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Hour 4- Steelers in TROUBLE + Bengals and Burrow · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom! Shakalaka. And a great googly moogly to you. It's
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  Speaker 1: hour number four. Hour four, knocking on the door. The
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. And we start with this. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you at on Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers saying the NFL
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  Speaker 1: is not a meritocracy, despite what many have said over
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  Speaker 1: the years? Also, how does this Joey Porter Jr. contract
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  Speaker 1: nail-biter play out? in the land of the Yinzers. And
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  Speaker 1: do you believe Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow when he says,
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  Speaker 1: I am not going anywhere? Or is that simply the
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  Speaker 1: only answer he can give right about now? We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: I've been here all night. We had a tennis match. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm Mr. Tennis here, but we had a
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  Speaker 1: tennis match played for the nocturnal listener. It ended, the
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  Speaker 1: tennis match ended not that long ago at 3.30 in
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  Speaker 1: the morning in New York City, well, over there in Queens.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, tennis at just after 3.30 in the morning
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  Speaker 1: and the USA, USA, USA, USA. as a guy named Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Got her done. And we were happy about that. I
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  Speaker 1: match to be played where Ben Shelton ended up winning
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  Speaker 1: after 3.30 in the morning. And all the people that
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  Speaker 1: worked the dreaded day shift got screwed. You got hosed.
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  Speaker 1: And we did not. That was for us. So thank
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  Speaker 1: you for that. We also have the NFL season beginning,
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots taking on the Seahawks. And that game will
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  Speaker 1: be tonight. We had Benny versus the Penny back in
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  Speaker 1: hour two. And we have an NFL team listening to
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  Speaker 1: us live right now. The LA Rams are on a
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  Speaker 1: plane as we speak. Here was their schedule. They can
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  Speaker 1: play the Niners in Australia on Thursday, our time. The
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  Speaker 1: Rams on Tuesday practiced in the morning. And then they
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  Speaker 1: had wheels up. They left just after 10 o'clock West
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  Speaker 1: Coast time. So that's like four hours ago. They left
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  Speaker 1: for Melbourne. And they'll lose an entire day in a plane.
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  Speaker 1: So 18-hour travel day. They're going to land on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: morning because of the time difference. They'll play at 1035
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  Speaker 1: local time on Friday. Then immediately after the game, they
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  Speaker 1: get back on the birdie and fly away as they'll
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  Speaker 1: be back to the U.S. after the game. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to land in L.A. midday Friday. So they're going to
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  Speaker 1: play local time in Melbourne on Friday morning and then
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  Speaker 1: land a few hours later in Los Angeles. That means,
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  Speaker 1: they've done the math on this, so the Rams, it
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  Speaker 1: is estimated, will all together, they're going to spend over
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  Speaker 1: 30 hours, well over 30 hours on an airplane. They'll
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  Speaker 1: travel 15,000 miles, cross not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: not four, not five, not six, seven time zones. They'll
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  Speaker 1: play a football game, which will last roughly three and
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  Speaker 1: a half hours, and then be back in L.A. if
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  Speaker 1: you go by the clock in the time zones in
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  Speaker 1: less than 72 hours. So they're really going above and
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  Speaker 1: beyond the call of duty to spend as little time
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  Speaker 1: as possible there. in Australia. Now, our lead, though, this hour,
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  Speaker 1: play the hits, my man, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: So Steelers quarterback Aaron Rogers, he announced this week that
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, despite what they have sold us over the
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  Speaker 1: many years, is not purely a meritocracy. It's always been
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  Speaker 1: the argument, well, the NFL, if you can do the job,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter where you come from or where you
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  Speaker 1: were drafted, you're going to be able. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to rise to the top in the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League. And Rodgers argued that roster decisions are heavily
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  Speaker 1: influenced based on contracts, draft status, and protecting investments. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not performance-based, which is what a meritocracy would be.
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  Speaker 1: So if you didn't see this, perhaps not. Rodgers criticizing
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  Speaker 1: teams for cutting vested veterans prior to week one, which is...
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  Speaker 1: This is obviously week one. It begins with the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: and the Seahawks, and that has happened. It happens every year.
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  Speaker 1: And then they re-sign those players after week one. That
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  Speaker 1: way they don't have to guarantee the full salary for
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  Speaker 1: the entire season. Rodgers also ripping the draft pick favoritism.
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  Speaker 1: That has gone on in the NFL, saying some players
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  Speaker 1: didn't actually earn it. Their draft spot earned it. Rodgers'
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  Speaker 1: belly ached while deserving players who were better performing in
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  Speaker 1: practice would get cut. Rodgers called the system, quote, backwards,
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  Speaker 1: close quote, saying teams sometimes protect young investments while elevating
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  Speaker 1: better practice squad players on game day. He said that's
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. So let us discuss the question. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here it is. The question, where are you at on
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  Speaker 1: Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers saying the NFL is not a meritocracy?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Burger King, the Four Horsemen, and Hooked
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  Speaker 1: on Phonics. And we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together for some delicious jambalaya, which I think is what
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's going to be eating while the SEC gets
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  Speaker 1: together to decide whether they're going to vote LSU out
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  Speaker 1: of the conference on Thursday. He'll have some of that
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  Speaker 1: jambalaya from Benjamin. And if he doesn't like that, he
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  Speaker 1: can have the baba ghanoush. And if not, how about the, well,
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  Speaker 1: the gabagool. There you go. All right, to kick off here, though,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, what he did here is he lifted up
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  Speaker 1: the NFL's skirt. You're not supposed to do that. He
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  Speaker 1: lifted up the NFL skirt, and he showed you the
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  Speaker 1: soft underbelly. of the beast that is the National Football League,
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  Speaker 1: and ultimately revealed absolutely nothing at the same time, which
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  Speaker 1: is the beauty of this. That's the beauty of this
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  Speaker 1: commentary by Aaron Rodgers. Anybody with half a brain would know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: that's how business is done in pro football. The NFL
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  Speaker 1: does like to sell meritocracy to dumb people, because dumb
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  Speaker 1: people will buy anything. They sell meritocracy in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: like Burger King sells food photography. You ever seen those
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  Speaker 1: commercials of the food at Burger King? Man, does that
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  Speaker 1: look good. Technically related to what you're actually getting, in
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  Speaker 1: the end, it's a whopper. It is a whopper. So
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  Speaker 1: draft pedigree. is football's version of daddy owning the dealership,
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  Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. You're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a good deal when daddy owns the dealership. Good habit.
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  Speaker 1: So once a general manager drafts a player with the
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  Speaker 1: scouting department in the first round, that player has a
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  Speaker 1: force field around them. That's just the way it is, right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you draft somebody in the first round, You're no longer
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  Speaker 1: just a player in the NFL. You are an individual.
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  Speaker 1: You are evidence for a performance review for the general manager.
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  Speaker 1: First round picks, they get that teacher's pet package is
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  Speaker 1: what they get. And that's a front row seat. You
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  Speaker 1: get a little extra credit. Put that down. A little
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  Speaker 1: extra credit there. And unlimited makeup exams. Oh, you missed
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  Speaker 1: the test. All right, Johnny, don't worry. We got a
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  Speaker 1: makeup exam. Why not? Meanwhile, you got these NFL teams
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  Speaker 1: with all the dorks and the nerds in the front
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  Speaker 1: office and the accounting department. The salary cap is fugazi.
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  Speaker 1: We know that. But you still got to manipulate it.
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  Speaker 1: And so the NFL teams are spinning plates. Contracts over here.
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  Speaker 1: You got guarantees off to the other side. You got
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  Speaker 1: egos everywhere. And actual football ability, not really spinning much.
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  Speaker 1: Not really spinning much here. And so the undrafted guy,
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  Speaker 1: you got to look at it this way. The undrafted
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  Speaker 1: player who's really good, it's like working DoorDash. It's NFL DoorDash.
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  Speaker 1: One bad rating. One a-hole doesn't like the pizza that
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  Speaker 1: you dropped off because it was a little too cold.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, one bad rating and your
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  Speaker 1: account is deactivated. That's a problem. So the runs, the
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  Speaker 1: runs who are not high draft picks, who happen to
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  Speaker 1: be able to play football at a good level, though,
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  Speaker 1: those types, they don't just get kicked to the curb.
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  Speaker 1: They get kicked in the onions and handed directions. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't need a map. I got it on my phone. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you directions. Well, I don't need a map.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it on my phone. All right. Well, don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: Here are the directions to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you like cold weather. Knock yourself out. It's not unfair.
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  Speaker 1: It's business, right? Business has played favorites. Every business. I
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  Speaker 1: work in radio. There are favorites here. Everywhere I've worked,
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  Speaker 1: there's favorites. Certain people, for whatever reason, they are the favorites.
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  Speaker 1: And certainly when money, ever since money's been involved, that's
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  Speaker 1: been the case there. Family dynamics. And every workplace in America,
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  Speaker 1: every workplace in the world that I know of, operates
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  Speaker 1: that way. Bosses play favorites. That's just the way. So
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  Speaker 1: it's like, it was cool that Rodgers said it, and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't really reveal anything that we didn't already figure out,
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  Speaker 1: anybody with half a clue. Now, staying in Pittsburgh, clock
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  Speaker 1: is ticking. The Steelers made an 11th-hour extension offer. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're very concerned about the finances of Joey Porter Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: the defensive back, but we are told the sides remain
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  Speaker 1: far apart. State-funded NFL media, the propaganda arm for the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: they report that the Pittsburgh proposal to Joey Porter Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: they say, was, quote, not good enough to be deemed close. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm negotiating my contracts here, I always say, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's just offensive. I would not accept that offer unless
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  Speaker 1: I just sign whatever they offer me, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: even complain. I'm like, that's pay me peanuts. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: can I get some? Can I get some peanuts that
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  Speaker 1: have a little spice to them? No, no.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: We can't afford that. Plain salt? I can't. Come on. No.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't even give me salted peanuts. They just
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  Speaker 1: give me just peanuts without salt. I'm like, can I
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  Speaker 1: get some? No, we just don't.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: It's unfortunate. We can't afford it. Anyway, Porter remaining. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the part that's interesting. We talked about this in a
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  Speaker 1: previous episode of the show, but Joey Porter Jr., noncommittal
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  Speaker 1: about even playing here in week one. The Steelers open
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  Speaker 1: up with Tua Tungavailoa and the Dirty Birds. You'd think
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  Speaker 1: you'd want to play against Tua. There's a good chance
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  Speaker 1: to get an interception. He says, without a new contract,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll play, maybe I won't play, and all that.
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  Speaker 1: The cornerback market, I don't know if you've been paying attention,
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  Speaker 1: it actually went kaboom the other day there. Devin Witherspoon
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  Speaker 1: of the Seattle football team, he became the highest-paid player
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL for about 72 hours. And then Christian
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  Speaker 1: Gonzalez of the New England football team, he said, hold on,
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  Speaker 1: and he got a contract that trumped Devin Witherspoon. They'll
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  Speaker 1: both be playing in the game tonight, Pittsburgh State. may
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  Speaker 1: have to exceed both of those contracts, making Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 1: the highest-paid defensive back. We'll see if they are willing
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  Speaker 1: to do that or not. So the question, here it is, Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: the team, how does this Joey Porter contract nail-biter play
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  Speaker 1: out for the Steelers? How does it play out? So
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a cherry-licious story. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about the strain of weed, weed man. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about that. Either Pittsburgh puts the cherry on
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  Speaker 1: top of the financial Sunday. Money, money, money. Or the
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  Speaker 1: other option is Joey Porter Jr. spends the season operating
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  Speaker 1: a cherry picker. What does that mean? Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: Joey Porter Jr. grab bag of skullduggery. Where's that? Where
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  Speaker 1: every single Tuesday brings another. mysterious body part that may
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  Speaker 1: be messed up. That's it. The world is Joey Porter's
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  Speaker 1: soft tissue. Where in the world is Joey Porter's soft tissue?
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  Speaker 1: Where or where or where or where is it? Now,
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  Speaker 1: we say, and we've seen this for years, it's the
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  Speaker 1: oldest trick in the book. It's the four horsemen of
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  Speaker 1: contract year football. Now, years ago when I covered the
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  Speaker 1: NBA on a regular basis, I remember an older gentleman,
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  Speaker 1: and he taught me the birds and the bees. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the players are out too late, and they just don't
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  Speaker 1: feel like they can play because they're hungover or they
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  Speaker 1: spent too long chasing the ladies around. They got this
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  Speaker 1: lower back injury. It's the perfect hustle, the lower back injury,
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  Speaker 1: because it's really soft tissue. There's really no way to
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  Speaker 1: test for it properly. It's pain threshold. So the four horsemen...
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  Speaker 1: of the soft tissue. You've got back soreness, hamstring tightness.
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  Speaker 1: That's always a good one. You've got groin strain, a classic,
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  Speaker 1: and knee inflammation. I don't know if you know this,
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  Speaker 1: but playing athletic events, you have inflammation. It's part of
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  Speaker 1: being an athlete and using your body, selling your body
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  Speaker 1: as an athlete. Anyway, those are the four things that
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  Speaker 1: are mainly used to get out of actually performing in
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  Speaker 1: a game. The reason they are all used is because
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  Speaker 1: they are subjective, all of them, impossible to disprove, and
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  Speaker 1: capable of lingering indefinitely. Oh, my God, I just can't
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  Speaker 1: get rid of this hamstring tightness. The hammy could go whammy.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want me to miss a bunch of time,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm just going to miss this game, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'll play the next game, but I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I'll play the next game. Maybe I'll have some more
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  Speaker 1: hammy tightness. I don't know. So the Steelers are playing bock, bock, chicken.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing chicken with a defensive back, Joey Porter Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: who controls the most important medical instrument we have in
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  Speaker 1: the building today. And that is his pain tolerance wink, wink, wink,
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  Speaker 1: whether he wants to play or not. And so you
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  Speaker 1: don't need a picket line to go protest when you've
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  Speaker 1: got a training table. Make it like a social club
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  Speaker 1: there in the injury tent and just go in there.
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  Speaker 1: The injury report is about to become a weekly ransom
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  Speaker 1: note unless... the Pittsburgh football team does something that would
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  Speaker 1: be out of the orthodoxy, and that would be to
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  Speaker 1: set a record for a defensive back. We'll see if
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  Speaker 1: that happens or not. Today's a big day in the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of days, but today's really the main event.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last thing. To Cincinnati we go, where Joe
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  Speaker 1: Burrow is pushing back. Pushing back now on all this
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  Speaker 1: speculation that he could eventually force his way out of
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  Speaker 1: that fine, fine city there out of Cincinnati, similar to
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  Speaker 1: what Carson Palmer did. If you're old enough to remember,
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  Speaker 1: they had this guy, Carson Palmer. It wasn't very good,
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  Speaker 1: but he was in Cincinnati for a while, and he
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  Speaker 1: used a power play and got himself out of a
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  Speaker 1: Bengals uniform way back in 2011. I was about 10
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  Speaker 1: years old back then. Burrow, now or never, he made
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  Speaker 1: that declaration. That was a Joe Burrow declaration, now or never.
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  Speaker 1: His words, not mine, about the 2026 season fueling the
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  Speaker 1: speculation machine about whether or not he was issuing an ultimatum,
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  Speaker 1: which he was, to the Bengals. Now, Burrow responded emphatically.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'm here for the long haul. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere. Close quote. He's trying to squash, put the
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  Speaker 1: The kill switch on Joe wants out. The headline, Joe
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  Speaker 1: Burrow wants out. That narrative from the NFL football world
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  Speaker 1: insisting his urgency is about winning now, not plotting an
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  Speaker 1: escape from Cincinnati. So the question, do you believe, do
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  Speaker 1: you believe Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow when he says, I
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  Speaker 1: am not going anywhere? Or is that simply the only
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  Speaker 1: possible answer to that he could give right now. So
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  Speaker 1: listen up. This is mandatory franchise quarterback boilerplate. Quotage or chat,
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  Speaker 1: say it on the quotas of the right word, but
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  Speaker 1: that's the response you have to give. All right. That's
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  Speaker 1: the response you have to give asking Joe Burrow about
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  Speaker 1: leaving Cincinnati. Now it's kind of like ask, a groom
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  Speaker 1: during the wedding reception whether or not They're considering divorce. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not really going to work. The timing on that
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  Speaker 1: ain't all that great. And so asking Joe Burrow about
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  Speaker 1: leaving Cincinnati now, it's good luck. What's he supposed to do? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals, they say. He was talking, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: to Bengals.com, the Pravda news service of Bengal football. Can
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: you imagine if he said, yeah, listen, I am absolutely miserable.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: That skyline chili is disgusting. I would not feed that
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: to my dog. And hopefully I end up with a
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: team that I want to play for, like the Steelers
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: next year when Aaron Rodgers retires, or I played college
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: football in Louisiana. How about go save the Saints? How
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: about that? That would be a good team for me
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: in 2027. No, you can't say any of that. You cannot. Now,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: some of the fans in southwestern Ohio, I've seen this
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: when the story's been making the way around the echo chamber.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And so there's some people out there saying, well, listen,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: this is great. Massive sigh of relief. Joe Burrow wants
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to stay here. And it's completely hooked on phonics. Taking
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the decree as the gospel. Tell me you don't know
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: about this without telling me you don't know about this.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: You would have to be an absolute dingbat. A total 100%
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: verified dingbat to believe that that had any kind of
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: meaning to it. Come on. That's not true. It's a
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: franchise quarterback with a massive contract pledging loyalty. And Burrow's
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: got a couple years left before he can get out
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of the contract game. That doesn't mean he can't be
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: traded somewhere. These things... play out in back channels and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: that's how that works and so things have been bubbling
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: up underneath although i will point out much of the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: problem in cincinnati has been joe burrow not staying healthy
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: like if he had been able to play then the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: bangles would not be on a four-year drought from missing
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the the playoffs and all that so and if burrow
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: secretly wanted out Wouldn't he be doing the exact same
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: thing as he's doing right now, right? Smiling and pledging
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: allegiance to the Cincinnati football team and waiting for the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: season to implode before the next layer takes place there.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: And so if Cincinnati does miss the playoffs for a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: fourth straight year, which would be this year, they've missed three.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I believe the number is three. This would be number four.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: So the smart money, the smart money says Burrow will
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: reconsider down the road, reconsider the Bengals. Also, the Vikings,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: his buddy up there in Minnesota, Jefferson, Kyler Murray's going
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: to suck. He's no good. We all know that. The
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Vikings know that, too. So if that job opens up again,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and how about Burrow to Minnesota? There you go. Burroughs,
• 22:52
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• 22:57
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• 23:01
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• 23:08
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• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I think that's where I got confused because I remember
• 26:28
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• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, E-Dog's a regular addicted radio caller. Did you send
• 26:38
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• 26:40
  Speaker 2: No?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I did not. You did not. But I probably should.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: He's a very nice man. He's a nice man. He'll
• 26:44
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• 26:46
  Speaker 1: he'll return. All right, back to it we go. Well,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: let's get this right now. So there have been a
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: lot of rumors bouncing around the dark web that there's
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: going to be some kind of update on the Mike
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Vrabel story with Diana Rossini. that the Patriots kick off
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: tonight against the Seattle Seahawks and that the chatter is
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that some media outlet has held on to either some photographs.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: There's a nugget of information that has not been made
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: public about that relationship that is going to drop today.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: A nice, juicy nugget. Now, I don't know what it is.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I've been hearing this for a while. Now, it could
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: be total bull crap or somebody might have something and
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: then they don't announce it because they're worried about getting
• 27:44
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• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I'll be sleeping, so let me know. When I wake up,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I'll see if there's any kind of juicy nugget out there.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: There was that ESPN story the other day. I do
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: love a juicy nugget. Yeah, yeah. Well, sometimes this happens.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: The most famous example was there was a, was it
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Josh Hader of the Brewers during the All-Star game? Somebody
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: sent out a bunch of old messages that he had
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: when he was like a younger guy, like these offensive
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: messages back in the middle of the wokeism, and he
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: got in some trouble for that. We'll see what happens.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, will there be another revelation about he and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Diana Rossini, who's like, the rumor is she's going to
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: get a job, I guess. She's more famous now, I
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: or what NFL coach he'll be canoodling with next. Stay tuned.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Developing hot, dot, dot, dot. Late Night Drug Tester says,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: with all the live tennis on the overnight show, Ben,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I applaud you for keeping focused and bringing us the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: latest NFL news, rumors, and first, Benny versus the Penny
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: pick of the NFL season. FergDog says, thank you for
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the impromptu tennis monologue to start the hour. I can't
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: help but feel that somewhere out there I brought a
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: tear to a fellow tennis lover's eye. I don't know
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: who you would be talking about there. Mark the Walker says,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: B plus on the Mallor monologue. He says, if the U.S.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Open wants to grow the game, as evidenced by the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: lunatic influences roaming around the grounds there in New York
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: every day, Why let the greatest match ever be played
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: at a time that only insomniacs and maniacs are awake
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: to see it? Screw you, Mark the Walker. This is
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: a win for the little man. This is a win
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: for the nocturnal crowd. For us. They don't give us
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: anything anymore. Do you realize in my time, I've done
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: overnight radio a long time, we used to get the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: trade day. at midnight. We'd be the first to break
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: down trades. And then who's the woman with the red hair.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Rachel Nichols or whatever, she complained about having to stay
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: up and not get her beauty sleep. I remember hearing
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: about this years ago. She complained. She worries about her
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: pretty privilege. Exactly. Why do I have to stay up
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: for the trade deadline? So they changed the trade deadline.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: It's during the day now. They ruined the trade deadline
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: for overnight talk radio. So finally, tennis is giving back,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and I'm all for it. Let's go to the phones.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Lucky Tony, who's up next on
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show in the Bay Area. Hello, Lucky Tony.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: Welcome.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Hey, Ben. Tip of the blue and orange to the U.S.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Military. And what would I say if Gina Valentina was
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: wearing camo panties?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: I used to know.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Ben.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Say hello to Michael in Dallas. What's going on, Michael?
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: I promise I've not been drinking. I put me on
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: the breathalyzer.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: No, that tells me you haven't. That means he was drinking.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: That means you have been drinking. You have been.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: Well, just a couple of marchings.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: All right, hold on a second. All right, let's do it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Do you have that ready, Lorena? What? Get the gizmo.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Get the doohickey up. Let's blow into the phone right now.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: This is Michael in Dallas. Go ahead, Michael. Please blow
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: into the phone. There was a lot of slobber. You
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: didn't need a slobber, dude. There was a lot of slobber, dude.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see. What is the blood alcohol level? 0.98. 0.98.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I think he's dead. You're dead, sir. You're dead.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: I don't think she understands how the blood alcohol level works.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: You think Lorraine is not educated in blood alcohol content?
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: You think possibly? One tenth of a percent is a lot. Yeah, okay.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: So that was what, 10 beers?
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, a ton of beers, and I had a couple
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: of Vegas bombs and a couple of martinis, vodka martinis.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: You know who loves you? The person at the liquor
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: store loves you. They love you. This is my favorite
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: customer right here. This guy is amazing.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Well, I drink at home.
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: I'm not an alcoholic.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: He just ran down the entire liquor store. But I'm
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: not an alcoholic. Not at all. No, no, no.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: Hey, Ben.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: Do you also have the deal where we can ask
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: Lorena something from a woman's point of view?
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Well, that segment has ended. However, I will allow you.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Hurry up, and then I'll move on to somebody else.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: But go ahead. Ask Lorena a question. Go ahead.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: And then I want to talk about the Cowboys. I
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: think this was our year to win the Super Bowl.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You said that every year, and you're drunk. So go.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Who cares? Go ahead, Lorena. The question for you, Lorena.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: So I showed up at the bar halfway sober. And
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: these two big guys showed up, and they said, I
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: want you to talk to my cousin. I said, hey,
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: I say a lot of stupid things when I'm drunk.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: I don't want to have to fight you tonight. Let
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: me buy you a drink or whatever. I don't want
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: to fight. And they said, oh, no. Apparently the whole
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: time they've been joking about something I said like three
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: months ago.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Can you give me the shortened– Thumbnail version of this, please, Michael. Please.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: One sentence. One sentence.
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: I go outside to the outside bar.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: That's one sentence. You didn't ask a question. That was
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: a sentence. You didn't ask a question.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: I asked her what? I told her what had happened.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Marcel. I gave him a chance.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Marcel in Brooklyn. Questions are who, what, where, when, why, how.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Those are questions.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Who, what, when, why, and how wise to you,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Ben and Lorena. Good morning to you.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Marcel.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Marcel in Brooklyn. This guy, what a great employee you are.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: The only time you ever miss a show is when
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: you're in New Jersey visiting with Uncle Dynamite and the family.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Other than that, you're always here.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is. New York and New Jersey are the
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: two of the northeast's closest states in our country.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Do you ever go to Connecticut?
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: No.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: No, but I visit Maine there.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: You have been. Don't you have to go through Connecticut
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to get to Maine? It's the next state over, right?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: You got to go through. Well, no, no. You got Connecticut.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: You ever been to Rhode Island? That's a little state,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Rhode Island. You ever been there?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: No. Vermont and New Hampshire? I don't think so, too.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: But Maine.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Marcel, did you drive to Maine or
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: fly to Maine?
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: No, my family drives it.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, so to drive to Maine... If you look at
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the map, I assume you went up I-95, yes? Yes,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: it is. All right, I've made that drive. You've got
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to go through Connecticut. You've got to go through Rhode
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Island and all the way up there.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: A little bit of New Hampshire. I guess you can
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: avoid Massachusetts. Maybe you avoid Vermont. I don't think you
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: have to go through Vermont.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Say no more there, buddy. Okay.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: All right, what are we doing today, Mark? What do
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: we have?
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: We've got the player of the morning representing from the
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: MLB is right around the corner. But in the meantime,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: TV picks.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: All right, TV picks. Let's go. Line 2 wants to play.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Line 2, you're on TV picks. Hello, Line 2.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Line 2, walk to the show. No New England villains.
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: Yes, I would like to say the Patriots.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: We're going to pick the Patriots for three and a half.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: We're going to make the money. No, he just ruined it. Oh,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: he's down. Poppy just jinxed me. The Patriots are going
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: to lose by 30 points now.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Any time touchdown, he's down. Who is this?
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Who is this at this time, please?
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: This is Poppy in San Diego. You ever been to
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: San Diego?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: No. San Diego is a home of the military and,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: of course, America's finest city.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: It's the finest city of San Diego.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. America's finest city. That's where it is.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: That's my bottom line there, Poppy. And no, this ain't
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: the finest.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: City in California. Is Poppy Team Marcel or no?
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: No. No.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, Poppy, you're not part of Team Marcel. Wow.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Well, it's okay.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: I'm part of Poppy's pigs and with the leprechaun. I'm
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: Team Leprechaun.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: Yes, the leprechaun's on my side.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Somebody eliminate Poppy, please. All right. Right now.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Let's go to line three. You want to say a
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: little line three?
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, line three, welcome.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: You're going to like line three, right?
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Line three, welcome to the show.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Line three, welcome, line three. Hello, line three. We're waiting
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: for you.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: It's Mark in the hotel.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's Mark. Oh, see, look at that, Mark. Let
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: me switch it up. Hold on a second. Let me
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: go to my net.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Hi, Mark.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I think, what happened to line, oh, wait, hold on
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: a second, Mark. Mark, let me go to, oh, let
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: me go to line five. Line five. You want to
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: talk to line five? Hold on a second. Line five.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's put line five there.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: You're going to like line five, right? You're going to
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: like line five?
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: No.
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Go, Poppy!
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: Poppy is my fan.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Oh! It's like the idiot card, people! Delete him now!
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: Hate is a very strong word, Marcel.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Hate is a very strong word.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: So if we did a tag team match, we'd have you, Mike,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the Leprechaun, and Poppy. And then, Marcel, who would team
• 37:19
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  Speaker 5: And the password is password.
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  Speaker 1: You idiot.
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  Speaker 2: Password, the word game of the stars.
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• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Who do we have to play password? Let's see here. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I think Chris wants to play. Hello, Chris. Welcome. Hello, Chris.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Chris is in the Boston area, and he's going to
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: play Password. Good to have you, Chris. Put you down here.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: And then I think, are we going to have an
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: all-Boston rivalry? Let's see here. I think Marky Mark on
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: the north end.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Mark.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: What's up, Ben?
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I like the all-Boston rivalry.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I like going against Chris.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: You guys are blood rivals. Good luck, gentlemen. Chris, who
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: do you want to partner up with? Chris, you got me, Ben, Lorena,
• 40:38
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• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Let's go with the winner. Let's go with you, Ben.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: That's right. We're in it.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Marky Mark on the north end. Who would you like
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: to partner up with, Mark? I got to go with
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: my girl, Lorena.
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  Speaker 4: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: No chance.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: Bad choice by you.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Okay. It is a bad choice. We have a list
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: of words. One to ten. And Chris, you were on first.
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  Speaker 1: So please pick a number.
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  Speaker 2: In honor of Marcel, let's go with number two. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Never gets old. Never gets old. And he has no
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: idea what you're talking about. Let's go with... Oh, boy.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: This is actually harder than you think.
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  Speaker 5: Frolic.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Frolic. Oh, that's a good one. F-R-O-L-I-C. Frolic. Dance.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Lorena? I think I can use this one. Game.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: Say that again, Lorena?
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  Speaker 2: Game.
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  Speaker 6: Game.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, jeez.
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: Plate no that's it all right nine points all right
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  Speaker 7: go ahead mark pick a number one to ten please
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: but not two Lorena for you number.
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  Speaker 1: Four I love this one okay let's go with porridge
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: no chance oh oatmeal how about Boston Northeast chata.
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  Speaker 2: Two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. We're tied at nine. Oh, what a
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: great clue that was. I'm patting myself on the back.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going to pull a muscle. All right, Chris, pick
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: a number one to ten, but not two, not four. Password.
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  Speaker 4: Number seven.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Number seven. All right, this should be easy. Let's see
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: if it is. Let's go with melody.
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  Speaker 2: Tune.
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  Speaker 5: No!
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: No!
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Lorena, hurry up.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: You got a chance to steal and win the game.
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: Song.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Song. Music. No!
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: No!
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I knew I was going to win. Oh, no. I've
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: been hit by lightning. My God. I'm dying over here.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: My God.