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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: And there is no story more compelling, more redonkulous than
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  Speaker 1: what happened back on Saturday in the college football weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And my, oh my, who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 1: We go back to a game that was not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be close. A game that was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: blowout city. Michigan, playing one of those paycheck games where
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  Speaker 1: they pay the opponent, come on in, we'll kick the
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  Speaker 1: snot out of your nose and send you without any
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  Speaker 1: mucus in your nostrils out of town and we'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a check for your trouble. So show up, hey, win,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's happy, we're off and running. Well, that didn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: and it looked like it did happen. A second opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: A second chance, a game-ending Hail Mary as quarterback Bryce Underwood,
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  Speaker 1: who was not only a quarterback, he was terrible for
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan Wolverines, but he connected with somebody named J.J.
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  Speaker 1: Buchanan for a stunning, heart-wrenching, I can't believe it, that
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  Speaker 1: didn't happen. How was that allowed to happen? F-up, F-up city.
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  Speaker 1: A 47-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass. And No. 16 Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: by the skin on their chinny-chin-chin, they get a win
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  Speaker 1: over Western Michigan 13-12, even though the Big Ten magically,
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  Speaker 1: and it is magically delicious, they produced a replay center
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  Speaker 1: video claiming that it supported the one-second ruling. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a single man, woman, or child, not a single man, woman,
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  Speaker 1: or child that watched that broadcast on NBC that believes
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  Speaker 1: that's authentic. That is some fresh bull crap is what
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  Speaker 1: that is. Holy crap is that bull crap. They just
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  Speaker 1: added a second. They just gave a second.
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  Speaker 3: You can't give it.
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  Speaker 1: You can't give back a second. They did. So what's
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  Speaker 1: the point of having the clock on the TV? Dummies.
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  Speaker 1: My God. Live television. Game over. Western Michigan. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: You just won the biggest game of your lives. Where
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  Speaker 1: are you going to go? I don't know. Back out
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  Speaker 1: to defend another play because Michigan needed another opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: win the game? My God. Now, the NBC rules analyst,
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  Speaker 1: Terry McAuley, said that the ball appeared to still be
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  Speaker 1: airborne when the TV clock hit zero. You know why
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  Speaker 1: it appeared to be that way? Because, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was. Now, the Big Ten has been
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  Speaker 1: trying to put out fires ever since this game ended.
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  Speaker 1: And they later on said they synchronized the stadium clock.
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  Speaker 1: And it showed that Western Michigan's Micah Davis touched the
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  Speaker 1: ball with one second remaining. And the Mac, of course...
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much they got, but they play along,
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  Speaker 1: saying that the supplied video and audio confirmed the explanation.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so that is a good jumping-off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Give me the word. What is
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  Speaker 1: the word? Give me the word for Michigan getting an
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  Speaker 1: extra second, an extra play, which turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: the difference in beating Western Michigan. So I've got goldfish tank.
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  Speaker 1: Auntie Anne's and Hammerhead Shark. And we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together, and we're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: delicious dragon fruit is what we're going to have. It's
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  Speaker 1: a fun, fun fruit. It's an exotic fruit, the dragon fruit.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have a dragon fruit. So, A, my word.
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  Speaker 1: What is the word for Michigan getting the extra second
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  Speaker 1: against Western Michigan? My word is carnival. That is my word.
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  Speaker 1: As in, a pure, unfiltered carnival of stupidity and absurdity
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. Welcome to the Big Ten bailout. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so the stadium clock there at Michigan Stadium, 0-0-0. Apparently, though,
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  Speaker 1: that is merely a suggestion. That is not the actual time.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the point of having the stadium scoreboard clock?
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  Speaker 1: Can someone explain that to me? No, you can't because
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  Speaker 1: it makes no effing sense. No effing sense. So Western Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't give two rats' asses about Western Michigan. They
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  Speaker 1: got hosed, though, the Broncos of Western Michigan. So Western
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  Speaker 1: Michigan played until the clock ran out, which I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'm old. That's how you were supposed to play. Clock
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  Speaker 1: runs out. Game over. Move on. Celebrate or complain or
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  Speaker 1: any of that. So Western Michigan plays till the clock
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  Speaker 1: goes to zero. They celebrate because they'd won the game
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  Speaker 1: because that's what happens when the game ends and one
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  Speaker 1: team's winning and the other team's losing. The team that's
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  Speaker 1: winning celebrates. So they started their celebration. Wait a minute. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: We need smell. Hold on. Big brother. Big brother. Big brother.
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  Speaker 1: My God. So the clock runs out and. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize this, and nobody really other than, I guess, Michigan
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  Speaker 1: players realize that you need to play not just 60 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: but an extra second. An extra second. So now you
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  Speaker 1: want conspiracy theories. Right up the wazoo. Right up the
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  Speaker 1: wazoo here. This is how you manufacture conspiracy theories. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I remember talking to somebody a couple years back, and
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  Speaker 1: they said, well, Ben, the days of the great conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: theory are over. because of the interweb and you hear
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  Speaker 1: stories in the old days about things that teams did
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  Speaker 1: to manipulate outcomes of games and leagues. You know, wow.
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  Speaker 1: And when the internet age is really difficult, you can't
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  Speaker 1: really do that stuff anymore. And then Michigan and the
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  Speaker 1: big 10 get involved. My God, it's, it's that second.
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  Speaker 1: Where did it come from? Can you buy a second?
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  Speaker 1: Can any team trail? How about a minute? Can you
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  Speaker 1: buy an extra minute? What if you need an extra minute? No, no,
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  Speaker 1: Where do you buy that? Where do you go? It's
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  Speaker 1: like a clockmaker somewhere. You contact them and no. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So the Big Ten replay booth performed CPR on Michigan season,
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  Speaker 1: just like that little CPR. And somewhere in the replay center,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, was in Chicago. The replay official, one of
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  Speaker 1: the guys in the back of the room yelled, wait,
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  Speaker 1: I found another second. What was in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the sofa under the pillow? Look, there's a second right there. Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I always thought like, we're all going to die, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's part of living, you know, it sucks, but we're
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  Speaker 1: all going to die. And like, wouldn't it be great
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  Speaker 1: if you're on your deathbed? Wait a minute. Let me
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  Speaker 1: call the Big Ten. I want to live a little longer.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get a little time. Hey, Big Ten, reply center,
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  Speaker 1: can you give me some more time? I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: like dying today. Okay, good. We'll give you a few
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  Speaker 1: more seconds. Why not? Okay, wonderful. They had that rubber-stamped
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  Speaker 1: block M on the extra second there. It was like
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  Speaker 1: going to see Penn and Teller. Like they pulled a
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  Speaker 1: second out of that goldfish tank thing that they do.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, look.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Teller just pulled out a second. That's great. So
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  Speaker 1: Michigan went from 0-0-0 on the clock to one second.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like those shady car people that turn
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  Speaker 1: back the odometer on those old cars. Yeah, it's turned
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  Speaker 1: back the odometer. So welcome to the Make-A-Wish Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: Replay Center. Where your wish is our command. Absolutely. It's
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  Speaker 1: like Mario Kart officiating. What if Michigan hit the question
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  Speaker 1: box and they got an extra life? That's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: You just play Mario Kart, hit the thing, and then
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  Speaker 1: you get an extra life, and that's it. And poor
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan. They got the full airport experience, the Broncos experience,
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  Speaker 1: of Western Michigan. Your flight has departed, but somehow Michigan
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  Speaker 1: still got on the plane. Holy, I happened to be
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  Speaker 1: watching this game. A buddy of mine was at the game.
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  Speaker 1: We were texting back and forth. It was a terrible game.
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  Speaker 1: Not a lot of offense. And then it is now
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  Speaker 1: went from horrific to one of the most memorable games
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  Speaker 1: of in this generation of college football. What happened? All right, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: keeping the theme of the hour going here, and we
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  Speaker 1: focus in on longtime Utah Utes coach, Kyle Whittingham, who
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  Speaker 1: is now the head coach at Michigan State. What is
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  Speaker 1: a Ute? Well, he doesn't have to worry about that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: He has to worry about what a Wolverine is. So
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Whittingham made his, I wouldn't say much Ballyhoo debut,
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  Speaker 1: but he made his debut. Always put respectable, well-coached, disciplined
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  Speaker 1: teams on the field at Utah. They're in Salt Lake
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  Speaker 1: and now at Michigan after all these shenanigans. In recent years,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, we need an adult in the room is
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  Speaker 1: what we need. We need a seasoned football coach. So
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  Speaker 1: they brought this guy in. And he made his debut
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  Speaker 1: there with the Maize and Blue. And it was, again, A.L. Stinkle.
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  Speaker 1: el stinko of a game and yet will be remembered
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  Speaker 1: for the ages because of what happened in the 60
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  Speaker 1: after the 60 minute mark 60 minutes and one second
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  Speaker 1: so the question is this Can the new Michigan coach,
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Whittingham, exhale? Can he exhale now after that Hail
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  Speaker 1: Mary victory as Michigan is off to the 1-0 start now?
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  Speaker 1: And what was going to happen, what should have happened,
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  Speaker 1: did not happen at the end of that game. So,
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  Speaker 1: hell no! Hell no! Kyle Whittingham did not get the win.
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  Speaker 1: He survived a near-death experience with the toe tag already
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  Speaker 1: being filled out for Whittingham. The Michigan fans, this is
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  Speaker 1: how embarrassing this was. This was one of the all-time
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing moments in the history of major college football. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see what happened after the extra second was added
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  Speaker 1: that shouldn't have been added? If you were not paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: So the Michigan fans stormed the field. Let me repeat,
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan fans, big bad, bad-ass, Big Ten Michigan football
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  Speaker 1: stormed the field after beating a Mac team. Hello? The
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  Speaker 1: Mac daddy. You beat the Mac at home and you
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  Speaker 1: sell it because the fans knew it was Fugazi. It
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  Speaker 1: was Fugazi is what it was. All right? Do you
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  Speaker 1: understand how humiliating this is? Okay. The Wolverines were a
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  Speaker 1: 27 and a half point favorite at home against a
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  Speaker 1: Mac opponent and the fans stormed the field. Embarrassed and
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  Speaker 1: angry mob would have been waiting for the coach. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: here's the coach. I believe we have Kyle Whittingham. This
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  Speaker 1: is his commentary after the one or no start, which
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  Speaker 1: was really kind of embarrassing, but you'll hear what he
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  Speaker 1: has to say. Here we go.
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  Speaker 4: This game will go down in history, Michigan history. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if it's in a positive way, but it'll
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  Speaker 4: go down in history for certain. And, uh, Bottom line
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  Speaker 4: is we're 1-0, but the reality is we have got
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  Speaker 4: a lot to fix, a lot of things to address.
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  Speaker 4: The things we didn't do well, we didn't play the
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  Speaker 4: run well on defense. We didn't run the ball well
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  Speaker 4: on offense. We lost the turnover margin three zip. We
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  Speaker 4: didn't make enough first downs. All this is squarely on
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  Speaker 4: my shoulders. There's no doubt about that, and I've got
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  Speaker 4: to do a better job preparing this football team. But
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you right now, there was not
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  Speaker 4: a lot of hooting and hollering in that locker room.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, there was none because we understand that we've
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  Speaker 4: got a lot of work to do and that we
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  Speaker 4: have got to be much, much better than we were tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the fans were hooting and hollering. And if that
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  Speaker 1: extra second hadn't been added by the guardian angel... for
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan Wolverines, then the angry mob would have had
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  Speaker 1: their torches all lit up, the pitchforks ready to storm
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  Speaker 1: the football office there. And there you go. Michigan, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a religious revival. Born again, the Michigan Wolverines. They
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  Speaker 1: sucked for 60 minutes, but they were great for one second.
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  Speaker 1: And that extra one second is all they needed there.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I guess it's now like soccer. Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: football is like Premier League. They have stoppage time now
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  Speaker 1: where they just add a second. That's great. Is Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State going to need it? Who else in the Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten is going to need it? USC is going to
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  Speaker 1: need this? That's so stupid. USC is in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: My God, is that stupid. There's a lot of dumb things.
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  Speaker 1: That's the West Coast Big Ten contingent right up there
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  Speaker 1: with dum-da-dum-dum-dum. Now, Michigan, I mentioned Kyle Whittingham at Utah,
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  Speaker 1: always known for putting disciplined teams together that were well-coached.
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  Speaker 1: Michigan had nine penalties for 80 yards. Western Michigan had
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  Speaker 1: more first downs than Michigan. They lost in regulation, Michigan did.
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  Speaker 1: got conference-issued resurrection papers from the Big Ten replay booth,
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  Speaker 1: and then Michigan, of course, needing that Hail Mary there
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  Speaker 1: to escape with a one-point victory. And Winningham went ride
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  Speaker 1: or die. The main point of contention is if you
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  Speaker 1: saw any of this game or heard it on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: that in any measurement, the Michigan Wolverines do not have
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback. How does that happen? I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: hard Bryce Underwood works. The guy's terrible. Holy crap. He sucks.
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  Speaker 1: You can't find a better quarterback than this guy? And
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  Speaker 1: winning him is ride or die. And maybe I missed it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't pay that close attention. But what did Underwood
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  Speaker 1: do to earn that level of trust from his head coach?
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  Speaker 1: Because he doesn't appear to know what he's doing. He
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  Speaker 1: played like it was Auntie Anne's pretzel shop. He was
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  Speaker 1: twisted into a soft pretzel by a Mac defense. By
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  Speaker 1: a Mac defense. And he's going to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and win the Big Ten and lead Michigan to the
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  Speaker 1: promised land and all that?
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. That's your quarterback. You don't have a backup? Do
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  Speaker 1: they not carry a backup? Is it a one quarterback
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  Speaker 1: operation there in Ann Arbor? My God. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: a competent backup on the road? Apparently not. So, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you don't exhale Coach Whittingham. You don't. You didn't beat
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  Speaker 1: the executioner. The electric chair lost power. Somebody in Chicago
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  Speaker 1: turned off the power. All right, meanwhile, last word. I
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  Speaker 1: must mention this. Several of you reached out to me
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  Speaker 1: and said, did you see what this a-hole's doing? I said,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? So, Kirk Herbstreet, Herbie, as
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  Speaker 1: he's called, we go to the merch department over the weekend. So,
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Kirk Herbstreet is, has launched something called the Peter
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  Speaker 1: Fan Club. It's all about his golden retriever, Peter. You
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  Speaker 1: see that?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: You did see it. Okay, good. All right, so Peter,
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  Speaker 1: who succeeded Ben, the golden retriever. Ben is dead. So
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  Speaker 1: they have Peter now, the golden retriever. This is the
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  Speaker 1: dog that gets VIP treatment on planes, trains, and automobiles,
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  Speaker 1: gets a press credential. All the things that normal people
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  Speaker 1: don't get, the dog gets. Traveling companion. I guess Herb
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  Speaker 1: Street doesn't have any family. Anyway, a Peter fan club
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  Speaker 1: pop-up store debuted in Baton Rouge. This happened during College
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  Speaker 1: Game Day, LSU's visit there, and all to help, all
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  Speaker 1: with the help, I should say, of the people over
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  Speaker 1: at Raising Cane's. It is expected to travel around with
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  Speaker 1: College Game Day. Merchandise includes T-shirts, hats, hoodies, stickers. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there's some koozies in there, dog bandanas, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And they claim that some proceeds go to charity. So
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  Speaker 1: the question, on the Malheur scale of absurd, the Malheur
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  Speaker 1: scale of absurd, 1 to 10, 1 to 10, how
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous is a traveling Peter Herbstreet the dog saying, Merch store.
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  Speaker 1: A pop-up merch store traveling around for college football. So
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  Speaker 1: on the Mallard scale of absurd 1 to 10, I
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  Speaker 1: wrote down on my scorecard a 75, which, oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, is the same price as a hoodie for
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  Speaker 1: Peter the dog. Who's spending $ 75 on a Peter Herbstreet
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  Speaker 1: the dog hoodie? Just announce, hey, I'm a loser. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a loser. Capital L loser. My God. Now, I will
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  Speaker 1: point out, when I first saw this, and I was
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  Speaker 1: a little hazy when I saw this, I thought this
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  Speaker 1: was satire. Another one of these stories that happens at
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  Speaker 1: least once a week, I thought, no, this is AI.
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  Speaker 1: I was convinced, no, no, no, no, you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to do this. This is really good AI. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it was the chat GPT or Grok or
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, or the Google Gemini. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but it was AI. No, it's real. At what point
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  Speaker 1: did a Saturday afternoon football matchup require a canine haberdashery?
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  Speaker 1: When did that happen? All right, so Peter has apparently
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  Speaker 1: become like a Ralph Lauren with the paws there. And
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  Speaker 1: I guess ABC, ESPN are in cahoots on this. They
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  Speaker 1: helped create the monster. And now what does he get
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  Speaker 1: full-time cast member status at Disney? They're going to have
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  Speaker 1: him in the main street USA parade and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess college game day has now become QVC
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  Speaker 1: for a golden retriever. All right. Even Gene Simmons, the
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  Speaker 1: great Gene Simmons looking at this thinking, yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 1: little much, you know, that's just a little, just a
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  Speaker 1: little too much. He just went a little too far.
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  Speaker 1: So we can now say, Officially, without any doubt, that
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Herbstreit, beloved broadcaster of college football who doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: much about the NFL but for some reason is allowed
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  Speaker 1: to do Amazon games. Kirk Herbstreit, his dog schtick, his
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  Speaker 1: dog schtickala, has officially jumped the hammerhead shark. It has
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  Speaker 1: officially jumped. The hammerhead shark, that's it. And they think
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  Speaker 1: sports fans are just complete rubes, total suckers. They must.
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  Speaker 1: To think that people are going to drop $ 45 on
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  Speaker 1: a trucker hat for Peter the dog. It's not even
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  Speaker 1: your pet. It's somebody else's pet. like what do we
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  Speaker 1: maybe i should get in this hustle rather than ripping
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: herb street i gotta my dog's cuter than his dog
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: moxie kicks that dog's head moxie will kill that dog
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: damn straight right come on i could sell moxie merch
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: mallor moxie merch hey why not if dumb people gonna
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: buy stuff i can sell that what what the hell
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: And the other thing that always annoys me, this really
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: drove me nuts, they hide behind the charity thing. Well,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: proceeds go to charity. That drives me insane. That is
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the ultimate cover for a hustle. That's the ultimate cover
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: for a hustle, the charity angle. Peter is not a
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: golden retriever anymore. He's a golden revenue stream is what
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: he is. So there you go. By the way, your
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: dog does not need merch anymore. Yeah, I know. I know.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Your dog does not mean merch. You know what your
• 20:39
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• 20:41
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• 20:45
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• 20:50
  Speaker 1: That's it. Oh, Mal, you're such a hater. I know.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: What dog? Dogs don't need a bowl of water and
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: a tennis ball or another chew toy or any of that.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: But there you go. So Peter the dog, not man's
• 21:02
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• 21:49
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• 21:52
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• 21:54
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• 21:57
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• 22:02
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• 22:07
  Speaker 1: but they played it. They started it because they had
• 22:09
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• 22:13
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• 22:17
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• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the Wednesday kickoff, but the curtain did go up on
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the 2026 NFL regular season, a rematch. of Super Bowl 60,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: which wasn't very good, and this game wasn't very good.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: So Patriots and Seahawks, they get together, not good football.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: The end of the game was fine, but the balance
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: of the game, which is like three hours and whatever,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: not very good, not very good. Oh, you're not supposed
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: to say that, Maller. You're supposed to drink the NFL Kool-Aid. Okay, fine,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: whatever you want. Well, it was a hump day special there,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: so I assume you watched or heard it on some
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: kind of transistor radio, but perhaps not. Perhaps not. So
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the backup quarterback, the backup quarterback, Drew Locke. Lock it in.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Drew Locke, a couple of late scoring drives, and the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Getting a lot of help from the 12th man,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: not the fans. That would be Drake May, who should
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: be getting a 12 jersey and be part of the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: pregame festivities in years to come. They should bring Drake
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: May to Seattle and have him do that little thing
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: that Richard Sherman was doing before the game. So Drake
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: May had three interceptions in the fourth quarter, which I'm
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: told is not good. Now, I didn't play in the NFL,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: but I'm told that's not good. And that allowed Seattle
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: to get over the hump on hump day. And without
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, that's not really much of a loss. But anyway, listen,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: so Seattle came back. They win the game 13-10. The
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: better story, though, is in... The losing locker room, Mike Vrabel,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: when he's not playing footsie with NFL insiders. He's coaching
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the Patriots. Here is Mike Vrabel commenting on his quarterback
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: who had a three-interception night. Here's Coach Vrabel. Take a listen.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: It's just a long season. You know what I mean? Like,
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: we're going to hold our head up high, and we
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: have nothing but the Upmost confidence in him and everybody
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: on this football team. And he's going to make a
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: lot of plays for us. I mean, you can't throw
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: three interceptions. Drake knows that.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, they said Drake. There you go, Drake.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: We put ourselves in some long yardage situations on the one.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: That would probably force.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: And I think the guy made a great play on
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: the last one.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be a long season if he
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: keeps playing like that. It's going to get people fired,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Drake May. Holy crap. My God. All right, so that
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. The better story is obviously
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room, but that's where the story is.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: The Patriots, this is an embarrassing day for the New
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: England Patriots franchise. It is. The game was right there.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: You gave the game away. You just gave the game away,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and that's on you. Seattle didn't deserve this win, and
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: that seems to happen a lot to that team. Have
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: you noticed? Like, something's going on there. I mean, some
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: kind of Faustian bargain, the Seattle Seahawks. Anyways, good jumping
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question, what happened to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Patriots quarterback Drake May here in the lid lifter on
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the NFL season? So I've got Mater D, Spinach, and Fuzzy.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: And we'll combine all of these things together, and we
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: are going to grab some supper and work out the kinks,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: which is what Drake May needs to do. So, A, listen,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Drake May was, I determined as I was watching the game,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and I didn't know this prior to the game, but
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: he was administered an IV drip. Did you know that? Yeah,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I saw it in a cartoon bubble in my head.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: So Drake May was administered an IV drip, and it
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: contained a mixture of saline and suck. And I guess
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: they left the saline out, so it was just suck,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: an IV drip of suck for Drake May. And in
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a flash... Drake May went from the 2025 MVP runner-up
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to the football equivalent of tossing cookies as you sit
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: on the porcelain pony, if you know what I mean.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: My God. That was disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. We have some
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: more audio. Here's Drake May pointing out that what he
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: did is a felony. Take a listen. Yeah, I think
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: we had the game under control.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: You know, I thought we had a good plan to
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: try to start chipping away and be patient. And, yeah,
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: I lost patience and it costed us. I think it just,
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: you know, decisions that cost us the game, you know,
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: on my part and my end. And, you know, I
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: vowed to myself to be better and realize it's, you know,
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: it's a long season, but at the same time you
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: can't have those. You can't have those and it's unacceptable.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: And I know that they'll get you back to work.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Because that wasn't how I play football and how I
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: want to represent my game and playing quarterback.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: For the Patriots. So Drake, in the middle of that,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: he's like, all right, what cliches can I sew together?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: And let me get my sewing machine out. Let me
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: put the cliches together. And here we go. So he
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: did get an upgrade, though. That's nice when you get
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: an upgrade. You travel. Patriots are on the road. He
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: got an upgrade there. He moved from coach to first class.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And then they moved him all the way up to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the cockpit And he said, boy, I'm in the cockpit.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: This is great. He said, well, yeah, it's actually not
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: a plane. It's the Vomit Comet. And he rode the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Vomit Comet straight into Puget Sound. Kaboom! So the Seahawks
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: offense produced, if my math is correct here, three points
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: outside of Drake May's tax-deductible charitable donation from his foundation.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: So the Patriots, on that final possession for New England,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: they had a tie in the back. They were in
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: chip shot field goal range. At worst, you go to overtime.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And Drake May marked it return to sender at the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: very end there. The game was in his hands. And
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: he said, let me go over to that Walmart Express here.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I'm going to hand deliver the game to the people
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of Seattle. So I'm going to do that. And he did.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: coughed up a hairball when the Patriots needed him to purr.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: And he chose not to purr here. So really what
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: he did, he did some cosplay. He was playing the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Mater D. Drake May was playing the Mater D here
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: of interceptions at the Pike Place Market, the famous tourist
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: trap there in Seattle. And he simply tapped out. Good afternoon,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: good evening, and good night. A passer rating in the 50s.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: And the Patriots just terrible. nine drives three interceptions one
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: field goal one touchdown everything else was a punt for
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the Patriots now page two outside of Drake May give
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: me a phrase give me a phrase to describe the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: wide receiver Romeo Dobbs debut with the Patriots because this
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: was a big story here Romeo Dobbs and his performance
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: here so the phrase I will use it's actually I'm
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: going to use a name I'm going to use a
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: name It's a musician, Jerry Lee Lewis. That's the name
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going to use. Dobbs wrote a parody song of
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Jerry Lee Lewis. is that famous goodness, gracious, great balls
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: of fire and his spin on it. And it's it
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: is original because you normally don't want this kind of
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: thing in your first performance with a new employer. So
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: he sang a parody song, Romeo Dobbs, goodness, gracious, great
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: balls of suck. And that was his version. And I
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: believe the family of Jerry Lee Lewis is demanding royalties,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I think. So New England, I read, remember this offseason,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: we talked about it, $ 39 million guaranteed for Romeo Dobbs.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: $ 39 million guaranteed. And he opened up his Patriots career
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: here in prime time like a guy that won a
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: contract in a radio giveaway. Caller number 17. You're going
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to win a chance to play wide receiver for the
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: New England Patriots. So what a name, right?
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Romeo.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: What a great name, Romeo. Romeo Dobbs. Patriots fans wanted
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Romeo and Juliet. Instead, they've got Romeo and drop it
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: is what they got. So you only get one chance,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I'm told, to make a first impression. And Romeo Dobbs
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: showed up there. First impression in a real game with
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the Patriots. And he had spinach in his teeth. He
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: had B.O., and his fly was down. Other than that,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: everything was good. Everything was good. So with A.J. Brown
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: dinged up, more on that later, Brown knocked out of
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the game, and he did not return. And the second
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: half there did not do much.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: A.J.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Brown, when he was out there, it was time for
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Dobbs to step up at the big boy table there
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: for Drake May. And what did Dobbs do instead? He
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: decided to curl into the fetal position. and take a nap,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and it was a good nap. He felt pretty good
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: after that. Now, his play sucked, but he was not
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: a security blanket. If anything, Romeo Dobbs was an electric
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: blanket that was tossed into a bathtub, which I don't recommend.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: That's not a good thing. So he was targeted three times.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: That's it, three times, and Dobbs had zero catches. He
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: had as many as Mike the Leprechaun and Hollering James. Zero. Zippo.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: And then to make it even more embarrassing, he's got
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: that that extra large pad on the helmet, which just
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: makes you stand out like it's just I there were
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: people will say, well, it's safer and all that, but
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: it just makes you look so terrible. It's just so bad.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: And especially when you play like that, you're like, oh,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: my God, it's like a throbbing swollen thumb. And you
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: just stand out your eyes. I don't know if you
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: watch football like me. There's a couple of guys on
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the Patriots that have it. And you see these teams
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: around the league that have the puffy helmet. And I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: gravitate towards those people because it's like what doesn't belong. Well,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the person with the extra padding thing on the helmet
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: doesn't belong. And then Dobbs in this game, he stands out.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: So you're gravitating your eyes to see the guy with
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the funny hat on the clown costume. And then he
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: decided to open up the Candyman concession, which was kind
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: of nice to do that. The Candyman concession stand. And unfortunately,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: they didn't have any Snickers. They didn't have any. three
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: musketeers there were no m & ms no reese's pieces
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: they only had butterfingers that's it the candy man concession
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: stand and so dropped pass by dobbs there was an
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: interception where he didn't fight for the ball you could
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: have knocked the ball conceivably away it was just horrific
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: all right last word to the seattle side of things
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: So there's already a pet peeve here. We're one game
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: into the NFL season. So the Seahawks lost starting quarterback
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold after the first drive of the night. Oh,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: my aching hip. Oh, my hip. Oh, my God. So
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: the backup, Drew Locke, came in. And seeing all this
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: nonsense from the establishment football media that Drew Locke was
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the hero and If you do believe the NFL media elites,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: that is how that played out. Now, Mike McDonald had
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a farm EIEIO. And then on that farm, he said
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: initial tests showed that Sam Darnold did not break a bone.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: He said that was positive news. There'll be some more tests,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: we understand, for EIEIO. Sam Darnold, so they'll spend some
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: money on that. The story, though, is about the backup
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: and the way this is getting covered. So the question,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: are the Seahawks in good hands if Darnold is out
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: with Drew Locke replacing Sam Darnold? Are they in good hands?
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: So let's call a spade a spade. This is not
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: an Allstate commercial. We would not exactly say anyone here
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: at the quarterback position, is in good hands. Seattle wasn't
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: in good hands with Sam Darnold. Now, you can lie
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: to yourself and tell you that they're really in great
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: shape when Darnold plays. That would be a lie. And
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: if you want to lie to yourself, feel free. I'm
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: not going to stop you. But going from Sam Darnold
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: to Drew Locke, it is obviously not an upgrade. I
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: will be fair. It is not an upgrade. I would
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: argue it is not a downgrade. This is a tick-tock
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: dance routine. It is a sideways shuffle. The sideways shuffle.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: That's what this is going from Sam Darnold to Drew Locke. Darnold,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: while he is not at the top, they're certainly not elite. Neither,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: of course, is Drew Locke. Darnold to Locke is the
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: NFL equivalent of checking out of your roach-infested Motel 6
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: hotel on the wrong side of the tracks and going
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: to Sodom and Gomorrah and checking into the Super 8
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Motel and then bragging to all your friends about the upgrade.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I would brag about that, so...
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: The narrative of a heroic Drew Locke comeback story. To
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: that I say, talk to the hand. I just talk
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: to the hand. Drew Locke looked completely out of sync
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: the first four drives. I don't know what he was
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: doing before the game. I don't know. It certainly didn't
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: seem like he was ready to come in there. And
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: they all ended up on punts. For those of you
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: a little slow, that was drive one, punt. Drive two, punt.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Drive three, punt. How about drive four? Punt. Okay. So
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the real reason Seattle won this game, Seattle won because
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: of the fuzzy. The lucky fuzzy dice. And somehow, someway,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: every single red light turned green. Yet again. Yet again.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: And Drake May, Drake May had a name change. He
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: went down to the courthouse and had his name changed.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: He now identifies as Drek. may because he just that
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: was dreck what he did was dreck when it truly mattered.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the ben maller
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: show weekdays at 2 a.m eastern 11 p.m pacific all right.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Why don't we do we have contestants cooper do we
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: need to get somebody else what do we got here
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: we have contestants all right very good uh should we
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: set it up right now real quick or just get
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: to what do you want to do here who we
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: got real quick what do we got say hello to
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: our contestants get that board set up and then get
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: to the game All right, let's see here. Who do
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: we have? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's go. We've got
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Uncle Moe, who's in Jersey. Hello, Uncle Moe. Welcome.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Ben.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Getting ready. We're in the middle of my 16-year offseason,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: but this is the part we play the games.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: During this part of the offseason, we.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Play the games. It's the pressing part. Who do you
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: want to partner up with, our guy Uncle Moe? Ben,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to partner up with you. Happy New Year.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy. Happy New Year. All right. Me and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Uncle Mo, we're going to win. And then our buddy
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Tree in Chicago. Hello, Tree. Welcome, buddy. Danny, what's going on,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: my man?
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Always good to hear from you.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Your Cubbies playing well. The Cubbies. Pete Crow Arms. PTA, baby.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Went a little slow, man. But, you know, we got
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the MVP this year. Looking good. All right. And you
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: want to play with Lorena or Coop? Give me Coop.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: What's up, Lorena?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take Coop.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: It's okay.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: You can play with him. All right, what are the categories?
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Quickly.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, we have the categories. All right, what is this?
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Let me click this thing here. We have the Patsy Cline?
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, the Patsy Cline edition. She would have been 94
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: years old today.
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  Speaker 1: Died way too soon. She did. A plant accident.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, 30 years old. The categories are Three Cigarettes
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  Speaker 3: in an Ashtray, Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, and Blue
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  Speaker 3: Moon of Kentucky. Uncle Mo, which category would you like?
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Let's go Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray. All right, and Tree,
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: how about you?
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  Speaker 1: Did you say I see three pieces?
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  Speaker 4: What did you say?
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  Speaker 3: There's crazy, I fall to pieces, and blue moon of Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: I fall to pieces.
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  Speaker 3: I fall to pieces.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Everyone hold on. We'll get to that. Mallard's mountain of
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: money in its entirety. We'll get to it. We'll do
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: it next.
• 38:44
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• 38:52
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• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Mallor's Mountain of Money.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, that's a lot of money.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: probably not all right.
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  Speaker 1: Right to it we go uh patsy klein edition mallard's
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: amount of money it is uncle mo in jersey with
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: me ben our buddy tree in chicago is teamed up
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  Speaker 1: with koopa loop here we go gentlemen patsy klein edition
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: uncle mo you're up first you picked cigarettes uh yes
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: in an ashtray correct yes yeah these athletes all smoke
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: or smoke cigarettes. Here we go. We'll start out with this.
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  Speaker 1: First and last name, 45 seconds on the clock. We're
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: on our way. Go. The Bambino. Babe Ruth. Yes. Greatest
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  Speaker 1: receiver for the Minnesota Vikings, straight cash homie. Randy Wilson. Yes.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Coach of the Lakers, the Heat, and the Knicks. He's
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the executive in Miami right now.
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  Speaker 5: Pat Riley.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Yes. Pitcher from Japan. He started Game 7 for the
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Dodgers in 2017 and got lit up by the Astros.
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  Speaker 1: Pitched for the Padres.
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  Speaker 3: Hugh Darvish.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, chain-smoking Lakers center in the late 1980s. Yes, quarterback
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  Speaker 1: for the Kansas City Chiefs, famously smoking in the locker
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: room during Super Bowl. Classic photograph, black-and-white photograph. All right, Phillies. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Phillies legend, won an MVP in the 60s. 240. 240. 240.
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  Speaker 1: Dick Allen. My bad. Dick Allen. Dick Allen. That's right.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: All right, Tree.
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: My bad.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: We've got I Fall to Pieces. These athletes have a
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: reputation of being playoff choke artists. Are you ready?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. All right. 45 seconds. Let's begin.
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  Speaker 3: Former Cowboys quarterback. He just got arrested for drunk driving.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Former Chargers quarterback.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Stan Humphries.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: No, like more recently.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Drew Brees. No, after him.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Phillip Ruber. Yes.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Phillip Ruber.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: This guy was a point guard for the Clippers, Hornets.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: He just retired recently.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Chris Paul.
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: Chris Paul.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: This guy was a pitcher for the Dodgers, one of
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: the best regular season pitchers of all time.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: This guy was on the Rockets and the Orlando Magic.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: He always looked stoned.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Strange McGrady.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: This guy was a pitcher. He won a Cy Young
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: for the Tampa Bay Rays. He later got a World
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Series with the Red Sox.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, man. He's bald.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: Yes, David Price. David Price.
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: 160?
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Blue Moon.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Of Kentucky or Crazy Tree. Blue Moon. All right.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: These athletes were all born in Kentucky. 45 seconds. Let's begin.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Best boxer of all time.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: This guy was an MVP running back for the Seahawks.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Corey Alexander.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: No, that's not his first name.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Sean, Sean, Sean.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy was a cornerback, one of the best
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: all-time for the Broncos. He was traded from the Redskins.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Cam Bailey.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy was MVP and Rookie of the Year
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  Speaker 3: in the same year for the Washington Bullets.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Oh, for the Washington Bullets.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: All right, how about Dr. Duncan Stein? Oh, the Chocolate Thunder?
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: No.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Point guard for the Celtics who won a championship with them.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Ray John Rondo.
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: How much points do we have? What's the score, Lorraine?
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: 340 total.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: All right. Here we go. Uncle Mo, he was a
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: spaceman for the Red Sox. Spaceman for the Red Sox. Pitcher. Pitcher.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Packed.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Packed.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Oh, come on.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Bill Lee. Oh, that's bull crap. Bill Lee.
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: Bill Lee.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: The spaceman. Bill Lee.