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Hour 4 - Push It Back · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Here we go. A-ba-da-bing and a-ba-da-boom. It's our number four.
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  Speaker 1: As we do the Mallarmambo in our number four on
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  Speaker 1: this hump day, the 23rd day of the month of September.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Giants a mess. How about the Cowboys, though? Well, the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys lost to the Giants. That was before Jackson Dart
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  Speaker 1: got hurt. Now, Jerry Jones making headlines. He poured cold
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  Speaker 1: water on Roger Goodell's European expansion plan. Does Jerry Jones'
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  Speaker 1: argument pass the smell test? Jerry doesn't think European teams
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  Speaker 1: from the NFL will be a thing anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: Also, who's right?
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  Speaker 1: Steelers coach Mike McCarthy saying they need to simplify the offense,
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  Speaker 1: or Aaron Rodgers saying they just need to execute better
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  Speaker 1: the offense they have there in Pittsburgh. And Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: is arguing the Packers' running game is, quote, not terrible.
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  Speaker 1: But the issue is execution. It's not personnel. Does that
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  Speaker 1: work for you? We'll get to all that and more
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  Speaker 1: Here it is, hour number four. Pushing back, push it back,
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  Speaker 1: push it back now. Welcome in the beginning of another
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  Speaker 1: The crown is yours. So push it back, push it back. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that would be the global initiative of the NFL, our
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  Speaker 1: lead from global domination.
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  Speaker 2: Say what?
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  Speaker 1: Now, we know that NFL Commissioner Roger the Dodger Goodell
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  Speaker 1: recently said.
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  Speaker 2: That he has, quote, no doubt that, Like the band.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt that the league eventually will have multiple teams
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  Speaker 1: outside of the United States. And everyone's saying Europe has
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  Speaker 1: been futzing around with teams in London, and so they
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  Speaker 1: can put a team in London. In fact, the belief
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  Speaker 1: is you can't just put one team outside. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like if you know the history of baseball when
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  Speaker 1: they went to the West Coast, the Dodgers couldn't just
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  Speaker 1: move to the West Coast. They needed the Giants because
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  Speaker 1: you got to have two teams. Logistically, back in those days,
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  Speaker 1: travel's a little easier now. But even though travel's easy,
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  Speaker 1: you got to have more than one team, supposedly. So
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about having two teams right there in London.
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  Speaker 1: What could possibly go wrong? Well, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: has now entered the chat, and he is deciding... I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. Not as soon as you think. Jerry,
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  Speaker 1: pushing back on the concept of international expansion, that it's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen anytime soon. Saying a new franchise abroad
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  Speaker 1: is likely still, quote, pretty far into the future. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this or not. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Jones expects the NFL to keep playing these cheeseball international
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  Speaker 1: games and believes the NFL's brand, the big brand of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: and.
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  Speaker 1: Popularity will continue to spread globally like an invasive species.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL is not a native species. It's an invasive species,
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  Speaker 1: and it's spreading around the globe. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones attempting to pour cold water on
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  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell's European expansion. Does his argument pass the smell test?
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  Speaker 1: Does his argument pass the smell test? So I've got
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  Speaker 1: to have an all-you-can-eat buffet with the... The jambalaya for
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  Speaker 1: There's some breakfast burritos. Brisket breakfast burritos. You can have
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  Speaker 1: some of that as well. All that right there. Right
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  Speaker 1: there for you.
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  Speaker 2: Good to go. And we'll put them all together.
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  Speaker 1: So first of all, Roger Goodell has this... We've talked
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  Speaker 1: about it in the past. He's got this Star Trek
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  Speaker 1: mindset where for him.
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  Speaker 1: London or Europe in general is the final frontier as commissioner.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a few more years left as the commissioner
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL. And Goodell, from what I've heard, he
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  Speaker 1: wants to have a plan in place before he leaves
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  Speaker 1: to have expansion teams in London. And that's the plan,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what he wants. Now, meanwhile, you've got Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones over here asking whether anybody checked the fuel gauge recently.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, like what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: And I would say side by side, who has more power,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones or Roger Goodell? Well, the answer is Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is the real commissioner of the NFL. And
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  Speaker 1: if Jerry doesn't want something, it doesn't happen. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like in baseball, people think of that fraud, Rob
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  Speaker 1: Manfraud there as the commissioner. But Scott Boris, of all people,
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  Speaker 1: an agent, is more powerful than Rob Manfraud. the commissioner
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  Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball. And I don't even know what
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  Speaker 1: to make of Adam Silver. That dope over at the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: But Jerry Jones out there, he's being practical. In this story,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is being the practical one. And you know
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  Speaker 1: you've entered the Twilight Zone when Jerry Jones is Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Practical.
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  Speaker 1: He's pragmatic. Like, what's going on here? So the league
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  Speaker 1: takes away your home game. Your home game ships it
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  Speaker 1: across some big body of water and then lectures you about.
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  Speaker 2: Growing the game.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you don't own the team. You don't benefit from that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you really care whether they grow the game or not?
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  Speaker 1: You enjoy what you enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: Who cares? That's their problem. That's not your problem. You're
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  Speaker 2: making it.
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  Speaker 1: You, the NFL, is making it the fans' problem because
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  Speaker 1: you're moving these games around and that's that.
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  Speaker 2: But most fans that I've come.
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  Speaker 1: Across, most people around here, they don't want The globalization
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL. You want to put a team in
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  Speaker 1: Mexico or Canada, that's all cool.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine. Who cares about that? But moving it far,
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  Speaker 2: far away?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And also, let's be honest here. Can we stop
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  Speaker 1: with the London infomercial? I mean, London's got some problems.
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  Speaker 1: They got their issues over there.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We got our issues. They got their issues. The NFL
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  Speaker 1: has been playing games in London recently. for over a
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  Speaker 1: generation now. They've been playing games in London. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: the way that my boots on the ground tell me
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  Speaker 1: it goes when the NFL comes to London.
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  Speaker 2: I got Terry, who used to be a live listener.
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  Speaker 1: He's not dead, but he just doesn't listen live anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got our blind guy there, legally blind, you
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  Speaker 2: know who. They're all there.
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  Speaker 1: So, They say, and this is what I've heard from
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  Speaker 1: other people as well who listen and live there, that
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  Speaker 1: the fans treat the NFL like it's a weird Al
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  Speaker 1: Yankovic concert. It's a novelty act. And London is this
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  Speaker 1: side hustle. It's not the family business.
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  Speaker 2: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: And they just think they've siphoned so much money, there's
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  Speaker 1: not much to siphon from you, and they want to
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  Speaker 1: take other people's money, and they feel like there's enough
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  Speaker 1: dumb people in London, the NFL can hornswoggle.
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  Speaker 2: Them and get money.
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  Speaker 1: And it's kind of like when the NFL goes to London,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like the Olympics. It's fun when they
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  Speaker 1: show up. Nobody complains about it, but no one's asking
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  Speaker 1: for that all the time.
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  Speaker 2: No one's saying, boy, we really want that. We want
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  Speaker 2: that all the time. No one's saying that.
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  Speaker 1: The Premier League, as I understand it, they own the penthouse,
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  Speaker 1: the Premier League, and then you've got the NFL renting
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  Speaker 1: an Airbnb off to the side, bragging about the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, you're not in the penthouse suite. You're in
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  Speaker 2: an little Airbnb. That's the difference.
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  Speaker 1: Now, secondly, to Pittsburgh we go, where former Steelers lineman
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  Speaker 1: Willie Colon says that there is already, quote, a disconnect.
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  Speaker 1: The former Steelers lineman says a disconnect between Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: and the rotund Mike McCarthy. over the suckbag Pittsburgh Steelers offense.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see this?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the former Steelers lineman says that the team is
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  Speaker 1: still trying to figure out what's going on. Rodgers and
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy are at loggerheads, and the offensive line not able
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  Speaker 1: to execute the playbook. McCarthy reportedly wants to dial it
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  Speaker 1: back now, dial back the offense, and simplify the playbook.
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  Speaker 1: That's the plan to simplify things. Now, Rodgers sees it differently.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is like, I don't know. That's not the
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  Speaker 1: case there. His message is we don't need to change
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  Speaker 1: the playbook. We just need to execute better, communicate better,
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  Speaker 1: and be adults rather than reducing the offense.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got two theories.
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  Speaker 1: He said he said, even though neither one actually technically
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  Speaker 1: said this. It's just the opinion of a former Steelers lineman.
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  Speaker 2: But who's right? Here's the question. Who's right?
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  Speaker 1: Steelers coach Mike McCarthy saying simplify the offense or Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers saying execute the offense. So two games in, two
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  Speaker 1: games in to the Mike McCarthy, Aaron Rodgers reunion tour,
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  Speaker 1: and they're already arguing over the instruction manual. Who could
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  Speaker 1: have possibly seen this coming considering their reputations back when
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  Speaker 1: they played or work together in Green Bay McCarthy.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously not playing, but you get the point. Just a
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  Speaker 2: really healthy workplace. A healthy workplace, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: And it's good to know that with all this drama
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  Speaker 1: going on, all this drama going on, they're already suffering from,
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  Speaker 1: I guess this is the football equivalent of erectile dysfunction.
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  Speaker 1: It's offensive dysfunction. What's your function? So Aaron Rodgers preaching
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  Speaker 1: personal responsibility. The system isn't the problem is essentially what
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  Speaker 1: Rogers is saying. The system is the problem. Just do
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  Speaker 1: your job better. Meanwhile, McCarthy's argument is essentially less government.
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  Speaker 1: There's too much government, less government, fewer plays, fewer complications,
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  Speaker 1: fewer opportunities to screw things up because we'll have a
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  Speaker 1: smaller lean and mean playbook. Now, I am voting for
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  Speaker 1: Team McCarthy on this. This happens all the time, doing
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  Speaker 1: this job a while. And it happens in basketball. It
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  Speaker 1: happens in football. I'm sure it happens in hockey. I'll
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  Speaker 1: have to check with Eddie on that.
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  Speaker 2: But it happens.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, it's like dog whistles what this is
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  Speaker 1: from Mike McCarthy. And he's saying, I can translate, I
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  Speaker 1: have my Maller Rosetta Stone. And so he's saying his
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  Speaker 1: players have a slow processor. McCarthy is announcing that his
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh players get bogged down with the details of the,
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  Speaker 1: of the playbook. They get bogged down because they're not
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  Speaker 1: apparently smart enough to process and decode the squiggly lines,
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  Speaker 1: the X's and O's. And so they have to dumb
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  Speaker 1: it down and follow the in and out burger motto.
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  Speaker 1: What is the in and out burger motto? It's do
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  Speaker 1: one thing and do it. Well, basic menu, burgers, fries,
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  Speaker 1: and shakes. You're not going to get a thing of shrimp.
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  Speaker 1: You're no chicken, chicken, They don't even have onion rings.
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  Speaker 1: None of that stuff. They don't have any of that.
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  Speaker 1: They just do three things, burgers, fries, and shakes. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what McCarthy wants the Steelers to do. Good luck
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  Speaker 1: on that. Now, final thought, we move from a couple
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  Speaker 1: of old Packers to the current Green Bay Packers in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Wisconsin, where Jordan Luff, deciding he did
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  Speaker 1: not want to go along with the popular opinion by
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  Speaker 1: popular people, the idea that the Packers' running game is, quote, terrible,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love argued the problems are correctable rather than fundamental,
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  Speaker 1: he said. Love, ranting and raving, said the biggest issue
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  Speaker 1: is everyone identifying blocking assignments. That seems like a bit
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  Speaker 1: of an issue and being on the same page. So
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love announcing the Packers are not on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know blocking assignments. That sounds like he's throwing
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  Speaker 1: the coach under the bus, doesn't it? Isn't that the
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  Speaker 1: job of the coaching staff to teach blocking assignments and
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  Speaker 1: make sure the players know the plays that are in
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  Speaker 1: the game?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 4: Whoa.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Love said the biggest issue is, in addition to
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, he pointed to unblocked defenders, running backs
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  Speaker 1: occasionally making the wrong reads. As a bunch of reasons,
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  Speaker 1: the ground attack is toothless. Absolutely toothless.
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  Speaker 2: So, the question. Jordan Love.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback Jordan Love, who got bailed out against the Jets,
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  Speaker 1: thanks to the Jets' incompetence there on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Love is arguing.
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  Speaker 1: The Packers' running game is not, quote, terrible. His argument is...
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  Speaker 1: That it's not terrible. The issue is just execution, not personnel.
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  Speaker 1: That they have the right players. Does that work for you?
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  Speaker 1: So we have used the Maller machete to cut through
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  Speaker 1: the poppycock from Jordan Love. And again, this is a
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  Speaker 1: subtle shot at the coaching staff of the Green Bay Packers.
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  Speaker 1: that they are putting people in the field who are
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  Speaker 1: apparently unprepared.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know their blocking assignments.
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  Speaker 1: That is Jordan Love, the quarterback, calling out the head
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  Speaker 1: coach LaFleur is what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: And he's saying, well, it's not the personnel. Well, players
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  Speaker 2: are great. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: The players are great. So it's kind of like the
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  Speaker 1: running game. Think of the running game like it's not terrible.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like going to a restaurant and saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that restaurant is excellent. Except for the food. The bathrooms
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  Speaker 1: are clean and people are nice. They've got good silverware
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  Speaker 1: and the beverages are pretty good. The food, not that good.
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  Speaker 2: But everything else is good. Everything else is really good.
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  Speaker 1: So Josh Jacobs disappears because he couldn't keep his hands
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  Speaker 1: to himself. Suddenly the running game looks like it needs
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  Speaker 1: roadside assistance. Somebody call a tow truck for the Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay Packers there. And honestly, Green Bay, they're not really...
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  Speaker 1: running the football it's not it's not a running game
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  Speaker 1: for the packers it's kind of like they're taking a
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  Speaker 1: very slow walk a very and it all fell apart
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  Speaker 1: in that fourth quarter against the vikings that's it they
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  Speaker 1: haven't been able to get back on their feet there
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  Speaker 1: and the packers it's like they're insisting the plumbing is
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  Speaker 1: wonderful everything's good the plumbing is really good unfortunately apparently
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  Speaker 1: the toilet won't flush but the it's not a plumbing
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  Speaker 1: issue Well, isn't that the point?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the toilet will not flush.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that the point? When there's something else going on,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you clogged it up. You took a big doo-doo.
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  Speaker 2: That could be.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. And just they won't admit. These
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  Speaker 1: guys don't want to admit the obvious. Like if you
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  Speaker 1: were the quarterback of the Packers, wouldn't you come out
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  Speaker 1: and say, listen, we suck right now. That is not acceptable.
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  Speaker 1: We blow. We got to get better. Instead, we got, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not terrible. The Packer running game is not terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of just admitting the obvious naked truth, Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: has apparently discovered advanced metrics. Now, what are the advanced
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  Speaker 1: metrics on this? The advanced metrics on this are if
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  Speaker 1: you simply reject the statistics. If you reject the statistics,
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  Speaker 1: they can't hurt you.
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  Speaker 2: They can't.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Jordan Love is whitewater river rafting, floating down
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  Speaker 1: the river of denial. He's down there, and Matt LeFleur...
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  Speaker 1: apparently forgot to pack a paddle. The Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 1: running game is ranked 32nd in the NFL. It would
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  Speaker 1: be 33rd, except there's only 32 teams. So there's, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: that's where the limit is. So LeFleur forgot to paddle,
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  Speaker 1: and Jordan Love's just kind of floating along there on
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  Speaker 1: the river of denial, dead last in rushing the football,
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  Speaker 1: which apparently is completely fine. It's not that bad. It's
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  Speaker 1: not that bad.
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  Speaker 2: the whole shebang. The whole shebang. So we've got panic
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  Speaker 2: in the pocket and.
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  Speaker 1: A made-for-the-internet, made-for-the-internet world record by a Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 2: A world record. What is that all about? We'll get
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  Speaker 6: Welcome to Football Doesn't Lie.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Bill Parcells.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: I have a lot of experience in the game.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Of football, Catherine.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: we're going to talk about the NFL slate through the
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: lens of Bill's expertise as he coaches me from novice
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: fan to football expert over the course of the season.
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: hopefully we can give our audience a little in-depth look
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: into the inner sanctum of pro football that they can't
• 19:39
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• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Tune in every Thursday for unfiltered stories from Coach Parcells,
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: analysis on the state of the modern game, and education
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: on how football really works.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: Continuity is very important. But what happens when you get
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: good coaches on your staff and people begin to recognize them,
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: then they want to hire them. And then you can't
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: stop a guy from trying to improve himself, but you
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: have to replace them.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Because once you understand what's going on inside the mind
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: haven't done, because I didn't have enough money, I don't
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: own the team. I never owned a team.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Listen to Football Doesn't Lie on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
• 20:24
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• 20:34
  Speaker 2: We roll on.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Reminder, check out the Fifth Hour Podcast every Friday, Saturday,
• 20:39
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• 20:41
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• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Big names like Hollering James and Justin in Cincinnati, Robbie
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the Mariner fan, and others have made appearances. Mike the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Leprechaun's been on there. Who's next? Inquiring minds would like
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: to know. Meantime, on this show, 877-99 on Fox, the
• 21:02
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• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller. You can say hello to Lorena, FSR Tech Queen.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Hi, Bill. Don't talk to me.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And Koopaloop, a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan. Your
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: comments can and will be used against you in the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: court of sports radio. So please act accordingly. Some rumors
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: that Justin Bieber is going to perform at the Super
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Bowl in L.A. Do you see where Bieber performed?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, over in MacArthur Park, right?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, MacArthur Park, which is, it's been compared to, in
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah. It's an outdoor drug market,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: which is allowed by the city of Los Angeles.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: If you come to L.A., you can go to Disneyland,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: you can go around.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: But if you come to L.A., if you want to
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: get any kind of heroin, crack, fentanyl, you go to
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: MacArthur Park.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And I go down, because my favorite deli in L.A.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: is right across the street from MacArthur Park. So I
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: go down there. And didn't Bieber perform at Coachella?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is Crackchella he performed at there in L.A.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: For free. Yeah, I don't think the crackheads knew who
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: he was, though. You know what I mean? I think
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: he's just a guy.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Because there's people who go down there and futz around
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: with music and stuff.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: You know what, though? I really appreciate that.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Because I feel like artists.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: Artists are charging so much money to do what they
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: love to do.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Like, why aren't they just going and performing at little
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: small cafes? I think he lost a bet, Lorena.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: No.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Come on, please. You don't go down there. You know
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: how much Bieber's got? What are you doing?
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: And also, maybe he's practicing for the Super Bowl.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, he's practicing. He's supposed to be performing. People doing
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the fentanyl lean. He's practicing for the Super Bowl. He's
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: going to set up his laptop on their backs. All right.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Swamp Billy. Who's up next in
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the great state of Tennessee. Hello, Swamp Billy.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Good morning. Someone left the cake out. And I'll never
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: get that recipe again.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: That's unfortunate. I got the recipe. We have the recipe.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: We have gotten the recipe. Slug has stepped up. He
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: did it?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I can now make 10 quarts of mashed potatoes now.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: 10 quarts of mashed potatoes.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Right, Coop? So you're going to bring in some to share.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: That's a lot of mashed potatoes. That's a lifetime supply
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: of mashed potatoes. That's a lot of mashed potatoes. Hi, Billy.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Three potatoes and some salt and pepper.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Anyway, hey. That's incorrect. I'm looking at the.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: You would like to nominate yourself as the replacement.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Let me tell you, you always say to the drunks,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: breathe into the phone and all that. Here's the key
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: question about blind guys to prove that they're really blind.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: What's the most important piece of clothing to a blind
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: guy who lives independently?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: All right, most important piece of clothing.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go underwear.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Well, it's kind of related, but it's a rubber glove.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: It's a rubber glove.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I don't want to go into it. You've said enough
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: of that poopy stuff.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I understand.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about the Mets, though. Did you
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: imply that they were going to move to Brooklyn out
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: of that beautiful stadium?
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I said they're moving to the borough of Dolesville because
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: they hired Andy. Well, that's Brooklyn, isn't it?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, I think that's actually Staten Island.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: No one ever visits Staten Island. You know that?
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: I've been there. I used to go to OTB there
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: at the Richmond Mall many years ago.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: You know what I do?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I've been to New York many times. My brother lives there.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: He's been living there like 30 years. I've gone to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: New York pretty much my entire adult life. Here's what
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I do in Staten Island. I take the Staten Island ferry.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I get off the ferry when it comes from lower
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Manhattan to Staten Island.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Get back on it. And I'm gone. That's it. I'm
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: literally there for like... Two minutes. I've been there, brother.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: I used to live in the Middle East River. It's
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: a place called Governor's Island.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I've seen it. Yeah, yeah, Governor's Island.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a great place. Well, let me
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: tell you what I used to like to do is
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: I used to go to the Mets games out at
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: the Big Shea, ride the number seven out there. back
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: in the era of George Foster, one of the greatest
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: acquisitions the Mets ever made. And you mentioned Bleeker Street,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: which he lived in the village back in 84, and
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: we went up and knocked on his door. And this
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: is how things have changed.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: George comes to the door.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Was he polite? Was he an a-hole?
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: He's like, who the F are you? And he shut
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: the door.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: That's the proper response. Who the F are you and
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: why are you bothering me?
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Exactly, exactly. He just made sure we weren't somebody in
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: the West Side Boys. Not the Westies, but the... how
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: shall I say it, a certain family that started with
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: a G and ended with an E.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Anyway, but I was at the.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Big Shea when the dove got killed out there in
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: front of the guy. He's from Arkansas. He played for
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: the Braves. And the New York media goes, oh, they
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: killed a pigeon. I was like, oh, he said, that's
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: a dove. I know I hunt doves. I can't even
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: remember the dude's name.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: Hey, let me ask you something.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, there's more.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: By the way, you're listening to the Swamp Billy Show
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: right now with Swamp Billy.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Ben. I'm sorry.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: No, it's all right, Swamp Billy. I'm fine. I'm going
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: to sit back here.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: I want to congratulate you for bringing back Jed, who
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: fled yesterday.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, we got him out of jail. We saved Jed,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: who fled.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: That's when I started listening to you. I lived down
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: where Jed, who fled, lived in a panhandle. And then
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: I moved to Arkansas where Scratchoff lived. And now I'm
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: over here in my home side.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: You know, you moved a lot. Are you running from
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the cops? You've lived in New York, Arkansas, the Redneck Riviera.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Now you're in Tennessee.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: I beat every rap, Ben. I finally beat all the raps.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Most of my raps were in Alabama.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: You got a lot of– why were the cops giving you–
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the cops were schmucks in Alabama?
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Is that why?
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely. I mean, don't ever get stopped in Clinton, okay?
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, you don't know where that is. But anyway,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: I love you, man.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: I want to be the top blind guy.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: All right, well, you know, you're off to– you're very
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: talkative as a blind man, and you're right now– No.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: I've been sitting here waiting to talk.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Well, no one else– listen, no one else has stepped up.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: So as far as I'm concerned, until somebody else wants
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: that title, Swamp Billy has taken over.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: One last thing to Lorena. I wish we could go
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: to Lincoln City and run down the beach and go
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: eat fried halibut and clams and drink rain dogs. I
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: love all of y'all.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you. That's very awkward. Sounds like a good time.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Good old time. Kind of like when you hang out
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: with Steve in Manhattan. Hello, Steve-O in Manhattan.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: This audience wants Willis to do the football picks and Ben,
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: distinguished panel, expanding audience.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Welcome to Hee Haw.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: Beat me to it. Now listen, everyone in the audience.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Go Buchanan, go Buchanan, go Buchanan.
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: Listen, I'll listen to that 24 hours a day.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: You are so famous. We know all your schtick. All
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: your schtick. We know every line you have, Stephen Mann.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Every line. How many political shows have you called today?
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: Let me tell you something. At one time, there was
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: like 100 Steve from Manhattan imitators calling talk radio. But
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: let me just get back to that last caller, because
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: this audience knows I'm also a former historian and a
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: former sports historian. The person who hit the baseball... His
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: name was not Deion Sanders. His name was Deion James.
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: He played for the Atlanta Braves.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, I remember Deion James. Decent, halfway decent outfielder. Not
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: a star, but good player for a couple years.
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: And, of course, the Mets fans have nothing to really
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: talk about. So they, for 30, 40 years, they've been arguing,
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: was it a pigeon or a dove? Let me tell
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: you something. There ain't no doves flying around New York City.
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: It was a pigeon, definitely a pigeon. And, listen, guys,
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: I just got to tell you something. In sports, right?
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: You've got the Jets and the Giants. If you can
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: run backwards or sideways and catch a football, they're having
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: tryouts for defensive backs. If you could do it, they'll
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: probably end up signing you on the spot because, let's
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: face it, both these teams, I don't know what the
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: problem is. The Giants were good at one time, but
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: they're like turning into the Jets. And I've always said this,
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: and I've, I've, I've hammered away at this, the last
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: position in sports where you actually need a brain is
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: the offensive line.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: And I was saying that during the, you know, during the.
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: Off season, I was saying that jets and giants got
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: to get that offensive line, even better, get it better
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: than it is. It's okay. These guys are– you see
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: what they did to Jackson Dart last night? I mean,
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: come on. From both ends, he got creamed, right?
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Well, he does occasionally.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers got completely– blindsided in the game against the Patriots.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, it happens every once in a while. You're
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: not going to be perfect, right?
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: You're not perfect. No, I don't mean it's got to
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: be perfect. But the thing is, the offensive lines on
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: both of these teams are no good for the last
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: 10 years. And if you really look at it, when
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: a guy gets injured, When he gets a leg injury,
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: he's not supposed to be standing up. He's not supposed
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: to be walking around. He's supposed to immediately be taking
• 30:19
  Speaker 9: off and putting on a card or something and no
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: more pressure put on that leg because you don't know
• 30:24
  Speaker 9: what that injury is.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: What is your medical training, Steve? What kind of medical
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: training do we have here?
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: If you get a leg, talk to any top doctor.
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: If you get a leg injury, you're supposed to get
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: off your, you know, take the weight off that leg
• 30:36
  Speaker 9: and sit down.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Let me guess, you should scream and go to a
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: cart like Caleb Williams and put a towel on your
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: head and raise your hand, your fist in the air
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: like you've just survived a heavyweight fight.
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: Well, listen, you get hit by a 300-pound guy. I mean,
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: how do you practice for that? You stand on the highway,
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: you get hit by a truck?
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: It's a good idea.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: They would have done that back in, like, Lombardi probably
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: put the Packer guys out there on the expressway in
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin and said, all right, just stand there and get
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: run over by a truck.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: That'll be that.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: All right, Steve-O, there he goes, our guy Steve in Manhattan.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Let's say hi to Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Steve-O in Manhattan, good day to you, my man and Ben.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: All right, well, let's say hello, Steve in Manhattan. Say
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: hi to Marcel in Brooklyn, Steve.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Hello, Steve-O, my man.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I think he's hung up, Marcel. It's very rude of
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: him to hang up. Oh, wow. Wait a minute. Hold
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: on a second. This is Steve in Manhattan. Hello, Steve
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: in Manhattan. Say hello, Steve.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Hello, Steve. Good to see you, my man.
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: Hello, fellow New Yorker. How are you?
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. This is ain't Steve-o.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Who do you think it is? It's the idiot con! No,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: that's Steve in Manhattan. What are you talking about?
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, that's not Steven Manhattan. It's Mike the
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Idiot Fonder, Ben. He's from New England.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, is that right?
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: I'm from Ireland.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: That's right, it is.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
• 32:06
  Speaker 9: I'm from Ireland.
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: I'm from Ireland.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Where is Ireland, Marcel? Do you know where Ireland is?
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: It's in UK and Europe.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Duh.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Don't say U.K.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Not U.K.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: How dare you say U.K.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You've offended me.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's very political.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: How old were you, Mike the Leprechaun?
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: You told me this before, but I forgot. How old
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: were you when you moved to the United States?
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: 22.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: So all your school years were in.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: In Ireland, yeah.
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: And then I got to play pro sports over here,
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: and I came over here and became a teacher as well.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: You see that, Marcel? This guy's a pro athlete.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, please. He doesn't have a pro athlete. He's a failure.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: And as of right now, there, Mike, the Idiot Con,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: you are no longer to be part of this mal-emotion family.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: The truth is, you are my total enemy of mine.
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: It's okay, Marcel. If I'm going to New York this weekend,
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: which I am, to see my daughter, can I come
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: visit you?
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Why don't you guys have brunch together?
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I'll pay for it. Marcel, I'll pay for brunch. You
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: and Mike the Leprechaun. It's on my dime. You guys
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: can go to any restaurant you want in Brooklyn as
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: long as it's not $ 300 and knock yourself out.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: He is the whole.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Enemy of mine.
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: Ben, if you put up that brunch, I will take
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: him to the The Yankee Stadium for the Red Sox
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: game on Monday night.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: You want to go to the Yankee game, Marcel? The
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: playoff game.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going to take the Red Sox down because
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: our Yankees is going to be rolled to the 28th.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: You guys should make a bet on Sunday into Monday.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: We'll make a bet between you two.
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: Poppy's picks. Poppy's picks.
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  Speaker 3: That's on Fridays, you idiots. Get used to it.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Keep on laughing on them.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: I'm laughing. I'm chuckling hysterically.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, before we go to the break, some
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: TV picks right now, and let's get into it.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Marcel knows the clock. All right, TV picks. Marcel, last
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: night I believe you watched on, I think it was
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: on TBS, I was watching the Yankees and the Tampa
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Bay Rays.
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  Speaker 2: I believe you were watching.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, the Rays beating in the game night doubleheader
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: instead of the Yankees. So I'll go with the mixed
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: match it is. How about you, idiot con?
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: I was watching X-Files.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: X-Files on Hulu?
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: X-Files on Disney.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: The Red Sox lose to the Guardians?
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: It's not a mixed match, it is.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Lorena? I think you were watching the new show, Traitors.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Traitors on Apple TV Plus?
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I think it might be on there.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Well, not a mixed match, it is. Go right ahead, buddy.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I think that you were watching Crimson Tide.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Crimson Tide on ESPN app?
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  Speaker 9: Hulu?
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Something?
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: No, the 1995 film starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: It's on Netflix, right?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: No, but that's okay.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: He's close. Marcel, what college team is known as the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Crimson Tide?
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Alabama.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, look at this guy. Is this guy not a
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: big stud? Come on. Which college team is known as
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: the Anteaters?
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: What?
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: There's a team that's known as the Anteaters. Which team
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: is that?
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, UC Santa Barbara in the west?
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Not close, but not Santa Barbara. A little further south.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Ooh. Alabama State, that is.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Wow, very close. You're right. That is right. Alabama State Anteaters.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Good job by you. Tremendous team.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Reveal answers, please. Either that or UC Irvine. Go ahead.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Reveal answers, please. Yes. I'm running off a low board.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Here's my drum roll.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Dickies, Rays, on TBS.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: And the Rays as well.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: What a dynamic comedy duo, Marcel and Mike the Leprechaun.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: James, isn't that, hollering James, are you not entertained, James?
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: I was not entertained by Marcel. I do not like Marcel.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: I think he's an idiot.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Marcel, James just called Unity.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is totally unacceptable. And I'm sorry, Halloween James.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: I'm not an idiot. I'm a real dynasty, and you
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: better show some respect.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: James, Unity.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Who are you?
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: What?
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Give me a break.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: You couldn't tell a hedge or tails.
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: I don't have time for this. I wish I– well,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: it's actually good I don't have time. Oh, come on.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: We can give him another 10 seconds. All right. Fine.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: We'll put them both on. Here we go. James is there.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: And Marcel, settle your beef, boys. Oh, yeah.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, I got a few of them, Marcel.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: I'm afraid.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Somebody put Halloween James to block more, please. No, I
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: want to block you, Marcel.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Shut up.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I always block you. Shut up. Shut up. I want
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: to block you. If you want to play ball right now,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: let's put a bad mouth show right after this.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: And you know why?
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: Marcel gets more air time.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: Than any of us.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's what it is. Everyone's jealous of Marcel. Oh,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: he's jealous. It's all when the truth comes out.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Well, there you go. We were going to yap.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: About the world record set by Adam Vinatieri for the
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: highest field goal. I guess we'll have to talk about
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: that another time. And Drake May getting called out for
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: sucking this year, being off balance. But instead, we have Password,
• 37:41
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• 37:42
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• 37:46
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• 37:58
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. Yapping away
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: here all night long. And you likely have not been
• 38:06
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• 38:09
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• 38:17
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• 38:20
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• 38:22
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• 38:26
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• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Not a lot of good stuff.
• 38:29
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• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Hollering James. But check out the Ben Maler Show podcast
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: and on the weekends, the Fifth Hour podcast.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: Attention, everyone. And the password is password.
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: You idiot.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Password, the word game of the stars.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Here's Ben Maller.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: And right to it we go. Let's welcome in our contestants.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: We've got Leak the Greek, it says here.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: That's a new name. Hello, Leak the Greek. What's going on?
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Hey, Big Ben.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: Doing good.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Ready to play.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: All right. Who do you want to partner up with?
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: You got me, Ben, Lorena, or the Koopaloop?
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: I want my love, Lorena.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: All right, Lorena, very exciting here. I have to go
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: to the bathroom. Too late.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: And we have, what do we got? Coop, one, two,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: or three, Coop? I'll just pick. Mark in the north end,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: my buddy Mark.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Hello, Mark. What's going on, Marky Mark?
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: What's up, Ben? Same old, same old, working.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: All right, who would you like to partner up with here, Mark?
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: You're the man, my friend.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: All right. We're in it. Those are the teams. We
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: got a list of words here. Pick a number quickly. Quickly, please.
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: Two.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: Two.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: I actually want to.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Hurry up.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, sorry.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: My bad.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Hurry up.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Hurry up. You're going to make me nervous. Roth. That's
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: what she said.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: What? Roth.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: Suit.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: That is correct.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Easy one. Go ahead, Mark. Pick a number. One to ten,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: but not two.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Three.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Number three. How about thankful?
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, appreciated.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: No.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: No.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Lorraine. I'm going to go with... Hurry up! Goodness.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Hurry up! Full of greatness?
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: No.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Minus ten points.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: How about let's go with appreciative.
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: Oh, jeez.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Is it cheese?
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: No.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: This sucks.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Obliged.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: Grateful.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Come on. Come on. That's all right, Mark. I'll punish
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: you next time I'm in town. There you go.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Mark on the north end. Lightning has struck. Lightning has struck.