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Hour 4 - Time for a Lane Change · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Wowie Kazowie. It's our number four. Ben Maller Show. We
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  Speaker 1: head to Philadelphia, the Keystone State of Pennsylvania. And the
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  Speaker 1: big announcement, the Rock of Gibraltar for Philadelphia, no longer
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  Speaker 1: the Rock of Gibraltar, are the Eagles. Supposed to smile
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  Speaker 1: and hand Lane Johnson a fruit basket and pretend losing.
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  Speaker 1: They're all pro to quitting on the team in October
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  Speaker 1: is no big deal.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that. He's left the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Also, what exactly did Nick Sirianni's research on last minute
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  Speaker 1: London travel tell you? That common sense didn't. The Eagles
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  Speaker 1: leaving at the last minute to London. And thumbs up
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  Speaker 1: or thumbs down are Guardian Caps, another example of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL selling Safety Theater, a new report not making the
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  Speaker 1: NFL look so good. We'll talk about all that and
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  Speaker 1: more right now. Have a wonderful seventh day of October,
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  Speaker 1: this hump day. It's Wednesday, and here it is, hour
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  Speaker 1: number four. It's time for a lane change. Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: That would be Fox 1. NFL Week 5 is here,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a big one. The Bears and the Packers.
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday on Fox 1. So check in. Our lead
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  Speaker 1: story this hour from the Keystone State. And if you
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  Speaker 1: had Eagles all-pro right tackle playing, Lane Johnson playing this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: you're a loser! Yes, Lane Johnson abruptly said, bye-bye! Hocus pocus,
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  Speaker 1: no focus, because I ain't playing anymore. He retired, he quit,
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  Speaker 1: ending a 14-year career, all 14 seasons with the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: football team. So if you didn't see this, perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson, 36 years old. He did consider retiring during
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  Speaker 1: the offseason and said, I'm going to come back.
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  Speaker 2: I want to play one more year, one final season
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  Speaker 2: for the green. And he went back.
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  Speaker 1: But the timing is a stunner from down under in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: up in arms. Johnson, he was supposed to play against
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  Speaker 1: the Rams on Sunday, and he said, Ixnay on the play,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't playing. And so the Eagles, if you believe
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  Speaker 1: the reporting out of Philadelphia, the Eagles did not know
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  Speaker 1: until that morning that he wasn't going to play. He
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  Speaker 1: was scheduled to start and be in the lineup and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and then at the very last minute
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  Speaker 1: he said, I ain't playing.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Johnson claimed his priorities have changed.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Family stuff, and he needs to focus. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Wait for it. Wait for it.
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  Speaker 5: Big moment.
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  Speaker 3: Big moment.
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  Speaker 5: Big moment.
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  Speaker 6: Stop.
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  Speaker 2: Mental health.
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  Speaker 1: Mental health. Mental health. So that is our jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson played the mental health card from the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the deck.
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  Speaker 2: So let us discuss.
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  Speaker 1: The question, are the Eagles supposed to just sit there
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  Speaker 1: and smile from ear to ear and hand Lane Johnson
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of gifts, including a fruit basket, and pretend
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  Speaker 1: that losing their all-pro tackle, not to injury, not to injury,
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  Speaker 1: just because he didn't want to play anymore, to quit.
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  Speaker 2: In October is no big deal.
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  Speaker 1: So again, the Eagles, are they just supposed to smile
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  Speaker 1: and pretend like they're okay with all this and that
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  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson didn't just quit on them? So I've got Chewbacca,
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  Speaker 1: Manhattan Project, and Mel Brooks. Three things that have never
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  Speaker 1: been connected together until right now. So and we'll put
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  Speaker 1: all these together. We're going to have the gabagool, the
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  Speaker 1: baba ghanoush and for Benjamin. Benjamin's very depressed. He had
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  Speaker 1: to have some extra jambalaya and he had to have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that and some po'boys and some king cake.
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  Speaker 1: He had a big feast there. He was so bummed
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  Speaker 1: out because the saints stink. So first of all, to
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  Speaker 1: answer the question, are the Eagles just supposed to sit
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  Speaker 1: there and smile and say, OK, we're fine with this?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's the way it works.
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  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson pulled the emergency brake while the Eagles train
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  Speaker 1: was moving along. And he said, you know what? I
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  Speaker 1: love the French. I know we're playing in London this
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  Speaker 1: week in the Eagles, but I love the French. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go on French leave.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it. I'm going to leave all my teammates,
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  Speaker 2: all of them to hold the bag.
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  Speaker 1: After I had committed to play an entire season, and
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  Speaker 1: I said, no, I can't play anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to play. That's it. So despite abandoning
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles, that's what Lane Johnson did. He's not hurt.
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  Speaker 2: He just didn't want to play.
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  Speaker 1: So abandoning the team, he gets the Chewbacca-approved protective Star
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  Speaker 1: Wars shield generators, also known as a hall pass, a
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  Speaker 1: total hall pass.
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  Speaker 2: Now, why is that?
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  Speaker 1: Because society has determined that invoking those two words, mental health,
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  Speaker 1: it's the magic bullet of sports. Remember Ben Simmons in basketball?
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  Speaker 1: He played the mental health card, which is a nice
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  Speaker 1: way to cover for you can't play anymore.
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  Speaker 2: You suck. Of course, Ben Johnson, or Ben Simmons, rather.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, he... They had like one or two good years,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. He's just been stealing money. That's another
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  Speaker 1: famous Philadelphia athlete. So to bring it back to Lane Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles offensive lineman, he's a guy that can play.
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  Speaker 1: He just has decided he don't want to play. You
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  Speaker 1: can retire after the season. There's a proper way to
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  Speaker 1: do this. This is not the proper way to handle
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  Speaker 1: your business. And however, when you do say mental health,
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  Speaker 1: we have determined, well, some of you, not me, but
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  Speaker 1: you have determined that is an automatic conversation stopper. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: is allowed to question, even if it's total bullcrap, the
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  Speaker 1: subject is off limits. And for the Eagles, you talk
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  Speaker 1: about a slippery slope now for the Philadelphia Eagles. Since
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  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson arrived in the Delaware Valley, as Jonathan in
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  Speaker 1: Delaware and Fry Daddy know, Philadelphia, when Lane Johnson has played,
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  Speaker 1: has a 658 winning percentage. There were 122 wins and
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  Speaker 1: 63 losses. When Lane Johnson has been injured or unavailable
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  Speaker 1: to play, the Eagles have a 375 winning percentage. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts is not that good. He's a quarterback who
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  Speaker 1: is dependent on the players around him. He doesn't elevate
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  Speaker 1: the players around him. They elevate him. And if you
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  Speaker 1: have a good offensive line and some decent receivers and
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  Speaker 1: a good running back and halfway decent coaching, then you
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  Speaker 1: can win a Super Bowl. It happened with the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. However, you start peeling away some of that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that complex. All of a sudden, it becomes problematic.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Eagles are 2-2, and they are crossing
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  Speaker 1: the Rubicon, otherwise known as the Atlantic Ocean. And they're
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  Speaker 1: going to likely, based on what I was told, the
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  Speaker 1: former University of Miami offensive lineman rookie Markel Bell.
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  Speaker 2: Who? Markel Bell will try to hold down the fort.
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  Speaker 2: Hold down the fort.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone with the Eagles from Nick Sirianni on down
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  Speaker 1: will say the prim and proper PR approved things publicly. However,
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  Speaker 1: you got to think privately. That big Dom. and all
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  Speaker 1: the other big shots there in Philadelphia are furious. They
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  Speaker 1: can't say that publicly, but privately, you know they're upset.
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  Speaker 1: All right, secondly, staying in Philadelphia, we have another travel kerfluffle,
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  Speaker 1: another travel kerfluffle in the NFL. So Eagles coach Nick
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  Speaker 1: Sirianni has made plans to travel to London at the
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  Speaker 1: very last minute. He's defending the Eagles' unusual decision. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to wait until Friday to fly to England less
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  Speaker 1: than 36 hours before Sunday's game against Jacksonville. The Eagles
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  Speaker 1: will practice all week in Philadelphia. They're going to fly
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  Speaker 1: on the red-eye flight, from what we're told, on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Take the red-eye, arrive Saturday morning. hold a walkthrough, and
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  Speaker 1: then BAM! On Sunday they'll play. Sirianni told everyone who
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  Speaker 1: would listen that they've done extensive research and this is
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  Speaker 1: what they decided. He said, quote, we felt like leaving
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  Speaker 1: Friday was best for our team. Philadelphia prioritized, much like
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay did with the Rams, prioritizing the normal routine.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the routine rather than try to Figure
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  Speaker 1: things out on the fly, because apparently the Eagles are
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  Speaker 1: not able to adjust.
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  Speaker 2: They have to do things the same way. That's the
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  Speaker 2: message from Nick Sirianni.
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  Speaker 1: So Sirianni acknowledged the jet lag was considered, but declined
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  Speaker 1: to specifically explain why on God's green earth.
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  Speaker 2: He made this decision.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, what exactly did Nick Ceriani's research, I
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  Speaker 1: say that, research, on last-minute London travel tell him that
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  Speaker 1: common sense did not tell him?
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  Speaker 2: So what is it? So this is peak. It is
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  Speaker 2: peak NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You take something that is uncomplicated, like traveling abroad, very complicated, Normal.
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  Speaker 2: People do it all the time. It's uncomplicated.
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  Speaker 1: You then hire not nine, not 10, not 11, not 12.
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  Speaker 1: You have 14 specialists. You create a PowerPoint presentation and
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  Speaker 1: you arrive at the weirdest possible answer. And that is
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  Speaker 1: essentially what is going on here.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's essentially what is going on at this point. So
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  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni has turned booking a flight into the Manhattan Project.
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  Speaker 2: He really has.
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  Speaker 1: Playing travel roulette with a 2-2 football team going the
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  Speaker 1: wrong direction. The Eagles, first two decent opponents they played.
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  Speaker 1: Even Chicago had their backup quarterback in the Eagles. They're
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  Speaker 1: 2-0 against bad teams and 0-2 against good teams. which
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  Speaker 1: seems like a problem.
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  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 1: Now, coaches spend all week preaching, you must eliminate distractions,
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  Speaker 1: eliminate distractions. And then a guy like Nick Sirianni goes
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  Speaker 1: out and manufactures one just for himself. Unnecessarily, unnecessarily putting
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  Speaker 1: himself in position become the story. It is the supreme
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  Speaker 1: hubris of of the modern industrial complex of professional sports.
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay was guilty of it also. Now it's Nick Sirianni,
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  Speaker 1: most famous for playing rock, paper, scissors when he was
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  Speaker 1: scouting draft picks for the Eagles, potential draft picks.
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  Speaker 2: So it is all the hubris, right?
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  Speaker 1: Common sense must now be accompanied by 17 pie graphs, diagrams, charts, consultants,
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  Speaker 1: peer-reviewed studies, all that stuff. Apparently, common sense did not
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  Speaker 1: survive the peer-reviewed study on travel. So the cycle never changes.
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  Speaker 1: It happens all the time. It happens in sports. It
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  Speaker 1: happens outside of sports. And nobody knows anything, so it's
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  Speaker 1: always trust the experts. Remember during the pandemic? Trust the experts.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the experts have updated their opinion. Okay, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: change our opinion because the experts have exchanged their opinion. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now the experts think the previous experts were wrong. So
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  Speaker 1: now you trust these experts because those experts didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what they were talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: So if Philly comes out looking like the walking dead
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  Speaker 1: in London against Jacksonville, they come out looking like the
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  Speaker 1: walking dead there. Nick Sirianni gets the entire pie, the
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  Speaker 1: entire blame pie right to the face. And mark my words,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL will eventually mandate travel guidelines for overseas games.
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  Speaker 1: These are supposed to be barnstorming games anyway. They're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be traveling and doing appearances around London and doing
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  Speaker 1: some extra work there to promote the NFL. Spread the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: The gospel. Like missionaries out and about. And these teams
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  Speaker 1: showing up at the last minute becomes problematic. Becomes problematic.
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  Speaker 1: So I promise you, there will be some changes. They
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  Speaker 1: will have at least one of those off-season meetings at
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  Speaker 1: a resort.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you must arrive 72 hours before playing an international game.
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  Speaker 2: Something along those lines. Our last word to the brain game.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: So a Boston University brain injury researcher, must be a
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  Speaker 1: fun job, somebody named Chris Nowinski, never heard of him,
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  Speaker 1: he is challenging the NFL's use of the Guardian caps.
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  Speaker 1: You know the guys that wear the oversized caps where
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  Speaker 1: you point at the TV and laugh and say, boy.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that dumbass. Yeah, there's a few of them.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy who studies the brain at Boston University
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  Speaker 1: claims that the concussion benefits appear to be a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a scam.
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  Speaker 2: What, whoa!
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the brain doctor Nowitzki, Nowitzki, arguing that the NFL's
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  Speaker 1: own peer-reviewed research does not prove that the Caps caused
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  Speaker 1: a decline in concussions. He said, quote, Their own published
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  Speaker 1: study shows it wasn't true. He also accused the NFL
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  Speaker 1: of failing to correct the messaging, claiming that the highly
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  Speaker 1: visible use amounts to virtue signaling by Roger Udell and
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, despite the NFL making it claim that it's safer.
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  Speaker 1: They say their own research says no, and that it's
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  Speaker 1: just virtue signaling designed to make football appear overall more
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  Speaker 1: as a safer situation.
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  Speaker 2: All right, question.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go thumbs up or thumbs down. So
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  Speaker 1: thumbs up or thumbs down. Only two answers available. Thumbs up,
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  Speaker 1: thumbs down. Are guardian caps another example of the NFL
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  Speaker 1: selling safety theater? So I'm going to go full thumbs up.
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  Speaker 2: Standing up loud and proud.
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  Speaker 1: Full thumbs up on this. The NFL got taken to
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  Speaker 1: the cleaners by lawyers. So everything they do.
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  Speaker 1: Just about is how can we avoid downstream liability? And
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  Speaker 1: they've already paid out a bunch of money. It's a
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  Speaker 1: vending machine that's malfunctioning and you get whichever you want
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  Speaker 1: there with the concussion stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going thumbs up.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL is out here bragging about the number that
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  Speaker 1: was making the rounds was a 50% drop in concussions
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  Speaker 1: if you wear the dumb cap there. Its own study
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  Speaker 1: could not actually prove that. That the Guardian caps caused
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  Speaker 1: the decline so they're essentially using the we think it
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  Speaker 1: helped marketing strategy and we think it helped it's like
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  Speaker 1: a placebo if you will right it's like they do
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  Speaker 1: studies and certain people get the medicine other people get
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  Speaker 1: the sugar pill well there are people that get the
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  Speaker 1: sugar pill and they enjoy the sugar pill and they
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  Speaker 1: think they're getting actual medicine when it's just the the
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  Speaker 1: mind kind of messing with you and all that stuff
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  Speaker 1: so it's a suspiciously low scientific standard using the We Think.
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  Speaker 2: It Helped method. Good luck on that. A multibillion-dollar operation.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: And so Roger Goodell from Park Avenue, good old Roger
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  Speaker 1: Goodell and his guys, they took a scientific maybe, they
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  Speaker 1: recalibrated the scientific maybe into their messaging. So they twisted
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  Speaker 1: that around. They moved the doohickey over here, the thingamajig
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  Speaker 1: over there, And they sold it like a money-back guarantee.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the reason a lot of companies do money-back
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  Speaker 2: guarantees is the vast majority of people do not actually
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  Speaker 2: use them because it's a pain in the ass to
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  Speaker 2: use them.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's that kind of thing. But there are
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  Speaker 1: a handful of players. Every game I watch, there's one
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  Speaker 1: or two guys, it seems, that bought the sales pitch.
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  Speaker 1: And they're running around looking like they're starring in a
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  Speaker 1: remake of Mel Brooks' iconic Spaceballs. Actually, they did make
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  Speaker 1: a remake not that long ago, Spaceballs 2. Turns out, though,
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  Speaker 1: that Rick Moranis, the famous actor from back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: also known as Dark Helmet from the Spaceballs family, that
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  Speaker 1: who knew he was the inspiration for for the NFL
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  Speaker 1: Safety Nation that that character, Dark Helmet, inspired the Guardian cap.
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  Speaker 1: Had no idea when I watched that original movie back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. It's not about protecting the players. It's
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  Speaker 1: about protecting the NFL and the Golden Goose.
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  Speaker 2: Because there'll be another lawsuit saying, hey, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And the ironic thing is they could be sued for
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  Speaker 1: these Guardian caps, right? Cause the argument is like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you sold this as it's safer and it wasn't safer.
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  Speaker 1: So now you owe me this amount of money and
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  Speaker 1: you have to pay my legal fees. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: about protecting the NFL, attempting to protect the NFL and,
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  Speaker 1: And this has a chance to backfire. But Roger Goodell's
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  Speaker 1: concussion messaging remains far more clever in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: advertising than any kind of credible solution. This just in.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Football's a violent sport. People bump heads. And that's what happens.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: You deal with it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: So you can have all the gadgets and gizmos you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: want out there and the high-tech helmet padding. And the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: NFL even admits in a couple years there'll be a
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: different kind of helmet. They won't need the Guardian cap anymore.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: So it's just like low-tech PR is what it is.
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• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Chopping down the overnight hours, and a reminder.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny returns tomorrow. We'll have the big
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Thursday night matchup. I say that in air quotes. What
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a dog food game that's going to be this week, man.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: And you realize all the baseball playoffs could end. The
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: divisional round can end today. It's only happened one other time.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Everyone's playing baseball today. All the series could end. Otherwise,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: we're supposed to have some games on Thursday if the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: White Sox, Dodgers, Rays, and Brewers win. It's all she wrote.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: The NFL game to kick off the week, the Bucs
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys. And Dallas an eight-point favorite in that
• 22:41
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• 22:53
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• 23:02
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• 23:04
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• 23:07
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• 23:09
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• 23:11
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• 23:12
  Speaker 9: I like Koopaloop.
• 23:13
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• 23:13
  Speaker 1: And Koopaloop is right over there at a Bronco fan.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Your comments can and will be used against you as
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: we're back at it. How about this sweetheart deal? See
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald? He missed the game back in week four here,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: which was this past week, against Philadelphia. Because he supposedly
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: had a back injury. Didn't play a single snap. Despite
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: being inactive, he still collected a bonus check for $ 660- something
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Because he has a special... Provision in his contract.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: They put some legalese in the contract. The standard NFL
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: per-game roster bonus requires you to be on the 46-man
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: game day roster. Inactive players do not get their roster bonus. However, abracadabra, shazam,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Donald had special language put in his contract. He received
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: his per-game bonus as long as he's on the 53-man roster,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: regardless of whether he actually dresses or plays. So his
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: contract can reach up to $ 30 million, including there's a
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: $ 10 million base salary and another $ 10 million in per-game
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: roster bonuses. So he's getting his money no matter what.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones, and we'll say hello to...
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Let's see here.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Coach Russell. He's got some hot
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Guardian cap talk. Hello, Coach Russell.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Ben. Yeah, I was getting ready this morning,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: and you kind of struck a nerve. I... Whenever the
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Guardian caps came out, one of the things that they
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: sold was it was just for the protection of the
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: shell of the helmet during the season. And it was
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: always billed as it's not really helping with concussions. But
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: somehow over time, people started believing that. There's no study
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: out there for it. The help and reduction of... concussions
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: is basically with the Speedflex helmet, the Bices helmet, and
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: now with the Axiom helmet. It's the interior of the helmet.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: The Guardian cap has nothing to do with any of that.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: It's just a protective thing so that team's helmets look
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: good on Friday night, Saturday, or Sunday.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I'm glad you live in that world. For
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: those who don't know, Coach Russell is a friend of
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: the show. He's a very successful high school coach there.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Coaches football in Florida.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Remember when I was a kid, there was a guy
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: named Steve Tasker who played for the Buffalo Bills. And
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: he had like a thing on his helmet at one point,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: like a giant thing on top of it. And that
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: was a million years ago. But there you go. The
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: NFL getting called out, Coach Russell. Getting called out.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to share that information with you.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: But that's straight from the Guardian cap mouth.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And let me point out, I did
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: not think that would be that controversial. And I'm getting
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: people very upset with me over a Guardian cap. They
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: don't like my position. I don't even know what my
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: position was, but they're upset with me. RPS commentator says
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the guy has been the main guy wanting, he's talking
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: about the brain doctor guy, wanting to research dead NFL players'
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: brains for CTE. Chris Nowitzki, according to the RPS commentator,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: he's been at the forefront of.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: The CTE movement. Says even the tech queen over there knows.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Is that true?
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Do you know your big brain doctor lady there, Lorena?
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: No.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: You're not. All right. Very disappointing. I'll work on my
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: knowledge of that, though.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: It's very important. You need to know a lot about
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: the brain to do overnight talk radio.
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Very important. You're not really- The medulla oblongata.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to Mark on the north end. Marky
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Mark is one of our favorites. Hello, Mark.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Welcome.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Welcome.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: What's up, Ben? I do want to hold for password,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: but I do want to comment on these Guardian caps.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: This sounds awfully familiar from roughly about six years ago
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: when we were told, wear a mask and stand six
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: feet apart. That didn't work. That didn't work out too well.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: They just made it up and said, yeah, we'll see
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: if it works.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll go with that.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Well, I know.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And hearing they did just make it up is just insane.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: They did.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: And people are still following those rules, by the way,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: which is just fascinating to me.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: I still see people driving by themselves with a mask on.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: It cracks me up every day. It is wild.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Once people are told to do something, even if what
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: they were told was bull crap, a certain percentage of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: people will continue to do it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: It's pretty wild.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Anything to make a buck, man.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. Well, this could actually backfire, though. If
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: this guy's right, this brain doctor guy. I think no
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: matter how.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: If you get hit hard... The way your neck snaps
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: back as well, that also has to do with concussions.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: It's not the actual blow sometimes.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're worried about getting hurt playing football, you
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: probably should do something else.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Exactly. If that's the case, why aren't they wearing them
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: in hockey?
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: That's a good point.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. That was hot brain talk. 2%
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Chance is next. Hello, 2% Chance. Welcome in Alabama.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Man, I appreciate it. So someone called in and told
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: you that I'm a radio talk show whore, huh?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got an email. I think it was an email, actually. No,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: they didn't call in. And they said.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they said they heard you on a bunch of
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: other shows and you're a regular on these other.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Do whatever you want. I'm not paying you. You call
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: whoever you want. I don't care. It doesn't affect me.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: A lot of these guys are addicted to calling other shows.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Blind Scott's called every show in the world.
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: What?
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't that guy make him like a talk show listening whore?
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Because he's hearing me on all these shows, so he
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: must be listening to them all. I call a couple shows,
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Covino and Rich, and one other one. But anyways, man,
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: I think Nick Sirianni, you know, he was at the
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: park and he heard... He heard that little kid singing
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: London Bridge is falling down, falling down, and he just
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: got scared, man. I think that's why he's delaying on
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: going over there. You know what I mean? I can't
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: think of any other reason what his deal is not
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: to go.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Well, did you know, here's a fun fact, did you
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: know that London Bridge, do you know where the actual
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: London Bridge is?
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: Paris? No.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: It's in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Bad matter, fun fact.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: What?
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the 19th century bridge from London was transported and
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: rebuilt in Arizona.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I'm not making that up, by the way. It's a
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: fun fact. I'm not making that up. That's legit. I
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: must have been a pain in the ass to bring
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: that over. Yeah, and the bridge that's near where the
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: London Bridge was in London is not the London Bridge.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: It's a fake. It's a fake. It's a fraud. It's
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: a fraud. It's just a bridge in London, but not
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: the London Bridge. Any other hot takes here? We good
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: on the hot takes?
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: One more take. Alabama, we got our quarterback. He looks
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: like a stud. We're going to steamroll Georgia, and I
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: think we have a chance to go all the way.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: We have a chance, a 2% chance.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, because you are 2% chance. That's right. Yes, thank you.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: All right, let's say hello to Marcel in Brooklyn.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Hello, Marcel. Welcome.
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: Oh, good morning, Ben, and here's the player of the morning.
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: I will get to that for you in just a bit.
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: But in the meantime, let's get right down clear. This
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: is family-friendly sports radio. We're always talking sports, not talking
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: politics or anything else, but we're talking sports, and I
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: guarantee it for it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well, we have callers that want to
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: say hello to you. Caller, you're on the air. Oh,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: my God. Caller, you're on the air. Hello, Caller.
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Caller, what morning show?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Marcel.
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: How are you?
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: This is Mike the Leprechaun.
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: What the heck is this?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: So, Marcel, Mike the Leprechaun has a proposal he would
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: like to make to you.
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: It's Mike the.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Losercon, Ben.
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: Wake up!
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: Okay, Marcel, calm down.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: You're great.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: You're the best. Anyway, Marcel, did you change your diaper
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: this morning yet?
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: No!
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Can you believe that?
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Idiot.
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: Please change it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Marcel, the correct answer is no, I don't wear a diaper.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I don't wear a diaper. Exactly.
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: I was a baby, you know. Get used to it.
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: I'm a teenager.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: This is a preview of what's going on. You're not
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: a teen. All right.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: What did he say? Did he just say what I
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: think he said?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: He said I'm a teenager.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: He did. Aren't you in your 30s, Marcel?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 31:55
  Speaker 9: I'm turning 33 in two weeks.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Happy almost birthday.
• 32:01
  Speaker 9: Why, thank you, Lorena. You're the best.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: You're the real one. Lorena, my birthday is coming up
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Make the proposal.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: You're wasting my time.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: Okay, Marcel.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Verbal Octagon for you next week. You better get into training.
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: Absolutely not.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: But I was going to be doing it right now.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: He's turning you down. How about a week from today?
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Next Wednesday.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: Oh, get me in. Ben, it's because I beat him
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: last time.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: So he's scared.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: All right, hold on a second. Let me check with
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: my expert here, a senior member in the Malheur Militia. Caller,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: do you think this would be a good matchup here,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun and Marcel in Brooklyn?
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Blind Scott.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: No, but I would like to express my interest, and
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: I'd like to tell Marcel this, the NFL male cheerleader,
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: there's Jeremy Quinton and Napoleon. Now, one thing about the
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: NFL male cheerleader that makes me the most excited is
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: they are when they dance.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Hold on a sec here. Marcel, are you excited about
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: the NFL's male cheerleaders?
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: What?
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: No! It's for females, not the males.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Someone has to lift the girls in the air. Marcel
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: does not seem excited about the male cheerleaders in the NFL.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: Well, if Jeremy Greer, or I like the older one,
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: for the Rams, Napoleon, is listening right now, me and
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: Marcel would like to go to Chili's in Reading, Massachusetts
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: with them.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Marcel, you've just been invited to Chili's with the male
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: cheerleaders and Blind Scott.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: What?
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: I don't think so. This is for family-friendly restaurants only,
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: not the male cheerleaders.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: This is not acceptable. You ever been to Chili's back
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: in the day?
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: No. Oh, I've never been to Chili's all in my life, Darren.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Really? Never eaten at Chili's?
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: I was a little member of our family.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: All right. Interesting. So, Scott, you don't think that'll be
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: a good matchup, Scott?
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Blind Scott and Mike the Leprechaun and Marcel, you don't
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: think that'll work, huh?
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: No, I think Mike the Leprechaun has actually ruined sports
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: radio completely. He's absolute garbage. He should go and take
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: care of his chicken.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: All right, hold on a sec. Mike the Leprechaun, you've
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: been accused of ruining sports radio.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Blank Scott, I thought we were friends, but so what?
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: I offer humor.
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: Where have you been for the past two months?
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Blank Scott?
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: Are you talking to me? Blank Scott, where have you
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: been for the past two months on the radio? Dude,
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: we're not friends. I hate you, man. I don't know
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: why you're looking for me, but don't ever say my
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: name ever again. That's not my name, Blythe Scott, actually, either.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: And one more thing I'd like to express, that the
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: art of male cheerleading dancing is liberal arts, and I
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: love it so much. It gives me butterflies in my stomach. Marcel,
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: if you don't like male cheerleaders, I don't know what
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: you call yourself, dude.
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Marcel, do you have butterflies in your stomach when you
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: watch male cheerleaders?
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: The answer is, unacceptably, no. All right.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Very good.
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: No can do.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Well, we've accomplished a lot. We think we've scheduled the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: verbal octagon for next Wednesday.
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: That would be.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: The 14th of October. We believe we've done that. Which
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: is exciting. All right. Very good there.
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: But in the meantime, don't have much time for the
• 35:12
  Speaker 9: TV picks. We'll do that, too. But in the meantime,
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: the player of the morning.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: Representing for your Los Angeles Dodgers is Yoshinobu Yamamoto. He's
• 35:22
  Speaker 9: got seven, not just seven, but ten strikeouts instead.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Say it one more time for those in the back
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: of the room, please.
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: Yoshinobu Yamamoto. That's his name.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Make sure to save that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: You good?
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you. I'm on it. Marcel, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're my bro. All right, I got to go,
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  Speaker 2: but thank you. Yeah, there it is. So good, Marcel.
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  Speaker 2: New spin on Yoshinobu Yamamoto. It is just absolutely great. Well, C.J.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Gardner-Johnson upset with Mike Rabel. He's gone to social media.
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  Speaker 1: There's a battle of the memes as Rabel trolled the man,
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  Speaker 1: the myth, the legend, C.J.
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  Speaker 2: Gardner-Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: So he shot back with the cryptic meme war, which
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  Speaker 1: I always love. You can try to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: they meant. Coming up, Password, the word game of the stars.
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  Speaker 1: You want to play Password? Call right now, 877-99 on Fox.
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  Speaker 2: Password. is next.
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  Speaker 2: Ben Maller Show, Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: This week, the Raider fans, the dumbest of them all.
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  Speaker 2: Ben Malish, your podcast. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Attention, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: And the password is.
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  Speaker 3: Password. You idiot. Password.
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  Speaker 2: The word game of the stars.
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  Speaker 7: Here's Ben Maller.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: This portion of the show made possible by our friends
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  Speaker 1: at Fox One. NFL Week 5 is here, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a big one. Bears versus Packers. Sunday, America's Game of
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  Speaker 3: The Bears.
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  Speaker 2: Streaming live. The Bears on Fox One. Miss it live?
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  Speaker 1: You're just watching a highlight. Catch every play as it happens.
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  Speaker 1: Bears Packers live on Fox 1. Let's welcome in our contestants.
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  Speaker 1: We have Faze from Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Faze.
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  Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with, Faze?
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  Speaker 2: All right. We're in it to win it. And we
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  Speaker 2: have eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
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  Speaker 1: Hollering James is going to play. Hello, Hollering James. James,
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  Speaker 1: don't make me regret this. Who do you want to
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  Speaker 1: partner up with, James?
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  Speaker 5: I want to put love with Coop, my best friend.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Good luck, Coop. God bless you. All right, Jed.
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  Speaker 2: I really thought you were going to pick me. I know.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Lorraine, you got to sit this one out.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. Look at that tough guy, James. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: A list of words. One to ten. Faze, get the
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  Speaker 2: party started, please, sir. Pick a number. One to ten.
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  Speaker 9: Number one.
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  Speaker 2: James, try not to fart. Let's go with... Actually, this
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  Speaker 2: is not as easy as I thought it would be.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go with.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, there's a couple... How about gridlock?
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  Speaker 4: Stuck?
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  Speaker 2: What'd he say? It's stuck.
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  Speaker 7: Stuck?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 2: All right, go ahead, Coop. All right, James, let's go
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  Speaker 2: with band.
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  Speaker 5: Say it again?
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  Speaker 1: Band.
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  Speaker 4: Band.
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  Speaker 2: Banned? Yep. B-A-N-N-E-D.
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  Speaker 7: Banned.
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  Speaker 2: You can't spell.
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  Speaker 4: Um.
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  Speaker 9: Tie up?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: How about clogged? Ooh, that's a good one Faze? Clogged?
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  Speaker 2: Uh What?
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  Speaker 5: Jam?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know How about this, James? Swatted No chance Snap.
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  Speaker 2: How about a shot? S-H-O-T.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, bro.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on. Trying to piggyback off my clue. It
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  Speaker 2: was blocked. The word was, you're all blocked.
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  Speaker 9: Everybody is blocked.
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  Speaker 2: You're all blocked. You're blocked. You're blocked.