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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour. Don't bury the lead, my man!
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  Speaker 1: I think you know where the lead is. There's only
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  Speaker 1: one thing. We've been waiting for months and months and months.
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  Speaker 1: It keeps the lights on around here. What is it
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  Speaker 1: that keeps the lights on around here? Well, that would
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  Speaker 1: be the National Football League, and it was a Humpty Dance,
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  Speaker 1: the traditional Wednesday opener, unless there's nothing traditional about a
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday opener, but they played it. They started it because
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  Speaker 1: they had this Fugazi game, and Melbourne, Australia. So they
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  Speaker 1: had to accommodate the good people of Melbourne. So instead
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  Speaker 1: of starting on Thursday, which is normally what happens now,
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  Speaker 1: we had the Wednesday kickoff. But the curtain did go
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  Speaker 1: up on the 2026 NFL regular season, a rematch. of
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl 60, which wasn't very good, and this game
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  Speaker 1: wasn't very good. So Patriots and Seahawks, they get together.
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  Speaker 1: Not good football. The end of the game was fine,
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  Speaker 1: but the balance of the game, which is like three
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  Speaker 1: hours and whatever, not very good. Not very good. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're not supposed to say that, Maller. You're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: drink the NFL Kool-Aid. Okay, fine. Whatever you want. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it was a hump day special there, so I assume
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  Speaker 1: you watched or heard it on some kind of transistor radio,
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  Speaker 1: but perhaps not. Perhaps not. So the backup quarterback, the
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  Speaker 1: backup quarterback, Drew Locke. Lock it in. Drew Locke, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of late scoring drives, and the Seattle Seahawks. getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of help from the 12th man, not the fans.
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  Speaker 1: That would be Drake May, who should be getting a
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  Speaker 1: 12 jersey and be part of the pregame festivities in
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  Speaker 1: years to come. They should bring Drake May to Seattle
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  Speaker 1: and have him do that little thing that Richard Sherman
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  Speaker 1: was doing before the game. So Drake May had three
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  Speaker 1: interceptions in the fourth quarter, which I'm told is not good. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't play in the NFL, but I'm told that's
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  Speaker 1: not good. And that allowed Seattle to get over the
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  Speaker 1: hump on hump day. And without Sam Darnold, that's not
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  Speaker 1: really much of a loss. But anyway, listen, so Seattle
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  Speaker 1: came back. They win the game 13-10. The better story, though,
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  Speaker 1: is in... The losing locker room, Mike Vrabel, when he's
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  Speaker 1: not playing footsie with NFL insiders. He's coaching the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Mike Vrabel commenting on his quarterback who had
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  Speaker 1: a three-interception night. Here's Coach Vrabel. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a long season.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Like, we're going to hold our head up high, and
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  Speaker 4: we have nothing but the Upmost confidence in him and
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  Speaker 4: everybody on this football team, and he's going.
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  Speaker 5: To make a lot of plays for us. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you can't throw three interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: Drake knows that. Oh, they said Drake. There he goes, Drake.
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  Speaker 5: We put ourselves in some long yardage situations on the one.
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  Speaker 5: That would probably force, and I think the guy made
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  Speaker 5: a great play on the last one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be a long season if he
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  Speaker 1: keeps playing like that. It's going to get people fired,
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  Speaker 1: Drake May. Holy crap. My God. All right, so that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. The better story is obviously
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. That's where the story is.
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  Speaker 1: The Patriots, this is an embarrassing day for the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots franchise. It is. The game was right there.
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  Speaker 1: You gave the game away. You just gave the game away,
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  Speaker 1: and that's on you. Seattle didn't deserve this win, and
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  Speaker 1: that seems to happen a lot to that team. Have
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  Speaker 1: you noticed? Like, something's going on there. I mean, some
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  Speaker 1: kind of, Faustian bargain, the Seattle Seahawks. Anyways, good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question, what happened to
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  Speaker 1: Patriots quarterback Drake May here in the lid lifter on
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  Speaker 1: the NFL season? So I've got Mater D, Spinach, and Fuzzy.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll combine all of these things together, and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to grab some supper and work out the kinks,
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  Speaker 1: which is what Drake May needs to do. So, A, listen,
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  Speaker 1: Drake May was, I determined as I was watching the game,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't know this prior to the game, but
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  Speaker 1: he was administered an IV drip. Did you know that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I saw it in a cartoon bubble in my head.
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  Speaker 1: So Drake May was administered an IV drip, and it
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  Speaker 1: contained a mixture of saline and suck. And I guess
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  Speaker 1: they left the saline out, so it was just suck,
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  Speaker 1: an IV drip of suck for Drake May.
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  Speaker 3: And in a flash.
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  Speaker 1: Drake May went from the 2025 MVP runner-up to the
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  Speaker 1: football equivalent of tossing cookies as you sit on the
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  Speaker 1: porcelain pony, if you know what I mean. My God.
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  Speaker 1: That was disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. We have some more audio.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Drake May pointing out that what he did is
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  Speaker 1: a felony. Take a listen. Yeah, I think we had
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  Speaker 1: the game under control.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I thought we had a good.
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  Speaker 6: I planned to try to start chipping away and be patient, and, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I lost patience and it costed us. I think it just,
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  Speaker 6: you know, decisions that cost us the game, you know.
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  Speaker 1: On my part and my end.
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  Speaker 6: And, you know, I vowed to myself to be better
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  Speaker 6: and realize it's, you know, it's a long season, but
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  Speaker 6: at the same time you can't have those. You can't
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  Speaker 6: have those, and it's unacceptable. And I know that it'll
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  Speaker 6: get you back to work because, you know, that wasn't,
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  Speaker 6: you know, how I play football and how I want
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  Speaker 6: to represent, you know, my game and, you know, playing
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  Speaker 6: quarterback for the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: So Drake, in the middle of that, he's like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: what cliches can I sew together? And let me get
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  Speaker 1: my sewing machine out. Let me put the cliches together.
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  Speaker 1: And here we go. So he did get an upgrade, though.
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  Speaker 1: That's nice when you get an upgrade. You travel. Patriots
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  Speaker 1: are on the road. He got an upgrade there. He
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  Speaker 1: moved from coach to first class. And then they moved
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  Speaker 1: him all the way up to the cockpit. And he said, boy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the cockpit. This is great. He said, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually not a plane. It's the Vomit Comet. And
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  Speaker 1: he rode the Vomit Comet straight into Puget Sound. Kaboom!
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  Speaker 1: So the Seahawks offense produced, if my math is correct here,
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  Speaker 1: three points outside of Drake May's tax-deductible charitable donation from
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  Speaker 1: his foundation. So the Patriots, on that final possession for
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  Speaker 1: New England, they had a tie in the back. They
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  Speaker 1: were in chip shot field goal range. At worst, you
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  Speaker 1: go to overtime. And Drake May marked it return to
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  Speaker 1: sender at the very end there.
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  Speaker 3: The game was in his hands.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, let me go over to that Walmart
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  Speaker 1: Express here. I'm going to hand deliver the game to
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  Speaker 1: the people of Seattle. So I'm going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And he did. coughed up a hairball when the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: needed him to purr. And he chose not to purr here.
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  Speaker 1: So really what he did, he did some cosplay. He
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  Speaker 1: was playing the Mater D. Drake May was playing the
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  Speaker 1: Mater D here of interceptions at the Pike Place Market,
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  Speaker 1: the famous tourist trap there in Seattle. And he simply
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  Speaker 1: tapped out. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. A
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  Speaker 1: passer rating in the 50s. And the Patriots just terrible.
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  Speaker 1: nine drives three interceptions uh one field goal one touchdown
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  Speaker 1: everything else was a punt for the Patriots now page
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  Speaker 1: two outside of Drake May give me a phrase give
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  Speaker 1: me a phrase to describe the wide receiver Romeo Dobbs
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  Speaker 1: debut with the Patriots because this was a big story
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  Speaker 1: here Romeo Dobbs and his performance here so the phrase
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  Speaker 1: I will use it's actually I'm going to use a
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  Speaker 1: name I'm going to use a name It's a musician,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Lee Lewis. That's the name I'm going to use.
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  Speaker 1: Dobbs wrote a parody song of Jerry Lee Lewis's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that famous Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire. And his
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  Speaker 1: spin on it, and it is original because you normally
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  Speaker 1: don't want this kind of thing in your first performance
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  Speaker 1: with a new employer. So he sang a parody song,
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  Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs, Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Suck. And that
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  Speaker 1: was his version. And I believe the family of Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Lee Lewis is demanding royalties, I think. So New England,
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  Speaker 1: I read, remember this offseason, we talked about it, $ 39
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  Speaker 1: million guaranteed for Romeo Dobbs. $ 39 million guaranteed. And he
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  Speaker 1: opened up his Patriots career here in prime time like
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  Speaker 1: a guy that won a contract in a radio giveaway.
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  Speaker 1: Caller number 17. You're going to win a chance to
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  Speaker 1: play wide receiver for the New England Patriots. So what
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  Speaker 1: a name, right?
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  Speaker 2: Romeo.
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  Speaker 1: What a great name, Romeo. Romeo Dobbs. Patriots fans wanted
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  Speaker 1: Romeo and Juliet. Instead, they've got Romeo and drop it
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  Speaker 1: is what they got. So you only get one chance,
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  Speaker 1: I'm told, to make a first impression. And Romeo Dobbs
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  Speaker 1: showed up there. First impression in a real game with
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots. And he had spinach in his teeth. He
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  Speaker 1: had B.O. and his fly was down. Other than that,
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  Speaker 1: everything was good.
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  Speaker 3: Everything was good.
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  Speaker 1: So with A.J. Brown dinged up, more on that later,
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  Speaker 1: Brown knocked out of the game and he did not return.
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  Speaker 1: And the second half there did not do much. A.J. Brown,
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  Speaker 1: when he was out there, it was... time for Dobbs
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  Speaker 1: to step up at the big boy table there for
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  Speaker 1: Drake May. And what did Dobbs do instead? He decided
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  Speaker 1: to curl into the fetal position and take a nap.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a good nap. He felt pretty good
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  Speaker 1: after that. Now, his play sucked, but he was not
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  Speaker 1: a security blanket. If anything, Romeo Dobbs was an electric
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  Speaker 1: blanket that was tossed into a bathtub, which I don't recommend.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a good thing. So he was targeted three times.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Three times. And Dobbs had zero catches. He
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  Speaker 1: had as many as Mike the Leprechaun and Hollering James. Zippo.
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  Speaker 1: And then to make it even more embarrassing, he's got
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  Speaker 1: that that extra large pad on the helmet, which just
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  Speaker 1: makes you stand out like it's just I there were
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  Speaker 1: people will say, well, it's safer and all that, but
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  Speaker 1: it just makes you look so terrible. It's just so bad.
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  Speaker 1: And especially when you play like that, you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, it's like a throbbing swollen thumb. And you
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  Speaker 1: just stand out your eyes. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: watch football like me. There's a couple of guys on
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots that have it. And you see these teams
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  Speaker 1: around the league that have the puffy helmet. And I
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  Speaker 1: gravitate towards those people because it's like what doesn't belong. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the person with the extra padding thing on the helmet
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  Speaker 1: doesn't belong. And then Dobbs in this game, he stands out.
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  Speaker 1: So you're gravitating your eyes to see the guy with
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  Speaker 1: the funny hat on the clown costume. And then he
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  Speaker 1: decided to open up the Candyman concession, which was kind
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  Speaker 1: of nice to do that. The Candyman concession stand. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have any Snickers. They didn't have any. three
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  Speaker 1: musketeers there were no m & ms no reese's pieces
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  Speaker 1: they only had butterfingers that's it the candy man concession
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  Speaker 1: stand and so dropped pass by dobbs there was an
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  Speaker 1: interception where he didn't fight for the ball you could
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  Speaker 1: have knocked the ball conceivably away it was just horrific
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  Speaker 1: all right last word to the seattle side of things
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  Speaker 1: So there's already a pet peeve here. We're one game
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  Speaker 1: into the NFL season. So the Seahawks lost starting quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold after the first drive of the night. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my aching hip. Oh, my hip. Oh, my God. So
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  Speaker 1: the backup, Drew Locke, came in. And seeing all this
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  Speaker 1: nonsense from the establishment football media that Drew Locke was
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  Speaker 1: the hero and, If you do believe the NFL media elites,
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  Speaker 1: that is how that played out. Now, Mike McDonald had
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  Speaker 1: a farm EIEIO. And then on that farm, he said
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  Speaker 1: initial tests showed that Sam Donald did not break a bone.
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  Speaker 1: He said that was positive news. There'll be some more tests,
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  Speaker 1: we understand, for. Sam Darnold, so they'll spend some money
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  Speaker 1: on that. The story, though, is about the backup and
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  Speaker 1: the way this is getting covered. So the question, are
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks in good hands if Darnold is out with
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  Speaker 1: Drew Locke replacing Sam Darnold? Are they in good hands?
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  Speaker 1: So let's call a spade a spade. This is not
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  Speaker 1: an Allstate commercial. We would not exactly say anyone here
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  Speaker 1: at the quarterback position, is in good hands. Seattle wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in good hands with Sam Darnold. Now, you can lie
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  Speaker 1: to yourself and tell you that they're really in great
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  Speaker 1: shape when Darnold plays. That would be a lie. And
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  Speaker 1: if you want to lie to yourself, feel free. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to stop you. But going from Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 1: to Drew Locke, it is obviously not an upgrade. I
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  Speaker 1: will be fair. It is not an upgrade. I would
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  Speaker 1: argue it is not a downgrade. This is a tick-tock
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  Speaker 1: dance routine. It is a sideways shuffle. The sideways shuffle.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this is going from Sam Darnold to Drew Locke. Darnold,
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  Speaker 1: while he is not at the top, they're certainly not elite. Neither,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is Drew Locke. Darnold to Locke is the
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  Speaker 1: NFL equivalent of checking out of your roach-infested Motel 6
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  Speaker 1: hotel on the wrong side of the tracks and going
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  Speaker 1: to Sodom and Gomorrah and checking into the Super 8
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  Speaker 1: Motel and then bragging to all your friends about the upgrade.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I would brag about that, so
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  Speaker 1: The narrative of a heroic Drew Locke comeback story. To
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  Speaker 1: that I say, talk to the hand. I just talk
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  Speaker 1: to the hand. Drew Locke looked completely out of sync
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  Speaker 1: the first four drives. I don't know what he was
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  Speaker 1: doing before the game. I don't know. It certainly didn't
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  Speaker 1: seem like he was ready to come in there. And
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  Speaker 1: they all ended up on punts. For those of you
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  Speaker 1: a little slow, that was a drive one punt. Drive two, punt.
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  Speaker 1: Drive three, punt. How about drive four?
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  Speaker 2: Punt.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the real reason Seattle won this game, Seattle won
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  Speaker 1: because of the fuzzy. The lucky fuzzy dice. And somehow, someway,
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  Speaker 1: every single red light turned green. Yet again. Yet again.
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  Speaker 1: And Drake May, Drake May had a name change. He
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  Speaker 1: went down to the courthouse and had his name changed.
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  Speaker 1: He now identifies as Drek May. Because he just, that
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  Speaker 1: was Drek. What he did was Drek. When it truly mattered.
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  Speaker 7: lead this hour, we'll get back to the lid lifter
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  Speaker 7: on the NFL season as the Seattle football team getting
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  Speaker 7: help from the 12th man.
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  Speaker 1: As Drek May, three interceptions in a row to close
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  Speaker 1: the game. Interception, interception, interception, turn at the lights, the
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  Speaker 1: party's over. Yeah, that's it. So the Seahawks, yet again,
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  Speaker 1: not all that great, but they end up getting the
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  Speaker 1: win as they get some help there from the 12th man,
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  Speaker 1: Drek May getting her done, getting her done. I was
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  Speaker 1: going to point this out last hour. I did not
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  Speaker 1: point it out last hour. That's a bad job by me.
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  Speaker 1: But did you know the Drek effect, the Drek effect?
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  Speaker 1: So the Seattle Seahawks, in these last two matchups against
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots, the Seahawks have now scored more points off
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  Speaker 1: Drek May turnovers in two games. They scored 27 total
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  Speaker 1: points in the Super Bowl and this game off Drek
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  Speaker 1: May turnovers. Then the Patriots have scored in total. The
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  Speaker 1: Patriots have 23 points in those two games combined, and
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle football team, thanks to the generosity of Mayday, Mayday, Mayday,
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  Speaker 1: 27 points. The Seattle offense, without Drake May interceptions, without
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  Speaker 1: the Drek, they ended up getting a grand total of
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  Speaker 1: three points. But I got to hear all this propaganda about, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense was so good.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you throw the ball to the other team,
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  Speaker 1: just hush down, okay? But our lead, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: go to Vegas because I saw this story and I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, this is so good. This is so good.
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  Speaker 1: And it does not necessarily directly involve Brock Bowers, basically.
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  Speaker 1: It's about him, but it's not about him. So let
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  Speaker 1: me explain. So Brock Bowers is the only player worth
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  Speaker 1: watching on the Raiders. All the other players blow. And
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  Speaker 1: the ones that don't blow suck. So the Raiders star
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  Speaker 1: tight end Brock Bowers underwent a meniscus trim. Trim, trim, trim, trim, trim, trim, trim.
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  Speaker 1: That happened on Tuesday in Dallas. Suffered the injury during
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  Speaker 1: training camp. Bowers expected to be out a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: He'll miss the opener of the season here against the
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  Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. So you may have heard about that, perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: The bigger story, though, to me, is how the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: handled the news. In one of the all-time F-ups you
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  Speaker 1: could possibly have as a head coach, Clint Kubiak, who
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  Speaker 1: already looks like he's in over his head. That didn't
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  Speaker 1: take very long. Another terrible hire by Tom Brady. Where
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  Speaker 1: have we seen that before? I'm not impressed so far
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  Speaker 1: with Clint Kubiak. So Clint Kubiak said on Wednesday... quote,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: we're expecting to have all of our guys ready for Sunday.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: He was asked about Max Crosby and Brock Bowers. He said,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: we're expecting to have all of our guys ready for Sunday. Now,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Bowers had undergone surgery the day before. The day before,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak said, we expect to have all of our
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: guys ready for Sunday. obviously raising questions about the credibility
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and the integrity of Clint Kubiak as a man and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: why he suggested that Bowers would be available when he
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: obviously had no chance of playing in the game against
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the Miami football team. So that is a good jumping
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Give me your
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: reaction to Raiders coach Clint Kubiak speaking with a forked
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: tongue on tight end Brent. Bowers there, Brock Bowers. Who's Brent?
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know who Brent is. Brock Bowers and his injury.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So I've got hula hoops, pistachio cream, and homecoming dance.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: we are going to play rock, paper, scissors. That's what
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: we're going to play. But we always start out, even
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: in dark days when you're attacked by a cockroach, we
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: always start out with number one.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: Number one.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Number one.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Number one.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: So Brock Bauer. All right. Stop. Brock Bowers did not
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: walk into Lowry's and say, hey, can you use that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: knife at the carving station and trim the meniscus like
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: it's a nice piece of roast beef? Could you? No,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: he didn't do that. You don't just randomly walk in
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and have a meniscus operation unless you're in a car accident.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: You don't just end up flying into Dallas getting an
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: operation like it's a wrong turn trying to find a Starbucks.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: It's just so good. And yet Clint Kubiak served the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: media a Vegas buffet of bologna. So there he was,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the Raider coach. That's a temp job, being coach of
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. Kubiak jumping through hula hoops with the injury report,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: ensuring the truth never made it through. That truth hula
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: hoop never happened. Never happened. There were roughly 10 ways,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: 10 ways, 10 clean ways that Clint Kubiak, the coach
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of the Raiders, could have answered the questions about his
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: star players, and instead he chose Pinocchio, capital P, Pinocchio,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: for a self-proclaimed member of the God Squad. And we
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: hear a lot about that from Clint Kubiak. Good for him.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: He's part of the God Squad. He clearly skipped the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: chapter that said, thou shall not lie. He must have
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: missed that one. And this was not gamesmanship. This was
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: a slow drive down, not Las Vegas Boulevard. It's a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: little cutoff street there. Lye Boulevard. It's right next to Tropicana.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Lye Boulevard. Just say, I'm not discussing injuries. The injury
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: report will be out later. Why make yourself look ridiculous?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Does he not know people keep track of this stuff
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and they take notes and whatnot? And keep in mind,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: 20 years ago, this would have just been cute and
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: you would have been like, okay, that's funny, you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and all that. But we live in the age where
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the NFL is a conduit to the sports book. They're
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: in business with the bookies. The NFL is a business
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: partner with the gamblers. And I'm a gambler. So that's
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: just the way it is. And in 2026, hiding gambling data,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: it's not just some kind of coaching trick anymore when
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: it comes to injuries. It is a full-blown integrity issue.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And It's a findable offense for Kubiak. It's not the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: first time he's done this. He hasn't even coached a
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: real game with the Raiders yet. And the Ashton Genting
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: thing where they had a prayer circle around him because
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: of a high ankle sprain. And now you've got Brock Bowers,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the tight end of the Raiders, who the day before
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: was in Dallas having his meniscus trimmed like a piece
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of beef at Lowry's. And the day after, Kubiak's like, well,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: we got all our guys. We think we'll have all
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: our guys. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum. Now, speaking of dum-da-dum-dum-dum, we go to
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the courthouse, and an old friend is back, Antonio Brown.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: You see this?
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So Antonio Brown in a whole lot of trouble, and
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: he's in a little less trouble now. The alleged victim
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: of the former NFL player, Mr. Big Chest there, Antonio Brown,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: who is facing attempted murder charges, Antonio Brown, attempted murder charges.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Now that the person who is the alleged victim says
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: he no longer wants to participate in the prosecution there
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: in South Florida, with his attorney calling it a, quote,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: deeply personal decision to forgive Antonio Brown over what happened.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: That was back in May of 2025 in Miami. It
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: was a wild and wacky weekend there for Antonio Brown. Now,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Brown's attorney, what do you think he's saying? So Brown's
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: attorney hopes that prosecutors, of course, will drop the case.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: That's it. Just drop the case. Though he does not
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: expect an immediate dismissal for Antonio Brown. Brown is 38 now.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: He has claimed through his attorneys that he's innocent. He
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: is seeking dismissal under Florida's Stand your ground law. If convicted,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Antonio Brown facing up to 30 years in prison. Now,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the number that you have to worry about, it's not
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the 30 years because it's always up to that's it's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: got some wiggle room. It's the 20-year mandatory minimum that
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: one has to worry about. That's the guarantee. You get convicted,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: you're going to jail for 20 years. Antonio Brown won't
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: be out. They haven't gotten trial yet. But he wouldn't
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: be out until he's almost, do the math on that,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: almost 60. Yeah, so there you go. Question. We know
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the alleged victim in the former Steelers star Antonio Brown's
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: second-degree murder, attempted murder, attempted murder. case is okay listen
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: i've decided to not participate in the case we know
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: that's that's going on so the alleged victim of this
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: antonio brown second degree attempted murder case deciding not to
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: participate why the change of heart now let me preface
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: this with a qualifier we don't know whether nickel changed
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: hands or not however You're allowed to notice the sudden
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: outbreak of compassion is awfully convenient for Antonio Brown. It
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: does make you wonder what's going on behind the curtain.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: And I've known and we all know it's one of
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the things about being human. We all have a price.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Everyone has a price. And apparently forgiveness now comes with
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: a suggested retail price, retail value price. Somewhere, I imagine,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: at least in my head, that cartoon bubble in my head,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: there's a let's make a deal money booth with imaginary
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: $ 100 bills swirling around while everyone insists there's nothing interesting
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to see here. So Brown, he ends up going and
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: spending six months eating Dubai chocolates with extra pistachio cream.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Remember when he was on the lam in Dubai and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: then he came back and now he's facing 20 years
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: minimum if convicted. That's the minimum, 20 years in prison.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: And suddenly he discovers the joys of charitable living and giving.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: It's amazing what a couple of decades in the who's
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: gal can do for your portfolio of generosity. So we'd
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: love to see the itemized receipt for this great spiritual
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: awakening by Antonio Brown. Now, the problem is the alleged
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: victim can forgive Antonio Brown all he wants. He doesn't
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: have the power, though, to pardon him. It just makes
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: things more difficult for the prosecution. Prosecutors don't have to
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: kind of pack up everything and leave the courthouse and
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: say that's it. Because all of this has been documented
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: on cell phone cameras, and there's a lot of different
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: angles of it. A lot of different angles of what
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: happened that night in Miami. So forgiveness might close the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: victim's playbook, but it does not close the state's case.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: And the state does not, from what we understand, accept coupons.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, he's bad. buddies with the president. Maybe the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: president makes a phone call on behalf of Antonio Brown
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and says, hey, help my guy out a little bit.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: All right, final point.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: To the boob tube we go, and that is where
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin was over there on NBC, and he mispronounced Jackson, Smith,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and Jigba, which upset a few people. God forbid you
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: don't speak the king's language, but I thought Tomlin was fine.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I enjoy his work. Much better than some of those
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: other stooges he's around. Anyway, Mike Tomlin not ruling out
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: a return to NFL coaching video at 11. It's after
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: leaving the Steelers and going over to television there at NBC.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Asked directly this week whether he might coach again, Tomlin answered, quote,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: it's certainly not a 32-team league for me, he said.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: But I've also learned to never say never. Tomlin said
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: he still loves the coach, including the profession's challenges, developing
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: young players, and the weekly seven-day competitive cycle. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: At the same time, though, Tomlin did say that he
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: is enjoyed the six months away from coaching and he
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: said the lifestyle on the other side that he previously
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: did not know so the question how do you decode
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin's comments here on his NFL future So Mike Tomlin,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the way I see it on this side of the microphone,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is on a coaching sabbatical with NBC paying
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: for the books. They're paying for the textbooks here. It's
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: been whispered in hushed tones that Tomlin is following the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton mantra. Remember Sean Payton? After a long run
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: in the bayou, he left the Saints. And then went
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to Fox for a little bit. And then now he's
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncos. So I look at what Tomlin did.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: It's like a dog whistle. He's sitting there like now
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: on TV. He's the prettiest girl at the homecoming dance,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. All dolled up there, got all the makeup
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: on and all that. And there's a bunch of nervous owners,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: these aristocrats. Watching from luxury suites, window shopping, every time
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: he's on NBC and every big game on Sunday night.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And Tomlin's just sitting there on the desk and he's
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: got this Svengali effect going. Not on the sidelines. You
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: put on that TV makeup. You put on the IFB
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and you get the little microphone thingamajig there. And suddenly
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: everyone is hypnotized and mesmerized. They forget all the bad
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: stuff and all the teams that underachieved in the playoffs
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: for Tomlin for so many years, and you overlooked that. Now, Tomlin,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: what he did here is he cracked the door open
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: just enough, just enough to guarantee his name becomes a
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: fixture on the coaching carousel, which, oh, by the way,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: it was going to be anyway. Every high-profile vacancy will
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: generate speculation until he definitely says no. And the only
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: coach that I can recall who was as Popular as Tomlin,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: who didn't come back to coach, is Bill Cowher. And
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: that cursed every man, woman, and child that's watched CBS.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Cowher is not only on TV, he's terrible. Horrific. And
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the fact that he's, I believe, still on CBS, and
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Dungy was just as bad. They finally got rid of
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Dungy over there at NBC, but my God. Anyway, Tomlin
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: isn't looking for just any job. Teams are going to
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: be auditioning for Mike Tomlin. For Mike Thum, because he
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: has earned the right, considering his resume, to handpick the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: groceries and the kitchen he wants to work in, and
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: he can handpick the restaurant manager, all of that stuff.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: All of that stuff.
• 32:36
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• 32:38
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• 32:41
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• 32:44
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• 32:45
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• 32:49
  Speaker 1: It's time now.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Benny versus the Penny.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Back where it all started many years ago. Benny versus
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the Penny, our triumphant return to network radio after getting
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a tease with that big TV money. Here we are.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. It is the Thursday
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: night special here on the 10th of September. The 49ers
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and the Rams, NFC West rivaled. And they kick off
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: their seasons together 8,000 miles away in Melbourne, Australia. The
• 33:17
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• 33:36
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• 33:39
  Speaker 1: minus 3.5. Rams are the consensus with the public. They
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: are a popular pick by popular people. Public betting leaning
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: towards the Rams here as the public buying into the
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: media hype that the Rams will win this game and
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: cover that 3.5. although it did open closer to 2.5
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and then moved because of all the transactions the Rams made.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: The Sharps, on the other hand, leaning towards the 49ers.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: And after a long analysis, I am going to take, again,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I like the Rams. The Rams will win the game,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: but I'm going to take the 49ers to cover the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: spread here. It's going to take a little while to
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: get that sink in sync for Stafford and Puka Nakua
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: and whatnot here. And so these games are generally close
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: divisional games. The 49ers are healthy for the most part
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: with Nick Bosa, George Kittle, and McCaffrey all in the lineup.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: And those guys will be hurt as the season goes on.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: So they're all there. It's mostly healthy versus mostly healthy.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to take the three and a half
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: points there. And I will take the 49ers. Rams win.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Niners cover the spread. And the penny picks. Here we go.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: First time for this Ram 49er game. In the air everywhere.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop representing the penny. What do we got?
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Well, the Penny landed on tails, and if my memory serves,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: that means the away team.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: So they, too.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: They're both away teams, though.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good point. But I think the Rams
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: are considered the home team, right?
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, so the 49ers?
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Well, there we go. We're two games in. This is
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the second. Yesterday, the same thing happened. So both like
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the Niners. Penny versus the Penny.
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• 35:28
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• 35:31
  Speaker 7: Hurry, hurry, I can hardly wait.
• 35:33
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• 35:33
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• 35:34
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• 35:37
  Speaker 1: And away we go. It's Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: For the rest of the hour, the reading of the questions.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: It will not sound like he's reading. We head over
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: to the coop-a-loop. Justin Cooper.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: All right, we are going to start off with a
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: question from... Hmm, who do I like better here? I
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: don't know. I'm dying to find out. All right, let's
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: start with JT the Wingman.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I had him on the mailbag. He's good.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Do you ever go to farmer's markets?
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Uh, I never went to, well, that's not true. I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: used to live near the OG Farmer's Market in L.A., where,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: was it the Grove is there now? But it's still there,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: the Farmer's Market. I used to go to that. But
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: for the most part, that only really started when I
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: got married. So I do. But before that, not much.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Not down here, but in my hometown, yeah, I go
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: to the Farmer's Market every Saturday. It's kind of like
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: the communal watering hole.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: The only store to shop at. What about you, Koopaloop?
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: No, not really.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: No? I mean, like, I think there's... Support local business
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: and all.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: That. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I've... I've walked
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: through plenty of farmer's markets. Yeah.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: You don't want some guy trying to sell you a
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: $ 20 thing of honey?
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: You're not interested in that? The honey is one thing,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: but I don't know. They've got all this fruit, and
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: it's on the floor. I don't know.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: There's always the person with the kettle corn stand there.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: What's next? What do we got? It's Ask Ben and
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Friends for the rest of the hour.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Stevie Meatballs would like to know.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Hi, Stevie Meatballs.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: What is your pillow situation when you sleep?
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: How many?
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Where do they go? Are any of them long body pillows?
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: All right. First of all, you're very creepy asking about
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: a man's pillow. That's very creepy. I usually have two
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: to three pillows at any time. The main one, I'm
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: a side sleeper, so the main one is the small
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: one I can kind of wrap my arm around my head.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: It's hard to find a good pillow for that. If
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: somebody has a recommendation, let me know. Because it's got
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to be soft. I like a cooling pillow. But I
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: usually have three, but one's the main one, the small
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: one that I put, wrap my arm around. What about you, Lorena?
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: I have so many pillows, you can barely see my bed.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I got you.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Coop?
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: I used to be a two-pillow guy, but now I
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: just have the one nice memory foam pillow.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: You're downsizing. I'm shocked how expensive pillows are. I went
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: to buy a pillow a while back. They're really pricey.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: That's why I used to be too pillow guy, because
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: I would get crappy $ 10 pillows, but now I got
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: an expensive one.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: You get a bougie one, man.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Those things are expensive.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: What's next? What do we got?
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Georgia Boy would like to know, better donut filling, jelly
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: or cream?
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's tough. I'm actually going to go cream because
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the fruit stuff's a little tit and miss. What about you, Lorena?
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: I do love a good lemon filling, but the Bavarian
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: cream steals my heart.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: I think the jelly is where it's at.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: No, it's inconsistent, the jelly. I feel like the cream
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: is more consistent. I'm team cream. Easier to... Well, that sounded...
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: That did.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Not sound good.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: We'll delete that in post. That did not.