says, Parker,
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  Speaker 2: the triples machine. Scrooge is going with one of the
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  Speaker 2: great fat baseball players of all time, Jumbo Diaz of
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  Speaker 2: the Reds back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for that, Scrooge.
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  Speaker 2: Alf the Alien O'Piner says the late, great Joe Morgan
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  Speaker 2: is the answer. Lane Kiffin from Femi. The Uber Eats
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  Speaker 2: extraordinaire driver there in the Twin Cities. Mark the Walker
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  Speaker 2: going with Gerard's father, Mr. Jackson, as the answer.
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  Speaker 3: Squidward.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: Squidward working on Labor Day from Ferg Dog.
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  Speaker 3: Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 2: Keith Ocho Texto says Speed Demon Daniel Vogelbach.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: When you think speed, you think Daniel Vogelbach.
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  Speaker 3: Who else do we have? Kiki Kyler from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: Benny the Bopper from Charlie in Wisconsin. That looks nothing
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  Speaker 2: like me, Charlie. I know you're using AI, my man,
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  Speaker 2: but that looks nothing like me.
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  Speaker 3: What else do we have?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, talk to our guy in the Commonwealth there. Alf,
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  Speaker 2: he knows all the tricks on that AI. What else
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  Speaker 2: do we have? Ferg Dog, guest by Robbie the Mariner fan.
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  Speaker 2: Mo Vaughn from Dat Dude. Lou Gehrig, guest by Analog Al.
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  Speaker 2: Cecil Fielder from Fargo Pete.
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  Speaker 3: Ash Hull. That's Ash, A-S-H, Hull.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta Be Minnesota Great Paul Molitor, guest by that person.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Huff from Steeler Nasty. Tim Hardaway from Kev Atomic.
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  Speaker 2: Speedy Gonzalez. I guess by Keith in NorCal. Fats Domino
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  Speaker 2: from Johnny Q. That's his answer. Do you have an
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  Speaker 2: answer there, please?
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  Speaker 3: Sean Higgins. Sean Higgins. Is that correct? No, that is incorrect.
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  Speaker 3: You correct the answer.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Figgins.
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  Speaker 7: My bad.
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  Speaker 2: Figgins. Willie Mays is the answer we were looking for.
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  Speaker 2: 1957 for the Giants. Willie Mays over Bill Burden.