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Hour 1 - Not as Close as It Seems · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Bippity boppity boo. And how do you do? It's our
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  Speaker 1: number one. Hour one of the Ben Maller Show. And
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  Speaker 1: a happy Tuesday to you. It is the 20th day
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  Speaker 1: of October. But you already knew that from checking your phone.
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  Speaker 1: Here in hour number one. Thumbs up or thumbs down
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  Speaker 1: on that Monday night football game. The Commanders came back late,
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  Speaker 1: had the ball, a chance to take the lead in
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  Speaker 1: the final couple of minutes. They didn't get it done.
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  Speaker 1: They lose to the Niners. Did that late comeback take
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  Speaker 1: the heat off Coach Dan Quinn's hot seat? We'll take
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  Speaker 1: a look at that. Also, have you changed your position
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  Speaker 1: on the 6-0 Kyle Shanahan 49ers? Is there one of
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  Speaker 1: the unbeatens left? In the NFL and in L.A. is
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  Speaker 1: the Devontae Adams injury a death sentence for Sean McVay's Rams,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest team in NFL history that has a losing record.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that and more right now. Here
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  Speaker 1: it is, our number one. Missed it by that much. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it really wasn't. As close as the score would indicate.
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  Speaker 1: are back in the saddle again and had a decision
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  Speaker 1: And then we had a random NFL Monday night football game.
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  Speaker 1: So what did we decide? Well, we decided that what
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  Speaker 1: we do here is broadcasting, not narrowcasting. So we're going
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  Speaker 1: to wait to talk about the Tampa Bay Rays. A
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  Speaker 1: going to have to change the name of that. You
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  Speaker 1: can't call it the Fall Classic. Cannot call it the
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  Speaker 1: Fall Classic. But that is Brewers and Rays. If that
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  Speaker 1: was going on in your front yard, you wouldn't even
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  Speaker 1: look out the window. You'd close the lines. But that'll
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  Speaker 1: be the matchup in the world. So there's more on
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  Speaker 1: that later. Our lead this hour, though, from the Bay Area,
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  Speaker 1: some 48 miles south. of the Tenderloin District in San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco there in Santa Clara. There was football action. Jaden Daniels,
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  Speaker 1: who does not know when to run out the clock
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  Speaker 1: and when not to run out the clock. Jaden Daniels
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  Speaker 1: and the commanders paying a visit to Northern California. A
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  Speaker 1: little play date with the undefeated 49ers trying to find
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  Speaker 1: some gold there in Washington. You had the squabbling Fox refugees,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, who hate each other. Now, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: if you read the tabloid reports, the trade papers, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they don't like each other. So they were on the
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  Speaker 1: call on ABC. Were you watching? No, you were not watching.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what else you were doing. The 49ers,
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  Speaker 1: did they get a win or did they finally lose?
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  Speaker 1: The answer? Winner, winner, winner! Chicken dinner! The 49ers improved
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  Speaker 1: to 6-0. That's not one, not two, not three, not four,
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  Speaker 1: not five, but six straight victories. As they survive, the Commanders,
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  Speaker 1: what a dumb name that is, rally. They so want
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  Speaker 1: to be the Redskins. They're trying to wear the old
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  Speaker 1: Redskins uniforms. They don't want to use the logo. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's really ridiculous. At this point, just go back.
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  Speaker 1: You're essentially wearing their uniforms. Just put the logo. It's
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  Speaker 1: so stupid. Anyway, the team formerly known as the Redskins
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  Speaker 1: rallied down 20, had the ball, an opportunity to take
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  Speaker 1: the lead, and did not get it done. So the
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  Speaker 1: Niners hold off Washington 23-17. If you listened, listen, we were.
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  Speaker 1: We were off in the dark at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the week here, but on Penny vs. the Penny, which
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  Speaker 1: was available on Instagram and Facebook, that was one of
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  Speaker 1: the games we gave you. Washington plus the 7.5. Got
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  Speaker 1: the backdoor cover. We loved the backdoor cover there. As
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  Speaker 1: the Commanders, if you took the 7.5, you got the
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  Speaker 1: win in that game. Now, Brock Purdy had one touchdown pass,
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  Speaker 1: getting a lot of hype for the MVP. He's not
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  Speaker 1: winning the MVP. All right, so Purdy had a touchdown pass.
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  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, fumble! He also scored two rushing touchdowns for
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  Speaker 1: the Niners. So we mentioned San Francisco had a 20-point
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  Speaker 1: lead at one point, and then in Jaden Daniels, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of second-half touchdowns cut the deficit to six. Washington
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  Speaker 1: did have the ball. Threatened to take the game, snatch
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  Speaker 1: the game away from the Niners. But Malik Mustafa breaking
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  Speaker 1: up Jaden Daniels on a fourth down pass play near
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  Speaker 1: the goal line with less than two minutes remaining. And
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  Speaker 1: that's it. That's all she wrote. So the Niners escape
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  Speaker 1: with another win. The better story, though, is in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room. Washington, while they did make a late surge,
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  Speaker 1: In this game, they, however, came up short, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the focus continues to be on the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Washington football team. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. The old thumbs-up, thumbs-down.
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  Speaker 1: Thumbs-up or thumbs-down on this commander's comeback, even though they lost,
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  Speaker 1: does this take the heat-off coach, Dan Quinn... and take
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  Speaker 1: him off the hot seat? Does it take the heat
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  Speaker 1: off Coach Dan Quinn's hot seat? That's the question. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got Candid Camera, AOL Dial-Up, and Cedars-Sinai. And we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we will attempt.
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  Speaker 1: to not be bogged down. We're going to try not
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  Speaker 1: to be bogged down. So, A, to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: does this take the heat off Dan Quinn's hot seat?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to go thumbs down. Thumbs down is
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  Speaker 1: where I'm going on this one. Dan Quinn's seat is
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  Speaker 1: not cooling off. In fact, we had an expedited booth
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  Speaker 1: review of the commander's coach, and we looked at the
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  Speaker 1: booth review, and his seat now is actually sitting in
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  Speaker 1: a barbecue pit. We got the smoker off to the side.
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  Speaker 1: And he is apparently the main course there, Dan Quinn.
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  Speaker 1: So even though Washington played much better in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: can't play any worse about than they did in the
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  Speaker 1: first half. So they were fashionably late. Now, how this
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  Speaker 1: happens is beyond me. A NFL team fashionably late to
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  Speaker 1: its own game. An island game. But there they were.
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  Speaker 1: Fall behind by 20 and then get celebrated. because of
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  Speaker 1: a helter-skelter failed comeback attempt. Now, the biggest indictment, the
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  Speaker 1: biggest indictment here is Dan Quinn apparently thought the NFL
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  Speaker 1: was experimenting with a fifth down.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so if you're watching early in the second quarter,
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  Speaker 1: about 13 minutes in the second quarter, and Dan Quinn
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  Speaker 1: was caught on candid camera footage Dan Quinn, pants down,
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  Speaker 1: candid camera, gobsmacked after his quarterback, Jaden Daniels, the first-ever
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  Speaker 1: quarterback to run out the clock in a tie game
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  Speaker 1: in field goal range. That was Jaden Daniels in the
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  Speaker 1: previous game. So Daniels, in this game, threw the ball away,
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  Speaker 1: which would not have been a problem had it not
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  Speaker 1: been fourth down in field goal range.
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  Speaker 3: Who goofed?
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know. Right there, in relatively deep 49er territory,
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  Speaker 1: field goal range. And Jaden Daniels said, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Let me get rid of this thing. Let me throw
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  Speaker 1: this ball away. I don't want the ball. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need the ball. But the thing that was great is
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  Speaker 1: they cut. to a shot of Dan Quinn on the
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  Speaker 1: TV broadcast and Quinn was preparing to kick a field goal.
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  Speaker 1: He was going for it. On fifth down, he was
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  Speaker 1: going to kick a field goal. And it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. There's only four downs. This is not
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  Speaker 1: Colorado football back in the day when they were giving
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  Speaker 1: a fifth down. He's like, well, yeah, he's waiting for
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  Speaker 1: that fifth down to kick the field goal. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the Easter bunny to deliver a tax refund. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're just getting some chocolate eggs or chocolate bunny. That's
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  Speaker 1: all you're getting. That's it. And so the brain fart
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  Speaker 1: was so big. How big was it? It was such
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  Speaker 1: a big brain fart. It actually registered on the Richter scale.
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  Speaker 1: That's how big a brain fart it was. Another moment
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  Speaker 1: of situational malfeasance from Dan Quinn. The head coach there,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness. Now, here's Quinn, who's about to lie to you.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what he said to the media, which is opposite,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, of what actually he said in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: No, I definitely knew it was fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: We were going for it. I think we were going
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  Speaker 1: for it, too.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was something like, with the leadership, there's
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  Speaker 4: not a penalty to go for a field goal. It
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  Speaker 4: doesn't go, like, it's the turn on downs. I think
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  Speaker 4: somebody asked me, can we kick a field goal?
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  Speaker 1: So, no, we were going for it.
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  Speaker 4: We knew we had to go for some fourth downs
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  Speaker 4: to be bold in the game. I didn't think it
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  Speaker 4: was going to be a 17-14 game. I probably thought
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  Speaker 4: it was going to need 28-30 to score, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to go win it. And so it was by design
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  Speaker 4: that we were going to go.
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  Speaker 5: But I knew what happened.
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  Speaker 4: I think I was probably just commenting that I remembered,
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  Speaker 4: at least on the headset, somebody asked me after an
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  Speaker 4: illegal shift, like it was turnover on downs.
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  Speaker 1: Jaden saw the foul, too.
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  Speaker 4: I think he also came out and.
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  Speaker 1: Saw the penalty. So that was a lot of words
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  Speaker 1: to say. I didn't know. I effed up. But God
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  Speaker 1: knows I ain't admitting to that, you losers.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Lip readers. Lip readers. Listen, I'm not a great lip reader.
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  Speaker 1: Even I could tell what Dan Quinn was saying. I'm
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  Speaker 1: an amateur lip reader. And even I knew exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he said. And some of our blind listeners, blind sea
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  Speaker 1: bass in Tennessee is like, I knew that. Yeah, Stevie Meatballs,
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  Speaker 1: I'm aware of that. Come on now. What's up with that?
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  Speaker 1: So Dan Quinn is living proof, apparently, that you can
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  Speaker 1: make millions as an NFL coach without mastering basic kindergarten math.
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  Speaker 1: It's fascinating. Get this man to the tattoo shop, get
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  Speaker 1: a forehead tattoo of a down marker. Oh, no, I
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  Speaker 1: knew the situation. Of course you did. Yes, that's why
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  Speaker 1: you said, no, I'm fourth down. We'll kick the field goal.
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  Speaker 1: We can kick the field goal. All right, now to
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  Speaker 1: the winner's side. Not as good a story. A number
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  Speaker 1: of you reached out to me based on the events
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  Speaker 1: in recent days while I was away from my post
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  Speaker 1: in the Watchtower. And you said, hey, what's going on
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  Speaker 1: with your Rams, Baylor? Like somehow I work for the team.
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  Speaker 1: It blows me away. Anyway, the 49er thing, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of my friends in Northern California love the show. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for listening. You guys have been with me
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  Speaker 1: a lot. You've been with the show for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: We go way back on different stations we've been on
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco over the years, and so you've been
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  Speaker 1: with me a long time. And you know that I'm
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  Speaker 1: not very high on the 49ers. But they keep winning, Maller!
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the question. Have you now changed your position
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  Speaker 1: on the 6-0 Kyle Shanahan Niners? So I have two letters. N-O. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: The Niners are playing great. I'm not buying this. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it's fool's gold. Even with a six-game winning streak.
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  Speaker 1: And a shiny bow on top of that. I'm still
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  Speaker 1: not there. I'm not. I certainly would not give them
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  Speaker 1: credit for failing to cover the spread against the Washington
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  Speaker 1: Commanders who blow. You're not going to get style points.
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  Speaker 1: And even if they'd won that game by 30 points,
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  Speaker 1: you would have gotten style points because this is a
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  Speaker 1: game against an inferior opponent. You're at home, East Coast,
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  Speaker 1: West Coast, all that stuff. And so, now, are the
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  Speaker 1: Niners better than I expected? I'm going to be sure.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I'll concede that. However, do not confuse a perfect record
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  Speaker 1: with a perfect team. This is far from a perfect team.
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  Speaker 1: They're lacking. Minnesota Vikings are also. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 1: anybody that good in the NFC. I think they all stink.
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  Speaker 1: Top to bottom. They're not one team I would bet on.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever wins the AFC is going to win the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. Period.
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  Speaker 5: Stop.
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  Speaker 1: And the Niners are... Here's my beef with the Niners.
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  Speaker 1: The Niners are operating with an AOL dial-up processor. It's
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  Speaker 1: AOL dial-up in a fiber optic world. That seems problematic.
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  Speaker 1: That seems problematic to me. But what do I know?
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  Speaker 1: The wiring is really messed up. They might want to
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  Speaker 1: hire an electrician to come in here and rewire the thing.
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  Speaker 1: You get that electrical substation... And just one power surge
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  Speaker 1: away from a complete meltdown. Evans knocked out of this game.
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  Speaker 1: The Niners downplaying Mike Evans' injury. And how many times
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  Speaker 1: has he been dinged up already? You look at the
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  Speaker 1: older players on the 49ers here. And then you look
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  Speaker 1: at this game. There's a patternicity situation with Kyle Shanahan teams.
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  Speaker 1: But Brock Purdy, who's getting a lot of hype. I
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  Speaker 1: guess there was a talking points memo sent out to
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  Speaker 1: the broadcasters. Brock Purdy, MVP, MVP, MVP. Stop. Stop. Stop.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I don't trust him. When the lights get
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  Speaker 1: bright and the stakes are high. I don't trust Brock Purdy.
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  Speaker 5: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: And in the second half of this game, after coming out,
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  Speaker 1: lighting up the scoreboard in the second half, Brock Purdy
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  Speaker 1: completed all of four passes, four completions after halftime, a
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  Speaker 1: passer rating below 80. That's your MVP. Okay? That's your MVP,
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  Speaker 1: not mine. And so San Francisco, much like a toddler
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  Speaker 1: playing with their food, and that's what they were doing
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  Speaker 1: in the second half. And there's Kyle Shanahan's trademark. This
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  Speaker 1: is what he's done, his teams have done. They get
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  Speaker 1: a comfortable lead. And they start going into cruise control there,
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  Speaker 1: the Niners. And suddenly you're driving a clown car with
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  Speaker 1: three flat tires. Even Ernesto, our buddy Ernesto in the
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  Speaker 1: Bay is screaming. He knows. And those are not championship
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  Speaker 1: habits for the 49ers here. And they're bad habits wearing
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  Speaker 1: a Halloween costume is what they are at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: Halloween not that far away. Less than two weeks away.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where we are. I'm still waiting. I know
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  Speaker 1: the Niners are going to win a bunch more games.
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  Speaker 1: They'll probably win 14 games this season. Look at the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: But still, ultimately, we don't buy it. Now, last word.
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  Speaker 1: To L.A. We're the Rams. What did they eat for breakfast? Snap, crackle, pop. Snap, crackle, pop.
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  Speaker 1: Rams suffered another. Body blow, body blow, body blow. Wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver Devontae Adams. He gone. Oh, the hammy. Went whammy
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  Speaker 1: for Devontae Adams. A ruptured hamstring. That sounds painful. And
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  Speaker 1: the loss to the field goal kicker for the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: Rams lost the game. They did not give up a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay announcing Adams. Devontae Adams will miss six to
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  Speaker 1: ten weeks. And you do the math on that, most
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  Speaker 1: likely a season-ending injury for Devontae Adams. And so the
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  Speaker 1: Rams lacking one of the star players. Another star player out.
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  Speaker 1: It's the year of players not performing. Miles Garrett. He's
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  Speaker 1: enjoying the L.A. nightlife from what I understand. My friends
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  Speaker 1: who are out and going around to social events in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: say Miles Garrett getting a lot of time out and about.
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  Speaker 1: Playing football, not so much. In fact, he hasn't played
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  Speaker 1: a game for the Rams in North America. Has missed
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  Speaker 1: all the games in North America for the Rams. But
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  Speaker 1: this is about Devontae Adams as he's out. Also, a
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  Speaker 1: couple defensive tackles, including Kobe Turner knocked out. That little
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  Speaker 1: fun-sized kicker, the guy that weighs like 90 pounds, he
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  Speaker 1: got hurt. Shocking, a 90-pound kicker would get hurt. Might
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  Speaker 1: be a little more than that. And Miles Garrett not
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  Speaker 1: coming back. And these guys, listen, that's one thing I've
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  Speaker 1: learned as I've gotten older. The more money these guys
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  Speaker 1: get paid, the less they try to hurry back, mostly.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, ah, but I'm going to take an abundance
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: of caution. I'm going to sit back and relax and
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: just kind of wait things out and all that. So
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the Rams are a hot mess at this point. They're 2-4.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Refs took two games, Cardinals game, another crap call went
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: against the Rams. And then the Bronco game, the NFL
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: admitted Broncos didn't deserve to win that. But it is
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the situation the Rams find themselves in at this point.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: The question here, is the Devontae Adams injury? A death
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: sentence for the 2026 Sean McVay Rams. Is this a
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: death sentence? So I am going to shake my head
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: no on this one. It is not a death sentence
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: for the Rams. It should not be. The Rams, I'm
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: already tired of all the excuses. I'm not an excuse guy.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Just do what you're supposed to do. I don't want
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to hear the excuses. It drives me bonkers. There's a
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: lot of people running interference for Sean McVay, and McVay's
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: not done a good job coaching this team. At some point,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I'll rant and raver about that. Maybe not today, but
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: McVay's not doing a good job. And the whole situation
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: reminds me of like a politician. They have so many excuses,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the Rams. It's like a politician caught leaving one of
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: those sleazy motels that charge by the hour with a
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: floozy at three in the morning and caught on camera. Well, OK,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you see, you got all these excuses and all that.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: That.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And that's wonderful. And the thing that we've often said,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: it's an old saying in sports that adversity is doesn't
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: create character, it reveals it. If anything, the Rams are
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the model franchise, the single greatest OMG in the history
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of professional sports. A guy named Kurt Warner, Kurt Warner,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: grocery bagger, Kurt Warner, who became an MVP and the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: star of the greatest show on turf. Now, the difference
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: was that Ram team, this is years ago, they had
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: a guy named Trent Green, the old St. Louis Rams,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and Trent Green was not was not expected to be
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the man to lead the Rams anywhere. So they had
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: low expectations, and then Kurt Warner took off and all that.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: So it can be done, but we'll see what kind
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: of character this team has. If losing one star receiver
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: on top of everything else that has happened destroys your season,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: then you were never legitimate. You were a fraud. You
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: weren't a legitimate Super Bowl heavyweight team and all that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: You were just a house of cards with a nice
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: roof and good marketing. That's it. No, I don't think
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the Rams are dead. I don't. I will tell you
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the Rams at this point are lying in a hospital
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: bed at Cedars-Sinai, and they're arguing with the doctor about
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: whether or not they should be there. And Devontae Adams
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: is good. I'm not going to say he's not. He's
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: obviously a good player. But his loss should not take
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the entire season and have it just burn up and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. There's a lot of games to go.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: And McVay is the offensive maestro. The Rams statistically are great.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: The one statistic they're not great is the final score
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: on the Jumbotron at the end of the day. We
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: always hear about McVay. I believe it. The brain power,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the X's and O's, maestro and all that stuff. He
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: can light up. He's got more brain power. He can
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: light up Times Square. You figure out that the Rams
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: can do something with what they have. One door closes,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: another one opens up. Now, the twisted logic and a
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: lot of dumb football aside, which is what's been going
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: on for the Rams. They're not the brightest team in
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the world here, the Rams. They still have the talent,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: even without Devontae Adams. They can go out and make
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a trade. The trade deadline's coming up here in November.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: And if they want, they can get somebody else's problem
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: like that Jerry Judy, who's no good from Cleveland. The
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Browns love to make trades with the Rams. So he
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: can make that. Jacksonville's got Brian Thomas Jr., who was
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: drafted high and apparently can't play. So there's a guy
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that will be available at the trade deadline if they want.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And there'll be plenty of other names as teams continue
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: to suck. And as long as the Rams are in
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the wild card race, and they're certainly not out of that,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: then you have to go for it. You have to go.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: You brought back Aaron Donald, all these guys. I guess
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: at some point Miles Garrett will get off his fat
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: ass and get out there and play some football, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: then you can see if that defense is legit as
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it was supposed to be. So we'll see whether or
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: not the Rams have enough common sense to make a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: move or whether they even need to make a move.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I don't flush a season, especially not with this kind
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: of team. It's not like– I don't flush a season anyway.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I hate– Load management. I hate tanking. And there's no
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: reason to tank. You've traded your draft pick to the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. So if you're tanking, you're helping the Cleveland
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Browns out. Why would you do that? No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: And the great thing about the NFL playoffs, like all
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: these playoffs, as long as you get in, you just
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: have to play well for a month and they give
• 23:29
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• 25:30
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  Speaker 1: Facebook page, Ben Maller Show. And was away from the
• 25:37
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• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to Mexico City, of all places. The most congested, worst
• 25:48
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• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: It was a good time. It was fun. But it
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: was a hectic couple of days. If you want to
• 25:56
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• 26:02
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• 26:04
  Speaker 1: like a, what do they call it? Lucha Libre. Yes,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: that's what it was. Yeah, it was Lucha Libre. How fun.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: It was cool. The problem was the arena, not North America.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: They do not believe in escalators or elevators. Oh, no.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: A lot of steps and very high altitude. It's much
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: higher up than Denver. And it was interesting, but it
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: was fun. So I went there. Have you ever been
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to Mexico City, Lorena? I have not. Just where Papas
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and Beer is and then wherever the main port for.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Boats when you go in cruise.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Ensenada.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Ensenada.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Is that the West Coast where people go on the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: West Coast? I don't know. Yeah, exactly. Cancun's on the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: East Coast, right?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Cancun's far from where we are. Yeah. And Cancun's on
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: like the tip on the other side. Okay. And then
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Ensenada is Baja, California.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Well, my first radio station was the Mighty 690, which
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: was the transmitter was in Baja, California. and they had
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the Mexican national anthem at midnight on the Mighty 690,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and then in the morning we'd sometimes power down the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: station at night, and then they'd power it back up,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and they'd play that. But it was fun. So there's
• 27:17
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• 27:18
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• 27:21
  Speaker 1: go to the phones as the 49ers are into the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: win column, and the Commanders came back late but ran
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: out of time. Time and could not make a play
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: at the end. Let's say hello to Andrew. Speak of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: you know what, and it will appear. Andrew is in Bakersfield, California. Hello, Andrew. Welcome.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Hello, Ben.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Got me right in here.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: All right, I'll put you back on. Let's say hello
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: to Keith. It sounded like he wanted to be on hold.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Keith in Connecticut. Hello, Keith. What's going on?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: It's been a while. Where have you been, man?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: It's been about a month, yeah. I'm all right. How
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I see you. It sounds like you still got the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: high ceilings there. Are you still in your... Okay, hold on.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I took you off speaker.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: All right, that's fine.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: You hear me better now?
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Okay. Has your situation improved at all, or are you
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: still in the same spot?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to work on that, but not really. It's
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: hard to get out of this situation. It's freaking hard.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I never thought in a million years I'd be in
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: this situation, but... Anyways, what I wanted to say is
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I look forward to your show, and you kind of
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: keep me going. Because when you say stuff like special
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: kind of dummy and what you just said earlier, get
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: off your sad ass today. It was a little while
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: ago about Miles Garrett. I don't know. You just crack
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: me up. You're different than all the other shows that
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I've heard over the years. I'm 59 years old. I
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: was telling you last time. I know more about sports
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: than most people will ever know.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. Very kind of you. You see that management?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: They're all sleeping. All my bosses are sleeping now. You're
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: saying nice things about me and my bosses are sleeping.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: They'll never hear this. Well, tape it.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I'll call them up myself.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: They won't listen anyways.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I'll write up a strongly worded letter.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: You're very kind. So you said some nice things. My
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: head's exploding. Thank you very much for that. I appreciate that.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: You are a cool dude. You really are. I was
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: telling a couple people that I know out here that
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: I look forward to you. At 2 o'clock in the morning,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: it's like, guy keeps speaking.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: We dominate all of Connecticut at 2 in the morning.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Nobody else has a bigger market share for that 2 a.m.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: audience than us.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I'm sure some people are probably listening and probably know
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: who I am.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: You'd be surprised how many people are listening. But they
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: don't like to admit it. You try to keep it
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: a secret.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I've been a painter for 40 years. I've had my
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: own business. I've done... Big-time jobs like Gino Auriemma's cottage.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I did Casey Jones with the ex-Celtics.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, Casey Jones, coach of the mid-' 80s Celtics there, Larry Bird.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's 86. He played with them, too.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Anyways, what I wanted to say is I got it.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I'm a Dolphin fan, and I want the number one pick.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not even sure if I want the number one
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: pick because we can't afford to screw this one up
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: if we ever do get the number one pick.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Well, the good news is it looks like Arch Manning's
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: played himself out of the number one pick, so you
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I don't want him anyway. I don't know.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: It sounds like Texas doesn't want him either, the way
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: he's playing.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing, though, Ben. How come he didn't start
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: two years ago when they had Quinn Ewers? If he
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: was supposed to be the Mr. Big Shot, I don't know.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: No, well, that's the argument. He didn't play at a
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: high level in high school. I don't really know New
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Orleans high school football, but from what I read, he
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: played at a lower level of New Orleans high school football.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like the highest level and all that. It
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: seems like Sarkeesian was trying to hide him a little bit,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: didn't want to play him right away, and now you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: know why he was hiding him, because he's not that good.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: He's 6'4 and 240, but he's big. Almost all these
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: guys who go to Texas are tall. I do have one.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I want Jeremiah Smith with our first pick, and then
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: we'll get a quarterback after. Because we can't pick a
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: quarterback with the first pick and then have it fall
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: out on us.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I don't care. I'm not a
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: big fan of the NFL draft. But listen, take care
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: of yourself, Keith. I got to go.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: What?
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: One question.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: One question for you. What? Can you hear me?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: No, I can't hear you now. I stopped. Not even
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a little bit. I stopped listening.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Listen, listen.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I know I'm taking up time. The only
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: player ever in the NFL history to have a 90-yard
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: touchdown run, a 90-yard reception for a touchdown, and a
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: 90-yard return for a touchdown. Who is it?
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Who is it?
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Herschel Walker.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: There you go. Herschel Walker. All right. Thank you.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I'll call you next week. All right.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: There he goes. Keith in Connecticut. Good attitude. Got a tough...
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Deck of cards handed to him, and he's doing his thing.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I'm shocked that Keith didn't want to talk about the
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: American League Championship Series. I'm stunned that that was not
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the call that we took there. Good news, Andrew has
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: hung up. We were going to go to him next.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: Aww.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: So let's go to James, who's in Tacoma in the
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: great Pacific Northwest. What's going on, James? Welcome.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: Well, today's Anthony's birthday today. Did Lorena get him a present?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Whose birthday is it today? It's Anthony and Louisiana's birthday. Oh,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: is that right? Yes. I saw over the weekend it
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: was Marcel's birthday. And what a coinkydink that they're within
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: a few days of each other. A couple of legends
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: like that. And I don't see him on my board.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I don't see our friend from Louisiana on my board.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: What's up with that?
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the reason I called, though, you said Brock Purdy
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: is not MVP. Well, this century, only two running backs...
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: Adrian Peterson and Sean Alexander is one MVP because people
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: are saying, well, Kenneth Walker's MVP, but they don't give
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: the running backs for MVP. So if you don't like
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: Brock Purdy, who you got for MVP then?
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen?
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Well, no one's got the MVP right now, but Mahomes,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: by the time the year ends, will most likely be
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the MVP. He'll continue to play at a high level,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: and then the Chiefs are going to continue to win
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a bunch of games. So I'll bet on Mahomes, who
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I think is third on DraftKings. I think Josh Allen's
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: actually ahead of Brock Purdy on the odds on DraftKings,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and then Mahomes is, I think Mahomes is third. So
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I would go with Mahomes. All right. Thank you, James.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Always excited. The great James from Tacoma with a birthday
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: reminder there. He's got the cleanest ass. Absolutely. Well, here
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: we go. This is so exciting. Unbelievable. What a dream
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: come true. Another night in the NFL and another major injury, injury, injury, injury.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Were you paying close attention? To the Monday night football game.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: The Commanders and the 49ers. And down goes McLaurin. Down
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: goes McLaurin. Washington star receiver Terry McLaurin suffering a big-time
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: left knee injury. And the thing that was banned from
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Madden football was used in an NFL game. In the
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: early versions of Madden football, they had the cart. Oh,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: he actually had an ambulance. But McLaren was carted off
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the field. And according to Dan Quinn, who knows if
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: this is true or not, because we believe he lied
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: about the fourth down thing. He thought there was a
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: fifth down. But Dan Quinn, the commander's coach, the concern
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: is the injury could be significant. And there are going
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: to be some more tests done on Tuesday. The overnight
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: reports without the official diagnosis are Is Terry McLaurin, he'll
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: be out for the year. We'll see if that's accurate
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: or not. Sometimes those things are inaccurate. Is Terry McLaurin's
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: injury the final nail in the coffin? I would argue no.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I think the final nail had already been put into
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the coffin for the Washington commanders there as they are
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a hot mess, a hot mess. So McLaurin missed week
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: four with a hamstring injury. Came back, and now the
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  Speaker 1: top receiver gets injured again. So Stephon Diggs, the ex-Patriot
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  Speaker 1: Stephon Diggs, slides on up. He's the new number one
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  Speaker 1: now for the Who Am I game. Here it is.
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  Speaker 1: Since the start of the Super Bowl era, Chargers quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert became the first quarterback since me to have
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  Speaker 1: thrown at least one interception and lost each of their
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  Speaker 1: team's first games. Six games of a season. Again.
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Since the start of the Super Bowl era, the Chargers'
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert became the first quarterback since me to have
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  Speaker 1: thrown at least one interception and lost each of my
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  Speaker 1: team's first six games of a season. Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: The answer. We'll get to it. And we will do
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  Speaker 1: it next.
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  Speaker 1: All right, back to it. We'll pay off the Who
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  Speaker 1: Am I game in a minute. Must be a big night.
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  Speaker 1: The Niners played Monday Night Football. And we get a
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  Speaker 1: call from a guy we hear from once a year.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big-time daytime talk radio caller, but he's too
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  Speaker 1: bougie to call the overnight show. Rare and appropriate, we
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  Speaker 1: say hello to Philmore Mike. Hello, Philmore Mike. Welcome.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate the introduction, Ben, but I got to get
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  Speaker 5: at you. You crazy. Shanahan is damn near one of
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  Speaker 5: the best coaches in football. You getting at us like
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  Speaker 5: we don't be out here hitting hard. And then you
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  Speaker 5: disrespect the great George Kittle. He came back in seven
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  Speaker 5: months from his injury with the Achilles. So I have
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  Speaker 5: to check in on them three points, Ben. But, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I love you. I'll be listening to you. But, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'll be getting high at night, smoking the best tree
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  Speaker 5: you ever smelt in your life, and it's in Northern California.
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  Speaker 5: Please believe that. And when you come out here next
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  Speaker 5: time when we get in the Super Bowl, I got
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  Speaker 5: something for you. Don't even trip. Not no edible. You're
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  Speaker 5: going to have to put it in the.
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  Speaker 2: Air, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mike. Call me. Take a night off every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while, Mike. Give me a call, boy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. I miss you, man.
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  Speaker 1: Love you. Be well, my man. There's Phil Moore, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorites. He's got a good point.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I go to Sacramento or anywhere up north,
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  Speaker 2: I make sure to stop at the dispensaries up there.
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  Speaker 1: Not only is it better, it's cheaper. So kudos to him.
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  Speaker 1: Cheaper it could be in California at all, but I
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  Speaker 1: hear you.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, here's the payoff on the Who Am I game.
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  Speaker 1: And here we go. Since the start of the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl era... The Chargers' Justin Herbert becoming the first quarterback
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  Speaker 1: since Meade to have thrown at least one interception and
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  Speaker 1: lost each of my team's first six games of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer?
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  Speaker 1: And let's see, does anyone know the answer? Page down here.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Robbie the Mariner fan saying, Drew Meatsmaker. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who that is. Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh from Femi. We've got Mallor Mechanical from Alf
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  Speaker 1: the Alien O'Piner. Thank you. Appreciate your listening. Alfred E.
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  Speaker 6: Newman.
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  Speaker 1: My dad was a huge fan of Alfred E. Newman.
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  Speaker 1: That's from Mallard Prop Guy. Who else do we have? J.B. Lossman,
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  Speaker 1: guest by Frank Houser. You know Mad Magazine back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, very popular. Birthday Boy Anthony in Louisiana from
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  Speaker 1: Kathy and Madison. Joe Namath, guest by Analog Al. Vinny
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  Speaker 1: Testaverde from Sean. Jimmy Garoppolo, Eileen's number one pick. She's
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  Speaker 1: a big fan of Jimmy.
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  Speaker 3: Says who?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Eileen said it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Who else?
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  Speaker 1: Sliced Bread from Big Lou. Good answer there. Sean in
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  Speaker 1: the Valley of the Sun, also with Jim Harbaugh. Who
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  Speaker 1: else do we have? Page down. Can't read that on
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  Speaker 1: the air. Ferg Duck says, maybe Anthony found himself a
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  Speaker 1: lady of the night to celebrate his birthday. I'm sorry. Sorry, Lorena.
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  Speaker 1: Willis McGahee, who's 45 today from late night drug test.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when he had that massive injury? Running back at
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  Speaker 1: the U. Remember when he got hurt in college? It
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh my God, this guy's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a top pick. All right, again, quickly, since the start
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  Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl era, Justin Herbert of the Chargers
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  Speaker 1: becoming the first quarterback since me to have thrown at
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  Speaker 1: least one interception and lost each of my team's first
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  Speaker 1: six games of a season. Who am I? I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go with Gilbert Grape. Gilbert Grape. All right. Is
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  Speaker 1: that correct from the grapevine? No, that is incorrect. The
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  Speaker 1: correct answer, you got to go all the way back
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  Speaker 1: to 2013. That punk Eli Manning is the answer for
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  Speaker 1: the Giants. Elijah Manning. Elijah. Elijah.