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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 3: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Play the hits, my man. Play the hits.
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  Speaker 1: And there is no story more compelling, more redonkulous than
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  Speaker 1: what happened back on Saturday in the college football weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And my, oh, my.
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  Speaker 2: Who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 1: We go back to a game that was not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be close, a game that was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: blowout city, Michigan, playing one of those paycheck games where
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  Speaker 1: they pay the opponent, come on in, we'll kick the
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  Speaker 1: snot out of your nose and send you without any
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  Speaker 1: mucus in your nostrils out of town and we'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a check for your trouble.
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  Speaker 2: So show up, hey, win.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's happy, we're off and running and Well, that didn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: and it looked like it did happen. A second opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: a second chance, a game-ending Hail Mary. as quarterback Bryce Underwood,
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  Speaker 1: who was not only a quarterback, he was terrible for
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan Wolverines, but he connected with somebody named J.J.
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  Speaker 1: Buchanan for a stunning, heart-wrenching, I can't believe it, that
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  Speaker 1: didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: How was that allowed to happen? F-up, F-up city.
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  Speaker 1: A 47-yard Hail Mary, touchdown pass, and number 16, Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: By the skin on their chinny-chin-chin, they get a win
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  Speaker 1: over Western Michigan 13-12, even though the Big Ten magically,
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  Speaker 1: and it is magically delicious, they produced a replay center
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  Speaker 1: video claiming that it supported the one-second ruling. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a single man, woman, or child, not a single man, woman,
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  Speaker 1: or child that watched that broadcast on NBC that believes
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  Speaker 1: that's authentic. That is some fresh bull crap is what
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  Speaker 1: that is. Holy crap is that bull crap.
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  Speaker 2: They just added a second. They just gave a second.
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  Speaker 2: You can't give, you can't give back a second. They did.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the point of having the clock on the TV? Dummies.
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  Speaker 1: My God. Live television. Game over. Western Michigan. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: You just won the biggest game of your lives. Where
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  Speaker 2: are you going to go? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Back out to defend another play because Michigan needed another
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to win the game?
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  Speaker 2: My God.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the NBC rules analyst, Terry McAuley, said that the
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  Speaker 1: ball appeared to still be airborne when the TV clock
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  Speaker 1: hit zero.
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  Speaker 2: You know why it appeared to be that way? Because,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, it was. It was.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Big Ten has been trying to put out
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  Speaker 1: fires ever since this game ended. And they later on
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  Speaker 1: said they synchronized the stadium clock. And it showed that
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan's Micah Davis touched the ball with one second remaining.
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  Speaker 2: And the Mac, of course.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much they got, but they play along,
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  Speaker 1: saying that the supplied video and audio confirmed the explanation.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so that is a good jumping-off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Give me the word. What is
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  Speaker 1: the word? Give me the word for Michigan getting an
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  Speaker 1: extra second, an extra play, which turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: the difference in beating Western Michigan. So I've got Goldfish Tank...
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  Speaker 1: Auntie Anne's and Hammerhead Shark. And we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together, and we're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: delicious dragon fruit is what we're going to have.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fun, fun fruit. It's an exotic fruit, the
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  Speaker 2: dragon fruit. We're going to have a dragon fruit. So, A,
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  Speaker 2: my word.
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  Speaker 1: What is the word for Michigan getting the extra second
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  Speaker 1: against Western Michigan? My word is carnival. That is my word.
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  Speaker 1: As in, a pure, unfiltered carnival of stupidity and absurdity.
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  Speaker 2: And all of that.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Ten bailout. Yeah, so the stadium
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  Speaker 1: clock there at Michigan Stadium, 0-0-0.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently, though, that is merely a suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: That is not the actual time. So what's the point
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  Speaker 1: of having the stadium scoreboard clock. Can someone explain that
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  Speaker 1: to me? No, you can't because it makes no effing sense.
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  Speaker 1: No effing sense. So Western Michigan, I couldn't give two rats'
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  Speaker 1: asses about Western Michigan. They got hosed, though, the Broncos
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  Speaker 1: of Western Michigan. So Western Michigan played until the clock
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  Speaker 1: ran out, which I guess I'm old. That's how you
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  Speaker 1: were supposed to play. Clock runs out. Game over.
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  Speaker 2: Move on. Celebrate or complain or any of that.
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  Speaker 1: So Western Michigan plays until the clock goes to zero.
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  Speaker 1: They celebrate because they'd won the game because that's what
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  Speaker 1: happens when the game ends and one team's winning and
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  Speaker 1: the other team's losing. The team that's winning celebrates. So
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  Speaker 1: they started their celebration.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: We need some help. Hold on. Big brother. Big brother.
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  Speaker 2: Big brother. My God. So the clock runs out. And
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize this.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody really other than, I guess, Michigan players realized
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  Speaker 1: that you need to play not just 60 minutes. but
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  Speaker 1: an extra second, an extra second. So now you want
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, right up the wazoo, right up the wazoo here.
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  Speaker 1: This is how you manufacture conspiracy theories. Now, I remember
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  Speaker 1: talking to somebody a couple of years back and they said, well, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: the days of the great conspiracy theory are over because
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  Speaker 1: of the interweb. And you hear stories in the old
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  Speaker 1: days about things that teams did to manipulate outcomes of
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  Speaker 1: games and leagues and You know, well, with the Internet age,
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  Speaker 1: it's really difficult. You can't really do that stuff anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And then Michigan and the Big Ten get involved. My God,
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  Speaker 1: it's that second. Where did it come from? Can you
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  Speaker 1: buy a second? Can any team trail?
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  Speaker 2: How about a minute? Can you buy an extra minute?
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  Speaker 2: What if you need an extra minute?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you buy that? Where do you go? It's
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  Speaker 2: like a clockmaker somewhere. You contact them and no. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So the Big.
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  Speaker 1: Ten replay booth performed CPR on Michigan season, just like that,
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  Speaker 1: a little CPR. And somewhere in the replay center, I
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  Speaker 1: believe it was in Chicago or The replay official, one
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  Speaker 1: of the guys in the back of the room yelled, wait,
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  Speaker 1: I found another second. What was in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the sofa under the pillow? Look, there's a second right there.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I always thought like, we're all going to die, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's part of living, you know, it sucks, but we're
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  Speaker 1: all going to die. And like, wouldn't it be great
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  Speaker 1: if you're on your deathbed?
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Let me call the Big Ten. I want to live
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  Speaker 1: a little longer. Let me get a little time. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten, reply center, can you give me some more time?
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel like dying today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good. We'll give you a few more seconds. Why not? Okay, wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: They had that rubber-stamped block M on the extra second there.
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  Speaker 1: It was like going to see Penn and Teller. Like
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  Speaker 1: they pulled a second out of that goldfish tank thing
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  Speaker 1: that they do.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, look.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Teller just pulled out a second. That's great. So
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  Speaker 1: Michigan went from 0-0-0 on the clock to one second.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like those shady car people that turn
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  Speaker 1: back the odometer on those old cars. Yeah, it's turned
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  Speaker 1: back the odometer. So welcome to the Make-A-Wish Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: Replay Center. Where your wish is our command.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's like Mario Kart officiating.
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  Speaker 1: What if Michigan hit the question box and they got
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  Speaker 1: an extra life?
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: You just play Mario Kart, hit the thing, and then
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  Speaker 1: you get an extra life, and that's it. And poor
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan. They got the full airport experience, the Broncos experience,
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  Speaker 1: of Western Michigan. Your flight has departed, but somehow Michigan
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  Speaker 1: still got on the plane. Holy, I happened to be
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  Speaker 1: watching this game. A buddy of mine was at the game.
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  Speaker 1: We were texting back and forth. It was a terrible game.
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  Speaker 1: Not a lot of offense. And then it is now
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  Speaker 1: went from horrific to one of the most memorable games
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  Speaker 1: of in this generation of college football.
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  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 1: All right, meanwhile, keeping the theme of the hour going here,
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  Speaker 1: and we focus in on longtime Utah Utes coach, Kyle Whittingham,
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  Speaker 1: who is now the.
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  Speaker 2: Head coach at Michigan. What is a Ute?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he doesn't have to worry about that anymore. He
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  Speaker 1: has to worry about what a Wolverine is. So Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Whittingham made his, I wouldn't say much Ballyhoo debut, but
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  Speaker 1: he made his debut. Always put respectable, well-coached, disciplined teams
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  Speaker 1: on the field at Utah. They're in Salt Lake and
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  Speaker 1: now at Michigan after all these shenanigans. In recent years,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, we need an adult in the room is
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  Speaker 1: what we need. We need a seasoned football coach. So
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  Speaker 1: they brought this guy in. And he made his debut
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  Speaker 1: there with the Maize and Blue. and it was again
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  Speaker 1: a el stinko el stinko of a game and yet
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  Speaker 1: will be remembered for the ages because of what happened
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  Speaker 1: in the 60 after the 60 minute mark 60 minutes
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  Speaker 1: in one second so the question is this Can the
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  Speaker 1: new Michigan coach, Kyle Whittingham, exhale? Can he exhale now
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  Speaker 1: after that Hail Mary victory as Michigan is off to
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  Speaker 1: the 1-0 start now? And what was going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: what should have happened, did not happen at the end
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  Speaker 1: of that game.
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  Speaker 2: So, hell no! Hell no!
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Whittingham did not get the win. He survived a
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  Speaker 1: near-death experience with the toe tag already being filled out
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  Speaker 1: for Whittingham. The Michigan fans, this is how embarrassing this was.
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  Speaker 1: This was one of the all-time embarrassing moments in the
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  Speaker 1: history of major college football. Did you see what happened
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  Speaker 1: after the extra second was added that shouldn't have been added?
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  Speaker 1: If you were not paying attention. So the Michigan fans
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  Speaker 1: stormed the field.
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  Speaker 2: Let me repeat.
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  Speaker 1: The Michigan fans, big bad, bad-ass, Big Ten Michigan football
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  Speaker 1: stormed the field after beating.
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  Speaker 2: A Mac team. Hello? The Mac daddy.
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  Speaker 1: You beat the Mac at home and you sell it
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  Speaker 1: because the fans knew it was Fugazi. It was Fugazi
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  Speaker 1: is what it was.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Do you understand how humiliating this is? okay the wolverines
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  Speaker 1: were a 27 and a half point favorite at home
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  Speaker 1: against a mac opponent and the fans stormed the field
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed an angry mob would have been waiting for the
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  Speaker 1: coach anyway here is the coach i believe we have
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  Speaker 1: kyle winningham this is his commentary after the one or
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  Speaker 1: no start which was really kind of embarrassing but you'll
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  Speaker 1: you'll hear what he has to say.
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  Speaker 5: Here we go This game will go down in history,
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  Speaker 5: Michigan history. I don't know if it's in a positive way,
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  Speaker 5: but it'll go down in history for certain. And bottom
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  Speaker 5: line is we're 1-0, but the reality is we have
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  Speaker 5: got a lot to fix, a lot of things to address.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the things that we didn't do well, we
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  Speaker 5: didn't play the run well on defense. We didn't run
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  Speaker 5: the ball well on offense. We lost the turnover margin
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  Speaker 5: three zip. We didn't make enough first downs. And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: all this is squarely on my shoulders. There's no doubt
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  Speaker 5: about that. And I got to do a better job
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  Speaker 5: preparing this football team. But I'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 5: right now, there was not a lot of hooting and
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  Speaker 5: hollering in that locker room. In fact, there was none
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  Speaker 5: because we understand that, you know, we've got a lot
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  Speaker 5: of work to do and that we have got to
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  Speaker 5: be much, much better than we were tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the fans were hooting and hollering.
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  Speaker 1: And if that extra second hadn't been added by the
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  Speaker 1: guardian angel. for the Michigan Wolverines, then the angry mob
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  Speaker 1: would have had their torches all lit up, the pitchforks
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  Speaker 1: ready to storm the football office there. And there you go. Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a religious revival. Born again, the Michigan Wolverines.
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  Speaker 1: They sucked for 60 minutes. But they were great for
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  Speaker 1: one second. And that extra one second is all they
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  Speaker 1: needed there. I guess it's now like soccer. Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: football is like Premier League. They have stoppage time now
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  Speaker 1: where they just add a second.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: Is Ohio State going to need it? Who else in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten is going to need it? USC is
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  Speaker 1: going to need this? That's so stupid. USC is in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten, isn't it? My God, is that stupid.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of dumb things. That's the West Coast
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten contingent right up there with dum-da-dum-dum-dum. Now, Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned Kyle Whittingham at Utah, always known for putting
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  Speaker 1: disciplined teams together that were well-coached. Michigan had nine penalties
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  Speaker 1: for 80 yards. Western Michigan had more first downs than Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: They lost in regulation, Michigan did. got conference-issued resurrection papers
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  Speaker 1: from the Big Ten replay booth, and then Michigan, of course,
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  Speaker 1: needing that Hail Mary there to escape with a one-point victory.
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  Speaker 1: And Winningham went ride or die. The main point of
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  Speaker 1: contention is if you saw any of this game or
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  Speaker 1: heard it on the radio, that in any measurement, the
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  Speaker 1: Michigan Wolverines do not have a quarterback. How does that happen?
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how hard Bryce Underwood works. The guy's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Holy crap. He sucks. You can't find a better quarterback
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  Speaker 2: than this guy? And winning him is ride or die.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe I missed it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't pay that close attention. But what did Underwood
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  Speaker 1: do to earn that level of trust from his head coach?
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  Speaker 1: Because he doesn't appear to know what he's doing.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 1: He played like it was Auntie Anne's pretzel shop. He
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  Speaker 1: was twisted into a soft pretzel by a Mac defense.
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  Speaker 1: By a Mac defense. And he's going to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and win the Big Ten and lead Michigan to
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  Speaker 1: the promised land and all that?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's your quarterback. You don't have a backup? Do they
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  Speaker 1: not carry a backup? Is it a one quarterback operation
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  Speaker 1: there in Ann Arbor?
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  Speaker 2: My God. They don't have a competent backup on the road?
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  Speaker 2: Apparently not. So, obviously, you don't exhale Coach Whittingham. You don't.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't beat the executioner. The electric chair lost power.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody in Chicago turned off the power. All right, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: last word. I must mention this. Several of you reached
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  Speaker 1: out to me and said, did you see.
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  Speaker 2: What this a-hole's doing? I said, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: So, Kirk Herbstreet, Herbie, as he's called. We go to
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  Speaker 1: the merch department over the weekend. So, ABC's Kirk Herbstreet.
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  Speaker 1: has launched something called the Peter Fan Club. It's all
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  Speaker 1: about his golden retriever, Peter.
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  Speaker 2: You seen it?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: You did see it. Okay, good.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Peter, who succeeded Ben, the golden retriever.
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  Speaker 1: Ben is dead. So they have Peter now, the golden retriever.
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  Speaker 1: This is the dog that gets VIP treatment on planes, trains,
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  Speaker 1: and automobiles, gets a press credential. All the things that
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  Speaker 1: normal people don't get, the dog gets. Traveling companion. I
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  Speaker 1: guess Herb Street doesn't have any family. Anyway, a Peter
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  Speaker 1: fan club pop-up store. debuted in Baton Rouge. This happened
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  Speaker 1: during College Game Day, LSU's visit there, and all to help,
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  Speaker 1: all with the help, I should say, of the people
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  Speaker 1: over at Raising Cane's. It is expected to travel around
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  Speaker 1: with College Game Day. Merchandise includes T-shirts, hats, hoodies, stickers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some koozies in there, dog bandanas, all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. And they claim that some proceeds go to charity.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, on the Malheur scale of absurd, the
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  Speaker 1: Malheur scale of absurd, 1 to 10, 1 to 10,
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  Speaker 1: how ridiculous is a traveling Peter Herbstreet the dog saying,
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  Speaker 1: Merch store. A pop-up merch store traveling around for college football.
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  Speaker 1: So on the Mallard scale of absurd 1 to 10,
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  Speaker 1: I wrote down on my scorecard a 75, which, oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is the same price as a hoodie
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  Speaker 1: for Peter the dog. Who's spending $ 75 on a Peter
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  Speaker 1: Herbstreet the dog hoodie?
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  Speaker 2: Just announce, hey, I'm a loser. I'm a loser. Capital
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  Speaker 2: L loser. My God.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I will point out, when I first saw this,
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  Speaker 1: and I was a little hazy when I saw this,
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was satire. Another one of these stories
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  Speaker 1: that happens at least once a week, I thought, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is AI. I was convinced, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to do this. This is really good AI.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the chat GPT or
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  Speaker 1: Grok or I don't know, or the Google Gemini.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but it was AI. No, it's real.
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  Speaker 1: At what point did a Saturday afternoon football matchup require
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  Speaker 1: a canine haberdashery?
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  Speaker 2: When did that happen?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Peter has apparently become like a Ralph
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  Speaker 1: Lauren with the paws there. And I guess ABC, ESPN
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  Speaker 1: are in cahoots on this. They helped create the monster.
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  Speaker 1: And now, what does he get? Full-time cast member status
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  Speaker 1: at Disney. They're going to have him in the Main
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  Speaker 1: Street USA parade and all that stuff. So, I guess
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  Speaker 1: college game day has now become QVC for a golden retriever.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: All right? Even Gene Simmons, the great Gene Simmons, looking
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: at this thinking, that's a little much.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: That's just a little too much. He just went a
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: little too far. So, we can now say.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Officially, without any doubt, that Kirk Herbstreit, beloved broadcaster of
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: college football who doesn't know much about the NFL but
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: for some reason is allowed to do Amazon games. Kirk Herbstreit,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: his dog schtick, his dog schtickala, has officially jumped the
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: hammerhead shark. It has officially jumped the hammerhead shark.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: And they think sports fans are just complete rubes. Total suckers.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: They must.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: To think that people are going to drop $ 45 on
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: a trucker hat for Peter the dog. It's not even
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: your pet. It's somebody else's pet. Maybe I should get
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in on this also. Rather than ripping Herbstree, my dog's
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: cuter than his dog. Moxie kicks that dog's ass. Moxie
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: will kill that dog.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Damn straight.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Come on. I could sell Moxie merch. Mallor Moxie merch. Hey,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: why not?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Dumb people are going to buy stuff. I can sell that.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: What the hell?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And the other thing that always annoys me, this really
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: drove me nuts, they hide behind the charity thing. Well,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: proceeds go to charity. That drives me insane. That is
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the ultimate cover for a hustle. That's the ultimate cover
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: for a hustle, the charity angle. Peter is not a
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: golden retriever anymore. He's a golden revenue stream is what
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: he is. So there you go.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: By the way, your dog does not need merch anymore. Yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Your dog does not mean merch. You know what your
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: dog needs? This is going to blow you away. And
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I know it's an unpopular opinion.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Your dog needs a bowl of water and a tennis ball.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. Oh, Mal, you're such a hater.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Dogs don't need a bowl of water and a tennis
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: ball or another chew toy or any of that, but
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: there you go. So Peter the dog, not man's best friend,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: man's best side hustle.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: It was fair to say. Hit that thumbs up icon
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: and comment away.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: From the weekend that was as we await the NFL's
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: beginning here. It's a Labor Day today, so we have
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: to wait until Wednesday, just a couple days away from
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the NFL season. The Seahawks, who had
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that fluke Super Bowl win, will take on the New
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: England Patriots in a rematch of a rather dull Super
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Bowl that will be taking place on Wednesday, and then
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: they go to Australia on Thursday, and then it's on
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: all the time for the rest of the year and
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: into January. And then the Super Bowl in February, on
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, right? Valentine's Day weekend, the Super Bowl in Los.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Angeles, or in the hood, in Inglewood.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Our lead story this hour, though, from Baton Rouge.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: From Baton Rouge, a court injunction.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Now, we talked about this at the end of last
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: week in a previous episode of the show.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: So, technically, a court.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Injunction did allow, did allow LSU to field a roster with...
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: a couple of former NFL training camp players.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: However, they didn't put them on the roster. And guess what?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: They didn't need them.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: As they vaporized the once proud Clemson football program, 51
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: to 10, 51 to 10, the patsies from Clemson. Holy crap.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: You guys suck.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: And so Lane Kiffin's LSU debut, and it goes into
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the win column there, they led 31-3 at halftime. And
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: turn at the lads, the party's over. Lane Kiffin, of course,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: taking full advantage of the halftime walk-off interview as he
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: trolled critics during the live TV interview with Holly Rowe.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: And he said, as the interview was ending and he
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: was jogging away, he said, imagine if we had pro players.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: That was his throwaway line there. Asked about potential backlash post-game.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Kiffin shrugged, as he often does, in his perception around
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: college football as being the bad guy, the big meanie,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin. He said, quote, everybody hates you. They can't
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: hate you that much more. Close quote from Lane Kiffin.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Kiffin defended pursuing the players who had failed to make
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: NFL rosters, insisting that LSU was, quote, fighting for what
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: was right for those kids.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: He said.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: The controversy has escalated beyond just the war of words
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: on social media and all that stuff. You have an
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: actual lawsuit. The Southeastern Conference is suing Lane Kiffin and
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: LSU over the right to play former NFL training camp
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: roster fodder. So that is a good jumping off point.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Is LSU coach Lane Kiffin
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: embracing the villain role, or does controversy just simply follow
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: him everywhere he goes? There's like a cloud over Lane Kiffin,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and he just can't get away from it. So I've
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: got Robin Hood, Old Spice, and Starbucks. And we will
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we are going
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to go through a fun house thing.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Of mirrors is what we're going to do. We always start, though,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: with number one.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Number one.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Number one. All right, stop. Stop. I said stop.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: All right, so at some point, and we're not sure when,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: at some point, when every single stop, every single stop
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: ends in complete and utter chaos, You have to accept reality.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: The one common denominator in this story is Lane Kiffin.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Going back to his days at Tennessee, the famous airport
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: firing at LAX, and all the Raiders, Al Davis just
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: laying out Lane Kiffin. The one common denominator is Lane Kiffin. Yeah,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: he's college football's old school... Professional wrestling heel. Think of
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: him like a limousine riding, jet flying, the nature boy,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Ric Flair.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Woo!
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: That's what he is. And Lane doesn't just tolerate controversy.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: He goes out, looks for it. He monetizes it. And
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: now he has pulled, and I love this, this latest chapter,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Lane Kiffin pulling out the kid card
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: from the bottom of the deck. Like he's Robin Hood,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, fighting for the little guy. Fighting for, again,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the quote, fighting for what was right for those kids.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Those little kids were fighting for the kids. We're doing
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: it for the children. Yeah, right. Spare me, spare me
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: the snarky malarkey from Lane Kiffin. I don't need it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: So the most insulting part of all this is, again,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: that quote, fighting for the little guy.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: That is just insulting.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: You're not fighting for the little guy. Everyone knows you're
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: not fighting for the little guy.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Provided, of course, I guess you are if the little
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: guy can run really fast and is stronger than everyone
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: else and all that. And then if you run a 4-4,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you're really fighting for him. If they run a 6-4,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: you're not fighting for them, right?
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: You're not.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: So Lane Kiffin continues to be this Machiavellian troublemaker, mischief maker,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: which is good for my business, and I'm happy as
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a talk show host that Lane's there and he gives
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: me things to talk about and all that stuff. He's calculating.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: He's often ruthless and always working an angle. There's always
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: an angle. There's always an angle here, and he provokes–
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: He loves to troll. And then he plays completely innocent.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Like, oh, everyone hates me. Why does everyone hate you, Lane? Ah,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: because I'm an a-hole. Okay. Thank you, Lane. Appreciate that.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Very nice.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin thriving. Thriving on the fury. Because as long
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: as you're angry, everybody's talking about Lane. Everyone's talking about Lane.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: That's what matters.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Now, page two.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: To the Clemson side of things. This is a shocking downfall.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Clemson was the program in college football. The Clemson Tigers
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: at one point were so worried that they were going
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to lose their head coach to Alabama as Nick Saban's
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: replacement because they became the gold standard for a couple
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: of years when Clemson was dominating and they were the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: toast of college football. And look at where we are now.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Look at what has happened.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: They blow.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: So Coach Dabo Sweeney's future now being placed under the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Petri dish in the microscope here after Clemson opened the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: championship season. They were the opponent for LSU, and they,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: of course, lost by 41 points. 41 points. They practiced
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: all offseason. This is a chance to make our season.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: They lost by 41 points to LSU. The worst defeat
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: in the career of Dabo. Clemson, here's where it gets interesting.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: So they would owe Dabo Sweeney, I was reading this
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: over the weekend, so they would owe Dabo $ 57 million
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: if he's fired before December 31st. But, rather oddly, the
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: buyout would increase by three million dollars to 60 million
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: in 2027 so that means by firing dabbo sweeney this
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: year before december 31st runs out they would actually save
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: money compared to waiting until 2027 so the question has
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: dabbo sweeney officially entered the lame duck territory of his
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: career at Clemson. So let's put it this way. The
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Dabo doomsday clock is ticking.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Yeah,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: 115 days, 115 days till December 31st.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: That's how long Dabo has, 150 and likely less than that.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: If Clemson plays the way they did on Saturday night
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: in the other Death Valley, I guess there's more than one,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: as you know, in college football. So 115 days till
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: December 31st. Dabo Sweeney is right now. He's at the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: front desk. He's checking in at the motel. What's the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: name of the motel? It's not a Hilton. It's not
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: a Marriott. It's the Last Chance Motel. And that's it.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: So this was supposed to be a placement test to say, hey,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: last year was not good.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: We are back.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: We've spent a lot of time preparing. We've gotten some
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: better players. So this was a placement test against LSU.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: They then allowed 38 first downs, 51 points, and somehow
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: 644 yards. And so the Tigers, after that placement test,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: they were escorted. by the teaching assistant right to the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: special ed classroom. So that's where they're headed right there,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: special ed. So forget football helmets. They're getting fitted there
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: at Clemson for dunce caps because that's what they need.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: My goodness.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Clemson no longer an elite program. Now the next big
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: OMG moment for Dabo Sweeney, if he somehow– they've got
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: a game coming up with North Carolina. If Clemson loses
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to Belichick in North Carolina– My goodness, right? The way
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: they played, that's certainly a possibility. I would, at this point,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: bet on North Carolina over Clemson.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: My goodness. So that's where we are. And it's great.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: They're not elite.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: It's just like a nostalgia act now for Dabo Sweeney.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: And I've learned that even though you love your championships,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: you people, you don't get, because you have two trophies there,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: you don't get an industrial strength trophy Old Spice deodorant
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: to push away the stank. The stank is still there
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: despite the fact you had past glory there. Past championships
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: do not provide, do not provide immunity. No matter how
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: much industrial strength Old Spice you put on, they do
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: not provide immunity from what's going on right now.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: They don't.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: And so suddenly this becomes a reboot of TLC's extreme
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: couponing of From back in the day there, Clemson has
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: itself a $ 3 million discount code if it fires Dabo Sweeney.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Before New Year's. So clip and save.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Now, thanks to the cockamamie contract that was given out
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: years ago when things were going well, waiting until 2027
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: actually makes this more expensive. The divorce becomes more expensive
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: if you wait until 2027. So eat the cartoon check now.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: between now and December 31st, or pay extra to suffer
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: later on.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: So good luck.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: All right, final point now to the bird's nest we go,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: to the bird's nest. Follow-up, follow-up to a previous Mallard monologue,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: NFL quarterback under attack, NFL quarterback under attack.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: The boo birds were out.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Boo!
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Boo that man! Boo that man!
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Boo! Yes, the LSU fan base loudly booing.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Loudly booing.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: The former Tigers quarterback Heisman Trophy winner Jaden Daniels. Now,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: was Jaden Daniels in attendance in Baton Rouge, Louisiana?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: We do not believe he was. However, he was on
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: the scoreboard. Say what?
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, they had a video tribute on the Jumbotron there
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: in Baton Rouge honoring former NFL players that have gone
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: on from semi-professional football at LSU and gone on to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the NFL.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: And so they had a big.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: vignette of all the players that had played at LSU
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and then of course gone on played in the NFL
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: currently in the NFL so a very hostile is the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: word I would use hostile reaction stemming from Jaden Daniels
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: lawyering up sending LSU a cease and desist letter over
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: defensive back DJ Pickett DJ Pickett wearing number five which
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: was Jaden Daniels former jersey number so the question Are
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: you shedding any tears for Jaden Daniels being booed?
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Boo that man! Boo!
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: By LSU fans. So I am tearless. If anything, it's
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: crocodile tears at this particular point, right? And this is
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the age-old example of play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: This is.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: As we said at the time, it's hot take validation,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: an unforced error by Jaden Daniels, who did not need
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: to do this. Now, the belief is it wasn't him.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: It was his mom who intervened. That's the popular theory
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: by popular people on the Internet. I don't know his mom.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know him.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: That's just what a lot of people seem to think,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: that the mama bear was protecting her cub. and that
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: she was the one that was the driving force behind this.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, though. You either allowed it to happen
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: or you did it yourself, but either way, who goofed,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I've got to know, that would.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Be Jaden Daniels.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: And so nobody, to my knowledge, nobody made him turn
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: a number, just a piece of laundry, a digit on
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: a piece of laundry, into a courtroom drama-o-rama. Did not
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: need to happen. didn't need to pick a fight with
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: LSU over No. 5. And Daniels spent two years in
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge. He was an Arizona State Sun Dev. He
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: went to Baton Rouge. He won the Heisman Trophy, so
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: good for him, and became college football royalty at that
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: particular time.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Wonderful.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: And he had a golden ticket. You realize if he
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: had not done what he did, Jaden Daniels, this would
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: have been set up. You show up occasionally, go back
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: to LSU football games, and then you wave to the crowd.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: You get a standing ovation there. You never have to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: pay for gumbo or beignets again. You never have to
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: pay for them. Instead of doing that, just playing along, no, no, no.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: He looked at all the goodwill from those diabolical Louisiana
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: State fans. And Jaden Yancey looked at all that goodwill
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: and said, you know what this needs? Lawyers that because lawyers.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Make everything better. They do. Unless they don't. All right.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: He stepped on the rake. Jaden, he stepped on the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: rake there and he took the handle directly to the forehead.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: It was like an episode of vaudevillian comedy is what
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: it was from back in the day there. And Daniels
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: did not just ruin this majestic oil painting.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: At the Louvre. He didn't just ruin it, okay?
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: He put a Starbucks coffee stain right in the middle
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: of the canvas is what he did. That's a bad
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: job by him. Now, LSU fans are goofing on this guy.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: who they used to worship like a god, like they
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: prayed at the altar in the tabernacle to Jaden Daniels' deity,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: and now they're booing this guy, turning a lifetime, what
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: would have been a love affair, into a messy divorce
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: over a jersey number. Who the hell cares about a
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: jersey number? I have long said behind the bully pulpit,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: you should not retire jersey numbers. It's the stupidest thing.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: You retire the name, that's fine. But the jersey, you
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: don't need to retire. I wouldn't retire any number. Not
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky, Babe Ruth, Tom Brady, anybody. I wouldn't retire
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: any numbers. Anyway, listen, Jaden, you got what you wanted.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: You discovered the hidden surcharge of trying to protect your number,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and that would be an attack of the birds.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Boo, birds.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: It's Maller. How about that? To the third degree.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Here we go. What do you got?
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Quickly.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Former Bills coach Sean McDermott made a recent appearance on
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Rich Eisen, and he made a prediction. He said it'll
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: be Bills-Rams in the Super Bowl.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Ben, how do you feel about that prediction? I feel
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: like he's still getting paid by the Bills. He had
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: time left on his contract. No, the Bills defense isn't
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: good enough. It'll be the Rams and mystery team, but
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: it will not be. I'm going with Kansas City, by
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: the way.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: That's my pick. All right, next.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Lots of people were upset last year when the red
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: zone channel introduced a ton of commercials.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: It wasn't that many, but yeah, it was a lot.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Scott Hanson said they're going to dial them back and
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: it's going to be more like a reads like, you know,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: the Mercedes Benz play of the day and stuff like that.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Like what I do here. Yeah.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Do you think fans will be happy with that?
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: No. Because people complain about everything, so they will not
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: be happy with that. But they need commercials. I understand
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: why they do it. It's not college radio.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Next!
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Arch Manning threw for 305 yards and four touchdowns against
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Texas State. But his big test will be next week
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: with Ohio State. How much do you think his performance
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: will affect his draft position?
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Well, it's big, but the Buckeyes are going to win
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: that game. So that's going to be the story.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: How do we do? How do we do? How do
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: we do? That's a win for me. He said win.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: I heard win. I heard win. Like Big Ten.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: the nation. Catch all of our shows at FoxSportsRadio.com. And
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: within the iHeartRadio app, search FSR to listen live. Hey,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: you sports figure guy or girl.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Who the hell are you talking to, son?
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Here's some instant advice.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: 10 whole seconds.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: And if you don't like it, screw you.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: And away we go. It's the Instant Advice Line on
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: screen radio.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Who needs the wisdom, the knowledge of the great unwashed
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and the mallard militia?
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Well, who else?
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: But the Big Ten Replay Center, who just gave Michigan
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: an extra second of time to beat Western Michigan. So
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: what is your advice to the Big Ten Replay Center?
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: You're live on the air when you hear my voice
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: at 877-99 on Fox.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Keep it clean. It's a family show. So many kids
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: listening at this time in the morning.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Line two, you're on the air. Line two, we'll start
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: with you. Advice to Big Ten Replay officials.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Storming the field after beating Western Michigan. Okay, thank you
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: for that. Yes, Calder, you're on the air. You're next here.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Advice to the replay center of the Big Ten.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: I'll take two hours of hollering James snoring over one
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: second of Robbie the man.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: All right, calm down. Is that true, James? Do you
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: agree with that, hollering James? Yes, I did.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, he woke up. He ruined the bet. Yes, caller,
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  Speaker 1: line five. You're on the air, line five.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Hey, picking the puppy.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: We're going to bet on it.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: The sun comes out tomorrow. Look at that. Poppy's right there. Caller,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: line six. You're on the air, line six.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: We're giving advice here to Big Ten replay officials after
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: they botched the Michigan-Western-Michigan game.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Over the weekend. Hello, line six. Yeah, go get Pablo Torre. Okay,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: there you go. I'll go get him. Yes, line.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, James is back sleeping. Let's go to you. Line two. Hello,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: line two. You're on the air, line two.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Is it true?
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: The Rams are.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Favorite to win Super Bowl 61 at five and a
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: half to one.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: All right, line four. Great tribute there to Jim Healy
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: and me who stole that from Jim Healy. Line four. Hello,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: line four. It's not worse than the Clippers. Hey, calm down, Sean.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: You're a Pacer fan, dude. Line five. The Clippers will
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: win a championship before the Pacers. Line five. Hello, line five.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: We got some more murders.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Got to go.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, there he goes. Our man from Boca. And hello.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: You're on the air, caller.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Bend over and look out your good eye.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: All right. That sounded like slug. Was that slug? It
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: kind of sounded like slug.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: All right. It's the instant advice line for the Big
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Ten Replay Center. You know who we've not heard from?
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Rick in Maryland. Morning time.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Rick must be off for the holiday. I guess we
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: couldn't afford to pay for him. Let's go to you.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Call your next year. It's the instant advice line for
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten Replay Center at 877-99 on Fox.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Hello, line two.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, they ought to get better umpires to be better referees.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's Frank the Tank with another terrible call. All right,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: we'll do one more. Which one here, Coop?
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Last one. Line five. Line five. You're on the line five.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Go line five for the Big Ten replay center.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: No, line five. You should have picked line four. Go
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: on line four.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: No, they all suck.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Every one of these guys stuck. They're terrible.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Help.