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The Fifth Hour: "Packers Choke" Mail Bag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
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  Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radios. We hang out with you
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  Speaker 1: on a early Sunday, as we are recording this on
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  Speaker 1: the eleventh day of January, and a podcast. Having a
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  Speaker 1: podcast going into the audio sweatshop every day on the
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  Speaker 1: weekend is a double edged sword. It's a blessing and
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  Speaker 1: a curse. It is a blessing because when you have
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  Speaker 1: wild Card playoff games on a Saturday, and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a radio show on a Saturday, you can come
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  Speaker 1: in on an early Sunday morning and provide some commentary
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  Speaker 1: on the plus Now, we will get to the mailbag
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  Speaker 1: later on, which is a staple of the Fifth Hour podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing like Ask Ben, nothing at all like Ask Ben.
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  Speaker 1: But we will begin with a couple of mini Malar
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  Speaker 1: monologues on what we witnessed in the NFL wild Card
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  Speaker 1: opener on Saturday. We're gonna start with the late game.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna start with the Ram game. I was like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just do the Ram game. So they had halftime
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  Speaker 1: of the Packer Bears game. It looked like there would
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  Speaker 1: be no reason to bring that game up. It was
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  Speaker 1: headed toward blowout city and then they played the second half,
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna start with that game. We're gonna start
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  Speaker 1: with that game. It was not a gigantic upset. The
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  Speaker 1: Packers were only a one point favorite. I took Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay on benny versus the penny. That was the right side.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know they were choking dogs, but they turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be choking dogs. Oh my god. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know how in competent you have to beat to blow
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  Speaker 1: an eighteen point lead in the NFL playoffs? They did
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  Speaker 1: it anyway. Packers kicker Brandon McManus is the one that
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  Speaker 1: etched his name on the side of the bathroom wall
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  Speaker 1: of special team meltdowns in that playoff game on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night there at Soldier Field in Chicago. McManus who's been around.
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  Speaker 1: This is not his first trip to the circus, and
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  Speaker 1: he experienced a reversal of fortune. Missed two field goals
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  Speaker 1: and an extra point. The Packers ended up blowing a
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  Speaker 1: twenty one to three halftime lead. They lose a very
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  Speaker 1: memorable NFL playoff game thirty one twenty seven to kick
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  Speaker 1: off the wild card round. There So the Chicago Bears
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  Speaker 1: win a playoff game and advance. But the better story
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room, and that is where
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  Speaker 1: we will begin good jumping off point, the question kicker
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  Speaker 1: Brandon McManus costing the Packers seven points in a game
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  Speaker 1: they lost by four points, that epic collapse in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Is this game entirely on his shoulders as is being reported?
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  Speaker 1: So I have on this one dollar store guy named
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  Speaker 1: Earl and ring doorbell camera, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to win
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  Speaker 1: a podcast award. I don't think we're cool enough to
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  Speaker 1: win one of those, and we don't suck up to
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  Speaker 1: enough people, so I don't know that's gonna happen. But
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  Speaker 1: a using malormath, and that's the only math we use
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  Speaker 1: on the Fifth Hour podcast. Brandon McManus on the Mallard
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  Speaker 1: pie chart gets seventy five percent of the blame pie.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, kickers aren't football players, they're idiot kickers, hired
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  Speaker 1: mercenaries with one job and a very fragile mind. I
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  Speaker 1: get that. However, However, here's the thing, the low information
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  Speaker 1: box score bandit, as we like to call him. They'll
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  Speaker 1: see Jordan Love's three hundred and twenty three yards and
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  Speaker 1: four touchdowns and want to give him a full pardon
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  Speaker 1: and a parade. You can't blame Jordan Love. He had
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  Speaker 1: four touchdowns and no interceptions and three hundred twenty three yards.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know ball if you blame him. Not so fast,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, because on the Mallard Show scorecard, Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: gets a hefty slice of guilt cheese Fondu, guilt cheese fondu.
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  Speaker 1: Why not one, not two, not three, but four four
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  Speaker 1: straight possessions in the middle part of that game, punt punt,
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  Speaker 1: punt punt in the meat of the game. That is
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  Speaker 1: offensive paralysis. Now, Jordan Love went from a butcher knife
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  Speaker 1: in the first half to a dollars store butter knife
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  Speaker 1: after halftime. First half chef's kiss, absolute chef's kiss second half.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like he popped a melatonin at intermission and
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  Speaker 1: needed a blankie. Under fifty percent completions in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: shrinking like a cheap sweater. You don't blow a twenty
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  Speaker 1: one to three lead, you win the turnovers to nothing
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  Speaker 1: and still lose unless you and your quarterback are performing
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  Speaker 1: mensa level and competence. Now, add on, the Packers did
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  Speaker 1: have not one, not two, three, four four fumbles. They
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  Speaker 1: recovered all of them, sure, but those are half turnover,
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  Speaker 1: so that's four fumbles each a half a turnover. They
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  Speaker 1: usually stop a drive, so that's like two turnovers. It's
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  Speaker 1: like tripping over your own luggage while running to the gate.
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  Speaker 1: So McManus again lit the match. However, Jordan Love poured
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  Speaker 1: the gasoline on top. Now page two at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the what is this the seventh season? I believe it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, where does the time go? Matt LeFleur,
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  Speaker 1: Green Bays coach seven years and his team again showing
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  Speaker 1: a lack of moxie like my dog late in the game.
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  Speaker 1: There the composure in big moments in a playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: So the question cheesehead fans want Mattlefleir fired. They want
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  Speaker 1: him sent to a war tribunal after the Packers choked
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  Speaker 1: it away in Chicago to be eliminated from the NFL plauffs.
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  Speaker 1: What are the chances that this happens? What are the
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  Speaker 1: chances that matt LeFleur is Gonzo? All Right, So the
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  Speaker 1: Mallor sportsbook odds at plus four hundred, that is a
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent chance that the Flur gets whacked. It's not
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  Speaker 1: zero hope, but not exactly def con won either. It's
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  Speaker 1: a two hundred hitter in baseball, which is usually not
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  Speaker 1: a problem unless you're Miguel Rojas for the Dodgers against
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  Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays in Game seven of the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: But I digress. So the Packer nation? Is that a thing? Still?
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  Speaker 1: Packer Nation? They're waving their pitchforks like it's some kind
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  Speaker 1: of medieval cheese riot. You think they ever had a
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  Speaker 1: cheese riot in medieval times? The great thing about medieval
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  Speaker 1: times is the people that were living in medieval times
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  Speaker 1: did not realize they were in medieval times. They were
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  Speaker 1: just living their lives. So anyway, yeah, this isn't Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones with the flamethrower. This is sleepy Green Bay, a
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  Speaker 1: commune in the NFL a co op, so it's always
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  Speaker 1: more complicated. If this was another town, you'd say, Matt
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  Speaker 1: Lafleur is gone. His ass is grass in Green Bay, though, eh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean going into the playoffs, Lafleur was on my
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  Speaker 1: short list of coaches that were on the hot seat
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  Speaker 1: if they didn't win, and the Packers obviously didn't win
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  Speaker 1: and they blew a massive lead. The issue is always
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  Speaker 1: the over five hundred thousand shareholders that the Packers have.
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  Speaker 1: There's no one billionaire sugar daddy. If there was one
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  Speaker 1: billionaire sugar daddy like Jerry Jones, say okay, that's easy,
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  Speaker 1: that's an easy move. Decisions move much more slowly. It's
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  Speaker 1: like it's like molasses. It's slower than molasses. In late January.
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  Speaker 1: You don't fire a coach there, you don't. You submit
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  Speaker 1: a request, It gets laminated, it gets passed around and
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  Speaker 1: voted on by a guy named Earl wearing cheese stained
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  Speaker 1: overalls and a foam cheesehead. And LeFleur he's got some alibis,
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  Speaker 1: mainly the highest paid non quarterback in the NFL, Michael Parsons,
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  Speaker 1: did not walk through that locker room door as a player,
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  Speaker 1: and Tucker Kraft, who had been a breakout star at
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  Speaker 1: tight end, did not play all, both to them enjoying
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  Speaker 1: some rice Crispies Snap crackle pop. So it's like baking
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  Speaker 1: a cake and not having eggs and then being shocked
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  Speaker 1: when you're on the British baking show and the thing collapses. Regardless,
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  Speaker 1: you have a twenty one to three lead. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: win that game. I mean, you don't need me to
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  Speaker 1: tell you that. And after warning everyone, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: At halftime, they did a little halftime walk and talk
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  Speaker 1: the walkie talkie at halftime and he said, it's a
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  Speaker 1: Bears are a comeback team. You warned everyone and then
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get your team to make enough plays to stop
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  Speaker 1: that from happening. That's coaching malpractice. And there's fingerprints everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: That's not stepping on a rake, that's juggling chainsaws blindfolded.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, plus four hundred feels about right. It feels
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  Speaker 1: about right, about twenty percent chance. Is it possible? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Would it be painful? Yeah? And that loss was a
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  Speaker 1: body blow, bodyblow, body blow. Yet Green Bay doesn't fire fast.
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  Speaker 1: They don't they stew And I never liked stew I don't.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like a brought worst left on the
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  Speaker 1: grill too long. I like a well done food. But
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, you don't want your brod cook too much
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  Speaker 1: because then it kind of pops open. It's it's not
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  Speaker 1: that great. It's not that great. All right, last word
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  Speaker 1: on the Packer Bears game. All right, So let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the handshake heard round the NFC North in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL playoffs question coaches Ben Johnson and Matt LeFleur sharing
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  Speaker 1: a very tense handshake at the conclusion of the NFC
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  Speaker 1: Wildcard game. How did you see it? Well, how did
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  Speaker 1: I see it? On the judge's scorecard. That wasn't a handshake.
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  Speaker 1: This was a drive by DAP is what that was.
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  Speaker 1: That was a hit and run greeting. Ben Johnson did
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  Speaker 1: not shake Matt Leffleur's hand. He processed him. You don't reminder,
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  Speaker 1: it was like you see those videos every once in
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  Speaker 1: a while out on the interweb, and it's like the
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  Speaker 1: Amazon delivery driver gone rogue on a ring doorbell where
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  Speaker 1: they toss the package, they throw it, they're throwing a fastball,
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  Speaker 1: they snap the photo, they peel out of the driveway,
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  Speaker 1: they burn rubber, the whole thing for the Packers, blowing
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  Speaker 1: an eighteen point lead. The season goes poof abra cadabra, gonzo,
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  Speaker 1: and there's Matt Lafleur standing there waiting for some football decorum,
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  Speaker 1: and instead Ben Johnson's like, screw this guy. He gives
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  Speaker 1: in the old nice knowing you pal. I got to it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved every second of it I did. Does that
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  Speaker 1: make me a bad person? Know it does not. It
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  Speaker 1: was good TV, great theater. And this league needs more pettiness,
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  Speaker 1: not less. It needs more everyone. Everyone is treated like
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  Speaker 1: a king. They're spoiled, rotten. They're spoiled, rotten, rich, every
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  Speaker 1: one of the Ben Johnson doing this drive by like
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  Speaker 1: an Amazon drivers pulling in what thirteen million a year
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  Speaker 1: from Chicago, thirteen millionaire. Matt Lafleur is making five million,
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  Speaker 1: which makes him the poor coach in these two for
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay. So these guys are not starving artists. They're not.
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  Speaker 1: This is ego. Sumo wrestling is what this is. So
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  Speaker 1: give me the tension, give me the side eye. I
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  Speaker 1: need more side eye I do. It's a breath of
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  Speaker 1: fresh air, and sports are better when the smiles are
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  Speaker 1: fake and the handshakes are a little icy, And that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't disrespect, that was punctuation. I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 1: And then Ben Johnson got knocked over by one of
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  Speaker 1: his own players moments after that. It was quite the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Quite the scene. So the Chicago Bear fans, you talk
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  Speaker 1: about the spectrum of emotion at halftime, they were ready
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  Speaker 1: to run out Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams and Kavi
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  Speaker 1: Williams didn't play all that great. It's really bizarre. The
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter was wild and crazy. But for most of
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  Speaker 1: that game, Caaleb Williams was not a very good quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: But you're not supposed to talk about that because the
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  Speaker 1: only thing people remember is the final score. And you
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  Speaker 1: win the game and everything's great, everything smells like wonderful cologne,
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  Speaker 1: and you lose the game and you're rotting shrimp is
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  Speaker 1: what you are out in the sun, all right. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Onto the early game. Onto the early game. The LMS
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  Speaker 1: had to come back not once but twice against lowly Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? It was fingerbiting hair falling out
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  Speaker 1: that all that. It was a win. It was a win.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. So what did the
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  Speaker 1: Rams beating Carolina actually say about Sean mcvay's team as
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  Speaker 1: they advanced to the divisional round. So we have overdosed
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  Speaker 1: and Neon Eraser on this mini Malar monologue as the
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  Speaker 1: Rams take down the Panthers in wild Card Saturday, now
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  Speaker 1: number one, number one, I'll tell you what it said
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  Speaker 1: to me. The Rams are who we thought they were.
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  Speaker 1: They play with their peas and carrots. They do. They
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  Speaker 1: don't just eat the meal. They're not workmenlike. They're not methodical.
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  Speaker 1: They don't go out and just take care of bins.
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  Speaker 1: They rearrange it on their plate. They do, they do,
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  Speaker 1: they do. Now, we covered this on Benny Versus the Penny,
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  Speaker 1: and you listening to this, your fem I'm happy for
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  Speaker 1: my guys in Chicago. We talked already about the Bears game.
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  Speaker 1: But you're Femi eug and all those guys who are
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  Speaker 1: are loyal to the show tree in Chicago. I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: for you guys because the Bears have sucked for a while.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of Benny Versus the Penny, we talked
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  Speaker 1: about the Ram game. We said, hey, I took Carolina
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  Speaker 1: and some of you guys were trying to bust my balls.
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  Speaker 1: On social media and you're oh Man Meller, you're Rams.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Carolina, they covered the spread. I mean, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: took Carolina on Benny versus Benny. The Rams have been
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  Speaker 1: doing this all year. This is not new. They blew
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  Speaker 1: a nineteen point lead, I believe to Philadelphia. They blew
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  Speaker 1: a sixteen point lead in another game. And it's like
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  Speaker 1: they're running a community theater production of how to keep
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  Speaker 1: the underdog engaged? What are you doing? Like, just go
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  Speaker 1: for the juggular, go for the kill shot. They don't
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  Speaker 1: do it now. Matthew Stafford first quarter, he was cooking
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  Speaker 1: with gas. He was Gordon Ramsey out there. There were
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  Speaker 1: flames in the air everywhere, him and Puka Nakua unstoppable.
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  Speaker 1: This looked like it was gonna be a forty to
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  Speaker 1: ten win, and then they had to play the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the game. The middle of the game, he goes
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  Speaker 1: from Matthew Stafford goes from Gordon Ramsey cooking with gas,
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  Speaker 1: and then he's rubbing rocks together like he's auditioning for Survivor.
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  Speaker 1: He overdosed on stupid bills. It looked like he had
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  Speaker 1: gastronidis whatever it is, you know, the food poisoning, pale, shaky, miserable,
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  Speaker 1: all of that, and yet the end of the game,
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  Speaker 1: he pulls the rabbit out of the hat. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: matriculate the ball down the field and they get the
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  Speaker 1: touchdown to go ahead. They have it. They were down
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  Speaker 1: by four, they had to have a touchdown. So the
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  Speaker 1: ras Mataz was there at the end the game winning drive.
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  Speaker 1: And you exhale, unless, of course, you're a gambler and
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  Speaker 1: you bet on the Rams, and that's not the case
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  Speaker 1: for most people. Unfortunately, most people aren't gambled. I love gambling,
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  Speaker 1: but most people don't gamble. And all that matters is
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  Speaker 1: wins and losses. Wins and losses. Now in my world
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  Speaker 1: of benny versus the penny. In my world, good teams win,
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  Speaker 1: great teams cover. The Rams are not a great team.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing. The Rams are good, they're not great.
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  Speaker 1: And Sean McVay absolutely brilliant chef. The Rams thought outside
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  Speaker 1: the box. They took somebody who wasn't quite ready to
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  Speaker 1: be a head coach and made him a head coach.
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  Speaker 1: And unless McVeigh decides to quit and go do bad television,
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  Speaker 1: he'll be the Rams coach for another ten years. At
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  Speaker 1: least it's insane. And he's good. The guy's good. And
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  Speaker 1: so McVeigh just a masterpiece as a coach. And yet
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  Speaker 1: he's like a brilliant chef but keeps leaving the oven
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  Speaker 1: door open. So he's wonderful and has this terrible habit.
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  Speaker 1: It's just knock it off all right now, Page two.
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  Speaker 1: So the Carolina Panthers believe that they are not these
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  Speaker 1: same old Panthers after this close playoff loss to the
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  Speaker 1: LA RAM So I want to address that the question
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  Speaker 1: there's a quote actually will wrap the question around. The
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  Speaker 1: quote from Carolina defensive back Mike Jackson. What a tough
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  Speaker 1: name to have if you're a star football player. A
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: lot of people have the name Mike Jackson. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he said, quote, we just showed people that we aren't
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  Speaker 1: the old Panthers. Mike Jackson said, close quote question, how
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  Speaker 1: do you feel about that commentary that we are not
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  Speaker 1: the same old Panthers? So I have two words I
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  Speaker 1: wrote down on my board, my chalkboard. Stop it are
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  Speaker 1: my two words. That is a participation trophy parade is
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  Speaker 1: what that is? What do you do if I was
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  Speaker 1: coaching the Carolina Panthers. So I'm Dave Canallis. I would
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  Speaker 1: be like, dude, you're out of here. Get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get a victory lap for losing capital l losing.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't Little League with the orange slices. We're not
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  Speaker 1: doing that here. Hello, Like, what do you want? We
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  Speaker 1: will give you. I'll go into the prize chest and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a neon blue eraser, that bright neon.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a teal how about the teal neon
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  Speaker 1: teal eraser? Good? All right, so Carolina, unless I miss something,
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  Speaker 1: still walked off the field with a giant l, big
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  Speaker 1: fat giant el. And now this and some other quotes
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  Speaker 1: I saw coming out of the Panthers' locker room. They're
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  Speaker 1: doing this verbal gymnastics routine, grabbing for anything that feels
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  Speaker 1: like a win. And is it true that Vegas had
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  Speaker 1: them at two hundred to one to win the Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 1: To win the Super Bowl? That is not disrespect. That
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  Speaker 1: is a that is a bright billboard, times square billboard
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  Speaker 1: that reads, you don't belong here, You don't belong here.
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  Speaker 1: They were the biggest home underdog in NFL playoff history
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  Speaker 1: of the Carolina Panthers. That wasn't shade. That was sunlight,
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  Speaker 1: exposing a team that was unqualified to be in the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and the fat that they covered the spread. This
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the Panthers rising. It was a whoopedie damn dow situation.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Rams who were guilty of Malfeasan's in sleepwalking.
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  Speaker 1: After they built up a double digit lead early in
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  Speaker 1: the game, Sean mcvay's crew played down to their opponents,
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  Speaker 1: called sandbagging like a shark nibbling instead of biting. The
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  Speaker 1: shark could always bite, but instead nibbles. It was a
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  Speaker 1: classic playoff trap game. And even then Carolina could not
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  Speaker 1: actually close the deal because Bryce Young isn't that guy.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy. And
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: saying that we're not the old Panthers, the same old
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Panthers after a loss is like bragging you did not drown,
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  Speaker 1: even though you just swallowed half of the chlorine water
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  Speaker 1: in the pool. Like what are we doing here in
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the NFL? You've got it's amazing. This isn't called the scoreboard,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and you have you've never heard this bore. You've got
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: winners and you've got losers. No motivational posters survivors. The
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  Speaker 1: Panthers lost, they lost. End of story. That's it all right,
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  Speaker 1: bag in Ohio. Al, can you get me in the mood? Ohio, Al.
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  Speaker 1: long ago, anyway, snow Dog says, or ferg Dog says,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: you asked on the weekday show, who'd want to listen
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: to your nine year old podcast. Well, I say everyone should.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Skipping the old shows is like reading the Bible without
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: reading any of the Old Testament. There's many life lessons
• 22:50
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that. And of course it's a disposable form of
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: entertainment sports talk radio where you do the show that day,
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  Speaker 1: the next day there's another show and you're talking about
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• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that moment. Email continues. Last week, someone asked a question
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: about Nostridamis. Well, I've got one regarding Nostradinis, the true
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: profit of doom, says ferg Dog. He predicted Sam Donold
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  Speaker 1: will win eight straight Super Bowls with the Seahawks and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: go down as the greatest football player of all time.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: What do you think is more likely to come true
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: that that or the Raiders winning more than five games
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: next season? All right, So a fer Dog or snow dog.
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  Speaker 1: If you gave me one thousand dollars of funny money
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and said, what's more like to happen? I would bet
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: on the Raiders winning six games next year. We don't
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: know who the Raiders is going to HIGs their coach.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: It'll be some DRABBRONI. We have no idea who they're
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: gonna hire. So they'll hire somebody to come in and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: be the new village idiot, which is a great job.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: You can paid a lot of money, you don't have
• 24:10
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• 24:12
  Speaker 1: paid a lot of money. And Pete Carroll's gonna make
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars a year for the next couple of years. Anyway,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the point is that the Raiders play a bad schedule.
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  Speaker 1: They'll have the number one pick in the draft. They'll
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: have the number one pick in the second round. They
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: will not have the number one pick in the third
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: round because they traded that to Seattle Forerchino Smith. Yeah,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: but I'll tell I'll take the Raiders. I'll take the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Raiders a Lucky Tony writes, and he says, hey, Ben,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: in the prison dream, I woke up mid swing, so
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: nobody got shanked. But I love these dreams from Lucky
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Tony that's so good. I like them more than when
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: he calls up and just drops a porn star's name
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: and then hangs up. Anyway, Lucky Tony says in the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Prison Dream, I woke up mid swing, so nobody got shanked.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I did fun with the knife, but that's been a
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  Speaker 1: reoccurrence in night dreams. Around the time I sent my
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  Speaker 1: sent a song that never got played. Could one of
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  Speaker 1: you kind sers verify that they are in the system? Bears,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I'm happy for Lucky Tony. Lucky Tony, I'm sure he
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: got a little chubby when the Bears won that game
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: last night. He had to be very concerned at halftime.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I think we did play Terry in England's song. I
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: believe we did end up playing it on the air.
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  Speaker 1: We did not play it when it needed to be played,
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  Speaker 1: but we did eventually play it, and it is I
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  Speaker 1: believe in the system. So I can go back and check.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: But right not right now, I'm in the remote studio
• 25:43
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• 25:50
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• 25:53
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• 25:56
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• 26:22
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Crucially, this process does not delete old
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  Speaker 1: an alias. From Quang very technical Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
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  Speaker 1: Guaranteed human but QWAG isn't that what a guaranteed human
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  Speaker 1: would say or a robot? Rather that they're a guaranteed human?
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: You feel me on that alf from Shady Pines Rights
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and he says, First off, I'd like to give a
• 26:54
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• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to the mail bag that may or may not have
• 27:00
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• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Is still pissed at me for do not forward said
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: email three weeks in a row. That question will not
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: be answered. That being said, are you guys at the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: age that whenever you see a bathroom in the wild,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: you say to yourself, I could probably go, or I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: should probably try before I get in the car to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: alf in Shady Pines. Yes, yes, alf guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: In fact, I now am at the point of my
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: life where I have if I'm going on a long
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: road trip, even going I'll tell you just going from
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: work too. I live very far away from the Fox
• 27:49
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• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the Fox Sports Radio studios, I have to stop drinking.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I drink a lot of water. I have to stop
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: drinking water an hour before I leave to go to work, Okay,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: an hour before I get in the malinmobile. I have
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: to stop drinking water. And then I'm at the point
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: now where I can't drink while drink the water while
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I'm driving. I then have to wait until I'm about
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: a mile and a half from from Sherman Oaks, and
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: then I'll start drinking because if I drink any sooner.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Then I got an emergency situation. That's a problem anyway,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and uh what else? Email continues, First off, I'd like
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to give a tip. Blah blah blah blah. Oh, I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: think we I think we already covered that. I think
• 28:35
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• 28:37
  Speaker 1: a double ad there, bad job by me or bad
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: job by you. I don't know. Maybe that's it's probably
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: my fault, not your fault. But yes, alf absolutely, I
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: am very conscious of bathrooms. I know which locations have bathrooms.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Now I have been burned, and well, you go to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a bathroom and they you know, they got the code,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and then that's a big problem. And all right, JT,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the wingman from just outside Knoxville, Tennessee, rights and he says, hey,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: big Ben and Danny g So as we dive into
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the NFL playoffs, I pledge to keep my questions non sporty.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I didn't know who else to ask, so why not
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: ask the podcast guys, when is the best time of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the year to write poetry? I will trust your advice.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: That's from JT. So my recommendation, JT, is to write
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: some poetry for the Malard Paloozer, which is the biggest
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: event of the summer in sports talk great. It's right
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: around the Major League Baseball All Star Break, which is
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: in July. We normally coincide it with that. So I
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: would advise you to work on your poetry in the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: months of June and July. Get it ready by late
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: July and you'll be good to go, and you could
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: submit that into the show. We will have a poetry
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: contest roses Vie the It's of blue and I can
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: deep do poetry better than you, things like that. But JT,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: we love you, man. I'm sure I'll run into you JT.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: This year. One of the meet and greets, we plan
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: on having several, at least we know we'll do Vegas.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I'm getting I'm gonna get to Ohio one way or another.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: That'll happen this year. Boston, it sounds like it's gonna happen.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun and Mike in New Hampshire are hell
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: bent on having a Mallord meet and greet, a couple
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: of them, one in Boston, and I think we'll have
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: one in Worcester. So that'll be exciting looking forward to that.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So we look forward to those events. We'll do one
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: more here. I know we did a lot of ranting
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: about the football playoffs, so some of you guys questions
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: will not Some of your questions will not make it
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: out there. Scott from Florida the last one. He says, Ben,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: your tribute to Gene Deckerhoff was awesome. Growing up in Tampa,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I used to listen to the Bucks games on radio
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: because they stunk so bad. They were always blacked out
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: on TV. Yeah, people forget there was an era where
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: these games were on TV. If your team sucked, you
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: didn't get a lot of the games on TV. They
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: didn't sell out at home, no TV, and Scott says,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I would go into my room, fire up RC pro
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Am on the Nintendo and turn on Jesse Ventura doing
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the play by play. Before the team made a major
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: upgrade to Gene Dekaroff. I will show my age with this,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: but I am not sure Degorov made a better call
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: for the Bucks than the two NFC championship. The window
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: was closing for this team. They couldn't win in cold weather,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: but they couldn't beat the Packers and now the Eagles
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to get to the Super Bowl. On the opening kickoff
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: in a cold, loud Philly stadium, Brian Mitchell returned at
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: seventy yards to set the Eagles up for a quick touchdown.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Every Bucks fan thought, here we go again, and late
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: in the first quarter of the Bucks dril seven to three,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Joe Jarvisius beat former Northwestern classmate Barry Gardner on a
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: slant ran about fifty yards just inside the five yard line.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: It was a massive planet turned the whole game around.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: That week, Jeravicius had lost his newborn son, and although
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I was only twenty three at the time, I would
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: never I've never, rather never forgotten how sad and desponded
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Jerrevicious must have been. Same for Gene decker Off in
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: that moment, in that play, he made one of the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: most emotional guttural calls of all time. Nothing fancy, but
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: so genuine and unplanned. You go Joe, You go Joe.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And then Scott attached a YouTube video which I we're
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: not going to play it, but I did watch it,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and he says, as a former kid cheering for the
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: backwards Bucks in the eighties and nineties, rest assured we
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: all love and respect him as much as you. It's
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: awesome that you know so much about him despite living
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: on the West Coast. That's Scott from Florida. Well, thank you, Scott.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: And the reason I know Geen decker Off is because
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: of my job and we I used to be an
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: update guy and we played. I remember more from his
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: college football play by play calls than the Bucks. But
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: because the Bucks were bad, as you said, but I
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: do recall I always had a thing for the Bucks.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: The logo was so ugly, the old logo, the creamsicle
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: logo with the pirate with the knife, the Robin Hood logo.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I was, boy, that's such an ugly logo. It kind
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: of grew on me. And they were so bad, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I always liked the Losers when I was a kid,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: even I was like, these guys, these are so pathetic,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: these teams, and so have a chance to meet Jean
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: decker Off and you know, get to know, not know
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: him per se, but know his story, and through my
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: relationship with TJ. Reeves, who's broadcaster for the Bucks, it
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: was pretty pretty pretty cool, all right. That's it. So
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Reggie and Detroit, Steve, Mike and Wisconsin, Joe in New York,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: all you guys. Brett in Boston. I'm a schmuck, I'm
• 33:51
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• 33:56
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• 33:59
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• 34:05
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• 34:08
  Speaker 1: break down today around the NFL, so we'll get to
• 34:12
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• 34:17
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