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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 3: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: From Nashville. Was it a regular season game? Hell no,
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  Speaker 1: it was not. Was it on Fox? Yes, it was
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday night, lazy Sunday here in late August as
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  Speaker 1: the game between Seattle and Tennessee, they were wrangling.
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  Speaker 2: In the music city.
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  Speaker 1: And that is where we will begin the festivities for
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  Speaker 1: the brand new week as Cam Ward is Now, this
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  Speaker 1: guy was the number one overall pick in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: draft of 2025. So Cam Ward got the second straight
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  Speaker 1: preseason start for the Flameheads there. After a shaky beginning,
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  Speaker 1: an uneven, which is a kind way of saying bad performance,
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  Speaker 1: in the opener, he was given another opportunity to calm
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  Speaker 1: people down.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's fine. Nothing to see here. Everything's all right.
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  Speaker 1: So how did the Tennessee offense look with Cam Ward
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  Speaker 1: under center against a hodgepodge of backups and you name
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  Speaker 1: it for Seattle? So if you didn't watch, and it
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  Speaker 1: is an exhibition game, so chances are you did not
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  Speaker 1: watch this game, perhaps not. So the Titans, they did
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  Speaker 1: rally back, if you're inclined. They did not cover the
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  Speaker 1: spread I heard earlier, but they did come back and
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  Speaker 1: win the game. as Seattle did nothing in the second
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  Speaker 1: half of that game. So the Titans rallied in garbage time,
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  Speaker 1: and they ended up winning. But the story here is
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  Speaker 1: Cam Ward. So let's get down to the nitty-gritty here
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  Speaker 1: on Cam Ward. So Ward, he did complete a few
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  Speaker 1: more passes than he did last week. or the previous game,
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  Speaker 1: I should have went exactly a week, but the previous
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  Speaker 1: exhibition game for the Tennessee Titans. And that, though, did
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  Speaker 1: not really move anything in terms of the positive direction here.
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  Speaker 2: If you saw the game, Cam Ward, a little on
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  Speaker 2: the ropes, a little on the ropes.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't get the vibe that this is going the
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  Speaker 1: right direction at all as he failed to have any
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  Speaker 1: kind of.
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  Speaker 2: A convincing performance there.
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  Speaker 1: For the Tennessee football team here as the struggles roll
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  Speaker 1: on for Cam Ward and the Tennessee offense as they
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  Speaker 1: did play some starters. Robert Sala going with some starters
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  Speaker 1: there at the beginning of the game. Not that they
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  Speaker 1: did much of anything. So that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Does Titans quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Cam Ward get the it's only preseason hall pass or
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  Speaker 1: The other option is that he has lost the privilege
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  Speaker 1: after a really so-so bad rookie season.
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  Speaker 2: So those are your options, right?
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  Speaker 1: Does Titans quarterback Cam Ward get the it's only preseason
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  Speaker 1: Hall Pass? You're going to give him the Hall Pass.
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  Speaker 1: Or has he lost that privilege after a rookie season
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  Speaker 1: which was very, very forgettable. Very, very forgettable. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got leasing office. I've got Thunderbolts and McDonald's self-serve soda machine.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to look at you a little cross-eyed.
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  Speaker 1: Just a little cross-eye to start the week. So, A,
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  Speaker 1: on this side of the microphone, Cam Ward. Was it
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  Speaker 1: a game played at the emotional level of a regular
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  Speaker 1: season game?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Does Cam Ward get a hall pass? Hell no! No
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  Speaker 1: hall pass. No hall pass for Cam Ward. Now, we
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  Speaker 1: don't hand those out.
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  Speaker 2: Especially when you've done nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And he is the personification of doing nothing as an
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  Speaker 1: NFL quarterback, right?
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  Speaker 2: Zero, zippo. So you don't get a hall pass.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly has Cam Ward accomplished to earn the benefit
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  Speaker 1: of the doubt? He was a questionable top pick. He
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  Speaker 1: went out and played like he shouldn't have been the
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  Speaker 1: top pick in the draft last year. And his signature moment.
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  Speaker 1: And you can correct me if I'm wrong on this,
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  Speaker 1: but I believe the signature moment of Cam Ward as
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  Speaker 1: an NFL player so far is the immortal quote when
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  Speaker 1: asked about the Tennessee Titans offense. Cam Ward last season said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: two words, we ask, close quote.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's the moment.
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  Speaker 1: That's the defining moment of Cam Ward as an NFL quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: We ask. That's it. That's all.
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  Speaker 1: Which also, unfortunately for him, doubles as his scouting report.
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  Speaker 1: at this particular moment in time. It's not going well.
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  Speaker 1: So awards play has been deeply underwhelming so far. That's
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  Speaker 1: just the way it is. Call it like it is.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just the way he's played. He's inching closer.
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  Speaker 1: He's not there yet, but he's inching closer and closer
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  Speaker 1: to the wrong side of the tracks. towards that charming
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  Speaker 1: little village up ahead called Bustville, USA. Oh, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go to Bustville. You need to avoid Bustville
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  Speaker 1: at all costs. Do not go to Bustville.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do it. You don't want to go there. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he's not a permanent resident.
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  Speaker 1: He has been spotted, Cam Ward, has been spotted at
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  Speaker 1: the leasing office in Bustville, USA. And they've checked out
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  Speaker 1: a couple of places for him. I have checked it out,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a showing coming up midseason for Cam Ward.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to show him this charming two-bedroom condo, and
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  Speaker 1: it's right down the hallway from Josh Rosen, Zach Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: and Jake Locker. And really good, really good Bustville, USA condo.
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  Speaker 1: quarterback floor right there. I mean, that's some legends. Now,
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  Speaker 1: on the upper floor, you've got your Marcus Russell, and
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  Speaker 1: in the cafeteria, they only serve purple drink. That's all
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  Speaker 1: they serve in the cafeteria. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: The talk about Robert Sala this, Robert Sala that. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to it in a minute on the broadcast. Over-the-top
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  Speaker 1: praise of Robert Sala. You'd almost think he was a
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  Speaker 1: good head coach and not the guy that is as
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  Speaker 1: stiff with the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee is counting on– I don't think I'm wrong on this.
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  Speaker 1: They're counting on Cam Ward– morphing into some kind of
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  Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. But the preseason performance, or lack thereof, you
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  Speaker 1: don't get an excuse, you don't get a hall pass. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: not sorry. That's only given out to proven players. Cam
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  Speaker 1: Ward ain't that. He hasn't done diddly squat as an
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  Speaker 1: NFL player yet to earn that kind of title.
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  Speaker 3: Now, meanwhile.
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  Speaker 1: as that was a clucker. And clock, clock, clock, we
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  Speaker 1: move ahead to the Seattle side of things. Seattle in
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  Speaker 1: this exhibition game played relatively well for a stretch in
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  Speaker 1: the first half and then did nothing in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to break down an individual exhibition game.
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  Speaker 1: But the story here is not the game itself. The
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  Speaker 1: story is the week that was. for seattle uh they
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  Speaker 1: the three major injuries you've got if you go down
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  Speaker 1: the big board here you have rookie safety bud clark
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  Speaker 1: a second round draft pick bud clark bye-bye a broken
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  Speaker 1: ankle snap crackle pop that sounds bad that happened on
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  Speaker 1: the first offensive play for the tennessee titans as tony
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  Speaker 1: pollard a nine yard run and that led to snap
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  Speaker 1: crackle pop for bud clark not his real first name
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  Speaker 1: And they put him in one of those air cast
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  Speaker 1: thingamajigs there, the vacuum splint as his leg was immobilized,
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  Speaker 1: taking him off the field there.
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  Speaker 2: So he was out. And then, but wait, there's more.
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  Speaker 1: The head coach of the Seattle football team, Mike McDonald,
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  Speaker 1: said that Bud Clark will miss multiple months, a substantial
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  Speaker 1: chunk of his rookie season. And he might not play
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  Speaker 1: at all this year, depending on how the injury rehabs
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  Speaker 1: and how he does there. So Seattle already lost a
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver this week, the great Jake Bobo. They lost
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  Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, someone named Mason Richman, who was injured
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  Speaker 1: against the Tennessee Titans. So that's not one, that's not two,
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  Speaker 1: that's three serious injuries. For the Seattle Seahawks in this week,
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  Speaker 1: they had some joint practices earlier in Nashville. So that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Three big injuries. The question here is this. You've got
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  Speaker 1: three injuries, some bigger than others. So here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Football gods angry? The football gods angry with the Seahawks?
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  Speaker 1: Or simply, the occupational hazard is, that nobody wants to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge when you play in the NFL. So they say
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  Speaker 1: that football is a game of inches. All these sports,
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  Speaker 1: a game of inches. Football, a game of inches. But
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  Speaker 1: right now, for the Seattle Seahawks, after a minutes-long deliberation
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  Speaker 1: of the available information, we have determined it's a karmatic situation.
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  Speaker 2: Karma, karma, karma. Karma.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about karma. Let me make my case. You've
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  Speaker 1: got not one, not two, but three major injuries. for
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  Speaker 1: the reigning Super Bowl champions in a single week, just
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  Speaker 1: a couple weeks before the start of the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: capped off by the big one, safety Bud Clark getting
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  Speaker 1: carted off in an air cast. You had the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Mike McDonald, openly using the
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  Speaker 1: word heartbreaking. He used the word heartbreaking. That's the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Seattle Seahawks using the word heartbreaking. And
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  Speaker 1: the football world is left wondering if this is just
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  Speaker 1: your standard occupational hazard or full-blown cosmic karma. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we know the answer to that. as the arrow
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  Speaker 1: is pointing there. You can talk all you want and talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk,
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  Speaker 1: talk about how the players need to be bubble-wrapped and
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  Speaker 1: all that.
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  Speaker 2: You can't bubble-wrap the players. You can't. You can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: However, when the secondary, which was already a weak spot,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a tough spot to be in for
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle football team, they're going to have to play
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  Speaker 1: against Puka Nakua, Total stud, Devontae Adams and the Rams offense,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to be doing auditions.
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  Speaker 2: For fans, the.
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  Speaker 1: 12s will come down and play the way things are
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  Speaker 1: going here. The secondary is already tattered. We haven't even
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  Speaker 1: gotten to the regular season here. And now you've lost
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  Speaker 1: a premium second-round draft pick, a plug-and-play safety, who was
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  Speaker 1: going to slide in there and be a rotational safety
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  Speaker 1: that was going to be a big part of your
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  Speaker 1: team and contribute immediately. And now this Bud's for you. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not, because this Bud, Bud Clark, is out. likely
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  Speaker 1: three months, if not the entire NFL season.
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  Speaker 2: So he's out. And you look around.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, okay, so you lost this guy. He was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a big part of your secondary, Bud Clark.
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  Speaker 1: The coach uses the H word, heartbreaking, to describe it.
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  Speaker 1: The football world is left sitting there. And they're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute here. This is not just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things here. This is a thunderbolt, a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: thunderbolts coming down here. And the football guys, not so subtle,
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  Speaker 1: are they, with their thunderbolts raining down from the heavens here.
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  Speaker 1: So between writing that bogus two-point conversion, we all know it,
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  Speaker 1: and this is more proof that we were on the
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  Speaker 1: right side of history. That these injuries piling up for
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks are proof that they made a Faustian decision.
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  Speaker 2: Bargain.
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  Speaker 1: They made a deal with the devil. They got the
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  Speaker 1: little two-point conversion. They didn't earn. They were given that
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  Speaker 1: and thus had home field, etc., etc., etc. And the
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  Speaker 1: Rams were the better team. They were given a gift, Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: by the football karma gods. And now the gods are saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: you got to pay up the damage on that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll pay up the damage on that. And not just
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they They had the bogus two-point conversion,
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  Speaker 1: which I see J.J. and Renton and Nostraditas and Crying
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  Speaker 1: Craig nodding in agreement there. In addition to that, you've
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  Speaker 1: got the fact that they tried to sign a guy
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  Speaker 1: facing lifetime imprisonment. And the only reason they didn't sign
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  Speaker 1: Terryon Arnold is because the NFL stepped in at the
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  Speaker 1: 11th hour and said, OK, you can sign him, but
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  Speaker 1: we're going to put him on the commissioner's exemplars so
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  Speaker 1: he won't be able to practice with you or play
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  Speaker 1: with you on your roster. And now this, it's all connected.
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  Speaker 1: It is all connected, all of these things, all of them.
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  Speaker 1: And so Seattle flirting with disaster here with the injuries
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  Speaker 1: all over the place. They don't have depth in the secondary.
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  Speaker 1: They're not in a position of strength. It's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: It's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: And it was Confucius, I believe, who famously said, karma
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  Speaker 1: is a biatch. And right now, Seattle is learning that
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  Speaker 1: lesson again as the bill for Seattle's good fortune, the
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  Speaker 1: success that they had has officially come due and With
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold returning back to the old Sam Darnold, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a long year. I would be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if they make the playoffs. At this moment in
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  Speaker 1: time today, you'd have to say it's a long shot.
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  Speaker 1: Based on all the injuries, no secondary. You know Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold's going to fall back apart and be the old
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold we all know and love.
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  Speaker 2: And they are screwed.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my God, how fast reality slaps you in
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  Speaker 1: the face there in the Pacific Northwest. All right, now
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  Speaker 1: last word to the big picture we go. So week
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  Speaker 1: two in the books, the final exhibition game in week two.
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  Speaker 1: An island game, as we've been talking about here, Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: and Seattle. It was on Fox, so we checked it
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  Speaker 1: out there. The question, though, to put the bow on this,
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  Speaker 1: the question, what did you take away from watching this?
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks and Titans on Fox. You had to watch.
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  Speaker 1: So watching the broadcast. Now, Jonathan Vilma was the color commentator.
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  Speaker 1: There was a fair amount of Julian Edelman who did
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  Speaker 1: the pre and the halftime and did pop up for
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  Speaker 1: a stretch during the broadcast there. And Vilma specifically and Edelman,
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  Speaker 1: when they were together, they were serving up.
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  Speaker 2: A combination.
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  Speaker 1: They had sunshine and rainbows. And it was sunshine. It
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  Speaker 1: was gallons of sunshine is what it was there. Every
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  Speaker 1: coach involved in the game, brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Mensa.
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  Speaker 1: Every coach of Mensa. Every player, outstanding. I learned that
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  Speaker 1: from watching the television broadcast. Every player was outstanding. Every
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  Speaker 1: offseason move was just who the team wanted. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: get anyone they didn't want. They didn't lose anyone they
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to lose. It was just a perfect offseason.
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  Speaker 1: It was spectacular. Robert Sala, despite his record on pro
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  Speaker 1: football reference, a humanitarian, an amazing man. A man among boys.
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  Speaker 1: And Robert Salas, good. How about Brian Dayball?
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: He's the OC of the Titans. Oh, my God, what
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  Speaker 1: a dream team. Yeah, don't look at Brian Dayball's record
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  Speaker 1: with the Giants. What an amazing coach. Oh, how lucky
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  Speaker 1: are the Tennessee Titans to have these two geniuses. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you just have to overlook the flawed resume.
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  Speaker 2: You have to do that.
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  Speaker 1: You have to forget all the baggage that they both have.
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  Speaker 1: Forget why anybody was available this offseason in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: Just overlook all that stuff. According to the broadcast, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going off the broadcast here, everybody is headed
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  Speaker 1: directly for Canton, Ohio. They're all just great. They're building
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  Speaker 1: that winning formula. It's just going to be wonderful. All
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  Speaker 1: the players this offseason, I learned from the broadcast, worked
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  Speaker 1: harder than ever before.
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  Speaker 2: So good for them. They learn more than they've ever
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  Speaker 2: learned before. Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Just freaking great. The Titans and the Seahawks learn more
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  Speaker 1: than they've ever learned before. Oh, I also learned the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks have that championship pedigree. Yeah, they have that. I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And wait, I jotted this down on my notes app.
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  Speaker 1: All the players showed up in the greatest shape of
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  Speaker 1: their life. Thank God for that. The greatest shape.
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  Speaker 2: Of their life. How amazing is that?
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  Speaker 1: And somehow both teams, again, acquired every single player they
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  Speaker 1: really wanted. Jonathan Vilma in particular. I thought I had
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  Speaker 1: gone to Mickey D's. He was like a McDonald's self-serve
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  Speaker 1: soda machine, which they're phasing out.
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  Speaker 2: And that'll go over well. I'm sure, yes. One of
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  Speaker 2: the few perks of going to McDonald's. Let's get rid
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  Speaker 2: of it. Sure. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, the McDonald's self-serve soda machine, Jonathan Vilma, very similar,
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  Speaker 1: except his version of the McDonald's self-serve soda machine was malfunctioning,
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  Speaker 1: dispensing triple syrup. Extra syrupy. Extra syrupy. Everything was extra sweet, bubbly,
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  Speaker 1: and positive. And what are the odds?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, meanwhile. You had Kenny Albert, who was great. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Smooth operator, Mr. Play-by-play guy, Kenny Albert. Is he a
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  Speaker 1: friend of the show? Yeah, he's a friend of the show.
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  Speaker 1: We love Kenny Albert.
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  Speaker 2: He's great.
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  Speaker 1: However, he was trying to calmly steer the broadcast while
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  Speaker 1: his partners were labeling compliments onto everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone got a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: And this wasn't so much a broadcast as it was
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  Speaker 1: a Seahawks-Titans combined three-hour infomercial is what it was here,
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  Speaker 1: where everybody gets not one, not two, not three, not four,
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  Speaker 1: but five stars. And nobody gets a bad Yelp review.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody does.
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• 19:00
  Speaker 1: We head to the Bay Area versus a small, dusty town.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: In Ohio where there was all.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Kinds of debauchery. Well, not really, because it was stopped.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, problems, problems for the 49er franchise. Or are
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: there really problems for the 49er franchise? Well, if you
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: have not heard by now, I don't know what you've
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: been doing. Bad job by you. 49ers owner Jed York.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Jed York, the headline all over the football world. What
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: did Jed York do? Did he donate money to charity? Well,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: kind of. Not the kind most people get all fired
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: up for. It doesn't get the good headlines when you
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: donate to this kind of charity. When you donate to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a children's hospital, it gets good publicity. For some reason,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: this does not get a lot of publicity. If you
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: have not heard, Jed York, who I think is in
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: his mid-40s here, arrested over the weekend in Ohio in
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: a prostitution sting.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Yes! You didn't see this?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you could have missed it. So
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: York was arrested. This is This is a line I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: never thought I would say. And I get emails.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Every once in a while. You've been doing sports radio
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: for so long, you must be bored. It just must
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: be so draining doing the same thing. No.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time. I have never
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: mentioned an NFL owner arrested at.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: A trailer park. At a trailer park. The 49ers owner
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: is trailer trash. I never thought I would say that.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Here I am. Yes.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And of all places, East Palestine, Ohio. And if that
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: sounds familiar, I've never been to East Palestine, Ohio. I've
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: been close to that, but I've never been there. That
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is a town that became famous a few years ago.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: It was a town that was pretty much abandoned by
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a bunch of political people because there was a toxic
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: train derailment, like a horrific train derailment in that part
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: of Ohio. That was three years ago. I think it
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: was three years ago. It all runs together, one giant blob.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So as far as the 49ers owner, I'll give you
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the bullet points on this. There was a sting operation.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: on a website where the ladies of the night advertise
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: their services. And the authorities allege that Jed York responded
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to that advertisement, or one of the advertisers there, on
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: a website where you get your prostitutes. Well, there's a
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: website for everything, so why not that? And he arranged
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: to meet a young lady there for some wham-bam right
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: there at the trailer park, because where else are you
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: going to go, for $ 140. That's at the Wheat Hill
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Mobile Home Park. Now, when I'm in East Palestine, Ohio,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I always make sure to stop by the Wheat Hill
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Mobile Home Park. Now, York was initially charged with engaging
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: in prostitution, possessing.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: This is the greatest part.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Possessing criminal tools, both of those first degree misdemeanors.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: OK, there you go.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: discuss the question.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: You've got the 49ers CEO, the owner, Jed York, shopping
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: for a hooker online. They're finding one and obviously finding
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the wrong one. So how does a billionaire NFL owner.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: end up arranging a $ 140 encounter at an Ohio trailer park?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: How do you end up in that spot? All right,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: so I've got walkie-talkie, Bermuda Triangle, and the Jerry Springer Show.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: And we will combine.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: All of these things together, and we are going to
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: attempt to have the Midas touch. Not the Saddam touch.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: We want the Midas touch is what we want. So
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: we're going to get right at it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Number one! Number one! Number one! Number one! Number one!
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Number one!
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: So Jed York's arrest proves, more of a refresher course,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: that just because you have massive wealth, huge amounts of money...
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: You can't always buy common sense. You cannot buy common sense.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: The whole story here is wacky tabacky. It's another one
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of those stories. I'm not going to lie.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I woke up. I was a little dazed. You know,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: get up.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: You're like, all right, what happened while I was in
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a comatose state to the world? So I grabbed my
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: phone like everyone does, and I put on my bifocals,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and I look at my phone. I got all these messages.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I thought, well, I mean, it seems like this must
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: be legit. I don't think it's sports talk Barry. It
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: seems ridiculous. And a bunch of people were, did.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: You see this? Oh, but you wake up, wake up.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I eventually woke up and I, I saw the wacky
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: tobacco story. So you've got a guy here, Jed York,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: who can afford Johnny Walker, not blue, black. He can
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: afford Johnny Walker, 1938, like the big stuff. And so
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: on this little exercise, he went shopping for the Keystone
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Light instead of the Johnny Walker. He's like, I want
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: some Keystone Light.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, why not?
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Can I get a coupon? I'm a value shopper for
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the Devil's Dance. I would like to do the Devil's Dance,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: but I want to get a coupon. You want to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: hold on to that $ 500 million fortune. You want to
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: hold on to that money. So you end up doing
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the walkie-talkie. Now, what does that mean? Well, you do
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the walk of shame. In this case, out of a,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I guess, a police station there with the bitter beer
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: face from the Keystone Light, you got that going for you. Now, legally,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: this is a nothing burger. This is nothing. In terms
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of the legal system, this is zero, right? Because the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: prosecutors reduced... I was reading the story. The prosecutors reduced
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the prostitution charge to a disorderly conduct. So.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Time served. Bada bing, bada boom.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Well, he didn't get the bada boom part, but he
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: hit the point. So he paid $ 1, 150 and walked away.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: That's it. See you later. Okay. Now, the other part
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: of it, the criminal tool, you know what that was?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: What do you think he had? Like a shank or
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: a knife, a machete?
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Because I think criminal tools, I think, well, stuff to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: break into a place or rob someone. No, no, no.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: According to these numbskulls, the Keystone cops there in Ohio,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: they confiscated his criminal tool. It was his cell phone.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I feel like a bit
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: of a bad boy. Bad boy, bad boy. I feel
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: like a bad boy because I have a cell phone.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: And by that standard, every man, woman, and child over
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the age of like 12 is walking around America with
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: criminal tools, contraband.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I feel like I am a criminal.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I have a phone. That is a criminal tool. Professionally,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: now it's nothing criminally. Professionally, well, we got something. It's
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: certainly a PR disaster for the 49ers and all that.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And Roger Goodell will slap him with the usual punishment,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: which is always absurd. You can't punish an owner. They
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: don't play in the games. But they'll try, right? Personal
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: code of conduct policy and a bunch of people will
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: be saying, you have to punish Jed York for seeing
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the whore in Ohio. You got to punish him. Okay, fine.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: So you'll punish him. The real damage, though, is the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: forever damage for Jed York. This becomes, for him, the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: ultimate boogeyman for Jed York. The embarrassing guy that went
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to the trailer park for a little make and whoopee
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: right there at the trailer park there. The whole scandal.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And it will follow him around. This has legs. This
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: has legs. Every owner's meetings, some guy in the back
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: in Manhattan will be screaming about a trailer park every
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: time he goes to a Super Bowl. The owners love
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to go hang out at these Super Bowls, even when
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: their team's not there. So this will be part of
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: his story for eternity, the trailer park rendezvous for the
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: 49ers owner there. And if you don't believe me, ask
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Robert Kraft. It's been seven years. Can you believe it's
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: been seven years since he went to the Orchids of
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Asia Day Spa there in Florida? And still, there are
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: people that joke around. I still also remember that old
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: lawyer guy that called us up while that story just broke.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And told us that Robert Kraft was going to get
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: out of trouble because of the fruit of the poisonous tree.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And he was absolutely right. Some old retired lawyers in
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Florida couldn't sleep and he was listening to the show.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: And he gave us great legal advice for free. And
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: nobody else had that. We were the first people to
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: have that in the middle of the night. So that
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: was kind of cool. Now, page two. So let's keep
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the train of thought going here. Let's take a couple
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: of steps back and kind of look at the entire.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Serengeti for this story, the wide view of everything going on.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So the question, what is the biggest mistake that the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: 49ers owner Jed York made in this rendezvous?
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: So let me give you the training wheels edition of this.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Jed York's biggest mistake. was obviously he got horny in Ohio.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: That was his biggest mistake.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: That's a rookie mistake. Bad job by you. I tell you,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I was texting some buddies of mine. We were talking
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: about this via text. And if Jed York, we determined
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: if Jed York had gone shopping for some female companionship
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: back in the Bay Area, If you just say, I'm
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: going to go see a nice lady to cuddle with, you.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Know, wink, wink.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: In the Bay Area, the 49ers, if he had gotten popped,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the 49er security machine would have been activated. And they
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: would have pulled out a general pencil company, number two pencil,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a number two pencil with a supersized neon eraser. OK,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: and poof, just like that. We don't hear about it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: We don't hear a peep. Now, what is my evidence? Well,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: my evidence, rather obviously, looked no further than the coach's
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: office for the 49ers. You and I both know there
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: was some funny business that went on in the coach's office.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: We don't know how much funny business. We might never know.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: But just to have a conversation with... Kyle Shanahan, who
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: must have had a Cheshire Cat smile when he got
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: a phone call. Hey, yeah, the owner there, York's in
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: some trouble.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: What did he do? Well, you know, he was in Ohio. Okay,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: so nothing wrong with being in Ohio. Oh, yeah, yeah,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: he was in Ohio. And he went to see a lady. Okay, well, yeah,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: that's fine. He went to see a lady. Yeah, okay. Yeah,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: she was a hooker, but not a real hooker. It
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: was a cop.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Oh! He must have laughed his ass off, right? Because
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan was part of that mysterious Tesla accident. Remember
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the 11-day cone of silence around the Shanahan story before
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: he popped up? And they said over the weekend, on
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: a Saturday, they dropped the story that Shanahan was in
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: a car accident. and then they were like well what
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: about the police footage well we're not letting the police
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: footage out the cops aren't going to let the footage
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: out well why not we want the footage well we
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: can't make it public we can't make it public why
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: not uh and jed in this case jed did not
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: need to reincarnate johnny cochran the greatest attorney of all
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: time there johnny cochran he needed simply home field advantage
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: if jed york had home.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Field advantage Things would have been fine. Security would have
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: cleaned this up.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: The goon security guys for the 49ers, the thugs, would
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: have cleaned this thing up.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: And that's it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: And if not, he could have just blamed the fact
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: that he saw a prostitute on that electrical substation near
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the 49ers practice facility. And it caused him to want
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: to see a woman who was charging for her services.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: So instead, of course, Jed wandered off the reservation. And
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: in Ohio there, looking for the bow chicka-wow-wow, and suddenly
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: there was nobody around to make the mess go away.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: He fell into a situation. He could not get anyone
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: to put this into the Bermuda Triangle.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: He wanted to. He couldn't do it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: He discovered the harder way, the harder way that what
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: happens in East Palestine, Ohio— At a trailer park. Does
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: not stay. Does not stay in East Palestine, Ohio.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: At a trailer park. All right. Final point. Let's get
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: to the chatter. A number of you have been emailing me.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: You must talk about this. You can't ignore this story.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I won't ignore it. I'll mention it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: So former NBA player and actually two former NBA players,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Ennis Cantor Freedom and Royce White are not eligible for
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: to play in the WNBA, according to an announcement from
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: something called Front Office Sports, despite both declaring to enter
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the 2027 WNBA draft claiming they identify as women. So
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: does this mean the WNBA has figured out what a
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: woman is? No, not quite. The WNBA dismissing the declarations
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: from these two beautiful ladies who want to play in
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the WNBA as simply publicity stunts. saying the league will
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: not amplify attempts intended to mock the WNBA or demean
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: or marginalize others, even though they're doing that by announcing this.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: These people are so stupid. Did they have a contest
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to hire the dumbest people to work at the WNBA?
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: My God.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: So a WNBA source dismissing all this, as we said,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the league said there is no legitimate or immediate eligibility
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: issue requiring action, meaning they're not saying that this is
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a woman, that's a woman, whatever.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: The WNBA says it will.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Not allow outside pressure to manufacture controversy.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's too late. It's too late.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: All right. So the question.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: What happens next in this epic dog and pony show.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: That is the modern WNBA? Yes.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: So the WNBA, which is not about basketball, because if
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: it was, it would be out of business. They tried
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: being about basketball.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Nobody watched. So it's not about basketball.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: The WNBA is an NBA-funded chaos generator disguised, camouflaged.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: As some kind of sport.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I look at the WNBA now as a modern Jerry
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Springer show. I was a little child when Jerry Springer
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: was on.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Look it up, kids.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: He was this very popular show back in the day.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: And it's like Jerry Springer with a shot clock.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Hold on, let me put these guys on hold real quick.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: The phones are ringing me real quick here. Let's see,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: put these guys on hold. There we go.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: All right, so no, it's like the Jerry Springer show
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: with a shot clock.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Let me explain my logic. As I remember, nobody.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Tuned in to the Jerry Springer show for thoughtful dialogue.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: That was not what that show was about. You just watched.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Waiting to see the chairs flying in the air everywhere and.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: The hair pulling catfights is why you watched the Jerry
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Springer show.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: And that's it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: It wasn't about some kind of deeper meaning or anything
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: like that. The same principle applies for the modern WNBA.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: It just does. It's like a psyop with a scoreboard.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: You can't run a circus and then complain when the
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: people want to see the clowns. OK, the people want
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: to see the clowns. The WNBA needs to give the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: clowns there to the people. So Ennis Cantor Freedom and
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Royce White declaring themselves for the. For the WNBA draft
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and now being declared ineligible. And I saw Cantor Freedom
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: or whatever the guy's name is writing back or firing back.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I think it was on one of the cable news
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: shows saying, I am a woman. I should be allowed
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: to play. So the next layer is rather obvious. You
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: file a lawsuit and you force the WNBA to go
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: on the record defining that you are not a woman
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: because this is what a woman is. I think most
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: people that learn the birds and the bees know what
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a woman is, but maybe not. Easy peasy lemon squeezy, right?
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Just there you go. That's it.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: So every time, and I don't watch the WNBA. I
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: think the product's just terrible when I try to watch it.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: But every time a WNBA coach or player opens their mouth.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: And it happens all the time. It feels like there's
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: another glitch in the simulation. Like this is just, again,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: some kind of psyop thing that's going on with the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: scoreboard and all that. And at this point, I would
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: advise the WNBA to just embrace every publicity stunt because your.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Product is terrible. All right.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: The people that you employ are idiots. So just embrace it, right?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: The basketball part of it's terrible. It's not appointment viewing.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: No one's watching it. They're just waiting for something crazy
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to happen so they can rant about it. It's a
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: political battlefield for the culture war.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: That's why you exist. So lean into it.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Are these guys ready to go, Coop? We good on this?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to the hostess with the mostess in
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Lost Wages, Nevada, our buddy Slug, who's going to play.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Slug. Welcome.
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  Speaker 4: What's up, buddy?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: You ready to rock?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, me and you? Together, you? Unbelievable. All right. We'll
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  Speaker 2: do this. You'll play. Slug, hold on a sec. And
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  Speaker 2: we have Tyler, who's in Boston. Hello, Tyler. Welcome. Good morning, Benny.
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  Speaker 2: Back again. Back for more. Tyler, you're back again. Ready
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  Speaker 2: to take you down again.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So you'll team up with Coop. What are the categories here, Coop?
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  Speaker 1: Let's get this set up real quick. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: This is Mallard's Mountain of Money, Sean Connery edition. I've
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  Speaker 2: heard him. He would have been 96 years old today.
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  Speaker 2: Except he's dead. He is.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Has been for six years.
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  Speaker 5: The categories are Cuba, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,
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  Speaker 5: Medicine Man and The Rock.
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  Speaker 2: Slug, which category would you like?
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  Speaker 3: All day, Indiana Jones.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Rangers of the Lost Ark. No, no, this one's The
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  Speaker 2: Last Crusade. I don't think he was in Rangers of
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  Speaker 2: the Lost Ark. Tyler, which category would you like? I'll
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  Speaker 2: go Medicine Man. Medicine Man. All right. All right, everyone,
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  Speaker 2: hold on here. Do not hang up. And I'll put
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  Speaker 2: them there on the pause button.
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  Speaker 1: Slug in Vegas with me, Ben Cooper, Justin Cooper, and Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: That's the matchup. And it's Mallard's Mountain of Money. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to it, and we will do it!
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  Speaker 3: Mallard's Mountain of Money. Do you have what it takes
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  Speaker 3: to get to the top? Probably not.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Let's do it right now.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: Our contestant, Slug, is in Vegas, and he's hosting us
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  Speaker 1: this weekend on Saturday, the Mallard Meet and Greet Stakeout
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  Speaker 1: Bar and Grill.
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  Speaker 2: Which is why it's a bummer that I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: have to beat him. No, you're not. You're not beating me.
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  Speaker 1: We're in it to win it, depending on how many
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  Speaker 1: beers Slug has had.
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  Speaker 2: And Tyler is in Boston. And hello, Tyler. You're teamed
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  Speaker 2: up with Koops. Are you going to lose? So just
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  Speaker 2: deal with that.
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  Speaker 3: Doubtful.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get the party started here.
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  Speaker 2: The category you picked is Sean Connery edition. You picked
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  Speaker 2: Indiana Jones. Is that correct, Slug? Yes. All right.
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  Speaker 1: These athletes aren't college professors, but they are from the...
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  Speaker 1: state of Indiana. Are you ready, Slug?
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  Speaker 2: Sure. All right. 45 seconds on the clock. We're on
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  Speaker 2: our way. Go. The Hick from French Lick. Larry Bird.
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  Speaker 2: The Wizard of Westwood. God, Jesus. It is not Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: He played for the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: Also, the Steelers won with the Ravens defense. Got a
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  Speaker 1: defensive back, safety, cornerback. First NFL player to return from
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  Speaker 1: reconstructive knee surgery.
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  Speaker 2: Played for your Raiders!
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  Speaker 1: All right, manager of the Miracle Mets of 1969, played
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  Speaker 1: for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: Now, come on!
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  Speaker 2: All right. What terrible clues. Jeez. You got 30 points.
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  Speaker 2: That was bad. The manager of the Miracle Mets and
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  Speaker 2: played for the... We should just let you go again.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't even get Rod Woodson. That was real bad.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't get Rod Woodson. I'm going to slap you
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  Speaker 2: when I see you on Saturday. You didn't get Rod Woodson.
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  Speaker 3: Too many teams you.
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  Speaker 2: Threw out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Nobody knows him from the Ravens. Come on. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens. What did he play like two years for them?
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  Speaker 5: Didn't he win a Super Bowl with them? Yeah, but that's... Tyler,
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  Speaker 5: we have Medicine Man. These athletes are slash were often injured.
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  Speaker 2: Don't choke, Tyler. Do not choke, Tyler. Alright, 45 seconds.
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  Speaker 2: You smell that? 45 seconds. Let's begin. I'm smelling a choke. Alright,
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  Speaker 2: the unibrow. Anthony Davis. Yes. The slugger that's always hurt
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  Speaker 2: for the Yankees. Not Aaron Judge, the other guy. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're tied. Stop.
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  Speaker 5: This guy is a wide receiver on the 49ers. He
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  Speaker 5: kind of plays a running back sometimes. He just got
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  Speaker 5: re-signed with them.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, that's right. This guy's on the Pelicans. He blew
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  Speaker 2: out his sneaker in college. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: This guy is the dad of Luke. He had curly hair.
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  Speaker 5: He loves the Grateful Dead. He just died recently.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: This guy was a running back for the Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: He's on the Broncos now. Choke. J.K.
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  Speaker 5: Dobbins.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Come on. All right.
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  Speaker 5: This guy is a shortstop. He was on the Colorado Rockies.
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  Speaker 5: He's on the Red Sox now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you didn't run the board. Sorry, loser. I think
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  Speaker 2: he did.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and Ben tried his best to ruin the game
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  Speaker 5: by talking.
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  Speaker 2: Choke, choke, choke, choke, choke, choke, choke. I think due
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  Speaker 2: to that and his one second being late on saying
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  Speaker 2: Trevor's story. Yeah, I think he ran the board. He
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  Speaker 2: ran the board. That's 300 points. Hey, Slug, you see
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing? Hey, Slug, you see what they're doing?
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  Speaker 2: Shut up, Tyler. Stop cheating, Ben. Shut up, Tyler. You
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  Speaker 2: see what they're doing, Slug? Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, this guy hosts a party, and he gets
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  Speaker 1: disrespected by Coop and Arena.
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  Speaker 2: He's not even going to try because he knows he
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  Speaker 2: can't beat that score. Let's go, Slug.
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  Speaker 5: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking two strikes off the menu. And you know what, Slug?
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  Speaker 2: They're not invited. It's the Mallor-Mingree. They can't go. How
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  Speaker 2: about that, Slug? All right, let me see your name
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  Speaker 2: on it. That's right, my name. All right, what do
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  Speaker 2: you want? You want Cuba or The Rock?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't want people from Indiana, I can tell
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  Speaker 3: you that.
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  Speaker 5: The Rock, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: The Rock, all right.
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  Speaker 1: These athletes all, well, they all went to prison. Quarterback
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  Speaker 1: for the Falcons. Dogfighter. Yes, he was a receiver for
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  Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. He killed his pregnant girlfriend.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look at that. You're out of time. You lose.
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  Speaker 1: Loser. I won because you're not invited anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Either one of you, get out of here with that.