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Hour 1- Baker MANIA · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Ding dong! It's hour number one!
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  Speaker 2: Hour one!
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  Speaker 1: Ready for a good time here on the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 1: We stayed up all night to provide fresh audio content
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  Speaker 1: for you here on this hump day, this Wednesday, the
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  Speaker 1: ninth day of September. So here in hour number one,
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  Speaker 1: are you surprised that Tampa Bay blinked after Baker Mayfield's
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  Speaker 1: disrespected comments about the Bucs front office? Also, Is Bucs
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Baker Mayfield a true franchise quarterback? He's getting paid
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  Speaker 1: $ 55 million a year. We live in a world where
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield's a $ 55 million a year quarterback. And what
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  Speaker 1: message is Aaron Donald sending by skipping the Rams season
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  Speaker 1: opener in Australia? He's not even bothering to go to
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  Speaker 1: the game. Talk about all that and more right now.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is, our number one. Well, it turns out that...
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  Speaker 1: Baking is a lucrative industry. Yeah, normally it's not, but
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  Speaker 1: it is now. Well, kind of. And if you really
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  Speaker 1: complain enough, you'll get what you want. I've heard that before.
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  Speaker 1: Donkey Kong. The NFL. This is our Wednesday show. It's
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  Speaker 1: still late Tuesday in the West, but it's our Wednesday show.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll all be together, except for our friends in
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  Speaker 1: Hawaii and Alaska, soon enough into Wednesday. And then it's on.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL begins. The NFL regular season. You smell that?
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  Speaker 1: It's either BO or it is the Patriots trying to dethrone. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you can't really dethrone anyone in the first game of
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  Speaker 1: the year. They'll take on Seattle, a rematch, the traditional
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night NFL opener. As Seattle was a four-point favorite
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  Speaker 1: on the opening line, that line anywhere from three to
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  Speaker 1: three and a half. I have to look over at
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  Speaker 1: DraftKings and see what the line is right now. But
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks' favorite, pretty much a toss-up game. You get
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  Speaker 1: a few points at home, so it's pretty much a
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  Speaker 1: toss-up game there. We'll have more on that and... A
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  Speaker 1: primetime special later on. We think we're going to do
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  Speaker 1: this in hour two of Benny versus the Penny for
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  Speaker 1: the Wednesday night game. So we're excited about that. Big
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  Speaker 1: ratings win. Big ratings win for that coming up in
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  Speaker 1: our number two. The penny has been on ice. Ice, ice, baby,
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  Speaker 1: for some time. But don't bury the lead, my man!
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to bury the lead. We are not
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  Speaker 1: going to bury the lead. Our lead this hour from Tampa,
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  Speaker 1: where the cigars are good, the sandwiches are great, and
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield ain't going anywhere. Not anytime soon. You see this? No? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe perhaps you missed it. Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers
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  Speaker 1: have stood together. They're roasting marshmallows and they are singing
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  Speaker 1: Kumbaya as Baker Mayfield agrees to a three-year extension, keeping
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  Speaker 1: him in Tampa Bay through 2029. We are told the
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  Speaker 1: deal is reportedly worth up to like $ 160 million, $ 165
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. and averaging $ 55 million per season. We live
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  Speaker 1: in a world where Baker Mayfield is a $ 55 million
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  Speaker 1: a year quarterback. Let that settle in. Baker Mayfield is
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  Speaker 1: a double nickels, $ 55 million player. It's a dramatic turnaround.
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  Speaker 1: I remember a few years ago, Baker Mayfield was was
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  Speaker 1: persona non grata in the NFL. Just a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, Baker Mayfield cut off negotiations. He huffed and puffed,
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  Speaker 1: and he had a hissy fit. And he started training camp.
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  Speaker 1: He said, hey, the previous offer was a disrespectful offer
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  Speaker 1: to Baker Mayfield. However, they figured it out. So as
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned here, Baker Mayfield... allowed his agents to continue
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  Speaker 1: the negotiation. Why would you ever stop? Like, what's the
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  Speaker 1: harm in talking? So they continued to talk, negotiated the deal.
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  Speaker 1: And after a cooling off period, there's a cooling off period. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: both sides return to the table. The deal has been
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  Speaker 1: apparently finalized and just in time for the start of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL regular season. So that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Are you surprised?
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  Speaker 1: Are you surprised that Tampa Bay blinked after Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 1: played the disrespected card from the bottom of the deck?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Chili's gift card, beehive, And Van Gogh.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to float your boat is what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do. So, A, to answer the question, look,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, as we have pointed out in previous episodes
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  Speaker 1: of this show, it's like the Mexican drug cartel. They
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  Speaker 1: got so much money. They don't know what to do
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  Speaker 1: with the money. It's F-U money times F-U money to
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  Speaker 1: infinity and beyond. The NFL money machine. So they got
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  Speaker 1: all this cash. You genuinely have to try to not
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  Speaker 1: get paid in the NFL. I'm convinced of that. And
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  Speaker 1: there are a few exceptions. For example, there's one in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like Belgium-style beer. Once in a blue moon,
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  Speaker 1: once in a blue moon, does a guy not get
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  Speaker 1: the big money? Long-term contract. Right now, that would be
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens in Dallas. who remains capital K knucklehead for
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones out of the bubble of trust and thus
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  Speaker 1: out of the long-term contract game at this point. But
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, on the other hand, The baker spent training
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  Speaker 1: camp acting like Tampa Bay offered him a contract that
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  Speaker 1: included a Chili's gift card and complimentary parking at the Chili's. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the parking's free. Why do I need complimentary parking? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's just an add-on item. Okay, well, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: But they have free parking at Chili's. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: the parking. I know, but just it sounds better if
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  Speaker 1: we say complimentary parking. Okay, fine. So he got the
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  Speaker 1: gift card, the complimentary parking, and then, of course, that
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  Speaker 1: insulted his honor. Baker, very proud man. Very proud man,
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. So that was how that went. And he
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  Speaker 1: climbed straight on to the mountain. Was it Mount Kilimanjaro? No,
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  Speaker 1: it was Mount Principal. Baker climbed up Mount Principal. He
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  Speaker 1: planted his flag, much like he did back in college.
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  Speaker 1: He planted his flag and then came sledding right back down,
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  Speaker 1: right back down there when the $ 165 million showed up.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, okay. My principles have now been met,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm good to go. Why not? So Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: clearly getting drunk, the Buccaneer front office there on the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback inflation game, and they have now paid filet mignon
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  Speaker 1: prices for Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield is like a really
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  Speaker 1: good hamburger, a really good hamburger. It's not filet mignon.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a good hammer. And the quarterback nobody wanted,
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  Speaker 1: was it three years ago? I think it was like
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  Speaker 1: three years ago, Carolina. And they fired him, and then
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  Speaker 1: he went to the Rams, and he showed up and
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  Speaker 1: played right away. And the Raiders are so bad, of course,
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  Speaker 1: he beat the Raiders because everyone beats the Raiders. They suck.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that whole thing. And there you go. Just
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  Speaker 1: like that. It's the rise. He was the top pick
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL draft out of Oklahoma, although he had
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  Speaker 1: to play for the Browns. So then it was the fall.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Odell Beckham, his daddy, used social media to get
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  Speaker 1: him off the Browns because he couldn't stand Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 1: Then he goes to Carolina, does a face plant, goes
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  Speaker 1: to the Rams, does okay, goes to Tampa, and then
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  Speaker 1: it's on. So there you go. now richer than he was.
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  Speaker 1: He already had a good amount of money, so he
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  Speaker 1: gets another contract, and he benefits from the tax that
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  Speaker 1: the NFL has. There's a scarcity tax when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to quarterbacks in the NFL. All right, now, the other
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  Speaker 1: part of this, page two, now that Baker Mayfield has
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  Speaker 1: gotten his money, money, money yet again, yet again in
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  Speaker 1: his early 30s, Baker Mayfield, so we need to get
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  Speaker 1: our shovel out. We're going to get our shovel out
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  Speaker 1: right now and dig a little deeper. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you're ready for this or not, but I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to dig a little deeper. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: is Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield a true franchise quarterback? Is
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  Speaker 1: he a true franchise quarterback at $ 55 million a year? So, look,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it. And we're never wrong about this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We're never wrong about this analysis when it comes to quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: We're not. Just ask the Arizona fans. We were all
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  Speaker 1: over Kyler Murray and they didn't believe us. Alligator Arms
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  Speaker 1: Murray had that workout. Schmucks. Anyway, listen, Baker Mayfield, here's
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  Speaker 1: what we know about. He treats criticism like the Library
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  Speaker 1: of Congress treats historical documents. Every single slight, every single critic,
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  Speaker 1: every disrespectful comment is Gets preserved forever. Baker Mayfield still
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  Speaker 1: upset about something Colin Cowherd said in 2019, and he's
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  Speaker 1: still pissed about it. Dude, it's seven years later, man.
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  Speaker 1: You might want to chill on a little bit. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying. Yeah, nobody converts perceived criticism, disrespect into content
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  Speaker 1: better than the Baker. He's a content maker. And he
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  Speaker 1: makes the media availability time absolute must-see television. That's the reality.
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  Speaker 1: And Mayfield is elite when it comes to a microphone.
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  Speaker 1: You put him in front of a microphone, he's elite.
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  Speaker 1: He'll snap, he'll have a hissy fit, and that's always
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  Speaker 1: good for business around these parts. But think of it
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  Speaker 1: like a beehive. Yeah, that's my sound of bees. So
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  Speaker 1: think of it like a beehive. So you've got in
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  Speaker 1: the beehive, here's what I know about beehives. I learned
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  Speaker 1: this in school. I want to thank Ms. Kleeman. She
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  Speaker 1: taught me this. I was in school. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: queen bee, right? You get the queen bee and the beehive.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the queen of queens, the main star of
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  Speaker 1: the show, queen bee and the beehive. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: queen bee, you've got the worker bee, and then you've
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  Speaker 1: got the drone bees. So you've got the three types
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  Speaker 1: of bees. I believe that's it. You get the... The
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  Speaker 1: three types of bees. So for three games, for three games,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get an elite-level quarterback from Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 1: Three or four games, right? Baker is a dirtbag, heart-and-soul
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  Speaker 1: guy who plays with gumption and grind and all those
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  Speaker 1: big words. He's not the queen bee. He's not the drone.
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  Speaker 1: He's a worker bee, and he's the man in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Baker Mayfield is. So, again, three or four games,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be like, wow, he's great. Remember, was it last
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  Speaker 1: year or the year before? For three or four weeks,
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  Speaker 1: he was the MVP of the NFL. Then they had
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  Speaker 1: to play the rest of the games. And, boy, that sucked. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: that sucked. For eight or nine games, you'll get middle-of-the-road
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  Speaker 1: quarterback play, average worker bee play from Baker Mayfield. And
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  Speaker 1: then for the rest of the games, you'll be wondering
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  Speaker 1: why he's not selling insurance somewhere. He's just unusable. He's
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  Speaker 1: a non-playable character. He's so bad. And so while the
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  Speaker 1: news conferences are appointment viewing, all right, they're appointment viewing,
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  Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon remains, you know, it's optional. It's optional. But, hey,
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  Speaker 1: good for him. He got paid. It doesn't cost me anything,
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  Speaker 1: and he'll get his money, and he's at the end
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  Speaker 1: of his athletic prime here, so the Bucs will be
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  Speaker 1: paying him for a couple years past his athletic prime.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how that works out. That never goes bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's like buying bread that's moldy. It's enjoyable. Just cook
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  Speaker 1: it and cook the mold off it. All right, last word.
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  Speaker 1: To La La Land, or is it Aussie Land, update,
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  Speaker 1: update Aaron Donald. Will we see him on Thursday night
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  Speaker 1: NFL football? Will we see Aaron Donald? And the star
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  Speaker 1: out of retirement as the Rams open up their season
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  Speaker 1: against the 49ers. No, Aaron Donald saying no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Donald will not will not play in the Rams season
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  Speaker 1: opener against the 49ers. Those great NFC West rivals meeting
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  Speaker 1: 8000 miles away. NFL barnstorming. I'm sure a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: people in Melbourne are going to go out and buy
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  Speaker 1: Rams and 49er gear because of this. And they'll make
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  Speaker 1: a ton of money unless they don't. Anyway, the comeback
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  Speaker 1: delayed until at least week two. The Rams will play
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  Speaker 1: the Giants on a Monday night at SoFi. So Sean
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  Speaker 1: McVay announcing that Aaron Donald did not travel. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: are on a plane right now. In fact, they're listening on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can hear Fox Sports Radio on those planes,
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  Speaker 1: those jumbo jets. They got the radio feed. So we'd
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  Speaker 1: like to say hi to all the boys from the
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  Speaker 1: Rams traveling party. They're making their way. the 18-hour flight
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  Speaker 1: they took off Tuesday night. They'll be listening to the
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  Speaker 1: entire show, so we welcome the Rams listening to us
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  Speaker 1: here on the Fox Sports Radio channel on that flight,
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  Speaker 1: the chartered flight that they're taking from L.A. to Melbourne.
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  Speaker 1: They took off Tuesday night, and they'll play on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: which is actually Friday for them. You see how that works?
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  Speaker 1: It's called time zones. Oh, my God, there's time zones?
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  Speaker 1: What's up with that? So McVeigh had previously indicated that...
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  Speaker 1: All the Ram players, including Donald, were going to make
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  Speaker 1: the trip. Another lie by a coach. That happens all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Rams claim they saw really no benefit for
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald to be a tourist and travel halfway around
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  Speaker 1: the world. I don't know. Is that halfway or is
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  Speaker 1: that all the way? I'll go all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: It's the other side. Do a 180? Yeah, do a 180.
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  Speaker 1: To the other side of the world there just to
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  Speaker 1: merely watch. You can just watch it on TV. And
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  Speaker 1: knock yourself out so the 35-year-old will instead remain in
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  Speaker 1: la-la land and continue to get ready for the upcoming season.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is this. What message is Aaron Donald
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  Speaker 1: sending by skipping the Rams season opener? What is the
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  Speaker 1: message there? So here's the message. Donald, who's passed his
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  Speaker 1: athletic prime, And he's back with the Rams here. He
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  Speaker 1: has been down. Here's the message. Donald has been down
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  Speaker 1: in the football basement for a couple of years now.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be cobwebs. There's a lot of cobwebs there.
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  Speaker 1: You've got some rusty hinges. You've got to take care
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  Speaker 1: of that. And boxes, you've got to move those around.
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  Speaker 1: And so you've got to do all that stuff before
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  Speaker 1: the machinery starts humming. And clicking on all cylinders and
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  Speaker 1: all that. So we love to romanticize. Well, some of
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  Speaker 1: us do. I'm not really much of a romantic. Lorena's
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  Speaker 1: a romantic, but I'm not much of a romantic there.
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  Speaker 1: I love love. Oh, my God. Speaking of that, her
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  Speaker 1: segment will be coming up later. I forget it's Wednesday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's always Wednesday somewhere, I think. It's always Wednesday somewhere. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so that's the message. The message is that even though
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  Speaker 1: you romanticize this, he is an add-on item. Aaron Donald
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  Speaker 1: to the Rams defense. That's what he is. He's an
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  Speaker 1: add-on item. And don't expect the old wrecking ball every game.
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  Speaker 1: You'll see flashes of a domination situation from Aaron Donald.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is like the NFL's version of the
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  Speaker 1: Van Gogh traveling exhibit. And the Aaron Donald experience, we'll
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  Speaker 1: call it, coming to a town near you featuring limited practices,
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  Speaker 1: Limited snaps. Pick your spots when you're going to play.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of see ya when we see ya.
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  Speaker 1: Think of him like the football version of Rod Stewart.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald is the football version of Rod Stewart. What
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  Speaker 1: are you talking about, Maller? Let me explain. Sir Rod Stewart.
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  Speaker 1: Just think about like Rod Stewart singing Maggie Mae, right?
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  Speaker 1: Classic tune by Rod Stewart there. The aging rock star
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  Speaker 1: who skips rehearsals, avoids the sound check and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of wanders onto the stage purely to play the greatest
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  Speaker 1: hits of his career. That's it. And so it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of nostalgia for Aaron Donald. And we're all just
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  Speaker 1: kind of waiting to see if he can still hit
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  Speaker 1: those high notes, at least by the time the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: come around. All right, here's the Ben Maller Show. If
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  Speaker 1: That's a bad sign. What's E-N-C-A-R-N-A-C-I-O-N. What do I win?
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to find a drop. Lorena has no idea
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  Speaker 1: who Encarnacion is, but it was a drop actually from
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: a movie with that fat actor. Who's the fat guy
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• 24:32
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• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I right on that? That was Jack Black then, yeah. Yeah,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that was Jack Black. That drop, I played again. Encarnacion! Oh,
• 24:42
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Besides, there is nothing like load management making its way
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL. Yeah, that's just what I need. Just
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  Speaker 1: Josh is Baker making $ 55 million a season. Shows just
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  Speaker 1: how much FU money the NFL has to throw around
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  Speaker 1: at average quarterbacks now. Kind of like a... Kid making
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• 28:40
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  Speaker 1: And he says, Jesse is one, and then my wife. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they do look very similar. They do look very similar.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you want? All right, let's go to
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  Speaker 1: the phones. It is a call-in show. Ryan in San Diego,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: by the way, says, I have to admit, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a good feeling this Thursday versus the Niners or Friday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too concerned about it. The Rams will find
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  Speaker 1: a way to win enough games to get in the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and all that. That's really what this is all about.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Big Daddy. Very active this week
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: from Big Daddy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: He's all my fans and all my constituents. He's got
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: to get in here, Ben. I hear you. He's got
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to get in. here. I hear you. Hey, Ben, did
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you know Shohei Ohtani had a tee? I did not
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: know that. No, I did not. Yeah, he got a tee.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: They made him one when he hit the 26th home run.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: It's called O'Shea, unsweetened green tee. No. Oh, no. Oh, yeah.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I have heard those commercials for that tee on the–
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I guess it's– I don't know if he's partnered with
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: her or whatever, but yeah, I've heard that. It's been
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: around for a while. Yeah, he's got his own. It's
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: been around for a while. Okay, then. Okay, then.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, ready for the season, baby.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: A cowboy going to the Super Bowl. You already know
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: what I mean. 30 years in a row. Every year
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys go to the Super Bowl. 30 years in
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: a row. That's right. Every single season. I got something
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: for you. The bad part, as you know, at Big Daddy,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the bad part is always when they actually have to
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: play the games. Right now, this is the greatest time
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: to be a Cowboy fan before they actually take the field.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: So this is the greatest. Up until they kick off, man,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: is this a great time to be a Cowboy fan.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. I got something for you. All right. What
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: travels around the world?
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Stays in a corner and doesn't say a mumbling word.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Lorena?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: What about me?
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I said, what travels around the world, stays in a corner,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: and doesn't say a mumbling word?
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: A child who's in trouble.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Nope.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: What's his name, Brandon?
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: That's his name, Brandon. Brandon, you want to guess? You
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: want to guess here, Brandon? I have no idea. All right,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: no idea. Wrong. Definitely wrong. He's definitely wrong. I don't know. Yeah.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I said a stamp, but stamps go all around the world. Oh,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: a stamp. Do people still use stamps? Wow. I haven't
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: smelled a stamp in a long time. When's the last
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: time you mailed something with a stamp? I think I
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: mailed some insurance. I couldn't get it in, and I
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: got it out late, so I went on and mailed
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: it in there. But I did do some insurance.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: They still take them. They went up to 25 cents.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Yeah, it's more than that. I have not
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: used a stamp. I can't remember. Well, let me ask
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: you this. Do you carry a money clip? No. I
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: inherited my grandfather, may he rest in peace. He had
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: a money clip, and I have his money clip, but
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I don't use it because I don't really use cash.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: So what's the point of having a money clip? Yeah,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I'm old school. I like cash. Well, I would use cash,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: but most places I go are like, you got to
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: use a credit card.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they look for the credit card or something.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: That's all they want. They want that credit card. They
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: don't want the cash. You have to watch them, Ben,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: because they'll charge you twice. You know how you go
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: up there and you charge something instead of totaling all
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: at one time? They be hitting you. You got to
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: watch your time, man. Watch your money, man. Well, the
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: worst is the gas. They'll charge you like an extra
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: 10 cents a gallon at some places, at least around
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: here with the gas if you pay with a credit card. Man,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: you better keep that money and keep your receipt because
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: they'll get you.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, Big Daddy, enjoy the Cowboys championship before
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: they kick off. All right, buddy. Thank you. The great
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Big Daddy. We're going to blow it up, baby. Yeah.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: All right. So who knew that a bunch of NFL
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: players are fans of my buddy, George Norrie, who hosts
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Coast to Coast. They talk about goblins and chemtrails and
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: lizard people and all that stuff. What a fun show
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: that is. So I bring this up because 49er linebacker
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Dre Greenlaw, do you see this? He delivered a geography
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: lesson during a media session this week in Melbourne, Australia.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: The Niners have been hanging out there for a number
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of days, getting ready for the Rams. Well, the Rams
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: are on a plane right now heading to Melbourne as
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: we speak. So asked whether he had any questions for Australians,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Greenlaw immediately wondered, how far are we from Antarctica, he said.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: And then they said, well, here's how far we are.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: And Greenlaw seemed surprised by the proximity to the continent
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: asking whether Australia gets significant snow. He says, because we're
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: right on top of it. And then things went a
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: little more bizarro where Greenlaw asked the media. He said,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: so Antarctica, is it a lie? He said. And then
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the media's like, well, you know, Antarctic exists. It's extremely cold.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And Greenlaw challenged them, you've all been there. You've all
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: been there. Buying into the conspiracy, which is on the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: dark web there, that there's some kind of portal at
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the planet, and that you're not allowed
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to go there. There's a lot of military down there,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: and it's a good conspiracy. This is the kind of
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: stuff that Mr. Irrigation, I guarantee you, my guy Mr.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Irrigation in Houston is all over that. All over that.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: So Antarctica is about 2,000 miles away from Australia. Does
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Drake Greenlaw not understand? We do the show from Los Angeles.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: So 2,000 miles. The East Coast is 24. about 2,300
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: miles or something like that, 2,500 miles, I guess, where
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: you go. So you can have freezing Arctic conditions 2,000
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: miles away. There you go. Great green law. And if
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: you are one of those people that believe that the
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: southernmost continent in the world is actually some kind of
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: alien portal, I would love for you to call up
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: and give us the inside skinny on that. I love that.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I still get messages. Kyrie Irving was playing for the
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Celtics and he thought the world was flat and he
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: ranted about that. And I got messages from the hollow earth.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I still get messages from the hollow earth, the flat
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: earth people. Now I'm more, my favorite conspiracy that I
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: believe is there's stuff like the ocean and coming out
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: of the ocean. There's like portals in the ocean or
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: there's like caves down there. They all live in. That's my,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: that's my theory. That's what I'm going with. All right,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: here's the Ben Maler show. As we press on and
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: on and on, it's a little NFL geography, and there
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you go. Dre Greenlaw filling the content machine, and God
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: bless him for that. Time now for the Who Am
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I game with three touchdown passes at Cincinnati on Sunday.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, who we started the hour with, the Bucs quarterback,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: can join Pro Football Hall of Famer Peyton Manning and
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: me as the only quarterback selected number one overall all-time
• 36:12
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• 36:15
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• 36:21
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• 36:25
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• 36:28
  Speaker 1: picked number one overall. Number one. All time with at
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: least 200 touchdown passes in their first 125 career games.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question. The answer. We'll
• 36:41
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• 36:43
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• 36:49
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• 36:52
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• 37:58
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  Speaker 1: Renton could not get me in. So I sat at
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  Speaker 1: a bar across from the Seahawks stadium. and watched the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks game, which was fine. We had Robbie the Mariner
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  Speaker 1: fan there and Ed from Spokane and some other legends, Christina.
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  Speaker 1: So that was a good time. Here's the Who Am
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  Speaker 1: I game. Again, blatant attempt to get you to listen
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  Speaker 1: a little longer. So with three touchdown passes at Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield– can join Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Famer Peyton Manning and me as the only quarterback selected
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  Speaker 1: number one overall all time with at least 200 touchdown
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  Speaker 1: passes in their first 125 career games. That's the question.
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  Speaker 1: What's the answer? Femi wearing his Vikings onesie, the top
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  Speaker 1: Uber Eats guy in the Twin Cities, says future MVP
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  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Well, he is going to be the MVP
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  Speaker 1: of Call of Duty. Alf the Alien O'Piner says, I
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  Speaker 1: am the forever stamp currently priced at 82 cents each. Well,
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  Speaker 1: my dad loved stamps. My dad and my grandpa collected
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  Speaker 1: stamps and. I inherited a lot of stamps. I don't
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  Speaker 1: collect stamps. George Plimpton from Malheur prop guy truck stop
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  Speaker 1: fungus eating his chili in his tighty whiteys at a
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  Speaker 1: dive motel somewhere in Arkansas says the stuttering cowboy Mel
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  Speaker 1: Tillis is the answer. Jerry in a jar says the
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  Speaker 1: late great Sam Kinison is the answer. Who else do
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  Speaker 1: we have? Page down. I can't read that. Yogi Bear
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  Speaker 1: says Or did he get canceled too? That's Joe the
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  Speaker 1: Ghost Hunter. Did Yogi Bear get canceled? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's still okay. Brady Quinn from Larry D,
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  Speaker 1: our colleague. Ryan in San Diego says Aaron Donald's bookie
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  Speaker 1: is the correct answer. He's in Mexico right now, right?
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  Speaker 1: What else do we have to see? Paige Dan. Dan
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  Speaker 1: Pastorini from Pauly D. That's his answer. Kelsey Azbilly. Is
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  Speaker 1: that her name? 35 today. I have no idea who
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  Speaker 1: that is. From Late Night Drug Tester. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: an answer, Loretta? No, it is not. It's Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford.