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Hour 1 - The Baker Shaker · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Mama, there goes that man. It's our number one. Our
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Speaker 1: number one and ready to go here on the Ben
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Speaker 1: Maller Show podcast. We stayed up all night for a
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Speaker 1: fresh pod. I know. And you're in seven heaven right
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Speaker 1: seven heaven. I know. I work the day shift. You
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Speaker 1: have to work at night. That's how it works. Well,
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Speaker 1: here in our number one of the Ben Maller Show,
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield says he remembers the good
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Speaker 1: more than the bad from his time with the Browns.
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Speaker 1: The reason we bring this up is because the Buccaneers
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Speaker 1: and Cleveland are playing this weekend. Now, with that as
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Speaker 1: the backdrop, someone named Ken Zampezi, another Nepo coach, says
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Speaker 1: the Browns messed up by letting Baker Mayfield leave Ohio.
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Speaker 1: He used to be in a coach with Cleveland back
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Speaker 1: in the day. Is that fact-based? We'll take a look
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Speaker 1: at that. Also, do you feel bad for Tony Dungy
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Speaker 1: and Lisa Salters, who were stripped of their Pro Football
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame votes, along with a bunch of other
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Speaker 1: and see if we see eye to eye. We're just
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Speaker 1: getting warmed up here. It's hour number one. We play
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Speaker 1: it by ear in hour number one. The Baker Shaker. Well,
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Speaker 1: and that'll kick it off. And we will have Benny
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Speaker 1: versus the Penny, and that'll be coming up in hour
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Speaker 1: number two at the C Block of hour number two.
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Speaker 1: We'll have Benny versus the Penny for the Buffalo game
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Speaker 1: as they open up their new monstrosity. They spent all
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Speaker 1: that money on a crappy stadium. It'll take on the
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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. And we'll have that game, Benny versus Penny,
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Speaker 1: against the spread at the end of Hour 2. But
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Speaker 1: our lead this hour, don't bury the lead, my man!
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Speaker 1: Our lead is from Tampa. The Tampa area there. There
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Speaker 1: is no city called Tampa Bay. It's Tampa and St. Pete.
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Speaker 1: They form that area. So the Buccaneers have a play
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Speaker 1: date with the Browns. And you're probably saying, well, that's
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Speaker 1: not that big a game. That's, you know, a couple
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Speaker 1: of teams that Got off the shaky starts this year.
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Speaker 1: But the game's got some juice, if you haven't been
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Speaker 1: paying attention. So this is a classic revenge opportunity for
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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield as he gets to play his old mates
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Speaker 1: from Cleveland, although this game is in Florida. And Baker
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Speaker 1: was asked about this matchup. This is big. Baker always
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Speaker 1: complains about everything. He just bitches nonstop. So I'm sure
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Speaker 1: he had a lot to say about this. Did you
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Speaker 1: hear what he had to say? No? You did not?
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Speaker 1: All right, well, did he tear up the dance floor?
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Speaker 2: Not really.
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Speaker 1: Not really. Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield was very diplomatic publicly
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Speaker 1: about playing the Browns. He said, quote, ultimately you remember
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Speaker 1: the good more than the bad, while noting the Browns
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Speaker 1: organization is now a very different building, he said. That's
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Speaker 1: a quote. All right, so that's it. He said, ultimately,
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Speaker 1: you remember the good more than the bad in a
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Speaker 1: very different building. So that is a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. You got Tampa quarterback Baker
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Speaker 1: Mayfield saying that he remembers the good more than the
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Speaker 1: bad from his time with the Browns. And how does
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Speaker 1: that one hit you? How does that one hit you?
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Speaker 1: So it's reminiscent of like a car accident. Right. As
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Speaker 1: a car is in a car accident. You kind of
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Speaker 1: block out the bad stuff. I've got meatloaf, potluck and
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Speaker 1: squatters rights. And we will combine all of these things together.
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Speaker 1: And we are going to draw a line in the
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Speaker 1: sand is what we're going to do. So, A, as
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Speaker 1: I mentioned, kind of like a car accident or something
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Speaker 1: bad happens in your life. It's a part of the DNA.
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Speaker 1: We all have it, no matter where you're from or
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Speaker 1: how much money you have or how poor you are, whatever.
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Speaker 1: When something traumatic happens, you block it out. Because, boy,
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Speaker 1: that would suck if you remembered it every single day.
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Speaker 1: That would be bad. So when he plays, like this weekend,
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Speaker 1: I'm a Mr.
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Speaker 2: Cool.
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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the Browns. I don't buy it.
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Speaker 1: Baker being diplomatic about Cleveland It's akin to a divorced
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Speaker 1: guy complimenting his ex-wife's meatloaf. Boy, that meatloaf's really good. No,
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Speaker 1: it sucks. The meatloaf sucked, okay? This is just Baker
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Speaker 1: Mayfield regurgitating the talking points memo of what you're supposed
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Speaker 1: to say. And when he called it a very different building,
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Speaker 1: his old stomping grounds there in Cleveland, that is just
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Speaker 1: Baker speak. What does that mean? It means I recognize
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Speaker 1: the address, but I don't recognize the crime scene. And
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Speaker 1: unless something has dramatically changed, this is just how he
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Speaker 1: is hardwired. He's hardwired. Baker Mayfield, without a chip on
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Speaker 1: his shoulder, it's like going to an Applebee's without a
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Speaker 1: laminated menu. Well, it's not Applebee's unless they have the
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Speaker 1: laminated menu. And so are the restaurant. Baker Mayfield doesn't
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Speaker 1: just carry grudges. He has them delivered by the pallet.
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Speaker 1: Do you understand? Like a big box store, like Target
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Speaker 1: or Walmart or Costco. He's got pallets, pallets of these,
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Speaker 1: these grudges that are delivered. And if he doesn't have
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Speaker 1: a boogeyman, he'll invent a boogeyman. That's how it works.
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Speaker 1: That's how it always works. Now, page two. So the
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Speaker 1: Buccaneers senior offensive NEPO assistant Ken Zampezi, his dad was
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Speaker 1: an NFL assistant, and so it runs in the family,
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Speaker 1: and it's a family business there. A lot of nepotism
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. So this guy Ken Zampezi says the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland football team made a major mistake Moving on from
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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, he said they messed that up. Now, Zampezi,
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Speaker 1: as I said, he's with the Buccaneers now. He believes
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Speaker 1: the Browns failed to properly develop and support Baker Mayfield
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Speaker 1: after drafting him number one overall years ago. Number one.
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Speaker 1: The question, Ken Zampezi of the Buccaneer coaching staff says
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Speaker 1: that the Browns messed up by letting Baker Mayfield leave.
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Speaker 1: They didn't support him. Is that fact-based? So this whole
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Speaker 1: Cleveland made a tragic mistake with Baker Mayfield narrative that's
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Speaker 1: bouncing around the echo chamber is a steaming bowl of
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Speaker 1: revisionist history fiction. Gumbo is what it is, right? So, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: I've been doing this job a long time, so I
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Speaker 1: recall what the story was at the time Baker Mayfield
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Speaker 1: was with the Browns, and it wasn't pretty. Now, apparently,
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Speaker 1: everyone else has amnesia and forgot, but we did not.
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Speaker 1: It's a classic. Now it's a classic results-based storytelling where
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Speaker 1: Baker's had some level of success in Tampa, so Cleveland
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Speaker 1: must have been wrong. They must have been wrong. Please.
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Speaker 2: Please.
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Speaker 1: Now, the Browns made a poor choice on who they
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Speaker 1: replaced Baker Mayfield with, that schmuck Deshaun Watson. However, the
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Speaker 1: move to get rid of Baker, let's keep it clear,
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Speaker 1: the Browns did not dump Tom Brady 2.0 or Baby Mahomes.
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Speaker 1: They didn't get rid of that guy. They ended a
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Speaker 1: toxic marriage where both sides were only speaking through lawyers.
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Speaker 1: And that's how it appeared. Baker's personality in Cleveland, around
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Speaker 1: the team, based on What we knew at the time,
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Speaker 1: he had turned into an 80-grit piece of sandpaper. His
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Speaker 1: resume featured enough peaks and then valleys, up and down,
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Speaker 1: peaks and valleys there, to qualify as a new attraction
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Speaker 1: at Six Flags coming soon. And every Sunday, every Sunday
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Speaker 1: was an unpredictable potluck. Unpredictable potluck. One week with Baker Mayfield,
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Speaker 1: you'd get a nice big piece. of Texas brisket. Yum,
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Speaker 1: yum to my tum-tum. And then the next week, somebody
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Speaker 1: would drop off Aunt Vida's radioactive Jell-O salad. Well, I
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Speaker 1: don't want Aunt Vida's radioactive Jell-O salad. Don't give me that.
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Speaker 1: Why would you give me that, Baker? Well, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I just have no control over it. And then he
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Speaker 1: left the Browns. Remember, he went to Carolina. People, oh,
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Speaker 1: he's going to be great in Carolina. He sucked. Rams
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Speaker 1: picked him up for a cup of coffee. And they
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Speaker 1: didn't fight to keep him. And then he goes off
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Speaker 1: to Florida. That's not a franchise altering quarterback. That's Czech luggage.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot of tags on your luggage. And so
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Speaker 1: Tampa rehabilitating. Baker to a point. He is now what
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Speaker 1: I would say is a mid-level starting quarterback in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: That does not retroactively, though, does not retroactively turn the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Baker into Bernie Kosar. Our friend Dick from Dayton
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Speaker 1: loves him some Bernie Kosar. So in addition to that,
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Speaker 1: for a former Browns assistant coach, which, oh, by the way,
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Speaker 1: now for the rest of the story, this guy, Ken Zampisi,
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Speaker 1: the Nepo guy, Family business, that's what they do in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. They just hire relatives of people that have
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Speaker 1: worked in the league. And so this guy, Zampezi, is
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Speaker 1: a former Browns assistant coach who was there when Baker
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Speaker 1: Mayfield was with the Browns. And he's now blaming Cleveland
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Speaker 1: and their development program is what he's doing, which is fascinating,
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Speaker 1: considering his name is in the credits. Like, dude, what
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Speaker 1: are you doing? Your name is right there. You cannot
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Speaker 1: stand inside the factory and complain about the defective manufacturing
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Speaker 1: when you were one of the people that was running
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Speaker 1: the equipment. Hello? Like, what are you doing? Excuse me.
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Speaker 1: All right, now, final point. We stay in Ohio. We
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Speaker 1: go to Canton, Ohio. The hallowed grounds of the Pro
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Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame. where legends are immortalized. Well, the
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Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame is dealing with some shrinkage.
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Speaker 1: We have a pill for that. Yeah, so I guess
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Speaker 1: this is a different kind of shrinkage. Yeah, the Pro
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Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame, the selection committee, which has always
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Speaker 1: been similar to how they name a pope, where they
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Speaker 1: get together at the Vatican and then they release the smoke.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty similar to how they decide who gets in
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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame and who doesn't get in the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. So the Selection committee is downsizing from
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Speaker 1: 50 members to 28 members under the new bylaws. You
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Speaker 1: probably don't care about that. It is interesting to note, though,
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Speaker 1: from what we're hearing, this is retribution for Bill Belichick
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Speaker 1: not making in the first round of voting, even though
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Speaker 1: he's one of the great coaches in NFL history, one
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Speaker 1: of the top two or three coaches of all time.
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Speaker 1: And he did not make it his first year of eligibility.
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Speaker 1: And that upset a number of people. I said, what
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Speaker 1: are we doing? What's the point of having this? It's
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Speaker 1: hard to argue with that. So from Canton, Ohio to Secaucus,
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Speaker 1: New Jersey, voters have been voted off the island getting
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Speaker 1: the notification. Now, among the high-profile names that are no
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Speaker 1: longer part of the process to elect members to the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, we've got Tony Dungy. who's in the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, not for broadcasting, and the sideline reporter
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Speaker 1: Lisa Salters. Yes, Lisa Salters had a vote for the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Anyway, they have lost their vote. They
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Speaker 1: each had their vote for six years, and no more.
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Speaker 1: No more for you. All right, so the question. Do
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Speaker 1: you feel bad? Do you feel bad for Tony Dungy
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Speaker 1: and this Lisa Salters being stripped of their Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame votes? Feel bad. Please. They lost a Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame ballot. I'm pretty sure they still have their health insurance,
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Speaker 1: so they're okay. Lisa Salter's got six years in Canton's
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Speaker 1: VIP voting lounge and is one of my good friends,
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Speaker 1: likes to remind me that that's a pretty good run
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Speaker 1: when her main job is asking the star player or
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Speaker 1: the coach after the game, how does this win make
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Speaker 1: you feel? Laughter Oh, the sideline questions. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum. Yeah, anyone
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Speaker 1: could do it. Literally anyone. You could have a raffle.
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Speaker 1: Anyone could ask that question. Anyways, that got you because
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Speaker 1: you're on TV. That got you a vote for the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, but no more. No more. And some
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Speaker 1: of the other names that are just these fat old
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Speaker 1: sports writers, these guys, they had votes for like 30 years,
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Speaker 1: over 30 years they had votes. And so I asked
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Speaker 1: the question, when did the Hall of Fame selection process
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Speaker 1: become a Supreme Court process? appointment when did that happen
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Speaker 1: i support term limits on this nobody nobody should have
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Speaker 1: squatters rights on a hall of fame ballot and you
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Speaker 1: gotta change it up a little bit like what are
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Speaker 1: you doing my god and the the ballot is a
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Speaker 1: responsibility and it is not beachfront property that you hand
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Speaker 1: down to your grandkids and and all that and so
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Speaker 1: get some new voices in there some fresh eyes and
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Speaker 1: And we're not exactly at a constitutional crisis here. It
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Speaker 1: is fascinating, though, because 50 of these voters sat in
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Speaker 1: a room and somehow these numb nuts couldn't figure out
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Speaker 1: that Bill Belichick should be in the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: If Belichick isn't a first ballot Hall of Famer, your
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Speaker 1: voting machine needs to be in unplugged. Just rip the
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Speaker 1: plug out immediately there. Smack it twice. Kick it once
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Speaker 1: a bad job by me, but we will do that
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Speaker 1: right now. So Gilmore, why are you talking about Gilmore Field?
21:52
Speaker 1: What is wrong with you? So John called up. He
21:55
Speaker 1: lives in Alaska on a newbie night. And he said that, hey,
21:58
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I grew up in L.A.
22:00
Speaker 1: There were no baseball, like professional baseball teams, like major
22:02
Speaker 1: league teams. So I went to see the Hollywood stars
22:06
Speaker 1: at Gilmore Field and the Angels of the Pacific Coast
22:10
Speaker 1: League who played at Wrigley Field. And so he said, well,
22:15
Speaker 1: what was Gilmore Field named after? And we did do
22:18
Speaker 1: some copious amounts of research for John in Anchorage, and
22:23
Speaker 1: you talk about irrelevant trivia. But Gilmore Field, the old
22:26
Speaker 1: Pacific Coast League, that ballpark where there's now a shopping mall,
22:31
Speaker 1: of course, because why not? That's what you do. It's
22:34
Speaker 1: not even an outdoor entertainment venue, this place called The
22:38
Speaker 1: Grove in L.A. Anyway, it was named after Earl Bell Gilmore.
22:44
Speaker 1: Who the F was Earl Bell Gilmore? Well, he was
22:49
Speaker 1: an oil executive, president of the A.F. Gilmore Oil Company.
22:55
Speaker 1: And the family owned a bunch of land there. And
22:58
Speaker 1: what became this place called Farmer's Market, 3rd and Fairfax.
23:02
Speaker 1: I used to live right across the street from there
23:04
Speaker 1: for years. I lived about 10, 11, 12 years right
23:07
Speaker 1: across from there. And they owned the site. And way
23:12
Speaker 1: back a million years ago, For John and Anchorage, they
23:16
Speaker 1: built the ballpark for $ 200, 000 in 1939. $ 200, 000. Of course, obviously,
23:27
Speaker 1: times have changed. You're curious what that would be in
23:30
Speaker 1: today's money? Because I was. So I was like, $ 200, 000,
23:34
Speaker 1: we're going back to 1939. You know what? I'm thinking
23:43
Speaker 1: I like a round robin. I would like to do
23:45
Speaker 1: a nice round robin. Let's see. Do not cheat here.
23:49
Speaker 1: No cheating. Let's go around the room. Lorena and Coop here,
23:52
Speaker 1: $ 200, 000 in 1939. If you built a stadium for $ 200, 000
23:53
Speaker 1: in 1939, and with inflation in the year 2026, the
23:54
Speaker 1: year we're in right now, How much would that be,
24:12
Speaker 1: that stadium? I'm going to go with $ 2. 6 billion.
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Speaker 2: $ 2. 6 billion.
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Speaker 1: That is incorrect. Coop, would you like to play, Coop?
24:20
Speaker 1: You said 1929? 1939. 1939. 1939.
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Speaker 2: Let's go with 400 million.
24:50
Speaker 1: No. According to my little gadget thing here, Gizmo Inflation Calculator,
24:56
Speaker 1: it's 4.8 million is what it says. So we both
25:00
Speaker 1: overshot it by a lot. Unless my math is wrong
25:04
Speaker 1: on this, I don't think I am, but you can
25:05
Speaker 1: double check. I have it 4.8 A million. I think
25:09
Speaker 1: it should be more than that, though, shouldn't it? I
25:11
Speaker 1: feel like it should be more than that. It seems
25:12
Speaker 1: like it should. It should be a lot more. Right? 200,000.
25:16
Speaker 1: I must have messed up my calculator thing. I don't know.
25:19
Speaker 1: But that's what it says, so. We'll just go with it.
25:21
Speaker 1: And then everyone will call up and say, you're an idiot.
25:23
Speaker 1: You didn't get it right. Bad job by you. What's
25:25
Speaker 1: wrong with you? Bad job. Bad job. Late Night Drug
25:29
Speaker 1: Tester says, so are you next on the list to
25:32
Speaker 1: be added to the NFL Hall of Fame? They have
25:37
Speaker 1: to have seen your work as a... player of the year,
25:42
Speaker 1: wooden player of the year voter. Well, I am a
25:44
Speaker 1: John R. Wooden voter. That is the most coveted award
25:47
Speaker 1: in all of sports for the top men's basketball player
25:51
Speaker 1: in collegiate basketball. I've had that vote for many, many years.
25:56
Speaker 1: And so I'm certainly more than qualified. You know, our
26:01
Speaker 1: buddy Hartman, Steve Hartman, who works here on the weekends
26:06
Speaker 1: and I've known him for a long time. Steve is
26:09
Speaker 1: in charge of a lot of the Heisman voting on
26:11
Speaker 1: the West Coast. So Steve, I guess I didn't suck
26:14
Speaker 1: up to him enough because he's in charge of who
26:16
Speaker 1: gets to vote for the Heisman and who gets to vote,
26:18
Speaker 1: but he's been doing that for a long time. Herbert
26:22
Speaker 1: writes in, he says, A-plus on the opening monologue, I
26:24
Speaker 1: finally understand the Baker-Mayfield trials and tribulations. And yes, Bill
26:29
Speaker 1: Belichick got screwed only because of those Hall of Fame
26:32
Speaker 1: dummies are jealous of his accomplishments. Now, Doug, who called
26:36
Speaker 1: up from South Korea, Monkey Biz Doug, says Baker's vanilla-flavored
26:41
Speaker 1: statement was passive-aggressive 101. Somehow, he managed to say absolutely
26:48
Speaker 1: nothing while making sure everyone knew exactly what he meant. Yeah,
26:51
Speaker 1: and should the Buccaneers win that game on Sunday, you
26:55
Speaker 1: know Baker's going to say something about, oh, yeah, I
26:58
Speaker 1: downplayed it, but it meant a lot, and if they
27:00
Speaker 1: lose the game... then he'll just keep his mouth relatively shut.
27:05
Speaker 1: Chip in the Q's writes in and says, A-plus on
27:08
Speaker 1: the opening monologue, maybe Bill Belichick didn't make it into
27:12
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame because he was a big part
27:15
Speaker 1: of all the Patsy's Gate scandals, Spygate, Deflategate, etc. Funny
27:21
Speaker 1: how when the Black Sox got caught, they were kept
27:24
Speaker 1: out of the Hall of Fame, but Bill Belichick, Well,
27:28
Speaker 1: Bill's not in the Hall of Fame, and they have
27:32
Speaker 1: no morals in football. If you thought they had morals
27:35
Speaker 1: in football, come on, Chip. The NFL was formed by
27:39
Speaker 1: degenerate gamblers. Losers of society formed the National Football League.
27:45
Speaker 1: So are they going to have high standards? Come on, please.
27:48
Speaker 1: They don't. They like to give the illusion they have
27:50
Speaker 1: high standards, but they don't. Michael in Tulsa writes in,
27:53
Speaker 1: says A-plus on the opening monologue. But here's a non
27:57
Speaker 1: sequitur of the night. Is Koopaloop trying to compete with
28:00
Speaker 1: the Maller chicken fingers inside of Arrowhead? And he sent
28:05
Speaker 1: me a photo here. There's apparently a restaurant inside Arrowhead
28:09
Speaker 1: called The Koop. So, well, I'm sure... that my chicken
28:14
Speaker 1: fingers are better than whatever that is. So not really
28:17
Speaker 1: worried about that.
28:18
Speaker 2: It's true because what, what I'm actually doing, it is
28:20
Speaker 2: owned by me, but I'm just trying to poison all
28:24
Speaker 2: of the Kansas city cheese fans.
28:26
Speaker 1: You just said that on the air. You might want
28:28
Speaker 1: to dump that. Neil in fall river writes and says, Hey,
28:31
Speaker 1: a big Ben, even opening the door with the football
28:38
Speaker 1: hall of fame comes a knocking. It should be fun,
28:42
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Nature Boy says, the dumbest sideline reporter question.
28:48
Speaker 1: Take me through that last play. Yeah. My favorite part
28:54
Speaker 1: of the sideline stuff, and I did the job, actually.
28:57
Speaker 1: I did, believe it or not, years ago, I got
29:00
Speaker 1: hired to do a side. I was a sideline reporter
29:02
Speaker 1: in Norman, Oklahoma, for an Oklahoma Sooners-Nebraska game when they
29:06
Speaker 1: were both good. Nebraska hasn't been good in like a generation.
29:10
Speaker 1: That's how long ago that was. So I did the
29:13
Speaker 1: sideline thing, and it's all planned out for you. It's like,
29:16
Speaker 1: all right, second break, second commercial break of the second quarter.
29:20
Speaker 1: We're going to toss it down, tell the story that
29:22
Speaker 1: we learned. We all knew the story, and the coach
29:26
Speaker 1: talked about it in our meeting. So you're going to
29:28
Speaker 1: talk about it. Okay, fine, I'll talk about it. Sure,
29:30
Speaker 1: no problem. And then the interviews are all, what do
29:34
Speaker 1: you need to improve, coach? How are you feeling, coach? Yeah,
29:38
Speaker 1: that whole thing. It was like the same. three or
29:40
Speaker 1: four questions. It's the easiest job in the world. Anyone, anyone,
29:43
Speaker 1: the village idiot could do it. Nostradinus writes and says,
29:47
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield doesn't impress me. He says he's no Drew Locke. Yeah,
29:53
Speaker 1: good luck. Enjoy that. Enjoy Drew Locke, Nostradinus. It appears
29:56
Speaker 1: my voodoo doll is working, so you're screwed. You are screwed.
30:01
Speaker 1: Even Overnight Joe says you are screwed. Milkman Mike in
30:05
Speaker 1: Colorado writes in, says, Fantabulous opening monologue and fitting with
30:08
Speaker 1: the start of the NFL's week dos, eliminating these old
30:13
Speaker 1: geezers should help to correct players and coaches to finally
30:20
Speaker 1: get their flowers. No dangling chads here. So he says,
30:25
Speaker 1: that's our buddy, the one and only Milkman Mike. In Colorado. Absolutely.
30:31
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the phones here. And eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
30:35
Speaker 1: let's say hello to Anthony in Louisiana. Hello, Anthony. Welcome.
30:44
Speaker 2: How you been? How you doing?
30:46
Speaker 1: Anthony, if I was any better, Anthony. I would be
30:50
Speaker 1: laying down taking a snooze, but I'm here. I'm here.
30:53
Speaker 1: What are you up to, Anthony? Now, you had major
30:58
Speaker 1: medical work done on your mouth. You had your mouth replaced.
31:00
Speaker 1: How's your new mouth? No, I'm going to have it
31:04
Speaker 1: today at 930. Oh. Didn't he say the other day
31:08
Speaker 1: that you were going to have it? Yeah, I thought
31:10
Speaker 1: he said he was going in. Yeah, today at 930.
31:15
Speaker 1: But didn't you call us on the beginning of the
31:16
Speaker 1: week and say that you were going to be away
31:18
Speaker 1: because you were having the procedure done, like, the next day? Yesterday, yesterday. Okay.
31:24
Speaker 1: All right. Well, good luck. We're pulling for you. We're
31:27
Speaker 1: pulling for you. Yes. Well, actually, the dentist is pulling
31:31
Speaker 1: for him. That's a good point. There you go.
31:35
Speaker 2: I did a joke.
31:37
Speaker 1: You didn't laugh, Anthony. Come on. No, I didn't laugh
31:40
Speaker 1: at my jokes. Yes.
31:42
Speaker 2: Hey, LeVayne.
31:43
Speaker 1: What up, Anthony?
31:48
Speaker 2: Where'd you get your good sense of humor, LeVayne?
31:49
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. She just told a joke.
31:55
Speaker 1: You didn't laugh. What are you talking about? My goodness, Anthony. Unbelievable.
32:00
Speaker 2: All right.
32:01
Speaker 1: For some reason, apparently I got your number. Why do
32:03
Speaker 1: I have your number, Anthony? What is that about? What
32:05
Speaker 1: am I getting you? Get a time when you check
32:07
Speaker 1: on me. Oh, you want me to check? Okay, I'll
32:10
Speaker 1: check on you. I'll do a wellness check on you.
32:12
Speaker 2: Is it raining? Yes.
32:13
Speaker 1: Don't forget to call me and see how I'm doing.
32:19
Speaker 1: All right, thank you. All right, I'm going to move
32:23
Speaker 1: on now. Thank you for that. Appreciate that. Good luck, Anthony.
32:26
Speaker 1: I'm going to just drug you. They'll put that big
32:29
Speaker 1: saw in your mouth, cut your teeth out, and you'll
32:31
Speaker 1: be good to go. You and Weed Man can trade notes.
32:35
Speaker 1: And that'll be just freaking wonderful. Almost as good as
32:40
Speaker 1: the story involving Troy Aikman, who apparently... He was a cowboy. Yeah,
32:49
Speaker 1: before you were alive, probably. That's true. Oh, my God. Anyway,
32:56
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman, who, by the way, was not a great quarterback,
33:00
Speaker 1: is in the Hall of Fame because of his teammates,
33:02
Speaker 1: not because of his tremendous play at quarterback for the Cowboys.
33:06
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to say that part out loud. You're
33:09
Speaker 1: not supposed to say that part out loud. I won't
33:11
Speaker 1: say it then. All right. Anyway, Aikman making some headlines here,
33:16
Speaker 1: as it was pointed out. He said the thing he
33:21
Speaker 1: shouldn't have said at the time. He shouldn't have said
33:23
Speaker 1: it now. I bring this up also while some people
33:26
Speaker 1: have gone down and done some bookkeeping on Aikman and
33:30
Speaker 1: realizing that he really doesn't say much of anything during
33:34
Speaker 1: the broadcast. He just speaks in platitudes and cliches and
33:38
Speaker 1: things like that. There's really not a lot of stuff
33:40
Speaker 1: going on most of the broadcast from Troy Aikman. With
33:45
Speaker 1: that being said, the story, get to the point, please.
33:48
Speaker 1: So the story here involves the game the other night,
33:51
Speaker 1: Chiefs and Broncos, and the battle royale, the battle royale
33:59
Speaker 1: between those two teams, which wasn't much of a broadcast. Now,
34:01
Speaker 1: on the broadcast, Aikman claimed that Kansas City practiced in
34:06
Speaker 1: pads for six consecutive days during training camp. But you know,
34:11
Speaker 1: with the recent wussification by the NFL, the only thing
34:14
Speaker 1: the players in the NFL fight for is less work.
34:17
Speaker 1: They don't fight for more money. They don't fight for
34:20
Speaker 1: pretty much anything other than working less. And the owners
34:23
Speaker 1: are like, we don't care. The only thing people watch,
34:25
Speaker 1: we don't sell tickets to practice. We sell tickets to games,
34:28
Speaker 1: and we sell the TV contract for the games. So
34:31
Speaker 1: if you guys don't want to practice and just show
34:33
Speaker 1: up and play, that's fine. And so the players are like, okay,
34:35
Speaker 1: that's good. We'll do that. Why not? Anyway, there's all
34:39
Speaker 1: these kind of rules in the collective bargaining agreement, all
34:42
Speaker 1: kinds of guardrails and restrictions on how frequently teams can
34:45
Speaker 1: conduct padded practices. Well, Aikman claimed Andy Reid had his
34:50
Speaker 1: teams in pads for six consecutive days. Oh, my God.
34:55
Speaker 2: No.
34:57
Speaker 1: Yes. So it appears that this was a inadvertent situation
35:03
Speaker 1: where Aikman was trying to praise, trying to praise Andy Reid.
35:07
Speaker 1: And we'll see if the NFL pokes around on this.
35:11
Speaker 1: They usually do. They love investigating. The NFL loves to investigate.
35:15
Speaker 1: We'll see if Kansas City is any in any trouble,
35:19
Speaker 1: as Aikman said this on national TV. So we'll see
35:26
Speaker 1: if they violated the practice schedule with the six-day padded
35:31
Speaker 1: stretch of practices. So God forbid. I'd like to see
35:37
Speaker 1: these guys do the audio five nights a week and
35:41
Speaker 1: then the podcast on the weekends. That's what I would
35:44
Speaker 1: like to see.
35:46
Speaker 2: Iron Man.
35:47
Speaker 1: Iron Man. All right, it is the Ben Maller Show
35:50
Speaker 1: as we continue on through the overnight hours. Time now, though,
35:55
Speaker 1: for the Who Am I game, and here is the
35:57
Speaker 1: Who Am I game. With a loss this weekend, Rams
36:02
Speaker 1: quarterback Matthew Stafford. Rams don't play until Monday night against
36:05
Speaker 1: the Gigantes, the Giants. So Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford with
36:09
Speaker 1: a loss on Monday night would tie me for the
36:13
Speaker 1: most ever losses in the regular season and the playoffs
36:17
Speaker 1: combined with 126. Again, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, should L.A.
36:22
Speaker 1: lose again to the Giants this weekend, he would tie,
36:27
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford would tie me for the most ever losses
36:30
Speaker 1: in the regular season and the playoffs combined with With 126.
36:33
Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question. The answer. We'll
36:38
Speaker 1: get to it, and we will do it next.
36:41
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36:44
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37:14
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37:18
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37:21
Speaker 2: And.
37:21
Speaker 1: Podcast? Come on. Whose harebrained idea was podcast? No one's
37:27
Speaker 1: into that. Come on. Really? Yeah. I know. Anyway, Ben
37:31
Speaker 1: Maller Show podcast, fifth hour podcast.
37:34
Speaker 2: Wow.
37:36
Speaker 1: It'll change your life in amazing ways unless it will
37:38
Speaker 1: do nothing to improve your life. It'll just help you
37:42
Speaker 1: pass the time. Let's be honest. Sometimes in life, you
37:47
Speaker 1: just need to pass the time. That's just the way
37:50
Speaker 1: it is. All right, back to it. We'll pay off
37:53
Speaker 1: the Who Am I game in a minute. I did
37:56
Speaker 1: want to mention that all the chatter during training camp
38:00
Speaker 1: about Joe Burrow and everything going on with him. He's, oh,
38:04
Speaker 1: you know, I demand accountability. This is going to be
38:06
Speaker 1: different for the Bills, and I demand it. And we're
38:09
Speaker 1: now heading into week two, and Joe Burrow already popping
38:14
Speaker 1: up with an injury. Who could have possibly seen this coming?
38:18
Speaker 1: I don't know. Everyone? Yes, Joe Burrow as a distant
38:23
Speaker 1: relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradamus. He lives in Seattle.
38:28
Speaker 1: It appears there's some tightness, some back tightness for Joe Burrow.
38:32
Speaker 1: who did very little during the media portion of Wednesday's
38:37
Speaker 1: practice and described his back tightness. Normal game day soreness.
38:43
Speaker 1: You want to bet it's not? You want to bet
38:44
Speaker 1: it's not? Now, Burrow could not identify one specific play
38:49
Speaker 1: that caused the injury. And so I guess it just
38:54
Speaker 1: magically appeared. It's magically delicious. Asked whether he might sit
38:57
Speaker 1: against Houston as a precaution. Burrow dismissed that as a
39:00
Speaker 1: ridiculous statement. He says, if I'm not having surgery, I'll
39:06
Speaker 1: be out there. All right. So we'll see what Burrow
39:09
Speaker 1: does at practice on Thursday here. And Friday is usually
39:14
Speaker 1: the lightest day of the week. So probably not much
39:17
Speaker 1: going on there, but something to monitor. Great moments in
39:21
Speaker 1: Bengals history. Joe Burrow, one week into the season and
39:26
Speaker 1: already has a boo-boo. Burrows. boo-boo. Time now for the
39:32
Speaker 1: Who Am I game. And with a loss on Monday
39:35
Speaker 1: night against the Giants, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford would tie
39:39
Speaker 1: me for the most losses ever in the regular season
39:43
Speaker 1: in the playoffs with 126 points. That is the question.
39:48
Speaker 1: What is the answer? The Blair Witch from Milkman Mike
39:51
Speaker 1: in Colorado. Speaking of Blair, we haven't heard from Blair
39:55
Speaker 1: in Maine in a while. Kevin Nash from Shane in
39:58
Speaker 1: Des Moines. Otto Graham from Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota.
40:02
Speaker 1: Jeff Hostetler from DJ Spin. My friend Patrick. I hope
40:06
Speaker 1: everything's okay, Patrick. I know I said some mean things
40:08
Speaker 1: about Manny Machado, but it's going to be okay. You
40:11
Speaker 1: didn't mean it. I have a job to do, and
40:14
Speaker 1: sometimes I have to be mean to the Padres. Carson Palmer,
40:18
Speaker 1: or as Femi called him, Carlson Palmer, the top Uber
40:21
Speaker 1: Eats driver there. Femi in Minnesota. Who else do we have?
40:24
Speaker 1: Post Malone from Not A Burner. Very funny. Page down.
40:30
Speaker 1: Jose Albuve and George Springer. Cheater, cheater, cheater. Lucky Tony
40:37
Speaker 1: from Malheur Prop Guy. Look at Lucky Tony, lean and mean.
40:40
Speaker 1: You should have him in a Bears uniform, though. He's
40:42
Speaker 1: not a Niners fan. He'll be very upset if he
40:44
Speaker 1: sees that. Chip in the queue is going with George Blanda.
40:47
Speaker 1: Who else? We have Vinny Soso, guest by Fat Daddy.
40:52
Speaker 1: Chris Everett from Steelers Nasty. That's his answer. Sideline reporter.
40:57
Speaker 1: How does it feel from Michael in Tulsa? Do you
40:59
Speaker 1: have an answer, Lorena? Coraline Jones. Coraline Jones. No, Shane.
41:05
Speaker 1: It's also not Dijon Love, guessed by our buddy Charlie
41:08
Speaker 1: there in Wisconsin. The correct answer, and the daddy got it,
41:12
Speaker 1: it's Vinny Testaverde. Vinny Testaverde, the all-time loss king for
41:16
Speaker 1: now in the NFL.