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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart. Oh, my left knee! Yeah. Well, it turns
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  Speaker 1: out that the initial optimistic medical reports were bogus, and
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  Speaker 1: it's much more serious than initially believed. Whoa, whoa. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants quarterback now could, that's a weasel word, could
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  Speaker 1: miss the rest of the season. That's after some additional...
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  Speaker 1: testing they poked and prodded and and all that so
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  Speaker 1: if you saw this you know about it and a
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  Speaker 1: dart is expected to miss even if he does conceivably
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to come back and play he's going
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  Speaker 1: to miss the balance of the season here and that's
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  Speaker 1: the initial plan as of now that he is going
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  Speaker 1: to be persona non grata there he'll be out and
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  Speaker 1: likely going to have season-ending Out of an abundance of caution,
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  Speaker 1: season-ending surgery on the knee. Jackson Dart injured on the
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  Speaker 1: seventh play. Seventh offensive play for the Giants in the
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  Speaker 1: Monday night blowout loss to the LA Rams. There was
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  Speaker 1: a sandwich, and Jackson Dart was caught in between. He
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  Speaker 1: was the meat of the sandwich. He had Byron Young,
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  Speaker 1: who hit him, and then sent him flying in to
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  Speaker 1: someone named Josiah Stewart. who then undercut the legs of
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, and that led to the wowie-kazowie situation. So
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  Speaker 1: it was definitely a wowie-kazowie situation for Jackson Dart. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the news representing a major, major reversal from John Harbaugh,
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  Speaker 1: who post-game, following the Monday night game, had great optimism.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Harbaugh had said that they avoided a devastating outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Except they didn't avoid a devastating outcome. Harbaugh said evaluations
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  Speaker 1: remain ongoing. which is code for I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: give you a straight answer. And the Giants, quote, must
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  Speaker 1: prepare for the range of possibilities, which means he gone.
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  Speaker 1: See you later. And he declined to give a firm
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  Speaker 1: answer because he's a coach and coaches are weasels. And
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  Speaker 1: that's how that works. So it's also a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. What is the
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  Speaker 1: biggest consequence? What is the biggest consequence of Jackson Dart
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  Speaker 1: potentially missing most or all of the 2026 Giants season?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Geek Squad, Camp Snoopy, and Secret Menu.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to relish. Relish being a loud mouth
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. So A, I would
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  Speaker 1: like to send a text message, an audio text message,
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  Speaker 1: an audio message to my friends. I'm not a Giant fan.
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  Speaker 1: I do have some relatives who are from New York
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  Speaker 1: who are Giants fans who live there. So that's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: A few Jet fans in the family. The Giant fans,
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  Speaker 1: the audio message is rather simple. Jackson Dart's future with
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  Speaker 1: the Giants is endangered. the Franchise Quarterback of the Future.
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  Speaker 3: Whee!
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart. Well, it turns out that tag
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  Speaker 1: is not a lifetime subscription. Just because you have been
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  Speaker 1: given the title Quarterback of the Future, Franchise Quarterback of
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  Speaker 1: the Future, that is not a lifetime subscription. It is
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  Speaker 1: just not. You can cancel it any time, and it
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  Speaker 1: would appear, based on what has happened here now, Dart
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  Speaker 1: simply hasn't accomplished enough to secure a reserved parking spot
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  Speaker 1: as QB1. He doesn't have the gig. And he had
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  Speaker 1: been tagged with the capital P, capital P Potential Jackson Dart,
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  Speaker 1: based on where he was drafted. However, potential does not
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  Speaker 1: come with AppleCare. It's not part of the package. You
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  Speaker 1: don't get the AppleCare for your starting job. So that's
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a problem for Jackson Thard. And he's
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  Speaker 1: had durability concerns. I remember coming out of college, there
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  Speaker 1: were people saying, is he going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: stand up to the NFL? And then when he played
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  Speaker 1: a decent amount his first year in the NFL, the
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  Speaker 1: way that he was running recklessly, people were losing their minds. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Now, the play that he got hurt on
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  Speaker 1: against the Rams, he was in the pocket. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: running amok. And he still ended up getting hurt. There
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  Speaker 1: were some durability issues coming out of Cosworth. People were
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  Speaker 1: questioning whether or not he could hold up to the
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  Speaker 1: NFL life. And those people that questioned the durability of
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart had been proven to be completely truthful with
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  Speaker 1: that analysis. So now he could come back healthy and
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  Speaker 1: only discover once he comes back healthy a year from
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  Speaker 1: now that somebody changed the password. And he was gone
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't get the new password. And he's got
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  Speaker 1: to contact HR because he's likely been put into the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal. Now, remember, also, he was not John Harbaugh's
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  Speaker 1: handpicked guy. He was picked by the previous regime. And
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  Speaker 1: it was not a hardball pick. And so life does
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  Speaker 1: come at you fast in the NFL. You can certainly
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  Speaker 1: lose your job because of injury. And even if the
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  Speaker 1: Giants don't go out and get someone who's a young
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  Speaker 1: quarterback and they say, well, that's our guy, he plays well,
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  Speaker 1: even if that's not the case, nobody waits around for
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  Speaker 1: multiple years to Like if the laptop is cracked, you
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  Speaker 1: don't wait around multiple years here for it to come
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  Speaker 1: back from the geek squad. You don't do that. You
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  Speaker 1: just go out and buy another laptop. And every year
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  Speaker 1: there's a bunch of new laptops in this thing called
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  Speaker 1: the draft. And you can get one or you can
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  Speaker 1: acquire a laptop from somebody else, a used laptop. You
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  Speaker 1: can get that. So the NFL upgrade cycle, it is
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  Speaker 1: the reality of the world. Some say it's ruthless, newer, younger, healthier.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big one. cheaper often is attractive and if
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  Speaker 1: you can ship overnight boy that's pretty cool if you
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  Speaker 1: can ship overnight boy that's pretty cool now meanwhile keeping
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  Speaker 1: the beat going here while jamis winston had the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: against the ramps played the majority of the game and
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  Speaker 1: how did that go it was a dummy run for
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  Speaker 1: jamis winston and boy did he play like a dummy
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  Speaker 1: holy crap uh now there is chatter There is chatter
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  Speaker 1: that the New York football Giants will go into the
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  Speaker 1: market and try to acquire a quarterback. Have you heard
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  Speaker 1: some of the names bandied about here for the Giants?
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  Speaker 1: These are not exciting names. Carson Wentz of the Vikings,
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  Speaker 1: who's been usurped by the little garden gnome there, the
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  Speaker 1: fun-sized QB in Minnesota. Carson Wentz. Justin Fields, who's in
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City. You got Justin Fields there. Tua Tungavailoa, who
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  Speaker 1: hasn't even played yet for the Atlanta Falcons. His name
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  Speaker 1: has been tossed out as well. And there's a couple
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  Speaker 1: of others that have been tossed into the gossip machine.
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  Speaker 2: And all that.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, you make the call. Who should John
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh and the Giants go get? to plug the hole
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  Speaker 1: at QB1 with what appears to be Jackson Dart out
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  Speaker 1: for the season for the Giants. So here's what I
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  Speaker 1: would do, and I'm never wrong. I activated the Maller
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  Speaker 1: think tank for this. You know how hard it is
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  Speaker 1: for me to activate the Maller think tank? There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of gadgets and gizmos and things you've got to
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  Speaker 1: press there to make this happen. I pulled some levers,
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  Speaker 1: and we activated the Maller think tank, and we've determined
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  Speaker 1: here's what we would do. Here's what we would do.
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  Speaker 1: I give Jameis Winston... A two-game free trial. Two-game free trial,
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  Speaker 1: and that comes against the Tennessee Titans and the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of cream puffs. Delicious cream puffs. Yum, yum
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  Speaker 1: to my tum-tum. And after that, somebody's credit card is
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  Speaker 1: getting charged. You got a two-game free trial, and that's it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Winston does not have to go out and be Superman
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  Speaker 1: or Crab Legs Man. He doesn't have to be that.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be that guy. He just needs
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  Speaker 1: to prove that his football expiration date has not passed
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  Speaker 1: because it looked like the expiration date had passed and
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  Speaker 1: he'd become a moldy quarterback against the Rams in that game.
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  Speaker 1: It was terrible. So if Jameis continues the belly whopper
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  Speaker 1: as the backup, then John Harbaugh and his useful idiots
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  Speaker 1: around him, he's got his toadies in the Giants' front office,
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  Speaker 1: then John Harbaugh and that team, they have to get together.
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  Speaker 1: And they have to contact a temp agency and say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what are we going to do here? And then why
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  Speaker 1: don't we go out and get the guy that kind
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  Speaker 1: of knows how I'm wired and all that, and we
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  Speaker 1: have a history together, and why not? So it's time
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  Speaker 1: to go Camp Snoopy for the Giants. If Winston flames out,
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  Speaker 1: you go Camp Snoopy. You bring in Joe Cool. Bring
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  Speaker 1: in Joe Cool. John Harbaugh and Joe Flacco, they have
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  Speaker 1: a past. It's the reunion nobody requested. Nobody requested, but
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  Speaker 1: everyone understands if it happens, you know, I kind of
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  Speaker 1: get that. I kind of get that. And Flacco's certainly
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  Speaker 1: not perfect. I'm not going to sit here and wax
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  Speaker 1: loquacious about Joe Flacco, this, that, and the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be that guy. Flacco is certainly,
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  Speaker 1: he's got issues. There's some warts on him, imperfections. He's
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  Speaker 1: in his early 40s. And the good news is you
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  Speaker 1: can get him for popcorn, unbuttered popcorn. You don't even
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  Speaker 1: have to put butter on the popcorn, just regular popcorn
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  Speaker 1: without the butter. You can get him for that. And
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  Speaker 1: he's zero threat to take over as the franchise quarterback
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  Speaker 1: long term. So Jackson Dart would approve Joe Flacco coming in.
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  Speaker 1: And the boomers often, the old timers say, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not over because you can go out and get
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  Speaker 1: a backup and you can get Kurt Warner, the greatest
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  Speaker 1: show on turf, the St. Louis Rams. Nick Foles. Nick Foles,
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  Speaker 1: that Eagle team years ago that went on the magic
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  Speaker 1: carpet ride in the playoffs when Carson Wentz got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're a real old-timer, you remember the name
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Hostetler from the Bill Parcells Giants back in two
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  Speaker 1: generations when the Giants went on a run when their
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  Speaker 1: quarterback got hurt with Jeff Hostetler, the backup. So that
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  Speaker 1: is the model that many bring up. It's backup... Folklore.
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  Speaker 1: It's like casino advertising. Look at the advertising for casinos,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone wins, and you go down Glory Road, much
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  Speaker 1: like a backup quarterback, of course. For every Nick Foles,
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Warner, and Jeff Hostetler, you have 9,000 quarterbacks who
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  Speaker 1: make a left turn onto... The Struggle Street. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: Glory Road, they went on Struggle Street, which is a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a problem there. So Dart better hope that
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  Speaker 1: Flacco is the guy, not somebody younger, who's got more
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  Speaker 1: than a couple years or more than one year left
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  Speaker 1: in him. And then if Flacco comes in and plays well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not that big a deal. If he stinks, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing makes yesterday's future disappear faster than tomorrow's healthier model.
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  Speaker 1: If you have a younger, healthier model. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: about that. Now, the last word I would like to address,
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  Speaker 1: the skunk in the room. I would like to talk
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  Speaker 1: to the skunk in the room. So I'm told there
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  Speaker 1: is a faction of.
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  Speaker 1: Giant aficionados that are ready to shut it all down
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  Speaker 1: shut her down shut her down shut her down shut
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  Speaker 1: her down shut her down just like that so the
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  Speaker 1: question is this there are some claiming now that the
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  Speaker 1: Giants should just throw in the sponge throw in the
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  Speaker 1: sponge without Jackson Dart and tank get a top five
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  Speaker 1: pick in the draft and And reload in 2027. Get
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  Speaker 1: another stud receiver or another great defensive player or another
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman. So what say you? What say you? So
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  Speaker 1: here's what I say. The Giants have played not one, two.
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  Speaker 1: Two games the Giants have played, and yet here we
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  Speaker 1: are a chunk. I hope this is a small group,
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  Speaker 1: not a large group, of Giant fans who are so
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  Speaker 1: addicted to mock drafts that they apparently want to skip
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  Speaker 1: the balance of the NFL season. They just want to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the rest of the NFL season entirely,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just, hey, Jackson Dart got hurt, so we're
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  Speaker 1: just done. That's it. We have no chance. See you later.
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  Speaker 1: And these tanking dingbats want the Giants to order off
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  Speaker 1: the secret menu. Now, what is the secret menu? It's
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  Speaker 1: the menu the Giants have been ordering off of for many,
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  Speaker 1: many years here. It's called not the manager's special. That's
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  Speaker 1: on the other page. If you look at page two,
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  Speaker 1: it's the quitter's special. And it's right there before the
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  Speaker 1: appetizers have arrived. Just that's it. We're done. Done, done, done, done, done.
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  Speaker 1: See you later. See you later. Not even alligators. See
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  Speaker 1: you later. Just order that off the secret menu. So
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  Speaker 1: tell me if you believe in that. Tell me you're
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  Speaker 1: a Mama Luke without telling me you're a Mama Luke.
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  Speaker 1: You are total jack wagon. If you think the Giants
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  Speaker 1: should just shut her down. After two games. Does it
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  Speaker 1: look good? No, it doesn't look good. Does that mean
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  Speaker 1: you shut it down? No, you don't shut it down.
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? And you hired John Harbaugh. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: told me you hired John Harbaugh to fumigate the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of the bad mojo that had been
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  Speaker 1: there for all these years here. And this is an
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  Speaker 1: adult in the room, and everyone says the same thing. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a different thing with the Giants now. These aren't
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  Speaker 1: the same Giants. Okay. So if that's the case, why
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  Speaker 1: would you want to do what the same Giants did
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  Speaker 1: in the past, where they just went out there and
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  Speaker 1: sucked at a time you can't suck? And who wants
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  Speaker 1: to spend the rest of the season, by choice, riding
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  Speaker 1: the vomit comet? Why would you want to do that?
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  Speaker 1: That makes no sense. So you don't change a losing
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  Speaker 1: culture by losing on purpose. You don't. It's like cheering alcoholism.
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  Speaker 1: You got an alcohol problem. All right, I know what
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  Speaker 1: we should do. Why don't we put you in a
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  Speaker 1: room with an open bar? That seems like a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: What could go wrong? Yes, an open bar. Yeah. As
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  Speaker 1: they say in Britain, you're a bunch of wankers if
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  Speaker 1: you think that. All right, come on now. The Giants
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  Speaker 1: don't need to throw in the sponge. The Maller think
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  Speaker 1: tank advice for John Harbaugh and the Giants, unsolicited. They
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  Speaker 1: need to grab that sponge. It's on the floor. Grab
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  Speaker 1: that sponge. Don't throw it. Don't throw the sponge and
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  Speaker 1: wipe the blood. Wipe the blood off the face there,
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  Speaker 1: their own face, and then get back in the ring
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  Speaker 1: and do your thing. And let's see here, scratch and
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  Speaker 1: claw and overachieve and build a winning identity that you're
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  Speaker 1: not just going to be the same old sorry-ass pathetic
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  Speaker 1: Giants and roll over and play dead.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, I'm Bill Parcells.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
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  Speaker 4: Them Because once you understand what's going on inside the
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  Speaker 4: mind of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
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  Speaker 5: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
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  Speaker 1: From the Grand Canyon State, and we have a wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver quagmire in the desert. Have you been following?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Well, several of you sent me this video clip. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I'll call it a video clip. It's bouncing around
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  Speaker 1: the echo chamber online of Marvin Harrison Jr. Let's just
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  Speaker 1: say it's not a sizzle reel. Not a sizzle reel
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  Speaker 1: for Marvin Harrison Jr. Makes him look like he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really like football that much. Anyway, Cardinals coach Mike LeFleur.
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  Speaker 1: It's a brotherly love business there in NFL coaching. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a brother's coach, you have a better chance of
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  Speaker 1: being a head coach. Anyway, Mike LeFleur, the Cardinals coach.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he, A, criticized the work of Marvin
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  Speaker 1: Harrison Jr.? He criticized his wide receiver's work. B, dismissed
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  Speaker 1: the report, or C, gave no comment? Well, the answer
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  Speaker 1: is B. Michael for defending Marvin Harrison Jr. after being
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  Speaker 1: asked questions about why it looks like he doesn't care
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  Speaker 1: about football. Very incriminating clips making their way around social media.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have not been paying attention to this,
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  Speaker 1: the Internet crowned Marvin Harrison Jr. God's gift to the
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver position. Then he had to actually play the games.
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  Speaker 1: That's been the problem. The problem has been he's actually
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  Speaker 1: had to live up to that stature. So LeFleur blamed
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  Speaker 1: the now notorious video that shows Harrison not hustling. This
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  Speaker 1: is great. This is great. So I'm laughing. Mike, did
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  Speaker 1: you hear this? Mike LaFleur blamed Marvin Harrison Jr. 's
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  Speaker 1: what appeared to be a lack of effort to a
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  Speaker 1: different running style. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha
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  Speaker 1: ha ha ha ha! He said, if that's people's narrative
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: on him, that's fine, but I know his teammates don't
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: feel that way. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! It's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: so great. So there's video that shows Harrison looking like
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: he'd rather be having some ice cream on the sofa
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: somewhere he has produced like a guy that should be
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: eating scoops of ice cream on the sofa the former
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: number four overall pick has just one catch for 33
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: yards and four targets. We're two games in to the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: NFL season. So that is a good jumping-off point. Let
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Is Cardinals coach Mike LeFleur helping
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Jr., his wide receiver, by defending his effort,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: or is he making this a bigger story? All right,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: so I've got my observations on this. I've got the Incredibles,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Krabby Patty, and Hiccup. And we will combine all of
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: these things together, and we will give you a million-dollar smile,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: which doesn't work on radio. You don't have to have
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a million-dollar smile. You have to have a face for radio.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: That's all you have to worry about. All right, so anyway,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to answer the question, is Mike LaFleur, the Cardinals coach,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: helping Marvin Harrison Jr. or not by defending his effort
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: when it's clear that he's not giving any effort? Like,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: it's obvious he's not giving any effort. So... My first thought.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Number one.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Number one.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: One, one, one, one. Number one. What fun. Number one.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: So Mike LaFleur was a fan of Better Call Saul
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: back in the day. Big fan there because it all
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: makes sense now. It all makes sense. because he's actually
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: doing some cosplay as Saul Goodman. He's doing the little
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: cosplay there. Like all coaches, every coach that's ever been
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, with the exception of like five coaches,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: every coach in the NFL is an expert at bending
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the truth to serve their client's best interest. In this case,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: their wide receiver's best interest here. Coaches defend players. Every man, woman,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and child knows that coaches defend players. Totally fine. Totally fine.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: We're here to call out the bull crap. But when
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the tape blatantly contradicts the defense of the head coach,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you're just gaslighting the people that care about your team. Now,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the good news is when the Arizona Cardinals coach, Mike LaFleur,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: criticizes Marvin Harrison Jr., he's not really offending many people
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: because there's not many Cardinal fans. It's just the way
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: it is. There's not that many Folks upset by that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: But my God. It's right there. Even Inca Terror and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Blind Emmett, who used to call the show, and Blind Seabass,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: all these guys, Stevie Meatballs, the Blind Army. Who's our
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: new general? Now that Blind Scott retired from calling, who's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: our new... Is it Stevie Meatballs or Inca Terror as
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the lead blind listener? We have to replace as the
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: senior member of the blind listenership. Blind Scott retired, so
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: we'll have to find somebody else to replace him. Anyway,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the point of all this, the Fleur... You cannot see
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: what we all saw and make that statement. You cannot
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: watch that video clip of play after play of Marvin
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Harrison Jr. dogging it. And your eyes are unreliable. You're
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the problem. I'm not. I'm a coach. I know what
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I'm smarter than you. Don't tell us
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: we didn't see what we saw. Now, the Cardinals are this.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Michael Fleur is trying to convince everyone else in the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: room here that the loafing caught on camera. caught on
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: camera by Marvin Harrison Jr., was actually, what was it,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: advanced route or route conservation. Police! Police. So Marvin Harrison Jr.,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you know who he plays like? He plays like one
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: of the Incredibles. He plays like Violet Parr of the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Incredibles there, and he can turn invisible on any given Sunday.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Jr. can vanish immediately. create a blank spot
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: where you're playing shorthanded. The other team's on a power play,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: power play, because they have 11 guys on the field.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: And when the Cardinals are on offense with Marvin Harrison Jr.,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: they have 10 because he might not feel like doing
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: anything at that point. And I love the Cardinals' position
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: for Michael LaFerre. Basically, listen, his motor comes with eco mode.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: What is that? Well, seriously, if he knows the ball
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: is coming, this is the way it looks to me.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: If Harrison knows there's a good chance he's going to
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: get the football, he suddenly is ready to go. He's engaged.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: But more times than not, he doesn't think he's going
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to get the football. And he went to the water park.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: He went to Raging Waters and is floating down the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: lazy river in an inner tube. And eventually somebody hits pause,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: rewind and slow motion. And they say, wait a minute.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: That guy ain't hustling. And if you have to hold
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a news conference, here's my position. You can call up
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and scream and shout and tell me I'm wrong when
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I give out the number in a few. But my
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: position on this, if you as a coach have to
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: hold the news conference to explain why one of your
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: alleged star players is really trying, even though everyone says
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: he's not trying, if you have to hold a news
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: conference and explain why one of your better players in
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: theory is is actually hustling, even though it looks like
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: he's not hustling, you've already lost the argument. So again,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Jr. is one of these guys that when drafted,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: he had all the measurables, built like Adonis, he plays
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: like Uranus, which is unfortunate. All right, now, page two.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: To Seattle we go, where Seahawks coach Mike McDonald had
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a farm, E-I-E-I-O. He also coaches the Seattle football team.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and this is pretty interesting here so randomly mike mcdonald
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: revealed that the seattle football team used fan shot social
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: media clips from the broncos and they ended up beating
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: them this was in the 2024 opener when geno smith
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: announced that he kept receipts and he's back and then
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Proceeded to later on lead the Raiders to the worst
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: record in football and is now serving time not in
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: San Quentin. Even worse than San Quentin. He's serving time there.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Not on Rikers Island. Rikers Island adjacent with the Jets.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Back with the Jets. So the story here is two
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: years old, but it's new to us. Mike McDonald called
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the footage public knowledge. Well, the reason this is a
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: thing is because Sean Payton said, Later learned about it
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and apparently lost it, according to Mike McDonald. He lost it,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: threatening to accuse Seattle of cheating, invoking the Patriots' Spygate. Spygate.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: McDonald insisted that he claimed Seattle did nothing wrong. Of
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: course he did. Said they did nothing wrong. Said Denver
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: even suspected that the Seahawks had a plant. That they
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: had somebody out there that was... was doing the videos.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: So Seattle then got upset. They threatened legal action for
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: a false accusation, and McDonald, the Seahawks coach, dubbed the
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: entire thing a cold war. So nobody went public, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the story went away. There was no lawsuit. It did
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: not escalate any further than that. However, it is now
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: on the public record that so we can have some
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: fun and talk about it. The question, who looks worse?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: You make the call. Who looks worse here in this
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: coach's cold war between the Broncos' Sean Payton and the Seahawks'
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald? Who looks worse? So the arrow on the
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Mallard compass is pointing directly at Sean Payton on this one.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: The Prince of Paranoia, Sean Payton. Meanwhile, now Mike McDonald
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: doesn't look great either. He has the memory of an
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: elephant with a vendetta. What are you spilling the tea
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: on this? I'm glad he did as a talk show host.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I'm very happy that the coach of the Seahawks did.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: But two years have passed. Coaches have changed on the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: staffs of the Broncos and also the Seattle Seahawks. Players
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: have changed. They've come and gone. And McDonald randomly brought
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: this up to some TV hack. Like, did he not
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: think that maybe this would be of interest to people?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Did he? Seahawks are claiming he thought this was off
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the record. Bullcrap. So, my God. He just randomly is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Have I ever told you what Sean Payton did? Have
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I ever told you that story?
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: No.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Tell me. Now, Peyton has always had the energy, going
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: back to his days in the Bayou. He's had the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: energy of a guy who puts tape over his laptop camera,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and he does that when he's ordering DoorDash, which is
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: you don't need to do that to order DoorDash. What
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: are you doing? This is a bad job of you.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: And he acted, Sean Peyton, the coach of the Broncos,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: acted like Mike McDonald had infiltrated Broncos headquarters. wearing night
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: vision goggles and a fake mustache. And he somehow got
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: past security and he called the security. They didn't do anything.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Peyton's upset by that. And of course, we know that
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the Broncos head coach, Sean Payton guards the call sheet
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: like it's the Krabby Patty secret formula you must protect
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the Krabby Patty at all costs which is the Sean
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Payton Broncos offense so my position has always been who
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: cares if the other team knows the place You get
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: so paranoid over this stuff. Now, you don't want to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: just give them away. But if you have an open
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: practice and somebody happened to be recording, it's on social media.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: That's the way of the world. That's how that works.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: So just go out and beat them. Don't get all
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: worked up into a tizzy over this. And the social media,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: if that's all that this was, and who knows, maybe
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: there's more to it. But if that's all there is,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: then who cares? It's fair game unless the Seahawks are
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: lying and there's something else to it. Now, somewhere in
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Chapel Hill, somewhere in Chapel Hill, Bill Belichick is hearing
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: about this story and saying, hey, Sean, Sean Payton, you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: might want to relax a little bit and chill out.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Now, ultimately, nobody thinks about Sean
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Payton as much as Sean Payton thinks people think about
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton. But the whole story is bonkers that just
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: randomly a couple years later, the head coach of the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Seahawks does an interview and then says it while he's
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: doing the interview. I guess he thought it was off
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the record. That's what the Seahawks are saying. But I've
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: generally known when you're talking into a microphone and there's
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: a camera in front of you, And that's not off
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the record. Off the record, a lot of these guys
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: will have, the managers and the coaches will have these
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: get-togethers with the media where they'll go to some Italian restaurant,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: eat fettuccine Alfredo. and everyone puts their phone in a
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: box like they're a woman visiting Derek Jeter back in
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the 90s, and then that's that. And then you talk
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: about all this stuff, and then you give people their
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: phones back and say, you didn't hear it from me.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: All right, meanwhile, to San Francisco, we had a follow-up
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: to the story of the year in the NFL, and
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: forget about Jerry Rice or T.O., my favorite 49er wide
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: receiver back in the news again. He always scores. A
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: 24-year-old woman. says that she warned 49er brass back in
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: December of 2025. So December of last year, she warned
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the 49ers about what was going on with DeSean Love.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: accused of impersonating a 49er player. That was not one,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: not two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: not seven, eight months before the story became a story,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: before the FBI ended up saying, hey, wait a minute,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: we got something going on. So she told the team,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: this is what she said, and she had the receipts.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: She told the team that loved the fake 49er receiver,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: was under federal investigation, allegedly stealing from random women who
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: were trying to, I guess, stoop him. I don't know.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: 49ers sent a form response saying he'd monitor or they'd
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: monitor the situation. The Niners said, we're going to monitor
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the situation. We can't give you any more information. That's it. Now,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the reason this is interesting. is because the team had
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: previously claimed it received no reports, zero reports, before the
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: FBI contacted them. They had no knowledge. They were completely
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: in the dark about this guy going around with his
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: 49er helmet on the beach, catching passes and catching the ladies.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Had no idea. Now, Love was arrested back in August,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: accused of defrauding 24-plus women of roughly $ 1. 3 million. Question,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: how much legal trouble, how much legal jeopardy could the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: 49ers be facing if Dejon Love's victims argue that the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: team was warned and failed to act? As you know,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I am not a lawyer. I can play one on
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the radio. So if Dejon Love's victims can prove that
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the Niners were warned, and the team ignored it and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: didn't do anything about it, this is not just some
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: kind of smoking gun. That is a smoking inbox. Burn, baby, burn.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: You've got a billion-dollar, multi-billion-dollar NFL franchise, and apparently their
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: elite corporate security system is just to hope somebody else
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: handles it. That's what bureaucracy is. That's the epitome of
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: bureaucracy and and that's just how it works but so
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: you've got all this money on it and one woman
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: tried to sound the alarm if she's being accurate and
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: there were some media people that looked at her email
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: chain and saw what she said happened happened uh so
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: one woman tried to sound alarm bells and received what
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: appears to be a cookie cutter boilerplate response The same
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: response you would have sent if you had told the 49ers, hey, so-and-so,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I think they served up some bad meatballs at the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: concession stand. Okay, we are aware of the situation. We
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: have no further comment. It's whether we investigate or not, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: So the oversight could easily go down as the most
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: expensive customer service reply ever. since the automated bot first typed,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: your complaint is very important to us. Your complaint. Let
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: me put this guy on hold one sec here. This
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: phone's ringing. All right. So there you go. Now, since
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Love's arrest, here's where it gets even better. So since
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: this guy, DeJohn Love, was arrested, do you know what
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: has happened? This did not get a lot of attention.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: It happened over the weekend, but it has now been
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: reported that that how many other ladies have stepped up
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: to say, hey, I also sent this dope some money?
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Another 35 women. So let's do the math on that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: So it was about 24 women before, and then 35.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: So we're up to 59. Yeah, can we get another 10? Anyway,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: these women possibly hornswoggled. by this guy. That is wild.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I could see this working 40 years ago
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: or 30 years ago, but in the modern world, my God,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: you have all the answers right there. You have all
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the answers right in front of you, ladies. How dumb
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: are you? My God. If any of those scams happen,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: here's my position. If any of those scams happen between
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: December of 2025 and obviously up until the arrest, those
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: victims have a legitimate case against the 49ers. Does anyone
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: disagree with that? This is a potentially multi-million dollar hiccup
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: for the people that were scammed after December of 2025.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: So anyone in January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: you're in good shape. The franchise might not be completely
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: cooked yet. They're not completely cooked yet, the 49ers. But
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the lawyers... Let's just say they've got their bibs on
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: and they're not getting ready to eat ribs. They've got
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: their bibs on here. And those billboard lawyers, all those
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: billboard lawyers, who hurt you and all this? Oh, man,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: those guys. Salivating. Like Pavlov's dogs, just salivating. And there
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: are three simple questions. Who received the warning with the Niners?
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Who got the warning? Who saw it? You ask that question.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: And what did they actually do about it? Those are
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the questions.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: Here we go.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: To the third degree.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled. Koobaloo!
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Speaking of the crappy Packers running game, a report this
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: week suggests that when the league eventually decides on a
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: punishment for Josh Jacobs, that he will be credited with
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: time served.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's nice. Ben, what do you think we'll see
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs? Next season.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And that video, the NFL's got to cover themselves.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: If that video does get out that's been covered up,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: then everyone's, I don't know, who knows. I don't know
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: what to believe anymore, Coop. I heard the other night
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: that Jackson Dart was fine. Now he's out for the year.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I thought Caleb Williams had his leg cut off. He
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: seems like he's going to be okay. So I don't
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: know what to believe. But if that video is legit
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: and it shows him going roughhouse, manhandling the lady, you've
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: got to be careful. Yeah. I say he's out for
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: the year, but next.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Paul Skeen said in a recent interview that he believes
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: that pitching in the World Baseball Classic is partly to
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: blame for his struggles this season. He says there are
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: other factors, but that was the root of it.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Are you buying that? Well, I've been buying that. He's
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: coming up with an excuse. No, it's bullcrap. There are
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: guys that played in the World Baseball Classic who have
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: been fine, productive players, like pretty much every big name
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: in baseball played in the World Classic. And it's like
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: some guys didn't play well this year. Paul Skeens is
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: a guy, for whatever reason, that's ridiculous. I don't buy it.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, I understand why he's saying it, because he
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: can't just say, hey, I sucked at a time I
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: can't suck during the regular season. You realize if Paul
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Skeens had been the Paul Skeens of all the Pirates
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: would be a playoff team. Like that's I mean, they're
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: actually right there. Next.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: It was announced on Monday that Doc Rivers is heading
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: back to the broadcast booth. Ben, we know what you
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  Speaker 3: thought of him as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. How did you feel about his skills on
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  Speaker 1: the mic? Yeah, he's not. There are worse NBA broadcasters.
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  Speaker 1: Doc has the Svengali effect. He's good at bull crap.
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  Speaker 1: He's seems to be like, well, the only problem with
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Doc is his voice. It's hard to watch an entire
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: NBA game. with Doc because he sounds like you want
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: to give him a throat lozenge because he always sounds
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: like he's hoarse because he's got that hoarse voice. But
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: he's fine as a broadcaster. Much better as a broadcaster
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  Speaker 1: than coach. How did we do? You passed this edition.
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  Speaker 1: That is a win.
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  Speaker 7: Put it on the board.
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  Speaker 1: Winner, winner, winner.
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  Speaker 6: Winner, winner, winner.
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  Speaker 7: Love. Exciting and new. Queen of hearts.
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  Speaker 1: She wants to touch.
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  Speaker 7: Soon she'll be making your heart be warm Morena Promises
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  Speaker 7: love can't bind if you won't.
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  Speaker 1: Well, most people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Love will find most people. Some people like to hide
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  Speaker 6: from love, and that's okay, too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. introverts need love too you know you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to leave your house and all.
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  Speaker 6: That stuff oh i wonder if there's a dating site
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: for hermits.
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  Speaker 1: Uh there should be but they don't actually want to
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  Speaker 1: meet any you know they want to meet in real
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: life it's a weird it's a weird thing well we
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  Speaker 1: have questions for you lorraine are you prepared.
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  Speaker 6: Yes all the answers all.
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  Speaker 1: Right jt the wingman writes in from The Smoky Mountains there,
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  Speaker 1: he says. Is it appropriate to buy flowers and perfume
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  Speaker 1: for your ladies' co-workers? that's how you get in trouble.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't know if you've listened to Ryan's Roses,
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  Speaker 6: but that's exactly how they'll catch men. They'll be like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: I'm sending it to my wife's friend at work. Why
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: are you sending flowers? Shouldn't that be like your, oh,
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  Speaker 6: but we care. No, no.
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  Speaker 1: That's a no-go? It's just not appropriate. All right. What
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  Speaker 1: if they're really good friends, you know, really, really? Uh-uh, no. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 6: Keep the flowers for your woman or your mother or
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: your daughter.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Okay. Freddie writes in and says, does a stripper really
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: mean that they love you when they say that? That's
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: from Freddie.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: You know, strippers have a very special love language, right?
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: You know, when they shake things in front of you,
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: it almost says touch me, but they really don't mean it.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like going to a steakhouse and watching the
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: steak spin around. You can't eat the steak, but you
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: can look at it, and, well, what good is that?
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: Although I do know a couple of people who have
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: housewifed some strippers, so you never know.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Well, that's always the... Is that the dream, like the
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: stripper's dream? Because what was that movie, the old movie,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: The Prostitute? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Julia Robbins. Yeah, it's
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: my favorite. Why can't I think of it? I can't
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: think of it. It's an old movie.
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  Speaker 3: I can't think of it.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: But that's like, you know, the stripper marries the rich guy,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: or the hooker marries the rich guy, and... Yeah.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: What is that movie?
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Ladies Married. What's the name?
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: Julia Roberts. And she's dating that handsome guy.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: People are yelling at the radio. Pretty Woman.
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: There it is.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: There you go. All right. Ferg Dogg writes in, says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm burned out on online dating, Fergie says. Do you
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: think posting a flyer around town saying what kind of
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: woman I'm looking for will work?
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  Speaker 6: Honestly, I think that's a great idea.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Go back in time.
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  Speaker 6: Find different ways to find people. I really like that idea.
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: It's almost like a dog flyer.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: If that doesn't work for a dog, what you should
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: do is in the bathroom, right on the bathroom wall.
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  Speaker 6: I almost want to try that. Should we do that
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: around L.A.? I can go put up little posters.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Nobody would notice there's so much graffiti around here. Let's
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: say hello to what do we got? Hollering James. Oh,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: he's just a lover. Let's see what he's got. My
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: co-host on the mailbag.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. What's up, James?
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  Speaker 1: No chance he's awake. Hollering Lorena. How you doing?
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  Speaker 4: What's up, James?
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  Speaker 1: And I have a question for you, Lorena.
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  Speaker 3: What do you got?
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: I'm not a bad-looking guy.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: You can ask Ben and ask his wife and Jack
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: and Megan, one rude couple.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Why am I married.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: And why can't I find the right girl?
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I thought it was Tammy Montana, but she sent me
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: a beautiful gift, a Randy Moss jersey, purple and gold.
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, gifts don't always mean that they're in
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: love with you.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: And just because.
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: You're a strappingly handsome man also doesn't mean that you
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: deserve love. What are you like in relationships? Are you
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: a gift giver yourself.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Or do you just expect to receive gifts? Are you
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: a cuddler? Or do you completely ignore.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: Your partner when you're actually in a relationship? These are
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: all things you've got to think about for why you
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: might be single.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Do you smell bad? Open the door for a woman.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Treat her like a lady. Roll out the red carpet. Oh,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: look at you. Such a gentleman. James showers every Wednesday, right? James,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: today is shower day, correct?
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: I shower every Wednesday because I got an A meeting
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: I go to early.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: In the morning. Come on. What woman wouldn't want a
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: man like that?
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Come on now.
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: Oh, so attractive.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: All right. Real quick. The Malheur Show quote-unquote says, a
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: single rose too much or not enough to give a
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: female on the first date?
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Not enough.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: Not enough.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Not enough. Come on. We need more.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: We need more.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on.
• 44:50
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• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Attention, everyone.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: And the password is.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Password. You idiot. Password.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: The word game of the stars. Here's Ben Meller.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: And right to it we go. Let's welcome in our contestants.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: We've got Leek the Greek, it says here. That's a
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: new name. Hello, Leek the Greek. What's going on? Hey,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Big Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Doing good.
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  Speaker 4: Ready to play.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: All right. Who do you want to partner up with?
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: You got me, Ben, Lorena, or the Koobaloop?
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: I want my love, Lorena.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: All right, Lorena, very exciting here. I have to go
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: to the bathroom. Too late. And we have, what do
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: we got? Coop, one, two, or three, Coop? I'll just pick.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Mark in the north end, my buddy Mark.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Hello, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on, Marky Mark?
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  Speaker 5: What's up, Ben?
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Same old, same old, working.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: All right, who would you like to partner up with here, Mark?
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  Speaker 7: You're the man, my friend.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: All right, we're in it. Those are the teams. We
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: got a list of words here.
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: Pick a number quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Quickly, please.
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  Speaker 3: Leak.
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  Speaker 5: Two.
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  Speaker 7: Two.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Oh, this one's good.
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  Speaker 6: I actually want to.
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  Speaker 1: Hurry up.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, sorry.
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: My bad.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Hurry up. Hurry up.
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  Speaker 6: You're going to make me nervous.
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  Speaker 2: Roth.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: That's what she said.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Roth.
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  Speaker 3: Two.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: That is correct. All right. Easy one. Go ahead, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Pick a number. One to ten, but not two.
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  Speaker 3: Three.
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  Speaker 7: Three.
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  Speaker 1: Number three. How about thankful?
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: No. Go ahead, Lorraine.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to go with... Hurry up!
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Goodness. Hurry up! Full of greatness?
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  Speaker 2: No.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Minus ten points. How about let's go with appreciative. Oh, geez.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Is it cheese?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Happy, happy.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: This sucks. Obliged.
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  Speaker 2: Grateful.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on. Come on. That's all right, Mark. I'll
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: punish you next time I'm in town. I like this.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: All right. There you go. Mark on the north end.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Come on. Lightning has struck. Lightning has struck. Lightning.