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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour. Don't ban the lead, my man!
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  Speaker 1: The rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate college football. Much
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  Speaker 1: like a moth to a flame, I like a good controversy.
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  Speaker 1: It makes for compelling talk radio. And we have some
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  Speaker 1: of that in the college football world. The undefeated Miami Hurricanes.
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  Speaker 1: Receiving the number one spot overall in the college football
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  Speaker 1: playoff ranking. The first, ooh, ooh la la. The first
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  Speaker 1: college football playoff ranking. Followed behind the Canes, you've got Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: the Bulldogs, undefeated Utah. What is a Ute? The reigning
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  Speaker 1: national champions, Indiana, fill out the top four spots in
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  Speaker 1: the initial projected playoff bracket. And if you have not
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  Speaker 1: been following here, perhaps not, the big controversy, the reason
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  Speaker 1: that we're bringing this up, is because the Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: Marching and Chowder Society, very upset, very angry. The Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame fan base, up in arms. No justice, no peace.
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  Speaker 1: They think they got the royal screw job here. So
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  Speaker 1: the committee... Getting a lot of backlash, mostly from Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame fans. The Golden Domer fan base upset. And there
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  Speaker 1: are some pundits who are banging the table, complaining about this.
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  Speaker 1: They believe the Fighting Irish were unfairly punished. Now, Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame is 7-1 on the year, and they were ranked No. 11...
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  Speaker 1: In the first college football playoff ranking. Now, that wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be that big a deal if they were not number four.
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  Speaker 1: Number four.
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  Speaker 3: Number four.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: In the AP Top 25. So you've got the No.
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  Speaker 1: 4 team according to the Associated Press ranking, No. 11
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  Speaker 1: via the playoff. Now, you bring that up, also Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: which is 6-2. Roll tide! Alabama 6-2. They landed at No.
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  Speaker 1: 5 on the college football playoff, six spots ahead of
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, despite having twice as many losses. So that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. We have our controversy of
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  Speaker 1: the night. We embrace that. So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Where is the line between legitimate disrespect for Marcus Freeman's
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  Speaker 1: program and Notre Dame fans having an inflated sense of entitlement?
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  Speaker 1: Where is the line? So I've got MacBook Pro, Guy Fieri,
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  Speaker 1: and Hook and Ladder. And we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together, and we'll be your favorite Care Bear.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember the Care Bear names, but we'll be
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  Speaker 1: your favorite Care Bear.
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  Speaker 4: All right, so.
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  Speaker 1: And Bear.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So, A, listen, I love the outrage. Reminds
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  Speaker 1: me of the late, great T.J. Simers, who was a
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  Speaker 1: casual friend of mine. He was a big-time columnist in L.A.,
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  Speaker 1: worked at ESPN for a while. But T.J. always told
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  Speaker 1: me about... Well, not always. A few times, he told
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  Speaker 1: me about these lists... and how it's great, the list thing.
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  Speaker 1: People get so worked up into a lather. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is a legitimate ranking. It's not just a list, but
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  Speaker 1: it's the first list, the first ranking, right? So people
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  Speaker 1: get all worked up into a lather, and they're foaming
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  Speaker 1: at the mouth, furious. How dare you? And apparently the committee,
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  Speaker 1: the college football committee here, forgot to give bonus points
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  Speaker 1: for the classic movie Rudy for Notre Dame. Bad job
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  Speaker 1: by them. So what we're dealing with here, is blurred lines.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're dealing with. Blurred lines. The Fighting Irish
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  Speaker 1: have a championship caliber marketing department. They've always had that
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  Speaker 1: my entire life. But their resume, the resume looks like
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  Speaker 1: it was assembled... at a church bake sale. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is the resume. And Marcus Freeman does not
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  Speaker 1: have a R-E-S-P-E-C-T problem. Does not have the respect problem.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a quality win problem. That's the issue here.
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame is the trust fund baby of college football,
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  Speaker 1: living off the family fortune. With, if I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 1: I looked, I didn't see a top 25 win. Did
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  Speaker 1: I miss it? Maybe I missed it. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: a top 25 win. However, Marcus Freeman, despite that resume,
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman looking around here and he's like, well, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute. He's got something. He's got a MacBook Pro. Ooh. Ooh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He's sitting right in front of it. He's got that
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  Speaker 1: MacBook Pro. He's at the table. And this is setting up.
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  Speaker 1: A rewrite, a made-for-TV redemption story. That's taking some embellishment,
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  Speaker 1: but you get the point. The script has not been
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  Speaker 1: fully written. The ending can certainly change here. All Freeman
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  Speaker 1: has to do is get his Golden Domers standing tall
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  Speaker 1: this weekend because on Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, number one Miami
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  Speaker 1: comes to South Bend, and they will take on Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame in a classic matchup. Well, it used to be
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid it was a massive matchup. Meh.
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  Speaker 1: Over the years, it's lost a little bit of its luster.
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  Speaker 1: But this year, it doesn't get much bigger than that
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  Speaker 1: for Notre Dame taking on Miami, which comes in with
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  Speaker 1: a pass defense ranked 122nd nationally. I don't think that's good. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're being mean, Maller. I know. I know. I'm the schmuck.
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  Speaker 1: 122 is really, really good. If you're trying to finish
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  Speaker 1: near the bottom, really, really good. Now, if Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: can go out and beat the Hurricanes, and then they
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  Speaker 1: rewrite the narrative, and they have that power. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: they lose, stop your bitching, stop your whining. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: You got to earn it, and you got a chance.
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  Speaker 1: You got an opportunity to go out and do it
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday and earn it, and that's it. Miami will
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  Speaker 1: go free-falling. There you go. All right, now, page two.
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  Speaker 1: To Raleigh, North Carolina. Did not anticipate when I went
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  Speaker 1: to bed this morning or whenever it was. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know when I went to bed. Did not anticipate
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  Speaker 1: talking about NC State football, but here we are. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because of Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Unlimited. He's back. Yeah. Yeah, baby. Isn't he still getting
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  Speaker 1: paid by the Broncos? I think he is. Anyway, a
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  Speaker 1: former NFL quarterback, Russell Wilson, who immediately started sucking the
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  Speaker 1: moment he left the Pacific Northwest. Russell Wilson has interviewed
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  Speaker 1: for the vacant North Carolina state coaching job. What? Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He won a Super Bowl back a million years ago,
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  Speaker 1: 10-time Pro Bowler that's gotten rid of the Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: That's how irrelevant that is. And played for the Wolfpack
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  Speaker 1: back in the day before transferring to Wisconsin. So he
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  Speaker 1: spent some time there. And he has as much coaching
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  Speaker 1: experience as Eileen in San Francisco, who listens to the
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  Speaker 1: show and Kathy in Madison. and even legally blind Emmett,
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  Speaker 1: who he was a retired caller, gave up, couldn't handle
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  Speaker 1: a call on the show. But he's got as much
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  Speaker 1: coaching experience as those people. And I think Stevie Meatballs
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  Speaker 1: coached back in the day, so I think Stevie Meatballs
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  Speaker 1: actually has more experience than the aforementioned Russell Wilson. So
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  Speaker 1: the former Seahawks star back in the day would be
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  Speaker 1: going back, obviously, to the place he played for a
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  Speaker 1: couple years and all that, trying to relaunch. And reinvent
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  Speaker 1: himself as a coach. Now, Phillip Rivers is also said
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  Speaker 1: to be neck and neck with Russell Wilson. Neck and neck. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Unlimited and Phillip Rivers. Old man Rivers and his bolo tie.
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  Speaker 1: So that is interesting. So the question here, is North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina State seriously considering Russell Wilson as their next head coach,
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  Speaker 1: or the other option, this is nothing more than just
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  Speaker 1: a cheesy publicity stunt by the Wolfpack, knowing dummies like
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  Speaker 1: me would see this and jump on it. So I
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  Speaker 1: do not believe it's just a publicity stunt. This is
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  Speaker 1: the era that we're in, in college football. But we
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  Speaker 1: talk about baseball managers, and I know we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: this a little bit later because of one of the
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  Speaker 1: hires in baseball, where they don't really matter anymore. Dave
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  Speaker 1: Roberts doesn't know what the hell he's doing. Aaron Boone
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's doing. But these guys won a
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  Speaker 1: lot of games, and they just follow the script, and
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  Speaker 1: they follow the analytics. Now, in college football, it's obviously different,
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  Speaker 1: where it's more about what's the biggest name that can really,
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  Speaker 1: really impress the booster, the alumni, the That have a
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  Speaker 1: ton of money and want to give that money to
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  Speaker 1: the program. But they need to get massaged. They need
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  Speaker 1: the Manny and the Petty from the big name X Chalk.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is the era that we're in. And
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, so you're coaching... And North Carolina State
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  Speaker 1: is looking at an alumni reunion situation here. It always
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  Speaker 1: comes down to NIL, NIL, NIL, NIL. But you already
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  Speaker 1: knew that. And Russell Wilson has not moved the needle
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  Speaker 1: at all on television. Nobody even knows he's on television.
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  Speaker 1: He's boring. Which is not surprising considering how robotic he
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  Speaker 1: was at those news conferences. He's never coached a game
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  Speaker 1: in his life. Apparently just winning a Super Bowl because
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  Speaker 1: you happened to tag your caboose along the Legion of
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  Speaker 1: Boom defense back in the day. That qualifies you to
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  Speaker 1: run an ACC program or at least have a chance to.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like if you were to hire Guy
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  Speaker 1: Fieri to run the Pentagon because he's the founding father
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  Speaker 1: of Flavortown. Well, I mean, obviously he runs Flavortown so
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  Speaker 1: he could run the Pentagon. Why not? Similar skill set. Yep. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, on the other hand, he's at least coached
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  Speaker 1: in the backwoods of Alabama. So he has done some
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  Speaker 1: coaching there.
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  Speaker 3: Way to go.
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina State. Now, I'm sure there's some other names
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  Speaker 1: that we don't know about. They're not big names, not
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  Speaker 1: sexy names. But North Carolina State is essentially choosing, if
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  Speaker 1: it's between these two, they're choosing between one former quarterback
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  Speaker 1: who coached high school and another who's coached absolutely nobody. Now,
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  Speaker 1: will Russ bring those nano bubbles to North Carolina State
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  Speaker 1: if he goes and coaches there? You have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Just Google it or whatever. You know, nanobubbles.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way to go. That's the way to go.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we all know just because you happen to
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  Speaker 1: play the piano does not mean that you can conduct
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  Speaker 1: the orchestra. And college football coaches are basically at this
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  Speaker 1: point Girl Scouts. Let me explain. So if you're coaching
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  Speaker 1: college football, you're like a Girl Scouts. They pimp out
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  Speaker 1: the Girl Scouts to sell cookies outside every grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: And I have to be the douche and say, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want your cookies. And then you get that sad
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  Speaker 1: girl look and they make you feel guilty when you're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to go buy potato chips.
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  Speaker 2: Buy my cookies.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man. I mean, how hard, I mean, what a,
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  Speaker 1: whoever's in charge of the girls, the Girl Scouts schmucks,
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  Speaker 1: these cute, innocent girls. And I have to go and say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not buying your stupid cookies and that's it. But
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  Speaker 1: if you're a college football coach, you're a Girl Scout
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  Speaker 1: selling cookies in front of the local Piggly Wiggly is
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing. Except the Thin Mints cost $ 800, 000. And
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  Speaker 1: that's just to get a defensive end. That's it. And
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  Speaker 1: so whoever gets that job at North Carolina State will
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  Speaker 1: be spending roughly 80% of every day begging for They
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  Speaker 1: should contact Weed Man Hippie to find out how to
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  Speaker 1: panhandle and get money. Yeah. And of course, they will
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  Speaker 1: be not panhandling on the side of the highway at
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  Speaker 1: the off ramp. They will be panhandling to the person
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  Speaker 1: that owns 14 car dealerships in town because they say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I want to buy some more players. Why don't you
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  Speaker 1: raise the price of those Toyotas so we can, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we want to make some Some better roster moves here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now last word. To the NFL we go.
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  Speaker 1: The Mile High City where a listener named Louie from Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea who this person is. He emailed.
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  Speaker 1: Louie says he listens to the show a couple days
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  Speaker 1: a week. He heard me trashing Bo Nix the other day. Now,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, I don't think I trashed Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 1: I merely pointed out that he's not very good. So,
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  Speaker 1: of course, this guy sent me some Bo propaganda. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Louie says, I owe Bo Nix an apology. Clearly, Louie,
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  Speaker 1: you must not listen to this show very often. He
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  Speaker 1: sends this in. So Broncos quarterback Bo Nix has made
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  Speaker 1: NFL history now. He has 15... And I double-checked this.
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  Speaker 5: It's true.
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  Speaker 1: He has 15 career game-winning drives, the most by any
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in his first three seasons in the NFL. The
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  Speaker 1: previous record was held by Dakota Prescott. Yeah, you're now
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  Speaker 1: in company with Dakota Prescott. I don't know that I'd
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  Speaker 1: get too excited about that. Yeah, Nick's had three as
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  Speaker 1: a rookie in 2024, three comebacks. He led the NFL
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  Speaker 1: with seven last year. He leads the league with five
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  Speaker 1: this season. In Denver, Tom Brady, the all-time leader. And
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix is a quarter of the way to Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 1: He will not end up getting that, but it's nice
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  Speaker 1: to think about. All right, so let's address this. This
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  Speaker 1: dope Louie. So the question, does Bo Nix deserve a
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  Speaker 1: standing ovation, 15 game-winning drives, or... The other option, should
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  Speaker 1: we be asking why the Broncos keep finding themselves in
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  Speaker 1: these situations where they have to come from behind? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not here to spit a loogie at the Bo
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  Speaker 1: Nix propaganda machine, which is working overtime. I'm not here
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  Speaker 1: to do that. The media keeps feeding us this fairy tale.
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't say the entire media. There are factions. of
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  Speaker 1: the media, most of them in Denver, and their fanboys
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  Speaker 1: wearing their blue and orange and all that. They keep
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  Speaker 1: feeding us this fairy tale. And this is the NFL's
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  Speaker 1: most fraudulent feel-good statistic. I remember there was a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: who I used to rip all the time named Joey Harrington.
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  Speaker 1: Joey Harrington was called Captain Comeback himself at Oregon and
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  Speaker 1: had some dramatic comebacks for the Ducks. Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.
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  Speaker 1: And we used to goof on him. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 1: like everything else, I used to rip him all the time.
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  Speaker 1: He got a job here, which briefly, very briefly worked here,
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  Speaker 1: which was somewhat awkward. Somewhat awkward. The piano man, Joey Harrington. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the point is, I pointed out when he was playing,
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  Speaker 1: they called him Captain Comeback because he would be so
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  Speaker 1: bad at the beginning of games, early turnover and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And proven correct eventually when he got to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I look at this, it's like we're celebrating with Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 1: You're celebrating the cleanup crew. instead of investigating who made
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  Speaker 1: the mess. Who made the mess? Bo Nix, he's a
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  Speaker 1: fourth-quarter assassin. However, you can't say that without also pointing out,
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  Speaker 1: while he's a fourth-quarter assassin, he's a three-quarter accomplice to
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  Speaker 1: football murder. It's not good. The Broncos love to play
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  Speaker 1: with their food, and they do it at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of games here. And it's like they're a spoiled six-year-old
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  Speaker 1: kid at a steakhouse somewhere in Texas. And suddenly Bo remembers,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, I think I'm supposed to eat that.
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  Speaker 1: I should stop playing with my steak. I think I'm
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  Speaker 1: supposed to eat it. But if Bo Nix were the end-all, be-all,
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  Speaker 1: which this guy Louie and I'm sure the other big
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  Speaker 1: Bronco fanboys are like, oh, yeah, he's so good. Why
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  Speaker 1: does Denver consistently need a rescue mission? If Bo Nix
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  Speaker 1: is all that and a bag of chips. To me,
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix is the guy driving the hook and ladder truck.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got the cherry tops on it and a
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  Speaker 1: gas can in the passenger seat. You feel me on that?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Hook and ladder, gas can.
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  Speaker 1: He's the firefighter part-time and the arsonist the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the time. He's the guy that starts the blaze for
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  Speaker 1: the first 55 minutes of a game and then puts
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  Speaker 1: it out in the final five minutes and before posing
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  Speaker 1: for the fireman calendar. So the Denver Fire Department should
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  Speaker 1: investigate Bo Nix. for very suspicious fourth quarter activity. Very,
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  Speaker 1: very suspicious. He's the only firefighter who arrives on the scene,
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  Speaker 1: and there's like a lighter fluid, and they've got matches,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like trying to figure out what's going on.
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  Speaker 5: can't stop a guy from trying to improve himself but
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  Speaker 4: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
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  Speaker 4: haven't done, because I didn't have enough money, I don't
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  Speaker 4: own the team. I never owned a team.
• 19:28
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• 19:32
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• 19:37
  Speaker 1: From the boardroom. Now, some people get very bored when
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: they hear about the boardroom. We have a labor update,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: labor update, not a pregnancy update, but a labor update,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: labor talk update. So if you have not heard. perhaps not.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: As we inch closer, less than a month away from
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the end of the baseball fun, the hot stove league,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: all that will be put on ice as baseball will
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: go Officially on hiatus. Well, Major League Baseball owners, if
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you've not heard, have now proposed delaying the salary cap.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Not getting rid of the idea of a salary cap,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: but delaying the salary cap until 2028 rather than next season, 2027. Now,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the latest plan, which was conveniently leaked.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: To a useful idiot behind a paywall at the Athletic
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: to get the story out. The baseball owner's plan includes
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: $ 258 million payroll ceilings. You can't go over $ 258 million.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: $ 180 million floor. The floor is lava. The floor is lava.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So that means.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: That means that not one, not two, not three, not four,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: not five, not six, not seven, eight MLB teams, including
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the heavy hitters, the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Mets, the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Red Sox, would all have to get haircuts. They'd all
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: have to get rid of payroll. They're over the threshold.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Eight teams. They would face payroll cuts of $ 528 million.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: They'd have to unload $ 528 million of salary. There are 12, quote,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: small market teams that would have to get rid of
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: salary as well, or add salary. They have to add salary.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: This is hilarious. So the teams that are going to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: be mandated to add salary are Tampa Bay, who won
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the American League pennant, and Milwaukee, who won the World Series. Hello?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Make it make sense. Now, the owners continue to argue
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: through their useful idiots in the media that They argue
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: that the system would promote competitive balance. The players' union
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: responded by saying, Ixnay on the plan A, or something
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: like that, is what they said, with the current labor
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: agreement expiring December 1st. We are in the 11th hour now. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And we're close to kaboom! That's what we're close to.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: They're at loggerheads, and a lockout is looming on the horizon.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: And that's where we are. So that is a good
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Does Commissioner
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Rob Manford actually believe that the Players Union will accept
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a salary cap, or is this all a version of
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: political theater? Is this all political theater by Major League Baseball,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: or do they actually believe, the owners and Rob Manford themselves,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: that there will be some kind of cap. So I've
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: got the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, the Copacabana, and JetBlue.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And we'll combine all of these things together, and we
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: will whistle while we work. We're going to whistle, whistle,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: whistle while we work. So number one. Number one. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Number one.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Stop.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So Rob Manford is a weenie. That's the take. Bye!
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I'm told we can't leave that as the take. We
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: have to expand on the take. So Rob Manford's a
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: weenie in a three-piece suit. Is that good enough for you?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: You want more? I'll give you more.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: We know he's obviously carrying the water of the owners.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: He's a glorified ventriloquist dummy, Rob Manford. He gets paid
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of money for it. Manford, he's got a
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: little side hustle. The commissioner of baseball is working for
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the modern-day Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company. And if you know
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: anything about the history of the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: then you know exactly where I'm going with this. But
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: if you don't, he's got the traveling wagon, Rob Manford,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and the miracle elixir. He's got that in his bag.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: And there's a rattlesnake dangling from his fist. Now, Manford
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: is the leading man in the new movie, Honey, I
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Shrunk the Payroll, starring Rob Manford and the MLB owners. And,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: of course, the owners are the ones that are the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: director and producer. They're bankrolling the film. Honey, I shrunk
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the payroll. They're behind that. So step right up, ladies
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company right there. And
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: one tablespoon, one tablespoon of salary cap cures competitive imbalance, baldness, gout,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and chronic losing. Pure snake oil, which is where that
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: phrase comes from, the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company. They would
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: go around the country. And sell snake oil. As a
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: magic elixir. And people bought it. And it didn't work.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Because it doesn't work. But people believed it worked. And
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: that's all that mattered. The placebo effect. And they sold.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I read books about this crap. It was in my
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: infomercial book. Which I quote a lot here. They had
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: a chapter about the original infomercial people. That would go around.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: That same model that these jackasses used. Is used to
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: this day. Out on boardwalks.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: And.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And places where there's a lot of tourists and whatnot,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: they use the same techniques they used way back in
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the day. But it's snake oil. And the Players Union
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: is not buying a single bottle. They're like, we're good.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: We're good on that. And it's not competitive balance. It's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: false advertising. It's not competitive balance. It's competitive cheapness is
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: what it is. And the owners are so hung up
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: that they have to have a salary cap. They don't
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: care about the data, which indicates this is not good
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: for their business. It's good for their franchise values, which
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I guess is ultimately all they care about. But in
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: terms of the growth and the health of the game,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: it's not good. All right. And what is my evidence? Well,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: we just got the owner's wet dream for competitive balance.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: A couple of small market teams, Milwaukee and Tampa Bay,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: went mano a mano. They were locked up in a
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: battle there. And the television audience, the American people spoke.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: And all those geniuses that say, oh, we are tired
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: of the Dodgers. We don't like the Dodgers or the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: World Series. We need some new blood. It's another reason
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: why you should not believe the internet. If you believe
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: social media, this would have been a massive ratings win.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Because social media was all done with big market teams.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: They wanted the underdog. They got it. They lost 25%. 25%
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: of their television audience.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Poof.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Poof.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Gone. No hocus pocus. Just Brewers-Rays baseball. And they were
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: not watching. It was not a case, if you build it,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: they will come. If you build it, they'll go watch
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: a movie. They're not watching. Congratulations. You ordered a 40-ounce
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: USDA Prime Tomahawk ribeye. And you ended up getting Amy's
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Veggie Loaf. Put that in your microwave and enjoy your meal.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Who goofed? I've got to know. But this is what
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the owners want. They just have... Amazing evidence, data, that
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: this is not good long-term. You've lost 25% of your audience.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: The NBA is going through the same thing. It's fascinating.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: All these people, we want competitive balance. Oklahoma City was
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: in the finals.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Death.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Now, this past year, you had New York to save
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the ratings. From San Antonio. But Oklahoma City, Indiana was
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: a disaster for the television ratings. All right, now, page two.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: To Milwaukee we go. The aforementioned champions of baseball. Now,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I was told by one of my critics, this guy
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Supermarket Steve, that no one, no one was upset with
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Brewers manager Pat Murphy trashing the Yankees, and I was
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: making that up. I think he accused me of, yeah,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: making that whole thing up. And I said, well, no,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't make it up. I just went with... There
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: was a group, whether it's a lot or not, it's
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: hard to tell because of the bots and the algorithms
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So, Pat Murphy had made some comments.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And the Brewers manager, Pat Murphy, if you're a little
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: late to the party, after the Brewers won the championship,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: he made some comments that were taking shots at the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Bronx Bombers. Well, Pat Murphy apologized for that viral video
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: that made the rounds here. We talked about it. He was...
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: caught on candid camera, calling the Yankees horse blank, a
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: horse blank team, accusing their players of being selfish. They
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: are selfish! Okay. Just want to make sure we're on
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the same page. Murphy personally contacted Brian Cashman, that general
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: manager weasel guy for the Yankees, Brian Cashman, to explain himself. Now,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Murphy claimed that the comments were part of a playful
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: banter with former Yankee Jake Bauer. Or Jake Bowers, rather,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: who was a one-time Yankee and played well, had the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: greatest year he's had in the big leagues. He was
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a fringe major league guy, not very good, and played
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: very well. Had some big moments in the playoffs from
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee on their way to the World Series. Murphy's like, listen,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: this is what we do. We bust each other's balls,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and I was ripping this guy saying he's going to
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: get paid. Going to go to a big market team,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and he's not going to play baseball the way we
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: play baseball. And that's it. So he insisted his real
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: target was the big payroll teams. Pat Murphy tossed that
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: out where individual aspirations The baseball reference page stats are
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: more important. And they often undermine winning baseball because you're
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: not helping the next guy out. You're like, I'm helping
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: myself out. And that's it. So Pat Murphy told an
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable truth, the Brewers manager. And the Yankees and the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: social media mob went bonkers. They went berserk. They were upset.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And suddenly the cranky Brewers skipper has to do the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: walk of shame. Or in this case, the phone call
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: of shame and apologize. The question. Here it is. And
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you can answer in a minute. I'll give out the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: number in a minute. Don't answer now. Do not answer now.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I haven't given out the number and I haven't asked
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the question. So don't answer now. Here's the question. Did
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Brewers manager Pat Murphy... Have a change of heart. Did
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: he legitimately have a change of heart? Or did somebody
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: with a bigger checkbook tell him to apologize right now?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: You get on that phone and you apologize to the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: New York Yankees. All right, so you think Pat Murphy,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: just between us, you think Pat Murphy woke up and
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: suddenly had this guilty conscience because of what he had said?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Come on, please. The Brewers manager is a old, cranky
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: baseball lifer. He's not going to apologize. He's the kind
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: of guy that if he bumped into you at the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: grocery store, he wouldn't apologize. He's that guy. So why
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: would he apologize? He's at the supermarket. He's not going
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to apologize. I bumped into you. I'm not sorry. No,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not. And he probably meant every single word that
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: he said... And that's it. It's pretty clear. You don't
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: need me to tell you that somebody got to him.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: And likely somebody in the ownership group for the Milwaukee Brewers,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the baseball establishment, tap, tap, tapping Pat Murphy on the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: shoulder and ordering code red, dragging his fat ass straight
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: to the principal's office. And you got to clean this up.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I can picture in that cartoon bubble over the right
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: side of my, my head here. I can, I can
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: picture the way this all went down. So Pat Murphy
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: makes the comment. It goes viral. There's some social media
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: pushback and people upset and all that stuff. And so, okay.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: And the robber baron owners, these guys all hang out
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: in the same circles, right? They get together at the Copacabana.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: They're sipping on some rum in the back where it's
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: all dark there. The lights are dimmed and they're drinking
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: their rum. And there's one guy over there drinking whiskey,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and then there's somebody else who's got bourbon off to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the side. But they're drinking, and then somebody who may
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: or may not have the last name Steinbrenner complains. And then, ring, ring,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the Brewers guy gets on the phone and says, Hey, Pat,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you've got to clean this up, dude. You effed up.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: You've got to clean this up. And so Pat Murphy
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: went from World Series champion... to Employee of the Month
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: at the Yankees Sensitivity Seminar. Congratulations. And we know he
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: did not commit a crime. Pat Murphy did not commit
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: a crime. He committed the unforgivable sin. What is the
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: unforgivable sin of telling the truth at a time you
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: cannot tell the truth? Baseball, the aristocracy of baseball does
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: not like that. Bad decorum. Bad decorum. So Murphy exposing
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the dirty little secret about big market ball versus scrappy
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: dirt bag small market baseball. And that's that. And the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Yankees don't need an apology. They actually need a mirror. Mirror,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: mirror on the wall. That's what they need. All right,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: final point. To Seattle we go. We have a new
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: manager in Major League Baseball. The Mariners have hired someone
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: named Jason Kanzler. Who the hell is that? Apparently he's 36.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Thanks for asking. He's 36 years old. He replaces Dan
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Wilson after an absolute puke in your mouth. 2026 season.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Crying Craig ran out of tears. That's how bad the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Mariners were this year. Robbie the Mariner fan actually became
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: a Dodger fan for a week. That's how bad the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Mariners were. So Kanzler previously had a front office suit job.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: He was the director of player development there. Now, how
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: many years do you think this guy, Jason Kanzler, toiled
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: away in the minor leagues to earn the right to
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: manage a big league team? What do you think? I'll
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: give you four options.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Option A, this guy spent 10 years in the minor
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: leagues as a manager. Option B, he spent seven years
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: as a manager. Option C, three years as a manager.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Or option D, none of the above. All right. Review answers.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: That would be D. You have managed as many big
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: league games as the new manager of your Seattle Mariners. Yes.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: No managerial experience at any level. None. This is the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: way it is now. Former minor league outfielder for the Astros.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: He was assistant hitting coach in Houston back in the day.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: And he becomes baseball's second youngest manager behind the great
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Blake Butera, who's got that natitude in Washington. I know
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Rick in Maryland likes that because he says, morning time.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: He's very excited about that. All right, question. How much
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: confidence should the Mariner fan base have in Jason Kanzler,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: a manager who has never, ever managed a game? That's it.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: So this is... Rather simple. The answer is Zippo. It's
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: kind of like going and playing the claw machine at
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the arcade. You don't really know what you're going to get.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: You hope you get something good. Likely whatever you get
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: is going to drop out of the claw thing and
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: that's it. The Mariners went from the school of hard
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: knocks where they were in a game seven in the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: playoffs and had a shot at going to the World
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Series to And they go from the School of Hard
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Knocks to the University of Google Docs. Congratulations. Welcome to
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: another Jerry DePoto weird science experiment. That's the general manager, Mr. 54%.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: He's a 54 percenter. He famously said a couple years
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: back that the goal of the Mariners is not to
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: win championships. Their goal is to win 54% of their
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: games every year. That way, dumb people buy tickets because
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: the Mariners are in contention with the Yankees and the
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: other good teams. And that makes them very happy about that.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: And so it's not about being great. It's about winning 54%
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: of the games. So the most interesting fun fact here,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: this guy, the new manager of the Mariners, worked as
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: a high school chemistry and physics teacher a couple years
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: ago in Texas. So imagine there's some kid right now who's,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I guess, a young adult because it was a few
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: years ago. And you're like, hey, dude, my chemistry teacher
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: is now a big league manager. That's kind of crazy, right?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: That's pretty nuts. So his first day managing, this guy
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Jason Kanzler, his first managing of a baseball game will
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: be in a major league uniform.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Okay. That's crazy. It's kind of like your first flying lesson.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: You're in the cockpit of a JetBlue flight, and there's
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: 200 passengers behind you. That's a move. That's a move. So,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: in fact, Kanzler, this is the third consecutive Seattle Mariners
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: manager hired under president of baseball ops, the GM, Jerry DiPoto,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: with no prior managerial experience at any level. And, you know,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: like dating, like women have a type of guy. Some
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: women like the bad boys or guys like, you know,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: the big caboose on the lady. Whatever it might be.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: You have a type. Everyone's got a type. Everyone's got
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: a type. Jerry DePoto has a type. That's his type.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: And more evidence that the industrial complex of sports don't
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: care about feel of the game anymore. They don't value,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: have a hunch, bet a bunch, that kind of thing.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And it reminds me of the words of the former
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Chicago Cub manager, Joe Maddon, who said it best a
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: couple years ago when he was polaxed by the Angels.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: And Joe Maddon said that teams have turned the skipper,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: the manager, into a middle manager. They're essentially just gophers
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: repeating the company line, no independent thought. And that's exactly
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: what you would think is going on here in Seattle.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: The Mariners turning the manager of the team, the leader
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: of the team, into a laboratory. And it turns out
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: that if you do like the Seattle Mariners, you are
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: a lab rat. So congratulations on that. And I am
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: convinced if Jerry DiPoto was allowed by Major League Baseball,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: the three finalists to manage the Mariners would have been Chat, GPT, Grok,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and Gemini. That's it. That would have been the three finalists.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: It's Maller.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: To the third degree.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 7: And the Eagles face off against the Giants and Vic Fangio.
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  Speaker 1: Uncle Vic. Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Talking about J.J. McCarthy said the said the Giants.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: It was a steal.
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  Speaker 7: They got him for a fifth round pick. Do you
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: think it was a steal?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Now, there's a term for this. And Lou Holtz came
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: up with it back in the day. And all these
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: coaches do it. It's it's. It's soft. You're selling soap.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: You're soft peddling this stuff. You're praising whoever you play.
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  Speaker 1: It is way too early to say that J.J. McCarthy
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: is a steal. He's played a couple of games with
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the Giants. He's had a couple of moments. But he
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: had a few moments with the Vikings, too. So who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Way too early. That's just diplomacy from Uncle Vic is
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: what that is with the Eagles.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: Next!
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: It was reported on Tuesday that the Boston Red Sox
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: will be making calls to the Cincinnati Reds if they
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: decide to trade away Eli De La Cruz. Now, I
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: know you've said in the past, Ben, that the Reds
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: should keep Eli.
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  Speaker 1: De La Cruz. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: But don't you think it'd be more fun if he
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: was on the Red Sox?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it would be more fun, but if you're
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: the Reds, believe it or not, there are people that
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: go to those games in Cincinnati, too. And so, yeah,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I went. There were a bunch of people wearing Reds
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: hats and stuff when I went to a Reds game.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: So you got to have some people on the team
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: that are halfway decent. I love the per league sources
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: and all the weasel terms that have been tossed around here.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: No trades are going to happen. This is all irrelevant
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: because the work stoppage is coming December 1st. Unless there's
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: some kind of trade between now and December 1st. That's it.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Next.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Next.
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: Well, this might be irrelevant as well, but apparently some
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: teams are reportedly wary of offering a record-breaking deal to
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: Tarek Skubal due to his injury history.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: Do you feel wary about the Dodgers keeping him?
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm fine if he's there or not. It is
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: a concern. These guys, the injury rate's 100%. He's going
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: to get hurt again, 100%. So you know that going in.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: How do we do?
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: You passed us an issue. That is a win. Take
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: the even trash in Bo Nix.
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: I got a win.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Even trash.
• 41:48
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• 42:22
  Speaker 7: I love that this segment inspired.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: My Halloween costume this year.
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it did.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: You don't watch my stories, Ben?
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: You really disappoint me when you don't watch my stories.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I try to stay off social media. I go on
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: there for the show, but I'm sorry. I have seen
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: your many posts, though. When I go on there, your
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: things pop up on the thing. So on the Instagram.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: I guess that's good.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I see when I don't go on there
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: every day. Should I go on there every day?
• 43:05
  Speaker 8: Maybe I should wear my Queen of Hearts costumes on
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: Wednesdays to work.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: That could be a good idea.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Coop can dress up, too. Oh, I love that.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: You could be a flamingo.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Nice flamingo. All right. We have actual questions by actual listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready, Lorena?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: All right. First up is JT the Wingman from just
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: outside Knoxville, Tennessee. He says, is it okay for a
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: guy to wear socks with sandals on a date? I'm
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: asking for a friend.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, please no. Do not do that to yourself. That's
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: like social suicide. And it's so unappealing. I feel like,
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: and men never have clean socks.
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  Speaker 8: So not only are you doing a fashion faux pas,
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: you're also showing how dirty and disgusting you are.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: So keep your, and honestly, you should wear closed-toed shoes.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: All right, I disagree with you. Here's why.
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  Speaker 3: No, Ben, you always wear sandals. You don't have a
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: say in this.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, let me explain. If a guy's hot enough,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: he can wear anything. It doesn't matter. Women will look
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: the other way.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: But hot men don't wear that. Well, I don't have
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: a sense of fashion.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, there are some people that
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: are deemed attractive that probably do that.
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: No, they don't.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: All right. Late night drug tester writes in, says this
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: holiday season. I proposed a game with my lady, says
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: if when we are out together and we hear wham
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: last Christmas and Mariah is all I want for Christmas,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I is you on the same day he says I
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: think there's a word missing on the same day we
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: will get it on later that night will this be
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: a daily reward okay so we hear those two songs apparently.
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: It's those are two very well played music like they
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: play them all the time during the holiday season so
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: yes you have a pretty good chance of getting lucky
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: pretty often.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Will we be getting the memo again from management Thanksgiving
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: weekend saying to play holiday music the rest of the
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: year and.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: I will be ready I love Christmas music.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: It's good for a couple weeks.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Santa Claus Lane.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, let
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: it snow.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Rudolph, also a great song.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Let it snow. Well, here's a question, Lorraine. I don't
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: know if you ever eat at this restaurant. Mike from
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the Valley writes in. He says he used to love
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Carl's Jr., And he would eat there all the time.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: It's called Hardee's, I believe. On the East Coast. But
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: I love Carl's Jr. He said the quality has gone
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: down and the prices have gone up, so he will
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: no longer eat there. He wants to know, are there
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: any restaurants that you used to eat at that you
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: don't eat at anymore because they're too expensive?
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: You know, I more just change.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: It's a great love question.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: By the way.
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: I just change what I order more so than anything.
• 45:56
  Speaker 8: So even Carl's Jr.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: yeah, you're right. They are expensive.
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: They're one of the more expensive fast food items, especially
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: if you get their guac burger or their barbecue with
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: the onion ring and stuff on it.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: But they have late night deals that I really like.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: So you can always find a good.
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: Deal at these places instead of just cutting them out
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: of your life.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to love this place in Culver City,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Tito's Tacos. I used to go there for 20 years.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: They got too expensive. I just make them at home now.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Screw them. See? Fergdog writes in, he says, if a
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: girl says she hates scary movies, is it okay to
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: still take her to a scary movie?
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, I highly suggest getting them out of their box.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: It's good for the soul. Shane in Des Moines has
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: a question about your love, if you like adult films
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: or not. That's interesting.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: I prefer Disney movies.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: You're more of a Disney princess type? Yeah, yeah.
• 46:42
  Speaker 8: But adult films, you know, they have their time and place.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Queen of Hearts with Lorena, right there.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific. Attention, everyone.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: And the password is... Password. You idiot.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Password. The word game of the stars.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Here's Ben Maller.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: All right, let's do it right now. Let's welcome in
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: our contestants. We have from the Sunshine State, he's back,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Jed Who Fled. Hello, Jed Who Fled. Welcome.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Ben, the results are in.
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: Florida State University won this year's election.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: We got rid of Norvell. That's right. Jed is the
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: new coach. He's the interim coach at Florida State. Congratulations, Jed.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: If we hire Jimbo Fisher, Ben, I will become a
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Satanist and voodoo.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Him out of there.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: We will not rehire him. Some would say you already are. Anyway,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up with there, Jed?
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: I was going to partner up with you, but you've
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: called me a Satanist, dude. I'm going to call a
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: partner up with Justin Cooper.
• 47:45
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. How come you don't return emails, by the way, Jed?
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I tried to get you on the Fifth Hour podcast,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: but you didn't write back. All right, hold on. You're
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: going to play with Coop. Because I'm not a loser.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Let's see. One, two, or three here. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you have picked FaZe in Chicago. Hello, FaZe. Welcome.
• 48:10
  Speaker 8: What's up, man?
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Hey, Jed, let me get a little mess.
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: Did he just say my name?
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we get the meth off you, bro. All right.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: So please, come on. If I can win, dude, I'll
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: give it to you for free.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Calm down, please. They're kidding. Attention, advertisers. This is all
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: a joke.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: These are jokes.
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: These are jokes.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: All right. JK. Here we go. Let's play the game.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Here we go. All right. Number seven. Go ahead. Number seven.
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: Let's go with.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, man, this is a hard one. Who comes up
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: with these? You. I think you're the one that comes
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: up with those. Okay.
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: Let's go with.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Replica.
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  Speaker 4: Replica.
• 49:06
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: A repeat?
• 49:10
  Speaker 7: No.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go. Let's try... Yeah, let's see here. See,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: I was going to go a different direction on this.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Let's go with facsimile.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: What the hell does that mean?
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: Copy?
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: Copy.
• 49:30
  Speaker 7: Okay, I'm gonna go the same direction that Ben was
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: thinking about going, and I'm gonna use a Malheur maneuver.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't use a Malheur maneuver. All right, Jed.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Come on. Let's go.
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: So, I mean, you heard the first clue I gave you,
• 49:41
  Speaker 7: but we're gonna go a different direction. We'll go fashion... Art.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Facsimile, and then fashion... Oh, come on! Just say something! Fashion! Something.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: You just told me to say that, dude. I followed
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: your rules. All right. He doesn't have anything. Let's go
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: with runway. Oh, my God, dude.
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: Runway?
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Trend?
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: Model.
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah!
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: He got it because of Michael! I get half credit!
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: I get half credit! I get half credit! I get
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: half credit! I get half credit!
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: All right, FaZe, pick a number.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: We're winning. Come on, FaZe.
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: One, one, one, one.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: You didn't say that right. Come on. Say it right.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Number one. There we go. Let's go with... Let's see here.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: One number?
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: That's one more.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: How about....
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, boy. We'll keep it simple. How about wood? Wood. Sticks?
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: What'd he say? Sticks. He said sticks. I thought he
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: said something like that.
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: Let's go with timber.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Tree.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: No.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: How about... Time, time, time, time, time. I got six points.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: He wrote us to delay some time. What the hell
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: are you doing, dummy? What are you doing? What are
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: you doing? I'm TikTok-ticking.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: TikTok-tick, TikTok-tick, TikTok-tick.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: What? Let's go with.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: How about Hardwood? Hardwood. What's been happening with you this week, Justin?
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I want to know what's going on in your life.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: All right, Justin.
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: We win the game.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: He sabotaged the game.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: We win, FaZe.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: He sabotaged the game. He's a saboteur. He's a saboteur.