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Hour 2 - Tough Start for the Haters · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The Razzle Dazzle. It's our number two. Hour two of
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. Happy Labor Day. Reminder, the Fifth
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  Speaker 1: And we had a round robin mailbag on Sunday. A
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  Speaker 1: and that was from Sunday's Fifth Hour. Here on Hour
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  Speaker 1: 2 of the Ben Maller Show, we focus in on
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  Speaker 1: the story everyone's been yapping about in Louisiana State football.
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  Speaker 1: Is LSU coach Lane Kiffin embracing the villain role, or
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  Speaker 1: does controversy simply follow him everywhere? On the other side,
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  Speaker 1: Clemson got absolutely just torn to bits. Has Dabo Sweeney
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  Speaker 1: officially entered lame duck territory at Clemson? We'll discuss that.
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  Speaker 1: Are you shedding any tears for Jaden Daniels, the Washington
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  Speaker 1: quarterback booed off the Jumbotron by LSU fans? We'll go
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  Speaker 1: there as well right now. Here it is. Have a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful day. It's our number two. There's two more to go,
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  Speaker 1: but here's our two. Well, a tough start for the
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  Speaker 1: haters of the villain of college football.
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour. Don't bury the lead, my man.
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  Speaker 1: this hour from the weekend that was as we await
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  Speaker 1: the NFL's beginning here. It's a Labor Day today, so
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  Speaker 1: we have to wait until Wednesday. Just a couple days
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  Speaker 1: away from the beginning of the NFL season. The Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: who had that fluke Super Bowl win, will take on
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  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots in a rematch of a rather
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  Speaker 1: dull Super Bowl that will be taking place tomorrow. On Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: and then they go to Australia on Thursday, and then
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  Speaker 1: it's on all the time, basically, for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the year and into January. And then the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: in February, on Valentine's Day, right? Valentine's Day weekend, the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. In Los Angeles, or in the hood, in Inglewood.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead story this hour, though, from Baton Rouge. From
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  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge, a court injunction. Now, we talked about this
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  Speaker 1: at the end of last week in a previous episode
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  Speaker 1: of the show. So, technically, a court injunction did allow,
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  Speaker 1: did allow LSU to field a roster with... a couple
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  Speaker 1: of former NFL training camp players. However, they didn't put
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  Speaker 1: them on the roster, and guess what? They didn't need them.
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  Speaker 1: As they vaporized the once-proud Clemson football program, 51-10. 51-10,
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  Speaker 1: the Patsies from Clemson. Holy crap, you guys suck. And
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  Speaker 1: so Lane Kiffin's LSU debut, and it goes into the
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  Speaker 1: win column there, they led 31-3 at halftime. And turn
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  Speaker 1: at the lads, the party's over. Lane Kiffin, of course,
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  Speaker 1: taking full advantage of the halftime walk-off interview as he
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  Speaker 1: trolled critics during the live TV interview with Holly Rowe.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, as the interview was ending and he
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  Speaker 1: was jogging away, he said, imagine if we had pro players.
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  Speaker 1: That was his throwaway line there. Asked about potential backlash post-game,
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin shrugged, as he often does, in his perception around
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  Speaker 1: college football as being the bad guy, the big meanie,
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin. He said, quote, everybody hates you. They can't
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  Speaker 1: hate you that much more. Close quote from Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin defended pursuing the players who had failed to make
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  Speaker 1: NFL rosters, insisting that LSU was, quote, fighting for what
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  Speaker 1: was right for those kids. He said the controversy has
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  Speaker 1: escalated beyond beyond just the war of words on social
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  Speaker 1: media and all that stuff. You have an actual lawsuit.
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  Speaker 1: The Southeastern Conference is suing Lane Kiffin and LSU over
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  Speaker 1: the right to play former NFL training camp roster fodder.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Is LSU coach Lane Kiffin embracing the
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  Speaker 1: villain role, or does controversy just simply follow him everywhere
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  Speaker 1: he goes? There's like a cloud over Lane Kiffin. And
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  Speaker 1: you just can't get away from it. So I've got
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  Speaker 1: Robin Hood, Old Spice, and Starbucks. And we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together. And we are going to
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  Speaker 1: go through a fun house of mirrors is what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do. We always start, though, with number one.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: Number one. All right, stop. Stop. I said stop. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so at some point, and we're not sure when, at
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  Speaker 1: some point, when every single stop, every single stop ends
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  Speaker 1: in complete and utter chaos, you have to accept reality.
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  Speaker 1: The one common denominator in this story is Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 1: It's the one, going back to his days at Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: the famous... airport firing at LAX, and all the Raiders,
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  Speaker 1: Al Davis just laying out, Lane Kiffin. The one common
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  Speaker 1: denominator is Lane Kiffin. Yeah, he's college football's old school
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  Speaker 1: professional wrestling heel. Think of him like a limousine riding,
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  Speaker 1: jet flying, the nature boy, Ric Flair. Woo! Woo! That's
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  Speaker 1: what he is. And Lane doesn't just tolerate controversy. He
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  Speaker 1: goes out, looks for it. He monetizes it. And now
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  Speaker 1: he has pulled, and I love this, this latest chapter
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, Lane Kiffin pulling out the kid card
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  Speaker 1: from the bottom of the deck. Like he's Robin Hood,
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, fighting for the little guy. Fighting for, again,
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  Speaker 1: the quote, fighting for what was right for those kids.
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  Speaker 1: Those little kids were fighting for the kids. We're doing
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  Speaker 1: it for the children. Yeah, right. Spare me. Spare me
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  Speaker 1: the snarky malarkey from Lane Kiffin. I don't need. So
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  Speaker 1: the most insulting part of all this is, again, that
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  Speaker 1: quote fighting for the little guy. That is just insulting.
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  Speaker 1: It is. You're not fighting for the little guy. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows you're not fighting for the little guy. Provided, of course,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you are if the little guy can run
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  Speaker 1: really fast and is stronger than everyone else and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And then if you run a 4-4, you're really fighting
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  Speaker 1: for him. If they run a 6-4, you're not fighting
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  Speaker 1: for him.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: You're not. So Lane Kiffin continues to be this Machiavellian troublemaker,
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  Speaker 1: mischief maker. Which is good for my business, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy as a talk show host that Lane's there and
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  Speaker 1: he gives me things to talk about and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He's calculating. He's often ruthless and always working an angle.
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  Speaker 1: There's always an angle. There's always an angle here. And
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  Speaker 1: he provokes. He loves to troll. And then he plays
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  Speaker 1: completely innocent. Like, oh, everyone hates me. Why does everyone
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  Speaker 1: hate you, Lane? Ah, because I'm an a-hole. Okay. Thank you, Lane.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Very nice. Lane Kiffin thriving. Thriving on the fury.
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  Speaker 1: Because as long as you're angry, everybody's talking about Lane.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's talking about Lane. That's what matters. Now, page two.
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  Speaker 1: To the Clemson side of things, this is a shocking downfall.
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  Speaker 1: Clemson was the program in college football. The Clemson Tigers
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  Speaker 1: at one point were so worried that they were going
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  Speaker 1: to lose their head coach to Alabama as Nick Saban's
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  Speaker 1: replacement because they became the gold standard for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. When Clemson was dominating and they were the
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  Speaker 1: toast of college football. And look at where we are now.
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  Speaker 1: Look at what has happened. They blow. So Coach Dabo
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  Speaker 1: Sweeney's future now being placed under the Petri dish in
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  Speaker 1: the microscope here after Clemson opened. The championship season, they
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  Speaker 1: were the opponent for LSU, and they, of course, lost
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  Speaker 1: by 41 points! 41 points! They practiced all offseason! This
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  Speaker 1: is a chance to make our season! They lost by
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  Speaker 1: 41 points to LSU. The worst defeat in the career
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  Speaker 1: of Dabo. Now, Clemson, here's where it gets interesting. So
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  Speaker 1: they would owe Dabo, I was reading this over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: so they would owe Dabo $ 57 million if he's fired
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  Speaker 1: from before December 31st. But, rather oddly, the buyout would
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  Speaker 1: increase by $ 3 million to $ 60 million in 2027. So
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  Speaker 1: that means by firing Dabo Sweeney this year before December
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  Speaker 1: 31st runs out, they would actually save money compared to
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  Speaker 1: waiting until 2027. So the question, has Dabo Sweeney officially
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  Speaker 1: entered the lame duck territory of his career at Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: So let's put it this way. The Dabo doomsday clock
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  Speaker 1: is ticking.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: 115 days, 115 days till December 31st. That's how long
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  Speaker 1: Dabo has 150 and likely less than that. If, Clemson
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  Speaker 1: plays the way they did on Saturday night in the
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  Speaker 1: other Death Valley. I guess there's more than one, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, in college football. So 115 days until December 31st.
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  Speaker 1: Dabo Sweeney is right now at the front desk. He's
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  Speaker 1: checking in at the motel. What's the name of the motel?
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  Speaker 1: It's not a Hilton. It's not a Marriott. It's the
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  Speaker 1: Last Chance Motel. And that's it. So this was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a placement test to say, hey, last year
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  Speaker 1: was not good. We are back. We've spent a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time preparing. We've gotten some better players. So this
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  Speaker 1: was a placement test against LSU. They then allowed 38
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  Speaker 1: first downs, 51 points, and somehow 644 yards. And so
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers, after that placement test, they were escorted by
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  Speaker 1: the teaching assistant right to the Special ed classroom. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where they're headed right there, special ed. So forget
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  Speaker 1: football helmets. They're getting fitted there at Clemson for dunce
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  Speaker 1: caps because that's what they need. My goodness. Clemson no
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  Speaker 1: longer an elite program. Now the next big OMG moment
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  Speaker 1: for Dabo Sweeney, if he somehow– they've got a game
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  Speaker 1: coming up with North Carolina. If Clemson loses to Belichick
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  Speaker 1: in North Carolina– My goodness, right? The way they played,
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  Speaker 1: that's certainly a possibility. I would, at this point, bet
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  Speaker 1: on North Carolina over Clemson. My goodness. So that's where
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  Speaker 1: we are. And it's great. They're not elite. It's just
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  Speaker 1: like a nostalgia act now for Dabo Sweeney. And I've
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  Speaker 1: learned that even though you love your championships, you people,
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  Speaker 1: you don't get, because you have two trophies there, you
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  Speaker 1: don't get an industrial strength Old Spice deodorant to push
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  Speaker 1: away the stank. The stank is still there despite the
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  Speaker 1: fact you had past glory there. Past championships do not provide,
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  Speaker 1: do not provide immunity. No matter how much industrial strength
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  Speaker 1: Old Spice you put on, they do not provide immunity
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  Speaker 1: from what's going on right now. They don't. And so
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  Speaker 1: suddenly this becomes a reboot of TLC's extreme couponing of
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  Speaker 1: from back in the day there, Clemson has itself a
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  Speaker 1: $ 3 million discount code if it fires Dabo Sweeney before
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  Speaker 1: New Year's. So clip and save. Now, thanks to the
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  Speaker 1: cockamamie contract that was given out years ago when things
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  Speaker 1: were going well, waiting until 2027 actually makes this more expensive.
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  Speaker 1: The divorce becomes more expensive if you wait until 2027.
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  Speaker 1: So eat the cartoon check between now and December 31st.
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  Speaker 1: or pay extra to suffer later on. So good luck.
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  Speaker 1: All right, final point now to the bird's nest we go,
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  Speaker 1: to the bird's nest. Follow-up, follow-up to a previous Mallard monologue,
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  Speaker 1: NFL quarterback under attack, NFL quarterback under attack. The boo
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  Speaker 1: birds were out.
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  Speaker 3: Boo!
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  Speaker 1: Boo that man! Boo that man! Boo! See? Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: LSU fan base loudly booing. Loudly blowing, the former Tigers
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Heisman Trophy winner Jaden Daniels. Now, was Jaden Daniels
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  Speaker 1: in attendance in Baton Rouge, Louisiana? We do not believe
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  Speaker 1: he was. However, he was on the scoreboard. Say what? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they had a video tribute on the Jumbotron there in
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  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge honoring former NFL players that have gone on
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  Speaker 1: from semi-professional football at LSU and gone on to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And so they had a big vignette of all the
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  Speaker 1: players that had played at LSU and then, of course,
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  Speaker 1: gone on and played in the NFL, currently in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: So a very hostile, is the word I would use,
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  Speaker 1: hostile reaction stemming from Jaden Daniels lawyering up, sending LSU
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  Speaker 1: a cease and desist letter over defensive back DJ Pickett.
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  Speaker 1: DJ Pickett wearing number five, which was Jaden Daniels' former
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  Speaker 1: jersey number. So the question, are you shedding any tears
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  Speaker 1: for Jaden Daniels being booed? Boo that man! Boo! By
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  Speaker 1: LSU fans. So I am tearless. If anything, it's crocodile
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  Speaker 1: tears at this particular point, right? And this is the
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  Speaker 1: age-old example of play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This is,
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  Speaker 1: as we said at the time, it's hot take validation,
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  Speaker 1: an unforced error by Jaden Daniels. who did not need
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  Speaker 1: to do this. Now, the belief is it wasn't him.
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  Speaker 1: It was his mom who intervened. That's the popular theory
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  Speaker 1: by popular people on the internet. I don't know his mom.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know him. That's just what a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people seem to think, that the mama bear was protecting
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  Speaker 1: her cub and that she was the one that was
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  Speaker 1: the driving force behind this. It doesn't matter, though. You
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  Speaker 1: either allowed it to happen or you did it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: But either way, Who goofed? I've got to know that
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  Speaker 1: that would be Jaden Daniels. And so nobody, to my knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: nobody made him turn a number, just a piece of laundry,
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  Speaker 1: a digit on a piece of laundry into a courtroom drama-o-rama.
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  Speaker 1: Did not need to happen, right? Didn't need to pick
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  Speaker 1: a fight. with LSU over No. 5. And Daniel spent
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  Speaker 1: two years in Baton Rouge. He was an Arizona State
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  Speaker 1: Sun Dev. He went to Baton Rouge. He won the
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  Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy, so good for him, and became college football
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  Speaker 1: royalty at that particular time. Wonderful. And he had a
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  Speaker 1: golden ticket. You realize if he had not done what
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  Speaker 1: he did, Jaden Daniels, this would have been set up.
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  Speaker 1: You show up occasionally, go back to LSU football games,
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  Speaker 1: and then you wave to the crowd. You get a
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  Speaker 1: standing ovation there. You never have to pay for gumbo
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  Speaker 1: or beignets again. You never have to pay for them.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of doing that, just playing along, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: He looked at all the goodwill. from those diabolical Louisiana
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  Speaker 1: State fans. And Jaden Daniels looked at all that goodwill
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  Speaker 1: and said, you know what this needs?
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  Speaker 5: Lawyers.
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  Speaker 1: Because lawyers make everything better. They do, unless they don't.
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  Speaker 1: He stepped on the rake, Jaden Daniels, he stepped on
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  Speaker 1: the rake there, and he took the handle directly to
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  Speaker 1: the forehead. It was like an episode of vaudevillian comedy
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  Speaker 1: is what it was from back in the day there.
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  Speaker 1: And Daniels did not just ruin this majestic oil painting
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  Speaker 1: at the Louvre. He didn't just ruin it, okay? He
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  Speaker 1: put a Starbucks coffee stain right in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the canvas, is what he did. That's a bad job
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  Speaker 1: by him. Now, LSU fans are goofing on this guy.
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  Speaker 1: who they used to worship like a god like they
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  Speaker 1: prayed at the altar in the tabernacle to jayden daniel's
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  Speaker 1: deity and now they're booing this guy turning a lifetime
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  Speaker 1: what would have been a love affair into a messy
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  Speaker 1: divorce over a jersey number who the hell cares about
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  Speaker 1: a jersey number i have long said behind the bully
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  Speaker 1: pulpit you should not retire jersey numbers It's the stupidest thing.
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  Speaker 1: You retire the name, that's fine. But the jersey, you
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  Speaker 1: don't need to retire. I wouldn't retire any number. Not
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  Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky, Babe Ruth, Tom Brady, anybody. I wouldn't retire
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  Speaker 1: any numbers. Anyway, listen, Jaden, you got what you wanted.
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  Speaker 1: You discovered the hidden surcharge of trying to protect your number.
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  Speaker 1: and that would be an attack of the birds. Boo birds.
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• 20:50
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• 20:54
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• 21:55
  Speaker 1: this hour still talking about that michigan western michigan nonsense
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: that took place on saturday where the big 10 officials
• 22:04
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• 22:07
  Speaker 1: what do you say okay yeah so stupid So, so stupid. Anyway,
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• 22:25
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• 22:30
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• 22:34
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• 22:38
  Speaker 1: court of sports radio. the Yankee manager by one of
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: his former players, former Yankee third baseman Josh Donaldson randomly
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: ripping Aaron Boone over the weekend for his irregular appearances
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: on Jamboy Media questioning why the Yankees manager would give
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: an outside media outlet the kind of inside Yankee baseball
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: access and influence Donaldson said when he played for Boone,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: he confronted him. He confronted him about what are you doing?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: When he was playing for the Yankees and he asked
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: him that question, what are you doing? And Boone replied
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that he explained that he wanted to control the narrative.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Let me explain what that means, control the narrative. That
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: means if you play grab ass with anyone, like any
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: podcast dudes, and they're just like fans over there. So
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: they'll love you because you're one of the boys and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: they think they're part of your team. And so you
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: control the narrative that way. And they don't ask any
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: tough questions. And so you can pretty much do whatever
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you want and manipulate the situation. That's what controlling the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: narrative is. Donaldson arguing, the former MVP for the Toronto
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays, Donaldson arguing that the opposite happened, saying that
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: it seems like Aaron Boone's under the control of social
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: media and that the podcast social media dudes over there,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: which I believe have a partnership with Major League Baseball now.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I think they're on some kind of stipend. They're paid
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: by baseball. I believe they have some kind of content agreement.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I remember reading that a few months ago. All right,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. And let's start out with Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Anthony, who's in Louisiana. Hello, Anthony.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Ben.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: How was your weekend? Well, it's not over yet, Anthony, because,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: you know, this is a Labor Day. Well, I guess
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: it is kind of over. It's kind of over because
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I worked all weekend. I'm working now, and I'll be
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: working later on today. The great thing about doing the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: overnight show, Anthony, is technically we work twice on Monday holidays.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: That's good. No, not really.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Hey, cuz.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Hey, cuz.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Hi, Anthony. How was your weekend? It was good. I
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: spent the whole thing at Disney, so it was great.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: How's your daughter doing?
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: She's good.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: She's planning for Comic-Con. Comic-Con? The big San Diego Comic-Con? No,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: there's one here in L.A. Oh, there's an L.A. Comic-Con. Okay.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: You tell your daughter I said hey.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: It's a little personal. All right, Anthony. Any barbecue today?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: What do you got? Is it Labor Day? What do
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: people do on Labor Day? Barbecue? What else do they do?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Anything else? I feel like Labor Day is a barbecue day.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Am I right on that? I feel like that's the.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had some barbecue earlier.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, you did? Was it brisket? Was it pork? Was
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: it chicken? What was it?
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: It was pork.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah?
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Did you enjoy that?
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: It was good? Yeah. What kind of side dishes did
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: they have for the barbecue?
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Greens. I had mustard and a ton of greens.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Collard greens. And you have a cornbread? I had collard greens.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I had a cornbread.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I like the cornbread. I don't like collard greens, but
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I like cornbread. I'm a fan of the cornbread. Very good.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Well, outstanding. Well, thank you, Anthony. Tremendous, as always. All right.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: There he goes. You don't get that on the other
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: shows because they won't allow them on. Let's say hello to,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: let's go to D.A., who's in Tampa. What's going on, D.A.? Welcome.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show on Fox, D.A.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Benjamin Benjamin. Let me make sure I got my Mallerisms right. Rams. Rams.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: I don't care who Aaron Donald's back. You're not going
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: to make it to the Super Bowl. You're going to
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: make it. You might get a wild card. It's the NFL.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: It's going to be some weird-ass teams going to make
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: the Super Bowl this year. It's probably going to be
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: the Ravens and, like, the Bucs or something.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And you're in Tampa, and you're just tossing out casually
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the Bucs. That's not a homer pick at all. No!
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Fire the cannons! Oh, my God! What are we doing here?
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: It's going to be some weird stuff.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: No, there will be weird stuff.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Nothing on the West Coast is going to make the
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Super Bowl this year, guys.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: East Coast bias here. East Coast bias from DA in Tampa.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Anti-West Coast. The Super Bowl is on the West Coast.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: It's in California. It's in L.A. next year.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: I know. And it's going to super suck. It's going
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: to probably be the worst teams we don't want to see.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: It's probably going to be like the Cowboys in Kansas
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: City this year.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Do you understand, D.A.? First of all, I love your voice.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: That's number one. You have a great voice. And number two, D.A.,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: do you understand that the Rams are the greatest thing
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to happen in the NFL this season? Because everyone other
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: than Ram fans is like, F the Rams. It sucks.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: They got all the good players. And every time the
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Rams lose a game, you guys will all have an orgasm.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: So you'll be very happy. You'll celebrate. You're right.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: You are so correct. And Lorena, can we do a
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: voice date? Just voice date. Not the real stuff.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Does this guy not have a great voice, Lorena? Come on,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you didn't make that up. I don't know what you
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: mean by that. He's got great pipes is what I mean.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know. He's getting a little creepy, but I'm
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: saying he's got a good voice.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: You just talk, girl.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: It's a talk.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: I love you. I try to maintain my malarisms, and
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: I will call you again.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, DA. There you go. Oh, yay.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Watch out. Calm down, Lorena. Listen, a lot of fans
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: out there.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: Anthony.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: You realize if you ever leave the show, we'll never
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: hear from Anthony again. He'll never call again. That's all
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: his material is, hi, Lorena. How'd your day go? How
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: was your weekend, Lorena? That's it. We got nothing. He's
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: going to ask Coop, hey, Coop, how's family? No, never
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: going to happen. I don't see that at all happening. Yeah,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: you're right. No, there's no chance. Absolutely no chance. Well,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: this is rather wild. So the Padres, over the weekend,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: they introduced their new owners for the first time to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the fans in San Diego on the scoreboard there. The Padres'
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: new ownership of Kwanza Jones. She's a rapper. Yeah, sure. Something.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: She's a musician or something like that. And she married
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: a rich guy who gave her a team, apparently, Jose E. Feliciano.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: And so they were introduced over the weekend. Padres playing
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the Yankees. And so they were there. They got on
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the scoreboard. They were introduced to the San Diego fans
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: at Petco Park. And the reason I'm bringing this up
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: is because several of my homies in San Diego sent
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: me this video because it's over the top. So Kwanzaa,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: who's a musician, I've never heard of her before, but
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: apparently some people say she's a good musician. I don't know.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: So they were getting a big ovation on the scoreboard.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: And so she's smiling, Great. You know, happy. That's great. Wonderful.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: And he's smiling and they're happy. And they're like, Oh look,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: everyone loves us. We're rich people. And we bought a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: baseball team and we're like the coolest people. And then
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: she did something Kwanzaa, which I don't think I've ever
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: seen an MLB owner or any owner do. She then
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: proceeded to throw kisses at the crowd. Now I've seen that,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: but then she hugged herself and, and did a spinning
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: 360 on the Jumbotron at Petco Park. So that's landing
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: on pretty thick. I like her. I'm a big fan.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: You're a fan? Why? Because you think that the Padres
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: are going to go the wrong direction and the Angels
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: will have a chance to somehow take advantage of that? No,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: different conferences. It doesn't matter. Different leagues, whatever. Yeah, yeah.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: No, I just, you know, I like owners who are
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: active and fan-friendly and passionate about.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: She is all of those things. Yeah, exactly. It's a
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: little performative to me. That's what it seems like. A
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: little performative. Of course it does. You hate everything that
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: brings joy to people. I don't know if that's the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: case at all. I feel like this is going to
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: be an epic disaster. And people will be saying, what
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: happened to the Padres? Do you want me to pull
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: up her rap? I don't think she's a rapper. I
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: think it's like dancing. No, but she made a song
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: for the team. Oh, she did.
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: I see.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, let's hear that. Let's get this. This
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: is Kwanza Jones. I got to find it. Give me
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a second. All right. We'll kill some time. It's not
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: really killing time. When you talk to a legend like
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Chris in Phoenix, who's got a lot to say, it's
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: not killing time at all. This is going to be
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the most valuable portion of this segment, the great Chris
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: in Phoenix, the Valley of the Sun, where it's a
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: cool 117 degrees. What's going on, Chris?
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: Hi. You're really pumping me up here.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Don't let me down, Chris. Don't let me down. We
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: need amazing content by you. We need good content.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: Why can the human nose not be 12 inches long?
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: It can be two inches long, six inches long, but
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: it can't be 12 inches long.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Why is that? Why is that?
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: Because then it would be a foot.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: No! Wow, you're going to go on tour. There'll be
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a Chuckles Comedy Club over there in Tempe coming up
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: this weekend.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's my dad's name. Anyway, no, I was just
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: curious what you guys' feelings were on the Eagles this
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: year and why not everyone isn't on board with the
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: Eagles winning at all.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Because they're not as good as they were last year.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I feel like they're teetering. It's at a fork in
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the road with the Eagles where they weren't as good
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: last year, obviously came back down a little bit. And
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: now this year, it either completely falls apart or they're
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: about where they were last year, like a wild card
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: type thing. The Cowboys are better. The Giants are better.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: In the division.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are better.
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: They're not.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: They're better.
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: Jackson Dart's not going to stay healthy. You have no...
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: actual defense in Dallas, and Dallas is going to.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Dallas a little bit.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: All right, well, here's the problem. You need Mr. Lemon
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: to step in there, right? Because you got Devontae Smith,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: but now A.J. Brown's gone because he couldn't get along.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I know you have Hollywood Brown, too, but you had
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown didn't get along on offense.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: If Jalen Hurts goes out there and is mediocre again,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden people say, well, get rid of him.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: That's it. All right. Do we have the song? We
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: found the song.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: All right. Hold on.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Chris.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: I do, yes.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: That call did not go as well as I was
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: hoping for. Yes. The nose joke was pretty good. Yes.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: So this is the Padres owner, Kwanza Jones, I believe
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: is the woman's name.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: She hugged herself. Oh, boy. This is your owner, Coop.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: This is your owner right here. We're going to win. So, yes,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: they have a whole song, We All In. It's not,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I mean. It just came out two weeks ago. Yeah,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: she made it for the team. Are you sure? Positive.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: Because it sounds like they took the clip of her
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: introductory news conference and, like.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Remixed it into a song. It does sound like they
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: just made an AI song. Yeah. It says Fonza Jones,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the checkmark and everything. Well, that's the internet. But could
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: that be, like, Lucy and the Sky of Diamonds, right?
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: You know, the Beatles song. They have a hidden message
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: in there, right?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: In their.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Could be some kind of hidden message. Possibly some kind
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: of subliminal message or something like that. No? So stupid. Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: All right. It is the Bayonet Master. By the way,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: major props to Zay Flowers, who over the weekend came
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: under fire as the Oriole fans. A bunch of people
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: bought tickets out, and they have this thing called the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Splash Zone on these hot, humid summer days. And Zay
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Flowers taking some some blowback here. He was supposed to
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: apparently appear at the Orioles' splash zone at Camden Yards,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and so people bought tickets, they paid a fair amount
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of money, and he didn't show up. Yeah, Flowers getting
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of blowback over the weekend there, the Orioles
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and the Red Sox playing, and many fans went to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the Birdbath splash zone to to purchase tickets, pretty pricey tickets,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: expecting Flowers to be the guest splasher. However, he didn't
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: show up. So they were pissed off and feel like
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: they got a raw deal. Dude, just little things like that, man.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: You piss people off like that. That comes back eventually
• 35:16
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• 35:18
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• 35:21
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• 35:24
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• 35:28
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• 35:32
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• 35:37
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• 35:41
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• 35:48
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• 35:51
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• 35:55
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• 35:57
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• 36:02
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• 36:05
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• 36:07
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Time
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  Speaker 1: now for the Instant Trivia. Blank was known, or is
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  Speaker 1: known still, as the Rustin Rifle. Won the MVP award
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL years ago before his career finally, literally ended.
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  Speaker 1: Ended with a broken neck. Go on to become an
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  Speaker 1: outdoors television host for 10 years on ESPN rather than
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  Speaker 1: move to the typical broadcasting role. That is the question.
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  Speaker 1: What's the answer? Malapropguy going with Bert Convey as his answer.
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  Speaker 1: What else do we have? Peyton Tolley from Alf the Alien. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that was the first one from Malapropguy. Who else do
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  Speaker 1: we have? Page down. We've got Sid the Sloth from
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  Speaker 1: King Rory. Is he using AI now, too? Bob Golick
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  Speaker 1: from Robbie the Mariner fan. That's a great photo. What
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  Speaker 1: else do we have? Joe Theismann from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Mones from Not Blind Austin. In Bakersfield, Cactus Jack
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  Speaker 1: guessed by Dat Dude. Yosemite Sam from Monkey Biz Doug.
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  Speaker 1: Who else? Linda Cohn from Johnny Q. That's his answer.
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  Speaker 1: Tully Blanchard from Michael in Tulsa. Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Page down. Ben the Hulk Maller from our friend Douglas
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  Speaker 1: in Mississippi. Christopher Reeves from Bill. That's too soon, Hoosier Bill.
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  Speaker 1: Too soon. Ben is going with tackle Terry Tuma. as
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  Speaker 1: his answer. Page down. I can't read that. What else
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  Speaker 1: do we have? Skip over that one. All right, Lorena,
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  Speaker 1: do you have an answer? Lorena, it is not Shemp,
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  Speaker 1: guessed by the nature boy answering the call to the wild.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually going to go with Pat Sajak. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Pat Sajak, longtime host of the Wheel of Fortune, iconic
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  Speaker 1: game show host from back in the days of Pat Sajak. No,
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  Speaker 1: the Rustin rifle from Rustin, Louisiana, Burt Jones, who won
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  Speaker 1: the MVP in 1976 for the old Baltimore Colts. He
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  Speaker 1: played for the LA Rams in 1982 and literally broke
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  Speaker 1: his neck and was out of the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: It's Maller.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 3: To the third degree.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: This is one big time.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what do you got? Quickly, here we go.
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  Speaker 6: Former Bills coach Sean McDermott made a recent appearance on
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  Speaker 6: Rich Eisen, and he made a prediction. He said it'll
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  Speaker 6: be Bills-Rams in the Super Bowl. Ben, how do you
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  Speaker 6: feel about that prediction?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he's still getting paid by the Bills.
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  Speaker 1: He had time left on his contract. No, the Bills
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  Speaker 1: defense isn't good enough. It'll be the Rams and mystery team,
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  Speaker 1: but it will not be. I'm going with Kansas City,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. That's my pick.
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  Speaker 6: Next.
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  Speaker 1: Next.
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  Speaker 6: Lots of people were upset last year when the red
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  Speaker 6: zone channel introduced a ton of commercials.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't that many, but yeah, it was a lot.
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  Speaker 6: Scott Hanson said they're going to dial them back and
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  Speaker 6: it's going to be more like a reads, like, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the Mercedes Benz play of the day and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Like what I do here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think fans will be happy with that?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: Because people complain about everything, so they will not be
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  Speaker 1: happy with that. But they need commercials. I understand why
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  Speaker 1: they do it. It's not college radio. Next!
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  Speaker 6: Arch Manning threw for 305 yards and four touchdowns against
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  Speaker 6: Texas State. But his big test will be next week
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  Speaker 6: with Ohio State. How much do you think his performance
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  Speaker 6: will affect his draft position?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's big, but the Buckeyes are going to win
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  Speaker 1: that game. So that's going to be the story. How'd
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  Speaker 1: we do?
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  Speaker 4: How'd we do?
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  Speaker 6: How'd we do?
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  Speaker 1: He failed. That's a win for me. He said win.
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  Speaker 3: I heard win.
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  Speaker 1: I heard win. Like Big Ten.