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Hour 1 - Can You Diggs It? · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Mahler Show podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, yes, good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning everybody, our good evening, our good afternoon, or I
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  Speaker 2: guess goodnight, as the great Ben Maler would say in
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  Speaker 2: the air.
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  Speaker 3: Everywhere, it's Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 2: The only show I think, just just my opinion, the
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  Speaker 2: only show whereas a fill in, people truly just hate you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've never really understood this. And again, being
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  Speaker 2: someone who is both a night oul and an early
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  Speaker 2: morning person, now it doesn't mesh well. It's not a
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  Speaker 2: good fit in life. Whenever you love to stay up late,
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  Speaker 2: but then in the same vein you have to get
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  Speaker 2: up early. Never good mix in life. But welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the battle that I fight every single day. But I
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  Speaker 2: say it, it's it's kind of like I don't I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if it's like a badge of honor.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's a I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: it's a concern.
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  Speaker 2: Whichever way, I consider it pretty awesome that you can
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  Speaker 2: fill in on every show on Fox Sports Radio. And
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  Speaker 2: I've come pretty close, you know, filling on two prose,
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  Speaker 2: filling on Colin Covino and Ridge whatever. This is the
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  Speaker 2: only show where people just out of the gate like,
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  Speaker 2: f this guy, it's not been Where's Ben?
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  Speaker 3: What's your deal? And then if you do.
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  Speaker 2: Something like just slightly away from one but maybe the
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  Speaker 2: mal or militia enjoys or is used to oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, it's complete and utter disdain. That's not
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  Speaker 2: how Ben does it. So I'll pup. I'll get this
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  Speaker 2: opportunity very often. But I also feel like, just in
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  Speaker 2: true to reality, I feel like I got called up
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  Speaker 2: to the show. This is the moment. Some would say
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  Speaker 2: that their ultimate goal would be to sit in here
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  Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio for Dan Patrick or Colin Coward
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  Speaker 2: or I don't know, maybe maybe two pros and a
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  Speaker 2: cuple I don't know, you know, Morning Drive and you
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  Speaker 2: know two Hall of famers. I say no, I say no,
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  Speaker 2: And let me explain. First of all, good morning Lorena.
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  Speaker 2: For those that aren't aware, I think, is it fair
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  Speaker 2: to say that, Loraina, you got your start at Fox
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio on our Sunday night show? Is that right now?
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  Speaker 4: First time? I was just thinking about that yesterday on
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  Speaker 4: my drive home. I was like, oh my gosh, I
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  Speaker 4: haven't worked with you since literally my first when I've
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  Speaker 4: set and then I went on full time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Arnie span your and I do a
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night show. For those that aren't aware, Arnie is uh,
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  Speaker 2: you've chased him away. He will never work the overnight
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  Speaker 2: show again.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I heard the Militia has done their work on a
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  Speaker 4: couple of wiks.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's twofold, by the way, just to.
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  Speaker 2: Be fair for Arnie, just like they give it right,
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  Speaker 2: he's pretty good addition it out. But I also think
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  Speaker 2: that he has made it clear that he can't do
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  Speaker 2: the show anymore because either a he can't do the hours.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Arnie's getting up there in age a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: let's just be honest, and he's got a very busy
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  Speaker 2: life of being a trophy husband. I've never seen anyone
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  Speaker 2: more exhausted from one set show every single week, and
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  Speaker 2: my man, Arnie specure can be. Arnie has one show
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  Speaker 2: he does every single week. That's unless he's called upon
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  Speaker 2: to fill in here on Fox Sports Radio and he's exhausted.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, I got the Sunday night show. I got
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  Speaker 3: to plan the whole week around it.
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  Speaker 4: Radio is a hard gig.
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  Speaker 3: It can be.
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  Speaker 2: It can be absolutely and uh, Coop, I mean, holy smokes,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, what a time, Yeah, Coop, Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos are awesome. How's poker game going? You're good? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's going.
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  Speaker 6: It's going all right right now?
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  Speaker 2: Uh oh, that wasn't the most reassuring answer that I've
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  Speaker 2: ever heard in my life.
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  Speaker 5: I just had to.
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  Speaker 6: I just had a pretty bad down swing.
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  Speaker 7: But it's I'm sorry, I'm starting to it's starting to
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  Speaker 7: climb back up.
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  Speaker 6: It's but it's a it's a more gradual incline the
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  Speaker 6: than the decline was. I'm sorry. Yeah, you know whatever,
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  Speaker 6: it's it'sclusion weight.
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: I am a big I don't want to say I'm
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  Speaker 2: a fitness freak now because I just got home. I
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  Speaker 2: went home to see my family for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: I work out every single day. I go to the
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  Speaker 2: gym every single that's bragg people. Okay, yeah, I know
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  Speaker 2: I'm down about fifteen and a half twenty pounds right now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, somewhere in there.
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  Speaker 3: I can't just say fifteen because that's like the basement.
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  Speaker 2: But I my point of bringing it up is not
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  Speaker 2: to brag if there's any ladies out there in the overnight.
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  Speaker 2: But it's really more than anything else to say. The
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  Speaker 2: challenge is not necessarily losing weight. It's keeping it off,
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  Speaker 2: and it's and it's bouncing back when you have a backslide.
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  Speaker 2: Right whenever I'm sitting there eating Christmas cookies like I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, like they're the greatest thing that have ever
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  Speaker 2: been made in the history of mankind, when I've sworn
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  Speaker 2: off sweets all year long. Your challenge is what your
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  Speaker 2: challenge is getting back on that horse and riding whenever
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  Speaker 2: you're struggling and the uh whatever your whatever, your uh
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could say game of choice might be.
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  Speaker 2: If it's if it's blackjack, if it's a poker. In
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  Speaker 2: the case of Coop, then uh Coop, it's one thing
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  Speaker 2: to win. It's it's hard whenever you're on that downside,
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  Speaker 2: but you know what not to try to humble brag
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  Speaker 2: about working.
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  Speaker 3: Out to it.
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  Speaker 2: When you're in a slump baseball, it's nice to get
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  Speaker 2: that average up to three hundred.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to keep it there. Right, your backslide a
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  Speaker 3: little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You got a lot of work to do, so the
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  Speaker 2: work to get back on top of the mountain is
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  Speaker 2: a little bit harder than getting there, right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean you know that. It's a humble brag.
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  Speaker 7: Go ahead, but literally right before the show started, I
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  Speaker 7: just placed third in a tournament out of one hundred
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  Speaker 7: and three people.
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  Speaker 4: So it was a nice, little, nice little win. I
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  Speaker 4: am so shocked you to not come in bragging about that. Sure,
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  Speaker 4: that usually is the first thing.
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  Speaker 2: Really Yeah, I like that. I like that. I always
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  Speaker 2: tell Coop I've done you know. I mean, I've been
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  Speaker 2: working at Fox Sports Radio since like oh seven, Right,
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  Speaker 2: there was that little actually it was six, because there
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  Speaker 2: was that phase in O seven where everyone kind of
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  Speaker 2: disappeared for a while, but then we all came back,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Big Ben came back. I had a chance
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  Speaker 2: to come back, and I think it's been pretty consistent
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  Speaker 2: now for the last twelve years. So I've worked with
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  Speaker 2: Coop for a really long time, and I tell him this.
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  Speaker 2: My boss at Oklahoma is always the most proud of
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  Speaker 2: me whenever I get a chance to work with Coop
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  Speaker 2: because he listened to.
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  Speaker 3: The Ben Mahlor Show and he always knew Coop as
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's a child actor. You know, he had
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  Speaker 3: a really, really good run and he.
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  Speaker 6: Was almost a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: He's a big deal. So this is a big deal
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  Speaker 2: for me. But it's great to work with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pomped to hang out over the next and not
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  Speaker 2: like I'm counting down or anything. Three hours and fifty
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  Speaker 2: three minutes. But let me explain why this is my
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  Speaker 2: this is my world series, this is my super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: this is my I was trying to think of a
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  Speaker 2: work of art. This is my Mona Lisa Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: this is why. Because I got my start doing overnights
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  Speaker 2: on the weekends, which was the third shift here on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, and I replaced Ben who moved to
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  Speaker 2: the weekday shift.
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  Speaker 3: And then this summer I.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of went back to my roots and when Bernie
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  Speaker 2: Fratto went down to one show, Bernie I did Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: I would do the Friday night show and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know Lorena and Coop if you're aware of this, but
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  Speaker 2: the Friday Night Show kind of became like an open
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  Speaker 2: mic night in a lot of ways where many of
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  Speaker 2: the malor regulars. You know, I know you're a big
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  Speaker 2: fan of Mike the Leprechaun Lorrena. I got introduced to
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  Speaker 2: him show.
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  Speaker 4: Words out of his mouth because he's obsessed.
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  Speaker 2: He is obsessed. There's an obsession there. There is a
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  Speaker 2: Blind Scott among others, and listen, I'm one of those people.
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  Speaker 2: I like Blind Scott. I think he's a good caller.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it would be a few of the other REGs,
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  Speaker 2: like my Friday Night Show would be where they would
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  Speaker 2: come and work on the material.
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  Speaker 3: Right, open mic nights for those of you that aren't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I have to overly explain this,
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  Speaker 2: but we are in the middle of the night, might
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  Speaker 2: be where you have a comedian that goes to a
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  Speaker 2: club and just kind of thank you, that kind of
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  Speaker 2: just goes and works on their material. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: the Friday Night Show became. It was like Star Search.
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  Speaker 2: It was Showtime of the Apollo, only it was a
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  Speaker 2: practice show. So this to me now is I cultivated
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  Speaker 2: my craft for the I guess that would be what.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe four or five months that I did that show.
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  Speaker 2: Now k Fig and Adam Orkr in the FNA Show
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  Speaker 2: on Friday nights, and Bernie's doing his thing on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: so I feel like I'm well prepared for the next Again,
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  Speaker 2: we're not counting down tonight, but three hours and fifty
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  Speaker 2: minutes here on the Ben Mallor Show on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 2: So welcome in, Lorrain and Coop. Good to hang with you.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have some fun tonight. As always, if you know
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  Speaker 2: what you want to talk about before I have to
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  Speaker 2: lay it out, or if you have your own agenda tonight,
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  Speaker 2: I am not here to judge you.
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  Speaker 3: Do you Boo eight.
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  Speaker 2: Seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
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  Speaker 2: nine six six three six nine. I'm very reachable. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a term on Twitter. I'm at Plank Show.
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  Speaker 2: If you some it's it's very weird. I found some
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  Speaker 2: people get very mad if you go ahead and call
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  Speaker 2: it X, and then other people get mad if you
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  Speaker 2: don't still call it Twitter. So I'm kind of in
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  Speaker 2: that world where I'll just go with Twitter at Plank Show.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone go follow us at Fox Sports Radio. I have
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  Speaker 2: kind of you committed hourly segments tonight, and here let
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  Speaker 2: me explain one. First of all, I'm a big college
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  Speaker 2: football guy. Now, part of it is I live in
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  Speaker 2: a college football market. I come to you live tonight
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  Speaker 2: from the Bible Belt, God's Country, Green Country, Oklahoma, and
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  Speaker 2: I live That's right bad. And I live in God's
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  Speaker 2: time zone, the Central time Zone, which is the only
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  Speaker 2: time zone we should acknowledge. But actually, though, this show
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  Speaker 2: is the best in the Pacific time zone because it's
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  Speaker 2: not like you're working whenever everyone else is asleep. You're
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  Speaker 2: in the Pacific time zone. It's like everybody's kind of
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  Speaker 2: still awake and they still have a life. But I
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  Speaker 2: say that, and I lay that out because my neighbor
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  Speaker 2: will always say to me, you know, as a crow flies,
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  Speaker 2: we're just like five minutes from the stadium, which I
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  Speaker 2: don't think we are. And I've never seen a crow
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  Speaker 2: fly over my house. But the point is I live
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  Speaker 2: in an area where we eat, sleep, breathe college football.
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  Speaker 2: I do a show. I do a local show. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I am a morning guy on our affiliate in Oklahoma City, Norman,
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  Speaker 2: and across the entire state of Oklahoma on KERRF, that's
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  Speaker 2: the ref Sports Radio Network, which we call the home
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  Speaker 2: of Sooner fans, and I mean, I'm literally we're doing
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  Speaker 2: half shows this week, which are today, which is great
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  Speaker 2: because we kind of get New Year's Day and new
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  Speaker 2: and the second off it is awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Are you one of those people who only talk Sooner
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  Speaker 4: talk though, because of where you're located on your daily basis?
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  Speaker 2: Lorena Ding Ding Ding.
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  Speaker 3: It's my point, it's college football.
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  Speaker 2: You know what we're talking about today, the portal, the now,
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  Speaker 2: I understand my audience. Everybody calm down. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to tweet up me get mad. I'm not gonna sit
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  Speaker 2: here and break down Troy Everetts insertion in the transfer
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  Speaker 2: portal and what it means for Oklahoma on the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line going forward. We don't need to talk about Cam
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  Speaker 2: Coleman and asking if he loves covered wagons or not.
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  Speaker 2: My point, more than anything else, is to lay out
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  Speaker 2: that I love college football. Now, this angers a few
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  Speaker 2: people within the malord militia and with the college within
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  Speaker 2: the sports landscape. I got my buddy, shady, sh shady
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  Speaker 2: Sean Ford twenty. I guess his birthday must be on
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  Speaker 2: April twentieth. There's something congratulations. He gets very mad at
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  Speaker 2: me when I bring up college football very triggered. Calls
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  Speaker 2: it amateur sports, and that's fine. I've never really understood that.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, are we smoke at her gummy and tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Which one did we decide? Cud? Which one did we decide?
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  Speaker 2: Lorena would get one true hour in the books? And
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  Speaker 2: we just get loose here? You guys make up your mind.
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  Speaker 2: I say we do both, Okay, I'm down for whatever?
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  Speaker 6: Whoa what? Whoa both?
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  Speaker 7: Why not?
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  Speaker 4: I've been watching this girl. She eats five gun weans
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  Speaker 4: before she goes and has a meal. I'm like, I
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  Speaker 4: want to be like you one day, ten milligram or
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that's a.
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  Speaker 2: Good question, you know, Uh, Tom Sagora ten milligram, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of like ten milligram plank. So I'm just
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  Speaker 2: if she's having five, we might we might really fix
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  Speaker 2: all the world's problems tonight. But my point, I love
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  Speaker 2: college football like I love it, and I've never really
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  Speaker 2: understood having to defend it to anyone. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: the best environments. I don't know if it's the best
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  Speaker 2: version of football. I don't care about that fight. I
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  Speaker 2: just know that I love it. So I have committed
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  Speaker 2: at the bottom of each hour tonight again thirty do
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  Speaker 2: I have to explain the bottom of the hour if
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  Speaker 2: you guys kicked in your fifty milligrams before the show tonight,
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  Speaker 2: But at the bottom of every hour. I've got a
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  Speaker 2: quick preview of all four of the college football playoff games,
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  Speaker 2: and one of them is coming up tonight, and I
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  Speaker 2: think I think it has a chance to be one
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  Speaker 2: of the best ones.
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  Speaker 3: I know it has the biggest spread.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's nine and a half last I checked
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  Speaker 2: for Miami and Ohio State. I know it's being played
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  Speaker 2: in I know it's being played in Dallas, which is
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  Speaker 2: kind of unique because everyone thought that this was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a game that would be played in the
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  Speaker 2: Orange Bowl. But I think Miami and Ohio State's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a really good game. We'll talk about it
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  Speaker 2: coming up to the bottom. Now you'll hear from some
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  Speaker 2: of the coaches, maybe you'll hear from some of the players.
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  Speaker 2: They had their media day today. But I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a fascinating matchup. And I don't want to I'm selling
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  Speaker 2: you on it. I don't want to say I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to cram it down your throat or anything. Of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like between that game and then the
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  Speaker 2: three games will get on jan one, including a conversation
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  Speaker 2: we'll have with Ryan Fowler from a last night's show
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  Speaker 2: kind of the highlights of that. I think it deserves
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  Speaker 2: a deeper conversation in the sports world, right, especially on
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  Speaker 2: national airwaves. So if you're an anti college football person,
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  Speaker 2: which is just so hard for me to comprehend, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna try to do my best to sell you on
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  Speaker 2: each of these games. At the bottom of each hour,
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  Speaker 2: let the games begin, thank you. The other set segment
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  Speaker 2: I have is just want I'll throw out there and
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  Speaker 2: I'll say it's hacky, it's bait. But where the final
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  Speaker 2: full show on The Ben Malor Show of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Are you guys doing a show tomorrow night? Do we
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  Speaker 2: have a best of tomorrow night to kind of allow
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  Speaker 2: you guys to enjoy New Year's or what's that look like?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get the schedule this week? Am I on tonight?
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  Speaker 8: You again?
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  Speaker 5: Is it me again? Kidding?
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  Speaker 4: I'm kidding, No, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really know, but we're doing a show tomorrow night?
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  Speaker 9: Right?
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  Speaker 4: There is a show?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 6: Good?
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: My point is two new hosts.
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  Speaker 4: I believe I've never done the show before.
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  Speaker 2: Really is it is?
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  Speaker 3: K Fig and Adam?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, f and A. Yeah. They they're doing the
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  Speaker 2: Friday night show. They're awesome, right. You know, Kevin figures
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  Speaker 2: he's been around here forever. He introduced me to the
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  Speaker 2: term mollywop. So you know you're gonna you're gonna learn
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  Speaker 2: a lot tomorrow night on the show. But tomorrow Night's
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  Speaker 2: show for those of us in the Central and the
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  Speaker 2: Eastern time zone, it's in the future, like they're already
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  Speaker 2: living in twenty twenty six. So this is the final
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  Speaker 2: full show for the Ben Malor Show twenty twenty five.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: I would like on the program tonight to spend some
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: time looking back on our favorite sports moments at twenty
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: twenty five. Now we don't have to get into the
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: world moments and Somalian daycare conversation. We need to focus
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: this on sports people, the happiness, happiness of the world,
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: which I will say though, my new favorite I'm very
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: addicted to Instagram.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Reels, which is the old it's the old.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Person's version of TikTok, right, Yeah, my new favorite Instagram
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: reel that's making the round is people that say, I'm
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: not going to tell anyone whenever I have some Mollian daycare,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: but there will be signs and so people just walking
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: around with mink coats and riches and all that fun.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: But I'm not here to talk politics, no, no, no,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: I'm here to look back on those great moments at
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. And I think if you were to
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: check the record books, I feel like the one of
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the last times, I mean, I guess this is a
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: yearly thing now. One of the last times I got
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: to sit in and do Ben's show was on New
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Year's Eve last year or maybe even the thirtieth, and
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: we had a chance to do this throughout a couple
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: of days span, and it's always good for me. Maybe
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: the best way to do this could be on Twitter,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: and like I said, if you guys want to jump
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: into the phones at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: There's always a few things that pop up, and you know,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: even in the year and review shows and even in
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: the year and review you know, radio and TV side
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: of it, there's always a few things like damn, I
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: forgot about that, or you look up and you're like,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: was that this year? Did that happen in twenty twenty five?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you think about it in reality, the
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Eagles won the Super Bowl in twenty twenty five, because
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: you know, we usually don't finally get to the super
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Bowl until the second month of the year anymore. So
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: we'll spend some time reliving what I think was a
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: great sports year. It leads up to, you know, count
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: down to in another summer, Olympics that's going to be
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: here in the United States, the US of a baby
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: in a couple of years. We got the World Cup
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: that's going to be on our turf in twenty twenty six,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: which again I'm not a big soccer guy, but I
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: sure as he'll act like it whenever we have an
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: event like this on our turf. So before we can
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: truly look ahead, we have an opportunity to look back
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: on the on the year that was here on the
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Ben Mallor Show on Fox Sports Radio.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: So that's my.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Plan over the next three hours and forty two minutes.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: But again, we're not counting down to the end of
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: the show. That's not the point by any stretch of
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: the imagination.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: I'm sartying to think you have a timer, what oh.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Not at all. Do you think I have a countdown
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: clock to when the show is over? What you don't
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: think I have a clock that says survive the Malard
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Militia only three hours of us a couple of things,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: a couple of things, and not just what's coming up
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: on the show tonight. But we owe you some headlines.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Bowl season is not what it once was, never has
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: been since the start of the four team playoffs, might
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: not have been even before that. They every college football
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: inclination of the postseason has usually been met with skepticism
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: and not meeting the expectation level of what college football
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: fans want or deserve, and every year the bowl season
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: becomes less and less relevant. But we had two damn
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: good games tonight, and I think sometimes we become so
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: cynical about things that we don't allow ourselves to embrace
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: when it's really good. So coming up, we'll recap TCU's
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: walk off when in overtime that just wrapped up thirty
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: to twenty seven over USC and the Alamo Bile and
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Illinois continues what's been a rough post season for the
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: SEC by walking off Tennessee thirty to twenty eight.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: We've got that coming up here in just a bit.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know how any show can't lead, can't lead
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: with his twenty minutes into the program, thanks blank, but
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: can't lead without having a conversation about one of what
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I thought was the best stories in the NFL this
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: season turning into an absolute bleep show. But what else
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: would you expect from anything involving Stefan Diggs. He is
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: facing now a felony charge of strangulation and a misdemeanor
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: charge of assault from an incident that is now four
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: weeks sold. According to a police report, a woman went
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: to police on December sixteenth and shared that she was
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: working as a private chef on December second, as the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: date of the incident, when Diggs entered her unlocked bedroom
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: and allegedly smacked her across the face after they had
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: discussed money owed to her. According to police, she said
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: she attempted to push Digs away when he allegedly tried
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: to choke her with his elbow around her neck, and
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: later threw her onto the bed and said lies when
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: she said she had not been paid After the alleged assault.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: According to this report, she left her position and the
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: residence to stay with a friend. When she returned on
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: December ninth to reach to Reever property, Diggs referred her
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: to his assistant, who told the woman she had to
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: sign a non disclosure agreement.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Before she would be paid.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: She didn't sign the sign it for the report, and
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: in Foreign Police on December sixteenth that she didn't want
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: to file charges before deciding to do so on December
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: twenty second, diggs attorney said in a statement that the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: allegations are unsubstantiated. Now as somebody that has absolutely fallen
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: in love with the story of the Patriots this year,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Stefan Dis has been one of those. I don't know
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: the term would be bounced back, but you know, truly
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: kind of reminding you that he's a dude. I'm the dude.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: He's a dude, And the last few weeks, I think
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: it's fair to say has been some of his best
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: ball all season long. Had ten catches in the win
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: over Baltimore, one hundred and thirty eight yards in that game,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: over one hundred yards in the Jets game, though, who
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: hasn't had over one hundred yards receiving.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Against the Jets.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: But I don't know what to think about this because
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: it is a massive distraction leading up to the playoffs.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: And again, the Patriots are going all in this weekend
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: to try to get to one seed and we'll see
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: how that pans out for them. They don't control their
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: own destiny because somehow they lost to the Raiders.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: So props to you, Coop for beating the Raiders twice
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: A very big task with the way things have gone
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: for Vegas so far in twenty twenty five. But I again,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's true and what's not. I take
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: people at their word, but what a terrible distraction to
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: have at this point in the season. So Stefan Diggs,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: who has been one of the great stories this year,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: guy that has been questioned was apparently the dude at
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: about three different places resurrects his career in New England
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: and on the week of I guess you could say,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: the week before the start of the playoffs, has this
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that drops as a massive distraction in the lap of
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the New England Patriots. Big deal to you eight seven
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: seven ninety nine on Fox. Big deal to me because
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I think that this is worthy of questioning whether or
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: not this could be something that implodes his run. The
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: NFL's got to act right, gotta way till all the
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: facts come in. You can't just need your can suspend him.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: But what a terrible, terrible distraction for this team heading
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: into the playoffs. All right, when we come back, recap
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: the big news of the day, I'm not gonna try
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: to bore you too terribly much throughout the night with
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: the college football fights that are going on. But holy smokes,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: are some college basketball coaches grand standing like crazy? And
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: we'll start our preview of the college football playoffs as
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: we look at the Cotton Bow. We look at Miami
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and Ohio State to get you ready for the four
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: team playoffs and the Ben Mallord Show. I'm Chris Blank,
• 23:37
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• 23:42
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• 23:49
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• 23:51
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• 24:21
  Speaker 2: A big story coming up in exactly I'm big on
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: countdowns here twenty nine minutes tonight, Coop, is playoff ready?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: How playoff ready? We'll find out at the top the
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: next hour. I just out of curiosity, Coop, was this
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: an online purchase? Was this a Facebook marketplace purchase? I mean?
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Or is this straight up off of a third party.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Lender directly from Ticketmaster?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Wow?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: As Rob Parker would say, I don't know. Sometimes here
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: is my old man, get off my lawn. Take. I
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: don't know how some of you people can afford to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: go to games. I mean, I just don't. It's unbelievable
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: how expensive it is. And Coop will have a story
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: that we'll see whether or not you're in with him,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: because I'm impressed, Coop. Let me tell you if The
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Raiders makes me just sad thinking about it, If the
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Raiders ever get to a point where they get back
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: to the playoffs. Probably would do just about anything I
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: could to go, but I think I'm in a pretty
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: good spot right now where I won't have to worry
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: about that for a really, really long time. Speaking of
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  Speaker 2: buying should be. All right, We're monitoring the story tonight
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: involving Stefan Diggs. Meanwhile, speaking of Digs, the Cowboys release
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Trayvon Digs. I mean, last I remember thinking about Trevon Diggs.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: He was a Pro Bowl He had signed a five year,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: ninety seven million dollar contract extension in twenty twenty three,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: but has played in just twenty one games over the
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: last two years because of knee injuries. Toys left acl
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: last two years ago, missed six games last year because
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: of it, and this year he's missed eight games. So
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys just decided tis better to punt. I don't
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: expect him to get picked up off waivers by you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: any of the any of the tank tacular teams.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: But you know, maybe there's a spot.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Maybe there's a spot in a place like Buffalo or
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know, New England for his brother is I mean,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: maybe there's an opportunity for him. Field Yates said that
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: there is no guaranteed money on his deal beyond this season,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: so if you are to claim Trevon Diggs, you would
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: be on the hook for four hundred and seventy two
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: thousand dollars for week eighteen plus, man, what is it here?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Fifty eight grand? If he's active this week might be
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: worth the risk, if you need some depth and if
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: you think that he can be healthy. But it's funny.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: There was a part of me when I saw he
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: was cut, like, we live Cowboys football here. I'm in
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a market that gets some cram down your throat every
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: single weekend. But I'm not like checking out their depth chart.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not reading all the updates. I thought the damn
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: wasn't he hadn't he been playing pretty well? Then you
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: look and you realize since he signed that contract, since
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: he got paid, Yeah, I've done jack squat.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: So Cowboys decide to make a move. We'll see if
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: anyone picks them up.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: And again, you had two bowl games that were fantastic tonight,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: both of them and two of the three in walk
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: off fashion. Here's what it sounded like with the University
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: of Illinois. You were that right old Brett Bielima, whom
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: we all love to just call Bert has his team
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: beat d SC. Three seconds left, alto in the middle
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: of the field from dude, pull the winds, snap back
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: kick in the air.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: The pick is.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: We do.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: It's God.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: I do appreciate that because I grew up in Saint
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Louis and we're like torn between being an Illinois and
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Missouri fan. I appreciate the energy of the analyst that
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: says that's what we do. No, we don't not at
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: the University of Illinois. We don't win. We don't win
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: bowl games. But congratulations because tonight you did in taking
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: out Tennessee thirty to twenty eight. And then in overtime Lincoln.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Riley told you they're close. They're close at USC.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: In fact, he said after the loss tonight, it's taken
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: them a long time, but that window is now open
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: for USC. But it wasn't open tonight. Says, dumps at
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: left pain les one tackle in two and Dodds the
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: So let's.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Take the double at tux Fide to the ped to
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: the five.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: He say, yet bad.
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: Let's see it's like Dolla's touchdown can't seals the deal
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: Here tonight, O, the horn Frogs have filed the betrick
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: against USC one four time.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty twenty seven. TCU beats USC and the Alamo Bowl.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you to both the Illinois Radio Networks and the
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: TCU Radio network. Two big Bowl games. Now, I promise
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: at the bottom of the hour a quick preview of
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: the playoff games that are coming up over the next
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: twenty four hours. First tonight you get Ohio State versus Miami. Now,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: one side story to this game. Jeremiah Smith, the very
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: talented wide receiver for the Buckeyes. Whenever he made his
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: collegiate decision, it came down to Ohio State and Miami.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: He's a Miami guy. He's a Miami guy. Nobody knew
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: whether or not he was gonna end up playing for
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: the buck guys, for the Hurricanes.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: He's had an outstanding run for Miami.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: For Ohio State, Miami has kind of been, you know, fine,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: without him, but it's been one of the major conversations
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: leading into tonight's game. The other big conversation is Ohio
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: State trying to repeat as hard as it is, and
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: when Ryan Day spoke to the media yesterday, he was
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: asked about the importance of the people in life and
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: around the program that have been leaders for Ohio State.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Little at a lengthy will listen to a little bit
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: of It.
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: Always comes down to people. So when when you're winning,
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: I wouldn't say it's easy. Nothing's easy, But I think
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: when when you go through a setbacker, you go through adversity,
• 30:48
  Speaker 9: that's when you really find out about people. You find
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: out about the people that are around you, You find
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: out about you know, how how tight your group is.
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: And I think that it's been said before ward to
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: Ohio State, you win with people and making sure that
• 31:03
  Speaker 9: you have the right people around you.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: So Ohio State, that's an interesting kind of angle because
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: they've had incredible turnover in people.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Last year. Jim Knowles, their defensive coordinator, leaves goes to
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Penn State.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I was a disaster. Your offensive coordinator, Chip Kelly, wins
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: a national championship with Will Howard as his quarterback. Goes
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: to Las Vegas. That was a disaster.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Chip Kelly today became the offensive coordinator at Northwestern. What
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: do they do?
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: They give Matt Patricia a chance in the college game
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: and you give him some dudes, and he was pretty
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: good this year, really good this year, elite this year. Meanwhile,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: on the offensive coordinator side of things, the turnover continues.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Brian Hartline takes over as their O seed, does a
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: fantastic job, so good that he gets hired as a
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: head coach at USF South Florida, and now they've got
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: to go with a new play caller, which is the
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: old play caller. It's who else but Ryan Day. So
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: constant turnover, but they've had good people in places that
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: have Ohio State in a spot where they had to buy.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: They've got a chance to repeat, and they're doing it
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: with two new coordinators and technically a third when you
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: consider that Hardline's not even gonna call plays after calling
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: plays all year long. Meanwhile, Miami has kind of become
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: the place where transferred quarterbacks go and excel under Mario Christobal.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Last couple of years we saw cam Ward develop into
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: the top pick in the draft, and this year you've
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: seen a guy who's had a roller coaster ride in
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Carson Beck get things right just in time to help
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Miami find themselves in a position where they're in this
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: quarterfinals of the College Football Player.
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: Yes, certainly, I think all of us saw some of
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: the stuff, some of the noise surrounding the end of
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: his tenure over at Georgia and then him starting hit
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: his new tenure at Miami. And because he's so quiet
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: and reserved and didn't get much time in front of
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: the microphone in front of the media, I think some
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: narratives kind of they ran on their own, and being
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: around them from day one, thing that really stands out.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: He's all about team, he's all about his teammates, and
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: his work ethic is off the charts.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: So media day today didn't really give us any good
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: I guess you could say bulletin board material. But it's
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: gonna be a fun one tonight. The number wildly has
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: not moved at all, no movement whatsoever in the line
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: between Ohio State and Miami. I'm just making sure there
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: was no shift. I say all this and all of
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: a sudden it's like, whoh, it's out. A seven and
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  Speaker 2: a half opened at nine and a half stays at
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: nine and a half. No real shift whatsoever. The only
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  Speaker 2: place where you've seen a little bit of movement is
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: in the total. This game open at forty two and
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: a half and is now down to forty and a half.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't I don't know if that means they're
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: foreseeing a little bit more of an offensive struggle than
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: what they might have. But Ohio State Miami tonight six
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: thirty Central, seven thirty Eastern, the Cotton Bowl first quarter
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: final game. Ohio State looking to repeat and looking to
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: do something in these playoffs that hasn't happened yet in
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: the very short era of the twelve team playoff. The
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: team with the buye no team of the first round
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: by one last year. But also remember no team that
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: played on the road in the first round one last year.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: We've already seen that happen twice with Texas A and
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: M and in Alabama they came here to Oklahoma and
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: beat the Sooners. But should be a fun one tonight.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Miami might be getting hot at the right time. Ohio State,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I mean again, consistently has been one of the best teams,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: if not the best, in college football. The only blemish
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: on their record the Big Ten championship game, lost to
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Indiana Exercise the Demons, and beating Michigan this year, beat
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Texas to start the season.
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  Speaker 3: It's really good football team. It's gonna be a fun
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: one tonight.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what, if you are someone that
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: doesn't care about college football, but yet you're an NFL fan,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: this might be the game with the most NFL prospects
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: on the field. I mean, there are dudes that you're
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: gonna watch get drafted in April this year, in April
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: next year, in April the following year. I mean, Jeremiah
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Smith might be one of those guys next season that
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: we're talking about as potential top pick in the draft.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: That's how good he is at a receiver for Ohio State,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: so well worth through time. Ohio State in Miami. Right now,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: I'm leaning towards Miami covering the number, but I think
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Ohio State's gonna win the game. And as it stands
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: right now, it's very split. It's very split money wise.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Fifty nine percent of the bets have been placed on Miami,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: but fifty eight percent of the money has been on
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Ohio State. And as I said, a line that's seen
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: zero movement. All right, when we come back your turn,
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• 35:58
  Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in it's been malor Show on
• 36:00
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• 36:05
  Speaker 2: What's been getting back? He didn't like vacations, does he? Lorena?
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: He hates vacations?
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: All right? Man? Goodness man, Hi, I got I gotta
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: shoot you guys this picture. That's a good little treat
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: that we got. Happy birthday to Jesus. Celebrate with a
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: little smoke on New Year's Eve for many of you.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Happy New Year's Eve too, question, Coop, Lorena, I guess
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Loraine will start with you New Year's Eve worth the
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: celebration or overrated holiday thoughts?
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: I think I like it?
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: I like the idea of rebirth right, like re setting
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: your goals. It's a nice little you know, like monopoly
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: when you go around the board again, right, yeah, yeah,
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: I like it actually passing go.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: So yeah, Coop, which way do you stand?
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: I like dressing up too well.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: I think that, uh, Lorena's answer is a little ridiculous.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: But that being said, Lorena's answer is a little ridiculous,
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: you know what, Coop.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: That being said, you guys have to be in the
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: same room.
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: I do think that it is a fun It's like,
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: you know, it's a reason to party, right, so why not.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: But I don't think it means anything. It doesn't mean anything.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: It's just another day on the calendar and another another
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: rotation around the site.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Behind it, i'm o ears meaning behind it? Go ahead,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: like the rebirth, the wiping away of the year that was,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: those types of things. Yeah, let me look it up, Okay,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: go ahead. So Coop, I would assume by your approach here,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: you're kind of like me, where there's no big plans tonight.
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: No, I have I have plans.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: But like I said, I think it's a reason to like,
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: you know, go out and have fun and do stuff.
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: But like I mean, and you know, you toast to
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: like a good New Year. Sure, but like the like
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: you know, like resolutions and and any like deeper meaning
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: behind it being a new year, I just I just
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: roll my eyes at it a little bit.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I I have constantly thought that if you need a
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: day on the calendar to suddenly say all right, this
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: is when I'm gonna be healthy or this is when
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: I'm going to start eating right, I've always kind of
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: pushed back on that. It's like why not start? Why not? Now,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: you know, why not just go ahead and do. It's like, well,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: hold on a second here, I've got to have that date.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: And I don't want to question anyone trying to get
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: into a fitness journey. But I will say this. I
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: always laugh whenever people call it amateur night. It's like,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: oh dude, it's the amateur night. Well I'm sorry, Chad
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: that you're chugging down tall Boys on a Tuesday and
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: that makes you a better alcoholic than the people that
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: are going to fire it up tonight. But I mean,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: come on, oh yeah, no uh Lee.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: He actually complains about that because on big holidays, even
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: the bars that he goes to on a regular basis,
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: they have chuck like cover turn right. He's like, well,
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: you guys need to go home and let us regular
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: people out here.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: Interesting, that's a way to see it.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of friends who feel the same way.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: That lead us a lot of friends that feel that way.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: It's like, I'm not going out on New Year's Eve.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, that's fine, but you're kind of telling
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: on yourself that you're probably more of a drunk than
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: everyone else. It's going out and having fun tonight. Hey, Lee,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: So in your opinion, then Lrena, you're buying into the refresh,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: the renewed start. All things are, all things are new,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: and it's worth celebrating.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, a time for rebirth, fresh starts and making you know,
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: good on your human life.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, I listen. I don't have a hot take on it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I'm just always curious because for some it's the biggest,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: i mean absolutely the biggest day of the world.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: You know, it's New Year's Eve.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: It's where they party, it's where they celebrate, it's where
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: they wipe clean everything that is once again new.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: And then there's other people that just couldn't care less.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I will say as I'm as I've entered, you know,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: kind of becoming an elder Statesman.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it more. I feel like it comes around
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: a lot faster.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like the one thing that's kind of bad
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: about New Year's Eve is that it's I feel like
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: we just celebrated New Year's Eve, going from twenty twenty
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: four to twenty twenty five.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: It's like, sure, happy New Years, Like did we just
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: do this like a couple of weeks ago.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: But I use it as an opportunity to say be smart,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: don't drink and drive, don't do it, celebrate like crazy crazy,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: but make sure you have a sober rite. There's so
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: many people out there, and if it's lyft, if it's uber,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: whatever it might be, there's so many opportunities to make
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: sure that you don't have to risk it. So don't
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: start twenty twenty six in jail. It's Fox Sports Radio
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: stick around