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Hour 1 - The Kingdom Is Back in Order · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Bibbidi-boppidi-boo. And how do you do? It's our number one,
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  Speaker 1: our one Ben Maller show. We sit up all night
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  Speaker 1: for Fresh Pod. We start with this Sunday night game.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tirico was upselling, upselling the Colts who lost in
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  Speaker 1: the final play of overtime to the Chiefs. Did Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: prove something by taking Kansas City all the way to
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  Speaker 1: the end of overtime? Or is that Just consolation prize talk. Also,
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  Speaker 1: how is Andy Reid feeling about his Chiefs today all
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  Speaker 1: the way back? And outside of that Sunday night game,
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  Speaker 1: Commanders quarterback Jaden Daniels has a dislocated left elbow yet again.
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  Speaker 1: Why does this keep happening to Daniels? We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: all that and more right now. Here we go. Settle in.
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  Speaker 1: It's our one of four, and here it is. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom is back in order, or is it? Welcome
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of another week of the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're very concerned about Benny versus the Penny
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  Speaker 1: and how that turned out. It's not over. There's one
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  Speaker 1: game left on Monday. And I got off to a
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  Speaker 1: great start in the early TV window. And then for
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  Speaker 1: some reason they had to play the late games. It
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  Speaker 1: did not go well. One of the late games that
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  Speaker 1: did turn out pretty well, if you're so inclined to
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  Speaker 1: care about that kind of thing, would be at Arrowhead Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: And that is our lead this hour. Play the hits,
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  Speaker 1: my man. Play the hits. We break the weekend silence down.
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  Speaker 1: Taking a look at what happened at the iconic venue,
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  Speaker 1: which is so great they're going to tear it down
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  Speaker 1: in a few years when the Chiefs pull the new stadium. Wonderful. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that was the playground for the final game on the
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  Speaker 1: Sunday portion of the card in week two as the
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  Speaker 1: NFL steamrolled through the day. And Daniel Jones leading the
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  Speaker 1: Colts wagon into Kansas City trying to turn things around.
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  Speaker 1: Did not go so well last week for the Team
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  Speaker 1: from Indianapolis there as they got mollywhopped by the Ravens,
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  Speaker 1: hoping for better luck against the Patrick Mahomes Chiefs. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you were watching this game or not.
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  Speaker 1: It was on NBC. Yeah, Tirico and Collinsworth, who had
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  Speaker 1: his knee pads on, as always, for Mahomes. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: you missed it. Maybe you did not have it on.
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  Speaker 1: As Harrison Butker kicking a pair of field goals in
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  Speaker 1: bonus time. overtime and that included a 40-yard field goal
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  Speaker 1: as time expired giving kansas city a three-point victory over
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  Speaker 1: the colts in the game that ended late into the
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  Speaker 1: night there on sunday night so patrick mahomes finished the
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  Speaker 1: game with 382 yards passing and three touchdowns more of
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  Speaker 1: a vintage performance by mahomes As he got her done,
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  Speaker 1: filled up the stat sheet. Kenneth Walker did not get
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone. He did have 117 more yards
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. And Travis Kelsey, a sighting of Travis Kelsey,
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  Speaker 1: had nine catches, 101 yards, and a score. The Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: are now 2-0 Indianapolis. That's the better story. The losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room, they are now 0-2, 0-2 for the team
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  Speaker 1: from Indiana. So that is the jumping off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Did Indianapolis prove something by taking
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City to overtime? If you watch the NBC broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tirico at the end was making it seem like
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  Speaker 1: this was some kind of great accomplishment for the Colts.
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  Speaker 1: They had chances to win the game, losing in overtime.
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  Speaker 1: So did Indianapolis prove something by taking Kansas City to overtime?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that? A consolation prize bull crap kind of
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  Speaker 1: statement to make. All right, so my thoughts on this.
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  Speaker 1: I've got bird's eye, morning breath, and courthouse. And we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to try not to get sidetracked. We're going to stay
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  Speaker 1: on course here. Let's not get sidetracked. So A, Indy,
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  Speaker 1: you know what they get? They get an attaboy. They
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  Speaker 1: get the attaboy. Way to go. You didn't get blown out.
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  Speaker 1: You had a chance. You had multiple chances to win
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  Speaker 1: the game. And you know what you can do with
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  Speaker 1: that attaboy? You can wipe your tuchus with that attaboy,
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  Speaker 1: and then you can flush it down the toilet. The
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  Speaker 1: Colts defense. Starting 2026, these were two measuring stick games
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  Speaker 1: for Indianapolis, right? Two measuring stick games against Lamar Jackson
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  Speaker 1: and the Ravens and a rehabbing Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: And what does the report card say for the Colts?
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  Speaker 1: They had two measuring stick games. That would be they
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  Speaker 1: get Bupkis, squad douche, 0 for 2. They failed both tests.
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  Speaker 1: And talk about licking their wounds after surrender. A barf
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  Speaker 1: bag worthy. The Colts defense, first two games of the year,
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  Speaker 1: they're averaging allowing 514.5 yards per game and 37 points
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  Speaker 1: per game. The Colts defense allowing on average. And you
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  Speaker 1: wonder how many weeks will we hear about the communication issues,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll get that all figured out, before they finally
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  Speaker 1: admit that the defense... is like a wrestler from back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. El Stinko is the defense there in Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: Even Sauce Gardner, who they never throw the ball to,
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  Speaker 1: the other team, the Chiefs did attempt to throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball his way a couple times. There was one play
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  Speaker 1: in particular, game-changing play, he failed to make. And now
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  Speaker 1: this tattered and broken defensive unit heads to Jerry's World.
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  Speaker 1: to face the Cowboys. That'll be next week. So certainly
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  Speaker 1: looking the way the Colts are playing defense right now,
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  Speaker 1: that'll be an 0-3 start to the year for Indianapolis. Now, offensively,
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  Speaker 1: it's not all that much better. It's, well, the Colts
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  Speaker 1: scored enough points to win the game. Okay. Here's the problem, though.
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  Speaker 1: They're passing offense. They're trapped in that mushy middle of
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  Speaker 1: Captain Midd. Daniel Jones, even though the Colts scored some
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  Speaker 1: points in this game, Daniel Jones reminding Indy that they
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  Speaker 1: paid premium dollars there. They had to bring this guy back.
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  Speaker 1: God forbid you can go out and you– I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where you'd get a middle-of-the-pack quarterback in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Where can you find that? Anyway, so Daniel Jones goes
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  Speaker 1: out there and reminds the front office of the Colts
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  Speaker 1: that they paid premium dollars for bird's-eye quarterback steamed veggies,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what they got. And so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the steamed veggies thing, it's fine. Nobody orders
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  Speaker 1: seconds of steamed veggies. It's like one, that's it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even want that. So Indianapolis has a franchise quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in the exact same way that IHOP has fine dining.
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  Speaker 1: And I give Daniel Jones credit because this guy hornswoggled
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  Speaker 1: those dummies in the Colts front office. He played all
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  Speaker 1: right for like four or five games early last year.
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  Speaker 1: He was starting to ride the vomit comet for the Colts.
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  Speaker 1: He got hurt before the vomit comet fully reached its
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  Speaker 1: cruising altitude. And then the Colts are like, well, we've
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  Speaker 1: got to bring him back. So they brought him back. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like we said, not a franchise quarterback. It's like going
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  Speaker 1: to IHOP and saying, well, that's fine dining. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: fine dining, I guess. But, my God. Not exactly Picasso.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is the guy selling cheap prints outside of
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  Speaker 1: the art museum. That's what he's doing. And the ship
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  Speaker 1: be sinking in Indianapolis. And it does appear he is
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  Speaker 1: incapable of putting the team on his back. And, granted,
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  Speaker 1: the defense is terrible for the Colts. But they're just
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  Speaker 1: not going anywhere interesting. It's another year without the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: there for the Colts, and Jones not the answer. He's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of what's on hold when you hear that
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  Speaker 1: music in the background. That's what he is. All right, now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: to the Kansas City side of things, the Chiefs win
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  Speaker 1: on the final play of the game, the Harrison-Butker field
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  Speaker 1: goal at the end. So the question is, How is
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  Speaker 1: Big Red, Andy Reid, feeling about the Chiefs at this point?
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  Speaker 1: His Chiefs. So Andy Reid is feeling minty fresh. Mint Lister.
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  Speaker 1: Ultra clean. He's just feeling extra fresh. These wins are
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  Speaker 1: washing away the foul, foul taste, the bad taste that
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  Speaker 1: they had last season. The Chiefs are not fully polished yet.
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  Speaker 1: They're not. However, the championship cologne, they found it in
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  Speaker 1: the back of the locker room. and they've now taken
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  Speaker 1: that bottle of championship cologne out again. Mahomes knocking off
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  Speaker 1: another layer of rust, and he did confirm, I got
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  Speaker 1: some crap from these fanboys, these Chiefs fanboys, very upset
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  Speaker 1: that I criticized Mahomes. Mahomes admitted that I was right
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  Speaker 1: with my analysis, but let's never let the facts get
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  Speaker 1: in the way of a fanboy. because Mahomes knocking off
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  Speaker 1: some more rust in this game, and the factory machinery
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  Speaker 1: is officially warming up there. That was a more vintage performance.
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  Speaker 1: Even Travis Kelsey, who's looked washed up for two years,
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  Speaker 1: apparently he located Ponce de Leon on the map, and
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  Speaker 1: he went from retirement watch material, at least for a night,
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  Speaker 1: right back to the security blanket of Mahome. And if
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  Speaker 1: you look at Kelsey, here's how incompetent Travis Kelsey's been
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  Speaker 1: the last two years. This is my fun fact here.
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  Speaker 1: So Kelsey now has 12 catches for 172 yards in
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  Speaker 1: two games. You say, okay, that's fine. That's a good start.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that is over 20% of his yardage
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  Speaker 1: from all of last season? We're two games in, and
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  Speaker 1: that is 172 yards is 20.2% if my mallard math
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  Speaker 1: is correct. of the production from last year. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness. That's how pathetic he was last year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: add on, the add-on item, Kenneth Walker. Nice of Seattle
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  Speaker 1: not to bring him back. Why would they need him?
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  Speaker 1: And they tossed Kenneth Walker into the kitchen, and that's
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  Speaker 1: another burner. for Andy Reid that he didn't have before. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it is not perfect. I'm not going to sit here
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  Speaker 1: and just do a pep rally for the Chiefs. Steve
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  Speaker 1: Spagnuolo's defense that looked so good against the incompetent Broncos
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  Speaker 1: last week. Well, in this game against the Colts, there
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  Speaker 1: were stretches of this game. They had morning breath. They
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  Speaker 1: need some of that Listerine, mint-flavored ultra-clean. They need that
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  Speaker 1: because they had the morning breath there, letting Indianapolis hang
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  Speaker 1: around until the final second. of overtime, and they gave
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  Speaker 1: up 30 points in this game, even though it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: much from the quarterback. That's not vintage Chiefs defense in
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  Speaker 1: this game. That's playing with your food and nearly choking
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  Speaker 1: on your food. Try to avoid that. So how does
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid feel? Encouraged? Coaches are never satisfied, but you're encouraged,
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  Speaker 1: and the Chiefs are not yet the finished product. They're
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  Speaker 1: a construction site. And there are many people optimistic that
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  Speaker 1: this thing will get done. You can see the luxury
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  Speaker 1: penthouse taking shape like it used to be there for
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes and friends there in Kansas City. And they play
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins next week, which is like having a bye
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  Speaker 1: when you play the Dolphins. That's a bye. All right,
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  Speaker 1: last word. To the Beltway major injury update. Tests confirming
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  Speaker 1: that quarterback Jaden Daniels has had a nice big bowl
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  Speaker 1: of snap, crackle, pop. He suffers a dislocated elbow. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my elbow! 37-20 loss to Dallas in a game that
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  Speaker 1: was close, in a game that you spend your time handicapping,
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  Speaker 1: and then the quarterback gets hurt before halftime, and then
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  Speaker 1: that's it. X-rays showed, according to Dan Quinn, who will
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  Speaker 1: be a defensive coordinator somewhere next year. He will not
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  Speaker 1: be the coach of the Commanders. He's toast. This team's
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  Speaker 1: going to finish near the bottom in the NFC. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Quinn, x-rays showed no fracture. According to the coach
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  Speaker 1: of a team formerly called the Redskins, Daniels will undergo
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  Speaker 1: additional testing when the sun rises later on on Monday
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  Speaker 1: to determine whether or not there is a significant ligament
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  Speaker 1: damage and surgery is still likely a possibility. So he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be out for a while if he plays
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  Speaker 1: again this year. The question, Commander's quarterback, Jaden Daniels, has
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  Speaker 1: a dislocated left elbow yet again. Why does this keep
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  Speaker 1: happening to Jaden Daniels? All right. So Daniels, listen, when
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  Speaker 1: he plays, he is spectacular, right? Right? Where have we
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  Speaker 1: seen this before? We've seen this movie before. When he's
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  Speaker 1: out there and when he plays it, he's great. The
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  Speaker 1: health thing is the devil, and he can't say healthy. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: he went down to the courthouse at this point. We've
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  Speaker 1: determined that Jaden Daniels, he went down to the courthouse,
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  Speaker 1: and when healthy has become part of his legal name.
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  Speaker 1: He's now got four names. It's Jaden, when is one
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  Speaker 1: of the middle names, healthy, the second middle name, and
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  Speaker 1: then the last name is Daniels. So that's his full name.
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  Speaker 1: His now legal name in the courthouse is Jaden, when healthy, Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: He plays quarterback like the human body comes with unlimited
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  Speaker 1: replacement parts. Wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't that be awesome
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  Speaker 1: if we just had unlimited replacement parts? Oh, man, I
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  Speaker 1: just got a headache. All right, we'll give you a
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  Speaker 1: new head. All right, no problem. Sounds good. My knees,
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  Speaker 1: my right knee has kind of hurt a little bit. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we got another knee. You want a bigger knee? We'll
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  Speaker 1: give you a bigger. Oh, you want a smaller? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll give you a smaller knee. No problem. Be great.
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  Speaker 1: Just why not? At some point, unlucky becomes a pattern.
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  Speaker 1: He's unlucky. Daniels is collecting injuries. Frequent travelers collect the miles,
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  Speaker 1: those air miles when you're traveling around. People that travel
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  Speaker 1: for work, I guess some of those miles. Watching Jaden
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  Speaker 1: Daniels run when he's in the game, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a Commander's fan. I was flipping around all the games,
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  Speaker 1: but watching Daniels in particular, when Washington plays an island game,
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  Speaker 1: because we love our island games, Daniel's watching him run.
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  Speaker 1: It's like watching a toddler carry your expensive laptop, and
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  Speaker 1: then he's holding up a thing of water on top
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  Speaker 1: of the laptop. Now, technically, everything is fine. Everything is fine, technically.
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  Speaker 1: But you're already preparing for an absolute disaster. So forget
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  Speaker 1: about QB1 for Jaden Daniels. Washington needs EMT1 standing right
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  Speaker 1: next to him. Now, some are saying full conspiracy that
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  Speaker 1: this is all tied to Jaden Daniels and what happened
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  Speaker 1: at LSU and it was all tied together. I don't
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  Speaker 1: buy that. That mumbo-jumbo, because whether Jaden Daniels tried to
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  Speaker 1: bully LSU or not, by the way, nice job by
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin losing to Ole Miss over the weekend. How
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing was that? Anyway, Daniels, my God. He would have
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  Speaker 1: got hurt whether he had threatened some kind of action
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  Speaker 1: against LSU or not. And he doesn't need another standard
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  Speaker 1: off-season strength and conditioning program based on a minutes-long review
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  Speaker 1: of Jaden Daniels. He needs a little bit of bubble wrap,
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  Speaker 1: some rhino skin, and an extended warranty. Hell, at this point,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you can get this. I think
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  Speaker 1: you can get anything you want on the Internet. But
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  Speaker 1: you should just find a way to buy some armadillo
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  Speaker 1: plating for Jaden Daniels. See if you can get that.
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  Speaker 1: And a roll cage. That would be well. If you
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  Speaker 1: can get him armadillo plating, some rhino skin, and a
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  Speaker 1: roll cage, then he'll be the quarterback in Washington for
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  Speaker 1: the next 10 years. You don't get him those things.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be doing a cheesy jock podcast somewhere. That's what
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  Speaker 1: these guys do, right? These ex-jocks, the ex-ball players, they
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  Speaker 1: get hurt. I'll do a podcast. That's what I'll do
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  Speaker 1: because everyone loves audio content. I've been saying it. I
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  Speaker 1: loved it when I was a kid. And I'm an adult.
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  Speaker 1: I've worked in the audio business my entire life. People
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  Speaker 1: love audio content. All these athletes, they want to do
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  Speaker 1: the audio content thing. I get it. It is the
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• 21:08
  Speaker 1: he needs to get back on the field for the Bears.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: So he might be going into surgery at any moment, Mark,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: here to give up certain ligaments that might or might
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: not be needed there by the Bears quarterback. And Kuba
• 21:20
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• 21:24
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• 21:30
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• 21:32
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• 21:37
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• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And we will take some calls coming up in a
• 21:44
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• 21:50
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• 21:52
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• 21:58
  Speaker 1: in Carolina writes in with a non sequitur. He said
• 22:01
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• 22:04
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• 22:07
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• 22:11
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• 22:14
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Random Ryan, for that non sequitur.
• 22:16
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• 22:19
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• 22:23
  Speaker 1: was satisfying to see the Packers finally win a game
• 22:27
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• 22:31
  Speaker 1: wins in a season by sweeping the Orioles. Well, I
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: cannot do a retroactive kind of birthday shout-out King Roy,
• 22:39
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• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Brewers raise a banner up there to celebrate the record
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: for wins. That's the only chance they'll have to raise
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: a banner, so enjoy that. Gunner, who for some reason,
• 22:53
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• 22:55
  Speaker 1: gave up 59 points to.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: The team from Chicago, the phone's working. It's odd how
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: that works. It just only must work when the Carolina
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Panthers play well. He said, Atlanta is so bad, the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Panthers are going 13-4 without a doubt. And Bryce Young
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: will be the MVP. Gunner, stay off the crack, my man.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Stay off the crack. You'll lose your job at Walmart, dude.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I don't want you to lose your job. Michael in
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Tulsa writes in and says, Ben, great monologue, but non-sequitur
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: of the night as a Malheur Plus subscriber. I couldn't
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: help while listening to the podcast with Hollering James if
• 23:31
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• 23:34
  Speaker 1: still asleep. Cheap curmudgeons need to subscribe. Well, we did
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: have Hollering James on the Fifth Hour podcast. We felt
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: like we had Robbie on too much. We didn't have
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to start paying him. So we're trying to rotate some
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: other people in. And as always, I have a big board,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: not a list. I've had Terry in England on the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: 5th Hour Mailbag, very popular with a lot of you
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: guys that are big fans of the show, so I've
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: tried to rotate different people in. I had Hollering James'
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: name up. He'd given Coop his number, and I called
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: him up at the time, the window I had to
• 24:05
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• 24:09
  Speaker 1: to do the mailbag. If he hadn't answered, somebody else
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: would have been there, and James shockingly stayed awake the
• 24:16
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• 24:20
  Speaker 1: would be sleeping. He did not sleep, and that was
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: a bummer. That was a bummer, but he stayed awake,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and he actually had some funny lines, which was rather
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: shocking from Holler and James. So the lip readers have
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: chimed in. We'll get to that story coming up in
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: a little bit. And what is that about? Well, you'll
• 24:39
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• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a call-in show, and let's start out with Matt. who's
• 24:46
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• 24:48
  Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show. Hey, Ben.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: I used to call in and do a bunch of
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: the trivia and stuff. I just wanted to see what
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: you thought about the Bears, if you think they're going
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: to have any chance to stay relevant with Tyson Badger
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: running the offense.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: No, they're cooked. They're screwed. They're done. It's over.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you. No, not that Caleb Williams was God's gift
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to the quarterback position, despite what you might have heard somewhere,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: but no. I'd rather have a special agent than the backup.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Good luck. Maybe for a couple weeks you can pull
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it off if Caleb Williams is only out for a
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: couple weeks and you can have your guy come in here,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Tyler Bajent, and he'll do okay for a couple of games.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Usually the more the backup plays, the disaster that takes place.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Let's see here. Doc Dan writes in from Minnesota. He says,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I knew the tech queen was not in pushing the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: buttons tonight as soon as crap music started playing. I
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: don't know. Crap? I don't know. You guys complain. Why
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: do you complain? It's a talk show. I'm talking. No,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: it's not. It is not about the music. You guys
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: complain about the music. You complain what Lorena plays. You
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: complain what Mark plays. You complain about it. All you
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: do is complain. Stop your complaining. Does anyone, I don't
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: know if anyone's listening to music radio anymore, but when
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: you're listening to music radio, do you call up the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: DJ and say, you know what, I don't think that
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: stop set was that good. I think you should have
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: talked a little bit longer. I didn't like your tone.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I would have liked a different, your accent was not
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: great in that little segment you did, Mr. DJ man.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Who does that? Seriously, who does that? And yet, here
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: we are, and it's like, oh, I get people complaining
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: about the music Lorena plays, and Mark, people complaining about it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Just stop.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: Stop.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It's like 40 seconds of music. Your life is not
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: going to change one way or the other based on
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a little 40-second thing of music. It's just not. So
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: what are we doing? What are we doing? All right,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: let's keep it going. Who do we have here? Let's
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: see who's next. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's say hello
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to Sean the Hood Guy, who may be having a
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: bonfire with a lot of black and yellow, black and yellow,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: black and yellow. Hello, Sean the Hood Guy. Welcome.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Man, this is a sad day for every Stiller fan
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: out here. This is an embarrassment, Ben. Man, they went
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: out there and played like they was a– Some team
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: that you don't even know nothing about, that was not
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: still a football. Nobody's blocking. Metcalf is not catching. I mean,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: what is this guy doing? Is he rubbing his hands
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: down with butter before the game? I mean, come on, man.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, McCartney's calling these old plays that we've seen
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: back when he was with Green Bay and the Cowboys.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Nobody was doing nothing. At the end of the day,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: the whole team should not have not received a check.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: They didn't deserve to receive nothing because they played like nothing.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: They out there trying to get Aaron Rodgers killed in
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: his last season, which he shouldn't even be playing. And
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: they didn't do nothing. I mean, the defense was there.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: That's always going to be there. But the offensive line
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the season blocking like that, we
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: don't see that. I don't see that many wins in
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: this team, Big Ben.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: No, it's hard to argue. Rodgers looks like he should
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: be drinking ayahuasca somewhere out in the woods and not
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: playing quarterback for the Steelers.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Or starting up his own podcast somewhere.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Somewhere.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can do a podcast. Every other jock, ex-jock,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: they go do a podcast. Why not?
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: So it's an embarrassment, man. I made every Cilla fan
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: look bad today. I'm getting calls from everybody that I
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: know that's, You know, Bass and the Steelers, they called
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: me all day. I had to put up with this
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: all day, man.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, listen, now, Sean, the hood guy, now, you know,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: you're around my age. How many reunion shows have actually
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: turned out to be good? Most reunion shows don't end
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: up very good, right?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: No, they don't. Some of them didn't even come back
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: and show reunion.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Kind of like McCarthy and Rogers, the reunion there.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if they left each other a long time ago,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: why even get back together? That's like a bad relationship.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: You break up with an old girlfriend, you're going to
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: get right back with her again. That's not going to work.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Well, it's not right back. Even though they're playing nice
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and they like each other, there was some tension there
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: in Green Bay. That's not even the problem. Who cares?
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. As you know, Sean, the guy, whether
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: they get along is irrelevant as long as they're succeeding.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: But if they're not succeeding, and they're not, Rodgers averaging
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: less than five yards a pass. Less than five yards
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: a pass? What are you doing?
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: That's the embarrassment. That's why you laugh, because you know
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: it's embarrassing.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: It's It's sad. You know Tomlin on TV is just
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: smiling from ear to ear.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I got out. I got out before we hit the iceberg.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I got out before they hit the iceberg.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I jumped off the ship before the Titanic was going down.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: All right, big man. All right, buddy. There's the great
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Sean the Hood guy. Check it in. Yeah, it's pretty depressing. Fortunately,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: you had a bye if you're the Steelers in week one.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: You played an incompetent team, the Atlanta Falcons, who don't
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: know what the hell they're doing. So that was nice.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: You get a little free win. You feel good. It's
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: like a college team playing a checkbook game early in
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the year. So you got that. And now you look
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: at Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Up next in Cleveland, I mean, the
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: way the Steelers are playing, they can literally lose to anyone.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: The way their offense is. Like, they could go 0-2
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: against the Cleveland Browns. I don't want to be overly dramatic,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: because they will play better. At some point, the Steelers,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: he will bench Rodgers, or he'll figure some stuff out,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: at least for a couple of games. He can't be
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: that bad all year. If he is that bad, he'll
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: retire in Week 9, where the Steelers have their bye week,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and be like, all right, I'm out of here. See
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: you later. Bye bye. Well, the lip readers are out
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: for a Sunday night football and it's all about the Swifties.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: You know, we love the Swifties here because anytime I
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: mention the Swifties, there's a chance that people that know
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: nothing about sports are scanning some kind of audio device
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: and they hear me mention Taylor Swift and then they
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: stop to listen. So I'm adding to the audience. So
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift was in attendance and got plenty of TV
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: time on NBC's Sunday night football game there. Chiefs and
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Colts watching her hubby, Travis Kelsey. Kelsey did score his
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: first touchdown of the season. And the cameras for NBC
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: caught Taylor Swift reacting, seemingly happy. It's shocking that she'd
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: be happy that he scored a touchdown. And they showed
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: right to the luxury suite there at Arrowhead. And Kelsey
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: was in the end zone. And lip readers have now
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: chimed in. What did Taylor Swift say? Do you think
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: she cursed? Did she drop an F-bomb there after Travis
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: scored a touchdown? Well, according to professional lip readers, they're
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: claiming that this is shocking, that Taylor Swift yelled three words.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Three words. And one of the words starts with a T.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: One starts with an M. And one starts with an H.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: What did she say? Survey says, according to the professional lip,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: how does one become a professional lip reader, by the way?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Is there a lip reader college that one goes to?
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: How does that work? Okay, anyway, she said, that's my husband.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: And she pointed towards her wedding ring. Oh, isn't that love?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: That's love. Amazing. Amazing. Now, I wonder if this is
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: like when you marry someone in radio. Because I know
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: in my world, you start out the relationship and they
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: listen to everything you do. They don't even listen to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: anything else. Every show, got to hear what you have
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to say. And then over time, they listen to nothing.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Over time, there is nothing that they listen to. And
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: is it the same with, like, athletes? Like, these women,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: like Taylor Swift, like, they go to every game, and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: then a while later, I don't want to go to
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: another game. That's boring. I don't want to go to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: a game. I'm the richest woman in music. Why would
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I want to go watch a stupid Chiefs game? I
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: want to go do something else. So, anyway, it is
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. Time now for the Who Am
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I game. And that is where we pretend to be
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: somebody else, thus we call it the Who Am I game.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: You can answer this on X, at Ben Maller. That's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: at Ben Maller. The 49ers had a bye week this week.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: They played the Dolphins. I'm old enough to remember the
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Dolphins used to try to win games. I know. I'm
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: getting old. Believe it or not, there was a time
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins were the gold standard in the NFL. Not anymore. Losers. Anyway,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy fattening up the stat sheet against
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: those woe-be-gone Dolphins. Brock Purdy has 13 career games now
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: with a passer rating of 130 or higher. He surpassed
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: me for the most such games by a player in
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: his first five seasons in NFL history. Again, 49er quarterback
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy now has 13 career games with a passer
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: rating of 130 or higher. It helps to play tomato cans.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Surpassing me for the most such games by a player
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: in his first five seasons in NFL history. History. Who
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: am I? That's the question. The answer, we'll get to it.
• 34:34
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• 34:36
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• 34:52
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• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Eddie Garcia, stopped by for a rare and appropriate appearance. And, yeah,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: it was crazy. It was great to catch up with Eddie.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: He actually talked a little hockey. Don't tell anybody about that.
• 35:09
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• 35:12
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• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones, and then we'll pay off
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the Who Am I game, I promise. But let's say
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: hello to Andre. Andre. Andre, who's in the Commonwealth, and
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: he's on a tight schedule, so we'll say hello to Andre.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: What's going on, Andre? Welcome.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: How you doing, Ben? Thanks for taking the call.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I heard Willis. I hear Willis.
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: Willis is in the building. He's fired up about the
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: overtime thriller, just like the advertisers, right? And the sponsors
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: were fired up. Always love to see those games go
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: into overtime. But at the end of the day, the Colts,
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: although they fought valiantly, could not get over the top. Now, Ben,
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: I'm not backing off. I feel like the Colts, they've
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: started off. You're playing the Ravens and the Chiefs first
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: two weeks of the season. I still think they're going
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: to break through and make the playoffs. I think this
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: is building for something greater as the season goes on. Now, contrarily, Ben,
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: we have a quarterback.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Hold on a sec. Time out. Time out. I'm going
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: to give you a 10-yard penalty for being stubborn. Open
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: your eyes. Have you seen the Colts' defense the first
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: two games of the year? Have you seen the defense?
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: They suck.
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: Yes, Ben, but this is against the Kansas City offense
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: led by one Mr. Patrick Mahomes and also Kenneth Walker III.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: And.
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: the Baltimore Ravens, King Henry rushing all.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Over the place. I understand, but that's a measuring stick situation.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: As we said, this is how you judge yourself. Yeah,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: should they play better against the Texans? Yeah, because C.J.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Stroud stinks. And he showed that with an empty number.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I'll talk to him. You see C.J. Strouds? He had
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: like almost 400 yards passing. The Texans scored six points
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: in that game. So, yeah, the Colts will probably play
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: better defensively there. Washington doesn't have a quarterback. So, okay, fine.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I still don't believe they're any good. Sure.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: Defense, I'll give you that. Buffalo's defense has had some
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: question marks. They're developing. All I'm saying is everything goes
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: off Jonathan Taylor. That play action was open all game.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: They were right there in that. And those are the
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: two toughest teams that are going to play all season.
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: So I think as the schedule becomes more favorable, things
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: will open up for them.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Granted, it's healthy.
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: I don't know if they're going to have to go
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: get Phillip Rivers, who's probably, you know, he's got a
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: big family, right? You know, he's probably at an arcade or,
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: you know, he's at a parent-teacher conference. I don't know
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: if we can do that again for them.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Well, why stop there? Peyton Manning's out there. You can
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: get him, Eli, Kurt Warner, whoever you want, Michael Vick. Yeah,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: you want to be bold.
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: You know, get Cam. He has a pod. You know,
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: he's in pretty good shape.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: That's right. Cam, bring Cam in. Sure, why not?
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: Sure, sure. So, Colts, I'm not selling my stock. Ben,
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: we're supposed to have this crown jewel out where you
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: are with this Los Angeles Chargers. They uprooted themselves from
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: San Diego to go to Los Angeles, okay? I don't
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: know anything.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: And he's a big, you know, he's.
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: Always at the game.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait. The Chargers had, they had two, this
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: would be like Alabama losing to like Louisiana, Lafayette, and,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: you know, some other directional school. The Cardinals and Raiders,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: who both suck, beat the, and you know who the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Chargers play next, Andre? They play, here's their schedule. At Buffalo,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: at Seattle, Denver at home, and Kansas City at, and
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: then they play the Rams after that. They're looking at 0-7.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: They're going to be underdogs in every one of those games.
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Willis is not, he's not pleased. Justin Herbert, for
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: all intents and purposes, he seems like a nice guy,
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: but he's certainly, he's just not the guy. And all
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: of this praise and adulation that Harbaugh keeps pouring on him,
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: never mind Mike McDaniels was supposed to be over there
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: getting this offense running right. He scored 28 points total
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: the first two weeks of the season. And to your
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: point about the schedule, they could easily be 0-7 because
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: these are supposed to be the two cupcakes. How can
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: you look a gift horse in the mouth? How can
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: you not appreciate a Krispy Kreme donut when you get it?
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: That was their first two games, and they squandered it.
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: The losses, but if you don't, it just feels, you know,
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: people who don't like Krispy Kreme, people who lose two
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: games to cupcake opponents that are supposed to win.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, we like Krispy Kreme. The problem is you
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: can eat like 20 of them in about Two minutes
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: is the problem. But, Andre, we love you. I'll talk
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: to you later, I'm sure, this week at some point.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: The great Andre from the Commonwealth. Here's the Who Am
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: I game. 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy has 13 career games
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: with a passer rating of 130 or higher, surpassing me
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: for the most such games by a player in his
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: first five seasons in NFL history. It's a minimum of
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: 10 pass attempts. Each game, and let's see, does anyone
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: know the answer? Liam Gallagher, who's 54 today, from Late
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Night Drug Tester. Bart Starr from Nick in Wisconsin. Who else? Gunner!
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: That's a great photo of Gunner. From King Rory. Alf
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the Alien O'Piner says Garfield.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: Interesting.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I like what you did there. Who else do we have?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson guessed by Femi. That's his answer. Just Josh
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati says Jamar Chase Brown. is the way to go.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers from Analog Al. Who else do we have?
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Page down. Richard Simmons from our buddy Neil in Fall River.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Cam Newton from Gunner. That's Gunner at the
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Walmart in Minnesota. And the answer is Aaron Rodgers, chiropractor
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: from Fat Daddy. Who else do we have? Taylor's next husband,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: unless Lorena gets to him first. Inca Terror. is the answer,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: according to the great Inca Terror. Who else do we have?
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Page down. Can't read that. All right, the correct answer. Again,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the question, Brock Purdy, 49er quarterback Brock Purdy, 13 career
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: games with a passer rating of 130 or higher, surpassing
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: me for the most such games web player in his
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: first five seasons in NFL history. Survey says... The correct
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: answer would be none other than Mr. Mr. Unlimited. That's right.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. So that means that Brock Purdy will need
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: his defense to win a Super Bowl. And at some
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: point he'll marry a celebrity and then he'll also end
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: up doing bad television. Did I get that right? I
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: think I I think I got that part right.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I think those are all the things the Russell Wilson package,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I believe. Yes, I think so.