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Hour 1 - The Cold War Continues · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom goes the dynamite. It's our number one of the
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show and a very, very happy. First day
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  Speaker 1: of September. It is Tuesday, September 1st, and talking some
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  Speaker 1: football this hour. We stayed up all night for the pod.
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  Speaker 1: And at what point does wide receiver Brandon Iyuk realize
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  Speaker 1: his protest is hurting Brandon Iyuk much more than it's
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  Speaker 1: hurting the 49ers? He's lost over $ 50 million now with
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  Speaker 1: no end in sight. Also, Aaron Donald says his longtime
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  Speaker 1: speed trainer told him that he hasn't lost a step
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  Speaker 1: since At age 35, what's the level of importance to this?
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. And also, how bad must Tua
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  Speaker 1: Tungavailoa have looked for Atlanta to still be considering starting
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback in Michael Penix Jr., who has been injured,
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  Speaker 1: hasn't taken a preseason snap, and has a lot of
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  Speaker 1: damaged goods? We'll talk about all that and more right now.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. It's our number one. The Cold War
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  Speaker 1: continues in the NFL. Welcome in the beginning of another
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  Speaker 1: night of the Ben Maller Show. We are in the
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  Speaker 1: and Malerpop guys say, we need hot takes now! They
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  Speaker 1: demand it. And so do Mikey Cano, don't you know,
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  Speaker 1: and Filler Up Phil, even Wayne, their curmudgeon who's always
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  Speaker 1: in South Korea. They're all demanding the hot takes. We
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  Speaker 1: will not waste any time. Right there. Your one-stop shop
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  Speaker 1: for the hot take. Now, I do want to remind you,
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  Speaker 1: coming up later this hour, we will have the Who
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  Speaker 1: Am I game. That'll be coming up later this hour.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of love this hour. Big hour of love.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have that later on. Mallard of the Third Degree.
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  Speaker 1: The Insta Trivia. That'll be an hour or two. We've
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  Speaker 1: got the Riddle of the Day. Mallard's Mountain of Money,
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  Speaker 1: that'll be popping up in hour three. And later on,
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  Speaker 1: Sight the Bite, the great sports radio mystery. You'll be
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  Speaker 1: long gone by Sight the Bite, so go back and
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  Speaker 1: hear the podcast if you want to hear Sight the Bite. However,
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  Speaker 1: don't bury the lead, my man! All right, we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to bury the lead. So I assume the position,
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  Speaker 1: I assume the position that a story that was popular
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  Speaker 1: during the NFL offseason will be long gone by now.
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  Speaker 1: The Cold War of football. But you know what happens
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  Speaker 1: when you assume. And it has happened yet again. The
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  Speaker 1: NFL Cold War continuing. Our lead this hour from San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: It's a rare 49er story that does not involve debauchery
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  Speaker 1: of some kind. Whether it's Kyle Shanahan getting into a
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  Speaker 1: mystery wreck and then radio silence for 11 days. Or
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  Speaker 1: the owner of the team going to do the make
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  Speaker 1: and whoopee at a trailer park in Ohio. East Palestine, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I always go to see a lady of
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  Speaker 1: the night, or I guess lady of the morning. So
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  Speaker 1: you had that, and then, of course, you have the
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  Speaker 1: love story, the fake wide receiver who's been running around
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  Speaker 1: stooping women, getting money from them, pretending to be on
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  Speaker 1: the 49ers. Well, this is not that. So we have
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate 49er wide receiver, Brandon Iook, who remains at
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  Speaker 1: loggerheads with the franchise. The general manager, John Lynch, commenting
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  Speaker 1: on this saying, nothing has changed. Three words, nothing has
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  Speaker 1: changed from John Lynch. Now, Brandon Ike remains on the
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  Speaker 1: reserve left. The squad essentially went AWOL, the NFL's version
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  Speaker 1: of AWOL. I don't know if you saw this or not.
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  Speaker 1: So he doesn't count against the 49ers roster as they
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  Speaker 1: get ready to head to Australia to take on the
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  Speaker 1: LA Rams in an NFC West slobber knocker. Because when
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  Speaker 1: you think NFC West football, You think Australia. Doesn't get
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  Speaker 1: any more authentic than that. Anyway, John Lynch continued, said
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  Speaker 1: he's just not on our roster. Lynch, the executive. I
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  Speaker 1: worked for his boss in San Diego. His boss, John
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  Speaker 1: Lynch's dad, ran the radio cluster that I worked for
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  Speaker 1: in San Diego. Anyway, Brandon Ayuk was scheduled to receive $ 24.
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  Speaker 2: 9 million.
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  Speaker 1: And an option bonus, that would be here on September
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  Speaker 1: 1st as we head into September 1st. We're still late
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  Speaker 1: on the 31st of August in the West. The show
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  Speaker 1: we're doing is for September 1st. So anyway, the point
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  Speaker 1: is that he was due to get a roster bonus
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  Speaker 1: of $ 24. 9 million. But Lynch confirmed ixnay on the money
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  Speaker 1: for the wide receiver. As he will not be getting
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  Speaker 1: that money. The Niners don't owe him the money. Because
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  Speaker 1: the team says that he defaulted on his contract. You
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  Speaker 1: know how hard it is to default on a contract?
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  Speaker 1: It's just basically have a pulse, you get the money.
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  Speaker 1: Have a pulse, you get the money. And he's effed
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  Speaker 1: that up. So that is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. At what point... At what
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  Speaker 1: point does Brandon Iook realize that his protest, and he's
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  Speaker 1: locked in, he's bunkered down in this protest, is actually
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  Speaker 1: hurting Brandon Iook more than it is the 49ers? All right,
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  Speaker 1: so my thoughts on this, I've got shopping at Lids, barbershop,
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  Speaker 1: and diving board. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to have some delicious
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  Speaker 1: orange chicken and chow mein. is what we're going to have. So, A,
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  Speaker 1: to begin here, this has gone from a contract dispute,
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  Speaker 1: which even that, you're like, well, is it really a
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  Speaker 1: contract dispute? Because Brandon and I got the money. He
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  Speaker 1: got the contract he wanted, in theory, and it's gone
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  Speaker 1: from whatever that was, right, whatever that was, to just
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics of stubbornness. Congratulations, you're in the Olympics. What
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  Speaker 1: kind of Olympics? Oh, it's the Olympics of stubbornness. Oh, great.
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  Speaker 1: Except Brandon Iok is the only contestant selling himself and
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  Speaker 1: lighting himself on fire. His own wallet is being lit
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  Speaker 1: on fire while he's selling himself to the world public
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  Speaker 1: on social media, demanding to play for the commanders and this, that,
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  Speaker 1: and the other thing. And so he's selling himself and
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  Speaker 1: then also burning his wallet on fire at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: So he's wasting the prime years of his career, which
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  Speaker 1: it seems like it's over at this point based on,
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  Speaker 1: today that he's not going to play again in a
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  Speaker 1: meaningful role in the NFL. So he's battling. He's in
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  Speaker 1: an argument he cannot win. Think about that. You know
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  Speaker 1: you cannot win the argument, and yet you're fully engaged
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  Speaker 1: in the argument. The man has locked himself into one
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  Speaker 1: of those escape rooms and swallowed the key. Abracadabra. Good
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  Speaker 1: luck getting out without the key. You can't do it. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the 49ers.
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  Speaker 1: They're sitting up and they're a lazy boy. They got
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  Speaker 1: their feet up. They got some lemonade. They're enjoying themselves,
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  Speaker 1: resting nice and comfortably. Because NFL rules, the bylaws allow
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  Speaker 1: them to leave Brandon Iook in a contractual squabble, in purgatory,
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  Speaker 1: while owing him nothing. To infinity and beyond! They don't
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  Speaker 1: have to do anything. And so for our purposes, bravo
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  Speaker 1: to the wide receiver, Brandon Iook, who should be shopping
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  Speaker 1: over at Lids. Go over there, get a nice cap.
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  Speaker 1: We recommend the golden headwear for Brandon Iook. Now get
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  Speaker 1: that golden headwear right there. And I recommend the royal
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  Speaker 1: dunce cap. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum! Yes, after holding the financial bonfire... And
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  Speaker 1: so far, if my mallor math is correct, he is torched.
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  Speaker 1: Roughly $ 53 million, which, oh, by the way, I looked
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  Speaker 1: a few hours ago, is less than almost all the
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  Speaker 1: state lotteries. He had the lottery, and he burned, baby,
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  Speaker 1: burned the lottery. $ 50- plus million between guaranteed money and option bonuses.
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  Speaker 1: So bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo. Way to go. All right.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly is the endgame here, you ask? Well, San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco has to do nothing. They can just twiddle their
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  Speaker 1: thumbs and wait for their owner to go to another
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  Speaker 1: trailer park and their coach to go driving his Tesla.
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  Speaker 3: Wink, wink.
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  Speaker 1: And all that. And Brian and I can scream and
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  Speaker 1: shout and let it all out on social media. The
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  Speaker 1: grandfather clock keeps ticking away.
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  Speaker 2: Tick, tick, tick.
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  Speaker 1: Just like that. And eventually... You're not teaching the big,
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  Speaker 1: bad 49ers a lesson. You're paying $ 52 million, Brandon Iyok,
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  Speaker 1: in tuition to teach yourself a lesson. And someday you'll
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  Speaker 1: go around to airport seminars and say, I'm the guy
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  Speaker 1: that burned $ 50 million because I was making a point. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he can't have dinner now with Le'Veon Bell, who did
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  Speaker 1: not burn that much money but chose to hang out
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  Speaker 1: in his backpack hammock there in miami rather than play
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  Speaker 1: for the steelers years ago and then was sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: play for the jets all right meanwhile to los angeles
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  Speaker 1: we go follow up to the follow-up to the follow-up
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  Speaker 1: aaron donald returning the rams at age 35 you know
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  Speaker 1: about that two seasons in a gap situation. He went
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  Speaker 1: on sabbatical for a couple years. Donald insisting that he
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  Speaker 1: remains physically capable of playing at a high level. That's
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  Speaker 1: what he said. In fact, he says he stayed in
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  Speaker 1: shape by weightlifting.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Conditioning and full speed treadmill work. Sounds like my random Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Did all that stuff. Now, entering the chat, Aaron Donald
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  Speaker 1: brought up his long time, long time speed trainer. Who
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a speed trainer? You don't? But I met
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  Speaker 1: the Mallard Militia in Vegas. I mean, all those guys
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  Speaker 1: have speed trainers. Good looking people. They have a need
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  Speaker 1: for speed. Anyway, the speed trainer... Dwayne Brown, who has
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  Speaker 1: known Donald since he was in high school, worked with him.
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  Speaker 1: And Aaron Donald glowingly said, listen, this guy evaluated me.
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  Speaker 1: And his decision was that Aaron Donald had not missed
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  Speaker 1: a step. Despite two years on the shelf, he had
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  Speaker 1: not missed a step. Now, Donald spent roughly three months,
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  Speaker 1: he says, preparing to come back to the Rams, dragging
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  Speaker 1: it out. to the 11th hour, said it was a
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  Speaker 1: long process, and he's ready to go. And the Rams
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  Speaker 1: are being coy about whether or not he'll play against
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  Speaker 1: the Niners in Australia. What's the point? What are you
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  Speaker 1: saving him for? All right, question. Aaron Donald says his
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  Speaker 1: longtime speed coach told him that he has not lost
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  Speaker 1: a step. What's the level of importance to that line
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  Speaker 1: by Aaron Donald? See, You ask me, level of importance. Somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: to quote the great Jim Mora, somewhere between diddly and squat. Ergo,
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  Speaker 1: diddly squat. Come on. We're supposed to buy that Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Donald's comeback is going to work out glowingly because his
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  Speaker 1: personal trainer gave the old thumbs up. Really? That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing. Of course, the trainer, the speed coach is
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  Speaker 1: going to say, hey, you look great. What else was
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  Speaker 1: he supposed to say? Aaron, I got to tell you, man,
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  Speaker 1: you're cooked. You are cooked. Get out of here. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like going to the neighborhood barbershop and asking
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  Speaker 1: your barber how the haircut looks after he's just finished
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  Speaker 1: the haircut. What do you expect the barber to say? Boy,
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  Speaker 1: I really screwed that one up. Oh, man. You might
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  Speaker 1: want to go with the shaved head look now because
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  Speaker 1: it's not really working for you. Yeah. Workout videos also.
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  Speaker 1: I've learned this over the years. It used to drive
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  Speaker 1: me nuts and I used to rant about guys doing
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  Speaker 1: weight lifting workout videos and all that. The workout videos
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  Speaker 1: are football porn for fans. That's it. They're pornography. Workout
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  Speaker 1: videos are pornography for football fans. That's what they are.
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  Speaker 1: And Everybody looks fantastic. Because you don't post it if
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  Speaker 1: you don't look fantastic. Everyone looks fantastic until, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the rubber meets the road when the games begin and
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  Speaker 1: you forget the stopwatch. Aaron Donald His whole performance with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams back when he became the greatest defensive player
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  Speaker 1: of his generation was based on violence and leverage. He's
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  Speaker 1: 35 and barring some kind of amazing pharmaceuticals, generally you
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  Speaker 1: slow down in an athletic environment around that age. So,
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  Speaker 1: of course, I will point out nobody loses a step
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  Speaker 1: in August or even September. They lose their step in November.
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  Speaker 1: The games start piling up, and the question is not
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  Speaker 1: whether Aaron Donald can go out and dominate against the
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  Speaker 1: Niners or somebody else the Rams play early in the year.
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  Speaker 1: The question is whether or not Aaron Donald can survive
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  Speaker 1: 50 snaps on a Sunday and then do it again
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  Speaker 1: seven days later over and over and over and become
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  Speaker 1: the Energizer Bunny. The key to this, and this is
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  Speaker 1: something like Nostradamus and J.J. and Renton and the trolls
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. To expect Aaron Donald to be exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he was, a carbon copy, is not going to happen. However,
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  Speaker 1: if Aaron Donald can give the Rams 70% of the vintage,
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  Speaker 1: that is a home run. That is not a base hit.
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  Speaker 1: That's a home run for the Rams. Anything more than 70%
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  Speaker 1: is obscene. for what that defense should be. And so
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  Speaker 1: the Rams have assembled. I've read everything online. I've learned
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  Speaker 1: the Rams have assembled the greatest defense ever created on
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  Speaker 1: an iPad. So congratulations on that. Yes. Way to go. Now, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: as with all these things, as we pointed out, you
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  Speaker 1: actually have to play the games. You have to wear
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  Speaker 1: the uniform, the shoulder pads, the jockstrap, and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So that's when we will find out whether or not
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  Speaker 1: this is the reality of the situation. All right, last word.
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  Speaker 1: We head now to the most pathetic quarterback competition in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. We thought the Cleveland Browns had owned that
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  Speaker 1: title as the most despicable quarterback controversy in pro football.
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  Speaker 1: But no, the Atlanta Hawks said, wait a minute. What
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  Speaker 1: about us? Hold my beer. So we are told the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons are bemused about whether or not Michael Penix Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: should start over to a tongue of Iloa.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, week one against the Pittsburgh football team. Now, we
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  Speaker 1: are told that Atlanta has not decided. Everyone else has decided.
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  Speaker 1: Not Atlanta on who their quarterback is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is rather obvious. We'll ask it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: You can answer it rhetorically or you can call in
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  Speaker 1: later or send a snarky comment on X. How bad,
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  Speaker 1: here's the question, how bad must Tua Tunga-Vailoa have looked
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  Speaker 1: in practice, not the game, forget the game, she's talking
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  Speaker 1: about practice, for Atlanta to still be considering, with the
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  Speaker 1: NFL beginning next week, for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons to
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  Speaker 1: still be considering starting a quarterback, Michael Pennex Jr., who
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  Speaker 1: has been broken, hasn't played a snap yet, in preseason
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  Speaker 1: action and doesn't appear to be fully medically ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And yet, it certainly sounds like they're leaning towards Pennex
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  Speaker 1: to be the quarterback there for the Dirty Birds. So
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  Speaker 1: Tua Tungabailoa walked into Atlanta. I must stress how crazy
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  Speaker 1: this is. He left the Dolphins because he sucked there
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  Speaker 1: and they got rid of him. And so Tua goes
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  Speaker 1: into Georgia with the starting job practically waiting at baggage claim.
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  Speaker 1: Just get off the plane, go to carousel three at
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  Speaker 1: the baggage claim. Okay, not carousel four, not five, three. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go to carousel three. Go to the baggage claim.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow they didn't lose his luggage. He couldn't find
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  Speaker 1: his own luggage. How did that happen? And so Tua
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  Speaker 1: is performing like he's Chick-fil-A. He doesn't work on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing? There is no reasonable explanation. for
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback competition to still exist, other than the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Tua, during training camp, was climbing up the ladder
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  Speaker 1: to the diving board and has done a full-on belly whopper. Cowabunga, dude! Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just like that. So think about it. Tua was brought
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  Speaker 1: in specifically because Michael Pennex Jr. was not going to
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  Speaker 1: be ready. And now Tua's apparently not ready. Yikes! And
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  Speaker 1: Penix hasn't even adjusted yet. I was reading some of
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  Speaker 1: the stories. They say, well, he's not really up to
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  Speaker 1: speed in terms of he can throw the ball. They
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen if he gets sacked. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't know how to avoid pressure. That seems like
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a thing. What do I know?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't play in the NFL, right? Yes, a reconstructed knee,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is still under warranty. And you've got Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: who's sitting there right now biting their fingernails, And they're
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  Speaker 1: looking across the quarterback room and they're like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know the guy's got a bum knee and he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't played, but we kind of like that guy. How
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  Speaker 1: damning is that? The Falcons are essentially deciding whether 80%
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  Speaker 1: of Michael Penix Jr. or even less than that is
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  Speaker 1: over 100%, better than 100% of Tua Tungabailoa. And that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a quarterback controversy on this side of
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  Speaker 1: the microphone. That is a mayday, mayday call from flowery branch.
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  Speaker 1: It's a dead flowery branch there. It really is. And
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  Speaker 1: so Tua had an open highway, open highway for QB1 status,
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  Speaker 1: and somehow drove into the medium. And he wasn't drinking
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  Speaker 1: and just was distracted. Maybe he had that self-driving Tesla
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  Speaker 1: like Kyle Shanahan did. Wink, wink, nod, nod. At this rate, though.
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  Speaker 1: The Atlanta Falcons and the career of Tua Tungabailoa at
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  Speaker 1: this moment here. They are riding on the express elevator,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going right to Clipboard City. Population Tua. Yikes.
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• 20:15
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• 20:18
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• 20:21
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• 20:27
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• 20:31
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• 20:33
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• 21:17
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• 21:21
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• 21:25
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• 21:29
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason. There are photos up. And I said
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I would post more. That's a lie. I haven't posted
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: any more yet. And you didn't send me the photos either.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: That's all. It's very busy. Very busy, as you know.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on. Power lunches. I had that.
• 21:44
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• 21:48
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• 21:51
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• 21:55
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• 22:02
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• 22:05
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• 22:09
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• 22:15
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• 22:19
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• 22:24
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• 22:27
  Speaker 1: hello to Lorena, FSR Tech Queen, and Coop at uh.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Bronco fan, your comments can and will be used against
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you in the court of sports radio. Did you guys
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: hear from Wayne yesterday?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: No.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't hear from Wayne. Wayne in Missouri. Did
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you hear from Wayne? I have not, no. Haven't heard
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: from Wayne. Well, Big Lou said he'd show up. He flaked. Lance,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the bus driver, flaked. Second year in a row, by
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, we're not naming him. If he says
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: he's going next year, he's not getting any publicity. He's
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: going to have to prove it first. Yeah, we're not
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: saying he's going to show up. False advertising. Nada from LAX,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: no show. Didn't show up. I guess no divorce party.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's in his name, Nada. Well, it's her.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Her name. Yes, that's, yeah. Then who else? Lance, the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: bus driver, I mentioned him.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Moot.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Mouthwash Mike was nowhere to be seen. We didn't see him.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Just hope he's in jail and not dead. Yeah, you
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: never know. I did see a lot of homeless people
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: driving around Vegas. They're everywhere. And I did not see
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Mouthwash Mike. Curmudgeon Wayne in Duluth says after that train
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, having Nookie... with a young
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: lady there would be like going somewhere where they're growing Chernobyl.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I cleaned that up a little bit. I don't know.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Some of that I guess I could have said. Jerry
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: in the Jar claims the 49ers are like watching that
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: tiny floating turd that just continues to circle the drain.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Ew.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not a burner, writes in, says congrats on the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: successful meet and greet. I hope to make it to
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: one eventually. The story of the event, though, is that
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: one of your generals was able to sneak around the
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: gathering without being noticed. Oh, look at that. I didn't
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: realize Ferg Dog was there. I see him. I don't
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: see him. Was he hiding? Yeah, he was in the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: back near the exit. And this is like seeing Bigfoot.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: It is like seeing Bigfoot. Not a burner posted a photo.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And I did not recognize Ferg Dog. I did not
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: realize he was there. Look at that. Unbelievable. And he's
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: not wearing a Malheur Plus hat. What else do we have?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Page down. Nostradinus writes in from a team
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: suffering from the championship hangover. He says, I understand fully
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: that the Rams' quartet of fossils, meaning Stifford, Adams, Garrett,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and Donald will together have more missed games from injuries
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: than Rams' wins. They'll get second in the division behind
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the good guys once again. I didn't know you were
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: a Cardinals fan. I had no idea. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: All right. What else do we have? Let's see. Page down.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I can't read that. Eek in Roseville, Minnesota says, how
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: does Aaron Donald avoid blocks? Donald ducks. That's a dad joke.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: right there. The Baltimore Freeloader account says the Orioles are
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: at 500 for the first time in five months, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you lead with a broken-down quarterback. Let's cut to the chase.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: How about some details on the free food in Vegas?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Lorena posted some pictures, more pictures than you did. But
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: no list, please. Well, no, there was no free food.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Nothing free. We had to pay for it. There was
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: some discounted food, but we didn't get any free We're
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: not cow herd status. We're not daytime radio. If you
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: do daytime radio, you get free food. Nighttime, you get
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: maybe a discount, maybe a discount. King Roy writes and says,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: how great would it be if the Malheur militia sent
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: in their workout videos? I can picture them now. Well,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: it's not easy to take that fork and wrap the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: spaghetti around the fork and then eat the spaghetti. It's
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: not that easy. Late Night Drug Tester writes and he says,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I think the overnight workers need to start, he says,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: The overnight workers need to start posting hype reels to
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: show off how good we look on the least desirable shift.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I think it's a great idea. Get some sizzle videos going,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and it'll be wonderful. Analog Al writes in. He says, Shanahan,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the Tesla accuser, is going to fail miserably, in my opinion.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: He needs to come clean. We moved on. That's two
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: scandals ago. That's like two or three scandals ago. So
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: we've moved on from that. Michael in Tulsa writes, and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: he says, the only thing more traditional than NFC West
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: football in Australia is TCU versus North Carolina in Dublin, Ireland. Yeah,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: that was impressive. That was very nice there to see that.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Kathy in Madison checks in, says, listening to the Ben
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Maller Show tonight on KRLV out of Las Vegas. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: like that Kathy just changes affiliates regularly. On a nightly basis,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: like one night she'll be listening to the L.A. affiliate
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and she'll move over to Boston. Now she's in Vegas
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and she does not listen to the local station in Madison,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: which I don't know what that's about. But bad job
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: by you. But she likes to listen to the different stations.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: They all kind of sound the same after a while
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: because our show's on every one of these stations. Let's
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: go to the phones, and let's see. Who do we have? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and we say hello. Here's a name we haven't heard
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: in a while. Tiger Man! He was at one of
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the Mallard meet and greets a couple years ago, but
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: not this year. Hello, Tiger Man!
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Ben, long time no talk. Good to hear from you.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Good to talk to you. Go Tigers. It's game week,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: of course. You know, Ben, I'm just a little bit confused. So,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: you know, I love FSR, of course. And some people
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: on this channel are a little bit high on the Bears.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: And then other people, not to mention names, but somebody
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: that comes on before you on Sunday nights, Artie Spanier,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: pretty high on the Dolphins. So I'm a little bit
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: confused why nobody's high on the Pats, the Broncos, the Chiefs.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: or the Ravens for this year. It seems like those
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: four teams have been– oh, and the Lions. It seems
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: like everybody's– all those teams have been kind of in
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the mix and nobody's high on them at all.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what I'm going to do? I'll put
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: you on hold and then I'll call every other talk
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: show host here at Fox Sports Radio and I'll do
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a round robin. Some of them are sleeping right now
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and I'll wake them up. Great idea, man. No, I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: think this is a good idea. So you have a question,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Tiger Man, and I'll text Rob Parker right now or
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I'll call Harmon. He's on his way home still. And
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Jason Smith, I'll reach out to them. Who else? Rob Parker.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Do you have an issue with him, Rob?
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Listen, Ben, I don't have an issue with anyone. I mean, listen,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: for all we know, Arnie's Dolphins could definitely go to
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. I mean, who are we to judge?
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: But everybody's just really high on the Bears. Yeah.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: There is a better chance. Let me be very clear here.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: There is a better chance of Arnie Spanier winning Mr.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Olympia than the Dolphins getting to the Super Bowl. How
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: about that? Calm down. No, there is a better chance
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: that Arnie's going to win some kind of strongman competition
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: than the Dolphins. They're not trying to go to the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. You know how you know the Dolphins are
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: going to suck? They made the most waiver claims at
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: roster cut down day. That means they know their roster
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: blows and they're just holding a tryout, like a naked
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: run here, a casting couch essentially to see who can
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: play for the Dolphins this year. You're back for college
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: football season now. Did you play in the NFL? Because
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: if you did, I think Lane Kiffin would like to
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: bring you to LSU. So that's always a possibility. You
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: might have some eligibility left there. You can be a
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: bounce-back player and go play in Baton Rouge.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: So everybody's giving him a lot of, I guess, heck
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: about it. But if you really think about it, every
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: first-year head coach has always had a lot of buzz
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: about And why wouldn't a first-year head coach from a
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: former SEC school want to make a lot of buzz?
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: He's not necessarily doing anything wrong. He's following court orders.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Hey, Tiger Man, he went to court to get the
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: court order. He supposedly, if you believe the story, was
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the mastermind behind putting the legal case out there into
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the heavens.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: What, what did Lane Kiffin actually do wrong? Like when
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: it comes down to it, what did he do wrong?
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Like nobody can actually say, okay, like, yeah, sure. It's
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: a little bit fishy, but these players would have stayed
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: in college. They would have made more money than being
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: cut by the Browns or, or the Buccaneers. Like these,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: you know, these players didn't have a future in college.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So, So these players made a decision. It's a one
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: lane road and lanes trying to repave the road and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: make it a two way road. But it's been a
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: one way road where if you go that direction, that's it.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: You're.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: You're there.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I guess if you're saying, like, yes, if you had
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: to ask him, do you actually care about these players?
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: He'll probably say, like, you know, you got one-on-one. He'll
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: probably say no. But at the end of the day,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: his job is to just make sure he has an advantage.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: And any other head coach.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, you are such a. Are you wearing your. You
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: get your LSU cheerleading outfit on today. What do you got?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: What are you wearing here, Tiger?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Any other school could do it. Nobody's stopping Notre Dame.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Nobody's stopping USC. Nobody's stopping Alabama.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: All right, this is the everyone's doing it defense. I
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: got you. I got you. All right, well, listen, Tiger Man,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: we love you. We'll talk to you in seven months,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Ben. Have a great night.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: There he goes, our friend Tiger Man. All right, well,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: one of the stars of the big Maller meet and greet,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: we got to hang out with this man, and he
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: did have the, The glasses. He had the magic glasses on.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: He might have been recording us the whole time. He
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: claims that they were not working. Although I have heard
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: stories that you can jerry-rig those glasses, those meta-glasses, that
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you can make sure the light doesn't come on in
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: your recording. So there might be some tapes of metaphor Kyle.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: and of us just wandering around. But who knows? He's
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the star of the show in Vegas. Hello, Metaphor Kyle!
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: What's going on? What's going on, Ben? First off, let
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: me say, I didn't know that many people recognized who
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I was just from my voice. I mean, I didn't
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: think I had a distinct voice. People were coming up
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: to me left and right. Heck, even you knew who
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: I was by my voice. But, you know, then again... Also,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: I wanted to make sure that you guys liked the
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: toiletries that I bought you, the pleasantries that I bought you.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: How did you enjoy those cheese-its? It's weird saying it
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: like that.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: I guess when you're talking about plural, you can say cheese-its, right?
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: But no, they're delicious.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Good, good.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: Ben, I know I was going to order chicken fingers
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: for us, but.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: No, it's fine. It's one of the most unique gifts
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I've gotten, so I do... I do thank you. And
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I was trying to explain to my wife. She said,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: where did you get that? I said, well, you know,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: it's a long story.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: It's been our thing for the past two years that
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: I've been calling. I mean, that was like the first
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: topic of discussion that we had where I agreed with
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: you that ranch is absolutely disgusting with pretty much anything.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And for those that weren't there, you were very kind
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and you brought me a very nice bottle of honey mustard.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: The best kind.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ken's Honey Mustard, which we love, and that's the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: top honey mustard on the market. And so what did
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: you get, Lorena? What did you get, Lorena? What did
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you end up with there? He got me a rose.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: A rose? But why didn't I get a rose? You
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: don't love me? And I'm drying it out so I
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: can save it.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: No, Ben, actually, the honey mustard, listen, and I thought
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: about it just now. I was like, I got everybody
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: something that can expire except for Coop.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Except for the coffee.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: Rose expires. The honey mustard, it's not, you know, well,
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: it's on the shelf.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it'll last.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Does it count?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: It'll last a long time. There's a lot of, you know,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: stuff in the, let's just say stuff in the honey mustard.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: It's not going to expire anytime soon. It might outlast humanity.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: You know, there might be a bottle of honey mustard.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: on a shelf somewhere.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: If you don't bag those, if you don't tie down
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: those Cheez-Its, right? I don't like saying it like that.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I'm just going to say it the way we've been
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: saying it for years, Cheez-Its. If you don't tie down
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: the Cheez-Its right, they get stale. So, I mean, I
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: guess technically you come out ahead of everybody on that.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: That's right. Look at that. I'll be enjoying delicious honey
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: mustard for many, many months here.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: And by 2050, you'll be enjoying it.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but absolutely. Well, Kyle, it
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: was great meeting you, buddy. I'm glad you came out.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I hope you had a good time. What, what, what, what, what?
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: What?
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: What?
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Two things.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: One, Tiger Man, don't talk about my Bears, okay? The
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Bears are what they are because whatever team you're rooting for,
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: they don't have the capacity to build like the Bears did.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: That was number one. Number two, listen, my hot take
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: for this season, Aaron Donald only plays seven games, and
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: it'll be the seven most important games, and he'll come
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: in around crunch time when Miles Garrett gets tired.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Hey, as long as he plays in the playoffs, I
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: don't really care if he plays in the regular season.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, does it make a difference if he plays
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs or not? I mean, 35, the annual
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: road play, like you said, you can't play full game
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: speed in a while. It's a little bit different.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: You'd like to think that it doesn't matter, but it's
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: like having extra frosting. You don't really need it, but
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: it's kind of cool to have it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: True.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: And if it doesn't work out, can he elect to
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: go back to college to play.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Some more college football? Yes, he's going to go to
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Pitt before.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: That seems like a good idea. At least I got
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: the fun stuff at Penn.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah. All right. Well, there we go. Thank you.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: There he goes. Our friend Kyle. Metaphor Kyle. What a
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: great personality he has. So nice to meet you. Nature
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Boy says, how did E.T. 's hand get in the picture?
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. E.T. phone home. I have no idea.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Let's see here. Doug says, Arnie came to the realization
• 36:34
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Toronto's Max Scherzer.
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Recently became the oldest pitcher with 10-plus strikeouts and one
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  Speaker 1: or more one or no hits allowed in a game
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  Speaker 1: 42 years and 34 days of age, Toronto's Max Scherzer
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  Speaker 1: became the oldest pitcher with 10 or more strikeouts and
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  Speaker 1: one or no hits allowed in a game since me.
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 1: And this is where we pretend to be somebody else,
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  Speaker 1: thus we call it the Who Am I game. And
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: we go to baseball. We're at 42 years and 34
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  Speaker 1: days old. Toronto's Max Scherzer became the oldest pitcher with
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: 10 or more strikeouts and one or no hits allowed
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: in the game. Since me, who am I? That is
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  Speaker 1: his Alfmobile somewhere between Springfield and Worcester going with El Guapo,
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox legend. Bring back more fat pitchers in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: We need Fatty. We need Fatty in baseball. Femi, the
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  Speaker 1: he's a fan of our show and very generous. The
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: great Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan. What else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Carl the Janitor, the eyes and ears of
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  Speaker 1: Shermer High School from Mark the Walker. Well, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for that. What else do we have? Page Dan. Curmudgeon
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  Speaker 1: says you are meathead. That's Curmudgeon Wayne in Duluth. Lawn
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  Speaker 1: God Larry says NFL's most famous groundskeeper, George Toma, nicknamed
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• 39:44
  Speaker 1: mention him? Bad job by you, Lawn God Larry. We
• 39:47
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  Speaker 1: Fungus is going with Blind Scott's medicine cabinet, which is
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  Speaker 1: very large. Not Blind Austin says, metaphor Kyle, not easily
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  Speaker 1: recognizable voice. Do you have an answer, Lorraine? Wiley Coyote. No,
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  Speaker 1: the correct answer is Nolan Ryan. Nolan Ryan. Nolan Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: Nolan Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan.