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Hour 3 - A Porter Exporter · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Bam! Wham! Pow! It's our number three. And it is
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Mather Show podcast here. We stayed up all night,
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  Speaker 1: fresh pod. Time to talk some football. That's what keeps
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  Speaker 1: the lights on around here. In our hour three lead,
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  Speaker 1: what does Pittsburgh entertaining Joey Porter Jr. phone calls tell
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  Speaker 1: you about how badly this relationship has deteriorated? Also, The
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys are said to be interested. There's a shock. Well,
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  Speaker 1: CBS will continue using J.J. Watt with Jim Nance for
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  Speaker 1: week four. So when does Tony Romo will return, eventually
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  Speaker 1: become Tony Romo used to work here? When does that happen?
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  Speaker 1: And also, what do you make of the NFL having
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  Speaker 1: to lower ticket prices for the Colts-Commanders game from London
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  Speaker 1: because they weren't being sold? People were not buying the tickets,
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  Speaker 1: so they had to down the price point to get
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  Speaker 1: people to buy the tickets to the game in London again.
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  Speaker 1: which is this weekend, not a ringing endorsement for the
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  Speaker 1: Colts and the Washington Commanders, I would say. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about all that and more right about now. Here we go, Geronimo.
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  Speaker 1: It's hour number three. A porter exporter? Huh? What? A
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  Speaker 1: porter exporter? What does that mean? Welcome in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of another hour of the Ben Maller Show. We are
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have an issue with my phone for
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  Speaker 1: the next month, and then I'll call you again. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's been about a year. Been about a year.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't heard from him. He just vanished. But I know
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  Speaker 1: he's still listening, and they all agree that it's about express.
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  Speaker 1: get to work. So our lead this hour, we go
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  Speaker 1: back to our bloodlines to the National Football League. We
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  Speaker 1: go back to the NFL one more time. And our
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  Speaker 1: lead out of Pittsburgh, a developing story here. Defensive back
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  Speaker 1: Joey Porter, Jr. Pittsburgh Steelers defense back Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 1: has been the topic of a lot of trade chatter.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of trade rumors bouncing around the pinball machine
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  Speaker 1: of hot takes here this offseason and now into the
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  Speaker 1: season as Porter did not get an extension and the
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  Speaker 1: speculation machine has been cranked up. So if you have
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  Speaker 1: been following this, you likely know, but perhaps you actually
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  Speaker 1: have a life and you're not paying that close attention
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  Speaker 1: to it. So good for you. The prediction market now,
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  Speaker 1: the gambling market, lists Joey Porter Jr. as the top
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  Speaker 1: trade candidate. The very top trade candidate with a deal price,
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  Speaker 1: they say, 75% chance that Joey Porter Jr. is traded
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  Speaker 1: by December the 1st. Really? Okay, that's still a few
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  Speaker 1: months away. Now, a separate next team... Gambling market on
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  Speaker 1: the prediction market list, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Dallas. No clear favorite,
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  Speaker 1: but the Giants have also been mentioned as a possibility
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  Speaker 1: for Joey Porter Jr. Pittsburgh would obviously not be a trade.
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  Speaker 1: He'd just stay there. where he is right now with
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  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Yinzers. Now, Adam Schefter tells us,
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  Speaker 1: former Fox Sports Radio NFL insider Adam Schefter, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you don't know that, but before he went over
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  Speaker 1: to that small cable channel in Connecticut, Adam worked at
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  Speaker 1: the NFL Network, and he was our NFL insider in
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  Speaker 1: the early days. There's a Fox Sports Radio fun fact
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  Speaker 1: for you. Anyway, Adam Schefter tells us that multiple teams
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  Speaker 1: are interested, as we said, and the Steelers are willing,
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  Speaker 1: are willing... To listen, but reportedly want a massive package
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  Speaker 1: to wheel and deal their defensive back, who is a malcontent.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. What does Pittsburgh entertaining Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 1: phone calls tell you about how badly the relationship has deteriorated?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Facebook, 7-Eleven, and airport fish and chips.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we will bark in the park is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. Bark, bark, park, park. So to lead off here,
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers, they're not taking calls because they're curious about
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  Speaker 1: what's available for Joey Porter Jr. They're taking calls because
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  Speaker 1: they're tired of Joey Porter Jr. and his shenanigans. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty obvious that's what's going on. Does anyone disagree? No
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  Speaker 1: one's raising their hand. No one disagrees. That's right. Now,
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  Speaker 1: NFL divorces, and this would be an NFL divorce, NFL
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  Speaker 1: divorces don't often begin with a lawyer. They don't. They
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  Speaker 1: begin with anonymous sources, trade speculation, whether this is planted
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  Speaker 1: by the Steelers or whether this is planted by Joey
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  Speaker 1: Porter's agent. Either way, that's how this begins. It's not
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  Speaker 1: your traditional, hey, here's a lawyer, I'm filing for divorce.
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  Speaker 1: It's some anonymous rumor that so-and-so is going to be traded.
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  Speaker 1: And Porter wants out. He wants a new contract. Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: Brass did not meet the reserve price at the Sotheby's auction.
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  Speaker 1: And so as a result. He's huffing and puffing and
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  Speaker 1: wants to blow the whole franchise down, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So Porter has been a healthy scratch. It's a hockey term,
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  Speaker 1: a healthy scratch. So far all season, Joey Porter has
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  Speaker 1: been a healthy scratch. And the ghost of Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: past is haunting the facility there in Pittsburgh. Tomlin's famous line,
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  Speaker 1: we want volunteers, not hostages. And that's ringing around the...
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  Speaker 1: back room at the Pittsburgh Steelers facility there, along with
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  Speaker 1: the terrible towels floating in the air everywhere. So the
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  Speaker 1: relationship is officially headed towards eventually divorce. So there will
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  Speaker 1: be divorce attorneys involved in this at some point. And
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  Speaker 1: then we'll get to the cardboard box stage of events.
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  Speaker 1: And then eventually someone will have to call a U-Haul.
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  Speaker 1: Or possibly go down to Home Depot and rent one
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  Speaker 1: of those trucks for like $ 20 a day. And then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, we know it's always the upcharges on that
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot. So Porter went from franchise cornerstone in Pittsburgh...
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  Speaker 1: to pricing himself out. The Steelers did not think he
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  Speaker 1: was worth the money. So now he becomes a Facebook
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  Speaker 1: marketplace defensive back. Serious inquiries only. If you'd like to
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  Speaker 1: get your hands on this item on the Facebook marketplace
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  Speaker 1: with Joey Porter Jr. Now enter Dallas. Always enter Dallas
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  Speaker 1: when a name player has been put on the auctioning block.
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  Speaker 1: You always have to bring in Dallas. Now, we expect
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones to be all over this. To be all
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  Speaker 1: over this. Another shopping spree, impulse-type purchase for a star
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  Speaker 1: player who hasn't yet made an all-pro team and is
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  Speaker 1: demanding one of those oversized cartoon checks. The Acme cartoon
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  Speaker 1: Looney Tunes check situation. So Jerry does not shop from
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  Speaker 1: a grocery list. He does not. Having watched this from afar,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones does not believe in a shopping list at
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  Speaker 1: the grocery store. He shops from the display window. It's
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons that if you go to the store... And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, right when you check out at the store,
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  Speaker 1: they always have like the candy bars and they have
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  Speaker 1: the little knickknack things. That's an impulse purchase. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't go into the store needing that. And when
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  Speaker 1: I worked at the other station in Boston briefly, one
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  Speaker 1: of the other talk show hosts that I befriended, his
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  Speaker 1: day job was as a lollipop salesman. which sounds like
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  Speaker 1: it's something that Tom Hanks would play in a movie
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, Lollipop Salesman. So this guy was
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  Speaker 1: telling me the lollipop game, and I was fascinated by it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize this. So he said that he worked
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  Speaker 1: for one of the big lollipop companies, and they would travel.
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  Speaker 1: He would travel a lot. He would go meet with
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  Speaker 1: the CEOs at like target walmart and all the big
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  Speaker 1: stores and they they'd have to spend a certain amount
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  Speaker 1: of money to buy the space right in front where
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  Speaker 1: you check out at eye level, the most valuable parts
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  Speaker 1: eye level, because that's where everyone's eyes are there. So
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, we put the lollipops there. There's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a bunch of people that don't really want lollipops,
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  Speaker 1: don't need lollipops, didn't come to sort of buy lollipops,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to take the lollipops. That's Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is like, I don't necessarily need Porter. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys aren't making the playoffs, most likely, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily need Porter. But he's in the display case.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? What the hell? Let's go for it. Now, furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: to the boob tube. To the boob tube we go.
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  Speaker 1: And Tony Romo update. Tony Romo update. Romo, is he back?
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  Speaker 1: Is he back in the CBS booth this weekend with
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  Speaker 1: Jim Nance? Hey, Jim. Hello, Jim. No. Turns out Tony
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  Speaker 1: Romo will not return. to the Columbia Broadcasting System's booth
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  Speaker 1: as the lead commentator for the Week 4 card. He
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  Speaker 1: is going to continue on indefinite leave following his driving
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  Speaker 1: wall intoxicated arrest in Wisconsin. CBS sticking with J.J. Watt
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  Speaker 1: alongside Jim Nance rather than use the Week 4 to
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  Speaker 1: bring back Tony Romo. Now, Nance and Watt... are going
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  Speaker 1: to call. You know what game they're calling?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: What game do you think they're calling? We don't even
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  Speaker 1: know who has what game on TV. They are calling
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs and Raiders. Yeah! When's the last time Jim
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  Speaker 1: Nance called a Raider game within the first four weeks
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  Speaker 1: of an NFL season? I can't recall that. I can't recall.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the game. That's the big game there for
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  Speaker 1: the people over at CBS. Very excited. Very, very excited.
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  Speaker 1: Unless they're not. So Romo has publicly said he wants
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  Speaker 1: his old job back. Why not? It pays a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money, and he didn't prepare for it and just
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  Speaker 1: played golf and drank all the time, apparently. The network, though,
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  Speaker 1: remains noticeably quiet about whether or not they will bring
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  Speaker 1: Romo back. It has been radio silence. Radio silence. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so the question. CBS will continue using J.J. Watt with
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  Speaker 1: Jim Nance for week number four. So when does Tony
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  Speaker 1: Romo will return eventually, officially become Tony Romo used to
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  Speaker 1: work here at CBS? Remember when Romo called those games
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  Speaker 1: and people loved him? Yeah, okay. He didn't work here anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So CBS has proved... That in corporate America, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us already knew this if you've worked for a
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  Speaker 1: big corporation, but CBS has proved this is the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: corporate reality. The easiest way to replace a highly paid,
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  Speaker 1: well-known broadcaster is to just keep broadcasting without him. Just
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  Speaker 1: keep broadcasting without him. And that's it. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about it. Now, every Jim Nance, J.J. Watt
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  Speaker 1: game makes a comeback that much less realistic. As J.J.
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  Speaker 1: continues on, right now he's like the substitute teacher, J.J.
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  Speaker 2: Watt.
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  Speaker 1: And he's inching closer to permanent faculty, tenured professor status.
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  Speaker 1: for J.J. Watt, at least until the offseason. And that
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  Speaker 1: is when CBS has a chance to go get some
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  Speaker 1: other big-name broadcaster, whether it's Greg Olson or... troy acheman
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  Speaker 1: or a former player the jockocracy some current player that's
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  Speaker 1: about to retire and then wants to be a broadcaster
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  Speaker 1: because you just spew a bunch of cliches and you
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  Speaker 1: dumb people love when they get on tv and do
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  Speaker 1: the jock talk you can't get enough of it so
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  Speaker 1: we'll see about that but the awkward part of this
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  Speaker 1: and it is very awkward everyone knows where this is
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  Speaker 1: headed Except Tony Romo, it would appear. And it's like
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  Speaker 1: he's sitting by the phone, completely clueless, Tony Romo, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for a call that is never going to come, it
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  Speaker 1: would appear. That Tony Romo's career as the highly paid
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  Speaker 1: top broadcaster, commentator on the NFL at CBS, his career
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  Speaker 1: is not just done in that role. It's cooked up.
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  Speaker 1: It is sauteed. It is... You name it. It's drying
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  Speaker 1: out right under the 7-Eleven heating lamp right now. So
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  Speaker 1: they're at 7-Eleven. They just put that out there with
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  Speaker 1: some nuggets right out in front. And that's what you got. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the next big checkpoint is Thanksgiving. That is the next
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  Speaker 1: big checkpoint. So that is when CBS will adjust their
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  Speaker 1: top schedule, their top broadcasting schedule. And so if we
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  Speaker 1: get down to Thanksgiving... in November there, and if Tony
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  Speaker 1: Romo is still missing on indefinite leave at that particular point,
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  Speaker 1: then it's the corporate goodbye, the bye-bye, and don't let
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  Speaker 1: the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last thing, a story that has not gotten
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  Speaker 1: a lot of attention because everyone's in the tank for
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. It's very embarrassing for the National Football League,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about it because We're on overnight.
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  Speaker 1: We can get away with it. So, Dateline London, jolly
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  Speaker 1: old London. And is it true? Is it true that
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League has been forced, forced to cut
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  Speaker 1: ticket prices for Sunday's Colts-Commanders game in London? In London,
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  Speaker 1: after ticket sales did not go as planned. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: some tickets that were originally purchased for as much as
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  Speaker 1: $ 325 American dollars. Well, now those tickets have been lowered
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  Speaker 1: and some tickets in those areas are being sold for
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  Speaker 1: a little over $ 100 now. What? Yeah! Tabloids over there
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  Speaker 1: in London, some of them have picked up on this.
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  Speaker 1: And so slower ticket sales, the move, of course, picked
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  Speaker 1: up by fans. They're outraged. The people that are outraged
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  Speaker 1: are the ones that bought the tickets at the $ 325
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  Speaker 1: price point. And now those same seats are being offered
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  Speaker 1: for $ 105. What? Yeah, so these people are upset. They're angry.
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  Speaker 1: And the one fan in particular who's like, I guess, a...
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  Speaker 1: Well-known European NFL fan. That must be a unique guy.
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  Speaker 1: And so this guy says he paid more than $ 300.
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  Speaker 1: He blasted the NFL saying they don't care about the fans.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to reality, Bill. Welcome to reality. The guy accused
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  Speaker 1: the NFL of caring primarily about filling the stadium so
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  Speaker 1: it looks good on TV. when they show the game
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  Speaker 1: early on Sunday from London. Now, this guy accused the
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  Speaker 1: NFL of a lot of things, including the issue of...
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  Speaker 1: He's offending the fans in the case. He says they're
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  Speaker 1: going to chase fans away. Essentially, that's what he said.
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  Speaker 1: He warned that the ticket prices are going to backfire
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  Speaker 1: because now fans are just going to wait because they
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  Speaker 1: know if nobody buys the tickets, eventually the NFL will
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  Speaker 1: be forced to lower... the prices, and that's that. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so the question, what do you make of the NFL
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  Speaker 1: being forced to lower ticket prices to the Colts-Commanders game
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  Speaker 1: from London this weekend? So the headline here is pretty simple.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that complicated. The headline on this is, even
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  Speaker 1: the NFL can oversaturate a market. That appears to be
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  Speaker 1: what's happening. We've known for some time that it's a
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  Speaker 1: dirty little secret that many of the people that go
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  Speaker 1: to these NFL games in London are expats or military
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  Speaker 1: friends and family that are stationed abroad. They bus them
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  Speaker 1: in to go to the game. So... That's been out
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  Speaker 1: there for a long time. It's not all the local
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  Speaker 1: yokels that are in England. It's a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: that happen to be Americans that are on military bases
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  Speaker 1: within reasonable driving distance from London that make that trip.
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  Speaker 1: So that's part of it. And Roger Goodell squeezed that
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  Speaker 1: London orange. And he squeezed that orange. He squeezed it.
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  Speaker 1: And there's not a lot of juice left at this
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  Speaker 1: particular moment. Now, this is also an indictment on the Colts,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, and also the commanders with Marcus Mariota and
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  Speaker 1: Daniels and those guys. It's an indictment on them as well.
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  Speaker 1: And it's kind of cool. It's kind of cool and
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  Speaker 1: a bit refreshing that even the billionaire suits at the
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  Speaker 1: NFL are not immune to basic economics. That's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of cool. So they marketed Filet Mignon. It's
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  Speaker 1: all about Filet Mignon. And they've delivered so far the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: For this matchup, it's considered airport fish and chips. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they take their fish and chips very seriously
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  Speaker 1: in London. Nothing says global phenomena. Nothing at all says
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  Speaker 1: global phenomena. Quite like a clearance sale. right before the
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  Speaker 1: game just a couple days before the game in london
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  Speaker 1: let's lower the ticket prices let's have a blue light
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  Speaker 1: special well that means it's not going very well do
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  Speaker 1: you realize the ticket price cut if the tabloids are
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  Speaker 1: right here in london that means the nfl has been
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  Speaker 1: forced to mark down the price of tickets almost 70
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  Speaker 1: percent 67 percent almost 70 percent And it isn't dynamic pricing.
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  Speaker 1: That is a full-blown distress signal is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And those early suckers who paid full price and they
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  Speaker 1: received the royal screwjob, not from Buckingham Palace. They got
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  Speaker 1: the screwjob from the NFL headquarters on Park Avenue in
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  Speaker 1: New York. And that's it. They did not even get
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  Speaker 1: a complimentary tea. So now how wonderful is that? You
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  Speaker 1: know about America spreading Americana to our friends in England.
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  Speaker 1: Does it get any more American than to fleece, absolutely
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  Speaker 1: fleece everyone up front and then rebrand your desperation discount
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  Speaker 1: as a fan engagement situation? Yeah, that's pretty good. Give
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  Speaker 1: out that fleece. Got to give out that fleece there.
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  Speaker 1: So the NFL's European gravy train. Let's finally hit a pothole.
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  Speaker 1: It would appear. And Roger Goodell discovered the supply and
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  Speaker 1: demand situation in London at this point. It is a
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  Speaker 1: humiliating mess. And it proves a novel concept. Leave them
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  Speaker 1: wanting more. Leave them wanting more. Show them a little teeth.
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  Speaker 1: Don't give them everything. They will not appreciate that. If
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  Speaker 1: you get everything, you don't appreciate it. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: get a little bit here, a little bit there, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit everywhere. It is the Ben Maler Show. We'll
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• 22:13
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• 22:19
  Speaker 1: is the Mallor riddle of the day. So during that
• 22:24
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• 22:34
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• 22:36
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• 22:39
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• 22:42
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• 22:45
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• 22:51
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• 22:55
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• 23:43
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• 24:37
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• 24:39
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• 25:00
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• 25:09
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• 25:14
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• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Time now for the Mallor riddle of the day. So
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: during that Yankee Red Sox wild card game one on Peacock,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the broadcast blank played over live action for like three minutes.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Three minutes it played. People were very surprised by that.
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  Speaker 1: Timmy from Busco, Indiana writes and says it was a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: tiptoe through the tulips by Tiny Tim that played. Femi,
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  Speaker 1: the top Uber Eats driver in the Twin Cities, says
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: 50 Cent and Martha Stewart. Mr. Irrigation says they played
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  Speaker 1: the opening to Heidi. That is the answer. La Cucaracha
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  Speaker 1: from Alf the Alien O'Piner. It's a solid, solid guess.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? Late Night Drug Tester checks in,
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  Speaker 1: says the greatest hits by J Scoop and Just Josh.
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  Speaker 1: And they have had some great ones. What else do
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  Speaker 1: we have? Michael in Tulsa says the Baseball Furries. They
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  Speaker 1: played the Baseball Furries there. Keith Ocho Texto says Lorena's
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Hearts was what was played. Who else do
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  Speaker 1: we have? Let's see. Page down. JT the Wingman says
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  Speaker 1: Tom Looney's Nugenics commercial. Which, it's crazy. Now, I still
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: talk to Looney a lot. He's kind of out of
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: broadcasting stuff these days. But I still talk to him
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  Speaker 1: a lot. And Looney, he does not get paid every
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: time that commercial airs. Otherwise, he'd be really rich. That
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  Speaker 1: thing plays all the time. Looney plays, my old radio
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: pal Tom Looney plays a referee in this commercial for
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  Speaker 1: old dudes. It's pretty popular. Actually, it's very funny. So
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I was watching the baseball games and there was this...
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to give this away because I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get in trouble with the person because the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: person still works very actively in the business. So there's
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  Speaker 1: this guy that I know and Looney knows who sounded
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: like he was the voiceover guy for a food commercial
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  Speaker 1: that was playing quite a bit during the baseball playoff games.
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  Speaker 1: And I kept hearing his voice and I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: know that guy! And not one of my favorite people
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  Speaker 1: in the media business, but I know the voice. So
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I text Looney, and Looney texts back, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: that guy's the voice of this commercial, this national TV commercial,
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  Speaker 1: because no one would buy the food. So anyway, it played,
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  Speaker 1: and then I sent him a copy of it, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: he said, oh my God, you're right, Ben, that's the guy.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: And it was pretty funny. It was amusing. Anyway, what
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: else do we have? Sweet Caroline from Inca Terror. The
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Never Ending Story theme song from The Juice. That was guest.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Who else? Lemon Party from Fingers Molloy. The great Fingers Molloy,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: courtesy Flusher, says a two-year-old episode of Benny vs. the Penny.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Jerry in a Jar going with a Ron Jeremy video.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: You're dating yourself, Jerry in a jar, when you say
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Ron Jeremy's name. It's a bad job by you. Mike
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Tyson's punch-out guessed by Filler Up Phil. That's his answer.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Johnny Q just said, with any kind of pornography. Commercials
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  Speaker 1: from our buddy Mad Jack, who we got to meet,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the great Mad Jack there, in Lost Wages, Nevada. Our
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: new friend Toe from Portland says, Powder Puff Girls theme song.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Pizza Papa's going with Dolly Parton's greatest hits. As the answer.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's see here. Do you have an answer, Lorena?
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: One more time. The Mallor riddle of the day. Here
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: is the riddle of the day. During the Yankees-Red Sox-Peacock broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: Blank played over live action for a full three minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to go with frisky home videos. Frisky
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  Speaker 1: home videos for $ 1, 000. Is that correct? It got turned
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  Speaker 1: on and it scared me. Calm down, Jeannie. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. That is my babushka. My forever babushka is
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Jeannie in Medford. May she rest in peace. No, the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: correct answer is none other than, for some reason, youth
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  Speaker 1: pastor music was playing. What the hell was that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: I said hell. But seriously, what was that? All right.
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  Speaker 1: You guys don't want to play the game. We'll just
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: take some calls. Let's say hello. to Hollering James, who's
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, Hollering James.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Hollering James was hoping to play too much or not enough.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: James, you play a lot. You don't need to play
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: that game, do you?
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  Speaker 2: I know, but I've got to win Tammy's love. And
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  Speaker 2: this is a two-part question.
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  Speaker 1: It's not really working out, James, winning Tammy's love at
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  Speaker 1: this point. I would say you might want to change
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  Speaker 1: your strategy. You know what? Winning too much or not enough,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that might do it. You think so? Yeah. Many, many women.
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  Speaker 1: It is a, you know, it was a great turn
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  Speaker 1: on to women, a man that will be willing to
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  Speaker 1: win a game, a game show on an overnight talk show.
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  Speaker 1: It's very, women find that very attractive, right? I think
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  Speaker 1: she's listening right now.
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  Speaker 4: And she's saying, if only James were to win this
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  Speaker 4: game tonight, Oh, it sounds.
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  Speaker 1: Like coop wants you to play. Wow. No, you got
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  Speaker 1: to earn. All right, fine. We'll let him buy.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: We'll let him play.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Ben Mallard game.
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  Speaker 1: We've endured too many of these. Is it too much
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  Speaker 1: or not enough? Enough already. Okay. Mr. James man over there.
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  Speaker 1: Hollering James. Are you prepared? James?
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to get ready. I'm rearing up the engines.
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  Speaker 1: You're actually awake, which is really the way that it
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  Speaker 1: needs to be. Here we go. Too much or not enough. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you won this game, the greatest game show win in
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  Speaker 1: the history, in the history of the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 1: You were part of it, Holler and James. You were fast.
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  Speaker 1: I was sound asleep. You were sound asleep, and you
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  Speaker 1: won the game based on your snoring pattern. The snoring
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  Speaker 1: was hypothetical. Yeah, sure. Which is still amazing that you
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  Speaker 1: were able to pull that off. All right, here we go, James.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck to you. Try to get all three right
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  Speaker 1: and win the game quickly because Lorena wants more time, okay?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Question number one. You can play along
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: as well as you listen. Question one. Case Keenum now
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: has 40 wins as a starting quarterback in the NFL,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: including the playoffs. Is that too much or not enough?
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  Speaker 2: It's not enough.
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  Speaker 1: All right, James. No, you're wrong. That is wrong. Even
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: though he's 38, Case Keenum has 32 wins as a
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: starting quarterback. Nine of those have come against Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: winning QBs.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone can do it, it's you. Oh, Lorinda's got
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  Speaker 2: faith in me.
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  Speaker 1: She says that to all of you. I hope so. Okay, whatever.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: The Raiders are only the fourth team in NFL history
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to start a season 3-0 with a rookie head coach
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and having made the number one or having gotten the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the draft the year prior.
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  Speaker 1: Is that too much or not enough?
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Too much.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Let's find out. That is correct. They are only the
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: second team to do that, joining the 1959 Green Bay Packers.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: And who was the coach of the 1959 Green Bay Packers? No.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: There you go. Look at you. That was an add-on question.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Question number three. There were seven receivers
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: that had 100 or more receiving yards in week number three.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Is that too much or
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: not enough, Hollering James?
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  Speaker 2: Final answer for this one is not enough.
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  Speaker 1: Let's find out. That is correct, James. Not enough. There
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: were nine. Well, you're doing good. You've gotten two right
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: so far. You get one more right. You get the win.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: You get the golden ticket. You're going to sell that online.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: You're going to keep it. What are you going to
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: do with the golden ticket?
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: I want to give it to Tammy in Montana unless
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: she moves to Indiana, unless she scams me off to
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Idaho because I miss her. I want her to call
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: me so.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: So much. All right, all right. No crying. There's no
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  Speaker 1: crying in talk radio.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Question four. What if I find someone else you can
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: talk to? How about Kathy and Madison? You and Kathy.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Kathy don't go along with Tammy. Tammy's put the whammy
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: on jammies.
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  Speaker 1: Question four. There are only three players in NFL history
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  Speaker 1: to have more games with two rushing touchdowns and one
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: receiving touchdown than Jameer Gibbs of the Detroit Lions. Is
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: that too much or not enough?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Not enough.
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  Speaker 1: You sure about that?
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know now.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: What do you think? Too much. You're easy. Okay. Did
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I screw you over or not? Let's find out. That's
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a winner. You get a golden ticket. You get a
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: golden ticket.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: I've got a golden ticket.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I've got a golden ticket. The answer is too much.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Only Jim Brown and Marshall Falk have more. Hollering James.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Jim Brown and Marshall Falk.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: And Marshall Falk went for the Indianapolis Colts.
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  Speaker 1: And did they win?
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Did you jump if.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: They won, Ben? Hollering James, you've just won a golden ticket.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do next?
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give it to Tammy and my channel owners.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: You call me and talk to me. Okay. All right.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, Tammy hasn't called in a while. We'd
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: love to hear from Tammy.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you there, Hollering James. From Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Queen
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: of Hearts is upcoming. If you want to ask Lorena
• 35:24
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• 35:28
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• 35:30
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• 35:31
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• 35:34
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• 35:36
  Speaker 1: on Fox. The Queen of Hearts. is next.
• 35:41
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• 35:43
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• 35:46
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• 35:53
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• 36:06
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• 36:12
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• 36:15
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• 36:19
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• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Exciting and new.
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  Speaker 5: Queen of hearts She wants to talk.
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  Speaker 1: To you Lorena Soon she'll be making your hearts be one.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: Lorena Almost anyone. Emphasis on the almost anyone.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: Welcome to the Love Show on the Ben Maller Show.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Hi, Ben. What do we got? No opening statement. You know,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: An opening statement because I had some thoughts today.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: You did. Congratulations. Thank you.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: The Super Bowl falls on Valentine's Day. And I just
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: am so excited for all those men who love those
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: teams that aren't going to make it. So you're going
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: to have all that time to give your love to
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: your significant other.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: It's so beautiful. And I think it's a great testimonial
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: to you women that you're willing to sacrifice Valentine's Day
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: for your man to enjoy a nice football game. I
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: appreciate that.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: If your guy makes it to the Super Bowl like
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: his team, you better go all in.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Show them you really care. The Super Bowl is a
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: cultural event. It is a holiday in America. It's a phenomenon.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: All right. Here we go.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: These are actual questions by actual listeners. All right. RPS
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Commentator says, does every girl really... He mentions Hawk Tua here, Lorena.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means on that thing. I
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: love the drop. And then he wants to know, he
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: wants you to represent all women, Lorena. I do want
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to say no, not all women.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Hak Tua.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: They enjoy the Hak Tua.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: A lot of women don't like it at all. They
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: take that job part of it very seriously. They're just
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: not into it.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I got you. I'm sorry to disappoint you. FergDog writes
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: in and says, who do you think has better game,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Hollering James or Anthony in Louisiana? I need to know
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: which one I should copy.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: That's really hard because i i gotta commend anthony he's
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: he's very stubborn yes yes yes where holler and james
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: he seems more volatile you know what i'm saying like
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: he's gonna lose it if you don't call him back
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: anthony he's gonna be calm and persistent and just let
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: you know how he feels no matter.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: What hey cuz What else do we have here? Where'd
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: you get your good humor from? That's right. How's your
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: daughter doing? RPS also says, my girlfriend started a new
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: job out of her comfort zone.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: And thinks she's not doing well while I say that
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: it's nonsense. uh how could i help um.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: You are already being so supportive we're so hard on
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: ourselves so anything that you can do um you know
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: maybe get her one of those like fake plaques Like,
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: you're the best.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: You know, you're the best at your job or something.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: But I think anytime you start a new job, there's
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: like imposter syndrome. Like, you think, you don't really belong here.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I think most people have that, don't they? It's a
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: normal reaction for human beings. Yeah, so just keep doing
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: your best. I think that was great. I remember when
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: I started here, I had imposter syndrome, and I still do.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Truck Stop Fungus writes and says, October 1st is our
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: 40-year anniversary. Which gift would you recommend for the old
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: battle axe? A gift certificate for a Bax waxing or
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: a new lawnmower?
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: You know, both do the trimming job, which is quite nice.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's so great. 40 years.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: You really don't hear that very often. So congratulations.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: It's a good run. Yeah, that's awesome. Must have gotten
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: married young, I would think. Peter writes in. This is
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Peter Parker, the Spider-Man. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: He's just happier here, Lorraine. Just happier here. I'm happy
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: to be here, too.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: There you go.