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  Speaker 1: Our lead is obviously in the hood in Englewood and
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  Speaker 1: up to no good. The final chapter of week two,
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  Speaker 1: the story of the National Football League, the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: All closed.
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  Speaker 1: All closed. Week two, chapter two of the NFL schedule.
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  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh and the upstart Giants. They won an island
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  Speaker 1: game over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night football. The
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  Speaker 1: Giants are back. The Giants are back. And so they
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  Speaker 1: headed out. They're bandwagoning out to SoCal. A little play
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  Speaker 1: date with the bedraggled rams of Sean McVay, America's favorite
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  Speaker 1: travel agent, Sean McVay. And the rams fresh off being
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  Speaker 1: cooked like a shrimp on the barbie. Right there by
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  Speaker 1: the Niners. And so this was their first chance. You
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  Speaker 1: had Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, who's in a contract
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  Speaker 1: kerfuffle with ESPN. They were calling the game. Buck got paid.
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  Speaker 1: Aikman didn't. That's not awkward at all, is it? So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the game or not.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you missed it. You were staring at a wall
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  Speaker 1: or maybe spending time with people that actually matter. In
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  Speaker 1: the world. Rather than these professional athletes. But don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: We have no life. We watch so you would not
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  Speaker 1: have to. And Matthew Stafford. Rising from the ashes. Like
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  Speaker 1: the phoenix. As he threw for 327 yards and not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, not three, but four touchdowns. And the Rams
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  Speaker 1: turned the Giants into burgers. Delicious smash burgers. 28-6, the
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  Speaker 1: final at SoFi Stadium there. Rams improved to 1-1. They
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  Speaker 1: rebound from choking on the Vegemite down under. And the...
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  Speaker 1: Ram offense without their top player didn't matter. Devontae Adams
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  Speaker 1: cooking with gas in this game. Devontae Adams had eight
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  Speaker 1: catches for 195 yards and not one but two touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: like the Green Bay Packers version of Devontae Adams from
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  Speaker 1: years gone by. And he had a touchdown. One touchdown
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  Speaker 1: was for 31 yards, another for 11. But the better
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  Speaker 1: story is in the losing locker room. That's the better story. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Woo-wee!
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  Speaker 1: That is where the drama lies. So if you had
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart taking off to the moon... No. Jackson Dart injured... Snap, crackle,
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  Speaker 1: pop as he gets knocked out in his left knee
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  Speaker 1: in the first quarter. It was seven plays into the
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  Speaker 1: game for New York. The seventh offensive play for the
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  Speaker 1: New York football team that plays in New Jersey took
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  Speaker 1: a major hit. The old sandwich, and you were the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the Oreo sandwich there. You had Byron Young
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  Speaker 1: and Josiah Stewart, whoever they are. I know who Byron
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  Speaker 1: Young is. I don't know who the Other guys. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart did not return. He watched the second half
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  Speaker 1: wearing a... If you remember HBO back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: they had a show called The Sopranos, and he had
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  Speaker 1: a Sopranos-style tracksuit on. Jackson Dart standing and watching the game. Now,
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  Speaker 1: state-funded NFL media, the Pravda News Service of the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League, reporting that Dart... suffered a sprained mcl there
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  Speaker 1: will be more tests later on tuesday the giants on
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  Speaker 1: the big bird heading back to the east coast so
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  Speaker 1: they'll land just in time to get into nice rush
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  Speaker 1: hour traffic there in the new york tri-state area i'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that'll be wonderful so jackson dart though out mcl
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  Speaker 1: that has up staged everything else. That is the story
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  Speaker 1: here that we're going to talk about. So that is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: How much does the Giants outlook change? How much does
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  Speaker 1: the Giants outlook change? If Jackson Dart is going to
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  Speaker 1: miss a month or more. for the team that calls
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  Speaker 1: themselves Giants. So I've got Morton's Steakhouse, the National Bird
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  Speaker 1: of India, and Irish Spring. And we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together, and we are going to be
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  Speaker 1: in vogue on the catwalk. Because Jackson Dart, he's a
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  Speaker 1: catwalk guy, right? He's a fashion guy. fashion show up
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  Speaker 1: on the catwalk. They get mocked for being on the catwalk. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so let's begin with this. To answer the question, how
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  Speaker 1: much does the Giants outlook change if Jackson Dart misses
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  Speaker 1: extended time? It obviously changes everything. Not that Jackson Dart
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  Speaker 1: is the second coming of a good quarterback, because that
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  Speaker 1: is to be determined. However, New York, for better or worse,
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  Speaker 1: built this entire thing on offense around the dartboard and
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  Speaker 1: And you take the dart board away, what do you got?
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  Speaker 1: Now they're playing darts blindfolded is what they're doing here.
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  Speaker 1: This sophomore season, supposed to be for Jackson Dart, his
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  Speaker 1: football bar mitzvah. The coming of age story, right? And instead,
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  Speaker 1: the cake got served with a nice MCL sprain. A
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  Speaker 1: side of MCL sprain for Jackson Dart. So New York
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  Speaker 1: went from wondering for a little bit how good... How
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  Speaker 1: good can Jackson Dart become? Now counting how many weeks
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be out before he returns to the fold.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at the Giants, the Fisher-Price building
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  Speaker 1: block set, Jackson Dart was the star attraction. He was
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  Speaker 1: on the box. You buy the toy because of the
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  Speaker 1: thing on the box, and he was on the box there.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's like the Jenga piece that you take
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  Speaker 1: out of the Jenga tower there, and then you just yell, Timber!
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  Speaker 1: And then it all comes crashing down. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: The main reason why is because of Jameis Winston, who
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  Speaker 1: we like. We didn't like what we saw. We liked
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  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston. What has happened? Where have you gone, Jameis Winston?
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  Speaker 1: He was out there playing most of the game, and
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  Speaker 1: he looked like a guy that had been doing cheese
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  Speaker 1: puff commercials on TV. Remember the opening game between the
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  Speaker 1: Giants and the Yankees? And Jameis was doing cheesy clown
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  Speaker 1: television stuff. And then at the World Cup, he was
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  Speaker 1: doing more cheesy TV stuff. He played like a guy
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  Speaker 1: who had spent a lot of time worried about doing
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  Speaker 1: bad television. And he ended up playing bad quarterback. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's that. The Giants, though, you look at this. Winston,
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  Speaker 1: he he makes bad throws. He'd always say, well, OK,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to give you three or four really bad throws.
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  Speaker 1: And then he's going to give you a couple of
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  Speaker 1: amazing touchdown plays. He didn't give you the amazing plays.
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  Speaker 1: He gave you the crappy throws. He didn't give you
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  Speaker 1: the good stuff. So the Giants without Jackson Dart. It's
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  Speaker 1: like going to Morton Steakhouse and it's like they have
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  Speaker 1: a sign up. Listen, we're open for business. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have any steak. But you're Morton Steakhouse. How do you
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  Speaker 1: not have to? Well, we've got the other stuff. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations. Enjoy your baked potato. Enjoy your baked potato.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy that here. So as for the return, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: I am not not medically trained. I am just an
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  Speaker 1: overnight gas bag. However, I did a while back stay
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  Speaker 1: at a Holiday Inn Express and playing Dr. Mallor. Spitballing here,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to say that Jackson Dart has between a
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  Speaker 1: grade one and a grade two MCL sprain. What does
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  Speaker 1: that mean? That means that the smart money says Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Dart will be out anywhere from two to six weeks.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a month and a half away. on
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  Speaker 1: the long end of that. So that's where I am
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  Speaker 1: on Jackson Dart. Of course, he could be, like Caleb Williams,
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  Speaker 1: just all of a sudden bounce back and play next week.
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  Speaker 1: That's a possibility. All right, now, meanwhile, keeping the beat
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  Speaker 1: going here, the question now is, can we do a
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  Speaker 1: wellness check on Coach John Harbaugh, the Giants' Coach John Harbaugh?
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  Speaker 1: Can we do a wellness check on John Harbaugh at
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  Speaker 1: this point? So if you look at where we were...
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  Speaker 1: And where we are now, and you know this, everybody
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  Speaker 1: spent one week congratulating Jim Harbaugh for fixing the New
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  Speaker 1: York Giants. And that narrative. It just took one week,
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  Speaker 1: and he's a grown-up in the room, and you heard
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  Speaker 1: all that wonderful stuff. Even Mr. Buck there on TV
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  Speaker 1: was licking the boots of John Harbaugh. And so they
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  Speaker 1: beat the Cowboys week one, and everything's good. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you do. You hire a great coach. We were impressed
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  Speaker 1: with the Giants in week one. They made some mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: but overall. That narrative, though, has aged like a can
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  Speaker 1: or a container there of Hellman's mail that you've left
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  Speaker 1: out at the July picnic event. since 8 in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: and it's now 4.30 in the afternoon, and that mayo
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  Speaker 1: has just been sitting out there. There's flies all over it.
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  Speaker 1: It's disgusting. It smells. It's turning yellow. It's god-awful. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So Harbaugh thought he had inherited a upstart quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Darden, and instead it looks like at this point
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  Speaker 1: he inherited the medical chart and the insurance deductible. for
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart at this particular point here. So, wow. You
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  Speaker 1: juxtapose the giant fan base. Again, week one, beat the Cowboys!
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  Speaker 1: oh man we're back baby and i heard from you
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  Speaker 1: wackadoodles i heard from you yeah i guess your phones
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  Speaker 1: all went to airplane mode when that game turned sideways
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  Speaker 1: because before the game i was getting texted be prepared
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  Speaker 1: mallor you're gonna your rams are done it's the giants
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  Speaker 1: are back baby all that crap Again, airplane mode. Game
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  Speaker 1: went sideways, airplane mode. Not the first time it's happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's called being a frontrunner, which is hard to do
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  Speaker 1: when your team sucks to be a frontrunner. It's not
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  Speaker 1: easy to be a frontrunner when your team sucks. But
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  Speaker 1: the Giant fans went from all giddy beating the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: and dreaming of January playoff games and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And then by the end of week two, they're now
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  Speaker 1: Googling medial collateral ligament recovery timeline. All right, so New
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  Speaker 1: York's master plan is now what? Jameis Winston gets some
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  Speaker 1: duct tape, some Elmer's glue, and positive affirmations. Is that
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  Speaker 1: the plan? And John Harbaugh. God love John Harbaugh. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, John Harbaugh must be daydreaming about the national
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  Speaker 1: bird of India, the peacock. He must be thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: My buddy, Mike Tomlin, he could have gotten one of
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  Speaker 1: these jobs. And Tomlin said, no, I'm going to take
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  Speaker 1: a gap year. I'm going to go hang out with
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  Speaker 1: a peacock over there at NBC, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give lukewarm takes on Sunday night football, and that's that.
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  Speaker 1: And then John Harbaugh said, no, no, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: jump right back in the deep fryer, take a bad job,
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  Speaker 1: the Giants job, a bad job. And he took the
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  Speaker 1: bad job. He said, I want the bad job. Give
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  Speaker 1: me the bad job. He got the bad job. And okay.
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  Speaker 1: And the deep fryer, he's right back in the deep fryer,
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  Speaker 1: and it turns out that he discovered the grease was
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  Speaker 1: left on. He did a belly whopper in there. So,
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  Speaker 1: the good news, I will be Benny Brightside to a point.
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  Speaker 1: It does not look good at this point for the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams are much better than them, and we knew
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  Speaker 1: that going in. They just played poorly. Typically, teams don't
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  Speaker 1: have two bad games in a row. If that happens,
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  Speaker 1: they don't have a good coach, etc., etc., etc. However,
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  Speaker 1: You look at the Giants' upcoming schedule, and it's the
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  Speaker 1: Paris Baguette schedule, okay? It's extra soft. However, without Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Dart and the way that Jameis Winston played, the Giants
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  Speaker 1: have no teeth. So it's a problem. But you have
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  Speaker 1: four literal cupcakes lined up in a row for the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: You got Cupcake City, baby, for the Giants here. Teams
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  Speaker 1: like the Titans and the Commanders and teams like that.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow they are the team missing the frosting. which
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  Speaker 1: does not seem like a good situation. All right, last
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  Speaker 1: word here to the winner's locker room. And I know
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  Speaker 1: it's a tough day for the Trolls. It'll be okay.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams will lose some more games. You'll have a
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  Speaker 1: chance to call up again, you cowards. But the Rams
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  Speaker 1: get the win. The obvious question, did Sean McVay use
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  Speaker 1: the voodoo boogaloo to solve the Rams' issues? So I
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  Speaker 1: would pump the brakes on that. It's odd to say this.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams won the game in a route or route,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how you were taught in elementary school. It
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  Speaker 1: still doesn't feel all the way back. So I am
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  Speaker 1: pumping the brakes and cooling the jets. I think those
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  Speaker 1: are the colloquial terms for the Rams here. Without Jackson Dart,
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  Speaker 1: this game became an exhibition game. It did. It was
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  Speaker 1: a make-a-wish situation. Jameis Winston, again, played like a guy
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  Speaker 1: doing cheesy TV and like he kind of semi-retired from
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. I hope that's just a one-game situation. We
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  Speaker 1: like Jameis. But, man, was that disheartening. There were plays
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  Speaker 1: to be made, and he didn't make them. And it
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  Speaker 1: was like he was playing blindfolded, which he often does.
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  Speaker 1: But occasionally he'll connect on those passes, and he's a
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  Speaker 1: fun zone player. He's a one-man band. He wasn't any
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  Speaker 1: of that. So you look at it, with Jackson Dart out,
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  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston in, the Rams needed a get-well game. And
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  Speaker 1: the moment Jackson Dart hobbled off the field, the Giants
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  Speaker 1: then showed up. And you saw one of the guys
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  Speaker 1: had some flowers. He was carrying some flowers. And there
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  Speaker 1: were some balloons in the back. And then there was
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  Speaker 1: a fruit basket and a box of chocolates. So they really,
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  Speaker 1: really did a nice job there. The Giants, very welcoming.
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  Speaker 1: The box of chocolates, the truffles, was really... Really sweet.
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  Speaker 1: So despite missing their top two players, Pukunuku, the top
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  Speaker 1: offensive player, and Myles Garrett, who was hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: Mookie Betts. Yes, the Rams traded for Myles Garrett to
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  Speaker 1: hang out with Mookie Betts. Boy, there were some real
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  Speaker 1: celebrity a-holes at that game, by the way. Did you
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  Speaker 1: see the shot there in the luxury box? You had McAfee,
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  Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky. Who else? There was a couple other people.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man. This is like, hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: better than you, central a-hole squad, right? It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of a-holes. Put them all in the box.
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  Speaker 1: Who's in the box? The a-holes. Anyway, so the Rams
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  Speaker 1: without Myles Garrett and Puka Nakua, they end up winning fine.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of the equivalent of an open book test
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  Speaker 1: with Jackson Dart out. And Aaron Donald made his much-ballyhooed return.
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  Speaker 1: And much like Myles Garrett the week prior, you were
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  Speaker 1: left at the end of the game saying, where's Waldo?
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  Speaker 1: He did a where's Waldo thing. He was out there.
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  Speaker 1: And he was a drag for the most part. No
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  Speaker 1: impactful plays, really, from Aaron Donald. You wouldn't know that
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  Speaker 1: from the TV broadcast. And it was like the king
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  Speaker 1: returning to the kingdom and all that. Matthew Stafford had
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  Speaker 1: an ugly interception. Ram running backs fumbling a couple of times. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: when you put all the numbers together, this was an
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  Speaker 1: Irish spring victory. The Rams were rolling around in kangaroo
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  Speaker 1: poo-poo in Australia. And they showered off, and they suddenly
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  Speaker 1: smelled pretty good. The sweet smell of victory. It smelled wonderful. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay cleaned up a lot of the grotesque stuff
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  Speaker 1: at the crime scene. But there's still some fixables there
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  Speaker 1: to work on. Those little things that are repairable. And
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  Speaker 1: you don't get a lot of credit for winning a
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  Speaker 1: game you were favored to win when the quarterback went out.
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  Speaker 1: The backup looked like he hadn't played football in a year.
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  Speaker 1: And you played Ham and Egger at quarterback. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: one comfortable win, obviously. Does not erase the problems the
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  Speaker 1: Rams had in Australia. It merely gives everyone permission to
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  Speaker 1: stop screaming and shouting and pounding the table for a
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  Speaker 1: few days until the Rams play the Denver Broncos. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a tough week for Koopa Loop there.
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  Speaker 1: Broncos going to lose that game.
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• 18:48
  Speaker 1: episode of the show, we were like, wouldn't it be
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: funny if Caleb Williams just came back and played in
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the next game for the Bears? Wouldn't that be hilarious?
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: After it looked like he had been shot with a bazooka.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be funny if he just went back out
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and played? Well, there's apparently a chance he could do
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: just that. What? What on God's green earth are you
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: talking about? So Caleb Williams is listed as week-to-week. No,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I'm more day-to-day. He's week-to-week. His hammy apparently... Didn't go whammy. What? Yes,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the right hamstring injury, which looked like a career-ending injury
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: based on his reaction as he was scrambling midway through
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter in that thrilling Bears 9-3 loss to Minnesota.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: He was helped off on a cart. He was taken
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: off the field on a cart to the locker room
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: with a towel over his head, the whole thing. So
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: then we fast forward and Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson, coach
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: of your Chicago 49ers. team revealed that he does not
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: expect Williams to practice this week. Not a game, not
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: a game. We talked about practice, but you know what
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that means, but notably has not ruled him out for
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the Monday night game. It looks like we're having another
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: bad Monday night game bears and Eagles the next Monday
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: night game. Now, Ben Johnson offered a optimistic response, saying
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: that Williams is, quote, a little bit different than the
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: average human being. Oh, definitely is. And has previously returned
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: from injuries faster than expected. Is that true? That sounds
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: like a lie to me. That sounds like a lie
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to me. Is that true? Anyway, that's a good jumping-off point.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. The Caleb Williams hamstring drama-o-rama?
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Is this a medical documentary or a Hollywood production? That's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the question. So I've got code enforcement, daycare center, and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: jumbo-sized pink bottles. And we will combine all of these
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to jump on a grenade,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: which is what it looked like Caleb Williams had done,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and it exploded. Kaboom goes the grenade. Good night. It's
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: all over. Apparently not. So, number one. Number one. One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Number one.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Stop.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: So the arrow... is officially pointing at Tinseltown for K. Lewis. Remember,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: he got paid to pretend like he was going to
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: USC to play football where he lived in his luxury
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: skyline apartment there in L.A., which is good because you
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: don't want to be near the floor. That's where all
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the smell of urine is from the homeless people peeing
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: all over the streets of L.A. because they're allowed to
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: do that thanks to the great city leaders there in
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Anyway, somewhere along the way, just getting helped
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: off the field, became insufficient. And I don't know when
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: this happened. You've got to play it up to the cameras. Now,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: NBA guys are really good at playing it up for
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the cameras, but typically football players, these were people with machismo.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: These were men's men. They're not going to do the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: bull crap the NBA guys do where they embellish injuries. Well,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: times have changed, and now you watch these injuries in
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the NFL. It's like dinner theater. It's dinner and a
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: show watching the NFL injuries, at least with Caleb Williams.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: His exit contained more production value. Caleb Williams, the Bears quarterback,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: leaving the field, there was more production value than most
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: network halftime shows. Do you understand? Do you understand what
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: we're dealing with here with Caleb Williams? It's wild. The
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: only thing missing was a sponsorship logo on the cart
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that took him off the field. Missed opportunity by the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. He starts with a towel over his head. Oh,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: my God. You know what they put over your head
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: when you're dead? They put a blanket over your head
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: when you're dead. So he put the towel over his head.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: He then, Caleb Williams, dramatically removed the towel, and he
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: unleashed what appeared to be a primal scream.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: Oh, the.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Agony. And then he looked around. He realized. The moment,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: like a great actor, he realized the moment and he
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: gave an arm pump, similar to when Donald Trump, the president,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: got shot.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Remember that? And he raised his fist in the air.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: One of the great photographs of this recent times and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: all that. Kayla Wiz, he pumped his arm in the air.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Everywhere.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Everywhere. That scream, though, that was like saving Private Ryan.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: It was just outstanding. It was so convincing. How convincing
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: was it? Thanks for asking. It was so convincing. I
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: was looking at the limb he lost to the grizzly
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: bear attack. I was like, oh, man. Hopefully they can
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: give him a different limb there to put on.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: And now.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Now we're supposed to believe that Caleb is made tough.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: He's like, it's going to make a Lazarus-type recovery or
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: something like that. Methinks not so much. And what I'm
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: doing here, on behalf of the real Chicago Bears fans,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I am contacting code enforcement. Why am I contacting code enforcement?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Because this is a serious man-card violation. Man-card violation. What
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: are you doing?
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: Seriously.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Seriously.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Several of you sent me clips of Daniel Jones, who
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I've been very critical of. Very critical of Daniel Jones,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the Colts quarterback. Not a fan. And Daniel Jones had
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the ultimate snap, crackle, pop last year. His leg was,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: everything was torn in his leg. And was there a scream? No.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Did he pump his arm in the air? No. Did
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: he have a towel over his head?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: He just walked off the field. Like, you know, like
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a man. He just walked off the field. There was
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: no drama-o-rama, none of that. And then you juxtapose that
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: with Daniel Jones did, who was seriously injured for the
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts last year. And then you look at this guy,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: this schmuck, Caleb Williams, who, my God, man code violation?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Man code violation? That's grade A NFL embellishment for the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Bears quarterback. And think of this like, we go back,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: if you're old enough to remember, there's a basketball player
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: for the Celtics named Paul Pierce. who you know it
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: was very similar like paul pierce 2.0 here but the
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: injury theater with paul pierce this is getting imax forget
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: paul pierce was injury theater he got rolled off in
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a wheelchair and it turns out he actually had pooped
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: his pants and he needed to change his white celtic
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: home shorts because he had poopy in his pants and
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: so he had to take a doo-doo and so he
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: he acted like he was dying and even paul pierce
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: i believe watched the clip of caleb williams and said
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a It's a little much, Cal. You know, laid it
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: on a little too thick there. What are you doing?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Come on. So if Williams can't play on Monday night,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the special agent Tyson Bajan will take over. He'll get
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: to start against the Eagles. He did not play particularly
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: well for the Chicago Bears in limited duty there against
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the Vikings. Of course, Ben Johnson called him a darn
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: good football player, which tells you Ben Johnson will praise
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: literally anyone. All right, staying in the Windy City, page two.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: So a week into the season, the Bears put up
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: 59 points, God's gift to football, Ben Johnson, the Messiah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: And now you look at it, one week later, you've
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: got this, whatever this thing is with Caleb Williams, obviously
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: embellishing the level of injury that he had based on
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: what Ben Johnson said. So Chicago was penalized 11 times
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: in Sunday's game. There were eight accepted penalties. for 58 yards.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: They drew 12 penalties for 57 yards back in Week
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: 1 against Carolina. So the Bears have a discipline problem,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: it's fair to say. The size of a nice, thick
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Chicago deep dish pizza. Thick, sloppy, and impossible to ignore.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears' mistakes. And so the question, how much
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: of this sloppy Chicago football falls on the shoulders of
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson? Boy Wonder, the new Boy Wonder coach there,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson. And I don't want to overreact. I don't
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: want to overreact. How about 100%? How about 100%? The
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, who, as we say, they have a discipline
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: problem there. And right now, these players are treating the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: rules of the game like junk mail. Don't even bother.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Don't look at your junk email folder. You just click delete.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: You don't look at it. And that's it. So as
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: we like to say in these parts, you're either coaching
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: it or you're allowing it to happen. And either way,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you're cooked. Ben Johnson, the coach of the Bears, currently
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: running a daycare center. It's called the Yellow Flag Daycare Center.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And it's just great. Repeatedly committing. Friendly fire. Week after week.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Now two weeks into the NFL season. And Ben Johnson's
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: offense has more laundering. More laundry on the field than
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: if you go into the housekeeping department at your local
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Holiday Inn. There's more laundry from the Chicago Bears and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: all the mistakes they're making, at least in the eyes
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: of the officials. And the Bears, I mean, you look
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: at it, they also should have a sponsorship deal. We
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: mentioned Ben Johnson, his quarterback there, Caleb Williams. That cart
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: should have had a big sponsor logo on it. Well, also,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, they should be sponsored by Tide. They
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: do so much laundry work for the officials there with
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the penalties on the field. It's completely absurd. Completely absurd.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: And Ben Johnson inherited a football team and somehow they're
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: like a flag manufacturing thing they've got going on there. Now,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: going forward for Da Bears, Ben Johnson clearly needs to
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: spend some time at practice with flashcards. And the flashcards
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: will say, don't do that, dummy. And that's it. All right,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: final point. We now move in the division. We go
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: from Chicago to Minnesota. Minnesota, nice. Where the little fella,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, has been cleared from the NFL's concussion protocol.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: The good news is it was a little concussion. It
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: would be a big concussion, but he doesn't have a
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: big head. So Kyler Murray, a concussion. He's now been
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: cleared from the protocol. He is set to return as
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the Vikings starting quarterback in week number three against the Buccaneers.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: So that'll be the matchup there. Now, Kevin O'Connell, the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: head coach there in Minnesota, confirming the decision, saying that
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Alligator Arms has completed the final phase. The final phase
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: was doing great and will start tomorrow. against the Tampa
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Bay football team, which looks terrible. Kyler Murray suffering a concussion.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: very early in that game against Green Bay back in
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: week one. He took a hit while attempting to slide,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and that was that. All right, so the question, how
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: excited should our friends, the Viking fans, really be with
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray back in the fold? So, Oxide. So I
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: would advise Eek in Roseville, Minnesota, and Al and all
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the boys there, even Holler and James, all my guys
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota, and a few of the gals. My advice,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: fasten your seatbelts. Now, why would you have to fasten
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: your seatbelts? Because Viking fans, please keep your hands also clean.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and feet inside the quarterback ride at all times. At
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: all times. We have seen enough to know exactly, exactly
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: what this is. We know what this is. The Kyler
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Murray experience is basically Magic Mountain on a holiday weekend.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: What does that mean? Long waits, sudden drops, and eventually
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: somebody gets very nauseous and vomits. Yes. And they also
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: get die, die, diarrhea. It happens. So let's be real here. Now,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I've been on a long time behind these microphones and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the entire time Kyler Murray's been in the NFL. And
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I was never a fan of Kyler Murray. But the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: fascination with Kyler Murray. is based entirely on what he
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: can do rather than what he consistently does. And it's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the highlight, the TikTok-type quarterback. There's a few plays where
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray looks really good, and he always looks like
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: it's a glitch because he's so tiny. It's like, hey,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: who let the kindergartner play in the NFL? Who allowed that?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: You can't allow that guy. He's too small. He could
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: get hurt. And he does get hurt. But they allow
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: him to play. I don't know how. It doesn't seem like.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: And Pop Warner, you have to be a certain height
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and a certain weight to play. I guess in the NFL,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: they don't have those rules. Like, Kyler Murray's too small
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: to play Pop Warner. He's allowed to play in the NFL. Anyway,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: you know what he is? He's cryptocurrency. That's what he is.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Could reach the moon. Could hit it big.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Crypto.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Could completely crash out before halftime. You never know. And
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the thing that I'm also really amazed by, and I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be amazed by this, but I am, is this
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: toxic relationship NFL backers have with Kyler Murray. It's that
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: kind of relationship. You know the one where your friends
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: already know exactly how the story's going to end and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: it's not good. But you still insist, no, really? No, no. Listen,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: she's changed, dude. No, man, she's hot. You know, she's changed.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: She's hot. No, she hasn't. She's a nut job. And
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: she's going to kill you. Not literally kill you. Just
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: ruin your life. And you're like, no, no, but she's changed. No,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: it hasn't happened. It hasn't changed. So my advice to
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: my friends in Minnesota is to keep a couple of
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: jumbo-sized pink bottles of Pepto-Bismol. Right there, nearby, because you're
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: going to need them. You're going to need those pink bottles,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: jumbo-sized Pepto.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific. It's Maller.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: To the third degree.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: Are you ready?
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: This is when Big Ben gets grilled. And to the Koopaloop.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: Ben, historically, teams that have started a season 0-2 have
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: about an 11% chance of making the playoffs.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: That's not good, Coop. No, it is not.
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: There are eight teams in the NFL that have started
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: off 0-2. Of those eight teams, do you think there
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: are any that you think could actually make the playoffs?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the two that I'm going to circle would
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: be both in the AFC Houston and Indianapolis because they're
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: in the AFC South. Location, location, location. Not that I
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: think the Colts or the Texans are that good. And
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: you could argue Tampa Bay also because the southern part
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: of the NFL sucks. But I'm going to go, you
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: asked me, so I'm going to go Texans and the Colts,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: one of those two.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Next!
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: Ben, Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver called Tyler Shuck
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: poor man's Josh Allen.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: And Tyler Shuck actually liked that one. How do you
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: feel about that assessment?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not quite there. Shuck's better than I thought he
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: was going to be. I thought he would be terrible.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Who's this guy? Aw, Shuck's. He doesn't look... Remember Brett... Well,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: you're younger than I, but when Brett Favre came around
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and was like, why do you pronounce it like that?
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And I look at Tyler Shuck, and I'm like, that
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's supposed to sound like that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: I have to remind myself every time.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I'm the same way. But I'll give the guy credit.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: He played well in the fourth quarter. He outplayed. I'm
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: actually going to talk about him later on. He outplayed
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson down the stretch of that game. Too long
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: drive for the Saints. Too long drives. I'm not all
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: in yet, but I'll tell you what, I like him
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: more than Kyler Murray. Next, quick light.
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: Marvin Harrison Jr. had a donut this past weekend. Is
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: it safe to call him a bust already?
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes. However, I do believe that the Cardinals will
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: end up trading him at the end of the year
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: and somebody else will give him an opportunity because of
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: his name and the bloodlines and probably the Colts, but
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: he's been terrible. How do we do?
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: You pass this edition.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: That is a win. Put it on the board. Winner, winner, winner.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Chicken dinner.
• 35:11
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• 35:23
  Speaker 1: We have a game, so let's welcome our contestants right now.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: That way Coop won't bitch and complain. We don't have
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: enough time for the game. You sabotaged the game. All right,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: so let's welcome in our contestants. We have Joey, who's
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: in Houston. Hello, Joey. Welcome. You're going to play Mallor's
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Mountain of Money. Hello, Joey.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: Going on, Mr. Maller.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Talking into a microphone in a dark studio, and I
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: feel terrible because I just hung up on can't close
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the deal, Neil. And what brings you to the show here, Joey?
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: What are you doing up at this hour?
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: I work at a plant where we make steam and electricity,
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: so it runs 24-7.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: All right, nice. And so you're around a lot of
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: machinery and things, I would imagine, yes?
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir. I'm on my way home, so that's the
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: best part.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Good shift at work there. You're doing it right. What? What?
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to know the people, Coop. I'm trying
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: to learn about the people. All right. I guess I
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: can't learn about your life, Joey. Coop's yelling at me.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: All right. Who do you want to partner up with, Joey?
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: You got me, Ben, Coop, or if you really want
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: a good time, Lorena.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, since you got to know me, I'm going
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: to go with you, Mr.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Man. All right, we're in it, man. We're going to
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: get this done, Joey. Hold on a sec. And we
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: have Brandon in Kansas City. Hello, Brandon. Welcome. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-baby in
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the jet.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go. 2-0, baby.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: Red and gold until I'm dead and cold. Let's go.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Until the casket drops. Now, I've actually met Brandon at
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the Kansas City meet and greet. I know you, so
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I don't need to ask you 10 questions about your life.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: So who would you like to partner up with?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: Give me Coop since he has me hanging on hold.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: All the time. All right, Coop is a tribute to you.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: What are the categories here? Quickly, Coop, let's get this
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: game set up, and then we'll have it on the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: other side.
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: All right, this is the Joan Jett edition of Mallard's
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: Mountain of Money. She turns 68 years old today.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: The categories are You Don't Know What You've Got, Bad Reputation,
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: I Love Rock and Roll, and Everyday People. Joey, you
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: were on first. Which category would you like?
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Everyday people. Everyday people. All right, Brandon, how about you?
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I love rock and roll. All right. All right, guys,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: hold on a sec. We will have Mallard's Mountain of
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Money in its entirety. We'll get to that, and we
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: will do it next.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallard
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Now, Mallard's Mountain of Money. Lord, that's a lot of money.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Probably not let's welcome in our friend joey from houston
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: he makes electricity and he's off now and steam well
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: yeah he uses steam and all that joey's gonna partner
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: up with me brandon in kansas city chiefs fan till
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the casket drops he's teamed up with coop and joey
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: you were up first you picked everyday people would that
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: be correct Yes, sir. All right. We need the first
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: and last name of these random athletes. And here we go.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: 45 seconds on the clock. We're on our way. Go
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: basketball player known as the mailman. Yes. The pitcher for
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the Mariners also pitch for the Astros, known as the
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: big unit.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: Randy Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback for Texas who led them to a championship, won
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the Heisman, then flopped.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: Vince Young.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Yes. Running back from Ohio State, played for the Tennessee Titans.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Eddie George. Yes. Nicknamed the Snake for the Arizona Cardinals
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: back in the.
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: Jake Plummer.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Good job. Basketball player for the Mavericks. He played for
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the Pistons. The Utah Jazz traded for Adrian Dantley back
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: in the day. No, no. Oh, I said his name.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: That's right. Bad job by me. Former mayor of Detroit.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: He played for the Pistons. He's still alive. He's played
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: for the Pistons back in the 60s.
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  Speaker 3: The 60s.
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  Speaker 1: 160 points. All right.
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: Do you lose points for saying the name? No, you don't.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Thanks for trying to be a schmuck. No, you don't.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: 160 points. I was trying to say, I think, Mark Aguirre.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I said Adrian Dantley, who we were looking for. So
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: obviously that didn't count. And Dave Bing was the guy
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: that was the mayor of Detroit.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: Brandon, we have I Love Rock and Roll. These athletes
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: all love rock and roll. Don't choke. 45 seconds on
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: the clock.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Are you ready, Brandon? Don't choke.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: All right, let's begin. The Splash Brother, currently the star
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: of The Warriors.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Seth Curry.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Taylor Swift's husband.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: The best catcher of all time for the Dodgers and
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: the Mets.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: The best skateboarder of all time.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: This guy is one of the best closers of all time.
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: Longtime San Diego Padre. All right. We'll skip it. Former
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: linebacker for USC. I think he was the coach of
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: the Jaguars. Yes, this guy was an offensive lineman for
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: the Saints.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 7: 180.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: All right, so it's a 20-point game. It's anyone's game.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: What did he say? What?
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: What did you say?
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Did you say what I think you said?
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: I'm just joking, Ben.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Relax, relax, Ben. I'm joking. Banter, banter, banter.
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: Please make an appropriate banter.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I dumped it.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, that's a demerit for Coop. We'll take
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: off 20 points. Actually, 30 points. Joey, we have, what
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: do we got? You don't, what do we got? Bad
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: reputation and you don't know what you've got.
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: Bad reputation.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: All right. These sports figures all had a bad reputation.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: All right. We're 45 seconds on the clock. And away
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: we go. All right. Quarterback for the Cleveland Browns right now.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Played for the Texans.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: Johnny Mintz.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, the Browns.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: All right. Great UFC star. He fought a fight against
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Money Mayweather. A few years ago.
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: Manny Pacquiao?
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: No. Irish guy. All right.
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: Conor McGregor.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Yes. A wide receiver for the Steelers. He went nutso
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: at the end of his career with Tampa Bay. Did
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: jumping jacks off the field at the end of his career.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: infielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. He was arrested for
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: snooping a minor in the Dominican, lost his $ 100 million
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: contract with Tampa Bay. Kosha Penn State! Kosha Penn State! He... Oh, my.
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: No!
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God! 190. 190.
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: You missed Joe Paterno, Wander Franco. What else did he miss?
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. Oh, my God. Yeah. Okay, Brandon, you don't
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: know what you've got.
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: These athletes were all traded before they reached superstardom. 45
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: seconds on the clock.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Let's begin.
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: This guy was drafted by the Suns, was traded to
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: the Mavericks, then became a multi-time MVP with the Suns again.
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: Long hair, point guard, white guy.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Dirk Lewicki.
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  Speaker 2: No.
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: He's not going to get it done. We won the game, Joey. Oh,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: my God. We won the game. Oh, my God. A
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: point guard. Koop Chokes. Koop Chokes.