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Hour 4 - Out of Magic Dust · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: How do you do? It's our number four. It's a
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  Speaker 1: thriller by Godzilla. In our number four, as the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots returning to form, or did they? Game more
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  Speaker 1: about the team from Vegas. Did this latest blowout loss,
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  Speaker 1: this performance, make you change your opinion on Coach Clint
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  Speaker 1: Kubiak's Raiders? Many people high on the silver and black. Also,
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  Speaker 1: what's the Maller report card read on Fernando Mendoza's first
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  Speaker 1: real snaps with the Raiders? He got into the game late.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll go to the Bayou. Can the Viking fans
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  Speaker 1: now relax? After they get a win against the Saints,
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  Speaker 1: can they relax with their concerns over the Kyler Murray-led offense?
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and more. Happy Monday. Don't forget
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  Speaker 1: Fifth Hour Podcast today on this 12th day of October.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your day. Thank you, by the way, for listening.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Hour 4. So what happens when you run out
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  Speaker 1: of magic dust? Where does your team go? Well, we
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  Speaker 1: found out in one of the random NFL games on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: it's been a wacky night on the overnight from the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons blowing a lead and losing to the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: backup quarterback to the NLCS game one going to the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers over the Dodgers. Jaden Daniels with an epic
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  Speaker 1: brain fart for the Washington Commanders. And now we turn
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  Speaker 1: our attention. To the silver and blah. The silver and blah.
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  Speaker 1: We tried to tell you. Some of you idiots wouldn't listen.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from New England. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a religious revival. The Patriots are back, baby. Well, they
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  Speaker 1: already beat Buffalo. Yeah, you say, well, maybe that was
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a fluke. No, this is what you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do. Beat up on crappy teams. The Patriots
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  Speaker 1: played a crappy team and they beat them up. Drake May,
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  Speaker 1: that was arson. He torched Las Vegas for five touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: New England gets a 28-point laugher. Blowout city. Blowout city
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  Speaker 1: as the Patriots have emerged from their early season hibernation. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Drake May's emerged. He completed almost 80% of his passes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's good. 374 yards passing, four touchdowns through
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  Speaker 1: the air. And one on the ground. Rat-a-tat-tat. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what it's all about. More importantly, he did not turn
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  Speaker 1: the football over for the first time this season. Drake
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  Speaker 1: May played a clean game. Were there some opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: turn the ball over? Yes, there were. He didn't turn
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  Speaker 1: the ball over. And the Patriots pile up 536 yards
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  Speaker 1: of offense. The Raiders shouldn't have even bothered going. If
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  Speaker 1: they're going to play like that, they might as well
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  Speaker 1: just stay back in Vegas and save money on the trip.
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  Speaker 1: 536 yards of offense as Pop Douglas got a couple
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  Speaker 1: of touchdowns. Hunter Henry and Kyle Williams also added one apiece.
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room. Now,
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  Speaker 1: some of you know, over the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: we have been bombarded by the algorithm and some fine
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  Speaker 1: boys with their little Raider blogs. They were not happy
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  Speaker 1: with us. They cannot handle the truth. So they decided
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  Speaker 1: to attack the messenger. We tried to warn you. We
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  Speaker 1: thought we were doing the right thing. You couldn't handle
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  Speaker 1: the truth when now you're getting a life lesson.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So let's discuss. The question, did this particular performance or
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  Speaker 1: lack thereof make you change your opinion of the Clint
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  Speaker 1: Kubiak Raiders? So I've got defunct casino and hotel, Oscar
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  Speaker 1: the Grouch, and taxpayer-funded... And we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together, and we're going to have a big
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  Speaker 1: help in a jambalaya. We're going to have some baba ghanoush.
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  Speaker 1: And for Tillio in the Sunshine State, we've got to
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  Speaker 1: have the gabagool. You've got to have the gabagool. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so first of all, to answer the question, did this
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  Speaker 1: performance by the— Raiders cause you to change your opinion
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  Speaker 1: of Clint Kubiak's team. So the answer is not a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Not a bit at all. Unlike the Kool-Aid drinking brown nosers,
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  Speaker 1: we're not one of them. We were never fooled. We
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  Speaker 1: were never fooled by the silver and black magic show. Abracadabra.
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  Speaker 1: Hocus Pocus. Yeah. So the Patriots did not just beat
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders in this game in Foxborough. They audited the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: That was an audit. And guess what? You failed the audit.
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  Speaker 1: You failed the audit. New England averaged 8.1 yards per play.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a mistake. 8.1 yards per offensive play and
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  Speaker 1: getting 536 yards of offense. Apparently the Raiders defense was
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  Speaker 1: observing the Sabbath. So I hope they enjoyed the Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was yesterday, but apparently it was. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we knew the Raiders were kind of like that defunct
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  Speaker 1: casino and hotel in Vegas called The Mirage. They were
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  Speaker 1: a mirage. Never fall for the early season mirage. And
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  Speaker 1: some of you people fell for it. We tried to
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  Speaker 1: tell you. You wouldn't listen. Kubiak's Raiders... They had more
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  Speaker 1: smoke and mirrors than the magician working the midnight show
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  Speaker 1: on the street. They used to have midnight shows. Do
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  Speaker 1: they even have those in Vegas anymore? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I know they have like 10 o'clock shows. That's like
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  Speaker 1: the latest. I don't think they do midnight shows anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They used to back in the old days, back when
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  Speaker 1: the mob ran Vegas and you didn't have to pay
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  Speaker 1: $ 40 to park back in those days. So anyway, the Raiders,
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  Speaker 1: all that smoke and mirrors with Kubiak. They beat over
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of bottom feeders. They just pummeled some bottom
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  Speaker 1: feeder teams. And yet again, we always fight the good
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  Speaker 1: fight against the low information fan. And I understand. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you guys have jobs. You don't pay
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  Speaker 1: attention that much. You're low information. You're not knowledgeable. I
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  Speaker 1: get it.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 1: I have no life. I get paid to pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to this stuff. It's a higher level. You're not that guy, pal.
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  Speaker 1: You're not that guy. So you're low information fans. You
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  Speaker 1: get all horny. And all these old dudes who grew
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  Speaker 1: up when the Raiders were good. You got to be
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  Speaker 1: old to remember the Raiders are good. And we try
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  Speaker 1: to tell you, listen, this is not it. This is
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  Speaker 1: not it. And you're like, oh, no, no, you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome to a little town I call Realityville. That's right. Realityville.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Five weeks into the season. You look at the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: now and all of a sudden there they've gone from
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  Speaker 1: Cinderella to the Jack O' Lantern. They're now the jack-o'-lantern
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  Speaker 1: in the parking lot there, and they have wins over
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins, Chargers, and Saints. By the way, those teams
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  Speaker 1: combined record, Dolphins, Saints, and the Chargers, 1-14. That is
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  Speaker 1: a 0-67 winning percentage. I'm told that's not good. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: come on, Maller! You're just trying to disrespect the Raiders! Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I know. There is a world, if you're dyslexic, where
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  Speaker 1: those teams are 14-1. We don't live in that world,
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  Speaker 1: so it's unfortunate. So Clint Kubiak's Raiders finding out the
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  Speaker 1: hard way. They're finding out the hard way here that
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  Speaker 1: you can fool the tourist on the strip. They think
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  Speaker 1: that Elmo's the real Elmo. But eventually the house of
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  Speaker 1: cards comes crashing down, down, down, down, down, down. And
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  Speaker 1: that's where we are right now. And it's unfortunate. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I was wrong. The Raiders are just not good.
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  Speaker 1: We tried to tell you. And you wouldn't listen. And
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  Speaker 1: now they're showing you. They're showing you who they really are. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if they can play the Dolphins again and the Saints,
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  Speaker 1: they will play the Chargers again. They got shot. But
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  Speaker 1: other than that, they're a fraud. They're a fraud. That's
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  Speaker 1: where they are. So the Raiders have returned to being
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  Speaker 1: your daddy's Raiders. That's the real Raiders. Everything's moving back
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  Speaker 1: into place. Everything's lined up. All the planets are lined
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  Speaker 1: up the way they're supposed to be now. The Raiders
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  Speaker 1: are back to being a dog food team. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what it is.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, speaking of the Raiders, though, a number of you
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  Speaker 1: got very excited staying with this game. The much ballyhooed
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  Speaker 1: debut of... Number one. Number one. Overall pick, Fernando Mendoza,
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  Speaker 1: made his NFL debut with 6-0-6 remaining. In the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: replaced Kirk Cousins with Las Vegas trailing by 28 points.
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  Speaker 1: How great is this? Oh my God, this is so sad. So,
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  Speaker 1: number one pick of the draft. They think so little
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  Speaker 1: of this guy. They know he can't play, so they
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  Speaker 1: put him in with six minutes left down 28 points.
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  Speaker 1: Let's try to hide him. And they hit him. They
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  Speaker 1: hit him. Well, they did. They were able to hide him.
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza completed six of eight passes for 48 yards and
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  Speaker 1: no touchdowns, no interceptions. A passer rating of under 90
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  Speaker 1: for Fernando Mendoza. He did complete his first five throws.
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  Speaker 1: including a 16-yarder to Trey Tucker, and then it all
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  Speaker 1: fizzled away there. Mendoza reached the red zone and did
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  Speaker 1: not get it done. Anyway, here's the man of the hour,
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  Speaker 1: the number one pick out of Indiana, Fernando Mendoza. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me how it went, Fernando.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't a great experience because of the overall outcome.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to do my part any way I could
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  Speaker 4: help the team.
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  Speaker 2: It was tough.
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  Speaker 4: Called upon, and I really appreciate all my teammates, especially
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  Speaker 4: some of the starters going out there, still having a
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  Speaker 4: fight to win and a fight and a fighting effort.
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  Speaker 4: So I really appreciate all those guys putting their best
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  Speaker 4: effort for that last draft.
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  Speaker 1: That was a really good effort. I thought the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: played great, down 28 points there. Very impressive. Clint Kubiak
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  Speaker 1: praising the rookie, saying he, quote, did a good job.
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  Speaker 1: Many pundits gushing. They had their knee pads on. They
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  Speaker 1: came in the Manny Petty and the Hawk Tua to
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  Speaker 1: The former number one pick here. So the question. Let's
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  Speaker 1: pull out the Maller report card. The Maller report card.
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  Speaker 1: How does the Maller report card read for Fernando Mendoza's
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  Speaker 1: first real snaps with the Raiders? All right. So Maller
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  Speaker 1: report card time. Now, we did not, did not give
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza an A. But we also didn't give him
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  Speaker 1: an F. We didn't give him an F. Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: gave him an F. I know you did, Maller. No,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't give him an F. So the Maller report card,
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  Speaker 1: we wrote down capital I times two. Capital I times two.
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  Speaker 1: That means irrelevant and incomplete. It was an irrelevant performance,
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  Speaker 1: and it was an incomplete performance. This wasn't an NFL
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  Speaker 1: audition for the top pick in the draft. This was
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  Speaker 1: Sesame Street. is what it was. New England rolled out
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  Speaker 1: mostly backups. Oscar the Grouch climbed out of the garbage
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  Speaker 1: can and said, hey, you know what time it is?
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Garbage time. That's what time it is there.
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza got to play quarterback against the cleanup crew for
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots, and yet the Raider fanboys, oh, man, they
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  Speaker 1: got so excited. They were so giddy. They were celebrating.
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  Speaker 1: You would have thought Fernando Mendoza was the second coming
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  Speaker 1: of the last good Raider quarterback Rich Gannon, who's old now,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. It's been a while. Mendoza, he could
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  Speaker 1: have gone out. I'm convinced. Based on the reviews I saw,
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza could have gone out there to the 50-yard
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  Speaker 1: line and dropped a deuce right there at the 50-yard line.
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  Speaker 1: And the Raider apologist out there, they would have looked
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  Speaker 1: at that deuce right at midfield and said, my God,
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  Speaker 1: that is the greatest duty I've ever seen right there.
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  Speaker 1: The doo-doo at that field. That is such beautiful. It
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  Speaker 1: smells great. It's just amazing how great that is. They're
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  Speaker 1: so emotionally invested, these cheerleaders. They would have praised his
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  Speaker 1: pocket presence. He waited to get into the pocket there
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  Speaker 1: when he dropped the deuce. Footwork was amazing when he
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  Speaker 1: pulled his pants down. And let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have hemorrhoids. So tremendous. Tremendous. Eating a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fiber. Very important. So ignore the silver and black fluffers,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. We're not that part of the deal.
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  Speaker 1: We're not into that. That's not our thing. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot declare a savior based on eight passes. Eight
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  Speaker 1: passes for Fernando Mendoza in a game that was already
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  Speaker 1: in the obituary section or your favorite obituary website. So
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like giving a standing ovation when the
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  Speaker 1: understudy at the Broadway show, gets on stage there, but 70%
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  Speaker 1: of the audience has already gone home because, again, it
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  Speaker 1: was garbage time. Garbage time. So God bless the Raider fans. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I am so grateful that you guys are keeping me
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  Speaker 1: employed by watching the videos online and all that. It
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  Speaker 1: means a lot that you're so obtuse about that you
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  Speaker 1: have no clue that this team's not very good. But
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  Speaker 1: you'll learn. You know, you'll learn. The Raiders have a
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  Speaker 1: losing record this year. They'll lose a bunch more games.
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  Speaker 1: And sometime, of course, you'll never admit you're wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: we tried to warn. Again, distant relative of Nostradamus, friend
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  Speaker 1: of Nostradamus, we tried to tell you you wouldn't listen.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. You've been so beaten down by
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  Speaker 1: 20-plus years of a terrible product. If any other business
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  Speaker 1: put a product like that out for 20 years, they
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  Speaker 1: would have gone out of business. But these sports teams
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  Speaker 1: don't go out of business. So, you know, meantime, Mark
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  Speaker 1: Davis out there eating orange chicken at the P.F. Chang's,
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  Speaker 1: enjoying his life, and just let Tom Brady do whatever
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  Speaker 1: he wants, and that's fine. You celebrate anything that shows
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  Speaker 1: even a little pulse. I get it. I understand there's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot going on. The team's not very good.
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  Speaker 1: Coach isn't very good. All that stuff. I got it.
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  Speaker 1: We tried to tell you. It's fine. You're wrong. It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: It happens. All right, final thought. To the Bayou we go.
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  Speaker 1: To the Bayou where the Vikings are 5-0. Blow into
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  Speaker 1: the horn right now. Skol. Vikings are 5-0. They defeat
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  Speaker 1: the Saints. 23-13 the final. Despite committing multiple turnovers and
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  Speaker 1: all that, Kyler Murray delivered. Or did he? Murray had
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  Speaker 1: 229 yards passing. The alligator arms. There it is right there.
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  Speaker 1: One touchdown, zero interceptions. And the Vikings are a little
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  Speaker 1: fast and loose there with the football. 51 rushing yards
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  Speaker 1: for the little pips week. And Justin Jefferson did return.
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  Speaker 1: He missed week four with an ankle injury. He was back.
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson caught six passes for 79 yards. He had a
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  Speaker 1: 15-yard touchdown grab. And that was over a couple Saints
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  Speaker 1: defensive players that were all over him. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: can Vikings fans now relax? Can Viking fans relax now that...
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  Speaker 1: That offense, the concerns you have with Kyler Murray in
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  Speaker 1: the offense, you can now relax because you won a
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  Speaker 1: game against the Saints. So, hell no! You've got to
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  Speaker 1: be joking. Come on now. 23 points. If 23 points
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  Speaker 1: represents progress, then a broken elevator, a broken elevator reaching
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  Speaker 1: the second floor deserves applause. Just give some applause. The
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  Speaker 1: elevator made the second floor. Well, that's great. That's just
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  Speaker 1: freaking wonderful. So the Vikings are winning games, kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a college student surviving on extra credit. You feel
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  Speaker 1: me on that, right? It's confusing. They're not thriving. They're surviving.
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  Speaker 1: There's a difference. Some people think, well, you're 5-0. You're thriving. No,
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  Speaker 1: they're surviving, the Vikings. It's not a sustainable formula. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows that. It's not going to last. It's just the
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  Speaker 1: way it is. They either got to find some offense
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  Speaker 1: or it's just going to fall apart. And the offense
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  Speaker 1: is a pure carnival funhouse at this particular point. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of movement. There's some shiny parts. Plenty of mirrors.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody seems to know where the exit is on
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  Speaker 1: how to get to the end zone. So the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: at this point, if you break them down, the Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: Vikings offense is It's like a taxpayer-funded highway construction project
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  Speaker 1: where they spent a lot of money, invested a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money, they got orange cones everywhere, and nobody's really moving.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not like there's a lot of work getting done.
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  Speaker 1: It's not. So right now the Vikings offense is running
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  Speaker 1: on fumes, and there's some duct tape over there, complimentary mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. So Minnesota has a championship-caliber defense
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  Speaker 1: that which is going to be wasted because they have
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  Speaker 1: no offense. And that's it. And so the offense is terrible.
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  Speaker 1: The defense is worthy of greatness. And then the defense
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  Speaker 1: doing their job, the offense is like a microwave dinner. Technically,
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  Speaker 1: it's dinner. Doesn't taste all that good. The defense deserves
• 19:43
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• 19:46
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• 19:49
  Speaker 1: arms Kyler. Murray, the little fella. Remember, he just needed
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: a change of scenery. No. Listen, the offense is not
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: broken beyond repair. I thought the coach of the Vikings
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: was a quarterback whisperer. How's that working out? Not so great.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: It's not broken beyond repair. There's little evidence that anyone
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: picked up the owner's manual. I guess when the move happened,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray left Arizona to go to Minnesota, they didn't
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: include the manual because Arizona didn't know how to use
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Apparently it was not his fault at all.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: And so it's not like he's turned the corner or
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: they've turned the corner of the Vikings offense. It's just
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: like Kyler drove the little bus because he can't drive
• 20:33
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• 20:35
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• 21:04
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• 21:06
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• 21:10
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• 21:14
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• 21:19
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• 21:23
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• 22:19
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• 22:22
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• 22:36
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• 22:53
  Speaker 1: She liked the sign turned on on the Lorena Theater.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Turned the power back on. The lights are so dark.
• 23:00
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• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I don't see it. Lorena can be found at FSR
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Tech Queen in Koopa Loop this year. He's in a
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: good mood. The Broncos won, so he's happy about that.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And they covered the spread. That's more important. Broncos Twitter's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: having a meltdown, though. Why is that? They didn't look
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: that good?
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: Bo Nix has regressed. He's not the guy. What happened
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: to last year's version of Bo?
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: He wasn't that good.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: No, he doesn't look great.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: They changed offensive play colors this week. What did he average?
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: How many yards did he have? I don't even know.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: No, it wasn't great.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: But I'm just wondering if he's... He's lying about feeling
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: the best he's felt in a long time and that
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: the ankle is not completely.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: He's damaged goods. Is that what you're saying? He's faking
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: an injury. They're hiding an injury. He averaged 4.6 yards
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: per pass. I don't think that's good. And he didn't
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: really run the ball. There were some opportunities there.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's true.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: He hasn't been scrambling or rolling out like he used to.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Well, say hello to Coop at a Bronco fan. That's
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: a Bronco fan. And I mentioned earlier, I did run
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: into our old friend, Eddie, who's a big Steeler fan,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: but through marriage, he's a Charger fan. They actually went
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to Seattle, he and the wife there, so they could
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: see the Chargers lose and spend money on travel, which
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is great. Yeah. And I was like, hey, are you
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: going on any more road trips? Are you going to
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: go see the team somewhere else? And they're debating whether
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: they should shut it down, spend more money. Of course,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: my advice was like, just wait until next year. Maybe
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: they'll be better next year.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: I was just looking at potential costs of a Phoenix
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: trip in a couple weeks.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Well, you can drive to Phoenix. That's a tank of gas, too,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: both ways. Go to Buc-ee's when you go there. It's
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: right on Glendale, Arizona, on the way into Phoenix. It's
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: going to do it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: But the tickets to the game are actually more expensive
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: than they were for SoFi.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Really? Why is that?
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe you wait? Yeah, possibly. Yeah, wait. That's risky, though,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: if you go and get a hotel room and then
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: you have to wait the last minute.
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, what had happened with the Chargers game is they,
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: like a few days, or I guess the day that
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: I bought the ticket, they released a... a 20% off
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: sale because they.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: Suck and nobody wants to go to the game.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: That's good. Good for you. Yeah. All right. Let's go
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to the phones. Let's say hello to, oh, here's a friend, Kelly,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: formerly known as Donut Kelly in Des Moines. And hello, Kelly. Welcome. Hello, Ben. Hello, Kelly.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: How are you?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: You enjoying Des Moines? What does Des Moines have to do?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: You've lived all over, though, right? You've moved around a little.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I have lived all over, yes. Yeah. All right, like
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: that Iowa, quiet Iowa life.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, in terms of all the places I've lived, yes,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Iowa is the quietest, I would say, yes.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Very cool. What's on your mind? How can we help you?
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Nothing.
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: I've had a.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Bad sports weekend. You know, the Oregon loss was tough.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Seattle got screwed by the refs. You know, it was
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a rough go.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: You need therapy? Do you get a therapy dog? Possibly, yes.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Possibly a therapy dog. What kind of therapy dog? How
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: about a miniature horse? You want a miniature horse?
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, I do like miniature horses.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Isn't that the line, like the only two service animals
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: are a miniature horse or a dog?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, correct.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: Did a movie with a miniature horse and a dog.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Was it Ragtime?
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I remember the name. Ragtime.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Everyone watch Ragtime. What streaming service is it on?
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: The Adventures of Ragtime.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, Adventures of Ragtime.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: And I believe it's just free on YouTube because it's.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: That bad of a movie.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: It is on YouTube.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Yes. Oh, man.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: That sucks.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Not even on, like, Fubo or whatever that thing is called.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: Or Tubi or something.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Or Spandango.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: There's all sorts of things.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: But, no, I've been watching a lot of random old
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: football movies lately rather than watching actual football games.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, I got you. Well, sometimes I'll fall into a trap.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I grew up on This Week in Baseball, and I'll
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: just watch old episodes of This Week in Baseball for
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: no reason at all.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I do that, too.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I was trying to watch that Dennis Miller documentary.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet. I guess it came out
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: last month, but I haven't had a chance.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, that was a big fail when he.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Was on Monday Night Football. Yeah, it's a big a-hole.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: One of my old producers was his producer. He did
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a radio show, Dennis Miller, and it was not great.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I don't have any personal interaction with Dennis Miller, so
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: maybe he's a great guy and he just was an
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a-hole to everyone I've talked to who knew him.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: It seemed like he was a real big douche.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Dennis Miller, from what I've known, I never met him,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: so I just heard this from other people that knew him.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: The person that Dennis Miller loved more than anybody was
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Dennis Miller. That was his favorite person. He's a big
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: fan of Dennis Miller. Really likes Dennis Miller. Thinks Dennis
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Miller is very funny. All right. Well, thank you, Kelly.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Be okay. Be safe out there. Thank you. Stay out
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of trouble.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: All right. Thank you.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Bye.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: There's our friend Donut. Formerly Donut Kelly. Mike the Leprechaun. Hello,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: Welcome.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Top of the morning.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: How about that?
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Great May, huh?
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: What a comeback. Do we have that audio, Coop? We
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: have comedy, unexpected comedy from the Patriots game. Do you
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: see this at halftime? Did you see what happened? You
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: didn't see this? I don't think I did. All right,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Adam Vinatieri. They celebrated the 25th anniversary of the 0-1
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: championship team, and they had some special ceremony for Vinatieri.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Is Vinatieri in the Patriots Hall of Fame? I don't
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: think he is.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Yes. Is he?
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Are you sure? I'm not certain. I don't think he is.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: He's in the pro football. Anyway, Vinatieri spoke at halftime.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: It's really funny because it's a big ceremony. Robert Kraft
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: is right behind him. Do we have the audio? Let's
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: go to the audio. Here's what it sounded like. Here's
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a pretty funny joke from Adam Vinatieri. I thought it
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: was good. Take a listen.
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: Seeing those Raider jerseys takes me way back. Takes me
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: back to that snowy night when we beat Oakland to
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: win the Super Bowl 36. Then years later, I was
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: fortunate enough to be the all-time leading scorer, and we
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: did that in Oakland as well.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: At the time, I thought we owned the Raiders. And
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you know what? Thanks to Tom, we actually do.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Hey-oh!
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Hey-oh! Pretty good. Didn't he take a shot at Belichick? No,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: was it Belichick at the.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Remember, we talked about that. He took
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a shot at Belichick with his floozy girlfriend there.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Belichick wasn't there, obviously, and neither was Tom Brady.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady was working, doing TV. Belichick was, I guess.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: He was actually pretty good.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: Tom Brady's growing on me.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I was at the Charger, and I didn't see him.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I usually have the mute button on anyway.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Hold on.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm looking forward to Wednesday.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Is that confirmed?
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: Confirmed.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Let me check. Hold on a sec. Hold on. Let
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: me put you on hold here. Marcel, are we confirmed, Marcel?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: All the verbal octagon is on.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Two sleeps in. 5 a.m.
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: Eastern, 2 a.m.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Pacific. Have you trained or are you prepared? I will prepare,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: but I will have the amazing Jay Crean help me.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: To get rid of him.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Who?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Was he? Jesse Crean.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: You know him, right?
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Well, what are you calling? You don't call
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: him J-what? J-Cream. I can't believe it. All right, all right.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I thought you said cream. I was like, but... J-Cream. J-Cream.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: All right, all right.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: I'm on Fox Sports Radio with you.
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: It's his trainer.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't realize you had a trainer. Hold on
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a sec. Let me check here. Let me lock you in,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and then I'll look over here. Mike the Leprechaun. Do
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: you have a trainer, Mike the Leprechaun?
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I do. Soos Dog, for one.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Soos Dog is helping you out. Okay.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: And, of course, Blind Scott.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Blind Scott was bitching me.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Blind Scott, very jealous of your attention that you got
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: during the Malibu.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I got that.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: So, Marcel, I have some advice for you.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: You need to grab a whole box of dude wipes,
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: and probably you also need to get, say, a prayer
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: to Pope Leo.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: And a voodoo doll.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: You need a voodoo doll. Somebody tell Mike the Idiot
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Con to shut up, please.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: You almost swore. Marcel, are you the guy in Manhattan?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Block him now! Okay, this is a preview of what's
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to come on Wednesday. Marcel, are you the guy who
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: goes down the manhole? All right, all right, calm down.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: Jeez.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: We had some great trolling in the NFL. Do you
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: see what Mike Evans did there? This is hilarious. Even
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, who was one of the great a-holes of
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: his time in the NFL, even Richard Sherman's like, man,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I wish I had thought of that. It's like really good.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: So 49ers are playing Seattle and big NFC West Donnybrook.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: You throw out the records with a Niner. Well, actually,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: you don't have to throw out the records because they're
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: both having good seasons and all that. And so during
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the win by the Niners in Seattle, Trevon Diggs started
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: jawing with Mike Evans. It was following a play where
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: there was blocking involved. And Evans, this is hilarious. So
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: for you blind listeners like Inca Terror and Blind Emmett
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: and the other blind stars, Stevie Meatballs. So Evans physically
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: turned Diggs around to read the nameplate on the back
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: of his jersey, essentially giving the... It was like, hey,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: who are you? It was hilarious. It was hilarious. Diggs,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: he's a one-hit wonder. Remember, he was an all-pro at
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: one amazing season for the Cowboys and then fell off
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: his way. Now he's on the Seattle Seahawks. And so
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: he responded, of course, by shoving Evans in the face mask. Although, fortunately,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the officials did not throw a flag.
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: It was hilarious.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Really solid entertainment. Isn't that right, Frank the Tank? Bill Miller.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: How are you doing, Billie?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be sleeping, but I
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: will be soon.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I will be in a few minutes. I want
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: to get your take on how you think the L.A.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: team is going to be this year in the NBA.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, you are really going to ask me an NBA
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: preview question? How dare you? I'm going to put you
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: in detention. I'm going to have to put you in timeout.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Do you understand that? I like you, Frank, but I've
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: got to put you in timeout. At least you didn't
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: ask me about the Vikings. So I do give you
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: credit for that. No, I already know how they're doing.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: They're doing pretty good, even though they've got a high-sized quarterback.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: As long as they don't have to play offense, they're fine. Right?
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Well, all they've got to do is look three feet
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: over and three feet under and the wide receiver, Justin Jefferson,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: to find his quarterback and find the pass.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's say hello to Cowboy John Brad in Windsor, Ontario. Hello,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Cowboy John Brad.
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: Welcome.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Ben. Well, it's Thanksgiving today, and I wanted to.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, happy Thanksgiving.
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: Oh, thank you.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: And I want to dedicate this phone call to my mother,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: who passed away 23 years ago.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: My condolences on your mom's recent passing 23 years ago.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: So were there pilgrims in Canada like your Thanksgiving?
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I kind of don't tend to
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: think so. But also two of my cousins, Otto W.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Butch White II and, of course, Tony Dungy, who were
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: 71 on the 3rd and the 6th. And another, all
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: the acquaintance of mine, Randy Watkins, who's 73 today. And
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: old NASCAR figure, Ned Jarrett's 94. And Ralph, the roadrunner guy,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: our former major leaguer, is 81 today. And John Denver,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: who is 53, died in a plane crash 29 years
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: ago today. My condolences. Yeah. Vincent Eugene Craig, also known
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: as Gene Vincent, the leader of the old rockabilly group
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: the Blue Caps, died 55 years ago today at only 36,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I think, a barbiturate overdose. That was exactly a week after...
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Last day in high school, Saturday Night Live debuted 51
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: years ago yesterday.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: 51 years.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: The old Tiger first baseman Norman Cash drowned 40 years
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: ago yesterday.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's sad.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Four months after his teammate Joe Sparma died of, I
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: think he was having a heart transplant. And Red Fox
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: and Clay Kirby, the old big league pitcher, died, okay,
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  Speaker 2: 35 years ago yesterday at age 68 and 43, respectively.
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  Speaker 2: And remember, you've got to be a boy to be
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  Speaker 2: a cowboy. Hopefully you'll speak to people tomorrow. Bang.
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  Speaker 1: There he goes, Cowboy Jeremy. How about that, Lorena? No music,
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  Speaker 1: no sound effects. It was a dry version of Cowboy's Corner.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first one we've done in a while. Sometimes
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you need to go in the desert. I guess so,
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  Speaker 1: but very odd. Anyway, it is the Ben Maler Show.
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• 36:42
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• 36:49
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• 37:31
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• 37:33
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• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Is winning so important?
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Listen, winning isn't everything.
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  Speaker 8: It's the only thing.
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  Speaker 5: It's time for another Mallard Game Show.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're so dumb.
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  Speaker 5: We surveyed 100 people. Name sports teams associated with losing.
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers. I believe the answer is the Clippers.
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  Speaker 5: That is the top answer.
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  Speaker 1: 40 points. It's Mallard Militia Pew. All right, right to it.
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  Speaker 1: We got Kev Atomic. He's in Alaska in Anchorage. Hello, Kev. Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready, Ben. All right, we'll see about that. And
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  Speaker 1: we go from Anchorage all the way over to Boston.
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  Speaker 1: And that's nothing. That's only 3,372 miles. And we say
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  Speaker 1: hello to Chris. Hello, Chris. Welcome. Good morning, Ben. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's play the game. Well, which category do you want here?
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  Speaker 1: Number five. From top down? That's the desert. The desert one.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, gentlemen. Top six answers on
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  Speaker 1: the board. A hundred people surveyed. Name a desert. Name
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  Speaker 1: a desert. Chris.
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  Speaker 6: Sahara.
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  Speaker 1: Sahara. Yeah, that was the top answer for sure. All right,
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  Speaker 1: there are five answers left. Go ahead, Chris. The Gobi Desert. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: good job by you. That's the number three answer. You
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: go again, Chris. The Mojave. There you go. Top three
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  Speaker 1: are off the board. There are three answers left.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Five, four, three, two, one. All right, Kev Atomic, here's
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: your chance. Name a desert. Top three answers off the board.
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  Speaker 1: Three answers left, Kev. Oh, damn.
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  Speaker 3: He took all my answers, dude.
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  Speaker 6: Again.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell? I know he said it. There's one
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: famous one that, well, we don't have time. It was
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Death Valley, Arabian Desert. I actually thought about saying Death Valley,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: but I didn't know. I know, I know. It's all right.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Next time we'll give you more time. I know. Chris wins.