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Hour 2 - Power Outage · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: It's a small world after all. It's a small, small world.
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  Speaker 1: It gets smaller when you suck like the Chargers. So
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  Speaker 1: why is L.A. quarterback Justin Herbert so offended by a
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  Speaker 1: perfectly legitimate leadership question? We'll answer that on this hour
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  Speaker 1: two of the Ben Mather Show also. Does the former
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  Speaker 1: NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown's plea deal pass the smell test?
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  Speaker 1: We'll go there. And in Cleveland, Deshaun Watson says he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to go to war with Browns fans. So
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  Speaker 1: how does that strike you? Even though he called them
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of names two weeks ago. I guess we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to forget about that. We'll talk about all of
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  Speaker 1: these stories and more. And they're coming your way right
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  Speaker 1: about now. Here it is. It is a power outage
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  Speaker 1: of sorts. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: socializing as we are where imaginations run wild in the night.
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  Speaker 1: Coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the
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  Speaker 1: from the Bonanza. It's Benny's Bonanza of banter, guaranteed human,
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  Speaker 1: from the world-famous Fox Sports Radio Studios. As we row
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  Speaker 1: upstream here, upstream here we do. And the one and
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  Speaker 1: only Donkey Sausage reached out. He said, hey, Mallor, not
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  Speaker 1: note coming up later this hour. We will handicap Benny
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  Speaker 1: versus the Penny, the Thursday night game, as we have
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta and Green Bay. Is it a good game? Hell no!
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: Can you win money? Hell yes! Just don't bet the mortgage.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing okay on these island games. We've done pretty
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  Speaker 1: good on the island games. The Thursday night and the
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night combined games, I believe we are 2-0-1. to
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  Speaker 1: begin the season. So we'll see what we do with
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  Speaker 1: that game. We'll tell you who we like and where
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  Speaker 1: the money lies. And then, of course, as we saw
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  Speaker 1: with multiple games we lost over the weekend, we'll have snap, crackle, pop.
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  Speaker 1: One of the quarterbacks will get hurt, and then who cares?
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  Speaker 1: Who the hell cares? So our lead this hour is
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  Speaker 1: from La La Land. Now, we have many, many little
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  Speaker 1: mantras on this show. One of the mantras is bad manners.
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  Speaker 1: teams make good talk radio bad teams make good talk
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  Speaker 1: radio so our lead is from la and there is
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  Speaker 1: no more embarrassing franchise in the nfl not the cleveland
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  Speaker 1: browns not the cardinals not the raiders the usual suspects
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  Speaker 1: then the chargers my god do they stink so justin
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  Speaker 1: herbert was being peppered with questions about the lack of
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  Speaker 1: leadership as he looks like he's ready to go hang
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  Speaker 1: ten and go cowabunga dude rather than play quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. So Herbert pushing back on the repeated leadership
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  Speaker 1: questions when he addressed the media this week that charges
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  Speaker 1: off to the worst start in 100 years in NFL history.
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  Speaker 1: That's not hyperbole. They're 0-2, and they've lost to two
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  Speaker 1: bottom feeders. And it doesn't get more embarrassing than that.
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  Speaker 1: So Herbert insisting that vocal leadership is very present. Very,
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  Speaker 1: very present. With the Buffalo Bills, I believe, up next
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  Speaker 1: for the Chargers, Herbert said nobody is panicking and the
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  Speaker 1: focus remains on correcting mistakes. Now, as you know, Herbert,
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  Speaker 1: typically very vanilla, very, very vanilla, became somewhat fiery by
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  Speaker 1: his standards today. in comparison to what he normally is like,
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  Speaker 1: when the questions kept getting repeated, he got argumentative that
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  Speaker 1: it implied leadership had been missing. So you're telling me
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  Speaker 1: you're getting good leadership and the team still blows, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bolts lost to some hungry puppies there, Arizona
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  Speaker 1: and Vegas, and literally the most embarrassing start, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: making this up, in 100 years, nobody had ever lost
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  Speaker 1: to two suckbag teams like the Cardinals and the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: in 100 years. In a hundred years. So Jim Harbaugh,
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  Speaker 1: of course, he must have come out and criticized Justin Herbert.
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  Speaker 1: Hell no! Of course not. Harbaugh called the offensive struggles
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  Speaker 1: just growing pains. Shouldn't you have worked out the kinks,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, during training camp? He called them growing pains.
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  Speaker 1: He added, I wouldn't change anything about Justin. Close quote.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Why is Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert so
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  Speaker 1: offended by a perfectly legitimate leadership question? It wasn't out
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  Speaker 1: of bounds at all. It was perfectly fine. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got Gorilla Glue, music composer, and jujitsu. And we'll put
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  Speaker 1: all of these together, and we are going to blow
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  Speaker 1: a snot rocket is what we're going to do. Big,
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  Speaker 1: giant piece of mucus just flying in the air everywhere. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: We'll clean that up in post. So Justin Herbert reacted
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  Speaker 1: like this was not some kind of press conference. It
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  Speaker 1: was a dental appointment. And the dentist found the bad
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  Speaker 1: tooth and said, does this hurt? Yes. Yes. Apparently it
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  Speaker 1: does hurt. The Chargers are absolutely discombobulated at this point.
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  Speaker 1: They are bedraggled. And Justin Herbert is playing quarterback like
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  Speaker 1: you would expect a Madison Beer groupie who wandered onto
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  Speaker 1: the field without a backstage pass. How did you get
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  Speaker 1: out here? You're not supposed to be playing quarterback. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm a groupie of Madison Beer. I liked her
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  Speaker 1: so much. I'm going to marry her.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Really? Herbert, for better or worse, if he was a
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  Speaker 1: food dish, he would be tapioca pudding. That's what he is.
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  Speaker 1: Soft and smooth and boring. So Jim Harbaugh always, always
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  Speaker 1: talks about Justin Herbert like a kindergarten teacher describing the
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  Speaker 1: quiet kid that sits in the back of class. Justin
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  Speaker 1: is doing just wonderfully in class. Please stop asking about
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  Speaker 1: the gorilla glue that he likes to eat. Don't ask
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  Speaker 1: about that. Come on. So it makes you wonder if
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  Speaker 1: Herbert cannot be criticized, that he's so soft that you
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  Speaker 1: cannot criticize him. Common sense would tell us that he
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  Speaker 1: deserves criticism, that there should be some kind of internal criticism,
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  Speaker 1: checks and balances for the way that the offense is played.
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  Speaker 1: And he's the franchise quarterback and all that stuff. At
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  Speaker 1: some point, The HPP has to end. The Herbert Protection
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  Speaker 1: Program has to end. The coaches have changed. The personnel
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  Speaker 1: has changed. The excuses have changed. But the alibi, the
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert alibi, never changes. You keep doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: You can't continue to keep relocating the blame to a
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  Speaker 1: different zip code. Every September. It's fascinating. He's apparently done
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong ever. And after years and years of the
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  Speaker 1: bubble wrap, the quarterback at some point here has to
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  Speaker 1: arrive without the packing peanuts, without the packing peanuts. Now,
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  Speaker 1: page two, we now go to a true crime thriller
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Florida. That is where former Pittsburgh Steeler,
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  Speaker 1: And Raider legend Antonio Brown. Remember the feet? What's wrong
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  Speaker 1: with your feet, Antonio? What's wrong with the feet? What's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with your helmet, Antonio? Well, the former NFL star
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is planning to accept a plea deal that
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  Speaker 1: will reduce charges in his attempted murder case. You might
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  Speaker 1: remember that Antonio Brown, who made his bacon... In Pittsburgh is...
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  Speaker 1: He's in a whole lot of trouble, but apparently not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: He's scheduled to appear in court September 30th. That is
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  Speaker 1: the end of the month here, where his attorney says
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  Speaker 1: he will receive probation instead of prison time. Now, Brown
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  Speaker 1: originally pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder. Second-degree attempted murder,
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  Speaker 1: which carries up to 30 years at the Graybar Hotel.
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  Speaker 3: However.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the problem because nobody typically gets the maximum sentence.
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  Speaker 1: The minimum mandatory sentence was $ 20. So Brown was facing
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  Speaker 1: 20 years, which is a long-ass time in the big
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  Speaker 1: house there with the bars, the big house with the bars.
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  Speaker 1: So the case stems from that altercation in 2025 where
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  Speaker 1: where Brown allegedly fired a gun during a confrontation. Do
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  Speaker 1: we still have to say allegedly? I mean, there's video
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  Speaker 1: of it. The lawyers say we have to say allegedly.
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  Speaker 1: So allegedly. The question, does the Antonio Brown plea deal
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  Speaker 1: pass the smell test? Yes, it actually passes the smell
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  Speaker 1: test like a nice scented candle. It's flavored sweetheart. The
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  Speaker 1: reason it's flavored sweetheart is because this is, I think
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  Speaker 1: you can agree, you're nodding your head, yes, a sweetheart deal.
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  Speaker 1: From what I've heard, the prosecution has a gaggle of
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  Speaker 1: crystal clear cell phone video of Antonio Brown... Shooting said gun.
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  Speaker 1: That's the word there. Supposedly that's bouncing around the interweb. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Florida's got the stand your ground law, and that was
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  Speaker 1: going to be his defense. However, if you know about
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  Speaker 1: a jury trial, the jury trial is a toss-up. It's
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  Speaker 1: too much or not enough. Could go either way, yes
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  Speaker 1: or no. So they ended up working this out, and
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  Speaker 1: he ends up getting probation. And rather than face decades
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  Speaker 1: in prison if the jury ends up going the wrong way.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not unreasonable. It's a sweetheart deal. It is
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  Speaker 1: crazy considering the fact that Antonio Brown's on video doing
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  Speaker 1: the thing he's accused of. And they've got many angles
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  Speaker 1: of it. He also spent six months on the lam
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  Speaker 1: eating Dubai chocolates in Dubai. In Dubai as a fugitive
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  Speaker 1: hanging out in the Middle East before he was brought back,
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  Speaker 1: extraditioned back to the United States. But suddenly, out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: the alleged victim died. decided, I'm going to forgive you,
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. I'm going to forgive you. Refusing to participate
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  Speaker 1: in the prosecution. And Antonio Brown also, he issued a
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  Speaker 1: statement saying he's forgiven Antonio Brown. Antonio Brown says he
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  Speaker 1: holds no hatred, which tells you he had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with that. Most likely. Most likely. And you know
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  Speaker 1: what all this sounds like? You know what it sounds like.
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  Speaker 1: The great Randy Moss, back in the day, straight cash homie.
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  Speaker 1: Straight cash homing. So this alleged victim, it is more
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  Speaker 1: likely than not, became a music composer.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: A music composer? Yeah, a music composer. Yeah, creating original
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  Speaker 1: music by shaping melodies and harmonies and rhythms and structure.
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  Speaker 1: And he picked up a handful of C-notes. from Antonio Brown.
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  Speaker 1: So this guy became a composer and he's mastered the
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  Speaker 1: C note game. Thanks to Antonio Brown. So that is
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  Speaker 1: the sausage making of the criminal justice system in the
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  Speaker 1: United States. It's pay to play is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And if you got enough money and you can make
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  Speaker 1: your problems go away, you're going to use your money
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  Speaker 1: and make your problems go away. And this becomes another
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  Speaker 1: wild chapter of, in the saga of Antonio Brown, post-NFL. Although,
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  Speaker 1: will he ever be able to top the tossing of
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  Speaker 1: the gummy phalluses? Nothing can top that, right? Nothing can
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  Speaker 1: top that. All right, final point. To Cleveland we go.
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  Speaker 1: The mistake by the lake where they're still rambling, rambling,
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  Speaker 1: rambling in northern Ohio. And Deshaun Watson. That's right. He's back.
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. As the Browns get ready to play their
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  Speaker 1: first home game of the regular season against Carolina, Deshaun
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  Speaker 1: Watson says he is, quote, ready for support from the
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  Speaker 1: Browns backers. As Cleveland gets ready for their home opener,
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  Speaker 1: that would be his first regular season home start in
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  Speaker 1: nearly two years. Watson, in his media availability, says he
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  Speaker 1: wants to move past the fan controversy. He said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I don't ever try to go to war or go
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  Speaker 1: at war with the fans, close quote. Again, Deshaun Watson said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't ever try to go to war with the fans,
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  Speaker 1: close quote. All right, so that is what's the money
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  Speaker 1: quote in this, and we're going to play off the
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  Speaker 1: money quote. So the question, Deshaun Watson says he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to go to war with Browns fans. So how
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  Speaker 1: does that strike you? How does that strike you? So
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is, I'm going to write down a capital S.
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  Speaker 1: capital S, made it capital, Schmendrick. That's the word. My
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  Speaker 1: word is Schmendrick. He's trying to sell amnesia by the
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  Speaker 1: pound to the pound, the dog pound. He called the customers,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, disrespectful, and now he wants them
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  Speaker 1: to enthusiastically, enthusiastically go into his store and shop and
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  Speaker 1: have a grand time. Watson's relationship with the Brown fans,
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  Speaker 1: It's like a bad marriage, what's going on between Watson
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  Speaker 1: and the Browns fans, where one spouse announces, listen, great news.
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  Speaker 1: I've decided we're fine. Well, the other spouse doesn't agree
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  Speaker 1: with it, but you've decided we're fine. So Watson has
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  Speaker 1: gone from quarterback rehab, right, quarterback rehab, and apparently calling
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  Speaker 1: them disrespectful was just like a UN peacekeeping mission by
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  Speaker 1: Watson when he called the Browns fans disrespectful. Using my
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  Speaker 1: Mallard decoder ring, not to be confused with Mallard math,
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  Speaker 1: which Nick and Berkeley uses, my Mallard decoder ring. We're
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  Speaker 1: past that, which is a quote Deshaun gave. We're past that.
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  Speaker 1: That is jock speak for please stop bringing up what
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  Speaker 1: I said. I know I said it. We're past that.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a term called gaslighting, right? So after everything
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  Speaker 1: that's happened, Watson thinks one above average half, one fluky
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  Speaker 1: half in Tampa, which also had a lightning weather delay,
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  Speaker 1: and Cleveland is suddenly kumbaya, and they're roasting marshmallows over
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  Speaker 1: an open flame. I tell you right now, this is
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  Speaker 1: not a feel-good sports movie. It is not. It's a
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  Speaker 1: psychological horror film with the dog pound providing the soundtrack.
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  Speaker 1: And I will guarantee you the first time the Browns
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  Speaker 1: go three and out, the Deshaun Watson Marching and Chowder
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  Speaker 1: Society will pivot to torches and pitchforks. Guaranteed. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: never wrong about these things. I'm never wrong about these things.
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  Speaker 1: if it's that bad. Oh, it's so bad. We will have,
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  Speaker 1: up at the end of the hour. Also, the Insta trivia. Now,
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  Speaker 1: and all that. So how did an almost 80-year-old sporting
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. And we're back at it. Coming
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  Speaker 1: up in a couple. An almost 80-year-old sports legend ends
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  Speaker 1: up fodder on TMZ. That's seemingly hard to do. It
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  Speaker 1: has happened. We'll tell you about that coming up in
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  Speaker 1: a couple. The Malheur Militia always have a lot to say.
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  Speaker 1: Very opinionated. Absolutely. Mark, the full name guy, retired caller.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: He could not handle the life of a celebrity caller.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: He says it would just kill you if Deshaun Watson
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: actually got back to playing the way he did in Houston.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I still question the validity of those lawsuits against him. I,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: for one, do not believe those masseuses and their false narratives.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: But you media mavens need a villain. Yes, clearly, Mark.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I'm sure Watson is an upstanding person. I think you
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: like him, Mark, because I had a beef with Deshaun
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Watson back when he was considered Mother Teresa. Remember, he
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: was the greatest character guy. All those announcers, they had
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: their knee pads on for him. They were all excited. Oh,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: it's so great. So wonderful. My God. Nostradinus writes in, says, Maller,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: in spite of Fergdog's newfound allegiance to the Seahawks, he
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: still must be a little hurt by Ben trashing his
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: favorite underachieving quarterback, Justin Herbert. I was trashing him. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: was just pointing out that it's kind of the whole
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Charger thing is very odd to me because they suck
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and they don't want to admit they suck and everyone
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: can see they suck. It's a special kind of suck.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: where they had high expectations and it's not working. And
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: rather than just address the wildebeest in the room, they're like, oh, no, no,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: we're going to be fine. Everything will be great. Absolutely.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Nothing to see here. Hoosier Bill writes in. He says, Ben,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Chargers offensive line might be the worst in history. Of course,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Hoosier Bill, you know that most of the time the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: problems with sacks are on the quarterback, not the offensive line.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: But Blame the fat guys. I know, fat shaming. Hoosier Bills,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: fat shaming. Mike McDaniel reads a one-page play sheet for
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: three hours like he is Blind Scott. I remember Blind Scott,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that retired guy that used to call the show. Three
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: offensive penalties in a row, and then man in motion
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: runs into the snap. McDaniel is a disaster. So I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: was texting a friend of mine who's a Charger fan.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: fan don't know if we should admit that a charger
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: fan i didn't know he really exists but we were
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: we're going back and forth and we were saying like
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: how bad would it have to be before the chargers
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: need an aztec-like human sacrifice how many games in a
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: row do the chargers have to lose before they say,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: we have to blame someone. Who are we going to blame?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Let's find someone to blame. And then it's Mike McDaniel
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: just saying, hey, it's not working out. So they're 0-2 now.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Worst start in the history, well, 100 years of NFL,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: last 100 years. You've got at Buffalo, at Seattle, Denver,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and Kansas City.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: So.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: If they lose all of those games, and you've got
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to think they're going to be an underdog in all
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: of them. Three of the four are on the road.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: The only home game is against the Broncos. And so
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with that. But the Broncos got
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: back on track last week, so you figure by then
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: they'll be favored in that game. A slight favorite on
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the road in L.A. That's in Week 5. That's in
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Week 5. So if that's the case... So then week
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: seven is the bye, so they've got to fire somebody
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: week seven, right? That's my kind of Captain Obvious analysis.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: That's my two cents right there. They're going to fire
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: someone in week seven. All right, it is the Ben
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Maller Show. Let's go to the phones, and let's say
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: hello to Gunner at the break room at the Walmart
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: in northern Minnesota. Hello, Gunner.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: Long time no talk, man. It's been a while.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on getting out of jail.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: No, I'm just busy a lot. I haven't been able
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: to call lately. And I'm just happy I'm 1-1 now
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: and trying to beat the Browns. We'll go 2-1. And
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: my potential is.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: On 13 and 4.
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: Like I said, it's going to happen. No problem, Panthers.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: It's very convenient of you that when the Carolina Panthers–
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: allowed the Chicago Bears to put up 59 points, we
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: had radio silence from you. It's very convenient. I think
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the term for that, I believe, is called frontrunner. You're
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: convicted now as a frontrunner, yes?
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Yes. Yes.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Okay. Look at that. Very rarely do people admit they're frontrunners.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: You know what? I'm giving you credit, Gunnar. You're admitting
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: when my team gives up 552 yards and 59 points,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I ain't calling. Frontrunner.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Frontrunner.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're distracted. You can't talk, can you?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Can you mumble? Because there's people around you right now, right?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: You're not allowed to talk.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: I'm not mumbling. I'm just speaking the truth right now.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: The number one team is always the Super Bowl.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: This is a terrible phone call. This is terrible. It's
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: bad radio. You know you're doing bad radio. Why would
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you do bad radio? Gunner, you're supposed to do good radio,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: not bad radio. Come on, Gunnar. There's people listening. Not anymore.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Everyone's turned off the show now because of you.
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's not happening. I see a lot of people
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: liking how it's calling in. What the heck?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a term for those people. It's called liar.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Coop played in a movie, Liar Liar. Those people are
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: liar liars. Okay, thank you. I'm going to bang my
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: head against the wall until it bleeds. That call sucked
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: so much. Thank you. Holy crap. Let's just stop. No?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: We have to take more calls?
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on. Nah, we don't have to. We don't
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: have to do that. Well, a sporting legend has ended
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: up in the tabloids. And this is one of those interesting, oh, man,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: what's going on type of stories here. And one of
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the great wokesters in the history of sports. who is
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: a very frail old man at this point, yet not
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: frail enough to find love. It's all about the love.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: We are talking about the longtime head coach of your
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs, Greg Popovich. Greg Popovich ending up on TMZ. Why? Well,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: he got remarried. And as Lorena likes to say, we
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: love love. But this is a little bit different.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, we love love.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: It's a little different here. Because Popovich has remarried. It's
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: who he married which is creating the headlines here. So
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: he married a woman named Mary Barth Budenholzer. That name
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: sounds familiar. Yeah, if you're a basketball person, you would
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: know that that is the ex-wife of his longtime comrade,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Mike Budenhoser, who's coached multiple NBA teams and was a
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Spurs assistant for many, many years. And so this has
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: raised some eyebrows for years. Is the bro code gone?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Is the bro code no longer a thing? Have we
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: gotten rid of the bro code? He's the king wokester.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: So this raising some eyebrows as Budenholz. the guy, the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: person that his wife was formerly married to, worked under
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Popovich for nearly 20 years, became the head coach of
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks. Now they did get married and then
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: divorced a while back and so they've been away from
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: each other, but still it's very awkward. Very awkward NBA
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: soap opera. The other part of it, which is also awkward,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: is Popovich is really not doing well. He had a stroke,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and it just seems like he's just kind of hanging on,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and things aren't particularly going all that great. And so
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: it's an odd story.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: So.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Money?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Is money involved in this? Do we know? There's always
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: money involved. Popovich made a lot of money coaching these
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs. So I do think the woman he
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: married is in her 60s. So there's an age gap,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: but it's not like Bill Belichick and his little floozy
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: there at North Carolina. It's a little different. It's more age-appropriate.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: More age appropriate. All right, let's go to Hollering James
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. We were going to go to this guy
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: talking Braves baseball, but he hung up. So we'll go
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: to Hollering James. Hello, Hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Hello there, Ben.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: You sound very tired, James. You sound beaten and broken.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not beaten, broken, but my legs lost. And
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they've clinched a playoff spot birth yet.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I've been watching a little WNBA, a little bit of NFL.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: You're sad over a WNBA game?
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I'm sad that Clayton Clark got the best of them
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: their first game over in Indiana.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: James, we're on the air, James. This is being broadcast.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I know, Ben, but, you know, and what about my Vikings?
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: They're 2-0. I don't know about.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, though.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I really don't know. I mean, you know, I would
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: pick them over Tampa Bay, but Tampa Bay's going to
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: play very loosely. They're going to play like they've got
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: nothing to lose.
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Why would they play like that?
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Because they're in a tough division. And they got to
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: produce a win.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Major Mitchell is a better quarterback than Carson Wentz.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: What is going on here?
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: James, my God. And I begged him, Kyle Murray, isn't
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: that good? He's not proving nothing yet.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, James.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Come on. You got to agree with me on something.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Ben.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Ben.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I don't have to. Why do I have to agree
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: with you? I don't have to agree with you. Why
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: do I have to agree with you? Don't say I
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: have to agree with you. I don't have to agree
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: with you. Why would I want to agree with you?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I don't have to agree with you.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I agreed with you when they beat the Bears. When
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: they flipped the penny, the penny picked Green Bay. I'm
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: dating myself. I'm going back a little ways. And I'm
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: not having a senior moment. I'm not having a senior moment.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: No, not a senior moment at all.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Well, you went back and you flipped that penny, and
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: that penny said Green Bay. And you went, I mean,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: and the penny was Green Bay. You went Vikings. You
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: took the Vikings bet. I took the Vikings. I did
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: pretty good on the three-team winner, but I didn't bet
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: nothing on it. Okay.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Well, James, you know, it doesn't typically count if you
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: don't bet anything on it. You know what I'm saying?
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I can't afford to bet.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I know. I'm just saying you can't brag, James, about
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: a bet that you didn't actually make. You know what
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I'm saying?
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Well, I bet a meal. You count a meal as
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: a bet?
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: With you, yes, because with you, that's a big amount of–
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: you eat a lot of food, James. You like a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: good meal, right?
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I do. I am a consumer of food. I keep
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: the industry of business.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, whatever you said. All right, well, listen, James,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I feel like you've gotten plenty of airtime. You're good,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I'm good, and we will press on here.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: So far, I haven't lost my place yet.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, I can't get rid of you. You're still there.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I can't... He doesn't want to go... He will not
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: go away. I'm locked in. Even if we hang up
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: on him, he's still going to be there. He won't.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: We'll call right back. Yeah, I don't mind hanging up
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: on him because he just calls right back. He says,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I'm back, and there you go. That's it. Absolutely. Well,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, people having fun on the interweb, there are
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: now as many Madison Beer Fortnite skins as there are
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert playoff touchdowns. Did you see that? And that's
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: making the rounds here. There are two. Madison Beer Fortnite
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Skins in 2026. And Justin Herbert, in his career, has
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: two touchdown passes. So very impressive. And he's really earning
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: that massive contract that Justin Herbert's signing, a $ 260 million
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: contract for the Chargers.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Do I smell an MVP in the air?
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, MVP of the Madison Beer Tour. He'll be the MVP. Anyway,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: all right, here's the Ben Maller Show. Time now for
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the Insta Trivia. Then we'll get to Maller to the
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: third degree. Actually, no, not Maller to the third degree.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: We've got Benny versus the Benny. That's right, Benny versus
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the Benny. Scratch that. Here's the Insta Trivia. The Marlon
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Sandy Alcantara leads Major League Baseball in innings pitched. He
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: also picked up a save in a game this week.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: In fact, yesterday. Yesterday. Blank is the only pitcher to
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: lead Major League Baseball in innings pitched for an entire season. Obviously,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: there's only a couple days to go in the baseball season.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Blank is the only pitcher... to lead Major League Baseball
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: in innings pitched for an entire season and save at
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: least a game that same regular season. Again, the Marlins'
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Sandy Alcantara leading baseball in innings pitched. It was just
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: a few days to go in the season. He picked
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: up a save on Wednesday and blank is the only
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: pitcher in baseball to lead the big leagues in innings
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: pitched for a season and save at least a game
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: that That same regular season. That is the Insta trivia.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: That and Benny versus the Penny. We'll get to it.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: We'll do it next.
• 36:23
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• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Time to roll.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Welcome in, Militia. Speaking of winners.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Can you handle more Malheur mayhem?
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. It's time now for.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Step back. Benny versus the Penny. But first, the payoff
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: on the Insta trivia. The Marlon Sandy Alcantara leads Major
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: League Baseball in innings pitched and picked up a save
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: this week. Blank is the only pitcher to lead baseball
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: in innings pitched for a season and save at least
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: a game. That same regular season. So that is the question.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: And do a couple of answers and then get right
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: to Benny versus Benny. And let's see. Page down. We've
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: got Madison Bumgardner from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Eric Hetzel
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: from ALF, the Alien O'Piner.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Playoff, Chokejob, Clayton Kershaw from JT, the Wingman. Bernie Frato
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: from Analog Al. Let's see here. You are Arthur Guinness,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: who would have been 301 years old today. Do you
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: have an answer, Lorraine? It's not Al Hrabowski. Bryce Young. No,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the correct answer is Phil Necro, N-I-E-K-R-O in 1978. Now
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: to Benny versus the Penny. Let's get to it. Falcons
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: and Packers, week two of the NFL. Atlanta 0-2, the
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Packers 1-1. We'll give you the rundown on how Benny
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: versus the Penny did last week. Tomorrow, we don't have
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of time right now. Packers a four-and-a-half point favorite.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: The line, courtesy of our friends at DraftKings, Packers' four-and-a-half-point favorite.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: It's on Amazon with Al Michaels and Herbie and his
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: annoying dog, Peter. And the wise guys, the Sharps, are
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: leaning towards Atlanta. There's a stronger market there. The public
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: likes Green Bay, so there is a split here. No
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: weather to speak of that's negative at Lambeau Field. Temperatures
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: in the 60s, mild temperatures there. in the not-so-frozen tundra.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: The pick, I'm going to take the Atlanta Falcons in
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: this game. It's a medium-level play here with the Atlanta Falcons.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: The main reason is the Falcons are likely to actually
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: have a quarterback this week. Not a great one. They
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: just need an average quarterback. Michael Penix Jr. takes over.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Atlanta's first two games, they played shorthanded. Cooper Rush should
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: be selling insurance. He should not be playing quarterback in
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the NFL. They did not have an NFL caliber passing attack.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: It was embarrassing. Embarrassing. Penix doesn't have to be great.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: He just has to be mediocre is all he has
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: to be. Hadn't played in a while, so I'm not 100%
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: excited about Penix. The Falcons, I continue to say every week,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: we say the same thing with Bajon Robinson and Drake London.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: These guys, they've got a lot of playmakers there. Falcons
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: are seventh and rushing, which is something you've got to
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: lean into if you're Atlanta in this game. You would
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: think the Falcons will do that, try to shorten the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: game there. with the running game. And the Packers are
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: a mess. They are a dysfunctional bunch. They had to
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: beat the Jets in overtime, blew the lead to the Vikings.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Packers have converted 19% on third down. That is the
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: worst in the NFL. They're the worst rushing team in
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: the NFL. And, oh, by the way, they've got a
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: beat-up offensive line without two of their offensive linemen. They're
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: starting offensive linemen. Short week, played overtime. They lead the
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: NFL in penalties. The Packers are a mess. There's no
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: way I'm going to lay the points with the Green
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Bay Packers the way they played. Bottom line, Atlanta does
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: not need Michael Penix to be Chris Chandler or Matt
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Ryan or any of those guys. They just need him
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to not be Cooper Rush. Play conservative, boring football, shorten
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: the game, and the Falcons will certainly cover the spread,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: if not win the game outright. And the penny likes!
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Koopaloop is the penny, the keeper of the penny. The
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: penny agrees with you, going with the Falcons. Oh, come on!
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. Every freaking week here with these island games.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: There it is, Benny. We're in Green Bay right now. Oh, man.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I am due to visit my brother who lives in
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: that area, so I guess I'll have to wait until
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: it gets really cold to go there. But, yeah, Falcons.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: That's my pick.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Falcons.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Falcons!