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Hour 1 - Damn Rams · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, paint me blue and call me a Smurf. It's
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  Speaker 1: our number one of the Ben Maller Show. A reminder
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  Speaker 1: that today is Friday. It's a big day, September 11th,
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  Speaker 1: a very important day in American history to remember what
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  Speaker 1: happened 25 years ago. I can't believe it's been 25
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  Speaker 1: years since that horrific day. I've got some stories I
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  Speaker 1: want to share with you about that. I've saved them
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  Speaker 1: for the Fifth Hour Podcast, but also on the Fifth
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  Speaker 1: Hour Podcast, a chance to catch up with the one
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  Speaker 1: and only Ross Porter, baseball, Ross has one of the
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  Speaker 1: more obscure baseball records that at this point is considered
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  Speaker 1: by most people completely unbreakable. Yeah, he was a Dodger
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  Speaker 1: broadcaster for many, many years, almost 30 years as a
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  Speaker 1: Dodger broadcaster. He was handpicked by Vin Scully, has had
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  Speaker 1: an amazing time. And I have a connection to Ross
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  Speaker 1: because I ended up, my early days, one of my
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  Speaker 1: first big jobs was co-hosting Dodger Talk and hosting that
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  Speaker 1: show twice. post-game Dodger talk with Ross. So I have
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  Speaker 1: some fond memories I want to share, and that'll be
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  Speaker 1: on today's episode of the 5th Hour Podcast. But here
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  Speaker 1: in hour number one, the big story of what happened
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  Speaker 1: in Australia. Coach Sean McVay said that he was making
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  Speaker 1: no excuses for the Rams dropping a deuce. In Aussie land,
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  Speaker 1: as the Rams' performance was horrific in Australia, he also
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  Speaker 1: said it was a good, humbling day for his team.
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  Speaker 1: How do you interpret the words of Sean McVay? Also,
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  Speaker 1: in addition to that, you describe edge rusher Miles Garrett's
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  Speaker 1: debut in a Rams uniform. And you have something in common,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, if you are listening right now and
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  Speaker 1: did not play in the Cowboy game, or Cowboy game,
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  Speaker 1: if you did not play in the Ram game against
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  Speaker 1: the Niners, you have something in common with Miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: I'll explain what that's all about. Also, any positives to
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  Speaker 1: take away from the Rams getting smashed by the 49ers,
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  Speaker 1: I will go Benny Brightside and give you a positive
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  Speaker 1: on that performance. Also, we'll get to all that and
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  Speaker 1: more right now. Here it is, our number one. Madame Ram,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell was that? Welcome in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: after the monologue, we will have... The return of a
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  Speaker 1: That'll be coming up in hour two here, so you
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  Speaker 1: want to hear that. The triumphant return of the iconic
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  Speaker 1: in hour number two of the program. But we begin.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Should I talk about baseball, basketball? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Play the hits, my man. Play the hits. Don't bury
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  Speaker 1: the lead. So we head now to Australia. We go
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  Speaker 1: to the future. That's right, the future. Now, I was
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  Speaker 1: a little concerned. I was watching the Netflix broadcast, which
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  Speaker 1: was just terrible. The actual broadcast was fine. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who does the hiring over there. Holy crap. What
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? More on that later. I'm watching the game,
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  Speaker 1: and they kept calling it, like, They didn't call Melbourne
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  Speaker 1: what I thought it was. They called it by something else.
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  Speaker 1: I was confused. Like, what were they doing? I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really understand it. Anyway, I don't know if you watched
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  Speaker 1: it or not. The NFL continuing their barnstorming movement here.
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  Speaker 1: They love like their missionaries in the Church of Football
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  Speaker 1: going out and spreading the gospel of pigskin to people
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  Speaker 1: that really don't give a rat's ass about the product.
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  Speaker 1: And yet they do it, and there they were, traveling
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  Speaker 1: down hours and hours and hours and 8,000 miles away,
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  Speaker 1: to have more football. So the Rams went down under,
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  Speaker 1: and it's appropriate because their performance was about six feet under,
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  Speaker 1: at least there on Netflix, as Brock Purdy. Brock, Brock, Brock.
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  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy had not one, not two, but three touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: to different 49er receivers. I'm told that's good. And the
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  Speaker 1: Niners routed or rooted... The once-proud Los Angeles Rams, who
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  Speaker 1: have their tails between their legs right now. 27-7 in
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  Speaker 1: a game that was already played on Friday, even though
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  Speaker 1: we watched it on Thursday. The first NFL regular season
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  Speaker 1: game in Australia. Keep in mind, nobody in Australia asked
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  Speaker 1: for the NFL. The NFL just said, hey, listen... We
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  Speaker 1: can get some of those bloody Roos to give us
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  Speaker 1: their money, so we'll try that. And that was that.
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  Speaker 1: Purdy had a modest stat line, a modest stat line.
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  Speaker 1: That's code for not all that great. 205 yards passing
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  Speaker 1: against what was supposed to be one of the great
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  Speaker 1: defenses in the NFL. Well, the Rams, defensively... Got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of reps in because they couldn't get the Niners
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  Speaker 1: off the field often on third down at the Millburn
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  Speaker 1: Cricket Ground. They said there were 100,000 people there. 100,000 people.
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  Speaker 1: The seventh largest regular season crowd in NFL history. 100,000
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  Speaker 1: people watched that game. That's what they claim. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: NFL math is a spinoff of Mallor math. It's a
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  Speaker 1: version of math, but Not necessarily completely accurate. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you've heard the show over the years, you know we
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  Speaker 1: have a mantra here. A rat-a-tat-tat to how we do
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  Speaker 1: these things. And I have said long, long ago, and
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  Speaker 1: I continue to maintain my position. I'm not the first.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the last. However, the better story is in
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. And there's a lot of losers
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  Speaker 1: in that Ram locker room. We hear from, let's start
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  Speaker 1: with Sean McVay. McVay here, the head coach there. They
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  Speaker 1: had all the answers there to the tests until they
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  Speaker 1: changed the test at the last minute. Here is McVay
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  Speaker 1: pointing out, well, blame me. I'm the guy. Blame me.
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  Speaker 1: Here's McVay.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, congratulations to the 49ers. They outplayed us
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  Speaker 2: in every facet. I didn't do nearly a good enough job.
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  Speaker 2: This is a humbling day for us. This will define
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  Speaker 2: us only if we allow it to. And today was
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  Speaker 2: one of those days. And, you know, I always look
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  Speaker 2: inside out. I didn't do a good enough job getting
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  Speaker 2: us ready to go. There were some opportunities where maybe
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  Speaker 2: the game could have flipped. But they deserve the win.
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  Speaker 2: They were ready to go. And we'll look at it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see where we can improve and be better moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: But this is a good, humbling day. This is what
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  Speaker 2: can sometimes happen in sports. I love this locker room. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the first thing that I'm going to look
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  Speaker 2: at is myself. And I have to do a better
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  Speaker 2: job for our group collectively. with our coaches, with our players.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll look at this film and we'll get back
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  Speaker 2: to work because clearly that's obviously what we've got to do.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes sports can humble you. And today was one
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  Speaker 2: of those days I make no excuses. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whether you want to say it's about travel, whatever, we
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  Speaker 2: just weren't good enough in that window. I didn't coach
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  Speaker 2: good enough. And we'll look at it and we'll move forward.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where we're at right now. But it was
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  Speaker 2: a great atmosphere. Give credit to the 49ers. They deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: And we're all in one and we'll move forward. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so it was a version of, hey, it starts with me.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't coach good enough. He tossed in the good
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  Speaker 1: humbling day. Good humbling day. And you know, well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into it. We'll just use that as a jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. So let us discuss the question. You just
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  Speaker 1: heard Rams coach Sean McVay. He said, make no excuses.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of made an excuse there at the end. for
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  Speaker 1: the Rams' performance in Australia, and that this was a good,
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  Speaker 1: humbling day for his football team. How do you interpret that?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got my thoughts here. I've got armpits, eggalicious,
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  Speaker 1: and Carl's Jr. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to get our hands dirty.
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  Speaker 1: Something the Rams didn't do, get their hands dirty. They
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  Speaker 1: just didn't. Oh, my God. So Sean McVay serving up
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  Speaker 1: what we call the potluck dinner of loser coaching cliches,
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  Speaker 1: a version of it starts with me. We've got to execute.
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  Speaker 1: Watch the tape. I love my guys. That whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: My advice, rather than watch the tape, I would burn it.
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  Speaker 1: I tell I tell it Australia has no extradition treaty.
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  Speaker 1: We're leaving the tape there in Australia. And I called
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  Speaker 1: the loss humbling. And Grandma checked, and Grandma called it
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  Speaker 1: an old-fashioned butt-smacking is what Grandma called it because that's
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  Speaker 1: what the Niners did. They were the more aggressive team.
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  Speaker 1: They were the more physical team. They were the better
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  Speaker 1: coach team. And all offseason, Sean McVay's Rams have been
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  Speaker 1: treated like royalty, like the greatest invention since sliced bread.
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  Speaker 1: In here talking about sliced bread, cue Jimbo Fisher. So
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  Speaker 1: against a division rival, granted, you didn't feel like that
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  Speaker 1: 8,000 miles away against San Francisco, though, they were the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: They were the moldy heel of the beanball bread. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: wants that. Nobody wants that. They believe clearly on some level,
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  Speaker 1: whether this was the only variable or not, it is
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  Speaker 1: one of the variables that they believe the hype that
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  Speaker 1: they could go out there and just roll out on
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  Speaker 1: the field and that's it. And so they believed the
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  Speaker 1: hype so completely, apparently, that they practically arrived expecting the
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  Speaker 1: 49ers to genuflect and take a knee. And the Lombardi
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  Speaker 1: would be waiting at the baggage claim on carousel number four.
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  Speaker 1: And instead, it turned out the Rams flew, what, 8,000
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  Speaker 1: miles from L.A. to Australia to discover apparently they're not
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  Speaker 1: quite as wonderful as they've been told by the mainstream
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  Speaker 1: elites in the football media. Sean McVay, what I took
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  Speaker 1: away from this is he's kind of subtly saying and
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  Speaker 1: not saying it directly because these guys never say things directly.
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay is like, well, you know, the Rams got
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  Speaker 1: caught navel-gazing and they were tongue-kissing the mirror. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how you tongue-kiss the mirror. They were smelling their
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  Speaker 1: own armpits. And I wouldn't even say they were humbled.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Rams were humbled. They were publicly
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  Speaker 1: pantsed on another continent. That's how that was. And as
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  Speaker 1: far as all the coaches say, well, you lose, you
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  Speaker 1: learn from this. If teams actually learn from losing. The
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns and the New York Jets and the Arizona
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals would be the gold standard in football because they've
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  Speaker 1: had more life lessons from being losers than anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: It's all bull crap. It's all bull crap. You know
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  Speaker 1: it and I know it. And so, listen, I've got
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  Speaker 1: buddies of mine that are Niner fans. Good for them. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: they handed the San Francisco, handed the Rams a reality
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  Speaker 1: check with insufficient funds stamped across it. And forget humble pie.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't humble pie. The 49ers hit them in the
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  Speaker 1: face with the whole Pineapple King Bakery. Right in the face.
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  Speaker 1: Right there. Boom. Now, page two. The much ballyhooed debut
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest player in the NFL. That's what Mike
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin called this guy. So the question, how would you
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  Speaker 1: describe edge rusher Miles Garrett's debut in a Rams uniform?
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  Speaker 1: So I watched, you know, I didn't get nothing else
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  Speaker 1: going on. I didn't get no life during the week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching this game, and I'm locked in there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't have much else going on. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: doing my thing, me and my dog Moxie. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: watching the game, and I was like, maybe he missed
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  Speaker 1: the game. Is it possible? I was thinking in my
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  Speaker 1: head as I was watching the game, I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, maybe he stayed back with Aaron Donald and
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  Speaker 1: they were playing like rock, paper, scissors. Or tic-tac-toe or
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  Speaker 1: something like that? No, I don't think that happened. So seriously,
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  Speaker 1: did anybody actually see him? Did you see Miles Garrett
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  Speaker 1: on the field? You didn't either?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Because from where I was sitting, again, with my dog
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  Speaker 1: Moxie on the sofa, Miles Garrett started his Rams career
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  Speaker 1: like he was a personal trainer. It was a cardio game.
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  Speaker 1: And not even a good cardio game. So the Rams
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  Speaker 1: flew this man all the way around the world to
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  Speaker 1: Australia and so he could become a tourist, but not
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  Speaker 1: even a good tourist. His absolute biggest contribution to the
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  Speaker 1: Rams roster in his first game as a Ram, Miles Garrett,
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  Speaker 1: was simply helping the L.A. football team meet the minimum
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  Speaker 1: requirement of having 11 warm bodies on defense. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Although it seemed like they were playing 10 on 11
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  Speaker 1: because of his impact. We have an NFL insider. Everyone's
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  Speaker 1: got an NFL insider. Our NFL insider... We had budget cuts,
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  Speaker 1: but we have the Joker from Batman. And we asked
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  Speaker 1: our NFL insider, the Joker, and checked the numbers here.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was determined that Miles Garrett gave the
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  Speaker 1: Rams zero, zip, zilch, and nada. That was his performance.
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  Speaker 1: And forget affecting the quarterback. Miles Garrett, he couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: affect the box score. It was eggalicious. Miles Garrett served
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  Speaker 1: up farm-fresh, cage-free goose eggs on the international stage. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. You, you popped up in the box score
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  Speaker 1: as much as Miles Garrett. I popped up in the
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  Speaker 1: box score. He didn't show up. He didn't show up.
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  Speaker 1: So that blockbuster trade with the Browns and you're expecting
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  Speaker 1: the monster, the monster-mosh. But, boy, he reminded me of
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  Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs with the Patriots. At least Romeo Dobbs got
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  Speaker 1: the ball. He dropped it. He didn't stop interception. But
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  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, nothing, nothing. And so they went out and
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  Speaker 1: traded the Rams for a monster who decided to take
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  Speaker 1: a nap. And that's that. So the Rams, they thought
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  Speaker 1: they were getting Godzilla, and they received a gecko. In
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  Speaker 1: shoulder pads. I don't think that was the Geico Gecko.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that was. All right. Now, last word.
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  Speaker 1: Putting a bow on this. Putting a bow on this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. Let's hear from Stafford. One of the big
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  Speaker 1: storylines with the debate going into this game was the
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  Speaker 1: travel and the 49ers got there early. They were hanging out.
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  Speaker 1: They were getting involved in the local community there in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams took the opposite. They went out, and they
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  Speaker 1: talked to all the smartest people in the rooms, and
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  Speaker 1: they said, oh, man, what are we doing? And all
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  Speaker 1: the nerds and the geeks and the dorks all got together,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, well, just leave it the last possible minute. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're smart. You got a lot of those educational things,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll do that. Why not? Okay, how'd that work out?
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  Speaker 1: Here's Matthew Stafford asked about the travel and if that
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  Speaker 1: factored in. Take a listen. I don't. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think when the ball is kicked off, we're ready to
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  Speaker 1: go play. We just didn't do it at a high
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  Speaker 1: enough clip today. All right, now I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: Benny Brightside here. I am going to be Benny effing Brightside.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just some negative gas bag. Benny effing Brightside.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so any positives, any positives to take away
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  Speaker 1: from the Rams getting smashed by the Niners? Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: the 49ers here treated the Rams... like a Carl's Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Western bacon cheeseburger, charbroiled. But thank God, and I'm very
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  Speaker 1: positive here, that the circadian rhythm survived. So all the
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  Speaker 1: hubris about consulting the world's top sleep experts and chartering
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  Speaker 1: the greatest plane ever made by man to fly to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: And it turns out none of those doctors, not a
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  Speaker 1: single one of those sleep experts, is... has any experience
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  Speaker 1: playing in the nfl right they don't have any experience
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  Speaker 1: in that uh and and they also have no experience
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  Speaker 1: with getting your ass kicked internationally the rams lost the
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  Speaker 1: football game but according to the scientists they absolutely dominated
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  Speaker 1: bedtime so there's a net positive they were rested refreshed
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  Speaker 1: and fully alert the rams for their own execution very
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  Speaker 1: impressive It was a total zombie apocalypse, except these zombies
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  Speaker 1: had excellent REM sleep scores. Way to go, boys. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: might have lost the game. We kicked ass at sleep.
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  Speaker 1: We kicked ass at no jet lag. No jet lag.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Glad they nailed the schedule. Would have
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  Speaker 1: been really terrible. had the Rams gotten blown out while
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  Speaker 1: they were tired rather than getting blown out while they
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  Speaker 1: were fully awake. That would have really sucked. Another positive?
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  Speaker 1: I think we ought to give it up to the
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  Speaker 1: Rams defensive coordinator in the lineage of Don Shula, Chris Shula.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody's talking about this. I don't understand what people
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  Speaker 1: are talking about. Chris Shula and that Ram defense completely
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  Speaker 1: neutralized 49ers viral wide receiver Dejon Love. I looked at
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  Speaker 1: the box score. Dejon Love had no catches. He had
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  Speaker 1: no yards. Squadouche. All right. Now, sure, it's true that
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  Speaker 1: Dijon Love doesn't actually exist outside of social media and
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  Speaker 1: some dumb women that send him money. But yet you
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  Speaker 1: take the victories where you can find them.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams, they didn't beat the 49ers. Obviously, they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: But they won the sleep number. performance challenge on getting
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  Speaker 1: the most quality sleep. So, hey, upward and onward. Great.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Way to go, boys. Way to go. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: wasting three hours of my time with that gutless performance.
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  Speaker 1: of the program overnight joe writes in he's keeping the
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• 23:42
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• 23:45
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• 23:48
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• 23:50
  Speaker 1: is one of the names, Ben versus the Coin. But
• 23:52
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• 23:55
  Speaker 1: long I've been listening to you do this bit. Yes,
• 23:58
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• 24:00
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• 24:04
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• 24:07
  Speaker 1: from Joe. Well, I agree with all that, except the
• 24:10
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• 24:14
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• 24:18
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• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the bank account would say you're wrong, Joe. The bank
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: account would say on television much better than radio because
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: they pay a lot more. But we're here. We're happy
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: to be back on then do Benny versus the Penny show.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: On the radio, so we're excited about that. The Nature
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Boy says, I really didn't like all the hugging at
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the end of the game, Rams and 49ers, both teams.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I want violence. It's hard to get that when everyone's rich.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: They're all rich. They all hang out with each other
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: in the offseason and all that. The Preller Forever account
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: says the McVeigh audio belongs in the Mahler Cliché Hall
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of Fame. It was pretty good. It did not reach
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the Mark Gryzolonic level, which is the gold standard. As
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: you know, Preller Forever, everything is measured against former Major
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: League Baseball shortstop Mark Gryzolonic. who, while with the Dodgers briefly, oh, no,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: it wasn't even Mark. That's not Mark Grzelanik. What am
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I saying? Oh, my God. What a terrible slip that is.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Scott Podsednik. I apologize to Mark Grzelanik, former shortstop of
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the Expos and Dodgers. Scott Podsednik is the guy, White
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Sox World Series hero, and he briefly played with the Dodgers,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and he gave us the gold standard. where he went
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: about 40 seconds with nothing but cliché, stacked on top
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: of cliché, stacked on top of cliché, and it was
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: absolute audio gold. And it remains, all these years later,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: it remains the gold standard. Scott Podsednik. I know Lorraine
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: is looking that up right now to make me sound good,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and we're going to play that in a second here,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and I'm just killing time. You know it takes me
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: about 20 minutes. I understand. Well, I'll just keep talking here.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: How do you spell Podsednik? Well, this is not the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: spelling bee, but I believe you would spell it P-O-D-S-E-D-N-I-K.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I believe that would be podcedic. I think that's how
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you spell it. Well, they're all important. We've got to
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: win as many as we can. A lot of baseball
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to be played. Anything can happen.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: We're going to come to the yard each and every day,
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: battle each night, and look up at the end.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: And see where we stand.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: We know our work is cut out for us.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: We've got a lot of work to do. Hopefully we
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: can all come together, realize what we have here, and try.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: To get something done. That is just perfection. That's perfection. Now,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the other one that I love that is this is
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: more generic. This is definitely more generic. And I love
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: it as well. It is John McLaren. Let's see if
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: we can look up John McLaren in the system there.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: That was a brief manager of the Seattle Mariners baseball team.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And like every Mariner team, they sucked. And then he
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: went on a rant about trying to fire the team up,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and they're sick and tired of losing. And these guys
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: are sick and tired of losing. You know, he went
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: on this whole big rant, and it was the greatest.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: We're playing our ass off every day and got nothing
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: to show for it. I'm tired of fucking losing. I'm
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: trying to get my ass beat, and so are those guys.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: We're going to change this fucking shit around and get
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: after it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: And only we can do it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: The fans are pissed off, and I'm pissed off, and
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: the players are pissed off.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And that's the way it is.
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: There's no f * * *.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Ing easy way out of this.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Can't feel sorry for ourselves.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Got to f * * * ing buckle it up and.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Get after it.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Tired of f * * * ing losing this f * * *
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: ing every night and we bust our a * *.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It's got to be a total team f * * *
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: ing effort to turn this thing around and that's it.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: The great thing about the John McLaren is it's really old,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and it would work for any sport. He doesn't say baseball.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: He didn't say the Mariners. That could have been Sean McVay. Like,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: let's do a little cosplay here, Lorena. Let's go to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay postgame. Here's what Sean McVay had to say
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: about the Rams' loss.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: We're playing our ass off every day and got nothing
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: to show for it. I'm tired of fucking losing. I'm
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: trying to get my ass beat, and so are those guys.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: We're going to change this around and get after it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: And only we can do it.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Fans are pissed off and I'm pissed off and the.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Players are pissed off. Everyone. And that's the way it is.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: There's no easy way out of this.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Can't feel sorry for ourselves. Got to buckle it up
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and get after it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: It's right.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Tired of losing this every night and we bust our ass.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: It's got to be a total team effort. Turn this
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: thing around and that's it. I realize this is probably
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: terrible radio. I just love these classic bites. I love them.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I think you're also teaching history. It's so good. It's
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: so good. And the other one is the torts. Why'd
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you lose, Coach? Well, we sucked at a time you
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: cannot suck, which is also generic, and that can work
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: for anything, which is much better than Dave Roberts. I
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: really liked him in that spot, which makes me want
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to puke in my mouth every time somebody sucks in
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a big moment. I really liked him in that spot. Well,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: that doesn't really work. You see that? We sucked. And
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: we sucked at a time that you can't suck. Oh,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: there's torts. That's so good. That is so great. All right,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. And we go now to,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I thought this guy might be in Australia,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: but I don't believe he is. Let's go to Ernesto
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. Hello, Ernesto.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Big Ben Maller.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: What a fantastic game.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: It's a domination situation.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: Throw another lamb on the barbie.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I was looking for it. I thought you might have
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: gone to the game in Australia. That's a pretty big trip, though,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to go down to Australia. It's pretty far.
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: I went to Melbourne a couple years ago for Australian Open,
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: so I didn't want to go back right away.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: But I guess the Rams didn't want to go either. Well,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: apparently not. They went at the very last minute there.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: So it's a long flight to go and spend a
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: day there and then come back. It's not ideal. Yeah,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: there you go. We didn't make a bet, but I
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: still have that hat you sent me, Ernesto. So I'll
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: pay off the bet. We didn't bet on this game, though.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: So you should have called up and bet on this game.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: You should have done it.
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: You should wear it just out of shame for how
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: they played.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not too worried about it. I think they'll be
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: all right. But for one day, congratulations, Ernesto. And all
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: my 49er friends, you can pump your chest out and
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: do a victory lap and take a bow.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: The 49ers are back, baby.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: They are bad. I agree. Until about week six or
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: seven when these guys start getting hurt because of the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: electrical substation. But as long as they can, you know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: for the first, like, month, they'll be fine. After that,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: you know, who knows? Healthy, they're one of the top
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: teams in the NFL. Nobody stays healthy. As you know, Ernesto,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: nobody stays healthy. That's the problem. You've got to have
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: some depth.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: We're going all the way this year, Ben.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy. Enjoy your night, Ernesto. Thank you, buddy.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: The great Ernesto. All right, buddy. There he goes. Anthony
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: in Anaheim. Did I mention this? I don't think I did. Says,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: please do not be a morning zoo show and give
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: me a birthday shout out. I will not do that, Anthony.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: You sold out. You decided to become a married man,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: a family man. You're probably a grandfather by now, Anthony.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I can't give you a shout out. You sold out.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: You left us in the dust. I'm not going to
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: wish you a happy birthday, no matter how much you beg.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday, you old man. We're not a morning show.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: We don't do that kind of thing here. We don't
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: do that. If you want to buy a cameo, I'm
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: on cameo. You can go. I'll do a shout out
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: if you want or some nonsense like that. But outside
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: of that, no. I'm sorry. And by the way, Anthony's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: such a big shot, this guy. He's too big to
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: show up to these meet and greets. We were in
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Vegas last couple years. No Anthony and Anna. All right?
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Doesn't show up. Doesn't make the effort. So I can't
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: wish you a happy birthday. You don't make the effort
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: for the show. It's a bad job by you. The
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: specialist writes and says basically the Rams decided to do
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Australia on the cheap and paid for it. They wanted
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: to save a couple of million dollars for their glorious leader,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Stan Kroenke, who needs money to pay for a baseball
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: team in Anaheim. So there were no koalas for the players,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: no kangaroos or dingoes, and no recovery after a 16-hour flight. Well,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that's the part you're wrong at. These guys, it's that hubris.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I deal with the same bullcrap with the Dodgers. You know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers are so spoiled, the players on the Dodgers,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: they have their own plane just for the players. They
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: can't be around the support staff or the other part
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: of the traveling party for the Dodgers. They're that elitist
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: over there, those schmucks with the Dodgers, that they can't
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: be with the unwashed. The Rams... They actually talk to
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: these geniuses who never experienced athletic competition, and they're like, hey,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: how should we handle this? All right, we'll just fly
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: in at the last possible minute. And that's not the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: only variable. It's one of the variables. It's not the
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: only variable, but my goodness. All right. Let's say hello
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: to let's go to Andrea, who's in Berkeley. She's the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: astrology insider. And she is up next from her compound
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: somewhere in Berkeley. What's going on? Look at you. Welcome back, Andrea. Yes,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: I've had a lot of dental work to be dealing with.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: So definitely wanted to put in a call. I've been
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: enjoying your show. I just don't always have a chance
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: to call in. And this was good timing with the
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: new moon in Virgo. And the 49ers are born June 4th, 1990. 1944.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: So they're Gemini with Virgo rising. And that was a
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: nice boost to have the new moon on their rising sign. And,
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: you know, Purdy, December 27, 1999. He was an ambitious Capricorn,
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: three touchdowns. So that was really a nice game to watch.
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: I really kind of enjoyed the theme of them playing
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: in Australia and all that.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I had the opposite. I had the opposite feeling watching
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: that game. I did not enjoy that game very much.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. There's something about that game that
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I did not really get into. I don't know what
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: it was. The beaches look good, but we have nice
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: beaches here.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a different vibe, but it's just nice to
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: have football back and happy new football season. It's just
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: nice to kind of usher it in in a different way.
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: And it was just exciting to see.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: More importantly, how are you doing? You doing all right?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: You getting better here? You got more work to do?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: But you're doing okay right now?
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks for asking, Ben. It's kind of a work
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: in progress. Yeah, I got more dental stuff. We got
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: the full moon coming up on the 26th. But I
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: also have a tooth extraction. And you tend to bleed
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: more on the full moon. So I'm not sure I'm
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: going to keep that date. So just a lot of
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: moving parts to get the optimum date for more gentle work. But,
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: you know, like Ram Dass said, for wanting it to
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: be perfect, it never gets done. So we're going to
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: see what we can do to get a good date.
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: So we got the full moon on the 26th. We
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: had the new moon in Virgo today. So that was nice.
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: It's Virgo season. My birthday is coming up on the 17th.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: So just a lot of things kind of to look
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: forward to, and it was just nice to see football
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: season back, and I've been enjoying your show.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: It's good to hear your voice, Andrea. Good luck with everything.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Keep us posted. Check in every once in a while
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: until you're all the way back.
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: All right, there she goes. Virgo in service. Andrea is
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: her name. She never hits the panic button. You can
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: say hello to her. Have a fine conversation. So the
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: bird's eye view, 100,000 people in attendance at the 49er
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Ram game in Australia. And it was played on a
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: cricket ground and had some of the worst seats possible.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: This was like a throwback to the old days when
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: they used to build those cookie cutter stadiums in America
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: back in the 70s and in the 80s and whatnot.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: And they were just like round bowls. Of course, cricket
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: played on a bigger field, so it's a larger stadium
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: and Several videos went viral. One of somebody who had
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: a front row seat for the game there and couldn't
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: see anything. I mean, it might as well have been
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: watching it on TV somewhere. It was terrible. There was
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: another shot of somebody from the upper deck, and it
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: looked like even if you had binoculars, you might not
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: be able to see anything. You talk about bird's eye view.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: That was a bird's eye view. It was like you
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: were sitting a mile away, a mile away from the action.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Why would you pay money to sit a mile away
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: from that? There's no point in doing it. It's completely
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a waste of your time. And apparently your money if
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  Speaker 1: Time now for the Who Am I game. And this
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  Speaker 1: being the opening weekend of the NFL. We play the
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  Speaker 1: Who Am I game. My 250 rushing yards are still
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  Speaker 1: the most in NFL history in a season opening game. Again,
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  Speaker 1: My 250 rushing yards are still the most in NFL
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  Speaker 1: history in a season opening game. Who am I? That
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  Speaker 1: is the question, the answer. We'll get to it, and
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  Speaker 1: we will do it next.
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  Speaker 1: want to let all the affiliates know, 2-0 against the
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  Speaker 1: spread this year had the Niners and also had the team... Well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: not 2-0. I lied. 1-0-1. So we haven't lost yet
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm trying to say. There was a push
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  Speaker 1: in the Patriot game with the Seahawks, so nobody won
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  Speaker 1: that game. It hit the number. So we're 1-0-1. We'll
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  Speaker 1: try to keep that perfect record going here next hour.
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  Speaker 1: And a reminder that today is Friday, and that means
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  Speaker 1: the fifth hour podcast returns, a special chat with longtime
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  Speaker 1: Dodger broadcaster, the great Ross Porter, who is... Well, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to give it away, but Ross is getting
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  Speaker 1: up there in age, and he sounds better. I've had
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  Speaker 1: athletes on that are in their 20s and 30s that
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  Speaker 1: sound terrible, and Ross is up there. God love him.
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  Speaker 1: He's better than these young athletes. Well, you'll hear. Fifth
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  Speaker 1: for the payoff on the Who Am I game. This
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  Speaker 1: is where we pretend to be somebody else, as we
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  Speaker 1: call it. The aforementioned Who Am I game. Who? So
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  Speaker 1: my 250 rushing yards are still the most in NFL history.
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  Speaker 1: In a season opening game, the NFL keeps records just
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  Speaker 1: for opening weekend. And this is the record. Jay Ajayi,
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  Speaker 1: there's a funny name, from Femi, the Uber Eats driver.
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  Speaker 1: What else do we have? Page down. Alf the Alien
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  Speaker 1: O'Piner says, Bumped Benny waiting to do the Thursday spot
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  Speaker 1: there in Kansas City. Yes, I got bumped from my
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  Speaker 1: normal time on Fesco in the morning because the Chiefs owner,
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  Speaker 1: Clark Hunt, called in. and would only be available when
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  Speaker 1: I was supposed to be on their morning show. So
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  Speaker 1: I had to get bumped for that bad job by
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs owner. I'm upset with him. I'm sure he's
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  Speaker 1: annoyed by that. Adrian Peterson guessed by Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Reek in Minnesota says you're
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  Speaker 1: either former Viking running back Alfred Anderson or Lorena's pet cockroach.
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  Speaker 1: Either one. Chance, 2% chance, is going with Miss Cleo.
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  Speaker 1: That's his answer. Chiefs legend Priest Holmes, guessed by Eloy
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  Speaker 1: from Compton. Who else do we have? Truck Stop Fungus
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  Speaker 1: says John Jacob Schmidt is the answer. I think there
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  Speaker 1: might have been another name there, Truck Stop Fungus.
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  Speaker 4: His name is my name, too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. What else do we have? Let's see. Page down.
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff Buford T. Justice, the legend from Kev Atomic. Alexa
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  Speaker 1: Bliss from Just Josh. Lorena, what say you? I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to go with Captain America. Captain America? No, a
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  Speaker 1: guy that killed two people. O.J. Simpson back in 1973
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  Speaker 1: for Buffalo. O.J. Simpson, 250 yards in the opener.