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Hour 2 - Ram, Crackle, Pop · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Body blow, body blow, body blow. It's hour number two.
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of the Ben Maller Show. Piping hot here
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  Speaker 1: in hour number two. We start out in La La Land.
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  Speaker 1: And a big injury does Rams coach Sean McVay deserve
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  Speaker 1: to be called out, called out for his decision to
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  Speaker 1: keep Puka Nakua in the game late. The dumb people
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  Speaker 1: on social media are very upset with Sean McVay as
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  Speaker 1: Puka will be out for a while. Are the Rams
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  Speaker 1: porked without Puka Nakua for possibly the next month? That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem good. We'll talk about that. And how do
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  Speaker 1: you read 49er coach Kyle Shanahan's reaction to the NFL
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  Speaker 1: reinstating the malcontent wide receiver Brandon Iook. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: all that and more right about now from here, there,
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  Speaker 1: and everywhere, even out in the boondocks. It's hour number two.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can ram it all day, you can ram
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  Speaker 1: it all night, you can even ram the snap, crackle, pop.
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  Speaker 1: you want to dogpile on the Minnesota Vikings, who are frauds,
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  Speaker 1: let's call it like it is. It's a fraudulent team.
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  Speaker 1: You look at key performance indicators, and my God, every
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  Speaker 1: performance indicator involving the offense is just God-awful. But that's
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  Speaker 1: not what we're here to talk about. Our lead this
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  Speaker 1: hour from Los Angeles, where big injury news in the
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  Speaker 1: hood in Englewood and up to no good. If you
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  Speaker 1: have not heard, perhaps not. Based on my email, my inbox,
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  Speaker 1: a number of you are taking great joy out of this.
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  Speaker 1: Some serious schadenfreude. Have your fun. It's all good. Star
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver Puka Nakua. Down for the count, it would appear.
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  Speaker 1: Puka Nikua expected to miss several weeks of game time.
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  Speaker 1: This after an MRI, MRI revealed an MCL and PCL.
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  Speaker 1: It's all initials. MCL and PCL sprain in his right knee. What? Whoa.
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  Speaker 1: Nikua also has turf toe, which sounds pretty harmless. Turf
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  Speaker 1: toe sounds pretty harmless. It's not. It's bad. It's bad.
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  Speaker 1: People have lost their careers because of extreme turf toe. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so he's got the turf toe. He's got the this thing,
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  Speaker 1: the that thing, the doohickeys all messed up, the MCL,
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  Speaker 1: the PCL, and all that. And we are told he
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  Speaker 1: will be going on injured reserve. Yikes. Now, Sean McVay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that is still the Rams coach, soon to
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  Speaker 1: be Amazon's Sean McVay. But Sean McVay said at least
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  Speaker 1: a month later, that Nakua will be out at least
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  Speaker 1: a month. And he was pressed for a timeline on
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  Speaker 1: when he could possibly return. Nakua suffering the injury. This
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  Speaker 1: is the part of the story that's the story where
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, my God. So Nakua suffered the injury
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  Speaker 1: while blocking on the Rams' final offensive snap. in the
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  Speaker 1: victory over the Washington football team on Sunday. That's the
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  Speaker 1: part of the story where we're like, well, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams seemingly had the game in a good position.
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  Speaker 1: What was Puka doing after? This, of course, led to
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  Speaker 1: criticism of head coach Sean McVay. What are you doing
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  Speaker 1: leaving Puka Nakua in the game? Have you lost your
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  Speaker 1: bloody mind? Your bloody roo? I'm a doctor. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so that is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. for the panel, which you are part of.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is. Does Rams coach Sean McVay deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be called out for his decision? to keep Puka Nakua
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  Speaker 1: in the game late. So I've got Bounce House, Grand Canyon,
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  Speaker 1: and Dairy Queen. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to pull out all
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  Speaker 1: the stops. Not some of the stops. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to pull out all the stops. So number.
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  Speaker 2: One!
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  Speaker 1: Number one!
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  Speaker 3: Number one!
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  Speaker 4: Number one!
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  Speaker 1: Number one!
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  Speaker 4: Number one!
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  Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Seriously, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Are we playing professional football, or is this another example
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  Speaker 1: of a daycare operation? And I bring this up because,
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  Speaker 1: yet again, we are reminded that the social media platforms
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  Speaker 1: are both good and bad. You have given a voice
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  Speaker 1: to dumb people on social media. You do not have
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  Speaker 1: to listen to dumb people, but you've given them a voice.
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  Speaker 1: You've given them a megaphone. I'm talking about the dumbest
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  Speaker 1: of the dumb. And the people complaining, oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: what was McVay doing? What was he doing, McVay, leaving
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  Speaker 1: Puka to coo in the game? Come on. The outrage
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  Speaker 1: industrial complex, which I guess I'm part of doing a
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  Speaker 1: talk show, but I'm not that part of it. The
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  Speaker 1: outrage industrial complex has discovered another victim. Common sense, right
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  Speaker 1: out the window. Now, I looked it up. I thought
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  Speaker 1: maybe I was wrong. It turns out I'm right. Sean
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  Speaker 1: McVay was hired as a football coach for for the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: As a football coach, he was not hired as the
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  Speaker 1: director of risk management for State Farm Insurance. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: coach scared. Can't do it. Cannot coach scared. It's the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: It's the National Football League, not the National Fear League,
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  Speaker 1: which some of you nitwits seem to think it is.
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  Speaker 1: And look, it obviously backfired. It did. Puka Deku's going
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  Speaker 1: to be out for a month. At least a month.
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  Speaker 1: It backfired spectacularly. However, it was the right call. It
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  Speaker 1: was the right call. This is a classic case of
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  Speaker 1: confusing a bad result with a bad decision. It was
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  Speaker 1: not a bad decision. It was fine. The injury itself
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  Speaker 1: does not make this the wrong decision. It does not.
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  Speaker 1: That is intellectual dishonesty is what it is involving hindsight.
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  Speaker 1: So let's call it what it is. And the critics
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  Speaker 1: who are out there, the dumbest of the dumb, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe McVay would leave Puka Naku in the
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  Speaker 1: game and all this stuff. What, are we supposed to
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  Speaker 1: play these games in a giant inflatable bounce house? Get
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  Speaker 1: rid of all the stadiums. Giant bounce houses. Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy.
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  Speaker 1: Let's play NFL football in bounce houses. That's what we
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  Speaker 1: ought to do. And this is a throwback to the
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  Speaker 1: pandemic because it still drives me nuts today. Out of
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  Speaker 1: an abundance of caution. Shove it up your tuckus. Abundance
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  Speaker 1: of caution. Those are the five most dangerous words in
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  Speaker 1: modern sports. Out of an abundance of caution. You keep
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  Speaker 1: going down that rabbit hole. And many of you love
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  Speaker 1: that rabbit hole. You keep going down that rabbit hole
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  Speaker 1: of precaution. And eventually, your product starts to grow mold.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't believe me, go ask the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: which is an unwatchable product during the regular season, much
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  Speaker 1: of it. And they go by the mantra, out of
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  Speaker 1: an abundance of caution, no back-to-backs. Star players can't be
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  Speaker 1: expected to play back-to-back. Because, you know, the regular person
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  Speaker 1: can't work back-to-back.
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  Speaker 3: Got it?
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  Speaker 1: Forbid, but out of an abundance of caution. That what
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  Speaker 1: you want in your football? Okay. Hope you enjoy that.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know how that goes. All right. Now, page two.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the big picture now. And here it is.
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  Speaker 1: The question, are the Rams absolutely porked? Without Puka Nakua,
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  Speaker 1: let's assume he's only out for a month. I'm always
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  Speaker 1: skeptical of these injury things because typically it's a lot longer.
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  Speaker 1: So are the Rams porked without Puka Nakua for the
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  Speaker 1: next month? So I'm going no on this. This should
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  Speaker 1: not be the end of the Rams season. It should not. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you the patient is currently being wheeled
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  Speaker 1: into intensive care in a wheelchair, which is not which
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  Speaker 1: is not great. The Rams medical report, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the Rams medical report, it's starting to look like
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  Speaker 1: the menu over at the Cheesecake Factory. It just keeps
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  Speaker 1: going and going and going. When I go to Delicatessence
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  Speaker 1: or the Cheesecake Factory, I'm always wondering what item never
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  Speaker 1: gets ordered. There must be stuff on there that no
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  Speaker 1: one ever orders. What do they do with it? Why
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  Speaker 1: is it on there? Like these delicatessens, the delis, big,
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  Speaker 1: massive menus too. A lot of them. But Cheesecake Factory,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. Anyway, the Rams this season are living
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  Speaker 1: the football version of Murphy's Law. Anything that can go
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  Speaker 1: wrong eventually will go wrong. So the Rams played most
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  Speaker 1: of the season without their defensive MVP, Miles Garrett. Now
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  Speaker 1: they're going to play without their offensive game changer in
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  Speaker 1: Puka Nakua. So he'll be out. Devontae Adams is already
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  Speaker 1: in mothballs. He's out probably for the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 1: And so you look at the depth chart for the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's receiving core looks like the clearance aisle over
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  Speaker 1: at Big Lots. It's not that impressive. Now they're not dead, though.
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  Speaker 1: I maintain, despite the Puka Nakua injury, the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: not dead. However, the margin for error... Just went from
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  Speaker 1: a comfortable king-sized mattress. All of a sudden now it's
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  Speaker 1: a tightrope over the Grand Canyon and there is no
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  Speaker 1: safety net. Watch out for the donkey below. Good luck.
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  Speaker 1: So Sean McVay, I believe in McVay. I think he
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  Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. And that's an outrageous take. He's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be the offensive wizard, Sean McVay and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And here we go, buddy. Abracadabra. Let's see what you got.
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  Speaker 1: And go down to the Sorcerer's Workshop there and figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. Now, even if the Rams, even if the
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  Speaker 1: Rams do not add any reinforcements, as we're doing this
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  Speaker 1: in real time, the trade deadline is hours away. The
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  Speaker 1: whole franchise has to shift now. The identity of the
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  Speaker 1: Rams has to shift for this to work. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to use some psychobabble. But the Rams are going to
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  Speaker 1: have to do a 180. They're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: go from what was supposed to be a really good
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  Speaker 1: offensive team, which, by the way, has not been a
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  Speaker 1: good offensive team this year. They've been okay. They've been good.
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  Speaker 1: And they have to now lean into Miles Garrett and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald anchoring that Rams defense. And the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: going to have to win ugly. Ugly. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: a double bagger. They've got to win every game like
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  Speaker 1: a double bagger. without Pukunuku until he returns. And you
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  Speaker 1: have some tough games. Now, they play the Cardinals. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like Gardner Minshew's going to be out for the season,
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  Speaker 1: so they'll be playing a rookie at quarterback there in Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: That should be a win. You've already lost to the Cardinals, though,
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  Speaker 1: so who knows? And then you've got the Packers, the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: and the 49ers. That does not look promising up ahead.
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  Speaker 1: So really for this to work, the Rams have to
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  Speaker 1: upset one of those three. Beat the Cardinals and win
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  Speaker 1: one of those three. And then you're treading water until
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  Speaker 1: Puka Nakua comes back. You also have a bye week
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  Speaker 1: in there. So you're just going to have to play
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  Speaker 1: meat grinder football is what you're going to have to do.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really what the Rams have been doing most
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  Speaker 1: of the time. They haven't scored a lot of style
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  Speaker 1: points in these games. The scoreboard, I looked up at
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  Speaker 1: the scoreboard, and also the standings, they do not grade
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  Speaker 1: on aesthetics. They don't give you extra credit because you
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  Speaker 1: look really sexy and you blew a team out. That's
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  Speaker 1: not how that works. All right, final point. To the
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  Speaker 1: Bay Area we go. He's back! Well, not really, but
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  Speaker 1: kind of. Brandon Ayuk has done the impossible, the unimaginable.
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  Speaker 1: And for the moment, as we're doing this in real time,
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  Speaker 1: he has been officially reinstated by the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: The guy that went AWOL, had a conniption fit, cost
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  Speaker 1: himself millions of dollars, and has been persona non grata
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  Speaker 1: from the NFL for a couple of years. He's back. However,
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  Speaker 1: we looked, and the 49ers' marriage remains highly toxic. It's
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  Speaker 1: a toxic relationship. Coach Kyle Shanahan... says that essentially he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't care less about the news that Brandon Iook is back, declaring, quote,
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  Speaker 1: it means absolutely nothing to our team. Close quote. Dismissed.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Iook returning, called it administrative stuff. The San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: football team gets a two-game roster exemption, which does sound
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  Speaker 1: like administrative stuff. I'll have to check with Eileen. in
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco for information on that. But anyway, it's a
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  Speaker 1: two-game roster exemption through November 23rd. They have that time
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  Speaker 1: to either trade or release or retain the player. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to trade him. The trade deadline is this afternoon. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Kerfooey!
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  Speaker 1: Got to make a trade. The receiver claims, player Brandon Iyok,
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  Speaker 1: that he is fully healthy. Of course, it took two years.
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  Speaker 1: He had a knee injury in 2024. His agent, the
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  Speaker 1: most powerful agent in the NFL, Drew Rosenhaus, is trying
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  Speaker 1: to massage a happy ending. It's not going so well
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  Speaker 1: right now. All right, here's the question. How do you
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  Speaker 1: read 49er coach Kyle Shanahan and his reaction to the
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  Speaker 1: NFL reinstating Brandon Iyok. So what is your read on
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  Speaker 1: the 49ers head coach, Kyle Shanahan, really good at driving
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  Speaker 1: a Tesla in the Bay Area, his reaction to the
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  Speaker 1: NFL reinstating wide receiver Brandon Iyok? So the reaction, the
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  Speaker 1: way I read the body language and the comments, the
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  Speaker 1: words of Shanahan, it's rather obvious. Brandon Ioke is Dunsky's.
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  Speaker 1: It's over. O-V-E-R, over. Shanahan went down to Dairy Queen,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, can I get a couple of scoops
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  Speaker 1: of indifference? Sure, we'll give you a couple scoops of indifference.
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  Speaker 1: You want any sprinkles? No, I don't need any sprinkles.
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  Speaker 1: You want some syrup? We got some chocolate. There's some
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  Speaker 1: caramel over there. No, I don't need that. I just
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  Speaker 1: want two scoops of indifference. Okay, we'll give you the
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  Speaker 1: two scoops of indifference. Fine. Enjoy. Even Stevie Meatballs can
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  Speaker 1: see this, and he's blind. The 49ers have already broken
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  Speaker 1: up with Brandon Iook. Apparently nobody told him or they
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  Speaker 1: told him and he didn't believe it. He showed up.
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  Speaker 1: And after going dogged, that is the dereliction of duties, dogged,
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  Speaker 1: dereliction of duties, Iook, it is done. He can't come back.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't just burn the bridge when you do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like Anthony Richardson in Indianapolis. He quit
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  Speaker 1: on the team. He took himself out of the game.
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  Speaker 1: That is an unforgivable sin. Well, what Brandon Iok did
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco or Santa Clara, where they play, is
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. The same exact thing. Now, if he
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  Speaker 1: had just played up the fact that, oh, I got
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  Speaker 1: hurt because of the electrical substation, then they would have
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  Speaker 1: put pity on him and all that stuff. But he
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  Speaker 1: didn't do that. He just vanished and stopped returning phone
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  Speaker 1: calls and all that. So he didn't just burn the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: He went out and bought a couple gallons of unleaded gasoline.
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  Speaker 1: He poured it all over, and then he lit it,
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  Speaker 1: and then sang, burn, baby, burn, is what he sang.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he did. And so now technically Brandon Iyok
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  Speaker 1: is back in the NFL for the moment. And he
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: finds Kyle Shanahan has already packed up all of his
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  Speaker 1: belongings and put them in a cardboard box right outside
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  Speaker 1: the facility. They also changed the access code to the
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  Speaker 1: 49er facility there. So good luck on that. And the
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  Speaker 1: reunion with all the warmth of a nice divorce court episode.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that show? Is that still on? Divorce Court? Used
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  Speaker 1: to be one of those judge shows on TV. I
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: used to love that show. I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 1: still on or not, but it was on for a while.
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  Speaker 1: It was entertaining. And then you found out that they
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  Speaker 1: got paid either way. It was a little inside divorce
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  Speaker 1: court stuff. Anyway, the agent, Drew Rosenhaus, he can bring
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  Speaker 1: a bag. And in the bag, he can have, over here,
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  Speaker 1: he can have smelling salts. He can have a defibrillator,
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  Speaker 1: and he can bring the entire... Not in the back,
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  Speaker 1: because it won't fit in the back. He can bring
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  Speaker 1: the entire Ohio State marching band, which is not just
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a band. The Ohio State marching band. The best damn
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: band in the land, they like to say. They're the
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: ones that dot the I. And it still won't matter.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: It will not matter in the end. This relationship is
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: not coming back. It ain't coming back. It's a matter
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: of when... Likely today, the 49ers will take pennies on
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the dollar. Conditional draft pick, I would imagine. Couple of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: conditional draft picks and all that for Brandon Ayuk. Of course,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: there's the $ 13 million check that supposedly, I saw some
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: stories over the weekend, they want $ 13 million from Ayuk.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Either way, he's polaxed in terms of the 49ers. And
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: for him, you say, oh man, there's the guy. Tie
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: these stories together. Puka Nakua Hurd. And not that Brandon
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Iyok is dependable. When he's played, he's been somewhat productive.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: That would be a guy the Rams, if they get him,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: holy crap, and he's motivated and in shape and able
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: to play, that would be the perfect addition for the Rams.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I would think the 49ers would rather trade that man,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Brandon Iyok, to Timbuktu or Walla Walla Washington before they
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: send him to to the Rams. So you can go
• 20:31
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• 20:33
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• 20:42
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• 20:44
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• 20:47
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• 20:47
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• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Straight ahead, though, our friend Billy from Hollywood, Florida will
• 20:57
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• 20:59
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• 21:01
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• 21:03
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• 21:05
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• 21:22
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• 21:24
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• 21:28
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• 21:30
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• 21:33
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• 21:36
  Speaker 3: No.
• 21:37
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• 21:41
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• 21:43
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• 21:43
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• 21:45
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• 21:48
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• 21:51
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• 21:54
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• 21:56
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• 21:57
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• 21:59
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• 22:06
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• 22:11
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• 22:20
  Speaker 1: We continue on. Moving forward. The Minnesota Vikings offense not
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: moving forward at all. And the Rams, without Puka Nakua,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: he gone. At least for a month, if not longer.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Survival at this particular point. And we are moments away
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: from our friend Billy being in here. Hashtag ask a
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: weed man. Hashtag ask a weed man. As Billy will
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: be in the house, a.k.a. Weed Man Hippie from South Florida.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Are you a pothead? Made a whole cottage industry out
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: of that. Could have made a fortune, too, if he'd
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: gotten in on that early. Would have made a killing.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: He did not. It's a bad job by him. It's
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: an even worse job by Alf the Alien O'Piner, who's
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: already answering the Insta trivia before we even asked it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Almost like that's an automated message. Bad job by you, Alf.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: If you want to be part of this with our
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: friend Billy, 877-99 on Fox, also on X, at Ben Maller.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: That is at Ben Maller if you'd like to be
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: part of the live program. And say hello to Lorena,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: FSR Tech Queen. Hi, Ben. And right over there, Kuba Lubez,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan. Your comments can
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and will be used against you in the court of
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: sports radio, so please act accordingly. All right. And without
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: further ado, without further ado. A man who could not
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: keep a job because he couldn't show up. But here,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: he almost never misses an appearance, an opportunity to entertain
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the masses. A born entertainer from Hollywood, Florida. The one
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: and only Weed Man Hippie. Hello, Weed Man.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Hey, man, I love you.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Look at that. There he is right there, Weed Man.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: This is going to be the week you fix the world,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Weed Man, right?
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: When's the last time you watched a sporting event?
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: A while ago.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Seriously, what's the last game you watched? Was it the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl?
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe. No, I watched games sometimes.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I don't believe you. I think you just watch YouTube
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: videos and what else do you watch? You have those
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: like Russian websites you're on there watching the stuff.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Just YouTube now.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Just YouTube, really? Yeah. Interesting. What happened to all the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: other websites that you used to be on?
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, anyway, we have questions for you. Are
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: you ready to answer these questions truthfully and honestly?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: All right. To the best of your abilities. No opening statement.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: You're just ready to jump right in.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: All right. First up is Reggie from Detroit. Reggie is
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: a regular on the Fifth Hour podcast that I do.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: He always sends.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Reggie on the Fifth Hour this week.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll put you on. Who knows? Anyway, Reggie from
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Detroit says he wants to know, Weed Man, do you
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: have a tattoo?
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: No, absolutely not.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: All right. And he says, follow-up, bad news for you,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Weed Man. Chipotle is giving away free food to anyone
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: with a tattoo. So maybe you should go out and
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: get a tattoo before Friday. I guess the promotion is
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: for Friday the 13th, which is, by the way, this
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Friday is Friday the 13th, so... I got a Friday
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the 13th tattoo. I don't think you have to have
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a Friday the 13th tattoo, but supposedly it's the promotion.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Let me see what the promotion is here.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: It's usually a small tattoo that's $ 13.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: But you have to pick it out of their book. Oh,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: is that? Oh, okay. Oh, really? You've heard about this
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: promotion before?
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. I already got one.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: I have a black cat.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: What kind of tattoo do you have?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I have a black cat and its legs have the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: number 13 in it. Is it a real tattoo or
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: is it like a stick-on tattoo? I got only real ones, Ben. Really?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: It's a real tattoo?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: It's a real one.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Wow. And so every year you get a free piece
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: of food at the participating restaurants? I just saw that
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: this year. I haven't seen that before. It says the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: buy one, get one promotion. It runs from 3 to
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: 4 p.m. At Chipotle, right? Yeah, 3 to 4 p.m.,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: one hour. That's it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: Do you have to show your tattoo?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: What if you just walk in and say it's in
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: a private spot?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good point.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Look at that.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Lisa, always with those interesting questions. It says, customers simply
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: need to show up with a tattoo to qualify. They
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: don't need to have... How about this? Weed Man, here
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: we go. Good job by Reggie. You don't need to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: have permanent ink to participate. How about that?
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Get one of those henna tattoos. You're good, Weed Man. Oh,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: that's an idea. Yeah. Absolutely there. Even designs that says, oh,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: even better, drawn onto the skin will count towards the promotion. Oh, good.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: You can just take a ballpoint pen and just give
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: yourself a tattoo.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: We may draw a ball on your arm. Go in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: there and get your free food, dude. Come on.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Is there one near you? I don't know.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Cheesecake factory was everywhere. It was in South.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: They're not giving free cheesecake.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Stop. That's funny. All right. What else? That was a
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: good question by Reggie. What else do we have? Let's
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: see here. Page down. Page down. Alf the Alien O'Piner says,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: did you go shopping for discounted candy after Halloween?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: No, Al, no.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: That's a bad job. Weed Man, everyone knows the day
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: after Valentine's Day, the day after Halloween, that's when you
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: get all the cheap candy, the day after. That's it.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog writes in from the winter wonderland of Fullerton.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: He says, hey, Weed Man, do you like the taste
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: of fondant? Of what? Fondant.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that is.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. What do you think fondant is? Cheese. Well,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: it does sound like it would be cheese.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: It does.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: It's not. It's on a cake. It's cheese or chocolate.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't really taste like anything. It's what they make.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: You know those designer cakes, Weed Man? They have the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: really exotic logos on them, and they look really beautiful.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: They don't look like they're baked. You know what I'm
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: talking about?
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Like birthday cakes?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like next level birthday cakes where they have
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: really nice art on there and it's really pretty and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: it looks like it.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: It's like sugar and gelatin. Yeah, it's on it. Now,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: according to Fergdog, most baking judges say it does not
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: taste good. But you don't even know what we're talking about, right?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: You have no idea.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: No, no idea.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: All right. We will move on from that. Bozo, the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: district attorney, writes in.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, total clown.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Every week he loves Bozo. I love him. He says,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: tomorrow coming up Veterans Day, did you get drafted for Vietnam?
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Would you have gone if you had been? And how
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: do you think?
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: No, you know, I was three years too young.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: You were a little too young. And how do you
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: think the military would have changed you either? I like that.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, I could not have gone to the military. That's
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: You would not have lasted. Imagine a weed man in
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: boot camp. Can you imagine a boot camp? Unbelievable. They
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: don't allow weed at boot camp, Ben. He wouldn't survive.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: That's true. Technically, it's allowed. But what happens behind the scenes,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know. King Rory writes and says, who would
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: make a better White House press secretary, Dana White or
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Weed Man Hippie?
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Me, definitely me. That would be great.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: What would your strategy be dealing with hostile media?
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I'd come right at them.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: You'd attack them?
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I can't believe Donald Trump is president. I used to
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: go to his casinos.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Coop's checking his bingo card right now. We got two things.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: We got the Bozo. We got the Trump. Hey, by
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the way, there's a store down the street. You can
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: buy weed, Weedman. You know that?
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: All right. Bingo. I'm calling bingo. I win.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: I win.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I win. All right. What else do we have? Let's see.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Page down. I can't read that. Larry from Nashville writes in.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: He says, hey, Weedman, what do you think of the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: THC vapes? That's from Larry. No, no, no.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: You just got to get weed. Those vapes don't really
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: work that well.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: You're a purist. You don't want to go down there.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's see here. Rob in Vegas says, Hey,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Weed Man, what did you do with the money I
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: sent you to meet Koopa Loop?
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? Nobody sent me any money.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Send me some money. All right.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: There's one other box that you haven't mentioned, Weed Man.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: There's somebody that you usually mention on these appearances. You
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: haven't mentioned that.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Well, Torito should send me some food. He hasn't sent
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: me food in a really long time.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: All right. No, no, bro.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Since the last time I told you, like months ago.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: No, it hasn't been months.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, send me a steak and baked potato like
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: you did that time.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: What's the magic word, Weed Man?
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Weed.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, right. Lisa, we got to teach him manners, Lisa.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Me and you are going to teach him manners, okay?
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: We're going to work on that. Please and thank you. Yes, exactly.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Please and thank you. Very important.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Please and thank you. That big potato and that steak
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: was great.
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: Attitude and gratitude, baby.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: That's right. It's very important there, Weedman. Absolutely. All right.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Let's see. What else here? Oh, boy. This is a
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: good one. This is from they did not sign their name.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: So I did not know who to give credit to.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: He wanted this. I assume it's a dude wanted to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: get weed man's opinion on the Canadian couple who claim
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: that they were being evicted for farting too much.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: No way. No way.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Right? I tend to agree with you, right? That's impossible.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: That's definitely impossible.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: No way that happens. Yeah, this is out of Toronto.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I guess this can't be real, right? I mean, I
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: know the story's out there, but it's got to be fake.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: You can't hear that from outside.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: Well, that could be under noise pollution.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: But it could never be allowed.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Never.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: But how much would you have to fart for that
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: to really affect the other people in the building? You
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying?
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: It's totally impossible. No way that happens.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: So you're saying no on that. Very good. I got you.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, listen, any other thoughts here, Weed Man?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Any other thoughts you'd like to share with the class
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: here before we move on? Anything at all?
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: No, we just have to change the world.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: No more fighting. No more war.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: No more hatred.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: And why doesn't everybody speak the same language? That's ridiculous. Why?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of languages in the world. That's why.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: But why?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Everybody should speak the same language.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Well, what if they said, I think more people speak
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Mandarin Chinese than any other language. So should we have
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: to learn Mandarin Chinese?
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: No. Good point, man.
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: No?
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Okay. I got you.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: And how is, if that was ever going to happen,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: that $ 5, 000 is going to go to $ 300 million? You
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: know how much money that is?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Well, that's not going to happen. Don't worry about that.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: The election did not go the way of the presidency.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, it didn't. But what comes after a trillion?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: A trillion and one. I don't have to worry about that,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Weed Man. I'm not ever going to see that coming.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: I think it was going to be Monopoly money.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: I have a quick thought.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, here's a quick thought from Lisa. Yes, Lisa.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Okay, a couple of things really quick.
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: Leading up to Thanksgiving, everyone should start planking where you
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: hold your body weight. And this 61-year-old, her name is
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: Donna Wild.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: She's a grandmother.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: 61-year-old grandmother can hold a plank for five hours straight.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Wow. No way.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Weed men. Do you do planking, weed men? Are you
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: a planker?
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: That sounds impossible.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: You got to be a plankster. Anyway, leading up to Thanksgiving,
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: even if you can't hold your body weight, you can
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: hold it against a wall. You start with one second.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: You don't need a gym. It's a weight-bearing exercise. And
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: it's really important that everyone is healthy for Thanksgiving.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: There you go. Lisa's in great shape. Oh, yeah, that's
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: her business, right? That's her world, absolutely. All right, well, Lisa,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: thank you so much. Appreciate that. Weed Man as well.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: You guys have a good week, and maybe we'll hit
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: you up. All right, big fan. There you go. There's
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Weed Man. We'll hit him up for the mailbag this weekend.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Who knows? All right, it is the Ben Maller Show.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: We have Maller to the third degree straight ahead. We'll
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: get to these calls, I promise. I see a couple
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: of the legends lined up on deck here. And I'm
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: sure they're excited to talk on the air. We'll get
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: them on at some point. Time now for the Insta Trivia, though.
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  Speaker 1: According to the NFL's next-gen stats, Blank leads all quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: with the most passing yards lost because of dropped passes
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  Speaker 1: this season. In fact, this quarterback has lost 269 yards
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  Speaker 1: on 11 dropped passes by his wide receivers. That is
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the Insta Trivia. The answer. We'll get to it, and
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• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Time now for the payoff on the Insta trivia. And
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  Speaker 1: here it is. According to NFL Next Gen Stats, Blank
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  Speaker 1: leads all quarterbacks with the most passing yards lost to
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  Speaker 1: drop passes this season. 269 yards lost because of incompetence.
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  Speaker 1: Femi going with Cam Ward as his answer. The Miz
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  Speaker 1: from JT the Wingman. The great Gabe Kaplan. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: Cotter from Alf the Alien Opiner. Macho Man Randy Savage
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  Speaker 1: from Mediocre Kabuki. That's not bad. What else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Keith Ocho Texto says, Jordan Love via Matthew Golden. Old
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  Speaker 1: McDonald had a farm. E-I-E-I-O from Not a Burner. Page down.
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  Speaker 1: I can't read that. Let's see. What do we got here?
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  Speaker 1: Tammy's listening on the iHeart app. Thank you for that, Tammy,
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have an answer, Lorena? It's obviously Dak Prescott.
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  Speaker 6: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: It is none other than Drake Mays. Of the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots, Aaron Rodgers second, Gino Smith third, Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: is number four. Here we go.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. How about that? Here we go. Here
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  Speaker 1: we go.
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  Speaker 4: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 1: Or shizzle. All right, Kubalu, what do we got?
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  Speaker 2: After this past weekend, the odds for Jordan Love to
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  Speaker 2: win NFL MVP have dramatically improved. Josh Allen and Joe
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Burrow are the co-favorites, then Brock Purdy, then Love. Who
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  Speaker 2: do you like for MVP so far this season?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so no one has established themselves as clearly
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  Speaker 1: the MVP. If you look at based on the offensive production,
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  Speaker 1: it's Josh Allen and Joe Burrow. They should be the
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  Speaker 1: top two. I think you said they are the top.
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  Speaker 1: Is that correct? They are the top. They deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be the top two. Those are the top two offensive
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  Speaker 1: teams in the NFL. This is going to come down
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  Speaker 1: to the stretch, Koopa Loop. Gun to the head right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Josh Allen. Next. Well, it's official.
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  Speaker 2: We knew it was going to happen, but ESPN and
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: College Football have announced struck a deal to expand the
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: college football playoff to 24 teams.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think this is going to ruin college football? No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to ruin college football. It's just not
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  Speaker 1: going to be that interesting. We're going to get a
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: lot of crappy matchups, mismatch, blowout games. Once in a
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: blue moon, one of these suck bag schools will win.
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  Speaker 1: But most of the time, it's going to be games
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  Speaker 1: that are not worth watching. They're non-competitive. That sucks. That's
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  Speaker 1: not good. Next.
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  Speaker 2: The Cavaliers made it to the Eastern Conference Finals last year,
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  Speaker 2: but so far this year, they're kind of meh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think their window has already passed? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they ever had a window. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that was legitimate. No, I don't think it was legitimate
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  Speaker 1: what they did. But it's way too early, Koopaloop. What
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  Speaker 1: are we, 11 games into the NBA season? How did
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  Speaker 1: we do? You passed us. That is a win. Put
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  Speaker 1: it on the board. Winner, winner, winner. Chicken dinner. Woo.