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Hour 4 - Philly Confessional · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Great balls of fire. And wowie kazowie. It's our number four.
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  Speaker 1: Our four ready to go. And it hurts so good.
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  Speaker 1: Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts saying on the record, on the record,
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  Speaker 1: that he clearly grew apart, grew apart from former.
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  Speaker 2: Teammate wide receiver A.J.
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  Speaker 3: Brown.
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  Speaker 1: How are you interpreting this latest plot twist in this
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  Speaker 1: developing story? Also, Cowboys executive. The NEPO exec, Stephen Jones,
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  Speaker 1: says it will be really difficult to keep both CeeDee
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  Speaker 1: Lamb and George Pickens long-term.
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  Speaker 2: Can you untangle the wording on this one?
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  Speaker 1: And is Titans coach Robert Sala betting on the wrong
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  Speaker 1: horse to stake his reputation on Cam Ward? We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. Have a wonderful Thursday, this third day of September.
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  Speaker 2: And here it is, hour number four.
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  Speaker 1: You probably have heard of the Philly Special. Well, this
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  Speaker 1: is a spin on the Philly Special. It's the Philly Confessional.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: So our lead story this hour, our lead story is
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: not from Pro Bouncy Ball. We did do a full
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: Malheur rant on that.
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  Speaker 2: Malheur monologue. You can hear that later on on the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: So make sure to listen to that later.
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  Speaker 1: Today as the people's team, the Clippers, under siege. by
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, and this is going to be a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: story for years to come. We are going to get
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  Speaker 1: so much content as one of the 10 richest people
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: in the world, I believe, Mr. Balmer, he can be
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  Speaker 1: a screaming meanie. He can be a screaming meanie because
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  Speaker 1: he's got FU money times infinity and beyond, and he's
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  Speaker 1: not happy.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens with that. But our lead
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  Speaker 2: this hour is from Philadelphia. A story that.
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  Speaker 1: We have chronicled many times over the last couple years.
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  Speaker 1: And I've gotten a lot of pushback from my friends
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  Speaker 1: in the Delaware Valley.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it turns out, yeah, it turns out they might
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  Speaker 2: want to send a follow-up email. So if you didn't
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  Speaker 2: see this, perhaps not. Jalen Hurts has confirmed, confirmed that
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  Speaker 2: he and former teammate A.J. Brown, now the Patriots, had
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  Speaker 2: grown apart.
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  Speaker 1: During Brown's final season there in Philly, he told GQ
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  Speaker 1: magazine three words when asked about this.
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  Speaker 2: He said, quote, I mean clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Brown, who was beginning his first season with Mike
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  Speaker 1: Rabel's Patriots, and now he's gone through the old training
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  Speaker 1: camp and all that, he had previously said, I think
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  Speaker 1: back in June, in fact, that nothing happened, people just
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  Speaker 1: grow apart.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Now, A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Insisted there was no falling out. involving Hurts or their families.
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  Speaker 1: The two were once very, very close. The story that
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  Speaker 1: has been repeated ad nauseum over the years here that
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  Speaker 1: Hurts hosted A.J. Brown on an Alabama recruiting visit. Clearly
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  Speaker 1: didn't do a good enough job because last I checked, A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown didn't go to Alabama. Anyway, they trained together during
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  Speaker 1: off seasons and Hurts even became the godfather of Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brown's daughter, And so they were tight.
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  Speaker 2: Not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts saying on the record
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  Speaker 1: to that great NFL insider at GQ magazine that he, quote,
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  Speaker 1: clearly grew apart from wide receiver A.J.
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  Speaker 3: Brown.
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  Speaker 1: How are you interpreting this? So I've got unlimited wristband.
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  Speaker 1: Will the Beast Stampeding, and Jiffy Lube. And we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to have an all-you-can-eat buffet of the gabagoo.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have the baba ganoush. And then, if
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  Speaker 2: that's not enough, we have a big pot of the jambalaya.
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  Speaker 1: We got all that ready to go. Now, we kick
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  Speaker 1: off with this. The reason I'm beginning this hour of
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  Speaker 1: the show with the A.J.
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  Speaker 2: Brown, Jalen Hurts story, is because I got so much crap,
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  Speaker 2: which I just don't understand. You idiots from Eagle fans. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's why you're a national guy. You're the overnight guy.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you're 2 in the morning. You just hate
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles. You know, that's why you did this. There's
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  Speaker 2: no truth to it. When I do these rants about
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts and A.J. It's not like they hit it.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't even doing anything that original.
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  Speaker 2: It was obvious. Anyone with a functioning mind knows these
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  Speaker 2: guys hated each other. The human condition torpedoed that relationship. Period. Stop. Specifically,
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  Speaker 2: target practice was the problem.
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  Speaker 4: A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown didn't suddenly grow apart from Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 2: That's the company line. He didn't grow apart because.
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  Speaker 1: As our friend Andrea, the astrology insider, would say that
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  Speaker 1: Mercury was in retrograde.
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  Speaker 2: They stopped exchanging cards.
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  Speaker 5: A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown got married and did not invite Jalen Hurts to
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  Speaker 1: the wedding. OK, and his whole story hurts is the
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  Speaker 1: godfather of Brown's daughter. And he didn't get invited. That's
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  Speaker 1: more than just a growing apart situation. And it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just the final season together.
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  Speaker 2: They won a Super Bowl and they didn't like each other.
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  Speaker 2: This has been bubbling up until it finally popped. The
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  Speaker 2: Eagles have become hopelessly addicted to the tush push. It's
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  Speaker 2: the only thing they truly do really well on offense
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  Speaker 2: is the tush push. That's it. And they treat the
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  Speaker 2: brotherly shove, which is the more politically correct way of
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  Speaker 2: saying tush-push, they treat it like a carnival ride.
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  Speaker 1: And they have an unlimited risk brand of running the tush-push.
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  Speaker 1: And Brown, he's like, well, what about me? What can
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  Speaker 1: Brown do for you? He stood around as a very
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  Speaker 1: expensive lawn ornament. And even though he got paid a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money, he was pissed off. And you can
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  Speaker 1: dress this up and say, oh, yeah, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: grow apart. It always sounds more poetic to say people
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  Speaker 1: grow apart than, in this case, I wanted the damn
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  Speaker 1: ball and I didn't get the ball. But I go
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  Speaker 1: back to the fact that this is the human condition,
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  Speaker 1: changing seasons, different paths.
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  Speaker 2: In life, whatever. You can say all that stuff. Brown
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be force-fed the pigskin.
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  Speaker 1: In the goal line. He wanted those opportunities with the touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: And Philadelphia... And specifically.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, the few times they would throw the ball
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  Speaker 1: down near the goal line, he wouldn't throw the ball
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  Speaker 1: to A.J.
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  Speaker 4: Brown.
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  Speaker 1: And most of the time, the Eagles and Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: just kept ordering extra helpings of Tushy. They just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to run the Tush push. That's what they wanted, the
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  Speaker 1: Tushy pushy. All right, furthermore, to Dallas we go. And
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  Speaker 1: everyone's favorite Nepo executive, Cowboy Nepo COO, Stephen Jones, has
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  Speaker 1: gone on the record this week admitting, yet again, that
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  Speaker 1: keeping both C.D. Lamb and George Pickens long-term is going
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  Speaker 1: to be, quote, really difficult. Now, Stephen Jones, who won
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  Speaker 1: the genetic lottery, argued that few teams can afford two
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  Speaker 1: receivers at top-of-the-market prices. Jones said, The spawn of Jerry
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  Speaker 1: said Dallas has managed to figure things out for now
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  Speaker 1: regarding the finances with the salary cap in 2026. But,
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  Speaker 1: he said, another huge season for both receivers would create
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  Speaker 1: a much more difficult path.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so here's the question. You got Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: Executive Stephen Jones saying it will be really difficult for
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  Speaker 1: to keep both CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens long-term.
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  Speaker 2: Can you untangle the wording on this? So we love
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  Speaker 2: to parse the words. In this case, it is a whistle.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of whistle is it? It's a dog whistle.
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  Speaker 2: The Cowboys could easily, easily perform the voodoo boogaloo. And
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  Speaker 2: NFL accounting, it's all fake. It's all a fraud. It's
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  Speaker 2: all fugazi, the salary cap in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And so they could get some Enron level accounting, bring
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  Speaker 1: in Bernie Madoff's old people there and push the contract
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  Speaker 1: into multiple years and put all these escape portals.
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  Speaker 2: And all that stuff. If they wanted to. And you
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  Speaker 2: look at the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas is spending $ 61 million this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think I read that number.
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  Speaker 1: $ 61 million combined on CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens. Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: spends $ 69 million.
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  Speaker 2: On Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins. And Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: The Motor City Kitties, they're lower than that. They're at
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  Speaker 1: $ 56 million for Amon Ross St. Brown and Jamison Williams.
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  Speaker 1: So there is a path to getting this done if
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  Speaker 1: you want to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: They could keep Pickens.
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  Speaker 1: The point here and the underlying story, which is being
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  Speaker 1: hidden by it's going to be really difficult, is the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys truly don't want to keep George Pickens.
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  Speaker 2: They don't trust him.
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  Speaker 1: And Stephen Jones is simply acknowledging the wildebeest stampeding through
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  Speaker 1: the room that this is a farewell tour for George Pickens.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing Cowboys Plinko from The Price is Right. And
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  Speaker 1: every slot, if you look at the bottom of the.
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  Speaker 2: Plinko board, every slot says what?
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  Speaker 6: Exit.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it says. And here's why. He goes out there.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say George Pickens really plays well.
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  Speaker 2: Just dominates. And he's great. He prices himself out. The
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys say, well, he's too expensive. We can't afford him.
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  Speaker 2: And he's the top market wide receiver. We just can't.
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  Speaker 2: And they say, bye-bye, like Dick and Dick. Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 1: And they hold up their calculator. And they say, well,
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  Speaker 1: here's the calculator app on my phone.
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  Speaker 2: And just the math doesn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if he does not, does not dominate, and let's
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  Speaker 1: say he just acts out. He's a locker room migraine
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens, and he's okay, not great.
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  Speaker 2: They say, bye-bye. Again, they wave goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: The only way he stays is if the Cowboys win
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and every man, woman, and child knows
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to happen. Or if he plays well enough,
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  Speaker 1: he walks the line... However, not well enough to get paid. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this would likely also involve another problem, but a minor problem.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you know, misses a practice, doesn't show.
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  Speaker 1: Up to a team meeting because he was having some
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: ayahuasca or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Some wild scenario. All right, last thing.
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  Speaker 1: To Nashville we go, where the new Tennessee Titans coach,
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  Speaker 1: Robert Sala... is staking his reputation, not that he has
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  Speaker 1: a good one, except with every broadcaster who licks his
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  Speaker 1: toes when they called 49er games back in the day. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Robert Sala is putting his reputation on Cam Ward. declaring
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  Speaker 1: that the soft quarterback, Cam Ward, who had a reporter
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  Speaker 1: kicked out of the Tennessee media because he held Cam
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  Speaker 1: Ward accountable, that that Cam Ward, he said, Robert Sala said,
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  Speaker 1: this kid's not going to fail. I put my job
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  Speaker 1: on that, he said, close quote. Now, Sala went further,
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  Speaker 1: calling Cam Ward, quote, special and insisting that he will
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  Speaker 1: not fail, Robert Sala said, and Unusually strong, very public guarantee.
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  Speaker 2: This is getting a lot of attention. Second-year quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee did go out and hire the rotund Brian Dayball
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  Speaker 1: as the offensive coordinator, who did so well with the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: unless he didn't, hoping that Brian Dayball will somehow turn
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  Speaker 1: Cam Ward into Josh Allen 2.0, which I always just
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  Speaker 1: get a great laugh at. I get a hearty guffaw.
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  Speaker 1: Because Brian Dayball happened to be in Buffalo when Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen happened to show up and turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: a good quarterback. That means that Brian Dayball is the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback whisperer. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's the ticket. That's the ticket.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to just put him on the launching pad
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  Speaker 2: and watch out.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, is Titans coach Robert Sala really betting
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  Speaker 1: on the wrong horse.
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  Speaker 2: Here to stake his reputation on Cam Ward? Again, this
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  Speaker 2: is getting a fair amount of attention.
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  Speaker 1: So my response, my rebuttal, the mainstream football media acting
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  Speaker 1: like Robert.
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  Speaker 2: Sala went out on some kind of epic limb, put
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  Speaker 2: his neck out there on the line. However, that could
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  Speaker 2: not be further from the truth. And I keep thinking,
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  Speaker 2: it's like that riddle or the rhyme, dum-da-dum-dum-dum.
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  Speaker 1: What are you supposed to say? It's like the hotel pitchman,
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  Speaker 1: Captain Obbies. Yeah, Cam Ward. Can you imagine if Robert
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  Speaker 1: Sala came out and said, Cam Ward, let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you something.
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  Speaker 2: The way he plays, very similar to diarrhea. And I
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  Speaker 2: had diarrhea last Tuesday, and it was not pleasant.
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  Speaker 1: And it reminded me of Cam Ward, the diarrhea that
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  Speaker 1: I had.
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  Speaker 2: And they're going to fire me by Thanksgiving because this
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  Speaker 2: guy can't play.
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  Speaker 1: He can't handle tough questions because he's a soft quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and he thinks the team's ass when he's really the ass.
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  Speaker 1: You can't say that. Tennessee hired Robert Sala, for better
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  Speaker 1: or worse, to oversee Cam Ward blasting off into stardom.
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  Speaker 2: Does anyone disagree with that? He's a defensive guy. I
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  Speaker 2: get it. Danny in Nashville knows that. Seabass, blind Seabass
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  Speaker 2: is blind. He can see that. Yes. Robert Sala, defensive guard.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Sala is, it's like standing at Jiffy Lube guaranteeing
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  Speaker 1: the oil change. That is not a bold decree. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you do. This is occupational survival. And Sala was given,
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  Speaker 1: for reasons only they know in Tennessee, a lifeboat after
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: flopping with the J-E-T-S, suck, suck, suck, so bad Fireman
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  Speaker 1: Ed wanted to quit the Jets, and briefly did.
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  Speaker 2: Robert Sala... He sucked with the Jets, and he used
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  Speaker 2: his gift of gab to somehow use the Svengali effect
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  Speaker 2: and convince the brass there that he could prop up
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  Speaker 2: their former number one overall pick. And now.
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  Speaker 1: He gets the artisan in him, the art of manifestation,
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  Speaker 1: trying to speak this into existence. Bobby, Robert, Sal, listen,
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  Speaker 1: maybe say accurate quarterback, accurate quarterback, accurate quarterback. Say it
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  Speaker 1: three times, three times like Beetlejuice, and then accuracy will
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  Speaker 1: arrive while looking into the mirror in the morning while
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: you're brushing your teeth. Say accurate quarterback, accurate quarterback, accurate quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't Babe Ruth calling his shot at Wrigley Field.
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  Speaker 2: It's Wiley Coyote ordering another rocket from Acme is what
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: And if Ward succeeds, Mazel Tov. Robert Sala gets extended.
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  Speaker 1: If he fails, he's just another mashugana that bet.
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  Speaker 2: On the wrong horse.
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  Speaker 1: And Sala, with his tail between his legs, goes back
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  Speaker 1: to the 49ers electrical substation as the defensive coordinator. and
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  Speaker 1: then has every two-bit broadcaster on network television just give
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: him neck massages and bubble baths and all that.
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• 17:27
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  Speaker 2: So unfortunately, they. I'd sit in like the last row,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: and then sometimes they'd move me to the front board.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I hated that. But if you're not that type of person,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: you want to participate, you are more than welcome to
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: do that at 877-99-ON-FOX. 877-9966369. There are some people complaining.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: A guy in Baltimore complained earlier, and some other people
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: this hour. They wanted me to do the whole show
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: dedicated to the punishment of the Clippers. I'm good. I'm
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: all right on that. We did a monologue. We did
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the hour on that. So we're good. Lorraine is here.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: FSR Tech Queen. I'm alive. Barely. And Coop a loop.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Right over there. Say hello to Coop at a Bronco fan.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: That's a Bronco fan. And be part of the fun.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: So thank you.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Trucker Joe sent some video. He said it was a
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: big storm. He's in State College PA. He says he
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: mainly runs around Pennsylvania now. And looked like the end
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of the world in the video that he sent.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: It was like, whoa, that's crazy, crazy.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Now, also crazy are the endless amounts of video that
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: are getting huge views in the algorithm. The bots love,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: love former 49er wide receiver, wink, wink, Dijon Love.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Big fan there as well. There was some videos, some.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Photos of Tyreek Hill, the former chief Dolphin wide receiver
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, who was photographed together with Dijon Love. He
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: responded to the story. Love had allegedly, I guess, claimed
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: that Hill was one of.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: His close NFL friends.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And that they trained together and all that. Tyreek never
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: one to shy away from engagement. Never one to say,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe I shouldn't do this. He really
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: leaned into it. He played along with the story and said,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: that's my boy.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: And we used to trade together and everything, claiming that
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: love could run a 4-2-40.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I believe the term would be trolling would be the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: term here. Trolling from Tyreek Hill. I wouldn't doubt that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: they probably hung out a few times.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Just somewhere along the way, there was some hangout activity
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: between those two guys. Also, we'll get to this in
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: a few minutes, Tony Romo being called out by a
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: former NFL player. Tony Romo gave that big statement.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: 877-99-ON-FOX is the number. Let's go to one of our favorites.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: In Louisiana, we say hello to Ben Jammin. Hello, Ben Jammin.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: My, my, it's good to talk to you this morning.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: How you do?
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: If I'd be any better, I'd have jambalaya, but I
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: don't have any jambalaya. You know, I really want those,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: not the po' boy, I want the king cake. I
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: need that. And then I need those beignets. That's what
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I need. I need the beignets.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Oh, the beignets.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: The beignets is the bomb. But the king cake, you
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: got to wait for the Mardi Gras year. That's, you know,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: that's way back in February. We passed that. But, you know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: I was just out here. I wanted to call, man,
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: because I got to tell you, I'm depressed, man. I'm depressed.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: What happened? What happened?
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Well, normally we look forward to the football season and everything. But,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: you know, the Saints just, oh, Lord. It's just not good.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: We had a good tailgate. Thank goodness for the tailgate.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: But what really depresses is usually this time of year,
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: at least we got a good hurricane to come through.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: We could have a hurricane party. But, oh, we got
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: so disappointed. We had one come straight up there and
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: look us in the eye and then decide to go
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: to Texas. So we don't even get a hurricane party, man.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: It's not fair, man.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: They're trying to hold you down. What is up with that?
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: They're doing a good job. The only good thing we got,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: and thank goodness for LSU, that's our other pro team
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: we got in the state. I mean, they got a
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: bigger payroll than the Saints.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right on that. That's a good
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: call by you. They have a better quarterback. They have
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: better skill players. Absolutely.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I would like to be able to swap them. I
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: think the Saints, I think LSU could win the NFC South.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know if the Saints could even win the SEC.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: You're not a believer in Tyler Shuck? Aw, shucks. Shucks, yeah.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Chuck, my man. Chuck is tough. He gave us a
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: little hope, a little glimmer of hope last year, but
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: it takes more than him. We're just hurting everywhere. You
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: never know. Maybe we'll get a bolt of lightning, and
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: thank goodness we're in a division that sucks.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll hope you get it. As you said, you
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: want Benjam and you want a nice hurricane. So hopefully
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: you'll get, you know, not a deadly one, just a nice, solid,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: middle-grade hurricane for you.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Just something to let it have a big old nice
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: hurricane party and, you know, we can celebrate the fact
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: that we all survived.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: I hear you.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: All right, Benjam, and you be safe, my man. The
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: great Benjam in there.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: One of our new favorites. Get him the jambalaya. That's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: one thing I did not realize until I got this job.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: The people that have, I didn't grow up, you really
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: don't have an earthquake party in California because you don't
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: know when they're going to happen.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: So you can't really have a party.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: But the big blizzard parties and the hurricane parties, the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: nor'easter parties, like that was totally foreign to me. I
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: had no idea that that was a thing. And then
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, wait a minute.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: No, no, it's definitely a thing.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: It's definitely a thing, and everyone running out to get
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: all the alcohol to just get completely hammered before a storm.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Just absolutely wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go now to a man who is back.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: He stopped calling the show for a while, and his
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: buddy Bernie left the network for now and went back
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to Michigan, so he's calling us again.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Poppy. Hello, Poppy!
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: Hey, Mentor!
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: How's it going? There he is, the man, the myth,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the legend, Poppy.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Hey, I'm really excited. Look, I really love your monologue,
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: last previous owner with Nowasaki, a little tennis talk. But, hey,
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: talk about tennis. Medvedev, the Russian, there was a little
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: stoppage on the court because there was a bird there,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: and he got really upset.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Ha-ha!
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: The bird was watching, and he was mad because there
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: was a game point. It was just amazing. He got
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: really upset, but he still won, right? So, yeah, I
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: just wanted to say congrats on Benny versus the Penny
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: mentor and maybe, who knows, guest appearance by me coming, possibly.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: What? You're still trying to get on Benny versus the Penny? Really?
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: No, I said, well.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, you want the podcast? Maybe we'll do the podcast.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Might do the podcast.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, the podcast. You know what?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I was thinking about that. What?
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: What?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: What are you... I don't know what you're... What are
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: No, no, no. But look, I had an idea. What
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: about a birdie? A Picking with Poppy versus a little
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: birdie or animal or something like that?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Why don't you do that? That's a great idea.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Why don't you go down to the San Diego Zoo
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and find if a rhino poops, that means he's picking
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the road team.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: How about that? Just wait for a rhino to poop,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: and if it pees, that means it's the home team.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: That's a great idea. And you can tie in the
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: San Diego Zoo. I think you should do it, and
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I want nothing to do with it.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, okay. No, but we're actually, it's going to be
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: me and the leprechaun. We're going to be coming back
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: at the leprechaun. What do you think?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, the leprechaun. Oh, my God. How lucky are we, Coop?
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Did you program this, Coop? Is this your work as
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: a producer of the show? You worked this over?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Okay. Oh, Poppy.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: What's going on?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Why don't you go hang out with Bernie? He's in Michigan,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: seeing the grandkids go out there, live with Bernie. You
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: can hang out with him.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: How about that?
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Hey, well, you're my mentor, everyone over here. Oh, you
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: know who said hi to you? The San Diego Chicken.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: And I actually have a gift for you, hand-dried by
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: the chicken.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, is that right?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I love my favorite chicken, one of the great
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: radio promotions of all time, the San Diego Chicken, which
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: started as a radio promotion. I think that's retired now,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the chicken, right? I don't think the chicken's performing anymore.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he comes out rarely, but if he comes out again,
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: if you want to see him, coordinate something, maybe a
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: Ben Maller meet and greet in San Diego so you
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: can meet the chicken.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Well, if you can promise me, Papi, that the San
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Diego chicken, the legitimate OG chicken, will make an appearance,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I will do a meet and greet in my old
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: stomping grounds.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: In San Diego. All right, I got to go, but
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: thank you. There's Papi. All right, there you go. Oh,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: he's very polite. He said, okay. Thank you for that.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: All right, so turning over a new leaf. Did you
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: see that? Tony Romo called out for his statement. Most
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: people praised Romo, saying he hit all the legal stuff
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to say.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: In those prepared statements. Well, turns out, not everybody.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Former NFL quarterback and a man who loves his drugs,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: at least he did back in the day, Ryan Leaf. Now,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: he did celebrate much of what Tony Romo said in
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: his prepared statement. However, he strongly objected to the back
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: pain explanation. You might remember Tony Romo leaning into the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: agony of having a broken body from playing with the Cowboys.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: And that he needed the pain medication. He got off
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: the pain medication. He turned to booze. And Ryan Leafs,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I'll give you the thumbnail recap here. I'm paraphrasing.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: But he essentially said, hey, you should have taken that out.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: You should have taken that out. And he, of course,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: talked about his own addiction.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: And accountability and all that stuff.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: And he says, you chose to do this, Ryan Leaf said,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and now have to admit it and get better. Leaf
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: specifically questioning Romo's claim that the debilitating injury, the pain,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the agony from his cowboy days, he said, Leaf said
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: he personally played golf with Romo on tour. I don't
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: know what that means. And frequently saw him on the course.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: And he said if Romo His back pain was truly
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: that severe.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Why are you out there playing golf all the time? Oh,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: shots fired. Shots fired.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Leaf argued golfing certainly wasn't helping his back condition. And Romo,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: before he got popped for boozing it up, going on
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: that booze cruise around Wisconsin, was golfing and did a
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: terrible job.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Now, Romo would counter that, I would imagine, by saying, well,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: the reason I was golfing, I love golf, and I
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: was drunk, and you didn't realize I was drunk, or
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I was on the pharmaceuticals and all that. So I
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: take that for what it's worth.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I actually had Ryan Leaf on my podcast years ago,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and I asked him about his famous rant with the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: old San Diego Chargers when he got up in the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: face of, I think it was Bernie Wilson, the old
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: AP reporter who's now retired in San Diego. I think
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that was who he got upset with, and he He
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: famously gave that drop.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: We don't play it anymore, but knock it off. And
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: he screamed. And so I asked him about that.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: He got very upset and some off the air and
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: some on the podcast. And that's the only thing I
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: remember about that conversation with Ryan Leaf, who's gotten some
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: broadcasting gigs.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: And so he's found some. Some things to do, some
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: things to get done he has. All right, it is
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: the Ben Maller Show.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: If you would like to be one of my judges,
• 31:47
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• 31:51
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• 31:54
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• 31:57
  Speaker 2: One of my judges, 877-99 on Fox. We'll get to it,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: and we will do it.
• 32:04
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• 32:31
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• 32:55
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• 33:09
  Speaker 2: We're going long today. That's right. I know. I know.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: Please transmit immediately.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Tell me lies.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Tell me sweet little lies. Is it fact or fiction?
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Let's face some raw facts.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Welcome in our celebrity panel of judges. We have some
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: big names here.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Daniel in Fort Wayne is back. America's favorite crossing guard. Hello, Daniel.
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: Good morning, and I would be careful, Lorena. If you
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: sound like Barry White, take a day off.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I wish I could. I don't think we have enough people. No,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: you're fine. That's somebody else's problem.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Drink some.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: Green tea and honey.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: That should help.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Ooh, I like that idea. Sounding like Barry White's not
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: the problem. If you look like Barry White, that would
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: be a problem. Coach, do you even know who Barry
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: White is, Lorena?
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Nope.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Ah, yikes.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Coach Russell's in Orlando. Hello, Coach Russell. You know who
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Barry White.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: Is, right?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: Of course, man. Come on.
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: Barry White?
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: You've got to know that.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Legend. Music legend, by the way.
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: All right, Coach, you ready to play here? A game,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: when do you play this weekend, Coach?
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: We play tomorrow night. We play tomorrow night against a
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: really good team. Our schedule's really loaded this year, so
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: each week's going to be a tough game, but I
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: think we're going to come out on top tomorrow. I'm
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: really excited about the game.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: A little Friday night under the lights. Nothing better than
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: high school football on a Friday night. All right, hold
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: on a sec, Coach. And who else do we have?
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Let's see. We've got the celebrity panel of judges. Joey
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: the Bellman. Hello, legend Joey the Bellman.
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: Hello, Ben.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: What's going on, my man? Look at you.
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: Well, nothing much. I actually talked to Kathy in Madison.
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: I invited her to a concert.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, nice.
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Very cool. Maybe Vegas one of these years, Joey? Maybe
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: we'll get you.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: There.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Didn't work out.
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: Anytime, Ben.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Anytime.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: All right, buddy. We have Hollering James who called back.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: What are you doing, James? You were already on. Why
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: are you calling again?
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: Sneaking in the back door.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: All right. Thank you for that. Scott is in the Commonwealth. Hello, Scott. Welcome.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: Well, hey, Ben.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Lorena, I always go with NyQuil. It works like a charm.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Don't know what's in it, but it definitely works. Oh,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: that's an idea, too. NyQuil. Yeah, that'll pass me out.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: It used to really work back in the day. They
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: changed the formula. It used to really work back.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: In the day.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Just like Coca-Cola used to be different, too. Yeah, a
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: little bit. A little bit, yeah. All right, Scott.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Hold on.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: We have John in Chico, California. Hello, John. Welcome.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Top of the morning to you, Ben.
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: How are you this evening and morning?
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: If I was any better, I would be Love, but
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: not Dijon Love, you know, because he's got some problems there.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Good story, though. He's like an all-time great liar. That
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: guy's a legend at lying. My God. All right, John. Well,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: you're one of my judges, so everyone hold on there.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: You have to answer which of these stories is not true,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: separating fiction from fact.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: They all sound kind of goofy. Story number one. Well,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: speak of the devil, he shall appear. Dijon Love is
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: the name of the man who was accused of pretending
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: to be a 49er player. Certainly seems like it's not accused.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: He was scamming women, it would appear. Dijon Love is
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: also the name of a former indoor football player. For
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: the Iowa Barnstormers, he isn't upset about the mix-up, though.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Dijon, spelled a little differently, says he has been getting
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: new followers, engagement, and even brand inquiries.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: After the story involved the others.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Dijon.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Story number two, a number of NASCAR drivers looking to
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: make the leap to Hollywood. Tom Cruise just announced that
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: he will be reprising his role as NASCAR driver Cole
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Trickle in a sequel of.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Days of Thunder.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Joey Logano is among the drivers angling for cameo appearances.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: And story number three, Odell Beckham recently asked a reporter
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: if he wanted to address all the internet speculation about
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: his new book and et cetera, et cetera. Beckham actually
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: admitted he admitted to getting Botox treatment and said some
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: good things about it. All right, real quick, which of
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the three isn't true? Daniel, one, two, or three, Daniel?
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  Speaker 6: Number one.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Number one. All right, thank you for that. Coach Russell, one, two,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: or three. Coach Russell, big game tomorrow night. Good luck, Coach.
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: Thank you. I'm going to go with number three.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Number three. All right, very good. Joey the Bellman, the
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: legend Joey the Bellman.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: Number two in the middle.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Number two. All right. Hollering James in the back door. One, two,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: or three, James.
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: One, one, one, one, one, one.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: No singing, James.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Scott giving the NyQuil advice there in
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the Commonwealth for Lorena. Scott, which number is it?
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: I'm going to say number two.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Number two. All right. John and Chico. My man, John. One, two,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: or three, John. Which is the fake story?
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Number one.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Number one. All right. Well, we don't have time to
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: run out of the stories. Actually, we kind of do
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: have time.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: It is not number one. That is not the fake story.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: So it's either number two or number three. And survey
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: says the fake story is the Odell Beckham story.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Beckham did not admit to getting Botox treatments, et cetera.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: That was the fake story. So we did have a winner.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Is that a preview of coming attractions? So there it is.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Another riveting edition of a game sweeping America. It's a
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: little thing we call fact or fiction every week at
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: about this time.