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Hour 4 - Takin' the Hit · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Holy guacamole. It's hour number four. Hour four. Knocking on
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  Speaker 1: your door on the Ben Maller Show. We stayed up
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  Speaker 1: all night. And here we go. Geronimo in hour number four.
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  Speaker 1: A little college football controversy to start out hour four.
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin says LSU players were emphatic about wanting NFL
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  Speaker 1: bounce back guys on the roster in Baton Rouge. How
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  Speaker 1: do you parse the words of the lane train? True, true. Also,
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  Speaker 1: one of his old buddies from USC, Texas coach Steve Sarkeesian,
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  Speaker 1: claims LSU's Lane Kiffin is morally wrong for taking back
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  Speaker 1: NFL players. How does that strike you? We'll take a
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  Speaker 1: look at that. And are you okay in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: with the Steelers' hardline deadline on Joey Porter Jr.? No
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  Speaker 1: negotiations once the regular season begins. They have only days
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  Speaker 1: to get a deal done. We'll talk about all that
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  Speaker 1: and more. Settle in. Release the Kraken. It's our number four.
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  Speaker 1: Have a wonderful Tuesday. And here we go. Taking the hit,
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  Speaker 1: the war of words continues. Welcome in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: this hour from Baton Rouge, our follow-up to the follow-up,
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  Speaker 1: obligatory Mallard monologue on the changing landscape in college football.
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  Speaker 1: Former NFL coach, briefly, not a good one, Lane Kiffin,
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  Speaker 1: continuing to fill up the content kitty. So LSU coach
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, I don't know if you saw this or not.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps not. So Lane Kiffin said he has struggled... with
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  Speaker 1: the decision to pursue former NFL rookies who are trying
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  Speaker 1: to get a fifth year of college eligibility. And he
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  Speaker 1: went on a rant. He claims LSU players, the leadership committee,
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  Speaker 1: unanimously approved the decision. Anyway, we have a little lane, Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Lane commenting on the latest developments in the situation
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  Speaker 1: of getting NFL players to come back to college.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like my decisions should always be made in
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  Speaker 2: the best interest of the players that sit in this
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  Speaker 2: team room. And not for my reputation and how the
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  Speaker 2: decisions play in the national media or other fan bases.
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  Speaker 3: I've never been that way, and that could be wrong.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably part of my story why it is the
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  Speaker 2: way it is.
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  Speaker 3: But those players and the people.
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  Speaker 2: That hire me always know he's constantly trying to do
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  Speaker 2: the best thing for them.
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  Speaker 3: So I struggled with it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of factors into it and different things,
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  Speaker 2: and one that I struggled too was, okay, this late,
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  Speaker 2: even though that's what you do in the NFL, and
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  Speaker 2: there's an argument these players are paid like that, and
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  Speaker 2: it's what happened yesterday in the NFL. New players come
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  Speaker 2: in and take people's spots and added to rosters, and
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  Speaker 2: other guys have been there working.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so he was ranting like that. Again, the
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  Speaker 1: key part, though, he said the leadership committee signed off
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  Speaker 1: on it. The players love the fact that they're on
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  Speaker 1: the LSU team. They're bringing former NFL players in. Kiffin
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  Speaker 1: also said that since LSU is below the SEC roster limit,
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  Speaker 1: you know what the roster limit is in the Southeastern Conference?
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  Speaker 1: 105 players. 105 players is the roster limit. So he
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  Speaker 1: said nobody will get cut. And then, really laying it
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  Speaker 1: on extra thick, extra chunky peanut butter, Lane Kiffin says
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  Speaker 1: LSU will follow the eventual ruling, but defended the strategy.
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  Speaker 1: And here's where it gets really good. Lane Kiffin said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: if it makes your team better and it's legal, I'll
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  Speaker 1: take the hit publicly. Real sob story. That is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin says that the LSU players on this... The leadership
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  Speaker 1: committee were emphatic about wanting NFL bounce-back players to return
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  Speaker 1: to college football at their school. How do you parse
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  Speaker 1: the words of the lane train? So I've got commercial
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  Speaker 1: driver's license, salami, and bell bottoms. Three things that have never,
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  Speaker 1: ever been used together in a Mallard monologue, and here
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  Speaker 1: we are. We'll mix and match them together. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: a little jambalaya, and we'll have the baba ghanoush, and
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  Speaker 1: then we've got to have the gabagool. The gabagool. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: so to kick off here, every time Wayne Kiffin opens
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  Speaker 1: his mouth, it's a gift from the audio gods. It
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  Speaker 1: just is. And it's also a biological hazard at this point,
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  Speaker 1: every time Wayne Kiffin says something. So spare me the...
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  Speaker 1: Tortured soul. Oh, his conscience. Oh, Lane Kiffin, right? All
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  Speaker 1: over LSU pursuing these former bit NFL players and all that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Lane did not, last I checked, suddenly transform himself into
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  Speaker 1: the Dalai Lama of roster management. We do not believe
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  Speaker 1: that happened. In fact, Lane Kiffin is still the ringleader
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  Speaker 1: who claims that Again, this is the key part. He
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  Speaker 1: asked his team whether or not they wanted these reinforcements.
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  Speaker 1: The moral dilemma. Oh, the dilemma for Lane Kiffin here.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it evaporated faster than free egg rolls at
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  Speaker 1: the buffet. They're not going to be there very long. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Lane's operating system is rather basic. It's rather basic. If
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  Speaker 1: the rules don't explicitly forbid it, if it's not completely
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  Speaker 1: against the rules here, fire up the limousine, the loophole limousine,
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  Speaker 1: and floor it. Pedal to the metal. Floor it. And
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  Speaker 1: now he's yapping about taking the public hit. Oh, poor
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin taking the public hit for his players. He's
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  Speaker 1: standing up. He's like a human shield, a meat shield
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  Speaker 1: for his players. And it's just pure... with a hero cape,
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  Speaker 1: of course. He's got that going for him. Got to
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  Speaker 1: have the cape if you're a hero. And he's falling
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  Speaker 1: on the sword. No, he's not. He's swinging the sword.
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  Speaker 1: He's not falling on it. Now, at this point, I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty sure that Lane Kiffin has a commercial driver's license,
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  Speaker 1: and he's cruising around in the wagon. Not the station wagon,
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  Speaker 1: the honey wagon. And it's overflowing with doo-doo every time
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  Speaker 1: the guy talks. It's great for what I do. And
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  Speaker 1: there's no one shadier in college sports, and I would
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  Speaker 1: say in all of sports, than Lane Kiffin. Somewhere across
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  Speaker 1: the pearly gates, Monty Kiffin is saying, oh, that's my kid.
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  Speaker 1: Right there. All right, furthermore, staying with this story, and
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  Speaker 1: one of Lane Kiffin's old pals from their SC days
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  Speaker 1: has chimed in, Texas coach Steve Sarkeesian says, Now, he
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  Speaker 1: kept this unit, but he blasted programs that add NFL
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  Speaker 1: players who went to training. Here's Steve Sarkeesian, the head
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  Speaker 1: coach in Austin, Texas, at the University of Texas. Hook
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  Speaker 1: them horns. And here's Lane Kiffin's rival, former co-workers at
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  Speaker 1: SC back in the glory days of USC football. Listen closely.
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  Speaker 4: These players on all of our rosters, not just ours,
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  Speaker 4: have been working for nine months for this moment on Saturday,
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  Speaker 4: which then will lead into the next five to six months.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that somebody out there is going to take
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  Speaker 4: a player off of an NFL roster and tell somebody
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  Speaker 4: who's been doing it for nine months, go kick rocks,
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  Speaker 4: that doesn't sit well with me.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's wrong.
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  Speaker 4: That morally is wrong. So I think our presidents, ADs,
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  Speaker 4: and chancellors got it right, and we'll support it, and
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  Speaker 4: we'll fall in line.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so it's some kind of ethical debate here
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  Speaker 1: that Steve Sarkeesian is having with Lane Kiffin. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: you've got Texas coach Steve Sarkeesian, he just heard, he
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  Speaker 1: went on a rant claiming that his old pal, Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin from LSU, he didn't say Lane's name, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: mention LSU, it was obviously what he was talking about,
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  Speaker 1: and he said that they're morally wrong, what's going on here,
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  Speaker 1: taking these NFL players back. So how does that strike you?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so listen, when did Steve Sarkeesian, and it's
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  Speaker 1: something I missed. Maybe we were in Vegas and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear this. He became Pope Sark I. Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: I got to check here. I got to check the
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  Speaker 1: moral commandments handed down by Pope Sark I. from college
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  Speaker 1: football's Vatican, which I guess is in Austin. And I
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  Speaker 1: missed the conclave. I didn't see the white smoke. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see any of that. Now, Sark picked up a
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  Speaker 1: side hustle based on these comments and some of the
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  Speaker 1: other things he said recently. But these comments in particular,
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  Speaker 1: there's clearly a side hustle going on for Steve Sarkeesian.
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  Speaker 1: He's working at the deli counter. And he's slicing the
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  Speaker 1: hypocrisy salami mighty thin. Get that meat slicer out and
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  Speaker 1: slice that salami. The Texas coach, let me bring this
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  Speaker 1: up here because I think it's important to note that
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  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkeesian, who just talked about morality in college football,
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  Speaker 1: is it true that the Longhorns welcomed somebody named Cole
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  Speaker 1: Hudson to Back from NFL window shopping, is it also
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  Speaker 1: true that Cole Hudson wore the uniform of the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: Browns and the Dallas Cowboys, but because of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he didn't technically sign a pro contract, even though
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  Speaker 1: he practiced with these teams and worked out, obviously, and
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  Speaker 1: had the uniform and all that, they didn't technically sign.
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  Speaker 1: Sarkeesian wants us to believe that his slice is... ethically pure,
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  Speaker 1: while LSU's is morally contaminated. How do you like them apples?
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  Speaker 1: So how thin would you like it, coach? Oh, real thin.
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  Speaker 1: Keep slicing. I can still see through it. Keep slicing. Now, Sarkeesian,
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  Speaker 1: carving that salami, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, so thin,
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  Speaker 1: you can read the NCAA rule book right through it.
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  Speaker 1: And the coach of the Texas Longhorns, he wants us
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  Speaker 1: to believe that his precious slice of the processed meat
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  Speaker 1: there is the way to go. It's not contaminated. It's
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  Speaker 1: the way to go. And that's it. And so good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck there. Now, I'm guessing if a five-star offensive
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  Speaker 1: lineman or wide receiver who happened to be an NFL
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  Speaker 1: cast-off called up and said, listen, I'm going to text you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to call you. I'm going to text you.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, I would really like to come play with
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  Speaker 1: Arch Manning. And there are going to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of big games there. Arch Manning is projected to be
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  Speaker 1: a top four pick in the NFL draft. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to help you win the SEC championship and beat
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  Speaker 1: Georgia and all these other big schools in the Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 1: You think Sarkeesian would not return the text message? You
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  Speaker 1: think he would kick him out of the delicatessen? Because
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he would. He'd put him on the roster.
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  Speaker 1: He'd get whiplash putting him on the roster. And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Add some cheese, a little mustard on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: some garlic, wrap it in some butcher paper, and call
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  Speaker 1: it the Longhorn Special. Come on down, have the Longhorn Special.
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  Speaker 6: Do it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last thing. To the NFL we go. The
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  Speaker 1: National Football League, a developing story. out of the land
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  Speaker 1: of the Yinzers, where the Pittsburgh Steelers, black and yellow,
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  Speaker 1: black and yellow, black and yellow, Pittsburgh Steelers, insist that
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  Speaker 1: they really want to keep defensive back Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 1: long term. In fact, the GM Omar Khan, a con man,
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  Speaker 1: says that Pittsburgh would like to have him his entire career.
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  Speaker 1: Say what?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. The
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  Speaker 1: clock is ticking. The clock is ticking. Now, the Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: if you've paid any attention to the Steelers over the years,
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  Speaker 1: you know that they have a golden rule. What is
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  Speaker 1: the golden rule? They refuse to negotiate once the regular
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  Speaker 1: season begins. Pens down, that's it. And so that means
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the map here, today is September 1st.
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  Speaker 1: The season in the NFL begins a week from tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: It's the traditional Wednesday NFL season opener. So with that,
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  Speaker 1: you only have a little bit over a week, and
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  Speaker 1: really just a week when you think about it, because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff has to be done. The paperwork,
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  Speaker 1: the legalese stuff has to be done by this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So Porter's 26. He's entering the final year of his
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  Speaker 1: rookie contract. It's fair to say that it's not a
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  Speaker 1: priority for the Steelers. Otherwise, he would have already been signed.
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  Speaker 1: We know that the rotund coach, the chubby coach there,
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  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, said recently that negotiations were at impasse and
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  Speaker 1: there has been little movement, if any, since then. Okay, question.
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  Speaker 1: Are you okay... Are you okay with the Steelers' hardline
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  Speaker 1: deadline on a contract for Joey Porter Jr. and that
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  Speaker 1: if things don't get done by the weekend, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: They're shutting it all down. So this is, after a
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  Speaker 1: minutes-long review of the available information, and we had our deliberation,
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  Speaker 1: this is stubbornness masquerading as tradition. Now, I've done this
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  Speaker 1: job a long time, and every few years there's a
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  Speaker 1: story like this that pops up in Pittsburgh, and the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers have this no negotiations during the season policy, which
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  Speaker 1: is capital O outdated. I've never understood this. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: do realize that a lot of things only get done
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  Speaker 1: at a deadline. However, the whole concept of I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to negotiate during the season has never made any
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  Speaker 1: sense to me. People talk about financial discipline i would
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  Speaker 1: say this is paralysis by tradition like somewhere somewhere along
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  Speaker 1: the way refusing to negotiate became a sacred commandment of
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  Speaker 1: the stealers became a thing like it was handed down
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  Speaker 1: from the top of mount washington on a stone tablet
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  Speaker 1: and it was passed down by some peasants And they
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  Speaker 1: gave it to the front office. And if you really
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  Speaker 1: value Joey Porter Jr., which we're skeptical about, but if
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  Speaker 1: that's your guy and you say you want him to
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  Speaker 1: finish his career as a Yinzer, why would you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we can't negotiate once the season goes on? What happens?
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  Speaker 1: Do you get cooties in week four if you negotiate?
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  Speaker 1: It makes no sense. So NFL teams always love to preach.
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  Speaker 1: They get on the big stage there, and they love
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  Speaker 1: to give TED Talks about how we love adaptability in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. That's why we have 7,000 coaches on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about adaptability. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just like that. Got to adapt. And then Pittsburgh, their
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  Speaker 1: front office there in Pittsburgh, well, they operate not with adaptability. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: They're wearing bell bottoms and they're listening to disco and
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  Speaker 1: they're operating like it's 1977. They got a typewriter in there.
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  Speaker 1: They go out to make collect calls on pay phones.
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  Speaker 1: The whole thing. So spare me the sanctity of the
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  Speaker 1: season baloney. I don't need that. We don't negotiate during
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  Speaker 1: the season. Sounds like a convenient excuse for the Rooney family,
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  Speaker 1: the ownership group there in Pittsburgh, to not have to
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  Speaker 1: write the check. Well, we would have, could have, should
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  Speaker 1: have signed the player. However, you know, we had this deadline.
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  Speaker 1: We couldn't sign the guy. What are we supposed to do?
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  Speaker 1: We can't write the check. Well, we could, but we can't.
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  Speaker 1: So these Steelers have created this artificial deadline, handcuffed themselves
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  Speaker 1: to it, And now they want everybody to admire the
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  Speaker 1: craftsmanship of these handcuffs that they made for themselves. It
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  Speaker 1: message to the fans before the Diamondbacks game with the Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: And he sat there silently and said no. And clearly
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: somebody gave him the talk post-game because he claimed he
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: was doing some damage control. Somebody tapped him on the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: shoulder and said, hey, that didn't go well. The fans
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: booed him every time because he's the guy that quit
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: on the team and then the gutless Diamondbacks welcomed him
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: back because they have no balls. And so they welcomed
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: him back. And when asked if he had a message
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: for the fans, before the game, he shook his head,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: said nothing. And that was, yeah, that's what it sounded
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: like there. And then he attempted some damage control after
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the game saying, I'm never going to stop loving my fans.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: He claimed there was a communication situation. He claimed that
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the interpreter, there was some issue there with the, The verbiage,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: which is always a great— my favorite example of that was— you
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: probably don't know who this guy is. It was a
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: guy named Sammy Sosa who spoke English and then got
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to Congress and suddenly forgot how to speak English, which
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: is my favorite all time of using that as the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: fall guy. But wait, there's more. There's one other wrinkle
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: here that we must bring up. The Quetel Marte hat.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: his hat postgame when he was giving the apology. Like, say, oh,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: it was a misunderstanding. I love my fans. This is great.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: So he wore a hat, and I'll read this verbatim.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: This is according to, what is this from? This is from,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: let me give them credit here, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: This is from the TV, Arizona Family TV in Phoenix.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I have no idea what that is, but this is
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: what that's from. And Quetel Marte wore a hat that said, quote,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: made the bridges I burn light the way. What a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: great attitude. I'm an a-hole. At least I'm going to
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: have light on the road. And actually a little warmth
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, it's good. Everyone will hate me, but
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: it'll be so bright. Let's go to the phones. Dick
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: in Dayton is up next. Hello, Dickster.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Welcome.
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: Hey, how are you guys doing? I've been pretty busy.
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: It's good to talk to you.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm happy you're busy. The weather's good, right? You're
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: enjoying the weather, the hot. I was watching the Reds game.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: The umpire had a medical problem at the Reds game
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: last night, Dick.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: You know something, Ben?
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: Everybody's been upset.
• 23:02
  Speaker 10: I don't even, I don't even, I'll watch something else.
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: I've been watching this show.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: The Reds are so bad, you're not even watching the Reds?
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: No.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: No.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: That is an indictment of Terry Francona and the Cincinnati Reds.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: They're that bad. Now, did you see, we talked about
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: this earlier, Joey Votto. You know who that is, right?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Joey Votto. Yeah. Joey Votto said he's never had nachos before.
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: Oh, my God.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Can you believe that?
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: No. No.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: That's not right.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: But I'll tell you what I think is good.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: The Guardians are making a pretty good comeback.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: So you're all about the Guardians. You've moved on. You
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: a Joe Adele fan?
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. That's Coop's guy from the Angels, Joe Adele.
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: Oh, really? Another thing, too.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: I was surprised last week. You know, it's been hard
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: to get in 92, the fan, with Jeff and everybody.
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: But I was shocked last week. The third-string quarterback– Beat
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: the Patriots.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it was a practice game, though, right? Yeah.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: If the Patriots were trying, I don't know that they
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: would have lost by 8,000 points to the Browns. That
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: was nice. Great moments in Browns history, beating the Patriots
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: in the exhibition finale there.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Now, do you approve of the quarterback decision, Dixter, that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: they are going with Deshaun Watson? No. No?
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: No.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Who did you want?
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: Sanders.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Sanders. Sanders. You want to say Sanders? That was your guy?
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah. I haven't heard from my friend from Cleveland. He
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: must be busy.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Ohio Al?
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, I'll reach out to him. How about that?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I'll send him a message and say, Ohio Al, you've
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: got to go.
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: A lot of people, they got a lot of publicity.
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: All my friends, Dave and Dayton, heard about it, and
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: I got calls of, You know, about coming down there,
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: it was nice.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Well, you rocked the joint. You were the star of
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: that event. Everyone loved you.
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: You nailed it. All right. Well, very good, Dixie. Enjoy your...
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Any gigs coming up? You said you had a lot
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: of stuff going on. So any performances?
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll probably go back. I've been playing in the
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: stringbenders on Friday.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: It's pretty good, so.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, the stringbenders. Yeah, I remember.
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: But no Kettering Banjo Society. They're not around anymore.
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: No, no. I don't... I got to see if... I'm
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: trying to think if... In the Dalsmers in the, uh,
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: Viambsburg W. Waddell.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Sure. I understand. The Dalsmer Society.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: Well, have a good day, Bill.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dick.
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: There he goes, the great Dick in Dayton. Where he goes,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: only he knows. Let's say hello now to another star
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: from the Mallard meet and greet. This guy hung out.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: He killed it on stage. He did multiple songs. He
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: is known by his name, Dante. Hello, Dante. Welcome.
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: What was that?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, there he is. There's Dante right there.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry about that, you guys.
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: I'm at work, you know.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't want to get you in trouble. I
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: don't want to get you in trouble. No, I'm not.
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: I work by myself.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: I'm just making ice and managing the convenience store.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Life temporarily before I work at the Circa.
• 26:07
  Speaker 11: I wanted to tell you guys. The meet and greet
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: was phenomenal.
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: It was nice. And I wanted to take the O
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: if I could.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: You would like to take the O? Well, we will
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: have to. And you're in work. I don't want you
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to get in trouble. So you're going to be able
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to do it here.
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: I'm the big dog. I'm the big dog. All right.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: All right. We're very excited. You'll be working at Circus soon.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: We'll be able to go. That's our favorite hotel to
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: go visit there.
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: Maybe the next meet and greet location in the future.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Who knows? So just repeat after me. We're going to
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: do the Malheur Malheur show. This is very serious here.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Just repeat after me. Are you ready, Dante?
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: I'm ready.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I state your name. I, Dante. Do solemnly swear.
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: Do solemnly swear.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: That I will support and defend the Ben Malheur show.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: That I will support and defend the Ben Malheur show.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Against all enemies.
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: Against all enemies.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Foreign and domestic enemies.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Foreign and domestic.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: And that I will obey the orders.
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: And I will obey the orders.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: To peacefully fight back.
• 27:07
  Speaker 11: To peacefully fight back.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Against hostile attacks.
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: Against hostile attacks.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: From rival sports gas bags and blowhards.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: And from rival sports gas bags and blowhards.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: So help me God.
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: So help me God.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: By the powers vested in me. By the state? No,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: you don't have to repeat this part. This is my
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: bull crap here. You don't have to repeat my bull crap.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: So by the powers vested in me by the state
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of the Ben Maller Show and the legacy of our
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: friend from Montana, Skeeter, I now pronounce you a sworn
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: member of the Maller Militia. Congratulations, Dante. And that's a
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: smooth ride, man. Your electric bike. I saw your bike.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: That's a good bike right there. You go 40 miles
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: an hour.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: That's cool, man. No, I'm jealous, man. I didn't have
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: electric bikes back then when I was a kid, but
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: that's awesome, man.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: I'd be all over this.
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: Hey, a message for Blair.
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: Just ride safe.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Well, for Blair, don't write at all. For you, you
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: know how to write. For him, nah, nah.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dante. Be safe out there at the convenience store, buddy.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: We love you, man.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Hey, we love you, too.
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: I love you, too. Be good.
• 28:16
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: There's the great Dante. Sworn in now. Officially sworn in.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Mike the Leprechaun. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun. Welcome.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: Happy September 1st.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Does anything change other than the date? Is something big happening?
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: The mornings are dark and the nights are getting darker. So, yes,
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: a little bit. 150,000 people showed up in Boston yesterday
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: for Students Move End Day. It was a massive day
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: of traffic jams and blocked highways and everything.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Well, there are more college, as you know, because you
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: live there, there are more college students per capita in
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Boston than any other city in the United States. The
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: home of the college student is Boston.
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: Do you like cheddar nachos?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't turn them down. I don't know that I
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: like them. I would definitely not turn them down.
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: What's your favorite flavor?
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I like the neon orange gooey stuff that you have
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: to eat fast because it melts and then the chips
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: get soggy. The nachos are good food. The problem with
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the nacho is you have to eat it fast. If
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: you don't eat it fast, it becomes problematic.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: Do you lick your fingers afterwards?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: It's kind of a personal question.
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I feel like you were going to imagine him
• 29:37
  Speaker 11: doing that.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: It's a little creepy.
• 29:38
  Speaker 11: A little weird.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: I'm just kidding. saying.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, he was not in attendance. There were people asking
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: for you. One of our guys is a cab driver.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: In fact, we actually have him on hold right now.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to put you on hold to talk
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to him. Hold on a sec. Let's go now to
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a man who was a no-show. And we were all
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: sad there. We were ready to celebrate this man. And
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: he did not attend. We were looking for him. I
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: drove around the strip. I saw a bunch of people
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: out there down on their luck. But I did not
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: see Mouthwash Mike, the pride of Minnesota. Hello, Mouthwash Mike.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Where were you, my man?
• 30:18
  Speaker 11: I was in the hospital.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Ah, boo.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Boo.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 30:28
  Speaker 11: And I couldn't get out of there, man.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's unfortunate.
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Would have been great to see you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: I feel really bad for it. And, you know, I
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: really wanted to be there so bad.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: So bad, so bad.
• 30:47
  Speaker 11: But I was so excited that I got so ramped
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: up that I just ended up in the hospital.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: It's unfortunate.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Are you feeling better now?
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: So you just got sick in time for the event,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and now that the event's over, you're feeling better. Well,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I'll be back in Vegas at some point. I was invited.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: The Power Trip guys are doing something in, I think, November,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: so I'll probably be back. I'll look for you then.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: How about that? I'll see if I can find you.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: You know, it sounds wonderful. I look forward to it.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: You sure about that?
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: Absolutely, yeah.
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Corey writes in. He says, Hey, Maller, Iowa is boring.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: You'll have a bunch of pigs and a few cows
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: show up to the meet and greet. I said we
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: should go to Minnesota again. You're from Minnesota, right, Mouthwash Mike?
• 31:50
  Speaker 11: I'm from Minnesota.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: The pride of Minnesota. All the legends come out of Minnesota.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Minnesota.
• 31:57
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
• 31:58
  Speaker 11: I mean, you know, you look at it, you're the
• 32:01
  Speaker 11: last person to win the Super Bowl came out of Minnesota,
• 32:05
  Speaker 11: you know. You look at 85, McMahon came out of Minnesota.
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: There you go.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: All right. All right.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go. Thank you. It's not you. It's you.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: We love you.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Go away.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: All right. Are you happy now, Mike the Leprechaun? That's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: mouthwash Mike right there.
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: That was a class call. Very classy. Did you watch
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: the Red Sox last night? Roman Anthony, Trevor Sully?
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I did. They blew the lead and then came back
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and won in extra innings.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: And also the pitcher last night, Peyton Tolley, did you
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: see how he tagged out a person?
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a tag. It was a bro hug.
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: It was.
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: That was funny.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was funny. People were upset about it. I
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: don't know why you'd get upset about that. There's things
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: to get upset about. It was nice. Some people thought
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: we shouldn't do that, but I thought it was funny.
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: How about the cheerleaders for the Eagles, the male cheerleaders?
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: Did you see them pressing?
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I'm more into the women, but if you're into that
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and you want to enjoy the male cheerleaders, I'll get
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: you a cheerleader poster of the dudes, and the Rams
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: have that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: You mentioned deadlines. You're up against a deadline right now.
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: When is Benny versus the Penny going.
• 33:14
  Speaker 11: To be back?
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll be back for, we believe. We're still working
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: on some stuff behind the scenes, but week one of
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the NFL, which is not this week, but next week.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: So stay tuned.
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: I haven't heard from Poppy. Where's Poppy? Has Poppy disappeared?
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. Let me check here. Let me
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: see here. Poppy, have you disappeared? Poppy, are you no
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: longer part of the show? Poppy in San Diego. Poppy. Hey, no,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I've been here.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: I've been emailing them Leopard Garden Man for the mailbag,
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: and my mentor, Ben Maller, just ignored me.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: No, I tried. I tried to get you on the mailbag.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: You were not available the day that we had a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: slot open.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: That happened.
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: Well, we're going to come back on the mailbox, mentor.
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: You have my phone number. I'll be on there. And
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: not only that, mentor, we're going to be going out
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: with the Leprechaun. We're going to be doing the NFL.
• 34:02
  Speaker 9: We're going to be coming.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: Back right here for Poppy's pick for the NFL this season.
• 34:06
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm looking at my big board here, and I
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: don't see that. But I do see Sight the Bite,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the great sports radio mystery. Now, the cardboard kingpin would
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: be Shohei Ohtani. of the Dodgers. His collectible market is
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: insane to the membrane. He's now had, if the numbers
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: are right on this, five seven-figure card sales this year.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Shohei Otani cardboard. His baseball cards have sold for more
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: than $ 20 million. And there was a sale recently that
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: one of them sold for at least, well, it was
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: a million dollars, but there's five total, $ 11 million one
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: of the cards went for. Yeah. One of one back-to-back
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: gold logo man autograph relics card sold for $ 11 million.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: The third highest sports card sale ever. So, Otani, $ 5
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: million cards generated more than $ 20 million combined. Crazy. Crazy, crazy.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: He's in that territory with the cardboard kings like Mickey
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Mantle and Honus Wagner. From back in the day. It
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: is the Ben Maler Show. Sight the Bite. The great
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: sports radio mystery. We'll get to that. And we will
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 35:24
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• 35:47
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  Speaker 1: We're too cheap to do that. So we actually have
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  Speaker 1: real people that listen to our podcast. A lot of
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: those numbers are fake. Ours are not. So we need
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  Speaker 1: your help. Yeah. Guaranteed human here. We need a guaranteed
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: human to click on the thingamajig there on the podcast page.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show Podcast. You can listen to the full
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  Speaker 1: show online. You can listen to certain hours. There's a
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  Speaker 1: best-of thing that's like 1.3 seconds long today. I know
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  Speaker 1: Dante loves that, that very long podcast. He's now sworn
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  Speaker 1: in as a member of the Mallard Militia. So check
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  Speaker 1: that out, the Ben Mallard Show podcast. And on the weekends,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast. How about that? Unbelievable!
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  Speaker 5: To Sight the Bite, where we play random generic sound bites.
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  Speaker 9: You know, inane.
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  Speaker 5: Sports and entertainment cliches spoken by so-called experts.
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  Speaker 1: And you try to tell us who's doing the talking.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you know the drill. Somebody from the world
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  Speaker 1: of sports the last seven to ten days, it could
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  Speaker 1: be a coach, an athlete, prominent media figure, and you
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  Speaker 1: just have to use your supersonic hearing ability. to figure
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  Speaker 1: out who this mystery person is. We'll give you some
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  Speaker 1: clues along the way. Let's go to the audio tape.
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  Speaker 1: They'll find out.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a different story. Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a different story. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Who is it?
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  Speaker 1: Do you recognize that voice at all?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: That would be a different story. You do not?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give it a shot here. I say caller five.
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  Speaker 9: Lorraine?
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  Speaker 10: Caller three.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Coop?
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  Speaker 1: Caller number five. Caller five. I think we won last week, Coop,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to win again. Who's in the number
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  Speaker 1: one spot? Let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to James in Atlanta in the lead-up spot. James,
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  Speaker 1: who is this mystery voice, James? Caller one.
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  Speaker 10: That's Tommy Lasorda banging Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's see here. Let's try. All right. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Chris in Boston. Hello, Chris. Caller two.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: That's Red Sox third baseman Tim Niren.
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  Speaker 1: Is that Tim Nehring? A good hitter, not a great player,
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  Speaker 1: but a good hitter. Unfortunately, not Tim Nehring. Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Paige Dan. Oh, a clue.
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  Speaker 1: What's the first clue, Coop? He entered college as a
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: zero-star recruit.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Is that– let's see. I think Coach Russell's going to
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  Speaker 1: get it. Coach Russell in Orlando, our favorite high school coach.
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  Speaker 1: Who is it, Coach Russell?
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  Speaker 11: I'm going to go with Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 1: Is that Josh Allen? Josh Allen. No, but thank you, Coach.
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  Speaker 1: Great guess. You didn't say something you can't say. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not Tim Allen or Josh Allen or Tim Nehring
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  Speaker 1: or anybody. Let's see here. Time for a guy named
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Seatbelt in Maine thinks he knows the answer. Seatbelt, you're
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: my caller number four, Seatbelt.
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  Speaker 9: I got you here. Is that that old knickerbocker John Starks?
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  Speaker 1: Is that John Starks? No, but thank you. He missed
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  Speaker 1: a lot of shots in the NBA Finals. Time, Coop,
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  Speaker 1: for another clue. His older cousins are Quandre Diggs and
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Quentin Jammer. Okay, here we go. Let's go now to
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite trash man, Danny DeVito, for the win. Danny,
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  Speaker 1: your caller five.
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  Speaker 9: Who is it?
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  Speaker 1: That is Cam Ward.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, that's a win!
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah!
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  Speaker 5: Yeah!
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  Speaker 1: Donnie DeVito! Winner, winner.
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  Speaker 7: You lose, Loretta.
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  Speaker 1: We all win. You got a golden ticket. You got
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  Speaker 1: a golden ticket. We asked, baby.
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  Speaker 9: We asked.