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  Speaker 1: In the beginning of a brand new week of the
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  Speaker 1: Showb so our lead this hour is from football. Things
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  Speaker 1: should ratchet up in terms of activity over the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. The scouting Combine is coming up in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days, always a big event for gossip
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  Speaker 1: speculation and football smut. We have that to look forward
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  Speaker 1: to also, before we get into the monologue. Later this hour,
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  Speaker 1: well actually not this hour, but later on in the overnight,
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  Speaker 1: we will have a new game. That's right, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: beta test a brand new game on the airwaves of FSR.
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  Speaker 1: It has been many many weeks in the in the
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  Speaker 1: Q we are ready to roll it out and that'll
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  Speaker 1: be an hour four a brand new spanking game. And
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  Speaker 1: you know we love cheeseball games, so that'll be coming up.
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  Speaker 1: You probably won't do listening by then, but you can
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  Speaker 1: listen to the podcast. If you're listening now, you probably
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  Speaker 1: won't listen to that, but if you, if you happen
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  Speaker 1: to be great, and if not, just download the podcast
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  Speaker 1: when we're done then you'll get everything. But our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour is from Dallas and how I am Cowboys?
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  Speaker 3: Now? Did the Cowboys make a big trade over the weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Now they did? Not? Have you heard the latest?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you have not heard the latest on this, the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas has not yet discussed a contract extension. Olten have
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  Speaker 1: not discussed an extension with Micah Parsons, who is currently
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  Speaker 1: on track to hit the market after the up coming
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  Speaker 1: in NFL season in September, that he is not locked
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  Speaker 1: into Dallas past twenty twenty five. Now, the Cowboys are
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  Speaker 1: spinning this saying nothing to see here, everything is fine,
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  Speaker 1: and that they will not talk contract prior to the
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  Speaker 1: scouting combine which begins in a couple of days. Now
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  Speaker 1: I say that, well, Michaeh Parson's own brother went on
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  Speaker 1: a social media tirade, hinting that Jerry Jones team and
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  Speaker 1: Michah Parsons are very, very far apart. Like the size
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  Speaker 1: of the Grand Canyon, They're very far apart.
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  Speaker 3: So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys have reportedly not started any contract negotiations with
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  Speaker 1: Michael Parsons.
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  Speaker 3: What do you read into this? If anything?
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  Speaker 1: So, I've got Southerby's auction house, hearing Test, and Amtrak,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things to get
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to make crunchy tacos. Why not
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  Speaker 1: The greatest crunchy, greatest taco is the crunchy Taco.
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  Speaker 3: And I will I will fight to the death on that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So, first of all, the Micah Parsons story,
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  Speaker 1: as we do the show today, at this moment, right
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  Speaker 1: now today, it doesn't whisper. It screams that Parsons is
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  Speaker 1: not a massive priority. Like you take, Hey, this guy's
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  Speaker 1: the face of the defense of the Dallas Cowboys. We've
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  Speaker 1: got to do everything we can right away. He is
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  Speaker 1: the most important part of the offseason. To sign Michaeh
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  Speaker 1: Parsons to an extension. If you truly thought he was
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  Speaker 1: a generational defensive player. Would that not be the first
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  Speaker 1: move that you would make if you're Jerry Jones, He answers, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course you would make that move. But it's not
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  Speaker 1: a massive priority. It's fair to say, because there's been
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  Speaker 1: no talks to the Cowboys have had plenty of time.
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  Speaker 1: What are they doing there there playing with their hands there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're doing. But the salary cap
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  Speaker 1: has gone up, so there's a little bit more money
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  Speaker 1: to futts around with. Dallas has an opportunity here now.
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  Speaker 1: My gut tells me that the Cowboys will be doing
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  Speaker 1: some old multitasking here that Southeby's auction house will be
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  Speaker 1: brought in and they're on standby, not quite yet, but
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  Speaker 1: they're on standby, and Parsons can be yours if the
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  Speaker 1: bid is right, meaning a silent auction, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: And the Cowboys while they are doing two things at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, chewing gum and trying to walk at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, here, they're gonna be talking contract parameters
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  Speaker 1: with Micah Parsons. I don't doubt there'll be some conversations
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  Speaker 1: that take place at the same time. He will be
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  Speaker 1: placed right next to those old oil paintings and jewelry
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  Speaker 1: and watches and all that stuff at the Southeby's auction house.
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  Speaker 1: And now that doesn't mean Jerry Jones actually has the
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  Speaker 1: balls the footballs to pull the trigger. He typically does not,
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  Speaker 1: does not get rid of players that.
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  Speaker 3: He deems to be a star.
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  Speaker 1: He hates to do that, and then when he does,
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  Speaker 1: he tries to bring them back. And so it's a
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  Speaker 1: weird dynamic there with Jerry Jones. But based on the
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  Speaker 1: fact that there's been no movement up until this point,
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  Speaker 1: it tells you that the Cowboys have not made Michael
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  Speaker 1: Parsons a number one the biggest priority there, and you see,
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  Speaker 1: see what the market is. He see what I can
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  Speaker 1: get for that, And it's like putting someone on eBay,
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  Speaker 1: post it on eBay, see if anybody bids on it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe somebody wants it, maybe they're willing to bin on it.
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  Speaker 3: And a couple people in there. You go.
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  Speaker 1: But I look at Michael Parsons from thirty thousand feet
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  Speaker 1: up in the sky, and I see a guy who
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  Speaker 1: is the defensive version of Dak Prescott meaning low information fans.
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  Speaker 1: The dumb fan sees Michael Parsons, Oh, look at the stats.
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  Speaker 1: He's so good it a'll turn on. But they when
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  Speaker 1: you watched the Cowboys against better opponents, and Micah Parsons
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  Speaker 1: more times than not gets bottled up in big games.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't rise up, which makes him a stat bandito
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  Speaker 1: against weaker opponents. Better teams have been able to consistently
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  Speaker 1: handcuff Micah Parsons time and again. And at some point,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's only been a couple of years and
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  Speaker 1: all that, but at some point you guys say, well,
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  Speaker 1: who is the real MICHAEH.
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  Speaker 3: Parsons?
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  Speaker 1: Is this a guy that's just gonna put up empty
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  Speaker 1: numbers against the weak opponent or is this a guy
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna end up better than that and really make
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  Speaker 1: his mark against the better teams. Now, secondly, we pivot
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  Speaker 1: now to Bolt Tomorrow, Maryland, where the seafood is fresh
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  Speaker 1: and the football is foul, as the Ravens having nothing
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  Speaker 1: to say. Now the kicker, if you missed it over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, the Friday news dump leading into the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: Ravens kicker Justin Tucker is reportedly under investigation now by
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, the NFL Investigative Arm.
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  Speaker 3: They are known as the Keystone Cops, and they are.
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  Speaker 1: Investigating as to multiple women said inappropriate touchy feely eye
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  Speaker 1: contact during massage therapy sessions that things went a little
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  Speaker 1: sideways there.
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  Speaker 3: Now the league is currently interviewing three of the women.
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  Speaker 1: They have plenty of other women if they want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to them, and they plan on talking to more.
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  Speaker 3: No criminal charges of any kind have been filed. The
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  Speaker 3: Ravens have said nothing at all. Zippo.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So that's interesting if you're keeping score at home.
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  Speaker 1: The total number of allegations has grown now to sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: so that is eleven starters and five backups, or eleven
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  Speaker 1: starters a kicker upon her a long snapper and then
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  Speaker 1: two backups if you want to do it that way.
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  Speaker 1: So the Ravers remain mum is the word. They remain
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  Speaker 1: silent regarding Justin Tucker. So how do you interpret the
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  Speaker 1: lack of any kind of verbiage, not even the boilerplate
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  Speaker 1: response from the Ravens. So this is a hearing test situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hearing test situation. Now what does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: The silence is deafening, is what it means. And it's
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  Speaker 1: equal parts distracting. It's unpleasant, and it's ominous. It's all
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  Speaker 1: of those things. Tucker is not long for the Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: football team, and he's got a defect. He is no
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  Speaker 1: longer a great kicker. If he was a great kicker,
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens would have come out with some kind of
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  Speaker 1: statement talked about how, you know, we stand by our
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  Speaker 1: players and we're.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna let the league investigation play out. They didn't even
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  Speaker 3: do that.
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  Speaker 1: But Tucker is a diminished asset, and as a diminished asset,
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  Speaker 1: he is at the end of his career. You look
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  Speaker 1: at the age, you look at the way he played
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  Speaker 1: last year, and it's trending the wrong direction. He is
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  Speaker 1: no longer, mister automatica. And so when you do a
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  Speaker 1: cost benefit analysis of what's going on Baltimore, you don't
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  Speaker 1: need me to tell you that they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a new kicker and that they'll likely draft a kicker
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  Speaker 1: and some guy from directional you will be the new
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  Speaker 1: kicker for the Ravens and they'll cut the cord and
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  Speaker 1: then that'll be that.
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  Speaker 3: Now, final thought, We.
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  Speaker 1: Now pivot to the NFL Combine which begins later this week,
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  Speaker 1: but it will not will not have one of the
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  Speaker 1: plumb draft picks throwing the football. A recent report did
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  Speaker 1: not also have much positivity to say about that same
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  Speaker 1: particular player. We're talking about the former Colorado quarterback Where.
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  Speaker 3: Are you at? Where are you at?
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  Speaker 1: On NFL draft gurus saying Shuder Sanders should be a
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  Speaker 1: late for first round or second round pick, early second
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  Speaker 1: round pick. In an ideal world, this is a player
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  Speaker 1: that's being tags a top ten pick all the way
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  Speaker 1: from number one to number ten and likely.
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  Speaker 3: More so one to five.
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  Speaker 1: But the recent reporting says the actual guru say, based
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  Speaker 1: on his ability shoulder, Sanders should be drafted late first
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  Speaker 1: round or early into the second round.
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  Speaker 3: So where are you at?
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  Speaker 1: So these guys are using what's known as decorum.
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  Speaker 3: That's the word here.
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  Speaker 1: They're saying the quiet part out loud, but they're whispering
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  Speaker 1: the quiet part out loud here and say we mean now.
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  Speaker 3: The old word over rated.
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  Speaker 1: Overrated, Yes, without saying over and over eted doesn't mean bad.
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  Speaker 3: It just means not as good as people think you are.
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  Speaker 1: But shreder Sanders ultimately, and this is what the draft
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  Speaker 1: is all about.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the first round of the draft.
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  Speaker 1: Now, after you get through the first and maybe even
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  Speaker 1: part of the second round of the draft, after that,
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  Speaker 1: it's a meritocracy. But the top of the draft, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it is who's got the better marketing person?
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  Speaker 1: And it's Shoulder Sanders riding the Amtrak and he's in
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  Speaker 1: the locomotive on the the hype train.
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  Speaker 3: He's on the hype train.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the aura, it's the glitz, it's the glamour,
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  Speaker 1: it's the Rasmataz.
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  Speaker 3: All of that marketing is.
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  Speaker 1: A battle of what It's a battle of perceptions, not products.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about the product, it's about the perception of
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  Speaker 1: the product. And the NFL Draft at the very top
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  Speaker 1: is more about perception than reality, and the perception that
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  Speaker 1: you can sell Shouldar Sanders, that you can take him
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  Speaker 1: in a top five pick, and you can sell him
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  Speaker 1: because of the bloodlines with Dion Sanders and all that. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: there is a mini brew haha developing and it involves
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  Speaker 1: in Rappaport, the NFL information person for state sponsored NFL media,
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  Speaker 1: who is getting absolutely roasted over an open fire over
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  Speaker 1: a social media post recently about Shudur Sanders skipping the
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  Speaker 1: combine at least the throwing portion of the combine this week.
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  Speaker 1: No bueno, nobueno on that not taking part in that
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  Speaker 1: one at all. So rap Report posted that Colorado quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and potential top pick Shuder Sanders plans to focus on
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  Speaker 1: his interviews right fulling interviews with teams at the NFL
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  Speaker 1: Scouting Combine, helping them continue to learn him as a person.
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  Speaker 1: He'll allow his four years of film to speak loudly
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  Speaker 1: and then throw at his pro day with four draftable
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  Speaker 1: CU wide receivers. Close quote, So why does that look
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  Speaker 1: so bad? Why does it sound so bad? What's that
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  Speaker 1: all about? What it reads and sounds like it was
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  Speaker 1: written by a publicity person for SHEDR Sanders. The kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing that was just sent copied and pasted and
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  Speaker 1: sent out by Ian Rappaport from an agent or marketing person.
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  Speaker 3: Then we don't know for sure whether that happened. It's
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  Speaker 3: more likely than not that it.
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  Speaker 1: Did actually happen, because there's not an ounce of integrity
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  Speaker 1: in that. It's, oh, this is great. You know he's
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna let the film speak for itself, and you
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  Speaker 1: know he's gonna learn learn him as a person, like
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  Speaker 1: what is that about?
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  Speaker 3: Bull crap? Bull crap? As maneuvers what that is. And
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  Speaker 3: we know this happens regularly.
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  Speaker 1: Most famously, you remember a couple of years ago, Adam
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  Speaker 1: Schefter got caught with his pants.
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  Speaker 3: Down and there was an email chain in.
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  Speaker 1: Which Schefter was just repackaging commentary from an NFL executive.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Allen in fact called him mister editor, called him
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  Speaker 1: mister editor, which was very awkward, very awkward. But it's
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. It's quid pro quo, right, So if you're
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  Speaker 1: Ian Rapper, we're not saying this happen at one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, in a world, in a dimension in
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  Speaker 1: the multiverse, if you're Ian Rappaport or the NFL insider
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  Speaker 1: guy and you send out some knee pad comment on
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  Speaker 1: social media about how great a player is before the combine,
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  Speaker 1: and then they hook you up with insider information two
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  Speaker 1: months from now. It's I scratch your back, you scratch
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  Speaker 1: my back, and that's how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 3: From the NFL Rules Gestapo.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the rules of the game and some
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  Speaker 1: changes coming in the next month or so, or at
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  Speaker 1: least conceivably changes coming in the next month or so.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not heard and perhaps not here, we
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  Speaker 1: got you covered. We got you covered on this. So
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  Speaker 1: we've learned how the green Bay Packers, that's a football team,
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  Speaker 1: it's community owned, but stock's not worth anything anyway. The
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers have submitted paperwork to the NFL to
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  Speaker 1: banish the notorious Philadelfi Eagles tush push. The Packers are saying,
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  Speaker 1: no tush, get tush out of the NFL, is what
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  Speaker 1: they're saying. I assume you know, because you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: a sports talk radio show at a time most people
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  Speaker 1: are not that the toush push is the short yardage
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  Speaker 1: Garanti for the team from Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The CEO of the Packer football team a guy named
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  Speaker 1: Mark Murphy. Mark Murphy, and he voiced displeasure, not happy
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  Speaker 1: with the play there, upset with the signature play of
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  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni and the reigning Super Bowl champions. Said this
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  Speaker 1: about a month ago. He can play in the formation feature,
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  Speaker 1: there's a couple of players lining up right behind quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and then shoving his tushy and pushing him
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  Speaker 1: over the line the gain across the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: After obviously he gets the snap there and runs the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback sneak and when called and Philadelphia, it has been
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  Speaker 1: nearly unstoppable, nearly unstoppable in Philly, but not the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL. The success rate of Jalen Hurts and
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, that is the superpower. It is not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: the superpower for the rest of the NFL. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question what is the what is the word?
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  Speaker 1: What is the word for the Packers trying to ban
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  Speaker 1: the tush push? So I've got and we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: the word in a minute. But my thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: we have pugophobia, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and American gladiators, And
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna put them under the magnifying glass.
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  Speaker 3: Is what we're going to do, right under the magnifying glass.
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  Speaker 1: So to answer the question, what's the word for the
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  Speaker 1: Packers trying to ban the tousch push, my word is cowardly.
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  Speaker 3: That's my word. I'm going with cowardly.
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  Speaker 1: You could also use chicken hearted, which I believe a
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  Speaker 1: synonym of cowardly, but neither one of those work. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with cowardly. And here's why, right, here's why
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers ought to be embarrassed early. Honestly, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not an attractive play. But I've evolved my position
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  Speaker 1: over the years. I thought the NFL is gonna get
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  Speaker 1: rid of this. The first year the Eagles ran the play,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they would get rid of it because it's
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  Speaker 1: not good television. But much like Major League Baseball, which
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  Speaker 1: got rid of the shift, which I thought was stupid,
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  Speaker 1: I also think this is equally stupid. I have no
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  Speaker 1: skin in the game. I'm not a fan of the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. With pologies to fats in Philly and Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: and Delaware and all the other Eagle fans that are
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  Speaker 1: loyal minions and the Mallard militia. But you know that,
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  Speaker 1: But the Packers fan based and the organization should be
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed because like what are you doing here? Right? We
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  Speaker 1: can't beat it, we can't replicate it, so we'll ban it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just get rid of it. And it's just a
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  Speaker 1: loser mentality, right to tell me you have a loser
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  Speaker 1: mentality without telling me directly you have a loser mentality.
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  Speaker 1: It really is one of those Southwest Airlines commercials from
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. You want to get away. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a Green Bay Packer person, you want to get away.
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  Speaker 1: You're the team trying to change the rule. You're the
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  Speaker 1: one that's proposing this. Right now, we'll see if it
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  Speaker 1: actually sticks or not. But my goodness, right, and you
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: talk about soft serve. Now, my diagnosis. I am not
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a doctor, but I can't play one on overnight talk radio.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: And as a untrained amateur doctor, my diagnosis, the Green
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Bay Packers are suffering from pugaphobia.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Now, what is pugaphobia?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: It is fear of the butt docks that is what
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the Packers are afraid of. That touch push, they're afraid
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: of that touch eight. Pusch eight is what they are.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: It's not that deep. Okay, just go into the weight room,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you know, lift some weights, become bigger, stronger, faster, and
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you too can run the play at a similar clip
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: as the team from Philadelphia. And the play has grown
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: on me from the standpoint. It shows you who's actually
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: putting the time in in the gym on the offensive
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: line and Jalen Jalen Hurts. He's not my favorite quarterback,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: but he's obviously physically gifted in terms of raw strength
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  Speaker 1: in the leg department and to be pushed by his
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: teammates here.
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  Speaker 3: But it is a throwback play.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: It hearkens back to the olden days of the NFL,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: where back in the old days you were supposed to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: get and explode off the football and the low person
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: wins the battle and it was all about pushing forward
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Now, the NFL over the years
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: has embraced the woosification. If you've seen the kickoff, you
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. But just in the case
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of the Green Bay Packers, it's do better and be
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: better now page two. If you are Jalen Hurts, if
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: you are Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, what is your
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: reaction to this news that the team from Green Bay
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: is trying to ban the tushy pushy? So if your
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts on, this is really not that hard. If
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you're Jalen Hurts, it is a trip down the catwalk.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: You are walking down the catwalk, you are a dressed
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: well and you and your offensive lineman can do a pirarouet.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: We'll spin on the catwalk there. Congratulations. Now it's not
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: ben yet. However, all right, However, the fact that the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Packers are working to ban the play is such a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: flex for Jalen Hurts. It'll add to the legend the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: mythology of Jalen Hurts and the Eagles offense here. If
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: it is outlawed, that would be a tremendous feather in
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the old cap of the Eagles if it happens that way,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: because very few things have been outlawed plays like this,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And there's some comparisons. I think the most famous one
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that I heard when I was a kid was Kareem
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Abdul Jabbar, who was known as leu Ale Sinder at UCLA,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: and he was so dominant the NCED Double A band
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the slam dunk. A lot of people don't know that.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: If your a younger age, you might not know that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: But the nc Double A actually got rid of the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: slam dunk. Do you imagine a basketball operation saying we
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: can't have the slam dunk anymore, right, And they did
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: it because they said it was not a skillful play.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: What does that sound like? Sounds like what they're saying
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: about the Toush push And the rules committee said the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: ban was a result of injury concerns in the NCAA.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: What are the NFL people say, Well.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: It's not a safe play and it's not a skillful play.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Those are the same arguments that are being made against
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the Tousch push that were made against the slam dunk
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: when they banned that. And they even had data even
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: back then before big nerds took over the world, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: they claimed the NCAA, the people that banned the slam dunk,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: that there were like fifteen hundred times where players were
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: heard around the backboard because of the slam dunk, and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: so they had to get rid of it. And it's
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the same playbook that people are using you to try
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: to get rid of the toush push in the NFL,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and the slam dunk being banned was called the lu
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Au cinder rule and it prohibited players from making shots
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: above and directly over the cylinder. So it's a similarly,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: there's still be a quarterback sneaks, but you can't push
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and all that. Now, last word, the NFL owners have
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to decide whether or not they want this thing outlawed.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Are they gonna get rid of it or not?
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: The NFL owners could vote on the proposal next month
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: at the annual league meetings. They're in beautiful Palm Beach
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: for it. It's odd that the NFL owners never meet
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: in like Wisconsin in the winter. They never go to
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Ohio or Minnesota in the winter. They might go there
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: in the summer, but they don't go there, and it's
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: always a tropical destination.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Have you noticed that? Yeah?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Anyway, So if the proposal does not get taken off
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the ballot, packers could retract the or withdraw the proposal.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: I guess it is the proper verbiage. So if the proposal.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Goes to vote, then they need twenty four votes out
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: of the thirty two teams to ban the play, So
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: twenty four.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Out of thirty two if they vote in favor, then the.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Play is outlawed. See you later. So how should the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: NFL handle the torch bush going forward? So the obvious ants,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: so you know my position on this. The answer is
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to just do nothing and say go pound saying to
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: the packers here and keep it around.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: If anything.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: The one compromise, the common ground I will give you
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: is to level the playing field. Now, the way you
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: would level the playing field, since you are allowing two
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: players to push the tushy of a jailing a jailer Hurts,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I think what we should do is have equal tushy
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: pushy on both sides. So instead of just the offensive
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: players being allowed to partake in this, how about you
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: allow the linebackers to push the defensive tackles and make
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: it like American gladiators back in the day, a game
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: of tug of war and may the strongest.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Team win, because right now it's not.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: There are defensive players that can match up strength wise
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: with the offensive line, and Jalen Hurts of the Eagles,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: they're not giving the eye opportunity because if they do
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: that it is a penalty against the defense.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: That's making a strong man competition. Who's against that?
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Who would not like a strong man competition to decide
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: who gets the first down? I don't anyone who's got
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: half of brain who doesn't think that's a great idea.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: And as for the it's not fair crowd, you most
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: get rid of the torch porch it's not fair. Well,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: everyone has the same opportunity to run the play, So
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: it's absolutely fair just because your team sucks at it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: It is not the Eagles problem.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: It's not And you could also argue that for many
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: teams in the NFL if you've watched in recent years,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the forward pass is also a play that is not
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: fair because if you don't have a quarterback named Mahomes
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: or Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, someone like that regular season
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, then chances are your team is not that
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: good at throwing it, and your quarterback can't throw it
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: as accurately or as far as those quarters back, so
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: it's an unfair advantage. And many players get hurt when
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: they catch passes because if they don't catch passes, it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: hard to get hurt. So you're going to play that game.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: We can, we can play that game, and what a
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: fun game it is. And I'm not against playing the game.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money? Helloey, do you have what it
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top? Probably?
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Not?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Here we go, time to play mallos amount of money.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our contestants. And who do we have you?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: It's the eeny Meanie mineu Moe. We've got Brian in almoney. Hello, Brian, welcome?
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Hello man?
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: How you doing?
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: I'm good?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Now you're driving around? You're distracted? Are you gonna be
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: able to focus on the game.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I've got this game? Bet you sure about that? I've
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: heard that before?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You never know.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: He does seem pretty confident though. Yeah, well he's driving though. Yeah,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: guys driving sometimes need to get distracted. You all right? Well,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: hold on, who do you want to play with?
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Brian?
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: You got me? Or if you really want to have
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: some fun, Loreena or cool?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: You know, Ben? I gotta go with you?
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: All right, We're in it to win it. We'll very kind.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Thank you. And let's see here, Lorena pick one, two
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: or three? Larina, let's go number three? Number three? All right?
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: You picked Mark in Ithaca. Hello, Mark, welcome? How you doing?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: You guys are like neighbors. Now you can go hang
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: out with Brian. You're at that far away shovel snow together. Yeah,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: live the dream, Live the dream? Sure? Roundabout Bill fans
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: and loses?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I see? Interesting? Well who do you want to partner
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: up with?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Their? Mark?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Right? Interesting? What's what's the what's happening? Am I missing? No?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: No? No, okay, so they just all know I'm a
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: sports I recognize something there.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: We'll tell all right, Yeah, all right, let's go. This
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: is Malard's mount of Money, the Drew Barrymore. Addition, do
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: you think we're being pranks?
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Is that? No? No, we're not being pranks. All right?
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: She turned fifty years old over the weekend. Fifty that's right.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: The categories are et, the Extraterrestrial, the wedding singer, fifty
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: first dates, and miss you already Brian, you were on
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: the air first? Which category would you like?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: And Mark? How about you? All right? All right, Brian,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: we are going to go first. You on the air first.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: These athletes all suffered head injuries, famous head injuries.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Are you prepared here? Yes?
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Are you sure you're prepared? All right, let's let's play again.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: We need the first and last name, first and last name,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and we're on our way and.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Go a quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs right now?
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, oh wow, are you kidding me? All right? Lorena?
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, quarterback for the forty nine ers after Joe Montana
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: left handed quarterback, Yes, Cleveland Cavaliers. Storry was on the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Jazz is nicknamed Spider all right, the third basement for
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox. He doesn't want to leave third base
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: even now they signed that cheating astro.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is going back as well as I thought
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: it would be.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: All right, Well that was you knew we were in
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Joe when he couldn't figure out mahomes name.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: That was a bad son.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: The man's been in the last three Super Bowls. Okay,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: all right, sweet.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Mark, we've got a we've got a tough hill to
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: climb here.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, you're down thirty, yeah, thirty points, man, you got thirty?
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Commandingly unbelievable about a forfeit already?
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: All right, Mark, we have e t the extraterrestrial. These
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: pro athletes were not born in the USA. Forty five seconds.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: That's to begin. The Japanese phenom on the Dodgers.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: The full name.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Please he yes, okay, he said both names. The player
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: that just got traded from the Mavericks to the Lakers. Yes,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: the white point guard from Canada. He was on the
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Mavericks and the Suns. He won two MVPs.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy's from the Congo.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: He blocked shots.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, Big Macombo resident fee Yes.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Wow, this guy the al batting titles named after him.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: He's from Panama. He was on the Twins and the Angels.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Oh you got no stock, dude, du Lay Tulay Tulay.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Good job, good job Toula. And he got it after buzzer.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Well we still got to This guy is man. You
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: probably get massages like Justin Tucker. All right, we're up everywhere.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Well no, he converted, supposedly according to Adam sam Anyway,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: all right, Brian, we're up again. What do you got
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: wedding singer or miss you already? Okay, wedding singer. These
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: athletes got married within the last year.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Are you ready here?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: We go forty five seconds, runaway go quarterback for the
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Lions right now here, Yes, forty nine ers quarterback. He
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: was mister irrelevant and now he was in the super
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of years ago. Yes, the Greek freak
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: for the Milwaukee Bucks.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: He didn't I've done.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: What's his first name? Uh?
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Point guard for the Boston Celtics when they when they
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: won a championship with Doc Rivers. He played for the Lakers,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: also out of Kentucky. No play with Paul Pierce though,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: shortstop for the Royals when they won the when they
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: had one words. He's rookie of the year, made the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: playoffs this past year. His dad was a pitcher for
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the Rangers.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: No boy, good effort.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was Bobby with Junior, Rajon Rondo and Jannis.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah you technically got thirty thirty points that time too,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: because he didn't say giannis.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: He only said a ten oh stop finish.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Don't be at all.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Right, don't be a top mark with you. You know
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: you guys a ringer.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Go find the find the white suit mark find the
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: white suit.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: The twenty twenty five nominees for the Benny Awards. We
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: have the nominees I'm gonna run through these year. These
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: are the nominees for all the various awards for the show,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and we're excited about this now that the categories for
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five venues.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: We have Rookie Caller of the Year.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Now some people think that we only have the same
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: people that call up every single night to the show,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and no one knew ever calls the show. But we
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: actually have people that do call in that are new
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: that find the show, that worked the third shift. Some
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: people have listened for a long time, but they start
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: calling the show.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Randomly on a whim.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: The nominees for Rookie Caller of the Year are Daniel
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: America's Favorite Crossing Guard from Fort Wayne, Indiana, The Mode,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Joe Rising from the Bay Area, Tuna in Laguna, Mike
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Malepra Kahn. Now here's a controversial one, Kelly in Des Moines.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Some say Kelly's actually been listening for more than a
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: year and calling in, but who knows. She is listed
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: as a Rookie Caller of the Year. Formerly in Nashville,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: and our favorite trash man who calls one of the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: great bloopers on the TV show this year, Danny DeVito
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: from Boston.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: So those are the nominees.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to all the nominees for Rookie Call of the Year.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Game Show Contestant of the Year another very competitive category.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: You play a lot of dopey game shows.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: The nominees for the Game Show Contestant of the Year.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: We have Coach Russell from Orlando high school football, like
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the Belichick of high school football in Orlando, and he's
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: called the show quite a bit recently. And we have
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Manuel in Guardina, a legend on the show. He is
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: a nominee for Game Show Contestant the Year. Chris in Massachusetts.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Also Chris and Boston. Those are not the same person,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: but both Game show horse Mitch in man Cato in
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: it again for her second Benny Award. Kelly into Mine,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: so Kelly's in there as well. Lame Joke Contributor of
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the Year. These are actual nominees for the Benny Awards
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: We have Kurt from Earth.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Kurt from Earth, the legendary Chip in Maine, a great
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: joke writer, the man that won the title last year.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Very controversial figure Surfer Todd the comedian, the Great Gordon
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: in Tacoma is a nominee. Did yoab by him? And
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Noah in Austin?
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: All right? Very competitive gratulation.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, all the nominees here for Lame Joe Contributor of
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the Year, and there were some other names that did
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: not make the cup which should have been in there.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: The Top Ask Ben Questions a weekly bit that we
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: do in the show Ask Ben the nominees for the
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Benny of the Year award. You'll be able to vote
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: on this alf the Alien Ol Piner. Congratulations ALF for
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Dodge right her dog and that winner won the Land
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  Speaker 1: of Siberia. Followd Too I forty Ian, so he's a nominee.
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  Speaker 1: Also the King Rory, Cowboy Killer, Late Night Drug Tester,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and Lady Cidebirds are all the nominees for Ask Ben Questions.
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  Speaker 3: Good job by you.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Top Crew fill In, not that we miss many days,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: but sometimes we're away, and the nominees for the Top
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Crew fill In this year we have bree How about
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: that her first Zetter first set, her first nomination was
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: he nominated last year. Breez one of our favorites, Mark
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the Great Market. He fills in for Lo Rainer. He's
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the guy who's a White Sox fan. Bernie Fratto who
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: sits in for me Bernie Weekend at Bernie's The No Show.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Brian No also a nominee. Lead a Laugh sits in
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: for Coop and also nominated for Top Crew fill in
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Milkman in Colorado for his weed man hippie impersonation. So
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: congratulations the Drop of the Year on the Ben Malacow.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: These are actual nominees for the show. We're not done yet.
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  Speaker 1: Drop of the Year on the show. You can vote
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: on all of these. Well, look, I'm a nominee.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Look at that. I'm a nominee. Give me a taste
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  Speaker 3: of that.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I forget what that last part is there, Give me
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: a little taste of that.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Dick. Well, that's of course attribute to Dick and Dayton. Lorraina.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Congratulations, Lorraine, your first nomination for a Benny Award.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Me.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, you're nominated. Something about a pickle, Something about a
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: pickle there, So yeah, that's right, bro. And oh look
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: I'm nominated again.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Look at that. Something about chewing on something. I don't
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: know what that's about. That must be because I had
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: to chew the testicles. That's out of context audio. And
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: we also have hollering James.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: How about that?
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Hollering James a nominee for dropping. That's where he snored
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: and farted at the same time on the show.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Most impressive thing I've ever heard.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't think that was possible. We thought you
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: could only snore or fart. You couldn't do both at
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: the same time. And yeah, I mean you talk about
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: both ends.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Man alive.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: What a talent hollering James is and how lucky are
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: we we found him?
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: He found us man all right? Now?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Hey, a category that went away, but his back Blind Caller.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Of the Year.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: He's in the nominee for the twenty twenty five Benny
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Awards that helped make the Ben Mallor Show a show.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: And the man that well, he loves our show. I
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: think he loves the morning show in the Sports Hub
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: with Toucher and Hardy. I think he loves them more
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: than us. But he calls our show all the times
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: and called me for fifteen years. Blind Scott from the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: North end of Boston is a nominee. The classically trained
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: musician from a rod Shat.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: He's traveled all over the world. The man known as
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Inca Terror nominated for Blind Caller of the Year.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: We also have legally blind Christopher from m Carolina.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Congratulations on your nomination.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Am It the blind Seahawk fan from the Pacific Northwest.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: He's also nominated. And the man that.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Calls the show semi regularly, although more of a guy
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: on on social media, Stevie meat Balls is nominated for
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Blind Caller of the Year. All right, a few more
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: categories to go. It's the nominees for the twenty twenty
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: five Benny Awards. Listening to our live coverage, nobody else
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: has it. You know, ESPN wishes they had this, they don't.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: We've got it. Nobody else has. We're the only one.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Every network wants this, Larna, We're the only ones doing
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: this content right now.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: International Caller of the Year, International Caller of Beer the category. Now,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: if you think this show sucks in America, imagine if
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: you're listening in Europe or Australia or any of the
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: other countries the show is broadcasting.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: It must really suck.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: But the nominees for International Call of the Year Otto
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: bon Butch, who just left Germany, but he's still a candidate.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: A nominee for International Call of the Year. Hank in Tokyo.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Congratulations Hank in Tokyo. A couple of Australian listeners. Ozzie Wise,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: he loves our show so much he bought one of
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: those satellite things from Elon Musk. He's out in the
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: boondocks in Australia and he calls and texts the show
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: from out there because he's got that little satellite hookup.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Dedicated Ozzie Momentum. Great joke rider. Terry in England is
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: a nominee. Congratulations Terry in England. He's the guy who
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: does a lot.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Of lists Theready he likes to list.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: And also from Montreal, mister Hurt. Congratulations to mister Hurt
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: from Montreal. Now some would say this is the most
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: competitive category. Most competitive category on the show this year.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Intoxicated Caller of the Year. Now this includes all kinds
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: of trouble. This includes booze, drugs, pharmaceuticals.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: You name it.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: And I'd like to think that we lead all of
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: talk radio in this category that no one else can
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: compete when it comes to the level of intoxication that
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: we provide on a nightly basis, and it's so difficult
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: to really whittle down this category. But here are the
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: nominees for Intoxicated Caller of the Year. We have keg
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: drinking Steve. He's the delusional Chiefs fan. He actually returned
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: to the show a few hours ago near on the
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: podcast Jay Dot in Utah. Now Jay Dot went to
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: jail because he got hammered and got into like a
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: fight with cops in Salt Lake because he was drinking much.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: How about this, Mouthwash Mike is a nominee. Congratulations mouth
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Washed Mike. Very competitive category. Jed who fled, who's like
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: the og of intoxication while calling sports radio. He is
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: a nominee and the black irishman from Omaha. Congratulations to him.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: By the way, Mouthwashed Mike is online. Mouthwashed Mike, congratulations
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: in your nomination. Mouthwash Mike, I'm here, Okay, thank you God?
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Is that not on brand? Coop? Come on, that is perfect.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: He's not even paying attention, all right. Female Caller of
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: the Year. Female Caller of the Year, yes, clease.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: We don't have many women to call the show, but
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: we have a few of that stand out, and it's
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: not hard to stand out when there's not many women
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: calling the show. Probably, so all right, Female Caller of
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: the Year, we have Tammy in Montana.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Tammy is a.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Legend on the show. She worked the dreaded day shift. Now,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Andrea the astrology Lady. Congratulations, Andrew, I'm your nomination for
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Female Caller of the Year. Kelly in Des Moines her
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: third nomination, and Leslie and Braden Florida. Now a lot
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: of people upset here that our favorite drag queen did
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: not make the list, but unfortunately not other all right,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: we have the twenty twenty five Beer Drinking Brian Worst
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Caller of the Year category. We have two categories left,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: the worst Caller of the Year. These are the nominees
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: and another competitive category. Nobody has worse calls than we have,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: so the Worst Caller of the Year in many ways
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: is the highest honor on the show. Some would say
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: so the twenty twenty five Beer Drinking Brian Worst Call
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: of the Year. The nominees are Gunner in Minnesota is
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: first nomination. Congratulations Gunner, you earned it.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: Pal. That's a tough beat right there. Yeah, I don't
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: know how one beats Gunner.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Hollering James from Minnesota is James second nomination. Congratulate Mike
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: ma lepre Kahn has been nominated. I believe Mike the lepreca.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Is that my congratulations on your nomination, Mike the Leprechaun. Congratulations. Allright,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: he's not talking there.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: All right? We have Poppy in San Diego. How does
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: anyone be Poppy? I think he's the uh here's the
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: raining shock.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: He's gotta be the raining champion, right, Poppy in San Diego?
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: I mean this guy?
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Oh hey, how about Jerome and Charleston? All right, Jerome,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: way to go. Well, you're up for the beer drinking
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Brian Worst Caller of the Year and the final category.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: And here it is the most competitive category, some would say,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: the Genie in Medford Memorial Caller of the Year award
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: the highest honor and overnight sports talk radio. And here
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: are the nominees and you'll be able to vote on this.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: The link will be sending out in a moment. Here
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: the nominees for the Genian Medford Caller of the Year.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Here's a shocking nominee. Andre in the Commonwealth so soon,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: a multi time caller of the year, a man that
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: will declare himself the winner, whether he wins or not.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Marcel in Brooklyn, Right, a man that has also won
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: previous call of the Year honors in years past and
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: now is a semi regular caller to the show. Whoop
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Bee Pie Blair from Maine is a nominee.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Another multi nomination goes out to our nominee. Our next
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: nominee for Caller of the Year, Jed who Fled? Congratulations,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Jed who Fled?
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Our next nominee is a man that has regaled us
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: over the last year with call by call details on
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: the OJ Simpson thirty year old murder trial. We welcome
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: in helmet Man. Congratulations helmet Man. If the glove don't fit,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: you must have quit. How about weed Man Hippie every
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: week we Man. We love weed Man Hippie. He's a nominee.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: There are two nominees left for the Genian Medford Caller
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: of the Year. A guy that hangs out occasionally in
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: the jungle and he comes to our show as well
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: and call me since I was doing local radio.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Back in the day.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Manuel in Garden Dina in southern California. Congratulations Manuel on
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: your nomination for Caller of the Year. And the final nominee.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Here we go the final nominee for The Ben Maller Show,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Genia Medford.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Do you want a drum roll? I would love it.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: Draw I need a drum roll, in need I need
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: a drum roll? Here?
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: All right, Tony in the bay, all right. Tony's the
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: guy that calls up. He usually pretty short, calls and
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: then drops a bad word and I always laugh.