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  Speaker 1: across the Rubicon into a Tuesday here and the overnight
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  Speaker 1: Monday into Tuesday, still on the West coast. But our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour from the NFL Rules Gestapo. It's all
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  Speaker 1: about the rules of the game and some changes coming
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  Speaker 1: in the next month or sore, at least conceivably changes
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  Speaker 1: coming in the next month or so. If you have
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  Speaker 1: not heard and perhaps not here, we got you covered.
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  Speaker 1: We got you covered on this. So we've learned how
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, that's a football team. It's community owned,
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  Speaker 1: but stock's not worth anything anyway. The Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 1: have submitted paperwork to the NFL to banish the notorious
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  Speaker 1: philadel Fi Eagles tush push. The Packers are saying, no tush,
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  Speaker 1: get tush out of the NFL, is what they're saying.
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  Speaker 1: I assume you know, because you're listening to a sports
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  Speaker 1: talk radio show at a time most people are not
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  Speaker 1: that the toush push is the short yardage garonty for
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  Speaker 1: the team from Philadelphia. Now, the CEO of the Packer
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  Speaker 1: football team, a guy named Mark Murphy. Mark Murphy and
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  Speaker 1: he voiced dis pleasure, not happy with the play there,
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  Speaker 1: upset with the signature play of Nick Sirianni and the
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  Speaker 1: reigning Super Bowl champions said this about a month ago.
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  Speaker 1: He can play in. The formation features a couple of
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  Speaker 1: players lining up right behind quarterback Jalen Hurts and then
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  Speaker 1: shoving his tushy and pushing him over the line the
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  Speaker 1: gain across the line of scrimmage after obviously he gets
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  Speaker 1: the snap there and runs the quarterback sneak and when
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  Speaker 1: cold and Philadelphia, it has been nearly unstoppable, nearly unstoppable
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  Speaker 1: in Philly, but not the rest of the NFL. The
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  Speaker 1: success rate of Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, that is
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  Speaker 1: the superpower. It is not necessarily the superpower for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the NFL. So let us discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: what is the what is the word? What is the
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  Speaker 1: word for the Packers trying to ban the toush push.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got and we'll get to the word in
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  Speaker 1: a minute. But my thoughts on this. We have pugophobia,
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  Speaker 1: Kareem abdul Jabbar and American gladiators, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're gonna put them
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  Speaker 1: under the magnifying glass is what we're going to do
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  Speaker 1: right under the magnifying glass. So to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: what's the word for the Packers trying to ban the
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  Speaker 1: toush push, my word is cowardly. That's my word. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going with cowardly. You could also use chicken hearted, which
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  Speaker 1: I believe is synonym of cowardly, but either one of
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  Speaker 1: those work. But I'm going with cowardlye And here's why.
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  Speaker 1: Here's why the great bit Packers ought to be embarrassed
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  Speaker 1: early on. Honestly, well, that's not unattractive play. But I've
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  Speaker 1: evolved my position over the use. I thought the NFL
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  Speaker 1: is gonna get rid of this the first year the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles ran the play, I thought they were gonna get
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  Speaker 1: rid of it because it's not good television. But much
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  Speaker 1: like Major League Baseball, which got rid of the shift,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought was stupid, I also think this is
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  Speaker 1: equally stupid. I have no skin in the game. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles. With apologies to
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  Speaker 1: Fats in Philly and Jonathan and Delaware and all the
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  Speaker 1: other Eagle fans that are loyal minions of the Mallard militia.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that. But the packers fan based and
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  Speaker 1: the organization should be embarrassed because like, what are you
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  Speaker 1: doing here? Right? We can't beat it, we can't replicate it,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll ban it. We'll just get rid of it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just a loser mentality, right, So tell me
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  Speaker 1: you have a loser mentality without telling me directly, you
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  Speaker 1: have a loser mentality. It really is one of those
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  Speaker 1: Southwest Airlines commercials from back in the day. You want
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  Speaker 1: to get away. If you're a Green Bay Packer person,
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  Speaker 1: you want to get away. You're the team trying to
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  Speaker 1: change the rule. You're the one that's proposing this. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if it actually sticks or not. But my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: right you talk about soft serve now die diagnosis. I
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  Speaker 1: am not a doctor, but I can play one on
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  Speaker 1: overnight talk radio and as a untrained amateur doctor. My diagnosis.
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  Speaker 1: The Green Bay Packers are suffering from pugaphobia. Now, what
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  Speaker 1: is pugaphobia? It is fear of the butt docks. That
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  Speaker 1: is what the packers are afraid of. That touch push
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  Speaker 1: they're afraid of that touch eight push eight is what
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  Speaker 1: they are. It's not that deep. Okay, just go int
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  Speaker 1: the weight room. You know, lift some weights, become bigger, stronger, faster,
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  Speaker 1: and you too can run the play at a similar
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  Speaker 1: clip as the team from Philadelphia. And the play has
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  Speaker 1: grown on me from the standpoint. It shows you who's
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  Speaker 1: actually putting the time in in the gym on the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line and Jalen Jalen Hurts, he's not my favorite quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: but he's obviously physically gifted in terms of raw strength
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  Speaker 1: in the leg department and to be pushed by his
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  Speaker 1: teammates here. But it is a throwback play. It hearkens
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  Speaker 1: back to the olden days of the NFL where back
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  Speaker 1: of the old days you were supposed to get low
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  Speaker 1: and explode off the football and low person wins the
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  Speaker 1: battle and it was all about pushing forward and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Now, the NFL over the years has embraced
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  Speaker 1: the wussification. If you've seen the kickoff, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. But just in the case of the
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, it's do better and be better now
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  Speaker 1: page two. If you are Jalen Hurts, if you are
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, what is your reaction to
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  Speaker 1: this news that the team from Green Bay is trying
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  Speaker 1: to ban the tushy pushy. So if your Jalen Hurts on,
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  Speaker 1: this is really not that hard. If you're Jalen Hurts,
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  Speaker 1: it is a trip down the catwalk. You are walking
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  Speaker 1: down the catwalk, you are a dressed well and you
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  Speaker 1: and your offensive lineman can do a Pirouet Steet's spin
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  Speaker 1: on the catwalk. There. Congratulations. Now it's not ben yet. However,
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  Speaker 1: all right, However, the fact that the Packers are working
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  Speaker 1: to ban the play is such a flex for Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 1: It'll add to the legend the mythology of Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: and the Eagles offense here. If it is outlawed, that
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  Speaker 1: would be a tremendous feather in the old cap of
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles if it happens that way, because very few
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  Speaker 1: things have been outlawed plays like this. And there's some comparisons.
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  Speaker 1: I think the most famous one that I heard when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid was Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who was
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  Speaker 1: known as leu Ale Sinder at UCLA, and he was
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  Speaker 1: so dominant the Nced double a band, the slam Dunk.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know that. Of your a
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  Speaker 1: younger age, you might not know that. But the nc
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  Speaker 1: double A actually got rid of the slam dunk. Do
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  Speaker 1: you imagine a basketball operation saying we can't have the
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  Speaker 1: slam dunk anymore, right, And they did it because they
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  Speaker 1: said it was not a skillful play. What does that
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  Speaker 1: sound like? It sounds like what they're saying about the
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  Speaker 1: Toush push. And the rules committee said the ban was
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  Speaker 1: a result of injury concerns in the NCAA. What are
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  Speaker 1: the NFL people say, Well, it's not a safe play
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  Speaker 1: and it's not a skillful play. Those are the same
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  Speaker 1: arguments that are being made against the Tousch push that
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  Speaker 1: were made against the slam dunk when they banned that.
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  Speaker 1: And they even had data even back then before big
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  Speaker 1: nerds took over the world, and they claimed the NCAA,
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  Speaker 1: the people that banned the slam dunk, that there were
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  Speaker 1: like fifteen hundred times where players were heard around the
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  Speaker 1: backboard because of the slam dunk, and so they had
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of it. And it's the same playbook
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  Speaker 1: that people are using you to try to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of the Toush push in the NFL. And the slam
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  Speaker 1: dunk being banned was called the lu Al cinder rule
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  Speaker 1: andmitted players from making shots above and directly over the cylinder.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a similarly, there's still be a quarterback sneaks,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't push and all that. Now, last word,
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  Speaker 1: so the NFL owners have to decide whether or not
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  Speaker 1: they want this thing outlawed. Are they gonna get rid
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  Speaker 1: of it or not? The NFL owners could vote on
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  Speaker 1: the proposal next month at the annual league meetings. They're
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  Speaker 1: in beautiful Palm Beach. For it's odd that the NFL
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  Speaker 1: owners never meet in like Wisconsin in the winter. They
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  Speaker 1: never go to Ohio or Minnesota in the winter. They
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  Speaker 1: might go there in the summer, but they don't go there.
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  Speaker 1: And there's always a tropical destination. Have you noticed that? Yeah? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: So if the proposal does not get taken off the ballot,
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  Speaker 1: packers could retract the or withdraw the proposal. I guess
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  Speaker 1: it's the proper verbiage. So if the proposal goes to vote,
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  Speaker 1: then they need twenty four votes out of the thirty
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  Speaker 1: two teams to the play. So twenty four out of
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  Speaker 1: thirty two if they vote in favor and the play
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  Speaker 1: is outlawed, see you later. So how should the NFL
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  Speaker 1: handle the tush push going forward. So the obvious answer,
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  Speaker 1: you know my position on this. The answer is to
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  Speaker 1: just do nothing and say go pound saying to the
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  Speaker 1: packers here and keep it around. If anything. The one compromise,
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  Speaker 1: the common ground I will give you is to level
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  Speaker 1: the playing field. Now, the way you would level the
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  Speaker 1: playing field, since you are allowing two players to push
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  Speaker 1: the tushy of a jailing person a jailer hurts, I
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  Speaker 1: think what we should do is have equal tushy pushy
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  Speaker 1: on both sides. So instead of just the offensive players
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  Speaker 1: being allowed to partake in this, how about you allow
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  Speaker 1: the linebackers to push the defensive tackles and make it
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  Speaker 1: like American gladiators back in the day, a game of
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  Speaker 1: tug of war, and may the strongest team win, because
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  Speaker 1: right now it's not. There are defensive players that can
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  Speaker 1: match up strength wise with the offensive line, and Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Hurts of the Eagles, they're not given the opportunity because
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  Speaker 1: if they do that, it is a penalty against the defense.
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  Speaker 1: That's make it a strong man competition. Who's against that?
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  Speaker 1: Who would not like a strong man competition to decide
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  Speaker 1: who gets the first down? I don't know anyone who's
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  Speaker 1: got half a brain who doesn't think that's a great idea.
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  Speaker 1: And as for the it's not fair crowd, you must
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the torch pusch it's not fair. Well,
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  Speaker 1: everyone has the same opportunity to run the play, so
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  Speaker 1: it's absolutely fair. Just because your team sucks at it
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  Speaker 1: is not the Eagles problem. It's not. And you could
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  Speaker 1: also argue that for many teams in the NFL, if
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  Speaker 1: you've watched in recent years, the forward pass is also
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  Speaker 1: a play that is not fair because if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a quarterback named Mahomes or Joe Josh Allen, someone
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  Speaker 1: like that regular season Lamar Jackson, then chances are your
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  Speaker 1: team is not that good at throwing it and your
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  Speaker 1: quarterback can't throw it as accurately or as far as
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  Speaker 1: those quarterbacks, So it's an unfair advantage. And many players
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  Speaker 1: get hurt when they catch passes because if they don't
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  Speaker 1: catch passes, it's hard to get hurt. So if you
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  Speaker 1: want to play that game, we can. We can play
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  Speaker 1: that game, and what a fun game it is. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not against playing the game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not be sure to catch live editions
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  Speaker 1: App Sorrly this hour is from the speculation Room. That's
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  Speaker 1: not politics. We don't do politics here. We do sports.
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  Speaker 1: So it's NFL style, some rumbling, rumbling, rumbling as the
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  Speaker 1: NFL combine gets going the traditional gossip mill in Indianapolis. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the real events start later in the week, but the
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  Speaker 1: gossip will begin immediately on Tuesday, throughout the day and Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: and it'll crank up throughout the weekend all the way
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  Speaker 1: through Monday. But the rumbling in my stommach comes out
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  Speaker 1: of LA That is where the Chargers made the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: and then exited stage left. They fizzled out and meekly
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  Speaker 1: against the Houston football team. The Texans kicked their tuckus
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  Speaker 1: in a playoff game. So if you've not heard the
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  Speaker 1: latest on this, perhaps not. It's year two of Jimbo,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh and his era. So we're hearing now that
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers brainiacts over there are on
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  Speaker 1: the war path and they are absolutely hell bent to
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  Speaker 1: land a premium wide receiver this offseason. They would like
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  Speaker 1: to improve the duo of Ladd McConkie, who was a
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  Speaker 1: rookie mcconkee and played all right in Quinton Johnson, who
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  Speaker 1: was spotty and made a few plays here and there,
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  Speaker 1: but not consistently great. Now, the gambling market is that
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers are the favorite to land Rams wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. At the gambling market says, Cooper Cup will
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  Speaker 1: just stay in La He'll go across Sofi Stadium and
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  Speaker 1: put on the lightning bolt and put down the ram horns.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question, the Chargers the betting
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  Speaker 1: favorite for wide receiver Cooper Cup. Would that be a
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  Speaker 1: good fit? Would that be a good fit. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got sky Miles, Confectionery, and leg room, and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to make a money back guarantee like a late night infomercial.
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  Speaker 1: Is what we're going to do, So, num burn I said,
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  Speaker 1: Num burn I said number. So I'm gonna go thumbs
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  Speaker 1: down on this. I do not think this would be
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  Speaker 1: a good fit for the Chargers. I don't quite understand it. Now. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I have no ill will against Cooper Cup. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know him in real life. I just know him as
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  Speaker 1: a name and a player that I have watched for
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  Speaker 1: a number of years with the Rams, who didn't win
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl MVP, but Cooper Cup had for years
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  Speaker 1: when he played been great. You knew he didn't play
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  Speaker 1: all the time, but he played. He was always very good.
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  Speaker 1: And even that started to vanish. In twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: He took a back seat to Pukin Deaku and as
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  Speaker 1: the season went on. Over the last six games, including
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  Speaker 1: a playoff winning against the Vikings and a loss against
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles in the snow in Philadelphia, Cooper Cup
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  Speaker 1: averaged less than twenty four yards per game, less than
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  Speaker 1: twenty four yards receiving per game. The problem for the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers is the reputation precedes Cooper Cup and the reputation
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  Speaker 1: of the Chargers. So you could argue this is a
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  Speaker 1: perfect match. You could make that argument, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: just that Cooper Cup looked like he was starting to
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  Speaker 1: lose it at the end of last year. You look
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  Speaker 1: at the DNA of the charge, Cooper Cup appears to
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  Speaker 1: be damaged goods now. Sometimes damaged goods get a change
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  Speaker 1: of scenery and they turn out to be fine. We
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  Speaker 1: all know that, but he's got a dent over here.
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  Speaker 1: There's some kind of scratches and some rust over there.
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  Speaker 1: Not your normal wear and tear. It's more than your
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  Speaker 1: normal wear and tear with Cooper Cup. And he's picked
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  Speaker 1: up a lot of sky miles. He's flying the injury
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  Speaker 1: plane is what he's flying here. And in recent years,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup has had four ankle injuries, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: high ankle sprains, ACL issues, and other various bumps and
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  Speaker 1: bruises from playing in professional football. He also turns thirty
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  Speaker 1: two before the start of next season. Happy early birthday.
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  Speaker 1: The projections on players with that injury history at that
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  Speaker 1: age are not good. Now, that tells you what has happened.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't tell you what's going to happen. Is unique.
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  Speaker 1: There's always the player that defies what has happened. And
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  Speaker 1: do you want to bet on defying the comps? Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to bet on that? Right? And the franchise
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  Speaker 1: Charger though the franchise charter for the Chargers HEAs for
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  Speaker 1: me to say, But the franchise charter for the Chargers,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup would be the epitome of a modern Charger
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  Speaker 1: player because they can't get enough of damaged goods. They're
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  Speaker 1: really solid at picking up players that have a super skill,
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  Speaker 1: a super power of getting heard. Now, turning the page,
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  Speaker 1: turning the page, we stay with the theme disgruntled pass
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  Speaker 1: catchers for a thousand. We head now to the lone
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  Speaker 1: Star State, page two, as the combine inches closer. Here,
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  Speaker 1: news out of Houston. What is the news? We're hearing
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  Speaker 1: that wide receiver Stefon Diggs, Remember him, all those dopey Bills,
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  Speaker 1: mafia people, Andy the comic book guy. Oh, he and
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen or Fred they love each other. Oh they're
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  Speaker 1: lovey dovey. Yeah, yeah, I love when fans think one
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  Speaker 1: thing and it couldn't be further from the truth. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we know the truth came out in the end. Stefan
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  Speaker 1: Diggs and Josh Allen they might like each other, but
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  Speaker 1: they don't like working together. So Stefan Diggs was decommissioned
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  Speaker 1: by the Buffalo Bills and he was sent down to
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. And so now the noises we're hearing this,
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  Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs is not expected back with the Texans. Give
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  Speaker 1: me your school of thought on Diggs likely moving on
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  Speaker 1: to his next NFL outpost, out in the wild blue yonder.
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  Speaker 1: So the word I have is predictable. Predictable is the
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  Speaker 1: word I am. I'm going with. Stefan Diggs in Houston
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  Speaker 1: was a dummy run, right, He was a dummy run.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: It was a flyer moves like, ah, let's see if
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: this works out. We need a receiver. He's a receiver,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: and he's got some issues. But maybe a change of
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: scenery every it'll be great. And so the Texans gave
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: up pretty much nothing to get Stefan Diggs, and he
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: went there and they visited the confectionery and they got
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: a double scoop of Rocky Road ice cream with all
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the chopped almonds and the marshmallows and the chocolate ice
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: cream and all that. And c J. Stroud, the quarterback
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of the Houston football team, turns out apparently he's lactose
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: intolerant when it comes to Stefan Diggs and the Rocky
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Road ice cream, and so he had a tummy ache.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And yeah, not working out because the only reason to
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: not bring him back is if there was a legitimate riff. Otherwise,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: why would you at least not negotiate with the player
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and try to bring him back. But by all indications,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the Texans are like a we're good, you go somewhere else.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: We're good. You know, don't call us, we'll call you
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And Digs is a hammerhead, if
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you will. And he also had an ACL go snap
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: crap pop. Easy for me to say, snap crackle pop
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: there midseason, right, So he had that, So the Texans
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: will be on the proud. We know they're looking for
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: a new wide receiver too. We know that Tank Dell,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the Tank is in the warehouse there getting some repairs done.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I remember week sixteen his knee was shredded there and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: so he's out for this season upcoming when it starts
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in September. Unlikely he'll be back at any point in
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: any meaningful way. Now, final thought, we go down to
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the Mile High Club, not the Mile High City, the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Mile High Club where randomly this story pops up. These
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: are the kind of random stories that you get this
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: time of the year. So everyone's on their way to Indianapolis.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: All roads lead to Indy for the combine, which is
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: going to drive sports talk, radio conversation and internet gossip
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and all of that. So I bring this up because
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: randomly the Raiders the Raiders head coach Pete Carroll was
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: spotted by random people on a flight from Seattle to Indianapolis.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I would say, well, who cares. I would assume that
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: he flew there, and he did not take a Amtrak train
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: or take a Greyhound bus or drive himself. It was
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: more probable than not that Pete Carroll, who lives in
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the Seattle area still hasn't relocated to Vegas yet, that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: he would fly to Indianapples. So what's the story. We'll explain.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: So Pete Carroll was spoted on this flight by other
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: people on the flight on his way to Indianapolis heading
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to the combine, and Pete Carroll, who is a coach,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: sat in coach.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Pete Carroll, NFL head coach, was not sitting in
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the first class section of the flight. And there were
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: of course media dopes and some other fan types that
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: we're taking shots here at the Raiders organization. How could
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll be forced to sit with a great, unwashed
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: flying coach and what's wrong with the Raiders and Mark
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Davis and all that stuff. NFL gurus railing railing against
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the Silver and Black saying that Pete Carroll deserved better.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: He deserved better. So the Raiders are being called cheap.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: They're being called cheap for Pete Carroll's seat on the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: flight to the Combine not being a first class seat,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: So is that fair or foul? Is that fair or foul?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: The Raiders are being put on blast because of this.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: So I actually have this as a fab ball on
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the replay assist faball is how I have it. So
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: it's actually kind of refreshing and cool to see an
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: NFL head coach be relatable to have to deal with
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: what we have to deal with when we travel around.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: These guys are not gods, they're not They're just the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: merely coaching ball is all they're doing. They're coaching ball.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: And on this one, whether it was intentional or unintentional,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll looked like the everyman sitting there in the back.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And Pete Carroll I wouldn't be shocked if he prefers
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to fly coach. He did have an exit row, so
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: he was sitting in an exit row, and that's good
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: because you love that extra legroom that you get on
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: an exit row. That's the way to go. You don't
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: have to be squished in there like a bunch of
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: sardines when you sit in the exit row and they
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: give that spiel and then you say, okay, we're good,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and then that's it. It's also possible he's a savvy
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: traveler and he took a page out of the NBA
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: officials from years ago and Major League Baseball umpires, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the Raiders did buy him a first class ticket, and
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: then he downgraded to coach, and it's conceivable that Pete
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: might have pocketed the money pay for a first class ticket,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: but you spend a coach price and you pocket the difference,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And of course he could have done that. Or it's
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: just hey, whatever, the guy's worth, like forty fifty million
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: dollars or something like that, from all the NFL money
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the college money he's made. So I'm pretty sure if
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: he wanted to fly first class, he could, And from
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: what I've been told, it is the standard practice. If
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: you have a head coaching job in the NFL and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: you travel to an NFL event, you fly first class.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Everything is first class in the NFL now. Occasionally, teams
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: like the Bears were called out because if people were
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: interviewing for jobs, they wouldn't they wouldn't give them the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: VIP treatment. But outside of that, you're you're in good shape.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And I do think it's also hilarious from what I
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: was observing here that people were saying that Pete got
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: up to go take a whiz on the flight to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Indianapolis from Seattle. The Raiders coach and the flight attendant
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: gave him a warning, saying that he had to sit
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and wait until the beverage carts had gone by. He
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: could not go up to the first class commode because
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: you know, he was not a first class member. He
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: had a weight with everyone else back there. So I
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: thought that was cool. So we speak the same language.
• 26:19
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• 26:20
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• 26:22
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• 26:25
  Speaker 1: It's Mallard, how about that racer? I know, I know
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: this is going to hell, said Cleveland Indians. All right,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: here we go, Lorraina, here we go, Here we go,
• 26:38
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• 26:40
  Speaker 4: All right, Yes, lots of people considered I'm not the
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: rain of it. I know that lots of people considered
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Jim Harbaugh's first season as Chargers head coach to be
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: a success. Though I'm sure fans weren't happy with the
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: way that the season ended, just like it ends every
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: other season for the Chargers. Ben, what are the Chargers
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: need to do to get to the next level?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Well, Justin Herbert has to stop riding the vomit comet
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: in playoff games. He's played in two playoff games. Had
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a to a twenty seven point choke job against Jacksonville.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: They blew the lead. He did nothing in the second half,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and then he kept turning the ball over against the
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Houston Tentions. He's got to play better. They obviously have
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to get some better players around him. But Herbert hasn't
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: played well in big games. That's you know, that's on him.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: He's the franchise quarterback.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Next, it was reported back in December that the NFL
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: would be making a decision sometime in the spring about
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: players participating in Olympic flag football in twenty twenty eight games.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Ben, spring is right around the corner. What
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: do you think the decision will be. Well, they have
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to get they have to get insurance and if as
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: long as an insurance company will sign off on allowing them.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: From a liability standpoint, if guys tear their knees up
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: they're allowed to play, then the NFL will sign up
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: on it. They want it because they're never even get
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: tackle football the Olympics. That's the only chance they have next.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: After another embarrassing loss to the Celtics on Sunday, the
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Knicks are now zero to five against the Cavs and
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Celtics this season, being outscored by an average of twenty
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: one point two points per game.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben, they're inevitable.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: After their inevitable second round exit, what changes do you
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: see coming to New York?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Well, if they continue like this, Tom Thibodau is gonna
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: be fired. I mean that's obvious. How do we do
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: You've passed there? It is. That's a win, hi one.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: You could have done better, Ben, Turn your mic off?
• 28:18
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• 28:38
  Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably? Not?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: All Right, here we go, time to play Malos amount
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: of Money. Let's welcome in our contestants, and who do
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: we have you? It's the eeny Meeni Mini Moe. We've
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: got Brian in Almoney. Hello, Brian, welcome.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Hello, man, how you doing?
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I'm good? Now you're driving around? You're distracted? Are you
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: gonna be able to focus on the game.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: I've got this game, Ben, you.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Sure about that? I've heard that before?
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Ah, you never know.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: He does seem pretty confident though. Yeah. Well he's driving though.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Guys driving sometimes need to get distracted. You all right, well,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: hold on, who do you want to play with?
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Brian?
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: You got me? Or if you really want to have
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: some fun, Lorena or cool? You know, Ben, I gotta
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: go with you, all right, man, we're in it to
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: win it. We'll very kind, thank you. And let's see here,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Lorena pick one, two or three? Lorena? Let's go number three?
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Number three? All right? You picked Mark in Ithaca. Hello, Mark, welcome, Welcome?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: How you doing? Man? You guys are like neighbors. Man.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: You can go hang out with Brian. You got that
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: far away shovel snow together. Yeah, Live the dream, Live
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the dream? Sure clear? Surrounded about jill fans and losers?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Oh I see interesting? Well, who do you want to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: partner up with there? Mark, how you know?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Right? Interesting? What's what's the what's happening? Am I missing? No?
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: No?
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Okay, so they just all know I'm a sports.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I recognize something there, so we'll tell all right, Yeah, alright,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: let's go.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: This is Malard's Mountain of Money, the Drew Barrymore addition,
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: do you think we're being pranks?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Is that? No? No, we're not being brand all right?
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: She turned fifty years old over the weekend.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Fifty, that's right.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: The categories are et, the extraterrestrial, the wedding singer, fifty
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: first dates, and miss you already?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Brian, you were on the air first. Which category would
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: you like?
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And Mark? How about you? All right? All right, Brian,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: we are going to go first year on the air first.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: These athletes all suffered head injuries, famous head injuries. Are
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: you prepared here? Yeah? Are you sure you're prepared? All right,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: let's play again. We need the first and last name,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: first and last name, and we're on our way and go.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: A quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs right now? Oh
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: my god, oh wow, are you kidding me? All right? Lorena? Yes,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the forty nine ers after Joe Montana left
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: handed quarterback. Yes, Cleveland Cavaliers. Storry was on the Jazz
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: is nicknamed Spider. All right, third the third basement for
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox. He doesn't want to leave third base
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: even now they signed that cheating astro. Oh, this is
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: going as well as I thought it would be. All right,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Well that was You knew we were in Joe when
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: he couldn't figure out Mahomes name. That was a bad son.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: The man's been in the last three Super Bowls. Okay,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: all right, sweet.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Mark, we've got a we've got a tough hill to
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: climb here.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, you're down, but thirty yeah, thirty points you got
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: thirty commandingly unbelievable about already?
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: All right, Mark, we have e t the extraterrestrial. These
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: pro athletes were not born in the USA. Forty five seconds.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: That's the begin the Japanese phenom on the Dodgers.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: DONI full name please?
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: He yes, okay, he said both names. The player that
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: just got traded from the Mavericks to the Lakers. Yes,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: the white point guard from Canada. He was on the
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Mavericks and the Sons. He won two MVPs.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Yes, this guy's from the congo.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: He blocked shots.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: No no, no to cam Bag mcmbo. Resident.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, wow, this guy the al batting titles named after him.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: He's from Panama. He was on the Twins and the Angels.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Stuck dude, du Lay Tulay Toulay, good job, good job,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: too lait and he got it after a buzzer. Well
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: we still got this guy is man. You probably get
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: massages like Justin Tucker. All right, we're up everywhere. Well no,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: he converted, supposedly according to Adam sam Anyway, all right, Brian,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: we're up again.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Wedding singer or MISSI already? Okay, wedding singer. These athletes
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: got married within the last year. Are you ready? Here
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: we go forty five seconds run away go quarterback for
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the Lions right now, yes, forty nine ers quarterback. He
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: was mister irrelevant and now he was in the Super
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of years ago.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, the Greek freak for the Milwaukee Bucks.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: He didn't.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: What's his first name?
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Point guard for the Boston Celtics when they when they
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: won a championship with Doc Rivers. He played for the Lakers,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: also out of Kentucky. No, play with Paul Pierce, though
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: a shortstop for the Royals when they won the when
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: they had one wars. He's Rookie of the Year made
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the playoffs this past year. His dad was a pitcher
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: for the Rangers. No boy, good effort. Yeah it was
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Bobby Wit Junior, Rajon Rondo and Jannis. Yeah.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: You technically got thirty thirty points that time too, because
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: he didn't say giannis.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: He only said a ten.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Oh stop fish, don't because shot all right, don't be
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: a mark with you.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: You know you guys a ringer. Go find the find
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the white suit, mark find the white Suit.
• 35:12
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• 35:14
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• 35:17
  Speaker 1: The twenty twenty five nominees for the Benny Awards. We
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: have the nominees I'm gonna run through these year. These
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: are the nominees for all the various awards for the show.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: And we're excited about this now that the categories for
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five venues we have Rookie Caller of
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the Year. Now some people think that we only have
• 35:40
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• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the show, and no one knew ever calls the show,
• 35:45
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• 35:48
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• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Some people listen for a long time, but they start
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: calling the show randomly on a whim. The nominees for
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Rookie Caller of the Year are Daniel America's favorite crossing
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: guard from Fort Wayne, Indiana, The Moe Joe Rising from
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the Bay Area, Tuna in Laguna, Mike Maleprakahn. Now here's
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: a controversial one, Kelly in Des Moines. Some say Kelly's
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: actually been listening for more than a year and calling in,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: but who knows. She is listed as a Rookie Caller
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: of the Year formerly in Nashville. And our favorite trash
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: man who calls one of the great bloopers on the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: TV show this year, Danny DeVito from Boston. So those
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: are the nominees. Congratulations to all the nominees for Rookie
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: call of the Year. Game Show Contestant of the Year
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: another very competitive category play a lot of dopey game shows.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: The nominees for the Game Show Contestant of the Year
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: we have Coach Russell from Orlando High School football. Like
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: the Belichick of High school football in Orlando, and he's
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: called the show quite a bit recently. And we have
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Manuel in Garden, a legend on the show. He is
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: a nominee for Game Show Contestant the Year. Chris in Massachusetts,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: also Chris and Boston. Those are not the same person,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: but both Game Show Horse. Mitch in man Cato and
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: nominated again for her second Benny Award, Kelly in De Moine.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: So Kelly's in there as well Lame Joke Contributor of
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the Year. These are actual nominees for the Benny Awards
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. We have Kurt from Earth. Kurt from Earth,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the legendary Chip in Maine, a great joke writer, the
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: man that won the title last year, very controversial figure,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Surfer Todd the comedian, the Great Gordon in Tacoma is
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: a nominee. Good Yeah by him. And Noah in Austin, right,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: very competitive Ratlasi. Yes, all the nominees here for Lame
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Joe Contributor of the Year, and there were some other
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: names that did not make the cup which should have
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: been in there. To ask Ben questions, a weekly bit
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: that we do in the show, ask Ben the nominees
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: for the Benny of the Year Award. You'll be able
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: to vote on this alf the Alien Old Piner. Congratulations
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: alf Fer Dodge herd Dog and that winner won the
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Land of Siberia, followed two I forty Ian so he's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: a nominee. Also the King Rory, Cowboy Killer, Late Night
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Drug Tester, and Lady Sidebirds are all the nominees for
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Ask Ben questions. Good job by you, Top crew fill in,
• 38:37
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• 38:40
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• 38:43
  Speaker 1: year we have Bree. How about that her first Zetter
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  Speaker 1: first set her first nomination which he nominated last year.
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  Speaker 1: Bree is one of our favorites, Mark the Great Mark.
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  Speaker 1: He fills in for Lorrainer. He's the guy who's a
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  Speaker 1: White Sox fan. Bernie Fratto who sits in for me
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Weekend at Bernie's The No Show. Brian No also
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  Speaker 1: a nominee Lead a Laugh It's Just and for Coop
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  Speaker 1: and also nominated for Top Crew fill in Milkman Mike
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  Speaker 1: in Colorado for his weed man hippie impersonation. So congratulations
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  Speaker 1: the drop of the Year on the Ben Mala Show.
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  Speaker 1: These are actual nominees for the show. We're not done yet.
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  Speaker 1: Drop of the Year. On the show, you can vote
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  Speaker 1: on all of these. Oh look, I'm a nominee. Look
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  Speaker 1: at that. I'm a nominee. Give me a taste of that.
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  Speaker 1: I forget what that last part is there. Give me
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  Speaker 1: a little taste of that. Dick, Well, that's of course
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  Speaker 1: attribute to Dick and Dayton. Lorraina. Congratulations, Lorraine, your first
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  Speaker 1: nomination for a Benny Award. Me. Yes, you're nominated. Something
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  Speaker 1: about a pickle, something about a pickle there, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, bro. And I'm nominated again. Look at that
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  Speaker 1: something about chewing on something. I don't know what that's about.
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  Speaker 1: That must be because I had to chew the testicles.
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  Speaker 1: That's out of context audio. And we also have hollering James.
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  Speaker 1: How about that hollering James a nominee for dropping it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's where he snored and farted at the same time
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  Speaker 1: on the show. Most impressive thing I've ever heard. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't think that was possible. We thought you could
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  Speaker 1: only snore or fart. You couldn't do both at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. And yeah, I mean you talk about both ends.
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  Speaker 1: Man alive. What a talent hollering James is and how
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  Speaker 1: lucky are we we found him? He found us? Man
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  Speaker 1: all right? Now a category that went away, but his
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  Speaker 1: back Blind Collar of the Year. He's in the nominee
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  Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty five Benny Awards that helped make
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Mallor Show a show. And the man that
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  Speaker 1: well he loves our show. I think he loves the
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  Speaker 1: morning show in the Sports Hub with Toucher and Hardy.
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  Speaker 1: I think he loves them more than us. But he
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  Speaker 1: calls our show all the times you call me for
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years. Blind Scott from the North end of Boston
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  Speaker 1: is a nominee.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The classically trained musician from a Rochester He's traveled all
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  Speaker 1: over the world. The man known as Inca Terror nominated
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  Speaker 1: for Blind Caller of the Year.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: We also have legally blind Christopher from m Carolina. Congratulations
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  Speaker 1: on your nomination, am It. The blind Seahawk fan from
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  Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest. He's also nominated, And a man that
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  Speaker 1: calls the show semi regularly, although more of a guy
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  Speaker 1: on social media. Stevie Meatballs is nominated for Blind Caller
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  Speaker 1: of the Year. All Right, A few more categories to
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  Speaker 1: go it's the nominees for the twenty twenty five Benny Awards.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to our live coverage. Nobody else has it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: ESBN wishes they had this, they don't. We've got it.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else has it this. We're the only one. Every
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  Speaker 1: network wants this, Lareda, We're the only ones doing this
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  Speaker 1: content right now. It's unbelievable. International Caller of the Year.
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  Speaker 1: International Caller of the Year the category. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: think this show sucks in America, imagine if you're listening
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  Speaker 1: in Europe or Australia or any of the other countries
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  Speaker 1: the show is broadcasting, it must really suck. But the
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  Speaker 1: nominees for International Call of the Year Otto bon Butch,
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  Speaker 1: who just left Germany, but he's still a candidate, A
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  Speaker 1: nominee for International Call of the Year. Hank in Tokyo,
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations Hank in Tokyo. A couple of Australian listeners Ozzie Wise,
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  Speaker 1: he loves our show so much he bought one of
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  Speaker 1: those satellite things from Elon Musk. He's out in the
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  Speaker 1: boondocks in Australia and he calls and texts the show
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  Speaker 1: from out there because he's got that little satellite hookup,
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  Speaker 1: dedicated Ozzie Momentum, great joke rider, Terry in England Isee,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations tarrying England. He's the guy who does a lot
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  Speaker 1: of lists. Leren he likes to list. And also from Montreal,
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  Speaker 1: mister Hurt. Congratulations to mister Hurt from Montreal. Now, some
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  Speaker 1: would say this is the most competitive category. Most competitive
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  Speaker 1: category on the show this year. Intoxicated Caller of the Year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this includes all kinds of trouble. This includes booze, drugs, pharmaceuticals,
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  Speaker 1: you name it. And I'd like to think that we
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  Speaker 1: lead all of talk radio in this category, that no
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  Speaker 1: one else can compete when it comes to the level
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  Speaker 1: of intoxication that we provide on a nightly basis. And
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  Speaker 1: it's so difficult to really whittle down this category. But
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  Speaker 1: here are the nominees for Intoxicated Caller of the Year.
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  Speaker 1: We have Keg Drinking Steve. He's the delusional Chiefs fan.
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  Speaker 1: He actually returned to the show few hours ago near
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  Speaker 1: the podcast Jay Dot in Utah. Now j Dot went
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  Speaker 1: to jail because he got hammered and got into like
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  Speaker 1: a fight with cops in Salt Lake because he was
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  Speaker 1: drinking too much. How about this? Mouthwash Mike is a nominee. Congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: mouth washed Mike. Right, very competitive category. Jed who fled
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  Speaker 1: who's like the og of intoxication while calling sports radio?
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  Speaker 1: He is a nominee and the black irishman from Omaha.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to him. By the way, mouthwashed Mike is online.
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  Speaker 1: Mouthwashed Mike, congratulations in your nomination. Mouthwash Mike, I'm here, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: thank you God? Is that not on brand? Coop? Come on?
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  Speaker 1: That is perfect? He's not even paying attention. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Female Caller of the Year, Female Caller of the Year, Yes, please,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have many women in the college show, but
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  Speaker 1: we have a few that stand out, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: hard to stand out when there's not many women calling
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  Speaker 1: the show probably, so all right, Female Caller of the Year,
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  Speaker 1: we have Tammy in Montana. Tammy is a legend on
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  Speaker 1: the show. She works the dreaded day shift. Now, Andrea
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  Speaker 1: the astrology Lady, Congratulations Andrew on your nomination for Female
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  Speaker 1: Caller of the Year. Kelly in Des Moines her third nomination,
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  Speaker 1: and Leslie and Brandon Florida. Now, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: upset here that our favorite drag queen did not make
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  Speaker 1: the list, but unfortunately not other All right, we have
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Beer Drinking Brian Worst Caller of
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  Speaker 1: the Year category. We have two categories left, the worst
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  Speaker 1: Caller of the Year. These are the nominees and another
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  Speaker 1: competitive category. Nobody has worse calls than we have, so
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  Speaker 1: the Worst Caller of the Year in many ways is
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  Speaker 1: the highest honor on the show. Some would say so,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Beer Drinking Brian Worst Call of
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  Speaker 1: the Year. The nominees are Gunner in Minnesota his first nomination.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations Gunner, you earned it.
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  Speaker 2: Pal.
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  Speaker 1: That's a tough beat right there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how anyone beats Gunner hollering. James from
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota is James second nomination. Congratulations, Mike the lepre Kahn
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  Speaker 1: has been nominated. I believe Mike the Lepreca is there. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on your nomination. Mike the Leprechaun. Congratulations. All he's
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  Speaker 1: not talking there? All right? We have Poppy in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: How does anyone be Poppy? I think he's the uh
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  Speaker 1: last year's he the raining shot. He's gotta be the
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  Speaker 1: Raining champion, right, Poppy in San Diego? I mean this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh hey, how about Jerome and Charleston? All right, Jerome,
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  Speaker 1: way to go. Well, you're up for the beer drinking
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  Speaker 1: Brian Worst Caller of the Year and the final category.
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  Speaker 1: And here it is the most competitive category, some would say,
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  Speaker 1: the Genie and Medford Memorial Caller of the Year award
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  Speaker 1: the highest honor and overnight sports talk radio. And here
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  Speaker 1: are the nominees. You'll be able to vote on this.
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  Speaker 1: The link will be sending out in a moment. Here
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  Speaker 1: the nominees for the Genian Medford Caller of the Year.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a shocking nominee, Andre in the Commonwealth and soon
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  Speaker 1: a multi time caller of the Year, a man that
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  Speaker 1: will declare himself the winner whether he wins or not.
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  Speaker 1: Marcel in Brooklyn right, a man that has also won
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  Speaker 1: previous Call of the Year honors in years past and
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  Speaker 1: now is a semi regular caller to the show. Whoop
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  Speaker 1: be Pie Blair from Maine is a nominee. Right. Another
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  Speaker 1: multi nomination goes out to our nominee. Our next nominee
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  Speaker 1: for Caller of the Year, Jed who fled Congratulations, Jed
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  Speaker 1: who fled.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Our next nominee is a man that has regaled us
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  Speaker 1: over the last year with call by call details on
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  Speaker 1: the O. J. Simps' thirty year old murder trial. We
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  Speaker 1: welcome in helmet Man. Congratulations helmet Man. If the glove
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  Speaker 1: don't fit, you must have quit. How about weed Man Hippie?
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  Speaker 1: Every week weed Man? We love weed Man Hippie is
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  Speaker 1: a nominee. There are two nominees left for the Genian
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  Speaker 1: Medford Caller of the Year. A guy that hangs out
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  Speaker 1: occasionally in the jungle and he comes to our show
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  Speaker 1: as well, and call me since I was doing local
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  Speaker 1: radio back in the day. Manuel in guard Dina in
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  Speaker 1: Southern California. Congratulations Manuel on your nomination for Caller of
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  Speaker 1: the Year. And the final nominee. Here we go, the
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  Speaker 1: final nominee for the Ben Maller Show, Genia Medford. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want a drum roll? I would love it. Draw
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  Speaker 1: I need a drum roll? I need I need a
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  Speaker 1: drum roll? Here? All right, Tony in the bay, All right,
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  Speaker 1: Tony's the guy up. He usually pretty short calls and
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  Speaker 1: then drops a bad word and I always laugh.