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Hour 1 - Avoiding the Bayou · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: We go. Welcome, It's our Nameber one hour one of
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Speaker 1: the original Recipe podcast, Happy Wednesday, as we get over
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Speaker 1: the hump on this twenty ninth day of January. This
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Speaker 1: is the original long form, non radio edit version of
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Speaker 1: the podcast. You'll hear all the bad words, all these
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Speaker 1: people that aren't sober calling up and saying crazy things.
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Speaker 1: But here in hour one, Cliff Kingsbury is staying with
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Speaker 1: the Commanders. He's not interested in the Saints job. Are
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Speaker 1: you okay with this decision? Also, former Chiefs offensive Guru
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Speaker 1: in the air quotes Eric b. Enemy his name has
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Speaker 1: been floated for NFL jobs yet again, believe it or not.
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Speaker 1: And how do you explain almost fifty eight million, over
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Speaker 1: fifty seven almost fifty eight million people watching the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: and the Bills. We'll discuss that and everything else right
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Speaker 1: now here we go, make a b line. Turn up
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Speaker 1: the volume. It's our one, not headed to the Bayou.
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Speaker 1: our lead this hour from the coaching carousel. The carousel's
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Speaker 1: pretty much done at this point. The music has all
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Speaker 1: but stopped. There is one job left open. It does
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Speaker 1: not appear that it is actually open. In theory, that
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Speaker 1: would be the New Orleans Shop, but the NFL traveling
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Speaker 1: circus heading to the shores of the mighty Mississippi River
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Speaker 1: over the weekend for the great media freeloaders event, the
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Speaker 1: Radio Row Super Bowl Week, where your favorite radio personalities
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Speaker 1: selling you products you don't really need or want. But
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Speaker 1: it happens every year in New Orleans, the host city.
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Speaker 1: So if you haven't heard the latest on this, we
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Speaker 1: are told now that the Commanders offensive genius Cliff Kingsbury.
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Speaker 1: He was the village idiot with the Cardinals, but now
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Speaker 1: with Jayden Daniels, all of a sudden he's at the
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Speaker 1: very top of many watch lists. So Cliff Kingsbury has said,
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Speaker 1: no Moss, no Moss. I am not not going to
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Speaker 1: show interest in the Saints job. I am rebuffing the
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Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints rejected, and he will remain the offensive
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Speaker 1: guru of Jaden Daniels in Washington. New Orleans supposedly was interested,
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Speaker 1: you believe the scuttle butt around the NFL. Who knows
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Speaker 1: what to believe at this point, But Kingsbury did not
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Speaker 1: share the interest, and he said no, I would not
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Speaker 1: talk to anybody when the Commanders were in the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: so they could go out and give up double nickels
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Speaker 1: to the Eagles and lose an embarrassing fashion. And now
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Speaker 1: has decided altogether Kingsbury to stay in the DMV for
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Speaker 1: the near future. So let us discuss Cliff Kingsbury staying
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Speaker 1: with the Commanders, And the reporting said, well, he wasn't
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Speaker 1: interested in the Saints job. Are you okay with that?
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Speaker 1: So I've got rainy Day Lulu Man and daily double,
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Speaker 1: daily double. We'll combine all of these things together and
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Speaker 1: we are going to make a grilled cheese sandwich with
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Speaker 1: the cheese inside and out grilled, the proper way to
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Speaker 1: make a grilled cheese sandwich. So my first thought here,
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Speaker 1: you always have to go into this wondering if there's
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Speaker 1: some ulterior motive, and I think there is in this case.
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Speaker 1: Is Cliff Kingsbury being honest? And he said, well, he's
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Speaker 1: a coach and coaches by default or not honest, But
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Speaker 1: it actually does make sense. It does make sense here
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Speaker 1: you take a couple of steps back, and he can
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Speaker 1: be a picky eater. He doesn't have to eat his vegetables.
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Speaker 1: And let's face it, the New Orleans Saints coaching job
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Speaker 1: is Brussels sprouts. It's cauliflower. It's not steak, it's not
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Speaker 1: prime ribs. It's the vegetable part of the plate. And
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Speaker 1: you can be discriminating if you're Cliff Kingsbury. And here's
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Speaker 1: why he is sitting on top of a pile of pesos,
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Speaker 1: a giant jackpot. Here, Cliff Kingsbury holds all the carts.
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Speaker 1: He reaps all the benefits of being bad as a
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Speaker 1: head coach, literally, he is still getting paid the Golden
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Speaker 1: handshake from the Arizona football team. Cliff Kingsbury has a
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Speaker 1: pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty good trust fund set up here,
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Speaker 1: a rainy day fund if you will here, meaning that,
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Speaker 1: like I said, you could be a picky eater. You
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Speaker 1: don't have to eat the Brussels sprouts, the cauliflower, the broccoli.
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Speaker 1: You can wait for the dessert if you want. You
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Speaker 1: can have the steak, you can have the chicken. You
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Speaker 1: don't have to eat the vegetables. Here he's getting his
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Speaker 1: head coaching salary from the Cardinals. Now how much Cliff
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Speaker 1: Kingsbury making seven point five million annually this year, next year,
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Speaker 1: and until twenty twenty seven, so he's got a several
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Speaker 1: more years left that The Bidwell family is paying him
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Speaker 1: a lot of money, a lot of money to be
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Speaker 1: a one day wonder, which he kind of wasn't here.
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Speaker 1: I have the good starts every year and then Alligator
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Speaker 1: Arms Murray settled in and Kingsbury wasn't that smart a coach.
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Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes with Jaden Daniels. But that's
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Speaker 1: money for nothing, and it allows you to sit back
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Speaker 1: and just kind of wait, I just kind of wait
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Speaker 1: around and see what happens and see how it goes.
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Speaker 1: Now turning the page, so we're hearing that another name
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Speaker 1: that we've heard of who at one point was a
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Speaker 1: whiz kid and a genius, and so many people writing
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Speaker 1: think pieces that this guy should be an NFL head coach,
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Speaker 1: and it was it was a great injustice that this
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Speaker 1: guy didn't get a head coaching job, except as he's
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Speaker 1: kept coaching and been terrible. We're talking about former Chiefs
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Eric p Enemy. Seems that Murphy's Law has
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Speaker 1: kicked in for the enemy and whatever can go wrong
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Speaker 1: will go wrong lately for the enemy. Currently unemployed. He
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Speaker 1: according to the recent scuttle butt, Eric Penemy, longtime Chiefs
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Speaker 1: assistant coach who bet on himself and lost, is now
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Speaker 1: out out in about He's spoken to multiple NFL teams
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Speaker 1: regarding openings on their coaching staff. Now some of those talks,
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Speaker 1: according to one report, I saw ongoing. They're using the
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Speaker 1: word ongoing. Okay, ongoing, what does that even mean? He
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Speaker 1: did talk to the Patriots. They said, ha, ha, you're
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Speaker 1: not Josh McDaniels. Want Josh McDaniels. We're bringing Josh McDaniels back,
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Speaker 1: so we all know the history. The enemy was with
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Speaker 1: Andy Reid for a long time. It was in Kansas
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Speaker 1: City for a long time. I was a running back
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Speaker 1: coach and then became the offensive coordinator. And during that
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Speaker 1: stretch the Chiefs went to the playoffs nine times in
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Speaker 1: ten years that the enemy was there, not necessarily because
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Speaker 1: of the enemy. They also won a couple of Super Bowls.
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Speaker 1: I guess this guy named Pat Mahomes might have been
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Speaker 1: responsible for some of that. So former Chiefs offensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: Eric Benemy, whose career is on life support at this point,
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Speaker 1: coaching his name being floated for NFL assistant coaching jobs.
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Speaker 1: Believe it or not. Believe it or not, so I
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Speaker 1: am agnostic on this one. This strikes me as an
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Speaker 1: artistic endeavor, meaning the art of man the station. So
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Speaker 1: Eric Banemy, I don't doubt that his agent is contacting teams. Hey,
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Speaker 1: we'd like to be on the staff their The enemy
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Speaker 1: is looking for work and he's determined the agent to
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Speaker 1: talk this into existence. So my experience in the past
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Speaker 1: when I when I ran my rumor site back in
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Speaker 1: the day, was a lot of this is. If you
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Speaker 1: put it out there, it'll happen, meaning you plant the
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Speaker 1: rumor strategically with some guru inside information person, whether they're
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Speaker 1: inside the NFL or outside, and then that gets people
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Speaker 1: talking and then eventually some team will cave in and
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Speaker 1: bring Bien me in. But at this point, Eric Beenemy
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Speaker 1: bet on himself. He said, I'm gonna invest all my
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Speaker 1: money in my stock. I'm going to Wall Street and
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy stock in Eric b Enemy is what
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. And that stock had about as good
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Speaker 1: a year or the last couple of years as Lulu Man,
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Speaker 1: Dollar General and Walgreens talk about a fall from grace.
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Speaker 1: He was the special ingredient if you believed all these
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Speaker 1: idiots in the media in Kansas City, and he was
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Speaker 1: wonderful there and so responsible for the success. And as
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Speaker 1: soon as he left Eric Bienemy Patrick Mahomes, he has
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Speaker 1: been pantsed everywhere he's been. He went to Washington to
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Speaker 1: prove he can win without a good quarterback and have
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Speaker 1: success without a good quarterback with the commanders. How did
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Speaker 1: that go? Don't ask? They sucked stopped off at uc
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Speaker 1: LA and did an epic belly opera with those gutty
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Speaker 1: little bruins of Westwood and now he's desperate to get
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Speaker 1: back into the NFL. It would appear the fish are
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Speaker 1: not biting. Now can the agent work magic here? We'll
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Speaker 1: find out. And there's so many coaching jobs in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: I find it hard to believe the enemy won't get one.
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Speaker 1: He's got to have a friend somewhere. But as far
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Speaker 1: as being an offensive coordinator, I'd be very surprised. If
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Speaker 1: he's an offensive coordinator. He could be like a senior
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Speaker 1: assistant and assistant to the assistant to the assistant, something
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Speaker 1: like that. But in terms of calling the plays being
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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator, no one is screaming for that to happen.
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Speaker 1: All right, final stop to television land we go the
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Speaker 1: AFC Championship game, which was played this past weekend Kansas
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Speaker 1: City and Buffalo, couple of markets that are not plumb
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Speaker 1: TV markets, Buffalo and Kansas City, but it didn't matter.
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Speaker 1: That game true a massive rating for CBS. We are
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Speaker 1: told that the Chiefs Bills game averaged almost fifty eight
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Speaker 1: million viewers fifty seven point seven million, making it the
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Speaker 1: most watched AFC Championship game since Ronald Reagan was the
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Speaker 1: president back in the nineteen eighties. It's a long time ago, wowsers.
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Speaker 1: So how do you explain? How do you explain almost
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Speaker 1: fifty eight million over seven fifty seven to fifty eight
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Speaker 1: million people watching the Chiefs and the Bills feel the
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Speaker 1: burn of the Chiefs and the Bills game. So this
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Speaker 1: is I'll be the adult in the room. It's the
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Speaker 1: daily double, daily double, daily double. It's the daily double.
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Speaker 1: You've got storylines and you've got stats. You had the
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Speaker 1: Bills looking to get over the hump, right for Josh Allen,
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Speaker 1: get back to the super Bowl and all those lunatic
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Speaker 1: Bills mafia people who were so worried about sports with
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Speaker 1: Coleman that they were celebrating like they had won the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, the idiots after they beat the Ravens. So
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Speaker 1: yet Bill's Mafia, all Jones, dup you guy, win one
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Speaker 1: for Josh Allen. I heard a lot of people say
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Speaker 1: the do factor was in all they were due, They
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Speaker 1: were due to beat Kansas City. Had that workout. You
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Speaker 1: had the intrigue of Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City trying
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Speaker 1: to win a third super Bowl. But to win a
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Speaker 1: third super Bowl, you have to get to a third
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Speaker 1: straight super Bowl. So they had to jump over the steeple,
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Speaker 1: you know, the steeple chase of Buffalo to get to
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Speaker 1: the game. And then you add a little eye candy
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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift eating popcorn in a luxury box. So it
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Speaker 1: was a swift boat for Taylor Swift. There the thrill
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Speaker 1: of victory, the agony of defeat, that human drama of
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Speaker 1: live sports television, all of it playing out, and that
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Speaker 1: was enough to arouse Enteres. And I'm not talking about you,
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Speaker 1: and I like, we're gonna watch, right, we watch. We're
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Speaker 1: the hardcore base. You don't worry about the base when
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Speaker 1: you want when you run for political office, you're not
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Speaker 1: worried about the base. The base is going to be there.
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Speaker 1: The diehards are going to be there. You're worried about
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Speaker 1: the casual, the low information fan, the dumb fan, the
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Speaker 1: fan that's not a real fan, of fake fan that
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Speaker 1: know't anything about it, but they watch it anyway because
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Speaker 1: everyone else is watching. The phony fan. You're worried about
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Speaker 1: the phony fan. If you can get the phony fan
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Speaker 1: to watch your golden right, it's compelling TV. You add
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Speaker 1: the fact that it was back and forth, Buffalo had
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Speaker 1: the lead early in the fourth quarter, and that is
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Speaker 1: the cherry on top of the rating. Sunday makes for
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Speaker 1: compelling theater and it paid off fifty eight million. Not
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Speaker 1: your common or garden variety game. And so we'll see
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Speaker 1: if that carries out. Of course it will. It's going
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Speaker 1: to carry over to the super Bowl. Who we kidne here,
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Speaker 1: They always get huge ratings to the super Bowl. And
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Speaker 1: now this is bigger because the Chiefs have a chance
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Speaker 1: to either do something that hasn't been done or screw
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Speaker 1: it up right at the finish line and not get
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Speaker 1: it done. But either way, that's your story. That and
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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift will be there. Boo hoo hoo. It is
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Speaker 4: Be I love you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. Now. Weed Man lives in Miami,
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Speaker 1: which is not near Duvall Cony. But I bet you
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Speaker 1: can say it better than the coach of the Jags
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Speaker 1: right now. Maybe yeah, even better than that though, is
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Speaker 1: the the facial expression of the new Jacksonville coach, who
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Speaker 1: looked as goofball as you can possibly look in that moment,
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Speaker 1: Ozzie was it's in from Australia. He's way out in
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Speaker 1: the boondocks in Australia where only the kangaroos and the
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Speaker 1: wild animals live. He says, who would want to coach
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Speaker 1: the Saints while they have Derek Carr. Let's not forget
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Speaker 1: he got Dennis Allen fired twice. Ferg Dog says, are
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Speaker 1: the live Reids actually live or where they recorded months ago?
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Speaker 1: They always sound way too good to be done live. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's a fine point for Dog. That's the magic of radio.
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Speaker 1: You don't know whether they're live or not. They sound
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Speaker 1: like they might not be live, but yet they could
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Speaker 1: be live. I don't know. Chipping the Q's rites in
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Speaker 1: from Ale seven, he says a plus in the Mallain monologue,
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Speaker 1: the fact that even Eric the enemies apparently didn't even
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Speaker 1: have a contact at the Saints job. They're head coaching job,
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Speaker 1: tells you everything about just how awful the New Orleans
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Speaker 1: job really is. Yeah, well it's an NFL job. It's
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Speaker 1: an NFL job. Terry in England says Cliff Kingsbury couldn't
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Speaker 1: make Alligator Arms Murray stop with the Xbox controller. Well
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Speaker 1: he did all right until there was that big tournament.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know how you expect any NFL coach
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Speaker 1: to stop their starting quarterback from participating in a call
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Speaker 1: of duty tournament that's much more important than playing in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. And who are we kidding here? Come on, please,
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Speaker 1: spox Weed writes in from the Oregon Trail. Spoxwed, an
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Speaker 1: award winner on some of the bits that we've done
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Speaker 1: over the recent years, says, does Cliff Kingsbury recognize his
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Speaker 1: own Peter principle? No? No, you never recognize your Peter principle.
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Speaker 1: That's never how it works. A slim Tim, a proud
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Speaker 1: cheesehead Slim Tim, devoted dedicated listener to this show and
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Speaker 1: work and looking forward to the rest of the rousing
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Speaker 1: show and away we go, There you go. Jose writes
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Speaker 1: and says, hey, Mallard, tell me I'm wrong, And then
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Speaker 1: he's got a side by side. Now I'm gonna describe
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Speaker 1: this if you're one of our blind listeners, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: describe this. So it shows Liam Kohne, the new coach
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Speaker 1: of the Jacksonville football team, and he's got a smirk
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Speaker 1: on his face, and next to him on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the image from Jose is the iconic nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventies nineteen eighties character Gumby, and it does look a
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Speaker 1: lot like Gumby. It's almost like the NFL said, well,
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Speaker 1: we need a Gumby like figure in our business. And
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Speaker 1: then they hired him to say duval and boy did
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Speaker 1: he say man did he say it with Gusto unless
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Speaker 1: he didn't, unless he was missing the gust a. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know what Jerry Jones had to say about that.
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Speaker 1: Jerry pointed out that when you say certain things, it's
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Speaker 1: it's not all well, that's let Jerry say, there's a
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Speaker 1: very low percentage of this that is smiles and glory hopes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: very little, very very little. I did see a story
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Speaker 1: there was somebody was, well, Jerry shouldn't be saying that.
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Speaker 1: That's not right. Jerry's a shame on him. That's the
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Speaker 1: beauty of when you get to a certain age. May
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Speaker 1: we all live long enough to get to that age?
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Speaker 1: The I don't give a blank. We can't judge old people, Ben,
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Speaker 1: We can't no why they live in their own ways.
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Speaker 1: You can't force them out of it. They just get
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Speaker 1: mad and angry. Now, plus you're like, you get to
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Speaker 1: a certain point, you're like, I don't want to play
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Speaker 1: by these rules. They know what the rules are, but
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Speaker 1: they don't want to play by the rules. And you'll
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Speaker 1: we'll all get there at some point, if we live
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Speaker 1: long enough, we'll all be at the point where the
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Speaker 1: ben Yeah, my grandfather, when I was a little kid,
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Speaker 1: we would go out family you know, dinners or whatever
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Speaker 1: the weekends, and he would harass the waiters at the restaurants,
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Speaker 1: you know, used old guy privilege, and he was a
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Speaker 1: master of it. He I'm convinced. I never knew him
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Speaker 1: as a young man, obviously because I, you know, was
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Speaker 1: my grandfather, but man, as as a kid watching him,
22:19
Speaker 1: I was cringeworthy. I was, oh, man, I was uncomfortable.
22:22
Speaker 1: And he just went for it. You know. He'd send
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Speaker 1: food back which you knew they were spitting in when
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Speaker 1: they sent it back to the kitchen, you know, spitting
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Speaker 1: loogies in it and all that. And he'd always ask
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Speaker 1: for like old guy discounts and stuff like that, and
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Speaker 1: he'd go for all the all the tricks. But I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was it was next level. He was like a
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Speaker 1: ninja when it came to that kind of stuff. The
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Speaker 1: way he would he would get or done. Man. Let's see,
22:45
Speaker 1: Bob writes, and he says, CBS went to break with
22:50
Speaker 1: Give It Away on Sunday, and I don't know if
22:53
Speaker 1: that was better or worse than you guys coming back
22:56
Speaker 1: with Danny California. Okay, I don't know what what is that? Landa?
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Speaker 1: Do you know what that meant? Bob that hot chili peppers?
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Speaker 1: I know boys he can play with? Who cares? Why's
23:07
Speaker 1: he upset? I'm all the things to get upset about.
23:10
Speaker 1: Shane in des Moines says a plus plus on the
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Speaker 1: mal of monologue open the show. I know you don't
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Speaker 1: take request, but a Newbie week would save my soul
23:20
Speaker 1: unless it wouldn't. Well, the problem with that is that
23:24
Speaker 1: not only would Shane in des Moines be shut out,
23:26
Speaker 1: but Kelly and des Moines would also be shut out.
23:29
Speaker 1: If we did a newbie week, a couple of regulars
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Speaker 1: would not be able to be part of the program.
23:36
Speaker 1: Thus the problem. All right, we'll go to the phones
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Speaker 1: at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight
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Speaker 1: seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine, and
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Speaker 1: we'll start it out with hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello,
23:51
Speaker 1: hollering James, put a leadoff chair.
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Speaker 4: I'm up to bad. How you doing Ben, what's up?
23:57
Speaker 4: Bill Miller?
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Speaker 1: Are you gonna get on bass? So? Are you gonna
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Speaker 1: are you going to have a solid at bat here?
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Speaker 4: What's your alias? Let's get a salad that bad like
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Speaker 4: Joe Mahler malware, power Baby, mawer, power Baby.
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Speaker 1: He's not playing anymore, James, let it go.
24:14
Speaker 4: He's not. He's enjoying his retirement. He earned an SUV.
24:18
Speaker 4: I just want to see you again, man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're retired, aren't you, James? You're kind of retired, right,
24:24
Speaker 1: You're not really working.
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Speaker 4: I'm kicked back. I'm enjoying the chicks coming in every month.
24:29
Speaker 4: You know who is president now? Donald Trump? Your guy,
24:32
Speaker 4: Donald Trump, the number one eight?
24:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, is my my guy, my good friend.
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Speaker 4: A little bit more on my social Security check in January.
24:40
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it. Ben.
24:43
Speaker 1: Those are your tax dollars at work, right there? Those
24:45
Speaker 1: are our tax dollars.
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Speaker 4: That we're not my tax dollars at work.
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Speaker 1: I know they're my tax dollars. Yes, yes, Well, how
24:52
Speaker 1: can we help you, James?
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Speaker 4: Yes, let's switch it happing. What about trade up? Jeeves?
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Speaker 4: We got we got Sam Donald right, and we don't
25:04
Speaker 4: know what to do in his contract. He's done. He's
25:07
Speaker 4: over with. How about getting Matthew Stafford in here?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's make a trade. All right, the
25:15
Speaker 1: Rams will trade you Matthew Stafford and you have to
25:18
Speaker 1: send Justin Jefferson back to l a deal. Let's make
25:21
Speaker 1: the deal right now on the radio. We're gonna make
25:23
Speaker 1: the deal.
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Speaker 4: And it works out.
25:26
Speaker 1: You would be willing to trade Justin Jefferson right now.
25:29
Speaker 1: I'll throw in Cooper Cup. You canna have Cooper Cup too?
25:32
Speaker 1: How about that?
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Speaker 4: I would love Cooper Cupp. He's a tough kid. You
25:35
Speaker 4: know why he's a tough kid because he plays with
25:37
Speaker 4: his heart and soul and he play that goes out
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Speaker 4: and plays with his heart and soul. Like I'm getting
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Speaker 4: out on this contract of conversation with you right now.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful time meeting you at the I know it's wonderful
25:51
Speaker 1: as it was like a religious revival when I when
25:53
Speaker 1: I walked in there and I met hollering James, oh
25:55
Speaker 1: my God, and all the other legends there in Minnesota.
25:59
Speaker 1: What an amazing night. Was Still upset, I to.
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Speaker 4: Be quiet for a minute until you got free. Remember
26:04
Speaker 4: when everybody stood around you and talk to you. I'm
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Speaker 4: till you got free. I got the opportunity to take
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Speaker 4: you over. There came with.
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Speaker 1: James. I feel like the rest of my life, every
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Speaker 1: time I talk to you, I'm going to hear about this.
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Speaker 1: Is that correct? I know? I know you do. Thank you, God,
26:22
Speaker 1: bless you.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: I have to ask Coop that I don't know. You'd
26:28
Speaker 1: have to check with him.
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Speaker 4: I don't know how many times, but then you'll know.
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Speaker 4: I'm telling you. Then I really enjoy killing you on
26:37
Speaker 4: the line.
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Speaker 1: All right, all right, I'm blessing right now. I'm a
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Speaker 1: little embarrassed. Can I can I move on? James? I
26:43
Speaker 1: feel like you're out of material. I feel like you're
26:45
Speaker 1: too fast.
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Speaker 4: You tell Arena we think about her too, but not
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Speaker 4: as much as all right.
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Speaker 1: I gotta go. Thank you. All right there, he's hollering,
26:55
Speaker 1: what a great start to the show. Man alive? Okay, Well,
27:00
Speaker 1: I hope they're enjoying it in Edmonton, because we are
27:04
Speaker 1: live right now on many radio station, including the Great
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Speaker 1: fourteen forty there in Edmonton doing live. They're promoting the
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Speaker 1: show there and we have had some calls. I think
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Speaker 1: they're promoting the show the proper way. We've gotten a
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Speaker 1: few calls from Edmonton over the last couple of weeks,
27:20
Speaker 1: so they're getting our show. There you go, Robbie the
27:25
Speaker 1: Mariner fan says Danny California is one of my favorite
27:29
Speaker 1: songs of all time. Good job by you for playing
27:32
Speaker 1: the song. Ignore the haters, yes, ignore the haters. Do
27:38
Speaker 1: not feed the haters. You must ignore the haters at
27:41
Speaker 1: all costs. So the manuscript has returned. It's been a
27:46
Speaker 1: big week for engagement. If you're in the business of
27:50
Speaker 1: engagement and you make your living on getting people to
27:54
Speaker 1: click things, and then you get paid for that, and
27:58
Speaker 1: there's a big industry where all you do is make
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Speaker 1: sure you put stuff up that's interesting that people will
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Speaker 1: click on with the right headline and away we go.
28:06
Speaker 1: And much of the conversation in our world has been
28:09
Speaker 1: about great conspiracies, and it's the illusionary truth theory that
28:13
Speaker 1: if you believe something and then you keep seeing it
28:16
Speaker 1: over and over again, you'll think it's true even when
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Speaker 1: it's not. Like, for example, the NFL is rigging everything
28:23
Speaker 1: for Market thirty one to win the Super Bowl, but
28:25
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stupid people that believe that that's fine.
28:28
Speaker 1: And now there's another timeless, timeless conspiracy that has popped
28:35
Speaker 1: up here that the Super Bowl logo, which we've kind
28:41
Speaker 1: of known about that put the team logos in there,
28:43
Speaker 1: but they they announced now that they've had the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: and Eagles the official revealing with their logos mixed in
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Speaker 1: the two time defending Super Bowl champions and they are
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Speaker 1: taking on the philadel Fi Eagles. Look at the Great
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Speaker 1: conspiracy this week, right the logo If you believe the
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Speaker 1: Deep Web, the Deep Dark Web, the theory claims that
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Speaker 1: the past Super Bowl logos have correctly predicted who matches
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Speaker 1: up against one another in the Big Game. Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: fifty six's logo had an orange and yellow scheme. That
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Speaker 1: was the Bengals representing the orange and the Rams representing
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Speaker 1: the yellow. It was played that game. Of course, he
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Speaker 1: could have also been the Chiefs if they had made it,
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Speaker 1: because they they have yellow. A fifty seven super Bowl
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Speaker 1: fifty seven that had green and red as the color
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Speaker 1: combination featuring the Eagles and the Chiefs, and the conspiracy
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Speaker 1: did not really work last year. It didn't really work
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Speaker 1: with purple and red, so that did not predict the
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Speaker 1: matchup of the Chiefs and the forty nine ers. There
29:54
Speaker 1: was no purple to be seen. But don't worry. The
29:56
Speaker 1: conspiracy is back because the forty nine ers taking on
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Speaker 1: or taking on the Chiefs last year. I guess the
30:03
Speaker 1: Chiefs were the purple team whatever because they won blah
30:06
Speaker 1: blah blah. But now the new logo out and they're
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Speaker 1: pointing at saying, well, see see what they've got right there.
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Speaker 1: If you look at the logo, it's confirmed. It's confirmed.
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Speaker 1: It's back. Ahead of the Super Bowl, believers are already predicted.
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Speaker 1: Matchup between the Chiefs and the Eagles in New Orleans
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Speaker 1: this year was predicted by said logo. The logo not
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Speaker 1: only claims to predict the matchup for the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: but also the result of the game because the team
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Speaker 1: whose color was predominant in the bottom of the logo
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Speaker 1: ends up waning. Are you saying with me? There'll be
30:46
Speaker 1: a quiz on this later. So who's going to win
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty nine based on who's got based on
30:53
Speaker 1: that theory? Well, if you believe the conspiracy theory, it's
30:58
Speaker 1: going to be the Philadelphia Eagles, who going to win
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl based on the fact that their representation
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Speaker 1: is more let me hear you all say, ye owe, no,
31:15
Speaker 1: let's go Birds. Yeah, let's go, let's go birds. There
31:20
Speaker 1: you go. It's all all birds. So if you believe
31:23
Speaker 1: the conspiracy, it's all over for Kansas City and Sequon
31:28
Speaker 1: Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles will win. Based on the logo,
31:34
Speaker 1: it's all right there in the logo. There's no way
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Speaker 1: to avoid it. It's going to happen. The dumbest thing
31:41
Speaker 1: I've ever read in my life. Well, it's the it's
31:44
Speaker 1: the interweb, that's what you want. And they keep repeating
31:48
Speaker 1: stuff and it works.
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Speaker 3: What did they tried to say that the purple represented
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Speaker 3: the halftime performer?
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Speaker 1: How convenient for their for last year when it didn't work. Yes,
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Speaker 1: that is Yeah, it's true. There was a halftime show.
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Speaker 1: They pointed at the purple. The forty nine ers on
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Speaker 1: one side, the purple on the other. All right, we'll
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Speaker 1: take your phone calls. You want to be part eight
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Speaker 1: seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
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Speaker 1: nine six six three six nine. So you do everything
32:19
Speaker 1: you can to pacify your star player, and then your
32:22
Speaker 1: star players like, screw you. I don't want to be here.
32:25
Speaker 1: It's happening. It's happening all over the place. Also, here's
32:28
Speaker 1: the who am I? Game? This is where I pretend
32:31
Speaker 1: to be somebody else, as we call it the who
32:32
Speaker 1: am I? Game? And you can answer this on X
32:35
Speaker 1: at Ben Mallard. Who that's at? Ben Maller, I was
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Speaker 1: the last non kicker slash punter to wear a single
32:45
Speaker 1: bar face mask in the NFL. Now it's been a minute,
32:50
Speaker 1: but again, I was the last non kicker or punter
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Speaker 1: meaning some other position to wear that old single bar
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Speaker 1: face mask in an NFL game. Who am I? Who that? Well,
33:05
Speaker 1: you'll have to guess who I am. I'm not gonna
33:06
Speaker 1: tell you right now, but if you want to give
33:08
Speaker 1: it a shot, send me a message on X at
33:10
Speaker 1: Ben Mahler. Again, I was the last non kicker slash
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Speaker 1: punter to wear a single bar face mask in an
33:18
Speaker 1: NFL game. Who Am I? The answer? We'll get to it.
33:24
Speaker 1: We'll take more of your calls, and we will do
33:27
Speaker 1: it next.
33:29
Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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Speaker 3: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
33:35
Speaker 1: Bill Miller reminding you to be part of the social
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33:58
Speaker 1: know about the program. There is no advertising budget, there's nothing,
34:04
Speaker 1: no promotion. The only promotion we have is your fat
34:08
Speaker 1: mouth and your fingers doing the talking for us. So
34:11
Speaker 1: let people know. But the little secret radio show that
34:16
Speaker 1: could here in the middle of the night. Now back
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Speaker 1: to it and Benny Blowhard. No, it's Benny from Benny
34:24
Speaker 1: Versus the Penny, which we'll have a new episode this weekend.
34:28
Speaker 1: I was actually I had some meetings with the producer.
34:33
Speaker 1: We're going back and forth for Benny Versus the Penny.
34:36
Speaker 1: We're trying to decide what we're going to talk about
34:38
Speaker 1: because there are no games to discuss, so we're strategizing
34:41
Speaker 1: what we're going to do to kill a half hour
34:43
Speaker 1: of valuable TV time. So we'll see, we'll see what
34:47
Speaker 1: we come up with with that. But we're working on that.
34:49
Speaker 1: We're efforting that. Have some more more meetings later today,
34:53
Speaker 1: some more things to take care of on that, so
34:55
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with the TV show. But we're
34:57
Speaker 1: in the radio show right now, and here is the
34:59
Speaker 1: who I game. It's where I pretend to be somebody else.
35:03
Speaker 1: Thus we call it to who am I? Game? And
35:05
Speaker 1: here it is. I was the last non kicker who
35:09
Speaker 1: slash punter to wear a single bar face mask in
35:14
Speaker 1: the NFL. Now, when I was a kid, and back
35:18
Speaker 1: in my day, when you bought one of those replica
35:20
Speaker 1: NFL kid jerseys and helmets, they all had the single
35:25
Speaker 1: bar face mask and it was like so stupid. But
35:28
Speaker 1: there was one player, the last player, last of the Mohigans,
35:31
Speaker 1: that had that actual face mask in a game. So again,
35:35
Speaker 1: I was the last non kicker punter to wear a
35:37
Speaker 1: single bar face mask in the NFL. Who am I?
35:41
Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer, hollering James?
35:45
Speaker 1: Guess by Mallard property that does look just like hollering James.
35:50
Speaker 1: You nailed it. If hollering James played for the Vikings,
35:53
Speaker 1: that would be him in uniform. Shane and the Moyne
35:56
Speaker 1: going with former Miami Heat player versus Sean Leonard as
36:02
Speaker 1: his selection. Andy Reid as a child, Big Andy Reid
36:08
Speaker 1: from King Rory. Who else do we have? Robbie the
36:11
Speaker 1: Mariner fan from the goat Man. Oh, that is Robbie.
36:14
Speaker 1: Look at Robbie out there playing ball. I didn't know
36:16
Speaker 1: Robbie was a ballplayer. I had no idea superstar. Billy
36:19
Speaker 1: Graham from Rob in Vegas, a legend, omar infante, not
36:23
Speaker 1: a legend from mister nice guy. Mark Gasol, who is
36:27
Speaker 1: forty today? Forty Mark Gasol from the Late Night Drug
36:33
Speaker 1: Tester Andy going with Ray Finkel and that's Andy in
36:38
Speaker 1: line O Lakes, Minnesota. Eric Metcalf from Rob in Minnesota.
36:41
Speaker 1: Met Rob at the Malameat Greek. He was down there
36:44
Speaker 1: hanging out. We did that back in the day. Robbie
36:47
Speaker 1: the Mariner fan says Chance Nolan, former saddleback and Beaver
36:51
Speaker 1: quarterback and now New York Yankee minor league pitcher. Yes,
36:56
Speaker 1: you read that correctly. Well, if he's a former battle
37:00
Speaker 1: back gauchow, he'll be fine. Because the player that had
37:03
Speaker 1: the most hits in Major League Baseball in the decade
37:06
Speaker 1: of the nineteen nineties, a former saddleback gaucho, the great
37:09
Speaker 1: Mark Grace of the Chicago Cups. Who else do we
37:12
Speaker 1: have page down? Nature boy checks and he says, Elmer J.
37:15
Speaker 1: Fudd millionaire is the correct answer. Lawson going with Willie
37:22
Speaker 1: Lanier as his selection. Who else do we have page down?
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Speaker 1: Super Marcus. Steve says, the last player I remember wearing
37:30
Speaker 1: a single bar face mask was Bobby Bouche, but he
37:34
Speaker 1: only played in college, and that's his answer. Steve the
37:38
Speaker 1: misplaced San Diegan going with former Montreal ex bow legend
37:42
Speaker 1: the Great Ellis Valentine as his answer. Jim Click from
37:45
Speaker 1: James DJ Spin in San Diego going with Charlie Joyner
37:50
Speaker 1: for the old San Diego Chargers. Bart Starr from Don Juan.
37:54
Speaker 1: That's his answer. Don Maynard from EK met him as
37:58
Speaker 1: well at the Malama. The Ambassador of Bakersfield got this right.
38:02
Speaker 1: You're obviously cheating. It's a bad job by you. You
38:05
Speaker 1: should be better than that. Rod. You're the ambassador of
38:08
Speaker 1: bleeping Bakersfield. Shame on you, all right, Lorena, do you
38:12
Speaker 1: know it's not Doug Flutie guessed by Brendan. It's not
38:15
Speaker 1: Captain Crunch, although I loved Captain Crunch when I was
38:17
Speaker 1: a fat kid growing up. That's from Trent. It's not him,
38:20
Speaker 1: not not Mark Moseley from Fat Daddy. That's not the answer.
38:24
Speaker 1: Do you have an answer, Lorraina. My guess was going
38:26
Speaker 1: to be Troy Polamalu Ben Troy Palamer what team did
38:30
Speaker 1: he play for? He was on the one with the Colors. Yes,
38:35
Speaker 1: that is correct, all right, No, you're unfortunately correct. The
38:38
Speaker 1: correct answer a man who changed his name to win
38:42
Speaker 1: a college award at Notre Dame. Joe Thyman. Joe, He's
38:50
Speaker 1: the answer with the old Washington Redskins back in the
38:53
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, Joe Fisman the last? How about that? Here?
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Speaker 1: All right? Lorena? Too much weed? What do we got
39:01
Speaker 1: going on? My goodness, are you trying to get the
39:04
Speaker 1: show over with? Lorena already? Well, it is midnight in
39:10
Speaker 1: some places, it's past midnight and other places. Unfortunately, here
39:15
Speaker 1: in the Magic Radio Box, it's only our one. I
39:18
Speaker 1: know you want it to be our number two, but
39:20
Speaker 1: it is not our number two. All right, it's first errors.
39:26
Speaker 1: That's E one on your scorecard. It is duly noted.
39:29
Speaker 1: So I did want to mention this. The Sacramento Kings
39:32
Speaker 1: trying to pacify one of their star players, really their
39:36
Speaker 1: biggest start, the Aaron Fox. So they fired Mike Brown.
39:41
Speaker 1: And now a month after they fired their head coach,
39:45
Speaker 1: seemingly to appease d Aaron Fox, he has requested a
39:49
Speaker 1: trade from the Sacramento Kings. And we don't talk a
39:54
Speaker 1: much NBA right now because it's football playoffs and all that,
39:56
Speaker 1: but there's all kinds of chatter that he's going to
39:58
Speaker 1: go this team that does birth, the Lakers and all that,
40:02
Speaker 1: and makes my eyes spin in my head round and
40:06
Speaker 1: round and round and round and round and round and
40:08
Speaker 1: round and round and round and round,