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Hour 1 - Not a Big Deal · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Great googly moogly. It's our number one, hour one, and
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Speaker 1: we never have radio silence on the Ben Maller Show podcast.
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Speaker 1: We stayed up all night to provide fresh pod, and
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Speaker 1: here is our first hour of work. It's hour number one,
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Speaker 1: and we ask the question, why is Titans coach Robert
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Speaker 1: Sala more concerned about protecting Jordan Elliott's reputation than addressing
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Speaker 1: the danger of of his actions, bringing a gun, bringing
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Speaker 1: a gun to work, and what that could have posed
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Speaker 1: to his teammates. Very odd. I would not continue to
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Speaker 1: employ Robert Sala if I owned the Tennessee Titans after
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Speaker 1: that bull crap. Also, how do you explain Sean McVay's
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Speaker 1: Rams winning the stat battle and losing most of the games?
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Speaker 1: And in the Pacific Northwest, do the Seahawks have a
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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold problem? The answer is yes, they do have
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Speaker 1: a Sam Darnold problem. All right, we'll get to all
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Speaker 1: of that, and who knows what else. It's your second
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Speaker 1: bite of the apple. It's our number one. It really
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Speaker 1: wasn't that big a deal. I don't know what you're
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Speaker 1: That's ExpressPros.com. So our lead story this hour is from
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Speaker 1: the NFL. And I was dying to talk about this.
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Speaker 1: We mentioned it at the end of our previous episode
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Speaker 1: of the show. It had broken overnight. And very rarely
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Speaker 1: these type of things break overnight. We had known that
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Speaker 1: an NFL player had been fired from his job. And
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Speaker 1: there was a situation that happened. We did not know
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Speaker 1: the details until yesterday, and we're trying to figure out
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Speaker 1: the spin on this and should have thought of it.
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Speaker 1: We screwed up. Bad job by us. But our lead
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Speaker 1: this hour from Nashville, the Music City, the Grand Ole Opry.
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Speaker 1: And at some point here, we'll do a Mallory meet
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Speaker 1: and greet in Nashville. We're going to do it. I
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Speaker 1: got to get to Nashville. I haven't done it yet,
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Speaker 1: but we'll get there at some point. But that is
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Speaker 1: the scene where Titans coach Robert Sala says, came out
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Speaker 1: swinging and he was very passionately out in front of
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Speaker 1: the cameras to defend his now former defensive tackle jordan
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Speaker 1: elliott uh i'm being serious about this crazy story it's
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Speaker 1: absolutely bonkers it happens every once in a while like
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Speaker 1: once a generation something like this happens it happened here
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Speaker 1: now if you didn't see this and And maybe now
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Speaker 1: to hear about it, we missed yesterday's program. This is
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Speaker 1: not exactly the cat's meow. So Robert Sala came out,
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Speaker 1: gave a long speech. Now, before we explain, I guess
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Speaker 1: we'll play the audio. But Robert Sala defending Jordan Elliott.
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Speaker 1: Jordan Elliott had a bad day at practice. Got into
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Speaker 1: a disagreement with one of the offensive linemen for the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee football team. and he did what any reasonable human
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Speaker 1: being would do. He went out to the parking lot,
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Speaker 1: and did he drive away?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Did he sit in his car and take a nap?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Did he go to his car and call his wife
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Speaker 1: and complain about the person at work?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: He went to get a gun. And Robert Saleh's defending that.
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Speaker 1: Listen to the head coach of an NFL team defending
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Speaker 1: one of his players going to get a gun because
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Speaker 1: of a disagreement at work. Take a listen.
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Speaker 3: I will stand on the table for Jordan's character.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, rules are rules.
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Speaker 3: With regards to guns on property. And sometimes it's far
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Speaker 3: greater than the knee-jerk reaction of kicking somebody and kicking
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Speaker 3: somebody when they're down. My message to 31 other teams
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Speaker 3: would be if you need a hell of a run-stopping
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Speaker 3: D-tackle that can help you on a playoff run, give
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Speaker 3: me a call. I'll tell you everything you need to
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Speaker 3: know about him.
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Speaker 1: He's a good man.
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Speaker 3: Had a terrible lapse in judgment that I recognize as
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Speaker 3: a call for help more than a criminal act. It's
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Speaker 3: unfortunate the way it went down. But as far as
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Speaker 3: Jordan's concerned and the locker room and all that, I
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Speaker 3: think the locker room and Jordan, I think people see
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Speaker 3: it differently here than the knee-jerk reaction of the world.
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Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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Speaker 1: Now, when I got sent this clip, I was sleeping
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Speaker 1: when this happened, but I woke up and I had
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Speaker 1: a message and I thought, well, that's A.I. clearly, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's no one in their right mind as a coach
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Speaker 1: that would come out and say, well, one of my
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Speaker 1: employees went to get a gun because of a disagreement,
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Speaker 1: but he's a good man. It was a lapse in judgment,
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Speaker 1: you know, and really more of a call for help.
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Speaker 1: Who does that? Like, what kind of loser is this
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Speaker 1: coach of the Titans? So Elliott went out, according to
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Speaker 1: the various media reports that I read, he went out
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Speaker 1: to retrieve a firearm. Now, what do you think he
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Speaker 1: was going to do with that firearm? You think he
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Speaker 1: was just going to shoot a couple of shots off
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Speaker 1: in the sky to celebrate? I don't know. What do
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Speaker 1: you do with a gun when you're upset with somebody?
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Speaker 1: So that followed a kerfluffle with one of the offensive linemen, J.C. Latham,
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Speaker 1: I believe is the name of the offensive lineman for
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee football team. There was another teammate that intervened.
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Speaker 1: Tennessee did fire Elliott, Jordan Elliott, the gun-toting defensive tackle
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Speaker 1: the NFL is said to be investigating. That'll be fun. Now,
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Speaker 1: despite all that, as you heard, Robert Sala praising the
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Speaker 1: character of Elliott as a devoted father, husband, and teammate.
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Speaker 1: He urged all 31 other teams to consider signing him. Again,
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Speaker 1: I thought this was fake. I thought it was satire, AI.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's like, oh, you got me. No, it's true.
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Speaker 1: So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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Speaker 1: the question. It's a rather obvious question we'll ask you,
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Speaker 1: and you can be part of the jury. Why is
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Speaker 1: Titans coach Robert Sala seemingly more concerned about protecting Jordan
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Speaker 1: Elliott's reputation than addressing the Komodo dragon in the room,
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Speaker 1: his actions of bringing a gun down? to work in
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Speaker 1: the car and then seemingly trying to bring it into
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Speaker 1: the building. Like, what are you doing? Why are you
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Speaker 1: not addressing that part of it and the threat that
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Speaker 1: that would have posed? And you can have your mind
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Speaker 1: wander what would have happened had that gun gotten in.
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Speaker 1: All right, so my thoughts on this. I've got laundry basket,
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Speaker 1: cheesecake factory, dessert menu, and church food. Bingo! And we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, you and I,
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Speaker 1: and we are going to get into double trouble is
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Speaker 1: what we're going to do. So, A, Robert Sala has
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Speaker 1: become a senior fellow at the Jordan Elliott Excuse Making Society. Tremendous.
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Speaker 1: My God, is he somehow like the father of Jordan Elliott?
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Speaker 1: Defending the indefensible? Salah, acting like Elliott, forgot to put
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Speaker 1: the dirty towels in the laundry basket. It's an amazing
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Speaker 1: inversion of reality. The guy who went for the gun
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Speaker 1: gets the character testimonial, the tribute from the coach. Oh,
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Speaker 1: this guy, let me tell you something. I will stand
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Speaker 1: on the mountain for this guy's character.
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Speaker 4: What? What?
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Speaker 1: Robert Sala wants us to judge Jordan Elliott by his
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Speaker 1: character instead of by his conduct. But I thought, and
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Speaker 1: maybe I was raised inappropriately. I mean, a lot of
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Speaker 1: you people look at the world much differently than I
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Speaker 1: was raised. Apparently, I always thought character is revealed by conduct.
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Speaker 1: Apparently not. Apparently it doesn't matter. He's asking us to
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Speaker 1: ignore the fire because the arsonist has an excellent attendance record.
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Speaker 1: So just ignore the fire. That's it. Now, the mental
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Speaker 1: health explanation has become a force field in the last
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Speaker 1: five to ten years in sports. Once it's activated, apparently
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Speaker 1: no criticism can penetrate it. It's a one-size-fits-all solution. It's
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Speaker 1: a silver bullet. You can offer the man help without
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Speaker 1: pretending he's... actions were harmless and that is not compassion
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Speaker 1: it is a failure of leadership and this was so
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Speaker 1: ridiculous robert salla's speech if i owned the titans i
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Speaker 1: would fire robert salla it's not like he's a good
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Speaker 1: coach he sucks as a coach he was terrible with
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Speaker 1: the jets The broadcaster's like kissing his ass on TV
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Speaker 1: when he coaches the Niners defense, but he's just a
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Speaker 1: bad head coach, and that's a fireable offense. I would
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Speaker 1: get rid of him. You're supposed to be the leader
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Speaker 1: of the franchise, the face of the franchise, and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff, and you're coming out and giving a testimonial
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Speaker 1: to the character of the guy that went to get
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Speaker 1: the gun? I mean, what are you doing, dummy? All right. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: to L.A., page two. So a number of you are
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Speaker 1: upset that I did not bash the Rams. I was
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Speaker 1: not in here post-Ram game. I was traveling, so I
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Speaker 1: was unable to attend the radio show that night. And
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Speaker 1: I will address that right now. So the Rams are
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Speaker 1: a bad football team right now. They're 2-4. However, they
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Speaker 1: have outgamed their opponents by a league-best 644 yards this season.
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Speaker 1: So they are plus 644, ahead of every other team
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Speaker 1: in the NFL this in terms of the plus-minus on
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Speaker 1: the yards via opponents. So the question, how do you
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Speaker 1: explain Sean McVay's Rams winning the stats, clearly, and yet
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Speaker 1: losing the games? So this is a bit of a
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Speaker 1: data reference, but the 2026 Rams are a Bill Callahan special.
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Speaker 1: They got to be the dumbest team in America in
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Speaker 1: terms of playing the game. classic moment in raider history
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Speaker 1: there bill callahan sean mcveigh has this blind spot called
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Speaker 1: special teams he's built this team along with the front
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Speaker 1: office that wins the beauty pageant and loses the election
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Speaker 1: they do not have a talent problem even with all
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Speaker 1: these injuries they do not have a talent problem they
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Speaker 1: have an execution a discipline and yes a coaching problem
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Speaker 1: i'm not afraid to say it why would i be
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Speaker 1: You're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen.
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Speaker 1: The Rams have so many empty calories. They've got more
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Speaker 1: empty calories than the cheesesteak factory dessert menu at this point.
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Speaker 1: And it's like they're playing football's version of Monopoly. They
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Speaker 1: collect a lot of properties, but they never pass go.
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Speaker 1: They just can't pass go. And they're the kings this
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Speaker 1: year of football foreplay. All that movement, all the excitement,
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Speaker 1: the razzle-dazzle, the yards and all that. But when it's
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Speaker 1: time to finish.
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Speaker 1: We got a problem. Not good at finishing the job.
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Speaker 1: The Rams are a Disney-approved ride. Dumbo. They're dumbos. Big ears,
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Speaker 1: big numbers, and apparently no idea, despite all that savvy
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Speaker 1: veteran leadership, how to land the plane. Don't know how
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Speaker 1: to land the plane. McVay has mastered this season looking
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Speaker 1: brilliant for about 57 minutes, and then there's a couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes in there where the Rams coach looks like
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Speaker 1: a confused tourist. for those other few minutes and getting
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Speaker 1: somewhat outcoached, especially on special teams. It's not even close.
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Speaker 1: In those moments, though, that decide the games. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: the referees have handed a couple of games to the
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Speaker 1: Cardinals and the Broncos, and that's just the way it goes.
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Speaker 1: But you should not be in those situations to allow
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Speaker 1: the referees. The Rams are supposed to be so good
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Speaker 1: that you should not put yourself in a position where
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Speaker 1: you can get the Montreal screwjob from the referees at
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Speaker 1: the end of the game. But, hey, they look really
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Speaker 1: good with those sexy yards. So congratulations, you won the
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Speaker 1: fantasy football plus-minus out-gained opponent category title. Way to go.
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Speaker 1: Way to go. All right, last word. We stay in
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Speaker 1: the NFC West. We head to Seattle. And a lot
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Speaker 1: of those big mouth, number 12 fans, right, the 12th
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Speaker 1: man fans who infiltrated the Ben Maller show and hijacked
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Speaker 1: guys like J.J. and Renton and Nostradinus and Crying Craig
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Speaker 1: and all the other big P1s there in the Seattle area.
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Speaker 1: Big Seahawks fans. So the reigning Super Bowl champs have
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Speaker 1: become chumps. They're 3-3, and while they're not as bad
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Speaker 1: as the Rams, they're not much better. And as of
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Speaker 1: this moment, if the season ended today as we head
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Speaker 1: into Week 7, which begins on Thursday with the Bears
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Speaker 1: and the Patriots, but heading into Week 7, the Seattle
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Speaker 1: football team would not qualify for the playoffs. Ha-ha! So
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Speaker 1: fingers are starting to be pointed. as happens when your
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Speaker 1: team is not performing up to expectations. And a lot
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Speaker 1: of those are at the quarterback position. The quarterback, they're
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Speaker 1: getting spit-roasted, like at a Hawaiian luau, with no pineapple, though.
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Speaker 1: So the question, do the Seahawks have a Sam Darnold problem?
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Speaker 1: Do the Seattle Seahawks have a Sam Darnold problem? And
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Speaker 1: I am nodding my head. Yes, Sam Darnold is the
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Speaker 1: NFL's Benjamin Button this season. The longer that he plays,
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Speaker 1: the more he resembles the guy we knew him to be,
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Speaker 1: the rookie who couldn't read a defense, the guy that
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Speaker 1: was seeing ghosts. And you look at this and you're
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Speaker 1: starting to wonder, did Seattle get hornswoggled into a Joe
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Speaker 1: Flacco model by the used car dealer? Is this a
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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco special? Remember, if you're old enough, years ago
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Speaker 1: there was this guy named Joe Flacco. who played for
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Speaker 1: the Ravens, one very good quarterback, had one out-of-body experience
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Speaker 1: playoff run. Just amazing. And the Ravens paid him. And
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Speaker 1: that was the end of Joe Flacco as a successful
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Speaker 1: NFL quarterback. Now, he still plays. He's just not successful.
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Speaker 1: And that was the end of it. And the Ravens
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Speaker 1: paid him. They had to pay him. And you look
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Speaker 1: at Seattle now, and from 30,000 feet up in the
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Speaker 1: sky looking down, it's pretty similar. One magical playoff run,
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Speaker 1: out of character, little smoke. a few mirrors, and suddenly
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Speaker 1: everyone forgets the rest of the resume. If you look
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Speaker 1: across the board for Sam Donald, yards per attempt or down,
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Speaker 1: passer rating cratering, seven touchdowns, seven interceptions, that is not
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Speaker 1: a quarterback of excellence. That is a 50-50 raffle at
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Speaker 1: the church bingo is what that is. Seven touchdowns, seven interceptions. Remember,
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Speaker 1: Donald led the world in turnovers last year. Just there
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Speaker 1: was some body spray that was used, a really nice cologne,
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Speaker 1: because of the fact that the team from Seattle won
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Speaker 1: a little trophy at the end. It's pretty apparent the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks went out and they bought a house and they
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Speaker 1: didn't have it properly inspected. They saw some professionally staged photos.
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Speaker 1: They got a little excited. And now they're in the
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Speaker 1: house and they're locked in. And they're starting to discover, well,
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Speaker 1: there's some black mold over there. That's not good. That's
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Speaker 1: never good. Black mold's never good. That's a problem. It's
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Speaker 1: behind the drywall. Well, we didn't see that. So this
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Speaker 1: is becoming a franchise-sized headache. Now, a lot of you
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Speaker 1: are in denial. I get it. You've still got the
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Speaker 1: dopamine hit from the Super Bowl win, and that's great.
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Speaker 1: But everyone else is looking around saying, oh, my God,
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Speaker 1: what have you done? Sam Donald's, it's kind of like
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Speaker 1: the old thing. You date, but you don't marry. A
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Speaker 1: lot of fun, but you don't marry. So Seattle is
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Speaker 1: having a come-to-Jesus moment at this point, realizing week by
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Speaker 1: week that a postseason run apparently is not a personality transplant.
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Speaker 1: That ultimately Sam Donald's still the same stiff that he
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Speaker 1: had been, and occasionally he'll have a good game. And
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Speaker 1: he might go out, next time Seattle plays, he might
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Speaker 1: have a huge game. Wouldn't bet on it. It's like
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Speaker 1: you bought a Rolex from a guy wearing a trench
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Speaker 1: coat in the back of a van at a gas station. Well,
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Speaker 1: chances are it's probably not a real Rolex or it's
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Speaker 1: a stolen Rolex. And it's just kind of the way
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Speaker 1: that it is. Just have to deal with that. All right,
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Speaker 1: like to speak, by the way, a reminder. And I'm
20:44
Speaker 1: pretty sure you were unaware of this, but we're going
20:46
Speaker 1: to blow your mind away because there's no time like October.
20:51
Speaker 1: And this is what it's all been for. The World
20:54
Speaker 1: Series is here. It's streaming live on Fox 1. It's
20:57
Speaker 1: the Brewers versus the Rays on baseball's biggest stage. It
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Speaker 1: begins on Friday. Stream it live on Fox 1. There
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Speaker 1: will be a first-time World Series winner. And we can
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Speaker 1: guarantee that. A first-time World Series winner. Because you see
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Speaker 1: how we know that the Brewers have never won and
21:16
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay has never won. So therefore, there will be
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Speaker 1: a first time World Series. It's amazing the math on that.
21:23
Speaker 1: It really, really is good. Really, really is good. Nature
21:27
Speaker 1: Boy writes in, says it will be interesting to see
21:30
Speaker 1: if someone is going to or something is going to
21:33
Speaker 1: happen to the next Rams kicker. Kind of like the
21:37
Speaker 1: drummers in Spinal Tap. Yes, very similar nature, boy. Chip
21:42
Speaker 1: in the Q's writes in, says, A-plus on the Maller monologue.
21:48
Speaker 1: So he says the Titans coach is probably doing damage
21:52
Speaker 1: control in the situation because he's afraid of that crazy you-know-what.
21:57
Speaker 1: I'd be concerned about what he might do, too, considering
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Speaker 1: he's losing millions of dollars and now nobody else will
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Speaker 1: sign him. Who else do we have? The wheelchair quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Writes in. A new account says, what does he say here?
22:13
Speaker 1: He says, you could not wait to bash Sam Darnold. Well,
22:17
Speaker 1: I would argue that I did wait to bash Sam Darnold.
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Speaker 1: I could have bashed him before. And so I disagree
22:23
Speaker 1: with your point that I could not wait. I did wait.
22:26
Speaker 1: It's week seven of the NFL season. I could have
22:29
Speaker 1: done this monologue several weeks ago. I chose not. Curmudgeon Wayne,
22:33
Speaker 1: who's too cheap to buy Malheur Plus... He's a tightwad.
22:37
Speaker 1: He says from Duluth, can you go one night without
22:42
Speaker 1: talking about a single L.A. team? Well, Curmudgeon Wayne and
22:45
Speaker 1: I would if they stopped making news. See what we
22:47
Speaker 1: do here. And I know you're not that smart, so
22:49
Speaker 1: I'll explain it to you like you're five years old.
22:51
Speaker 1: So we come in every day and we talk about
22:53
Speaker 1: the things that are the most interesting in sports. That's
22:56
Speaker 1: kind of the gig. And very rarely, very rarely is
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Speaker 1: it a Minnesota team. Very rarely. Sometimes it is. But
23:04
Speaker 1: the teams in L.A. seem to be doing a lot
23:07
Speaker 1: of stuff that creates headlines and all that. Jason the
23:09
Speaker 1: Diamond Man writes in. He says, Bill Callahan, the coach
23:12
Speaker 1: who tried using John Gruden's playbook in the Super Bowl.
23:16
Speaker 1: Fun times if you aren't a Raider fan. There you go.
23:21
Speaker 1: Enjoyed that. Spock's Weed on the Oregon Trail writes in
23:25
Speaker 1: and says, Ben mentioned this show is radio psychotherapy. Well,
23:29
Speaker 1: I've had this recurring dream about Ferg Dogg. shooting a
23:33
Speaker 1: last-second three with a Robert Salah screen to defeat my team.
23:41
Speaker 1: What do you think that means? That means you should
23:45
Speaker 1: go to a hospital immediately and get some treatment and
23:49
Speaker 1: then sleep it off. Just go home and sleep, and
23:52
Speaker 1: then that's that. Jason writes in, he says, what a
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Speaker 1: win by the people's team. Clips, yeah, Clippers apparently aren't
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Speaker 1: going to lose every game. Some of you think they're
24:03
Speaker 1: going to lose every game and they're done and that's it.
24:06
Speaker 1: And no, apparently not the case. Apparently not the case. 877-99-ON-FOX.
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Speaker 1: If you'd like to be part of the program, that's 877-996-6369.
24:17
Speaker 1: And we'll take some calls here in a moment. Don't forget, though,
24:24
Speaker 1: with the World Series coming up and there's some crazy
24:26
Speaker 1: stuff we'll get to at the rundown. Those of you
24:28
Speaker 1: that have Malheur Plus know what's ahead of us. Those
24:31
Speaker 1: that don't have Mallard Plus, we will be talking a
24:33
Speaker 1: lot of the baseball stuff. There's some interesting things in
24:36
Speaker 1: baseball as the World Series begins. And one owner embarrassing
24:41
Speaker 1: the family legacy with comments that owner made regarding the
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Speaker 1: status of his franchise. Mark writes in from Queens. He
24:51
Speaker 1: lives in Texas now, but his heart is in Queens.
24:53
Speaker 1: He says, bravo, being a Jets fan and putting that loosely.
24:58
Speaker 1: The emotion has been removed from that disgusting organization. But
25:01
Speaker 1: hearing Sam Darnold being likened to discovering black mold, there
25:06
Speaker 1: you go. He says, absolutely fabulous. He thinks somebody wrote that. Well,
25:14
Speaker 1: we have a big staff here and a lot of
25:16
Speaker 1: people that do a lot of work to make me
25:18
Speaker 1: sound good so i'm sure several people probably put that
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Speaker 1: together for me clearly not a burner writes in says
25:24
Speaker 1: speaking of bad coaches do you think dan quinn will
25:28
Speaker 1: be the first on the chopping block maybe he could
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Speaker 1: save his job by agreeing to wear the altuve buzzer
25:35
Speaker 1: hey ump check him for the buzzer to remind him
25:37
Speaker 1: when it's fourth down yeah uh nostradinus has stepped out
25:44
Speaker 1: of hiding And he had no rebuttal, no rebuttal to
25:49
Speaker 1: the Sam Donald commentary other than to send a Christmas thing.
25:57
Speaker 1: He says, coming soon to Ben's Christmas tree. And then
25:59
Speaker 1: it has a Seahawks, I guess that's, oh, is that
26:04
Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl? You can hang that on the tree. Well,
26:06
Speaker 1: that's very nice. That's very, you enjoy that. That looks
26:10
Speaker 1: very breakable. Very, very breakable. All right, let's go to
26:12
Speaker 1: the phones. And let's say, eeny, meeny, miny, moe, let's
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Speaker 1: say hello to Blind Scott, who's in the leadoff chair
26:18
Speaker 1: on the north end of Boston. I got an email
26:22
Speaker 1: from one of our listeners on the Sports Hub in
26:24
Speaker 1: Boston who said on the morning show there, there's apparently
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Speaker 1: someone who's a Blind Scott impersonator.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
26:30
Speaker 1: Is that true? Is this true?
26:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, he listens to the show. He works overnight. You
26:35
Speaker 5: would know who he is. I don't want to give
26:37
Speaker 5: away his identity. He's one of your listeners. He's a
26:39
Speaker 5: guy with a name that's not fake Blind Scott on
26:41
Speaker 5: your show. Dude, so I got a call so he
26:43
Speaker 5: can do my impersonations too, but I feel better now.
26:46
Speaker 5: I'm 1,200 milligrams into my medication. I could get my
26:48
Speaker 5: medication for like three weeks. I was losing my mind.
26:51
Speaker 5: I didn't feel well. Dude, right now, so my roof
26:55
Speaker 5: was damaged during a snowstorm last February, like six feet.
26:58
Speaker 5: So I've really been going.
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Speaker 2: Through it here, dude.
27:01
Speaker 5: So I got a book review to do. I read
27:02
Speaker 5: The Main Hermit. Me and Ben talked about it. I
27:04
Speaker 5: don't recommend the book, but he was a listener of
27:06
Speaker 5: the show. So I've gone through The Main Hermit. I've
27:09
Speaker 5: combed through it. He was listening to the show like
27:11
Speaker 5: in the early 2000s, late 2000s. He would catch it
27:15
Speaker 5: on AM radio. He would stay up all night, and
27:17
Speaker 5: he referenced wacky radio shows. Now, this is the main hermit,
27:21
Speaker 5: Christopher Knight. He's not a real hermit, though, so I
27:24
Speaker 5: don't recommend the book. We need a better hermit than that.
27:26
Speaker 5: He was living close to society, but he was a
27:28
Speaker 5: fan of radio. He listened to Rush Limbaugh, and he
27:31
Speaker 5: didn't actually reference the Ben Maller show, but you can
27:33
Speaker 5: see that he was listening to it. He goes, I
27:35
Speaker 5: was listening to wacky overnight radio.
27:37
Speaker 2: I would stay up all.
27:38
Speaker 5: Night and sleep during the day. The thing I don't
27:40
Speaker 5: like about the main hermit, Christopher Knight.
27:42
Speaker 2: Is he is just like Benny.
27:43
Speaker 5: He has the same. He has an ego like Ben,
27:46
Speaker 5: like a huge ego. And he's intellectual, too. And he's self-educated.
27:50
Speaker 5: So Ben might like it. It's a simple read, you know.
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Speaker 1: Oh, you're saying I'm a self-made man and I'm an intellectual. Interesting.
27:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
27:58
Speaker 5: You have this egotistical, you're egotistical too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Imagine a talk show host who gets paid to talk
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Speaker 1: to himself for four hours, having an ego. I can't
28:06
Speaker 1: imagine that would be the case.
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Speaker 5: All radio people, all radio people are egotistical and they're
28:10
Speaker 5: tortured souls. And I'm like, I'm a huge, I'm a
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Speaker 5: huge fan of radio. Everybody knows I'm the biggest fan
28:15
Speaker 5: of radio and I'm Ben's biggest fan of all time.
28:18
Speaker 5: But like, Right now, the Blind Scott brand has taken off.
28:21
Speaker 5: It's gone to like 50,000 followers online, so I needed
28:24
Speaker 5: some airtime on the fifth hour so I can get
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Speaker 5: my reps in so I can react to emails.
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Speaker 1: Well, you were on the fifth hour, and you said
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Speaker 1: how great it was. It was the greatest thing that
28:32
Speaker 1: ever happened. And then by the end of the call,
28:33
Speaker 1: you said, I've ruined your life.
28:36
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah.
28:37
Speaker 5: Well, that was because I didn't have my medication. Now
28:38
Speaker 5: medication is back on. Actually, I have looked into getting
28:42
Speaker 5: back on my psych meds that.
28:43
Speaker 2: Have been off.
28:44
Speaker 1: Oh, that would be great. That would be wonderful.
28:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, remember they locked me up in the Schizophrenic Institute
28:49
Speaker 5: and tried to break me for 23 days straight? How
28:51
Speaker 5: could I forget?
28:52
Speaker 1: That's one of the great moments in show history. What
28:53
Speaker 1: are you talking about? We were like, what happened to
28:55
Speaker 1: Blind Scott? He's in a mental hospital. That's what happened.
28:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I went to get a guide dog, and
28:59
Speaker 5: then the guide dog goes to this guy who belongs
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Speaker 5: in a mental hospital.
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Speaker 1: Who could possibly think, after spending five minutes with Blind Scott,
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Speaker 1: that you would require a mental hospital? I can't imagine
29:11
Speaker 1: anyone would come to that conclusion. It's rather shocking.
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Speaker 5: Well, the thing is, I was in New York and
29:17
Speaker 5: New Jersey. So you can mask that you're mental there
29:19
Speaker 5: because everyone's a jerk there. So as soon as you
29:20
Speaker 5: get to New York, you know how this is. You
29:22
Speaker 5: just have to start telling people to F off, you know.
29:24
Speaker 5: So eventually they were on to me, you know. The
29:28
Speaker 5: best part is, like, one time I was in New
29:29
Speaker 5: Jersey and I had all these, like, packages that I
29:32
Speaker 5: had someone mail in to me there. And I had, like,
29:34
Speaker 5: a little mail business and everything.
29:36
Speaker 1: Those were the old days.
29:37
Speaker 2: Dude, one more thing, though. Look, we won. need more
29:40
Speaker 2: colors to this show, you know? Like, I was reached
29:43
Speaker 2: out to by other people, and they say, like... We
29:46
Speaker 2: need more, like, off-brand callers, like more Jed Who Fled,
29:49
Speaker 2: more addicts, more homeless people. We need people to be sheltered.
29:53
Speaker 1: These guys keep getting arrested, and they die, and it's
29:57
Speaker 1: hard to keep. The supply chain is short. We keep
30:01
Speaker 1: losing people here to arrest and death. It's a problem.
30:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know me.
30:05
Speaker 5: I'm like, I stand against time. No one's messing with me,
30:09
Speaker 5: even though somebody's running an insurance scam on me right now, dude.
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Speaker 2: This is so scary.
30:14
Speaker 1: I thought you already said the last thing, but you're
30:16
Speaker 1: now on to something else here.
30:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, no heat, no hot water. Well, I do have
30:20
Speaker 5: hot water. I got a new hot water heater this week.
30:22
Speaker 2: I paid cash for it.
30:23
Speaker 5: I got a discount. Dude, the guy, there's an autograph
30:26
Speaker 5: guy that listens to the show. I've sold him over $ 5, 000.
30:29
Speaker 5: My grandmother's autograph.
30:30
Speaker 2: You should have him on.
30:31
Speaker 5: He's from Sports World. Phil, Phil, I think Phil Constantine, dude,
30:34
Speaker 5: there's a wing eating contest tonight for the Sports Hub.
30:37
Speaker 5: It's at Kings in Seaport. Joe Marty's only going to
30:40
Speaker 5: be there for the first half, but Caleb Williams and
30:42
Speaker 5: the Patriots play tonight.
30:43
Speaker 1: The Bears play the Patriots. You've done eight minutes of– well, actually,
30:47
Speaker 1: you've been at 10 minutes of content in about four minutes.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Scott. Blind Scott, everyone, right there, who's clearly medicating,
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Speaker 1: it sounds like, very fast talking. He's learned not to
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Speaker 1: pause over the years. I give Scott credit. Back in
31:02
Speaker 1: the old days, he would pause and then you'd just
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Speaker 1: hang up on him. And right now that's not really
31:07
Speaker 1: the case. He just does not pause. And, yeah, so
31:10
Speaker 1: you get a fine. You get a fine. You get
31:15
Speaker 1: a fine. Oh, yeah, it's fine time if you're an
31:19
Speaker 1: NFL coach. You see this story?
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Speaker 2: No?
31:22
Speaker 1: You did not? You did not see this story? All right, well,
31:24
Speaker 1: it's a bad job by you. So what do Mike Vrabel,
31:28
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni, and Aaron Glenn all have in common? What
31:33
Speaker 1: do they have in common? Do you know? Well, yeah,
31:36
Speaker 1: they're all NFL head coaches. They also all got massive fines,
31:39
Speaker 1: as each was fined $ 250, 000 for inappropriate conduct towards officials.
31:46
Speaker 1: That's $ 750, 000 total. The NFL reviewed the actions of the
31:52
Speaker 1: coaches during the owners' meetings, and there was a report
31:57
Speaker 1: bouncing around that the penalties are suspended and could be
32:02
Speaker 1: rescinded if the coaches demonstrate good behavior. So they essentially said,
32:07
Speaker 1: knock it off. The NFL has not identified whether the
32:11
Speaker 1: fines were from individual confrontations or repeated misconduct on the sidelines, etc., etc., etc.
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Speaker 1: The coaches for the Patriots did get an unsportsmanlike conduct
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Speaker 1: penalty against the Bills a couple weeks back. And Vrabel
32:28
Speaker 1: claimed that he'd used similar language 87 times during his
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Speaker 1: coaching career. Not 88, not 86, 87 times in his career.
32:37
Speaker 1: And he said the officials were overly sensitive. But then
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Speaker 1: he had to apologize because somebody told him to apologize.
32:44
Speaker 1: So there you go. So the NFL, $ 250, 000 coaching fines.
32:49
Speaker 1: Is that legitimate discipline or is that Roger Goodell's version
32:52
Speaker 1: of monopoly money? And where does that money go to?
32:55
Speaker 1: Do they have a big party at the end? And
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Speaker 1: I love the fact that it's delayed. They're like, well,
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Speaker 1: we fine you $ 250, 000. However, if you're on good behavior
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Speaker 1: the rest of the year, we'll rescind the fine. It's
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Speaker 1: like Toys R Us back in the day. There used
33:09
Speaker 1: to be this toy store called Toys R Us, very popular.
33:11
Speaker 1: It went out of business because you evil people on
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Speaker 1: your internet. So the NFL running a layaway program like
33:16
Speaker 1: Toys R Us back in the day, quarter-million-dollar fines. They
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Speaker 1: haven't collected the money. They just announced that they're going
33:23
Speaker 1: to fine these people the money. Everybody gets a gold
33:26
Speaker 1: star if they behave. And that's Roger Goodell's school of
33:30
Speaker 1: pretend punishment. There you go. The financial boogeyman hiding under
33:34
Speaker 1: the bed. I got to tell you, though, if you
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Speaker 1: threatened to find me $ 250, 000, I would be on my
33:39
Speaker 1: best behavior. I would toe the line. I would walk
33:42
Speaker 1: the line. All right, time now for the Who Am
33:44
Speaker 1: I game. This is where we pretend to be somebody else.
33:46
Speaker 1: That's what we call it, the Who Am I game.
33:47
Speaker 1: And here it is. Patriots coach Mike Rabel has won 47%
33:50
Speaker 1: of his 40 games as a road underdog. Just straight up,
33:59
Speaker 1: he's 19-21, and it's a 475 winning percentage. I'm the
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Speaker 1: only NFL head coach with more games as a road
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Speaker 1: underdog and a better winning percentage. Who am I? Again,
34:13
Speaker 1: Patriots coach Mike Vrabel's won over 47% of his 40
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Speaker 1: games as a road underdog. 19-21 straight up. I'm the
34:21
Speaker 1: only NFL head coach with more games as a road
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Speaker 1: underdog and a better winning percentage. Who am I? That's
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Speaker 1: the question, the answer. We'll get to it. We will
34:31
Speaker 1: do it next.
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Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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34:48
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35:11
Speaker 1: A reminder, it's big. What is it? What are you
35:16
Speaker 1: talking about? What is big? Well, there's no time like October,
35:19
Speaker 1: and that is what it's all been for. This is it.
35:23
Speaker 1: This is what it's all been for. The World Series.
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Speaker 1: You smell that? It's here. Streaming live on Fox 1.
35:29
Speaker 1: It's the Brewers versus the Rays on baseball's biggest stage.
35:33
Speaker 1: It starts on Friday. Stream it live on Fox 1.
35:37
Speaker 1: The Miz will get the ball for the Brewers in
35:39
Speaker 1: Game 1. one of the few star players in this
35:43
Speaker 1: particular series, and we wonder how long will it take
35:47
Speaker 1: Junior Caminero to round the bases. Can he reach a
35:51
Speaker 1: full three minutes to get around the bases? Inquiring minds
35:55
Speaker 1: would like to know. Inquiring minds would like to know.
35:58
Speaker 1: All right, anyway, we will pay off the Who Am
36:02
Speaker 1: I game question. We'll do that right now. Patriots coach
36:04
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel. has won over 47% of his... That's Mike Vrabel.
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Speaker 1: Very loud, by the way. Mike Vrabel has won 47%
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Speaker 1: of his 40 games as a road underdog, going 19-21
36:17
Speaker 1: straight up. I am the only NFL coach with more
36:20
Speaker 1: games as a road underdog and a better winning percentage.
36:24
Speaker 4: Who?
36:24
Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer?
36:28
Speaker 1: And let's see, does anyone in the Mallard Militia know
36:31
Speaker 1: the answer? We go to the hoi polloi here. Sherm Feller.
36:36
Speaker 1: From Alf the Alien O'Piner. Red Sox Hall of Famer.
36:42
Speaker 1: Red Sox Radio Hall of Famer. Kevin O'Connell from Femi.
36:45
Speaker 1: The top Uber East driver there in the Twin Cities.
36:48
Speaker 1: Fergie E. Newman from Malapropka. Very nice use of A.I.,
36:53
Speaker 1: Fred Flintstone, guest by Spock's Weed. Who else? Page down.
36:58
Speaker 1: Moon Unit Zappa from Jerry in a Jar. Freddy Kitchens
37:02
Speaker 1: tossed out by Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Big Lou, he's
37:07
Speaker 1: on number two. Going with Doug Christie. Who else do
37:11
Speaker 1: we have? Page down. Blind Scott's team of psychiatrists from
37:15
Speaker 1: Truck Stop Fungus in his tighty-whities eating chili at a
37:18
Speaker 1: truck stop somewhere in the backwoods of Arkansas. Lindy Infante
37:23
Speaker 1: from Rich. That's his answer. George Hallis, guessed by Larry D.
37:27
Speaker 1: Biggie Smalls from Steelers Nasty. Yosemite Sam, a classic from
37:32
Speaker 1: Eileen in San Francisco. Detective Frank Drebin from Keb Atomic
37:38
Speaker 1: in Alaska. The great Bob Euchre. Must be in the
37:42
Speaker 1: front row from Preller. Who else do we have? Diana
37:44
Speaker 1: Russini from Not Blind Austin. What say you, Lorena? Austin Butler.
37:51
Speaker 1: Is it Austin Butler? The correct answer, he's a man
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Speaker 1: known as Big Rad. That would be none other than
37:59
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. Andy Reid of Kansas City fame.