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Hour 3 - A Need For Speed? · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Holy guacamole. It's our number three. And we're trying not
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Speaker 1: to go kerfooey in our number three on this Thursday,
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Speaker 1: the first day of October. So here in our three,
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Speaker 1: what did free agent wide receiver Tyreek Hill actually tell
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Speaker 1: us with those eight words he gave on social media
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Speaker 1: about joining a team in cold weather? What kind of,
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Speaker 1: message was that also why are we pretending why are
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Speaker 1: we pretending that cj stroud saying we can call better
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Speaker 1: plays isn't a shot at the texans offensive coordinator nick
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Speaker 1: haley and giants coach john harbaugh commented on releasing obj
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Speaker 1: said it just wasn't working for us how are you
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Speaker 1: interpreting All of those quotes from John Harbaugh. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to that, and who knows what else. Also, ask Ben.
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Speaker 1: Here it is, hour number three. A need for speed.
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Speaker 2: Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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Speaker 2: Maller Show, as we welcome you into the great month
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Speaker 2: of October.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be able to watch the National League
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Speaker 1: Divisional Series. Can you help me? I said, yes. I
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Speaker 1: will help you out. I'm not just a loud mouth.
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Speaker 1: I can also help you out. There is no time
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Speaker 1: like October. Yeah, I smell the air, October air. The
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Speaker 1: NLDS is just about here, streaming live on Fox 1.
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Speaker 1: It begins this weekend. Padres and Brewers. Padres swept out
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Speaker 1: the Cubs last night. They'll take on the Brew crew
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Speaker 1: this weekend. And the Dodgers are waiting to see who
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Speaker 1: they'll play. It's either going to be the Dodgers versus
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Speaker 1: the Phillies or the Atlanta Braves. Series that we've seen,
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Speaker 1: matchups we've seen, good series over the last... Ten years
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Speaker 1: We thank you in advance. So our lead this hour
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Speaker 1: is from the swap meet. We had a very interesting...
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Speaker 1: Knight mentioned the baseball there. The Yankees eliminated the Red Sox.
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Speaker 1: They've advanced a lot of sweeps in this wild card round.
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Speaker 1: Only one series left. The White Sox, hallelujah, swept out
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Speaker 1: the Cheaters from Houston. So they're out. That Albuve, guys,
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Speaker 1: he's gone. He's gone. So they're out. The ass, 1-1,000,
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Speaker 1: 2-1,000 holes. Mentioned the Padres sweeping the team from Chicago,
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Speaker 1: the Cubs. So that's the baseball part of it. And
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Speaker 1: we have the Phillies and the Braves to look forward to.
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Speaker 1: later today while we'll be watching some football as well
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Speaker 1: but our lead from the swap meet where tyree kill
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Speaker 1: did he find a new team not yet not yet
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Speaker 1: he's been a free agent since the dolphins fired him
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Speaker 1: back in february of course in sports they don't say
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Speaker 1: you're fired as a player player they say you bet
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Speaker 1: you were released it's a softer term you were released Anyway, Tyreek,
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Speaker 1: unable to play. He's still recovering from a left knee
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Speaker 1: dislocation and multiple ligament tears suffered playing for the Miami
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Speaker 1: football team last year, much to the dismay of Stevie Meatballs. Now,
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Speaker 1: Hill is 32, and he stirred up the speculation machine.
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Speaker 1: He stirred the pot. He stirred the pot, the speculation machine,
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Speaker 1: with an eight-word post on X saying, quote, I think
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Speaker 1: I'm ready for some cold weather. He said, close quote. Now,
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Speaker 1: that cryptic message immediately fueling the speculation machine, which is
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Speaker 1: a spinoff of the old George Michael sports machine. If
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Speaker 1: you're old, you know what I'm talking about. And Hill
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Speaker 1: could be could be signaling a sign. I saw the
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Speaker 1: sign that he is going to sign with a cold
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Speaker 1: weather contender. Ooh, who could that be? So that is
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Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss what did
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Speaker 1: free agent wide receiver Tyreek Hill actually tell us with
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Speaker 1: those eight words about cold weather? So I've got nightclub,
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Speaker 1: Taco Bell, and Rosetta Stone. and we'll combine all of
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Speaker 1: those things together, and we are going to hit the
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Speaker 1: numbers is what we're going to do. We're going to
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Speaker 1: hit the numbers, and we'll not be in a quandary.
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Speaker 1: We're not going to be in a quandary. So to
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Speaker 1: lead off here, to lead off, Tyreek Hill is right
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Speaker 1: now on a pontoon boat. He's on a pontoon boat,
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Speaker 1: and he's doing some fishing. He's doing some fishing while
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Speaker 1: executing the social media version of standing outside a nightclub
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Speaker 1: hoping that somebody, that one of the bouncers recognize him.
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Speaker 1: Don't you know who I am? It's the art of
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Speaker 1: manifestation is what it is. Now, keep in mind, manifestation
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Speaker 1: is just a wonderful word for publicly begging without admitting
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Speaker 1: you're publicly begging. I used to be a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Don't you know who I am? And all that. He's
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Speaker 1: out here flirting with the Bills and the Packers like
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Speaker 1: a guy casually mentioning that a couple of women who
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Speaker 1: haven't texted him back, but he's talking about it. Oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're into me, but they haven't actually gotten back to me.
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Speaker 1: So Buffalo is 3-0. That's an obvious connection. Buffalo lacking
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Speaker 1: a lot of razzle-dazzle in terms of playmakers at the
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Speaker 1: wideout position. So Buffalo 3-0. Green Bay, not good. They
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Speaker 1: have an opening. You saw wide receiver Jaden Reed, much
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Speaker 1: to the dismay of the Green Bay Gobbler, Jaden Reed's injury.
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Speaker 1: So he's out for a long time. And there's other teams.
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Speaker 1: Go back to Kansas City. They don't seem to need him.
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Speaker 1: The Niners, they got a bunch of old dudes, and
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Speaker 1: those guys are always getting hurt. The Rams don't have
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Speaker 1: that much depth. And you got the Ravens as a
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Speaker 1: possibility as well. And how about the Patriots? Patriots, they're
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Speaker 1: not playing very well right now. They don't have much
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Speaker 1: at the wide receiver position. So the question is not
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Speaker 1: what team. The question is why would anyone want Tyreek Hill?
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Speaker 1: How much explosiveness remains after a catastrophic injury? suffered on
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Speaker 1: a primetime game last year. So you're not buying the
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Speaker 1: cheetah version of Tyreek Hill. You're not buying the guy
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Speaker 1: that would zoom past defensive backs in Kansas City while
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Speaker 1: enjoying the Ben Mather chicken fingers. You're buying whatever percentage
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Speaker 1: survived the expiration of the warranty. The warranty expired, and
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Speaker 1: you're like, okay, what is that? So the knee, it's
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Speaker 1: like going to Wal-Mart Tyreek Hill's knee, and buying some
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Speaker 1: smoked and seasoned pulled pork. It's shredded pulled pork is
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Speaker 1: what it is. And so this figures to go about
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Speaker 1: as well, wherever Tyreek Hill lands, will go about as
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Speaker 1: well as OBJ's comeback Disney movie with the Giants, which, oh,
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Speaker 1: by the way, is over. It's already over. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: done skis. More on that coming up in a minute. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: we go to Houston, where Mr. Irrigation Our P1 there
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Speaker 1: and Ocho Texto are dazed and confused about how bad
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Speaker 1: the Texans have been on both sides of the ball,
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Speaker 1: very mediocre defensively, no longer a top-five defense. But the offense,
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Speaker 1: who goofed, I've got to know. So C.J. Stroud, the
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Speaker 1: elder statesman of the Texans offense, with a wink and
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Speaker 1: a nod, he hasn't been around that long, Remember, he
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Speaker 1: was the savior of Houston football as a rookie, and
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Speaker 1: then he had to play the rest of his career,
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Speaker 1: and he's hit a false note. So Stroud is standing
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Speaker 1: by his criticism earlier of Houston's offense. They're 0-3 right now,
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Speaker 1: the Texans, calling for a more aggressive approach under the
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Speaker 1: embattled Nick Cayley, the offensive coordinator there. Stroud said Houston
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Speaker 1: must do a better job, quote, using our guys in
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Speaker 1: the right way, close quote, He also talked about creating
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Speaker 1: explosive plays. Without Nico Collins, there have been none of those, really.
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Speaker 1: He insists the communication with Nick Cayley remains good and
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Speaker 1: says the offensive problems are a collective, he claims, even
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Speaker 1: though he ripped the... play calling, he says, it's a
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Speaker 1: collective issue. Now, Stroud wants controlled aggression. That's his phrase,
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Speaker 1: controlled aggression. He talked about taking calculated risks without becoming
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Speaker 1: reckless and et cetera, et cetera. So despite Houston having
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Speaker 1: all kinds of issues, C.J. Stroud, he has no real
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Speaker 1: horrific mistakes. I don't even think he has a turnover
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Speaker 1: yet through three games, although there have been some near
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Speaker 1: misses on that. The question, why are we pretending that C.J.
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Speaker 1: Stroud saying we can call better plays is not a
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Speaker 1: shot across the bow at Texans offensive quarter Nick Caley?
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Speaker 1: So apparently, we're supposed to believe that C.J. Stroud, by
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Speaker 1: criticizing the plague calling, is able to criticize the plague
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Speaker 1: calling without criticizing the man calling the plays. Hello? Now,
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Speaker 1: I've heard of threading a needle. This would be threading
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Speaker 1: a needle. It's also, there's an alternative phrase in the
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Speaker 1: multiverse called utter bullcrap. It is utter bullcrap is what
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Speaker 1: it is. Stop insulting our intelligence. Now, listen, I'm not
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Speaker 1: a Texans fan. But I'm a fan of football, and
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Speaker 1: I see this kind of stuff, and I'm like, what
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Speaker 1: are we doing? Like, seriously, what are we doing? And
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Speaker 1: the one common denominator was C.J.
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Speaker 3: Stroud.
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Speaker 1: They run through a bunch of assistant coaches on offense.
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Speaker 1: He is the one common denominator. It's just not working.
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Speaker 1: So Stroud says, hey, call better plays. Nick Cayley calls
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Speaker 1: the plays. I think we can connect the dots there.
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Speaker 1: You don't need a Mallard decoder ring on this one.
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Speaker 1: The quarterback doesn't like the offense. C.J. Stroud is accusing
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Speaker 1: Nick Cayley, the offensive coordinator in Houston, of misusing the roster.
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Speaker 1: And that's as subtle as dropping a grand piano on
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Speaker 1: your head. Meanwhile, C.J. Stroud is in a contract year.
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Speaker 1: How's that going? How's that going? Is that going well? No,
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Speaker 1: it's not. I believe he's the 23rd ranked quarterback in
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Speaker 1: the NFL through the first three weeks of the season.
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Speaker 1: Houston is winless. The offense overall is ranked 24th out
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Speaker 1: of 32. Other than the food poisoning, how was the
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Speaker 1: contaminated lettuce you bought a couple months ago at Taco Bell?
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Speaker 1: How was it, CJ?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: You don't want to comment on that?
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Now, the naked truth is that Nick Cayley is calling...
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Speaker 1: A hide-and-seek offense. That's the play calling. Hide-and-seek with the quarterback. Now,
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Speaker 1: why would you call plays like that? Could it be, Batman,
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Speaker 1: because they don't trust the volatility of C.J. Stroud? I'm
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Speaker 1: just saying. They've wrapped Stroud in bubble wrap. They've lost
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Speaker 1: the scissors. And they're locked into this conservative game plan,
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Speaker 1: station-to-station play calling. And now you look at the head coach,
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Speaker 1: D'Amico Ryan's, And he's in a bit of a quagmire
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Speaker 1: because their defense, which was the rock of Gibraltar for Houston,
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Speaker 1: how they were able to win games over the last
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Speaker 1: couple years, they're not a top-five defense right now. They're
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the pack defensively. They're a mid-defensive team,
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Speaker 1: and the offense is now fighting with itself. That does
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Speaker 1: not seem to be going very well. That does not
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Speaker 1: seem to be going very well. All right, last thing.
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Speaker 1: To New York, we mentioned this earlier. And the Giants
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Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh had to face the music, had to
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Speaker 1: patch together some excuses explaining why the Disney-like storybook return
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Speaker 1: of Odell Beckham ended with him being fired. And Harbaugh
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Speaker 1: was asked about that. Why did you fire Odell Beckham Jr.?
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Speaker 1: He said, quote, it just wasn't working for us, close quote.
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Speaker 1: Harbaugh also said he had a, quote, great conversation, close quote,
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Speaker 1: with Beckham, but admitted the Giants were, quote, they just
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Speaker 1: weren't getting enough production from OBJ. You think? Harbaugh wanted
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Speaker 1: Beckham to do more to get on the field. And
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Speaker 1: Beckham apparently didn't want to do that. He said the
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Speaker 1: coaching staff was unable to make the reunion work, so
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Speaker 1: he's trying to take some of the blame. The coach
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Speaker 1: accepted some responsibility. John Harbaugh saying, put it on us,
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Speaker 1: is what he said. And he emphasized the failure was
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Speaker 1: not necessarily Odell Beckham's fault. Bullcrap. All right, so the question.
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Speaker 1: Giants coach John Harbaugh on releasing OBJ. His quote, it
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Speaker 1: just wasn't working for us. How are you interpreting all
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Speaker 1: of this? So let's work our way through Harbaugh. Now,
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Speaker 1: John Harbaugh says, put it on us as well. That
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Speaker 1: was one of his other quotes. That is coach speak for,
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Speaker 1: I don't think Beckham can play anymore. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: try to protect him because that's what I have to do.
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Speaker 1: I have to protect him. He's my former player. I
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Speaker 1: must protect him. So I'm going to sing a different
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Speaker 1: tune than the reality tune is what I'm going to do. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: And so this was not a roster cut. This was
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Speaker 1: an NFL eviction notice. It just wasn't working for us.
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Speaker 1: The five most terrifying words you can hear right before H.R.
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Speaker 1: joins your Zoom call. And you have two people. Every
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Speaker 1: major company, when they fire you, and if you've heard
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Speaker 1: the show, you know I've been fired many times. There's
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Speaker 1: always the rule they have to have two people there
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Speaker 1: because if you get fired and there's only one person
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Speaker 1: and you sue, it's your word versus their word. But
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Speaker 1: if there's two people there, the company has a witness.
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Speaker 1: So they always fire you with two people. Always have
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Speaker 1: two people there. That's HR 101. Human Resources 101 is
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Speaker 1: what that is. So that's just the way. The way
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Speaker 1: of the world, right? The way of the world. That's it.
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Speaker 1: That's how this works. And that's all you need to know.
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Speaker 1: So the Giants bought the vintage package, the classical OBJ
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Speaker 1: package with the jersey and the whole thing. And they
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Speaker 1: discovered the player inside the box was discontinued. The reunion
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Speaker 1: show got three episodes and the network canceled it. That's it.
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Speaker 2: OBJ.
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Speaker 1: Apparently, the way I read the story, too big a diva,
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Speaker 1: he didn't want to play special teams. And as I
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Speaker 1: read it, maybe I'm wrong on this, but if Beckham
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Speaker 1: had agreed to be on special teams, he'd still be
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Speaker 1: on the Giants today. He was not productive enough in
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Speaker 1: the passing game to just be a backup wide receiver
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Speaker 1: that doesn't play to justify a roster spot. You can
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Speaker 1: be a diva when you're a wide receiver number one.
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Speaker 1: When you're a wide receiver number one. When you're a
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Speaker 1: wide receiver number five or six or whatever Beckham is,
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Speaker 1: you better know where the punt team has their meetings.
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Speaker 1: You better know how to cover on a kickoff. And
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Speaker 1: so that's the reality. So enough with this sentimental garbage.
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Speaker 1: Using my Malheur Rosetta Stone. It just wasn't working. Translates to,
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Speaker 1: we found out that Odell Beckham Jr. cannot play anymore.
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Speaker 1: We tried. He stunk. And we got rid of his ass.
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Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. Period. Stop. It is the Ben
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Speaker 1: Payton to give back that win, and he was devastated.
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Speaker 1: He knows that's not a real win.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm very upset. You are.
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Speaker 1: I can tell by the tone of your voice, Coop.
21:20
Speaker 1: You're very emotional.
21:21
Speaker 3: I'm so torn up over getting the W.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to get a win like that, Coop.
21:29
Speaker 1: It's just bad, bad mojo. It really is bad mojo.
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Speaker 3: This is where you lose me.
21:37
Speaker 1: I'm not losing you at all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's just hypocritical.
21:41
Speaker 1: Not hypocritical at all?
21:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would never... You don't care how you get
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Speaker 3: the win.
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Speaker 1: I'm a man of great integrity when it comes to
21:49
Speaker 1: victory scoop. I want you to know that. I'm not
21:51
Speaker 1: just some blowhard here that has a microphone and headphones,
21:55
Speaker 1: the tools of ignorance.
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Speaker 3: Just like how you said that that was a good...
21:59
Speaker 3: non-call there in the.
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Speaker 1: Well it was if you remember there were two new
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Speaker 1: orleans saints players that held on the play so they
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Speaker 1: chose not to call the holding penalties on the saints
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Speaker 1: both of their offensive tackles held ram defensive players so
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Speaker 1: if you want to call a fair game they just
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Speaker 1: decided on that play uh to make the call that
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Speaker 1: they were just gonna let the officials gonna let the
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Speaker 1: game play out and that's fine But, again, go back
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Speaker 1: and look at the tape, Coop. There were multiple holding
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Speaker 1: penalties on the New Orleans Saints on that particular play.
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Speaker 1: I love how everyone conveniently forgets about that. Like, I
22:31
Speaker 1: guess that didn't happen. Like, we're supposed to make this
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Speaker 1: other call, but the holding penalty is against the Saints. Well,
22:37
Speaker 1: we can't make that call.
22:39
Speaker 3: Okay.
22:40
Speaker 1: Let's get to the always popular payoff on the Malheur
22:45
Speaker 1: Riddle of the Day. And we have Ask Ban. That'll
22:49
Speaker 1: be coming up. Ask Ban in a little bit. Here's
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Speaker 1: the Malheur Riddle of the Day. So Marshawn Lynch recently
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Speaker 1: said that the Seahawks put sensors in his shoulder pads
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Speaker 1: that showed he was blank every game. What do we
23:04
Speaker 1: have here? Let's see. Parito says, oh, something about, oh,
23:08
Speaker 1: he's giving me Raider propaganda. That's not an answer to
23:12
Speaker 1: the Who Am I game. I'm sure we will not
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Speaker 1: hear from you after that game there, Parito, because the
23:19
Speaker 1: Raiders are not going to win. Alf the Alien O'Piner
23:22
Speaker 1: is going with verklempt. He was verklempt every game. Sugar
23:26
Speaker 1: from his Skittles habit. Late Night Drug Tester says, what
23:30
Speaker 1: do we have? Smuggling Skittles. From Not a Burner, page down,
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Speaker 1: Not Blind Austin in Bakersfield says, the Seahawks showed that
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Speaker 1: he was a mutant known as Weed Man from Not
23:45
Speaker 1: Blind Austin. Tim, Timmy from Busco, Indiana says they showed
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Speaker 1: that he was eating his Wheaties every single day. Analog
23:54
Speaker 1: Al checks in from Parts Unknown, says avoiding contact. Avoiding contact.
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Speaker 1: What else? Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says he was
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Speaker 1: there so he wouldn't get fined. Inca Terror from New
24:08
Speaker 1: York points out that Marshawn Lynch was communicating with aliens.
24:13
Speaker 1: Filler Up Phil just randomly said Shake Weight is the answer.
24:17
Speaker 1: JT the Wingman says Taco Bell Taco Bell Taco Sauce
24:24
Speaker 1: Packets is the answer. Our buddy Slug in Vegas says Hey, buddy.
24:31
Speaker 1: Slug says Marshawn was on lean every game. Stoned was
24:37
Speaker 1: guessed by our buddy Chip and the Qs. Who else
24:39
Speaker 1: do we have? Johnny Q got it right, obviously cheating. Rod,
24:43
Speaker 1: the ambassador of Bakersfield, he also cheated. Bad job by you.
24:47
Speaker 1: And what else do we have? Page down. Ben, you
24:51
Speaker 1: said it forever. Don't let a falling star fall on you.
24:55
Speaker 1: That is accurate. That is a quote that It came
24:59
Speaker 1: from an old baseball manager back in the day, and
25:01
Speaker 1: it is an accurate statement, 1,000%. Oh, my God. Is
25:04
Speaker 1: that Eugene in Chicago? Oh, my God, Eugene. I'm so
25:14
Speaker 1: happy that you're still with us. Eugene was a big
25:18
Speaker 1: fan of the show, and he just vanished, and I thought,
25:22
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. And it turns out, that
25:26
Speaker 1: he had major health problems, but for nine months, he's
25:30
Speaker 1: finally getting his strength back, and he's back listening to
25:33
Speaker 1: the show. Well, I'm glad you're doing well, Eugene. That's outstanding.
25:36
Speaker 1: He had some issues with his kidneys there. I almost
25:39
Speaker 1: met Eugene. I actually reached out to him when I
25:41
Speaker 1: was in Chicago last time. I said, Eugene, let's go.
25:44
Speaker 1: He was working, so he couldn't hang out. Let me
25:46
Speaker 1: pay off the riddle of the day. Here it is.
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Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch says the Seahawks put sensors in his shoulder
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Speaker 1: pads that showed he was blank Every game. All right.
25:58
Speaker 1: That is the question on the riddle of the day.
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Speaker 1: And what is the answer? Let's check in with Lorena.
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Speaker 1: She's going to give us the answer right now. She's
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Speaker 1: never wrong. Go ahead, Lorena. Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were seeing if his muscles were spasming.
26:14
Speaker 1: All right, his muscle spasm. No! Marshawn Lynch says the
26:17
Speaker 1: Seahawks put sensors in his shoulder pads that showed he
26:21
Speaker 1: was taking seven car crashes worth of hits every game.
26:25
Speaker 1: Seven automobile accidents every game. Oh.
26:31
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:31
Speaker 1: There you go. That's the factoid there, the riddle of
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Speaker 1: the day. We'll take some calls. It is a call-in show.
26:39
Speaker 1: And let's see who is still online. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
26:44
Speaker 1: Pick a caller by their name. Let's say hello to Alan,
26:49
Speaker 1: who is representing all of Canada. It's kind of a
26:52
Speaker 1: big country.
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Speaker 5: Hello, Alan.
26:54
Speaker 1: Welcome. Welcome.
26:56
Speaker 6: Yes, we have 10 provinces. You have 50 states. We
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Speaker 6: have 10 provinces. So it is quite a large country.
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Speaker 1: And what part of Canada are you in, Alan?
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Speaker 6: Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America. We're ahead
27:11
Speaker 6: of Chicago right now.
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Speaker 1: And, Alan, as you know, most of the Canadian population
27:15
Speaker 1: lives within just a few miles of the U.S.
27:17
Speaker 2: Border.
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Speaker 6: I'd like to talk about Odell Beckham Jr. His release
27:25
Speaker 6: was inevitable. Inactivity is the worst enemy of any athlete.
27:29
Speaker 6: You become sluggish and your timing is off. And I just,
27:36
Speaker 6: he was not helping the team. If you're not helping
27:39
Speaker 6: the team, out you go. Unconditional release, not the outright release,
27:43
Speaker 6: but the unconditional release. And no team keeps a player
27:49
Speaker 6: his age alive. Sitting on the bench, either you're playing
27:53
Speaker 6: first string or that's it. You have to get going,
27:57
Speaker 6: you know, because 33 is not young anymore.
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Speaker 1: So here's the question, man. Does Odell Beckham Jr. play
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Speaker 1: for the Argonauts?
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Speaker 6: No, no, I don't think so.
28:10
Speaker 1: They don't want him. He's not good enough for the Argonauts.
28:14
Speaker 1: What about the Edmonton, well, they used to be called
28:17
Speaker 1: the Eskimos, now the Elks. What about Edmonton?
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Speaker 6: He's going to have to take a big pay cut.
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Speaker 6: I don't know if he's going to want to take
28:24
Speaker 6: a big pay cut. No, he's not good for anybody
28:27
Speaker 6: because he's sitting on the bench.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 6: I don't even think he's capable of playing anymore, and
28:32
Speaker 6: no team keeps a player, like I said, no team
28:34
Speaker 6: keeps a player his age sitting on the bench.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
28:37
Speaker 1: What are you doing up, by the way, Alan? Are
28:39
Speaker 1: you working? Are you just hanging out? What's going on
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Speaker 1: with you?
28:42
Speaker 6: I was a cabbie for 37 years, recently retired just
28:45
Speaker 6: a few years ago, so I'm meeting up with... And
28:47
Speaker 6: I was starting at 4 o'clock in the morning when 90%
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Speaker 6: of mankind was sleeping and 90% of the cabbies were
28:56
Speaker 6: not working. So it was easy to get around. You
28:59
Speaker 6: can go from the suburbs down to downtown Toronto. In
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Speaker 6: about 10 or 15 minutes.
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Speaker 1: So it's just 37 years, you said? Is that right?
29:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, 37 years.
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Speaker 1: That's a great run. So give me some cabby confessions. Like, well,
29:15
Speaker 1: any celebrities in your cab over the years? Any people
29:19
Speaker 1: that we might know of who you drove around there?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I had Joe Torre in my cab one time.
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Speaker 1: Joe Torre! That's the Yankee manager from back in the
29:29
Speaker 1: Dynasty days. That's cool.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I had... Don Sutton in the cap at one.
29:36
Speaker 1: Time, too. Oh, 300-game winner. Don Sutton, Hall of Famer,
29:39
Speaker 1: the late, great Don Sutton back in the day. That's
29:42
Speaker 1: pretty cool. And what's the– oh, you have another name?
29:44
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
29:45
Speaker 6: George Trevallo, too. He just recently passed away at the
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Speaker 6: age of 89 on his birthday. He had 93 fights
29:54
Speaker 6: in his career. It's just violent fights in his career
29:57
Speaker 6: and death. He never knocked down, never hit the canvas
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Speaker 6: even once.
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Speaker 1: Not once. That's cool. And what's the most disgusting thing
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Speaker 1: anyone did in the back of your cab?
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Speaker 6: I got stabbed once, September 13, 1991, and had to
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Speaker 6: go to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: Wow, you got stabbed. That's crazy. That's wild.
30:16
Speaker 6: Yeah.
30:18
Speaker 1: You survived that. That's cool. And you're here. All right, well, listen,
30:20
Speaker 1: we thank you. Call whenever you want, but we're here
30:22
Speaker 1: every night, all right?
30:24
Speaker 6: Sure, great.
30:25
Speaker 1: Good job, man. Enjoy your retirement. That's wonderful. Enjoy your life.
30:29
Speaker 6: Yes, thank you very much. I'm like an amateur psychologist.
30:33
Speaker 6: I know how to people. I don't fan the fire
30:35
Speaker 6: to burn inside my bank. I don't put oil on
30:40
Speaker 6: troubled gasoline, so I'm not an amateur psychologist. I've dealt
30:43
Speaker 6: with everything and seen everything in my entire life.
30:47
Speaker 1: I bet you. You've seen a whole bunch of humanity. Absolutely.
30:51
Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you. I used to watch, what
30:52
Speaker 1: was that, Taxi Cab Confessions? Remember that show that was on?
30:57
Speaker 1: What was that on HBO or something back in the day?
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Speaker 3: I do remember that.
31:01
Speaker 1: That was a good show.
31:01
Speaker 3: That guy kind of reminds me of Cowboy a little bit.
31:04
Speaker 1: Got a little Cowboy John Brad vibe to him?
31:06
Speaker 3: I don't know. He mentioned he was naming off dates.
31:11
Speaker 1: That's true.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
31:13
Speaker 1: Although if you did get stabbed in a cab, I
31:15
Speaker 1: would think. as a cab driver, just in, that's a
31:18
Speaker 1: traumatic event.
31:19
Speaker 4: True.
31:19
Speaker 3: You would remember that day, but also he, he's mentioned the, uh,
31:23
Speaker 3: the guy that he gave a ride to once in
31:25
Speaker 3: his cab. And he said he died on this date. Oh,
31:28
Speaker 3: that is true. Yeah.
31:30
Speaker 1: That's some good names though. Joe Torrey, Don Sutton. If
31:32
Speaker 1: you're an old guy, those are wonderful, wonderful terms. I
31:35
Speaker 1: didn't want to mention this. So I teased it earlier.
31:37
Speaker 1: I didn't pay it off. So the green Bay Packers
31:39
Speaker 1: offense blows, uh, terrible. And Jordan love is having a
31:43
Speaker 1: career worst season this year for the Packers. Uh, And
31:46
Speaker 1: we have a lot of Packers owners that listen to
31:48
Speaker 1: the show. Many of you own a little piece of
31:51
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, and you're not happy about this
31:53
Speaker 1: as a Packer owner. So Jordan Love is averaging a
31:55
Speaker 1: career-worst 52.4% completion percentage. And he made some comments here
32:02
Speaker 1: emphasizing the pass protection must improve. And essentially saying, ain't
32:08
Speaker 1: my fault. Love specifically called for the offensive line to
32:12
Speaker 1: identify the right people to protect And sustained blocks longer,
32:19
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. His message says the offensive line
32:22
Speaker 1: is not giving him enough time to pick the defense apart,
32:25
Speaker 1: locate open receivers, et cetera, et cetera. Green Bay off
32:30
Speaker 1: to the 1-2 start. They got absolutely hammered by Atlanta
32:35
Speaker 1: in the primetime game last week. And Love's numbers are
32:40
Speaker 1: very mediocre at this point. And here's my issue. It's
32:46
Speaker 1: easy to blame the offensive line and say Jordan Love
32:49
Speaker 1: doesn't have culpability. My position has always been you have
32:53
Speaker 1: to adjust. Now, is the Packer offensive line good?
32:55
Speaker 3: No.
32:55
Speaker 1: And there have been some plays that Jordan Love had
32:57
Speaker 1: no chance to complete a pass. However, I also believe
33:02
Speaker 1: that if you know your offensive line sucks, it's on
33:06
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator and the quarterback to just run plays
33:09
Speaker 1: to accommodate a crap bag offensive line. You don't have
33:14
Speaker 1: time to pick the defensive part. You just have to
33:17
Speaker 1: read and react real quick, and that's it. And so
33:20
Speaker 1: if you're too obtuse to adjust, that's on you. You
33:25
Speaker 1: know the offensive line isn't good. Packers have signed a
33:29
Speaker 1: bunch of offensive linemen. Maybe it'll work. Offensive linemen, it's
33:33
Speaker 1: like a bullpen in baseball. You could have a great
33:36
Speaker 1: offensive line one year and then make one change or
33:40
Speaker 1: just a minor change, and then the next year it
33:42
Speaker 1: all falls apart. It's no consistency to performance. It is
33:47
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33:50
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35:24
Speaker 1: the reading of the questions. However, it will not sound
35:28
Speaker 1: like he's reading.
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Speaker 3: All right, we're going to start off with a question
35:31
Speaker 3: from Alf the Alien O'Piner.
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Speaker 1: I've met him and his lovely wife. Hello, Alf.
35:37
Speaker 3: Yes, he would like to know, if you could get
35:39
Speaker 3: on any game show, which one do you think you
35:41
Speaker 3: could dominate?
35:45
Speaker 1: Well, the one I loved as a kid was Let's
35:47
Speaker 1: Make a Deal. I loved Let's Make a Deal. I
35:51
Speaker 1: think I'd do pretty well on The Price is Right, though.
35:54
Speaker 1: I guess, you know they have two versions now? You
35:56
Speaker 1: see that? They have the daytime. Yeah, yeah. I guess
36:01
Speaker 1: Howie Mandel does like a different version of The Price
36:05
Speaker 1: is Right. Isn't that weird?
36:06
Speaker 3: Huh.
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Speaker 1: I thought I didn't. Maybe that's just in Canada. I
36:09
Speaker 1: don't know. I was watching a Canadian channel and they
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Speaker 1: had that. So I'll go Price is Right. What about you, Lorena?
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Speaker 7: I would have to go with Dancing with the Stars.
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Speaker 1: Oh, is that a game show?
36:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would count that as a game show.
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Speaker 7: You compete and you win a prize.
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Speaker 3: Not reality at all.
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Speaker 1: It's rigged, isn't it?
36:28
Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: My wife loves that show. Rigged? Allegedly, so I don't
36:31
Speaker 1: get sued. Coop?
36:38
Speaker 3: I was also going to say the price is right,
36:40
Speaker 3: although there's a game show on right now that I
36:42
Speaker 3: watch a lot that I think I'd be pretty good at.
36:44
Speaker 3: It's called The Floor. It's hosted by Rob Lowe.
36:47
Speaker 1: Oh, is that The Floor is Lava?
36:49
Speaker 3: No, it's just like you try to earn pizzas. Different categories, right? Yeah,
36:54
Speaker 3: you earn pizzas of The Floor, and then when you
36:57
Speaker 3: get the whole floor, you win the game. It's a puzzle.
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Speaker 3: You compete against people. They show pictures on the screen.
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Speaker 3: You just have to name what the picture is really quickly.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I got you. See, I think I'd be good
37:08
Speaker 1: at Price is Right because I do the shopping and
37:10
Speaker 1: I bitch at my wife when the prices of eggs
37:12
Speaker 1: go up or something like that.
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Speaker 3: I complain.
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Speaker 1: So I think I'd be really good at that. All right,
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Speaker 1: what's next? When the price is wrong.
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Speaker 3: Donkey Sausage would like to know, what do you most
37:21
Speaker 3: often think about before you fall asleep?
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Speaker 1: Hoping I'll fall asleep. I'm a terrible sleeper. I have
37:29
Speaker 1: sleep anxiety. I'm horrific. Although if I don't sleep for
37:34
Speaker 1: a couple days, I'll fall asleep right away. But I
37:36
Speaker 1: know I'm trying to shut my mind off because I
37:39
Speaker 1: can't shut my freaking mind off and I can't go
37:41
Speaker 1: to bed. What about you, Lorena?
37:43
Speaker 3: Um.
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Speaker 7: I usually start dreaming the dream that I want to dream.
37:47
Speaker 7: So it's a good way to not be stressed because
37:50
Speaker 7: I'm not thinking about stuff I have to think about.
37:52
Speaker 7: So I'll start like walking through the woods and start
37:54
Speaker 7: talking to a rabbit.
37:56
Speaker 1: And then if I could, like if I had that power,
38:00
Speaker 1: I would love sleeping. I'd be like, OK, I'm going
38:03
Speaker 1: to go to an exotic beach today. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: And then you start sipping a margarita on the beach.
38:07
Speaker 7: And then, you know, as your dream takes you away,
38:09
Speaker 7: you fall asleep.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
38:11
Speaker 1: Instead, I'm like, oh, crap. What am I going to
38:12
Speaker 1: talk about in the next show? What's going to go
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Speaker 1: on today while I'm sleeping?
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Speaker 5: Cool.
38:17
Speaker 3: It tends to be like whatever song was stuck in
38:19
Speaker 3: my head that day will just be like on repeat
38:22
Speaker 3: in my head, which is very annoying. I feel like
38:24
Speaker 3: it makes it hard to fall asleep. And then a
38:27
Speaker 3: lot of times if I had played poker that day,
38:29
Speaker 3: I'll be thinking about hands from earlier that day.
38:31
Speaker 1: They do say that whatever happened in your day somehow
38:34
Speaker 1: works its way into your dreams. That's the way it is.
38:36
Speaker 1: All right, what is next? It's Ask Ben. Your questions
38:40
Speaker 1: are answers.
38:42
Speaker 3: Georgia Boy would like to know.
38:43
Speaker 1: Hi, Georgia Boy.
38:45
Speaker 3: Twinkies or Ding Dongs?
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Speaker 2: Tough.
38:50
Speaker 1: I was more of a fan of the Twinkie as
38:52
Speaker 1: a kid, though. I feel like I ate more of
38:54
Speaker 1: those than the Ding Dongs, so I'll go the Twinkies.
38:56
Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena? Twinkies.
38:58
Speaker 7: Ah, Twinkies for sure.
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Speaker 1: I love Twinkies. I like the cousin of the Twinkie,
39:03
Speaker 1: the Zinger. Remember the Zinger? Yeah. No, it was solid.
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Speaker 1: It's just a Twinkie with the red stuff in on the, yeah. Coop?
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Speaker 3: Definitely Twinkie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. We all agree. It's all about the Twinkie. What
39:16
Speaker 1: is next here? It's Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers
39:18
Speaker 1: for the rest of the hour. These are actual questions
39:21
Speaker 1: by actual listeners. Hashtag Ask Ben. This is nothing like
39:24
Speaker 1: the mailbag I normally do with Robbie the Mariner Fan.
39:26
Speaker 1: Nothing at all like the mailbag. What's next?
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Speaker 3: This is an interesting one from the King Rory. Have
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Speaker 3: you ever read a book after watching the movie adaptations
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Speaker 3: of it?
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Speaker 1: Well, the one that stands out, there was a movie
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Speaker 1: called The Magic Christian, which is about a rich guy
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Speaker 1: that just had a lot of money, wanted to F
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Speaker 1: with people, and realized people would do anything for the price.
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Speaker 1: The book is so much better than the movie. The
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Speaker 1: movie's terrible.
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Speaker 3: And you read the book after you saw the movie?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the book was good. Lorraine?
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Speaker 7: I think Harry Potter's the only one that I read after.
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Speaker 1: You're a big book reader?
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Speaker 7: I actually do like reading, but no, I've never read
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Speaker 7: the Harry Potter books. It's only because the audio book
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Speaker 7: is so good.
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Speaker 1: All right, Coop, what about you?
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Speaker 3: The Hunger Games I read after I saw the movie,
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Speaker 3: and I'm currently reading or listening to the audiobook of
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Speaker 3: Project Hail Mary, which, you know, after I saw the movie.
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Speaker 1: Does that count as reading? It's an audiobook. Does that
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Speaker 1: count as... Kind of, I guess. I don't know. Does it?
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Speaker 1: Because if that's the case, I guess I do a
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Speaker 1: lot of reading.
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Speaker 6: I read a lot of.
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Speaker 1: News stories during the day and all that. I'm not
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Speaker 1: the book guy at this point. All right, there it is.
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Speaker 1: Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers. Thank you, thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you!