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Hour 2 - Welcome to the Kingdom · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Yabba-dabba-doo! And how do you do in our number two?
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  Speaker 2: It's the Ben Maller Show. On this Thursday, the 29th
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  Speaker 2: day of October, we go to Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: A controversial roster move.
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  Speaker 2: Does anybody actually believe Chiefs coach Andy Reid cares, cares
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  Speaker 2: about the backlash that he's getting from signing Justin Tucker?
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  Speaker 1: The kicker who's on the practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: Also, Micah Parsons has publicly questioned whether the Chiefs possess
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  Speaker 2: championship caliber offensive weapons. We'll discuss that as well. And
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  Speaker 2: is Ernie Johnson irreplaceable? He announced that he's leaving inside
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  Speaker 2: the NBA at the end of this season. So can
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  Speaker 2: anyone sit in that chair and get her done quickly?
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  Speaker 2: For Ernie Johnson, we'll talk about that. And who knows
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  Speaker 2: what else right now. Settle in.
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  Speaker 3: It is hour number two. Welcome to the kingdom. That's
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  Speaker 3: what Andy Reid said.
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  Speaker 2: And we welcome you in the beginning of another hour
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  Speaker 2: Our lead this hour, though, from the high-speed sports wire
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  Speaker 2: of the National Football League, where former Ravens kicker Justin
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  Speaker 2: Tucker is back in the NFL. Now, there have been
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  Speaker 2: several teams that are contenders that needed help in the
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  Speaker 2: kicking game. They all did not have the cojones to
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  Speaker 2: add the creepy kicker Justin Tucker. Well, it turns out
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  Speaker 2: he is headed to Kansas City, kind of. Big Red.
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  Speaker 2: Big Red is in the line of fire as a
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  Speaker 2: result of this. If you did not hear about this,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps not. Didn't see this. The news came out early
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  Speaker 2: in the day. Might have missed it that Kansas City
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  Speaker 2: had added Justin Tucker to the practice squad.
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid faced the media.
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  Speaker 2: On Wednesday, he faced the media there, and there was
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  Speaker 2: not one, not two, not three, not four, but five
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  Speaker 2: straight minutes of questions about Kansas City signing Justin Tucker
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  Speaker 2: to its practice squad. He had played with the Ravens, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Raven, he had... I think it.
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  Speaker 2: Was 16 massage therapists that lined up, I think they
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  Speaker 2: all got checks, accused him of sexual misconduct and unwanted physical.
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  Speaker 1: Contact, etc. He ended up.
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  Speaker 2: I think there was a lot. He paid a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of money. There were no criminal charges. Tucker denied all
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  Speaker 2: the wrongdoing, and he had been suspended by the NFL. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Andy Reid, Big Red, Andy Reid, right in the line
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  Speaker 2: of fire. And here's a little taste of what it
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  Speaker 2: was like between Andy Reid and the reporters in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: What message do you think with the signing of Justin
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  Speaker 4: Tucker to the practice squad that sends.
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  Speaker 1: Out female fans in the city?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so he's done his suspension, you know, Take care
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  Speaker 5: of that business there. I'll leave it at that for you.
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  Speaker 5: How much did the ownership have in signing a.
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  Speaker 1: Letter like this?
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  Speaker 5: Listen, we try to do our homework the best way
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  Speaker 5: we possibly can and talk to a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: and make sure things are okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so that was the way it went. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of the gotcha questions.
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  Speaker 2: And as you heard, Andy Reid gave the boilerplate response,
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  Speaker 2: did his homework, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And Reid
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  Speaker 2: kept getting asked pretty much the same question. He did
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  Speaker 2: not expand on his basic questions. talking point memo that
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  Speaker 2: he gave out said that tucker served his punishment in
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  Speaker 2: he's clear to return to the nfl he was suspended
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  Speaker 2: 10 games last year baltimore fired him and he remained
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  Speaker 2: unsigned all season no criminal charges again ever took place
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  Speaker 2: here so good job we all point let us discuss
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  Speaker 2: the question Does anybody actually believe Chiefs coach Andy Reid
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  Speaker 2: cares about the backlash from signing Justin Tucker? So I've
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  Speaker 2: got saloon, Mr. Microphone, and Hellman's Mayonnaise. And we will
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  Speaker 2: combine all of these things together, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: hit the old dusty trails. What we're going to do,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go down the dusty trail. And the
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  Speaker 2: way you go down the dusty trail, you always start
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  Speaker 2: with the first step, which we call step number one.
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  Speaker 4: Number one.
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  Speaker 6: One, one, one, one, one.
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  Speaker 4: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: So I do love the line of questioning.
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  Speaker 2: If women chose to watch football only if good people
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  Speaker 2: played football, no women would watch football. Now, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: defending Justin Tucker. I'm just saying the premise of the
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  Speaker 2: line of questioning. What do you say to female fans?
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  Speaker 2: You know how many guys are in the NFL that
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  Speaker 2: have criminal records, have done really bad crap?
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys in the NFL. And so
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  Speaker 1: that just is over my head. I think it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: But Andy Reid, I'll tell you this. We've covered Andy Reid.
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  Speaker 1: I've been here.
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  Speaker 2: Andy has been coaching the NFL. I remember when I
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  Speaker 2: was doing local radio and Andy got hired as coach
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  Speaker 2: of the Eagles. And I've told this story before. We
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  Speaker 2: had Andy on when he was a Green Bay Packers assistant.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember my producer, I was doing local radio
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  Speaker 2: in L.A. I said, why the F are we having
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  Speaker 2: Andy Reid on? I don't even know who that is.
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  Speaker 2: And the guy was explaining to me, and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: because he's from L.A. And Andy was great. He was
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  Speaker 2: very nice, and we had a good conversation. I still
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  Speaker 2: remember it. We talked about nothing about the Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 2: or the Green Bay Packers. We only talked about food.
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  Speaker 2: And his favorite restaurants in L.A. because he grew up
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  Speaker 2: in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: And all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, but Andy Reid is not losing a wink of
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  Speaker 2: sleep over the media blowback, the social media outrage machine.
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  Speaker 2: And he certainly isn't trembling in his oversized windbreaker over
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  Speaker 2: a few uncomfortable questions.
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  Speaker 1: He's done this before. He's been down this road before.
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  Speaker 2: Andy Reid moonlights as a bartender at the NFL's Last
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  Speaker 2: Chance Saloon. If you're down on your luck, if things
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  Speaker 2: haven't gone well, you've made a few mistakes in life,
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  Speaker 2: and you want to play in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you going to call? Andy Reid. Andy Reid.
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  Speaker 1: The Last Chance Saloon, where Andy Reid is the bartender,
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  Speaker 1: the drinks are cheap. They're cheap.
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  Speaker 2: Reputations are damaged, and everybody gets another round if they
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  Speaker 2: can help you win a football game. Michael Vick, the
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  Speaker 2: puppy killer, was brought into Philadelphia when Andy Reid was there.
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  Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill beat up a chick in college. He played
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  Speaker 2: drafted by Kansas City. Frank Clark had a domestic thing,
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  Speaker 2: if I remember. The Chiefs added him. Matt Ariza had
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  Speaker 2: that situation in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: The punter.
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  Speaker 2: Kareem Hunt, and now Justin Tucker. Andy Reid's moral compass
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  Speaker 2: does not point north. It points to W, which is
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  Speaker 2: not west.
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  Speaker 1: It's winning. That's all he cares about.
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  Speaker 2: He's not running a monastery there, and he's running a
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  Speaker 2: football factory.
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  Speaker 1: And Andy Reid is the.
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  Speaker 2: modern-day Father Flanagan of the NFL, except his boy's town
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  Speaker 2: comes with signing bonuses and you hope some bling-bling. You
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  Speaker 2: hope some bling-bling. And while other teams see a public
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  Speaker 2: relations nightmare, like the Rams. The Rams are a great example.
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  Speaker 2: Rams have added two different kickers. I think they're on
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  Speaker 2: their third kicker now. So they had three kickers. They
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  Speaker 2: could have added Justin Tucker, but they didn't want the
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  Speaker 2: PR hit. They didn't want the PR hit. Sean McVay
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  Speaker 2: couldn't handle it. So Andy Reid's like, I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: I'll stand up there and repeat the same boilerplate answer
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  Speaker 2: 15 times.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't bother me.
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  Speaker 2: Because Andy Reid's like, this is a competitive advantage for
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City. And a distressed asset ready for exploitation. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's not even known whether or not Justin Tucker is
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  Speaker 2: going to make the roster. He's on the practice squad
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  Speaker 2: because Harrison Buckner, the normal kicker in Kansas City, has
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  Speaker 2: been dreadful this season. There's stuff going on with that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's possible that Justin Tucker never even makes a
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  Speaker 2: game for the Chiefs. But the idea that they'd actually
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  Speaker 2: sign him when nobody else had the balls to sign
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  Speaker 2: Justin Tucker.
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid's like, oh, yeah, what he did is nothing,
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  Speaker 1: nothing compared.
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  Speaker 2: To Tyreek Hill or Frank Clark or Kareem Hunt and
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  Speaker 2: these guys.
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  Speaker 1: So, come on. All right. Now, page two.
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  Speaker 2: To Green Bay we go, the frozen tundra. Now the
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  Speaker 2: Packers are back in action. The Thursday night game later
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  Speaker 2: this hour, Benny versus the Penny. The Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 2: will take on Carolina. And that's the Thursday night matchup
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  Speaker 2: on DraftKings. The team from Green Bay at home favored.
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  Speaker 1: By three and a half. But Micah Parsons... who's, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't believe he's playing in that game, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he is, Micah Parsons, not worried about, forget the Carolina Panthers,
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  Speaker 2: he's not intimidated by Kansas City.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: That's the headline.
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  Speaker 2: The Packers pass rusher, I say that in air quotes
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  Speaker 2: because he doesn't play very much, declared on his fledgling podcast,
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  Speaker 2: he said, quote, the Chiefs don't scare me. This following
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  Speaker 2: the Sunday night game where Kansas City got their balls
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  Speaker 2: kicked in by Seattle, their footballs, Parsons believes Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 2: lacks legitimate deep threats.
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  Speaker 1: He does not have anyone like Tyreek Hill.
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  Speaker 2: He also dismissed comparisons between Xavier Worthy and Hill, arguing,
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  Speaker 2: Micah Parsons, that world-class speed does not automatically make someone
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  Speaker 2: a world-class pro football receiver, which is rather obvious.
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  Speaker 1: Question. You got Micah Parsons.
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  Speaker 2: Who has publicly gone out there and questioned whether the
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs possess championship-caliber offensive weapons.
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  Speaker 1: Should Andy Reid be worried? So we're giving this one
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a side-eye.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta be joking. Now, the Chiefs had a clunker.
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  Speaker 2: They had a real clunker in Seattle. With a roster...
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  Speaker 2: at the skill position that was held together with duct
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  Speaker 2: tape and Bazooka Joe bubblegum.
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  Speaker 1: They had a lot of Bazooka Joe bubblegum.
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  Speaker 2: And suddenly, Micah Parsons is conducting the autopsy.
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  Speaker 1: From the orthopedic ward. It's all about timing, right?
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  Speaker 2: If you had given this commentary after any other Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: game other than the Seattle game, you would have said,
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City's so back, baby.
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  Speaker 1: They're so back.
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  Speaker 2: Now, as I learned from the late, great Lou Holtz,
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  Speaker 2: who famously said, you're never as good as everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Tells you when you win.
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  Speaker 2: You're also never as bad as they say you are
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  Speaker 2: when you lose.
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  Speaker 1: You're somewhere in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: But we do love that Micah Parsons is a hot
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  Speaker 2: take blowhard. It warms my heart that Micah Parsons would
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  Speaker 2: rather do what I do for a living, my life's work,
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  Speaker 2: than play football. He's much more interested in being a
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  Speaker 2: hot take artist, Micah Parsons, than actually playing pro football.
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  Speaker 1: And that is just wonderful for me.
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  Speaker 2: This guy is on injured reserve, all dinged up.
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  Speaker 1: His mouth, his mouth has been cleared for full contact.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the good news.
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  Speaker 2: And he's just out there lobbing Molotov cocktails from the
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  Speaker 2: trainer's room like some kind of football revolutionary, a desperado.
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  Speaker 2: And Green Bay, they foolishly thought they had traded for
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  Speaker 2: a game-wrecking pass rusher. And instead, the Packers got a cheerleader.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have any of those. They got a male cheerleader,
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  Speaker 2: and they got a Mr. Microphone podcast guy. He does
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  Speaker 2: the Mr. Microphone podcast. And he's talked more than he's played.
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  Speaker 2: He's done more podcasts since he got to Green Bay
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  Speaker 2: than he's played games for the Packers.
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  Speaker 1: Who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 2: And now Andy Reid, good old Andy Reid, is supposed
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  Speaker 2: to lose sleep because Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Parsons, broadcasting with his Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Microphone from the MRI machine, has diagnosed Kansas City's offense.
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  Speaker 1: Please. The Chiefs are going to get some.
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  Speaker 2: Guys back, and they can go shopping before November 10th,
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  Speaker 2: the trade deadline, get some more goodies and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, they keep losing games.
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  Speaker 2: We can revisit this, but I'm not going to get
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  Speaker 2: all worked up by one loss to a 500 Seattle team,
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  Speaker 2: which was who that was. All right, final point. To
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  Speaker 2: TV land we go. Turn out the lights. The party's over.
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  Speaker 1: For Ernie Johnson, it's a bummer. Big-time bummer.
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  Speaker 2: Ernie Johnson, 70 years old, made it official. He's about
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  Speaker 2: to say bye-bye to inside the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: He announced that this is his final season. He will
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  Speaker 1: end a 37-year run. In that gig. And he said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't pushed out. He said, totally my decision. Just time.
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  Speaker 2: That's just what people would say. If you were pushed out,
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  Speaker 2: you'd say it was totally my decision. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he was pushed out, though. He's great at what he does.
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  Speaker 2: EJ says the demanding preparation became more exhausting than enjoyable.
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  Speaker 1: And he's had some.
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  Speaker 2: Medical problems, had some heart problems a couple years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Says he's not in any immediate danger whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: And he says he's not retiring, though.
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  Speaker 2: He will continue, for reasons that are unknown, to do
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  Speaker 2: March Madness coverage. And that'll be with CBS TNT. And
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  Speaker 2: he'll also do some other select assignments.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a production company. Why not? Everyone's got one
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  Speaker 1: of those. However, his NBA run is all but done.
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  Speaker 2: And the question, is Ernie Johnson irreplaceable on Inside the NBA?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone is replaceable.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't think everyone's replaceable, drive by a cemetery.
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  Speaker 2: It's filled with people who are not replaceable who got replaced.
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  Speaker 2: So not to be grim reaper guy, but we're all replaceable, right?
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  Speaker 2: You got to have some kind of levity to you.
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  Speaker 2: You have to understand your place in the world that
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  Speaker 2: we're in.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's replaceable. Now, they'll find.
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  Speaker 2: Another warm body with a nice haircut, younger person with
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  Speaker 2: a pleasant smile, probably on the woke side. a fat
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  Speaker 2: broadcasting resume to sit there and babysit Shaq, Kenny, and Charles. However,
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  Speaker 2: replacing the razzle-dazzle, zero chance.
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  Speaker 1: Zero chance. You know what Ernie Johnson had? Timing. Timing.
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  Speaker 2: Capital T, timing. You can't buy timing. You don't go
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  Speaker 2: down to the television supermarket and buy timing.
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  Speaker 1: You don't buy that.
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  Speaker 4: You don't.
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  Speaker 2: Charles Barkley is the box office. He's the headliner. He's
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  Speaker 2: the rock star. He's the guy that gets it done.
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  Speaker 2: The one that was passing him the ball, the point guard,
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  Speaker 2: Ernie Johnson. Ernie Johnson, the screenplay. You need the box office, headliner,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: and you need the screenplay to have a hit movie.
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  Speaker 2: You have to have both.
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  Speaker 1: Ernie Johnson was not the star of the show. He
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  Speaker 1: was not. Nobody's going to sit here and say Ernie Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: the star of the show. He was the guy... who
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  Speaker 1: made everybody else look like a star.
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  Speaker 2: Ernie Johnson is like the Hellman's mayonnaise on the sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody buys the sandwich for the mayonnaise. You don't buy
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  Speaker 2: a sandwich saying, boy, I want some good mayonnaise on there.
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  Speaker 2: But you take it away, and suddenly, depending on what sandwich,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: what hoagie you're eating, you're chewing on cardboard. Who wants that?
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: 37 years of highlights. At some point, you're like, do
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I really want to pretend like I'm excited for a
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Nuggets-Thunder game on a Tuesday night?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Without him, it's a completely different show. Without Ernie Johnson,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: it's a completely different show. The timing, the rhythm, all
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: that stuff is off.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Without Ernie Johnson. I do love the fact that he
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: did his own prep. It must have driven him nuts
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to sit on that.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Stage with Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal who just show
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: up and do no preparation whatsoever.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: And I feel for Ernie Johnson. I kind of relate
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: to him. I usually work alone here.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I'm a one-man band. I don't have anybody to help
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: make the show, put it together during the day. And
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I do everything myself. But I've worked with people in
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: the past. And I've had sidekicks or people I've done
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: two-man shows with. And if you're doing a two-man operation
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: or an ensemble group and they're not doing their work,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: it's like a group project where only one person does
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: all the work. Well, eventually you just get burned out
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: on that. And Ernie Johnson's probably like, well, dude, I
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: keep doing all the prep. And Barkley rolls in there
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and Shaq, they're in the green room playing grab ass.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I think Kenny Smith actually does some prep, but those.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Other two guys do none. And they're legendary for that.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: They don't want them to do prep. They just want
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: them to react in real time.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: It does get old after a while. And plus, Ernie
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Johnson's 70. That seems like a good time. He's made
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: a lot of money, enjoyed the money. But without Ernie Johnson,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: it's a much different show. And without Barkley... inside the
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: NBA becomes nobody's watching the NBA is what that becomes.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: So we'll see how this goes.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: It is the Ben Maller Show. If you would like
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: to be part of the program, you can join us
• 20:00
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• 20:03
  Speaker 2: 877-99 on Fox. That's 877-996-6369. Also on X, at Ben Maller.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: That's at Ben Maller.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: The Brewers have won the World Series. That's a big story.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: We talked about that.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Did a full Maller monologue on that earlier. We'll do
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: more a little bit later. On the World Series and
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the fallout from Milwaukee. Getting it done and winning the
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: World Series.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: So, you're on TV and do you need a tissue?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Are you crying? Are you crying? We'll get to that.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: We'll do it!
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 20:49
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• 20:53
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• 20:57
  Speaker 7: Welcome to Football Doesn't Lie.
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: Hi, I'm Bill Parcells.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: I have a lot of experience in the game of football, Catherine.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: we're going to talk about the NFL slate through the
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: lens of Bill's expertise as he coaches me from novice
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: fan to football expert over the course of the season.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: hopefully we can give our audience a little in-depth look
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: into the inner sanctum of pro football that they can't
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: get anywhere else.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: Tune in every Thursday for unfiltered stories from Coach Parcells,
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: analysis on the state of the modern game, and education
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: on how football really works.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: Continuity is very important but what happens when you get
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: good coaches on your staff and people begin to recognize
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: them then they want to hire them and then you
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: can't stop a guy from trying to improve himself but
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: you have to replace.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Them Because once you understand what's going on inside the
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: mind of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: haven't done, because I didn't have enough money, I don't
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: own the team. I never owned a team.
• 22:07
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• 22:11
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• 22:17
  Speaker 3: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: As we continue on. A reminder, the Brewers are still
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the champions of baseball. They have not reversed that decision.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee wins the World Series. This hour, yapping about Justin Tucker.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: He's back kind of in the NFL. He's on the
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: practice squad. As Andy Reid playing dodgeball with the assembled media.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: And this is just what Andy does. He's always been
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: that guy. Signs these players on the fringes. Brings them in.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Father Flanagan of the NFL.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: 877-99 on Fox. If you have a hot take, you
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: have something.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: You think other people actually want to hear, it's called broadcasting,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: not narrowcasting. Also on X, at Ben Maller. Follow that account,
• 23:03
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• 23:07
  Speaker 2: our answers. Later this hour, our old friend the Penny returns.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Benny versus the Penny. It's week number.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Eight in the NFL. It kicks off.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Number eight.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: We'll tell you who's going to win or who should
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: win the Packers and the Panthers. That game kicks it
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: off on a Thursday night. We look forward to that.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Lorena is here. She's the FSR Tech Queen. It's still
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: her birthday month, so celebrate appropriately.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I'm eating ice cream. What flavor ice cream are you eating?
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Patty got me mint chocolate chip Tillamook ice cream for
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: my birthday.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Patty, is that your... Is that your? Two pros producer. Oh,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I thought you said. Oh, that's right.
• 23:50
  Speaker 10: Patty.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I was called. Well, that's right. He's called by Patty.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, you got your ice cream. That's very kind.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: And Koopa Loop at a Bronco fan.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: That's a Bronco fan. He also got me ice cream. Really?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I didn't know you're big ice cream. You eat like one.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: You're like a bird. What are you talking about?
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I eat like two bites and then put it back
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: in the freezer. I know. I wish I ate like that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: That'd be great.
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: I eat.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I go big. But I only eat once a day.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: That's it. Anyway, it is the Ben Maller Show as
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: we press on. There's no crying. What are you crying?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Why are you crying?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: We will get to that coming up in a bit.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Your reaction to all that is going on. This is
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the show by the people, for the people, and plausibly
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: all about the people.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. There you go. All right.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Supermarket Steve says, I do not understand you sometimes, Ben.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: At one point, you preached the gospel of destroying every
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: ounce of the devil's blood ranch dressing. Yes, I am
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: anti-ranch dressing, and I am on the right side of history.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: My anti-ranch dressing position. And then he says, with the
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: same mouth, you defend the devil's blank, slimy, smelly, disgusting mayonnaise. Well,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I don't love mayonnaise. By any chance, I'm not a
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: fan of mayonnaise. I'm not anti-mayo. I'm not anti-Big Mayo.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I'm anti-ranch. I'm anti-ranch. I did get an email about
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Supermarket Steve. For the podcast, I didn't use it. And
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: it was, you'll actually get a kick. Supermarket Steve created
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: a big hullabaloo on the show. He's my grocery store advisor.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: A lot of you guys work in grocery stores, but
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Supermarket Steve advised me to not put my cart back.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: He said, don't put your cart back. And I said, well,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: why not? And he said, because.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: That's somebody's job at the grocery store. And he said,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: if everyone puts their carts back, the grocery store will
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: get rid of the person that goes out and gets
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: all the carts and all that.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And this became a big controversy.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: And this guy emailed me whether or not I've seen,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I guess there's a guy on the Internet called the
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Cartnark or.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Something like that. And I saw some of the videos.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: They were pretty funny.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: The guy, like, attacks people for not putting their cart back.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: It probably ended up being a shot or stabbed or
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: something like that because these people don't seem very happy.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: And the guy was like, what does Supermarket Steve think
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: about that?
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know. I'm not his mother.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not his dad.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: What do you want me to do with that? But
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: you're their supermarket, Steve, so if you have a hot take,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: let us know.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: FergDog writes in, says, Ernie Johnson made everyone look like
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: a star on Inside the NBA, except for Kenny Smith.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: He sucks. I think Kenny's fine. You know, Kenny Smith
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: actually worked here. You suck!
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Years ago, here's a Fox Sports Radio fun fact, Kenny
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Smith did like a Sunday basketball show.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Probably. Bad matter fun fact. 20 years ago. I don't
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: know if he still does. He used to live in L.A.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he still does anymore, but he
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: did the show from the studio. There you go.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Lego Chuck says, I'm near Austin. I work overnights at
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: the grocery store. Well, welcome, Lego Chuck.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I like the name.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I was a big Lego guy back in the day,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: back before Legos became mainstream. I was all about it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Monkey Biz Doug from South Korea writes in. He says,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: imagine if Justin Tucker went to Cleveland. The outrage would
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: have been epic. Would have been absolutely epic. No question
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: about it. No question about it. If you want to
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: join in here, 877-99 on Fox. On X at Ben Maller.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Late night drug test. This is the Chiefs need to
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: do a little more homework. If the Ravens fire someone,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: it had to be really bad. I mean, if Tucker
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: just left a double murder scene, he would still have
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: had a.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Job with him.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Where's the white suit, Ray? Where's the suit, Ray? Does
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: anyone else get that reference? That's such a dated reference now.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: That is such a dated reference. I've been here so long.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Ray Lewis was a big topic.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Of conversation for years. For years, Ray Lewis. Man, you
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: don't know. You probably don't know who Ray Lewis is anymore.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: He hasn't played. In a number of years. My goodness.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: All right, let's take some calls. It is a call-in show.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: And let's see here. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to Legally Blind Christopher.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: On the international line in London. Hello, Legally Blind Christopher. Welcome. Mr.
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: Miller, are they going to be dragging you out someday
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: after 37 years on Fox Sports Radio because you chose,
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: or is it because of the contract removal?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Well, they've already gotten rid of me once, so six
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: months and 26 days back in 2009. So I'm sure
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think I'll make it to 37 years here.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: But who knows? I would love to. It would be great.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: If they pay me a little more money, I'd love to.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: But you know how it goes.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Well, I understand. I understand.
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: I mean, the midnight staff only get what, you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: What's left and available. And since Lorena's eating all the
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: food out of the old vending machine, I can only
• 29:01
  Speaker 10: imagine that there's nothing left to enjoy during the night.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, she does only eat.
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: Some simple items. I just wanted to make sure that
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: the old vending machine is still doing its job, seeing
• 29:10
  Speaker 10: that now you're getting great ice cream. I'm immensely impressed.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: But, Mr.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Maller.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: Let's turn this to my Tigers finally winning another World Series.
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: And I know it'll be about 2037 by the time
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: the baseball settlement occurs. So I'm just hoping now that
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: Milwaukee has proven, if you have a great farm system, God,
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: I should have a chance probably, you know, 10 years
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: from now, maybe.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Well, how long are you planning on staying in London?
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: What are you looking at?
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: Oh, probably pretty much for the rest of my life.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: You're going to be there.
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: Well, I have to.
• 29:40
  Speaker 10: Come back because my visa is still in the process.
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: And so after six months, they kick me out of
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: the country. You know, it's all right.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: I don't mind.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: So how long do you have to leave? How does
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that work? I don't know. I've never done what you're doing.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: So you leave. You're there for six months. And then
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: how long do you have to come back to America for?
• 29:56
  Speaker 10: As long as I'm out of the country for a
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: minimum of a week, I can then turn around and
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: go back. What happens in most European countries is you
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: pay anywhere from $ 27 to $ 30 U.S., and then they'll
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: give you a two-year unlimited visa.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: It's just the process of going.
• 30:13
  Speaker 10: Back and forth so that I have the ability to
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: live in both countries. Becoming a citizen, that's the hard part.
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: That takes years, but that's okay. I'll keep waiting to
• 30:24
  Speaker 10: see the.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Government slip here or there.
• 30:26
  Speaker 10: Sooner or later, I'll just put some Braille notes in.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: They'll hire me as a citizen sooner or later. My
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: advice is to lean into the blind thing. Just lean
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: into it.
• 30:35
  Speaker 10: Oh, I'll do it. I'll do it.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: You've got to play it up.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Blind Scott, he always is called in by these lawyers
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: because of lawsuits and stuff. He's like a character witness because... Well,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: not a character witness, but people feel bad for the
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: blind guy. So you've got to lean into that. You've
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: got to really go for it.
• 30:52
  Speaker 10: I probably should now that I'm getting 60. That may
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: be a good idea. I'll have to write you an
• 30:57
  Speaker 10: email that I know you won't answer, but get a
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: chance to get your opinion.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, maybe I will. I could actually possibly
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: write back. It's conceivable.
• 31:08
  Speaker 10: Well, maybe I could go on one of the weekend
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: podcasts like Mr.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Scott did. I'll even stay up no matter what the
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: hour is.
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: It doesn't matter.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I don't sleep in here, Mr.
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: Mallard.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Everyone wants to do the podcast. Well, email me and
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: give me your information, and then we'll figure out if
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: we can logistically make it work. How about that?
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: That's not a problem.
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: I'm looking forward to watching my Panthers get stomped on
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: and enjoy that since it'll be, let's see, a little
• 31:29
  Speaker 10: after 3 in the morning my time since we've already
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: fallen back here in London.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: So that's no problem.
• 31:34
  Speaker 10: I'll look forward to that.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize you'd already fallen back. I thought everyone
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: fell back the same time.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Well, they do this oddly.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: It's whatever.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Exactly. It's always the same. All right. Thank you. All right.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of blind jokes you can.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: You can do with that. A lot of blind fun. Yes, absolutely, absolutely.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: All right, let's say hello to, we'll go from one
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: blind caller to another. Blind Scott is on the north
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: end of Boston. Speak of the Blind Scott guy, and
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: the Blind Scott guy will appear. Hello, Blind Scott.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Welcome.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: That guy gives me suicidal ideations. That's the worst phone
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: call ever, dude. Like, I don't know if I can
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: go through life listening to stuff like that.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Well, hold on a sec, Blind Scott.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I would argue that some of the calls you made
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: back in 2019 were worse than that.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Dude, I just called the police, and someone put a
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: charge against me. Like, they spelled my name wrong. Like,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: my name's Scott Hardman with two N's at the end.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: So the police officer spelled it wrong. He goes, oh, jeez.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Your name's spelled wrong in the system, but it didn't
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: go through. But there's seven police reports filed against me
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: since 2024, but no charges. But there's, like, two hours
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: of police video camera. I called the Harvard Criminal Institute.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: I got a lawyer. There's someone that tried to kill me, like,
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: on Monday morning. How did they try to kill you?
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know. It's been ongoing. Remember when you saw
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: me run out of my house that time? That wasn't
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: an act. There's a guy that lives on the corner
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: that hates me, that doesn't care that I'm blind. He's
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: only 27. Luckily, he smells so bad, so I know
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: when he's around, you know? But his is what he did.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: He sent a message. I posted it on Boston Blind
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: on social media. It's on the front grid. You'll see it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: You'll see it. I don't have to say what he did.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: But I'm trying to press charges against him, but it's
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: so hard to press harassment charges against someone. It has
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: to be a legitimate threat. It has to happen three times, so.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: I just don't want him in the building. My roof
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: is caving in and they don't want to. I sent
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: you some messages about it. Maybe you can. That Cartnock guy,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: he interned for Fred Toucher on the Woody show. He's
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Fred's friend. He's from Boston. I know him, actually. That's
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: a pretty good show. It's at L.A., you know what
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: I mean?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I've never heard of the guy. It is good, by
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the way. I've never heard of him, but he's pretty good.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: I had a drug relapse back in February, so it's
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: been a tough year for me, but I'm doing better now.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: I'm on the up and up. I'm sober right now.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: I have a criminal attorney. I can't leave the house, actually.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: My property management company, I called them 95 times today,
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: and they told me never to call them ever again.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: But they can't, like, they're the reasons why this guy
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: is threatening me.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Scott, you're like the king of bipolar here. You realize that?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: You're the all-time king of being bipolar. My God, Scott.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in a fight with people from Cicero, Illinois, dude. There's, like,
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: fake mafia people. The thing is, there's people that think
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: they can step to me. Like, you can't step to
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: me because I'm blind and be like... I'm going to
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: beat the crap out of you. You better shape. And
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm going to get that in writing and
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: press charges because everybody press charges for me for shoplifting.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: And I have no money and I have to eat.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: I got caught eating a can.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: You can't steal canned ham. You're not able to do that.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: You can't.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: You're blind. You can blind. You can steal out of
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: societal issues.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: No, you can't. You're not. The business has to pay
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: for the stuff, Scott. You can't steal stuff. You're going
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: to pay for it.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: No, black tar heroin, chasing the dragon, and it gives
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: you immunity when you're in the store to steal.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. All right, I'm going to move on.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for that. My God. Well, we
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: mentioned Ernie Johnson had announced he's leaving TNT. That led
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: to the round mound of rebound Charles Barkley crying on
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: live television.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: What?
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Charles Barkley got very emotional. And that's his buddy.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: That's his bestie. They've been together for a long time.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Charles played a long time in the NBA. He's been
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: a broadcaster much longer than he had been a player.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: In the NBA for all those years.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: And he got very verklempt thinking about his relationship with
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Ernie Johnson and.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: What that means.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: And also the fact that The other problem here for
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Charles is he's pretty much announced, if Ernie leaves, I'm out.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: And I don't think Charles wants to really leave. I
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: think he likes the gig. He always threatens to leave,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: but he cried on live television as Ernie announced.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: He's not leaving yet, but he's going to leave inside
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the NBA thing. We talked about that. Fighting back tears.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Barkley admitted, we knew the day was coming. It's still tough.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Barkley said, Ernie Johnson, the unquestionable leader of the show. So,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Barkley's tearful farewell on Inside the NBA. I do not
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: believe he's going to leave. Even though Barkley had said
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: they were a package deal, I don't buy it.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I don't buy they're going to leave. Or he's going
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to leave. We have Benny versus the Penny straight ahead.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Here's the Insta trivia.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: With at least 27 pass attempts and no interceptions against
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Minnesota this weekend, Lions quarterback Jared Goff will surpass blank
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: for the third most pass attempts without an interception to
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: begin a season in NFL history, trailing only Alex Smith
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: and Bernie Kosar. Again, Jared Goff can surpass blank for
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: the third most pass attempts without an interception to begin
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: a season in NFL history, trailing only Alex Smith and
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Bernie Kosar.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: That's the instant trivia. The answer, next.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsportsradio.com. And
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: within the iHeartRadio app, search FSR to listen live.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: As we continue on, and a reminder to check out
• 37:42
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• 37:44
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• 37:49
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• 37:55
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• 37:57
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• 38:00
  Speaker 2: right there, and go for it on the YouTube page.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Time now for the always popular internship. We will get
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: to Benny versus the Penny for the game on... Thursday
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: night here at Lambeau Field, the frozen tundra.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: But first, the instant trivia. And here it is for
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: those in the back of the room.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: With at least 27 pass attempts and no interceptions against Minnesota,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Lions quarterback Jared Goff this weekend will surpass Blank for
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: the third most pass attempts without an interception to begin
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: a season in NFL history, trailing only Alex Smith and
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Dick and Dayton's favorite quarterback, Bernie Kosar. And that is
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: the question. Greg Kinnear, guest by Alf, the alien opiner.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Teddy Bridgewater from Femi, the top of each driver in
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: the Twin Cities.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Turk. Shonert from Rob in the 3-2-1.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Who else do we have? The Showbiz Pizza Band, guest
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: by Milkman Mike. Stretch Armstrong from Mallor Prop Guy. We've
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: got Barney Fife from Lego Chuck. Don Makowski, the Magic
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Man from Jerry in a Jar. Brian Seip, guest by
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Mediocre Kabuki.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Who else do we have?
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Page Down, Blind Scott, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: A lot of people ripping Blind Scott. We'll skip over those.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: What say you, Lorena? Charlie Brown. Is it Charlie Brown?
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: No.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: It is Washington Redskins legend Jason Campbell.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Jason Campbell is the answer. Here we go. Here we go.
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: Welcome in, militia.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: Speaking of winners. Can you handle more malar mayhem?
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: It's time now for.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: Step back.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny. And we kick off week eight
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: in the NFL.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Quickly, not a lot of time, so we'll go to
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: We'll have more time tomorrow to look at last week's record.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: But the Panthers at the Packers, and according to DraftKings,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: the Packers are a three-and-a-half point favorite at home.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: And the weather, not a factor. Temperatures in the 50s.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a little foggy at kickoff at
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Lambeau Field. And I'm going to take the bounce back.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: I love betting on average teams or better after a
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: bad performance. Carolina did not show up last week. And
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: they have been a bit of a gambling cockroach after losses.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: In fact, they're 13-0 against the spread in games immediately
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: following an outright loss. That is the largest loss. Oh,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: my God, trend that you look at. Not that I'm
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: a big trend guy. Bryce Young has mostly produced. Last
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: week was a disaster. And I just don't trust the
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers. They are the most penalized team in
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: the NFL, Green Bay. And you look at the rushing
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: attack for Green Bay.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: It's just not. They're terrible.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: They can't run the ball. They're dead last in rushing offense.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: And they lost last week. Both these teams coming off
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: a loss. I think this is a field goal game.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: You're getting the hook. You're getting the three and a half.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: You got Al Michaels and Herbie and his dog bear
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: calling the game on Amazon. And I'm going to take
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers plus the three and a half. Green
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Bay's got two offensive linemen that are out. So that
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: doesn't seem like a great recipe for success. Koopaloop is
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: representing the Penny.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: And who does the Penny like in this game? Koopaloop.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: The penny also likes the Panthers in this one.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: Oh, come on.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: It's more fun when we disagree to start the week.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I don't like when we agree. It's not as much fun.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: But I'm taking Carolina. That's the right side. There you go.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Penny versus the penny.