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Hour 4 - Boo Bird Approved · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It's our number four. And a happy Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: to you. It's the 14th day of October. If you
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  Speaker 1: missed the earlier hour, it's my younger brother's birthday. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to remind myself. I'm telling you it's my
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  Speaker 1: brother's birthday so I can remember to call my brother
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  Speaker 1: later today. So I'm using you to remind me to
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  Speaker 1: get a hold of my brother. And again, if you're
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  Speaker 1: in Appleton, Wisconsin, he lives in that area. If you
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  Speaker 1: see my brother out and about at Culver's or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, say hello to him. Say hi. Say happy birthday.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here in hour number four, are you surprised
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  Speaker 1: that Jerry Jones publicly supported the fans' right to criticize
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  Speaker 1: his $ 60 million-a-year quarterback, Dakota Prescott? as the Cowboys are
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  Speaker 1: having another tough season. Also, how much stalk do you
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  Speaker 1: put in Packers star Micah Parsons' thunderclapping of Commanders quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels' clock management? And have the Titans media guys
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  Speaker 1: cross the line with quarterback Cam Ward. We'll go there
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  Speaker 1: as well. It's all coming your way right now in
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  Speaker 1: a jam-packed Extra Spicy. Hour number four. Have a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: hump day. Do the hump-de-hump-de-hump. Here it is, hour number four. Boo!
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  Speaker 1: Bird approved. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
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  Speaker 1: no time like October The NLCS is here. It resumes
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  Speaker 1: tonight live on Fox 1. Game 3, the back-to-back World
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  Speaker 1: Series champion Dodgers on the ropes take on the top-seeded Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: It's an NLCS rematch. One series from the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Stream the MLB postseason live on Fox 1. Now, we
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  Speaker 1: are scheduled to have a verbal octagon. I do not
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  Speaker 1: see either one of the combatants online. So that tells
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  Speaker 1: me we will likely not have the verbal octagon. We're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to have the leprechaun versus Marcel. So I do
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  Speaker 1: see Marcel. I do see Marcel. I do not see
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  Speaker 1: the leprechaun. So we'll see if the leprechaun shows up.
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  Speaker 1: If he does, we'll have the verbal octagon. We'd like
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  Speaker 1: to alert all the affiliates. If not, no verbal octagon.
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  Speaker 1: But our lead story this hour from the world. Whose world?
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  Speaker 1: Jerry's world. That's who. He's done it yet again. Feeding
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  Speaker 1: the content machine. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones defending... Defending that
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  Speaker 1: random heckler who confronted Dakota Prescott following Dallas's alarming defeat
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  Speaker 1: at the hands of the backup undrafted quarterback for the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay football team. So if you didn't see this
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  Speaker 1: or hear about it, perhaps not. In his weekly radio shindig.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones was asked about the car service driver who
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  Speaker 1: was contracted, who shouted embarrassing at Dak Prescott there at
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  Speaker 1: AT & T Stadium. And that, of course, led to
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  Speaker 1: the exchange went went viral. Well, here's Jerry, who just
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  Speaker 1: kind of gave it a shoulder shrug. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't pay a lot of attention to it. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't impact me at all. The driver in question was
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  Speaker 2: not an employee, but feds can express themselves and should
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  Speaker 2: express themselves. I love it for them, too.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have the.
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  Speaker 2: Whether he was our employee or not, he was a fan,
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  Speaker 2: so it sounds like. So I'm for our fans expressing themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, so there's Jerry. They're clarifying. Hey, the guy wasn't
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  Speaker 1: an employee, but I am all for fans. They can
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  Speaker 1: express themselves. They should express themselves. Alright, so that's a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Are
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  Speaker 1: you surprised that Jerry Jones publicly... Essentially endorse, I know
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  Speaker 1: the phone connection wasn't that good, but he endorsed the fans'
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  Speaker 1: right to criticize his $ 60 million a year quarterback for
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys there, Dakota Prescott. So I've got the Golden Rule,
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  Speaker 1: the Ming Dynasty Vase, and long in the tooth old
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  Speaker 1: school musician Kenny G. And we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to hit a grand slam because we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have the jambalaya, the baba ganoush, and the gabagoo.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have all that. But first of all,
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  Speaker 1: to answer the question, we are not team surprised. We
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  Speaker 1: are not team surprised on this. Now, Jerry Jones does
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  Speaker 1: not fear the angry cowboy fan. You know what he fears?
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  Speaker 1: There's one thing that drives him bonkers. You know what
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  Speaker 1: it is? That drives him insane. Outrage is good for business.
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  Speaker 1: It just is. It's good for business. But apathy, that
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  Speaker 1: is the grim reaper wearing a star on the helmet.
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  Speaker 1: We post the company, not me, I don't post any
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  Speaker 1: of this crap, but the company cannibalizes these monologues and
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  Speaker 1: they chop it up into little bite-sized pieces and they
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  Speaker 1: send it out while I'm sleeping. And I'll wake up
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  Speaker 1: and I'll usually do a drive-by where I'll open up
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  Speaker 1: the thing on my phone and I'll say, all right,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Real quick, we've got a drive-by. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll get some reaction from the algorithm. Every once in
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  Speaker 1: a while, we fall into the algorithm and people get
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  Speaker 1: very upset, very emotional. And I have a Cheshire Cat
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  Speaker 1: smile from ear to ear because I know this is
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  Speaker 1: the business I'm in. This is the outrage business. And
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you're reacting and you're using the same
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  Speaker 1: lines that have been used for 25 years, I laugh at.
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  Speaker 1: And you're paying my bills. I'm very happy. I get
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  Speaker 1: upset if there's no outrage. And Jerry Jones knows that
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  Speaker 1: better than anybody. Jerry doesn't care whether you're cheering or booing.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you're watching and buying another $ 175 jersey,
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  Speaker 1: he's happy. The boss has figured out that outrage is
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  Speaker 1: not the enemy of the entertainment business. It is not
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  Speaker 1: the enemy. Outrage is the entertainment business. And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And Jerry understands the golden rule of show business. Love me,
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  Speaker 1: hate me, just whatever you do, do not ignore me.
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  Speaker 1: Make all your crude jokes. I don't know who you
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  Speaker 1: are while you're consuming my content. It's like I'm opening
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant serving cheeseburgers and you're telling me how bad
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  Speaker 1: the cheeseburgers are while you're paying for the cheeseburgers and
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  Speaker 1: you're eating the cheeseburgers. So therefore, the joke's on you, dummy.
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  Speaker 1: And Jerry Jones knows that. You can call Dakota Prescott
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  Speaker 1: every name in the book. You can boo the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: Boo! Boo!
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  Speaker 1: Boo! Boo! Just like that. You can boo the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: until the roof on Jerry's world comes shaking. You start
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  Speaker 1: shaking like that. You can demand every single employee is fired.
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  Speaker 1: You can say the players should be traded. You can
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  Speaker 1: say that Dak Prescott should be deported. To play for
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  Speaker 1: the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Canadian Football League or
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  Speaker 1: the BC Lions. Jerry doesn't give a flying fudgicle. He
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  Speaker 1: does not. I'll throw a fudgicle in your face. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care. As long as you're emotionally invested. He's got
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  Speaker 1: you by the footballs.
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  Speaker 4: He does.
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  Speaker 1: And the one thing he cannot monetize is apathy. It's indifference.
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  Speaker 5: That.
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  Speaker 1: is scary and the cowboys they don't have to win
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  Speaker 1: the super bowl they never win the super bowl most
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  Speaker 1: people most young people have no memory of the dallas
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  Speaker 1: cowboys ever winning anything they suck all right and they've
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  Speaker 1: sucked for 30 years but jerry knows that in the
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  Speaker 1: attention economy they don't suck yeah they might not win
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  Speaker 1: playoff games very often the cowboys However, in the attention economy,
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  Speaker 1: in that department, Jerry Jones is the greatest of all time. Period.
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  Speaker 2: Stop.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Secondly, to the Beltway we go. A former
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones employee making some headlines here. Packers... I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say star. He doesn't play. He's hurt. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't play football. I don't know what he does. Micah
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  Speaker 1: Parsons blasting the Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels for Washington's debacle.
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  Speaker 1: The overtime snafu heard around the football world that resulted
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  Speaker 1: in a tie game against the Giants. And he suggested
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  Speaker 1: that the blunder will likely cost Dan Quinn, the head
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  Speaker 1: coach's job, just to prove I'm not making this up.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Micah Parsons of the Green Bay Packers. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Jaden Daniels probably cost my man Dan quitting his job,
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  Speaker 4: to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: That's tough. And, like, I'm a big Jaden Daniels fan.
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  Speaker 4: But the reality is, like, he probably cost a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people their jobs this past weekend.
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  Speaker 6: So you put none of that on the coaches here?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, bro, all respectfully, we get coached so much on
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  Speaker 4: these situations that They're like, I'm a defensive player, and
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  Speaker 4: this is programmed in me. I know what to do
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  Speaker 4: in those situations. There's no way I'm taking a sack
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  Speaker 4: with 14 seconds of no timeouts. And mind you, it
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  Speaker 4: would be different if Jaden Daniels was a rookie. This
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  Speaker 4: is your third year. This is your third year. You've
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  Speaker 4: been to the NFC Championship game. You've been in big
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  Speaker 4: moments before. And to me, even after a sack, you're
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  Speaker 4: casually getting up.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so he ranted and raved. At one point,
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  Speaker 1: he used the word inexcusable. As you heard, some of that,
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  Speaker 1: he criticized just the casual way that Jaden Daniels was
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  Speaker 1: getting up. So the question, how much talk do you
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  Speaker 1: put in Green Bay Packers player Micah Parsons' thunderclapping of
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  Speaker 1: the commander's quarterback there, Jaden Daniels, and his inept clock management?
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  Speaker 1: So we begin by pointing out Micah Parsons is defending
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  Speaker 1: a friend. Stand by your man. Dan Quinn, medicine man.
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  Speaker 1: That's his pal. They're buddies from their days together with
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas football team. But that does not mean that
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  Speaker 1: Micah Parsons is wrong. We used to live in an
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  Speaker 1: era where coaches would call out players. We don't live
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  Speaker 1: in that era anymore. Every coach is afraid. They're scared.
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  Speaker 1: And they don't want to criticize any of these players.
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  Speaker 1: So it takes other players to occasionally step out of
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  Speaker 1: bounds and criticize the current players that are going on.
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  Speaker 1: And Parsons is leading the league in unsolicited, unsolicited podcast opinions.
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay, in terms of impact on the field, has
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  Speaker 1: gotten capital B, bupkis, in that Micah Parsons trade. The
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  Speaker 1: guy's been hurt, only played a few games. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing Parsons is consistently pressuring is the algorithm on social media.
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  Speaker 1: Really good at that. And meanwhile, Jaden Daniels committed the
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  Speaker 1: brain fart for the ages. Years from now, we will
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  Speaker 1: be comparing the ineptitude of quarterbacks to Jaden Daniels. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty sure that in my life I will not see
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  Speaker 1: another quarterback run out the clock in a tie game
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  Speaker 1: in field goal range. I'm also pretty sure I won't
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  Speaker 1: see J.R. Smith or some other NBA player dribble out
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  Speaker 1: the clock in a tie game in the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: Both those things have happened. I've lived to do talk
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  Speaker 1: radio in an era where both these things happen. So,
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels, what a brain fart. The commanders, of course,
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  Speaker 1: immediately acted. As a unit, they circled the wagons. They
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  Speaker 1: put up the electromagnetic field, the force field, around Jaden Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: And the commanders have wrapped Jaden Daniels in so much
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  Speaker 1: bubble wrap. How much bubble wrap? So much bubble wrap.
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  Speaker 1: They've got enough there. They could put a Ming Dynasty
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  Speaker 1: vase that is being shipped cross-country. By FedEx, they could
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  Speaker 1: make sure that's safe because they have so much bubble wrap.
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  Speaker 1: And again, you can criticize the president. You can take
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  Speaker 1: shots at the Pope. But apparently, Jaden Daniels is off limits. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why is that? Why would that be? Because he was
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  Speaker 1: operating the two-minute offense there. The two-minute offense with the
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  Speaker 1: urgency of someone waiting for a prescription at CVS. You
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  Speaker 1: just play on your phone. And you're playing video games,
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  Speaker 1: and you're smashing pumpkins or whatever you're smashing there on
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  Speaker 1: whatever game you're playing. Like I play Scrabble. I play
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  Speaker 1: that a lot, right? So you're doing that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, final thought. To Nashville. We go where
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee is bad at football but good at providing content
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  Speaker 1: to talk radio. Tennessee is 0-5. They're a bad football
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  Speaker 1: team any way you measure it. And they have an
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  Speaker 1: incompetent quarterback, Cam Ward, who was the number one overall
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  Speaker 1: pick of the 2025 NFL draft. And he remains completely
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  Speaker 1: overwhelmed by the National Football League. He plays quarterback like
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  Speaker 1: someone that should be selling insurance. It's not good. Cam
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  Speaker 1: Ward threw for just $ 1. 70. 170 yards and an interception
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  Speaker 1: in another embarrassing loss to the old Houston Oilers. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the team that replaced the Houston Oilers. They're the Houston Oilers.
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  Speaker 1: A reporter then after the— we talked about this the other
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  Speaker 1: day in a previous episode of the show. A reporter
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  Speaker 1: bluntly asked Cam Ward, have you gotten used to losing?
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  Speaker 1: Now that created a hullabaloo. It sparked some controversy. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're being mean, Mr. Meany!
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's not fair. You shouldn't ask a question. You're cruel.
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  Speaker 1: You can't ask that kind of question. Now, Ward fired back,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a loser. The record may say that we
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  Speaker 1: are right now, but I'm not. Now, another reporter recently
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  Speaker 1: challenged Cam Ward's claim that he was a good quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And his argument, which is a very tough argument to
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  Speaker 1: overcome for Cam Ward, is his performance. Yeah, not good.
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  Speaker 1: Not good. And so some dopes now accusing... The Titan reporters,
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  Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans media contingent, of lacking journalistic integrity. And
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  Speaker 1: they have accused the reporters of intentionally asking mean-spirited questions, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Meany.
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  Speaker 1: All right, question. Have the Tennessee Titans reporters crossed the
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  Speaker 1: line with quarterback Cam Ward? This is great. When I
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  Speaker 1: want my journalistic integrity, I look to an NFL beat
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  Speaker 1: on the worst franchise in the NFL this side of
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, the Tennessee Titans. That's what I look for.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm shaking my head. No, I'm shaking my head.
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  Speaker 1: No on this. We have reached a fascinating moment in
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  Speaker 1: the industrial complex of American sport where for many losing
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  Speaker 1: is now perfectly acceptable.
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  Speaker 8: It is.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a problem. Asking about losing is where
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  Speaker 1: we draw the line. You're allowed to lose. You're allowed
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  Speaker 1: to suck. Being asked about that, not allowed. What are
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  Speaker 1: we doing? Seriously, what do you do? What are the
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  Speaker 1: reporters supposed to do? What are they supposed to do here?
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  Speaker 1: Draw Cam Ward a nice, warm bubble bath? Light some
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  Speaker 1: scented candles for Cam and play some nice, soft Kenny
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  Speaker 1: G music. Say, Cam, it's another funeral. You just lost again.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not your.
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  Speaker 3: Fault, Cam.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you have no idea what you're doing and look
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  Speaker 1: like you'd never picked up a football before a couple
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago. But it's not your fault.
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  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Just relax. Everything will be fine. I'll get you a
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  Speaker 1: glass of wine. Everything's wonderful. Cam Ward, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: 22 starts. He is 3-19. I'm told that's not good.
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  Speaker 1: Can't point that out, though. Cannot point out a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: that is 3-19 as a starter is not good. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: he finished at the very bottom in QBR, and despite
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  Speaker 1: a new coaching staff, Mr. Positivity, Robert Sala, and the
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  Speaker 1: rotund Brian Dayball as the offensive genius, he is currently
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  Speaker 1: right near the bottom again, Cam Ward, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the measurements we judge quarterbacks by. It is so bad.
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  Speaker 1: How bad is it? It's so bad that even Jamarcus
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  Speaker 1: Russell was watching this last game. He put down his
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  Speaker 1: purple drink and said, hey, turns out I wasn't that
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  Speaker 1: bad with the old Oakland Raiders. I wasn't that bad.
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  Speaker 1: Now the fanboys want the media. to be more supportive.
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  Speaker 1: And this is, again, I go back to the thing
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  Speaker 1: that started 25 years ago, MLB.com. I had an executive
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  Speaker 1: from Major League Baseball who worked for one of the
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  Speaker 1: teams who pointed out that this is the future. We
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  Speaker 1: are going to control the media. Back in those days,
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  Speaker 1: there were these things called newspapers. People actually used to
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  Speaker 1: read newspapers. What a bunch of losers. People love newspapers.
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  Speaker 1: That's where they got their news. They called them newspapers.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy said, listen, MLB.com, every team's going to
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  Speaker 1: have a beat reporter. And future generations are going to
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  Speaker 1: be programmed by positive content. They're not going to want
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  Speaker 1: tough questions. They're going to want this kind of content.
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  Speaker 1: And here we are, years later, and that person was
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  Speaker 1: like Nostradamus. Spot on. Got a whole generation. You're being mean, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Meany!
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Okay. Wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: So perhaps... Next week, I have some advice to the
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans beat reporters. I think Danny in Nashville and
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  Speaker 1: Blind Seabass will agree with me on this. So next week,
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  Speaker 1: the next time the Titans take the field and they lose,
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  Speaker 1: the reporters can form a human tunnel. You know, like
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  Speaker 1: the human tunnel thing. And then they can give Cam
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a standing ovation because he tied his shoes yesterday. Way
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to go, Cam. You tied your shoes. We're proud of you. Outstanding.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Tremendous job. It is the Bane-Maller show. I do not
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: see the leprechaun, so we will not have the verbal octagon.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: He is a no-show for the octagon, so we'll have
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: to put that aside. I'm sure he's got a good excuse.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I would rip him, but the last time I ripped
• 20:55
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• 20:57
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• 20:59
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• 21:02
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• 21:04
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• 21:08
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• 21:14
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• 21:21
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• 21:25
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• 21:29
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• 21:34
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• 21:36
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• 21:41
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• 22:24
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. We have
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the Octagon. Our combatants have both shown up a little
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: late there, Mike the Leprechaun, but he is here. So
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: we will have a spur-of-the-moment Maller verbal octagon. You seem concerned, Coop.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Is everything okay? Can I confirm something with you, Ben?
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: I'm getting these tweets, these angry tweets from Mike the LibraCon.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: I am not a no-show. I am waiting for Coop.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: When you said that, there were three people on hold,
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: and all three were screened. Am I wrong?
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't see anyone who hadn't been screened on, I
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: don't know, I didn't see anybody that was on hold.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's complaining about. But anyway, the Octagon,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I won't waste your time here. Give out the number
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. You can comment on the Octagon
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: on X, at Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller. And
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: we'll not waste any more of your time. Here we go.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Here we go. All right, back to it. Real quick,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: before we get to the Octagon, I tease. You tease,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you got to please. So LeBron James being investigated by
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the police?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: No.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: No.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Worse than the police, Pablo Torre, that podcast guy, is
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: snooping around LeBron James and his deal with the Philadelphia 76ers,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the flights. He's living in Manhattan and traveling down to Philadelphia.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: There is that. And also, if you're a fan of
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: EA Sports, college football... It might not be in the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: game anymore. Apparently, the makers claim they just cannot afford
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: to spend the money on NIL. Originally, they paid $ 600
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: per player, about $ 7 million total to players to be
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: in the video game. Since the NIL.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Era has come upon us, it is now costing $ 1, 500
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: per player, which means EA Sports spends roughly $ 20 million
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: on the players and they claim they apparently don't make
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: enough money. I don't know how many games they sell.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Seems like a lot of people buy that game, at
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: least back in the day. Enough of that. Here we go.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Let's get to the octagon right now. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: This is a bad blood matchup. Currently making his way
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: in to the octagon. A legend from the mean streets
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: of Brooklyn. A man who was the first person to
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: report about the Titanic sinking on radio. Because radio did
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: not exist when the Titanic sunk. And a man who
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: has been immortalized for the player of the night. Who
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: could forget when the Toronto Raptors were in the NBA Finals.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: And Pascal, what's his name, Marcel? Pascal what? No, we
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: don't have the drop. Anyway, Marcel, here he is.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: I thought you were asking.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Him for it. I wanted the drop.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Of course you did.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Let me read your mind. Marcel, it's part of the job. Yes,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: what's going on, Marcel? You're here. All right, Marcel. I'm
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: going to take.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: This opportunity to all of you listening out there.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: I want the revenge to get the caller of the
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: year next year in the bed.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: All right, hold on. You're wasting our time. Next up,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: making his way into the ring.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: A man who has been a part of this show,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: a staple of the show for several years now. He
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: helped host with our friend from New Hampshire. Unfortunately, we
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: couldn't see him there. Mike in New Hampshire. But the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: great Mallor meet and greet. We were in Worcester, and
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: he put it together there. I hung out with him
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: at the Woosox game. He will literally talk to anyone.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: We welcome in the one and only, the man that
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: proposed this fight. Mike the Leprechaun is making his way
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: into the ring. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: Good morning. I was on hold since 4.30. Already I'm calling.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: All right. You're already complaining.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: He doesn't have J-Scoop.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Boring.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: Boring.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Boring. So if you're new to the show, every once
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: in a while when callers have beefs, we go to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the verbal octagon. It is the highest form of combat
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: that we have in talk radio. Verbal boxing, no holds barred,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: vocal cord brouhaha. This is audio pugilism. It is not
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: for the weak of heart, or the faint of heart,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: or the weak of heart, for that matter. The combatants
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: are here. Now, the way this will work, spoken word battle.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Of legends, Marcel in Brooklyn and the Leprechaun. There are
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: three rounds. Round one, each person's on the air for
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: 10 seconds. We said 10 seconds. I believe that's what
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: we've done before. Round two will be 20 seconds. And
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: then round three, bloody knuckles yapping as both gentlemen will
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: be in the ring for a full 30 seconds. A
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: full 30 seconds.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Gentlemen, we've been over the rules. If you curse one time,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: you are penalized. If you curse more than one time,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: you are disqualified.
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: Houston, we have a problem.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: The judges, yours truly, Lorena, Koopaloop, and you, the people,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: will be able to vote, both live and the podcast
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: people that are not awake right now. You'll be able
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: to vote on X.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Good luck. And let's get started here. First up, into
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the ring. Let's put 10 seconds on the clock. Opening
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: salvo time. Marcel in Brooklyn. You're on your way, Marcel.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: And go.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to block him now. He's going to block
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: you now, Leprechaun.
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: I'm going to block him now.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: He's going to block him now.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: All right, Marcel, 10 seconds exactly.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: That was perfection. Oh, my gosh.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: A little music there from Marcel. Now we go over
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to Mike the Leprechaun. You're listening to round one of
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the Verbal Octagon of the Ben Maller Show. Mike the Leprechaun,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: who lives kind of in the Worcester area, in between
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Worcester and Boston. And, Mike, we're going to put 10
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: seconds on the clock. Mike the Leprechaun, round one, Verbal Octagon.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: You're on your way.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Go!
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: Hey, Graham Ripper, you cannot beat the leprechaun. The sandbox
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: in your bedroom, weeks of your stinky diapers. You're the
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: champion of verbal diarrhea on the radio. Why are you
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: so insecure? Maybe you're jealous.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: All right, that was 10 seconds. There we go. So
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: round one is in the books. We now move to
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: round two. Round number two of the verbal octagon.
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: Number two.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: And we welcome in Back again for more. Marcel in Brooklyn.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: You have 20 seconds, Marcel. 20 seconds. You're on your way.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Go.
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: I'm going to continue to block my feet. Con and
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: four New England.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Villains like Mike in New Hampshire, Blair in Maine, as
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: well as Blythe Scott in Boston.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: They are the worst.
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: They are the terrible instead.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: They are not being part of your show there, man.
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: Trust me.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: All right. He used 18. Let the record show, judges,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: 18 of the full 22 seconds, or 20 seconds, rather.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And we go back to Mike the Leprechaun. You listen
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: to our live coverage. We've hit big money for this,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the verbal octagon. So we go over to Mike the Leprechaun.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun, we'll give you 20 seconds on the clock.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: You can respond to Marcel in Brooklyn. You're on your way.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: And go!
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: Papi beat you fair and square. You can't handle the truth.
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: You're a mama's boy. You always get grounded. You love
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: watching the male cheerleaders. You put Celeste Pizza out of business.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: The Brooklyn mob is scared of the New England villains.
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: You are too chicken to walk on the bridge. You
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: have no joke. You are a joke. I tell jokes.
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: How many mosquitoes did you circumcise?
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right. We cut him off
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: just before he got a good circumcision joke in. We're
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: deprived of that. Okay, so we're two rounds in. Verbal Octagon,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: who do you think is winning right now? You've got
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Marcel in Brooklyn versus Mike the Leprechaun. We will not
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: go to the CompuBox stats yet. Instead, are we ready
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: for the final round? This is round three bloody knuckles
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: yapping as both Marcel in Brooklyn and the Leprechaun will
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: be in the octagon where legends like Real Talk and
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Pete in Pittsburgh and Jeannie in Medford have made their
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: legend even bigger. We're going to put 30 seconds on
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the clock. Here we go. Don't start yet, gentlemen. Here
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: we go. And I'm going to make sure to punch
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the leprechaun up. 30 seconds on the way. And go, go, go, go, go.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: All right, everybody.
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: I'm going to win the call of the year.
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: You've got no nothing.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: You've got the whole side of the New.
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: England side of the mafia. Get out of here. If
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: you're alive, I'm a wolf. You're never going to ruin
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: my day.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: If you do that, there is no choice but to
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: be part of your family like this.
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: This is mine. My campaign is this. You're dead weight.
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: You're locked.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: You're locked.
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: Get out of here.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: You're unlimited.
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: I'm going to block you, Marcel.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no.
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: Don't say that. Your city has a stinky smell.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Stand down, stand down. Okay, there it is.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Round three.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: In the books. And wow.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the judges' scorecards quickly here. And shall
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I start? Who wants to start? All right, I'll go first.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Ben.
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Round number one. I don't think this was close at all.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I looked at the CompuBox stats, and this was haymaker
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: after haymaker by Marcel. He came out with a musical melody. Now, granted,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I think it was just from the song he did
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: with J. Scoop. I thought it was very good. And
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: there were several body blows. We went back and looked
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: at the CompuBox stats. There were several body blows. body
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: blows there and really overwhelming. There was that gut punch
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: that he landed on the leprechaun. So I scored round
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: one a clear win.
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: 10-8.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: 10-8 in favor of Marcel in Brooklyn. Now round two. Now,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that was not nuclear destruction round two. That was a
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: bit of a quagmire for Marcel. I thought he came out,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of material. He did not use
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the full allotment of time. I didn't get that. I
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: thought Mike the Leprechaun came back with an atomic elbow.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: It was not the greatest atomic elbow, but it was
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a pretty solid atomic elbow. and styles make fights. I
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: thought that because Marcel ran out of material, I did
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: score that round in favor of Mike the Leprechaun 10-9
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: on my scorecard. And then in round three, back and forth,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: it was pretty good. I thought, you know, we've had
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: some greats. I thought, looking at the numbers from the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: CompuBox punch stats, I gave a slight edge, a slight edge,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: To Marcel in Brooklyn. And so I scored him two
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: rounds to one. And he wins the fight. What about you, Lorena?
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: I just adored Marcel's passion.
• 34:16
  Speaker 9: You can tell he did not write down all of
• 34:19
  Speaker 9: his responses like Mike the Leprechaun did. He was definitely
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: going off of a list that he had written out.
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: Marcel's was from the heart every single time, even if
• 34:28
  Speaker 9: it was a couple seconds short.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying? So I got to give Marcel, well,
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: my first round, 10-4.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: 10-4?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know. I've never seen that in boxing. Okay.
• 34:38
  Speaker 9: And second round, I got to give Marcel At 10-3,
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: Marcel also in the lead.
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: And round five, I have 10-2.
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 34:45
  Speaker 9: Because I didn't like when he was saying mean stuff
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: to Marcel. I thought he was being really rude. So,
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: you know, there's a difference.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I know boxing's not really on TV anymore, but if
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: they had TV boxing, Coop, don't you think Lorena would
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: be one of the judges with that scoring? My God.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: All right, Coop, real quick. Russian judge, maybe. Yeah, possibly, yeah.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: I'd rather hold the sign.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what fight you guys were watching.
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: I didn't watch anything. I listened to it blow by blow,
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: punch by punch. I heard it a bit differently. I
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: think round one, while Well, I appreciate it. It was
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: just kind of, uh, on repeat. It was, it was
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: the same thing for, for 10 seconds.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Uh, what's wrong with that? I enjoyed the song.
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: You know, I, I would say I would put that
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: one more as of a draw that round.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Okay. Um, so that's a draw second round.
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: I think Mike Leprechaun dominated. Uh, Marcel just didn't really,
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: I gave him round two.
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, 10, eight and, uh.
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: I thought Marcel came out slow, but that last round, whoa.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: It was like he must have just snorted a line
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: of smelling salts.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Or something else. He's in Brooklyn.
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: And came out firing. So I got to give that
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: last round to Marcel. Wow.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, is that... Is that a tie?
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: That means you're tied. But that means Marcel won.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Well, you said, hold on. Round one, you said was
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the Leprechaun. You gave it to the Leprechaun, right? Is
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: that right? I gave it a tie. That was a tie.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: All right, so a tie. Round two, you gave to...
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: To Marcel, convincingly.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: 10-8?
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, not Marcel. Mike, the Leprechaun, convincingly. So 10-8,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: and then.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: In Marcel's favor, that means the Leprechaun won.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, the Leprechaun won. There you go. There'll be a
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: math class, Maller math. We'll be doing that. Okay, that
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: is how we scored it. We will hear from the combatants.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: We'll hopefully have some time here for a little password.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think we will actually have time for password, right, Coop?
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I think we'll... We'll do the post-game interviews, the post-fight.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: We'll have some of the reactions. If you guys are
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: on hold, you want to react to what you heard.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Marcel wins the vote of us. We'll put it up
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: on the X machine. You'll be able to vote if
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: you think Mike the Leprechaun actually won over Marcel. There
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: was the verbal octagon. And we'll have the post-fight interviews.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: We paid big money for this. Big money for this.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
• 37:07
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• 37:34
  Speaker 1: The always, well, somewhat always, popular podcast. It is available everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Check that out. Ben Maller Show podcast. It's been sliced
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  Speaker 1: and diced, omnipresent, and help us out there. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. This is the best-of version, which
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  Speaker 1: is 2.1 seconds long today, so enjoy that. All right,
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  Speaker 1: back to it. Now, we were going to play Password.
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  Speaker 1: We had this octagon, and unfortunately, it appears the X app.
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  Speaker 1: Has gotten rid of the polling. You're not able to.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it. Am I missing something here? I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at it, and I don't see it.
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  Speaker 6: And you post the polls, so it's not like it
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  Speaker 6: would be new to you.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I've done it a bunch. It's still on
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  Speaker 1: the desktop. Maybe it's not on mobile. Oh, maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: not on mobile. All right, well, I was using my phone.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bad job by me. All right, let me
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  Speaker 1: see here.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: You're right. It is not on the mobile. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: I'll put that up in a little bit. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: back real quick. Marcel, you were declared the winner. Any
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  Speaker 1: statement you'd like to make? Marcel, congratulations. You won the
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  Speaker 1: vote of the people. We will put on X on
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  Speaker 1: the desktop version so people can vote. But go ahead, Marcel.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 7: Coming, the TV picks, food picks, all kinds of genres
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  Speaker 7: at stock.
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  Speaker 1: Where does this rank, Marcel, in your accolades as a
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  Speaker 1: star of the show?
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  Speaker 3: I'm continuing to bring the sports stories to players of
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  Speaker 3: the morning, toss it over to Coop Scoop on Entertainment.
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  Speaker 8: And, of course, yours, as always.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, very exciting. Mike the Leprechaun, you did not win
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  Speaker 1: the vote of the people, or you did not win
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  Speaker 1: the studio vote, however, there's still the vote of the people,
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  Speaker 1: so you could still be declared the winner.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you. I will probably win that. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 8: this fight was rigged because I beat him last time,
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  Speaker 8: and obviously you and Lorena wanted to have a rematch
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  Speaker 8: for match three in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: Are you questioning the integrity of the Ben Maler show?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what you're doing?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: He's losing more points. That's what he's doing.
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  Speaker 8: I've already lost it. You gave me a 10-4, Lorena,
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  Speaker 8: and then you had a round five. How can you
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  Speaker 8: have a round five in a three-round battle?
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  Speaker 1: He seems upset with you, Lorena.
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  Speaker 6: I can tell. It's okay to be salty.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't work out, but thank you. Let's see. Who else? Reaction.
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  Speaker 1: Hollering James. How did you see the fight, Hollering James?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. You don't get that commentary on a
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  Speaker 1: pay-per-view boxing match. What about you, Seuss dog? How'd you
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  Speaker 1: score the fight quickly, Seuss dog?
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  Speaker 9: I think, overall, the Leprechaun won.
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  Speaker 8: And I've got to be honest, Lorena, isn't being rude
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  Speaker 8: part of the octagon?
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  Speaker 1: That's a fair point. That is part of it. There
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  Speaker 1: you go. All right, we'll have the vote of the people. Whatever, whatever, whatever.