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Hour 1 - Back From the Dead? · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Great balls of fire.
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Speaker 2: It's our number one, hour one of the Ben Maller Show.
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Speaker 2: Happy Tuesday to you. It is the 22nd day of September,
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Speaker 2: and we have stayed up all night to give you
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Speaker 2: a fresh pod here.
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Speaker 1: On demand in the L.A. Rams.
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Speaker 2: Reports of their demise greatly exaggerated. The better story, though,
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Speaker 2: is in the losing locker room as the Rams blow
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Speaker 2: the doors off the Giants. How much does the Giants
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Speaker 2: outlook for 2026 change if Jackson Dart, the quarterback, misses
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Speaker 2: a month? He came up lame early in that game. Also,
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Speaker 2: can we do a wellness check on Giants coach John Harbaugh? Yikes.
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Speaker 1: Yikes.
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Speaker 2: Things not looking so good for his team as they
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Speaker 2: played terribly. Also, did Sean McVay on the other side
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Speaker 2: end up solving all of the Rams issues? We'll talk
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Speaker 2: about that.
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Speaker 1: And who knows what else? Settle in. It's the Mallarmambo.
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Speaker 1: It's Mallarmambo number one right now.
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Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, reports of the Rams' demise greatly exaggerated. They
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Speaker 2: do suck in Australia. I checked the schedule. They're not
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Speaker 2: playing any more games in Australia. So I don't think
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Speaker 2: you have to worry about that. Welcome in the beginning
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Speaker 2: of another night of the Ben Maller Show.
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Speaker 2: Will not do it. Anyway, we are happy to be here.
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Speaker 2: I also thought of, at the end of the Ram game,
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Speaker 2: I thought of Manuel Engardina, who called up for one
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Speaker 2: last Rams are going to suck take. He made sure
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Speaker 2: to sneak that in.
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Speaker 1: I knew it. He said, you got to get that in.
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Speaker 1: Got to get that in. Got to get it. He
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Speaker 1: got it in. He got it in. So don't bury
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Speaker 1: the lead, my man. Our lead is obviously... In the hood,
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Speaker 1: in Englewood, and up to no good.
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Speaker 2: The final chapter of week two. The story of the
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Speaker 2: National Football League.
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Speaker 1: The schedule. All closed. All closed.
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Speaker 2: Week two. Chapter two of the NFL schedule. John Harbaugh
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Speaker 2: and the upstart Giants. They won an island game over
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Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night football. The Giants are back.
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Speaker 2: The Giants are back. And so they headed out. They're
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Speaker 2: bandwagoning out to SoCal. A little play date with the
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Speaker 2: bedraggled rams of Sean McVay, America's favorite travel agent, Sean McVay.
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Speaker 2: And the rams fresh off being cooked like a shrimp
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Speaker 2: on the barbie.
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Speaker 1: Right there by the Niners. And so this was their
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Speaker 1: first chance.
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Speaker 2: You had Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, who's in a
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Speaker 2: contract kerfuffle with ESPN.
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Speaker 1: They were calling the game. Buck got paid.
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Speaker 2: Aikman didn't. That's not awkward at all, is it? So
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw the game or not.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps you missed it. You were staring at a wall
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Speaker 2: or maybe spending time with people that actually matter. in
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Speaker 2: the world rather than these professional athletes.
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Speaker 1: But don't worry!
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Speaker 2: We have no life. We watch so you would not
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Speaker 2: have to. And Matthew Stafford, rising from the ashes like
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Speaker 2: the phoenix, As he threw for 327 yards and not one,
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Speaker 2: not two, not three, but four touchdowns. And the Rams
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Speaker 2: turned the Giants into burgers. Delicious smash burgers. 28-6, the
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Speaker 2: final at SoFi Stadium there. Rams improved to 1-1. They
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Speaker 2: rebound from choking on the Vegemite down under. Ram offense
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Speaker 2: without their top player didn't matter. Devontae Adams cooking with
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Speaker 2: gas in this game. Devontae Adams had eight catches for
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Speaker 2: 195 yards and not one, but two touchdowns, like the
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Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers version of Devontae Adams from years gone by.
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Speaker 1: And he had a touchdown.
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Speaker 2: One touchdown was for 31 yards, another for 11. But
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Speaker 2: the better story is in the losing locker room. That's
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Speaker 2: the better story.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That is where the drama lies. So if you had
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Speaker 2: Jackson Dart taking off.
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Speaker 1: To the moon.
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Speaker 2: No. Jackson Dart injured. Snap, crackle, pop as he gets
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Speaker 2: knocked out in his left knee in the first quarter.
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Speaker 2: I believe it was seven plays into the game for
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Speaker 2: New York. The seventh offensive play for the New York
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Speaker 2: football team that plays in New Jersey took a major hit.
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Speaker 2: The old sandwich, and you were the middle of the
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Speaker 2: Oreo sandwich there. You had Byron Young and Josiah Stewart,
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Speaker 2: whoever they are. I know who Byron Young is.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who the other guys.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, Jackson Dart did not return. He watched the
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Speaker 2: second half wearing a If you remember HBO back in
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Speaker 2: the day, they had a show called The Sopranos, and
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Speaker 2: he had a Sopranos-style tracksuit on. Jackson Dart standing and
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Speaker 2: watching the game. Now, state-funded NFL media, the Pravda News
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Speaker 2: Service of the National Football League, reporting that Dart suffered
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Speaker 2: a sprained MCL. There will be more tests later on Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: The Giants on the Big Bird heading back.
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Speaker 1: To the East Coast.
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Speaker 2: So they'll land just in time to get into nice
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Speaker 2: rush hour traffic there. in the New York tri-state area.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure that'll be wonderful. So Jackson Dart, though, out. MCL,
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Speaker 2: that has upstaged everything else. That is the story here
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Speaker 2: that we're going to talk about. So that is a
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Speaker 2: good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. How much
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Speaker 2: does the Giants' outlook change? How much does the Giants'
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Speaker 2: outlook change if Jackson Dart is going to miss a
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Speaker 2: month or more for the team that calls themselves giants
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Speaker 2: so i've got morton's steakhouse the national bird of india
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Speaker 2: and irish spring and we will combine all of these things.
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Speaker 1: Together and we are going to be in.
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Speaker 2: Vogue on the catwalk is because jackson dart he's a
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Speaker 2: catwalk guy right he's a fashion guy fashion show up
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Speaker 2: on the catwalk. They get mocked for being on the catwalk. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: so let's begin with this. To answer the question, how
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Speaker 2: much does the Giants outlook change if Jackson Dart misses
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Speaker 2: extended time?
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Speaker 1: It obviously changes everything.
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Speaker 2: Not that Jackson Dart is the second coming of a
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Speaker 2: good quarterback, because that is to be determined. However, New York,
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Speaker 2: for better or worse, built this entire thing on offense
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Speaker 2: around the dartboard. And you take the dartboard away, what
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Speaker 2: do you got? Now they're playing darts blindfolded is what
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Speaker 2: they're doing here. This sophomore season, supposed to be for
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Speaker 2: Jackson Dart, his football bar mitzvah. The coming of age story, right?
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Speaker 2: And instead, the cake got served with a nice MCL sprain.
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Speaker 2: A side of MCL sprain for Jackson Dart. So New
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Speaker 2: York went from wondering for a little bit how good
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Speaker 2: How good can Jackson Dart become? Now counting how many
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Speaker 2: weeks he's going to be out before he returns to
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Speaker 2: the fold. And when you look at the Giants, the
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Speaker 2: Fisher-Price building block set, Jackson Dart was the star attraction.
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Speaker 2: He was on the box to buy the toy because
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Speaker 2: of the thing on the box, and he was on
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Speaker 2: the box there. And so it's like the Jenga piece
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Speaker 2: that you take out of the Jenga tower there, and
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Speaker 2: then you just yell, Timber!
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Speaker 1: And then it all comes crashing down. I like that.
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Speaker 2: The main reason why is because of Jameis Winston, who
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Speaker 2: we like.
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Speaker 1: We didn't like what we saw. We liked Jameis Winston.
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Speaker 1: What has happened? Where have you gone, Jameis Winston? He
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Speaker 1: was out there.
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Speaker 2: Playing most of the game, and he looked like a
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Speaker 2: guy that had been doing cheese puff commercials on TV.
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Speaker 2: Remember the opening game between the Giants and the Yankees?
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Speaker 2: And Jameis was doing cheesy clown television stuff. And then
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Speaker 2: at the World Cup, he was doing more cheesy TV stuff.
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Speaker 2: He played like a guy who had spent a lot
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Speaker 2: of time worried about doing bad television.
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Speaker 1: And he ended up playing bad quarterback. And that's that.
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Speaker 2: The Giants, though, you look at this, Winston, he makes
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Speaker 2: bad throws. He'd always say, well, okay, he's going to
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Speaker 2: give you three or four really bad throws, and then
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Speaker 2: he's going to give you a couple of amazing touchdown plays.
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Speaker 2: He didn't give you the amazing plays. He gave you
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Speaker 2: the crappy throws. He didn't give you the good stuff.
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Speaker 2: So the Giants, without Jackson Dart, it's like going to
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Speaker 2: Morton's Steakhouse, and it's like they have a sign up
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Speaker 2: listen we're open for business we don't have any steak
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Speaker 2: but you're Morton's Steakhouse how do you not have to
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Speaker 2: well we've got the other stuff all right so congratulations
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Speaker 2: enjoy your baked potato enjoy your baked potato enjoy that
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Speaker 2: here so as for the return as you know I
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Speaker 2: am not Not medically trained. I am just an overnight
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Speaker 2: gas bag. However, I did a while back stay at
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Speaker 2: a Holiday Inn Express. And playing Dr. Maller. Spitballing here.
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Speaker 2: We're going to say that Jackson Dart has between a
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Speaker 2: grade 1 and a grade 2 MCL sprain. What does
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Speaker 2: that mean? That means that the smart money says Jackson
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Speaker 2: Dart will be out anywhere from $ 2. to six weeks
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Speaker 2: that would be a month and a half on the
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Speaker 2: long end of that so that's where I am on
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Speaker 2: Jackson Dart of course he could be like Caleb Williams
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Speaker 2: just all of a sudden bounce back and play next
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Speaker 2: week You know, that's a possibility. All right, now, meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: keeping the beat going here, the question now is, can
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Speaker 2: we do a wellness check on Coach John Harbaugh, the Giants'
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Speaker 2: Coach John Harbaugh? Can we do a wellness check on
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Speaker 2: John Harbaugh at this point? So if you look at
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Speaker 2: where we were and where we are now, and you
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Speaker 2: know this, everybody spent one week congratulating Jim Harbaugh for
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Speaker 2: fixing the New York Giants.
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Speaker 1: And that narrative... It.
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Speaker 2: Just took one week, and he's a grown-up in the room,
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Speaker 2: and you heard all that wonderful stuff.
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Speaker 1: Even Mr.
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Speaker 2: Buck there on TV was licking the boots of John Harbaugh.
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Speaker 2: And so they beat the Cowboys week one, and everything's good.
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Speaker 1: That's what you do. You hire a great coach.
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Speaker 2: We were impressed with the Giants in week one.
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Speaker 1: They made some mistakes, but overall.
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Speaker 2: That narrative, though, has aged like a can or a
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Speaker 2: container there of Hellman's mail that you've left out at
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Speaker 2: the July picnic. since 8 in the morning, and it's
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Speaker 2: now 4.30 in the afternoon, and that mayo has just
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Speaker 2: been sitting out there. There's flies all over it.
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Speaker 1: It's disgusting. It smells. It's turning yellow. It's god-awful. That's it.
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Speaker 2: So Harbaugh thought he had inherited a upstart quarterback in
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Speaker 2: Jackson Darden, and instead it looks like at this point
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Speaker 2: he inherited the medical chart. and the insurance deductible for
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Speaker 2: Jackson Dart at this particular point here. So, wow. You
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Speaker 2: juxtapose the Giant fan base. Again, week one, beat the Cowboys. Oh, man,
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Speaker 2: we're back, baby. And I heard from you, wackadoodles. I
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Speaker 2: heard from you. Yeah, I guess your phones all went
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Speaker 2: to airplane mode when that game turned sideways because before
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Speaker 2: the game, I was getting texted.
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Speaker 1: Be prepared, Mallard. Your Rams are done. It's the Giants
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Speaker 1: are back, baby. All that crap.
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Speaker 2: Again, airplane mode. Game went sideways, airplane mode. Not the
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Speaker 2: first time it's happened. It's called being a frontrunner, which
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Speaker 2: is hard to do when your team sucks to be
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Speaker 2: a frontrunner. It's not easy to be a frontrunner when
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Speaker 2: your team sucks. But the Giant fans went from all
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Speaker 2: giddy beating the Cowboys and dreaming of January playoff games
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Speaker 2: and all that stuff. And then by the end of
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Speaker 2: week two, they're now Googling medial collateral ligament recovery timeline.
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Speaker 2: All right, so New York's master plan is now what?
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Speaker 2: Jameis Winston gets some duct tape, some Elmer's glue, and
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Speaker 2: positive affirmations.
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Speaker 1: Is that the plan?
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Speaker 2: And John Harbaugh. God love John Harbaugh. At this point,
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Speaker 2: John Harbaugh must be daydreaming about the national bird of India,
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Speaker 2: the peacock. He must be thinking, you know, My buddy,
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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin, he could have gotten one of these jobs.
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Speaker 2: And Tomlin said, no, I'm going to take a gap year.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go hang out with a peacock over
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Speaker 2: there at NBC, and I'm going to give lukewarm takes
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Speaker 2: on Sunday night football, and that's that.
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Speaker 1: And then John Harbaugh said, no, no, I'm going.
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Speaker 2: To jump right back in the deep fryer, take a
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Speaker 2: bad job, the Giants job, a bad job. And he
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Speaker 2: took the bad job. He said, I want the bad job.
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Speaker 2: Give me the bad job. He got the bad job.
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Speaker 1: And okay.
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Speaker 2: And the deep fryer, he's right back in the deep
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Speaker 2: fryer and it turns out that he discovered the grease
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Speaker 2: was left on. He did a belly whopper in there. So,
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Speaker 2: the good news, I will be Benny Brightside to a point.
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Speaker 2: It does not look good at this point for the Giants.
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Speaker 2: The Rams are much better than them and we knew
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Speaker 2: that going in. They just played poorly. Typically, teams don't
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Speaker 2: have two bad games in a row. If that happens,
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Speaker 2: they don't have a good coach, etc.
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Speaker 1: etc., etc.
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Speaker 2: However, Look at the Giants' upcoming schedule, and it's the
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Speaker 2: Paris Baguette schedule, okay?
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Speaker 1: It's extra soft.
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Speaker 2: However, without Jackson Dart and the way that Jameis Winston played,
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Speaker 2: the Giants have no teeth. So it's a problem. But
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Speaker 2: you have four literal cupcakes lined up in a row
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Speaker 2: for the Giants. You got Cupcake City, baby, for the
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Speaker 2: Giants here. Teams like the Titans and the Commanders and
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Speaker 2: teams like that. And somehow they are the team missing
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Speaker 2: the frosting, which does not seem like a good situation.
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Speaker 2: All right, last word here. to the winner's locker room.
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Speaker 2: And I know it's a tough day for the trolls.
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Speaker 2: It'll be okay. The Rams will lose some more games.
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Speaker 2: You'll have a chance to call up again, you cowards.
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Speaker 2: But the Rams get the win. The obvious question, did
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Speaker 2: Sean McVay use the voodoo boogaloo to solve the Rams' issues?
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Speaker 2: So I would pump the brakes on that. It's odd
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Speaker 2: to say this. The Rams won the game in a
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Speaker 2: route or route, depending on how you were taught in
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Speaker 2: elementary school. It still doesn't feel all the way back.
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Speaker 2: So I am pumping the brakes and cooling the jets.
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Speaker 2: I think those are the colloquial terms for the Rams here.
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Speaker 2: Without Jackson Dart, this game became an exhibition game.
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Speaker 1: It did.
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Speaker 2: It was a make-a-wish situation. Jameis Winston, again, played like
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Speaker 2: a guy doing cheesy TV and like he kind of
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Speaker 2: semi-retired from the NFL. I hope that's just a one-game situation.
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Speaker 2: We like Jameis. But, man, was that disheartening. There were
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Speaker 2: plays to be made, and he didn't make them. And
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Speaker 2: it was like he was playing blindfolded, which he often does,
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Speaker 2: but occasionally he'll connect on those passes, and he's a
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Speaker 2: fun zone player.
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Speaker 1: He's a one-man band. He wasn't any of that.
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Speaker 2: So you look at it, with Jackson Dart out, Jameis
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Speaker 2: Winston in, the Rams needed a get-well game. And the
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Speaker 2: moment Jackson Dart hobbled off the field, the Giants then
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Speaker 2: showed up. And you saw one of the guys had
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Speaker 2: some flowers. He was carrying some flowers. And there were
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Speaker 2: some balloons in the back. And then there was a
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Speaker 2: fruit basket. and a box of chocolates. So they really,
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Speaker 2: really did a nice job there. The Giants, very welcoming.
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Speaker 2: The box of chocolates, the truffles, was really, really sweet.
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Speaker 2: So despite missing their top two players, Puka Nakua, the
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Speaker 2: top offensive player, and Myles Garrett, who was hanging out
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Speaker 2: with Mookie Betts. Yes, the Rams traded for Myles Garrett
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Speaker 2: to hang out with Mookie Betts. Boy, there were some
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Speaker 2: real celebrity a-holes at that game, by the way.
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Speaker 1: Did you see.
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Speaker 2: The shot there in the luxury box? You had McAfee,
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Speaker 2: Wayne Gretzky.
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Speaker 3: Who else?
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Speaker 1: There was a couple other people. I was like, oh, man.
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Speaker 2: This is like, hey, I'm better than you central a-hole squad, right?
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Speaker 2: It's like, well, a bunch of a-holes.
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Speaker 1: Put them all in the box. Who's in the box?
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Speaker 1: The a-holes.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, so the Rams without Myles Garrett and Puka Nakua,
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Speaker 2: they end up winning fine. It's kind of the equivalent
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Speaker 2: of an open book test with Jackson Dart out. And
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Speaker 2: Aaron Donald made his much-ballyhooed return. And much like Myles
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Speaker 2: Garrett the week prior, you were left at the end
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Speaker 2: of the game saying, where's Waldo? He did a where's
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Speaker 2: Waldo thing. He was out there. And he was a
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Speaker 2: drag for the most part. No impactful plays, really, from
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Speaker 2: Aaron Donald. You wouldn't know that from the TV broadcast.
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Speaker 2: And it was like the king returning to the kingdom
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Speaker 2: and all that. Matthew Stafford had an ugly interception. Ram
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Speaker 2: running backs fumbling a couple of times. Nevertheless, when you
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Speaker 2: put all the numbers together, this was an Irish spring victory.
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Speaker 2: The Rams were rolling around in kangaroo poo-poo in Australia.
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Speaker 2: And they showered off, and they suddenly smelled pretty good.
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Speaker 2: The sweet smell of victory.
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Speaker 1: It smelled wonderful.
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Speaker 2: So, yes, Sean McVay cleaned up a lot of the
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Speaker 2: grotesque stuff at the crime scene. But there's still some
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Speaker 2: fixables there to work on.
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Speaker 1: Those little things that are repairable.
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Speaker 2: And you don't get a lot of credit for winning
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Speaker 2: a game you were favored to win when the quarterback
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Speaker 2: went out. The backup looked like he hadn't played football
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Speaker 2: in a year. And you played Ham and Egger at quarterback. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: one comfortable win, obviously. Does not erase the problems the
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Speaker 2: Rams had in Australia. It merely gives everyone permission to
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Speaker 2: stop screaming and shouting and pounding the table for a
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Speaker 2: few days until the Rams play the Denver Broncos. It's
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Speaker 2: going to be a tough week for Koopa Loop there.
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Speaker 2: Broncos going to lose that game. Anyway, if you would
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21:04
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21:13
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21:16
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21:24
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21:30
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21:34
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21:38
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21:40
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21:45
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Speaker 1: That's impossible, Bill.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
23:01
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Speaker 7: You missed me, didn't you?
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Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I did. Of course I did. I knew it.
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Speaker 1: Where were you? Did you go to Beirut?
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Speaker 7: I just needed a day off, you know? After 16
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Speaker 7: days straight, a girl.
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Speaker 1: Needs a day off. I understand.
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Speaker 4: Really fast.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Lorena would like to chime in. Yes, Lorena. What's that?
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Speaker 8: You always do this thing where you have these psychic moments, okay?
24:12
Speaker 8: And I just want you to know, I had Morton's
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Speaker 8: Steakhouse for dinner tonight.
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Speaker 1: You did? I did. Okay, that's not a normal meal, though.
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Speaker 1: You don't normally eat Morton's Steakhouse.
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Speaker 8: No, that makes it even weirder that you said it.
24:23
Speaker 8: I can hear you opening my red vines.
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Speaker 1: Do you see him? He's like a cockroach.
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Speaker 7: He's looking through my bag right now.
24:30
Speaker 1: I can't really see much. There's all these freaking lights
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Speaker 1: in here.
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Speaker 2: He's blinded by the lights. Here's what I can see, Lauren.
24:37
Speaker 2: I can see the outline of your head. I can
24:40
Speaker 2: kind of see Coop. I can see the reflection off
24:42
Speaker 2: his glasses when he sits down. Right now, I can't
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Speaker 2: see him because he's standing up, I think, and so
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Speaker 2: I can't see him.
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Speaker 7: He's mad I taped the bag of red vines shut.
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Speaker 1: There's this old line. I forget who it was.
24:52
Speaker 2: Some guy at WFN would be like, oh, let's go
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Speaker 2: look across the glass or whatever.
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Speaker 1: I can't even see. It might as well be a
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Speaker 1: brick wall.
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Speaker 2: I can't even see across the damn glass because there's
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Speaker 2: all these freaking lights in here. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right, anyway. Not that I'm complaining. Boy, I love lights.
25:07
Speaker 1: Why the grievance, Ben?
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Speaker 2: I know.
25:09
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of lights.
25:11
Speaker 2: Kyle writes in and says, Mallor would have been an
25:15
Speaker 2: upgraded quarterback for the Giants, then washed up famous Jameis.
25:20
Speaker 1: It was bad. That sucked.
25:22
Speaker 2: I actually like Jameis, and this is a great example weekend,
25:27
Speaker 2: aside from Jameis Winston. It's somewhat related to Jameis Winston, but...
25:33
Speaker 2: uh you spend a lot of time handicapping the games
25:35
Speaker 2: we move benny versus the penny back here to the
25:37
Speaker 2: radio so i spend a good amount of my time
25:40
Speaker 2: breaking down matchups and what should happen and then they
25:44
Speaker 2: play the games and you spend all your time for
25:46
Speaker 2: example like the washington dallas game which was a close
25:49
Speaker 2: game and then right before halftime you have snap crackle
25:55
Speaker 2: pop for jayden daniels so you knew that was a
25:57
Speaker 2: you know You're going to lose that. Marcus Mariota blows.
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Speaker 2: So you've got no chance to win that game. And
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Speaker 2: then the Giants game. I actually thought the Giants, with
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Speaker 2: their starting quarterback, Jackson Dart, would have been able to
26:10
Speaker 2: hang around the Rams. And he got hurt on the
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Speaker 2: seventh play of the game. And then I was somewhat optimistic.
26:16
Speaker 2: I thought, well, Jameis Winston, he can throw a couple
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Speaker 2: of touchdowns here and there. And then I saw him
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Speaker 2: try to throw the ball. And then I thought, well,
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Speaker 2: there's no way. Nope. In fact, here's my first fun
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Speaker 2: fact of the hour. Are you ready for a fun fact?
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Speaker 7: Wait, wait, I have to get to my other board.
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Speaker 2: Put your fun seatbelt on. We have a fun fact here.
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Speaker 2: So settle in for your fun fact.
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Speaker 1: Of the hour.
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Speaker 3: Matt Maller fun fact.
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Speaker 2: So we were told Jameis Winston, he had 111 yards
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Speaker 2: passing in the Monday night game. and that is the
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Speaker 2: fewest he's ever had in 81 games with 25 or
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Speaker 2: more passes.
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Speaker 1: He had never played worse!
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Speaker 4: Never!
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Speaker 2: The man completed 40% of his passes as a professional quarterback,
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Speaker 2: and the game was a blowout. Jameis, what's going on?
27:02
Speaker 2: 40.7 completion percentage. He averaged 4.1 yards per run. Kyron Williams,
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Speaker 2: the Rams running back, averaged 7 yards a carry. And Corum,
27:14
Speaker 2: the backup, he averaged 6.6. The Rams were averaging more
27:19
Speaker 2: yards per run than Jameis Winston was per pass. And
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Speaker 2: as I imagine coming in here, so far not a single,
27:28
Speaker 2: I got a full board, not a single Giant fan.
27:31
Speaker 2: Not a single Giant fan. Fergdog writes in and says,
27:35
Speaker 2: do you think Mark listens to the show even on
27:38
Speaker 2: the days he's not filling in?
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Speaker 1: No chance.
27:42
Speaker 2: No one around here listens when they're not working here.
27:45
Speaker 2: Not a single person that works here listens when they're
27:48
Speaker 2: not working.
27:49
Speaker 1: I do. No, you don't. Yes, I do. No, you don't.
27:51
Speaker 2: King Rory writes in and says, I guess Aaron Donald
27:53
Speaker 2: is the difference maker for the Rams. They have not
27:57
Speaker 2: lost a game he has played in all season, unlike
27:59
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett, who brought the Browns losing attitude. And when
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Speaker 2: he has played, the Rams have lost all those games
28:08
Speaker 2: this season.
28:09
Speaker 1: All right. What else do we have?
28:10
Speaker 2: Late Night Drug Tester says, did not catch the game
28:13
Speaker 2: until late, but back-to-back Monday night football blowouts. Didn't keep watching,
28:18
Speaker 2: so I missed the reason the Giants could come back.
28:21
Speaker 2: So we need to stay tuned in. Oh, they were trying.
28:26
Speaker 2: Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, every broadcaster does the same thing.
28:30
Speaker 2: Whoever's losing, you gotta sell the audience that they're gonna
28:33
Speaker 2: come back. Oh yeah, they score here. They're right back
28:37
Speaker 2: in the game. They're right back in the game. No,
28:41
Speaker 2: they're not, dummy. They're not in the game. If you
28:45
Speaker 2: look at the numbers, all you idiots love nerd stats.
28:49
Speaker 2: When a team goes up by, is it two touchdowns?
28:54
Speaker 2: The The chances of a team blowing a two-touchdown lead,
28:57
Speaker 2: it does happen, obviously, but very, very rarely, not on average.
29:02
Speaker 2: You'll go up by two touchdowns. That game is over.
29:04
Speaker 2: It's like 80%, 80-plus percent of the time the game
29:07
Speaker 2: is over. I think it's even higher than that. Now,
29:11
Speaker 2: Joe Buck did sing the praises. of the Rams as
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Speaker 2: the top team in the NFL. However, he said there's
29:18
Speaker 2: one thing standing in the way of the Rams' success,
29:23
Speaker 2: and what would that be? This is the worst possible answer.
29:30
Speaker 2: I feel bad for Joe Buck. I'm embarrassed for Joe Buck.
29:34
Speaker 2: Grew up, born on third base in broadcasting.
29:37
Speaker 1: Good for you.
29:38
Speaker 2: You admit it, Joe. Buck admits it. His dad was
29:41
Speaker 2: the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals, Jack Buck, and
29:43
Speaker 2: that's how he got into it. If his dad was
29:45
Speaker 2: like my dad, a ham radio guy, he'd maybe get
29:48
Speaker 2: an overnight show. So anyway, Joe Buck said the Rams,
29:52
Speaker 2: he likes the roster if they can stay healthy. This
29:58
Speaker 2: just in to Fox Sports Radio, Joe Buck. No one
30:02
Speaker 2: stays healthy.
30:03
Speaker 3: I'm a doctor.
30:04
Speaker 2: Yes.
30:04
Speaker 1: The injury rate is 100%. 100% in the NFL. 100%.
30:09
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the phones and we'll say
30:14
Speaker 2: hello to, who should we start out with? America's favorite
30:17
Speaker 2: drag queen caller. In Buffalo, New York, leader of the
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Speaker 2: Bills Mafia, we say hello to the one and only Falexis.
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Speaker 1: Hello, Falexis. Dad, I am the queen of the Buffalo Mafia. Congratulations.
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Speaker 2: What do you get as the queen of the Buffalo
30:38
Speaker 2: Bills Mafia?
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Speaker 1: What do you get? I get wins. Buffalo is on
30:44
Speaker 1: fire this year.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
30:46
Speaker 2: And I predict they're going to go to the Super Bowl. Phylexis,
30:50
Speaker 2: what is this, 2008? You've done this every year, Phylexis.
30:54
Speaker 2: Every year I get the phone call, the Bills are going.
30:56
Speaker 2: Even when they suck, you would call up and say,
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Speaker 2: the Bills are going to the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: Ben, take some tranquilizers because you're going nuts. I know
31:07
Speaker 1: the Bills are going to go to the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: They're on fire, John. They're on fire, yes. Out of
31:13
Speaker 1: this world. He's the best quarterback in the NFL. Is
31:18
Speaker 1: it true now, Phylexis? Your Rams are not going nowhere. Okay.
31:23
Speaker 2: Well, coming from you, Phylexis, that means a lot. So
31:26
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills have the 28th-ranked defense. Is that good
31:30
Speaker 2: or bad?
31:30
Speaker 1: That's good. Okay, there you go. So the Bills have
31:34
Speaker 1: a good defense, ranked 28th in the NFL. They're solid.
31:38
Speaker 1: What more do you need? I'll give them time. They'll
31:42
Speaker 1: kick it up, baby. They're going to kick ass and
31:45
Speaker 1: take names later.
31:46
Speaker 2: Okay.
31:48
Speaker 1: Everything good with you, Phylexis? You doing all right? You're
31:50
Speaker 1: maintaining your fine physique? Well, I still got my seven toes,
31:56
Speaker 1: but who cares?
31:57
Speaker 6: All right.
31:58
Speaker 1: That's right.
31:59
Speaker 2: I forgot to mention the seven-toed drag queen. Nobody else
32:03
Speaker 2: has a seven-toed drag queen. And let me point out,
32:05
Speaker 2: if Alexis had been calling me for so long, it
32:08
Speaker 2: wasn't cool to be a drag queen. Oh, my God.
32:10
Speaker 1: How many years have I... I don't know. It's embarrassing
32:12
Speaker 1: how many years I've talked to you. It's got to
32:14
Speaker 1: be over 20. It is over 20. It's way over 20.
32:16
Speaker 1: You were on that poster.
32:17
Speaker 8: That's a long-time friendship, you two.
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Speaker 7: You should be proud.
32:20
Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
32:21
Speaker 6: Oh, shut up.
32:25
Speaker 2: How many times have you almost died in the last
32:26
Speaker 2: 20 years, Phylexis? It's been at least three or four
32:28
Speaker 2: times you've almost died. And yet you've come back. You've
32:31
Speaker 2: risen back.
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Speaker 1: I know. You're like, you do the rope-a-dope with death.
32:35
Speaker 1: You fight with it. I'm like a hemorrhoid.
32:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, you keep coming back for more.
32:41
Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you, Phylexis. I love this show.
32:44
Speaker 1: I love this show. That's why I keep coming back.
32:46
Speaker 1: We love you, Phylexis. Be safe, all right? Take care
32:49
Speaker 1: of your health, my man. All right, thank you. There
32:51
Speaker 1: you go.
32:51
Speaker 2: Our friend Phylexis, America's favorite drag queen caller. We've got
32:54
Speaker 2: legends lined up, and, well, it's another legend. And I
32:58
Speaker 2: tried to do the right thing with this guy, and
33:00
Speaker 2: it did not work out. Let's now go to Louisiana,
33:04
Speaker 2: and let's say hello to the one and only man
33:06
Speaker 2: that had a major medical procedure done the other day.
33:10
Speaker 1: And we say hello to Anthony in Louisiana. Hello, Anthony.
33:15
Speaker 4: Welcome.
33:16
Speaker 1: Hey, Ben. How you doing?
33:18
Speaker 2: Listen, I'm a little upset with you. Do you know
33:21
Speaker 2: why I'm upset with you?
33:22
Speaker 3: How about them cowboys?
33:27
Speaker 1: Did you just say how about them cowboys?
33:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, he did.
33:30
Speaker 1: You think I'm upset with you because how about them cowboys? Anthony,
33:33
Speaker 1: why do you think I'm upset with you? I don't know.
33:46
Speaker 2: So last week you called up, right? And what did
33:49
Speaker 2: you give Koopaloop?
33:53
Speaker 1: Oh, my phone number.
33:55
Speaker 4: Yeah.
33:56
Speaker 1: So what do you think I did the other day?
33:58
Speaker 1: You called?
34:01
Speaker 2: Well, I tried to call you. I tried to call you,
34:04
Speaker 2: and it turns out you gave the wrong number to Koop.
34:09
Speaker 1: It didn't work.
34:09
Speaker 2: It didn't work.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to give it to you, Gene.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
34:14
Speaker 2: All right. I'm just saying, I wrote it down exactly
34:18
Speaker 2: as Coop sent it to me, and I called it,
34:21
Speaker 2: and it went....
34:24
Speaker 1: That's it. And then I said, so I thought I
34:26
Speaker 1: maybe dialed it wrong. So then I dialed it again.
34:28
Speaker 1: You know what I did? What? Just like that.
34:33
Speaker 3: Oh, you've got to hand it down.
34:35
Speaker 1: 318.
34:36
Speaker 3: Here we go.
34:36
Speaker 2: 318. No, no.
34:37
Speaker 1: Hold on a second.
34:37
Speaker 2: Let me check here. I'm not going to give out
34:38
Speaker 2: your phone number on the air. Well, I guess I
34:40
Speaker 2: could give out this number because it's actually not.
34:42
Speaker 7: Do the first three and the last four.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the first three. No, it is a 318 number.
34:49
Speaker 2: The last four looked a little sus, as the kids say.
34:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, 3088. Oh, well, there you go. All right. Hold on.
35:00
Speaker 7: What'd you have? 3089?
35:02
Speaker 1: No, no. I had 0088 is what I had. So
35:05
Speaker 1: what is it?
35:05
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
35:06
Speaker 6: Give out your number.
35:08
Speaker 1: Do not give out your number. No, just the last four.
35:11
Speaker 1: Just the last four.
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Speaker 2: No, no.
35:12
Speaker 1: What are the last four? How about that? 3088. All right.
35:22
Speaker 5: All right.
35:22
Speaker 2: I have now put the correct number. Do you remember
35:25
Speaker 2: there was a guy in Minnesota that when we started
35:28
Speaker 2: using Twitter, the guy, the old guy.
35:30
Speaker 5: Yes.
35:31
Speaker 1: Old guy didn't know how to use Twitter. His username
35:35
Speaker 1: was just his phone number. His username was his phone number.
35:38
Speaker 1: His phone number. Who was that? I don't remember.
35:45
Speaker 2: I don't think he calls anymore, but it was the
35:47
Speaker 2: funniest thing. He loved the show so much and he
35:50
Speaker 2: was an old guy and he didn't know how to
35:52
Speaker 2: use Twitter. So he just, you know, back in those
35:54
Speaker 2: days you had to put your phone number in. I
35:56
Speaker 2: think you still do, but he put his phone number
35:57
Speaker 2: in his username.
35:58
Speaker 1: It was so good. Hey, so how you doing?
36:01
Speaker 7: I'm good. How are you doing after all your surgery?
36:05
Speaker 1: Oh, they had to change it. They had to reschedule it. Again?
36:08
Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
36:09
Speaker 1: That would have been a wasted phone call anyway.
36:11
Speaker 2: I know.
36:12
Speaker 1: I'm glad. All right.
36:12
Speaker 2: So now I'm not going to call you. I was
36:14
Speaker 2: going to call you, but I don't need to call you.
36:16
Speaker 2: When have they rescheduled?
36:17
Speaker 1: Let me guess.
36:17
Speaker 2: 2028?
36:18
Speaker 1: No, October the 1st. Thursday, October the 1st. All right.
36:22
Speaker 1: October 1st. It's not that far away. A couple weeks away.
36:26
Speaker 7: Oh, they are looking so good.
36:30
Speaker 1: She didn't see a second of that game.
36:31
Speaker 7: I did, too.
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Speaker 1: No, you were not. OK, so I did.
36:36
Speaker 7: I did start.
36:37
Speaker 8: I started the beginning of football morning, which was great.
36:40
Speaker 8: But then I did have to go to a had
36:41
Speaker 8: to go to a bowling alley birthday party.
36:43
Speaker 1: Like I said, you didn't see.
36:45
Speaker 7: So I did not catch.
36:48
Speaker 1: All right. Bye bye.
36:50
Speaker 7: You know, I was I was cheering from a distance.
36:52
Speaker 1: I'm sure you were. A real fan would say, F
36:55
Speaker 1: your birthday. The game is on.
36:57
Speaker 2: Or at least watch it on your phone. Have it
37:00
Speaker 2: on your phone.
37:01
Speaker 7: I don't have it on my phone.
37:02
Speaker 1: I understand. All right, it is the Ben Malish show.
37:05
Speaker 7: I'm just a girl.
37:06
Speaker 2: Sean McVay using some self-deprecating humor. McVay, there have been
37:11
Speaker 2: a number of McVay suck-ups in the media that have
37:14
Speaker 2: defended the outrageous travel plans the Rams took to Australia. McVay, though,
37:19
Speaker 2: poking fun at himself post-game in the hood in Inglewood
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Speaker 2: in the bowels of SoFi Stadium. When talking to the
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Speaker 2: media at the end there, he says, sometimes you have
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Speaker 2: a dumb blank coach that makes travel plans that put
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Speaker 2: you in a bad spot, McVay said in his post-game
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Speaker 2: news conference before leaving the podium, walking away. That was
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Speaker 2: a drop the mic moment there, which is a body blow,
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Speaker 2: body blow, body blow to those that have defended McVay.
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Speaker 2: The outrageous travel plans of the LA Rams to go
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Speaker 2: at the last possible minute around the world, 8,000 miles
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Speaker 2: to play a football game. At least McVay is able.
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Speaker 2: And he's rich enough and he's good enough where he
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Speaker 2: can get away with that. You'd think if Robert Sala
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Speaker 2: did that, he'd be able to laugh about it. I'm
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Speaker 2: going to guess not so much. Time now, though, for
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Speaker 2: the Who Am I game. This is where I pretend
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Speaker 2: to be somebody else.
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Speaker 1: And here it is. Quickly!
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Speaker 2: So the Rams wide receiver Devontae Adams had 195 receiving
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Speaker 2: yards and two touchdowns at age 33 and 271 days old.
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Speaker 3: Who?
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Speaker 2: The only older players to reach those numbers since the
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Speaker 2: merger are James Lofton.
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Speaker 4: Who?
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Speaker 3: Who?
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Speaker 2: Back in the day, in 1991, and me. Again, Devontae Adams,
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Speaker 2: 195 yards, receiving two touchdowns at age 33, almost age 34.
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Speaker 2: Only older players to reach those numbers are James Lofton
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Speaker 2: and blank.
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Speaker 1: Since the merger. Since me. Since me. Who am I?
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Speaker 1: The answer. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
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Speaker 2: Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. And we're hanging
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Speaker 2: out together. Now, you know, during the live show, we
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Speaker 2: are on X a lot. We get real-time reaction from
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Speaker 2: fellow men, women, and children. Of course, there's no kids
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Speaker 2: listening because we're in the safe harbor.
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Speaker 1: Wink, wink, nod, nod.
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Speaker 2: Nonetheless, now we haven't had a kid caller in a while.
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Speaker 1: That's some famous.
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Speaker 7: Who was our last one?
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Speaker 2: Charlie? Yeah, Charlie in Dallas. What up, Charlie? Charlie in Wisconsin, too.
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Speaker 1: He still listens. He's in college. That doesn't really count,
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Speaker 1: does it?
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Speaker 2: Mm-mm.
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Speaker 7: Oh, and then the little sister that they do jokes.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, in Washington.
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Speaker 5: She counts.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The comedian. Bennett the Comedian, I believe
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Speaker 1: is his name.
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Speaker 2: He can be a baseball player, so he'll forget about us.
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Speaker 2: We used to have a lot of kid callers who
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Speaker 2: were famous. Maggie, the most famous kid caller. Well, actually,
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Speaker 2: I don't know Maggie. Who's the kid that beat Justin
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Speaker 2: in Cincinnati?
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Speaker 1: Remember... That's Maggie. She's grown up. She's got kids now.
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Speaker 1: Holy crap. What happened? And then there was a.
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Speaker 2: What was the kid's name that beat Justin in Cincinnati?
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Speaker 2: Justin's a retired caller, but he used to be really
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Speaker 2: good at trivia. He gave that up, that life of
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Speaker 2: overnight sports radio trivia.
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Speaker 1: You suck!
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Speaker 2: Anyway, we're on X a lot during the live show,
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Speaker 2: but people are much nicer on Instagram. Ben Maller on Fox.
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Speaker 2: You can see little videos on there. Also Facebook, Ben
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Speaker 2: Maller Show. So follow the accounts on the different platforms.
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Speaker 2: We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. Time now, though,
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Speaker 2: for the Who Am I game. The Rams wide receiver
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Speaker 2: Devontae Adams had a throwback game. 195 yards, receiving two
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Speaker 2: touchdowns at age 33 and 271 days. Only older players
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Speaker 2: to reach those numbers since the merger are James Lofton.
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Speaker 2: Back in 1991.
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Speaker 1: And me. Who am I?
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Speaker 2: That is the question. What is the answer? Alf the Alien.
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Speaker 2: Joey Jaws.
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Speaker 1: Chestnut. Poutine.
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Speaker 2: Champ.
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Speaker 1: Again.
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Speaker 2: From the great Alf, the legend. Femi in Minnesota is
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Speaker 2: going low-hanging fruit. He says Jerry Rice. Who else do
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Speaker 2: we have?
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Speaker 1: Page down.
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Speaker 2: Unnamed country music superstar. There you go.
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Speaker 1: Very nice. D-Lo.
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Speaker 2: That was, by the way, from Milkman Mike in Colorado. D.
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Speaker 2: Lo Brown from King Roy. Moose Haas, good name, by Mr.
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Speaker 2: Nice Guy. Louis Tiot, another good name, by Rich in Vegas.
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Speaker 2: Marvin the Martian from Rob in the 3-2-1. Anthony Surgeon
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Speaker 2: from Kathy in Madison. Eddie Garcia, I guess, by Robbie
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Speaker 2: the Mariner fan. All right, do you have an answer, Larry?
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Speaker 1: Quick, quick! No, it's Shannon Sharp, believe it or not.
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Speaker 1: Shannon Sharp. Old guy.