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Hour 1 - The Worst of the Worst · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: We'll tell you about that. But let's get to it.
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  Speaker 1: You know the F & A show. I'm double A
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  Speaker 1: right now. Let's get to first off. So I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to try something here. I haven't done this after an
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  Speaker 1: NFL Sunday before. I usually do it to preview this
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  Speaker 1: week's list of games. But this time, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: rank the matchups today. Who had the best games? Who
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  Speaker 1: actually showed up? Who looked good? Who looked bad? There
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  Speaker 1: were 12 games in the NFL, and I'm going through them.
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  Speaker 1: From worst to first. And this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a running thread throughout this show because I can't get
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  Speaker 1: to all of them in just one segment here. But
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  Speaker 1: I will start with this. Lorena, you want to do
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  Speaker 1: the honors? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Worst game of the day. Titans at Colts was a
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  Speaker 1: game only a mother could love. Cam Ward said last year,
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  Speaker 1: we ass. I think he meant he ass. So what
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  Speaker 1: does that say about the Indianapolis Colts who just lost
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  Speaker 1: to them? They are a level of ass that we
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  Speaker 1: saw in the back that ass up video.
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  Speaker 6: I hate the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's not the video. Whatever BBL butt injections women
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  Speaker 1: get nowadays, the Colts have tried. That's how bad they are.
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  Speaker 1: That's how ass they are. You know, You just lost
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  Speaker 1: to a formerly winless Titans team with a quarterback that
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  Speaker 1: barely passed for 100 yards in Cam Ward. He passed
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  Speaker 1: for 102. Daniel Jones passed for 269, and the Titans
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  Speaker 1: still won, even with the Colts outrushing them 165 to 84.
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  Speaker 1: They passed for two and a half times more yards.
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  Speaker 1: They ran it for twice as many yards as the Titans,
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  Speaker 1: and the Colts still lost the game.
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  Speaker 5: How?
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  Speaker 1: Or you guessed it, free turnovers and a blocked punt,
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  Speaker 1: which was probably the most exciting play of the game,
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  Speaker 1: hence why it's being ranked 12th on my list of
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  Speaker 1: today's NFL slate. And the Titans didn't just get their
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  Speaker 1: first win of the season. Didn't just get Robert Saleh's
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  Speaker 1: first win there. But this was their 500th victory in
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  Speaker 1: franchise history going back to the Houston Oilers days. With
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  Speaker 1: Warren Moon and Earl Campbell in those beautiful uniforms they
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  Speaker 1: tried to replicate this year, but something looks funky. That T,
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  Speaker 1: the font for the T, it looks like a thumbtack.
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  Speaker 1: You could say it looks tacky. So even when they
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  Speaker 1: do finally win a game, the Titans, they still can't
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  Speaker 1: look pretty doing it. But the Titans, they'll take them. However,
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  Speaker 1: they can get them right now. I saw someone tweet
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  Speaker 1: out the Colts should probably be in the fire sale
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  Speaker 1: mode at this point. They said all these players on
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  Speaker 1: the roster would attract serious interest from contenders. Jonathan Taylor?
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  Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson, DeForest Buckner, Sauce Gardner, Tavares Ward, Grover Stewart.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I noticed Daniel Jones was not on that list.
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  Speaker 1: I was a Vanilla Vic believer before he tore his
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  Speaker 1: Achilles last year. The offense was humming. The Colts went
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  Speaker 1: from Peyton Manning, though, now, to Andrew Luck, to.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, who the Giants gave away. All right. 11th
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  Speaker 1: worst or best game, depending on how you look at it. Look,
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  Speaker 1: it's the NFL. There's no real losers here. All these
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  Speaker 1: games had something entertaining. Even this one did in my
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  Speaker 1: watchability power rankings here. The Bears were up 31 to
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  Speaker 1: 7 in Atlanta over the Falcons after a field goal
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  Speaker 1: to start the fourth quarter. And somehow that ended up
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  Speaker 1: being a one score game at the end. The Bears
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  Speaker 1: still won, which is why it was the 11th best
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  Speaker 1: game on my list. Otherwise, if the Falcons pulled off
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  Speaker 1: that comeback, that would have been the reverse 28-3 Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl moment for them. You remember that against the Patriots? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think you do. This time they actually came back
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  Speaker 1: in a game, but no, they still lost it. Michael Penix.
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  Speaker 1: He was pressured on a career-high 46% of his dropbacks
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday and was blitzed at the second-highest rate of
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  Speaker 1: his career, and it showed. You could tell, at least
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  Speaker 1: when he wasn't in his second home in the blue tent.
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  Speaker 3: They called me Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Glantz.
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  Speaker 1: He actually went to the blue tent after his first
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  Speaker 1: drive of the game. Feel better after this loss? If
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  Speaker 1: you're wondering what happened to Jell-O Jigglers after they got
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  Speaker 1: canceled along with Bill Cosby, they actually injected them into
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix's knees. But things actually got shaky for the
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  Speaker 1: Bears late after Ben Johnson put in all the backups,
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  Speaker 1: which was a curious choice. Caleb Williams, though, was back
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  Speaker 1: and he did damage 30 to 36, 305 yards, one touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe now he won't get testy. Caleb Williams with reporters
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  Speaker 1: about what grade of hamstring he has. I'd give him
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  Speaker 1: a passing grade, though. for this performance. Honestly, it was
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  Speaker 1: impressive that Bears offense might be back on track. Probably
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  Speaker 1: not enough to set the all-time scoring record this season
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  Speaker 1: like Ben Johnson was hoping for. Maybe he'll just have
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  Speaker 1: to settle for them winning the Super Bowl instead since,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not predicting that, but it seriously seemed
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  Speaker 1: like in the preseason he was more interested in scoring
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  Speaker 1: than winning with that goal he set for the year.
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  Speaker 1: I had a goal for my Panthers this week. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Carolina Panthers fan. Mourn me. As they end
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  Speaker 1: up 10th out of the most watchable games in my
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  Speaker 1: week six power rankings, my goal was for them to
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  Speaker 1: actually not lose on the road to an inferior opponent
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  Speaker 1: this time. And make no mistake, the Eagles are most
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  Speaker 1: definitely inferior without Jalen Hurts right now. More on his
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  Speaker 1: injury later and some whack criticism. Certain broadcasters have thrown
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  Speaker 1: his way. Have they apologized yet? But my Panthers eventually
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  Speaker 1: pulled through in unimpressive fashion, winning 25-14 in Philly, man.
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  Speaker 1: Game wasn't close enough for Nick Sirianu to give it
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  Speaker 1: away this time. Sirianu, he just suffered his first four-game
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  Speaker 1: losing streak as a coach. Here's the Eagles' last four
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  Speaker 1: games now. Lost by 11, at home to Carolina. Lost
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  Speaker 1: on a walk-off 57-yard field goal to the Jags when
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  Speaker 1: they just, you know, needed to... Run out to eight seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Lost with a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter to
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, who are now 2-4. And before that, lost
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  Speaker 1: by 20 to Case Keenum, his old ass. Came in
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  Speaker 1: on retirement or something. Was he teaching? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to say this right now. The golden
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  Speaker 1: era of Eagles football might be over. They won a
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  Speaker 1: couple of Super Bowls. They went to another one over
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  Speaker 1: the last eight seasons. But Big D, Nick Foles, ain't
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  Speaker 1: walking through that door to save them this year. And
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  Speaker 1: now Jalen Hurts is out indefinitely. Nick Sirianni, he looks
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  Speaker 1: like a coach still learning on the job somehow. They
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  Speaker 1: are two and four. And their offense barely scratched 200
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  Speaker 1: yards total against a Panthers defense that I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you is not exactly the 96 Panthers with Kevin Green
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  Speaker 1: and Lamar Latham or the 2003 defense with Julius Peppers
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  Speaker 1: running things. These, yeah, these Eagles are bad. They're so
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  Speaker 1: bad they actually got pantsed on the field. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you saw that screenshot of their tight end,
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Godert. He was going around a defender who ended
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  Speaker 1: up pulling down his pants on a route, and it
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  Speaker 1: revealed his tight end, you could say. Fly Eagles fly
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  Speaker 1: is definitely not happening this season. Their defense is solid,
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  Speaker 1: but the offense, they weren't even that good with Saquon
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  Speaker 1: and Jalen Hurts. They look horrendous now. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni survives the season. I mean, sure, he has
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  Speaker 1: the built-in injury excuse. but they've shoved in different offensive coordinators.
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  Speaker 1: It just doesn't matter. They can't consistently move the football
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  Speaker 1: down the field, and the tush-push gimmick isn't as effective
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  Speaker 1: as it used to be. Eagles' only chance of turning
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  Speaker 1: the season around is probably because the NFC East is
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  Speaker 1: back in effect. Their next three games for the Eagles, Cowboys, Commanders,
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  Speaker 1: and Giants. All divisional opponents, all pretty bad teams. The
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  Speaker 1: path to the playoffs is just winning the division because
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  Speaker 1: there will not be a wild card coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the NFC East this season. That's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of, you may have seen this one later tonight,
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  Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football. The ninth ranked game of the day
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  Speaker 1: was between the Cowboys and Packers. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: I have it this high, actually. But for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they put on Sunday Night Football. Did they
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  Speaker 1: think Micah Parsons would be back playing by now? And
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  Speaker 1: that would be a fun narrative to sell the game?
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  Speaker 1: Because he's not, and neither team is that good. They're
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  Speaker 1: not a threat to win anything. These are bad football
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  Speaker 1: teams that are just being highlighted for brand recognition. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of tired of the bias towards these two
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  Speaker 1: organizations when they've combined for, let me check, one total
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl win in the last 30 years. That one
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  Speaker 1: ring was from Aaron Rodgers against the Steelers back in 2010, 2011,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in there. So I repeat, the Packers and Cowboys...
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  Speaker 1: They've gotten to one Super Bowl in the last 30 years,
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  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys since then haven't made it back to
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  Speaker 1: an NFC championship game. Why do we have to watch
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  Speaker 1: this slop on Sunday night football in prime time? There's
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  Speaker 1: only one prime time I want to see.
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you have the seat right over here for me?
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  Speaker 1: I still haven't seen the movie. I'm jealous of those
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  Speaker 1: who have. Mixed reviews. But just flex out of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Stop catering to traditional powers of 30 years ago. Just
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  Speaker 1: because they have big fan bases, like who cares? Better
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  Speaker 1: games between teams that actually can play is better for
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  Speaker 1: the long-term health of the league. Stop pandering to fan
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  Speaker 1: bases whose only fans that actually watched the team win
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl live also were around when the Titanic
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  Speaker 1: went down. Feels like it's been 84 years since the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys actually won the Super Bowl. And you can see
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  Speaker 1: why tonight, with some of those mistakes out there they
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  Speaker 1: were making, they are heavily flawed. An incomplete team with
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  Speaker 1: an offense that was supposed to be, what were they
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  Speaker 1: calling it? The Gotti offense? Kind of cringe at this point.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest offense of all time or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: They had seven points, the Cowboys, before garbage time.
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  Speaker 5: You're garbage.
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  Speaker 1: And the Packers defense hasn't exactly been that good till tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Both these defenses are objectively bad. One tried to trade
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  Speaker 1: for the other's defensive superstar with Micah Parsons, who promptly
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  Speaker 1: got hurt. The other thought they could build a little
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  Speaker 1: engine that could defense with the money they saved by
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  Speaker 1: not paying said superstar. And yet they're both garbage. Stop
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  Speaker 1: the big brand bias NFL and flex out of these
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  Speaker 1: matchups where nothing is at stake because both of these
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  Speaker 1: teams could easily miss the playoffs. And even if they
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  Speaker 1: do make it, they aren't going to go anywhere. The
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  Speaker 1: amount of times I had to see people tonight use
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  Speaker 1: chat GBT or whatever to superimpose Sinbad, the comedian from
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  Speaker 1: the 90s, over the face of Dak Prescott. That might
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  Speaker 1: have been the only good thing that came out of
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  Speaker 1: this game. And first kid and house guests were pretty
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  Speaker 1: funny back in the day. To be fair to Sinbad,
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  Speaker 1: he might play better than Dak Prescott did tonight. And
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  Speaker 1: that fan employee last week on Thursday Night Football who
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  Speaker 1: called their loss to the Bucs embarrassing? I think that
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  Speaker 1: guy's wrong. Honestly. It's not embarrassing. That's incorrect. That's incorrect.
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  Speaker 1: It's just who the Cowboys are. If it was out
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  Speaker 1: of the ordinary, it would be embarrassing, but they just
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  Speaker 1: aren't that good of a football team. Brian Schottenheimer, likely
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  Speaker 1: on the hot seat, probably won't survive the season. They're
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  Speaker 1: lucky their next three games, Philly, Arizona, Indianapolis, they could
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  Speaker 1: maybe pull out of this tailspin. Ballou and Kidd aren't
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  Speaker 1: going to save them, though, from the cartoon. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if Jerry Jones is either. I don't understand how
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  Speaker 1: their offense could be this... flaccid over the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks i would say just anemic just what happened
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  Speaker 1: the cowboys were scoring 30 a game with ease and
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  Speaker 1: then tampa bay rocked their confidence or something and now
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  Speaker 1: they lose tonight to a green bay team that didn't
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  Speaker 1: look good to start the year at all that still
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  Speaker 1: has issues defensively and they can't move the ball down
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  Speaker 1: the field george pickens is still there i think didn't
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  Speaker 1: they franchise tag him cd did he play I think
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott technically played. He's embarrassing. He didn't play well.
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  Speaker 1: When guys like Skip Bayless and Dak Prescott homers won't
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  Speaker 1: defend him anymore, that's how bad it's gotten. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you're going to do. You paid him all
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  Speaker 1: that money. I think he's staying. You lost Micah Parsons,
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  Speaker 1: who's not playing anyways. Your offense has been heavily invested in.
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  Speaker 1: They're not putting up points to help carry the defense,
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  Speaker 1: which actually probably carried the offense tonight, if anything. Will
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  Speaker 1: they give up 23 points total? And the offense couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get 24 to win the game? They had seven points
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  Speaker 1: before garbage time, Dallas. It's brutal right now. Not that
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  Speaker 1: anyone feels bad for the Cowboys. America's team to hate.
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  Speaker 5: I feel the conflict within you. Let go of your hate.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they have become at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Drama.
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  Speaker 1: A soap opera. Uncompetitive. You know, we got Vinny Bonsignor
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  Speaker 1: coming up next. And damn it, I think I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say this. I think the Raiders are in a
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  Speaker 1: better place in a more competent franchise at this very
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  Speaker 1: moment than the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a hot take? I think it's true. Look
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  Speaker 1: at their coach. Clint Kubiak's doing good things there.
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  Speaker 4: They're getting a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot out of Kirk or Kirk Cousins. Cowboys, they got
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, weapons all around them. Seven points before garbage time.
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  Speaker 1: Leading Bonsignor. I don't want to ask him even about
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  Speaker 1: this game anymore because I'm too upset that they actually
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  Speaker 1: put it on Sunday Night Football. But there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: to get into in Week 6. Vinny B, the Big Vinny,
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  Speaker 1: But someone much smarter than me now is about to
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  Speaker 1: come on and talk about it.
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• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Well, after another NFL Sunday that will drive the sanest
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: fan mad, given some of these outcomes. And I'm looking
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: at you, Ram-a-Lama Ding-Dong fans. How do you lose to
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals? Any given Sunday, they say. And you guys
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: did not fight for that inch enough, I guess. But
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: this NFL reporter and writer for the California Post does.
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  Speaker 1: It's Vinny Bonsignor joining the show here late night. I'm
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Adam Oslund in for Big Ben Maller. Vinny, thanks for
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: doing this.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: And yeah, I'm kind of speechless after what happened earlier today.
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  Speaker 6: It's just inexplicable on a number of different levels for
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: a number of different reasons.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at a situation where the Rams are 2-4,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and the guys who they traded for, Miles Garrett, his
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: former team, is 4-2. Was this the most inexplicable loss
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: so far this season, and do you still have hope
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  Speaker 1: in the Rams to be able to right the ship
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and still be a championship contender given the division they're in?
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  Speaker 6: Um, I mean, only because there's still time and only because, uh,
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: I believe in, you know, Sean McGay, I believe in
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: the talent that they have on the team. And at
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: some point, theoretically, Miles Garrett's going to be back. Um,
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: but it's starting to, it's starting to have that feel
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: of just one of those seasons that goes awry. And, uh,
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: you know, you can, the 49ers have been victims of
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: that before as well in the midst of their run.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: It just sometimes happens and you can't explain why. Um,
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: And it just kind of feels like that's the type
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: of season that this is shaping up. I mean, when
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: you lose, when you cut your kicker, bring in a
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: new kicker and he gets knocked out basically or knocks
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: himself out.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: What was it, the first kick of the game?
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: Trying to make a tackle on what was a special team's,
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: the reason that he even had to try to make
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: the tackle was because of another special team's blunder by
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: the Rams. And all of a sudden, within seconds, you're
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: without your kicker, and that proved to be a pretty
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: big thing because you can't kick field goals at that point.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: So it's just, yes, I do believe that they still can,
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: but do I think that that's going to happen?
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: I'm starting to get a little bit suspicious about that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: So the Rams lose in Los Angeles, and the other
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: team in L.A., they were out in Kansas City, and
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: now they're 0-6 in the L.A. Chargers here. Vinny, when
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you look at a team with expectations like this, and
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: you start to think about, well, they've got a bye
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: week coming up, and then they've got the Rams after that,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the schedule doesn't ease up. Do you think there's a chance,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and I know neither of us are rooting for this,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: but is there a chance that somebody gets let go
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: during this two weeks off?
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: I don't think that that's Dean Spanos' MO necessarily. So
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: I'm going to wait on that. And by the way,
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, at this point, if you're the Chargers,
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: if you're a Charger fan... Doesn't Jeremiah Smith look pretty
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: good on the Chargers right now? Well, just lose the
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: rest of your games. I mean, you're not making anything
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: up the rest of this year.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: You're done. You're done. And I'm not saying that the
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: Chargers should purposely lose games. They'll never do that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: But they might just lose the amount of games that
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: you need to lose to get a pick like that
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: and to get Jeremiah Smith. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not going to say that one player
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: is going to change the entire fortunes of the Chargers,
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: but That guy's a game changer along with a game-changing
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: type quarterback.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Who knows? Maybe that's the master plan here, Adam. Maybe
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: that's what's going on.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: You mentioned the game-changing type of quarterback. At least potentially
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: he is. We haven't seen enough of that. But obviously
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: there's so many things going on and so many different variables,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: and the offensive line is beat up. Just how much
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: do you put on Justin Herbert when you're slicing up
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: this blame pie?
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: I mean, he gets a piece, but there's other parts
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: of this team, this organization, this coaching staff, everything.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: That gets multiple pieces. I think he gets one slice
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: of the pie.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm not trying to absolve him or make excuses
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  Speaker 6: for him.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: But he's basically running for his life.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: It's another year where he's getting the you-know-what beat out
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: of him because the offensive line has been a sieve again.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: It's another year where you kind of look around and
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: you go, okay, who's he supposed to really throw to consistently?
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Like, where are the weapons for him?
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: And then you look at some of the changes that
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: were made in terms of the coaching and you go
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: back to when those hires were made.
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  Speaker 5: And I know a lot of people are like, yeah,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Mike McDaniel, that's cool. But then you start thinking, and
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I know that talking to people in the.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: NFL at the time, we were like, that doesn't seem
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: like a good fit at all.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: And so far it hasn't been.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: So again, we're at that point where Is this Justin
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Herbert's fault or is it the Chargers' fault more than
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Justin Herbert's fault? And, you know, we can make a
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: case for over the years, Justin.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Herbert's been the reason why they've been able to win.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: The amount of games that they have, despite some flaws
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: in their game. It just feels like the flaws this
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: year are too much for the Superman quarterback to really
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: overcome and make them competitive.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: And that balance has gotten out of whack.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: And, you know, they've got their season has gone sideways
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  Speaker 6: as a result. So I wouldn't necessarily be in a
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: rush to blame Justin Herbert entirely or to move on
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: from him.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: What are you going to do?
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Where are you going to go from Justin Herbert? I mean,
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: where's what's what's who are you going to find Justin Herbert,
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: you know, or, you know, somebody as good, if not better? No,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: that's that's going to be really, really hard to do.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: So be careful what some fans might be wishing for
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: right now or even thinking about or contemplating.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You mentioned a Superman at quarterback. You cover the Raiders
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: closely in Las Vegas. They lost to the Bills in
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: this game, and I still feel like the Raiders are
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: actually in a really good spot. It used to be
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: they didn't have the talent. or the coaching, I think
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the coaching is there. And they're getting the most out
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: of what they have right now in this early rebuild.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: How are you seeing it?
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I agree.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: And, you know, last week was one of those, as
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: it turns out, kind of an outlier type of performance
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: going east and just getting their hats handed to them
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: by the New England Patriots. Today kind of represented more
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: of what they've been about. And you think about it
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: this way, Adam. Two home losses over the last three weeks.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: One to the Chiefs, one to the Bills. By a
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: total margin of six points. I'm not into moral victories.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: Nobody in that.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Locker room was.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: There was way more frustration than encouragement. But I think
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: that if you probe certain people, even maybe some certain
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: players who have been around here a long time and
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: see the bigger picture, there's no doubt that progress is
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: being made. Now it's just kind of– and really, like,
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: they have themselves to blame for a few of these deficiencies.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: You can't be two and five in the red zone
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: against the Buffalo Bills. You just can't.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: You can't get to the two-yard line and have to
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: settle for– and first and goal from the two, by
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: the way, and have to settle for a field goal.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: You can't have some of the penalties that.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: They had, you know, that took them out of– probably
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: what would have been a first down, and now knocks
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: them back to fourth and sixth. Now you've got to
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: kick a field goal again rather than keep a promising
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: drive alive in the red zone.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: But it's like inches at this point.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: And the really encouraging thing is the Raiders believe they
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: have a potential answer at quarterback that they're grooming right
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: now by the name of Fernando Mendoza.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: And it's starting to feel like, Adam.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Like the Raiders team that Fernando eventually takes over from
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Kirk Cousins, whether it's this year or next year, is
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: going to be in a much better place than we
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: kind of thought.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: When they made the draft pick, you know, back in April,
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: at that point, I'm sure.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: People were like, oh, my gosh, he's going to the Raiders.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: You know, how's that going to work out for him? Well,
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: it kind of looks like they built a pretty good
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: foundation or are building a pretty good foundation for him
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: when he eventually does take over. And then you add
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: a couple more pieces, which I know that they're determined
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: to do.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: They're going to, you know, this might be something to
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: keep an eye on for a while.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: And so, yes, I'm with you, I think. It's an
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: entirely different thing. You can be disappointed, which they were.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: You can be frustrated, which they are. But you can
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: also recognize that real progress is being made in Las Vegas.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Vinny Bonsignor is our guest. I'm Adam Oslin in for
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Big Ben Maller tonight. Maller Militia, we'll get to your
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: phone calls coming up here in a little bit. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: did want to ask you about just your first reaction
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: to Mendoza's first reps that you got last week. Like,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I know it's garbage time, but did you get a glimpse?
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Did you see what you needed to see to be like, okay,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: he's not overwhelmed at least by the moment in this
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: low-pressure situation?
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, completed his first five passes, ended up completing six
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: of eight passes, spread it around, hit some wide receivers,
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: drove the ball downfield. You know, probably would have had
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: another first down, had a wide receiver, you know, hung
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: on to the ball.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: And I like that, you know, he.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: Looked prepared and he looked like the moment wasn't too
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: big for him. And it was a first taste. So
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: for a first taste, yeah, I thought he was pretty good.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: I know there's people in the organization that feel he's
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: right where he needs to be. and that they would
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: have no hesitation. However, it should turn out in terms
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: of why they would go to Fernando Mendoza. If Kirk
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: Cousins was injured or if the season just went sideways
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: and it was Fernando's time, they feel pretty good about
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: where he is right now and where he eventually will
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: be when he does get the keys.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: To the car.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Two more for you here, Vinny, but are the Browns
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: actually going to win the AFC North? They are now
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: leading the division. Do they have enough to hold on
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: to the division? How surprised are you with this performance
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: so far In late fourth quarter situations by Deshaun Watson.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah. And, you know, Deshaun is such a lightning rod.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, it's, you know, on one hand
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: you want to praise him, but on the other hand,
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: you know, the backstory and you're like this, that's kind of,
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: there's a little ick factor to it. But if we're
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: just talking from a football perspective, you know, this was
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: a guy that was a pretty darn good quarterback at
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: one time. And, you know, injuries and circumstances really detoured him.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: But he's kind of showing.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: And I know going back to the offseason, even on
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: my radio show, There were people like, why would you
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: even want Deshaun Watson, if you're the Browns, as your
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: quarterback right now? Because you've paid him like $ 200 million already.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: At some point, you need to try to get something
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: out of the investment. And here we are, and all
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: of a sudden, they're starting to make a turn on
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: the investment. I'm also happy for Todd Bunken, a guy
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: that I thought got overlooked recently. In the coaching cycle,
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: even this year, I think he was sort of an
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: afterthought that people were raising their eyebrows at his hire
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: in Cleveland.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: But I think he's kind of the coach that the
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: Browns need right now. now.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: You know, kind of a crusty, very smart, you know,
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: no BS about him type of a coach. I think
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: he was the exact kind of coach that the Browns needed.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: And so... Yeah, there's a good chance. Now, they had
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: to keep it up, obviously.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: But you look around that division, you know, and you
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: start wondering, OK, when's Lamar?
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: And what are they going to really put it together
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: and go on a run?
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: And will the Cincinnati Bengals be able to put it
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: together and go on a run? But if not, if
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: both teams kind of play the way they've been playing,
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: there's going to be every opportunity for the Cleveland Browns
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: if they can keep this up.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: So I think we talked about the worst team, maybe
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the worst team in the league. They're at least 0-6
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and the Titans got a win before they did in
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the L.A.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Chargers.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Vinny, who do you got as the best team right
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: now six weeks in? Did they play today or are
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: you waiting for them to play tomorrow maybe?
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, I am, actually. I had to think about that
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: for a second.
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: But yes, the San Francisco 49ers are playing tomorrow against
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: the Commanders. And I do believe that they're the most
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: complete team. And I think it was a nice win
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: for them going on the road to beat the Seattle Seahawks,
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: a team.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: That's kind of been their kryptonite a little bit.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: So, yes, I do think that they're the most complete
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: team right now in mid-October. So we shall see, because
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: I know from experience, as do you, it's a long season.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: It's kind of a marathon. So they're the champions of
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: the first quarter of the season, plus-ish, I guess. But
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: there's a few more quarters to go and they got
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: to close it out and they got to stay healthy,
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: which has been a problem for them and kind of
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: is right now. We'll see if they do anything at
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: wide receiver to help supplement after losing some key players there.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: So for right now, yes. But but I'm going to
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: sit back and wait to see how this all plays out.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Long season, which leads to more opportunities to have Vinny
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Bonsignor on either when I'm filling in for Ben Maller
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: or on F & A on Friday nights late into
• 31:37
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• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Vinny Bonsignor. He does it for the California Post and,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: of course, covers the Raiders on Raider Nation Radio. Vinny,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: my friend, thanks for doing this late night. Really appreciate it.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: You got it, brother. Have a good one.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Thanks again to Vinny B for joining us.
• 31:54
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• 31:56
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• 33:53
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• 33:57
  Speaker 1: with one of the underwater towers in King Triton's castle. Well,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: it wasn't a tower. It was something else. It was
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a mushroom tower. It was different. Now, I maintain the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: priest in Little Mermaid didn't get excited seeing Ariel's legs
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: at the wedding. That was not his... It was his
• 34:16
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• 34:23
  Speaker 1: holy man, okay? He simply moved his leg... It's not
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• 34:30
  Speaker 1: about Aladdin saying, Jasmine, take off your clothes, that is
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: definitely not true. That is an urban myth. He's telling
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  Speaker 1: the tiger to get away. I know this. Our entire
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: childhood is not corrupted, guys. It's not at all by
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  Speaker 1: amorous dudes. What were you watching?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Why is the audio so low if he's whispering to Raja?
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Why is it not audible for the audience to hear?
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  Speaker 3: I never heard him do anything until I read that
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  Speaker 3: urban legend and then played it back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, hmm. Pull it up on YouTube. Let's listen
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: to it together. I'm into this. But even our video
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: games have been infested. There was always a rumor of
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a Tomb Raider nude code, but it was just a rumor.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: extensive research research was done and there was no nude
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  Speaker 1: code anywhere to be found yet someone with way too
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: much time on their hands this week found a nude
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  Speaker 1: code in a different video game one that's 39 years
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  Speaker 1: old the game was called storm lord it's a side
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  Speaker 1: scroller where you're a knight and while it was on
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  Speaker 1: various systems the uh genesis one is the one this
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: guy used But he had too much time on his hands.
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  Speaker 1: He was cracking a different code and stumbled across a
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: new code that was in the coding. And the game's
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: almost 40 years old. Like, what's the point of the
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: new code? Might not be that hot anyways at this point. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: that's not what I put in. I'm just saying, like,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: where there's a will, there's a way. While going through
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  Speaker 1: Storm Lords, Game Genie thing, and finding the code, someone
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  Speaker 1: figured it out. They paused the game, and you press, like, A-B-A-C-A-B-B. Okay,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: that was the old Mortal Kombat blood code. But there
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: was some type of code for this game that was
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: around forever that all of a sudden turned the fairy
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  Speaker 1: princess statues into being nude statues in this game. That
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: gives you an idea of what's on his mind. And
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  Speaker 1: it's disgusting. Even though I know how guys feel about Tinkerbell.
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  Speaker 1: And that's disgusting, too. Like, there was an interview for
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  Speaker 1: the guy who made the game, Stormlord.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin....
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  Speaker 1: Sagetti, and he said this, we did put a cheat
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: code system in the game 40 years ago so that
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: we could release codes after the game came out. a
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: method to keep getting your game mentioned in magazines back
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: in the day, you know, like Nintendo Power and stuff.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: One of the codes removes the clothes from the fairies,
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  Speaker 1: revealing the original artwork. Razor Soft specified this as well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah, it wasn't supposed to be this salacious.
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  Speaker 1: They were just going to have it nude to begin with,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. But then someone stumbled upon it 40 years later. Now,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: when it comes to nudity in video games... which is
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: rampant now, and there are codes. I knew a guy
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: once that, you know, I had a buddy who once
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: played a ROM hack for Double Dragon, and when you
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: save Marion at the end, you know, she was the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: girl that got punched in the stomach at the beginning,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: thrown over the guy's shoulder, and now you're trying to
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: get her back. She shows up nude at the end,
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  Speaker 1: if you save the day. Now, it's just 8-bit graphics.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: That's all you're seeing is dots and stuff. God, I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: should have gone to church today.
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  Speaker 5: Uh....
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying 40 years later, we're revealing nude codes
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: in video games. I don't know. Dudes are jumping the
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: shark and should go to horny jail or whatever that
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: meme is with a dog bonking you over the head
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: with the bat. Justin, did you find the clip from Aladdin?
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  Speaker 1: Can we play this and investigate and see if it
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: was Jasmine? Take off your clothes. You might be right.
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  Speaker 3: It was a little louder than I remember it being. Well, here.
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  Speaker 1: I do not want to see you.
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  Speaker 6: No, please.
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  Speaker 5: Please, princess.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Give me a chance. Just leave me alone.
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  Speaker 4: So how's our little bow doing?
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Welcome house.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, good kids.
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  Speaker 6: Take off.
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  Speaker 1: Take off and go. Not take off your clothes. He's
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: understandably telling a Bengal tiger to get.
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  Speaker 3: Away from him.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: What was his name? Shurkan? What was the tiger in Aladdin?
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  Speaker 4: Raja.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, you guys were way too quick with that. I
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: love Raja. One of the best pets. Y'all definitely seen
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: some stuff in these Disney movies. But this one is
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: not one of them. The Little Mermaid cover, though, is confirmed. Ding, ding, ding.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: There's a vein. Yeah, no. It's bad. I love the
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: people that are like, I have the movie cover. You know,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: like some people got that box set.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: So some people still have it. It wasn't discontinued until
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: they got complaints. I don't have it. I should put
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: that up on eBay. I bet it sells for a
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: lot of money. Those giant white VHS cassette things that
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: you put all the Disney movies in back in the
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: day and then stacked them on the wall and they
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: would take up your wall. They were freaking huge. That
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: was one of them. And I remember at youth group,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: a guy came over and he showed me. the cover
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: to my mom. He was like, you have this movie?
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: And I didn't know about it either.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Obviously he was a heathen and needed to be at
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: youth group that day. I might've been looking for this audio,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: but did you mention the rescuers?
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: The rescuers? Oh, yeah, the rescuers down under have a
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: nude scene. What do you mean by down under? The
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: original rescuers, not the down under one.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, right.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: But when they're flying on the seagull's back in the
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: sardine can.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Wait a second.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: They're going past buildings, and if you stop it frame
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: by frame, there's a topless.
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  Speaker 5: Woman in one of the.
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  Speaker 1: Is there really?
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: That one's true. That one's for sure. Are you going
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: to show me during the break?
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: You want to see it? Oh, I love this conversation.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: We'll keep it going. Actually, I got some college football
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  Speaker 1: news coming up next. I'm Adam Oslin in for Ben
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Maller here on Fox Sports Radio.