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Hour 2 - Huge Win For UNC & Belichick · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Yabba-dabba-doo, it's our number two, our number two, the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maller Show. And we start with college football, the rare
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  Speaker 1: and appropriate college football reference. Does North Carolina beating TCU
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  Speaker 1: validate Bill Belichick's NFL-style blueprint for college football? He played
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  Speaker 1: a game in Dublin. Also, are you buying the University
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  Speaker 1: of Southern California's weather alibi, or are Trojan fans simply
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  Speaker 1: fed up and checked out of the football program? And
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  Speaker 1: we'll go to documentary land. When Netflix inevitably makes the
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  Speaker 1: documentary about the fake 49er wide receiver, Mr. Love there,
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  Speaker 1: isn't the most fascinating question going to be, how did
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  Speaker 1: nobody Google this guy in 2026? We'll talk about all
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  Speaker 1: that and more. Settle in. It's hour number two. Bill
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  Speaker 1: Webull.com slash disclosures. So the rare and appropriate lead story
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  Speaker 1: from college football over the weekend. Now, we were busy.
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  Speaker 1: Dancing and having a great, well, there was really not
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  Speaker 1: much dancing going on, but we were having a great
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  Speaker 1: time at the Big Maller meet and greet in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you if you showed up and appreciate that. Great crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Makes me think the show's still doing well. We had
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  Speaker 1: that was very cool. But our lead this hour is
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  Speaker 1: from college football. We go to Ireland. When you think
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  Speaker 1: hotbed of college football, you think Ireland. We're in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: They did not play on Tobacco Road. No, they did not.
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  Speaker 1: They traveled and traveled and traveled. They opened up the
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  Speaker 1: second season, the second chapter of the Bill Belichick novel,
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  Speaker 1: and they upset North Carolina in a slobber knocker, 15-10
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  Speaker 1: on a rainy day in Dublin. And there it was,
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  Speaker 1: 15-10 the final. So North Carolina off to the 1-0 start.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick has his biggest win ever. Since taking over
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  Speaker 1: the Tar Heels, the bar is not that high. The
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  Speaker 1: bar is not that high for Bill Belichick. So North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina's defense dominating after the first quarter. They did not
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  Speaker 1: play very well in the first quarter. After that, a
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  Speaker 1: domination situation holding TCU scoreless over the final eight possessions.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to the horny frogs? What happened to the
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  Speaker 1: horned frogs? 281 total yards of offense. That's it. The
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  Speaker 1: Tar Heels producing a couple of big-time stops in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter in this game near their own goal line
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, and that sets up the win.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. You're up in the air, 30,000 feet in
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  Speaker 1: the sky. Does North Carolina beating TCU validate Bill Belichick's
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  Speaker 1: NFL-style blueprint for college football? Obviously, what's going on with
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  Speaker 1: the Tar Heels and all that. So I've got manager special,
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  Speaker 1: surf report, and Leonardo DiCaprio. And we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together, and we are going to go zoom, zoom, vroom,
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  Speaker 1: vroom is what we're going to do. Zoom, zoom, vroom, vroom.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so number one.
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  Speaker 2: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: One, one, one, one, one.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: I said one, one, one. Number one. All right. Number one.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: So on the Malheur report card, the Malheur report card,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, validation. For North Carolina beating TCU on a
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  Speaker 1: wet field there in Dublin, Ireland, I've got S-S-S-P on
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  Speaker 1: my score. Not F, not D, C, A, B, none
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  Speaker 1: of that. S-S-S-P. Small sample size, please. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: wrote down on my scorecard. That's it. After a minutes-long
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  Speaker 1: mallard deliberation of the available information, we're calling this a
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  Speaker 1: baby step. That's all it is. It is not yet
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  Speaker 1: time for hot take validation. It is not time for
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  Speaker 1: anyone to sit here and say, well, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's blueprint works because they beat TCU, a team
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  Speaker 1: that kicked their ass last season, the beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: Belichick era in North Carolina there. The changes worked for now.
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  Speaker 1: And all we have to worry about is today's show,
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  Speaker 1: as we like to say. So in this moment, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at North Carolina, the quarterback, somebody named Billy
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  Speaker 1: Edwards Jr., whoever that is, had a respectable performance, 232
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  Speaker 1: yards passing. The tight end, who looks like he can
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  Speaker 1: play at the next level from Ohio State, transfer Jelani Thurman,
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  Speaker 1: I believe is the guy's name. He looks like he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be really good. for North Carolina. And Bobby Petrino,
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  Speaker 1: keep him off the motorcycles, keep him away from the
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  Speaker 1: hot co-eds, and he can coach an offense. Bobby Petrino,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator for Bill Belichick, and they had some
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  Speaker 1: explosive plays. Remember how pathetic North Carolina was on offense,
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  Speaker 1: how they were just plodding along last year? They showed
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  Speaker 1: some razzle-dazzle early in that game. And you had Grandpa Bill,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, who was calling the plays because his son
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  Speaker 1: is on medical leave, and so Belichick Leading the defense,
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  Speaker 1: they came up clutch there. Now, to be fair, TCU was,
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  Speaker 1: if they were a food, they'd be Sloppy Joe's is
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  Speaker 1: what they would be. Sloppy Joe's here. However, some of
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  Speaker 1: that was forced by North Carolina. gotta give them some
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  Speaker 1: level of credit here so after a year of pointing
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  Speaker 1: and laughing like nelson from the simpsons at the north
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  Speaker 1: carolina football program will bill belichick temporarily keyword there temporarily
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  Speaker 1: he gets a hall pass here from the football gods
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  Speaker 1: he does and he gets to pump his chest out
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  Speaker 1: and Say, hey, all you critics, you know who you are.
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  Speaker 1: You get served the manager's special. Now, what is the
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  Speaker 1: manager's special from Bill Belichick? Well, that would be a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of charbroiled crow. For the next week or so,
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  Speaker 1: you get to eat charbroiled crow. Disgusting. But enjoy. But
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  Speaker 1: how lucky are the crows they don't taste good? Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: people would just be eating these things all the time, right?
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  Speaker 1: That's the only reason we eat them. They don't taste good, supposedly.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I've heard. So anyway, this is just one,
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  Speaker 1: for the moment, enjoyable stop before the struggle bus comes
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  Speaker 1: around the mountain. The struggle bus comes around the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: So they've got upcoming North Carolina. They've got East Tennessee State.
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  Speaker 1: That is a cupcake with sprinkles for Bill Belichick. So
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  Speaker 1: you get off to the 2-0 start. Then it starts
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  Speaker 1: getting real. Now, Clemson isn't championship-level Clemson. However, compared to
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  Speaker 1: the North Carolina football program with Bill Belichick, They're smelling
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  Speaker 1: themselves there, the pedigree. So you've got Clemson and then
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame up ahead for Bill Belichick. So let's check
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  Speaker 1: back here. We'll revisit this as we get through, what,
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  Speaker 1: week four of the college football season? And is North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina going to be 3-1? Are they 2-2? Are they 1-3?
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  Speaker 1: What would the record be for Bill Belichick at that point?
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  Speaker 1: Stay tuned. Inquiring minds would like to know. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: we stick with college football. A number of you reached
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  Speaker 1: out and said, what has happened? What is wrong with
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  Speaker 1: the once mighty men of Troy? And one of the
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  Speaker 1: storylines from week zero of the college football season happened
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. We were enjoying ourselves at the Mallard meet
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  Speaker 1: and greet, and apparently no one else was enjoying watching
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  Speaker 1: the University of Southern California attempt to play football. USC,
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  Speaker 1: their week zero opener. became a viral sensation for Football Nation. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because of how empty it was. The empty seats everywhere
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  Speaker 1: at the Coliseum in downtown Los Angeles. The Trojans entered
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  Speaker 1: the college football season ranked number 14 in the sport.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason this became a thing is because they
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  Speaker 1: announced the crowd at 51,144. fans and SC won 42
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  Speaker 1: to 26 they had some issues there in garbage time
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  Speaker 1: against the Spartans of San Jose State old Sparty from
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  Speaker 1: San Jose. So the smallest home crowd in the Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: Riley era. However, the 51,000 is Fugazi is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: That's some fuzzy math, man. That's not even Mallarmath. That's
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  Speaker 1: a higher level of math than Mallarmath there. 51,000, 144 fans.
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  Speaker 1: The announced attendance there as the TV shots from the
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  Speaker 1: blimp above the stadium, the wide angle shots, uh, showed
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  Speaker 1: that there were a lot of people dressed as empty
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  Speaker 1: seats for the upcoming Halloween festivities. They had their Halloween
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  Speaker 1: costumes ready to go there.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Now, it got so bad. How bad was it? Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for asking. It was so bad that USC had to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge how embarrassing the crowd was because it became a thing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have to do it, but they did. They
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  Speaker 1: stressed in a prepared statement, USC football stressed that they
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  Speaker 1: certainly need the electric Coliseum atmosphere. Okay, hadn't been like
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  Speaker 1: that since Pete Carroll was there back then. 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: And they said the obvious alibi was the weather. They
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  Speaker 1: blamed the weather for the lack of souls that attended
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  Speaker 1: the game. Kickoff temperature at the Coliseum in downtown L.A.
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  Speaker 1: was 94 degrees. The real feel was with the humidity
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  Speaker 1: because apparently Southern California is now impersonating South Carolina. And
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  Speaker 1: the feel-like temperature was 104 degrees. During that, they had
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  Speaker 1: a heat advisory in Southern California. So the USC is like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we know why nobody showed up, because there was a
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  Speaker 1: heat advisory, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All right, question.
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  Speaker 1: Are you buying USC's weather alibi? The University of Southern
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  Speaker 1: California issuing a weather alibi, or are Trojan fans simply
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  Speaker 1: checked out? That's the question. All right, so here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: After looking at the available evidence, and I used to
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  Speaker 1: go to these games all the time back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: and they always struggled, SC, beginning of the year. Although
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  Speaker 1: they typically, up until recently, did not play just open
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  Speaker 1: tomato cans. Like, there was a point where they usually
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  Speaker 1: tried to play somebody halfway decent to begin the year,
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  Speaker 1: and then... Over the last 15 years or so, they've
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  Speaker 1: gotten away from that. Certainly in the current era with
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, it's let's get the jumbo-sized tomato can and
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  Speaker 1: we'll just line them up there and knock them out.
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  Speaker 1: So USC, here's the deal. To answer the question, are
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  Speaker 1: you buying USC's weather alibi or have fans simply checked out?
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  Speaker 1: USC does not have a heat problem. The problem is
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  Speaker 1: not the heat here. It is a Lincoln Riley problem.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: The Trojan faithful have decided to take a siesta. and
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  Speaker 1: they're just not into it. It doesn't matter how hot
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  Speaker 1: it is. If this team was the buzz and the
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  Speaker 1: bee's knees and all that in college football, they would
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  Speaker 1: have packed the Coliseum, and it would not have been
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  Speaker 1: friends and family only. And Lincoln Riley, he arrived from Norman, Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: as the offensive wizard destined to restore the once-proud USC
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  Speaker 1: football program to the penthouse of the sport. But high
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  Speaker 1: expectations have harpooned, and now they have crashed down, and
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  Speaker 1: they are residing, SC, in a little community called Dolesville.
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  Speaker 1: The entire football program scene is soft. They're competing in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten now, and any time they have to
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  Speaker 1: play in colder weather, they appear to be frozen. That's
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  Speaker 1: not a great way to play football, considering that in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten, you're going to have to play every
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  Speaker 1: year at least one or two road games late in
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  Speaker 1: the year in cold weather. That's the reality. So your
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  Speaker 1: program's stuck in Dullesville here. And Lincoln Riley, with all
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  Speaker 1: that hype, the hype train and all that, and now
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  Speaker 1: you look at his old school, all the Boomer Sooner fans,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama fans, Notre Dame, Ohio State, they look at the
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  Speaker 1: empty Coliseum and just laugh. They think this is the
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  Speaker 1: funniest thing ever. in the world, and the program, the
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  Speaker 1: University of Southern California football program, they can put lipstick
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  Speaker 1: on the stadium. They can try to. Their claim that
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  Speaker 1: 51,000 people showed up, even our friend Anthony in Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: who's blind, and blind sea bass, all these, they can see,
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  Speaker 1: even though they're blind, what's going on here. The actual attendance,
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  Speaker 1: it was like they're using... the Enron School of Accounting,
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  Speaker 1: to get the number of people they said were at
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  Speaker 1: the game. So if you don't know what Enron is,
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  Speaker 1: just Google it. I know it's a little dated here.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the deal. You check the surf report, and
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  Speaker 1: we did for you. We checked the surf report, and
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  Speaker 1: the surf report says this is not a heat wave.
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  Speaker 1: The attendance problem was not because of a heat wave.
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  Speaker 1: It was because of a wave of apathy. The apathy
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  Speaker 1: wave has hit that program there, and USC has... tried
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of different coaches. Some of them have gone
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  Speaker 1: on and done nice things elsewhere. They just didn't work
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  Speaker 1: out at SC. And USC has a total relevance crisis
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  Speaker 1: right now. And it's one of the blue bloods of
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  Speaker 1: college football. And in this moment, there is just the
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  Speaker 1: whiff of indifference in the air. That's it. And it's
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  Speaker 1: spreading like wildfire. And Lincoln Riley's approval rating is currently
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  Speaker 1: somewhere around the Arctic. All right. Last part of this,
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  Speaker 1: the final point, let's go to the Bay Area, a
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  Speaker 1: story that has overtaken all the social media. It's one
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  Speaker 1: of the great stories of our time. And I am
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  Speaker 1: guilty as anyone else of falling prey to the storyline.
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  Speaker 1: And it involves my favorite former 49er wide receiver who
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  Speaker 1: was not actually a 49er wide receiver, Dejon Love. Man,
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  Speaker 1: is this guy better than Jerry Rice in many ways,
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  Speaker 1: better than T.O.? So if you haven't followed the story,
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  Speaker 1: federal prosecutors want the former, wink, wink, nod, nod, 49er
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver who was not, Dejon Love, who's 35, kept
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  Speaker 1: behind bars. Keep this man locked up. They're calling the
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  Speaker 1: alleged fraudster a serious flight risk and that he has
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  Speaker 1: every incentive to flee. Every incentive to flee. Now, Love
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  Speaker 1: became a social media sensation for Football Nation. If you
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  Speaker 1: haven't been following along, as he had been posing for
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  Speaker 1: years as a 49ers player. And it was the old...
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  Speaker 1: Usually the honey trap works the other way, where it's
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful young woman that seduces, uses her amazing abilities
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  Speaker 1: as a woman to seduce a man and to trap
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  Speaker 1: him in the honey pot. In this case, it's the reverse.
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  Speaker 1: This is like... Man bites dog. This is crazy. So
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  Speaker 1: this guy pulled this off. What a fraudster. He pretended
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  Speaker 1: to be a 49er player for years, and he popped
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  Speaker 1: up on all the dating apps and all that and
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  Speaker 1: claimed that he had all this insider information, which was
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  Speaker 1: bogus on investments. And these women apparently all fell for
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  Speaker 1: the ruse. They gave him money. And he had an
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  Speaker 1: accomplice with him. They were arrested recently in Boise, Idaho,
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  Speaker 1: on wire fraud. They always get you on the wire fraud.
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  Speaker 1: They do. Now, prosecutors say this was a four-year scheme,
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  Speaker 1: over four years, targeting women across four states, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, California.
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  Speaker 1: I believe there might be some others in there. There
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  Speaker 1: might be some others. He and his accomplice, and they...
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  Speaker 1: they claimed the guy that was his buddy was the
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  Speaker 1: financial advisor. So the question, when Netflix inevitably, when Netflix
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  Speaker 1: inevitably makes this documentary on the fake 49er wide receiver,
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  Speaker 1: Dijon Love, Isn't the most fascinating part of this and
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  Speaker 1: the question going to be, how did nobody Google this guy?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that the obvious question? You can make a three-part
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  Speaker 1: Netflix docuseries. Isn't that the question? So this guy, again,
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  Speaker 1: fake 49er receiver Dijon. Boy, the Niners are having a
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  Speaker 1: time here. You had Shanahan with the phantom accident that
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  Speaker 1: vanished for 11 days. You got the owner who's looking
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  Speaker 1: for a little making whoopee at a trailer park in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: And now you've got the fake 49er player. And of
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  Speaker 1: the three, boy, neck and neck. I would say Shanahan's
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  Speaker 1: third player. billionaire owner looking for a nookie at the
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  Speaker 1: trailer park would be number one still for me. And
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  Speaker 1: not that we're doing a list, but I would put
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  Speaker 1: on my big board the love story, which is what
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  Speaker 1: a great name, Dijon Love. And he was able to
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  Speaker 1: hornswoggle all of these women. This is pure documentary gold.
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  Speaker 1: Sign me up right now. I will watch whatever platform
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  Speaker 1: this documentary ends up on. I'm in all weekend. I
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  Speaker 1: was getting updates. All this played out on social media.
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  Speaker 1: All this played out on text message. And for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: the women who were taken by this guy, they were
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  Speaker 1: posting what he was sending them. And so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: We're living in 2026 to think about where we are
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  Speaker 1: right now with unlimited information, the information superhighway, which I
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  Speaker 1: was promised when I was a kid. It's here. And
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  Speaker 1: it's right there in your pocket. You have a supercomputer
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  Speaker 1: right there. And even hollering James at the hospital with
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  Speaker 1: his Obama phone, he called last hour. And yet 26 women.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the, based on the photos I saw, most
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  Speaker 1: of them young and pretty attractive. Some would call them
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  Speaker 1: smoke shows, these young women. And they got absolutely taken
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  Speaker 1: to the bank out of 1.3 million because a guy
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  Speaker 1: wore a 49er helmet and ran on the beach claiming
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  Speaker 1: to be an NFL player. It's the funniest thing ever.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, tell me you don't know anything about football.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Do you think Puka Nakua or Justin Jefferson, when they're
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: working out, they take their own helmet to the beach
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: to run?
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It's hilarious.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so, so, so good. And again, if only
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: there was a way in the year we're in now
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to verify whether someone was an NFL player or not
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: in less than 15 seconds, if only that existed, man,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: that would be great. So how much sympathy? How much
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: sympathy are we supposed to have here? Like, seriously. When
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: your Tinder date starts asking for thousands of dollars in
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: investment money, shouldn't that be an alarm bell? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Like,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: something's going on. However, the secret sauce, based on my
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: review of the available information, the secret sauce of this situation,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the con... It's as old as time. It's like what
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: men look for is typically physical. Like a guy will
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: date a woman who's a janitor and won't mind at all. Now,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a woman, you better look like a freaking stud if
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you're working the fast food aisle or you're not going
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to get the time of day. But this guy claimed
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: to have status. the women clearly obsessed with celebrity and
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: all that desperately wanting the storybook thing to be true.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And so they wanted to tell all their friends that
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: they had hit the romantic lottery. They found the player,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: they found the baller. And so common sense went right
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: out the window or in this case, they went, they
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: turned on airplane mode and they couldn't get wifi. And
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: so that was part of the problem clearly. And I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: got to tell you, when this documentary drops and, And
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they're already starting to work on it, even
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: though the story's not done yet. We don't know how
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: this legal case is going to play out. But Man Alive,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: that is going to be the coolest sports documentary since
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: that fake high school. Remember that high school in Ohio
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that was fake and got on ESPN? It was so good. Anyway,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: as far as this, the Dijon Love story, this is
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: going to be, all of us who watch this, it'll
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: be like, The meme of Leonardo DiCaprio would be screaming
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: at the TV and pointing and laughing for three straight
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: hours or however long the documentary is. How did you
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: fall for this? How did you fall for this? Anyway,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: it is the Ben Maller Show. And you'd say, well,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: if these women maybe were unattractive or whatever, you know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and they were having trouble finding a man, you'd say, okay.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: These all seem like they could find the men under
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: any rock they wanted to find them in. So very odd.
• 23:46
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• 23:49
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• 23:50
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• 23:50
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• 23:58
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• 24:01
  Speaker 1: And on the naughty list, welcome aboard. The naughty list,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: we'll get to that. Also, Tom Brady gave me an offer. However,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: will he accept that offer? Inquiring minds would like to know.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that, and we will do it!
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Next, be sure to catch live editions of the Ben
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Maller Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Covino and Rich from Fox Sports Radio. Now,
• 24:26
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• 24:28
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• 24:32
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• 24:35
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• 24:38
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• 24:41
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• 24:50
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• 25:03
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• 25:05
  Speaker 1: put some more photos up later today. Me too. Oh,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Lorena will as well. Big photo dump on the social media.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I don't put these on X because everyone's an a-hole
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: on X, but you can check out the photos on
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the other social media channels. Facebook page, Ben Maller Show.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Nice community of people there, for the most part. And
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: also on Instagram, Ben Maller on Fox. There's a Team photo,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: which I had to lighten up because the lighting was...
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Will you send that to me, please?
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: I will.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have four different versions. I want all of them.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: You want every version?
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I will make that happen. I'll pick the one I
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: look best in. Okay.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: A lot of people looking the wrong direction. Very hard.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: It's like hurting sheep. It's just... You know when you're
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: trying to take a picture of a toddler? Look over here.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Back here.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Someone show the light. Did not go well. But we
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: had a great time. It was a lot of fun.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone that showed up and... Gave us the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: most valuable thing you have, your time, which is really,
• 26:06
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• 26:09
  Speaker 1: So a lot of fun. Check that out. If you
• 26:10
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• 26:14
  Speaker 1: at Ben Maller on the X Machine. We use that
• 26:18
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• 26:21
  Speaker 1: hello to Lorena, the FSR Tech Queen. Hi. There she
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: is right there. And you can say hi to our
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: producer today in for the Koopa Loop, who's still recovering
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: from from his weekend bender in vegas and that's patty
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: our buddy patty patty speaks big morning producer patty speaks
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: with a z so there you go now back to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: it coming up later this hour we will have for
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: your dancing and dining pleasure another edition of that's right
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: mallard to the third degree also have the insta trivia
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: coming up later this hour tom brady getting an offer
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: that he can certainly refuse Brady receiving a proposition from
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: free agent running back none other than Austin Eckler. Now,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Austin Eckler at one point was really good. Really, really
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: good for the Chargers. That point is not now. Don't
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: let a falling star fall on you and all that.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And Eckler has bounced around the NFL a wee bit.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: And you look at the age game, he's 31, he's
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: past the expiration point. He's played with the Washington Commanders,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: kind of. Was injured some of that time there, but
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: he's attempting to seduce Tom Brady to give him an opportunity.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: The Raiders have an issue as their running back, Ashton Gentry,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: dinged up. They're saying what, high ankle sprain? Did I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: read that over the weekend? High ankle sprain, which means
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: he'll be out for a while. That sounds not that bad.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Ankle sprain, generally pretty bad. So we'll see if Tom
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Brady picks up the call to text back Austin Eckler,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: who said when asked about this, it would be a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: dream for his family. I guess he lives in Vegas,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and he says he's unemployed right now in his hometown,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and he'd like to play there. So we'll see if
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the Raiders have interest. They've already signed a washed-up quarterback
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: in Kirk Cousins. Now they can add a washed-up running back.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: a matching set there. That would be great. Let's go
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: to the phones. It is a call-in show, and who
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: do we have? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. I'm sure this
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: is another phony phone call, but we'll go to them
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: right away. Let's go to Pete in Pittsburgh. Yes, who's this?
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: Hello.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Been years, Pat. What?
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I don't hear anything. I heard it's been years, Ben.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: And now he's gone.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: All right. That's because I realized it was. Let's go
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to Big Balls Bob, who yet again dominated the karaoke
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: stage there in Vegas, and he is on right now.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: He gave me a nice hat as a gift. Thank you. Hello,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the one and only Big Balls Bob.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Hi, Ben. How are you?
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: If I was any better. I would have spent the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: night and not driven back to L.A. in the middle
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: of the night. But I did drive back to do
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: this show. I got home at like 6.30 in the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: morning or something like that. You left like last night?
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I left after the event. I left after the event.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I left at like 2 in the morning. We stayed
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: in Georgia, Vegas until like 2 in the morning. And
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: then got in the Mallard Mobile and drove through Baker, Barstow, Prim,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: all those places out in the desert and got back there.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Did you get some jerky while you were driving by
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: that alien jerky place?
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the alien jerky place is not open at 3
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: in the morning, which is rather disappointing. It's not?
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: They should roll up and have you come in there and...
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: by the whole place.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: The great thing about that, though, Big Balls Bob, is
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: when you drive back, there's a lot of bathrooms, because
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: anywhere out in the desert, you just pull off to
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the side of the road, there's a bathroom everywhere, so
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: it's really cool.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: You learned my lesson there. Well, it's good to see everybody,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: and I had a great time, and Maybe when the
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: baseball stadium's finished here, we could do something like that.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: That'd be fun.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, go to an A's game or something like that?
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, or whoever they're playing.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, to see the other team, not to see the A's,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: to see the other team.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: That's what this town is. I've been to Raiders games.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: I root for the other team and also whoever the
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Knights are playing, but I like the Knights. Great thing, Lorraine.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: I got to tell you, I had that drink named
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: after you and It was a fun ride home, I
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: got to tell you.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, boy. In your Uber. In your Uber.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: I almost sold some Buicks.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, Bob.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: You guys are awesome. I enjoy spending the quality time
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: with you.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And you're the pride of Skokie, Illinois, right?
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: That's right. Skokie. Don't get any better than that. Yeah.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: The legendary town of Skokie, Illinois. A town that very
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: few have been to, but many have heard about. Skokie, Illinois.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy. Take care.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: Bye, Lorena.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Big balls, Bob. Until next year's Mallard meet and greet
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: back in Vegas. Thanks for the back scratcher. Got a
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: nice cat. I saw his cat. He showed me photos
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of the cat, you know?
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Not the cat, I thought.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: What?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: No, no, not that. It was an actual kitty cat.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: There was an actual kitty cat there. Oh, yeah, his
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: new little striped one, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So cute.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: It's tough. When you lose a pet, it's not, it's
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a mourning process. For some people, it lasts an hour.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: For some people, it lasts two months, a year. You
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: never know. Let's go back to the phones. Let's say
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: hello to Dave, who's in Houston. Hello, Dave. I think
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I know who this is. Is this the legendary caller, Dave?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: As in, I think I know who. Dave, is this
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: transgender Dave?
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, there it is.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: There it be. Transgender Dave. How's that going, Dave? When's
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the big operation?
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I'm entirely gender-fluid. There's just no telling. But,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: you know, after all this talk of sex and wire fraud,
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: I wanted to make a completely wholesome phone call tonight,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: which would be unusual.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's out of character. That's out of character.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: This will test your pro football knowledge going way back
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: before your time, and it involves a personal thank you
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: to one of the best players NFL players, the number
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: one draft pick in the NFL in 1968. It was
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: for the Cincinnati Bengals. He was a center. He was
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: the only player to ever have his jersey retired for
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: the Bengals. And, uh, I wonder if you remember.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: His name was Bob Johnson.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Bob Johnson.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Back in 1968 at West High School, I was given
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: an assignment to find a speaker for a high school assembly.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: And he was big time in Knoxville, as you can imagine.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: University of Tennessee, number one draft pick. And I... had
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: no boundaries at the time. So I called him up
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: at his home, and I heard him say to his wife,
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: that's how young people got married back then. He said,
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: somebody wants me to speak at a high school, blah, blah, blah.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: But he said yes, and he came and he spoke.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: And this leads me to think that everybody in the
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: state of Ohio where he's still alive, Doing fine, according
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: to my smart speaker. Still living. Was very eminent. Played
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: for like 14 years.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Well, I can't wait for the payoff on this. The
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: payoff on this is going to be unbelievable. Maybe in
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: like 14 years. There's a kicker that we're going to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: get from Transgender Dave in Houston, which is going to
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: blow you away. And I am ready for it. I've
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: been set up now.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I'm ready for it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be wholesome. It's just
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: a thank you. That's all it is now. Okay. Back
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: to ridiculous content. I heard Brianna doing some of your
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: mailbag over the weekends, was it? Did a very confident
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: job on weekends. This leads me to believe that the
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: women of Fox Sports Radio are awesome. And my only
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: problem with Lorena is... I'm afraid she's lost her heart
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: to Anthony from Louisiana. I cannot compete with that guy.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: It's very tough. Anthony, when you have the kind of
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: swag that Anthony from Louisiana has. He makes me melt.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: He's got game. He's got game. All right. Well, Transgender Dave,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: not one of your better calls, but we'll try better
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: next time. But thank you. There he goes. The great
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Transgender Dave from Houston. A fan favorite.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: For sure.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: It is the Ben Maler Show. Time now for the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Insta Trivia. And here we go. So Aaron Donald will
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: play his first game with the Rams against the Niners
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: in that really typical California town of, where is it,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: in Australia? They're in Australia playing in Australia. It's a country.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald's 12.5 sacks versus the 49ers, playoffs included, are
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: tied with blank for the most for any player since
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: sacks became an official statistic in 1982. Again, Aaron Donald's
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: got 12.5 sacks against the Niners, including the playoffs. That
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: is tied with blank for the most of any player
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: in the NFL since sacks became official in 1982, obviously
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: against the The 49ers. That's the instant trivia. The answer.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 36:12
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• 36:15
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• 36:22
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• 36:29
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• 36:33
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• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show on YouTube. Click the thingamajig. Thank you.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that. All right, back to it.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Time now for the payoff on the Insta trivia. Aaron Donalds,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: 12.5 sacks against the Niners, that includes the playoffs, are
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: tied with blank for the most for any player since
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: sacks became an official stat back in 1982. This is
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: just against the 49ers. That is the question. What is
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the answer? Quickly, we got Mallory, third degree. Bob the Builder,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: guessed by Femi. The Uber Eats driver. Alf the Alien
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: O'Piner says, your expired FCC license. Yeah, I did have
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: a FCC license at one point to run the board.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: You used to have to have that. Maller Prop Guy says,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Sir Scratch-Off, King of Sacks. Retired caller. Deacon Jones from
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Analog Al. Joe Klecko from Mediocre Kabuki in Maine. And
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Trucker Joe says, friend of the show, Seymour Butts is
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the correct answer. Who else? Wiley Coyote from Dat Dude.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Mark in Queens is going with Joe Klecko. He said,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: or Abdul Salam. Do you have an answer, Lorraine? Nah.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Probably metaphor Kyle. Is it metaphor Kyle? Very nice man.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Let him know. It is also not Slug who went
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: with the Hedgehog or some kind of Hedgehog. No, the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: correct answer would be Kevin Green. Kevin Green. Rest in peace,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Kevin Green. Ram legend. And Steelers legend in the 80s.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: It is not Ha Ha Clinton Dix. Guess by Jerry
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: in the Jar.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: It's Maller.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: To the third degree.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Ha.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Here we go. In the producer's chair, our friend Patty.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Big morning producer here, Patty Squeaks. All right, Ben. Well,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: let's go to the third degree. So here's the first question.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Dylan Gabriel had the best performance of any Browns QB
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: this preseason with a three-touchdown game against the Patriots. However,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: this weekend he was placed on IR with a designation
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: to return. Ben, do you think Gabriel starts any games
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: for Cleveland?
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm going to go yes. Here's why. Deshaun Watson sucks.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: He'll get hurt. And then it's 17 games, so he'll
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: get hurt somewhere before like week six or seven. Shadurah
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Sanders will play, but he's no good. And then by then,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Gabriel will be back, and they'll be throwing poo against
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the wall to see what sticks. So I'm going to
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: say yes. Dylan Gabriel does get at least one start
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: for the Cleveland football team this year. Next!
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Next, in four years leading the Vikings, Kevin O'Connell has
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: 43 wins in two playoff appearances. However, there is some
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: speculation that if the Vikings don't make the playoffs this season,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: he's out of a job. Ben, do you think that's
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: the case?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: So it sounds outrageous to say that O'Connell would be
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: out of a job, but I'm going to go yes.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Every year there's 10 coaches or so that gets get
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: replaced in the NFL. And unless he's got a tight
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: relationship with ownership. he's the guy that said we want
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: to bring in JJ McCarthy and McCarthy. He's either not
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: going to be on the team. We're going to be
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: like a third string guy. So that's on him. So
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: they don't win this year. They chose Kyler Murray. Yeah,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I could see a change. Next.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Jalen Brown said in an interview over the weekend, my
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: mentality this year is to kill.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I want blood this year. That's the mentality.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Ben, do you think Brown could have an MVP-level season
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: for the 76ers?
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: No. There's too many star players on the Sixers. They're
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: not going to all get their stats there, so that's
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: not going to happen. It'll make good radio.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: How do we do?
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: You went three for three. Oh!