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Hour 3 - The Meeting of Doom · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Holy guacamole! It's hour number three! Hour three, ready to
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  Speaker 1: go on the Ben Maller Show. And here in hour
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  Speaker 1: number three, former Steelers coach Mike Tomlin gave a recent
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  Speaker 1: interview on a fledgling podcast, and Tomlin said, quote, I
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  Speaker 1: think you're dead. That was his assessment on player-only meetings,
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  Speaker 1: this after the Cowboys apparently had A players-only meeting. Thumbs
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  Speaker 1: up or thumbs down on Mike Tomlin's comment that if
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  Speaker 1: you have a team meeting, a players-only meeting, I think
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  Speaker 1: you're dead. Also, what is your read on Kyler Murray's
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  Speaker 1: job status with the Vikings? Minnesota coming on to the bye.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a nerve-wracking season watching the quarterback play there
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. And what is the word for Mike Tirico
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  Speaker 1: defending NBC's relationship with Michael Jordan this as they got
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  Speaker 1: absolutely roasted for that ridiculous one interview that they kept
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  Speaker 1: repackaging multiple times last basketball season. Tirico defending it. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that. And who knows what else? It's just
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  Speaker 1: a zippity-doo-dah, zippity-day. Here it is, hour number three. The
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  Speaker 1: meeting that is doom. Doom! Welcome in the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead, though, this hour from the former head coach's office,
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  Speaker 1: the former head coach's office, and that's where former Steelers
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  Speaker 1: coach Mike Tomlin delivered a brutal assessment of player-only meetings. Now, Tomlin,
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  Speaker 1: who now gets paid by NBC, suggested that a players
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  Speaker 1: only meeting is a sign that a struggling NFL team
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  Speaker 1: is in serious trouble. So if you didn't hear this, perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not. He made these comments on, I guess, this
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  Speaker 1: guy Kemp. Travis Kelsey, I don't know who that is.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he's got a podcast. Man, everyone will get
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  Speaker 1: a podcast. Anyway, here's what Tomlin had to say here.
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  Speaker 1: A little grab ass with the Kelsey brothers. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Last thing, allegedly the Cowboys defense had a players only meeting.
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  Speaker 3: As a coach, what do you think when your team
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  Speaker 3: is having a players only meeting?
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  Speaker 1: I think you're dead. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you said that, coach, because we've had this
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  Speaker 3: same conversation on this show before. I get that there's
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  Speaker 3: a sense in the players only meeting that guys are
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  Speaker 3: going to be more real. I just always feel like it.
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  Speaker 3: it always is just a formality that is like, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to do the players only meeting because nothing else
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  Speaker 3: is working.
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  Speaker 1: So let's try the players only meeting. And that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the thing that shows up.
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  Speaker 3: How about we just have a meeting and have everybody
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  Speaker 3: involved in this, try and fix this thing.
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  Speaker 4: I just, Hey, if it did occur, I'd like to
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  Speaker 4: not hear about it. The fact that you hear about
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  Speaker 4: it is what, is what makes it BS.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: We had a players only meeting. Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that this was said. I didn't need as
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  Speaker 1: much as the Kelsey brothers. I've had a little too much.
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  Speaker 1: I've overloaded on those idiots. The Cowboys defensively did have
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  Speaker 1: a players-only meeting recently. The team is not only a
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  Speaker 1: defensive team, they're terrible. They don't know how to tackle.
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  Speaker 1: Other than that, they're a really good defense. Really, really
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  Speaker 1: good defense. They don't know how to get in position
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  Speaker 1: or tackle. But other than that, that's a hell of
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  Speaker 1: a unit they've got there in Jerry's world. And that
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  Speaker 1: hotshot new defensive coordinator, really, really not in over his
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  Speaker 1: head at all. No, no, no, no, no. Doesn't need
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  Speaker 1: training wheels at all. Anyway, as you heard there, Tomlin,
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  Speaker 1: most of it was the Kelsey brothers, but Tomlin said,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're dead. And then at the end there,
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  Speaker 1: he said, if it did occur, I'd like to not
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  Speaker 1: hear about it. The fact that you hear about it
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  Speaker 1: is what makes it B.S., So that's a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Mike Tomlins, I
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  Speaker 1: think you're dead assessment of the players only meetings. Thumbs
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  Speaker 1: up or thumbs down? Thumbs up, thumbs down. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: going thumbs up on this one, mainly because I've said
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  Speaker 1: the same thing for years and people say, oh, Maller,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't play the game. You didn't coach. You don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. I know how humans are
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  Speaker 1: wired and nobody wants to be in a meeting. Only
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  Speaker 1: a-holes like meetings. Now, fortunately, we've stopped having meetings around here.
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  Speaker 1: But when I started at Fox Sports Radio for like
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  Speaker 1: the first 15 years, we had regular meetings and it
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  Speaker 1: was a regular thing to meet and get together. We
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  Speaker 1: had full staff meetings. I can't remember the last time
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  Speaker 1: we had a staff meeting, which I'm not complaining about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, when we had those, people hated them.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't need them, and it was a waste of time.
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin cracking the code here. The players-only meeting is busy
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  Speaker 1: body work. It's the ultimate performative ritual of losing teams.
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  Speaker 1: It's the annual convention of the Brotherhood of the Miserable.
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  Speaker 1: We suck. We don't play well together. Why don't we
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  Speaker 1: get together and hate each other and we'll do it
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  Speaker 1: all together and we'll give the perception that we're really trying. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Do you know who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need player only meetings? The teams that you never hear
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  Speaker 1: have player only meetings. You know who those teams are?
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  Speaker 1: They're called winning teams. They're called good teams. Nobody ever
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  Speaker 1: calls a players-only meeting because things are going too well.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, no, wait a minute. You know, we've
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  Speaker 1: won too many games. We better get together right now.
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  Speaker 1: We're having too much success. Boys, let's rein it in.
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  Speaker 1: We're not supposed to be winning all these games. Bad
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  Speaker 1: job by us. No, players-only meetings. And this goes on
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  Speaker 1: in all the sports of basketball, baseball, football, all of
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  Speaker 1: our major sports, even hockey. Players-only meetings in the context
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL, it's the NFL's version of a homeowners
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  Speaker 1: association meeting. Worst decision I ever made years ago, the
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  Speaker 1: old house I lived in, we had a homeowners association,
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  Speaker 1: and what a group of just horrific wenches, just horrific. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so the homeowners association meeting, if you've ever been on,
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  Speaker 1: lived in a place with a homeowners association meeting, You
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  Speaker 1: know what A-holes, everyone is there. So everyone complains. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: actually gets done. Nothing gets fixed. And somebody steals the
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  Speaker 1: pretzels that they had for the meeting, snacks and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. But the players only meeting is a professional
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  Speaker 1: sports version of Kabuki theater is what it is. It's
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  Speaker 1: a public relations stunt disguised as accountability.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing says leadership quite like making sure everyone, everyone knows
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  Speaker 1: you're having a leadership meeting. The meeting was confidential. That's
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  Speaker 1: why not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
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  Speaker 1: not six, seven agents, three reporters, and Adam Schefter knew
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  Speaker 1: about it before the meeting was even over, before the
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  Speaker 1: meeting even ended. They had the story. Now, ultimately, these
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  Speaker 1: player-only meetings, they should be sponsored by Preparation Age because
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  Speaker 1: the season has officially become a pain in your tuchus.
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  Speaker 1: when you do these things and they're for the media
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  Speaker 1: and they're for the low-information fan. Because the low-information fans, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we had a player-only meeting. We're going to turn things around. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: you're not. But they know, these players, that the dumb
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  Speaker 1: percentage of fans will buy into this crap and think, oh,
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  Speaker 1: something's going to happen. We're going to waltz into the
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  Speaker 1: win column now because we had a players-only meeting. Now,
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  Speaker 1: one of the teams off to a good start in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, turning the page, we go to Minnesota, the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't had any players-only meetings, have they? They're 5-0.
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  Speaker 1: The Vikings enter the bye week, which means, barring somebody
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  Speaker 1: getting arrested, they will not lose this weekend. So they're 5-0,
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  Speaker 1: powered by Brian Flores, who's suing the NFL, his defense,
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  Speaker 1: which has allowed more than 20 points just once in
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  Speaker 1: a game so far this season. Yet there are many skeptics...
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  Speaker 1: Yours truly, included in that, who do not believe that
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  Speaker 1: this steamrolling by the Minnesota football team is sustainable, mainly
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  Speaker 1: because of alligator arms. Kyler Murray, that he is going
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  Speaker 1: to not be able to get her done. At some point,
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  Speaker 1: it inevitably happens, the defense doesn't play well, and that
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  Speaker 1: stirs up a hornet's nest, and then you need the
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  Speaker 1: offense to bail you out. You don't have any offense.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have any offense. Kyler Murray's been a terrible
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  Speaker 1: big-game quarterback. He just can't rise to the challenge, right?
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  Speaker 1: Can't quite reach the promised land. So there should be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of skepticism that despite Minnesota winning a lot,
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  Speaker 1: they're really paper Vikings. They're a paper Viking at this
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  Speaker 1: particular point. And even former Minnesota Vikings star Chris Carter said,
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  Speaker 1: question kyler murray's long-term status as quarterback despite the winning
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  Speaker 1: streak so here's the question what is your read on
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  Speaker 1: alligator arms kyler murray's job status with the vikings so
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  Speaker 1: if you look at this from 30 000 feet up
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  Speaker 1: in the sky the minnesota vikings they went out they
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  Speaker 1: bought a used quarterback from arizona And Arizona paid a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money. They were in over their heads on
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  Speaker 1: the lease agreement. And so the Vikings are, I will
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  Speaker 1: take him for pennies on the dollar. And the mistake
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings made is they ignored the Carfax. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: read the Carfax. And now they're shocked that the check
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  Speaker 1: engine light's blinking and this is wrong and that's wrong. Now,
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  Speaker 1: make no mistake. Kyler Murray is at most renting the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback position. He's not buying the property. It's not a marriage.
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  Speaker 1: It's a semester abroad. Kyler Murray is taking some courses
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in Europe. And Murray's just, listen, he's spending the
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  Speaker 1: fall with the Vikings, and that's about that. That's all
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  Speaker 1: that is. And so the Vikings have discovered something rather remarkable,
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  Speaker 1: that you can actually win every game and still have
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  Speaker 1: no confidence that it's sustainable because you don't have a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And Kevin O'Connell, who got the tag, quarterback whisperer Kevin O'Connell,
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  Speaker 1: right now he's whispering into a disconnected telephone is what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing. Kyler Murray is the 24th-ranked quarterback in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: piloting the 27th-ranked offense for the Vikings. Sitting behind, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, in the quarterback rankings, I love the irony
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  Speaker 1: on this, Jacoby Brissett, the guy that replaced him in
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  Speaker 1: the desert, has better numbers than Kyler Murray. At this rate,
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  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, in order to get the Vikings going, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to go on Amazon. They've got to
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  Speaker 1: buy three things. Kevin O'Connell's going to have to buy
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  Speaker 1: a high chair, a sippy cup, and a booster seat
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  Speaker 1: for Kyler Murray just to get the offense moving a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. It's a temporary gig. The clock is ticking.
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  Speaker 1: I will guarantee you that the Vikings are trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what they can do at that position. Like,
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  Speaker 1: where can they go? Things falling, by the way, here
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  Speaker 1: in the studio. But where could they go? Is there
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback they can go out and trade for? And
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  Speaker 1: there's a guy in L.A. He's not very good either.
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  Speaker 1: And Justin Herbert, would he agree to a trade to
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings? He's got no trade clause. It is interesting
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  Speaker 1: to look at. Now, meanwhile, last thing, to the Peacock
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  Speaker 1: we go. where NBC's Mike Tirico defending randomly this week.
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  Speaker 1: He spoke at some shindig, I believe, in the New
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  Speaker 1: York area. Tirico defending the network's use of Michael Jordan
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  Speaker 1: as a special contributor. You might remember this embarrassment last
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  Speaker 1: NBA season. It was heavily promoted that Air Jordan, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest basketball player of all time, his involvement on the
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  Speaker 1: NBC broadcast. But those that actually watched... received one prerecorded
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  Speaker 1: interview chopped into little bite-sized segments rather than a recurring
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  Speaker 1: analyst role. The expectation was that Michael Jordan would discuss
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  Speaker 1: current events, the controversies of the week in the NBA
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  Speaker 1: among the star players. So Tirico was asked about this.
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  Speaker 1: He explained that Jordan prefers privacy and focusing on his
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  Speaker 1: NASCAR team rather And Tirico argued that he's, quote, above
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  Speaker 1: the day-to-day conversation. Close quote. Tirico also insisted that the
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  Speaker 1: interview with Jordan was, quote, completely worth it. And Tirico
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  Speaker 1: noted that people still discuss it nearly a year later.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the question. What is the word? What is the
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  Speaker 1: word for Mike Tirico defending NBC's relationship with Michael Jordan?
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  Speaker 1: So the obvious word is chutzpah, chutzpah, chutzpah. Another word
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  Speaker 1: I will use is overpromising, because that's the word that
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  Speaker 1: applies here, overpromising. NBC brought back the NBA. They even
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  Speaker 1: brought back the voice of the NBA from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Rather than give someone else the job, they said, we'll
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  Speaker 1: save a couple of bucks and we'll bring back this
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  Speaker 1: dead guy's voice on A.I., Why not? That's not creepy
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  Speaker 1: at all. So they did all that, and they brought
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  Speaker 1: back the nostalgia, the John Tesh song, the whole thing. Apparently, though,
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  Speaker 1: they forgot to bring back the exact same nonsense regarding
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. I mean, they brought it back, is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. They should not have brought back
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  Speaker 1: the Jordan interview. How many times did they play that?
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  Speaker 1: Three or four times? And they promised the viewer... They said,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to give you the airness, his airness. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to give you Michael Jordan. They delivered his staleness.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't even have Jordan change clothes. The way you
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  Speaker 1: do those things, and I've done some of that stuff
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  Speaker 1: in my career. I've done documentaries where they'll bring you
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  Speaker 1: in and they'll be like, all right, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do seven episodes. We're going to ask you about all
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  Speaker 1: these different teams. And we want to make it seem
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  Speaker 1: like it's different interviews and the shows are different. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have you change, bring several outfits. And
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  Speaker 1: each time we interview you seven times, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have seven different outfits. So it looks different on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Like they couldn't even do that. And Jordan was going
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  Speaker 1: to be NBC's franchise player the way it was promoted. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan became a frozen TV dinner. the kind of
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  Speaker 1: hungry man dinner that you heat up every single weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. And so the, you know, the word
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  Speaker 1: is over promising. The word is over promising. NBC hornswoggled
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  Speaker 1: the people that thought they were getting original commentary from
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. They advertised that Jordan was going to deliver
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  Speaker 1: and he was, he was going to be great and just,
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  Speaker 1: just wonderful. It's going to be this amazing Michael Jordan
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  Speaker 1: screensaver and all that stuff. And, It's false advertising with
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  Speaker 1: the Peacock logo on it. It's kind of like Netflix
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  Speaker 1: hyping a brand-new comedy special and then just playing six
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  Speaker 1: clips of the same interview from different camera angles. Where
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  Speaker 1: is the BBB, the Better Business Bureau? Where are they?
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  Speaker 1: Let's have a little word with Mike Tirico there. Say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on over there at NBC? My God. How
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  Speaker 1: about Tirico, though? Jordan is above the day-to-day commentary. God
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  Speaker 1: forbid he's bothered. So why did you agree to the deal?
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  Speaker 1: If it's below Michael Jordan to break down the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: cadavers on a random Tuesday, then what's the point of
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  Speaker 1: making it seem like Like that's going to happen. As
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  Speaker 1: far as Tirico saying people still talk about that nearly
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  Speaker 1: a year later, the Jordan interview, it's not because it's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's because it was a fraud. That's why people talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. Not a good thing. A fraudulent thing. It
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• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Maller riddle of the day. The Maller riddle.
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  Speaker 8: Of the day.
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  Speaker 9: 64-year-old Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise wants to blank in order
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: to promote an upcoming movie.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: And he would like to do this It involves sports,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: so it's a bit of a sporty thing. And that
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: is the question on the Malheur Riddle of the Day.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Let's see, does anyone know the answer? We go to
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the great unwashed here, the hoi polloi. Alf the Alien
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: O'Piner says he wants to marry his 27-year-old pickleball coach.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: There's the answer. Tom Cruise wants to have a one-on-one
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: mud wrestling match with Madison... Beer.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: Who?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but he said a different name, but Madison
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Beer is what he meant. What else do we have?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Georgia Boy says have a menage a trois with Carly
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Ursae and Gail Benson. Wow, Georgia Boy. What else? Stonky
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Sausage says to play Magic the Gathering. Ride a miniature
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: horse from the late night drug tester. Have some sushi,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: according to Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Tattoo Baker says Says
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Tom Cruise has to join a gambling addiction anonymous thing.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: After using one of the gambling websites. What else do
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: we have? Kevin Tomic says he misses the crying Jordan meme. Okay.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Rebecca the Ram fan says Tom Cruise wants to learn
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: water ballet. That'd be nice. In his 60s. Ride a
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: bison from Eileen in San Francisco. What else do we have?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Analog Al says the answer to the Mallard Riddle of
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the Day. Tom Cruise would like to flip over seven times.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: We're in 100 miles an hour. All right. What else
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: do we have? Page down. Don Juan says Tom Cruise
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  Speaker 1: wants to buy me tickets to the World Series to
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: see my Milwaukee Brewers. Good luck. Good luck on that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Good luck.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Play pickleball, according to Filler Up Phil. Mike the Leprechaun
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: says he wants to spar with Sylvester Stallone. That that
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: is the answer. Steel, Jason Smith, Chicken Wings. Again, that's
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: from Kev Atomic. That's his answer. All right, enough of that.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: The correct answer in the Mallard Riddle of the Day.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Tom Cruise at age 64. The Hollywood superstar wants to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: blank in order to promote an upcoming movie. That would be,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: he wants to race Tom. In an actual NASCAR race,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Tom Cruise wants to race in a race upcoming. He's
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: preparing for Days of Thunder 2, which is scheduled for
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: a 2028 release. The CEO of NASCAR, who you've never
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: heard of, said, quote, I was shocked. that Cruise personally
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: expressed interest in actually racing rather than merely filming driving scenes,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: which is normal protocol when they make these racing movies.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: You don't actually do it. It just looks like you're racing.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: That's called acting. Not being in the race, the CEO
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: of NASCAR cautioned. He said, quote, I'm not sure it's
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: going to happen. He did say that Cruise had a
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: desire for authenticity for the movie. And while preparing for
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the original movie, Cruise tested a stock car at Daytona.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: He got up to 180 miles an hour. Let me translate.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I have my Maller Rosetta Stone on what the CEO
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: of NASCAR is saying. The CEO of NASCAR is saying, boy,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: this would be great. We'd get a lot of promotion.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: People would watch this thing to see what Tom Cruise
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: is going to do. We'd love to do it if
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: we can find insurance in case Tom Cruise crashes and
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: gets killed. And we don't want to be held liable
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: for killing a Hollywood star. So if we can find
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: somebody to give us an insurance premium that's somewhat reasonable,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: we'll be all about it. We'll be all about it.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: That's what that meant. That's what that meant, and that's it.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the phones. We have Ask
• 27:34
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• 27:37
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• 27:39
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• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the people, plausibly all about the people. And some of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: these people have been on hold for a while. So
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: let's go to the phones and we'll start out in
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Our astrology insider, friend of Anthony in Louisiana.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: She didn't know it, but Anthony in Louisiana, a big fan.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: We say hello to Andrea.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Hello, Andrea.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: Hello, Ben. How are you?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a Snell, but
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: not Blake Snell because he did not get it done
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers in that game. Did not get it done.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: You know, it was so interesting, Ben. When I was
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: watching the game, I literally heard your voice in the
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: background going, I'm risking my life, bro.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I like that he wasted no time to
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: give up a home run on the first pitch of
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the game. That was nice.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: First pitch of the game, home run.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Great. Is he a Trojan horse sent by the Giants, Andrea?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Could he be a Trojan horse?
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: I remember when he was with the Giants, he's very inconsistent.
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: I remember he actually, believe it or not, pitched a no-hitter,
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: and then he didn't do well the remainder of the season.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: So it's kind of on and off. He's born December 4, 1992.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: He's a Sagittarius.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: And transiting Uranus in Gemini as opposed to his son,
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: which is, expect the unexpected, kind of erratic. So that said,
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: he also gave up two back-to-back home runs.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that was the one. They had just gotten
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: him the lead, the Dodgers.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Right, right.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: They're a terrible offensive team right now. What's the point, Andrea,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: of paying a starting pitcher $ 36 million a year if
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: you can't give him a lead? In the sixth inning
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and then say, okay, go out and give me two
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: more innings at least and let's win this game.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Totally protected.
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: The lead.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: I mean, he is just very, very disappointing. The only
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: silver lining is tomorrow, fellow, or later today, fellow Virgo
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: Tyler Glass now is pitching. He's born August 23, 1973. Jupiter, expansion, abundance, opportunity,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: is connecting to his Mercury, planet of communication. So that
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: should be a nice opportunity.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Well, really for the Dodgers, even if they win one game,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it doesn't really change. They'd have to win two in
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: a row puts the pressure back on the Brewers. Two
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: in a row, then the Brewers all of a sudden
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: have the pressure. But right now it's not. And the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Brewers could lose this game. It's like, oh, who cares?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: We'll win the next one.
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: It doesn't really matter.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: That whole thing. By the way, Anthony in Louisiana says hello.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: He's a big fan of your work, Anthony. Oh, hello. Yes, big,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: big fan of your contributions to the show. All right,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and Virgo in service. Yes, you're available there on X.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: You can say hello to Andrea. longtime friend of the show,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: and she has a newsletter she sends out a few
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: times a year. Thank you, Andrea. Appreciate that. There she goes, Andrea.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Be well. You too. Say hello to Hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Hollering James.
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: Hello, Ben.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: October 15th, a day I will never forget.
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: You know why, Ben?
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: My ex-girlfriend, Jeannie Marie Riley, put an adopted baby into
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: my family. And I don't know if it's mine or not.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: That's a question for Lorena.
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: I don't know whose baby it is. But I signed
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: the papers. I put my name on the dotted line.
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: And I'll be battling the pressure tonight.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I like that you have our show on in the background, James.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I thank you.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Do you like it? I'm sorry, Ben. No disrespect.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I understand.
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: Hey, Ben, you know what, though?
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: How do you like my Vikings? Do you like them
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: even better, Ben?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I just talked about your Vikings. Are you happy that
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I talked about your Vikings? Does that make you satisfied
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: that I did some hot Viking talk? Is Wayne in
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Duluth satisfied that I did some Viking talk?
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, like some hot, spicy talk.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: You know why?
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: Because everybody around here calls them the white queens. I
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: don't think they're queens now. I don't know no queen
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: sitting on five at home.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Who's calling them that?
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: Some bad guys around the house, like Robert and Charles.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, Robert and Charles. Well, if Robert and Charles at
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: your house were saying it, then that means everyone in
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Minnesota is saying it. Are they leaving you alone, James?
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You were complaining a couple of calls ago that you're
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: being attacked in your home there. People leaving you alone.
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I got home invasions now.
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: Every time I'm on the phone, Schwab, not Schwab from
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: Bakers and Financialers, but Schwab, the Somalian guy, listens to me.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: But he can't pull.
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: The plug because I'm on my Obama phone.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I don't have to.
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: Steal the House phone no more late at night and
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: smuggle it into my room like it's country band from
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: the cartel.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Interesting.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: You live a wild life, James. What a wild life.
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: I do live a wild life, Ben. But you know what?
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: The one girl I'm missing, because she never calls my
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: Obama phone, and you know who that special girl is.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: She doesn't call us anymore either.
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: I miss her so much.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: We miss her, too. I want her to call the show.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: I wish she would. I've been trying to get golden
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: tickets to her. I've been trying to send her love
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: notes to Jack. Jack knows how to get a hold
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: of her. He gave Jack her personal cell phone, and
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Jack gave her information.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: All right. We don't need to go through the whole thing.
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: I've got to go through these things. Thank you.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: All right, James. Thank you for that. I appreciate it.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: That's a great phone call. That's a terrible phone call.
• 33:55
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• 33:59
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• 34:04
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• 35:47
  Speaker 5: All right, I like this one. We're going to start
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: off with JT the Wingman.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, I've met him. He's been to a lot of
• 35:54
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• 35:56
  Speaker 5: He has, he has.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: He wants to know, what is a better food ingredient,
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: avocado or jalapeno?
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm not an avocado guy. I like the jalapeno,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: so I'm going to go team jalapeno on that. A
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: little kick, a little spice. I'm in on that. Never
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: been a big fan of the overpriced avocado. What about you,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Marky Mark? What team are you on?
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: I'm not one of the hot mouth kind of spicy person,
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: so I'll go with the avocado.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: That's a bad job by you. As a hot take guy,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I like the hot take. I like the little spice.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: What about you, Kubalu?
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: I like both, but the correct answer is avocado. It's fantastic.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: They overcharge you, and I do not want to be overcharged.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: There's a reason it costs that much, because it's amazing.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Well, they don't overcharge you with the jalapeno. They overcharge
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you with the avocado. Next.
• 36:52
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• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Hi, Fergie.
• 36:54
  Speaker 11: By the way, has there ever been a bigger fall
• 36:58
  Speaker 11: off as far as FergDog's Ask Ben questions?
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: That's a shot.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: You're taking a shot here. Are you saying he's getting lazy?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: He's lost his way? That he's in a sophomore slump?
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Although he's in year 15 listening to the show, he's
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: in a slump?
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, his questions used to be great. Like this one.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: His question is, do you check your horoscope every day?
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I got two letters, N and O. No, of course not. Please,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: dare you. Mark, you big horoscope guy, check that out
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: when you read the newspaper.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: That would be a no.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: That would be a no.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, big no.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Big no. Yeah.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: Great question for a dog.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I know the game, how they do that. People... There's
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of this in magic. I've studied magic and
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. A lot of it's like people will
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: finish thoughts. You give them vague enough things and they'll
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: kind of finish it for you. So anyway, what's next?
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: What do you got?
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: I like this one from Alf. Hopefully you can think
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: of one off the top of your head here.
• 38:04
  Speaker 11: Alf the Alien O'Piner wants to know, what is your
• 38:06
  Speaker 11: most recent rabbit hole slash time killer?
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: Like, you know, you get.
• 38:10
  Speaker 11: Do you ever get stuck like Googling stuff and then
• 38:12
  Speaker 11: you just fall down and you're reading a lot?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Well, what I what I've done yet again recently is
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: on YouTube. They have all these old episodes of This
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Week in Baseball, which are completely pointless because it was
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: a weekly show. I used to watch it when I
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: was a kid. And then I ended up in this
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: rabbit hole on YouTube where I just can't I can't
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: watch it enough. Like random episodes from like the late
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: 1980s of This Week in Baseball with Mel Allen. which
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: is a complete waste of time. And I've done a
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: lot of that. What about you, Marky? Mark, any rabbit holes,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: whether it's YouTube or just Googling stuff?
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: So on YouTube, I've been watching traffic stops and realizing
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: most of America drive around completely illegal.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: Their plates are out. Their license is suspended. They have warrants.
• 38:58
  Speaker 10: It's amazing the many traffic stop videos you can watch.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is shooting fish in a barrel there
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: when you write tickets if you're like a highway patrol
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: officer because everyone's speeding and everyone's on their phone.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: And people get out and yell at the cop. It's like,
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: I'm doing my job. What are you talking to me for?
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. I love when they
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: think they've got all the... You know what's really annoying?
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: These people that stand out in front of places and
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: record people. Those people are really holes there's a special
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: place in hell for those people what about you uh coop.
• 39:27
  Speaker 11: I got lost in a fine dining rabbit hole i
• 39:30
  Speaker 11: was watching a show about michelin star chefs and restaurants
• 39:34
  Speaker 11: and then i was looking up one of them with
• 39:36
  Speaker 11: had a like family of michelin chefs and then i
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: was reading about her grandfather and then i just got
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: stuck in this crazy rabbit hole That's annoying.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: All right, what's next? It's Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers.
• 39:49
  Speaker 11: OG Art Puffin wants to know, do you possess a
• 39:53
  Speaker 11: real ID, a California real ID?
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, but only because there's one reason I do. I'm married.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: If I wasn't married, I wouldn't have a real ID.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Who cares about a real ID? I'm married. That's why
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I have one. Other than that, I wouldn't have one.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Marky Mark, you got one?
• 40:06
  Speaker 10: Yes, I had to get one because I went back
• 40:08
  Speaker 10: to Chicago. Before, when I didn't have one, I said,
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: they wanted my real ID. I said, I'm traveling within
• 40:15
  Speaker 10: the United States.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Why do I need a passport and an ID?
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: It's pretty dumb. Coop, quickly.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: I don't because I have a passport. I still use that.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Old school. The passport. There it is. Ask Ben.