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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead story this hour is from the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and I was dying to talk about this. We mentioned
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  Speaker 1: it at the end of our previous episode of the show.
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  Speaker 1: It had broken overnight, and very rarely these type of
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  Speaker 1: things break overnight. We had known that an NFL player
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  Speaker 1: had been fired from.
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  Speaker 3: His job, and there was a situation that happened.
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  Speaker 1: We did not know the details until yesterday, and we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out the spin of on this and
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  Speaker 1: should have thought of it. We screwed up. Bad job
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  Speaker 1: by us. But our lead this hour from Nashville, the
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  Speaker 1: Music City, the Grand Ole Opry. And at some point here,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do a Mahler meet and greet in Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to do it. I got to get to Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't done it yet, but we'll get there at
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  Speaker 3: some point. But that is the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Where Titans coach Robert Sala is came out swinging and
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  Speaker 1: he was very passionately out in front of the cameras
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  Speaker 1: to defend his now former defensive tackle jordan elliott uh
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  Speaker 1: i'm being serious about this crazy story it's absolutely bonkers
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  Speaker 1: it happens every once in a while like once a
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  Speaker 1: generation something like this happens it happened here now if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see this and And maybe now to hear
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  Speaker 1: about it, we missed yesterday's program. This is not exactly
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  Speaker 1: the cat's meow. So Robert Sala came out, gave a
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  Speaker 1: long speech. Now, before we explain, I guess we'll play
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  Speaker 1: the audio. But Robert Sala defending Jordan Elliott. Jordan Elliott
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  Speaker 1: had a bad day at practice. Got into a disagreement
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  Speaker 1: with one of the offensive linemen for the Tennessee football team.
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  Speaker 1: And he did what any reasonable human being would do.
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  Speaker 1: He went out to the parking lot, and did he
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  Speaker 1: drive away? No.
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  Speaker 3: Did he sit in his car and take a nap?
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  Speaker 1: No. Did he go to his car and call his
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  Speaker 1: wife and complain about the person at work?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: He went to get a gun. And Robert Saleh's defending that.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to the head coach of an NFL team defending
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  Speaker 1: one of his players going to get a gun because
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  Speaker 1: of a disagreement at work.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: I will stand on the table for Jordan's character. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 5: rules are rules with regards to guns on property. And
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  Speaker 5: sometimes it's far greater than the knee-jerk reaction of kicking
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  Speaker 5: somebody and kicking somebody when they're down. My message to
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  Speaker 5: 31 other teams would be if you need a hell
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  Speaker 5: of a run-stopping de-tackle that can help you on a
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  Speaker 5: playoff run, give me a call. I'll tell you everything
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  Speaker 5: you need to know about him. He's a good man.
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  Speaker 5: Had a terrible lapse in judgment that I recognize as
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  Speaker 5: a call for help more than a criminal act. It's
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  Speaker 5: unfortunate the way it went down. But as far as
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  Speaker 5: Jordan's concerned and the locker room and all that, I
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  Speaker 5: think the locker room and Jordan, I think people see
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  Speaker 5: it differently here than the knee-jerk reaction.
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  Speaker 4: Of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when I got sent this clip, I was sleeping
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  Speaker 1: when this happened, but I woke up and I had
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  Speaker 1: a message and I thought, well, that's A.I. clearly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's no one in their right mind as a coach
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  Speaker 1: that would come out and say, well, one of my
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  Speaker 1: employees went to get a gun because of a disagreement,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a good man.
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  Speaker 3: It was a lapse in judgment, you know, and really
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  Speaker 3: more of a call for help. Who does that? Like,
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  Speaker 3: what kind of loser is this coach of the Titans?
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  Speaker 1: So Elliott went out, according to the various media reports
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  Speaker 1: that I read, he went out to retrieve a firearm.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what do you think he was going to do
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  Speaker 3: with that firearm?
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  Speaker 1: You think he was just going to shoot a couple
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  Speaker 1: of shots off in the sky to celebrate?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. What do you do with a gun
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  Speaker 3: when you're upset with somebody?
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  Speaker 1: So that followed a kerfluffle with one of the offensive linemen, J.C. Latham,
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  Speaker 1: I believe is the name of the offensive lineman for
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  Speaker 1: the Tennessee football team.
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  Speaker 3: There was another teammate that intervened.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee did fire Elliott, Jordan Elliott, the gun-toting defensive tackle
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  Speaker 1: the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Is said to be investigating. That'll be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Now, despite all that, as you heard, Robert Sala praising
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  Speaker 1: the character of Elliott.
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  Speaker 3: As a devoted father, husband, and teammate.
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  Speaker 1: He urged all 31 other teams to consider signing him. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was fake. I thought it was satire, AI.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like, oh, you got me.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's true.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. It's a rather obvious question we'll ask you,
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  Speaker 1: and you can be part of the jury. Why is
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  Speaker 1: Titans coach Robert Sala seemingly more concerned about protecting Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Elliott's reputation than addressing the Komodo dragon in the room,
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  Speaker 1: his actions of bringing a gun down? to work in
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  Speaker 1: the car and then seemingly trying to bring it into
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  Speaker 1: the building.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you not addressing that part of it and
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  Speaker 1: the threat that that would have posed? And you can
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  Speaker 1: have your mind wander what would have happened had that
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  Speaker 1: gun gotten in.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so my thoughts on this. I've got laundry.
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  Speaker 1: Basket, cheesecake factory, dessert menu, and church food.
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  Speaker 3: Bingo!
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, you
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  Speaker 1: and I, and we are going to get into double
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  Speaker 1: trouble is what we're going to do. So, A, Robert
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  Speaker 1: Sala has become a senior fellow at the Jordan Elliott
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  Speaker 1: Excuse Making Society.
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  Speaker 3: Tremendous.
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  Speaker 1: My God, is he somehow like the father of Jordan Elliott?
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  Speaker 3: Defending the indefensible?
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  Speaker 1: Sala acting like Elliot forgot to put the dirty towels
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  Speaker 1: in the laundry basket. It's an amazing inversion of reality.
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  Speaker 1: The guy who went for the gun gets the character testimonial,
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  Speaker 1: the tribute from the coach.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, oh, this guy, let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: I will stand on the mountain for this guy's character.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: Robert Sala wants us to judge Sala. Jordan Elliott by
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  Speaker 1: his character instead of by his conduct. But I thought,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe I was raised inappropriately. I mean, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you people look at the world much differently than
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  Speaker 1: I was raised. Apparently, I always thought character is revealed
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  Speaker 1: by conduct.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently not. Apparently it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: He's asking us to ignore the fire because the arsonist
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  Speaker 1: has an excellent attendance record.
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  Speaker 3: So just ignore the fire. That's it. Now, the mental
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  Speaker 3: health explanation has become.
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  Speaker 1: force field in the last five to ten years in
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  Speaker 1: sports once it's activated apparently no criticism can penetrate it's
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  Speaker 1: a one-size-fits-all solution it's a silver bullet you can offer
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  Speaker 1: the man help without pretending his actions were harmless and
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  Speaker 1: that is not compassion it is a failure of leadership
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  Speaker 1: and this was so ridiculous robert salla's speech If I
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  Speaker 1: owned the Titans, I would fire Robert Salah. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like he's a good coach. He sucks as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: He was terrible with the Jets. Broadcasters like kissing his
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  Speaker 1: ass on TV when he coaches the Niners defense, but
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  Speaker 1: he's just a bad head coach, and.
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  Speaker 3: That's a fireable offense. I would get rid of him.
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to be the leader of the franchise, the
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  Speaker 1: face of the franchise, and all that stuff, and you're
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  Speaker 1: coming out and giving a testimonial to the character of
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  Speaker 1: the guy that went to.
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  Speaker 3: Get the gun? What are you doing, dummy?
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, to L.A., page two. So a number of you
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  Speaker 1: are upset that I did not bash the Rams. I
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  Speaker 1: was not in here post-Ram game. I was traveling, so
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  Speaker 1: I was unable to attend the radio show that night.
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  Speaker 1: And I will address that right now. So the Rams
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  Speaker 1: are a bad football team right now.
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  Speaker 3: They're 2-4.
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  Speaker 1: However, they have outgamed their opponents by a league-best 644
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  Speaker 1: yards this season. So they are plus 644 ahead of
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  Speaker 1: every other team in the NFL in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: plus minus on the yards via opponents. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: how do you explain Sean McVay's Rams winning the stats
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  Speaker 1: clearly and yet losing the games? So this is a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a data reference, but the 2026 Rams are
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  Speaker 1: a Bill Callahan special. They got to be the dumbest
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  Speaker 1: team in America in terms of playing the game. Classic
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  Speaker 1: moment in Raider history there, Bill Callahan. Sean McVay has
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  Speaker 1: this blind spot called special teams. He's built this team,
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  Speaker 1: along with the front office, that wins the beauty pageant
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  Speaker 1: and loses the election. They do not have a talent problem.
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  Speaker 1: Even with all these injuries, they do not have a
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  Speaker 1: talent problem. They have an execution, a discipline, and yes...
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  Speaker 1: A coaching problem. I'm not afraid to say it.
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  Speaker 3: Why would I be? You're either coaching it or you're
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  Speaker 3: allowing it to happen.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams have so many empty calories. They've got more
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  Speaker 1: empty calories than the cheesesteak factory dessert menu at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like they're playing football's version of Monopoly. They
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  Speaker 1: collect a lot of properties. But they never pass go.
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  Speaker 1: They just can't pass go. And they're the kings this
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  Speaker 1: year of football foreplay. All that movement, all the excitement,
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  Speaker 1: the razzle-dazzle, the yards and all that. But when it's
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  Speaker 1: time to finish, we got a problem. They're not good
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  Speaker 1: at finishing the job. The Rams are a Disney-approved ride.
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  Speaker 3: Dumbo. They're dumbos.
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  Speaker 1: Big ears, big numbers, and apparently no idea, despite all
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  Speaker 1: that savvy veteran leadership, how to land the plane.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know how to land the plane.
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  Speaker 1: McVay has mastered this season looking brilliant for about 57 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and then There's a couple of minutes in there where
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  Speaker 1: the Rams coach looks like a confused tourist.
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  Speaker 3: For those other few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: And getting somewhat outcoached, especially on special teams, it's not
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  Speaker 1: even close.
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  Speaker 3: In those moments, though, that decide the games. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the referees have handed.
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  Speaker 1: a couple of games to the Cardinals and the Broncos,
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  Speaker 1: and that's just the way it goes.
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  Speaker 3: But you should not be in those situations to allow
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  Speaker 3: the referees.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams are supposed to be so good that you
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  Speaker 1: should not put yourself in a position where you can
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  Speaker 1: get the Montreal screwjob from the referees at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game. But, hey, they look really good with
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  Speaker 1: those sexy yards. So congratulations, you won the fantasy football award.
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  Speaker 1: plus minus out gained opponent category way to go way
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  Speaker 1: to go all right last word we stay in the
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  Speaker 1: nfc west we head to seattle and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those big mouth 12 number 12 fans right the 12th
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  Speaker 1: man fans who infiltrated the ben mallard show and hijacked
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  Speaker 1: guys like jj and renton and nostradinus and crying craig
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  Speaker 1: and all the other big p1s there in the seattle
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  Speaker 1: area big seahawk fans So the reigning Super Bowl champs
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  Speaker 1: have become chumps. They're 3-3, and while they're not as
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  Speaker 1: bad as the Rams, they're not much better. And as
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  Speaker 1: of this moment, if the season ended today as we
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  Speaker 1: head into Week 7, which begins on Thursday with the
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  Speaker 1: Bears and the Patriots, but heading into Week 7, the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle football team would not qualify for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Ha-ha!
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  Speaker 1: So fingers are starting to be pointed. as happens when
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  Speaker 1: your team is not performing up to expectations. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those are at the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 3: The quarterback, they're getting.
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  Speaker 1: Spit-roasted, like at a Hawaiian luau, with no pineapple, though.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, do the Seahawks have a Sam Darnold problem?
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  Speaker 1: Do the Seattle Seahawks have a Sam Darnold problem? And
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  Speaker 1: I am nodding my head, Yes, Sam Darnold is the
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  Speaker 1: NFL's Benjamin Button this season. The longer that he plays,
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  Speaker 1: the more he resembles the guy we knew him to be,
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  Speaker 1: the rookie who couldn't read a defense, the guy that
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  Speaker 1: was seeing ghosts. And you look at this and you're
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  Speaker 1: starting to wonder, did Seattle get hornswoggled into a Joe
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  Speaker 1: Flacco model by the used car dealer? Is this a
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  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco special? Remember, if you're old enough, years ago
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  Speaker 1: there was this guy named Joe Flacco. who played for
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens, one very good quarterback, had one out-of-body experience
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  Speaker 1: playoff run.
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  Speaker 3: Just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And the Ravens paid him. And that was the end
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  Speaker 1: of Joe Flacco as a successful NFL quarterback. Now, he
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  Speaker 1: still plays. He's just not successful. And that was the
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  Speaker 1: end of it. And the Ravens paid him. They had
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  Speaker 1: to pay him. And you look at Seattle now, and
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  Speaker 1: from 30,000 feet up in the sky looking down, it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty similar. One magical playoff run, out of character. A
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  Speaker 1: little smoke, a few mirrors, and suddenly everyone forgets the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the resume. If you look across the board
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  Speaker 1: for Sam Donald, yards per attempt or down, passer rating cratering,
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  Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, seven interceptions. That is not a quarterback of excellence.
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  Speaker 3: That is a.
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  Speaker 1: 50-50 raffle at the church bingo is what that is.
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  Speaker 1: Seven touchdowns, seven interceptions. Remember, Donald led the world in
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  Speaker 1: turnovers last year. Just there was some body spray that
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  Speaker 1: was used, a really nice cologne, because of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the team from Seattle won the little trophy at
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  Speaker 1: the end. It's pretty apparent the Seahawks went out and
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  Speaker 1: they bought a house and they didn't have it properly inspected.
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  Speaker 1: They saw some professionally staged photos.
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  Speaker 3: They got a little excited. And now they're in the
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  Speaker 3: house and they're locked in.
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  Speaker 1: And they're starting to discover, well, there's some black mold
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  Speaker 1: over there. That's not good. That's never good. Black mold's
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  Speaker 1: never good.
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  Speaker 3: That's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: It's behind the drywall. Well, we didn't see that. So
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  Speaker 1: this is becoming a franchise-sized headache. Now, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you are in denial.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: You've still got the dopamine hit from the Super Bowl win,
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  Speaker 1: and that's great. But everyone else is looking around saying, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, what have you done? Sam Darnold, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the old thing. You date, but you don't marry.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun, but you don't marry. So
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  Speaker 1: Seattle is having a come-to-Jesus moment at this point, realizing
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  Speaker 1: week by week that a postseason run apparently is not
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  Speaker 1: a personality transplant, that ultimately Sam Darnold's still the same
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  Speaker 1: stiff that he had been, and occasionally he'll have.
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  Speaker 3: A good game. And he might go out and have a,
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  Speaker 3: you know, next time Seattle play him, he might have
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  Speaker 3: a huge game. Wouldn't bet on it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like you bought a Rolex from a
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  Speaker 1: guy wearing a trench coat in the back of a
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  Speaker 1: van at a gas station. Well, chances are it's probably
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  Speaker 1: not a real Rolex or it's a stolen Rolex.
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  Speaker 3: And this is just kind of the way that it is.
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  Speaker 2: Have to deal with that be sure to catch live
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  Speaker 2: from Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, and a made-for-TV opener. Ant Edwards,
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  Speaker 1: not my aunt, not your aunt, Ant Edwards, Anthony Edwards,
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  Speaker 1: hit not one.
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  Speaker 3: Not two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
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  Speaker 3: not seven, not eight, nine money balls, nine.
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  Speaker 1: Three-point shots, much like me back in the day, Moneyball Maller,
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  Speaker 1: nine three-pointers, scored 45 points, while LaMelo Ball scored 21 points.
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  Speaker 1: in his Minnesota debut, and the Timberwolves play the role
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  Speaker 1: of spoiler. All the celebrities in South Florida, all the
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  Speaker 1: OnlyFans models, and everyone else there having a great time
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  Speaker 1: for a while, and then eventually... Minnesota spoiling Giannis Adetokounmpo's
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  Speaker 1: first game with Miami by beating the pulp out of
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  Speaker 1: the franchise there by 25 points. Now, the better story
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. And it turns out
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  Speaker 1: that Giannis Adetokounmpo, while he had a nice stat line,
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  Speaker 1: he had 35 points, he fouled out of his Heat
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  Speaker 1: debut game. 21 of those points came in.
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  Speaker 3: The first half. Bam out of bio.
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  Speaker 1: Remember he had that bogus 80-point game. It was all ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a sham last year. Well, he scored
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  Speaker 1: all of 15 points for Miami, and the Heat get
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  Speaker 1: stomped on by the Minnesota basketball team. That is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping-off point. Let us discuss. The question, what are
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  Speaker 1: your first impressions of Giannis Adetokounmpo's opening act With the
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  Speaker 1: Miami Heat, one of the big transactions of the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: Giannis going from Wisconsin to Florida, to South Florida. And
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  Speaker 1: I've got Baskin Robbins, Apple Watch, and Microsoft. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: put all of these things together, and we're going to
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: have a Malerpalooza as we play the ponies.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Now, we always start with number one.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Number one.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: One, one, one.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Number one.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: What number is it?
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Number one.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, now I remember.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: So Giannis, while he certainly is still a franchise pillar,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and he's above the marquee, come hell or high water,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: he's above the marquee. However, the rest of the house
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: there in Miami, first impression, The rest of the Heat
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: house looks like it was built by the three little pigs.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: It really does.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: And the Heat have the star attraction. Got to have
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: a star. They've got the star. The supporting cast... It
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: kind of appears to be like you went to a
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: dinner theater in Boca. Not exactly Broadway. Not quite Broadway. Yeah,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: it's October. It's the first game of the year. Things
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: will get better or worse, for that matter. However, I
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: would argue that this was an early season measuring stick game.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: A lot of the teams in the NBA aren't trying
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to win.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: They're not legit.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: You look, everyone's picking OKC or San Antonio. The third
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: team would be Minnesota in the West. That would be
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the third team they'd move some parts around. It's not
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the same roster. Obviously, you get LaMelo Ball.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Some of the other.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Supporting characters in Minnesota have gone to other teams to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: facilitate LaMelo Ball and some of the other moves. So
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: there's a tug-of-war going on with the roster. But you
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: say Miami, if they are a big-time team, at some
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: point they're going to play a team like Minnesota in
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. So how do you do? How's that measuring stick? Well,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Miami needed a Werner Ladder. And they needed a cherry picker.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and permission from air traffic control to reach the level
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: that the Wolves are at when you juxtapose them side
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: by side with the Miami basketball team so the Greek
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: freak he had his pick of the litter he could
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: have gone to a number of teams that wanted him
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: And he traded Milwaukee Snowbanks in February for South Beach bikinis.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: That was the move.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: And soon Giannis is going to discover what thousands of
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: people who have relocated their lives to Florida, the Florida transplants,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: already know. That the weather's better. But that does not
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: mean everything else improves just because you moved to Florida.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Just living in Florida does not mean everything in your
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: life is better. So the basketball forecast, I looked at
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the long-term forecast. We went to the National Weather Center,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and they say that the forecast for Giannis in Miami,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: partly cloudy, with a 90% chance of disappointment. So think
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: of it like Giannis Adetokounmpo went down to Baskin-Robbins and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: And he said, can I get some of that championship chocolate?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Not Dubai chocolate. I want championship chocolate. OK, we'll see
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: if we can find it. So the person goes in
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the back, tries to find it. And then they can't
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: find it. So we don't have that. OK, well, what
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: else do you have that's a really winning thing? Well,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: we'll go back and put something together. So they went
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: back to the back of Baskin Robbins. They went back
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: and Giannis walked out with a double scoop of Rocky Road.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and a brain freeze. It's going to be a bumpity-bumpity
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: road there. The Greek freak, now he's living that Miami
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Vice lifestyle from back in the day. However, the Heat,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: unless this was just a really terrible night, the Heat
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: are playing Miami nice basketball. Not good basketball, not great basketball,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: nice basketball. All right, meanwhile, page two. I want to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: stay with this game. I had this on in the background.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: There was really nothing else to watch. So this was
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the game I had on. It was TNT, ESPN actually
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: using the TNT refugees. Remember last season when they hid
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Charles Barkley for the first three months.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Of the season?
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Because that was a great idea. So they were actually there.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And that's the only reason I watched. I really didn't
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: pay much attention to the game.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: It was in the background.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: But then when Barkley and Kenny Smith and Shaq came on.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: And Ernie Johnson, I paid attention. But we had a
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: viral video involving the Timberwolves guard LaMelo Ball. So I'm
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: going to try to describe this for those of you
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that didn't see the game and are blind. So LaMelo
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: committed a tiptoe through the tulips, a rather obvious traveling violation. However,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the three blind mice out there never blew the whistle.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: The ball appeared to take at least four, possibly up
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to six steps. Some say seven. It was followed by
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: a jump shot, and he launched a step-back three-pointer. But seven,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: anywhere from four to seven steps. Now, Knicks homer Mike Breen,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Tim Legler, and Richard Jefferson, just like generic broadcasters, they
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: watched the replay. And collectively said.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: That's a travel. That's a travel.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Now, Breen demanding accountability, saying that has to be called.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: He was in disbelief over the officiating. This became a
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: viral talking point on social media. It's like, what are
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: you doing? You get three steps, but you don't get four, five, six, seven.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: So the question, how did the referees allow the Wolves'
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: lamello ball to travel without calling a whistle?
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Just let it go. So the answer to.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: This is rather easy. The NBA referees over the years
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: have changed. They have fully embraced the spirit of the rulebook,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: not the letter.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Of the rulebook.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Mostly because over time, the rule book has become a
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: decorative coffee table book that nobody opens. In today's NBA,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: traveling continues to be just a suggestion. It's kind of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: like the speed limit. It's like an idea. You're supposed
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: to go the speed limit, but typically you can go
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: 10 miles over the speed limit and no one's going
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: to really say anything in most places unless you have
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: out-of-state plates and then you're cooked.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: But other than that, you're in really really good shape
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: so it's it's.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Like the it really is like the speed limit in
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: many ways and so the association apologist now i've already
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: seen some of this they're insisting well you don't know
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: ball the nba allows a gather step and that's all
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: lamello ball was doing a gather step a gather step
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: my fat ass a gather step lamello didn't take a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: gather step he took a gap year OK, I don't
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: care that much in the big picture. It's a first
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: game of the NBA season. It's just absurd because it's
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a preview of coming attractions. And he was packing the suitcase.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: He checked his luggage, and he headed.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: To the airport. Vemelo ball. Vemelo took so many steps.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: How many steps? Thanks for asking.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: He took so many steps that his Apple Watch actually
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: congratulated him on closing his activity ring. So bravo. Good
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: job by you. Now, honestly, the NBA referees, they ought.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: To be sponsored.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: They should have endorsement patches for Expedia. Because they clearly
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: are in the travel business. And as for blowing the whistle,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: they were just, I guess, the referees practicing load management.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: They don't want to blow too many whistles early. You
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: don't want to do that, right? You want to hold
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: off on that. All right, final point. Let's go to football.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: What kind of football? A story that still has legs.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman. Yeah, that Troy Aikman blasted the.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Other night NFL analytics. This was during the Monday night.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Football game where the 49ers and the Commanders played. He
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: declared Aikman, quote, I think analytics is a good way
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: to lose your job as a head coach.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Close quote.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Comment came as the Niners faced a fourth down and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: three situation. And Joe Buck explained that Kyle Shanahan considered analytics,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: but He trusts his instincts developed over his years of
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: calling plays and, of course, teams that choke in the playoffs.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Leave that part out. We'll leave that part out because
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: the Niner fans are a sensitive bunch. We'll leave that
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: part out.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: So Aikman praising that approach rather than just blindly following
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the numbers. Naturally, what do you think happened? The analytical nerd,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: nerd army. The Dorco— we used to have this guy, Dorco
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the Comedian, who quit the show. But, guys, these Dorco guys,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: these analytical nerds, erupted. And they were— it was like a volcano.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: They were not happy here on social media, mocking Troy Aikman.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: The usual— You're washed up. You're a boomer, Aikman. You
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: know what you're talking about. How could you.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Favor conservative decision-making, and you're ignoring valuable statistical information that
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: my supercomputer came up with.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: All that crap.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: So the question, here it is. Troy Aikman's comments that
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: still have legs. These comments still have legs, reigniting the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: NFL's old-school debate. Instinct.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Versus analytics.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: That's the debate. Instincts versus analytics. Which side of the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: aisle are you on? So if you have been with
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the show at all over the years, we've been here
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a long time. Chances are you haven't been here since
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the beginning, but you've been here for a little bit
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: of it as we've done the heavy lifting on the overnight.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Our position has not changed on this over the years.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: We are riding shotguns. with Troy Aikman on this one because.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Everything in moderation, as we like to.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Say, including moderation, and can we all stop pretending that
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the problem isn't analytics? Can we stop for a second?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I know some people are getting shut-eye right now. A
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: lot of people are.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Can we stop for those that are awake that say, well,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: you know, this is not an analytical problem.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the problem is coaches hiding behind the analytics. That's
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the issue because they're terrified that, of going rogue and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: going against the analytical department, and then they're held accountable.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: And they don't want that.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Think about it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: You're making $ 10, $ 12, $ 13, $ 14, $ 15 million a year
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to be the head coach and to call some plays.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And yet, despite all that money, you need permission from
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Microsoft Excel to make a basic fourth-down decision saying, Because
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the numbers indicate that the right move would be not
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to punt the ball away.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: But to go for it. But if you don't make it,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: you turn the ball over on downs and you give
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: the other team the ball deep in your own territory.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: And there's a number of coaches in recent years that
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: have just blindly followed whatever the Microsoft Excel printout tells
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: them to do.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: They don't consider anything else. But for me, it's like,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: give me a break.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: We have created an entire cottage industry. dedicated to giving
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: these overpaid head coaches plausible deniability analytics should be a
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: simple tool in the toolbox like football has always been
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: about not analytics was never the word that was used
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: back in the old days it was tendencies as it
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: was tendencies like all right if the ball's on the
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: near side of the field and it's third down chances
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: are they're going to throw to the wide side of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the field right normally because there's more room more.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Spacing, etc., etc., etc. But that's tendencies.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: They changed the word from tendencies to analytics, and they've
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: added eight gazillion different categories.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: It's going up a blind alley with this.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: And it like it's a simple thing that should be
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in the toolbox i'm not saying completely get rid of
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: it it's in the toolbox but it's not the actual
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: carpenter building the house and for a lot of these
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: coaches for a lot of these coaches it's the carpenter
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: building the house that's the way they treat analytics And
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: so we've taken this wonderfully unpredictable sport, professional football, and
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: we've handed the pass key over to essentially accountants. And
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: everything that is analytics tells you what has happened. It
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's going to happen again. It's amazing because
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: things do change. Can you imagine if you had a
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: hot tub time machine and let's say you went back
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and Vince Lombardi, was coaching the Green Bay Packers, the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: great Vince Lombardi. And you told Vince Lombardi, you said, listen, Vince,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: you've done a hell of a job here with the Packers,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: but we're not going to allow you to punt because
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: there's a 27-year-old mathematics graduate from an Ivy League school
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: who has an algorithm tied to the supercomputer and is
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: all part of AI that disagrees. So you're not going
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: to punt. I'm sorry, Mr. Lombardi, you just can't punt. Well,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I want to punt. Well, you're not allowed to punt.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: But I'm Vince Lombardi.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: The 27-year-old geek from the Ivy League school that graduated with.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Mathematics, he's got the algorithm, he's got the AI, and
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: that's it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: It's absolute madness. It is absolute madness. And, again, I've
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: maintained my position. And even though these people who own
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: sports teams– have earned a lot of money. A lot
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of them earned their money because they inherited it or,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you know, this blind luck on certain business deals. And
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: they perceive, the perception is these people are very smart
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: because they've got a lot of money.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: The reality is they are easily, easily victims of skullduggery.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: When some guy shows up with a bunch of charts
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and graphs and Venn diagrams about how this is how
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: much better your team would have been if you followed
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the analytics. It's psychological warfare on these rich people who
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: are so stupid.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: They have no moderation. They're all in.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: All in. Be sure to catch live editions of the
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Ben Maller Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Time to roll. Welcome in, militia. Speaking of winners.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Can you handle more Malheur mayhem?
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: It's time now for. Step back. Benny versus the Penny.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: But first, we'll follow the rundown and we will do
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the insta trivia. Clippers guard Keaton Wagler became the second
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: youngest player in NBA history to record at least 15 points,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: five rebounds and five assists while shooting 50% or better.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: From the floor today.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: In his NBA debut, Blank is the only other player
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: to accomplish that at a younger age. Alf the Alien
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: O'Piner went with Norm Nixon. Rhea Ripley from Shane in
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Des Moines. Gunner, guest by Ferg Dog. Greg Ostertag from
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Mediocre Kabuki. Who else do we have? Coop's favorite Celtic
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: of all time, the White Mamba.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Who else do we have? Page down. Curmudgeon Wayne.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: We're going with former Fox Sports Radio host Bernie Frato.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Gary Busey from JT, the wingman.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: That's his answer.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Willie O'Ree from Steve, the misplaced San Diegan. Ichiro, who's
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: 53 today from late-night drug tester. Pistol Pete Maravich from
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Analog Al. Chet Sorensen from NADA from LAX.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Do you have an answer? Not Benjamin Button, a guest
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: by Sean and Phoenix. What's your answer, Lorena? It's got
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: to be Doja Cat.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: LeBron James. It's LeBron James. All right. Let's get to it.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Here we go. Benny versus Penny. New England and Chicago.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: The Thursday night game, week seven, begins at Soldier Field.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Bears a three-point favorite on DraftKings. Mild weather in Chicago.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreet. And his dog, Peter, will be there.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: New England, check this out. They're 5-0 against the spread
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: in regular season primetime games under Mike Rabel. His team
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: has also won three straight entering this matchup. I'm going
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: to take the Patriots plus the three points.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: How will New England cover? Obviously, limit the turnovers.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Drake May has been much better lately against weaker opponents.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Extend drives with his legs. Chicago's secondary blows.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: A lot of injuries here.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: The Bears have allowed eight passing plays of 40-plus yards
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: this season.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: So here's a chance.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: A.J.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Brown had the drop sees last week. He can make
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: up for that here. Demario Douglas as well. Get some
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: of those big plays. And just make the Bears kick
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: field goals. Shorten the game. Make them kick field goals.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams drive between the 20s and all that. They
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: don't need a masterpiece, the Patriots. Just protect the football.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Hit a couple of big plays. and this will be
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: a rock fight of a game. I am going to
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: take the team from the Commonwealth, the Patriots. This will
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: not be a track meet. It'll be kind of a
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: slow tempo type thing. I'll take the Patriots plus the points.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: And Koopaloop, the penny picks.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: The penny lands on heads, so it's going with the
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Chicago Bears.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: All right, so disagreement to begin Week 7. Again, we
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: are taking the New England Patriots.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Now, New England is.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Missing multiple people on the offensive line, which does seem problematic.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not a huge believer in the Chicago Bears defense. But, again,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: the pick, we'll keep it simple. I'll take the Patriots
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: plus the points on a Thursday night special.
• 35:07
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• 35:10
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• 35:15
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• 35:20
  Speaker 3: It's now time for.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: Time for.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Hurry, hurry, I can hardly wait. Ask Ben.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Twitter.
• 35:25
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• 35:29
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  Speaker 3: the Koopa Loop for the reading of the questions.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: All right, Ben, this might be a tough one for you,
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: but maybe you know off the top of your head.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Alf the Alien O'Piner wants to know, what is your
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: favorite meme.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: uh my favorite meme uh that's a good question what
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: is my well the ones i'm in uh there's some
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: mallor memes out there no um what's the one with
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: leonardo dicaprio pointing yes standing up and pointing i like
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: that one that's a good one the tv i like
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: that yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's i'm gonna go with that one lorena.
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  Speaker 4: Um i like the one where it's the everything's burning
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: around them and they're sitting at a table everything's fine
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: everything's fine Oh, yeah.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: That's a good one.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: You know the one where the guys are shoveling money?
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: The two sailor guys, they're shoveling money.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about, Coop? Have you seen
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: that one? I don't know that one. You haven't seen
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: that one? It's kind of like, it's not Popeye.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: But it's from some Nickelodeon show in the 2000s. And
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: it's pretty good. I'm sure you've seen it.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Two guys with shovels shoveling money. Oh, yeah, yeah. Into
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: the furnace? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: That's a good one, yeah.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: I like the Jennifer Lawrence one where she's going, yeah, okay.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: And I also like the guy pointing at his head.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: That was a smart move, that one.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Gotcha. All right. What is next? It's Ask Ben. Your
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: questions are answered. All right.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Andy in Lionel Lake's.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Minnesota.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Wants to know, this is just a question for you.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Have you always had a short fuse, or is that
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: a bit? I get a kick out of the classic
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: Maller meltdown. Still love the show after all these years.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think I have a short fuse. I think
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty level-headed. Some of these idiots like Gunner piss
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: me off. You're talking to the same people, and they
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: bitch about the same thing.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: I was on hold. I get email every day. I
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: was on hold. Nobody screamed. What do you want me
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: to do? What the F do you want me to do? Seriously. Like, what?
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, what are you serious? I don't know what
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: to do with this.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: This is another question for you, Ben. Kev Atomic says,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: the heating element in my dryer went out. How much
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: would Mallor Mechanical charge to fix it?
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you just have to fly me to Alaska,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: and I'll do two things for you. I'll kick it,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and then I'll spit a big loogie with a lot
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: of phlegm right in there, and that'll fix it.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. My razor broke and I fixed it.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I hit it.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: I did the old tap. I hit it a couple times. Okay, quick.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: I love this one. Creative questions.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Sensei Thunderfist wants to know, if you could punch any
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: famous magician throughout history, who would it be?
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, I was. Oh, God. The guy in Vegas. I
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: can't think of his name. There was a plant. Is
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: it Criss Angel? I forget. I think it might be
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Criss Angel.
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  Speaker 4: Lorena, quickly. Hey!
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: I don't even know. Magician? David Copperfield, definitely. Oh, Copperfield.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: F that guy. He watches magicians. Yeah, I love magic.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: I went to a magic. Yeah, magicians are fun. This
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: plant will show right in front of me.