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  Speaker 1: This is from the Bay Area and the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers could be finer. We have our first quarterback injury,
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  Speaker 1: our first quarterback injury of the regular season in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not seen this, maybe not the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine Ers, Mister irrelevant. Brock Purty will be mister irrelevant
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  Speaker 1: going forward if you believe the Niners. And now most
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  Speaker 1: of these reports are bogus, but we're going to assume
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  Speaker 1: the position that this one is not. Brock Purty described
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  Speaker 1: as a quote long shot, a long shot to play
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  Speaker 1: against the Norlands Saints, which is as bad an NFL
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  Speaker 1: team as you can find.
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  Speaker 3: And now that.
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  Speaker 1: Party could miss multiple weeks. I like how they say, well,
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  Speaker 1: he's a long shot to play against Saints. Oh and oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, he's probably gonna miss multiple games with
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  Speaker 1: a toe injury. Now, Kyle Shanahan, who we just goofed
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  Speaker 1: on in a previous episode of the show. So Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: commented on Brock pretty in fact, rather than me just
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  Speaker 1: read the quote.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go the audio tape.
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  Speaker 4: Here.
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  Speaker 3: Is the forty nine.
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  Speaker 5: Er coach any further sense about whether Brock will be
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  Speaker 5: able to play on Sunday?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I dance a long shot as well.
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  Speaker 6: That party's injury could be a multi week thing.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the toe more so in the shoulder. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: did someone's up on his foot in the pocket? Do
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  Speaker 3: you know how the toe injury happened? Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: it happened scrambling.
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  Speaker 7: I think when I'm love tackle him by the sideline.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it happened. Was playing through that in the
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  Speaker 3: game or is just something you found out later?
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  Speaker 1: That was where Yeah, he got grilled there he was
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  Speaker 1: like he was like being integragated or interrogated rather interrogated
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  Speaker 1: by the by the cops. All right, So Mac Jones
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  Speaker 1: under this scenario, Mac Jones will be QB number one
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  Speaker 1: when the forty nine ers on the New Orleans football
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  Speaker 1: team if Brock Purty cannot play.
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  Speaker 3: So let us discuss the question what is.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest difference between brock Purty and Mac Jones. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got Dino Nuggets, Johnny Depp and Icy Hot and
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  Speaker 1: those are three things that have never been put together.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna put him together and play Connect three.
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  Speaker 1: So a who goofed? I've got to know right now.
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  Speaker 1: We have poked fun at Brock Party.
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  Speaker 3: We have had a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of fun, and we've been right with our analysis at
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  Speaker 1: Brock Party. And I think he has he's played. The
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  Speaker 1: more he's played, the more his frailties have been exposed,
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  Speaker 1: and the real football people know he's not all that good, right,
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  Speaker 1: And we pointed that out as weakness is because it's
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  Speaker 1: part of the job as.
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  Speaker 3: It talk shows.
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  Speaker 1: However, if you're being totally honest here, brock Purty, well,
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  Speaker 1: he is certainly not Peyton Maning or Patrick Mahomes or
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  Speaker 1: something like that compared to Mac Jones.
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  Speaker 3: Though.
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  Speaker 1: It's like going from a nice meal at Dave's Hot Chicken,
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  Speaker 1: and then he said, well, I can't go there, I
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  Speaker 1: can't find one, and I don't want that Nashville Hot Chicken.
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  Speaker 1: So instead I'm just gonna microwave some Dino Nuggets. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna eat like. Already's strength is that
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't screwed up too much. That he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the little wind up toil toy for Kyle Shanahan's offense.
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  Speaker 1: That he reads the defense and he'll get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, and as long as the playmakers are matriculating
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  Speaker 1: the ball down the field, he's fine.
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  Speaker 3: Mac Jones.
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  Speaker 1: From his time with the Patriots, he will stare down
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  Speaker 1: that linebacker. He'll give that linebacker elevator eyes man up
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  Speaker 1: and down and all around, and it's like.
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  Speaker 3: It's his prom date.
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  Speaker 1: And then he'll still throw the linebacker the ball, which
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't do. Not that I played quarterback in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: but forty four interceptions in less than sixteen hundred pass attempts.
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  Speaker 3: For mac Jones.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to be a quarterback coach to know
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  Speaker 1: that blows.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's like working at Santa's Workshop in the gift wrapping
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  Speaker 1: department when it comes to turnovers. And on his best day,
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  Speaker 1: Mac Jones, on his very best day, which of course
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  Speaker 1: means as good as all the rest, he's mid.
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  Speaker 3: He's not a good quarterback, Mac Jones.
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  Speaker 1: He's just good enough to keep you from immediately cutting him,
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  Speaker 1: and so he'll have a job in the NFL because
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  Speaker 1: he shows up to practice and he's a good practice player.
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  Speaker 1: But he's that guy that you you know, you kind
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  Speaker 1: of regret the whole thing, but you want to get
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  Speaker 1: away from the person. Like dating, you want to get
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  Speaker 1: away from the person, but you don't really have anything
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  Speaker 1: else to do on.
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  Speaker 3: A Friday night, so you're like, I will hang out
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  Speaker 3: with him whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But he's bad enough to lose winnable games, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the issue. And I have no skin in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I know that our guys are Nesto and some of
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  Speaker 1: the other forty nine are Jay Scoop and Alameda Loo
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  Speaker 1: and those guys that are big forty nine er fans
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  Speaker 1: and some others that call the show.
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  Speaker 3: You're a RAM fan, what do you? You don't know
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  Speaker 3: what you're telling you this jet Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I know Mac Jones from watching these games and being
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  Speaker 1: you know, on Benny versus the Penny all these years
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  Speaker 1: and handicapping the games. So he's he's bad enough to
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  Speaker 1: lose winnable games. He's not bad enough to be out
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  Speaker 1: of the league. That's the point, right, And brock Perty
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't elevate players, that's our main argument, and mac
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  Speaker 1: Jones he actively pulls them down into the mud with him.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's the other issue. Now Paige two looking
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  Speaker 1: at the upcoming gig because it's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like the forty nine ers are going to
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  Speaker 3: go with mac Jones.
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  Speaker 1: So with that as the backstory, who's under more pressure
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  Speaker 1: this week? Is it mac Jones taking over at quarterback
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  Speaker 1: or is it Kyle Shanahan who has to draw up
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  Speaker 1: the playbook for mac Jones. So the arrow on this
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  Speaker 1: one is clearly pointing the direction of mac Jones. The
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  Speaker 1: guy's career is dangling by a threat. He went from
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  Speaker 1: the supposed savior of the Patriots and the handpicked quarterback
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  Speaker 1: by Bill Belichick, and he was gonna be the guy
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  Speaker 1: that leads New England out of a deep dark place
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  Speaker 1: there and the next great Patriot quarterback. He was rudely
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  Speaker 1: kicked out of the Northeast and sent to Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, well that's a kind of a homecoming form
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  Speaker 3: right Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: And he was an afterthought in Jacksonville, and now he
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  Speaker 1: goes to the forty nine ers and it's like a
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  Speaker 1: charity case for Kyle Shanahan to put him out there,
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  Speaker 1: so he absolutely he needs Mac Jones needs a big
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  Speaker 1: game like Johnny Depp needed Pirates of the Caribbean four.
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  Speaker 3: Because without it, I mean, if he goes out there
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  Speaker 3: and loses to the Saints, I mean he is woof wow.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe he can be clipboard guy forever, but
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  Speaker 1: most likely not even that. I mean Jones argument has
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  Speaker 1: been the Jones camp, if there is such a thing
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  Speaker 1: as a Jones camp, is that he's been surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: flotsam and jetsam. That in New England they just had
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  Speaker 1: bad football players around him, and in Jacksonville they had
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  Speaker 1: underachieving but talented players.
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  Speaker 3: The Niners are supposed to be different.
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  Speaker 1: Now, they did have a down year last year, but
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  Speaker 1: the Niner rosters supposed to be an upgrade.
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  Speaker 3: Now that's debatable.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that Kyle Shanahan is going to spoon
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  Speaker 1: feed Mac Jones with his celebrated offensive system, which every
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  Speaker 1: broadcaster on television.
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  Speaker 3: Loves to tell you is the greatest thing ever.
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  Speaker 1: And can he play Shanahan hide the quarterback like its
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  Speaker 1: backyard football?
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  Speaker 3: Can he do that? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Other than Christian McCaffrey, you look at that Niner depth chart,
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  Speaker 1: there is no juice.
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  Speaker 3: Where's the juice? There is no juice there.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a mid quarterback in mac Jones, you've got
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  Speaker 1: mid weapons, and you've got Shanahan who's doing some meatball
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  Speaker 1: surgery trying to put.
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  Speaker 3: It all together.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if they weren't playing the Saints, who are actively
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  Speaker 1: waving the white flag.
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  Speaker 3: They don't. They're not even trying.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're not even Spencer Rattler is their quarterback for
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  Speaker 1: God's sakes, right, So this would be a certified disaster.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Niners, as bad as they are, you think
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna win just because they're the better team.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't always work out that way.
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  Speaker 1: And there's something in the points spreads involvements. But in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the evidence here, George Kittle on injured reserve,
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  Speaker 1: so he's not gonna play their safety blanket tight end.
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  Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings is dinged up, So now you're most likely
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  Speaker 1: rolling with Kendrick Bourne, who was an ex patriot, and
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  Speaker 1: Ricky Piersall those are your options on offense. And so
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  Speaker 1: what does that mean? That means the usual screens dump
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  Speaker 1: off to Christian mccafrey. It's Christian McCaffrey left, and then
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  Speaker 1: when you get tired of that, it's Christian McCaffrey to
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  Speaker 1: the right, and you pray for a busted play and
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  Speaker 1: he takes it to the out Like Shanahan's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the chef here calling up the plays and he'll
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  Speaker 1: be cooking with the ingredients are spam and saltines instead
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  Speaker 1: of wagou beef, So there's no wagoo bee. Now, good
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  Speaker 1: luck on that right and again Mac. The drama here
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  Speaker 1: is that Mack.
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  Speaker 3: Is playing for his football life. He's playing for his
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  Speaker 3: football life.
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  Speaker 1: And if you look at how he has played up
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  Speaker 1: until this point, which is all we have to judge
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  Speaker 1: him on, he has struggled pre snap. He appears to
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  Speaker 1: have no idea how to read. He's illiterate when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to reading a blitz. You can't do that to
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  Speaker 1: save his life. And the Saints even in tank mon though,
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  Speaker 1: here's the odd thing about like, even as bad as
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  Speaker 1: the Saints are, there's still a few good players on
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  Speaker 1: the defense on defense, and they can't dial up some pressure.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's kind of like sending a man who
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  Speaker 1: can't swim into the wavepool at six flags. Hurricane Harbor.
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  Speaker 1: You just put him out there, and it's probably not
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. It's probably not so all right. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last word, we head from the forty nine Ers and
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  Speaker 1: we go to Petsburg, PA, the land of the Insers,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where we have our weekly dose up a.
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  Speaker 3: Radgers. Yes, Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 1: So the Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, he announced, despite having
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  Speaker 1: good numbers against the Jets' former team and the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: winning that game, Rogers said that his back was tight
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  Speaker 1: in Week one and that kept him from moving how
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  Speaker 1: he typically moves. He said he actually ran into one
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  Speaker 1: or two sacks against the Jets. Quote Rogers said, I
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  Speaker 1: might be old, but I still feel like I can
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  Speaker 1: move around pretty good, and I wasn't moving the way
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  Speaker 1: I usually like to move close quote all right, So
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  Speaker 1: question on this one for the esteem panel, what is
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  Speaker 1: your takeaway from Aaron Rodgers saying that his back was
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  Speaker 1: essentially barking harf horf horf. Sounded like that his back
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  Speaker 1: was barking harfrf just like Andre's dog, right, just like
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  Speaker 1: his dog there willis so uh. The Steelers the way
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  Speaker 1: I look at this, they have themselves a middle aged.
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  Speaker 3: Quarterback that's kind of it's not my opinion, it's not
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  Speaker 3: an outrageous opinion. That's what he is, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: life and in football, he's an old quarterback. But after that.
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  Speaker 1: Opening scene, right, I mean that was the opening scene
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  Speaker 1: of the of the play, and Rogers essentially hit us
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  Speaker 1: with the readed middle aged lament one game in, so
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  Speaker 1: using the Mallord decoder, the Mallard Dacota, it's Rogers essentially saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Mike chiropractor is now more important than my offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: It's the NFL's version of that classic line from an
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  Speaker 1: old TV show called The Honeymooners and Ralph Cramton, who
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  Speaker 1: said it best, Oh my aching back, right, and Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's giving you the hippodrome sneak preview of
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  Speaker 1: what's coming soon to a stadium near you. So it's
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  Speaker 1: one game in and Rogers is already saying, hey, my
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  Speaker 1: back is barking.
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  Speaker 3: Let's fast forward.
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  Speaker 1: Now ahead in the broadcast until December in Pittsburgh, Chamber
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  Speaker 1: of Commerce, day, thirty one degrees cloudy, just overcast, wind
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  Speaker 1: blowing off the Allegheny and the confluence right there, and
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  Speaker 1: you think that that back is going to feel looser
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  Speaker 1: in those conditions.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm asking for a friend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Now, now that back is going to
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  Speaker 1: sound like a rusty screen door in a windstorm by
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  Speaker 1: the time we get to December, if he's even still
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  Speaker 1: out there by the time we get December. So, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how much it's a good lesson here, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how much ayahuasca one drinks, Rogers is still like the
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  Speaker 1: rest of us who reach middle aged right. He still
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  Speaker 1: thinks he can dance like he did in his twenties,
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  Speaker 1: except when he goes to the club. Now he hits
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  Speaker 1: the dance floor and a couple songs later, he's rubbing
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  Speaker 1: icy hot all over his body. He is oiled up
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  Speaker 1: with icy hot. That's how he's doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Now. He's at the athletic.
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  Speaker 1: Stage of life where occasionally tying one shoes is a
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  Speaker 1: warm up.
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  Speaker 3: Exercise, and you go to the gym, say did you
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  Speaker 3: warm up? Yeah? I warmed up.
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  Speaker 1: What you do I tied my shoes, Well, that's not
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  Speaker 1: warming up. Well for me, it's warming up. So I
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  Speaker 1: tied my shoes. Well, that's not really warming up, but
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  Speaker 1: for me, it's tied my shoves. Now, where will you
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  Speaker 1: bend over, you know, to bend over to pick up
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  Speaker 1: the remote, and suddenly you need an MRI that kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing.
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  Speaker 3: So keep an eye on this. We obviously will. We
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  Speaker 3: have nothing else going on.
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  Speaker 1: But by week eight, every time Rogers tries to roll out,
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  Speaker 1: it's coming to look like your uncle Harvey getting off
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  Speaker 1: the couch there and you know, watching after watching seven
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  Speaker 1: hours of commercials that you used to have no commercials
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  Speaker 1: on that Red Zone channel. So a lot of creeks, cracks,
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  Speaker 1: groans all that. That's the soundtrack for Aver and Raders.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a bit of foreshadowing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit of foreshadowing, a preview of future coming attractions.
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  Speaker 1: And when the backlocks up in September, it's a bad
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  Speaker 1: sign for December. So instead of the terrible towel, that
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  Speaker 1: should change it up. I got an idea. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a marketing guy. You said what you used an overnight
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  Speaker 1: I am an overnight guy, but I'm a marketing guy.
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  Speaker 1: Mallard marketing. How about this promotional giveaway? A lot of teams.
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  Speaker 1: Football teams don't use give stuff away because they.
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  Speaker 3: Don't need to. They only play eight games year.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball teams give you a bobble Dodgers have had four
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  Speaker 1: bobblehead nights.
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  Speaker 3: For Showhale, tony four of them.
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  Speaker 1: Four of them, and people still line up six hours
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  Speaker 1: before the game to get a o Tani bobble It's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's not that limited dummy anyway, that's not the point.
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  Speaker 1: Football teams normally don't give stuff away. The Steelers are
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  Speaker 1: known for what they're known for, the terrible towel. I'm
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  Speaker 1: now the marketing director of the Pittsburgh Steels. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 3: I go out online and I purchase.
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  Speaker 1: Forty thousand heating pads, and I put the Steeler logo
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  Speaker 1: on them, and I have a promotion, Aaron Rodgers Heating
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  Speaker 1: Pad Night. On one side, I put the Steeler logo.
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  Speaker 1: On the other side, I put a mug shot of
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Boom done. What a great promotion. All right,
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  Speaker 1: the terrible heating pads and put those out. Who says
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  Speaker 1: no to that? Come on, it's a good idea. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're shaking your head.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good idea. You can't come up with any
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  Speaker 3: better than that, can you know?
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  Speaker 1: and it's all she wrote for a franchise legend in
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the Windy City.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: If you have not heard by now, maybe not Anthony
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Rizzo done. Now we saw Rizzo. He is a Yankee.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Game the other night played with the Yankees, his last
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: big league team. Rizzo, though, was drinking a beer in
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the stands and the news came out.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: He is going to.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Officially retire as a member of the Cups, one of
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: those ceremonial retirement ceremony thing of the jigs that I
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: love so much. And he's going to join the organization
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: as a team ambassador.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: So Rizzo, thirty six, spent ten of his fourteen big
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: league seasons in Chicago. He has fully vested in the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball pension program. So he's set gonna get
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: big fat checks.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: You know, as long as he lives.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: And those are really nice checks, really sexy checks that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get. And so he helped them win the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: World Series in twenty sixteen, y'all told me that the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Cubs are going to become a dynasty, and they pretty much.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Snunk ever since then.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And so the issue here is this debate that has
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: popped up now that Rizzo's announced his retirement. Is he
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: going to get the ultimate honor from the Chicago National
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: League Baseball team?
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: So let's discuss. That's a good jumping off point.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: So the question, should the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number?
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Should they retire his number?
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So I've got ring around the Rosie Turtle, wax and Superman,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and we'll combine all of these ingredients together. We're gonna
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: make Babushka's favorite potato lacas is what we're gonna make,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: all right, So number, I said number. My answer, should
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number? It's a hard no,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: not a soft no. It's a hard no.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: We are against Jersey retirements as a rule of thumb.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: This thing's gotten way out of hand, way out of hand.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: These uniform funerals are the corporate version of taking your
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: grandma's photo album and then charging you twenty dollars or
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: thirty dollars for the privilege of.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Looking at them. Hey remember sixteen, boy, that was a
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: long time ago. Remember the curse, the curse of the
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Billy Goat. Yeah, somebody let Doc Mike know.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: The Billy Goat curses over because he's still dropping goat
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: heads off at Wrigley Feel. But it's Wrigleyville marketing oxygen
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: right now. I understand we got great cub fans. Tree
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: in Chicago wonderfully gave me a good gift package from
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the Cubs, which is very kind, and and all the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: other guys that we've met over the years in Chicago,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: So Eugene in Chicago, A lot of guys can't name
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the moll g man.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna try, though, No Phase, he always gets upset.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Who you said?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: My name?
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: My name's Phase. I did meet him in a Cup
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: game actually, ironically enough.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: But the whole point of this is to say, no,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Rizzo was a fine member of the Cubs organization. Congratulations,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: But the whole marketing thing was like, come breathe the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: air of twenty sixteen. Well, no, it's twenty twenty five.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I don't want to breathe the air of twenty I
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: don't want to breath the air of twenty sixteen. It's
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. And while the Cubs are playing the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: violin in the background, that sappy.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Violin music as they roll out the highlight reel, the.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Fluff piece, and they're essentially selling bottled air from twenty sixteen.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: That's what this is.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: It's all about the heartstrings and the people saying, well,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: retire's number, retire's number, and you know, just keep the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: cash register, Hummond and memory Lane, all that good stuff.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: But you need an Anthony Rizzo ice bucket to the face.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Reality check here.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: If you look at the precedent, and I'm against retiring anyone's.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Number, I think the whole thing's lame.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: But if you are in the camp of retiring numbers,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: there have to be some standards. You can't be like
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the Yankees and retire everyone's number, right, it's embarrassing, or
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the Celtics or the Lakers, it's so embarrassing. But the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Cubs have a president, Ernie Banks, mister Baseball, Ryan Sandberg who.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Just passed away not that long ago, Greg Maddox, Ron Santo,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Fergie Jenkins, Billy Williams.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: That's it. That's the list. Those all of them are
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Hall of famers. Most of them are hardball immortals. And
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Andre Dawson, who is a better Cub, didn't play as
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: long as you gotta go with a better Cub than
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo. Dawson doesn't have his number retired, and I
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: believe he's a Hall of Famer. He actually works in
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the same business now, Andre Dawson. If you're old, you
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: know who he is. He played baseball a long time ago.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: For he played so long ago. Was a team called
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the Montreal Expos when he played. But Andre Dawson now
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: is an undertaker. He has the job that our friend
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Hayes has in Minnesota, not quite the same exact job,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: but he works at a mortuary. So anyway, this whole
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: thing is the riglely Ivy effect your wrapper. You know,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: anything in Ivy you put a retro font on it,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and the Cub fan will.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Eat it up.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: They will eat it up. It comes.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Actually, don't have a bad team this year. They don't
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: hear to have a championship team. And they're not a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: bad team. And you know, everyone seems to have a
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: playoff shot. The Cubs are right there on that big
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: mix in the in the playoff field. But they'll sell
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you the same old walk down Clark Street there and
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the yellow brick road. And it's a brilliant business model.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: And so it's not so much selling baseball, you're selling
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the nostalgia with stuff like this. And as far as
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the whole number retirement thing, I know that most teams
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: are obsessed with this and just will retire numbers because
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: they can't help themselves. They have no control. It's out, yeah,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and it's it's off the hook. To me, though, you
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: should try to pee like the Dallas Cowboys. Well, I
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: would just say the Cowboys. The Cowboys have never retired
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: a number. They have never retired number. They have a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: ring of honor and the malor advice, unsolicited malle advice.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: How about ring around the rosie or in this case,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: ring around the ivy and just put a ring of
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: honor around Wrigley Field and say, all right, we have
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a haul, we have the number retirement.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: We're done doing that, and so from now on we're
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: gonna have a ring of honor. Boom.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: And you can even put it outside the stadium on
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: one of those rooftops with the Cubs bought and give
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Rizzo a plaque and have a bobblehead day and there
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: you go. Problem solved, just like that, all right now
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: page two to Anaheim, we go, Yes, Anaheim, I saw this.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Oh you gotta be kidding me.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: So a report out from the baseball insider crowd that
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: it is most likely not going to be a return
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to Ron Washington next season. Now, there's still a chance
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: he comes back, but more likely than not, Ron Washington
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: will be elevated. He had a major heart major bypasserger,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I believe, and so most likely he will just get
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: an advisor role and that's it. And so the Angels
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: will have a new manager next year. So how do
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: you digest the report that the Halos are being tied
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: to Albert Poohos, Yes, that Albert Poohos, who played for
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the team and really stole money from the team for
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: years and was terrible. And the possibility that they will
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: go back to Mike Sosha remember him, He's been out
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: of baseball for several years. But they could turn back
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to Mike Sosher, the guy that was the skipper when
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: they finally won the World Series back in the day.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: So how do I digest this?
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: It is the theater of the absurd in Anaheim, the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Angels, of Disneyland, of Turos, of eternal irrelevance,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: all of that, and we don't talk about this guy
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: because the Angels are irrelevant.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: We have apathy.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: But Artie Marino is doing cosplay as Jerry Jones and
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: failing miserably. He's chasing headlines. A lot of the moves
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the Angels maker to chase headlines, and he's like addicted
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to the shiny object. And he's running the Angels like
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a bad Vegas lounge act. And he even did the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: fake head fake thing where he's like, I'm gonna sell
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the team. Psych I'm not selling the team bringing back
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Mike Sosher though, why not go get a shovel, dig
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: up Genautry.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: You can't do that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Bring back the ghost of Gene Autry. Trot his ass
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: out there on opening day twenty twenty six, and he
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: can sarenade Mike Soosha as he gets back into the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: doug out back in the saddle again. And the Angels,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: they might as well just tire my guy, Kawhi Leonard.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: We know Kawhi loves no show jobs. Managing the Angels
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: is a no show job. You're a mascot in a hoodie.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: You're a Walmart greeter with a lineup card. In fact,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why they have another. The Angel should
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: get Turtle Wax as a sponsor. The manager should have
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: a patch that says turtle Wax right on the uniform there,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: because when you're managing the Angels, you spend about six
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: months of the year polishing turds. That's what you're doing.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: That's it. It's the organizational philosophy.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: And they had Mike Trout and Showyotani in the same
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: lineup to Hall of Famers for multiple seasons, and they
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: managed to be irrelevant by.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Labor Day every single year. It's fascinating.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: That is not a bug in the system. That is
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: an entire operating error, is what that is. That's a
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: software issue. There's a trojan horse in the software. And
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: hiring Albert Pools or bringing back Mike Sosher or I
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: don't know, go find Joe Madden somewhere in Margaritaville somewhere.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: None of it matters. It's like asking a cord Don
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Blue chef to cook an award winning meal and the
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: ingredients are kibbles and bits and catnip the Angels at
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: this point. They don't even need a manager. They don't
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: they need an exorcism, is what they need. Get some
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: holy water, some garlic clothes, all of it. Until then,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: as the Great Donnie Brasco said, forget about it.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Remember this, the Angels could hire.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I'm convinced they could hire the Pope as the manager,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the Dali Lama could be the third base coach, and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the tooth Fairy could be the hitting coach, and they'd
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: still finish in fourth place.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: In the American League West.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: That's the way they are now, one final final point
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: while I'm at it. So I saw this and I
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: thought it was worthy of a mention. Staying at the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Big A. This guy was the biggest deal in baseball.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Who didn't want to be the biggest deal in baseball?
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Mike Trout. Remember, Mike Trout was the top player in baseball,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and he hated He's like like an introvert. Didn't want
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: to deal with the media, didn't want and didn't want
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: to do interviews. So Mike Trout has gone. Based on
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the Angels Twins game, which took place on Wednesday, Mike
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Trout has now gone. I believe that math is right
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: on this one hundred and twenty three played appearances, twenty
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: eight games without hitting home run. He's sitting on three
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: ninety eight. His previous longest drought was one hundred and
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: seventeen played appearances.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: That was a decade ago.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So question, what do you make of Mike Trout and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: his collapse in Anaheim.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: So it's kind of.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Like watching Superman walk around and he's got a neck
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: brace and he's limping it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: It's kind of like that, like this is brutal.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Mike Trout has been locked in since August sixth over
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a month now on that same home run total, and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: we know he's got that rare like it's a spinal
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: tap spinal condition thing there. He's basically the world's most
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: expensive day to day player. He's on that twelve year
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: contract for four hundred million dollars and I believe he's
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: got five years left. He will be thirty eight, Mike Trout,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and he's already a shell of what he was and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: his salad days and the angels are handcuffed.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: They're handcuffed to Mike Trout.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Now, they are really nice handcuffs, like a Rolex pair
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: of solid gold handcuffs really solid, really good handcuffs.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: They also have a ball and chain which it's got
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the Angel logo on it.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: So it's okay, they've got the Angel logo.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Yah, yeah, I know, I know. It's pretty exciting. So
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: they've got that going for him. But they're stuck. They're stuck,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and you cannot build a round Mike Trout anymore. You
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: cannot depend on Mike Trout anymore. He's played actually a
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: lot of games this year by Mike Trout standards. And
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: here's where things get interesting, right where the rubber meets
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the road.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: ARTI Marino cannot cannot quit these guys. He can't.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I And people said, well, they're gonna trade Trout because
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: he's not a lead guy.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: He can be a good number three guy, Like you
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: have two stars, he's your third star. You can be
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: pretty good. But they had Otani.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Everyone knew that Otani was gonna leave the Angels because
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: they were they didn't know what they were doing.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: And instead of.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Trading Otani and saying we'll get some for him, they
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: just kept Otani because they got all that Japanese advertising,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: which the Dodgers are obsessed with, by the way, Oh
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: my god, they are sucking every dollar they can out
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: of the Japanese economy. But and I don't blame him.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I do the same thing. But anyway, Otani left as
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: a free agent, and that means that based on that,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Mike Trout is not going anywhere, Like even if teams
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: called the ends up, like Marino is going to Artie,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Marino is going to have to eat a bunch of
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: money just to get Trout out there, and he's.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna do it.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I can't see him doing it, even though the Halos
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: could absolutely get offers and they could entice the Philadelphia
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Phillies to bite on Trout from Jersey, but you know
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: in the Philadelphia part of Jersey, Southern Jersey, so I
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: believe he grew up a Phillies fan. And then the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Yankees are always there. They love Falling Stars, they can't
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: get enough of them. They're ready for the Falling Stars
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: challenge and all that.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: So you find a.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Sucker who still believes that Mike Trout's got enough star
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: dust to justify acquiring him. And then the Phillies are
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: chasing rainbows and they're at a weird point now if
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: they don't win this year. They've got an older team,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: a bunch of players that are going to leave in
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: free agency or could leave in free agency. So they
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: got to sign Schober he's going to be a free agent.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: They've got Bryce Harper, he's getting older now. And so
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: if you can put Trout out there with those guys
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and Castellanos leaves, for example, that would make some sense
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: that the Yankees, they would be trying to resurrect Mike
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Trout like their doctor Frankenstein if he went to the Bronx.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: And you look at the comps on this, if.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: You take the name away, if you take the Mike
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Trout name away, and did the blind Pepsi challenge, the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: blind soda challenge, Mike Trout his production offensively this season
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: is on the same level with Isaac Parides of the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Astros and Jonathan Arnda of the Tampa Bay Rays, who
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: exactly these are not household names. They make chicken feed
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: compared to what Mike Trout makes. He's being fed like
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: a whale. He's being fed like a whale, and they're
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: being fed like a crab on the beach, a little
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: sand crab and the halo. Listen, we not to flog
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: a dead halo. But they're deep in a deep dark
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: place and they're not good. They're not bad. They're just
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: stuck on this treadmill of mediocrity. And more probably they're
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: a relevant while the Dodgers are in this golden era
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: where they make the playoffs every year, and if they
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine not.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Making the playoffs.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 3: Here we go, all right, Sam Maller, how about.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: That to the third degree?
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's only been one week, Ben, but it's
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: being reported that kickoff returns are way up so far
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: this season thanks to the new rule moving touchbacks to
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: the thirty five yard line. But as the NFL finally
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: fixed kickoffs.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: A small sample size, coop, small sample size, it was,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: let's put it this way, week one, it was not
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: a useless play and for several years in the end,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: actually more than several years, like you just didn't need
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to watch kickoffs because it just nothing ever happened.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: So that's a time to go get snacks. That's not
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: a time to pay attention. But now, yeah, it's one
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: week so at this point we do the show today, Coop,
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  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Next, the Toronto Blue Jays are only a few games
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: ahead of the Yankees in the Al East, and they
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: just had to put their star shortstop Bobaschett on the il.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Do you think they'll be able to hold off the
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Bronx Bombers.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Well, if you've seen the way the Yankees have played
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: this week, getting just destroyed by the by the Detroit Tedger,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the Yankees are a flawed baseball team, so Toronto's not
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: great either. But based on side by side the Yankees,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: all they do is hit home runs. If they don't
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: hit home runs, they really don't win very often at all.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: They showed some weaknesses in their bullpen here, so yeah,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: oh god.
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  Speaker 4: Next, A rold As Chapman has been on an insane
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: run for the Boston Red Sox. He was till yesterday,
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: well before that, it was seventeen straight appearances without allowing
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: a hit, only one run last thirty seven games.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: Do you think chapman success this year secures him a
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: spot in the Hall.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: No, No, He's got a lot of baggage. And he
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: you know, he's one of those borderline guys. He's got
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: some Hall of Fame numbers. Now, if the Red Sox
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: going to run in the playoffs and he's lights out,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: then you can revisit this. But he's still borderline Hall
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: of fame even with this renaissance, and he's been great.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: He already signed for next year. The Red Sox already
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: signed Chapman to an extension. All right there, it is
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: mallor to the third degree. He got lit up by
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the A's And how did we do pass this edition?
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: That is one again? Take that, Justin and Cincinnati, I
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: won Justin.
• 37:18
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• 37:37
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• 37:40
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  Speaker 5: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: The extended Dance remix and it's made possible by the Gremlins.
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: We're very excited about that.
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: So we need.
• 37:54
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• 37:57
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• 38:03
  Speaker 5: of the questions and the Kooper loop.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna start off with a question from
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Shane in Des Moines. He would like to know where
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: were you during the nine to eleven attacks. This is
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: for the whole crew.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, So I was working here at Fox Sports Radio.
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: I was actually doing updates at that time. I was
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: working on the Fox lot on Fairfax in West West
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: l A.
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: And we were, you know.
• 38:34
  Speaker 10: We just I did did news updates during the day
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: and then they they were worried actually that there was
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: they were going to.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: Attack the Fox.
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: Studios, the TV, the movie studios over there.
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: So then they started like evacuating people, but they didn't
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: evacuate us because we had.
• 38:51
  Speaker 10: To stay on the air and all that. It was.
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: It was a crazy day, obviously, but I was working
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: at Fox Sports Radio doing updates and uh yeah, I
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: will always remember that, obviously. That was one of the
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: big days in my life.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: What about you and Loraina?
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: What were you doing way back on nine to eleven?
• 39:08
  Speaker 11: Oh my gosh, I was walking to my third grade
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: class and oh my god, and I remember stopping at
• 39:17
  Speaker 11: missus Summer's class and everyone was staring at the TVs
• 39:21
  Speaker 11: and I was like, what's going on? And my teacher
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: was just crying, and I was like, oh, this is serious.
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was really young.
• 39:29
  Speaker 10: Yea, oh wow, I get you. That's that's like an
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: age flex. What you did there is an age flex?
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: An age flex?
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: What that is?
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: I often remember when I woke up. I had an
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: early shift, and I mean I was working nights mostly
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: back then, but I had to do an early shift
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: and I still remember my alarm went off and I
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: heard you.
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: I was a clock radio back then, and I had
• 39:51
  Speaker 10: there was.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: An emergency broadcast alert because it was in between the
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: first plane and the second plane. And I remember hearing
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: the emergency broadcast thing. I was like, I thought I
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: was dreaming because I had never been activated in my life.
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: And do you hear that?
• 40:06
  Speaker 12: When?
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: Do you ever hear that?
• 40:08
  Speaker 10: Well, that was the only time I've ever heard it.
• 40:10
  Speaker 10: I don't know, maybe it's been activated since then, but
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: that was it. So I remember that too. I was like,
• 40:14
  Speaker 10: I thought I was dreaming. I was like, it's in
• 40:16
  Speaker 10: the same what about you?
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: Cool?
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure that when it happened, I was I
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: was sleeping.
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that was like five in the morning.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, But then I do remember my mom waking me up.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: She was on the phone with my grandma, who uh
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: lived in Brooklyn her entire life, and so she was
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: like giving the play by play to my mom over
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: the phone. And then my Mom's like, we're under attack,
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, what what is happening? Uh?
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: And then we still went to school and it was
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: just it was weird. It was a weird vibe that
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: entire day.
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I also remember my my brother lives in Manhattan.
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: So not that far away, you know, he doesn't live
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: down on the southern part of that. But my mom
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: makes you rest me. She was freaking out because my
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: sister in law was pregnant at the time, and she
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: was like, oh my god, like that made it even worse.
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: So I just everyone was panicking that day anyway.
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: All right, if that's been your questions are answers for
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: the rest of the hour.
• 41:28
  Speaker 10: What is next?
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: What do we have next year?
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: Lady Sideburns, Hi, Lady Sideburns would like to know have
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: any of you ever tried dog or cat food?
• 41:42
  Speaker 10: Why?
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 41:42
  Speaker 10: Why would you?
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: No? No, I'm not no.
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: I think a better question would be.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: A better question would be, if you were to eat
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: dog or.
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: Cat food, would you eat the wet variety or the
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: other variety?
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: Like, which variety would you eat? If you were to
• 42:04
  Speaker 10: eat the food, I think you've got to eat the
• 42:09
  Speaker 10: country variety, I think right.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: Well, I think based off the look Lorena and I shared,
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: I think both of our answers are different from yours.
• 42:18
  Speaker 12: Yeah, Lorena, so you know those brothers I talked about
• 42:22
  Speaker 12: with the spit, Yeah, they used to hold me down
• 42:26
  Speaker 12: and shove Bagan strips in my mouth.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: How old were you?
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 42:33
  Speaker 12: Seven, eight six five?
• 42:37
  Speaker 10: You still this is a traumatic memory? You still remember this?
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: And then you know I used to just share them
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: with my dog.
• 42:42
  Speaker 11: After that, we'd kind of just lay in the backyard
• 42:44
  Speaker 11: and share some began strips.
• 42:46
  Speaker 10: Oh my god, so you like to taste them off?
• 42:49
  Speaker 12: You kept eating the worst things I've had worse.
• 42:53
  Speaker 10: Yeah, well you could look like that.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: Well, I guess, I guess mine's the worst because you
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: were being forest.
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  Speaker 9: I know.
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: I tried. I just when I was a kid.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: I was like, I'll try it, like I don't know,
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: And I tried both the wet and the dry food.
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: What about wet cat food? Though you haven't done that.
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: I know I haven't tried cat food, crossing the line.
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: I didn't have a cat until I was an adult.
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: So do you ever smell it in wonder?
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: No, not with the caf food. The caf food smells disgusting.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: But but that's what made me try the dog food
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: as a kid. Like you would open the web and
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: I thought that smells kind of good. I was like, yeah,
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: I was like, it smells delicious. Honestly, it wasn't.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: It was not.
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: No, you book up like what it's made of, like
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: the types of the worst quality of meat that's not
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: for human consumption.
• 43:43
  Speaker 10: They usually they give they give the dogs. I mean that's.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: Usually what they Maybe it's better now, but I don't
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: even think it is. I remember when I was working
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: early in my radio radio career, there was a guy
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: he'd worked in Iowa for a while, and he had
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: given like the cattle, like.
• 43:58
  Speaker 9: The price of beef.
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: He gave the on the on the radio and he's
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: explaining to me, like the different the different different meats.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: And I.
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: Remember, like, there's the lowest.
• 44:09
  Speaker 10: I don't think we even have any much called.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: Four D beef.
• 44:12
  Speaker 10: It was dead disease dying disabled beef and.
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: That was that was what went to dog food and
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: but for a while they were serving it at like
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: fast food restaurants and they stopped.
• 44:23
  Speaker 10: The government got involved in to stop doing that. It's
• 44:25
  Speaker 10: asked Ben, why do we bossed?
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: The cops will have an extended segment of ass Ben.
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: Courtesy of the gremlins. As the gremlins have attacked here
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: and we are waiting for them to vacate the building here.
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: At some point they will leave us behind and then
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: we will get back to the fun of the phone calls.
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: I know somewhere in Boston a Leprechaun is freaking out
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: and blind Scott are freaking out the way we need
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: our time, how dare you? Anyway, we'll get to all
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: that more of ass Ben, and we will do it next.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maler
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: All right back to it, it is asked Ben, as
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: we broadcast from the remote studio which has been infested
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: with gremlins, and back.
• 45:12
  Speaker 9: There they are. They're not in the area where they're
• 45:15
  Speaker 9: any equipment everywhere, which is which is a problem. But
• 45:18
  Speaker 9: they will leave at some point they will leave at
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: some point, likely by the time the show ends.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: Anyway, let's get over to the Koba loop for.
• 45:25
  Speaker 10: The reading of the questions.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: It's ask Ben. Keep both questions coming in hashtag ask
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: Ben as we try to get that network connection back together.
• 45:33
  Speaker 10: Go ahead there, Cooble loop.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: All right, late late night drug tester would like to
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: know do you sleep on top of or under your bedsheet?
• 45:43
  Speaker 10: So it depends on the season. I like to sleep
• 45:47
  Speaker 10: in a morgue.
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: My ideal conditions are about as cold as you can
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: pop about. I don't sleep well at it's hot, so
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: I generally speaking, will be under blankets because I'll even
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: in winter time, I'll like, he doesn't get that.
• 46:03
  Speaker 10: Cold, but we live. But I'll put the I'll put
• 46:05
  Speaker 10: the ac on, put a fan on.
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: I gotta have some white noise in the background and.
• 46:08
  Speaker 10: All that stuff. So yeah, I'm an under the blanker guy.
• 46:11
  Speaker 9: What about you have a rain?
• 46:13
  Speaker 11: Definitely depends on the season and how cold it is
• 46:15
  Speaker 11: in the room. I will get all the way up
• 46:17
  Speaker 11: underneath those blankets, like head all the way under and
• 46:20
  Speaker 11: tuck my whole body in.
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: The question is about the sheet.
• 46:23
  Speaker 11: That's what I'm saying all the way up under the sheets. Right,
• 46:26
  Speaker 11: it's whether it's it's really coold or not. And if
• 46:28
  Speaker 11: it's not, I'll just get underneath the regular sheet on
• 46:30
  Speaker 11: top of my bed.
• 46:31
  Speaker 10: Okay, who did not like your ankle?
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: I'm just like you know, because it's different. I'm always
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: underneath the sheet. My wife is always on top of
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: the sheet. It creates problems.
• 46:44
  Speaker 11: It's very wid he misplaced his anger.
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: There's a wall, there's a divide between you and then she.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: She'll toss and turn and it screws up the bed sheets.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: And then so then when I go to get in bed,
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: like I can't get under the sheet, and I always
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: needs to be under the sheet, no matter the season.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: In the summertime, when it's too hot, I'll just I'll
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: just take the the we'll take the comforter off.
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: The bed and it's just the sheet.
• 47:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: But no matter what, I'm under the sheet.
• 47:12
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm the same way. Quickly, What have we got quickly?
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Quickly? This is for you, Ben, what's the best and
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: worst part of working with Tom Looney?
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: Well, the worst part is that he won't shut off
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: and the top I guess the best part is he
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: also won't shut up.
• 47:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah, he needs somebody to talk. He just keeps talking
• 47:33
  Speaker 10: over and over.
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: He loves Nobody loves talking about himselves more than Tom Looney,
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: no one, no one loves