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Hour 4 - The Great Reinvention · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: The Benny Man Can. The Benny Man Can. Here we go.
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Speaker 1: It's hour number four. Hour four. And we start out
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Speaker 1: with some mind-boggling NFL chatter. Reminder, the Big Mallard meet
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Speaker 1: right near UNLV, by the way. Hour four, thumbs up
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Speaker 1: or thumbs down, 3 o'clock until 5 o'clock. It's local
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Speaker 1: time in Vegas. Can Baltimore win a Super Bowl with
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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson operating primarily from the pocket, he says today?
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Speaker 1: He's going to, he applied he's going to run less
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Speaker 1: this year. Also, which desperate franchise will embarrass itself the
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Speaker 1: most chasing after Mike Tomlin to leave NBC? And how
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Speaker 1: much stalk do you put in to reports saying that
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta football team has trepidation about making Tua Tungabailoa
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Speaker 1: They're QB number one, even though the season is about
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Speaker 1: to begin. We'll get to all of those stories and
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Speaker 1: bang down the door. It's the Thursday edition, and it's
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Speaker 1: our number four, and here we go. The great reinvention,
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Speaker 1: or the attention of the reinvention, I'll explain. Welcome in
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Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from Maryland. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: go to Maryland. Why? Lamar Jackson making some news in
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Speaker 1: the NFL news cycle. And that's what we do. We
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Speaker 1: twist arms and talk about NFL news quite a bit.
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Speaker 1: So Lamar Jackson says he is willing to adapt. He's
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Speaker 1: like a chameleon. He didn't use the word chameleon. I
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Speaker 1: used the word chameleon. But he says he's willing to
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Speaker 1: adjust his playing style heading into the 2026 season, emphasizing
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Speaker 1: Lamar that he will do whatever the new coaching staff
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Speaker 1: believes gives the Ravens the best chance to win. Best
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Speaker 1: means as good as all the rest. Now, if you
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Speaker 1: didn't hear about this, perhaps not Jackson. It has been
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Speaker 1: well documented that he was not a running man last season.
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Speaker 1: He ran less runs. in the 2025 regular season than
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Speaker 1: in any previous NFL season. Even when you factor in
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Speaker 1: the four games that he missed because of injury, it
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Speaker 1: didn't change the calculus there. The math was the same.
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Speaker 1: So Jackson explaining that all the injuries limited his mobility.
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Speaker 1: He says, quote, I really couldn't do anything like I
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Speaker 1: wanted to, he said, close quote. Now Jackson went on.
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Speaker 1: to say that attempting to run while compromised could have
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Speaker 1: resulted in lost yardage and hurt the Baltimore football team.
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Speaker 1: He says his philosophy, because when you think of the
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Speaker 1: great philosophers of our time, you think of Lamar Jackson.
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Speaker 1: So Lamar Jackson said his philosophy entering 2026 remains simple.
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Speaker 1: Whatever it takes to win, that's what I'm all about.
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Speaker 1: Right off sportscliché. com. The word on the street is my friend,
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Speaker 1: Baltimore media mogul Sports with Coleman. handed Lamar the cliches
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Speaker 1: on sportscliché. com, and Lamar just repeated that. Anyways, good jumping-off point.
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Speaker 1: Let us discuss. We'll do the old-fashioned thumbs-up, thumbs-down. So thumbs-up, thumbs-down. Thumbs-up, thumbs-down.
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Speaker 1: Can Baltimore win a Super Bowl with Lamar Jackson operating
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Speaker 1: primarily from the pocket? So I've got on the wrapper...
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Speaker 1: Santa Claus and gift wrapped. A lot of wrapping going
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Speaker 1: on here because we're going to have a big feast
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Speaker 1: of the gabagool. We're going to have a lot of
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Speaker 1: the gabagool. I'm told when you have the gabagool, it's
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Speaker 1: always nice to have the baba ganoush. And then to
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Speaker 1: honor Benjamin, you got to have jambalaya. You got to
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Speaker 1: have that jambalaya. All right, now to lead off here.
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Speaker 1: To answer the question, can Baltimore win a Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: with Lamar operating primarily as a pocket passer, I am
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Speaker 1: going to go thumbs down. Thumb down is where I
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Speaker 1: am going on this. I don't buy it. Now, people
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Speaker 1: can evolve. People do change. We all change. It's hard
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Speaker 1: once you're set in your ways to change. The argument
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Speaker 1: is rather obvious. The Ravens couldn't win when Lamar was
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Speaker 1: winning MVP awards. So you're going to get a lesser product,
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Speaker 1: and you're telling me that that's going to be successful.
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Speaker 1: I don't buy it. You don't mess with the formula
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Speaker 1: that produced two MVP trophies for Lamar Jackson. He's going
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Speaker 1: to end up in the Hall of Fame and all that.
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Speaker 1: The minute you strip away the X Factor, which for
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Speaker 1: Lamar I think involves late-night trips to the food truck
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Speaker 1: while playing video games. Either way, though, the X Factor.
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Speaker 1: he becomes a hell of a lot less dangerous. And
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Speaker 1: the other thing, and it's really the will of the
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Speaker 1: beast in the room, is the fact that Lamar has
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Speaker 1: been an absolute terrible big game quarterback. In postseason games,
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Speaker 1: you get a cheap knockoff version of Lamar. It's like
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Speaker 1: buying an expensive handbag and then realizing when you go
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Speaker 1: out to the aristocrat's ball that it's actually fake and
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Speaker 1: falls apart. What is that? And so the odds of
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Speaker 1: successfully reinventing yourself, if you're Lamar, and becoming Tom Brady,
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Speaker 1: are laughably low. They just are. It's just the reality
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Speaker 1: of the situation. You know that. I know that. Every man, woman,
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Speaker 1: and child knows that. Now, Lamar, without the legs, you
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Speaker 1: take the legs away, it's like going to McDonald's and
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Speaker 1: going through the drive-thru and getting the Big Mac without
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Speaker 1: the special sauce. Now, it still says... On the wrapper,
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Speaker 1: Big Mac. It says right on the wrapper, the Big Mac,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't have the special sauce. It ain't the
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Speaker 1: same sandwich. And without the running thread, Lamar, I would
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Speaker 1: say he's somewhere in the middle. He's not the worst.
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Speaker 1: He's not going to completely fall apart, but he's somewhere
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the pack. The man in the middle,
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Speaker 1: and suddenly that means you need everything around you to
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Speaker 1: be flawless. The Ravens are going to have to have
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Speaker 1: a top five defense. Special teams will have to be
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Speaker 1: near the top. And that's just the way it is.
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Speaker 1: And so here's the uncomfortable part. If Lamar's body is
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Speaker 1: telling him he can't play the old way anymore and
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Speaker 1: he's looking to get another payday coming up, It's not
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Speaker 1: exactly evolution. That's evidence that the top days of Lamar,
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Speaker 1: the salad days of Lamar playing football, are in the
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Speaker 1: rear view mirror.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Furthermore, to the Big Apple we go. Actually, New Jersey,
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Speaker 1: where the Jets play their games. Jets are reportedly laying
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Speaker 1: the groundwork. We know we love laying the groundwork stories
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Speaker 1: because typically that leads to bullcrap. But the Jets are
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Speaker 1: said to be smitten pilots to get their hands on
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Speaker 1: former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin. And that is,
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Speaker 1: of course, after the season because the Jets currently have
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Speaker 1: a coach, not a good one, owner Woody Johnson. according
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Speaker 1: to breathless reports that were not done for clickbait, said
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Speaker 1: that Woody Johnson is doing his homework on Tomlin. What
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Speaker 1: does that even mean? Is he watching him on NBC?
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Speaker 1: What's the homework? Are you going to his coach's page
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Speaker 1: on Pro Football Reference to see how he did on
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Speaker 1: instant replay challenges? What kind of bull crap is this? Anyway,
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Speaker 1: one executive predicted. that you are going to hear a
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Speaker 1: lot about the Jets and Mike Tomlin. Tomlin stepped away
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Speaker 1: after 19 seasons. We need one more to get to
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Speaker 1: that round 20. 19 seasons in the land of the Yinzer.
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Speaker 1: And he's this year on NBC Football Night in America.
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Speaker 1: We think Tomlin's great on TV. We love Tomlin. Big
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Speaker 1: fans of Tomlin. He's pretty much said he's going to
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Speaker 1: come back to coaching. He hasn't said, I'm not coming back.
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Speaker 1: And even if he did say he's not coming back,
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Speaker 1: the only one that successfully said it is Bill Cowher.
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Speaker 1: And anyone that's ever watched him on CBS wishes he
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Speaker 1: would have come back to coaching because he's god-awful. And
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Speaker 1: they just put him on there. And it's like, what
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Speaker 1: are you doing? He sucks. They left Dungy on NBC.
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Speaker 1: How many years did Dungy do NBC? And every time
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Speaker 1: you saw Dungy, it was like, boy, that's boring. My God,
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Speaker 1: wake up, Tony. Get him some smelling salts. Give him
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Speaker 1: a standing eight count. My God. All right, back to
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Speaker 1: the story. So the speculation puts immediate heat on Aaron Glenn,
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Speaker 1: the man with two first names, Aaron Glenn. Now, there
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Speaker 1: was an NFL executive who called Aaron Glenn. D-M-W. Dead
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Speaker 1: man walking. Good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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Speaker 1: Which desperate, pathetic franchise will embarrass itself the most chasing
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin? So buckle up, buckaroo, because we are entering.
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Speaker 1: What is going to be pure sensory overload with the
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin coaching carousel. Round and round and round and
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Speaker 1: round and round and round and round. Tomlin is becoming
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Speaker 1: the John Gruden of the coaching carousel. You remember years
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Speaker 1: ago when Gruden was doing TV and was doing commercials
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Speaker 1: for Hooters and everyone loved him and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: America's sweetheart, John Gruden. And that all went away. He
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Speaker 1: got the Raiders job. But every year it was like,
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Speaker 1: John Gruden's going to coach this team. John Gruden's going
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Speaker 1: to coach that team. And so now Tomlin's in that chair.
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Speaker 1: He's contractually obligated to be linked to literally every single
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Speaker 1: franchise that loses a game in the NFL season. I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you, you can do the Mike Tomlin game. I
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Speaker 1: should sell this. I'll just give it away for free.
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Speaker 1: Like literally any team. The 49ers lose to the Rams
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Speaker 1: in week one. Well, Shanahan's on the hot seat. Their
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Speaker 1: team's upset because he was in the car accident and
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Speaker 1: they had to cover some stuff up for him. And
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Speaker 1: he hasn't won. And they really like Mike Tomlin because
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Speaker 1: Tomlin tipped a waiter at a garlic restaurant last in
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Speaker 1: San Francisco very well a couple years ago, so he's
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Speaker 1: got a good reputation, and he really, really loves sourdough bread,
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Speaker 1: so there's a connection there. The Rams lose to the
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Speaker 1: 49ers in that Australia game, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: it's like, well, listen, L.A., Hollywood, Mike Tomlin, big fan,
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Speaker 1: Sean McVay would like to do TV. He's burned out.
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Speaker 1: So put Tomlin in L.A. You can do it for
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Speaker 1: literally any job. The Patriots. Mike Vrabel, the team is
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Speaker 1: quietly embarrassed, according to league sources. They're not happy with Vrabel.
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Speaker 1: He embarrassed the franchise, whose owner went to the Orcas
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Speaker 1: of Dayspa and employed a guy that killed somebody while
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Speaker 1: on the team. Yes, all that stuff. Tomlin loves going
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Speaker 1: to Boston. Would want to live in a cottage in
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Speaker 1: the Sticks. Right near the Patriot facility. So it's a
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Speaker 1: fun game. It's a fun game. The rumor mill is
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Speaker 1: basically the NFL's version of tracking Santa Claus. You got
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, the Cardinals, the Cowboys, the Browns, the Jets,
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Speaker 1: the Bengals. In fact, Tomlin was last spotted flying over Cincinnati. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's absurd. It's absurd is what it is. And these
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Speaker 1: teams change coaches more often than some of the listeners
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Speaker 1: we're going to meet on Saturday change underwear, which I'm
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Speaker 1: not particularly excited about. Meanwhile, why would Tomlin voluntarily join
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Speaker 1: a circus like the Jets? Well, the answer is he wouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Unless Woody Johnson hits his magic number. And everyone's got
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Speaker 1: a price. Everyone's got a price. You hit that price point,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, away we go. To the moon,
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Speaker 1: to the moon, to the moon, to the moon, to
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Speaker 1: the moon, to the moon. Now, the other part of this, picture,
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Speaker 1: if you will, Aaron Glenn scrolling his phone on the
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Speaker 1: toilet and doing the morning deed there. And he said,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, what's this story? And then he finds
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Speaker 1: out that Woody Johnson is already snooping around, sniffing around
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Speaker 1: Mike Thomas. Now, that's going to make for some wonderfully
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Speaker 1: awkward small talk, I would think, at the next gangrene
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Speaker 1: company picnic. That'll be really popular. That'll be really good.
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Speaker 1: Man alive. Put me in, coach. I'm ready to play.
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Speaker 1: Years ago, I had— it wasn't at a company picnic, but
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Speaker 1: we had a big staff dinner. I was doing local radio,
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Speaker 1: and they flew in some of the— they had some daytime
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Speaker 1: shows that were national— And there was a talk show
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Speaker 1: host who was a woman. She was a real babe.
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Speaker 1: And that was kind of her shtick. And they flew
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Speaker 1: her in, and they decided to cancel her show, but
15:17
Speaker 1: she flew in. She found out about it at this
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Speaker 1: big social event for the radio station, and she confronted
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Speaker 1: the general manager and the program. It was, oh, it
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Speaker 1: was so great. It was awesome to watch this all
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Speaker 1: go down. You flew me here, and you're canceling my show.
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Speaker 1: And just, oh, so great. We didn't have cameras. This
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Speaker 1: is how long ago it was. We didn't have cell
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Speaker 1: phone cameras. But if we recorded that, oh, it would
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Speaker 1: have been awesome. Anyway, to Atlanta we go. To Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: where the Falcons are still a football team. Not a
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Speaker 1: good one. And they entered training camp with an easy decision.
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Speaker 1: Tua Tungabailoa had a clear, open runway for takeoff. To
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Speaker 1: be QB number one. QB number one. Number one. With
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Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr. spending most of the offseason socializing in
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Speaker 1: the trainer's room, recovering from a snap, crackle, pop, torn
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Speaker 1: up ACL. However, as we head into the final days
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Speaker 1: before NFL week one, and we've seen the Cleveland Browns
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Speaker 1: name the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson QB one. The Minnesota
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Speaker 1: Vikings went with the guy that needs the booster seat there,
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Speaker 1: Alligator Arms Murray, as their QB. Well, Atlanta has still
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Speaker 1: not made the move. There has been no public announcement
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Speaker 1: that Tua Tungabailoa has won the starting job. But wait,
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Speaker 1: there's more. State-funded NFL network, the propaganda arm of the NFL,
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Speaker 1: says the unresolved competition. They're connecting the dots here. that
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Speaker 1: the Falcons have not seen enough, and there's some trepidation
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Speaker 1: about naming Tua the starter. And that's obviously the money quote.
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Speaker 1: There's trepidation, fun word to say. The question, how much stalk,
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Speaker 1: how much stalk do you put into reports saying Atlanta has, quote, trepidation,
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Speaker 1: close quote, about making Tua QB number one? So we
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Speaker 1: are buying stock in the Falcons' trepidation. Kind of like
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Speaker 1: it's Apple in, I don't know, 2004. Because the optics
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Speaker 1: are terrible for Tua Tungabailoa. This is an enormous indictment.
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Speaker 1: He must be covered in cooties. Atlanta gift-wrapped. They literally
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Speaker 1: gift-wrapped Tua. The combination to the vault in a little box,
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Speaker 1: and it leads right to the dirty bird's nest. You
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Speaker 1: can put a bow on the box. They did that
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Speaker 1: very kindly. You take the bow off, you open the box,
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Speaker 1: and there it is. And Tua can't seem to figure
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Speaker 1: out how to take the bow off the box. He
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Speaker 1: can't do it to get the combination to the vault. Now,
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Speaker 1: the guy spent the entire summer practicing while Michael Penix Jr.
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Speaker 1: was hanging out with the medical staff, rehabbing his reconstructed knee,
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Speaker 1: and somehow, someway, Penix, who just the other day got
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Speaker 1: welcomed back there, he comes limping out of the repair shop,
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Speaker 1: barely practices, and still has a legitimate shot at QB1.
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Speaker 1: What in the world? Come on. If Tua were any good,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't this competition have been declared dead three weeks in
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Speaker 1: without all precincts reporting in it's just done? Tua isn't
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Speaker 1: part of the Falcons' circle of trust, and that's another problem.
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Speaker 1: He's outside the velvet ropes. He's hanging out with the
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Speaker 1: security people. He's like, come on, don't you know my name?
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Speaker 1: Come on, I'm on the list. I'm Tua. Tonga Bailoa.
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Speaker 1: I know you can't spell it, but I'm on there.
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Speaker 1: So this doesn't feel like a quarterback competition anymore. Much
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Speaker 1: like the Cleveland Browns, it's a situation where you don't
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Speaker 1: have a good quarterback. You've got to name somebody the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: In the case of Cleveland, the owner meddled and said, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm paying this guy $ 46 million. He's my quarterback. It's
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Speaker 1: a little different now. In Atlanta, obviously, because Tua is
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Speaker 1: on essentially a pillow contract, a one-year look at, let's
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Speaker 1: see if this guy can play situation. And if he
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Speaker 1: can't play well, he'll go back to market. Every once
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Speaker 1: in a while, it works. Vanellovic in Indianapolis, I still
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Speaker 1: don't believe he's going to be the long-term guy, but
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Speaker 1: he played well enough to get another deal for the Colts.
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Speaker 1: So that's where I am. It feels like Atlanta is
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Speaker 1: just kind of killing time. and they're staring at the
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Speaker 1: medical chart waiting for Michael Penix Jr. to show something
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Speaker 1: like the competition is not dead it's very much alive
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Speaker 1: even though neither one of the competitors is any good
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Speaker 1: it's like running a marathon and you got Tua who
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Speaker 1: tripped on his left foot and fell down and then
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Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr. hasn't even left the starting gate so
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Speaker 1: what do you what do you do with that I
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Speaker 1: don't know and they don't know either the coaching staff
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Speaker 1: they hired the old Cleveland Browns coaching staff they must
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Speaker 1: think they're back in Ohio the way things are going
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Speaker 1: on friday and then saturday the 29th three to five
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Speaker 1: stakeout barn go right near unlv lorena and coop will
22:42
Speaker 1: be there i'll be there a bunch of celebrity p1s
22:45
Speaker 1: of rsvp'd the legend wayne from mizzou he almost died
22:50
Speaker 1: in a motorcycle accident and Had the most famous drill
22:54
Speaker 1: sergeant in the history of the military as his drill
22:57
Speaker 1: sergeant years ago. He'll be there. Nathan and Brandy, they
23:00
Speaker 1: just announced back in hour, was it one or two,
23:03
Speaker 1: that they're flying in from northern Florida. Jay Scoop with
23:07
Speaker 1: Malheur merch. Wait till you see this Malheur merch. Everyone's
23:10
Speaker 1: going to want that. He'll be there. Lance the bus driver.
23:13
Speaker 1: Robbie the Mariner fan. Surfer Todd the comedian. JT, the wingman,
23:19
Speaker 1: there's so many names here. These are big names. Big
23:22
Speaker 1: Balls Bob is going to be there. He was the
23:24
Speaker 1: star last year. You're invited to join the Hootenanny. It's
23:27
Speaker 1: absolutely free. Parking is free, which seems suspicious. So two hours.
23:32
Speaker 1: We'll be there longer than that. We're just saying two
23:34
Speaker 1: hours in case you bore us. So check it out.
23:37
Speaker 1: Come say hello on Saturday. It should be mildly entertaining.
23:42
Speaker 1: It's good people watching, if nothing else. Even if you
23:44
Speaker 1: hate the show, it's good people watching. And we've got
23:47
Speaker 1: some real characters. I hope Mouthwash Mike shows up. We
23:51
Speaker 1: might have to do a post-game celebration with Mouthwash Mike.
23:56
Speaker 1: He invited me last time to go to the Bellagio.
23:58
Speaker 1: I might have to go with him over to the Bellagio.
24:00
Speaker 1: We'll see if he invites me again. It is the
24:02
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show and a call-in show. We'll take some
24:06
Speaker 1: calls right now. My board being reset. And while I
24:11
Speaker 1: do that, I can let you know that Michael Jordan...
24:15
Speaker 1: His no-show job, which is pretty much a no-show job,
24:18
Speaker 1: is over. Reports saying that Michael Jordan will not, will
24:25
Speaker 1: not return to NBC. Yes, NBC had Jordan on there,
24:34
Speaker 1: kind of. A lot of flim-flam involved in that story,
24:38
Speaker 1: but Jordan was pronounced as part of the big NBC.
24:44
Speaker 1: NBA deal. I was like, oh, man, you got Michael Jordan.
24:48
Speaker 1: How great is that? How amazing is that? And you're like, oh, man.
24:52
Speaker 1: And then it turned out that it was just a
24:55
Speaker 1: total buzzkill because Jordan had a very short run. He
25:00
Speaker 1: seemed to sit down with Mike Tirico, did one sit-down
25:04
Speaker 1: interview with Tirico, which was cannibalized by NBC into several
25:10
Speaker 1: segments throughout the season and And you're like, well, what
25:15
Speaker 1: are you doing? What's wrong? So Jordan's got so much money.
25:20
Speaker 1: He didn't need to do that crap. Like that's for
25:23
Speaker 1: his like seven generations down the line are going to
25:25
Speaker 1: use that NBC money. He was announced as a special
25:28
Speaker 1: contributor and very, very special. Although he did work harder
25:33
Speaker 1: than Kawhi Leonard. So there is that at his no-show job.
25:36
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
25:41
Speaker 1: Lucky Tony is in the Bay Area. Hello, Lucky Tony. Welcome.
25:47
Speaker 5: Hey, Ben. What do you call a trailer park hooker?
25:51
Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: A cockroach.
25:54
Speaker 1: Thanks, Ben. Let's say hello to Mike the Leprechaun. Hello,
26:02
Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun. Welcome.
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Speaker 5: These jokes are worse than mine.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that we don't take showers, Mike? I
26:11
Speaker 1: hung out with you for multiple days. Did I have
26:13
Speaker 1: body odor? Did you think I didn't shower?
26:15
Speaker 5: No, I shower frequently. I shower at least once a month.
26:21
Speaker 1: Congratulations. Well, you don't need to shower because a lot
26:29
Speaker 1: of people shower and they wear deodorant and cologne. You
26:36
Speaker 1: wear Hawaiian, whatever, tropic suntan lotion.
26:39
Speaker 5: I never get sunburned. I never get sunburned either.
26:43
Speaker 1: Congratulations.
26:44
Speaker 5: Who's the guy? Mudwash Mike, right? He does the birdbath.
26:48
Speaker 5: They call that a birdbath, the fountain, right?
26:51
Speaker 1: There's another more offensive term that has been used for
26:55
Speaker 1: that type of bath.
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Speaker 5: I'm not offensive. I'm never offensive.
26:58
Speaker 1: I know. Never offensive. No, no, no. How's your kid doing?
27:01
Speaker 1: Your kid doing better?
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Speaker 5: Thank you for asking. He's back to school tomorrow, yeah.
27:06
Speaker 5: And actually, the other one has a birthday today, so
27:07
Speaker 5: it's a busy weekend in the Leprechaun Lodge. Tom Cruise
27:13
Speaker 5: is in a new movie about food. It's called A
27:18
Speaker 5: Few Good Menus. A Few Good Menus. And Lorena, I.
27:25
Speaker 4: Was in Puerto Rico.
27:25
Speaker 5: This is Lorena's geography. I was in Puerto Rico recently.
27:30
Speaker 1: It's geology.
27:32
Speaker 2: Get it right.
27:33
Speaker 5: I loved the capital, Rio de Janeiro. That was absolutely beautiful.
27:37
Speaker 5: The capital of Puerto Rico, Rio de Janeiro.
27:43
Speaker 1: How many state capitals in America do you think Lorena
27:45
Speaker 1: could name?
27:47
Speaker 5: Okay, ask her Idaho.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's no chance she's going to name it.
27:53
Speaker 6: Okay.
27:53
Speaker 1: Boise. It's Boise.
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Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
27:55
Speaker 1: Look at that. Are you cheating? No, I'm not cheating.
28:00
Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: South Dakota.
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Speaker 1: South Dakota.
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Speaker 5: Antelope.
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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo.
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Speaker 6: Buffalo, yeah.
28:11
Speaker 1: Buffalo.
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Speaker 5: Buffalo Wings. No. Louisiana. You're going to be.
28:15
Speaker 6: Singing Sweet Caroline?
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Speaker 1: Bismarck, South Dakota.
28:19
Speaker 5: Yes, I knew that. But anyway, is Lorraine going to
28:22
Speaker 5: be singing Sweet Caroline?
28:26
Speaker 1: I don't know those words. I did not know them
28:28
Speaker 1: when I was on the stage with you, and I
28:29
Speaker 1: still do not know them now. It's karaoke. You can
28:33
Speaker 1: just read off the screen. The one at the meet
28:36
Speaker 1: and greet in Worcestershire did not actually have a screen.
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Speaker 5: No, because we're old school.
28:43
Speaker 1: Worcester. Two syllables.
28:45
Speaker 6: Worcester.
28:46
Speaker 1: Worcester. That's what I said. Worcester. That's where the real
28:51
Speaker 1: people in Massachusetts live.
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Speaker 4: No, that's the British way of saying it.
28:53
Speaker 5: It's like Worcestershire sauce. And I will say, Lorena had.
28:58
Speaker 4: A great comment yesterday.
28:59
Speaker 5: The game called Pigs is a brilliant game.
29:03
Speaker 6: It's a brilliant game of logic.
29:04
Speaker 5: Great, now I can't play Pigs anymore.
29:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
29:08
Speaker 1: You've now offended Lorena because you've complimented her, and she's
29:12
Speaker 1: now bothered by it. So you upset her.
29:14
Speaker 5: I can't win with her.
29:16
Speaker 1: That's pretty much true, with most women. All right, thank you.
29:20
Speaker 1: I got to run, but I appreciate that.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
29:23
Speaker 1: Yes. All right. There I go away. Well, there's a
29:27
Speaker 1: there's a term that's used often. Any publicity is good publicity.
29:32
Speaker 1: We had the WNBA came out the other day and
29:36
Speaker 1: scolded Ennis Cantor freedom for it. the game that everyone's
29:42
Speaker 1: been talking about here, where he was attacked by this
29:46
Speaker 1: Natasha Cloud. I guess that's a player for the WNBA. Anyway,
29:49
Speaker 1: so he got attacked by this woman. And then, of course,
29:51
Speaker 1: he got kicked out because she couldn't control herself. And
29:54
Speaker 1: it became this big hullabaloo. So apparently... The ratings are in,
30:03
Speaker 1: and let's just say that publicity stunt, good for business.
30:09
Speaker 1: Really good for business for the WNBA. So all you
30:13
Speaker 1: people complaining and bellyaching and saying, oh, it's not right.
30:17
Speaker 1: You're trying to make a mockery of our product and
30:21
Speaker 1: all that. Well, maybe you should do a mockery of
30:22
Speaker 1: the product because the ratings spiked up. And that game
30:28
Speaker 1: averaged 3.3 million viewers. And as many as 3.8 million.
30:33
Speaker 1: It was the most watched regular season WNBA game since 1997.
30:39
Speaker 1: Of course, unfortunately for the WNBA, they needed a man
30:45
Speaker 1: to create the drama. But still, people watched because he
30:49
Speaker 1: promoted the fact that he was going to do this.
30:51
Speaker 1: And he did it. Ennis Cantor freedom. And they got
30:54
Speaker 1: big ratings. So... They should have more NBA players get
30:59
Speaker 1: into it with these WNBA players, and then they'll have
31:03
Speaker 1: people watch. Let's go now. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's
31:06
Speaker 1: go to our man. He hasn't called in a while,
31:10
Speaker 1: but he's the smoothest trash man around. Danny DeVito. Hello, Danny. Welcome.
31:17
Speaker 1: Ben Mallow.
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Speaker 6: What's going on?
31:20
Speaker 1: Hanging out, Danny. What have you been up to? You
31:22
Speaker 1: working the dreaded day shift now?
31:25
Speaker 4: I work overnight, Sunday to Monday. Then I start later
31:29
Speaker 4: over here at Boston time around 4 or 5. So
31:31
Speaker 4: it works out pretty good now. I get some sleep now.
31:34
Speaker 4: I got a life now, Ben.
31:36
Speaker 1: Good. Good for you. Good for you.
31:38
Speaker 4: Ben, the real sports start here in a couple of weeks.
31:42
Speaker 4: And I know last year I made that prediction there,
31:47
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. I'm doing it again, Ben. So this year
31:50
Speaker 4: I like your Rams, but before I get to them,
31:54
Speaker 4: I'm going to go with the Buffalo Bills are going
31:58
Speaker 4: to go to the Super Bowl and win it. The
32:00
Speaker 4: Bills and my surprise team were going back 35, 36
32:04
Speaker 4: years ago. It's going to be the Giants, Ben. Okay.
32:09
Speaker 4: The Bills against the Giants. How do you feel about that, Ben?
32:14
Speaker 1: Giants will be better. I'm not buying that they're going
32:17
Speaker 1: to win the. NFC. They'll be a playoff team in
32:21
Speaker 1: the East. They'll find a way, whether it's the wild
32:23
Speaker 1: card or they'll win the East, but I'm not going
32:25
Speaker 1: that far. I'm not there.
32:28
Speaker 4: Okay, and then the next subject that I'm fascinated with
32:32
Speaker 4: is Shed. That owner there for the 49ers, Ben, this
32:36
Speaker 4: guy's a multi-billionaire. What is he doing going to a
32:39
Speaker 4: trailer park? Doesn't he own a house? I mean, usually
32:43
Speaker 4: guys would ask.
32:44
Speaker 1: Hold on a sec here. I think we know what
32:46
Speaker 1: he was doing going to a trailer park, what he
32:48
Speaker 1: was trying to do. I think we know what he
32:50
Speaker 1: was attempting to do. And why would you bring a
32:52
Speaker 1: cockroach into your home?
32:54
Speaker 5: Wow.
32:54
Speaker 1: Look at that. Yeah. So what would your advice be?
32:58
Speaker 1: He's probably listening right now, Jed York. I would imagine
33:00
Speaker 1: he's not sleeping much these days. So Danny DeVito, what
33:03
Speaker 1: is your advice? If you are in that situation, what
33:06
Speaker 1: would you advise him?
33:09
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's married or not, but maybe go.
33:12
Speaker 4: I mean, the guy has connections for all he's been.
33:15
Speaker 4: A billionaire, and he's going to a trailer park. I mean,
33:18
Speaker 4: I'm just fascinated with the story.
33:21
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Those trailer park professionals need love, too.
33:26
Speaker 1: They need money, I guess, but they need love, too, apparently.
33:29
Speaker 1: So who knows?
33:30
Speaker 4: I agree with that. But, you know, the stature of
33:32
Speaker 4: the man, I mean, I'm sure there's women that he
33:36
Speaker 4: could find without going there, Ben. You know, higher class woman,
33:40
Speaker 4: if you know what I mean, that he.
33:42
Speaker 1: Could go and get that. You would think, but he
33:45
Speaker 1: wanted to keep this on the down low. He used
33:47
Speaker 1: a different name. He wore a Yankee shirt. I'm sure
33:49
Speaker 1: the Yankees are happy about that. Good marketing for the
33:51
Speaker 1: Yankees there. Wear that Bronx Bombers shirt when you go
33:54
Speaker 1: to the trailer park in East Palestine, Ohio. That's the
33:56
Speaker 1: way to do it.
33:57
Speaker 4: On the story, supposedly he wanted to do, I guess,
34:00
Speaker 4: a woman or whatever he was talking to wanted $ 200
34:03
Speaker 4: for it, and he got it down to $ 140. I've heard.
34:07
Speaker 1: I don't know this firsthand, but I have friends of
34:09
Speaker 1: mine that do partake. in this activity. And they tell
34:12
Speaker 1: me there's a lot of upcharging that goes on in
34:14
Speaker 1: that business. There's a lot of upcharging.
34:16
Speaker 4: I would imagine there is.
34:18
Speaker 1: Added fees, if you know what I mean. You know,
34:20
Speaker 1: the add-on fees. They're worse than Vegas with the fees
34:26
Speaker 1: they have. Anyway, all right. Well, thank you, Dan.
34:29
Speaker 6: Thanks, man.
34:29
Speaker 4: I'll talk to you soon.
34:30
Speaker 1: Be well.
34:30
Speaker 6: All right.
34:31
Speaker 1: No, you won't. You won't call for like two months,
34:33
Speaker 1: but that's fine. We'll deal with it. Let's go to
34:35
Speaker 1: E-Dawg on Long Island. Hello, E-Dawg. Welcome.
34:40
Speaker 6: How you doing, Benjamin?
34:41
Speaker 4: What's going on, Ben?
34:45
Speaker 1: Generally, the caller says what's going on. Like, I introduce you,
34:49
Speaker 1: and then you make a brilliant point, and then we
34:52
Speaker 1: move on.
34:53
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.
34:54
Speaker 6: I agree with Danny DeVito about the Bills. Like you said,
34:59
Speaker 6: the Super Bowl this year.
35:03
Speaker 1: Why exactly? What did Buffalo do? You're a big believer
35:06
Speaker 1: in DJ Moore. You think DJ Moore was the missing link?
35:10
Speaker 1: Is that what you think? Bradley Chubb, that was the
35:13
Speaker 1: big thing that pushes them over the top?
35:15
Speaker 6: Well, the Bills have tremendous defense.
35:18
Speaker 1: They do? Really?
35:21
Speaker 5: Yeah.
35:22
Speaker 1: Can you name two people right now in the starting
35:24
Speaker 1: lineup for the Buffalo Bills' defense?
35:28
Speaker 6: Um... Let me think.
35:32
Speaker 4: Let me think.
35:37
Speaker 1: Smith and Bill Wilson. You're just throwing out generic names.
35:40
Speaker 1: You just threw out generic names. And, by the way, E-Dog,
35:44
Speaker 1: I gave you one of the names. I said the
35:48
Speaker 1: name Bradley Chubb. Do you know who Bradley Chubb is?
35:52
Speaker 4: He used to wait for the Browns, right? No.
35:59
Speaker 1: All right. Thank you. All right, go away. Is Ed
36:06
Speaker 1: Oliver still there? Yeah. Unfortunately, he was in the headlines.
36:11
Speaker 1: It's a tragedy there. Oh, yeah, that's right. All right,
36:14
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37:14
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37:14
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37:18
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37:22
Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. All right, right to the judges
37:26
Speaker 1: we go. Let's welcome in our celebrity judges. We've got Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe.
37:31
Speaker 1: We've got Coach Russell. Hello, Coach Russell.
37:34
Speaker 4: Welcome.
37:36
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning. Good morning. We're on a bye week
37:38
Speaker 6: this week. Early in the season, our... Schedule kind of
37:41
Speaker 6: got messed up. We had a team that canceled on
37:43
Speaker 6: us about a month ago, so we had to pick
37:46
Speaker 6: up a game during our original bye week, which was
37:49
Speaker 6: in the middle.
37:51
Speaker 1: Of the season. You hate to have that early bye.
37:53
Speaker 1: You hate to have that.
37:54
Speaker 6: All right.
37:55
Speaker 1: Hold on, Coach. We got good luck. Enjoy the week off.
37:58
Speaker 1: Sharky in KC is going to play. Hello, Sharky.
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Speaker 4: Hello. I'm happy to be here. I made it through
38:04
Speaker 4: my birthday last night, so I think I'm going strong.
38:08
Speaker 1: Congratulations. You've circled the globe another time there. Congratulations.
38:12
Speaker 4: Thank you.
38:13
Speaker 1: Very impressive. Seuss dog, the legend, friend of Marcel. Hello,
38:17
Speaker 1: Seuss dog.
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Speaker 5: Hello, governor.
38:20
Speaker 1: How you doing? How you doing? Are you disappointed now
38:25
Speaker 1: Marcel's figured out who you are? It's very disappointing.
38:28
Speaker 6: He's already forgotten, trust me.
38:30
Speaker 1: That's likely true. Hold on a sec, Seuss dog. We
38:32
Speaker 1: have Alameda Lou. Hello, Alameda Lou. Hello.
38:36
Speaker 5: Next time you invite Jed York to a Malheur meet
38:39
Speaker 5: and greet, send him the writer dress.
38:42
Speaker 1: Great moments in Bay Area sports history with Alameda Lou.
38:46
Speaker 1: It's quite the story. I think that's all we have
38:49
Speaker 1: time for, but let's get to the stories real quick here, gentlemen.
38:53
Speaker 1: Story number one, figure out which isn't true for the ladies.
38:55
Speaker 1: Many teams around the NFL are revealing their rivalry alternative uniforms.
38:59
Speaker 1: And the NFL also announced a partnership with Luguman on
39:03
Speaker 1: a line of activewear for women with designs inspired by
39:07
Speaker 1: each of the NFL's 32 teams. Story number two, Jed
39:11
Speaker 1: York getting an offer he likely will refuse from the
39:15
Speaker 1: famous brothel in Pahrump, Nevada. The Madame there, the general manager.
39:21
Speaker 1: telling TMZ they would like to offer Jed, along with
39:24
Speaker 1: fellow NFL owners and players, a seminar on how to
39:27
Speaker 1: legally hire prostitutes. That's a good class. And story number three,
39:32
Speaker 1: shuffle up and deal. Toy company Mattel recently announced a
39:36
Speaker 1: UNO World Championship Series. which he'll bring the classic card
39:40
Speaker 1: game to the world stage. Anyone can take their shot
39:42
Speaker 1: at the tournament. And the grand prize there, $ 50, 000, November
39:47
Speaker 1: 11th in L.A. Real quick, Coach Russell, one, two, or three,
39:50
Speaker 1: Coach Russell.
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Speaker 6: Number two, hey, man, you got to come to Orlando, brother.
39:54
Speaker 1: I'll come to Orlando. Sharky, one, two, or three, Sharky.
39:58
Speaker 1: Number one, numero uno. All right, Seuss dog.
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Speaker 5: Number two.
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Speaker 1: All right, Alameda Lou, Alameda Lou.
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Speaker 2: Number two, owners don't need advice.
40:09
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, it's number one, the Lululemon. The
40:13
Speaker 1: owners were invited to the brothel. I don't think they're
40:15
Speaker 1: going to show up.